skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If language police is what I think it is, it doesn't fine for bad command of the language, but rather for using the wrong language after being asked nicely twice.
As someone who is using python professionally for over 17 years I sincerely hope this PEP gets rejected.
Would Not Pressing AZ-5 Save Chernobyl? [video]
Does/will this correctly handle `| undefined` vs `?`, i.e. correct behavior under `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`?

Zod doesn't (yet[0]) and it's been a pain point for me.

[0] https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/issues/635
Ask HN: Is iOS 18 Screen Mirroring a backdoor?
This new iOS 18 feature lets you use your "turned-off" iPhone without ever inputting your PIN code. To me this is the exact definition of a backdoor.

It's true that this is only possible when you're logged into a computer that is logged into the same Apple Account, but this setup feels eerily similar to the ability by Apple to use your phone remotely.

Are my worries unfounded? I feel that Apple should secure this better or at least explain how this is already secure. Their help pages are very vague on this.
Show HN: VRE Dataset generation for MultiTask vision models training from videos
Been working on this tool for my PhD which involves training multi task vision models using various pre-trained models as inputs or pseudolabels in order to improve generalization. I work mostly on UAV datasets, but it should work okay on indoor scenes or self driving (at least Marigold and Mask2Former).

For example, this dataset was generated using this tool: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Meehai/dronescapes

I'm quite aggressively trying to "just get the nn.Module" from the public repos that other researchers put up in their overly convoluted frameworks. A simple `forward(rgb_input: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor` is nice, having 100 imports from a generic framework that has versions incompatibilities with everything else is not.

PS: most mains are standalone runnable too, i.e.
- https://gitlab.com/meehai/video-representations-extractor/-/...
or
- https://gitlab.com/meehai/video-representations-extractor/-/...
"even though, unlike iOS, Android is an open platform that has always allowed for choice and flexibility..."

It would be informative to know—by jurisdiction—the stats of what type of smartphone OS the key deciders had in their pockets.
> it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are

Kagi
Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell: "Revenge of the Tipping Point"
Your sentence is the perfect example for proper use of "they", per the wikipedia article "It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent" - "boss" is non-gendered and so "they" is grammatically correct.

There's no virtue signalling, you're reading too much into it.
Kinda yah, I mean, it seems like it is getting a strong negative response based on the poll.
Ports aren't audited, but no it wouldn't make it into base, but ease of auditing is probably not the reason why that won't happen.
The article doesn't mention it, but am I right in assuming this basically comes from McDonald's? There are a lot of places around the world that copy the "'s" where it doesn't exist natively, but only for restaurant names or similar -- like "Bob's" is the McDonald's clone in Brazil [1].

I'm mostly curious whether "Rosi's" and "Kati's" in the article are seen by Germans as intentionally trying to look "foreign", rather than the apostrophe "invading" German.

Like, if I go to a Sausage Haus, I'm not exactly worrying about "Haus" creeping into English to replace "House". Nor would I ever call it the "idiot's house" because that would be crazy insulting and perjorative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s
Why not both?

Tabs can do something that spaces cannot do: they can provide unambiguous indentation information. To this end, it's braindead easy: for every tab, you have a new indentation level.

But spaces can do something that tabs cannot do: they can provide formatting info that remains constant regardless of tab size. Thus, once your indentation is correct, you can use spaces to make sure that one-per-line arguments for that one function are all lined up correctly, or for those comments at the end of a line, that are best lined up together, or if you want to make sure that keys and values are lined up in a hash table -- all these cases are handled nicely by spaces, but are horrendous if you change the tab size.

I have used this for Python, PHP, JavaScript, and HTML, and this is something that works <i>very well</i> with <i>all</i> of these languages. The one place where the formatting won't work out too well would be for variable-font editors -- but perhaps that can be handled by either choosing a fixed font to spite the editor, or to make sure the editor matches the sizes of spaces to the sizes of the characters above the previous line.

Or, alternatively, the editor could interpret mid-line tabs as formatting, too, and just align them up according to the longest line, but that would require editor shenanigans that I think are currently not provided for!
Zoom will let AI avatars talk to your team for you
> This will be caused by a combination of better recycling and continuing advances in battery chemistry, which boosts the energy density of cells so that batteries can be made with fewer raw materials

This is a hope, at best. For better or worse, I wouldn't bet on it. I don't think electric vehicles will "eat the world" in the foreseeable (or farther) future.
Excellent job demonstrating Google's broad market dominance, and that alternatives exist to replace them should antitrust action be taken.
On top of this I recommend languagejones on YouTube. He's a linguistics PhD that gets into things like how African American Vernacular English is actually more complex than regular English, intentionally obfuscated from white English, and has fast moving slang to stay ahead of adoption of the slang into the wider culture. It's pretty fascinating stuff and he does a lot to show how thinking some of this stuff is incorrect is actually just ignorance.
Boo. That's not what's at stake here; people don't wanna pay taxes that are fairly owed to the government.
What Can 11,000 Proteins in Our Blood Tell Us?
> I can see many reasons to deploy such a thing

Care to share?
Lamborghini Carjackers Lured by $243M Cyberheist
What moat? Nvidia is barely even competing in the same Xe2 is in. Their laptop GPUs aren't particularly spectacular and aren't at all suitable for low-power use cases.
You.. think bezos invented ecommerce? It long predates amazon. Amazon wasn't even the first online bookstore!
I also didn't login to the site. I wanted to see what it is about, but why do I need to sign in to see information?
I think naming quality isn't really a difference between OSI and TCP/IP. I'm sending this message in URL-encoded UTF-8 in MIME over HTTP over TLS and TCP, IP, MPLS, DOCSIS, and an 802.11g CSMA/CA MAC in a CIDR IP block allocated by ARIN via LACNIC to an AS that belongs to a CLEC; ultimately you'll use an URL to read it in HTML, and if your UA is like mine, you'll use ECDHE ECDSA with AES-256-GCM and SHA-384, verified through a CA chain through E5 (which supports OCSP) and ISRG. But nobody bats an eye at that because that alphabet soup has been familiar for decades.
After having been a paid subscriber for a number of months, I have to say that it still wasn't cutting it. I still ended up falling back to google all the time.

Plus, https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Easvesdropping on HDMI with Tempestsdr and SDRplay
It's like German humor, it's no laughing matter.
Ask HN: How do you cope with a deluge of job applications?
I just chatted online with someone currently hiring for a mid-level software engineer who received more than 2,000 applications. That’s ridiculous.

So (inspired by actual events), I’m writing a freelanced article, "Upending the hiring process for technical talent.” Although the topic applies to any job search situation, the story is tuned to software developers and other tech fields, and I expect both remote work and AI to be primary factors.

Getting thousands of applications is nuts for both the company and the applicants. My question is, "What — if anything — can be done to make the process more sane for everybody?"

I would love input from the wise people here. (Formal attribution is not required, but context is helpful for verisimilitude: "...says one program lead from a midwest insurance firm.") I know you have opinions. However, the HIVE MIND responses I care about should come from people affected by this change – primarily HR professionals and tech industry hiring managers. My short (?) list of questions:

• How many job applications do you typically get today for a technical position such as a software engineer? How has that number changed?
• Are there differences in the applications? I’m open to anything from “remote work expanded the number of people who want to work here” to “They are impersonal and seem AI-generated” to… well, what? Tell me.
• How do you triage the applications (no / maybe / worth talking to)? How long does it take? For HR, what percentage of the applications are provided to the hiring managers? For hiring managers, how does that percentage make you feel?
• How have you changed job listings? For instance, are you asking for more information in the application process or including more detail in the job req? Are you employing tools that claim to sort responses? Are you offering salary transparency so that nobody wastes time when the numbers don’t align?
• What changes have you implemented in the job process? (Turning more to recruiters, for instance? Relying more on employee referrals?)
• Is “return to office” an issue here? (I would imagine that “local candidates only” would reduce the number of applications, but I don’t want to assume too much about any HR connection.)
• Regardless of what your company IS doing to deal with the job application deluge, what — if anything — do you think COULD be done to make the process more sane for everybody? What would you do if you could wave a magic wand to address the problem?
This opening statement is confusing due to being stated as an axiom. From my experience, the majority of IT engineers considers the opposite true:

> only few professional software engineers can "afford" to have the second option as their personal website

In the quote "second option" refers to SSGs. But likely most of us here, and surely most engineers I interact with, would use the word "affordable" to describe why the first option (complex CMS like WordPress) is generally AVOIDED. The post quotes "professional engineers" or "professional software engineers". And points at SSGs as an "unaffordable" solution over WordPress.

The basis for this blog posts are however, that setting up SSG is time consuming while WP comes with less strings. Scroll to the end of this blabber to see the strings.

WordPress is not really an option for "professional software engineers". Most of us would be ashamed of having our personal websites defaced or allowing an attacked to read our databases and change entries. The "pros" own their swolutions and are careful around what that ownership entails. YOLO-approach CMS foer the personal website is simply not an option...

It's due to man-hours required to secure all the underlying dependencies (PHP, database), problems related to managing multiple system services to make a personal website work (outside of caddy, nginx etc) and how compute-heavy using WP is. And how much more knowledge (and - again - time) one needs, to harden a WP website for heavy load. You know - the "hug" thing which is not a thing with SSG-generated stupid static HTML, CSS and JS files.

Or, maybe I'll just quote the nonsense... According do the author WP is better than SSG because it doesn't require one to:

Buy a domain
Find a hosting platform
Configure DNS
Find an SSG (or handcraft everything yourself)
Learn how to setup a deployment pipeline

I haven't spent so much dopamine on decrypting few opening paragraphs of any blog posts in a good few weeks. This blog post was "unaffordable".
My CPU was no where near being throttled. I'm talking about basic desktop responsiveness.
Interesting study, but it's n=1.
Not really enough to make that bold statement in the title.

It's misleading.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. It is indeed people skills that matters the most. I, unfortunately, found out about this too late. I didn't keep any connections, nor I posses good people skills. I was focusing too much on tech my whole life. Not that I can't change it, but it is what it is.
I’d argue that more so than anyone alive having “chosen” this structure, it’s what the structure itself wants to perpetuate. Eg people who go to elite colleges tend to see elite colleges as a reflection of “the system working” or whatever and view other concerns other than perpetuating this as secondary concerns. Same with government jobs, industry, etc etc.
The study's abstract says: "To this end, for a single subject" [...]

So.. we can stop reading here?
Well ideally everyone should gain from this 4-way arrangement: the producer making a transaction they would otherwise not have made, the consumer covering their need efficiently/wasting less time on something/consumer surplus, the site operator participating in allowing the advertiser to gather the data necessary to make the recommendation and the advertisier getting a commission for for coordinating all that.

Of course in the real world we get more of a mexican standoff than enlightened tradepartners coming mutually beneficial agreements.
So your code is full of HyperTextTransferProtocolSecureClients, using a TransportLayerSecurityCertificate?
I am having trouble coming up with more examples of "methods which revolutionized the practice of statistics", can you think of any?

Is statistical mechanics not a physics discipline?
That's дім, not дом, but of course it's "вдома" and "у домі" for reasons.
Not all python code is production code. Sometimes I just need to write simple one-off script for one-off task. For that bare except is totally fine.
Cybercriminals hail from all walks of life and income levels, but some of the more accomplished cryptocurrency thieves also tend to be among the more privileged, and from relatively well-off families. In other words, these individuals aren’t stealing to put food on the table: They’re doing it so they can amass all the trappings of instant wealth, and so they can boast about their crimes to others on The Com.

Interesting observation. I think it makes sense they would come from a privileged background. You need the time and resources to acquire the requisite skillset to become good at this, so a high-SES background helps. Family wealth also provides a fallback plan if your get-rich-quick hustle fails.
If they are actually nominally offering privacy over bing and yandex, while selling anonymous ads on that sticker, that is a valid USP.
> The PBC model is relatively new. Delaware, where most companies are incorporated, only adopted PBC legislation in 2013 and then changed provisions in 2020 to make the structure more enticing. Of the thousands of publicly traded companies in the US, fewer than 20 are PBCs. [...]

> However, it has proved popular with AI companies. Both Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI tool, and Musk’s xAI are PBCs. One person close to xAI said this meant its probability of being sued was reduced if it did not act in accordance with the shareholders’ interests.

[...]

> “It is intentionally a way for incumbent management and directors to entrench themselves,” he said. “If you can convey the idea to people that you are a good enterprise, a morally safe enterprise and that comes with very little constraints, that has to be tempting to entrepreneurs.”
Oh hey Greg :-D Did you watch the movie yet? Was fun.

I'm definitely still team Dave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman

Last time I talked to Peter was in 2019 and he was making fun of me for spending Bitcoins continuously since 2011, and said Bitcoins are supposed to be hoarded like gold or something, not used as money. Definitely not the attitude of someone who supposedly burned the million Satoshi coins (which was a claim from the movie, I guess some leaked IRC transcript or something). I wouldn't be surprised if the leaked transcript came from Peter himself. He seems to get off on weird deception plays like that.
>The only place to get more tax is to just seize the paper straight. And I think that’s a terrible idea.

That's not true, right now there's lots of incentive for the ultra wealthy to not sell their stocks, and instead use the buy/borrow/die strategy. This results in less tax revenue, allows them to capture gains, and can then pass down that wealth on a step-up basis that wipes out capital gains for the recipient.

Policies could be changed to incentivize selling assets without actually seizing them.
I don't understand where all the money goes for mozilla. Here is the revenue line from wikipedia for 2022:

total revenue | percent from google | total expenses |software dev expenses

$593 million | 81% ($480 million) | $425 million | $220 million

so basically 168 million in the bank in 2022. the math has been basically this the last 10 years. in 2018 they lost 1 million but in 2019 they gained 330 million. a lot of their software expenses probably comes from the busywork features they saddled upon themselves like pocket or whatever, since it was only $63 million in 2010 and has only gone up by a couple hundred million from there.

So just over the last 10 years from my back of the envelope map from that table on wikipedia, they should have a good 1.5 billion in the war chest by today assuming the mozilla foundation did not make investments with it, which they probably have this entire time so probably even more valuable. At a certain point, maybe already, the org should have enough cash socked away in investment to just pay for operating expenses out of dividends alone.
> The value of the super wealthy’s net worth is paper. It only has value because we all agree it has value. If you started to seize their paper wealth and give it to everyone else, the value of that paper would immediately fall, not just from the threat of seizing it but their lack of ownership and stewardship would make it crumble.

I don't think ownership and stewardship is the problem. The fundamental problem is still there: whether they have 1T dollars, or 300M people have their share of 1T dollars, the dollars in the system will increase the second they spend it. Their "stewardship" is a tenuous position - commanding enough capital to cause massive inflation. Politics aside, it's lose/lose for a single person to command that much power over an economy. If every billionaire decided to liquidate their assets all at once the financial system would absolutely fold. The fact these people can accumulate this level of wealth is not only an income equality problem but a symptom of a cancer in our financial system. The Fed's policies and the existence of lobbying have, by and large, created these people. It's less a money problem but rather a political problem.

I agree with you that the idea of charging capital gains on unrealized capital is financial and political suicide. Even if you suppose you only do this for people worth, say, 500M or more history has shown that this never sticks. Eventually, the government will continue to get more hungry and continue to make abhorrent financial decisions. Eventually, it will effect everyone. As you stated, the investment from regular people over the next 30-50 years would trend towards 0 - and then a new way to tax would need to be made. Negative interest rates on bank accounts, perhaps.

That's not to say however it's ok that these people are allowed to possess >= 80% of a countries net wealth. The money isn't the problem is the power it brings - and that's a huge problem. The safest way is probably a progressive inheritance tax but it still has the same problem. How long before Joe Plumber is effected by it? 50 years? There's no simple solution.
Genuinely impressive. This guy's tax bill alone could operate the most powerful military that has ever existed for the better part of a week.
given that universities produce hackers and military tech, i am not sure
Exxon Mobil says advanced recycling is the answer to plastic waste. Really?
What's left for Web Components to get in order to completely get rid of frameworks like VueJS and React? By getting rid of I mean for 99% of use cases.

It may also mean a light framework on top of Web Components, but getting rid of all these dependencies and ever-changing framework is of course an old dream.
“Wealth” as a static number is extremely fickle and tells you nothing about reality

The Waltons have a completely different kind of wealth than Musk - In many practical and theoretical ways.

So even within this subset of insane wealth hoarders, there is a difference in kind, type legal structure, ability to liquidate, etc…

We have thousands of examples where someone’s “wealth” disappears overnight because a handful of “analysts” downgrade future expectations of what their percentage of equity is worth in a secondary market. That’s not really going to happen with Buffet, Gates but very possible with Musk and similar.

On the flipside arguably Musk has the most political influence within the right wing (See: recent Trump stuff) compared to for example, the relative influence of the Waltons on the “liberal” wing.

Similarly I could point to a ton of people who aren’t on on this list but fall into the >500M$ category who have a lot more influence on power and economics than some of the people in the top of this list.

The fact that this is not calculated within this framework, means that this ranking is pure vanity and says nothing about economic, power, political power, or anything other than an arbitrary, monetary leaderboard.
> Could the richest people liquidate holdings for the value Forbes estimates their worth at? I doubt it.

Of course, if someone like Elon liquidated his TSLA holdings he'd be worth nowhere near the estimate. I don't think it matters though, because he can use those holdings as leverage for cash that makes him effectively as liquid as his estimated net worth.
I am Spanish native, but the way I structure my sentence seems a google translation from chinese. People around me often don't understand the meaning, so I have to speak slower to structure my sentence in a more proper Spanish way.

I suppose languages evolve around the way their corresponding population brains work. People can still learn other languages, or be native to other languages, but there is a language way that is the best fit to some people which is related to biology.
If they only divided it into information search ("library" knowledge) and business search (Yelp/YP) where you can tweak your preferences.

When you search for "vacuum cleaner", you either want online stores or you may want a local store. In either case it's a business query rather than looking for reviews or specs.

What's really polluting search, including Google, is the on-demand content generation based on your query. It's a sea of flotsam.
An IP was leaked in 2009 though tied to Satoshi in Los Angles
Why would you earn a credit?

You created a tax event and paid taxes on it and you got a loan for x% of $100.

If you sell the stock at $80 you'd pay no taxes on the appreciation (-$20). No credits, investing is risky.
Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go
Most middle class don't have to work either - they are just not willing to accept the lifestyle that forces. Even poor people could find enough savings by 30 to not work if they really want to live that lifestyle. (I don't blame anyone for not wanting to live like that)
the device is unlikely to also provide at scale if restored, which probably would also be a consideration. if you are serious to use it as a pill press, you would not go for this inconvenient option.

I wish her luck in getting it sorted, ...
Please don't perpetuate hellish flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html