skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, that's why I think it's less about being free and more about not being for-profit and given lots of funding by major industry backers for that purpose to help keep revenue incentives less interesting. It's fine to pay a good price for proper identity validation, abuse mediation, avoiding low dollar scams, and the like. The cost to be avoiding is just ramping up the price year by year to increase margin.
Hiring from the network sounds like a fast way to get qualified employees, but it backfired when we ended up with groups of employees who were too tight (some even shared apartments)

The work place was transformed into a reality show where you had groups of people trying to maneuver "up" in the system, by convincing the management that their way was better. No matter the discussion, they would back each other and support their own guys. As a group they would always win a discussion.

The company stagnated, but they were able to get new jobs and left before the long term impact was (finally) realized by the management
Yeah. It's not the world I would've chosen, but it's the world we've got, lol.
Didn’t sell to a potential acquirer because it was an all stock deal. Acquirer itself got acquired a year later for a lot of money.
It lives in the late 80s, if you're lucky, and earlier than that if you're not.
> You have lost

You are not THE judge of that, nor in fact are you ANY judge.

And I did not compare you to Hitler; I simply said that some facts do not merit the whiny question, "oh, do you have a link for that?" The debate about social media has already happened, and you're the one who lost.

If you want some links, as it appears you do, just go to scholar.google.com and search "social media harms." It says "About 1,390,000 results." (that doesn't mean you would get that many if you kept scrolling, of course)

Edit: we're done here. Have the last word if that's important to you.
Sure, but you don't do that by slinging an insult. You (as you said) calmly and legitimately point it out.

Just saying, for common example, "That was blazingly stupid," isn't calmly and legitimately pointing it out. Calmly and legitimately pointing it out would be to connect the cause with the effect and highlight that the person didn't want the effect, like, "That's what happens when you touch a hot stove." The obviousness of the connection causes the person to see their own error rather sharply.
Did anyone get the short list in a clear format? That article was the most handwavy, avoid the point, whitepaper I've read in a long time.
> it was supposed to be a folksy, communal, whole-earth inspired bookstore that would interact synergistically with actual book stores and the rest of the world.

Like Discogs, but for books?

EDIT: looks like Amazon bought that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33933791
https://archive.is/gKAeJ
Attackers are smarter than you give them credit for
I've wanted a split view in Firefox forever. Thank you!
>Because the result came from adding more and more constraints, which translate to extra dimensions, the counterexample turned out to operate in an extremely high-dimensional space—something like 10^100,000 dimensions
Worked with a bunch of ex Google employees who expected to write code and money pour in. This did not happen. A sales guy we hired warned us that at big companies you usually start developing sales materials and approaches years before launch.
Kinda, though Transmeta was built to translate everything. I must admit though I had forgotten some details, and you're right in that my idea is not unlike bolting the Code Morphing stuff to a regular x86 core.
I used a nosql database (Cosmosdb) when I should have used a relational database. The Azure cost plus the lost time in transitioning to SQL plus the cost involved in the implementation ran into embarrasingly debilitating six figures.
I find neomutt much easier* than a GUI, especially since I can write my emails using vim. But also, since I get a lot of notifications via email, I can do things like bulk-delete by just typing D + [pattern]

*Once configured, which is definitely not easy.
“Yak” shaving of a sort!
Thanks, keyword helped. Yeah I was thinking about macro uop fusion but taken to another level.
Office Of Naval Research did a human trial
https://youtu.be/TIGCdA2YLyY?si=z_7RK06wLO7T926D&t=409
Two windows side by side means two separate tab bars, and if they are vertical, very little horizontal space.
High levels of fluoride in water is linked to low IQ in children
Another analogy would be a tomato grown in contaminated soil may taste the same, you just pay for it in cancer 20 years later.
>the idea of all wagon individually powered is ancient, very ancient, like monorails. Both ideas never get spread simply because they are too expensive instead of cheap, in practice.

>Meanwhile a larger electric locomotive it's still fast (for instance France TGV, Japan Shinkansen etc)

What are you talking about? The shinkansen doesn't have any locomotives: all the cars are powered.

>all other countries tend to scale back (while formally state the contrary).

Japan is constantly scaling up their train service. The shinkansen is usually at full capacity, or more, which is why they're busy building the new maglev line from Tokyo to Nagoya (and later Osaka). The shinkansen system is quite profitable.
A/B Testing Rigorously (without losing your job)
Is it fully self-hostable? A lot of the time you have to hunt down small clauses in tools like these that state that some essential part of it can't be self-hosted.
It was a good year after that incident. We focused on stability and driving down issues. We turned around a lot of development idea too. However, the wheel turns and we were back on feature development. I’ll always remember that year as having the fewest escalations during my entire time there.
It both doesn't work, and if it did it would be net negative. Masks protect others from your spit, they don't protect you. If you are not ill and generating airborne spit the mask is useless
This is a great question. We are working on a more concise transaction API, and are still in the design phase.

Writing a `user.save()` could be a good idea, but it opens up a question about how to do transactions. For example, saving _both_ user and post together).

I could see a variant where we return proxied objects from `useQuery`.

What would your ideal API look like?
You can also say, "ABC is terrible at this." That's not an insult. It's an observation. "ABC is a moron" is an insult.

The insult defines the person by a failure, instead of limiting the criticism to the relevant task.

If you're stooping to defining a person by their inability to do some specific thing, I still hold that you need to take responsibility for your own reaction.
I am interested in reading where Kay references semiotics?

As a designer that is “graphically oriented” by nature, and also “CLI oriented” from necessity, I can easily see why Kay would lean into semiotics to iron out how humans should best interact with machines.

It’s possible all interfaces will eventually be seen as relics of a low bandwidth input era. We should understand the semiotics (and physics) of everything well before we hand off full autonomy to technology.
It's possible your acquirement could have changed the acquirer from getting bought out though
Chasing the AI dragon? Your IT might be circling the drain, IBM warns
This article makes zero sense. In the last four paragraphs, it clearly acknowledges there is a solution.
Zoom profits up despite CEO's doubts about remote working
High ground is beneficial because you have direct line of fire where the enemy hasn't. But there is no ground to hide behind in orbit.

So what about this orbiting duck of yours, the power station recently turned rogue?

Look, the satellites you share an orbit with are adjusting their trajectories to intercept yours. Undisturbed, they will pose collision hazards within the next days. You must fry them all before they complete the adjustments. Do you have a real time feed of their position for targeting? Bet you do, you're a supervillain after all.

But some satellites are passing behind earth, they will complete their manouvers before they emerge from earth's shadow. The first hit is predicted in just 130 hours.

But hey a bunch of missiles took off on the other side of earth, they are now on a ballistic trajectory that intercepts your station's orbit. Thanks to your flawless targeting, you manage to melt some of them. Their debris will hit anyway, your station has 19 minutes left before impact.

Meanwhile, some subs poke laser scopes out of the sea, taking shots at your station. You divert your energy from the incoming missiles, but when you try to hit one, the scope is submerged again. You produce a plume of steam.

And what is this? What was supposedly a radar array starts to beam microwaves your way. Your station overheats in seconds because it has almost no mass and lots of surface. You could've taken out maybe one of the hundreds of antennas in the array if your comms hadn't already been crippled by a laser.

As you lift your gaze from the now useless controls, the sky is lit by a tactical nuke that was hiding in a spy satellite. It happened to be close enough for a crippling EMP blow.

Fin.
Human Scale Software vs. Open Source
> I disagree that words "become" slurs, in principle. Outside of a very few specific examples, where the term was constructed to insult,

I disagree; perjoration is a well understood linguistic topic, and it tends to happen in particular with words associated with disadvantaged groups. Idiot, moron, mentally retarded, ghetto, gypsy, savage, spinster, etc.

> It should be acceptable to insult people in certain contexts

We might occasionally want to say negative things about people, but actual insult should be saved for playful contexts. I have a hard time defending deliberately being a jerk to someone else.

> it's completely inappropriate to treat this as though some corresponding identity group had been insulted

If we are describing another person with a word, in general, we should respect their desire to be called or not be called by that word. And when a word has taken on undesirable connotations, it's reasonable to pick a sane default that most people are not going to want to be called that.

> Aside from which, the treadmill isn't even remotely in sync universally. There are real discussion fora I've seen that take themselves completely seriously, where the word "stupid" is completely verboten and already has been for years - and not because of some general blanket policy against insults.

Sure, change is uneven and not all proposed change happens. I am fine with calling something "stupid"-- it's when the "stupid" is an idea belonging to a particular person or is being used to call someone a name that it's not so great. Of course, there's always context; if I was around someone that I knew was particularly sensitive about their intelligence, I would perhaps try harder to stay away from words like "stupid" or "dumb".

All of this, really, boils down to basic courtesy. If we're not told explicitly what is considered courteous, we need to make reasonable guesses based on the overall social context.
The two apps Apple will not let you delete are Phone and Settings. So I bet the section in Settings about which store is your default includes the App Store, so if you select it it makes it reappear. I’m sure that if you delete all the third-party stores then the App Store reappears as well.
I hope GPS receivers have addressed this rollover problem. Not that we will be using GPS receivers made now necessarily over 150 years from now. Garmin GPS 95 was made in 1995. Because it uses the older 10-bit week counter then it causes the device to display incorrect dates after the counter resets every 1024 weeks. Newer GPS systems with the 13-bit week counter don't have this problem because they can count weeks for a much longer period (157 years) before needing to reset.

I am guessing when GPS was originally designed the designers didn’t anticipate that the 10 but counter would be an issue and/or proliferation of these consumer devices.

Since they could control their own equipment, maybe they thought the LNAV 10 bit counter was fine.
AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner
From hyper-realistic AI-generated images and robot dentists to wheeled robot dogs and breakthroughs in longevity research, the world of AI is rapidly evolving, bringing exciting innovations and challenging ethical considerations that are transforming science fiction into reality.
Personal experience.

Was developing OSI applications in 1989, you could order an X.25 circuit from your PTT and run OSI over that using the ISODE [1] toolkit.

The earliest ISP in my country didn't start until 1992.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_Development_Environment
Sorry, off topic but a garden simulator like animal crossing or garden simulator like planning a garden?

Because if it's the second one, please try again. There are ZERO user friendly garden planning software options that account for climate, soil type, partner plants, and rotation schedule.
If it's offline where the data is stored? IndexDB?
If you like diagrams that are also interactive via topological graph queries, See:

https://schematix.com/video/depmap/
Like the other dude said you need a bios. OpenEmu will tell you exactly what files it needs and ask you to drag and drop them into the app window, you'll easily find them on GitHub.

Other than that, it has all the emulators you'll ever need built-in, and controller pairing/config is super easy. For a PS4 controller, you just hold down the PS button and share button until the light starts flickering to put it in pairing mode, then bring up the bluetooth menu on your Mac to connect. The whole process is super quick and painless.

The interface looks so good too. Add roms and you get a nice little UI with all the box art for each game automagically.

I implore you to set aside a few minutes and give it a try, you won't be disappointed.
Would it stop ransomware attacks, or is it another one of those situations where the cost of launching an attack is so low that you only need an insignificant number of desperate victims to pay in order to profit?

I am also left to wonder if paying helps the investigation.
I have updated the README with the details on this. Thank you. :)
We open sourced all parts of Instant with this repo. There are no other private repos. The backend is written as a multi-tenant system, but you could run it with a single 'app'. If you try to set it up and have any issues, please let us know.
I'm really wondering what evidence the US jury saw, then. Seems like it should have been a winnable case for the prosecution. Oh well.
Go wild: Wildcard support in Rules and a new open-source wildcard crate
1. Spend time with people/problems in $space

2. Recognize a $space shortcoming
that users would pay to resolve

3. Start building

Bonus points if it's an area you're passionate about! But don't expect everything you're passionate about to solve a marketable problem.
Show HN: Kardinal – Building light-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments
I can definitely relate to this.

I worked at a startup where the founder learned this the hard way. We were trying to sell to government agencies. He insisted on a pricing model that meant we had to go through complex and expensive RFP processes.

We had potential customers come to us and tell us directly that they wanted to buy our product. They explained that with some adjustments to our pricing model, we could avoid the need for an RFP. The founder would not budge and we really struggled.
That just feels like applying random chance to your hindsight though. If they'd have bought you that deal might not have happened?
Every. Single. Tetris clone which has -tris in the title ends up receiving a very scary cease and desist.

Rename your project if you don’t want to receive such a letter or worse, if you don’t want GitHub to be hit with a DMCA against your project.

I know. It sucks.
Can’t say I’ve personally had issues with this. Separate work phone and I mostly just ignore it after hours.
It was only a handful of frankenracks. It was challenging and not very performant, but it let everyone get a jump on the research. Disk speed was increasing so fast in six months the first SKU was out of date. I’m glad I didn’t have to make the argument directly to assets when we retired those racks years earlier than planned. The rack positions were so much more valuable with the new denser and faster models.
I wish I could delete the phone app. The real people I know never call, calling is for spammers and scammers.
Obviously people might screw up, but the spec included a way to revoke any signed components that turned out not to be trustworthy

"trustworthy" according to who? Remember that dystopia does not appear spontaneously, but steadily advances little-by-little.

What's the summary? Microsoft (understandably) didn't want it to be possible to attack Windows by using a vulnerable version of grub that could be tricked into executing arbitrary code and then introduce a bootkit into the Windows kernel during boot. Microsoft did this by pushing a Windows Update that updated the SBAT variable to indicate that known-vulnerable versions of grub shouldn't be allowed to boot on those systems.

Who is Microsoft to decide what others do on their machines? Should they have the right to police and censor software they have no control of? In the spirit of Linus Torvalds: Microsoft, fuck you!

We are seeing the scenario Stallman alluded to over 2 decades ago slowly become a reality. He wasn't alone either.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Things like TPM and "secure" boot were never envisioned for the interests of the user. The fact that it incidentally protects against 3rd party attacks just happened to be a good marketing point.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Debt jubilee but for data is a great idea.
More like false advertising and platform abuse, but given that this doesn't incur any loss unless you were actually hired and then dismissed, it's also not really actionable. The best measure here is for job search platforms to curate the whole process and deprioritize the companies caught doing that.
A few things have changed since you left, it has to be said! There is no need to apologize - you weren't involved in the later stuff.

Amazon has been wildly successful in most financial measures, so surely you can claim some bragging rights for that.

As a monster ... ... yes it is. Awesome for consumers? Perhaps. Nightmare for almost everyone else? Again - perhaps.

I'll drop this now, its a glass half full/empty type discussion and way too involved for now. I will suggest you might take pride in being in there at the start and having a hand in creating a unicorn that went full on pegasus.
So far we haven't hit intractable problems with query performance. One approach that we could evolving too down the road is similar to Tao [1]. In Tao, there are two tables: objects and references. This has scaled well for Facebook.

We're also working on an individual Postgres adapter. This would replace the underlying triple store with a fully relational Postgres database.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-b...
It’s been great for me. As of today I crossed 324 days of using it straight. I wrote about my experience here: https://gmays.com/math

And yes, I’m a total fanboy. I’ve also known the founder for over a decade and he’s been working on it for most of that time. Math Academy came out of him helping his son learn math even before that.

I haven’t found anything close to teaching math than this. It’s legit.
50 years we have fusion far. The kind of far which is mutable but generally only to "not yet". Clients scent short term financial gain by promoting belief "soon" exists and the entire VC model encourages it.

The tools have utility, and that's good enough but the utility and value against cost metric isn't 10x profit.
Vector Database: History and Basic Concept
Also, Smalltalk was heavily inspired by LISP[0]. The line between functional and object-oriented is quite blurry. Especially in a pure OO language like Smalltalk. The dynamic and prototypical model of JS is definitely another example of the subtle harmony of functional and OO.

[0]: https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
clearly spoken by someone that’s never had a loved one in the hospital, a furniture delivery, or a follow up from their doctors office…

if you have a significant other, do you never call them? you never call your parents? You never need to call to schedule appointments?

if there is an emergency, you want to re-download the phone from the App Store again before calling 911. brilliant.

is your comment intended to be sarcasm? i hope so. so out of touch.
Not quite. It's first a search engine, so I index latest HN posts and a few other sources. There's then an algorithm that classifies new feeds as either "good" (personal blog, little ads, first person writing etc) or not. Then yes, it's those RSS feeds ranked chronologically. But the point is, it's not a curated or set list of blogs.
A Plastic Bag Ban to Fix California's Bag Ban
This reminds of the quake when I was driving to Menlo Park and seeing large numbers of people walking down the Caltrain track after it had been stopped in between stations. It looked like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie...
Could you run the CD with the project on original stock hardware? Or was it a modded PlayStation?
Is the filesystem feature also in Haiku?
You can indirectly target Android / iOS devices using frameworks like https://love2d.org/ - there's apps like Love2D Studio which can launch packaged applications, or you can build a standalone application.
GDPR them, if you're in the EU. Or just pretend you are and see if they flinch.
This is the bit I found curious: "adding a small amount of random latency to requests to storage servers counter-intuitively reduced the average latency and the outliers due to the smoothing effect it has on the network".

Can anyone explain why?
Depending where one lives not using traditional telephony calls for these things can be the norm instead of out of touch. I think the sole exception is probably emergency services like 911, which is an important thing many people forget counts as a phone call through the app since it's not a regular task (for most of us thankfully at least).
It would have been so amusing to hear a bunch of Roman construction workers swear really fluently in Latin when they discovered the first one had collapsed. That’s the kind of stuff Cicero never wrote down.
It's always so cool to see this kind of Easter eggs. So sad that they're not as common as they used to be.
Yep, have done https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/6479
Funny, when I was born and grew up outside the US it was very common there too. Perhaps you'd like to scope your claim down to a specific group of people who find it annoying?
“The mom test” is an amazing book for this exact problem
Thank you! Now I understand that my threat model is not good! I remembered the NSA criteria, Separation Kernel Protection Profile
as far as i’m concerned that’s a weird edge case. Most of society uses a phone at least once a month for something, unless they’re young and have no responsibilities yet.

You can enable “silence unknown calls”, let everything go to voicemail, and then screen your voicemails once a day, once a week, whatever your preference is. Problem solved?