skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was in the UK, I suspect he'll be paying winner's legal fees.

The US doesn't do that, but I'm pretty sure that it's fairly common, in the UK.

Good way to reduce frivolous lawsuits.
NLExpats
there are several good articles explaining this, especially on Timescable blog, but in short, without time partitioning and just index, at some given point the performance for reads and writes degrades exponencially.
Famous quote by Benjamin Franklin (from 1755) : “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”

...

"...
Franklin was thus complaining of the choice facing the legislature between being able to make funds available for frontier defense and maintaining its right of self-governance--and he was criticizing the governor for suggesting it should be willing to give up the latter to ensure the former.
..."
[0]

[0] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-ben-franklin-reall...
Soldered is the issue, not 16GB.
Much better source: https://avherald.com/h?article=518e5d47&opt=0
I still have my box and disks :D
Archived Link: https://archive.is/m89pK
Infrastructure at scale is not as expensive as cloud vendors would have you think. Reaching scale and being a first-mover gives a significant advantage, because deploying a CDN with caches well connected with(in) every major ISP around the world takes time.
Hi HN,

PlatePickers started as a tool I was building for my wife, because planning meals for the week was her least favorite thing to do.

At its core, the service it provides is very simple:

- You can choose the number of days to generate a meal plan for
- The algorithm will then select the required amount of random meals
- You can then swap out any you don't fancy
- Once you're happy with the meal plan email it to your inbox
- You'll receive an email with links to each recipe and a list of ingredients to go shopping for

After seeing how helpful she found it and discussing with others, I realised that this could be helpful for other people too.

Please check it out!
Rare things become common at scale (2014)
I think I’m going to just break down and learn erlang. I’ve been interested in it for awhile but mostly work in f#. I recently started looking at gleam but I don’t think learning it with no knowledge of OTP is a good idea.
> The company said the government has said the case is “highly technical” and “outside the everyday knowledge of most prospective jurors.”

Ah yes, these matters are far too complex for the lowly civilian jury to assess. I mean, can they even invert a binary tree?

Much easier to just do away with this whole 'trial' thing. No need to bother the simpletons by entering all these complicated documents (evidence) into the public record.

Wonder if Boeing will try the same thing.
Hard facts: Steam has over 73k games - and is growing at over 10k games per year and increasing. The median game on Steam earns less than $800 - down from $4k in 2020.

Making a game is not hard - marketing a game is.
You can now buy a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot for $16K
What?

That situation would be completely legal. Come on.
So I knew Quinn did machining stuff to make model railroads and whatnot. I was not aware she also did software engineering
It’s re2…
> extremely impossible

seriously?
It makes a fascinating conspiracy theory to pretend he's right about all the "bad actors" tampering with his files. All nonsense of course, but makes a good yarn.
Elon Musk's plan to address the "solvable" water scarcity crisis
Thank you for the recommendations! We'll look into them.
Or one of the dozen “prevent deep sleep” apps…
Kotlin 2.0 Released
Right - the only reason Murati's behavior was "a tell" was that rational observers had a good reason to believe her statement was evasive and misleading, regardless of how she said it. In that context her emotional response is a funny (yet only barely rational) indication that she wasn't being honest. But trying to go the other direction - "her emotional response seems dishonest, what part of her statement was a lie?" - is as scientific as astrology[1], and a disaster for real people to use in real life. You'll quickly end up accusing innocent people for mean and bigoted reasons.

[1] Modern quack science might be worst than modern astrology/etc, since the stance of "I know it's not real, but..." means astrology folks can freely disregard horoscopes that are socially or ethically objectionable. If you're claiming your BS is actually Science, I think for a lot of people there's a sort of vicious feedback loop. Especially with social stuff, where these claims are essentially unfalsifiable. ("Body language reading is Science and cannot fail, it can only be failed by my incompetence.")
Cloud 1: Cloud does all the compute, logic, storage, and transfer.

Cloud 2 = Cloud 1, but delegate more compute/logic to edge/local computers to reduce cost. [1]

Cloud 3 = Cloud 2, but edge/local computer has hardware specifically made to do the compute, store intermediate data, and send the results to someone else who might give you something in return for free, and possibly make you pay for it later.

Marketing can call it Cloud <3 (heart). Some might say </3 (broken heart). [2]

> [~10 years ago] Smartphones began incorporating AI accelerators starting with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 in 2015. [3]

> An AI accelerator, deep learning processor, or neural processing unit (NPU) is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system designed to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, including artificial neural networks and machine vision. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons#Western

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_accelerator
Air moves and the plane will move with it, subject to inertia.

Think of the air like water. (Air has fluid dynamics.)If the water suddenly drops away from a boat, the boat isn’t going to magically hover above the water.
Mushroom Hunters Stumble Upon Mysterious Stone Sculpture in Thai Forest
professionally: We just don't do things anymore. We don't have a lawyer and can't afford one. So we don't know what we're allowed to do - so we just don't do anything that even remotely relates to data collection. Our product suffered as a result, substantially in parts.

Personally: No one actually cares about data protection. As I said: You sign documents. And three seconds later no one cares anymore. It's just to comply on paper - it didn't actually improve things.
Looks really interesting

# your_module.rb
module YourModule
end

# my_module.rb
require 'your_module'

module MyModule
end

# example.rb
namespace1 = NameSpace.new
namespace1.require('my_module') #=> true

namespace1::MyModule #=> #<Module:0x00000001027ea650>::MyModule (or # <NameSpace:0x00...>::MyModule ?)
namespace1::YourModule # similar to the above

MyModule # NameError
YourModule # NameError
Hey nisten,

- Where did you find a broken link to our GitHub account and repositories on openproject.org? Appreciate your help in case our page is not correct.
- What 3 year old security vulnerabilities in our angular code part are you talking about? Would you mind sharing a link?
- OpenProject is fully open source (GPL 3), not half. You can host it yourself. And if you prefer it, you can get hosted by us, which for many organizations is cheaper than doing the hosting themselves.
- Regarding your doubts about our trustworthiness: Have you checked who is using OpenProject? Siemens, the German railway company Deutsche Bahn, the City of Cologne, Audi, Hyandai, MIT, Greenpeace... On GitHub we have 2.2k forks, and 8.5k stars.

Peace!
I guess because it’s a snobby way of saying “they weren’t pussies about it”
yeah it's other peoples mouse courser, as they browse the site.
Small-scale SysAdmin here, couple hundred VMs on ~15 physical machines plus AWS, Linux, 30+ years under my belt. I'm using the AI tools a lot, I've tried many of them but my go-tos are Perplexity and ChatGPT. Here are some samplings of what I use it for:

I use Perplexity for ~90% of what I used to hit google for. Perplexity will answer your question but it also gives you links to pages for further reference, which makes it useful to see additional context. Questions like "How do I import indexes from an old Elastic cluster into a new one".

I use it a lot as documentation replacement: we collaborated on a logstash regex using non-capturing look-behind (not something I keep at my fingertips), "how do I use imagemagick to scale an image to 1024x768", "how do I use argparse to do X". Where before I'd end up reading through documentation, the genAI stuff can basically write me a custom "Stack Overflow-like" answer for my question, but honestly the AIs tend to halucinate less than Stack Overflow does.

I have passable luck having it explain error messages to me. That's maybe 50/50.

As a primarily Linux guy, working a little with Windows, it's a huge help, particularly with Powershell automation. I barely know any Powershell, and I use Windows little enough that it doesn't tend to "stick", and isn't worth doing a deep dive into, so usually I can collaborate with the AIs to get some scripting done.

I don't do a lot of programming on a daily basis, but when I do I use AIs a lot. I've had some success with it spitting out code, for example I wanted a small CLI tool like "sleep" but I wanted it to sleep until 8:30pm, and show a count-down TUI, and ChatGPT spit out the code for it using the "rich" TUI from a couple sentences and was basically correct.

When I am programming, I'm using the Cursor IDE a fair bit. This is mostly Python, which seems to be a sweet spot for the genAIs, Python is a first class citizen with them.

edit: Forgot to mention, I built a git+jira integration TUI, using ChatGPT, which uses ChatGPT to help craft my commit messages, *but* I haven't really found that to be as useful as I was hoping it would be. https://github.com/linsomniac/lazrgit
To stray further off topic (because I like this tangent), both of my parents were fans of Dire Straits and I was too young to really get it, but I've been reminded of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler three or four times in the last couple of weeks, and the more of his body of work I come across the more obvious the consistency of the quality in both music and poetry.

With a strong risk of hyperbole: The sound of a guitar string plucked by Mark Knopfler can't be mistaken for any other guitarist.
Given how wasteful they are, that's the only good justification for cars. But per the social model of disability (https://www.scope.org.uk/social-model-of-disability):

> The model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like buildings not having accessible toilets. Or they can be caused by people's attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can't do certain things.

in areas without usable public transport, everyone has this "disability". Individual action can't make public transport magically appear: only policy changes can do that. (Or anarchically setting up your own public transport, I suppose, but that'll probably get you arrested in America.)
Doesn't work on Firefox/Linux, I see nothing moving. What I do see and drove me a bit crazy is that the background slowly and slightly morphing color, depending on how much time passed.
Here is a good, related article I think you should read.

https://emersion.fr/blog/2020/saying-no-to-unethical-tasks/
It's honestly bizarre that this has gone on so long.

In the community we knew this from day 1. It was like your mate down the pub pretending to be Einstein.

The pub believed him...
You are free to associate DOs however you wish.

However, do you have the same opinion of MDs who went to the Caribbean or other international schools that have lower entrance requirements than DOs?

Also, are you aware of the following?

* The president of the United States Joe Biden has a DO as his personal doctor (Dr. Kevin O'Connor)

* The chief medical officer of NASA is a DO (Dr. James Polk)

* Very few DOs continue to practice anything related to osteopathy once they graduate

* DOs and MDs attend residencies together, eg, they are training at the same university learning their surgical subspecialty

* DOs exist in all medical specialties, including neurosurgery
> Whoever does that do not change it, they are probably a psychopath

French generally adds a space before punctuation.
This was in the UK. He's paying at least those; I suspect this ruling will make a criminal prosectutor's ears perk up.

The US permits attorneys fees in some cases, including "against a plaintiff who has acted in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly or for oppressive reasons".
Cars and Consumer Data: On Unlawful Collection and Use
...because the state Bar Association has required them to pass a test just to show up. In most states the same organization requires a degree from an accredited law school just to sit the test (though I think there are like 2 states that let anyone sit the Bar Exam).

Put another way, everyone has to do the fizzbuzz leetcode test just to be in the industry. But you only have to do it once.
The above comment from MBCook captures it well but basically I would say that for the majority of people I know:

Cons: the rise of scams, carbon emissions, and, some think, existential risk.

Pros: ??? You can be more efficient at the email job you hate. And it gives you advice on gardening and home improvement so you don’t have to call your uncle.

Cons outweigh the pros
We haven't looked into exactly how this will be handled yet, but I believe this would fall under the same laws and restrictions as any other online platform (YouTube, TikTok etc.), it's just that the production tools are different.
Starlink celebrates new milestone: 3M customers in 99 countries
Lower-level local politicians are probably the main issue. They're often paid so little it's effectively only a career option for the already-wealthy. And when that's the path towards the high-level, reasonably paid positions, it biases your pool a lot. (Not unlike industries with an expectation of a long period of unpaid internships in high cost-of-living areas)
> judgment highlights Wright's failure to prove his assertion that he owns 'genesis blocks' of bitcoin which would today be worth billions of pounds. Under cross-examination, Wright attempted to explain gaps in his evidence by resorting to 'technobabble'.

Wonder what he babbled about? That would seem like one of the more convincing proofs. “Here, let me move one of those original bitcoins”. So it had to be some version of “the dog ate the hard drive” kind of excuse.
Those people don't want to be politicians.
You tried nothing and all out of ideas?
SQL gets this right. You can quote table and field names, so they can be arbitrary strings. I want to see this in more programming languages.
> The sound of a guitar string plucked by Mark Knopfler can't be mistaken for any other guitarist.

I'd say there's only a mild risk of hyperbole; he really does have a unique sound.
I would very much like that if it works.

Re evacuation: I guess many, many people will be evacuated in case of a war. But people will be dispersed like with the Ukraine refugees.
I'm not sure I can do that within reasonable effort.

I rather write my own parametric CAD from scratch.
that graph doesn't show severity
From 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35959859
I don’t have to have an answer to this to be concerned at the widespread tax evasion schemes that billionaires are engaged in.

Panama Papers baybeeee
Well yeah, minus the goal being to get out (which will take care of itself... eventually) :)
I've set it up for an elderly person, and it backfired terribly — they lacked dexterity to reliably turn it on and off, forgot the feature existed, and then one day accidentally zoomed in screen by only a few percent, and though the phone broke, because "the status bar has disappeared".
“Ken sent me”
Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. Anything involving secret backdoors, intentionally compromised crypto, not so secret master keys, etc. is doomed to leak to a hostile entities abusing this. The weakest part of the system becomes secret weaknesses staying secret.

Intentionally compromised encryption is going to be enormously appreciated by North Korea, Iran, China, and all the others one would normally want to keep from looking at secret data related to finances, personal communication, military secrets, industrial R&D, etc.

Countries need to get their priorities straight on national security. The enemy is outside of their country, not inside. And they don't play by the rules, generally.
The source you linked to makes one claim yet you can't verify that claim - that's what they mean.

And we have plenty of historical examples, including recent ones, that big companies are simply lying through their teeth almost every time they open their mouths. Companies that rely heavily upon marketing are lying more so than others.

"Macs don't get viruses" claim made while several Mac viruses existed at the time. It's been lies for decades.
Do you really have such a strong aversion towards regional American accents?
I presume it rhymes with the fish.
statistic is hard :(
Sure. But saying their opinion is wrong because of a conflict of interest doesn't track. That's THE example of an ad hominem.
A smart, independently minded person, would do the following risk analysis:

- Planes fly through the atmosphere in varying conditions.
- The conditions that lead to uncomfortable or dangerous turbulence are not at all uncommon.
- These conditions are unpredictable and have little warning.
- Wearing a seatbelt is a very minor inconvenience, and will protect me from the worst of the harms that can come from common turbulence.
- I will wear a seatbelt.

This doesn't seem complex.

The argument about bike helmets, although nuanced, should have nothing to do with celebrities wearing them or not.
Upvoted. Its like why do people focus on Boeing's failures, or Enron's, or Purdue Pharma's.
With EU backing, North African nations aggressively push back migrants to desert
There are a couple things that set Israel apart from the other countries you listed. Israel gives Jews specifically enumerated privileges, such as a right to citizenship. It also implements an apartheid system in the West Bank — territory it occupies in violation of international law — in which Israelis and Palestinians are subject to two different legal systems. It has withdrawn from Gaza, of course, but it still exerts a high degree of control over it, such as an air and sea blockade.

I don’t know why you think the current demographics of Israel preclude it from being a settler/colonial state. There is a formal effort to attract Jewish settlers. Just a few months ago, there was literally an event in my hometown advertising property in the West Bank to Jewish prospective residents.
Sad about the injured and especially the dead person.

I don't think most people realise how violent turbulence can be or how badly things can go. In my last flight, someone on my row removed the seatbelt as soon the light went out and then when we landed, before we exited the runway. Like, why? If it bothers you that much, don't wear it too tight... but at least wear it.
'Exploration' / 'exploitation' are established terms for this kind of trade-off, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilem...
> Usually

If you have any stories about people that died on an airplane more than once, do tell :)
I was thinking about including Mathematica as enlightenmentware. Mathematica 6 (https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/newin6/) was the first truly interactive system I used (we happen to have a box with a license at the university). It impressed me so much that I still have a lot of warm fuzzy feelings toward Stephen Wolfram and his work.

Unfortunately, my relationship with Mathematica didn’t go anywhere: It was too expensive back then, and I never found a good use for it except for double-checking my homework.

I tried other computer algebra systems, but they didn’t impress me as much.

If you own a Mathematica license and found a good application for it, please let me know!
Dear HN. Please support journalism. Bloomberg may not be the best example, but there are many news organizations that rely on subscriptions in order to pay their editorial staff. News costs money produce, and ads only do so much.
The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy
They don’t. There is a weather radar but it can only detect density of water.
Every single airline says this for the last 15 years at least.

On some routes you see lots of loose seatbelts (Middle East, Africa). On European flights, everyone has the seatbelt on for the entire flight.
The need for such an app is beyond stupid on Apple's side, and I'm saying this as an Apple Music user.

I am an Apple Music user and I have Sennheiser headset that connects both to my iPhone and Mac. Great, no problem up to here.

However, when I, say, browse Instagram on my phone, after closing it on my phone, Apple Music opens and starts playing.

Every. Single. Time.

I don't want a software that prevents Apple Music launch, I don't want to delete Apple Music (even if it was possible) as I sometimes DO use Apple Music on my Mac, I just don't want to to open and start playing the topmost song in my library on my Mac every single time after any inline media on Instagram stops playing on my iPhone.

This bug has been present for many macOS and iOS versions for many years, and Apple does nothing about it.

After reading it again, I think "beyond stupid" is an understatement.

Unbelievable.
Orwell wasn't prophetic but was a reflection of the world as it already was is 1948.
That's what I learnt at school.
It could have some highly amusing consequences if serious legal pressure was put on bitcoin. It could split bitcoin in half, with miners and users rejecting the pressure and picking one side of the fork, and core devs, mainstream exchanges, and hedge funds being vulnerable to the pressure ending up on the other half. The immediate consequence might be hundreds of billions in value evaporating, but if the legally approved fork won, it could lead to bitcoin going all the way to 0 in the long-run, and being replaced by another currency.
A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation
Maybe over time a small set of people would subscribe if they saw good stories coming from a particular news source. Maybe not.
Everyone I know did, because I told them. But they did it anyway. Now we wish it was only as bad as Facebook was 15 years ago.

Divide and conquer tactics work. Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all use it to great advantage. The funny thing is it was always about free software. Not enough people listened to Stallman. None of this could have happened if people rejected non-free software.
yes, your example is still about risk mitigation, but it's also a not-so-effective slippery slope argument likely motivated by a contrarian anti-masking stance. the reason there is no social pressure to helmet at all times is that we generally agree as a society that the inconvenience is not worth the minimal risk reduction.

this risk calculation is messy of course, as we all have different tolerances for inconvenience and risk, and we also have different responses to individual vs. collective risks.
Thank you for the intersting link. If you checkout our GitHub repository you see that there are 2.2k forks. We don't keep track on all of them.

And yes, it is true that OpenProject is used as an alternative to Jira. Mainly for two reasons: OpenProject is made with data sovereignty in mind. And Atlassion pulled Jira's self hosted option off their shelves. And the other reason is pricing, I guess.
Yes you should feel responsible.