skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's food for thought that something as groundbreaking as HL2 and Steam almost didn't see the light of day and the developers only survived by the skin of their teeth. In some nearby universe the games industry looks very different and sometimes people go "remember Half-Life? It's a shame Valve went out of business and the sequel was canceled."

I wonder what other amazing things we missed out on because of political backstabbing, or one-sided corporate lawsuits, or crime and fraud? We'll never know, because those projects don't get documentaries made about them 20 years later.
The Curse of Markdown
Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies
Some Thoughts on Software in 2024
Agreed.

> But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization?

If enough people replace the pet idpol/culture war issue obsessions, which were designed to keep us divided and distracted from root class issues, instead with a unified vision of what benefits the ordinary person, then there is hope for diverging from this hellscape trajectory.

Here's a starting point with some ideas:

https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin-socialist-planning-mo...
Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future
Nobody can steal it and sign it with your key for a commit to appear as if it was signed by a regular committer to a work project that would pass the verification if there is any on the repo or CI/CD side (if that's not restricting keys by the time period). The scenario is certainly a bit far-fetched and contorted, but it is possible.
Rustlantis: Randomized Differential Testing of the Rust Compiler
"Check yourself" as in hire a translator who reads Korean, then check the output of those yourself.
I dislike Nestle as much as the next guy but I don't get the issue here. The villagers don't consume things that are only produced in their village, like I don't get free coal because I live next to a coal mine.
How do you evaluate respectability in this case? The icon that meant verified on Twitter now only means that someone paid money to X.

(And of course you can't read it if you're not logged in.)
Not sure what's wrong with your feed, if I go to that account the top post is from 3 hours ago concerning this outage along with two replies at 2 hours and then ~48 minutes ago located right under it.
You can submit errata. Maybe it should be renamed to RFE.
Very interesting. I tested primarily on Firefox Windows and iOS and I don’t see similar complaints by others so I suspect it is working widely… I wonder if you have an extension which could be disabling the JavaScript?

It is especially weird that “background-attachment: fixed” wouldn’t work on desktop though since that is old old technology.

Are you sure you are seeing the light ray texture at all? If you aren’t sure, you could try boosting your screen brightness. It’s a very subtle effect.

Otherwise, it would be useful to know if your console shows any error messages on the page.
Show HN: Redesigned My Tag-Based Bookmark Manager
People forget that China existed before communism.
Hell only Mao's idiotic experiment only lasted a few decades. China has always been capitalist. It's why you can find a store run by Chinese expats in the middle of the Suriname jungle.
> just an enthusiast, not a scientist

Considering the anime character, it's 50/50. /s
By which metrics was Google+ successful? I don’t doubt you, I just never heard that before.
Many people underestimate the challenges of working in this environment. The DARPA challenge is like saying that boxing is the same as hand to hand combat. There are many similarities but the first has rules and parameters and the second has none. I find that people in IT tend to arrogantly proclaim things along the lines of, "I've set up a Kubernetes cluster. This can't be any more difficult." but it's more like setting up a Kubernetes cluster where you're paying someone else just like you to do everything they can to destroy it including giving them a knife and stabbing you. Then letting them loose in the datacenter.
I didn’t ask for specifics but the government clearly wasn’t playing.
> TouchID is great, and it’s frustrating that Apple put it on the keyboard instead of the power button

Or the trackpad. TouchID works well on iPad Air power button.
So many unfortunately don't have a choice
The US isn't the only NATO member that produces fighter jets. EU members of NATO make the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Dassault Rafale, and the Saab JAS 39 Gripen.
Payflow.dev: The 1-Line Payment Integration, Stripe Alternative for Developers
Indeed, I struggle to even imagine what "use unusual language when describing well-known celebrities" even means! Maybe like using "musician" rather than "artist" or some other combination?

edit: Ok, I've read through the paper, and still have no idea. Apparently the responses to questions were compared as semantic vectors using cosine similarity in Google’s Universal Sentence Encoder space. Or something lol.
But do general people know who is a scientist and who isn't? How do they find out?

It isn't by membership of a learned society, it isn't if they are working at a university. There is no simple way for a general person to know if somebody is a scientist.
wonder if you'll be able to actually buy them at this price? the ESP32s can be bought for like $5 and main competitor to this board, I would much prefer this cause the documentation is so much better
EU supports China economy by donting their products from EU citizen taxes. As EU citizen, you can ask donations for your new photovoltaic panels or EV up to 8000€.
Isn't it true?

f = lambda x: (1/x) * x
f(1e309)

yields NaN, not 1.

(So I guess Denmark is at least 1e309-sized in some metric).
You're logged in, they are not.
Oh no! Now I won't be able to attend our weekly monday morning meeting! The horror!
It will be, but the idea of having an overview over the states is gone then. There is just modules-> objects with the transitions being method calls. Nobody will have to know all the things about all the state transitions, resulting in another problem (dys)solved by architecture obscurity.

If needs be the state-machine can be reconstructed on a whiteboard by a team of five.
S/Australia's biggest battery charges up as new storage prepares to enter grid
Incidence Trajectories of Psychiatric Disorders After Assault,Injury,Bereavement
Have you tried building the damn thing ?

Nix build is still stuck in the one from 3-4 y back because bazel doesn't play well. Debian too has some issues building the thing...
No, the previous commenter is saying that you cannot trust the identity provided in commits period. This has nothing to do with trusting employees, rather placing trust in the identity in commit.
If you enjoy reading business biographies like me you'll find that gangster tactics like deployed by Vivendi against Valve are surprisingly common. The smaller business has essentially no recourse when faced with an opponent like Vivendi. The courts are unable to hold big businesses to account because (a) diffusion of responsibility and (b) when found guilty the fines are as threatening as a parking ticket.

In this specific case Gabe Newell fought and miraculously won, but gaben is the exception and most businesses are (rightly) afraid to fight Goliath and that's a big loss to society.
18 year old you was right. I was already a fan of the show before this stunt, but this put it into legendary status.
I respect them more. So that’s one data point..

(PS: Poe’s law).
LOL; someone has definitely played with type-systems here.
Doctor, can you read to me like my grandmother did? The story is called Vicodin prescription, refillable.
I think that’s within reach of many non-tiny companies. You don’t need to hire someone full time – technical translation work is a service you can already pay for.
This is still very general, and in opposition to the previous advice. A solution to this seems to be "use separate directories", not "use separate machines".
Yeah but this is where a human is indispensable.

Suppose the source language has words which could be translated into multiple English words -- look at all the power banks which are advertised as charging treasure for example. One can see how bank vs treasure are close, after all. Further, even in English multiple phrases could be used "don't preserve" "bin it" "throw it away" and countless others. Even worse, it could be a company specific phrase which would only stand out as odd "apply procedure 66 to it".

If given a little thought this is exactly the kind of task where a native speaker would shine and LLM might just miss or if given a wide enough net produce a million false positive.
When your natural resources shrinking, you need to expand if your entire economy depending on that sources.

China will soon be more aggressive as any other empires.
Yeah, we may have to take seriously that the notion of complexity for a finite string (or system) has no reasonable definition.
I'm disgusted that they took celebrity gossip as reference point for healthy social behavior.
Yes, in this context I don't see any reason for that number of separate clusters.
The F-35 has never been one of the "most commercially successful airframes". 670 sold is actually a pretty low number, considering its supposedly multi-role capabilities and its rare VTOL feature.

The sales pipeline started being agreed when the plane was still a concept, and it's almost exclusively a feature of American foreign policy: the US government worked hard, over almost 40 years, to ensure a significant part of design and production costs (and risks resulting from such) would be absorbed by allies through guaranteed sales. NATO countries have been under huge continuous and sustained pressure to buy it and to standardize their systems around it. Quite a few European governments found themselves struggling to publicly justify their choices in this matter, because in the end it mostly boiled down to "the Americans told us to buy it or else". The F-35 project simply would not be allowed to fail in the market.

As far as I know, no other weapon ever enjoyed such massive and forceful support by so many US administrations throughout the decades.
Aren't those 400 GB/s a figure which only apply when the GPU with its much wider interface is accessing the memory?
Look who just joined the incoming administration...
UX translations are broken most of the time for most of the software and not just in German. People just pretend it's working and okay, when it's not.

And then developers just do N > 1 ? "things" : "thing" without thinking twice, not use pgettext and all the other things.
It does not really work on all browsers, but I can imagine scenarios where in some network middleware you have some dynamic control over headers but don't have control over the content, so that might be once place something like this could be useful.
Ask HN: Are Citi notifications slow for you?
I have transaction notifications / alerts set up for my Citi credit card account. Over the last month, it seems like these notifications have been getting slower and slower to arrive. It used to be that I could tap my card and have a notification of a transaction on my watch within a second or two. Now I am sometimes not getting notifications until hours later. I figure it is some queue backed up somewhere, some service that needs scaled up a tiny bit, but trying to notify anyone at Citi who understands is near impossible. Maybe someone who works at Citi will see this post and check in on their notification queues.

Anyone else noticing this problem?
If QA is catching bugs and you are fixing them in a timely manner then the system is working.

You can’t anticipate everything in a complex system. You can write code which make mistakes obvious and help you fix them quickly. Good asserts are one such example.

What would be of concern is if your work is plagued by “sometimes errors” and inconsistencies that make it unclear whether it’s improving over time.
I thought they were saying they _had_ heard of 8 in 10? Strangely Karol G was also new to me. I'll resist searching for the name - I enjoy not knowing things sometimes.
I highly doubt f35 will use supersonic speed for anything else than repositioning/travel. In combat theaters i doubt it speed will go higher than Mach 0.8.

And anyway, if you want CAS, to stop an army, A-10 will probably be a dozen time better suited than any multirole, and especially the f35 with its ridiculously low availability rate, or even better in that particular case, an AC-130 (that is probably able to direct a drone fleet in its latest revision, but that was speculation last time i checked)

(the A-10 is the best modern plane in my opinion, i really like the F15, f18 and Rafale (those curves!), because i really like the idea of aircraft carrier but that plane is the best.)
And “by not work” we mean “will work exactly as it should, but little Timmy in marketing will get a frowny face and won’t go out for drinks on Friday, so you have to tick it”.
Discussion on https://avherald.com/h?article=520c0e2b&opt=0 seems to tend towards pilot error. Plane's ILS may not have locked on to glide slope and pilots went too low and too fast. Maybe missed the point where they should've gone around.

But all just speculation, and I'm just summarizing too. It'll take some time to get answers, all we seem to have right now is alarmist politicians milking the topic.
Engineering Beneath the Ice Sheet
Liberal governments also implement unpleasant decisions, for example: paying subsidies for solar panels, electric vehicles, banning good old cheap lightbulbs, banning cheap plastic bags, cheap cars etc.
point 3 made me think the product manager role will be gone like the webmaster of the past. That’s a software development problem that needs deep technical knowledge to manage
git has built in support to separate author and committer I believe he/she is just changing the author property.
Then you should think yourself lucky that you've never had to use Lotus Notes.
On macOS one can use the traffic shaper dummynet(4), controlled with the dnctl(8) command, which has a nice man page that describes it.

It's always surprising to see how apps degrade under high latency connections and is a good way to test how users will actually experience things in less-than-ideal conditions.
Realpolitik is very German. The current phrase is "Wandel durch Handel", sounds more polite, but don't misunderstand. Germany will pay nice money and later Germany will call shots. 25 out of 27 EU members are subsidised by Germany and the Netherlands, guess how many of those 25 run a trade surplus against Germany. Same thing with gas: Putin wanted to diversify the gas distribution and at the end he had two pipelines to Germany.

AFAIK Germany's never ever backed down in one of those confrontations. Handel fine, good money for everyone, but the Wandel absolutely has to come on the other side.
Be careful what client you use, though. JGit unfortunately still doesn’t support includeIf.
If only there was some way, maybe through decentralization, to ensure that not all of Microsoft Exchange customer where down at the same time. Maybe if there where a self-hosting option, or a partner network that could offer these service. Oh well, guess we'll never know.
If it's a personal laptop, I would assume there is no "endpoint monitoring software" installed.

When it comes to "assets", companies make a big fuss about leaking them, but in reality, it's totally irrelevant. I.e. witness Windows OS source code being leaked: Microsoft wasn't affected at all. Leaking short/mid-term plans would probably have a bigger effect (abuse on the stock market, beating a competitor to the market on their big bet...).
I didn't downvote, but my only problem is that I can't tell if it's a more respectable source or not since twitter won't let me see anything without creating an account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We used HRflow.ai API to fetch information into spreadhsheet directly through add-on
The phrase for your search is "trail camera"
Yeah I used to use Twitter without an account quite a bit and I guess saw a decent amount of ads to make it worthwhile for them. Don’t understand them messing with non-logged in users.

I haven’t used twitter in a couple of years now because of that even though I’d like to. It’s completely useless unless I’ve a direct link to a tweet
The Scale of Space
> State machines don't have syntax for "transition here when event is encountered no matter what state you are in" so the whole diagram becomes a spaghetti mess if you have a lot of those escape hatches.

I place a note at the top of my diagrams stating what the default state would be on receipt of an unexpected event. There is no such thing as "event silently gets swallowed because no transition exists", because, in implementation, the state machine `switch` statement always has a `default` clause which triggers all the alarm bells.

Works very well in practice; I used to write hard real-time munitions control software for blowing shit up. Never had a problem.
Bacterial one-cell RNA sequencing captures biofilm transcriptional heterogeneity
Does there need to be one? It raises awareness of the headers used, even if they’re used weirdly here.
I'd have taken it more as, reflected light would be better than straight to the eye light
Setting up listmonk, an open-source newsletter and mailing list manager
Show HN: Bardsy's Publishability Index: A Standard for Great Stories
Storytelling is a wonderful human faculty that challenges generative AI, particularly when it comes to long, original works. One thing missing from these discussions is a rigorous definition of good storytelling, a standard that determines whether one story is better than another. Here, our Publishability Index™ (PI) might be useful. It offers a comprehensive criterion for humans to judge a story's quality. In so doing, it specifies what makes a story not so good, good or great.

The PI is the cornerstone of Bardsy's efforts to help our members write effectively. It was developed as part of a PhD thesis to evaluate creative writing instruction. We use it to judge Bardsy's writing contests and in other formative and summative evaluations.

It also provides a more precise language to give more feedback and to discuss the relative merits of stories. Scientifically speaking, it's an intersubjective criterion designed to increase the reliability and precision of coders' evaluations. We have had good results concerning intercoder reliability thus far.

In looking at the PI, you'll see it organizes the conventional wisdom regarding good storytelling into 23 dimensions - covering seven familiar elements, like character and plot. Use the PI as a checklist to evaluate a story. Start at the top and move down, dimension by dimension. Read the criteria for each, first “good,” then “great,” reflecting on whether or not that criteria is present or absent.

To illustrate, the character backstory dimension calls for characters to have a "past that contributes to their identity" to be considered good. If, after reflection, the author determines that this statement applies, they'd check it. If not, they'd move down to the next dimension. If the author checks "good," they can consider the “great" criterion, defined as "relevant histories that spur individual development and action." If their character lacks such relevant history, they should seriously consider this omission when revising.

When finished, the author (or judge) can tally the goods and greats to identify a story's strengths and also find its weaknesses. There's a tab for notes, too

The PI is intended to be used iteratively, to identify and correct problems with each successive draft until none remain. The name comes from that outcome. Should a story receive 23 greats, we'd consider it to be publishable. More explanation can be found here:
https://bardsy.com/forums/blog/the-publishability-indextm-an....

AI seems to have difficulty with this kind of holistic reflection, let alone being able to apply this kind of multi-part standard to creative writing. Our question is whether you would find this useful, either as an adjunct to your own writing or in AI development.

We welcome your thoughts,
Review: Four-Colour eInk Name Badge
There are actually two more: U+FE6B and U+E0040.
Personal machine as in a machine that you use for anything other than work for that particular client.

The same goes for putting anything personal on a company issued device, such as signing into your private email.

It is a problem in all circumstances. The problems may not always manifest, but if they do, you’ll be in deep trouble.

Problems range from the mild; company has mandatory tooling that takes control of your machine. To the extreme; offices get raided and equipment seized indiscriminately.

General assertions are fine. The exercise of whether to follow them up with research is left as an exercise to the reader.
Absolutely.

But I still think there is a difference with Bluesky and the other big social medias with full customization of how the feed(s) works, third party servers, custom labelers, etc. To me it seems plausible that they actually want to create more of an empowering tool that the users can control.

That will of course not stop users from using ”dumb” feeds. But the users doesn’t have the incitament of Facebook to always produce higher engagement and show more ads.

It is of course also troublesome that we do not know how Bluesky will act down the road to get their ROI.
Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes
Apparently it didn't apply to my bank when I tried to change my name with them, according to them anyone could have made my change of name form, and having ID and correctly putting in the PIN for my card wasn't enough
From eyesore to asset: How a smelly seaweed could fuel cars
EuroNews is generally pretty respectable, but it is sad that their cookie/tracking banner isn't compliant. Equally sad that no one at EuroNews management have seen the banner and though: 870 partners seems like 867 to many.

Arguably EuroNews is a strange source for news like this, but companies like Microsoft and Amazon are terrible about communicating outages directly.
>AI tools that spit out prompt-based songs are enabling people not to create music,

What level of mental gymnastics is this? This is like saying that cars enable people to not travel.

Music is in the ears of the beholder, it doesn't matter how it was produced. If a tool lets more people compose music, which "AI" does, then it's democratizing composing music.

Likewise: Crossbows and then guns democratized violence. Cars democratized personal transport. Currency democratized procurement. The printing press democratized writing. The internet democratized information.

Democratizing is about making something more accessible to the commons. Whether that will be good or bad is not the concern of democracy.
> When it comes to "assets", companies make a big fuss about leaking them, but in reality, it's totally irrelevant

There’s no milder way to put this; you’re delusional.
> It comes with quite a lot of compensation and subsidies, so they're less angry than you might expect.

Do people really still buy this trick?
What would work.gitconfig include in this case?
Twitter is unusable if you don’t have an account. Only thing that works is direct link to tweets. I imagine there are plenty of privacy conscious people on this platform who don’t have social media accounts so a link to a Twitter account is pretty much useless for them.
At what timestamp in the documentary do they talk about ?
In this case you can find this X account linked on some Microsoft status pages.

https://status.cloud.microsoft/
We're having problems here in NL.

SharePoint Online search is broken too.
I don't think the article says that, does it?