skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is free means that the daycare provided by a company isn’t free. It costs the company money and can be considered part of your compensation. It’s almost certainly more efficient and more desirable for the company to give you money to procure your own.

Daycare and coffee just aren’t equivalent.
It's also easier if you already think of emails as "disposables", so if you have any important information in them, you already back it up on a different medium.
I’m the opposite of most of the “archivists” on HN. I delete everything and save nothing. I have maybe 25 sheets of paper in my apartment, including social security card and birth certificate.

Saving stuff just isn’t fun or useful for me. Never for more than a passing moment have I thought, “Boy I wish I had saved that whatever.”

Old people are the worst about this stuff. They think/hope somebody will want it and then just make it the next generation’s problem.

I told my dad if he thinks it has value, give it away while he’s alive. I have neither the interest nor the space to deal with it so it’s going straight into the trash.
I’m curious of other perspectives and conclusions on this.

Why do you think Facebook is the responsible party and not the purveyors of the content that caused them PTSD? From my perspective, Facebook hired people to prevent this content from reaching a wider audience. Thanks for any insight you can provide.
The strange link between obesity and corruption
Elon will sooner or later be set aside / dismissed / etc, as all of Trump's prior close allies were.

Trump in this sense reminds me of other historical dictators. They also had high turn over rates in senior staff; insecurity in the dictator, their staff having seen them fail and so no longer being tolerable as they now lack a sense of awe, and said staff also to the extent they are competent coming into disagreement with dictator.
Who proceeds to kill christians, not muslims.
you feeling the need to defend it at every jibe. chill. rust is not a cult
+1 for "No Comment/Action Required" responses reducing trigger-happiness
What was the point of the parent comment?
(Founder) We plan to be multi-cloud over time. Kinesis has pretty low ordered throughput limit (i.e. at the level of a stream shard) of 1 MBps, if you need higher. S2 will be cheaper and faster than Kinesis with the Express storage class. S2 is also a more serverless pricing model - closer to S3 - than paying for stream shard hours.
Not really relevant, but the context doesn't arise all that often: I used to live near the Cittie of Yorke and the 'Y' on the sign was so florid that I genuinely thought it was called the city of "Porke" for the best part of a year!
For the longest time I’ve wanted a way to record my location history in a durable way, without resorting to google maps history (which is great but has…obvious downsides), or some hacky short-term custom solution.

I wonder if someone could integrate this into a more coherent long-term platform.
A break even business sitting on high value property is just as valuable closed as it is open, and it appreciates in value the more restrictions are piled on development of scarce local real estate.

The mental health theory aside, this may be why these... Eclectic... Business decisions end up being tolerable. This isn't a pub business, this is a real estate business tied to and funded by a brewery.

Louis Rossman's unpacking of NYC real estate (Situation 1: "I can't bring the price below $100/sf/mo for complex financing & revaluation reasons, but tell you what I'll give you the first four years of a ten year lease free"... Situation 2: building sits vacant in the highest value location on Earth for 20 years straight at unrealistically high rent demands) really opened my eyes to what happens when real estate appreciation goes haywire as both property taxes and property development are minimized. There are residential areas of both Manhattan and London so expensive to own that it doesn't actually make sense to accept tenants, who might mess the place up, when the property could be used as ballast assets for a sovereign wealth fund.
I suspect they might be a bit wary of the privacy implications of giving other apps/Shortcuts access to Findmy data
This is my conspiracy theory as to why Win11 made TPMs mandatory hardware.
Spring AI MCP: A Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol
so many powerful words lol
Unfortunately it's not super easy to get data out of Discord either. Last I checked, one needs to carefully setup a bot then script the bot to download messages to CSV, etc., but if you're not careful with the account and bot setup, the export process itself could lead to a ban.
This isn't my post but I work with llms everyday and I've seen this kind of instruction ignoring behavior on sonnet when the context window starts getting close to the edge.
I mean, think of LLM output as unfiltered thinking. If you were to make that determination would you make it before you had thought it through?
You must hear this a lot, but.. do you have any tips on how to break into the field?

Currently I'm a backend engineer, but my initial interest to dive into development was operating systems and networking.

I recently have been improving my knowledge doing some systems related projects and trying to contribute a bit to open source, but getting a role working with that still seems so unreachable not having any formal experience...
Changing pointers to include length would require an ABI break on pretty much all platforms. You’d either have to recompile the world or have some sort of bridging thing that converts calls from C-with-fat-pointers to standard C. And even recompiling the world wouldn’t be enough, since lots of C code relies on being able to do things like cast pointers to integers, manipulate them as numbers, then cast them back. That’s UB by the standard but platforms and compilers can and often do define that behavior to be something useful.

You could say, well, forget binary compatibility and forget nasty code that bit-twiddles pointers. But then why are you even using C? Those are the things that set it apart.

Clang is trying to solve this with annotations that allow the programmer to construct fat pointers, either as structures or just implicitly by having the length in a variable somewhere, and enforcing those bounds in the compiler. Seems promising. https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafetyImplPlans.html
Teenager's brain becomes key marketing tool for companies
Direct Connect and ExpressRoute
Pdf signatures are a joke and entire wrb e-signature space is snake oil sales. Source: worked for docusign competitor and seen how signing twice works.

We at least did the print to pdf thingy ourserves on the backend to save users from this shame.

Add: you can in fact sign the pdf multiple times with a digital signature, which is an actual feature of PDF format. You can't however add electronic (drawn) signature on top of the digital one without (partially) invalidating previous ones. And to nobody's surprise, you can't see digital signatures if you decide to print the document with it.

So pick your poison.
I'm shocked at the amount of people I've seen on my local news getting arrested lately for it and it all comes from the same starting tip:

"$service_provider sent a tip to NCMEC" or "uploaded a known-to-NCMEC hash", ranging from GMail, Google Drive, iCloud, and a few others.

https://www.missingkids.org/cybertiplinedata

"In 2023, ESPs submitted 54.8 million images to the CyberTipline of which 22.4 million (41%) were unique. Of the 49.5 million videos reported by ESPs, 11.2 million (23%) were unique."
Agreed.

I read this book recently, one chapter at a time, and after each, reviewed the code for my current project, applying the principles to it in a re-write --- it helped a lot.

Highly recommended.
It's not perfect, but Edge will let one take a simple full page screenshot with Ctrl+Shift+S. It results in a hefty PNG but at least it's a visual copy of everything which might suffice for a certain set of purposes (e.g. links will be lost, so it's not good for that).

I can still right-click > Save any page as .html, but that doesn't guarantee server streamed stuff, media, images, etc. will be preserved correctly.
the standard library certainly has a few problems, if you haven't read the docs, but that does not mean that i do.
Awww. They've gone subscription model - because of course they have.
You should be able to do that already by taking all of your customers nit embeddings and averaging them to produce a point in space that represents the universal nit. Embeddings are really cool and the fact that they still work when averaging is one of their cool properties.
Watch how a group of wild dogs kill their prey, then realise that for milenia human like apes were part of their diet. Even the modern battlefield is more humane than the African savannah.
"While we had spreadsheets since the 90s"

I was using SuperCalc in the '80s.
I wish mergers were not possible. I feel like the merger/acquisition thing has gone way to far to make behemonth corporations that help no one but the rich.
First impressions:

- Having to wait until the “say” segment starts in order for one’s speech to be recognized makes things unnatural. I can’t speak when I would intuitively speak.

- Yang Lee (sp?) was immediately unlikable to me, so I stopped playing soon after.
You’d probably not feel that way in a village who’s pub was owned by him and had been shuttered
Probably its electronic signature vs qualified digital signature. At the very least with swiss telecom they know who is keeping root certs at the end of the chain of trust.
I've done you the courtesy of extensively fact-checking your comments as well as my own, providing you with a boatload of new information you evidently lacked, and clearly demonstrating that some of your conclusions were based on incorrect information rather than reality. I'd appreciate it very much if you'd return the courtesy by correcting whatever information or reasoning I may have gotten wrong, especially if it's something major like the above. Simply sneering at me doesn't advance my understanding, yours (especially if what you're sneering at is that I know things you don't, as it seems to be), or anyone else's.

It would also do everyone a service if you withdrew your claims that turned out to be wrong, as I did in the comment above and in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42440198. That way they don't have to wade through the intricate details of the argument to figure out which of your claims still stand.

In the end the question is: are you here to figure out what is true? Or are you here to conceal what is true, like Ted Turner? I assumed the former, based on past experience, and asked dang to unflag your original comment as a result, even though it was a bit ranty. But this "hilarious" comment makes me wonder if I was wrong.
I think spaced repetition can be very helpful in language learning, but the author's plan of finding a pre-made deck of the most common 5,000 words is probably the worst way to use it.

A much more effective approach is to create vocab cards yourself as you find new words through your immersion. Immersion could be anything from watching content online, to reading, to conversations with native speakers. From here you can skip the 500 or so most common words because those will appear exponentially more frequently and don't really require spaced repetition if you are regularly immersing.

Also if you're not an engineer, or you don't want to fiddle with Anki plugins you can use Mochi [0] which has built in support for text-to-speech, dictionary lookup, transcription, etc.

[0] https://mochi.cards/
I'd imagine they have a very limited market as in who they can sell their products and services to, for reasons that might make political power more interesting than valuation.
I'm not going to bother engaging with... whatever ideological soapbox this is, so I'm just going to address one baffling assertion:

"Never ever claim to support the poor if you get butthurt at the idea that poor people can now access tools to create beautiful art."

Being able to afford a decent laptop/machine to run diffusion models or a SaaS subscription to Midjourney is VASTLY less financially viable to poor people then just putting pencil to paper.

Poor people have ALWAYS been artists, and artists have ALMOST ALWAYS been poor people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_artist
If it's approved by the AppStore, then it should be good, no?
Nobody is in fact disputing their signatures in court.
The bstring library[0] has been around a _long_ time.

[0]: https://bstring.sourceforge.net/
Right, if it is worth $19, it is worth $99.

There are no $19 business problems.
Reminded me of the story of Marion Marguerite Stokes who recorded TV news from 1977 to her passing in 2012.

https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/22/a-dream-to-preserve-tv-n...
The police are the enforcement arm of the ownership class.

They apply the law as required to enforce the the socioeconomic order. This is why when people who aren’t custodians of land or cash flows ask them to investigate or solve crimes they rarely do.

The selective application of the law is how the current prerogatives of the ownership class are implemented in society.

This is why it’s illegal to do cocaine at work if you’re a poor person flipping burgers, but not if you’re an investment banker.
see also: Richard Fabian's data-oriented design book -- the chapter on existential processing discusses enums

https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/node4.html

Rough idea: model everything as relational data - define 1 table for each state. membership of a record in the table corresponding to state X implies that record is in the given state X.

> the reason why you would put an enum in table form, is to reduce control flow impact. Given this, it's when we aren't using the enumerations to control instruction flow that it's fine to leave them alone

An example of the latter might be some kind of state machine, where you can write branch-free code to determine the successor state from current state, and no other processing needs to branch on the state tag.
Do you plan to charge differently for bandwidth depending on whether the customer is in AWS or not? Would be nice if you pass on the cost savings.
Apple’s case is really good indeed.

Having a clear software stack that you control plays a key role in this success, right?

Wanting to have the general solution with millions of random off label hardware combinations to support is the challenge.
Yeah, even the title here says "nitpicky". I'm not sure if they tried "nitpicks" instead of "nits", but I don't know why you wouldn't...
I don't know about that. Something I think a lot of people sleep on with this stuff is that most countries have multiple security agencies, and you generally cut deals with them individually. The market for this stuff is bigger than it looks.
This feels like confirmation bias to me. The author seemed to genuinely consider the question, but didn't think critically about how little value he got from two decades of bookmarking and instead focused on how he could use this archive in the future.
Good explanation, really. Imperative systems programmers reject one or more of the fp commandments (perhaps finding them impractical), and are probably heretics in the eyes of the fp cult.
Nice! I had a similar idea some months back (https://github.com/federicotdn/brief). Both our projects use external files to document the flags for CLI commands - I'm using YAML instead of TOML.
Coarse Woody Debris
Making a Website Is Hard
Does Ousterhout actually say modules must always have a longer implementation than their spec, or just that this is a generally desirable feature?

If he did, I agree with you, he was wrong about that. I also agree that the unix file API is probably not a good example.

But whether or not he did, I think the dissection of edge cases would be better off emphasizing that he's got something importantly right that goes against the typical "small modules" dogma. All else being equal, deeper modules are good--making too many overly small modules creates excessive integration points and reduces the advantages of modularity.

P.S. While I'm here, this is not really in response to the parent post, but the example in the article really does not do justice to Ousterhout's idea. While he does advocate sometimes just inlining code and criticizes the pervasive idea that you should shorten any method of more than n lines, the idea of deep modules involves more than just inlinining code.
We have become so cloud-native (god forbid!). Just recently I realised that I can save an interesting page to my hard drive instead of saving its link. What a wonderful word has opened since! It's so liberating to live without all these bs tools.
Eh, I read the article and I still don't know what it means to "talk over a wall".
Sadly article's author doesn't touch the main idea of the book: component's public API should be narrow as possible. John makes a great deal of that with concrete examples.
Its what happens when you get AI to write your press release.
Start from Zero
"Relational databases define schemas with fixed length fields"

What is a varchar or a blob? Even a .csv allows for a variable length field (by default). I think you missed out the word: "can".

Fixed field width is an optimisation strategy not a requirement.
Late edit to ALMOST ALWAYS I see .. all the same ..

Did Jeff Koons have his "poor people" phase while working as a Wall Street commodities broker before going on to flog shit artworks for millions?
That's a workflow problem.
Check out meelman, he's a rap artist from Wuppertal, the Schwebebahn is a reoccuring theme in his songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6jDQpSOdoc
For command line I can recommend `monolith` https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
I still find that 'trusting' the models is a waste of time, we agree there. But I haven't had that much more luck with blindly telling a low-level programmer to go write something. The process of creating something new was, and still is, an interactive endeavor.

I do find, however, that the newer the model the fewer elementary mistakes it makes, and the better it is at figuring out what I really want. The process of getting the right answer or the working function continues to become less frustrating over time, although not always monotonically so.

o1-pro is expensive and slow, for instance, but its performance on tasks that require step-by-step reasoning is just astonishing. As long as things keep moving in that direction I'm not going to complain (much).
> based on the stomach-churning sales pitches I've received.

Care to elaborate? This could be news story-worthy
(Founder) Yes, we will charge less for private connectivity. Pricing is transparent https://s2.dev/pricing - free during preview.
Worked for me but it replaced the prompt by something else. Dumpster fire worked though. But the palette is not what I imagined.
Half the ~$100M probably disappears in administrative BS.

Now that they've captured the federal government (re. Trump/Elon bromance), maybe The Boring Company can obtain some national environmental restoration funding and dig a bunch of holes to put the ugly freeways in.

If digging a short tunnel is a repeatable operation free of BS and possible at ~2-3x this cost (~$250M) then it could perhaps be widely replicated to good effect on relatively natural lands adjacent to but outside of core urban areas.
Note that, locating airtags and making them play sound requires them to be near some other iDevice (the battery is a standard CR2032), so if you live in a remote ranch or something and nobody around you has an iphone, they might not be very useful.
I didn’t make any claims about me. Read it again, more carefully, before making personal attacks.
> For whatever reason (maybe post 2to3 PTSD), Python community seems not extremely eager to jump on latest versions of Python

Well, you'd think after the 2 to 3 debacle, python might take backwards compatibility more seriously, but they don't.

Follow semver, and stop breaking things on 3.x. If it's deprecated in 3.x, don't remove it until 4.
Thank you for this! I pressed Ctrl+Shift+S in Firefox just to see if it would work and it has the same functionality.
Having a nice all-in-one revenue tracker across a bunch of payment systems would be a nice little utility - though I'd rather have the "System Tray" aspect be optional. For me, I'd rather it be a quick native OS app that I can launch - take a quick look and then dismiss.
Regarding genealogy it is great to look at the work The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was doing that help genealogical researchers around the globe [1] beyond that specific church.

[1] https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/topic/genealogy
Operating systems are not apps. Embedded controller programs are not apps.
> And no visitors to the city have ever felt disappointed in an English pub if taken to the Louise

Well, I have, because you can't get proper Guinness there, only Smith's inferior substitute. But it is a nice pub, despite that. Toilets are particularly good.
Current Israel's gov is the reincarnation of Jewish people's former oppressors.

It's sickening how they're looking into singular events from the past to explain their current attempts at committing ongoing genocide attempts.
“the e-signature space” shouldn’t exist. Slapping signatures on pdfs that get emailed to the relevant parties isn’t a legitimate industry, it’s just a small and overblown app that eventually people will self host or bundle for free with an existing document SaaS.

It’s a feature, not a company. It’s definitely not a whole
industry.
In 8-bit arithmetic (i.e. mod 256), the multiplicative inverse of 11 is 163. So, if you take some multiple of 11, say 154, then you can compute 154/11 instead as 154*163.

Indeed,

154*163 = 25102, and

25102 = 14 (mod 256).
I've studied in Wuppertal and have very fond memories of the Schwebebahn.

Some people get very sick while riding it, which is probably due to the train slightly swinging in its stations. That's rather unsual and some bodies can't handle it that well.

It was always funny to "test" who is affected by that with new students during their first week.

If you have the chance: Ride the Schwebebahn from end station to end station and have a look at the city from above. Wuppertal is probably a good example of and old industrial city struggling to find its way into modern times.
There were some early blog posts by the single person running mailinator.

Since they only stored text, they would make a single db entry for each unique line of text that came in and just made more and more references to that.

Even different emails… were mostly the same.
> a type of bile

I am struck by the admittedly-cynical thought that this may be misused to promote Chinese folk remedies, such as the controversial use of bear's bile.
Is there any evidence you can conceive of that would convince you that there is some innate group difference in some aptitude that’s valued by society?
Back to using the same password everywhere then.

Bitwarden is already a big step up from what most people are doing, then if you want to hide from gouvernement you better make sure you save your password on extremely secured device. But that's another treat level from the average Joe.