skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When does a pandemic begin is sort of an interesting question.

I agree when the virus is first seen is probably a bad date to use for historical context purposes, but I see the logic for it.
Any email I get with click tracking, gets reported as spam.
Ive never heard anyone get hostile but Ive heard a loooot of innocent, ignorant, midwesterners ask very silly and possibly insulting questions to foreigners when they first hear the accent.
Biological systems are highly nonlinear and time-dependent, and also very individual! People have been trying learning techniques in glucose control since the early 2000s, and have only seen limited success in very controlled scenarios. I think a simple neural net would fall short of catching all that complexity, at least using the current architectures
Educators Juggling the Potential of Gen. AI with Detection, Discipline, Distrust
Or an influx of low-quality entry level candidates, causing companies to bias towards senior hires.

Or the maturing of the industry in general, causing senior workers to be more common.
Altman isn't even relevant here. He is focusing on LLM's instead of a framework that gets us to AGI. He can't describe how we get there or any such theories around AGI. It's a complete failure.
and which site would have the good candidates and conversations, then?
helloSystem are doing something similar:

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/developer/ux-guidelines.h...
The way it would be weeded out is through selective queening. That's how the European honey bee has become so docile - pinching the agressive queens. So it could influence the genetics of the feral bee population, but I would guess it will be minimal.
It depends if you want ease or speed and if you are batching.

Ease? Probably ollama

Speed and you are batching on gpu? vLLM
There is an option to view the transliteration next to the arabic and english text as well, you just have to toggle "Sentence view"
Banishing Mobile Phones from Bedroom
How far are you going to take it, though? Are you going to stop using knives because you read about a stabbing?
Working like hell to meet an arbitrary deadline at all costs is a nightmare
In the privacy settings "Optional connected experiences" will turn off the app previews (and web previews).
Where can we find detailed info, or better a tool, to determine gear compatability?
> presumably it is because they had seen what the opposite looks like

Ouch. "Presumably" isn't a logical proposition. Not even close.

I am sure there is wisdom in the different religious heritages. But the religious heritages that lasted were able to do so using a fair amount of practices and beliefs aimed at carrying along commitment to that heritage, as much or more than general wisdom (which has value beyond the religion).

(Not dismissing the value anyone gets from their practices and beliefs, where they don't negatively impact others or treat non-believers dismissively.)
The scary xz sshd backdoor
Has Postgres yet enabled any sort of locking of the query plan?

It's been a while since I've used it at scale, but at my previous job half of our incidents were caused by Postgres randomly deciding to change the query plan for a call that was working just fine. Then I'd go in there and re-write the SQL a few times until it figured out what to do, rinse and repeat every few months.
Windows 11 still comes with the old Task Manager, but it's hidden
https://hnhiring.com/trends

Not a true top-line overall number, but the trend is obvious notwithstanding.
> You are still better off than a native speaker by knowing at least one additional language.

This will depend a lot on the context in which you're speaking. I (English native) work mainly with Germans in German. But their English is often at least as good as my German. And a number of them know another language as well (or multiple other languages).

So in that context, I am not better than a native speaker for knowing other languages.
"Chinese EV market has slowed down"

Xiaomi just got 88,000 pre-orders in 24 hours of their new SUV. Perhaps the consumers were waiting for this (article is dated 25th March)
Seriously, some of the responses make me think that they weren’t written by freelancers.
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What’s the power draw on that Wyse?
Or a ‘friend’ reports you as dead when you are very much alive and kicking. My partner refused to show Meta ID to verify anything - good on her.
because this field is a baby, noncompliance is rampant
1) how to do calisthenics with proper form
2) how to train my new 4 month old puppy
Payola is illegal now, and it's funny that you even bring it up in this context because there was a time when payola was one of the only ways that independent labels could actually get music on air. It circumvented the overlords. The "respected" institutions didn't want to go near rock.
>I assume that QEMU simply tries to read the VM's video memory at fixed intervals. This feature requires applications to run in plain text mode, of course.

Is that how this works? I assumed qemu's BIOS was hooking INT 21h.
A flip phone (currently a Sonim XP3+, running Android 11 Go, location services disabled). Frequently turned off, often enough with the battery removed. And a laptop running Qubes that I carry in a backpack with a lot of offline capability should I think I need it (things like Organic Maps with a local set of maps, so I don't even need to jump online with it for basic "Where the heck am I?" sort of things - though I'm seriously considering a new standalone GPS nav unit for the vehicles that don't have one built in).

If you're connected to the cell networks, fairly accurate location data is available to the carrier, and I believe the 5G upgrades improve over the air throughput on the lower bands (at least partially) by improving the location accuracy so time-of-flight issues can be reduced (if you're further from the tower than I am, you start transmitting before I finish, so your wavefront passes me as I finish transmitting, avoiding dead air). Though I'm really not sure of the details on this, I haven't delved deeply enough into the changes from 4G/LTE to 5G to be highly confident in this.

In any case, "turned off, battery removed" is a good enough way to keep your information less-available to "literally everyone who wants it." As is "not having any apps installed."

The book that just came out, "Means of Control" by Byron Tau[0], goes into some of the details of just how information flows around, with a focus on the flows from adtech companies to government, and the deceit used to make that seem like it's not happening.

0: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-con...
It adds another layer of complexity, though, and when someone trips up (and eventually, they will), it lets us know who is doing what and why. It also adds another layer of expense and vulnerability. Part of the beauty of cyberattacks for intelligence agencies is that they are very light on tradecraft. This helps to reduce that advantage.

We actually know who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko and what they're up to today, for example.[0]

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35370621
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That is also true. Though that info is less reliable much of the time. I search myself every now and then and most of those sites are just plain wrong about me.
A Weitek math coprocessor board that snapped on to a 6502 would be a fun project.
It's a just a transpiler to valid C++ code, so calling C++ code from cpp2 should be fine, but calling cpp2 code from C++ is an issue. There is no implementing half of a C++ compiler because it just uses clang or something after it is done transpiling.
I think the increase in people looking for "senior"s has more to do with title inflation than anything else. Now anyone with more than 1 year experience is considered "senior."

The decrease in internship positions is possibly concerning, however, it might just have to do with the types of jobs that get posted to HN. I'd imagine advertising internships directly with colleges might be more effective and where companies might be concentrating their efforts. You'd have to analyze much more than just HN to make any conclusions about the broader job market.

If you have good interns you don't even have to advertise jr positions, you just hire your interns when they graduate. The place where I got my first job out of college I was like the only person who started as a Jr and wasn't an intern first. So lack of advertised positions doesn't mean that nobody is hiring jrs, but it absolutely could mean that.
I actually didn't realize they switched (we're still on an ancient version and unable to upgrade for now).

InnoDB uses row-level locks, so it's extremely unlikely to cause such issues.
Panel says FAA should end mandate pilots disclose talk therapy sessions
No one is talking about driving cross country here, we're talking about driving to the nearest neighboring major city. This is something people do regularly. Renting a car for every such trip would be extremely expensive.
Why is it safer?
mlx is not super relevant
Accurately or the way humans do it?
Some while ago, someone posted a tool to analyze the frequency of any term on HN over time:

https://hn.curiosity.ai/#/trends

It seems to still work. And the numbers seem to be roughly in line with this article.
k. Sounds like if you're not carrying a mobile phone, you'd have to go out of your way to be tracked then. ;)
It's interesting what the "Decreasing Technologies" graph implies by omission. Assuming this means that technologies not included in that graph have been consistent through the same time period. Without a corresponding data view for "Increasing Technologies" there's not really any data on current trends.
> Imagine if SELECT field1, field2 FROM my_table was faster than SELECT field2, field1 FROM my_table. Why would it do that? I have no idea to this day, and I don’t even want to know.

> I don’t even want to know.

I feel this. I'm working on a team where I have significantly more tenure at the company than the other engineers on the team, and they'll often ask me questions starting with "why".

Normally, I love to encourage this -- curiosity is an amazing quality to have in coworkers. There are still some times when I just need to look at them like I'm dead inside and warn them that it's not worth their time on this earth to find out.
Certainly something odd is happening.
I think there at least used to be honey producing bee species in the southern US. I believe some are extinct now and others are only present in South America now.
Asking as someone not in the beekeeping world, do you get the impression that the colony loss rate is stable or increasing/decreasing?
Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
Author rediscovers Kanban and Lean!

“Limit WIP” is a well-known recommendation in agile circles. It’s great except for the situations where it doesn’t work, eg. you have multiple customers with must-do features, you have support commitments and bugs to fix, your work doesn’t cleanly divide into [team size] pieces, etc.

But particularly for small teams pre-PMF it is good directional advice, as folks seem to err on the side of trying to do too much in parallel. And even if you don’t _actually_ only work on one headline, having exec buy in for the general approach is great for focus.
Some of it seems to be that any job that is junior/intermediate gets swamped with anyone who has done a bootcamp or Coursera certificate.

Friend posted an intermediate job. Went though 20 resumes and then decided to scrap the whole process as none of them were any good.
How Query Engines Work an Introductory Guide
There's Zelle in the US, but it has limits, and it's pretty easy for your money to get stuck being "verified."
From what I've seen (and I've not seen much, mind you) - someone went through and carefully categorized various libraries by the ability to be injected into OpenSSH on the target systems AND those that were lightly maintained, if at all.

xz was the winner, but there are likely others that could have been used.
Sentry is built on-top of Django. It's a good example of a real-world non-trivial code base that has had to adapt as it grew up and scaled up. I haven't looked at the code in a few years, but I used to run it on-premise and found it fairly approachable and well-written, but with just the sorts of hacks you'd expect to see in a software code base that had evolved over time.

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

Here's all the database models:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/tree/master/src/sentry/m...

Here's an example of hacks in the form of massive caching to improve performance:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/src/sentry/d...
Why stop there? No reason for the program you send email with to have message editing capabilities.
Holy shit. This looks bad. I mean the gradual increase is one thing, but a totally unprecedented jump in water temperatur within a year like that? Oh boy. I guess weather is gonna be wild this year...

Is it related to El Nino?
Yes, that is the normal advice. I smoke so called shorties when I come home from work, I hate being too high but I do enjoy the relaxation weed brings.

I've smoked CBD only strains recently and they do hit the spot as well.
Ask HN: What April Fools jokes have you noticed this year?
I've used my same wiki handle since 2003, and actually knew what the #1 linked-to article was/would be (don't want to spoil, but it's obvious if you're a frequent visitor to wikipedia).

Half-way through OP's video reminded me of this really fun mapping utility, self-described: sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
TBF you can’t exactly begrudge Nintendo for wanting to end up with SM64 instead of Croc.
I'm learning AWS to hopefully help me find my next job. My primary background is VMware with some Azure, so adding AWS to that definitely won't hurt.
FizzBee: Open-source formal methods tool that's not hard
Formal methods like TLA+ use complicated language making it unsuitable for everyday distributed applications most developed build.
FizzBee is a formal language that's almost just Python.
https://github.com/fizzbee-io/fizzbee
That actually did not do anything different for me. I did the following:

1) Created a new LXC.

2) As root, I created a new user "devel"

3) For the "devel" user set both subuid and subgid to devel:100000:65536

4) As root, installed podman

5) In another SSH session, logged in as "devel" and ran "podman version"

Same error as before. This is in a Debian 12 LXC running on Proxmox.
Would love if this also validated my perceived decline of MongoDB.
Nearly as fast to compress, but much slower to decompress. Zstd is pretty good on decompression but LZ4 is top-tier.

Zstd is often "fast enough" in decompression for most cases, though.
How will we be able to check whether the pixel perfect images are actually pixel perfect, or whether our minds simply trigger the (binary?) signal "looks crisp to me"?

I've oftentimes tried to recreate such a vivid image, either in a drawing, or simply in my mind, and I've always failed. The vivid image always fades away upon closer scrutiny.
The Origin of Chemical Elements (1948)
These all postdate the discussions that I linked (from March 31st). By April 1st JT themselves seems to have stopped making/boosting the claim about low memory usage.
I think there's a low-effort solution to GP: Just split off the notification function for now.

There's a dilemma here: Make a huge number of tiny libraries and people complain about left-pad. Make a monolith and this type of attack can happen. If left-pad is more preventable, let's go that way. The fact that C and C++ have tons of overhead in producing a package is their problem to deal with through better tooling.
Haha thank you so much! Always a joy to see a happy user!

Mind if I showcase your comment on the Upscayl website? :D
> RDBMS are much easier to understand if you know what a B+tree looks like, yes, and I highly recommend any backend dev take the time to do so. But there is so, so much more that can go wrong.

I agree, but that stuff that goes wrong isn't (in my experience) super common. At least, not until your tables reach fairly large (as in 10s of GBs of data) sizes. Which is why I'd suggest you still employ DBAs :).

You wouldn't, for example, think about pulling out a filter index if you weren't dealing with fairly large tables where a full index might have an overly large negative impact.

On the flip side, I've seen more than a few tables where a fundamental understanding of how the data is structured would have prevented a multitude of issues like bad or missing indexes. (My favorite that is depressingly common `Create Index blah ON foo(id, thingToIndex)`)
The result will be Fortune 500 companies spending millions and billions on "Security Companies" who pocket the money and produce lots of paperwork absolving everyone of any form of blame, whilst the actual maintainers will still get a can of diet code and a misspelt acknowledgment somewhere.
A nice thing about not being logged in is that it is less addictive as a lot of the front page is less relevant.
In the past twenty years, the job of "software engineer" has taken upon ops/QA/DBA/support.
This is fundamentally _awful_ (fortunately still throwing NX for me). This is going to be confusing for end users, frustrating for IT admins, and will make phishing training that much more difficult.

Is the "ILOVEYOU.exe" a reference to the virus[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

I'll wait for fuckyougooglefortheexetld.exe.
More than this.

Joining the tables in the database should perform better than joining them on the application layer. If it doesn't, there's something very odd.

This holds for any production ready DBMS. Even the ones that don't care about performance or preserving your data.
Horrors beyond my comprehension.
Some key apps on macOS do sandbox themselves, most obviously Microsoft Office.

The main issue is that the tooling around sandboxing is poor. If there are violations the best you're going to get is an opaque message logged to an unbelievably verbose log torrent. Also, the low level sandboxing APIs you need to really batten things down for internal components aren't documented. Chrome uses them anyway, and they just have to rely on the fact that they're so big that Apple won't break them. But if you're smaller, it's a risk.
React and TailwindCSS for everything now. I'm fed up of churn, fed up of the constant stream of new UI toolkits and static site this and Next that and Svelte the other.

I spent my "new technology budget" on upgrading most of my projects to vite, which already kind of annoyed me, but it does seem a tad faster than Webpack and keeps my projects from bitrotting away so, eh.

I actually increased my use of React in the last year or so by using it to render to HTML/PDF on the back-end now as well, combining it with weasyprint or puppeteer to pump out the final PDF's.

To be clear: I currently try to build everything web related (websites, static pages, webapps, PDF's, electron apps) with React now.
You like carpenter bees? They're a pain in the ass
I'm dealing with a very large partitioned table (several millions of inserts per day) and i solve this by running `vacuum analyze` nightly which somehow solved 99% our read issues

Prior to that, we tried various indexing strategies, de-normalizing some of the data, but ultimately i found that weird plan inconsistency to be solved by the vacuum job
So, Cloudflare DNS API is down!?

It might be irrelevant but their core product (of returning results), i.e. dig google.com @1.1.1.1 seems to be working fine here.
> ..the symptoms began as an intense feeling of pressure, which started in the torso and radiated up to the head and neck. Then there was nausea, followed by a “high-pitched squeal.” Taylor raced to a bathroom to vomit before collapsing unconscious on the floor.

> Once back in the United States, Taylor was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.

>Taylor remembers confronting a tall, muscular man with a military bearing acting suspiciously across the road from the consulate residential complex. After a brief exchange with Taylor, the man responded with a strong Russian accent, shutting down the encounter and running off.

>Taylor did not hesitate in confirming that Gordienko was the suspect skulking around outside U.S. consulate housing.

Gordienko being "Egor Gordienko named as senior member of cell of Russian agents who tried to kill former Russian spy in Salisbury" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/25/fourth-russian-a...

Doesn't sound like a random headache to me.
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> where they already existed in multiple libraries

Signals exist in multiple libraries with what are really minor variations on the theme.

> before the Promises/A design came out.

That's why the current proposal asks for input about design.

IIRC, promises also had multiple iterations on the design. There were calls to make them more monadic, less monadic, cancelable, non-cancelable etc.

And the original proposal looks nothing like the eventual API: https://groups.google.com/g/commonjs/c/6T9z75fohDk [1]

And new things are still being added to them (like Promise.withResolvers etc.)

[1] There's a great long presentation on the history of promises here: https://samsaccone.com/posts/history-of-promises.html
> What if you apply the fourier transform twice?

You're back in the time domain except reversed in time.
Depends on the location. Many times they do not compete for food as the tongues of the bumble and carpenter bees are able to reach nectar sources the honeybees cannot. Also many of the native bees will work the flowers earlier in the day, giving them a headstart on the honeybees.
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When they claimed to drastically improve memory utilization through the use of memory maps, despite not doing so and then starting a huge controversy which derailed the project I would say they were a 0.1x dev not a 10x dev.