skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many of this sort of FAANG project really get used where they are built. I went for an interview at a FAANG years ago to work on a very big consumer product (when it was in relative infancy) and expected to find a hyper tech data backend to use... they told me that they were using mySQL.

I didn't get the job so maybe they were just joking around with me - but the general despair that they evinced about their data situation makes me wonder!
Certainly weird that wireshark shows TLSv1 while curl shows TLSv1.3. That shouldn't happen unless something interfered with the Client Hello. (or the wireshark version is outdated)
> You fundamentally cannot build abstractions that are both easier and as flexible as the thing you are abstracting away

Easier doesn’t have to mean less configuration. It could be more sane defaults, better organised abstractions, clearer documentation, and/or handier tools.

For the very small environment which I have indirect responsibility for, I’d love a simple read-only GUI which could present the environment, its sources, and the connections between them.
Poppy a new Bloom filter format and open source project
> If it gets the majority of votes, candidates currently running are all disqualified and replaced then a new election is held. This repeats until a candidate can beat nobody.

Then either you create vacancies (which leave functions unable to be performed or being performed by someone not elected at all) or incumbents get extended terms, and either of these create strategic reasons to game the system to create and leverage the resulting dysfunction.

There are better election methods than the plurality and majority/runoff methods common in the US—lots of them!—but “majority with nuke the slate and start over as an option” is worse, not better.
would replace twinkle tray (open source) for me if it wasnt for the fact that keyboard shortcuts are paywalled behind a subscription. just make it a one time purchase or something. as it is though i dont see any advantages compared to twinkle tray
Actually I like that one better! For instance, Inclusive Sans boasts about its "clear distinction between I [uppercase i], l [lowercase L] and 1", but the lowercase L is just a vertical bar, so might as well be mistaken for an I if there is no I to compare it to. In Atkinson Hyperlegible, the lowercase L has a slight "tail" which helps distinguish it - and the serifs on the uppercase i feel a bit less jarring.
That is exactly what EU laws say — privacy is a right. You cannot give up your rights in exchange for money, just like you cannot legally sell yourself as a slave to someone, as that would be illegal for both parties.
It is pretty much a requirement if you want to do business in mainland China.

Firefox also had a set of China-owned servers to sync data from Chinese users to.

(“Had” because I think they officially stopped the relationship with Mozilla China)
> Did anyone else find the green background and the white text clash in a way that made it difficult to read?

No, but only because with Javascript disabled there is literally nothing but an olive green page. Truly remarkable, given that it is supposed to be inclusive.
Additionally, there's no copyright license on the files. (Tangent: even if there were a free software license, the software wouldn't be free software by the FSF's definition (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html) because source code is the form that the author prefers when the author modifies the software, and minified code usually is not that.)
To be fair, that’s happening already.

My stack looks like this:

- framework magic (e.g., spring boot, or ror, or whatever)

- library magic

- terraform magic

- aws magic

- docker magic

- VM magic

- standard magic (OS, networking, decent stuff, etc.)
Lean allows formal verification, but it does not make it easy. As staunton remarked, the devs are focusing on classical mathematics, and the ergonomics for verifying code are currently horrible. I do suspect this will change with time, though.
Is there a demo of the interface/API?

I am looking for a solution to enable custom-dashboards for https://www.uxwizz.com
> I think the President should be replaced with an automatic veto

That only replaces the legislative and not the executive role of the President.
Yep, the tomatoes coming from Spain, Italy, etc have a lot more flavor. NL is more like the Shenzhen of agriculture (not saying it like it's a bad thing)
It's fully Japanese though (and Kanji heavy), so the linked article is still helpful as an English overview for those not (yet) proficient in Japanese.
I listened to the initial few lessons and I was really surprised.

I've already got a almost conversational level of Spanish but coincidentally have been wanting to focus on improving it, rather than jump into learning the absolute basics of another language.

It's quite different to courses or classes I've tried before.
Often there is a focus on keeping everything in Spanish (for example) and not using English at all. This is the complete opposite, completely leveraging the similarities between the language.

I found it really enjoyable how he spoke about the shared Latin roots (even though English is primarily Germanic). I have a hobbyist interest in linguists so I found this and the etymology bits really entertaining.

I hesitated to listen to the Spanish, fearing they would be too basic, but I think already I have learned things I hadn't fully realized and have improved my pronunciation.

You can tell the instructor is a lover of languages and linguistics, you can hear the passion in the lessons.

Going to continue with the Spanish course and I'm excited to see his take on Arabic after (of which I know zero).

Planning on donating and recommending this.
Tbh, regarding the preservation and digitization of the collection of concern in this thread, plenty of institutions, private individuals, companies, and organizations would love to take that work from the university. The uni, otoh, has no incentive to let the asset out of their hands.
There have been a lot of security bugs in Chrome related to this layer of V8, most of them caused by some form of type confusion. Is there worry about increasing the size of Deno's attack surface by adding this capability?
I looked up some science kits recently and was quite disappointed. Nobody produces anything close to the great kits I used to enjoy as teenager. I was especially fond of my chemistry set. The new versions all seem neutered in comparison. I guess science kits can't compete with all the distractions available to modern teenagers, and these kits were quite expensive making them probably a hard sell. Still, I wish someone would make these again.
https://tinonyman.com/archive

Not my site, but mine (in progress) is almost exactly the same UX/UI but with zero dependencies or libraries/frameworks.
Yeah, I think the education system's expectations for reading comprehension went down the drain a while ago. When I was in middle school I scored well enough on the reading comprehension section of my state's standardized test that my guidance counselor scheduled a meeting with my parents to talk about it. All I had to do for the test was read a very simple recipe and pick out basic information (e.g. how many eggs are listed in the ingredients), so I was pretty surprised when the school thought it was a big deal.

I did read a lot as a kid just because I enjoyed it, so I was definitely reading above my grade level, but that performance really shouldn't have put me so far above everyone else on the test.
I've successfully removed ads from basically my whole life, but now when I do happen to see one I'm less conditioned to ignore it. So boy oh boy do I notice. I kind of hate it. My eye is immediately drawn to anything flashy or moving, to the point where I'll make an effort to sit facing away from any TV screen in a restaurant.
Oh, come on. They're using Squarespace. Maybe complain about the state of WYSIWYG editors before dismissing someone's work.
I am sorry for confusing you with humour.
When was "today" when that was written?
I doubt they would leave the EU. I do think it is expected that they will design their products or features with the EU in mind and probably not even ship specific things in that region to avoid risk of being micromanaged / product managed by authorities.
Why just a third arm? Extra productive workers could mount an extra arm above and below each shoulder for a total of six arms. And a prehensile tail for good measure!
Purism almost went bankrupt due to challenges like this one. They had to choose a relatively outdated, slow hardware and reverse engineer many things to make them work, e.g., camera. All companies producing the required chips refuse to work with FLOSS -- if this isn't anti-competitive and destroying competition, I don't know what is.
And then people complain on HN about “UX designers” hiding their most used tools in submenus, and the cycle is complete.
I'm not saying sites can't or shouldn't be fixed to support browsers other than Chrome. The fact of the matter is these sites exist and aren't incentivized to support anything but Chrome. When an overwhelming proportion of visits are through Chrome they only support Chrome, just like when those visits were IE6 and sites only supported IE6. Their advertisers love all of Google's web API proposals because they feed fingerprinting mechanisms.

Sites that only support Chrome and have no need to support Safari (WebKit) will continue to support Chrome. Users that want to have a third party browser handle web views in apps or web apps won't have meaningful options as WebKit won't be a requirement so every site will code only to Chrome. The status quo at least requires a vendor support WebKit if for no other reason is to support web views in their iOS apps.
This is an excellent report by UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Despite the subtitle indicating human rights in the Palestinian territories, the report focuses on Israel’s conduct in Gaza and on the crime of Genocide. The report not only demonstrates “there are reasonable grounds to believe” that the threshold for several genocidal acts against Palestinians is met, but recommends actions such as:

- a total arms embargo on Israel,

- for the General Assembly to reject the status quo for the state of Palestine and to dismantle the system of Apartheid,

- for South Africa to pursue compliance at the Security Council as Israel is not following orders from the ICJ ruling,

- for UNWRA founding to be reestablished,

- etc.

In my opinion the most damning part of the report is Chapter VI. “Humanitarian camouflage: distorting the laws of war to conceal genocidal intent” in which Francesca Albanese describes common tropes used to justify Israel’s action (of which I have seen many posts here on HN). For example (subsection A.) how Hamas allegedly uses Human Shields (a war crime) justifies the high civilian casualty rate. Albanese does an outstanding job at deconstructing these tropes, and describing them correctly as not a justification.

> International law does not permit the blanket claim that an opposing force is using the
entire population as human shields en bloc. Any such usage must be assessed and established
on a case-by-case basis before each individual attack.

> Nevertheless, Israeli authorities have characterized churches, mosques, schools, UN facilities, universities, hospitals and ambulances213 as connected with Hamas to reinforce the perception of a population characterized as broadly ‘complicit’ and therefore killable. [...] Israel has thus transformed Gaza into a “world without civilians” in which “everything from taking shelter in hospitals to
fleeing for safety is declared a form of human shielding”.
I can neither confirm nor deny that S3’s global bucket database is actually just MySql (with a lil bit of special sauce)
I have always said that most cathedrals, basilicas, etc leave me in awe of the catholic church's wealth and power, but do little to draw me closer to God. Sagrada Familia left me speechless. The way Gaudi works nature and light made me feel close to God in a way that I had never experienced before.
Exploit the dimension of time, like PIPS:Lab's Diespace (but using modern face tracking now instead of simple LED tracking 11 years ago). Nod your head for yes, shake your head for no. That's a "hands free interaction", and less flamboyant and spectacular than waving your hands around, for shy and lazy people.
Also, what does Latitude do exactly?

Because I see you still have to write the queries and view, why is it better than simply writing a PHP PDO query and outputting the HTML for the chart/data?
Facebook earns $68/user/month[1]. Even if we assume electricity is free, crypto won't come anywhere close on even high end cpu.

[1]: https://i0.wp.com/fourweekmba.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02...
Yeah but those guys would probably pivot to making lizard tails for the people. That’s respectable too. I just think the demand for fur-covered tails is a bigger potential market.
Knew what car I was interested in. - narrowed down the search to three different brands/models and wrote a scrapper for a local used cars website. Then this scrapper built up a DB of info about cars available, and I was able to easily query them, and have data about how long were those cars up there (how long from ad to sale), plot price graphs etc.
Bought a car with 10% less than the AVG price for the brand/model/year, with really small mileage.
Easily a superior font.
This treatment does not remove any bacteria, it replaces it with the same bacteria with the exception that it does not drill holes in your enamel.
> You'll never convince me that copy and paste is better then reusing existing code or that it's considered good engineering

What's better engineering: not solving the problem, or solving the problem in a sub-optimal way that can be improved upon in future?

I don't disagree that performance is important for memcached, but your base assumption here doesn't help you make any progress. You're basically giving up from the start.

Assuming that everything you need lives in the incr/decr functionality is a reasonable assumption that lets you make progress.

If you assume that performance is important and a multiplication operator may have implications, you should be able to come up with assumptions/hypotheses about why that would be and try to prove or disprove them.

> Do you want to see me write code that compiles and does the bare minimum or actually talk about designing a robust feature

The great thing about this question is that it forces you to be specific. It's very easy to make general statements like "we need to consider performance implications" without having anything to back that up.

Why is the bare minimum insufficient here? Why do you need to deviate from the existing implementation and re-design this operation in a robust way? What makes the existing implementation unsuitable for this use case?

Those are the kind of questions I would expect to be answered by someone who is concerned about the performance implications of a multiplication operator.

I have found that strong engineers do not pose these vague, open-ended questions and concerns without being able to dig into the underlying details and be able to validate or invalidate their hypotheses.
Because, as has already been explained ad nauseam, Apple's control measures are partly technological and partly contractual. If Apple catches you tracking users after users opt out of tracking, Apple will de-list you from their store.

If Meta can simply set up a different storefront (or directly side load), they merely have to follow the EU laws (which are less restrictive than Apple's).
It's a good point - I was more talking about society as a whole, since we didn't collapse. And we wouldn't collapse if some Quartz mind in North Carolina closes either.

But yes, on an individual level, it can be severe. Like the employees of car manufacturers who lost their jobs because they couldn't make cars for a while because they didn't have the chips needed.
Until one of these advertisements also comes with a provider ecosystem and a universal three-way diff every run, it's a bit pointless to me. The only thing that does what terraform does is OpenTofu, and that's because it's a fork of... terraform.

Maybe if you are small enough to just build a single application with some resources in a single vendor's playground all of the other IaC variations make sense, but that's hardly the reality. Either you're going to be part of something bigger, you're big enough to need multiple services, or you're so small that you can go straight back to the 90's and clickops+screenshot your way through the day.

While there might not be a one-size-fits-all solution, there is definitely a cutoff where CDK-style or single-vendor tools just can't do what is required.
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I’ve tried to read the stupid thing three times. I’m pretty good at suspending disbelief, but I just couldn’t.
The fade in effect made me nauseous. I hate animation on webpages unless I’m seeking out gifs.
AMD now took Intel's market segmentation approach and is disabling ECC on most Ryzen CPUs. Only Pro and Threadrippers have it guaranteed, then some boards with some desktop Ryzens.
Supply a link to a non-paywalled version and maybe reading of the article would be an option.
Looks like the spec refers to the thing-that-has-the-thread as an "agent". https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-agents

I don't know the details about how any implementation of a javascript execution environment allows for the creation of new agents.
Drove from New England to southern Illinois and hiked into a park forest right on the line, directly between the points of greatest eclipse and greatest duration. Definitely the wildest natural phenomena I’ve ever witnessed, it literally took my breath away. Hard to imagine topping it without actually riding a rocket into space.
I think it was originally VC-funded company whose code was copyleft. Google acquired them. It’s probably still a huge, open-source ecosystem because of the copyleft license.
You're not the only one. Although the lighting inside may be beautiful, it is to me, from the outside, fuglier than fugly. Totally and utterly grotesque. I'd be tempted to say a wart in the city but then Barcelona and its superblock is not a beautiful city: it's got nothing on, say, Paris or Rome. So that wart is on par with the rest of the city.

FWIW I find everything made by Gaudi to be completely grotesque.

I don't care about the groupthink: to each its own bad tastes.
New versions of AltStore and Spotify are both stuck in App Review since the DMA passed 3 weeks ago.
Im generally with you, but then seeing how a large number of people build software system, Im pretty sure they would end up messing their systems up without all the guardrails that Microsoft and Apple puts into place.
Mr Scorsese should consider donating his collection to the film experts at the VFA. https://vfa.expert/
Yeah I still can't tell if I'm just overanalyzing because it's supposed to be easy to read, but I found the webpage, especially the italicized bit, pretty jarring, even in contrast with my usual squinting at HN's tiny font on my phone.
Time and again I use the chrome dev tools to go around broken forms (for example: a website tells me field X is invalid, but it doesn’t tell me why. I check the console errors or the JS and find a way to submit my data)
> You can disable the over-the-air capabilities

But how? You may be able to opt-out in software, but that's not trustworthy IMHO. There's no simple hardware disconnect, and I'm sure it's different in every model. In my friend's car (a Subaru), there's a telematics module under the head unit, but you have to disassemble the dash to get to it (i.e. do a pretty significant amount of work).

IMHO, telematics should always be implemented as a separate module with a separate fuse, so you can just pull a fuse to disable it.

> but if the dealers can download over diagnostic ports when you bring in for servicing, it's worse.

Someone sells a lock to cover the ODB-II port of a vehicle. I got one years ago, but unfortunately it didn't work very well and could be trivially pulled (or bumped) off. The port in my car is pretty close to my knee.
Many system apps that are bundled with iOS can already be uninstalled and reinstalled via the App Store.

Photos also has an “Uninstall” button. Won’t feel like trying out what that does.
Or, don’t, because the vast, vast majority of users are almost certainly not affected by the licensing change, and your life can continue on, literally unchanged.
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> It might strengthen oligopolies on mobile. And even cement them.

Can you expand on this? This is the first time I've heard this claim.
The biggie, of course, is that US exceptionalism is pushing the US down the wrong track. That will be the economic and probably military downfall of the US and will likely occur within the next 5-10 years.

(You may call me 'Cassandra'.)
Logout across multiple systems is pretty complicated. You can do it with browser redirects, at least for now[0], but that relies on every system succeeding.

What am I missing?

0: the fedcm work is going to impact redirects. https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/blob/main/explainer.md
tbh my general response to all data questions is "use postgres". It does happen that someone comes back with a good reason why that would be a bad idea, but it's not frequent!

mySQL == Oracle now... so bad on theological grounds.
I've been programming in Python for years and I agree: Python isn't really for consumers. But hey it is used for LLMs that can generate React apps, so there's that.

I am only half-kidding. But it appears the industry as a whole is concentrating effort on fewer languages and Python is one of them. If I want to distribute my app - I write it in React, but I still often use python in the process: prototyping, asking GPT to rewrite X from python to typescript, making mock servers for tests / preparing data for unit tests.
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My comments are worth reading.
They literally are: you are required to vaccinate and register your dog in NYC and your dog is required to wear proof of this vaccination at all times in public.
I thought this was obvious: They lack an “inner voice” (80% of humans?) or “inner imagery” (the rest) as we humans do, so they cannot first think the problem through before answering. Thus, using the actual “output area” as such a scratch pad can help it cover a larger area of reasoning before outputting an answer - just as we do.

I feel you can even see this when you ask it certain questions with “think in steps” prompting: It can output temporary thoughts which aren’t of use in the final answer - again just as we do when attacking a problem we can’t immediately answer.

Also, we humans often use pen and paper to jot down temporary and intermediary thoughts and answers. Again, LLMs don’t have that, but can use the output as something similar.

Some styles of ToT prompting actually make the LLM have two types of output - one for its “inner voice thinking”, and then another for output meant for the human. The same goes when one give the LLM method calling abilities, or “googling”: This can be seen as a way to perform thinking and reasoning without output meant for the user, before formulating an answer.
That is just one view, namely the authors' view. You may wish to consider recent perfect 10 vulnerabilities for comparison, as these are far more likely to cause problems.