skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused about all the endless complacency and complaining. And the unwillingness to do anything positive.
I did something similar this year with 12x 4tb NVMe drives. I had a 12x 2tb setup is an fashstor 12 but the CPU and RAM limitations led me to traditional RAID there. For the second NAS I just went standard parts but with extreme performance, 13900K and the like. To get the necessary PCIe lanes (since not every port would bifurcate) I used 3 4 way switches from aliexpress. Choosing a motherboard with 2 x8 cpu slots made the bandwidth not a problem, the third does hang off the demo 4.0 lanes though. The boot drive hangs directly off the cpu in the x4 slot. The 13900K actually supports ECC in the workstation motherboards as well. I just expose everything via NFS and call it a day

All in all I'm happy with it. I still use spinning rust for the backup though, no sense worrying about that. At the time it was cheaper to get 12x4 TB budget NVMe and the extra parts than go for any reasonable count of SATA SSDs, not sure if that's still true or not. SATA definitely would have been easier, e.g. stuff like in the Flashstor 12x2TB build I had to submit a kernel patch because the cheap drives were duplicating their nsids.
Unlike physical objects, copying digital goods has a zero cost, including for the author. So when the pricing does not reflect this (e.g. when ebook's and printed book's price is in the same order), it encourages unauthorised copying. It makes me think that sub-dollar and single digit pricing for digital goods are fair and expected.
Confessions of a Tableside Flambé Restaurant Server
Food and Generative AI
Curious to hear people's thoughts on AI applications in the food space.
There may be exceptions ( MMO guilds may be an examle ), where it is not meatspace, but authenticity may be higher.
I think the ugly truth of it is, just like there's a noticeable difference between shopping at costco and shopping at walmart (because of the annual fee at costco), there's just some people that are going to have an undesirable influence on your community.

The temptation to try and rope in those extra users is often irresistible but to get them you have to tank your content to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Very few growth minded companies or content creators have escaped that trap. It requires prioritizing your principles and long-term outlook over short-term growth which is so antithetical to the typical silicon valley situation trying to tap into and keep the spigot of VC money flowing.
I'm willing to admit the graph I linked to is entirely dubious.

It still remains the case that housing prices in Canada did not go through the downward correction that US housing prices did in 2008. That and our immigration rates are very high, so pressure from population growth has also been high.

I gotta get back to work, so can't go hunting for raw data right now. I think you'll find though that US and Canadian data don't co-relate in the way you're assuming they should.
Quantum semiconductor found by chance breaks speed record
Something on my mind is how to build a non-toxic engagement model and I am finally getting a clear picture of how to do it.

You can make a pretty good engagement model for Hacker News based on headlines by filtering for posts with > 10 votes and predicting the ratio of comments to votes. The trouble is that "high engagement" posts are frequently clickbait.

I suspect that the trending toots on mastodon.social right now are about a person who got elected to the Speaker of the House who I'd like to call a "clown" but that would be an insult to clowns so I won't. If a trained a model to maximize boosts and favorites I'd create a monster (e.g. if the US was truly a "democracy" today we'd write a constitution enshrining a one-party state, the only disagreement is which party it would be) I know though that I get really good engagements on (low-effort) pictures of flowers that I post as opposed to the sports photos I take which I work really hard at it. That is, there are paths to high engagement that aren't toxic, a model just has to be trained to reward them.

In either case it would take developing a training set of a few thousand non-toxic but high engagement posts, it's probably easier to do that for HN than it is to do it for Mastodon.
Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell
I've been in India for a while now, to support family member as she's here for medical reasons. I rely on online services to save on cash especially that it's hard to carry cash from my country (for "security" reasons, as most airports limit how much cash you can carry).

Yet, many online services are giving me hell with their "smart" anti fraud detection and things like that, at this point I can really understand the position of the people who are dooming about cashless society, because at some point here I felt trapped not being able to get services I needed so much (until I asked shop owner to pay for me and I paid him in cash + small profit...).

The thing is, the attitude of these companies is so frustrating; like if my card was already accepted once and I successfully approved the payment via 3D secure with my bank, who are you (as a random online service) to assume you can act as my big brother? Even more, if I'm using a balance paid by gift card, who give Amazon or other services the right to put my account on hold while it still contains my hard earned money (I had to try literally multiple services just to buy expensive gift card as Amazon payment won't allow me to choose the correct currency of my Card). Mind you, I'm just a random guy and not world class criminal, or an Activist who's being actively targeted, this make me wonder what these services can do once we go completely cashless.

Simple tasks like downloading region-specific Indian apps become unnecessarily complex, as Google play have this "smart" rule that says I can only change my region once per year, what?? It's just an app just give me the apk, and you can just ask for my location! (I had to install the apks from some random websites at risk of getting some malware...).

I would said what this experience taught me as a developer, but it won't matter, as most products are designed to help the stake holders and upper managers and even Governments, and a dev's empathy won't matter much...

Apologies for this vent, but I really felt I need to post something about this frustrating situation I'm in.
It depends on your skillsets, but I'd highly recommend https://directus.io/ especially if you need "slickness" to raise money otherwise try a pyhat stack if you hate javascript.
It's not acqui-hiring without the acquisition. This is just poaching, breaking confidentiality agreements, and patent infringement.
Is there really much difference between being a "pretty smart guy" and convincing people that you are a "pretty smart guy"?
No more Python parsing for those germans then...
This doesn’t meant what you think it does. They lock and take turns. You can have hundreds of clients (on the same machine), and it works fine.
> He's a pretty smart guy.

Really? It seems to me all evidence points to the opposite.
(Author here) I personally don't think the visual style of the Django admin is ugly. I'd agree that it looks dated, and also agree that it could use a few minor color and accessibility improvements.

My perspective is that we have a new generation of Django devs among us, who grew up using fancy JS frameworks, SaaS dashboards, A.I.-assisted code tools, etc. So for a newcomer seeing the Django admin for the first time, it's a bit different.

My goal of the article was to capture the tribal knowledge that seems to have not gotten passed down to this new generation.
So, Mary Shelley (and her character, Viktor Frankenstein) was right?
> I never understood the longterm logic of protecting jobs by not using tools.

Ever read thelastpsychiatrist? The website is dead now (and he may be too, for all I know), but he was on the money when talking about why a specific amount is paid by the state to the unemployed - it's the exact amount of money that would stop the idle masses from burning down the city.

You don't understand it now, but you will if we had a transition to completely automated driving in a short period - those millions of unemployed drivers, that are now never going to be employed, are a risk to the city.
Colonization?
> If they are not sustainable they will go bankrupt.

They would if not for the infinite subsidies

> Are you saying all those investors are dumb and just burning money for the fun of it?!

For example, Uber has not been profitable for a single year in its 10 years of existence.

Same goes for most if YCombinator's "top companies".

In which other industry can you lose money (often billions of dollars a year) and still be in business and claim you're successful.
Leica camera has built-in defense against misleading AI, costs $9,125
Relevant discussions on the CVE,

Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37478403) (333 points | 262 comments)

The WebP 0day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37600852) (440 points | 206 comments)

Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37657746) (261 points | 223 comments)
Well… you would think that, wouldn’t you?
> This meant that prosecutor Danielle Sassoon got a crack at him, and boy howdy, she beat him like a piñata.

My favorite line.
Next-Generation Intelligent Assistant
Comparing the two makes no sense. Your "analogy" is silly beyond belief.
I think it's a combination of a few things. Firstly that he's smart enough that he's got plenty of experience of getting his way just by being smart around people, and yet he's naive enough that he thinks that will work in court under the eye of the whole media.

Secondly though he seems to have quickly latched on to a specific sort of messaging that's built around "honesty" and admitting his own failings, not in a real way it seems though. I think he's seen a bunch of people get "cancelled" in recent years and seen that this sort of admission of guilt tends to work well for people. What he doesn't realise though is that this isn't him being accused in the court of public opinion about something the public don't agree fully on, it's a legal accusation in court about specifics that the law is clear on. I'd say this was just bad advice he was being given, but it seemed to happen so quickly that I think it's just his own bad take on the best way out.
The tendency of the tech community to view "smartness" as a single axis variable is a major achilles heel.

Clearly, it is possible for the same person to be both quite smart and deeply, profoundly stupid.

To use a relatable metaphor, there's a reason D&D splits mental stats into separate components: intelligence, wisdom, charisma and alignment aren't the same! Except in real life there's probably way more variables even than those and they're often correlated or anti-correlated in various ways.

This is the primary reason conversations on HN involving SBF, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Jobs, Eliezer Yudkowsky etc can be so tedious.
Hm. Regular torrents tend to touch the 100 Mbps to gpbs range - so not really an alternative?
Most important preparation in my experience is to mist the substrate before application to prevent rapid drying.
> I've heard this idea before, from college students 20+ years ago, talking about US politics, and intentionally "throwing away" votes on independent leftist candidates.
The goals I recall were to try to force Democrat leaders not to take leftist votes for granted and (more to this Extremist's Gambit theory) to rile up Democrat-inclined voters, by letting what they'd think of as an awful Republican candidate win.

I heard something similar from the extreme right about the 2020 election. The idea was that Trump gave a false sense of hope and “winning” but never came through on his promises, so it was better for voters to have a president that explicitly opposed their values than one who shared them in name only.

> This was before US political party polarization had seemed to hit the sports team extremist fandom levels that elected Trump.

This is putting the cart before the horse. There was already a lot of polarization, but Trump was elected for his rhetoric around immigration. His supporters continued despite his constant failures to support him to own the libs or whatever and because he was good at bloviating as though he was always just about to get around to doing what they wanted.

> In this particular case, I'm not aware that post-Trump things have yet worked out for the college student revolutionaries. Voters are polarized, in a very dumbed-down way, distracted with extreme sports team rivalry petty behavior, rather than getting much progress on the supposedly driving values.

This has almost nothing to do with Trump himself, except that the initial reaction to him in polite society was so extreme. There was constant fear-mongering about how he was going to throw everyone in concentration camps and make Handmaid’s Tale a reality. None of which is really new, but it was ramped up hard for Trump. It’s not a bug but a feature of American politics. It reinforces the two-party system and pushes out the need to actually deliver things voters want. They can both just run candidates based on stoking fears of the other one. Arthur Finkelstein really pioneered the technique. I think that’s beginning to break down now. You see a lot more cross pollination with the “anti-woke left”, TERFs, and so on than you did in 2015.
Except it wasn't.

The statue was started in 1917 put in place in 1924. The Confederacy surrendered in 1865. Lee died in 1870.

It just was a piece of propaganda.
I have found it somewhat... amusing... how this decision resulted in downgrading the entire community discussion section at EA Forum.
It gets extremely ugly and clunky when you edit related tables/models together in one view using their builtin inlineadmins.

The devil is the details for real world usage on your data and it's relationships.
Downloading TM Sweden AB's fiscal report for 2022 (årsredovisning), under "Not 7" there is costs for staff and average number of staff for 2021 and 2022:

2022: 289 full-time equivalent employees, 133MSEK salaries.
2021: 220 full-time equivalent employees, 101MSEK salaries.

Both seem to come out to an average of around 38 KSEK/month (~€3250). I'd suspect the mechanics to have the lowest salary in the organization, so probably somewhat lower than that. But that's pure speculation on my behalf.

It could be a matter of coincidence due to hiring of more staff in more junior positions or so, but the lack of salary increases from year to year could be more interesting to the union (the unions typically have a percentage "mark" salary bump in the collective agreement that you're guaranteed every year). That is also speculative.
Finding better trees to farm might help. It might be easier to get people to choose something other than cutting down old growth forests if the alternative wasn't white pine.
People somehow keep thinking rich = smart or even loud = smart. But I tend to perceive quiet and calm as smarter. The people who loudly talk and may be great at marketing are more often the ones impressing the general masses though. It just seems much smarter not to draw any attention (to your project sure, to you as a person, probably not so smart).
What a messed up bureaucracy. Imagine what would happen if a group of people left and started their own government by the people and for the people?
Reminds me of the CollegeHumor skit video where a layabout husband excitedly shows his wife a magic box in the bedroom where he puts his dirty clothes and a day later they appear clean and folded in his drawer.

The box, of course, is a laundry hamper.
Staying out of the sun has significant downsides.
> I can tell you from personal experience that running a multi-node RDMS is hard as hell

There exist varying levels of complexity. Here at my company, we have a very small cluster comprised of a main PostgreSQL instance and four replicas. It just works and requires very low maintenance effort.

But I imagine that things can get really messy if you're dealing with dozens or hundreds of instances, for sure, especially if you need sharding.
The main issue at play, from what I read in this story [0], is worry he will gum up the trail by saying everything was on the advice of his lawyers. Which would then require hauling the lawyers in and clarifying they of course never told their client to commit fraud or “borrow” billions of dollars of customer money.

>> One decision for Kaplan is whether Bankman-Fried will be allowed to blame FTX lawyers when the jury is back in the courtroom. As we previously wrote, this is called an "advice-of-counsel defense" in which SBF could argue that he sought advice from company lawyers, received advice that his conduct was legal, and "relied on that advice in good faith."

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sam-bankman-frie...
A significant % of the workforce can work from home or "office hubs", instead of moving ppl from A to B. Technologies like Vision Pro are a better solution.
So why does everything look the same (even to the same colours, locations (responsive & fixed) and sizes) after spending all that money and effort? And when something looks/behaves different, 'normal' (not in IT) people find it annoying to use? How can my wife find trivial operations in our shite IT banking site, but is lost on Instagram for some of the same settings? Our bank has an IT spending which is a rounding error on Insta's budget.

I agree with what you say somewhat, but I believe about the massive difference between UI/UX. If I have to sign up to something for the first time or have to buy something, I want pretty pictures. If I have to work with something often (all day let's say), I want UX and I couldn't give a shite about UI; I want things easy to find, fast (not latency) etc. Combined would be great, but tell me what has that, because I always see one, never both done to perfection. If there is a 50/50 mix, it's usually annoying as hell on both sides.

My most productive interfaces are ugly as hell ; no animations, no overhead and everything crammed on a screen and very fast. I would never 'sign up' for an application like that seeing it first, but I would never use any application long term for productivity like most people say is 'beautiful' because it's inefficient.
Kent is HN's Steve Gibson (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999197#38001051) of full stack development.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35903878#35915789

> Kent is the only blogger that I've felt compelled to tell all my less experienced colleagues to completely ignore
You may be thinking of a hotel's laundry service at those prices. The most I've ever paid to do my own laundry is 600¥ and I've had as low as 200¥, all at 3-4 star hotels.
Expand the x axis and that’s not true. Go look at their source.
> Is there really much difference between being a "pretty smart guy" and convincing people that you are a "pretty smart guy"?

Yes. Very deeply, yes.
Selling Out has been going on forever...
I understand there is a whole contingent of humanity to which the constitution is holy gospel, but the thoughts of a small group of men 250 years ago on the issue is not really relevant to modern conversation on how to handle digital rights.
I watched it, thought "this feels very last generation", and then saw it came out 13 years ago!

Sidestepping the meaning of the word "theft", our situation is as follows. There are 3 ways to finance intellectual work:

1. $
2. ads
3. nothing (and rely on gift-style work)

I have a really, really strong opinion that one of these is terrible. So I think we should do whatever we can to encourage the others, especially the one that lets people pay for food.

EDIT: I should note that I don't think the anti-copyright movement was bad during its time. They were definitely on the right side of things like Authors Guild v. Google. But I think the internet economy has gotten more mature and we now need more nuance than they provided.
Well I don’t want people forcing to Apple to change things when things are working just fine.

Currently opening up the browser to others just means Apple will lose control over that part of the UX as Chrome will eventually take over giving Google to have full control of the future of the web.

Now you will tell me, “We have Firefox!”. I use Firefox too on PC … tell me how that’s working out market-share wise.
Team that can crack the USB drive with 7,002 BTC have made a plea to the owner [video]
Let's see if he responds... Or is something fishy here?
I wouldn't say this is unique to the world of tech. In fact I suspect that most people working as software engineers are well aware that there's different "kinds" of intelligence, and you'll instead find this single-axis thinking more among the "general population."

It is certainly something everyone needs to be reminded of. Being (or sounding) smart on one subject doesn't make you smart on others by definition.

As someone who has surfed the Dunning-Kruger wave myself many times, I'm super cautious of looking out for other people doing the same.
Then why do you have it?
Michael Lewis makes an appearance in the courtroom ... Everyone's saying he seems to support Bankman-Fried

What happened there ??? The guy who calls out a lot of fraud, now can't see it?

I'm disappointed because I found his books enjoyable ... although maybe in retrospect I can't remember that much from them. Maybe he was never really calling them out, but just liked the story.

I know there have been a bunch of articles about this -- but what's the tl;dr ?

I guess he was always up close and personal with everyone, because that's how he got access to tell these interesting tales. And then you sort of compromise your own viewpoint
No, dBASE (Clipper, FoxPro, etc) uses a separate file for each table (.DBF), index (.CDX) and blob (.FPT).
Yes, and the article to which we're replying is a story about political pressure to STOP that testing.
>It is not a crime to deprive someone of their income stream

You can't just fire people without a reason though right? Some job rights are protected to some extent in some countries.
`Copying for yourself` vs `copying for profit`
> The people in my feed—most of whom I’m not following

Every now and again Twitter switches me to the "For you" tab. I always immediately notice because there are like 5 BuzzFeed-esque tweets in a row from accounts I am not following. I switch back to the "Following" tab, which is still a simple chronological list of tweets from people I follow and Twitter is good again.

I can see why Twitter is losing users if it keeps showing people the algorithmic feed though.
Doesn't that go against "jury by peers"?
Yep. Turns out that “reality distortion field” only works when the people inside the field can earn a lot of money from you.
It's an interesting question, who stewards Virginia's history- NoVA is basically Yankee, Tidewater is the East coast home of the 'occupying force', the rest of Virginia is conservative, but in Lincoln's party. Richmond still thinks of itself as the center of Tara, but the demographics say otherwise.
I often wonder if I should be more explicit. Maybe you can help me.

There is a path, we are all on a path, linear in the sense that time moves in the same direction, without a pause or ability to stop, and on this path is a fork. We say a fork because it could be an intersection with near infinite courses but in reality we often limit the choice to ultimately two choices and while intentionally ignoring the third.

At the fork there is either a Left or a Right. The third choice, intentional or unintentional indecision leaves us still to react to either making a panic choice or hitting the wall.

The three layers or levels of abstraction allow for the This, That, and the Unknown.

Back to the failure modes. In troubleshooting there are finite paths one can take to determine the problem and also finite problems that cause the situation.
Worked for me :<
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