skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse than that, it makes marks of some players. The serious player doesn’t just have experience and technique working for them, they can now start with a character that can beat the newbie with one hand tied behind their back.

We all know that guy you can’t play games with because he sucks all the fun out of it for anybody else. As a game seller this isn’t just bad, it’s stupid.
Coins and Stamps with Localstack to learn AWS. An easy step into tutorial. A stamps and coins implementation.
Agreed, and I've edited my comment to include this.
The article's screenshots are using scalable fonts without hinting bytecode instructions built in. Many modern fonts don't have those because of anti aliasing and auto-hinting. You can see the terminal font is fine because it's a bitmap font. At the time, you generally stuck with bitmap fonts or TTFs with binary bitmap blobs built in.
That's probably true. In my ideal world, the OSS community comes together in a suite of offline-first, in-browser alternatives to common user needs. We need a site for document conversion (using WASM Pandoc?), PDF merging, image conversion, text utils (lower case, spell check). All these would live on one trusted site. Hopefully users can discover the site and be done searching, and spread its name by word of mouth.

I had to merge a bunch of PDFs for a rental application recently and it was painful. Having to upload very sensitive docs, every site being a funnel to their paid version, etc.
Both me and my girlfriend were working from home today. Randomly our dog started crying and a few seconds later we felt the quake. Was pretty wild. Lots of rattling of furniture and plates in the cabinets. I guess my dog must have noticed the more subtle rumbles beforehand.
> When another country occupies yours

For the sake of other people who might run across your comments, the West Bank that Israel now occupies was captured during the Six-Day war from Jordan, who had previously illegally annexed it.

> that's generally considered a success among palestinians

Success narratives exist on both sides. From an Israeli perspective, peace talks with the Palestinians never went anywhere (unlike with Egypt, btw) - yet, whenever Israel went to war, it won. So it's not hard to understand why the mainstream Israeli stance has increasingly hardened. I fundamentally disagree with this, I think peace should be attempted over and over again until it works, but if you're going to apply realpolitik thinking to the Palestinian side, you ought to do the same for the Israelis.
The Apple alert came in at 12:05pm warning of aftershocks but not the primary event.
If you received this patch from someone you trusted, and noticed the period, would you call it a typo or would you assume it is malicious?

Or is this just an argument over the use of the word "typo" instead of "mistake"? That wouldn't be very useful, IMO.
Most humans have historically lived in some kind of community - be it a city, a town, or a village, the point is the same: a community can provide more services that a single person living in the forest can't.
A 15-year-old solved a Rubik's Cube in 5.25 seconds (2015) [video]
I was a new hire at a game development company. My first task was to optimize a function that was consuming more cycles than all the other ones. The function was responsible for dispatching Objective-C++ method calls.

After a quick debug session, the problem was clear: the methods to call was being searched using a linear search. I changed the search to use a hashtable and the function disappeared from the list of most CPU consuming functions.

After running both implementations for a couple of weeks to make sure my implementation was right, I made a PR, which wasn't approved. The manager said my change was too risky to go to production, even though the implementation was simple and I spent two weeks making sure it was ok. They're probably still using the linear search.
https://archive.is/xOhg1
Let's make resilient applications using different mechanisms! Making a VMA’s application.
We've gone through a round of layoffs, and I've been thinking about the same thing.

It's not that it's too easy—it's that it's too impactful.

The real answer is social safety nets. If you want to protect people, address the root problem that your life is dependent on having an employer. Proper unemployment or UBI plus universal healthcare makes losing a job annoying ("ugh now I have to find another one") vs. terrifying.

Jack up the corporate tax rate (on revenue) to pay for it—which should be a wash after reducing the load of severance, healthcare benefits, etc. that companies are paying today.

Better worker protections like the UK/Europe are mechanisms too—notice periods, guaranteed severance, etc.—but have their own chilling effects.

This has the added benefit of reducing the barriers of entry for individuals: people are more likely to leave bad jobs or pursue their own opportunities, which in turn should drive subsequent job creation.
Ground liquefaction is scary. Happened in Palu, Sulawesi a while ago. You can see houses moving as if they're on wheels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_egBKj1W08
Home prices have an inverse relationship with interest rates. Housing cost as a percent of income has been relatively stable in the U.S. lower interest rates mean you can borrow more for a given monthly payment. Interest rates had a 35+ year slide from 1980 to 2005. It's been really weird since then.
Expert explains why earthquake preparedness is lacking in North America
It's hard to fault someone for slipping loose everyone once in a while
In this case, it's a 4.8 mwr at 4.7 km depth.
We don’t get this kind of stuff in the Northeast and it is a relatively population-dense area of the US. Also it is sort of the news center of the country.
Wow - that's awesome!
why AV1 in 720p ? is it just for watcking in smaller devices or for archiving too? isnt AV1 encoders still very slow compared to h265 ?
Very interesting, it must feel great to get to apply CS knowledge at work, rather than writing basic CRUD apis / websites.
True, but the moment you have a street crossing (which requires municipal permitting and traffic management) the cost skyrockets unless there's existing conduit under the street. Since that wasn't my situation I don't have exact numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised to know it would be $20k-$30k for each street crossing. If the GP of my original comment was in such a situation, it could easily exceed $100k for a fiber run.
The real difference with human learning is feedback: when young humans learn, at least some of the time they are interacting with intelligent agents that are able to give them focused feedback on their recent inputs and initial reactions to them.
pretty interesting how she found such an esoteric craft as her passion at such a young age. I love reading stories about people who are obsessed with their craft.
https://archive.is/xOhg1

I just went to https://archive.ph/, entered the URL of the article and it produced that
On the other hand, press releases are overly optimistic, airy, and meaningless.

ChatGPT being able to write this PR just shows how industry bog standard Cloudflare's PR is. It's like ChatGPT using the word "synergy".
Very common if you copy paste (using mouse buffer) from midnight commander text editor or any other editor that highlights trailing spaces as dot.
I think that it's difficult to quantify whether X is safer than Y. Instead, we should look at what safety measures X or Y have in place, and whether these can be reasonably improved. Certainly, a single comment on a forum would do this topic a disservice.

OpenBSD has clearly been in the business of making small improvements with each release. This model has worked for them, but it has also been part of what makes them controversial. I trust OpenBSD for my personal servers and my travel laptop. I use it as a build target for my projects.

That being said, do I think that people should switch from Linux to OpenBSD? I wouldn't do this purely for security, because Linux has not been sitting still either. But, I think it's definitely a good idea to take lessons that OpenBSD has taught when configuring a Linux server: disable things you don't need, use the most aggressively secure options for services you provide, and add as much isolation between pieces that you can. Regardless of which OS you choose, you should spend time familiarizing yourself with what is required to harden the security for servers you make available with a public IP address.

OpenBSD's "secure by default" idea is great until you need to enable a service, which widens its attack surface. Doing this safely requires research and knowledge. In this way, I don't think that OpenBSD is much different than the average Linux distribution. I openly admit that I like OpenBSD, but I don't want to steer people the wrong way by claiming that they would be safer using it. In fact, blindly switching operating systems could make folks less safe, because they will probably use the new operating system incorrectly. Instead, study and experiment.
Well, then how would you turn this into a listicle?

"17 ways you get stuck in a bog (in 3 categories) (and also: what is a bog) (and also: what it means to get unstuck from the bog)"

Seems a pretty shit listicle; maybe it should be a full article :)
Edtech startup paying students to learn web dev
Learn Arena lets students earn up to $60 per course by competing against fellow students. Courses are less than 2 hours and are focused on marketable skills in tech like web development. Seems like an easy way to make a quick $60 for any competent developer.
Yes, I come from a commie block in Bulgaria and was rather taken aback when I moved to London as a fresh adult and the houses I lived in there had so many more issues, such worse insulation etc.
"Regular" people don't really need FFMPEG. Regular people need tools with GUIs that have a non-generic purpose. So stuff like https://kdenlive.org/en/ that are backed by ffmpeg are (imo) superior "regular" person tools.

FFMPEG isn't complicated (its as complicated as any other CLI tool), it's that video encoding/decoding specifically is a hard problem space that you have to explicitly learn to better understand what ffmpeg can do. I think if someone spent an hour learning about video codecs, bitrates, and container formats, they would immediately feel "better" at ffmpeg despite not learning more about the tool itself.
Germany's robotic stores must rest on Sundays, too
I think OSs are generally over bundling helpful software, unless its a funnel to a paid version. The security risk is too high, and so is the legal risk of anti-monopoly action ("why are you killing independent movie editor businesses?").
How do you identify which network call is the one that timed out?
Passion is wonderful; I'd just like to point out a 2nd or 3rd order effect: often a startup starts up and everybody is passionate, but with growth some new hires are less passionate than others. The situation to avoid is having an ipo where very passionate people discover more mercenary people had much higher option allocations.
Trying to improve EBITDA (profitability) in advance of an acquisition perhaps?

Or the company knew the deal was going forward and Cloudflare was unlikely to retain new employees?
I suggest that HN software be modified to hold for moderation any post with "Israel", "Gaza", or "Hamas" or for that matter "Biden" or "Trump" in the title, since most such posts do not belong here.
In the past I've used ghostscript to merge PDFs, but it's not user friendly of course. I do like your idea of one site hosting these sort of FOSS utilities with nice wrappers.
"Gains tilted heavily to part-time workers in the household survey. Full-time workers fell by 6,000, while part-timers increased by 691,000. Multiple job holders rose by 217,000, to 5.2% of the total employment level."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/job-growth-totaled-303000-in...
Ugh will future AI customer "lock-in" be the machine's memory of you?
... the way it knows you like nobody else does?

Very low churn when you're paying $19.99/month so your lifelong friend doesn't die.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: How I fell out of love with academia
A small graboid attacked New Jersey today.
I'm hard pressed to understand what Israel wanted out of this. Were the targets that valuable?

That's not impossible, especially if they were involved in the October 7 attack. Iran is a major source of funding and weapons to Hamas, and they've been using Hamas to attack Israel by proxy for decades.

Even so... going after such people in a third country is going to invite reprisals that will be widely seen as justified. I don't expect them to care much what most of the world thinks, but they do require American support. They're risking a lot by this, and by their own rationale they'd better be getting something very serious for it.
It's happened before!

"A total of 1000 coins strung together were referred to as a chuàn (串) or diào (吊) and were accepted by traders and merchants per string because counting the individual coins would cost too much time. Because the strings were often accepted without being checked for damaged coins and coins of inferior quality and copper alloys, these strings would eventually be accepted based on their nominal value rather than their weight; this system is comparable to that of a fiat currency."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_of_cash_coins_(currency...
Early Gut Flora Imbalance in Young Infants May Predict Autism and ADHD
Huh! There is a YA novel I really like, The Girl Who Drank The Moon, and this casts that in a very interesting light.

There is a bog -- a swamp -- that covers the known world, and this bog is treated in a religious way by the author as the embodiment of nature, of the fertility of the world. The bog also spawns a bog monster, who may have been the first living creature.

"In the beginning, there was the Bog. And the Bog covered the world and the Bog was the world and the world was the Bog."
Fortran on WebAssembly
For sure! An argument in OpenBSD circles is that contrary to popular belief one can have security through depth. This means that even though you'll never be 100% secure you can definitely make an attacker's job harder and their life more miserable. Of course, if the NSA wants to attack you then they'll probably succeed, but for your average script kiddy / botnet scanner / worm exploiting some vulnerability having multiple layers might be enough of a deterrent.

I'm not a security person but I also think a lot of malware damage comes from companies / users using misconfigured or outdated software. As such, if you were a sysadmin, knew what you were doing and had the time, then running GNU/Linux is probably fine, but I'm not super knowledgeable. I just want to host a website or run a tor-relay on a VPS and not have to worry about updating my system as soon as some 0-day is announced in glibc or systemd; even if it's in the service itself, my hope is that by using a non-mainstream OS the exploit might not initially target it, hence giving sufficient time to see the news somewhere and patch / update.
There are some stretches of 100+ km sans fuel stations in Europe too. It still isn't a problem, since you simply don't need to drive as much near the end of your projected range as you will in an electric car.
I'm in a house up in Chelmsford, north of Boston – one person on the second floor felt it.
Realistic anime portraits from selfies now possible with fast AI
SEEKING WORK

Cannot do full time ATM, but mostly looking for a few hours per week (10-20).

Location: Mexico

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Tailwind CSS, some Vue 3, and TypeScript.

Résumé/CV: https://lobotuerto.com/about/cv

Email: adriandcs@gmail.com
I remember being in a 4th floor office and feeling the building sway. I can't imagine how terrifying 20+ floors up would be.
Google Research website is down
Hormone therapy I'm assuming disables functionality permanently?
what's the most recognized definition of "human being" ? Does the Cambridge dictionary make authority ?

Also the fact to automate an usage of the code may be difficult to define, for example a script that build VS a script that scraps.

I do not have the knowledge to write a legal statement. That's a bit why I ask, in first place.
Ask HN: Alternatives to HubSpot (in case they get acquired by BigCo)?
Hubspot builds for startups and small businesses and their product feels like its built by people who are passionate about their craft.

This company is 95% owned by instutional investors right now, so its doubtful the founders would like to sell.

We are looking at alternatives in case they get gobbled up by a larger corporation.
You can ignore errors in most languages, rust included.
There is a liberating side to toothbrushing problems: the stakes of any given unit of effort are low.

With diploma problems, if you blow it, you really blow it, with often irrevocable long-term consequences. All of your effort is building to a high stakes climax and if you miss your shot, that effort can all end up wasted. It's videogame permadeath mode for life.

But with toothbrushing problems, you can have an off day and usually make it up today. Of course, every day's effort does matter. You can't make every day an off day. But I find something very comforting about problems where some random variance in my output does smooth out to the mean over time.
Hands-on with the Nikon Z 28-400mm F4-8 VR
The blog from which this article hails -- turns out to be an interesting blog about all things Money:

"Moneyness "money is best described as an adjective not a noun" - the blog of JP Koning":

https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/

(Disclaimer: Note that I do not necessarily agree with some/any/all of the political positions and/or ideologies espoused by this blog. That being said, it seems to be an interesting blog with the central topic being all things Money related...)
Hadn’t been invented yet! No small gas engines in 1910.
> ARM64 has execute-only support so that it's possible for code to execute, but not read, a text segment.

OpenBSD does xonly by default on multiple architectures (arm64, risc-v, ... g5 powerpc), including even amd64 on recent Intel/AMD CPUs supporting MPK/PKU:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=167423045918820&w=2

On machines that lack hardware-enforcement, at least on CPUs that can differentiate between traps for instruction-fetch and data-fetch, there is still benefit:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=167517831914525&w=2 (msyscall(2) part is now handled by pinsyscalls in -current)
I prefer living through an earthquake than not!
> He has "history" in the name of his blog and he thinks that knights expected to fight dragons? I mean, it is like that in a manga but not in real life.

I mean, "experimental history", so I don't expect real, academic history... that said, yeah, that was an insane analogy to make. Knights weren't, as a rule, wandering monster-slayers - anywhere or ever, as far as I know.

Knights' bravery was tested on the battlefield, where they would have a very good expectation of survival until approximately post-Agincourt (where it became more socially acceptable to execute wealthy enemies instead of capturing and ransoming them). But that's also an extremely high-level description which may be so generalized as to be inaccurate.
>Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00238-1?_re...

Summary

This study has followed a birth cohort for over 20 years to find factors associated with neurodevelopmental disorder (ND) diagnosis. Detailed, early-life longitudinal questionnaires captured infection and antibiotic events, stress, prenatal factors, family history, and more. Biomarkers including cord serum metabolome and lipidome, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotype, infant microbiota, and stool metabolome were assessed. Among the 16,440 Swedish children followed across time, 1,197 developed an ND. Significant associations emerged for future ND diagnosis in general and for specific ND subtypes, spanning intellectual disability, speech disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism. This investigation revealed microbiome connections to future diagnosis as well as early emerging mood and gastrointestinal problems. The findings suggest links to immunodysregulation and metabolism, compounded by stress, early-life infection, and antibiotics. The convergence of infant biomarkers and risk factors in this prospective, longitudinal study on a large-scale population establishes a foundation for early-life prediction and intervention in neurodevelopment.
That's not necessarily true. If Dark Energy is a property of the vacuum state of space and it's a force acting opposite of gravity, then the further apart those objects become then the more those objects will accelerate from one another. That's what leads to an accelerated expansion of the universe.

That doesn't change the fact that gravity can overcome Dark Energy. To wit, the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are on a collision course. Yes, Dark Energy is working to drive those galaxies apart, but gravity is winning and the closer those galaxies get to each other then the strong gravity is going to become.

Gravity gets stronger as the distance between objects decreases, Dark Energy gets stronger as the distance between objects increases. That is if Dark Energy is a property of spacetime. Since we don't know what Dark Energy is we can't say for certain, but it appears to be a property of spacetime and if that's the case then this statement is true.
Why do we need a new term when we haven't even built artificial intelligence yet?
I'm pretty sure I used that phrase pre-LLMs quite a lot. Bad habit.
What makes you think that will be the end result?
It's a lovely picture regardless of if you know where it is or not. Lush, green vegetation. Clear, tropical looking waters over white sand.
Sanctions will always drive up inflation. The entire point is that you're willing to suffer some pain in the hopes of putting even more pressure on your target.

If the US wanted to lower oil prices, they'd drop sanctions. But even more than they want cheap oil, they want Russia to leave Ukraine.

India gets stuck in the middle. They can't as easily absorb an increase in oil prices. So the US has to decide how much pressure to put on India to participate in sanctions, knowing what damage it will do to Indian allies, whom they need for other things.
Uber Eats drivers definitely don't have them where I live. Food almost always arrives cold, even when the delivery time is very short. When I lived in NYC most deliveries were done by bike and all of them had insulated bags so the food was typically warm unless it had been super delayed.
Fair enough - newspaper coverage can only give so much detail.

But as a physicist and long-time reader I have come to really appreciate the high quality of the articles by this NYT reporter (Dennis Overbye) on physics and related disciplines.
"We can't" is, in many situations and certainly when it comes to international treaties, a polite way to say "we don't think it's worth the costs". Nobody can make a country stay in a treaty if it doesn't want to, but it often doesn't make economic sense to blow up your international trade agreements over specific policies that you might prefer to be set differently.
The price of district heating may not reflect the actual efficiency of insulation zo.

Classic commie-block walls are 30-40 cm of bare (reinforced) concrete. The windows as they were put there are double glass in a wooden frame, which you have to glue over with a paper in winter. Sure, replacing windows and slappign styrofoam on a facade helps, but beating that doesn't seem to be hard when building now.