skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are multiple accounts as you say that confirm verbal orders for explicit extermination of Jews

None. No direct record of any kind exists to prove that Hitler ordered the Holocaust.
A couple of years ago I discovered the MacOS accessibility feature "Speak selection" under "Accessibility > Spoken Content." I've set up a keyboard shortcut for it, which allows me to take any ebook in PDF format, select a bunch of text (usually one chapter) press the key and let the computer read it to me. Basically, it turn any text into an audio book, then listen while exercising, doing the dishes, cleaning the house, or simply when you like down and need a break.

I've never was a literary person (despite everyone else in my family reading a lot), but ever since this discovery I've been catching up on a lot of fiction, philosophy, psychology book, and pretty much anything that doesn't have code or equations. Highly recommended.

See here for screenshots: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...
Wow. The fog example is fantastic.

...Reminds me of how I ruined my old wallet, hiking thirty miles on a foggy day in Algonquin Provincial Park.
Thanks, this was impossible without strafing, and very easy with it.
Ending a year long posting streak
If it supports backup to a file, you can have it write to a named pipe and from there to wherever.

I used this hack for backing up Oracle 30 years ago.

Something like 'mknod p backup.dmp; oradump .... file=backup; dd if=backup.dmp | ssh othermachine receiver-process'
I'm very much an environmentalist and am very concerned about climate change, and I feel like this article completely put me at ease about sea level rise. I suspect this was the opposite of the intent.

I feel like in comparison to intensified weather phenomenon and especially heat waves, sea level rise sound very manageable.
The Plot to Poison Children's Minds
I should have used m_0 to avoid confussion. Anyway, as he sibling comment says, most modern advanced books of special relativity try to avoid the relativistic mass. It's useful for some calculations, like synchrotron, but the problem is that for forward/backward acceleration you must use other number so the relativistic mass add confussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity#His...
Happened 9 months ago

Related Gold Heist Worth Millions at Toronto's Airport (56 points, 2 years ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35658419
Pretty much. Plus, from my perspective - if a company is willing to screw over your advisor/professor, you know that they won't hesitate to screw you over too.
Oh, I was reminded of this chore we had to do years ago.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

> Copyright (c) 2014-present Godot Engine contributors (see AUTHORS.md).

Godot Engine did `2014-present` and stopped updating the license years every year.
It's easy to run models of this size locally already.
Most people don’t write Amazon reviews. Only picky, whiny, complainey people take the time to write Amazon reviews. Or leave Hackernews comments.
This is pretty much Van Inwagen's argument in Material Beings -- recommended if you haven't read it!

Copied from wiki:

"Every composite material object is made up of elementary particles, and the only such composite objects are living organisms. A consequence of this view is that everyday objects such as tables, chairs, cars, buildings, and clouds do not exist. While there seem to be such things, this is only because there are elementary particles arranged in specific ways. For example, where it seems that there is a chair, Van Inwagen says that there are only elementary particles arranged chairwise."
I ended up cooling down and sleeping, and making a custom instruction for it. Seems to work better, but its so condescending now haha
I’ve regularly bought and sold good running 70s/80s/early 90s Volvos and Mercedes for under $1000 (and sometimes under $100) on Craigslist and at auto auctions- close to their scrap metal value, yet these are vehicles that will last a million miles with regular maintenance.

Ironically, supply and demand can make something more reliable cheaper- these cars just don’t die, so there is too much supply and little demand.

For $8k you can get a ~20 year old Porsche or Audi with low mileage, that has been meticulously maintained, always stored indoors, and looks and drives like it did when new.

Getting a good deal on a used car requires some mechanical knowledge to identify a car that is going to be reliable. I look for cars previously owned by mechanically savvy people that have already spent the money to mitigate any known design flaws or potential issues on that particular model.
As a former “architect” and now a “staff” engineer who is pulled in a million directions, I purposefully don’t pull any stories off the board or assign myself to any work in the critical path of getting something to production. Either I will miss my commitments or working extra hours when everyone else is off of work to get time to do “deep work”.

I will do “glue work” that’s important. But not urgent that I can squeeze in between my other obligations without blocking anyone.

I need to make sure I am “working at my level”. But I don’t need to constantly be worried about promotions.
Thankful for heartwarming posts like this, especially on a day like this. Thank you, sincerely.
It's the Linux-isation of the db space. Once Linux was good enough for enterprise work, it massively reduced demand for Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/WindowsNT.

Same thing is happening now to Postgres vs enterprisey DBs.
In general, yes.

One weird quirk: networking can be peculiar. Windows creates a magic bridging between the host and WSL, and as anything magic, it can break for specific use cases.

VPN is one [0]: my WSL instances lose outgoing networking when connecting to our company VPN. There are workarounds but none are trivial.

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/1715764/wsl2-has-no-connecti...
This is true, I ended up making a custom instruction for it to never give code solutions unless explicitly told to do so. I just think its a bit trigger happy by default, it blurts out code almost no matter what you ask it
Next-gen CarPlay delayed as Apple misses deadline
Yeah I was wrong and grumpy, but I've solved it with a custom instruction - works well enough now
Confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism
Original, very long, title: Confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era
Thank you, I was going to point that out myself. To let you not feel alone, I'll be “that guy” with another one:

The article talks about “when the dinosaurs roamed the earth”. Even ignoring for a moment that they're still roaming just fine today (birds are dinosaurs), this pretends like there was a singular moment when dinosaurs were “roaming”. In reality, of course, dinosaurs have existed for hundreds of millions of years; way longer than twice the time since the K-Pg extinction event (which, again, didn't fully cause all dinosaurs to go extinct).
Sales? Accounts receivable?
macOS Malware Trends in 2024
Comparing numbers of things is itself an odd thing to do. Humans poop as many poops as there are trees on the planet every year. Why not compare those to stars as well? And so what?
The misunderstanding is economic.

People care about quality.
Few can afford it.
The underlying AD radio supposedly does 200 kHz to 56 MHz, so presumably a typo. I wish they would say more about the front end of the radio and filtering, for that kind of money.
Am I missing something - it's 2am here, so possibly - or could you not just use backticks for the first one?
With tools like ogen[1], one can take a single OpenAPI document and generate server code with a static router, request/response validation, Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, and more out of the box.

It can also generate clients and webhooks. Authentication is just declaring a SecurityScheme in the OpenAPI document then implementing a single function. The rest of the backend is just implementing a single interface. Unlike oapi-codegen, there is no need to tinker with routing libraries or middleware for authentication and logging.

Pair this with sqlc[2] and SQLite's `pragma user_version`, and you get type-safe database code and database migrations for free. I will concede that adding SQLite is a manual process, but its just two imports added to main.go.

Frontend is entirely your choice. Go's standard library provides good enough text templating that I don't miss ERB or Django-style templates. Using the standard library's `embed` package, one can easily embed static assets into a single binary, so deployment can be as simple as `go build` and moving the binary.

I have a hard time using languages besides Go for developing backends, because the code generation tools make Go as convenient as frameworks like Quarkus while staying lightweight and fast.

[1] https://ogen.dev/

[2] https://sqlc.dev/
I’ve been recruited specifically as an early strategic hire via my network to set direction either at a startup or by a new to the company CTO or director three times in my career. It’s the sweet spot to guide major decisions and initiatives
CA bans food 'sell by' dates. Will it save you money without getting you sick?
Definitely buy a pull up bar, it's one of the best purchases I've made. Pull ups and chin ups are fun exercises and they make your back feel REALLY good.
I hadn't thought about that, but I'd actually like to see if it's better to do the opposite. Insert half a leap second twice as frequently as we currently do with a leap second. If that's successful, switch to inserting a quarter leap second and so on, maybe until we get to a state where we adjust a tiny fraction of a leap second on a daily basis. The point is that even if you have a system screw up time adjustment 1 day, it's such a small time error that shouldn't affect anything, and people can immediately work on fixing it.

And actually, what you explained about waiting until some significant threshold like 5 minutes is already something we do today in a way. It's just that we wait years and our threshold is 1 second before we actually make a change.
I agree, also many papers near the begining say

> We are exending our previous work in [7]

or cite a few relevant papers

> This topic has been studied in [3-8]

Where 3 was published by group X, 5 by group Y, 7 by group Z and 4, 6 and 8 by group W. Anyone can guess the author of the paper is in group W.

Just looking at the citations, it's easy to guess the group of the author.
I teach art and over the years I have come to understand that many people use art to subsume their neurosis (well duh I hear you say). What TFA describes is familiar to me as a typical form of this phenomenon - the cataloguer: artists who feel the need to give a home to that which is homeless, to elevate that which is humble. A highbrow example of this would be the work of Mark Dion.

Interestingly, by her own admission Barbara Iweins (the artist whose work TFA features) self describes this project as being rooted in neurosis, specifically one that seems to be a response to lack of stability in her life.

Similar projects seem always to have an unbound quality... like the labors of Sisyphus. So I guess my question to her would be "how would you know that this project is complete?" Is it complete now? According to TFA it is, yet I suspect that even with all the effort she has put into it, the itch is not yet scratched.
$899? The bladeRF 2.0 micro xA9 has identical or even better specs -- for $860. Aren't crowdfunded projects supposed to be a bit cheaper to make the gamble on a new product of unknown quality and performance worth it?

The bladeRF 61.44MHz sampling rate can be effectively doubled (although they both use the AD9361, so it principle also possible on the SignalSDR) and the FPGA on board has 301KLE, versus the SignalSDR 85KLE.

The comparison matrix is also being a bit dishonest by not mentioning that the bladeRF also supports USB 3.0 and can fully saturate the 5Gbps link -- no such information about the SignalSDR.

It also states the PlutoSDR frequency range as 325MHz-3.8GHz and RF bandwidth as being 20MHz, but it can easily be increased to 70MHz-6GHz and 56MHz RF bandwidth by running two commands on the device. This process is approved by the manufacturer, and is actually outlined on AD's official wiki for the PlutoSDR.

The crying shame is that none of this potential can be utilised due to the limitations of the USB 2.0 port. The oscillator precision is also lacking, but modifications are possible.

But what I'm trying to say is, the PlutoSDR is $200, sometimes on sale for $99. If you added USB 3.0 and improved the oscillator precision, it would be practically on par with the SignalSDR, and that wouldn't cost $700 extra to do.
The whole scenario only exists because of the axiom introduced between points 3 and 5:

> 3 ...ORG spends an egregious amount of money on middleware SaaS

> 4 ...executive figures they should be able to replace SaaS with in-house system

> 5 ...manager tasks one of ORG ’s finest engineers with the job of building it

If in Point 4 it was determined this was a low value, high TCO project with many replacements, the stud engineer doesn't work on the project, no events past this point occur.

If point 3 was that they had an opportunity to build a flagship product/feature in their wheelhouse and drastically grow market share, nothing past 6 and or 7 happens.

Like I said, there are interesting things here about knowledge transfer, but the root cause seems to be missed from the analysis. Maybe there's some other real world scenarios where teams of critical software are getting replaced whole sale and remain confused, but I'm not convinced most of these issues would come up in a situation that wasn't the one described in 3-5.
depends on your use case. also, for most redis is fast enough which is why it is wildly popular
Wow, you're right. That ... explains a lot.
And how exactly did she come to control thousands of military sock puppet accounts?
We took a Turkish Airlines flight in September (IST-SFO), and the seats were teeming with bedbugs (as in, multiple passengers were able to visually point them out when we were still boarding).

Some passengers were able to switch to other seats, while multiple others broke out in hives (including my wife). The cabin staff were polite and understanding, but once we landed, escalating to Turkish airlines was pretty useless. We've filed a case with the DOT which got the airline to respond.

Glad the media is covering this, we heard from multiple folks that this has been a problem.
We Asians would take that as a compliment.
Absolutely, "quality" can often be descriptive shorthand for a set of traits. It's also, independently, always a normative judgement. I think mixing them is where the disagreement up and down this thread is coming from.

Someone says, "Good cars are fast" and someone says, "Good cars have heated seats," and then the second person says "That car you like must not be fast because it isn't good because the seats aren't heated."

Mixing "is" and "ought" like that can be convenient, and separating them is usually pedantic, but the shorthand only makes a mess as soon as anybody starts debating.
> over complicate the user authentication, registration, lost password experience

As a SWE and infosec guy, please don’t just roll this stuff yourself. Maybe Devise is more complicated than it needs to be, but a lot of this stuff is far more subtle than people realize and trivially easy to get catastrophically wrong.

I’m absolutely certain a lot of the parts you think are unnecessarily complex are the result of having gotten it wrong before. How do I know? Because I’ve personally submitted vulnerabilities to Devise (specifically the lost password flow) that ended up getting a redesign to fix the vuln.

So even if you don’t use Devise, please use some other project which has already suffered through iterating over vulns so you don’t have to.
Discussion (203 points, 3 months ago, 284 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765006
> The doctor is the boy's father. This is a classic riddle that highlights gender bias - many people assume doctors must be men, but don't initially consider that the doctor could be the father.

It identified the pattern, but it didn't understand the father is a man while the mother is a woman. If people assume doctors must be men, they wouldn't consider that the doctor could be the mother.

(Side note: this is an antiquated riddle/joke ... for me in particular because my mother is a doctor, but in general around half of new doctors are female, and think about Grey's Anatomy and other shows.)
OAuth Identity Attack – Are Your Extensions Affected?
a billion billion stars is the same order of magnitude scale as a billion billion seconds, which is about the age of the universe. Or, a
billionth billionth second (one attosecind), which is the amount of time it takes for an electron to change orbitals, and also the speed of light across the diameter of a Hydrogen atom.
You kinda said it yourself already - ctags is fast because it's producing almost nothing of value. Being fast at doing nothing isn't impressive.

Try doing the same with C++ and more indexing options enabled, such as with something like universal-ctags, and a larger code base, say Android's repository aught to do it. Are you still getting 400MB/s? Nope.
The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
> I now try to stop believing in things. It's mostly just molecules that happen to be in a certain configuration for some time.

That is some hardcore disassociation right there. Interesting that you use the word 'try' which implies that it requires effort to overcome the faith in the meaning of things.
OpenAI never actually directly participated in the contests. OpenAI says they took (unspecified) problems and "simulated" the score it would have had.

If they solved recent contests in a realistic contest simulation I would expect them to give the actual solutions and success rates as well, like they did for IOI problems, so I'm actually confused as to why they didn't.
Are you installing the project dependencies on the VM directly or in a docker container? I'm curious how well docker on top of the Ubuntu vm works. Orbstack is great for personal use, but some companies don't want to pay for it, and this might be an alternative to have a better docker experience on macOS.
Palestinian Authority Suspends Al Jazeera Operations in the West Bank
Unfortunately, reviewers do not get salary from this...
Quality is value to some person (who matters). This formula is a high quality definition of quality (to me). With this definition I can think and see straight about this subject.

“Most people don’t care about quality” therefore is a way of saying “any standard of quality I find interesting and can bring to mind right now seems to be held by a minority of people.”

This is interesting to me only in the sense that it implies a lack of rigor and imagination on the part of the writer, as well as the diversity of tastes among people at large.

Surely it is easy to tell if most people care about quality in video: just show them randomly generated images (literally white noise) and see if they prefer that to images that seem to tell some kind of story.

The author probably means that almost no one invests in quality past a certain point that is good enough to fulfill a purpose they have in mind, and that the demandingness of human purposes decays according to some sort of power law.

(this message edited twice because I am especially fussy about typos)
Somehow if something didn't have a commit in the past 2 weeks and/or it wasn't top HN for a few weeks, it is dead. Might be if you are resume grifting, however if you just need something that works and is stable, there are many things that have this. We use many packages that have not have updates outside security for years: they don't need updates as they just work. I prefer it that way; updates just to show updates/commits is very lame and somehow a very javascript and open source investor community thing; 'must show progress, let's just change shit that doesn't need changing and break things every minor release for no reason at all!'. But then it is 'not dead' somehow; for me reading a changelog with breaking api changes that don't actually bring new functionality is a good reason never to touch it.
https://archive.today/f707o

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523401 - Dec 2024 (3 comments)
Sabrina Ramonov https://www.sabrina.dev/

She's a very solid hacker and mostly focuses on more solopreneur related stuff. She has a social media AI assistant tool, but I think she's using it more as a way to put her theories into practice.

I think her YouTube and mailing list have the stuff in depth, while tiktok, twitter, etc is more beginner targeted. This might be similar for all the other content creators as well; if you're surfing Instagram for AI stuff, you might only find the shallow stuff.
People who can make no distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants (i.e. "They ain't like me") got suckered.

The tech bros won this election, but what I am wondering is how or why Elon hasn't figured how to replace almost all his employees with AI.

I am sure that the anti immigrant fervor is deeply rooted in racism of one sort or another as are most themes floating around the maga sites. Don't forget the enormous influence of Thiel and Musk and their experiences growing up in apartheid South Africa (FT, archived)[0] "The Shadow of apartheid South Africa in America" and you can add intense transphobia from Musk's bitterness with a trans daughter. Brief quote shows the connection:

> The white South African nightmare in the 1980s, hanging over everything, was that one day Black people would rise up and massacre (minority) whites. Like the US, South Africa was a violent society and becoming more violent in the 80s. Musk’s teenage recollections of seeing murders on trains may not be entirely factual, but do evoke the atmosphere of the era. He warned in 2023 about potential “genocide of white people in South Africa”. Trump’s recent claim about “American girls being raped and sodomised and murdered by savage criminal aliens” preyed on similar white fears.

[0] https://archive.is/Y1Uz9
>Some of us remember the 90s-00s era of debugging non-tech family & friends windows machines for various critical ailments with great frequency until they all switched to Macs.

I second this. My mom switched to a iMac G4 and never needed me again, except that time she plugged the power strip into itself.

It got to the point where I didn't want to tell people I worked with computers.
Or go for the full Plattdeutsch experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2yiS7i43qQ
Analysis of Total Harmonic Distortion on the U.S. Electric Grid
the major immediate action will be roughly quadrubling the number of H1B’s for 2025 and then exponentially increasing it through 2029
Maybe we could just try some more rational measures, like not forcing people who are at low risk to take an experimental treatment and weighing the severity of the of the threat against the freedoms we want to remove.
I once did some contract work for a development group at Apple in the late 90's working on a product not yet released. It was the first time I was exposed to a large codebase that could be updated by any of a large number of programmers at any time. While investigating a bug, it was scary to constantly see large, complicated routines headed with comments from 20 or 30 people logging the changes they had made. There would be no consistent style of code, no consistent quality, no consistent formatting, no real sense of ownership, a real free-for-all. The system not only immediately projected a sense of hopelessness, but also indicated that any attempts at improvement would quickly be clobbered by future sloppy changes.
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