skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird right?

A billion dollars is a lot of money. It's an amount of money that I honestly cannot fully visualize. It's about three orders of magnitude more than the largest amount of money that I can easily visualize. If someone gifted me a billion dollars, that would be a lot more than enough to retire, extremely comfortably, pretty much anywhere on the planet.

But it doesn't seem like the $200+ billion that these CEOs have is ever enough. All they ever want is "another billion".

I remember my dad told me a story, when he was 18 (I think), he bet on a horse race and won $5. Instead of being happy with the $5 win, all he thought after that was that now he wanted another $5, and that if he had bet twice as much his profits would have been doubled. The objectively-good thing of winning $5 didn't make him happy because all he could think about was the fact that he should have more (and this realization is why he never really gambled after that).
Any tips if someone want to join in the Nordics?
I've been playing around with Stagehand for a minute now, actually a useful abstraction here. We build scrapers for websites that are pretty adversarial, so having built in proxies and captcha is delightful.

Do you guys ever think you'll do a similar abstraction for MCP and computer use more broadly?
You Don't Need a Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume (2019)
These parties existed in England in the late 2000s. I went to a few, and they usually resembled a zombie apocalypse.

No idea what the UK rave scene is like these days.
These kind of parties are still happening. At least in Europe this is still a thing.

I’m in my thirties and have been involved with these kind of parties for at least ten years.

A general trend that I have been observing for years though is what usually is being referred to as „TikTok Guys“. This involves guys and girls in their early twenties wearing fetish outfits and doing lots of drugs.

I don’t care about people coming in fetish outfits to our parties but I don’t want some young guy overdose on one our parties. In practice this means that we have been much more careful about who knows when and where a party is happening.
I bought a Moog Mother-32 and read the manual - I remember it being very thick (for modern music gear) and informative. I didn't do too much patching but by the time I was done I understood the basics of subtractive synthesis.

A few years earlier I also had a DX9 that I foolishly used to try and emulate analog sounds. Somehow I stumbled across an article on Fourier series and how infinite sinusoidal summations could be used to create the other types of fundamental waves. Programming a 4-op DX synth to emulate these and looking at waveforms in Audacity gave me a natural intuition for how time series waves relate to frequency and harmonic content.

If I had to do it all again I might get a Korg Minilogue since it can display waveforms on its LCD and is digitally-controlled.
A work of passion, congratulations!
> Mobile internet & smartphones seem to be killing all forms of live in person interaction.

Right, most types of social gatherings have decreased over the past 15 years. Events that haven't fallen off are the noteworthy ones.
> I doubt I'm following your metaphors/allusions, but the parallel may be that you're only hoping for any portfolio to have excess performance, and not the sum total.

I'm sorry but I don't know how else to explain it to you when you're ignoring such an obvious fact: if you're hoping for any portfolio to hit big, but they're all picked without any intelligence (i.e., without an oracle) then you will always be only as good as the worst portfolio. It's just such a patently obvious logical argument I don't know how else to state it so that it becomes clearer. I mean I could easily write out the formula for expected value of the max of N uniform iid random variables but you've literally been witness to it by watching the wall-clock time on your threads!

Let me put it without any metaphors/allusions: you simply don't understand search and/or SAT if you think that dividing a 2^N search space into N pieces will give you a speedup. It will not. It's basically the "geometric" definition of NP.
the evoluent vertical mouse I use has a notorious short lifespan because the switches aren't debounced or aren't debounced for a long enough period after only a year or two of wear. i demonstrated on an arduino that additional debouncing logic could fix the issue transparently to the user but never went further than that.
> These corporations are shipping literal rootkits to people.

Same applies to products such as CrowdStrike and similar stuff which in my opinion might be even worse (Anticheat rootkits at least provide some real value.. I’m not really an expert in corporate IT so I might be wrong).

In both cases their users perceive that this software provides some direct or indirect value to them.

Is it so hard to believe that some people might value the opportunity to play online games with less cheaters than retaining the control of their PCs?

Would it be better if same software was running on strictly controlled devices like game consoles? If so what if some people treat their PCs effectively as mainly specialized gaming devices?

> start defending corporations

Let’s not get silly.. what makes you think I’m doing that? I’m merely pointing out that the world is not necessarily black and white and there is some space for nuance.
Sure. It's a binary file and there is a spec for it on the garmin website. There's lots of libraries available for most popular languages for decoding and encoding. You can download an app for your computer. I believe it's called Garmin Express, which allows you to sync fit files to your machine.

I'm building a running analytics app, which is really just for myself but if it turns out to be any good then I'll might turn it into a SaaS. Target market would be for fairly decent amateur runners (e.g. 2:20-2:30 marathon) but not good enough to be pro. The pros have awesome tools but sadly most are not available for us mere mortals but I can build some of them! Example features:

1. The strava GAP model doesn't fit very well for me. So I've made my own. I update the model each month too.

2. I've also built a wind resistance model which works quite well. I'm trying to do the same for surface types, heat and humidity as well.

3.Using adjused pace data I built a pace/duration model to estimate critical speed and this model forms the basis of tracking progress over time. Clearly most training wont be all out efforts, so I also estimate race performances based upon current fitness as well. E.g. if you ran X speed for Y time at a sub maximal effort then you can estimate what a maximal effort would be based upon the remaining aerobic and anaerobic power. From reading sports science literure, this is the most advanced way to track performance at the moment. The actual model I use is called an omniduration model [1].

4. I also have build some other models, e.g. Daniels running formula, which can be used but I don't find them to be as useful as the omniduration model.

5. I'm also trying to model how a workout will effect your fitness. Where it's base/aerobic, threshold, VO2max or an anaerobic effect. Then, the idea would be to look at future training performance to assess whether the model was correct. This was you might be able to determine which types of sessions result in the best outcomes for you.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32131692/
Bitcoin is Worse is Better (2011-2018)
The quality of today's electronic music has gone way down too, it's just not really appealing at all. My wife who was very much a raver in the 90's calls the new music "alarm clock sounds" - something designed to annoy instead of make you dance. It's just so abrasive and lacking any funkiness or danceability at all. It's no wonder kids these days are turning towards other forms of entertainment. My niece who is her early 20s is into Pearl Jam. At least their music has some kind of soul to it.
I used to word-process on the VIC for school assignments... and let me tell you the font was the least of my concerns...

20 column text was. Dear god. So awful.
It was burned years ago.

Give it two years or so to fade. There’s just not enough low cost big spaces to hold shit in.
What field in software are you working in ?
That's not what zero-sum means
Not only tilted, but far less "round" than Neptune's orbit, which occasionally results in Pluto being actually closer to the Sun than Neptune (every 500 or so years). They also kinda "dance" with each other around the Sun in a 2:3 ratio (2 x Pluto's year / 3 = Neptune's year).
It's nobody else's business whether the emails in your inbox are valid or not, and that's basically all non-deniable DKIM signatures do: durable secure verifiable DKIM signatures are "security feature" with real-world value exclusively for attackers.
There’s quite a lot of trash flagged for very good reasons, though. I cannot keep up with the full feed.
I'm sure that astrology-Instagram is full of all kinds of ideas about what this means.
The argument for sticking with Latin is that it's a relatively unchanging language, and the virtue of that is that it gives you first hand access to historical knowledge in a way most are locked away from today.

If we conduct science in Latin, it gives all scientists first hand access to sources from classical works, a thousand years of papal edicts, the works of Duns Scotus, Isaac Newton and Erasmus; and extended to the future, future scientists will have the same access but access to what we produce today, without having to learn 21st century English or having to rely on 23rd century translations.
You want aider.
Folks, this is not a process that converges. We've now had 60 years of language design, use and experience. We're not going to get to an ideal language because there are (often initially hidden) tradeoffs to be made. Everyone has a different idea of which side of each tradeoff should be taken. Perhaps in the future we can get AI to generate and subsequently re-generate code, thereby avoiding the need to worry too much about language design (AI doesn't care that it constantly copies/pastes or has to refactor all the time).
> And specifically their appetite for the risk/discomfort that goes along with living in realtime physical moments with other people.

The risk/discomfort lasted just that night. Nowadays everyone is posting everything everywhere. No wonder youngsters don’t want to risk it.

This is a form of social cooling in my opinion.
Did you post to OSDev?
Oh yeah, how did I forget the memory stuff? Working memory is a common issue (as, I think, is conversion from short- to long-term memory).

...This was accidental and not me intentionally forgetting about memory.
Rotating the key and publishing the private key destroys the ability of an after-the-fact attacker (someone who pilfers older mails out of your inbox) to prove they obtained a real email. It's not an "only a little" thing; it's categorical.
They do, you just don't know it.
Honestly, what if taking drugs as a kid desensitized him and made him feel it was fine? Sure it is legal vs illegal, but once you get used to the idea “drugs are good” it could be bad for the mind
One of the goals of containers are to unify the development and deployment environments. I hate developing and testing code in containers, so I develop and test code outside them and then package and test it again in a container.

Containerized apps need a lot of special boilerplate to determine how much CPU and memory they are allowed to use. It’s a lot easier to control resource limits with virtual machines because the application in the system resources are all dedicated to the application.

Orchestration of multiple containers for dev environments is just short of feature complete. With Compose, it’s hard to bring down specific services and their dependencies so you can then rebuild and rerun. I end up writing Ansible playbooks to start and stop components that are designed to be executed in particular sequences. Ansible makes it hard to detach a container, wait a specified time, and see if it’s running. Compose just needs to be updated to support management of shutting down and restarting containers, so I can move away from Ansible.

Services like Kafka that query the host name and broadcast it are difficult to containerize since the host name inside the container doesn’t match the external host name. Requires manual overrides which are hard to specify at run time because the orchestrators don’t make it easy to pass in the host name to the container. (This is more of a Kafka issue, though.)
For a good time, call Raydiation.
But that's not the way Stack is actually run.

Remember Monica? She was a Stack moderator who got in trouble over Stack's new Code of Conduct a few years back.

The Code required using people's pronouns if they listed them. Monica always used gender-neutral pronouns and wanted to keep doing so, but Stack took issue with this.

Pronouns are a pretty standard part of interacting with someone in English -- and so is the "thank you" in GP's Stack post. So why is one social convention mandatory while one is forbidden?

Because it's not about what's on topic and what isn't. It's about archetypes. And the highest archetype for a certain kind of programmer is the Vulcan. Be respectful, be noble, but don't "waste time" on pleasantries that are just there to convey warmth and friendliness.

The problem is that not all programmers are Vulcans, and more and more non-Vulcans have become programmers as coding has become more and more mainstream. But Stack essentially set up test cases for how Vulcan its users are. That tends to be an alienating culture for those who aren't.
I was struggling with doing interesting things with the semantic web circa 2007 and was thinking "OWL sucks" and looking at Datalog as an alternative. At that time Datalog was an obscure topic and hard to find information about it. 10 years later it was big.

(Funny after years of searching I found somebody who taught me how to do really complex modelling in OWL DL but from reading the literature I'm pretty sure the average PhD or prof in the field has no idea.)
At least as early as August 2023. Less than three quarters of the way through his presidency. Something that started at least 17 months ago can hardly be considered "last minute".

EDIT:

Found the answer for you since you can't be bothered (previously saw the date in some other doc reading about this):

https://www.fcc.gov/CyberTrustMark

> When was the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program created?

>> In August 2023, the FCC sought public comment on how to create the Cyber Trust Mark program. In March 2024, based on public input, we adopted rules establishing the framework for the program.
Ladybird has a very large political aim: to become the only browser that isn't funded by Google or based on Google's browser engine. The reason it left behind SerenityOS is because it has moved from a hobbyist aim to a very serious political aim.
Are there suggestions for work arounds? I'm guessing it's a bit of a whack-a-mole problem, but it seems like others have figured out a solution for server-side downloads.
Chrome will still be the #1 browser, and corps will still want features added, so they'll be good for a while I think.
This makes me want to throw up

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-with.html
I bought a pair 2 years ago. This morning I poked a hole through one when I was putting it on. I've already printed their lifetime warranty claim form and plan to see what their service is actually like. I have high expectations.
A huge value add to MacOS. Fingers crossed Apple doesn't build in the features.
If anything the proof in the pudding that executives have no idea of what's going on outside of the narrow scope they work in.
I've been meaning to do something like this (work on an abstract tree for surface generation) but using SDFs. The idea being that you have a target mesh/point cloud and then use hill climbing/annealing to reach a good tree that fits the desired shape.
Yea, I’ve become more aware of this since yesterday. I also think I should have provided way more context to what I was saying. I believe I came off as being against moderation but I’m not, I do think there is something unique about the user base just from the quality of content I see compared to other spaces, but I digress. I appreciate your thoughts and it gave me something to think about.
I do agree that Facebook are assholes, but then I'm not sure I want to support journalists who are bashing sex, pornography and prostitution. There is nothing wrong with those things. We are not living in the Medieval times any more, maybe it's finally time to stop being puritans and stop believing that sex is somehow fundamentally sinful or wrong. Those beliefs don't make any sense and they look absolutely ridiculous.

I would totally support journalism targetted at exposing hypocrisy and authoritarian practices of big tech.

It's finally time to liberate society and to stop demonise sex and sex-related topics. Healthy views on sex would make the society a better place, and sex ads on Facebook would stop containing only scam.
Covid did that, just not in the way we thought.

The thing is, the managerial class is pushing for a return to the office, trying to reinstate the former balance.
Most do USB just fine
Cool, I'd rather have a stamp that indicates a company will support their product for X number of years, and if they don't, they will release the software as OSS so you can maintain yourself. I have an extremely expensive scale that came with wifi support and an app, only bought it 3 years ago, half the features already don't work because they nuked the app and stopped supporting the scale. did I need a smart scale? Absolutely not, and I don't really need any other "smart" devices the more I think about stuff like this, and now seek to buy "stupid" devices as much as possible. I'm not sure what such security stamps are supposed to provide other than false sense of security, as most things can be hacked eventually with enough determination or someone unknown zero day.
One who believes in that line trusts neither, one imagines. The thing that people often misunderstand about not trusting something is that it is different from believing it is guaranteed to be wrong. Not trusting something means that it doesn't provide evidence. i.e. if you don't trust some source X, and X provides some evidence X_A about some event A then not trusting them means that P(A|X_A) ~= P(A) your prior probability.

People often interpret the "I don't trust X" statement to be "belief in the opposite", i.e. P(¬A|X_A) = 1. This is obviously stupid since someone you distrust could happily manufacture evidence for ¬A and then you'd conclude P(¬¬A|X_¬A) = 1 so they could make you believe anything, which is obviously not something you want someone you distrust to do to you.
GenZers are indulging in drugs at much lower rates than previous generations. That includes alcohol.
Ladybird did this because there really is a pressing social need for a free browser outside of the grips of Google. There is no really need for another free (as in freedom) OS. Serenity's existence is purely for pleasure purposes
If you haven't read it, you might like Emily Witt's recent book Health & Safety. She writes about her experiences raving in Brooklyn (and Berlin) from roughly 2015 to present day and many of the changes that have occurred (as well as dropping in her own personal story which may or may not be interesting to you).
I can usually power through the RSS feed pretty quickly. My reader shows only titles, so I swipe on a lot of stuff that doesn’t seem relevant. I can then take my time with the good stuff.
I think about this a lot- many of the online spaces I used to enjoy have been completely overrun by people that are a particular combination of mean, ignorant, and 100% sure their opinions on everything are objectively correct and final. Anyone not fitting into those 3 in the same way they do, quickly gets fed up and leaves.

In particular, I am not sure why people are so mean online. I try to be kind to other people even if I disagree with them, but pretty much cannot find anyplace with other people that feel the same. I feel like it is infecting me, and I am not as kind to other people as I used to be or would like to be. I probably need to just stop talking to people online entirely for my own mental health, and contribute to the evaporative cooling of the entire internet.
Perhaps economic issues at the scale of a modern country can be more complicated than would be covered by an econ 101 lesson.
Specifically, I was talking about in my daily usage, not a widely-distributed article on a single example. Have you personally seen any fact-checking whatsoever, much less fact-checking that is misleading? Or do you need to search it out in order to find it?
Yes, this was in a documentary called MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis.

(this is a joke, because hn)
> Also good luck supporting

If Nvidia and game developers care about supporting Linux they’ll try to figure something out.

If they don’t they won’t. But surely the cost required to do so is lower when targeting Wine/Proton than native Linux?

If they are unwilling to do that when the cost is relatively low (or at least e.g. making these new features toggle-able/optional) they certainly wouldn’t even provide a native Linux if Proton wasn’t a thing.
Sure you can avoid leetCode if you’re okay with not maximizing your compensation by working at one of the FAANG or adjacent companies that pay at top of market.

But you aren’t going to have a walk on non leetcode interview at one of the companies that pay a quarter million+ for a mid level developer based on a referral. I’m not saying you are a mid level developer just giving an example of comp.

The amount a returning intern I mentored when I was at BigTech had a return offer that was the same as I made two years prior at 60 person startup.

Now that I’m out of BigTech, I had to get a job as a “staff software architect” at a 3rd party consulting company to come close to what I was making in 2020 as mid level consultant at AWS and I’m making over $80K less than I would make as a senior doing the same thing at AWS or GCP.

I’m 50, an empty nester and I’m good with making that trade off. I would rather get an anal probe with a cactus than ever work at any large company again.

But if I were 30 in 2024 instead of in 2004, yeah I would grind leetCode to make a 300K+ a year.

And yeah I got into BigTech without a coding interview and could probably weasel my way into Google/GCP in the consulting department without one. But that needle would be hard to thread for the vast majority of prople

That’s why I always advise anyone in CS to practice for coding interviews
> Still works on mobile, so it's not the end of the world.

Didn't for me. Granted, I have several identities and I was switching between them. Perhaps the one I was switching too was no longer cached. If so, I consider that a bug. I also consider what happened to be a bug - the Android App crashed.

Oh wait, it's still crashing. So the outage isn't the cause.

Did I mention I'm growing to dislike this Android Bitwarden App with a passion. It's slow at opening (why not open the cached version and download the up-to-date version in the background), it sometimes takes so long to do something Android brings up the "it's taking too long, want me to kill it" dialogue, it takes a long with for the keyboard to display the "Fill in with Bitwarden" prompt, presumably because it takes so long to process intents.
Graph Search Algorithms: A Practical Overview
This is from July 2023: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2023/07/white-house-an...
kei trucks are illegal in the USA because they would destroy the market for massive American (but not American made) pickups like the f-150.
2021:

https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/nist-cybersec...
Weird v0.3 – Dreams for Sale
I wonder how much this is going to add to the cost/effort of creating a new IOT product for startups/small businesses?