skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a Mystery Hunt puzzle, so solving the obvious puzzle is only the first step of solving the puzzle. You will need to do something with the puzzle solution to somehow get a word or short phrase.

I remember doing this one by hand over a decade ago. Fond memories.

https://puzzles.mit.edu/
I just want to say, I love emojis. I wish there were thousands more. I love the artistry, the stylistic differences between platforms. I love the way their meaning changes with the times. I love it all.
This is a didactic exercise. Julia is fantastic, but lacks funding to develop a differentiable programming ecosystem that can compete with Torch or Jax. These two have corporate juggernauts backing them. Still, it is quite remarkable how far Julia has got with few resources.

Having an alternative to Python would benefit the ML ecosystem, which is too much of a monoculture right now. Julia has some really interesting statistics, probabilistic programming and physics-informed ML packages.
Thalidomide was used and approved around the world, not just in the US. It’s an interesting example of something but not millions of deaths.

But I get a sense that the original poster isn’t sincerely interested in talking about the complex question, how should the FDA regulate drugs?

One thing’s for sure: High drama personalities have always had a tenuous understanding of the facts behind their “shock” and outrages. Or maybe one of the commenters has learned a valuable lesson about copy and pasting from chatbots.
You don't happen to be the author of a certain science-based, 100% dragon MMO by chance? https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/p1ssv/dear_internet...

Your knowledge of the biology of fictional creatures certainly is astounding-
Hyparquet.js: World's Smallest and Most Conformant Parquet File Parser
My goal is to build tools which enable working with large-scale ML datasets in the browser. The browser is critical for building compelling UIs, but previous parquet js libraries had gone abandoned.

Apache Parquet is a very complicated format. It has 22 data types, 9 encodings, 8 compression codecs. However, I can confidently say that Hyparquet is now the most conformant parquet parser in existence. It can open all the parquet files: more than PyArrow and DuckDB. I dare you to find a file that Hyparquet can’t open!

Hyparquet is MIT licensed, and there is a demo github page which can open parquet files in the browser with no backend server.
If that's their honest concern, why wouldn't they simply tax large collateral-backed loans as income?

If an issue can be addressed with a scalpel, it should be addressed with a scalpel. Any man who insists a machete is required is just looking for an excuse to swing his machete.
I suspect many people coming here from companies with Slack will be proud to be celebrating the singular amphibian that's anthropomorphized as the unmistakable Bufo emoji collection.
Makes me feel old. I was at uni when Ubuntu came out. But my story was similar to yours in the mid 90s and I got hold of a walnut creek cd with Slackware from some PC mag, a couple floppy disks and discarded hardware and I was off to the races

There was something about discovering tech through dedicated tech sites back then that felt exciting.

Now, any time I find something new it always has a polished marketed feel to it and has none of the secretive clandestine undiscovered power that old tech had.

I guess I am getting old
https://archive.ph/2024.08.28-164055/https://www.newyorker.c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
Very touching, beautifully written.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240123112858/https://www.nytime...
Do you have a link to a copy of the video with captions? YouTube autogen doesn't cut it unfortunately. Or perhaps a written-form version (slide deck + transcript)?

What's in the 8% not covered by testing?
What motivated you to share them? What outcome did you expect?

I’m not talking about revenue. I’m talking about the fact that sharing their creation usually comes with expectations of some (at least psychological) benefit for the sharer. For example, some people want to receive praise for the project. Or they may want to attract collaborators. Still others actually do seek criticism in order to potentially improve the work.

Therefore, “sharing without expectations” doesn’t seem a likely occurrence in that context. People do have expectations, if only unconsciously, and others react with the understanding of such expectations being present.
People in that state are highly vulnerable to fraud. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin
> The only way I found out was installing it, create a call graph, and the first click took me to a payment page

Yes, we need to be much more clear. It's not intentionally hard to find, we just been distracted with bugs and haven't had time to update the website. The subscription didn't exist until a couple of days ago. The layered architecture is a feature that we made public specifically for the HN community

> Having to fill out my payment details for a trial version is a a hard no for me

We'd love to embed a demo repo for people to play with, or let users generate nested architecture for one repo before having to subscribe
Intent matters. The city was incompetent, but distributing data about active criminal investigations is malicious, or at least dangerous. And unlike Snowden, he wasn’t trying to expose abuses by sending the documents to reporters.

Here’s an example from my own life: I created books3, an AI training dataset of almost 200k books. This was thanks to The Eye, who hosted a copy of Bibliotik, a popular shadow library. But everyone is suing the AI companies themselves for using the training data, even though the original harm was caused by The Eye and Bibliotik.

> not this one person who said "the city failed to secure the data - anyone can get it".

If he simply said that, there wouldn’t have been a problem. He sent actual data related to ongoing criminal investigations, and was on the record saying he might set up a website to more widely disseminate information about that data — which could include names of witnesses in those investigations.
It's different for everyone, but one thing I've found that's been tremendously helpful for me (in 30+ years of programming and heavy W-A-S-D gaming) has been the use of ergonomic devices (keyboards, mice) and workspaces (desk height, position, chair, posture, etc.).

In particular, ergo keyboards allow me to type comfortably for hours on end, day after day, year after year, at very fast speeds and without any injuries so far. Before I switched, I would get all sorts of finger and hand cramps monthly.

I personally like the Microsoft Sculpt Business keyboard the most, but that's currently discontinued (soon to be re-released under the Incase brand). There are many other brands & models, both with soft laptop-style keys and harder mechanical keys.

I particularly like the Microsoft one because it doesn't have an attached numpad, which means your mousing hand can fit comfortably next to the keyboard instead of stretched out unnaturally far away. (The numpad is wireless and can be placed anywhere, for the rare times you need it).

There are also many types of mice, from wrist mice to vertical mice to trackballs to simply flat mice (like Magic Mouse). I found alternating between the Magic Mouse and a trackpad to help with mousing pain. You can also use webcam-based eye tracking if you prefer, or like foot pedals for scrolling.
Yeah -- that's the problem. You can't make the right decision when you only look at the costs of a yes but never the costs of a no. Both matter!

Politicians can puff themselves up by only grandstanding about the former -- but that doesn't make for good policy!
I find their concern for small businesses as sincere as Trump’s concern that Biden was ousted in a coup.
https://imgur.com/a/zBQiLpo
Yes but it depends (eg in some cases you might have an automated machine do the face verification)
We talked frequently but I always kept my reservations about continually moving up the ladder pretty hidden. It wasn't until this realization and acceptance that I finally was extremely open and frank about things.
Poor man's signals – tiny vanilla JavaScript signals implementation
> the bulk of the transmitted data is from the "client" to the "receiver"?

This is not new or novel. See: SMTP
I resonate with this. Thanks for sharing. I had similar emotions when I penned my resignation email after I decided to go full-time on my business.
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)
The American version would not be tax the Fat, but to make fat pay more for their health insurance.

And the only result would be more people unable to pay their health insurances...
> people simply do their best to save money sticking with what they already have

To your point, I own 3 vehicles, and the newest one is 17 years old. One of them is from the last millennium! It has windows you have to manually crank and it doesn't even have direct fuel injection - it's the old-fashioned throttle-body fuel injection!

One of my problems with today's EVs isn't with the EV technology itself, it's all the tech they're putting on today's cars. Cameras everywhere. Lane assist. You name it, today's cars have it and it's making their useful lifetime way less than it should be given the simplicity of their drivetrain. More money, less reliability. No thanks!

Make me the equivalent of an 00s Honda Civic but is an EV? That's what I'm looking for! I don't need, nor want, all the rest of this crap.
If we’re talking about Cnidaria, there's a 90% chance it’s a garden hose, a 9% chance it’s attached to a 9V battery, a 0.9% chance it’s a low amperage 120V line, and a 0.09% chance it’s really, really dangerous.

If your death in any way involves a jellyfish or siphonophore, it’s most likely because you drowned reacting in ignorant fear to something that couldn’t have seriously injured you.
You already are. Thank you for describing how these thoughts can pull you in the two directions and that you could prevent to let them tear you apart in the end. I hope you found mentor(s) who you could reflect the path forward with without having to burn bridges. In fact a sequel how it turned out would be interesting.
It went well yeah, it's a little bit at the end that I should have spent more time on :). We're stopping the climb up the management ladder and are identifying other resources to handle those responsibilities.
The wheels of justice slowly move back in the right direction. It's clear that someone in his family committed the murder, whether it is Adnan or his father, or else he would not have had to bury Hae. The father would be the obvious suspect from the state's honor killing hypothesis, and Adnan is the other obvious suspect because he's the only person witnessed with the body.
My One-Year Writing Journey
Love stories like these. I miss the old internet where people just created things for the shear joy of it. I've tried my hand at two different things so far, but neither has found much steam.

https://toggles.codewalkers.net/
https://trust-trials.codewalkers.net/
Type many fake invalid license plates, and cancel them, freeing a spot at a time of your choice.
I hear that - these moments are hard to forget.
Because they are not real.
France's cost of generation is super low and it is a net exporter of electricity: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

Also the carbon intensity of generation is 10 times lower than Germany's: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

Talking about overall tax levels is a red herring. We have to look specifically at the costs of power generation (both internalized and externalized).

> the burden related to renewable sources is often way less than presented

Surely you're joking. Wind turbines are the size of football fields and they basically can't be recycled after their useful lifespan of 20 years. They have to be buried, using up huge amounts of space.

> Uranium is a fuel (disappearing gradually)

Again, I hope you're joking, because leaving aside all the existing uranium mines operating today, even leaving aide the fact that spent fuel can be recycled (and a lot of if is even today!), we know how to extract it from seawater. If you think seawater is a scarce resource, I don't know what to tell you.

> write: "a major nuclear accident in France is simply absolutely not possible" and everyone knowing about all this will immediately grasp that you don't know what you are writing about.

As opposed to writing 'as ore grades are diminishing greenhouse-gas emission associated to its obtention will augment' which is perfectly legible to everyone? Sure dude.

Also, you realize that the burden of proof lies with the person claiming something is possible, because you can't prove a negative, right? You know that's not how the scientific process works, right?
How Joseph Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect
Nothing wrong with manifest v3. It's just that ad blocking is so important that it should be an exception to the whole thing. Ad blockers should be literally built into the browsers so that they have full access, only conflicts of interest stops this.
I wonder if the ideal way to expose this would have been to approach some law firm showing that you (just you) were wronged by the City, here's the data, some basic auditing showing where it was from, statements by the city, hackers, etc.

Then just be like, yeah, there's like 3 TB of data there, maybe it's class-action worthy, hint, hint.
Seems that you are looking for BootstrapStudio or Publiii?
The long road to ropeless fishing
> Goodwolf is the name he uses for interviews and is not his legal name.

I read this and immediately suspected that he is a furry
> meetings, on-sites, and bureaucracy - leaving very little time for actual work which produced any kind of real artifact

All those things are actual work, they just produce different artifacts, eg an aligned team and correct decisions and proper risk assessment diffused through an org. Again, nothing wrong with choosing the career you want, but I think this perspective is simply wrong.
Another fun fact: this isn't the only software named after Trogdor: Apache Kafka's test framework is also called Trogdor[0].

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[0] https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/trogdor
It does in fact change the structure, but only safe-ish AST transformations related to minifiers (e.g. `void 0` to `undefined`):
- https://github.com/jehna/humanify/blob/eeff3f8b4f76d40adb116...
- https://webcrack.netlify.app/docs/concepts/unminify.html

properties and strings aren't renamed
It definitely resonates. I am afraid of there being an upper bound to the amount of management work I can do without burning out. And yet I still get promoted every year and continue up the ladder… interestingly I have the exact same rationale for this: that I need to be untouchable by the time I’m 50. So your article is a nice reminder that all that is something I made up and keep telling myself.
I will f(l)ail at your tech interviews, here's why you should care
The FDA famously didn't approve Thalidomide, which meant only 17 people were affected in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#History

(I don't think this affects your argument directionally, but worth noting.)
Oh, I agree. But let the reporters do that. It’s their job. Just point them towards the data and they’ll do the rest.

If someone’s butt is going to be on the line, it should be a corporation’s (the news agency), or perhaps an individual investigative journalist. Not you. Not for something like this, anyway. If it was just social security numbers I might agree with you, but police databases are obviously dangerous to disseminate, even if it’s just to prove they exist. He could’ve sent redacted screenshots.

Point being, we don’t know what he sent, but sending anything at all from a police database is a bad idea. No lawyer would ever say that that’s legal, let alone ethical.
Most of the bots were in python or node afaik. Bash would be a little hard because you had to send data over a websocket.

They had some notion of the squares they were watching and what their values needed to be (to draw the images). And then they subscribed to the full state of the grid (which my API made really easy to do) and would respond by sending websocket requests to check boxes when they got toggled to the "wrong" value.

I'm sure people did other things - lots of people wrote scripts in the browser console. But I think the above is basically what people in the discord did.

I had some basic protections in place. There's some client-side rate limiting that prevents the really trivial "run the script in the console stuff" and then some server-side per-IP limiting to prevent really aggressive botting. Plus my server got slow at some points which inadvertently slowed people down.

The big difficulty with the server-side stuff is that you don't want to be too aggressive with IP based limiting because sometimes a large group of people resides behind a single IP (like at a school) and you want to make sure that all of those people can play. So it's a balancing act.
Yes, basically as long as you keep measuring the object with a function (like length or weight etc) and the result of the measurement does not change, the state has not changed. When the result changes, its a new state.
There are also some overlaps between mammal and marine.
(And mammal is missing human).
I pay £169/mo for Mounjaro, but yeah, it seems a common thing for baseline prices for medication to be very high in the US, then often reduced significantly by insurance. I assume mostly because they can get away with it whereas next to no-one in the UK is going to pay £1000/mo for it.
I did a system earlier this year with My Generation Energy, coincidentally while I was interviewing for the CPO role at Aurora Solar (where I am now).

Highly recommend MGE if you’re in the Cape Cod area. Not sure how far off Cape they’ll go if not.
Sad day but I guess Anand moving to Apple made this more plausible. I’m going to miss the meticulously perf charts.
They do have some great talent, I hope they go on to do great tech journalism.
Oh there will be for sure lots of nergy wasted, on producing long text out of nothing - and on the other side using lots of energy to make LLM summarize that garbage again.

But yes, I also hope some good will come out of it and intent to stay in the good areas.
The Joys of Playing Live Music
Nonsense. Google Play revenue 2023 34.30 billion. Additionally, Google Play isn't available in China, unlike the Apple App Store so if you're going to compare both stores keep that in mind because it isn't an apples-to-apples comparison.
> I felt like by 40 I needed to move on from engineering because if I didn’t, I’d be like the few older workers I’d dealt with in my career. I felt like they moved too slow, were stuck in their ways, and unable to change - even when faced with evidence to the contrary.

If that was your fear, then I'm sorry you had that fear, and I hope it was unfounded.

Unfortunately, there's externalities to voicing a negative stereotype in some venues, reinforcing it there.
You're absolutely right. I guess those artifacts don't resonate with me - and I did mention there's nothing wrong with enjoying this in the article. Good catch, I'll see if I can't reword it a bit :)
I don't subscribe to the NYT, but I do have a WaPo subscription. I'm considering canceling it. Most of what I read I can get syndicated elsewhere, or the same information presented with similar quality, elsewhere, for free.

(Plus I'm tired of further lining Bezos' pockets, and I very much disagree with some of the current editorial staff.)

I get that real, actually-solid journalism is not cheap to make. But I'm not sure what the solution is when good-enough articles can be had for far cheaper, or free. The good stuff really is a joy to read, but I'm not convinced $120/yr (looks like it's twice that for the NYT?) is worth the price of admission.

Certainly a lot of people do buy and keep these subscriptions, and subscriber counts do seem to be growing (which is genuinely great), but I would wager that far, far, far fewer people today have a newspaper subscription than in the mid-90s. But maybe that's changing; maybe people hate all the sensational, clickbaity, in-your-face ad-supported garbage floating around for free.

I would only hope that as online publications grow their subscriber base, instead of getting greedy, they actually lower their prices, since their marginal per-subscriber cost is near-zero. Given that NYT home delivery prices in 1995 were ~$350/yr, (~$700 in today's dollars), it seems a little absurd that they're charging 35% of that (for digital) when their cost of distribution is a fraction of a percent what it used to be. Presumably the reason behind that is because their subscriber base is much smaller than it used to be?
The article shows:

fn(n miles to km) ≅ next_fib(n)

fn(n km to miles) ≅ prev_fib(n)

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Similarly,

fn(n kg to lbs) ≅ prev_fib(n) + next_fib(n)

fn(n lbs to kg) ≅ (prev_fib(n) - prev_fib(prev_fib(n))) * 2

fn(fib(i) lbs to kg) ≅ fib(i-1) - fib(i-4) # Alternate formula
Fun Fibonacci facts:

- the first published use of the term “golden section” (which later became more commonly known as the “golden ratio”) to describe the number phi[1] was by Martin Ohm, the brother of Georg Ohm who the unit is named after.

- Binet’s closed form series solution for the Fibonacci numbers[2] is really cool because it involves three irrational numbers yet every term of the resulting series is of course an integer.

[1] (1+sqrt(5))/2

[2] F(n)=(phi^n - psi^n)/ sqrt(5) (n=0,1,2,…) where phi=(1+sqrt(5))/2 and psi=(1-sqrt(5))/2
Which is odd, given that it contains zero interactive elements even with js enabled.
GOOG-411, the forgotten Google telephone service
Show HN: Supafana, one-click observability for Supabase (MIT)
Heya HN!

We put together a post [0] explaining the motivation for building Supafana in some detail, but in short: we wanted a way to get to database graphs with an effort similar to starting a Supabase project - in essence, in a few clicks.

It feels unusual to open-source what is essentially a SaaS infrastructure project, but it also feels pretty great - all our code is here: https://github.com/fogbender/supafana

We have some discount codes available - let me know if you want one (andrei@fogbender.com).

Thanks for reading!

[0] https://supafana.com/blog/supafana-why-and-how
billion dollar company, infinite cash, blind trust from government, and that's what they come up with?

insane

i'll say it again, if the west goes all in with microsoft, it'll collapse
To generate second layer of architecture diagram, $19/mo subscription with a 7 day free trial. The call graph and top layer of the architecture diagram are free. We'll update our website and the extension with pricing info asap. The subscription didn't exist until a couple of days ago, since layered architecture is a feature that we made public specifically for HN to try.

We only use Anthropic at the moment, but we left OpenAI in the Data & Privacy in case we change models (not in the foreseeable future)
I'd say it's the opposite. As a developer it's part of our professional responsibilities to at least try to erect privacy- and security-preserving systems, because, well, we're the experts. I don't want a world where the average computer user has to be paranoid about their computer privacy any more than I want the average bridge user to have to be paranoid about whether this or that bridge is more likely to give way during their daily commute.
I've done this a few times over the years (and occasionally printed another copy when I made a mistake). Lots of fun. I wish there were more like it.
Computer Networks from Scratch
Show HN: I made a site that lets everyone edit the same gradient in real-time
An important detail that makes this possible: in Japan, the postal worker is allowed to enter your house.

Every Japanese home has a little square area near the front door called a "genkan", where guests are supposed to remove their shoes when entering. Postal workers also occupy this area when delivering mail.