skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer Edge over Chrome.

Reason is syncing with MS account on all platforms.
Had this issue a few days ago changing DNS to quad9 seems to resolve it
It feels unreasonable but look at the history from the 1910s, 20s and 30s to see why and how those “widows and orphans” rules were put in place.

A lot of ppl think “are they saying I’m too dumb to be an investor?” But actually they are saying “there are lots of scams, so we restrict it to people who won’t be impoverished when they are fleeced by a scam”. You don’t need to be an accredited investor to invest when the info is as transparent as the govt can make it (mainly: publicly traded securities). They don’t get involved if you lend money to your brother in law for his car repair shop (but your BIL can’t put an ad in the paper to raise money without following disclosure rules).

You also can’t just sell any old vehicle for driving on the road either; instead of “accredited buyer” they push all the rules (seatbelts, wheels a certain size…) onto the mfr. When you open an account at Schwab it’s the same thing.

In the end the government is the insurer of last resort (welfare) so like other insurers puts protective covenants in place (banks have to have safes and security guards to get insurance).
Thank you so much, actually I tried to run mistral and TinyLlama over ollama without success.
But I've never limit inferencing process or anything. Let me try LocalAI
Introduction to the Microsoft Playwright Testing service [video]
It’s not quite that simple, even in XRP’s case specifically. The court said that secondary algorithmic sales of XRP did not constitute trading investment contracts, however they also ruled that Ripple sold an unregistered security in their initial offer of XRP. What was that security? XRP!

Look, we found a grey area again.
Haha, what? At least half the content here is blatant self promotion. Funny how you jump on the little guy
My luggage got "misplaced" in Amsterdam airport, returned 3 days later minus my japanese kit-kats.
I complained to both my airline and the airport but was given the runaround, some bullcrap about removing organic matter, strangely they left the bag of raw onions.
I didn’t read mythical man month because it felt similar to peopleware.

The classic design pattern book is very jargon heavy. Not for someone who is just starting out.
Especially ironic since a lot of them grew up on the mean streets of Silicon Valley and Westchester, not exactly an everyone for themselves Serengeti where you would develop such "don't trust the safety net" attitudes.
> But when a once in a blue moon issue crops up in prod and all other connections are dropped, the fact that a simple defer+recover couldn't have been preemptively placed on their goroutines is a huge nightmare

Yeah, this is one of the weird things, to say it mildly, that Go does that is hardly mentioned anywhere. Most people don't know about it until they themselves first encounter the nightmare bug similar to what you said.
Were stimulus checks distributed directly to kids?
Well the language was created by Google employees and Google funds the majority of development work on GO.
If you are a marginally competent leader you’ll ask the obvious question “why is it a problem if our link is only 50% saturated”. If you are slightly more competent you’ll have read some literature about business processes and intuit that the same queing theory might apply.
Ask HN: Resources for monetizing email lists around community?
HN - I have several sites where I have collected emails but done nothing with them. I also have a few communities I'm incubating where collecting email addresses is really cheap.

What are "best of" training resources / vignettes, etc, that you could point me to where I can learn some best practices on how to MONETIZE these lists?

One thing I'm not really interested in is a paid newsletter. I don't think I could get it in me to publish something 1-3 times a week to generate the value required. But feel free to change my mind!

Also, I'd love some benchmarks on revenue per subscriber to understand value.

Have at it HN hivemind!
You probably want a Civic hatchkback then. And you probably want the 2L i-vtec turbo engine, with manual transmission. The CVT is boring, but if you don't like driving stick, get one by all means.
Wow!! All this new to me. Never heard of them. Will check that out.
- Very long time to implement new features and even more time to change existing ones.

- bugs that customers complain about.

When asked for why you can explain how the messy codebase is causing problems and how there no bypassing it.

I've seen this in a big medical equipment company where the CEO made a whole speech about how he now understands how legacy codebase is making our work very difficult, it caught me by surprise to see a C level bring up the topic.
How is this relevant to the topic of accreditation?
> > You know what I'm tired of? Not being able to investments because I'm not a "accredited investor", therefore I must be dumb or something.

There are billions of plays similar to crypto or startups or whatever you have in mind as far as risk reward when you lament the fact that you are not an accredited investor.

However you won't be seeing them go up and down by the minute and won't read about it in the financial press, you won't have a crew of similarly passionate people to discuss about it, won't see anybody go on CNBC, Bloomberg etc to shill, it's gonna be just you and the thing you own.

Picking a piece of art and making a 20,000% gain on that is about as likely as making the same gain on a startup or a crypto token, and the lottery is also very similar.

When people lament the fact of not being an accredited investor in my mind I think they lament on missing out on the social scene and political action that goes on in and around the investment itself, and the thing they own being constantly in the news.
Terrific. I also see that Simon Wilison's LLM tool does it.

https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/embeddings/cli.html#
In this specific case the court handed a (partial) victory to Ripple, not sure this simply translates into other situations.
I'm sorry, I misread what this is about. I removed the parts that I felt would be problematic.
Bored sports gamblers needed more information about the business operations and financial health of Ripple to make sound investment decisions? I think we need to be clear on what we’re trying to accomplish.
How is it different from peopleware ? To me its feel the same.
I don’t get it. These guys got caught red handed manipulating the market for a token they created yet you will see commenters go out of their way to defend them.

We know from their exposed emails they were paying (in xrp) social media influencers.

I have a hard time believing anyone supporting xrp in 2023 is not being paid by brad and gang.
Yes, IIRC it took a few minutes to turn around an incremental build (instead of maybe 10 seconds) and 2MB bigger text segment for no measurable performance gains.
If only it were that benign. Management has its roots in slavery.

A significant part of why early company-owners in the US preferred slaves is not because their labour was free - they were expensive assets, particularly skilled ones - but because free workers were less compliant to hierarchical control. They could walk off the job, they expected their opinions to be listened to, and you couldn't whip them into compliance. There's basically a straight line from plantations through Gantt then Taylor and his Scientific Management to McKinsey's Budgetary Control.
PS: Gilad Bracha makes a similar point in this interview about pluggable types:

Newspeak and Pluggable Types. Software Engineering Radio. IEEE Computer Society. <https://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-140-newspeak-and-pl...>.
As an Australian I’d find that strange without a following clarification, in which case the clarifying clause is doing the answering and the first bit is just sentiment. There’s also the possibility of using both yes and no, usually rendered as “Yeah nah” or “Nah yeah” - with the first generally being negative and the second being positive.

So some examples, both being “Yes I’ll do it” -

“Do you mind taking out the rubbish” “Nah, that’s fine” (No actually answers the question and then you confirm)

“Do you mind taking out the rubbish?” “Oh yeah, no problem” (Yes just acting as sentiment)

Or

“Do you mind taking out the rubbish?” “Nah yeah, all good”

Or to say you do mind, you might say “Yeah nah, sorry I’m busy”
One difference I can see is that this has spreadsheet-like range selection which is important for some apps.
The last thing I read about the link between amyloid-β accumulation and Alzheimer's was that the entire field was full of fake data ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid... ). In particular, even treatments that directly reduce amyloid-β in the brain did not restore cognitive abilities.

At least this paper tests both cognitive abilities as well as "amyloid-β pathologies." I'm not at all an expert in this field but gold nanoparticles sounds like something you'd see on a late night infomercial, lol.
I run it, I like some of the integrations. I don't really see a reason to use chrome (or firefox, which I stopped using this year due to stability)
Won't it display properly in VLC?
Thanks for the help, Marvin.
I can’t know for sure what the parent comment was alluding to, but I would assume the idea is that because IPv6 isn’t built around an assumption of NAT, that it’s less private because you don’t have an intermediary router (potentially) concealing traffic origins as a network design feature.

That’s the only thing about IPv6 that I’ve heard of that I think is a reasonable argument regarding a degradation in privacy.

With that said, NAT was a fix for issues that weren’t about privacy, and NAT itself was not designed to give you privacy. It used to be that IPv4 connections were always direct in the same way IPv6 connections were designed to be direct.

In that regard you could make the argument that IPv6 is a regression, but that regression is effectively answering for an architectural shortcoming in IPv4 that we’ve tried hard to fix but that can only go so far.

Edit to add: NAT also doesn’t protect anyone’s privacy anymore than their ISP is willing to protect it anyway, for what it’s worth.
As a managing director of a German non-profit gGmbH, I can tell you that you can and may make a lot of profit. It's just about how and in what period the profits must be used.
Nice!! I read Working effectively with Unit Test by Jay Field.
Very short and insightful read. DAMP vs DRY was eye opener for me.

Wrote about it here : https://burhanrashid52.com/working-effectively-with-unit-tes...
A good ol' turdtrade.
Reminds me of HOAS techniques.
> Fortunately even timeshare owners get to die, but the company isn’t done with you yet. The perpetuity clause in most of these contracts means that the timeshare will become part of your estate—one of your beneficiaries is going to get stuck with those fees for the rest of her life, if she doesn’t file a so-called disclaimer of interest by her state’s deadline.

Wow! I had no idea you could sign a contract that obligates your benificiaries after your death.
Any recommendations for KM software that works with wayland (like barrier / synergy)? Thats been holding me back so far.
Yes, latency will depend on the variability of the load. That's Kingman's Formula for you.
The usual explanation, true or not, is that someone was selling the state a chatbot as the modern solution and since the buyer isn't spending their own money they will happily buy it without thinking if it's useful.
Humans put themselves in the chatbot on a regular basis when they can't figure out the UI
> And Safari only matters exactly because of the store.
> The day Chrome is allowed to replace Safari, it is over.

I keep seeing this rhetoric and it strikes me as missing the entire point. It tries to paint Safari as some kind of stalwart against the web's doom. It is part of the problem and perpetuates the very same problems we're accusing Chrome of. Two wrongs do not make a right here.
But why, they already found a perfectly good method
> That's not a fact and it really is your opinion. The fact that I can now go any buy tickets for an event while sitting in a boring taxi for the last 30 minutes is anlofe saver.

Yeah, convenience is basically the common theme of the smartphone. It's a phone, it's a camera, it's an internet communicator, it's a personal music player. I'm not downplaying how useful smartphones things CAN be, yet in practice, I'm often surprised at how utterly unimportant and banal they usually are. It can do so much, and yet somehow it usually boils down to killing time and buying things.

Maybe this bothers me so much simply because it feels like it never had to be this way. There was a diverse world of PDAs, smartphones and UMPCs, but Steve Jobs made a killer demo for the iPhone and the world never recovered. Every mobile device ever since has dreamed of being the iPhone. Useless? Definitely not. But why can't we graft all of these useful features onto something with more utility?

Of course, we can, it's just that nobody is asking for it. The closest approximation I have is sticking a USB LTE modem into my GPD MicroPC. It's fantastic and serves many of the "utility" functions that the internet can provide, and the battery life is pretty good too. It's less tempting to pull out just for the sake of killing time, and it's honestly comfortable enough to thumb-type on that I can use it for some real, if inefficient, productivity tasks. And it's got a real desktop operating system on it. (Well, insofar as much as Linux counts.)

But a lot of the time, I just wind up leaving the house with, well, no devices. It's fine. In some cases it can be a little boring. But you know, it doesn't hurt that bad being a little bored here or there. It reminds me of childhood. it really feels alright to just plain be a little bored once in a while. So sometimes I take a walk, and just don't grab anything, and clear my head for a bit. And if other people don't like/want that, that's fine by me.

But... still, even if people love their smartphones, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has been a good relationship for them.
You shouldn’t give LLM any powers you wouldn’t give straight to user. LLM should be able to only perform actions on behalf of the user.
Not act as a gatekeeper with admin rights. It limits the usefulness of chatbots, but it feels futile to try to keep current LLMs from being social engineered.
C# approach to concurrency has always been better since its introduction. It does have Channels which offer more focused pattern for SPSC, MPMC, etc. scenarios but neither Java nor Go offer a comparable level of ease of use as C#’s hot-started tasks:

// The tasks will run in parallel
var data = service.GetData(id);
var user = service.GetUser(name);

Handle(await data, await user);

Re: the above comment on switching to Go for concurrency - probably one of the most ill-informed things I have read in the last few days. Doing this borders on incompetence due to the lack of analysis of the utilized technology - Go's GC offers far worse throughput and its concurrency story at best is "on par" with C#.
I received a letter from a company called Welltok and I almost discarded it since I didn't know the company (thought it was spam mail). I glanced at it and noticed the sentence - Notice of Data Breach.

The letter went on to inform me that they're a vendor to Sutter Health and they were impacted by the MOVEit breach. In summary, the letter was to notify me that my personal data including treatment information and diagnosis were potentially affected. To say I was surprised was an understatement given that Sutter Health hadn't notified me about this incident. And this incident seemed to have occurred between May and July.

I Googled this and found a discussion about this on Reddit [1] and just like me a lot of people were surprised because Sutter hadn't notified them, the letter they got didn't mention Sutter prominently (even on the envelope) and people initially thought it was spam. Further Googling showed that Sutter posted a notice on their site on Nov 3 [2].

I find it extremely surprising that Sutter Health didn't notify patients directly. How would people have seen the notice given that most people go to a Health Provider's website ONLY when they have a medical issue. The notice from Welltok also seems to minimize the potential impacts of the breached data. Welltok is offering free credit monitoring for 12 months. What about personal medical records that have been breached (diagnosis, treatment, date of birth, etc)? Even the credit monitoring requires a sign-up with a credit card. Why couldn't they have reached a deal with the credit agencies to allow for a signup without a card?

Welltok or Sutter Health also don't say how many years of your personal/medical record was affected.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/17q10j6/psa_patien...

2. https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/sutter-health-vendor-reports...
it's not that uncommon to work at a company where the engineers have no idea that churn is up 25%, much less that customers are complaining about slowness.

companies get so fixated on having their engineers do "engineering work" that they don't communicate what's actually going on at the business level.
It could erupt under the sea though
This is what popped into my mind instantly when reading the parent comment as well!

For anyone who has not seen the movie Office Space, you need to see it. While you are at it, also watch the series Silicon Valley.
Show HN: I built a Hacker News inspired newsboard for AI and robotics
Hey my name is Crisa and this is my first post here on HN. I love this site and it inspired me to build a clone of it for my newsletter. Instead of having a boring landing page, I hope to gather articles, blogs, interesting projects on my own platform. I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad so that I can improve the site.
Email: gazcrisa (at) gmail (dot) com
In the US, you only need $1million assets (excluding primary residence) or $200 annual income. And that can be joint with spouse ($300k limit for that). Most FAANG employees should be capable of meeting that bar if they put some effort into it. Heck, most white-collar couples in high income areas will be there without being super-high relative income.
Not OP, but I agree with the sentiment. To me, it seemed like for a long time, people accepted whatever Martin said as “the right way” without much thought. He has had many good ideas, but also some bad ones. “Clean Code” hasn’t aged well, for example. There are a bunch of good ideas in it that happily have become commonplace (and so don’t require a the book anymore), but many bad ones too. Usually the book was recommended without qualification.

And personally, I always chafed at the “Uncle Bob” moniker. I’m a grown-ass man, and I’m not calling some random guy “Uncle Bob” unless he’s related to me. Calling yourself “Uncle Bob” seems creepy, and it makes me feel like I’m supposed to look up to him by default. No. I’d rather look to people like Rich Hickey or John Ousterhout, who have no similar pretensions. They’re just experienced practitioners sharing what they’ve learned.
How is accreditation relevant to crypto?

Edit: after some googling, is the GP talking about accreditation for buying Ripple IPO stock?
I would really like to step up here (not joking), but I am yet to understand the process and explore KDE once again. I do like it generally, but visually it’s a mess. I use swaywm on my Arch laptop and pure Gnome 45 on a couple of my Fedora 39 PCs (work and home ones).

Would appreciate if someone can help me to get quicker at understanding with their system, so I can actually contribute and not just complain about it being inconsistent here and there. Even though I not use KDE myself, I use it from time to time on other’s machines and enjoy playing with it. I would consider a switch only if the DE would highly reconsider itself towards simplifying and making other defaults. At the moment, Gnome looks like it to me.
Honestly, I don't believe this story for a second -- and believe me, I've witnessed my fair share of corporate incompetence, so it's not that.

But it's that if there's anything executives are good at, it's looking at graphs, extrapolated trend lines, and setting deadlines before disaster strikes. This is basically one of the core, day-to-day competencies of the executive suite, because there are so many things that can go wrong regarding finances, infrastructure, legal, etc.

There are plenty of things executives can be bad at managing, e.g. when it comes to tech debt or user experience or company morale -- especially anything subjective or hard-to-measure like these.

But capacity planning for any measurable resource, be it an internet pipe or otherwise? This is MBA 101 stuff. So this particular story just reads like a fantasy of "tech people smart, business people dumb". If an executive team couldn't handle something this simple, there's no way they could have been running a functioning, established bank in the first place. It just doesn't add up.
What do you suggest as an alternative? Writing only Linux apps?

Chrome was to the web what Windows was to the desktop PC: It made writing mainstream apps with wide distribution practical. It's not like devs were held hostage. They saw an opportunity in this new platform and flocked to it because it was so good. Finally, a way to write an app and deliver it to users across devices, mostly unchanged. Write once (well, really more like 1.3x), run anywhere.

Chrome was a huge improvement over IE and by-then-bloated Firefox, and Gmail and Google Maps and Google Docs good early demonstrators of what the Web could be (yes, they bought many of those, but that's not too relevant here).

Web technologies were still an uncertain bet back in the day, competing against Java, ActiveX, Flash, and plain old PHP/Coldfusion/ASP apps, or even .NET and ClickOnce, etc. Chrome and V8 largely enabled the web and JS to slowly gain traction, alongside the growing ecosystem of JS libraries and frameworks.

The future, then as now, wasn't "FOSS GNU/Linux against Google's web". It was big company against big company. Even now, if it wasn't for the Web and Android, we'd simply have iOS supremacy instead of Windows.

Linux doesn't gain mainstream traction among normal users because its desktop experience is relatively poor, thanks to a historical focus on engineering prowess and ideology over end user UX. It only succeeds when big companies build on top of it and polish it a lot (Android, Steam Deck, Ubuntu, ChromeOS). That's not Google's fault, it's just what the Linux community prioritizes.

Even today, it's amazing that the Web is still largely visible source of HTML and React. And it's contributed to by a bunch of companies, from Meta to Vercel to Cloudflare to Amazon to Oracle to to tens of thousands of small businesses and NPM contributors. This is already vastly more open than iOS and Android apps, at least until WASM closes everything off again. And though Google has definitively won the browser wars, Blink and Webkit are still far more similar than any other two platforms. It's easier to develop for two browsers than even two Linux distros / package managers.

Is it shortsighted? I think it's just going where the users are. And the users are typically going to choose ease of use over strict ideology. This shit isn't their passion. They don't spend their days pondering the virtues and vices of operating systems and licenses. It's just a phone. And to most devs, it's just a platform.

People are practical creatures. They'll use and write apps where other people are. Ideology will never be enough to change that. Usability and popularity might.
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