skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to have been a success. Prior to DRM, pirated material was much more common than paid streaming services. Now that has been reversed.

Now that streaming is commonplace it seems less necessary, but it was an essential stepping stone and an ongoing defense against piracy
Good analysis. I suspect the same, that ten years from now Tesla will rule the US but be surrounded by a sea of BYDs
> However, I want to add a feature to generate dragon names baesd on one's own name.

This seems to me to be a classic case where procedural generation on-the-fly would be better in almost every way than an LLM - except that you'll need to use some ingenuity instead of just declaring what you want as a prompt.

The slow response and the "flavour" of the output both screamed "LLM" to me, which is why I tried a prompt injection.

Maybe try using an LLM to help you write an algorithm for this instead of using the LLM directly?

I applaud your ingenuity in building this though; don't take the "AI slop" descriptions to heart too much. Gold star for the initiative to get something quick and dirty out there instead of architecting the joy out of everything up front like me :)
Palantir CEO at the 2024 Reagan National Defense Forum:

> Our adversaries do not have our moral compunction if it's even. They will take advantage of our niceness, kindness, our desire to be at home in Nebraska or New Hampshire or wherever we live in our peaceful environments. And they need to wake up scared and go to bed scared.

> My version of service is the soldiers are happier, the enemies are scared, and Americans go back to enjoying the fact that we're the only one with a real Tech scene in this country, and we're going to win everything.
Most people may not, but that doesn't really matter.

You should care about quality because shipping things that make the best of the time and skills you have then is a great feeling. It doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough that you feel like you gave it a good shot. This bootstraps a positive feedback loop of wanting to incrementally improve that, or do even better next time.

One thing I've realized as I've been learning front-end design is that most websites aren't actually that visually pleasing or even necessarily well-designed. They're just okay enough that it doesn't get in your way. That's quite a low bar to cross!

I'll also die on the hill that people can tell when care and attention was put into things they use. They may not be able to consciously perceive it, but it's there, and it builds trust, which is essential if you're trying to convert a visitor to a paying user.
Thanks for the context. In what way would you say Cloudberry lags behind Greenplum technology-wise? I see newer Greenplum versions have a lot of planner improvements.

Greenplum 7 is listed as tracking Postgres 12 in the release announcement [1], and the release notes for later 7.x versions don't mention anything. Is there a newer release with higher compatibility?

When I say ancient, I mean that it's a "classical" shared-nothing design where the database is partitioned and hosted as parallel, self-contained replica servers, where each node runs as a shard that could, in theory, by queried independently of the master database. This is in contrast to newer architectures where data is sharded at the heap level (e.g. Yugabyte, CockroachDB) and/or compute is separated from data (e.g. Aurora, ClickHouse, Neon, TiDB).

[1] https://greenplum.org/partition-in-greenplum-7-whats-new/
My mention was that civilian prosecution is absolutely possible. Legal from both sides will work together on this. Given a guilty plea, both jurisdictions may agree for that to occur in one location or another. You'll see this a lot with DUI cases where it will be handled under UCMJ because it can be wrapped up in a week (with a plea).

> leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon

It says he was arrested for "two criminal counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records". This would seem to refer to "selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon". No mention of arrest for the NSA hacking claims.

Not much info in the article about lots of things which could impact this.

First, it's in South Korea -- on base or off?

Personal computer or government furnished equipment?

What are the treaties in place for South Korea with regard to this?

What is the location of the victims' data for this?

Big things which could make this a UCMJ case would be (in my completely non-professional guess): He did it from somewhere on base. The victims were other military personnel. He used government equipment to do this. The US wants to assert jurisdiction according to a treaty.

All of this said, with the NSA issue hanging over it, there may be efforts to use the more easily proved crime to negotiate everything they can learn about the NSA claims.

tl;dnr - they can choose the jurisdiction. One side may assert priority and win (probably the feds).

The only thing I'm certain of is that every enlisted member will be brought in for a safety brief.
I suspect bad encryption still does exactly what they intend, because it means there is no simple one click solution built into an OS or browser to download streaming media for later watching or sharing with friends. For example, a lot of regular modern OSs have the ability to rip and share an unencrypted audio CD in a simple intuitive way with no shady pirate software to install.

It's a legal hurdle, not a technical one that prevents the 'above the board' software suppliers from adding this feature.

Pirates clearly are able to extract the 4K video and upload them to torrent sites, but the average media consumer would rather pay a netflix subscription fee that deal with the shady underworld of those sites with the virus installing and crypto mining popups, warning letters from your ISP, etc.

They've managed to make it hard enough that the number of people that do it is insignificant to their bottom line.
I agree, customer-managed self-hosted is definitely more common. I have seen more discussion recently of vendor managed as a middle ground, often called BYOC
RIP to those of us with tenkeyless keyboards :(
Are you working remote or in office?
To protect the users of the site from receiving pages that have been tampered with?
Winding down "Control people's communications" idea
Seems like the author doesn't care about quality.
Doesn't work for me. I feel much safer tracking the disintegration of civilization in real-time, making predictions based on that information, and adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly. So I must newspapers from all around the world every morning, even if it's painful.

I have to admit though: Yesterday I cheated. On new years morning I skipped all world news to beat 2025 to it, delaying the inevitable by a day. Worked well, as it turns out. And I wasn't too smelly due to it, either :)
3. I am always doing a little research before I replace a battery but so far every replacement for a old ThinkPad had way better results as expected, very likely better than a good 'original' is at this point.

4. Not sure if I can agree. Most software I use just got more efficient over the years. Only exception being the IDE or code editor. #justlinuxthings
What is a v7 UUID. Why do we need more than 1. uuid from a random seed and 2. one derived from that and a timestamp (orderable)
All the HDCPs are broken by those cheap Chinese splitters which downgrade it to 1.4 (allowed by the specs for some reason) and 1.4 is thoroughly broken. At least that was the case last I checked.
Something like this produces a clean hdmi stream:

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Thanks for fixing the typo and my poor Unicode on mobile skills
I'd counter the "like everybody": they're not. They spent a decade or more focused on honing their skills and deepening their knowledge to become experts in their subfield, and sometimes even entire fields. They are very much not random people like everybody in this context.
I've never enjoyed Hemingway; his short sentences feel unnatural to me. I end up feeling like the narrative is trying, hard, to manipulate my feelings, to the degree that sense of being manipulated ends up being the loudest voice in my head as I try to read Hemingway. I've finished his books with only a memory of arguing with the prose the entire time.
His new song in Live Action little mermaid was meh. I don't think it's as bad as the internet makes it out to be but 'The Scuttlebutt' definitely feels out of place.

https://youtu.be/N4ovRhX8XIM

Given context, Scuttle is supposed to be an annoying character and Awkwafina does annoying lol. Still though, as one of a couple of new songs it sticks out in a bad way.
as a chronically lonely person, I always dreamed of the day AI would reach today's level so that I could create a few imaginary friends for myself. As it happens, I've just gotten used to it now, so I have lost interest in making that sort of thing.
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FYI David Neiwert and others have been documenting the reemergence of politically motivated violence for decades. Also, the Congressional Jan 6 report details extents of (just one coalition of) the paramilitary efforts. Fast forwarding to today, many groups were similarily prepared in the event a Democrat won in 2024.

PS- Just one recent example: The plot to kidnap Gov Gretchen Whitmer managed to break thru to corporate media. This wiki has a smattering of the misc terrorist groups involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...
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UUID v7 is the latter, whereas v4 is the former.

All the other versions are somewhat legacy, and you shouldn't use them in new systems (besides v8, which is "custom format UUID", if you need that.)
UUID v7 is what you numbered #2.

For the others, it’s best to read up on Wikipedia[0]. I believe they all have their unique use-cases and tradeoffs.

E.g. including information about which node of the system generated an ID.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifie...
Archaeologists Discover Rare Clay Commander Among Terra-Cotta Soldiers in China
> Is grinding code at a FAANG really that different?

It probably depends on where you're coming from. I was an Engineering manager at a FAANG, and roughly 80% of my 1:1's with my team revolved around their performance, or lack thereof, with 5% devoted to supporting mental health, and 15% around general topics such as what they were working on.

I had 3 managers in two years, and with one we mostly talked about strategy, goals, and what we're working on. With the other two, it was always about my performance and that of my team.

It was a very high-pressure environment. The types of people who succeed long term are those that are good at playing the game or who naturally will do the required things to get good ratings.

In return, you get fantastic pay. I didn't quite hit 7 figures in compensation, but if I'd stayed another year to ride more of the run-up, I would have come close to $2M for a year.

All that said, there was some really interesting work and great teams. While it sucked as a manager, I think 30 year old me would have loved it as an IC.
You can certainly get real engagement on other platforms still. I think the reason there is so much weird cringe on LinkedIn is that:

1. It actually does get a lot of engagement and watch time, maybe not even despite how bad it is, but because it’s so bad that people can’t look away. If it’s cringy enough it’s no longer boring. It used to be that people ignored the feed entirely because it was all just boring stuff.

2. Building a personal brand is a really big thing these days and is legitimately valuable. Being able to write something and hit post and get real engagement for $0 (vs what it’d cost to get that engagement by paying for it directly) is nuts. IMO this isn’t obvious if you’re working as an engineer but if your job requires any sales or marketing it’s genuinely helpful.

3. LinkedIn is actually a really good place to farm engagement because of its general user base (professionals from early career to prime earning years), professional bent (intent), and availability of real names/titles/location.

I find it kind of fascinating how these engagement mechanisms work in spite of it all because they all rely on some kind of “hack” on human attention.
yeah the one I saw before let you pick sarcasm levels and a few other traits like that?

I assume you'd want more sophisticated prompting to enable winning arguments and dunking on them but it seems like a solid strategy.
I agree. I have made a lot of recent purchases of things for which I would be willing to pay a premium for something better (e.g. more durable washing machine) but where I settled for cheap and not obviously bad because I do not know how to verify the more expensive option is actually higher quality.

> And then proves it by giving contradictory examples like "people don't care about quality, they will just listen to ABBA or go to the Louvre".

True. IMO what is in the Louvre is of higher quality than anything you are likely to find in "some little art gallery showcasing new artists". Is the article seriously arguing that it is probable that some little gallery will have works better than the Mona Lisa?
It currently hard-codes launching ipykernel, right?
> The only place Apple "won" is on mobile

They won on MP3 players.

They won on music stores.

They won on mobile.

They won on laptops.

They won on headphones.

Etc.

I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination but it's immediately obvious that they've "won" more than just the mobile market.
Yeah, I know a number of archaeologists. Among academics, they are some of the most conservative when it comes to drawing sweeping conclusions from their research. A thesis defense is a brutal exercise in being accused of crimes against parsimony by your mentors and peers.
I can't find the source anywhere. Have you open sourced things yet, or is this something you'll do soon? Maybe I missed it in the post, but I couldn't find it on GitHub.
Thank god I’m not the only one stunned by that. I don’t need IPA, but this isn’t even vaguely pronounceable!
On the other hand, plugins imply a plugin architecture which means we can make our plugins that others could hate on. It is how life goes :-D
You would be right if it was possible to estimate the quality of the items.

But it generally is mostly impossible. Of course you can read about the products, you can read reviews, and then you can build some kind of belief around that. "From what I read, and assuming that the company doesn't bankrupt suddenly, and assuming that they won't deploy an update that erases all my data, I believe that this one is better". But that's a belief: you don't know anything about the hardware that is inside (other than a list of a few high-level components you think you understand, maybe) or about the software that is running inside.
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life in a Corporate Office
Yugoslav nostalgia is very popular as well, so much it has a name: yugonostalgia. The movie Underground[1] by acclaimed director Emir Kusturica is a fabulous study of this phenomenon and a fantastic movie on its own.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/
The paper on microKanren [1] is imho the most approachable piece outside the "reasoned schemer" [2]. The thesis on which it is based is also interesting but is a thicker beast. Looking at stuff from the clojure world (clojure.core.logic and this talk [3]) is also interesting imho, especially from a dev perspective. From this point of view I found this talk [4] to be especially enlightening in how to build a database / query engine and concrete applications of MiniKanren / datalog.

[1] https://github.com/jasonhemann/microKanren

[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer-second-editi...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjP8BO1B8Y&ab_channel=Cloju...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1bVJOAfhKY&t=10s&ab_channel...
Even a VM will stop working soon as Intel support is removed from the OS and apps start demanding newer OS versions.

Or is it possible to emulate Apple Silicon on a VM now?
how have you managed this? mine is full of thirdparty shit even though I have been actively saying "I don't like this"
Who was "Not Even Wrong" first?
I haven't seen Mufasa - is Kiros actually a "villain"? Disney has moved away from classic villains in a lot of their animated stories; I seem to remember reading that this was intentional and that they started moving this direction in their storywriting with Frozen, progressed it with Moana (whose "major antagonist" is a mute force of nature and minor antagonist is a silly hurdle to be jumped), and fully realized it with Encanto, which has no singular antagonist at all.

The jerks in these movies end up getting songs that make them out to be silly jerks - minor obstacles on the hero's journey. They don't get villain songs because they're not deserving of them, and the story isn't about defeating a villain, it's about fixing past mistakes/restoring the balance of nature/realizing one's potential/etc.
Pixel Perfection is for the designer so they can claim credit and shed blame to the implementation.
I just checked the games I've played and most of them used a pretty simple verb-noun parser (use keycard), but the latest ones are much more sophisticated as you've pointed out like verb-noun-noun (use keycard with switch) or something like that. Of course I think some use a slimmed down version of Inform7, which should be pretty powerful.
That isn't Ruby, that's Rails. Ruby doesn't have nearly as big of a learning curve as Rails.
Telegram rolls out third-party account verification, filters
IMO that is economists trying to argue that the market is working when the market is actually failing.

If people would like to be informed of the tradeoffs but do not have the information the end result is not optimal.
I suppose you could tune the experience for whatever people want, downvotes, etc.

"I'd like to have an argument, please."