skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zerocash is an academic paper and early implementation from a group of researchers -- a proof of concept of using zero-knowledge proofs to add privacy to a public blockchain ledger.

Zcash is the ongoing project based on Zerocash, started in large part by those same researchers, but with funded teams of engineers continuously iterating on the protocol and implementations.
The Sheriff will evict me at gunpoint if I don't pay the exorbitant rents in regions with an active job market.
We use other aws services. We decrypt the files on those services.
Same. I see a lot of links to conference aggregator websites and a couple of medical society websites. Not a single sponsored link.
I wonder if anyone who upvoted this post actually tried it first.

Be better HN, don't just upvote a post that matches your view of google.
same, I get “scholarly articles” related to “cancer genetics” in addition to conferences

edit: have setup a VPN + Pihole dns server + ad blockers on devices themselves
There are cryptocurrencies like monero that have implemented a constant "tail emission" block reward to fight off selfish mining attacks. So that leads me to believe that's a threat specific to bitcoin's tokenomics and not PoW cryptocurrencies in general.
A series would probably be even better - something like Breaking Bad in the 19th century
Yes. For my part, it's a very obvious boost in exactly that sort of keystroke-saving way.

Here's an example I just now tried in the codebase I had open. I literally typed in the following Go in a function:

mean := geom.Vec3D{}
for

Copilot then autocompleted this, me pressing tab to accept each line, to:

mean := geom.Vec3D{}
for _, detection := range filtered {
mean.X += detection.X
mean.Y += detection.Y
mean.Z += detection.Z
}
mean.X /= float64(len(filtered))
mean.Y /= float64(len(filtered))
mean.Z /= float64(len(filtered))

It's not a perfect platform by any means, but it's also pretty useful for this sort of autocompletion.
Yep, this is a thing. I manage a similar product. It determines if ads should appear in the funnel based on the expected likelihood and value of conversion the expected likelihood and value of an ad click. I’d be surprised if google isn’t doing something similar.
AWS apparently has implemented something that works decently and cross platform, but AFAICT they're not sharing. The best docs I can find in a hurry are https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/?nc=sn&loc=4 which talks about it not being RDP and only supporting connecting via their custom client.
This makes me so glad I decided to start paying for kagi. Haven't had to mentally or technologically filter out search ads in months.
But didn't you guys have globes back then? It was the main object in our geography classroom.
Decades ago I was temping at data entry and very quickly figured out how to streamline/script much of the process. It didn't occur to me that I should keep this eldritch knowledge to myself, so I showed (permanent, salaried) colleagues what I was doing. A week later I was out of a job. Pretty dumb, huh?

I don't think this would happen to you, but you might lose some other folks their job. Something for you to consider.
Exactly. I've built several logging systems over the years that intentionally flush compression streams (or concatenate gz streams) for robustness reasons.
It isn’t a slap lawsuit, it’s an lawsuit to prevent the trademark from being lost. You have to defend trademarks or you lose them. Chances are the suit is filed by their trademark lawyers or even third party, and no higher up at Lenovo had anything to do with it.

I doubt their trademark is for the broken o though because that’s far too common. It’s more probable it is for the whole word including the stylized o. So the suit is pretty weak and only works because this is an opponent that probably isn’t going to be able to mount a defense.
I must be in the "B" test. No ads for me.
Where does this strawman of art commentating come from? Loud people at parties?

Have you ever read a good book on art theory or art history? By whom? Have you ever, as an artist, sat around with someone in the same practice and wanted to talk about the meat of what it is you're doing? 'I like the colour' is a fine thing to say, but anyone who is even slightly curious will follow it up with I wonder why? or I wonder if there are any colors I don't like or any of a million other questions. Letting it sit at 'I like the colour' is kind of lame.

Or maybe all discussion of art is 'a gussied up version of "I like the colour";' in that case, then all software engineering is making colored lights blink in patterns--see how useless it is to ignore complexity?
If you (the artist) have no presence in NFTs, it’s fake.

If you do, then I can trivially verify that you are the minter.

Crucially, the person that has the incentive to mint (the artist) also has all they need to establish the provenance of the photo.

No 3rd parties, no specialized tools/skills.
We also use server side encryption. But honestly encrypting the files before putting on s3 has given us 0 grief and gives us a feeling even if we somehow are “hacked” the files are useless to the hackers.
They might, but speculating on what the Gov might do is tough. I was very convinced that Bitcoin and all derivatives would be outright illegal just a few years after they went mainstream, and that has definitely not happened. In a sense every self-hosted bitcoin wallet could be seen as violating payments laws.
I find it interesting that people still haven't learned when trying to post "proof" of Google's underhanded ways. Google could be changing the ads returned because it's detecting that we are hitting it at unnatural frequency. Who knows this black box anymore?

Post screenshots! Literally no one will have the same search experience as you as the dozens of replies here indicate. It's /impossible/ to replicate whatever anyone says about their search experience anymore, so the best solution for presenting it is to screenshot it
Military bases in the US will typically have their own fire departments. They might respond to civilian fires via mutual aid agreements.
Drones, PCR for fish, Zombie apocalypses – China’s Zero Covid policy limps on
Sorry, that's not what I meant, I incorrectly phrased that the wrong way around.

If you are making stuff for iPhones, you essentially have to have a Mac because XCode to create iPhone apps requires a Mac to run. I meant the majory of app creators are Mac users. So if they kill the Mac workflow then they will castrate the cash cow that is the iPhone.

I know there are alternative workflows you could make by using something that can cross compile to iPhone and using a Windows/Linux system, then renting a Mac device via a cloud service like AWS, but I would be surprised if it made up a significant amount of development.
> I cannot speak for why Apple doesn’t make such a product.

I think they do; there are a lot of comments in this thread about MacOS having some sort of remote desktop built in, which sounds like a tweaked VNC implementation that actually works well when you're just connecting from one Mac to another.
I have met a lot of Ukrainian war refugees the past few months. What they all have in common is the adaptation to how bad things are in Ukraine, and when coming to safer countries, their mind readjusts and they realise what kind of fucked up shit they got used to and how unnatural it all was.

Things such as “Don’t mind the explosions, it’s not my city block”, etc.
> Part of this is also making university, etc cheaper so you’re not financially incentivized to not take a class one, or multiple more times.

I'd rather people had better opportunities in life that didn't depend on education. There's a lot of people who hate school and are just going through the motions because they believe it's the only path to success in life.
Is co-pilot now mandatory to be paid? I used a trial for a long while, at least enough to miss it in my workflows once it went paid. Is this really the case? Last I checked it was like 12 dollars a month? Is it possible for it still to be free or are there free plug-ins for intellij that leverage it?

I loved it for some scaffolding, quick drafts or explore some language features, but, not enough to pay monthly for it (yet!)
Whoa! Would you happen to have a link to some material that fleshes this intuition out with some examples?
Try to get it implemented. I doubt someone would miss this repeatable part of their job that much... usually there are more problems to solve than people to solve them, so freeing up this person's time will likely just have him pick something else, and not making him redundant.
Thinking more on this, I'm guessing a lot of rejections come from having an application that depends entirely on receiving network data.
I am getting relevant results with or without an ad blocker, incognito or regular, from a cell phone on home wifi.
You could ask this about any forum and it would be pertinent, or you could ask why left wing societies like the USSR, China etc always have more censorship in general than the right.

Here's one theory for you to try: leftists/progressives in general are much more concerned with speech and language control than non-progressives. Why is that? Well, this ideology or philosophy or whatever you want to call it, is fundamentally about the Power of Man to reshape the world through the Power Of Ideas. Ideas in turn are objects manipulated entirely using words.

So, people on the left believe very deeply that words and ideas are very powerful. Not the implementation of ideas, but the ideas themselves. That is, merely articulating an idea can itself change people and thus the world, almost immediately! They therefore elevate and protect "intellectuals", using Sowell's definition of people whose primary status in society depends on their production of ideas. People not on the left (I don't think the right is really a consistent thing worth talking about as a coherent unit), generally don't believe that to the same extent. They are much more concerned with implementations, practical experience, the evolved wisdom of traditions and so on, and may find many ideas to lack common sense, be wishful thinking, etc.

What happens if you deeply believe that merely hearing words can significantly change the world, or people's beliefs about the world? Well, then controlling what other people say becomes critical. After all, if someone writes some anti-progressive ideas then other people might see them and change their beliefs away from progressivism, which would be terrible. But if you can't directly control it, then hiding the words is the next best thing. Forum downvotes are the second best option available to hide a post, abusive flagging is of course the best and so if you turn on showdead and browse https://news.ycombinator.com/active so you can see flagged posts you'll see that anything anti-progressive in any way gets flagged very quickly regardless of any merits the story or post may have.

What can be done? Mostly, better forum software would fix this. The mechanisms for getting posts pulled or reranked need to be divorced from abstract voting, where it's never really clear what a downvote is meant to mean (mere disagreement vs "get rid of this post" for other reasons). Fully algorithmic ranking, for example, would allow heavily downvoted posts to nonetheless be at the top if they scored well on other metrics. However not many people make or run forums so such ideas don't get much experimentation.
During my research projects I used this website incredibly often. I even cited it in one of my papers :)
Early metformin use may cut Covid-19 hospitalisation, death risk by half: Study
Given the current state of affairs it looks like Ayn might have been ahead of her time.
Good posture an an antidote to back pain always felt wrong to me. What would happen if you hopped on one leg every day? The minute you try to stand on both legs, you'll fall over. The good posture theory smacks of American self-punishing personal responsibility. Like losing weight. "Just do more burpees and you'll lose weight. No pain no gain."

Personally I try to slouch all the time, and try to cycle through as many different awkward positions as possible. As people reach my age and complain of crippling back pain, while I'm fine, I feel validated in my theories.
The world seems to be entering a crisis, but I don't see any overall trend over "advanced economy countries" (you mean rich ones, right?), nor I see reasons for this specific crisis to be very different from any other.

You may be thinking about one or two countries, and overgeneralizing.
They do compress for most log delivery types like load balancers, cdn, cloudtrail, etc. and it makes a huge difference over raw logs - compression ratios are in the 90s. One AWS specific trick is individual log files below some size threshold are passed through raw, so you end up with a mix of compressed and uncompressed files in S3, and the only reliable way to distinguish between them is to receive them and look for a zlib header - you can’t depend on the file name or any other metadata to tell you ahead of time if an individual file is compressed or not. (I think Cloudtrail does set metadata correctly for uncompressed files, but other types do not, best to spend the time developing a abstraction that deals with both)
My guess is the right kind of admin controls, branding capabilities, and explicit silo-ing from non-work related communication
I've been travelling with a t420 for months without really missing anything. Coming from a custom keyboard, multiple screens, etc.

I would just get a current ThinkPad
I’m really impressed with everything Supabase does, but…
They market themselves as the “open source alternative to Firebase”. Which is great, mainly because you don’t have to worry about vendor lock-in (to an extent).

Yet one of the main selling points of Firebase (at least in my humble opinion) is that you don’t have to concern yourself at all with implementation details and stuff like that. The learning curve is small, you get a database without having to think about databases.

Yet everything I read about Supabase is heavily centered around Postgres, it seems like you really need to know the ins and outs of the database. I wouldn’t really feel comfortable adopting Supabase without taking a class in Postgres first.

I’m wondering if Supabase plans to stay “low level” or give a higher level of abstraction to those who want it.

Edit: just want to clarify, I’m not saying “sql bad”, I’m saying there’s a not-so-small market (mostly beginners) who would see this as a big adoption barrier, which I think is understandable. I don’t know if Supabase wants to (or even should) cater to both markets.
Ask HN: Looking for a fantastic old talk on kernel network abstractions
Hi, it's probably been at least 10 years now since there was a talk about the design of network abstractions within an operating system kernel. I think it may have been by someone from the BSD camp, as opposed as to someone from Linux. The slides from the talk really elegantly addressed issues about the kind of devices and various complexities around abstracting driver interfaces whilst dealing with differing protocols, hardware interfaces, and other issues. I would really appreciate finding this talk again. Please help, I'm sorry I can't provide more details. I seem to have lost my old bookmark.
You still grew up seeing it constantly, even if you didn't know what it was.
Interesting story, I enjoyed it. If you ever perused the MIT Guide to Lockpicking you'll probably find this story interesting. I would like to see another level of detail that talks about what challenges he faced in the various crimes.
Because you are "regime changed" by the US as soon as you dare.
Unironically, the worst nightmare I had recently was that Kagi went bankrupt. I can’t imagine going back to a search engine that treats its users as poorly as Google.
Might be worth an explicit link to an example illustrating subnormals [1] - they seem to be one of the not-well-understood features of floating-point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnormal_number
We're discussing key exchange mechanisms, not signatures. The distinction is important: KEMs are what we need now if QC is a real threat, because they're what enable us to protect traffic from retroactive decryption.
Microservices aside, writing a web API so a single client can talk to a server is perverse in my books.
For Boomers, their homes are one of the few investments they've done as a class that has actually paid off. It's the source of the 'millionaire next door' and the basis of a large portion of that generations nest eggs.

Oops.
I think a useful test for this case could be pretty simple. Compress maybe 10% of the file (up to some reasonable maximum, like maybe a few megabytes) and check the compression ratio. If it's not something better than maybe 1.1x, give up, throw out the compressed data, and just pass through the file. Otherwise keep going.
To me the important issue is incurable.

If there is reasonable hope for the situation to get better then death is almost certainly the wrong answer. If the situation can't be fixed I see it as the patient's choice as to whether the situation makes life worse than death. I don't believe any outsider can make that decision for somebody. (However, I do think people who knew someone well might be able to know what somebody's wishes were. I knew how my mother felt--if the hospital can't fix her up enough to send her home then palliative care only. In a society that permitted euthanasia it would be that rather than palliative care only.)
The problem is that not a single one of those 10 billions buys neither a single additional vehicle-kilometre being operated [1], not a single metre of additional infrastructure, nor deals in any way with the impending maintenance backlog on the national railway network.

[1] Actually right now often the difficulty is even actually operating the currently scheduled timetable due to a lack of staff.
someone can still mirror your stuff on github. I wonder if they should make a special open source license, that disallows use of the source code for the purpose of training something like Copilot.
Quantum Physics Could Finally Explain Consciousness
Asheron's Call was my first MMO. Played it for like 6 years before moving to WoW where all my friend's were. One thing I loved about AC is you could run from one side of the world to another without zoning(for the most part). This was pretty unique back then. Another was the skill based system. No classes. It still holds a special place in my heart.

Still need to get around to trying the server emulator but I'm on Linux.
I believe Andy noted that it's way easier to find contributors for the self hosted compiler. If someone is passionate about the language, they want to write the language, not C++. And specifically for languages like Rust and Zig, the explicit orthodoxy is that the language is a better successor to C++/C. If you're spending your time telling people that they shouldn't write C++/C and should instead write your language, you probably should put your money where your mouth is and switch the compiler to your own language. Note that this is significantly less common with high level languages. Ruby, Python, even Swift are not bootstrapped. That's because none of these are claiming to take over the systems software niche and therefore don't need to prove anything by bootstrapping.
I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E
I consider myself a plow engineer, and I definitely agree with you, a team full of people like me would descend a codebase too deep into chaos. A dance between balance of order and chaos is ideal, as too much of the other has significant negative side-effects.
Until the "joke" of the flat earth got way out of hand and you realise that the internet is great at everything aside from context and this is something that isn't taught. Although I remember a professor screwing with us and changing a proof on Wikipedia to catch people out one term...
It’s easy to do since we just get handed a headline and a nih.gov link that presents the work no different than a study, but you’re evaluating it on different criteria than it was written or published for.

It’s a discursive, exploratory essay published to the BMJ by a working/clinical physiotherapist to share some intuitions they’ve developed from reflecting on personal and clinical experiences.

The journal it was published to has many different forms of work that it shares, clearly indicated in format and heading, selected by their assumed value to other professionals in the field.

The person writing this probably did not believe they established scientific proof of sleep postures, nor would the editors or readers who encountered the article in its original form have thought such a claim was being made. It just would have been an interesting perspective to think about, maybe, before moving on to another article in the journal.

22 years later, it’s interesting how we’ve gotten used to ignoring context and judging everything by one criteria. Some of that’s probably due to efforts to normalize information as “data” with a predetermined schema so that it fits nicely in a database and only needs one stylesheet.

It’s kind of a shame, though, because it makes it a lot harder to appreciate things as they are, because we get so caught up in seeing them as a poor version of something else.
It stopped paying debts for quite awhile, and defaulted on a lot of tax sharing agreements it had with counties and the like. Which they didn't really have any recourse for.

You're right though it wasn't technically bankruptcy!

It isn't the first time the State has had solvency issues either.
I'm flagging this, not because I think the topic necessarily isn't appropriate for HN, but because the link isn't. It's well known that Google results vary from person to person, so the link won't accurately demonstrate whatever the issue is for most people. Document it with screenshots or a link archiving service and post a link to those instead.
The cynic in ME says: establish an LLC, find a front man/woman to sell it back to your current company, and rake.
".. and the US navy could interdict all energy shipments to China .."

Generally, agree with your points, but the US Navy simply does not have the capability to do this any more. Might have been possible in 1990 but not today. US Navy would get its backside kicked.
Excellent article.

I am 100% convinced the way forward in AI is finding the right data structure(s) that allows us to bridge between rigorous but inflexible symbolic algebras and dynamic/fluid but blurry probabilistic networks (like DLs).

One thing that I find of concern is that maybe the right way to do it implies building a network that builds the sylbolic algebra itself like suggested in the article. I feel that this approach would require tremendous amount of computation to yield results, much like the genetic code that makes our brain required hundreds of millions of years of trials and errors accross trillions of creatures around the whole planet to get to where it is now.

Maybe there are ways to short circuit this costly evolutionary process. But I cannot think of a simple, elegant one.
Canadian MTO grounds trucking businesses involved in 'Freedom Convoy' protests
Some do, but even if they wouldn't, there's still state terrorism.
I'd never heard of this! The full name is QuickAssist and it does encryption too. They advertise 100Gb/s symmetric crypto, 70Gb/s compression (or roughly 100x faster than ZStandard on a single CPU). Seems to retail for about $650 for a card.
For me, compilers tend to be complex so it's a way to show that it can be done. Also, dogfooding[1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food