skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These meme is not as valid as few years ago since all the computer based advertisement industry has been commoditised and investors focus was redirected to AI and hardware.

This lock-in is an attempt to keep customers paying despite not providing any value over the competition to the customers.

All the rent seeking attempts are clues that "tech" has become like the old industries.

Even more worrisome, the whole American culture seems to be Europeanised. Traditionally since the last few decades, USA was the land of opportunity and innovation where everyone was welcome and it didn't matter what is your background but now Americans are acting like the Europeans, clinging to the properties they own, rent seeking from the past success and freaking out about foreigners, races, border control and cultural divisions.

Isn't it strange that as USA is slowly losing its edge, it becomes like Europe? It used to be that Europeans were freaking out about their data being collected by American corporations and today its the Americans freaking out about Chinese ones.
Which model are you using in production that's so slow you'd be waiting for 10 seconds, let alone 60?
CTRL+u gives a nice example of the syntax.

For example to make a box with rounded corners and a top and bottom section, all you need is this intuitive one-liner:

<div class="mt-5 mb-8 first:mt-0 last:mb-0 relative overflow-hidden rounded-2xl"><div class="pt-2 bg-slate-800 shadow-lg group"><div class="flex text-slate-400 text-xs leading-6"><div class="flex-none text-sky-300 border-t border-b border-t-transparent border-b-sky-300 px-4 py-1 flex items-center">app.css</div><div class="flex-auto flex items-center bg-slate-700/50 border border-slate-500/30 rounded-tl"></div></div><div class="children:my-0 children:!shadow-none children:bg-transparent"><pre class="language-css"><code class="language-css"><span class="token atrule"><span class="token rule">@import</span> <span class="token string">"tailwindcss"</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span></span></code></pre></div></div><div class="pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 rounded-2xl dark:ring-1 dark:ring-white/10 dark:ring-inset" aria-hidden="true"></div></div>
Thanks for the catch! Changing it now.
A staff engineer is a level above senior. What they do is make them themselves more valuable than the regular engineer who has been around for 10+ years. As you get experience there is diminishing returns, so most engineers will not make a staff level (though there is plenty of title inflation and so you will find many). A staff engineer needs to know the code (or whatever they engineer) well, but they don't normally write a lot of code. They tend to spend more time thinking about the larger problems (including forcing through upgrades nobody wants to pay for), mentoring juniors, and figuring out the hard architecture problems (software architects have a role, but in my experience they rarely actually create architecture despite the name - possibly because what developers need of architecture is different from management?).

Staff level developers are trusted to figure out what needs to be done without direction. When they are given direction it is figure out how the other engineers break this problem up and do it - typically not do it themselves.

If staff engineers are doing something it is not important to any project. So nobody feels bad about interrupting them if they need help or something urgent comes up. (this also means you are developing your senior developers into staff engineers by giving them responsibility)
You joke, but have fun ensuring your clock is synced to everyone elses, even if it is incredibly accurate...
Compared to that, Swift offers a CLI compiler, half working debugging and VSCode experience, and zero libraries.

I bet very few of these work on Linux, https://swiftpackageindex.com/
It's a given that a "realtime collaborative" app should be used with a reliable network connection. Otherwise you're not really doing realtime collaboration. The presentation has a point that everyone talks about CRDTs all the time but you only need one if your collaboration has a particular structure that requires one, which most collaborations don't. Google Docs, for example, is not peer-to-peer nor does it have long intervals where clients are desynchronized.
It should have been implemented as `def __main__(): ...`
Mailersend Issues
Hello, I am wondering if anyone else has had issues with Mailersend?

This post is not for discussion about what service is better, and what I should look at.

For the last month, I have been trying to get my account approved. Each time I provide more information I get a response of "After careful review, it has been determined that your account does not comply with our terms and community standards. Due to this, your account will not be approved." I have reviewed the terms and community standards over and over and can not find a reason that it would go against them.

I have reached out to them and received a response of:
```
Our system performs various checks on the provided information to determine a new account's validity. After a thorough review and careful consideration by our team, we regret to inform you that your account didn't pass our approval process.

Due to the sensitive nature of our internal security measures, I'm unable to provide specific details regarding the circumstances leading to this decision. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
```

I let them know our business model about our company/organization. and described our use case as "We send emails that are a varity of items. Invoices from donations, purchases, as well as emails that let parents know when their student arrive and leave the event."

Why do companies make this so difficult and hard to pay them to use their services. And why would they deny you without giving you some information about what term you are going against?
For what it's worth, Moonbit (https://www.moonbitlang.com/) is a really nice take on this. Designed by the guys who created Rescript for OCAML, but for WASM-first world.
U.S. students will take the SAT online
You're thinking like a business owner. The people writing these sniping comments about the EU are acting like cult members, because Apple is a cult that happens to be in the form of a for-profit corporation.

To you, 30% is someone your margin and then some. To Apple fans, it's a tithe that must be paid to the cult leader.
To add to that, I'd primarily consider LightGBM if you want to tweak it a lot, and CatBoost if you want great out-of-the-box results. Both are significant improvements over XGBoost, especially in training speed. I would only really consider XGBoost if you don't want software primarily developed by either Microsoft or Yandex.

All three are lightyears ahead of naive random forest implementations, and are in very active development.
It cracks me up when Microsoft posts these infinitesimally niche design projects/articles, where they pretend to care about good design, and then utterly fail to deliver it systematically across the organization, let alone even fractionally.

Remember when Google paid hundreds of freelancers a lot of money to come up with Material, and then how even that fizzled out?
I liked the article. As a male and engineer, it left me thirsty for details that she glossed over, but it was a great fish-out-of-water story.

The real shame is that an article can be vanished like that. Not so long ago, once it was printed it was printed and if you had the magazine in your possession nobody could retract its contents, as far as you're concerned.
It's even easier than that. You use a missile (or bomb) programmed to lock onto the source of the jamming.
Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey kills moose to protect his dogs during race
That would have certainly been a lot better for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that went straight to an early grave.
"According to Iditarod Rule 34, if an edible big game animal — like a moose, caribou or buffalo — is killed in defense of life or property, the musher is required to gut the animal and report it to race officials at the next checkpoint. Mushers who follow must help gut the animal when possible and no teams may pass until the animal is gutted and the musher gutting the animal has proceeded."

Does this rule exist in any other sports?

https://archive.ph/gyruI
> That is my superficial understanding as well but if we are both correct, what is the point?

The point is that application developers can limit access to their $whatever by real humans, and force uniqueness.

> One of the only (dubious) advantages of crypto is that nothing ties a wallet to a person, or a wallet to another wallet unless they interact. How is WorldCoin better than just having a bank account that you have to go into a bank in person to set up?

This seems to be generally about cryptocurrencies at large, doesn't seem specific to Worldcoin as far as I understand.

I think the assumption is that "Someone wants to use a cryptocurrency and someone built a platform, now the builder wants to make sure the user is unique", and without that, then there isn't really anything to discuss.
I’m saying RS-232 is irrelevant both electrically and logically, if you’re already assuming people can agree on something new. There are lots of better cheap 3-wire logic-level serial protocols nowadays. The days when your PC had a literal RS-232 port on the back are long gone.
Show HN: Alpha – finding jobs in the right startup for you
HAMMER OF GOD[1][2][3][4][5]

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-florida-driver-48k-ja...

[3] https://www.cnet.com/culture/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-acc...

[4] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-upholds-fine-jammer-used-bl...

[5] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-339560A1.pdf
I assure you that we all got the allusion that you're making, but given the quote that you're replying to I think that perhaps you personally should not be allowed to own a dog.
Money?

You are the one claiming that Kagi is somehow special, trustworthy, and immune to the same influences that drags down everyone else.
vroomai/live: Chat with Ableton Live in the browser
Everybody is shutting down plants all the time. Because guess what, those power plants have a service life, an economical and a technical one. When one is reached, the plant gets shut down. Whomever is at the helms of goverment doesn't matter, capitalism takes care of this.

More important is who set whick policy. The SPD / Green goverment defined a pretty well thought out nuclear exit strategy, one the industry supported. And then the new CDU/CSU/FDP government nixed that policy, only to hastely introduce a a shitty versiom of the previous exit after Fukushima. Under which government a plant then get shut down isn't relevant.

By the same logic, one could make the Greens the most pro-nuclear party there is, because a Green minister extended the life time of the German NPPs as much as possible. Because the Green absolutely did that, too.
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons
It may not change the minds of those who already strongly believe in the rumors, but it impedes the rumors’ further unfettered spread.
I know that F1 gets a lot of flack for the cycle's of team dominance due to large differences in the cars, but it's something that I quite like about the sport. I find it interesting to learn about pull rod vs push rod suspension, how air is routed for cooling the brake ducts, and other tiny bits of the car. The official tech talk videos on the F1 YouTube channel are also great.

Sure, the cars are so wide and long that it's nearly impossible to pass on some courses (i.e. Monaco). Sure, some cars are much faster than others and you know it's very unlikely that a team like Haas will finish on the podium or even in the points. But, with the current financial regulations teams can't just spend $200m more than someone else. And if you look at the lap time differentials, the spread isn't as big as you might think.

There's always NASCAR and IndyCar if you want to watch a more 'fair' motorsport where people are driving much more similar cars. But I think there's totally a place for a sport where teams aren't on as equal of footing and there's more room for engineering creativity.
> As long as non-profits like the Internet Archive exist, the probability is higher.

No, as good as it is, the Internet Archive in a single point of failure. Which was put on stark display when they decided a few years ago to pick a legal fight over copyright that they could never win and that put their organization at risk.

Also, I've tried to use the Internet Archive to grab Facebook posts. It doesn't work, even for public ones (all I got was pages and pages of the Facebook login screen).
Looks beautiful. I assume our hockey stick temperature charts capture this urban heat island effect of between two and five degrees, right? Anybody know?
I understand the benefits of pair programming, but I don't think it's necessary in every situation. Maybe I'm an outlier, but often times when I'm writing code, I often need to stop and think, (ideally before I start, honestly) but I cannot think if someone is talking to me.

Also, as an introvert, pairing with someone every day would be my own personal hell.
Once you're using an Oracle database, you are probably using proprietary Oracle features, SQL syntax, client libraries, etc. The first chance you get might be a while. I once worked on a project porting an app from Oracle to another commercial DB. When Oracle is deeply embedded in your applications, it's easier said than done.
Ask HN: Can you 3D print clothing?
I'm talking day-to-day garments here - shirts, pants, dresses, etc.

What's the current state of this use-case?
It was Altman's WorldCoin effort and his statements about it that made me very wary of him in the first place.
how are Finnish and Japanese fairly similar? i'm curious what you see that would make them so.
I don't know why but your comment reminded me of learning about $SSLKEYLOGFILE and the ability to retroactively decrypt traffic captured in Wireshark: https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/tls/sslkeylogfile (I was expecting there to be an entry on MDN since my first contact with that env-var was from Mozilla's TLS library but no luck)

I guess it's the fact that in my mental model any supporting library doesn't have to be modified to allow viewing the traffic, and no cert-pining-breaks required
Medellin is bursting with greenery! Everywhere I look, trees stand tall, and many of the newer buildings boast impressive vertical gardens. This not only creates a visually stunning cityscape but also sparks my imagination, making me dream of a future where other cities around the world embrace a similar level of environmental integration.
I am a controls engineer and saying something is CLOSED when it is actually only observed to be NOT OPEN is my personal windmill I tilt at regularly. People have deied before because what the screen said was that the valve is closed, but what the PLC actually observed is that the valve had left the open position, which was the only limit switch present. Maybe the valve is travelling slowly, jammed halfway open, etc. When operators make the complaint you just did I tell them that what I've told them is reality and if they want a true closed we need a closed limit switch.
As someone that believed into the WinRT dream, I am deeply sour with how WinDev managed the whole story, it wasn't only the users not wanting to adopt the new world.

Microsoft itself made a mess out of the developer experience.

Now I am back to distributed computing, and for anything Windows the classical frameworks are good enough.
Memory Unsafety Is an Attitude Problem
Since I know a lot of people don't bother reading the actual articles posted and just focus on the title (I'm guilty of this myself), I'd like to point out the article is not arguing against the importance of memory safe languages like Rust.

Quite the opposite, I'm saying if enough people actually cared C and C++ would have had memory safe subsets ages ago.
It has less to do with Apple, and more to do with Americans worshiping at the altar of corporations. Anything that curbs the unfettered unlimited unchecked power of megacorps is seen as personal assault on the very idea of freedom, or free market , or some other such ideal.
Your response looks like it came from ChatGPT.
There needs to be steps taken in the direction of an international agreement, like the Geneva or apostille conventions, for the purpose of normalizing technology usage, built around a framework of something akin to a universal bill of rights.

Countries have been divided along stages of development. This has led many of the countries who've developed critical technologies to turn a blind in the name of a "wait and see" approach to regulation. On the other hand, many regions that have been historically important players, like the EU, have seen technological penetration both as a blessing and as a curse, like something that needs to be tamed and curbed.

The problem is we haven't seen anything big like this in age and it's frankly overdue. I think experts understand enough about how technology can and will be used to create a sensible reasonable framework that could be a level playing field that respects the rights of industry and consumers.

Anyways, I wish I could speak more about the specifics about what this would look like from my POV, but I'm actually more interested to hear from the audience. How would YOU go about creating some kind of international agreement that could bring about a single standard for technology? What areas would you include? What areas would you allow individual countries/territories to regulate? What would be the number one issue? How would non-signatories be treated?
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing
I know, I know, but hear me (far) out.. didn't Snowflake start out from ex Oracle people?
What are the chances that the ~60 bytes are going to push the request over the frame size and end up splitting into another packet?
Medellín is the most beautiful city I have ever been to. It's very green and clean.
> So this fall, as I flipped through Michelle Lopez’s new book Weeknight Baking, her recipe for Boxed Mix Brownies, From Scratch caught my eye. Would I finally be able to make homemade brownies that would be just as delicious as the ones from a box?

I can’t even fathom how anybody thinks that this is fine on any level (from the mentioned site, the first result about brownies for me, and one of the first few paragraphs). For a while, I rather pay for cooking and recipe books, because wasted time on these texts would worth way more than that money. Especially that even the recipes themselves are terrible most of the time on the internet.

But after a thread a few months ago here on HN, in which people praised w3schools how it’s really a good site, I’m not surprised on anything. If the people who really should know how these things work, and that there are better free alternatives for all content on that site, even encourage this bullshit, then this won’t improve at all.
It’s been known to happen that environmental regulations turn out to be ill-considered, counterproductive, entirely corrupt instances of regulatory capture by politically dominant industries, or simply poor cost-benefit tradeoffs. Gigantic pickups are a consequence of poorly considered environmental regulations in the United States, for instance.
"Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind's made up".
do you really think slapping crapple for their stupidity for a couple bil is gonna make a sizeable chunk of EU's yearly income?
Yes, all of this Oracle Java licensing drama only applies if you're using the Oracle JDK.

The vast majority of people can just use a JDK from any of the other vendors and tell Oracle to pound sand.

Even if you do need paid support, you should pay Azul instead of Oracle, just out of principle.
Lost in all coverage of this battle of the middlemen is the effect on the artists actually making the product. How would lower prices make any difference in Spotify’s royalty rate bullying in a market saturated with alternatives that they already dominate? Are there really that many more consumers who want but aren’t already paying for a streaming service or using free alternatives? There are legit discussions to be had about app store policies, but I can’t see how the music streaming context is the place to have them.
You a seriously denying that generative AI is used to create fake images, videos and scam / spam texts? Really?
Tailwind is the second best thing ever happend to frontend, only Vue 3 tops it.

Not having to come up with names for CSS classes, no duplicated CSS code, no fighting conflicting classes, everything in one file, being able to visualize a component just by reading the code... it's a godsend. I'll never go back to SCSS unless work obliges me.

Vue 3 with <script setup lang="ts">, TailwindCSS and Vite. The way God intended.
Here you go! I just uploaded results from latest mesa/main on my RTX 4060 laptop GPU. Happy comparing!

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/displayreport.php?id=28783
Yes. Verification of facts is not always easy. That's why, for practical reasons, we defer on many things to people we trust (or are intimidated into "trusting") as authorities, unless we have a reason not to.

And reason is like a muscle. You must practice it, and you must not only practice it, but also practice self-discipline. A practiced intellect backed by vice will only be better at rationalizing bad things.
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> Then Worldcoin can guarantee/prove that one individual only has one wallet.

Which only works if you have somehow created a completely secure method proving the provenance of iris scan data. Given the intent is to lock a bunch of money behind this, I highly doubt that this is remotely possible.

If worldcoin has real value, someone will find a way to obtain and replay iris scans to make money.

Biometrics is simply not a good security mechanism.
I read this paper claiming that there's no fundamental limitations to Postgres' vector support down the line. Pretty excited for the work Supabase, Neon, Tembo, ourselves at ParadeDB and many others are doing to keep pushing it forward.

Definitely more and more vector production workloads coming to Postgres

Paper: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/csjgwang/pubs/ICDE24_VecDB.p...
We Snuck into Pine Gap, a secretive CIA Base in the Aussie Outback [video]
ChatGPT credentials snagged by infostealers on 225K infected devices
I've always been into Coil and TG and proper industrial and never really got into Skinny Puppy until lately but I really like it. Stairs and Flowers might as well be labelled "dub hiphop". I think I was just expecting some Front 242 / KMFDM / NIN kind of band and that's there, but there's also something really unique there, too.
If it breaks copyright then it is illegal
> There was an incredibly stubborn post-Cold War "end of history"

It's hard to tell whether all these comments are part of online propaganda or people regurgitating propaganda they watched on youtube. Like clockwork, the same talking points with the same key words.

> What's been starkly revealed since is that Europe is woefully unprepared to respond to any kind of aggression

Europe is one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world. Maintains the largest armed forces in the world. And is one of the biggest aggressors in the world. Ask the north africans, middle easterners and sub saharan africans, etc.

> wholly reliant on America.

It's either be reliant on america or become our competitor. Besides, what's your point here? That europe wants a nuclear war with russia?

> At some point you have to get serious and live in the real world where threats still exist.

Europe is the threat. It's funny how the war in ukraine is between european military powers and yet you claim europe is unprepared for aggression. Most of europe is part of NATO, the biggest source of violence and aggression in the world.
The phoneme mix is uncannily similar.