skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Historically, attempts at creating unified national databases have run into opposition from religious fanatics whose end times mythology says that such things will literally be a tool of the Antichrist.

That is an extreme exaggeration and not even close to true. There a myriad of legitimate reasons to not want a national ID. My reason, for example, is that States are sovereign and identifying citizens is not a Constitutional power given to the Federal government.

I would also argue that the Federal government has sneakily made a national ID with the RealID initiative.
Alternative Successions to the English and British Crown
Maybe it was edited later, but the post now says "(>$10M)". I interpret that as $10–19M. That's not great for a product that's been around for 9 years.

I consulted a similar company in their space ~5 years ago. What I found was that the way to make money in K8s automation/monitoring is to position it as a security solution. That's what Snyk did and they've been killing it, reaching $7B valuation as of last year. Both the company I was advising and Weave.works decided to stick to the developer productivity story and unfortunately both have now shut down. There are many factors to a company's success but it doesn't help to be positioned as a solution that's seen as just a "nice-to-have" or part of a "best practice."
Acceleration vs speed. Adjust the acceleration until the "The ship is flying at X% the speed of light" is almost zero.
That goes back to the trust of his people.

He has to trust his CTO (whatever that title is at boeing for their top engineer manager) to be the judge of that. The incentives have to align wrt quality engineering for there to be trust all the way down to the junior most engineer.
Your comment prompted me to go in search of something I'd seen several years ago: something about an advertisement in Pompeii for prostitutes, or something like that. Anyway, I couldn't find exactly what I went in search of, but I did stumble upon this oddly specific, yet interesting, Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herc...

Priapus had it goin' on! Reading the Priapeia for the first time is a treat...
My experience is that Gates' Law is very real and it is the enemy of software development, at least on corporate teams. Software development is a culture of tribes defined by sets of related languages, processes, frameworks, and so forth. If you deviate from the tribe's set of norms you just alienate yourself. It does not matter if your deviation results in massive cost reductions, improvements to efficiency, superior productivity, and so forth. There are many reasons for this, in my experience, that I will not go into.
Today, poorly. We just do a dumb matching of signal names. I imagine we will do something like add a property to the interfaces on each device.
Well then the burden lies on the KYC websites to actually verify the details? If someone uploads documents, I hope you verify them with the issuing authority, otherwise it's not really KYC is it? Photoshop has existed for a while now....
Seems like these websites are trying to do something fundamentally nonsensical, so I'm not surprised it's not working out that well for them.
Thank you, chatGPT, but nobody asked you!
It posted a MT task when it detected weight in the litter box that was less than a cat but more than a little pee. Very sensitive digital weight platform and some fine tuning of the heuristic to get it just right. Then the MT task had to be finished in X minutes from when they start, but the Turker could request extra time on the task. But if they didn't, it would time after N minutes. Then, if they have clicked "done", two more MT tasks would get generated for two new people, where the MT worker would be asked to look at a before and an after shot of the litter box and decide if it was clean.

I kept it online for about six months. It was obviously a "dumb idea taken to the extreme" project, which included "and what can I do with computer vision and robotics for my final project with this really expensive Fujitsu robot arm I picked up from a surplus auction?"

You may be referring to the "farming" to be first in line to get the job. I didn't really prevent anything like that. Cats poop at different times, so no real way to predict when the job would pop up on MT. The Kinect and weight sensor in combination determined there was no cat present, and then the job would post. The job would always be gone in seconds. People got very creative with their cleaning, treating it like a Zen sand garden. I would come back and see pure art at times. Once, the MTurker stacked up the excrement like they were recreating the mashed potato scene from Close Encounters. They were not invited. Much like the popular meme: "Except for Billy. Billy has created the opposite of art."

I did have the usual "if the person who cleaned it last didn't do a job that passed review, they would be barred from taking future cleaning jobs."
Kagi is trying to implement the Web Extensions API on top of WebKit, that's why some extensions work: https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#extensions

Write enough code and you can make these extensions run on IE6. :P
And they don't address why asphalt has potholes... Either frost heave or drainage issues that allow crocodile cracking. If you put those bricks/stones in the same environment you'll get the same pothole.
That assumes the person in the interrogation room is the correct person to begin with. We have a fair amount of false conviction rates.
Next generation of 'software engineers' are going to be brain dead: 'duhhh gpt how 2 do x... duh...'
There's a lot of recurring bugs here (listed as "trophies" look for the ones which either are identical in form or very similar) which ought to (but probably won't) inform test suites for any new tools.
Thanks. I probably understated my case, but I try to err on that side.

So the question becomes, how do we fix the environmental optimization algorithm? Then it hits me: "It's the price signals, stupid." It's only economical to dig 150 tonnes instead of 5 because copper is 30x as expensive. So if your environmental optimization goal is simply set to "reduce cost," then these factors cancel out, and you 'auto-magically' optimize for minimum environmental impact. :D

Obviously I'm simplifying here and there are cost differences in processing copper vs iron too, but those differences should also "flow through" and get weighted appropriately.

The problems start when externalities (pollution shirking) and middle-men (rent seeking) enter the room. Both of these distort the price signals, which should (but rarely do!) convey the true underlying environmental cost.
That was the submitted URL but our software replaced that with the canonical URL listed by the page (https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2024). Reversed now. Thanks!
I drink coffee every single day but for several years I refused to make it at home. Instead I'd visit a coffee shop at minimum once per day. This was to have more social interaction (I was quite shy and had few coworkers), and the chance to say thank you to at least one person a day.

I have met a hundred people this way, by simply going to a cafe every day until the people became familiar, and this includes my wife (and the shop owners, the mayor, roommates, a sculptor, enough friends to make a liquor tasting group, etc).

Interactions with other people have to be more deliberate. It's harder than ever to bump into people. It won't happen by accident, you have to do it. It is worth spending lots of time and a little money to be more social.
> It has to be asked out loud - do you think that the admissions departments at top universities haven't explicitly thought about this?

Yes, I think they would use this as a facially-neutral way to achieve a race-motivated goal.

> We all know - and the universities are very explicit about this - that socio-economic indicators are the new affirmative action. It's clearly the only practical way to effect the sort of diversity missions that many Universities seek to establish

Are you saying they want to have racial diversity or SES diversity?

> SFFA v Harvard is a _horrible_ decision based on absurd jurisprudence and a total divorce from the truths of the world we live in. I commend everyone from admissions boards to clever families who learn how to play the new rules of the game better than those who backed the jurisprudence in the first place.

Can I ask what you found so objectionable? I understand that many people disagree with the outcome, but from a legal perspective (IAAL), I haven't heard much criticism.
Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?
Why do RIFA capacitors fail? (2023)
> but state schools are already massive? They are certainly already going with that approach.

Sort of.

Sure, the school itself is huge, but often times that means that worthless majors[1] like Psychology and English are open, but more valuable majors are often limited.

---

1. Worthless in the sense of earning potential with a Bachelors
I skim comments regularly but it's still pretty random what I see. The only way to reliably get a message to us is hn@ycombinator.com. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
We built Jumprun. You can use it to research and analyze data sources, and it'll produce beautiful canvases with tables, charts, videos, maps, etc. We're working on automations so you can setup natural language trigger conditions that execute actions.

We built it in Kotlin with Ktor server, htmx and tailwind. It uses a mixture of models, including gpt4-turbo, gpt4-vision and gemini-pro-vision. It's deployed using Kamal on bare metal.

Example canvas that provides a roundup of Apple Vision Pro reviews: https://jumprun.ai/share/canvas/01HNXB2K3GM7KPRP45Y2CVVJSC

Our learn more page with some screenshots to show creating a canvas: https://jumprun.ai/learn-more

It's a free closed beta at the moment to control costs, but let me know if you'd like an invite.
I just built a tool that uses Whisper.cpp compiled to WASM in conjunction with SQLite WASM for a fully client-side book writing tool.

Basically, I want to write a book without having to type out the whole thing. I got the dictation idea from an episode of Columbo.

It is very much a work in progress and a proof of concept for another writing tool I want to make.

https://orderly.cmgriffing.com/

https://github.com/cmgriffing/orderly
> Now you are staring into the big bang in all its glory

Don’t they mean the CMB?
Easier dependencies.
I don't think there's even an interface to check anything with the issuing authority (i.e. one of 50 DMVs) in the US.
Daycare isn't much cheaper either, take Seattle as example it is about 4200 per month, for multiples the 2nd child get a 10-15% off. A nanny will be cheaper once you have more than 1 child.

Also, there is a long waitlist, so it needs really good luck to get an "offer" from the day care when you need it.
Not your mistake! see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267031.
CVE's aren't free.

The aftermath of issuing a CVE for this bug would have massive consequences all over the industry, fixing the bug and leaving the past - where you probably would have become aware of this by now if it affected you and you probably should have a look at your code regardless to see if the situation can occur - means that on the next scheduled update of glibc everybody will have the fix. If you have a way of getting this to escalate to RCE or some other nastiness, especially if it can be done remotely in some application that is networked and that uses qsort (which should be most of them so if it is that easy then it should be quick to prove).

Note that even something as mundane as the UTF-8 encoding scheme led to an exploit so it may well be possible. But I think classifying this as a security bug rather than just as a bug at this point is premature.

Consider being on the receiving side of a mandatory (for instance: regulated industry) upgrade requirement of all of your systems because a CVE was issued would carry substantial costs even if the risk of those systems being exploited was very small. So the glibc team likely took such costs into account and absent an easy or obvious way to exploit this that seems for the moment to be the right call. But it could change.
How we started Threat Modelling as a startup
Big if.

We’ll lose a lot of digital data simply because we won’t have the means to read it. CD-readers aren’t manufactured anymore in volume. It’s easy to imagine society in 40 years not having any CD readers handy but having a bunch of CDs they want to read. Now multiply that by all the funny storage formats we’ve created over the years.
My previous job was as a Project Manager in a very fast-paced industrial fabrication shop. We generally promised 1-week from the time a customer sent us a set of shitty blueprints to the time the product is waiting to be picked up. That included making 3D models, getting parts from suppliers, fabricating the parts, powder coating them, quality assurance, etc. Some customers got 3-4 days.

Quite often with that tight of a schedule, something would go wrong in the supply chain and we'd be left trying to find an emergency solution. It sounds bad but it was a necessity of the industry we were in. It was often similar to a strategy game, having to plan several steps ahead and predict where the delays will come from, figuring out what you can change that will be faster to produce but will still fit within the customer's requirements.
Why? `--allow-all` is the epitome of trivial. You can even wrap the deno executable in a script that passes that to it every time if that's what you really need.
Gotta be careful negligently and irresponsibly toying with peoples lives in a city that gets so few sunshine hours. Six days of suspension is laughable.
Increasing every vehicle weight by over 500kg by adding batteries, increases the road wear by... at least 4 times for a subcompact.
The Determinants of Declining Internal Migration
Including the ones that argue you shouldn't need an ID to vote.
NBA to play on LED glass court for some All-Star Weekend events
People who weren't making developer compensation at a FAANG were not laid off from a limited option.

While it always sucks to get laid off, IMO it is better not to work for them if you aren't a developer. They basically try every trick to outsource or reduce lower paid roles (which means over working you) to not get penalized for widely varying pension benefits, etc.
> unrelated family members

Is such a thing even possible?
jumping in on this bandwagon... I sometimes look https://youmightnotneedjquery.com when I forget how to do something with jQuery.

Also, do you know if there is a jQuery-like that actually throws exceptions? Having `$('.box').hide()` tell me there is no `.box` would be pretty useful.
Except if you want to vote without an id.
Flux for me was always superior to ArgoCD from a technical point of view, but they over the years ArgoCD became the more popular tool. I wonder if it was marketing, the missing UI or something else?

But super sad to see weaveworks shutting down I hope that the open source projects will continue to evolve.
According to the article, the Vision Pro will not play common side by side videos. It has its own standard ("WebXR clips"), but nobody distributes these, and videos from that standard are also not playing correctly on the device.

Most likely there won't be any app that plays porn videos because Apple will not allow them. From the article:

> Steve Jobs notoriously believed that the company had a “moral responsibility” to block porn and suggested that “folks who want porn can buy an Android.”

And general movie playing apps might also be required to implement a porn filter. Remember Apple insisted that all Reddit and Tumblr apps have such a filter, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed in the Apps Store, the only way to distribute apps.

If you believe tech battles are decided whether there is access to porn (VHS vs Beta comes to mind), the Apple Vision Pro currently doesn't look like a winner.
Every time I've purchased a used car from a real person, getting it to my mechanic for a once-over has never been a problem. Usually, they've let me take the car there myself pre-purchase, sometimes wanting me to leave some sort of collateral (such as the car I drove to them in). They already know where I live and what my phone number is, so if I steal their car, the cops won't have any problem finding me.

A couple of times, I've been fine with buying the car first, but with a clause in a sales contract saying that I have the right to return the car within 3 days for a full refund (basically replicating the effects of my state's lemon law. The lemon law only applies to new car purchases).

But the mechanic's check has never actually revealed any issues that the seller hadn't already disclosed to me. People tend to be pretty honest about those sorts of things.
> No, it's not hard to test for.

Hmm...

> ...the testing for that is insane.

Sounds like it's...hard to test for.
You're using the same argument that death penalty supporters use.

MOST of them are guilty, so killing ALL of them is OK! Wouldn't want to let off the guilty ones.

The smart cops cut out all of this by simply killing the unarmed suspect before pronouncing the 'p' in 'stop'.
A nebulous description of my ideal setup would be something like this:

Side-by-side schematic symbol view / code view that are actively synced to one-another in real-time.
Schematic view allows basic arranging of parts, editing interconnects, triggering jump-to-reference within the code view, adding probe points for SPICE, displaying SPICE output graphs.
Code side does all the heavy lifting like creating new parts, scripted behaviors, editing component values, all the cool shit that would be a nightmare to sort into a GUI.

Much easier said than done, of course.
Sometimes investors have no interest in anything but a large exit. So it's large exit or bust. Building something stable that grows at a reasonable pace is considered the worst outcome because it both consumes investors time/energy and delays closure of a fund. They're left holding shares that are illiquid.

It's perverse of course but it can be something baked into the structure of how VCs and other funds work.
we're just in different cultures/societies/circles then. around me, no one's portraying "you will die", and I don't feel at all surrounded by nonsensical environmental laws. if anything, it's the opposite. why aren't builders in my city taxed more for using materials with worse environmental effects? why aren't extremely inefficient vehicles taxed more highly? why such little investment in bike lanes?

those are the nonsensical laws i see
yeah I have only really used it for simple python things, its pretty good at that.
It's no accident that the user who submitted this is named "thunderbong"
Cloud native does not mean public cloud. Google uses many of these patterns to run their own datacenters.
That's why I mentioned ecosystem, it's not just about syntax.
* Is it a mobile app?
* What is the data source?

* Could you run a job every second on a server to fetch this data, and make this the “real time” API by fetching data every second and fanning out to apps?

* Does the source of the data that you’re fetching from permit this?
I run a survey platform[0] and I use an LLM to generate insights from open-ended response data. Using it for open-ended response classification as well.

[0]https://www.zigpoll.com
Looks like they're starting to recycle concrete as well. Though one of the uses seems to be... making asphalt.
Another painpoint I've found looking up service worker tutorials is how most focus exclusively on precaching and generating a manifest. They're likely using Workbox and its GenerateSW mode directly or through a framework plugin, which can't be extended beyond its precaching capabilities. If you want to add Web Push notifications, get ready to write your own service worker from scratch with `InjectManifest` mode.

I'd also recommend having a Settings page somewhere to deregister Service Workers, and the same button in the modal for updating.
1BRC–The Results Are In
Windows version of the venerable Linux "sudo" command shows up in preview build
It's really not that hard if the political will is there. The EU is doing just that (eIDAS), for example.
That's the big question, it may well be. But I don't immediately see how though there are probably enough applications out there using quicksort that some of them may end up being exploitable. But it would take an interesting set of circumstances to bring that about.
Yes. Now it can be done, but costs too much. Once they get a scanning unit near the scrolls, it will be much cheaper. The data reduction will probably get cheaper, too.
Large quantities of any liquid can be fatal, that includes water, because that one can easily cause hyponatremia (deficit of sodium in blood).

> Hyponatremia is the most common type of electrolyte imbalance, and is often found in older adults.[11][12] It occurs in about 20% of those admitted to hospital and 10% of people during or after an endurance sporting event.[3][5] Among those in hospital, hyponatremia is associated with an increased risk of death.[5] The economic costs of hyponatremia are estimated at $2.6 billion per annum in the United States

A woman made the headlines once for dying in a contest that involved drinking absurd amounts of water in the shortest time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ten-fired-after-radio-contest-t...

The amount? two gallons, so around 7.5 liters of water. Now, spaced around an entire day (rather than in under an hour), it's unlikely to immediately kill you, but even 4 liters of anything is going to be damaging to your health long term wise.

Alcohol certainly isn't good for you even in small amounts, but neither is drinking a lot of water, tea, coffee, soda or anything else. The human body was not made to process large amount of anything every day of the week.

There is no such a thing as a substance that is "healthy" to "abuse". Unfortunately, there are too many who believe the contrary (as evidenced by the post talking about the guy drinking humongous amounts of green tea to "detox" his body)

The desire to continuously stimulate the senses through binge drinking things (which can sometimes be water, many have damaged their body by drinking excessive amounts on a daily basis) or binge eating, well, that's a mental illness in the making.
% python main.py https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/bill/web2pdf/main.py", line 7, in <module>
from readability import Document
ImportError: cannot import name 'Document' from 'readability'
(/Users/bill/.local/share/virtualenvs/web2pdf-
gXeVRXKg/lib/python3.9/site-packages/readability/__init__.py)

But according to your Pipfile.lock, the readability module needed is 0.3.1:

"readability": {
"hashes": [
"sha256:f9030df8bc31aad45baffa9a2d9ce1fdd8051833e5b5bda3027df32fdec00fad"
],
"index": "pypi",
"version": "==0.3.1"
},

Version 0.3.1 of the module "readability" exists, but does not appear to have a class "Document".
Interior pointers and WRs are both basically mandatory, yeah. I have faith they'll arrive eventually.

I think incremental progress is generally great, but since we already have 'all of .NET' in WASM by shipping our own GC, end users seem like they wouldn't be happy with 'we use WASM GC now and all of your code is broken'

EDIT: We also have dependent handles in a few places, and I'm not sure how you'd do those without a more sophisticated GC. But it's probably possible and they're at least not used as widely as WRs.
I don't think people truly care about legacy admissions and pay-to-play as long as it's fair. Put a big banner under the admissions page with clear criteria for the donation thresholds necessary and people would be fine with that. It's the hypocrisy and pretense that it's a fair meritocratic game that people cannot stand. The universities are trying to prevent brand dilution while shouting racism the moment people accuse them of having an unfair admissions process.