skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to the exact circumstances in your garden but too much organic matter can have the effect of "tying up" nutrients in the organic matter in a way that makes them inaccessible to crops - if you grow to large a microbial biome in the organic matter they immobilise nitrogen.. I am not an expert on this so I only understand it in broad strokes.

I am a bit of gardener and my anecdotal advice is - I don't know what sense you are using the word "mulch" here so I am not sure about that but too much compost can be an issue if you are not letting it break down long enough and not incorporating into existing soils well enough. Too much compost will grow wicked-hot radishes, but your leafy greens will be ugly and taste like garbage in my experience. The thing about gardening is it is all small sample sizes.. it ain't science and it is hard to know what's up without a good old fashioned site visit!
That's not fine. It demonstrates a shit ton of backwards priorities of a group called "ea"
HN really is just Reddit now
Conspiratorially, most graphs elide another hidden story: Asian privilege. Asians in the US have a shockingly low incarceration rate (a rate of 25 inmates per 100,000), and Asian’s are about 9x less likely to be killed by cops than blacks (3x less likely than whites on a per capita basis).

I am being facetious, but any explanation of racism needs to also explain why Asians seem to avoid being victims of racism in the US across a wide variety of metrics. Disclaimer: white NZer, in a mostly white area, so I really am ignorant of the deeper issues.
Is there any legal backstop in the US stopping someone from deciding to give both twin newborns the exact same name?

Imagine the potential for criming.
Detecting known CSAM does help fight its creation.

There's a Venn diagram of people who possess of library of CSAM and are also active child abusers themselves. Detecting possession is one way to try to get people who fit into that overlap.

It can also help reveal criminal networks. Prosecuting possession of CSAM works like it does for other networked crimes like drugs. CSAM is material that is illegal and hard to get. People who possess quantities of it almost certainly acquired it from suppliers, who themselves acquired from suppliers, etc. Law enforcement's goal is to find and flip possessors to walk this network back to the source: people who are abusing children and documenting it to create new material.

They also hope to discourage its creation by suppressing demand and raising risks and costs for abusers who create it (in both cases, by the threat of prosecution).
One step is to stop caring so much about DNA, glorified run-of-the-mill recipe for proteins and alike (is it really important with what soldering iron was the RAM soldered on your computer?), and start looking at bioelectrical patterns. If all a "person" is is some kind of dynamical pattern, a state machine, if you will, drawn by voltage-gated ion channels [1] and mechanisms alike, then there is nothing mysterious when similar state machines are in the same state: nothing out of the ordinary if I boot up two different but same specification devices with the same operating system and I land, even with different RAM mappings, on the "same" desktop.

[1] Michael Levin: "Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition" https://youtu.be/3Cu-g4LgnWs
My grandmother's best friend was a librarian, so I got a lot of encouragement growing up to make use of library services.

I remember calling the local library dozens of times for school reports. The local library wasn't where my grandmother's friend worked, so I wasn't getting any preferential treatment. To them I was just another random eight-year-old ringing them up to ask questions.

They were always delightfully eager to help with obscure questions about geology and history and science, running off to grab books while I waited, slowly reading me facts and passages while I took notes. They'd set aside books for me to check out later in the week, with bookmarks already placed in the sections where they thought I'd be most interested.

As much as I love the instant access to information we have nowadays, I feel a sense of loss over kids missing out on that shared human sense of enthusiasm and encouragement from working with a person who enjoys feeding childrens' curiosity.
My favorite cheat was when my identical twin forgot his id and couldn't get in the bar. I had someone run out my driver's license to him and he got in.
Kumbayah AI, Kumbayah~

Kumbayah AI, Kumbayah
I started to use Julia to reply to a question on Twitter with a full program.

I tried Ruby first but it was just a bit too long.

Julia fit the ticket. I could write a simple simulation that was understandable inside the Tweet.
I'm pretty sure that most Americans don't know or care about what the EU is, but they've heard of the UK, Italy, Poland, etc., and would readily tell you that the UK (they would probably call it 'England') is in Europe and that Europe is a continent, not a bureaucracy. Foreign bureaucracies are just uninteresting to outsiders, whereas people go visit Rome, Venice, London, etc.
> Double digits leads to triple digits.

Just to put everything onto the same scale, 4 to "double digits" requires a 2.5X increase. "Double digits to triple digits" would require a further 10X increase.
Ditto about the CUDA and cuDNN part.
My project that was running fine for the past 4 years just "died" after a colleague's oversight on upgrading the GPU(1080Ti -> 3090) which isn't compatible with the new cuDNN.
It is just too much of a hassle maintaining that *expletive* jargon so I did the wise decision to kill it.
Best series of the past 20 years is likely Boardwalk Empire.
Fun fact, they can’t exfiltrate the key because it’s burned into the secure element coprocessor and unreadable by software.
Please don't trans your kid just because he likes wearing dresses.
Maybe tiering and capacity planning for IOPS? Eg store recently modified files on SSDs and the rest on HDDs
How did they take ten steps back?
Go grabs GitHub repos over a proxy hosted by the Go project? How comes?
Yes, that certainly all makes sense. If I recall correctly, growing up in the 90s we were sort-of put under the impression that DNA determines almost everything about a person. It's only more recently that science and society have discovered how much is actually determined by things like gut bacteria.
The solution is simple. Don't use a site that abuses your privacy.
> Nearly. If the government is requiring this then it becomes improper.

Even if the government does not require it, if it acquiesces, and the action is the exclusive province of the government, it’s state action (i.e., improper).

But yes, if they require it, it’s state action too. 18 U.S.C. 2258A allows but does not require scanning hashes, and scanning hashes is not the exclusive realm of the state, so it’s fair game.

The idea that the FBI is somehow twisting Apple’s arm doesn’t really ring true to me. The FBI has lawyers, they understand state action doctrine, and they know if they were coercing Apple, one leak could ruin a lot of prosecutions. I guess I couldn’t say it’s impossible though.

I’m kind of interested in this idea elsewhere in the thread that executing this hash-matching code on your device as opposed to in the cloud is somehow more deserving of 4A protection. One part of me says a textual originality SCOTUS is pretty unlikely to read “mobile handset” as “house” but who really knows what those characters would say these days.
> Or am I just confessing ignorance and this isn’t a thing and it’s no more complex and magical than Rust or JavaScript or Python?

If anything I’d say JS has a more complex configuration story than Java.
Great work! I use it experimentally in a free service for people who want to subtitle videos. The small model runs o a USD8/mo VPS. Looking into running the medium model soon.
Need to get off this rock before it’s too late. World showing minimal signs of reversing O&G dependency, reduction of eating meat products, and eroding preservation of key ecosystems that help produce oxygen (ie, continued deforestation of Brazilian rain forest).
It's known from leaks that showing an interest in Tor is enough to get you on an NSA list. But this list was so incredibly broad that anyone with an interest in technology was/is probably on it, diminishing its usefulness to actually discriminate anyone.

https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-one-way-to-land-on-...
Not dead.
In the realm of technology, scientists are the idea guys. Lots of good ideas out there. But you need entrepreneurs and engineers and capital in order to see if it is something that will be useful to the public.

It may takes years of work, PhDs, and lots of research costs to get the findings (idea), but in the end ideas themselves are cheap.
Unfortunately it’s not available in the UK yet…
What’s not fashionable about streams in Java? I’ve seen many modern open source Java projects using them.
Can you please elaborate? I haven't seen any info from AWS to that end, and with KMS they control the keys.
Yes, we're careful to not put any labels on him. In his words, he doesn't like it when people call him a girl, and wants people to know he's a boy, but he does like to do things that girls do.
Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains?
Except Math books, which books made you smart or see the world through a different angle?
That ignores specialization.

You think Kenya can produce their own iPhones?
It was the original comment that compared yearly exec salaries to an asset purchase.
well, Ghosn was successfully exfiltrated by his team, so it is possible!

although his rescuers got busted, but let's hope he will make them whole eventually.
Wow, I didn't know the trade imbalance with Taiwan was so large. It is immense compared to its GDP! What do they do with all the dollars? (Before they announced 40B USD investment...) And how does the central bank keep the USD FX rate so stable? Hmmm....

I never heard the term "Silicon Shield" before. It is an interesting idea, but I don't believe it. I have posted on HN about this before: If China decides to lose its mind (like Russia invading Ukraine), they will do a naval blockade of Taiwan. Just like there is 21th century geopolitical world view before and after Russia's invasion ("no one saw it coming + everything is different now"), I predict a repeat for China & Taiwan. If anything, the 40B USD in US looks like a lifeline. Pure speculation: TSMC execs met with Taiwan gov't cabinet-level ministers (and maybe US too) and decided: <<If China invades, everything we have here is gone. We need to "terraform" a parallel industrial stack in another country.>> This investment looks like the world's most expensive nuclear bomb shelter.
Where can i find the google one equivalent of this document ?
I tried googling it and seeing the google one privacy but could not find out.
oh absolutely, you have things like /r/PictureGame who have perfected the art of fooling reverse image search. Meanwhile many world puzzles put specific tricks to fool Nutrimatic, or anagrams that can't be easily brute forced. It is definitely an arms race.
I have actually seen some of those, including two (Silicon Valley and Game of Thrones) to fruition. Those two are actually excellent examples of what I am talking about, and you even called it out by cutting off the later seasons of Game of Thrones.

The types of TV series that are not episodic seem to always devolve in this way towards worse quality and inter-character romantic relationships, not to mention having cliff hangers at the end of every episode. It's a tension and resolve tactic that gets pretty annoying.
Immigration is a double-edged sword.

Bringing in educated, skilled, productive, and socially-compatible individuals can certainly help a nation and its economy.

On the other hand, bringing in unskilled, unproductive, and socially-incompatible individuals can very quickly become a total disaster for a nation and its economy, too.

There's not much room for error. The negative impacts of allowing in just one additional unsuitable individual can easily cancel out the positive contributions of several productive individuals.
I suspect they were related and the earlier CSAM tech was announced because of plans to enable e2ee like they announced today (otherwise the tech didn't make sense since they could just scan the unencrypted photos on their servers).
The gold standard is "separated twins" studies, looking at identical twins who are adopted away to different families at birth.

Sadly for science but happily for the families involved, these are getting harder to do; the primary source of such twins used to be unmarried women who became pregnant, but between the availability of birth control and a dramatic reduction in the social stigma, far fewer children are being "hidden" by being adopted away.
I can see how it’d be read like that. Please allow me to be clear, they did not do that. I do not think they did that. There is absolutely ZERO proof they did that.

However if they were to do something outlandish and insane like that, it would not be surprising. NCMEC is drunk on their own power and status. They are on a holy crusade and even constitutional rights mean absolutely nothing to them in their quest. The people at the top are crusaders on a holy war and there are no means that they would not use to these ends.

There are many people in the trenches who are fighting a good fight. They deserve our respect and empathy. However the people at the top…see above. NCMEC needs to be reined in, but of course the second anyone in Congress even looks at them sideways you get a screeching voice of the minority going on about the children and then you’re in the news as a child predator.

In a way, they are responsible for shaping the discourse such that democrats got knocked on as “for” CSAM which is what led to Pizzagate taking hold. But I don’t believe for a second they intentionally, directly created it. But it’s not a big stretch from where they are now.
A perhaps relevant parable: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-prophet-and-caesar...
Speaking of banks. I am not sure about other states but in CA it is so common to see impressive buildings that used to be banks 100 years ago. They look almost like Greek temples. Recent examples that come to mind: Petaluma and Cambria. For some reason nowadays they host unremarkable shops while banks occupy nondescript building nearby.
Biden admin tells Supreme Court law protecting social media companies has limits
Elon Musk’s Bankers Consider Tesla Margin Loans to Cut Risky Twitter Debt
Please look at the structure of an IP header. Note the "options and padding" section.

Also SECTIONS of the internet (that is, routers) can have IPV4+ packets wrapped in IPV4 packets that will transmit them through "IPV4-old" only branches.

We pretend like the major routing backbones aren't known and fairly set in stone, and that routers don't know about each other.

Yeah, his approach doesn't fix the Comcast-doesn't support-IPV6 and is stuck in old IPV4. But those places are using NAT of their own.

If we have all these cgnats and other address translations happening, well shit how is that different that the IPv4 wrapping ipv4+ and other things.

Also, oh yes please give me more fucking ports. IPv6 keeping the same number of ports is stupid. Please give me 64 bits of ports. Ok, I'll take 32.

If you use 10.44321 for a port number these days, well I have no sympathy for you. As for /24, clearly that will mean "IPV4 /24", and whatever new protocol will use some other convention like /000024. But /24 maps to a bit mask. You just interpret the bit mask differently.

Yes I am handwaving a ton of stuff. A ton. But ipv6 basically said "fuck you our way or the highway" and here we are.

At this point, maybe we need a superprotocol ipv8 that will wrap the ipv6 address space, the old ipv4 address space, into an even bigger address space. Get the router vendors and designers back in the room.
I'm not yelling at anyone. You're making weasel-y statements, and I'm calling you on them outright. If Apple wants to lead the way in browser development, then they should do so on their own merits. They're welcome to pre-install it on my iPhone, and they can even make it impossible to delete like on Mac. Just don't use it as an excuse to prevent alternative browser engines, it's not a solid argument. The concerns over Javascript engines and JIT compilation was sketchy at best, but I won't stand around and listen to people defend an opportunistic greed magnet for trapping their users.
>"seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river."

Not sure how common is my attitude but I do not give a flying fuck about what Apple does. I keep my own backups (been doing it since the 80s). Today's Apple to me looks like a money company that makes some hardware by accident.

and in general, the less I attached / depend on a single company for anything significant, the better I feel.
but then how does the AI scan your private images without permission to detect real CSAM, AI imagined CSAM such as medical images, and random pictures of cantaloupes and the like?

perhaps they just mean "end-to-end encryption*" where the * represents the back door that only apple and various three-letter-agencies have access to.
Many train networks are electrified outside of north America. That's a different story especially in countries with lower carbon intensity of electricity.

But yes, on the whole it's correct that common assumption that the distance freight travels equates to the overall carbon intensity of transit is incorrect.
What nobody tells you is that to get the results you see people post online often requires hours of work for a single image.

First you need to refine the prompt so it is ultra specific (which OP has not done), then you need to generate a hundred or so images and pick the best ones. From there you can use img2img to refine it more, and once that's done you might want to go to Photoshop to add some finishing touches.

To get good results it is an art form at the moment, but of course as the tools get better eventually it will just be a click of a button.
A 10-minute guide to the Linux ABI
All this time I had thought that Rocky Linux was winning the fork war over Alma (in the fight to be the successor to CentOS), but this post might change that with a good chunk of the science community throwing their weight behind Alma.

Do we have anyone else in the audience that has any insights over whether Alma is more prevalent over Rocky or is it the other way around?

I know I can run Rocky Linux from DigitalOcean which I appreciate.
used to support them but what a fucking joke. most of the world's renowned scientific research, including at universities, takes place in drab boxy office buildings. look at caltech. "creative thinking" has nothing to do with the buildings. such waste.
You wrote: <<They are not free for debugging.>> Thank you. Finally, someone acknowledges this important point! I have literally been told that adding extra local variables was "increasing stack size; must be slower". But what about debugging? And, yes, there is a balance to be had between maintenance and speed. Example: Breaking down a critical path section of code into a bunch of tiny non-inline functions may slow down the code unacceptably. In other cases, it may make the code much easier to read, maintain and debug... so the trade-off is acceptable.
The Iowa ag lobby had a huge hand in 1) getting ethanol to be subsidized, 2) forcing open Mexico’s protected maize market, thereby indirectly causing most of the border troubles we face, and 3) pushing corn syrup on unwitting consumers and turning half the USA obese.
I guess it's a nice place and people want to have events at nice places and if they held it for 200 years it would be a good investment?
But you still need NAT right? To support outbound connections from the worker nodes?
It's functionally no different than the system the federal government already approves for "traditional" tipped wages. Federal minimum wage for tipped wait staff is $2.13 / hour, with an obligation of the employer to pay out to $7.25/hour if and only if the tips on top of that $2.13 don't cause the employee to earn that amount or more.
Sounds like a wholesome reason to me.
So up until now the government have had access to all your data because of the backups. This renders the e2e encryption on their different messaging platforms useless. Kind of a joke:"your convo can't be read because it is e2e encrypted, bit when we backup, we can read it".
Other way around. See above.

Source: my family is in the Academy
What is your solution? Burn trough money by paying some people that you don't need and then leave everyone unemployed? They are not inconvenient they are not needed anymore. At least they get some supplies. Most of the world don't get jack.
That's only the immediate goal. It would be bad for them to eat up the percentage of the market lost by their competition right away; that would get some unwanted attention regarding monopolistic behavior.

They clearly want a slice of that market, and they have the patience needed to wade in.
Under conditions of omniscience and omnipotence the difference is meaningless of course but I suspect you're right.
Probably the main goal is minting more EAs. If 10% of program participants are convinced to be EAs and 10% of EAs donate 10% of their income[1], every participant is worth 0.1% of the lifetime earnings of the average participant (probably a decently-paid software engineer) in expectation.

[1]: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge
Scaling Back a Quantum Compute Glitch by 100,000x
Where does that leave Frederick Forsyth?

I've always enjoyed his books[1] as sort of a "Spy thriller done right" antidote to Fleming's "Fantasy Spy Thriller".

[1] I think "Cobra" was the last one I read, and enjoyed it immensely.
Not really interesting. Without any technical reasoning other than "we want red hat with extra perks".
No one has been charged or convicted of anything, nor do you know if the specific amount donated / used to buy this property was stolen?
Basically take everything lost by Meta/Facebook directly attributed to ATT and you'll get a very clear picture on what they can very easily get back with their own ecosystem.
So many people are posting this crap. Now i am: "There is no evidence to suggest that Hacker News can make anyone pregnant[1][2][3][4]. In fact, most of the content on Hacker News seems to be focused on programming and technology[2]. There is a section for discussion about everything else, but it is not clear if pregnancy would fall under that category[3]."
> I'm sure people will become more critical of Julia if it successfully becomes the de facto for those things but there's a big difference in that Julia is very focused on those things whereas Python is trying to be as general purpose as possible

I see that as more of a point in Python's favour than Julia's. IME languages that are designed as general-purpose languages tend to be better than languages that are designed for niche purposes, even within those niches. The things that make a language good require consistent, general thinking.
Actually, he was right, and your version is incorrect.

“I was the only one who…”

On the other hand you’d be correct in a phrase like:

“The only people who were cheated were his brother and me.”

The word me is an object of a sentence, not the subject.
By definition you’re trying to retain back compat. So you have a 4.4 source IP address. You try to establish a TCP connection to a legacy IPv4 website that isn’t 4.4 aware. What address is that website sending the response back to? Even if it is 4.4 aware, how do you guarantee it’s taking a path back through 4.4 aware servers? The whole point of adding an option header is to allow unmolested transit through existing IP stacks. If you’re saying you’re routing around them, then you’ve bifurcated the networks and you’re back to IPv6.