skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s probably be interesting to teach binary in conjuction with decimal just for the knowledge that there’s nothing special about base 10? All your math still works fine when you have fewer symbols.
Was there any hardware reason for this, or was this just nintendo making gamers' lifes worse by gouging their customers?
We already know, to the dollar, how much the black budget in the US is. The question was: is that money being used by politicians to enrich themselves? Bitcoin was offered as a solution. It is not.
Arguably that's not a gotcha. It's (probably) his point.
Steak is the one thing I can get consistently better than restaurants. It's all thanks to the book "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking"

It's a text book size cookbook. The author experiments different cooking methods and documents, taste tests.

It boiled down to seasoning the steak over night so the salt extracts juices and tenderizes. Getting the temperature just perfect using a thermometer (I have a Ninja Foodi Grill that does it automatically).

The quality and thickness of meat also matters. I get mine at Costco or Sam's Club.

My pasta game is a lot better too. Main thing was to stir as the pasta cooks.
Matryoshka and Binary vectors: Slash vector search costs with Vespa
I don’t mind the {}s too much, maybe the primary reason I dislike them is actually more to do with the fact that I’m Danish and I’ll need to press option+shift+7 to make a { on my Mac… or similarly annoying combinations depending on the machine/OS. I think I once had a windows laptop where I needed to press FN + something.

Anyway, when your language adds extra letters to the keyboard ÆØÅ in my case then they have to take the space from other things and since {}’s are rarely used they were one of the “obvious” choices.

On the flip side I don’t think the curley brackets add much to the readability.
> Workers being driven by ratings systems pre-dates the popularity of Internet gig economy jobs. By a lot.

Your electronic report card is now more persistent, and there's a much smaller number of companies dominating these gig industries, and they cross areas (food delivery + driving people, for example). It's not as easy to start over.
Secure Boot and TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption on NixOS
Good for her for standing up to her lead on this. I hope she has the documentation to back it up; sounds like she met with legal again after getting the pushback from her team lead, so hopefully that's the case.
Somewhere in that list you need to add some time for certification, plus rework after certification failure!

Not only does it take a week, but each attempt costs a few tens of thousands of dollars.
Where is the Deliverator when you need him?
CSV is not standardized, it might use comma or semicolon as seperator, there are different conventions for quoting and escaping, headers might be included or not.

JSON is also hierarchical which makes it appropriate for a wider range of data structures.

That said, I’m not sure there is any agreed upon standard for representing data tables in JSON, so it might not be any better for the CSV use case.
I was 9 or 10.
My best friend at the time loved the Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, etc. and introduced me to them. He also started learning HTML in computer class (he was 2 grades ahead of me). He started teaching me, but also showed me Hack This Site (a very old website to learn web application security).

Of course I wasn't consisted all that time. I ventured into Just BASIC (first lang), Python, C, and eventually stuck with web development (JavaScript) in ~2012, and have been going at it since then.
I had the exact same mindset about six months ago, before I was given a Kindle. I love paper books and I couldn't imagine why anyone used an ereader.

I have a Kindle Paperwhite, but it seems like the following of what I'm going to say applied to all modern ereaders.

The screens looks fantastic. The way in which they replicate the visual appearance of paper is surprisingly good.

Reading in the dark. They have excellent backlights and warm lights that you can configure. Reading in bed was always kind of a pain for me since I needed a separate light, but an ereader is a standalone situation. It's fantastic for reading on a plane for that reason as well.

Size and weight. I read a lot of software books that are 10"x7" (I believe that's the standard size for a lot of them) and they can get bulky to hold and carry around when you're not just reading at home. This is especially true if I'm commuting on a train or traveling. When I travel, I read more than usual, so I'd always bring another book. Having two 10"x7" books that are around 400-500 pages each is a real travel burden. My ereader has _so_ many books, including my primary reading at the time, all for probably less than 200 grams.

Selection. This one is more niche, but the reason I was initially excited when I was given a Kindle was that a book that I've wanted to read for a while only had a short run of English translations and the paperback ran around $120. The ebook was $10. It ended up being a fantastic story that got me back into reading fiction.
Stop giving the conservatives ideas! /s
> OpenTelemetry is not an option because it's not what I'm looking for: you need to setup Agents, Gateways, Collectors, etc., .

You don't need any of that. You can publish to an endpoint directly from your code (used like a library, no other tools needed).
Listennotes.com
This is an interesting exploration, the idea of being offline is great.
You can set the age to arbitrary points in the past, if storage isn't a concern. I've actually found miniflux's search feature fairly solid for dredging up old stuff I've read!
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Really good, and the music after the first thing that doesn't go as expected is particularly good.
Given that techy people have a strong disposition to have a blog, more so than other demographics, there's an implicit bias toward the technical within the blogosphere, especially in its diminished state.
My script just sets up default .sops.yaml for https://github.com/getsops/sops

You can further edit .sops.yaml(eg have multiple of them) and decide how you split secrets in your directory tree to further customize who can decrypt the secrets.

It works pretty well for prod/dev splits, etc
I would say 95% of the restaurants I go to take your card and run it themselves.
In self-certification processes like the OIDC certification program, it's common for developers to certify their own software. This is because the process is designed for developers to evaluate their own implementations against the established standards and requirements set by the certification program.

Self-certification doesn't mean that the process lacks validity or rigor. On the contrary, it involves thorough testing and validation against industry standards to ensure that the software meets the necessary criteria for interoperability, security, and functionality.

If you're curious about the specifics of the process, you can find more information on the OIDC certification FAQ pages. These resources provide detailed explanations of the certification process, the criteria for certification, and the testing procedures involved.
> we have to be mindful about some of the alarmist language

Exactly! It probably won't drive us to extinction - a mere few billions will starve/suffer from extreme weather events/die in miserable conditions. A fair price to pay for better returns for shareholders!
The point is that the unemployed end up using violence.

So you need to create employment to keep them out of trouble.
Yeah, that's a pretty massive difference.
Data-driven decisions for Climate Adaptation
Amazing job! Any specific settings in Three.js you used to get the great mobile performance? Really interested in seeing anything you'd like to share about how you optimized performance. Amazing work!
For a brief moment, I thought this was related to https://OrbStack.dev
There is a wide world of scams outside of call scams. These scammers are not call center scammers - they're lurking in Facebook AI groups and asking for mentorship. After they show some signs of progress, they ask you to buy them computer equipment for their studies, or try to get you to invest in get rich schemes. If you tell them no, they'll give you another unit of progress, then make another request. Their approach is so amateurish and their odds of success are so long you get the feeling you're not dealing with anyone who has a real scam boss above them. Usually it's college age kids claiming to want to get into compsci or security, sometimes it's educated middle aged men pretending to want a change of career.

The news coverage nowadays mainly covers call centers and focuses a lot on the operations that use captives. But I think there's a much greater variety of operations, and I would estimate at least 2/3rds of scammers are free agents. These are motivated by money, a sense of exploiting others, and identifying as a scammer, rather than direct threats, blackmail, or violence.

But I also doubt that a human captive would do coding homework, video chat, pair programming, and send PRs, all of which I demand in order to keep the mentorship going.

I am also aware of the spectrum of strategies that scam bosses use to extort performance from their victims, and feel professional mentorship could help people escape some forms of extortion. Scammer boss extortion is often partly or even heavily psychological, based on establishing that the victim's identity is now that of a low level criminal. In many cases, just blackmailing people is enough to secure their compliance, and bosses will tend to use the minimal control mechanism possible.

So not only do I think it would be unlikely that a captive could invest the learning effort that I demand from my students. If they did, it's possible that the positive experiences of learning could help them escape the control of their bosses.

If this person is in a coercive work situation with low respect, low learning opportunities, and high coercive control, let me provide them a simulated work experience that affords them high respect, rewarding learning opportunities, and a glimpse of life where they are proud of their work and have nobody devaluing and intimidating them. It might be a psychological lever that helps them challenge and defeat the assumptions of their extortion.
You can send epubs and other formats via the Kindle web service to your Kindle directly. It handles the conversion. I understand if you feel uneasy with this though, as I do as well sometimes.

As others have said, Kobos support many formats (including epub) out of the box via a USB cable. Kobo has some color ereaders coming out the end of this month as well, if that's something that appeals to you. My brief experience with color eink displays is very positive, and I'm considering purchasing one as well, despite owning a Kindle already.
Missing from the HN title (but in the original): […] in race to AI.
Agree to disagree then :)
I'm Swedish. We have quite a few of these guys. For every "public" one of these, there are many that are absolute monster programmers that don't market themselves at all. I've worked with a few.

I'm just gonna throw in this link because I think it's great:

https://internetmuseum.se/english/

Among other crazy stories, Daniel is featured there. My favourite story is that the TLD .se was was ran by a guy in in his living room for years until The Swedish Internet foundation took it over.

There's also Kazaa and the guys behind The Pirate Bay. Real OG hackers from that era.

W.r.t. to your question I think it's relevant to say that "most things invented then" were "simple" ideas but hard to implement due to the tooling in that time and lack of programmers. But if you were good, you could go at it alone or with a small team. I think that it's a little bit inverted now: finding good, novel ideas in the space that can be done by one person or a small team is hard, but building and shipping it, if you do, is probably a lot easier due to OSS.

Oh and naturally the all-Swedish version is better at https://internetmuseum.se/
Without an argument for this always being possible, this just looks like unjustified dogma from the Clean Code era.
If anyone's wondering, the article is detailed with a good bit of information. Fired after pregnancy is already a bad look, she appears to have a strong case.
This is great! With that said, I'm not going to open random Excel Spreadsheets.

But I imported to Google Sheets because I couldn't contain my curiosity.

The game didn't work on Google Sheets but I could take some screenshots:

Intro: https://i.imgur.com/m5NJuPn.png

Map: https://i.imgur.com/GHUSpnv.png

Stats: https://i.imgur.com/lMQPPdz.png

Battle: https://i.imgur.com/NIXnxKD.png

Information: https://i.imgur.com/fdn4aO4.png

If this could be ported to Google Sheets, it would be sensational. Players could copy the sheet online and play. No Excel needed.
I believe it wasn't ever, but there were paper adaptations that used GURPS as the base.
> There's too much focus on the "what we know" like Kreb's cycle, which is easily examinable. The focus should actually be "how we found out", something like what the book A Brief History of Everything traces out.

The problem is that in school there is far too little time to teach this all. There is already too little time to teach the curriculum material. Thus, if you are interested in such topics, simply go to a decent (university) library.
Seems like she was L7, which is hardly an executive position (not even Director). There's multiple tens of thousands of people at her level in Amazon.

After more than half a decade working there I don't put much faith in the one sided stories of PIPed employees.
I think the HN search already meets my needs. It would be great if comments could be opened on historical excellent posts.
Yes they are.

It's probably increased accessibility of applied map projection plotting libraries vs. the knowledge of theory and history as formal requirement for making up stuff like this.
See also Gall-Peters. Formalizing and marketing Map Projectsions are two separate skill sets.

https://twitter.com/mxfh/status/1363807641932337153

Physplaining [2] describes this quite well, if there is an established body of resarch and astrophysic specialist
"rediscover" a specialist area that got reduced exposure with in the era of digital print and publishing.

[1] https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2021/2/17/a-radically-...

[2] https://www.mappingasprocess.[net/blog/2021/2/21/perfecting-...
2024: the year where you write a touching piece about someone successfully implementing a late in life career change and the top comment accuses you of being a spammer. Only way it could be better is if he said it was all generated by ChatGPT.

The internet has made us all so cynical.
As one person in the case said, all of the AI training companies out there, including Amazon's darling, Anthropic, are wholesale breaking copyright law.

If an individual downloaded Library Genesis to train an AI, there would be huge fines. OpenAI has admitted to training on a dataset that is scraped from LibGen.
> it's criminal that you can write 1/2 and get values nowhere near one-half.

that's sort of ridiculous. Would he be more ok with the output 0.48? what about 0.51? Ironically, in the age of LLMs and non-deterministic output, maybe he would.
"how often have they built bespoke widgets for Office rather than using their public APIs"

I don't know. How many?

UI/UX development is a two-way street. The OS includes a basic set of UI controls for common scenarios. But it can't anticipate every situation.

MS Office's Ribbon is designed to show only the actions available given the current selection and document. A toolbar would show available actions, but also have the invalid actions disabled, increasing required screen space. Is there some other standard Windows control that could have worked instead of the custom Ribbon?
All target runtimes of oauth4webapi natively support ESM. Furthermore, experimental "require(esm)" is coming with Node.js 22 in the coming days, giving library authors such as myself even less of a need to bother with CJS targets, publishing, dual CJS/ESM hassles and more. See https://joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2024/03/18/require-esm-in...
It's easy to fail this test when you know from your experience that you won't get the reward later on anyway.
My wife and I found Notion works great for grocery lists or other household planning stuff.
> For example, the first goal required her to create a plan to reduce data storage costs across the entire AmazonBot web crawling organization by 75 percent in just eight workdays.

Yeah...
That’s right. I was just replying to parents poster that it’s not about text files.
> Any of this is better than wrote memorization.

This is rote memorization.

> you should be able to understand why others think it then add in your arguments of what you think

This isn't what you have to do on the tests however, the tests just wants you to repeat the theory from the book, or the theory from your teacher. Many seem to just adopt others theories as their own in such scenarios so people who do that might like it, but anyone who thinks for themselves will hate that since you quickly realize this is just another "memorize this thing" situation but you have to write it as if you buy into the theory.
No, it hasn't. Never seen anything relatively nice from a Chinese company, even when it's another one of their piles of manure with a different name like OnePlus.
From what I recall is it was then they lost the license so they make SPECIAL
Ostensibly the reason is that the ROM chips have to run in lockstep with the CPU clock, so the CPU may need to be downclocked if cheaper ROM chips can't keep up with it, but I don't know what the actual cost difference would have been at the time, if any. Maybe all of the chips were capable of 3.58mhz and Nintendo was just gouging.
Fallout 1 used GURPS in development, but Interplay lost the rights and they made their own system.

Video by producer, designer, and lead programmer Tim Cain on the conversion process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgPwfHXiBjw
It would be great if it was open source, as I might want to make some custom modifications.
Even if the bus/protocol is limited to "only" disk I/O, you could still have the controller interpret reads/writes to certain addresses as requests for other actions, including interaction with other hardware on the card
Looks amazing but unfortunately I couldn’t get sound to work on my iPhone. Tried toggling sound off and on and still no go :(
I think he makes the mistake that he defines the customer as the person who pays for a thing (or receives it).

It is better to define the customer as the person/organization who decides if the product is getting purchased or not.

This makes sense with breakfast food where advertising likes to targets kids (instead of the parents who pays for it) as it is the kids who decides what gets bought.

When advertisers do not have any choice and can only advertise on Facebook to reach customers, then the advertisers have no decision power and are therefore not customers.

In the case of FB, it might now be the policians who are the customers as due to their growing power on what FB (and advertisers) can do. So you will see the FB leadership focusing on WashingtonDC instead of the advertisers.
Just like reading code and writing are different skills, I see some of my peers perform the second without ever learning the first (at least other's people's code but I'm following your analogy), with the trigger reflex of 1- rewrite everything always and then 2- tell other colleagues to stop rewriting dammit
I'm not sure why folks think they need to hold all this in their head. For me, at least, the "think about the problem stage" involves a lot of:

* Scribbling out some basic design notes.
* Figuring out the bits I'm not completely sure about
* Maybe coding up some 'prototype' code to prove out the bits I'm less sure about
* Repeat until I think I know what I'm doing/validated my assumptions
* Put together a 'more formal' design to share with the team. Sometimes my coworkers think of things that I hadn't, so it's not quite a formality. :)
* Code the thing up.

By the time I get to the "code it up" stage, I've probably put in most of the work. I've written things down as design, but nothing hyperdetailed. Just what I need to remind myself (and my team) of the decisions I've made, what the approach is, the rejected ideas, and what needs doing. Some projects need a fair bit on paper, some don't.
Very cute - back in the olden days, I build something not entirely dissimilar

https://web.archive.org/web/20020611095429/http://www.cs.man...

20k line segments, 3,350 places, plus the viewer, and a quiz - all yours for 162Kbytes.
If it could be visualized, I would give it a try. Most of the time, text is enough.
A disproportionately large group of the good managers I've had were ex-military, and their big traits were clarity about what we were doing and why, and that when the SHTF they would fight alongside the team, not against it. This wasn't exclusive to ex-military types, but if you are so cynical as to believe in no good managers you may want to look for places which employ this style.

I can imagine within gov contracting this same group of people are violently annoying instead, but I have never had the experience of that world.
A decline in the UK in general post-Brexit, although brexit is more of a symptom of a larger decline.
I might be missing something in my own brain NLP processing - how is this viewed discriminatory?

"While managing Ghaderi, the documents allege Krishnakumar made "numerous discriminatory and harassing comments" such as "Take it easy, I have young daughters, so I know it's hard to be a woman with a newborn," or "You should spend time with your daughter," or "You should just enjoy being a new mother.""
> thought Amazon was a public company, not private

Parks, libraries and military bases are publicly owned. Amazon is a private company whose shares are publicly traded.

> since supply and demand is dead

This is wrong.

> so that DTCC (Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation) and Cede & Co do not hold all the assets for retail in street name to then bankrupt and collect all the assets

This is nonsense. (For starters, not how bankruptcy works.)

> Maybe I missed something

Mankiw’s Principles of Economics is a well-regarded introductory text [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Economics_(Man...
> Paying for a service does not make a company fear you, and anyone who thinks they can buy a platform's loyalty by paying for a service is a simp. A corporation is an immortal, transhuman colony organism that uses us as inconvenient gut-flora: no matter how much you love it, it will never love you back. It can't experience love – only fear.

Right, but for a lot of us in tech, corporations are also how we get paid.

If users pay my employer directly, with cash? That's great. If users pay my employer indirectly, by viewing ads? If that's what they want it's fine, I guess.

But a solution where my employer can't afford to pay me? Unthinkable.
Thanks for the music appreciation, it means a lot!
This is text book retaliation. Amazon and defendants about to open up the check book to the tune of at least $1M.

If it goes to court (unlikely?), can easily become multimillion dollar settlement while airing out Amazon’s dirty laundry in open court.
If they'd picked some older quote from someone else saying similar, someone still would complain that the idea predates them, right back to Socrates.

I don't see it claiming it's some deep novel insight, it's just someone prominent who said something recently that's salient to the point.
And quite some of those trillions are not going anymore into the pockets of previous owners of human intelligence. I can see a problem approaching...
Anonymizing research funding applications could reduce 'prestige privilege'