skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They criticize Namecheap for being slow, but is 1 day slow? Who here would pull the plug on a domain relied on by hundreds of thousands of sites faster than that? I get the desire to shut it down instantly, but do we really want registrars taking domains offline in less than a day?

There’s got to be significant liability concerns when you’re doing something that could impact hundreds of thousands of sites. It’s kind of a tough spot to be in, isn’t it?
This is just mind blowing to me because the school district I grew up did this in 1998.
FWIW, there is a separate category for the derivates in the TextEditors Wiki: https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WordStarFamily
That person did read it, and the fact that you believe anything you wrote in the entire comment would not contribute to the notion that your are a classist snob is hilarious.
Namecheap does it a ton, probably the most responsive registrar when it comes to abuse.

Typically with registrars I just get told to take it up with the hosting provider instead. I've also been told by registrars they just won't act without a warrant.
You picked the wrong carrier for your son unless you’re in western New York.

Either TMobile or Verizon is way better.

Sounds like a philosophical problem, unless you’re really in the boonies.
That’s an incredibly weak response. Laws you can’t fuck with, auditors can fuck off. I’d love you trying to explain to the EU why you’re violating their laws because some auditor wanted to check a box. I sure hope your auditors are assuming legal responsibility.
every time somebody posts the M5stack site, i just want to order everything.

but on some level, i know it'll all end up on the pile of projects that i've started and not yet finished.
Honest question, how is this related to CoPilot?
Netflix has only been there because they needed to make the acronym non slur.

Now they could use NVDA.
Right. There are two possible very different strategies - even illegal collusion. There is no reason to compete aggressively until one of the "several" chooses to break ranks and do so.

And if the one that breaks ranks is tiny, that might still not be enough reason for the others. Since there is a good chance they will just fail.
I like the idea that upon seeing a massive and indiscriminate MITM attack all of the various law enforcement agencies with a remit that includes data would just solemnly bow their heads and not attempt to stop or investigate it because a corporation probably wants the attack to happen.
Definitely not slow, also as we speak the "googie-anaiytics" registered with Godaddy is still active.
"Jane, we're trying to backfill that position. Look, we even have it posted!"

the posting:

https://qz.com/companies-posting-fake-job-listings-resume-bu...

I've never been the negative type, but things feel really really broken.
You realize that is actually a very short list of corruption scandals - 12 over 55 years; and that they were investigated and prosecuted? The list of countries with stronger corruption records is short - this is not a great point to start your argument. And while it's certainly not the best in terms of human trafficking, it still has lower rates than most other developed Western European nations, and the US. I share equal disgust on the Haskell issue, of course.
I think this kind of hack is pretty unnecessary given web transport is supported by 2/3 major browsers
I interviewed at Netflix in 2015. Unlike every other company I interviewed at, they earmarked you for a team before you interviewed. I didn't know what teams were available; the recruiter earmarked me for the logged out experience.

I didn't get the job. The feedback? "You aced the technical stuff and everyone loved you, but we didn't sense your passion for the logged out experience."
Reading the comments here, I expected to see a bad "Will Smith eating spaghetti" type video, but I found it to be decent without major glitches. Yes, nothing extraordinary, but that's due to the script, not the video. Not sure that it provokes such a negative reaction just because it was made with AI.
You can put this in a breadboard though.
Colorado bat facility that will support virus studies sparks outbreak fears
It's also a nasty trap if your burned out. You need the time off but don't know if you have the political capital to safely take it.

I struggle to find a charitable guess about the intent behind these policies.
If the IRS position is determined by the Tax Court to not be substantially justified, you can petition for fees for your representation. That’s a higher standard than merely winning your case; if you win the case, but the Court finds the IRS position was substantially justified, you’re on the hook for your fees.
Can I get a link to a few of those sites? I want to see what happens when I visit using Firefox and tor browser.
I love Keynote, but after spending a lot of time in LaTeX Beamer when almost anything can be changed temporally within a slide using overlays, Keynote has frustrating limits. For example, you can't animate changing the background color of a table cell.

Also, its tools for editing embedded videos are quite less capable than PowerPoint's.

Not sure if PowerPoint can do the table cell thing. But overall, I still feel the perfect slide making software doesn't exist yet.
A lot of people like .1 headers because they can prototype with them using through-hole components and breadboards.
What's the plausible worst case scenario here? GitHub accidentally trains on private repos (or Microsoft is, insanely, lying) and leaks some random tiny snippets of your code? That would be a personal violation but the actual damage seems negligible.

I mean self-hosted GitLab is fine, I don't know that you're losing out on any major features. But I wouldn't worry about using GitHub unless security and control of your assets is a critical necessity, in which case you definitely shouldn't trust some VPS/cloud provider either.
From a geopolitical perspective the single greatest reason for outside meddling in Bolivia today is control (indirect works fine) of the largest lithium reserves on the planet, currently being tussled over by both China and the USofA with some rumours of Saudi investment interests.

These things typically play out with layered shell companies, private mercanary contractors, and local bribes - Eric Prince (USofA) was recently taking Saudi pay to "secure" through bribes, corrupt judges, political allies, and occassional force traditional lands in Zambia for food security, his group is now providing security for Chinese transport of copper from there to Angola.

Such is the world we live.

It is a certainty that interested parties (corporations, governments) are seeking to control Bolivian lithium and equally certain that their tracks well be fairly well covered (but not for ever).

On the resources; see:

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/12/global-rush-lithiu...

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/rapid-growth-of-bolivias-l...
Arkansas Sues Temu, Claims Chinese Shopping App Is Malware
I volunteer to try it out. I have idiopathic hypersomnia and if I get even a few minutes short of what I’m supposed to it (seems to) hit me like when most people get a few hours short.

Seriously. Anyone in HN know how I could replicate this?
That noise gave me cancer. Thank you.
Some people I know are asking for a tool for us — a tool that enhances the best in us and minimizes the worst. This tool doesn't have to be sophisticated. So, I suggest a tool we can trust, something we all understand, our secret shared openly yet designed to improve us collectively.

Intelligence, verified. Time taken for authentic feedback, exchanged between individuals.

I want to be transparent as I write this love letter to our kind. In love, I aim to be hopeful. That's why I'm reaching out — let's be kind, please.

An idea is to rely on community for sustenance. A plea to invest in me; as I would like to invest in you. Us invested.

I don't know which way to go, but I trust you know.
FWIW to avoid the plugging in (which I hated) Calibre can be configured to send emails as well, which works well with the email to kindle feature, and with a little fiddling you can bridge the gap to have Calibre auto-email you. (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314401)
If anyone wants to test with better latency, there is a second world on the home screen.

Awesome work, good luck!
I was going to say onto the Internet as a joke.
I added a Mac keyboard shortcut, so anywhere I type "shrg" it expands to ‾\_(ツ)_/‾

If I need an escaped version, that's "shrgg": ‾\\\_(ツ)\_/‾
Wow. It's kind of hilarious to imagine that maybe they found someone who did.
For what it's worth, that's just a tweet embedded on the page, not written by the author of the article. Inflammatory remarks like that are par the course for Twitter.
it's possible to electrodeposit metals with a variety of grain structures, including both strained and non-strained versions. strain is the main problem with processes like sls/slm
Thank you, Peter. This timeline is brutal due to how deeply we integrated Rockset into multiple applications. This definitely obliterates any plans I had for Q3 or my summer.

I'm worried more platforms like StarTree, SingleStore, etc will follow suit in the next 24 months.

Any thoughts or assurances on this? Thank you for your post.
Spread the load and go to world 2: https://alpha.reconquer.online/#w2
Based on

> It's like having a full-time integration team at 1/3 the cost

It definitely sounds like they intend to charge a nice amount of money.
My first word processor, back on CP/M. I used a foot pedal for the control key and the key combo only approach is/was much faster than modern GUI word processors. Could do decent layout with it too.
I logged into my old Apple account for the first time since 2013 yesterday and I was like "Why do I have a U2 album?" and then I was like "Ohhh..."
I’d love to try and detect sycophancy with ai
in general electrolytic processes are very energy-intensive, and i'm sure fabric8labs's process is no exception
The keeper test has been at Netflix forever. This is very much a non-story.
The goal is to use the best tool to solve a problem. But it is tricky when you don’t know better and everyone around you follows the herd for different reasons.

Most presentation tools are poorly designed.

For example, many cognitive studies support the idea that the same brain channel handles text and speech. If you try to read and listen to different things, you can’t simultaneously pay full attention to both. Yet most presentation software encourages using bullet points, which are used extensively in business presentations.

Superfluous animation is distracting, yet presentation software animation capabilities are redundant and don’t have basic things like having a timeline with keyframes.

Outlining and notes are handy during the ideation phase of a presentation, yet outlining features are terrible.

Google Slides is extremely painful to work with. Taking a template and filling in the blanks with bullet points is okay, but even formatting a text box right is painful. PPT is better, but it has the typical MS problem: feature bloat, where the most valuable things are half-baked.
Keynote is one of the best. However, its sharing editing capabilities are between buggy and nonexistent.

By contrast, Figma's visual editing capabilities are orders of magnitude better: components and auto-layout help you work faster with a tool abstraction that is much better than the crappy master slides.

So, if you work the whole day with Figma and are productive with it… why inflect yourself the pain of using PPT/Google Slides for your presentation? You will be the one presenting. (Note: many times, I used Google Slides for those shared presentations, which I suffer… but if its my presentation I prefer Keynote or Figma depending on the case)
SpaceX scores $843M NASA contract to de-orbit ISS in 2030
It’s really the end of an era, with the new entrant literally pushing the old guard back down to Earth!
That said, I'm not sure I'm going to take advice from George R. R. Martin about how to finish and release books.
Was it ever proven for A1-4 in ZF?
Yep, this article's headline was very deceptive IMO.
i'd forgotten all about madden's work! thanks for this!

how did your project go?
I think it's an interesting question to turn around - for the current "good" employees, would Netflix's current hiring process allow them to be hired, or would the hiring team look at their resume and pass? Seems eminently testable too, just ask for resumes and anonymize them. You could even bring in current employees for interviews if they were willing to "red team". :-)
It's Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom
do you think I should add more accounts? which ones?
> Who says the term "fundamental freedom" doesn't include the right not to be enslaved based on your skin color?

EDIT (it's too late to revise the post above): Obviously, it should be, "Who says the term 'fundamental freedom' includes [not, 'doesn't include'] the right not to be enslaved based on your skin color?"
Slightly, yes! The Arecibo message was 73×23 bits, with the hope that the aliens would break lines after 23 bits. But,

i f . t h e s
n e i l a . e
s . l i k e .
o r t s u o b
p h e d o n .
w . r e d r o
e . a r e . k
c s . a d n i
r e w e d . o
a . e h t . n
r e c i b o .
e g a s s e m
. a n y w a y

and that's to say nothing of spiraling orders etc.
That can be a good outcome if things go to someone who values them as much as the original owner.

My Dad had a collectable car. We sold it for a fair price to an enthusiast who drives it, looks after it and keeps in in a public museum when it's not being driven. That was a good outcome. Better than someone in the family hoarding it and letting it deteriorate.

The money was immaterial, main reason for asking a fair price was to discourage someone who didn't value the car from flipping it for a tidy profit. We were also lucky, in that a member of Dad's car club was prepared to vet buyers for us.

Disbanding a closed computer museum isn't a bad thing if the items go to others who will value and display them.
I don't know much about MMORPG but this looks heavily inspired by Runescape, no mention of that?
I really hate how a lot of people treat a manager as a "mini-boss".

A manager should really just be another role on the team, with the possibility of firing a team member being a decision for the team, not a single managerial role.

Everyone should get a vote in who stays, otherwise you just end up with a bunch of sociopaths running the show.
Failures to Act
The intent is "because there isn't a specifically accrued amount of time off, we don't have to pay it out when they quit or are fired".
Autocomplete is not in the same ballpark as intentionally prompting software.
Biden approves American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine
Yes this was very silly to the degree that it provides more reason to worry a bit about the future of their side projects (I kinda like Firefox), but I don't really see anything that sounds dangerous?
Can’t they … ‘demodulate’ it? And bring it down (or up) in pieces? Maybe reconfigure a “mini iss” out of it. Like a giant Lego set. Ultimate off grid micro space station. Or boost key sections really really high…for reasons.
They probably can't, for the same reason it's not going to stay open: it wasn't specified in the will what to do with the LCM, and it does specifically say that the default is to liquidate.
> AI for the rest of us.

Their users are the rest, how depressing.
You forgot to add NFTs.
It doesn't mean that but maybe it actually should. The fact these perfectly good intuitions don't apply because of completely irrelevant reasons is a huge cause of friction and bugs.

Your article contains the perfect example:

> UB on integer overflow is a compiler-only concept

> every target supported by the compiler will do the obvious thing and just produce an overflowing result

Pretty much every computer that matters works the way you expect it to: the value will overflow, some flag will be set, etc. The compiler couldn't care less though. The compiler decrees that it shall be undefined. You know it works but it doesn't because the compiler refuses to do what you expect it to do because it's "undefined".

Well then just define it for god's sake. I'm so tired of the uncertainty. Tired of playing these games with the compiler. Undefined? I don't even want to read that word ever again.

Let's define this right now.

-fwrapv

There. It is now defined to be what everyone expects and wants. Now the optimizer won't be getting "clever" with this and generating complete garbage code as result. The compiler's optimizer is no longer your enemy in this case. It won't be erroneously optimizing entire loops to some random constant anymore. One would think they'd emit a warning instead in these cases but no.

Strict aliasing is yet another massive pain that you need to deal with because of compilers and their "optimizations". People have actually told me to "launder" pointers through asm statements so the compiler can't make nonsense assumptions about that stuff.

This is C. We do things like write memory allocators. Of course we're going to alias stuff. I have a structure type, I have a byte buffer with the data, of course I want to overlay the type on the byte buffer and just access it directly. Why is it that the compiler just doesn't let me reinterpret memory however I want? Compiler has no business making my life hell because of this.

Turns out the C standard prescribes some "strict aliasing" nonsense because Fortran has it or some other reason nobody really cares about. If you're doing anything at all in C you're probably violating this.

-fno-strict-aliasing

There. You can now do what you want to do without the compiler getting all clever about it and ruining your day with nonsense code generation. Now it won't be reordering your code into nonsense just because it can "prove" that two pointers can't be equal even though you literally assigned one pointer to the other.

Over time I've built up this little collection of C compiler flags and they've become unconditional overrides in all my makefiles. No matter what users pass in via CFLAGS or whatever, these little things still get disabled. I have no idea what the performance impact is and honestly I don't care.

There's quite a lot of documented compiler flags, I couldn't evaulate every single one of them. If anyone here knows of any other useful flags that define the undefined, please reply to this comment. I'll add them to my makefiles without thinking twice.
"Safe" is subjective. Someone else with different values might consider them an extremely safe bet. After all, they're financially secure, reliable (by all accounts), trusted by lots of folks, and have a track record of not fucking up too badly.
As long as they are having sex and procreating, they are evolving.

I mean we
When steering balls of poop, dung beetles use the stars to navigate
Guns are loud. It’s not like only a few people will know.
Mozilla? Isn’t that the company that made an HtML GUI toolkit back in the day?
And that's only true if you capture by value. If you capture by reference they remain mutable.
The End of an Era: MTV News Shuts Down… Or why archives are important
When I was buying them, in about 1995 (?), they ran about $20 a piece, IIRC. Every time there was a buffer under-run writing to one of them a little bit of me died inside.
Interesting! Clicked around a bit on my phone. Had fun slapping a chicken to death with someone else.

Will have to check it out more on my laptop.

One thing the pinch zoom is super funky on iOS. It zoomed me really far out and I couldn’t really get it back.
Absolutely. Printed molds and forging dies with conformal cooling channels can decrease cycle times.
What's the modern day barrier to creating a "hobby" TRS-80 Model 100?

40x8 LCD display, one of the best keyboards ever made.

I see the custom keyboard community seem to be able to make any keyboard they like.

The keyboard on the Model 100 consumed the majority of its space, but at the same time, it was usable. I don't know what a reasonable display would be. The notable thing about the 40x8 is that it was big enough to be usable, and it was readable. I've seen some decks with tiny 640x480 displays, and they're not readable, particularly to my aging eyes.

The Psion 5 had a very usable keyboard, and better display than the M100. I don't know if that kind of keyboard can be made by a hobbyist like the other ones can. I don't know enough about keyboards. I don't know if one of those could be gutted and repurposed. (No doubt considered sacrilege to some.)

We see these "decks" with these matrices of buttons, but I'd dare say they're not really keyboards. The PET 2001 kind of proved that (and I did a lot of coding on a PET back in the day).

So, just curious what's stopping "real" ones, "nice" ones from showing up. I'd dare say money, but I see what folks spend money on for their hobbies, so it can't be that alone. Doesn't have to be a viable product for market.
The same is legal in Germany despite the recommendation to change this.
Politicians even claimed that such laws would hinder their political work.
They’re OK, but certainly a lot slower than with an Nvidia GPU.
bureaucrats, always making us check the boxes, we must fight back
"A breakpoint for logging is usually scalability, because they are expensive to store and index."

I hope 2024 is the year where we realize that if we make the log levels dynamically update-able we can have our cake and eat it too. We feel stuck in a world where all logging is either useless bc it's off or on and expensive. All you need is a way to easily modify log level off without restarting and this gets a lot better.
Not sure how this is different from a job with a defined amount of vacation. Your boss generally needs to approve either way. Plenty of horror stories of people losing carried-over vacation time because the boss wouldn’t approve it. Not sure how “unlimited” leave policies make any difference here.
There are so many ways to do metal 3D printing, that it really depends on technique and use-case. I can only comment on SLM (Powder is in a bed, melted by laser from above) and DED (Powder comes from a nozzle and melted by a laser from above), but you can easily move the resulting metal properties in very different directions, by adjusting an unending list of parameters. So many things happen can once when melting metal (hardening, tempering, martensitization), that you can make the result "properties with respect to shear" better or worse by tweaking the process.

Finding these parameters is a research field in of it itself and whether or not properties are better or worse in "most current metal 3d printing" really depends on your use-case and material. There is no blanket statement on how the material properties will be after these processes.
Sure did! The Kestrel engine (had to double-check that memory) was a cute little thing, but it did the job.
Wind turbines don't burn the grease dude.
I'm as sick of AI nonsense as anyone and I'm a chronic Mozilla critic (I mostly wish they'd just accept my donations for Firefox and focus exclusively on that). That said, this post is over the top.

If you read the blog post it's pretty obvious what happened. Someone at Mozilla.ai had an extra day on their hands and ran a bunch of text they'd collected through a few models. They thought "hey, this is kind of cool, let's make a blog post about it". Then they wrote one stupid line about their motivations (likely made up to justify playing around with local models) and get completely lambasted for that one stupid line.

I'd rather live in a world where people are comfortable throwing together a quick blog post detailing a fun/stupid project they did than one in which they do that anyway but are hesitant to share because people will rake them over the coals for being "unserious".