skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like people, VCs are also motivated by status, recognition, and making cool things.

If they were only financially interested they would play the game with much less status bias.
this has been fantasized about since the first widely available smartphones with fingerprint sensors, and to date the number of cut fingers has kept pretty low
Doesn't every place have a collection of ideas that are half implemented? I know I often choose between finishing somebody else's project or proving we don't need it and decommissioning it.

I'm convinced it's just human nature to work on something while it is interesting and move on. What is the motivation to actually finish?

Why would the the technologies that should hold up the Internet itself be any different?
Its rare af
>if you're not a minor that is, because all UPI apps are 18+

I didn't know this, and neither do minors in India who use it for daily purchases.
I spent time in England as Scotland for work ages ago.

I had asked about this because I had "Scottish Money" while in London back then. In England people can refuse to take it because paper money in Scotland is issed by many Banks as opposed to the Gov. He said they really had no real way to determine if those bills are real. Each bank had their own design.

Decades later and with this article, I wonder is Scotland still has their own bills.
Just a reminder that Al Jazeera is a mouthpiece of Qatari government, the same one that sent money to Hamas, a widely recognized terrorist organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English#Controversi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_c...
I dont disagree with what you’re saying in principle. However the Facebook experiment has been going on for decades, with multiple examples of unethical behaviour and a clear lack of any respect for privacy. Same can be said about basically any large tech company
The reality of life is that there are way more hardcoded strings than you imagine or there should be.
Who makes the assumption that everything should be illegal, other than you just now?

My comment deals with if something has already been deemed illegal.
Yes! They are commonly wrong in this, and that's fascinating too. Because they are not solving the problem by looking at the letter in the word because they are not architecturally capable of enumerating the letters in the word. The fact that they can do it at all could be the stuff of an entire phd thesis, and could tell us more about the nature of LLM hallucination than a bunch of rambling about "how much coverage in the training set" when our determination of the coverage is based on human semantic similarity.
> Feels like [feelings about dei]

It's an issue of competence.

Having cleared the lowest bar, society is demonstrably less racist than a century ago. The next bar is much more difficult; we may be less equipped than we were for the last one.

We can measure some more nuanced outcomes of racism. Past that we are struggling to even qualify successes and failures. Instances & causes remain tied to systems & psychology that seem too complex for current skill sets to parse well. As a result, poor performance and less-poor performance are happening all at once.

At this level of the challenge, failure is one of the best learning tools at our disposal. Bad actors are quick to see that and are doing what they have always done - exploiting our poor valuation of failures to derail progress.
Proposal: Optional "Purpose" Attribute for Set-Cookie Header
There are two Taco Bell locations in walking distance of my home. One is independently owned and the other is a corporate location. The independent location is constantly priced higher than the corporate location. For some things like the Crave Box, the price can be as much as 67% more expensive but almost everything is at least 20% higher in price. The only exception are items that are part of an ad campaign that specifies price. In those cases, the independent franchise location fully participates.

The corporate is located on a major collector street with many other fast food options while the franchise location is in the transition zone between a walkable downtown and car oriented development but both have a drive-thru. Not sure if it's just corporate policy to keep prices at a low baseline for their locations or it's due to there being competition from other fast food restaurants nearby but it's just half a mile between them so a 67% price difference is pretty strange.
People certainly cared about racism, sexism, and other discrimination back then. They just put up with it because there was no movement to change it. It got worse any time I spoke up, so I learned to keep my head down.

Do not mistake my tolerating slurs and other insults for enjoying Nintendo games with being okay with it or the people who did it, or the people who did it and still remember being able to do it without consequence as a better time.
My private sector jobs have largely used outdated or proprietary technologies. First job had me maintaining a ~30 year old Object Pascal project in the early 2000’s. They were still using AppleTalk instead of TCP/IP locally.

IMO keeping up is more about what you do in your free time rather than trying to actually work with whatever the new hotness is. So having free time is critical not just whatever technology you’re using at work. However, work for NASA for 40 years and what the industry does is irrelevant.
Browsers are just one tiny piece of the fossilization issue. We got countless vendors of networking gear, we got clouds (just how many AWS, Azure and GCP services are capable of running IPv6 only, or how many of these clouds can actually run IPv6 dual-stack in production grade?), we got even more vendors of interception middlebox gear (from reverse proxies and load balancers, SSL breaker proxies over virus scanners for web and mail to captive portal boxes for public wifi networks), we got a shitload of phone telco gear of which probably a lot has long since expired maintenance and is barely chugging along.
> The key to making things work is having a cohort of parents that have similar priorities. If the parents in your social group default to shutting Junior up with an iPad, you're going to have a bad time.

This has been our priority as parents forming peer groups with other parents. But it's very hard to find the kids that your kids like and are friends with who aren't constantly inundated with tech.
> that an engineering that's "been there, done that" can foresee the needs ...

Agreed.

That said, where I've encountered the most issues have been when engineers who are relatively new hires *believe* they've "been there, done that", and haven't yet internalized the different nuances of the situation vs their prior experience. This sets up a dangerous scenario where they have enough experience to be quite believable, but unfortunately may be missing the fact that their experience isn't as applicable as they believe.
Show HN: Clace – Application Server with support for scaling down to zero
I have been building the open source project https://github.com/claceio/clace. Clace is an application server that builds and deploys containers, allowing it to manage webapps in any language/framework.

Compared to application servers like Nginx Unit, Clace has the advantage of being able to work with any application, without requiring any dependency or packaging changes. Clace provides a blue-green staged deployment model for apps. Not just code changes, even configuration changes are staged and can be verified before being made live.

Clace is not a PaaS solution, it does not support deploying databases and other auxiliary services. It does share the fact that it manages containers with PaaS solutions. Clace is different in that it builds its own reverse proxy, instead of depending on Traefik/Nginx. This allows Clace to implement features like shutting down idle apps and adding app level OAuth authentication. Clace runs natively on Windows/OSX in addition to Linux. Clace works with Docker/Podman/Orbstack.

Clace allows you to run hundreds of apps on a single machine. Since app containers are shut down when not in use, there is no CPU/memory resource usage when the apps are idle. It provides a Google Cloud Run type interface on your own hardware.

https://clace.io/ has a demo video and docs. Do let me know any feedback.
I agree with you, I didn’t say that quite right. In my mind this is actually pretty much what I meant, though I completely see how it can be misinterpreted. Line counts, like most other design rules should really be more like guidelines. Thank you for helping me clarify myself mate!
The pay differential is way more substantial than 10%. The Federal GS pay scale tops out at 159k in 2024. That’s a salary typically reserved for people who have spent years in government.

There are ways to get that number higher, but at the end of the day our best developers can grab multiples of the highest government salary in Silicon Valley fresh out of college.

There are people that go into government work for reasons of moral duty, but at the end of the day, it’s hard to compete with salary differentials measured in multiples.
> minors in India who use it for daily purchases.

Interesting, I haven't seen this in my city (Chennai).

I myself learned of this when I attempted to set up GPay, but was blocked from signing up because I'm not 18
Really interesting game! Well done
(1) Studies have shown that patron will make larger and more frequent orders when placed through an app rather than in person. This increases revenues.

(2) The app gathers statistics. Marketing and sales are so addicted to massive amounts of all kinds of information they have trouble finding veins that are not collapsed and their coworkers all carry naloxone. In most organizations, the marketing and sales people make most product decisions and a mobile app is a (free) product distributed by the chain.

(3) Data collection. Not only can anonymized data be monetized, but selling data directly attributable to individuals is a major source of revenue for many organizations, and I doubt Taco Bell (or Yum! Brands in general) is not among them.
Bun is not a front-end framework. It can bundle, but it doesn't serve the bundle or split it by pages, so that's not a fair comparison.
A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition
If people are unable to get the results from a study, but get confused by a headline, what makes you think they’ll be able to draw correct statistical conclusions from talking to a couple of people with inherent bias and small sample size?
This is the real answer. Price discrimination used to involve physical coupons, but now the coupons are in the app. Since apps are easier to obtain (and have in your pocket at all times) than physical coupons, the price discrepancy (between full price and discounted price) is wider than ever, to ensure revenue is sustained despite the higher percentage of discounted orders. That means high menu prices making the news, ostensibly due only to costs (inflation, minimum wage, rent, etc.) but actually due in part to app discounting.

I installed the Wendy's app a while back, and by optimizing my selections, all of my orders since then have cost less than half of menu prices on average. For example, get a $3 item for $1 with any other purchase (so you tack on a $1 frosty), or buy a $6 item get another free. Taco Bell's app deals aren't quite as deep but you get the point. When tons of people are placing orders this way, menu prices must creep up to compensate.
Lots of explanations, but why can't you globally configure reading with no BOM if writing with no BOM is now the default?

It doesn't seem like it could be for backwards compatibility, as now an old script that writes a file with defaults can't later read it with defaults?
Funny that he was never tried for "insurrection", despite the media repeating over and over that it was actually one.
https://archive.is/1PWZN
The source says that 89% of members voted and it passed by 95%, which is about 85% of the union, not 95% of the union.
Well sometimes yeah, and then there is the nylon strap instead of a handle on the door for your $300K car.
SAE doesn't have a definition for "full self driving", only levels of autonomy. "FSD" is term Tesla came up with to distinguish from their previous level 2 autopilot system which could only do highway driving, whereas "full" level 2 self driving can operate under all normal conditions, including city driving. FSD could theoretically cover levels 2, 3, 4, or 5. Highway-only could be levels 1, 2, 3, or 4. There's a lot of overlap.
#10 on the front page now
Nice investigation!

My 25 year old microwave is really solid, except for the lamp, which has blown. It's an old bulb so it should be replaceable - except that physically there's no way to do it without unscrewing the magnetron, which is well into scary territory - you need to basically re-qualify it after reassembly by scanning for leaks with a professional instrument. I don't want to throw it away because it still works, but fixing the lamp would cost more than buying a new one.
>sowing losses for tax purposes.

Please explain what tax purpose losing money (or earning less money than possible) serves.
No it definitely does not. A GS-15, whose job duties would be equivalent to a CTO or principal engineer in private sector, makes _at least_ 3x less than the going rate. You are correct in that gov benefits are incredible.
Kids will definitely reduce how much they eat to the point when you take them in for their annual checkup, you will be asked why your child is underweight. The doctor will call it "failure to thrive". Depending on your relationship with your doctor, they might suspect neglect or abuse.

Our daughter went through a phase were there were only a few things she wanted to eat. Our pediatrician said to feed her what she will eat and be patient because her tastes will change. He was right.
It looks to me like the future of software engineering. Gone are the days of manually typing up for loops.
In jurisdictions whose ISP laws I'm familiar with, ISPs have a special protection granted: they don't get raided because they're seen as an infrastructure provider, but only as long as they can point to a customer responsible for some given traffic when served a court order.
A commonly used alternative in the microcontroller world is to simply stack a few diodes. Very simple alternative which I have seen being used a few times.
You have to consider who the comments are for. Senior engineers comments are more useful for senior engineers, but the junior comments will be more useful for junior engineers.
> would also export

Export what? The data stored by git or something else?
To order food. You can also place your order on the website.
Agreed, my company tried buck2 first when evaluating a cargo replacement, but bazel is just so much more mature at this point that it ended up being the natural choice. Thanks for your examples, they helped us get started :)
> I'd also blame rampant cheating for that. It's damn expensive to keep up with pirates, but cheaters are an entirely different league

I'm not an avid gamer, but it's not hard to notice that multiplayer games nowadays means "all the player in the world". Most games don't have a local version to either play with multiple controllers or through LAN. They don't even want to allow custom groups to play with. Cheating is way easier to manage at small scale.
Tailwind CSS vs. Pico CSS (2022)
Usually people can still be fired if they aren't performing their contractual obligations. That might get tricky for stuff like code, but the same can be said of the current performance structure.
Acoustic noise is one thing, but it's not at all outlandish to be within range of the EMI emitted from the same power supply which tells the same tale. What is outlandish is thinking anyone bothers listening in. :)
> The internet functioned fine for over a decade, profitably, without invasive adware like we see now

What time period are you even talking about?

In the mid nineties the Internet was largely a research network between university computers and paid for by tax payers. The internet only started growing exponentially with commercial services appearing in the late nineties. This was the time when people started to demand high speed Internet connections (ASDL) and were willing to pay for that. But this was not the case for its services. Google's primary business model way back in 2000 was already showing ads related to your search terms. Even back in 2003 Google introduced the free GMAIL service that showed ads based on your email content. That's 21 years ago.

IMHO it is your view on the Internet history that is being "revisionist" and "gaslighting". Take this from sb who had his private Internet access as early as 1998.
The Data API Preview in VCore-Based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
I don't care about that vs the super slow install time and having to swap the disc to switch games. My time is worth more than $30. That's barely 2 fast food meals anymore.
> Why did it take so long to reach patients?

It's extremely expensive.
Why was this censored from HN? What is going on?
Dynamically estimating and scaling Postgres' working set size
When the bloody hell has the New York Times been pro-union?
Yeah, that is what I mean. Force the transaction right then and there.
The PhD Paradox: A Journey into Academia's Upside-Down World
I hate the internet today not because it became mainstream, but because it became commercialized and that squeezed out too much of the best stuff.
Urge Anyone interested in this topic to read (or hear the free audio book read by the author on several platforms) the book about alende bringing the father or cybernetics to organize the country factories. It also show what the cia meddling actually cause on the ground.

Title is a joke on chigago boys: the Santigo boys
I'm a fan of the existing standards for DNS (§3.2.2.4.7) and IP address (§3.2.2.4.8) verification. These use multiple network perspectives as a way of reducing risk of network-level attacks. Paired with certificate transparency (and monitoring services). It's not perfect, but that isn't the goal.
I think this is genuinely true. The internet today appeals to the lowest common denominator, in the same way that blockbuster movies often do. It is less appealing because it is less specific to our tastes.
It's not actually an SDR, it just has a discerning collection of hardware radio modules on it. If it was a self contained SDR you would expect a much beefier processor and power draw from the device from all the digital signal processing.
Yes, the point is that it basically doesn't support that.

Well, OK. You can push two branches, v1 and v2, each with the commits. Then to do pairwise diffs, you type in the commit object hashes directly into the URL bar to diff the two objects in the repository using the 'blobs' API but like... I don't think that qualifies so much as "supporting" it as much as an absurd hack, right?

> Are you able to change the branch of a PR from `v1` to `v2` without making a new PR?

No, you have to open a whole different PR.
This is great! Level 3 is so easy :)

One small suggestion: keep score separately for each level so you can compare at the end and see how much icons helped.
Update on Anaconda's Terms of Service for Academia and Research
Best to add contact detail. HN doesn't have a direct-message feature and nobody can see the 'email' text in your profile (but can see the text in the 'about' field).
What do you mean by intermediate levels? In the 2 main US lotteries the only award that gets split is the single jackpot. Even the 2nd place award is $1 million and is not divided among multiple winners.
Almost anything is fine in moderation. It’s honestly not that bad beyond the saturated fats, and even then an otherwise healthy and active person who eats other healthy things during the day would be totally fine having nuggets for dinner every day
That's not how it works. If a minority of people like Thing A when they're teenagers that doesn't mean suddenly when they're adults everyone will like Thing A. It just means a minority of adults will like Thing A.

Put another way, what do you think happened to all the "normal" kids? They would have become adults too, so wouldn't you expect the "normal" to replace the previous and outgoing generation rather than this one particular minority?
> That doesn’t follow from the points you made. What follows is that you have to deal with whatever percentage of bad actors you get. If not, you have to contract someone to handle that part of the job or do the entire job. Plenty of opportunities on those sentences that look nothing like today’s feudalism.

Well, the "eternal september" problem... back in the '00s you could reasonably run a forum or a blog even if you're some high school kid, all you needed was your parents and 10 bucks a month for some shitty virtuozzo/UML VPS. No need to deal with stuff like setting up a CDN just to survive some random asshat thinking they can DDoS you off the 'net.
As long as TLS/SSL depends on Internet PKI as it is, it is flawed. I guess there's always Private PKI, but that's if you're not interested in the internet (^:
Goldman's Credit-Card Exit Hampered by Lax Lending Standards
Writing a book: is it worth it? (2020)
Can we all agree to not link that comic when nobody is suggesting a new standard, or when the list of existing standards is zero to two long? It's not obligatory to link it just because the word "standard" showed up.

I think that covers everything in that list. For example, trying to go from IPv4 to IPv6 is a totally different kind of problem from the one in the comic.
> the FAA (and rest of bureaucracy) is supposed to be apolitical

It won't be when they fire all the career civil servants and replace them with stooges as they've said over and over they want to do.
CAA records may help, depending on how the attacker uses the certificate. A CAA record allows you to instruct the browser that all certs for "*.tetha.example" should be signed by Lets Encrypt. Then - in theory - your browser could throw an alert if it encounters a DigiCert cert for "fun.tetha.example".

However, this depends strongly on how the attacker uses the cert. If they hijack your DNS to ensure "fun.tetha.example" goes to a record they control, they can also drop or modify the CAA record.

And sure, you could try to prevent that with long TTLs for the CAA record, but then the admin part of my head wonders: But what if you have to change cert providers really quickly? That could end up a mess.
Gotta maintain crossword puzzles, their ancient CMS, and paywall popups.
> But people will refuse to buy cars entirely because of lack of CarPlay or the android equivalent which require a touchscreen.

Sure. Let me clarify -- it's not the existence of a touchscreen that's the problem. It's that often used and important controls have shifted from using actual physical knobs and buttons to the touchscreen. Screens for things like the backup camera or entertainment systems aren't a problem for pretty much anybody.
Could you give us a tl;dr on this project? and how could I use something like this work for on-device applications, think "smart home" style applications?
That's "add lightness".
Because a lot of the proceeds go to school districts.
Corporate proxies, meddler-in-the-middle attacks, and Git
Blocking off the other side is also a negotiation strategy; one that one applies for example if one considers the demands of the other side to be nutjob
insane.
UTF8 with bom is a terrible idea. “Why does the name of the first column in my csv file not match?” is a question I answer at least once a month. It’s as if they’re trying to EEE plain text.
With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately.

It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.
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