skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question. I just launched Slack and took a look. Basically: it's doing everything. There's no specialization whatsoever. It's like a desktop app you redownload on every "boot".

You talk about minification. The JS isn't minified much. Variable names are single letter, but property names and more aren't renamed, formatting isn't removed. I guess the minifier can't touch property names because it doesn't know what might get turned into JSON or not.

There's plenty of logging and span tracing strings as well. Lots of code like this:

_n.meta = {
name: "createThunk",
key: "createThunkaddEphemeralMessageSideEffectHandler",
description: "addEphemeralMessageSideEffect side effect handler"
};

The JS is completely generic. In many places there are if statements that branch on all languages Slack was translated into. I see checks in there for whether localStorage exists, even though the browser told the server what version it is when the page was loaded. There are many checks and branches for experiments, whether the company is in trial mode, whether the code is executing in Electron, whether this is GovSlack. These combinations could have been compiled server side to a more minimal set of modules but perhaps it's too hard to do that with their JS setup.

Everything appears compiled using a coroutines framework, which adds some bloat. Not sure why they aren't using native async/await but maybe it's related to not being specialized based on execution environment.

Shooting from the hip, the learnings I'd take from this are:

1. There's a ton of low hanging fruit. A language toolchain that was more static and had more insight into what was being done where could minify much more aggressively.

2. Frameworks that could compile and optimize with way more server-side constants would strip away a lot of stuff.

3. Encoding logs/span labels as message numbers+interpolated strings would help a lot. Of course the code has to be debuggable but hopefully, not on every single user's computer.

4. Demand loading of features could surely be more aggressive.

But Slack is very popular and successful without all that, so they're probably right not to over-focus on this stuff. Especially for corporate users on corporate networks does anyone really care? Their competition is Teams after all.
Take a picture, upload it to chat GPT and see what happens.

If it works then scan all the pages and run though it with a script.

Shouldn't take you more than about an hour to code ( with Chat GPT!) in Python.
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Like I said sorry for offending you. No need to be so hostile.
There might be nobody, regardless of what you do.
Does it have a working C compiler? May have tried hacking together a data-over-audio app. Or quickly steam a bunch of qr codes.
Instead of closing the connection it sends a message stating that it is closed? Wow.
It's the dopamine interaction of the retina receiving outdoor lighting which changes things.

I don't think this works on astigmatism though.
Their tech stack is essentially a really weird really opinionated custom static site generator that makes improvements difficult. The build process is slow and troublesome.

I talked with them about adding an index of authors, and were open to the idea. I put probably 5 hours into getting it running correctly and figuring out how to get it to work. They then were at the time unwilling to restructure their data into a way that made it feasible due to how they have books are structured for multiple authors.

I've worked on hundreds of PHP apps over the last 20 years, and it's frankly one of the weirdest. It could benefit from even just a little SQLite db or something.
> Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses

On that page I'm not finding that is the 1,000th title, and browsing around the site I can't find a counter either. I trust the OP who choose that title is right, but there is any title counter on the Standard Ebooks website?
Doesn't Spotify already know which Car Thing devices have been used, by which people, and the contact/billing info of most of those people?

If so, then why making people contact them?

And also bumping people away from normal customer support, to "specialty advisors"?

This isn't looking like good faith.

Is Spotify's market position now strong enough that they don't have to care what people think of them?
US internet routers destroyed in 2023 hack
Climbing the Energy Chain
> The server runs the card and comes back with the slip for me to add a tip if desired and to sign to finalize the transaction.

How can they finalize the transaction without your PIN? (Unless it's a low-value NFC proximity transaction, and even then, in my experience sometimes it still asks for the PIN).

> At some places, the server has a card reader in hand and just runs the card then and there in front of me.

That's my experience in every restaurant in which you pay at the desk (instead of while leaving or while ordering). Though I usually eat at self-service per-kilogram restaurants, in which you weigh your food at a scale before eating, and pay at a dedicated cashier station near the exit door.
People talk to real estate agents? I thought things like Zillow completely eliminated that step...
Thanks for the feedback!

It's totally OK to judge, one of the reasons I made this post was to get some raw feedback. If the most common reaction is that I come across as arrogant and the unreasonable party here, I'll do some soul searching around that :)

And you bring up a good point, but I don't like to think in those ways because it takes agency away from myself. Can't fix a problem I had no control over.

And couldn't agree more with the focusing on myself and to do further upskilling. I'll continue working hard and hoping that in another 6 month's I stand a better change of getting more interviews.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer!
It absolutely was taxed. I also have never received a paycheck that wasn't pre-taxed. It was something like a $30k bonus and I received about $17kish of it.

Be more condescending though, that's helpful, wise one.

I didn't say I KNEW it was the issue, I said it was potentially that. The IRS doesn't say "Hey you messed up here, fix this, that's the problem." They just send you a bill, which sucks. I had NO information on my $150k house sale tax and had NO idea what information they needed to rectify it.
Yep, it's almost a Dr. Evil just-arrived-from-1967 sort of price. Bizarre.
No, I just meant if he tried to get a large file(Linux ISO) with BitTorrent. which should be reliable in theory.

Bittorent has webseeds support, which can use apples direct CDN urls to create a torrent file to download.
archive.org still uses this technique and AWS S3 used to do this when they had torrent support.

There a website that do just that, it creates a torrent file from any direct weburl.

https://www.urlhash.com/
- Create a portfolio of projects on Github.

- Network with lots of other people locally and online. Try to be helpful and, I hate this term but, "provide value" to others.

- Potentially take on small gigs if that's your thing. If not locally, then fiverr.com or whatever the current hotness is for freelancing.

- Work on your soft skills. It's really hard to follow what you've written. Work on communicating more simply.

- The bar for entry is so low, if my area is indication. If you can write simple code on your own, without copy/pasting, you're already ahead of a small but decent chunk of professional programmers.

- Good luck, you can do it.
Why would we look at it over 10 years, instead of asking how long the teachers were teaching for? That artificially misrepresents the 40 year tenure as 10.
It's known as Cleek's Law: "Today's Conservatism is the opposite of whatever Liberals want today, updated daily."
How much do the remote safety drivers intervene, is this something we have good sources on?
In good faith, when have the Democrats have done this?
Taxes are simple if you have a single W2. People just don't like reading the piece of paper in front of them.
so you made 25% more than you usually do and are wondering why you have to pay more in tax?
Thanks! It's also weird that that's buried on a webpage that they really don't want you to find anymore and not prominently displayed on the flyer they put out.
Oklo isn’t a fusion startup. They are planning to build small modular molten salt fission reactors aka next gen SMR fast reactors if you want the buzzwords.
Why do you think fusion will be cheaper than fission power? Fusion will, at least for a significant time, require investments in the fusion plants as well as maintenance and operations.

The only way I can see something like fusion become cheap quickly, is if all labor becomes cheap because of AI.
a student who is low-performing is not necessarily a student whose grades are low. they could also be a student who struggles to improve. and let's not forget the other perverse incentive here: if growth is all that's taken into account what happens to the students whose grades are already good?
Taiwan had something similar, found it it has to do with outdoor lighting (because many kids in both China and Taiwan stay indoors to study), and started a program to let kids play outside. Along with an early childhood intervention, myopia rates have been dropping.
Because for anything other than CPU inference it is inferior to TensorRT and vLLM.
I was pretty sure PizzaHut used some form of plastic in their pizza at one point.
Trash that gets them paid is a (short term) win, as long as the trash is cheap.

It’s ’harvesting brand value’.
> There’s a bit of a controversy among designers when it comes to choosing singular or plural forms for entity, table, and view names. Many purists defend the use of the singular, e.g. Employee, Customer, Address, etc. Their argument is that an entity is a single thing, not a set of things. However, when a model goes from logical to physical and the entity is transformed into a table, it ceases to be a single object to become a container for many instances of an object. If you are making a wooden box for your kid’s toys, would you label it "Toy" or "Toys"? Exactly.

I would call it a "toybox". Same thing with socks. You don't call their storage space a "socks drawer". It's a "sock drawer"

The only thing that really matters with naming is consistency anyways
You go to a fancier class of restaurants than I do :)
Looking at this very briefly, the results seem to always be inventory pages for the dealerships, which use long strings of hex or just random numbers as identifiers for the vehicles they have for sale.

For example, a search for "ca7112b7167c15e621412c0fbc0a6c97" brings up the URL
"https://www.premierclearancecenterofstbernard.com/inventory/...", which has a gallery of vehicles at the bottom whose image names are of the format "9b362510c100095f02cf3cad9e365ea6.jpg".

I assume something inside the Google black box is saying "well, there's no exact match but this site has a bunch of strings with most of the same characters, so here you go".

Edit: And to add to this, I'd surmise that the reason you see a lot of car dealerships in these results is that they sell a lot of one-offs - instead of having a list of SKUs in inventory, they sell a unique vehicle just once, so the inventory systems need to account for that by using long strings as item IDs and the like. Also there's probably a limited number of inventory systems out there, so a bunch of random dealerships are probably all using the same one.
I think it was more so for people who want a dedicated spotify app - as in they want to go through their likes, playlists and radios without using their phone.
For me, reading fiction is all about beauty. I liken it to listening to good music. It isn't really to learn anything "substantive." It is to experience a feeling or be transported to another place. In fact, I like to listen to (typically instrumental) music while I read as a sort of "soundtrack." I would liken reading a good book to watching an epic movie. I guess you might occasionally gain some insight into the human condition, but it isn't primarily an informational medium.
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it might have been this limit only existed for last years pilot (but i guess still should have been in the flier)? i was also surprised i was having trouble finding reference to it but it's definitely a thing
There is no counter online, but you can trust me (the S.E. Editor-in-Chief) when I say I used Bash to count them :)
Imagine having your enterprise data warehouse stolen.
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> What other criteria would apply?

Many companies have processes that require 2 or more humans in the loop for sensitive prod data.
We're pretty close to the same conclusion. We can't run a business on an unstable platform.
It's SUCH a win that they managed to roll this out to a small set of tax situations and states to start. Every government project I've been on has required creativity in defining an MVP that doesn't include shipping to everyone. This was cited consistently as one of the great successes of this project, they were able to ship something that successfully filed 150k taxes b/c they were able to scope things down to something doable in 9 months.
> Theres no quick hack to building a trustworthy domain or getting lots of trustworthy links for example

Sure, but there are other potential hacks that this leak exposes that marketers may now be focusing on more so now they would have otherwise based on the information in the leak.
The world ain't fair. There is no international entity that can police international relations, so nations must fend for themselves.
Turns out, myopia isn't hereditary. It has to do with dopamine interactions and the retina receiving outdoor lighting. When there is insufficient outdoor lighting, the retina starts growing in a different shape, leading to myopia. Just let the kids play outside.

I don't know if going outside more often will reverse it.

Astigmatism, on the other hand, may be hereditary.
Highly doubtful.

If anyone is running it here in a production setting, please post and prove me wrong.
My son tried Direct File in New York and had trouble signing up for it I think because he was filing for the first time and has no credit history. They make the process arduous because it’s a common scam to fill out a fake return — I had an uncle who worked for the IRS in the 1990s and he told me they were overwhelmed with this even then.

We were put in line for 40 minutes to talk to someone to validate his id. Maybe it would not have been so bad if we had not procrastinated but we managed to print out the 1040 form and the corresponding New York form and file on paper before we got to the end of the line. I think he would have struggled to fill it out on his own but I have filled out easy and hard 1040s many times and I found it easy.
The "helpful SEO guy" likely is (or was hired by) the scammer.

StackOverflow gets lots of fake posts like this promoting numbers. Around tax time there's a lot of Quicken ones.
Why don’t you try to use chatGPT to help you? Ask it how you can start with your idea and keep iterating your questions until it gives you a good way for you to start..
What an epic save. I have a few laptops and harddrives that I have been wanting to convert for years, and this motivates me again to try since I know that they're a bunch of ide and nvme connectors, nothing near the hoops the author had to jump through.
Same, same. I'm an avid reader. I don't shy away from complex literature. I also don't take great pleasure from overcomplication.

Computing analogy: It's like seeing that someone wrote "fizzbuzz" using a microservice architecture, quantum computing, multiple LLMs, and some custom hardware. Bravo! Cool that you pulled it off and made this monstrosity! I don't want to use it though, nor do I care to see the details of every bizarre choice, and I'm not impressed at the number of references to COBOL that you shoved into the diode layouts of the CPU you invented for it. I can see why other people would find it fascinating. I am not one of them.
> How can they finalize the transaction without your PIN?

By running it as a credit card transaction? I don't know the details beyond that your signature is the equivalent of your pin (I think PINs were invented basically as a substitute for signatures). I only know that this is how it's worked for my whole life, from well before the internet existed.

> Though I usually eat at self-service per-kilogram restaurants, in which you weigh your food at a scale before eating

I've never heard of such a thing before. That's an interesting concept. But it raises an interesting point: I'm in the US, and it sounds like you're not. I bet there's a cultural difference in play here.
does it? based on what metric? data please

why would I assume that? because their motivations are not being skewed by an additional perverse financial incentive?
It should be said, I had a moment, and I type fast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-psychology-of...
The level of tests I've seen many places includes stuff like reversing a string, or if you want to be fancy, reversing words within a string. It takes shockingly little to filter out a lot of people, and I'd argue that often you want it to be at a really stupidly low level for a first pass, even when using tests they surely must have seen before.
I wonder how this would work with say US and other western countries?

Could they still see videos from Europe?
> Websites regularly break because I don't have perfect network coverage on my phone every single day.

Indeed, that's true. However, the number of users that go through similar experiences are quite low and even those who do are always a F5 away from circumventing that issue.

I repeat: even supporting a browser other than the latest N releases of Chrome is a hard sell to some companies. Typically the test matrix is limited to N versions of Chrome and the latest release of Safari when Apple products are supported. If budgets don't stretch even to cover the basics, of course that even rarer edge cases such as a user accessing a service through a crappy network will be far from the list of concerns.
>I've only been using this operating system for two weeks...I have already been productive with it and from my experience this is a really polished system.

If it works, it works. Artists have a different set of needs and the thread mentioned in the article showed stability > features

https://discuss.kde.org/t/fedora-kde-40-plans-to-completely-...
I believe Wikipedia has a good overview, in particular "the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that advance the interests and will of citizens" is probably the definition that best matches the one used in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society
It's unclear if it's customer metadata or real customer data data?
Using nuclear weapons to win a regional conflict is turning those weapons from strategic deterrent to a tactical tool. The moment when any nation will use them in tactical way, say bye bye to non-proliferation treaty, every regional power will want to have at least tactical nukes. Countries like Japan, South Korea, Poland or Germany will want to have those tactical tools too.

So sure, Russia can use nuclear weapons to push the conflict into Russian victory, but in the long run it will make multipolar world, which Russia and China crave so much a multipolar nightmare where nukes can fly at them from any bigger state.
Conceptually yes (and Krita might be more feature rich than Procreate), but Procreate is an iPad only app and Krita is not available on that platform, unfortunately.
> Most will think of Constantinople, which used to be Byzantium and is now Istanbul

When I think of "Byzantium," I always think of Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Atherton, for some reason...
The doc is huge, and the principle of least astonishment is often not respected.

Also third parties providers support a random subset of it given the protocol has nothing simple anymore (or maybe never had)
Yeah, indeed.

Time to go outside more :)
>I agree. Every single security thing that happens is put on Russia.

This is transparently false. Both Russia and China have copped blame for various recent attacks. And the fact of the matter is that Russian hackers are extremely active at the moment, and were even before 2022.

See for example: https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-rus...

>If we were pre-Ukraine, it’d be China getting all the blame (like it used to be).

Russia was behind the Solarwinds hack, which is the most widely covered one in the past decade. Ironically the Chinese were also independently exploiting Solarwinds to break into government agencies, but that didn't get much attention.
For a data center operator that wants to maximize utilization and needs a lot of power, they might be willing to pay a premium for consistent on site power rather than dealing with intermittent sources or grid connection costs and battery backups.
As a teenager, my myopia led me to a book promising clear vision through eye exercises alone. My doctor quickly dismissed it as nonsense, insisting only "science" could help.

Fast forward 30 years, and this post reminds me how valuable it is to approach even expert opinions with a healthy dose of skepticism.

It's a funny twist, highlighting that while expertise is valuable, it's crucial to maintain a discerning mind and not blindly accept any claim as absolute truth.
NGOs.
It’s untenable from a marketing perspective to advertise a phone line that just talks about the services you don’t offer. One could maybe hope for a statement on a help page that says “Facebook will never ask you to call a support number”.
Tax haul for 10 houses are better than a 10 unit complex. The people also want houses opposed to apartments (hence the higher price).

This seems to be an ideological conflict where some people are trying to force everyone else into options they dont want- why?

The solution seems simple. relax zoning where it exists and let people who want to live in tiny urban apartments do so, and let people who want to live in suburban houses do so too.
it seems a good chunk is just coming from other job boards:

- sportstechjobs.com

- levels.fyi

- Khosla Ventures Job Board

- SpaceTalent Job Board

- Accel Job Board

- CrackedDevs.com

...
Nope. As a very small team I'm unable to relax at all if I can't rely on our hosting. It looks like we're back, but this was the last straw for us.
Easy enough to drop a remote access app or a fake Paypal app and let the idiot user put their credential into it.
I think this is notable just because it's a result of Google now having every single search result set be trying to sell you something. That's different from simply having targeted ads and rather disturbing.
I know a guy from south africa. That country was forced to switch to fiber optics at least a decade sooner than the US because copper pirates were everywhere. He was telling me 20 years ago that it was not uncommon for someone there to access some copper wiring through a manhole/pole tie a chain to it, and just drive away taking as much cable as would come from snapping off. I thought it was wild and couldn’t understand how it was worth the effort. Fast forward 20 years, and I’m starting to hear reports of similar tactics in the US.
There's an entire genre -- poetry -- dedicated to expressing ideas in the most beautiful and elegant way possible.

I consider flowery artifices to be the opposite.