skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly related to Dorkly, but we've implemented feature flags (with our own system) and found them not super-useful and was hoping for more - but we may be doing it wrong. I can certainly see feature flags working well for us when activating e.g. new mostly UI-related features, but when many services and APIs need to change in unison for new features it seems a lot harder to use feature flags in practice. Then it goes beyond just putting new feature code behind conditions, as you might need to load different dependencies, offer different version of server APIs, run on different database schemas, etc. But maybe we are missing something?
The first thing that needs to happen is ranked choice or approval voting. This first past the post nonsense means I’m always voting against someone, not for someone.

The second thing is making the presidential election a popular vote election. This is almost done if a few Republican led states switch to Democrat led states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

And the third is reducing the power of the Senate.

Then we can finally get some movement towards what we want, rather than just try to avoid going backwards.
Little trick with xml.Decoder. unlike unmarshal, decoder ignores any garbage after the XML, which is nice if you want to parse HTML without dealing with the DOM
Come Together: Bridge RNAs Close the Gap to Genome Design
that explains why I had to switch to google dns to access hacker news
Being a judge in the US is a political job. There's not even a universal requirement that one has to be a lawyer.

However, "political" how liberals are using it currently is a euphemism for "current disputes between the Democrat and Republican party management." If you don't accept that framing, or assume that these people are wind-up toys set into motion by the Presidents that appointed them, things can be very political without this split that the punditocracy project onto the court.

Whether bankruptcy courts can dictate a settlement for something this wide-reaching, and simply indemnify someone against future lawsuits is a very political question. What if the courts had settled with the Sacklers for $10, and indemnified them against future suits? Why are the bankruptcy courts allowed to improvise restrictions against what other courts and other victims are allowed to do?

It's redolent of one of the most disturbing elements of Epstein's first conviction, during which they immunized unidentified, unindicted co-conspirators. In order to avail yourself of this immunity, you had to be guilty of child trafficking with Epstein. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been a co-conspirator. Can a court name a sacrifice to suffer for others?

I'm not concerned in this case that some of the victims' lawyers were clamoring for it. Those lawyers could very well be paid for by people with another agenda. Why should the Sacklers be left with anything? The main guilty parties in their family are dead - now we're arguing with the people who are inheriting the proceeds of the crime. Why argue? Just seize it all; the damage far outstrips their worth, and their worth isn't even from their own labor, it's inherited.

Meanwhile, the descendants of slaves are mocked over 400 years of stolen wealth. And we can't even take the proceeds of the most horrific crimes from people who don't even work for a living, and will likely be left wealthy if every dime of that inheritance is taken away.
The Oasis is a great device with one fatal flaw: battery life. For some reason they nerfed the battery relative to the paperwhite so it lasts about a week instead of about a month. Probably won't bother a lot of people but it really bothered me. I read a lot and hate having to think about recharging.

I ended up with the Kobo Libra 2, which has all the same features as the Oasis but also has a month-long battery. I love it overall, great little device. Includes some quality of life features beyond the Oasis, including auto color tone shifting of the front-light in the evening (cool to warm), being able to adjust the light by swiping up the left side of the screen, and more options for progress indicators / headers and footers than the kindle has.

Kobo changes their lineup constantly, which means the Libra 2 has been replaced with a more expensive color version I haven't tried. Color on an e-ink screen is not an interesting feature to me, esp. not when it makes the device more expensive.
Either that, or it's almost like politics have more dimensions than party affiliation.
Since the data is all cold and immutable, do you even need the database anymore? Especially if you are locking down access to paid plans only (paying clients with performance expectations would still require live db). Shard the old data by community/age into separate parquet files you can retrieve as needed.

You have it just in case, but then you are just paying for storage.
I built an app that generates personalized emails to enhance client engagement
FYI, I have a lot of issues with Israel’s policies.

I just don’t pretend like a smallish group of people boycotting all private industry in a country that does the vast majority of their policy right is a targeted approach. If you want to BSD, do it to the US religion/non-profits that fund the settlement expansion in Israel. That would be a far more targeted, but it’s probably equally unlikely to succeed.
> Don't blame the victims.

Expecting some personal agency is now victim blaming? Detoxing from opioids is not fatal. It sucks. But it's doable. You don't need to take your entire prescription. Take it while you're in pain.
Current into a low-resistance "heater" element is used to produce the heat required for Thermionic Emission [0] in a vacuum tube. You only need the heater/emitter to be hot, and insulating the tubes would just spread the heat around to everything inside of it — at some extreme, making everything into an emitter, instead of elements that control the emission.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermionic_emission
We're the founders of Canonical AI. At this company and our last startup, we saw a growing trend in B2B sales. Now more than ever, prospects want to learn about a product on their own before talking to a salesperson. This is especially true of developers.

However, it’s hard to self-educate about a product on the internet. The internet is a firehose. Like most people, when I look at a webpage, I skim it. It’s very rare that I actually read it. In fact, you’re skimming these words right now.

But when we talk to someone, the pace is slower. Speaking and listening take time. We have time to think.

We took our notes from hundreds of calls with developers about caching and trained a Voice AI sales engineer. Developers who are interested in our context-aware semantic cache can call the Voice AI and have a richer self-education experience.

You can try it out here! We'd love to hear the HN community's thoughts! +1-510-662-6338.

-Tom and Adrian
NASA and Boeing have been battling criticism, fair or unfair you can decide, over how Boeing spent a lot more money and time and sent Starliner to the ISS with a bunch of engine failures and leaks.

So the author went for an awkward attempt at saying "Look how great Starliner is, astronauts are even sheltering in it from all that Russian debris and will fly it back if needed".

> this illustrates what Alice has been emphasizing -- that Bob has excellent OpSec

The answer is below a bit:

> "Starliner [...] is authorized to leave the ISS in case of emergency"

I guess it would be something like:

"As we all know, Bob has had a few slip-ups recently: he leaked his admin credentials in a public github repo, and then he also asked for a salary increase, but we'd like to emphasize that in an emergency Bob is fully authorized to respond to incidents and operate the system"
With a good sharp chunk you can potentially nick someones artery.

We had a couple incidents and nobody got really hurt, but later I came to the same feeling of 'fun, but no thanks'
I work in security, and we just got the kind of CISO you mentioned. It’s glorious. People listen to me now.
> And the Supreme Court's finding is that it did not because the payment happened after the action.

It doesn’t have to do with the timing of the payment. It has to do with whether the defendant had a corrupt motive at the time he took the official act.

The government could have prosecuted this case under the same statute by saying: “he knew he was going to get paid later so he steered the contracts to this company.” They had the evidence to pursue that theory of the case. The jury could have inferred under the circumstances that the after the fact payment effected the official act. If they had done that this Supreme Court decision would’ve had no effect on the outcome.

The government instead made the choice to prosecute this case by having the jury instructed that it did not matter what the defendant was thinking at the time of the official act. That was the government’s choice.

This case just means that when the government brings a case under 18 U.S.C. 666–which is titled “theft or bribery”—they actually have to prove bribery, which requires corrupt motive at the time of the official act.

If the government wants to target the appearance of impropriety that can result from payments for official acts that weren’t corrupt at the time, there’s different laws for that (18 U.S.C. 201(c)).
we use hatchet to orchestrate our long running backend jobs. it provided us with scalability, reliability, and observability into our tasks with a couple lines of code.
+1 for Levine's explanation. As usual he is insightful, great at communicating a complex topic, and just fun to read.
They depend on people actually willing to pay to support them. Both through donations and admissions.
I also noticed you missed the most important thing about the GP comment of my reply: he misread which whether the relevant company was on the unethical side of the equation and seemed willing to divest without any skepticism or curiosity.
Perhaps the inside of the tube could be coated with a thin layer of gold using evaporative deposition before the grid/plate/filament/etc is added, like on spacesuit visors for IR reflection.
This is why all the Korean mmorpgs required Korean social security numbers but what ended up happening is Chinese gamers started to steal Korean identities to cheat and farm items which lead to its downfall, they simply could not deal with the large number of Chinese users.

Even source codes were stolen and Chinese mmorpgs would appear with the exact same gameplay but different skins and names.

Wild times.
It's only a joke because doctors will prescribe placebos. He's unable to distinguish between testing medicine and treating diseases.
Replace "AI" in this comment with any other marginalised group and see how clever it sounds!

I wasn't being sarcastic, but I wasn't really 100% serious either. I suppose I was really trying to get beneath the kneejerk "AI bad" response and provoke some thought.

Obviously we don't need to afford AIs the same rights that we afford humans. (I think?). But it definitely is prejudice to assume that content will be slop just because it's generated by an AI.
The algoithm itself is about the use of golden ratio for interval search.

One can use subdivision, other can use ternary division. And another one can use golden ratio.
I don’t put any stock in PLDI.

I’ve been published there, twice, but academic understanding of PL implementation is probably at least a decade (if not more) behind where the top folks in industry are. If you’re good at abstract interpretation, IR design, GC, etc then you’re going to be making good money and having a blast shipping that shit to people, usually in some open source context with a friendly and nontoxic community around you. So much better than the hatchet-job style reviewing and publish-or-perish of the PLDI crew.
> It seems more and more that the solution to AI's quality problems is... more AI.

This reminds me of the passage found in the description of the fuckitpy module:

"This module is like violence: if it doesn't work, you just need more of it."
Great for the winter! In all seriousness, amazing work. It's been tough to get tubes lately with the whole Ukraine situation sadly...
New mpox strain in DR Congo 'most dangerous yet'
Yeah, in practice I only use my Kindle when I've set aside a day to read an anticipated book at release. The convenience of a phone is hard to beat.
The problem is there are zero consequences for leaks. Customers should be owed automatic compensation for the companies giving their data away.
“Hopefully one day FOSS can actually compete with these services’ UX.”

Then build it yourself. ChatGPT will help you.
I think you're mixing up the Purdue bankruptcy and individual, personal bankruptcies for the Sacklers. This case was about the corporate bankruptcy.
There seems to be this weird notion going around that the only reason imperative languages seem easier to people is because they're taught them first, and that if we teach Haskell or Scheme to everyone first then they would find imperative programming unintuitive. I honestly think it's a load of rubbish. The fact that humans easily understand "a list of instructions executed one after the other" over monads and tail recursion is not because they are taught C first, but because that's just the basic instructions we communicate actions with. Recipes, directions, instructions for how to tie your shoe laces, etc. They're all imperative
And imagine that it probably happens for every instance of centralisation and regulation in our society - with few people connecting the dots and tracing things back by some well-meaning but clueless bureaucrats
I’d not heard of Neon, it looks interesting.

When you say “a copy-on-write version of your prod database”, from reading the docs, this includes both schema and data?

I couldn’t find anything on data anonymisation/obfuscation - how do you handle that?
I use it because: 1.
I am not writing a network API without a solid spec, and 2. I want to decouple the number of tcp connections from the amount of pending work. I don't want one wonky msg to consume many resources and I want a spike of traffic to cause more msgs to be sent to the worker pools not cause a bunch of TCP connection establishment, SSL handshakes, etc. I also find it personally offensive to send field names in each network msg, as per JSON or XML.
That's good to know, that's a total deal breaker for me.

I have the Libra 2 and I get about a month from a charge with my normal reading habits.
In the early days of the internet you could download a generator written in simple visual basic im not sure how it was able to do this but worked well enough to signup and play on almost all the online games

Eventually was made illegal and what ended up happening was a huge korean social security numbers being traded online in Chinese forums (who had economic incentives to farm, hack, cheat items from korean mmorpgs)
Boeing rejects claims NASA crew 'stranded' by spacecraft
https://archive.ph/P6l8e
I think you'll find I'm quite horseshit at optimizing for persuasion, as you can easily verify by checking any other post I've ever made and the response it generally elicits. I find myself less motivated by what people think of me every year I'm alive, and less interested in what GPT would say about my replies each of the many times someone replies just to ponder that instead of just satisfying their curiosity immediately via copy-paste. Also, in general it seems unlikely humans function as optimizers natively, because optimization tends to require drastically narrowing and quantifying your objectives. I would guess that if they're describable and consistent, most human utility functions look more like noisy prioritized sets of satisfaction criteria than the kind of objectives we can train a neural network against
Pretty much. He also authored an opinion today against the EPA's good neighbor rule. Directly continuing the work of his mother, who was head of the EPA during the early Reagan years until she was forced to resign as even within that administration she was flagrantly unwilling to do her job of enforcing regs to prevent pollution while also illegally utilizing the power of the office for personal politics.

Always strikes me as weird that the clear through line from her time in power to his own jurisprudence on environmental issues doesn't come up more.
With these food delivery apps they managed to make a system where everyone loses. It’s astounding. When everyone is paying more, while earning less, I’m not sure how the problem fixes itself.

I think these apps just need to go away and business that want to offer delivery can go back to how it used to be done. It was cheaper and better.
It has a tiny context window of 8k, that thing will have the memory of a goldfish.
Literally does not happen in two countries that I know of, and I bet in many countries of the world (developed ones even).
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For python? Gradle doesn't really support python.
KDE Plasma looks pretty great out of the box, and offers more gui based customization than Windows does nowadays.
663 domains, for those wondering.
Ask HN: Where can I find examples of code generated by AI
I think it would be useful to see different example of working code that has been generated by AI. Would be particularly useful to see an entire working project on github that has been generated by AI. Please submit some examples here. Would also be interesting to hear ideas about how such code should be tagged or made discoverable.
Without provisions for equipment installment plans, this would likely end financing of phones by carriers (potentially pushing consumers to higher cost mechanisms, like credit cards or other traditional credit instruments). When locked, the phone is the collateral.

Free and clear phones should be unlocked immediately.
It’s not DNS.

There’s no way it’s DNS.

It was DNS.
I find it fascinating that while in other fields you see lot of theorums/results much before practical results are found. But in this forefront of innovation - I have hardly seen any paper discussing hallucinations and lowerbound/upperbound on that. Or may be I didn't open hacker news on that right day when it was published. Would love to understand the hallucination phenomena more deeply and the mathematics behind it.
Yes please. Some carrier unlocking rules are ridiculous, even if you pay off the phone. If you pay off the phone it should be unlocked immediately. Financing your phone raises some questions about unlocking, but I guess the carriers can decided to not allow you to finance your phone if you just stop paying on them.
For the longest time (up until earlier this year[0]), you couldn't even get the proto details from a gRPC error. IME GP is correct, there are so many caveats to gRPC implementations that unless it is a prioritized, canonical implementation it will be missing things. It seems there are tons of gRPC libraries out there that fell behind or were missing features that you don't know until you need them (e.g. I recently had to do a big lift to implement HTTP proxy support in Tonic for a project).

0 - https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet/issues/303
I run a startup called backlinker AI where we send AI generated quotes to reporters but reporters use them because they believe they are human written. What tips do you have for making text pass as human written?

I use this AI detector and can consistently make it think my text is human written: https://www.zerogpt.com/

My Tips To Make Google/Reporters Think Content Is Human
1. Keep AI content shorter than a paragraph. I try to keep my content brief. AI is good at detecting with lots of training data but often fails at correctly detecting text under 500 words.
2. Use 7th Grade Vocab. This has AI write in a style that avoids technical jargon and skips common AI words. No more "embarked, delved, invaluable, relentless, groundbreaking, endeavor, enlightening, insights, esteemed, shed light" because those are too advanced for 7th grade vocab.
3. Switch "and" for &.
4. Use "I", "My", "We" pronouns.
5. Use active voice instead of passive voice.

What other tips do you have that can help AI content pass as human written?
Being able to say, "I know this issue came up a few months ago, let me see what we decided back then" -- and being able to back that up with a link -- is a superpower. Not everything that comes up in discussions gets documented.
if you mean languages of genociders
than you’re 100% wrong and that’s disgusting. if you mean language of oppressed people who were genocided, well lots of those languages already exist in translate
It's closer to:

FDA orders bakers to list allergens. There are stiff penalties if you are allergenic but don't list the allergen.

So? Bakers look at their production processes and determine there's a chance that enough allergens get into the product due to cross contamination to list it on the label, just in case.

FDA doesn't like it. They expect the bakers to fix their cross-contamination issues at great expense to themselves.

So? Bakers add allergens on purpose, so they can rightly claim it contains them. It's cheaper than setting up a clean room for every product line.
How do bait AI image Facebook pages work?
Recently I've joined a Facebook Group that makes fun of AI generated images, specifically these created to fish for likes on Facebook. I discovered there is a variety of themes the pages posting these images have, e.g.: Christianity and Jesus, war veterans, old people with cakes asking people to wish them happy birthday, etc. Some of these posts gather tens of thousands of likes and comments, partly from bots and accounts that have been taken over, but partly from legit people, thinking that they see a real cake or a kid making a sculpture.

This made me wonder how are these pages programmed. Obviously the images are generated and posted automatically, and prompts for image generation are probably also generated via AI like ChatGPT and I'm dying to know how exactly.
What's weird is, a page like that can post 30 posts of the optical illusion of Jesus made from the forest trees, but then completely change style or theme. Sometimes these themes end up very bizarre, like Jesus accompanied by Asian cabin crew, or being "sculpted" from vegetables and fruit by some child in Africa. There seems to be some feedback in prompt generation that looks at already generated images and varies them subtly. I also feel like these bot pages can change the theme completely, as if controlled centrally.

I understand this is quite an esoteric topic but I'm wondering if you have any ideas on how it works. Not posting the links to the pages as I don't know if it's allowed.
> I don't understand people who think the Sacklers are villains who destroyed lives, but Purdue should continue operating more-or-less as-is. Which is, I think, the conclusion from this settlement. If this is you, can you help me understand? Do you think there is/was a realistic way to prescribe opioids routinely and safely?

This is an extremely easy answer that doesn’t require any details of the case.

The supreme court clarifies what the law is, not if the Sacklers are villains and if Purdue should continue.

So the people who think the the Sacklers are Villains and that Pursue should continue are people who believe the settlement is not legal and dont believe in legislating from the bench.