skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who has lived in the downtown area of a dense US city for the past 8 years, US crime stats and perception are weird.

Yes I live in a neighborhood with high crime stats. Even relatively high violent crime stats. But it feels pretty safe regardless. Random violent crime is extremely rare. Mostly what you get are violent disputes between people who know each other.

You can literally walk by a drug deal happening and be fully uninvolved. The people won’t even look at you or notice you’re there. It’s like the two parts of society live past each other.

Never leave stuff in your car tho. It will get broken into.
> An app can shoot varied content at you and determine that if you view happy cat content, then enraging political discourse, then sexual stimulating content, and then and ad, you're more likely to click on the ad, or stare at it for longer, etc.

Yeah, no. Facebook ads are mostly pay per impression, not click, so there’s no reason to even do this. Ad targeting is controlled by advertisers for the most part, not algorithms - they want to target specific demographics, not some random cross-section of humanity. It’s very different from the kind of algorithms that power your news feed.
Some bugs are one in a million and may not be easily reproduced. How would you prove it’s not one of those?
Imagine if OpenAI had named ChatGPT something that rolled off the tongue like Velcro. Missed opportunity.
There's a decent amount of people still keeping the fire burning for the "old web." It takes a little digging, but it's out there.

Some links for you:

* https://wiby.me/ — search engine that emphasizes simple/plain/hobbyist pages. Try the "surprise me" link a few times.

* https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/ — article, "Rediscovering the Small Web"

* https://search.marginalia.nu/ — author hangs out on HN sometimes, too (marginalia_nu)

Actually, here's a link to a similar discussion on an old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391
I think it's a North American thing to call anything LEGO "Legos", denoting that it is a thing made up of many pieces of "Lego" right? In Europe if you pointed to a LEGO set or a pile of LEGO pieces every response you'd get would be "that's LEGO". But then again in Europe, or at least in Germany, we had many different brands to choose from for the same kind of construction play, whereas in North America it seemed like it's just LEGO.
They didn’t bother. They just carpet bombed everyone.
The measurement is kinda off with EAs though.

First, the effective altruists did a bunch of harm to get all the money, then put it on something focused that not everyone agrees is the best thing to do with it.

They can measure the results of the spending as being higher, but don't account for the harm they needed to do to accumulate the money.
You’re telling me the Stanford torus space colony that has filled my dreams for my entire life was propaganda for US steel?
tl;dr: Aside from whatever flaws the VB6 language had, people writing so-so code in VB6 contributed to it's reputation as being a bad language.

Something that my sibling comments haven't (yet) mentioned:

VB6 was really easy to create a GUI with, had great DB support, and was a pretty easy language to get started with. Given that a lot of business apps boil down to "present a nice, user-friendly interface to the company database" (particularly biz apps for smaller businesses) VB6 was a great fit for business consulting types. And use it they did! There were a lot of business consultant types writing code in VB6. They were smart people but not necessarily the most hard core coders.

I think that's part of why VB6 coders (as a group) got a reputation as being "lesser" programmers - they were derisively called "code monkeys", etc.

Regardless of the language itself, I think that seeing a lot of "minimally viable code" being shipped by people focused on delivering business apps helps to contribute to VB6's reputation.

Side question: I wonder how many people here on HN have a 'career origin story' something to the effect of "Yeah, so I was in college/high school/middle school, and the <name of small organization/mom-and-pop business> wanted to use their computer to streamline things. I was just learning how to code but was able to get VB to do <minimal but useful task> which really helped <org mentioned prior>. Looking back on it that was some really gnarly code I wrote, but it worked, <the org> appreciated it, and it got me hooked on programming"
I think it's funny that someone who can afford a 4090 wouldn't spend an extra 100-200 and swap out the case.
I believe the Bw-tree does the same thing, caching new updates in the intermediate branch nodes and only pushing the updates in batch down to the lower layers when running out of room at the branch node. These are the newer wave of algorithms to address the write amplification.
As other replies have pointed out, your problem is with the word "they". There is no "they" at a publicly traded corporation. The key decision-makers are only there for 2 to 5 years, however long it takes them to suck out the blood of the company before they scurry off to parasitize a juicier host. Nobody with decision-making power ever gave two shits whether US Steel was going to make lots of money in N decades.
I'm shocked this number isn't higher. Are you telling me that only fraction (because not all of that 11B was made on facebook property) of facebook's 116.6 yearly income is from one of the most avid groups of social media users?
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Using Rust for Gamedev (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38809248 - Dec, 2023 (0 comments)
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Adventures of Pascal Penguin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38809138 - Dec, 2023 (0 comments)
That do not harm a million Iraqi or Viet civs.

Plenty of groups believe/ promote all kinds of "weird theories". As long as they are harmless I dont care. The moment it involves cutting baby penisses or promoting hate I'm voicing myself out against.
But we had to spend 1.7 billion. So looks like we need to wait 37 years for payback…
I'd be quite willing to take this wager - it might not be something they readily offer but I'm pretty certain if someone asked their data scientists to pull together such a demographic they could manage it with ease.
I don't understand your confusion.

If you sell a product e.g. a car and the brakes don't work you are liable

If you sell a product e.g. a medical software which calculates and runs your insulin pump and it responds to a division by zero error with injection 1000x the amount of insulin your are liable.

You don't have to focus on the how, only on if it was your product and was sold to a customer.

Who was at fault (product or customer) will be decided in a lawsuit.

If you don't sell anything then these laws don't apply to you, even if the article seems to be unclear about that.[1]

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/press-room/20231205IP...

Edit:
Somebody linked the full EU briefing:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/7393...

On Page 5 there is a passage about how free-of-charge open source software is excluded and also who is liable in a commercial activity:

With the aim of not hampering innovation: (i) free and open-source software developed or supplied
outside the course of commercial activity, as well as (ii) the source code of software, should be
excluded from the definition of products covered under the proposal.

As far as the broader scope of
the proposal compared to the existing PLD on liable parties is concerned, Article 7 of the revised
PLD lists the types of 'economic operators' which can be held liable for defective products, by
introducing a layered approach to liability depending on the different qualification of the economic
operator.

Among the list of economic operators are:

(i) the manufacturer of a product or component,

(ii) the provider of a related service, (iii) the authorised
representative,
(iv) the importer, and (v) the
fulfilment service provider or the distributor. The manufacturer should be liable for damage caused
by a defect in their product or components. An innovation introduced in the revised PLD is
considering any economic operator who has substantially modified the product outside the
control of the manufacturer liable for any defect. Such a party is then considered as a manufacturer.

When a manufacturer is established outside the EU, the revised PLD would further attribute
liability for a defective product to the importer and the authorised representative in the EU. As a
last resort, the fulfilment service provider (offering at least two of: warehousing, packaging,
addressing and dispatching of a product, without having ownership of the product), will be held
liable when the importer and authorised representative in the EU are based outside the EU.

Distributors of a defective product (offline and online sellers) can also be held liable upon request
by a claimant and when the distributor fails to identify any of the above operators.

Online platforms should be liable in respect of a defective product on the same terms as such
economic operators when performing the role of manufacturer, importer or distributor.
I'm not saying there isn't decline in places. I'm saying that if people think everything is just fine when there are places that are having serious issues.
Just curious, why is rewind.ai falling short of this use case? I thought they looked at every file/photo
TikTok + lazy manufacturers.

KIA & Hundai knew about the issue well in advance and made the business decision not to react and fix it.

Easiest car to steal in a few generations. People that is
I had the same feeling at the end. Of all the ways to spend the 20th century, being tied to US Steel wasn’t exactly a bad ride.

“Arguably, the Harvard system was a disappointment every day since 1636…”
The choice of a .com TLD instead of a .uk for a thing called "national" is really odd to me.
I write in the piece that I booked a trip to Vegas and bought the Aronofsky tickets intentionally! All good that the essay isn't your thing, but I'll defend myself against the lying to the reader accusation, lol. (This is my first Hacker News post, I come in peace.)
I've had strange success walking up to the guy, telling him I want us to deliver fantastic work together, I want to work with you - together. What I don't want is to go to the boss and tell him you've fucked up, you are lazy, that you are doing a poor job and that we would be better off without you. This is the last thing I want. The best outcome is that we get someone else who knows nothing. If that doesn't happen you would blame me. Then I give him a detailed list of things I think they should have done differently.

It costs a few relationship points but they do respect the practicality of it.
Nice find. Maybe sd?
Very interesting. I wonder what sort of (available) CPU would be ideal for such a setup. A 7800x3D or 7950x. Also, was there any hit on the GPU side?
I have a friend in this industry and I think your response excessively misses the point GP made. Auditors who actually succeed in flagging child labor find themselves without work -- either because of actions of their employer, or because their employer gets a reputation and businesses who employ child labor don't want the spotlight.

It isn't that Nike (or whoever) wants to employ children, what they really want is to not get caught employing children. And they also don't want to pay higher wages, and they don't want to pay supply chain auditors. So if they can get away with paying a rubber-stamp auditor, they can claim they did their due diligence and wash their hands of it.
Ask HN: Good Businesses Bank Account?
Not a financial tech company. But a real bank. I’m concerned that fintech will be regulated soon and I would like to put funds somewhere from my SaaS.

Edit: I’m located in the US
> With protection circuitry and current limiting

which are cut because of costs.
Thanks; that was after I tried to make things work and gave up.
I tend to treat crime as a trailing indicator of the economy overall.

Lower-crime rates correlate with lower unemployment, and vice-versa.

Of course, every police department is going to pretend they've developed some novel new crime fighting methods – instead of just realizing that, hey, less poor people means less crime.

Homicides are interesting in isolation, because so many of our domestic homicides are gun-and-drug violence. One of the hypothesis in drug legalization was that homicide rates would decrease.

That hasn't really proven out yet.
Ask HN: Best password manager, 2FA, and recovery code strategy?
I like the idea of using a normal-ish, commercial password manager; however, I don't like the idea of also having 2FA and recovery codes in that same password manager in case another LastPass situation happens.

What would you all recommend? 2 or 3 different password managers (or perhaps 2 or 3 different accounts with the same password manager?), one for passwords, and one for 2FA and potentially another one for recovery codes? Any best practice resources / websites?

I feel like I've read on HN people doing some really complicated stuff, and I'm not super interested in that. I want something that balances convenience with security and not having all my eggs in one basket. Convenience includes being able to relatively easily access the separate 2FA codes as some sites now require them all the time.

One situation I'm concerned with is someone stealing my phone at gunpoint and demanding the passcode and / or my password manager password. That would basically give them keys to the castle.

Additionally, if someone was mildly sophisticated, they could kidnap you, demand relevant passwords, but also make you go through your email searching for the various banks, and then forcing you to login to those and drain the accounts.

Lastly, would you all support adding a PIN code to your phone to prevent stealing of your eSIM?
I feel you could be me (or I could be you). I just picked up and started reading Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin. Read that.
You are indeed correct. I recalled that the nginx migration was in progress until around the time of 5.4, but did not remember that it was in base at the time. Thank you for correcting me, it was indeed in tree from 2011 to 2014.
I'm certainly against ads, but I'm not convinced that an ad is inherently damaging to mental health.

seeing an ad for 5 gum probably won't harm a developing teen. seeing a celebrity live a lifestyle you will never have and look 'better' than you ever will might.

though using revanced and the IG equivalent certainly is a QoL improvement, but I don't think my doctor will prescribe pihole to improve my mental health
Solution for the future of American industry: Bomb US Steel?

Maybe this would also be an effective way of clearing out NIMBYs blocking the routes for high-speed rail lines?
There's a reason that house isn't pictured in the snow.
There's a straussian dynamic at work here where the company wants to informally encourage generic use of their brand, but must also formally defend proper use of their brand for legal reasons. Courts need to see you at least appear to defend yourself.
It's a mixed reaction from me.

Liability to the vendor sounds like a good idea - too many cowboys out there. Also with stretched supply chains someone has to pay attention.

But full liability..? What if I make a crappy, low effort, cheap spreadsheet app, someone builds their business on top of it and it goes boom. Should I really be liable, on the basis of what I consider a casual product?

And then, the main point of the article, what if Vim deletes my files? The suggestion seems to be that Vim "owner" (???) is liable.

It feels like there should be some slider as to what liability the creator accepts (OSS - none, casual app - not much etc) but then we're back to square one, everyone disclaims liability etc.

Maybe it should be somehow linked to the price paid for the software?
That's an interesting idea, to run Hyper-V completely without Windows. I think it's not possible, at least not without some substantial amount of hacking.

But it's no problem to run Linux on Hyper-V. It's a hypervisor, off course you can start nearly any operating system as a VM. You can also give the VM access to some hardware components. But I don't think it's possible to get a full native Linux desktop experience, with GPU/Screen, Keyboard and Mouse connected to the host system.

Edit: this post seems to answer your question, not sure if it's correct: https://superuser.com/a/1531799
And every little Timmy wants the nice shiny cloak and character profile for their Honkai Star Rail account. Cosmetics and pay-to-win offerings both print money.
Maybe your site is just unappealing and has bad UX? Have you tried adding adsense, tracking scripts, cookie consent banners, auto playing videos, scrolljacking, newsletter popovers and put the content after a long GPT generated background story at the bottom of the site to make it more appealing to PageRa.. I mean users?
Yeah, but it's configurable. I have it pull up the core on a VGA card and then boot up my primary VM on a GPU.
Ah that would be true, I didn't have your private files in mind, more code, audio tracks, movies, series, artwork ( I want them monkeys ) you get the drift.

Biggest one for this audience would be code (since in high likelihood if you have the other's its likely pirated unless you are streaming your own ripped media ) if you would even be allowed to redistribute the code you have written, you probably would have some deep seated issue eith just handing it off to some stranger for free unless of course, you like me, are a big proponent of OSS.

But even then I have several proprietary codebases that I own but sure wouldn't share willingly.
Not sure a treatise is exactly a good comparison. That would be more like documentation, where the question here is more “how to get better at programming?”. A treatise isn’t going to tell you how to be a better lawyer.

I’m not sure there’s great content like this for lawyers either even with mandated continuing education requirements. They’re typically a bore and surface level. About the same quality as your average “What’s new in Elixir 1.15” blog post.
>> (At the cost of primarily USA financing.)

The Marshall Plan was one of the best foreign policy ideas ever so.
I've always wondered what the security posture is of UTM, QEMU, etc. Is an escape trivial or is there thought put into security?
invalidation?
Any talk by Bryan Cantrill is worth your time.
Similar to many cities having catastrophic fires (New York, Chicago) which allowed them to rebuild their streets on a grid system. Vs Boston, which never had a great fire but which is known today for the phrase "You can't get there from here."
It's because Americans use the term "gas" to mean the liquid fuel they put in their cars. In the UK it's just "gas".

It would be far better if we called it methane, but that's not really accurate either. It might contain ethane, propane, butane pentane and hexane. A lot of that stuff is condensed out before use, but not all.
I still use it on that hardware for hobby projects, and while I have to wait 60-120 seconds for a compile, it's still more convenient for me than cross-compiling on Windows and then copying the code over.

It's not how well the bear dances, but that the bear dances at all. That said, EMS and a solid-state hard drived do help a little.
Change Data Capture from Postgres 16 Read Replicas
I'm not sure innovation is really the issue, this article never actually goes into the alloys US Steel developed (of which there are many), and alloys are what makes steel steel really. It's always been fascinating to me how the just a tiny percent of another element in a metal can have an absolutely dramatic affect on the strength/resilience of the material.

And they tried more complicated alloys, for instance they developed Corten steel, the biggest example of which is probably the US Steel building in Pittsburgh, [1]. It's a steel where it's 'rust' essentially works as a protective layer.

More than anything this article shows US Steel simply couldn't compete with foreign suppliers. It's interesting to me that they don't even mention the Steel Workers Union, which was/is one of the largest and most powerful unions in the U.S. I'm not saying the cause, but if you need 5% more steel to cover the deficiencies in foreign steel in strength, but it's 20% cheaper, than it's simply cheaper to import more foreign steel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_steel
Is there any algorithm that would do that without actually storing a list of indices, or track IDs?

I can't think of why someone would prefer a truly random song being played from a playlist rather than the "deck of cards" method.
Maybe it's time to send one more email? ;D
It doesn't matter if the policies COULD be easily defeated. If you live in a country of 5 million people, and say "only connections from smallstan are allowed into this sensitive infrastructure", you've probably wiped out 99% of automated attacks.

Security measures are judged by how much they cost to implement, and how effectively they reduce the threats you will actually face, and geolocation blocking has the amazing one-two punch of being cheap and effectual against real world threats. Realistically, you're going to face a lot more automated hacking attempts than you are hackers actively trying to workaround security safeguards your company has implemented. It also generates indicators of compromise, so even if this doesn't stop a hostile actor, it can reveal their presence.

Getting to 100% security is too expensive and it's also impossible.
Yes, the people who say "Lego" is the "correct" plural are also wrong according to the document they cite for that opinion.

The Lego Group's material says that you are never to use Lego as a noun. It's always "Lego bricks", "Lego sets", "Lego minifigures", etc.

Colloquially, they don't really care what you call them, plural or singular.
> This is assuming the parents are rubes and the government is competent, ignoring the cases when it's the other way around.

Keep in mind: This whole "debate" is about parents doing insane crap, like homeopathy and "natural remedies" for which there is no positive evidence, not debatable stuff where there's honest evidence for multiple positions. Parents failing to provide proper medical treatment for their kids is abuse, just as it would be if your boss somehow forced you to drink bleach. And, yes, some of the "natural remedies" are bleach:

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

> Miracle Mineral Supplement, often referred to as Miracle Mineral Solution, Master Mineral Solution, MMS or the CD protocol,[1] is a branded name for an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleaching agent, that has been falsely promoted as a cure for illnesses including HIV, cancer and the common cold.
> From its establishment in 1966 to its demise in the early 1980s, the Guardian's Office (GO) of the Church of Scientology carried out numerous covert operations and programs against a range of perceived opponents of Scientology in the United States and around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guardian%27s_Office_op...
$11B is a small portion of total social media advertising revenue, so it probably doesn't work as well as you think.
> Because my HOA says I have to maintain a green lawn or I get fined.

And this is why I don't live somewhere where I'm ruled by an HOA