skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware of talk about benefits without mention of drawbacks.

Connecting grids could significantly increase the fragility of the system resulting in higher risk of large-scale power outages. Some of you might have experienced the 2003 blackout in northeast North American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003), which luckily happened in the summer. Tail risks should not be swept under the rug.

Even a single widespread event could completely wipe out the benefit gained from connecting grids.
Big +1, and an obvious observation for anyone who moved here
What I saw, as often as not, is that the skiddies using these tools would configure their installer/dropper and start sending it to victims, but accidentally run it on their own machine too. Meaning their own machine was now listening for control connections.

Which meant all a potential victim had to do was accept the file, not run it (renaming the extension was a good first step), and note the IP address of the skiddy who sent it to them. Inspect the file to see the port and password configured therein, run the control program, connect back to the origin IP with the given port and password, et voila.

I wonder how many of them thought their tool was backdoored, not realizing it was they who had compromised themselves.
Machines already took almost all artist jobs a long time ago. Ever heard of the camera?

Machines already took almost all musician jobs a long time ago. Ever heard of recording?

The current winner-take-all art fields are not very healthy for humans to work in anyway, as there are infinity starving artists for every success. Eliminating the few remaining successes won’t really change much from the perspective of the average artist.

Almost all human art today is already done by hobbyists.
> Its physicaly impossible to span the pacific and atlantic oceans

There are already plans to connect North America and Europe with an undersea power cable.

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/worlds-most-ambitious-subsea...
Next people will want a interconnected communications channel between countries. Utter pipe dream.
Do not forget about AI Scrum Master asking AI about current progress, blocker during daily AI standup
It is used in public healthcare, for example, with biologic drugs. According to my rudimentary calculations, Spain has an 80-100B euro public healthcare budget. If every person who would benefit from a biological drug treatment received it, that would add close to 40% to that budget.

And in the US, these drugs are much more expensive.
As a user of a crt pc monitor and a 240hz oled, the motion clarity of the oled is pretty darn close now. I’d bet 480hz is the point where the smoothness of modern panels finally catches up to the crts.
I am really unsure why devs around the world keep defaulting to websockets for things that are made for server sent events. In 90% of the usecases i see, websockets are just not the right fit. Everything is simpler and easier with SSE. Some exceptions are high throughput >BI<directional data streams. But even if eg. your synced multiplayer cursors in something like figma use websockets don't use it for everything else eg. your notification updates.
> I hate coding interviews but I am sympathetic to people who want to do them because I've met people who are such good bullshitters that they could fool most people. If you're talking about someone with no working experience and who claims to be self-taught, you really have to make them write code.

The choice is not limited to made up toy problems vs not testing coding skills at all. You can give them real problems to solve.

> The interviewers tried to tell him to approach it like an industrial-grade solution, not a weird academic exercise.

Hahaha, and how exactly do you write an 'industrial-grade' FizzBuzz? ;)

Obligatory: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

> The whole point of the interview is to get hints about the candidate. There are times when interviewers read too much into what the candidate does or says, but this isn't one of them.

Oh but it is. If I were to ask you, the expert, to draw a blue line with red ink and then attempt to draw conclusions from your behaviour based on that question, could I ever get a valid assessment of you? If a test is faulty, so are its results. Garbage in, garbage out.

Interviewing is no trivial task. It is an attempt to test how well someone will do a thing without having them actually do it. By definition, that is impossible. Still, we can try to get good enough results by minimising the number of differences between our test environment (interview) and production (the job). That will involve:

a) making the interview environment resemble the job as much as possible (no hazing, minimal pressure on the candidate, writing code in and IDE instead of a whiteboard, etc.)

b) presenting the candidates with coding tasks that match what the company does on a daily basis (take a suitable bug you had in your codebase, touch it up a bit with more issues, have them fix it; pair program with them to add a new feature to your codebase, etc.)

Some concrete examples:

- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/03/19/time/ (it suffices to read the first two paragraphs)

- https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/06/memcached-inte...

- https://blog.jez.io/bugsquash/
His solution was clever because the problem was artificial, constrained, and required him to be creative.

He went to a solution he knew well, and the interviewer didn't ask to change.

If you solve this problem and use strings to do fizzbuzz instead of modulo, would you accept me saying that you're a doofus that doesn't know coding simply because you didn't do it the normal way?
That's a big part of what makes this game enjoyable - a clue that is very obvious to one person might not even cross the mind of someone else. To anyone reading this who hasn't played, it's definitely worth giving it a try.
If you're talking about underwater, I don't think that's the problem compared to running track through populated areas, whether that's through tunnels, cut-and-cover, at-grade or viaduct.
By pricing the service as free, they price out all competing services

offering something for less than it costs to produce is illegal in some countries. and while being generous can be ok, doing so to keep out competitors is the reason why it is or should be illegal. it should at least be illegal for companies that have a monopolistic market share.
How smooth is the signup process? I remember reading they require passport copy etc, which makes me uncomfortable
> Right now I'm running everything on AWS, but the cost feels overkill for my current needs. Since my past professional background is in AWS, it was the default choice, but given that this project is currently funded through my own savings and I'm currently unemployed, I'm looking to minimize costs. Scalability isn't a concern as the user base is small.

Given that this doesn't make any money, you might as well use local or self-hosted LLMs instead of cloud based LLMs.

AWS for this use-case (especially when you are not intending to make money) is indeed overkill.
i still wont forgive libtorrent for not implementing sequential access.

and also, xpdf for implementing the "you cant select text" feature
There's someone else in this thread who did the same problem 4 days ago and the story seems to match.
That works until you’re sitting between two fat libraries with overlapping, but incompatible concerns. It’s tradeoffs all the way down.
> The article does not provide the slightest clue about why the researchers believe that this is an alphabetic script

Yes. I noticed this too, upon reading. Symbols, yes. Alphabet rather than proto-writing? that's a claim!
> His solution is clever, but if that's indicative of how he's going to do engineering work at my company, I guess that means I can expect clever solutions for everything

I think this is uncharitable. The interviewer's demands to not use numeric types or any mathematical operations is inherently preposterous, and at that point the author can't be judged negatively for whatever contortions they needed to perform in order to comply with them.
This is a general principle: making things bigger and/or more centralized tends to increase efficiency and decrease the frequency of failures but greatly increase the cost and severity of failures.

In computing think about, for example, centralizing identity management in the hands of a few large companies. These companies have large security teams and mature well built infrastructures, but a huge failure or a huge security compromise of, say, Google’s OIDC system, could be utterly catastrophic, paralyzing and destroying vast swaths of our digital infrastructure. Entire companies, services, or even sectors would be paralyzed or worse.

Small, decentralized, and diverse is overall more costly and experiences many smaller failures but is more robust for the long haul.

This is probably why life, having evolved over a billion years, is mostly this way. Giant super organisms and super-optimized monocultures are possible but fragile.

Our economies, having only existed for hundreds of years and being incentivized to only care about next quarter, tend to go all in on anything that makes numbers superficially better.
Shouldn't as in you suspect it isn't, or as in it really ought to not be?

In either case, while a "sociological vacuum decay" into a more efficient mode of human collaboration seems at least theoretically possible (we've had some of these in the past: The invention of money, laws, nation states, organized religions, and other practically useful human fictions), if nobody can find a way to precipitate it, it remains just as unachievable as something even theoretically impossible.
Seems like every installation had a backdoor password hardcoded too from that article.
Yeah i edited after a minute indeed, thought I was quick enough for anyone to notice haha.

But you really have to do the calculus, as you buy their cheapest servers for at least a month at a time. And with fluctuating loads, a serverless approach might actually be better.

See also: replicate or runpod. But I like modal best; their SDK is pretty comprehensive and has a sane developer experience, replicate is too constrained and runpod instances were unavailable for me half the time...
Isn't space+f fuzzy find?
except there's still ads.
That seems like a problem of a single large provider and not a connectivity problem. It's a monopoly issue that would be less of a problem if a single or even a minority of players were not the largest producer.

At least electricity can be produced more broadly than gas where you had to win the lottery of location or game of Thrones of imperialism.
If your product is related to media (news, magazines, etc.), that's really good for you. because you got the people's attention. This is an assertive headline. but if you claim your product is better or equivalent to them. if your product does not meet your claims. This is not good for your product. They just try once and send it to trash urgently. Also, you lose potential users. The main issue here is user trust, not how your competitor is big.
Reader of technical blogs here.

What makes me turn away? Blog entries that are too verbose, or seem unpolished or chatty. Anything obviously AI generated - that too wordy, 5-paragraph middle school essay type of thing. I'm beginning to just turn away if I think a blog entry is AI generated at all, because there's always something wrong in the technical part if it's AI generated. An AI-generated image at the top, complete with weird misspellings or dripping kind-of-corporate logos is also a marker.

What makes me come back? Tight, informative prose. Diagrams that make difficult to understand text more understandable. Some non-standard, non-hackneyed humor. Treating a topic in a new way. References to related work, both other blogs, or academic PDFs. Code samples, with a description, like those in "Programming Pearls".

In a more abstract vein, posts that talk about "generating business value", or are filled with corporate verbiage are a turn off. I'm interested in what we, as sentient beings in this universe can figure out. Extremely technical topics are interesting, even if writing corporate code that way would be a disaster.
The loser is 241st in the Bronx. Can't even get out of the Borough.

Unless we're also considering Staten Island, which few do :)
The Hidizs Fraud Playbook
HIDIZS are shady. How shady? They've just hidden their business address on their website. Why? They're attempting to commit fraud.
This is never going to be viable. Even existing short undersea cables are difficult (impossible?) to protect from sabotage, let alone one that would span an ocean.
Websockets are bidirectional while SSE is unidirectional (server to client). That said, there's nothing stopping you from facilitating client to server communication separately from SSE, you just don't have to build that channel with websockets.
An Explosion of Transitive Dependencies
>That seems like a problem of a single large provider and not a connectivity problem.

No, it sounds like a problem of a belligerent super power next door.
There is now also: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-found...
I find this such a backwards question.

Which is to say -- the "use case" is "people REALLY obviously like it."

Similarly, it's absurdly conclusory to say things like "You can't convey a meaningful message" just because, perhaps, YOU'RE not the one receiving it.

Anyway, even as a bit of an old-timer (48), as a Black man I've definitely seen some very good use cases; there are (were?) a decent number of kids out there making VERY INTELLIGENT Black political and historical commentary in this bite-size form.
Every single one of those pictures, even the blurry ones, even the ones taken at night, all look like airplanes.

People aren't getting airplanes confused with drones because they look the same. People are getting worked up about drones because of collective paranoia, and then they are seeing what they want to see.
The highest frequency subway lines do 3 mins at peak, which is amazing.
Is that actually true? Population growth has exploded in recorded history even though pre-history has years to its advantage
Show HN: Translate JSON i18 files with NextJS,Vite plugins
Hello world! I want to present you the tool that uses backend to split and recompose the files and deepl to translate the chunks. It is made to translate json files, but also supports XML,ARB,Strings,Yaml now and Markdown really soon. What do you think?
I'd love to see this realized. However, given the issues we've been having with cables in the Baltic Sea in recent months, this would probably be a huge attack surface in case of any kind of conflict.
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/requirements... lists all the direct dependencies installed in the container.

It's enough for just a single direct or indirect dependency to be compromised to have a botnet or turn it into something used for surveillance against the users.

Preventing it from exfiltrating data by isolating it from the network with Internet access is the only option if you want to run it. This requires local only devices.

Accessing it through the web UI or through the mobile app will still load icons from https://brands.home-assistant.io. The details are in this ticket https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/18549
Not criticizing you but it will never not be funny to me that crazy people have tried to legitimize seeing alien spaceships by renaming them from UFOs to UAPs. It’s like the conspiracy theorist version of unhoused.
This feels right because fewer parts of AI as it's used in apps is going to fit the agile CI/CD model of quality control. It's back to manual functional testing for a lot of it. Also, the way that issues get reported and described will probably benefit from AI specific expertise.
Five seconds' worth of googling shows that an estimate of Hominid population before 200,000 years ago is anywhere between 2 billion to 20 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_demography#Hominid...

This is one of those things that's probably incredibly difficult to estimate with any level of accuracy.
What drug treatment are you referring to, in particular?

In many countries, including those with both socialized and private healthcare, insurance companies routinely pay for treatments costing much more than the statistical value of life.

Also, these incredibly expensive single-dose cures usually are that expensive because they don't benefit from any economies of scale and/or haven't recouped their investment yet. In competent healthcare systems, the price is driven down substantially sooner rather than later for almost all drugs through negotiations.
Honestly, none of the numbers on this page add up..
Electric commuter trains has coil whines, same thing as spaceship sounds Teslas make when launched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0B2bvd9rFQ
related: automated Las Vegas plane spotting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PtT7KdlKc

this person has some sort of OpenCV setup from a high-rise view. (bonus: Air Force One is currently there)
I’m not that surprised, I’ve always had the impression the whole HTML ecosystem is more amateurish than PDF.
I would avoid using Chatbox. If I remember correctly the releases in the past were built from code that is not in the repo and also there were unadressed issue with the license and positive VirusTotal scans.

There are other alternative tools out there that are less shady. One example would be jan.ai
Ledger’s e-commerce and marketing database got popped around June 2020, and the hackers walked away with a bunch of customer emails and some subset of physical addresses/phone numbers. Ledger acknowledged the breach in July, but the data ended up getting shared and reposted multiple times afterward—most famously in December 2020, sparking a wave of phishing attacks.

I know the details cause I work in the field. It's quite crazy that they are still in business.
"Clever" was a requirement.

If they wanted clarity, they would allow for fucking numbers and modulo operator.

They wanted a solution and the candidate produced one.

Or did they just want to know if he knows how to program? Because he also did demonstrate that.
Same kind of kidhood. At school a social reject but during the night a script kiddie shovelling content across IRC and FTP sites.
A person doesn’t have to be privileged to value things differently than you think they should.
What information leads you to the conclusion that grants have gone wild?
They require extensive proof of identity. I don't mind, I have a EU business so I registered through that... but there's a barrier there for sure.
Discord, or the Death of Lore :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050858

(Even when something like a wiki exists, most of actual information will still be contained in the lore, itself blackholed by a deep web platform like Discord.)
Was a great time for stargazing, at least!
> Yes. The entire piece.

Apologies; your comment is so confusing that I can only guess we possess different definitions of 'luck'. Mine is the definition that can be found in the dictionary; what's yours?

> Looks like it sunk in pretty well.

What sunk in? Where?
If you wanted to avoid "only latest getenv pointer per thread is valid", then the thread local data structure could be a var-name-> buffer map rather than a single reused buffer.

Worst case memory usage (all threads get all vars) is that you end up having a separate copy of the environment per thread, but it seems this is the best that can be done given the awful API.
The Egyptian pyramid chain was built along abandoned Ahramat Nile Branch
Thanks! This shows it for 2 frames instead of 1 because there is no channel overlay showing the location (Canada) on top of the meteorite

Link without tracking for the lazy btw: https://youtu.be/c0gnYzhTL5A
How do you like the Discord based forums? Having knowledge buried in a proprietary closed source platform hosted by a third party is another problem. They can wipe out countless posts and exchanges through a simple terms of service update to delete older data.

The automated issue closure and ignored issues are pretty much the last straw for me. I appreciate the work done. I can't help but see that this how things are going to be forever without any significant change. The only option is to migrate away from Home Assistant.
That was such a good read. Thank you for sharing.
An updated overview of recent gradient descent algorithms
Self-driving cars are a social and political problem, not a technical one. If it were a technical problem, it would have been considered largely solved even in the pre-2017 era of ML.
It's incredible to make the claim that almost all art is done by hobbyists considering how large the movie, tv and video game industries are by employee headcount.
Don't be a IYI, learn something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
We literally had to move, out of fear, and I am going to ridiculous measures right now because I work in the field.

Luckily, we were renting.
Yes. It’s just very hard to succeed with even the best technical execution if you do not have good management.
"god complex" is very reaching. No one got physically hurt in this scenario. Also unlikely you can "guarantee" this didn't teach anyone any lessons.
In a car, you still need to park, which in NYC might take 20 mins and still leave you blocks from your destination. The other difference is what you can do with your travel time. While driving, you're limited to passive activities. Cabs and ride share solve this, for a price.

But people do love car travel, regardless of the problems. I have a buddy who would nearly always opt for Uber, even at times when traffic made it slower than the subway.
They don't have to care about decentralisation....
It needed to be less than 30 lines, not more than 30 files.
Cloud markup over bare metal and wholesale bandwidth is astronomical. Like hundreds to thousands of times in some cases. If you don’t actually need the managed services and other capabilities offered by big cloud, it’s down right stupid to use it.
Calls for a Meta boycott don't seem to be having much of an impact, data finds
It’s because they get a lot of fraud. The alternative would be to raise their prices to compensate for theft and the cost of dealing with abuse.

VPS providers like Vultr and Digital Ocean are a little more expensive but a little easier in some cases. They’re still way cheaper than big cloud.
I think he just found a random engineer from Google on LinkedIn and is pretending to be him.
Adhering to sensible fire codes. The wind was not the problem, but people keeping their gardens filled with inflammable trash, their outside walls with fire nests, and their roofs unsafe.

Proper buildings were left unharmed. As in the recent Turkey earthquake. Only the illegal buildings were destroyed.

Ask the experts.
Trump, Musk and how my neurodiversity made me - Bill Gates
Can’t you run one of AWS’ t-series servers for like $10 a month? If you’re just making a few API calls, then that should be more than sufficient. My advice: don’t prematurely optimize. You _may want_ to explore self-serving models. But you also may not. Wait till you have a real problem before trying to solve it.
> I was never asked to write a fizzbuzz until last week.
> A month has passed and I got no response, no feedback, nothing…
It reads like fiction because it is.
OP, you are not the author, right? Do you know them? It seems like they might be interested in the comments here, unless the article is ancient.
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