skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take is that lawyers will have to compare the damages they suffered to the potential harm their reputation will sustain if they become well known for being victims. Did they pay $1,000 for a subpar product? If so, they might not act beyond issuing some threats. However, if they lost $100,000 to a thief then they probably will act.

I have spoken with many lawyers who have threatened marketers with lawsuits, and in many cases the threat will help the lawyer. I have had a few lawyers tell me they WILL NOT file a lawsuit (why sue for $500 considering the time and court fees), but that it only costs about 60 cents to send a verbose letter using their firm's letterhead. They understand the old warning "if you sue for a cow, you may end up losing a cow".

Just as with a successful con against esteemed scientists, any skilled conman will know his target well and understand how he can fly just below the radar and probably avoid getting called out and destroyed.
> I recently canceled my Prime subscription. One of the major reasons was all the pre-roll ads

I expect that given a choice between (a) having lots of Prime users or (b) running a successor to a cable network with ads, Amazon would very much prefer being a cable network to everyone.
Since this just about GUI appearance, I'd like to mention one of the most beautiful and practical GUI themes for Windows 7, and in my opinion one of the best kept secrets for more than a decade, Shine 2.0:

https://www.deviantart.com/zainadeel/art/Shine-2-0-for-Windo...

It's been many years since I used anything Windows, but it was always one of the first things I configured with any new install. Looking at the screenshots now, it hasn't aged a bit since it was published in 2010. And the other concepts and themes that guy published around the same time still look fresh. Imagine if Microsoft had discovered him and put him in charge of style!
Linux 6.7 Kernel Released
That can only possibly be bad faith on the part of Disney or UMG. Someone is clearly guilty of perjury.
> other simultaneous scandals such as PPE.

Also performed by the conservative government?

I mean that sets the precedent for kick-backs as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if, after losing the next election, a bunch of sitting Conservative MPs go and mysteriously work for Palantir (Greensill all over again and - oh and hey, David Cameron's reputation is being rehabilitated right now by having him in government again, funny that)
So don’t watch it, or pay for it.
The vast majority of people who are trans do not have surgery and being trans has nothing to do with your genitals. I feel like this really shouldn't need to be explained in 2024.
As I recall, W2K also got very usable on desktops with SP4 (I recall Sound blaster, game support issues in W2K).
And presumably you are going to be the arbiter of what is and isn't rational?
Back when I ran a VPS, I used weberp which turned into odoo. I’ve used vTiger as well. I have also used a custom erp tool that tied into my infrastructure accounting. This was 10+ years ago.

These tools are great, they allowed me to see instant balance standing and allowed me to do forecasting on my reports. VTiger was really great because my costs were directly tied to project management which allowed me to predict costs way more accurately than my competitors.

As great as that was, it could not ingest bills automagically nor was the format consumable by my accountant. Every month I would spend 8-16 hours updating bills manually. Every year end I would spend 20-30 hours to export my data into excel to send to my cpa. These hours shrunk by half before I sold the business but I never went back to a DIY/OSS approach for accounting again, instead I relied heavily on the OG Quickbooks desktop app.

I don’t know what I would use today, likely salesforce or something similar
Because people generally spend much more time driving cars and being on the trains and buses than being on a plane. The intuitive reading of the statistics of accidents is 'how likely it would happen to me in my _lifetime_', and not based on how much you actually fly or drive. For such intuition one would need to compare the same amount of time spend in either mode of transport because they would represent the same amount of somebody's lifetime.
This was probably testing to see how people would react, how much they would put up with, and what types of ad formats are least objectionable. I noticed this also and saw it as the writing on the wall.
I built something similar many years back. Mine was web based: https://github.com/GWBasic/ObjectCloud

What I would tell my younger self is to spend more time reading through YC's resources about how to start a business. In my case, I built something that I thought there was a need for; but I should have spent a lot more time iterating off of tangible customer needs.

IE, I should have found a handful of customers who needed tight integration among these use cases and let their needs drive the implementation.

Why? There are already plenty of applications that do the same functions. (MS Office, Google Drive, ect, ect.) These applications are mature, and well-understood by the whole market.

I would suggest finding a few customers who are hampered by poor interoperability among 3+ applications / use cases, and focus on their use cases. It'll take you 15+ years to be as mature as products like MS Office, Google Drive, ect; but if you solve a niche's tangible, need, they won't care, because they can't operate their business without you.
I went looking to see if there were better sources for this than The Sun, and the other sources are also kind of sketch (Coast to Coast AM is above the fold for it). Is this a serious story?
If only you read the one sentence long article

Its about powerwall sending pings to users about storm warnings.
I'm pleased to announce that despite this problem with ads, I like that they make a lot more media accessible for free tier YouTube. I can stream Barry Lyndon on YouTube anytime for free thanks to some HBO deal. I'm sure you can find tons of free movies you can watch now, I love YouTube, if you need ad free, you can buy a different cheaper country's YouTube yearly subscribe. With AI media I expect this kind of ad in the very near future. https://youtu.be/HnXgbMgfkYg
That is a bit different as it suggests strict comparmentalization of the reproductions. There is a lot of "concept bleeding" that happens in the models I've used.

Perhaps if the compression directly leveraged overlap among the images, via keywords.
Darn, I thought this would be some kind of data type primitive related to hommomorphic encryption.
I thought hn disallowed low quality comments with no substance
I went through pretty much the same dance yesterday trying to figure out the right way to choose a directory in my SwiftUI app.
SwiftUI is a wonderful UI toolkit but it's far from complete. The documentation Apple is creating for it is wonderful, check out: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui
I was interested to see how they solved automated page turning... but none of the designs appear to address this?

Sounds like a repetitive motion injury waiting to happen after you get done scanning Fountainhead.
Wow that's a great idea by BlueSky. I hadn't heard of or thought of that approach!
I'm not talking about a dichotomy between fantasy. My comment still applies to that.

This is what I'm talking about:

"Set in an alternate history Cairo, Shubeik Lubeik/Your Wish Is My Command is a sci-fi character drama built around intricate character portraits set in a ‘post-colonial’ context, wherein we see people from a variety of backgrounds wrestle with life."

Like this slice of life, complex character studies where the story is pretty mundane that's so common in lit. The setting can still be sci-fi.

Anyway he made a subtle slight against super hero stuff in his intro. My comment was more (though not exclusively) referring to the dichotomy between super hero stuff and other comics. My argument is that it's better then these books he's recommending due to the sheer man power and talent it took to create the MCU. The culmination of work from technology and talent built by thousands of people and he derides it because it's "popular".

Like literally what was the point of that intro? To randomly mention how popular super hero stuff is and to dismiss it in all his recommendations. It's the definition of snobbery.
I use ublock origin on firefox and have never seen a youtube ad. Whenever I enjoy a video very thoroughly, I just donate money directly to the creator's ko-fi or something. It's a much, much smoother experience.
The Absurdity of Peer Review (2021)
The irony is if they’d have sent out an email saying “prices going up, but we’re launching an ad supported one at a lower price” I’d have been fine. Instead prime got cancelled, and that means I deleted the Amazon app from my phone, which means I’m going to be buying far less from Amazon (probably nothing)
It's not entirely useless - sure Peter Fonda can't act and neither can Blythe Danner but she sure is pretty to look at and does an adorable act with a pair of glasses. I mean, it's in the "so bad it's good" category of films where the original Westworld seems to take itself far too seriously considering the premise.

The sequel also has the classic lines:

"I smell heathen scum!"

"You smell yourself sir!"
> so I don't see why there couldn't be similar international regulations about the disposal of human remains on the moon.

Because there's not really a central enforcement mechanism like there is for regular laws?

I mean, that's a problem for all international agreements, but it seems like it would be relevant here as well. It would require a tremendous amount of political capital and buy-in from every country capable of making a vehicle that can travel to the moon. And spending that political capital for something like this seems like pretty low ROI
1. There probably is quite a bit of discussion about tool selection in some fields. Surgical innovations didn't end with the invention of the scalpel. I'm sure there's lots of discussion about the appropriate use cases for robotic vs laprascopic vs traditional surgery, we just don't see them because we're on a tech forum and not where medical doctors discuss tools. I can say for a fact that I've seen more written about the merits of various screwdriver heads than I would have thought possible.

2. Software development is a little unique as an industry since it's not all that common that the users of the tools are also the people who make the tools. There's naturally going to be a lot of discussion about tools if you're both the maker and the user of them.

3. Us not having a standard for which tool to use is a reason to have these discussions, not a reason to say "pick whatever, it doesn't matter". The reason that those people don't write blog posts and have discussions about the merits of a hammer vs. a screwdriver is precisely because they're so well established - if both were a couple of years old, absolutely people in construction would be discussing whether to use nails or screws for an application.
massive transphobia in comments
Windows 9x had a decent file search function. It was slow, but reliable. It even included full text search, though I'm not sure how well that worked, I don't think I ever had the patience to use it. I wish modern Gnome had something just like it. I usually use the shell, instead.

Here's an overly nitpicky but very in-depth description:
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/find95.htm
It’s an experiment to understand other ways of making money. I also believe freevee is available without prime video.
Why Tech Needs a Rational, Humanistic "Third Way"
It might have been gaudy compared to 2000, but I much prefer the colorful XP design to the gray on gray material "design" that's popular nowadays.

Only sex perverts don't like clearly defined (button) boundaries... Though my safe word is Fisher Price.

/s
Is preserving one operation enough to call it a homomorphism? How trivial can that operation be?

If we have an is_positive() operation, maybe mapping numbers to either -1 or 1 is enough? Or maybe map to true or false?
I did years ago over a weekend and had a laptop running it for a while. Something went wrong and I ended up breaking it. Just way more familiar with Debian and friends.

In that vein, I ended up looking into Linux from scratch this weekend. I'd love to have a laptop that runs reaper and that's it.

Someday, but for now, a minimal Ubuntu install is doing the trick for what I need.
Sneakernet and your local friendly CD burner owner with a huge catalog were readily available here in NL. Internet made it a little easier, sure, but not much. At least for software.

No, for music Napster was really what showed what the internet could offer but CD burners couldn't.
Doing a CS degree in UK in the mid nineties the parallel computing course was taught in Occam, on Transputer simulators (and a handful of Transputers). Seemed anachronistic at the time as the Transputer had been heavily hyped a decade or so before as a giant advance in computer architecture that would enable hugely powerful machines to be built. Toward the end of the 80s the Meiko Computing Surface was occasionally mentioned, and the September 1988 issue of Personal Computer World cover story -- "The Desktop Mainframe arrives" -- was about the Microway Multiputer, which could scale to something like 100 Transputers in a single workstation chassis.

It never did take the world by storm, though, and it seemed completely irrelevant as a practical architecture by the mid 90s. But I did like the elegance of parallelizing code in Occam. Code blocks were introduced with SEQ or PAR, with the behavior you'd intuitively expect: everything in a SEQ block was run sequentially, everything in a PAR block could be run in any order, and (if memory serves) was automatically and transparently distributed across whatever set of Transputers it was running on. Neat.
The missing conversation: scientists & historians don't engage with one another
I don't see why you cannot add interactivity later on. Frameworks like VueJS provide an easy way to deliver interactive widgets on a subset of rendered pages of a traditional website. If you need an API on the backend, you need to write that API one way or another anyway.

This way people who are just looking for some information on a website can go visit, get, and leave, without having to enable intrusive JS blobs, while those in for the interative things on the website can get their preferred experience as well. Instead many websites are developed with only the second group in mind, often intentionally forcing you to run their code on your computer, or not delivering useful information at all.
> I work in PL and this type of language is pervasive. It is motivated by wanting PL terminology to be precise, meaning it always means the same thing to everyone, because there are agreed upon, robust, mathematical definitions for specific terms.

> The language in this documentation is self-serving to PL nerds and needs to be rewritten to target normal people. Anything else is just needless elitism and wankery, IMHO.
This is not something new. A good enterprise sales team does the same thing: they learn about the organization, the gatekeepers, the decision makers, how to get past / around the gatekeepers to reach the decision makers, and finally convince the decision makers that they are the best solution. The more information the sales team is able to collect / gather / learn about each person they'll be interacting with, the better chance they'll have of getting them to say, "yes".
I'm with pixl97 on this one, but I think you are both in agreement, just focused on different parts. They are focused on the cause, you are focused on the effect. The two are causally linked.

I cannot for the life of me think of a way this policy would be enacted without a strong religious based push. I understand you think that it is unfair to claim that this is caused by religious based policy-making, but how can you claim that "you could easily substitute items from the other side and end up in the same place". What other side? Atheism? Can't see an atheist caring about this subject enough to create privacy invading laws. Religion always seems to be focused on what people do in the bedroom more than any other subject. Absolutely sex-obsessed.
> click around the documentation pages - do you think that's an SPA or an MPA?

I think it's a page with broken use of the history api.

I clicked your link, opened the menu (as a comment mentioned it being slow), and then had to hit back 3 times to return here.
Seems very glitchy? Example 6 gives

> My name is Merve and my favorite color is blue. I am a very active person and I love to exercise. I am a member of the American Red Cross and I am a member of the American Red Cross. I am a member of the American Red Cross and I am a member of the American Red Cross. I am a member ...
I also think there’s some amount of intellectualization about these issues, for varying reasons. In my own social group the most common one I observe is that it’s an academic exercise to those who aren’t part of an affected group. I don’t say that from a place of judgement, it makes perfect sense that in those cases a lack of lived experience would make it academic. For others it’s reality, and that’s why it’s important to address these kinds of issues.
I made the mistake once with a black pack of Buldak, and put the whole thing of sauce in it. My wife and I shared the bowl and cried all the way through. It's unbelievably spicy. My local asian store sells bottles of buldak!
It’s a little more complex, ~60% of panels used outside of China come from China. Thus current prices are just what it costs to manufacture not the result of some subsidy.

Roughly 37% of the worlds supply is by China for China, 38% by China for the rest of the world, and 25% is by the rest of the world for the rest of the world.
To be fair, every generation says “they don’t make $media as well as they used to.”

This may or may not be true, but looking at the past few years I have to say it’s subpar. That was probably exacerbated by the pandemic.
Very interesting perspective, thanks for the insight! Seriously.

I recently quit Google, thus the preachy tone above lol - it’s an emotional topic. Ultimately I wanted to prove to myself that I could cut it as a “big tech” software engineer, but the whole corporate structure and purpose was unbelievably anxiety and shame inducing. Probably an overreaction but hey, us engineers are a fragile bunch…

I was in ads, so it was the front line of the insanity: thousands of truly kind, smart people were pampered in brand new Science-Fiction buildings on NASA Ames land (kagi “Google Bayview Campus”) with the finest food, gyms, tech, transportation, everything. They talked all day about modernizing ads and pleasing customers and powering the Free and Open Internet, and never about politics. And promotions, as you said. Meanwhile:

- we were surrounded by an army of underpaid contract workers because the engineers refuse to collectively organize with them,

- desperate pleas from organizations I trust to stop [LATEST_GOOGLE_3PC_REPLACEMENT_PROPOSAL] because it would destroy the internet were hitting the top of hacker news every few weeks,

- lawsuits are landing from the DoJ for illegal business practices with quite shocking screenshots of internal slides, and

- The legal manipulation culture runs so deep that employees get regular training on why they need to tag everything as “attorney client communications” even if there’s no attorneys involved (something tells me that “”loophole”” isn’t gonna last long).

Such a weird, jarring experience. I’m still living off Google savings so haven’t quite hit the “miss the paycheck” stage for real, not looking forward to that! Hopefully someone finds this emotional rant illuminative.
As a thought exercise:

What would happen next if the Palestinians laid down their arms and renowned warfare?

What would happen next if the Israelis laid down their arms and renounced warfare?
http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/ allows you to display arbitrary URLs on your device. From my experience doing so is built on a pile of hacks (it’s not actually casting an arbitrary URL, it’s casting the registered-with-google dashcast App ID, and then the dashcast app loads an arbirary URL inside it), but the end result mostly works
Simple public/private key file encryption with WebCrypto API
Encrypt and decrypt files in your browser using the WebCrypto API. Feedback is welcomed
You know the quickest way to not be taken seriously? Lying on your website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38891721#38893535
What I am really missing in these (really nice) alternatives to ELK is Kibana and its Lens.

I tried to tapping this with Grafana but never learned to have graphs as easily as with Kibana. Maybe I was not trying hard enough?

Has anyone replaced Kibana with Grafana for non time based graphs?
Downvoted but why. Call a spade a spade.
It’s a pity when you consider how detailed Inside Macintosh was.
It might be a hot take, but I think documentation is mostly obsolete. Nobody wants to write it, and nobody wants to read it.

How the future works is probably:

1. Tutorials / case specific guides
2. documentation-annotated code base read by an LLM to yield answers to questions.

Already now, the most popular open source projects seem to prioritise guides for common use cases over extensive documentation.
In this case, programming language research.
Yes https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/presigned-urls/
Well, extra careful, but we've still got to beat the Russians. We're not going to not beat the Russians over this, so figure it out.
Actually downloaded the Mac app and gave up on the Sign Up screen. I just don't want to have another login in another cloud service.