skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a solid “no” on any primary datastore database thingy that’s under 5 years of industry wide production workload experience, and would seriously weigh it against something with 10+ years industry use.

In 2019 when I was interviewing at companies for my next position I heard from a few places that the original Aurora for Postgres lost their data. It seems like the sentiment on mainline Aurora has improved a bit, but I would never bet my company’s future on an AWS preview technology. Better the devil you know (and everyone else knows).
Their reason was that I didn’t comply with the RTO policy. It didn’t prevent me from claiming unemployment though.
So does the US. Word is, cap gains are going to be 44% next year. Lock in your gains, folks, that $3T a year in deficit spending is coming out of your pocket, present and future. And you aren’t getting Social Security when you retire either.
Estonian word is “gaasipedaal”, which pretty much means “gas pedal”. Gasoline is “bensiin”, no relation to that. The word for pedal comes from accelerator regulating gas-mixture valve (throttle) in carburettor. “Gas-mixture” here is air mixed with atomised fuel.
> make me a shopify site to sell cute mini traffic cones that are oscar-the-grouch themed, but make sure they don't violate any copyright themes, make me 100 ads to sell them

Is AI just steroids for drop-shipping?
Anyone can attend, but not everyone can afford to (is not free, you have to buy a ticket plus all the travel expenses).

That’s why many who attend do it by convincing their company to pay for the the trip and the ticket
Making big feature and possibly breaking changes such as making checked exceptions ergonomic would only be possible if the original language designer - James Gosling decided to dust his sleeves, un-retire himself and lead the job. Now, its a distant pipe dream.
Pretty sure this isn't so much a rewrite as a completely new architecture enabled by Rust's lifetime system.
Just out of curiosity, do you believe the Internet is, on average, a "social good"?
Relevant to that : every month or so HN'ers rant about "patents and how we need to fix them." Ranting is all that ever happens. They're uninterested in what it would take to actually do that.
> I believe there are more effective ways of lifting populations out of poverty.

I think you may be right. Unfortunately, what I have observed is that every attempt otherwise so far has failed. I think any approach which requires strong social and philosophical alignment will fail within a few generations, because the intrinsic motivation of humans includes an element of greed that seems impossible to stamp out. Systems that acknowledges and harnesses this fact of humanity show significantly more progress, even as they too have downsides.
well, redis manages the replication without fuss. Unless the framework / language one uses supports it out of the box, there is no point in re implementing replication.

https://www.erlang.org/docs/17/reference_manual/distributed
I find that Fedora generally just works, has a lot of very up to date packages and requires a lot less tweaking and setup work than something like Arch.

If you don't need cutting edge software packages and run older hardware, I've been very happy running Debian for a long time.
Didn't the UK's web filter contain political websites too?
Losing Friends, Charismatic People, Wikipedia
It starts looking like a fractal halfway through.
Yes its works for 1 generation, but nobody ain't going to break their back again to develop next generation cutting edge machine, if the adequate reward won't be there. And some cheers are not cutting it for capable and ambitious folks.

Adequate reward in corporate world means of ten hundreds of millions or billions, since risk of failure and losing it all are often massive and they do happen regularly, risk gets bigger the more revolutionary stuff you do.

That's why US won cold war - individuals and private entities were massively motivated to do their best, and so they did and in few decades leaped light years ahead of eastern bloc. Anybody from former soviet bloc/eastern bloc visiting western country went through absolute shock and disbelief, and that includes Gorbachev visiting supermarket in West Germany in late 80s IIRC, he thought its some sort of propaganda trick on him. I went through milder version of it too, a powerful experience.

Communism in any form doesn't work long term, tried and tested many times already, period. It fails on people, and that's enough for a complete failure. Neutral non-greedy AGI could make this work, if not turning into some form of Skynet... but getting vastly off topic here
have you seen the twitter post from Gamdom about mentioning the fastly quote in negotiations? they were taken down instantly. It doesn't sound safe to mention competitors with them or even exercise the prospect of leaving
How to find and validate Cyber Security startup idea?
Hello Community, ! I was previously a full stack developer in a company. I worked there for 3 years and eventually left the company. I took a year gap and in this one year I gathered Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking, PenTesting Skills. I would say I am somewhat good in these skills.
I always wanted to start a startup. And currently I have decided to start my startup in cyber security space.
I will not be providing services to the companies rather want to develop a product and start selling that product as B2B SaaS.
But currently I am not able to gather enough data on which niche should I pursue.

There are multiple niches in cybersec :
- Cloud Security
- Threat Intelligence, Detection
- Endpoint Security
- Network Security
- IAM
- Data Security
...........
If you see big players in cybersec, some are capturing multiple niches as well.
Ideally, I am considering picking a niche. And with enough data, innovate on that niche with my product.

I am looking for strong data that shows that "In this niche these businesses are facing these problems which one any industry leader is solving".
I have used ChatGPT a lot to gather information, but ChatGPT hallucinates a lot and also it cannot come up with highly niche problem that actual business is facing.
So, if you were in this position, what would you do?
Any good resource to find the actual problem that business is facing which can be highly niche, but no big players are solving?
If you are working in cybersec space and have some industry experience, then probably you have faced some problems that other big business or any service you are using may not have solved properly. If that is then I would be really appreciate if you can mention that.
Any other general advice is also welcomed. Let's have a meaningful conversation.
I can elaborate a little bit but not a lot since that would be essay-length. I can simplify and explain roughly.

The short story is that most states assessments are designed almost as binary measures, to see if students are above or below a cutoff threshold set by Common Core State Standards. They're designed to measure schools, and in particular, to flag failing schools where kids aren't meeting standards.

They're very good at that, actually.

However, that's almost meaningless as a measure for kids well above or below standards, or unaligned to standards.

"Growth" is almost meaningless here. If I know one number is less than three and another less than four, I can't subtract them.

It's more mathematically fancy, but that's the jist. It gets even worse since measures constructs are highly multidimensional and different dimensions are measured each year. It's like subtracting apples from oranges.

It also encourages the wrong behavior. For kids behind, I'll get the best "growth" by discussing on grade level material and leaving gaps for what kids failed to learn before. I'll also do well to ignore my students who are ahead. Indeed, students who did week last year will inevitably hurt my "growth."

As a footnote, I would not call this a strong claim. Talk to a psychometrician and you'll see it's common knowledge.

If adaptive tests move beyond those few states, the problem goes away.
Which Postgres committers work at either of those companies?
Snowflake denies that reported breach originated with its products
I’ve strongly considered writing scripts for other “HN dissenters” who want to show their displeasure by automatically mass upvoting all downvoted posts and automatically undeading posts. If even a tiny fraction of the N-gate former reader base used it, cyber subversives could serious muck up this place until dang and PG start to notice.
Really? My new-ish car (2019) just has the pedal connected to the throttle body with a cable. I’d assume that other changes to fuel injection would happen because it sensed more air coming in
> Are adults really this horrible towards children, do you really think you would like this as a child?

Only parents would have access to surveillance records. Children often do not like stuff their parents make them do, and their power over them, this would be one more thing, with great benefits.

> Why the hell not?

Because they are children, they do not have full responsibility for their actions, and they are more vulnerable to abuse, and protecting their safety is more important than protecting their privacy. I want to keep the status quo, where children are protected, and adults have rights. The way stuff is going, we're all getting more like children with one parent called Big Brother.

> Would you be happy if there was a camera constantly watching you as you jerked off as a kid?

That is not what I'm suggesting. I'm talking about public spaces (including online) where adults are present. If the kid wants to jerk off, or two or more kids want to make love, they can go home or use some private space like a bathroom.
Sean (the author of Circle) is an impressive guy. He started pursuing this work at about the same point several of the "C++ Successor Languages" were created, but although all of them claimed to be about solving this problem, especially when first announced, they actually don't have a solution unlike this Circle work. Let me briefly enumerate:

Val (now HyLo) says it wants to solve this problem... but it doesn't yet have the C++ interop stuff, so, it's just really a completely different language nobody uses.

Carbon wants to ship a finished working Carbon language, then bolt on safety (somehow) but, only for some things, not data races for example, so, you still don't actually have Rust's Memory Safety

Cpp2 explicitly says it isn't even interested in solving the problem, Herb says if he can produced measurements saying it's "safer" somehow that's good enough.

It's interesting how many good ideas from Rust just come along free for the ride when you try to do this, do you like Destructive Move? Good news, that's how you make this work in Rust so that's how Circle does it. Exhaustive Pattern Matching? Again, Circles does that for the same reason Rust needs it.

It is certainly true that this is not the Only Possible Way to get Safety. It would be profoundly weird if Rust had stumbled onto such a thing, but "Let's just copy the thing that worked in Rust" is somehow at once the simplest possible plan that could work and an astonishing achievement for one man.
Technical Interviews in the Age of LLMs
It was great to meet you too! Thank you for the kind words. :)
A high-quality leather sofa these days is closer to $15K than $1500, ouch.
It’s not the word “exists” that causes the problem (although it definitely gives it an added air of strange mystery). It’s the word “this.” Consider the case of a draft email I am writing on my laptop, but have to leave before finishing. Later, I resume composing the email on my phone and I hit send. But I do it in a hurry and mostly forget about it. The next morning, though, I open my laptop and I see the still unfinished draft I left there.

Now, when I try to finish and send that I’m hopefully going to get an error message. But “you already sent this email” is both right and wrong, since “this” email (the one I’m looking at) may have different contents from the one I sent.

Agreed that the best error message is just more precise though: “You are attempting to edit a draft that you already finished and sent from another device. Would you like to treat this as a new email?” Or something like that.
Does Carbon have any undefined behavior? Some of the wording in their goals document suggests that they do/will, but it isn't clear to me.
"Always up to date" doesn't tell the whole story.

Spotify is cool but I have playlists where half the songs are missing because some invisible licensing deal expired and the songs disappeared from reality.

With Spotify you are renting art. The moment you stop paying rent, your library disappears. Sometimes even before that.
While i do take your point, i think a big problem with discussions about "big businesses" is that they are completely different most of the time. A sofa =/= a car =/= enterprise software. But then how do discussions happen? A sofa is just a thing to sit on at home, you undoubtedly have other things to sit on. Needing to repair a sofa is not catastrophic to survival. Needing to repair a family car can be catastrophic to an individual or family. Needing to repair enterprise software can be catastrophic to a large business itself. There's hugely different consequence scales here, which i guess correlates with how willing a "large" company is to provide the desired support
The scale of wealth/information transfer probably hasn't closely been accounted for, and is a fascinating story.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/09/nsa-chief-cybercrime-co...

https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/general-security/...

https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4199.pdf

https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06...

America's petro dollar funds research by arming countries that pull oil from the ground, research that is then acquired, emulated, and iterated upon. Who's the crook in that story? The people robbing the earth of a natural resource? The people holding the world hostage forcing them to use their financial system? The people taking scientific knowledge they didn't "pay for."

While a significant portion of the techy American population in their younger years was against America's strengthen of intellectual property rights, while they were focused on art being locked down, were ignoring how much of America's strength in the world is propped up by claiming America owns ideas, information, and knowledge, that others have to buy from them.
Interesting that if they had just grabbed microseconds at launch, kept it statically, and mixed that in with their seed, they would have made it far harder to guess. An even better choice would be to also time the microseconds of a few disk writes at launch or grab entropy from network latency, but even one simple timing value would have made these seed prediction attacks impractical at the time.
There's also MPU in even simpler/cheaper MCUs. For instance, ARM Cortex M0+ sports an MPU, and this architecture is used in STM32C0 ($0.24 in bulk) and RP2040.

I have no idea how the landscape looks in general, though.
The most you could possibly get out of the screen is maybe contact patch size of the finger, as a proxy for pulse rate. Maybe.

It's almost certainly complete bupkis.
Correct. And I also like them quite a bit, so I have to make allowances. And the. Ask myself, “did I have bad taste, or was it the mainstream of 1990s movie goers?”
That argument is most often the other way around
https://aihorde.net is something like an open-source load balancer with queuing for LLMs, too
... not the ones involving the rent check.
Citation needed.

Because of the glut of degrees, many jobs now use a college degree as a filtering mechanism. This is not at all indicative that a degree is needed to be successful at the job.

Likewise some professions do the same. A doctor does not need a college degree; they need a medical school degree; medical schools force them to get both. Same for law school (side note: it is possible to practice law in a few US states without a law degree but you must effectively apprentice for a period of time).

For most of human history the primary way people learned job skills was apprenticeships; I think we would be wise to return to this model.
Okay, but now we've given up the pretense that we're discussing security and moved on to... something about human psychology?
Home Depot and Lowes (the two largest chains in the US) both have delivery. Home Depot also has rental trucks, as does UHaul (trucks and vans) if you need to self-drive the product and decided to not own a car.

The local lumber/building supply companies also usually have delivery, though they can be harder to deal with than a consumer-oriented hardware store.
The share price rose as per the defined metrics, and with that shareholder wealth.

It's up to the market and their stupid analysts to judge how much they value all the various hopiums (autopilo/FSD, 4680, large castings, Optimus, etc etc)

Shareholders agreed to that, and he met those standards. If you didn't like the metrics, you should voted against it in 2018, and upon failure, sold the shares.

But if you kept the shares, and enjoyed the multiple share prices increases, then it meant you agreed.

Then after paying, by all means fire him. His current performance is lacking, after all.

But if the Shareholders and Board vote to keep him, and yet vote not to pay him, then it's absurd.
Bizarre, eh? Same thing above, too. Maybe some glitchy app. idk
No goal posts were moved, but nice try. You also seem to be under the false assumption that the cattle prod is a real device in this scenario.
At the consumer level it frequently doesn't make sense to repair an item. My son had a part fail on his luggage last winter. It might be covered under warranty (the manufacturer wouldn't commit until inspecting the product) but the repair would require shipping the suitcase to them and paying for return shipping. It was going to cost about $150 minimum to have it repaired on a piece that is already a decade old and could be replaced for $200 on sale. I have seen this repeated many times across products.
It’s kind of common to use the TypeScript compiler purely as a linter these days even in a TypeScript-only codebase. You actually want to use a faster transpiler anyway, and when you do, there’s no technical reason not to run the code or the test suite while you still figure out the types. In fact, I’m becoming convinced that this kind of setup (and way of working) is actually the best of both worlds.
Are you using LLMs yourself like this in this context?
A Startup Utopia Became a Nightmare for Honduras
Cliques can easily occur just by a few people researching the same thing. If you are maybe two or three research groups in the works that use a particular method to try to solve a particular problem, of course you are all going to cite each other excessively.
Glad you enjoyed it! Anyone can attend PyCon US. There are people from all walks of life and skill levels. If cost is an issue, PyCon US has a generous financial aid program. A caveat: some prospective attendees in other countries have difficulty getting visas.
It’s a disgrace indeed. This fragile, completely open and transparant, utterly harmless human rights paradise wants to just grow a tiny bit while this single, isolated, hostile, aggressive and jealous close-minded nation wants to control them.
This mug is well on its way to becoming a tsukumogami.
My openAI key was leaked and I noticed someone was using it, luckily the damage wasn’t nearly as bad as you. A few dollars worth of GPT4, a model none of my apps were using at the time.

I’m almost entirely certain it was leaked via secrets on HF space, I got a message a few days ago warning me some of my spaces were affected
> Ever since the war of stored procedures, I've been very reticent to put any more logic than absolutely necessary into the database.

Counterpoint: the fewer round trips to the DB you have to do, the faster your app is.

My belief is that as DBAs more or less went away thanks to cloud providers and the rise of Full Stack Engineering, the quiet part that no one wanted to admit was that RDBMS are hideously complicated, and you really need SMEs to use them correctly. Thus, the use of stored procedures, triggers, advanced functions etc. went away in favor of just treating the DB as a dumb store, and doing everything in app logic.

As more and more companies are discovering that actually, you do need DB SMEs (I’m a DBRE; demand for this role has skyrocketed), my hope is we can push some of the logic back out to the DB. I am all for VCS, automated migrations, canary instances, and other careful patterns. I’d just like to see less of treating RDBMS as a document store, and embracing the advantages of the tech already in place.
McDonalds may have the most consistent food product in the world.
Everyone should kayak in a wetland at least once in their life. It's like going to another world...can recommend.
Show HN: NeetoForm, free online form builder that goes beyond just form building
Hi HN,

NeetoForm is another commodity product from Neeto. This was the second product launched by Neeto.

On July 18, 2023, we launched NeetoCal. After the launch of NeetoCal, we wrote a blog about how we think neetoCal is a commodity. https://blog.neeto.com/p/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is

We feel that just like NeetoCal, NeetoForm is also a commodity product. Despite the intense competition, we think that the pricing of these forms doesn’t reflect that these are commodity products. That’s what neetoForm would be competing on - price.

We also found that most of the forms do an excellent job of data collection. Taking action on the data is left to other applications. This is where Zapier and Make come in. At NeetoForm, we want to help our clients "take action" on that data. It could be as simple as sending an email, SMS, or WhatsApp message or as complicated as building a workflow. So now, with NeetoForm, you don't just collect and manage data but also can take action on the collected data without switching platforms.

Please give NeetoForm a try. We would love to hear your feedback. https://www.neeto.com/neetoform
Those state level laws wouldn’t hold up to a challenge. They nevertheless have a chilling effect on speech and set dangerous precedents.

> Third, it's quite likely that more US states (plus say NZ, Canada, EU countries et al.) will rush to legislate explicitly against deepfakes, cyberbullying, and possibly doxxing, given how fast technology is advancing.

This is just not going to happen without constitutional amendments, at least not in a way that sticks.
Author missed out on a very crucial thing: toothbrush/bristles. We voluntarily ingest micro/nanoplastics daily.
Jumping in as I’ve enjoyed what we’ve had as well as wished for more.

Does your setup:

1. Back phone things up to the PC wirelessly? Not just photos but app data, documents, drawings, etc. Note: must all be in original quality/format

2. Allow your PC to update an app itself (in a way that can be scripted)?

3. Allow copy/paste between the desktop and the phone? (Though with LocalSend being decent this is less and less relevant)

4. Transfer edit history for photos, videos, and audio?

5. Allow you to install and debug your own apps wirelessly? (ok, this one is a gimmie bc linux to android does this natively through adb)

6. Allow your phone to mount drives from your PC so that you can access and transfer files wirelessly?
When apps created for overthrowing governments in other countries begin to backfire amid record low approval ratings, it all of a sudden turns out that “human rights” are merely a cudgel to beat others with.
It is literally speech. If pixels are generated, it’s art. If it is falsely claimed to be real, then it is defamation, which is already illegal.
I've seen better versions of this where they take a website and put it into excel or google docs, so it looks like they are working on a document.