skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Later the founders got diluted, I guess by the influx of employees of said startups, big tech or consultancies, like myself, then anyone from the outskirts.

I am one of the new users who contributed to dilute entrepreneurial founder. I didn't worked for a startup when I joined. What made me join and stick around is that NH hosts the best stream of tech-related submissions, and discussions tend to attract knowledgeable people who know what they are talking about, and some of which are even the leading expert on the topic.

I am also an ex slashdot lurker. That place used to serve that itch, but nowadays it reads like their comment section attracts mostly the 4chan crowd. Quite the fall from grace.
I guess I did not try to deal with anything key related, so that's probably why it was simpler for me.

I do agree that everything about it is horrific, though I'd be surprised and impressed if an LLM were able to generate your key setup from scratch.
You can't mean it in a way where someone wants to play a game and you need to DL 30 or 100 GB before it will let you play today.

I sort of get it if this was some unimportant background download being done, but for a game you actually would like to play, you are stuck with "you should have started your computer 2-10-20 hours before actually wanting to play" depending on how fast your "Fast internet" is.
Thanks! I am a skeptic of this as well, but it doesn't hurt to try. Thought it be fascinating to others here too. In another remote viewing thread someone asked why didn't we catch Osama with it? Maybe people that did it were more concerned with making money on stocks. ;) I think of the phrase "amusing ourselves to death".
This correlates with my personal experience.

If I take paper notes, I rarely have to go back and look at them. Even then it's usually just to confirm my memory.
If I take notes on an electronic device, I'm far more likely to have to go back and look at the device.
Same here.

Though the brand is actually French. And normally (at least in French) the 'z' is silent. It's a difficult brand to pronounce because it's written (or used to be written) "riz la +", which is pronounced "riz la croix" ('z' is silent an literally "rice the cross") because it was originally rice paper and the company was founded by a guy named "Lacroix"... OK that was an OT anecdote.
The overall safety of these planes is pretty astounding, that it managed to land safely.
Not seeing how this is related.
> there are things we want to do that nearly everybody think are a good idea.

They aren't a good idea. Almost always.
For example, "lets put podcasts in spotify".
Not a single person I know wanted podcasts in spotify.
It's really too bad Reddit's management is so dumb -- they have a pretty great site and userbase, and they have made exactly zero good decisions as of late.

You could probably fire their executive team and replace it with ChatGPT and you'd have more competent management.
oh wow, thank you. I'm going to look into this. I have been extremely unhappy with JuiceBox's app/etc the entire time I've had it. If I can reflash it (and/or relatively easily replace the brains), that would dramatically improve my charging situation).

After reading this article, I had been considering getting one of their most basic kits that doesn't include the cables from the wall to the box or the box to the car (since I have both of those with my current EVSE), but if I can get the same functionality reusing even more of my current one, that would be ideal.
Fairlight is great-- DX7 though was really the sound of the 80s...
Not easy to always say what the benefit is: if you present in-model uncertainty from a stochastic model that might still say nothing about an estimation error vs the actual process. For forecasting to show actual uncertainty you need to be in a quite luxurious position to know the data generating process. You could try to fudge it with a lot of historical data where available - but still...
"The estimated cost of running and cleaning up the site have soared. Sellafield is so expensive to maintain that it is considered a fiscal risk by budgetary officials. The latest estimate for cleaning up the Britain’s nuclear sites is £263bn, of which Sellafield is by far the biggest proportion. However, adjustments to its treatments in accounts can move the dial by more than £100bn, more than the UK’s entire annual deficit. The cost of decommissioning the site is a growing liability that does not count towards the calculation of the UK’s net debt."

Frightening on many dimensions
Doesn't Sultan 'we'll-all-live-in-caves' Al Jaber own Masdar? Enlighten me as to how owning renewable energy plants is in line with sustainable oil?
I'm not following your reasoning here. There are people working with the topic that is online disinformation. I know Swedish government have some teams who analyze disinformation campaigns, as an example. Are you saying that people who work with this area cannot be experts on the area?
Lots and lots of FOSS music players use libspotify or can otherwise connect to your Spotify account.

Here's just one. It's BYO frontend. Last I knew, there were a bunch of them. https://mopidy.com/

Also look into mpd, the music playing daemon.
We're using Jenkins at work. For building artifacts, it's alright as our use case is simple. But then we're also using for our automated tests, which were alredy kind of a dumpster fire in terms of reliability (both because of mistakes made when automated testing was put into place and because of issues inherent to our product) and I don't think Jenkins is helping a lot here, even after consequent investment in dev time.
It's definitely looking better than even a year ago. There's a lot of internal UI reworks ongoing to bring things to consistency.
How long will Earth exist?
Maybe it’s just me, but as a CEO if you misjudge enough to have to fire a double-digit percentage of your staff shouldn’t you face some consequences, like demotion or losing your job yourself? Daniel only owns 7.5% so it’s not like he’s a majority that can push anything through.
AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models
It started with floppy disks in a large box. They actually went bad quite often. From the moment we had a 20MB hard disk[1] for about €400 all went on that hard disk, I think we made copies on the floppy disks just in case (not sure though). It was not important: private stuff, school stuff, programming for fun.

After I got a windows computer, I started hoarding stuff on the harddrive. I don't think I bothered to make copies. When I started doing paid stuff, I bought an external drive for backups. Have been doing that since, in various configurations. My configuration is now: all computers in the house backup to a central server in the house. I rsync to an external HD from that server every now and then. The external HD is stored on a different location.

I have realized that the data is the most vulnerable when I am doing the backup. If the house goes up in flames at that moment, I loose everything. I should get a second HD to prevent that.

[1] https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/47582/Atari-SH205-Ex...
React? Or back-end with NodeJS
“It’s too expensive “

“It takes too long to build”

“Renewables are better”

“Doh, we need nuclear energy!”

We sure squandered a lot of time getting here. Could have bought ourselves another decade.
Two things I think are interesting here, one discussed by the author and one not. (1) As mentioned at the bottom, forecasting usually should lead to decisionmaking, and when it gets disconnected, it can be unclear what the value is. It sounds like Rosenfield is trying to use forecasting to give added weight to his statistical conclusions about past data, which I agree sounds suspect.

(2) it's not clear what the "error bars" should mean. One is a confidence interval[1] (e.g. model gives 95% chance the output will be within these bounds). Another is a standard deviation (i.e. you are pretty much predicting the squared difference between your own point forecast and the outcome).

[1] acknowledged: not the correct term
Thanks for the tip! I will add GPT to the mix to clean up the speech and title data.
That sounds impressive but does there exist a bad code review tool?

Just thinking I’ve used probably 4-5 different ones and never had any issues
Because I have experience in the industry. Where is anyone getting any of this info? Don’t just believe these guys they are fake accounts repeating marketing info.
I find them generally very helpful. In a majority of cases, it's able to translate my review comments into the exact delta that I had in mind.

Source: me, C++ readability reviewer - this means I review code from lots of different people, all over the codebase.
If you're writing code and you get a review request and ignore it, you are literally preventing value from being shipped while you work on making some abstract idea a reality.

Usually, the code review is the very last step before value becomes available to the business. There is absolutely no reason to delay a code review in this case, none, whatsoever.

Even if it isn't the last step, you're delaying the chance for a developer to continue working. More often than not, when a PR is submitted, there is a period where the submitter is twiddling their proverbial thumbs to prevent context switching from a reviewer.

So, delaying a review prevents value from being available and reduces overall developer productivity for the entire team.

Or, keep working on making an imaginary idea into a real one while someone else's already built idea sits there wasting money.
This is because of customs and border controls required by the UK, which needs a large separated and secured section inside the train station. Trains to other European destinations don't need any of that. Note that this direct route with border controls in Amsterdam has only been available since 2020. Before that all the checks were done in Brussels, a situation that they will revert to during the six months of refurbishment.
JT-60SA (sister to ITER) comes online in Japan
Google releases new Unicorn model in Vertex AI
Totally agreed, wd has been my secret weapon for nearly a decade.
Agreed, this is a nasty bug in the software, which makes it open to manipulation by anybody on the internet who can send you an email. It's a big failure of the RoundCube project, developers probably do not care about security of user data very much. The response to the bug report is "did something to fix this, closed", no comment on what is going to be done to prevent this stuff in the future. Which is disappointing for a flaw of such severity. I wouldn't be surprised if similar attacks on RoundCube are still possible.
This just means that's what their customers, who pay the tuition, care about more.
A lot of European countries do not permit continued use of rail infrastructure while being serviced as it can be quite dangerous. [1]

Switzerland is an exception to this but it results in extremely complex infrastructure projects with of course a much higher cost and more accidents. However having the infrastructure available in many cases prevents overall economic losses due to less trains etc.

[1] https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/unfaelle-mit-bauzuegen-gleis...
The surprise for me is just how easy this was. I planted some dill and milkweed and they just showed up. That was it.
Same in France. Some move to the US, some to the UK.
KNWD - Natchitoches, LA.

This was long, long ago, but I believe we had something like a 10 watt tower.

REACHING THE BEACHES...kinda, STORMING THE DORMS, sorta. ;)
I like D. I just wish it didn't try to chase every trend. Rust has memory safety? Oh we'll add @live and @safe which will kind of implement some of that. Oh, no one wants to put 5 annotation on every function and most already written code doesn't use it anyway? Too bad.

I always viewed D as a new language, which is kind of trying to offer the convenience of C# but as a native language. But sometimes I feel like it's drifting in a different direction. In a direction of nicer C++. I would prefer C/C++ support to be a thin abstraction layer for legacy code. But instead seems like there is more and more integration with C++.

Even language features in D like copy constructors are based on matching the behavior of C++. If I wanted to use C++, I would just use C++ instead of bothering with bridging C++/D code. I think that's one of the appealing things about languages likr Rust and Zig, is that they don't even try to appeal to C++ programmers. Let C++ programmers enjoy C++, but let everyone else move on.
> Things like "I find this code very hard to follow, and I think it could be made easier" is also objective

The "I" in that sentence suggests this should be considered subjective. And that's I think the cleave-point between gating and non-gating: "Other people have already agreed on this" vs. "In the moment, I, a single code-reviewer, think this name could be improved."
I haven't used it in years but when I did, it was an absolute nightmare to work with, especially with respect to version control. There was no good way to version control their "templates", and collaborating was always painful. Not to mention the interface felt like it was from the 90's and dreadfully slow and painful to maneuver. The underlying functionality it permitted was quite good though. A facelift and a better version control scheme would help a lot.
AI researchers, by the looks of what tech is willing to pay for them.
The invisible hand has its thumb on the scale.
> Maybe as an aside, but why should this research be done at university level?

In this specific case: Because it started there and institutions that claim to be neutral or to use scientific methods should not stop research because they are paid to do so.

In the general case: When speaking bad about big actors, reputation and a big budget for lawyers can make a lot of lawsuits go away before they even start.
The 1541 floppy drive for the C64 used a 6502, almost the same as the C64’s 6510 CPU. Some C64 software co-opted the floppy drive’s 6502 as a coprocessor.
> payment is nearly always electronic.

100% always, but I've heard that cash tips are becoming common.
I'm not an expert on ActivityPub nor academic publishing. What I'm trying to say is that what is built on top of the protocol has more to do with its suitability for a particular purpose than the foundational technology.

The first quote is an observation that It is unlikely that Mastodon will be a suitable drop-in-replacement for the current process.

The second quote is an observation that perhaps there is a way to use the technological pieces that are currently available for federation and apply them to the organization of scientific/academic societies. But that whole system is going to be significantly more than the federated aspect.

Part of this is I remember Google Wave and the unreasonable hype around it. It would replace email, newsgroups, instant messaging … basically all forms of text based communication! Some of the hype for these more contemporary niche technologies is even wilder, this article for example claiming it should force a complete re-think of academic publishing.
Interesting to see lines drawn around academic value.
> So we should look for smaller individuals and groups to conduct research.

Maybe. And maybe not. I think you need both. The larger, public institution is the lightning rod. They get all the attention, but also all the scrutiny. Smaller groups are difficult to track. The more you have of them, the more difficult it is to account for their methods and funding and so on. So you pit the smaller groups against the large public institution. The smaller groups are the chihuahuas barking at the bulldog.

Instead of eliminating the big institution, you subject it to higher standards and scrutiny. More severe punishments for bad behavior, and perhaps also better rewards for good behavior.
No, they actually wrote a (domain-specific) programming language based on this.

The tax code is apparently complex enough to be Turing-complete :)
Typically modeling timeseries data and comparing it to data collected from humans (e.g. car telemetry, motion tracking or eye tracking signals). The models are stochastic dynamical systems which have to be optimized against the data. It's more or less exactly in Julia's niche.

The script typically loads the data files and runs simulations (a lot of times when their parameters are optimized). This means the models have to be fast, but they are also recurrent in nature so they can't be vectorized to numpy. So depending on the case it's usually numba, cython or C++, all of which can be quite painful.
How many big city taxis did you ride before 2013 or so? They cleaned up their act once they got competition.
It's resilience to authority precisely because it doesn’t scale. But half a city in a crisis isn’t nothing. And goodness knows there have been some pretty big reach pirate stations.

Its haphazard and low tech nature is the uncontrollable resilience most Internet systems lack.
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For this reason I really enjoy reading the text products and area forecast discussion for interesting weather: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=p...
Sure have!

Again, one mighty big steering column, present on the T2, T3, "the first three generations of Volkswagen vans" etc etc.

> https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/309b66cd757b35f8a47ba3d385...

Are you just ignoring the ZF articles now they don't fit your arguments anymore? Again - it's not just me saying this!

The Canoo - no column, and a ton of front cabin space:

> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/96/28/33/96283349b392b1da2f0f...

> "SbW's (Steer by Wire) additional advantages include gaining space in general and new design options in the cockpit... There is now more legroom because there is no longer a steering structure running through it."

https://www.zf.com/mobile/en/technologies/vehicle_motion_con...
Let's be real here, it's probably not "the dudes" who like to fish who will fight this. They will be co-opted by rich waterfront homeowners, who don't want their view "ruined". For a real world example, see how fisherman and environmentalists have been used as pawns by the rich to fight offshore wind off Nantucket.
Making PCBs can be "essentially free" because the manufacturer can group multiple orders on the same panel so they reduce manual workload and increase throughput.

The PCB manufacturers typically also offer assembly services, but individual assembly orders require individual sets of components. So you either need parts feeders with a huge variety of components (read: expensive) or you need to intelligently group the orders that use the same set of parts. And for minimum cost, you'd need to group the orders that used similar parts onto the same panel so they could all go through the P&P at the same time.

I suspect that it's feasible, but there's not enough cost pressure on assembling PCBs for the manufacturers to bother going down that road.
It's not because Companies House is vulnerable to SQL injection (there's no reason to think it is) and the purpose isn't to protect Companies House from SQL injection.

Companies House data is consumed by a very large number of companies and organisations, some of whom probably are vulnerable to such attacks. Fixing them isn't something Companies House can do. The joke Bobby Tables company name that was registered deliberately wasn't actually a functioning SQL injection. If someone does try to register a name containing a real one, it seems like a good idea for Companies House to be able to reject it on those grounds. This is just giving them that ability, as part of a larger ability to reject names that are designed to mislead or facilitate fraud.

The knee-jerk HN Nelson laugh at everything the UK and EU governments do makes for tedious reading, especially when there are so many actually bad policies and laws to criticise.
>it can read other process memory and all the files owned by your user

Tools like flatpak and bwrap exist. A process in a bwrap sandbox can't read other processes memory or any files that I didn't bind into the sandbox.

If I want to run an X11 GUI app in a sandbox, it can trivially escape. Wayland makes it possible to do this without a trivial escape.

Also, processes cannot read other processes memory without being a parent process or something, or having root, and with bwrap they can't even see other processes running on the system at all.
> I don't like that I don't have a 'Library' and everything just goes in liked or a playlist.

I left Spotify a while ago, but one thing I hate is that there's no way of differentiating when you add complete albums to your collection vs only one song.
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I heard something (I think it was on youtube comments) about text-over-broadcast, which would be useful for even AM stations. That's interesting, because with the Text-to-speech technology becoming almost indistinguishable from a real person, it would open new possibilities for digital broadcasting - albeit talk radio only. Plus you'd still likely need to download the voice software separately, but you could have "talk radio" at only a few hundred bps.
Not OP, but I used SongShift for iOS. Worked great.
I recently bought an inexpensive fountain pen and have been enjoying my list and note taking more.
What makes you think that smaller stools are somehow better? Smooth, bulky stools with a decent amount of fibre and moisture are ideal. Makes for easier travel, easier passing, and little (or no) wiping.

I'm not interested in spending 80% less time on the toilet (going from less than a minute to 10 seconds just seems like a pointless optimization). I'm also not too interested in the purported anecdotal experience of "tens of thousands" of other people. This diet seems like a terrible idea, both from a bowel health point of view, a climate point of view, and quite frankly a taste point of view.

Not eating vegetables/fibre seems like a miserable existence.
We should all research Facebook. ;)
The only thing I miss from being only a HackerNews/X user is birthdays and events.

As adults realize more and more people are not daily Facebook users, invites has gone back to other platforms like eVite but overall, the lack of seeing the latest TikTok trend is much better mentally and productivity wise than endlessly scrolling through content I don’t care about.
I read this via Firefox translate, and noticed that one of the numbers changed, from 5.7% to 55.7% which is interesting.
I have no idea what kind of problems you have ;) I use Revise.jl on a daily basis and it works flawlessly. I don't have any comparable workflow in any other language I work with on a daily basis. I wish I could do this style in those as well...

Yes, you should give it a go (again)!
I disagree. They're pretty good at auto-fixing minor issues and suggesting best practices.
I agree it's not a fun situation, but I'm curious what you expect to have happened instead. What would the "competent management" version of the situation look like?
This is really really naive.
The depressing part is that many people actually need them removed in order to not be confused.
And here I thought I could stop buying supplies for our teachers when my kids go to college.
The most astonishing part about it is just how many pro-nuclear people here or on Twitter and Reddit ignore the fiscal risks associated with nuclear - not just the obvious aspects of worst-case liabilities or long-term secure storage, but also stuff like this.
Might be the comedian Avram Chomsky.