skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pretty sure i'm cursed, after 7 years in the business i would say only half of what i worked on lasted more than 2 years
I hope you ran away from that company. Your change was too disruptive, because it made other people look stupid, like they didn't grok basic data structures. I think everyone overlooks obvious solutions to everyday problems every now and then, but the way they reacted speaks volumes...
yes, but somehow it got "corrected" to Pernell. I'm not sure who Pernell is or why they would be relevant to the discussion.
:-)
I'll need to read the rest of the article, but it is amazing how many brick homes and buildings are in St. Louis.

The brick house in St. Louis I rented previously was built in the late 1800s and has a brick walkway in the back yard that was put down at the same time, so nearly every day I was walking on bricks that had been walked on for nearly every day for more than a century.

The brick house in St. Louis my wife and I purchased a couple of years ago was likewise built in the late 1800s. If you don't know what tuckpointing[+] is, and the cost involved, you definitely will after purchasing a brick house! Thankfully, it doesn't have to be performed every decade, and you don't necessarily need to have it done to the entire exterior in one go.

[+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckpointing
I had an 100+ year old Underwood restored at this shop. They did a great job, and it was a delight to have them walk me through both the history of my machine and the care they took in getting it working again
The Spacing isn't that weird. It just wraps paragraphs inside of paragraph tags. If you use Shift-enter you get a new line w/out a paragraph. The only real change I've had to do there is just hit enter once, where I used to hit twice.
Yeah, these guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper

I remember someone wanted to involve one in the plot of their video game. I wish I could remember the name, it looked cool. They had a couple animations done but I never saw the finished game.
I'm not really super confident, but I think the problem is that sshd has to be able to spawn user sessions and those users are generally not supposed to be (meaningfully) confined by selinux or whatever. So I suspect that it wouldn't have helped, because a compromised sshd is necessarily in the prefect place to MitM or forge a session regardless of extra constraints. But take with a grain of salt.
It's not censorship.
Generating two different people is a hard problem for Stable Diffusion type systems. I was playing with this for a while. If you ask for any scene that involves two people touching or some limbs occluded, results are terrible. A common bug is one arm from each person joined to one arm of the other. Background people tend to closely resemble the foreground subject.

There are uncensored models out there. This one[1] is a cut-down model for speed, and it's free. What you really want is the "I can't believe it's not photography" model, without censorship. There was a site which would generate images from it for free, but it overloaded and they had to cut back. They have the same problem.

[1] https://stable-diffusion.site/

[2] https://civitai.com/models/28059/icbinp-i-cant-believe-its-n...
This logic has a key flaw: just the fact that the size of the space is different doesnt mean that every representable thing in the larger space is a thing we care about. E.g. a person with three hands may not have a representation in the smaller space, but we would never care about that. The actual question is: what is the difference in the amount of information encoded in a large image vs the small latent space and compare that to the difference in information between a large image and a small image. If those two differences are close enough together, being able to determine a legitimate difference between SD generated vs not becomes near impossible.
I am so excited for the monoclonal antibody revolution of Medicine. Here's to them getting cheaper someday.
What was your proposal?
AppArmor/SELinux require separate policy files to be written, to describe what an app can/can't do.

Pledge/unveil are APIs that developers use to directly restrict what an app can do/can't do.
If you can only enjoy the best of everything, I feel bad for you. Do I like good bourbon? Yup! Do I enjoy pedestrian stuff too? Yeah; I mean I'm not going to let my enjoyment of the best bourbon I've had spoil the fun of a cheaper bottle.
The world wasn't ready. Now in the 2020s we could do it, a public tech support site staffed entirely by transgender programmers.
> I don't think so. The git repo did have everything needed.

build-to-host.m4 is not checked into the repo. Without the modified build-to-host.m4, there is nothing to kick off the exploit.
How tiny is "pretty tiny" in your opinion?

I've been playing around with NATS, which is hovering at just under 10MB of RAM on each of 3 nodes, while passing an average of 1 message per second.

I am liking it, though NATS clearly has a less strict queue ordering policy when I throw a burst of messages at it.

Edit: actually another node is at 22MB, so take what you will from that.
Why do you think he might have been shaken down by the police?

He lied in every web site he set up, why wouldn't he lie about being arrested?

Please stop believing scammers.
It's the same as any code that won't run: there's no point in running it if it won't do anything.
Worked for a client via freelancing. Built 3 projects, all failed. He likes to follow the trends, first SaaS, then crypto/blockchain, and now AI. He apparently raises money, pays himself and builds bullshit projects. That's it. But while doing so, he does everything to look like a legit startup.

Ngl, he was my first major client with whom I gained a lot of experience, but it doesn't change the fact that he is a hype chaser.
I guess there's degrees of lock-in. I.e. using some parts of AWS you know push comes to shove you could write a different alternative/use a different library. It's a bunch of building blocks. There's various alternatives out there for components.

Without reading too much of Partykit + Cloudflare, if you base your whole architecture on the way one company works and perhaps the pricing is too good to be true, you're setting yourself up for a rude shock in future.

Everytime I've looked at Cloudflare's pricing I've gone "that's bonkers cheap" for what you're getting, which sets off alarm bells that once a PE company gets their hands on it, it's not going to be that cheap any more.
Musk vs Reuters. They can't be both right....Who to trust....
Product Hunt Survivor Bias
It's not wrong, really. But it is cliche usually adds nothing of value. As with all such phrases, if using it makes the writing more clear, then it should be used. Otherwise, it should be omitted.

When I've encountered it, it usually comes off as a way to just make the writer sound smarter rather than a way to clarify communication.
Yes, the Roman geologists did not use decimals but fractions. "S···· or S∷ | Dextans, dextantis or decunx, decuncis" would be the equivalent of .8 since they used "a duodecimal rather than a decimal system for fractions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
That is a widely held view among Unix nerds like me, at least.
I simply will not use my personal phone for work purposes. I hesitate to even make a call in a pinch. There's no way employer mandated apps are going on there. If an employer doesn't provide a phone but expects these things, I will simply make them figure it out / work out an alternative solution with them.

In the worst case I would be prepared to be fired over this issue.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39936016
As someone wittier than me said, “I’d rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question.”
Swift, QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal?
I have an auto-updated tap for the ffmpeg binaries from https://www.osxexperts.net, feel free to

brew tap bsiegel/tap

I got frustrated having to install all of the runtime dependencies and just wanted an easy way to install the statically-linked version, so here it is.
The most interesting takeaway from this article for me was that there's an inverse correlation between the number of syllables spoken per second and the bits of information conveyed in that time.

> Japanese, for example, has an extremely high number of syllables spoken per second. But Japanese also has an extremely low degree of complexity in its syllables, and much less information encoded per syllable.

It seems like our brains might only be capable of processing ~39 bits of spoken information per second. Now I want to see a comparison of the information throughput of other forms of communication!
Speak for yourself, if my work gave me a phone like that for 2FA, it would be absolutely perfect because I wouldn't use it for anything but 2FA.
For what it's worth, I've also encountered the insanity of build systems when using third-party libraries. At this point I am so fed up with them, that I typically try to "just build the source". This doesn't work all the time, but I was positively surprised how well this approach works.

Most libraries really just need some include paths and some preprocessor defines.
E.g. https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Anker/blob/main/external/box2d/CM...

Sure, I am using CMake here, but the actual instructions for building the library is plain and simple and can easily be replicated in any build system.
Those don't inconvenience cops. They drive right on by until someone else throws enough of a fit for them to do an anti-homeless sweep.
Not OP, but what is much simpler is buying a motherboard with IPMI and placing that behind a VPN. If you cannot afford the couple hundred extra bucks for the motherboard, then a USB stick with minimal Linux setup + SSH and then doing a kexec from that is another option.
Please tell me where I can get a phone that runs modern Android and has physical buttons lol
The ore is sitting right there, in coalesced lumps, on the floor for core green energy metals, and there's a general acceptance that the orders of magnitude involved over the next 3 decades require getting them.

I don't mind the discussion on it the past couple days, god knows wherever I get information from isn't the one blessed source, but I am worried about HN's instinctual "from first principles" reactions to undersea mining. Made me wince a little bit when I saw the post you're replying to say "I am always surprised when I find others don't just assume that undersea mining is more impactful."

I really appreciated you gently pointing out there's other smart humans on this and they likely have considered things like the environment.
There's quite a few lists of you're actually interested. For example https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk... Just search for them - most are verified by his tweets at the time.
I once worked with a blind malware analyst. I was skeptical because of the working memory requirements for reverse engineering being hard in general... until we worked together and his screen reader gave him hex and assembly. He was beyond fast at reversing and generally excellent at his job.
It's evolution. If something is better. It will take over.

Thus it's not surprising that all languages have evolved to about the same speed. None is "better". They all convey information at the same rate. That's why there is no pressure to speak just "the best one".

Like you, to my ear, American English seems to be spoken at different rates regionally. I don't know how to think about that...

I tried learning Danish. It's not like French where you don't speak the ends of many words. There, you just say only the most important syllables in the sentence, usually "deh" or "leh" (which are pronounced the same). Respect the Danes! Their language is impenetrable!
I use an old iphone 8 for work 2FA apps and fall back to my phone number if the phone is dead or something . Only been in 1 environment that didnt allow that fallback and they gave me a phone. Ive been on both sides of this kind of policy and while many people would like to think they would make OP’s argument, Ive only ever had one person successfully argue it and…they were just given an extremely cheap old phone and a dongle.
Some previous discussion from 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33527642

And the original post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21436448
There's a local restaurant that has a 3% CC surcharge and a 10% cash discount. I like going there and paying cash.
I enthusiastically agree with this. Try having your car/vehicle stolen, the offending party caught and pled guilty, ordered by a judge to pay back the damage they have done ... and do nothing (despite making, technically, massive untaxed sales on untaxed drug income)
(the hustle and bustle of big city life!)
still waiting, philadelphia
I'd be happy with those TOTP keyfobs. Is there any reason those are less common now?
The density vs syllabic speed concept is pretty widely known, but I'd be interested in analyses of accents inside languages. Why are some accents much slower than others, and how is that not a serious disadvantage? I have firsthand knowledge of the fact that when I, as an American Southerner, try to speak as quickly as a Northerner my mouth falls to pieces.
Aaaand Roku is dead to me
"The answer of course is Visual Studio", pun intended.
You don't have to do the math, they do it for you
i might be mistaken but i think a lot of the compliance standards go along the lines of do not mix personal and business equipment; to me this includes Phones - and it really should include a separate vlan (at least) for distributed employees.
If it’s at all possible to get moved to work on sometthing that is not “useless” then I would push for that. Would your TL be open to it?

Not only for job satisfaction but, given the current market and the propensity for layoffs, working on something useful will give you a little more job security
TL is lining you up for PIP/termination. The other guy on the team is likely his buddy. Come review time, you will be shown as an IC that struggles to deliver, and the other guy will get all the credit.

Been there, seen that. Start looking for other teams internally ASAP.
Since I don't allow anyone to install stuff on my personal phone - and they probably wouldn't want to store their secure data onto a device that I rooted anyway - then the only option is for the employer to provide a 2FA device.

It doesn't have to be a phone, though. Yubikey is good and affordable.
Looking forward to ditching these bloated operating systems with all this cruft I I do not need for something smaller and simpler: UEFI. Not to mention faster startup. Easier "embedded" development.

Of course I am joking. Sort of.

As a minimalist I do not need a GUI or a mouse. It seems UEFI already has more than I need.

Here is the Twitter client mentioned:

https://github.com/arata-nvm/mitnal
There's something intrinsically funny about that word. I think part of it is that it sounds like of like "masturbation", and part of it is that it's so unusually specific - why do we need a word for throwing someone out a window?
I’m not convinced. planet-tracker says that refinement method, not ore source, determines carbon intensity. But deep sea nodules are richer than ore on land, which means they use less energy per unit of refined product. This is born out by the actual planet-tracker report: they themselves show that the highest estimates for sea-based carbon intensity are lower than all but the lowest estimates for land-based carbon intensity. Sea-based mining only looks bad if you compare the worst assumptions about sea-based mining with the best assumptions about land-based mining.

Planet-tracker also raises the concern that sea-based mining could theoretically disturb carbon which is sequestered on the ocean floor. However, there isn’t much circulation between the top of the ocean and the depth at which sea-based mining would occur, so this effect may be minimal or non-existent.

Additionally, the study neglects to consider how increased availability of critical metals could accelerate green technology adoption. Even if sea-based mining was somewhat worse for the environment on a kg co2/kg metal basis, it could be beneficial if it made EV batteries more economical.

I’m not saying that we should give companies unfettered access to the ocean floor. But planet-tracker’s call for a moratorium on deep sea mining is counterproductive.

The best course of action is to allow for a limited amount of mining in the Clarion Clipperton Zone so that scientists can study the resulting sediment plums. Advocates should be pushing the International Seabed Authority and governments to fund more research, not trying to block mining altogether.
> What is it about Stradivari or other hand made instruments that make them so coveted, are desirable sonic characteristics measurable and traceable to manufacturing techniques? Or is it all just halo effect?

It 90% halo effect.

However, the wood, in particular, for the Stradivarii came from forests that had suffered droughts and was quite a bit denser than expected for that species.

That having been said, wood degrades. It doesn't matter if you put magic varnish on it or not. Wood ages nicely in instruments for about 10 years. Then it's good for about 50 years. After 50 it starts noticably degrading, and the more heavily used the more it degrades.

You will note that the Strads are long past the point that the wood is "good". People who play violins can tell. However, nobody involved in a "blind" test is going to slag violins that might be Strads--that would be bad for their reputation.

Ironically, those Strads aren't completely original, either. They have been repaired to various degrees over the years, given more modern bridges, etc. So, we get a Ship of Theseus argument.

As for modern handmade violins, the top ones are easily as good or even better than Strads. Strads may have been "magic" in the 1700s and 1800s, but we have really good control of things, better measurement, better analysis, better materials, etc. in the modern era.

Luthierie in the 2000s is still art, but it's got a lot of science backing it up nowadays.
The standard needs to be developed well in advance of the devices that support it. PCIe 7.0 is not coming particularly quickly when compared to past standards.

PCIe 5.0 first draft was out in 2017, final spec released in 2019, platform support first available in 2021, devices that actually supported it on the market in late 2022.

PCIe 6.0 first draft out in 2020, final spec released in 2022, first devices (and hopefully platform support?) out this year.

PCIe 7.0 first draft out in 2024, spec scheduled to be released 2025, devices and platform support out probably a few years after that.

It's not that the standard is moving super quickly, but that because everyone needs to collaborate for the standard to actually be interoperable, you get to see how the sausage is made and so the news about it seems to be out very early.
Well unless Reuters just made up these 3 sources they aren't lying.

Even if what they're claiming is false, the most likely reason is that they've been fed wrong info by their sources.

But that's not what Elon is claiming. He's claiming that Reuters is knowingly printing information they know to be false.
The linked URL should be a context clue.
Woof AlertTM converts dog barks to email. https://github.com/FoxDotBuild/woof-alert
If I math this out right $300K - $100K taxes (your estimate) - $86K tuition = $114K which is still a lot higher than the median household income (which I'm pretty sure is still pre-tax). That said, I think you are onto something - these schools are for the elite; not the merely well-to-do or below.

I also went to state school, so I'm not really dissing the thing, though people here would probably laugh at me if I said how much money I make, so maybe your mileage may vary on that one. But my perception (which could certainly be mistaken) is that the elite degrees actually have a huge premium, which is why there is so much competition for them.
I think there's some technical reason you can't do this, because even gas stations don't. They just have a separate cash/credit price.
The article all throughout points to the same root cause you point to. It clearly presents a mirror where we can see reflected all the stories we often fabricate to trap ourselves. Perhaps the author created a system. But I saw it rather as a device to better bring to awareness common but elusive mental patterns that keep us stuck. Although I'd agree with you that intellectualizing is often part of the problem, how do you then treat a disease, if the only medium available to administer the medicine is also the cause of the disease? How do you tell people that their mind is the reason they suffer without telling them?

Even your own comment, as valuable as it is for pointing it out, feeds exactly the same beast that it accuses the article of feeding. That's the real irony.
literally all of my projects but i learned something out each and every1
I started building a Magic based data science tool for 6 months before coming to the same inevitable conclusion. It sits in a Github private repo rotting away.
> since I was working for Apple they legally owned it anyway

IANAL but I think they were lying to you.

CA law protecting your after-hours code from your employer: https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...

NY law doing the same thing: https://casetext.com/statute/consolidated-laws-of-new-york/c...
It’s not just the buildings, even then shoreline of the Mississippi in StL is paved with bricks. All of this gives it such a much older feel than KC.
Like the NATO Phonetic alphabet. Make everything two syllables, because it makes the correction of corrupted recordings less ambiguous.
Have you tried contacting them to see if they are interested in using it to their advantage as well?