skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Develop Good Taste, Pt. 3
Long history of US journalists participating in coverups.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mr-jones-movie-review-202...

SBF was a media darling so was treated gently. Communism was a NYT wish list, so the starvation was covered up.

https://www.nytco.com/company/prizes-awards/new-york-times-s...

I am skeptical of politicians and media.
A little little. I'll take a stab at it.

Let's presume the better camera + screen cuts that in half.

Then, let's presume Apple prices the iPad Pro to reflect a one time purchase. That is, the majority won't buy the Magic Keyboard (or that some already do).

Finally, (I presume, typically) the margin on accessories is higher. Let's say that cover half of the half.

In the end, the difference is approx 100-ish quid. Given the added convince of the iPP they're kinda sorta the same price.
Here's a kind of dumb question:

Are the primary usecases of this for SSH, or for non-tiling desktop environments? People say a lot of good stuff about it, but I struggle to figure out what it can do for me when I'm just doing stuff on a local computer, where I can just create new terminal windows.
People were abusing their 6to4 tunnel, which is why Netflix banned them.
Well I use Mac these days, but I've used FreeBSD and Linux in the past as a desktop and don't remember this at all.

In the unlikely event everything locks up and dies then mostly I'll just lose vim sessions, and I can vim -r to recover the data. This is rare, and vim complains at you when you start it up on a file after it has crashed.

You'd lose the window layouts, but I don't use crazy window layouts, generally no more than two panes for code+tests (running tests I let it flip to fullscreen and scroll and I've got that bound to a key combo in .vimrc). If I had crazy window layouts I'd probably setup a command alias to make it easy to pop them up.

When it comes to commands and such, I just use the command history which is my memory. When it comes to running daemon process I would detach them if I cared (and generally I've got command history so I don't care, I'll just restart it, no matter how arbitrarily complicated it was to get the command running).

Similarly, though, I don't horde tabs and I HATE it when the O/S starts popping open all the windows I had open after a reboot to upgrade the O/S or whatever. I try to run pretty much "statelessly" so that I can wipe everything and start over from nothing easily enough (obviously not really "statelessly" since e.g. slack remembers all kinds of state about what I've done in the past, but I don't have to remember any of that)

And my memory does suck, but I know how to pull things out of command history, internet search, google history, etc. If I need to track stuff, then I use a tool to track it so that it becomes persistent (Zotero has now replaced my folder full of PDFs, I take notes in Obsidian). I don't know what I would ever lose in a terminal window that I fundamentally couldn't get back (and if I ever really needed something such as some unique failure I'd probably take a quick screen shot or copypasta into a note file somewhere -- I'll commonly copy test failures into code comments temporarily while I'm working on them -- sometimes these get promoted to documentation in particularly hairy edge cases).

So I literally just pulled up iTerm in activity window and force killed it and I have no idea what disappeared, but I don't care... Based on the saved command history I can see I likely didn't lose anything at all...
That’s why we’ve parked the car for all trips that are even theoretically possible with transit and keep the house at 17-18 C (about 64 Freedom Degrees), aside from the toddler’s room.
> I'm all for environmental concerns ... but

> "Ruin my view".

You understand these aren't the same people, yes? The latter are wealthy entrenched (mostly conservative) NIMBYs who have no care for the environment, and have a deeply personal agenda. They may have appropriated the language of environmentalists when they talk about the impact of projects on their lives, but dismissing environmental concerns because some are using them in bad faith is not reasonable.

Bad faith actors always do this.
I do cold showers, although not exclusively.

My wife and I also enjoy cold water swimming. We can only do ten or fifteen minutes before our arms stop working entirely. We keep to areas that we can touch bottom that were very familiar with and aren't subject to tidal currents.

It's not a big life changing thing, but we do feel better for the next few hours after getting out of the water. In fact I think it's more of a head game than anything. I just feel like heartier person when I climb out of the water and there is snow on the ground.

Edit: grammar
Rant HN: Prototype Fund is a waste of German Tax money
Besides Mastodon, CodeMirror, Reproducible Builds and Conduit, the majority of Prototype Fund-funded projects are either: dead, useless or have completely disappeared from earth

Why is the government burning $12M of taxes to fund someone's hobby open-source projects? Can you explain the logic?
Robots are the better option - we send a lot more robots to space than we do humans. But there's nothing wrong with also having some human missions.
Although it might not be very reassuring to people on the outside who treat Google as a monolithic threat, internal controls like this do make insider attacks more difficult, by making them more visible to internal security and audits.

In particular, it sounds like it would be difficult to do it via log analysis alone; it would have to be a more active attack and may require code changes. Either changing code in source control or somehow swapping in a different binary can be pretty noisy (assuming there are good controls over the build and deploy process).

You might compare with having good accounting. You can't just trust people when they say, "we have strict accounting" because they could very well be lying, but nonetheless, not having proper accounting is a red flag.
Ironically enough I've found that O365 works far better on Firefox and Chrome on Linux than it does on those browsers on Windows, and Microsoft O365's support team warn against even attempting to use Windows 10 and Edge.
I'm interested to hear what makes this out stand out as being among the best?
I mean, how often do you have to parse that part of the code? If it is everywhere, you should start writing helper functions or some other abstraction.

In my opinion this is typically a very static part of code bases, it is written correctly once (where you can look at the documentation all day long) and possibly never ever looked back on.
Just to give anecdata on the other side. I too just updated to 11 22H2 because my Oculus Rift S wouldn't run without updated drivers and I thought it best to update windows first.

No defaults changed for me. I wonder what the bug is. Note: I'm using Pro, not Home.

At the same time windows does drive me nuts with it's darkpartterns. The worst for me on Windows 11 was all the keyboard shortcuts that try to launch MS Office, MS Teams and related crap. The only way to turn them off is via PowerTools and even then they're not off on remote desktop.
Was there anything else that happened around that time?

COVID? Falling asleep to loud headphones? Rock concerts? Do you blast music while you code? Change in ambient room noise?

How old are you?

Me:

I noticed an increase in volume of mine at the start of the year.

Was after a clubbing night with insanely loud music. From which I caught my first COVID case too.

I was guilty of blasting music while coding at night. Especially when having a few beers, I would increase the volume without noticing it.

Have also fallen asleep with headphones blasting music.

Mine is white noise and a minor electrical kind of thing. I completely understand how it can disrupt your life.

I'm glad it happened to me because now I take preventative measures when around loud music or at concerts. Otherwise I would never have known. When people think about damaging their hearing, they think its like a gradual thing they will notice, and will just mean they can't hear some frequencies. But I don't think people expect tinnitus.

People don't know. There needs to be more awareness. Rock concerts are way too loud without ear plugs.

For me, I habituated, and don't notice it anymore. It really is a psychological issue. Much with anything in life, the answer is to simply not think about it. And appreciate that it was always going to happen so there is no need for regrets.
When can I pick up a Mr Fusion at Home Depot?
Maybe problem is they do consider Space to be empty. Maybe if they would take into account all those quantum fluctuations in there and add that energy maybe they would land at critical mass of the Universe.

To paint this idea with other example, if you were to figure out mass of a world, but the world was just an image reflecting off a surface of water, then they would focus only on the light particles coming off the surface and ignore the water. At some point they would come to realize that something big is missing. They could find out the value for how much it should be. That’s exactly the case with dark matter I’m quite sure. Space is like water they ignore.

But I don’t know anything, really (sorry to hear if that’s a problem for someone). Why there is possibility to comment on these articles anyways?
Yup. And provided you’re a newcomer, the path to becoming able to provide that expert opinion involves years of performing precisely the tasks that AI is getting rid of.

My guess is that we’ll eventually see some kind of “higher degree bootcamps” that accept people with junior baseline skills and take them to the senior level, since learning on the job might become less feasible.
I work in a robotics research group. My natural bias is to always praise the robots.

If the goal is just to have N robots/rovers on the moon for fun/data collection, then we don't need to send humans to space.

If the goal is to bootstrap a profitable space/Moon industrial complex, then we will need a lot of robots (some autonomous and some remote controlled from Earth) and a number of humans in the center of events. Humans are critical for keeping automation working and for adjusting to unforeseen circumstances.
If the actually rich people are dressing down-to-earth, why would you dress fancily to appear rich? Surely you want to also dress down-to-earth so you appear like the rich people do.
What Happens When the Fed Raises Interest Rates?
The thing with Linux is it gets blamed for lack of vendor support. If something doesn't work with Linux it's Linux's fault, if something doesn't work with windows it's the vendors fault. That's never seemed fair to me. Those confusing and experimental drivers you mention are unlikely to be provided by the vendor and are likely a volunteer's best efforts to reverse engineer the driver

As a counter point my old wireless canon printer works flawlessly out of its old box with Linux but getting it to work on windows 10 is full of confusing tips on forums, confusing and experimental drivers to install. Nightmare.
> If you file a bug in feedback hub under the Windows Update category it will collect the diagnostics required to fix this issue and prevent it from happening again.

One user filing a bug will absolutely not "prevent it from happening again".
I guess if someone tries to shoot me in the head point blank, but the cartridge fails to fire and the perpetrator runs away, then everything is fine, since no crime was committed in the end.
> I guess, a bunch of boutique-y firms that don't qualify as "big multinationals" the way NCC does

NCC has on the order of 1% of the revenue of this "boutique-y firm". I'd mention the name but then I'd want to check with $friend first in case it would somehow make them identifiable.

> you should not be OK with the prospect of your consultants spending 50% of their time in doc

Agreed on that
according to the Attention is all you need paper there wasn't huge differences between using sin/cos and trainable weights. But the paper is a little bit old, so I don't know what is the current sota regarding positional embeddings
> I visited the river of Amazon

Except there is a river called “The Amazon River”. Native English speaker here: I feel like rivers are always prefixed with “the”:

- The Rio Grande

- The Nile River

- The Columbia River

- The Yellow River
I put Linux on my mom's laptop when it needed a good refurbish for this exact reason and IT support requests from her dropped to basically zero, even for seemingly platform-agnostic stuff like printing. Did everything she needed, I could update it for her over ssh, and just chugged along perfectly reliably since she isn't a poweruser that's poking at every part of her distro.
There's nothing wrong with having some human missions, but I don't want to help pay for it.
I came across this last week when I got the HP Laserjet MP110we to replace a 12 year old Samsung printer that I just couldn’t find drivers for for the latest macs (Samsung sold their printer division to HP). They also have chips in the toner to detect an unofficial one and try to sell you a subscription. Seems like multiple steps backward although Wi-Fi printing from phone and laptops without cables is pretty cool (I realize I’m years late to this)!
Thanks for the advice. I was hoping to have time over Christmas to start looking, I've done a little preliminary research. There are, as ever, complications (possible extension?).
Generally no, it's a more uplifting news source than other sites. I don't think you should be anxious reading some of the pragmatic truth about these tech ideas. I would feel anxious reading about war and climate change, those are deteriorating situations rather than failure of progress.

HN also has better comments that don't tend to go towards insulting or argumentative.
Franchise dealers typically stock few if any vehicles in their base trim without options. Those vehicles often exist only in token numbers so that the manufacturer can advertise a low starting price, but they're not readily available to most consumers. Of course that varies by brand.
> find me in the RFC where it is stated that blocking residential ips is ok

Is there one that actually states it isn't OK, that I'm unaware of?

It perhaps goes against the spirit of the RFCs and other documentation written at the time, but that is understandable because a lot of that stuff was written from the standpoint of being able to trust people on the Internet, including that they fully understand and have properly secured the hosts under their purview…

I send mail from home just fine, though my connection is through an ISP that is generally identified as offering commercial accounts (AAISP). You do have to make sure that you have SPF and DKIM configured but that is the case elsewhere too.

My machines see quite a lot of activity (SSH login attempts, attempts at brute force logins & scans for known vulnerability in old versions of HTTP(S) hosted software, and more, not just attempts to send junk mail) from what appears to be compromised machines on residential connections.
There's nothing about Markov chains that says the model has to be based on brute calculation from previously observed frequencies. The point is that the exact behavior of these LLMs could also be modeled as a Markov chain with a sufficiently massive state machine.

Obviously that's impractical and not how LLMs actually work - they derive the transition probabilities for a state from the input, rather than having it pre-baked - but I think from the point of view of saying 'these are more sophisticated than a Markov chain', actually strictly speaking they aren't - they are in fact a lossy compression of a Markov model.
I build automated microscopes. Here's what I use: ESP32 w/ stepper motors and a stepper motor controller (https://www.tindie.com/products/33366583/4-axis-tmc2209-cnc-...).

For cameras I use low-cost UVC-compliant cameras, https://www.amazon.com/USB-Camera-3264X2448-Industrial-Suppo... although which specific model I get depends on the imaging application; in my case, I always get C-mount devices so I can put microscope objectives on it.

For image analysis I buy an Intel NUC or a PC w/ a graphics card. But you can do a lot of projects with a Raspberry Pi 4 (a zero 2 is pretty weak for this).
Somewhere I read that a Rolex has a very practical purpose - a real one is a commodity that can fairly easily be turned into cash or a bribe in an emergency, but as a watch, it's not susceptible to being seized by authorities in many circumstances where cash or gold might be.

I don't know if this is true, but it makes a good story.
Peering disputes in Europe center around different carriers generally. But the basic dispute is the same, carrier A doesn't want to peer with carrier B, probably for business reasons, so they try to setup their peering rules so that carrier B doesn't qualify, or they won't upgrade connections.

I know I've seen some carrier names that come up in those disputes a lot, often the incumbent telco for a particular country. But you've got a lot of countries there and most of them had their own nationalized phone company, and only one or two end up having public spats over peering. There's similar stuff in some countries in Asia, where some of the incumbent telcos refuse to peer locally. (and of course, China has the GFW)
- blue-light filter glasses (originally from a serious local shop, after have tried the cheapest I found on-line I discovered they are the same)

- monitor backlit to the minimum

- dark themes

- LARGE good-enough monitor with a certain distance (~1m)

I still feel some effects, but do not know anything realistic to do better...
ChatGPT access is now closed
What Is Marketing Automation, and How Can You Make It Work for Your Business?
Don't overthink it. Mathematics is just a conceptual tool we've invented to help us think about and solve problems. Nothing more. Language is another such tool.

Now, we could invent a conceptual tool to have arbitrary meaning, but without rigid definitions, symbols have no meaning, and therefore they cease to be useful for solving/comprehending anything.

I mean, say the word "XUNS" could mean anything, be it "cat", "sovereign", "hallelujah" or whatever. And I just say "XUNS XUNS XUNS XUNS XUNS". Would you know exactly what I said? No it is nonsense, because, without out giving a strict definition it could mean anything.

So by ascribing rigid definitions/meaning to things, we can now reason about them in sensible ways. Which is what mathematics does, and why it is useful tool for proving/comprehending something.

As for the axiomatic method... it produces truths, mainly because it's built beforehand upon pre-defined truths. By this I mean, if I define an inch to be so long, and measure an object to be 3 inches, then the statement that "the object is 3 inches in length" is true, because we defined it so. If instead, you changed the definition of an inch to be any arbitrary length, then it ceases to be useful, and we can no longer prove exactly how many inches the object is in length.
Yes, which you still need to add to a VHS player.
The purpose of SLS was to funnel money to particular contractors and facilities. It's not just that there's more money to be made by inefficiency; it's that the entire purpose of SLS is inefficiency. That it might achieve anything in space is entirely beside the point.
Adding material seems entirely permissible. A hot glue gun does nothing but, with usually admirable result.
There is a joke about how Tetris has been the most effective soviet weapon against the US, causing more damage in productivity losses than anything else the USSR did during the cold war.
Advent of Code 2022 in pure TensorFlow – Days 3 and 4
I remember some of these. Man, PC gaming was crap back then, wasn't it. Russian arcades I remember somewhat fondly, though. The mechanical *ball games, that space battle thing with its illuminator and mirrors. Not as good as the Japanese games at the time but still fun.
I too worked for NCC Group. Before joining we spoke and you sent me a copy of the Web App Hackers Handbook and The Art of Software Security Assessments. I then worked for NCC the following 5 years.

Yes report writing was the worst and half the week was easily dedicated to that. PM’s and account managers pushed Friday readouts so it was a high priority so you would stay late to finish everything before you started another assessment the following Monday. Readouts for last week and kick off for a new project on the same day we’re the worst but happened every so often.

It was never find a bug, report and move on. It was dedicate the whole day to making it clear, presenting to the client and integrating feedback.

Don’t get me started on review. Every client doc had to have 2 reviews including from at least one senior and they put it off as much as possible.
> compared to its most direct competitor, Rust.

No, no, no and no. How on Earth people come to this conclusion? Go is closer to node.js than to Rust. Like, it is not even a competition they are so far apart. One is a “zero-cost abstraction, low-level language”, the other is a “managed language with a GC like million others, which is as badly expressive as C”. To mention some positive as well, virtual threads are cool.

But the two is nothing alike and this sentiment is just utterly stupid and I see it everywhere for God knows why.
You'd be surprised that the answer in a lot of times cooties just be hype or inertia. I've seen it first hand at an employer that supported both Java and golang. A new project was started in golang just because of inertia, whereas Java would have been a strictly superior choice on basically every front. The resulting code base was a huge mess, even as per the admission of the "lead" who made the original decision, who clearly had no business making that decision in the first place. Literally over a million dollars spent on a mediocre, unmaintainable result
Nope. But one must learn to use these new tools to improve. Competition will not come from AI, it will come from other humans who leverage AI to increase output.
The parent comment's advice is good. There are problems with your reply and the replies to it. People are confusing "eye strain" with the long term permanent eye issues of myopia and macular degeneration. "Eye strain" has no long term effects, and there's no such thing as overuse of eye muscles causing soreness. And people confuse all sorts of things, like headaches from neck muscle overuse, with eye strain.

Eye dryness is the only real "eye strain" related issue that can have permanent effects. Ironically the advice of "rest your eyes to relax the muscles" might be helpful because it helps your eyes re-wet, as your blink rate lowers when engage in close up activity. The advice itself is based in the nonsense that the muscles can wear out.

> I remember having eye strain a few times like a decade ago, but I guess that was from over eating sugar or something

No, it wasn't, and I'm always surprised when people look for conclusions like this. Most of the replies in this HN post are anecdotal "here's what I do," and very few have an understanding of the actual issue and question.
I haven't heard "take a nap" before. What does it mean in that context?
Invicta has made some watches that are pretty similar for a long time. They aren't "high quality" replicas or counterfeits, but if you just like the look of a Submariner they seem to have similar watches for well under $100.
I had to double-check given how old my knowledge in this area is but MPa m^1/2 does indeed seem to be the unit used to measure toughness using diamond indenters etc. More precisely, it apparently describes the Fracture toughness, which is an indication of the tendency of the material to allow for a free propagation of a crack while under stress. The higher the value, the more energy the material absorbs and less freely does the crack propagate.

(Toughness modulus is in Pascals.)
native english speaker here, I still cannot connect it either.