skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good lord man what first time homebuyer is putting down $100k down payments? I just bought a nice house in a well established in demand neighborhood and my total cost down was less than $30k. No assistance program, no special deal, definitely not a cheap house oof this market.

Are you trying to buy 2M+ houses?
Unfortunately yes, you have to use every single piece.
You may not want to be the policing agency or agent that did look into it.

But yes, authorities should investigate and should go where the investigation takes them.

Boeing and friends are too big to actually look into, similar to the island being an event that was too big to actually look into.
We should have big numbers like the French do. "60-10" (70) or "4-20" (80)
We already know that they are killers. Just ask the people who died on their planes, for which they did their best to cover up Boeing's responsibility.
Lol. “You’re just holding it wrong”.

If most people find it to be difficult to use correctly, it is difficult to use correctly. Maybe that’s the best we can do but it’s still bad.
A big attraction of the chain for me is that the servers don't have a personal stake in the success of the restaurant. At smaller or more local places, the owners are working, and they really care. I just want to eat without dancing around their feelings.
> - I am shocked that you don't seem to find Deny By Default the best thing in the world... (looking at you Azure...)

The problem is not deny by default, but the complexity of setting "allow just the things I need". This is not easy.

> Cloudtrail is your friend...

Having to dig into the data of another service (that hopefully your org permissions allow you to read) instead of just being able to see a clear error message is not great DX. There are maybe valid security or performance reasons for not returning clear error messages, but there is a trade-off to usability made here.

> At least for AWS, you are not supposed at any point in time to use out-of-the-box managed policies. Instead, you should use them as templates for your own policies or create your own Customer Managed Policies from scratch.

Right, but because they're so broad, the templates themselves are overly broad. Even just using them as a reference, it's difficult to pare down to just what you need. You will inevitably go too far and have to play around with combinations until you identify the real need.

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The rest of your comments essentially boil down to saying "skill issue"/"git gud". I think that downplays just how hard these things are to get right. I worked at AWS for almost 8 years and have used it for several more years as a customer since then. I still wind up with runtime errors due to permissions issues that I need to debug. I still find myself needing to spend lots of time shuffling through official docs and blog posts people have written about how to setup specific combinations of AWS services. I've seen other engineers within AWS struggle with this. I've spoken with many founders at startups who've struggled with this. The biggest challenge comes up when first learning and getting acquainted with a service. You don't even know what you don't know and there are many hurdles that can pop up along the way.

I mentioned it in my last comment, but CDK is probably the single biggest improvement to DX in the space here.
https://flatpak.org/setup/

Flatpak should work on every distro. However, it may not be included by default, so you need to install flatpak before installing this application.
I would imagine that it is there in order to protect themselves if someone uses their tool for malicious purposes as they can point to that statement and say they were not complicit.
Expat-bashing has become a new sport in the Netherlands
A Beginner's Guide to Node.js Worker Threads
maybe a gamer recognizes game logic but I can't understand even level 1. I guess I should start playing some games.
I think the usual part of AWS IAM is simple. You develop your app, it uses a Lambda role or an ECS task role, and you keep adding permissions to the role as needed. When you query a new table in DynamoDB, your app won't work until you add the missing permission. You always add those permissions to the CDK/CloudFormation definition of the role, so that the role works in any AWS account the app is deployed to. CDK actually handles most of this automatically, as you define the relationships between your cloud resources.

The more complicated stuff starts happening when you have many services that need to access each other's resources directly. Then you need to think a bit more about the architecture and how you expose resource names, managed policies and roles between services. It's no longer just simple role definitions within the CloudFormation stack, but you have to pass around account identifiers, regions and resource ARNs in the configuration.
Is there a hardware hacking forum that would teach people how to modify their rig to use the good features of such devices regardless of manufacturer but intercept and modify telemetry data to feed them realistic looking but fake data until you press a distress button and them give real location? I ask because I do not trust the legal system to ever catch up to this globally or to have any real teeth that make companies feel real pain. I've played whack-a-mole with spammers and malware distributors. This feels the same to me. Until it becomes trivial to disable such things I personally will stick with fixing up used vehicles that I know are free of loose lips.
Browsers support *.localhost as a secure context.
Yeah I have furniture from there mainly because it was the only showroom I could find that hide a wide selection + was mostly solid wood or veneered cabinet grade plywood.

The TV stand I bought from there shows no signs of warping a few years later and has had a 70 pound TV sitting on it the entire time.

The pricing was also pretty reasonable for solid walnut that was made in the USA.
The urban area of Paris ("aire d'attraction de Paris") extends well past the areas where people would consider that they are "in Paris".

It might well still be the biggest in the EU if you drew limits based on what people considered part of the city - I don't know - but it certainly would not be as big as its urban area.

In fact, I'd argue you're unlikely to find any major city anywhere in the world where most people would agree that every part of the outer boundaries of the urban area are part of "the city" (or even "a city"; parts of urban areas will still often be considered fairly rural by those who live there or in the nearby city) even in a loose colloquial or cultural sense. Even coming close would be exceedingly rare. This because the ways urban areas are designated by design tends to include commuter regions far outside, with their own identities, and often very separated from the biggest city in the urban area.

So while going by city limits will be misleading, so will going by urban area. Unfortunately, no single metric will be accurate for these things.
If you're going to the effort to run a CA, why not also run DNS? I say this as a guy who runs an internal CA and eventually just implemented LE due to all the problems with trusting internal CAs and getting that to work across all devices.
Shakespeare, Marlowe, et al.: "Retrospective analysis of false positives in medical diagnosis of death"
The woman behind Strindberg's Miss Julie and her male alter ego
Reminds me of the grad student in criminology who allegedly committed a brutal multiple murder in Moscow, Idaho. He got caught, so I guess he wasn’t as smart as he thought he was.
Optical Fibers Could Illuminate the Moon's Core
Go look at the respective 10Ks and then get back to us on where each companies makes their money. Google apologists are an incredible bunch.
Even if this program was not obfuscated by garble, compiled in the traditional way, it will still be flagged as malicious by many antivirus engines, regardless of whether it is signed or not.

IMHO these days it's far more about whether your binary is "known" than what it actually does. AV is a protection racket. I realised that long ago when "hello world" executables compiled with MSVC passed, but the same source code ran through GCC was deemed malicious and quickly deleted.
Because unfitted clothing is generally designed so that it will fit less closely. Tailored clothing generally fits more closely so that anyone buying it second hand would need to be closer to the proportions of the original owner.
Yay, I'll be able to play Fortnite now!
Seriously, a backyard 3G connection should still be faster than an indoor 3G connection.
There's some irony here of trying to force another HN user to understand that rationality depends on your base understanding of how the world works.
Was it though? I thought reddit was the standard VC money pit and never really had a profitable quarter under gold. Did they ever release numbers showing their cost vs gold revenue?
Can someone just provide me the solution to #3? I literally cannot figure it out.
It is never so direct.

Management gets a contact who is a fixer, hired though an attorney, hiring a contractor who does investigations who happen to have contacts who will do field work research.

Field researcher gets name, hotel, car, follows from deposition and when the schedule becomes predictable an interaction or two occurs. Maybe an offer to stay silent followed up with a threat or action that will further persuade a favorable outcome for the hiring agency.

Upper management has zero exposure and everyone down the line was vague enough to be removed from direct action with the trigger being unaffiliated party.

Want to punish a neighbor? Pay a homeless guy to hire a homeless guy to throw a rock through a window. Who gets arrested? Not the home owner. Homeless guys can't be trusted for their witness. No records. Window is still broken.
3% strikes me as a pretty extreme minority, which makes it seem like the opposite of ‘normal.’ They might be more common than most people think (IE, 1 in 33), but that isn’t something that makes them normal.
He explains earlier in the article that he tries to apply a “consumer” lens to all tech purchases, so he can more honestly evaluate them.

The point being that he’s applying a bunch higher bar than someone with his interests and net worth would otherwise apply.
Pretty sure the windows could be replaced with actually insulating ones, but it would be expensive and the landlords prefer not to do that. However having single-glazed windows in the 21st century is simply inexcusable. Experienced the same when I was living in London years ago (not a listed building). The underinvestment into insulating old buildings was staggering when compared with Central Europe.
Powerful Realtor Group Agrees to Slash Commissions to Settle Lawsuits
Thanks! Had no idea
This is purely anecdotal, and I try to keep it to myself but its very difficult when at least half of the HN homepage is AI related: LLMs like ChatGPT do so utterly terribly at any non-trivial job I throw at it that I seriously consider people who use it daily to either be straight up incompetent, or maybe their domain is so trivial that the LLM actually does well.

From asking LLMs to solve a highly difficult async C++ parallelism problem, to german language specifics, it just fucks up at a fundamental level. I understand that LLMs cannot solve these issues and why, but then I do not understand the heavy focus on AI by so many tech people.

Is day to day programming job so trivial that LLMs do a good job, while at the same time being too difficult for you to do it yourself? I really, really want to know exactly what the use case is.

Do people just throw simple problems at it to validate their own preconceived notion of how cool and useful LLMs are? Whats the deal?
I understand where you are coming from, but if you are starting out on a PhD and decide to do research that is branching off from work done by someone like Gino you could spend a long time chasing ghosts and it will be hard for you to turn round and say "I think this is actually BS".

Even once you are over that hump you will have quite a few years going from one short-term grant to another, with your ability to get funding being dependent on your previous work. If that has been stymied because you were basing it off dodgy research of other people it could take a long time to build up the kind of record where you get to diversify and some any kind of academic security of freedom.
This looks really interesting; any possibility the researchers will release some code soon ?
JWST spots organic molecules swirling around unborn stars
> I got into a cycle where I could notice my fast-thinking brain spitting out words/concepts in what felt like the speed of light before my slow-thinking brain would take those and turn them into actual sentences

The way I’ve seen this described by psychologists is that System 1 is driving the car while System 2 panicks in the back seat screaming out explanations for every action and shouting directions to the driver so it can feel in control. The driver may listen to those directions, but there’s no direct link between System 2 in the backseat and System 1 holding the wheel.

Various experiments have shown that in many situations our actions come first and our conscious understanding/explanation of those actions comes second. Easiest observed in people with split brain operations. The wordy brain always thinks it’s in control even when we know for a fact it couldn’t possibly have been because the link has been surgically severed.

Being super tired, on the edge of sleep, or on drugs can disrupt these links enough to let you observe this directly. It’s pretty wild when it happens.

Another easy way, for me, is to get up on stage and give a talk. Your mouth runs away presenting things and you’re in the back of your head going “Oh shit no that’s going in the wrong direction and won’t make the right point, adjust course!”
He wrote "can't justify".

I need to call myself also 'rich' (because of values i hold but can't liquify and i earn enough that i could buy more expensive toys without thinking too much about it) but this doesn't mean my mindset changed.

I have to remind myself that i can afford certain things or i'm wasting too much thought about prices of products.

This probably shows a more realistic, less material and proper upbringing of Mr Barra than 'not being able to afford it'
Compare:

* Plastikman: Spastik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TYsOMYaz6E (minimal techno)

* Fred Again: Pull Me Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl6Rz1Uvi2M (house / "EDM")

(EDM is more a US term than a European one, IME.)

I think the differences in style are quite obvious.
https://archive.is/Oo2MR
My understanding is that race cars with sequential shifting mostly use dog gearboxes, and having a gearbox that you slam into gear would probably not be very comfortable for the car's occupants vs a gearbox with synchromesh.
Another recent addition from 2021 close to HN's heart:

Demoscene

https://www.unesco.de/en/culture-and-nature/intangible-cultu...
> The Apple Vision Pro is the Northstar the VR industry needed, whether we admit it or not

I think that sums it up pretty well. More companies should launch products like that!
Reported where? Does that include a monolithic "free tenant" that would be larger than thousands of their other tenants put together? Every Figma user has their own personal workspace along with the workspace of any organizations they may be invited to
Or even better - remove features and then let someone else implement them.
Poll: Where Do You Live?
Two years ago, our visualization showed that most Hacker News participants were from California (https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live).

We're curious: has this changed, or does California still dominate? Let's find out!

Edit: Hacker news randomized all the options, I'm sorry about that :/
But no investor here benefits from throwing shades on Boeing killing whistleblowers.
Form factors are so important. I'm right in between robots and toasters. I see a building as the form factor for a 100 year computer.

The best illustration of this subtle difference is how I'm contemplating snow and ice management. I have the solid state idea of installing quartz IR lights around the building to control the ice and snow. I also have been working on using de-icing and pre-icing liquids with hopes of getting some droids to take over the physical part of applying the liquids and brushing away the snow.

I have settled on doing both with the building controller acting as the overall manager of the process.

I looked at the posetree.py that the author wrote and linked to and it looks like as good a place for me to start.

Form factor is critical in assigning human names and commumnicating use. I find when organizing a solution to a problem adopting a form factor too early is a hidderence.
Once they start giving TED talks and such, they are not researchers anymore. They are highly-educated influencers who want to stay in the limelight. And this brings its own set of bad incentives, staying "prolific" and eventually dishonesty being some of them. In the same field, see what is happening with Jordan Peterson.
Laser air defense systems will help: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/13/europe/britain-air-defens...
It's not just a software algorithm. It's a hardware architecture optimization. To benefit, you have to build hardware that matches the dimensions of the algorithm. That's an expensive commitment.
Twenty fingers 'n toes. It stands to reason eh.
And there it is [1] 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction to family before death

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA44FFi95PA
Show HN: Richard – A CNN written in C++ and Vulkan (no ML or math libs)
This started out as a personal effort to learn more about machine learning. It's currently a CLI app where you give it a JSON file specifying your network architecture and hyperparameters and point it to your training data, then invoke it again in 'eval' mode with some data it's not seen before and it will try to classify each sample.

I don't see many other people using Vulkan for GPGPU, and there may be many good reasons for that, but I wanted to try something a bit different.

I've made every attempt to make the code very clean and readable and I've written up the math in documentation/math.pdf, so hopefully this is a useful learning resource for anyone interested in how neural nets work under the hood.

I'll be continuing to add new features over the coming months.
Uploading a 30-minute YouTube video in 30 minutes sounds reasonable. It may actually improve the quality of YouTube and give creators an opportunity to touch grass.
Seems like the market rate for a well made sofa is more like 3-4k these days. If you think you're getting that for 1k you will be disappointed.
C has one of the worst interfaces available for that kind of thing.

Not only it follows the C's "you just have to remember it every time" convention, but you also have to remember to check if your compiler isn't optimizing the settings away.
For themselves or for the world ?
corruption and rigor are different things.
When travelling I choose fast food from a big chain like McDonald's only because it carries the lowest probability of food poisoning as the first meal in a new place - I suppose many adopted the same approach.
in Dutch (and German) the verb often goes at the end of a sentence, so the advice is rather practical.
This is one of the projects I've been most excited about in the last few years. It let me backport to Certificate Transparency some of the modern designs ideas that came after it.

Beyond the Let's Encrypt announcement and the ct-policy thread (which includes a technical and advantages summary), here are a few resources that might be interesting.

- Design document, including architecture and tradeoffs: https://filippo.io/a-different-CT-log

- Implementation: https://github.com/FiloSottile/sunlight

- API specification: https://c2sp.org/sunlight

- Website, including test logs and feedback channels: https://sunlight.dev/

If you’re thinking “oh we could use something similar” please reach out! Sunlight is retrofitting some of the modern tlog designs on a legacy system. With a greenfield deployment you can do even better! I’m working with the Sigsum project on specs, tooling, and a support ecosystem to make deploying tlogs easier and safer.
I can't imagine those working too well these days. None of my cards have raised numbers, they'd make a completely blank impression. They have probably been completely phased out in the UK.
I am going to use this as an example for not doing a software release on a Friday.
Then the cursor doesn't change while it is above the app. You can still move it.
Andrej Karpathy makes this same point, using the same book reference, in his "[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models" video from Nov. 2023.

Here is a link to the relevant part of his presentation: https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=2120
The way you frame it makes it sound like the author was saying Julia is a less trustworthy language, which isn't what they're saying at all. Here's the quote in context:

> Still, if you are new
to (Julia) programming and statistics then most likely you should calibrate your tools first. Before you run some statistical analysis you may want to try it out on an example from a textbook written by an expert (not me though) and see if you get the same (or at least comparable) result on your own. Although this is a sound approach, I suspect you are more prone to visit some statistical blog or internet forum and go with the examples that are contained there.
One such option is rseek.org, i.e. a search engine for the R programming language.

> ... Once I got both outputs that are similar enough I can be fairly sure I did right. Otherwise I should investigate where the differences come from and possibly make some necessary adjustments.

It doesn't say to compare it against R, it says that if you are new to programming and statistics you should check your work against known-good answers or against a second implementation before rushing ahead, and it gives R as an example of a place to find code that you can use to check your work.

This isn't advice about one language being better, it's the usual advice to solve the same problem in two different ways to make sure you got it right!
So primary school in effect costs €3 a day?
Entry on the German UNESCO site:

https://www.unesco.de/kultur-und-natur/immaterielles-kulture...
>This is self evidently true, though.

I think you mean "this is intuitively true" because, like so many intuitive conclusions, it is wrong. Looking at animal behavior, it's intuitively true that organisms will only win if they are selfish, and yet selfless behavior has evolved in countless species. Another intuitive truth is that when you have a powerful species of predator that can kill prey at will, that they will decimate the prey population and end up dying off from lack of food. Yet most ecosystems can and do support both predators and prey in equilibrium. In business, it's intuitively true that it would be stupid to make another fast-food hamburger business in the presence of McDonalds - yet Carl's Junior/Hardees did very well doing just that. Counter-examples abound to the intuitive conclusion.

One of the best habits you can form is the habit of questioning your intuition.
You could use a self directed IRA to acquire startup equity in a Roth, but you can't put your grant into the IRA.
Okay I am German and I can tell you I don't know anyone who prefers Schweinshaxe to a good döner kebab. Which by the way, funnily enough, was invented in Germany by Kadir Nurman, a Berliner!

It's basically our national dish at this point and we're arguably better off for it. Our more traditional cuisine is... not so great.