skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skepticism Is Healthy, but in Medicine, It Can Be Dangerous
Yes, this. To add to that, say hypothetically, I'm an employer and I want to grow my company by building some software. I decide to shoot for the moon and hire a Stanford grad. I happen to get one of the "paid for," ones and they're just like the many, many other not great programmers. Through that experience the Stanford grad I hired isn't any better than the many, many other not great programmers I can hire from any school. Why would I ever give preference to a Stanford degree over any other?

All the great programmers with Stanford degrees who earned them through really hard work, smarts and discipline are devalued because that one guy who Stanford said was good enough by awarding him a (paid for) degree, wasn't good enough.

If you can pay for admittance, most likely you can pay for grades too.
I think you mean M-w and C-y.
i would frame this comment if I could.

Early AirBnB, Lyft, Uber, Lime, Bird, Netflix, online-retail were very high quality for low cost and then inverted.
There will always be some probability of dying in a given year. Let's say our futuristic society has solved aging/senescence, and is able to reduce the rate of "random death" by about 1% per year, through technology, medicine, brain-redundancy, whatever. So if you have a 1 in 1,000 chance of randomly dying this year, next year it will be about 1 in 1,010.

The area under an infinite exponential decay curve is finite. In the scenario above, you have a finite probability of dying, ever. And it's not 100%, either. It could even be quite low. With the numbers above, it's about 10% chance to die, and 90% chance to never die. I know that's counter-intuitive, and it may be that maintaining 1% reduction in random death every year is impossible, but it's not a foregone conclusion that everyone must die.

Of course the heat death of the universe presents a problem. That's a good problem to have.
maybe this is just an issue on my end, but I tried applying with the suggested email, but I was notified that the contact may not exist.
I started gathering domains to see for myself the state of the Internet

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

I have many observations.

One is that I cannot see aby useful amiga links. I had to manually search them for some time. Some parts of the old internet exist, but are buried.

Second is that spam sites are everywhere. Not only AI generated.

Next is that personal sites exist, but they are often boring. Also 'CV sites' are a waste of time for me. I wonder how many of them are fake.

Many sites have poorly set up HTML meta fields, title, description. How anybody is supposed to find them?

I prefer going to passionate personal site about programming tips that reading content farms. It is difficult to find such sites.
https://archive.ph/i9PZ9
It is 4. It's always 4.
I'm curious why, in 2024, anyone would want to buy a legit copy of Windows 10. Nearly every device comes with 10/11 preinstalled, and if for some reason it doesn't there are ways around that :)
arch ?
Are there some insights on why they chose the rather unusual stack of using rust and flutter for the new UI? To the outside observer, it seems like it's not a carefully taken business decision but some random engineer who wanted to learn rust and flutter.

Firstly rust for an installer UI? Does it need to be especially fast or memory safe? Maybe. Does it have nice bindings for a UI layer? Maybe, or did they create the bindings for flutter (a UI framework designed for object-oriented Dart) by themselves?
So why flutter? I guess it can do some pretty animations. Being maintained by Google and designed for Dart, it may just get abandoned in some time, amplified by the fact that noone uses Dart, except for flutter.
A large bookstore was using CLI for their internal inventory management system well into the 2000s.
valid the big 10 traditional automakers still rule supreme in terms of total car sales but from a climate change and geopolitical POV (less reliance oil would mean less reliance on energy rich nations and adversaries like Russia and the Gulf States) wouldn't it be a safe bet to say Tesla is positioned to profit off that? even with tumultuous leadership
There are no tax dollars going to Roblox.
I kind of wonder if "It's the economy, stupid"¹ is part of the equation.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_the_economy%2C_stupid
Just letting you know, your resume link doesn't load for me on Firefox. I think you wanted this one:

https://www.june.kim/assets/resume.pdf
Direct S3 is pretty common for file distribution where latency is less of a concern.

e.x. build an installer and distribute it, generate a report and generate a signed url
It can also make those systems considerably harder to integrate into Nix itself. There almost need to be some language-neutral standards developed for how to manage inputs and lockfiles in such a way that more of this tooling can be shared at the developer/workspace level while also hoisting the same metadata up into systems like Nix and Bazel.

As it is, the rust-in-Nix and bazel-in-Nix stories are both pretty terrible, while the Python one is actually not too bad: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix (barring these 4000 lines of horrible hacks: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/blob/master/over... and these 27000 lines of telling Nix which Python buildsystem every package ever happens to use: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/blob/master/over...)
Historic facts like why the Civil War began?
I've been using Ubuntu as my desktop for a few years already. Overall I don't have too many issues, but do you have any recommendations for an alternative?
Right, something that runs on windows is the periphery from an OS engineers perspective. "You don't have to leave the company, but you can't stay here."
So we just need to find a recently excavated impact crater, a few thousand years old, and send a probe there, to inspect freshly exposed layers.
Ask HN: Gen UI in AI?
Garmin Communicator Plugin for Linux / Ubuntu
> It's not clear why the request parser would have to be trusted [...] I assume you're just speaking about the call to execve running in context

No, I'm talking about the part which is going to parse the command line, arguments, environment, decide whether the user is allowed the elevation or not, decide which environment, file descriptors, etc. are to be passed through, etc. All of this must NOT be in the same context as the caller, as it can simply fake all these decisions. You need to handle this from a process running in another context (suid or not).

> While sudo is a single process, if it was two processes it wouldn't all have to run as root

Yes it would ? At least one of them would need to be suid for the actual execution. But the problem is that the process which was NOT suid would be running as the same user as the caller, so by the same reason as above -- you cannot trust what it does. The only thing the non-root process would be able to do is to massage the request a bit, then forward it (IPC!) to the root/suid process which you CAN trust. We are just moving the security border, and it is not clear what would be gained by it.

In this proposal, instead of a suid binary, you have a constantly running "sudod" process (or worse, pid 1), but otherwise is the same. Everything must be IPC'd to it.

> There are fewer thing that can leak into or be inherited by the spawned process.

To have this IPC complexity just because apparently we can't figure out how to do suid without inheriting anything is bonkers.

As a trade-off you now have a user-accessible IPC system with the _gazillion_ possible vulnerabilities it entails. At least before you needed root to talk to pid1..
Certainly if you are charging for internet egress.

Like, charging for requests or internal data processing, sure okay.

But this is a charge specifically for the data transferred from AWS to the internet. So if you're not transferring data to the internet....
It is a complete rewrite with all the caveats it entails.

Plus on Apple platforms it relies on Catalist, while most likely it will never do Linux.

Additionally, now outside of Windows, the best Microsoft can think of is using VSCode, or let JetBrains do the needful.

As such I don't see it to gain adoption beyond the .NET shops that were already deeply invested into Xamarin.
I'm not going to argue the statistics because obviously I don't have all the data, but I do have to wonder how much (if any) attribution goes to people giving up on the police?

"Why bother, they won't do anything" has become a rather common phrase I've heard a lot in the past few years, from family to random retail workers, but I'm unsure if that sentiment is growing or not.

* Adding due to replies, what I thought may be obvious - the phrase above is never referring to murders, usually property crimes.
Care to explain? this sounds a bit like "I rather use Google Chrome because Firefox defaults to collecting telemetry!"
My 3090 is plugged into an old intel pc running Debian 11. Tried Debian 12, but couldn't quite get the right version of cuda to work with both tensorflow and pytorch.
Yes, they were the original books.com, and I used to buy from them via telnet before they had their www site up.
Universal basic income or helicopter money is deeply unpopular. That money will not end up in the hands of those who need it.
I’m using debian sid without issues to communicate, but Ive used linux for 20 years so maybe my definition of issues might be poisoned

I switched to sid from arch because their approach to software major release is dangerous (i.e. adopt plasma 6 the day of release)
You're assuming that it was named with Dune the book in mind.. but dune is a word that is not owned by that franchise. Who knows what the name is supposed to mean.
I've stopped considering novelty at all. The only thing I now consider is if the precise technique has been done before. If not, well I've seen pretty small things change results dramatically. The pattern I've seen that scares me more is that when authors do find simple but effective changes, they end up convoluting the ideas because simplicity and clarity is often confused with novelty. And honestly, revisiting ideas is useful as our environments change. So I don't want to discourage this type of work.

Personally, this has affected me as a late PhD student. Late in the literal sense as I'm not getting my work pushed out (even some SOTA stuff) because of factors like these and my department insists something is wrong with me but will not read my papers, the reviews, or suggest what I need to do besides "publish more." (Literally told to me, "try publishing 5 papers a year, one should get in.") You'll laugh at this, I pushed a paper into a workshop and a major complaint was that I didn't give enough background on StyleGAN because "not everyone would be familiar with the architecture." (while I can understand the comment, 8 pages is not much room when you gotta show pictures on several datasets. My appendix was quite lengthy and included all requested information). We just used a GAN as a proxy because diffusion is much more expensive to train (most common complaints are "not enough datasets" and "how's it scale"). I think this is the reason so many universities use pretrained networks instead of training things from scratch, which just railroads research.

(I also got a paper double desk rejected. First because it was "already published." Took a 2 months for them to realize it was arxiv only. Then they fixed that and rejected again because "didn't cite relevant works" with no mention of what those works were... I've obviously lost all faith in the review process)
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I don’t dispute the fact that there is a global conspiracy of capitalists who control the world, and that they are widely supported by politicians around the world with a common aim to suppress the working class. In fact I endorse this belief. However, I still belief that there are misguided grass roots movements around the world protesting against international solidarity (e.g. by advocating against immigration) which ultimately benefits the owning class, and maintains the global capitalist conspiracy. These protests—even though benefiting the global capitalist conspiracy—are perfectly capable of being misguided on their own, and don’t need any money from the owning class. People have agency, and can use that agency even to their own determent.

What I’m worried about here is that instead of blaming the US government for their own policy, you seem to be blaming a student movement (which I support BTW [full disclosure]) and a foreign agent (which I don’t support).

Even in a global capitalist conspiracy to oppress workers (which I believe exists) I still blame the US government to further the capitalist agenda, when the US government makes bad policy for workers. It is their policy, so they get the blame.
Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?
My son is 11 and his school uses Scratch to learn basic programming concepts.

I remember being introduced to HyperCard in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Does a modern day equivalent exist?

Caveat: I’m a marketer, not a coder (said in my best “Bones” McCoy voice). But I thought this would be a fun father-son thing to learn together and help expand his coding skills.
PoC to demonstrate root permission hijacking in systemd's run0
Do you really think what you've posted make sense? Or do they not teach you basic food safety in schools, like finish your food ASAP after removing from heat, heat any cooked food to 84C for 1 minute for sterilization, immediately refrigerate dishes not intended for immediate serving, etc until it gets annoying having to fill in same quizzes every few years?

It really feels strange that this level of basic understanding hasn't permeated across, at least, developed nations. The humanity collectively got as much as 6x mortality variance _among developed countries_ with COVID. It's appalling if things like this had been a contributory factor.
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In all fairness, systems administrators have always had to pay for unauthorized requests and systems to mitigate the risk

The new thing is hyperscalers have so much capacity you can get flooded by these long before the service degrades or goes offline
There is a goldmine of interesting music here, and I’ve not even scratched the surface yet, but one of my favorites so far is “A Headache And A Sixty-Fourth” [1] that has an inserted 1/64 measure every now and then, making it sound like it’s skipping.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUbFqJCiWU
If you only need a single country, nothing beats a tiny VPS company based there. The kind of place where setting the VPS up takes a few hours because an employee has to do it manually. Those companies are usually small enough to escape the notice of streaming giants.
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They are, and have been for years.

Cable TV programming, by which I mean deciding what is broadcast on what channel when, has long (decades) been a question of identifying the audience for the ads coming in, working out what they want to see, showing it, and billing the advertiser. You may even create whole new channels for this target group. Most consumers get it backwards thinking ads exist to fund channels - channels only exist to show you ads.

Even back in around 2000 in the UK satellite market (which relied on modems in STBs phoning home as the backchannel) the granularity and segmentation of the data backing this was amazing. Unsurprisingly the people I knew in that universe went on to build the current web ad universe.
If it was a web application as stated in the GP, then it would indeed be egress as the request would be coming from a browser.
Yeah, footage of crime goes viral, but this also creates perception that crime is worse than it really is. given 200 million Americans with a smart phone and social media accounts, there will always be crime somewhere being recorded. This does not mean the perps in those videos do not get caught later even if they appear in the video to have gotten away.
how about the "PUT deny" attack?

AFAIK cannot be protected against

https://twitter.com/Lauramaywendel/status/178506487864384308...
It remains to be seen, Miguel de Icaza wasn't in agreement with "Evolve".

He is now focused on Apple technologies due to the way the acquisition turned out to be.
By killing the delivery worker?

AFAIK the ol’ unlimited free pizza by killing the thread trick no longer works. It sure was nice while it lasted, especially on platforms that easily let you kill a thread id, even kids could do it.

Remember how on BeOS there was a GUI for it? Great for unfreezing a crashed app that had state you wanted to try to recover or free leaked pizza.

Now worker threads spawned for delivery hold a lock preventing new pizza being placed in the oven for that address, which is not released until the add payment callback is successful. Destroy the only thread holding the lock, and pizza orders just queue up forever. :(
Call it what you want. I see it all the time. And not many new slacker type jobs are being made, for young people to do the same. Every generation probably has the same percentage of people who don't do anything. The difference is that such a person who is young is a "neet" on unemployment, while such a person who is old collects a nice paycheck from a job.
Yet, a pretty consistent majority of people, regardless of where they live, say they think crime is increasing locally.

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/NOZAB/3/#
It's not that they will require a warrant, just that they "reserve the right" to require it. Your rights as an owner of one of their vehicles are not reserved in any way.
That's so cool if it isn't weird to ask are there any current early stage companies you think have the potential to become like Tesla? Asking for a friend :)
Here in SoCal crime is the worst we've seen since the 90's. Property crime is rampant, tons of shootings, assaults etc, just in my local area. Not only that, DA's are not prosecuting criminals, therefore police aren't arresting people due to this.
not sure I count as the HN crowd but I've been happy with Verizon and its owned MVNOs for a while (particularly Visible). The service is generally rock solid and the voice quality is imo better than the other 2 carriers. Also, Verizon seems uninterested in customer imprisonment atm - any device bought from them automatically unlocks 60 days after purchase. CS can be spotty esp. since they also seemed to have gone down the path of outsourcing - previously it used to be US-based afaict and very competent ime.
Scratch is basically HyperCard on steroids. I don't think there's anything you can do in HC that you can't do in Scratch.
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Farm tractors are all center seating. John Deere sort of things.
I've made a couple games with my kids, and these types of comments are very confusing to me. Roblox is a storefront for user made games. There's no single experience. Is this in reference to the "loot box" style mechanics that some games use?
I use debian on my servers and nixos on laptop. Both solid distros. They never seem to induce the kind of rage I used to feel with Ubuntu (although the last time I gave it a chance was right after they changed from alsa to pulseaudio and brought flashbacks to oss days).
Didn’t a lot of cities either redefine crime or just stopped recording?

I’m in Bay Area and SF basically over the past decade or so has made it okay to commit crime.

And if I question anything I’m the bad guy.
I think Ms Dos 6ish TUI integration was very well done, better than Linux today.

Word perfect had good mouse support, as did Editor.
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Very interesting about Spanish; thanks.

> Something is verisimilar when it has the appearance of truth, or is likely to be true, regardless of whether it is in fact true.

Hmmm ... in English I've never seen the usage "likely to be true". There are many other words for that - probable, likely, etc.
It's not hard to Fermi-estimate the impact on the price of a cabbage, say. What do you think it would be?