skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(NOTE: I may misunderstand the risk of the XV backdoor - "it exec'd"..., and so my premise may be irrelevant to this convo.)

Is there a way to run BASH such that it does not allow EXEC'ing things? Like, have a "secure mode" for bash?

EDIT: For xv's configure script, I cannot imagine how one could run BASH in any hypothetical "secure mode". So, Nvm.
Depending on the application, going for floats can be a huge mistake: you only exact integer math up to 2^52 or 10^15. That’s hardly infinite, and insufficient for many applications.
Minor interaction feedback: on mobile it is often hard to drill into a group without accidentally drilling into a specific subgroup inside it. Because my thumb is too fat to find the hit target which is in the group but NOT in any of its children.
India seems to be going after a lot of political opposition opponents these days to its main BJP party:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/31/india-opposition-pr...
Congratulations on the game, and thanks for choosing to share the source!

It would help if it had a license file in the repo in order to express what rights you grant to others
DBRX vs. Mixtral vs. GPT: create your own benchmark
It's other visitors online at the same time, your mouse pointer is sent via websockets every few seconds and received by all other online visitors. I agree it's very distracting
Turboprop is different from jet
Not in this case. In this case we want a general computer user to perform an action to have a 'computer in a box' that they can break with no consequences with a very low barrier to entry. And we want that action to be easy to share.
> Uh, reddit already won what exactly?

The right to do whatever they want and still keep the communities and content with pretty much no impact on their bottom line thereafter.

> How does going public have anything to do with success for a company like this? It's a way to raise capital and compensate insiders, nothing special

You raise capital if investors believe in the direction the company is heading. They're betting on reddit to make them money.

> Everything there is becoming corporate

Reddit didn't start out that way, at least it wasn't the impression that seasoned internet users got. It used to be developer-friendly and open, whether you were using Tor, a VPN or a datacenter's IP.

It's, of course, their right to steer the company as they see fit and towards profitability. My only wish is that people providing valuable content and moderation work would start to see that the company's values have changed.
I have had the same results with multiple VPN providers for the better part a month now.
> No, that was your uncharitable reading of what I wrote.

I am in general an advocate of assuming the best possible meaning, but there isn't a charitable enough reading to what you said in your first post that makes it mean what you said in your second post.

> This isn't a programming language. Everything we write is context sensitive. It's always going to be the reader's responsibility to provide a sensible context. As a reader, you will always be able to frame my writing negatively.

True. So what context did I miss that makes "Let your girlfriend know that she deserves treatment on weekends, too." an okay thing to say? All the context I'm seeing there seems to indicate that you are sharing an unqualified opinion on whether someone should be treated for a medical condition on weekends, which is none of your business.

Yes, it's readers' responsibility to read charitably, but there is also some burden on the communicator to communicate effectively. Maybe you intended to say something other than what you said, but ultimately readers can only make the best of what you actually said, not what you intended to say.

If you intended to say something other than what you said, there's no shame in admitting you misspoke. Mistakes happen. But I'm not going to take the blame for your poor communication if I didn't read your mind when you said something you didn't mean.
Author doesn't see RH profiting by selling customer information they acquire.
Yeah, I left the page 10 seconds in.
> Not a single fatal accident was recorded involving a commercial jet. Not one.

> the only deadly crash was that of an ATR turboprop

Turboprops are not jets.
I assume that an "ATR turboprop" does not count as a commercial jet.
Perhaps they didn't finish the title. Great sci-fi literature that's been run into trite mediocrity.
Sounds like they are proposing reddit shouldn't make money through the content, and die if that is the only path.

This is reasonable.
How’s consumer confidence in aviation safety doing?
Nepal can also be a different world for aviation to boot. They have some gnarly airports there.
Boredom isn't bad; its often how we become creative and create novel things. Not really the same quality of boredom as what I'm talking about, but this video from Veritasium is still relevant, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPwKFigF8U
Yeah, Ubers credit card had good cash back for a while and then they nerfed it.
> The reality is that being a SWE or related is a massive net negative to your "SMV".

Its not, but buying into the belief that it is is.
this is not the same technique - video involves vigorous shaking of the duvet
That fear needs to exist all the time about everything. Aviation safety is one of many, food safety, health care, government in general, etc. Becoming complacent will start kill people again at some point. It is called entropy.
Ah, I missed that the line that mentions the report wasn't talking about the report as a whole. Sounded like the second line was getting its information from somewhere other than that report.
It's the mouse cursors of everyone who is currently viewing the page.
SHA256, generally. So for example, you might use 5c15a6e5c0bf02e6c0eaa939cb543c41d7725453064c920b9a4faeea7c357506. (This is a digest hash you'd use in Docker, as an example)

You can both consume that specific one, but also reproduce it locally if you want to. Depending on your intent, bandwidth and trust you can pick the method you desire.
I have observed a recurring pattern of "this popular place is doing something I don't like! Let's all move to a less popular place, that will show them!" Time and time again, the people who made the move learned that they were the minority in what they didn't like. Also, while the old place might have a greater variety of people (good and bad), the new place is often filled with many people who were angry about the old place (maybe mostly "good", but makes a lot of angry posts).

So now, people who are at this newer, possibly better, but quieter and angrier place, they have to wonder if they made a good move. Sometimes, with enough patience, the new place do eventually turned out to be just as great. But usually my observation is that people just give up and leave, possibly returning to the old (still popular) place.
What resources are you using to learn basic electronics?
Yeah, I think it’s a cool and important thing to pursue! Just wondering where the land mines are. Did you happen to make a list of considerations while you were doing it?
thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
Is this "CTR" from the world of alternative facts, or a real thing?
Developer/Designer: so about the time adjustment.

Product Manager: I'll stop you there. Thanks for your input but we don't need it for MVP as it's an infrequently used feature and having spoken to stakeholders [they didn't] and customers [they didn't], they both told me they didn't rank the clock function as important.

(PM proceeds in the rest of the meeting to question every comment and opinion the developer has as if taking part in a PhD defence, while offering zero evidence of their own assertions)
The people in these planes probably didn't feel perfectly safe.

https://avherald.com/
It’s not the default, but it’s just a language feature. It’s also not just for interfacing with C. For example, you also use repr(C) for pointer tricks even if you never leave Rust. Lots of places in the standard library use it for that reason.
> Probably the code review tools should be hardened as well, to indicate if extended identifiers had been introduced to a line where there wasn't any.

Maybe in the future more languages/ tools will have the concept of per-project character sets, as opposed to trying to wrangle all possible Unicode ambiguity problems.

I suppose then the problem is how to permit exceptions when integrating with some library written in another (human) language.
That would mean there's no encoding to crack, but it could still be going on if it's an inside job. Someone has access somewhere in the production process, notes valid codes. Could be a camera hidden somewhere.
There is a book, “how to ace calculus, the streetwise guide” that sounds a little gimmicky but is actually a bit entertaining to read. Looks like it can be had on thrift books or eBay for about $5. It helped me understand some of the concepts at a deeper level than math text books. The problem with math text books are they’re mostly written by mathematicians who seem to think different than the rest of us, so when they try to explain things it’s in a mathematician way.
Comments that are easy to grok and grep
This may be naive, but it seems to me that a failed compile should generate an error worth worrying about.
Why the Balkans Are So Poor [video]
They actually kinda do have print collections of some of their articles, but in the form of books and not well marketed [0].

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/gift-store
How often do you bury your old deck deep enough to not have decomposition emit gasses to the surface when you replace it though?
Just want to put out here that being neurodivergent is an easy route to lose hope. Most people / professors are neurotypical and they guide you through their neurotypical lens, as they have previously found success doing.
your points are all fair and valid, and i can see how mine was missed.

i am attempting to say:

the way you give feedback is highly correlated with it landing.

your “mean” feedback is not, it speaks to why and does not just dismiss the author or try to trivialize a number. it provides clear links to issues, not just attacking the intelligence of the poster. you make a series of great points, reinforced by others feelings and examples of real world issues.

this feedback can be turned into something useful, allows reflection, and does not attack the authors entire reason to be here.

the original dude literally says:

1. 800 users is shit
2. your app had no effect
3. you dont even know how to choose a goal

you must be able to see this difference?

is asshole a diagnosis?
I chose an ambitious/important topic for my PhD. Perhaps it is because stories usually have happy endings, causing us to be overly optimistic, but I imagined that if I just worked really hard on it then eventually I would solve it. In the end I did enough to get the degree, but I didn't solve the problem in any real way. It was five years of struggle that didn't produce any interesting results. The biggest learning for me from the PhD was that it made me more humble and caused me to doubt that something is possible unless a clear path to it is already visible.
I have a friend who coaches all kinds of postgrads through their theses/treatises (masters all the way to postdoc) - the number one thing that keeps her in business is shitty supervisors and the soul crushing grind of academia. PhDs (and masters theses) are primarily about project management, with time, money and morale being the primary resources dealt with. Almost invariably, morale runs out first, and then time, because the work isn't being done. Managing morale is as important as managing your time and money, and supervisors almost never impart that skill.
User of a Kindle Paperwhite (from 2017) here. I feel similar to your experience with the Voyage. It's a great device, but the micro-USB port and non-waterproof are the only reasons I've been wanting to upgrade. To help with the fragility of the port, I keep it on airplane mode 99% of the time, so I'm only charging about once/month. I jailbroke it years ago, along with removing the ads, and transfer all my books via calibre (after stripping the DRM of course). I also installed my own custom lock screen wallpapers.

At this point, it's on an outdated version of the OS but since I don't need to connect it, I don't bother. It reads books just fine. One day the battery will give up, and I'll look to upgrade. The kobos are on my list to look into.
For today. Even Facebook is in decline. Online platforms don't last forever.
letting dist builds be linked against test resources is a design defect to begin with, and the fact that this is easy/trivial/widely-accepted is a general indication of the engineering culture problems around C.

Nobody in Java word is linking against test resources in prod, and a sanely designed build system should in fact make this extremely difficult. That shit went away in the maven/gradle days - which is for a reason, ant is basically makefiles for Java, gradle/maven are a build system not a pile of scripts. And that transition happened 20 years ago!

If you can’t even prevent a test resource being linked into a final build you are not serious. I don’t care about legacy whatever, that’s an obvious baseline metric for security culture / build engineering.

Maybe not “prevent” but like, tooling should absolutely make it blindingly obvious that you’re violating best-practices by disabling scoping rules or including unusual source/resource roots, etc.

C has never moved past the 1970 mindset of build being a pile of scripts with a superstructure bolted on. Just like Ant. Even the attempts to fix C’s build are just better ways to programmatically generate better bash scripts to keep you going off the rails.
People also seem to forget that your reputation inside of your own head matters for a lot of people. People have different ways to frame or reframe past failures, and to get past them.

Besides, begrudging people time spent on community sounds like something your last shitty manager would do. Can’t tell if GP is shitty manager material or has Stockholm Syndrome from them. Odds favor the latter.
Respectfully, this is a small sampling of what's happening.

Reddit and Twitter, the two posterchildren of poor management, have plenty of actual interaction. They also have a significant amount of shitty noise, which is incredibly off putting, but the average person is still more likely to go there than where our niche communities end up.

They might be dying slowly, but they're not even on life support yet.
I imagine that people like Talagrand are more concerned with the substance of the article than the title, where all this and more are unambiguously detailed.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764954 - March 2024 (48 comments)
Realtors settlement already changing the way some Americans buy and sell homes
If I'm calculating correctly, that's a birth rate more than 6X Taiwan's average. (But the article is fairly vague, and also talks about employees of affiliated companies, and several other caveats might apply.)

Might anyone familiar with Taiwan comment, at least on other major barriers to parenthood there? (In the U.S., the triplet costs of medical care, housing, and education make parenthood a rather distant dream for much of the current middle classes.)
"They can’t have physical buttons because there are literally hundreds of features that the passengers need buttons to control that haven’t even been conceived of"

Ha! I actually thought you were serious. Well played, sir, you got me.
Does this do RAG over the character's chat history too? That's something SillyTavern can also do with extensions, but I figured since your project already uses Llamaindex, this feature can be something that's already baked in from the get-go.
The bigger concern to me about redwoods is Sudden Oak Death syndrome, an oomycete related to the organism that caused the great potato famine in the 19th century, that affects a wide variety of trees but in California is particularly damaging to three tree species, one of which is Coast Redwood. It's been spreading inexorably in a slow motion ecological disaster. It's also been detected in several eastern US states, and is causing damage to larch in the UK.
Maybe? Reddit isn't renowned for accuracy.
The coup failed and whatever reddit's been doing is obviously good for business. I'd wager the majority of people boycotting reddit are still using it like nothing happened.
I've been looking for a reason to use their spun off card creation api for something: https://www.lithic.com/
I understand this is a bit odd to mention, but it's kinda cool seeing (15) made the list. It's a love-hate thing for me.
It's a joke, don't think about it too much.
You don’t allow refunds… your “service” exists to prey on the lonely and you charge huge fees. Shocked they would deplatform such a noble service.
Except for the two Boeing planes that nose dived into the ground killing everyone onboard...
You've provided an accurate overview of the situation. Additionally, the ex-Chief Minister of Delhi has taken an unconventional stance by choosing to administer from behind bars, despite his alleged involvement in a significant liquor scam, which also led to the incarceration of his associates for embezzling over 500 crore rupees. Given these circumstances, the question arises as to why he should receive any special treatment.

What's more, this case has garnered exceptional attention from international bodies, including the governments of Germany and the United States, as well as the United Nations, which have all expressed concerns in various forms. This level of international interest is peculiar, especially when considering that several other Chief Ministers, such as Hemant Soren, Laloo Yadav, and Jayalalitha, have faced imprisonment for corruption charges without attracting similar global scrutiny. The focus on the Delhi ex-CM raises questions about the selective attention of these international entities.

Moreover, the case has taken a further twist with allegations from the leader of a terrorist organization, accusing the Delhi ex-CM of accepting a substantial bribe in exchange for the release of a notorious terrorist, a claim that highlights a lack of intent or capability to fulfill such a promise. This has turned the situation into a subject of ridicule.
More people leaving means less FOMO. Or perhaps they want to harm reddit in some karmic justice way.
Sorry I'm unaware of what you're saying? Are you saying that pilots are being selected without meeting training requirements and licensing? That doesn't sound right and I must be missing your point.
The vast majority of people turned out to be highly passive and docile in the face of extreme enshittification. Sad, but that's where we're at.

Reddit only "won" the Eternal September types. The others have moved on.
It sounds to me like you're trying to seek a correlation too eagerly. It's not obvious whether it's more implausible that he's a lazy Chinese programmer with very good English, or a lazy native English-speaking programmer who wants to pretend to be Chinese.
And then five people died after a commercial airliner hit an earthquake aid plane in Tokyo literally two days after 2023 ended.
A long time ago I read on Reddit that Samsung TVs would be able to use any Samsung phone to get a wifi password and connect home. Even if no access was allowed. I don’t know if it’s true but it wouldn’t surprise me.

I tried searching for a link but couldn’t immediately find any to back up the claim.
> more people

how are you so sure the extra traffic is from people?
I think there's a typo in the section on arbitrary thresholds. Specifically in the sentence about 16% being within 0.1 of the cutoff. I have a feeling this should be 0.01 as mentioned later.
From my visits to Singapore I'd say it does have skyrocketing inequality. The inequality is just "exported", i.e. all the poor are not Singaporeans, but largely from Malaysia. Essentially the extremely strict citizenship laws in Singapore make the citizenship itself extremely valuable hence less poverty.
I thought so myself until reading the latest earnings call.
I was addressing your HN comparison. If HN starts adopting similar practices then it'll be fair for the person you were replying to also take a similar stance. Have a "free" public forum where users contribute content was the model Reddit had been using for years. Once they started changing the model, why shouldn't users start questioning their own role in the now outdated arrangement?
Then you agree with me. My phrasing is for an audience who is unaware that the gospels already disagree on Christology. I was retrospectively talking about the pauline-johnian views which won and what they were like
How would that help with the problem of people being rude to unpaid OSS maintainers?
I used to check Twitter 50 times a day, but the login wall combined with killing Nitter completely broke the habit.
Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?
I saw a lot of initial buzz about the promise of agent based workflows and it seemed to be the obvious way to get LLMs to the edge of decision making and leverage many specialized models. It seems the chatter has died down but there are growing projects out there in the space. Before I invest the time to explore and work with tools I’d love some feedback from the community and if and how they are being used.
Isn’t it used in MS Teams, Slack and other messaging and chat apps?

I expected they had some kind of API and deal with these companies.
It seems there might be a misunderstanding of the situation. The judiciary in India operates independently from the current government, led by the BJP, ensuring a separation of powers. Additionally, it's important to note that Al Jazeera has been criticized for its coverage, which some perceive as biased against India. I encourage a deeper examination of the corruption case at hand before forming a conclusion.
No (not since 2013).

If a retailer is asking your name and address etc while buying a TV, it'll likely be to spam you.
I think, reading between the lines, you are replying to a "blame wokeness for everything bad that happens" post. Being generous, it's about one order of magnitude more rational than blaming gays for earthquakes. But it's the same basic idea.
That heavily depends on the individual developer and the organization in question.

In general, the most highly skilled developers who are most capable of doing a thorough code review are also the ones who are most likely to be genuinely over capacity as is.
I think reddit is actually thriving. Everyone I know spends time there nowadays.
Depends on the faculty, but in most cases you are still indentured unless fully sponsored with a grant or bursary. Most people project their own esoteric interests on what they think the world should care about, but almost all are wrong most of the time.

Research institutions are like hermit-crab populations, and "science advances one funeral at a time" as some observed... One finds competitive sociopaths tend to do very well in such political climates.

Ones instincts likely tell you my opinions must be ill informed, but that was also predictable given the decades of training. ;-)