skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not much about the user here. We build tools for human beings. Ideally, our goals are towards improving the users' life (btw, if you believe your work makes people's life worse, maybe you should quit and do something else). Like any engineer actually.

This technical stuff your mention can be important (I'm the first to think we should build efficient software), but are often also a small part of what matters. It might be that the vast majority of stuff that matter are not stuff you measure like this (unless you do user studies, which you should depending on the task at end). Rather, your work will be to understand what the user really needs / wants - which can be different from what they express, and it's your work to detect that), and provide a reasonable solution with potential compromises wrt means, time, budget, and what your team will like. There are few measures to do but most important decision might come from this.

If we make the users happy with this also measure-free process, the job is well done, isn't it?

Now maybe that proves a developer is mostly not an engineer and I would be okay with this actually :-)
> With modern teleconferencing tools, it doesn't matter.

Speak for yourself? I personally find Zoom to be extremely lacking. No eye contact, no body language, people having problems with wifi or other device issues, no serendipitous chats around hallways or watercoolers etc all affect the quality of communication.

As I said, founders and CEOs are already voting with their choices. Most of the big companies have already embraced RTO. A majority of the new startups I am seeing insist on at least few days in office. There are a few which are fully remote but they seem to be a minority.
People with guns forcibly going through your things with threat of prison time tends to erase desire for revenue. See international business climate in China.
I don't believe I've done that? I've said it doesn't appear that it would be useful to me - and I keep asking, probably for the 5th time now, in what way is it useful? The most cogent reply I've had so far is "0.85f’c". I don't know what that means. Please, could you explain? At this point I feel that even Apple fanboys put more effort in justifying their choices.
the "importing voters" thing? That is absolute garbage
IIUC email messages on cloud services older than 180 days don’t even require a US warrant(!) anyway.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/update-email-privacy-l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...
I am the maker of SnipCSS. https://www.snipcss.com

Just like with other tools such as yt-dlp, the user is required to use it responsibly. As long as you don't copy text/images/svg, the only issue is going to be "trade dress" infringement since CSS styles are not copyrightable. (not a lawyer so this isn't legal advice)

Strange that this post made it to HN because I'm also releasing a Tailwind conversion this week. https://x.com/SnipCSS/status/1853586090164420639 I believe mine will be much better based on the blog post about this tool.
An Adventurer Thought He Found Amelia Earhart's Plane. Now He Says It Was a Rock
In a lecture I saw 10 years ago, Freeman Dyson advocated for teaching children to genetically engineer plants. He thought without the playful urge of children, we’d never be able to create “warm blooded” plants capable of surviving on asteroids and the moon. He pointed out that there is a greater surface area on the asteroid belt than all the planets.

I still don’t know how he’d deal with atmosphere, but I love the vision. And, I learned that there are some exothermic plants, like Skunk Cabbage, that can chemically regulate their body temperature.

Like I said, I love the vision.
I think we might need to send some microbiologists to do their own forensics.

You have a mechanical failure that can’t be seen in the labs and isn’t reproducible at other sites. Suggests something environmental.

Like when natural fiber army gear starts dissolving in the jungles of Vietnam.

Could be direct action, or a side effect of a chemical in plant or animal detritus. Like pigeon poop on car paint.
Therefore don't give them money. Both courses of action lead to effects contrary to your interests, but in one of them you get to keep the money.
It's reasonable to point out that quantum computers can't make much of a dent in symmetric crypto on it's own.

I do agree though that failing to point out that the vast majority of those symmetric keys are established with vulnerable asymmetric crypto is a bit misleading about the potential impact.
The protagonist was first the apple of Merkel's eye and then vanished in Russia.
One has to admire their efforts, as the upfront costs of a fab lab are ridiculously high. As with any technology the Metrology becomes the predominant problem domain. i.e. Answering the question "Where do we get the repeatable precision?"

There are low-volume lab processes around that can hit below <234nm feature sizes, but a clean room must be considered part of the machine... And it can take years to figure out how to maintain atmospheres and gas mass-flow-control.

Pretty cheeky selling community designed hardware without citing the original hobbyists. Nothing they posted looks remotely new or novel. Meh =3
Longevity is absolutely a big factor in underfunded pensions. "Actuarially sound" is based on projections of how long retirees will draw from pension funds. When retirees start consistently outliving those projections, a sound pension rapidly becomes unsound.
It looks like it is more or less back to a rough pre-COVID baseline, if inflation is factored in: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

(But I'm certainly not seeing the glut of cheap lumber that others may appear to be alluding to here...)
Do you have counter evidence or a critique on methodology that disputes this study? If so, it would be great to post here for comparison.
>morally we absolutely are obliged to give them shelter.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

>most of the germans who are homeless failed to take advantage of available support to get it

What if the system is poorly designed getting people slipping through the nets? I don't agree being so dismissive and throwing all the blame onto them.

> it is a fallacy to think that refusing help to refugees would improve the situation for locals

It's not a fallacy, it's basic economics.

>this is the kind of rhetoric that stirs up xenophobia and plays into the hands of the kind of politicians that according to your last paragraph you also don't want to see elected.

Then maybe the politicians should fucking listen for once and actually do what the people want them to do instead of doing something else and being shocked people don't like it.
The only time I really feel like I understand something is by building something with it. So actually writing a CUDA kernel to do grayscale conversion and then tweaking the code.

BUT... both the video and the article are useful before you do that. They both allow you to build a mental model of how GPUs work that you can test later on.
Riding giant domesticated tardigrades on the moon is the future I want.
Wow, this is his whole life.
There's a built-in assumption that there would be no constraints applied on nested simulation anywhere further down the stack, which is IMO unlikely, unless every layer has unlimited compute, or otherwise interested in investigating nested simulations.
Can't say for sure. I opened all my bank accounts while still having a proper residential address, but after relocating to another country changed the address to a virtual one, no one said a word.
> modern compiler string literal obfuscation

the what now?
yah my coldest darkest winter ever was 1998 in Berlin.

still the light was okay until 4pm and the gas lights were turned on then or later not before...
I don't understand the problem honestly. I'd understand it if Poland stepped in and didn't let the company be bought out, but this just seems like bog standard normal globalized free market stuff? It would be extremely weird for France to step in and prevent a French company from buying a Polish company due to fears of stoking Euroscepticism among the polish population wouldn't it? And I don't even know what this has to do with the EU, companies have been buying up companies from other countries both in and out of the EU forever?
This was the only comment that was substantive, non-dismissive, thought provoking, and worth it's weight in literal bits.

I actually open any hypothesis you have, because this level of mexa-reflection is too difficult for the average HN poster to acknowledge.

But the readers/lurkers can benefit - and for that, and my own curiosity, please continue.

The lack of closure due to its infinite definition, the para-social aspects, the commodification, the intellectual entrapment for the most vulnerable audience so enamored by it.

Please don't let cowards bury their own insecurities.
This is a nuanced contribution to this discussion. While I disagree that, "what if ActBlue was a different SaaS product" is the optimal solution (especially in a market where there are viable alternatives), it at least acknowledges the role one piece of the system plays.
https://archive.is/qAb4Z
You can get flexible printed circuits (FPC) from vendors like JLCPCB and PCBWay, which are essentially what you describe.

https://jlcpcb.com/blog/flex-pcb-available-at-jlcpcb-from-sp...

https://www.pcbway.com/fpc-rigid-flex-pcb/flex-pcb.html

And in case folks reading this don't already know it, multi-layer rigid printed circuit boards are a common technology based on laminating together multiple very thin rigid layers with each layer carrying separate traces.
The naturalistic fallacy doesn’t explain away the simple fact that when I haven’t eaten for 12 hours I’m slow and stupid and hangry. You can invoke “working properly” and “naturally” but I think my body is working properly when I can code, and isn’t when I can’t, and unless I’m keto-adapted (48-72h since carbs) I can’t without blood sugar.
It's not comparable, and everything you said was objectively false.
I think were missing some key pieces of data to evaluate the claims made in this article; and I think the authors of this article know that and are actively trying to avoid looking at that data.

A fairly obvious example, imo - if police know their local prosecutor wont prosecute certain crimes (theft, property damage, drunk and disorderly), police tend to stop trying to arrest people for those crimes, and the overall rate for those crimes will go down (in the data at least). The victims on the other hand, tend to get little comfort from the nice looking excel charts.

Ive lived in enough west coast cities over the last decade to have a pretty solid understanding of how this particular game gets played, but I'd love to be proven wrong; Lets just see all the data eh?
Bollywood is the second largest film industry!
I question the thesis that "writing" code productively is the only part of DX. When I consider DX, I consider that code is written less often than it is amended, than it is read, and than it is run.

Getting all of those things right is DX, not just writing.
Especially in startups clawing there way to MVP release and increasing users/income. Everything is write code to solve specific need now without time to see if it can be better used/implemented. Gotta be first. If we're not first, gotta get traction to overtake first.

Even knowing that and attempting to build something with best principles is still going to be a pain to maintain as it's always a moving target with no proper specs.
> Does it know which part of a dependency has a vulnerability and check, if the execution reaches _that_ part?

Yes, govulncheck does symbol-level reachability static analysis, and the vulndb is manually annotated with affected symbols for each vulnerability.

(So glad to see a comment about this at the top, I have sometimes feared we made a mistake in designing a low-noise vulnerability scanner, because I've often seen complaints that "it doesn't work" because it doesn't show as many vulnerabilities as its more popular, less accurate alternatives.)
I do find it hilarious how little traction this story gets, but if it would be the identical story about Google, meta, x, ... it'd probably blow up.
Scientists decipher two-photon vision
Per research across companies, both help, screenshots are worse, but marginally.

The computer use stuff gets me fired up enough that I end up always sharing this, even though when delivered concisely without breaking NDAs, it can sound like a hot take:

The whole thing is a dead end.

I saw internal work at a FAANG on this for years, and even in the case where the demo is cooked up to "get everything right", intentionally, to figure out the value of investing in chasing this further...its undesirable, for design reasons.

It's easy to imagine being wow'd by the computer doing something itself, but when its us, its a boring and slow way to get things done thats scary to watch.

Even with the stilted 100% success rate, our meatbrains cheerily emulated knowing its < 100%, the fear is akin to watching a toddler a month into walking, except if the toddler had your credit card and a web browser and instructions to buy a ticket.

I humbly and strongly suggest to anyone interested in this space to work towards CLI versions of this concept. Now, you're nonblocking, are in a more "native" environment for the LLM, and are much cheaper.

If that sounds regressive and hardheaded, Microsoft, in particular, has plenty of research on this subject, and there's a good amount from diverse sources.

Note the 20%-40% success rates they report, then, note that completing a full task successfully represents a product series of 20%-40%. To get an intuition for how this affects the design experience, think how annoying it is to have to repeat a question because Siri/Assistant/whatever voice assistant don't understand it, and they have roughly ~5 errors per 100 words.
Figuring out the proper abstractions is much, much harder than writing the software itself. Software changes requirements... When you do something new and useful for a customer, they will extend use of the software till it breaks again. You will always run into a new bottleneck.
perhaps we should not treat systemic social failure as individuals' responsibility to resolve on their own without support of the State
Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty Essays
Any corporation uses roads, mail, police, courts, and other public services, and this usage is not offset by individual income taxes on that corporation's employees, since the employees also use these things. In fact I suspect more resources are spent on serving corporations than serving individual taxpayers - with the important caveat that I am specifically excluding government social insurance programs. But those are often a totally separate tax system.

It is baffling to think that for-profit corporations should be allowed to use public services without paying for them: before a company makes further internal investments with new revenue, it should chip in to society for building the infrastructure that made the revenue possible. A corporate income tax is perfectly natural.
Also progression from gay to pedophile.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/It+doesn%27t+do+any+harm+...m...

There is so much corroborating evidence it's an almost certainty.
This is great, but are there datasets for this already? I know pubtables is like 1M labeled data points. Also how important are table schemas as a % of overall unstructured documents?
> It's also humorous to me that the designer was considering something that looks like an hour glass for the X. Imagine using a symbol for your powerful new computer that essentially means "wait".

I assume that association is why Rand abandoned the concept, but the opposing arrows also represent a crossing-over / pulling-apart / creating-reality / 2D-becomes-3D / new-dimension kind of thing.

The eventual Mac OS X uses the same symbolism. I remember being irrationally annoyed back in the day at the way Stebe Jovs would pronounce it “Mac OS Ecks” instead of “Mac OS Ten”, and it took me like twenty years to realize that it is actually Mac OS Ecks — it's Mac OS Up + Down. Peep the negative space and you can see the arrowheads, plus the axial tilt and crossing-over encoded in the way one opposing arm and leg of the Garamond X are thicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joewhk/1805068540
this is false. He is not you. He is me.
> The response of plants to microgravity on the International Space Station is known, but “we know … almost nothing about how they and other organisms respond to partial gravity,” she says.

> How they will respond to intense lunar radiation is perhaps the biggest question currently—the International Space Station orbits within the Earth’s magnetic field, and so it is exposed to much lower radiation levels than the lunar surface
OK look like my kind of books and happy to drop a few dollars on kindle for a fellow Kiwi author, I will drop an email if I see any glaring mistakes.
You should engage in good faith and not imply shit.

Attack my arguments on their own merits.

And if you are too cowardly/moral to do that, remember what the power "harmless memes" have, next time you call someone president.

Memes are powerful, do your research into who coined the term "meme,"
Scroll down a bit to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem#Ramsey_nu.... Ramsey numbers arise from the original problem, and play a role in its proof, but they are not "the same thing" as Ramsey's Theorem.
So we did call him a Robber Baron. Maybe Musk (Bezos..) is just re-enacting the gilded age?
I like that you ignored my first point where I pointed out that your objective, rational analysis failed to account for basic variables like age and sex.

1. I don't need to prove "all workers" are slaves, that is an arbitrary burden established by you. I can provide links for you to educate yourself about the Kafala[0] system however. Here is an excerpt from the section on Saudi Arabia:

"an employer assumes responsibility for a hired migrant worker and must grant explicit permission before the worker can enter Saudi Arabia, transfer employment, or leave the country. The kafala system gives the employer immense control over the worker."

Sounds like ownership to me. You can dispute that if you want but I don't think it is a meaningful distinction to make, personally.

2.
> My guess is that it's some combination of (a) truly awful slave-like conditions, (b) just general "lack of safety culture" conditions (e.g. ~100 people died building the Hoover Dam - I don't think people considered them slaves but they definitely weren't following OSHA rules)

OP is trying to contextualize the deaths in a way that makes them "cleaner" or "more acceptable" instead of just reading the damn articles that actual investigative journalists have written which would prove to them that YES this is slavery and YES these are human beings that are being worked to death.

If all your objective, rational analysis has wrought is a shitty half-assed statistical comparison in an attempt to justify slavery, on an internet forum, what good was it to begin with?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system#:~:text=The%20ka....
What's so offensive and patronizing about offering food? Are you also opposed to charities that give out food and clothes?

And food is hardly the most offensive thing you could give. You could toss a bunch of change on the ground, or give them soiled money.
I suspect it's that a lot of the HN users who are drawn to stories about San Francisco are in fact quite young and/or new to town. We've had progressive district attorneys before. We've had law and order mayors and progressive mayors. I wouldn't use the word progressive but we've had police chiefs that were more reform oriented. And we've survived just fine.

Folks got up in arms over Boudin trying to get his father out of jail but largely remained mum on Breed twisting arms (including Jenkins') to get her brother out of jail. Price got pilloried for only pursuing a maximum sentence of a hundred odd years in a murder trial.

There's a lot of selective outrage, and yeah it's frustrating (but not surprising on HN).
Really, the point is, why can't we have both? I use and enjoy epubs extensively, but also in many contexts I strongly prefer PDF.
Exploring Campfire Tests
It looks a bit like Comic Sans put on a shirt and tie.
> Edit 2: I can definitely replicate the same bug in Scala, so it is not like Go is unique for the example in that blog post.

Could you share some details on the program and the execution environment? Per my understanding of the Java memory model, a JVM should not experience this problem. Reads and writes to references (and to all 32 bit values) are explicitly guaranteed to be atomic, even if they are not declared volatile.
As an American surrounded by Superfund sites I would like some of these unnecessary restrictions and harassment by the state. The US is so beholden to private interests we can't even repair the roads or mandate healthcare without making it into a market.
What if everyone pointed a laser at the moon? [video]
It's not "really" a secret - anyone in the area of Palmyra who knows baseball probably knows of Jim, and knows almost exactly where it comes from. I think what keeps this secret not well known is that it isn't exactly a gold mine - there is only a single buyer for the mud, and the sales total to about $20k/yr, with a lot of manual labor collecting and filtering the mud. It's not worth it for anyone to try to scoop his mud source.
> As usual in Python, people are kept in line with CoC threats and the official marketing is amplified.

You’d need some serious evidence to back those claims up, and without it this seems like pure flamebait unrelated to the topic of this post.
I work in the field so it's hard to know what info you might be missing. To me it seems quite straightforward: you post to your website somewhere that you're happy to have people probe your technical security provided that they follow coordinated vulnerability disclosure (you'll want to flesh it out a tad more than this one sentence of course) and what kind of reward you're willing to hand out for what kind of bug and in which part of the scope. Any exclusions, such as that you won't pay out to young or old people or if you're born in the wrong country and got sanctioned or so, are also things you'll want to mention up front to prevent sour grapes afterwards

Perhaps I can answer a specific question or look for good pointers if you have a specific question about this?
The whole idea is pretty nuts! I can imagine it being used as the dev env for teams that use SQLMesh and can thus port the sql. Might be worth investigating with them
(Source: I am a current high level employee at a third party AWS consulting company and former employee at AWS working in the Professional Services department)

I actually was imprecise with my wording.

A customer managed KMS key is any key that you make instead of using an AWS provided key. AWS still has the means to theoretically decrypt the data.

I am actually referring to a customer managed KMS key where you import your own key material

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/import...

There is also CloudHSM

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/faqs/#:~:text=AWS%20CloudHSM....

I don’t know how far “AWS doesn’t have access to your keys go” when it comes to a government subpoena.

I do know that if anyone accesses anything on your account from AWS, all sorts of internal alarm bells go off at AWS and it would still show up in your CloudTrail logs.

I’m sure there is something that allows internal AWS employees to access your account in unauthorized ways. But I never heard about it in 3.5 years working there in the Professional Services department.
As an impatient person who likes prototyping I still wish DIY PCBs were easier and less messy. The turnaround time of DIY can't be beat, but every process I have seen has something I don't like about it, except maybe fiber lasers (which I'm not too well acquainted with).
awesome, cheers from New Zealand