skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to ask the same. I enjoyed the blog, yet as a non-cryptographer, I'd like to see the reasons behind the actions: e.g. Okay we right rotate that input, but why are we doing this? Or Why are we taking cube roots of 64 primes? etc.
If you were paying $9 or $14, your new price would have been $10 or $15.50. The people paying $20 were previously paying $18.
Sudowrite
Show HN: Better-sqlite3-proxy: a proxy wrapper of persistent storage as array
CoL in CA and Health care will surprise you coming from Canada.
Everything is political, you can't pretend it's not. You may deny it for as long as possible, but people see through that.

Technology is political. Whether it's the nature of architecture (centralised Vs decentralised), or the nature of transparency (proprietary Vs FOSS).

It's all political, imagining that we can fully pretend it's not would be a challenge.

The key is to keep the debate civil, reasoned, rational, respectful.
I agree, a lot of people do not seem to understand that these measures were a "defense in depth" thing.
My understanding is that this is routine in F1.
In fact, strongly anti-Tory. The current Tory Party is too progressive for his tastes.
That reminds me of an article I read recently about New York's high-end nightlife scene, where wealthy men engage in an indirect form of purchase of attention from young attractive women, but obfuscated so that it does not appear transactional. There could be something to that.
>We cant avoid politics that has to do with Tech though, App Store guidelines and regulation, Social Media and Internet, China and Russia usage of Tech.

That's everything then. Tech platforms have become the primary channels for the discussion of everything, particularly politics, which makes all political issues tech issues.
> There's still lots of room for artists to invent new styles.

And immediately have that new style monetised by some VC backed startup with an AI that's constantly scanning for new styles.
But one person’s irrefutable facts are another person’s politics, so it’s hard to separate the two. Better IMHO to focus on keeping it civil rather than try to ban topics (which itself is another act of politics).
You are right. It is what it is due to complex systems... The thing is that neither the holes diggger nor the holes manager find happiness doing this.
> high end is going to just go further to show it's not AI-generated.

That actually is the argument the author makes. That companies compete to differentiate from what can be easily generated by anyone.
Author here, this package proxy the tables in sqlite, and expose them as ordinary array. You operate the data as if they're objects inside an array, the proxy automatically access the database with cached prepared statement
Dang tends to be fair in his assessments. The first and last time he called me out he made it clear that I ran afoul of the terms and that I should go read them again if I had not. I stopped posting and went and read them. Like another poster said above this is a place where people get chances and when those are given even multiple times to the same person before getting "heavy" there is a high likelihood that people can turn around for the better and permanently. This is now the only place I come due to it being laid out by dang in the way that he did and my active decision to take the advice and become a better poster. There are a lot of very intelligent people here and sometimes I am in awe with the breadth of knowledge that is shared in the comments. I agree that the moderation has been appropriate and effective at that. Things are changing for the positive in my life all around thanks to that reminder and my choice to be a better person because of it.
If it copies anything, it’s first of all Delphi, around the version 7 :)
Neural nets only need linearly more data for optimal performance: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/midXmMb2Xg37F2Kgn/new-scalin...

At the same time, fine-tuning sample efficiency increases with scale, so at some point you can possibly one-shot learn state and get rid of exponential searches, solving NP-Hard problems with heuristics. Sounds like a free lunch to me. At least if you can afford a net large enough.
Are those actually free? They recoup the cost when you post it?
> The Neptune might be another great weapon as well, for example, and they'll never be able to produce enough of them while at war.

It seems that producing only two already had a critical impact on the ongoing war.
Maybe they used the targeting system from a cat drone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0hyg4kfaw
Yes, in many places where local conversion of USDC to USD or some other fiat currency is possible, but international Stripe payouts through the banking system are not.
Cause Beigbeder is a fake intellectual. So referring to him is like saying Greta Thumberg has any credit on climate change Science.
tony be liar
Does anyone have an idea how would the situation would be with Apple M1 if actually pushed as hard as this CPU? Sure, Apple doesn't allow it out of the box but are we out of luck for hacking it? Would it actually have dramatic performance increase when overclocked? Is Apple leaving some performance on the table in order to achieve silent operations?

All the tests I've seen with Apple M1 vs Intel, have been between Apple M1 chilling at full load vs Intel being cooled with a loud and powerful cooler(or liquid nitrogen in this case). What if M1 was held at 100C with loud and powerful cooler or liquid nitrogen?
An alternative hypothesis:

School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital Environments

http://sigwait.tk/~alex/doc/bunz%2Cmercedes__school-will-nev...
TSA has limits and they’re pretty strict with wanting to know what’s being shipped. You can’t even ship over a pound without being subject to background checks and approval.
There's plenty of parking at Woking, the long stay is only a five minute walk.
He also didn't know that many parents don't yell at their kids, have a happy life and eventually let their children go into the wide world, unencumbered by a history of familial strife.
Well, I said my comment wasn't super related to the article.

I suppose my somewhat hidden comment was that if one wants GC you should build it into the wasm side like golang does. I don't think creating something in one system, and trying to memory manage it in another system is good idea in the first place - at least not something you should do on a real system.

I think playing around with stuff is fun, and I didn't want to come across negative because while I think it's a bad idea, I love playing with bad ideas.
> Those lucky enough to have the opportunities can make a killing, because it comes at the cost of everyone else.

that's not strictly true. It's only true if the person making a killing is not producing any value. Wealth creation can be a positive-sum game, rather than a zero-sum game. I do believe that the USA's wealth creation opportunities are mostly positive-sum.
We already know that in a naive host the adaptive immune system takes days to fully engage during which covid can spread far better than in a vaccinated host. This explains why vaccinated hosts are far less likely to end up in the hospital or a morgue than people with identical demographics.

It would be truly remarkable if vastly decreasing the prevalence of the pathogen early on somehow kept you from the hospital but led a far less extensive infection doing just as much damage. Posting solid data here when literally everyone on the forum has sought out such data at one time or another is a waste of everyone's time. If you have succeeded in ignoring it at this point no data is liable to change your mind.
it seems that amazon and netflix are using carousels quite successfully
I’ve got a Xiaomi Mi Scooter Pro 2, which is not super beefy, but it does peak up to 600W. You actually do need it for hills, I still don’t make it up some without kicking. It is speed limited to 25 km/h generally but some of these bigger ones that are much less “consumer” you see going 50-60 which is crazy (and illegal here).
> Imagine that you could watch infinite variations of the ending in Sopranos season 6

This sounds like a special version of hell…
ML models used in this way will struggle with scene to scene consistency...

For example, when you generate someone riding a horse, and later want the same character to be at home drinking a coffee. It'll be hard to get the model to render the same face, mannerisms and style for the same person in both cases.

I think that alone will take years to properly solve.
The status quo is girls (or their marketing teams), randomly "quick add" profiles, exposing minors to their teases and adult content.

You're pretty much guaranteed to see unsolicited prn in sc these days. Just create a fresh account and wait for the random friend requests.
> Why does a single missile cost $80k? Is it just profiteering or is there an actual technical/economic reason for this?

Unit costs tend to be estimated by dividing the total amount of cash spent on a weapons program and divide it per deployment unit.

Let's put it this way: if you invest a million bucks on a R&D program for a donut factory and in the end you close shop after getting a single donut out of the program, that would mean that donut cost 1 million bucks to make.
I think it would be good for server applications.

Possible reasons why it's not done are the very high energy cost of the cooling setup. I'm not sure if it's possible to bring the cost down enough to a practical level.

Another reason might be lower lifetime of many of the parts involved.
Why would we take advice from YOU that is contrary to what every nations medical experts are advising?
I don't think there's actually any substantial pushback on the word "motherboard" either. That's not a real thing people are mad about. It seems like Google's AI is just not very good at judging what is considered inclusive or not.
It is about the funnel and not the hiring. I assume here that the funnel is anyway full of white men and the hiring decision itself is non discriminatory.
actually Nash Equilibrium would suggest loyal subscribers to be loyal unless the rules of the Game change for the service to exist at all i.e. someone has to keep not watching and paying for someone to keep watching in short busts and not pay for rest of the time to avoid catastrophic changes.
I feel this is fractal and fuzzy.

What are the 'trades'?

Is it specific programming languages? Language types? Front-end vs Back-end? Windows vs Unix? Low-level vs high-level? SaaS vs mobile vs desktop? iPhone vs Android? Languages 40 years old vs 40 days old. Compilers, AI, speed optimization, size optimisation, portability. X86 vs Arm?

Is it 'programming' vs 'businessman', 'salesman', 'statistician', 'public relations', 'politician', 'leader', 'manager', 'evangelist', 'visionary', 'artist', 'musician', 'mathematician', 'designer', 'blogger', 'storyteller', 'autodidact', 'self-motivator'?

I feel there's usually something interesting happening on boundaries. I don't know if this is just because the obvious things get done quickly when they are in the spotlight which leaves the rich pickings on the neglected boundaries or if there's some magic of combination that leads to hybrid vigour.

I also think deep knowledge is more useful when you find new places it can be implemented.

So, I generally lean towards the 'renaissance man' approach (i.e. don't seperate things unnecessarily because 'artists' can't be 'scientists' or vice versa) but we need deep expertise too.

What's probably harmful is shallow specialization, i.e. keeping people in boxes not for their benefit, but to make them replaceable cogs.
Leave out the GNOME bit. It would be nicer that way. Look at Synching, and DecSync built on top of it for example: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
1 & 2 is a tired rhetorical trick. That's like arguing with a judge: "yeah, I was speeding 40 over the limit, but my friend's brother regularly goes 2x over the limit!"

3 & 4 - I'm not sure if 1A applies to businesses. Does it mean businesses have right to petition the gov and demand change? Does it apply to businesses owned by foreign entities? I doubt it. On paper, nobody retaliated: legislature simply reconsidered some old statute.

My opinion is that Disney crossed the line here, but Florida's response is awkward and doesn't achieve much.
Are electric scooters still a west coast thing in the US?
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-04-22
Surprisingly - clearing customs in many countries can be done by a random person who is willing to take a trip out to the airport and just pay brokerage and customs fees directly. I was in Jamaica and had some telecom gear fedexed to me - I went to pick it up but didn’t have the appropriate tax ID number to do so - I was able to head to downtown Kingston, provide my passport, they gave me a TRN (kind of like a SSN) and I went back to customs, paid the $20 or so and voila - I had the device clearing customs in the same day. I often wonder if it’s that straightforward in other countries. I do know if you hire a customs broker, in say Mexico (which fedex can’t clear customs for you - unlike say Germany) - the customs broker will end up charging you $1500 in fees to clear a $1300 NUC.
I think that this would be great for HFT, but ... what do I know.
But eventually middle class people will get priced out of quality as well, as the market for them continues to shrink and optimise for cost. Soon enough only upper middle class wages will be good enough for a median living in the US, and the middle class will just be living comfortably poor.

In any strong middle class country I have been to, services, food and transport are all high quality because that is where most people exist in that country. There's competition for that market and rather than having to compete on price because everyone is poor, they can compete on service and quality while maintaning a fair price because people value that more than cost optimizing.
Pop OS and Linux Mint Debian Edition vs. Nvidia
Can we just instantly ban any account under some threshhold karma/creation time who starts spouting off about anti vaxxer talking points to keep discussions a little saner?
In that case I think you'd have a fairly strong copyright case for "I put effort into coming up with this style, and AICo Inc stole it".
Seems to be a not too uncommon problem. US businesses not taking into account that their site can show up in other countries.
As a thought experiment, imagine if this functionality already existed but only for a small subset. Perhaps for secretive 3-letter agencies?

What would someone with that ability be able to do? How convincing could their imagery, films, etc be? Could they even shift perceptions of the world, get people to do things because of the imagery? How powerful would that ability be - is it an ability that the military etc would have looked into, and investigated possible weaponisation?

Is it possible that this has been the case for years?
I asked a friend who works at the local airport (no scheduled flights) about jet traffic. He said, once in a while, people come with a Spanish Cessna jet to hunt in Sierra Moreno. There are very rich people here too.
> A home lab was generally seen as something to experiment with and learn something from.

It looks to me that rolling your own media center is something to experiment with and learn something from.
Create PDF or Image from HTML styled with tailwindcss
I think there is a middle ground. You can give a bird's eye view of the way things are done and a hand-wavy intuition for why they are done that way. Analogies go a long way towards building the latter. Then for those who want to dive deep, you can leave pointers to articles that cover such things in detail.

It doesn't always have to be a choice between writing a book and nothing at all because the topic is too complex. I personally have benefited from bird's eye view blog posts and mini-articles more than I can remember. If you have the knowledge then go for it, someone out there will thank you.
git itself should have been rolling hash chunk based storage. Storing very large text files (like bash history or the Debian security team git repo) in git is very inefficient due to the current design.
Yeah, how outrageous, just like your local public library!
AFAIK the 1 bit does nothing. Padding with 1+(number of 0s)+(length of message) is traditional though and used by MD4/MD5/SHA1/SHA2.

You can read in a few places that this is the padding proposed by Merkle, but I looked it up and in my reading of One Way Hash Functions and DES he does not use the 1

> As an aside, we note that x is padded with 0's until its size is an integral multiple of the size of the convenientlySizedChunks. Note that padding with 0s might introduce some ambiguity about the exact value of x that is being authenticated, as discussed by Juenernan[4]. The message "010110" padded to 8 bits would be "01011000" and it is now unclear how many trailing 0's were present in the original message. Several methods are available to resolve this ambiguity. We select a method that will also be useful in resolving a further problem: we append the length of x, in bits, at the end of x. To make this additional "length" field easy to find. we shall right justify it in the final block. If the length field won't fit, we add additional blocks to the end of x.
Pretty badly inspired then, if they thought plants and trees were created before the sun and stars.

Just goes to show that people and books which claim to be divinely inspired tend not to be very reliable.
I remember bumping into Tcl as part of Tcl/Tk, during my xwindows days. Never realised there was still so much work ongoing for the language!

Reminds me of Forth too... do people still make firmware with Forth?
Too much comfort? Do you know what you want?
That’s not a very useful frame. One could just as easily claim that everything is philosophical, that everything is scientific, that everything is artistic, or that everything is mathematical.

If you squint hard enough, sure, you can apply the adjective you want to just about anything you want. That doesn’t mean that the adjective has no meaning.
What core banking engine do you use?
As an old person that's also seen political debate polarise into either flame wars or ideological echo chambers, I also highly value HN as one of the few remaining places where meaningful political discourse is possible.

Even when I completely disagree with my fellow HN, it's valuable to me to have a forum where I can see those views articulated clearly, and where I can even ask questions and get useful responses.
its all footage though. what to believe anymore? if u are sat somewhere in south-east asia tuning into this, does kiev really exist?
> The high end is going to just go further to show it's not AI-generated.

But I think it'll actually be pretty hard to make something that is clearly not AI generated. Remember that to be effective, it needs to be clear to a regular person, not just an expert in AI imagery.
It is that straightforward in most countries — I've done this exact thing many times. You save a lot of money, but you can sometimes waste a lot of time, and if your shipment is at all complicated you need quite a bit of specialist knowledge (which is why the brokers exist).
DecSync: Serverless P2P contact and calendar sync on top of Syncthing
We are also considering to move from Altium to KiCad. I am glad to hear some positiv experience.
Happens (although less often now) in Formula 1 as well - brand new parts being sent over in a private jet, or commercial, to test and race that weekend.
Reddit mobile being bad is intentional. They want you to use the official app because they can run more analytics there.
> Because of the very open nature of the GNOME Project, the Foundation can’t decide for one direction of the GNOME Project for everyone:

But it's not for lack of trying...
> But food at the supermarket, clothes, even water from the tap are all priced without regard to individual income. Why would road usage be any different?

If you buy more/better clothes you end up paying more. You also end up paying more to upkeep said clothes.

If you consume more water, you end up paying more for it; Progressive water pricing is very common around the world.

A progressive road usage pricing scheme would not be out of the ordinary.
Yes you do, since you still have the length field.
Webaverse (Open Source Metaverse)
I realize I don't understand much of the life of someone so strong, but how do you wear out a 40+ kg kettlebell often enough to have a thought-out replacement plan?
May be a little OT but came across this technique called MABs multi armed bandits , related to , finding optimal ways to decide among a sequence of actions and measuring their utility

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

Has applications in a wide variety of fields : optimal design of clinical trials, public policy decision making.

apparently has some relation to the work abhijit banerjee & esther duflo, the nobel prize winning economist couple have done on design of experiments, to measure impact of developmental interventions
> I suspect a lot of games leave a fair amount on the table.

I worked as a programmer for a AAA game. My feeling is that there needs to be someone in the team with enough influence who cares about optimisation enough to invest a lot of time on it.

After working on the game for a while I had enough political budget to spend time fixing ocasional frame stalls that annoyed me, which felt nice. I also worked a bit on general optimisation, but mostly on stalls. There were definitely lots of people who cared about performance, but this probably varies from studio to studio. If I hadn't done this, I'm sure someone else would have fixed some of them, but not necessarily all of them.

Let's also remember that lots of teams are under tight pressure and deadlines to deliver features and they may not have time to work on performance even if they want to - and if you're using an external engine, this gets even harder to work on.

Anyway, just my 2 cents, maybe other people who were in similar contexts will chime in with their own experiences.
> Many times faster doesn't mean shit if it takes up 4-6x more space than it needs to in what is likely the most expensive commercial real estate the company owns/leases.

Unless you're hoping to monetize that spot on your desk, the real estate market means nothing in terms of cost.

> Many times faster doesn't mean shit if it can't be remotely lights-out managed and its hardware monitored using standardized tools (or at all.)

What stops you from "using standardized tools" on a box you own?

> Many times faster doesn't mean shit if it doesn't have redundant PSUs.

What leads you to believe that all those 9s are relevant or even not comparable with cloud alternatives? In fact, I'm not sure that the latest rounds of outages at AWS allow it to claim more than 3 9s during the past year.

> Also, the computer sitting on your desk is not "many many times faster" than a current, or even few years old, server.

Actually, it is.