skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any Godot FAQs or documentation with "blessed" paths for the various mainstay gamedev needs?!
Exploring the Basics of Distributed Systems
Sure, we’ll see…
Indonesia joins BRICS bloc as full member
But is it currying favor? Could just as well be "kiss the ring or you'll see your life's work AT&Ted into oblivion"

Perhaps both: might have started as a pragmatic offer to bury the hatchet, then quickly turned into the never ending firehose of demands of an extortionist who just realized that he still all the cards after the extortee has given in.
> not only do you fail your patrons when they need you, you're undermining your own argument that this is actually an emergency

Did the emergency argument ever hold legal water? How many actual librarians did the IA consult in crafting its programme?

> if you stop, do they even sue you

Injunction. Or at least, let smarter legal minds weigh in. (And actual librarians.)

> what does it matter if you were doing it for a month vs. a year?

Damages. It also shows goodwill, which could have influenced not only judges by IA's allies (who largely abandoned it).

IA was arrogant throughout the lawsuit, and it showed in their library partners often publicly rebuking them.
JS-Confuser: JavaScript obfuscation tool
I bet they use Comic Sans for nuclear launch codes too.
URL encoding solves part of this.

>Example.com/Verify/5W9GF

If it fails, prompt for OTP on the fallback /Verify/ or /code/ page.

Local convenience cookie for authenticating device and permi-cookie for requesting device.

Permanent cookies should be accompanied with a 4 digit numeric PIN between any critical functions unless the session is new.
That's not because Bing is good. It's because Google has been enshittified.
I wish I could just send JSON…

Please see the job history array.
Get a boring LaTeX template like "Jake's Resume"

I've spoken with two technical recruiters who say they prefer reading templates instead of hand-crafted Resumes on top of them also parsing better in the ATS system ):
> Diet soft drinks get a bad rap but are imo an incredibly useful tool for health.

If you have diet sodas on one hand and obesity on the other, they're definitely the lesser evil. But that's also a pretty low bar, since obesity is THE co-morbidity factor for just about everything.
Why is it weird that two native Russian speakers would use their native tongue instead of English?
How can you build that brand if someone is determined to tear it down for ideological reasons?
Two hard-boiled eggs and an apple is a pretty nutritious lunch for about $2-$3 tops.
Not like it had a lot of practical value. Sure, it cost a lot to design -- but all that value went down the drain in 2001.
Only if everything you don't agree with is "political"
Without diving into the lumpers versus splitters politics too much, how familiar are you with the similarities between Russian and Ukrainian?
By that logic, no one should build a startup that generates tattoos then?

Speak to average, non-technical users. You'd be surprised how many people have a very vague idea what ChatGPT is capable of. They aren't using it everyday like you and I. Relating this back to original comment, expecting them to know about effective prompting techniques, Stable Diffusion etc is unrealistic.

One of the reasons OpenAI offers APIs, is so you can build startups on top of their tech for average non-technical users.
That’s a rather reductionist and slightly disparaging point of view. Moderation has its place I never said it didn’t, but do you really think that moderation is the only thing keeping this place from being 4chan? I think you have one deeply entrenched opinion and are ignoring that these are very different platforms.
Calling a legitimate argument a "dog whistle" is a classic tactic OP is talking about which is used to shut down discussion. Just debate the merit of what he's saying rather than try to label him as an enemy.

Breast reduction for children IS in fact irreversible. It causes huge scars and trying to get breast augmentation later is not actually restoring their body to its natural state. It is definitely something that is controversial. Also putting children on hormones is within scope of this conversation and DOES happen.

There are lots of people who detransition and regret their decision. Children who have been sterilized for life and have permanent scars. It's completely valid to have discussions about whether kids should be able to make these decisions (they shouldn't).
I wasn‘t aware that society means surgery. Likewise that veiled means literal. By extension, ethnic cleansing probably means giving certain parts of a population a well deserved bath?

Edit: I did not want to imply that you meant it that way. But in a different context, or coming from the wrong person, it may sound like a dog whistle.
You can’t possibly seriously believe this?

The whole point of science is to eliminate human authority as a source of truth. Every claim must be peer reviewed, should be replicated by independent parties, and open to falsification by new evidence.

“Appeal to authority” is always the wrong approach if you are seeking truth.
It is a choice manufacturers made.

Pepsi and Dr. Pepper decided to go lower sugar with supplemental artificial sweeteners to keep their price down, whereas Coca-Cola kept the original formula, but it costs more.

To put figures to this:

- Pepsi (11g sugar per 250 ml): 8.8p/100ml

- Dr. Pepper (11g sugar per 250 ml): 10.0p/100ml

- Coca-Cola (27g sugar per 250 ml): 14.2p/100ml

"full sugar" Dr. Pepper also contains: Aspartame, Acesulfame K

"full sugar" Pepsi contains: Sucralose, Acesulfame K

So after the sugar tax some people moved to these hybrid drinks whereas others just moved whole-hog to Pepsi Max and Diet Dr. Pepper which are commonly cheaper and have the same aftertaste as their "full sugar" variants.
So perhaps one could say that human nature isn't compatible with such massive scale? Over here in capitalist paradise, it sure sucks for most people
Conservatives believe the truth supports conservative beliefs, and liberals believe it supports liberal beliefs. This type of comment is about the same as just saying "I am a liberal", which almost by definition means you think liberal beliefs are true. It doesn't add much to the conversation.
I think pretty much any interviews with Zelensky and or Putin are helpful. I was skeptical that the Tucker Putin interview would be too pro Russian but there was Putin going on about how Hitler was ok and WW2 was the Poles fault for resisting Hitler's desire to take their land and even Tucker looking awkward.
The real 'data breach' was that they had the data in the first place. The hacker is likely less of a threat to me than many of the parties they sold the data to before.
China's Electric Future Is Here– and the U.S. Is Keeping It Out
I'm not suggesting getting rid of it, stop with the hysterics. I'm saying it's not a necessary feature of a democracy, as you suggested in your original post.

It is a highly idiosyncratic design decision in one democracy. It is not at all functionally necessary to America's system, and it's certainly not necessary to any other, as proven by its conspicuous absence from said democratic systems.

Five stupid people outvoting four dumb people is a natural outcome in every democratic system. One person outvoting two based on geographic location is not a natural outcome in every democratic system.

It's not that hard to understand if you take off your ideology blinkers for a moment and read the words in front of you.
Made in Texas, Built for the World: How We Compete with China
It doesn’t protect from telling them the OTP code, that’s true.
Hi! I'm not really doing much in the Free Software space any more, mostly due to inflexible employment situations, but I'm delighted to see ELKS still ticking along.
Someone going after "high value" targets can just buy the data commercially.
Thank you for the link! I saw your other comment and actually edited mine to point to that, because it's definitely the answer to my question!

> though I don't know if making your email an even stronger attack vector is necessarily one of them

I'm unconvinced that magic links do make your email an even stronger attack vector. Essentially every service that would be inclined to use magic links would already have a way to reset your password entirely once the email is compromised. All magic links do is make this the primary way to interact with the auth flow.

The bad guys already know that your email is the best target. Magic links just make that very explicit.
That's the "offensively inoffensive" Corporate Memphis art which Microsoft is pushing aggressively everywhere, so I recognised it at first glance as being from MS and not Google. Google has a slightly different style.
OP has some particular type of project in mind, where what they say probably makes sense. Not all large codebases are like that.

For example, it could be a lot of individual small projects all sitting on some common framework. Just as an example: I've seen a catering business that had an associated Web site service which worked as follows. There was a small framework that dealt with billing and navigation etc. issues, and a Web site that was developed per customer (couple hundreds shops). These individual sites constituted the bulk of the project, but outside of the calls to the framework shared nothing between them, were developed by different teams, added and removed based on customer wishes etc. So, consistency wasn't a requirement in this scheme.

Similar things happen with gaming portals, where the division is between some underlying (and relatively small) framework and a bunch of games that are provided through it, which are often developed by teams that don't have to talk to each other. But, to the user, it's still a single product.
Evidence Based Scheduling by Joel Spolsky

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
As a product decision, I agree.

But I think that can still be addressed separately from the fact that all the tech leaders in Silicon Valley are bending the knee to Trump (e.g. the Mar-a-Lago visits, the "donations" to his inauguration, etc.)

I'll give you an example I find analogous. When Bezos forbid the Washington Post from giving a presidential endorsement, he wrote an op-ed, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezo.... I pretty much agreed with the vast majority of what he wrote there. What I think is total BS, though, is his purported rationale and the timing of the decision. I think it's absolutely clear he did it because he didn't want to piss off Trump should he win (the "obeying in advance" part), which he did. The reason I believe this is because he made this decision so close to the election, and he apparently didn't feel the need to do this in previous years, or even the fact that WaPo made other political endorsements (e.g. Senate races in Maryland and VA) just before the presidential endorsement was banned. Bezos subsequent Mar-a-Lago visits and Amazon's inauguration "donation" pretty much confirm my view in my opinion.

In Zuckerberg's announcement, I thought the part he put in about fact checkers being "politically biased" was unnecessary (not to mention dubious IMO), and cleared seemed done to curry favor with the current powers that be.
I have family in Houston involved in O&G. $40 for a t-shirt is reasonable to wear at the next family event.
I'm an avg dev, I was never into LLMs/co-pilot etc mocking prompt engineering but... my current job is working with an LLM framework so idk... future proofs me I guess. I do like computer vision and ML on dataset eg. training hand writing IMU by gestures that's cool.

The embeddings I feel like there is something there even if it doesn't actually understand. My journey has just begun.

I scoff every time someone says "this + AI". AI is this thing they just throw in there. Last time I didn't want to work with some tech I quit my job was not a good move not being financially independent. Anyway yeah I'll keep digging into this. I still don't use co-pilot right now but I'm reading up more on the embedding stuff for cross training or some case like RAG.
where? i just went through Settings > Apps > Gmail on my iphone and found nothing about this. Likewise the in-app Settings in the GMail app lets you choose which browser is the "default app" but it's already set to Safari (the other options are Chrome, by Google, and ... Google, by Google). But that uses an embedded
Safari instance inside gmail, not the phone's Safari app.
This example was doomed from the start because of this fact.

A lot of the US south uses the generic "coke."* It is not uncommon for this conversation to play out: "Can I get a coke?" "Sure, which kind?" "A Coke" (or a pepsi, or fanta)

In my neck of the woods we call it "pop" which always sounded strange to me in isolation.

* As famously depicted in the 2003 Harvard Dialect Survey.
Oh, I see. Thanks! So, they're basically the second part of 2FA?
Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python?
Retaking Your Pen: Learning to author your worth
Imagine a maze or labyrinth, with the agent and the destination both inside of it. Is it useful to try to figure out the convex hull of the walls, even if it is effectively "the entire maze"?

The agents in the article seem to mostly be finding their way around sparsely-distributed, discrete obstacles, so I can see how the "raycasting" approach described would work well, but in a sufficiently obstructed environment like a maze, something like (double-ended) A* is going to both be simpler and likely perform better.
> The other reason is that you cannot split up a large established codebase without first understanding it. I have seen large codebases successfully split up, but I have never seen that done by a team that wasn’t already fluent at shipping features inside the large codebase. You simply cannot redesign any non-trivial project (i.e. a project that makes real money) from first-principles.

This resonates. At one former company, there was a clear divide between the people working on the "legacy monolith" in PHP and the "scalable microservices" in Scala/Go. One new Scala team was tasked with extracting permissions management from the monolith into a separate service. Was estimated to take 6-9 months. 18 months later, project was canned without delivering anything. The team was starting from scratch and had no experience working with the current monolith permissions model and could not get it successfully integrated. Every time an integration was attempted they found a new edge case that was totally incompatible with the nice, "clean" model they had created with the new service.
It’s like Axact - The World’s Leading IT Company
Do you have some kind of analysis demonstrating Facebook fact checkers are more accurate than X’s Community Notes?
back in _____ folk were wondering how economy will survive now that we don’t need everyone to do farming since we have tractors and other farming machinery… as with any other previous “revolution” (industrial, information…) the society will move on. might be rocky for a bit though :)
Ask HN: AI agents for ordering coffee and groceries?
Are you open to using AI agents for your everyday repetitive tasks like ordering coffee? If so, what use cases you'd want the agents to address?
`Internal Server Error` for me?
The leetcode grind is my biggest dread. I can do it and I do well, but I'll be damned if it isn't a lot of mindless rote memorization that immediately leaves my brain the second I land the job, never to be used again (even in my job) until the next time I apply around.
Word/Google Docs -> PDF conversion is perfectly fine, and every system will understand it. Just don't try to get fancy with layouts and stick to headings, subheadings and bullets. People reading the resume will appreciate this as well.
The Birds Aren't Real guy securing the Enron domain and social handles is chef's kiss.
Copyright's failure lies at its very foundations.

The explicit goal of copyright is to promote art work. Copyright intends to accomplish this by promising each artist a profitable monopoly over the result of their work. The thinking is that even though an artist isn't paid directly for their labor, they can compel society to pretend their art is a singular object and sell it over and over again as a good. This is why pretentious gallery people refer to paintings and sculptures as individual "works", as if labor itself can be counted with integers. It isn't the instance of art (the copy) they are referring to as "a work": it is the abstract unit of labor and the copyright monopoly (the exclusive right to make another copy) that defines its domain.

Because copyright redefines art as a good, each artist must invest their labor to create "a work". Only then can they leverage copyright to (hopefully) profit from their investment. This is already counterproductive, because the only prospective artists who are free to work are those who can afford the upfront investment of their own labor. Profit from this investment is nowhere near guaranteed, particularly today when the overwhelming majority of publishing goes through a tiny number of corporations.

The most significant problem, though, is the monopoly itself. For copyright to function, an artist must be able to monopolize their "work": not the original copy they made, but the labor itself. In order to do so, the copyright holder must be able to prevent any work that intersects with their own. What this means is that copyright is made of incompatibility. Anyone who wants to collaborate with a work must have explicit permission; otherwise their own labor is illegal by virtue of the presence of someone else's existing work. Copyright demands that the labor of one individual be incompatible with the other.

This incompatibility is what copyright is truly used for. We use copyright to destroy fraudulent copy. We use copyright to fill moats of incompatibility; and drown competition from those who seek to collaborate competitively.

Copyright has been a bad idea from its very inception, but in today's world - where copy itself is practically free, and collaboration requires nearly zero coordination - copyright has become the foundation of the most significant and damaging parts of our society. It's time to start over.
1g of sugar per serving is hardly anything. You are weakening your argument by being hyperbolic.
Location data generated by your phone is not covered by HIPAA (source: [1]) whereas the location of a patient undergoing treatment is. Thus, there's nothing that stops a data broker inferring that you are visiting a psychiatrist or a reproductive health clinic and sharing that insight with buyers, but the clinic/doctor cant share that you were treated at such and such location since that is personal health information (PHI).

The web page below has quite some discussion on what this means for patient privacy and how to disable certain location services on your phone.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...)
Many email clients will click the link and invalidate it - for example outlook is a classic here - so the best implementation does not use redirects/links at all.

OTP is far better than an actual magic link - you can still include a link that pre-fills the code.
Ask HN: Which AI dev tools are people *really* using?
Every day I'm hearing that devs will be obsolete any moment now. We're supposedly on the verge of AI (AGI, even!) spitting out entire apps or, at a minimum, devs are currently getting 60%+ productivity gains from AI-assist tools.

But, what are people actually using in the wild? Is there really an AI-powered low/no-code tool for building apps (Web, mobile or otherwise)? If not, does anyone know of a tool that's even close?

And, who here can report 60% or higher output using AI-assist? Which specific tool(s) are you using to achieve this?
Are you from the PR Disaster Mitigation Department trying to find justification for this?
Mac is detecting Docker as a malware and keeping it from starting
I’d go with closed cycle Stirling engines. Even better efficiency than open water boiling.

The general rtg use cases care less about efficiency than long term reliability though so that’s why they use thermocouples. But it would be reasonably trivial to use a Stirling engine instead (unless you’re going to extreme environments where mechanical parts no longer work well)
I also find amusing that “legacy” more often than not gets used in negative conotation. I hear “legacy” and I think “bunch of people wrote some AWESOME shit that lasted so long that now other people get to view it as ‘legacy’”
I'm really disappointed that the article didn't mention what is probably the single most important characteristic in an opamp when being chosen by an amateur:

Unity gain stable

Sure, the other characteristics are important, but a whole bunch of circuits that beginners are likely to use rely on opamps being unity gain stable. If they're not unity gain stable, the circuit will do very weird things, and a beginner won't know why.

Of course, debugging issues like that are how you eventually become an expert.
Increasing performance per watt means that you can get more performance using the same power. It also means you can budget more power for even better performance if you need it.

In the US the limiting factor is the 15A/20A circuits which will give you at most 2000W. So if the performance is double but it uses only 30% more power, that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.

But at some point, that ends when you hit a max power that prevents people from running a 200W CPU and other appliances on the same circuit without tripping a breaker.
PCI DSS 4.0 deadline 31 March 2025 – what are you doing about it?
People were running llama.cpp on Mac laptops in March 2023 and Llama2 was released in July 2023. People were buying Macs to run LLMs months before M3 machines became available in November 2023.
The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month
Instagram needs a Bluesky. It's truly an awful experience, but the only semi-competitor is TikTok which... isn't great either.
The issue is that before social media nobody took the guy bullshitting at the end of the bar seriously.

But with social media, his bullshit post looks just as authoritative as an expert who’s been studying the topic for decades.
Can confirm a similar attitude from an HR person - they prefer a single-column, easy to scan resume that follows a tried and trusted standard structure and layout.
To avoid the whole question of if they carry pepsi or coke I usually just ask for a pepsi-coke and I've yet to run into any problems.
> Did the emergency argument ever hold legal water?

It's whatever the courts say it is. Fair use is very squishy. Nobody knows until there is a case.

> How many actual librarians did the IA consult in crafting its programme?

They are actual librarians.

> Injunction.

If you voluntarily stop they don't need to file for an injunction, they can just drop the case and then there is nothing for you to appeal.

> Damages.

What's the difference between a billion dollars and a trillion dollars when you don't have a billion dollars?

> Going straight from controlled digital lending to free for all was totally unnecessary when the first hadn't been tested.

They'd been doing controlled digital lending for a good while and nobody sued them. To get a test case somebody has to file a lawsuit. Maybe it shouldn't work that way but "courts don't issue advisory opinions" isn't something IA made up.

> IA was arrogant throughout the lawsuit, and it showed in their library partners often publicly rebuking them.

Issuing a statement that amounts to "please don't sue us" isn't really indicative of much other than that they know they'd need to budget for a bunch of lawyers if they want to get involved and they don't.
OTP is the only sane option - there are too many edge cases for magic links to make them a good user experience