skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about good vs bad but careful vs not careful.

Whether or not the Chinese military will use AI is a completely different question to whether they will use it in a way where they lose control of it. Giving an AI shell access is uniquely reckless.

You can’t collapse good and careful onto the same spectrum, they are completely different dimensions.
I wonder how much tanked oxygen (or air) costs; maybe you could run air through a bunch of filters into compressed tanks and then later slowly bleed it out into the shoffice to keep CO2 levels down (and pressurize the building, too).
> But Do Run A Tor Node!

Just a word of caution, while running a non-exit node is obviously safer from a legal point of view, the entire list of active tor nodes isn’t secret, and there are enough people in the world that do not understand how tor works that the chance is non-zero that you’ll still end up on a block list somewhere for simply being a “tor node”, even though you never let any of the tor traffic out on the Internet.

I know for a fact this can happen because it happened to me.
I don't think so, for at least 3 reasons.

1) The tools available to an individual are always progressing.

By "tools" I mean all of direct physical tools and materials, computational, theories and understandings, services, etc.

2) Big funded labs have business owners, stockholders, academic department heads, and grant comittees that have specific goals and ideas and topics they are willing to pay for.

Many of the most important discoveries were never on anyone's list of things they will pay for (until after it happened some other way first).

They only happened either by accident in real labs despite all conscious intention to be working on something else, or by people who didn't need anyone's permission and were just satisfying their own curiosity, and couldn't be told to work on something more sensible by any boss or other funding source.

3) It is true that some large scale things probably won't be advanced in a garage.

Then again, a lot of times large scale things are up-ended specifically from a garage exactly because the garage researcher does not have the option to address problems with (expensive/large/dangerous) brute force.

They need to somehow make pressure of a zillion psi, but they can't build a zillion psi machine, so instead they figure out how to align sound waves to create a zillion psi just where the waves meet or something, and that goes on to obsolete a huge industry and now everyone's making MrFusion's in their spare bedrooms and selling them on Etsy.

The smallness of the operation is the very cause of the discovery and would not have happened in a normal funded lab.
> All mobile clients are behind CG-NAT.

Demonstrably false. T-Mobile US mobile clients are IPv6-only and connect via IPv6 to IPv6 sites:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6oBCYHzrTA

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE

NAT is only used to connect to IPv4-only hosts via DNS64 (with or without 464XLAT). As of 2022Q2, T-Mobile US has 110 million customers:

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/219577/total-customers-o...

One-third of the US population is connecting via IPv6-only on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour basis every time their smartphone reaches out over the radio.
Most Thinkpads are not normal plastic. The W520 is carbon fiber and glass reinforced plastic over an alloy frame.
I think the saying is “vote with your feet”. There’s always at least one thing you can change. Your time is worth more than your salary, otherwise they wouldn’t pay it. If you don’t think a business will survive, stop investing into them with your time.
My understanding is that she feels like the pseudonymous internet is a black hole from which we can't escape and we've already passed the event horizon.

- Some people don't know it yet.
- Some people choose to pretend it hasn't happened.
- Some people, like her, wish that it hadn't happened and are peering into the void, struggling to come to terms with it.
- And the people she's writing about have realized it has happened and are running toward the singularity.

She feels that our culture is defined by those going the fastest, long before the rest of society catches up to it. But we'll all get there eventually, and the avant garde will be further away from the unaware than ever before.

I don't think she's making an argument about whether we should fall in any particular bucket. She doesn't want to be in the avant garde though. Maybe she's sad about that, because she pictured herself as being an avant garde kind of person.
I reject the second clause, in accepting the first clause. There is no sanity clause.

"no first use" here is HIGHLY qualified: it's not "only use nuclear as retaliation for nuclear attack" it's "only use nuclear as retaliation for an attack on Russia" and in some readings of Putin's intent, the claimed territories ARE russia, so he has a trigger any time he wants to use it, in his own twisted logic.

The history of who claimed or disclaimed first-use since 1945 is itself fascinating. MAD at times depended on force posture being.. ambiguous.

The Ukrainian attacks on long range bomber infrastructure partially impacts Russian ability to launch airborne nuclear weapons. These are more tactical than strategic, but are precisely the expected first use in some scenarios (I believe EMP take-out of communications was usually held up as the "real" first use)

The closer an attack on infrastructure comes to Moscow or St Petersburg, or to industrial/electrical infrastructure, the more likely it is Putin will claim a NATO backed attack on Russia: precisely the situation his "no first use except" clause is aimed at.

This is not to seek to undermine what the Ukrainians are doing: If you want to fight an asymmetric war with highly motivated people and attack their deep production and generation facilities (which is what Putin's forces are doing) and lay waste to people's housing (likewise) coming in to winter, you should expect something to happen inside your own mother-russia territory.
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IPv6's introduction is closer to IPv4's introduction that to now. By nearly twice as much.
It's not like systemd gave us our freedom. The things it replaced were also FLOSS.
Call me blunt, but this statement feels about as hard-hitting and impactful as someone shouting in a crowd that they like pastrami sandwiches.
I think people get optimistic about the quality of candidates out there. FizzBuzz winds up being "do you know what modulus is", which screens out so so many candidates. So many.

There's a difference between a diamond in the rough who many not know $lang or $datastructure but is proficient elsewhere, and candidates that literally cannot put together a basic looping conditional. It's like hiring a network engineer that doesn't know what a network route is.
With high enough “resolution” does it really matter? (Don’t trying to start a fight, genuinely curious as I’m not too well versed in audio)

We don’t cry over bitmaps vs vector graphics in most contexts, especially that the hardware is trivially limited. It’s probably a bit more nuanced with speakers, but I imagine that they also have very real limits on distinguishable outputs for a given input, even if it is not as trivial to see as in the case of a w*h pixel grid of depth n.
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Engineers choose who to work for.

We go through these cycles where “I have no idea how they make money but they keep paying me” stops working. There’s only so long you can work for a company that doesn’t have a viable business strategy.

I don’t expect engineers to fix the business strategy, but I expect them to consider it when choosing to join a company or to stay.
I always thought to start they should have just allowed each octet two-ish more bits, so you could have 999.999.999.999. I know it’s the hackiest of all hacks, but it sure would have been an easy upgrade from the software perspective. And it would have given about a 256x increase in the number of ips. Which I kinda think actually might have served us for a long time.
Are any of these bad things?
My experience is quite different from yours:

- my ISP has offered IPv6 /64 delegations for over 5 years now.

- One cloud provider I use gives a discount for VMs with no IPv4 address, the other has ipv6 addresses.
Funnily enough, coming from a telecommunications background, a semaphore will always make me think about Claude Chappe and his optical telegraph [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/03/tire-related-chem...

very interesting read for people curious -- one way that tire wear pollution is causing problems
That seems similar to the "perwinkle blue" that was used as the default background in Apple IIGS ProDOS16 / GS/OS. In that case it was done with pairing white pixels with blue pixels.
I followed those steps in the link you provided and played around with other resolutions and configurations as well, but still no dice. Everything is so fuzzy, I'm beginning to get a headache :(
What phone do you own and control completely? I was under the impression that every phone capable of being a phone contains BLOBs that you have no control over.
10-100 Ghz has very few bands where water is an absorber. It tends to fall between the molecular and atomic modes of many molecules, so you only suffer free space loss (which is still significant over long range at high frequency).
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Well formalized, I fully agree with that list. It's applicable to pretty much every field by just finding a question that fits all those 4 points (with the obvious alteration of #4, depending on the field, e.g. for a mathematician "perfect notation is not important for this interview" for example).
Because the air stops moving and things settle out, and the air that is in the room gets cycled through any air filters you might have.
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It should be mentioned that 2^32 was widely considered to be unfathomongly large when ipv4 was developed as well.

However now we are pumping out something like 4 ARM cores per person on the planet, per year. Clearly we will need to plan for those devices to communicate.

Also the effective address space in ipv6 is much smaller than 2^128 as the default subnet prefix is /64. So in a sense, it has already “addressed” your concern? Pun intended.
I stopped reading for the same reason.
Paper money doesn't magically stop working because some bureaucrat has an axe to grind, or is corrupt. The government not currently having that power is exactly why power-hungry maniacs want CBDCs.

Let's say we had CBDCs and the party you don't like wins the 2024 elections. Instead of being able to go protest, now the POTUS declares an emergency and just turns off money for opposition groups, or at restaurants, hotels, and gas stations in an area.

Seems like a great way to invite tyranny.
It is a mental health issue, it is treatable, and it is preventable.

There is a lot of literature on the topic, and awareness is an important aspect to treating this mental health issue. I never got the sense people are shaming the person, or there is a lack of respect. Additionally, where "thoughts and prayers" will hardly provide any actual good (YMMV), a suicide hotline might be the saving element for someone who may also be suffering.
> unison with the landscape and the environment

These are meaningless distinctions.

> the need for localized ecological and geographical knowledge

Fire managers and all of the other resource specialists for the majority of agencies are already local.

> cool fires

not anything unique here. depends entirely on the objectives/goals. if it is to remove juniper in the southwest US, a smoldering fire won't be enough. wildland fire fighters already almost exclusively do the most work at night whether it is a prescribed fire or wildfire. it's a distinction without meaning.

techniques used today are almost always a function of numerous risk calculations and political factors; not some lack of understanding of fire behavior or local knowledge
The page mentions FSV - a 3d fs viewer. Classic!

https://fsv.sourceforge.net/
> "What would the process of laying off all the devs and replacing them with ChatGPT even look like?".

Why does it have to be all or none? Why can't it be incredibly incremental?

> At the end of the day, what devs are paid for is their knowledge of a complex system.

I've turned to ChatGPT to answer questions to things I don't know 2-3 times this week. I can only imagine where this technology is headed in the next 5 years.

However, you can make the argument that I knew "exactly" how to game it/what to ask because of my experience. I used what I know to ask specifically for what I don't know. :)
I’d also add something along the line of SaaS fatigue. The costs of managing vendors, securing & monitoring, etc. add up and it’s not uncommon for the overhead cost of another service to be more than the benefits of using it. CI falls into that category since there’s an upper bound to how much a dedicated service can give you, especially when the competition like GitHub or GitLab gives you a bunch of other features for the same price.
> Every time a service key is uploaded, it is encrypted using an ephemeral key bound to the web session that the user authorized, and a notification is displayed on the user’s device, showing the iCloud service whose data is temporarily being made available to Apple servers.
But `du -h -d1` does, though, or `tree —-du -h`.
The mechanic who worked on Ian Fleming's yacht once worked on my boat in a small coastal town after I got caught up in a nasty storm -- bear hugging a mast in pouring rain and lightning is generally when you realize how fragile your life can be.

We had a few beers after he was finished and he told me some crazy stories... I still need to blog about that adventure; that was a highlight of my early 20's.
The IPv4 dotted quad format carries a lot of baggage. You also have to handle forms with two numeric fields with a mixture of 8, 16, and 24-bit numbers and implicit zero octets. Support for the full syntax is sporadic. IPv6 deliberately uses a new text encoding to make a clean break.
> In this environment?

It doesn't matter the environment, when we are talking about margins. Increased costs to the builder are passed along to the end customer.

> Labor has gone up as well.

Which makes any possible savings in materials contribute even more interesting as a way to increase the margin.
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The biggest obstacle is gpt cost per query. How are you planning to scale this?
That’s a non sequitur. Also, there is no reliable way to check whether a given source code is the actually deployed version, neither on servers, nor local devices.
https://en.wikishia.net/view/Ulu_l-Amr
The Hacker's Delight guy is insane.
DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation. If you're a business customer, you get a larger allocation seemingly depending on the size of your IPv4 static block. I've been given /56 and /54 from their business service. It's quite nice.
I held it up in front of my daughter without telling her what it was, and when i tapped the screen she fell over backwards in shock. Perfectly executed.
Turning off dead keys can help.
Android has the same cut for their in-app purchases
Do you think research equipment was cheap during the time of "aristocrat scientists" ? The point being here "after they succeeded financially".
I understand and agree with the point, but being able to identify the ambiguity of a natural language specification and ask clarifying questions seems well-suited to a chat-style model of AI interaction.
Time for the grand reveal four days later: Yes, I was being sarcastic.
The point of a default is that it's what a setting should be if you don't go out of your way to change it. The default was on, and you're faulting the distro maintainers for not changing it to off, when it should have just defaulted to off all along. (Or are you saying that it did default to off, and that the distro maintainers originally went out of their way to turn it back on? If so, that would surprise me, but I'd concede the point.)

Correct behavior is that a demonized process doesn't ever get killed just because another process in its original family tree dies.
> * `Sum` whose [`<>`] is multiplication; and * `Product` whose [...] `<>` is addition

... Uhh?
Another comment has pointed this out, but Reed-Solomon coding was invented as a method of forward error correction. It was only applied later to storage systems as an "erasure code" because it can detect and correct extremely long runs of bad bits. Comparatively, it can detect and correct many fewer random bad bits.
There's a collection of winners if I've ever seen one.
It is very normal for devices to have multiple IPv6 addresses. Pretty much every device will have at least two: a link-local address and a public address. When autoconfigured, some devices generate both a long-term and a temporary public address.
Most Muslim countries do not have a hijab law
No not really.

I think it is one of the few providers that offers Apple runners. Not much else besides that. We switched to self hosted teamcity and 1/3 our build time with a 6 month payback.
So that they are legally saved from “storing child porn on their servers”. They explicitly wanted that feature so that they can freely upload user content, fully encrypted, without worrying about that - it was just grossly miscommunicated.
I believe the scheme worked like this (numbers are examples):

* Driver's get $1 per delivery, plus tips.

* Drivers get a guaranteed weekly take-home of $300, provided they work 30 hours.

* Consumers are allowed to give tips to the driver through the app, and '100% goes to the drivers'.

But... Here's the catch. A typical driver does say 100 deliveries and gets $100 of tips in a week. So their take-home (which would be $200) gets increased to $300 by the guarantee.

Now... Who lost out? Where is the fraud? It's unclear... The driver still got everything he was promised. The tips given by the consumer really did end up in the drivers pocket...

But if a consumer is extra generous and gives an extra $50 tip, the driver gets nothing extra - since his total take-home would still be under $300, so would still be topped up to $300 by the company. So effectively the company received the extra generosity. Which isn't what the consumer intended.
Market share is irrelevant if there’s a high enough barrier to entry and cost of switching for the user. For instance Comcast probably has a very good market share and competitors too on paper.
Probably before your time and social media. More akin to forum/BBS days.
> it topped out at something like 20 mph in first gear, but bogged out in second gear

I had an early 80s Ford Ranger with had the same 4 cylinder pinto engine, and the same experience. It also had a 5th gear, which was useless unless you were actually going downhill because the engine didn't have enough torque. I am not sure why european cars with similar sized and power output 4 cylinder engines didn't have these problems. Possibly more low end torque, and better gear ratio choices? On paper a 1970s Volvo B20 is almost the same specs as a Pinto LL20, but drives excellent.
I guess the support of TLS was added for confidentiality and integrity on untrusted networks. If you don't verify the certificate a MITM attack is possible. So what is the remaining benefit of using TLS?
I'm sorry - I swear I thought the post above mine used the full name.

You are absolutely right (YAAR) about acronyms
The Right to Be Lazy (1883)
Ask HN: Is it black holes all the way up?
This is something of a rant, but I would greatly appreciate your reflections as it's a subject that is very confusing for me. Many of you are much smarter than I am, so any thoughts you have around this would be appreciated!

People recently have been positing that the big bang occurred as result of a black hole (i.e. black hole sucks up more and more material, gains more mass, until it explodes in a big bang into a new universe).

My question is, if this is the case, is there (1) another universe "above"? And is there another universe "above" that eternally? Or is it (2) more the case that our existing universe expands, it reaches an edge of maximum expansion, and a gravity-like counter force causes it to collapse in on itself, until it again repeats the big bang process (eternal recurrence)?

Take the first example. If the conditions at the bottom of two black hole "singularity"s are the same - you would expect parallel, equal universes to be generated each time. Copies of the same universe generated over and over again with each black hole. If the conditions were slightly different (i.e. one black hole has slightly more quarks than another), you might have a "parallelish" universe arise where with slightly different initial conditions you experience vastly different results (chaos theory, small changes in initial conditions).

If the second were true, given no energy / mass would be leaving the system, you'd expect the same situation to recur eternally. The "universe" as we experience it would be bounded on one side in time by the "singularity" and on another side in time by the "edge" (the point of maximum expansion) creating a fixed, spatiotemporal object. Why does this spatiotemporal universe marble exist and what exists outside of it?

I can't wrap my head around this. Which scenario is more likely? Does any of this make any sense? If the answer is "we don't know", do you think there is a way to ever answer these questions?

It seems like we're trapped in some sort of strange, fractalian experiment.
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Choosing the right database technology for your application has nothing to do with abstractions as far as I understand the term. Even if you're just going with the dictionary definition, that doesn't makes sense. An ORM is an abstraction, not a database.
Definitely. And I did exactly that, eventually. (I waited too long!)
The most fun I've had writing programs for 8-bit Atari's were the tools: font editors, player/missile (sprite) editors, level editors using custom character sets, etc.

It makes sense that we could cross-develop effectively today but something (maybe just nostalgia) is lost with the tools not being native, even if emulated. If we were to stay on the platform, I'd extend the emulator with additional text/graphics modes not in the original hardware so we can more text, maybe by emulating an 80-column card that existed for it.

Nevertheless, this is very cool!
Correction: I meant integration between Shazam (which can be invoked by Siri) and the Apple Music app.
Also, companies like Apple are huge, with thousands of staff.

These protections aren't there to protect you from "Apple", but Apple staff.

So for example if someone at Apple has been compromised by a foreign state, they can't copy sensitive customer data just willy nilly. They'd have to jump through a lot of hoops that would be prohibitively difficult.

Google had issues like this in the past where some employees were sending data to the Chinese government. E.g.: information about dissidents, political opponents in Taiwan, etc...

This is one of the reasons Google encrypts even internal server-to-server traffic, because the threat is on the inside of the firewall!
I prefer Le Carre also, but probably more because Le Carre does grapple with there being no true higher morale ground between two competing sides and the realism of the characters. Bond is more of a fantasy where characters in the Smiley novel are more "normal." Bond always has the Bond girl. Smiley has a rather messy marriage even with a double agent having an affair with his wife. Smiley is not attractive or slim, he is overweight, wears glasses, and such.
It’s also about emotional and social skills. Each generation since at least the 1950s has gotten more isolated and less able to understand and healthily process their own emotions.