skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Multiple types of Pigeons(/doves) have been domesticated through history. The pigeons most people are familiar with in big cities are feral domesticated rock doves.
"and 280 feet long"

Is that an error?
Intel is costantly modernizing one of its fabs in PDX. From what I have heard from a neighbor working at it, Intel brings most new equipment here, uses it for a certain time, then packages it up and ships to Arizona, so they don't have to pay sales tax on it, since its now used...
Everyone I knew was on Hangouts pretty much. I don't know how or why Google squandered that opportunity. They split it out into Alo and Duo, and Duo became pretty popular but no one touched Alo. Then they switched Duo to Google Meet and lost many people again. Now most people I know just use Facebook Messenger for WhatsApp for personal video calls
One of the individual loads was at this scale. There are multiple 'super loads'. The article doesn't say that a single 'super load' was split up into 18 parts.
I think that's an interesting question, and a possible counter to my argument.

Certainly kids learn and become better at extrapolation and need fewer and fewer samples in general as they get more life experience.
A Terraform Provider Proof-of-Concept
There is no transparency if you don't show people everything; that's the "point" of being see-through. There's a word for half-measure transparency; translucency.

I don't trust translucent security. They certainly try to market themselves as secure, but unless they're willing to show me what's behind the curtain I don't intend to trust them whatsoever.
This looks great, I am seeing a lot of potential use cases here. It also pools together a lot of the stuff that goes unreported in the news.

Would this be a service you would ever offer to regular researchers?
> If a founder cashes out 10% of their position for $500k @ $25M Series A valuation, that de-risks a lot of their personal life. But when the startup ends up selling for $250M, that $500k of 'early' selling would have been worth $5M (less any dilution between rounds) - hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time.

IMHO, it's very easy not to regret, with those particular numbers.

I'd take $500K now plus possibly $45M later -- over $0 now and possibly $50M later.

I'd take that deal even if "possibly" were "guaranteed".

(Who might regret that is a founder who was otherwise already wealthy.)
how do tools like this handle evolving workflows? e.g., if I have a "durable worklflow" that sleeps for a month and then performs its next actions, what do I do if I need to change the workflow during that month? I really like the concept but this seems like an issue for anything except fairly short workflows. If I keep my data and algorithms separate I can modify my event handling code while workflows are "active."
> hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time

in the scenario you outline the founder sells the remaining 90% of their position for $45MM?

I don't think many people would experience any real regret at "only" getting $45.5MM instead of $50MM, due to declining marginal utility of money
I definitely feel both ways about this. When I have a couple of close friends over, I like them to have a place to sit and chat that feels connected to the kitchen. I'm happy to chat and drink with them while I chop vegetables and attend to a pan, and I don't feel too self-conscious about saying "oops, give me a sec" if cooking demands 100% of my attention for a minute or two. And my friends know better than to try to help me with cleanup (though they're welcome to chop.)

When I'm hosting more people, or people I don't know well, I don't want them anywhere near the kitchen. Especially when there are a lot of guests and the kitchen starts to resemble a triage area at a mass casualty event, and when you have to fend off well-meaning people who try to wash the dishes or something else that they don't realize is extremely unhelpful. I need to be on in the kitchen, not sociable. It's work. The kitchen is just for me, my wife, and in extreme cases, close friends who know us well enough to be actually helpful by taking things to the table and replenishing drinks.

The latter situation is much rarer than the former, so I'm glad we have an open kitchen, but I really feel how much better it would be to have a separate room for hosting big events.

I've heard it suggested that the ideal solution would be a closed-off kitchen where you keep all the mess, the simmering pots, the dirty dishes, and the sweat and swearing, and a second open kitchen where you can smile and do the impressive and/or photogenic cooking in front of your guests to show how effortless and organized you are in the kitchen.

EDIT/PS: Space issues are beside the point, IMO — many people living in small spaces have a "dining room" or at least a "dinner table" that is busy with other things the rest of the day (mail, homework, laundry, etc.) and only gets dedicated to meals at mealtime. It's only empty all day if you have a surplus of space.
It really degrades the experience and often does really wonky things, like delivery 3/4 the messages to 3/4 of the people. Happens nearly every time in a decently sized group text for my friend group.

I don’t know if that’s Google’s, Apple’s, RCS’s, or SMS’s fault.
Compared to aigen with citations found for whatever was generated without consideration for truth and ethical reasoning?

The heuristics should be improved, then; we shouldn't ask me to put these in PDFs without typed edges to URLs and schema.org/Datasets, to support a schema.org/Claim or a ClaimReview in a SocialMediaPosting about a NewsArticle about a ScholarlyArticle :about a Thing skos:Concept with a :url.

Would you have deep linked your way to those resources (which are useful enough to be re-cited here for later reference) without the researcher doing it for you?

Technical writing courses for example advise to include the searches that you used in the databases that you found oracles in, in order to help indicate the background research bias prior to the hypothesis at least.

Transparency and Accountability: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/

So, this sort of cited input is valuable and should be valued not as link spam but as linked edge-dense research sans generatble prose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann
That’s right. These ranchers are basically reaping the side effects of that sweet mineral royalty they invited into their lands.

If you’re ever in Midland, you’ll find it smells like ass. I think in another decade or two it might be uninhabitable and maybe acutely toxic.

Also from the article, it seems the railroad commission is paying for clean up?? Is the public paying for the externalities of rancher and mineral extraction?
This spends a lot of time talking about the C++ Small String Optimization (SSO) but then it decides it doesn't really care about the zero terminator.

It is not at all clear to me that the SSO is worth it if you don't need this terminator. C++ has no real choice, it is wedded to C-style zero terminated strings and so the SSO is necessary to be competitive, but if you're rejecting that surely it's time to entirely re-evaluate this data structure ?
> That's why it's always a pain to figure out why a group chat is showing up green all of a sudden; you can't tell who brought the Android to the party.

Or as the rest of the world would describe it: That's why it's always a pain including Americans in a group chat – they usually don't have WhatsApp :)
I empathize with the one horse that sat down. "Nope. 30 hours on a plane standing? Hell no. Put me back in the zoo."
Your friend will have to hire an attorney. They can expect a drawn-out lawsuit for breach of contract. That may go to mandatory arbitration depending on jurisdiction and amount.

Contracts only document the original agreement. In case of dispute you have to get a judge or arbitrator to rule in your favor, and even then you only get a judgment.

Freelancers & consultants: don’t put yourself in a situation where your customer can owe you a lot of money. Customers: don’t put yourself in a situation where a consultant can owe you a lot of work. Structure consulting contracts with frequent defined deliverables and payments.
Well, they had a choice to sell their mineral rights, or purchase land that had no mineral rights.
Maybe you should focus less on China and more on the issue at hand? The PVC flooring would be a problem regardless of where it comes from...
I do not quite the framing that they are dumping it on you. Surely there are American companies that are importing this to the US? And American companies that are selling it to builders and consumers? Are those entities free of responsibility?
Air-breathing spacecraft to provide better Earth observation
I mean, obviously so that we can create a new chat without them and ostracize them from all future social interactions. Duh.
If you're building everything singlehandedly, then you have leverage over your employer and investors.

You should use that leverage to renegotiate your pay. You'd lose nothing because you're considering quitting anyways.
MAE = masked autoencoder, not mean absolute error.
I still prefer native apps for performance but that's just me
Bye bye, Raspberry Pi.
Yes to your last question, that is essentially how the first iteration solutions operated. Some of the original kaggle competition’s best solutions used a DSL made of these transformations. That was 4 years ago. [1]

The issue with that path is that the problems aren’t using a programmatic generator. The rule sets are anything a person could come up with. It might be as simple as “biggest object turns blue” but they can be much more complicated.

Additionally, the test set is private so it can’t be trained on or extracted from. It has rules that aren’t in the public sets.

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/abstraction-and-reasonin...
Disclaimer: I work on Restate together with @p10jkle.

You can absolutely do something similar with a RDBMS.

I tend to think of building services in state machines: every important step is tracked somewhere safe, and causes a state transition through the state machine. If doing this by hand, you would reach out to a DBMS and explicitly checkpoint your state whenever something important happens.

To achieve idempotency, you'd end up peppering your code with prepare-commit type steps where you first read the stored state and decide, at each logical step, whether you're resuming a prior partial execution or starting fresh. This gets old very quickly and so most code ends up relying on maybe a single idempotency check at the start, and caller retries. You would also need an external task queue or a sweeper of some sort to pick up and redrive partially-completed executions.

The beauty of a complete purpose-built system like Restate is that it gives you a durable journal service that's designed for the task of tracking executions, and also provides you with an SDK that makes it very easy to achieve the "chain of idempotent blocks" effect without hand-rolling a giant state machine yourself.

You don't have to use Restate to persist data, though you can - and you get the benefit of having the state changes automatically commit with the same isolation properties as part of the journaling process. But you could easily orchestrate writes into external stores such as RDBMS, K-V, queues with the same guaranteed-progress semantics as the rest of your Restate service. Its execution semantics make this easier and more pleasant as you get retries out of the box.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that we expose a PostgreSQL protocol-compatible SQL query endpoint. This allows you to query any state you do choose to store in Restate alongside service metadata, i.e. reflect on active invocations.
Restaurants are more expensive than ever.
An old style "galley" kitchen is actually more efficient as a kitchen, but it's not popular because it isn't very good as a social space and doesn't tend to have a lot of storage space for all the gadgets people have in their kitchens now.
How many animals have human-level language? The only I’m aware are these monkeys that were taught how to sign
Exactly. I quit Google in 2017 to work on a promising start-up idea (generative AI chatbot for coding, a tad early on that one) and ended up raising barely any money, running up massive CC debt to finance cost of living and GPUs, and taking a huge compounding opportunity cost to not continue growing as a FAANG SWE (not to mention missing out on the stock market run with the extra money I didn't have). I spent the last several years paying off that debt instead of buying a house or investing, etc. I'm massively behind in earnings and net worth compared to my colleagues who talk about their future startup idea but never struck out on their own.

But I'm finally debt free and ready to risk my future yet again on another startup.
Is it not an option to use one of the many free OTT messengers such as Signal or WhatsApp that offer the same user experience as iMessage, but work for both major mobile OSes, and as an additional bonus don't depend on 30 year old brittle protocols (looking at MMS here) and don't hand over your entire conversation history to your carrier?
That’s cuz they’re not. Nobody is. RCS is a crap standard, but it is a crap standard that the PRC, one of Apple’s larger markets, is requiring in new handsets going forward (something that The Verge reporter overlooked). I’m still curious what the compatibility story even is given Google has their own encryption standard but Apple is sticking to the GSMA spec and in their original announcement said they were going to be working with the GSMA to improve the security and privacy and all the carriers seem to just use Google’s software to run the backend.
So you can remove them from the group you send photos and videos to.
The 'Bishop' theme for that piece is an English peculiarity. It doesn't exist in any other language.
Here is another example in the examples repo which does compensation. There is also a Java one
https://github.com/restatedev/examples/blob/main/basics/basi...
The trick is not to try to quit substance use, but to build a life for oneself that's more satisfying without the substance. I started by building a woodworking workshop for myself and playing with shellac, wax, oil, and pigments for surface design. Then me and my drunk friends started making paper mache lampshades from egg cartons while we drank. That was important as it linked the old fun to the new fun so there was no opposition or tension. From there it was a matter of building momentum for the art play and allowing myself to meditate on the downsides of my beer drinking. Once I felt ready, I shut myself away for two months reading about sleeping most of the day, focusing on eating better, programming, playing video games, and sewing dog collars. The manual activities were important to put me in my body rather than anxious mind and my dog collars were so fabulous they all got stolen off the dogs. Then I examined sources of stress in my life, like my relationship with my parents, and I worked on those. Each stressor I dealt with gave me more freedom of movement and more confidence that I did indeed have the necessary agency.

Guilt is the number one killer of attempts to get sober. We addicts feel absolutely terrible about the effects of our behavior on other people. So we end up hating ourselves so much we often remove ourselves from the flow of life. From the outside the guilt manifests as anger, flailing, and destructive behavior. Christianity has good technologies for overcoming guilt. The whole "Jesus loves you more when you are at your worst, so give it over to Him" thing is very useful in these situations. I'm an atheist but see gods as deep aspects of the human mind that evolved for reasons, so seeing ritual and prayer as psych self-treatment is not an issue for me.

Relapses must be seen as part of the process, not opportunities to beat yourself up. In fact, willpower and discipline have absolutely no role in overcoming addiction. The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety, it's connection, thus addiction recovery is about reconnecting to life and people, not quitting substances. That's just a nice bonus.

I can still drink on occasion, maybe twice a year. It was important to me not to be one of those people who make alcohol an enemy. It's just a jealous God who needs to be bound so they know their place. All the best to your friend.
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It's not on 1.0 yet, and it was written by someone external (who we have hired, but hasn't started yet :D). So I would say Go is still in coming soon mode, unless you want to just do a POC on 0.8.1 (which is fine, someone on the discord is running that in prod anyhow)

Super excited to hear what you do with it though!
Another factor may be the decline in popularity of hosting dinner parties in blue cities. It’s nearly impossible to host a dinner for many people due to all the dietary restrictions. Years ago, you might have had a vegetarian or two, but now we gluten intolerance, vegans, and people in general are far more vocal about dietary restrictions. A potluck is the best one can hope for when hosting a party for those under the age of 40.
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I love it! We’ve seen the job title change a bit depending on the sector but can be under fraud analyst, threat intel analyst, risk analyst, financial crime analyst, sometimes trust and safety teams.
Plivo was hacked or sold user info
Today I received spam email from @businessfundrapid.com to an email address I only setup with Plivo.

So they were hacked and didn’t say anything or don’t know

OR

They are selling user data.

Anyone else experience this ?
How do you program for 8h in a row? – Bite code
In my experience, that's the difference between southern and northern state DOTs.

Southern states do their work from 8pm-midnight+.

Northern states do it from 9am-5pm.
> I think they're saying that it's silly to claim humans learn with less data than LLMs, when humans are ingesting a continuous video, audio, olfactory and tactile data stream for 16+ hours a day, every day.

Yeah, but they're seeing mostly the same thing day after day!

They aren't seeing 10k stills of 10k different dogs, then 10k stills of 10k different cats. They're seeing $FOO thousand images of the family dog and the family cat.

My (now 4.5yo) toddler did reliably tell the difference between cats and dogs the first time he went with us to the local SPCA and saw cats and dogs that were not our cats and dogs.

In effect, 2 cats and 2 dogs were all he needed to reliably distinguish between cats and dogs.
> My company need deterministic encryption to search encrypted data.

I'll take things you should never do as a non-expert for $100.

> The first version use AES-CFB. There's no authentication. It's probably copy pasted from a public Gist and nobody ever commented on it that it is insecure. I wonder if it was actually intended to be the non-deterministic version, but the higher level wrappers do not wrap this function so people didn't actually use it.

Lack of authentication is probably the least of your concerns if your product is searching over encrypted data.
It's not theater. You're right that the hash could be compromised if the server is compromised, but it is one thing besides the code that you can use to check the integrity of your download. It is right in your face and obvious, so it is less likely to be faked. As I said, the download can be compromised, and it makes the most sense for it to be compromised in a way that is not obvious. When there's a hash you can check that the thing you downloaded is in fact what it was advertised to be. The hash can also be obtained outside the target environment and checked separately for an extra measure of security. People publishing exploits don't know if you are auditing or not. When you make them commit to a specific version of the code, then they can't randomly inject garbage as easily.

I already explained how the code could end up not being what you thought it was. If a we server randomly serves exploits to 1% of requests, or intelligently detects non-interactive downloaders, you can get hacked that way. And if you don't even save the script, you can't even look at it if you have doubts.
These wells may have been drilled before the current owners were alive.

> There’s nothing uncommon about a leaky old well. Many in West Texas were drilled during World War II and 80 years underground can do major damage to steel and concrete casing. Many of those wells were also flooded with water to squeeze out the last drops of oil.
These secondary kitchens are called 'spice kitchens', more common in multi-generational households that do a lot of batch/bulk cooking.
A little while back, this guy and other online personalities were recording themselves avoiding paying for the trains in japan. It's on his youtube channel, actually
The Farmer Was Replaced
Being afraid of getting punished for liking the wrong thing could also be, for instance, an LGBT person in a non-accepting environment. There are many reasons for privacy that aren't anything to do with hate speech. Though, I think having it a toggle defaulting to private (like reddit votes) would be slightly better, for those who do intentionally want to share their likes.
Because `constexpr` was not supported in C until very recently (C23).

And `static const` by itself is not a good alternative, because constants can't be used in a lot of places, for example when declaring the size of an array.
Atari shipped a PC clone that came with GEM + GEM Desktop
They tried to push one years and years ago (combining SMS with one of their existing non-SMS messaging services) and I had to manually upgrade back to the prior version of their messaging app to get anything to work properly again, including SMS. Total disaster, broken as hell.

When I switched to iOS, that experience gave me a special appreciation for how smoothly iMessage/Messages works.
This! Google is beating the drum about RCS, but Google Voice, their own service, does NOT support RCS.
Hi friends, I worked really hard on trying to make serialization and complex save/load easier to implement for C# Godot games (a lot of it is just pure C# and works for other stuff, too).

This serialization effort ended up resulting in the creation of a number of new tools, as well as major updates to existing ones.

As usual, I am always open to feedback and questions. Just wanted to share in hopes that it helps someone and maybe get some critical insight into technical improvements, if you spot something.
While I agree that employees should get more equity and liquidity, I think it comes down to supply and demand:

- If the founders are de-risking appropriately it will take years of no pay/low pay work before they can even consider taking on employees. Building a valuable asset is not done overnight and takes extreme commitment - plus reputational & financial risk, opportunity costs etc.

- It's very rare for companies to get past the Series B stage. When they do, the founders have accumulated non trivial and non replicable knowledge about the market and the customers. The liquidity they get should be worth much more down the road.

Now of course if you are an early employee that is expected to 'make the startup work' like a founder and get none of the benefits there's a problem. On the other hand employees are replaceable & 'swappable' in a way that founders are not.
My favourite part of this is when they apply their new words to things that technically make sense, but don't. My daughter proudly pointed at a king wearing a crown as "sharp king" after learning about knives, saws, etc.
Last closed issue was march, many initial issues mentioning security vulnerabilities since April that have not been responded to..