skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't about a doomed project, it's about a guy who quit because he didn't feel like he needed to go to the office. As far as I'm concerned, if you need the money then you should just go to work.

You mention "passive investment revenue" which is usually code for "invest hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to maybe get enough ROI to pay some bills." If someone is emboldened to quit his job over probably petty reasons because they can fall back on such "investments" they may still be reckless.
A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
might be preferable to modern Los Angeles ?
> The point is that Russia isn't even going to try if they know their main cities are going to be wiped

And my argument is if you as a state are seriously consider a nuclear strike, you have accepted that millions will die, but it's better to completely wipe out the other opponent. No amount of rationalization can resolve that level of existential threat. Poland saying "we can threaten to nuke Moscow" is enough of a justification for Russia to view Poland as an existential threat to wipe off the map.

Large countries, and especially large nuclear powers, have multiple cities where industries are distributed. This remains true in Russia, as most of their military manufacturing capabilities remain spread out across Omsk, Kazan, Novosibirsk, etc.

If you wish to scare a country from fighting a war with you, even conventional capabilities are enough to highlight the pain while also not reaching the threshold where a conflict becomes existential.

So no, it does not make sense for Poland or Germany to develop nuclear capabilities so late in modern world.
> Get out of the big metro and into a peaceful place with cheap rent and lots of opportunity

This always comes to mind when I see folks on the street here in NYC/Brooklyn. Is it too simple a solution? Is a dense metro better in some ways?
Are you remembering the name because you’re remembering the tool or just the flavor? I don’t think hijacking a well known term makes it memorable.
Not only can you criticize him, but he gets hit with community notes just like everybody else
Not a recommendation, but I would suggest to seek resources that explain why we need math and not how to do math. My first interest in math was mostly how to draw geometrical figures using papers with square patterns. Then, it was building house models and needing to scale the template. These experiences gave me a good sense of geometry and numbers in the real world. Anything more abstract can wait until they're older.
Wait ...

dbRead, _ := connectSqliteDb("dbname.db")
defer dbRead.Close()
dbRead.SetMaxOpenConns(runtime.NumCPU())

dbRead, _ := connectSqliteDb("dbname.db")
defer dbWrite.Close()
dbWrite.SetMaxOpenConns(1)

Is dbWrite ever declared? I know it's just an example, but still ...

Now I have to ask myself whether this error resulted from relying on a human, or not relying on one.
> He also oversaw numerous prosecutions of his political opponent, solely designed to stop him running.

Odd conclusion. Why would you think solely? Are you familiar with the evidence in the documents case?

In the documents case, Trump clearly violated the law, based on evidence now in the public record. National security documents he was not entitled to were handled illegally, in ways that others have been prosecuted and convicted for. In really, really bad and scary ways, like nuclear-level secrets in an unlocked closet ways. With pictures. And videos. In the place he lets random foreign enemy political figures AND THEIR SECURITY STAFF run around.

The predominant reason someone like Biden or Bush doesn’t get prosecuted is because they don’t do this shit. Second, because of norms, they transparently cooperate when they make mistakes. Even still, Trump was handled with kid gloves. The documents prosecution took years and was ultimately a massive waste of time.

So if the sole reason was to disadvantage Trump, wasn’t it real dumb? Wouldn’t a more reasonable motivation be that the hundreds of elite law enforcement agents were doing their jobs / protect the country from a clear and present national security threat?
According to this section[1] of the website, the latest jailbreakable firmware for PW4 (10th gen) is 5.14.2.

Not sure where the title of this HN post came from, but given the jailbreak came out on Jan 1st, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon has already patched the exploit for hardware they're still supporting.

[1] https://kindlemodding.org/firmware-and-flashing/downloading-...
I know it's dumb, but when a library requires me to install Yarn to install it, I think so much less of it.

I just hate the idea that I have to install an entire package manager simply to use some Node.js code, when NPM almost certainly could have done the job.
Trump is deranged.
To be honest, I have no idea what opinion you are trying to form here. You are twisting and turning my words all over the place and I am unable to gather your thoughts into a coherent point.

You seem to be trying to pin me down to an opinion, and Im not really sure why. Do I, a random person on the internet, matter to you that much that you need to clarify my exact opinion on stuff?
Is using pthread_key_create / pthread_setspecific / pthread_getspecific / pthread_key_delete better or worse or the same? As I understand it, this is the low level API you were looking for.
Every company in spoken to in the last few years has been moving toward zero-trust network, where you assume that every single device is on a hostile network. There’s nothing inherently safe and secure about the corp network, so treat it as if all those cubicles were connecting in from Starbucks.

IMO this is the only way forward.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073471
Purchased software presumably has some level of dedicated support staff whether the primary developer or something else. I don't expect someone who developed as a hobby to be "on call" or to prioritize a request--and it may be pretty inactive in many cases.
The easiest way to move up is to change jobs. The biggest mistake I made was staying in one place too long. Then I changed employers a couple times. Got big upgrades in compensation and negotiated a four day work week.

If you don’t climb the ladder at your current job, and you don’t see co-workers climbing, that means climbing is not possible at that employer. Do not stay there more than 2–3 years.

I was afraid to change jobs because I felt safe and secure in my current position. I thought that going elsewhere would be a horror show. My friends often complained, truthfully, about how terrible their jobs were. Mine was way better than that, so I stayed put. But then when I eventually got the courage to change, every time I moved it got better and better.
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> A jury quite quickly ruled against defamation here

Yes, and? That changes nothing about Musk attacking a guy as "pedo" because he wanted to insert himself into the spotlight and went threw a fit when he was told off for that.

Also, as if professionals aren't saying the same thing, or as if he'd voluntarily undergo clinical diagnosis?
I think the latter is the preferred one for HN, as the former is clickbait. At the very least the latter is a good attempt.
Thanks, I must have missed it, so that's the task when I go to bed tonight.

I hate the idea of my book collection being chained to Amazon by DRM, absolutely hate it. This whole DRM mess is one reason I haven't bought a dedicated e-reader.

Though, to be frank, it's not the only one, I spent a jaw dropping amount of money on a really good hardcover copy of The Lord of the Rings recently, and I feel like no ebook will ever come close to the reading experience of that thing. There is something about this immense, weighty, hardcover tome that just commands your attention and I still find that print on good paper causes less eye strain than even the e-ink screens I've used (though they are pretty good).
Show HN: Base64 to SVG – Base64 Decode – Base64 Converter – SVG to Base64
Java is a language of bondage and discpline. And architectures. And myriad pointless interface definitions. And overblown class hierarchies for problems ill-suited to the OO paradigm.

I started my career in Java, and worked in it for 20 years before I really started using Javascript in anger. I didn't (and don't) like Javascript, but the freedom for prototyping was a revelation. When Typescript appeared, I fell in love.
What if I go to a dinner party and someone lies or omits crucial facts?

I guess take it for what it is -- it's a conversation recorded on YouTube ... maybe don't be fooled by the suit and the mics. Anyone can buy those, there is no certification AFAIK :-)

(I'd also say that 95% of journalism you see on TV is not much different than a conversation recorded on YouTube, i.e. they don't do fact checking themselves.)
You can also do the inverse and cook pasta like rice. Put pasta in a saucepan and just cover with water then bring to a boil until all the water has been absorbed, stirring occasionally. That has the advantage of keeping all the starch so you can get really creamy sauces. It’s great for mac and cheese.
Depends on the state. Some states “allow” prisoners to serve short sentences in jail. Including short consecutive sentences, so, long sentences.
Waste Management to Automate Thousands of Jobs
Ask HN: Why aren't generative music ML models as popular as image and LLMs
While there will be some dispute for years to come, the capabilities and potential of image generation models, and Large Language models, appear to be far beyond dispute. But the noise (sic) heralding ML models that generate music is comparatively low. I find this to be both interesting and counter-intuitive, as the quality of Machine Learning models are often tied to the availability of a large volume (can't help it...) of curated data.

Very few domains readily offer data as well curated as the corpus made available by many centuries of music. Music generation models shouldn't be too far off LLMs in terms of sophistication.

So what has happened in this area? Might it simply be the case that the field is overlooked because it's a little more difficult to demonstrate the state of the art in print and social media? Or are there other, more technical reasons (copyright for one)?
Yeah, cool. I noticed the pricing was quite high. Great to have a competitive environment.
> Put another way, an ocean of money was poured into a thimble and no amount of "increasing supply" is going to make a difference.

So? The problem is not "too much money", it's too little housing. Having lots of highly-paid folks around is good for local workers' incomes; housing scarcity is really bad for them. Homelessness happens when people can't afford to pay for a home.
> People say 'Facebook uses Mysql', but if a page fails, you just refresh. Most of the time the page is different so if everything is broken in the back end no one cares.

You seem to be under the impression that MySQL just "fails" on random read queries? That is nonsense.

In reality Facebook's db fleet is a massive sharded system, and sometimes shards are temporarily offline due to hardware failure on the shard's primary/writer node, but it's quite brief in the vast majority of cases. When you have such a massive number of servers, hardware failures happen many times a day.

Due to caching and other services it's also a multi-leveled data access stack, so a page load could fail due to some non-MySQL component having problems as well. Or a network issue, etc. It's not magically MySQL's fault every time something goes wrong at Facebook.

Meta uses MySQL for a variety of mission-critical use-cases, including financial ones. Every single committed MySQL write is replicated before success is returned to the calling code, nothing is lost or thrown away.

> Things that are missing in most other proper databases, like transactional DDL [...]

> some commercial thing like SQLServer or Oracle, where integritry is more highly important.

And yet Oracle DBMS does not have transactional DDL either, so why aren't you equally critical of it here?
Stanford Scientists Create a Painless, Living Vaccine You Rub on Your Skin
Money and murder: the dark side of the Asilomar meeting on recombinant DNA
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073471
If you're trying to make money and have a stable career, your primary goal at work should be to make your manager happy.

If you have a different goal you might as well start your own company or side project since it will be much more effective that way.
How much methylene blue do I have to snort to reach this level of enlightenment?
>I have a rich imagination. What exactly are you asking [me] to imagine?

That may be one of the most ironic series of words in Internet history.
Define "should work". It's still scrolljacking. I don't get my native browser smooth scrolling down a page.
The dotcom boom was popping just as Clinton was leaving office. Clinton also lifted the legal restrictions (he signed the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act of 1933) that would have prevented the banking / mortgage crisis of 2008.
iirc pthread uses the same ABI under the hood, only its compiled into the libc
>or ... because huge companies make a ton of money from it and pay lobbyist enough

Which companies are making money off frauds like pig butchering scams? I think you're overestimating how competent the state is and underestimating how hard it is to solve problems like these. For instance, we can barely dissuade other countries from buying Iranian and Russian oil, and there's pretty much bipartisan consensus on that.
Alternatively, it's all about the person. There's a great old article from WaitButWhy (when they actually used to publish articles) about your 'inner mammoth.' [1] It's a great article and I can't really give fair cliffs of, but I think one of the most important is the point about perceived self importance.

We mostly don't care about other people online. Of the thousands of people I've interacted with on Hacker News, I'd struggle to recall more than maybe 3 names. Sometimes there's a ding, or dang, of familiarity when I see a name, but that's generally just about it. I think most can empathize with that, yet the thing is - everybody else feels that way about you as well. Yet in so many situations we attribute far more importance and 'centralization' to ourselves than exists.

Once you realize you're just another face in the crowd, it's much easier to just not care - which is essentially a prerequisite to freeing your own thoughts, expressions, and so on. This applies to real life as well. And the funny thing is, you'll often find people are more receptive to the 'real you' than the imaginary you that you thought you 'should' be.

So I'll take the other side on this one. I've had countless arguments on the internet, and I feel far more the learned from it all. But when you don't really care about what other people think, things like argumentative fallacies suddenly feel like something for idiots. I mean you're not only wasting the other person's time, but far more importantly - you're wasting your own as well.

[1] - https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-op...
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481
> DEI created a lot of bad blood and even more prejudices than before.

That's what it looked like in pro-sports and education as well in the early days of integration. It always looks like this until enough time passes.
> In the most commonly (almost exclusively, in case of end users) deployed setups (call them NAT Masquerade, NAT Hide, NAT Overload, NAT Many-to-One, PAT, whatever) it does block incoming connections, only allowing replies to internally-originated traffic, and to do that it tracks the state of all traffic.

Yes, but that's because it's co-located with a stateful firewall, sharing the same connection tracking state. Without that firewall, if a device on the WAN side sends to your router a packet with destination address on the LAN side, your router will route that packet to the LAN, even though it's not a reply to anything sent from the LAN to the WAN. That is: it's a misconception that port mapping NAT blocks incoming connections; port mapping NAT only affects outgoing connections and replies to them.
> but the main fact - that all this communication, access to information, has resulted in almost zero global discursive improvement

Were we trying to optimize for that? Because it looks like an impossible goal.

IMO, we were optimizing for best effort interested discourse on some places, and peak discourse on others. Both seem to have improved greatly. That last one has got so extraordinary changes that people honestly can't imagine doing things the old ways anymore.
It's not a library, it's an application. You're quoting a section called "Installing from Source". Obviously that'll require you to use the build tools the developers happened to have chosen.

There's also a Docker option if you don't want to do that.
Loading F-Droid onto a modern Kindle Fire is quite simple.

You can also install FFUpdater (either via F-Droid or directly) for a huge range of browsers.

What do you see as locked down?
US drops website wording on not supporting Taiwan independence
Yes, you can ethically use LLM, but it’s important to follow certain guidelines like verify information, avoid plagiarism and use just for constructive purposes.
Also it will be good to be transparent about how the content was generated. For example, if you’re using an LLM for writing or brainstorming, let your audience or clients know.
Locu. Acquired by GoDaddy. Morphed into a Yext competitor called GetFound.
Haha, I've had the same thoughts, that of course computers/AI/droids of that conversational capacity were conscious. You'd be a brute not to think that!

And all of a sudden, LLMs absolutely have the command of natural language that once seemed such an obvious indicator of sentience, and now I find myself one of those bigots who don't believe in robot rights!

I'm being silly, but I do think there are implications here with respect to the future debate on AI sentience. I guess I once thought there would be this threshold where the reality of an AI's inner experience became blatantly obvious, but I see now that this is going to be a profoundly thorny problem.

Who knows, maybe in several decades we'll have a consciousness-o-meter that demonstrates that LLMs have had some degree of awareness all along.
I graduated from high school and even got a bachelor's degree. I've read several books written before last year, and have talked to dozens of people. I've never heard or seen the word gaol. And if I had, I'd probably assume it was "goal" misspelled. I make no assertions of being particularly smart or literate, but only typical.
> Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers

It does seem this repo is “from Google.”
My kid just went on this for anxierty a few weeks ago, happy to hear to has some side benefits.
To be direct, construction would look much more like Austin, which has lowered rents by actually builds things, if your vision of the case were true.

https://x.com/sp6runderrated/status/1879257360344199255?s=46...

To act like housing policy is controlled by developers, even in this contemptuous jest you exude, is delirious and is the remainder of the problem with San Francisco.
Seems like it’s because they’re using the resolutions feature to override a dependency resolution. The alternative would be forking at least 1 package, all the way down to the dependency, to fix the version.

There’s a reason there’s 3 popular package managers for Node that aren’t NPM. Yes, part of that is the culture/ecosystem, but not entirely.
This was a misleading headline on an opinion piece which required a few minutes of reading political opinion before getting to anything it's really about. This is typical for Bloomberg.
> Trump makes a comment and the media (and HN) assume he's breaking law before he's even done anything.

Because he keeps breaking the law. Repeatedly. The better part of term in office this year has been spent violating the constitution, and lets not forget he's a convicted felon despite all the effort put towards making him immune from the law.
You are correct.

“The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they... have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognized before... the most efficient technique to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning. Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language"
~F.A. Hayek
The simple rule you provide doesn't describe any real system; it seems to be an approximation drawn from how felony charges under state law in the US usually work, but more generally, in the US, Jails are local (usually county) facilities that both house suspects awaiting trial on state charges and convicts serving state misdemeanor sentences, while prisons are either state facilities that hold felony convicts or federal facilities that can house anyone from pre-trial detainees on federal charges to convicts on any kind of federal charges.

There are some variations among states, too; e.g., in California, some state felony convicts serve their sentence in county jails rather than state prisons.
Very cool! Isn't it amazing what happens when you don't assume bad faith or incompetence on the part of the researchers? You have to like a paper that has a section discussing the precipitation of vaporized iron out of a planets atmosphere...mindblowing. Of course, that means doing a little homework to actually understand what they already know and avoiding the lazy "me and my preconceived notions and lack of domain knowledge are here to tell you why your wrong".
Show HN: I Built DraftAI – An AI-Powered Writing Assistant for LinkedIn Messages
Hey HN,

I built DraftAI, a chrome extension to help with LinkedIn messaging.

I made it because I found myself overthinking LinkedIn replies, especially for networking, recruiter messages, or connection requests. Sometimes you want to be polite but not robotic, or friendly but not too casual. DraftAI helps by generating quick, context-aware responses so you don’t have to start from scratch.

It’s still a work in progress, so I’d love to hear your thoughts. What would make this actually useful for you?

Try it out: http://draftai.io/

Cheers!
I know you can get to them - but people just don't have them at hand most of the time, in most places :) (My Android phone doesn't display them by default but I've not looked around)
> How good are we at synthesizing the actual protein?

Quite good actually. Recombinant insulin is one example.
Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares
Open-CUAK: "OpenAI Operator" Now Goes Open Source