skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of Just (and the many tools like it), I only wish it had come along a few decades earlier. Make has the advantage of being a ubiquitous de facto standard. It is probably already installed anywhere you want to deploy your repo, or can be very easily installed with one command.

As a personal preference, I actually do tend to avoid Make as a task runner because a quick shell script is almost as easy to write and far more flexible. I am pretty familiar with Make but have still painted myself into a corner with it more times than I'd like to admit.
Yes, I just used ChatGPT to write me some code to iterate through a CSV and add each row to a system via its API.

It wrote a python app. It hard coded the API key and the CSV file. And then it told me to pass the file name as an argument. lol.

I just asked it to fix that and tested with a two line csv. Worked like a charm and saved me quite a bit of time trying to figure a few new things out.

But a proper programmer would have been slowed down by this, for sure.
They don't have to be friends to turn a blind eye.

If Dubai had to pick between letting some nobody foreign national living on their soil get squeezed by a foreign secret police, or pissing off the Russians, what do you think they would do?

(This isn't a knock on Dubai specifically, substitute them for almost any non-NATO country in the world).
Both do that.
My uninformed question about this is why can't we make the VRAM on GPUs expandable? I know that you need to avoid having the data traverse some kind of bus that trades overhead for wide compatibility like PCIe but if you only want to use it for more RAM then can't you just add more sockets whose traces go directly to where they're needed? Even if it's only compatible with a specific type of chip it would seem worthwhile for the customer to buy a base GPU and add on however much VRAM they need. I've heard of people replacing existing RAM chips on their GPUs[0] so why can't this be built in as a socket like motherboards use for RAM and CPUs?

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/16gb-rtx-3070-mod
Competitive sports isn't for everybody, regardless of your ability to work hard. If you aren't built for it, you're going to be a failure or a mediocre success. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone either.

Silicon Valley normalized the idea that if you follow the scientific process (The Lean Method, finding Product/Market Fit or whatever this garbage is known in the latest terminology), and burn out for 10 years of your life, then you WILL achieve success. Most people are blind to survivorship bias even if they know the phenomenon. On top of it, incompetent, scumbag VCs muddy the waters with their snake oil "wisdom" which bright eyed, impressionable tech bros gulp down with passion.

If you achieve a "mediocre" success, which allows you financial independence, then you HAVE achieved success, regardless of what the VCs are pontificating. They'd scream because their investment didn't 1000x. Fuck them and continue living your life. Don't burn out for these soul-less MBAs.

And say you achieve the outsized "success". What then? If you go with the history of silicon valley then your so-called success is going to be a shit deal for workers, consumers and the environment.
No, telegram is especially concerning given how insecure it is by default.
You've gotten me confused about what you're going for. I figure the goal is "this is what this would look like, if there were a person with a balloon for a head and we captured him with a video camera".

The linked video isn't there yet, but it seems obvious what would or wouldn't make it good, and the list of traits you describe is really all I want in an image generator. I don't care what the girl is thinking about; that doesn't show up in the image anyway.

I do want to be able to say "no, make the hair shorter", or "turn her to face more toward the left of the frame" or "have her pointing at the door in the background". If that command takes the form of a comma-delimited list of traits, so what?
I’m not talking about relationships globally, but in the USA. I’m not sure why you would expect anyone to have global rather than local personal experience. However, in places where divorce rates are low, I wonder if it’s because people are happier and relationships are working, or if it is just legally and culturally more difficult to escape a bad relationship?

What specifically is warped about my view of relationships?
That's my point, if you're going to be remotely fair when judging people from a radically different society you have to "grade them on a curve" so to speak. Otherwise, according to the prevailing modern social mores, not a single decent person existed prior to the 1960s or so
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Which is the primary use of your two-week old account with several promotion posts.
This is fun [2008]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180908103745/http://techblog.t...

"Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared

"When displaying an e-mail address on a website you obviously want to obfuscate it to avoid it getting harvested by spammers. But which obfuscation method is the best one? I drove a test to find out."
UK's Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants
Most here will disagree with me, because public help is socialism but this is one of the places where the state could really help.

Sadly hospices are underfunded and just run wrong - people stay in their rooms to die. Those children could look at own parents part time, some help provided by the state, or to some degree others in same situation.
I just looked at the fragment.com site to see how much such a number costs.
The lowest possible bid you can currently make, and that is for an auction that has six days to go, so probably not even the final price, is over 100$.
That is an unacceptable price for basic privacy.
There is the Hoyle state, a peculiar resonance state that is very important for nucleosynthesis. Without it, stars would not produce a lot of carbon. It appears to be finely tuned for complex chemistry and thus life to evolve.

Wikipedia says the the strong force must be within 0.5% of some value and the finestructure constant within 4%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe#Carbon_and...
Sorry, this is the link: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Cloud/T...
On the other hand, scanners do flag CVEs (and therefore regulatory patch requirements are triggered by them).

So at the end of the day, it does apply patch pressure to regulated companies.
You should probably add a clause in there that this refers to people with happy (or at least average) childhoods.

The internet is fairly unfiltered (and uncensored) so you hear a lot about people with horribly childhoods. It's probably a good thing for humanity as a whole but man, does it bum you out sometimes... let alone living through said horrible childhoods.
Ask HN: My First Short Story
Excited to share my first English short story here .
As some of you might know , I have been writing short stories on my native language (#tamil) for a few years now and published a few short story collections etc!

Writing on my native language never really presented a problem as it was my first language. But I hesitated a lot in writing in a second language. Main reason being my lack of reading on English literature. so I took my time to write this one out ..

do read and let me know your comments and as all the rookies say - " go easy on me "

Story here

https://writervivek.com/2024/05/the-omnipotent-a-short-story...
Usually it's agent's contemplation that gives rise to a specific choice.
Disclosure: In October 2021 after 10 years working at Apple I left to join Microsoft, so I’m not totally unbiased.

I love the sentiment this article is expressing, and anecdotally the thesis holds in my experience: senior engineers have lots of opportunity, so they can (and will) leave if they disagree with office policies.

That said, the article is not good journalism. Its own cited data doesn’t actually represent the conclusion it draws.

SpaceX took an extremely draconian return-to-office policy and they suffered for it, but they also suffered for Musk being insane, so I’m not sure the causation is 100% there.

Apple actually took the next most draconian policy (required 3 days in the office per week from every employee), and in fact Apple’s enforcement of the policy has been extremely draconian. An acquaintance of mine got in trouble for hopping on a plane to visit their dying parent and not filling out the HR form to use their allowed “two weeks per year” of remote working. One of my former departments at Apple has management checking badge in and out times to enforce the policy. That’s insane!

Microsoft’s policy has been the most liberal of the three (which isn’t shown in the data). I left Apple in 2021 in the face of being forced back to the office for a fully-remote role at Microsoft on a team that transitioned from fully in the office in 2018 to fully dispersed in 2021. Articles like this (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/technology/microsoft-rto....) don’t properly capture Microsoft’s official return to work policy. Microsoft effectively left decisions about returning to the office up to managers and teams, and the corporate leadership incentivized managers to be more liberal by allowing teams to grow more if they hired more remote workers. At one point my team was told that 50% of all new hires were required to be fully remote.

The drama day of Microsoft’s policy taking effect which was cited in some articles was really a nothingburger. All you had to do was check the HR website to make sure it properly reflected if you were remote, in-office, or hybrid.
I’d still venture to guess it was genetics, I played outside all the time, granted I used the computer a lot growing up too and I still needed glasses around 13 - 14 years of age.
Don’t forget BBN. The TCP/IP code in BSD was originally from them. Let’s call it a prototype.
yup. currently paying those bills now, or rather, every month.

don't love IT, but one of us needs to get enough cash to live.
> All the people that preach about single project [...] need to [...] learn [...] why competition is better than monopoly

Then tell me: why is competition better than monopoly for these [!] people?
I'm sure you're right that bad things tend to be invisible to me, the article even has an example of children trying to keep their shopping a secret.

But 1 in 3.5... idk, if you assume households with kids have a couple of kids, that's getting pretty close to saying the median UK household with a 9 to 18 year old has a 50+ hour caring situation. I don't see that being invisible.

> Not immediately clear if "caring for family members" includes older children caring for younger children, but that would certainly bring up the numbers.

Suspect this is basically right as well.
A bit of a strange statement. It's OK guys, for your language to have security related bugs. Fixing the bug, shows it was in the core language and now, having fixed the bug, the language is more secure.

It does touch an interesting point, 'safeness' of a language itself. I think a lot of languages have bugs in their core libraries and implementaties, and you _could_ go as far as to say that language is then insecure.

But this is not really true. The language itself, is not its implementation. The design choices and concepts provided by R, i think, are not inherently insecure. Though, as this bug shows, implementation of those concepts, can be done, inadvertendly/unwittingly, in an insecure way.

I would like to encourage people to stop speaking about languages as safe/unsafe. This seems to popular today. The languages themselves are complicated to implement as hell, and there comes bugs with complex implementations.

Raise the bug, perhaps if severe, raise awareness of it. But don't shit on decades of diligent people's work because you found a bug and want your company or group to get some good marketing out of it. this is inherently unethical. These people are great programmers, likely much more advanced in their knowlege of languages and language implementation than some hacker who runs into a security hole. That should be respected and commended, and hackers can help these guys to improve their already awesome creations.

Thanks to the implementers, thanks to the hackers, and lets all be friendly and peaceful, and not try to exploit someones honest bug into some marketing opportunity by taking a shit right on their work.
As a parent, I say this to other parents: putting your kids in this situation due to failure to buy long term care/disability insurance for yourself, or having some contingent plan for other adult relatives to care for you daily in the event of a catastrophic but non fatal event is a disgrace. You failed to protect your children.
It is no different than someone saying their product has "AI" nowadays
Outdoor time is good for eyesight... But is bad for sunburn. Bad for learning math. Bad for getting wet in the rain and cold in the snow. Bad for breathing in polluted city air.

There doesn't seem to be enough data to truly say what the ideal amount of time outdoors is.
While it might feel like a trap for some users, relying on "non-free" software (in other words, most software) is a trap the vast majority of users are happy to get into. They would prefer to have modern websites with fairly advanced stuff, all of which is easy to do in JavasScript and already working. The genie won't go back in the bottle just because a few purists liked it better that way.
Yeah, there's something fundamentally wrong about judging people from the distant past using the laws and views of today.
Replying to this, as I can't reply to your down-thread reply for some reason.

What if the gnat isn't a gnat? What if the gnat is another man who now knows the communications of the first man? I'm not saying the Bear should kill both, but I'm pointing out that the analogy falls apart when the gnat isn't just a mildly annoying third party.
On the other end of the windows emulation space, another example is ReactOS, which has always lagged years behind its target.
It’s one thing to prevent being born with hardship and preventing being born at all. Which is the case with Down’s screening.

But it’s not that I’m against it or wanting to forbid it. It’s that these are very tricky subjects with a lot of very hard moral issues that need careful consideration. In the end I believe it should be about letting people have a choice and to remember that people are human even if they are different. To not take away someone’s agency.
Spoken like a true Vulcan...However, even in Vulcan logic, procreation extends beyond mere economics, religion, or evolution...
I’ve looked at buying a number of buildings like this one over the past six months, and we own a couple office (mid) high-rises that we’ve converted to hotel.

I can tell you there’s a massive delta between the “book value” these investors are claiming and the real market value for the foreseeable future, 3-5 yr horizon.
The letters you're referring to were written in 1753 and 1755, and has he got older, his views on race softened to the point that he was an outright abolitionist by the end of his life. In 1763 he wrote the following in a letter:

This is chiefly to acquaint you, that I have visited the Negro School here in Company with the Revd. Mr. Sturgeon and some others; and had the Children thoroughly examin’d. They appear’d all to have made considerable Progress in Reading for the Time they had respectively been in the School, and most of them answer’d readily and well the Questions of the Catechism; they behav’d very orderly, showd a proper Respect and ready Obedience to the Mistress, and seem’d very attentive to, and a good deal affected by, a serious Exhortation with which Mr. Sturgeon concluded our Visit. I was on the whole much pleas’d, and from what I then saw, have conceiv’d a higher Opinion of the natural Capacities of the black Race, than I had ever before entertained. Their Apprehension seems as quick, their Memory as strong, and their Docility in every Respect equal to that of white Children.1 You will wonder perhaps that I should ever doubt it, and I will not undertake to justify all my Prejudices, nor to account for them.
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I'm not sure that really that excuses being so racist that he thought _Germans_ weren't sufficiently white for america in his 50s, but he did change his views over time.
"Same in the EU" - but you're actually make an opposite statement than the GP (GP said "everyone i know uses telegram" and you said "nobody uses telegram")
Signal is already extremely popular, their anti-spam by default is that you need to get matched to the user's local contact list or the spam becomes an allow/deny prompt. They also require a confirmed phone number and handle registration throttling.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240512232147/https://blog.plov...
I played this on a friend's MSX. It was slower than on the Beeb, but impressive nonetheless.

By the time I finished college (about 10 years later), I could make animations with shading in C++ without a GPU on a 386 and no need for magical optimisations.
> a state is required to enforce a monopoly

There exist lots of kinds of monopolies; only for some of them a state is necessary to enforce them.
For those on ios - check out “Structured”. It’s a nice mix of both.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1499198946
Because of Roman chariot horses ass width or something like that XD
More than anything else, I think the modern American super market would blow the minds of anyone born before 1900 more than any other marvel that exists.

You have blueberries for sale in January??? A variety box of tea from 7 different countries? A wall of spices? Pineapples? Packaging made from aluminum that is just thrown away? The bread isn't full of sand and grit? And it's sliced!!!

All relatively affordable and accessible to the average person.
ABBYY does indeed dominate, but Google Document AI is making inroads.
This post does not explain how Telegram is campaigning to malign Signal. On the other hand, the CEO of Signal recently posted this: https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/112413358315296528
Yeah, but they're about financial support, from what I see. Which can already be a big thing, but I doubt there are laws that turn into you a literal nurse for them.
It's discouraged for field experts too. In practice, real crypto schemes go through several rounds of analysis by multiple teams of experts, often working against each other. It's unusual these days for a single company to come up with a custom crypto scheme. It was probably more usual toward the beginning of cryptography.

For example of this sort of vetting, take a look at the standardization around AES or the post-quantum schemes.

In crypto you're almost always relying on hardness assumptions that aren't provable yet. So you need to guard against things like accidentally haven chosen the wrong constants that collapse a problem's hardness. Or, more mundanely, making a seemingly reasonable engineering choice that is known to weaken the protocol and which would be caught by a big org with a thorough review, but a startup may not catch.
is this supposed to be ironic? keeping kids locked in houses for "protection" will bite this generation of parents in the ass
then congratulations, you have escaped the matrix
I thought that deserialization for more 'language' specific serialization has always had dangers.

Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
Ruby: CVE-2013-0156

I'm sure there is more.

If you're using a serialized format, you get serialized risks.
> No entities with magical collections pointing to each other. In other words, no n to n relations handled by ORM layer. Create in-between table, for gods sake. Otherwise it becomes incredibly confusing and barely maintainable.

So, I have a database that looks like this. My method was to lay out the database myself, by hand, and then use EF's facility to generate EF code from an existing database. The bridge table was recognized as being nothing but the embodiment of a many-to-many relation and the EF code autogenerated the collections you don't like.

Is this a problem? If you do things the other way around, the ORM creates the same table and it's still there in the database. It isn't possible not to create the bridge table. Why is that case different?
You might not actually care about any particular brand or model. When I bought a new car in September 2023 (probably one of the worst times to do it), I was pretty much content with any AWD sedan or small SUV new or used that was not too old or too high mileage and had Carplay. I would have liked a power driver seat, but ended up compromising on that. Even reminding yourself of the list of features you want at each point.

There is a lot to think of with a car transaction that goes beyond mechnical function. The basic four boxes of finance or leasing/trade-in/price/"extras" are a lot to keep in your head all at once when you only rarely buy a car. I ended up going to about 6 or 7 dealerships to get what I wanted at a good enough price taking into consideration the trade value on my truck and what they had in stock.
Clickbait, deceptive title.

What the author means is ‘get real about continuous learning’

Of course it takes money to run experiments you can actually learn from, and the article is bereft of practical advice about doing this on the cheap.

However, I clicked. But you don’t have to.
I would argue that the companies you describe are poor fits who are likely to churn.

Even if your sales team spends zero time on them they are the kind of customer that will end up losing money for the company.

This whole thought process is how we get money-losing companies with revenue growth rather than sustainable businesses.

The focus is on closing as many deals as possible rather than selectively engaging with the most profitable customer use cases.
I tried to actually use the map but nothing worked including the zip code search, it was pretty frustrating.
Source available != Open source. The presence of source code doesn't automatically make this "free software" (as in speech, beer, or otherwise.) Copyright is conferred automatically, so a license needs to be granted to make the code Open Source.
Sweet, I have been looking into Node for my Python SSR webapps, but Pug and Handlebars are just not cutting it. Jinja templating language is just soooo good.

This looks like what I wanted in a templating language
Silos don't collaborate. They emu head in sand, burn with fire or molasis those that come close to shining a light on their deliberate opacity, and/or push cost of complying with them on others.

Non interdisciplinary processes, made by people, are a hinderance to the health of an organisation and the people working there. Remove those that enforce them no matter their self perceived importance. They're a scourge akin to closed shops of the 70s.
Over 60 manufacturers pledge "Secure by Design"
On desktop, on Android and iOS it uses the OS keystore. It really should do on desktop as well, Windows, Mac and Linux (through freedesktop standard) all have APIs for that, there really isn't much excuse. Desktop Signal has always had terrible security, unfortunately.
Yeah, when I was younger and a neophyte, I thought it was idiotic that Mac OS X had a command line. Now that I’ve switched to Mac and that I’ve learned how to use it, I wouldn’t move to a platform without strong Unix roots. So what I guess I’m saying is I wouldn’t use Windows.
In my opinion this has started as part of Rufo's campaign against Katherine Maher (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341993), then Dorsey and Musk boosted that article because it aligns with their political views. Durov decided to add Telegram vs Signal angle in his post.
It didn't "fry" anything. It interfered with operation.