skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this article should give Hardcover a fair shake, rather than admitting "I felt a bit of a social reading fatigue from Goodreads, Oku, and Literal, and since Hardcover also has a dedicated focus on connecting with others and explore their bookshelves, it was not the alternative I was looking for."

Yes, Hardcover has some degree of social component - but it also isn't a component that is in your face or that you have to use. Indeed, it isn't as dedicated to the social component (yet) as TheStoryGraph is... and yet the author highly praises TSG.

Full disclosure: I've been a paying Supporter of both TSG and Hardcover for a couple of years now, and I'm a Librarian in both systems. I'm also the staff-level Head Librarian at Hardcover. :)
HDD have terrible IOPS
We need visual programming. No, not like that
since when did medium require login to read full articles?

https://archive.is/0Itzv
Yes, generically, cutting costs in the abstract is not screwing workers.

But when you got workers to sign up to work for you under Deal-A, and then you start reducing the workers' pay without their consent, you are screwing the workers. Especially so if you are surreptitiously reducing pay, so they cannot tell they are getting paid less until it is too late to choose to provide the work. It is simply dishonest.

Honest dealing would involve telling the workers up front, "we must cut costs, your pay will be x.y% less starting in two weeks; let us know if you'll be continuing under Deal-B". It would be the same if it was still "We're making total compensation the same as Deal-A, but adjusting it to reward tasks XYZ better and tasks PDQ this much less...". Honest dealing is saying it up front. Hiding the changes is less than honest and creates suspicion.
FAA has jurisdiction down to a millimeter above your property. Class G airspace extends all the way down to the ground.
See, I wouldn't. I would go for the script to either inject the payload to the package or inject to the host.

Even if it's auditable, how many people are actually verifying the shell script before hand?

You've just been given a command to download and execute.

And the potential of having lots of users downloading a shell script has a quicker attack path than users downloading the package. You have custom repos, holding their own distro packages for the software.
I began wondering if “Katerina” (often shortened to “Kat”) was related, the etymology I found here https://www.behindthename.com/name/katherine is interesting.
The MNIST DATABASE of handwritten digits
DIY also comes with the cost of managing it. We need a team to maintain, bug fix etc., not hard but cost
Which flower did you choose to paint? Why? Is it native, an import, a new arrival, or endangered?

Is there cultural context? The Victorian Brits encoded messages into flowers; some of those meanings are still current. (Give a friend a red rose, another friend a potted daisy. Do they react differently?) A red poppy is a symbol of one thing, specifically because of culture. Chrysanthemums mean different things in America and Japan.

And if the artist writes a statement: "This is just a painting of a pretty flower." that too is a political statement.
Oauth4webapi
Smoked for 15 years, switched to vaping, switched to low dose nicotine pouches, now switching to Gr1nds (coffee grounds). I just really don't like gum.
Yeah most of Google's successful products are acquisitions, not homegrown.
KY(C)A
> Is that a joke? With NHS you have to wait to get GP appointments, wait several weeks for examination by specialists, more waiting in waiting list for surgery... The backlog for everything is huge!

My experience of healthcare in capitalist America is exactly the same in that regard. I have a mole I want examined, and one of the dermatology practices I called (part of a major local health system) was taking appointments for March 2025! I usually have to wait 3 or 4 weeks to see my primary care doctor (though I suppose I could settle for a rando doctor with an opening or a nurse practitioner and be seen sooner, but whenever I've done that there have been other issues).
"...with a replay attack in the background."

Wouldn't this be MITM?
GitHub was just the logical progression from okfn:

https://blog.okfn.org/2022/03/03/microsoft-to-support-open-d...

Today, we are pleased to announce that Microsoft will once again be supporting Open Data Day by providing mini-grants to organisations to help them run events, the call will launch on Open Data Day 2022.

They also supported "Open Data Day 2021". Sounds like a nice trojan horse to influence EU legislation through purported activists.
And it still performs better than vscode.
> Would you write your own JSON parser, is it that easy in LISP?

Well, there are a lot of them. Here's a link to a guide someone wrote to compare a bunch of them: https://sabracrolleton.github.io/json-review.html
Well, yes, if you mostly do things which don't require much memory, then the device's low memory won't be an issue.

8GB is not a lot in this day and age, though. I paid for the upgrade to 16GB in my current (2016 13" MBP, now seriously showing its age) and am very glad I did.
STRICT only works for simple types though as the article noted, so you can't do

CREATE TABLE mytable (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
created DATETIME,
mything JSON
) STRICT;
When the author makes the article paid subscribers only.
Damn, both.
He's likely referring to solanine poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine
Ask HN: What on Earth is going on with Amazon ads?
I was gifted a Kindle Oasis with lockscreen ads. The device is wonderful, though the ads have been misguided at best and real head-scratchers most of the time. Lately, though, they've taken a real turn for the bizarre.

Most of the ads I've been getting are for AI-generated children's bedtime stories with anime-inspired covers. Approximately 0% of my reading consists of bedtime stories, so this is odd -- and it can be a bit embarrassing when my Kindle is left on a coffee table -- though it's ultimately no big deal.

But I've been getting more and more ads that are just plain gibberish. Here's one example: https://i.ibb.co/5xdTJJh/IMG-4893.jpg

"Sleep. Unnllocking the seccelts fon restfulll nights."

How is it in Amazon's best interests to let gibberish onto their platform? Surely it would be a trivial problem to fix? And why are the "authors" paying for ads? What's the business model here? Self-contained AI marketplace?
Meaning that the forum contains people who hold more of your own beliefs. You only notice the differing ones as political.
For sure! But just because you don’t “see” it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a huge impact on the feel of the movie, your impression of the characters, and on the storytelling, which is ultimately why these “invisible” decisions were made :)
Good point about hiring and promotion enrichment plus the amplification effects of systems, and an interesting one on Bibi’s calculus.

I think he could have done more, initially to build a coalition of support, plus strategically positioned himself against Hamas, who were clearly hoping for an Israeli super-reaction that they could milk to further play the fake victim and justify their stance.

Could you unpack “creepy gratification”? What does that mean a bit more?
London also created Thameslink in the 1980s by linking existing suburban rail north and south of the city. It's not as fancy as the new Elizabeth line, but it did make a big difference to a lot of people commuting to the City of London, saving them the extra time of changing from rail to tube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thameslink
Polyfill exploit would never happen if you do this [video]
nice use of fetch.

it doesn't render comments. there are errors in the console. it doesn't work well on mobile.

> the average Website Programmer and Designer is $64/h

how long have you been a website programmer and designer?
> disk of 18TB (not need for SSD if you can parallel write)

Do note that you can put, like, at most?, 1TB of hot/warm data on this 18TB drive.

Imagine you do a query, and 100GB of the data to be searched are on 1 HDD. You will wait 500s-1000s just for this hard drive. Imagine a bit higher concurrency with searching on this HDD, like 3 or 5 queries.

You can't fill these drives full with hot or warm data.

> To store 100 petabytes of data by purchasing disks yourself, you would need approximately 5556 18TB hard drives totaling $1,666,800.

You want to have 1000x more drives and only fill 1/1000 of them. Now you can do a parallel read!

> You would need 3 times that for redundancy

With erasure coding you need less, like 1.4x-2x.
Whoa - either I expressed myself really poorly, or you are just bent on applying Godwin's law as fast as you can.
> I think it's amazing that licenses are ignored to train a model, but companies then try to impose a license on the use of the same model.

There's existing analogies like encyclopedias and dictionaries.

One interesting aspect to those sorts of consolidation works is that they may contain errors and other artifacts, specifically to identify duplications of their work vs new from-scratch work.
It thought we were past the denial stage. Then one day I mentioned that I don't let my 2.5 play with a phone and the reaction from HN was shocking.
"Germany reports ‘record’ generation of renewable power in first half of 2024"

"At 140 terawatt hours, more renewable electricity was generated in Germany in the first half of 2024 than ever before, accounting for 65% of net public electricity generation. Generation from fossil fuels continues to decline as do the electricity prices on the exchange." [1] [2]

If you want to complain about anyone, complain about Poland [3], who needs ~40GW-60GW of solar and wind to offset the ~10GW of coal they're constantly running (assuming worst case capacity factor for those clean energy sources mentioned). They are the dirtiest grid in Europe as it currently stands.

(Spain's last coal fired generator As Pontes closes in August, and the UK's Ratcliffe-on-Soar closes in September; both have received their last shipments of coal and are operating off of local reserves to burn through them until closure; France is closing its last two coal generators by end of year [6]; France generates so much clean energy, their grid is having a hard time finding places for it to go [7], and there is an understanding they need more capacity to move power eastward towards Germany)

[1] https://optics.org/news/15/7/15 ("Germany reports ‘record’ generation of renewable power in first half of 2024")

[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE?wind=false&solar=fal... ("ElectricityMaps: DE German Zone")

[3] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL?wind=false&solar=fal... ("ElectricityMaps: PL Poland Zone")

[4] https://www.sustainabilityenvironment.com/2023/08/29/coal-fi... ("Coal-fired power plant in As Pontes, Spain towards total phase-out 5 years in advance")

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/21/end-times-f... ("Powering down: end times for the UK’s final coal-fired station")

[6] https://www.euractiv.com/section/coal/news/france-extends-li... ("France will allow the functioning of its remaining coal-fired power stations until the end of 2024 to get through the winter safely, according to a decree recently penned by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.")

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681466 ("French Power Slumps as Surging Renewables Push Out Atomic Plants")
There is at least https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936947 though it's a bit of mixed in terms how they handle schema.
I get nothing positive or useful out of writing this comment but the negative potential is infinite. When the www started someone attempted to convince me that you should never interact using computers unless there is no other choice. Turns out he was right, you are not going to buy me beer, invite me, introduce me, collaborate or help me. The new contract is useless.
That's because what you've written isn't connected to the thread. Holding a country accountable for the actions and policies of a different country is a perverse metric. Does the US not care about nuclear because our German allies regulate against it?

If China wants renewable energy to succeed they should produce more renewable energy. That's what they're doing.
The miracle of drugs, and nobody could ultimately prove it yet.
That actually feels like a great example, because adults are, in fact, allowed to eat Trix.
I dont think they are calling the car a simple object, I think they are referring to the fact that the car does one thing and does it good.

The cart isn't trying to be a one man band with all sorts of bells and whistles. Its a car that turns on and goes forward, which is all you expect of a car.
> So really the ideal is not just having an app that generates a token but one that generates a specific type of token depending on what type of transaction you're performing and won't accept, for example, a login token when adding a new payee. I haven't seen any bank with that level of 2fa yet, has anyone else?

Some banks in India have a separate “transaction password” that’s required to operate on the account vs just login and view balances. It’s not a rotating token, but it’s somewhat close to what you’re suggesting.
If you can limit your research to GBs of logs, I kind of agree with you.
It's ok if a log search request takes 100ms instead of 2s,
and the "grep" approach is more flexible.

Usually our users search into > 1TB.

Let's imagine you have to search into 10TB (even after time/tag pruning).
Distributing over 10k cores over 2 second is not practical and does not always economically make sense.
> no pricing, just a waiting list.

The product is currently in beta and is free for now, this is why there is no pricing.

Users will be able to sign up on their own in the next days (or weeks), I'm just waiting for Google to approve my request to activate publicly the "Sign in with Google" button. In the meantime, I need to onboard users manually.

> "6414,4" Is that '6414.40' or '64,144'

It depends on which language your browser uses. For example, on an American browser we would have this number "1,2345.6". On a French browser, the number will looks like this "1 2345,6". Number grammar varies based on the language.

> 7 days selected but the graph has almost 2 months on it. The highlighted day shows 2 channels, the table shows several more, but no filters are visibly active for the graph. The graph day shows "6414,4" Is that '6414.40' or '64,144'? How are you calculating bounce rate? (it's not just the reverse of engagement rate) Key metrics show 5,345 visits for 7 days but the day figure is higher, and the figures in the table below are way lower.

Yes, the data on the screenshot was incorrect. It was fake data that I used to build the UI of the dashboard at that time. Thank you for pointing this out.

I updated the image with a real screenshot of the product that I use to track one of my website (https://foalts.org). Hope this will look more convincing.
I would probably build my own storage pods, keep a day or a week on cloud and move everything over every night.
Thank you for expanding the reasoning in my final paragraph. I agree entirely.

I'm a reasonably strong swimmer, and played in the surf for most of my young life - which is exactly why I often stay on the beach looking like a fuddy-duddy to a lot of people who don't realize what they're (potentially) getting themselves into.
Coworkers learn, chatgpt doesn't.
It's not a false dichotomy, the article is very clearly about whether the harm reduction benefits (which clearly exist) outweigh the public health risks (which also clearly exist).

And, of course, there's nuance to that question. It's not like our only options are to keep the status quo or ban vapes entirely. One of the ideas presented in the article is to ban flavored vapes, since that's one of the main points of attraction to non-smokers (especially children), and non-flavored (or tobacco-flavored) vapes will still be viable alternative to smokers.
Sure. Just allocate 10x the engineering resources and I can make it as fast and bug free as you like.
Nobody uses it anymore because the trains are so full.
Because I personally find my name being a product of its time annoying, I think it's reasonable to suspect that someone else would also find that annoying.

Especially given that the hypothetical person in question would get half their DNA from me and be raised by me it seems a pretty reasonable suspicion.
I would say from my experience, for _application logs_, it's the exact opposite. When you deal with a few GB/day of data, you want to have logs, and metrics can be derived from those logs.

Logs are expensive compared to metrics, but they convey a lot more information about the state of your system. You want to move towards metrics over time only one hotspot at a time to reduce cost while keeping observability of your overall system.

I'll take logs over metrics any day of the week, when cost isn't prohibitive.
I completely agree that the prioritization of support is woefully lacking, but I think this is a consequence of the shoddy state of support tooling. If customer support professionals were given the right tools to do their jobs, instead of half-baked solutions from 15 years ago, we might see a new virtuous cycle between customers-support-product. That's why my friends and I started Yetto [0], a help desk for people, not cogs.

You can see an overview of the core support workflow in our recorded demo [1], and we have more videos showing off more of the features on the way soon.

Feel free to sign up for access [2] and we'd love to get your feedback on it while we're still in beta. Let me know what you think!

(As a small business owner I am sure you can appreciate the opportunity to pounce on opportunity. )

[0]: https://www.yetto.app/
[1]: https://youtu.be/jQ30Ce-J144
[2]: https://web.yetto.app/application
> Your desire to handle that all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language meat-bags is lovely but you'd be bankrupt in a week.

Nah, the C-suite fat cats just need to take a few million less for running a shitty business, and use the money to hire people who actually have to do stuff for customers.
Apparently, the court disagrees with you, and doesn't find "emitting" the code a copyright infringement.

It'd be a long bow to draw to say that what is akin to a search result of a snippet of code is "redistributing a software package".
All my homies hate uracil
It is also a huge e-waste issue with so many disposable ones. I can't believe they have been allowed in the market for a start. Is that so hard to buy one and refill it?
>Does the US not care about nuclear because our German allies regulate against it?

Obviously, they should push the Germans to abandon their anti-science stance.
There was a time at the beginning of the pandemic where my team was asked to build a full text search engine on top of a bunch of SharePoint sites in under 2 weeks and with frustratingly severe infrastructure constraints, (No cloud services, single box on prem for processing, among other things), and we did and it served its purpose for a few years. Absolutely no one should emulate what we built, but it was an interesting puzzle to work on and we were able to cut through a lot of bureaucracy quickly that had held us back for a few years wrt accessing the sensitive data they needed to search.

But I was always looking for other options for rebuilding the service within those constraints and found Quickwit when it was under active development. I really admire their work ethic and their engineering. Beautifully simple software that tends to Just Work™. It's also one of the first projects that made me really understand people's appreciation for Rust as well outside of just loving Cargo.
CPI for all items falls 0.1% in June; up 3% over the last 12 months
is it for osx at first?
I'm not sure how much of it is people being (irrationally) scared vs. looking into native APIs and making the call that it just isn't worth it, given how much messing around you have to do to get basic functionality working vs. the web where you can throw a UI together very quickly to validate an idea.

I've looked into native Linux development a few times, for example, and haven't even been sure what's the best toolkit to use. It feels like you'd have to invest quite a lot in a particular toolkit to even see if it can do what you need, coming fresh from web dev like a lot of people who go for Electron obviously are (myself included).
> When someone says "LLMs are not intelligent", I treat that as a bit of a signal that I shouldn't pay much attention to their other points, because if you haven't realized that you don't have a good definition for intelligence, what else haven't you realized?

So you have a good definition for "intelligent", and it applies to LLM? Please tell us! And explain how that definition is so infallible that you know that everyone who says LLM aren't intelligent are wrong?
Yes, I understand why some scientists claim that nature is "just" some computer but no one still has given an answer to my very basic question: what is the instruction set that the people who claim they are computers are using to think? Surely there must be one if they are nothing more than programmable computers as they claim.
It was to buy a place no one could shut him up. He adores censorship as long as its of other people. Dude gives exactly zero shits about free speech.
Anytime something (i.e., stack layer, software component, software layer, blob -- in this case, initialization/boot code for hardware which was first simple BIOS'es whcih became larger and more complex BIOS'es which later became still more complex UEFI -- a much larger attack surface by size) in technology is replaced by something new and complex which is touted as "more secure" -- it's usually less secure (bugs and attack vectors are found in hindsight), and minimally, less transparent and understood.

Anyone interested in the subject could Google (or search on their favorite search engine) "UEFI Vulnerabilities" -- for no shortage of issues/problems/security vulnerabilities.

Am I saying that an old BIOS is perfectly secure?

No!

But older BIOSes are an order of magnitude simpler, better understood, and more documented -- than UEFI is at this point.

If UEFI morphs to something else more complex in the future, which it probably will, given the track record of hardware boot/initialization code specifically, and software generally, then my advice at that point in time (10+ years in the future) will be "go back to UEFI, it's simpler, more documented and better understood than what we have now".

But not until that day, and then not unless every computer on the planet is, or has become absolutely incapable of initializing/booting from the older code.

As a generalized pattern/understanding in Software Engineering, older code / older software / older codebases (of whatever form, firmware, etc. -- in this case BIOS hardware init/boot handoff code) -- are generally smaller, simpler (less bloat for approximately the same functionality), vanilla, spartan, better understood, and have had many of their security issues found, fixed, and solved than their present-day over complex and bloated counterparts... (and, did I mention better documented?)
I remember that vibe before 911, I remember every year there was a notable invention/increment in technology, and about after the 2008 housing crises, the vibe ended or was noticeably being phased out, now every year google/smartphones/gaming/climate/cost of living/politics gets worse (dark patterns, SEO spam, DLCs microtransactions, etc.).

Most people in the US who aren't old enough to own a home have watched home ownership evaporate away from them as costs skyrocket and rent-seeking corporations snipe all affordable stock with can only offers.

The US is a depressing place that kind of sucks if you're not coming here for a high-end tech job or as a rich celebrity.
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