skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why are the choices so bad

I've seen a couple reasons:

One, often these products are made by companies where the products are not their primary revenue source. The products are often managed as independent business cases. That means they have a budget, timelines, expected revenue figures/costs. It's common for a product to get a low level of investment that only meets the needs of adding new features [to meet sales figures] without ensuring quality. If it were a startup flush with VC money, they could invest all they have into the product, but at an enterprise, it's often the opposite.

Two, often these products are actually acquisitions of startups. You may not know this, but startups tend to churn out some horrifying, janky code just to get themselves off the ground. Buying one of these often leaves you with a huge mess on your hands. Combine that with a lack of investment or cost-cutting, or some of the lead product people leaving, and the product gets worse. Then try to integrate different products, and you're really integrating different messes.

Three, it's genuinely hard to create groupware products that are both high-quality and useful. They're often complex and need to interoperate with one another, yet are built by separate teams. And because they're complex, they each suffer from the standard problems that happen to software products (many books written about them). But the people managing and creating them fall into the same old pitfalls, because software product development is not required to avoid them. Bad management and bad engineering are common, and these products in particular are no exception.

Four, they're actually difficult things to build and sell. If they were easy, there'd be more competition. There tends to be "alternatives", but not with the same features.
Even if I agreed with the position of person who posted the question (which I don't really, because search is not necessarily cheap and could be used for a DOS style attack), why do people feel the need to be like this? Like, what benefit is saying, "Is it not enough to monetize every bowel movement, you now feel the need to track which individual lines of code I'm browsing?" here? Chill out.

The underlying argument isn't even that good. Besides that repos themselves are _not_ gated behind a login and so an open repo is able to be accessed publicly, including cloning the repo, if the point is that the author wants his repos and code to be useful to the public, then if there is ever a need to interact beyond just downloading the code and searching, such as creating an issue or making a PR, that contributor would necessarily need to log in.
The underlying hardware Sec is bypassed, which isn't microsoft.

This is like:

HYPER-SECURE DOOR LOCKS BYPASSED
Thieves cut door out of wall!

While the lock was technically bypassed, it had little to do with the door manuf. The issue was what it was anchored to, a lot like this.
It sounds like you've just made the case that today's society is significantly better off than previous ones.
I am surprised to see that OpenCV don't have backers till now.
Many large corps might had made billions just using openCV as core tech.

- Military projects

- KYC Services

- Goverment projects

- Survelliance projets

- Drones

Those are the biggest users of openCV and those are billion dollar industries.
Best story I've heard about clearing a dungeon was a group that drove a flock of sheep into the dungeon. Later, while exploring the dungeon, they'd find tons of traps with dead sheep in them.
Immune function analysis displayed significantly lower phagocytosis of monocytes and granulocytes in an older vegetarian population (vs. older nonvegetarians (P < 0.05, P < 0.001). Similar effect of diet was observed as decreased phagocytic activity of granulocytes in younger vegetarians. Regardless of age, respiratory burst of phagocytic cells was also significantly decreased in women vegetarians versus nonvegetarians (P < 0.05, P < 0.001). Older vegetarians revealed significantly suppressed proliferative response of T-lymphocytes to mitogens (P < 0.001).

In conclusion, our data indicate that a vegetarian diet might have a possible impact on human immune response.

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2007/09001/The_Effe...
Mr Blobby Is a Fucking Legend
No, that's a feature. Replacing your gormless CEO with a machine is one of the highest-impact ways to leverage an LLM. Frankly, it's a shame that OpenAI is too afraid to eat their own dogfood.
While useful, Google Places API can be really weird at times. One weird caveat that we identified at work is that this list is supposed to be a documentation of all possible place types: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-...

yet we have polled this endpoint and have received the place type "supermarket_or_grocery" which is not documented there. Fun!
Giving them your personal information is a form of payment. I don't mean this in a pedantic or academic sense, but a very real one.
Personally I love my Redis shirt and my RocksDB shirt - both excellent materials and colours.
That reminds me that Zachtronics Solitaire is available on Android. It's the solitaire minigames from all the Zachtronics games, plus a new tarot-based solitaire just for this collection.
It's weird how people criticize Mozilla for taking Google money, but also criticize them for their attempts to diversify away from that.
That's not actually how it works, that's an ollllld viral article. Source: worked at google for 7 years, 2.8 gpa dropout from state school economics

EDIT: upvotes for reality-detached rant, upvotes for "you think you are The One" -2 for a polite concise reality.
Hardware sec is being bypassed. Everything else is a consequence of that.
The latest Cyberpunk update changes health items from collectable, consumable items to an item with [2] rechargeable uses that gets stronger as you play.
"But I'm sure pure mathematicians would also be totally fine studying randomly generated rulesets."

I do agree, but that we don't do that in reality is exactly my point.
There's a John Cleese quote that comes to mind. What they are saying is, if your dependencies are manually checked in, are you going to be on top of keeping them up to date for all the sev-1 CVE's that are found? Patches that are backported? Bugs that are fixed? And keep them all in sync? If your answer is yes to any of these, go look up the John Cleese quote. That is, unless you have an army of devs and maintainers to do it and get paid for it (hi Red Hat!).
I thought it was due to relativity which assumes a continuous space. There's a lot of evidence to back up relativity, though it does have issues with not working in a black hole, so it would be questionable to throw it out without something better to replace it.
Epson's Linux support for both their printers and scanners is great in my experience, although they don't provide tech support if you can't get it working. They even open sourced the Linux port of Epson Scan 2 (their scanning client software).
Show HN: A GPT wrapper actually worth using
For a while my location would always show up as the same city as my ISP's main office, 800km away. Good times!
The 5 eyes is basically a deal between secret service organisations to help each country spy on each others citizens, neatly side stepping legal protections each citizen has on their own state doing so. It is the 'collaboration of the deep state' across national boundaries. Suboptimal
Alameda Research had some gold medalists iirc!
Well EPROMs are ROMs and they're programmable, but then i'm being pedantic.
They're using this API to sell gambling services, but they're apparently required to check that it's legal for the user to gamble.

Unrelated, I hate how GIS systems built on text search are turning geometry problems which are easy to reason about into unpredictable database problems.

> It appears that the API might be following this process:

> 1. Takes the coordinates and identifies the nearest building + street address.

> 2. Performs a textual best match query across its datasets.

> 3. Returns the first record, mixing up the fields from different locations.

The fact that the first Google autocomplete for the address "3520 S State St" happens to be the State St. in Utah, not Illinois, has absolutely nothing to do with whether the lat/lon coordinates (41.8,-87.6) are in the geographical boundary which describes Illinois and Utah.
Definitions are created to be useful or interesting or both, and sometimes those specifiers overlap with physical reality. But that doesn't mean they're created to match reality or to tell you anything about it.

I remember struggling as an undergrad to come up with a metaphor for visualizing what a group homomorphism is, aiming to develop better intuition when working with them. It's hard because the real world doesn't contain any, and all the "it's kind of like X" types of examples you can think of aren't really useful when mapped back to the mathematical domain. If math described the real world, I'd expect this type of thing to be much easier.
whats clickbait about it?

it looks like blog about how he likes his t-shirts

I can't see any ads - although my firefox extentions will be blocking them if there was any
"Legitimate interest" is a different basis from "consent." It doesn't matter whether you agree to it or not, you aren't empowering anything that wasn't already going to happen.
It is something wedding photographers should offer. I've seen wedding photographers expand the traditional model and set up Purikura so people can take their own group photos:

https://www.jrpass.com/blog/say-cheese-the-ultimate-guide-to...

Pro photographers are ideally equipped for some the tough problems in wedding photography (the reception dinner that is poorly lit, large group photos, etc.) but there is going to be a lot of value in gathering and curating guest photos in 2023 and who's in a better place to do it?

I noticed these products

https://www.weddingphotoswap.com/

https://guestpix.com/weddings/

https://weddybird.com/en/photo-gallery

also this discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/wedding/comments/14mmcqc/best_websi...
Do you look outside to get the weather from 5,000 miles away?
That's disallowed on Wikipedia. There, you must reference some "source". That "source" doesn't need to be reliable or correct, it just needs to be some random website that's not the actual person. First sources are disallowed.
Vertical tabs aren't a good reason to stick with Edge. Vivaldi is better and supports vertical tabs, but is still Chromium. If you want a Firefox based browser with vertical tabs there is Floorp.

I tried to switch to switch to Floorp and while it is pretty good, there are things like tab pinning and tiling that work so much better in Vivaldi (compared to every other browser I've tried) that keeps me there.
Back in the year 2001/2002 (I think) I remember doing this with a Wikipedia plugin for Rockbox (https://www.rockbox.org/), which I had running on my Archos FM Recorder. It was truly awesome to have all this knowledge in the palm of your hands without omnipresent Internet.
This feels a lot like the CSS hacks I’ve worked on around 2012, when CSS was limited and SVG was rare and buggy.
You know you can't just shove an extra port on everything?
Besides, you'd have to draw the line somewhere. If every component has to be replaceable and a standard connector lots of (especially) small hardware is impossible to make (think wireless earbuds, smartwatches, fitness trackers) and I don't think you'd get a majority of people that want to return to 2000's style mobile phone bricks.
Telescope Array detects second-highest-energy cosmic ray
There was hardware (not sure if it was CPU state or state in the memory controller) to zero-out all of the address bits above the 24th, allowing backward compatibility. I forget the shortcut (option-I? option-M?), but if you selected an executable in Finder, you could go in and change the hardware compatibility mode used to run it.
I heard a lot about questioning the "existence" of real numbers and if they are a realistic description of reality, but I kinda feel like a portion of that uncertanty should also be applied to integers as well. How does the notion of a discrete element relate to our current world-view of fields and waves? Can you truly have a "single thing", isolated from its externals, constituting a discrete element? What would that be? What can you put in a box and not have it influence the would outside (or the box itself as well), thus extending its reach and making it a part of a greater whole?
> There is no reason that OpenCV should be struggling to get 500k with all the projects that use it.

The reason is tragedy of the commons. The software is gratis, and they're getting paid the asking price.
WiFi is a nice feature, but instead of buying a new printer, I setup a CUPS server on old raspberry pis and turned both my and my parents’ printers into WiFi capable ones. Now our 5+ and 15+ year old printers are just as good as any new ones today.
These kinds of tricks were also very common on the NES, to create things like a HUD that doesn't scroll with the rest of the screen by changing the scroll values at the right time. Eventually they even started putting hardware in the cartridge to assist this by interrupting the CPU at the right time
Does rclone allow you to do some kind of diff or are you literally copying the full contents of OD into DB?

I'm interested in doing something similar for our GD into DB or Backblaze but not if it's a full copy each day - we have 400GB in GD
wow, just did this test aswell and the 5 results it showed were everything from all over the world except for the actual Paris
Sorry. missed the 2bay part.
Making potions infinite with a cooldown usually does the trick. After that, it's a space scarcity and balancing act - how many potions can I have on hand? How powerful are they for my character at their current level of progress?

I think WoW's move also kinda works. It's a question of economics and you should mostly always be using them.
> A smart stove would let you start the oven preheating before you get home, thus saving a 5-10 minute wait before you can start cooking that frozen pizza you just bought.

I'm sure this is practically not a real issue, but my OCD paranoia cannot fathom the idea of my oven being on while I'm not at home due to safety / fire concerns.
Study examines how 2022 eruption changed stratosphere chemistry and dynamics
There are no links to buy any of the shirts on the page. It's a tongue-in-cheek comparison of startup swag.
Here is my favorite video about 8-bit era optimisations. Makes you appreciate games from this era even more. This arcane magic survived in the demoscene to this day.

https://youtu.be/ZWQ0591PAxM?si=VsIbeLAb7mHc_I9V&t=157
I don’t want to totally dox myself but there’s a couple crypto companies doing that sort of stuff like Algorand, Tezos, Cardano, etc :)
Maybe talk to your boss about your situation?
I work in a startup, but you’d never know it because of how well managed everything is. I’m paid well and am never too busy. You just need to find the right company, a startup doesn’t have to be a boiler room.
You mix an average male with an attractive model and something decent may come out. Plus she could afford surgeries.
I play a lot of different RPGs, and honestly I think D&D is one of the worst ones. Even games that are difficult and you can die, something like Runequest or Warhammer Fantasy, or the OSRs like Adventuer Conquer King, or Lamentations of the Flame Princess, or Mork Borg. They are just more fun and do a better job at doing what D&D tries to be. If you want something more narrative focused plenty of games like Blades in the Dark or Apocalypse World or many others can do again a better job.
Euphemism and exaggeration are both dangers to language
It's also a good reminder that folks can often do a better job by specializing on a specific problem than trying to solve the world. It's not surprising to me that a service that specializes in geocoding does a better job at geocoding than a service that does consumer-facing maps, driving/transit/walking directions, place reviews, geo-driven advertisements, etc.
I met Marc Thorpe back in 1995 and saw some of the Robot Wars highlight videos he was using to promote the event. My life was never the same after that.
One time we got a new batch of assembled boards that would randomly quit working. This was for an older product that we had been selling for years without issue. Turns out an IC supplier had moved their chip to a smaller process. This smaller chip had less gate capacitance and was making much sharper corners on it's square waves.

It was slow data, like 10mhz or something. We were safely under the 1/10 wavelength rule with the old, softer corners. With the new sharp corners we were over the 1/10 wavelength rule and the circuit was ringing so hard it would cause nearby chips to latch up. We added some termination resistors and it was fixed.

Also note that this kind of thing can be hard to diagnose, because when you put the scope probes on, some of the ringing energy goes into the scope and it tends to improve the situation as long as the probe is there.
We have been running Internet without requiring user accounts. Search was possible. Has something changed? Has github been having real problems with bots? No?
Im not all the way through the article but it raises an interesting problem. To rephrase it: gold increases exponentially but the rewards and challenges do not.

Gold gives you rewards, rewards are fun because they make challenges smaller, challenges require that you get more gold.

It almost requires the game to change as you get stronger. Im not sure you can just make weapons/enemy strength exponential. That seems more like it needs to scale linearly otherwise you either gut utterly crushed or you utterly crush it and skill isnt involved.
Neither myself nor the article claim cars will be towed in 10 days. The article is about how NYC's laws give the city the right to sell your car as soon as 10 days after towing.
> Only if we ignore facts. Chrome only has a 64% market share, not 90%. Nobody has ever dominated a consumer tech market in the same way that Microsoft dominated the 90s.

I think that browser market share is just one facet of the power Chrome holds over the web. Open source development, w3c membership and committee assignments, leadership in the direction the web takes, should also be considered alongside how much Chrome is being used directly.

> On top of that, YouTube is only one choice of many for user created videos. Sites like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Reddit are all top 20 sites that host user created videos.

These are primarily social media products, it's not easy or intended to use these services in the same way as you would use Youtube. Video is a "Feature".

> In the 90s you couldn’t complete basic computing tasks without Internet Explorer and Office. Even while fully admitting to YouTube’s relative dominance of its niche, the situation is not the same.

I think it's the spectre of this past that people recognize as being the inevitable conclusion of the enshittification process, which is why the alarm bells are sounding now.

While I feel like your arguments are absolutely sound in isolation, I personally don't know "how much dominance is too much dominance?" considering the stakes, and I would certainly rather be cautious. That said, what sort of act do you think is a "bridge too far" for Google to implement?
As I recall, Mouseguard has a physical space on the character sheet for items, and items are small bits of paper that take up that physical space. I haven't played it myself, but I like that idea.

I believe that some computer RPGs also took a similar approach - I think in the original Diablo, you had to tetris your stuff in your inventory, which itself could be upgraded to be larger.

Maybe in another campaign, I'll try this out, with weapons & items having interesting shapes that must be accounted for when storing in a backpack. After all, running around with twelve recovered goblin swords, five spears, and three shields is just not particularly plausible.
Time off and complete disconnect from all things work related. It doesn’t even matter if you travel or do whatever, just disconnecting is enough. Three months is considered the ideal minimum amount of time.

I burned out hard many years ago and this was the only thing that worked for recovery. I’m at that point again now with my current startup but I have no choice but to force through the burnout. I’m gonna be in a rough spot in a few years but I have very little choice.
Yes! I am aware of PoM, just surprised so many mathematicians are seemingly disinterested.

This is also a lovely, very readable, book on the subject: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542234/lectures-on-the-philo...
Government control over the 'cognitive environment' is essential for social stability and national security. Witness the muzzling of social media by US Gov, forcing Meta et al to hire ex-NSA staff into their content moderation / infosec teams. Without these teams in place on the looking for misinformation, we would all be more unsafe
ROM still cannot be reprogrammed. Hard stop. That’s why it isn’t the same as EP or EEPROM. Totally different transistor.
This. Also completion performance.
There's no degrowth in that case, tcs clearly has deinvested maintenance of its humanoid resources, resulting in deperformance, ultimately ending in the detrust of its customers, who will degive them their money, tcs deriching, and deemploying people. One can only hope those will successfully deunemploy, hopefully following the dedecline of the economy
Seems like everyone here is running an Adblocker! The post uses Disqus for comments and has the built-in (garbage) ads enabled.

I think it's likely that the OP uses an adblocker too and never even saw the ads on his own site.
This is the first time I have read shit has hit the roof. It is usually shit hits the fan.
Yeah that's a whole other dimension to it. The positive feedback loop it creates.

With being unattractive, there is a metaphorical "gut punch" of sorts that you always get when meeting people. Often even from people you know. Imagine just before going on stage to give a presentation, getting yourself psyched up, and someone tells you "Your voice sounds kind of weird". It just entirely kicks you off kilter and it comes through in your talk. Being unattractive you end up getting kicked off kilter a lot. You might not even know it if its all you have ever known.

But when you are good looking? It's almost like it switches and people make themselves vulnerable to see how you evaluate them. It's your word and your actions that matter, not theirs. People just openly pour confidence into your cup.

The whole things is so bizarre logically thinking, it's so primal, so human.
> examples

Linux, Maya, Photoshop, Chrome

> OpenSSL

When C programmers do crypto they also use OpenSSL, but more for security than performance. Do you have an example of a rust library which is a better substitute for commonly hand written C?

> fearless concurrency

Not related to the topic of discussion about performance gains of using libraries.
The SM7 series is one of those things that'll still exist after nuclear war right along side the cockroaches. They are battle tested and proven to pretty much be indestructible.
>A smart stove would let you start the oven preheating before you get home, thus saving a 5-10 minute wait before you can start cooking that frozen pizza you just bought. That is the only justification I've seen for a smart appliance I've seen.

I feel this is a terrible trade-off: a minor convenience, in exchange for a huge attack surface that could allow someone to burn your house down remotely. The folks who build IoT systems have neither the skill nor the economic incentive to keep these things secure for the 15+ year lifespan of a durable good like a cooking range.