skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calibre is a very ugly tool for converting formats, fixing metadata, and all the other worst parts of managing an ebook library. The single author's eccentricities are apparent but it was first and it does complete those jobs. If you slog through the setup and quirks, you at best get an iTunes experience from 10 years ago, and I just don't like using it to actually manage my library.

Kavita is more like Plex, where when you have your library in something of a decent form it makes using your library a much better experience.

Its also the only tool I know of that handles both manga and ebook libraries well.
Slow productivity worked for Marie Curie – here's why you should adopt it, too
I am currently building out PlatePlanner - would love to get any and all feedback here or via email (nishant@nitro.bio)!
I really learned to appreciate what Powershell is after listening to @adamgordonbell CoRecursive episode with Jeffrey Snover (https://corecursive.com/building-powershell-with-jeffrey-sno...).

I really loved PHP, but now with go+templ (https://templ.guide) I personally don't have a use-case for PHP anymore, but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant for the world.
> Why are government employees allowed to accept gifts?

These are "elected public officials". They are technically not "government employees".
what a surprise!

CPU and GPU learned from decades of RAM business.

Sell garbage. People buy, get blue screen, blame software. ECC? pffft.

Let's just see how long it will take for NVMEs to fall to the same level of reliability as usb pen drives and everyone will just buy 4 of them to RAID1 and assume that's just "normal".
There's a good reason you want to avoid holding significant margin over the weekend, or even over night. Anyways, there will be plenty of good deals going on sale this week. The market is granting opportunity this week. If you're not on margin and looking to be fast then just ignore and keep adding to your investment accounts as you have been.
They learned this from Coinbase.
This blog post explained the workflow and use cases: https://reduct.video/blog/video-editing-as-easy-as-editing-t...
Show HN: I made a weird game where every single click matters
This text is non-responsive to the question. Maybe your purpose is to practice typing? Just because a company "can" do something doesn't mean that they will devote the resources to perform it.
> I'm opposed to lobbying and bribes as a whole

You’re conflating wildly-different subjects. This article is about gifts, which are personal and the closest thing in our system to bribes. (They become bribes if traded for official acts. This article seems to describe bribery.)

Lobbying is a blanket term for communicating with electeds. If you’re against lobbying you’re against being able to call your elected. Lobbying, i.e. bottom-up political communication, is inherent to democracy.
> It is easier to remember

I have absolutely no problem remembering the last byte of any machine on my network. Because that's all it takes with ipv4 on a sorta complex home network, no need for extra services.

> Are you talking about BGP?

No, with ipv4 i can just change the default route :)

Everything is NATed behind the two routers so changing the default route changes which connection that machine uses. You're thinking enterprise, and then ipv6 becomes ... fine. I just have a hack that works fine for me.
The struggle of hacker against hacker is a what struggle?
Original sentence is still nonsense. No, if duolingo stopped with those messages, people would still not picked book as replacement.

And book as your only resource have massive drop put rates. People generally give up very soon.
There goes thinking we had any sort of resiliency in the retail stock market...

I really wonder how all of the major brokers could be having an issue. Is it just one of those "we haven't ever had a real market crash since we started this website in 2015, so let's not do a load test" kind of thing?
The crew location and status systems are all manual and phone based this is a chronic problem across many airlines.
When the system goes down it takes hours or days as crew all have to call in, wait on hold for hours and get their status back in the system.

If only some smart tech people gathered somewhere and someone could make a mobile app to allow crew to set their status and location instantly. They’d corner the market and save airlines billions.
I would shy away from any comparisons to a human. The right way to think about LLMs is like generative fill for text or reverse text summarization imho
> These are "elected public officials". They are technically not "government employees"

Which subjects them to a $590 limit [1].

[1] https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/public-officials-and-employees...
Does executives working more hours for a company like Samsung increase revenue or reduce costs? I’m not an Econ experts but the economic trends in the article point to situations out of the companies control that likely won’t be solved by better strategy.

Although I say this, knowing my employer has poor strategy and more man-hours might help. What would help more though is consultants.
Related thread with 20 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41161498
Statistically it will not be a very useful scientific experiment - too many variables, too small sample size.
Plus he will die a lot sooner from all the pills he is taking.
I did the same. From my notes:

"frozen chillies (30 g), machine-chopped, boiled up with spring water (35 ml) and Himalayan salt (2.5 g), left to cool, mixed with ginger live kombucha (35 ml), left for a week (i was in a rush). Future versions could use twice as much chilli. Tolerably hot, with a heat that plateaus and then lasts."

The chillies would have been Numex Bailey which i grew myself. I pick the fruits when they're ripe and freeze them until i have enough for a batch of sauce, hence using frozen chillies. Should work fine with fresh too.
Even if that’s the case, the exposition is quite poor and hard to follow. It doesn’t exhibit a lot of clarity of thinking on the author’s part, or at least it doesn’t translate to his writing. That’s what I meant by “confused”.
Choose your own adventure in 100 lines with micro agents
> Some people in South Korean business are predicting that lower-ranked employees and managers at smaller companies will feel pressure to follow suit.

might be the way to pressure the rest of the company to follow suit, according to the article.
Response: https://nailitandscaleit.substack.com/p/online-attribution-i...
The most recent supreme court ruling from a few weeks ago dramatically narrowed the Federal bribery laws;

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-limits-scop...
Jonsbo N3 NAS Case Review – Compact Design for 8 Drives
Surely making people appear to be busy for another day plus unpaid overtime will make the company more profitable!
Age is great. I used the rust crate to write an ftp server that encrypts the files before they hit disk (specific use case is having a drop box for my network scanner) and I love the simplicity and composability it provides.

One feature request: it would be awesome to have paraphrase encryption for age private keys.
The patents have nothing to do with it. E-ink is expensive because it's a niche product with low scale - LCD screens are produced by the BILLIONS per quarter, and you probably have a dozen different devices with one. E-Ink does basically nothing that an LCD can't substitute for, and it's more expensive than LCD so nobody bothers.

"Patents" are a conspiracy cited without real evidence. It ignores that *E-INK HAS COMPETITION* (DES/Display Electronic Slurry screens). If E-ink corp were price-gouging then GoodDisplay would have eaten their lunch by now.

To be specific here, the conspiracy isn't that E-Ink patents exist - E-Ink patents do exist (some expired, but E-Ink corp are registering new patents as they innovate), but there are tons of LCD patents also. The conspiracy is the claim that patents are causing price-gouging and high prices that hold up adoption of the tech.
Musically mature jazz players don't like those people either. Even more so if those people are jazz players. :-)
It's almost like nobody unique indexes the username column anymore.
> If a kid sends an AI-generated letter to a celebrity and no one notices, was the outrage ever justified?

It’s a specific instance of then ends justifying the means dilema. There’s no unambiguous answer but it’s a pretty common thing to teach kids that generally ends do not justify the means.

Stepping back though - It’s not about using tools to make work more efficient. The backlash is about the specific case of making a sincere gesture feel less sincere by having a tool do some of the work.

No one expects any level of emotional sincerity solving a maths/stats problem.
Which the article notes was respected, at least in theory.
Completely unacceptable.

For those unaware TD Ameritrade was acquired by Schwab recently and in the year since the acquisition Schwab has had multiple days of outages. I was with TD for years without a single instance I can recall of being unable to access my account.

This is just absolute negligence and neglect of necessary technical investment from management. The only thing that will get their attention is people withdrawing funds and moving to better run brokerages, which is what I intend to do.
Vision loss and high cholesterol recognised as dementia risk factors
Bloomberg Surveillance daily before-opening podcast: None this morning, not on Apple mobile.
From further down the thread, it seems it has been well beyond two decades and the original patents are already long expired. They are not playing fair - they are evergreening their patents with marginal changes which is illegal in countries where IP laws aren't a joke unlike the US.
Build a Digital Human
> as mine only took me an hour or so while yours took multiple days.

Yeah, because the first time I had no idea what I was doing, except vague feelings about ipv4 works. Did you factor in your pre existing ipv6 knowledge when you counted just an hour?

> Network Prefix Translation can be done pretty easily.

What's "easily"? How many services do I need to setup? Some other helpful HNer tried to explain to me once and the list was like 2 or 3 daemons in addition to dhcp, firewall etc.

Do you set up complex ipv6 networks at work?
That limit is likely intentional, given that even small gifts elicit positive feelings. Honni qui mal y pense.
Why does closing the table of contents open the nav menu on mobile?
Duolingo own marketing does not claim they teach up to fluency. I never seen anyone claim that duolingo can, should or did teach up to fluency.

I have seen people claim that duolingo made them able to consume simple content or have basic conversation (usually they claim it about Spanish which is the longest course).
> it’s actually “IP + Port#” that is globally unique

So which globally unique box is 192.168.1.1:443? Can you point to exactly one device out there with that IP:PORT combo? There's probably hundreds of millions of that IP:Port combination currently running and listening.

Which globally unique box is 8.8.8.8:53? You think there's seriously just one network adapter listening for traffic at 1.1.1.1:53? These aren't "broadcast IPs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_address

And even then, "ultimately associated with a single physical network interface on a device" isn't correct either. You can have multiple physical interfaces listening on the same IP and end up with the same ports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-108_8n5a.pdf is I believe what they're referencing. And it definitely muddied the water.
> the federal law is particularly toothless at this point

Untrue per the “legal citations” section of your own article.

Scope was narrowed. But in the two times it was tested the precedent ultimately resulted in a conviction (Menendez) or upholding of punishment (Cash for Kids).
You can run LLMs via WebGPU today, among many other things. If you call this useless, you probably mean, this is useless to your use case and this is right.
Wait, how are they doing that? My mental idea of NAT is that it dyanmically links (address × port) pairs to local addresses. What would be the "port" in the case of flight numbers?
I think a lot, if not most, of the outrage due to the same reason the Apple ad raised the temperature. Both of those ads highlight the exact thing that people fear about this technology -- that it will be used to destroy things that people love and those things will be replaced with yet more crap.

To see purveyors of these systems portraying that kind of use as an actual selling point tells people that the destruction is not a side-effect, it's the goal.
> Which the article notes was respected, at least in theory

Not really. The article notes that’s what the elected claims in a filing. Unfortunately, Reuters didn’t attempt to value the ticket.
An executive or even just regular managers working more sounds like a recipe for busywork and managers excessively looking over the shoulders of ICs. The result potentially being even less productivity.
Doesn't track afternoon naps because it wasn't told about them. Or so she says.
The extensions story isn't getting better than OpenGL,

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php

Additionally, setting up the infrastructure, even with Vulkan 1.3, is a bit piece of code.
vrai
Assuming that implementation never skip verifying the second signature, and compare the signing keys, that should be ok.
There's a faq around the petition. It's specifically about multiplayer games and others claiming to be a "service."
It is a crisis but the solution in the 1960's will not be the solution in the 2020's. RoK could not afford to lose the China market, but they have and there really is no replacement.
> assigning the same flight number to more than one flight a day (although that means they need for it to be flights that would never both be in the air at the same time, such as where the same plane is used and can’t reasonably be substituted)

I thought this was already common on a lot of airlines. For example, tomorrow, Southwest flight 1861 goes from MDW to DAL from 1:55pm to 4:10pm, then from DAL to SNA from 4:50pm to 5:55pm, then from SNA to PHX from 6:30pm to 7:50pm. I was on two legs of a similar flight a few years ago, and I didn't even have to get off the plane at Love Field.
> The article notes that’s what the elected claims in a filing.

Yes, that's the "in theory" bit.
The most interesting point in this article for me lies towards the end: "the role of the Guild was not to form rules, mores, regulations, and laws with respect to their crafts; their role was to introduce a system of art or craft to a new individual, to instill in them the idea of standards, quality, consistency, and perfection".

A common complaint nowadays is that it is very difficult for juniors with no experience to get hired, unless they have a degree from a prestigious university, and even then that's not often a guarantee. It seems that companies are more averse than guilds to take the risk of training someone up to industry standards.

I believe that it would be very beneficial to society to create schemes that encourage learning with a similar system. Mentors can sometimes accomplish this role, but that relation is far more informal.
I was on a mailing list once where messages were blocked because of msexchange being in the headers.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157605
On the other hand, it's also preventing people from buying shares and capitalizing on the downturn.
they aren't wildly different

the overlap between 'gifts' and 'lobbying' is significant, and the latter term is often used euphemistically to describe exactly that overlap
And when one fails to do them, the customer will sue the owner when things go south.
Chili Crunch is nice on eggs.
What are the "better run" brokerages? Any examples you suggest?
The SEC does mandate SLAs and have for years. They’ll pay a hefty fine for this is my understanding
Identity files can be passphrase encrypted and cmd/age will transparently ask for the passphrase before using them. Is that what you meant?

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age?tab=readme-ov-file#passph...
They certainly have a tool to stoke it. Maybe waiting this long to cut rates wasn't a bad idea.
Agree. But it doesn’t solely condition corruption on the timing of the payment. (We’ll have to see how it works in practice. McDonnell was similarly criticised, but wound up being much less impactful in practice [1].)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_v._United_States
That is understandable!

I am blessed that I have a number of excellent music venues in public transport distance and a very good ticketing agency about 30 min walking from my home.
So I often go there and by them in person - still I also use the online services when in a hurry, lazy etc…
Tcl/Tk logo – rebrand for 9.0 or stay consistent?
Tcl/Tk 9.0 is approaching release, so I think this could be a good opportunity to update the logo. My feeling is that the existing feather logo is obscure, and also too easily confused with the Apache project logo. However some people are very attached to it. So I'm trying to gather feedback on whether a rebrand would be helpful, or whether continuity is more valuable. If you have an opinion, please either vote in the poll I have created, linked above, or just leave feedback here.
In most cases coercion probably won't be as obvious as someone literally pointing a gun to your head (though there certainly could be a literal or metaphorical gun to the head in some cases). Typically it'll probably be something more subtle like: "Hi, I'm going door to door to turn out the vote. Have you voted yet? No? Here, let me help you fill out your ballot. I'll even turn it in for you."

Coercion doesn't need to be overt to be effective, just a small amount of social pressure applied over a large number of people is enough to make a significant difference. That's why typically there are laws banning campaigning right outside polling places. Now what if the "polling place" is the entire country, over a period of multiple weeks? How are you going to enforce that? And how can the electorate trust that it is being effectively enforced?
Seeing how many broker related posts are in the top right now, I gather that HN went all in on the "AI trade" :D
> that's the "in theory" bit

But it’s not. If I lie on my tax filing, I’m not respecting the law, in practice or in theory.
> A freebie worth $590 is well below the $5,500 maximum campaign donation from an individual or business. But gifts like tickets can make a much greater impact, said Daniel Schnur, a government ethics expert and former chair of the Fair Political Practices Commission.

> “If I send money to a legislator’s campaign account, I get a thank you note. If I attend a reception, I get a handshake. If I take them out to lunch or dinner, I get a conversation,” Schnur said. “But if I get them tickets for a concert or a basketball game, I now have a friend who takes my phone calls.”

I mean, sure this should be tracked and forbidden… although it’s nothing compared to e.g. what you get for showering millions on a PAC dedicated to electing a specific politician.
It won't be a problem soon as airlines worldwide will obviously be scaling back flights due to climate change, right? ;)

/s (just in case)
Yeah, haven't been able to get into Vanguard all morning, looks like they're trying to load their older HTML version.
Vanguard is down as well. What a racket
It may not be a total coincidence that the common law based UK and US became so much more dominant in commerce. Obviously their imperial holdings had a lot to do with other factors too, like the UK's early lead in the industrial revolution, and the US's massive natural resources, but it's hard to ignore the advantage of a more nimble, flexible, yet predictable legal system for commerce in a time of rapidly changing technology.
Shake tests improve seismic safety of dry storage systems
Fix it, in the sense of "match fixing".
Yes, I boil my equipment.
e*trade is not, thankfully.
Two Rules for Building Comfortable Stairs
There is widget with owl that gets sadder and sadder as the day progresses if you did not done duolingo.
I made fermented hot sauce once, and i don't think it was sufficiently different to other kinds to be worth doing again. But then, i have only done it once!

I think my favourite hot sauces have started by drying the chillies, then toasting them in a pan. This adds a lovely smoky, rich flavour.

In terms of other additives, i recently made a rather long winded rum and coke themed hot sauce, the main lesson from which is that orange peel goes amazingly with chilli. I am now thinking about a chocolate orange hot sauce, built around toasted chillies, orange peel, and cocoa powder perhaps. Can i make an orange peel oleo saccharum using citric acid, and use that instead of vinegar? Should i make it oil-based? Use crème de cacao?! Much to ponder.

If you're going to grow your own chillies, i can highly recommend NuMex Bailey:

https://cpi.nmsu.edu/_assets/documents/Bailey.full_.pdf

It's a pequin pepper, so very small, but hot and with good flavour. This particular strain grows like the clappers, forming a compact, dense bush, which is covered in flowers and then fruit, which as the paper says, are very easy to pick when ripe. The productivity in terms of mass of fruit per unit of pot area is far better than anything else i've grown. It seems to be impossible to kill, too.
they don't care about fines, they are orders of magnitude less than the opportunity cost.
At least in C++ a template needs to be known at compile time, but I want to build my event loop and latter add in more values that should be handled without rebuilding it.
I can sympathize with the authors love/hate relationship with tests, but I can’t help feeling like it’s because we as developers so often test the completely wrong things.

I don’t typically write tests, but they do make sense for a few cases (specifically end to end tests that look for well defined outputs from well defined inputs). I was inspired by Andreas Kling’s method of testing Ladybird, where he would find visual bugs, recreate the bug in a minimum reproducible example, fix the bug, then codify the example into a test and make sure the regression was captured in his test suite[0]. This led to a seemingly large suite of tests that enabled him to continue modifying the browser without fear of regressing somewhere.

I used this method of testing while I was writing a code highlighter that used TextMate grammars. Since TextMate grammars have a well defined output for some input of code + grammar, I was able to mimic that output in my own code highlighter and then compare it to TextMate’s output for testing purposes. I wrote a bunch of general purpose tests, then ran into a bunch of bugs where I would have mismatched output. As I fixed those bugs, I would add the examples to my test suite.

Anyways, my code highlighter was slow, and I wanted to re-architect it to speed it up. I was able to completely change the way it worked with complete confidence. I had broken tests for a while in the middle of the refactor, but eventually I finished the refactor. As I started to fix the broken tests, there was a domino effect. I only had to fix a few tests and that ended up automatically correcting the rest. Now, I have a fast code highlighter and confidence that it’s at least bug for bug parity with the slow version :)

[0]: https://youtu.be/W4SxKWwFhA0?si=PJs_7drb3zVxq0ub