skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nostalgia reminds me of this:
https://lowendmac.com/2014/next-openstep-and-the-triumphant-...

Amelio and the rest of his senior staff began searching for a way out. They needed a new operating system to buoy their attempts to compete with the Wintel juggernaut. The same search had taken place several times before, but now the company was desperate.

Limited Options
Ultimately the list of possible targets was narrowed down to five options:

License Windows NT from Microsoft and bolt a Mac-like interface onto it.
License Solaris from Sun and bolt a Mac-like interface onto it.
Narrow the focus of the flagging Copland project and release it in a year and a half.
Acquire Be and use BeOS.
Acquire NeXT and use OpenStep.
Vulnerability of tidal morphologies to sea-level rise in the Venice Lagoon
Who is forcing developers to work for free?

I mean look at the case of Spotify's Car Thing. They sell you a hardware product, and then they can discontinue it in the snap of a finger. Users are out money with little to no recourse. Luckily Spotify is refunding customers, but only if they ask for it, but that isn't always the case for the discontinuation of hardware. Without free, as in freedom, software customers become enslaved to capitalism where they have to buy the newest hardware because their OEM only supports hardware for a certain amount of time. With free software, I can take the software from the vendor and provide updates to the product for much longer amounts of time. But because people want to use MIT, BSD-2/3-clause, Apache-2.0, et. al., consumers cannot reap the full benefits of what Free and Open Source Software truly means.
what are those words?
Yes, but there's quite a bit of variation in how susceptible an individual's PrP is (genetic variation) to a particular strain of prion. That matters a LOT in terms of likelihood of getting infected, and duration of disease progression.
Show HN is for things you've made other people can try, take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
That's an enormous amount of data. How do you not notice a huge, network-hogging data flow?
Perhaps one of several reasons is the failed promise of the App Store. If Apple had cultivated a different dynamic between consumers and developers we would have a different landscape of market segments today. Instead they created (or allowed to set in) the consumer expectation that an expensive app was two dollars.
Depends on if you are a part of the crime rates that go down or not.

More seriously: lower crime, more services, reduced infastructural and service strain, higher income, and an area made more desirable.

The very hard part would be getting only the good, to bring in investment and raise incomes of individuals across all individuals at a neighborhood level instead of just importing richer people. The levels of sudden life changes required frankly suggest mind control being involved.
Our class grades with names snd SSNs were posted on the wall after exams in a list of hundreds of students.

Go Jackets.
You can't just look away from your TV for 5-10 seconds?
How's the kid doing? (Asking as a vegan of about 16 years, and my SO is vegetarian about as long. We don't have kids though.)

My understanding (possibly a decade or more out of date... been a while since I last did any real research on the topic) was that vegetarianism was well-tested and easily made healthy, but veganism is still kinda experimental in terms of its long-term effects, especially for newborns and young children. I think the uncertainties were especially focused on bone and teeth development & maintenance.

Have you noticed anything positive or negative? Do their check-ups come back OK?
Imagine the GDPR fine
>There is no beauty to web development

Thanks for this pithy summary. Beauty is the perfect one-word difference between what programming can be and what the web stack is.
Data Analysis: React Pivot Table with Cube.js
So, there are three parts to this:

1) that most of the internet is now "inorganic", i.e. fake generated content. This seems to be nearly an objective fact by now.

2) that most of the inorganic content is created in order to manipulate the public; well sure, why else?

3) that it's mostly done by ONE organization, e.g. the U.S. government. That seems implausible, for many reasons. It's a whole host of organizations (governments, corporations, political movements) all trying to spam the world (with machine-generated content) in order to sway opinions.

So, I agree with every part of this "conspiracy theory", except for the conspiracy part. This is my objection to most conspiracy theories; it's not that I don't believe the big powers do bad stuff, it's that I don't believe they're all on the same side or that well organized.
weird nitpick — they keep mentioning LMM, but do they mean LLMs?
Oh also totally missed the Borges mention the first time - I'm a big fan of his stories!
Here’s a study from 2015: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471...
The "GPT-4 Can't Reason" paper [1] [2] is excellent and proves without a shadow of a doubt that there is no reasoning taking place. It also raises strong doubts about the efficacy and reliability of multi-agent approaches that rely on LLM-based planning (such as Cradle [3], which is currently on the front page).

When it was previously discussed here, it received a torrent of low-quality comments that can only be described as confirmation bias: commenters tried the examples verbatim (instead of introducing random perturbations to get around model updates) in order to disprove the thesis.

It's sad that there are "engineers" out there so blinded by their own (wishful thinking, vested interests) that can not accept the obvious.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03762

[2] https://medium.com/@konstantine_45825/gpt-4-cant-reason-adde...

[3] https://baai-agents.github.io/Cradle/
The headline could equally say "AT&T kept data for criminals to steal".

If wiretapping laws didn't exist then most of this data would not be justified to exist. Flat-rate billing doesn't need to keep track of this information. Even usage-based plans could keep cumulative records rather than individual ones, or at least delete them at the end of a billing period.

Where there is a trough, pigs gather.
It might be useful in cases where you pre-allocate a large array which you don't randomly access and whose structure doesn't change much but sometimes it does. Then you could either reallocate the array and pay a (large) one time cost or use this trick.
The point of the article is that the frequency of launches is increasing, and the frequency at which pieces are surviving re-entry is increasing. I don’t think past performance is necessarily indicative of the future here.
I thought it was going to be a computer in a floppy disk that spoofed data into the read heads. I wonder if you could emulate a floppy disk, and if that would let you cheat orders of magnitude more data into a "disk".
Tangential, why did you/anybody spell "shit" like they are evading Tiktok language filters?
It's an extra step, but a surprisingly simple one. When I opened a checking account recently the bank told me which credit agency they'd use, and I unfroze that account and ChexSystems (another credit agency you should freeze with that is used specifically for new bank accounts) in five minutes using their automated systems. You can supply a re-freeze date when unfreezing as well so you don't need to remember to do that manually once you're approved.
In that part of the world, if those are the only ones available...
Software version consistency for Amazon ECS services
Play 7000 PC DOS games quickly and easily (eXoDOS Review) [video]
So? Does a completely free speech platform deserve different state policing of disinfo than a curated speech platform? Why?
Sometimes the point is to have a conversation before there’s a meaningful problem. A ~1-10% risk to someone per year when a company wants to ramp things exponentially higher isn’t a trivial risk anymore.

Further, there’s different standards when companies are risking random members of the public especially people in other countries not just employees or customers.
"DVDs" in the title is shorthand for DVDs and Blu-rays, physical media in general.
It can still damage property. I'd love to see how you can handle suing a corporation from another country when you could barely pay your mortgage and now your house is gone, and you forgot to get space debris insurance.

Just because nobody dies, doesn't mean these things can't have dramatic consequences.
> organizations have an internal serf-provisioning portal

Which will create things in cloud…
Compare it to the process of the Shuttle Software Group, detailed in the FastCompany article, "They Write the Right Stuff" (https://archive.is/HX7n4)

(Previously discussed many times on HN; the most popular post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537530)

To me, the Forth process is more rigorous and less error-prone. It may not be the 'industry standard', but for certain very specialized and intelligent teams (such as the Shuttle Software Group), I'm surprised it hasn't taken off (excuse the pun)...
> That seems true if you only think about coal, but we started with wood and any future world without people would have a ton of that. Whale oil too would also be available.

I think the point is you can't go far with those fuel sources (e.g. you can't have a trucking industry that runs on whale oil).

> Surface level coal my be gone in most places, but large mines full of coal site idle in a lot of places now for economic reasons, and energy poor society may dig out these deposits.

How deep? In a thousand years (let alone a million), will the mining tunnels have collapsed and/or filled with water? Even if the tunnels still exist and are serviceable, an "energy poor society" is probably not going to pump out the many millions of gallons of water needed to get at the coal.

Current humanity has shown very little capacity for heavy investment with only a long range payoff (say taking 100 steps at a time vs. 1 or 2 steps). The problem is with removing all the easily extractable energy resources is that, is it puts the remaining ones too many steps out of reach for someone starting at square one. If you've got 2 6-sided die and someone has to roll 100 with them to get to the next step, it's never going to happen.
Well that’s certainly one uncharitable way to read that.

People have spoken with their usage. They aren’t picking native apps, they are picking webapps. There isn’t some massive underserved “I wish this was a desktop app” market or someone would be making a killing there.

Desktop apps have their place but all things being equal people seems to gravitate towards webapps.

On HN people hate on Electron apps and webapps but they are the vast minority of the overall population and they rarely offer viable alternatives, just grumbling. What their arguments so often overlook is it’s not native vs electron/web it nothing vs electron/web, as in a lot of these products would simply not exist or would be windows/mac-only if not for webapps.
Since this topic often leads up to discussion about Starlink debris, and since one of the authors on this piece has a well known bias against SpaceX in particular, it should be emphasized that this a Dragon specific issue, several dozen Starlink satellites have deorbited over the past years with zero associated debris having survived intact to the surface.

And since it's probably also going to come up, the other recent case of debris hitting a house in IIRC Florida, those were batteries from the ISS that were intended to be brought down in a controlled manner via a cargo vehicle, but due to delays and it becoming unsafe to keep the batteries at the station, NASA had to take the risk of uncontrolled disposal despite expecting that some debris might not be fully vaporized on the way down.

While there is an issue of setting standards for reentering debris, while Samantha would love for you to believe SpaceX in particular, and NASA are behaving negligently, they've been leading the pack on figuring out the appropriate standards, with the Dragon trunk survivals being an abnormality that didn't fit with their models. Same goes with things like reducing the brightness of their satellites.
It's also probably increasing easy to look up.

We need a national (preferably RFID-ish) password system.
I just got a new battery-powered air duster that says "TURBO FAN" on the side. It's about 100,000 horsepower short of an actual turbo fan, but it's a good duster and I enjoy the enthusiasm.
Strangers 'Eavesdropped' on Confidential Helpline
How many individual engineers do you suppose get prosecuted for making errors--even careless ones? I'm guessing very few in the West. And I'm not even sure lopping off a head here and there to encourage the others is even a good idea.
One success story is that of the imageJ/Fiji project, which provided/provides a standard way of writing and running image analysis workflows.
It's not increasing, though. The number of launches to the space station has been relatively constant for the last 30 years or so. And it's only those launches that have this problem. The other ~100 launches or so SpaceX does each year don't.
One mitigation is to make your mother's maiden name the output of:

head -c 20 /dev/random | base64

And keep track of the result in your favorite password manager.

Fortunately, fewer and fewer orgs are using security questions, but there are still some important ones that only use that and no MFA.
Well yeah if you want things in life you need to offer something in return, obviously the doctor isn't a slave at your command to work for you for free. But you need not be employed to employ his services, merely need to compensate him for his employment in your service.
Maybe this is how it is at some places, but in my experience, it is not the case. I have friends who have worked in cyber-security for Fortune 500 companies and almost all of those companies would short-change (or outright ignore) the recommended spend and suggestions of their cyber-security employees, contractors, and advisors.

Where are you getting your information from? The levels of security negligence I hear about aren't even a big ask. Huge companies neglect to do basic things like "don't store your passwords in plain text" or "make sure you salt and hash your passwords".

I don't think it's fair to say cyber security teams are failing if companies are blatantly doing the worst and most obviously wrong things on the daily at the highest levels.
It's possible to have a "sparse" matrixes where most of the values are 0 and only a few are not null. So you can guess 0 and cross your fingers.

(There are libraries that implement sparse matrixes in a more memory efficient way. I needed them for a program in Python, but I'm not an expert in Python. I found a few ways, but they are only useful for big matrixes with very few coeficients and have other restrictions to get an improved speed. I finaly gave up and used a normal np matrixes.)
Your demographic may have stopped going there but Starbucks is still intact as a company.
Fascinating work. The ARC std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) was used to boot the Dec Alpha Windows machines, along w/ MIPS, etc. Anyone know of other open source variants of that in the wild? At intel in 1998 the original efi spec was modeled on & inspired by Arc. The Intel boot initiative (IBI) in fact looked mostly like Arc. EFI (now UEFI) is sort of Arc + installable GUID-based interfaces (aka protocols) a la MS COM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model. Page 8 of https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents... recounts some of those travails.
On all but the simplest of subjects upvotes and downvotes are nothing more than an indication of a post's popularity. There's no weight attached to a vote based on whether the voter has knowledge of the subject. With a complex topic it's pretty much meaningless for separating fact from fiction

They are VERY useful though if you're in advertising and want to know whether a message/opinon/subject/group/item is popular or unpopular with a target "market".

[I know you know all the above. I kind of wanted you to know that I know it too. Anyway, downvotes...]

Downvotes are massively useful in that they show what a group of people really dislike. That information is used to work out what the group don't want to see alongside of the "things" they do want to see.

Musk doesn't want censorship or fact-checking - it's irrelevant whether a message is fact or fiction, only whether it's popular or unpopular with a group. Flat-earthers buy things too.

X and YouTube etc are farming the users, the advertisers, the creators, and the employees, extracting as much from the interactions between them, and converting that into into wealth, all the while appearing to provide to each a service rather than being exposed as uncomfortably manipulative and exploitative.

Kind of beautiful in its efficiency, but quite terrible.

tl;dr? Downvote me, it's what they want :)
For practical purposes does this matter? There is a lot of range between lethal and burns up on re-entry speeds for a ping pong table sized piece of debris.
This is a mission requested by and developed in partnership with NASA, with the service provided by SpaceX.

Now the people in Australia or Canada don't have a direct stake in NASA, but it's not just SpaceX doing this on their own.

NASA and SpaceX are working together to mitigate this particular source of debris.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-and-spacex-studying-ways-to-mitig...
> If a server goes down, it’s a few minutes to replace it.

Like you drive to the server rooms and have a stack of new servers, physically replace the old one with the new one and re-set everything in a few minutes? Or is your “bare metal” an ec2 instance?
Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
This reminds me of a certain US political situation. More on the topic, I see how it can go both ways. Use Chrome until something better comes up or use Firefox in spite of all of its problems. I’m currently in the second camp and I’m happy but I’m not sure for how long.
Can't speak for today, but previously a lot of the protocol details required NDA contracts and licensing for client access, which is why many clients that did work was on a paid tier or plugin.

Given O365's relative success, I can imagine that MS has loosened the grip a bit.
I like the new UI way more than the old one. It doesn't look as cramped.
yeah I think I showed that pretty clearly
This may not apply, but I think it's worth trying. The Keto diet was originally used to treat seizures. My cat developed seizures when she was about 1 and had them for years. Medication took care of most of it, but she still had them occasionally. I didn't go full Keto with her, but got her a different food with no grains and that helped to the point where she was able to get off medicine and still had no seizures. It's possible she aged out of the seizures too - but a diet change is an easy thing to test.
I think if we know the underlying cause, we don’t call it depression, we call it sadness.
It's more subtle than that. DI and DI frameworks are two separate things that often get conflated.

Injecting dependencies when you instantiate an object, or passing dependencies into a method via arguments, rather than having methods or constructors create their dependencies, is good design and increases testability.

On the other hand, DI frameworks are, IMO, an awful awful mess and mistake and I'm glad the industry has moved away from them. The problem with DI frameworks is that setting parameters automatically is only one part of it; the other part of it is object lifecycle management. After all, a Foo is automatically injected into your class, it means the DI framework needs to know how to create a Foo, and dispose of a Foo.

This is where you get into per-request sessions, context hooks, and all of the stupid Spring bean bullshit everyone has come to hate and is really the main reason for so much anti-"enterprise" software patterns.

Funnily enough, it is unnecessary. Just make your dependencies into parameters and you'll get 95% of the benefit of DI. The last 5% is the code to wire up the object graph at certain entrypoints which can be large, but should be simple code.
I'm not surprised at all.

I have never voted in my entire 77 years. So thats 59 years of not voting.

I am a socialist and none of the main parties represent my views.

As a socialist I believe in a fair society which has been severely lacking in the last 50 years.

I may vote if the "first past the post" voting system is abandoned for the fairer and more representative "proportional" voting system".

I think that the Scandinavians have a proportional representation system and their countries look so much nicer than here in Airstrip One.

Politics has never represented any of my peers during my lifetime.
Europium is also used in Euro banknotes as an anti-counterfeiting measure, again as a phosphor that glows under UV light (in physical terms it's the same application as a fluorescent tube)
In relatively hot climates, above 100F is still a pretty reasonable temperature, not something i'd call "extreme".

0F though is crazy cold. Where i live (south-western europe), getting below ~15 F is already considered extreme weather

All that to say that the farenheit system is really geared towards very cold climates. So it's kinda weird that it stuck in a country that also has pretty hot climates in the south
Yep. This is what I did after the first Experian data breach, for peace of mind. I am probably financially lucky enough that I don't need to constantly be checking or using my credit... but honestly it seems like this is what everyone needs to be doing.
>more similar to writing a software project for the second time after you throw away your first version - but now with more resources

All aircraft design is basically this. You don't/can't ever really start from scratch, there's an enormous volume of historical aircraft designs and all new planes look very similar to old planes. There are very rarely opportunities to solve problems in new ways.
Ah it was a different time. Societal trust was greater. Without global internetification, the only people who could ever have any opportunity to exploit this information were your fellow campus denizens (students, professors, etc).

Without global internetification, there was not as much an average person could really do or would know to do with an SSN alone to exploit it.

This story is a good parable for so much of what has changed in the world the last couple decades -- we had a world built for less globalization, then we globalized, and we've been gradually adapting to / dealing with the unintended consequences since then.

A real life door can only be picked by your neighbors or anyone else nearby -- attack surface is limited by the nature of physical distance.

A virtual door can be picked at by 7 billion people.
So we all perform poorly in the morning, but for some that is the best they can do?
Any insights on what it does better than the concurrent works (Gaussian in the Wild, SWAG, Wild-GS)?
A Billionaire Wedding Puts 'Crazy Rich Indians' in the Spotlight
It's been mentioned here before, but Dave Plummer's YouTube interview[1] with Dave Cutler[2] (NT lead architect) is a must-watch with never revealed before history about Windows NT.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxmZPMg7vIs&list=PLF2KJ6Gy3c...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
ATT has a rich history of being a technology company. They invented UNIX! That's in the past, fair enough.

So they used to develop cutting edge technology, they sell technology, they buy technology, they operate technology, they work with manufacturers to develop new technology, they operate the infrastructure underpinning the modern technology economy, but they aren't a technology company?

Even if you want to argue that they aren't a technology company, they sure spend enough time doing everything a technology company does to hold them accountable for their technology failures.
https://archive.is/ykwDG