skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree if they're negligent they're unethical. But I also think if they're illegal they're generally unethical. In situations where some other right is more important that the law, underage drinking or illegal right on red would be ethical, such as if alcohol is needed as an emergency pain reliever, or a small amount for religious worship, or if you need to drive to the hospital fast in an emergency.

Abortion opponents view it as killing an innocent person. So that's unethical regardless of whether it's legal. I'm not contesting in any way that legal things can be unethical. Abortion supporters view it as a human right, and that right is more important than the law.

Right on red, underage drinking, and increasing car emissions aren't human rights. So outside of extenuating circumstances, if they're illegal, I see them as unethical.
yeah it's much better to lose access to games you've paid for. this is why I stopped buying apps on Android - if it's not open source, I'm not interested. I also don't buy DRM stuff unless I know I can remove the lock.
Before Elon bought Twitter, if someone called me the n word and I reported it, they took action. After Elon bought Twitter, they tell me no rules were broken. So this is absolute nonsense
Am I crazy or have people lost the ability to read documentation?
Every “top” marketing tool.
Obviously it’s not possible to try all tools, there are probably thousands.
“Top” is a subjective category so OP just evaluated most relevant tools probably.
every scientist who tries to do dietary interventions knows this happens all the time and it's basically impossible to prevent (which is also a big piece of why the 'science' in this area is not so great)

nothing will change as long as researchers get to keep publishing as they are

source: did some of this myself
And the starter packs who make it easy and quick to straight up build a follow base of curated content uniquely. That stuff only makes Twitter less relevant in an instant.
According to rumor the AEM-7s were fried during testing due to a misconfiguration.
Unless Apple is planning to release any of the said software for Windows as well then I don't see Adobe being cornered. Apple wants to sell hardware so its unlikely to port to Windows. Creatives are no longer exclusive to Apple hardware as it used to be 15 years ago.
The post-quantum age. Companies will go post-quantum.
It used to, now it's got a load of ads and heavy prioritization of accounts that pay money to use it. It's also locked down on technologies like the API that used to make it interesting.

All social networking sites seem inevitable till they fail, remember digg?

Bluesky and threads are building interesting sets of communities, and with the number of active users they have now, it's likely that they'll stay there.

There are 15k+ starter packs on the directory now https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs and just a quick scroll through them shows the diversity of groups using the platform.

Bluesky appears (for now at least) more open to API driven interaction and doesn't default to an algorithmic view, avoiding some of the more annoying things on twitter.

Now as they grow there will be inevitable problems with scammers/spammers and the rest but all popular sites that allow user generated content have to deal with that eventually.
Are you volunteering? ;)
Today, we encountered a very critical bug that would be missed with unit testing and integration testing, which changed our whole approach towards how we view testing. It was a simple scrollbar not being able to scroll 90% times only worked 10% if a user did very specific thing. Overall chance of getting noticed in beta test would have been 2% but as a startup this could have been our end, because unless user added more than 5 files one could not test the scenario, which is the avg. for any trial user. But a real user would have noticed this and would have left for another company. When we started we hadn't hoped this would be an issue but here we are.
When I was living in Japan in the '90s, the FM-Towns was very heavily promoted. I considered buying one, but by the time I was ready to upgrade, there were better alternatives.
Wow you're telling me he didn't try every one of 12,000 marketing tools that exist?
Yes, that is something we're aiming for with a library that can emulate the user closest from end user perspective.
I can't really understand why people use Twitter at all, since it's inception. It's never felt like a compelling platform and everyone I know has an account, like myself, but made it years ago for some reason and never used it.
They most likely only care about Enterprise customers. Individual consumers like you are not relevant to their bottom line.
> (There's also the fact that any professional image editor, paid specifically to do image editing, will tell you GIMP is a toy.)

To be fair, this is because they are, ironically, professional image editors.

GIMP has historically very bad GUI. This is common in open-source projects, where technical people develop the software based on the capabilities. There is rarely UI/UX designer in the project that makes sure that average Joe can do the thing as well. So, technical people likely would disagree with these professional image editors, and they could demonstrate the same end-results with GIMP as these professionals do with other software. Professionals just had no idea how to.
reddit used to be the smaller, less popular version of digg :)
You don't necessarily have to make false promises.

You can be totally honest and upfront that the functionality doesn't exist yet and needs to be built first, but that you think you understand the problem space and can handle the engineering, provided you can secure the necessary funding, where, by the way, getting a contract and some nominal revenue now could greatly help make this a reality...

And if the upside sounds convincing enough, a potential customer might happily sign up to cover part of your costs so they can be beta testers and observe and influence ongoing development.

Of course it happens all the time that the problem space turns out to be more difficult than expected, in which case they might terminate the partnership early and then the whole thing collapses from lack of funding.
> The only thing my post was addressing is that you called out RGB mechanical keyboards specifically when there are also plenty of non-RGB and non-mechanical options. It was bizarre, like this reply.

The point was that even the more "premium" products are still USB-A, not USB-C.

USB-A simply isn't going anywhere.

Personally, I find USB-A more useful than HDMI, since HDMI is kind of inferior to USB-C in every possible way. I've tried using a 43" UHD TV as a monitor, since they're as cheap as $149.99 USD brand new, but it had noticeable delay even at 4k@60Hz, and just didn't feel right. The UHD resolution at 43" itself would actually be perfect, since 1080p at 20.5in used to be my fav a few years ago (before QHD at 23" started reaching the sub-$200 range), but, alas, the specs of a proper monitor (brightness, matte, USB-C with PD and a hub) are just better suited for a display compared to a TV, even if the resolution itself may seem ideal.
A single stock no (usually 1 in 3 perform disappointingly) but a collection of stocks sure. They are all companies you never heard of and has worked out just fine for me.

Usually opportunities come from time to time. For example us met coal mines during covid. ESG boomed and funds dropping them, banks stopped giving new loans, supply chain messed up, priced for bankruptcy. Plenty of people treated met coal the same as thermal coal. Clearly steel is was not going away so a couple hand picked west virginian and alabama met coal mines did wonders. I spend a lot of time researching calling emailing companies there is no free lunch. Its fun and makes me very good money.

Anyway Im not going to peddle my small caps here. Indexing is still the best strategy in general.
Russia cuts off enriched uranium exports to the United States
480 million of those are likely bots
With humans we have a decent understanding of what they are capable of. I trust a medical professional to provide me with medical advice and an engineer to provide me with engineering advice. With LLM, it can be unpredictable at times, and they can make errors in ways that you would not imagine. Take the following examples from my tool, which shows how GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet can screw up.

In this example, GPT-4o cannot tell that GitHub is spelled correctly:

https://app.gitsense.com/?doc=6c9bada92&model=GPT-4o&samples...

In this example, Claude cannot tell that GitHub is spelled correctly:

https://app.gitsense.com/?doc=905f4a9af74c25f&model=Claude+3...

I still believe LLM is a game changer and I'm currently working on what I call a "Yes/No" tool which I believe will make trusting LLMs a lot easier (for certain things of course). The basic idea is the "Yes/No" tool will let you combine models, samples and prompts to come to a Yes or No answer.

Based on what I've seen so far, a model can easily screw up, but it is unlikely that all will screw up at the same time.
GNU Taler (https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into other applications) documentation (review, proof-reading), testing (incl. benchmark, UX), packaging, translation (Weblate/gettext); any help welcome ;-).
it seems to be Easy Task + increasing audience = doesn't really do much.

and Difficult Task + increasing audience = improved performance

which makes sense to me. 1 person is a distraction. a group of people is an audience.
But they are exclusively the majority on X
When I think of AI in chip design, optimizations like these come to mind,

https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042305274-Inve...

https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/33690448941587-In...
Of course it is. Because the software people want to pirate isn't available on Linux for all the reasons parent commenter outlined.
X usage may be at an all time high, but it’s mostly “Pussy In Bio” bots.
Salon retracts 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. piece on alleged autism-vaccine link (2011)
I think it's likely x86-64 support (via Rosetta) will continue for quite some time.

Rosetta is giving Apple a competitive advantage by being able to run x86-64 binaries in VMs (Linux or maybe even Windows) at near-native speeds. This enables doing cool things like running MS SQL Server in a Docker container - which enables developing on a full local .NET stack on a Mac.
I'm going to sidetrack this a little and shit on ON1 before anyone mentions it.

I searched high and low for an Adobe competitor, even using Aperture with Reactive until it became too unstable. ON1 was the only other thing close to being usable.

For a few releases, it was nice. But it's unstable as hell these days. So unfortunate because it's powerful and has a nice interface. Unfortunately they prioritize new features over fixing things. Whoever the product manager is should be fired over the crap AI features they shoved in.
Are you suggesting that all is predetermined? Or have I misunderstood?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd#Fate_in_Germanic_mytholog... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus#:~:text=Democritus%... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Fire_as_symbolic or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination#Hinduism or ???
See Russian media announcement here:

https://www.interfax-russia.ru/main/pravitelstvo-rf-vvelo-vr...

The U.S. ban waivers held by Centrus and Constellation are now moot, as Russia has cut supply off on their end.

Russia's role in the uranium market is primarily as a supplier of conversion and enrichment services. In contrast, Russia is a net consumer of unenriched uranium ("yellowcake"), not a supplier.

Loss of access to Russian enrichment facilities (centrifuges, etc.) forces enrichment overfeeding (and higher enrichment tails) at the remaining enrichment facilities. This can dramatically increase demand for unenriched uranium feedstock.

Furthermore, Russian enrichment services have in the past required the buyer of said services to provide uranium hexafluoride (output of conversion) after the enriched uranium is delivered. Other enrichment providers (that now must be used instead of Russia) require the hexafluoride up-front. This puts pressure on conversion providers (already a bottleneck) and moves forward (in time) unenriched uranium (input of conversion) demand.

Unenriched uranium is a VERY RISKY, VERY VOLATILE commodity with a tiny, thin spot market and an opaque long-term market.

To invest in unenriched uranium in America, the best vehicle is the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust, ticker SRUUF:

https://sprott.com/investment-strategies/exchange-listed-pro...

The Sprott Physical Uranium Trust holds 66 million pounds of unenriched uranium, about one third of the world's yearly burn-up. It issues shares when it trades at or above the previous day's net asset value (NAV) and uses the raised cash to buy uranium in the spot market. This fund is one of the most important participants in the uranium market.

To see monthly spot and long-term contract uranium prices, see Cameco's website:

https://www.cameco.com/invest/markets/uranium-price

Intra-day spot uranium prices are reported here:

https://www.yellowcakeplc.com/
We don't need to prevent it, it's enough to convince (almost all of) the test subjects to honestly admit if they have done something like this.

Is that largely impossible as well?
There's one tool worth mentioning that was missing from the list: High Level.

It's commonly known and used in the agency and marketing world. Search for "go high level" on YouTube. Every marketer I know switched from ClickFunnels (reviewed in article) to High Level. It uses Mailgun on the backend for email delivery or can connect directly to SMTP.

If you need a CRM with AI features, calendars, newsletters, funnels, etc. then High Level is worth considering. I've been using it for a couple years and love it. For startups, it's a cheaper alternative to HubSpot.

https://gohighlevel.com/

For additional context, I've switched all my businesses and clients out of Mailchimp and Klaviyo to High Level.
How is gmail not suitable for serious use?

Never had any issues with deliverability or receiving and been using it for years in a business context.
i imagine this is why a lot of products, and startups, fail.
Link to the radar: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
Nobody wants to read emotional hyperbole when it's just an excuse to lie or exaggerate instead of being truthful or accurate. It's more common than not to find people expressing disappointment with Apple online who are lying, ignorant to the point that their complaint is just incomprehensible, using long outdated and incorrect information, exaggerating the problem to the point of absurdity, or applying expectations or standards that literally no company or alternative product on Earth meets. A good chunk of the time you can even get people to reply in a way that betray the fact that they never even owned or used the Apple product they're complaining about, they're just seeking upvotes or karma with easy and popular sentiments even if they're factually wrong.

Holding Apple accountable and having a negative opinion is fine, but it's a fairly rare thing to find someone online doing it in good faith.
Do you know any library that allow quick injecting fakes in "hermetically sealed environments"?
> automatic generation of documentation from story driven tests
How is that possible?
Although sodium is good, LFP batteries are already below $65-68/Kwh and do not have the same risk of thermal runaway that lithium-ion batteries do. These batteries are being rated for 6000+ cycles without more than 80-90% degradation (i.e. daily charge discharge for 20 years). So LCOE of battery storage systems like Tesla Megapack are now around $0.06c/Kwh, which is cheaper than the average electricity price in most of the world.

The biggest problem the world faces to decarbonize now is finance rather than technology, as few can afford to pay 10-20 years of electricity usage upfront, apart from rich countries. I hope the battery storage prices keep the cost trajectory as smaller the payback period, the faster and larger the adoption will be.
Rates of anxiety, depression rising among Americans, especially the young
Competition is always good, especially when healthy and productive. See any industry, why would software be any different.

Especially when there is also collaboration. Uno team collaborates quite a bit with .NET, Visual Studio and MAUI teams.
Write your own guides if you don’t like the ones that are freely provided to you.
> In this case, it's an unintentional bug.

How do you know? Maybe it's in the mentioned bug report 15774587; I tried to look at it, and was sure I could log into Radar at some point, but now I can't seem to dig up any valid login.
Elon buying Twitter and ruining the platform with spam, lower quality posts being promoted, and many of my favorite creators leaving. It cured my Twitter addiction. So I appreciate Elon for that.

Back when I was younger and addicted to Reddit I remember unfollowing all my subreddits and hacking together a little script that hid the follow button. That friction made Reddit a lot less desirable.

I’ll no doubt eventually try out Bluesky, but I don’t think it could ever capture Twitter’s magic pre-Elon.
for livestreams, individual events like the Olympics probably has a surge audience of 10x of netflix events.

Netflix events is small potatoes compared to other livestream stalwarts.

Imagine having to stream a cricket match internationally to UK / India / Australia with combined audience that crushes the Superbowl or a football match to all of Europe, or even something like livestreaming F1 racing that has multiple magnitudes of audience than a boxing match and also has 10x the number of cameras (at 8K+ resolution) across a large physical staging arena (the size of the track/course) in realtime, in addition to streaming directly from the cockpit of cars that are racing 200mph++.

Livestream focused outfits do this all day, everyday.

Netflix doesn't even come close to scratching the "beginner" level of these kinds of live events.

It's a matter of competencies. We wouldn't expect Netflix to be able to serve burgers like McDonald's does - Livestreaming is a completely different discipline and it's hubris on Netflix's part to assume just because they're good at sending video across the internet they can competently do livestreaming.
Find projects here https://www.codetriage.com/

I recommend looking for projects you care about already instead of going the other way. Best place to start isn’t by looking in your lockfile https://www.codetriage.com/university/picking_a_repo
Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report
Hey haven’t you heard, it’s just around the corner!
> because packaging C/C++ dependencies is an impossible problem that hasn't been solved in 5 decades

C/C++ build systems suck. But deploying a C++ program is much much easier than Python. And Linux is waaaay worse than Windows for both building and deploying imho.
Custom feeds and starter packs seem to be promoted much more on Bluesky than lists were on Twitter, but how different are the actual capabilities from Twitter lists? I never looked at my algorithmic feed. Instead I make a "list" of accounts I followed and pinned that list to my home view. That way I only got exactly their posts in chronological order (with no ads). I saw that recommended by some HN user long ago, but I don't remember who.

I have fully switched to Bluesky at this point anyway, but the list approach worked fine for me on Twitter long after most users were complaining about the feed algo.
Possible market for a watch with an abacus? Doodles on napkin
> I vote for the unholy matrimony of Adobe+Steam to break the stronghold of MS+Apple.

It’s hard to feel sympathetic towards Adobe with their expensive subscription model.
It probably depend on your environment I guess.

Nobody bats an eye when we say we edited their pictures with GIMP. Even our British customers, who are more likely to understand what "gimp" means, I guess.

I mean, they already often use mac OS after all, which means pimp, in French. And who cares.
> The annoying part, a lot of money could be funneled into these unworkable businesses in the process, crypto being a good example

There was a thread here about why ycombinator invests into several competing startups. The answer is success is often more about connections and politics than the product itself. And crypto, yes, is a good example of this. Musk will get his $1B in bitcoins back for sure.

> Most recent example was funneling money from Russia into Trump’s campaign.

Musk again?
Had to nop out at "just next token prediction". This article isn't worth your time.
Hot Design is one-of-a kind, for Uno Platform only.

Also, there are lots of reasons why one may chose Uno for the next project
https://platform.uno/docs/articles/concepts/overview/why-uno...
I tired both a while back, but nothing too big or serious. One thing that numpyro benefits from is JAX's speed, so it might be faster for larger models. Though PyTensor, which is the backend for PyMC can apparently also generate JAX code, so the difference might not be drastic. The PyMC API also seemed to me easier to get started with for those learning Bayesian stats.

One thing I remember that I disliked about PyMC was the PyTensor API, it feels too much like Theano/TensorFlow. I much prefer using JAX for writing custom models.
It baffles me as to why. I think it’s hilarious how Linus is so careful to not break user space (for good reason) and all the user space libraries break every week.
Which is yet another reason to assert (pun intend), how far from reality the anti-bounds check folks are, when even the game industry takes them seriously.
I ran out of space at the end, but the last paragraph was: "Thank you for taking the time to read this. I'm really just looking for guidance. I hope some of the more experienced programmers might be able to shed some light on this situation in ways that aren't clear to me right now."

EDIT

There was one other paragraph I deleted due to space limitations. On the topic of struggling with being completely alone at my job for the large majority of my workweek:

"I'm considering taking my back-end skills and re-training to learn cloud. I think this could (possibly) put me in a position where I can build on my coding skills while also working with other people throughout the day, i.e. clients, other IT people, developers, and so on."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156565
On windows, a lot of installers are 32-bit even if the application they're installing is 64-bit so that they can fail gracefully on 32-bit OSes.
The title is incorrect.

> “Using VPNs to access blocked or illegal content is against Islamic and social norms, therefore, their use is not acceptable under Islamic law. It falls under ‘abetting in sin,’ ” said the statement, quoting the council’s chairman, Raghib Naeemi.

> The statement declared that any technology, including the internet, used to access “immoral or illegal activities is prohibited according to Islamic principles.”
Taped* out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out
The name is even worse than that.

The original meaning is a slur for someone mentally or physically disabled.

The subsequent, sexualized meanings were derived from that.

Pretty much one of the worst things I can imagine, and certainly the worst product name I've ever heard, by far.

And to think they picked it on purpose!