skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related:

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675363 - June 2020 (74 comments)

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015370 - Feb 2015 (76 comments)

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033135 - July 2013 (112 comments)
It surprised me to find out that selling fake drugs is a crime.
Most people won't pay, but if nobody pays there is no service

Wouldn't this be at risk of Bystander Effect?
It sounds like you care though - you've called other parents (the ones not in your group) boring.
Every heart palpation will be analyzed and monetized!
Hackers somewhere in Novosibirsk who look for ways to disrupt or exfiltrate data from some of the Germany's bigger IT systems, are likely very gleeful now.

Look ma, they just leave their passwords in cleartext, and people are scared shitless to report it, lest they be sued! It's a pure gold mine!
I believe the attraction is that phages are very powerful and selective killers of bacteria. If you could reliably grow/harvest phages that attack a nasty species of bacteria then they would be powerful weapons against the resulting infections.
He understands very well what it is and how it works. He realises it's an enormous threat to his beloved money printer, and so he's using his high profile to play up to people's fears and sow seeds of doubt.
Which would be fantastic and exactly what she asked for in the video. She just wanted them to drop the obvious bullshit.
I'm not surprised. They're probably the most recognizable name in porn and undoubtedly under a lot of scrutiny.

Now if only I could tell their algorithm to stop recommending step-sibling/parent fantasy porn... yuck.
You're my biggest repeat critic on HN, CyberDildonics.

I originally posted a follow-up message, but I revealed to much of the path gradient to build this and so I deleted it. There are so many low-hanging fruit markets, but I have to hold my tongue. It needs the right leadership and angle of attack.

I bet my reputation that none of this is science fiction, though, and I can't wait to prove you wrong about everything you doubt me on. Give me ten years on this one. I'll show you.

The Hollywood thread you keep doubting me on is going to be extremely obvious in about six months. I really want to see you eat your hat on that one. I'm sleeping on the floor every night to make it happen, and we're getting there.
Related:

History Is Written by the Losers (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228034 - Oct 2019 (20 comments)

History is Written by the Losers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037214 - Nov 2016 (17 comments)

Thucydides Roundtable, Book IV: History Is Written by the Losers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011872 - Nov 2016 (47 comments)
GOV.UK PaaS also runs on AWS (for as long as it remains to exist)
On the scale f-droid runs at, with a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of android users, yes. As much as I would love it, I don't think f-droid could scale in such a way to really be competitive against the google playstore, eat a serious portion of Google's market share in android app stores. I hate it, but we see it time and time again. Open project requires infrastructure, which relies on donations. When its a small set of users its fine. When the user balloon up, the donations don't and the project has to shut down. Unfortunately, its only a hard core subset of users who donate.
All UK businesses run on Oracle and Microsoft, so I'm not sure why you're surprised. They have us by the balls.
I have a doozy but I'm not comfortable sharing it without blanking the name of the company. The short version is I went through a ridiculous 7-stage interview process only to be told at the end (the night before my 8th and final interview) that they really liked me, got excellent feedback but were no longer hiring for that position.
> This is an AWS RDS PostgreSQL database and it lives in the PaaS’ AWS account. Our apps that run in the PaaS talk to this database. We are going to call this database our ‘source database’.

It already was. Read the article.
Isn't Michael Schumacher also in a similar condition for more than a decade now?
Not any remotely comparable. The small “cloud” providers we do have were just reselling vSphere last time I looked into it.
Wind power machine idea #1: turbines.

Potential concern with idea #1: the machines may kill birds.

Wind power machine idea #2: kites.

Potential concern with idea #2: birds may kill the machines.
I tried and tried and tried, Chrome 120 will always stick an undocumented Origin Trial for disabling WebGPU.
AWS has a lot of pre-audited compliance built into their services. Being able to inherit their certification for services can save an organization a lot of time and effort.
>US housing stock is also much more wooden and therefore at higher risk to begin with.

Fire compromising the structure of a building, or the structure itself burning is almost never the cause of death or injury. The primary killer in structure fires is hydrogen cyanide gas. Wood does emit hydrogen cyanide but the primary source is synthetic materials like upholstered furniture, wall and floor coverings, cabinetry, and other personal belongings.

If you have two houses, one made of gypsum-covered 2x4 walls and the other made of stone and steel and a faulty space heater ignites a sofa or some polyester curtains, the buildings are equally lethal. The hydrogen cyanide will have killed you long before the fire burned through the drywall. Non-flammable walls don't even necessarily slow a fire's spread if synthetic materials are involved. The high heat of by their combustion and their dirty combustion causes flashover which ignites all flammable materials in a given space.

I have been a volunteer firefighter for almost 20 years. I have experienced too many fatalities but none of them have ever burned to death. All victims have been dead due to asphyxiation (CO/CO2) or cyanide poisoning.

The differences in death rates aren't as stark as the author contends (for example 0.2 deaths per fire in Great Britain, 0.3 in the US) and my gut tells me the main differentiation between the US and European deaths is the smaller, more compartmentalized nature of European dwellings (which limits the spread of smoke) coupled with their greater level of urbanization which leads to faster emergency services response (the faster a fire is knocked down the less gas it produces).

Open floorplans kill.

All of that being said, wooden construction does cause more firefighter deaths-- especially if engineered wood is used. But by the time the floor of a house has been weakened enough by a basement fire to fail and kill a firefighter, all of the occupants are already dead.
You can test it here as well https://chat.embedelite.com/chat
Title could be read as exposing by means of an app dedicated to exposing said credentials. Hackernews suggests something else, but hasn't really outlined the expose-action.

The text of the decision should be paramount.
> Generally, it is often assumed that in C spaces don’t contribute much to the interpretation of programming text

I can think of only one exception. In function-like macro definitions, the opening parenthesis `(` must directly follow the identifier. Though I guess the newline is significant in macro definitions in general, too.

Are there other places where white space matters?
You are getting down voted by people who understand that, while the situation is nuanced, it is NOT equivalent to flipping over the house mat at random house and entering it.

It may not be totally akin to a security card opening more doors than it should, but it is entirely reasonable to assume that "the key in your copy of the app" is "your personal access key".
LoL, I just looked at the vSAN cancellation.

People are snapshoting the hell out of those pages on the wayback machine! The world is going insane right now.

Broadcom is burning more actual value than Elon Musk.
I'd argue that AWS is much better suited than self-hosting because it's such an important service.

Downtime becomes negligible and global reach vastly increases with comparably little cost.
That's a great point. I was trying to strike a noncritical tone, believe it or not. Germans, like everyone else, are shaped by personal and shared experiences of the past.
I had an old roommate who was the political whistle-blower for NYC police when they lied about the number of minorities they arrest. He was instrumental in getting attention to the disproportionate number of minorities adversely affected by stop and frisk. As an analyst, he had access to the actual raw data and was the one actually creating the reports internally and decided to do speak out when, despite his reporting, the police and politicians were lying to the public.

He had an incredible background on paper (went to Harvard, numerous high level and trusted analyst positions in government, high profile Twitter account). After he leaked the information and had his 15 minutes of fame, his career was basically destroyed. I watched, first hand, over the course of the next two years how he couldn't get a job in his field anymore -- or any field for that matter. After going through his savings, he was forced to take a job working part time at a used clothing store, working for an abusive boss.

Don't underestimate the power of forever getting your name indexed in Google. He was labeled as a "gadfly" by government. Watching him struggle and what it did to his mental and physical health over was absolutely heartbreaking. I really hope this woman doesn't have the same outcome, but I am not optimistic.
More like an electricity area-distribution fail. If it were EMP or a really major solar event, you probably have bigger concerns.
I sort of assumed it would power and depower like a kiteboarding kite to create work. You could probably depower by collapsing the kite leading edge and dragging it back in but that seems less efficient than flying it in a figure 8 to power and depower.
I do not assume a static number of researchers, nor do I see why you would infer that from what I said. Of course there are more researchers going into these fields. The more people enter into a field, the more likely the typical person entering that field is going to be a mediocre researcher, and the more likely that their work is going to be crap.

Sure, in the case of a very small and new field with promise of intellectually stimulating work and structural advantages for eliminating bullshit, adding more people and papers is likely going to be a net benefit. But realistically many established disciplines can only add people by lowering standards.
TIL that people talk about the median as a kind of average. Guess I’ll stop making the remark then!
A conversation between Jonathan Gorard and Wolfram at Wolfram Summer School 2022 [video]
My intuition says phased arrays are the more reliable way to do this. Less moving parts and more control. As well, it feels like phased arrays in general are at a really good maturity to be used for this kind of application.
Not who you’re responding to but laws that govern this:
Multinational:

Hague Convention of 1907

1970 UNESCO

1995 UNIDROIT

US:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieber_Code

2004 HR1047 section 204.

(Those are more about stopping theft / destruction- not return.)

UK:

Except for human tissue, it’s basically not legally regulated.

Australia:

No laws. There is a government program for aboriginal art and remains.

But as an example, Egypt frequently requests the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum.
It's an amazing project, but, out of curiosity: Why do all the AWE projects except Google's seem to use the reel-in/reel-out approach and don't attach turbines to the kite itself? Reel-in/reel-out seems a lot more complicated, power inefficient and taxing on the material than just having the kite up there (semi-) permanently.

I assume there are some technical reasons why turbines are less practical, but could anyone explain what those are?
Consider using some seriously modern tech (LLMs!) to make games with point and click/draw.

https://github.com/tldraw/make-real

This is a really fun project that uses GPT4 and TLDraw. People have made games with it- it’s super WYSIWYG and you can draw the state machines as a diagram with boxes and arrows, the UI directly, etc. I would have loved to have this as a kid.
Doesn't stop disablement done through --origin-trial-disable-feature=WebGPU and I have yet to figure how to drop that without recompiling Chrome.
What does the difference between 440 and 432 sound like to you?
Do they look up records? Is this ethical? Does this also happen in the US or other countries?
i'll bring the pot, the fire, and the rock

the rest is up to you :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
> create a new bank account somewhere and allow Plaid to have access to it.

This is the way. There's plenty of free online banks, and it's pretty easy to open accounts nowadays.
Also the difference in number of instructions on real programs is in the 10% range, which could well be compensated by other factors. For example, keeping to simpler instructions might well result in a 10% higher clock speed and lower silicon area too, equalising matters if not gaining an advantage.
That sentence was a little confusing. You're not happy that the government is hiring experts to run an important service?
riiiiight in fact I usually use something else because I'm editing a path with /

IIRC this dates back to at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
The amount of times i had to fight and debug systemd compared to any other init system is at least 10x.

Yes it does a lot of stuff for you and in others I had to write custom scripts but it was much more understandable and maintainable long term. Sadly systemd won and now i build my own OS without it.
Ok, let's go with the subtitle!
Aperture (https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture) takes a slightly opinionated take on queue size. Instead of defining queue sizes, you put a timeout on each request which is the amount of time the request is willing to wait in the queue. Then we run a weighted fair queuing algorithm that ensures relative allocation across workloads, e.g. 90% capacity for critical requests. But the capacity is allowed to burst when there is low demand.
Is humanity currently rotting to you?
Yes. The author of the article knows how to write enjoyably.

The CEO he was quoting is the subject of my schadenfreude.
That's why many large firms block online code assist tools.
Maintainer of Dokku here.

Would love to hear more about how Dokku broke as it will help me polish the project further :)
Perhaps, but we can say that there are certain reasons why the public transportation can be not very good in the developing world.

Imagine that we but every country and their development index and their public transportation development index on a XY graph? Would US still stand out?

Let's assume that it does. Then we can say that US is a global outlier.
> but actually using them to poke around.

This is true, but he believed that the database was held exclusively for the client, hence only containing data belonging to the client, who gave him permission to access his data. Apparently the name of the database also seemed to indicate this.

As soon as he then noticed that it contained all the data of all customers, he disconnected.
They should have gone to 220 in that case.
Didn't doubt that, but that tragedy was not the point of the "embafflement"-response to the "embafflement"-statement actually, what was my point, so pointless in total, same as you now calling that out again...
TN status is both a blessing and a curse. It hasn't been updated in forever even during the USMCA negotiations it was left as is.

Pros:

- Uncapped

- Applications can be done at the US-Canadian border without an appointment if you're a Canadian citizen

- Lasts 3 years. Unlimited renewals (in theory).

Cons:

- Spouse does not get work authorization. What!? The US-Australian (E-3) visa allows this.

- CBP are really poor adjudicators of whether someone meets the requirements for the status

- Jobs list hasn't been updated in forever. Programmers are denied but Software Engineers are accepted (wth?). Having a Bachelor's of Science in Comp Sci can cause issues because it's not a Engineering degree. Really weird and arbitrary decision making by CBP all over Reddit and immigration message boards.

- Technically a single intent non-immmigrant visa but you can still apply for a Green Card on it anyway. Make it dual-intent already...
Seems like OS maintainers can set those settings, what exactly is the problem?
> you have more plausible deniability sending API requests than you do making a direct connection to a database.

A direct connection to a database is an API, too. :-)
I have no dog in this fight. My $0.02 is that I prefer when all manufacturers (Apple, Android or otherwise) don't preinstall optional software, and let me install it myself if I want it. I empathize with the OP.
Gitlab Appoints Sabrina Farmer as Chief Technology Officer
> Aside from that one, the rejections that were the least self-esteem-damaging were ones that said "we've decided not to fill the position".

"We'd rather have no one than you!" seems like it should be more insulting, really. But I get it.
Related:

Museum of Failure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369961 - Oct 2022 (74 comments)

Museum of Failure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19188943 - Feb 2019 (26 comments)
Where in that document are you seeing that non P.B.C. corporations are required to maximize shareholder value?
I had to look up "creatine"

It is (?) an unproven performance enhancing drug

Much more serious and dangerous than even the most dangerous recreational drugs is it not?
I totally agree, but I do think a few percent would cover it, still. Mostly would go towards payment processing and payout bureaucracy rather than the IP traffic and servers.
this comment would be improved with links or other verifiable info
If your takeaway from that anecdote is "don't whistleblow" I feel like you're in a different dimension than me.

My takeaway is that he probably has a viable lawsuit and maybe pay somebody 5k for some SEO, or change his name for free.
There's a tax-treaty that covers US federal taxes. I'm not 100% certain if the CRA will give you credit for state taxes paid in the United States.

https://www.hrblock.com/expat-tax-preparation/resource-cente...
> shedding more experienced, more expensive workers

A very common IBM theme.
It's literally described in the article.
Differential diagnosis for adult type 1 autism is really tricky. Due to the fact that so many symptoms are shared with other diagnoses. In addition to monotropism, you'd want to find at least one or two other differentiating traits that are not commonly shared with other diagnoses.

You can probably do much of that research and introspection on your own. At least to the point of getting more of a head start. The clinical option is a team diagnosis, which will be expensive. You'd want to weigh what the benefits vs risks (cost, medical records, etc) are for formal diagnosis vs informal (yourself as diagnostician). Especially considering lack of direct treatments.
I wonder how Malta is doing. The News blurbs at their website seem... ok?
I wonder if there was some kind of software license that stated that the developer was giving the user the key but the user wasn't permitted to use it. At least in that case, he would have known the company's intentions.

I don't think we can otherwise know for sure the company's intentions. If I leave the front door to my house open (or if I tape the key to the outside of the door, to further strain the physical key analogy), is it my intention that people just come on in? We have no idea.
I think if you’ve looked at numerical models then you have enough knowledge to at least judge the underlying assumptions: boundary conditions, numerical stability, discretisation methods, validation methods and results.

In the same way that I can verify a SAT solution, I don’t need to know how to code a sat solver.

Unfortunately there are fundamental disagreements about most of the critical parts of climate science, so going by the opinion of the field isn’t foolproof (who to choose? How to choose?). Many fields have had false consensus beliefs before, and most of their problems weren’t 1000th the difficulty of climate modelling.
Teslas crash more than gas-powered cars. Here's why
No, I wouldn't say a life with dependents has more value. However, I do think it should be prioritized over those without dependents.

But that has nothing to do with inherent value.
It should only sound out of tune if you have perfect pitch. Relative pitch stays the same.
The Inventor of DSL Altered the Course of Connectivity
i think i will still be in tech when the pendulum swings back to on-prem, when everybody notices how awfully expensive the cloud is, after the bigger players raise the prices at will, because they killed off the competition.
LLM scaling laws are pretty well established at this point. They probably won’t hold forever but we aren’t at the breaking point yet.

Some more pressing questions are:

* What new capabilities emerge as the models get better and better at predicting (i.e. loss goes down)?

* How much will it cost to train increasingly large models? And to run inference on them?

* How difficult will it be to find or generate more and more high quality data?
according to data protection laws, it's certainly a crime to leave some systems unprotected like in this case
This should be renamed “ten ways to die on the web”
I've been on the other side where as the hiring manager, I've had recruiting contact prior candidates. Sometimes there legitimately are more high-quality candidates than open roles at a given time.
should be noted this research was done at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, which means researchers were messing around with this virus in a non BSL-4 lab. Pretty much every expert opinion I've seen online says this research is insane and provides no value for the risk involved
I encourage you to visit their website to learn more as I'm just interpreting what our oncologist told us about the Torigen vaccine.

It's not part of a funded study so you have to purchase the vaccine and agree to let your vet provide followup information back to the company.

Our dog's oncologist recommended it and said they've seen promising results in other patients, but wouldn't go so far as to say that it would prolong his life. The only published data I've seen from the company is a safety study.

We got the vaccine mostly as a hedge in case the chemo didn't work or he had side effects and we had to discontinue it, but also to provide data back to the company on their vaccine in the hopes that it will help other animals or for future human applications. So yeah, I'm basically paying them for their research with the only thing I'm getting in return is possibly a longer lifespan for my dog (but there's very little data to prove that it works)
That’s better than lying to people claiming that it’s their fault. Losing a job is traumatic and anyone who isn’t supremely self-confident is going to be hurt by those false claims. We’re not going to get executive accountability easily but it’s still better if HR doesn’t make a bad situation worse trying to coddle senior management’s egos.
> The new M Chef cooking method utilises energy in form of Gourmet Units. The appliance maintains a constant dialog with the ingredients to cook dishes in their entirety, until achieving the desired result.

(emphasis mine)

Personally I’d take this paragraph out of the marketing altogether. Making up your own units sounds suspicious, and making up ones that are generic + high concept sounds even more suspicious.

The rest of the marketing tells me they might have a product that’s truly new and interesting. Those (presumably real, and we’ll find out when the public can test it) pictures are excitingly wild.