skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- A logitech MX vertical mouse. I rarely have carpal tunnel issues using it all day. I wish it was a bit more responsive and I'd use it for gaming because it's so comfortable

- A decent backpack with space for a) a whole set of USB cords b) a small hand tools kit and c) a small cutlery set. Having dedicated cords and tools for just my backpack is nice, and a nice cutlery set is good for meetings and out in the field when I don't want to waste single-use plastic.
Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint over Victim's Failure Disclose Data Breach
> We have PHP, which is superior as a templating language in every possible way

It’s been a very long time since I’ve written any PHP, but even when I did write PHP pretty much full time this wouldn’t have been my impression. Tooling aside, JSX is exactly what I would have wished for PHP templating to be (if I had had the foresight to wish it). In fact, if I’m not mistaken, I believe better templating in PHP is the JSX origin story?

Don’t get me wrong, if you prefer PHP for templating, I have no quarrel with your preference. My gripe, insofar as I have one, is the preference stated in an objective framing.
It’s like a hormone, so it’s not a question of empirical effects. It just works.
> ... just to get a sense of how much more of a clusterfuck it is than the tidbits I know about.

And it all goes back to the Porsche and Piech families, which still own a majority share in VW.

But to me the most fascinating of them all is when Porsche tried a short-squeeze on VW stocks to both acquire VW and make countless billions in the process but that failed due to the... 2008 financial crisis. Without the crisis hitting, Porsche (the company, not the family) was acquiring VW.

Their short squeeze failed and Porsche lost an insane amount of money on their temporarily worthless VW stocks (the VW stock lost 75% of its value between 2008 and 2009, something insane like that) and then... VW had to rescue Porsche by acquiring Porsche.

But then as of late Porsche spun off out of VW again.

It's mindboggling stuff.

The best description I've read about Porsche (the company) is: "The hedge fund that happened to also sell cars".
Arent' song lyrics also under copyright? Or is this depending on the country and their definition of intellectual property?
Fluticasone may be, but Salbutamol/Albuterol is still controlled (prescription only).
One can do a lot of good in the World just by reading Strunk.
Bad bots account for most internet traffic? Analysis
Sure, adults don't prioritize for the needs of children nearly as much as they should.
According to the label, 300ug, even those are pretty strong for me. Never tried higher, since it's always been a strong reaction
Thank you for not resisting. F# is very hard to beat for a tight domain model.
I’ve had insomnia for about 3 weeks and I bought some this week to try and break through. I had a couple restful nights and a couple nights where my wakefulness window was pushed back by 4h (instead of 11-3, 3:30-alarm)

From what I understand you should not use it for longer than 1-4 weeks presumably because you will screw up your body’s melatonin cycle even more than the insomnia has already.

Any chemical in the body that ends with -onin, in my experience, tends to be extremely pervasive with a complicated series of effects and should probably not be trifled with.
You can add Classic to the sidebar for ease of access:

- Profile (i.e. your name)

- My GPTs

- Load: ChatGPT Classic

- Down Arrow -> [Pin Icon] Keep in Sidebar

Now ChatGPT Classic will be listed at the top left right below the full-capability version.

It isn't the "default" but it just gives you two "New Chat" buttons next to one another, which is close enough to default for me.
> and turn off the blue lights

Is there reasonably solid evidence for this?
Exploiting AI-Generated Code [video]
Snyk webinar. "AI-assisted coding tools increase your delivery speed... and security risks. In the span of just one hour, we'll build a demo app using GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, and live hack the results, showing how the generated code can be exploited."

Further reading:

https://snyk.io/blog/10-best-practices-for-securely-developi...

https://snyk.io/blog/addressing-risks-in-the-owasp-top-10-fo...
The "full data dump" contains only some metadata and the download link for the file. You can't get all the subtitles from the dump.
Can you expand on this, as I'm a little naive in this area, say you isolated the cpus (isolcpus parameter) and then taskset your task onto the isolated cpu, would not the scheduler no longer be involved, and your task be the only thing serviced by that CPU ?

Is it other interrupts on the CPU that break your process out of the "real time" requirement, I find this all so interesting.
I follow r/europe and I have also noticed a huge change. What once seemed to be a pretty open subreddit appears to have turned into exactly what you mentioned, with vile comments on immigration and Islam on almost every thread.

I did start to wonder if people's viewpoint on immigration has changed as the narrative that Europe is "saturated" with immigrants seems to be being pushed a lot at them moment, but I have a feeling that the audience of Reddit and r/europe seems to be changing. I wish there was some way to know for sure.
So if I try to get the Falcon to do the Kessel run in two Parsecs, Numbat will raise an exception.
9M health records spilled by transcription firm
Absolutely. Bazaar [0] can download subtitles from tons of sites, and if they're not available, it can use Whisper [1] to generate the subtitles.

[0] https://www.bazarr.media

[1] https://wiki.bazarr.media/Additional-Configuration/Whisper-P...
See also "Conversion of VW Jetta Diesel to Burn Vegetable Oil":

* https://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/BioFuel/WVOConcersion/...
* https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15129612/how-to-conve...

More:

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/my-volkswagen-runs-on-v...
* https://archive.li/ONJo1

Some analysis:

* https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/05/diesel-vs-biodie...

In a more official capacity:

* https://www.carscoops.com/2022/02/tdfrying-oil-audi-makes-it...
I don't think that what programming languages become popular is related much to the cognitive level of programmers. I think it has more to do with (in order of amount of effect) fashion, intertia, and the fitness of the languages to particular tasks
Physical activity at school has been dropping, too, for years—less recess, especially—and it’s hard to fix that at home in the winter when the kids get home at 4:30 and it’s dark at 5. No wonder they have too much energy to sleep.
What do you suspect is the root cause of the anxiety and depression he is experiencing?
Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
That reduction in process is ineffective when participating in introspection.

This is a blog about marrying creativity and technicality, guiding writers who are creating story content for video games.

In this case the author appears to be attempting to help encourage the reader to be introspective and uncover their own feelings as their play testing in progress video games, as part of the development of story content, in order to facilitate expressing human emotions.

Human emotions are notoriously tricky to express. People can go their whole lives without developing emotional intelligence. I would imagine that effective storytelling about people involves a certain amount of emotional intelligence. This article to me is instruction on training one's own emotional intelligence.

What do you think about that?
We do miss out on a ton of important meaning. On the other hand we skip over a ton of unimportant meaning writers bloat their articles with. I need paragraphs and sentence structure as a kind of bounding volume hierarchy though...
It's a hormone produced by the body for sleep, it definitely works in inducing drowsiness. Now should you take it regularly is a different question.
To what benefit? In my (early) twenties, I could do that without consequence. But what benefit is there to not doing it while you can? (I mean, assuming you're doing so at a non dangerous level)
Features of modern CPUs don't really prevent them from real time usage, afaik. As long as something is bounded and can be reasoned about it can be used to build a real time system. You can always assume no cache hits and alikes, maximum load etc and as long as you can put a bound on the time it will take, you're good to go.
The Costs of Data Archiving
right now, their pockets can go as deep as they want.
FreeBSD 14.0 Release Information
F-Droid Alphas and good news for CJK users
I really think there is a market for niche software solutions, where a small shop can evolve with the business and keep growing with customers.

Some products seem enticing at first, when let's say a user is only $20 a month, but it quickly adds up and that does not account for migrations and retraining employees which often is an extreme pain point.

I write/manage a large project and we are very careful about any large changes because it is a pain to retrain non-technical employees.

I know an older guy, who has been working with multiple similar businesses and tailoring AS400(created circa 1986) to them. He made a business around it and it has been chugging along for few decades now.
Being clear about the shifts you need to make to get people to buy your service
Rob Pike wasn't talking about how smart the programmers are, though. He was talking about how knowledgeable and/or experienced they are.
All of the PLSQL dialects are pretty much universally mediocre at best. They don’t (de-)compose well, they don’t version-control well, they don’t document well, they don’t debug well — they pretty much lack any of the learnings and tooling that occurred in application languages over the last 20 years. You’re basically dealing with all of the problems of a poorly designed DSL made by your favorite coworker.

You could do something more sane like running lang-extensions on the db so you have access to a “real” language to specify your business logic in, but then you haven’t really changed anything except to run your app logic on the DB server and doesn’t really have anything to do with the RDBMS at that point.

Moving business logic into the schema/queries can be fine, but you still have the issues that you can’t document it particularly well, can’t version control it well, can’t test it well, can’t trust your performance tuning well, etc. Which all derives from DBMS expecting to be treated as “living systems”, and has nothing to do with knowing/not knowing SQL.

And the problem with modifying living systems is that you really don’t want to be fucking around with it because anything could potentially send it reeling (see: surgeons). You really want it to be stable… so moving your unstable business logic out is almost a necessity
That's a good one; another good one is birdchan.
I read GD as “god damn,” which also seems to fit.
> "executing it correctly" requires consensus on the goals and direction. Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines, but you seem to think that building consensus implies a voting process with a unanimous outcome. That's not the case, especially not in hierarchical organizations.

you're the one who is mistaken here, consensus is absolutely about getting everyone to agree to something. If you're not doing that then it's bog standard communication of decisions made.

Which is important, but is not "building consensus". Lets be accurate in our wording.
The name got me excited, but I'm definitely in the market for a smoother platform for DOSBox on my SteamDeck. The machine is genuinely excellent for retro gaming because it's so easy to map the mouse and various keyboard shortcuts to its many buttons, and that's increasingly become how I use it instead of more modern games out of Steam. Only issue is there is some faff involved at the moment (but faff that I'm delighted is even possible, it being a full Linux machine and all).
I Analyzed StackOverflow for Leaks
Yeesh. What a horror.

1. Stop allowing your child to have _any_ form of caffeine. No Coke, no chocolate, not even decaf tea.

2. Make sure they get at least moderate exercise, every day.

3. Take away the screens at least an hour before their bedtime, and stick with the same bedtime every day.

If you haven't done the above steps, and you have instead let the drug pushers that design the checkout lines at Target convince you to keep giving your child this stuff, you are an unfit and harmful parent.
Well, it was already overrun by 'trolls and lunatics' before Musk took over. He is now just allowing them from both political sides.
A lot of realtime systems don’t have sufficient resources to run Linux. Their hardware is much less powerful than Linux requires.

Even if a system can run (RT-)Linux, it doesn’t mean it’s suitable for real-time. Hardware for real-time projects needs much lower interrupt latency than a lot of hardware provides. Preemption isn’t the only thing necessary to support real-time requirements.
>> "Sure, this is comment is anecdotal, but so many people wouldn't be spending money on it if it didn't do what it is known to do, which is making sleep come easier."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_and_efficacy_of_homeo...

"The proposed mechanisms for homeopathy are precluded from having any effect by the laws of physics and physical chemistry.[18] The extreme dilutions used in homeopathic preparations usually leave not one molecule of the original substance in the final product."

It remains a multi-billion dollar industry.

Whether melatonin is closer to medicine or nonsense can't be solved with anecdotes.
Hi! We're aiming for early next year for general support for Zapbox content on Android, although for a variety of technical reasons it's a real challenge. We are very much committed to Android support though! Support for spatial video may require a re-encoding step if the devices don't have hardware decoding support for MV-HEVC (the format that the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max create).
Tell HN: How you changed my life trajectory
HN has a few idiosyncrasies, but to me it's the last bastion of high-quality discussion on the internet with a shared front-page.

For years I've kept a tab open and refreshed a dozen times a day. But what I didn't expect is that this community would actively change the course of my life.

Over the years, I have amassed a graveyard of side projects, and in 2021 I launched a new one. The MVP had zero users, and my finger was hovering over the big red button once again...

I posted to Show HN just for kicks, and braced for the onslaught. But to my astonishment, the constructive and energizing feedback I received went on to power my indie dev journey over the past two and a half years [0]

And now... I just officially quit my day job to work on that passion project full-time! [1]

Historically I have not thought of myself as an entrepreneur. Nor a risk-taker. I have worked a stable mid-tier SWE job for nearly a decade, abiding all the stand-ups, bureaucracy, and revectoring.

I'm just a guy that likes to make things in my free time, and who never dared to believe one of those projects could grow into something real.

But after building on nights and weekends for the past 2.5 years and reaching 2,500 paid customers, I realized that even in the worst case, I would rather fail pursuing a dream than let a promising small business die on the vine and always wonder what might have been.

So although this jump to full-time is earlier than my personal financial modeling showed a robust chance of success for, it's time to set aside a few of the worries and risk mitigation tactics, and take a step into the unknown.

I never imagined my career taking this course, and without that early support and encouragement from this community... it simply would not have.

So I'd like to say a thank you to HN. Not just for being my favorite news source, or for being one of the only platforms not chalk full of formulaic engagement-optimized posts, but for helping me personally find the courage to leave the corporate world, set out on a new path, and chase a dream :)

[0] most recent Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849502

[1] https://x.com/_knolan/status/1724142406352646601?s=20
Post deleted, archive.org has it https://web.archive.org/web/20231116160518/https://blog.goog...
I read this as "vitamins vs painkiller" analogy. People forget to take their vitamins all the time, and if it's expensive vs the perceived (sometimes vague) ROI, then it's going to be the first to be cut. Versus... people do NOT forget to take their painkillers and nobody is looking too hard at how much ibuprofen costs (beyond comparing costs... they're gonna buy it regardless).
That's not the expectation. The expectation is that everybody's thinking is a stream of thoughts very specific to the person and context. It's not naturally conducive to another person's consumption, or to long-term or comprehensive understanding.

My thinking is a disorganized mess because that's the nature of thought in the first place. Your thoughts are everything you are experiencing or considering as you experience or consider them. The vast majority of them are gone within moments after you've thought them, to never be remembered again.

The thoughts that stay are the ones that you consider, run over in your head a few times, and have taken the opportunity to organize in your head a bit more. True stream of consciousness is not usually enjoyable to read (and I'll note that this article is not true stream of consciousness, but rather minimally organized thoughts).
Odd, looks like it was deleted? It's on archive.org though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231116160518/https://blog.goog...

EDIT: updated URL here: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/zimbra-0-day-used-...
A Brief 200-Year History of Synesthesia
Explained by Veblen a 100 years ago -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Cl...

Conspicuous Lesiure and Conspicuous Consumption exist cuz they do help solving certain complex social problems eg how do you get very different people to work towards a common goal if theirs needs are met and interests are different? Even the smartest people in the world are drawn to totally dumb wasteful shit all the time. So you use it to pull them in.

The leisure class or the luxury class or the ceremonial classes are one answer. Cuz who do you want to work for the guy with a mega yatch and a sport team and a private island or the guy without it all?

Problems start when the leisure class forgets what's it's purpose is.
Reprehensible? Wow, that's a strong statement. I give my kids melatonin. Do I know for sure it doesn't harm them? No. But when I take into account the fact that most kids eat a ton more sugar than my kids, I see other kids their ages drinking caffeinated drinks, not eating vegetables, etc, I think I am way ahead. And sleep is insanely important for brain development. My kids get a ton of exercise, they eat well, but going to bed at night has been a problem for them. They have an insane amount of energy, but when they don't sleep well it affects everything they do.

Is it the easy solution? Yes. Does it work? Also yes. Do I worry about it? Absolutely, and I am open to suggestions for alternatives. Is it reprehensible? Not according to any doctor I have talked to, and maybe there are others like you up on your high horse, but none has said that to me before. But yes, let's fix all of society so I don't have to give my kids melatonin anymore. Great idea.

[ADDING MORE] My kids don't have ipads or phones. We limit their screen time much more than most. My guess is you don't have kids, or else you would realize that there is no perfect way to raise them, and you stop judging others for doing so the best way they can.
Ingredients of a Great Fundraising Announcement
Agreed, the no-suicide one is the worst. What process would you even take other than asking "have you had suicidal thoughts?"
Similar to the example of the OP:

(def walrus (agent {}))

; good
(defn frobnicate [w]
(assoc w :frobnicated true))
(send walrus frobnicate)

; bad
(defn frobnicate [w]
(send walrus #(assoc % :frobnicated true)))
(frobnicate walrus)

It might make sense to also have a function that executes something like (send walrus frobnicate). But IMHO code should basically never look like the bad example.
No this is likely due to their becoming sedentary and having a lot of unhealthy diet going on
But also put all your credentials in a .gitignored config file or use environment variables. No hard coded creds/API keys
This kind of uncoordinated leaking is a deeper problem. Many share the last four digits of a SS#. Okay. But often the first five are easy to guess from the birthday and the birth state. The first few digits tell the state where the number was issued.
Who said anything about "maximizing Palestinian civilian casualties"? The GP claimed that Isreal doesn't kill Palestinians, which it quite clearly does.
I made millions. And then I woke up.

But I do make some, and many people make lots of money with simple tools all the time.

A recent HN thread asking about hourly billing rates [1] had some people charging $1500/hr with just a screwdriver.

What I consider more interesting is the circumstances leading to someone finding themselves in a position where they can command so much compensation using such simple resources.

And I'm afraid a lot of people won't share those circumstances, you included OP, and myself. That's because if you're able to make all that cash with just you and your laptop, that means anyone can, and the barrier to entry is pretty weak. The barrier is simply knowing something exists. Knowing about some niche, the opportunity, where to look, etc.

And as soon as someone finds your niche, someone else with a laptop will come along and crash your party. Who wants that?

HN-types love to parrot the meme, "ideas are worthless, it's the execution that matters". Except that's not true, because surprisingly often, the only barrier to entry is simply being aware of the existence of some opportunity, the idea, and not some deep arcane knowledge or skill or how magnificent your execution is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38182965
You're absolutely correct.

When we went to the browser we took 30 years of UI development knowledge and UI/UX principle and flushed it down the toilet.

Only very recently have we started to gain composability in browser UIs through things like React, and it's a sad facsimile of the widget composability we had in WYSIWYG UI development on PCs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The web is a shit UI platform, but that's because it wasn't designed to be one. UIs were shoehorned into a hypertext system designed for viewing documents.
Queue (cue) all the QR code crypto spam live videos I gotta report/take down

"Send crypto to Elon now, it will change your life"
What does this mean for the common user? Is this something you would only enable in very specific circumstances or can it also bring a more responsive system to the general public?
Ancient iron production leaves behind bloomeries. And in places like Egypt that are so dry, ancient iron (including meteoric iron predating smelting) does survive pretty well.
> This reminds me of an old article I read about how psychedelics don't actually "increase connectivity in the brain" like users thought, as though that had anything to do with why people use psychedelics.

That's why some folks say they take psychedelics; they want to justify their drug use for 'fun' as something more beneficial. I wish people were more honest with themselves and others.
Lorax: Serve 100s of Fine-Tuned LLMs in Production for the Cost of 1