skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a thread full of people with weird preconceptions talking past each-other, this is the most perfectly wrong statement anyone has made.

The people you're talking about would strangle this entire country to death (and have) before allowing a single 3-story building to be built outside of the small areas that were already been zoned for it 80 years ago.

The Canadian Indigenous identity issues tied up in this project are the only force that have ever been powerful enough to bludgeon them into submission, just this one time.
look, I know complaining about the webpage is not acceptable here, but yikes who is the target audience for that page?
> Does it matter to you? Yes.

> Will you admit it? No.

Are you trying to telling me my opinion? Because no, it does not matter to me. Your account would not be accepted because I don't know you.
Naturally the whole issue is that their store isn't as successful.

It is similar to how Microsoft is now unhappy to have to deal with Apple and Google, after killing Windows Phone, when it was around 10%.

Turns out 10% market share was still better than not owning any mobile platform where they can't really push XBox games as they wish.
There is an industry of gurus who teach guys how to digitally turn out girls on Instagram. This is a good thing for society?
They were running their whole business on one RDS instance 4 years ago. Do you think they now have one customer larger than all their customers combined 4 years ago?
I got a Comma Panda to start and have been playing around with gathering obd data. It works for my F150 truck to get raw packets, but the ODBC files don't seem to work (could be my fault though in using them). My truck is from mid 2010s so not supported by Comma, so I would have to do some reverse engineering to figure out the signals.

Im just wondering if this is even worth pursuing - if I can't for example even reach the ABS unit over OBD2 (for example, wheel speed sensors just tie directly into it without being exposed to the general network), then its not really possible. In the same way that Im guessing, if you don't have lane keeping assist in your car, the power steering system is a closed system, unreachable by OBD2.

I have a plan to do this safely (i.e run from laptop, only activate the program to test it out in empty parking lots).
Success of the team, like getting the next funding round, making the stock worth more, etc.

Success and happiness of the team, like cooperating to help other people's work go well, not being seen as a slacker or incompetent, etc.

Societally beneficial, like doing things that are obviously good for society (e.g., improving health) and not doing things that are bad (e.g., investment scams, surveillance capitalism).
My language may be imprecise.

What I mean is that you can assign a direction to each point of the torus, and have it be consistent with it's neighbors (free of discontinuities) throughout the entire surface. This is in contrast to a sphere, which will always have tufts (poles) at at least one point.

Note that this only applies within the surface itself, not to it's embedding in 3d space (the donut shape we're all familiar with). If north points up on the outside edge, it'll point down to us on the inside edge, but an ant on the surface would experience no contradictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus#/media/File:Torus_cycles...
I think we should modify the laws covering credit reporting agencies to cover these knuckleheads and add criminal penalties for non compliance.
Ask HN: Website with My Email and Phone Was Hacked. Any Way to Find Out Which?
For about the last week I suddenly started getting bombarded with scam calls and emails. Pretty good sign that my info was recently leaked/ stolen from some website that has not yet disclosed.

I checked https://haveibeenpwned.com but nothing new shows up. My phone number is only 2 years old so I know it isn’t from the previous incidents (looking at you hardware wallet Ledger!).

Today I got another scam email but this time they were so sloppy they sent the email with everyone listed. So I browsed through the emails and a lot of them are tech related and some of the people I looked up work in tech.

I typically put in a fake phone number into websites for online orders for this purpose and only give out my phone to websites that actually need it which makes this more worrying to me.

Any way of tracking this down, or should I not bother and just bite the bullet and do another phone number change?
For those that need more context

"On Feb. 6, 1897, Indiana's state representatives voted to declare 3.2 the legal value of pi"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/02/05/indianas-...
Yeah, but MirageOS isn't the only unikernel in town, there are others, even with partial POSIX support.
It's so great to read genuine yet experienced insight like this.

Like last night on Twitter I saw an opening for Robotic Behavior Coordinator at Figure. I know for sure, having analyzed this problem with "nothing else" to do for 20 years, I would crush it with humility, and humanity would profit in orders of magnitude.

But they are not set up to hand me control of the rounding error of $40M I'd like [and would pay forward], *nor would their teams listen to me, due to human nature and academ-uenza*.

Such is our loss.

(as you ~say, "reinventing the ecosystem from scratch...")
Zoomers will never escape samsara! I assume that's what you meant, right?
The audio version read by David Horovitch is incredible.
You're confusing the 24-bit HDC-402 on the lander with the custom 18-bit computer on the orbiter (p.164), which had it's origins in the sequencer for the Mariner missions (p.152-154).

Though given the apparent level of NASA involvement in the 402's design, and the lack of evidence I can find for use outside of NASA, it might as well be called custom.
If you want a job at a FAANG and can justify your skills, apply to the FAANG.

If you want to sell your SaaS for $100k and can justify that price, list it with a small business broker.

That's not "merger" or "acquihire" scale, it's a portfolio or retirement purchase for an entrepreneurial tech person or a retired high-income professional type.
They can definitely manipulate the default (“recommended”) sort to bury bad reviews. Companies do that all the time. They can also reply to reviews. I’m not sure about control over visibility if a user chooses to sort chronologically, though.
Trending tech conferences in Europe 2024
Here’s the list of Europe’s top-tier tech conferences scheduled for 2024.
https://hackmd.io looks great, though I have not used it as much as I would have liked to.
I see your point. I didn't mean to imply that those were also things you have said, I meant to demonstrate that I _have_ heard all three of those things from others before.
Anyone else think it was a little strange Hugo returned it?

Gives reasons and says its, "because I'm a product guy" but you'd think someone with that much money, involvement in the field, and praise for the AVP would hang onto it. If I were him I'd keep it around at least to track new features and apps.

Not knowing much about Hugo and his background I thought the most interesting part of the blog was when he described holding back OG Oculus team members from releasing more devkits at Facebook.
It's all good, I feel like we're all kids when we wonder about the universe
It doesn't help that they don't push the platform, it is simply not as good on a device like the deck, or a TV, and Tim Sweeney is so hostile to Linux making it stuck with the awful Windows UX.

Games get my money on Steam because Steam provides me with a great experience to play those games. It's far more than just a CDN, and all it takes is to try to use an EA game on the Deck to see how bad other platforms are.
On the flip side, the vast majority of people can't make up a username as cool as yours.
I've probably got 60+ tabs open at any given point in time, spread out over multiple windows.
I start counting everything at two, 'cause I'm always number one!
> Figma’s database stack has grown almost 100x since 2020

The first sentence from the article seems to suggest its possible?
While it doesn't help much with the costs of replication, Spanner can be configured with read only replicas that don't participate in voting for commits, so they don't impact the quorum latency.

Reads can then be done with different consistency requirements, e.g., bounded staleness (which guarantees data less stale than the time bound requested).

See https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest/v1/Tran... or https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reads#read_types and https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/create-manage-configur...
Is this pedantic or pragmatic? A commodity, needed/wanted by all people, used to be available at a price point X, is now unaffordable for a large percentage of its erstwhile consumers is a shortage.

If that commodity satisfies a basic need, its unavilability is just even more fucked up.
Open Source Infinite Craft Clone
> There is no such thing in the US as a truly free market.

Just like there are no circles in the US which are exactly 1.234 meters in diameter. Yes, the concept of a "free market" is an ideal, like the concept of a circle is. That doesn't mean that there aren't instantiations of either one which are closer to the ideal than others.

The market for programmers is one of the freest there is. We don't have guilds limiting how many people can be programmers (like, e.g. the American Medical Association does for doctors.) And we don't have unions forcing arbitrary seniority rules, or uniform pay scales.

And government regulation varies from state to state, but most states are "at will" states--you can either quit or be fired at any time for any reason. You don't have to provide any minimum amount of vacation.

The market in programmers is way more free than, say, the market in automobiles or airplanes, where there are all kinds of regulations about safety, etc. But if you can't afford a Ferrari, or a private jet, that doesn't mean there is a Ferrari shortage, or a private jet shortage.

And if you can't afford to pay market wages for programmers, that doesn't mean there is a shortage of programmers either.
As mentioned in the article, Pornhub isn't literally blocked, rather they're serving a page containing a statement protesting Texas' law along with a request for users to contact their representatives, to any Texas IP.
> Luckily, this will only affect buyers in Europe

Yeah, what a luck
To this day, I use

COPY CON FILENAME.TXT

to make a quick-n-dirty note of something without leaving the terminal.
>But on more practical grounds, this is creating a great big loophole for the traditional resource extraction companies to circumvent environment regulation by partnering with first nations on projects.

There's a certain demographic that can't accept that indigenous people might not be nature-worshipping druids that never pollute and are infallible stewards of the land, so through that lens of course they don't need to be subject to environmental regulations.
Even HTTP1.0 is fairly enough and dead simple to implement.

Usually, just a bunch of planned obsolescence fan boys.
I did not know you can magically start bread making factories at a whim
If they don't like it, they could use a different platform.

The reason Steam gets my money is because the 10ft UX is by far better. It's not just a CDN, it's an experience to play games.
Where's the fun in that? I'm not being snarky either. Maybe it's not the best decision business-wise, but I guarantee it was more challenging and more fun. There's something to be said for that.
> Instead of accepting responsibility

"He (DHH) called it a systemic failure on the company’s part."

“There was some awareness at the time within the company that that list had existed and it wasn’t acted upon. That is squarely on Jason’s and my record.” The list, he said, “in itself is just a gross violation of the trust … It’s just wrong in all sorts of fundamental ways.”

How exactly did he not accept responsibility?
> How is this enforceable if a company does not physically operate in any capacity in that state?

Enforce what? Texas took no step to block them.

> Pornhub Disables Website in Texas Over Age-Verification Law

Pornhub blocked themselves in Texas. It's like all these US sites preventing EU users from visiting them, just because they don't want to be GDPR compliant.
30% sounds high. Are there anticompetitive effects at play?

I play so few games that I'm happy to buy mostly from the much smaller gog.com. I'm not sure if their fees are less, but it at least raises competition.

I generally don't trust DRM platforms like Steam or Epic, but bravo to Tim Sweeney for championing smaller publishers unable to negotiate down from Steam's 30% fees.
Yeah I've popped my image onto AWS and got it running in an instance, I figure the next port of call is the terraform part of the docs to see how you'd put something out in production.

It would be cool to write some sort of book like, ops for k8s people, where it takes a lot of the common concepts in k8s and explains how you'd do them with this system.

ops seems like decent a CLI to get things done but as far as I can see not really an orchestration system in the same way as k8s? Perhaps I misunderstood.
most of the examples in that paper (a single paper) show that DNA is nearly all you need, with the rest being RNA.
so do you meanwhile recognize him as one of the guys who started the age of enlightenment and defined what it is? with, for example this very essay that is referenced here? which is one of the groundbreaking philosophical works of that epoch?
"Internet" or "Intercourse"?
I tried it for a solid 5m before noping TF out. There was also a bunch of mudslinging against Ellen Pao when it turned out she was basically just a scapegoat for the founders and other reddit higher ups to make some unpopular (at the time, given public context) decisions
I would if I didn't have to first create an account. Cross-logging in with an existing account from a different website isn't an option for me either, unfortunately.
Thanks for the daily dose of intolerance motivated by “religion”.

The leader point is also comic considering how well it’s been going with the current boomer leaders.
More powerful Go execution traces
I'm wondering if this app will eventually work with other (e.g. self-hosted) Matrix accounts or if it'll remain locked to Beeper's.
At least IPv6 is reasonably scaled for our world which IPv4 was never meant to be (The abomination of NAT).
SpaceX confirms successful orbit of largest spacecraft ever!
Also https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x...
> Get your teammates to update to and keep management nervous and focused on improving the employee's lives.

If you're working for a company that actively monitors this sort of thing, I don't think that management's response will be "let's make our employees; lives better."
> when you can get 99% of the benefits by baking the output of gen AI in the game with none of the drawbacks like losing the shared experience of a game or playing roulette with the quality of someone's experience.

You're making tremendous assumptions here:

- That the shared experience of game is always more fun than individual experiences.

- That only 1% of benefits can come from real-time AI decision-making.

- That using AI will mean playing roulette with experience, AND that playing roulette can never be fun.

I would bet all the money on earth that game developers will prove you wrong in each of these areas over the course of the next 3-5 years.
Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel
In continuation with our series about Kernel Integration we'll go into more detail about how regression detection, processing, and tracking can be improved to provide a better service to developers and maintainers.
Maybe internet intercourse
A new sorted set implementation from ground up
At least in Germany quality has gone downhill.

I still own some Billies made in 1995 or so by Ikea. Literally massive wood and damn good book shelves.
The ones bought by me in 2008 or so very noticeably less well build but still ok.
The ones we bought in 2018 or so are shit, especially the shelves are so thin that they begin to sag.

In 2008 or so a friend of mine bought a "kallax" (another name then) and it was awesome, it's still in his basement and looks good. We bought one in 2023 and it's basically only paint, some "wood" and air. It's ok to store stuff in, but it's impossible to drill a screw into the wood. It's like trying to screw paper.
Actually, Apple does this for iCloud! They use FoundationDB[1] to store billions of databases, one for each user (plus shared or global databases).

See: https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-apple-built-icloud-to-...

Discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028672

[1]: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoundationDB
so your argument is that you don't need to be ethical because there exist people that do worse things than you?
Triadex Muse in JavaScript (2017)
This is my guess of why they didn't use Citus. They weren't interested in the options of (1) going multi-cloud [DB in Azure Cosmos / Backend(s) in AWS] (2) going all-in on Azure [DB in Azure Cosmos / Backend(s) in Azure] (3) self-managing Postgres+Citus in EC2.

It'd be interesting to compare the expected capex of developing this in-house solution + the opex of maintaining it vs the same categories of expected costs for option (3) – because I imagine that's probably the most palatable option.

They also may have pre-paid for dedicated RDS instances for the next X years (before this horizontal scaling initiative began, to boot), as AWS allows companies to do this at a pretty steep discount rate, which would probably tilt them away from (3).
> I am in a different line of work now. In this new line of work the business challenges are greater but the technical challenges are less challenging. I am essentially starting over so at the moment the technical challenges are still plenty challenging for me.

What are you doing now exactly?
For the vast majority of obese people the cause lies in overeating - especially where it concerns high-fat and -sugar foods - and the cure in eating less and to a certain (but lesser) extent getting more physical exercise. There are people for whom this does not hold as they gain weight due to other reasons - thyroid problems, Prader-Willi syndrome, Cushings syndrome, 'side effects' of medication they take for other conditions and more - but these are the exceptions to the rule.

What do you think is the main cause for obesity?
Great, I haven’t had the same experience and I’m only 56 so any advice you have would be much appreciated.
Iran's current government is socialist though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Part...

It's the most deadly conflict of the region and it's brushed off because it's the fault of a socialist dictator.

I am not right wing. Last election I voted for a socialist union leader despite not being socialist. As someone in academia I'm frustrated with so much corruption and harassment and bullshit passing off as science by leftists. This is where I come from.

>I love how Americans are so brainwashed about "the communist threat". I'm sure there are sometimes political games from China, sometimes linked to ideology (and maybe the example you gave it's indeed one of them, big deal, there are plenty of fraud done by right-wing academics), but in the majority of the cases, China involvement in frauds is just because China is a big country with an emergent economy, with a lax regulation to fraud supported by a corrupted dictatorship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine

Their intention is ideological, the goal is to destroy liberal democracy, this is documented. Yes the far right would do the same. I argue they are the same movement.
OpenAI has solved the XY problem once and for all
yes

since it is not yet possible to revive someone who has been frozen and won't be for a long time a vast majority of the research going on in Cryonics is directed towards the preservation process.

Vitrification is a major development and will only get better as time goes on however these chemicals are not one size fits all and we have a long ways before they are able to protect all vital organs without damaging others

https://cryonics.org/history-timeline/
Online gambling is an example of an industry with state-specific bans [0], [1]. Not sure how well these work in practice though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_the_United_States#...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enf...
The headline seems misleading. "Pornhub blocked in Texas" suggests Texas did the blocking, a better headline would be "Pornhub blocks users with Texas IPs"
I can hardly imagine how frustrating that scenario would be. Think about how rapidly you hack away at the terminal, and imagine that every time you hit “enter”, it takes 45 hours to find out if it worked. You would only be able to issue 194 commands in an entire year.
Really? Seems very different. There are some leaseholds on reservations near my cottage and "owning" one does not mean what you think it means. On a normal property as long as you pay your taxes it's yours in perpetuity, and the value tends to rise over time. With a leasehold it's never "yours" and can be taken away at a future date. The value approaches zero as the lease approaches its end date, since there's no guarantee it will be extended, so the property depreciates over time. This also has the effect of making any buildings on the property fairly dilapidated as the end-date nears, as the buildings can/will be confiscated with the lease (there's no incentive for the owner to maintain them).
Great job! And nice name btw :) https://github.com/svapnil
Are you looking at only ex-FAANG employees? I doubt you cannot find anyone to write good golang code worldwide for a reasonable pay.
Beagle Bros!!! Thanks for that reminder.
Looking at the article, the statement they display to blocked users could do with either a change in tone to be more legally formal or a change in tone to be more approachable to less-literate users - bullet points, multiple headings etc. Right now that message is the worst of both worlds and will get a very low conversion rate.

I've been away from this line of work for over a year, though. Does anybody here who has current experience in effective messaging, legal communication or marketing want to read the message Mindgeek put up and give their two cents on it for our entertainment?
Ah, cool! I'll look at bundling my tiny webserver as its own package :)

https://github.com/radiosilence/nano-web
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions in Africa
You're right, that's why I'm surprised Honda has not done more.

Shoulda teamed up with the Nintendo folks, probably.
Putting a New Twist on a Classic Puzzle
It doesn't matter how much experience you have with past estimates if one of the steps in the flow involves a scenario where you just can't estimate it. (Happens a lot when dealing with third parties)
It's easy to make a cool looking demo with robots, even one that runs right in front of you in person. Making a video is basically nothing, though, too much cherry-picking. Anyone that works with robots will just assume you have burned a lot of time repeating takes to cover up all of the failures. For the rubber to meet the road you chop that scope way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay down to make a robot do something useful.

Maybe this new ML wave will bring about a more generally useful robot, it certainly feels like it will at least open up a ton of new avenues for R&D.
This reminds me of the Malcolm X quote

> If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.