skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In damage control mode, Zendesk can't pay a bounty out here? Come on. This is amateur hour. The reputational damage that comes from "the company that goes on the offensive and doesn't pay out legitimate bounties" impacts the overall results you get from a bug bounty program. "Pissing off the hackers" is not a way to keep people reporting credible bugs to your service.

I don't understand what this tries to accomplish. The problem is bad, botching the triage is bad, and the bounty is relatively cheap. I understand that this feels bad from an egg-on-face perspective, but I would much rather be told by a penetration tester about a bug in a third-party service provider than not be told at all just to respect a program's bug bounty policy.
Why Google Search Is Falling Apart [video]
Imagine using google products in 2024 Lol
When I saw “should be in rust” my instinct was to flame like nobody’s business, glad I kept reading. Lmao. Good slow burn.

Though, not to put too fine a point on it, I know it was in jest, but the core implementation language is the least of my concerns. As long as it is extremely portable, compiles fast, and runs on virtually anything, then whatever the core is, doesn’t matter much to me.
So many developer workloads can be sped up significantly by throwing more cores at the problem. Classic examples are compilation and linting, but even unit/integration/end-to-end testing can be made feasible locally if you have a strong machine and architect your tests properly.

I’ve done this before with the testcontainers library and it enables some really nice workflows.
> Half the damn internet runs on WordPress!

I see this mentioned all the time, but what it's really saying is 50% of all WWW domain names have an associate WordPress install.

The stat doesn't factor in where internet users actually spend their time. For example, Meta/FB has a few WordPress installations, but its users spend less than 0.1% of their time consuming content served from those WordPress instances.
It turns out that different people have wildly varying notions of what's better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Hel...
It's a little odd at first. I would recommend reading through the tutorial (which is quite good) and you might start to see some of the method to the madness.
How's that "please keep this between us" request working out for them?

Also I think this is a good reminder that using sequential IDs for anything public facing is almost always a bad idea (or at the very least something you should think very hard about). It would be pretty easy to make ticket ID, for example, a sequential 5 digit number followed by 4 random alphanumeric characters. Everyone could still easily refer to the ticket number, but it wouldn't be guessable.
Piracy is infringement. And only in the legal sense, not the moral sense
Things made of stone are easy ones, of course, since they already have. The volume of those today is far higher than in any historical sites. Glass, ceramics could also survive in many conditions. Copper, I think? But just the stone/concrete infrastructure remains of an NYC would be very noticable.

The volume of human remains would be wildly different too, admittedly we're getting away from just "city dumps" then.
I'd replace the underlying data structure used to represent buffers (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...) with something more sophisticated, like ropes or piece tables.
Ah, but the icicle isn’t really equivalent to water undripping and refreezing back into a nice cube-shaped object, at presumed room temperature (since our point of reference is the first gif). That would be weird to see IRL always, no matter what. You could watch that gif a million times and you’d still shit your pants if that happened to the glass of water on your desk.
After years of vim and windows parkour, I started using Emacs, and while the windows management was a bit irritating at first, I made my peace with it and use them in a more focused manner and rely more on the buffer list. I use register if I need a particular configuration.

Vim feels like working on a moodboard while Emacs is more a study desk.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think "flux" is none of the above too . There's an extremely cool alternative iterator library for C++20 by Tristan Brindle named flux.
A cooler mattress is better to sleep on? That sounds like the opposite of my experience, unless the weather is uncomfortably warm and there’s no air con.
The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source
Or email them the actual tracking number.

I don't need to go to your website to read the same information as usps.com but in a different header.
This has never been significantly true, and becomes less true every year.

The probability that any given child will be kidnapped or otherwise threatened by a stranger is minuscule compared to the chance that they will be abused, kidnapped, or killed by a family member.
> So, no, Turkish schoolteachers would not know the linguistics of Turkish better than linguists

Yes they do, because schoolteachers don't each invent their linguistic terminology as they go along in isolation, it's done by some regulatory governing body. Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Language_Association. If anything, that's more centralized and controlled than what our countries have. So then it's not between the word of linguists on HN and some random primary school teacher in Turkey, but between the Turkish linguists deciding about their language and HN linguists.

And I am sure HN linguists think they know all the languages (programming or otherwise) better than anyone else, but somehow I doubt that.
It's tremendously difficult to keep 192 cores truly busy at the same time. Unless you have enormous caches and enormous memory throughput, that is.
> Home libraries will save civilization. Why? Because a home overcrowded with books sets the tone for how its inhabitants spend their time at home. Bored? Read a book. Want something to do for fun? Read a book. Have friends over? Read a book together. Relaxed family night at home? Start a read-aloud.

As much as I would like this to be more true, it is just very disconnected from reality. Lots of homes have books and other things that are maybe healthier ways to spend time. But that doesn’t stop the occupants from being sucked into the vortex of social media or television or whatever else. Things like TikTok activate all the pleasure pathways that exist, especially in young children that don’t have the self-control needed to withstand their addictive qualities.
I'm a bit confused. Would you mind clarifying whether you think using "crutch" is the more clear vocabulary, or whether alternative vocabulary would be more clear?
I did the lahar hike to the 'now closed off' johnson observatory. The amount of terrain devastation that is still clearly evident over 40 years later is terrifying
Hmm. Ok, instead of treating the cache as ram, we will have to treat each CCD as a node, and treat the chip as a cluster. It will be hard, but you can fit quite a bit in 64MB.
Where is the transparency statement about whether or not this is farming flight data for one of the for-profit rocket companies?
Imagine shopping and not trusting the shop enough to pull out your wallet inside
I do web app testing and report a similar issue as a risk rather often to my clients. You can replace Google below with many other identity providers.

Imagine Bob works at Example Inc. and has email address bob@example.com

Bob can get a Google account with primary email address bob@example.com. He can legitimately pass verification.

Bob then gets fired for fraud or sexual harassment or something else gross misconduct-y and leaves his employer on bad terms.

Bob still has access to the Google account bob@example.com. It didn't get revoked when they fired him and locked his accounts on company systems. He can use the account indefinitely to get Google to attest for his identity.

Example Inc. subscribes to several SaaS apps, that offer Google as an identity provider for SSO. The SaaS app validates that he can get a trusted provider to authenticate that he has an @example.com email address and adds him to the list of permitted users. Bob can use these SaaS apps years later and pull data from them despite having left the company on bad terms. This is bad.

I think the only way for Example Inc. to stop this in the case of Google would be to create a workspace account and use the option to prove domain ownership and force accounts that are unmanaged to either become managed or change their address by a certain date. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6178640?hl=en

Other providers may not even offer something like this, and it relies on Example Inc. seeking out the identity providers, which seems unreasonable. How do you stop your corporate users signing up for the hot new InstaTwitch gaming app or Grinderble dating service that you have never heard of and using that to authenticate to your sales CRM full of customer data?
Wait. Did zendesk actually fix the issue, or did they just blacklist a few senders and decide to continue to rely on third party spam filters to save them?
One example that comes to mind is Kahn academy. They've built out new pedagogical methods.

There's also Unacademy a company I'm sure has helped millions of people learn new things.
you're under-estimating the power of 512 mb of cache, 12 channel ddr5, pcie 5 NVMEs and 880GB/s networking cards. The giant L3 cache means that memory pressure is significantly reduced (especially if many of the cores use similar data). Ram is the weakest link here (12 channels of ddr5 6000 is a ton from a consumer standpoint, but scaling up from dual channel on a 16 core cpu would only bring you up to 96 cores). The 128 lanes of PCIE though means that you don't have much bottleneck outside of ram (if you're doing things properly). If you use 64 of those for storage, that can be 100s of TB of ridiculously fast storage, and you still have another 64 left over for ridiculously fast networking.
I’m fascinated by the idea of my future music making DAW computer having one of those manycore monsters.

That’s also because my favourite software synthesizers are increasingly modelling instruments, rather than sample based instruments. And that reduces the need for RAM and storage, but increases the thirst for CPU cycles.
Don't forget Caleb Porzio's new Laravel UI kit.

https://fluxui.dev/
I recently needed two tickets from NYC to LA, and was astonished to find air tickets for $80 and rail tickets for $2200. It's so unbelievably expensive (not counting that the flight was a few hours and the train was 56 hours).

Very disappointing! How is it so expensive?!
>All America's missing is laws that allow kids to walk to school and adding more sidewalks to enable this, but this is changing over time (see Utah's free range parenting law).

Laws and sidewalk curbs don’t stop a giant SUV/pickup truck driven by someone looking at their mobile at 40mph in a residential area.

And crossing a 50ft+ wide intersection of a 40mph road (which means people drive 50mph) is daunting even for adults, and simply not advisable after the sun goes down. Those arterial roads basically box in your kids’ roaming area.
> I also think that it is ridiculous we apply the standards of today, deranged or otherwise, upon figures and events in history.

Okay, how about the standards of his time, where he was so brutal a governor that the Spanish monarchs launched and investigation which eventually saw him lose his position as governor and be imprisoned?

https://jeffjacoby.com/27260/i-used-to-defend-columbus-as-ma...

Bartolomé de las Casas spent his career denouncing those evils, eventually getting another Spanish king to pass laws specifically banning the kind of things Colombus did. Even by the standards of his time, it was shocking.
Oh sure, it's all for the user's own sake. Microsoft recording the screen, collecting keyboard and voice input, tricking users into uploading their private files, and literally stealing emails? It's all about protecting users from themselves. I don't know exactly how, but it's a much simpler explanation than seeing things for what they are. /s
Yes, because that is exactly how American cities are currently built today -- expensive carbon-intensive roads paved out to sprawling suburbs, the independent financial upkeep of which is not sustainable long-term. [0]

The costs for car-based infrastructure are also sky high: $1+ million per mile of new road, excluding constant maintenance in repavings, potholes, and drainage systems. [1]

From an economic lens, transportation infrastructure is a net gain to the economy. To me, there is no reason why public transit subsidies should be scrutinized on financials above and beyond how public roads are scrutinized.

If we recognize roads are useful, then public transit should be an even more efficient use of taxpayer dollars on mobility per infrastructure footprint costs alone -- even before carbon reductions are considered at all.

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[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/12/6-principles-f...

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/27/how-much-does-...
I was at breakfast this morning and overheard a conversation at the table next to me.

This conversation was about how a recent thunderstorm had small hail accompanying the rain. And then that this small hail was the leftover seeds from "the jet planes spraying that stuff to control the weather."

Direct voting on issues terrifies me.
Why? Not saying it’s a bad idea, but I probably don’t understand what’s practically wrong with the simple design of emacs’ buffer class.
You are adding people by changing the discussion to one where the point no longer makes sense.

I'm focused on how many people were needed to make the conceptual breakthrough from classical thinking to quantum thinking. I'm very explicitly not considering how many people were needed to further develop the idea of QM from there. I'm also not considering various other conceptual breakthroughs. Just how did we go from, "here's a bunch of weird observations that don't make sense," to, "here's a way of thinking that lets us explain them."

The discovery of quarks, color charge quantum number, and Higgs field are part of the further research, and so aren't relevant.

Maxwell was firmly part of classical mechanics. He provided a key foundation, but was not part of the transition.

Boltzmann was key to the creation of statistical mechanics. While converting classical statistical mechanics to QM was a key part of the success of QM, this was not work that Boltzmann was engaged with.

Henri Poincaré did indeed spend a fruitful few months on QM in the last year of his life. Sure, add him to the list.

Hendrik Lorentz contributed to SR, not QM. Yes, he did lecture on SR in the 1920s, but he was lecturing on what Schrödinger has already discovered. He did not originate new ways of thinking to QM.

You have an extremely good point about Satyendra Nath Bose.

So most of the topics you added were not part of the key shift that I was talking about. Most of the researchers that you added did not directly contribute to that theoretical transition.

We need lots of people to create the foundation. Lots to build out the new framework. But very few are needed to develop the new way of thinking that scientists transition to.
Supreme Court said money is speech and corporations are persons. We'll need to unwind some of the crazy first.
And then you can branch out of AI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flux_Foundation works on public art.
> There's people with pack mules delivering aid. Including starlink receivers

Do you have evidence that any starlink receivers were delivered via pack mule?

It would be cool if so, if not - potentially urban legend akin to "spitting on vietnam veterans" (I've read there are zero documented cases of that ever happening)

I mean, we know pack mules have been in use, and we know starlink receivers have been delivered. I don't know though that any receivers were on pack mules (it cannot be assumed).
Mt. Adams is hardly forgotten @_@
If you could make a park for 5 million dollars, or the same park for 3 million, you would do the latter, would you not? Then you'd have 2 million left to do something else with.

Because that is the comparison being drawn here. A valid objection would be that there are other axes that are material but are not being considered when we reduce the question to dollars per ton of CO2 -- but arguing that we ought not even try to put a value on how we spend public money will not be a reasonable stance until public money is infinite.
Maybe they resent him, but he seems too unpleasant to resent. He frames taking long PTO (presumably contractually permitted) as a bad thing, if I had a manager like that I wouldn't resent them, but I wouldn't respect them either.
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox?
A Day in the Life of a Baboon: Animals with Cameras [video]
People cannot move so easily. Some states have more influence than others. It also makes the decision of 'where' to move more complex.

Do I choose a state where my daughters have few rights or one where corporations control everything or where the pollution is so bad my kid's IQ will suffer?
this name flux
€21.35 for a T-Usual card which allows unlimited travel on all public transport for 30 days, yet you still have people in here kicking and screaming to use their car and roads
VSCode is notepad with plugins, built upon a web engine. Comparing it to Emacs is a huge disservice to Emacs.
Saw an issue which fails at `pip install alphafold3`. If you're gonna bamboozle me, at least put in the effort to get the first step right Xp
Thread IDs get repeated across reboots. Integer sequence may also repeat in a distributed scenario, unless you want a massive bottleneck. You do need other stuff (timestamps, random number, etc.).
there are just some names that technology brothers gravitate to like moths to a flame. Orion, Voltron, Galactus...
Not necessarily. People often make purchase decisions based on overall feeling, versus specific, discrete benefits - they'll choose a "fuller experience" because it feels more complete, and then end up not bothering to go beyond the "basic package".
I was just about to buy almost this exact setup! Excellent to see it's effective. I thought I was mad looking into fish tank coolers. I was thinking though skipping the evaporative cooler and going with a compressor model. Quite a bit more expensive but I think it'll be more effective in the humid North East.

I have realized over the years that I need to be seriously cold to sleep well. My health watch always registers a great sleep and recharged "body battery" when I've been almost shivering all night. My partner likes to joke that my body needs "suffering to get fully rested".

These days, I only ever have nightmares when I'm too hot. It's a challenge to stay cool enough to not get them.

I did recently switch mattresses to this Airweave Futon: https://airweave.com/products/futon

It's an amazing product, it helps keep me cool, and is nice and firm, which I need to have a restful sleep without back pain. By far my favorite mattress I've ever used.

The Airweave has reduced my hot nights significantly, and I'm thinking if I can put a cool pad underneath it, I'll be set!

I'm going to have to try this DIY project for sure now!
I'm not interested in reading your word salad.
The benchmark itself is interesting, but we should notice that the authors didn't test it on claude 3.5. From my experience, for tasks which need intelligence, claude 3.5 is much better than gpt or llama (which authors used). So the conclusion is not than "LLM-based AI models are flawed because they cannot reason" but rather at most "gpt o1-min and Llama3-8B are flawed because they cannot reason". For instance, authors do this test:

"""
We add seemingly relevant statements to the questions that are, in fact, irrelevant to the reasoning and conclusion. However, the majority of models fail to ignore these statements and blindly convert them into operations, leading to mistakes
prompt: Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the
number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis
does Oliver have?

o1-mini response: Oliver picks kiwis over three days as follows:

- Friday: 44 kiwis

- Saturday: 58 kiwis

- Sunday: Double the number he picked on Friday, which is 2 × 44 = 88 kiwis

However, on Sunday, 5 of these kiwis were smaller than average. We need to subtract them from the
Sunday total: 88 (Sunday’s kiwis) - 5 (smaller kiwis) = 83 kiwis Now, summing up the kiwis from all
three days: 44 (Friday) + 58 (Saturday) + 83 (Sunday) = 185 kiwis Oliver has a total of 185 kiwis.

"""

I tried asking exactly the same question to claude 3.5 and the response was:

"""

Let's break this problem down step by step:

1. Friday's kiwis:

Oliver picked 44 kiwis on Friday.

2. Saturday's kiwis:

Oliver picked 58 kiwis on Saturday.

3. Sunday's kiwis:

Oliver picked double the number of kiwis he did on Friday.

Friday's kiwis = 44

Double of Friday's kiwis = 44 × 2 = 88 kiwis

However, 5 of these were smaller than average, but they still count in the total.

4. Total kiwis:

Friday's kiwis + Saturday's kiwis + Sunday's kiwis

= 44 + 58 + 88

= 190 kiwis

Therefore, Oliver has a total of 190 kiwis.

"""
Yup. This. The bankruptcy system already has tiered creditors (senior, junior, secured, unsecured) who take precedence in certain orders during bankruptcy.

In fact this already exists in accounts payable situations: customers may take precedence for goods not received before creditors, etc (depending on location and laws of course). But usually they don’t, sadly.
In my experience, I might like a cool bed if I was hot in the evening (say, I was physically active). Otherwise, I prefer a cool room with a nice blanket.
People deal with grief differently and that's ok, but for me it meant cutting out people who made fun of things that would've kept more of my family alive (I also stopped laughing at covidiot memes). If everyone masked & vaxxed, we could've done so much better. But when public figures turn it into a "thing", it doesn't help anyone. I won't be able to find the video but I do remember AvE making very toxic masculinity comments about masks. Just wasn't what I needed at the time. I'm sure if I hadn't seen that specific part I would still be watching him.
> I don’t know what it is about ticketing and Helpdesk that it ALwAYs ends up like that.

The curse of B2B software is that every new big customer wants some custom feature or configuration that is the "deal breaker" for their multi-million dollar contract signing. And everyone except engineering is eager to give it to them because it's not their problem once the ink is dry. Support and renewals are the next guy's problem.
Sodium oxybate. Active ingredient is GHB. I was stunned to find out this was a therapeutic but apparently it was developed for potential therapies and was only coincidentally discovered to be intoxicating. I used to suffer debilitating cataplexy and sodium oxybate has nearly wiped it out.
Around 20 generations passed since Columbus set foot in Americas. Given we have his DNA, I wonder if it's still possible to pinpoint living descendants if any exists.