skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re saying a world where students can sneak onto the teachers computer before class starts and put on porn and force the entire classroom to see and hear it is a better world? I can assure you that would be one of the main uses, because it was done in my classroom using sites that the filter missed.

Ridiculous opining for an idealistic world where everyone is an inclined curious student demonstrates your disconnect from the real world. Too much time on HN and the internet will do that to you.
> . Why do you think Facebook added this restriction?

To put a restriction on a small amount of very large companies.

No, thats not a big deal, because the vast majority of people do not work out those couple large companies. So for most people, its fine and there are basically no restrictions.

> if you ever reach 800M, Facebook now decides your fate

If you have to include a caveat so large that it requires 10% of the entire planet to be on your service, I am going to call that a small restriction that doesn't apply to that many people.
> The acquisition of PartyKit by Cloudflare isn't just a milestone for our two teams; it's a leap forward for developers everywhere.

This press release was written by ChatGPT.
I really appreciate that JSX normalized self-closing tags, even if it’s not “html standard”, and I’m somewhat sad to lose that nicety in Svelte. In my view Svelte is plenty weird enough to not be HTML already, but I guess the framework owner differs.
It's actually safer than almost any other debt financing. Even in bankruptcy creditors can't take your house.
I'm certainly not defending them, just pointing out that we should criticize them accurately. Not because their work is hollow and soulless (which is more true for those of us who actually have to continue to work to survive), but because it's evil and parasitic, as you say!
Definitely look at money, but also look at social power. Humans are primates, and primates have meticulously maintained status hierarchies. Actions driven by that may not "make sense". "Sense" came way later and it's still trying to catch up.

And one general rule I love here is POSIWID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

If you can set aside the nominal purpose of the system for a bit, you can start to see a lot of the machinery underneath.
Am I reading that right? Two hundred and ten thousand to one million dollars?
It goes like this: fill in a form, get a certificate from the police saying you are a person in good standing, buy a gun.
I am not an expert in the field, but I have seen studies that claim single use plastic bags are better for the environment per use than multi-use bags, because the multiuse bags use so much more material and don't last long enough to make up for it.
I know there are smart people there, the point is that the stupid are really in control. It is the same for most companies: you'll find a lot of smart people (that's why they're successful), but you'll find also a few stupid people who reach the top by other means and make the company a piece of hell for everyone.
> neither that, nor the article "model" anything

I was showing why 30y-fixed jumbos exist as a result of F&F. You argued an incorrect connection between jumbos within the current system as a proxy for unsubsidised mortgages in a non-F&F system.

> if F&F did not exist, another firm could have done exactly the same securitization, as many do on non-government controlled markets right now

Show me a single one that does for fixed-rate 30-year mortgages to average Americans at scale. Or a single other country that does this.

F&F can do that at the scale they do because they have an implicit guarantee. That creates securitisation and hedging infrastructure for that product that niche firms, like those doing jumbos, can piggyback on. Take out F&F and there isn’t the mass market which means you lose the product. (And no, another firm can’t trivially mint an implicit guarantee from the U.S. government.) Going back to the original point of this thread: they’re far more critical to this process than the Fed.

Genuine question: have you or someone you know traded mortgages?
But why? What was the point?
NJ Earthquake – Felt Report – Tell Us
> If the customers who can’t tell the difference leave and twice as many new ones join, you’re winning.

Quite a few years ago (around 2010), gog.com ran an April Fool's joke claiming they were shutting down. They went all-out for it, including blocking anyone from downloading their paid-for games for the day. Unsurprisingly, people were upset, and I saw more than one person vow never to buy from them again. I always wondered how many customers they lost from that stunt vs. how many they gained.
Well, we are a very low-density country, population-wise. Most of the country is uninhabited. Landfills are cheap and plentiful and fairly environmentally neutral. Even if plastic takes 500 years to decompose, we couldn’t fill 1% of the country with landfills full it in that time if we wanted to.

Cost of living is a big issue here, what to do with all those used chicken wing packages is not.

I’m not saying we don’t dislike single use plastic, we’re moving away from it somewhat too. But it’s just really not much of a problem.

In many cases, plastic packaging is better for the environment. A friend of mine owns a sauerkraut company that switched from glass jars to plastic bags. Glass jars need a lot more energy (and thus co2 emissions) to both create and transport. One truck of plastic bags probably holds as many packages as 20 trucks of glass jars.

Of course, there’s the issue of induced demand which makes everything murky. And certainly, there are many cases where we simply could go without packaging entirely.

But it’s not nearly as clear cut as “plastic bad”
I know this isn’t truly the point of the article, but I’d encourage anyone/everyone to give https://fork.dev a try. Unlimited free trial but well worth it to support the great devs. It solves basically all of the ergonomic gripes I have with the `git` CLI.
That depends on your delivery chain. For tumbling down a conveyor at a sorting center, getting thrown around, fall damage, cuts, slashes, sliding over rough surfaces, etc cardboard is vastly superior. For sitting out in the rain plastic is better.

It might just be that Amazon delivery chains in the US looks very different from most other places. A US package might never see the inside of a DHL sorting center, but spend a lot of time outside, making plastic a valid choice. A package in Europe on the other hand won't see more than two minutes of rain but a lot of rough handling designed for cardboard boxes, making plastic a suboptimal choice (even before environmental regulations)
TCP sockets and why they block [Software]
Does anybody know what are the major companies employing OpenBSD developers these days? To what level are they invested?
TL;DR Modrinth is going independent and returning 800k USD to their capital investors to focus on building the platform at a sustainable pace. This will let them put their creators and community first without having to worry about profit and growth.
You can, but I find it very tedious. O2M or M2M relationships become cumbersome. Not because they're hard to use, but just because there's so fucking many of them.

I opted to store the app and version, and have a function that retrieves a config parser for it. I just didn't want to manage 300 tables just to get the schema to work.

That's also partially because I'm using Ent in Go, so it generates a struct for each table. It'd make my auto-complete useless, and that's not a price I'm willing to pay on a personal project lol
Why academia sucks [video]
I've done IaC is various forms over a decade and I believe the term does more harm than good.

It's not "Infrastructure", and it's not really "Code" either. "Infrastructure Configuration as Text" perhaps would be more descriptive. Or just stick with the samewhat older term "Configuration Management".

These days, however, it's not really in vogue. Nobody thinks they need it anymore. They have Kubernetes and containers now. When you ask enough questions about how those are managed, it usually turns out some state is being managed somewhere outside of version control. I believe the pendulum will swing back in time, but in the meantime there will be K8s on my resume, not IaC.
TIL that part of the world is seismically active. No idea why I thought it wasn't. Funny gap in knowledge there! Hope folks are ok.
Same experience -- felt a shaking; thought maybe a heavy truck had passed by for a second, then saw that all the monitors were swaying. Checked USGS and saw nothing, so figured it was nothing, because on the west coast they have the reports up lickety split. Half hour later everyone's phone started buzzing with the automated alert.
I remember this earth quake! I missed it lol. I happened to be driving and we got out of the car to see a tv telling us how we got hit with an earth quake and my friend and I looking at one another like "what did we miss". This time I happened to be on the second floor of a small office building. I was about to run out of the building if it started to get worse I wasn't sure it wasn't the building having an issue.
Felt that very strongly in southern Westchester county NY. Not like the 2011 earthquake I felt in NYC, which was kind of slow and made the building I was in sway violently; this was more like the vibrations from a huge truck passing nearby, but more intense. Loud and very unpleasant, about 15 seconds duration. Did not like that at all, am now inspecting all our services like gas and water for disruption, checking for cracks and so on.
Appreciated. NY Times, although not unique in this way, is not a link I'm clicking for astronomy news...
I felt that (I live on Long Island).

I thought it was construction vehicles. We've had a lot of heavy construction around here.

What made it clear it was different, was my cat didn't like it, and he ignores the construction.
If they are automotive engineers, mechanics, and other auto-specific roles, there is little chance that they would be a match for other jobs that Apple needs. They were given a nice severance deal and will be able to find new job pretty quickly.

the last time I was laid off, it was a relief. The project was clearly failing and the work had become drudgery. When we all got laid off and given severance money, we all went to a bar and celebrated. Then we all went and got other jobs.

Remember, the unemployment rate is under 4% right now.
Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition
Fire and brimstone!
According to a realtor association site [0] the 'Residential - All Types' price for 'Greater Vancouver' went from $466,500 in March 2009 to $1,196,800 in March 2024. That is a 2.57x multiple.

[0] https://www.gvrealtors.ca/market-watch/MLS-HPI-home-price-co...
Or what I've seen some people do here in Mexico: 3% discount when paying in Cash :-)
I do not agree. Beauty is a necessary prerequisite for a healthy and prosperous life and by extension society. Rich or poor.
There is a name for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
This comment comes across as arrogant and dismissive of authors. Maybe this is a common attitude in theater but it doesn't come across as very collaborative from the outside.
https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 hints at that with US at 2.5 times EU27 average CO2e production in 2022, trade-adjusted.

But probably everything-consumption is really high, with a toxic transportation system (sand for roads), land use, electronics use (rare earths), etc. Fucking up the planet is the easiest way to increase GDP.
I suppose depending on the structure and the individual's inclination strong table might be a good call.

But in my single family home situation it really doesn't take more than a few seconds and I can be out the door provided I'm not knocked off my feet entirely type situation.
As someone who lived for decades in a seismic country, I’d say that tremors can also be perceived. The difference lies mostly in the damage generated by the event.
I hadn't heard of rumble yet. But after reviewing it, of course this exists...
I fully agreee. It's similar to older versions of Visual Studio.

On the other hand, I'm annoyed by the omnipresent File, Edit, View, ... stuff in the menu bar. Even if those functions make no sense for a given application. And then I have to open several brittle layers there to reach a certain function.

I think UI research can do better. And by that I don't mean stashing everything into a hamburger menu.
Don't stress about it. This is how this industry works. If your work isn't immediately useless, it will be soon enough when it is abandoned in favor of the next programming language or framework that is the new hotness.

Or, a new manager or exec somewhere up the chain decides to change a business process while you're still working on implementing support for the previous process. It happens all the time.

I would guess that 90% of the code I've ever written isn't used at all today, if it ever was. And that's being generous.
Refactoring Relationship
Save time and money in couples counseling by reviewing and implementing this code
But you would be (half) wrong. Modern metalurgy trounces 10000 times folded, quenched in ancient fire. Modern shaping techiques are better and we can achieve a lighter, more flexible and tough blade. The issue is we dont. There is no reason to. Nobody is trusting their life to a katana today. so very few quality ones are made anymore. they are now more a symbol than a tool.
This is the right attitude. Unless you own the business, you have no moral responsibility to ensure the projects you work on have a purpose. You can, of course, optionally choose to not work on projects you believe have a bad or evil purpose. I've quit jobs where I though the project was evil.

You're writing the code, or producing the documentation, managing the project, performing QA, or whatever else your role is, and in exchange your company is paying you money. That's the bottom line. If you think it's a useless project, then you should be even doubly grateful that a company exists that will pay you your (presumably good) salary to create something useless! I worked on a totally useless project in the past, a lot like some of the comments here describe, and I went into work every day thanking the stars that my company was stupid enough to pay me to do this!
Sure, if a few people have trouble because they didn't pay attention or don't get it that's fine. But if most users of the tool struggle to remember how to use it and using it right requires significant thought, it's a bad tool (or at least, a bad UI).
> and we expect them to do tasks far more complex e.g. software engineering.

Who expects that? Even if LLMs produced perfect output every time, they are still just a fancy compiler. You continue to need a software engineer to write the code.

Some expect that they will enable software to go the way of the elevator, which is to say that modern elevators didn't eliminate the elevator operator – they made everyone the elevator operator. This is quite possible, and has arguably already happened at least in some niche cases. But that is an expansion of the pool of human software engineers, not an LLM doing software engineering.

Maybe there is some kind of technology out there that will someday take on the tasks of software engineering, but not LLMs. They cannot do software engineering any more than a C++ compiler can do software engineering.
> "if we don't do it, they will!".

Any time you hear someone justifying bad behavior with this sentiment, you know you're dealing with someone who is ethically and morally bankrupt.
I couldn't agree more. Having more control is crucial for me when writing this article. Thank you
You seem to be talking over me and not at me.
And seem to have inserted an assumption of what comes next in this conversation.

I don't want to give my money to a billionaire fascist, or capitalist, evangelical, or -ism (What I want is proper market information to act rationally as a market actor). I don't want to hunt anyone. I worry about what internet content you consume to make you think that's what I think. I would examine that.

You are about ready to fight a battle with a scarecrow you constructed yourself.
The fancy word for this is LBO
Can a Major Antitrust Case Rein in Apple?
In my county they banned the collection of any recycling that was bagged. So if you put your recycling in a bag to contain it, the garbage man won't pick it up. So now what happens is everyone puts their recycling loose in a blue bin and the wind blows all the bins over and scatters the recycling all over the neighborhood and eventually into the nearby ponds and ravines.

If you complain about the policy they tell you that it's because the recycling plant can't deal with the bags, it clogs up their machines. So in an age of automated assembly plants and advanced robotics the entire county here is at the mercy of a recycling plant that can't obtain a machine that can cut a bag open.

It just goes to show what a farce the whole program is. Now they're talking about making the rules even more restrictive, like using clear garbage bags so people won't put recycling in the garbage, even though that is going to increase the trash accumulating in the environment. It's a bureaucratic box-ticking and back-patting scheme.
You are more than likely, completely correct. These types of jumps are probably so safe that you are in more danger riding in a car to the jump than taking the jump itself.

If better data collection was mandated, similar to GA pilot logbooks, we would be able to back up your personal knowledge with hard figures. However, we are stuck using general epidemiological data.

You are definitely right about swooping though.

https://parachutist.com/Article/rating-corner-why-are-tandem...
Its like people completely forgot Prism. The caricature like understanding from Americans of China is mind boggling. I guess decades of McCarthyism takes its toll on the American mind.
Correction: statement "reasonable to assume it should contain fewer bugs" is not true. The correct idea is "it should be is easier to implement HTTP/1.1 server safely because HTTP/1.1 is a simpler protocol compare to HTTP/2".
I remember a discussion with a LCMS pastor in the late 1980's or maybe it was in the early 1990's. He said a group of pastors and other leaders in the LCMS had been receiving prophecies from God. He said that God predicted one day the whole world would depend on one computer program, but that computer program would really be a demon pretending to be a computer program. The demon would give mostly right answers, but mislead us when it wanted to.

I asked for clarification, and was told that God explicitly stated it was a computer program, not some other kind of machine.

Then the LCMS decided it was not God they were talking to and stopped communicating. I think that was a mistake.

Now that we have AIs, I really want us to have many different AIs instead of standardizing on just one, but that might not be the right approach.
Ask HN: I want to develop desktop application. Tauri or Qt?
I'm in the process of designing a desktop application, and I can't settle on a GUI library.

I plan to do the logic/core in Rust, and have been evaluating different GUI libraries, and eventually settled on two: Tauri and QT.

Tauri uses the system webview, so it does not bundle chromium like Electron does, but it's not native per-se. It's still web technology.

QT, through qmetaobject-rs, allows me to write minimal C++ and use QML. While QT is not native as well, it looks, and behaves more natively than web app. I figured out that I can link QT dynamically, and as long as I use LGPL module only, I can keep my source closed. The moment I will be able to sell the app, I'll be able to afford QT's startup license (AFAIK $499 per year) if needed.

I have an initial mock with Tauri, and overall I like it. However, I feel like with QT I might be able to move faster due to QT Creator and visual design tools, as well as having predefined theme/style for the components.

What do you think?
This is not a valid argument.

The same argument has been used to oppress people since time immemorial, whether they were brown skinned, homosexuals, neurodivergent, Jews, or various other arguments for being “not as we were evolved to be”. (You have targeted one form of neurodivergent people here).

If you ignore the eyeblink of the last 100 years, then we have hundreds of thousands of years of brutal rape, war, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, enslavement, and I’m sure we could think of a few others…

It would be very hard to argue that this is not “what we’re evolved to be”, since we so lustfully pursued these endeavors for literally 100 times as long as we have recorded history.

This argument is basically the same exact sentiment as “because that is Gods will” or “because that is the way it’s always been done” dressed up in a patina of science by including the word “evolved” in it.
All these places with super high housing prices because of supply issues? Maybe we need more, not less. Why wait for high quality housing, when we need something to alleviate pressure now. At least give people the option to be function over form and save a buck.

I mean, plain boiling water with Oats is a meal I eat a lot, but just because it's pretty tasteless, doesn't mean it's not an effective solution to hunger.
Everyone should be able to appreciate a dad joke like this... even if it was a bit shaky.
I hope you enjoy living in delusion
The guy who was actually there says they are false. Meh. I’d rather believe people than obviously corrupt/biased systems.
The standard advice now taught in California schools is "Duck, cover, hold." Basically everything that parent poster said, but in a pithy 3-word aphorism you're more likely to remember.
Considering how the real Woods was homeless and took over 30 years to even try to do anything about it, I think it's fair to assume he didn't have much, if any, social capital to draw on.
Live 25 miles South West of epicenter.

It went on for I guess 30 seconds or so. Everyone in the house completely confused as we had never been in a quake before. Very low level vibrations, very very loud sound. Very foreign to New Jersey folks!
In the 1950s or 1960s, the American journalist Steward Alsop printed the name of the head of the British MI-5 (or maybe MI-6). He told someone that the man (Menzies) was somewhat placated because Alsop had referred to him as "legendary".
>>>"As we have learned, scientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it.”

Alternatively... our monkey brains were created to survive in a certain ancestral environment, and we are too dumb to realize most scientific advancements allowed by physics.
I’m not actually sure if those with political proclivities to get upset over Google AI generated artificial diversity would get mad at the prospect of a black pope- many on that side of the spectrum are fans of Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, as he is a stringent moral traditionalist and is often favored as a potential future pontiff to them.
The fact that Handbrake doesn't expose the same features as the ffmpeg CLI tool is frankly irrelevant.

It's not just relevant, it's the whole thing. They asked for an ffmpeg GUI and someone recommended a GUI that doesn't use ffmpeg and doesn't do what ffmpeg can do. ffmpeg can not only rewire channels, it can stream video, capture video from the screen, capture video from a tv tuner, overlay text etc.

Also the libraries you listed are part of the ffmpeg project. They come from ffmpeg.

https://ffmpeg.org/about.html

Also they asked for a GUI to ffmpeg, not necessarily a GUI to the command line tool.
> The US loves throwing poorly determined amounts of money at projects.

I'd actually broaden that to say that we love to throw poorly determined sums of money at idealized end-goals.

Well-defined projects, with clear strategic approaches and benchmarks of success, are often missing from the equation, and money is regularly spent on activities that are purely performative, or even counter-productive.