skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like the 92’ dream team for a new company and investors. How exciting!
There's a difference between the words 'shaped' and 'built'. I'm sure Markoff chose his words carefully.

'shaped': determine the nature of; have a great influence on

"his childhood was shaped by a loving relationship with his elder brother"

'built': past and past participle of build.

'build': construct (something) by putting parts or material together

"the ironworks were built in 1736"

Or in the context of the topic, in the early 60's Silicon Valley engineers began experimenting with LSD, Eastern philosophy and Science Fiction and their influence shaped views of what was possible with microchip tech and information theory.

I've heard this rejoinder before that 'hippies' didn't build the internet, as if anyone who knew anything said that. It seems mostly driven by disdain for boomer hippies (who were probably the parents of those saying it)
Democrats pulling this stunt on Trump in an effort to prevent him from running is going to do nothing but backfire. His base is more fired up than ever, and if they can’t vote for him, they’ll vote for the next populist.
Ah the good* old days of table layouts! Had a whole book about how to achieve all kinds of page layouts using tables pre the CSS3 days.

*: Not actually good.
That's the entire reason I buy only Apple products! /s
We had a thread on this the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32365449 I personally bought a DS-100 (aka. "DSO Nano v3") afterwards, successfully switched it to English, and obtained firmware and manuals. http://pratyeka.org/ds100.zip Haven't really put it through its paces yet as I use a Rigol DS-1000 series 4-channel with decodes and LXI (so useful) on the bench but next week have a perfect project which will require off-bench work. DS-100 easy screenshot functionality is a draw: just hold down two buttons and it stores a BMP, later plug it via USB and it becomes a mass storage device. I think the Seeed Studio link Justin shared sells preconfigured English ones for the international market.
I haven't seen anybody mention xpra ( https://xpra.org/ ) yet, but I used to use it daily a while back when I still used linux on my laptop. "Screen for X" really jives with how I wanted to use it (beefy server, ultrabook laptop, fast local network).

X2Go is also pretty good IIRC.

I used NoMachine at work a few jobs ago, but I didn't like how it required a weird dedicated unix user for itself. I don't know why they needed that (maybe so that they could multiplex multiple users over a single port or something like that?), but I never understood why it didn't just run as my own user. It was fast, I'll give it that.
That sounds good in theory, but in practice whenever I run into code that declares all of the variables up front, I can't tell what those variables are for until I read the body of the function anyway. And often those variables end up being reused, which makes it even more confusing.
I can assure you for many people, $500 vs $750 is significantly cheaper.
My first app was rejected for the same reason. I think if the first reviewer is having a bad day you're out of luck, and then the next reviewer is going to see the history and feel empowered to do the same
The start fee kills this for me. I'd subscribe for a few months just for fun otherwise.
Uh, no. That's self-preservation and an AGI could have that property.
For what I read superfish is some crap spyware with a root certificate that’s wiped the minute you boot the machine from your usb install disk.

Any luck is to uefi based malware?

(Personally I prefer a nice old fashioned bios)
> simple things become incredibly complicated at scale

In a way it's the opposite. Things scale up by removing complex interactions. Software gets faster by solving the same problem with less steps.

Any beginner can write to much code and pile up too many software and hardware components.

It takes knowledge to simplify things.
I get Windows 8 flashbacks
Why, they can reject but make notes, keep statistics of what "too simple" features people try to develop. Then some of that could be rolled into their existing core apps.
I'd remind you that this is a Philip K Dick thread. What do you think PKD would make of a program that delivers mass quantities of amphetamines and amphetamine derivatives to children in the name of helping them control their classroom behavior, really?
There's no reason to think there will be even one winner in this. In my opinion they will all lose, it's just a matter of when, and how.
Not necessarily. I did a neuropsychological evaluation because I suspected I had ADHD (I do) and it was causing me trouble. I was also diagnosed with autism/asperger's which isn't a significant source of stress for me and that wasn't why I was diagnosed with it.
Supposedly while building the backend, they realised the actual summary data for a reasonable breadth of tracks (say, anything you'd likely hear on the radio or on a jukebox) was tiny and so, why build a service at all when you can just ship the data to phones ?

Recently for whatever reason I was listening to the twist/ cover "Stacy's Dad" and Now Playing recognised it as the rather more famous original Fountain's of Wayne "Stacy's Mom". So yeah, it doesn't know everything. It also doesn't recognise lots of obscure stuff I own that's like B-sides or special editions that never saw radio play, or bands that my friends were in (but everybody I know has read both Steve Albini's "Some of your friends are probably already this fucked" and the KLF's "The Manual" and so none of them signed a recording contract and thus you've never heard of them) but I've never had a situation where I heard something I liked at like a bar or somewhere and Now Playing didn't know what it is.
> Fortune 100 corporation is suing Apple because it won't accept its app

Apple refusing Fortune 100 apps happens more often than people think IMO.

Big corps churn out apps that are mere browsing shells of an otherwise widely available online service, just to have an icon on the AppStore. And they’ll get shutdown for that, forced to add some dumb gimmick to the app to get approval.
> There's competition of regulatory regimes—mandatory and strict

Ok, well then there is similarly competition of regulator regimes in the literal sense.

> I like being free to have that choice to opt into their regime

Different governments, are competing with different set of laws. I like the fact that I can have these government laws.

And if Apple does not like these laws, then it can opt out of the EU market, when their laws come into effect.

They can opt into a different country, by not selling their product in a place that has laws that they don't like.
Having just written up some thoughts on how you could do it I realize they wouldn't work, because I imagine you're presenting a "standard"/FHS-esque view of the filesystem to the non-nix packages, i.e. they expect a `/usr/lib/libssl.so` to exist. Whereas Nix's ability to strip away runtime-unnecessary packages comes from packages only ever using explicit absolute references to each other.

I guess a "third way" might involve using e.g. pypi2nix, bundix, node2nix and the like.
I've suspected for a time that a principle role of major temple and shrine construction was as a skills-preservation (and development) exercise. Egypt's Great Pyramids are an example I've suggested, and apparently there's some support for this in the anthropological community. For many technical crafts, documentation alone is insufficient, actual communities of practice must exist.

This article makes that role explicit:

But the most important technology at Jingu is social - it’s the transfer of skills and techniques from one generation to the next, ensuring the temples and artifacts can continue to be reproduced accurately. This sort of knowledge is difficult to document - it exists as reflexes and muscle movements that are beyond the reach of language, or as decisions that are so context and environment dependent that it’s infeasible to explain them. The techniques used to build Jingu depend on experience and expertise; learning them requires practice and feedback. Transferring the knowledge required to build the shrines can’t be done with words or text. The only way to pass it on is to create the conditions for someone to acquire it.

The specific elements of the reconstruction, including recreations of specific artefacts, speak to a goal of preserving essential skills regardless of present need.

What are our current skill-shrines?
Again, what part of this couldn't an evil human group already do today? What in this plan requires an AGI for it to be a scary scenario?

Of course if you do it to everyone, total gridlock ensues and nobody gets to the place where they would be killed. If you only do it to a few, maybe there will be a handful of killings before everyone learns not to trust a text ever again.

As an aside, I agree living in a country where people will take their guns around and try to solve things vigilante style instead of calling the police, is a very bad thing in general. In all first-world countries except one, and in almost all developing countries in the world, this is a solved problem.
For non-Mac users, Ventura is a forthcoming version of macOS which will be released this fall. Developers are reporting UX issues with beta releases now, and in my experience, many of them will be fixed by release. However, a System Preferences rethink is going to take multiple OS releases to get right.
Yes, in fact when I interviewed at Neuralink the interviewer said Elon expected that AGI would eventually try to take over the world and he needed a robot body to fight them.
Its weird. This app looks significantly more complex than the simple note taking app I developed [1] and I managed to publish mine without any concern.

[1] https://cfx.lu/remindme
Man walked the world with his dog for 7 years. This is what he learned
> it's essentially matching the signature of the sound to the sounds in the database.

You aren't giving it enough credit. The algorithm uses just a few seconds from any part of the song, and has to deal with phone audio quality and often background noise. I mean, you can be in a bar with all that jabber and hold up the phone and it could pick out the song. The app on the phone does the preprocessing to the audio before it is sent to the server that does the matching ... using the comparatively miserable power of a 2001 era cell phone.
yeah depend if you care more about saving bandwidth or reducing the time it take to display the page.
Obviously yes: https://twitter.com/robbensinger/status/1541228487205236736
Of course, with an actual lease, you can often (though not always) buy the car at the end.
What stops it from being a reality is the lack of concrete answers to the questions raised by the comment you're replying to. Which you too have elected not to answer.
Most people probably subscribe to more pages (and therefore more posts) than they can actually consume the content of. It seems pragmatic that something should help the user surface more meaningful content. Suppressing commercial pages for friends content seems reasonable, and business v business is a decision where there will always be a loser.
The "if iOS is opened up, Meta will put Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp on their own app store and steal user data" doomsday scenario has always seemed a little half-baked to me. Regulators on both sides of the pond are scrutinizing tech companies for all sorts of issues now. I doubt the EU will just be asleep at the wheel if Meta sets up a massive data collection op on European citizens. User data and privacy is just as important to them. Perhaps governments can walk and chew gum at the same time.
POSIX most definitely does not specify bash. People typically use the word "bashism" for POSIX-shell-incompatible bash behavior used in shell scripts.

random high result from googling "bashism":
https://betterprogramming.pub/24-bashism-to-avoid-for-posix-...
Apple QuickTake 100! I remember using it in 8th grade and was pretty amazed with its 640x480 goodness when the alternative was waiting a week to finish a roll of film, drop it off at the grocery store photo counter, and pick it up the next day or two (no way would my parents pay the extra $2 surcharge for 1 hour processing).
The usual Samsung bloatware is a deal breaker. I don't care how good the camera is.
Probably won’t beat it on image quality either
Here a perspective from another scholar on some of these blogposts:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/crl0j5/the_s...
That's misleading. Oculus wasn't originally Facebook, and it wasn't Facebook when Carmack joined. Carmack was working on the Oculus hardware around the time Oculus was founded in 2012. He joined Oculus in 2013. Facebook didn't acquire Oculus until 2014. You could criticize him for not leaving, but he didn't "go to work on VR at Facebook."
The real shame is why the linked page even gets referral information at all (and why we cannot disable it on a browser)...

I'd love to have a browser setting to just completely disable "Referer:" headers and blank out `document.referrer`. Like, clearly hosts can control referral information to high granularity (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...) but why can't users... (actually apparently you can set this for Firefox)
It would seem that after 15 years of using Google platform services that we all should have learned our lesson by now: if it’s a Google product, then be ready for it to go away without notice.
Maybe they see through your attempts to simply use more IOS features as just that, and that you aren't really addressing the core issue which is - why do you need to publish an app to essentially view a google docs spreadsheet?
yeah, his follow up tweet is pretty clear:

> This is explicitly a focusing effort for me. I could write a $20M check myself, but knowing that other people's money is on the line engenders a greater sense of discipline and determination. I had talked about that as a possibility for a while, and I am glad Nat pushed me on it.
> a single person would be able to write it

I don't understand the distinction. A single person can't really write a code now, if you'll disallow ML libraries. You need a complier, libraries, an OS, etc. The vast majority of us work in the highest levels of abstraction possible. That's where the practicality and productivity is. I don't think he's saying "Anyone will be able to sit down and write it in assembly". I think he's saying, it will make sense when it's written, with the abstractions as they are, with hindsight clarity of "we just had to...".
Some apps are "too simple" but at the same time, something along these lines is OK by Apple's standards:

"Thanks for purchasing the Acme Kettle! In order to boil your water, you need to download an app! But don't worry, it's easy! You just need to create an account, enter your personal data, accept our legally binding terms and conditions and verify your phone number and your email, "for your safety"! Oh and we will push mandatory OTA updates to your kettle's firmware! We may remove functionality to your Kettle from time to time, to protect you and your loved ones!

Release Notes

v 0.0.112 - we are sunsetting the "boiling" functionality. the ability to boil water has been removed. Acme Corporation recommends using the kettle as a jug, it's ideal for cold drinks!"
Ask HN: Cheap, Hackable Drones (For Photogrammetry)?
I recently did some drone flight / mapping training for humanitarian efforts. This was carried out using DJI drones, which seem to be the leader in prosumer to light enterprise drone mapping. At the same time that entry level DJI drones get more capable cameras (the DJI Mini 3 Pro camera looks great / has a 1 inch sensor), DJI is getting slower and less responsive at releasing SDKs that allow mapping apps like Pix4D and Dronelink to automate mapping flights.

In the alter, DYI drone universe, people are slapping propellers on various form factor flight frames and programming them with ArduPilot—epically cool, but very DIY.

This brings me to the flood of inexpensive, competent-ish looking drones that are all over online retailers' websites. I'm talking about the Holy Stone, Ruku, GoolRC class drones that, on paper, would appear to be a bargain. My GUESS is that a bunch of these inexpensive drones build off the open source drone community—it seems like a lot of work to build your own software stack on razor-thin margins. That makes me think some of these models have to be hackable to control with open source software like ArduPilot's mission planner.

I'm guessing none make it easy, nor are they likely to advertise any open source software that they use. But, I still have to imagine that somewhere out there, some drone hacker has managed to pop a console or found a TTL serial interface exposed on an accessible circuit board somewhere.

Anyone have any experience in this area? Am I missing some reason why this can't actually exist?
This was a solved problem 30 years ago in the Unix and later Linux worlds. Completely remote X based terminals/thin clients were quite common. My impression is that things have mostly regressed since then, probably due to neglect since it's a kind of functionality that not many people seem to be interested in these days.
As noted in other comments on this thread, increasing the TTFB is not a way of displaying the page faster.

HTTP/2 Push is such a cool concept, but the idea of it going away also makes perfect sense to me after years of not seeing anyone find benefit.
There are two excellent books by Brendan Gregg which can teach you about eBPF:

1: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition <https://brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition-boo...>

2: BPF Performance Tools <https://brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html>

Contrary to the title, I would actually recommend the first one more and only if you feel starved for more to reach for the second one. You can learn a lot about performance tools and methodologies on Linux from the first one, not just eBPF.

I've never had to recompile a Linux distro to start using eBPF btw. Most distros already use a kernel compiled with options enabling eBPF. That may not be true on some "embedded Linux" devices though.
To put into perspective just how useless such a metric is, Canon's latest pro camera, the EOS R3, has a meager 24MP. Surely no match for the next Galaxy phone.
Man folks really gotta stop supporting Apple. Company ethics are terrible. But then again folks don't treat tech with the same ethical standards as they treat other industries.
I recall laughing at the ridiculous camera antics in Blade Runner: zooming in absurd levels, super focus, etc. Now it's happening.
Carmack joined Oculus before the Facebook acquisition, so it's misleading to say he attached his brand to Facebook's.
Maybe they see your attempts to find a loophole by using more native IOS functionality as just that, and they still think your app is just a fancy way to, essentially, look at a google spreadsheet.
But that's a problem with Play Store curation, which must not necessary involve rejecting apps. Much like with spam, marking can be enough.
The phone app on the iphone is too simple... it doesn't even block spam
If everyone gets it wrong however, it devolves to:

-rip
You may want to delete this comment, or at least the link to your site, because you may just notify apple reviewers that your app should be rejected.
The thing that stands out to me immediately in the comparison is that, unlike Autonomy's very substantial "start fee", that service has no upfront cost, so you really can just rent a car for a month or two as desired.
> paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975.pdf

Does this mean that probably all SIDH key exchanges are affected?

What about TOR? Do we have to assume that key exchanges can be intercepted and recovered?

A RUSTSEC advisory was already published and they removed all SIDH algorithms there [1]

[1] https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0045.html
I've done both. Even in fundamental research, you have to "do" something in order to make an idea worth considering. Halley didn't just jot down that a comet might appear in 1758 [0]. He didn't just suggest that a comet could be used to test Newtonian mechanics. He had to work his computation from start to finish, find and fix the bugs, show convincingly how his result actually followed from the theory, etc. And computation was hard back then. Maybe 1758 wasn't the first answer he got.

Likewise other theoretical and fundamental work. Note that this is aside from the question of who gets "credit." Fortune tellers take credit for predictions. This is about what it takes to do good work under most circumstances.

[0] Wikipedia
The Unicorn Tax: You can pay it in dollars, Bitcoin, or gallbladders
I am fully with you, but I regret to admit that given the multitudes of insects and arachnids in this world, the "usual amount of legs" is probably more than six.
True.

Volume of communication seems to be the playbook.
For the folks for whom this is true (and I totally get it. This was me not even that long ago, so no judgments), a $6000 down payment / start fee / whatever is nearly unattainable.
F* App Store, let's make side-loading a legal requirement.
That was my thought too. It seems like it could provide all the benefits that we get with multiple individual lenses for telephoto, wide-angle, etc in a single lens and sensor. Probably reduces cost overall.
Why not just go with "God is perfect, but humans aren't, so maybe we just misunderstood the laws?"
I hope I'm dead before this happens...
HFT has reduced spreads of some equities to a penny, all market participants benefit from increased liquidity.

Also, Citadel is buying retail order flow because they’re reasonably certain they can capture the spread and not get run over by an institutional trader with more information than the market maker. They aren’t frontrunning your 20 share order because you aren’t going to move the market by purchasing 20 shares.

Zero commissions and tight bid/ask spreads are better for an individual than no PFOF and $5/trade transaction fees with 25-50 bps bid/ask spreads.
I live in Arkansas, smack in the middle of recluse territory. I've seen dozens of them in my house over the past fifteen years.

I take 'em outside and let 'em take their chances with the birds, if the cats don't get 'em first.

There are undoubtedly thousands of them under the house. Hasn't been a problem.
Many investors hold cash for long periods.

Knowing that it's safe before an investment is triggered is a big checkbox.
Yes, along with x11vnc and its scale option.

A 4k screen scaled to 1080p, then rescaled on the remote end is very useful.
Brian Eno once said: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."

So, Instagram emulated cheap, plastic film cameras and now we've finally moved on to OG digital cameras...