skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, people have definitely asked for a follow-up on compilers and/or static types. There's a little context here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40956138

I'm not sure if I'm the best person to write a compiler book, or, at least, not yet. I've written a lot of language front ends and interpreters, but I don't have much experience targeting native code. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, but haven't made the time to make it happen.

Static types are also hard for the reasons the linked comment talks about.

I still think about it sometimes, but writing a book is a lot of work and I've been enjoying not writing a book for the past couple of years. :)
The new news is that they (finally) started formally notifying end-users i.e. insured patients. Five months after notifying regulators [0]. (Although they would have found out informally if they'd had any claims or interactions with providers).

Under the current definition of "notification", the true extent of the harm (to end-user insured/ patients, not to the company or its stock) only becomes apparent when individual patients go check their SSNs, logins, claims, identity theft, credit reports.

One of their providers, Option Care Health INC's SEC 8-K from 03/14/2024 merely says this, it doesn't tell patients which of their details or how many million might have been compromised, or when exactly, or how to go find out:

> Option Care Health, Inc... was informed that Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, experienced
an incident in which a cybersecurity threat actor gained access to some of its information technology systems. The Company utilizes several applications provided by Change Healthcare for, among other things, verification of benefits for existing and prospective patients, submission of claims to health plans for processing and payment, and application of cash remittances.
At the time of the system disruption on February 21, 2024, Option Care Health disconnected its operations from Change Healthcare applications and has since been working continuously to find alternative processes to help maintain patient care and its overall operations.

[0]: US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack - Feb 21, 2024
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479930

[1]: https://investors.optioncarehealth.com/static-files/912a9cbc...
https://youtu.be/Rc0K4WhNOvY

Enjoy!
Ah yes, the taboo of sound reasoning.
People's intuition is certainly off when it comes to wealth and this article exemplifies the confusion.

It argues that income is more important but ignores the connection between wealth and income, which is especially strong at the high end of the wealth spectrum. The Walton family is wealthy precisely because of the claim they have on the economic activity of Walmart. The fact that the company is publicly traded just helps us put a dollar figure on the that wealth more easily.
> I simply cannot imagine ex. 2000 Apple/Steve Jobs falling for this.

No he would not entertain any of this nonsense. IIRC he had a hard time with the Siri demo too. It appears Apple is happy to take itself and shareholders on a side quest with all their cash…good time to be earning interest on it too.
Frankly, I don't like almost anything about it. The dynamic loading/endless scrolling instead of pages, the silly navigation bar, the "x time later" instead of the exact date and time, the narrow post width...

I get "dumbed-down, mobile first" vibes from the UI, kinda like Twitter, which is the last thing I want for a forum with thoughtful discussions. And it's also more bloated/slower than classic forums (https://danluu.com/slow-device/).

I think the best forum software right now is XenForo. But even phpBB and many similar free alternatives (MyBB, SMF,...) are better than Discourse. Those can also be heavily customized (might be true for Discourse too, but I doubt it would improve it much).
>AWS should be spending significant time explaining how their giant portfolio of conventional tools are improving.

See but that won't work because leaders are dumb. The central tension of civilization is that the smart ones are needed down in the boiler/operating room to solve complex low-level problems, and whoever's left must steer the ship.
It is new news - that they (finally) started notifying customers. Five months after notifying regulators and the stock market (February/March in fact, not June).

The true extent of the harm (to customers, not to the company or its stock) only becomes apparent when individual customers check their SSNs, logins, claims, identity theft, credit reports. That's not the way it should be, but is the way it currently is in the US.
Right, but that's not a new problem either. We want to allow people to send emails with some acceptably-low level of risk that spam will get through. We want an acceptably-low risk that our image upload feature won't be hosting CSAM. And we want it while still getting the benefits of allowing our real customers to pay us for the services we offer. Businesses have been figuring out the balance of risk:reward for as long as infosec has been a concept.
> Politics is definitely a factor.

It's also election year. The state agencies didn't submit the emergency declaration work before the storm hit like they usually did in years past - this is not their first rodeo, so it can't be explained by ignorance.

Also, Houston is Harris county, so not exactly the governor's or legislature's favorite voting county.
Train an LLM on it...
Crops, pets, and livestock are symbiotic with us, they don't hurt us. The things I listed harm their host, they had to be in that category to make the point that harming us doesn't require high IQ — the harms we suffer from corn very much count as our own fault.
the other details are also relatively true. The Colonels employees were armed and yelled at Stewart. Stewart was killed by a cop and rumors say he was paid to inflict retribution. Sanders married Claudia, who was Stewarts-daughter's-husband's-sister (Ona May Stewart married one of Claudia's brothers) and Sanders later co-owned a business with Stewarts daughter
, Ona May. Straight shooter quote is true. KFC was born in the gas station near where it all shot off. Many do not know- To become a Kentucky Colonel, the Governor of Kentucky needs to sign off on it. They have a handshake and a song.
Arcadey JRPG Tower To Heaven ported for the web
Original author: https://cmykilluminati.net/

Original repo: https://codeberg.org/CMYKilluminatiNetwork/tth

My fork: https://codeberg.org/midzer/tth/src/branch/emscripten
To the author: perhaps if you want this so badly you could source the machine and officially donate it to the NSA yourself and then reference the donation paperwork in your next FOIA .

I doubt trashing the NSA all over tech media will get you what you want.. plus I don’t want extra bureaucrats hired just to spend more money on obscure FOIA requests..
Fair enough. That 0.026 sq.km. has more people living in it than the most densely populated full sq.km. in the UK though, which must count for something. I wonder what the population of the square kilometre centred on KWC is/was.
We have that now. We did not for the formative years of the field.
It's pretty simple really. Before deregulation and the total privatization of Texas' power grid, the utilities were required by law to spend part of their income on reliability so that all the elements of the grid had reserve capacity for emergencies. Backup generators, extra insulation for fuel pipes, fatter cables, more workers to trim trees and repair damage, etc. When I was a kid in Texas in the 70s, the grid was extremely reliable.

Since deregulation the reliability incentive is gone. Any utility CEO that spends money on reliability will be pummeled into oblivion by Wall Street. It's all about maximizing profit now, and that means every part of the Texas grid operates right on the hairy edge of failure. The plan was that competition would provide some incentive for reliability, but that was always fantasy. No home in Texas has two sets of power lines coming into it from two competing companies.

We all know what enshittification looks like by now. Texas is where enshittification meets the power grid.
If someone did that, it would be copyright? As the consumer of the llm, would that breach copyright
Until the next even greater AI hack comes along.
TargetJ: New JavaScript framework that can animate anything
Some of both but mostly post-45.

The quip is that two things made Houston possible: oil and air conditioning.
They don’t fit into the slots. ;)
I am excited to introduce TargetJ, a new JavaScript framework that can animate anything. I hope you find it useful for creating amazing web experiences. If you have any questions about the framework or want to share your thoughts, please leave a comment below. I’m eager to hear from you!

# The problem

Animating an object in JavaScript is quite challenging, and orchestrating intricate animations among multiple objects is even more complex. Additionally, existing frameworks address it by introducing extra complexity. Furthermore, there is no one single coherent software solution that addresses animation, controls program flow, handles events, and loads data from external APIs, etc.

# The solution

TargetJ simplifies development and animation by employing one concept across all aspects of the program. It is used in animation, controlling program flow, integrating APIs, and so on. This unified approach means that it is easy to learn and can solve complicated problems.

The novel concept that forms its core is called 'targets', Targets are used as the main building blocks of components instead of direct variables and methods. Each component in TargetJ is a set of targets.

# Brief overview of how it operates

Each target in TargetJ essentially has two variables: target and actual. The target can be a static value or a method, while the actual value is always represented as a value. When the target value does not equal the actual value, TargetJ will update the actual value iteratively until it matches the target value. This iteration is determined by two additional variables: steps and step interval. Steps dictate the number of iterations, and the step interval specifies the duration in milliseconds that the system waits before executing the next iteration.

To animate a variable, create a target after its name. There are default target names you can use to animate and impact the UI, such as x, y, width, height, opacity, scale, rotate, zIndex, html, style, css, scrollLeft, and scrollTop. You can also dynamically change how HTML elements are nested using the domHolder or domParent targets. Additionally, there are other target names for dynamic control, such as canHandleEvents to specify which events are handled and canHaveDom to determine if the object requires a DOM element.

A target has a simple life cycle by default: it is executed only once when enabled. The optional enabling method creates dependencies between targets and ensures they execute at precisely the right moment.

# Other features

As a result of using targets, we can develop web sites or apps that require minimal HTML, and CSS, eliminate the need for static HTML nesting, and control the execution flow based on timing, among other benefits.

Explore the full potential of TargetJ and dive into our interactive documentation at www.targetj.io.
They aren't reliable. Anyone who remembers floppy disks will remember how easily damaged they were, and that was back when the equipment was new. So for "reliable" read "avoids career risk".

Outside of the tech industry IT projects fail a lot, and they fail in ways that non-technical people do not/cannot/will not try to understand. From the perspective of your average middle ranking executive or civil servant any project involving computers is very likely to just randomly end up delivering nothing despite consuming tens of millions of dollars/euros. The phenomenon is utterly baffling to them and feels hopeless. Combine it with a rolling heads culture in which the organizational response to failure is firing / sidelining someone in order to show accountability (vs a rigorous post-mortem analysis), and you get a lot of organizational weirdness that boils down to everyone scrambling away from anything that involves technology modernization.

At some level the reason we have such a thing as a "tech company" or "startup" is because these are what we call organizations that aren't intimidated by software projects.

Government organizations are especially prone to ending up on obsolete 1980s/90s era tech because there's no market pressure or bonuses incentivizing them to improve things, because awareness of how often IT projects fail is much higher now than it was back then, and because civil servants are typically very focused on staying inside the civil service and making it to pensionable age. The bulk of their comp is weighted towards the end of their lives due to way more generous pensions than in the private sector so this gives them all an incentive to avoid any project that might have a concrete failure mode.
I don't know that this event is a great example for your argument.

An entirely different energy market model (MISO/Entergy) was also heavily impacted. The Woodlands, Conroe, et. al. are on a completely different grid. I don't get to pick a "retail electricity provider" and I live 20 minutes from people who can. Doesn't seem to matter.

All markets hit by Beryl are approximately the same degree of screwed, regardless of any specific underlying ideologies.
While i appreciate your response, i must say that, for me, it feels somewhat disrespectful to HN to post tiktok / social media links on here.
AirPods Make Sound Like Water Dripping in Cave
Vercel AI SDK: RAG Guide
I’m surprised people still live in that area. The aftermath of Harvey in 2017 would have been the eye opener. Yet the area sees a massive influx of residents every year [1]

Any area near coast line is going to disappear over the next couple of decades due to climate change.

[1] https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2024/03/19/texas-populat...
> Texans basically should view grid independent home solar as a minimum requirement.

And then hail punches through your solar panels and you have to pay for that.

If there were a cheap, easy solution, people would have done it already.
Ford Mustang GTD Buyers Can Pay to Ban Anyone Else from Picking Their Color
Yeah. As if URLs are somehow "not for regular people". That only the dorks and nerds could possibly understand such things. The idea that we must hide this type of information both underestimates humanity and undermines the whole concept of the world wide web.
AWS really feels they were left behind so they are overcorrecting a bit.

In private they are truly thirsty for AI applications they can write uses cases on that they even offer upwards of 100K credits for Gen AI purposes only.
Michael Sugrue was exceptional and I am grateful to have watched his lectures.

His lecture on Marcus Aurelius has the most views on YT. I also recommend his lectures on Nietzsche and Sartre/Heidegger.
How is Lamda, servers? Obviously it is underneath but because there's all sorts of weird tuning shit to get them to work right, it's is own separate thing to deal with and so deserves some sort of way to differentiate it. Are we just unable to handle new definitions for new, different things?
As a person replying to your comment in the era of generative AI, I'm inclined to agree the hype is a bit much, even considering how impressive the technology can (sometimes) be.

Another big area of hype is "prompt engineering." That one seems to have calmed down slightly, but for a while, there were large swaths of the Internet who were amazed that the set intersection of "talk like a decent human being" and "be precise in your communication" could generally lead to good results.

In many ways, "AI" right now is magic marketing sprinkles that you can put on anything to make it more delicious. (Or, if you're inside a big company, it's magic prioritization sprinkles.)
> outside of the tech industry IT projects fail a lot

Within the tech industry as well. Replacing a running system tends to be high-risk for various reasons.
They didn't. It is a bit more than that.

"The BAAINBw hired Saab for F123 updates. In July 2021, Saab announced winning a contract to "deliver and integrate new naval radars and fire control directors for and in the German Navy’s" F123s, with the work entailing "a new combat management system in order to completely overhaul the system currently in use on the F123, allowing a low risk integration of the new naval radars and fire control capabilities." The Swedish company said the deal was worth about 4.6 billion SEK (about $436,748,840)."
* not German by AFAIK its governance by appeals to authority.

There is a bit of dominance power play where you each try to establish that your rules have the most authority. Appeals to correctness are best done with an authoritative determination on said correctness. One way to avoid the power play confrontation is by letting them make the new rules which incorporate the changes you want.

It’s different to the Russian powerplay on who can get away with telling the biggest lies without being called out on it. The more outlandish and obvious the lie the stronger the signal of dominance.
I can relate to this with my own story, where I managed to delete an entire database — my first day on the job, no less.

I was hired by a little photo development company, doing both walk in jobs and electronic B2B orders. I was brought in to pick up on the maintenance and development of the B2B order placement web service the previous developer had written.

Sadly, the previous dev designed the DB schema and software under the assumption that there would only ever be one business customer. When that ceased to be the case, he decided to simply create another database and spin up another process.

So here I am on my first day, tasked with creating a new empty database to bring on another customer. I used the Microsoft SQL Server admin GUI to generate the DDL from one of the existing tables, created (and switched the connection to) a pristine, new DB, and ran the script.

Little did I know, in the middle of many thousands of lines of SQL, the script switched the connection back to the DB from which the DDL was generated, and then proceeds to drop every single table.

Oops.

Of course, the last dev disabled back ups a couple months before I joined. My one saving grace was that the dev had some strange fixation on logging every single thing that happened in a bunch of XML log files; I managed to quickly write some code to rebuild the state of the DB from those log files.

I was (and am) grateful to my boss for trusting my ability to resolve the problem I had created, and placing as much value as he did in my ownership of the problem.

That was about 16 years ago. One of the best working experiences in my career, and a time of rapid technical growth for myself. I would have missed out on a lot if that had been handled differently.
I scraped and read your past comments, its a pattern.
This seems immoral. It reminds me of how some companies destroy perfectly good unsold product rather than letting it be donated to charity.
Considering the social and political controversies that Disney is unvolved in, I would expect a lot of scrutiny of the contents of this link.
Mission District apartment listings drop by half. What's up?
I don't know, the Sony hacks were pretty comprehensive. Why not Disney? Because of some aspirations about imagineers and giant corporations or whatever? They aren't software specialists. The software they sold to other people, like their games business, was kind of a disaster. They don't compete on software.

> Its pretty standard in the industry to only store pre-release content on airgapped systems.

Unreleased narrative content isn't actually valuable, so nobody actually cares. I mean of course they say it's valuable. But there are aspects of value that are objective, and I am saying objectively, not in some aspirational sense, it's not valuable. And anyway, surely, how did such pre-release content get on such airgapped systems? They have tens of thousands of vendors, and those people talk, and they have ordinary desktop computers. They make mistakes all the time. It doesn't really matter.

Their business communications are valuable. So people hacked that.

I understand there is a lot of gestural, performative security measures in the industry, I belong to it. At the end of the day, Disney (Hollywood) asks too much from IT for too little money, does not attract talent comparable to a middle-of-the-road Series A startup in San Francisco, and is led by people who don't value technology (on average).
What a weird thing to focus on. Even a modern warship is probably full of 74 series logic ICs which predate 8-inch floppies by several years. If the floppies did the job in 1994, why shouldn't they today? It's the same ship after all.
Why would it make single threaded performance slower? Sorry, but that's kind of ridiculous. You're just making shit up at this point.
Fair. Add a couple hours to learn enough Julia to write the code.
> God forbid a tech company tries to make newer shinier products.

Thing is though, they never improve. It's all gotten worse.
They didn't disconnect it. The Texas grid has always been mostly separate from the rest of the country.
It looks like these ships were laid down in '92, and commissioned a few years later, which seems very late to use 8" floppies.
This mentality is why I'm confident that I'll have a job in both software development and security.
I asked for the most densely populated square kilometer, not the most densely populated city. A city's population can be spread out evenly or concentrated in a few areas.
> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah.

This is the issue not what the author did. It would be a matter of time that the database would have been accidentally deleted somehow.
Great idea. Wish I’d heard it years ago.
Other countries often have much stronger regulations about what is considered to be "food".

For example, McDonalds often has to use actual beef in their overseas hamburgers as opposed to the "beef sludge" that they use in the ones in the US. McDonalds in Italy served a hamburger like I remember from back when I was a child.

This is not universal, however. Hamburgers in the UK seem to be uniquely terrible, for example.
AWS mainly earns from new modern managed services because ppl do not want to manage anything and AWS does it for them. All those services are too expensive and AWS markets those and keep talking about those as conventional managed services have less margin.
Comedians should have no fear of AI taking their jobs.
It's an open secret that OpenAI is trying to IPO soon
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I've been using this phone as my full time phone for 1 year. It's a great compromise for people that ideally would not want a smartphone, but need to have one since many life situations require it.

I basically only use it for WhatsApp and music, but when some other need arises, it can do everything a normal smartphone can do.

The only problem is that the build quality is not good. The audio jack of the first one I bought (off the initial kickstarter) broke after 6 months or so. I bought another one, and the up volume button recently broke. But otherwise, no complaints.
it's not only cloud services. The AI hype has hit self-hosted services and "normal" / "offline-first" applications as well.

For example, the team / leadership / foundation behind Home Assistant has been pushing AI features hard in the past 18 months or so. This coincides with my feeling that there hasn't been any relevant improvement in Home Assistant's core features and usability — it's in stagnation for over a year now.

This is of course my own opinion, but it makes sense: if a significant share of resources is spent on AI stuff, that share is not available anymore for other needs.