skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even HL7 which is used for healthcare communication is still very often communicated over file drops as well. Honestly it has some great advantages in terms of simplicity. Need to reprocess a file? Put it in the folder. Fail to process? Move it to a different folder for later viewing. The biggest issue is just having good SFTP server and client solutions that are scalable on multiple platforms.
His Amazon stint was mentioned in Steve Yegge's famous "Platforms" rant [1] where the reason for his departure was described less amicably:

> Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.

The true reason for his departure is just a subject for gossip, but even today I agree that the Amazon store UI is confusingly dense and complicated, surprisingly bad UX for a Big Tech consumer-facing company.

[1] https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
Incision? Ha! I got PRK in which they just ablate the entire eye, it feels like. Took a week to be able to see again.

How far we've come.
> I don’t think you mean that. By undefined, I was referring to C-style undefined behaviour stemming from reading uninitialised memory

You're right, I was referring to Javascript-style `undefined`, where it's basically a 2nd `null` value.

> The easiest way to represent this in Go is to use pointers to the type, which have the zero-value of nil.

This certainly works, but it has some serious drawbacks imo:

* Performance overhead

* The integer field is no longer copied along with the struct. The resulting aliasing shenanigans can easily trip up experienced developers, because "why would anyone store an `*int` in a struct instead of a plain `int`?"

* Other silly mistakes that no linters catch, such as comparing the pointers when you meant to compare the raw values.
A Psychiatrist's Livestreams with a Twitch Streamer Raises Ethical Questions
Way to totally miss the point. I wasn't talking about the rules we create; I was talking about the actual rules in the physical world. These exist independent of us. They function, they don't predict.

The notion that those actual rules have some sort of purpose reeks of a medieval mindset, where the world is the creation of God and has His Purpose, which it is the function of natural philosophers to figure out.
Here's to solid progress :)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/health/gamers-twitch-ment...
IPv6 actually disabled or meerly inactive because there's no router advertisements on the LAN?

I suspect more of the second than the first. If it's just inactive, a compromised host can often broadcast a router advertisement or perhaps use local net addresses to compromise other hosts. A well prepared network would block ipv6 traffic on their switches, it they don't want it, but that's a big investment in capable switches.
Everyone can use Proton VPN's Chrome and Firefox extensions for free
Bernstein has multiple arguments. Section 7 is about ways that the NIST curves could hypothetically be backdoored, and about designing curves in a "rigid" way such that they are less likely to be backdoored ... at least assuming that small parameters, or parameters near powers of 2, aren't more likely to be weak.

But yeah, he also argues that Montgomery / Edwards curves are easier to implement securely. IMHO he's right, but he exaggerates the difference. Montgomery and Edwards curves still have plenty of footguns, and some of these are not present in prime-order short Weierstrass curves like the NIST curves. In particular, the fact that Montgomery and Edwards curves must have a cofactor of at least 4 leads to problems: side-channel attacks like "May the 4th be with you", EdDSA signature validity not actually being defined, needing additional complexity (Ristretto/Decaf) to avoid protocol changes, etc.
Why downvote a valid, relevant anecdote? I'm using the browser extension on Chrome and have encountered being booted back to the login screen a few times. And I certainly want to avoid dependency on my own infra when it holds credentials that would enable me to fix said infra.
Had my first kid this year. Will definitely be having more. Does it require a less comfy and selfish lifestyle? Definitely. I'll get to my deathbed and regret not having a family of my own to enjoy time with. Pro tip: it's always been "the wrong time" to have kids. It never gets good enough to be easy.
No, quite a few grownups _in your neighborhood_ haven't gotten the message. The reasons why your neighbors may not be a representative sample of the 8-billion-ish humans on Earth are left as an exercise for the reader.
There's usually a #a model like that around April/May. I think they stagger the release as many(most) would probably just opt for the a model most of the time.
It doesn't matter when it came out, it doesn't matter that it it descriptive. It is the standard, period.

Yes, CSV is much, much older. In fact it predates personal computers. And it went through changes. Again: None of that matters. We have a standard, we should use the standard, and systems should demand the standard.

Standards are meant to ensure minimal-friction interoperability. If systems don't enforce standards, then there is no point in having a standard in the first place.
The number one reason I forget my watch (Garmin) is because it was on the charger the once in like 10+ days I needed to charge it.

That is a big deal to me personally, that's an extra routine I have to incorporate into my day that given the option I'd rather not.
… because?

Edit: yes, I read it and it is.
I never thought of this! I have an 'a' in my first name but just checked, 'rest of my first name + last name'.com is already taken. Oh well, I already have 'my initials'.dev, it'll have to do.
> I'm not shy about sharing that I am

I can't hide mine. People can smell it like a hound. I guess it comes with the territory when you are overtly hyperactive in your 30s. I'm not proud of it either, but I wish I could go through life a bit more discretely.

> People need to build connections with their physical neighbors more than they need a community of fellow autistic or adhd people online

Absolutely. ADHD is too diverse and too common to be a focal point of a community. Other ADHD folks are great for creating a pity-party echo-chamber, but I tend to be more pragmatic and am more interested in solutions, which said communities tend to lack in my experience e.g., all the various subreddits.
Paxton is a crook, but in this case he's fighting the good fight. Texas collected a $1.4B settlement from Meta for its facial-recognition scanning, and in this case the monetary damages to the victims are far worse in terms of higher insurance premiums.

https://boingboing.net/2024/07/31/meta-to-pay-1-4bn-for-unau...

He should then go after the insurance companies who used this data next, and force them to disgorge the excess profits they made from the illegal use of data, preferably with triple penalties.
> website under a .is domain (which is for Iceland, apparently).

I don’t super like repurposing country names like that. Including .io.

It feels this disregards the actual meaning of the extension while ignoring some very legal consequences to be under Indian legal system instead of EU or US.
Almost everything is based on infinite growth and an increasing amount of consumers/taxpayers. Breaking the ponzi scheme now is as good as breaking it in 50 years
It's entirely true because it's easy to prove that any normal decently paid occupation with thrifty savings will result in rich, at least by a normal standard.

If by "rich" you mean "Elon Musk or Gates" then you may have a point.
The short answer: it's really complicated. In a broad stroke, a treaty agreement is roughly akin to Congress passing a law, but the roles of the treaty itself versus enabling laws depends on several factors such as "is the treaty actually a treaty?"

As it pertains to your question, the Constitution (and its amendments) are the supreme law of the land, and a treaty stipulation that requires the government to do something unconstitutional would have no legal effect.
That is in effect taking a side.
Had basically the same experience at a large public college. I had classes which would print out a list of SSN and test scores for everyone in the room to look at.

Before the Internet SSN was "presumed secret" but it became a tragedy of the commons. By 2000 it was the equivalent of your public key and should have been treated as such by institutions, never used as password like that bookstore did.

Student ID card would have been the right way to verify identity at a college; I'd forgotten the SID defaulted to SSN, which was also really lazy decision!
So not having kids is selfish? Ha. Ok.
You have me backwards cos I had it forwards. I was unclear perhaps.

I meant (a) "someone" (suits?) said let's install telemetry, (b) the Go team said well hey come on let's make it opt-in rather than defaulting to "on", (c) suits said no we just sneak in the default "on" (cos google ebil).
With javascript enabled, it's just looks like a paginated slide show and each page is a spinning loading circle. You're not missing much.
Tell HN: YC Company (Grey W22) Spamming WhatsApp Groups
Just got this message on my DM from a whatsapp group of digital nomads in Rio de Janeiro that I manage:

"Hi there, how are you doing?
I got your number from one of the digital nomad groups we're in.
I'm Angel, I work at Grey, a Fintech that enables cross-border payments. We recently expanded into Latin America and South-East Asia. I'm trying to do research on how we can improve our messaging and service. I'd really appreciate it if you could fill out this survey as honestly as you can. https://forms.gle/Re1tvW9PtR36M1Cu6.
I don't mean to be a bother and I'm really sorry if I'm intruding. Thank you very much for your help."

And I have no way to express how annoying is it to have a "hustler" spamming communities I manage. By my surprise when googling about it to complain I saw that they were in the W22 batch of YC. I guess showing my dissatisfaction for this lame practice here is the best thing I can do. So here it goes: people at Grey W22, getting numbers and sending private messages to people in communities you were not invited to join is a lame (if not criminal) practice.
I am 40 and have three children that are teenagers. They are the most important part of my life, have been transformative in my life and would do it over in a second. I did zero family planning because I was in a position where having a child was just assumed as part of life and I could afford it (most can). I wasn’t pressured or forced by my community to, but I didn’t actively try to prevent it once I was married.

What I describe above was basically the way people lived with respect to “family planning” since all biological history unto the last few hundred years - namely they didn’t do any

The world has changed in the last 100 years - likely for the better - in that we’re now intentional and forceful about consentful sex, accessible birth control, accessible abortion etc…such that fertility isn’t just taken for granted and is fully in the hands (ideally) of the birth mother.

The result is that most of my peers on the other hand either have one or zero kids. Why? Cause they actively tried not to have kids. Now the ones who want them are struggling with IVF or HRT etc… and having even one is a blessing.

It’s a new world and all the old assumptions about human life don’t hold because we’ve been so successful in building systems and controls for what we’re previously magical, mystical processes.
Can someone explain how this works? I feel like a five year old trying to read Lord of the Rings written in Elvish.
> I can't guarantee it will gain or maintain value in the future, but i'd rather have a constant than an unknown loss

isn't this contradictory? these values fluctuate and someone could come along with a sorcerer's stone and render all gold valueless
> How do I know whether a particular API usage qualifies as well separated or not?

The two paragraphs above what you quoted are:

"However, in many cases you can distribute the GPL-covered software alongside your proprietary system. To do this validly, you must make sure that the free and nonfree programs communicate at arms length, that they are not combined in a way that would make them effectively a single program."

"The difference between this and 'incorporating' the GPL-covered software is partly a matter of substance and partly form. The substantive part is this: if the two programs are combined so that they become effectively two parts of one program, then you can't treat them as two separate programs. So the GPL has to cover the whole thing."

Two programs communicating over a socket aren't incorporated. They're two programs.
saw your tweet on X, nice work and congrats on launching!

i'm curious about the caching mechanisms you've implemented to reduce repeated evaluations - are you using a traditional cache store like redis or something more bespoke?
Yes, but stress aside, the syllables still divide as "un-law-ful-ly". (At least I believe so and Claude also agrees; that's a quorum).
Waymo fixed the honking issue and did a test run at 4:04AM
(I'm on the supabase team)

I'd also like to offer some corrections to the linked post:

- Supabase is SOC2 type 2 and HIPAA compliant (https://supabase.com/security)

- Supabase works with all the same Postgres tooling that neon does (dbeaver, PgHero, PgAdmin, etc.)

- Supabase also offers integrations with Auth0, Clerk, and Okta etc.

- Supabase does offer verify-full SSL mode

- Supabase encrypts data in transit and at rest

- Supabase does offer pg_stat_statements and additionally the newer pg_stat_monitor

And I just want to call out that this author works for neon (self-proclaimed: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1dy2r8b/commen...)
A family relation I know exhibita both BPD and NPD. If your description is correct, that theyre opposite extremes on the same scale, I can only imagine the internal mental and emotional chaos.
In my tech crowd, I often have the most kids (four). Sometimes I meet others with 4 but it's pretty rare.
I have a non-tech group of friends. With four, I'm probably more average.
Sorry, this was a mobile autocorrect issue I didn’t notice while submitting. I took the title from the press release but had to rearrange some things to fit and apparently iOS thought it should capitalize. The title came from the AG’s office[0], but I wanted to link directly to the filing.

0 - https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-...
Disney really should be broken up if they want to have agreements like this. There is no one who thinks its okay to waive your rights to sue because you took advantage of a free trial 5 years ago for a service that has nothing to do with what killed your wife.
Meta comment: he could make an Action that generates the images.
I am begging you people to understand how the context of words informs whether they're intended to be taken literally or figuratively.
There are two and only two ways to increase population. The first is via birthrate, (either more people having kids, or having mroe kids per couple) The second is immigration. Immigration can increase the population of available workers now, birthrate obviously has a delay. I expect both political parties in the US will find a rationale to become much more permissive about immigration. the alternative is not good.
Network effect is hard. I can make a single player game and get one sale, or a multiplayer game and guarantee two, in addition to getting free word-of-mouth advertising (friends convincing friends to buy the game so they can play).
To be fair, people also had to be taught how to point with a mouse.

The double-click also wasn't essential, you could perform all actions using the one-click menus. The double-click was introduced as a shortcut. From the Apple Lisa Owner's Guide:

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Shortcuts

The File/Print menu contains all of the commands you need for creating, opening, closing, and storing your documents. Because you use these commands so frequently, the Office System includes a simple shortcut for performing these tasks: clicking the mouse button twice.

To tear off a sheet of stationery, click twice rapidly on the stationery
pad icon.

To open an icon into a window, click twice rapidly on the icon.

To close an open window, click twice rapidly on the window's title bar icon.

Clicking twice to close a window can either set aside the object or save and put away the object, depending on where the object's shadows are. If there is a shadow on the desktop, clicking twice causes the object to be set aside. If the only shadow is in a folder or on a disk, clicking twice summons a dialog box, which asks you whether you want the object set aside or put away.

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FWIW, I think versions of java from the last 5ish years feel both "newer" and "more refined" than go.

But I do think go and java are very comparable languages. To me, go's advantage over java is more about use-case; go is the clear choice for little cli tools, because it's pretty far off the beaten path to coax java to start up quickly enough for this. This is the sweet spot for go, IMO.
About a month ago, somebody posted a link to an interview with Brian Kernighan. About 6 minutes in, he talks about the difficulty of writing a decent CSV parser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQ7k5sn2-o
I've been EFF adjacent since the nineties, and I think people have always claimed this, often when they have read a call-to-action that uses stronger language than they are comfortable with. I think the causality is that a strongly-worded action gets wider propagation than the more moderate analysis. EFF positions on most matters has been pretty consistent IMHO.
E.ggTimer is a simple countdown timer in the browser
I agree completely, but it's easier to build a bridge than it is to redirect a river.
My surgeon was willing to do contact lens implants, but was very adamant that lasik was a more appropriate course of action. Despite being more than willing to pay the price premium. So I went with lasik, as recommended.

Unfortunately, that left me with all of the negative side effects (halos at night, dry eyes) I was hoping to avoid by choosing an implanted lens. While I don't regret getting lasik, hearing someone who had a successful ICL surgery makes me wish I had taken that route instead.
The mother of all demos had a chorded keyboard, a mouse,a regular keyboard, and video conferencing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
I've been wondering the same and finding not much. It's hard to find implementations which have technical detail describing the novel problem FHE fixes.

https://www.jeremykun.com/fhe-in-production/ seems worth glancing at, good detail but very few strong examples.
What vector database do you use under the hood?
"We still have quite a bit of time … we don’t need to rush and we don’t need to like, you know, stop farmers from farming or, you know, prevent people from having steaks or basic stuff like that. Like, leave the farmers alone." - Elon Musk.

Not sure what Musk hopes to achieve from this obvious trolling. From a business perspective, that's the problem with having your company be a cult of personality: if that personality stops resonating with your prospective customers, then you're likely to have problems. This is the incredible accomplishment Tim Cook has achieved at Apple - Tim has transitioned Apple from being a cult of personality company centered around Steve Jobs to a company that's centered around a strong brand. Companies focusing on their branding tend to do better in the long run than companies relying on a cult of personality. Tesla may end up learning this lesson the hard way.
Logtalk Introduction [pdf]
I think this is a fair take. The parent comment shouldn't have added subscriber count as one the qualifications. But for MKBHD's qualification, simply use point number 2.
> If someone steals your car and uses it to run over a pedestrian, both you and the pedestrian are victims. They're far more damaged. And you aren't at any fault, even if you e.g. didn't lock it or even left it with the keys in. It's still going to create a mess for you.

The degree of which the individual is victimized is a direct result of the bank's efforts to push all fault and responsibility to the person who had their information used for the fraud. I would argue that the bank is victimized by the fraudster and the bank chooses to transfer the fallout of the victimization to the individual.

Of course, the difference in your example and the identity use is that one is tangible and the other is not. If someone steals your car, you've lost your car. If someone 'steals' your identity, you haven't lost it.

> Obviously, if a bank has a loan in your name it's going to need to talk to you to straighten things out. And the way it would prefer things be straightened out is also, obviously, that the loan be paid versus poofed. (And on the other side, there are also going to be people who borrowed money who claim they never did.)

True, but it shouldn't be my responsibility to prove I didn't take a loan, but instead the bank's responsibility to prove that I did once I make the claim. If they don't like the work involved, then they should perform better due diligence before giving out money, or accept this risk as a cost of doing business.
> Lately I've been kind of deep diving into biological neurons (just a lay perspective) and what we know about their mechanism of action at the individual cell level

I've been doing the same for a long time, it's a really fun and interesting topic. I really like reading about each new discovery about something that is computationally important, people don't realize how complex a neuron is and that the scientists don't have the full picture yet.

If you haven't looked into it, check out how astrocytes are involved in computation (e.g. visual processing), their internal calcium wave signaling and their control of neurons.
Kids are absolutely amazing. The more time parents invest in them, the more amazing they are. It's a lot of work and not everyone is cut out for it.
The primary factor of people not starting families is the disappearance of blue collar working class jobs.
Wouldn't that also include JSON for the other 47% of the time?
But business process cost is often not part of a software engineers job, or at least, many do not see it as one. I have often seen software engineers spend days or weeks building something that can be purchased off the shelf for less than a couple hundred dollars.
I assume the last product manager who vetoed this change for decades finally retired.