skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure what your point is here. Excluding visually ambiguous characters from randomised strings that are going to be manually entered is very common, very trivial, and does not compromise “beauty”.

It sounds like were you working on this project you would’ve unnecessarily compromised. And given that you’re seeking to make some generalised point about “UX designers”, it honestly sounds like you both undervalue UX design (since you’re looking for the first opportunity to dismiss design in an instance where the real issue is that ambiguous characters are being used in the first place), and don’t understand the bounds of UX design as a skill set (because any good, and note that I’m not saying “very good”, UX designer, will consider exactly what you said).

Sorry that you used a crappy website but I don’t think it’s justification to generalise a profession.

And, for the record, I’ve never been as much as a front end developer, let alone a designer. My speciality is certainly much more under the hood than that. I’m just…aware that those people do good, important work.
Different version of the same story discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092985

(118 points/13 hours ago/151 comments)
I watched a “transparent clothing review” video by accident and now my feed is filled with this junk.

Thanks, Kerry Rodden!

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Most advice boils down to the advisor recommending others to be more like himself. The advice in this blog post is basically for someone with a similar set of career goals and interests, and would allow the recipient to do modestly better than the author on his own career track.

I did this for a long time. I lift weights, so I recommended other people to lift weights. I read classic literary fiction (Tolstoy, Marquez) so I advised other people to do the same.

My best advice now is to deeply self-analyze your own psychology in terms of the Big 5 trait system and then pursue a career and lifestyle based on this assessment. Do not try to become a doctor if you are not conscientious. Do not go into sales if you're not extroverted. Travel is good for open-minded and extroverted people. If you're neurotic, develop lifestyle habits that will help address this condition (meditation, yoga, hiking).
It’s a Dish of Theseus, though. The electronics have been replaced, and the dish has been widened. I wonder how much of it is actually 50 years old besides the superstructure.
Modernity has poisoned our waters, created and unleashed novel sicknesses upon the world, harnessed the atom in order to destroy life, and hides behind medicine as if that excuses all of it.
Once again, this whole idea rears its ugly head. There has never been a TV, let alone a device, that has included a cellular radio to maintain a connection so it can keep tracking you.

Never happened. It’s just a thing we know can happen, but doesn’t for myriad reasons like humans flying in drones.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Great Read!

If I'd retro my journey of 20+ years, the advice for my younger self would be to network more and have a better work-life balance.
Hi thank you for your reply. In his conversations I AM THAT Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj teaches to focus on the sense of I AM , as I AM is the true self and pure awareness is the transistor of every bit of consciousness and therefore it is in every moment of conscious life… yet it is true the sense of stillness is a godlike presence and the mind likes to be distracted by the content of senses and not focused on the knower. To have that absolute stillness with us all the time is Guru’s grace. But I AM THAT is also on YouTube, I really like the audio book.
Thanks, that's a perfect summary of the problem and the reasons why the BSD license was picked. It's perfectly fine though to disagree and do it differently.
I have something similar[0] but with a different philosophy. Basically, a docker container running and you can execute code against with ability to set timeouts, auto install and uninstall dependencies and a bunch of other cool stuff.

The pain point of all of this is dependencies and making sure someone doesn’t use your infrastructure to DDOS other folks.

0. https://github.com/Jonathan-Adly/AgentRun
I downloaded this file https://indico.cta-observatory.org/event/5245/contributions/... and tried timing how long it took for the standard firefox vs this MuPDF viewer to render the first slide and there is like at least 3 second difference.

As others in the thread also report significant speed gains I think you either have some weird issue with your setup or how you measure performance.
I fact checked using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia and got amused.
My phone doesn't have an SD slot but following the sentiment of keeping the important things local: I was back home for a month in a country with poor connectivity, so I "downloaded" some podcast on Spotify. After 14 days the app stopped working and asked me to log in through their website to change my location. Luckily I have 30gb of music on every phone that I have ever had so I didn't miss it, but still was very pissed off by it
I think the point is to minimize the total attack surface on a system. If the bash script only depends on programs like those you list, which Linux distros package as default anyway, the shell script has not introduced any new dependencies on your system.
It’s interesting how you keep up the divide between „us“ (good, law-abiding, educated, friendly and most importantly white people) and „them“ (evil, criminal, murdering,rioting, shooting black and Hispanic people). There’s only a thin intellectual veneer on top of your racism.

Did you ever wonder how it came to be that non-white people ended up in a worse position than whites?
While most that is said there is correct, some comments exaggerate in the opposite sense, by downplaying the real higher quality of the Japanese swords in comparison with the contemporaneous swords of the 19th century (when most Westerners became aware of them).

Unlike what some say there, the fascination of Westerners for Japanese swords has not started after WWII. Already during the 19th century, the first Europeans and Americans who could visit Japan were all extremely impressed with the Japanese swords, as demonstrated in test cuts but also by cutting parts of human bodies in some incidents.

Even if in the more distant past there have been many places where swords of very high quality had been made, e.g. the Toledo swords or the Damascus swords, by the time of the 19th century such techniques had been forgotten for a long time and the remaining production of swords was oriented to the mass production of cheap but low quality swords. Such swords were more resistant to mishandling than the Japanese swords, but they could not compete in hardness and sharpness.

The same travellers who were impressed in Japan by the Japanese swords were not impressed at all by the swords encountered in the other countries of the region, e.g. by the Chinese swords.

At least by the time of the 19th century, in no other place were there smiths willing to spend so much time with the sharpening and polishing of extra hard steel.

Even today, when everybody knows modern metallurgy, using Japanese kitchen knives is a very different experience from using European kitchen knives (at least for me, one much more pleasant), due to the Japanese preference for maximum hardness and sharpness, despite the fact that such blades require much more care during use and maintenance.
I'm a simple man, I see a comment complaining about snap and I automatically upvote.

It's 2024. If you're still distributing snaps as the preferred method of install, you're alienating your users. AppImage, Flatpak, and regular containers are all far better deployment options.
Absolutely there is still supply chain risk there. But less risk in 3 dependencies than 300.
If you were able to wonder if it was true it would be advantageous.
Newscasters and other talking heads will be out of business. Just pipe the script into some AI and get video.
> For 99% of human history, they did actually.

No. Do you think, in mediaeval France, the King cared about the internal relations of the family of some random townsperson or peasant? Do you think any of the aristocracy cared? Do you think the Church cared? No.

And that is the norm of human history – unless it gets to the point they have to pay attention to it, what ruler wants to be bothered with the details of the private family lives of their millions of subjects?
When you said that I thought this was about the 1980s, not the late 1990s…
Yeah, it needs a "fit page" option. But as a first example its very impressive.
I honestly cannot fathom how anyone could think that dogs, snakes, bumblebees, sheep, goldfish, or tits don't have consciousness or feelings.
Of course all animals are conscious to a degree. Otherwise you would have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere which would contradict the gradual nature of evolution.
> [The Pentium II] was the first processor (I knew of) to have completely documented post-RISC features such as dynamic execution, out of order execution and retirement. (PA-RISC predated it as far as implementing the technology, however; I am suspicious that HP told Intel to either work with them on Merced, or be sued up the wazoo.)

With some hindsight available now, does anybody know if there is something to this suspicion? Intel being far less enthusiastic about Itanium than HP did look weird to me. Then again, that was years later when Itanium was actually available and nobody except HP showed any interest in using them.
I have a hard time parsing what you are really asking in this post.

If you are saying that the software you buy to run your projects is higher than what your make from these projects it means that they are a hobby and not a side hustle or business.

Shut down the projects that you lose money on, keep the ones that are profitable.

Go through the list of vendors you pay and see if they are really needed (for example, do you really need session replay if you have 10 customers?)

Can you use a shared database for all of them, can you put them all on a dedicated server instead of pricy cloud resources etc.
Try `Atkinson Hyperlegible` https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

It was developed by the Braille Institute of America in 2019 for visually impaired. I think it's good font overall.

For monospace you need something else. Aribus designed a great font called B612 mono except that O0 are too easy to mix.
A better, prouder moment, for all involved, would be not that the child arrived at this marvelous conclusion "independently", for that outcome (by your admission) is quite rare. Else, it would not be remarkable enough for you to comment.

Instead, we want to arm our children with the tools so that they arrive at that same conclusion repeatedly and predictably. Better yet, we would all do better if we simply eliminate such harmful algorithms and creepy practices entirely.
My coworker 4y old son have never seen money exchanged at shops since UPI has become so prevalent in India. He would just pick things at shop and walk. He didn't relate scanning QR codes with exchange.

I should ask my coworker if he tried explaining physical money to him and how he reacted to the idea.
Same with Danish public broadcast: https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/100
Digital signage displays are terrible at color reproduction, usually have no amenities for CEC or ARC, and did I say they’re terrible at color reproduction. Like the one thing a TV is for.
Before this goes off the rails:

> The declaration focuses on the most basic kind of consciousness, known as phenomenal consciousness. Roughly put, if a creature has phenomenal consciousness, then it is “like something” to be that creature.

In other words, a) there is a clear definition of consciousness (as subjective experience, however minimal), b) the claim of subjective experience is backed up by evidence that the animals in question feel pain, play, and exhibit "intentional behaviours" (do things which look like they planned it, rather than just 'reacting to their environment').

Obviously all of the above are debatable (is that really what consciousness is? Do cuttlefish actually feel pain? Is feeling pain a measure of consciousness?) but there's no point claiming that they don't have a definition of consciousness or that they don't have a scientific basis for their claims, because they have both.
The Checkbox Software Engineer
Did you see that bold disclaimer on top?

> Partial support
> The Certbot team supports this installation method on a best effort basis. If you are on a more obscure or heavily customized system, these instructions may not work and the Certbot team may be unable to help you resolve the problem.

This is an instant no-go for any professional environment I ever worked in.
Static binary, sure, but hardly a tiny supply chain attack surface: https://github.com/go-acme/lego/blob/master/go.sum

Also their official builds are built with Alpine which is a hobby distro that does not even do signed code or packages.
When there's a genocide going on backed by the largest military power in the world, it should take up all the oxygen.

If you want to ignore it, just press "Hide" instead of "Flag."
90% of it are rose tinted glasses. We humans are very good at forgetting the inconveniences of the past when we no longer experience them.
>> They're wrong most of the time but it's a numbers game.

I'm not sure you meant to communicate this VERY important point, this is a huge reason NOT to do YC.
Data, oil, Uber and the peril of easy analogies
My 26-year experience: the only methodology that works and that will ever work - hire the right people and get the F out of the way
> despite Apple marketing otherwise

That's a very uncharitable way to phrase that. It's not like Apple was lying or doing this on purpose. It was clearly a bug, a bug that was not wide known for 3+ years. It's not as if it was some open secret that everyone was taking advantage of. I'm not saying no one knew or that no one took advantage of it but I'd imagine the average consumer was complete unaffected by this bug.
I thought I'd noticed this documentary on HN a few weeks ago, but I'll re-add it here.

"It's Quieter in the Twilight": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

Interesting piece on a bit of the history of the Voyagers, as well as recent interviews with the handful of remaining folks dealing with Voyager today (well, as of 2021/2022).
Not something I've looked deeply in to but would it not make sense to just have a single instance of these SaaS products across your entire range of products?

If you are seperating them for accounting reasons, maybe chat to an actual accountant just need to do it like once a year about that and they may have a different solution for you. There may even be an accountant in your niche that could recommend a different product stack for account that might suit your needs better.

I could think of a few ways to handle that creatively but would want to check with a professional, like spin up a seperate company whose only purpose is to sell those SaaS products to you at exactly cost...

Same with the DB, maybe look at an older idea, like sticking a Postgres DB on a cloud, or even using a managed postgres DB. There's generally a reason people converge on a single cloud and that is egress fees.

A single managed DB instance in GCP or Amazon with all your services in the same cloud means you are not paying egress fees and you are not paying whatever markup Supabse us adding.
I loved his "brights" vs "murkies" analogy.
Congrats! These are great stories to hear.

Our team has build a business without venture capital in a space where it’s commonly sought after.

Instead we did find a strategic partner in the industry who invested earlier on but then later we established a venture banking relationship and credit facility.

I had almost no idea the options that existed so wanted to post some ideas here for anyone reading.

Venture Capital is one source of funding. So is Growth Equity or even private equity —- but different from “venture”. It sounds like you’re past the “venture” stage anyway.

We’re paying about ~9% interest on a multi-million credit facility now from a bank (several other banks will do this type of lending - not just SVB I also learned along the way recently). There is also minimal warrant coverage provided of 1-1.5% equity which we are happy with.

Some names of banks who are lending - just a few names but wanted to share some ideas as alternatives to venture capital, especially if you have revenue:

* Texas Capital Bank
* Cambridge Trust
* East West Bank
* Bridge Bank
As a parent of a 9 year old who bikes two km to kayaking club and back three times a week, I see how much he likes it and how autonomous he instantly became. Me and my wife also got a couple of hours of freedom every day because we no longer have to transport him and wait in between. It looks like a small thing, but it feels almost life-changing. Previously, I was against multi-storey residential development and planned to own a private house in the suburbs. But then I got kids and moved to a place with dense civil infrastructure and started to use it daily. And I realized that if you can bike to school, shops, parks and a clinic in a couple of minutes, then for me it's much cooler than living at home and getting in the car every time you need something. Every time I think about my son crossing the road, I get scared as hell. But I have to be strong to step aside and not interfere with his growth =)
What if all my customers are in Europe?
> It also seems to me that a lot of what is nowadays called philosophy is just pretty transparent cover for religious apologetics.

Yeah. There is an ideal notion of a "love of knowledge" and following it where it leads, but almost everyone fails at some point. But it is a shame when a deeply flawed published work gets more attention than it deserves. In my opinion, teaching philosophy as a historic progression should not be the only nor default way. Sometimes it really is better to start afresh.
And what would the society would get (net total) if everybody is too compliant with the law or government’s orders? Where would we go? I don’t think it would be a nice place.

PS: not particularly related to the Apple’s case, though.
And in the meantime all those brave and strong people will be homeless just to make a point because they are brave and strong.
Same. I just don't see advertisement as respectable income. Entertainment feeds too many mouths, people expect to make a living in an oversaturated market. I consume "media" mostly opportunistically. For the most part, I don't even like myself wasting time like that. If someone wants me out of their audience, that's fine with me, but don't presume my attention grants you commercial rights to my mind and autonomy.

People made a living out of providing valuable content before advertisement seeped into every aspect of life. I don't think we would be at a net loss, if all ad financed productions died all together. Why can some creators live off of Patreon donations/subscriptions, while other can't? Fact is, with the internet, the true (non-opportunistic) demand for (redundant) content doesn't increase much with population size. Relatively, fewer people should expect to make a living out of media production.

I think, the real problem is people's increased need to have a side hustle, since the projected security of a stable 40h job is increasingly a thing of the past. People don't have truly "free time" anymore to talk about their interests as a hobby, without the pressure of opportunistic commercialization. There used to be highly informative articles, podcasts, videos... people made solely to share their thoughts and interests with the world. How come these creators didn't seek out commercialization back then?

Creating artificial demand through advertisement enables a whole new parasitic economy of fake products, which fuels the dumpster fire of existential challenges we as a species are facing.

I am happily denying anyone their ad income through sponsor block and ublock. Indeed, I am even more happily watching them not make it this way. Good riddance. If you put out content I can freely access, and if my attention and community isn't enough reward for you, get a real job, or fight those seeking rent in your own life.
Low carbon cement from Sublime Systems used in first project
You could probably make a good docs site in hugo with enough work, but Docusaurus has pretty much everything I need out of the box (and is less annoying to extend). I think it really is a lot better for documentation.
That's a very human centric point of view you show. Also if you look at anything but GDP it's a much more complicated picture, happiness certainly hasn't been on a never ending upward trajectory. We've also made life miserable for so many animals. We are currently in the sixth mass extinction. We are the sixth mass extinction.

Recognizing a problem does not imply a solution. Do I think it's reasonable or realistic to go back to pre agricultural revolution? No.

Is modernity a reckless party with finite resources? Yes.

https://www.jeremychin.com/repository/hard-truths/0002.jpg
> At least by the time of the 19th century, in no other place were there smiths willing to spend so much time with the sharpening and polishing of extra hard steel.

Because the rest of the world used rifles as a battlefield weapon, maybe.
SetACL Studio: a management tool for Windows permissions
Go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and remove the video from your list, it will clean up your feed.
If you limit your attacks to an 8 hour period then you don't need to avoid the attacks or strike back as much though.

It magically activates a scientifically unknown mechanism to make the game easier to win.

At least that's what we currently believe, some scientists are about to test whether you still need to do the same amount of damage to the bosses health regardless of timing. I wonder what it will reveal?
a client nonce and server nonce) rather than using the source/destination IP addresses multi-homed hosts and seamless transition between different networks would become native features of the protocol. A client could roam between two different IP networks and TCP connections would "survive", for example.

This is mostly how Mosh [1] works and allows for IP roaming, changing IP's, etc... without losing ones SSH session. The connection can even be interrupted for a prolonged period of time and restore on its own on a new IP seamlessly.

[1] - https://mosh.org/
Semantic: Letter S-Word (2022)
Are you thinking of nanovna? There's only one tinySA afaik ..
Was my default way of updating my certs until I switched to using an Nginx proxy docker image that handled it for me automatically. Still highly recommend this tool.
Same. I have a couple of comments as to why snap is awful.
This doesn't work efficiently for non-square arrays.

E.g. if you have a 128x32 then you don't want to interleave the y bits once they are exhausted (only need 5 bits of y, but 7 bits of x to fully address this).

The posted implementation would produce

y6,x6,y5,x5,y4,x4,y3,x3,y2,x2,y1,x1,y0,x0

but really we want:

x6,x5,y4,x4,y3,x3,y2,x2,y1,x1,y0,x0
7yod bought an underwater camera from a shop while at the beach. Basically a 35mm disposable inside a sealed clear case.

Told her it needed film to work which she accepted pretty easily (the store didn't have any).

A couple days later we find film, I load it.

She asks how to turn on the screen to take pics...

The idea of a view finder completely lost her.

Of course then I had to explain to her how something could even work without batteries, and my wife thought I was teasing.

She apparently has never bought/ used a camera without a flash. Thought even film needed a battery to work...
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