skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see better now that this is a distinct take, but the fundamentals to me were about man-machine symbiosis. About making systems that we understand & can be freer for using.

I do think scale is important too. But it's a refinement it feels like, one we've already covered pretty well albeit have to keep re-learning/isn't evenly distributed yet. But making computing that is open & explorable? Go watch an Alan Kay talk, any of them; he'll say what I'm saying: we barely have begun to figure out the actual essence of computing where it opens itself up to us & makes us more potent people. We have been grinding on the same target, without pause for thinking about what general computing systems could be like, and it's the wider view that this is all actually on service of, that will help us.

AI to me is mostly creating our own Dark Forest scenario on our own planet that we have to somehow coexist with. More distraction from fundamentals.
Avería – The Average Font (2011)
I'm confused, are you arguing the constraints on their finances and upward mobility due to everything outside their control hints that their circumstances are due to their own vacuity (or whatever parent was on about)?

I'd argue it's not worth trying to acquire the things boomers, and subsequently gen-xers and older millennials sought, but it's worth finding a way to secure some other kind of financial security in whatever way that's feasible.

It's not worth listening to politicians of any sort who say they'll be able to bring that down to earth in the next 5 years.
I stand corrected. Thank you. I had not managed to trigger this behavior before, and falsely believed my experience was universal.
It's nicely done, if not super fast in my browser. One minor nit: The demo is not served over HTTPS. That should be adjusted, it feels unprofessional.
Supporting conversion with some lossy tendencies is a good idea, but maintaining compatibility will stifle innovation as al bugs & design decisions cannot be fundamentally worked around.

Adjacent, I heard folks praising Forgejo for its Actions & Microsoft GitHub compatibility, but that means you are still left with the same YAML spaghetti and its other limitations. What would have been nice is something better for CI--something that prompts the project to want to switch to get a better experience. As such, while I agree with the moral reasons to switch to non-proprietary software, the reason for switching is philosophical, not philosophical + technical. I feel being a wrapper around Git or Git compatibility will likely fall in this category rather than being more compelling.
Once they are drafted, it's too late to flee. And the person being drafted does, of course, become unhappy, but again, so what? They don't have any ways to express their displeasure that affect people in power there.

It used to be that "mothers' committees" held more sway, but those have also been mostly subdued now. Thing is, once you get to a certain point, civil protest just doesn't account for much, and people there simply aren't organized enough for meaningful violent resistance - and besides, most of them live too good a life to risk their neck engaging in such.
Peak internet was 2015, before the 2016 internet rupture when the digital space become pop culture and cyberspace inverted into the real.
Exercising “rights and freedoms” isn’t what the people in that protest were doing. Breaking that up was the right thing to do.
The process in other countries is roughly the same as it is here. The scanner you go through might be a bit different, the things that stay in or out of your bag may be a bit different, but let's not act like the TSA makes things somehow markedly worse than any other country and say that we should simply "hire a private company", as so many commenters think is the answer, as if that change anything.

I personally have had plenty of experiences in US airports with TSA where I don't need to take anything out of my bag or take any clothing off, and I simply walk though a metal detector. But folks here think firing the TSA is somehow the solution to getting that level of security (which is why I asked how much security people want in the first place, much to this site's objection). People are simply way to emotional about those three letters in specific that they can't seem to think clearly enough to separate what they actually do from their perception of their failures.
Clojure is not particularly obscure
I think it's wrong. Although I'm starting to doubt myself.

"Horsea Island at the time was a long-range radio transmission station with four 446-foot tall masts, made from huge timbers, spread around the area." - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2...

"From 1909 onwards the island also became used as one of the Admiralty’s first high powered shore wireless telegraphy stations [...] Four wooden aerial ‘Marconi’ masts in eight foot tabernacles were erected, each standing 150 foot tall and held fast with wire stays." - https://maritimearchaeologytrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020...

Ok, I've found a primary source (with bonus photo of Knoulton) that says "latticed steel girders" - https://www.alamy.com/1917-daily-sketch-naval-airman-crashes...

So I think what must have happened is that the initial 150-foot wooden masts (1909) were replaced with steel masts at some point before 1917, and the first quote above confused the two stages.

Ok, yes, found some supporting text.

"The new station at Horsea consisted of 4 wooden aerial masts of overall height 150 feet with 8 'spreader' masts of 60 feet surrounding them. [...] The first station was out of date within 6 years and plans were made for 4 masts of an overall height of 446 feet. The first went up in 1913 to be followed by two more in 1914, the last was not finally
being erected until 1921." - https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/7019...

For completeness, in this blog post we're back to wood again: "The masts dominated the skyline and were constructed as a triangular wooden lattice 7 feet each side. [...] By 1933 wireless technology no longer depended on the wooden masts and they were replaced by steel towers of 180 and 100 feet in height." - https://manorcourtupdate.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.htm... but I'm inclined to go with the primary source (the Daily Sketch page).

Annoyingly, primary sources are thin on the ground - I don't think the accident made it into the papers at the time.

Drifting off the topic of the mast itself, I found that Knoulton died in 1981, and a subtly different account of the rescue: "on 14th September 1917, on Hornsea island a seaplane collided with a Poulsen mast and remained wedged in it; the pilot was unconscious and had been thrown out of his seat on to one of the wings. [Deck Hand ABBOTT Ordinary Seaman KNOWLTON and Seaman RATH], at once climbed up the mast for 100 feet, when one of them [?RATH], making use of the boatswain's chair, was hoisted up by men at the foot of the mast to the place, over 300 feet from the ground, where the seaplane was fixed. He then climbed out onto the plane and held the pilot until the arrival of ABBOTT and KNOWLTON. A gantline was then secured round the pilot who was safely lowered to the ground. All three men were well aware of the damaged and insecure condition of the mast, which was bent to an angle where the seaplane had become wedged. One of the three supports of the mast was fractured, and so far as the men knew, the mast or seaplane might at any time have collapsed." - https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/77065-dangerous-perch/
S3 didn't launch until 2006, iPhone 2007, App Store 2008. In 2004 we had Palms and VPSs, but that doesn't quality as mobile and cloud in any modern sense of the word.
Apollo calls AI a 'bubble' worse than even the dotcom era
For the last ~3 years I worked for companies. No proper publication. But some articles here and there [0]. My Master’s thesis [T]. A (trivial) game to learn Ruby [1]. There are a lot that are not published anywhere.

I have left my full time job this month, and now pursuing full time research independently hoping some papers + job exp. + GRE lands me a PhD in a good research uni.

When you are working, try to make sure that the job aligns with your long term goals. Then learn a lot from work. Learning at work is effortless.

[0]: https://www.kaggle.com/code/truthr/learn-jax-from-linear-reg...

[T]: https://zenodo.org/records/7840239

[1]: https://ritog.itch.io/silly-dragon-target-game
Expect a bumper year for weight-loss drugs
The researchers next turned to genomic analysis to see if any genetic changes could help explain these elevated levels. The genome-wide association study, involving data from nearly 50,000 people, linked elevated 2PY and 4PY levels to a gene that codes for an enzyme called ACMSD (aminocarboxymuconate semialdehyde decarboxylase).

The study has limitations. For one, the researchers don't have any information on the dietary niacin intake of the people in their cohorts.

Can someone explain to me why this is being described as "niacin is a problem" and not "We may have identified an obscure genetic disorder"? Because I'm failing to comprehend this.
I read this in CBT, that things like drinking alcohol are "safety behaviors" that allow us to not fully test our fears and anxieties.

After dropping my safety behaviors and progressively overloading my fears for almost a year (on and off), I can definitely say that it's crazy how far I've come. I couldn't have imagined being comfortable doing things I'm able to do now. I do have a long way to go still.

But the key really is consistency. Just like your physical muscles atrophy after leaving the gym, your fearlessness atrophies if you don't constantly target and stimulate your fear muscles (without resorting to safety behaviors). It does get easier though, once you reach maintenance mode. But you gotta keep doing it.
The Rocketdyne tripropellant, the best performing rocket engine of all time
I’m 46. The first time I got drunk was when I was 28.
very mild WW3. Earth is a wasteland where almost all animals died from radiation long ago and anything that survived it is an object of worship. Survivors need to go through periodic checkups, those affected by radiation are labeled off as "chickenheads". People are emigrating to desert Mars - which is an even worse wasteland, where things are so bad that even the Robots are trying to escape back to Earth, such a Robot has to kill his former master and then pose as his former master. (the whole plot is about finding these Robots)

The culture of the survivors is based on this worship of what remained of the animal kingdom, as seen in the test that they administer to check if you are a robot or not.

Especially amusing: the Robots in the book are hallucinating - (these hallucinations are called 'false memories'), just as these large language models of ours...
I greatly prefer to use ChatGPT-4 instead of 3.5 despite the slowness. Really a good feature for them to have would be to easily re-run a prompt on 4. However, the glitchiness of the service is kind of annoying.
For some history on KKR look up the book Barbarians at the Gate. They're one of the original and largest private equity firms.
As it happens, I live in what is still essentially countryside (albeit surburbanized) myself, and in my home country I had a rural branch of the family, so I'm well aware of how it works.

When I said "anthills", I didn't mean any particular city design, but the overall population density. Those example that you gave are still incredibly dense by monkey brain standards, even with all the interspersed farms etc.

And you can, of course, spread out even more, a la American suburbia. But that doesn't work out in a sense that our economy is still built around the notion of dense hubs, and can only be efficient in their presence, so it just ends up with people commuting back and forth. Thus our economy - which is what makes that many people sustainable in the first place - requires density.
That social media code forge is not the same as its underlying version control system. They are different things & we should support making folk not equate the two.
theres a number of dead bodies in this space. it sounds like a great idea but once companies get big theyll diy. so your only market will be early startups for 1-3 years max and then theyll churn bf they ever get big enough to pay you what it's worth to get them on your platform in rhe first place. look at aptible and datica.
Paretto rears its ugly head as well. 20% of the bad actors are 80% of the lawsuits.

There are patients that make a living going around doctor offices and suing them. I know 1 patient in particular that went around suing doctor offices because they would not cater to his blindness. He would threaten a lawsuit without setting a foot in the doctor's office.

He would browse the doctor's website and complain it was not blind-compliant. And start from there.
60,000 decently paying jobs? And we might have some marginally better security? And every other country has more or less the same process in place? These sound like good things to me.
"A study conducted by librarians of Emory University found that Cureus was in the top 2 of institutional publications deemed predatory or untrustworthy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cureus

"Steven Todd Kirsch is an American entrepreneur. He has started several companies and was one of two people who independently invented the first version of the optical mouse. Kirsch has been both a philanthropic supporter of medical research, and a promoter of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch
You monitor for the failures ($currentDate > $cert.NotAfter), great.

What about soft failures, like connection problems? What if the cert is available but actually garbage? What if between 30 and 7 days the cert is changed?

And no, not checking FQDN against SAN is...

And finally, who monitors the monitoring?
This is nice! A great way to kick tires for an enterprise solution without worrying about cold calls and commitments before experiencing it oneself.
Have we already forgotten about crypto?
Thank you for these insights! We're in the midst of revamping our website so your feedback was very well timed. We will let you know when we release the updated version of our website. In the meantime, summarizing some of your points:

1. We'll certainly update our website to be more comprehensive about our exact infrastructure setup and security best practices. We're releasing a security page that specifically details this. This should address your comments on adding more product information.

2. Interesting insights on removing the blog. We've actually received positive feedback on our 2-minute quick guide to HIPAA and some of our current customers found us exclusively through that blog post. We're also soon to roll out a small collection of blogs featuring auditors/CISOs/etc. and particularly for startup founders new to HIPAA, we've found that these can be helpful educational tools.

3. Clarifying our product, we're focused on both deploying apps on compliant infrastructure and providing a general compliance checklist suite. We help get computers, humans, and processes compliant - it's all in one. We're not just limited to computers.

4. We're fleshing out our FAQ and will move info around as mentioned in point 1.

5. We provide a compliant report to companies that work with us, not just a badge. Here's an example: https://app.getdelve.com/blandai

Thanks again for the thorough breakdown and feedback here! We're taking it all to heart and will reply to this comment once we've rolled out an updated version.
her run rate could certainly be 168k .
In my company we use reseller billing as AWS do not have a local billing entity. The reseller owns the organization's root account and we do not have access to it. Every subaccount creation require a support email to the reseller.
This would be a lot more true if we could break up the trillion dollar tech monopolies. And we could do it if we would muster up the political will to do it. Step one is to stop idolizing the crony VCs and billionaires.
Fascinating, thanks! The NZ thing sounds wild.
Yes! Ive been working mostly in rust recently for robotics projects. The amount of time our industry wastes on C++isms is ridiculous where rust just works. Unfortunately theres an old guard that refuses to let up and invest in rust.

Tbh there is a huge industry aroumd C++ robotics code so I can see why.
One of my favorite series from back in the day!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240226200315/https://fortune.c...
When a programmer has a bad day at the office, their computer crashes.

When a doctor has a bad day, their patient crashes.

When a pilot has a bad day, their plane crashes.

When a highrise window washer has a bad day, they crash.
This is what property tax is, right?
A lot of people also spend scads of time contemplating how they would spend the money if they won the lottery and it's generally a waste of time. They probably aren't going to win the lottery and it usually isn't used as a stepping stone to making real life decisions about, say, what kind of career they want to pursue or how they wish to spend their retirement.

I used to do that sort of thing and then began going "If I value x, why sit around telling myself I can't possibly have that or some piece of that without winning the lottery? Why not do what I can to actually work towards that to some degree, in some fashion?"

So you may get it. That's fine. I don't and that's not commentary on anyone but me and how my mind works.
> For the biggest differences: by the time of Basil II they were speaking Greek instead of Latin

That isn't a difference. There was never a time when they were speaking Latin.

The Romans, over in Italy, spoke Latin, but the Anatolians, in Turkey, never did. They spoke Greek before any contact with the Romans and they continued to speak Greek long after the Romans were gone.

> it's like the Ship of Theseus, all those changes add up over time.

The Ship of Theseus is more about changes that don't add up over time. If I repair a hole in the ship, it's still the same in pretty much all useful senses of "being the same", and the question is whether a set of changes like that which end up covering the entire ship still leave the whole ship "the same".

If I repair a hole in the ship by replacing it with part of an 18th-century ironclad, and as damage to the wood accrues I just build an ironclad over where the ship used to be, no one is going to think I'm posing some kind of deep question when I ask whether, at the end of the process, I still have the same ship.
Sounds like a job for MQTT.

https://www.emqx.com/en/blog/connect-to-mqtt-broker-with-web...
Which playbook? BYD has shipped millions of EVs.
Happy to hear David Milch found his routine.

I discovered during pandemic that I am also someone who does not work as effectively locked up alone in a room versus working with others in real time.
E.g. this: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisati...

I am aware of industry talks of lobbying on behalf of HSM manufacturers that led to these requirements and that's just sad.
big claims require big evidence.

Where's all this noise about a regulatory stance causing malpractice lawsuits to skyrocket ?
Yeah I can see that. I've had a few moments sober around drunk people and it can be tiring. But it depends on how drunk they are I guess. If it's enough drinks just to be a bit more chatty, I'm all for it.
To be fair protobufs are not purely focused on speed. And what speed exactly? Speed to parse, read, transfer?

Flatbuffers are purely fast read/write by storing buffers that can be mmap’d right into memory. At the cost of some size bloat (slower to transfer over the wire).

Protobufs are a mix of speed but also size over the wire being reduced which does reduce speed of parsing but increases speed transferring over the wire.

I think capnproto is a fantastic project, but considering google is built on top of grpc/protobufs, they will be around for effectively ever which gives it a lot of reliability in my book.
From the study:

> It became imperative to develop an operational definition for the music variables slow tempo and fast tempo; that is, how slow is slow and how fast is fast? To answer this a sample was selected at random from the trading area of the supermarket. Subjects were chosen to reflect the age, sex and other relevant socioeconomic characteristics of the store's customers. Each subject was asked to listen to several instrumental musical arrangements and to classify them as slow, fast or somewhere in between. A total of 95% of the subjects classified musical selections with a tempo of 72 beats per minute or fewer as slow. Selections with a tempo of 94 beats per minute or more were classified as fast. Thus, the range from 73 to 94 beats per minute was considered between fast and slow, although this category was not directly a part of this study. Therefore, based on these findings, slow tempo music was defined as having a tempo of 72 beats per minute or fewer, an average of 60 and a standard deviation of 6. Fast tempo music was defined as having 94 beats per minute or more, an average of 108 and a standard deviation of 7.

> However, perceptions of slow and fast may vary across geographic regions or demographic parameters and therefore, the reader must be cautioned against generalizing these findings too far beyond the scope of this study.
Try Scrapingdog's linkedin scrapers api.
MIT's existing endowment is nearly $30 Billion.

Why single out a particular private individual or his publicly traded company when you could simply pressure the institution itself to make tuition free?
Anyone know how this compares to something like Box2D? (apart from also supporting 3D)
Like bonds? When we talk about liquidity, aren't something like questrade ETF's for bonds like VAB.TO for example pretty liquid? I can just sell them any day fairly easily. Then again, the interest rate of my bank is probably more than that right?
I've used this product for a couple years (my company was early access) and I enjoy it quite a bit. I can't say I've tried a while lot of comparable products, but it's nice to just be able to call someone, which is a big step up from Slacking a Zoom link. I also find it a more polished product than Slack huddle. I'm super greatful that the team at Multi and other like them are pushing the boundaries to make remote work feel a little more personal.
There are always opportunities, at least in the USA.

I started programming in 1985 and thought I was very likely too late. I was the same age as Chris Espinosa, who was Apple's head of documentation at age 14. At that time it was still not perfectly clear that PCs would be regarded as essential to business. I had no one to talk to about computers and programming. I was in a very rough spot in my life and had to teach myself everything, while not being sure I'd have a job in 5 years.

A decade later in 1996 I started at Microsoft, which virtually all of my peers thought had run its course. They were selling stock like crazy. By the time I left 4 years later the stock had gone up 1300%. Last I checked it's gone up yet another 2500% or so--I kept my 1,000 ESPP shares mostly out of nostalgia and thanks to a company that was so good to me.

I bought a website after the first dot com bust of 2001, monetized it by hiring well, and it provided a very good living for well over two decades after that.

This is an incredible time to start a web-based business because there's a surfeit of free and almost free tools for development all the way to deployment.
> Considering how we arrived at this point (Houthis threatening and attacking trade and communications) (...)

Aren't the Houthis a proxy of Iran who are being used to try to goad the US into a regional conflict?
I’m not sure this is totally on Salesforce as the Tableau product has gotten so sluggish and inflexible. At my last job I started dumping data from Tableau to CSV (don’t get me started on the crap CSVs that Tableau generates) and importing to R for analysis. Good riddance.
Possum-DB: Disk-cache in Rust using file cloning and sparse files