skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past I used the Docs to Markdown add-on that has worked well [1]

Google Docs -> Markdown -> Hugo website was a great workflow: https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net

[1] https://workspace.google.com/u/0/marketplace/app/docs_to_mar...
Someone involved in this project probably lost their voice chanting “paperless office” for a decade.
All this while facebook reels are full of backlit woman genitals covered with highly transparent silk, so you can see the unmistakable silhouettes? :DD

I browse a lot of content on instagram and facebook too. Facebook has some very nasty memory hog traps, maybe targeted against content farmers. Some tabs can eat up all your memory, OO protecc kicks in, and your session is killed on Linux. Under windows, everything is dandy. Maybe it's some weird bug in their JS scripts.

Instagram ops people are just plain psycho. If you try to view someone's account on desktop without logging in, it just throws back a something went wrong page and that's all. You cannot view any more insta pages for 1-2 days without logging in.
Ok, but to what end? Is there some karma-to-dollars pipeline that I don't know about? There a bunch of other platforms that superficially seem like much softer targets with more obvious payoffs.

Like, if we put it in the classic context of

1. Farm Karma

2. ?

3. Profit!

I'm not clear on step 2. What's step 2

And of course that pre-supposes malice (or at least greed), which is in violation of Hanlon's Razor.
Why not approach any bank? This is such small amount they wouldn't even ask for proof of income.
I'll second this. It functions very well as a filter function for the "hacker" types, which is exactly who I want to be around.
That's a good point. But if you're 50nm from a DME, I think you're unlikely to be able to get a lock in practice.
Disclaimer: I don't know much about how DEI initiatives work in corporate America to have any opinion if they are good or bad, so bear with me as I'm not passing judgment.

Is this movement of corporations in America to publicly talk about their DEI policies/initiatives being gutted (or at least "changed") a reaction to the public against those getting more vocal, and with seemingly more power, or is there something deeper wrong with them?

Tickled my curiosity after seeing a few articles about different CEOs talking about scrapping those policies, think I've seen 2 articles today about it: Microsoft and now John Deere. Believe I've seen at least another 1-2 the past weeks/months.
> they asked the jurors to hang around for a while (voluntarily) and talk to both the defense attorney and the prosecutor about how we reached our decision

My jaw is on the floor.

Here in Blighty, a jury deliberates in absolute secrecy. Revealing jury deliberations, even after the verdict, is a serious offence.
Unfortunately, this thinking is predicated on the idea that those at the very lowest tier of society would participate given the opportunity.

To be clear, this is not about the working poor. I don’t think this would ultimately help them. This is also not about those currently on welfare; I don’t think it would help them either.

The question is, would it help the homeless man living under a bridge or the homeless woman walking around naked at 7-Eleven? Sadly, I don’t think these people can be helped, at least not just by throwing money at them. Even if UBI were implemented, I don’t see them claiming it, and I don’t see them spending it on anything more than drugs and booze.

As far as I’m concerned, rather than implementing UBI, if we were to take that money and use it to implement prison reform and mental health care, it would be far better spent.
probably active in other channels. Most people use bouncers so they're permanently hanging out in those channels whether there's conversation or not.
except we are not getting paid to commute, we are expected to commute to do the work we are getting paid for.

If we were paid to commute to the office then our commute time would be part of the work day.

But I am paid for the work i do during work hours and if i have to commute that is expected to happen out of work hours.

So actually the Company is already saving money by having me remote, so now i am also expected to get paid less for doing the same work while also saving the company money?
Yes, that’s a feature. But it’s also discussed in the context of AI creating a massive/total job shortage. The timing is the tricky part, as job shortage grows maybe it would even mean lower minimum wage.
Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers
They render a single frame though. Admittedly, so does video rendering.
Sure, but there is zero indication of that on their user page. At the very least the account should be disabled, all repos should be archived, and a big fat warning banner should be prominently visible. The current state of affairs seems irresponsible.
I agree there is no problem building something like this if your aim is to either please yourself, or to reach a niche audience. I have a webapp that only I use.

Most information websites (even things like personal blogs) are trying to reach a wider audience, so its not what most people should be doing.
I find it very entertaining that I put my name on the Parker solar probe SD card ages ago, and got the little certificate for it, then transitioned. My deadname is literally going to be burnt up by flying it into the sun
It's a disgrace that no-one has been prosecuted for this travesty of justice. I don't understand how they were able to rely on falsehoods to get convictions and then not be prosecuted for perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

There's also the issue of the Post Office "recovering" money from sub post masters that wasn't actually missing - that is surely fraud.

There needs to be some lengthy jail terms for the higher-ups responsible for overseeing this.
The article mentions that the defense sector discovered the issue. Rad hard defense electronics have more stringent TID (total ionizing dose) requirement than space, due to a need to survive in nuclear war scenarios. Space usually caps out at 100 krad, with some very stringent environments needing up to 300 krad. Defense can go all the way up to 1 MRad in some cases.

My guess is the parts failed TID at the more stringent levels, and Infineon didn't follow up with NASA or their contractor because they assumed that NASA was okay with the lower rad tolerance levels typical of space. Usually that would be the case, but Europa Clipper is special because it's going to an extremely harsh radiation environment.

The big question for me is: did the Europa Clipper program order a lower TID and try to upscreen, or did they order the high TID part? If it's the former, it's on NASA. If it's the latter, that's extremely concerning because Infineon should know that nobody orders expensive high TID parts for funsies, and they should have followed up with all customers as soon as they confirmed there was an issue. Just assuming NASA over-specified a part is absurd. The rad hard electronics market is small, everyone knows each other. Trust is king.

Finally, I'm not sure if it's the part in question, but it looks like Infineon discontinued their 1 MRad MOSFETs in 2020, citing low order volumes: https://irf.com/product-info/hi-rel/alerts/fv5-d-21-0004.pdf. In the light of this reporting, I have to wonder if there was more to it than that?
This is going to become so much worse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942307

Imagine old people getting phone calls from frantic children. They won't know real from fake. Add tech like this to SIM forgery ..and we will devolve from a high trust society to a no trust society.
The cultures that didn't build pyramids were probably more intelligently managed, at least generally. The pyramids had no practical value, at best they were a jobs program to keep workers busy between growing seasons, but there are much better projects to work on if keeping busy is the goal (for instance, build roads, canals, irrigation trenches, etc.)
> summary is that the root cause depends on your perspective.

This sounds like an exercise in obfuscating responsibility. Post Office management knew from 2003 Horizon was unreliable - they chose to bury the report. They lied in court about its reliability and manipulated expert statements to say the same. They also knowingly lied about remote altering of accounts and buried a report in 2017 on it. Let's not get lost in the weeds - the root cause of the injustice is Post Office management.
Seems like there isn’t a strong definition for “megafauna.”

In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals. The precise definition of the term varies widely, though a common threshold is approximately 45 kilograms (99 lb), with other thresholds as low as 10 kilograms (22 lb) or as high as 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna
It can't do it with everything but sugar is probably the thing I'm most inclined to go "Nah, that's too much" in recipes. (Often, online, I'll see what people say in the comments too.)
How to handwrite code in personal handwritten notes?
That's what I've been using for work for a while now. It's is really good, though I feel like IRC loses a bit of it's charm, running the client in a browser.

Privately I'm using chat.sr.ht, which is also really good, but with less features than IRCCloud, but I can also easily connect to backend bouncer using irssi.

If you're only in one or two channels, Irssi is okay, but when you have a need to be in multiple channels it get a little rough finding good clients.
Yes, all the time. This is normal. Big news of problems travel through back channels. Nobody is gonna announce their big fuckup for the world to see, unless compelled by law, and even then most won't do it. We had to sign NDAs to find out about severe Intel processor silicon bugs. Obviously you're not gonna read that info on Hackernews afterwards.
My bank in LT requires proof of income, and my income is lower than minimum, because I am a student of CS so far only. And i do not need 6 month or more to return it, I may return in a month.
> I've got it on a pi in the basement on a battery, and I just VPN into home from anywhere. Been running 3-ish years I think.

That's a _really_ good battery!
IMO, it is making the job easier, but I don't think more is getting done / more productivity. I also don't think the deliverable is improved.

Long term, I imagine this just leads to a longer percentage of the day going to slacking off.
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty
This is the default solution for anything even slightly complicated. At very high frequencies(Rf), then you may be forced to use passive filters. The range where it makes sense to use active op-amp filters has shrunk considerably.

You get ease of prototyping,modification, and excellent performance. In these systems there may be still analog filter components(anti-aliasing,reconstruction), but with digital components so cheap,good, and fast this "mostly digital" technique is almost always the best option.
Can anyone explain why libcudnn is taking several gigabytes of my harddrive?
Ubiquity. Job offers.

C++ Templates are pretty amazing when you're making libraries.
It seems that blaming victims can really provide some power thrill, to which human can easily become addicted to.

Raising competent empathic well balanced individuals is difficult, to say the least. And it’s not like the so called world leader elites really show they are some paragons of these traits.
> Microsoft was in no position to dictate anything web-related; they barely managed to get IE7 released

I recall a blog from that time titled Chrome is the new IE6.

On the corporate side, we paid attention when an SAAS site had a "Built For Internet Explorer" badge. Elements can+did falter in other browsers (because devs only dev'd for IE).
> Syd is a user space wrapper

This sentence does not give me confidence. A general purpose sandbox should be implemented in the kernel. The kernel syscall interface will always remain available regardless of any sandbox that has been implemented in user space.

EDIT (to answer a few of the replies here):

The description lacks details so it's not entirely clear how Syd is intended to be used or who its target audience is. If this is intended for a security conscious user to wrap their own executables, similar to Firejail, I guess this serves a purpose but I would certainly hesitate to suggest that it is the "most sophisticated sandbox for Linux". We already have kernel-based SELinux, AppArmor, other LSMs and grsecurity which can ensure that every single executable will run in a sandbox regardless of the experience of the end-user, something a user space wrapper cannot achieve. It's not about whether or not it uses kernel facilities but about ensuring that absolutely everything will be sandboxed.
Gitlab's biggest issue has always been their ridiculous approach to pricing. It simply isn't worth paying ~20-30x more per developer than comparable tools.

Feature segmentation can be entirely reasonable. However, gating something like "linking epics"[0] behind what used to be $99/month/user (now POA) is pure hubris.

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/linked_epics.htm...
UBI in effect would clean the most degenerate and ignored few in society while at the same time liberating the masses from aimless drudgery. It will inject cash into the consumer market and lower risk to seeking credit. I see it as the ultimate form of capitalism when everyone has a means to acquire goods and services at a mutually agreed upon standard. I also see it as the only option to avert a cataclysmic economic event when we all get layed off and replaced by robots. Read this article from McMaster about UBI in action in the Province of Ontario, it is short and clears up many pre conceived notions against such a program.

https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/28173/1/southe...
I've met a lot of people who don't know how to cut and paste. For that matter a lot of people are intimidated by the thought of putting a phrase like 汉字 into a document. I have no idea how to type that with the proper input method but I can look up anything online or ask Copilot to write it and then cut and paste it.

Knowing how to scale web pages with CTRL + and CTRL - is another thing that I think a lot of people
I would like to be able to open and edit .md files in Google Docs on desktop and mobile like how Google Docs supports opening .docx files
There was a comment here years ago that if an alien civilization wanted to wipe us out, there was perhaps no easier way for them to accomplish it than to send a crypto-currency whitepaper with anonymous authorship. I have to say it stuck with me.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Intelligence Revolution
Menlo & Anthropic: Anthology Fund
It's been a while since I looked at this, but my recollection is that the essential smell is 'distributed transactions with unreliable connectivity and end-of-day synchronizations are hard'. Works 99.9% of the time; hard to test; impossible to debug failures after the fact without access to paper receipts or customers.

This is compounded by the system being delivered and operated by an outsourced vendor which doesn't have incentives that are aligned with those of the outsourcing organization, and the arms-length relationship to the sub-postmasters.
I haven't read anything, but if he said "I fear that" rather than "I think that", that's the difference between cautioning against and predicting. The headline makes it seem like he was predicting.
The general concept is limited "command line" as means of giving a single agent agency without the need to program every integration separatively.

The AGI version is "command line" also enabling the agents to communicate, modify, make each other.
dang, I think you're right, my mind branched off somewhere it seems. I was thinking of how operations can be executed multiple times (verification + actual result run) with effect being applied only once.
Thanks!

We differentiate in 2 ways:

1. We focus on real-time monitoring. This is where we see the biggest pain with our customers, so we spent a lot of time researching and building the right metrics that can run at scale, fast and at low cost (and you can try them all in our platform).

2. OpenTelemetry - we think this is the best way to observe LLM app. It gives you a better understanding of how other parts of the system are interacting with your LLM. Say you're calling a vector DB, or making an HTTP call - you get them all on the same trace. It's also better for the customers - they're not vendor locked to us and can easily switch to another platform (or even use them in parallel).
I doubt it actually makes money there either.
We're missing the open source search engine, but LLM + obscure web pages makes for some interesting reading.

Getting a mix up of different ideas is very much what first exposures to the internet were like.

You had your towns ideas, then we went online and you had a wild world of ideas you'd never seen before. For a lot of us it was the first time we belonged anywhere.
They’re working on other projects. Whether it is testing a general release for a customer, testing bug fixes, or testing a recently completed customization project.
Yes, it will be supported by this API! I actually wasn't aware of this documentation page. I'll make sure it gets updated. Thanks for flagging
It's pretty amazing how Microsoft has consistently been shitting all over E-mail for the last 30 years or so. I still remember how Outlook was introduced in the 90s and E-mail started going down the drain because of it.
I lived in Vietnam for eight years, speak the language fluently, and have traveled through almost every part of the country No need to quote statistics at me, especially a completely ludicrous claim that 58% of households have a washing machine. Only someone that doesn’t know the country at all would believe that. Many people just barely got access to reliable electricity.

I’d like to agree with your final assessment but assuming that the growth arc of the last 50 years is going to continue requires a lot of optimism.
Oh come on. There are certainly a bunch of things which nobody on a team has done before in any given project, an error toast is not one of them. Almost every project is using previously built software for them, and the way they fit together is reasonably well known.
> Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK

False article title. There's no admission.
GraphQL literally is a "federation gateway point."

It's literally meant to be a gateway to a bunch of different external systems working in federation.

It's the exact same scope if you used a RESTful graph based data access API that connected to external systems..

Outside all the GraphQL jargon and gobbledygook you'll see that GraphQL is not some groundbreaking, unique or foundational product... The concept of generating graph based data access APIs from schemas is probably older than the concept of phones that can send emails. The only "innovation" is the "query language"...

> That doesn't matter at all.

I honestly don't know why I'm taking this seriously. Yes, it matters, your entire point was a comparison.. that your comparison is foundationally invalid matters when assessing the validity of your entire argument..
But do you understand, that most people are not deeply fascinated by archeology to just let some people dig up their yard or make them wait unspecified time for their new home to be build for some years without proper compensation?

I am deeply fascinated by archeology, but I do think it is insane expecting this of people who do not share my fascination. And the result is likely, most artifacts and sites get lost.
Candlelyght: Date, Don't Swipe
HN, I never had any success using dating apps and eventually found my way to using a matchmaking service to find my partner. Matchmaking services are prohibitively expensive for the general public and I'd like to see about changing that.

Please let me know any thoughts you may have as this is in the market discovery phase. Thank you.

For the tech stack:
Docker: To have self-contained services running easily.

Go with Gin web framework: For the web server, it's what I know already and thankfully it's scalable to huge levels.

Frontend: Is very basic, there is no JavaScript. Only HTML/CSS with a form that makes a request to back to the web server.

Database: For all the emails, PostgreSQL.

Hosting: DigitalOcean - quick and easy.

Of course CloudFlare for DDoS protection.
I do have a cheap one, and hate it with an absolute passion. The problem is that it’s 30ft long making it an unwieldy thing to manoeuvre, and the wifi connection means I have to hold the phone at the same time.

I’ll definitely just get a trigger style one that’s only 3-6ft max next time.
> does not result in a favorable outcome for society

That's your respectable opinion, but the truth is: we don't know!

You may be right, you may be wrong, but this is the crux of the discussion and you cannot swipe it off by stating an opinion as a fact.
The Controversial Case Against the 'Banker to the Poor' [video]
Understanding Big Tech Salaries
Indeed, very useful to unite markdown with the omnipresence of gdocs.

One tip for pasting without formating, at least in Windows, is CTRL+SHIFT+V.
AFAIK it resulted in huge bill for the receiver, though I have no idea if certain services weren't billed differently (wouldn't surprise me if you could send text messages that were billed only on sender side, for extra)
I will be selling my property anyway, during the next 2 years, or so. So thus I can return the loan anyways.
My favorite example of this was the CEO and CTO of a real estate firm I worked for, who both were active realtors for a year or so before they started the company. (The CEO continued to be active for a year or two after.)

No substitute for experience when it comes to understanding the problem your software solution is trying to solve.
>Is this movement of corporations in America to publicly talk about their DEI policies/initiatives being gutted (or at least "changed") a reaction to the public against those getting more vocal, and with seemingly more power, or is there something deeper wrong with them?

They did it because the people asked for it, now they're removing the same policies because the people have asked for it. The political winds are changing.
Pay is compensation for the inconvenience of having to work. An easier day needs less compensation to feel okay with. Just from the subjective view of the employee.
I don't know enough about Sweden to comment authoritatively. I'm guessing urban prices and obesity are not the main factors in Sweden.

Here, my half-baked intuition is the state takes on a paternalistic relationship with the individual. It undermines family & partners as the primary support system.

Sweden has very-high rates of single parenthood [1] and children outside wedlock [2]. If individuals place low importance on the family as a unit, then I do not see why baby-sitting would appeal to Grandparents (to derive joy or as a duty) In a way, being paid to babysit makes a pure relationship seem rather transactional.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/11581511/sha...

[2] https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Comparison-E...
“The present study suggests that higher adolescent IQ may predict a higher likelihood of moderate or heavy drinking in midlife, but fewer binge-drinking episodes. The study also suggests that this relationship is mediated by other psychosocial factors, specifically income, prompting future exploration of mediators in subsequent studies.”

I believe IQ is mostly BS, however I’m sure those ‘high IQ’ folk are more likely to have higher responsibilities that include business development, networking and added stress.
I don’t think the takeaway here is ‘smart people drink’.