skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because they tacked it on! If the product is carefully considered tech built from the ground up using AI or ML Those products would not drive people away. Now things that worked like search on google and social media sites is so bloated and inconsistent that your grandma would notice while touting AI powered search.
It's a bit ironic since the GNU policy is to prefer info to man pages. But I have to agree that man is a lot better for practical purposes.
It's because of VCs. It's always the VCs.
Accessibility is an operating system and browser responsibility. It is effective at integration at this level. It is not effective to ask every webmaster to be responsible for the problem individually. This is nonsense. Modern operating systems and web browsers do a good job at owning this without bulky scripts on the front end ruining experiences for the remaining 99%.
i think most people had the option to choose among two, or maybe if they were lucky three ISPs. only big cities had more, and the better alternative ISPs tended to be more expensive too. and since they were not exactly telling you in advance that they were going to do this and they often were locking you into one or two year minimum contracts, switching ISPs was and still is not a simple thing to do.
Believe it or not, law enforcement agencies actually do that, more or less every day, in every country. There is value in having crime organised, predictable, somewhat circumscribed, and controlled by people you can communicate with and influence to a degree.

Real life is rarely binary.
I don't use any form of "AI", and I'm a software engineer. At least two of my friends, who don't work in software, have somehow learned about ChatGPT and routinely use it for whatever.
No, we don't need them. Look at the OpenWRT ecosystem and the routers it runs on. Those cheap plastic routers come with pretty dumb bootloaders and it works.

Its just the x86 platform that is shite.
Just use privacy.com virtual cards as an interface to a real card. When you want to unsubscribe just close the virtual card to said service.
Quantum Computing and Cryptography [pdf]
> Imagine mathematicians having ten different names for "a curve", half of them considered offensive because why not.

You’d be surprised to learn that mathematics has at least three different names for a function.
The H-1B Lottery Is Too Easily Gamed. Here’s How to Fix It
That 5% statement feels off to me - if you flip it, you are saying that if there is a 95% chance that it won't help the business... do it.

I'd make sure that OP knows what they would do with the funding before answering their question. More money does not directly mean growth. It means resources to solve problems. If growth is stifled due to things that can be solved with money, then VC funding is one way to solve it. Not the only way.

So I would not jump to metrics. Metrics are a way to measure progress towards goals, but you first needs to identify goals, and outline what problems exist in the business that are preventing those goals from being achieved. Then identify possible solutions, and determine whether or not money is the roadblock to implementing those solutions. If the answer is yes, then pursue money. If not, pursue whatever the solution is.

Metrics come into play once you've implemented solutions, to determine if the solutions are working.
Neither approach works.

Engineers (management are also employees, right?) ranking management erodes management authority, and management will never stand for it.

Outside consultants are usually hired with a fixed agenda - the rotten eggs almost always get to stay.

Stack ranking is evil, period.
In India, I’ve been using eSIM for a few years now (on iPhone, not Android). It’s been working quite well. Transferring eSIM from one iPhone to another works fine. Activation of an eSIM takes a few hours, at the most. Due to regulations, there are restrictions placed on sending and receiving SMSes for the first two days.

The only hindrance I’ve seen is that to get an eSIM in the first place, an SMS has to be sent from the phone even though the eSIM activation QR code is sent over email (and the registration of an email address is also possible online). In some cases, like switching from one type of plan to another (postpaid to prepaid), this would require getting a physical SIM card (that’s the default for any connection), using it from a phone that has a physical SIM slot and then using that for the SMS.
you'll get over it
http://archive.is/tMKan
In Memory of Jake
I was deeply moved by Jake Seliger's last post on HN frontpage (https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/) so I thought Jake's wife's post here was worth sharing.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187470
I've done, literally, hundreds and hundreds of coding interviews and an http api was a part of lots of them. Exported vs non-exported fields and json tags are about the only issues I've seen candidates hit in Go and I would just help in those kinds of cases. Python is marginally easier for many.

The problem was java devs. Out of dozens upon dozens of java devs asked to hit a json api concurrently and combine results, nearly ZERO java devs, including former google employees, could do this. Json handling and error handling especially confounded them.
The question was what it gets you over Gitlab CE.
I agree with you, though if you live in a Linux+podman world, you can literally scp
whole containers, so at least we made some progress.
This looks quite nice. I use minimist a lot with nodejs - but that means installing the dependencies, so for a few scripts those are bash, but unlike the node scripts they never tend to be as repeatable.
Docker images can be reproducible.

They just aren't by default (because they include a timestamp) and you need to jump through multiple hoops to get them there, consistently. (And things like "apk add" or "apt install" can't be used unless you're installing pinned versions)
I think most bombs are hand grenades or similar, and don't have circuitry as far as I know. Just mechanicals and chemistry.
I had to combine Tuna-Fish comments and yours to understand what's going on.

> And the Omega/Olympics flag "banner" behind the runners is not a banner, it is a led screen, one pixel wide.

So the one pixel wide scan line camera outputs and image that has time as horizontal axis, and the one pixel screen that draws the omega banner is a 40kfps single line video that does marketing one the photo finish that likely serves as a clock sync check.
It's often a violation of both government laws and insurance contracts, if you knowingly expose that much financial information to a proven vulnerability.

There are businesses where if you suffer a theft, you shut everything down and run a stocktake. For example, an arms dealer. And there are times credit card providers shut down - because there is a known vulnerability, and they have to immediately mitigate, or lose their insurance.
We live in a capitalist society, and most people are forced to work to make ends meet. Being able to choose to put in what amounts to full time hours on a passion project isn't a privilege most people have.

You, presumably, wouldn't work for free, why do you insist that artists should entertain you for free?
It would be difficult to manage the ~90 different tuning forks such a keyboard would require. Far more sensible for each of the keys to be connected to some sort of tensioned wire, the tension of which could be adjusted to achieve the required tuning.
Virgin Galactic outlines economics of its future spaceplanes – SpaceNews
one of my biggest regrets is that in the early 2000s when i was contributing to a webserver project i suggested that we should not allow people to log in via http but instead enforce https for that. or rather, use https for login content and http for public content. the devs liked the idea and promptly implemented it with the result that while it now was no longer possible to log in via http the server also could not show public content over https.
80 years ago, IBM gave Harvard one of the earliest computers
thank you for sharing this! I'd seen formats similar to this but I'd never seen what the format itself is called. very helpful to see it clearly described - I think I'll try to give this a go with our teams
My preference is to do both. Have them generated by a dev, committed, and also generated in CI. The latter gets compared with the checked in contents to ensure the results match the expected value.

This speeds up CI (the generation path can be done in parallel) and most local development.

The one catch is that it relies on mostly trusting whoever has a commit bit. But if you don’t have that and any part of the build involves scripts that are part of the repo itself, then you’ve already lost.
I can't find many, if any, unit tests. Is that intended? If so, why?
Why VCs love obnoxious founders
Nix is very unobtrusive on non-nixos installs, but I put together a flake that builds a CNPG compatible image, it has postgres, barman, pgmq, pl/python, pl/lua, pl/pgsql, pl/v8, pg_squeeze, pg_jsonschema, pg_graphql, pg_analytics, pg_safeupdate, pg_cron, pg_similarity, pgaudit, pgrouting, postgis and timescaledb. Weighs in heavy on about 700mb container, but it literally has everything-ish. And as long as postgres and barman is in $PATH, shadow files are configured and some folders are created CNPG just goes with the flow.

I can't imagine building such a monstrosity with anything else. And since the plugins are dependant on postgresql but not eachother I can add and remove them at a whim. Nix will create layers for me automatically.

And when I upgrade postgres I know I all packages will be built against the new postgres because Nix.

I think Nix could use list/dict comprehensions and some more devcandy sure, but it's really really great.

And at the end of the day, if you just go look at the source it's all there available to you, you don't have to wonder how Debian or RedHat built their golden postgres, there's no golden anything in Nix because if their hashes don't match mine I won't be pulling from their cache.

I think Nix biggest issue is that it doesn't attract promo skiddies the same way an imperative dirtbag like Salt or Ansible would, and most people can't even comprehend the things that open up when you can trust your shit.

Wanna write the hackiest perl script ever that'll never keep working? That's what activates most people's new NixOS generation still (there is a rewrite undergoing).

But back to point, Nix on Ubuntu patches /etc/{bash,fish,zsh}rc, creates the /nix top folder and that's it. It doesn't eat your system.

Yes, it has warts and they're big. But it's the only way forwards
> What JVM do I use?

latest LTS (longterm-support) version, so currently 21, next 25 (late 2025).

> Does it matter?

new is always better

> what if I have to install/manage multiple versions?

https://sdkman.io/

> If I want to write a web service can I use vanilla Java stdlib or do I have to use Spring or some framework?

Spring

> If I use Spring, do I have to get into the weeds of dependency injection

yes, but it's not hard (or I've done it long enough)

> other complexity

that might just be inherent complexity when have to deal with a webservice. personally I dislike have to configure security

So basically go to Spring Initializr (https://start.spring.io/) pick the latest LTS Java&Maven (or Kotlin&Gradle-Kotlin) and You're off to the races.
I don't see how this is a tragedy. You're blowing something trivial out of proportion.

When you build alpine packages, you literally have to call abuild on your APKBUILD files. It's the same for Arch Linux. The files are called PKGBUILD. So even if you decide to package your applications (uh, using docker run? that changes nothing!) before docker build and then install them with the OS package manager, you will run into exactly the same thing.
If we had scalable criteria for quality of papers, that would be the end of science. The rest would be engineering...
Compare All e-readers: Kobo vs. Kindle vs. reMarkable and more
Among other information from Whaly: there are roughly 150k active HN members per year. The 10k list gets you by far the overwhelming lion's share of activity (it's already highly concentrated in the top-100 list).

I don't know that there's a comprehensive member list available overall, and the lack of some sequential userIDNumber identifier means that the space isn't readily searchable. I suspect Whaly's approach of snarfing all activity via the API is probably the most comprehensive. A new search tool might be able to do that (and tie in other metrics such as posts and karma) as well.

There's the additional issue that overall karma is not a particularly useful measure. It's possible to achieve a high karma simply through excessive activity (my own account is a case in point). There are domain experts such as Alan Kay (@alankay) who have decidedly pedestrian karma (4,566), but that over 1 story (1,400 votes) and 110 additional comments, or about 29 votes/comment. That's well above my own average, which is about 1-2 votes per comment (2,087 stories, 28,107 comments).

Karma/posts / karma/comments might be slightly more informative, but can also be skewed by submitting a highly-popular story. The larger problem is that truth, expertise, and credibility aren't popularity contests.

There's the author's expertise suggestion by tillulen which I really like, though suspect is still not especially viable: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41231865>

A further problem with expertise is that it is highly domain-specific. The fallacy / error of ascribing general expertise to one who's shown mastery in one specific area is a grave one. Particularly when that one specific area is earning money / winning a lottery.
Do you mean VCs work undermine employee-owned businesses in some way? Why would they bother if we're talking about businesses servicing tiny niches?
When enduring successive hurricanes the most worthwhile effort might be to improve antifragility on more of a continuous basis than even recovery itself.

You can definitely benefit by increasing your antifragility in the face of a second hurricane long before recovery from the first hurricane has been very well completed at all, no matter how focused the recovery effort.

I never thought people needed a new term to be coined for this, but it doesn't sound so bad when you think about it.

It's just one of the things you inherently know your whole life.
> aching for some higher level abstraction

CI/CD components (GA since 17.0) improve the situation a notch: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/components/
Are you forgetting that the USSR took control of about a dozen other countries during and after the war? That led to events like Katyn, which had nothing to do with communist dissidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
It is a subscription because I'm actively developing new features. Plausible is also actively brining new features, therefore I might need to bring some of them to the app. Also with subscriptions, I can have a stable income and focus on keep improving the app.

Additionally, I assume that people who use Plausible are businesses. Therefore, they already have a lot of subscriptions and probably they don't mind having another one. Otherwise, when I develop an app for end users, I make the app pay once and use it forever. For example: https://wunderbarapp.com
Looking at your examples I am struggling to find any connection between text and graphic in any of them. What on earth is the AI doing?
"Of course the drug ads are marketed to you, so you go and get a prescription from your doctor."

The main purpose of Big Pharma's saturation advertising spend on TV networks is the buying of influence with those networks - not marketing, secondary or otherwise.
I suspect the expectation is that we consider this an abhorrent violation of free speech or something and get worked up over it? But it seems to be a well-defined governance mechanism applied reasonably and as intended. The user has a pattern of disruptive behavior across many posts over a long stretch of time, many of them clear violations of CoC and received a 3-month suspension for it. It isn't a witch hunt, or an egregious punishment. I don't see the crisis frankly.
Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning
Newer European cars (e.g. BMW) only require it every 2 years or every 30.000km even.
Try walking up a rocky mountain pass and measure your horizontal speed.

3mph at Tor des Géants means running at every runnable segment.
> You, presumably, wouldn't work for free, why do you insist that artists should entertain you for free?

You didn't understand my post. I don't insist that artists entertain for free. I was responding to the parent who said "don't make videos for money". I am in fact a full-time content creator.
Well, agreed! I'd say that's good evidence the political bureaucracy of big-Science has substantially corrupted that (your?) culture.

It's not the only way though. There's a bright light coming from open source. Stay close to the people in AI saying "code, weights and methods or it didn't happen"

The code that runs most of the net ships with lengthy howto guides that are kept up to date, thorough automated testing in support of changes/experimentation, etc. Experienced programmers who run across a project without this downgrade their valuation accordingly

It doesn't solve all problems, but it does show there's a way that's being actively cultivated by a culture that is changing the world
True, but each speaker is positioned slightly differently, because it's immediately behind the blocks but each athlete sets the blocks slightly differently (to accomodate their legs). So in theory...

Tbh, it's all just bullshit to me. Less than 20 years ago, this would have been an ex-aequo, and glorifying someone who happened to dive 5-milliseconds-better is just sad. The obsession with "having a winner", for the benefit of sponsors and image contracts, has taken sports in some ridiculous places.
Well said!

As you point out; "making people think in more novel ways" (or making them think at all given the amount of parroting in the education system) is the usp of Taleb's books. People need to stop focusing on the attributes of the author (arrogant etc.) but instead need to learn to focus on the content of their writings.
Superconductivity discovered in niobium polyhydride at high pressures
That's ok, I say thanks for motivating Sweden and Finland to join NATO and add 1000 km to the border rofl. Putin isn't a great strategist.
Looks like it: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...
Good reason to build your own 60% keyboard and use a bizarre layout
The damage of the public image of the Python Community has now been done not by the developer being banned, but by the CoC drama around it.

If seemingly innocent things are now held against the banned developer, that is reason to worry.
NASA's Dart Mission Sheds New Light on Target Binary Asteroid System
Winter here isn't just a cloudy day.

I have PV. In 3-4 winter months I produce about 15% of the yearly output, but I consume 90+% of the heating energy.

Even 10x my PVs is not going to be enough, and for even that I don't have the roof space.

Even if I lay PV for the 95th worst percentile days, I still absolutely must have a grid connection because the kind of batteries to shift summer production to winter consumption simply don't exist.
Every single function has a test from what i can tell. Which are missing?
> The market does not have a concept of fairness, only competition.

The market exists through legal means, which also include mechanisms for fair competition.
> If you ventilate, you're bringing in hot air in the summer or cold air in the winter; it completely defeats the purpose of the insulation.

ERV.

Build tight, ventilate right. — Perera and Parkins; https://www.aivc.org/sites/default/files/airbase_5952.pdf , https://www.cibsejournal.com/technical/build-tight-ventilate...
For Github there's a sort of moat that it needs to work across IDEs, orgs, random people, etc. For Gitlab any org using it can harmonize on an IDE and the IDE can slowly introduce all of the CICD/collab with much better code quality and user experience than Gitlab since they rushed to copy Github rather poorly.
For founders chasing enterprise deals, a small piece of advice. In the Fortune 500s LLM chat UIs provided a canvas to which lawyers, privacy and procurement people painted all of their nightmares. So slapping AI on your product might help a little with investors but it might also slow down your first enterprise deal by a year.
I wouldn't assume anything without seeing direct quotes.
I hope it does. It should be a mark against a clothes dryer that it claims to use AI (unless it actually does, wherein I don't see a possible benefit, and wouldn't buy that anyways).
Avoid buying products that pointlessly market themselves as "AI"; vote with your wallet to punish companies for bad behaviour. If they're doing it for the investors, make tacking on garbage buzzwords like "AI" hurt their bottom line.
> its not too difficult to disagree that they justify a ban

I don't disagree. I have never been involved in their governance, don't know their rules, and therefore I don't have an opinion. It's their organization, they can do whatever they want.

The person you're responding to is right, this is the outrage industry again.
The article:

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5985667/python-bans-prominen...
Highways could host 52.3B solar panels, say researchers
"2 feet minus 6 inches" is also fine
> has total disdain for “social media users”

What's social media today anyway? I've been told the likes of whatsapp or discord are also social media. But they're just chat apps to me because you use them to chat with other people and they don't have automated systems that cram cat pictures down your throat.
Small community scandals are a part of small communities and good luck to whoever is involved. However, the dot point list in this article manages to add a few levels of entertainment.

> Using potentially offensive language or slurs, in one case even calling an SNL [Saturday Night Live] skit from the 1970s using the same slur 'genuinely funny', which shows a lack of empathy towards other community members.

This is wonderful on a couple of levels. Both because someone seems to be saying finding SNL funny can be a CoC offence and also because I can't figure out what the word is. Too offensive for adults I suppose.
Having and using a CoC isn't drama unless you're a grievance farming culture warrior. The list of behavior is far from "innocent" especially taken in aggregate. Now if it isn't a true representation of the user's behavior that's a different story entirely, and would certainly reflect poorly on the python community. Is that the allegation you're making?
Show HN: Hire-Me GH Issue Template – Flip the Job Search Script
After years of solo ventures, failed startups, contract gigs, and countless OSS contributions, I've decided to shake up my job search. Instead of the usual LinkedIn grin, CV spam & endless forms, I'm leveraging my GitHub cred to flip the script on hiring.

I've created a "Hire Me" GitHub issue template where companies can "apply" to employ me. It's like a reverse job application, and here's why it's cool:

1. Cuts through the noise: Most dev's GH profile speaks louder than resume.
2. Saves time: No more filling out repetitive forms or tailoring CVs.
3. Transparency: All offers are public by default

Here's how it looks in action: https://github.com/smashah/smashah/issues/new?assignees=smas...

Or just click the "Hire Now" button on my profile (wip): https://github.com/smashah?tab=overview&from=2022-12-01&to=2...

Feel free to use this idea for your own job hunt! If you do, let me know so we can track the "Reverse Job Search" revolution. I might add a default label "reverse-hiring-application" so all such posts can be easily searched. I also made an animated svg button (feel free to reuse).
Making people live or work around those depressing monstrosities is even sadder.