skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's room for both. I want speed and correctness within my little Python ecosystem, so I reach for a tool like Rye to help with the package management. Then to solve the system level issue maybe I reach for a simple direnv implementation to install the system level dependencies needed for the project.

You could of course lean all the way in and manage and build your Python dependencies using Nix as well, but that is... introducing a lot more complexity and slowness at this time.

I think it comes down to the frequency at which we iterate on things and the level of expertise required to deal with them. The system level dependencies might change much more rarely, and require more expertise to work with tooling, but if I can hand off a clean system environment to a developer who doesn't know about or need to care about Nix at all and then they are able to quickly iterate inside the Python ecosystem I get the best of both worlds - I solve the non-Python dependency problem myself and the end user (the developer) has a fast, smaller scoped, way less inscrutable problem to deal with when they are working within the Rye ecosystem.
I’m aware of all of that, I’m just saying that this has not translated into more reliable and better software in the end, interestingly enough. As said, I’m not blaming Docker, at least not directly. It’s more that the whole “ecosystem” around it seems to have so many disadvantages that in the end overweigh the advantages of Docker.
Pros: this is just like the Dark Knight!
Cons: privacy nightmare
you can self host all the Grafana solutions too if you liked them but didn't like the pricing
When they will not buy data from them. /s
Do you make it like a fun game? Like when me and my friends in school would pass eachother coded notes and the cipher was an inside joke?

I'm genuinely curious: what was the pitch that you used to get others to start using signal?
Is the manual annotation is because deciding whether or not a graph will blow up upon supercompilation by trying, but checking for blowup during the process, doesn't work?

> In Mazeppa, we have call-by-value functions and call-by-name (call-by-need) constructors, which 1) makes deforestation possible and 2) preserves the original semantics of code.

Are there any other notable differences between this approach and call-by-value constructors? (I guess one might have to carry around the original context in closures for a little while, but presumably even that disappears in residual programs?)

[Stepan Razin lost his black hat during his ride, but the supercompiler has already removed Ivan Mazepa's?]
Thd only time I've ever heard a sonic boom was as a kid, on holiday in the south of France. They would regularly fly Mirage jets over the beach resorts. I suspect these flights were for when Gen. de Gaulle was in residence at the Chateau d'If.
I'm 100% freelance -- my engagements tend to be monthly retainer or monthly invoices, and whenever possible I try to avoid contracts because there's simply no way on Earth an unpaid invoice for max 30 days of work would exceed the costs of taking somebody to court (and actually collecting the money) if they don't pay. Not to mention that somebody who refuses to pay for a month isn't going to willingly pay out the remainder of a broken contract.

My clientele is found mostly word of mouth, people I actually know (or have worked with in the past in a W2/corporate environment). I find the most success working with digital agencies and small businesses because they both have strong incentives to pay well (and pay on time).

I treat the work I do as service, rather than something more impersonal (strict deliverables, generic staff augmentation, etc) -- at the end of the day, my role is to help them solve real, immediate problems for their business by being patient, present, cheerful and competent help.

In the unlikely event of a client relationship souring, I just let it go. Chalk it up to the game, use it as fuel for bigger and better things, whatever. I guess I can only do that because I keep everything piecemeal, bite-sized, running in tandem to each other, and have many pans in the fire at any given time.

Anyways, apologies for the tangential rant -- other commenters have offered very effective and actionable advice for your particular situation. I figured I'd just chime in on how I've managed to avoid the situation most of the time.
There is no such thing as "incorrect assembly", modern CPUs don't have undefined instructions like the 6502 did. Either it gets executed deterministically, or you get an #UD exception.
I DO

I HAVE 3

3 IS MORE THAN 1
There's always something happening to OpenAI's board [audio]
So you’re sure it will stay that way, because you trust management to do the right thing? Even as you get older, life treats you harshly, or the economy goes down and suddenly you’re expected to work twenty extra hours?
even the amount of tattoos depends on culture and region. lots of cultures around the world practice some form of tattooing. even the BMI thing varies somewhat because different BMIs are healthy for different ethnic groups.
They're disproportionately requirements for the worst, lowest-status jobs in cybersecurity, and many of the best known and "highest placed" practitioners in the industry (not just in vuln research and xdev but also in management) don't have one.
Wikimedia's UN WIPO Accreditation Blocked for a Fourth Time by China
I posted several conversations with models in this thread. I did -in fact- manage to get them to retrace and fix where needed.

GPT-4o was a lot of work. GPT-3 is fast but that was a long conversation catching all its errors (so not posted, but I can if you insist). 4 caught its error almost immediately. Claude-3.5 was on to us from the get-go and didn't need correcting.
Nobody hates Firefox more than Firefox users.
I often choose Abu Dhabi as an "example destination", because that's where Garfield kept mailing Nermal in the comics.
The stub secrets client is just a key->value API, so the value of a proxy is pretty limited. It's not a hard enough problem that anyone is interested in having a separate product for it.
> There is a willingness to play these games on a phone, but seemingly only if the cost of entry is zero dollars

This is the issue that drove the rise of the mobile games as they are today.

Android users in particular were extremely reluctant to pay for games up-front.

> Last week I found myself in one of those "good news, bad news" situations. The good was that more than 100,000 people were enjoying the new Android version of our game. The bad news was that only about 10 percent of them paid for it

https://archive.ph/mRkJw
NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner may be stuck in space until August
NT4 was developed for PowerPC architectures (and MIPS, Alpha). A large portion of the NT4 source code was leaked [0]. I'm not saying the author used the NT4 source code in any fashion, but I would imagine using such source would make life much easier to accomplish this task.

Or the author clean room reversed engineered the bootloader. Or there is enough information out there to forgo the need for any internal knowledge of Windows code.

The PPC code base was never explicitly targeted for Macs, but other systems from IBM/Motorola; but because it is a 'common' platform, the binaries themselves on the NT4 ISO do not need modification.

And yes, you can find the source code on GitHub. In multiple repos!

[0] https://www.neowin.net/news/exclusive-windows-2000--windows-...
Check your state laws. Here, there are a variety of liens available to enforce a small claims judgement. While foreclosing a real-estate lien requires an attorney, the process begins with a debtor's examination. Being called in to court to explain your finances convinces many people to pay up.
Yes, the one time I used an extension cord to charge the car, I set the max amperage to 8 even though it was a 15Amp rated cord.
I disagree, and am deliberately not trying to start a protracted debate here. I'm just offering a data point, nothing more.
If non-corporeal entities could move within my home invisibly and observe my activities silently or change things in my environment at will, I’d definitely consider it.
What do you think of this one, where the problem is the same however it would not trigger its pattern matching with the classic puzzle?

https://chatgpt.com/share/c3f744e4-199a-4c45-a332-c40d505326...
Is there any reason this couldn't be applied to a Mac with an ARM chip as well? (Genuine question, I know next to nothing about anything in this space.)
I enjoyed the read and it taught me new things, I just wish that the reference example would have some minimal practical value.

I don’t think there is any reasonable scenario where you would be using a linked list but the memory is contiguous most of the time.
Some people (myself included) have repetitive stress pain when using the mouse wheel (and others are building towards developing that pain someday without knowing it.)

Even if not interacting with it,
the scroll bar is a visual aide telling the size of the page and the location within it.
It depends on the scenario. I had an issue with a notorious tow service in my city, won a few thousand dollars, and placed a lien on one of his trucks. After a diligent search, the only truck I could absolutely identity was a $150k recovery vehicle that printed money for him.

When we showed up with his competitor to tow his truck, he appeared with an envelope containing the full judgement in cash.

The guy was such an asshole, I would have gladly spent a few thousand dollars just to inflict pain and disruption upon him.
California Faces the Grape Apocalypse due to slump in wine sales
They only auction servers in one region
Yeah, but the Open Container Initiative is supposed to be the responsible adults in the room taking the "fail fast" corporate Docker Inc stuff, and taking time to apply good engineering principles to it.

It's somewhat surprising that the results of that process are looking to be nearly as fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants as Docker itself is.
No Afterlife? No Problem! How to Face Oblivion Like a Pro
AIX was the first Unix I ever used in 1991 on an IBM RT with the ROMP CPU

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

I wanted one on my desktop so bad. DOS/Win3.1 PCs were just so bad to me. Then I saw SunOS and really just wanted any Unix system on my desk. I bought a PC in 1994 just to install Linux.
Coolify needs a lot of work imho.
You wouldn't block an ambulance from getting to a hospital. You wouldn't block a mother from hugging her child. Why would you block an ad??
Yeah, you are correct! I was confused, somehow I thought it was a 5-1/4" drive until I came back to it this morning.

I'm glad this has been downvoted, I even appreciate if it got flagged to death, because it was a dumb mistake. Please accept my apologies for the noise.
Ask HN: Is a 6 Day Work Week the new norm?
I was pinged today by a recruiter from LatchBio. A well-funded (backed by Coutue and General Catalyat) Bay Area Series A startup. The role sounds great and the company seems to have a lot of traction but when I did some digging (the recruiter didn’t mention this) all jobs listed in their site state “We work six days a week (Mon-Sat) in person in Mission Bay, SF ”

Do any other junior to mid-level folks work for companies that require this? Is it worth considering if everything else about the company seems great?
Apple looked at it as an acquisition, while NeXT looked at it as a merger.

NeXT didn’t buy Apple obviously, but Steve Jobs and his lieutenants took over the most important positions within Apple.

Which made sense given the situation Apple found itself in.
Because it could happen. Having an ultra-low-friction means of collecting payment enabled this practice.
Starlink Mini
Ask HN: Is there still a usecase for rdiff-backup in the times of Git?
When setting up a new backup strategy, is git the way to go these days?

Or does rdiff-backup still have advantages over git?
SpaceX's prolific Falcon 9 rocket grounded after failed mission
Judging by the zeitgeist, I would have thought the bigger concern would be the company knowing the lack of sexy time.
I believe so, presuming it’s released the same as 70B recently was. IIRC, I had to consent on Hugging Face to their policy on “research and non-commercial use only” before downloading the model.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4576
one suggestion more arrogant, ridiculous, and in bad faith than the last

you're now implying everyone hosting a website should pound the pavement to sell their own ads - or use a a static export from an ad network and build it into the website themselves?
Sure maybe they should but they never will. Dream on.

> Everything we tried to build for you

You are a speck of dust in the universe of computing. Get a grip.
We're not a huge company, but my employer has moved to only buying AMD a while back (a year ago or so, it was a gradual shift but it is complete now). They're just less (costly) hassle.
Can we stop naming evil tech companies with stuff from LOTR
So it's illegal for standup comics to do impressions? Or maybe there is some nuance here?
I think it's hard to see the use case right now because the quality remains pretty dreadful.

But the prototypical legitimate use case (which we needn't be excited about), is a voice over artist leasing their timbre instead of their time so that new text can be made to sound like them without their being actively involved. If it were to become mature (which doesn't seem close, from this example), it would be a big step up from existing phone tree voice assemblage and would open the doors for dubbing, animation voiceover, harmonization, and ADR in commercial sound and film.

Gender masking or general anonymization aren't really served by this, as you don't need to adopt a specific target timbre to deliver on those. There are other techniques that work perfectly well for those uses, some that have already been around for ages.
If anyone is unaware - the ESA's new Ariane 6 just suffered an "upper stage relight fail" during its first test flight:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/europes-first-ariane-6...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgTbThZg6Zg
I have the same background (25 years of C and C++), and tried the same thing: Let's learn web programming by putting together a 700 line web app that allows you to edit, load, and save some proprietary file format. Sounds like a good learning project. How hard could it be? I'll use this JQuery thing, that looks popular. I guess I need HTML, CSS, and JS, not sure what should go in which file, but I'll learn it as I go.

But nothing has as thorough documentation as I'm used to in native / systems programming. It's all rando tutorials and incomplete/outdated web pages.

Weeks later, I have something barely working, but it looks ugly as sin because there is no nice, well-documented GUI library like Qt, wxWidgets, and so on. And the ones that are decent would require me to rewrite my whole app around them. I find JQueryUI which is still at the level of banging rocks together to create fire. In fact, the whole process of putting a web app together feels like I'm using stone tools and blunt chisels instead of the C++ workshop full of power tools and well-lit workbenches.

I don't know how developers can live with this pain. Good for y'all--I couldn't do it day in and day out.
It has translated to reliable legacy software. You can snapshot a piece of software, together with its runtime environment, at the point when it's still possible to build it; and then you can continue to run that built OCI image, with low overhead, on modern hardware — even when building the image from scratch has long become impossible due to e.g. all the package archives that the image fetched from going offline.

(And this enables some increasingly wondrous acts of software archaeology, due to people building OCI images not for preservation, but just for "use at the time" — and then just never purging them from whatever repository they've pushed them to. People are preserving historical software builds in a runnable state, completely by accident!)

Before Docker, the nearest thing you could do to this was to package software as a VM image — and there was no standard for what "a VM image" was, so this wasn't a particularly portable/long-term solution. Often VM-image formats became unsupported faster than the software held in them did!

But now, with OCI images, we're nearly to the point where we've e.g. convinced academic science to publish a paper's computational apparatus as an OCI image, so that it can be pulled 10 years later when attempting to replicate the paper.
Honestly I have wondered about this for a long time, I already have homepods all around the house I would imagine given that chip it likely would not be too difficult to say that someone is in a given room.

I imagine that hardest part is setup, like would the UI just have you walk around with phone to define walls. What if the homepod moves?

Maybe I am over estimating the technology, but if I could ask "where are my keys" and it says "it is in the bedroom" it would be fantastic.
Certainly, but for instance no sane developer should concatenate a string in a sql query unless there is absolutely certainty the string is safe. This should be reflex, not a matter of money or time.
I was under the assumption norepinephrine was the desired neurotransmitter for ADHD patients, but in order to cross the blood-brain barrier, it needed to be attached to dopamine.

This makes the effects of extra dopamine in the system a side-effect, not the feature. But I'm not a doctor, so I could be wrong on that.

Could it be that catecholamines have a higher affinity for the presynaptic neurons, so we need the dopamine to push it out, at which point there's a chance the norepinephrine can get into the receptor?
The marketing and front-facing name clearly died. The internal name did not.
>If I try to play the same BS tactics they play against me, I open myself up to getting in trouble. Heads you win, tails I lose.

What? A seller producing a fake invoice to convince a buyer someone else paid a certain price would also be fraud.

You are free to use the exact same tactics as the seller. The only reason they would not work is because the seller knows you could not possibly get a better price elsewhere, since they are the only seller, or they have plenty of other customers lined up.

Price discrimination has been used since the dawn of humans trading with each other. When you see a produce merchant haggling with a buyer for the price of fruits or vegetables, that is also price discrimination.
Canada's next housing crisis: Who is going to build new homes?
You're trying to big brain something that isn't that complicated or special.

I never said that every interaction with an NPC must necessarily require AI to create a new quest and reward from scratch. Players aren't that savvy. You just generate a pool of quests and assign them to NPCs in the instance. Players who are addicted to loot treadmills will stay in the game and pay for boosts and other rewards as long as there is content to engage them. This more than pays for the AI service.
(nods soberly, whilst sipping 10th coffee of the day)
The last two hotel rooms I've stayed in this summer both seemed to have placebo thermostats. Changes in their settings didn't change the temp a bit. Could be a coincidence or a new trend.
All of the electricity turns to heat in any case. The problem is the nature of incandescence. Incandescent filaments are black-body radiators. The spectrum of black body radiation changes with temperature[1], so filaments that run hotter emit a larger proportion of their energy in the visible spectrum.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Black_bo...
I wonder if archives downloaded by two different people have different checksums? That would mean they have hidden a paper town (fake entry/signature) somewhere. I would be surprised if that's not the case, or will be the case.
Before Coolify came CapRover and dokku.

My toy server (64ram, ryzen 5600G 60tb HDD, 4tb NVMe) is currently running fedora/caprover, though I've been considering just putting truenas scale on it, as it added custom deployments as well...
> For context, my understanding is that SpaceX builds one new Falcon 9 upper stage (not reused) every day.

Probably not quite that often. They're aiming to launch ~150 this year (although with the recent RUD, that'll be pretty tough). But yeah - 1 every other day is still very impressive.
HTC G1 the original Android phone, was basically another sidekick. We’d have this shitty Android and WinMo for a decade longer and eventually things would get good.
A four year battle with birds.

https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh
It's currently closed for renovation and set to reopen in November but if you have a chance to go see the Frick Collection in New York, I strongly recommend it for two of the most photorealistic paintings I've ever seen: the portraits of Sir Thomas More [1] and Thomas Cromwell [2] by Hans Holbein the Younger (sadly the digitized versions are low resolution and don't do them justice).

The paintings are 500 years old but look like photographic portraits, down to the individual hairs in the stubble on More's chin. Realism was in vogue at the time but there weren't many other artists who were as good as Hans Holbein.

[1] https://collections.frick.org/objects/100/sir-thomas-more

[2] https://collections.frick.org/objects/101/thomas-cromwell
Yesterday - 11 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40941499
That is a weird way to see it, just because a technology already exists (from the best I can tell the ability to identify specific people is a unique part of this) doesn't mean that we could be looking at an improvement to the technology or worry about it being put in more consumer technology making it easier for average people to use it.
11th Annual Developer Relations Survey (2024 Edition)
Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe
Gemini Pro refuses to acknowledge yt-dlp
If you're on iOS try Apple Arcade, where games have no microtransactions and shady monetization tactics. I couldn't believe how much "calmer" games were when they're not under pressure to trick you around every corner to get your money.

Of course, that won't help with the control issues which I completely agree with.
if you're in the same geo - small claims court.

otherwise, consider it lost + name and shame
os.urandom does read from /dev/urandom: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.urandom
Because a security vulnerability in the common library will have a much larger impact. It also increases the potential attack surface by adding more components. Companies value the secrets they keep and want to make sure they have 100% vertical control, where they can audit everything.

Also, at any project with a sane architecture, you're using 1 vault and maybe 1-2 ambient strategies to pass the data. You won't use all the vaults at the same time anyway
Still the tech may help with prion like diseases which are common:

>There is also evidence suggesting prions may play a part in the process of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); these have been termed prion-like diseases. (wikipedia)
>> How did we get here?

I think it is lazyness. By that I mean these toolkits are so complex, things get dropped because it would probably double development trying to get 5% extra into the product.
I was worried for a second until I learned this only affects Apache running on Windows lol
my laptop does not have a mousewheel. scrolling with the touchpad (if i even have one) does not always work either.
this feels more like Azure Secrets which has been a superior product.