skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, I'm a physical scientist in a business that makes hardware and software. I'm up front with people, that I'm not an engineer, and nobody expects me to be one. I write code to support prototyping and testing, but don't expect it to go into production. Nobody wants my janky prototype. I produce a theory of operation that covers a proposed design, as well as an outline of the basic manufacturing and service processes needed to make it work. The prototype sometimes helps confirm that the technical requirements for the product can be satisfied at an early stage of a project.

When I do share code and things that I've designed, it's usually for tooling not product, e.g., a script that helps calculate non-obvious design parameters and tolerances. Often, my code is used to test hardware components before the official software is ready.

In my case, I'm on call, though not 24/7, because the business as a whole isn't. For instance I'm available to diagnose supplier and production problems, and deal with weird issues that emerge in the field.
When I first saw the benchmark result I was pleasantly surprised by the performance, you rarely see that on a single large server but it is achievable if the implementation properly does all the hard bits.

Then I saw that it required 140(!) servers to achieve that result and now I’m wondering what all that hardware is actually doing. On a per-server basis, that is very low throughput, even for graphs. Efficiency that low will make it uneconomical for most graph applications.
Where would I read more about Zig? Not that I have cycles to spare, but I think a fair bit about moving from C. For example, I maintain an ASN.1 compiler written in C, and I hate C, so I made it emit a JSON AST of ASN.1 modules, and now a friend of mine just wrote a backend in Swift that takes that JSON AST output and produces Swift code / templates. Leaving C behind requires a good path for porting legacy C to the new thing, or else tons of time and mindshare to get new things built. So D and Zig are very appealing.
>I personally don't like the Monaco GP due to how big the cars have become making it (nearly) impossible to pass.

Believe it or not, a modern Formula 1 car has basically the same footprint as a Chevrolet Tahoe

A 2022 Formula 1 car was 5.5 meters, and 2.0 meters in width. Or 11.00 m². By comparison, a 2023 Chevrolet Tahoe is 5.35m in length, and 2.06m in width. Or 11.02 m².

Sure, they only weigh 800kg (1760lbs), but we're basically racing full-size body-on-frame SUVs at this point. I guess we can be glad they're not yet the size of a Suburban, but yikes.
It's already easy to check to see if you or your post is shadowbanned.
from the perspective of someone who did time for cannabis its real simple. crimes are and always have been for the poors. rich people do profound esoteric actions with unfortunate outcomes that merit long study and rumination with post mortem analytics and an academic conclusion. unless you did a sex crime like weinstein or took a lot of rich people money like madoff.

this whole article is just the rich people version of ' yeah my cousin beat up a mascot once but in his defense that mascot was awful too'
not saying this is the answer but some components in processed food weaken the blood-brain barrier and stuff that's supposed to be filtered ends up in the brain and activating its immune system, which might explain the plaque in the brain.

I used to go to an elderly home every second day, the stuff they eat fits this. Elderly homes are forced to cook as cheaply as possible. Also ppl want to be entertained and food is entertainment, so they get cake at least every other day.

Their breakfast usually consisted of white bread and margerine with gelly. The brain is incredibly sensitive to sugar as well, so I can imagine this is a factor as well.
If you liked this article, you should definitely listen to Nate Bargatze's bits about visiting this place.
> If that button does allow ability to read DM, Twitter employees have surely abused that for ages without repercussions.

How many employees have access to the tool? Do all users see that button? Seems pretty likely they’d have tiered access levels, no? What if access to user DMs was a hugely restricted piece of functionality and Musk just said “screw it” and gave it to two non-employees on a whim?

You’re writing off a potentially huge breach in user trust, not to mention legal repercussions.
You're mostly correct, but Russian SSBNs spend much of their time in their own territorial waters. NATO SSNs seldom venture in there as it's just too risky. The boomers can even launch SLBMs when tied up at the pier in Severomorsk if they have to. And they are conducting successful test launches again.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/new-russian-submarine-s...

Even if only 10% of Russia's strategic nuclear weapons work correctly that can still make for a really bad day.
If that is ever the case, which I honestly think is doubtful (though I could be wrong), given that it's an open standard, I don't think there's anything preventing people from writing a passkey implementation that saves the secret key material in a plain file or anything similar. It likely already exists.
Diet of rainbows and sunlight: California girl given first-ever unicorn license
DMCA and court orders in the US. Many more in other countries.
I don't understood this. I keep not understanding this.

What's my basic authentication method to a site or system I can write down, backup, export or memorize? What happens if I go naked to a friend and want to use their devices to access my systems? What happens if I lose one or more of my existing devices? What happens if I get locked out of one or more of my devices? Basically am I the only one who doesn't think phone is my life and I don't want my life to be over if I lose my phone?

I feel like I'm in a twilight zone of phone dependencies. Already so many systems refuse to let me in if I don't have my phone with me due to sms 2fa I didn't ask for, even though I have dozen other devices and valid credentials. Now we just want to stop pretending and just lock me in to phone forever? My phone goes with me everywhere I go and is super likely to get lose broken or stolen. I don't want it to be a dependency to my online access.
The problem with passkeys is that you need your phone to use them. The more it is adopted, the more likely technology will only work with them in the future. Thus, we will be more tied to our mobile devices. No thanks.
I'm sure you're correct, as the whole thing reads like "look how smart I am".

1. Extraneous details about satellites not being overhead at night -- as if government spy satellites operate on the same schedule with the same priorities as publicly known satellites.

2. Mentions things like them not scrubbing the EXIF data was a "mistake". How could it be a mistake if this was public information?

3. Says at the end "(this data is all public now)". Making it sound like he made the data public through his top notch sleuthing. It should read "this data was all public a week prior to my analysis".
I wonder if you could trivially make the model better at math by hacking a precise calculator into its model somehow that it naturally figures out how to use. And whether you could do the same for human brains.
I realized I got prompted to start an enroll for this yesterday after reading this webpage. I reacted exactly like this first bullet point:

"Some users may be surprised if a biometric authentication suddenly appears on a website or an app and think this is sending sensitive information to the server. With passkeys, the user's biometric information is never revealed to the website or the app. Biometric material never leaves the user's personal device."

Having a notification asking me to enable Bluetooth immediately concerned me even though it was clearly the genuine prompt you get get when Google asks you to sign-in by accepting a prompt on a phone.

I don't see myself using this authentication over pass+2factor even though it should be safer because of 2 main reasons. I avoid turning or keeping Bluetooth on and I don't see a clear way to manually control and export the passkey private key. I understand that it's synced via the OS and Google's password manager, but I don't trust it unless I can back it up and restore it to a device myself.

Is there an open, Google independent implementation like Aegis is for 2 factor?

If I can't control and manage my private keys, it's not my private keys. The more I read about this, the less this feels like an improvement to pass+2 factor. Phishing attempts are easier because Banks don't allow non-sms tied 2 factor authentication.

Thinking of this like SSH key based authentication for website made the value of this clear for me. But I don't want my passkey dependent on my Google login.

https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys
You can noodle around with it on https://webauthn.io/ . Keys will sync within ecosystems - so, if you login with safari on iOS, the same credentials show up on desktop Safari on a mac. That doesn't seem to work between Chrome and Safari, but you can scan a QR code to sign in on chrome using a passkey on your phone.

Right now I'm not sure if this stuff good enough to use instead of passwords. I'd want Firefox support, and preferably built in support in 1Password too. But it might be good enough to use alongside passwords. We need to collectively figure out how to do that. (Do you get a password and a passkey? Or just a passkey & reset via email? How should the user flows work? Any good examples?)
The 4 stages.

It's not happening.

It's happening, but it's equally applied.

It's not equally applied and that's a good thing.

We already knew about it. Why is this news?
I've not at any point contested the differences between DEX and CEXs with you and you should really work on your reading comprehension so you can realize that.
> Why is anyone surprised that the major/globally operating social media companies have extensive internal systems for controlling the content that appears via their platforms?

No one is. These Twitter Files are just building on a right wing prior of them being shadow banned. But they have yet to demonstrate that right wingers are specifically targeted. They don't show why these accounts got flagged (the crux of the issue and none of this means anything without demonstrating this knowledge) but just show prominent right wingers that did get flagged. We just get left with more questions. Do prominent left wingers also get flagged? Do prominent left wingers act in ways that would similarly be flagged? Is flagging biased? (I'm sure it is, but lets' measure it)

It is a common statistical manipulation through leading someone to causal conclusions via selection bias (sometimes called "malinformation"). While not directly said these tweets (and the previous ones) are targeted to make the reader believe that Twitter silences right wing voices. This may very well be true, but they have yet to provide strong evidence of this. Just samples. Problem is, we don't know anything about the distribution of samples so we have no means of determining if they are cherry-picked or not.
Twitter thread said the same thing, or am I missing something?
I'm really hoping that the times you were hit by bullets while flying in a professional capacity in a warzone...

...otherwise those noise complaints are getting extreme.
I'm not sure I had a point. I kind of picked a number I thought Julian would have been happy with, since E$20,000 wasn't it.
you could also buy a hardware key like a Yubikey
I literally pointed you to the source of the 30%/70% quote. And that person literally said that his quote was taken out of context (by Amnesty International, who later turned out to be very biased in the pro-Russian direction). The person literally said that his estimate was in regards to how difficult it was to get equipment to the front lines, and had nothing to do with embezzlement or theft. And here you are, doubling down on your mistake. Lead a horse to water and all that...
There's definitely no reason to be skeptical of the self-reported results from managers that have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to reporting whether the low code tools they advocated for were a good idea
Linux users be damned: "Chrome on Linux doesn't support passkeys with a built-in platform authenticator. Linux users can use passkeys from another device such as an Android phone or an iPhone by scanning a QR code."

No plans to support it either
[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/supported-en...
What did you buy from where?
By all means, everyone, feel free to be pendatic about the language here, and deferring to their weasels words, in the direct light of the documentation that has been released, because you agree with the editorial direction. It has been SPECIFICALLY revealed that they frobbed the knobs when they didn’t like what was being posted, while admitting that their own policies weren’t being triggered, and they had no justification.
Their user agreement says they may limit visibility of tweets. Is their moderation, transparent, no. do they promise that it will be? Also no. I'm fairly sure my own account has some visibility limits on it and has done for ages, but I don't think about it much.
So I see the term fascist being thrown around against conservatives frequently on sites like Reddit and I just chalk it up to people on sites like that not really knowing what the term means.

HN to me is different. I fully expect people to understand and mean what they say here.

So I'd like to know from a fellow HNer what exactly do you mean by calling "these" people fascists and who exactly are these fascists? Do you literally believe these people whoever they may be are actual textbook definition fascists? If so, why?
they literally had a press conference about most of these features in 2018
Hahaha this is a neat bit of investigation but my favorite part is that the final conclusion is that the sexy new bomber is hiding……… at the Air Force base where they held the press conference announcing the new bomber!
…and the pit crews.

Winners were made by the best-qualifying racer’s team simply being ill prepared to service their car. Other factors are accidents and weather conditions that could possibly destroy what would otherwise be a perfect strategy.

Personally, I feel no race in Monaco was boring until you can actually say nothing really interesting happened in hindsight. But the race itself always has me at the edge of my seat no matter if there’s a chance to have excited talks around the water cooler on Monday.
Do you have comparison figures to the F1 cars in the 80s or 90s?
"I don't want any locked-down hardware to prevent me from accessing my own keys."
How can you prevent a website from having a form field that you put data into?
> With the latest version of Chrome, we're enabling passkeys on Windows 11, macOS, and Android.

Notable absence of GNU/Linux. If I used chromium, I'd feel like even more of a second-class citizen.
Unless you're using Linux.

https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/supported-en...
> I don't think Weiss understands what "shadow ban" means. It means that you post Tweets, but no one ever sees them. None of the practices she describes amount to what is usually described as a shadow ban or a hellban. Preventing a post from showing up in trends or searches is not a shadow ban. Google SafeSearch does not "shadow ban" explicit images or links.

Colloquially, I think many information suppression tactics get lumped under the term "shadow-ban" and that your definition is very narrow. It reinforces your position so I understand why you're defining it as such but it's not very convincing to anyone who doesn't share your position. Of course, that's assuming you're genuinely interested in persuasion instead of yelling into the echo chamber.

I do agree with your points about this not being a surprise and how some are over-exaggerating the severity of these leaks but I'm also slightly concerned over how blase "hackers" here on this site are treating the news. All around us are these huge, easy-to-abuse, global influence platforms with cozy backchannels to the most powerful bureaucratic state (US govt) that we've ever seen. And yet many comments I've seen so far are along the lines of, "No worries, this stuff happens all the time and is totally normal and okay. Move along now!" I would have expected more skepticism, cynicism and backlash from this crowd. Am I wrong?
I don't see why I should be worried about storing and using credentials on my own devices. What would be the point, what threat does it protect against, and in what way is it more useful than using OAuth 2.0 "sign in with" feature?
That is cool for you, but I would argue you aren’t the “average consumer”. Buying physical games in antiquated for a lot of people. And I think the vast middle ground is where most consumers are. Use GamePass for a majority of games, and buy the physical copy for the ones worth replaying.

There is no indication that physical copies are dead. In fact, for all the impacts of streaming on movies, you can still buy physical copies of almost every movie.

This isn’t about killing “choice”, it is about giving consumers a different choice than the one you would make. But thankfully it isn’t zero-sum so you can still buy a CD custom wrapped in plastic
Unless I’ve missed something there’s still no evidence of Twitter shadow banning users. Weiss incorrectly calls a bunch of things “shadow banning” but not anything the matches the actual accepted definition.
Limiting reach is not the same as shadow banning which has a specific meaning.
They probably mean not allowing passwords for Google services.
That's not shadow-banning

They fucked up and admitted it (what algo is infallible?)

The fuckup wasn't targeted, it was algorithmic, and it affected both sides of the isle.

Your link literally demonstrates the opposite of your claim.
I appreciate your substantive comment.

Many public residential streets are not designed for heavy traffic use. I don't think it's unreasonable for local residents to be upset by the noise and congestion of people taking a shortcut off the highway to cut 30 seconds off their travel time.
Are there any opensource projects attempting to build ChatGPT-like models like what Stablity has done? I want to run this locally.
It's more that in my view not having to work is necessary but possibly not sufficient for being a member of the upper class. I think by that point it depends on which social circles you run with.
>The motion to dismiss the case rests mainly on Tesla’s contention that the papers customers signed when they bought their cars obligate them to individually file claims through the private arbitration system.
I lurked for about 2 years I think. I have yet to submit an article - though I have a project to show coming in the near future.
I think it's largely a disagreement on definitions - tweet 7 in the thread even hints at this:

>>>7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.

My definition of "shadow banning" (or hellbanning) is that the user's tweets/posts are not visible to anyone except them; Twitter was not doing that. Twitter was clear in saying "oh, we limit visibility, don't allow certain things in trending topics, etc." and apparently some people think of that as shadow banning.
neat. something like an integrated heat spreader? that's a pretty good idea
Thank you for all the insight!

How different are the T-37/38s from common civilian trainers like the 172? How good were the simulators back then (I haven't use any sims outside of consumer stuff so I have no real point of comparison)?

What do you mean by pursuing training without rush or struggle? Looking at the cost of fuel and rental for the first thousand hours, let alone the cost of the jet with new TFE engine, I'm much more scared of stretching out the training so much that I'm always rusty.

> to add a little to this since I started thinking about it, while the total flight time seems fairly low, we would go fly in absolutely any weather short of an actual thunderstorm, and the IPs for the most part made the students do the flying/navigating/communicating/planning/etc. Flying close formation in drafty clouds with pounding rain would humble a low-time pilot, and occasionally it'd be bad enough to get a grunt out of the mostly drowsing (it seemed) graybeard in the backseat.

That sounds scary - I've been taught so far that bad weather is one of the leading cause of GA fatal accidents thunderstorm or no. Were your trainers or the jets themselves just better at withstanding adverse weather? Or are we civies too risk averse? I can't imagine doing it in close formation.
Speaking to Autopilot specifically, in many people's eyes they have not delivered for a paid product.
That doesn’t sound trite to me at all. ChatGTP raises major issues for the future of education in many areas, and discussions about how to deal with them have just begun.
But the moral argument is the same. Unless you are saying that monetary interests (which can be used for everything from basic survival to re-investment) are less important than “credit” which can be used by a limited number of people for a…slightly better job? I can see the confusion…
Scala 3 is similar. It's means of describing datastructures is more powerful than F#'s but also in many cases not quite as concise. On top of that, Scala does not support type providers (a real bummer IMO).

Other than that, it's quite similar and enjoyable, especially when it comes to refactoring.
I'm withholding judgement until AdmiralCloudberg reads the NTSB report and then adds great diagrams.

Seriously though, it does feel like a classic fuck up where two planes intended to be at separate flight levels end up at the same level temporarily.
> Not that much of a difference

It's a big difference, not because one command, but because tail is part of the standard unix toolset that works with all files. Except now you have this one log file that is special and needs a different unique tool.
I felt that way when Rockmelt came out, and the original Opera. I sometimes wonder if these alternative browser projects were too early, or were only able to exist due to the lack of Chrome's dominance on the space yet.
I think I got a prompt for this yesterday on a Google account, I was logging into an incognito window while connected to a VPN. I am staying away from enabling because it's not clear how to manage the private and public keys myself.
Things are not so black and white. It's not that engineers can't appreciate art. The people commenting are saying that the payment was according to what was agreed and the artist's seller remorse is unwarranted. Thats all they are saying. It has nothing to do with art appreciation etc.
You really think someone would do that? Just form a corporation and tell lies?
> Aren't things getting to the point where drones are a global commodity and indigenous manufacturing capability is mostly moot?

“Drones” covers a wide range of things, from a Tu-141 to a Shahed-136 to a improvised grenade-dropping quadcopter to the MQ-1/9/20 Predator/Reaper/Avenger series to tbe X-47B and the (maybe soon) unmanned operation capacity of the B-21.

Some capability sets are widely enough available to be seen as commodities, some are available on the export market, but from a narrow range of suppliers who provide them very selectively, and some represent unique capacities.
Low code makes more work because now product people can create very intricate demos, and expect us to turn them into features.
Depends on the restaurant. It's moderately common (>>1 instances) for the restaurant to institute a tip pool unbeknownst to customers or to skim the top and just guarantee minimum wage for the wait staff.