skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is always the tradeoff between fighting the nature and adapting to it.

SRM and glacial are bullshit, they first won't ever be able to attain enough finanicing to make them convincing to whoever wants to be convinced that "Something Is Done", is from engineering perspective pointless, and all in all resources are better be spent on like, stopping people being killed than on some shit that everyone pretends to care about so that they don't need to care about real issues. Like energy grid instability, Saudis being all butthurt, Iran going batshit crazy, Israel going to hell, Syria already there. And not to mention Ukraine.

If you want to save a world, start small.
meh passwords where a good idea for a long time.

The first 10(20?) years there where no devices without a good keyboard.

The big problem imho was the idea that passwords had to be complicated and long, e.g. a random, alpanumeric, some special chars and at least 12 characters long, while a better solution would have been a few words.

Edit:
To be clear I agree with most of your points about passwords, just wanted to point out that we often don't appreciate how much tech changed after the smartphone introduction and that for the environemnt before that (computer/laptops) passwords where a good choice.
If I can consistently make 30%, this terrible deal will make me 20%, whereas the typical terms of management fees will make me 5%.
> Reinstalling an OS is not really, really bad. It's an inconvenience.

Reinstalling an OS is not nearly enough. You have to reinstall all of them, without letting the "dirty" ones contaminate the clean part of your network; you have to re-obtain all of your binaries; and good luck trusting any local source code.

The way most places are organized today, getting computers infected is a potentially unfixable issue.
Odds are near-certain this is just going over my small head, but, FWIW you may have replied to the wrong thread.
Shannon's great contribution to the Bell System was that he figured out how to reduce the number of relays in a fully-connected toll office from O(N^2) to O(N log N).[1] After that, they let him work on whatever he wanted.

[1] https://archive.org/details/bstj29-3-343
It is twice yearly, so yes.
Google parent in talks to buy cyber security startup Wiz for $23B
Hello! Author here. When I say absolute positioning, I mean it in the CSS sense (as in position: absolute) to contrast it with CSS Normal Flow, Flexbox, Grid, Floats etc.

While it's true that SVG allows percent positioning and foreignObject with HTML inside, this does not help us for the task at hand: Positioning shapes/text in relation to other shapes/text. This is out of scope for SVG to my knowledge, while it's the natural domain of CSS.

Almost all of our charts have text labels of different size. In many charts, we measure the text with measureText() on a canvas first, then compute the SVG positions manually. Or we have HTML/SVG hybrids where we measure the text using getBoundingClientRect(). This two-stage measure/layout process is what we seek to reduce.
Yeah me too. I used Phabricator extensively and in practice it is basically the same as Gitlab and GitHub and everyone else. You just say `arc diff` instead of `git push`.

Phabricator was pretty nice overall I would say. The bug tracker in particular was good. I have to use Jira now and it's night and day.

The big flaw was there was essentially no CI support. That and the fact it was written in PHP, which you'd think wouldn't matter, but I did end up being forced to learn some PHP to fix Phabricator bugs and write custom linters.

Now we're using Gitlab which is also decent except it's written in Ruby which if anything is worse than PHP! Absolutely unreadable code base. I can't fix anything. (Except in gitlab-runner which is written in Go - I've contributed several fixes & features there.)
For those unable to bypass FT's paywall:

https://archive.is/6LZap
In my view CLI is "inherently" more abstract and requires a relatively deeper understanding of the system that is being interacted with. I honestly find it strange one needs to elaborate on this manifest fact: see all the unwashed happily tapping away on their smart phones.

Also we're not discussing "systems" rather interfaces. The system is invariant. Take OS X. I know few normies who even know what "terminal" is or what it means and on the other extreme, most of my fellow techies mainly interact with it via a terminal. It's the same system.

Training also indicates specialization. Arguably any endeavor requiring specialization is already anti-social, if we consider society in its widest sense.
It depends on which country. Your country might be that way but in the U.S. it isn’t. In the U.S., 90% of the money is created by banks via loans and 10% of the money is created by the federal reserve via a small variety of open market operations such as the adjustment of federal interest rate. All USD created is tied to debt somewhere of some kind. This system gives the currency both scarcity as well as demand.

All of the debt has to be paid back but it can’t all be paid back or else there would be no currency in circulation.

One of the biggest reasons the USD is so strong is because the federal reserve is distinct, separate, and independent from the government. Most governments in history have eventually moved to influence or take over their central bank so they can spend even more wastefully & recklessly than before. America was designed with a unique separation of powers. Other’s weren’t. All of the rest of the world’s paper currencies have been worse to hold over the last 30 years and possibly more.
Let the planet warm back up. More CO2 in the atmosphere is positive for life.
It’s not as simple as that. Otherwise nobody would use AWS specific tooling to begin with.

For example, some instance types are only available on SageMaker.

AWS aren’t amateurs, they know how to promote their platform effective.
Not in this thread yet, not talking down to you, apologies if tone comes across that way: jokes aside, noticed you're OP, and I'm very curious what the intent was here.
Zuckerberg bets that Twitter will collapse under*
You're right about that and I'm doing my best at rotating, but it's very easy to detect these addresses as the "detectors" can simply just set a cron to grab the latest domains once an hour.

I'm however thinking about creating a paid service with a low price (maybe like $2/month) just to filter out the majority of the bots and then using that money to get a lot of domains.
100% till it doesn't?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163
There probably aren't a lot of benefits unless you want to showcase your skills to employers.

Anyway, hit me up on https://t.me/chovy2 or https://fightclub.profullstack.com -- I'd like to help you out.
"CAC is the total cost.. ..including fully-loaded salaries" but "Their CAC is $80.. ..$1.60 / 0.05 / 0.4 = $80" — Where's the salary part?
The contradiction is easily explained by him registering as a republican to vote in R. primaries (against Trump and for downballot candidates likely to lose against presumptive democratic opponents): https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/ahead-of-primary-nea...

But I wouldn't be surprised if he was just some lone nut who fell down some conspiracy rabbit hole, or if some history of drug abuse and psychiatric problems is unearthed.
Isn't a $23B valuation on $350M/ARR a bit high?
>This ended up with a UN decision to divide the country which the Palestinians rejected violently.

Well, they had to, read below :

<The plan's detractors considered the proposed plan to be pro-Zionist, with 56%[9] of the land allocated to the Jewish state although the Palestinian Arab population numbered twice the Jewish population.>

And why wouldn't all subsequent plans be in favourite of Zionism, since Count Bernadotte tried a more just plan, Israel rejected it, and was assassinated by Zionist Terrorists : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte_plan

>The killing was approved by the three-man 'center' of Lehi: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir)

Let's say the events in its entirety, not the handpicked hasbara talking points.
Why don't you go invent a cure for HIV then, and do better than the existing Pharma companies?
“I’m a lawyer for Sony Pictures Television, producers of the hit syndicated television show “Jeopardy.” While we appreciate our fans, we cannot allow this to continue. You must cease and desist” arriving in your inbox in 3…2…
I wonder if Karl's fairly extremist (at least in reputation, which is all that matters) ideology harmed the popularity of this discrete proposal.
Or, it's just that risk management isn't about faith.
That would be the largest exit ever by an Israeli startup, $23B is insane.
The title was correct yesterday. Why is the title editorialized today?

"What Does Nevada’s $35 Billion Fund Manager Do All Day? Nothing"

This is the actual title of the article, the page, and the printed version. There was no reason to have edited this except for optics. If true, that's absurd, dang.
This is also what Agda does (though \ is synonymous).
It wasn't airplane fuel. It was marine diesel / fuel oil for the bulk of it.
I posted (about three years ago now) in a Who Wants to be Hired thread. Admittedly, it was kind of on a whim, since I’d just left a job in operations after feeling burnt out, and thought I might dip my toes in the water of software dev full-time. I was contacted by four or five companies, I interviewed with three, and landed a gig with the company I’m still with currently.

For what was a two sentence post I made thinking it wouldn’t really amount to anything, it turned out to be one of the best moves I’ve made. (For both parties, I’d say.)
I was 5 years into a professional software career when this was written, at this point I suspect I'm about the age of the author at the time of its writing. It's fascinating to read this now and recognize the wisdom coming from experience honed in the 90s and the explosion of the internet, but also the cultural gap from the web/mobile generation, and how experience doesn't always translate to new contexts.

For instance, the first bad idea, Default Permit, is clearly bad in the realm of networking. I might quibble a bit and suggest Default Permit isn't so much an idea as the natural state of when one invents computer networking. But clearly Default Deny was a very very good idea and critical idea necessary for the internet's growth. It makes a lot of sense in the context of global networking, but it's not quite as powerful in other security contexts. For instance, SELinux has never really taken off, largely because it's a colossal pain in the ass and the threat models don't typically justify the overhead.

The other bad idea that stands out is "Action is Better Than Inaction". I think this one shows a very strong big company / enterprise bias more than anything else—of course when you are big you have more to lose and should value prudence. And yeah, good security in general is not based on shiny things, so I don't totally fault the author. That said though, there's a reason that modern software companies tout principles like "bias for action" or "move fast and break things"—because software is malleable and as the entire world population shifted to carrying a smartphone on their person at all times, there was a huge land grab opportunity that was won by those who could move quickly enough to capitalize on it. Granted, this created a lot of security risk and problems along the way, but in that type of environment, adopting a "wait-and-see" attitude can also be an existential threat to a company. At the end of the day though, I don't think there's any rule of thumb for whether action vs inaction is better, each decision must be made in context, and security is only one consideration of any given choice.
I've tried a few online jeopardy simulators before, but have always just ended up going back to hunching over a laptop together with my friends on j-archive.

This looks much more convincing than ones I've seen before, especially the fact that you can just play prior game boards without any fuss. I'll have to give it a try with my friends, but so far gameplay feels smooth and the jeopardy-like accents are a good touch.
That's what I suggested in my heavily downvoted comment - "Maybe the tax should be imposed on the landlords' windfall profits instead?"
Excellent news!

> In an ideal world, governments will be able to purchase this affordably and it will be offered to all who want it and need protection against HIV.

Well, since we don't live in an ideal world, we'll have to see what "not-ideal" looks like...
Joke titles and/or author lists are also quite popular, e.g. the Greenberg, Greenberger, Greenbergest paper[1], a paper with a cat coauthor whose title I can’t seem to recall (but I’m sure there’s more than one I’ve encountered), or even the venerable, unfortunate in its joke but foundational in its substance Alpher, Bethe, Gamow paper[2]. Somewhat closer to home, I think computer scientist Conor McBride[3] is the champion of paper titles (entries include “Elimination with a motive”, “The gentle art of levitation”, “I am not a number: I am a free variable”, “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”, and “Doo bee doo bee doo”) and sometimes code in papers:

letmeB this (F you) | you == me = B this
| otherwise = F you
letmeB this (B that) = B that
letmeB this (App fun arg) = letmeB this fun `App` letmeB this arg

(Yes, this is working code; yes, it’s crystal clear in the context of the paper.)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9306225

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...

[3] http://strictlypositive.org/
No, cities do not have the right to secede and there's no legal mechanism for them to do so. California practices home rule and cities have a lot of power, but they still are overridden by state laws.
In case anyone else didn't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
Because on HN we like titles to have information and not be click-bait. The WSJ title is prime click-bait.
Every other industrialized country that I’ve ever been to has taken me at my word when I provided my name for medical procedures. It works fine and always has.
its amazing how cynical (all) people are by nature - I'm 49, and I remember when HIV was a horrible scourge, we forget, so quickly, how things were, and our advances seem trivial. -assuming this news is true or accurate, this is a remarkable advancement for humanity.
It does depend a little on what ratio of additions to multiplies you had. Haswell dropped down to one execution unit capable of floating point addition, so for addition-heavy workloads you basically had to replace half the additions with fma instructions just to keep your old performance from dropping by 2x.
Brackets? That's easy! Just use parentheses instead!
I guess you mean parentheses. Perhaps I am unaware of some meaning of brackets, that also describes parentheses, but afaik parentheses are different from brackets.
I find remote ones tend to suck more because of the ease of scheduling them. In person meetings need a venue, they have to double check if offsite people can get there in time and they often have a fixed endpoint because other groups need to use the venue. Remote meetings don't need all of that and they often can last literally hours because of it.
yeah I think this is the key takeaway for me, because the sanitation needed depends on the consumer of the output. i was never a successful developer but when i was at least trying, i would constantly run into other devs that would happily code forms that allowed sql injection, even in relatively normal winforms apps, not to mention poor understanding of regular ol concurrency / transactions.

since i had a poor reputation (which i take full responsibility for), my concerns would always be dismissed by a combination of "elitist ivory tower thinking", "toxic interactions" and rebuffed with comebacks like the "database server just handles this" etc etc.

if your comment is anything but solid black for the duration of folks reading it, its just more evidence that the vast majority of developers are just shit at their jobs haha
I'm a big fan of Glicol, my main issue with it is the lack of documentation. There's some great getting started guides, but beyond that not too much (for example, an example for glicol-cli is provided using the built in BD drum, but I can't find any reference for all drums available).

As I say, it's otherwise perfect for me, it's sound design capabilities are really fantastic
Ya know, in academic writing I tend to struggle with making it sound nice and formal. I try not to use the super-stilted academic style, but it is still always a struggle to walk the line between too loose and too jargony.

Maybe this sort of thing would be a really good tradition. Everyone must write a very silly article with some mathematical arguments in it. Then, we can all go forward with the comfort of knowing that we aren’t really at risk of breaking new grounds in appearing unserious.

It is well written and very understandable!
But that's absurd to think that you can make claims about the climate based off of a few years worth of data. Multidecadal variance is part of the climate system.

Hurricanes in the US are basically flat [1][2][3]. The past thousand years have seen wild swings, but it's due to natural variability [4].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hurricane-landfalls-us
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ace-north-atlantic-hurric...
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24268-5#Sec2
[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45112-6
Everyone forgets about Dylan. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)?w...)
Stocks used to be owned by whoever owned the physical share certificate. I think the difference is more that paintings still have some intrinsic value (though only aesthetic) even if other people don’t think they’re valuable.
yes, and the article clearly agrees with you, different destinations of the data have different escaping requirements.
Given how infuriating their implementation is of an in-app database, perhaps it's not that surprising.
He's very secretive despite commenting a lot on this site.
Disqualified (1954)
Sometimes various but similar database get smashed together when companies merge. Or when putting all the things in a "data-lake". Like inventory lot IDs or transaction IDs from 100s of stores local database uploaded to the corporate global DB (eg: Albertsons, Kroger, Walmart)
The difference between 10T and 10B is approximately 10T. That’s pretty significant. And the 10T plan requires a great deal more participation from every single citizen. Good luck.
You can use a λ in many common Rackets.
Thanks for the tip! I knew about the “secret” text on XKCD comics but all these years never knew about the red button on SMBC!
> File names would be entirely optional and for human consumption; for direct links within a filesystem, sector numbers would be used, and some kind of unique numeric identifier for anything "higher-level".

Each file has index number ("Inode"?) in the MFT. The first 24 (0-23) are reserved, and 11 of them contain metadata about the volume . https://flatcap.github.io/linux-ntfs/ntfs/files/ - somewhere in the Windows API is something that allows opening a file by "Inode" number. This link and info may be really old so it could be more of the reserved inodes are used now.

So, if 23 isn't being used yet, you could use that to put your 2BL - create a file there and name it $2BL or something. Would be funny to see what future Windows update that does use it does to it, if that ever happens (and of course maybe it is used).

> Maybe there could be a flag that tells the OS that a certain file should never be fragmented?

Haven't looked but I recall from an old book I read that small files are stored right in the MFT and I think existing data + the cluster size is the limit there.
I’m agreeing with you.

The US currently has gasoline at 10% ethanol back when we thought biofuel was good against climate change. It isn’t, but now we can’t undo it because important voting blocs and donors depend on the subsidy. The same would happen with an sulfur mandate.
The $15 donation is contested. I'm waiting for the results of the official investigation if they even care about this detail. There are plenty of lone wolf's throughout history and what political party they belong to is not very interesting outside of a talking point.
True, but the cause is at least obvious. Underground cables can fail or be cut even without anyone’s knowledge. Then it becomes a matter of digging until the problem is found.
This is like saying you saw a No Shirt No Shoes No Service sign at a restaurant and are worried that men with guns might come and enforce that rule in your home. Would that be terrible? Yes. Does the fact that the sign exists mean that you’re fated to nail it to your own wall? No.
Ask HN: Most accurate scientific book on human sleep?
I am someone who is suffering from sleep problems since many years. And I want to know more on this topic. I read, at few places online including HN, that the book "Why We Sleep" is not completely accurate. Can someone recommend an ever more accurate book? Or "Why We Sleep" is the most accurate, albeit flawed, book out there?

I am also open to any series of articles/podcast or any scientific author to follow over a long time to learn about human sleep. I understand that not everything may apply to me, but still, learning is a good thing.
Yes, I agree! Just wanted to give an example though of how a basic algorithms should not be forgotten :)
Because they shouldnt cash out for the work they've put in?

I do dislike that big tech gobbles all small companies, but I dont think people should stop to sell their companies.

It makes sense to cash out and be set for life if that's what you want.
fantastic! I’ve been building game show buzzers and various PCBs for them for about ten years and used them at a lot of events.

any chance you’ll open source this?

My boards and code live here:

https://github.com/netik/rpi_gameshow
Dear God. I'm 36, knew ethanol / corn was a huge deal in Iowa politics but had no idea that virtually all consumer gas is affected by it. Ty
Harmonic Table Keyboard Brings Old Idea Back to Life
Article is better titled: "Peas grow and bear fruit in unmodified Martian soil analog."

Or: "Student finds that adding crap to soil reduces plant growth".

I always thought the whole "can things grow on Mars" had the major impediments: A) no atmosphere, B) too cold, C) the regolith is full of perchlorates. A/B sure, set up a pressurized habitat. And if you're skipping C, then what's even the point of pretending.
OWT: Open WebRTC Toolkit