skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can help answer this a bit.

Processing the data with code and SQLite takes about 4 hours for the United States and Canada. If I can figure out how to parallelize some of the work, it could be faster.

The benefit of using SQLite is its low memory footprint. I can have this 40GB file (the uncompressed version) and use a 256MB container instance. It shows how valuable SQLite is in terms of resources. It takes up disk space, but I followed up with the zstd compression (from the post).

Was this more work and should've I have used Postgres and osm2pql, yes. Was it fun, well yeah, because I have another feature, which I have not written about yet, which I highly value.
Logic is a syntactic formalism that humans often apply imperfectly. That certainly sounds like we could be employing syntactic templating and statistical auto-complete.
Or easier. With germany you can't just put solar panels around a big city because either the city is too big or the land is occopied by something else.

But hey good that we talked about it :D
To the contrary, there is usually _several_ engineers who see the ethical/safety problems and talk about them with colleagues. They just don't report it to the right authorities.
Zone Dumping via DNSSEC
I'm really glad to see `bluemonday` in such company, but I'm also really happy to hand over the reigns to a group of engineers that can focus on OSS.

I am the author of https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday but being a maintainer is a journey, you make a tool for yourself, you realise others will benefit and open it up to others... time passes... and then you realise you are that tiny pillar in the XKCD comic about dependencies, and that when you make a casual update to the project that multiple security companies ping you to ask the impact and scope of the change, implications, and of course others ping you to say that it breaks their individual workflow.

I've known Filippo for almost as long as that library has existed, and I know it's in a safe pair of hands, and that Geomys is going to be a good home to all of the OSS projects that they have in their portfolio.

It's definitely a journey, how should these foundational elements be supported and funded? This is one answer to that question, and I'm glad it exists as my spare cycles were very few, I'm also really glad for Filippo being so key to it, if anyone will make this work and do a good thing it will be him and those who he surrounds himself with.
For as long as i can remember ideas have "Struck Me", and the more i read the more "Intellectually Uneasy" i become. I realise faulty assumptions about "What a thing represents" can lead me down a dead "Branch"; Whether in formal systems like math, tech architecture or social matters.

Sometimes as you say, "cynically written" books like 1984 can be have that bite, and thats true, but some books that have "Bite" because makes me go "Whoa!" or a slight panic when my world-view gets changed.

Godel, escher, bach was one of the first books that did that for me. It struck me on the head and i could not put the book down. Concepts of infinity and strange loops dominated my underlying intellectual uneasyness for some time afterwards.

Blood Meridian was also a book that shook my understanding of pre-1800 life. How close to savagery humanity still was only 200 years ago fundamentally shook my understanding of where i stand in relation to my ancestors.

"The Quants" showed me how shaky our financial infrastructure really is.

The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments blew my mind. Spending 20 years to create a masterpeice that would certainly fall into both of your categories at once... a brilliant, cynical book, hopeless and callous in the eyes of a population with the attention span of a tik tok.
TOTP?
>It’s as if in your mind one engineer makes the singular call and sees the entire picture of the project and its risks.

To a certain extent this is true. To extend the OP's example, a mechanical or civil engineer who stamps a building design takes responsibility for that design being safe enough for public use. The same could apply to the MCAS design, or the quality engineer who signs off on how the plane was put together. These are not "romatic notions"; the latter is already common practice in aerospace. Do you think if a QE stamped that the door bolts were installed should not bear responsibility for the bolts being missing?

In those cases where the engineer is supposed to be aware of the risks, there should be processes in place to account for, and mitigate, those risks. For the example of MCAS, the software was categorized as hazardous in the hazard analysis document. As such, Boeing processes required it to have redundant inputs as a default. It did not (the redundant sensor was sold an optional equipment); as such, I think the engineer who signed off on the hazard analysis may bear some responsibility. If, on the other hand, there were no business processes in place to require redundancy, that seems like a CEO responsibility.
I agree there is a difference between the two. The discussion was about #1, you got called out on your incorrect statements about it, and rather than admit the mistake you're pretending you were talking about #2 all along.

1 absolutely is important for real systems. Think of the account system for Google, Facebook, Steam, etc. Those accounts will have real value to an attacker even if you're only getting a random account.

And no, TOTP is not as secure as a password specifically for a single-factor use case. It's brute-forceable in a way that passwords aren't, in a way that can't be fixed without a lot of collateral damage, and in a way that a high risk user can't even protect themselves against with better password hygiene[0]. A 6-digit TOTP is a decent second factor, but a horrible single factor.

[0] The attack you described of trying out the password 123456 on all users is called password spraying. (Obviously you'd just not use that, but the top 100 to top 1000 passwords). But that's an attack that single users can guard against, and that systems can mitigate with basically no collateral damage. The mitigations for a TOTP-spraying attack would need to be quite draconian.
I wonder if grayscale images are more efficient for compression to some degree. Too lazy to actually test or even explain why I am wondering...
Not really. Talking to energy producers, it's a lot easier to add new generation in Alberta than it is in Ontario.
There's a charming transcription error in the first letter, substituting "fun" for sun, no doubt due to there having been a long s in the original.
I think BznsBuilder could be a perfect fit for your friend's needs. With its business rules and workflow automation, it can help your friend manage their business effectively without going full ERP.
I understand why they intuitively think it isn't. I also think there is probably something more to reasoning. I'm just mystified by why they are so sure it isn't.
There’s also open-source, standard cells for people interested. Here’s some links:

https://www.vlsitechnology.org/html/libraries.html

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/07/SkyWater-and-Googl...
Setting up separate accounts for every ticket purchase seems like a LOT of overhead (especially scalpers buying many tickets at once and piecemealing them out), and is easy to defeat, e.g. require out of band auth via the phone number associated with the account before logging in for the first time on a new device.
The Yo-Yo Effect of Developer Productivity
I'll still count it. Natgas is much cleaner than coal. And economics will eventually force their hand as solar costs continue to fall
exactly, and what good "test coverage" would do if the design is flawed?
What's also interesting is the existence of many profoundly gifted contemporaries in this same space of time, such as the Bernoulli's, Goldbach, LaGrange, just to name a few. He often corresponded with many of them as well.
What's called a flute that looks like a recorder? (Don't say 'flutes'..) I can think of oboes and clarinets, which are called that not flute. I'm no musician but to me a flute goes to the side; I assume per sibling comment that's what a 'transverse flute' is.
> Or you drop into a public game of CS, and a dozen teens start screaming at you over low bitrate compressed audio streams, to logoff and kill yourself because you sound like an n-word.

I do have a strange nostalgia about those days. It was a culture that didn't exist in meatspace, and there was something fun about that.

However, when covid hit and my wife and I started playing games, I quickly learned my wife severely disapproves of typing "kys" to others in games, and now I try to only say positive things. It is a better experience, but then again I'm now a parent and hoping to spare my children from interacting with college me.
GenAI?
X11 supports mixed DPI with the RANDR extension. Applications can use the per-monitor information provided by RANDR to get the DPI information for each output, and use this to calculate font and widget sizes. Everything looks nice as long as you don't have a window spanning multiple screens. The problem is that while Qt has supported this functionality since 5.9, GTK seemingly has no interest in implementing it and most other toolkits or raw Xlib programs don't support it either.
How do we know our current system is a functional meritocracy with equality of opportunity? Can we measure it?
My fear is upgrading/maintaining this long term. At my current company we have Gradle build files from 10 years ago and they are really fragile.
Just out of curiosity what is the playtime limit for? I'm slowly starting to understand how to progress but I feel like I don't get much done in 30 minutes.
Having fun though and it's taking me back to the runescape days of my childhood :)
I wonder how much of this stems from people naturally wanting to see themselves in the same "tribe" as successful people (even if the successful person is completely unaware of their existence) and thus give them the same benefit of the doubt as they would other "friends".
I have to presume that the driving impetus of all of this is that they're trying to avoid the actual requirement of checking the ID. Like, they want to improve the flow of traffic through admissions.

But I mean, obviously, any kind of system like this strikes me as the same sort of thing as DRM. That you can somehow protect the message from the person you're sharing the message to. How can you avoid reselling if you don't verify the original purchaser? It just seemes ridiculous on its face.
Intel preps Lunar Lake-optimized adaptive sharpening filter for Linux deployment
The fun with overproducing nuclear is it requires the ability to successfully forecast growth a decade from now.
What is the logic behind that? Haven't 80% of all high profile phone hacking cases against journalists and government officials involved iPhone or icloud?

BTW, Samsung has an enterprise program for direct patch delivery and control of the phone.
Buying something at a low price and selling it at a high price is arbitrage 101 and is free money.

The "true solution" is to sell tickets at their actual market price instead of pretending that the face value of concert tickets isn't increasing due to a larger population and greater demand.
That page shows population change measured in several tens of thousands, not several hundreds of thousands, so as a year over year increase that's basically still linear, just with a slightly higher coefficient, but nowhere near enough to scream population boom. Just an above average increase.

If we look at the population numbers for the last 24 years there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary going on [1].

Sure, the last two years could be the start of an explosive increase, but the drop in year-over-year increase as indicated by the charts from your own link suggests it's far more likely to return to the overall trend.

But of course: even if the population doubled over the next 5 years, Alberta is still the size of Texas, and has plenty of room to address those energy needs using renewables.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/569880/population-estima...
It requires Python.

Bashbro, on the other hand, seems to require socat. I wonder if there's any bash-istic method of listening to a port...
> That's the project that has the most impact too.

How do you measure impact? If it's income created for Mozilla Corp then I agree it's impactful too, and the CEO's pay does seem justified.

> How successful are they with their side projects, anyways?

Honestly I don't know, I haven't looked at their latest annual report. I do pay for Mozilla VPN, although I'm not a Firefox user.
"The public prosecutor does not pursue cases where responsible aka coordinated vulnerability disclosure was applied."

That seems like a pretty substantial claim to make without any sort of "in [country/state/province/etc.]" qualification, let alone a reference.
I'd say the telemetry.
We are building one right now. It's very early and we have only "soft launched", but you can check it out here.

https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook
Would love to hear more details and see the code.

I’ve found NICE DCV to be more performant on low end clients (eg chromebooks) maintaining good responsiveness vs RDP.
I'm no expert in this, but I think one common misconception among regular skiers is that a ski tune is "free" rather than each ski only gets so many full tunes as it wears down the base and edges. Obviously, if you get a core shot or something like that, it becomes more necessary. I always understood waxing skis as more protective though?
I see your point. My perspective is that HN is already a social media platform with a lot of noise already (AI, latest JS fad, non-tech news). But I've spoken to a lot of people who have produced something relevant for developers and haven't thought of actually sharing it on this platform, because they thought this place is only for highly-productive tech.
sharks with laser beams attached to their heads or a giant laser beam on the moon? Is this for The Alan Parsons Project?
This story has a lot of details left out, and the cops may have very much been over reacting. But it is a pretty different scenario than the one previously cited. In this scenario, the girl was younger, and left at home/the park all day while the mother was away at work, for multiple days. (Rather than just being outside for a couple of hours once). It also is not clear what other conditions may have been present that may have contributed to the outcome.

I very much agree that helicopter parenting and snobby neighbors are a major issue. Just that it is hard to judge individual situations without all the facts.
Different auth options (SAML, OAuth, etc.) would be a nice to have. I look forward to the progress on this tool :-)
You can't eat cars, coal, and oil. If you're trying to say only those matter.
This is insane. Very glad I am moving away from Spotify. One of the commenters said it well - I don't want to pay a fee to listen to fake music!
Waymo's cars are fully automatic self-driving cars, just limited in where they can go.

It's entirely possible we could see an AGI develop within a specific medium, e.g. text-only to start.

But also, don't you think those two problems are convergent? If we make an algorithm smart enough to drive a car anywhere more safely than a human would, it seems likely to me that that will either be AGI or right on the cusp of it.
> romanticized platitude of the 90s.

I'm staying in romantic land, it beats the heck out of the government moderating which information I see for my own good.
> Software developers are the wizards and shamans of the modern age. We ought to use our powers with the austerity and integrity such power implies.

This is one of the most powerful truths underlying the world we currently inhabit. The sooner we can agree to behave accordingly, the better our prospects for ripping the reigns of society from the hands of those whose only animating principles are avarice and exploitation.
That one person who absolutely insists that enums are blue and everyone who can’t see it is a failure of a programmer
This is really neat!

I just found this after seeing a note from corepack about updating our pnpm. This is perfect for our workspace. We have a JS monorepo with ~20 packages and currently use syncpack to keep versions of most packages in sync, but this looks far nicer and we will be fine with just a default catalog.

Not having to see "typescript": "5.5.3" in 15 package.jsons and similar in PRs will be nice.
But also, the hell with this. I'm still sour enough about the TSA without the concept of, "I'll buy tickets for me and three of my friends then see who wants to go," becoming impossible or gated by ticket transfer fees.
> I now know everything I would need to duplicate TicketMaster’s barcodes

Until they change their encoding.

Requiring the installation of a proprietary app to do anything should be forbidden.
Check out “Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme--And Other Oddities of the English Language”

Great book!
It's what the Internet is for -- a place where things don't matter and where you could go to blow off steam. The Dionysian night to real life's Apollonian day.

Needing to be polite in every aspect of our lives because of this stupid demand to collapse down to the lowest common denominator of humor or mental fortitude is ruining the Internet and making the world and media less fun. It's also Orwellian. There's people who want to dox you and make sure you get fired or never get hired for being mean in a CoD lobby. That's psychotic. Those people are mentally ill, and we've let them run the show and tell us what to do. And of course, it's symbiotic with corporations and advertisers who want things as anodyne and rated E as possible since that makes the most $$$ (if only we can collectively accept more mediocre art and experiences as we forget what better ones we had).

I'm glad the pendulum seems to be swinging back as people are figuring out that having had less for fun for the last 10 years accomplished absolutely nothing worth caring about.
If you add contact info to your profile, I will reach out. Or feel free to send me a note.
I see. Pretty cool, I love finding gems like this
Vendoring the binary guarantees that I control what is running. It isn't installed, just run locally from the lib. I'll quote the OP issue on GH:

> Now I found that it downloads (here) even some proprietary binary from https://supermaven.com, i.e. unaudited and unauditable code, without any verification (except TLS)!

This opens Zed up to Man In The Middle attacks and Supply Chain attacks. And now that Zed has indicated that they won't fix the door is wide open to these vulnerabilities.
For those unaware, China and India do NOT like getting their power from coal. They've both had decades now of abysmal smog and pollution that literally (like, statistically trackable) kills people every year, including people otherwise productive in society. China is absolutely dumping the price of solar panels. A fully renewable energy China is one that is harder for Western countries to sanction, has more prestige with bright blue skies, and exports cheap solar panels to everyone else. India will trend the same way.

Every geopolitically relevant country will feel more secure with renewable, and therefore utterly independent, energy generation.

A reminder that Texas, a uniparty state literally run by Oil Barron families for decades, still gets at least a third of it's power from renewable sources, because it's so goddamned cheap. It doesn't matter how profitable oil is, or how much you pump, it will always be cheaper, and therefore more profitable, to replace it with power that just manifests itself out of the sky or wind for merely the cost of maintenance.

Each oil well requires tens of highly skilled, rather well paid tradespeople to manage, drill, run, explode, etc. An entire field of wind turbines requires one or two small teams of somewhat well paid maintenance engineers.
boy sounds somewhat like Turkic bala/bola ("a boy").
I think there's simply not enough jobs in renewables - once a solar farm is operational maintenance is a fraction of production, unlike the oil sands or rigs which require constant human intervention.
>Stanford does the same for undergrad -- free for students with HHI <$250k/yr. It's perfectly reasonable.

Lots of highly ranked schools and Ivy's have similar policies. It's often cheaper for a middle class family to have their kid go to an Ivy for essentially free than it is to deal with tuition for a state school, even with grants and scholarships and such.
And Dropbox is just rsync?

You're severely underestimating building a business, let alone the technology required.
I love to see it. Thank you for building this. This is a problem that's been solved many times over by private companies, and they charge other institutions exorbitant fees for the privilege of using their software. I hope you can get many companies to put skin in the game and contribute towards fixing bugs. It'll be cheaper for them in the long run than paying those external vendors.

For those of you complaining about the slack integration in the comments, you know you can just not connect that, right?
> The "true solution" is to sell tickets at their actual market price

That is *a* solution but it isn't *the* solution. The fact that many smart people are not choosing that solution is an indicator that there are some factors to the problem that you aren't considering.
In a capitalist economic system, for a product to have a price, there just has to be scarcity. And if no inherent scarcity exists, it must be created. And for there to be profit, there has to be a monopoly. Hence the copywrite/patent laws which turn software into property, which someone has monopoly power to sell. I don't hate the player. I don't even hate the game until somebody can show us a better game. It is what it is.

Congratulations to them for solving their revenue/growth problem. And in a way which didn't alienate most users and customers. A great case study.
Identity is who a person sees themselves to be.
Fabulous podcast. Fascinating how we can use pronunciation shifts to
date the arrival of a word into English, and how some words have entered
the language multiple times by different routes. Also, I learned that
there really was a castle in a swamp, in Wessex, to which King Alfred
retreated during a particularly heavy Viking invasion.
Though if you really have fleet of drones "guarding" your airspace - will the FAA actually be able to enforce? Considering that at that point you basically have an air force, and if the drones are cheap and effective enough, it may be better than the air force available to the FAA?
Given how quickly AI is progressing from the software side, and how poorly AI scales from just throwing raw compute time at a model, I don't see a company holding onto the lead for very long with that strategy.

If I can come out with a model a year later, and it can provide 95% of the performance while costing 10% as much to run, I think I would end up stealing a lot of customers before they had a chance to break even.

Take Llama3-8B for example, this is an 8 billion parameter model from 2024 that performs about as well the the original ChatGPT, a 175 billion parameter model from 2022. It only took 2 years before a model that can run on a desktop could compete with a model that required a data center.
People often buy tickets without knowing exactly which of their friends are going to attend with them. This is not true of airplane tickets.
Maven and Gradle are entirely version controllable too.

I also don't understand how your comment isn't in direct contradiction to the link you posted (which is from 2013!). At any rate, that there is no innovation in Gradle respective to maven is demonstrably false - you don't have to like these innovations, but they're there.
> "The risk with printable tickets is..."
Honest question: Is it clear that wind really could not produce more electricity right now? Depending on the way producers are chosen and the net is "congested" the wind farms might just not be allowed to contribute.