skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently unwrapped linktransformer to get access to some intermediate calculations and realized it was a pretty thin wrapper around SentenceTransformer and DBScan. It would have taken me so much longer to get similar results without copying their defaults and IO flow. It’s easy to take for granted code you didn’t have to develop from scratch. It would be interesting if there was a tool that inlined dependency calls and shook out unvisited branches automatically.
A couple come to mind

* The proof of the classification of simple groups[0]

* The work on topological four manifolds by M. Freedman [1]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_sim...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28471159
Community Gardens and Food Security in Russia
You should just link this in the thread where the discussion is already ongoing.
Meanwhile the infrastructure is not exactly doing great in many places, and it seems doubtful that it would be doing particularly better with more taxes collected. Anyway, there's been a pretty clear trend towards not-less, even in just the last few decades (really, compare quality of services and infrastructure at revenues and debts in the 90s to now), without a clear sign that it's actually worth it or that more would make anything better. A fruitless 20 year war didn't help either.
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Covid didn't invent remote work. I had been working remote for almost 10 years before Covid arrived. It merely accelerated a force that was already in motion.
Actual report/article: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-qu...
They are not false dichotomies, they're just not the only ones that matter. There's a separate scale of liberal/authoritarian that, while not entirely orthogonal to progressive/conservative, allows for a lot of leeway in practice.
I can let in a contractor in my house and also ask them not to smoke. They of course have the right to refuse that request and decline my money, but in the real world, contractors usually comply with such requests as smoking is known to harm health. I don't see why the digital world has to be any different. Just because laws and awareness are lagging behind, tech world's toxic practices don't need to get a pass.
you mean the 2nd comment in thread, where bluca said "don't just run random commands"?

Well, it was pretty harsh, but he had a point.. I mean, if someone did "apt remove --purge cron" and then come complaining about /etc/crontab disappearing, what would you tell them?

That said, apparently the "--purge without argument" was _not_ intended, because they removed it entirely, and they were sure it would not break things.

(Compare to "--preserve-root" option to "rm" - that was actually intended behavior, so maintainers there had to specifically add "--no-preserve-root" option)
Unfortunately it was a very long time ago about 10+ years ago.

I am unable to recover the link.

All I remember was that it was during the HTML5 wave & this tutorial was particularly about the JavaScript implementation of Box2D js
The article just described how he was able to avoid this flaw in X11 by being mildly careful in how he structured his code. Making sure to do the bitmap copy only once and then issuing copyrect() calls to the server to have it do all of the blitting locally. With SDL it generally wants to do all of the blitting on the client and then push the whole window over as a giant pixmap for every frame. At least that's what it has done when I've tried to use it.
No.

OAI is in the process of selling out to the NSA and military.

I don't think Anthropic will be doing the same.

The valuation doesn't just reflect the tech, but the sales of the tech, and between the two Anthropic seems like the one that's going to be more ethical and restrictive.
Related from a few months ago:

The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229307
Because you don't understand it, and it's understandable. Get a version of GPT-2 or something from huggingface. Go through layer by layer.

Anyone with brain is impressed by the state of the art LLMs. What's next? The latest GPUs aren't impressive because "shoving a bunch of electrons all around the place to do elementary arithmetic isn't impressive"? The difficulty is getting a bajillion little things to come together in a way that is useful. Pointing out that some complex thing is not impressive because it's "just lots of little simple things" is dumb as hell.
That would be a great first step.

My other big objection is that this bill as written applies to all people hosting websites instead of being restricted to just incorporated persons like corporations and institutions like the EU's Digital Markets Act.

If it were modified to only apply to incorporated entities then it'd be a solid bill doing net good without any significant violation of individual rights. But as is it applies to all human people that run websites and that makes it a net negative because of the violation of the rights of normal human people.
A childhood friend of mine died of AIDs related complications a few years ago. I hope this saves a lot of people.
From the README.md:
"Also thank to Roberto Carlos Fernandez, who many years ago made me promise I'd give him a printed copy of the sources. That copy is buried in some box in storage somewhere, and we'd rather do this than go search for it."
I don’t think the question is inherently unreasonable, but they asked it in a really flip and disrespectful way, and weirdly went with a very negative assumption. There’s also a whole field of medical research ethics and, I guess, it is hard to believe that somebody could be not aware of that (then again, I guess everyone has to learn it at some point).
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War Is a Racket (1935)(https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket)
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War Is a Racket(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket)
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It is not just a religion, but a legal and societal system. A very medieval one.

Few people care if you believe that Muhammad rode to heaven on a magic horse (Buraq). But quite a lot of people care if you want to introduce hand amputations for theft, as demanded by Sharia Law, or different inheritance rules for sons and daughters where being female = being less valuable.

The medieval-practical parts of Islam must definitely be kept in check, unless the country in question is willing to regress into some very dark ages. That is something that Ataturk understood very well when reforming Turkey.
This is why I don't use Google services anymore, they've all but removed their customer support. You can't get them on the phone for anything. If your problem is that you're locked out of your paid YouTube prime account, their advice is to contact customer service by logging into your account (I can't, that's the problem). If you want to cancel the subscription, the best advice the internet has is to close your bank/credit card account. I've had a monthly YT premium charge that's been blocked for a year because I made the mistake of attaching it to my bank and can't log in to cancel it.

This is the level of service offered by one of the richest companies in the history of the world.
Use clean architecture.
Your assertion that it is unrelated is true, but doesn't explain why someone would take time and effort out of their day to press an arbitrary button. If one was concerned with the conversation, that time and effort would have logically gone into actually adding to the conversation.
They could, but it might be considered risky or maybe outright not possible with the current design, since the EVA hoses would be different from the ones normally used within the capsule.

It isn't that the problems can't be solved, just that NASA doesn't think it's worth working on just yet. Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if they're hoping to get government funding so that they can be the controlling party (vs a private mission, where, ultimately, they have to compromise with the specific things Isaacman would be willing to fund and within the timeline within which he's willing to keep funding).
Yet they have laws even on personal web pages and even gopher holes, where you have to put your personal address on the public.
My problem is the lack of transparency with how donations are handled. Many churches primary source of income is donations, which they turn around and spend on private jets, lavish clergy salaries, or even for-profit endeavors like giant shopping malls.

Because churhces are exempt from all the transparency required of normal nonprofits, they can easily mislead their congregations about how that donated money is spent.

If someone decides to switch churches because they found out that most of the money they donated was not actually going towards charitable causes, that would be an absolute win in my book.
> Be warned that there's a pretty extended sex scene, but otherwise just go in without expectations.

I want to push back slightly against the idea that's an "extended sex scene", or even that it's a "sex scene" at all.

It's one of the most beautiful sequences in all of cinema -- a grieving couple rediscovering intimacy and joy. The way it is intercut with them dressing, getting ready for dinner, the way you can see it brought happiness and affirmation and some sense that life is not over and love survived a terrible loss. It's central to the entire film: to why they are in Venice in the first place, to their commitment to each other, to their determined love for each other.
It's not "no shot," though. It's other existing, widely available forms of pre-exposure prophylaxis.

They're not comparing the new treatment to nothing. They're comparing it to existing treatments.
To me this appears as a way to outsource customer service to an external entity funded by a cash flow to which Meta does not need to contribute. The courts are always going to exist, Meta is always paying its lawyers, so why bother hiring extra people to staff a support line?

And by making support have to go through the legal system you've already cut out 90% of the support calls you would normally take.

Financially, the entire arrangement is a huge win and cost saving for Meta while at the same time completely overwhelming the publicly funded small claims court. This is not dissimilar to how many Walmart employees require government Aid because Walmart won't pay them enough do not require it.
Also, sharp gradients inherently incentivize attempts to equalise. It is an unstable situation.
I don't think it's correct to treat the interest of the corporation as manifestation of the combined interest of all its employees. It would be true for shareholders, although even there I think there's a vast difference between those who hold massive amounts of voting shares and minor investors. But employees are effectively trading with the corporation (their labor for wages), and are not meaningfully represented by it.
I love this style of writing and how it introduces a place I almost never thought about before. I didn't know anything about Tajikstan except its name so this was all new information. Thank you!
You can lie on your birth date in your profile.
What about in the cases where less is actually more?
I have a fairly flat project that I’ve been managing for the past 5 years. It’s worked well for me.

I have found that deep nesting just makes me think more about unimportant stuff. It adds unnecessary friction. Also, naming is hard. More folders means more naming.
Friends don't let friends run ubuntu...
hardware sales to datacenters is cyclical.

80% datacenter sales are to less than 8 customers.

marginal buyers - coreweave and xai are funded with speculative monies to the tune of $15B

so, expect pain.
In delivering and receiving money for these systematic scam ads, Meta is a de facto criminal enterprise. They have made billions on these crimes and should be taken to court and fined billions for their crimes. But prosecutors are sleeping.
I see the name "dang" discussed here quite a bit; it seems to be an internal code name for a highly effective algorithm for surfacing relevant content. Whatever it is, it seems to be far more intelligent than any other automated system I've seen. Has HN somehow created a sentient recommendation system?
The Republic of Gilead is named for the biblical name "Gilead" for a region in Jordan[0]; the shot is presumably named for the Balm of Gilead[1], also named for biblical Gilead.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balm_of_Gilead
Been a while...but what I recall the most strongly is:

- "Pushing your buttons is our only goal" reporting. Both in individual stories, and as an overall "keep you tuned in and under our thumbs 24x7" business strategy.

- A "Facts Do Not Exist" approach to political reporting. Senator Slime(D) said that 2 + 2 = 3, Senator Sleaze(R) said that 2 + 2 = 5...and NPR's reporters would not dare to suggest that there was anything resembling an objective truth. Let alone give you a hint toward that "4" thing.
Donald Sutherland, Shape-Shifting Movie Star, Dies at 88
This is a legitimately amazing result and a huge win against HIV. I hope it replicates in PURPOSE 2. Zero incident cases in an at-risk population is, frankly, fantastic, in a country where prevalence of HIV ranges from 12-27% depending on the province.
Amazon didn't make money for years.

These hospitals are spending immensely on expansion. Just think about how every (or the one) hospital around you seemingly has all manner of offices and facilities everywhere. Many even have gyms/"wellness centers".

You don't build a gym when you are borderline bankrupt. You build a gym when you need to spend money.
You can get addicted to anything that gives you little dopamine hits and stimulating reward centers the same way gambling, etc does. Dark patterns are well documented. Medical science and multiple studies involving brain scans during social media use and lighting up those areas of the brain back this up. The DSM hasn't been redefined but there's recognition of it as a problem and Internet/Gaming (digital media) addictions being added to the DSM is being discussed and there's no argument these platforms are designed by psychologists to use our own brain chemistry against us and create these addictive behaviors. How this is done is well documented and its exactly what the law lays out in it's defining of what constitutes an addictive feed.

Source: Just search HN, there's been so many posts related to this.
There are dozens if not far more groups on facebook pretending to be meta support to phish accounts. Facebook knows about these groups and could shut them down trivially, but that does not boost engagement numbers. A lot of meta policies are actually very hostile towards users and make absolutely no sense.

For instance, I learned I was somehow shadowbanned or deranked on instagram and confirmed on several accounts with tests. I complained to a friend I knew that work there and all of a sudden my account was getting activity again. Ever since then though the algorithm has been flagging and moderating insanely weird posts for "spam" or "self promotion", which I figured out is just the algorithm flagging you for a post going viral. when I comment about anything vaguely related to the tech field, which are always on topic and full of information I will get flagged. It's irritating to watch your account get "penalized" in some completely opaque and unfair way when you can see actual rampant spam all over their platforms. And there is practically zero recourse unless you know someone internally, like I mentioned.

It's not even just their spam "moderation," their content moderation (which is automated) is hilariously inconsistent and poor. It is utterly weird the way they hide/derank posts and comments on instagram and which content they decide to promote. You could like, let your users decide what they want to see and read, but that is clearly not the goal.

Lots of problems this company has the resources and knowledge to solve, they simply do not want to. There is no other explanation. Customer service being what it is is just a symptom of a much larger, systemic problem.

I do believe social media is a blight on society and I don't really care so much one way or another about my account, but if Meta is trying to be what it says it is trying to be, they are completely off the mark and this is just one of a long series of examples.
The tech world does not give you the choice of letting you pay for privacy or pay by invading your privacy. Now, you can nitpick that you can build your own service or host your service, but then the question becomes why is programming/sysadmin knowledge a prerequisite for using your phone?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40729588
Apple approved ALVR few days ago too, clearly they're having issues at least wrt getting developer attention.

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alvr/id6479728026
There is no requirement for laws to use words with the same meaning as they’re used in one specific niche publication. “Addictive” is a normal English word; it doesn’t exclusively belong to psychiatry.
wouldn't you be worried about potential price increases or behaviour changes?
Universities have a duty of care to their students. For someone playing such a pivotal role to have suffered to that point is inexcusable.
Why? What have they got to hide? Maybe the robot's video feed should be available to the master of those servants
> It's easier and cheaper to test new drugs outside the us/eu because laxer regulations.

Given your comments elsewhere I suspect you're claiming this with no evidence.

For other readers, this isn't true / it's drug dependent. Amongst other things: difficulty sourcing the correct patients; difficulty importing drugs, particularly because they're not yet approved; difficulty getting high quality or reliable labs; etc. As any ctm could have told you.

As for this drug: the US/EU don't have rampant hiv, esp with the use of PrEP.
As far as side projects go, "Readme Driven Development" works to motivate me, and keeps the scope contained.

https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...
I’m always amazed by how much some people want the government to control.
They are exremist, they banned Eid celebrations, they banned the Hijab....
Same. AWS support will literally log into your ubuntu server (not even an official AWS AMI) and debug your problem for you if you ask for it, that's how dedicated their support is. No idea how google cloud platform support operates, but I have my doubts they're as reliable.
Show HN: Stripe-like webhooks for all your 3rd party API's
I developed software that registers, creates, and manages webhooks at scale because, in every project I've worked on, webhooks have been essential but often treated as a last resort due to the added complexity in both immediate and long-term support. Typically, we end up using multiple webhooks, which can strain resources and complicate maintenance. It's frustrating when things break and the documentation is outdated or unclear.

So, I built this tool specifically for webhooks, inspired by Pipedream and Zapier but with a sole focus on webhooks. My goal is to avoid generic automation platforms and instead provide a service dedicated to delivering reliable, scalable webhook data consistently. The aim is to create a Stripe-like webhook experience for all your third-party APIs.

I’d love to get your feedback—whether it’s about what you like or what could be improved. If you're interested, I'd be happy to give you a demo and show you how it works! We are still testing it out with a couple of companies, so it's not GA yet. But very, very soon.

Side note: I'm almost done with a Rust CLI to port the webhooks to your local machine like Stripe. Think Syncd for anything webhook-related: testing, debugging, registering, editing, porting, and more.

Tech Stack: Next.js, Rust, FastAPI, Tailwind CSS
I find it odd that I don't recall ever watching a movie with Donald Sutherland. MASH is one of the few Robert Altman films I still need to watch, so here we go.
As long as I've had a phone - which is over 50 years now - it has been "their device".
Llm powered / guided fuzzer would be pretty cool though.
This is obviously unconstitutional and it'll be shot down in the courts before it takes effect since this is their version of KOSA among other First Amendment issues.

Some context here: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/11/nys-safe-for-kids-act-a-...
Boeing Is the Canary in the Trickle-Down Coal Mines
Oh, ok, I skimmed past this:

> The shot was also superior to once-daily Truvada, another Gilead drug that is used for HIV prevention.

That's good news. As I understand it the existing treatments were already very good. And these injections are only once per year.
Gilead is the name of the pharmaceutical company, not the drug.

The trade name of the drug is Sunlenca; the generic name is lenacapavir.
https://archive.ph/oOckc
DNS it's trivial to override. Even better, the chat client can provide it's own resolver and IP's.
I suspect it's largely very similar, with low/un-supported systems just running for years. The real risk is how connected these systems are. Are they isolated to specific VLan/segment traffic in addition to login and tighter ownership process?

In the end, I find that most of the stuff that I've done with MS-SQL, especially in single-server environments is just as easy or better with PostgreSQL. I think the UX for replication scenarios, versioning and a few other bits are much better with MS-SQL, but you will pay (significantly) for those features in practice.

I'm not sure if/when some of the more Enterprise features will be closer to in the box with PostgreSQL, but I have doubts... there are great underlying features, but it's not the same.