skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absurd but increasingly common to see such bad, ignorant metaphors of technologies used by people with en emotional vitriol on a site like HN.

The mafia is a emphatically criminal organization made up of people whose unique and specific purpose is to extort, rob, threaten, kill and steal as their core activities.

Crypto is a bundle of interrelated technologies and cryptographic protocols that can be used for bad, good or neutral purposes by humans with all kinds of agendas. In the case of decentralized cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, nobody's even in specific control and claiming they're evil is like claiming a random algorithm is evil, or that encryption is evil because alongside dissidents and social activists, pedophiles and con men also use it to keep their communication private. Ridiculous.
I still see ads when using google search. What’s the exact scope of this issue?
Because advertisers pay more to reach people they know are willing to pay for stuff. It's whatever the opposite of a virtuous cycle is... a race to the bottom?
Requests for remote content don’t delay rendering of the page. Everything will be significantly faster.
Interesting that these memetics[0] have been ping-ponging back and forth across the Atlantic. If you wish, search my HN comments for what (little) I know about Pound — I had not realised he'd been influential, as I'd thought he'd been dismissed as a crank upon openly embracing fascism[1].

[0] The Master and Margarita is my favourite take on deicide.

[1] with the benefit of hindsight, this is perhaps the victors' history. After all, NATO (although it no longer does) had openly fascist members within my lifetime. cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grândola,_Vila_Morena

(also: I'm not so sure about the cow's milk going all the way to the Med. Consider: "All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part that cooks with olive oil, and the part that cooks with butter.")

Edit: Wow, Mullins met Pound post-WW2. ... and I guess if the goldbuggery I'd noticed earlier in Pound was coded antisemitism whose whistle I'd missed, it explains much more about how an educated, culturally open, intellectual (cf Pound's juvenilia) could embrace fascism.
The effort and timelines are different. Deleing a few pictures or wiping a phone is a lot easier and faster than trying to hide many Kg of material taking up many m^3 of space. Sharing something physical is also harder, you have to copy/reproduce it, and then distribute it, which also means at many points in time multiple copies are close/near to the owner. Getting caught via 1000 leads pointing to the owner is a lot more likely than 1 lead (in the shape of a phone).
Ask HN: Do you use Rocky/AlmaLinux on desktop instead of Fedora/Debian? Why?
Rocky Linux[1] and AlmaLinux[2] are both tracking RHEL which in my dumbed down understanding is Fedora with LTS. So if you are using one of them on the desktop, I presume that you prefer them to Fedora for stability. But if that is the case, then why did you choose them over Debian/Ubuntu? They seem to be similarly stable and have larger package repositories.

Or is there another difference between Fedora and RHEL aside from stability that I am not aware of?

I have been using Ubuntu for a rather long time. I’ve found that the LTS releases let me forget about the OS and focus on getting my work done. This is great, and it is balanced with a regular release schedule so I don’t have to run an outdated system for too long. But Canonical has been pushing snaps more aggressively and I’m not excited about those. So I’ve been looking for an alternative.

[1] https://rockylinux.org/

[2] https://almalinux.org/
It's a radioluminescent paint company, so about six and a half thousand years.
The conventional wisdom is that offering paid subscribers ad free experiences poisons the well for advertisers. After all, it eliminates the people that have enough disposable income to pay a nominal fee!

Not sure how this translates to targeted ads. Would offering such a thing violate Google’s TOS?
This is fun to see. Reminds me of the capture the flag done on Shia LaBeouf’s Trump protest flag that 4chan got together to figure out it’s hidden location and stole his flag and replaced it with a Trump hat.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebri...
And yet Flattr 2.0 didn't catch on for some reason...

https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-24-adblock-plus-relaunches-...
From their page it's not even a "Service outage" but instead a "Service disruption." Wonder what an outage would look like.
>>I say my dog is worth a million dollars. You say your cat is worth a million dollars. I trade you my dog for your cat. Then we trade them back.

Uniswap liquidity providers charge a fee for every swap, proportional to the volume swapped, so faking volume like this would be prohibitively expensive.
They have the internet on computers now
I, for one, are caught red-handed on this. It is so weird that Google's money-maker has been down, especially that I never have remembered when was the last time it was down (maybe practically never?)
I had a toast-rack ZX Spectrum as my childhood computer but grew up in North America, and just made the connection how much the TT graphics look like Spectrum graphics.

Unrelatedly, Canada had a late launch of Minitel-like services in the mid-1990s: https://techmonitor.ai/technology/bell_canada_launches_inter...
I can't really compare anything to windows because (luckily) I don't have to use it.

I just wanted to try one of the new M1 machines, and was aware that MacOS has some unix/bsd roots that would make it feel a little familiar. After using it, it feels like a team of people made unix/bsd into a user friendly OS, even if it is more locked down than a linux distro.
(2020)

https://archive.vn/SNXSD
BB is awesome - it powers our RabbitMQ management scripts, we have written a sidecar process to scrape metrics from ECS and send them to vector.dev over UDP and a bunch of other things.

For personal stuff I use it in a lot of scripts used by Alfred.app including quick-fill for Things with date parsing, emoji completion, etc
Here's a short article that does a much better job at relaying the information while being more considerate of the viewer's time:

https://simpleflying.com/preliminary-ntsb-report-dallas-cras...

(Seriously, the first 54 seconds of the video linked in the parent comment was just talking about local weather and a video of some trees.)
It would be neat to see how much data usage dropped globally because of this.
yep... I've started loading pages I want to send to my mom with adblockers turned off just to check how bad they'll be because somehow despite turning them on every time I visit by the time I get back they have been turned back off...
I love thinkpads, but after getting used to a mac trackpad I see why people always raved about it. That being said I do miss the trackpoint, and I like the old school t420 keyboard.
A Case Study on Raspberry Pi’s Incident on the Fediverse
Since we're already off-topic, I have to say this comment feels like it would fit perfectly about some JRPG protagonist I just haven't heard of.
Well, according to wikipedia, only between 11-15% of bird strikes result in damage to the aircraft. Apparently large birds like geese are the main danger.

I imagine a similar distribution with drone strikes, as most drones do not weigh as much as a goose, at least of those in the hands of a typical idiot (who would fly in the path of a plane).

That's why 'very high fatality chance' doesn't seem right to me, but I can't find any statistics on it.
Non profit right?
babashka is so good it's mind-boggling.

super-easy shell interop + instant nREPL = replaces any complex bash script, driven from emacs!

what's more, you can namespace your scripts and import them. functionalizing code makes scripts easy to refactor, or even trivially move into a full Clojure backend or ClojureScript frontend. With squint-cljs you can even generate self-contained JavaScript directly from babashka code.
it felt like an xray vest, i dont recall the wieght on it, perhaps 10 lbs folded up?
earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33915734
Google laid off the one guy that was keeping this application stack running
I’m not sure which one you’re referring to, but none of them show evidence. The reason it can’t play wordle is likely the same as why it has trouble with ROT13: lack of training.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33915690 even points out a counterexample demonstrating that it can do character level tasks just fine.
"Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials, but it's also in real-world data." ~Director of CDC

Sorry, the trust is gone. They lied on purpose. The only question that matters now is, how do they ever get it back? It's gonna take a LONG time.
It stands to reason that there will be as many unknown negative long-term effects of the mRNA vaccines as there were unknown negative short-term effects.
P0, page everybody.
But their incident response planning and training is on point so there’s one incident commander and everyone doing individual tasks reports to them. I suspect not more than a dozen cooks are in the kitchen as it were. Any more and people would be getting in each other’s way.

I seem to recall that ads runs on one of the largest distributed MySQL instances on the planet. That’s probably the most complicated component at play here. Then again everything has to have active, secondary and tertiary so maybe it’s something upstream like dns dos protection or cdn.

Not a Google employee, just guessing.
Once you have 1000 hours of real experience (hopefully in different types, not all in the same Cessna 172), 20 hours should be plenty for an L-39 type. Guys with previous military experience may only need 10 hours. I had no military experience, I did my L-39 type rating in 2020 and it took about 20 hours. Before that, about 500 hours of my experience came from a Columbia 400, which is a fairly fast, slippery piston single. I also did about 4 aerobatic lessons in a Mudry CAP-10B. Here's my first day of L-39 training, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DN_vMq-l9w

Matt Guthmiller also has some recent videos on getting an L-39 up and running, and his first flights in it.
Look at the 12th photo in the gallery, which shows the cockpit from the right-hand door. No armored windscreen.

There's no particular reason for wikipedia to mention it because it was a very common feature in this era. It would be like mentioning that it had self-sealing fuel tanks. It was also a feature that could be present or not between different models, and could even be retrofitted to a plane once it was in service.

Regarding the wreck-finder below: he likely does know exactly what it was because he likely started by looking up the crash report (and based on his claimed date, it's probably s/n, 44-2031)

This is exactly what a typical armored windscreen looked like in this era (e.g. https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/armored-windscreen-for...)
There must be a ton of ex (or current) Twitter employees on HN: can one of you verify if the user management tool shown in the photos is an actual thing and provide more information on how it works?
You’re joking but adblocking has been available on Safari iOS for several years
A utilitarian effective altruist absolutely should defraud anyone not already on their team.

They precommit to others who are in on the take that 90% of the profit will go to the Cause, and then all that excess that was gonna be wasted on luxury or low-QALY retirement/dying years will instead go to places that generate more utils.

I wouldn't be shocked if a document (or, more likely, testimony in a trial) eventually turns up explicitly saying that.

(To be clear, I think the plan I have described is reprehensible, but that's because I'm not a utilitarian.)
The wikipedia page pretty accurately summarizes why Dodge v. Ford isn't really a useful citation.

Firstly, if an executive says "we believe this is in the interest of long-term shareholder value", the courts basically just defer to their judgement. You can't get the courts to run a company for you.

And second, the precedent has been softened since 1916 (or wasn't even true at the time), and for example some corporations like B-corps explicitly reject it, without any legal consequences.
Man the pace of AI progress these days is bonkers.
More like, they are never anything but fooled. Stitching together something like intelligent speech but based on nothing but word order and statistics. Nothing true or correct about it; just bs top to bottom.
Finally! One of the excellent excellent Chips & Cheese coverages of a really weird chip! Nice!

> Intel spends nearly 40% of the core’s die area to implement wide AVX-512 execution, so Knight’s Landing gets some incredibly high throughput for a low power architecture. In fact, it almost feels like a small OoO core built around feeding giant vector units

Well said!

There's some interesting details here. I love how the article tests SMT1 (aka no SMT), SMT2, and SMT4, and shows how things change. The re-order resources getting subdivided as SMT scales up is obvious but a neat hack, a real neat hack, for repartitioning core resources- on a core (Atom) that wasnt doing reordering much at all, at that point.

Also a good reminder that this almost 10 year old chip was using DDR4. I'd forgotten that DDR4 has been around for so so long!

The chip has some really monstrous capabilities. Modern flagship consumer GPUs are hitting the 1Tbps mark in memory bandwidth. AMD's upcoming Navi 3 has 96MB of L3 cache good for 5.3TB/s. Meanwhile, here's a chip that's 10 years older that has 16GB of onboard DRAM that C&C gets up to 4.5TB/s. Damn ya'll. And with huge AVX-512x2 per core, as mentioned in the top quote... this thing was such a wonderful & fascinating beast.

I didn't realize the previous incarnation- which I bought used/hella-cheap a long time ago & wanted to toy with but never did- was P54C based, aka an original-ish Pentium. That's wild.

This article is just so good. On and on, with every little characteristic and quirk. This is like a perfect "Speaking for the Dead", out of Enders Game. Alas that the world just wasn't awesome enough to put this shit to use at real volume. It's like an ultra-flexible on-the-fly reconfiguring DSP?
Given that people already know that GPT derivatives are inaccurate and given that it is trivial to detect it (see https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/), I don't think it is true.
If you want this to persist, you can always use ChatGPT.

...until someone figures out how to embed ads into LLM responses, then that'll be the Google-killer.
That the term didn't exist would suggest it was a fringe belief, wouldn't it? This isn't something where I have a lot of knowledge of history, but I do follow the scientific skepticism movement a bit, and they would probably place the modern pre-covid vaccine denial movement as starting with a discredited paper by Andrew Wakefield in the early 90's that suggested that vaccines were causing greater incidences of autism. I certainly remember at the time that it was seen as a fringe belief and actually not particularly associated with one one end of the political spectrum or other. I think the modern analog would be the flat earth movement. It's certainly clear to me that this has changed though.
If you're curious to see a Postgres-based implementation, SpiceDB has a Postgres driver: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/internal/datast...
The smart money is in crypto because autonomous smart contracts, subject to automated validation by software run by thousands of different people, are more reliable than humans acting on their own discretion, subject to their own integrity.

FTX, through its acquisitions, was technically "highly regulated", yet it collapsed. Several other centralized financial services, including Celsius and Genesis, collapsed.

In contrast, in this latest cycle, no leading DeFi applications collapsed or lost any customer funds. They operated flawlessly through all of the market turmoil.
The difference with software is: the AI doesn’t need to write the software. It is the software.

Rather than “write me a calendar app that has a reminders feature” it’s “remind me to pick up the kids at 5:00”
I like to think that at a certain point, more “hands” doesn’t help solve the issue faster (maybe even counter productive), so that in both circumstances the outages get the same amount of hands — the maximum.
AI Learns to Write Computer Code in 'Stunning' Advance
There is no debate.

The claim was, hitting a drone has a high chance of being fatal - the same high chance hitting a bird has... particularly in vulnerable stages of flight. Nothing you, or anyone else has offered counters this claim, because it's just reality. Hitting things in aircraft is never a good thing, and is always a significant cause for concern.

We've been lucky so far more idiots haven't flown drones closer to airshows or airports. There are plenty, and there have been collisions with devastating damage but luckily no fatalities (perhaps yet). There are plenty of pictures on the internet if you want to compare damages to bird strikes.
— There are so many ads on this page, it must be intolerable. Do you want me to install an ad blocker?

— Nah I'm fine.
Labor costs to keep all of these features/servers/infra running is expensive. Google is probably charging less due to competition from AWS/Azure/Oracle.

Similar to how Amazon.com is subsidized by AWS. GCP is subsidized by the ad biz
Google does not want anyone remembering their service can go down.

Traditional “tech news” sites won’t cover this either, as it’ll bring attention to the ads that power their properties and may inadvertently encourage people to get ad-block, if they call out the presence of ads.

Either way, Google’s PR team will be cranking out some distractions shortly.
Microsoft pretty much hosts/semi-controls the free software industry and ecosystem.

Same for work emails, work operating systems, work cloud, work documents and work seeking itself. And by extension, it is in charge of running a lot of our governments at all levels.

And now they're also in entertainment. I mean they were before, but with Activation Blizzard they will be 50% of our games.

It's hard enough but doable to de-google one's life. But Microsoft? I guess some redneck survivalists achieved that to some extent.
There must be a ton of ex (or current) Twitter employees on HN: can one of you verify if the user management tool shown in the photos is an actual thing and provide more information on how it works?

As another sibling comment states, other platforms also do similar things. It's easy how such systems get started and evolve. In fact, given the severe downvoting I see on this and similarly polarizing threads on HN, I think if someone built a browser extension that hides comments by users from a user created list many people HN users would probably use it.
How did you even find it? I only found it trying to submit it because I didn't see it. And HN loves posting dirt on tech companies here - understandably so - because a lot of it is highly technical. So this being absent is really suspicious.

Like, I'd love to know how they implemented the "Trends Blacklist". In the years older leak I had assumed that it was on the trending terms, but Weiss revealed that it was targeting people and tweets.

Or the "Search blacklist". That's basically sabotaging your own search function so that things that are popular/relevant/trending are hidden. That makes no sense for an platform to even do for anything other than censorship of people on purpose.

Or what does "Do Not Amplify" do? Does that mean they do amplify other things, but never want these accounts to be amplified by that process? How was that implemented?

Musk just tweeted: "Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal"

That'll be good to see. Exposing this stuff to the people affected is just...good faith interaction with your users. I'm sure a lot of people are going to be justifiably mad. I wonder what this will do to twitter's stock price...
To make this more clear as I have had the same experience and want more people to enjoy it: Mamba is more or less a drop-in replacement for the conda tool with the guts rewritten in C++ and as a result is much faster to resolve dependencies -- I want to say an order of magnitude faster or more. It's even noticeably faster at downloading and installing. You just

conda install -c conda-forge mamba

in your base environment and then you can start running mamba instead of conda.
Author of Vue here - as many have pointed out, the article contains a number of comparisons that are incorrect.

I have written a post clarifying them: https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/on-migration.html
My hypothesis is that few companies are big enough to be able to dedicate many people to _exclusively_ modeling.

If a modeler has 4 weeks to spend on learning new things, odds are most companies would benefit more from the modeler learning how to do basic parts of the operational (python) part of their job (which needs to happen for models to be useful work) vs spending 4 weeks diving deeper on some aspect of modeling (which may or may not yield percentage points of improvement on some problem).
This isn't a good analogy given "people driving the speed limit" can also get and spread Covid and cause extremely negative outcomes. Not wearing a seat-belt is perhaps a more accurate metaphor, given the individual assumes the majority of the risk.

Regardless all you're doing here is trying to justify a bad attitude, and proving the GPs point.
Something I've always wondered about compilers written in their own language....

What is your process for compiling a new compiler? Let's say you make a code change to the compiler. You have a compiled version of the previous compiler you can run to compile the new compiler.

But, by definition, the new compiler is different from the old one. Do you re-run the compilation with the new compiler? How many times?
A big issue is that people have died because of autopilot. There is probably some liability there. Is it Ford Pinto level liability or what?

This is the lawyers talking so a lot rides on the Judge.
To be clear:

1) All shareholders will benefit including the employees who were well paid in stock.

2) When you sell an ownership stake you have to listen to owners. You might as well blame whoever decided to go public or sell the activist a stake.

3) Larry and Sergei have super voting shares and can block it if they want. But they probably want their shares to increase too.
A significant fraction of crypto applications cannot work at scale without privacy-protected transactions, and the first major privacy smart contract on Ethereum - Tornado Cash - was just made illegal to use for Americans by the OFAC. The criminalization of privacy-protected financial transactions is the biggest risk that crypto faces AFAICS.

The need for law enforcement authorities to achieve Total Information Awareness over all private financial transactions stands opposed to a vision of ubiquitous electronic cash, with decentralized and peer-to-peer electronic transactions.
One may be suspicious of debt-and-foreign-trade, but: are there (or have there ever been) any successful autarkic economies?
Topic is being downvoted/flagged, I assume. Normally HN loves tech company drama. And there are screenshots of twitter accounts from the employee/moderator tooling. It's super interesting stuff, even just technically.
I had this issue today. Bandwidth was degraded to 1mbps download until I switched off Bluetooth. Repeated multiple times to ensure BT was the interference.

Then switching Wi-Fi to channel 11 seemed to stop interference and I had no problems after that.