skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also just harder to support because of the sheer fragmentation.

I give my engineers different Android phones as their primary development devices and yet the weird Android issues that keep cropping up are near constant.
Whoopsie, good point. I agree.
When I was a kid I also drew a lot of drawings with squares, diamonds and circles.

If only I’d known that I could’ve had copyright on them.. /s
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-kin...

It's slightly more, but still not continental style:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/germany

Android users in the english speaking world do have a habit of being way more trouble than they are worth.
I still think it is crazy we assumed "everybody has a phone"
Mathematical methods point to possibility of particles long thought impossible
Tell HN: Please help spread the word: Stop relying on email so much
HN,

Every major cloud service over-relies on email. I can't login without access to my email on so many services. I am now trying to do something important and time-sensitive but the service isn't letting me login because protonmail is down.

I have a username and password with these services, and MFA on top of that. If I lost those credentials and they relied on email for recovery, I can understand that. I am talking about the actual login experience requires codes being sent to my email despite all that.

Not only that, these codes are included in the subject line of the mail. the subject of an email should be treated as public information, similar to the information on a paper envelope containing secret mail. Essentially, my login credentials are being sent in clear-text for the world to see.

In my view, this is a (and dare I say!) lazy application design that is insecure and prone to failure like what I am experiencing now.

Users' random webmail providers are not SSO providers. Email does not replace federated SSO. If users are not SSO-federated, they should be using proper username, password, and a second factor of authentication.

I just wanted to get the word out there and raise awareness about this undesirable design pattern.
Mark Zuckerberg's U-turn on fact-checking is craven–but correct
Is it just me or does anyone else read the headline as damning, with faint praise, the state of labor in America? Think Amazon warehouse workers, Wal*Mart retail employees, UPS delivery drivers, and the entire gig economy.
Our company thankfully doesn't demand video enabled, but on one of the semi regular meetings a low tier manager kinda half-jokes half-demands video enabled under pretext of teambuilding. Even in such conditions out of almost 100 people joining it, camera is enabled by at most 20-25 of us, sometimes less. This is the real amount of highly extroverted and plus highly hierarchical people. Others don't give a damn.

PS: I turn on camera if it's 1to1 or similar meeting about me. But on any other meeting with more than 5 people video is only a distraction. Personally I don't even look at the video gallery and keep zoom in the background, working meanwhile.
Student web service in question: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student/swagger/index.html

FERPA was probably a big factor in UW’s initial response to ask that the site be taken down. Institutions are all about CYA now.

The bit about blackmail seems a bit far fetched. I’d like to see the correspondence between UW and this individual. The entire story is certainly plausible but as other have pointed out, there are a number of inconsistencies.
I think you didn’t understand veganism: the goal is not to remove all suffering but to reduce it by finding ways that are still practicable, without major economic, pleasure or whatever downside. All vegans kill insects when they walk in the wood but stoping walking altogether would make their life miserable. On the other hand, eating plants and mushroom is quite enjoyable when you get used to it. And it certainly remove a bug part of suffering inflicted. Think Pareto.

I don’t think jainism can be applied without changing your life altogether and removing many thinks you used to.
Google's AI Overview Tells Adults to Use 'Magic Wand' with Kids
Agreed. I am rarely tracking my what I am saying vs other people. I also focus on paying attention to what people are saying and trying to engage and ask good questions. I rarely volunteer my own stories / thoughts unless they are directly asked for or I have a very strong sense that people want to hear it.
Thank you for comment. Version control is crucial for software development. Data science has a lot of experimentation involved. In my opinion, not everything should be in version control system. My typical workflow is to experiment heavily with Python notebooks, without version control. If I have analysis procedure ready then I apply version control for Python notebooks or re-write code to Python scripts or modules. I think it all depends on what problem you are working on, and the experimentation level.

I'm the founder of MLJAR company, and we are working on AI assistant Python notebook. It is desktop app that aims to help starting in data science.
Reminds me of Desktop Dungeon, that was more puzzle than roguelike: there was usually a right order of operation so you could destroy every enemy, by getting enough experience and health to fight the next one.

This game is missing a lot of information, what do any of the items do? What's a chestnut for, why do I want to hit rocks and wooden logs?
Also note that the medical field selects hard for people who can memorize information, to the exclusion of people who can understand systems. Those people, in turn, are the ones doing this research. This is likely a large part of why our knowledge of neuroscience is largely mechanistic and without a sense of the larger picture.

Compare to the invention of the perceptron, which took a joint effort between a polymathic neurophysiologist and a logician.
I see your point.

His analysis of lead up to the start of WWI ws engaging and accurate given what I know.

What he offered to me was a way to look at historical events and break them down and see the knock on effects.

In a much more profound and connect way, James Burke did this with his Connections Series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
There isn't one alternative, speech rights & laws are a spectrum

It is certainly arguable that the American style is to extreme on the freedom side. There is little punishment for the immense amount of malicious lying by too many actors in the system
I assume any organization that requires SMS 2FA is using mobile phone companies as a proxy for betting a unique human is on the other side.
That's a bit misleading... Most users globally don't own an iPhone. IIRC, only US and Canada have more iPhone users than Android users.
True but it is very difficult for app developers to make apps for such wide range of devices. With iphone you can just test on the oldest supported device and you are good with android there is so much variation that you can't be sure even if you are targeting latest version.

What is worse is that apple has handicapped safari from taking full advantage of its HW and does not allows other browser-makers to do it either this results in inferior experience for ios owners using webapps and web app developers are forced to release their apps on iphone.
To the end user, there is very little difference. It's not doing what the user expects, regardless of intent or lack of intent on the part of the manufacturer.
rite* of passage
“First AI came for the peons, and I did not speak out because I was not a peon…”
Note the latinitas dubia on the first: we can calque anything between languages; that doesn't make Latin uniquely suitable for scientific conversation.

(It also doesn't make it uniquely unsuitable: what makes it unsuitable is the fact that the only people who speak it are the pope, a handful of bishops, and a bunch of dorks.)
"However, what I struggle with a lot is that there's absolutely no manual for this role. Everything is my problem, yet nothing is my problem."

For me, that last sentence is the most empowering. The essence of the CTO role is the ultimate responsibility for 'technology', yet you are often not the actual leader that controls the technology. It is one of the hardest concepts to make work because it relies on your own deeper understanding of the technology AND the people that are trying to use it. You are constantly trying to predict what the outcome will be so you can decided what to influence, which is like pushing on slushy water.

"Failures are concentrated (blameless post-mortems mean that it's the culture or environment that's wrong, guess who is responsible for the environment!) and successes are amortised (credit should go to the team who are hands on, of course)."

That is a really good compact statement about the crossover between credit and responsibility - and it really pushes hard that post-mortems are important. I have said more than once at a post-mortem - "Just to start us out, all of the failures are my fault, so lets leave the arrows pointing at me and dig in". Sometimes that is the only way to get people to open up and focus on the truths and not worry about the arrow. Just remember that managing upward is a different task.
yeah but getting from 1 to 10MW is a pain with all these pumps
> I imagine a Pixel 8 or S23 compare pretty well to 'iOS’

In fact from the article it doesn’t. Modern Android phones have the performance of a 4 year old iPhone.

When the new iPhone SE is introduced this year - Apples low end $400 phone - I wouldn’t be surprised if it is faster than high end Android phones. It will probably be based on the iPhone 16 SOC.

> In fact, your looking at the iPhone 12 until you find a previous version of the iPhone that scores less than todays fastest Samsung Android device. To add a little more perspective, this device was first sold over 4 years ago!
WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI
It's sad in America and ESPECIALLY in "startup culture" people base their entire identity and self-worth on their career. Literally even above their own children as seen here.

By saying that traveling for work (aka working, aka participating in their career) INSTEAD of spending time with their kids' early years was "worth it" they are saying that it was a worthy tradeoff--that the value of the career actions exceeded the value of formative early time with their own children. And they likely don't even realize that's what they're saying.
What leads you to that conclusion?
It is still possible to use #include in module implementations.
We can use that to make the module implementation look like your example.

Thus it ought to be possible, though I have not yet tried it.
It's much more accurate to assume "everybody has Whatsapp" as the baseline. Many countries with users with plans with no data but unlimited Whatsapp
- It can be a side effect to keep your unemployment insurance which is conditional upon proving you are sending applications at a given pace. I'd probably need to apply to random jobs if I qualified for it because there isn't a role opening in my niche weekly to fullfil the criteria here. I never had to because I was ineligible for other reasons every time I was unemployed and could have used support but that's a whole other can of worms)

- I heard its a thing to get n jobs you're not qualified for to get at least the first few month salary "for free" (as an individual or as a pawn from a larger organized fraud). Not sure how common or how much truth there is to it though.
Eh. If one wanted to do charity for the less fortunate, it might be better to just work for or give to bona fide charitable causes - rather than operating a marginal, possibly unprofitable Android app.
I'm an Android user by choice. I must not matter.

Personally, I don't understand why people buy iPhones. If you're in the US, I can understand the texting and video calls lock-in, but even then, I'd buy an Android just because I'd refuse to be a hostage to Apple's services, and I'd wear that green badge with pride.

Furthermore, paying the price of the latest iPhone Pro (or Samsung S Ultra for that matter) is ridiculous and is only acceptable to people with high prices on their contracts. Much like what US people are going through — i.e., if you're paying $100+ on a mobile plan, might as well throw an iPhone in the mix to sweeten the deal. But on my 5 EUR unlimited data plan, me and others do not want an expensive phone included and prefer to pay for that phone up front.
grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug
what I meant was, at home I have a good diverse set of outfits for colder weather: long trousers, long sleeved shirts, sweaters, jackets, boots... all in different colors and styles.

but I have a total of 2 shorts and a bunch of boring t-shirts for 25C+ weather - simply because I rarely have incentive to expand it :)
Did you press ALT?

It displays icons over all fabrication and storage devices showing what they are making/holding.
I'm from even before that, and it makes no sense to me.

I understand both what you say and what "serverless" commonly means, I'm just saying it's essentially arbitrary. A symbol with no etymology that holds water.
You're going to like this article about The Land, in Wales:

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/europe...

(https://archive.is/3Jp3W)
Bingo

Many of these comments seem to ignore all the advantages of the the rpi ecosystem like footprint, direct IO integration and arm and simply focus on CPU through put O_o
Jaded old farts unite?
“Everybody worth transacting with” is more accurate. Makes sense for business, but a shame when government (or an essential business that should be a government utility) does it.
It's still a special interest group, even if it happens to be a large one. It's orchestrating decisions that effectively siphon money from non-members (e.g. renters and young families), and in proportion to the number of properties each member owns no less.

In any case, we don't seem to disagree all that much. My original point was more legislative than executive in nature. Local executive accountability is desirable, provided that the budgeting and rulemaking were made uniform state-wide. Education already works that way.
The Future of DevRel [video]
Underrated comment. I have full browser 3D games and most people see them in that kind of time. For a normal website that is atrocious.

Incidentally for browser games even that is way too high.
I work with scientists in many disciplines and neuroscientists are the absolute worst when it comes to hyping their work. Neuroscience, especially the CNS subfield, is complex and still in its infancy compared to other disciplines. The field’s unknowns creates space for strong, ego-driven personalities to claim certainties where none exist and hype their work. The field itself perpetuates this problem by lionizing specific labs or people (i..e The Allen Institute’s Next Generation Leaders) instead of viewing progress as a group effort sustained over years and decades.
They also support iframes! The absolute madness of PDFs is a world wonder. But I'm really still not sure we could do without them.
Not so: you're thinking of companies that are traded in public. I'm saying even private companies should be able to bought by their employees, at the instigation of the employees rather than the owners, and that this should apply to companies large or small. It may still be an LBO and would still be at market price, but it'd be unappealing to say the least for owners. It'd still be beneficial.
I believe that they fired both American workers and h1b workers and they hired both American worker than h1b workers.
You have to remember American population is small.
Sanders is wrong here !
Website generated by FrontPage 4.0 or no needs for CSS/JS in 2025
No need to look back that far.

They know to do use control burns, we've been doing it.

It's forest management 101.

But they get sued by environmentalists when they do.
I, for one, was surprised that Chrome's PDF renderer would allow persistent JS code like this to run - not just limited code in response to user actions, but a real game loop.

But there's a spec for all this and everything! https://www.t10.org/ftp/js_api_reference.pdf (2007) - be warned, the light of Ecma TC39 standardization does not extend to this place.

Chromium's implementation of setInterval for instance (which, in this world, takes a string to evaluate): https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/main/fxj... -> https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/main/fxj...

From a security perspective, they're able to build on top of V8 isolate primitives and Chrome's sandboxing systems - but from the logs, security improvements in PDFium are being continuously developed as recently as the past few weeks! I feel like I've stumbled upon a parallel universe, in the best possible way.
Well as software engineers there’s not as much we can do for people who don’t have computing devices, but it’s still important that information be accessible without them.
Super excited to share a bit the result of my little obsession with self tracking. Next year I want to have even more data and hopefully I'll find more interesting correlations and insights!
What argument? I don't see an argument, I just see [deleted].

If you mean this...

This is why I think strict materialism on consciousness is misguided. People like to think "weve cracked everything scientifically, from quantum physics to neuroscience, so even if we don't have a good explanation for consciousness now, we'll get there." Except the reality is macroscopic neuroscientific findings are incredibly coarse and with many caveats and uncertainties, statements more like "this area of the brain is associated with X" than "this area of the brain causes X." It's not just optimistic - its qualitatively unjustified to think that neuroscience (in its current form, at least) is inevitably capable of cracking consciousness.

Many STEM people hate this because they want to axiomatically believe materialist science can reach everything, despite the evidence to the contrary. shrug

... that wasn't an argument, it was a loosely formed set of vague and unsubstantiated claims. The fact that you immediately deleted it and started insulting anyone who responded to you kind of proves my point. I'm sorry I wasted my time on you, won't happen again.
It's not the iPhone, it's just a recent, fancy phone versus an out-of-date or cheap one.

I refuse to pay $1K (Canadabucks) for something that could be destroyed in an instant if I happen to drop it or sit on it. I get whatever low-end phone Costco is pushing at the moment. The current one is a Moto G Play 2023 that cost me all of CAD$140 on special. It works fine, but bloat can catch up to anything.

I use an app called Flashfood. It was fine. Then they restyled it. And whatever else they did, on my phone it is now so glacially slow that I don't use it as much any more. They'll never know, because they test it on $1K phones where you can waste so much compute on a glorified screen refresh. The actual functionality could have been done with a 2010 vintage phone, if coded efficiently.

They should be testing on low-end phones. Because a significant percentage of the user base has them. Somewhere in a fiction novel I read about a music industry executive who would listen to new material on a crappy little record player, not on super fancy studio monitor equipment. Because that's what it had to sound good on.
The Windows version has a 1TB SSD while the SteamOS version has a 512GB SSD. A guy on YouTube speculated that this is because a modern Windows install needs 200GB of space. I have no idea if that is true. I don’t use Windows.
This is what drives me crazy about oat milk. Oats grow everywhere. Almonds, on the other hand, take a gallon of water per almond to make[1]. Despite this, at my store anyway, almond milk is about $2.89/half gallon while oat milk is at least $4/half gallon. What in our economy makes this feasible?

[1] https://bastyr.edu/about/news/ugly-truth-about-almonds
This is some awful speculation. You speculate that he had AIDS and was embarrassed by his church or that his wife was embarrassed. You don't know if he was religious, you don't know if he was married, and you certainly don't know if he had AIDS. Why even comment?
Database Sharding
Worldwide, smart phone penetration is at 70%. I don’t know if that number is just considering adults.

Statistics I saw for the US is 97% of adults have smart phones
A 'Holy Grail' of Science Is Getting Closer
https://archive.is/ApXuK
It's the Tesco app we're talking about, so none of that even applies.

Saying that half the population somehow doesn't matter for one of the country's largest supermarket chains is completely mental on every level and is not a serious viewpoint.
There is tangible overhead to all the extra tracking Lambda infra has to do.
Also upvoting, as this is a valuable lesson as you head into a career: no company (nor school) cares about you more than they care about the organization. HR does not work for you and while the individuals may care for you personally, they will almost never act in "good faith".
> but I worry that this is just one more datapoint toward the overall erosion of online trust.

What online trust? Internet has always been a prominent source for the most scamy content. You should never trust anything blindly, that is today as valid as it was 30 years ago.

> It seems like the only way to really combat this is through closed / semi-closed trusted networks,

Those are open to other levels of scam and abuse. This is not a problem of being open or closed, but whether one has the ability to evaluate their business-partners. And in that regard, open communication has proved itself to be a reliable source of information and to root out scams.
We framed some 1 star reviews that were essays of how terrible we were for asking for money for the app. All caps “this is a deceitful bait and switch how dare you ask for money! From the bottom of my heart I stab at thee...” for two pages type of ranting.

You have to just laugh at shit like that.
Yeah, Apple started pulling away from Android with the 64 bit transition that caught everyone by surprise, and the Android performance has simply never caught up again.

The halcyon days of the Qualcomm Krait (which certainly had some problems) are very long gone by now.
There are about 40,000 unemployed people actively looking for work in King's County, if I'm reading the figures right.

If I were in charge of getting rid of King County's bindweed, I would look at hiring some of those people to permanently improve the soil quality, so that it can be outcompeted by shrubs. Solarization could be a part of the process, or mulching. I'm far from an expert though, and there are other options still without using dangerous chemicals.

I know, I know - long term solutions take time and money. Better than poisoning the soil and water (and most everything that depends on them) for a quick fix though. And, paying local people a fair wage for honest work has all kinds of economic benefits.
Oh no! Please don't do this. This is one of those tarpit ideas in the "AI" space.

> do not even need to know all the data to perform operations on it or make decisions

If I know code-generation is going to be possible without any contextual information, I might as well generate the code using copilot or Curor and commit my code. Why do I need a runtime agent to do it?

What if the control flow has to change based on a result it receives?

What if the plan up front is wrong and needs to change halfway? Do I run the entire thing again with a new plan? What if my tools are not idempotent?

What if it generates a recursive loop?

Also, if I really want to do this, and if my tools are safe, why don't I just do a raw Open AI / Claude call and get deno subhosting [1] or E2B [2] to run it?

[1] https://deno.com/subhosting

[2] https://e2b.dev/