skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AI" is not special. This isn't the movies(right!? :P). If you write a script that tries random combinations of materials and test it against a problem only to find a solution, that is no different than "AI" finding the solution. How a computer generated the product/solution is irrelevant.

Even if computers were just as intelligent and sentient as humans they have no rights or recognition by law. They are not members of society, citizens or entities that have rights and obligations under rule of law. A document/proceeding that uses a non-human entity (I would exclude animals but even they have some rights) is by default invalid.

But, I say what should be under reason and logic which are not important to many judges or this society as a whole as evidenced by asset forfeiture and how they consider property a subject of prosecution as if property has any obligation or capacity to follow the rule of law. Essentially, the law is whatever arbitrary thing judges feel like with no rhyme or reason other than "this won't get me disrobed/jailed/disbarred". Companies are people, propery is people, people are property if they commit a crime (but not the kind of property that has rights lol). Bees are a type of fish in california (really.), you get the picture the assumption that the law is reasonable is false even though the "reasonable person" doctrine is what supposedly keeps the US legal system running. So in reality, this ruling just reflects what the judge felt like, appeal to a higher court and they might decide AI has more rights than minorities.
Better world.
Wow, even being critical of Musk can’t prevent the downvotes if you dare mention some of his accomplishments.
Which programs do you mean specifically?

We know the nature of the mass surveillance changed and expanded immensely after 9/11 in a major way, especially domestically.
Oh, the stupid US Laws around cryptography.

Got it.
You can do it in the chrome browser tools! There's a record section. Note if you're doing this for automation testing it's going to be pretty flakey and you're better off following best practices and using custom testing selectors instead :)
small world
48.83174624272352, 9.147884320080053 The smaller building to the right.
'Baby Al Capone' Pulled Off a $24M Crypto Heist
Why not.

https://abx.funkybits.fr/test/the-eagles-hell-freezes-over-h...

(obviously there's a bug on the tracks display after round 1)
Polemics don't belong on HN.
Yeah, I usually uninstall that shit. I keep Instagram around specifically because my wife likes to send me things and is disappointed if I don't notice them. But I ignore basically everything else in the app aside from what my wife sends me.
True. However there is a distinct possibility that Musk could run Twitter into the ground out of spite, if he's made to buy it. So there's a negative externality to force him to buy.

A fine close to the spread, but still a bit lower, accounts for that.
Tangential question: while some FOIA requests do get stonewalled, I continue to be fascinated that they're honored in other cases. What exactly prevents the government from stonewalling practically every request that it doesn't like, until and unless it's ordered by a court to comply? Is there any sort of penalty for their noncompliance?

Tangential to the tangent: is there any reason to believe FOIA won't be on the chopping block in a future Congress? Do the majority of voters even know (let alone care enough) about it to hold their representatives accountable if they try to repeal it?
> But like I mentioned above if owning a profitable mine of some type was all it took to be an entrepreneur at Musk's level we would be drowning in them and he wouldn't be such a big deal in the first place.

I don't have an opinion on how big being born wealthy plays in his success. Just curious though -- how many profitable mines do you think are in operation and how many people do you think own them as a percentage of total global population?
If Musk can prove that he is a bot, then he wins this lawsuit.
> Huawei destroyed Nortel through grand-scale espionage and robbery.

At least according to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel#Accounting_restatements ), Nortel had some epic accounting issues long before the hacks (of both Nortel & Cisco) which your source claims. Cisco is still around.

Perhaps Nortel self-destructed, with no more help from Haiwei than Enron or Bernie Madoff needed, and it feels better to blame Dark Lord China for Bad_Thing happening?
I suspect that every production renderer must eventually have something like a heat map.

Back when I worked at Pixar on the RenderMan team, I was the one who implemented the cpuTime and sampleCount AOVs (i.e., passes) [0] in RenderMan RIS as well as some of the other diagnostic AOVs. And SPI's Arnold also acquired a pair of equivalent AOVs at some point [1]. The cpuTime AOV wasn't exactly novel then either, as I recall; I think there'd been something like it back in the old REYES days.

I'd also contributed a bit to the render time heatmap and added the sample count heatmap in the XML stats files [2]. Those are more thumbnail resolution than the AOVs, but on the other hand they were always-on for all generated stats files. The also displayed with nice little histograms.

One of the things that I learned in my years at Pixar was that rich diagnostics, statistics, or metrics are one of those key things that separates production renderers from other renderers. Pipeline folks, render wranglers, and TDs thrive on them.

[0] https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/REN24/Arbitrary+Output+Va...

[1] http://fundza.com/tishela/PDF/TransitionToRayTracingAtSony.p...

[2] https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/REN23/Diagnostics
No doubt that is needed too! The "human" interface, if you will (that which sits on top of the porcelain).

Still, I think Nix could make a better interface for us power users.
> To become transhuman or posthuman, you'd first have to understand what it is to be human

What? Why?

I'm post-adolescent (at least biologically, please don't bring up all of my emotional immaturity), and I still don't (and definitely didn't then) understand what it is to be adolescent.

I live in a post-feudal society, and while I think we understand a few things about what it means to be feudal, I wouldn't bet on us having a full and complete understanding.

There's a plant on my balcony that's post-living, and as far as I know it never understood anything at all, much less understood what it was to be living.

Why is transhuman-ness or posthuman-ness a special exception to the general rule that surpassing (or at least passing) something does not in fact require understanding it?
For some reason, no iPad had it. Maybe it becomes problematic on large screens, maybe the user experience degrades on large screens because of simple physics i.e the the strength needed for applying pressure becomes uncomfortable since it will act as a lever in the hands of the user?

Maybe the force the user can apply when iPad is on a table(no lever effect) and when is handheld(strong lever effect, user needs counterforce on the other end of the screen to achieve firm press) is far too different to reliably activate the gesture?
"they create perverse incentives for people to engage in extreme acts to profit from the outcomes"

So does the very existence of the media, which will amplify any sufficiently gross act of violence to the global auditorium that would otherwise never hear of it, rewarding the culprit with their 15 minutes of fame and possibly inspiring others to do the same.

That isn't a reason to censor journalists, though.
What’s even a “10x profession”?
There are things I don't miss about the era -- good riddance to floppy disks and hard drive crashes -- but the PC world pre-IBM had so much latent possibility and sometimes just plain weird stuff:

http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/cpm/IMSAI_pre-history....

> A major advance was announced in a press release dated October 25, 1975 in which the young specialty firm offered a relatively new and promising concept. The Hypercube was advertised as a four dimensional arrangement of dual 8080 processor "nodes" configured in 2x2x2x2, 3x3x3x3, and 4x4x4x4 arrays, with each node capable of communicating, via shared memory, with 8 adjacent nodes. This arrangement provided for the first processor in each node to handle system overhead and communications tasks while the second was left free to execute user code. The operating code was to be stored in ROM, and the total system promised unparalleled processing power at a fraction of the cost and overhead of mainframe machines from IBM, Honeywell, Boroughs, and other giants of the period. The advertised price of these three offerings was $80,000 for the Hypercube II, $400,000 for the Hypercube III (about 1/10th the cost of an IBM 370-168), and $1,280,000 for the Hypercube IV which was to be released in the second quarter of 1976. The concept was legitimized by publication in the December 11, 1975 issue of ELECTRONICS magazine. Ultimately, the U.S. Navy ordered a Hypercube II for installation in Huntsville, Alabama.
Always: “Every minute”

Sometimes: “Every hour”

Once in a blue moon: “At 12:00 AM, on day 18 of the month, only in February”

On my birthday: “At 12:00 AM”

On Christ's birthday: “At 12:00 AM, on day 25 of the month, only in December”
By the time you get into any depth in that rabbit hole, the question really starts being about what money actually is.

In the end, money is just some kind of an abstract quantity that we collectively believe and agree can be used for obtaining something directly useful or desirable later. Its value is based on that mutual understanding and belief.

As long as the economy isn't a zero-sum game, thinking of money that way makes debt (and interest) actually kind of make sense without having to turn it solely into a vicious circle of more debt to pay off the interest.

If the real economy keeps growing and those abstract resources borrowed from someone else (debt) can be used for investment that allows for creating added real value (or decreasing real costs), that added value can be used for offsetting the interest. The entire arrangement may still require "printing" more money and creating more debt but that's not necessarily the only thing that's happening. The real value that can be obtained with that increased amount of money in circulation also increases as long as the real economy also grows.

It kind of does seem to make it a requirement that the real economy actually keeps growing, though.

Or, at least that's how it looks to me as a layman.
Support, as well as detailed, rigorous documentation in a technical writing style, are definitely lacking with Mikrotik products. There is a lot of assumed knowledge in the process of specifying and then purchasing from them. However the price, support and feature set are not too bad if you're able to determine ahead of time that it would all be suitable for your environment.
Agreed. It can be both but historically companies generally do the sabotage upon request, if not preemptively. This hasn’t changed much at all in favor of protecting regular users, except maybe with the expansion of HTTPS, and a few other exceptions.
You're welcome.

The lawyers don't care, the PTO doesn't care, and industry executives don't care. The only answer is to get a bill in Congress, and start asking every candidate for Senator or Representative if they support it.

And make it clear that your support for them depends on a Yes answer.
Somebody up above mentioned the land grab smell of the DID spec.

So what's different this time? gRPC, protobuf and GraphQL are out there vs. SOAP or CORBA? Some new thing about to rev up? Just plain old loss aversion?

Lambda? We need a FrontPage or Macromedia ColdFusion for that...

I guess that's it, somebody else from the Roblox generation can pick that up.
Ask HN: Why is sticky scrolling a recent addition to Xcode and VSCode?
It seems like a very useful feature that should have been implemented in source code editors a long time ago.
I have a hard copy of this issue; it predated my subscription to Byte by a couple years, but I was able to purchase it as a back issue some time in the early 80s.
I’m curious to hear what else lives in that collection
If you count the C3C in Leipzig, then yes.
It's quite obviously not a star.
I mean your answer is pretty self evident. If you don't use it, it's not active daily, and so it's not a monetizeable daily active user, now is it?
Had, not has. I spoke of the '500s more or less. The exponential spike in innovation from that century until these days was something unprecedented in human history and started in Europe.

Of course today Europe is not the central point for technology anymore. Still they have a legacy of good schools, accumulated wealth and a middle class, something that is less radicated (for now) in the East
We had a landing page a few months ago (back when it was still Tech Career Growth), but this web app at app.jointaro.com just came out in the last 1.5 weeks! Try it out and I'm always open to feedback -- my direct email is rahul@jointaro.com.
Collect.js: Convenient and dependency free wrapper for arrays and objects
Still rocking Dell Precision M4400 from 2009 with Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M. Arch + XFCE + Nvidia drivers from the AUR (not in main repos anymore). On my 5th battery pack and 3rd wifi module. Runs like a champ. Replaced CD drive with second SSD (replaced original HDD to SSD long ago). This laptop was powered on pretty much non-stop for 13 years! Dat thermal paste gotta be cooked solid by now. They just don't make 'em this good anymore...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Precision-M4400-No...
Is that not literally the value proposition of dating apps? They aren't showing you potential matches alphabetically. The question is just who has the most suitable algorithm for you.
These licenses intentionally use the copyright against itself. Without the copyright, they just would not be needed.
Ask HN: What is the most unnecessary thing that your workplace requires?
What is the most unnecessary thing that your workplace requires people to do?
I definitely think there are broad societal trends contributing a lot to mental health issues, but I'm less convinced it's capitalism exactly (depending on what you mean by "capitalism" of course[0]). Two societal trends that seem significant to me and my own depression are a) emphasis on individualism over community, and b) rejection of religion.
Sure that would be great if you can record it. But how are you able to press play on mobile Firefox. I hid the button on mobile. Are you accessing that using Firefox dev tools?

Btw, it's suppose to autoscroll on Play. That is the feature. Its what I call the 'storyteller mode'. I am thinking of using text-to-speech to read each event before proceeding to the next event so the 5 second delay is an arbitrary setting for now.

If you don't want the autoscroll, then you can just scroll the old fashion way on the sidebar. When you do the map will flyTo() the corresponding event.
2014 i7 5930k Desktop with 32gb of ram and Vega 56 running at 4GHz. I think it will last me another five years easy as single thread performance has not increased that massively since 2014.

Upgraded storage as my original m2 ssd wore out.
Wow, what can you still order by mail but not online?
Granite breaks down about as fast as plastic. No, plastic is not very different from, well, almost the entirety of the planet earth. But for a thin skin of muck.

Geodes and dissolved heavy metals and salts and on and on -all entirely 'natural' and been there forever - don't chemically interact, much.

Natural poisons exist nearly everywhere. Nature is not some wonderful synchrony of cooperative organisms. Everything is doing its best to kill something else through poison, acid, lye, violence etc. That apricot pit wants to kill you with cyanide so it's pit can thrive in your decaying body.

Heck, an imbalance in ordinary creatures (think invasive species) can do untold harm.

Examples abound. It's not about kind, just concentration and rate.

It's a complex system, and the dichotomy 'natural' doesn't contribute much to the discussion. That's my thinking anyway.
Can we not get decent titles on things? At least enough to know whether a post is about an element, a crypto tool, software for amazon, etc.

And maybe a hint of what about helium people the post addresses?
> Custom mount for the laptop [...]

I've done a similar setup, but for a minimalist mount, used two 12in rulers, and gaff tape to make a hinge, a strap connecting the other ends, and a stop on one of them. So a heavy thinkpad sits on the desk ruler, leaning back against the other and the strap, with the bottom keyboard edge sitting between strap and stop. It's fragile, and I fear someday there will be a bump, crash, and sadness, but it's light, compact, and easily recreated.
> Would require knowledge of the encryption sequence...

This is security by obscurity. Reputable encryptions work under the assumption that you have full knowledge about the encryption/decryption process.

You could however argue that the sequence then becomes part of the key. However, this key [ie. the sequence of encryptions] would then be at most as strong as the strongest encryption in this sequence, which kindof defeats the purpose.
I mean, there’re brilliant individuals in any profession. I don’t see how that turns into a generalization. Most of engineers I’ve seen had to spend many years to become senior. Selling fast growth is denying the reality for most people.
Perhaps those people are stuck with PHP 5.
Jobs where the difference in output between the best and worst is 10x. Generally creative professions like movie director, writer/journalist, lawyer, etc. SWE tends to fall into this category because the difficulty of writing good code is in some respects like writing good prose: the space of "solutions" is vast and there are few well defined rules by which a "good" solution can be constructed. Not only that, but writing it quickly while maintaining quality is difficult as well.

See for example this blog by Joel Spolsky [1].

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n...
No, the cloud systems still need to be there (to track when you are trying to use your identity), but they will rely on private keys that you can surgically implant in your limbs.

In fact a more realistic (but symbolically equivalent) scenario is that you'll be expected to carry around a device with you at all times that is biometrically linked to your limbs, and auto-updates its code (and the EULA that you agreed to in perpetuity).
It would satisfy them because they think Taiwan is an independent country, and not satisfy China because they don't agree.

Of course, you and I know that China is wrong and Taiwan really is an independent country! But that doesn't mean it's neutral to say so.
Seems like this is the correct answer. Musk is just putting himself in that class.
dig @1.1.1.1 blog.cr.yp.to is failing for me, but 8.8.8.8 works. Annoying!
Except that Musk has talked about how he had to work his way through college and basically didn’t benefit in any way from his dad.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211054942192119808?s=21...
> 3rd party estimations range from 10-20% for mDAU bots

Could you provide some sources for these estimates? In particular, I'm curious about the methodology and data sources those third-party sources use.
It's an argument for fixing NIST so that it is trustworthy again.
Kubernetes is a great idea but I’m not sure it’s the end state of DIY infra, unless it’s willing to evolve more, which I haven’t seen much effort towards.

The complexity can be hard to manage, there is a continuous overhead in running a cluster, and the abstractions are growing comparatively weak.

Take running a basic web app, you almost certainly will use a cloud database rather than one on k8s. So now the developer needs to use terraform to provision a cloud dev then k8s to run the app. This is a huge problem point at my current organization, it’s too complicated for most developers.

It’s like k8s aims to abstract everything but then just kinda fails at doing the most basic things simply.

Also justifying running your own services vs using the cloud is increasingly hard. We will likely need a hybrid model in the future.

That all being said k8s still does some things very well like running and linking lots of apps together.
> Not sure if it's supposed to be actually "good paper", though (Leichtturm), but I'm quite disappointed.

I don’t think I had bleed-through problems w Leichtturm (do recall drying/smudging issues though (Mont Blanc Royal Blue ink)), but my Midori “md notebook” has been treating me well.
Godot allows for very quick development compared to Unreal. The learning curve is shallower and the developer experience is much better.

Unreal, of course, has more features and is more powerful.

Choosing Godot means you are more likely to actually finish making the game. Choosing Unreal means you can potentially make a better game. For me, that's a tough choice, and I often have trouble deciding between one and the other (for 3d games)
You're not wrong in the general "audiophile" world where fools and their money are parted over snake oil magical cables claiming benefits only those with the most golden of ears can enjoy.

Where you're getting pushback is that this thread is talking about vinyl records and tube amps, things where the noise and distortions introduced by their operation are well known, well documented, audible to anyone with normally functional ears, and regularly utilized artistically. These are not the inventions of grifters with a product to sell, it's just an older technology that is less precise in a certain predictable way which some people find pleasant.
Tends to be stuff that used to be a good idea, and out of habit, they stick with it (sorry no concrete examples).
> I just wanted to add my perspective, and maybe provide evidence that there is a market for a search engine that is more raw.

In this particular case, perhaps just providing your own frontend that transforms the input to what you need with the settings you need probably will suffice. So make a form where this string:

Python aphorisms

is sent to Google as:

"Python" "aphorisms"
It's going to be a critical one too. Not that any really haven't been.

International-Relations-wise the US is positioned to retain her monopolar status and then cement it for the century by 2030. The two greatest competitors to her rule were Russia and China. All other powers are strong allies of the US and have no reason to change that.

As we've seen, McCain's quip turned out to be true, the bear is nothing but a mafia in a run-down gas-station. The only other real competitor is China, and without Taiwan's fabs, China can't compete this century. Whole new fields of industry must be created for the dragon to take a shot for a bipolar world.

That the US managed to convince Taiwan to lessen it's grip on that security guarantee (with the Texas fabs okayed recently) shows how much Taiwan thinks the US can win any conflict with the mainland. They aren't scared in the least.

Russia's ongoing disaster only strengthens that feeling, as any invasion, already an operation on never heard of scale, would involve the actual US military. That Russia somehow allows NATO to fight openly against her with the airgap of a Ukrainian finger on the trigger shows how outmatched the bear is. It's basically a weapons test for NATO at this point, much to Ukraine's detriment. China can only guess at how poorly the invasion would go and how bungled it would be. Combined with crushing blockades and sanctions, and she knows any move would kill her economy for decades. Their clock is not ticking, it ran out. The only question is if Beijing knows it.

So yes, I think it is good to be in the US or allied with her.
Right, I'm talking within the context of american policy. The fed wages class warfare, pardon the stale terminology, for the sake of the economy