skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> lingua-franca

Aside: I used to assume the term referred to how French was once "the language of diplomacy", but it really comes from "Frankish", at a time when "Franks" was a broad term for peoples of what is now western Europe.
Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
Can someone explain what law forces Musk to pay them $47 for everyone that fills out a form?
About 10% of the world's population is left-handed, while 90% are right-handed. The remaining 1% of people are ambidextrous, meaning they have no dominant hand.

10% does not seem that rare.
What's the cost of fine tuning and then serving a model, say Llama 3 8B or 70B? I couldn't find anything on the website...
So what happens if you are not affiliated when you log in while also clicking the "remember me" option, but later become affiliated? Seems like there's a loophole available for those inclined in being subversive
> I suppose you wouldn't consider yourself an optimist.

With regard to modern advertising, you are absolutely correct!

That said, I fully understand and agree with the usefulness of advertising. What I'm against is the modern state of advertising. If all ads were simply contextual based on the content being shown and not the user, I don't think many of us would have problems with the ads industry.
It's worth pointing out cigar smokers that are left handers exceed 1:10 and I've read elsewhere smoking is a preferred Neanderthal trait.
Folks if you’re at all senior don’t accept less than 200K. It’s the new 100K. And for the level of value you bring to the table you deserve at least a median house within commute distance of your job.
But maybe your experience just means you’ve never had the same problems as the authors of the libraries?
Evidently they're speaking your language.
It's a game. the rules are here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_Rules.pdf
I'm personally playing the "god is dead" rule with my friends. I don't care about the US elections but this is a really fine game.

[edit] i know it's bad etiquette to comment on votes, but parent's question seems legitimate and can have usefull answers, it doesn't deserve downvotes imho.
California: The First Three Centuries
Truly unnecessary
Ah yes, thank you - I'm in the US. Wow I just assumed other Western countries had the same situation with leaving employment as the US. Interesting to know.

Do they have to also abide by this to their employees? Or are those just not in the contracts?
New Ellijay Television
> I'm about 50,000 lines of Rust into a metaverse client, and my own code has zero "unsafe". I'm not even calling "mem", or transmuting anything. Yet this has both networking and graphics, and goes fast. I just do not see why people seem to use "unsafe" so much.

I agree. I rarely ever use unsafe, and only as a last resort. Unsafe code is really not needed to achieve high performance.

> Rust does need a better way to do backlinks. You can do it with Rc, RefCell, and Weak, but it involves run-time borrow checks that should never fail.

I think this will basically turn into provably-correct data structures. Which is possible to do, and I've long thought there should be systems built on top of Rust to allow for proving these correct. But we should be clear that something like Idris is what we're signing up for. Whatever it is, it is assuredly going to be far more complex than the borrow check. We should basically only use such systems for the implementations of core data structures.
> I'm not sure that placing free long distance calls isn't harmful to the org whose infrastructure you're using for your own benefit,

If there's a call you wouldn't make unless it was free, the infrastructure isn't at capacity, and you're not acting otherwise in a detrimental fashion to other users of the infrastructure-- there's no harm to that organization.
It's rather that if there's a continuous inflow of traffic that usually doesn't take one of the exits, then all traffic coming coming from that exit doesn't get a chance to join the roundabout.

What usually happens is the roundabout gets traffic lights.
I used them while hiking in Peru.

It's better than caffeine, because it comes with a mild euphoria. Nothing crazy, just enough to have energy and not feel like hiking at altitude is work.

When I hike with coffee I just feel determined to finish. With Coca it just felt natural to keep walking.
Musk is running a similar program for people in swing states, paying them $47 to refer potential Trump voters. If he doesn't pay, or pays selectively, he's violating various campaign finance laws.
The case against Google surely is that they shouldn't be allowed to use their dominant position in ad sales to price dump unrelated businesses until all competitors are gone.

Like for example having youtube be free until they're the only game in town then start charging 14 dollars monthly to avoid 30% ads. Or targeting ads to gmail users so you can artificially provide a cheaper mail service than anyone else.

There's an actual law saying you can't do stuff like that.
Left-handed scissors are a thing. I own a couple of pairs but they feel funny because I've simply used right-handed scissors backwards most of my life.

One big difference is visibility. On right-handed scissors you can see the cut from the (top) left, while left-handed ones are the opposite. If you cut lefty with righty scissors you can't see what you're doing (unless you awkwardly hold everything to the right side).
>No statement, no idea, no demands. A special place in Hell…

I mean... would it be better if the hackers had asked for money or did it to protest global warming or something?
I sort of agree with you, but only if you aren’t in a position to say ‘the software doesn’t support it’.
By "working idea" do you mean something that you made up in your head which has no basis in reality, but works for you?

Edit: I had only seen the one post on X in which responsibility for the attack was claimed when I made this comment, but looking at the account further they do make many politically motivated comments.

With this new insight my comment now seems unnecessarily dismissive because it's not completely unreasonable to suspect false flag attacks when political motivations are being broadcast. To be clear I'm not making any assumptions for this specific case one way or the other, but I am acknowledging that the political speech presented by the attackers does add some merit to your suspicion.
I can attest to the magical effects against altitude sickness.
Renewed Lenovo Thinkpads are around $200 or less on Amazon.
You don't need a build step if you do everything in javascript without jsx. I have done it like that in the past on air gapped environments (and vendored the deps)
Something cool that I can't remember if it was posted on HN at one point or I stumbled across when looking for alternatives to yup but this repo has been compiling a bunch of different benchmarks for runtime validation of ts validation libraries. Obviously to some degree the performance is arbitrary when you're reaching millions of operations per second but on the flipside their benchmarks are against rather data. Would be interested to see comparison of either more nested data or otherwise complex. Maybe something to look at in my spare time.

https://moltar.github.io/typescript-runtime-type-benchmarks/
We should stop project-root pollution
It is a simple tool, yet it makes a day-and night difference when traversing directories.
I was wondering if this ends up actually involving Barbara Liskov's ideas or it's just a pun or something and it does end up that these technologies have problems with Liskov Substitution, so that's nice.
His repository is https://gitlab.com/zephray/sitina1. The hardware list seems somewhat incomplete, e.g., missing the metal ring and connector for the lens mount and pcbs.
> Now mix of two languages looks even worst than one complex.

The point is that the vast majority of code doesn't have to be unsafe. Empirically, Rust code has far fewer memory safety problems than non-memory-safe languages.
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
This is an excellent writeup, probably the best I've seen that summarizes the issues with webcomponents with the viewpoint of react. I'd like to add a few more reasons why I think webcomponents haven't had great adoption though:

1. Lack of convention. They tried to create lower level APIs rather than an opinionated structure of how to organize webcomponents, leading to the majority of consumption of them to be via a framework. They promised to remove the need for frameworks, not create more! I really wish webcomponents implemented more ease-of-use features and convention rather than relying on libraries to do this.

2. Lack of organization. This is similar to the above, but the majority of the time I see people bundling their html and css into js files in order to have a one-component-per-file approach. There's a part of me that kind of wishes we had html imports for subdirectories, and allowed you to load either button/ (and all subfiles) or even button.gz, which would have the html/css/js all bundled together in a sensible and opinionated way. The lack of opinions on how to organize your components, and the lack of html imports, have led to a chaotic mess where everything has to be interpreted before first paint.
They were using cocaine. It was a less concentrated form, sure, but it’s still using the same substance for a psychoactive effect.
In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear
it'll be breach of contract. Musk is promising that he will pay every valid voter in the swing states $47 if they fill out his form and certify they will vote for in the interest of the first and second amendments, if a eligible voter fulfills their part of the bargain and says to send their check to CaH, it's their right to do so. Musk can't just decide he doesn't like what they're doing with (now) their money and not pay up on his end of the bargain.
this post made me immediately reach out for a raise. im not good at this part of the job. i hate this part of the job. im an engineer. first, last, and most importantly.
An Economist's Guide to Helping Victims of Helene and Milton
Of possible relevance - last week's SMBC comic on English being partly of French and German origin https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/arthur

Which as a Brit I found quite interesting - I didn't realise the early language of Britain was Common Brittonic before reading that. It got displaced by English and it's closest descendant in the UK is Welsh.

It's sort of ironic that after Brittonic was largely wiped out by Germanic settlers, we now send back apostrophes to annoy them.
As an immigrant from the 3rd world -> Canada, I found a surprising number of things fit this bill.

Some things have a global market and everyone is paying ~ the same price everywhere.

- Meat, to an extent

- Any oil-derived product

- Electronics

- Software

- IP

- Cars

- Clothes

Of course there are always local taxes, regulations, and logistical considerations that skew the price this way or that way by 10-30%, but these markets can be pretty efficient.
Except it doesn't apply to patent trolls at all. They don't go after big companies, they mostly go after small ones that they don't expect to fight back, and they mostly use broad and vague patents that shouldn't even have been issued. That's what makes them patent trolls, they're patents are BS.
I brush my teeth and write with the left, dribble and throw with the right.

I kick the ball with the right, and on the boards sports I'm goofy.
But it's just obvious, why we even need to discuss it?

Why would some large group of people just "hate" an animal species, if not for some suffering they experience?
They have been cruising the streets of Seattle for half a year now - I was startled by one this very afternoon - but I still cannot get over just how awkward and ungainly they are.
Rc does solve the problem, but it often introduces interior mutability, which ends up causing usability problems. That's why at the end of the day adjacency representations (i.e. integers) are often preferred.
Is this a common definition of "hydration" and I've missed it all these years? For me that "adding to the running SPA" part is called rendering.
Certainly a fair point, but it also costs a lot of person-hours to patch up that infrastructure's security and trace who's placing the calls when one could just choose not to do this fraud in the first place. I am not old enough to know whether carriers also charged each other back then, but at least nowadays it could also incur charges for the originating party; costs which the caller isn't covering

Toying with the system, learning how it works and finding what you can make it do, there's a certain art to it and I'd encourage anyone to at least tinker with the systems they own (and everything else within reason and ethics), but there's two sides to nearly everything
You’re not wrong, but that bias is not stemming out of Racism imo. Also I’m not saying that the bias is acceptable, but it shows a different kind of social problem that often transcends classes and gender.
Not nearly as many as there are in portland by a factor of about 25
He is deflecting the obligations that having a project in the kernel mainline puts on him.

Linus' reaction is very appropriate because Kent is breaking the mainline and wrecking the kernel development cycle. It is more than appropriate to pull bcachefs out of the mainline.
> there’s many examples of people buying ads on a persons name to catch them googling themselves

What does this mean? What is the value of "catching" someone googling themselves?
Oh no! I didn't know their IPFS initiative didn't pan out. What happened to it? I am surprised how hard it is to google. I remember interviewing for a role on that team at the archive to help move it to filecoin. Was so happy to hear that the effort was underway to decentralize their datastore. We need this more than ever.
Isn’t it flat illegal to pay people to vote? Otherwise Trump
or Harris could just… directly bribe people to vote for them through a cutout.
Omg, my employer is on the map xD

Guess there’s something to be said for being headquartered in Nashville.

It’s a bit sad the pay there seems to easily be twice what they pay in Japan :/
Or you know, you can google it and find it's a play on word with "crimes against humanity" because a lot of the combination result on really dark or politically incorrect humor.
I guess this is more of a specifications hardware list than a complete list of parts that you need to build it.
You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth
I think you're reading way too much into a satirical card game dude...
So let me get this straight. Universities don’t want to show that Nvidia gpus are obsolete, so they can receive a steady stream of obsolete gpus? For what possible reason, that doesn’t make sense.
SR-IOV is a rare competitive advantage of Intel GPUs over Nvidia/AMD.

Why would Intel give up that advantage by directing customers to software GPU virtualization that works on AMD and Nvidia GPUs?
The job market for tech is saturated with all the layoffs. Not many companies are going to pay anywhere close to 200k anymore.
I think you're partly describing nationalisation of a business when it becomes so big it can't be left alone and needs to be readjusted to help the market.

It's bought by the gov ("payout to the shareholders"), regulations are enacted to delimit what it can and can't do, and the whole thing is setup to make sure it's for the benefit of the larger public, with additional consideration on how to reintroduce competition on part of its mandate.

We' ve seen it with postal services and telecom, and if the whole thing becomes outdated it can spun out as a private entity again.
"Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at last it's an ethos."
It's not if its a superPAC, apparently.
MacPorts is a great alternative, also way older but never has been as successful as Homebrew.
How are ads for less relevant products better? If the user tracking data is used only for showing ads and doesn't leak I would guess 99% of people would care about getting tracked.
More details here about the data breach. Stolen database contains 31 million records.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-arch...
This is accurate, as a techie in Bend. But the map hives off Deschutes county all by itself, and at the same time lumps in Baker City with the "Greater Portland Area". That needs some work.
It does work, when you don't notice it. We need sane limits and permanent seeders. This is why so many regular people get hit with ISP notices, they don't know they've seeded Captain America for the last six months every time they started their PC.
GCP doesn't make money
This is why complaints about Linus are very wrong.

It is Kent that is in the wrong here.

If Linus was even half of the bad guy that people whine about, bcachefs would already be out of the mainline.

It is coming because Kent seems incapable of learning how to work inside an organization.

Imagine Kent's attitude on a corporate dev team. He wouldn't last a month.
Someone needs to serve the burgers though. Are you saying those people commute two hours each way?
I have exactly that in two rooms and it has some issues. I cannot turn off either display with the remote and I cannot change the volume with the remote in one room.
true but a lot of people understandably assume those are part of Central America
Movie theater is an interesting analogy because they make zero money on ticket sales. Usually ticket revenue pays for the cost of the movie (theaters pay the studio for the movie). The way the theaters make money is on concessions, hence why they're crazy expensive.
eget looks great! Thanks for mentioning it.
A few minutes ago (22:48 UTC), I got three emails from HIBP about accounts of mine breached on the Internet Archive. Troy is quick! And I'm surprised the author of that alert() actually had the data as well as followed through

Bit of a shame the emails contain an ad for a password manager, saying there's two easy steps to become more secure: Step 1: use our password manager (fair enough), "Step 2: Enable 2 factor authentication and store the codes inside your [password manager]" ehh now it's back to 1 factor or am I missing something?

Edit: according to https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-arch... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41793669), Troy Hunt / HIBP already received and verified this "three days ago" as of yesterday 6pm AoE
You are reading way too much into the tongue-in-cheek name of a satirical card game.
There are ways people without FAANG-level salaries are able to afford San Francisco:

1. Purchasing when market prices were lower, or inheriting a home. San Francisco has been expensive for decades, but it didn’t always require FAANG-level salaries to afford purchasing a home there.

2. Living in a rent-controlled unit and avoiding evictions (e.g., if the landlord wants to sell, move in, or redevelop the unit).

3. Qualifying for government-subsidized housing, in the form of either Section 8 (voucher-based housing assistance), below market rate rentals, or below market rate properties for purchase. Many Bay Area municipalities have a local housing authority that provides more information about local subsidized housing programs.

4. Shared living situations, whether it’s with family, friends, or strangers, helps reduce housing costs at the expense of needing to share space with others. I know many people in the Bay Area who wouldn’t be able to afford to live here without some type of shared accommodations.

5. Some employers subsidize housing expenses. For example, some universities in the Bay Area offer housing assistance to tenure-track faculty members, ranging from down payment assistance to zero-interest mortgages. There are some universities that sell homes to faculty and staff at below-market prices, with the stipulation that those properties get sold to other faculty and staff once they are put up for sale.
Some people live in their cars during the week.
The US does a great job at hyping itself, but let's be realistic: it's 20th in human development index[1]. "Sure," you might say, "regular people don't do as well here, but you can get ahead here if you work hard! That's the American Dream™."

Nope, it's also 27th in social mobility[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Perhaps you can persuade Elon that it owns the libs?
Principles for Human-Centered Government Procurement Technology
so who are the academics raising 1b+ dollars to build and operate GPU farms to work on the frontiers of transformer models?
He's not paying people to vote. He's paying people to register to vote.
HaveIbeenpwnd says it was just passwords/usernames/emails, so seemingly not. (My company just got an email from them about the breach and I confirmed I'm in there with a quick search on their website.)
We have lost the ability to meaningfully compare the magnitude of things.
Left-handed screwdrivers are not real, but left-handed scissors are real.

Left-handed watches are also real, the crown is on the left side: https://www.fratellowatches.com/help-my-son-is-a-lefty-a-loo...
I'd raise you the same question on which private company is spawning its own LHC to research fundamental physics.
You might want to go look it up before making a bunch of assumptions based only on the name. Sure, you might feel a bit silly after, but hopefully you can have a good laugh over it.
One thing not discussed: Accumulated Earnings Tax. 20%

It forces companies to distribute gains to shareholders, not amass it.

It already exists, we just don't enforce it enough.
Exactly, ambidextrous people are freaks of nature, like a professional baseball player who can pitch with either hand from inning to inning, and even then there will be a stronger side -- in other words, it is unlikely that a human being could be equally dominant across both hands.
I personally think that the best alternative is statamic. I've built two large sites with it without touching a line of PHP. No themes or crazy plugin dependencies in the manner of Wordpress, so its a roll everything yourself type deal, but the data model building GUI is excellent. Not super interested in selling/explaining it, but certainly I would look into it as a viable alternative - it works how I think CMS's should work, incredibly refreshing after building websites for 20 odd years.