skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Low-code" is an empty concept, while "payment" is a solid one

All the rest is in the details - I can easily imagine a promising "low-code" company despite them playing in this overhyped and shaky niche, and a terrible "payment gateway" company despite their current cashflow etc.
Let’s do it, I messaged you on Session!
so he would have been fine if he didn't check the vendor database? or if he got written authorization to check the database?
Yea. Talk to someone in glass repair or who’s worked at a dealership. Has never happened to me but did to at least one person I know.
It had the same different meaning outside the Soviet context too. Check out, for example, Norbert Wiener, as American as they come and considered the inventor of "cybernetics" in that "old-school" sense.
I never saw that in the Army, but maybe I was in the wrong kind of unit. I wouldn't count on good continuity between statements of the upper officer corps (political appointees) and the operational realities of the line of business personnel. Just like any big organization.
No, he was found guilty for using those credentials to connect to the database. I can’t speak for German law, but at least in the UK this would be an open-and-shut case, it’s a clear violation of the Computer Misuse Act.

You can like that or not, but if you’re in the position to be doing research like this, you really ought to know the basics of the law.
While the risk is obvious, what is the alternative ?

You can go down as a number on the spreadsheet, or you can show everyone else they are also numbers on a spreadsheet.

Her behaviour is a first step towards a different workplace. The effectiveness is questionable, but what more can a single, non organized individual can do ?
It's zen-like "motorcycle maintenance" for me, and keeps me abreast of what other Ops folks deal with in this space.

It has probably contributed zero directly to my software engineering career, however, there are moments where a deep understanding of the quicksand under my app foundations can help, and shortcut strange debugging sessions and the like.

The time I spend is recreational for me. I can see where others, particularly Ops professionals, are horrified at the idea of doing lib and OS maintenance/updating for fun. It's a very yuckable yum :D
> There is plenty of that on the other platforms you mentioned.

Old Facebook was "social" in a sense that Instagram and TikTok is not even close to. Now they all have some sort of "recommendation" feed.
There are multiple prevalent styles. The emoji counts on the issue thread you linked to and the number of essentially duplicates make that very clear.
Without a massive amount of renewable energy we won’t be able use CCS at scale.
>> "the lower court is probably right about this and we don't think we need to get involved"
> This seems circular. your last sentence IS what constitutes a worthy case (for the SCOTUS)

No I was correcting the idea that by passing on a case SCOTUS is blessing the lower court opinion.

SCOTUS passes on cases where the justices might completely disagree with the lower court or appellate decision. They pass on cases they think are a huge injustice too.
> If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.

That's a fun quip (and often correct) but the world needs a way to run this kind of project. Community? free? transparent? etc, etc.

And I think this issue is not just about "free systems", culture changes and day to day corruption creeps and destroys everything. Even die-hard for-profit institutions (where entire branches might go rogue on their own objectives.)
Shouldn't you include in the average nuclear sites that didn't explode?
Given the cloudflare CEO responses, I think it’s safe to assume that one is real.
Midwestern farmers very much disagree with that “impossibility”
Good reply. You're right, I hadn't thought about bridges / tunnels. Nor about the fact that the current system is basically "cheap off the shelf stuff".

This exchange has been a revelation in systems-design for me. The value one gets from adding another brain with a differing viewpoint.
I don't see why an investigation into excessive logging requires running queries on a database.
The same kind that makes you immune to crashing a car, none. However the training presumably could help you asses and mitigate risks better than someone with no training.
I don't mean to be rude, in the slightest, but your suspicions are based on nothing but your own opinion (unless you're a climate scientist) and I'm going to defer to subject matter experts. I'm not a scientist, but I listen to them [1] [2] [3]. Your submission history indicates a hint of climate denier [4] and your comment here [5] about carbon capture being in use at scale and successful is an outright falsehood (direct air capture is very expensive and in its infancy, and the cost of sequestering is not included in the cost of fuel consumed), so here we are. I am doing my best to argue in good faith.

> Also ask yourself: if fossil fuels are used to produce medicine and fertiliser with zero emissions, why would we want to stop producing them?

When you can prove this can be done, certainly, I'll agree with you. But there must be evidence, and it must be provided. Hope and misdirection is not a strategy.

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-clima... ("Do scientists agree on climate change?
Yes, the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists – 97 percent – agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change. Most of the leading science organizations around the world have issued public statements expressing this, including international and U.S. science academies, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a whole host of reputable scientific bodies around the world. A list of these organizations is provided here [next citation].")

[2] https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

[3] http://www.opr.ca.gov/facts/list-of-scientific-organizations... ("The following page lists the nearly 200 worldwide scientific organizations that hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action.")

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36307850

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39047555
Finding a key on the floor and then using that key to break into a building is illegal, and for good reason.
§ 202c is even worse:

> https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202c.html

English translation based on the DeepL translation:

"§ 202c Preparing the spying and interception of data
(1) Any person who prepares an offense under § 202a or § 202b by

1.
passwords or other security codes that enable access to data (§ 202a (2)), or

2.
Computer programs whose purpose is the commission of such an offense,

or by procuring, selling, transferring, distributing or otherwise making available to himself or another person, shall be liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding two years or to a monetary penalty.

(2) § 149 (2) and (3) shall apply accordingly."
i said sentences and paragraphs not words not having punctuation is absolutely akin to not capitalizing after all new lines and dots are designed and are working together and in unison to when combined convey the important information information of separation of pieces of information ways of compartmentalization if anything capitalized words are more visible than dots
The porn bots are pervasive and easily identifiable programmatically.

That they persist must mean that X wants them to persist.
Hah, same here. That line jumped out to me as a big toxic red flag.

The quotes further down from users who suddenly lost all of their content were sad to read. It sucks how often regular people get burned for taking tech companies at their word.
This isn't meant as some cheeky passive aggressive thing, but a genuine curiosity from someone who has always been really fascinated by CGOL and cellular automata in general: has there been any practical uses of cellular automata outside of hobbyist mathematics?

I read Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science", and it certainly feels like there's a lot of value to be gleaned from Cellular Automata, but thus far I haven't seen anything terribly useful. I'm happy enough for it to just be a fun mathematics game, but it would be nice to be able to explain something useful coming from me spending hours and hours hacking together different Langton rules.
For my current job, I almost had an issue during the interview process because the recruiter had my old resume that was still in the system from the first time I was referred three years ago.
As a sixteen year community member I don’t get to question the flag mechanism, and even questioning up/dowmvote is probably above still above dispute.

I’m at war with Altman and Siebel and Shear and other demonstrable criminals but I still trust dang.

Carry on.
I suppose if the PBC was in debt then it could sell its assets, such as the Ello site, to pay its creditors and then dissolve.
After reading the text I predict this is completely sensationalised and that something worse happened.
How are they not?

IIUC, the ruling said Apple has to allow devs to link to an alternative payment processor (i.e. Netflix can now link to netflix.com instead of the absurd rigmarole they had to endure before). Apple now allows devs to do this, with certain requirements (namely, a 27% commission). Since the court said Apple is allowed to collect a commission, those requirements don't seem to be (to this non-lawyer) illegal.

Are the strongly worded warnings untrue?

Absolutely no one should be surprised by the new policy. Every podcast I listened that discussed the matter when the judge handed down the initial verdict predicted this outcome.
It's AI-generated. Beyond the style/composition being typically AI, the filename says:

>DALL-E-2023-12-02-15.50.18---A-serene--contemplative-scene-inspired-by-Elder-Sophrony-of-Essex-s-quote.-The-image-depicts-a-peaceful-landscape-with-a-deep--dark-abyss-in-the-backg
Ancient chewing gum reveals stone age diet
Ask HN: Use Docker Engine from VM
I have a Mac host machine that has a Docker daemon running on it. I have multipass installed on the host machine which I use to create Ubuntu VMs. The VMs are created in a bridged network. I was able to set up ssh both ways so I can access the VMs from my host and vice versa.
Thing is, my VM has very limited resources and I need to use Docker within it.
I was thinking to set up the Docker client on the VM to use the Docker engine/daemon of my host machine.
How would I do something like that?
The NYT is very much not a failing business.
If it makes you feel any better the oldest streets around here are wider than newer ones, because they had to be able to turn a wagon with a team of horses.
I'll continue to stay away from it. I had figured when I can walk into most grocery stories and buy some freshly baked bread or potatoes with bitcoin I might finally give it a try.
Some of these entries are questionable...

Calling the Iridium network a failure is wrong. Iridium has been in consistent active use by the military and ships at sea from its inception to now and they are still launching new satellites as recently as last year.

And the blurb on No Man's Sky ends with "the game later managed a major turnaround from its disastrous launch and became a great success". Great Success is not the same as Failure.
It seems others are suggesting you simply take their money and ignore all their demands (so long as you aren't violating any contract).
See mixture of experts. It’s likely what chatGPT does in the backend.
Is there a Kaczynski equivalent to Godwin's Law? HN likes to reference him a lot.
> No one wants that.

I very much do want that since the WebGPU API is far easier and nicer to use than Vulkan or OpenGL. Also, it makes apps much more accessible to distribute them over web, and it is much more secure to use web apps than native apps. Unfortunately WebGPU is way too limited compared to desktop APIs.
It's hard to relate it to scale, is why.

A sandwich costs $5 everywhere, and a car costs $30k everywhere, because that's just what those things cost to make.

It's relatively difficult to look at a web service and determine whether its running costs are normal guy hobby money, rich guy hobby money, or no seriously this won't last six months without VC money.

Decentralised and P2P systems run themselves, but it's hard for them to maintain a centre of gravity without offering something specific, and given that the network itself can't produce value out of thin air, it's probably not coincidental that the ones best able to maintain gravity are offering stuff stolen from elsewhere.
>existential threat to humanity in which case we have nothing to lose

Being under threat doesn't justify making things worst. I know I'll die some day but that's not a reason to be suicidal.
about:flags in Chromium

search for "accel"

Disable the blacklist for your GPU.
Ravage by René Barjavel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes
It's a very fine area. Once he had the database credentials, that's all he needed to tell the company to fix their code. Connecting to the database is what did him in.

We need white hats that want to find vulnerabilities for good, but when you exploit a target and they aren't aware until after the fact, that's still a crime. I don't know what the safe way of doing this is other than only doing white hat hacking on systems you control. Any system outside of your control should not be exploited unless the company has an agreed upon contract that indemnifies you from any harm caused.
If you needed security you should've used a fax!
No, memory leak is a very distinct definition: unused and stored, but inaccessible memory. Memory leak can be as small as a single word. In this case, it's just a memory. There is another term for this scenario, which I don't remember.

This is a case of optimization gone wrong, but nothing is leaked, and every single byte is accounted for.

The title is click bate, but article still interesting to read.
I don’t get how the tech sector as a whole is so inept at this after half a century now.

EFF plays defense, when it should be playing offense more effectively

Organizations like it need to be donating to campaigns

Play the game until the lobbying laws change

All of our people should have been pardoned because the President was in our pockets.

Aaron Schwartz would have had nothing to worry about, maybe that gets someone attention here
So funny roadsigns warnings are distracting, but the giant glowing billboards aren't a problem?
Pitchfork, the Music Press, and the Silencing of Storytellers
Personally, when I watch a big stream, the screen being in my house doesn't make it feel any less like the entertainer is on stage.

And when there's 15 people watching, that does enable real conversations.
The ostrich approach to tech security.
Not very surprising.
Ireland's entire economy is being based on being a cheap low tax mailbox provider for US Multinationals, trying to bend laws as much as possible in their favor just fits in there
That's why there is a big push on minimum tax rates in the European Union, nobody wants that race to the bottom
Billionaires plan futuristic California city, gather signatures
this journal is literally clickbait for nerds
You can easily sideload apps on android with only one setting change. This alone makes Android better than iPhone
FYI, clicking the "Try the Demo" button doesn't do anything for me in Chrome or Firefox.
They could have quoted someone else who made the same point. Instead they chose to give more attention to a troll.
No. Anyone can form a superficially cogent argument when they don't need to defend it. This one is fallacious because it assumes its conclusion (hard working managers doing their jobs, rather than the reality of being unable to articulate what expectations the laid-off employee failed to meet).

Further, engaging with bad actors (who are generally cynics rather than idiots) normalizes their standing as commentators/public figures, and gives them opportunity to push shitty ideas into public discourse. They're PR professionals who understand how to exploit the dynamics of social media very well and imho to the general detriment.
> teh futurez!1!

It's a sad list. Even Google, after it acquired YouTube, forced me to change my YouTube login to a gmail account.
The decision point isn't when you raise the first round, it's when you decide not to raise a second one. You will have already spent a lot of time trying to build a big company and realized that isn't going to happen. Now it's time to figure out whether to convert your previously-ambitious startup into a stable, small company. Depending on the sector and business model, this may mean you don't even have to work that much. If you're selling SaaS and have low churn, you could hypothetically take it very easy and just pay yourself. VCs would not like this, and if you try to raise for a future company, funders would be wary for sure.
Instead you stay in the queue for the self check-out, and have to wait minutes till the buyer in the front figures out how to scan their items.
GDP is just a measure, and it doesn’t include externalities. Any state or person is free to make up their own metric that includes it. Call it GDP_E and put it in every government report!

Saying it should include externalities is like saying that the scales at the butchers should include nutrition information with weight: that would be cool but that’s not what scales/weight measures are for.
> legitimately

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's funny just how terribly many of these are written. That Palantir example has got to be my favorite. Check out this hum-dinger of a sentence:

> It was a pleasure to learn more about your skills and accomplishments; however, I'm afraid that after careful consideration, we regret to inform you that we do not have any positions that are a fit for your experience and skills at this time.
I applied to some internships to 2 huge consulting firms everyone knows, got denied, and I wasn’t able to fill out able to apply to full time roles with the same email address a year later
The latest extensions from ARM are codenamed Helium, and they are an extension on the previously mentioned NEON.
Both NEON and Helium are quite simple vector extensions, and yes it is also used for classic DSP stuff. I believe Helium also supports fp16, though for inference on MCUs I believe that int8 will continue to dominate. Here is book on Helium from ARM that seems informational
https://github.com/arm-university/Arm-Helium-Technology

There is another chip that is generally available, that has a CNN accelerator/co-processor - the MAX78000
https://www.embedded.com/hardware-conversion-of-convolutiona...
If I wanted to support this in a user interface, what would the inputs look like?
I'm not saying you're really facing any legal liability here but the strategy you're proposing here involves defrauding your investors. They're going to make these demands explicit before you close the deal!
Would that help the German developer though?
Relearning math as an adult
Okay, but that clearly cannot be the meaning being used here, since to prohibit "hacking" in this sense is not unlike a blanket prohibition on "play".
Also probably in contention is the plunder of the Aztecs by the Spanish.
If there is legal precedent that carbon emissions from sovereign oil sources potentially violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, there's no reason to believe there would not immediately be new cases opened up against existing projects on the same grounds.
"We should improve society somewhat - Yet you participate in society. Curious!" revisited
The ladder never goes straight up, so you need to check what its maximum “reach” is.

A building that is seven stories high is going to be big enough to have multiple stairways; probably multiple elevators.
Vircon32 looks very nice!

So what did you do w.r.t. addressing modes? Do you have memory-memory operations? Is it a load/store architecture?

I found the CPU specification (https://github.com/vircon32/Vircon32Documents/blob/main/Spec...), but I couldn't find an ISA specification.
Were they paying for said spot instances? If so, that's mostly on AWS, not the client. (Unless AWS explicitly says in its TOU that instances can be taken away instantly due to "availability" issues. Which IMHO would be a suicidal policy for AWS to have.)
The YT Music equivalent to Spotify Wrapped is a complete joke.
Go read Götz Ali's Hitler's Beneficiaries, which lays out in exhaustive detail the combination of financial chicanery and outright theft that was used to channel wealth toward his political base.
My point is simply that groupthink can vary a lot, from Pro-Israel to Pro-Palestine - it's just a hugely polarising topic.
Poor old Lenore "Nore" Ply is wondering why nobody ever emails her.
Today I was asking ChatGPT some questions and it gave me back an oddly specific statistic about website performance. I figured it was a hallucination, but I was interested to see if it was real so tried to find a source.

First I searched Google for the exact phrase, and there were a tonne of articles with basically the same wording. So all AI written content.

Then I used the data filter to give me everything from before June 2022 and there were the same numbers worked differently, but nothing specifying the source.

Then I tried before 2018 and found one article referencing the data from a press release by Akamai in 2009. It contained a URL, but it's no longer live.

There was also one other article dated 2015 that had the same sentence that ChatGPT gave me. However the article sounded like it was written by AI, so I'm guessing somebody just set the post date wrong on the article.
Not wrong at all.

The NHS probably does barter discounts. But consider that a discount of 50% off $150k/yr would be incredible, yet still be a vast amount of money for a single treatment.
I don't know about that. Paying yourself a nice salary, having a stable job doing something you probably (at least at one point) find interesting, and having lots of autonomy seems like a pretty nice gig.
Troy Hunt called that behavior "way too far into the grey for my comfort" in a recent post about the massive Naz.API leak.
Correct, but that's the point really. In an extreme case, such as an empty lot in Manhattan, it would cause the property to change hands to someone who could be more productive with it.

Even though it wouldn't be worth as much without LVT, it would still be worth a lot in such an extreme case, so it's not devastating for the owner either.
Have seen this a lot in the conference I run on the topic. Sometimes it’s on purpose but most times it’s just not being able to cross the series a chasm. If you have mostly angels this works pretty well as it sets you up to make everyone happy in a smaller exit.
Most software today is so high level you'll never get close to that. Maybe in graphics or embedded systems plus electrical engineering and and computer systems architecture?

There's still a lot of stuff on YouTube, including the open university course stuff from a decade ago, Khan Academy, etc. And of course Coursera more recently, etc.

The field is probably growing faster than you can learn though, so at some point you just gotta choose a part to specialize in, and even then it's probably several lifetimes worth of material.
There were about 3 months that I thought Bing Chat was an incredible feature that was added for free. Since then, it has been eclipsed by other free generative search like phind.com which are more functional and free.

I think the Bing Chat answers have gotten too concise to be useful for anything technical. It's good for quick retrieval of simple things, but I have abandoned it and ChatGPT for phind.com, at least for now.

Ask me in 3 months, I may have another system I favor. This space is evolving rapidly.