skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thing is not "0 deaths"... it's "be conscious of every death you're responsible of and do your best to minimize it". That's why resignation is not really an option: some humans could be better than you, other will be worst, but the plot is that someone will have to face this reality. And this reality will have to be shared with everybody on C-SPAN.
> It seemed like maybe Eric Schmidt's departure had something to do with it, though it's possible that was just coincidence.

Another option is that he saw the trajectory of the company culture and wanted out.
My perception is that General aviation is mostly stuck in 1950ies when it comes to technology and we might be seeing an issue where the real issue is the limit of verbal communication to be unambiguous enough for modern standards.

It would be fairly easy to replace the whole hear/repeat with an system of unambiguous text messages using hardware not much more expansive the cost of an tank full of avgas for the average plane but it seems like people still try to solve this by regulating the already crowded radio frequencies with more verbose instructions.
>Most of these versions can no longer be found anywhere on the Internet. If you did not have the foresight to save them, you no longer have access to them. As far as you are concerned, they are gone forever.

I don't particularly care about ancient Linux ISOs, but I bet they're some of the best archived files on the internet.

For a start, larger distros do maintain archives. Here's Debian's and Arch's https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/ https://archive.archlinux.org/iso/

And beyond that, the hobbyist archivists are on top of that. Many people act on the joke that their torrents are all Linux isos, and the other hoarders are going to save things they use like a Linux iso.

Hell, I'd bet every one listed is on the internet archive. And if not, the author could quickly fix the issue.
Can't they technically be supplemented to report their confidence level along with their output? Afaict there's ways to do it.
iMessage on Android in exchange for youtube app on this platform. It's only logical.
I understand the business needed to grow headcount during pandemic but couldn't they have grown headcount more responsibly to avoid these layoffs? Or are these things just too hard to judge?

> In the latest reductions, the company sought to eliminate senior people in certain areas who had “too much time” and spent that time meeting with other senior leaders instead of actually executing, it said.

That makes sense. But again, how does a company get to that point? It's just insane to me
Possibly as some sort of protest, but also rememebr that Spotify and Netflix already don’t pay Apple’s tax and YouTube is free (or at least most people probably use the free version).

I think companies want to go where users are and if and when there is some sort of mass adoption of Vision Pro these companies will at the very least enable their iPad apps to work on it.
Show HN: Aoi Speak – practice languages with AI native speakers
You'll probably want to look into D3. This is a pretty good course: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3

(Knowing JavaScript and HTML/SVG beforehand certainly won't hurt.)
It is good to see people on HN are supporting this single db approach. And with development such OrioleDB, it would solve the horizontal scaling. And all the access to data are native.
I don't see that as a problem. Heuristics are for when you need to make quick decisions. Heuristics are for when you're wondering whether there might be a tiger hiding behind that bush. You're forced to make a snap decision, you can't just rationally evaluate everything, examine the environment and come to the right conclusion. And if you're not paranoid enough some day a tiger might get you. Even a large amount of error is acceptable when your life might depend on it, and an action must be taken now.

When we're on a web forum, sitting in a comfortable chair, drinking coffee and not in any kind of hurry to decide one way or another whether something is a good idea, heuristics are harmful and prevent us from reaching correct conclusions.
Slackware mirrors often had full repos and cd sets from 1.0 to the current one.

On runing modern software:

- guix for GNU libre supporters like me, albeit it's slower and it might not be supported,
but it can be installed by hand.

- pkgsrc. Yes, you can use pkgsrc under GNU/Linux.

Or better, hyperbola GNU will maybe run under a Pentium IV with SSE2 and, with care, under a Pentium II-III with IceWM, Rox and a cli/TUI based setup except for sxiv, dillo and mplayer.
It's also more globally marketable. If you only have words like "hey baby, oh oh oh" then pretty much anyone in the world will be able to understand it, but "that's me in the corner losing my religion" has a high barrier to understanding for non natives.
Kids taken to Russia in 2006? He very well may have saved their lives. What a fucked up mother, they may have been borscht soup in a trench in Ukrain by now had she lived .
(Variable) naming is hard. Hehe.

Seriously. I work in accounting and also do scripting and IT support. For a group who has to be precise with numbers, they’re frustratingly vague with words. Some of us got it, and some of us don’t.
But they're standing empty. If they're empty, they're not getting any money.
Show HN: RunComfy – ComfyUI cloud and guaranteed working AI video workflows
Hi HN!
We just launched the RunComfy, a website let you run ComfyUI in the cloud.

We see two problems now facing by the ComfyUI community,
1) most of the shared workflows will not run correctly on your own local box,
2) two most of us don't have a good enough GPU for video generation (I spent about 3 hours on my local box to restyle a short 10 seconds clip).

Our solution is,
1) AI video/image generation workflows listed in the RunComfy(https://www.runcomfy.com/explore) are guaranteed to run in the cloud env (We spent most our time on this)
2) Very powerful RTX GPUs are running in the backend.

Try it out here, https://www.runcomfy.com/. Have fun, and lmk if you have any feedback! ;)

Also, feel free to join our Discord with lots of good folks making really nice art stuff w/ ComfyUI: https://discord.gg/aGGB4jhD7k
I spoke w. a Palo Alto vendor rep a few months ago. We were talking about the features of the firewall appliance one of my clients was using.

They have a feature that effectively "tests" what the user is about to load in a virtual environment, and sees if that content behaves abnormally. I forgot what they called it. It sounds like this could be it.
It's because old school passwords allow reasonable security, yet don't allow planting a user-identifiable cookie on the client machine.
https://www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/6528

> Qaddafi's government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver. During late March, 2011 these stocks were moved to SABHA (south west in the direction of the Libyan border with Niger and Chad); taken from the vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli. This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA).

> French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the
factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.
The example you give is similar to but not quite the same as "lzAES". The distinction is that in your example, the application is deciding whether to compress or not---the input/output behavior of the cipher doesn't include the compression step, so the cipher it self doesn't suffer from the problem I mentioned in my first note.

But it's still possible for an application to use a cipher incorrectly. In particular, an application-level decision about whether to compress some data before encrypting can have an effect on the application's security. In the case you mention it seems unlikely to be a problem (but that's an application-level question, so it could be).

As an example where it seems like the application-level decision to compress or not matters a lot, imagine an application that sends an encrypted password to a server. If the application compresses the password first, an attacker could learn which values are not my password via guess-and-check-length. (Of course, even without compression the attacker can learn something about the length of my password just by looking at the length of the ciphertext---so probably this is a case where the application should first pad the message to some fixed length before encrypting. But in any case it almost certainly shouldn't compress the password!)
Also a distro like hyperbola will run on 15yo machines with new software and current TLS/SSL protocolos and browsers from lynx to luakit.
Well, sorta. Plenty of psychotic smart guys around in big tech, too, which is a potent combo. Bezos; Zuckerberg; Musk, if his loose spending habits qualify him as a big tech leader. Capitalism rewards psychopaths the most, without guardrails they're gonna win every time, everywhere.
A selection from the lyrics to "Pastorale" by Stravinsky, popular in 1907:

A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fikUELeU-S4
> Then do you (developers on HN) stay away from CLAs?

Depends on the CLA, but generally I do stay away. E.g. I never checked in anything to the official Qt repository because I don't agree the the CLA by QTC. Instead I finally made my own fork and call it LeanQt and LeanCreator (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/leanqt/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/leancreator/).

The "weird licence which is basically a modified version of the MIT licence but with a clause that prevents competitive usage" is likely not even recognized as a true "open source" license.

> would it be possible to relicense a fork of Polaris to MIT (removing the Shopify clause?)

Likely not, because only the IP owner can determine who can do what with their IP under what license. If you use the software of an IP owner under a specific licence, you usually don't have the rights to re-license their work, even if you modified it.
The music of today is built on the music of yesterday and so on and so forth. The top 100 of 1970 has very little variety when compared to the top 100 of 2023. There’s 5 decades of genres that have developed since 1970. Electronic music hadn’t even entered the mainstream! Go and listen to the top 100 of 1970 and then the top 100 of 2023.

You can argue that music in the 1970s was better / unique / less repetitive but to say it was more varied is demonstrably false.
No limits allowed, 'cause there's much crowd

Microphone check as I choose my route

I'm playing on the road, I've got no fear

The sound from my mouth is a rap you hear

No valley too deep, no mountain too high

Reach the top, touch the sky

They tried to diss me 'cause
I sell out

I'm making techno and I am proud
Assuming the attacker doesn't have a leaked database of hashed passwords and therefore can't run the brute force on a local database. I want my account to be secure even if there is a leak which has been the standard for authentication for more than a decade.
Oh I totally understand that. Public sector IT is littered with failed projects, massive overspends and lasting functional problems. There are numerous examples from the last few years alone - hundreds of millions spent on broken software. I used to work in public affairs and followed a lot of those projects closely.

I don't think this means "government = bad at tech" though. You sometimes see smaller in-house teams do really good work. The biggest issue seems to be with contracting and procurement policy. For example, on the Police Scotland i6 program they hired a bunch of consultancies to write a tender document, and then hired CGI for the final project. That turned out to be a copy of the Spanish system, which turned into a huge and expensive disaster as the requirements differed.

Feels like government has a similar problem to a lot of legacy non-tech companies. They don't have much technical leadership, don't understand the problem, and decide to hand it off to the lowest bidder. Doesn't help that they are often legally obliged to act this way. But the underlying engineering problems aren't unsolvable, and don't need to become a huge mess every time. (Your point about recruitment is fair though)
>* How one retires at 25 when working at Google which is way past IPO and the 100x return on stock option which is only possible at the earliest stage?

levels.fyi reports a L4 averages $270k/yr at Google. Can sock away a whole lot of that pretty fast.
Excuse me if the dinosaurs couldn't handle an asteroid they did not adapt, lost the race and went extinct, good day. The birds adapted well and they're still thriving. There are no laws to the race of life. Just survive and reproduce. If you failed to do either you're out.
I guarantee you that for most flaws you find in the product, somebody knew about it and cared about it, but fixing it didn't make the chopping block for the release.
The Multibillion-Dollar Bet That Truckers Will Ditch Diesel for Electricity
> Human life is sacred

A few years later, the first interstellar warships set out to hunt down and exterminate any alien life before it could threaten humanity. The Dark Forest will be turned into a garden.

(Also, good luck to the Dolphins!)
No. This was originally announced in 2019 and has been proceeding in phases since then.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but if there's a pushback on a change, that's defense, not offence.
When I got into gardening I learned to leave some leaves around through the winter. The good bugs in your yard need a safe place to hibernate, and it's really important to provide them small microbiomes in so they'll be there to keep things healthy in the spring.

So don't clean your garden/yard too much in the fall, and definitely not after the temps get cold enough that bugs will be hibernating in those leaves. Also don't clean up in the spring till nightly temperatures are consistently about like 50° F. It's okay to clean up before last harvest and get rid of some stuff, but please try to keep some piles of leaves/dead plants around for the little critters.

Of course don't keep leaves around of plants that are prone to disease, get fruit tree leaves out of your yard as soon as possible, for example.
Back in the 1980s I hated Phil Collins' "Take Me Home" it seemed to be just those words, the title of the song, but I guess I am remembering it worse than it was.
> The songs that reached the top 10 were, on average, more repetitive than the rest in every year from 1960 to 2015!

So looks like they're filling a need. Which makes sense to me; singing along is the most accessible way of participating in making music, and repetitive lyrics make that even easier. As someone who doesn't play an instrument (and likes doing bad karaoke), I definitely appreciate lyrics that are easy to pick up.
I'm right there with you, I'd love to know how to do these.
I would love to know more about the study process you followed and resources because my wife is in a very similar situation, but here in Norway where they require her Math R1+R2. Great story, and congratulations!
Big Tech can't be immune to human psychology and how we have organized ourselves to do work for hundreds of years. Any organization beyond some size starts to exhibit bureaucracy, politics, in-fighting, sociopaths, etc.

Would a different corporate structure have different outcomes? (i.e. not mimicking medieval fiefdom structures that allow peasants/individual contributors to make bank) I think if massive profits and growth are the goals then this will always be the way things go when those goals are achieved. Look at any other large corporation and you'll see the same things. In Big Tech the massive money one can make via stock/bonuses means the gas pedal is on the floor as the car speeds towards dysfunction.
It's unclear which policy slices.Grow exhibits, and so maybe it's not guaranteed whether you get the equivalent of Vec::reserve or Vec::reserve_exact ? My guess since it's not mentioned and no alternative is supplied is that you get Vec::reserve_exact - the same pessimisation footgun.
If you're a primary carer and you're below school age you have bigger problems.
>can others just subtly keep way more items in their working memory at once?

I think on the contrary. As I imagine it, you focus on one item, keep it in your working memory, then refocus on the other item, so that you can put both together. For me, both items are just there, and no special effort is needed to handle them.
I don't think that the concept of working memory even applies to those who are not "monotropic".
Absolutely agreed. The mythology of engineer driven innovation only applied to the brief birth of the web and even then it was more product vs programming, yt for example.
Have you found any open resolvers that are using a shared CDN IP? I've been on the lookout for those ever since the first discussion of DoH appeared on HN. I have yet to find one but I would really like to know details if you have found one. Thus far I have been able to block DoH by NXDOMAIN'ing "use-application-dns.net" and blackhole routing about 80 IP addresses.
It's equally likely that alkaloids like psilocybin are insect or bird repellents or mere metabolic byproducts, and that the fact they sort of slot into the 5-HT2A receptor in the brains of some species, wreaking havoc on various processing systems there, is a mere coincidence.
But why are those more secure than other passwords? How can they know that this 1992 app is the app it claims to be?
Sure, but for now. ChatGPT results will also be enshitified, and since the cycle of everything is much faster now, it will take much less than 20 years.
> I still have my 386 and 486 somewhere: can't I install, say, a modern Debian on these?

AFAIK Debian doesn't support 486, but Gentoo does have a i486 variant specifically for CPUs before the Pentium Pro[0]

[0] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/#x86.
Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe? [video]
> floods of people that should have tormented Wall St who all landed in tech instead

Hmm, would these people have inflicted more or less damage on society if they had worked for Wall Street firms?
Problem with Alexa is that it’s even worse than Siri. It can’t hook up to services and APIs that Siri can.

Siri has the potential to actually be helpful in everyday life if it ever gets an LLM upgrade. It can in theory, do anything that you can on the device for you.
> people experiencing offense

You mean, the "offended ones"?
Do you have sources on that? Discussions here in the past have indicated that Glacier uses unpowered drives, not tape or disks.
This is really mourning the human condition.

This scenario is not new. It is one that has been repeated over and over again --- not just in the history of business but in the history of humanity.

I'm not the only one who saw the big flashing warning signs at the start of the Big Tech/social media era. The distressing and frustrating part is the fact that so many others didn't.

I watched as even my own family ignored my warnings and succumbed to the allure and promise of "free service" without really questioning why or how it was possible.

Some yearning deep inside the human psyche drives people to just "believe" in the impossible without questioning. Those who recognize and tap into this typically don't have altruism as their objective.

"Don't be evil" was really just a diversion --- a seductive marketing ploy that soon vanished --- to the surprise of few even though some holdouts still refuse to accept it out of fear for what it implies about themselves.
Ask HN: Backup/Store family stuff in 2024?
Hey HN, What's the simple way of backing family stuff up in 2024?

With stuff, I mean photos taken with iPhones, random documents, a place to put pre-iOS photos.

Access pattern would be more for trips down memory lane rather than automatic restoration.

Preferably I'd like some cloud syncing thing that also supports syncing to a physical drive every once in a while.

Currently my stuff is all spread out between iCloud, Flickr, dropbox and god knows where.

I'm happy to pay reasonable for it.

Any advice?
But "burdening" *BSDs is fine? :-P
Show HN: Website for Brutalist Buildings in London, UK
Had fun using the Mapbox API and Vanilla Javascript with this. Any thoughts or advice appreciated :)
There are multiple reasons to use Linux, probably as many as Linux users. The author believes everybody is like him and is not.

Over time all software becomes bloated as it is cheaper to buy hardware than pay developers. In the past paying people was worth it because you could do with cheap machines what only very expensive machines could do. Now cheap machines are very powerful.

In the Open source Arena it is also way cheaper in things that are not money: People are doing it in their free time and they do not want to pay with their free time nasty bugs as a result of writing low level instead of high level, functional and so on.

People must not forget that writing low level code, like in the past, is way more efficient but comes at a huge price: nasty bugs that are psychologically very taxing for a developer. Huge delays and overcosts.

As a company we write functional programming/high level code that is from 20 times to 100x more inefficient than what we could get with low level programming. We ship it anyway because:

1. It works and it is good enough.
2. Nobody will notice the difference and pay us for the enormous amount of work that will take to do it low level.

There are things in which we do very low level programming, but it gives us an edge over the competition, and someone pays for the work done.
I think it's time to disrupt the disruptors and stop longing for what was and what wasn't
On a similar case AWS DMS did not work for my team and we proceeded with pglogical.

Although it has some limitations it worked pretty well, and personally I like that it is cloud agnostic. Definitively I would recommend to consider pglogical first.
Attempt at an Organized R/Datahoarders
I love r/datahoarders and related communities but the structure on reddit makes it impossible look at all the posts in a organized manner. So I picked up the domain and setup a nice little forum. Hoping that users come aboard and make it a nice little place!

https://datahoarders.org
I know it is not the primary use of Org mode, but does anyone uses org mode for documentation (instead of .md or .rst markdown files)?
…and the platform is all open source, so people are free to fork / steal. https://github.com/orgs/alphagov/repositories?q=paas
i was motivated by the exact reasons you are but after a few years of maths i started to like that more than the 3d games and programming :(
16 letters is ~75 bits of entopy (if they are randomly selected), not 65. The usual recommendation is 80, but it's not as bad as you say. I don't know how Keepass is doing its math, but 65 is wrong.
You're linking to a generalized announcement that mentions research data, but omits mentioning the institution's own research data management services which exist specifically to deal with this challenge.

The linked post nowhere mentions research data management, or the fact that there's awareness about the existing of services at the institution.
Putin could attack NATO in '5 to 8 years,' German defense minister warns
They're talking about its function, so an appendage added 100s of years after the original was being used isn't very relevant.
It always surprises me that people who make things think that gives them control over the pronunciation of its name, to the extent that they often demand an unnatural pronunciation, so they can see if their demands are being met? PNG/ping/pee-en-gee, GIF/jif/gif, SQL/sequel/ess-queue-ell. Some kind of marking-the-territory thing?