skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty cool. I always thought that the big-endian way we write numbers feels backward, I guess that explains it
PS: AKA "Am I Bot or Not?" :)
I think it only applies to illegal immigration, not legal immigration.
The timeline feature looks great. As another person mentioned, it reminds me of Bret Victor's demos.

Here's another feature, user-defined shapes, with nice screen captures to demonstrate the possibilities.

https://scrapbox.io/glisp/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%...
You can look at this https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/29/202106-yes-we-want-c...

I quote a section that corresponds to my situation

>Email is everyone’s primary trust anchor online

>If a user loses access to an online account, most services have an account recovery mechanism that will let the user back in. Usually, this works by sending an email to the user with a one-time password.

>If an attacker compromises a user’s email account, they can use the same mechanism to gain control of the user’s account on any service that uses the email account as a trust root. In practice, that’s most of the user’s online accounts. Unfortunately, two-factor authentication only offers limited protection. It is opt-in and usually uses a phone number, which is easily hijacked.

>If account recovery emails were encrypted, the trust anchor would instead be the encryption key. Since the encryption key is stored on the user’s computer, this would defeat this type of attack.
AND COUNTING
Java had a pretty comprehensive rewrite of it's own time handling library and it was much needed. Time is hard because time zones are not engineering they are political and arbitrary.

So yeah keeping things in Unix time is great if all your doing is reading back timestamps for when an event occurred, but the moment you have to schedule things for humans, everything is on fire.
Which part? Mechanical turk is an Amazon service for crowdsourcing work, and Africa has cheap IT literate labor so would be a good source for this type of work.
Brr Wants a Job
The cost to keep a single server which only responses with 301 redirection is worth pennies, or 5 minutes of Googlers' earnings. Breaking the global web is much more costly.
Popular (or at least relevant) markdown implementations support mermaid charts. GitHub and gitlab do, for example.
I remember when The Simpsons first came out, and the writers were going for the "low/working class struggling family" vibe. Now, you look at the same Simpsons lifestyle and think "These guys are loaded!" Single earner with a stable job, two story house in the suburbs, kids' school is not dysfunctional or gang-ridden. This is like a top 10% lifestyle in 2024 USA.
The cost of a Windows license as a fraction of what it costs to staff a position in a corporate environment is not enough that it gets noticed or worried about. The costs of using Linux in terms of not being able to use standard software, not being able to hire administrators, having to train users who are unfamiliar with it, etc. just dwarfs any savings in license costs.
https://x.com/hamnox/status/1482159051316215809?lang=en

> RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods
I’m hopefully in the final “nerd meets money” job I’ll ever have and my argument is going to be that no technical person should ever take a deal from a non-technical person. The reality, however, is that most of us are not in financial positions to be able to refuse it. I think we need to collectively figure out how to support each other so we can tell capitalist narcissists to go away.

I’ve been in every possible part of these deals and In the absolute best possible case you are going to betray your own technical vision and get 1/1000th of the value that you create as output. That’s absolutely best case.

Non-technical work, fundraising, sales etc is all fictional bulshit in hopes of managing the greater fool trick with the public market being the ultimate fool. Psychopathic wannabe dictators play the role of intermediary between capital and labor such that they are on one hand trying to pretend that they give a shit about their employees and their welfare and on the other hand tell their investors how much they’re gonna fuck everybody over in language that is specifically crafted to not sound like that exactly what is happening - with a massive legal apparatus that is built to prioritize the rights of capital over labor in every single case.

The only reason that works is because structurally in the world that we live in today, all of the people with money generally have no functional skills and so they need to coopt people with skills, with unfair contracts, in order to do what they want to do.

Capitalists need us technologists and technical labor, who know how to build an implement stuff in order to make their money. If they knew how to make stuff, they wouldn’t be asking for a “technical cofounder”

If all that somebody does is bring money to the table then you can bet that that’s all they’re going to be able to bring. And you can also expect that they’re going to demand the majority of the value that is created by you because of the fact of the way finance and money works in the world.

If that’s the life you wanna lead, with the idea that you too can be a lazy capitalist stealing the value from others, then as a technologist I’m not sure what to tell you.

I’ve yet to encounter a technical person with any care for their craft who had a overall positive experience selling out to capitalists.

I think WhatsApp is the perfect example here in that it was intended to be a tool for freedom. Now a multi billion dollar corporation spies on their multibillion users for money.
Because humanity is not about minmaxing a game where output is the most important metric. We are humans, and a human thing to do is sports, we love being impressed by other's physical prowess even if they are narrow and of no economic value.

Why do people paint? Or make music? Or play football (whatever version of it)?

Because we like to do it.
My German friend's recommendation:

We can read english quite well.
Or they did not want to pay for the license, or for the component.

The software decoder is not fast enough if you need to use the CPUs in parallel. So removing the hardware acceleration is a net loss of compute power.
Emby was not a fork. Plex server has never been open source.
I wish we had an rr for nodejs.
The standard refrain is that the housing market is over-regulated, NIMBY's have made it too hard to build. Adding more regulation discouraging instutitions from building sounds like making the problem worse rather than better.
John Mulaney's "There's a horse in the hospital" bit was probably the best take.

Warning, explicit language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZMxgPxXU
Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take over Their Company?
It all comes down to "doing the work"... which is the key to "executing on the idea".

There are countless folks who like to have ideas and imagine a dream scenario where other people labour to bring those ideas to life. I meet them regularly, some of them were at one point my friends.

Folks will always try and talk their way into a free lunch. Make sure you're not the one paying for it.
Yes. Earning money is the only argument anyone's been able to make for why we should respect IP as a society, and even that argument is a bit of a stretch.
I think they just want to bring back smoking on planes
Any article/blog/text-that-can-be-read?
I used mermaid for years but recently converted to Eraser.io.
It's hardly "walking". It's basically just a silly way to run.
Completely unreadable on macOS too, tried Safari, Firefox and Arc.

I can just barely figure out what it's supposed to be if I select the text, but it's nigh-unreadable even then

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Y2EC3lq
Exactly, my old ISP and current ISP both use double NAT. I literally tried calling to get a level 2 tech to get them to reconfigure my modem to use bridge mode.
Great article and I strongly agree with 95% of it. The only thing I'd like to add nuance though is on the "ideas are worthless" rehash.
I think the pendulum has struck a bit too far, and at some point actually there's more merit than normally acknowledged to deep thinking about all the implications of an idea. Take this advice only after you can execute though.
> lookup likelihood is not indicative of understanding of concepts in any reasonable way.

Where did I ever say that the thing was doing lookup? I only said it was producing a probability distribution.

Is your claim that all programs are just doing lookup?

> If the response to a algebraic equation was based upon probability of tokens in a corpus...

Ah, I see the confusion. When I say “probability distribution” I do not mean “for each option, an empirical fraction out of all the options, that this particular option appeared in the corpus”. Rather, by “probability distribution”, I mean (in the discrete case) “an assignment of a number which is at least zero and at most one, to each of the options, and such that the sum of the assigned values add up to 1”. I am allowing that this assignment of values is computed (from what is being conditioned on) in any way whatsoever .

If the correct answer is a number, it may compute the entire correct number through some standard means, and then look at however many correct tokens from the number are already present, and assign a probability of 1 to the correct next one, and 0 to all other tokens. If conditioning on a partial answer that has parts wrong, it may use an arbitrary distribution.
For those unaware, chromium has built in support for viewing trace files (obviously, not relevant if you want mermaid diagrams for documentation)

https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-prof...

It looks like though the old catapult code has been officially deprecated, and they're recommending switching over to Perfetto.

https://github.com/google/perfetto

So anyhow, I just learned about the perfetto switch, so I won't try and dig up a link to the old way of formatting your traces to work with chrome://tracing, as it sounds completely deprecated. Go use Perfetto if you want a fairly easy way of interacting with trace data. I assume it's at least as good and useful as chrome://tracing.
This decision really needs to be removed from the hands of doctors, as long as there is no physical risk to the patient.
I know a PhD specialising in applying ml algorithms to different markets, mostly energy-related.

Married, 3 kids, good position In a fund, same focus as his phd.

He was very, very lucky, without even realising it to this day. His wife took most of the hit, with him permanently working, or teaching, or something, and her taking care of thr rest of their life, kids included.

On the specialisation side. He never went the "pursue a dream even with no money" way. It was more about picking things he was good at, and also making sure the choice included sellable skills.
Is it 'despicable' just because you don't like what it says? You didn't do anything to refute it.
That's part of why I now have multiple Shield TV boxes in my home, mostly using Kodi over SMB/CIFS shares to my NAS. It's not as friendly for outside the home, but it's nice internally.

I've been thinking I'd like to expand to start capturing the YouTube channels I watch most and dump into series directories for them. I've gotten tired of trying to work around what YouTube seems fit to shove in my direction. I really wish there was a "don't show me content from this channel" option, as if you click on any bait, you keep getting that channel for weeks after under suggestions.
Can't wait for my mom to play this game at higher stakes when an AI-generated voice coded to sound like me "calls" from a jail in a sufficiently-scary-sounding foreign country, claiming I need $5,000 for bail or they'll beat me with hoses.
ChatGPT is for real even though its greatest talent is bullshitting and it oddly stole the thunder that cryptocurrencies had at a certain time as an imagined path to wealth for the ignorant and indolent.

Although I only trained in condensed matter physics, I find Helion very hard to believe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-18/sam-altma...

That is, Helion has to build two fusion reactors that run under conditions much more intense than ITER, one to breed D + D -> He3 + n, another to burn D + He3 -> He4 + p. That first reaction can also go D + D -> T + p, the tritium is a really good fusion fuel but produces intense neutron radiation when you burn it. If you could suppress that branch you might have a very clean system.

Given how long it has taken the rest of the world to develop fusion I can't picture Helion developing anything practical in the next few years. Something like this could be the ideal energy source for interstellar travelers because you can find D in outer solar system bodies, comets and other interstellar objects, but we're getting ahead of ourselves to expect anything in the next few years.

(e.g. I want to see a billionaire fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_ion_fusion which, despite the need for a prototype system to be full scale, is the most realistic prospect for fusion energy, particularly if you want to burn something more difficult than D+T)
> Ignoring the failure is perverse.

If the failed system is a security module, I think that's absolutely correct. If the system runs, without the security module, well, that's like forgetting to pack condoms on Shore Leave. You'll likely be bringing something back to the ship with you.

Someone needs to be testing the module, and the enclosing system, to make sure it doesn't cause problems.

I suspect that it got a great deal of automated unit testing, but maybe not so much fuzz and monkey (especially "Chaos Monkey"-style) testing.

It's a fuzzy, monkey-filled world out there...
> A modern, maintained replacement for ls.

The tag line certainly reads that way

(first line in the readme)
I learned this too late in life. I always knew it intellectually, but to experience it first hand was something else. I looked behind the curtain of many funded startups. Here is a comment I made on another thread:

"Right but usually they tell the founding engineer that they are a CTO, give them equity, but low salary. In real venture backed businesses where the equity ends up having real value, the "CTO" is gone by ~18 months. This is the point where the product is in the market, and is getting some sales. I see it constantly by non technical CEOs in NYC"
I am enjoying NNG.

Not used it is production (yet) - but just getting my feet wet using it. The documentation can be a hit or miss but if you dig about you can find what you need.

For example, one link I found was using functionality that is now deprecated - and finding what you should be using instead took longer than planned.

Other than this, I do like it and - in the near future - will prefer to use it over ZeroMQ.
Grass is always greener.
I actually think bootstrapping can be great because it reduces the number of major constituencies driving the company by 1. If you bootstrap, you have:

* company owners

* customers

* employees

If you take on investment, now you have investors in the mix too, and they don't always have the same goals as the others. But they often have a pretty large voice.

That said, if you are bootstrapping but not paying employees, that's fraud. If you are bootstrapping and not paying co-founders, well, that's not great. But if co-founders know this going in and have regular milestones that need to be hit, I'm okay with that. It can be a great way to push the business forward without the distraction of fundraising (which is a huge effort).
We use the mermaid gantt chart to track our releases, as well as team individuals that are out of office.

Looks like this:
Out of office:
[John Doe]
[Stacy]
Release:
[code freeze]
[Staging date]
[Release!]
Ask HN: What's the most undervalued idea in your field?
Unsettling concept tbh
We have a built-in filter for this already, which are the primary and general elections. The problem is not politicians refusing to retire, but voters refusing to vote them out.

The Democrat/Republican party system is what gives incumbents such a lead over challengers. I don't think term limits are the fix, I think we need to change how campaigns are financed - because right now, the parties pick who gets money in downticket races, and incumbents have their own war chests. That leads to challengers being outspent.

I just keep thinking about how the national party rolled over for Dianne Feinstein in the 2018 senate election, even though she lost the support of the state party. No big democrats were willing to drop their support of her, and the national party wasn't going to spend money on a primary/general challenge to a seat that would stay blue.
"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." - Picasso
CrowdStrike outage – Projecting the impact of changes before they reach prod
It's just a smiley face in Wingdings font.
Novel ZIP method slashes compression time x10
Sure, there is a motive, but do you have proof to back up your suspicion?
few people can go over 45 km/h on bike on flat ground.
This doesn't reflect reality as far as I've ever seen

Hundreds of millions if not billions of people may watch sprinting, or diving or any number of niche solo sports, but do they really care further than "I hope our guy wins"?

Do they care about the technical aspects of running or discus or whatever else? Not a chance

It's not even remotely close to how passionate people get about team sports. Millions of people will celebrate in the streets if their soccer team wins a medal. People will argue endlessly about the technical little details of a soccer match, the calls refs make, etc

Solo sports aren't really comparable to team sports in the social aspect, either for society or for the players on the teams
Dark Oxygen: Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor
Or people aren't upvoting it because it:

- has clunky writing

- speaks from an unearned place of authority

There's a specific tone that people here love, that combines sharing knowledge with humility (beginner's mind).

See the Rust post about Pin on the front page - the author is the Rust developer that wrote Pin, but the post reads as though he's learning about it for the first time.

The startup failure posts that do really well are the ones where the author takes ownership of the failure, describes the events leading up to it in detail, and then maybe blames the business side a bit.
And if you use mdbook you can use the mdbook-mermaid preprocessor

https://crates.io/crates/mdbook-mermaid/
Ancient crystals point to a surprisingly early start for plate tectonics
You pronounce it GIF instead of GIF?!?
Embrace, extend, extinguish. IBM invented vendor lock-in. Microsoft perfected it.
I can confirm german and Spanish, also the Italian version is strangely written.
> This is the danger of anecdotes, they can lead to bias.

Your own story is also a dangerous anecdote. Without the context, it's pointless to talk about how amazing your Ph.D. experience was. Study engineering or quantitative marketing? Most likely miserable. Study humanities? Probably happier.
I guess this is just a silly little thought experiment, but the final estimate (6.97s 100m) is quite ridiculous on its face.

The heavy lifting seems to be done by the study linked in the "anatomical studies suggest peak speeds up to 15.6-17.9 m/s (35-40 mph) are achievable" line. I'm not sure where those exact numbers were pulled from - I can't find them with a cmd+f. One line in the study uses some nearby numbers:

> If, for simplicity, we assume no change in contact lengths or the minimum aerial times needed to reposition the swing limbs at top speed, the average and greatest individual top speed hopping forces (Favg) of 2.71 and 3.35 Wb would allow top running speeds of 14.0 and 19.3 m/s and of 50 and 69 km/h, respectively

But the study concludes that, even though our leg extensor muscles can produce much higher maximum forces than those generated during sprinting, the "contact length" imposes a constraint on these "hopping forces":

> Because humans have limbs of moderate length and cannot gallop, they lack similar options for prolonging periods of foot-ground force application to attain faster sprinting speeds at existing contact time minimums. Consequently, human running speeds in excess of 50 km/h are likely to be limited to the realms of science fiction and, not inconceivably, gene doping.

So the craziness of the original estimate seems to follow from on a misreading of that study.
"Proposed" is the final state of many stable RFCs; see a list at [1], and compare it to the (much shorter) list of finished standards above it. The name is kind of misleading these days. Some discussion at [2]. Just to give an example, the base64 RFC 4648 is also a "proposed standard".

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards#PS

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7127#section-2
"German" is even spelled wrong in the language selector: "Deustch" instead of "Deutsch"
Incident Post-Mortem Process
Last week's Crowdstrike incident showed that shit happens in SoftwareDevelopment and getting to the root cause is crucial

I've published my incident postmortem process which I've honed over many years. It also has a Toto Wolff quote, because I can.
It's worse than that, it can also vary by city.
That's in part why sprinters are jacked. They need to keep their core from leaning forward at such high speeds.
> I think the reason is different. Some languages have official bodies that decree how a language works. For example the French have the French Academy.

Well, they like to pretend they have that kind of authority, those languages don't actually have a "boss" in charge of how the language works either.

IIRC, the French Academy has tried (and failed) to stamp out anglicisms like email (https://www.thoughtco.com/le-courriel-vocabulary-1371793) and weekend (https://www.lawlessfrench.com/tag/franglais/).
> Security: Did you know that with one simple trick you can drop to the OS from PostgreSQL and managed service providers hate that? The trick is COPY table_name from COMMAND

I certainly did not know that.
Show HN: Quiz application to select all 114 real HTML elements
Hello, Thanks for your help. I have created a quiz to select real HTML elements and am looking for someone who can select all 114 of them. I hope you enjoy it.

github: https://github.com/tfs-tada/html-select-all
Aka things made by real people and not marketing drones.

Unfortunately, all the "real people" are only publishing things on closed-off social media sites instead of the wider internet, so the majority of things outside of those sites is either crap nobody wants to read, or mono-culture nerd/tech blogs from people like us.
That guy Usain Bolt and his 9.58 seconds is nothing compared to my local Strava runners, all the segments are full of faster "runners".
That research was published before Bolt hacked another 0.1 seconds off the record, when he cut it down in one event from 9.69 to 9.58

I don’t think the research stands up.
> you cannot copy and sell it if the license doesn’t allow it.

Well, good luck trying to force me to not sell your work in my country.
Docs:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...

https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/tools-and-tips/#using-m...
Yep, it's totally unreadable. To author, please check you website with "prefers-color-scheme:dark". It looks fine on light.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gu...
Do you mean a time travel debugger? I believe it would be an awesome feature to be able to record & replay program execution. I imagine the recordings would be huge in size, as there are many more degrees of freedom on backend than it is on frontend.