skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I requested, but gave up and requested deletion after. I still haven’t received the requested data.

Still, I figure I have a few trillion backup copies… albeit in very raw format
Yes some people get rate limited here, I think it’s the default. I’ve edited comments like this simply because I couldn’t respond, even after like an hour. I think I emailed the mods here and they removed the limit, but I still try to conserve posting when I can, even deleting responses that weren’t very good, sometimes.
A favourite I collected from a boss I had for a few years that I'm sure everyone has either heard or uttered:

For all intensive purposes

Note: The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".

Another of my all time favourites is when the literal meaning is precisely the opposite of the intent, eg.

I could care less about X

I literally mean: I could care less about the welfare of my children. But then I don't think I actually could care less, as in I can't but care, however in that case then this would also be true:

I couldn't care less about the welfare of my children (I just couldn't!)

Interesting conundrum.
To be fair, if they don't, no one else will!
Not only that, the P for "protocol" already gives that.
Meh, I turned back. While 120+hz is nice, there are more compelling attributes of a monitor that I wouldn't compromise on in the name of refresh rate. Aspect ratio, size, resolution, picture quality, and viewing angles are all things I personally value more than refresh rate. If I could get my exact monitor that quite nicely meets all of those criteria, but with 120+hz, I still wouldn't value it so highly that I'd pay more than $500 to replace it, but I would pick it over 60hz if needing a new screen and everything else was already matched or better.

It's an impactful and noticeable upgrade in addition to everything else being awesome, but for me it doesn't come close to being the the most important. If all else was equal or better, and I had to pick between 6k resolution or high refresh rate, I'd have a hard time picking refresh rate, but I'd prefer both.
Hmm they seem to be saying that generating energy from expensive sources only makes sense if energy is expensive..
> Otherwise what starts as a family compound will eventually just become a “normal” neighborhood of strangers.

That's explicitly noted as an advantage of the arrangement in the article.
From the collections of elements that I’ve seen, they’d likely include some uranium in that slot, with a note that there’s a chance of trace amounts of plutonium present from natural decay.
Bird Flu Found in Sheep in U.K., A World First
As the supply chain strengthens and expands, things breaking becomes more and more acceptable.

A hundred years ago if a piece of clothing broke it meant you or a family member would repair it yourself. Fifty years ago you could buy a new one at a clothing store in a city. Now I can order one off Amazon that'll arrive at my doorstep in the morning.

Availability is less important for superfluous for unnecessary things, but for things people's lives depend on reliability was important in a way it isn't today. A coat wearing through or a knife breaking could mean death, a long time ago.Things were expected to be cared for and fixed for decades rather than replaced.

Shoddy things have always been around, but tolerance for them slowly yet persistently grows.
> she did not intentionally store classified data there

Intent is always hard to prove. Either someone has to admit they intended to break the law, or they had to make the mistake of creating evidence that makes the intent clear (like writing it down or saying it to a witness who can be compelled to testify).

It is likely a realistic legal loophole that the documents stored weren't already classified, though that is gray area enough that it could very well come down to a judge's determination of whether to consider the letter of the law or the intent of the law.

All that said, my original point was simply that I find it important to understand why someone reaches for a "what about..." type argument. I see a lot of people hold inconsistent ideals depending on the context, and I meet very few people who seem to be principled in how they think through tough topics.
I'm saying that I would generally avoid such a paradigm if I'm trying to make real, lasting friends and build a strong local community, given that I might disappear or travel for a month at a time.

It's great if other people are finding enjoyment in such a process, but it doesn't fulfill my personal goals, and it does indeed come across as harsh and unwelcoming toward non-hyperlocal or family-oriented people.
Good point. There is no confirming the data was actually deleted, beyond the request to do so. There is nobody to go after, as the new owner does not have to respect the request, unless a court orders them to do so. Even in that case, going after the new owner, it would appear to be time critical. Can users stop the selling or transfer of data, before any court could block it?

The correct timing, appears to be that 23andMe would have had an opt-out, blocking the selling or transfer of their data. That also should have included confirmation of data deletion, if requested. Since none of that existed, the options for users are quite limited. In fact, many would have participated in 23andMe Research, so their data was likely going to wherever long before.
If you have a clean, well-documented API that can be understood in under 30 minutes by a decent software engineer, congrats: you are MCP ready. I wonder how many discussions there will be about "adding MCP support" to software without this prerequisite.
It's not about a monopoly, although that's certainly one of the possible arguments.

What I meant in my comment above was that it should be a basic consumer right for all devices that can run code. TVs, cars, game consoles, IoT systems, everything down to the most trivial chip.
That would be a poffer, as the interstitial t is added to words ending in r when forming the diminutive.

And no, I didn't know what a poffer was either. :)
You're thinking of a PC. This project doesn't address that type of computer at all. 8-bit computers programmed in Forth suggests very strongly that this is aimed at control engineering, and area where having a few computers makes a big difference to what you can do in an industrial process. It might also be useful for simple radio communication.
Unless the object is immutable, like String, Integer, Long, ImmutableCollections, etc. Or your own immutable objects.
Or you could interpret my comment charitably, in accordance with the HN guidelines.

When you're entire professional life is based on enforcing the law and dealing with criminals, you end up protecting yourself to avoid cognitive dissonance. I see it all the time with police and judges (so much for your ignorance claim).
It’s a lot easier to use an exploit if you know your chunk is from fast bins if I recall correctly.
Right, and where does the money from the bureaucracy go? Administrative costs? Great, you can profit off that too! The more money one can bring in from premiums, and the less they pay out, the more profit.

Once they have the money in premiums, it's really hard for the company to let go of them.
We built “safe npm”, a CLI tool transparently wraps the npm command and protects developers from malware, typosquats, install scripts, protestware, telemetry, and more.

You can set a custom security policy to block or warn on file system, network, shell, or environment variable access.

https://socket.dev/blog/introducing-safe-npm
> The first Google result I found agrees: https://www.bitsnbites.eu/cisc-vs-risc-code-density/

This isn't a great metric for 2 reasons. Firstly, it's looking at static rather than dynamic instruction counts, and 2nd x86 tends to get bigger vectorized implimentations, but these are often on bigger vectors so the "instructions per data" which is the more important metric in many cases is lower.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19329128 has a pretty interesting discussion on this from a few years ago, but 2 places where x86 shines are the lea and mov instructions. They are both incredibly compact for representing potentially very complicated operations.
Also, what prevents new owners from restoring from backups because "we were hacked" or any other reason for retrieving backup data for something that is currently "deleted"?
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
Renewable energy cannot be blocked as easily as the Malacca Strait can be
While I suspect the root cause is managerial dysfunction ultimately the disease spreads everywhere. I've stopped honing my technical skills because I don't expect to ever work in an organisation sufficiently well-managed for it to matter. So then you end up with the loss of genuine technical expertise from generation to generation as well.
Does hackernews publish its account/site weighting? If not, why not?

From the FAQ:
> Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action.
Study casts doubt on gluten as cause of gut ailments among non-coeliacs
And said masked thugs need to start being treated commensurately -- as the kidnappers that they are.
So then who wrote Hebrews? It wasn't Paul's writing style, and it doesn't name it's author. Matthew and Luke don't name the Q source material they have in common. Let's take gMark, someone composes it around 70AD somewhere. It gets copied and sent to other communities elsewhere. Decades later it's attributed to Mark.
The context you're missing is that zoning and building codes make a lot of lots ridiculously big in the first place.
Totally agree — we’re going to look back and wonder how we ever shipped code without knowing what was in our dependencies. Socket is working on exactly this: we analyze the actual code of open source packages to detect supply chain risks, not just known CVEs. We support npm, PyPI, Maven, .NET, Rubygems, and Go. Would love to hear which ecosystems you care about most.

(Disclosure: I’m the founder. https://socket.dev)
I see Meta has chosen character assassination as their response to Wynn-Williams' book.
Delete? How then will I get to hang out with Roko after regenerative AI incorporates their data into its training corpus?
> Intent is always hard to prove

They found her telling people not to use it for classified information. The items which were there were not marked as classified at the time.

That’s a contrast to creating a group for the stated purpose of talking about a classified operation and enabling automatic message deletion (records laws mean they’re supposed to review before deleting).
> Those will get fixed. The question is who gets there first.

Why is being first an advantage? Developers change tools all the time. If OpenAI API is giving better resources, just switch. If Kilo Code or whatever tool is producing fewer bugs, switch.
Yes, exactly. Even if some fabs survived, the ability to supply and staff them would not last long. The world's ability to manufacture advanced computers would disappear.
Most US cities are literally decades behind on the home supply. x4 isn't a race to the bottom, it's barely getting started.
Jim Simons (full length interview)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons
I took “launch” a bit less literal. They launch a product, an initiative, whatever.
As a lover of Rails, I’d vote that. It’s known as the single-developer framework.
Here's her essay:

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

The op-ed criticizes Tufts University’s dismissal of three resolutions passed by the Tufts Community Union Senate, which demand the university recognize alleged genocide in Palestine, divest from companies tied to Israel, and disclose its investments.

No support for Hamas that I can see.
A laidback reputation can be a sign of an entrenched elite with a lot of leisure time.

This is the case in a lot of the US South.
The mysterious flow of fluid in the brain
Ha ha, "too low risk to action ..." When I was younger I would fight those valiant fights, now only if actual end users would suffer irreparable harm, I give me people my advice, but when the pedantically push back and MAKE YOU MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND, Nawww, I told you what I think and why, I am done.

My comment condensed an exchange that has happened enough times to be a trope. You try to discretely get someones attention to alert them about an opsec issue, you then whisper and they basically look right at the target and then yell back at you WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING. Nawww, you are on your own now.

I get this a lot with AI now, I tell people what is a current capability and what the curve looks like, I send them a gist of those capabilities and they want to get into some goal post moving debate. I don't engage. I don't care about being right, or being taken seriously. The funny thing is, sometimes when they come back months later with a, "hey it turns out ..." that they want me to say I told you so, or glad you turned around. I literally don't care.

I and the world have suffered so many fools, we have to stop giving them the time of day, for ourselves. They don't realize that they have truly lost when people stop giving them advice or criticism. You know the relationship is over when the other party has zero interest in even engaging in any capacity.
> 510 million km², in the worst case, that's a sudden event producing 14 bodies per km², about 25 meters from one body to the next.

That's the area of the planet; you only get that distribution if the event also redistributes the bodies evenly over the entire globe, including oceans. (Though I'm not sure how you go from 14/km^2 to 25 meter separation?)

> If they're spread out over several years, those who die later will be able to bury those who die earlier; it only takes a few man-hours of labor to dig a grave.

During the covid pandemic, which was around a single percentage point of the world population over a few years, there were reports in the UK and the USA of mass graves, normal death procedures being overwhelmed.

Global supply chain collapse is kinda the "mass starvation because farms can't get fertiliser to grow enough crops, nor ship them to cities" scenario. If you can't hunt or fish, you're probably one of the corpses (very few people will have the land to grow their own crops, especially without fertiliser).
TIL this is why that modal has popped up at seemingly random times.

Very useful, if you know how to summon it!
Literally every protocol ever written is “clever heuristics over plain-ass {bits|bytes|text|etc}”
Points well taken. My personal preference is to not ride in a self-driving car that relies on visual cues only. To each his or her own. I predict that some trusting individuals will have to die before Musk decides to add Lidar or similar.

I followed Mark Rober on X to learn more about him and possibly understand more about his Tesla tests. Maybe he's a Musk/Tesla hater like Thunderf00t, I don't know. (yes, I'm on X - for entertainment purposes only)
It’s another component that requires water resistant components. Obviously you can make it water resistant, but it comes at an additional cost. More importantly though, the 3.5mm jack is physically quite large inside the phone. It’s much larger than a USB-C jack, for instance. Easily 2-3x the size internally.
What you're quoting Linus on is his commentary about the patches landing in the past week, which is supposed to be only bug fixes as the code stabilizes enough for a stable release to be made. New features would lane weeks earlier during the merge window. What's newsworthy here is not anything that was merged recently, just the fact that this new functionality is now available from a stable release.

If there was anything really significant from the past week's changelog, it would likely have been reason to delay the stable release for at least another week.
I see this is written in Perl, is that the case with most Debian tooling?
what’s scary is how ready i was to buy one
Imood: Helps you keep in touch with how you and your friends are feeling
I can't count how many times adding `const` in c++ saved me from myself, I do t understand why you would ever not want it. You even say it: "padlock on your left pocket to stop your right hand reaching in"

Do you trust yourself to write perfect code 100% of the time ? No? Then padlock it is
Would love to hear from HN on why such an otherwise incredible popular site is so often blacklisted or censored vs what is allowed. Why not let users vote instead like other news? Or if truly not being censored bring receipts on what’s happening?
Bad merges.
Pu-238 isn't usably fissile for weapons purposes (and apparently[0] isn't regulated as such (?)). Just look at the hero image on its Wikipedia entry[1]. A critical mass would have >5 kW of decay heat.

[0] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part071/p... ("Fissile material means the radionuclides uranium-233, uranium-235, plutonium-239, and plutonium-241")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238 ("Plutonium-238 oxide pellet glowing from its decay heat")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_heat_source#St...
By 2002 widescreen HD was clearly on its way. The video cameras weren't ubiquitous for shows shot on tape, but for film shoots, it's on them for not framing with awareness of a future HD release in syndication. The only excuse for composing shots in full frame 4:3 in the 00s would be retro-themed programs like That 70s Show.
You've got a nice arc river in "of / getting / to".

Easier to find if you look slightly away from that part of the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
New drivers become better drivers by driving and gaining experience. This is why some states implement a mandatory minimum practice duration before you can get a license. Mandating they don't practice would be detrimental to the driving culture as it would skew in favor of AI by preventing learning in the first place.
https://github.com/coolsoftwaretyler/mst-middlewares/blob/ma...
I don't think there's anything you "can't" implement that the language reserves for itself anymore. There may be some edge case or something but in general it's no longer an issue.

The language reserves syntax for itself; you can't overload a[b] to mean anything other than either array/slice indexing or indexing into a map. You have to write methods like ".Get" or something, there's no __getattr__ or anything.
> What bothers me isn’t so much that Daring Fireball is shitlisted at Hacker News — even though I really did enjoy reading the commentary on my posts back when they regularly surfaced there, and still do when one slips through the cracks.

Did DF ever allow comments on its own website? I vaguely remember gruber once saying: “If you want to comment on my blog, write your own blog.”

> What bothers me is that it’s unexplained. Which, ultimately, seems not so much censorial as just cowardly.

Huh.
shout out to BurntSushis excellent xsv util

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Unfortunately, it costs $400+ these days to get quality shoes. It’s possible to find cheaper examples, but well made durable leather shoes are expensive if you buy them new.
2049 Called, They Want Their Tech Back
Because all of their claims are pig shit. I am personally one to extend a large assumption of good faith. And I'm not some Democratic partisan but rather a libertarian who would say "both sides" as recently as 2020. But after years of steelmanning and trying to engage with where they are coming from, at this point the dynamic is irrefutable - claiming to want freedom of speech, claiming other American freedoms like gun rights, claiming to want law and order, claiming to care about spending or inflation, claiming to want small government, claiming to want accountability, draping themselves in the flag while claiming to love this country, claiming to be the victims of their fellow citizens' unwarranted criticism - all of these references to lofty ideals are just to abuse good people's assumption of good faith while running interference for autocratic authoritarianism, red in tooth and claw, as they burn this country to the ground with their whiny grievance politics.
We have (had?) good employee protections but these have been degraded over time especially in the lower end of the job market. The train union is fairly powerful, if he had completed his training the termination probably wouldn't have happened but trainees get less protections.

This poor bugger has only done "the right thing" at every stage and has been completely screwed for it. Shameful. Makes me ashamed to live here.
Qualcomm Takes Legal Fight with Arm to Global Antitrust Agencies
For posterity, here's a spreadsheet of all Daring Fireball submissions to HN, sorted chronologically: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7ljmWbHtFsB4VRJ1Q0d...

From first glance there's still some decent traffic on Daring Fireball submissions, even inside the times Gruber asserts deadweighting.
Show HN: Calculating prices in work hours, not dollars
Ever looked at a price tag and thought, How many hours do I need to work for this? Instead of just seeing numbers, what if you could instantly see the cost in terms of your time?

That’s why I built Time for Price — a simple browser extension that converts prices into work hours based on your income. Whether you're shopping online or budgeting, it helps you make decisions with time in mind, not just money.

Just enter your hourly wage, and the extension automatically overlays the converted value on any product page. No more impulse buys—just instant, clear insight into what something really costs you.

We’re launching soon! Join the waitlist at https://www.timeforprice.com/ to get early access.
If it had been two Asian girls, it would not have invoked the image of non-Asian people lacking respect for Asians. This image encourages hostility and even bigotry among Asians.

Schadenfreude does not require both parties to be different in some meaningful way. The poster confuses schadenfreude with cultural bigotry in which schadenfreude may play a non-essential roll.
Thank you for the feedback... actually I need to update that, the crypto part of my project will be closed source (an specific remote server) but the idea behind the project itself is universal and open since the very beginning, I already developed dozens of skills including a meta-search engine (searches in several engines at once and combines results dynamically, all balanced by the AI) which are open source as well. Crypto just kind of showed itself as way of funding project, with no strings attached, and till this very day no one else showed up.
Microsoft may call what they collect telemetry, but it goes way beyond what I'd want or expect to shared with a bunch of strangers at whatever company made the software I'm using. It'd take a whistleblower (or more likely multiple whistleblowers) for us to know everything MS is doing with that data, but they've been shoving ads all over the OS for a long time.

I'm struggling to think of a part of the OS that hasn't had ads shoved into it... the terminal I guess... There have been ads in the start menu, the lock screen, in pop up notices, in the file explorer, in search results, in the control panel, on the task bar, in the share pane, in windows update and in a bunch of windows apps like ink workspace. They've even just force-installed random programs to people's systems.
Well then I wouldn't expect to do business with every random company. TPRM is a big issue today, so I wouldn't expect any company not performing basic due diligence to service.
Beyond Bohr and Einstein
They "eyewitness" testimony would include things like Pilate talking to Jesus and the devil tempting Jesus in the desert. Or the women in Mark's gospel finding the empty tomb and then not telling anyone about it. There is a lot of legendary type of story telling that you get with ancient heroes.

Some of the teachings of Jesus might be historical.