skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire company is just a giant PBN that is considered too big to fail/deindex.
That is not the libtls you are thinking of. That is a homemade library.
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They are totally aware and believe that they are the Übermensch while funding and working on the Clubhouse app and sneering at all the people in broken institutions delivering things like healthcare or education.

"Imagine you're an expert in only one thing and it's computer programming. Books are a waste of time except as quick references; you can achieve full expertise just by teaching yourself through internet searches, discussion forums, and maybe the occasional blog post if you're really keen. When you have to solve a problem, you strip away as much of the context as possible, until you can isolate it down to a single phrase of logic. As soon as you solve that one isolated microproblem, the results blow up exponentially to satisfy all kinds of needs and desires you haven't even thought of.

Now imagine that even though you're doing journeyman skilled labor like a plumber or electrician (except it doesn't even require professional certification), you earn a salary well into the six figures - or even equity that grows to the millions or billions - in a Wall Street-like testosterone bubble where you and your colleagues unabashedly believe you're the smartest people in the room, the beneficiaries of a pure meritocracy, and you're Changing The World as much as you can when unimpeded by the hordes of fuzzies who just don't know how to think.

Of course you come to believe that anyone who claims to be a credentialed expert, and says this or that issue is actually much more complicated and contextual than you appreciate, is probably just a big faker whose whole field of study could be solved elegantly if a smart person like you just spent some hobby time stripping away the context to isolate that one neat trick of logic."

Not sure who wrote this originally found it here - https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/i7a24j/tech_brai...
Virtual and physical reality is now one. Good grief.
I had orders in the military listing hundreds of people’s name and SSN. This was ~2007
It's not like "the government" doesn't already have all of this information. Most information on an ID is OSI anyways. I can go from my name to everything on my state-issued license from public records.
Totally reasonable response. I would like Apple to notify me so that I can call the police after my threshold of one NCMEC and other child-safety organization image identifier matches on my personal computer systems.

This will violate my IT device usage policy! Apple is not my IT department!!
We have a ZERO TOLERANCE IT device usage policy. By not calling the local police department after one violation, we violate the policy. There is also a form which must be signed before HR (Girlfriend) so they can be present on the call to LE or else be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination.
The people on the bottom of the slope are the people on the lists. As they grow to 1.9MM people.
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Know the founders personally, but my comment still stands. Was honestly not a fan of the whole idea up until their launch day today.
> synology nas to replace iCloud

As a data point, make sure you have some kind of backup for that NAS too. Preferably not stored in the same location as the NAS itself (just in case). :)
> isn't really any level of 'comprehension' at all.

I mean, that's a bit harsh. I bet there are lots of people who would answer the question the exact same way. They don't have a total lack of comprehension, they perhaps misheard a word or misremembered a fact they once knew. Honestly, while the Google answer is wrong and this demonstrates a major flaw in their confidence of answering queries, the level of comprehension is still quite impressive (to me, at least)
Shame Maurice Sendak died, something in the style of In the Night Kitchen would work for me.
Please don't post links to (live) Google searches. It will absolutely give different results depending on the entire state of every computation everywhere, simultaneously. In two weeks, this will return who knows what.

Please take a screenshot for posterity.
Imagine if CalTrans knew about the fake sign, and the bolts failed prematurely relative to their official signs and fell on a car.
It's not a secret, just need-to-know basis.
I miss screen hero, before acquisition.

Very glad to hear you’re back in the game!
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I love DigiD. After coming from the US, it’s beautiful.
I remember when the sign appeared and was happy to see it. It also looked pretty good, but was slightly odd due to differences in the reflectors around the perimeter. The sign faded more rapidly than the similar I-5 sign on the right side of the freeway. It had a nice, long life and should feel proud about the job it did.
CPU cycles isn't right either - this article is about theoretical CS not about a real machine (squared cycles is meaningless too). It seems the author is saying the algorithm running time is O(n^2) where n is precision. This is approximately cn^2 where c is a constant. Without knowing c we cannot say what squaring the running time precisely means.
Would it have been easier to generate these images on some cloud gpu and stream/send the images to a smart tv? To avoid building and fabricating all the hardware components?
Elm is build on top of solid foundations, and has a good standard library unlike js so it's much easier to reinvent things as you say.
One of the core ways to ship products quickly is to ensure you don't break things often, and elm lets u do that provided one learns it well enough
Every year this question comes up, and every year the arguments are the same.

It's an exercise in hubris because while CSV has one glaring fault, it is far fewer than other competing methods of the simplest possible exchange of textual data.

No one can decide to retire CSV because it ubiquitous. Of the three issues OP compains about: line delimiter, field delimiter, and header, only one is really a problem for anyone that has used them for any period of time.

1. Every file format suffers from Windows/NonWindows CRLF issues.

2. Metadata has been an issue since forever, and there are plenty of painful formats that support it (looking at you XML), complete with ginormous parsers and even more issues.

3. Escaping, as OP points out, was pretty clearly defined in RFC 4180.

So yes, it has a wart: escaping.

Learn what your system expects, and modify accordingly. Because using a CSV will be much faster and simpler than any other format you can try, which is why it has been so pervasive for longer than most of HN has been alive.
when did Napoleon Bonaparte invade japan?
The problem is that model is only being asked what the answer is most likely to be, not whether there exists a good answer.

There should be a different model that checks if there is an answer or not, like SQuAD 2.0 https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
The list seemingly not just citizens of the United States.
I've been using it and it's more wholesome than as you describe. It's not long sessions (50 minutes, pre-booked), and there's actually not much "hanging out", just focus time. I've been using it to boost my productivity for the last month as a solo founder
Thanks!

I worked with https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ted0 who was AMAZING at helping find and acquire the domain. I can strongly recommend him as an amazing person to work with. It took a few days to find a domain we loved, and another few days to close the transaction. It was quite an interesting experience!
Another Q drop.
I didn't take measurements, but I think the feature size is about 20 micrometers, which is huge compared to nanometers in modern chips.
Ah yes. I had forgotten about this. I believe there are also extra pixels at the edge of some sensors that are unexposed, and just used for calibration purposes.
In a similar vein, some time ago I tried to search for how many unicode code points there are with "How big is Unicode?" (https://www.google.com/search?q=how+big+is+unicode)

Google helpfully responds "16 bits", which is pulled from the History section of Wikipedia and hasn't been accurate in something like twenty-five years.

Edit: Should have listened to people saying to screenshot your queries. Google still quotes the paragraph in question, and bolds "16 bits", but no longer puts it in a big bold heading like it's the single answer to your question.

Double Edit: except in chrome, where I do still get the old page. Here's a screenshot for posterity, after Google somehow fixes this: https://i.imgur.com/7Ng6DyK.png
You can use a password manager to do TOTP codes.

Google Authenticator is sort of a crap option for doing TOTP, all things considered.
> things that can be known to be crap given the information available at the time

Sometimes people do investigate the crap, and discover it's actually fertilizer. The trouble is, one cannot tell in advance.
You are right that in practice most people don’t get 1M in yearly revenue, but the 30% is a huge consideration for anyone making a new software business that has a chance to grow past 10 employees. What most successful companies do instead is dodge it by being free with ads (Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Snap, YouTube, Zillow, etc), baked into an existing subscription business (Office, Google Docs, Basecamp, Netflix, Disney+, Photoshop, 1Password), or they ditch the phones entirely using web, desktop or console platforms instead (Figma, Sketch, most AAA games, most sass companies).

The only big companies left are micropayment game companies and that is mostly because casual games are a perfect fit for mobile and it’s worth the 30% to be where the users are.
The fact this wasn't protected by a VPN is amazing
Senior people will still learn the domain unless you're hiring them to do something they already know and/or is trivial. I think even for the most senior it's like 6-12 months to really come up to speed in a new role and then over the next few years there's still growth that is related to the growth of the project. The senior person is still going to be a lot more effective 3-5 years in assuming you can keep them engaged.
I did the computation because I just learned about this cobalt use for fossil cars (thanks to HN !) and wanted to check if it was significant or not.

On your comment:

- Cobalt (and CO2 and other chemicals) from fossil car is lost as pollution, cobalt from car batteries will be recycled (cheaper than mining) - even if recycling losses will likely be near in magnitude to fossil losses in the case of Cobalt.

- Typical EV batteries are not 100 kWh

- Tesla Model 3 SR+ MIC have 0 cobalt since use LFP chemistry. Tesla said it will use LFP for all entry level cars in the near future, and no longer use cobalt

- You didn't address the point about rare earth media coverage for fossil cars vs EV

My take on the last one: given that the company currently owning 75% of the BEV market in the USA doesn't pay mass media for advertisement at all, given that fossil car maker spend lots and lots of money for advertisement (in the 10% of car value range), mass media has massive incentives to paint EV in a negative way and it what's they're doing since the beginning.
Or it assumes that you were asking the more sensible question of when he stepped foot on Mars.
Stop believing metaphors and analogies are persuasive.

There's no reason to think that company performance is linear, or fits any basic function at all. Reality is far more complex than this. A metaphor or analogy greatly oversimplifies reality and will lead you to make terrible decisions.

Please, please stop believing things just because the person who is making the claim sounds confident. I'm begging us, as a culture.
Maybe a stupid question, but why the Samsung connect box if the Jetson already has a HDMI output?
I thought that Deep Learning primarily used stochastic gradient descent. I did not get deep enough into the article, but wouldn't that change the picture? Or are the computational complexity limits the same?
> I presume this could be used against a rival political party to ruin their reputation - insert bunch of CSAM images on their devices.

Okay, and then what? You think people will just look at this cute picture of a dog and be like "welp, the computer says it's a photo of child abuse, so we're taking you to jail anyway"?
Tesla is prepping for giant Supercharger expansion before opening for other EVs
Because late fees are a primary profit source for cell carriers.
If you use sms 2FA it helps a lot of the phone company knows your actual identity.
Why are startup names always so horrible?
> PG&E in recent years has transformed itself under CEO Peter Darbee from a stodgy government-regulated utility Northern Californians love to hate into one of the most environmentally progressive members of the Fortune 500.

This is the same PG&E whose chronically unmaintained power lines have been sparking the worst forest fires in California for the past few years.
as an example i made a firebase auth client in elm using their api and json decoders in elm. honestly i feel it's much better than the official js client for the app i was building because it's so focused, minimal and exactly suited to my app's architecture
Do you use your computer to do anything secure like log in to your bank? How about you give me 1 week with your computer out of your control along with any BIOS/UEFI passwords, then after I return it to you would you still trust it to log in to your bank? Would you think you could sufficiently vet all the software and hardware to ensure I had done nothing to the computer?

Now instead assume I am only given 10 minutes with your computer, and not even the computer it self, just a touch screen with no access to any of the physical ports, and I'm only allowed to use a very limited guest account that can only run one program that is auto run and the account logs out if that program closes. Would you feel safe using that computer afterwards?

> Shouldn't these machines simply be able to get a new image written to them and be good to go?

If you lose trust in the hardware there is next to nothing you can do in software to rectify the problem. The quote "no methods exist to adequately secure them" might be going to far, but it's entirely reasonable to say it would be cheaper to buy 5 new machines than it would be to fully verify and recertify 1 of the spoiled machines.
This is an area where I ventured far from the ordinary and wrote my own application framework. I'll eventually open source it and write an article about the process. In short:

I was completely sold on the Elm architecture, but I used Haskell too long to be comfortable working without typeclasses, so I went through a couple different elm-like frameworks written for PureScript. I settled on one only to later realize what (I think) people are talking about when they say "Elm doesn't compose", which is not well articulated in that statement. I take it to mean: you can never really deal with stateful components in isolation because they have to work off of a unified global data structure. I developed some new tech that makes different tradeoffs and it got me what I wanted.

I knew developing my own framework was going to add a lot of extra work:
* Writing the framework (not too bad, actually)
* Writing the reusable components and combinators (exactly what you'd expect)

By far he hardest part has been establishing patterns and best practices working with a new and different architecture, I struggled with that for a while.

I'm a strong believer in the points made in Graham's Beating the Averages (actually what brought me to HN) and in my case I'm establishing a tech stack for my current and future projects, so I believe the framework was a worthwhile investment.
I would argue that contractors were the undisputed victors. Contractors, and whoever "secured" the countries resources.

2 trillion dollars in total spending. Which is likely to accumulate to 6.5 trn in interest alone.

This story I just read here is amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28225287
And the big secret that they're hiding is that they were able to journey to Mars in three days. To this day they say that such a time is impossible, that it would take months.

/s (in case anyone couldn't tell...)
I guess it's safe to say the bet didn't pay off.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219243.
just a thanking note, for I never had the idea of inspecting power electronics under the hood :)

do you think recent GaN power adapters have very different power ICs ?
The Xerox Star is the machine that had a direct influence on the look of the Lisa software.

The Star was Xerox's big swing to try and enter the exploding business computer market.

Xerox assembled a huge team of software engineers to build a networked office system based on the initial research from PARC, but by that time most of the PARC researchers had long since left Xerox to join the rest of the industry.

The Star was the result of that effort, released the same year as the IBM PC, but it was a flop.

The Star and the Lisa were similar in that they're both the opposite of the "start small, do one thing really well, and iterate" methodology. Both were impressive in the long list of features they tried to introduce all at once, and both ended up as not very good systems.
microsoft. maker of drab and mundane on-prem office automation machines that generate more problems than they solve and are cursed the world over during their frequent and often humorous malfunctions.

ms research (who do really cool stuff) is their xerox parc
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I the thing that I was surprised the most to hear was that those skyscrapers sewage is carried by trucks outside Dubai and dumped who knows where. I've heard of slavery stories before and am surprised they still get any new workers recruited, the stories I've heard are horrific. This is a place I will never visit, even if the trip is all paid for by someone else.
How is that saying anything meaningful though?

The only way the statement could be false would be for everyone to be at the same level of skill/knowledge/aptitude/etc. but there's clearly some non-uniform distribution and regardless of where you draw the line to define super-elite, some people will fall in that group.
The last one actually is an example of the ambiguity of language. For example, if you asked this from a person, answers like “sponge”, “mollusk” and “flatworm” probably aren’t what you’re really considering and you might think the other person is being too pedantic. So really you want nuance from the AI like “if you meant all animals, X. If you meant all land animals, Y. If you meant mammals, Z”. Human are very ambiguous with categories because all categories are arbitrary human classifications and dealing with that ambiguity is difficult even for humans.
Dish washers do reuse the same water far more than most humans would because it looks like you are washing dishes with filth. Most usually only run 3 small batches of water through them I believe. Not sure if it actually makes them more resource efficient versus mindful hand washing, but I wouldn't consider them inefficient at all.
It’s not that hard to be in the top 10% of your field
Just use a decimal point instead. Switching the delimiters depending on locale makes it extremely impractical to use CSV for data interchange with continental European Excel users.

Microsoft Excel is the only program I know that insists on locale-specific interpretations of CSV. To read a standard CSV into Excel in a continental European locale, you need to either switch your locale at the Windows level, or to manually set every delimiter in the Excel text import wizard (requiring multiple mouse clicks for each column).
Wonder if they did it on purpose. I can't figure out what the purpose might be - a whistleblower wanting to raise awareness about it and realizing they didn't want to have to relocate to Russia or say live an Ecuadorian embassy for years. Or, I can imagine, a rogue agent wanting to warn someone they are on the list without communicating with them privately, so there is no metadata linking them, and they "accidentally" leaked the whole list.
Pay and meaning are often a tradeoff. Arguably the reason pay is so high for some jobs is that they have to pay that much to stop people from leaving. I took a pay cut before in life and it came with massive happiness increase. Maybe join a startup where you can get a good chunk of equity, and pick a team that you like being with.
Faster spread likely means less severe symptoms. Not necessarily but ceteris paribus most likely.
> How do you distinguish between disinfo and being wrong?

Being wrong on purpose, to degrade the conversation itself. Gaslighting, whataboutism, etc. These are techniques used on purpose to destroy a conversation, and it's not simply about being "wrong".

> What if the “authorities” are wrong? Is it disinfo to say so?

No.

> Is suspecting a lab leak as the cause of Covid disinfo, misinfo, wrong or right?

Good example. Early theories were not about a natural virus, studied at Wuhan, that escaped. They were about an engineered bioweapon released on purpose. The latter theory was banned (and continues to be). If there was a measured, logical case for a leak as opposed to a frenzied conspiracy theory, I didn't see it.
the irony in this "stunt" is that this is the Libertarian dream: people paying for stuff themselves instead of relying on a government for public services.

so its not really so ballsy that he did it (aside from the potential criminal liability), and its not so epic that CalTrans left it up after they figured it out. But it is a statement to public sector waste that CalTrans did replace it with one of their own lol. Why.
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Good on these guys, making electric harvesters. Probably driven more by that scene in Interstellar where the tractors just start harvesting and ploughing on their own...than real problems farmers have.

Just my take, I think we need more electric cars, minibuses and trucks because these get used an order of magnitude more often, 363 days a year. They are a harder problem ofcourse.
I don't know that you should continue since it is severely affecting you but I doubt that focusing on other people's tier rankings of Amazon engs is healthy or beneficial in any way. A lot of people overdo the whole "don't listen to what other people say" (external judgments can be valuable & insightful), but naturally it's possible to overdo the opposite.

AFAICT, Amazon has a terrible reputation because they are abusive and are known to hire-to-fire. If you don't feel abused and you've stuck around long enough to be confident that you weren't just hired to fill a firing quota, then these criticisms don't really apply.

Basically all big companies are large enough to offer a mix of good & bad experiences, prevailing reputation is going to be an average of that mix. But your own experience isn't an average, you don't have to measure it against some public reputation. Public reputation is for outsiders, it's for people to forecast what outcomes are likely before joining. It's not for you. When you can see sunny skies with your own eyes, you don't look at the weather forecast.