skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone put a gun to your head [...]

That would be a rather easy choice to make!

We aren't entitled to a roof over head and food etc, that's all I'm saying. We should be grateful when we happen to luck into circumstances (such as a job) that allow us to have roof/food. It's not something everyone has.

Saying we were involuntarily forced into having a job/roof/food feels very strange when compared with the people who weren't forced to have either of these three things.
Nice! Even better.
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Yeah after nearly 2 years it probably isn't a credible excuse in any way.
I was not alluding to any conspiracies.

In that "statistical analysis" the company and more importantly the time must be factored in.

Yes, I am sure out of all whistleblowers, all over the world, for all types of stories (war crimes, finance (insider trading), etc) there must many that do just die.

But...

1. The same 'set' of whistleblowers (exposing manufacturing faults in Boing aircrafts)
2. In less than two months..!

Not to mention not just at any time but during multiple ongoing investigations...?
"Svalbard Island" isn't an island, it's a Norwegian archipelago. None of the islands are called Svalbard, and the vault is located on Spitsbergen.
>Srid started relitigating his impending suspension over the moderation teams head

I haven't been closely monitoring the various NixOS spaces, but this seems nebulous.

>it became clear that his values do not align with the moderators

Nor should there be a requirement that they do. If you want an inclusive environment, you're going to have members with different values.

>(or, if I can say that, most decent people that don't see left-wing conspiracies everywhere, casually go on about gender ideology destroying the west and perpetuate covid denial - so also likely the modified CoC of Nix)

(or, if I can say that, most decent people that don't see right-wing conspiracies everywhere, casually go on about Christo-fascism destroying the west and perpetuate biological denial - so also likely the modified CoC of Nix)

See what I did there? You don't get to define your political ideals as the ones "decent people" align with. All sides believe they're moral.
> However, we cannot simply force private companies to provide services that costs them money.

Ah, but we can.

> They are also under no obligation to implement any other continuous communication system to devices on their platform.

And yes, they are.

Just like how utility companies aren't allowed to shut off the water because someone stopped paying. They can choose to stop doing business if they do not agree with these laws.
Are Twitter links discouraged on HN?
What are "fish pasties"?
The media did that just fine themselves.
Yes, and because of that the numbers on the average time to failure are completely meaningless. The drives the don't ever fail skew the numbers completely. If a fantastically reliable drive were to have 5/5000 drives fail, but they all failed in the first month and then the rest carried on forever, then that would show here as having a lower "reliability" than a dire drive where 4000/5000 drives fail after a year.

I'd like to see instead something like mean time until 2% of the drives fail. That'd actually be comparable between drives. And yes, it would also mean that some drive types haven't reached 2% failure yet, so they'd be shown as ">X months".

This is what a Kaplan-Meier survival curve was meant for [0]. Please use it.

Also, it'd be great to see the confidence intervals on the annualised failure rates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator
As a foreigner buying Yen, it must feel amazing. For a native Japanese, it does not feel good at all. Many iPhone users in Japan are afraid that Apple will increase the price of this year's iPhone by a large margin due to the weak yen. iPhones at their current prices are already unaffordable for many Japanese.

Imported foods, such as oranges, have surged in price due to the weak yen. Nearly all orange juice brands decided to halt production until June.
How much did they actually use of the $90b authorization last year?
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I remember being able to do this using Twisted in Python 2.6 or so, using the same techniques.

At the time, the way to manipulate “deferred” results was to use the equivalent of “Promise.then”, but using generators as a quasi async/await seemed much more fluid.

I’m not sure what this gives you over actual async/await though, other than being an interesting thing to look at?
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I'm an experienced infrastructure and full-stack engineer. Over my time working at Medium, I led the redevelopment of its production environment, migrating the whole site and all services onto Kubernetes, and facilitating safe continuous deployment for all engineering teams.
I can serve as a tech lead of a team or a project, working across a company to get things done, and also as a staff+-level IC in smaller companies or greenfield projects.
Well, it's a GUI tool. So that's part of it.
At that point they are just hiring an employee. Once you get the $1M what incentive is there to continue to hustle while being a minority shareholder in your own company?
> you got different menus depending on whether you middle-clicked on the icon bar icon, or you right-clicked on the icon bar icon

Are you sure you're talking about RISC OS? Because you're got the overview right but your details are weird. Right-clicking never pops a menu in RISC OS. Only the middle button does that. That's why the buttons in RISC OS have names. They're not "left, middle, and right" they are "select, menu, and adjust".

The "everything is an object" drag-and-drop was absurdly powerful. You're not limited to dragging into a directory, you can equally well "save" a file directly into another application, avoiding the middle step of dumping it onto the disk first.

Personally, I find that the trend in making all UIs as easy as possible for the beginner to be a step backwards. Yes indeed, beginners can get going quicker, but then you've very quickly learned everything and there's no where to go. The pro user cannot work faster. The pro user cannot do more. We're all stuck behind fisher price interfaces.

If you treat users as if they are children, they will always use your software like a child.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
I really can't think of any common Windows-only software. At least nothing that wouldn't run on Mac OS.

Personally, I think that if the computer you use has software on it that is actively spying on everything you do, you should remove that software from your computer. If that software happens to be the OS, I think the best way to "fight back" is to not pay the company spying on you money for the next version, and find an alternative that respects your privacy.
Maybe he worked with fiberglass? I've heard a lot of things are similar to asbestos, they just need a higher exposure to do the same damage.
Yes the back and foreground is quite jittery for me on Firefox, and I'm almost certain its the browsers own requestAnimationFrame that's the problem.

Update: Although, having a closer look at the scene, I see its pixel art, so I bet the author is snapping floating point positions to a pixel point to prevent sub pixel blurring.

Another small update: I was sure requestAnimationFrame was locked to 60fps, but I noticed on Chrome the other day it was 144hz, the full speed of my monitor.
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Yes you do. You bought it. It's your property.
They're gone[0] (on or before 2035), although before we get there we may enjoy our first negative leap seconds.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
They're free to charge for their networked services if they want to. Doesn't change the fact that the end-user bought & owns the device & they should be free to use it as they wish, potentially without using those networked services and instead opting for an alternative. Their choice. Not yours.
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Naive question, is the switch in this article packet switching or circuit switching? (I recall Google's TPU clusters have some optical circuit switching)
Keep it simple and use https://c4model.com/
> that's enough time to bring their service up to the same security standard

If you can get competent people to work for you while keeping Wall Street happy, sure, but there are much "cooler" companies across the street that Wall Street is more excited about, are hiring right now, and the competent folk are going there.

At the end of this extreme is Equifax-like companies that have leaks and lots of other issues. Before you ask why Equifax sucks so much, ask yourself: Would you work there? No? That's why they continue to suck.

While Dropbox isn't Equifax, it isn't OpenAI or NVIDIA right now.
Louis is great at everything except brevity.

Not my app, here's a summary:
https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/dqTYg6vnQvw?si=PLdzW5-ew...
> They provide market liquidity.

That's funny, people say the same thing about ticket scalpers.
Most VCs add zero value aside from the money. Bootstrapping is always better, if you can do it, of course.

Exhibit A: Naval Ravikant, the flagship SV investor, widely regarded to as "a wise man", just released a kind of crappy messaging app that flopped. Imagine having unlimited leverage, unlimited money, unlimited reputation, a huge audience already in place and still that not being enough to put out a competent product. Now imagine this guy asking for 20-30% of your company equity in exchange for "advice", lol.
Boulder, Colorado is where Tech Stars (the 2nd most successful incubator after YC for most of the past 2 decades) started and despite having a population of ~100k people, Boulder is where many of Tech Stars biggest successes happened.

Washington is home to Microsoft and Amazon, so it's doing okay, too.
I wrote https://github.com/mmastrac/keepcalm as a way to help with this, especially for writing webserver-like code. For most cases this type of code can take a small perf hit in exchange for drastically simplifying the sharing of data in the system.
> I really can't think of any common Windows-only software. At least nothing that wouldn't run on Mac OS.

Nearly every video game, for starters, and a good chunk of games that were ported to Mac OS don't work anymore since the deprecation of 32-bit apps.
Rule #14: "Never outsource economic control structures, or one may end up indentured"

Sometimes one needs to admit they were conned, and start over...

When people start out, no one tells them there is an ecosystem of legal-cons that target vulnerable small firms. Even this forum has users the constantly spam people with various funding scams.

My condolences, some lessons can take a year or two to recover... =3
Mostly because those of us that know what a .reg file is, don't need this.
It feels like it is a state-by-state thing, yeah. I moved from WA to NYC just half a year ago, and I noticed it as well.

In WA, it felt like it was a pretty even 50/50 split (maybe with a heavier lean towards cash) between places accepting cash-only and those that accept debit as well (in addition to cash obviously). I dont remember any that accepted credit cards. All of this is a more recent situation though, as I still remember that just 6-8 years ago, pretty much every single place used to be cash-only. I also noticed some dispensaries experimenting with rather unconvential methods at different points in time too (e.g., Uncle Ike’s using a payment terminal for like a year that worked similarly to a regular debit card one, but it was using crypto as an intermediate medium on the backend to process the payment).

In NYC, it feels like everyone just accepts cards like usual, from grey-market ones to the legal ones.

However, I infinitely prefer the WA situation with cannabis over the NYC one for bajillion other reasons that are entirely unrelated to payment methods.
And if someone had predicted ahead of time that the second dead boeing whistleblower would have a first name starting with J that would have been quite astounding. But since we are waiting until after the two whistleblowers are dead and then choosing something we already know they have in common, no it is not any less probable.
They stopped getting funded bc of a mix of interest rates and company underperformance
Not LLM-based, but I built https://hn.lixiasearch.com . Feel free to use it as a comparison point :)
Yeah for this particular example a link to the website would be way more informative/helpful than the video.
CNN is honestly just as bad as Fox and the only reason they get away with it is a significant portion of the media also has a heavy left bias so it's less noticeable.

The world is always ending, $CURRENT_THING is the most important thing ever, of the week.

I have a family member obsessed with CNN, has it streamed on multiple televisions around the house at all times. Its quite funny watching his viewpoints flip-flop depending on the current news cycle and what CNN is focusing on at any given time.

Pretty soon here he's probably gonna hassle me about getting another booster, (nameless) experts say they're so safe and effective after all.
I have an iPhone 15 but I think my next phone will be a flip-phone or whatever the minimal thing is that can run Google Maps.
> I really can't think of any common Windows-only software. At least nothing that wouldn't run on Mac OS.

Most CAD software, unless you are OK with websites or glorified websites with desktop clients (looking at you, Fusion 360). Alibre? SolidWorks? Standard AutoCAD?

Add CNC milling tools to that. Good luck finding Mac-compatible CAM software of any kind (unless, again, Fusion 360 and only Fusion 360).
I mean the guy died from MRSA. So, that thing is somewhat effective at killing people.
Incorrect about what? About the fact that I answered at least some of your questions? Yes, I'm pretty sure I would be able to tell if I were wrong about that.

The problem is not that I'm not answering your questions, the problem is you don't like the answers.
Very thorough article, nice! I'll add some other pain points I experienced:

- You need to let users register more than 1 passkey, but how to show them which is which? There are lists like this one[1] and FIDO provides a (maybe irrelevant?) list on their site[2] stuck inside of a JWT. I ended up using that JSON list + registration date + browser UA that registered it + "currently using" indicator when the current session derives from that specific passkey. Still kind of feels like a mess.

- The popular libraries seem to follow a kind of "shadow spec" where they agreed on using the URL-friendly variant of base64, which doesn't have native browser support. Not a big deal (just a couple helper functions needed) but kind of confusing if you're trying to implement the client or server bits from scratch. [Edit: as explained by a reply below, this is part of the actual spec!]

- I still don't know whether it's possible to use both usernameless and usernameful passkeys simultaneously. The APIs seem to be mutually exclusive, differentiated by some options (some of which are already deprecated?) and requiring empty lists to be passed in certain places. I'm trying to bolt on passkeys to a pre-existing auth flow and all I want is the closest thing to "use the browser's built in password manager". Ended up giving up on resident keys for now.

[1]: https://github.com/passkeydeveloper/passkey-authenticator-aa...

[2]: https://fidoalliance.org/metadata/
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It's approximately only a problem of density. For large objects, you can neglect tensile strength, so "How fast until it's torn apart" becomes "how fast would it have to spin for an object on the equator to be in orbit?"

F_c = m_1 r ω^2 = F_g = G m_1 m_2 / r^2

cancel out the orbiting mass (m_1), rearrange it a bit

ω^2 = G (m_2 / r^3)

where you'll note that term in parenthesis is directly proportional to the density.

So the answer would probably be ~a 2.2 hour day.
Win10 EOL 2025. Win10 LTSC EOL 2027.

Doesn't seem that far away now ..
> Plenty of people have software, hardware, or other requirements to use Windows.

I'd bet that the average person could run most if not all the software they use under linux and a large percentage of those who can't could find alternate software that works just as well for their needs which does run under linux. Hardware might be more of a concern, so for some "stop using Windows" might mean "buy a new desktop/laptop". There will certainly be a very small (and increasingly smaller) number of people who have zero choice but to use Windows. Many people do very little with their windows machines beside web browsing in the first place.

> "Stop using Windows or live with it" are not the only two options.

It very much is if "live with it" means MS does thing you don't like, you find a bunch of settings and registry changes that "fight back" only for MS to undo those settings and/or add more things you don't like which means you have to track down a new set of settings and registry changes to "fight back" which results in Microsoft doing more things you don't like and on and on.

Is that really what you want to live with? At a certain point you have to ask yourself why you keep spending your time and energy fighting a battle you literally cannot win. Microsoft sets all the rules. You can only play their game or stop playing
> So she paid a $7,500 deposit and was all set to join Newchip when a founder friend told her to “never pay for introductions.”

Hopefully everyone knows this here, but if you paid for an introduction it's a negative signal: just cold email.

That being said, I'll make intros for only $6,500 and no warrants.
The same way you make a living when there is 1 type of squash in the market and 9000 farmers planting it. Mostly through government subsidies sometimes supplemented by selling actual food eaten by actual people.

That’s perhaps overstating things, but remove biofuels and we would have an even larger surplus even as everyone gets fat from excess production. Western farming has no real need for increased efficiency unless we get rid of a lot of farmland.
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More info about synonyms at Google (2010)
One of the most important components of Pre-2010 Google's search system was its synonym discovery mechanism. Simply put, queries would be "expanded" with synonyms. Google automatically generated synonym choices that took into account the context of surrounding words, with the understanding that synonyms are highly context dependent. Steven Baker, John Lamping, and a couple of others were key engineers of the system.

Does anyone with a NLP background care to take some guesses on how the synonym extraction methodology worked? My only piece of information is that it likely used the query log itself to do so.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever to suggest foul play here?
DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat in Florida
I'm curious what is the vulnerability there exactly, would it be from the browser or the browser not getting updates? If someone were to bring a Win95 machine online and connected to the web today would it be bombarded with assaults or something? I'm curious the mechanics of this all.
Octopus V4: a graph of language models
Octopus V4 proposes a graph of language models approach that creates a network of specialized open-source AI language models, where it acts as the master node coordinating with various domain-specific AI models as worker nodes. It aims to reduce the high computational, data, and energy demands that limit current large language model development and addresses restrictions imposed by proprietary models. In testing, such as the MMLU benchmark, Octopus V4 has achieved scores that suggest it can compete with, and potentially exceed, the performance of proprietary models, thus showing potential to match or surpass proprietary models through a collaborative, open-source approach.

HuggingFace Model: https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/Octopus-v4
That's true for Mac OS but not all Non-Windows operating systems. The steam deck proved that we don't need windows for gaming.
Putin has been the only one threatening to use nukes. That much is crystal clear.
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I'd bet to 2:1 that it won't happen. Few people will bother, and the people that do get this tool are the type of people that that cause disproportionate issues if you anger them.
This removes *sfp interface transceivers as pluggable (replaceable) entities between the ethernet controller and the lasers, putting lasers directly on the switch chip itself.

The problem is what happens when 1 single ethernet port transmit/receive laser out of 128/256 ports on die fails? You replace the whole switch, or move it to a spare port assuming you have one on the switch, and cabling accounts for it.

You're also talking 25/100/400/800 gigabit ethernet (or infiniband) ports here too using silicon photonics.
I’ve seen the rounding up situation a lot, but I am yet to see one where they just didnt give you back the rest as cash change.
Its got a really unique harrowing sound. Heres some more if you like that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PluzIW9LKSE&list=OLAK5uy_kqaRp...
Raylib has a lot of issues that are never going to be fixed, but I wouldn't blame fullscreen on it. Fullscreen is just absolutely unusably FUBARed on windows and has been for decades. It's probably the same for other platforms. The modern strategy is to just do borderless windowed and pretend true fullscreen doesn't exist.
Please don’t be condescending. I said a bit in the direction.
It's wild to me how Linux continues to have such a bad reputation. Half of the criticisms I hear are at least a decade old, and don't reflect my experience with Linux at all.

People complain that it is hard to install. You pretty much just boot from USB and install it.

People complain that drivers are hard to install. Pretty much everything you need comes standard. The only real difficulty is with Nvidia drivers, but even that has become a lot easier to manage with the push towards AI. Most users don't need a GPU, so they won't ever have to touch a driver.

People complain that it is too hard to use, and "you have to use the command line". No you fucking don't. All of the major DEs are idiot-proof and GUI-driven. It's the same UX as Windows and Mac.

The biggest thing you need to do to acclimate to when moving from Windows to Linux is understanding UNIX filesystems. Just wrap your head around the fact that drive letters don't exist, everything is a file, and drives can be mounted to any directory, and you'll be fine.

Most Windows users don't do much else than office programs and a web browser. They can even install Edge on Linux if that's what they like, and LibreOffice isn't lacking in features unless you're an enterprise power-user. Or you can just use Office Online or Google Docs in your browser if you really need more features.
Not without being a JIT. See Cranelift. I've used it to make a Befunge JIT in Rust
Given how much paranoid the IT department on my company is nowadays, I wonder how long it will take for them to force passkeys.