skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny, I was good at basketball as a kid. I played 'representative' and went to country championships.

Doing that made it clear to you that you might be good in your city but there were still kids who were way, way better than you were likely to be.

In contrast, smart kids often don't hit a 'bigger pool' until they get to university.

In some ways many places are better at handling kids who are good at a sport than they are kids who are good at school.
That's why protocols like this have what Wormhole calls a "mailbox server", which allows two ends separated by firewalls to do secure key exchange and agree upon a method for punching through directly. See also STUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN
Stupid argument since those countries use Telegram for money laundering
I wonder if this could change if our governments' policy was to hunt would-be hackers to the ends of the earth.

(Note: I genuinely have no idea if that would be done outside of an authoritarian / autocratic regime. So I'm not remotely advocating it at this point.)
Like reddit is representative of what EU citizens think.

Also hopefully LinkedIn will get banned indeed, or have you already forgotten how Microsoft has been (at least theoretically) illegal for nearly a decade already in the EU, because they were (and most likely still are) complicit with the US government in violating human rights, and that is even before considering the monopoly issues ?
Is there a tool with similar presentation, but for database records and not schema? So I could "select * from product where id=5" and it would show me Product card for "hammer" and related card for Brand "ACME", and other related records which might be many/one to one/many relationship etc. In other words - data exploration tool with diagramming like in here?

I just asked chatGPT for this, but human perspective would be great :)
Whether it's in the public or in the private sector, the real problem is a lack of competent leadership. At some point we started respecting the person with the most profitable hustle more than the person showing actual competence and integrity.
It is his fault when his site is full of CSAM and he refuses to take it down
I came from the same direction. I ended up using ChatGPT to teach me how to convert my C# expectations into UE5 compatible C++.

Between that, and the blueprints, it's not the most painful thing to do as a hobby. Not sure this approach is scalable of course, and I wouldn't recommend taking this approach for making Real Games. But for a little gamedev dabbling? Sure.
Outside of working hours I’m developing a podcast hosting platform called Soapbox[0]. I had started my own podcast with my college friends and rolled my own RSS feed and site with AstroJS[1]. Then realized I could offer the service to others. Thanks to modern web APIs I’m going to pursue an in-browser recording studio with WebRTC and then in-browser basic audio editing. I’m very excited because it’s my first side project I’m trying to turn into a business (I opened an LLC and everything). I’m gratified because it’s very different work than my day job in fintech. I’m also offering internships to my college’s CS students and mentoring through that as well which is very fulfilling (I’m a recent grad).

[0] https://soapbox.host/
[1] https://wednesdayatninepm.com/
Why would a criminal mastermind pay $1000 for an anonymous Telegram account when they could buy a burner phone with a prepaid SIM included for like $20 to register and throw it out? In my experience the people who buy those are more Durov superfan than Keyser Söze. And evidence of criminality on Telegram predates the Fragment numbers by a while - for instance in like 2014-2015 pretty much the only time Telegram was in the news was in connection to ISIS. They could also just use Signal which is provably private.
You call out So I Married An Axe Murderer for good quotes, in a list that also has The Princess Bride? The Princess Bride is like a bottomless well of good quotes!
care to share anything here? I think many would be interested. Maybe just a link to something?
In almost all mergers the management of the worse comapny ends up winning, provided there was no loopsided difference in size. The thing is, since those executive were not good at creating product, they are more likely to be good at politics and hence they end up overtaking management of the new combined company, even if their company was the smaller one.
In my experience the Padawan's answer is actually "just use my personal local timezone and don't think about the needs of users elsewhere".

Maybe I'm thinking of a group with less experience than you had in mind, but novices do not even know about UTC.
In undergrad I did physics so I used to tenuously be aware of this debate but I can't comment on the substance because I didn't go on to do my PhD in physics. But they're not colleagues in any meaningful sense. I don't ascribe any value to tenure or professorship but Woit is a "senior lecturer", which is basically an adjunct that's been around a long time, not a professor. For a long time his blog said he was the IT person for the department if I recall correctly. So Woit and his blog and lesswrong has absolutely always been more about click bait than substance to me. Greene isn't a paragon of scholarship either though - again, superficially, for many years now he's been a popsci celebrity rather than a real, actual, string theorist (much like Michio Kaku).
Wow, fig looks so cool. Shame it's shutting down. I don't see a clear explanation for how Amazon Q replaces it.
They are trying to fight child abuse but they are not releasing Epstein client list. Go figure.

He'll make a deal.
Though the consolidation is something of a mixed bag. My community hospital network had some pretty good docs but lab work, appointments, and so forth was pretty much faxes and phone calls which sometimes worked. Now they're on Mass General Brigham's electronic records system and it's a lot better.
You're assuming here that mmap is only used for writing, where TFA is actually describing a read-only scenario, in which case EIO is synchronous as the read can't be completed.

As for the triviality of writing a SIGBUS handler correctly, that is an oversimplification at best. I/O errors aren't always fatal, even in the write case, and handling SIGBUS in the way you describe wouldn't work when e.g. you're also out of file descriptors, or when the cause of SIGBUS isn't due to an I/O error. So what works for 95% of your usecases doesn't necessarily apply to the 95% of other people's usecases.
This page needs to get reshared 8 billion times by 8 billion humans.
Duckdb also supports prql with an extension https://github.com/ywelsch/duckdb-prql
This is pretty common and being primarily made up of parents family stuff often comes up last minute but from what I've seen the people that make it to one and break through that mental barrier seem to be more and more excited each month.

While it is a social group if you're not feeling super social one month you can join in remotely or just show up head down and get some group gaming in. There is no pressure.
No worries - I drove Doom for ~6 months and got fed up with the lag, and with Lisp. I have a wrapper for Yabai that places new windows into a predetermined number of containers and allows me to move them quickly. It works ok.

I think Hyperland or i3/Sway could also be scripted to behave this way.
How This Billionaire Family Built a Restaurant Supply Giant in Amish Country
Aggressively incompetent MBA micromanagement.
It's been done before: Kusto Query Language
Great article. Although I’ve been a Linux user since the time when stack of Slackware floppies was the prevailing installation media, I just recently learned that libc.so is also an executable.
The problem with repeating "don't roll your own" is that you're also going to cock up implementing someone else's solution.
Did anyone explain to Boeing management that two astronauts dying a fiery death would be a far bigger hit to the company's stock and reputation than just writing this capsule off?
The bypass via Rufus is working as of 3 weeks ago; Did two installs with local-only accounts from the get go.
We also have X-37 the military space plane, although that’s for the military.

X-33 was a thing, Venturestar by Lockheed. It seemed tantalising in close, a few mishaps and it was cancelled, but surely that would have been worth picking and taking that bit further.
i'm working on rainfrog, a database management terminal ui for postgres.

the goal is to be a lightweight alternative to pgadmin/dbeaver. it has vim-like keybindings, shortcuts to preview tables, and session history.

it only supports postgres at the moment, but sqlite and mysql support are on the roadmap.

https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog
When prompted LLMs Shakespeare said:

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

“The poorest service is repaid with thanks.”

The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare

Pretty funny!
I find it highly amusing that people on here actually think secure messaging platforms are "locally backdoored".

Despite what the article says, Telegram is not even a nominally end-to-end encrypted platform. You need to jump through hoops to get end-to-end encryption on the platform.
> I’m explicitly talking about cases where you UTF-8-encode right where you’re hashing.

Totally, I get that. I think what you're pointing out is that in a language like Python for example, the scenario I'm trying to describe is meaningless. You can't make an "invalid string" in Python (as far as I know, without resorting to FFI), because it checks things like that during string decoding, and it'll just crash.

But languages like C/C++/Rust/Go work differently. As these languages are commonly used, the string -> UTF-8 step is actually a no-op, because the assumption is that strings are already UTF-8 in memory. (In C or C++ this is usually in the programmer's head rather than in the types, but it's a common choice.) In these languages it's possible for the result of that no-op "encoding" to be invalid, if the input string was invalid somehow. This is a pretty weird edge case and almost certainly a bug that the application needs to fix fix anyway, but if we're noodling about cryptography best practices, it might be nice to limit the "blast radius" of a bug like that.
A Man Who Came to Class by Plane
Well I am not a fan of RapidAPI for a couple reasons, firstly them taking such a big cut of an API provider's business and secondly their marketplace feels kinda spammy and low quality.

I am trying to build so that there is little vendor lock-in (you can export your users to other auth providers, billing is integrated directly into your stripe account, etc) so that you still have the choice to migrate if you ever feel unhappy with the service
I doubt it. Physicians (and nurse practitioners, etc. at urgent care clinics) could arguably do more remotely but I'm not convinced that reducing the involvement of trained humans would be a positive move.
That’s basically the entire cybersecurity industry. Companies buy these tools as a kind of blast door for when things go wrong, to point a finger at. “We followed all the checklists and our security software didn’t catch it, it’s not our fault.”

If companies cared about security they would hire red teams instead of paying for useless scanners with a <1% signal to noise ratio.
Pre-Web Hypermedia
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

Defenders think in lists. Attackers think in graphs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442565 - April 2015 (7 comments)
I've never seen this either. IIRC word would put a lock file in the directory to prevent more than one instance editing at a time.
A NES emulator in Typescript targeting the browser. I've been using the Messenger emulator with cycle-accurate emulation to hone it. This stems from my interest in low-level machine code and understanding how computers work. I want to eventually write my own virtual machine and create a functional programming language on top of it.
I disagree. KQL is much nicer. It reads better having the source first and this also offers autocompletion in the editor.
Are there actually people doing work at Boeing? As far as I can tell they outsource every last thing, retaining only a management hierarchy internally. Elements which were once Boeing are now spun off subcontractors, and machining, assembly, component design, integration - all of these are third party activities.

What do Boeing actually do?
For the past few weeks I have been working on Enhance [0], a SaaS to help game developers easily add leaderboards, friendlists, store players' data, in-app currency store and purchases, and marketing tools such as email list and website builder and hosting.

I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself. But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already existing 3D context.

[0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for development)
Hackers are global, though, and no matter what country you’re in, almost certainly the vast majority of hackers attempting to attack you are doing so from outside your country. Enforcing laws on a global scale is extremely difficult and almost impossible to do effectively.
Amongst the linguistic hand waving is information theory. But who am I to judge someone else's word-a-day calendar?
> Is there an alternative, though?

Yes

I said "read the god damn papers" but this is a condensed version of saying be more nuanced and familiar with the person's work. Metrics are signals, not answers. They are always fuzzy and we need to recognize that and bring this into the core of how we evaluate. You'll never be perfect and while we know to not let perfection stand in the way of good enough neither should you let lack of global optima stand in the way of progress. There's always room to improve.

At the heart of academia we push human knowledge forward, even if just by little nudges at a time. But this means the environment changes as we succeed. What worked in the past may not work moving forward. And as we all should be intimately familiar with, given enough time Goodhart's Law always wins.

But there's so many problems with becoming over reliant upon metrics. It's not a static measurement, it is a degrading one. This is because we get lost seeking success for ourselves because doing so makes it easier to do the work we want to (and ideally more impact on humanity). Because of this the best way to advance your career is not to continue researching but to grow the size of your lab and get grad students and post docs to research. You need to become a PI, who's job is political and about funding. This person does need a strong PhD background but it's also silly that it's extremely hard to find a path where your primary job after getting a PhD is... Research...

But pushing the edge of what we know is fucking hard. It should be no surprise that it is hard to evaluate the performance of people trying to do this. So forgive me if I think in addition to using metrics like citations, venue pubs, h-indexes, you can take the time to read you colleagues papers. I'm really not asking for much here.

One of the things I also find rotten in academia is this isolation. It's weird that we don't know, intimately, the work of those in our department. We should be reading their papers in the first place! I'm glad academia encouraged collaboration with groups outside your institution, but it shouldn't come at the cost of collaboration in house. Both are valuable.

There's just so much more and I think it's why many are willing to tear down the system and start over. I'd rather not, but things are too broken for patchwork. We don't need to tear it down, but we do need to do some serious renovation.

I encourage everyone to think deeply about the problem, even if you don't think there is one (especially if you don't!). Address the underlying assumptions that no one says. Consider when they hold and when they don't. Then ask if this works. If you believe so, great! I'd love to hear that opinion. But I find it absurd we can't spend a little time questioning the vehicle we are all riding in. It should be questioned frequently and regularly. Because maintenance is far easier than fixing something when it's broken.
But this is for private repo? Because most repos I interact with on GitHub are public and already read only
I think that proposal is totally fair, and don’t worry I wasn’t trying to challenge you or something. Just wanted to offer another perspective!
context is not ad hominem. Ben Franklin was a hypocrite.
1. I'm writing a book on Git. I did my research and was shocked to discover many otherwise tech savvy individuals still cannot manipulate Git from the command line, and resort to the use of desktop applications (yikes!)

2. An edtech app to learn coding efficiently. AI will certainly enable 100x developers, but we must first train 1x devs.

Features: structured learning, a curriculum designed by humans, AI assistance for when stdents get stuck, code samples and project based learning, covers different languages (we start with Ruby, Rust and JS, with more to be added), and technologies (CL, Nushell, SQL - again more to be added), numerous exercises. Think of it as an improved version of w3schools and the like.

One reason I am disclosing this online is to hold myself accountable.The other is in hope of finding an angel investor.
I am working on a zero trust proposal for location permission on mobile platforms: https://github.com/itissid/privyloci

It's a demo of an idea. It could be an app too, but I'd much rather it be a CoreOS service that is user controlled.

Looking for organizational and privacy first support soon.
CEOs can be liable for intentional or grossly negligent non-compliance, among other things.
The funniest thing is Russia’s evil government allowed Durov to leave motherland with money, but democratic France threw him in a jail. Why does he need France citizenship in the first place? He could use his Saint Kitts and Nevis passport to travel the world.
Or don't try to regulate 'class 1' into something people don't want to buy.

And FYI those trucks are bigger because you need more volume and moment-arm when building them out of lighter aluminum instead of heavier steel- a direct consequence of CAFE standards.
Really cool, I think this would be useful for a lot of people’s workflows, wish you the best/success.
Given how much future is left (a whole lot), I don't really understand why some people seem so confident that humanity is just going to stay on Earth forever. Are you assuming industrial civilization will collapse? It's certainly possible, but I don't think it's a given.
And yet once that leader is gone, the rot sets in. See Apple. Twice.
After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing

We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.

Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service
I think that they’re looking for intelligent, insightful analysis. As opposed to the myriad parroted HN comments on the subject, written by developers that pretend that their expertise is somehow transferable.
Schema Spy generates graphviz files. You could render those in the browser.
This is great; how does this compare to Day One? I've been using Day One for multiple years (1000 day streak) and was wondering if I should stick with this. It does what I want but it seems like it's lacking in product development post acquisition compared to other offerings.
Thanks for the suggestion. May I ask the intent behind this feature? Is it to preserve privacy or just convenience with your workflow?
It literally has government funding.
I was wondering. I have a DJI and it is stupid simple to fly. I’ve yet to crash mine but I don’t fly it a ton. I’m certainly not trying to fly it through complex paths like an open doorway and into a house or something.
Is there a specific reason that Firefox is considered low-risk for a rug pull? In my view, Mozilla doesn't seem the same as it once was but maybe there are specific reasons the open-sourceness isn't in jeopardy.
If you regulate 'normal' cars into things people don't want to buy, don't be surprised if they want suvs or trucks instead.
It's easy to No True Scotsman SpaceX's achievements by simply defining them away.
'The Matrix' influenced culture from film to fashion (2021)
He said video not ad
I’m working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share comments and highlights and see each other’s reading progress.

It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.

I’m using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I’ve used before so it’s been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type errors.
> In some ways many places are better at handling kids who are good at a sport than they are kids who are good at school.

An abrupt cynical thought: Could it be related to how sports are closer to being a revenue-source?
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlbunSGDmU

Screenshot (title has changed from what I wrote earlier or this is another ad): https://imgur.com/a/TX0xB9y

Country is the one in Europe.

Maybe this is not a scam and therefore is allowed? Maybe it is a joke video? I didn't watch the video, but the title and thumbnails looks like a "scam".
Experimenting applying Meta's V-JEPA [0] architecture for representation learning to chess. One of the challenges is that validating if the model is learning useful dynamics of the game, so I'm using it as an excuse to learn some reinforcement learning by using the representations generated by the JEPA model to approximate useful Q-values [1]. This method currently has no search so I'm planning on comparing with this paper [2] which achieves GM level chess without any search. Honestly, Im unsure if the full pipeline is stable enough to even converge, but it's fun experimenting. I'm bad at chess so I really want to make a bot that challenges the best bots on lichess.

[0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494
If memory serves, RAM was my reason why I couldn't. Not so easy to upgrade as it is today. I tried it once or twice, using some HDD utility at the time that partitioned off some space for RAM like a modern day swap file.. and it did not go well.
Boeing was known as a great engineering firm that was not that great at turning their engineering excellence into shareholder returns. The shareholders wanted executives more focused on said returns.
I'm working on a TUI application which allows you to make SQL query on CSV files.
I'm working on a web base version too.