skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big mental illness crisis of the 21st century is really the same one from the 20th: mass media consumerism. Social media is literally just mass media consumerism in a more efficient, evolved form. It's the car compared to the bicycle: more advanced, with more bad outcomes than before. If you want to cure social media mental illness you'll have to wrestle with the fundamental addiction all humans now have to mass media, which has a symbiotic relationship with consumerism. Since the global economy depends on consumerism, it's not going to be easy to dismantle.
I sympathize but amusingly I have the opposite problem. Most of the time I want it to output a full script, and it only wants to output a small block with changes unless I plead with it to include everything.
I don't understand his attitude towards "anonymous maintainers". Right now ALL contributions to curl are pseudonymous, including his own. There is just no such organization as "Curl". Want to see non-anonymous contributors - go to Google/Intel/etc, they ask for IDs when they hire employees.

> A (to me) surprisingly large amount of contributions are done by people who do not state a full real name

Again, strange attitude, given that he personally had legal issues with US in the past, the reasons for which were never disclosed[1].

Typical good developers are not Rambo. When law enforcers come to them and force them at gunpoint to make them commit/add a new maintainer, they should not expect active resistance. Minor reminder: curl is not just some http library, they maintain their own CA list[2]. They don't need any intricate hidden lines for backdoor, CA list is a backdoor on its own.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html

[2] https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html
Not really.

Want to reply to actual content or are you enjoying your nitpicking?
This process was super cumbersome since floppy disks were well on the way out even when XP was introduced and by the end of its life they were gone.

Floppy is the only universal driver the installer can count of having for storage media, besides the media it installing itself. I always thought it would be smarter if this process allowed you to insert a CD temporarily in the same drive keeping the installer in memory.
I'm still baffled xz took off so massively in the first place. The USP seems to be existing LZMA compression but made significantly more fragile and prone to never decompressing again.
A common legal synonym for the concept of theft is "conversion" which is illustrative. The act of stealing doesn't require the property to be consumed or destroyed.

Relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_conversion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(law)
The Brazilian electoral laws forbid spending in secret for the purpose of buying or making propaganda for electoral campaign and also regulate what is allowed in the elections. You cannot, for example, spend money in secret, with undeclared propaganda. Neither you can create videos with distorted information. All these are fair reasons to remove content. Of course, if you are too blinded by far right ideology or McCarthyism, it can be difficult to notice distortions because you believe in false or distorted informations.
This is where you use your tech skills to break her addiction. Degrade her social media queries randomly. Mess up the dopamine rewards. Maybe a pihole add on or something like that?
Business as usual: somebody funds it--not necessarily the developers--in exchange for a slice of the pie if the project is successful.

If it will be succesfull, time will tell. But serverless postgres would be really sweet to have. Hell, AWS itself should be funding this project. I run my Postgres for hobby projects at home because AWS Aurora serverless postgres is very expensive and doesn't scale down to zero. I wouldn't mind paying a dollar or two for storage the months I don't use that project, and a little more when I actually need to query my databases. At work, my $$$$$$ employer pays $$-employees to poke at $$$-devs who forget to shut down an Aurora serverless Postgres.
Tesla settles lawsuit over Autopilot crash that killed Apple engineer
This is very much the well-known reality.
So, pay phone booths for school kids?
Why not standard conforming SQL instead of MySQL?
What about lifetimes?
You're right about the double-entry part, but bookkeeping more generally definitely cares about who Alice bought the book from.
WordPress 6.5.2 "Regina"
I spent over a decade working on security cameras and various NVR related applications. Hard wired cameras are more secure, BUT, if someone can get access to your network cable, it's not hard to inject packets and DOS out most UDP-based cameras.

Most large sites put their cameras on segregated networks, so it might not even be obvious to folks for a while.
I always enjoy these explainers that use computer science terms.

In this case, you can be more precise about the type of graph: double-entry accounting creates a Directed[0] Bipartite Graph[1] with Labelled Edges[2]. Every edge is between a Transaction and an Account nodes, which makes it bipartite, and the amounts are edge labels.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_graph

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartite_graph

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_labeling
It’s not burning through names. It’s a modern marketing tactic. You do not give separate named identity to your products, so they get associated with your main brand instead.

Carmakers are very guilty of this, with cars with numbers or letters. Apple too, with its Apple TV and Apple Watch.
A problem is people who are confidently wrong and hide behind science as a religion. If we were to admit a level of, I don't know, this is the best we've got right now, there would be more trust in expert advice. During the pandemic, this expert advice was abused to exercise control over some and not others which helped cast doubt over all information. For instance, political leaders hanging out in public restaurants without masks while others were directed to huddle in their homes made some wonder if this thing was as bad as those 'leaders' claimed.
I can't speak to the validity for the author's use case as I'm not a golang dev, but in spirit I do like the idea. I think this trend back to simplicity (monoliths, sqlite, bash scripts) makes it good timing to be posting and learning things like this.

Especially as more and more new, easy/low config tools come out like Caddy, this gets simpler over time.

I have a testbed boilerplate project for Laravel in which server provisioning & deployments are done by bash scripts over SSH. Excluding comments/spacing, the provisioning script is 35 lines of mostly installing dependencies and minor file template copies. For simpler projects not needing queue workers and/or not using more "exotic" tech like Laravel Octane, this could probably be cut down to 30.

TL;DR do the simplest thing that works for you and move on with life - the value in your project, if you intend to deploy it, is for it to be used.
Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press)
It's not just denial of service. First step is to kick the client off. That's DoS. Next step is spoof the station so when it tries logging back in it grabs the password. I am asking how to mitigate against that, and don't see anything beyond disabling auto logging and password rotation.
Show HN: QR Builder
A new take on creating QR Codes with a modern interface.
I tried to check this for myself.

I agreed for the first one, (46.3 - 7) / 7 = 5.61b.

The second one doesn't match up, (281 - 22) / 7 = 37b or (140.5 - 22) / 7 = 16.92b. Am I doing something wrong?
Could this be to avoid variants of the “do it or I’ll kill you” adversial prompts? Those were pretty effective on OpenAI models.
Google's new Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race
> The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of happiness among parents than nonparents in most advanced industrialized societies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5222535/

I never saw myself as capable of withstanding the stress of parenting and so I never even really thought about having kids. I thought I was a far outlier, but, given trends in fertility, I think I may have just been early in realizing this.
MiniCPM: Potential of Small Language Models W Scalable Training Strategies
I would be very interested in finding out about a market where people compete on “cracking the egg”. :)

I just love playing with words.
Yes - in fact the whole company was started by a patent attorney.

SawStop says they'll release one patent (which is about to expire anyway) but they've got a huge portfolio of other ones, and companies like Grizzly say that SawStop is unwilling to engage with them in good faith on licensing their technology.

Bosch released a saw with similar tech, except unlike SawStop it didn't use overpriced consumables every time it triggered. SawStop sued the product off of the market.

The company founder also serves as an expert witness when people shove their hands into moving saw blades, then sue the saw makers - testifying that the makers should be held liable because they haven't licensed his invention.

Of course, I'm sure for SawStop getting all their competitors banned will be a highly profitable decision; it's no surprise they're lobbying for it.
Yep. This is exactly how is see it. I don't think people realise the level of love required to grow a human. Whatever is received is that person's normal - what else could it be? But, I don't think all childhoods are equal, despite appearances.
is the point of system prompts just to avoid prompt injection?
or are they supposed to get better outputs too?

I never have found a need for them. i.e. the example in the article
Just prompting like:

Write hello 3 different ways in spanish
works fine for me
Unless Firefox crashes or you restarted after an update on Linux.
> Outbursts have been seen twice, reaching magnitude 2.0 on May 12, 1866 and magnitude 3.0 on February 9, 1946,[16] although a more recent paper shows the 1866 outburst with a possible peak range of magnitude 2.5 ± 0.5.[17] Even when at peak magnitude of 2.5, this recurrent nova is dimmer than about 120 stars in the night sky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coronae_Borealis

magnitude 2 is not very bright. Still brighter than stars in the neighboring Hercules
It is a completely normal size car.
Great write up, perfect to share with people who want to know what makes Rust tick before/without learning it more thoroughly.
This is the only way even if some of the guilt is deserved. Grow the love around you, give your time and attention to others.
None of these suggestions actually cover the part where someone or someones do a bunch of bloody work.

Again, this is the problem in the first place.
Kinda yes and no on this. The journal entry capturing the transaction will be for the transaction of Alice buying the book from Bob. The debits and credits will be tied to that JE. Somebody is keeping book and the accounts are the accounts of that somebody. A fictional bookstore will have all the info, but Alice's and Bob's bank might not.
>So you don’t like their political positions?

I don't like that they're pushing political positions on me that have nothing to do with free software, as defined by RMS . It's not unreasonable for them to want to exclude people who don't share their political views, but my hope is that another, more inclusive (in the real sense) group will outcompete them. There are many people who could make great contributions to free software, but who don't share your political views. If human flourishing is our goal, why should we not accept their contributions? The software speaks for itself.

>Free software has always had a socialist bend.

In what way?
Doesn't surprise me. I know a managed service provider who keeps all his clients' AD domain passwords on a text file on his desktop. How do I know this? I saw it on a screen share.
Why someone still would use GPT-3.5 in 2024? There are tens of fully open models available which beat GPT-3.5 in every possible skill and you can run them locally.
Research code doesn’t have to be bug free, it just has to work correctly long enough to generate the graphs for your paper.
Compression algorithm implementations are not for everyone.

The math and algorithms behind it are fun to learn but hard. And then you need to implement it both performant and correct.

Only a few people build up the algorithmic background to do this. And the gains once an implementation is there are marginal (optimizations).

The only larger one seems to be zstd, and I haven't wrapped my head around ANS/tANS...
That was true 10 years ago, but is no longer true today. All components, including body, motor and electronics are a few thousand dollars and a garage-sized machine shop is very capable.

The limiting factor is the skill to put it together, but recent action in Africa and Ukraine means the number of people who can integrate those components is rapidly growing.
Still too long. She could very well be in and out of a position by the time she legally has to disclose that she or her husband made a trade.

What needs to happen is upfront disclosure pre-trade. "Today I was in a classified briefing regarding industry ABC and an upcoming contract bid between these companies. Tomorrow I will be purchasing n# shares of XYZ stock within this price range. I plan to hold it for at least x# of months/years and will write option contracts against my position" Would this obviously spike volatility and cause a buying/selling spree for that security? Yeah. Would it force lawmakers to divulge classified information? Probably (but hey, for congress it's legal under the speech and debate clause). But that's what we've come to, unfortunately.

If congress doesn't want to do that, they and their families need to be outright banned from owning anything besides index funds.

Another option is that they and their families are banned from trading options contracts (both buying and selling) that have any less than a 2 year date until expiration, and they have to disclose each trade within 24 hours. If they are in politics to help the country long-term, they should have no problems with this.
If you're going to do this sort of low level database-adjacent work in Java, this is basically how you need to do it. It's pretty unpleasant and the language resists you in every way, but luckily in most cases it's only a small core of the program that needs to be written this way.

Well, that or JNI/FFI in some C code I guess.
I guess it's more than Windows 7 and Windows 10/11 share a lot in common in terms of their architecture, which programs run on them etc.

I am typing this on Windows 7 and lots of programs e.g. utorrent still produce new versions which run fine on Windows 7, so I'm thinking many of the older Windows APIs are still in use and haven't changed much.

Whereas Windows 95 vs Windows 7 are very different architecturally with one being clearly superior to the other, and also Windows 95 was at the start of its series and got more mature with Windows 98 etc. and Windows 7 was already mature.
Where is this discussion happening?
i'm interested to hear what kinds of things you're doing with it!
Same here, UK
> Were these protocols designed to be insecure?

Why do phones/laptops continually broadcast a list of all SSIDs they have ever connected?
The issue with non-fiction is that some information may come from the parametric memory, rather than source text supplied to the model. So then the issue is whether the model can process the text and summarize the book or is it cheating? Fiction published in the last few months is your best shot, though sure depending on the nature of non-fiction this evaluation can be different (but some things remain the same, like you want it to be faithful/factual and not omit important information)
I have some hopes for this. But at the same time I have many more doubts, principally that I don't think we'll ever see this in any hardware with any quality or support lifecycle even approaching Apple's ARM offering.
If you never close a window but instead close the entire firefox (ctrl+shift+q or exit from the menu) then it reopens all the windows.

It would be nice a feature that closes all the windows when you close one so to not lose a window by mistake.
Loki has a cli tool, called LogCLI. It's passable for needle-in-haystack searches, and the label browser is handy. But Loki doesn't handle multiline searches well. I'm with you on the ease of grep sort uniq, pretty easy to fashion up a quick report, sorted numerically - No enterprise data analysis suute needed.
802.11w
JFWIW it is now in Waterfox... kinda.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-x-treestyletab/
My consulting company not provide a laptop to me
edit : i asked for a new one, and got it
Mixtral 8x22B on MLX
I increasing feel like Musk has never had a true grip on reality and has just been accidentally (wildly) successful on occasion.
Westfield has a huge mall in SF and Paris center I’ve been to
Solidigm 61.44TB SSD
The IQ Threshold Hypothesis appears to be false
We're missing the elephant in the room. Who's going to maintain the code?

You think GPT5 and Llama4 aren't going to be opinionated and change your code going forward.
A Rust 101 intro does not need to concern itself with lifetimes.
InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering LVLM Handling Resolutions from 336 to 4K
> This puts housing out of reach for anyone making less than $150k/year

Then more labor sectors should unionize! Make the wealthy pay the true cost for living in their communities. Not live with all this government protection and regulations, then outsource production to a free state a
thousand miles away. If regulation and taxes are the problem, then fix the problem. You can't have it both ways.
The first part of your comment lacks understanding of how and why the consent rejection has been worded as it has. If you want to comply it is easy. But if a company wants to skirt the regulation it is written such that the regulatory body can still get you for making it harder.

DNT is not relevant as GDPR is not directly a regulation against tracking, and it certainly isn't because of lobbying.
Show HN: Tsynamo – Type-friendly DynamoDB query builder for TypeScript
Hello HN! I was recently introduced to Kysely (https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely), a type-safe Typescript SQL query builder, and instantly fell in love! I got inspired and wanted to make something similar for AWS DynamoDB.

Thus, I developed Tsynamo! Instead of calling it type-safe, I decided to go with type-friendly, because the library is still in an early stage, and is not 100% type-safe.

Under the hood, Tsynamo compiles the built queries into AWS SDK v3 commands. I feel that Tsynamo simplifies the AWS SDK API quite a lot since the developer doesn't have to mess around with condition/filter expressions or attribute names/values themselves, and as a bonus gets autocompletion for building the queries!

There's also a playground to test it out in your browser: https://try.tsynamo.dev. It might not have the most up-to-date API of the library in use yet, but you can get the library's main idea from there.

Since the project is still in its early stages, it doesn't yet have 100% support for all DynamoDB features, like querying indexes. The next steps will be increasing the support coverage and perhaps adding automatic type generation as inspired by kysely-codegen (https://github.com/RobinBlomberg/kysely-codegen).

Would love to get some feedback, thanks in advance!
Nobody’s objecting to just sound urban planning. The problem is when you don’t have it and use license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid.
> which is people handing over (or having taken from them) responsibility, to the state, for something they should be taking responsibility for.

> It's just unbelievable people think regulation is in any way a good thing.

In general, there are many cases that most people cannot really take responsibility for. For example, if you hit a person with a car that can mean they’ll lose their income and need specialized care for decades. Such costs can run in the millions.

Now, you can argue people should take insurance against that risk. Problem is: some people won’t, and victims won’t be compensated,. If, then, you think the state should take on those costs, doesn’t the state have a say in what kinds of cars you can drive, for example that they have various safety features?

Also, this doesn’t only apply to cases where you injury others. If people get into an accident that leaves them with health costs they can’t afford to pay, we expect society to, at least partly pay up.

I think that argument applies here, too. Saw accidents can and do make lots of persons lose health and future income. In many cases, it’s the state that will have to pay up to cover that.
>People with real real identities tied to their online avatars are just as bad if not worse than anyone else on the internet.

So-called "edge lords" and people for whom provocativeness is their brand, perhaps.

But, I don't think that's true for the average person at all. I think we all know this intuitively / empirically, but there have also been studies that bear it out. [0]

>Internet hostility is more analogous to road rage.

No. Road rage is a function of losing one's temper and acting outside of one's self in the moment. Distinctly different from purposely shedding one's identity to engage socially.

Besides that, we're not just talking about hostility, but an overall disposition when one is acting without the social constraints of identity and accountability.

[0]https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/who-is-that-th...
Having just struggled with bitly's QR code generator (kept freezing up in Firefox for some reason), I look forward to giving this a try.
Python 3.12.3
>I'd wager that a small single-digit percentage of Fairbuds customers will ever buy a replacement battery.

We're talking about the sustainability of the products design since that's what the manufacturer can control, not the behavior of the customers which the manufacturer can't control.
Avi Wigderson Receives 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award
Their application instructions are worth reading as well (linked from that link but worth highlighting):

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1m2SEWL_rrlQLEi1OiD9K...

Among other things they mention the possibility of it disrupting gut microbiomes.
In real-life bookkeeping the journal entries contain a lot of metadata which link the individual entries to other objects such as invoices, fixed assets (computers, equipment, furniture, etc.), contacts.

In an organisation's accounting (Alice LLC), the basis entry would state a debit (increase of expense) in the book expenses account, credit (decrease of asset) in the cash balance. The complete entry would then make a reference to the invoice/receipt of the purchase and the contact details of the bookstore (address, chamber of commerce registration ID, tax number, etc.).

The exact level of detail is determined by how 'complete' your books are supposed to be. A book expense might not mean much to Alice LLC (which does not deal in book sales/purchases), but a laptop should (see more on the subject of fixed asset registries), or a large invoice from a business from a different country (which will require a lot more diligence with tax 'metadata').

On the other hand, the bookstore definitely cares more about books and will then consider the sale and replenishment of its book inventory, and once again introduce more meta-accounting data (see more on the subject of management/manufacturing accounting).