skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you generate the written text? Or is it actually hand written? It seems by a left handed female ;)
Which is why they need the big f-g rocket to work - the business really starts printing cash if you can reduce cost to orbit per bird by 90%. Without it it’s dicey when competitors get their act together.
HN goes off the rails when it comes to successful ppl / companies. (OpenAI, Google, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple etc etc.)

It's almost like no one here wants to be a successful entrepreneur
"You can't outrun a bad diet" is just a bad take.

Even with running - especially with running - you can easily burn enormous amounts of calories.

There are two problems with this saying.

First, nobody knows what a bad diet is in the context of this saying. How many calories are we talking? How poorly balanced is the diet?
Let's take a basic example: assume the perfect diet for a sedentary person, well balanced, exactly the right amount of calories, etc. Then on top of it, this person eats a 200g pack of Haribo 4 times a week. Surely this makes that diet insanely bad, right? Well, not really, it's only about 500 excess kcal/day which would be very easily compensated if this person had an active lifestyle. So how insanely bad does the diet need to be until the argument actually works? This saying is usually directed at people who want to lose weight, surely nobody is trying to lose weight in good faith if they drink soda daily, eat donuts left and right, and some haribos to top it off.

The second problem, is that people are scarily sedentary and view what should be a completely normal amount of physical activity as impossible. So what upper bound are we putting on the "running" part of the saying?

Doing 1-2 hours of sport 4 times during the work week, plus one longer physical activity on the week end (e.g., half a day hike or bike ride) is a completely normal amount of sport.
https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs?si=rxrMwJVu95WQQt7M
Conspiracy theory: the decision to add the entirety of Russian IPs to the blacklist was made on a whim by some ground-level technicians, and the management will either apologize, call it a misconfiguration and revert the changes, or simply allow this to go through and invent some explanations for the public later, depending on how much they even care. /conspiracy theory
I can remember the last four digits of either explicitly but I still say the whole thing back in my head as an error correction mechanism.

It’s like being an LLM: once I’ve got the first three tokens, the rest just flows out but if I remember the last four on their own, there’s a much higher chance of making an error.
> do we know that both diagonals are diameters

This must be true, because the diagonals are both straight lines that go through the centre and are bound by the edges, so it follows they must be equal to the diameter of the circle by definition.

> Do we know that a parallelogram with equal diagonals is a rectangle?

As another commenter points out, this is a theorem you can reach for, but proving it by itself is a bit more of a task.
I was over GraphQL the moment I looked at the specification.
I grew up in a socialist apartment block neighborhood with more apartment blocks around and more even further.

You came home from school, watched tv, did whatever, then around three, parents would start coming home, so we (the kids) went out, you knew approximately when dinner would be ready to go home and eat, and that was it. The playgrounds, benches, basketball courts, etc., where full of kids and noone really cared. Sometimes when someone was needed at home, a mom would yell his name through the window, and someone heard it and told someone else, and than that third person knew where that kid was and told him that his mom is looking for him, and the kid went home (usually to eat, or if some relative came to visit).
All Ukrainians ought to be on their knees

The one thing that Musk, Putin, and the above commenter all seem to agree on.

It's one thing to defend Musk's unilateral decision to provide Starlink early in the war. But another matter entirely (and profoundly obnoxious in fact) to presume that one knows enough to tell the Ukrainians (even rhretorically) what they should think or do in regard to the situation that they're facing.
This particular thread has missed an important part of the equation: what are the consequences of NOT taking the trackable phone along, or turning off the tracking? If you’ve proven to them it is of little consequence, and they can trust that, then they’re less likely to develop issues.

However, if the consequences are dire, you encourage them to feel oppressed.
I along with others, years ago, have said that answers that don't address the question asked should be removed. In this case, malicious actors are using packages that are not related to the problem presented in the question. This will become more prevalent than package squatting.
>Carmack made reusable, vertically landing rockets before SpaceX did, albeit on a much smaller scale.

No, he didn't, or perhaps more generously "much smaller scale" is doing a LOT of work in your sentence. The core challenge of real rockets is all about scale/speed, and in particular getting to orbit which is where the vast majority of the value starts. The Rocket Equation and material science makes that a completely different scale of challenge to do at all, let alone with a sufficiently useful mass fraction, let alone with reuse, vs anything suborbital. Neither Armadillo nor the DC-X were going to orbit. Hobbies are neat but going from that to something real represents a huge huge amount of work and skill.
Envoy is definitely a powerful & useful tool, we use external auth to centralize our authentication, I just dislike editing large yaml documents with 10 levels of indentation.
Indeed, and consider that pg is British. Not all nations share the American need for hyperbole. Some even look down on it.

If my boss told me he was "fine with me staying at my job", I'd take it to mean that they were fine with me staying at my job.
Lua is definitely a pedagogic language and project all the way to its roots. I often feel like I’m taking a class on compilers when using it. :)
The way the tweet is phrased makes me think he was asked by the board to choose, so I guess a more appropriate analogy would be:

I'm employed by a company, I start a side gig which I spend 50% of my productive time on, my boss eventually tells me that they need someone in my position to be a proper full time employee and I need to choose. I respond, "okay, in that case I resign".

There's no difference between the two analogies in my eye, they're the same except that the first is about asking permission while the second is about just doing it.
That’s my observation at all the bigger companies I worked for. The manager of the manager of the lowest level workers has no contact with the workshop reality. They live in the PowerPoint world with hockey stick growth slides and ideal project plans. There were exemptions, but very rare. One level above has absolutely no touch with reality without any exemptions. Some of them were able to participate in meetings from the shower with enabled camera in the past… I doubt these are working hard.
In English “you” can be used as a generic, impersonal pronoun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
Sounds like Delamain from Cyberpunk.
Couldn't disagree more. GraphQL encourages tight-coupling--the Frontend is allowed to send any possible query to the Backend, and the Backend needs to accommodate all possible permutations indefinitely and with good performance. This leads to far more fingerpointing/inefficiency in the log run, despite whatever illusion of short-term expediency it creates.

It is far better for the Backend to provide Frontend a contract--can do it with OpenAPI/Swagger--here are the endpoints, here are the allowed parameters, here is the response you will get--and we will make sure this narrowly defined scope works 100% of the time!
Some tech bros gonna stop reading at the “more likely to be alpha” part and start snaking on kitty litter.
I can see two different interpretations in the comment section. just like our world. people believe what they want to believe.
Are you making the argument that "every situation which involves losing control over one's professional destiny is by definition a situation in which one is fired"? If so, I disagree. If not, I don't see the relevance.
> the idea of exposing queries from the client directly to the DB is totally bananas

I don’t necessarily disagree but going to play devil’s advocate here on this common foundational viewpoint. Why is this bad? In fact, why not expose the DB directly to the client?

“Additional layers” and “don’t explain DB structure” is security through obscurity. If a DB manages access control directly (field-level or partition-level granularity), any permissible query should run. To prevent pathological queries, add role-based resource quotas and back-off policies.

What about zero day vulns? Well these are going to be a problem regardless of the presence of various infra layers on top of the DB; you’ll have to monitor for data exfiltration to detect these types of attacks in either case.

There’s not a database I’m aware of that handles all of the above considerations, but oftentimes security issues exist in the overlooked gaps that arise between the complex interplay of many dependent systems. If you move the responsibility for security to the DB itself (other than authentication), you’ve removed a lot of the “confusion” that can be exploited, and overall security then depends on just a few factors: 1) correct assignment of DB access permissions, 2) valid external authentication, 3) quality of data exfiltration monitoring.

You might say you’re one simple DB misconfiguration away from disaster, but again, this is already a problem. The benefit of this alternative approach is that you have now shifted the bulk of the security work to one place: very careful rollouts of changes to DB access permissions. You would conduct static analysis to determine the “diff” of how data access has changed and perform sandbox tests. In exchange for this additional work, you can quit worrying about the security of anything downstream of the DB, assuming authentication is set up correctly.
Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement
Shakti k/b.zip (MIT licensed)
This is quite suspicious. There were tons of articles relaying the rumor that he was fired for obscure reasons.

Why would Altman not deny them, and why would pg wait until now to say it wasn’t true? The reason pg gives is uncontroversial.
With Recall, Windows will soon do this, regardless of browser.
Definitely a valid argument.

I think it comes down to trust in whether your watcher provides dire consequences. The likelihood that parents are honest with their children that there is little consequence to avoiding the tracking is greater than the same being said of a (perceived) larger, distant group/organization/agency.

We must all remain vigilant against the latter. But trust in the former is where we must start.
This feels reductive. He was asked to choose between two jobs, and told that he couldn't have both. He chose one of them. Describing that as being "fired" is whack. "He was fired for choosing to work somewhere else instead of here", really?
personal web pages on http for retro lovers - we are trying to revive this. There are too few people willing to join the community. people often say online how cool it was, but don’t want to do anything to make it cool again
http://web1.0hosting.net/
“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
I did not know Feynman was responsible for finding the cause of the Challenger explosion. That's remarkable on top of everything else he did.
Thanks for this. I also have this, but I never bothered to look up if this is a recognized thing (of course it is) and what it's called since it seemed unlikely that anything could be done about it.
Taking "quite easily" on a walk there
Having the feels over an HN post was not in my list today.
On one hand I am happy that we have things like Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, on the other I feel that peoples private and unpublished writings should be kept private. It's reasonable enough to let a limited number of researchers access private documents, but the broader public, no.

This isn't a letter meant for us, it's not meant for anyone to read and I feel that publishing it is a little disrespectful.
You could probably create a more convincing version of this with a bit of collusion between multiple accounts on StackOverflow.

If you have one person asking a deliberate question, someone else answering with a backdoored package that does actually does solve the problem, then a few accounts upvoting and adding comments it would lot a more more convincing than just a random answer with zero upvotes that doesn't actually solve the problem.
This week on GenerativeAI Hospital..
and a fired board member who didn't have anything to do with YC
PyPy has been working for me for several years now
From the article:

> Satellites positioned closer to Earth in LEO can swiftly target and track objects on the ground, providing both low-latency communication and high-resolution sensing capabilities. They also hold the potential for offensive actions, such as deploying interceptors to shoot down rockets or ICBMs during their vulnerable boost phase.

How much is this going to cost? Considering this system can be beaten by scheduling a regular ICBM test and pretending until it's too late and the missiles split into dozens of warheads and destroy an equal number of cities.

When I first heard of hundreds of billions going unaccounted for in pentagon spending each year, that was 30 years ago and the images of f-117s bombing Serbia (and getting shot down) still fresh, that-s where I believed that money went to. I was around 12 back then, so don't me judge to harshly on my naivete.

It would seem Musk doesn't mind.
Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader
Hi, folks.

As an RSS user, I tried Inoreader and Feedly, then ended up self-hosting a Miniflux instance on my homelab. A few months ago, I moved to another city and had to shut down my homelab for a long time, so I couldn't access my local miniflux. It was quite inconvenient. I decided to self-host my RSS aggregator on a tiny VPS or PaaS such as fly.io. However, Miniflux requires a PostgreSQL database, which may isn't suitable for a tiny VPS instance.

So I built fusion with Golang and SQLite. It contains basic features such as Group, Bookmark, Search, Automatically feeds sniffing, Import/Export OPML file, etc. It uses about 80MB of Mem and negligible CPU usage (metrics here: https://imgur.com/a/EJIdevn).

Feel free to share your questions and suggestions.

BTW, I also built an online tool to sniff RSS links from a URL. (https://rss-finder.rook1e.com/)
To the contrary, historical facts show that NATO is the bully and the Russian people are simply defending themselves.
A useful reminder that inside the bald statements about "Chyna" and "the CCP" there are complex, competing views. If you include unreconstructed Taiwanese kuomintang, and their view about chinese unification there are surprises in plenty for who supports whom.

Most are suppressed but it would be a mistake to ignore the tensions. Bo Xilai did not pop out of nowhere and in the fullness of time Xi Jinping thought will be reconsidered.

I'm told there was a tiny small coterie of western Marxists living in china who persisted post ww2, including trotskyists. Sailors who jumped ship, European Jewish refugees who came in from Dalian out of Japan held territory and stayed. I doubt they were trusted much but perhaps, like Norman Bethune (who is memorialised in the national museum in Tiananmen square) they became both trusted and valued?
Hong Kong convicts 14 activists of subversion
A smartwatch for kids could be so good if it was designed in a way to be educational, but most importantly, which respects a child’s privacy utmost, even from their parents in terms of tracking.

For example, a maps app, to always get the kid home if they’re lost. Medication reminders. Fitness tracking. Emergency SOS. A calendar to remind them about family birthdays and upcoming holidays. School timetables. Medical ID. Payment cards or passes for travel (in Western Europe a lot of schoolchildren commute by themselves, especially on public transport) and spending their allowance. Let the kid choose to notify their family of their location as and when they want to. Empower them to use tech to their advantage but put their privacy first.

Children are going to end up as adults in this world regardless of whether we teach them, so we should be teaching them the benefits and warning them of the many bad actors. We should be teaching our children the skills they need to navigate the modern world. This includes technology and abusive/controlling relationships.

I believe a good responsible smartwatch for kids can exist. Alas, this is Google and helicopter parents exist, so this product is not it.
While somewhat true, to its credit Teams is using basically the same UI stack for its web-based product (teams.microsoft.com) and its "native" desktop app, so there's a win there.

Also, the Teams desktop app has moved from Electron to Edge WebView2 - which is a Microsoft product.
Ive been cycling since forever. I couldn't tell you how many times I went over my handlebars before I was a teen.

Last year I bought an ebike. I love it. Cycling is different with a ebike. Hills don't particularly matter, you choose the speed you want to go, and all leg energy simply moves you faster then that speed. You put in the same amount of workout, as much as you please, and when you get tired, the bike takes you home. You also reach much further distances then you normally would without, so you get to see more.

But my bike means nothing to me. I will replace it in an instant if the right opportunity knocks.
Yep, I read the paper too, then spent quite some time Googling various combinations of “commercial paper”, “fed”, “reaganomics”, “trickle down”, and other more tenuous terms, yielding nothing at all of any substance. More fool me I guess.
Lots of people dislike PG and YC too, so it's doubly fun to strike up some bad blood between them.
I'm not saying it can't work, I'm saying it's no one's first choice, even today. It's just extra risk, less usable (10.0.123.234 vs fd00:ec2::1234:5678), extra hassle (multiple IPs per NIC, extra hoops to access Github, etc).
> DNS is such a pain to troubleshoot personally

I have a different experience - you can query each authoritative server directly to troubleshoot a problem (which makes it easier compare to systems when you have a single endpoint and cannot see beyond it).

Poorly configured by ISP recursive servers though is a common pain - it is relatively easy to create and maintain a well working recursive caching DNS but it looks like ISP just don't care.
Check the domain and if it's not yours redirect it. If they copy that you are done.
It's not like this money was actually spent. From what I understand, they calculated it in terms of time spent by full-time employees, who would need to be paid for that time regardless. People don't work at 100% efficiency, so this likely just meant a higher workload for a few people for a week or so.

Also, 11k is tiny when it comes to something like the FAA and it's not like it can be spent for something you deem more worthy once it's budgeted to them.

And I for one think removing names of assholes like Trump from places they have no right being is worth the little effort it takes.
The discussion about higher order beliefs is probably a great deal of what drove our evolution towards larger but highly-energy-intensive brains; compare:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...

Take the statement: "Harry said to me, he said, 'I never told anybody that Al's wife was a retired strip-teaser.' Mind you, I don't pretend to believe Harry, but that's what he said, all right." What are the possible true sources for the statement of fact or libel concerning Al's unnamed wife? What are the alternatives on ostensible sources? First use? Second use? The common sense needed to analyze this statement is of the same order as the process involved in analyzing the statement: "Reliable sources in Paris state that the visit of the American labor delegation has produced sensational repercussions in Moscow, and that Moscow, upon the basis of the American attitude, is determined to press for unification of the entire German labor movement."

and specifically with regard to Elaine's "friend" (in the context of "someday...we're going to get enough people in the Supreme Court to change that law."):

First point to note is the character of the source. There are several choices on this: the true source (who really got it out?) and the ostensible source (whose name is signed to it?); also, the first-use source (who used it the first time?) and the second-use source (who claims merely to be using it as a quotation?).

EDIT: now UQ is in Australia, but on the one hand, while behavioural economists do cite sources and occasionally run (natural) experiments, therefore counting as scientists, on the other hand...
A little longer (76 pages), but A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis is also worth checking out:

* http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDFs/GriefObserved_CSL.pd... (Canada public domain)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Grief_Observed

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26077627-a-grief-observe...
I have not saved any links to back this up.

It is just my personal observation formed from working with Mongo and migrating systems away from it.
Lisbon, a city dying from its own success
There’s no working around the rocket equation unless you invent antigravity, which I personally think is a harder problem than transistors.
Yes, I would be a lot more concerned about that than people finding stuff on stackoverflow. I can see copilot or some other gpt "suggest" stuff like this soon
Thank you, I didn’t consider the timing aspect. I could see prompt and clear communications as being helpful.
Amazon Prime now includes a Grubhub food-delivery subscription
German, and Russian, and a few other languages...
BYD Launches Hybrids with 1,300-Mile Driving Range
> Are you making the argument that "every situation which involves losing control over one's professional destiny is by definition a situation in which one is fired"?

No, I am saying these two are similar.

> I don't see the relevance.

The relevance is that trying to pull an Elon Musk one...Has relevance to the professional ethics of the current manager of the OpenAI new safety team...
Also:

- ngx-php: https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php

- Workerman: https://github.com/walkor/workerman

- ReactPHP: https://reactphp.org

And the most recent benchmarks:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=0...
https://archive.ph/7QmSr
If you don't mind sharing, what's your recipe / trick?
Not to mention the fact that GraphQL allows anyone messing with your API to also execute any query they want. Then you start getting into query whitelisting which adds a lot of complexity.
My wife died 10 years ago, so I understand that pain. Dealing with death is never easy. The thing I miss most about my wife is the depth of emotional connection; she knew everything about me being very deeply in love with me and everything I did really mattered to her. It has taken me nearly 10 years to build a network of friends who can give me comparable levels of socialization and attention; I have about two dozen very close friends (both male and female) across the world now and it’s finally enough to replace the hole in my life I had which my wife used to fill.

I can see why Feynman became sexually promiscuous afterwards, undoubtedly to numb the pain of losing his wife; seduction allowed him to have a form of that connection, albeit without the depth and love of what he had with his wife. While that path looked appealing to me, I do not regret avoiding that temptation.