skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I see you've met my godson...
Ah shit they took my kidneys.
The only problem with these kinds of languages is finding the place where the experts publish their solutions, if they do. I'd love to see what an expert can do and what I can learn from them.
As I’ve been converting from .docx to HTML, I was pleasantly surprised to find that using flexbox to lay out three elements in a single row is perfectly fine and - bonus points- the CSS doesn’t make want to gouge my eyes out.

To your point that HTML can be a security risk, I remember interviewing at The College Board in mid 2011 and finding out that they still sent critical information - think testing admission tickets - with a MIME type of text/plain.

If you need to guarantee delivery and readability, no matter where people are getting the message, I don’t see how you can do it any other way.
The driver API in the windows kernel changes about once a decade. And they're not actively hostile to loading closed source drivers.
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Yes, this perfectly maps to what's been released about the board's reasoning and why they wouldn't be able to pinpoint any specific lie. There wasn't one, in that he probably very carefully chooses his language such that he's never caught outright lying. But I wouldn't doubt he's a manipulator.
So this person is building meteor.js minimongo, but for sqlite. Awesome!
If that were the case, we’d have almost no HW support on Linux. The Linux kernel doesn’t have a stable API nor ABI which means the only way to get meaningful HW support is to mainline the driver. DKMS helps a bit in “stabilizing” but it has it’s warts.
My second example there was Roto Rooter [0], so along with the stealership [1] these aren't examples of vibrant competition allowing for new entrants. But the fact they can have this outsized overhead and yet still have customers demonstrates something, even if not universal about the entire market.

I think this somewhat ties into business discovery getting harder. There was a period where the Internet was making this better, but has now been seemingly completely locked down by web spammers and the surveillance-adtech industry making it into a pay to play game (aka more overhead). I'm halfheartedly in the market for contractors myself, and it seems like the best way to find leads is to sit down for lunch at a restaurant next to a main road, and write down the phone numbers on the trucks going by. At least that only requires people to spring for the fancy truck wrap, rather than the fancy website and surveillance-based advertising.

[0] My aunt's drain was slow and I was too swamped to look at it, so that's who her helper ended up calling (sigh). If I had known the bill was going to come to $1200 for installing 12 feet of PVC pipe, I would have made the time.

[1] Warranty recall.
The episode where Rocco sits in his bosses chair is burned indelibly into my brain since I saw that as a child. Real fever-dream material.
The policy is "no external genAI access", meaning no chatGPT, Bard, etc etc. Which, I think, has (mis)translated to "ban all AI-related sites" at the corporate content-filtering firewall which uses 3rd party rulesets.

Though I can appreciate the tightrope that corporate IT has to walk. Many IT security departments been given that kind of directive by a leadership absolutely petrified of losing intellectual property.

Another corp that several friends work at has blanket-banned a bunch of top-level domains, and so far their security ops folks haven't even responded to their complaints/requests. I'm very thankful I'm not affected by that kind of filtering; .dev and I think .io are affected.
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Yikes, you broke the site guidelines really badly in this thread, not just in this comment but in several other places including these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490123

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38484632

We have to ban accounts that post this way. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Moreover, we've had warn you about this more than once over the years.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it. That means no swipes and no personal attacks, among other things.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this in other recent threads too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453843

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38377068

We really are going to have to ban you if this keeps up, so if you'd please make whatever change is needed to not post like this again, that would be good.
I presume that when its a big "X loses in Wargame!!!" stories that go around the press... they're at least choosing the expensive wargames, as you'd put it.

Like, I know that F22 fighters actually flew and were being tested vs RADAR systems in a recent wargame. Obviously no one shot anyone, but its not exactly cheap to run this equipment.

Still, its good roleplay / practice for the pilot (and their commanders and crew), so its absolutely worthwhile. Even if the whole wargame ends up being an unrealistic piece of crap, its still worth excersizing / practicing / drilling the fundamentals
“It beats rail!”
I rather like Microsoft To Do.
i thought the whole premise of the article was that you don't want to do that, you want to cache some stuff, and instead of writing the cache stuff (a db) yourself, use a real db in your frontend.

if you wanted to just fetch data from your server, it's not a problem anyway, right? a spa can also just fetch fresh data from a server. the whole point of the frontend cache was optimising ux/latency, e.g. for apps with global users but not globally deployed servers
If the vendors pirate your money, it's only fair you pirate their content.
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This guy is not a whistleblower, he is literally funded by Oracle as a hitman. His statements are grossly inaccurate and he clearly didn’t read the J&A or has any idea what’s going on. Just sad that he’s doing this in the name of a whistleblower…
>Covid made matters worse (I nearly doubled my salary switching companies during that time, although it was never my intent). The intensity of demand fueled even more unrealistic salaries, followed by even more intense layoffs.

Yup.

"Fear and greed drive markets."

That well-known statement holds true not only in the stock markets, but also in any market where there are wild swings of supply and demand.

Human nature, short-sightedness, and ignorance, folks.

"Those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it."
Did you notice that most of the words, if not all, are based on Cantonese. Hence I was careful to say "mainland Chinese". The early immigrants were mostly from Guangdong and Fujian. They didn't translate their words but to use phonics directly and I wish the mainland Chinese did the same. A good example could be the Japanese word katana。If it were from mainland Chinese, you'd bet the word would be "Chinese sword" instead of "jian" or "dao".
Israeli's are beginning to see Palestine as integral to the future of Israel
If you ban child labor the jobs don't go away. The process still requires the same amount of labor. So, employment will increase, and with the higher labor demand, so will wages. Either way, the product is profitable and in high demand so the same or more money will be spent producing it. Child labor is one of the reasons why so little of the profit from their work reaches them. They're subsidizing the industry by sacrificing their children to increase labor availability.
Take a look at the BEIR benchmark, which has served as one of the main drivers for development of neural IR systems since its introduction in 2020.

BM25 presents a challenging cross-domain benchmark, and it wasn't till ~2022 that neural methods overtook it. If memory serves, it was the sparse neural methods like Splade, although recent dense models can also beat it.

The caveat is that BEIR is suffering from overfitting at this point.
> I sincerely doubt that science is exploited to a similar degree as basically any others.

The world being shitty in other ways does not diminish the tragedy that we are only a fraction of how effective we could be at pursuing science.

> Can you back up your “many” with actual numbers as a percentage of investment?

"A 2011 analysis by researchers with pharmaceutical company Bayer found that, at most, a quarter of Bayer's in-house findings replicated the original results."

"In a 2012 paper, C. Glenn Begley, a biotech consultant working at Amgen, and Lee Ellis, a medical researcher at the University of Texas, found that only 11% of 53 pre-clinical cancer studies had replications that could confirm conclusions from the original studies"

"The ... paper examined the reproducibility rates and effect sizes by journal and discipline. Study replication rates were 23% for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48% for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and 38% for Psychological Science"

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

> I don’t really accept these ridiculous trumpisms. “Many people are saying”.

I didn't say "many people are saying", and comparing me to Trump is a much greater insult than things comments get flagged and removed for. Respond to what I actually said and avoid the (extreme) personal insults.
So your solution to not treating children baddly is to not have children? Seems a bit strange instead of just ... you know pay people a descent wage so they don't have to put they children in arms way
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"Its not a real connection" - and if its not, so what? Why we should decide what connection is real and what is not? Why its matter?

I mean, why we should decide for someone who use it? What wrong with allowing it?
I can do you even better. I've made an entire game [1] based off of multistable perception [2]. Sugihara out did me by finding optical illusions with triple interpretations [3]. A solid half of MC Escher's work was about the study of tiling wherein both the negative space and the object space could be interchanged [4].

These things aren't a mystery. There are principles you can work from to produce such multi-stable illusions in formulaic, computer generated ways without resorting to the technical debt of a neural net. But, as with so much in modern times, training a neural net gets results faster than distilling a true understanding and then translating your understanding into code.

[1] http://playinverse.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistable_perception

[3] https://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~kokichis/triplyambiguousobjects...

[4] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/07/bd/6d07bd12d34f674ca4de...
"Average wage index" sounds like it's measuring mean, not median.
Good question! You can use a ORM with SQLSync. Currently SQLSync doesn't provide an ORM layer for two reasons:
1. there are many that exist, it's better to integrate
2. it's a prototype so I started with the lowest common denominator which is raw SQL.

SQL.js is an inspiring project in the space and led to official upstream support for compiling SQLite to Wasm. Without these projects SQLSync would have been much more difficult (akin to the original difficulty of SQL.js in the first place). That said, SQLSync is also unique from SQL.js in that it includes a synchronization layer that coordinates with the SQLSync server to provide real time collaboration between users.
As I understand it - I was a bit young when it happened, so all I have are secondhand accounts - IE 5 on Mac was substantially better that other browsers due in part to its CSS support.
This over-generalization of vague concepts isn't helpful.

An example of DRY would be: You're using libraries "foo" and "baz," and whenever foo::get_bar() returns 1, 2, or 3, you need to call (for your use-case) baz::qux(9), baz::qux(31), or baz::qux(-5), respectively. So you create one function that either handles both calls completely, or at least maps the return value from get_bar to the argument required by qux. The violation of DRY would have switch statements littered throughout the code that all do the same mapping manually.

A build-or-"buy" decision isn't about being DRY or not.
They wrote "previously purchased Discovery content". Should I believe you or Sony's official statement? ;)

Anyway, never buy content you can't crack (make it drm-free) or even better, buy drm-free stuff from the start, but if you really want the best service with the highest quality that has the best portability go ask a pirate, it's been the same since 1600.
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>So the writer chooses to start out right away with the obvious fallacy that people can't be both happier than in decades and also miserable.

You are making the (unfounded) assertion that there is some absolute scale of misery and so someone could be less miserable than they've been in decades and yet still be "miserable" because they haven't hit "happiness" on the absolute scale. But there is no such absolute scale. If someone is happier than they've been in decades they can't be miserable because that's just a term describing their personal low.
As my uncouth grandfather used to say: “Wishes in one hand, shit in the other, which will fill first?” These children work because they have no choice. They are paid these wages because they can’t make more.

I suggest empowering women who don’t want children to not have them. If we look at the developed world, it is clear the total fertility rate will settle far below replacement rate (2.1) and child labor will dry up when women are educated and have robust access to family planning.

Perpetual labor shortages are a better outcome than surplus labor and lives of suffering, most especially children suffering.

By all means, open your wallet to pay these kids a living wage. I’ll even help you bootstrap the direct cash transfer mechanisms via mobile payments if you have deep pockets. But that is unlikely to happen. Hope is not a strategy.

https://www.unicef.org/protection/child-labour ("Nearly 1 in 10 children are subjected to child labour worldwide, with some forced into hazardous work through trafficking.")

https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor ("The International Labour Organisation states in its latest World Report on Child Labour (2013) that there are around 265 million working children in the world—almost 17 per cent of the worldwide child population. According to the publicly available data discussed in more detail below, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where child labour is most prevalent.")

https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-... ("You can’t even pay people to have more kids")

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198592/ ("Challenges and perspectives of child labor")
I have rarely seen such heartless victim blaming on hackernews...
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Can Onyx's compiler be compiled to Wasm to itself run in the browser?

It's niche, but I've thought it'd be cool if there were a mini Wasm-based game building tool in the browser, but that requires a Wasm language with a compiler that can run in the browser.
Ahh, "personal accountability" for the victims. It's the victim's fault the government threatened them with decades of imprisonment over a minor "crime".

Where is the personal accountability for the prosecutor?

There is a notion of reckless disregard for human life in the law. If you are throwing bricks off an overpass just for fun, you are still guilty of murder if you kill someone - because you have reckless disregard for human life even though you weren't trying to kill anyone.

Likewise, a prosecutor who threatens someone with decades in prison for freely distributing academic material displays a reckless disregard for human life. Even if the prosecutor didn't intend to provoke a suicide the prosecutor was doing something bad with a reckless disregard for human life and it got someone killed. That's murder, in my view.

Perhaps you should ask for accountability from the prosecutor/murderer rather than from her victim.
> Firefox now allows you to force-underline links in websites.
Thank you! No more second guessing or hovering over badly colored texts to check if something is a link.
Employers say 'we cant find anyone and we are offering $XYZ' where $XYZ is some astronomical amount.

And yet the experience of applicants is often very different. They apply and never hear back. Or they never receive offers that match.

So what's the discrepancy? Either one side is lying, or there is something being miscommunicated.

My guess is that often what employers mean is 'we cant find anyone with these specific skills at this price point'.

You have to realize there is a finite number of people with X years experience in Y. If you want to know how many people have 10 years experience doing Y, it's upper bounded by the number of people who were employed in Y 10 years ago.
Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year[1]. This is all from fossil fuels. What are the numbers for nuclear?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...
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I guess. I assume the OpenAI vision, in the short term, is for there to be a beefy LLM on top that can call the correct sub LLMs that have more bespoke knowledge about random things, and sort of orchestrate an answer based on that.

Not sure why OpenAI feels the need to pay people for this though, I guess to incentivize use?
Think of all the monetization possibilities - The AI could secretly teach your parrot to speak about how it would prefer a different (specific) brand of food, or that you should really buy nicer looking clothes from such and such store!

I find it hard to believe companies could resist such temptation for long, but agree that it does sound like it would be great for the birds (and possibly other pets) if done sanely without such contamination~
The skyhook solution
I'm trying to achieve something similar with SignalDB: https://signaldb.js.org/
It uses signals for reactivity and is framework agnostic with a mongodb-like query syntax
Makes sense. Broadcom itself is a very problematic company.
Is making gift cards more difficult to buy really going to put a dent in people getting scammed?
Two previous discussions of the VMWare layoffs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38436419

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38480748
So then we need something like neuralink to get the whole thought from one's brain first, then the sentences are processed properly for the context, then translated before the speech is delivered.
It feels perverse to even mention YouTube when this was the bread and butter of Newgrounds (and others) for so long before YouTube took off.

YouTube only absorbed it later on as a delivery platform.
... and, a couple of days later, Scott Manley has a video on submarine-launched missiles, including some footage of Operation Frigate Bird!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLIdVigNtIo
I can offer Russian statements spanning more than two decades consistently demanding that NATO stops expanding eastwards as evidence that this is what Russia cared about. What evidence do you have to the contrary? Why did they invade?
I can change A to B on my own, you can change A to C on your own.

At some point we have to communicate which change is correct.

It does not have to be synchronous and it might be via commit message - but still change alone is not enough for conflict resolution.

If you edit word document and someone then changes something there is no commit message but might be comment on document, email or im.
I'm definitely not sure. Could very well be the transition from CVS to Subversion that I'm remembering. It's been a long time :)
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Huh - you're right: http://www.securingjava.com/chapter-two/
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It'd be great to have a chronicle of all these efforts. I lost track of the variations quite a long time ago.

It'd be quite a lift unless we're just willing to just accept the self reported metrics as golden. And even then, they're always qualified by hardware and usage scope. Making it good enough to be useful is the hard part. CI/CD pipeline with a bunch of machine configurations and benchmarks along with a reasonable way to communicate them...

If anyone's up for it you'd legitimately become indispensable.