skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Orem, UT, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Technical writing, Knowledge management, XML, DocSys, HTML, Markdown, bash, PowerShell, SQL

Résumé: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vou9f9gwqzvn8rmjf7seq/Steve_Fassmann-resume-General.pdf?rlkey=f9wvafvjhq6iujqyl9pjuihix&dl=0

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-fassmann/

Email: stephan dot fassmann at gmail

I have experience as an electronics engineer, an IT professional, and now I have added technical writing to my skills.

Something I have learned is that good documentation is a massive force multiplier. It allows others to up-skill quickly. By building a knowledge base for the support team I reduced call times by 40%. By incorporating the most frequently asked questions of customers into the documentation I was able to reduce support calls by 60%. By collaborating with devs, QA and support we found how to increased system performance by 42x.
It is a well known historical fact that de Gaulle did not liaise with the rebels in Algiers.

Rene Coty himself said he would resigned if the national assembly didn't pick him as a prime minister.

Then the national assembly vote him with a huge majority margin.

And finally, he wins the november election in a landslide.

So if a coup means that you get power by following all the rules and the decorum and win the election, then the term "coup" does not mean anything.
The never-ending cycle of Javascript libraries continues. It's an HN cliche at this point : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32914452

In fact, it reminds me of Joseph Tainter's theories in Collapse of Complex Societies. Additional civilizational complexity adds value until it starts producing negative marginal returns and then the complexity collapses and reverts to simpler forms.
Is that even legal? Because if it is, that means the president can prevent martial law from ever being lifted. The whole constitution would be pointless.
Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel
Winning popular+electoral college is a landslide in my book. Take the loss and do better next time.
That is a perfect example. The "PR comments" commit helps me see what the dev considered most important (code before this commit), and what the rest of the team considered lacking (the content of this commit). Thus, the Git history records a facet of the team culture at the time of the commit.
I'll just leave this classic here: https://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/
Kristina, I sent you an email.
ITAR and amateur rocketry YouTube have a strained relationship.
I hereby pardon all parking enforcement officers
The range is somehow (unburnt good coffee) > (burnt good coffee == burnt bad coffee) > (unburnt bad coffee).

If you are in the last box, you cannot get to the first one, but you can still move one step up by burning it. Plus you can add a lot of milk and cream and then it is almost the same anyway.
That is a neat idea for another payload =)
The differences between htmx 1.0 and 2.0 are such that for all practical purposes only htmx extension developers had to care
As someone completely not involved in this project, I would predict that increasing the scene size while remaining halfway consistent isn't that difficult.

Let me elaborate by using cat-4d.github.io, one of their competitors in this field of research: If you look at the "How it works" section you can see that the first step is to take an input video and then create artificial viewpoints of the same action being observed by other cameras. And then in the 2nd step, those viewpoints are merged into one 4D gaussian splatting scene. That 2nd step is pretty similar to 4D NeRF training, BTW, just with a different data format.

Now if you need a small scene, you generate a few camera locations that are nearby. But there's nothing stopping you from generating other camera locations or even from using previously generated camera locations and moving the camera again, thereby propagating details that the AI invented outwards. So you could imagine this as you start with something "real" at the center of the map and then you create AI fakes with different camera positions in a circle around the real stuff, and then the next circle around the 1st-gen fakes, and the next circle, and so on. This process is mostly limited by 2 things: The ability of your AI model to capture a global theme. World Labs has demonstrated that they can invent details consistent with a theme in this demos, so I would assume they solved this already. And the other limit is computing time. A world box 2x in each direction is 8x the voxel data and I wouldn't be surprised if you need something like 16x to 32x the number of input images to fit the GSplats/NeRF.

So most likely, the box limit is purely because the AI model is slow and execution is expensive and they didn't want to spend 10,000x the resources for making the box 10x larger.
I don’t blame them for the common attitude problems in enterprise IT but it’s a symbiotic relationship. They avoid having to produce solid products with good UX by restricting access to report problems, and they help the gatekeepers stay in charge by telling the C-suite that networking is an unfathomably hard problem you can only solve by hiring people with lots of Cisco certifications.

As a simple example, the AnyConnect Mac client has a bug in the socket filter related to IP changes, which means that sometimes when the system wakes it’ll block connections for roughly 5 minutes until it times out and retries (or you kill the process). I would bet that this would be fixed in minutes if it affected Windows because most Cisco people use that and only begrudgingly support Mac or Linux desktops.
>Your kids might benefit from an entry-level Sony a6000 or a6100 (the a6000 is ancient but shockingly capable)

That's what I hate about cameras, the 'ancient' model is still $450 used and ~$850 new.
There is a societal reason; condom use and polygamy. Condom use is less common and polygamy more amongst straight people in sub saharan Africa.

There was also very prominent AIDS denialism up to the 2000s so there was a bunch of lost time leading to an explosion in infections; the most notable example being South African president Thabo Mbeki.
I love that they're making an API available but I struggle to understand why there is an extra cost for it. Shouldn't that just be considered part of my regular search usage that I am already paying for?

I understand paying extra for the LLM API but this confuses me.
It's..."foie gras".
174 people were injured in the 'riot'. People died. Trump had called for resistence, asked for metal detectors to be removed, physically attempted to rejoin the crowd by grabbing the wheel of the vehicle taking him home, stood silent for hours during the attack, and said "so what?" to the news his vice president was in grave danger. It was a failed coup and betrays the constitution he swore to protect and defend. Now he describes it as a "day of love" and the 'rioters' as hostages.

Biden pardoning his son is a black mark, especially for the tax evasion. (I think pardons should be abolished.) Yet an order of magnitude less worrisome than the scum Trump has pardoned and promises to pardon.

As to warmongers... which party voted almost unanimously to invade Iraq without hard evidence of WMDs? Who backed out of the Iranian nuclear deal? Who praises bullies and dictators? Who moved the embassy to Jerusalem? Who is so deluted they claim merely winning an election will bring peace to the Middle East and Europe? Who threatened to pull support from allies -- in the midst of a war -- because they want dirt on political rivals or to catch up on underpaid bills. (Trump knows a thing or two about not paying when he owes someone.)

Why the silence about my other remark? Does assaulting, denigrating, and stripping the rights of women not bother you?

Why do you carry water for this man?
I still use craigslist and haven't actually done anything with facebook marketplace yet. That makes me want to delete my facebook account (something I've been considering anyway) just to nip that possibility in the bud.
I created the payload to create a stronger case for Microsoft stopping the nonsense that is NCSI probing. There is no reason to use HTTP in 2024 and doing so as a core feature of the Operating System is begging for bad things to happen.
US Building Early Warning System for Geoengineering
Do you have to hang around those people...? As far as I can tell, none of my friends or even acquaintances have ever judged me for "status", low or high. Or maybe they have without me knowing, but then they self-select out of my friend group anyway so it works out...?

There are certainly people, orgs, social circles, etc. who don't care about your social status, income level, or any of that nonsense. They can be interest-based (some activity), values-based, cultural/subcultural, whatever.

> everyone is very concerned with being around people they think are cool and importantly that others think are cool.

Among adults, this really shouldn't be a thing after high school...

Nobody is "cool" to everyone. People gather with people they like, doing things they enjoy together. It's not about trying to be cool and impressing the people who look down on you. Fuck them. Just find your own people around whom you can be yourself, they can be themselves, and everyone laughs and has a good time together. Then all the class differences and such melt away and you just learn to treasure each other as people, not as spreadsheet rows. Maybe finance bros just aren't your crowd. Who cares? Don't mingle with them and find people less judgmental and more interested in the same things you are.
In just finished migrating a fairly large client project SPA with a Django backend to just straight Django + HTMX with some Alpine sprinkled in for reactivity. Went from 100s of JavaScript dependencies to 5.

It feels like a massive weight off my shoulders. The SPA felt like a ticking time bomb.
https://archive.is/R5l3W
My sense is that perl deployment is declining as it's replaced with better tools. What infrastructure is perl running?

I started playing with Ubuntu in 2006. Exploring the system, I'd come across system scripts in perl here and there, but Lennart Poettering has gradually displaced these with unit files that are much easier to read.

These days I may invoke perl occasionally. A few years back I used checkconfig.pl to build a slimmed-down kernel config for an embedded board. I expect it will eventually be phased out of these peripheral utilities.
Rent seeking is NOT the same as renting, otherwise we would not need a new word for it. Rent seeking is particularly abusing the ownership position or power to obtain rent, not just rent:

> "Rent seeking: the fact or practice of manipulating public policy or economic conditions as a strategy for increasing profits."
Location: Georgia

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: .Net, Ansible, AWS (DynamoDB, EC2, ElasiCache, Lambda, Organizations, RDS, etc.), Azure, C, C++ (Qt), C# (WPF), Jira, Go, Linux, Python (Django), TailwindCSS, Terraform, reverse engineering formats and protocols, cryptocurrencies

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adontz/

Email: roman@adontz.com

I am an Engineer with experience in backend software development, desktop software development, embedded development, electronics, and infrastructure management. I like to know things.

In recent years I was head of DevOps department in a bank and CTO is an early stage startup. Love open source.
Well Windows existed before NT didn't it? Don't know how much people cared for it though at that point
Not unfair at all, and a clear shift of goalposts from how .NET was sold in 2001, and has been for almost 15 years, until management decided only C# gets invited for the new party.

Do you want a refresh from Visual Studio.NET and further releases until this stop being a thing?
> (…) and a prohibition against anyone amputating any of my limbs or sensory organs even if it's necessary to save my life.

> I will make sure I die with my autonomy and my dignity intact.

Amputees have autonomy, dignity, and rich lives. To believe that the loss of a limb is so severe that death is preferable is absurd and insensitive.

What if instead of requiring an amputation, he loses faculties by accident like suffering from parosmia due to COVID or having a weight crush a body part? Did he suddenly lose his dignity? He certainly lost some autonomy. What’s the next step then?
If you're running edgeDressing and use it as the payload whenever a user connects to any wifi that you have credentials for to include open wifi as well, that user's browser will open and then you have full control to send their browser to whatever URL you want. In this case we fingerprint to gain insight.
If people are not free to ignore you, then you want to force people to listen to you. Free speech my ass. You have it completely backwards.
> We are closer then ever before

Closer than ever to what ? None of these problems could be solved by an llm, all of these problems take roots in the same soil as llms

- 200 years ago man made climate change didn't exist, our boundless quest for tech materialised it at break neck speed

- 80% to 90% of cancers have environmental causes, aka pollution/diet/&c. aka things we brought upon ourselves in our quest for tech

- Global hunger is a solved problem, we waste 1/3rd of our food production, the west eats 30-100% too many calories in the first place, we could easily feed everyone if we cared just a little bit
I have certainly reduced my patronage at places where there is pressure to tip, including those tip prompts.

Tipping was already an obnoxious aspect of US culture before, and it has become much worse. Increasingly, it's just not worth putting up with it.
But restaurants in most places are in intense competition with each other on both taste and price, so this would only benefit the consumer? What model of the industry would indicate otherwise?
Open source is a gift within a gift economy. The software may be freely used but the labor needs to come from somewhere, and donations of either direct labor or compensation help ensure that the overall gift economy can continue to function.
Idiomatic Rust would look like this:

fn double(x: i32) -> i32 {
2 * x
}

The reason Rust requires types here is because global inference is computationally expensive and causes spooky action at a distance. The only real difference between your F# and this is the braces, which I do personally think makes code easier to read.

Of course there’s more overhead in smaller functions. I’d never write this code in Rust. I’d either inline it, or use a closure, which does allow for inference, and dropping the braces given that this is a one liner:

|x| 2 * x

Different needs for different things.
"You're him. You're the Rocket Man."
Hey! i'm part of the Cerbos team :)

Yes, Cerbos supports both RBAC and ABAC.

You can try out a pre-built rbac / abac policy in the Cerbos playground by going here https://www.cerbos.dev/features-benefits-and-use-cases/rbac and clicking [Try out this pre-built policy in the Cerbos Playground]
> A bill from Broadcom for ten times the sum it previously paid for software licenses was one of them. Beeks's customers also told it that VMware was no longer seen as essential infrastructure.

No real surprise there. As long as the bill for infrastructure remains sane, nobody is going to put in the effort to change out important parts of your arrangement, instead sticking with a "Well, we know this works, and we know how to deal with it..." approach.

If they'd raised the bill somewhat - 50%, 100%... people probably would have stuck with it. But to jack it an order of magnitude, well, now it's worth putting the engineers on the project to find a cheaper solution (that may very well be better - virtio vs what VMWare is using... I certainly prefer virtio for most of my storage and networking needs).

> The tech team also warned management that the quality of VMware's support services and innovation were falling.

I mean, the writing was on the wall, you don't buy out a product and jack the prices 10x if you plan to actually support it. It's pure "value extraction" at that point. Sad, really, because VMWare has a lot of nice features behind it and has been a well thought out bit of virtualization software throughout the years.

I had the displeasure of having to update a VMWare install on a laptop recently (VMWare Player had been perfectly fine, which was discontinued, Workstation is now free for personal use, but you have to register with your full physical address to download it, and I just want to run the VM I use to talk to my car, please...). I can't say I'll be considering them for anything going forward.
Fools parting from their money never gets old.
Take action to remove HTTP from the workflow. There is 0 reason to use HTTP in 2024 for a core OS functionality, let alone one that can knowingly be abused just like edgeDressing does.
Water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency
The good old days when you could just hook up some hacked up C code to the internet and pray you caught all the potential exploits.
They are quite open to immigration now. If you've been recently you'd know they are practically begging people to move there and make babies.
Pretty much exactly what you expect given than promiscuity is not taboo in the gay community.

All in all, HIV just isn't a problem anymore. It's on the same sort of threat scale as any other STD. Even if you're infected, you just continue taking PrEP (technically PEP) for the rest of your life and that's about it. Normal life expectancy and not much other health complications for most people with consistent treatment.
Do they owe anything today, in the sense of a legal obligation? No.

But we've regulated the tragedy of the commons in all sorts of other instances. There's no reason, for example, that a small percentage of corporate income tax couldn't be allocated to a grant program for free and open source software projects.
When I started into UNIX, the MUDs we were running were based in Pascal actually, surprisingly in a C ecosystem.
GivingTuesday: Giving Back Shouldnt Mean Giving Up Privacy. Now It Doesn't
Check your inboxes/mailboxes. You likely have 15+ unwanted pieces of communication from charities this time of year. We built Silent Donor so you could keep the impact of your donations, and also keep your privacy.
In an era where personal data is commodified and privacy is hard to come by, Silent Donor offers a simple solution: you can send a fully anonymous, tax-deductible donation to any charity.
If you’re concerned about avoiding relentless follow-up requests, protecting yourself from public scrutiny, or simply valuing your right to privacy, we let you focus on what truly matters — making an impact.
It’ll get annoying if transit shuts down, or gas stations. I’ve been in countries when this happens. It’s quite inconvenient.
If I'm tipping, my intention is that the money goes to the workers, not the establishment -- so it is my business as a customer. A tip is a gift, and I want to know that the gift is going to who I intend for it to go to.
Majority of Canadians oppose equity hiring – more than in the US, new poll finds
Never heard about Templ before, so I went ahead to investigate it and...

Wow, they reinvented PHP!
> 1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance" pay. I'm pretty sure one of the upper-mgmt had bought it for themselves, but it was "about the right amount".

I wouldn't even be all that mad
> because people using your software doesn’t cost you anything.

Tell me you've never been an open source maintainer without telling me you've never been an open source maintainer. :)
In 1993, not really.

Not everyone was into Windows 3.x.
> What are the other advantages exactly besides tool chain?

It's a very productive language once you're experienced.

I'm one of those people who (initially) didn't care about memory safety at all and just wanted a more productive C++, and for me it delivers on that perfectly. Nowadays I even use Rust for scripting, because with the right libraries it's just as productive for me as Ruby and Python can be while being orders of magnitude faster.

I always find it funny when I see the "fighting with the borrow checker" meme, or as you say - "people spend fighting the Rust compiler for a project", where people complain how extremely unproductive Rust is. This is very much true, if you're a beginner. It's a language with a very high skill ceiling (similar to C++).
love to see someone I went to high school with on HN's front page :)
> And Windows NT was already released when that was written.

Windows NT 3.1 was released on July 27th; this document was dated August 1st. Basically nobody had a copy yet; even if they did, MERC wouldn't have run on it without substantial porting effort, as it depended on Berkeley sockets.
From my *personal* experience, the target audience, to a large degree, doesn't care at all about owning domains, websites or servers. They want something that just works and the less they have to deal with technology, the better. In that sense, a reasonable and ethical service where you own nothing is much better than one that preys on you and you still own nothing.
Notably not an amateur team.
It's not about our own CI -- we could easily use rustup as part of setting up the CI environment, and I think we might actually be doing exactly that at the moment.

Lots of QEMU users use it through their downstream distros. We even recommend that if you're using QEMU in a way that you care about its security then you should use a distro QEMU, because the distros will provide you timely security fix updates. Sure, we could throw all that cooperation away and say "tough, you need to use up-to-the-minute rust, if that's a problem for distro packagers we don't care". But we want to be a good citizen in the traditional distro packaging world, as we have been up til now. Not every open source project will want or need to cater to that, but I think for us it matters.

That doesn't mean that we always do the thing that is simplest for distros (that would probably be "don't use Rust at all"); but it does mean that we take distro pain into account as a factor when we're weighing up tradeoffs about what we do.
I've played a MUD and accidentally learned Perl once.
> Australia made you submit a video of yourself at random to state authorities.

That was a single state government (South Australia), a state with only around 7% of Australia’s population. And it only applied to people in post-travel quarantine. It would be like if a single US state government (e.g. Florida, which is roughly the same percentage of the US population as South Australia is of Australia’s) introduced some controversial policy and then non-Americans were presenting it as “the US makes you…”, as if it were some nation-wide policy
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304955 (though this link is the original source for that article)
An unrelated cybercriminal network named MATRIX was taken down
>I would argue if you aren't doing some combination of: [...]

cloudflare offers free website hosting and email forwarding, so it's basically free for a squatter to check those boxes.

>I mean, it depends. One would argue that people going to nissan.com are clearly looking for the Japanese car company, so it's in the public's interest that that domain be sold to them.

So you basically want the Kelo v. City of New London decision to be applied to domains as well? You own "erictrump.com" but aren't the president-elect's son? Well tough luck because it's "in the public's interest" that president-elect's son gets it rather than you.
Petnames?

https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html