skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used protobuf extensively with Kafka and I remember having to be quite particular about how the proto files/packages were arranged so as to avoid naming and versioning conflicts.

We never generated go code from it, but it took a bit of fine tuning to get generated code that felt at least somewhat ergonomic for Ruby and Typescript. It usually involved using some language specific alternative to protoc for that language because the code generated by protoc itself was practically unreadable. IIRC in the case of Typescript I had to write a script that messed around with the directory structure so you could use sensible import paths and aliases, because TS itself wasn't discovering them automatically without it.

That's stuff you can work with and solve technically. Initial faff but it's one and done. The worst problem I had with it was protobuf3 stating every field is optional by default, and the company I worked at basically developed a custom schema registry setup that declared every field as required by default, with a custom type to mark a field as optional. It turned literally every modification to a protobuf definition into a breaking change and, what's worse, it wasn't done end to end and the failures were silent, so you'd end up with missing data everywhere without knowing it for weeks.
Maybe someone should write a book about virtue signaling and it's dangers.
> you want it to upload the data to Google's servers itself

Google wants that. Maybe even the Go developers want that. It's not remotely clear that users want that.
The whole term "targeted individuals" is cope. Claiming that there is some sort of meaning to such a distorted perception of reality is just a coping strategy, very similar to conspiracy theories. It's much easier to believe that reptilians, Jews, Americans, Chinese, G20, some sort of god, Common Lisp mafia, or whoever else is controlling everything - it gives a paradoxical, false sense of control and safety (because someone, no matter who, is in control!) and also allows for free finger-pointing at "the ones at fault" whenever something bad happens as an emotional regulatory mechanism.

The world in which no one does in fact control anything, starting from the way how one's mind and body works all the way to global and cosmic scale, fails to give any sort of safety or control whatsoever, and instead puts a greater burden of responsibility on the person thinking those thoughts.

It's also much easier to think that you're targeted by someone, because then you automatically become a protagonist of some story, and therefore special by definition. It's much, much simpler and easier than the idea of being a yet-another person with a partial disability due to malfunctioning organs responsible for your internal model of reality.

Humans have a really strong drive for finding meaning where there is none, even if it means dreaming it up.
I would like to lean into having kids at work whenever practical and having them eventually become apprentices to possibly do similar work when they grow up. This has been the historical norm for farmers, shopkeepers, craftsman etc and in my opinion beats institutionalized childcare and staying in college until age of 30 to get a good job.

However I kind of wonder if the author would support that or suddenly switch to standard talking points about institutionalized childhood. Are moms and dads in the company she founded bringing kids to office daily instead of dropping them off at daycare?
More about us:
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This immediately popped into my head! I remember it blowing my mind years ago
Parent of 2. Babies are distracting by design:) they cannot talk and they can only get attention by crying/cooing, and we are wired to listen and prioritize the sound of babies crying/cooing over other activities to guarantee their survival:therefore if there's a baby crying/cooing at a conference the attendees will give priority to the baby over the speaker. I personally didn't think it was rude to ask to go strolling outside as this was from my perspective distracting for the participants.
Not in all shells, but in some exec is a pass through to the system call …

Bash is a language, so again we are telling the stream to do something silly and calling it out had a security problem.

The issue is not arg[0] but uninformed expectations on how these systems work.

Relying on the program/command name for security and not the executable path is a bug.

Furthermore if a bad actor has enough access to run exec you probably are in a bad way.

The whole post also seems to not understand that both windows and linux have ways to change this display after the executable is running via SetConseTitle and prctl or simply modify arg[0] directly.
There are different classes of stakeholders.

Yes, some data is open and the creators of it want it to be shared openly.

Other people want their copyrights upheld and for there to be no intellectual property appropriation (theft) of their creations.

There is also the issue of aggregation. For example, Wikipedia is an open and free aggregation of knowledge. But it also cites, quotes, and links out to sources which may be copyrighted works.

Note that Wikipedia has very formal guidance as to how to avoid and handle instances of plagiarism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism

AI needs to face the fact that it is rife with intellectual property theft. It needs standards for infringed copyright removal. It needs standards for the defense of trademarks. It needs privacy standards to prevent the unauthorized use of personal data, images, recordings and other works from people around the globe.

If AI is permitted to simply glut itself on every artistic creation and every human on the planet, sans limitations, it is basically the equivalent of a crime spree.
I would be kinda mad if someone came with a (noisy) baby during a presentation of a conference paper I spend months working on, plus facing the stress of selection. They are professionals to keep care of them when needed, there is no valid reason besides saving a few bucks bringing a baby there.
Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs
I recently discovered “Howm” [1] (the “Handy Own Wiki Mode”), which is a personal wiki system for Emacs. Surprisingly, it is slightly older than Org-mode – although it now works great with Org files – and is still actively maintained by the author.

After giving it a try, I now feel that I prefer it’s simplicity over newer systems like Org Roam and Denote, while having some similarities to e.g. Deft (like fulltext as-you-type search).

It also offers some unique features of its own, like “comefrom links” as opposed to conventional “goto links”, and that most Howm links are actually just syntactic sugar for searches.

The submitted link [2] is to a third-party documentation of the project, which I found more useful than the official documentation to get started :)

[1]: https://kaorahi.github.io/howm/

[2]: https://github.com/Emacs101/howm-manual
Bet it's just the standard reason: people collaborate better in person and advance their skills worse over time when WFH.
Wow, can you expand on that? Thanks!
> Almost all plastic waste in developed countries ends up in landfills, not the natural environment.

Here in Sweden less than 0.5% of household waste goes to landfill. Almost everything is burned in co-generation plants for district heating, with pretty sophisticated exhaust gas treatment. Unfortunately most of the plastic waste that goes into the recycling bins also end up there in the end, with only about 10% currently being actually recycled (mostly it's PET that gets recycled, AFAIK).

edit: My 10% figure is some years old; plastic numbers are actually much better now! These days it's about 35%. For glass, paper and metal the same figures are all around 80% though so plastic still has a long way to go.
Farrell and I seem to have grabbed a hold of different ends of the adjective "aristocratic": going into this piece I had been expecting aristocratic to refer to a culture where prowess is prized above all else (eg Alexander at Gaugamela, William at Hastings, Stanley at Bosworth), but Farrell evidently means it to refer to a Victorian/Edwardian sprezzatura, where being the right sort of amateur (eg Sir Percy Blakeney?) is distinctly preferable to swotting ("smell of the lamp")?

[pedantry: incidentally, The Managerial Revolution (1941) was a strong influence on 1984 (1949)]
And I'll assume good faith on your part and shoot this right back. If someone says "being a physician is the highest calling yada yada", would it be fair and thoughtful rebuttal to say, well, some people aren't capable of becoming medical doctors, it is exclusionary? It's an over-worn stereotype–too many people love doctors, it's passé? It's an unequal discrimination which elevates some career professions over different ones, which is inequitable?

Is it problematic to express adoration for the profession of doctors?

These types of expressions can be interpreted without being literally construed and deconstructed to atoms. It's *okay* for people to express positive sentiments about things—it's not necessary to put those sentiments under an electron microscope and describe their internal atomic-level contradictions. Because, we live in pleasenter world if people can freely express positive sentiments about things all the time, without too much worrying about "but what about..."
> Instead of doing the shebang line, it has to traverse the filesystem to resolve the link. I suspect that’s probably more expensive than parsing the shebang line.

I highly doubt that. Path traversal is one of the most optimized pieces of code in the Linux kernel, especially for commonly accessed places like /bin where everything is most likely already in the dentry cache. For the script with a shebang on the other hand it first has to read it from disk (or the page cache), then parse the path from it, and then do a path traversal anyway to find the referenced file.
Wziardry was one of the very first games I played on an Apple II, and I loved it immediately. Along with Ultima III, it spurred my obsession with computer graphics. One thing I remember about Wizardry is that it was fairly tough- I died constantly. Never really managed to get to a reasonable level, and then I found out about the bishop gold trick (https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Wizardry:_Proving_Grounds_of_t...)

Once I had the resources I tried to "win" the game and still frequently got stuck because many of the levels had dark areas with teleporters which made mapping really hard.
Not a big fan of kids (as in having them around), not a dad, counterpoint: If there's one societal function that's fundamental it's having kids. I think forcing random people to put up with your children is probably the most defensible thing you can force upon other people.

Not to say that it's not great if you can be considerate to others while you have kids. But considering how inconsiderate kids are and how much everyone around you depends on you having kids, some amount of putting up with those kids, collectively, seems very okay.
The fact that you call them $5 words says more about you than anything else.
Even past quick cuts, you have literal narrative shift. MTV, America's funniest home videos, TikTok are little bite site stories in rapid succession.
I won't reply to all your points, but I'll say this: I don't think I'm being overly reductive as much as you're being dismissive about the lengths tech companies go to build a profile of their users. The major difference between someone building a mental profile based on my interaction with them in the real world and the online profile companies build based on my digital footprint is that the real world profile is not stored perpetually and shared, or rather sold, behind my back to countless interested parties that will later use it to psychologically manipulate me, whether that's to get me to buy something I didn't need, or to change my mind about a political or social topic. Additionally, my real world profile is helpful in building tangible relationships, and I have full control over what I choose to share with the world. I may not be aware of all the information I'm sharing, but I'm certainly in control of it.

This is what privacy essentially is. Consent and reach _are_ keywords, since I get to decide what and how much I share publicly, and what I keep private. I can at any point stop interacting with whoever I want, at which point they only have a fading mental profile of me. This is not the case with digital profiles, since companies use dirty tricks to access as much of my data as possible, routinely exceed their boundaries, and, most crucially, they keep this data and continue profiting from it in perpetuity. Even principles like the right to be forgotten of regulations like the GDPR are not sufficient to put an end to this, since once my profile is sold on the data broker market, it is forever part of it, and will likely end up back in the hands of the company that claims to have deleted it.

This is why I maintain that these practices are vile and nefarious, and why we have far too few and far too lenient regulations to control them.

Re: tracing the Bitcoin transaction, I don't claim to be able to do this personally, just that it's technically possible. There are companies like Chainalysis that do this kind of service, and there are many examples of law enforcement agencies tracking individuals using these techniques. I'm only pointing out the flaw in your argument that cryptocurrencies are some kind of privacy standard, and extrapolating it to cash money, which would presumably foster even less of a shining example of a "pro-social culture".

In any case, I've exhausted my arguments on this topic, and it's clear we have very different views about privacy, so let's agree to disagree. Cheers!
What is important in life is personal and you don’t get to define for other people what their highest calling should be.
Android 15 released to AOSP
I'm not sure how health insurance works in the US.

In Europe, health insurance and social security is just a percentage of your wage. So for the employer it doesn't matter how many hours you are employed, taxes and health insurance is just a percentage.

I was under the impression that in the US health insurance is a fixed cost, that depends mostly on what is covered, but it doesn't depend on the income of the individual. So if an employer offers health insurance to part time employees, the cost would be the same as for a full time employee.
Interesting. I am red/green colorblind, so would expect that I would be less sensitive to green. It turns out, my blue is 98% bluer than others. Could it be that what determines this is how much your mind overcompensates for a lack/abundance of cones in the eyes?
My guess would be that it was flagged because the subject invites unproductive controversy and low quality discussion.
There is no universe where (all things equal -- dont get pedantic here) a lab grown child will have a better long term outlook than a natural one. We havent even figured out how to make formula that will leave children as healthy as a breastfed child.

There is constant feedback between mother and child, and any mother will tell you how they got cravings where their body/baby told them exactly what it needed. The baby, still in the womb, gets to hear the parents and experience their life. This all carries into the child's life and is inherently unable to be replicated in a lab.
I suppose they are the exception tho since 500 year old oaks are likely to be famous. Airlie Oak in Wilmington NC is one I know of.

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2009/06/13/airlie-...
I'm Creating Tiny Homes to End Sleeping on the St. After My Bro Became Homeless
You're not wrong about the extra execution of shell, although a lightweight shell like ash or dash doesn't have a huge overhead.

But realistically, the only people that need to worry about the actual location of the busybox executable are the people who write the install script - it would take that as an argument or variable and spit out all the little scripts as an automated process. The current installer already has to do most of this work as part of setting up the relevant links anyway.
I didn't know there was more than one way to say Jonathan
Brans–Dicke Theory
I've used CAD nearly every day for my entire engineering career, and this feels like a logical step. My day is filled with a tedium of micromanaging Solidworks or NX to simply do what I need. It takes very little time for me to envision a solution, but it takes ages of clunking through UI to actualize it. I'll be on board once you have SW support, I'd be interested in implementing it immediately.

My questions:
1) What's your CAD background?
2) What led you to realize that this was a problem that needed solving?
The enormous wave of AI-generated drivel that caused publishers and contests to pause accepting new work stands as evidence otherwise. It isn’t that much of a matter of what you think people think about AI, you can literally just look at the pile of garbage “books” and stories that did not exist three years ago.
Did you calibrate it with a hardware calibrator?
> Overall I've taken eight weeks throughout the year and never been questioned with it.

If you have taken eight weeks of vacation per year, and have not even seen push-back on it, you are definitely on "unlimited" compared to most of the world.
> while QFT fields like higgs are not physical at all

Phew, I feel better now. Non-physical scalar and tensor fields permeating all of expanding spacetime in a non-physical manner give rise to physical behavior via local nonphysical wavefunction collapse that we call excitations.
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It is almost always "child free" people that are massively disturbed by even the quietest child noises. I can only speculate as to the (obvious) reasons for this attitude which gives me some level of compassion and even sorrow for those people.

You're being gaslit by most of the comments here but you're not imagining things - there's been a huge shift from an attitude of "children, even other peoples' children, are our future so it's reasonable to tolerate some noise from them" to "children are a dirty loud nuisance that must be stopped".

Again, the reasons for this seem obvious to me but you're an asshole if you point them out explicity.
Loss of biodiversity and microplastics pollution are even higher in my opinion.
As someone who went through a transient psychosis, it's usually right in the middle where you feel the most unsure.
expect more of this

childless flights

childless restaurants

childless hotels

childless theaters

etc etc

all driven by soulless, self-centered singles and childless couples who cannot abide anything but a world that exists only for their personal indulgence

just wait a generation until these vapid reptiles start to expire and their bloodlines disappear forever...memorialized only in a plaque on a bench in the office plaza where their VC used to be
You don't think there is enough training data with our entire civilization's history of art to sustain AI forever?
He said he nearly lost his business, that means his and his employees livelihood. How is this difficult to see.
> Humans have a really strong drive for finding meaning where there is none, even if it means dreaming it up.

This succinctly sums up slot machine addiction (RNG is God and the payout schedule is the minister).
It would be difficult to promote such a book by word-of-mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51

More than 2 million people responded "going" and 1.5 million "interested" on the event's page

On the day of the event, only about 150 people were reported to have shown up at the two entrances to Area 51, with none succeeding in entering the site.

One person attempted to enter the facility and received a warning, while six others were arrested for crimes including public urination, alcohol-related offenses and indecent exposure.

Event creator Roberts pulled out of Alienstock 10 days before the festival, leaving other organizers and booked entertainers to run the event.[29] Roberts claimed his last-minute departure with $70,000–$100,000 in sponsorship money and donations was "due to poor planning"

ROFL. This event sounds hilarious.

It shows how disconnected from reality some of these academics are that they're willing to give the stamp of peer reviewed research to someone who thinks there's a "dangerous possibility" of people storming Area 51, a giant fenced-off military base in the middle of the desert which you can be arrested or shot for entering. Being British is no excuse. I'm British and know perfectly well there's not a chance in hell of a bunch of X-Files fans storming Area 51.
I think the most annoying part of this is that you cannot just replace a YubiKey.

Regardless of whether you're using passkeys or the non-discoverable ones, you need to manually go through each account and replace the YubiKey with a non-vulnerable key before decommissioning this one.

And then there is the non-discoverable part. I don't remember where I've used my YubiKey in the past.

Also, on the Ars article [0] there is mention of a PIN:

> YubiKeys provide optional user authentication protections, including the requirement for a user-supplied PIN code or a fingerprint or face scan.

This is not a YubiKey thing, but a FIDO thing [1].

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/yubikeys-are-vulner...

[1]: https://new.reddit.com/r/yubikey/comments/12bv4sv/fido_pin_s...
I agree. I'm a parent with two (now adult) daughters. I'm not intolerant of other peoples' children because I am personally child-free or was an only child (though I was). I'm intolerant of other peoples' children when those children draw attention to themselves.

If your kid is quiet and keeps to themselves, then I haven't even noticed them in the first place in order to take issue. The reason I take issue is because your kid is being loud or obnoxious and ruining my experience in (grocery store | restaurant | movie theatre | public transportation | anywhere that I'm politely minding my own business but your kid is forcing me to know that it exists).

As people like to say when discussing rights and freedoms: your rights end where my nose begins.

My wife and I recently travelled to Walt Disney World for a vacation. While in a hotel lobby we walked past a child around 8 or 9 years-old (if I had to guess) accompanied by a man that I assumed was his father. As we walked past, the kid punched my wife in the arm. It wasn't a mistake. He telegraphed the hell out of it. When I confronted the father he just smiled and shrugged it off.

If people didn't constantly have to deal with situations like the above, then we could talk about being more tolerant towards other peoples' children.

But if it's not a child invading physical boundaries, it's auditory. God help those of us with misophonia that have to listen to children make the most hideous noises (and not always due to a temper tantrum, sometimes it's just loud screeching or yelling as part of play or whatever).

Why should anyone have to tolerate this? And no, I don't blame the children, I blame the parents. But who is at fault is irrelevant. No one should be obligated to put up with assholes whether those assholes are 40 years-old or 4 years-old.
Imagine a medical conference about new treatments for allergies. Now imagine if one of the attendees had a never ending sneezing/coughing fit. Would it not be reasonable to ask that person to step outside to avoid distraction? I don't think the topic of the talk means related distractions should be ignored.
Wow they have that kind of money??

All the ham radio clubs I've been with have been living hand to mouth lol. Always having to beg everyone for money if something big needed doing.

Sad though that they wasted it on rewarding cybercrime actors.