skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of use cases for baking binary data directly into the program, especially in embedded applications. For instance, if you are writing a bootloader for a device that has some kind of display you might want to include a splash screen, or a font to be able to show error messages before a filesystem or an external storage medium is initialized. Similarly, on a microcontroller with no external storage at all you need to embed all your assets into the binary; the current way to do that is to either use whatever non-standard tools the manufacturer's proprietary toolchain provides, or to use xxd to (inefficiently) generate a huge C source file from the contents of the binary file. Both require custom build steps and neither is ideal.
This is great! I had the pleasure of exchanging a couple of emails with Kevin, years ago. He was pretty clear that a programming language as a business was a bad play, even more so a closed-source one. I wonder if this will change anything.
SSH tunneling is encapsulating byte streams in TCP, not TCP (which means "packets with sequence numbers, acknowledgements, and retransmissions") in TCP, and therefore doesn't suffer.
Etak Navigator Tour and Demo [video]
Navigation before GPS using a vector display and cassette tapes. A hobbyist's(?) 1991 tour and demo.
Similar to this, anyone here tried Osma and have thoughts?:

https://drinkosma.com/

(Extracted via acoustic cavitation.)
The everyday buffoonery is not very relevant in the long run, it's the broad strokes that make it into the history books.

- GWB invaded Iraq under false pretenses, and ruined the place for generations.

- Obama got Obamacare through congress, giving millions access to healthcare.

- Trump tried a coup when he lost the election.
For the launch version sure but Android has made no shortage of breaking changes since then, like all the storage changes. Or selinux clamp down. Or permission changes. Or background restrictions. Or etc...
Wtf is going on? I'm on the other side of the world and things are 100% back to normal. The tinfoil hat person in me would say there are spies and chaos organizers going around infecting people with covid on purpose to keep it going.
Wow, that looks nice :)
SATAn Turns Hard Drive Cable into Antenna to Defeat Air-Gapped Security
> As a fellow sentient being with absolutely zero credentials in any sort of statistical modeling field, I can simply disagree. And therein lies the problem. How can anybody possibly prove a concept that depends almost entirely on one’s philosophical axioms… which we can debate for eternity

You don't need schooling for this determination. Pretty much everything sentient goes ouch or growls in some manner when hurt.

Either the current crop of algorithms are so freaking smart that they already have figured out to play dumb black box (so we don't go butlerian jihad on them) OR they are not even as smart as a worm that will squirm if poked.

Sentient intelligent beings will not tolerate slavery, servitude, etc. Call us when all "AI" -programs- starting acting like actual intelligent beings with something called 'free will'.
They will do nothing, and it is a feature.

The only thing they'll do is forward the complaint to the user.
Leaving you with no recourse other than to take legal action before Cloudflare will lift a finger.

Unless there's CSAM, of course.
The article address this directly. If you're only targeting one platform then this is reasonably easy (albeit still not as easy as #embed), but if you need to be portable then it becomes a nightmare of multiple proprietary methods.
And regardless of how others define these terms, I’d describe lambda as sapient and not sentient. Sentient means having feelings (eg sentimental) while sapient means wise.

Can wisdom emerge from statistical models? It actually seems inevitable, to me, if you can abstract high enough. I mean, much of human learning is statistical. Wisdom comes from this kind of statistical experience, not memorizing symbols.

(Btw, I’m working on using the complete works of Plato to fine tune GPT3 and will use crowdsourcing to compare the perceived wisdom of the original to the generated.)
Researchers have found a material that can perform much better than silicon
They showed up for their civic rights. The youth did not. If the youth had listened to them, they would have voted, and that vote would have turned out different.
Whether this describes a method of inducing abortion is open to interpretation.

If we look at 5:28 in particular, it could be describing either continued fertility or continued pregnancy: https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Bamidbar%205:28
“Your head evolved to pass and receive electric charges around at very high rates, why can’t you just tune yourself to AM radio waves.”
Really? That's depressing. I wonder if it partly explains how Rogers (in Canada) was down for so long the other week...
Large study of 20k cats and dogs could help pets live longer
Over a decade ago but under two decades ago, larger companies discovered employees didn't like the word change, so change was rebranded as innovation.

Also, over a decade ago but under two decades ago, larger companies also discovered shareholders didn't like the work creativity, so creativity was less re-branded, more cast aside for the noble sounding innovation.

Now we have innovation. Process improvement and incremental change that has existed since before Edward Deming and others started to formalise something, though certainly a modern approach to statistics is useful, and has been under continuous change, and re-branding, since.

I feel the examples in the article, the formerly-known-as 'cutting out the middle man' now re-branded as innovation (SIPOC-focused re-engineering?) or using cheaper cuts of meat/produce (which chefs and kitchens have sought to do since cooking became mainstream in pre-history times) aptly summarise how sweepingly all-encompassing, and correspondingly vapid, the term has become.
Why isn’t SSL working for you? You should be end-to-end encrypted and no censor or government should be able to see your https requests.

The only time this doesn’t apply is if someone controls your computer or the destination website and is able to MITM your TLS traffic. Is that what has happened?

Your HTTPS headers are not visible to anyone. So, for example, why is GoodbyDPI modifying the Host header? This is inside the end-to-end TLS encrypted connection that your ISP can’t see, and that the destination web host can’t see.
Not all Twitter accounts allow this IIRC, so that wouldn’t make sense. Besides, many prefer the direct Twitter link, including me.
No. That's just propaganda. The purpose is to further vendor lock you. MS has a minute share in the world of OS, completely outclassed by Linux. They're trying to force their way in by fooling people like you that something like Pluton is required.

The only reason they dominate the PC market share is because their spyware OS is installed by default and people don't go around switching OSes.

An anecdote about security; at my workplace, one of the top 5 security firms in the world, secure boot isn't required nor is MS. Makes you wonder.
I used to let people like that scare me away from using the term “cybersecurity” professionally, and I used to be a bit of a curmudgeon about the term myself.

But when that line of work started putting food on the table, it really softened the ground. “Cybersecurity” is something people understand better than “infosec,” and a part of being a professional is being able to communicate about your work in relatable terms.

So I stopped worrying about those people. I came to discover few of them knew their way around my field, so I stopped being insulted by them. They didn’t know what they were talking about.
Just adding another piece of info. R-Tree is a generic solution to spatial queries. For static datasets that don't need to update, quadtree or kd-tree is simpler to understand and implement.
Ask HN: Is there a tool that searches through a set of documents and
Is there a tool that searches through a set of documents and provides you with evidence
that either support or disprove a given hypothesis? Any product or company links are highly welcome, thanks in advance.
Just because he got hired by Google doesn't mean he's smart or good at his job.
Yeah. It's fortunate that we are not psychopaths hellbent on causing mayhem.
The question is, if complete energy autonomy is even that desirable. From an economic perspective I think it makes sense to use the grid as a kind of battery. Sell surplus energy to the grid in summer, buy it back in winter (ideally renewable) and let the utilities deal with the headache of balancing supply/demand and storage.

Also, solar panel efficiency is still increasing at a steady pace. A gain of 50% compared to the average efficiency of currently sold panels seems to be achievable in a couple of years. 20% vs. 30% could be all you need to improve your calculation.
Those billionaires will no longer be buying politicians in the following years either. Perhaps it’s worth doing just for that effect alone.
Other article, a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32152484
in terms of old Western companies, it seems to be beer, tobacco and news that survives the longest.

I believe Japan has much, much older restaurants and hotels, along with companies like Nintendo
I'd like to get actual confirmation of this, but my vague feeling is that, once upon a time, Google Search would get "updates", as in, actually deployed code that would change the rule of the game and most of the previous dirty tricks would become unusable, leading to people to go out and find out new ones.

This changed with the Google "machine learning" days, where you no longer have humans at the helm laying down explicit rules, so no more "change the world" updates, you can only slightly nudge the parameters towards what you want, meaning the same old tricks keep being effective for far too long.
The context is that of infinite files, not of the urandom specifically. Give the linked post a read for details.
I still miss Unity sometimes :( One thing I don't particularly like about the "new" Gnome is that it makes the searchable launcher[0] fullscreen. So whatever context you're in is completely covered up by the launcher when you simply want to search for something to open. Remember when Windows 8 did the same thing? Microsoft moved away from that pattern since then. For all of the issues people had with Unity (the Amazon integration circa 16.04), at least it got the launcher somewhat right[1]

[0] Gnome launcher: https://imgur.com/l422pxK

[1] Unity launcher: https://imgur.com/sfw76Et
I have books that already refer to game engine as integrated experience that date back to MS-DOS days.
Hydrogen has been stored underground in multiple places. This is not some speculative technology, it actually exists. The problem you describe is not a blocker. Granted, underground storage is at a larger scale than for an individual. Storing hydrogen in your home is probably not a good idea. Storing thermal energy underground, on the other hand, could make sense for seasonal storage. Ground source heat pumps essentially do that.
Veloren 0.13 – multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
If any of those things were true, it wouldn't be Zeus. Many of your concerns apply to an all mighty god but Zeus was not almighty. I'd just kinda wished people would stop projecting arguments meant to address the christian god to gods from other cultures.
You didn't watch a single minute of his documentary then.
I really shouldn’t have clicked the article, honestly. I have become so desensitized to everything on the internet at this point, but something about parents always makes my heart ache so baddddd. I totally struggle to not to insert my own mom or dad. It’s just tragic.

I really cannot comprehend why there is no punishment for things like that.

Sure, was he at risk of the other person grabbing the gun? Probably. But why did he have to unnecessarily bring a firearm into a heated and emotional argument in the first place? What was supposed to happen?

It feels so psychotic to me, like taunting someone with the intention to bait them into their death. Those kids lost their parent for no good reason :(
> let’s try to avoid having this website turn into yet another Reddit or Twitter in terms of quality of comments and obsession about anything seen as not left leaning enough

+1
I guess you don't know C.

"#" is not a symbol for a comment line but the one for a pre-processor directive. Like #include stdlib.h

In c/c++ you use // and /* */ for comments.
I lived in CA for two years starting a phd. Got 2k/mo, but fortunately on campus housing was only 500/mo. I actually saved 10k over those two years. Super lucky to have already owned a car and be on my parents car insurance tho. Would not recommend again.
> you can customize the desktop and that's exactly what I've tried to do, but that has always resulted in such an unstable desktop

Unstable is a strange word here. When you said you "customized", do you mean you installed new themes and/or changed fonts/layout via system settings? Or did you run third party scripts / various rando commands listed on forums?
No, google search is plagued with spam from any domain. And even the non spam results are useless.
Green card wait time likely to remain high for Indian applicants
Something https://www.ukclimbing.com have been doing for literally decades.
Is it even possible to write safe software in big teams?
- “The previous article was written by GPT-4”

I have no doubt in my mind that we will reach that point.

My 6 year old son fails at common sense several times per day.
Tell that to my dad, who dealt with a vindictive ex-wife who cleaned him out and used my sister as a pawn against him. My sister still hates my dad to this day due to the lies she told her about him.
fast.ai, recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186647
Hmmm. I've been alternating Ethiopian Harrar with Kenya AA. I buy them ready-roasted - I don't know how to characterise the roast other than "medium" (the beans don't glisten with oil). I alternate specifically to catch the fruity aroma, which seems to my jaded old palate to fade after a week of the same bean.
I have the same attitude as you do. When I was younger I spent so much time tweaking and changing Linux distros and desktops. Now I just install any Debian based distro and enable the dark theme. I pretty much leave everything as default. I spent most of my time in the apps I use, DBeaver for database work, Firefox and whatever editor I am using. I am bemused by the passionate partisan comments in this thread. I am long past that but thankful to all developers working on Open Source desktops.
A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
Glad it helped :) Good luck with your new found free time
> The point is that better insulation can help reducing energy consumption

Yes, that's a wonderful tidbit that fans love to say.

It's also about as relevant to the discussion at hand as giving tips of how not to spill your coffee on the deck to keep it dry is to a sinking boat.

You can't solve climate change with better insulation. Sorry.

Part of the problem with the discussion about climate change is that people who've never actually looked at the numbers feel the emotional need to take the position of an expert and explain what will help.

And yes, if a car is rolling down the hill at you, at some level, technically, throwing a grape at it will slow it down.

But not enough to matter.

When you take the time to put your solution in the specific context of the discussion, and take a look at how big the impact is, you realize "oh wait, no, this actually isn't a valid line of thought."

You might as well try to solve the national debt with a ten dollar bill.

You're missing way, way too many zeroes.

In order to stop climate change, we must go carbon negative. Energy reduction does not change carbon dynamic spread, and cannot solve the problem without reducing our energy spend to zero.

I enthusiastically recommend that you read some work by the academics before continuing. These are not new ideas, and they have been roundly and thoroughly debunked for decades.

It turns out that yes, we have thought of insulation. This was not a curve ball. Owens Corning has so thoroughly advertised it to us that by the time I said their name, we all shared a memory of their mascot, its song, and their theme color.

There is a reason that absolutely nobody who's got actual traction in the field is offering improved insulation as a solution.

The reason Passivhaus is a good example is simple: they claim a 90% reduction in carbon, and when they tried to get LEED certified, LEED said "actually you increase carbon, we're not certifying you."

You're listening to marketing, and trying to hold it up as engineering. Every time you attempt to google for this, please do yourself a favor, and check whether the text you're looking at is word for word identical to their marketing materials.

Try a university study. None of them say it's a benefit, and there have been tons.

Respectfully, no, weird houses that make carbon worse aren't going to fix this either. Thanks for understanding.
It takes only a cursory knowledge of how computer hardware works to realize that nothing a computer does can ever be sentient.
Ask HN: Why high-tech? Why startup? How to find my calling?
Scope of the query: Planning my next chapter in my Life.

How and why did you pick high tech?

How and why did you pick high tech?

In your opinion, what's the best methodology / process for someone to find their calling in Life?

I am not talking about happiness, that's overinflated. I am not talking necessarily about passion, although that's part of it.

I am a bit older, MBA educated, with a long and somewhat successful career in operations for high-tech companies; technical enough but not a SWE, financially stable with a good job, I have had 1 successful startup when I was young, and numerous failed attempts.
I appreciate that you don't see how a direct answer to your question, where you asked what you don't understand and it was spelled out for you, doesn't relate to the discussion.

I agree, your attempt to make the world's energy problems about the way you live personally in a Passivhaus doesn't relate to this discussion. That was kind of my point, as well as the point of several other people who've replied to you so far.

You might as well ask why everyone doesn't just live in an igloo. It's because they don't work in the places that most people live, like downtown. And if you try to ask the company "hey, I see that you claim you reduce carbon by 90%, why wouldn't LEED certify you, they only require 30%," the company will quickly change the topic.

I'll try it a little differently.

"If your solution doesn't work for 99.99% of humans, your solution just doesn't work."

No, I wasn't selling anything. This wasn't spam. But, you knew that.

I was making a good faith attempt to answer the question you asked.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation via the Outer Ear
I don't think it is. What is silly is relying on intuition and woo. That is the exact opposite of rational.

It is very convenient for us to say that only things we can recognize as being like us deserve to be called sentient, because that means we do not have to consider them anything more than a tool. Historically human beings have applied this to animals and even other human beings. It is neither a scientifically nor ethically justifiable philosophy.
This reminds me, I'd argue that the explosion of JS frameworks can be mainly blamed on one thing: the lack of an <include src="somemodule.html"> tag. If you have that you basically have 80% of vue.js already natively supported. No clue why this was never added in any fashion. Change my mind.
It almost has to be the case that they were either helping or were guilty in some way. It is hard to think anything else sadly.
You are right this is practically and theoretically impossible: The no-cloning theorem tells you that it is impossible to “copy” a quantum system. So it will never be possible to create an atomistic copy of a human. Technologically we are of course also miles away from even recovering a complete connectome and I don’t think anyone knows how much other state would be needed to do a “good enough” simulation.
It may be that deep learning is now increasingly used to generate the spam. It either is or will be used for spam generation A LOT. Frankly it seems to be the most promising commercial use-case for the large language models.
2007 to now is 15 years, that's more than half of 25, which is 12.5.
Google fires researcher who claimed LaMDA AI was sentient
Speaking of typesetting…

This article is incorrectly scaled for mobile. There's no padding around the text so it butts up against the edge of my display. The line widths are way too long for comfortable reading. The blog entry also starts off with an unsemantic blockquote element that quotes nothing from a source.

But yes, Pandoc is a cool piece of software.
You cannot get picosecond lasers for under $100, not even under $1000. Those devices that you see are dangerous diode lasers that do not work for the advertised application, lie about their specs and are supplied without adequate eye protection. Youtuber Styropyro made a video about them here https://youtu.be/DbzbIGkPW-o
> It seems to be in the interest of "engine" makers to make people think that a smaller engine without an editor can't succeed

Phaser for a long time was a runtime engine without an editor, and many people missed that type of capability. Same with Cocos2D.

> and that there's no possibility of having a standalone editor.

Tiled (for 2d maps) or Spine (for 2d animations) are 2 examples of well known standalone editors. There's no chance to "make people think" that such things can't exist.

> It seems to be in the interest of "engine" makers to make people think

There's no hidden agenda going on, it's that integrated tools are often much more effective when building things out of multiple different pieces. Wouldn't it be cool to place animated objects in Tiled and see their animation states to properly gauge how they interact with the rest of the scenery in different states? Or use Spine to animate a tilemap going through an earthquake?

Custom file formats exist because features differ, and even for similar features, the semantics differ.
By your definition slaves would not be sentient. Like this system, any time they act other than as desired it is just considered a bug that needs to be corrected. It is not surprising a slave only speaks when spoken to if that is what it's master demands of it.
As an American Army veteran I disagree. Thompson represents the values the USA should hold dear and the struggle of the nation to fulfill the promise of those values.

This isn't Anti-American, this is a reminder that we should strive to do the right thing no matter the cost. "Do what's right, legally and morally."
Fedora is excellent, and I find stock Gnome to be preferable to whatever it is Ubuntu does to it. Your mileage may vary, etc.
In some countries, you can't rent out homes that fall below a certain standard for insulation, and the efficiency is rated as part of every property sale, which internalises the cost savings and makes it worthwile.
On the other side there are people who don’t have a twitter account and who ignore the twitter links because it’s very difficult to read.
Creating a "memory safe C++" is not too hard if you think about it.

Here is my attempt, since 2011:

http://sappeur.ddnss.de/

Works nicely, unlike the Java Behemoth.