skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I know some information you do not and I make a trade with you based on that information to my gain, that is not fraud.

It quite literally is fraud, whether you want it to be or not. If you KNOW a stock is worth more or less based on information that you currently have but are withholding from me in a trade, that's fundamentally fraud. If you know a stock is worth more or less based on publicly available information that I'm just too lazy to look up, it isn't.

I find it fascinating the gyrations folks in the financial sector go through to commit what are otherwise cut and dried illegal activities but pretend it's ok "because finance is complicated" or unique or some other such nonsense.
I don't have the time to set up Asterisk but this story inspired me to generate a collection of handy random DTMF tones that could semi-automate a mute and mash approach.

Enjoy.

https://we.tl/t-IHXSHQ6FU3
Is this a faster version of rm, optimized for speed, like FUC's rmz (https://github.com/SUPERCILEX/fuc)? I was hoping that it could do that, seeing this is written in rust (hopefully for performance)
> it could just be a dumb timer based on a statistical average

The post makes this point explicitly. It doesn’t sound like you read the whole thing.
I do add some monuments. For Japanese stones, I'm a little more conservative about adding them, generally. I'll be adding the Hida no Sato stones to the map alongside the article though.

As for Benelux, I'm not aware of any historic stones. There is one person who set up a stonelifting challenge in Belgium. Feel free to email me (via the contact email on the site) and I can share more info if you want it.
I'd encourage you to look into bazel. It's really a great build system, albeit super opinionated. Should be relatively easy to build Skia as part of your project if you are using Bazel yourself.
Shameless dual-plug:

The director of Lawnmower Man (and Virtuosity), Brett Leonard, presented at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup recently. After everyone thanked him for his movies, he talked about how he is currently involved in using VR for remote physical and mental therapy.

https://www.ubiquityvx.com/about
Particularly with Blink being entirely reliant on Chromium for multiprocess, whereas WebKit handles multiprocess itself. This was actually one of the issues that spurred Blink’s forking and entails significantly different architectures.
Ah great, I've been trying to make my Python look more like Scala!

In all honesty, Return's docs call out how problematic if-else chaining is, and then proceeds to replace it with chained lambdas. How is that better?

I'd go as far as to say that we can avoid a lot of the null coercion stuff with proper encapsulation, but that is basically saying, "We can solve Python's FP challenges with better object design," and I understand how that may sound like nails on a chalkboard to some.

If this helps you write the kind of code you and your peers want and can understand, who am I to judge?
I dig the aesthetics of that website.
Interesting read, but it could REALLY use some visualization to drive the point home.
Apparently that's a thread-local executor (scroll up to the top of the page).
How else would you quickly try to understand complex research topics like:

"how much are payment processing fees in north america compared to europe/asia"?
They are opposites of each other. Blockchains let people get less work done in more time at a higher cost. You'd need a scam to sell such a product.

AI lets people get more work done in less time at a lower cost. Like the internet itself, such a value proposition is sure to be a winner.

The early days of the the net were full of con artists trying to take people for a ride -- just like the early days of oil wildcatting and gold mining. But the immediate value of AI is already coming into view. It doesn't need scams to win.
It'd be interesting to see a peak-sequential-bandwidth by cost-per-gigabyte plot. The number I keep in my head is 500 MiB/s, but you're right that there are much faster drives out there [1]. Of the public clouds: Google's "Local SSD" claims ~12,000 MiB/s but they're ephemeral and you need 12 TiB of disks to hit that bandwidth [2][4]. AWS has these io2 SSDs which claim 4,000 MiB/s [3].

On the other points of the article, even if you had a huge disk array plugged into the machine, how many cores can you also plug into that computer? I suppose there will always be a (healthy, productive) race here between the vertical scaling of GPUs + NVMe SSDs and the horizontal scaling of CPUs and blob storage.

EDIT: formatting.

[1] First Google result is Tom's hardware: https://www.tomshardware.com/features/ssd-benchmarks-hierarc...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd#nvme_l...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/provisio...

[4] The ephemerality has two downsides. First, you have to get the data onto that local SSD from some other, probably slower, storage system (I haven't benchmarked GCS lately, but that's probably your best bet for quickly downloading a bunch of data?). Second, you need to use non-spot instances which are 3-6x the price.
Usually it's to either get less errors or more control/expressioness.
Regime changes do not happen at a ballot box.
Yeah, it's about the same as how my dad buys those Amazon Echo things. I absolutely hate them and am incredibly uncomfortable with having them in the house, but he sees no issue with them whatsoever despite the fact nobody uses them and they just suck up our power. He's quite the impulse customer however, so I can see why he would buy anything Amazon would show him that remotely resembles a "good deal". He was really confused when he got that big Echo Show they came out with that could run Fire TV applications because it was like $30 one Christmas and I told him I really hated it.
I believe it is as easy to over-engineer as it is to under-engineer. Architecture is the art of doing "just enough"; it must be as simple as possible, but as complex as necessary.

But that is hard to do, and it takes experience. And one thing that does not describe the IT industry well is "experience": don't most software developers have less than 5 years experience? You can read all the books you want and pass all the certifications you can like a modern Agile manager, but at the end of the day you will have the same problem they have: experience takes time.

Inexperienced engineers throw sexy tech at everything, inexperienced manager throw bullshit Agile metrics at everything. Same fight.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know Scala very well.

I'm more interested in "pure FP" languages than in multi-paradigm languages, because the former seem much more coherent in design to me. IMO, functional programming isn't about adding extra degrees of freedom (or "extra features"), it's about working within very well-defined and rigid constraints (what one might call safeguards).
I will agree with that most of the time.

But I will say I live near an exceptionally "liberal" town and we've had some real disasters in hiring that have come out of this kind of thinking. We went almost a decade without a permanent police chief which numerous screw-ups like hiring the one Asian who can't pass standardized tests (civil service exam) when certainly we had the talent in the department to do the job.

In the case of weed in NY it is not so much about race as it is involvement in the criminal justice system. I have really tremendous respect for anyone who "goes straight" when they get out of prison and one of the few 501(c)3's I will donate to is one that helps offenders when they get out. On the other hand, someone with a criminal past is really going to do best in a place where there isn't a lot of monkey business going on and that's not what weed is in NY in 2024.

That article is all about that story, see

https://archive.ph/DMBrP

if the link above doesn't work for you.
Of course, but right now no party has a clear recommendation on the effects of AI on workforce, that's why we need militants to educate politicians
US will relax pollution-limiting rules for vehicle emissions
> not as serious as exceeding cash reserves

Reserves are entirely an accounting item. There are no cash reserves.

> warrant banks reevaluating their risk assessment practices

It’s predicting they already have. This article is messaging likely earnings outcomes. Not a crisis.
Really, a third food analogy? Is this satire?
Show HN: Use GPT to chat with what you crawl
That estimate is pretty insane. There were 374 polio cases in 2023, six of which were in Pakistan. Half were in DR Congo, where I don't believe the mission to find bin Laden has affected eradication efforts.

Twenty more years of that rate would be 7,480 cases, not 100,000. It's also risible to suggest that any of that nonsense has seriously hindered eradication, caseloads in that region remain very low, the hotspots are elsewhere.

https://www.who.int/news/item/22-12-2023-statement-following...).
Therefore the total loss on a bad debt is n* the length of the debt chain?
> iPhone definitely have higher build quality (the materials are just better)

With a glass panel on the back ?

I'm perplexed on where Apple's materials are better than the Galaxy S Ultra series for instance. If anything Samsung's hardware is usually more advanced than Apple's, while their software is what kills the deal.

Macbooks build quality is also IMO overrated, they are shiny and clean looking, quality control is top notch, but they're pretty fragile. The screen getting imprinted by the keyboard is a pretty frequent issue for instance (mine had clear imprinted lines after less than a year). Same for the camera right behind the opening notch, the coating gets noticeably off as the machine is open/closed.

I'm comparing that to a Lenovo foldable that's still in a pretty good shape after roughly the same time, used by a teenager.
The Hugo Awards Scandal Is a Mess
https://www.livecoinwatch.com/price/GroqAI-GROQ

I suppose that's someone else then? If that's true, then with this and Elon's Grok it's surprising the US Patent office hasn't taken your trademark away yet for not adequately defending it from infringement.
I had to make a map module for python desktop application , options were either embed full browser inside and use google maps, or do it myself. C module using cairo was MUCH faster and easier to achieve in 2013. So much faster I didn't have to implement some optimizations I planned because it was already running at about 50fps on average computers with ~1000 individually drawn markers on a map. Requiring any gpu for this was not possible anyway.
That would require support on both HDMI ports (it's a negotiated protocol, not something that can just be passively wired), and I've never heard of any mass-market hardware that actually supports Ethernet over HDMI, despite actively searching for it on multiple occasions. Discrete graphics cards on PC don't even support CEC, which would actually be useful for some people.
And that makes perfect sense!
Well, if you're playing with wasm like this post, you could sidestep canvas and render the image on the wasm side.
c.f. https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters-wasm-demo
Breaking the shared key in threshold signature schemes
Conway's law would still apply in a company where the org chart is changing. Obviously old systems don't disappear in a reorg, but new ones will reflect the communication structures at the time that they were built.

In companies that go through frequent reorgs, you'll often see a lot of "scar tissue," where you can tell that one set of services date back to a particular epoch. For example, these services are from a different time when the company tried to enter a new market, and here's a bunch of messy microservices from when the company added a bunch of developers after the Series C and the engineering processes failed to keep up. And along the way, you'll see a bunch of half-finished migrations that require both the old and new systems to be maintained simultaneously.

In your example, if that org is adapted to frequently shifting team boundaries with some central top-down architectural authority (CTO, architect, committee, whatever), then Conway's law would predict exactly the kind of modular architecture with a "shared design approach" that you describe.
How I got to the top 1% of StackOverflow
This is ridiculous and bordering on misinformation, polio was already prevalent in AF before the 2014 revelation, in large part BECAUSE of the talibans.

"In Afghanistan and Pakistan, fears that the vaccine contained contraceptives were one reason given by the Taliban in issuing fatwas against polio vaccination.[47][43][48]"

Even outside of that, the talibans would have shot those health workers eventually like they did with the 9 year old girl that wanted education, they do not like outsiders showing people their environment can be better.
Yeah, no, I think for some people I think it really is basically the aesthetics. Notably, there are people who are into _both Putin and Stalin_. Now, ideologically that makes no sense at all, they're not at all close. But they're quite similar aesthetically.
I got told the other day that an ecommerce to ERP integration I built 8 years ago at a company I don't work for anymore, is still running without so much as a reboot. Apparently it is on it's third different website with no changes.

Linux, Bash, Python FTW. Everything was designed to be as simple as humanly possible. I mostly built it in my spare time too.

I once showed it to a real developer and he was horrified that some long messages that had to be sent were hardcoded into a file and concatenated to the one bit that changes...it was my prototype that worked so well I never changed it.

It only ran every 15 minutes, since all the systems that depended on the order ran less frequently than that. Everything was handled sequentially, and quite deliberately so.

It actually had a lot of functionality it gained over a couple of months, it had to print some stuff, detect fraud, fix addresses etc.

My favourite bit is that several companies had offered to build it for £mega and decided it couldn't be done! I wish I could describe it in full...
I disagree, it's about scale. Yes, for a big agency you might be a "small-fry", but for the client, it's their entire dreams and livelihood entrusted into someone they're paying.

It if was a small-scale, free open-source project.. yes. But once you exchange money for services, there should be a different level of attention.
Find a better hobby, this one sucks.
It's definitely weird that cloud costs which is supposed to be commoditized is differing by 2 orders of magnitude. Hetzner/OVH seemed to have solved the hard part of making the service cheaper but just can't solve the easier task of making the platform usable. Why do I need to upload documents for verification. Why can't I try server for 2 hours right after signing up for the service.
Quicksand Meetings
Splitting assets between banks doesn’t change the insurance income collected by FDIC, and nor does it change the overall risk profile for FDIC - its artificial structuring behaviour. It’s a minimum, not a cap.
There's no absolute truth. Sub commands are neat, options have less chance to clash with existing filenames but are more annoying to write. In any case you can handle `--` to stop the parameters and begin to handle anything that follows as filenames.

If you guide the user to setup nice aliases, this should not matter too much.
Speaking entirely out of inexperience, perhaps it's a situation where you could theoretically do everything with structured concurrency, but you'd have to have deep understanding of all the details of your system, not to mention needing to update it if aspects change. So it might be less of a hassle in developer time and energy to have a looser model.
Author here! I didn't know about that Devices@FDA search, thanks for the tip!

My goal for this project is to create a free/open source website that enhances this 510k data based on the public data dumps. I'd be very interested in hearing about how you use the current website for work, and what improvements would be useful for you! My email is in my about page.

The major enhancement is to show predicate device information as a first-class property of each 510k, since right now the data is buried inside various PDFs.
The pair used by Ethernet was optional until it was repurposed for eARC (high-bandwidth audio backhaul to a receiver/soundbar). Early-version HDMI cables were available in both "with Ethernet" and "without Ethernet" flavors.
<smh> Agree. No need for the throwaway on this one!
Yep. 3 Wheelers are becoming electric now as bike rickshaw drivers converted to eRickshaw and electric 3 wheelers because apps like Uber and Ola treat electric and ICE autos as the same. This meant that a bike rickshaw driver could bypass the auto unions and work directly.

This is happening all over India, and autorickshaw unions have started trying to stop this by hook and by crook.
The setup part needs to be turing-complete. A simple struct won't do. What you're talking about sounds more like posix_spawn.
io_uring_spawn on the other hand would allow that because the parent process could execute the logic between syscall submissions to the newly created process.
> You seem to be implying that all complexity is the result of an informed decision made by someone

My life would be much easier if this were true. One day, maybe....
google SERP became very bad now may be.
Strongly agree here. We wrote a similar post on how we’re scaling to a pretty big size with stock Python and Django: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2021/07/handling-100-requests...

So much of the content around the programming web is about huge scale and domain-specific stuff. We’re in a pretty magical place where the core technologies we use can scale to the size of a successful business without much work. We should promote that more!
Oh neat! Thanks for the information.

> running Steam on Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg) inside Proxmox.

Does this mean you can pass the gyro controls onto Steam Link or GeForce Now or some such? I have no interest in retro games, but it would be awesome to use gyro aiming for shooters...
'Beginning of the End' as Assange Case Returns to Court
It's weird to see lifetime correlations expressed as

&'a &'b

and not with

where 'a: 'b

I suppose I don't understand enough of how the first is different from the second one, and how it impacts this issue.
0.1mm is about the thickness of a sheet of paper.
When I look at a nightmare scenario like Salesforce, I am inclined to agree with you.
What is it like to be a cat (tail)?
COBOL itself is pretty horrible, but if there's an old tech which I'm happy using and there's still high demand for it, why not?
My recommendation is a Sceptre. They make 65", 4K dumb panels. I bought mine last year and the picture is great, the UI is fast, because it's just a regular TV menu, and best of all it cost less than $400.
I have a 2008 Vizo TV from Costco. It is 47" dumb TV. I'm still using it in my game room for call of duty. Even though it still works I think it's time to get a 4k TV. My conundrum has always been finding a dumb TV at this point.
Eight Sleep Interview Experience
I don't understand this comment. Can you explain more?
Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
I had a higher end TCL Roku TV that was pretty nice, actually. I know I used one at a rental unit that was an absolute piece of junk - I’m a little surprised they didn’t have the thought to make two separate brands.
Google Search is ripe for disruption, just as they disrupted Yahoo and AltaVista in 1990s.

Nothing would make me happier than the trillion $ corps being disrupted by new players offering serious value to users.

Trillion $ corps rent seeking their way into 100 markets and having law makers working for them isn't a great thing for the future of humanity.
> Why are companies happy to sell me a "dumb" monitor, but won't sell me a TV unless it includes a bunch of fragile "smart" features?

Oh, I guess you haven't heard of Samsung Smart Monitors - https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/smart-monitors... - which now bring spying and ads on your computer monitors too! ;)
> The current UK government seems to have found a fourth option - high taxes and dreadful public services.

This is an attempt to kill the existing comprehensive services like NHS. The Koch Brothers Model -- slash funding, make something shitty, complain how it's shitty, use that to justify further slashing, repeat until you can privatize
Like the other reply, stones range in sizes and weights. Even if you're not massive, there are plenty of more accessible historic stones. You obviously tend to hear about the heaviest and most challenging ones that giants lift.

One of the most inspiring (and insane) feats of strength I've ever seen was Chloe Brennan's lift of the Replica Dinnie Stones (weighing 333kg (734 lb)) in 2022. She weighed ~64kg (140 lb): https://youtu.be/CRaEALQSxTI?&t=434
So's the GCloud, and I paid like $250 for that. At least the PS Portal has better ergonomics, and maybe the screen is nicer too, hard to tell from the pictures.
Awesome write down, great app, very cool idea. Check ‘em!
For Starters #19: There Is a Less Expensive Answer
It’s good to see that at least Miri catches the issues. Hopefully the compiler can catch up with that!
Same for me! It was like a brick of programming in the face. If I recall correctly, I owe my gratitude to someone called "DarkAlex" on the "PSP-Hacks" website/forum for getting me interested.

My reason for starting with that scene was to play my "backed up" games but I remember screaming with joy when I got a C++ program onto the PSP which displayed some colours and bars. I could change them with the buttons and joystick.
Killing Conspiracy (2013)
No one wants manufacturing in their back yard.
Right, which is why it's a bummer (not that it doesn't play games locally, but that it doesn't even work with other streaming services like GeForce Now, GamePass/xCloud, Shadow, etc.).

The "streaming only handheld" isn't uncommon anymore (like in the GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436797), but most of those are service-agnostic and let you pick where you want to stream from. The Portal is locked to PS, as far as I can tell... not sure if it even supports PSNow (Sony's cloud streaming solution)?
I'd think that closer to 100% of farms have run off where a much lower percentage of lawns would have run off. Sure, you have the posh neighborhoods where the lawns are chemically treated monthly, but even then, the amounts being applied are much lower than what a farm would use. You also have a vast amount of "lawns" that do not get treated at all. I'm in the middle, and only do it twice a year.

So I'd be very shocked to see numbers that support lawns having more runoff than farms.
I wonder if customer support and warranty is part of the calculation. If they sell open platform – they will have to provide support and potential warranty for it.

But I guess that most people are not interested in open platform, only tinkers like us are. And if they make it officially closed platform, they don't have to deal with our complaints, when something does not work, or more likely underperforms.
I wonder if it makes a difference that Ikea called them?

If you call someone and yell at them to go fuck themselves, there's a pretty good case for that being harassment. But if someone calls you and you tell them to go fuck themselves, well, that's a different story.

Similarly, people who initiate dodgy requests to web servers are clearly up to no good.

But if you're a web admin and happen to host a zip bomb at `/wp-admin`, only serving it out to people who specifically ask to be sent whatever happens to reside there - even though you've never advertised that URL's existence - is it really your fault if they can't handle the resource they contacted you and asked for?
Sora, Groq, and Virtual Reality