skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp has this feature and it drives me nuts. My roll is full of crap people (especially chat groups) send me and I have to clean it up every now and then. I surely hope Signal doesn't do this and keeps the current approach of allowing users the option to download the images they want, when they want.
What is a "DC bus bar" is this some sort of shared PSU that is shared amongst all the servers for efficiency or something?
I haven't looked at Erlang much but I've been using Elixir for a couple of years now and it's been the most enjoyable language I've used to date.

I don't miss having a for-loop, recursion works but the Enum module is great and easy to use. When done right, pattern matching on function signatures is nice and clean. If you find it's actually more difficult to find what you're looking for it's a sign somethings probably off.
Come on signal until today had no way to keep the phone number private. Which is the topic here.
BQ lesson #1 - don't select * on a gigundous dataset.

Lesson #2 - if you select * on a gigundous dataset, make sure it's on your employers bill.
Whether you're starting a new app as an individual or a 5-or-15-or-100-or-1000 person team, I don't see why anyone would *not* choose Swift in 2024, unless they are doing game or 3d/VR/AR graphics development, in which case you would augment with C++ probably.

All of Apple's new APIs will be Swift-friendly or Swift-exclusive, no reason to actively use anything else unless your personal preference overrides.
I've noticed the firmware programming positions have been more common in their job listings lately.
That's a lot of software for 50 minutes per week
There is also the fact that if a company has critical systems go down because GCP hit some hard budget limit, it will be reported in the press as "Netflix down globally due to issue with Google Cloud".

Google doesn't want the bad press. Most real companies would prefer to have a big bill when their product surges in popularity than have unexpected downtime at the worst time.
This is a pretty outdated take considering all of the experience you've referenced is 10+ years old now.
Interesting to hear. I've recently pivoted hard towards sandbags and naturally I'm seeing more and more about stone lifting.

How does one get into this sport? There are no historic stones near me, in SoCal, and I'm not really able to get to a powerlifting or strongman gym, that night have stones, due to my professional and personal life / obligations. I mostly lift out of a garage gym but I'm fascinated to keep seeing this sentiment over and over again as I've pushed more into sandbag training.

edit/ Sean has some detailed information on the site about his training.
Maybe there could be some kind of easily recognizable symbol on their profiles.

I guess it would never work.
different buzzwords
The fossil record is certainly incomplete, but it's also certainly more reliable than a new DNA model reporting conclusions that make no sense (the impact didn't impact bird evolution? There's no way that passes the smell test)
I think i don't like it if its implemented as metadata stored separately from the url. As a separate url scheme where the url scheme includes both the hash and the document location, i think it would be cool. Really that essentially comes down to supporting magnet links with the webseed (ws) parameter in browser. Which would be really cool.
I have joked before about the apparent lack of life in the universe, that we are just living in unencrypted 'plain text' mode. But all the developed aliens have moved to encrypted space. ;)
Signal has spam issues even with the phone number requirement, as I've experienced lately (though nothing on the scale of Twitter). I dread to think what the spam would be like without the requirement of a phone number.
... but then Signal wouldn't have your phone number either. What they need it for is ... dubious if you ask me.
Software and Hardware Used in Formula 1 [video]
> Is my mental picture correct so far?

Yes

> How would these two scenarios be different

They're different in exactly the way you described above. The agent searching the knowledge base for "FTO, PTO, time off, vacations" would be the same as you pasting all the articles related to those topics into the prompt directly - in both cases, it goes into the context.

In scenario a, you'll likely get the correct response.
In scenario b, likely get an incorrect response.

Why? Because of what you explained above. Fine tuning adjusts the weights. When you adjusts weights by feeding data, you're only making small adjustments to shift slightly along a curve - thus the exposure to this data (for the purposes of fine tuning) will have very little effect on the next context the model is exposed to.
Seems reasonable to me. I cut the simple bushes in front of my house back from the path much much more often than the township does anything with the road.

Manpower wise, the bushes along the path probably take as much average labor as the road.

Maybe material/gas to resurface the road every 10 years would make the road cost more per year.
It’s a consequence of not having a formal and formally-proved type system.
The data: url to bootstrap trust is a really cool idea. I like that.

Of course then you are starting from a null origin, which makes certain traditional web architecture things hard. Maybe that doesn't matter if you design for it from the get-go. Too bad <iframe> doesn't support integrity. I guess you also sacrafice features that require a secure origin with this method.
Yeah, I think that's just because Elizabeth II reigned for such a long time. As they said in the post, hers was a change from the one her father used.
You misread the article, it was not saying there are dark protons. It was using proton decay as an analogy.

But to answer your question anyway, if a proton did decay then yes, it would be to a positron plus something else.
Finland has maybe 1000 men who are trained to NATO standards. If there is a Russian invasion, current conscript army become police force to handle local population and logistics, while NATO overtakes the country.

It is not 1940 something.
Ahh thank you! I fixed it.
I took this to be a metaphor for courteous use of gym equipment. Then I read the HN comments. "Boy, HN sure is leaning into the joke." Then I went back to the website. Then I saw the video an HN commenter posted about the 140lb. woman lifting 733lb. of stone. Oh, this is for real.

And for real it is. Man, what a sport. I'm just a scrawny, ultra marathoning trail runner with boney little runner arms. But I have to admit to having shed a tear when that woman in the video lifted those two stones. I might never lift even a third that much, but I can appreciate the work it takes to get to that point, and the unmatchable joy of accomplishing a goal.

Wow, TIL...
> It is not that hard folks. Set the billing limits.

Excellent idea. Please describe how to create an account on AWS or GCP that is not allowed to spend more than $100/mo. Since it is "a really easy fix" and "takes almost no time" it should be easy to explain, right?
oh there are - billing systems at scale almost exclusively work on logs. Logs can take minutes or hours to aggregate and transmit to a central place.

Ever notice how your "1GB" data plan sometimes lets you use 5GB if you happen to be roaming in another country and downloading something fast over 5G...? Same reason.
Yes, but again: If you gave participants an ineffective or placebo vaccine followed by 10+ times the normal dose of COVID, how many of them would die?

If you're okay with potentially killing most of the trial participants, I suppose you could still get useful data, but the ethics become significantly more questionable IMO.

Edit: I just re-read your post. I think you're saying, you wouldn't actually give anyone the COVID virus directly, you'd just find someone who was known to have contracted COVID in the wild and bring them in to purposefully expose trial participants. That is an interesting idea which I've never seen discussed in the context of a challenge trial. I'd be interested to read more about why this is not typically done.
Thank you a ton for the links.
By your definition I don't have any active messenger!
Ledger fixed that exact issue in 2019: https://sergeylappo.github.io/posts/ledger-hack/
The NIC is attached to the host bus through the north bridge. But other hosts on the same ethernetwork are not considered to be "local". We dont need to get crazy about teh semantics to know that when a cloud provider says an SSD is locally attached, that it's closer than an ethernetwork away.
I truly feel like this technology could do so much good. It could even out the playing field of intelligence and distribute it equally amongst everybody. Think of integrated LLMs on neurallink, sounds interesting but also a bit frightening
This is really nice. I like the programming model a lot, even if it has some restrictions compared to typical SPA/SSR model.

Makes me realize how webdev is still just teeming with stupid levels of incidental complexity, and I'm not sure I trust webdevs to actually get us out of the tarpit.
You didn’t like his lukewarm delivery of the King’s Speech or his Greek tie?

Not entirely sure what he is meant to do.

I am a committed republican but as far as Kings in a constitutional monarchy can go he’s been pretty demonstrative against government policy.
If you're putting 80% down in the US, I'd suggest the thought process is wrong. With good credit on a good property, 95% LTV isn't uncommon.

Looking at residential property as a forever home is wrong.

You're buying an asset, that happens to also let you not pay rent. Consequently, you want (1) value stability (see earlier qualities) and (2) leverage (as you get to keep all the profits and offset the interest).

80% LTV = 5x leverage of down-payment

95% LTV = 20x leverage of down-payment

Given that your net rate of return should also be against your down-payment, shrinking that substantially boosts effective return at time of sale.
Yes, exactly.

Saying "just do the thing correctly, duh!" is easy. Ya know the saying about the difference between theory and practice?
We shall open the Tanenbaum, now in its fifth edition circa 2023, no doubt still taught to students all over the world:

> Processes are created in Linux in an especially simple manner. The fork system
call creates an exact copy of the original process.

> The Linux sequence of clone plus exec is yet more orthogonal, since even more fine-grained building blocks are available. As a general rule,
having a small number of orthogonal elements that can be combined in many ways
leads to a small, simple, and elegant system.

Yup, still the same bullshit. It is not elegant, it is not fine-grained, it is not simple, it is certainly not small.
TwitchJS – Community-Supported Twitch JavaScript SDK
Just set quotas by default…
I'm guessing that the speed of sound being different in the high pressure side vs low pressure side helps this occur.

When you think about it it's hard for air to push itself faster than the speed of sound since the speed of sound is literally the speed that a wave of compression in air will propagate.

So how can it go faster than the max speed a wave of compression can travel at when it's powered by that? Well compressed air has a much higher speed of sound. So it's accelerated to the below speed of sound inside the nozzle and on exit it's now faster than the speed of sound, not due to further acceleration beyond the speed of sound but due to the speed of sound suddenly dropping in the lower pressure.
Many are undeniably garish by today's standards, on today's devices, and although they were maybe more refreshing to our palettes at the time and less intense in the default monitor color spaces back then, I must confess, I distinctly remember vetoing several of these desktop pictures as a late 90s Mac user, including the ones you pointed out. And the era of subtler, muted colors and tones showed up pretty quickly after these for valid reasons.

I still like the UFO ones a whole lot though ^_^
This is a serious, innocent question: how come there is no business model predicated upon the right to repair?

If there is market demand, and any capitalism remaining, it seems counter-intuitive that we are asking the government to step in where sellers should arise.

We are as captive to the existing regime as we tolerate.
I think that's orthogonal to my point.

Perhaps the specific example I gave of Finland does not hold, but I think the spirit of my example still does.
Jigsaw – Static Sites for Laravel Developers
My main drive was to document the crazy price hikes that's been going on in my home country, Greece, so I'm scraping its 3 biggest supermarkets and keep track of the prices of their products*

Had a lot of fun building and automating the scraping, especially in order to get around some bot catching rules that they have. For example one of them blocks all the requests originating from non-residential IPs, so I had to use tailscale to route the scraper's traffic through my home connection and take advantage of my ISP's CGNAT.

You can take a look here: https://pricewatcher.gr/en/

* I'm not doing any deduplication or price comparisons between the supermarkets, I only show historical prices of the same product, to showcase the changes.
"If you have to ask, you probably can't fit it in your house."
I've read this article multiple times, but I still don't understand the core legal claim.

What's the case for the First Amendment not allowing KOSA?

What makes KOSA different from constitutional obscenity/indecency laws?

Thanks for helping me understand.
I mean, when 99.999% of jobs I apply to ghost me and 95% ghost me after the first interview, what do you expect?

Newsflash: boomers treating everyone with complete contempt and disregard get feelings hurt when treated the way they treat others. Boo fucking hoo.
”Yet you participate in society. I am very intelligent.”. ;-)
this is cool, and a way better executed/more fully featured version of this poc i did a couple weeks ago :) which uses vue under the hood

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353269

example app: https://github.com/thejchap/pue/blob/main/example.py

good luck! i think there’s definitely something here with this kind of thing
Feedback- Universal/Unified API for Logistics/Supply Chain
Here's the problem statement I'm exploring, and it would be great to get your thoughts:

Companies building products for transportation, logistics and fleet management spend 30%-40% of their engineering capacity on integrations - this is expensive, undifferentiated work that takes their time away from working on actual customer problems. These integrations range from Telematics (Tracking), Accounting, Warehouse Management Systems and Billing (to name a few)

This leads to a couple of major problems:
1. Development time (i.e. money) is spent
2. Sales can close the sales cycle much faster, leading to onboarding/retention of the customers

Solution:

Universal API for all the integrations in the logistics industry makes it easy for these teams to integrate all of the top platforms* into their application without worrying about the complex underlying details.

*Examples:
Accounting: Quickbooks Online, Xero...
Telematics: Samsara, Motive, Geotab, Webfleet...
Warehouse: ShipBob, ShipHero, Amazon...
and much more
(these are a few examples, and the plan is to cover all the possible integrations irrespective of the geography)

Thoughts?
My appologies. I think informed consent is a wonderful idea, I just am skeptical that it exists in real life. I would say if you use an electronic device today, you are being spied on (with very narrow exceptions).

Informed consent to me (take the example of a phone or many apps), based on the level I have to break it down to people for them to understand, is something like "we will see you whacking it to hentai, we will know when you take a dump, we have enough of your data to derive private information you never gave us, we have all the data necessary to totally ruin your life socially and economically, and it will all be leaked to criminals that will profit from your demise, dont worry though, we will give you a 1 year sub to mcafee antivirus as a consolation prize."

I think we can at least agree that ^^that happens to people. So, whos going to be the first company to not veat around the bush and just admit that reality? That, is why I say informed consent sounds nice, every company that can keep a skilled contract lawyer on payroll has an incentive to downplay their spying. I dont know in what version of reality informed consent could exist, because the incentive is fairly obvious.
The British monarchy is a live institution and should be viewed as such. Republicans using the fact it’s been around for over a thousand years (with a few hiccoughs) are not making the argument they think they are making.
How We used gigabytes of shipping data to show risks to endangered whales
>start questioning their decisions

I'm not privy to any discussions you've had, of course, but I will comment on this because I see it in many tech people: don't question people's decisions. No matter how you phrase it, it will appear critical. And people (neurotypical or otherwise!) don't like criticism, no matter how much they claim to welcome it.

Those "explicit" requests for feedback? They want positive feedback. If you really must say something negative, suggest the opposite in a positive sense instead. i.e., instead of saying "we should not have done X. It was a bad idea," try saying "I think if we had done Y, things would have worked well" while avoiding any potentially embarrassing references to X.

Also

> neurotypical bullshit

Be careful that you're not "othering" the person you're talking to and dismissing their concerns because that's what I think when I read this.
Sorry but I can't get over the hyperbole in

> This website makes it seem like this “public” dataset is for the community to use, but it is instead a for-profit money maker for Google Cloud and you can lose tens of thousands of dollars.

you didn't understand what you were doing. HA's datasets are public and free. It is not a "for-profit money maker for Google Cloud". Sorry, sucks for you but blaming the restaurant when you bit off more of the steak than you can chew is not how this works.
I’ve been really liking the quick answers[1] that Kagi added. The doc gives some info as to what triggers it so it seems less random.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html
BigQuery is just too costly...

Do you know if the dataset is public? We should just offer a cheap alternative and ditch BigQuery.
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
Humans have went dark considerably over the years. I don't know the exact date when encrypted comms became the norm, but we rarely transmit plaintext out into the Universe anymore. We still leak plaintext, but the vast majority is encrypted now.
Good reminder that need to make a new donation.
This is what I think, hear me out. Just because the data is coming from a TRUSTED 3rd party API doesn’t mean you blindly trust, store, and let your users consume it.
Oh yeah it was more a joke than anything. Microsoft is just creating such a shitty environment. I can be logging in from my company portal where they know the identifier yet I still have to add @company.com. I mean I got one for my job, for my university, for conferences (CMT), and I swear I'm forgetting 30 others that I only use once in a blue moon.

They also are real shady with yubikeys. You can't set them as default but you can set "security key." So the process ends up being it assuming you want to use Hello (which breaks my Outlook... wtf), clicking use another device, security key, clicking next, then finally typing in your credentials. The next part makes me real suspicious since all the other dialogues go to the next page without clicking next. Why just this page? It's some weird dark pattern bs.

I'd call it malicious, but I think maliciousness requires intent. A chicken running around with its head cut off isn't really malicious if it runs into you.
The State of Jamstack: Developers Want Return to Simplicity
What do you want? Do you want us to lie to you, and say that all your private Apple/Microsoft/Google data is safe and sound? Do you want bedtime stories about the altruism of your local intelligence agency and the safety FIVE-EYES provides? Do you want Michael Hayden to whisper "we kill people based on metadata" in your ear as you drift off to sleep?

The "blind response" is expecting human behavior to not justify bad practices with fallible, abstract logic. You're right, you are disillusioned if you're this deep into capitalism and expect orderly altruism from... the free market.
Can't we send two elephants per year? Do they even have to be elephants, or can we send plain glycine?
> doesn't it rely on relatively expensive fixed masks prepared for each layer

If you need perfectly sharp edges and high precision, sure. But I'm sure in this case that'd be unnecessary.

> Assuming that doing the process you describe is sufficient, what's the ballpark of what "for cheap" means for you if you needed to print 1000 different fake tags, assuming many layers of "the desired pattern" to print the metal flakes?

I described in another comment an additional way to quantize the layers to reduce the repetition steps, which would reduce costs further.

Regarding costs, you could fake a THzID chip for about 500€ per fake. Not cheap enough to do it for household items, but if you're faking designer bags, clothing, sneakers, or electronics, it'd be absolutely worth it.
Maybe were stuck here cause were made out of meat...

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg
I don't know if I'm just lucky or what, but the 55 inch Samsung I got at Costco for around $400 works great. It's smart, but we never connected it to the Internet...it just shows a graphic asking where wifi is, closes it after about 15 seconds, and goes on being a TV. We get streaming from an external Roku, which has minimal advertising on its home screen. Someday we'll get a soundbar for it, but sound is OK for now.
Google's retiring of Internet archiving tool draws ire of China researchers
> But you don't actually do that on Spotify. As the article correctly points out, your subscription fee doesn't go to the artists you listen to, it goes to the artists played on Spotify as a whole.

But doesn’t that even out?

Napkin calculations: There are 10 subscribers to Spotify, each paying 10 dollars/month, and everything goes 100% to the artist. 9 of them only listen to Taylor Swift and 1 only to Metallica.

If the subscriptions would go directly to the bands you listen to, Metallica would receive 10 dollars from the one listener.

But the subscriptions are distributed based on the percentage of listeners, meaning that the Metallica fan is only giving 1 dollar to their favorite band. But this percentage is also payed by the 9 Taylor fans, so they also pay 1 dollar. In the end Metallica receives 10 dollars per month.

What am I missing here?
When I use the BQ interface, it estimates the bytes for each query in real time before I run it, does that turn off if the query is too big? I guess that isn't directly a cost estimate, but if I saw hundreds of TB I'd think twice before hitting "Run"...
Although it works most of the time, I've found it's common for it to either pick up things that shouldn't be included or it only picks up something like the footer but not the actual body. This can be true even when, upon inspection, there's no clear reason why the body couldn't be identified. It's particularly problematic on many academic articles that are in HTML (sort of ironic). I'd also like a bit more normalization built in, even if it's turned off by default.
https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/the-2000s-housing-bubbl...