skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nazis are a simple evil everyone agrees on.

The reality is most of the biggest tech companies work with defense. Some of it is actually defense. I think we should come up with a "Are we the baddies?" checklist.

1. Do we justify killing 10 innocents to save one life?

2. Are the enemies not given proper burials, i.e. are body parts kept as trophies or mounted on sticks? Mass graves and cremations are still okay.

3. Do our commanders show joy at killing an unarmed civilian?

4. Do we perform experiments on live prisoners?

5. Do we rape or kill anyone under the age of 9?

6. Do we use starvation as a weapon?

Most of the cruelest societies would be around 5/6. Something like Holodomor was cruel, but only about 1/6. WW2 Allies would be around 3/6, but well, they were fighting the ones who were at 5/6. So maybe it was justified if you're defending against a bigger threat? Scale probably counts too, but it's simpler to measure intent and cruelty.

I would wager that no tech company scores anywhere near 5 like Nazis. But some may be complicit on at least 1, like human trafficking or enabling serial killers.
> Looks like average price in the US is $6.00/GB.

Are data allowances common in the USA for terrestrial data?

In New Zealand >87% of the population can get 1gb connection for $61 USD with no data cap (and no long term contract, cheaper if you find a deal).

One ISP (or brand) is offering a 10gb connection for $40 USD on a 24 month contract. >1g limited to a a small number of cities as far as I know.

Our mobile internet costs a fortune, costing for example the cheapest non-prepaid plan from the largest telco is $27.50 USD for 4.5gb of data.
“Nix” is a very overloaded term. It can refer to Nix-the-language, Nix-the-interpreter, Nix-the-command-line-tool etc. CppNix is specifically the code body developed in https://github.com/nixos/nix. It (among other things) implements Nix-the-language. E.g. https://tvix.dev/ also implements Nix-the-language, despite sharing no code with CppNix.
Tips for dealing with NextJS errors (that don't invole Sentry)
It has to be pointed at the sky and plugged into power.
10000 tables under one roof are by no means a large number.

Well designed, normalized handcrafted schemas can have hundreds of tables (many basic datatypes, many entities with a few many to many relations each).

Then mechanisms that create and copy tables automatically (e.g. by time intervals; to segregate versions or epochs or instances of something important; as snapshots or temporary duplicates or backups) can easily increase table count by two or more orders of magnitude.
You're not getting the band back together. I've never heard of an organization surviving more than about a year after being acquired, much less get preserved by a parent company in its death throes. If there was any chance of that happening, it'd take morale and unity behind a long-respected leader, plus a ton of cash to de-acquire the company.
Sunstone
A combination of events conspired to cause the seal failure and blow-through, yes. But it wasn’t just Max-Q that defeated the slag, but that they experienced much stronger high altitude winds in flight than any flight before or after.

They rolled 20 at liftoff and then a 1 at altitude and that’s all she wrote.

NASA came close to getting away with it. They were due to introduce a redesigned field joint in late 1986 based off the lightweight solid boosters planned for the USAF missions out of SLC-6. Had they launched Challenger a day earlier or later they might have proceeded to the new joint, and no catastrophic seal failure.
Just use apps. Apple protects.
While Patreon is often to support an individual artist, it's still a subscription. I wonder how often people sign up and forget they're a member. If your email inbox has 10,000 unreads and you don't check your bank statement, it'll just keep you on as a member forever. Especially since expiring credit card numbers are automatically relinked.
Model rocket enthusiasts are learning how to do vertical landings
Setting aside whether or not I agree with the premise that smaller dependencies are worse for building system binaries (I think Nix provides a compelling counterargument), how is vendoring Rust dependencies "like C" (the same way Firefox and the kernel do) a regression from building C? All Linux dependencies are already vendored, and even without access to crates.io, getting access to Rust's language features is still a Pareto improvement over C, not a regression.
Off topic but does TFA still anyways mean "The Fucking Article"? In my personal understanding it came from people telling others to "read tfa". But to see the term used ubiquitously referring to "the article" but keeping the profanity just seems kinda strange to me. We could say something like "TA" and omit the "fucking" but maybe it actually means something completely different and my personal lore has just detached from the zeitgeist
What website is that?
4 years
I often want to know who there is a sudden growth disk usage over the last month/week/etc, what suddenly take space. In those cases I find myself wishing that du and friends would cache their last few runs and would offer a diff against them, this easily listing the new disk eating files or directories. Could dut evolve to do something like that?
Also it does render comments.
> tyre

Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world.

In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away from the nearest town and with no cell service to call for help. If you get a flat in the middle of the actual desert we have, you're absolutely fucked without a spare. Your options are to wait and hope someone else drives by to offer help or just start walking. Maybe you'll find a gas station before you run out of water. Even in the more densely developed areas of the country you can find yourself stranded a long way between towns. It's happened to me twice before and it's not at all an uncommon story.
My feelings too: XF86Config is the new location, dammit.
> I don’t understand where this idea that Apple has lost most of their chip design talent and is in trouble rhetoric is coming from.

Why are you saying this? The article doesn't seem to imply that?

Apple isn't in any kind of trouble. But the gap between Apple and the competition does appear to be closing. Right now Apple's biggest advantage is they buy up all of TSMC supply for the latest node. They're always a little faster because they're always a node ahead.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite is reasonably impressive from a CPU and x86 emulation perspective. The GPU hardware seems kinda sorta ok. But their GPU drivers are dog poop. Which is why they suck for Windows gaming.

I hope AMD and Nvidia start to release ARM SoC designs for laptops/desktops next year. That could get interesting fast. All hail competition!
It's a neat idea that you could publish a paper like this that establishes a framework for thousands of years.
Bitcoin is the actively mined motherlode of pure sunk cost fallacies.

The funniest thing about it is how by design it's deflating to zero as people eventually lose access to their keys.
AppImage are perhaps that only thing working
OOTB like windows/Mac programs,
and other container formats don't come close.
Everything else is dependent on right configuration,
correct versioning and lots of
"magic" settings that need to be
set to make something functional.
Depending on correct glibc, dependencies
being installed with the right settings,
environment variables,makefiles
being compatible with what your system
has,having the right kernel version,
etc.
Yes, pathways are complex and adaptive, but as I read the abstract (thank you!), they're suggesting a treatment path.

The potential treatment is that the protein JUN can block IFN's increasing CXCL13 pathologically.

It's testable in that JUN itself can be produced and delivered during acute phases to reduce flares, and could itself be a therapy.

More lasting gene diagnostics and therapies may come from checking for dysregulated genes in the pathway and injecting genes to produce JUN.

It's not promising, though, to the extent JUN wouldn't address an underlying IFN dysregulation.
An ordinary developer cannot write performant x86 without a massive optimizing compiler.

Actual instruction encoding is horrible. If you’re arguing that you can write a high-level assembly over the top, then you aren’t so much writing assembly as you are writing something in between.

When you need to start caring about the actual assembly (padding a cache line, avoiding instructions with too many uops, or choosing between using APX 32 registers and more normal shorter instructions, etc) rather than some high level abstraction, the experience is worse than any other popular ISA.
Killing quickly dividing cells as a way of modulating immune system is ‘turn down the immune system’

Just as antivirals are actually ‘stop cell division’

Neither of which inspire any confidence
Or even on/in the planet. The Earth's core is about a year younger than the Earth's surface.
Brother, I don't even currently own a car. I couldn't care less about speeding.

I re-wrote this to the top to try and find common ground between us, rather than just bickering:

I think that what would immediately dissolve any difference in opinion that you and I have would be this: legislation is also passed that expressly defines privacy-preserving requirements that car manufacturers (and the government) need to obey. That would mean a blind (no PII), no-backdoor, encrypted, non-tracked system for implementing a speed-limiter (bonus points if it applies to any/all phoning home that cars do). If something like that was clearly defined, the privacy concerns I (and others) have are actually accounted for.

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And then to clarify what I've been trying to say/ respond to what you've written:

We have laws against speeding, those are laws regardless of if speed limiters exist. You're painting my argument out to be "I don't like the enforcement of this law, so it shouldn't be a law at all" and that is just simply not what I am saying.

It's the method of enforcement that causes the privacy concern, not the law itself. We can (and always will/should) have laws against speeding. We do not have to mandate every new car have a new privacy risk added to effectively enforce speeding laws.

Constantly adding ever more invasive mandates to enforce laws just takes us further and further down the path of privacy violations. You say that there's no evidence that this regulation requires violating privacy rights, but when the legislation doesn't expressly account for preserving privacy, than it's a safe bet that privacy will not be protected, and will (eventually) be abused.
That's funny, because I think the same about companies that work on AI, which will be 10x worse than social media ever was.

So, what do you do?
I worked with a Harrison (born in the 70s) who commented that the name had a bathtub curve - most people with the name were either really old or really young (he knew more Harrisons in his toddler's preschool class than his own age).

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Harrison&assumption=%7B...

Compare with a name like Michael ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Michael ), which while it has fallen out of favor with newer names, is still the most common male name in the population - though the average age is 48 years.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1970s.html

And yes, I went to school with seven Jennifers on that bus route (there were more on other bus routes). https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k
The perspectives and interests of NIST and the things that a service provider has has to worry about with respect to their customer/user experience are not necessarily aligned.

Customer: "What do you mean two factor app? I thought the code was supposed to come to my phone?"

Support: "It did, but we no longer support SMS two factor authentication."

Customer: "But I had no problems when the code came to my phone."

Support: "Yes, but NIST recommends that we don't use SMS 2FA"

Customer: "What's NIST? I'm finding this very frustrating, I need to get into my account."
StarryDex – A Pokédex application for the COSMIC desktop written in Rust
Ask HN: Is AI Overrated?
I've seen thousands of AI startups get funded, but barely find anything thats made its way into my daily life. Are AI startup overrated?
To be honest it took me about 6 hours to go through all the openings, selecting the ones I was interested in, writing a custom email and adapting my resumee to fit that particular opening. It was actually work.
Quite a few of my friend's that were diagnosed with chron's disease found out that the main culprit seemed to be flour and other foodstuff that had been treated with glyphosate (Roundup). After switching to sourdough bread made from organic flours, and similar choices for masa harina (nixtamilated corn) their issues went away. This was after years of not eating anything with fiber, gluten, or nightshades.

Their theory was that the herbicides would kill off their gut's natural biome and cause an inability process carbohydrates, fiber and maintain a intestinal mucus layer.

YMMV...but just passing along what has worked for a few of my friends.
Not specifically the HN who's hiring etc threads, but through YCombinator's job board I was approached, interviewed, and hired. Loved the company, work was fun (even if not my favorite language), but I upset the CTO by questioning his Golden Boy, the CTO stole an idea wholesale from me after telling me it was a bad idea, and then fired me with no specific reasons.

If it weren't for that CTO I'd likely still be working there.
Just came across this today, figured I'd share, kind of interesting to see an app built with libcosmic with Rust. Seems to be coming along nicely.
Shelley Duvall, a versatile face of 1970s film, dies at 75
In my experience, Debian ticks all the boxes you mentioned about Mint. Not bashing Mint in any way, I'm sure it's a great distro - just saying Debian itself is perfectly good too.
I wonder why these human inventions seemed to have happened in reverse order?

Normally, you'd expect someone to land a small or medium sized prototype rocket before the big real thing. Instead, SpaceX solved the vertical rocket landing problem for a full-size rocket at incredible cost and difficulty, and now a hobbyist copies the idea and scales it down.

I might be missing something here. Maybe someone solved the problem of vertical landing for less-than-full-size rockets before SpaceX? Maybe there's no value in solving that problem, so SpaceX jumped to full size right away?
The computational power of random quantum circuits in arbitrary geometries
I've felt this way for a long time, and I enjoy using lower quality things sometimes just to confirm it's worth the investment into something more advanced.

Like violin, I still play my $50 special I bought in 2005, because it sounds fine and I'm terrible so it's Good Enough.

On the other hand, I am building my second computer keyboard that's going to cost me $300+ because, well, I make a living with these things and I use it 60+ hours a week. I have wrist problems, so a better keyboard literally translates into more hours billed.
I think you underestimate how much of a speedup we're talking about: it can pull in the entire filesystem in a couple seconds on a multi TB volume with Bs of files. I have yet to see anything in the linux world (including the OP) that comes anywhere near this performance level via tree walking.
Huh, can you be more specific? I thought I was using this on Linux with bitwarden. Is a yubikey “junk?”
EU is introducing Digital Wallet for this. I hope it will nicer to use than the Finnish version of BankID. Also would be nicer to be less dependent of banks or other private rent-seeking institutions.

Not having too high hopes though.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/E...
Stability control vs Guidance control
Nix Alternatives and Spinoffs
If you combine Katherine, Catherine, Kat, Kate, Caty, Katy, Katie, and Katheryn (there are SO MANY variants, but most of them have never been popular), peak popularity for girls in the U.S. in the last century is in 1986 at only 1.8% of baby girls.

That's less popular than the single name Matthew for boys, or any one of Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, or Jennifer, in that same year. I expected it would be higher: my own sister is one of these, and I had a friend circle in my 20s that included a Katie, a Katherine (who went by Kat), a Caitlin, and a Kathryn.

Source: baby name popularity is one of our favorite test data sets at Row Zero, and we do lots of analyses like this for fun, e.g. https://rowzero.io/blog/baby-names-rise-of-n
Chao Bing: A Read-Only Memory Experience
One thing that comes with seniority is being around enough years to be able to get a feeling for this kind of stuff, after getting burned a few times.
Ask HN: Do you use the Pomodoro technique?
I've been using this technique for 10yrs now, I find that it really helps (even in 25mins or 50mins sessions).

I know only one person who actually does the technique daily.

So, if you do Pomodoro, how do you use it? How do you make it stick?
That's an absurdly reductionist take on ancient innovation.

What about chemistry that mad everything from baking recipes, optics for physics, paint for art, forging techniques... The list goes on and on.

There are so many subtle ways of doing things that were silo'd in small communities or regions.
Only the exterior cladding of a house is really exposed to UV and even there, there is no shortage of vinyl siding or latex polymer paints (over cementeous boards) which have been UV stabilized.

Azek[0] and Trex[1] have been popular due to their low maintenance and insect resistance.

We're seeing some polymers and polymer impregnated products starting to be used heavily now in construction.

Huber's Zip system[2] is one example. Makes perfect sense. It seems like there are other applications where it would be a boon to use plastics.

I'm just surprised that we don't see higher adoption of plastics (again, not necessarily structural, but even as cladding or plastic impregnated) in the core structural elements that are often susceptible to water or insect damage.

[0] https://azekexteriors.com/products/trim

[1] https://www.trex.com/

[2] https://www.huberwood.com/zip-system/wall-sheathing
My desktop has that stipple without using the '-retro' option, I guess it may be getting set by the window manager.
The trouble is, it seems that the decision makers are only on the surface
I think it was almost 7 years ago but I was flown from VA->SF and interviewed for a company that I ultimately didn't end up getting an offer for, but it was a good experience
Yes. It's mythology. But that story is often told to illustrate that Krishna knew that his advice, however good, would not be accepted. Nevertheless, he gave his best advice. It is meant to provide instruction to people who are put in the position of giving advice. A consultant's 'dharma' if you will.
Random thought I’ve been having as we keep bringing this topic up these past few weeks…

How interesting or uninteresting would bi-modal 2FA be ?

That is: you receive a code by text and you enter the code by email…

I haven’t spent any time to work out whether this significantly changes the attack surface but… At first glance it does seem like you would need to own two different account types…

… So I guess a first question would be: does this exist anywhere? Has anyone ever seen this or done this?
All the things in the press release.

AI inference. Editing, not merely watching, video. Ditto audio. Gets more done before the battery runs out.

I cannot emphasise strongly enough how niche "compile the Linux kernel" is: to most people, once you've explained what those words mean, this is as mad as saying you don't like a Tesla because you recreationally make your own batteries and Tesla cars don't have a warranty-not-void method to let you just stick those in.
The modern tech economy is based far too on making creators work for free
The `duckdb_iceberg`[0] extension doesn't support partitioning / predicate pushdown. Is that what you're using for pg_lakehouse?

0 - https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb_iceberg/issues/2
Wow that Metro-X configurator is really nice. Messing with XFree on Slackware was a nightmare.
I was never going to have kids, but if I did, I had rules for naming.

1. Name them what you're going to call them. If you want a "Kate", don't name them "Katherine". If you want a "Sam", don't name them Samuel.

2. Don't give them the same first name as a close relative.

3. Don't give them a unique spelling of a common name. You're just giving them a life-long annoyance of having to spell their name out any time they're telling someone their name vocally.

My parents broke the first two rules when they named me and it created headaches as I transitioned into adulthood. It even caused problems when I interned at Intel, where he'd been working for 15 years. I got e-mails that were supposed to go to him, and vice-versa.
>Windows Boot Manager can chainload into any arbitrary bit of code if you point it where it needs to hand off.

With the NT6 bootloader this appears to be limited to operating only in BIOS mode using bootmgr.exe. The traditional chainloading is still possible by pointing to a binary file which is a copy of a valid partition bootsector, whether it is a Microsoft bootsector or not.

The equalent BCD for UEFI mode uses bootmgr.efi (instead of bootmgr.exe), and does not seem to be capable of chainloading even when there is an equivalent BOOTSECTOR bootentry on the NT6 multiboot menu.

It would be good to see an example of the NT6 bootloader successfully handling UEFI multibooting which includes starting Linux from the EXTx partition it is installed on. Still works perfectly in BIOS since early NT, but in UEFI not so much.
Plus the Macintosh and GEM between the XEROX GUIs and X.
Likely nanotechnology. Sensors that can reside in your body and give up to the moment details, and chemical factories that we can programmatically make adjustments to the body's existing pathways (reprogramming the immune system, etc.).

In other words, better integration and faster feedback loops.
Strange - I pay actual money for Amazon ads on Kindle, supposedly to show folks who like my genre my novels.

Amazon chooses to show my ad maybe once a week! They prefer to show trash ads I suppose, I don't know. I can't imagine those trash ads pay nearly what I had to bid to even get my ads to start showing up!

(Amazon auctions off impressions, which means you have to pay nearly your whole book margin to play the game. Essentially, they've sucked up every possible penny of online book sales for almost all books in their catalog.)
The title and body are two different topics. AI is not overrated. AI startups are overrated. FOSS all the way; we'll get there. GenAI is short for Generative AI. That's all it does; humanity's best attempt yet at T9 text prediction. General AI is still not yet achievable, but using today's GenAI definition we can get to tomorrow's GenAI definition.
Anyone else from latam?
A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 2 (2009)
I’ve seen so many times this 2D representation of the solar system and I felt somehow shocked when I saw a Youtube video supposedly showing how the planets actually orbit around the sun, and how the sun orbits the center of our galaxy. Basically, the sun is moving and the planets orbiting around it form some sort of vortex. If you look at the whole thing as if you were in front of the vortex (or behind), you would see the 2D representation.

I don’t know either if that’s what happens in reality but this 2D representation is getting old I guess.
Ugghhh, "frictionless" as if we're talking about logging into Candy Crush here. Are the "Growth Hackers" infiltrating banking apps now? I don't want my bank software to be frictionless. I want it to be secure.