skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted you, in the hopes that your post won't be killed off before you can answer.

Do you not think this is a step in the right direction? If not, what do you feel should be done instead? To be clear I'm looking for actionable ideas, not pie-in-the-sky answers.
I do a fair amount of that in my own github account. If I have no commits in a forked repo, it was probably just a form of "bookmarking".
Since the original submission is not getting any traction or comments, I'll reply to myself. Traveling and staying at hostels is a very fine way to meet new people and not be lonely. The other guests at the hostel also want to meet new friends, that's why they're at a hostel! In many countries hostels will also have individual rooms, so that you won't have to bunk and sleep in discomfort. And most hostels have bars where you can strike up conversation with anyone. Don't worry if you're old, there's nothing strange with older people staying at hostels.

And if the vibe is not good in the hostel you picked, you can just move on, as you always should do after a while.

Are you too broke to travel and stay at hostels? Since you don't own any property, you can move anywhere for seasonal work and save up money. Your workmates will also be seasonal workers with no social network, looking for friends.
> If Epic had an iOS app store that charged 10% instead of 30% and a reputation among users for not allowing malware, who is going to pay Apple 30%?

The Epic store on Windows is actually a good example to prove my point: They take only a 12% cut, they pay you to become an Epic exclusive, and they pay to literally give games away to acquire users. Steam does none of that and takes a 30% cut. Steam doesn't even come pre-installed on Windows. How does Steam get away with it? People are lazy. They already know Steam, they already have Steam, they already have a Steam library, they hesitate to get yet another account. They prefer Steam out of habit. They don't care if the developers lose another 18%, and most developers can't afford to not be on Steam just because of those 18%.

> The assumption here is that it's legitimate to blame the brand for your own actions, which is absurd.

It doesn't matter whether it's legitimate, if it's a real effect. People don't read past the headline. Windows is a pretty secure operating system if you use it properly, but people just don't, thus Mac gets the reputation of being "more secure", even if that's wholly unjustified on a technical level.

> On Windows the default is to run random opaque binaries from arbitrary websites.

Same as Mac OS. You get a warning if the binary is not signed.

> On Linux...

Nobody uses "Linux" and nobody ships software for "Linux". If there was a distribution of Linux that was comparable to Windows in terms of market penetration and users, it would be a similarly vulnerable platform. Actually, that distribution exists: It's called Android, where malware and scams proliferate.

> You can also download source code from github and compile and run it yourself...

I can. They can't. I won't. It's wholly irrelevant.

> making it a hassle to install a competing store from an established organization

So, who gets to decide who is "established"? Isn't that the whole point of side-loading, that you don't have a gatekeeper? If you have an open platform, your chain of trust can be as good as you want, if your kid wants to download "cheats for Fortnite", nature finds a way.
There are three aspects to this - cost of manufacturing in the US, cost of manufacturing + shipping in China and exchange rates. I do think the relative dollar strength is a factor, but Chinese labour was effectively free vs US labour. If someone is willing to do work for free, then the economy will give them work.

The issue that the free marketeers have been railing about for approximately the last 50 years it seems like almost every major policy the US adopts increases the cost of manufacturing relative to a hypothetical entity that didn't do that. It has been a constant adjustment of labour law, environmental law, energy policy and financial regulation away from manufacturing. It is plain why US manufacturing isn't the global top dog. The real question is whether it is a bad outcome or not.

Over the last 50 years China has improved their energy use by 1 UK economy per capita. IMO we should also ask more seriously if those regulations were worth it. A UK per capita energy is a lot of QoL improvements and it was linked to doing a lot of manufacturing. The US on the other hand is behaving politically like people are worse off than they were.
In-code TODOs without tickets don't usually get done
> Constant pressure to hit quarterly performance targets meant that machine quality often suffered. […] “the actions of these larger corporations and conglomerates, under the leadership of financial MBA’s, perhaps more than any other factor, contributed to the restructuring and decline of the US machine tool industry at the end of the 20th century.”

Probably the sentiment expressed by this excerpt. You can probably point to any example of former US expertise and make a similar statement.
To be precise, most computers had only a monochrome or a color card, but nothing prevented you from having (and using) both.

I remember a debugger that gave you dual screen on a 8086 by using the monochrome for text/debugging whilst the color screen was for the program.
I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is "all of the above" and more. Not only is there limited availability of NVIDIA chips, it's also useful to tell Jensen that you actually could buy from somewhere else, even if you don't really want to.

At the end of the day, the bottleneck is TSMC, on which all GPUs are produced right now, even the ones from Intel.
No idea what it is like to program/develop on, but Roblox sounds like a good introduction - simple 3D games, good platform, basic graphics.
Perun
Gross Negligance
This doesn't appear to be a DMCA takedown request, so I doubt Github would care.

This appears to be the company contacting the developer directly to ask that they withdraw the code.
YouTube Premium has offline support in browser https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233 (although Spotify doesn't)
Has anyone encrypted the storage on a previously unencrypted RDS using Blue/Green?
Seems that "STEM" has a very broad definition of "science".
It is all about the scenario where you die in a single stair where
the
second stair would have saved you being probably non existent in c21. Especially as you will have fire doors.

I reckon single is safer: no decision to make as you exit.
Have you tried magnesium threonate? It's supposedly the only form that passes the blood brain barrier.
Zortech shipped with a compact and fast 32 bit DOS extender called DOSX. It worked like a champ.

https://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/dos32.html

And supported the 286 DOS extender from Rational Systems.
What are some current examples of lean software, esp. related to developing and deploying software?

i3? SourceHut? QuickJS? Edit: BusyBox!

I know it’s an open-ended question, but I’m curious to see thoughts from others.

For context, possibly in reaction to porting an app via Electron, I’ve been trying to repent by finding a minimal development environment for hobby projects. I’m not sure it qualifies as “lean”, but Emacs and SBCL strike a nice balance for me right now.
I volunteer with a cat rescue and was recently involved in a situation where a little girl had to give up her cats because her single father couldn't afford their vet bills, leading to one devastated child and two more homeless cats. It was one of the most heartbreaking experiences of my life. I can see how mandating pet health insurance might bring down the cost of it to the point that less privileged people would be able to have and keep their pets. Never heard of the idea before but it sounds great to me.
Your defense of British colonialism stealing art is that it preserved culture?

I think that a lot more culture would have been preserved without British colonial genocides.
+1 DMS is very half baked. Silent, unbuggable errors. Tons of unsupported LOB and CLOB data types. Built-in Postgres logical replication is way easier.
I have a question about this—-isn’t it against the OpenAI Terms of Service to do this?
Could it possibly be that encryption does legitimately aid predators and it’s also useful for legitimate security needs?

Mentioning the former doesn’t make it an appeal to emotion. The emotional reaction you (and others) have to it is because it’s a legitimately emotional subject. Doesn’t make it less real.
You can replace Wikipedia on your Kindle without modifying any firmware or software on the device. Here's how it works:

1. Host an API which conforms to the Wikipedia search and document conventions (this can be LLM-powered)
2. Modify your router's DNS settings specifically for your Kindle so that it resolves wikipedia.org to your API's CNAME or IP address
3. You can now use "Wikipedia" to perform arbitrary operations on highlighted text. As a bonus, you can manage your API from your Kindle's built-in browser (assuming you've built out a management UI)
Fair enough. Last time I received one of these, though, it was from an organization where there are about five peers globally with a similar program, and I ran the program at one of those peers. That said, I'm sure they honestly did get an overwhelming volume of applications.
Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp
> Epic wouldn't be clamouring so hard for App Store presence and iOS users

Do you see deliberately kicking themselves off of Apple platforms as "clamoring so hard"? On the contrary, Epic saw the platform was terrible for shooter games and driving extremely little value, and thus was happy to fight the monopoly on behalf of their _other_ main consumer - game engine developers.

> they were losing ungodly money after millions of iOS based gamers stopped playing Fortnite

Sorry but this is just laughable, and the numbers are all there in the lawsuit already. Almost no one played Fortnite on IOS. Some players installed on mobile but the majority solely used it as a web frontend to purchase cosmetics. Thus robbing Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo of their commissions for creating the platforms that players _actually_ play on.

> leech money off you or your kids like Fortnite.

If it wasn't obvious you have some weird bone to pick already, this certainly proves it. Epic's monetization model is wildly less predatory than the vast majority of mobile games. Why are you speaking so confidently about something you seem to know nothing about?

> [iOS] is actually providing Epic a ton of value and profit
> Apple offers developers significantly more than just a games engine. (comment from threeseed)

Apple sells hardware to consumers (above cost), then blocks consumers from actually using the hardware they own, and developers from distributing software for it, without paying Apple a monopolistically-high cut of sales. All Apple provides to developers is access to consumers who are blocked from their own hardware, and a nominal file distribution via CDN. A game engine provides an order of magnitude more value to developers than a CDN file distribution platform offers.

If Apple was providing real value to developers they wouldn't be so deathly afraid of competing with other app distributors.
Hetzner can and will terminate your account and delete all your data on a whim, never telling you why. There is nothing at all you can do to prove your usage was legitimate. I get that they must deal with a lot of abuse but I wouldn't use them for anything mission critical ever.
Yes and no, for text type stuff? Yes you're right. But I think in the vision space synthetic data will remain useful for a lot of things. I'm currently working on building a pipeline for personal projects to go from CAD models of environment to segmented training data. So far it looks almost as useful as real world data at a fraction of the cost of manual labeling.
> (Wood construction is generally a good thing from a sustainability perspective)

I don't really see how wood is more sustainable than eg brick or even steel and glass?

> Whenever I see this proposed my brain immediately goes to the Grenfell Tower fire in the UK. I guess that may just be an outlier due to the myriad of other causes, but it gives me pause.

You should look at statistics instead of single lurid anecdata. In any case, Grenfell Tower is a nice illustration of how when government provides services like housing, they don't magically provide safety. (Funnily enough, people usually try to spin that tower fire as some failure of the market, when the estate was managed by the local council.)

> I know the article makes the point that fire deaths per capita are lower in Europe, which lacks the requirement, but it also notes that US housing stock is also much more wooden and therefore at higher risk to begin with.

Btw, this might suggest to change the regulation so that you can either follow the existing US regulations when building with wood; or you get allowed more density and single-stairs etc, when building with whatever they use in Europe.
And even this analysis is optimistic as it doesn’t factor in the $$$$ it costs to hire a data scientist to fine tune the models. Just use off the shelf models with RAG until you really need custom models
No, I don't. On the one hand I am very biased in favor of CL, and I have no reason to doubt Irconclad's quality. On the other hand, it almost certainly has very few users and so has almost certainly received very little scrutiny. Personally, I use libsodium (actually TweetNaCl) for all my crypto applications. I have CL bindings for TweetNaCl here:

https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/tweetnacl...
I'm missing something

> strange devices show up for some of our customers' users

> how did it load these pages which were often behind an authwall without ever logging in or having auth cookies?

Either

- The customer has screwed up user auth big time and some X knows that.... lets go with no

- OP's data is wrong or they are reading it wrong

- They are explaining it badly.
Many opinions? Huh?

We both have autism diagnosis and there are so many traits we recognize in our children (5 y.o. female, 3 y.o. male) that in a few years during a heteroanamnesis they also will surely ding ding the boxes. From stimmung to all kind of other behavior we also expressed in our youth. But we remained undiagnosed until well into adulthood and we want our children to land more softly than that.
They get data from anywhere and everywhere they can. They also get ad data from your internet history which most ISPs are happy to sell to them.
https://lowendtalk.com/

quality varies
Inaccurate. VMware is consolidating its ABSOLUTELY INSANE list of SKUs down to a handful. Yes, some products are getting put down (I.e. no longer maintained, with support ending way later), but not 56 of them, and definitely not NSX (makes HUGE money for VMware).

Source: I work at VMware in presales
Is anyone maintaining and publishing a list of these consumer-hostile companies to avoid?

In the last half year Haier, Chamberlain, and Mazda have issued takedowns or actively blocked access to HA integrations.
You could just add that as an option to the housing regulation:

Either build in the traditional American style out of wood, or (new option) build out of stone and add a robust fire suppression system, but in return we let you get away with a single staircase and other features that increase density.
At one job, Canonical was our vendor and I need to admit, they tended to be arrogant also towards the paying customer.
>Essentially everyone in the modern world has a mobile phone, internet connection, access to lots of media, etc -- but not everyone is autistic. That's the whole interesting catch, right?

I was talking about ADHD not Autism here. I edited my original post to be more clear. I would agree that essentially everyone has a mobile phone, and the usual apps, and essentially everyone's attention span has gotten worse as a result. Do you think the median attention span has gotten better in the last 10 years?
What would be the impact if they didn't make iPad apps and just let you use the browser?
Nah, if it ever starts to look like NYT might win, MSFT will just do a hostile takeover.

Market cap of NYTimes is 8B, OpenAI is 80B, MSFT is 2.7T, you do the math.
If you don't know what you're doing SHA-512/256 (note that's not a choice, that's the name of a single SHA-2 family member) is probably the member of the SHA-2 family to choose.
Thanks! neosync allows you to do this based on an OpenAPI spec? I didn't readily see that in the README. Perhaps I missed it.
My understanding is that 3rd parties get to _target according to this data_, but they do not _get the actual data_. So I can say "I'm going to propose!" a bunch of times and get engagement ring ads (the classic example, bc now the bride-to-be may also start getting engagement ring ads before she's/they's proposed to) but the 3rd parties don't know what I said or who I am, just that there is +1 in the engagement ring bucket.

I also don't use much real PII, with fake name, burner email, but real uni and real birthday. Though I had to tell FB I was a straight male so I'd stop getting their hunk ads.

Anyways, there are ~550 advertisers listed. Here are the top ones. I threw a zinger in there too.

Live Nation Sponsorship x x
Ticketmaster x x
Drive with Lyft x x
Essence x x
Airbnb x x
Uber x x
AEG Presents x x
MullenLowe U.S. x x
AEG Presents - Media x x
Coinbase x x
The Joy of Spandex Deritives Incorporated, Inc
Live Nation Concerts x x
Amtrak x
CVS Pharmacy x
Iron Store x
Microsoft Customer Insights Center x
Massage Envy x
Huntington National Bank x
Evernote x
Big Spaceship x
Dollar General x

Edit: Holy sh!t!!! I personally made an FB ad to say hi to this girl I was dating back when targeting could be super narrow, and [her name] is one of the ads that targeted me lol! Wow and that was only once for a couple days.
Technically, yeah. OpenAI are on the other end of copyright violations on many other fronts imho, for what that is worth.
>got paid so little,

What part of this is hard to understand? They dont earn as much and they are spending it as wisely and as efficiently and as high as they could afford while they are willing to work for.
We don't really have shanty towns in the states. We definitely don't have a Kowloon Walled City, which is an example of what can happen when no regulations are involved (and somewhat remarkably not burn down and kind of thrive even if still a slum).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
>did they use violins? Guitars? Piano? These instruments are different enough to lead to different hypotheses.

Also similar enough to where they all have a bolder sound and somewhat different response when the same gage of strings are tuned more tightly to a higher standard pitch compared to a lower pitch.

From what I understand 440 was about the highest they could go on vintage violins once modern steel strings were invented.

Different musical compositions do reach different characteristic "high notes" so it must be accepted that very old works were originally played (and sung!) at noticeably lower ultimate frequencies than the same legendary pieces today.

Tension makes a huge difference but I still think heart rate in particular would be more tempo-responsive.

Now with the modern world standardized on 440 for so many people's lifetimes everyone gets accustomed to it after a while.

A bandleader who transposes everything down a half-step so they don't have to sing as high is not any different pitch than tuning to A=415.3 which is the relative frequency for G#. Either way you're playing notes that are still directly relative to A=440. The thing here is that most traditional and pop music is played in natural keys rather than sharp or flat keys, and generations of listeners become accustomed to hearing natural notes act as tonics rather than sharps or flats. But it still sounds completely normal and most people never notice.

Because out of all the infinite frequencies there are to choose from as a standard that are close to 440, at A=415.3 you're still only playing the same 12 exact carefully selected frequencies as everybody else tuned to A=440. The same 12 frequencies that have bombarded all consumers from all directions from any source of curated music for generations, to the near-exclusion of all other frequencies. When you think about it.

And 415.3 is a lot further away from 440 than 432 is, but if you tune to A=432 every sjngle note you play is one that almost nobody has been hearing on the radio, probably since there has been radio.
This doesn't seem to bode well for Oracle, but lobbying trumps the day.
A lot of autism and disability research sounds like it's written from the "outside in" - like peering into a window vs. being in a house.

I wonder how much research engages disabled people about their experience vs. observation or rote, systematic questions with assumptions.
The Guardian lost any credibility from me when they started boogeyman'ing aspartame[0] and put out a slanted scare article about how folks in the food industry are responsible for developing nutritional guidelines[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176555

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/06/us-governmen...
Very much so afaik.
WiFi Status Monitoring with WiFi-controlled power plugs
I love that password breaches are so common that everyone is perfectly fine just typing all their passwords into various sites.
> a mid range server CPU of today will be about as fast as an entry model CPU next year

What about the core count and memory capacity
let me know when I can get a native build of Office for Linux
SoftICE was amazing at the time.
Keep in mind that Grenfell was the responsibility of the local council. It was not run by eg a multinational corporation, which usually have better management and a commercial reputation to defend (and deep pockets to go after in a law suit).

Big business gets a lot of flak, but they are honestly better on average than small businesses and many local governments institutions.
Thank you Elon. I sometimes still get goosebumps thinking one man did what was previously the domain of nation states.
The stories of people getting limbs amputated because the RC they were shipped by accident was an insanely strong vasoconstrictor while still tripping 24h after dosing is the stuff of nightmares.
These letters seem fake.

What is the real reason behind this site?
The brown one
I’m doubtful they actually cost more to construct?
> Our current housing emergency happening everywhere is a pretty good indicator that we should be much more aggressive about trimming back the regulatory state which has ossified our cities.

That isn't true though. Our housing emergency is limited to places that are growing and thriving. There isn't a housing emergency in Detroit or much of the midwest for example, just not many are thrilled about moving to those places (or want to leave them as soon as possible).
diss it, you won't miss it! ;)
This is a super common setup in my part of NYC (minus the elevator). It seems to work fairly well, especially since it makes it viable to have lots of buildings in a row with minimal wasted space between them.

It's definitely not the densest design possible, but it certainly seemed to let them fit a lot of fairly spacious 1-2 BRs in not a lot of space back in the early 20th c., and the height can scale up pretty well (though the elevator probably becomes at least a soft requirement above 4-5 floors).
Zortech C++ had a special "handle" pointer type that enabled access to expanded memory, where the work was done by the compiler:

https://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/handle-pointers.html

There was also a VCM system that swapped code to/from disk in a manner that was very much like virtual paging.

https://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/vcm.html
As a STEM prof, all my papers are cargo cult science.