skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Our server models are exactly the same as the DTOs we would write, so I just serialized those, instead of writing all the boilerplate, we can write DTOs as needed later if needed

I worked on a system that used the protobuf types generated for communicating between services everywhere.
There was absolutely nothing in any of the components of the system that didn't depend directly on the generated protobuf code.
What made it even worse is that a backend system we called had multiple endpoints that used the same name for similar but slightly different things, so there wasn't, e.g. just a single Passenger type, but a bunch of different Passenger types across various packages.
Lucky Lab Rat: How AI Saved Our Company
Better stop moralizing capitalism. AI is simply another tool, and like all the tools that came before, its #1 purpose is to generate profits for the owners.

There's no counterbalance or consolidation of power that wouldn't go in accordance with the rules of a capitalist society, which necessarily includes the social class divide. Between those owning everything and those who sell their labor to survive.

Ugly or not, that is exactly what capitalism is supposed to be doing.
Ray Kurzweil wants to live forever and all his predictions rationalize the timeline so that he has a change to reach the rapture.

He is now 76 and hopes to live 2030.
I didn't think anyone said you had to farm out auth to a third party platform.
Not quite. They are trying to build a business around AI and that they spent heaps of money to build and train. The free stuff serves the same purpose it does for all people on the planet, as examples of things that exist.
That was my mother's philosophy. The hospital is for fixing you up and sending you home. If the sending home part isn't going to happen she didn't want treatment.

The reality is there comes a point where the doctors can only prolong the dying--and in an awful lot of such cases that's a negative for the person.
This isn't the end of regulation, this is just the end of unelected agencies making up rules as they please. All this changes is that congress has to do their job.
Correct.

Simply granting access to the host browser's DOM and event loop was intractably, technically, logically, morally, plantatively, confectionately, legally, politically, and in all other ways utterly impossible.

> non-responsive rectangle kind of UI that has to be loaded upfront

You probably never heard of the Shockwave/Flash runtime. Like Java Applets, Flash was also stillborn, for similar reasons.

Ha.

That said, Netscape's brain dead thread implementation, and seemingly unwillingness to even try to fix it, is what borked Java Applets. The success of the JavaScript, and now WASM, VM & runtime is proof enough of the feasibility.

##

Mea culpa: Upthread, I lied by omission.

Speaking of GUIs, you reminded me of Netscape's awesome Internet Foundation Classes. It greatly informed the subsequent Java Swing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Foundation_Classes

Architectually, IFC is Qt, more or less, but written in Java. As the successor to IFC, Swing is also awesome.

With the benefit of hindsight, Swing's embrace of MVC was an error. But "we" didn't know that then. (Design Patterns, amirite? It was phase. Sure seemed smart at the time.)

Ditto direct access to components vs requiring all state changes to go thru the event loop.

I can't defend AWT. I'm sure they had their reasons. Probably peer pressure. (Edit: An unintentional pun! Peer! Like AWT's component peers. Get it?! Gasp; I slay me.)

EVERYONE was so certain components had to be native and owner-drawn. Of all the prior cross platform GUI frameworks, AWT was simply the most ambitious, and so therefore the easiest to criticize.

Having previously shipped a few cross platform products, with the scars to prove it, I was completely against the strategy.
Came up blue for me. Refreshed 4-5 times and it turned red.
Leapfrogging Sycamore: 1432 GPUs for 7× Faster Quantum Random Circuit Sampling
Show HN: wordlehint.me – no spoilers, no waiting for updates
https://wordlehint.me/

I've just launched.
Their nature wasn’t confirmed until the 20th century. Wikipedia tackles the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
Well I prefer celestial seasonings sleepytime tea and CALM brand magnesium
What parent commenter says that when you have "devops", there are no such gatekeepers.

I always got higher compensation in such companies/teams, because they weren't dying. At least, when I joined :) They needed efficiency instead of control and keeping salaries down.
> My later books were much better books but sold fewer and fewer copies.

This resonates with me. I've written and published a few books, and the one I'm most proud of has sold the last.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484232275/ has a 5.0 star rating on Amazon (at 20 ratings), and I've gotten lots of positive feedback about it via email, chat and in person. The topic is just so niche that virtually nobody cares :-)
There are so many threads about it on /r/neovim that people have started to ask just which plugins actually work together cohesively without breaking [0], something that is not asked about for VSCode. Just go through their "Needs Help" flair and you'll see lots of issues [1]. For me, I also use tens of plugins but inevitably something breaks at least once every couple of weeks.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1c9ev8n/overwhelmed...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/neovim/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=...
The fear of losing is greater than the desire to win! So people trade or sell before a ten years timeframe.
I'm afraid that it's you who are wrong on the facts: Congress does not exercise direct oversight over the behavior of these agencies.

Congress passes statutes that establish and grant authority to administrative agencies, and may from time to time pass new legislation that adjusts prevailing law, but they do not intervene to exercise oversight under the current statutes in effect.

That oversight -- evaluating the specific actions of those agencies and determining whether they are within the scope of current law -- has always been the role of other institutions.

Conventionally (and constitutionally), responsibility for for that oversight -- i.e. determining the meaning of the applicable statutes, and deciding whether specific behaviors and actions are within the law -- belongs entirely to the courts.

A few decades ago, the courts decided to abdicate this responsibility, and instead defer to those agencies' own interpretation of the statutes they operate under, indeed having the effect of making them "arbiters of their own authority". This is what Chevron doctrine refers to, and is what the new court decision has finally reversed.
No, we know (because of the CMB) that everything was compressed into a dense plasma until ~300kyr (rough estimate from memory) so there was no way for these structures to survive a previous crunch.
Sure. I don't see a problem if the work is within reasonable parameters. This is a private entity offering use of their property under reasonable terms.
I doubt the veracity of that story. No real evidence, and it reads like a creative writing exercise. Did the editors even fact check it?
This sounds like wonderful! Maybe one day I can have a few of these “babies” that I can lovingly raise, providing joy to both the dev and the customer.
Is FUTO an acronym? https://www.futo.org/about/what-is-futo/ doesn't say.
I think the point they were making is that the care home and the doctor have a perverse financial incentive to maintain a life beyond the point there’s any quality to that life.

Obviously in a half-way decent society costs shouldn’t be a deciding factor in end of life care or euthanasia decisions for the elder or their family, but neither should rent + fees be a compelling interest in the decisions of those providing that care, yet it’s obvious that it can be.
End to end networks can sometimes have higher performance, but the failure mechanisms aren't explainable, and are unintuitive to humans.

If you're building something that needs to be easy to work with, and that humans can understand the limitations of, splitting the network up into stages and having human-interpretable intermediate values is a good architecture choice.
The Spectrum of Local First Libraries
I can’t rant about Reagan without pointing out he created homelessness as it exists today. One of his programs emptied out many of the institutions that housed people that couldn’t function.
B) "From then on, Joyce lived in Europe." Isn't Ireland in Europe...?

- If someone told me they were from Europe, I'd assume they meant the continent.
It's a tragedy we put all this wealth of knowledge and entertainment humanity produced into some novel, transformative use that will enrich generations to come. That's not how you use human creativity! Why would anyone tolerate making permanent value of what's meant for transient consumption filling the pockets of intellectual property owners?
Anonymity also requires you to give up one of the main reason to get rich at all…
There are numerous issues with the 'privacy-preserving' federated learning models that are used by Google and Apple. They have constantly been called out by privacy researchers and cryptographers due to their misuse of differential privacy. There is very little trust in the privacy-preserving measures that are being used by these companies. This is not to say that these methods are bad in general but in terms of how they are used by Google and Apple, they amount to little more than a PR stunt. There are numerous reconstruction attacks on their privacy protocols as used by things like GBoard.
For the purposes of the general end user who really doesn't care whether extra dependencies are on the system, it does "just work." Indeed, they might even want such behavior, that plugins manage their own dependencies without any end user input.
Co-author here. We rewrote the book in Typst. On the hypermedia.systems website, the new EPUB ebook release is built from the new codebase. I'm working on a blog post with details on why we switched and what the process was like. The content of the book has not meaningfully changed.
How to make an Aikido weapon [video]
If you have a response that follows HN guidelines, I'd love to hear it.
> Clarify that you retain your rights to content inputted into Figma AI and to the results generated

Will they help identify other customers that have made use of our content in order to file claims (like by showing a list next to the extracted content)? Or are the "results generated" limited to what you get out of your AI requests?
I'm late to the party, but I guess modulariry would be a plus. For example, CPUs don't grow in big leaps of capacity anymore, it would make sense to rediscover the practice of upgrading CPU, RAM, battery, storage, etc. instead of whole devices. This could put a significant dent in ewaste for bigger devices.
This is so cool and all I could think when reading the description is how much I want to work with this data lol.
Opinion and perspective are closely tied to cultural upbringing which is closely tied to race and ethnicity.
Warren Buffett warns Gates Foundation: 'No money coming after my death'
Std: String is responsible for almost half of all allocations in Chrome (2014)
I use Next.js for marketing websites too though. It's the easiest way to set up SSR (or send pure HTML and CSS) in React, ie use JSX/TSX as a typed templating language with the additional ability to bring in React packages for certain things if needed.
In readme, they should write tutorial on how to make money with this. I mean is there any other reson for using this software?
I saw it with my father--to take the pain the morphine also took his memory. And in the end there was only suffering--fortunately, the problem would quickly kill making him eligible for terminal sedation.
They do, on a equal footing. Even human level AI will blow human professionals out of the water, let alone superhuman.
Isn't the interview the same anyway, just that candidates from top schools get interviews and the rest don't?

I woulld love to work at a hedge fund or a trading company but since I don't have experiene in a similar company or prestigious education, I feel like I have no chance at all of even getting an interview. I would love to know how realistic it is to get a job at one of these companies with a non-conventional background or if I should give up trying.
The background of the multiple hacks that led to the demise of Mt. Gox got a nice coverage on Darknet Diaries in 2017:
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/9/
Huh, only one in five residents live in rural America.

So rural landowners are a minority..
Sorry to be that guy, but this site is terrible to navigate as a non-French speaker. I'm not sure it would be that great as a French speaker. I've seen online archives from other Museums that do a far better job of making their exhibits more accessible.
Assuming this is sarcastic, it will never be realistic to pursue less bloodshed by allowing bloodthirsty conquerors to go about their business without opposition.

So, yes, unironically: slava ukraini
Where is the obfuscation? Most lotteries post the odds right on the main game page. What more do you want?

https://www.calottery.com/draw-games/superlotto-plus#section...
I was a web developer before XMLHttpRequest. JQuery is just a convenient way of using the DOM, and this has not been fixed (especially addEventListener is a horrid API, but many others too). If you're coding for browser, there's no escaping the DOM. Web components are an orthogonal thing. You don't necessarily need components at all to do web frontend.

React is a fundamentally different paradigm from the event-based DOM, but it tries to do a (leaky) stateless abstraction on it. You can have event-based APIs with different kinds of organizations. E.g. SolidJS is an event-based framework with component organization.

useMemo requires explicit tracking of dependencies, and it requires a lot of handholding to update just what is needed. Of course you can do practically anything with it, but it can get tedious and error prone.
There's also the worry that it will be abused. Kids who want their inheritance, people who have been abused and told it's the right thing for them when it's not, or just insurance trying to save money by avoiding more expensive treatments
+1 for HxD, been using it on Windows for a long while now, and it's the best he editor I've tried. Haven't tried ImHex yet, mind.
It's not about average Joes, it's about large numbers. If the scam works on 1/100 people in the US, that's 4 million people. If you're automating pitching it to 500 people a day, that's 5 wins a day. If your average haul is $500, that's $2500 a day. That's $900K a year.
Yeah, we are so obsessed with keeping people alive that this sort of thing is prudent behavior.
The Church Play Cinematic Universe [video]
else:
print("lol no")
pass
this isn't about 'annally precise"!
Saying the Golden Mean is "about" 1/3 is like saying "it's not the rule of thirds it's the rule of Pi, since Pi is 'about' three, we'll say the frame should be divided 1/Pi" yes, it's about the same thing, but it's so unrelated and so absurd to use it that way, it's misleading.
This seems pretty basic, really just classes of common data structures used in finance. Closer to what you would expect for a final project for a undergrad in OOP course.
I have written a textbook on using Cubase (a DAW), but including all the background that I think you need to be well-rounded (music theory, audio concepts, mixing, effects, instruments, etc).

It took me 2 years to write, one of which was all my spare time, so probably about 9 months to a year's full-time work.

Then I found out no-one bought it! Only pure chance led to it being promoted by someone in the industry, maybe 2 years later. I've kept it updated (started on Cubase 6, now on Cubase 13), and it sells reasonably well; maybe £400 a month in revenue, typically for me. So it's not a big earner, but it pays some of my bills, and means it's worth the 2 weeks of work (average) to update it each time Cubase releases a new version.

All of this is selling via Amazon, worldwide, print-on-demand. Previously on Lulu but they were really just sub-contracting on Amazon and while you get less money per copy on Amazon, it out-sells Lulu by 3x (and then Lulu discontinued the sizes I was using so it was a no-brainer).

I've done another book (which is less of a seller in terms of price and numbers), and quite enjoy them, but it's difficult and I think it's more a case of "if I have the time spare I can put this work in and eventually it will pay me back" - possibly over a year or two...
When I manually edited the url,

https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/auteur/91977?field...

worked for me. The URL otherwise doesn't get updated correctly.
Reagan (and Thatcher) also amplified that attitude that “freedom” means I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want, and to hell with society! An attitude you can even find in the comments here today. This “toxic individualism” has gotten worse over the decades, noticeably worse during COVID and has culminated in our current political climate where some people’s entire political outlook can be summarized with the middle finger.
I've had a rough transition from Remix 1 to Remix 2 for a couple of web apps I've worked on, but overall I still feel like the Remix model just works better. That being said, I'm probably not the best person to make a recommendation in this sense as I'm looking to go back to a sane job working with .NET MVC or PHP Laravel and just a bit of dynamic frontend sprinkled on top.
Made of strand woven bamboo.
Can you expand what you mean by gopherapps?
public transport via underground lines: its easier to build one and then put the dirt and rock on it.
Survivor of Parkland school massacre wins ownership of shooter's name in lawsuit
Never enable in your Lua apps:

a. Bytecode

b. Debug, Io, Os libraries

...

Also, be very careful with sandboxing. It can be deceptively easy to break out of.

Everyone eventually learns this lesson, see: Roblox (removed bytecode almost a decade ago after, if I recall correctly, an exploit exfiltrated their server tokens), Company of Heroes (bytecode bug leading to RCE)

Luau should come with safe defaults, from what I've been told.
Do hard things more often. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...
They're likely just disagreeing to be pedantic. I struggle with this addiction just like coldtea does...although my experience with it is pretty unique ;)
Better Lyrics: YouTube browser extension to get time-synced lyrics
I wish they'd consider adding lighter pages. Compare the load time of a NYT page [1] to a text NPR page [2]. I'm seeing 5.5 seconds vs 600 ms. I think the latter is easier to read as well.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/us/politics/biden-donors-...

[2] https://text.npr.org/g-s1-6773
Kind of incomparable issues, though the number for both should be ~50 by now (~52 if America had ever been remotely sensible about DC and PR).
The Daily X: Advanced search queries, like management, and more
Hey all,

I am building out a suite of tools to supercharge your X account. Currently, I believe X as a platform would have much greater potential if there were a suite of tools around it to help you query and gather information easier. You can check out an alpha release of the software here: https://the-daily-x.fly.dev/ (NOTE: Desktop Browsing only, mobile version will come soon). It also includes a place to sign up for the waitlist for upcoming features.

Current Features:

Advanced Search Query builder: For those of you who use X's advanced search tools, this query builder will help you effectively construct correctly formatted searches, based on filters, accounts, and keywords.

Upcoming Roadmap:

Like management system: Search and browse through Tweets you've liked in the past, and save permanent copies of liked Tweets that will still persist even after they've been deleted.

Ultimately, I'd love to hear feedback from the community about what you think, as well as any features you'd want to see in the future. My goal is to get a temperature pulse of the project before I go about spending hundreds of dollars on X APIs.
I'm having trouble understanding this mindset. Was it being a contrarian techie against against the "information superhighway" hype at the time?

As someone who had used Prodigy since 1990 and began my CS program in fall of '94, I was extremely excited to get a much faster than 14.4k connection in my dorm room so I could use Mosaic at a proper speed. I seem to recall this was a universal feeling amongst other students in my class... like a "holy sh*t, I can't believe I have this level of access now".
Wrong. Look at Self-Approved Claims here: https://claims.mtgox.com/faq
> Open source just means access to the source code.

No, that's source available. Please don't redefine these things.
I'm also coming to the conclusion that inert gas hypoxia is going to be my way out. My end has to be, as far as I can make it, painless and polite, meaning a happy exit with minimal inconveniencing of as few as possible other people. Any suitable substance for this seems to be taken off the market, even basic stuff like metal nitrites (as used in curing meat. Try getting hold of a nontrivial amount of this in the UK). I don't have the inclination to follow up Project Peanut; I don't have the background for this.

I fully understand why this has been done, to stop people who only intermittently get the urge, but for someone like me it's a major bloody inconvenience, so inert gas it most likely is.

(The above is not an opener for a discussion, it's an FYI for a different perspective. Please don't respond).
Kind of strange not to comment on the absurdly prescient film that provides the title of the book in review: Peter Weir’s The Truman Show.

It’s fair to say that reality TV and its tropes were not unknown when the film premiered in 1998, but they were seen as an MTV novelty. The Truman Show made what was essentially a metaphysical argument about being the star of your own life that has stood the test of time and then some.

I do wonder sometimes what a 20yo today steeped in the world of TikTok, Only Fans, and Donald Trump would think of Truman—as someone that age when it was released I can say it seemed fantastic. If we only knew!

How will it end?
Oh nice, looks like Filament is much more advanced than what Flutter's 3D solution would be (and Flutter's solution not having web support is a no-go, I'd assume many people would want to build things like those in react-three-fiber [0] for example).

[0] https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/examp...
Of course. The philosopher king bureaucrats are terrible.
I dont know of which ones we are talking about. But See how well Brexit is going! Plus 2008 was an amazing year.

Also, looking to make good policy is easy.
> Chevron was based on the idea that if statutory text is ambiguous the people in charge of implementing said statute were best positioned to figure out what it meant

Yes, that's an accurate assessment of what Chevron doctrine entails. And again, it is a mystery to me how anyone could ever have thought that this was a good idea, or was in any way consistent with the constitutional separation of powers.
This is a pretty dumb argument.
Sugary candy is mostly something I can leave alone indefinitely, but baked goods and snack food disapper all to quickly.

I have had some luck with using food chemistry in my favor recently though of salting vegetables with MSG to make them more appealling.
My first thought is, is this fake? (Edit: Okay maybe not?) It looks extremely fake. (Edit: A credit to how effective it is?) Like the blurriness seems applied after the fact. It can really generate a license plate number from that shadowy rectangle? I'm expecting to see giveaways for AI but I see none, except maybe the simple oval badge on the sedan (although that might be a real vehicle make; not sure).

If someone else manages to deploy and try this please share your result.