skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my life is dependent on the US not thinking of me as interesting

Why do people engage in this sort of larping, like they're secret agents or intellectuals that may be hunted at any moment by the grey suits in western governments?

We know it's not true for this person in particular because one click on their HN profile tells you their real name. I stopped there, but I'm sure there is plenty of additional info available with 3-4 more clicks. If they were really so afraid of government reprisal like this larping suggests, maybe they'd attempt to be at least a little pseudo-anonymous.

The actual fact is that 99.9999999999% of us are boring and will remain boring no matter what kind of comments we write on HN. It wouldn't hurt to touch grass once in a while.
The fact that they attacked them via their communication network that was intended to avoid Israeli surveillance, is irregular warfare at its finest.

The main injury inflicted on individuals was psychological - we got into your supply chain this far. Also, your attempts to avoid us failed.

But at an org level? They just disabled the entire comms system, whether through explosions, or by making people scared of explosions.

What's the contingency plan for this in Hezbollah? And will it have credence, given their last grand idea of "let's use pagers to avoid the Israelis" ended with a large number of simultaneous explosions?

It's a very clever attack from a psychological POV.
You read these posts and realise this is what companies in the west want to feed by outsourcing. They want to hire shops in the developing world that exploit and harm people because of course someone who is forced to overwork will be cheaper than one who has a smidgen of leverage. Part of the "cheaper labour" is cost of living in other countries, sure, but a lot of it is this sort of thing.
GPT3, right?
Not at all, in a renderer the Node and Chromium event loops are bound together, they’re part of the same v8 isolate, no IPC shenanigans.

The main process really shouldn’t be used for anything except setup. Since it controls gpu paints amongst other things, blocking on it will cause visible stuttering and a bad user experience.

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-internals-node-inte...
It's unreasonable to expect a small companies to have rogue nation states in their threat model. Apple, Microsoft, ... yeah but not a smaller business.
How can I possibly trust the Discord client is actually using that library and not a modified version that calls home? The whole point of using open source is being able to see the entire code of the program, and compile it yourself
> We don’t quite know where we’re headed, but who cares? Let’s just get there as fast as we can!

Excellent.
Let's mention both sides, Israel wants the State of Palestine gone.
This is of particular interest/concern to me.

A colleague and I have devised[0] a messaging system that is encrypted, and resists traffic analysis. This is of legitimate interest to people have have reason to fear the authorities in their areas ... people like journalists.

And freedom fighters. And "The Resistance".

And ordinary people like you and me who simply don't want the Government to sweep up all our communications, eventually break it, and then mine it for anything and everything.

And yet, if it's genuinely secure we are at risk of being arrested and charged with anything they can think of, because it might be used by "the bad guys."

So what do we do with our invention?

[0] Please don't respond with things like "Never roll your own crypto".[1]

[1] Nor with Schneier’s Law[2]: “any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.”

[2] It dates back even earlier[3]: "One of the most singular characteristics of the art of deciphering is the strong conviction possessed by every person, even moderately acquainted with it, that he is able to construct a cipher which nobody else can decipher. -- Charles Babbage, 1864

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law...

Added in edit: I genuinely don't understand what's triggering the downvotes here. Is it just that you don't believe me? I was kinda hoping to get some genuinely useful feedback.
Have you read the full article? It is using billiards as a metaphor for an intrinsic understanding of physics.
I mean, it's not like it would be out of character. Calling such accusations propaganda is a bit much.

China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas crackdown: report

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220119-china-forcibl...

The Disappeared - China’s global kidnapping campaign has gone on for years. It may now be reaching inside U.S. borders.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...

Thousands of Chinese overseas forced home involuntarily: report

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Thousands-of-Chinese-overse...

40 Officers of China’s National Police Charged in Transnational Repression Schemes Targeting U.S. Residents

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/40-officers-china-s-national-...

China’s abductions of foreign nationals should carry costs and consequences

https://www.politico.eu/article/chinese-abductions-of-foreig...
I need to find some time to put some screenshots together, and record a quick video explaining how it works, and maybe split it so I can use it in the guide.

Noted! Google sign in is on my pending list now, it would also be very helpful for reducing fake/spam accounts for sure.

Ah, thanks for highlighting this! I must have messed up during the design fix I did last week :S
Faster than a Cray 2.
You're shopping for groceries. someone is standing next to you. Their pager explodes and you are severely injured. You never had anything to do with this war.

Still think it's surgical? By that definition 9/11 was surgical as well, after all they only targeted two towers and just a few people who happened to be there got hurt.
Most likely frequent boating miles given their push to use water transport over air when possible for the environmental benefits.
> It doesn't do that fancy "make this text more professional"

I looked into the Scramble code[0] and it seems there are few pre-defined prompts(const DEFAULT_PROMPTS).

[0] https://github.com/zlwaterfield/scramble/blob/main/backgroun...
The Apple deck linked elsewhere in this thread suggests the developer's goal generally isn't "DNS resolution", the dev's goal is usually establishing a connection to a host/server/endpoint to start doing something.

So, usually devs should use the Java or Apple or whatever higher level OS API gets you connected the fastest, and that API is free to implement the connection however most quickly gets to the point of able to return data to the user (app or end user).

The API that returns a list of addresses is stuck doing that, instead of being able to parallize the entire "get connected" data flow.
Were those being serious? That sounds like it could’ve been a joke/commentary.

Then again, there are people who genuinely believe they could trivially rewrite curl.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
The Sumerian Game is playable again
Designed by Mabel Addis and programmed by William McKay in a research project that started in 1964, The Sumerian Game is the granfather of today's strategy, management and simulation turn based games. Its source code was lost in the 70s but thanks to the game printouts and Richard Wing's notes it was possible to rebuild it.

The history of the game, how it was programmed, how it worked, who designed it and how it was possible to rebuild it from the printouts are the subject of a book: The Sumerian Game a Digital Resurrection.

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1108065491/video-games-...
"I could rewrite curl"
> > You’ve not been around much contract consultancy work then?

> Honestly? IME, this is about the ONLY environment where the Agile stuff makes sense. It's just such a very, very, very poor fit for long-running projects that require continuous work that may extend for decades.

I disagree. Like, I was just working at a place that did both analytics consultancy and in-house products. Go. Speak. To. User. worked in both.

For consultancy, yeah we had to go off and sit with the customer and figure out with them exactly what they needed. Do iterative PoCs. Eventually work out, together, what the 'user'/customer wanted to get out of the project(s).

For product, I sat down with one of the lead scientists and asked her what she actually wants. Like, be real with me. It's me here. I don't care if you want to use the products or not. I want to help you do the job you want to do and help you solve those problems you face on a daily basis. What will help you do this.

Answer: Bin the vaporware in-house software product and move to an established off-the-shelf third party system (Benchling).

Repeated the same thing with Data Science.

(Eventual) Answer: Bin the vaporware in-house software product and move to an established off-the-shelf third party system (databricks).

Of course, that didn't fly with the management people who wanted their magical 'guaranteed revenue stream' (which didn't exist). They weren't Go. Speak. To. User.-ing. So they were divorced from the reality of what was going on and stuck in the blue sky management vision.

Agile-manifesto-agile doesn't just apply to engineering. You can apply the principles of Go. Speak. To. User. And. Stop. Making. Gantt. Charts. To. Solve. The. Real. Problem. to a lot of places.
Greetings from Chicagoland
Malfeasance? TM evidently believes that in this century a Landy is fated to be a Chelsea tractor; from YT videos (which only show inanimate gear, not sheep or goats or anything practical) it appears they expect that one ought to rinse whatever one is transporting off before stowing it in the boot — completely backwards.

There is a very boomer joke, probably at least fifty years old by now, which involves a (male, of course) boss who interviews 3 (female, of course) secretarial candidates, and maybe there's some WPM involved, but he also gives them each a pile of cash as part of the interview.

One goes to the track, one invests in the overnight market, etc.

So which one does he hire?

The one with the most wood in front of the hut.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSBb8ESt96g
really happy to see There come to life again after 6 years since my original version which was also open-source: https://github.com/therehq/there-desktop

It was built in Electron which meant it was around 200mb and used a few hundred megabytes of RAM idle (!!)
I agree that NPR is regurgitating the narrative by "Iran International English", but to me the body of the article is crystal clear, this guy was an activist, and this particular "ratio-ing" was a likely trigger that led to him being included in this batch of people "to be made example of".

I think NPR is providing a disservice by reporting the actual "charges" he was found guilty of in 2020, because they don't matter. It's a brutal dictatorship, of course there are laws against criticizing the government ("anti-regime propaganda", and of course anyone can be charged with treason-lite (pro-Israel propaganda) and ... it's a theocracy, of course there are blasphemy laws, yeey!

We don't have high-certainty information about the proximate causes that landed this guy in prison, but it doesn't matter (it matters for scholars if they are doing some kind of deep dive on crackdowns, and of course it matters for actual people on the ground, who are trying to contest the charges, but even then the statistics is not kind to their efforts).

Similarly putting the photo of the ayatollah there is a disservice to Hossein.

And ... when it comes to what to do with this as a news consumer, the sad fact is that this is not news. There's zero new bit of actionable information in this. (NPR published this because "Iran International" published this on 31 Aug, the "trial" was apparently on 7th of August. He tweeted in June, and was released from prison sometime around April in 2023. Wikipedia says 2024, but it's likely wrong.)
ok thank you for the breakdown
> but then I realized I had too much of my social life tied up in my job.

Yup! Remote workers need to realise this, and build up a local social life.
They obviously don't have metro systems in Chinese villages. But Chinese cities do have great metro systems, while American cities are lucky to have any metro at all, or even a decent bus network or a few tram lines.

> My experience of the T is some decades old

Yes, it's extremely old. The Green Line looks like something out of the early 20th Century, and an important stretch of the Red Line had to be shut down a few years ago for emergency repairs, because they suddenly determined that it was too dangerous to continue operating. The whole system is on life support.

The NYC Subway is the only American system that could possibly compare to systems like the Paris Metro or the London Tube. But as I said, all these systems are terrible compared to the standard metro system you'll find in large cities in East Asia. Mainland Chinese cities have fairly standardized (which is how they keep costs down), very modern systems based on the Hong Kong metro. Taipei has a great metro system with a similar design. Japanese cities also have very extensive metro systems. I've heard great things about the Seoul metro system (though I haven't seen it first-hand).

But my point is that 90+% Americans have no idea about these systems. Without some basic exposure to the alternatives that are out there, it's pointless to say that Americans have made an informed choice. They make due with what they have, and largely don't know what the alternatives could be.
Shiny is an R package that is quite popular for building data analysis web tools, I suppose this would be a useful extension for it! Despite R tending to give people 'the ick' it regardless seems to have become quite a solid platform for building web apps
Hey, is there a way to do this in Langchain ? I have been trying to determine the way to do this cause I am working on a chat bot for the same.
I've seen a obvious ChatGPT wrapper being funded on a local variant of Shark Tank just because it was actually a nice idea. We've gone way to far already.
I think that the pressure to constantly do something often leads to wasted effort on tasks that don't contribute meaningfully to the bigger picture. The human potential being wasted.
For sure string like "zqb" would give me a pause with this letterform, because it looks a lot like "ząb". Maybe it would be clearer in surrounding text, though.
Those deemed essential get exceptions!
Many do. The question is can I recreate their exact business with a few lines of code?
Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out?
Depends on how it is measured as to whether it is a success.
Thanks! I will check that out. It's possible to share your dog with other people, when you add a dog, the app generates a unique ID with a three-word-format you can share with other people so they can add the dog to their profile. I thought about this for sharing internally in the family, or for when you want your pet sitter to keep tracking your dog activities. And as the owner, you can revoke their access anytime.

The PDF/report is a great idea. I will give it a look on how other apps handle this to get some inspiration :D
As for the lack of accountability with managers, that’s a huge issue.
Those two concepts are very much the same thing. There is no literally distinction between legally minimising the taxes you have to pay, and legally avoiding a tax that you would otherwise have to pay. You just want to have a different word to use to criticise people/groups/companies you don’t like doing something you seem to otherwise approve of, so you don’t look like a hypocrite.
A bit of a tangent but this might be somewhat illuminating: I worked for a big utility company. They needed some economic analysis done on where to best put some transport pipes into the ground, macro granularity (eg smallest unit was a neighborhood).

The team that did the analysis apparently did a great job, so additional requirements were thrown their way: a frontend and an interactive planning module on designing the pipe networks on micro level (smallest unit was a single house)

A year later the absolute maniacs delivered the application. They only knew R and some html/js, so that's what they used.

Cursed as fuck of course, and because they were external they left short after. This was pretty bad for the people left holding the bag; I mostly found it awe inspiring in the "doom running on an electric toothbrush" kinda sense.
No, TSMC said that the cutting edge fabs will always be in Taiwan
In the 1980s, Michael Lewis wrote his first book, Liar's Poker, which gave a detailed, first-hand account of investment banking that was very similar to what you just described. Millions to be made, but the whole thing is absurd and everyone is treated like shit.

The number of young college grads who wanted to go start their career in investment banking increased tremendously.
Don't be silly!

Nobody is stopping anybody from advertising or marketing. Simply that if your advertisers wish to track me, then they must ask my specific opt-in permission to do so. And so they should.

If your business cannot survive without illegally (!) tracking and trading in personal data, then you have a scummy business model and a business that has no right to exist.
TPS reports exist in many places. However companies like EY are predicated on performing incomprehensible amounts of busywork ground out by legions (literally: EY alone has nearly 100 Roman legions of headcount) of minions, constructing a illusion that the busywork is essential to any respectable Real Business Factory and lobbying for their flavor of busywork to be a legal requirement in as many jurisdictions as possible. It's like gun companies selling body armour.

You could nuke most of these organisations to dust and all that really would happen would be an adjustment as everyone realises the complicated TPS reports weren't very useful anyway and the world keeps turning.
Yes, it does break icon fonts.
There is no question that an enemy setting off thousands of small bombs in American supermarkets and homes, maiming unknown numbers of bystanders and killing children, would be designated an act of mass terrorism.

Anyone who claimed such mass terrorism is acceptable because it is not as bad as obliterating cities would be condemned as an apologist for terrorism.
Trade is good, because comparative advantages give us economic surplus, but we need compensatory tariffs for labor practices, just as for GHG emissions.
That’s fair, and I’m sure it can be done tastefully. I gave an earnest answer and it got an overall positive response.

But there was an air of “putting me in my place” and making it clear that this is not “fun and games”. When I mentioned my previous compensation (when I lived in a more affluent country), I was immediately made to know that this is unrealistic and even laughable for a starting position. Sprinkle in a 9h workday, in-office requirements and the fact that often people work overtime (“Though you really don’t need to do that.”), and the notion that the company cares about work-life balance rung very hollow.

The HR question at the end - what do you do in your free time? (so that they could put it as a blurb on their People page) - was just the cherry on top.

Basically I was given low expectations and I don’t recall the job ever being presented as something I’d want to do.

I appreciate the honesty, I guess. Better to know upfront than find out latter. I did end up being called back, but declined. Soon enough I was making 1.5x the minimum they weren’t happy to accept upfront (“maybe once you’ve been with us for a while - you are an expense to us in the first months”).

TBH, looking back at it, they were just predatorily looking for cheap labor in their new offices in a low-income area. Which is sad, since the interviewer came from the same country yet acted quite full of himself. I just happened to have more options than their “ideal” candidate.
A first cousin of mine found a (adult) daughter he didn’t know he had through it. They are in the process of building a relationship. It was a significant/important discovery for them even without having a prior relationship.
In a sense, this is how being in a foreign country where people talk in other languages and act within their own culture. They are more productive than you because the environment fits them more than it does you at that time.

And this acclimation is also similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity, how you talk with math people the from math village and feel you are stupid because you're not familiar with the symbols, the vocabularies. But when you have learned the language, you will see that you become better and better at learning, you have the means to gain more means--forming some sort of a positive feedback loop.
It’s crucial that companies address these toxic work cultures!
> There are reams of economic literature trying to estimate whether government intervention in the market was a good idea. Most of the time it doesn't turn out great.

These sentences are just propaganda. There’s no factual basis for them.

There are no markets without government intervention. Statements like this are more like religious incantations than appeals to “research” of some kind.
As somebody else pointed out above, the FDA is doing its job here. Putting random bacteria into peoples mouths could easily escape and contaminate other members of the population. With no guarantee of what this bacteria could potentially do in the wild, there is need to be cautious.
> We were told that nothing can escape a black hole.

Stephen Hawking told otherwise, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

In 1974, and that's now 50 years ago.
2000+ bombs hurting 2000 fighters and one child? I'd argue that almost no war is without collateral damage, but this one action might be uniquely low in the amount of collateral damage done.

> This is anecdotal and misleading

I saw 5 videos and in every case only the person carrying the pager was hurt. Even people less than a foot away weren't harmed. Look at the video on the front page of nytimes.com right now to see what it's like. Highly targeted at Hizbullah soldiers, no bystanders hurt. The exact opposite of "indiscriminate".

You're working yourself up into some righteous anger about this, which is fine, that's your choice. But at least recognise that that's what you're doing. You need a certain narrative to be true so you're twisting facts to suit that.
Nothing wrong with that
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
CTC bought Paderno, a Prince Edward Island perennial, to juice out more brand value after they’re done sucking T-Fal dry.

It's worse than that.

Panerno, a high quality manufacturer of stainless steel cookware, using North American steel, was indeed bought by Canadian Tire.

Immediately after purchase, the factory was sold to a Chinese firm, who wanted to import crappy Chinese steel, but still label cookware "Made in Canada".

It is their ingress into the North American market.

And as Paderno's plant is gone, it means that Paderno of Canadian Tire is now made with Chinese steel, not North American steel, and built to lowest quality standards.

But of course it still says "Made in Canada".

Canadian Tire has boasted in earning reports that more than 60% of its profits now come from its own brands. Often like this, quality brands bought and turned into junk.

This is one pf the reasons why many jurisdictions in Canada have warranty laws that say the retailer is liable too.
Gatwick train cancelled after squirrels board and 'refuse to leave'
It doesn't make war impossible, just economically ruinous.