skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The black hole that is node_modules? Like, it’s fine for my personal projects, but every time I install the project I implicitly trust some 2000 authors to not have added “rm -rf /“ to their installation scripts.

Ideally I wouldn’t have to worry about that.
It wasn’t meant as an insult— the modern-lens defense of Freud just sounded remarkably like Peterson in a way that I found entertaining! I’m not particularly anti-Peterson, though I guess that might be the common view here so I can see how it might have sounded negative.

By the way thanks for all your great work! I’m honored to have been scolded by dang!
"""This test appears to only cover one small part of a truly federated social network — it doesn’t sound like you’ll be able to post from Mastodon to Threads, for instance, and you can’t move your account between services. But the test at least reaffirms Meta’s commitment to ActivityPub and to being part of the broader open social web."""
Thanks for the info.

I think if you can see hot pixels when looking at the raw before demosaicing then the dark frame is not applied (which makes sense, since a DNG is supposed to be more or less a sensor snapshot).

If you do not see them after you processed the raw, I think that would just be your software filtering outliers as best it can, since it would have no way of knowing about the dark frame. I doubt it embeds the dark frame in every DNG, would take up extra space and I am not sure the format even supports that, so likely it just keeps the latest dark frame in memory and applies as part of internal pipeline.
Here in Canada, you basically can't say "Fuck Freud" if you're a practicing psychotherapist, as there is something in the ethics code about respecting your peers. I can say it as I didn't make it to the PHD, but it's a bit frustrating to realize the field is self-regulating and at least 25% of its members basically don't believe in the power of... evidence.

Not unrelated, epistemology classes are not mandatory, despite the field being in the rare position of accepting (or at least tolerating) several vastly different epistemological viewpoints. Kind of like studying homeopathy and epidemiology in the same program.
I will give my own explanation:

In corporate America you are always on the chopping block. It doesn’t matter how good you are or how much you have done in the past. Leadership is usually fairly ambivalent to tenure unless you are near retirement. You need to prove you are hustling all the time, because firings and layoffs have become so common that you need to be in the favor of your boss and probably your bosses boss when the hard decisions come down. There is no better way to prove your worth than show how much work you do or how many hours you work.

I actually find this creates a lot of wasted motion. Everyone is thrashing around in the water burning a lot of energy when clean purposeful strokes would move everyone a lot further faster, but it doesn’t matter because what people want to see is hustle. You have to be producing all the time. It doesn’t matter so much if it is good, just that it is done and out there. Doggie paddle for all anyone cares, just show that you are swimming the whole time.

This isn’t good, or positive, just what I observe.
If you prefer the user experience of cards over that of checks, imagine a world in which you can transfer money to anybody with a bank account by telling your bank to make a payment to their account number!

That's been the reality in many countries other than the US for decades :) And maybe (hopefully!), the US will finally catch up with FedNow.

Of course that model doesn't work for everything (it's usually a bad idea to pre-pay for goods or services with bank transfers since there is essentially no consumer protection in case the merchant goes bankrupt or turns out to be a fraudster), but I'm still fascinated by the US's lack of a "giro" system, i.e. an accountholder-initiated P2P and B2C push payment service.
I have heard Freud described as someone who asked all the right questions and got all the wrong answers.
> there is an eternally collapsing pseudosingularity that is getting smaller and smaller and denser and denser, but the denser it is the more time-dilation it undergoes and so the collapse can never finish in finite time, at least for an outside observer)

> From the outside it's a point.

If I understand what you're saying, it's that from the outside it wants to be a point, but can never quite get there in (our) finite time. So we just see a big red shifted
"frozen in time" black hole event horizon. Evaporates maybe in the future, but point is we never actually get a singularity on our side of the horizon.

> From the inside, it's an infinitely large volume.

This makes sense to me, more than a singularity existing. On the inside everything is ripped apart as space infinitely expands.

So doesn't this imply there is no singularity on either side of the event horizon then?

It's as if the "wanting" to be a singularity on our side of the horizon is countered/balanced by frozen time. And on the other side of the horizon, from the particles point of view you can't freeze time. So instead the singularity is countered by infinitely expanding space to prevent just this sort of thing from happening. Is this some sort of relativistic time/space conservation law?

It's like the extreme gravity trying to create a particle singularity just ends up expanding the space between the particles instead. Hmmm. We know that at relativistic speeds, trying to accelerate a particle to C leads to time slowing down. In this case too much gravity trying to create a singularity leads to space expansion instead?

Are these just two sides to the same coin. Frozen time = infinite space depending on your relativistic point of view??

Sort of like the cosmic censorship hypothesis, just extended from "no naked singularities exist" on our side of the universe, to "no singularities exist" on the other side as well.

Did I get that right, or did I butcher it?
Did tavis sell his soul for infinite exploits?

Also the amount of stuff he finds alone makes you think about how much stuff gov agencies find.. they get a lot of smart people as well.
SPC uses radar measurements (velocity) to detect rotation at different radar tilts. When you see 2 velocity points very close together, that usually raises the criteria to a warning. Sometimes, at the lowest tilt, we can detect debris on the radar..

But, as you said, not every warning translates into a confirmed tornado on the ground, a limitation of the current radar models.
And yet I see everyone here blaming Google and not the FBI. Until the day comes when Google is raiding your house and confiscating your data, it seems like the FBI is the bigger baddie here.
Wasn't it later revealed that Uunet had a contract with Ahmet Cosar (the second human behind the Argic pseudonym, after Hasan Mutlu) that let Cosar spam away?

I believe Uunet ended up guilty of several such "pink contracts".

Cosar was a grad student at University of Minnesota, and after his student visa ran out 'Argic' mysteriously disappeared.
With the pretty stunning performance improvements EEVDF posts (over CFS), I’m not so sure where your hate for it comes from.
I recently finished it for the first time after many false starts.

It definitely shocks, hits, and roils you about the decks of that cursed ship.

It’s exactly the fact chapters that play such an interesting emotional trick on us. Almost like a wave of anxiety before the wild, unknown force of impending doom comes for us out of the depths of the sea. The narrator takes stock of every detail. Distracting themselves from what’s coming. What we know must come.

And given the the time in which Melville was writing. He and few others were plying new narrative structures and were sadly… mostly ignored.

If you liked Moby Dick be sure to give Figuring by Maria Popova a try. Ever wonder why there was such an illustrious dedication to Nathaniel Hawthorne? Who else Melville was connected to at the time? There’s that and more.

Parts of the story I’m sure haven’t aged well. Ismael’s inconsistent use of derogatory terms for non-Caucasian people in spite of the close relationship he has with Queegueg. There are a few passages where Ishmael seems to struggle with these thoughts. It doesn’t seem to me that this part of the story has aged well… or at least it’s hard for me to understand what Mellville was hoping to put light on (or perhaps was simply ignorant of like so many people were).

It’s a challenging book. Im not sure it deserves veneration these days. But it was these chapters that I found fascinating.
Is your solution that these things shouldn’t be looked into by Google and let’s just hope no bad actors find and make use of it?

Really seems like there’s no winning for Google in the public narrative!
That can't be right. You can routinely find good deals on Steam keys using ITAD (isthereanydeal.com) which just searches a bunch of key sites for you and compares prices. So are all these sites breaking some rule then?
The Nvidia container toolkit works pretty much out of the box on WSL these days as well.

Funny that some cuda stuff works better through Windows virtualizing Linux than Windows natively, but if we're being honest even as a native Linux user, WSL probably provides a better user experience (vs having to use Nvidia drivers on Linux anyways)
Apple has it: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx
Stones, replication crisis and glass houses...
> Why the obtuse questioning?

Why the dodging of the question? Might you be leveraging culture? At your day job do you use this same technique against computers, shaming compile errors into compliance with your desires?

You seem like an more intelligent than average human, why not demonstrate it rather than merely imply it? No need to constrain yourself to cultural norms of politeness and meme magic, feel free to blow my doors off.

I asked a pointed question - do you have the ability to answer it? Or even better: do you have the ability to even try, in public? Internet forum discussions are serious business, so I can appreciate both aversion, and silence[1].

>> What is the (comprehensive) meaning of this symbol: "qualified"?

Do you know the(?) answer to this question?

Noteworthy: you are in no way obligated to answer to me, though there may be causal ramifications of you are unable to.

Oh my, look at all the culturally unusual fodder I have provided for you to leverage cultural norms against! I did my best to make it irresistible.

Have you any more memes for the class, intelligent Western human? I am here to learn, and learn from you I intend to do.

[1] Here is an excellent opportunity to proclaim (sincerely!) confusion due to a non-normative usage of language and dismiss me as crazy/etc. Not that it's necessary in the first place - we are on your, and Dang's, and YCombinator's turf - you can literally declare victory at any time, and win! Do you know why this is?

META: dang, if I was you I would would reduce the allowable time limit for edits, at least on a per user basis as you (your company) has done with posts. As reality becomes more complex, it is rational to increase your (platform's) ability to distort it - to me, this is fair game play...though one wouldn't want to reveal it is a game, of course. Just an idea.
For me, personally, my "hatred" developed while working on a team that shipped software living in other people's process spaces.

Classical examples of this are metrics clients, tracing clients, loggers, HTTP frameworks, routers, etc. Tools that are hard/impossible to spin out into a dedicated microservice but generic enough to warrant trying to share that code across many services.

These dependencies can have measurable impact on the user experience.

Some teams just toss the code over the wall so "it's someone else's problem." But I'd take a "every instance of my code in a production server is a production deployment" approach.

Being able to test your changes against real production traffic, knowing when you've made a change that is going to break services, owning that, being able to roll it back yourself. All of that is stuff I want in my dependency manager.

A dependency is more than something down inside a node_modules directory. It's a code path that executes alongside, or even directly handles incoming customer requests.

Trying to track down and upgrade my library/framework/w.e. when it's deployed across 100,000+ instances for 10,000+ services is... not fun.

Even less fun is trying to surgically update _only_ my code and not rebuild the entire world pulling in a huge pile of changes along with my changes.

Package management failed me when I tried to model deployments as a collection of stakeholders shipping code to production.

This isn't just an npm problem. This sucks in pretty much every package manager I've worked with. Don't get me started on apt... unpack an ar archive into a global namespace, run some Rube Goldberg scripts, and hope for the best.

The Nix paper gives me hope, but I never got around to using Nix in production before I moved on from large-scale deployments.
As someone whose idea of fun is trying to compile open source software on OS X / PowerPC, portability has a special place in my heart. While I view open source software as a "gift to the world", C89 + MIT is at the far end of the spectrum of how generous that gift is.

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The difficulty with these news is that disinformation is rampant.
Hey, at least you're honest about it.
Maybe not for the media piece here, in the best HN tradition, I didn't read it. I am talking from personal experience. I met the installers and visited the shop where the granite counter tops for my kitchen were cut. Hard working guys, not great English. I respect their hustle and attitude -- I didn't start with much of anything, either. It really does sadden me to think what has happened to many of them.

As for not knowing, well, we humans been cutting stone for a long time and know the dust isn't good for you.
I tell my design students that the only truly portable skill they will learn at university is the power to argue, which I frame as a 'super power'. From the article:

> "An argument should be a collaboration between two people to find the truth."

Well yes, it can certainly take that form. But I don't think that there is any shame to admitting that it can also be a way to get your own way. An argument can be an act of seduction, the aim of which is to seed novel ideas into the ether.
Those fluids are carcinogenic to drink, not to get on your skin.

Don’t be a scold, show the benefit, which is it’s easier to clean up after work.

Also latex gloves cause latex allergies frequently, vinyl gloves can be a good alternative.
Apple acquihires. Specifically people from Cue (who were acquired to provide tech for Siri) and Workflow (whose app became 'Shortcuts')
Ok, I agree that these points might have been made more constructively, but ...

They're mostly legitimate, good-quality feedback for a new C library.

_create/_destroy -- yes; custom allocator, logger, debug level setting -- yes; returning a file descriptor -- yes; the implied suggestion to move stuff out of the header -- yes.

This is important feedback. These things will require a breaking change down the line unless you tackle them before 1.0.

I encourage the author to take this onboard: it'll make your own life easier and your library a better C citizen.
More like medicine - Science and an Art.

Ironically the photography community already went through this sort of discussion as the Art of the darkroom became the 'art' of photoshop

Though the scale is lessened due to the significant barrier of entry for high end photography (a few grand per body and per lens)
I mean, they have hosted weddings at Costco before. Next step, bride or groom ordering service? Wonder how they handle returns in this scenario. Probably 90 days like electronics.
I think you're too focused on dollar amounts because the value of a dollar is in some ways arbitrary (hence why they can have an inflation target and have that make sense). You can have things practically get cheaper even with inflation. For example, if wages rose 10% in a year but prices rose 2% then in a practical sense things are much cheaper despite having 2% inflation.
Basically one of these three things:

1. Extreme anti-Westernism,
2. Extreme anti-Americanism,
3. Extreme contrarianism.

The usual result is you believe that all the sources that agree about how awful life in Russia, China, North Korea and so on are lying because the uniformity of their reporting is so consistent. (The obvious answer, that maybe it really does suck there for a lot of people, is dismissed as propaganda.)

Surprisingly smart people can be paranoid enough to believe everyone is lying to them or there’s some hidden secret to the world or politics only they can parse out; it’s easy for such people to fall down this rabbit hole.

That’s how most wind up being a tankie or Putin apologist or whatever.
Or systemd's systemd-oomd https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15206

The answer for both of those is "if you're unfortunate enough to be running a 2.6 kernel linux server from 2005, then you can't use cgroupsv2 and thus can't use oomd or systemd-oomd".

That is the only thing earlyoom is good for at this point I think, is old systems without cgroupsv2
Ask HN: How to tunnel HTTP(s) through filesystem?
My work laptop (Windows) has internet access which goes through my company's VPN, but I also need internet access on a Linux Virtual Machine which I'm hosting through VirtualBox.

So, is it possible to set up a shared folder between Windows and Linux guest VM (Debian-based) and to tunnel the internet connection from there? I know it must be possible somehow (for example, see [1]), but would really appreciate some pointers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568994
Until the FBI takes the drive away from you, apparently.
Having had the displeasure of trying to get CUDA running under WSL2, I can tell you it is most definitely not a better user experience :-P
I mean true cost, not just COGS. If we all had to buy straight from the vendors, we’d have to pay the COGS as well as replicate the functions you mention.
Having enjoyed King of Kong, Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler seemed to be set in the same cinematic universe. Very similar.
This is true to the underlying system. Old browsers cannot work with TLS 1.2 so if you boot up old machines with old browsers, it is http only sites (of which there are now few)
Would a solution to this include some kind of new queue? It is the fsync barrier enough for synchronising the writes? I'm thinking of situations where you try to write a subset of blocks, but you end up writing some new ones before old ones.
This is kind of a narrow view of security.

Plenty of risks arent vulns in public software. Some are vulns in your own software. Some are just deviations from best practises or lack of system isolation.

Even among public vulns with known PoC, the impact is going to depend on context. Plenty of times the impact is zero based on how software is used.
>One of the "Suggested safer alternatives" is Granite which can have silica content up to 45% (Engineered stone being 95%+)

>So instead of 2 years to develop silicosis it will instead take 4 years of working with the "safe alternatives"

I doubt that the connection is linear.
Half the silica doesn't mean double exposure time has the same effect.
To offer a different perspective, I believe the ecosystem around OpenAPI has vastly improved in the last year or so, at least in my technology stack (Node.js & TypeScript).

- I am currently building a product in the space and I've got competitors tackling the problem from many different angles

- Lots of tools & libraries to choose from when working with OpenAPI specifications (yes, lots of outdated stuff too)

- New platforms like Platformatic are making big bets on OpenAPI and building features around it

- People are using OpenAPI specs with ChatGPT to make custom integrations

For code-generation in particular, there's a handful of libraries that use OpenAPI specs to "glue" the backend and frontend together in different ways (ts-rest, openapi-fetch, openapi-types, orval, feTS). Many startups also offer seamless OpenAPI -> SDK generation.

It's an obvious resource at this point, but this site[1] is a good starting point.

[1] https://openapi.tools
> your employer needs to store your account and routing number as another piece of your personal info that they can lose

Having grown up with banking outside the US, even that concern seems largely bizarre to me. Bank account numbers are routing identifiers, which have no business being used as bearer tokens!

To be fair, the same thing (i.e. direct debits that can be initiated using only somebody's account and routing number) is possible in many other countries as well, but usually it's only used for very low-risk payments, since reversals are usually just a click away, with no recourse for the (former) payee.

> Like, the system should be that you give your employer your banks name, plus a UUID associated with your account that allows entitys to deposit but not withdraw funds for you account.

That UUID is just the account number. What needs to change is being able to initiate debits from somebody's account using only the account number; being able to make credit transfers to them is usually not a problem.

For example, I don't see why banks can't offer two forms of account numbers: One that's only usable for inbound payments (and automatically bounces debits of any form, whether (fraudulent) check or ACH), and one that allows debits as well, possibly even limited to a single payee.
I agree with your sentiment, but there are a few places that haven't been bloodily conquered, such as Antarctica.
Or the size of the particles. Cutting engineered stone has been shown to generate large quantities of extremely fine particles (< 1 µm). Cutting natural stone or driving on a dirt road, the typical particle sizes are much larger.
Brain scans of a sentient beinb aware that he is in a box.

Also, weren't a bunch of results junked because there was a nasty bug in the CT code?
Tesla Cybertruck's infamous wiper will reportedly cost $165 to replace
Same, but silver searcher or fuzzy search ftw :)
This can backfire if these coworkers/boss do have more leverage than you. They can convince the ultimate boss to fire you. They are making these mistakes because they want to "own" the product (ie: essentially get him replaced) and can find this as an opportunity to do that.

Instead, OP's focus should be on finding a new job, as fast as possible.
Corporate DEI is a fad of ostentatious pseudo-sympathy. It's a jobs program for even more bullshit jobs. But one should know they're on the Titanic when there is lots of diversity of the 5 other people in the building who aren't doing anything constructive but are socializing loudly for hours at work with no apparent hustle or purpose.

Meta is spending over $22 billion on servers in 2023 and again in 2024 without a specific product strategy or need. Build it and depreciation will come. Face it, Zuck is an accidental billionaire who had the advantages of Harvard but is now completely out of his depth and lacks a crystalized vision as to where to go from here. It won't be long before Zuck is shown the door after losing large piles of money and failing to make more of it. I give him 1 year or 2 tops.
The same sound logic could have been used to put the old search being a login. That also consumed some amount of compute per query after all. Actually there's no reason to serve logged out users with anything except a login page. Why spend any resources on users who aren't adding value?

Or, maybe this is all value-destroying nonsense that only makes the service worse.

In any case, the performance of the new search system is supposed to be better, not worse. [1]

[1] https://github.blog/2023-05-08-github-code-search-is-general...