skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To repurpose a sentence from somewhere else, repair is only free if your time is worthless.

(Imagine trying to contract someone to do the OP's level of thorough work; it would be a five-figure dollar sum)
You are way too nice. Sometimes I sign up with fuck@off.com, address is 666 nunya business street, anonymousville, united states of handsoffmydata. If I can get their CEOs details or whatever, I sign up with that. Same for newsletter popups.

If they force an email verification, 9/10 times I just leave. For the 1/10 times I'll give a pseudonymous email, and if the service then proves to be useful I /might/ give more info. Usually if I'm actually buying something.
Use Cloudflare's Turnstile captcha. It's leagues ahead of Google's or hCaptcha. Users never have to click on stupid images, and it works great. You're not going to be able to stop people manually signing up but depending on how they're doing it, you might curb some of it.

These guys have loads of email addresses and can just use a VPN to switch to a new IP in seconds. Often accompanied with a completely fresh browser session that you're going to have a hard or impossible time correlating with past attempts.

Parse the domain portion of the email address and check that against a blacklist of throwaway and fishy email domains. Manually blacklist domains as needed. You can find blacklists hosted on GitHub. Use the Public Suffix List to parse the domain to make sure you don't accidentally ban an entire obscure TLD. Parse down the email domain to remove any subdomain when checking against the blacklist.

If you're really serious, you can use an API provided by SendGrid to check for suspicious email addresses. You can also look into MaxMind minFraud.

Ban IP addresses. Not every spammer is highly sophisticated and sometimes a single, fixed IP will be responsible for many spam attempts spanning months at a time.

Devise a way to fingerprint browers. This can be as simple as a random hash set to some innocuous cookie name. Ban offenders by those too. It's not always going to work but a lot of spammers aren't terribly sophisticated and you'll be able to catch them even if they're IP hopping.
I don't think that is an issue. Yes, companies which insist on RTO have to pay more, but as extra compensation in order to make up for the difference in time and money spent commuting.

But I'd argue what could be outsourced profitably has been outsourced already. And countries which welcome digital nomads who "work from home" while visiting on tourist visas are getting fewer also. In fact the Thai Government launched DTV which can be seen as precursor to measure and later capture (read: tax) some of the benefits of that for themselves.
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No, they need education.
To me, FreeBSD Jails are by far the best of the breed. If you are running servers, you really should look into jails.

Congratulations on the new release.
Instagram Teen Accounts
It isnt because it doesn't work. The CSG algorithms they use are broken.
Destined for clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan
Content-Location refers to a specific response to the given query.

Location refers to a URI that denotes the given query.

It's a bit strange, since I don't think it's likely that a server will want to persist any particular response to a query for very long. But it's not unreasonable to support that.
JiuJitsu has been a great place to make friends. On open mat days you spar with someone for ~5 minutes then chat a bit, then find someone else and repeat. Small group chats at the end, maybe grab some food.

The are a lot of IT oriented people at my gym, but also surgeons, lawyers, business owners, etc...

The key, like anything, is try a few different schools to find the vibe you want.
Public transportation is also cheaper than building more and wider roads, but I'm not sure it's straightforward to sell this idea.

In the Americas most people are still fixated on owning a car.

In political debates in my city, public transportation is only ever talked about as a burden on the city's finances, never mind that car infrastructure costs many times more.
The Last Man by Francis Fukuyama. The end of history started as an essay and became a book, but the last man is a couple chapters at the end of that book. It talks about how people (I think mostly men) find purpose in an era where every frontier has been explored and closed
oh wow, if i had known about pspg beforehand i might not have made this, it looks great!
> All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..)

I don't know about VS Code, but I remember Atom was refactored to use manual DOM updates because the performance penalty of using React wasn't worth it.[1] By the way, isn't OOP by far the most popular paradigm for building desktop UIs? I imagine VS Code is a difficult codebase to work with that has a lot of intricate code (as is usually the case with large software projects), but that's a strange piece of criticism :-)

1. https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624
> if you're sick you shouldn't work at all

Well it depends how sick you feel. Personally, if I only have a cold, I prefer working (from home) over hanging on the couch and watching Netflix all day long.
If I'd have to come to the office I'd report ill though, also because I don't want to contaminate my colleagues.
> "She's a gay little person goth time-traveling alien, he's an autistic left-handed incel Quaker. They live in Portland, and together they solve crimes."

I'm pretty sure a Netflix executive would have signed on this concept based on this sentence alone half a decade ago. Now it seems the entire world is waking up to these formulaic data-driven products that have been pushed by media conglomerates for a decade. This is especially apparent in the gaming world, where big productions seemingly flop out of nowhere (cough Concord cough) while indie studios keep innovating.

It's so easy to blame this phenomenon on rose-tinted glasses and older people like us thinking all old things are better than modern, but when the world wasn't decided by "data scientists" and corporate committees, there was more variety, more volatility. Lower lows but higher highs as well.

I've been thinking about this a lot the other day while watching snippets of the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", wondering where pure, plain fun movies that are not pushing an agenda or pandering to some audience have gone.

And now, in the current era of the remake, which still has to reach the film industry, it is gonna get worse. When they'll find they are unable to invent the new multi-billion franchise, why not go and remake and "modernise" an older one? It's basically free money.
In its impact on teaching, I'll say that based on teaching since 1979, students take feeling stupid as convincing evidence that their instructor is doing a bad job. No amount of assuring them that it is the gateway to enlightenment or however you put it will save you.
Australian man charged over allegedly creating app for criminal underworld
> based on some data

The important thing is that it isn't based on the data you are attempting to analyse. It's fine to use subject matter expertise beforehand to decide on what is appropriate to include or not in your analysis.
You can determine your longitude without a clock, but achieving precision with this method is challenging. First, you need to observe the Moon's position relative to fixed stars, which gives you the UTC time. Then, observe the Sun's position relative to the horizon to determine the local time. By comparing the two, you can calculate your longitude.
Depends how badly you want the "big bucks". Non-FAANG software jobs still pay good money. Maybe not "I own a yacht" money, but definitely "I own two new cars and a 5 bedroom house" money.
There are some tours still happening. But its now (supposed to be) only state/military approved delegations in some kind of official capacity: https://www.chernobyl-tour.com/english/161-visiting-chornoby...

It's possible some people still sneak in of course. But you're risking a non-zero chance of getting accidentally shot by a Ukrainian soldier mistaking you for a Russian infiltrator, let alone the legal consequences.

You're quite correct that Russia has been entirely pushed out. Heck, I would not be too surprised if Chernobyl tours reopen to the public after Ukraine occupies the part of Russia next to Chernobyl (maybe even Belarus if they do something stupid).
In bioinformatics we use a modified gzip format called bgzip that exploits this fact heavily. The entire file is made of concatenated gzip chunks. Each chunk then contains the size of the chunk (stored in the gzip header). This lets you do random access inside the compressed blocks more efficiently.

Sadly, the authors hard coded the expected headers so it’s not fully gzip compatible (you can’t add your own arbitrary headers). For example, I wanted to add a chunk hash and optional encryption by adding my own header elements. But as the original tooling all expects a fixed header, it can’t be done in the existing format.

But overall it is easily indexed and makes reading compressed data pretty easy.

So, there you go - a practical use for a gzip party trick!
I don't know enough about how s6 work, so I'll probably write stupid things, but how do you start/enable services? By running sh/execline scripts and symlinking them in specific dirs? Well, you need privileges for that, no?

I can "crontab -e" as any user without privilege and edit my own crontab, separate from the root one, that's what I meant.
Architecture astronauts have to learn this lesson the hard way.
It very clearly does concern us… hence the thread.

FWIW I’m only familiar with the term “pragmatic programmer” because of the book. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it in any other context.

When I saw the post I thought it was written by the same author.
Server still giving up? Here's the web archive link...
http://web.archive.org/web/20240917032317/https://ece.engin....
Here's a uBlock filter to defeat 'sign-in-with-google' auto-popups

||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p
an operating system's "native web view" (WRY)

Isn’t that just a randomly abandoned version of something of uncertain origin, on average? Why would one want use it? I guess to save distribution space.

I don’t have a “top”-deps itch, but using an arbitrary webview sounds compatibility hell even to me.
I don't think that GitHub is the most popular forge because it is _good_. I have never heard anyone say "I use GitHub because it has a good UI", "... has good accessibility", "... is well designed", "... I prefer proprietary services" or anything remotely similar.

The main reason I hear people say they use GitHub is due to network effect. "It's what everyone else is using", "You'll get more visibility and more contributions" or "My employer forces us to use it".

Essentially, the same reasons why Windows is a popular platform; not really technical reasons, mostly business and ecosystem factors driving people towards it.

Sure, GitHub was* better than the alternative in its initial days. But things have changed in the last decade. GH has continuously declined while alternatives have surfaced and improved dramatically.

Personally, it pisses me that GitHub presents itself as "an open source hub", when it is a proprietary, hosted, service.
> "All of my life I've been attracted to the idea of being a writer, but like all writers I don't so much like writing as having written. … each time I meant to try to write something, I'd miss the deadline by two weeks."

Having written several works without ever completing or publishing any of them, I find this comment from Adams particularly resonates with me. That said, I’ve had success with a narrative podcast, which is heavily influenced by his genius—his wit and comedic writing style shine through. While I’ve always admired what he brought to the sci-fi comedy genre, in hindsight, I probably owe just as much gratitude to his editor and publisher.
I wish they'd pick a better base watch, eg F108, W217.
This seems to represent a significant escalation in the use of civil forfeiture. Reminder: it is not a crime to possess or mail cash. In the case of using civil forfeiture against a driver pulled over while driving down a highway, the police will concoct a "totality of circumstances" narrative to explain why they thought the money was the proceeds of illegal activity. In the case of a package of cash being intercepted at FedEx, what other "circumstances" are there for them to concoct?
Yeah i have a contact form and i have many dozens of absolutely spammy requests each day, many of them looking legit, but obvious auto-generated to catch my attention because they appear to be coming from genuine clients at first glance. Kept wonder why is someone (apparently many people or entities!) are doing this. What is the upside? What are they trying to achieve, let's say i bite and waste my time replying to it, then what?
That just isn’t how it works.

Police science is a parallel world of non-science. Over and over, fake science like hair id, bite mark analysis, fire, shaken baby, excited delirium, and others are debunked. But the courts have been terribly uninterested in hearing science contradict police-science.
My 2 cents: Since LLMs (Large Language Models) operate as at least a subset of Turing machines (which recognize recursively enumerable languages), the chain of thought (CoT) approach could be equivalent to or even more expressive than that subset. In fact, CoT could perfectly be a Turing machine.

If we leave CoT aside for a moment, it's worth exploring the work discussed in the paper "Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy"[1], which analyzes how neural networks (including LLMs) map onto different levels of the Chomsky hierarchy, with a particular focus on their ability to recognize formal languages across varying complexity.

[1] https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2207.02098v1
Even if I had access to public transit, I'd be driving every day because I'm on immunosuppressants and public transit is a germ pool. Same reason I'm not a fan of working in person with parents of small children.
It should be illegal for anyone under 18 to have an Instagram account
> What a profoundly toxic, bigoted statement.

Which sentence was toxic or bigoted? "Hate to say it but Amazon was hiring the folks getting laid off from major banks a few years ago." or "[Amazon] abandoned hiring only the best a long time ago."?

On top of that, many banks have a hiring bar for their software folks that's far, far lower than one would expect a company whose primary job is ensuring the correctness and integrity of its records to have.

(Also: "profoundly" toxic and bigoted? *Seriously*?)
> I would suppose the vast majority of customers don't think a lot about the timing of software features in a purchase decision.

The ones who buy on day one do. I don’t find it surprising that the people who even know about and anticipate the release date of a product are the ones who are eager for specific features. If those aren’t there yet, there’s no rush to buy.

I’m no analyst but I expect demand in the EU won’t be that (comparatively) great either. When the flagship feature isn’t available, there’s little reason to spend the extra money.
no idea - I'm working with fanuc and kuka robots on the line, not those robots.
> Can you imagine a world without HGTTG?

Yes. Maybe an unpopular opinion here, but the book form of HGTTG is a mess. You can tell that it was converted from an episodic weekly-gag-based radio show into written form with very little effort to make it into a coherent whole. It's popular because it has brilliant one-liners, but as a book it's not nearly as good as its popularity would suggest.
The example uses a non-existent MIME type named `example/query` as the request's `Content-Type`. We don't know what the syntax and semantics of queries of `example/query` type are, and we don't need to know because this is just an example!

But the intent is clear that one could have `application/sql`, `application/sparql`, and many other MIME types for representations of queries, and if one where to use one of those then the request body should be valid when interpreted in the context of the request's `Content-Type`. Thus you absolutely could have the full power of SQL, if the server were to support it.
I work in a similar setup, but we only have 2 office days a month. I still like this very much; you get to meet and socialize with all your colleagues, but you have basically all the advantages of home office and traveling for two days a month is easy.
If you do, don't.
Well the code is there: https://github.com/voideditor/void/tree/main/extensions/void
But it's super basic right now... Like literally just the bare minimum to make an LLM call in a side window and a view to apply/reject diffs. Pretty much a weekend project at this point.
yes, just heard about it on Physics Frontiers. Monsalve & Kaiser are talking about primordial black holes, and are offering a theory that if they were imbalanced in color charge, they could be surrounded by a particle cloud, in a big quantum state.

https://pca.st/episode/f0db6ab1-18ff-4201-a6b2-a30b780a266a
They're not going to share that data because it's confidential. Imagine Amazon sharing data that their employees are less productive... their stock price would tank and they'd garner a ton of bad PR.
> It's impossible to predict the future, and it's impossible to predict the complexity of something you've never done before. Given that, estimates can not be useful, other than as a tool for political post hoc justification.

It is, however, possible to provide more information than "whatever" about how long it will take to achieve a goal. I have had goals I've worked on that were summarized with things like

- Could take anywhere between 2 days and 2 weeks, depending on factors

- Has an external dependency on X, and we don't have any insight into when X will be available

- May have other external dependencies, but we won't know until we're a few days into the work

- Not sure yet what the complexity of using <this API we need> is, so we'll need to check back in with more information once we have some time to experiment with it

- Expectation is about 5 days, on this, but it could be as short as 1.5, and could be as long as 3 weeks, depending on some factors

All of those things are more information than you had before, and allow the people that make decisions (which may be you and your team, or may be someone higher up the chain) to make _better_ decisions (or at least, better informed decisions)

And if you're working on something that you literally have no information on what's required for it, what the complexities might be, what the unknowns might be, etc... then perhaps the task you should be working on is "Identifying the work required to achieve <goal>", not "<goal>".
Correct. Every job that can be done remotely can equally be done very remotely. At home tech workers compete in a global marketplace. My job requires me to be in the office, not by anyone's choice. It's a legal requirement. That offers me protection should cuts ever come.
My eyes are not best-of-best but the difference between 60 and 120hz in something first-person is dramatic and obvious. It depends on the content but there are many such games for consoles. Your claim that it's "slight" is one that only gets repeated by people who haven't seen the difference.
"I believe it was Chris Okasaki who discovered that the thing that helped neophyte programmers go from not getting it to getting it in terms of blocks and scopes was semantic indentation."

I don't believe a word, and it's not my experience, the indentation doesn't need to be semantic at all. Meanwhile cut&paste, which is heavily used when learning is broken, it's hard to match up indentation levels lines apart, and even tabs-vs-spaces is suddenly a thing again.

"Embrace change or get left behind."

Don't be ridiculous.
Maybe that's the point. Who is going to be acquired by Microsoft and then just be part of VS Code?
Holy crap, not even coffee? That's so laughable.

Not that we get great coffee here. It's one of this pod/packet machines. But, it does various teas and some cold drinks as well (fruit/herb infused stuff). So, it works for my second coffee, or a hot cocoa when it's cold outside.

We also get free lunch on T/Th, but that's a new thing since COVID (to entice people back), so I'm not counting on it being around forever. But for now, it is a nice perk and encourages some of that chit-chat the executive class tells us is so critical to making them more money.
I'm not defending the CEO's memo but "joined at the hip" is a very common idiom and in normal (and this) usage has no connotation with conjoined twins. Attack the opinion all you like, but this isn't productive.
> Also the complexity of software development is greater.

Definitely agree, we have LLMs, more advanced/powerful tools but somehow the entropy increased so much that all advantage we have compared to 15 years ago vanished.
Regardless of the gravity canceling out in this region (which is more complicated and probably will not happen). The current LIGO and Virgo wouldn't have enough spatial resolution to pinpoint tiny regions between black holes.

To explain what will happen is that gravitational field in region you are describing would have a steep spacetime curvature and a point where it will cancel gravitational forces would be more of a saddle (lagrange point classically) point rather than zero gravity region.

Now you also have quantum fluctuations that now with this strong gravitational field you will have virtual particle - anti particle paris pop in and out of vaccum. This is not going to be only in thia region but all around. Also merging process will enhance this phenomenon but deciding where actually this middle point will be difficult.

Now it would be impossible at least for our current observational tools to have resolution for the scale we are talking about. Event horizon telescope for example is designed to observe areas around singularities on much larger scales that what you are interested in here.

But the interesting part would be If matter and antimatter pairs were produced between merging black holes, they would likely be short-lived. In this intense gravitational environment, any particles created would be rapidly torn apart or accelerated towards one of the black holes. The annihilation of such pairs might emit gamma rays, but this signal would be extraordinarily faint compared to the other high-energy processes occurring during a black hole merge.

So the answer is probably No, at least with our current technology.
These kinds of clauses seem toothless to me.

If a potential employee isn't willing to agree to work more than 40 hours they either don't take the job, or take the job but refuse to work those extra hours and risk being fired. Being fired is never fun, but the employee is still better off ignoring the contractual obligation there if it was a deal breaker anyway.
Hi! Thanks for the interest. There is a picture of the interface in the hero section of the home page. You can also create an account and check out the interface before ever buying credits to use it. Maybe I will ad something like starter credits or 3 free questions in the future.
It was fascinating to see the counter-proposal to the Army Corps of Engineers for Miami's design of a downtown wall to deal with storm surges:
https://dirt.asla.org/2022/09/12/uproar-causes-u-s-army-corp...

The counter proposal was indeed funded by the City of Miami, to point out how ridiculous it would be to have a 20 foot concrete wall around the city.

As a local resident, I loved seeing this sad 3D render in particular, which even has a graffiti on it nearly spelling "Berlin": https://i0.wp.com/dirt.asla.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/0...

In seriousness, it was really cool to see the counter proposal's "nature-based solution" which would design 39 acres of distributed barrier islands around the coastline, to block storm surge naturally.
Physicists unveil 1D gas made of pure light