skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the originally linked article? It literally talked about ways in which rewards programs are often designed to only hand out top rewards for a very limited part of all transactions, like only for books at certain bookstores. And that these obscure rules in the extreme case can also change over time, so in one month you need to go to store A, in the next month you better visit store B.

So yes, the rewards are "automatic". But what's not "automatic" is you getting the maximum possible reward percentage on your spending. For that, you often need to optimize your spending along the guardrails put up by some random card issuer. Which takes effort and time. I don't know about you, but I've got better uses for my time, so I'd prefer just not having 2-3% of the price of all products I buy to go towards obscure rewards through which I need to claw back some of those 2-3% by gaming the system. If I want to play games, I buy a computer game and play that.
We had very strict Covid restrictions in my country (France) back when it started. Going outside for anything other than walking the dog was complicated, you had to sign a form that said that it was an absolute emergency. Yet, some of my friends told me that those few months were among the best of their life. Some of us really don't need to go outside to feel fulfillment, just the confort of their home.
Amex has a once in a lifetime rule for each card and now they are getting even stricter. But there are still a lot of cards you can go through if you do them in the right order between the business and personal cards.

But there is still Chase, CapitalOne and Citi. The Chase Ink Business cards you can churn as much as you want and most of the other cards have either a 24 or 48 month rule
Why should engineers be jailed for management decisions?

Engineers are just told to build the mechanisms for passing data around. It's management that actually decides whether or not to collect data and what to do with it.
While we can of course always bikeshed the minutiae, memory safety is a fairly well accepted and well defined term. And so are temporal and spatial safety (as subsets of memory safety).

I would add that temporal safety is significantly harder than spatial safety (spatial safety is only hard in C if you do not want to break the ABI), so it is nice that this project is focusing on it.
> We will look back at our meagre 4 GB/s NVMe of today as old junk.

Nah, I don't think so. There is a natural resistance against the newer more expensive machines. The non-tech people largely started looking on the area as always chasing the new shinies, and they are absolutely correct.

I as a programmer, had to replace my gaming PC last year because the old one (which was 11 year old) had its motherboard give up. And I settled for 5600x with 1080 Ti and DDR4 RAM and a 4-7 GB/s NVMe SSD.

Some of the more demanding games struggle because the GPU is old but outside of that that machine is impressively and hugely powerful. Even in those games it still keeps 45-60 FPS just fine. I would want to get a better GPU but honestly, the price jump from a 1080 Ti all the way to the 3070 and beyond is just insane and I can't justify it. I am gaming something like 4h a week, 12h in rare cases, usually about 6h.

I really don't see the draw of all these innovations. Servers, surely, okay, but even for workstations I'd think we are much more in a need of machines with more memory channels -- that the Threadripper Pro stations offer -- and not RAM and SSDs that go into the higher double-digits of GB bandwidth. It's very obvious that most programmer tooling is not making full use of hardware resources. You have to go as low as a Celeron J CPU to actually see programmer tooling monopolize your machine. Even i3 CPUs and old Ryzens are flying.

Unless you are crunching data all day every day then a normal NVMe SSD that tops at 7 GB/s during sequential bursts but is otherwise working stably at 2 GB/s, is good enough and then some more.
The winget version is still stuck on v6.1.1. Valve pls fix.
Just don't try and use it with Edge - on my work Ubuntu laptop, the PWA is a steaming pile - locks up, crashes, eats all the CPU - I gave up and just have it as a pinned tab now.
This article is kind of wild considering the type of organization Talita apparently is. This comment by aldo_14 makes the article's tone seem kind of alarming:

> The OP is using arguably hyperbolic language but the gist is broadly correct based on their website.

> There it says they consider prostitution as violence by men against women (there's no qualifier for consensuality) and similarly pornography as a form of prostitution. It doesn't expressly say they are trying to prevent prostitution / porn in that mission statement, albeit, only to 'combat sex trafficking'.

> Further pages in the site do show a clear advocacy against prostitution (etc) and stateme that (to paraphrase) they don't dismiss some women enter sex work voluntarily but that they don't consider any as happy remaining in that work.

This article makes it seem like the mod is some kind of progressive storyline but the organization is clearly just anti-porn and anti-sex work and using anti-trafficking to attempt to push their message. (I did find their website[1] and came to the same conclusion.)

What is wrong with Polygon? Are they participating in the facade, or just too lazy to do baseline research, or both?

[1]: https://en.talita.se/
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC's Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Reminds me of 2 button toilets: an unlabelled big button and a smaller button..

Is the big one the more convenient button to push, therefore for number 1's.
Or
Is the big one for a big flush, therefore for number 2's?
“Freezingness Level”
TLDR: Designing user interfaces is non-trivial, both in the digital as well as the real™ world.
The OP is calling out the need for any large org that depends on a FOSS project to contribute to its maintenance.

Currently we don’t have good mechanisms to make this happen.

The post uses Matrix as an example but it applies equally to any project deemed as critical infrastructure which would of course include XMPP, IRC and plenty of others.

To solve this, FOSS projects must work together to advocate for practical funding mechanisms. This is not a zero sum game.
Games couldn't rely on patches back in the day, because they used to be shipped in boxes, and providing patches was tricky. (The ease of providing updates may indeed incentivize releasing half-baked software nowadays).

I am less sure if those careless, youngest programmers endlessly scrolling Tik Tok videos are fervently dedicated to Martin Fowler's misled teachings.

And even less sure if the author summarizes them in a fair manner to begin with: "Many such organizations will build microservices even if their software domain complexity is not high and the software itself is not projected to scale that much. They will do it because their God told them to do it", he snarks.

If you go to Fowler's website [0], however (under "Are Microservices the Future?"), he's not dogmatically advocating for microservices: "Despite these positive experiences, however, we aren't arguing that we are certain that microservices are the future direction for software architectures [...] not enough time has passed for us to make a full judgement [...] There are certainly reasons why one might expect microservices to mature poorly [...] One reasonable argument we've heard is that you shouldn't start with a microservices architecture. Instead begin with a monolith, keep it modular, and split it into microservices once the monolith becomes a problem."

Doesn't really fit the image of a God commanding you to build microservices regardless of the domain complexity and other factors. Perhaps he's changed his tune since, I don't know. A quote would help.

On the other hand, observations such as that "from the usability perspective, the software must be user-friendly" , or "the role of software has become increasingly important, to the point where our world now heavily relies on it.", etc. are undeniably correct.

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[0] https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
rikers island, nyc
Show HN: Agent Cloud vs. CrewAI
Talk to your data we're building Agent Cloud which is an open source platform enabling companies to build and deploy private LLM chat apps (like chat GPT), that can enable teams to securely talk to their data.

Agent Cloud is like having your own GPT builder with a bunch extra goodies. The GUI features

1) RAG pipeline which can natively embed 260+ datasources

2) Create Conversational apps (like GPTs)

3) Create Multi Agent process automation apps (crewai)

4) Tools

5) Teams+user permissions. Get started fast with Docker and our install.sh

and it's open source https://github.com/rnadigital/agentcloud
Not exactly a true greybeard though, given that the author has "more than 10 years of experience", and judging by the picture on his GitHub page ;) [0]

[0] https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel
> an old man's language

Err... what?
My colleague and I have been working on this project for a while now. We created AtomicStonks just because we really like data analysis and we both are pretty into the stock market.

We decided to create something to analyze the market and create a daily feed with 5 different pretty well-known strategies.

We have the Today Signals page where it can be seen the signals of all strategies and positions in each one of the companies. There you can analyze the company by checking the graph and the basic info to see if it's an investment you might want to be interested in.

The problem with the strategies is that everyone has different methods and different risk profiles. We more or less generalized them so we can also calculate the profits for each strategy in the past 7, 30, 90, and 180 days, which can be looked at on the Ranking page.

We just finished the MVP and started to open it up. It’s completely free for now! We got a Ko-Fi account in case someone decides it's useful, but until we get a bit of traffic we don't want to put a price tag on it. The only thing that we would love is any kind of feedback. It’s not perfect and we already have lots of ideas for where we might want to take this project to. However, I would love to understand if we’re leading in the right direction or not to create something truly useful.

I would love for the webpage to go well, but I gotta say that if it doesn't I have already got huge benefits for building it. The amount of learnings that I took is incredible. Now I'm trying to learn marketing and content creation ... way more difficult than I expected.

Actually struggling quite a bit on that part. Neither my colleague nor I are a social media enthusiast - I used to use Twitter but my co-founder not even that. So yeah you can imagine the struggles and cringe that we're trying to overcome to post on TikTok and YouTube shorts trying to create any sort of traffic.
Not only the learnings are what I take from the project, it helped me in some investing decisions. The graph of the signals helps a lot in understanding the different markets and sectors. Thanks to that I saw that all the banks in Europe and USA were growing like crazy and currently I have +20% in a couple of investments I did. I didn't have a lot of money available at that moment so it was not a lot in cash but you know I'm glad I built something I would use.
Why would that be a cause for concern?
As long as they get some squatters lefts too.
It's not a dictatorship, though: you're free to buy an Android phone like me. Just like you're free to buy a shirt from Uniqlo or H&M or wherever instead of Louis Vuitton. Microsoft has something much, much closer to a dictatorship, but I haven't seen much action on regulating them; the only thing that finally reigned them in (a little) was the move to web apps.
Simulating Soapy Water
The second VA Linux sold off it's hardware division, and definitely after co-founder Larry Augustins departure, the die was cast.

The company, and Sourceforge's leadership, lost all tethering to the community that fostered them, and the firm got passed around from buyer to buyer like a blunt at a Phish concert.
The arrow shows direction of turning the knob, so turning it that way should make it colder.
Also, where did you get the number 1.5k from?

That figure was corrected a number of months back to 1.2k was it not. The most accurate figure I've seen stated is 11,600, although it doesn't seem to be in widespread use, although the 1,200 figure is often caveated.

The total isn't all civilians. No official figures have been released on the split is my understanding.

It's also not clear how many are attributable to Israel's response, but it's clearly non-zero and may well be a significant proportion.
Obviously 5
This is a system container / virtual machine manager. It is pretty awesome tech. Have been using it since 2014 I think... Supports zfs ... my biggest issue had been data loss on my root disk causing loss of container config... Managed to reimport everything to a new lxd install with the same zfs pool ;)
Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
Everything is offline? https://www.githubstatus.com/
Imagine you own an ice cream shop and you don't know how your dipping cabinet works.
> And FFS is THE standard

What's that supposed to mean? ed is the standard text editor, yet we don't actually expect anyone to use it (let alone know it...)
~~nope~~ yes!
That's exciting!

Is there any proposal or rough ideas or musings or anything that might suggest how Xr0 could possibly guarantee data race freedom?

Would it be something like Rust's Send & Sync traits? Or something else entirely?
To Tame the Savageness of Man: We Honor You, Sir
Looking forward to giving this a try. Would love to see how this works on mobile devices.
Looks obvious to me: turn according the arrow.

The argument "lower number = colder" doesn't make more sense than "higher number = cool faster" (which is actually how it works), so saying it's not intuitive is arbitrary.
Are you under the impression that he was talking about game clients doing this? That would be absurd, since no gamers (within epsilon of zero) use Linux, and you'd need a completely different bag of tricks on Windows.

He's fully focused on the backend.
They have 3 active incidents: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bnkkbj90yhz6
Not fully down but experiencing elevated error rate with 500s since a few minutes.
Prosecutors get away with murder. Literally. Suggesting that reining in prosecutorial immunity would create overly timid prosecutors is a false choice.
>The whole point of the current discussion is how little power you actually have over Apple and other companies as a consumer. You cannot actually "vote with your wallet" by not buying any smartphone or not mowing your grass, it doesn't work.

I don't know about you, but I've never owned an iPhone. Android phones have worked, and still work, great for me. You don't have to buy an iPhone to have a smartphone.

I have power over Apple by simply not buying their crap, which is exactly what I've done. If other people like you did this instead of expecting someone else to control the company you willingly shovel your money to, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
It's this kind of backseat parenting entitlement that makes me never want to have kids. It feels likes it's a free pass for strangers to tell you anything they feel akin to extremist religious fanaticism.

It's great you want to culture your kids. But many bright young individuals grew up without any of that.

There's also a ton of studies that show video games help with problem solving cognition, so I'd be curious your thoughts on that.
True and yet useless. When "that's not safe" turns into a "discussion" about what safety means (e.g. at basically every C++ conference for over a year) what that signals is that you're much more interested in preserving the status quo than improving safety.
Someone's negative/positive is another person's positive/negative sometimes. Or someone's negative/positive is another's "i don't care".

I'm not thinking of just selecting any piece of crap that is bearable (that's like 2/3 of netflix), but of selecting stuff i'll really like.
1) It helps if you read the article

2) It helps if you read the comment I replied to

3) It helps if you read the comment I made

4) You've continually missed the point, start again at (1)
More complex models fail this question, so it would be exceptional if it passed it:

ollama run llama2:13b

>>> Sally (a girl) has three brothers. Each of her brothers has two sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

This is a classic lateral thinking puzzle that requires you to think outside the box and challenge your
assumptions. The answer is not what you might expect at first glance.

To solve this puzzle, we need to break it down step by step:

1. Sally has three brothers.
2. Each of her brothers has two sisters.

So, let's count the number of sisters that each of Sally's brothers has:

Brother 1: 2 sisters
Brother 2: 2 sisters
Brother 3: 2 sisters

Now, let's add up all the sisters that Sally has:

Sister 1 + Sister 2 + Sister 3 + Sister 4 + Sister 5 = 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8

Therefore, Sally has 8 sisters.
EU drops sovereignty requirements in cybersecurity certification scheme
Thanks for your reply. I love playing these sorts of games but colours have always been an issue where colour is the primary mechanism of the game. So some games will just be out of reach and I’m ok with that. I wouldn’t want you to over complicate or ruin a nice UI to cater for my needs! Greens, browns and reds will always be an issue. Even blues and purples are hard too.
These are the sorts of articles that a lot of news sites and digital publications dream of when pitching venture capitalists to cultivate this as a new sort of medium. But I've always found that the most compelling stuff, the most compelling digital presentations are often emergent. I think designing around it as a goal is impossible and often comes off as contrived and annoying. However, there are a times like this where it's just stunning as in, "yes, please hijack my scroll, go ahead".
They're doing everything to discourage devs who'd want to release apps on their own and make actually difficult to do so. You still need to fit their requirements if you want to play the alternative stores game where apple holds all the cards.

So yes, what they did changes anything, and it's just a smack in the EU face while keeping the status-quo. If they wouldn't maliciously comply and do some weird acrobatics we'd have a fdroid-like stores running right now and options to enable side-loading and some kind of scanning feature like google play protect (which on the other hand, likes to turns itself on).

For the user this is really simple: you're a typical consumer who wants to use appstore and stick to apple-approved software just to be "safe" - that's the default for you. You are poweruser who wants to expand the software library on the device - tap the setting, read the warning, read it again and install whatever you like

Anyway, it seems that the EC has received feedback from devs regarding what apple presented: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/20/eu-antitrust-chief-warn... so things may change in the future.
Executing malicious code on your computer is a problem, ye.

If you want to give the users a nice programming environment you can't also prevent them from doing arbitrary computations.

You can run Excel in a VM if you want.
Yeah, I think our goal is to be the fastest at building software, not necessarily the cheapest. Part of that involves AWS, to have access to more powerful and elastic infrastructure, but that comes at a premium.

But besides just compute, I think the bigger long-term unlock for build performance is a new distributed compute engine, to free build workloads from single machines. We've started building this for our container build product, and plan to integrate Actions jobs as an input as well, starting with the cache integration we have today.
People aren't always as money motivated as that. The founder of Kagi is pretty intent on making it work well. And given the way they're raising I don't think money is the pure driver, but making the business sustainable. I wouldn't believe they haven't had offers already.
Could you not just use a parallel projection (which should be the default for this kind of 3d scatter plot)?
Well, to use a quote from Anatole France who put it more pithily:

> In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Accusing someone of intellectual dishonestly is a blatant insult.
Samsung: hold my soju...

Serious version: They have a partnership with Renault. As a large group their subsidiaries buy each other and they make guns.
Over here in Europe your be better off saying trousers, as suggesting it was frowned upon for women to wear pants sounds like quite a free and sexually liberated village to me :)
Are you getting professional help for your son? This might be too serious for just you to solve
This nerd dress is clearly white and gold.
I see a few other comments trying to address this with a similar truncation shell command but then a few arguing replies about the redirection operator not working due to some syntax error. So here’s the trick there… preface the redirection operator with a null command, like so

:> somefile

Note the colon, which stands in for the command as a null operator.

An additional hint is that if the system is so starved you can’t run ls, again call
On the shell for help and use “echo *”, which will show a list of file names (without sizes) from which hopefully you can select a large file (or few) based on name alone. Colon-greater them into zero byte status and watch your system become useable enough to begin normal recovery efforts.

From an old Unix admin; I hope that helps someone.
It is quite interesting, but it seems to fail with even very simple examples:

void x() {
int * p;
p = malloc(1);
if(0) {
free(p);
} else {
free(p);
}
}

0v: src/ast/stmt/verify.c:228: stmt_sel_exec: Assertion `!ast_stmt_sel_nest(stmt)' failed.
TIL shut-ins could remain true to the lifestyle, procreating without ever physically meeting, as long as they live within ~24h shipping distance of each other. (compare "A Boy and His Dog", 1975)

(for those not into the whole recombination thing, I haven't heard anything about human cloning yet, but there was a high-level equine competition recently in which six of the competitors shared their genotype)
Engineers may not even realize the scope of what they’re contributing to. That was not the case with Nazis.
Most of the proposals I've seen so far work via annotating existing code, not complete rewrites (e.g. here's one example from Apple: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-enforcing-bounds-safety-in-...)
The winget community repo is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
OpenTelemetry Is Too Complicated, VictoriaMetrics Says
At work we had a red/green system for deploys of code to production. We would use a red or green dot in a messaging system. I had to ask if we could use the words stop and go inside the circle which we did and that helped a lot of people. In my company there are a lot of Colourblind developers!
Which photo was it?
I wish people using the Grandma argument for security would provide some statistics on how many grandmas got hacked and robbed from side loading android apps before trying to die on that hill for Apple.
Android has its issues, but if you want to use a different app store on an Android phone, you're free to do so. You can also side-load apps over a USB cable. One is not like the other.
Cosmetic ageing processes are broadly regarded as distasteful amongst collectors and connoisseurs, but there's clearly a market for it.

Torrefaction (or rather an optimised heat treatment process) can undoubtedly produce clear acoustic benefits. Suitable thermal treatment can significantly increase the stiffness and reduce the damping coefficient of wood, resulting in a more acoustically efficient material.
The Carbon Majors Database: Launch Report, April 2024
Deleted following OP.