skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means that we knew the provenance of our stack, from the metal up.

Probably not appropriate to say “we did not use any free software,” but we knew where it all came from.

I don’t remember the name of the company we hired, but they were expensive. They would periodically scan our codebase, in order to ensure proper licensing of everything.

Our company was a massive patent-holder, and was absolutely anal about licensing.
Agree strongly. I think an even more insidious version of the parent comment is when common nouns that have specific meaning in a given context are used as such, without it being explicitly called out.
Appreciate the link, and I upvoted for visibility but removed referral code etc, which is against HN Guidelines imo:

https://www.amazon.com/Eisenhower-in-War-and-Peace-audiobook...
Do not from faith that which can be had more readily by way of resignation, apathy, or indifference. Faith is just their fragile cousin.
People using ‘cold’ hardware wallets are air gapping crypto to a degree. It’s really just offline key storage, which is as old as IT itself.

They’re not mainstream because crypto isn’t mainstream outside of the crypto-bro community, mainly because it’s inconvenient for both parties trying to make a sale or purchase.

I’ll tell you what is mainstream though: chip+pin and nfc+bio, which in combination with a ‘good enough‘ key storage and interrogation regime, are a decent balance between convenience and security.
This is required by POSIX: search for sccs in the POSIX make manual https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/m...
There was a 3:1 split on 2022-08-25 which would make TSLA $171 * 3 = $513. This is 1/3 of Ark's bear case estimate of $1500.
what do you mean? It seems that I'm not banned yet?
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It's utterly neutered - try simulate earth to the year 0 BCE and replace Jesus with a banana and it's fine, even two bananas is fine, but replace him with thousands of bananas and a pear, and suddenly it's too absurd, ha.
I sometimes wonder if the database would be more widely used if they had picked a different name.
>Given that ASUS has one of the worst software support commitments in the Android world [...] It started removing posts about bootloader unlocking in its ZenTalk forums.

Which is why I never understood why Asus Zenfone kept being recommended on HN all the time when people asked for good android phones to buy. I thought this community appreciated long SW support. I think the people recommending it were not dogfooding it.

Why not go for something that has 5-7 years of SW updates like a Pixel or a S-series? The Zenfone wasn't any cheaper than those either(at least in EU) so you were also getting a poor value for money.
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He didn't say government meted out punishment. He just said punishment.

He's plainly stated his belief: that no matter what a person did, they should receive sympathy.

Classic case of evil hiding behind the guise of good.
Even in this case, there is infinitely small chance that we are sitting so close to the beginning of everything.
I figure the real motivation was something said to the President behind closed doors along the lines of "If we can put a man on the moon we can put a nuke in the Kremlin."
Jevons paradox is not surprising
Yeah, but the average quality of students would go down.
We don't have any conclusive evidence about the universe's finitude nor its discreteness.
How on earth could you know that? That's a strong assumption to make.
It's not clear whether a standard refund is an option for buyers whose phones are still under warranty. Did Timothy try that before going to small claims court?
It’s hard to sit and exercise at the same time.
> the flood of async communication

Their main communication tool is Basecamp, which is also the software they sell specifically to manage projects and the “flood of async communication”. I don’t know what their internal messages look like, but I imagine it sits somewhere in between e-mail and IM, same level of formality as a github issue.

I also believe “fewer and efficient meetings” is a mirage, and meetings, even in-person ones, do very little to build trust or satisfy that need for social interaction. That happens in other ways.

Here’s an interview where they talk specifically about the importance of social meetups: https://37signals.com/podcast/company-meet-up-amsterdam-edit...
HN 3-years ago | 1965 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127
Don't tell your electricity company about this :D
Imagining Sun buying Amiga and making it a lower end consumer workstation to pair with its higher end ones, with all the much-needed resources and interesting software that would have brought to the Amiga is a really cool thought experiment!
Does it propose link between ideas, or new ideas/completions/suggestion/visualisation, or refactor "messy" mindmap?

I don't see a real advantage if its only "selling argument" is just proposing an initial structure that still need rework anyway.
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

Exceptional book!
thanks. I'm new to HN and don't know much about the culture here.

> Some people hate beeing tracked.
I know, but except that the posters really want to respect that, then usually the readers have to deal with that. I guess the number of respectful posters are small in compare to the number of people just want to know the traffic
I see this happen in non-technical spaces too... product managers using project-specific acronyms and codenames in front of an audience of new people. I can't tell if it's some form of narcissistic gatekeeping, or just lack of mindfulness and deep entrenchment in the project for too long. I am so hyper conscious of this that I will stop meetings to ask the presenter to define the terms.
My understanding that this is to enable things like a lunar GPS system, which requires the satellites themselves to have precise clocks that are synchronized with each other.

> They also mention the dependence of the SI units on the unit of time, which really suggests the writer has no idea how measurement precision is achieved.

Say more? I thought an accurate clock would be necessary to derive a reference meter and kilogram measurement.
NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere
There’s so many countries this could be: Australia, USA, UK, Italy, Estonia.. it’s almost a national pass time
> What I would like to read instead: To obtain an access token for Customer Data Indexing Service (CDIS), first go to Data Management Console (DMC) at <https://dsc.prod.example.com>, click on the entry for "CDIS" on the left sidebar, click "Generate Access Token", and copy the token.

Even better:

<a href="https://dsc.prod.ex.com/gettoken">Get</> an access token from the Data Management Console (DMC) to access the Customer Data Indexing Service (CDIS).

The best documentation is no documentation. This documentation is there because the two systems aren't linked and that is the real issue. If there isn't budget to do the integration, then better is have the hyperlink to DMC on the log in page of the CDIS, which can then avoid the separate documentation altogether.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Local LLMs in 2024: Private and Offline?
I'm in search of a local LLM that can run completely offline for processing personal documents. Key requirements include privacy (no data leaves my machine) and performance (efficient with large datasets). Any recommendations for open-source / commercial solutions that fit the bill in 2024?
Also, what's the current state of local LLMs—are: Are they practical and useful, or still facing significant limitations?
Israel could lose all international support and still destroy all of Gaza with only internal resources. For Hamas to destroy Israel would require international military support, much more than the clandestine support to date.
'Three-Body Problem'

https://archive.ph/B1Kui
In realpolitik terms it is an acting what governments (e.g. Biden worried about 2024 elections) around the world are doing. The support continue behind the scenes. Israel is strategic.
Very candid and honest account of her experience. I applaud her for her courage to use her audience to call attention to this. It's not exclusive to Physics by any means.

I'm not an academic but I have family members who are and they either talk profusely about all the BS that goes on in research grants or just simply change the subject because it's too depressing.
sex work

(which includes a wide range of activities from things behind a computer screen, to stripping, to more explicit physical interactions. as opposed to an older lexicon that was just about physical interactions.)

but all of them, even the more salacious physical versions, have more analogies and similarities with fast food for both workers, consumers and productive public policy responses

workers overinflate its dignity just to get the little support they have achieved, but I’ve never seen a McDonalds worker brag about working at McDonalds while the universe of options for most of them are similar, the compensation is similar if you look really closely, and worker protections should be at parity

interest or avoidance as a worker or a loved one to a worker similarly follows the same interest or avoidance as them working in fast food, but the aversion to wanting that option for a loved one is used as a strawman argument to discredit any normalization of sex work or reduction in marginalization when its the same opinion theyd have about their loved one working in fast food

policy based on exclusion, conflating consensual work with sex trafficking, even treating sex trafficking differently from labor trafficking at all are policies that create the occupational and exclusionary hazards with various forms of sex work

I’ve changed my mind about what the public policy should be, alongside opinions about sex workers themselves.

I realized that many “women in tech” were doing the same thing to sex workers that they accuse men of doing to them - speaking over them, speaking for them without getting input from the people directly affected - ultimately with the goal of exclusion and control of sexuality. That the particular women I encountered in these tech organizations and fortune 500 companies were not adequate representation but were masquerading their opinions as such when it comes to excluding other women that choose other paths that men cater to. Recognizing SWERF talking points now as familiar, “sex work exclusionary radical feminism”, I don't see their exclusion as productive. I see it as a selfish way of trying to be taken seriously in corporate environments, privileging their comfort at the expense other women and everyone else, which is obvious for me not to agree with now and scrutinize. And when being “taken seriously” fails that should be a problem with the men/people that limit their corporate growth not the other women catering to carnal desires existing in the same or similar spaces.

I don't support any policy based on exclusion or “ending demand”. I’m skeptical of any policy that simply makes people feel good because of its ostensible point of curbing sex trafficking. The existing labor trafficking policies make sense and have their own room for improvement. So I can get behind the goals to normalize it at parity to other jobs. I don't see it as needing to be someone’s whole identity like activists seem to require. I don't see it as inconsequential. But definitely more akin to fast food workers.
Uplift from SCCS to Git
Israel squandered it since Bibi allowed Hamas to flourish for his own personal political ambitions way back in 2009 [1].

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article-op...
Tbh I don't share the sentiment that the community appreciates long SW support. Otherwise we'd see Windows being recommended over Linux more often.
> AND we can zoom down infinitely,

Wouldn't you run into the planck length at some point?
I'm sorry, I just hate this foul language. Amazon claims that "Redis broke with the community that helped it grow and left them stranded" whereas the sole reason for the license change was Amazon itself who takes open source projects and gives its creators nothing in exchange. They will bend over backwards and create their own forks like OpenSearch rather than collaborate with the creators. And at the end, they will stab the creators with passive and active-aggressive accusations like these.
I might have missed the joke here, but the meaning of “you can not not communicate” is pretty clear. Silence has meaning, as does indifference. The point being that communication is something you should do consciously, practice and improve on.
More half-broken solutions is not the answer...
This thread is obsessed with nit picking this point.

They cite that it removes the need for an air gapped system… They’re not claiming that it is one, just that it meets the requirements for their needs.

Also, since when was the concept of an air gap a one that only the vaunted druids of old could fathom?
Different usages: the flying drone for land, this one for crossing oceans.
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You did not offend me...you've posted one of the most annoying memes on internet forums and communities. It stopped being funny many years ago. Especially on Windows topics, it only displays an attitude of ignorance while simultaneously derailing any relevant discussion.
When a whistleblower comes forward, liquidate the company and give them half the proceeds.
People inherently understand that there's stuff you can throw someone or money at it. You don't need a long explaination to teach someone that hiring a maid or ordering a meal will help them if they don't have time to cook and it's not important to them. They might need a lesson on delegation, but these quadrants aren't that (you can effectively delegate important and urgent tasks if you have enough trust)

Same for stuff that doesn't matter, people don't need a guide on procrastinating away those tasks (nobody's asking if they should skip their local bookclub events they don't care about)

The question is naturally what to do about the stuff that won't go away and need to be done sooner or later. And to be honest, the approach of doing it in order isn't a bad one if you get to do it all regardless of the relative importance within the queue.

Basically, why do tough choices if you don't need to in the first place ?
They've measured that too. Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJlgzcQWAg

It's an hour long and very informative. The research seems well backed up.
can we use this as an opportunity to drop DST across the solar system? Why does moon get preferential treatment over Earth? Rise up earthlings.
Self deprecating title to counterbalance life advice from a guy who is in his 20s

I'm not his target audience but I saw everything he wrote as true and wise
typing "ls" was interesting

edit: also really enjoyed the god mode easter egg
Ah,the memories of sending email requests to team mates to release locks, or forcing unlocking them after some timeout without replies.
Plenty of people can still be fewer people
If you're a skilled webdev at FANG, ~250k+ is trivial.

Lots of defense contractors will try and pay their fresh meat 80k so they can make more money. Government gets really touchy about hourly rates per person, but has no problem with 'fair' hourly rates for many more people to do the job one person could and should do.
> It felt like they did not care much.

If software people don't care about using the business-domain-language, I think they are very bad software developers. The main task of software developers is to be the bridge between the domain and computers.

I've met and seen my share of teams that don't want to be that bridge, or offload it to "product owners" or "managers". They are -without exception- abysmal projects, terrible products and quite often have a poor UX. I refuse to call these people software developers, instead I refer to them as code-monkeys. And with all the generative AI going on, these are the first to be replaced by robots in our fields.
This is a bit of a straw man argument. They’ve framed a specific architecture paradigm in a way you disagree with, so you shouldn’t deal with them ever?

The way I read it is that it eliminated the need for an air gap for their needs, not the need of humanity as a whole.
This is more about device support for updated OS, which any PC does. Especially with Linux, unlike Windows 11 that can't be installed on older PCs without some hacks.
I instinctively read it as referring to molar concentration. It is actually common in chemistry to say "10-mole solution", which means 10 moles per litre. The per litre part is implicit, which confused me greatly during undergrad classes. The actual unit of 1 mol/L is called a molar.
I think that LSP is a Language Server Protocol. I do not use that. I can understand its utility but I do not use it.

"Compiler error messages as I type" distract me from, well, typing. I can pause to think and then I get an error message for my still incomplete code. I cannot help but notice that and that interferes with the train of thought.

I have trouble with my keyboard lately (two keys do not produce reliable key press events) and only then I started to use CtrlN in vim to autocomplete.

The need of variable renaming is often related to variables in most mainstream languages having multiple roles due to side effects: on input an array has one meaning, after execution of some function the same array now has different meaning. I prefer not to do so and greatly prefer languages with controlled side effects.
Sure, the Peace and Literature Prizes routinely court controversy.

But the Prize in Medicine being given to the discovery of the therapeutic value of lobotomies can easily be more controversial than any Peace or Literature Prize, even if those categories are more often controversial than Medicine is.
Massive? Comparing to carrying high currents around, not so sure charging drones for a few watts would even make sense for a company that runs those power lines.

Of course they could create a sophisticated billing system, invest tens of millions in branding and marketing and then end up in the red for that particular operation.
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Cool. Why RAG instead of fine tuning?
Yup, I remember when I got a loaner car that had those new momentary switches and I couldn't believe how terrible they were. What made it all the more baffling/disappointing was that earlier BMWs had some of the nicest turn signal switches available that were so satisfying to use.
"Terrorists" could just bolt a buzzsaw to a drone, drive a mile away from the power line in a truck with a few barrels of extra diesel and a generator and cut away until they get bored of it.

But I see an opportunity for the security theater industry there...
Ask HN: Emoji Kitchen by Google, terms of use?
Hi,

I recently came across the Emoji Kitchen project from Google which seems to be available officially from Android devices keyboards.

I cannot find any information regarding the generated "mix" emojis (PNGs apparently).

* Is there an official repository / API? I couldn't find one

* Under which license are the images?

* Are other formats available?

https://emojipedia.org/emoji-kitchen

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/

Happy to have some more details if you find any!
It means I am bad at spelling and it should say “missing” source control system.

Realistically knowing my track record, the series will probably take 2-never years to finish.
For a large part, this can work. But there are several cases where it doesn't. Modules, subdirectories, a group of classes, etc. Too often, at least a part of the terms don't have a logical place to go in code. I consider it worse to have them partly here and partly there, than to have them all together.

But, indeed, I often repeat the definition or naming in the class documentation, module file, methods etc. Knowing fully well it will drift, but accepting it does. And everyone knows the canonical place is dictionary.md, inline docs are merely reminders or copies of that canonical place.
Sending this message from my Librem 5 used as a daily driver, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5.
Very valuable … thanks for sharing
A lot of the tips in this article are very similar to the ones provided in this fantastic book: The Elements of Style [1]. I highly recommend it, even for a non-native speaker.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/...
From what I've read, this is the best thing that could have happened to this company.

They were on the verge of mutiny, and they managed to stop it just in time.
Photoshop for Text (2022)
Whatever it is, it runs at like 5fps in firefox on my 4k monitor
I think it is one of the best things that came out of the cold war.

War is destructive by nature, military campaigns are expensive, hurt both the attacker and the defender, and the only reason is that governments want to govern instead of the other governments. There are some beneficial side effects to war, but overall, it is all about destruction.

The space race, culminating in the moon landings was not destructive, it was about doing something that hasn't been done before. Sure it was a pissing context, but it was for progress, not destruction.

As for astronauts as heroes, it sure was part of the propaganda, but they were actually part of something great. Compare to war heroes, who, in different contexts, would be called mass murderers.

I am not into heroes and adulation in general, but should we make people heroes, I think astronauts are in a good spot. There are generally good people (it actually was an important criteria for selection), intelligent, hard working and healthy. And they put their lives on the line for something awesome.