skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have their names memorized? If you met one dining with their family at a country club, would you know what they did?

Their personal reputations are still largely intact.
Heh, I thought it was L1, symbolising both aerospace (Lagrange point) and “close-to-hardware” (cache).

(odin means one in some languages)
Nature article, happy now?

> The case for Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy is strong, if circumstantial. A 2003 paper2 led by Chris Tyler-Smith, an evolutionary geneticist now at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, discovered that 8% of men in 16 populations spanning Asia (and 0.5% of men worldwide) shared nearly identical Y-chromosome sequences. The variation that did exist in their DNA suggested that the lineage began around 1,000 years ago in Mongolia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.16767#:~:text=Th....
To be honest I don't think it's a lack of intelligence (although that can be the case). To get on the MBA you have to have reasonably high mental horsepower. It's more that in corporate machines, management are so far removed and abstracted from making things that they become administrators by default.

i.e. the core job becomes tweaking the money making machine. And because everything is so complex it's almost impossible for anyone to identify which tweaks are moving the needle. And so self promotion, displays of power and competence become the de-facto measure of competency. In other words, they become politicians.

"The purpose of the system, is what it does"

That doesn't mean that leadership isn't necessary, it just more often comes too little too late because everyone's been busy doing nothing important.
I don't think you can be too smart for your own good, but there might be a confusion about what "smart" means.

Most people get the difference between intelligence, and knowledge, but there is something in between: technique. And this is the part that confuses most people - it seems kind of like intelligence, but really it's more like knowledge. You may know a technique, you may be able to use it, and still have no idea why it works, why it's used, and where it's no longer applicable.
Gavin Belson and Bavin Gelson?
Oh, affaires do exist. Always have. They are, especially since divorce is socially acceptable, the minority.

Personally, I don't have an issue with this, people are free to live their lives.
“Merger”… functionally it was more like a SPAC. Boeing buys McDonnel Douglas with shares with a bonus of letting them control the board. Boeing just announced their acquisition of spirit aerosystems, same company responsible for the fuselage mishaps. Somehow I doubt they’re buying them for any of their aerospace expertise, but rather to go in and burn all their records.

The Boeing of old has been long gone since you were last there. It’s all run by MBAs now whose sole purpose is to minimize how much engineering can be done by the company.

Expect more deaths in the future. They seem very content continuing to solve systemic engineering problems with only business strategy.
How did you initiate the first 57 telegram chats? Can you scale that?
Show HN: Small script to get CSS selector of URL HTML doc
Have a complete CSS selector of URL HTML doc. ie. no disappointing eg. #JbhnOfkn > div
> IMO actual leaders are just people who think ahead so when other people don't know what to do they have some sort of answer. They may not be in positions of authority at all.

That's a really great pithy summary. It gels with one popular definition of software architecture: good software architecture anticipates which bits of a codebase/solution are likely to change more effectively than bad software architecture.
The "ministry of war" renaming itself to "department of defence" is a classic example.
Sky lapse in two tone
Do you mean to draw our attention to the part at the end of the "Definition" section that begins Among laypeople, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood, or do yourself understand it to mean "stupid people are too stupid to know they are stupid", in which case this doesn't contradict Bertrand Russell?
And Sora looks better than any competitor too
Low-quality studies mean meta-analyses are frequently worse than single studies
It’s not about Elon Musk v. Sam Altman as concerns the welfare of the public. The SEC is involved/investigating, Microsoft is diversifying, and the heavily-redacted, “discovery pre-empt” is a weird move.

What the public should care about is what comes to light in discovery: it doesn’t look like it’s going to be a little bad.
This is how all large companies have always worked. That's why the solution of hoping they'll be nice has rarely worked out. You want companies to behave themselves? You _regulate_ them.

(There actually _is_ a partial market solution; if a company engages in sufficiently objectionable behaviour, or is sufficiently poorly run, it is unpurchasable by a lot of funds. It's a relatively low bar, though; despite being so poorly run that it is apparently unable to build planes reliably at all anymore, Boeing has an ESG score of 40. Which is _bad_, and worse than any other major aircraft manufacturer, but is not sufficient to make it untouchable.)
> Xorg offers a fairly good out-of-box experience on many GPUs but it falls apart when you try to do things that would be considered normal on other OSes

You are you talking about Wayland. Wayland has no or severely lacking mechanisms for screenshots, screen sharing, positioning of windows, window management, window icons, drag and drop, ...

Many of the issues are duck-taped with a clusterfuck of incompatible external protocols which turns the whole ecosystem into a complete mess.

But what do you expect from a severely lacking protocol designed for digital signage and car entertainment systems that is being shoehorned into a desktop protocol.

> Everybody keeps treating this issue like it's just programmers deprecating old code for fun

No. It's all about funding. DARPA (=RedHat) used to fund X11, now it's funding Wayland. That's it. X11 is still to this day the better solution for Desktops, by a long shot.

> while it's easy to downplay the importance of its shortcomings

The only shortcomings that are consistently being downplayed are those of Wayland.
Why do you say this about Windows?
I was previously a macOS only user for a long time but now almost solely use Windows 11 because it mostly does what I tell it and that's it. You can set up the thing very easily to ignore pretty much all the Microsoft shenanigans and also configure it in a way that it knows you are an advanced user and won't bother you with the little things.
I just restarted yesterday after a 16 days uptime and that's just because I felt like it, it was running just fine otherwise.

I really don't know why people have this opinion of modern Windows because that just doesn't match reality.
I'm sorry to insist but there are groups here who abuse flagging as a censorship tool to suppress opinions they disagree with.

Anything that goes against the status quo has a high chance of being flagged, I've seen this happen over and over and especially recently.
A near miss taken seriously today is a fatality avoided tomorrow.
Yes indeed, we would not have started Pijul without the hope that at least theoretically, patch-based designs could be faster than snapshots. "Patch-based is slow" without any other argument is not a very informed claim, Pijul is actually faster than Git in some cases (in fact Pijul is faster where it matters most IMHO: large files and/or large repos, conflicts and blames). Not because we're better at tweaking C code (we're definitely not!), but because we designed our datastructures like theorists, and only then looked at how (and whether!) to implement things. One advantage we had over Linus is that we had no time pressure: we could well use Darcs, Git, or Mercurial to write Pijul initially (we used Darcs, actually), and it didn't matter much if we failed.

It took a little bit of work to get that down to actual fast code, for example I had to write my own key-value store, which wasn't a particularly pleasant experience, and I don't think any existing programming language could have helped, it would have required a full linear logic type system. But at least now that thing (Sanakirja) exists, is more generic, and modular than any storage library I know (I've used it to implement ropes, r trees, radix trees…), and its key-value store is faster than the fastest C equivalent (LMDB).

Could we do the same in Haskell or OCaml? As much as I like these two languages, I don't think I could have written Sanakirja in a garbage-collected language, mostly because Sanakirja is generic in its underlying storage layer: it could be mmap, a compressed file, an entire block device in Unix, an io_uring buffer ring, or something else. And the notion of ownership of the objects in the dictionary is absolutely crucial: Sanakirja allows you to fork a key-value store efficiently, so one question is, what should happen when your code drops a reference to an object from the kv store? what if you're deleting the last fork of a table containing that object? are these two the same thing? Having to explain these to a GC would have been hard I think.

I wouldn't have done it in C/C++ either, because it would have taken forever to debug (it already did take a long time), and even C++-style polymorphism (templates) isn't enough for the use of Sanakirja we have in Pijul.

remember the "poop" paper about mmap for databases, right? Well, guess what: having a generic key-value store implementation allowed me to benchmark their claims, and actually compare congestion, throughput, speed between mmap and io_uring. Conclusion: mmap rocks, actually.
Hamas was elected in 2006. Hamas was initially funded by Israel - yes they are an Israeli creation to weaken the Palestinian Authority. Let that sink in for a minute. Over 50% of Gaza's population was born after this election. Of the remaining, there was barely 40% turnout and Hamas barely won. But yet, you cling to the narrative fed to you that they are all guilty (which means you ascribe to collective punishment - a war crime).

The infrastructure destruction has been going on for decades. Israel routinely destroys Palestinian homes prior to October 7th. Is that Hamas? when they do it in the West Bank where Hamas is not active, is that Hamas too? How about the Thousands of Palestinian Men, Women and Children arrested without charge or trial and help in inhuman detention camps, is that Hamas? or are you maybe just trying to turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed United States political, financial and military support so that you can sleep better at night.... it was Hamas is getting old. At some point you need to wake up and understand that the real boogeyman is Israel. They are not your friend
First step is pro-actively calling them and speaking to a human.

It does happen but you need to be pro-active and not waiting on a reply to a ticket.

I can imagine that ticket slowly sinking to the bottom of the pile as nobody wants to take that on or make that decision, especially in writing!
Everyone has their coordinated disclosure policies, but not all of them are as harsh as Rapid7's. You mentioned Project Zero, it's a great example:

>Project Zero follows a 90+30 disclosure deadline policy, which means that a vendor has 90 days after Project Zero notifies them about a security vulnerability to make a patch available to users. If they make a patch available within 90 days, Project Zero will publicly disclose details of the vulnerability 30 days after the patch has been made available to users.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/vulnerability-discl...

Giving vendors 30 days after a fix is a much more user-friendly thing to do then releasing ready-made exploits simultaneously with a patch, isn't it?
Mmmh do you mean https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787 ? Because the mentioned MR [1] discussion seems calm?

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6190
Being open to litigation does not destroy you.

Also a contract is serious business.
Yeah it's definitely an improvement, but even with the "after" screenshot I can't imagine voluntarily using this % scaled rendering. I'm going to turn into a bitmap font absolutist.
HN hug of death?

clicking create new gives me a blank white page
OpenAI probably wants to do a big release, ChatGPT 4 vision sucks. They know that whatever they release, other competitors will rush to copy it, so they need to release something that has an excellent advantage to reap the benefits.

We have to wait and see when they release Sora and new stuff.
TeamCity auth bypass bug exploited to mass-generate admin accounts
Two Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities in JetBrains TeamCity
> Funny enough I didn't mention fractional scale but heterogeneous scale factors across monitors.

Even more niche. And I'm not saying it's not worth solving, I'm saying your niche isn't more important than other niches.

> it's more just that NVIDIA specifically holds Wayland compositors back for desktop support.

As I wrote, my issues were all on Intel graphics. From 3 different generations.

> So, if you're not willing to debug your Linux issues,

I literally wrote the opposite of that.

Happy to see you confirm the impression I initially put forth though.
Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle
Unfortunately, this too will be taken too far. Like the "fake it till you make it" thing.

Yes, sometimes it's OK to say "I don't know". But sometimes it's really not. All people, smart or not, start off in a state of "I don't know". But if it's your job to know then you need to put in the work to make sure you know, or at least know as much as you can. Someone saying "I don't know" doesn't mean they are dumb or smart, it could just mean they are lazy.

On number 2 I just disagree with the definition of smart. A smart person knows when to listen to someone and when not. Should you ignore people with less experience? Of course not. Should you listen to everyone? Of course not!

Smart people definitely suffer from being human, like everyone else, and can become emotionally attached to their ideas etc. I don't think this is a "smart person" trait. But, even so, it is often a very good idea to not buckle to the pressure of fashion and short-term trends. For every story of someone refusing to adapt there is one of someone who was right all along but it took a while for the world to realise.
the recognition is definitively there, in ppl, but lacking in most organizations esp. industries.

interesting if endeavors with nlp and llm's can help to spread nuance or commodify motivation and control.
Sharing of read-only pages from the executable is done at the kernel (page cache) level. I agree that for example JIT compiled code is not shared.
The original post made it sound unusual that civilians are dying in such high numbers. It is unfortunately not unusual that civilians die at higher numbers than combatants during war, the opposite is often true.
Anything more recent backong up the, I quote, "strong, if circumstantial" claim?

The claim sure is sensational and hood for headlines. If true, it would be quite a thing in the field of genetics. So I assume there was more than one study done, right? Also on the method used, because it coupd be used for so many other use cases!

Good to know so, that we all can be Genghis Khan if we want. Finally an alternative to Batman! And we would even save, I assume, western civilisation by producing a lot of good strong children with the, what, Harem (we would need a better, western term for that, right?) we get provided by, well, whom exactly?
That is so utterly insane. Criminal! I guess that they were motivated by the ease with which the text could be translated into another language... but still criminal.
Take off your tin foil hat mate.
Key AI code stolen from Google? [pdf]
Any RAW image that comes out of a modern digital sensor can be made to look like anything else, as Steve Yedlin thoroughly demonstrated. They look the same because they are lit, edited and color graded the same
I don't know how old you are, but as a younger millennial these look pretty awful to me (no disrespect). I'm sure nostalgia plays a part. I feel the same way about videos/sci-fi shows from the 2000s - none of the modern stuff quite feels the same.

But as another commenter said, I don't think it's the camera itself - it's the stylistic changes in lighting, camera angles, direction, etc. Each decade has a distinct 'feel' - films/shows in the 80s don't feel like the 90s, or the 2000s like the 2010s, etc.
Supabase offers version controlled database? To be clear, what dolt does is enabling you to branch like git and then merge your branch, rollback old "commits" of your database and similar stuff. It is much more advanced than audit logging
Wonder what do you mean by NGO? Most businesses are NGOs. In this case, (some parts of) OpenAI is also a non-profit; it doesn't mean non-revenue.
Nothing quite replaced Dr Dobbs... Hacker News offers random links to the kind of technical articles that Dr Dobbs used to have, but of course - for better or worse - it's a lot less focused.
Post Office scandal: MPs warn the firm is not fit to handle victim compensation
Haniyeh and the others in Qatar are not the leadership. Sinwar and the commanders of Al Qassam in Gaza are the leadership. They're the ones who organised "operation Al Aqsa flood", notably without informing Haniyeh, they're the ones holding the line in Gaza, instead of being entertained by the Qataris while their people die by the hundreds daily. That's why Israel is after them and tolerating Haniyeh, who is more useful to them as an intermediary to Sinwar, than anything else.

Once the war is over and Sinwar is dead or captured then they will probably turn to Haniyeh, but until then his role is reduced to that of a senior negotiator and nothing more.
> Thanks to its web-based architecture, Tauri applications are lightweight and fast. Tauri runs on web technologies, and apps run smoothly on low-end hardware.

My opinion: Tauri is useful but being web-based some of Electron's problems apply. Especially I wouldn't call it leightweight and fast and I don't think that a webview would run smoothly on low-end hardware.

It really seems this article has to be dismissed as a honeypot for search engines like Google or Bing I am afraid. After some thinking why: LogRocket is a for-profit organisation after all. They have products for monitoring apps. To sell they need leads.

So we have a case of misaligned incentives: The usefulness or factual correctness is not the ultimative motive, but success of business. Whatever.
> And all the studies done to understand those numbers show the difference in outcome is driven by tze social environment and esucation systems, and not the sexe.

No this is wrong, the studies done has shown that you can make girls do better and boys do worse by priming them. No study done has shown that you can eliminate this gap, just move it towards boys or girls being advantaged.

> You, of course, will ignore that I am sure

No, I read those studies. The stereotype threat paper just show that you can boost girls performance at the cost of boys performance and thus get equal performance at math, not that you can get relative equal performance at math and language. No such paper has shown that you can eliminate the language-math gap between girls and boys, and all data shows that the language-math divide for boys and girls stays the same.

So, all the progressive help to get girls better at math just made girls equal to boys at math, but now girls has an enormous advantage at language because they boosted girls score overall, they didn't make things equal.
If it leads to a hype bubble bursting, and some long overdue regulation around AI, I am all for it.

And if it leads to korw sxrutiny around non-profit shenenigans, all the better. The cast in this story is still funny so.
Maybe the next step is to react to the malicious compliance and be crystal clear that app stores can't charge any mandatory fees whatsoever, they just have to run it at a loss or deliver services that their customers actually want to pay for, being a platform is rewarding in itself, they don't need that money, it's just their out-of-control greed that craves it.

Anyway, the solution is to not back down and make these execs understand that any heel-dragging will be met with even harsher measures that will cost them dearly. Any threats to leave the market is empty, the unlimited greed that make them bullies make them unable to do that.
Basically, every communist country that puts "Democratic", "People's" and "Republic" in its name.
Interesting -

As a Minuteman launch officer, I'd be curious what are your thoughts on the incursion accounts of launch officers Robert Salas & David Schindele? (I understand there were comparable reports going into the 1970s as well but I'm not as familiar with those)

Salas @ Malmstrom
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-dea...

Schindele @ Minot:
https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2023/06/forme...
I'm complaining about clickbait.
Yours is exactly the kind of attitude that gets people killed in workplaces.

I slip on a puddle, but I'm young and nimble so I catch myself. No harm done to me, not a serious incident right? I don't report the puddle. Then another guy comes alone, he's older, his reflexes aren't so good. He bounces his head off the concrete and dies. This is why all workplace safety policies tell you to treat near misses like the real thing. The only difference between them is circumstantial luck.
Yeah, this is how you realize fanboyism is nuts.
As much as I loved the openness of original Mac OS X and its straightforward management, modern macOS is a pain in the ass for so many "advanced" interactions that I think it is questionnable if it's worth the trouble (before talking about other costs).

It feels nostalgic but I kinda hate doing many things on macOS nowadays. If you don't need Mac only software, it's probably best to use something else considering the hardware costs.
What paperless office workflow do you use?
Hi there hacker news,

I would like to know what you tooling/workflow looks like for your paperless office at home.

I personally atm. use a synology NAS on which I run paperless-ngx. Im still getting used to it and so far I really like it (The effort of setting up at first ignored though. I wasnt familiar with docker to be honest.)

However it feels to me like paperless is "just" useful as a document archiving solution.

I have been looking for solutions that are ideally open source or fre at the least but I could not find anything that satisfies my needs. You see the problem is that im VERY forgetful and everything that a machine is not reminding me of is probably going to go missing.

So ideally I would like to have the ability to have something like a "corespondence" or a thread attached to a bunch of documents that are archived in paperless (or whatever other solution).

Example:

Imagine you get a physical mail from the IRS asking you to file your taxes retroactively for 2022.
Now you are under the impression that you have done that already. So you have to do some work.
This physical mail is now the start of a corespondence with a sender that might already be known in your paperless solution.
You look for your tax return in paperless and send it to the government. Then you might get mail back (which becomes another document in your archive) telling you that there was an error and you need to resend some stuff. You send the new stuff and ideally you attach the send receipt to the "corespondence" that I am talking about. If you dont get an answer from the government in time It would also be nice if this "corespondence" is able to notify me somehow to take a nother look at the matter. Ideally at the end I can mark a "correspondence" as done, so i know that all is done but im still able to look up the paper trail later on for this specific issue.

I think you get my idea. I was wondering how you people are dealing with this problem.
Thanks already.