skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if cold welding could be useful in space, though. Make the two surfaces totally flat, clean them in vacuum, and then press them together to weld them.

Ok, "clean them in vacuum" is kind of a "now draw the rest of the owl" type of thing. But I wonder what's possible when you don't have an atmosphere to mess up the surface. Could you scrape off the oxide layer of aluminum, for example, and get it smooth enough to cold weld without worrying about it re-oxidizing because there's no air?
Do you feel that if you ran a business, you should be unable to control the (legally allowable) terms of employment, bud?
Compile time is a collective problem and usability is an individual problem. I work with llama.cpp. The files in that codebase that were made using nlohmann json take about a minute to compile using g++ -O3 -g, all because one guy who originally wrote it wanted to type fewer keystrokes on his keyboard by using a more magical library, and the rest of us have to suffer for it every time we experiment with a 1 line of code change to those files.
Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]
Admittedly, this may be a disappointing answer: when I started working on Konga Beat, I didn't fully grasp the extent of the rhythm game modding scene. I was so excited to make a dedicated editor that I just went for it.

Only when I was deep into working on Konga Beat did I discover editors like Moonscraper and Peepo Drum Kit. Even then, I was having so much fun working on Konga Beat that I wanted to see it to completion.
I think you’re vastly overestimating the complexity of pointing a TLS library to a CA.
A backdoor in the technical sense (which is the real topic of this whole conversation) is one that bypasses the known way of entry. For an "End to end encrypted" communication channel, a backdoor allows someone to view the communication without being on either of the "ends".

The problem is not whether the backdoor was legally mandated or not, and whether legal authorities are misusing them or not, the problem is that it exists. And the existence by itself is enough to let someone ignore any legal mandates and view the comms.
Whats with the pilates? Care to explain?
Show HN: Drop Space as a Wetransfer Alternative
The link in here is different one, it is called DROP, an alternatvie to wetransfer
It literally contains a whole browser engine just to render a UI.
The VW Beetle was a very popular car...
Conversely, you could look at that as a mistake on the West's half for letting themselves become so addicted to a foreign power they are ideologically at-odds with. We could have learned this mistake when we sold Pakistan weapons they used to genocide people, or again when we gave Iran weapons they would turn around and use for terrorism, or yet again when we furnish weapons to Israel pitting one ugly nationalist theocracy against another.

All China ever did was exploit capitalism. And if we punished companies for exploiting capitalism then America wouldn't have modern businesses at all.
Any projects that does not have official headcount gets that tag line. Even some projects that are funded internally, may get that moniker externally as there's no guarantee it will be maintained.

Most of the time these are projects that individual engineers go through the pain of open sourcing.
Yep... Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
I learned about RTOS in the context of flight and air traffic control systems, as another concrete example
Added a note on why we chose EvCache for the "Best-Effort" use-case instead of probabilistic data structures like HLL/CMS. Appreciate the discussion.
All the money they spend still fails at basic UX, creating a finely crafted, polished turd of engineering perfection. I don't see the Netflix experience to be superior in any way to the other big services; they all have their own issues that engineering haven't solved properly, most likely some different ones.

An example (in this case ONE PIECE on Netflix Japan region):
My Netflix language is set to English, but I am not in an English speaking country. And yet, all shows have an English description and title, as well as episode lists with descriptions also in English. And yet, the program itself is not in English, nor does it have English audio options or subtitles. And the UI does not indicate if there are English subtitles until I play an episode and open the subtitles menu. This is compounded to be even worse when there are so many shows that are only half subtitled (different rights holders I assume).
Why does the UI lie to me by showing everything about the series/movie in my native language except the actual content itself? This is really common in non-English speaking regions, and it looks like a basic engineering failure of looking up their global database content in MY language while ignoring whether the actual CONTENT is available in my language. I suppose this could be a UX issue, but it also looks like an engineering one to me. And aren't those intertwined to some extent anyway?
The moment nlohmann's library came out, I switched to it and I never looked back.

I loved the interface and its exactly how I would've designed a json library with modern c++.

Just maybe turn off the implicit conversion option, that can get a bit messy ;)
I disagree. We pretty explicitly ask candidates to not use AI.

While it's fine when doing the job the purpose of the interview is to gauge your ability to understand and solve problems, while AI can help you with that you understanding how to do it yourself signals that you'll be able to solve other more complex wider-spanning problems.

Just like with a calculator - it's important for candidates to know _why_ something works and be able to demonstrate that as much as them knowing the solution.
Must be nice to work under the eternal threat of being laid off on a whim.
No they use the word backdoor because there is no better word for these pathwatys/purposefully created weak spots in access to the software. Seriously please give me one that emphasises the security detriment to the 1st party user and i'll happily use it instead.

I'll also add that ironically those who don't oppose these bills are unwittingly doing the bidding of strategic adversaries as demonstrated quite adequately by the PRC here.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MISP/misp-galaxy/refs/head...
Friends don't treat friends like this.
Any state actor who puts in the effort can get pretty good, and some countries make a very specific effort in this area. North Korea is one. Imagine the brightest people in your state (say, population 26 million) were all nudged into one very specific talent funnel, with the goal of stealing money for the government.

China is different. Not quite as focused in terms of sheer government directive, but just think of the Chinese people you do know and extrapolate out the level of effort and talent. Being overconfident seems like a mistake.
Zip with password. Keep passwords in private for now.
Maybe just someone paid enough to punch through how much Google value users choices :>

Or possibly it's attempt at degrading no-ad's to less-ad's. Would be quite standard for degrading-in-progress company - "altavisting" :)
A Woman Who Defined the Great Depression
Not really any different than what happened to IBM, Intel, Cisco, etc.

The people that want to build great things want the potential huge reward too, so they go to a startup to do it.
Infostealers: What they are, how they work, and how to protect yourself
Show HN: I made a scam detector and build a public database for it
We think this is helpful because scams are getting more out of hand than ever, so we wanted to build a tool that can help people to identify scams instantly and ALSO creates a large dataset to "train" everyone's brain on scam detection patterns.
After browsing 10-20 scams, anyone can quickly learn what indicators to look for in subtle (or not so subtle) scams.

1. Upload screenshot of anything you think is suspicious 2. GPT-vision goes to work, extract text and analyze the screentho and give you an instant result 3. Each upload adds to a growing public database, letting everyone to see and learn from real-world scam patterns.

Try it out, contribute a recent scam that you've received lately, and hopefully this could help more people.
Shopping? I've literally watched "emotional support" dogs sitting on the tables at restaurants eating from their owners plates.

I would have to think food code trumps disability accommodation, especially since the law isn't "you have to let them do whatever the fuck they like" but "provide reasonable accommodations".
This is a CLI Rust tool for that: https://github.com/yury/cidre/blob/main/cidre/examples/vn-th...

Maybe somebody will find it useful.
Western society is criminalizing and repressing such culture, so China has already won because they fail at doing the same.
Wow that gives me flashbacks to learning Theano/Lasagne, which was a breath of fresh air coming from Caffe. Crazy how far we've come since then.
I strongly doubt that's the primary factor preventing you winning.
Not even close. If you think Amazon is awful, you have no idea how bad things can get. Amazon is probably a difficult place to work because of its high expectations and demanding culture. This (or requiring people to work at the office), do not come close to making it the worst employer.
The hardcover edition of Jurassic Park explained, including screenshots of his IDE, how Dennis Nedry managed to shut off the park security: by disguising a call to the "turn off the fences" code as an innocuous object constructor.

I've heard from Hackernews who read the book and didn't see the IDE screenshots. Maybe the paperback didn't have them.
Zen browser, an open source layer on top of Firefox, is somehow much faster. Zen is to Firefox as Arc is to Chrome, if one is familiar.
Like it was any different during previous elections. Only the people
change, behavior stays the same.
Emotional support animals, which are not a concept recognized by the ADA.
Landlords will raise the rent but can only raise the rent to what the market will bear (which presumably they’re doing anyway). They then have incentive to ensure the broker is worth the fee.

Previously landlords would require renters to work with (and pay) the broker, so there was no incentive to choose a cheaper broker.
At the time of the comment the other entry was marked as duped as well
The story afaict is less charlatans and more Jobs' hubris and ignoring his doctors. He has a pretty long history of questionable health decisions from what I have read.

In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. In mid 2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is very poor; *Jobs stated that he had a rare, less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.*

Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for medical intervention for nine months, in favor of alternative medicine. Other doctors agree that Jobs's diet was insufficient to address his disease. However, cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski wrote that "it's impossible to know whether and by how much he might have decreased his chances of surviving his cancer through his flirtation with woo. My best guess was that Jobs probably only modestly decreased his chances of survival, if that." Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department, on the other hand, said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life ... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable ... He essentially committed suicide."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs (under Health problems)
Identifying movement signatures in underground subway directions
> Due to limited seating in New York and Philadelphia, members were allowed only a single admission ticket, and ladies were explicitly not invited. (Boo.)

We get it, different times had different morals and ethics. But I'm sure the author would have been above all that if they were around in those times.
> But there is something to be said about atrophy. If you don't use it, you lose it.

YMMV, but I didn't ride a bike for 10ish years, and then got back on and I was happily riding quickly after. I also use zsh and ctrl+r for every Linux command, but I can still come up with the command of I need to, just, slowly. Ive overall found that if I learn a thing, it's learnt. Stuff I didn't learn in university, but passed anyways, like Jacobians, I still don't know, but I've got the gyst of it. I do keep getting better and better at the banjo the less I play it, and getting back to the drumming plateau is quick.

Maybe the drumming plateau is the thing? You can quickly get back to similar skill levels after not doing the thing in a while, but it's very hard to move that plateau upwards
No commentary here just found it interesting that Mark Cuban recently said he was an investor in Polymarket.
Mainly, a seftware developer should not be afraid of creating neW tools to solve their own specific problems. Programmable editors like Vim allow you to do that, proprietary corporate IDEs do not.
C# with Avalonia

I quite like working with C#, but Unity introduces a lot of unnecessary overhead and isn't designed to build an application like this. I had to use goofy hacks to make Konga Beat behave approximately like a regular native application.
Good guess, I was indeed on mobile and I couldn't see the entire url.
If you want to go extremely lightweight, there’s jsmn: https://github.com/zserge/jsmn

It does no dynamic memory allocation, which is a plus in constrained IoT/embedded applications. But it’s really only a tokenizer. For example, if you want to parse fields out of a map, you have to write your own wrappers to iterate over key/value pairs. Since no data is copied out of the original buffer, all the “tokens” are given as byte offsets and lengths, not null-terminated strings, so you can’t just do printf(“%s”).

If you can’t (or don’t want to) malloc, it gets the job done. Not sure I’d recommend it for other applications though.
As a drummer, you need to learn your scales and chords. It still matters, and the way you interact with the music should be consistent with how the chords change, and where the melody is within the scale.

Your drumming will be "melodic" if you do so
No, english is my second language.

I had already established from previous chat that upon asking for server.c file, llm's answer was working correctly. Rest of the sentence is just me asking it to use and not use certain header files which it uses by default when you ask it to generate server.c file.Thats because from docs of <sys/socket.h>, I thought it had all relevant bindings for the socket programming to work correctly.

I would say, the sentence logically makes sense.
Apple faces UK 'iCloud monopoly' compensation claim worth $3.8B
As I understand geo-locking isn’t done when in New Jersey, compared to Oklahoma, so lots of new
Except… it’s about leverage/impact factor. Google has very large impact, so if you do something big and central you’re instantly in the hands of hundreds of millions / billions of people. That’s a very different situation than IBM or Cisco.
I think that's assumed in the GGP and GP comments. The GP asks, 'why do they say that'?
Thanks! I'll look into those. That's really great prices.
The five paragraph thesis format isn't about learning to learn, it's about learning how to format ideas.

Just learning a thing doesn't mean you can communicate it
This smells like bullshit. What exactly did she figure out that a seller couldn’t have just put in a listing?
Is it based on the most expensive one? Or is it an average of what the whole nation can afford?
> The renter has no choice in which broker to use to find/transact w/ the property, so there's very little price pressure for these broker fees.

How does that change if the landlord pays it? The renter still hasn't chosen the broker.

And either way, it comes from rent money.

This feels no different from pricing that hides sales tax, versus reveals it.

How about getting rid of these fucking agents.
Ever since the DUAL_EC_DBRG backdoor[1], trust in cryptographic algorithms set by NIST has been reduced.

In the case of ECC curves, the NIST curves rely on a number of highly specific but unexplained constants. More info about the safety and security of curves can be found at https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/

For now, Curve25519 is considered a good bet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_SP_800-90A#Backdoor_in_Du...
Thanks. Any tips on how to do this while keeping the hearing profile as close to reality as possible?
> The Tesla CEO is busy undermining democracy in the US by lying thousands of times on Twitter.

That is a non sequitur. Streamlined car-buying has nothing to do with Twitter.
I worked as an intern in the sound department at a video game company in 1997/1998. We had a full recording studio in house around the corner from my desk. One day, a drummer came in to lay down some drum’n’bass tracks for a game. So yeah, indeed the Jungle sound was present in video games back then. What a time.
In addition they ensure itunes restore doesn't work. There is not enough space on the phone I backed up to restore the restore. Fixing this requires 3rd party paid tools.
> I don't have a problem with Musk supporting one candidate or the other. But I do have a problem with Musk apparently tweaking the algorithm to specifically promote one candidate and to bombard me with political content that skews a certain way [...]

But for some reason, it was okay the other way around a few years ago?
Keras eras random asymptotic sh*
> if a bettor in a prediction market wants to manipulate the market's prediction, it's likely to be extremely costly for them

About a decade ago I was told by someone on GOOG's anti-spam team that they had thought they'd finally made it too costly to spam, only to discover that political spammers just didn't care how much it cost.
> Now, I have to install that service as a container to isolate that, then need to add a reverse proxy on top, etc.

Why? I've run plenty of normal non-containerized apps that bind localhost:1234 and then are reverse proxied by nginx or caddy or whatever.

(I agree that you would need a reverse proxy, I think that's kinda the point, it's the container thing I don't get)
The animations makes it easier to comprehend indeed. Thanks!
> Didn't you just say capitalism was good

No. I was criticizing the notion that not being "altruistic" is always bad. That is not the same as saying selfishness/capitalism is always good.
Is your solitaire opponent a bot?
Yes, it is absolutely possible to build on atprotocol and be a part of the network. We have written a good bit about this already here: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers (in addition to the recently updated documentation in general)
Because it's the least bad way to do a blog when you want to focus on the content.
Too many to name and shame. However, most states do publicize SNF (skilled nursing facility) inspections, complaints and investigations. Washington does, and with a good amount of detail, including outcomes and findings.
It's too complicated for normies.
In the same sense that there are many ways of thinking left behind by modern CS curricula – as it is now, the way we teach CS is unfair towards students who want to learn flowcharting, hand-assemble and hand-optimize software, etc. They're very worthy things to master and very zen to do, but sadly not a crucial skill anymore.
DDHQ was also significantly ahead of the large media, and seemed to be what lead some of the moves in the betting markets. Seems like anyone at DDHQ with the fore-knowledge of the race calling could have easily front ran the betting markets. Same with Nate Silver and his daily releases. In the back of my mind I also wonder about that last minute Iowa pollster who released an outlier poll.
If you can't manage people remotely

then you cannot manage people.
I get ads on Premium Spotify while listening to Joe Rogan. Serves me right, I guess.
imagine if all those packages would need to be transported as well. Like with boat or by air. What if we used this quality engineering towards solving real problems instead? Like how to decrease pollution or something along those lines…
Interesting, I think $100M is totally enough to train a SotA "foundation model". It's all in the use case. I'd love to hear explicit arguments against this.
That doesn’t sound like China at all. Having worked in Beijing for 9 years, they pay techies fairly well, not USA FAANG well, but better than Japan, much of Europe, Korea, even Singapore. So there is a lot of private sector movement in these areas, not just government. Information is easily obtained, piracy rates are still very high so it’s not like anything is really locked down behind a paywall. There are plenty of hackers who are in it with a passion, not just for the money, much like you’d find in the states or anywhere in the developed world.
Best thing I've seen all month. Thanks to you both.
While I disagree with her on many things politically, Mace seems like a credible person to me.

Here's hoping that, if these things really do exist and isn't just a Honeypot or misinfo or whatever, they're there to keep us from being the idiots we are and all offing ourselves. Especially relevant when looking at "sundial" which was posted recently on HN
As the entity responsible for the livelihood of your employees, do you think it is fair to change the terms of their employment, in a way that can have a serious impact on their life, just because you feel like it?
Are there HTML version of these docs? Would make it easier to read without having to download a PDF.
That’s based on similarity. While that is useful, this is based on aesthetic quality which is quite different. This is ML based.
> This library supports building with C++11. I haven't tried compiling it with an older standard, but I imagine it might work.

I believe it does require C++11, due to std::nullptr_t and r-value references (&&), but that might be it. It's not a show stopper though since everyone should have a c++11 compiler now (even Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which still has paid support I believe).

> One thing I like about the C++11 compilers like GCC 4.9 is they build code magnificently faster than recent editions

Kind of reminds me of gcc 2.95 which people kept around for the compiler speed. They would use gcc 3.x for the warning support and then compile with gcc 2.95 after fixing the warnings :).
A lot easier when you're not on a tour and just have the ability to visit (fun fact, some facilities have socialization events around holidays, although that might sound callous). Staff mood. How many staff? If hallways are empty, just residents? Not good. Scents/odors. Yes, incontinence is a thing, not to be shamed. How you handle the cleaning, laundry of it, so it's not a pervasive scent? That's another.

Most states will publish some reports. Washington's DOH will publish fairly detailed information on complaints against facilities, investigation details, and findings and outcomes.
Welding aluminum in Earth's atmosphere is difficult because aluminum oxide forms on the surface and it has a higher melting point than the aluminum inside. So to weld aluminum you need to keep oxygen away from the weld, usually by flooding the weld with argon or some other inert gas.

In a vacuum this problem wouldn't exist and aluminum should be no more difficult to weld than steel.
Global vs local variables.
thanks a TON for this recommendation it was really eye-opening listening to his presentation and the detailed history, as well as the cat-and-mouse game escapades. Very well put-together presentation and yeah, really makes me reflect on the specialness of Silicon Valley and those relationships.
The first ~3 months I wrote specific cover letters and modified my resume according to what I was applying. Then I gave up and just blindly applied to everything without bothering to read anything other than the title and specific qualifications using a generic (but detailed and well-structured) resume.