skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A relative of mine has been providentially positioned to earn a king's ransom due to mall closings. He works with a demolition company, and I believe he used to do manual labor, but these days all he does is paperwork and "job walks" where he visits the site to measure and make estimates for the company's bids.

It's absolutely fantastic work where he's in the right business at the right time in this economy. The death knell of every mall means another paycheck for him, and steady business in that industry.

Plus he gets perks like cast-off furniture. My parents scored a whole inventory of LuluLemon's cabinets and shelves when they closed up shop.
Just to be clear: I'm not planning on running an NPM mirror. My point is that if you're not sure you want your code to be publicly available, you should perhaps consider not publishing it to a public registry in the first place. Everything published to the internet can be downloaded and archived. If I publish a blog post I assume it might be cached by a search engine, or snapshotted by archive.today or the wayback machine.
I read the link - I don't think "we will hassle people about this eventually but not even give them the option at signup" is the traditional definition of "default" though. Do you?
The JS ecosystem is deeply unserious.
Vector databases alone are insufficient for enterprise AI applications
If you have a piano with MIDI I'd love it if you as a beginner would give pianojacq.com a workout and let me know what you find could be improved. It's super hard to go back to that first impression state and your feedback would be very valuable. Regardless: congrats on getting an instrument and starting out on it!
You know what would be fun(and awesome), if the thing just let you download a "master" Massive Movie Model(MMM) and send in smaller size prompt data to generate any of the movies in that catalog on demand. It would shift all that streaming cost to GPU cost to the consumer. Nestflix would just have to invest in making models and prompts personalized to your taste.
Erroneous assumptions, half-truths, and a clickbait headline have historically never been a barrier to getting to the top of "Hacker" "News".
Success of the iPhone
ms paint
These aren't AI generated, FYI. I thought so too at first but someone just put in a crapload of work collecting fake movies or TV shows which were in real movies or TV shows.
Well... the title is hyperbolic (as titles are wont to be), but the goal was to configure Wifi that aligns with the CNSA Suite[1] / CNSSP 15[2], which I think is fair to call "NSA-grade" since they wrote the standard.

If the NSA wants to get a certificate that your system trusts there are already dozens of organizations with root certs in your system trust store that they can strongarm. Most organizations can't afford to have the NSA in their threat model. You better not be using public clouds, GSuite, Okta, Azure AD/Entra, etc. This is a difficult security posture to maintain, especially at scale.

For most organizations, delegating the operation of sensitive security infrastructure to a third party results in better security, not worse. Yes, you're trusting a third party. But you're also outsourcing sensitive security operations to experts.

And, we also have on-prem and open source if you really need something air-gapped ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_National_Security_A...
[2] https://www.cnss.gov/CNSS/issuances/Policies.cfm
A block cipher in ECB mode is a substitution cipher, with all the weaknesses that entails. A substitution cipher with a lot of bits per symbol.
I thought crime rates caused food deserts, not cars.

Edit: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/food-deserts#locations-...

Concentration of the poor, and segregation are identified as the primary causes there. Not cars.
My question is, why can't we use our phones as a fully dockable PC? For years, all I've wanted was a phone with computer specs that I can plug into a dock and use with a fully functional desktop operating system. Usually what ends up happening is you just have the same clumsy phone but on a giant monitor.

The 15 promax is more than capable of doing this, but iOS is the limitation from a usability standpoint. Can't even split the screen like you can on an iPad.
^^ Thats funny stuff right there lol!
Vendor spam
Oh, I agree you shouldn't publish if you aren't sure your code should be public! On the flip side, a package manager could easily address this by requiring code to be published under a limited selection of licenses that actually ensconce those rights, rather than treating it like the wild west as NPM chooses to do.
Don't listen to the people on hacker news as they are a very specific niche of iphone users. Your users are those fat chicks with bitch on board bumper stickers who buy bubble tea because they think it's healthy.

What I'm trying to say is it looks great and just iterate!
Back then, I had a phone that had 2 separate slide-out keyboards: one for the digits, and one full qwerty. I didn't buy this monstrosity; my employer gave it to me for testing the app we were working on. Absolute madness, but also admirable that someone manufactured it.
Too late at night here to play this on the speakers but I'll certainly get to it tomorrow morning. Thank you!
There are a pelethora of federal laws limiting difference in benefits.

For example, I have a corporation and have explored 401k plan. I can not set up a 401k plan that includes myself, but not other employees, and there are a plethora of requirements around the allowable differences once everyone is in a plan. If I want to give plans to myself and half my employees, the only way to do so is to fire half and bring them back as contractors.

My understanding is it is basically the same for most other benefits (e.g. healthcare)
If you want to include fictional antecedents, there is Dixie Flatline from Neuromancer.
It's literally an episode of Max Headroom. https://www.maxheadroom.com/index.php?title=Episode_ABC.2.2:...
We are talking about cognizant here. Not a fly by night operation.

Which entities are you referring to , with which google has a relationship that is not arms length?
You must be in a bubble. Majority of people hate reading a document. Staring at a screen and googling would be misery for them.

It is really the minority who can do tech for the long haul.
My comment on something similar, 5 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546242):

Better be careful with that...

From "Bicycle Repairman", by Bruce Sterling (1996) (This is a spoiler, BTW!):

"The mook speaks just like the Senator did, or the way the Senator used to speak, when he was in private and off the record. The way he spoke in his diaries. As far as we can tell, the mook was his diary.... It used to be his personal laptop computer. But he just kept transferring the files, and upgrading the software, and teaching it new tricks like voice recognition and speech-writing, and giving it power of attorney and such.... And then, one day the mook made a break for it. We think that the mook sincerely believes that it’s the Senator."

Oh, and just note that this was way before Black Mirror.
I don’t think vast suburban single family home housing developments, big box store parking lots and Wendys drive thrus are the drivers of technological development you’re making them out to be.

The overwhelming majority of environmental degradation is not being caused by cutting edge technological development. Wasteful and destructive development patterns are not what’s driving technological growth.
I had one much later in 2008, it cost $1 a day for unlimited data/service on a prepaid account IIRC.
Palm Pre was where smartphone design peaked, and this keyboard design is making me nostalgic for that.
On Substack, on the other hand, extremists can post for money. The pieces are now all in place for an extremist Substack to grow an audience using the platform’s recommendation systems, and monetize that audience via subscriptions. And Substack, as it does with all publications, will get 10 percent of the revenue
Containers are portability tools, that can partially control a benign application, but in no way will contain a Trojan. The community warns such tools give a false sense of security.

As long as the Trojan is moderately advanced, there is nothing to stop it (currently, mouse and cat).

The only thing one can do is to detect signs of its activities, just routine.

When the least unexpected day one detect the signs, one notify to the work circle that the machine has been compromised for to rescind our permissions, it is tried to find out how entered and get an idea of the time during which the data leak has occurred, as anything relevant you did in that machine is on some public page on internet.
It has come up several times now on HN, but just as a reminder: With the changes to IRC Section 174, all software development expenses must be capitalized now. This even includes all expenses connected to software development.

https://www.eisneramper.com/insights/tax/impact-174-software...
Thanks for the writeup; in my opinion WCOJ is the most interesting development in core technology.

I'll have to disagree about database customers becoming more savvy; cloud has brought in a whole new crackpipe for managers to smoke.
That was my experience when I looked into setting up a 401k plan for my company. You can set them as a % of salary but it has to be the same for all employees. If you only want to give it to some, you have to fire the rest and bring them on as contractors.
But do they have Gekigangar 3?
Sama – tech industry should support muslim and arab colleagues
The real story is how she was ever considered for the position. Her publishing record fills less than a page, no books, no chapters, no research grant applications to speak of and very few citations. There were 600 nominations for the role. What made Gay qualified over everyone else?
There is stdio, C++ wanted std::iostream
there is string, C++ wanted std::string

Now there is blas/eigen, but C++ wants std::linalg.

What's wrong?
This type of stuff is so stupid it’s hard to even think about.

You can’t “shutdown” something that is already illegal.

Fix the legal system yes. I’ve been through it and it fucking sucks. It is dehumanizing and hurts both the applicants and the nation at the same time.

Asylum is legal immigration. Make it also not a completely fucked up process.

While we’re at it, legalize and regulate drugs to end the gang wars driving innocent people out of South and Central America.

The only point to this shit is to pit the underclasses against each other. Same as it ever was.
>runway incursion monitoring and alert system had failed to detect the danger as it had detected that both aircraft were in the air despite still being on the ground.
AFAIK, Twilio is shutting down its Video product. I don’t think its Voice product is affected (although the SDKs for both use WebRTC).
Is POSIX Unsuitable for Object Stores? A Data-Backed Answer
Sure, some talented driven people can be successful without college. But survivorship bias is a thing, as he notes:

Let me put it as simply as possible: Many successes are dropouts, but few dropouts are successes.

That sums it up. Many in an absolute sense, but still small relative to successes. In a world of 8 billion people, there are 'many' of many things, so what.

The examples he gives are outliers among outliers. Bill Gates, Zuck...we're talking ultra-geniuses in an IQ sense who had every advantage growing up, and then also founded two of the most successful companies in the world. Yes, totally doable. Not to mention, having attended Harvard, sans diploma, confers many advantages too in terms of networking.

(4) As the college experience becomes more expensive and close-minded, the appeal of alternatives increases exponentially.

uhh...but the college wage premium has grown too. The median debt for a college grad is $30k, which is easily covered by higher wages and better employment prospects. Plus, there are tons of scholarships and other payment plans. Top schools love to give generous financial aid to top students. The $500k figure he paid for his two children is a big outlier and not at all representative of grads overall. No mention of scholarships in the article. I highly doubt he paid that $500k out of pocket. The typical net tuition is half to a third of the MSRP. https://thehill.com/business/4002592-forget-that-90000-stick...

(6) Dropouts really do change society.

Maybe for some things like art and music, but then why do all these woke/dei people who affect policy--either in corporations or government--have degrees. So much for 'useless' degrees. If you want to have a say in how society is run, a degree is basically a necessity. We can rant about how unfair this is, but those are the rules. Got to be in the game to play.
To release, or not to release, that is the question
Yes, I edited it as I went to make it more clear.

> The RawJS author was saying that he doesn't like es modules as a language feature [...] You seem to be talking about a separate issue (dependency injection).

Yes, that's why I said "I don't personally have a problem with ES Modules per se". Because I don't. But I dislike the abuse of the feature, and frameworks that force its use.
Got me reading the original. It's rad.

Link to PDF and some screens from intro here..

https://twitter.com/PMayrgundter/status/1743096776456867921
The Meta Quest headsets are physically quite different in design from (say for example) the XReals (https://www.xreal.com/air2/ and https://www.xreal.com/beam/). Do you feel the XReals maybe worth it?
On the casino I used to run, I started a pilot program with a homemade poker bot (labeled as such, and only deployed on poker tables labeled as "bot friendly"). The bot had no set model of its own. It was designed to mimic specific players on the casino, regulars who had played 10,000+ hands and who agreed to have their history cloned, by ingesting their entire hand/betting history and looking for what they had done in similar scenarios as far as hole card value, probability, position, pot odds, table "heat" (a rolling average of over- or under-betting from other players in the previous hands based on what they showed if they showed down), etc.

I got a few good players to agree to let me take all their data and make poker clones of them. What was really funny was watching them get baffled and often beaten in heads-up play against their doppelgangers. The bot never had more information about the game than any other player. But its betting style varied wildly depending on who it was based on.

As a side, this also helped me build a real-time system to monitor potential collusion based on betting patterns that deviated from a player's normal behavior at times when they were sitting at the same table as someone else whose patterns deviated in their presence.
Pfft. Still my best https://unsharpen.com/pen/lamy-unic-ballpoint/ from 1985, that is! (The 290, stainless steel)
There shouldn't be anything in the chosen implementation that prevents generics on methods. The work just hasn't been done yet. There are only so many hours in the day. Feel free to jump in if you have some to spare.

A wrong implementation would hamstring making such improvements in the future. It is possible that will still happen in some unforeseen way anyway, but the earlier proposals visibly exhibited problems from the get-go. They were clearly wrong. So far, this one does look right.
It's not only designed for Anki. RemNote, Obsidian and SiYuan also have FSRS plugins.
For over a decade, the Internet believed the problem with ECB was that you could see penguins through it. Implementors looked at that, said "I don't care if you can see penguins through this", and plowed ahead. In fact the real problems with ECB are that you can rewrite the plaintext and, in many common configurations, decrypt it outright --- the same insight got us the BEAST TLS attack.
I agree with some points you make (I’m not downvoting you). But I believe Sundar is the wrong example to take. There are better CEOs within that short list on the site to use. I also don’t believe that Sundar wasn’t coached and trained and retrained and went through several rehearsals on responses, body language and other aspects from a bunch of highly paid consultants, experts and those with ties in Washington, DC.
Unfortunately, they have confirmed that their service is shutting completely down in March.
My understanding jibes with yours: habitat loss in all its forms.
Malicious packages and typosquatting are very different from what's being talked about here. The problem in this case is a clash of policies: NPM historically allowed people to delete their packages after they published them, and then after left-pad they realized that was a terrible idea from an ecosystem reliability perspective so they made it so that you can't unpublish packages that are listed as dependencies of other packages, and so someone took this to the logical conclusion and a made a package that was dependent on all other packages.

NPM wants to have its cake and eat it too, which is the problem here. The solution is just to say that if you publish a package to NPM you give it the perpetual right to distribute it as-is, and then remove the ability for users to delete their packages at-will.
Another benefit of this is - short grass holds almost no water because of the shallow root system, which means that during storms the water flows to low areas like your basement. Native plant gardens grow deep roots and absorb groundwater which would naturally move towards your foundation.
A bit random but I wonder if anybody knows what happened to Tigris? It looked like a pretty promising product [1], then one day all activity just halted without any sort of announcement.

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1: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tigrisdata , a FoundationDB-based document DB, alternative to Mongo and DynamoDB.
I'm curious, best for what?

Personally, I don't need any practice to think - but not thinking, that's very challenging! And practicing has been very rewarding.
> My understanding is that the userspace interface is extremely stable.

Assuming you compile a static binary that doesn't even rely on libc, then yes, something compiled 20 years ago will still run.

But in the real world you have to recompile your software constantly due to breakage in dependencies (including glibc). And a binary won't work cross-distros without adding efforts despite running the same kernel (sure, that part isn't the kernel's fault).

It's often memed that the most stable interface on Linux is win32 (via wine), and that meme isn't entirely off-base.
JP Aumasson's "Serious Cryptography" and David Wong's "Real World Cryptography" are good starts.
"Tall, loud, trim, non-ugly white guy has success" -- but only after doing a ton of hard legwork!

900+ hours...

And he documented the whole experience.

Also, arguably Grant Cardone at 5'9" -- is not tall -- although not short, either.

Loud?

Well, certainly people need to speak up -- at least a little bit -- if they are to have any chance of success in any of their business negotiations.

What is truly amazing to me is that your comment showed up only a few minutes after I posted this article...

Did you take the time -- to watch the entire video?

?

Hmm?

All 8 hours of it?

?

I'm guessing you didn't...
Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) Python packages are largely intended for system Python, that is, the version of Python that ships with the distro. If you install a package from a Deb-like repo, its dependencies will be present, and it will work* as intended.

The downside is, as you found, they're usually out of date. The upside is that if you get a Python program added to Stable, you can rest easy knowing that end users won't have to battle dependency hell to get it running.

*: This does not apply if you've made a FrankenDebian by combining Sid and Stable, or other such things. You're on your own, good luck.
Zapping the brain with electricity makes us easier to hypnotise
> Electrically stimulating part of the brain makes people more susceptible to hypnosis, which has shown promise for treating conditions such as chronic pain.
They're related phenomena. In general, sprawl (associated with car dependence) tracks with food deserts[1]. Reduce the sprawl, and you reduce the need for cars to access affordable, healthy food (and corresponding absence of access when people can't afford cars).

[1]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805181637.h...
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Vintage 8-bit hardware is extremely comprehensible, and it teaches you fundamentals which absolutely still apply today. Ben Eater's YouTube videos are fantastic for this, both his 6502 project and his homebrew "from scratch" breadboard computer.
I think you're right that static typing reduces bugs, but I am not convinced the reduction is significant or meaningful. If static typing has a significant effect, then why is the existing research so weak and inconclusive?

I don't understand your point about metrics and measurement. Are you saying the effect of static typing is so small that it is completely dominated by other confounding factors and thus cannot be measured?
do you live near an airport?
Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food
LastPass now requires 12-character master passwords for better security
LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.
Since I grew up and left home, my dad kept using an inefficient freezer from the 1950's, my own family went through 5 of the newfangled energy-saving freezers, prompting me to question the environmental friendliness of most modern appliances, and cars.

Remember to factor in the supply chain, and shipping costs.
In the main, people don't use ECB for performance; they use it because it doesn't require any library support and it doesn't require you to understand what a "cipher mode" is --- it's just the cipher applied directly to the plaintext, which, if you don't have any cryptography domain knowledge, seems like a totally sane thing to do. I'm an advocate for calling ECB "the default mode".
Heh, you could do RDMA with other systems on the network using that approach too. ;)
>the whole Sketch -> Invision -> Figma pipeline was quick — never seen incumbents displaced so quickly.

Invision never replaced Sketch. Invision took Sketch designs, and tried to make them interactive. They were a tandem.

Also, Sketch is still alive with diehard users.
Cryptography Engineering is the classic. Serious Cryptography is also good and more recent.
this guy is a good writer
Just run goimports on save then there would be no issue with unused imports. I would take go's error handling over try/catch any day of the week.
Interesting saunas being associated with wealth, we come from different places. When I was in college at Michigan Tech in the early 80’s, dorms had saunas, the frat house had a sauna, and if you were lucky, someone was renting a place with a sauna. Of course I understand that this was very much a regional thing, the point is they are simple to construct and simple to maintain.

While there, I became friends with an old Finnish couple about 10 miles east of town near the Lake Superior shores. They explained that until just a few years ago (at that time), people had outhouses, and a sauna for relaxing, bathing and socializing. They did not eat cake. (They ate pasties :-) )
Microsoft's Windows Experiences leader hates Start menu failing, pushes for fix