skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at a large mining complex in Canada's far north. We have a mix of all types of door handles and mechanisms in outside-facing doors, like McMurdo, it would seem. Even the best of them fails to keep snow out and heat in when you get snow and ice caught in the door creases. Salt, sand, and shovel and pick are the motto.

Thankfully, more doors are further off the ground because of permafrost. Having stability and door-jam-avoiding benefits simultaneously.
What makes you push through when « no one cares »?
The imaginary Elon Musk you invented still doesn't sound reasonable, he sounds like an absolute nightmare to work for
As a part of a retort in an argument, it’s similar to rolling one’s eyes. It’s also not substantive.
I have a very rudimentary understanding of a botnet, but I am sure it's not going to be super expensive if you are trying to DDos a site like this. It would be prohibitively expensive if you are trying to do this to something like AWS.

However, the monetary gain from doing this is gonna be zero dollars. The entertainment factor isn't gonna be likely either.
Pine64 December Update: Merry Christmas and Happy New PineTab
C# has similar issues where they have to be conservative about what them trim from binaries for AoT in case it is used for reflection, so I imagine you'd run into the same issues for almost any compiled language you want to implement reflection for.
You only "friend" people in real life who you trust not to act maliciously. If you unwisely trust someone who is malicious, you encounter various problems, just like in real life. But it would be very difficult for a malicious person to construct a realistic-looking subnet of sockpuppets because that would require getting lots of real people to make that unwise decision.

Not saying this is perfect, but I predict that the vast majority of users who "friend" 20+ people irl who also have friends will be fine, and borderline cases will be borderline.
> I was not expecting "making up new rules" and banning ex post facto.

That's been standard practice at Twitter for a few years now.
Z-Wave differentiates itself from other IoT networks in that it's a closed proprietary network that you access by purchasing their proprietary hardware. This offers network stability and complete interoperability between devices because it's all controlled by a single vendor. Z-Wave device manufacturers interface with the proprietary hardware to provide state and receive command.

Many vendors make USB dongles with Z-Wave Controller interfaces hanging off of them that you can interface using a terminal. These dongles allow anyone to make their own Gateway for controlling other Z-Wave devices.

Because the interface is completely controlled and locked down, it means vendors can't embrace/extend Z-Wave or lock their devices down to their own proprietary controller.

There are some downsides to this setup, like distributing updated firmware for devices is challenging. No one wants to hand their blobs over to opensource projects to allow them to push updates.
How much did your opinion change after reading the 10/5 update to Schneier’s post?

From your first link:

I misspoke when I wrote that NIST made “internal changes” to the algorithm. That was sloppy of me. The Keccak permutation remains unchanged. What NIST proposed was reducing the hash function’s capacity in the name of performance. One of Keccak’s nice features is that it’s highly tunable.

I do not believe that the NIST changes were suggested by the NSA. Nor do I believe that the changes make the algorithm easier to break by the NSA. I believe NIST made the changes in good faith, and the result is a better security/performance trade-off.
It's not our tools. It's our argument over our tools that is our religion. It's what keeps us moving forward to discover the one true way... that One True Way that of course we will never reach or agree on. Naturally we clan up and try to get everyone else on board with what we love at the moment. It's all good, preach on!
Currently, the economics don't stack up. How does society handle it when the best jobs are automated? When all jobs are automated?

The Star Trek post-scarcity utopia scenario feels very unlikely; Mad Max-style scrapping for leftovers while Musk, Bezos, et. al. live behind walls feels infinitely more probable.

How do you implement UBI when a huge proportion of the political class is vehemently against it. Maybe we need to AI politicians, so they start to figure it out?
>> You think music theory is more demanding than CS?

Of course it is.
Roth IRAs aren't supposed to benefit anyone else. That's not why they exist
Does it have USB port(s), then? Windows 95 might handle that if patched/updated properly, I think.
For what it's worth there used to be a package in many Linux repositories called "ntop" [1] however it became less popular when they went commercial. There is still a community version but I have no idea how popular it is any more. It was quite popular prior to projects like PiHole. Perhaps the older ntop has fallen out of favor so maybe there won't be any confusion. I have no idea how many distros still have the other ntop.

[1] - https://www.ntop.org/
Permafrost stilts, for reference: https://s3.amazonaws.com/greenbuildingadvisor.s3.tauntonclou...
A friend of mine inherited about 1,000 vintage clocks.

He set up shelves all around his bedroom and put them in the shelves and put his bed in the middle.

5 years down the track I made a joke about radioactivity from the glow paint. We realized it wasn’t a joke.

He got a radon gas monitor and it did register high.

He seems fine but doesn’t sleep in that room any more.
They are exactly the same game though. Just a different name.

Disclaimer: I hate Blizzard Activision
I experienced ChatGPT confidently giving incorrect answers about the Schwarzchild radius of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, Saggitarius A-star. Both when asked about "the Scharzchild radius of a black hole with 4 million solar masses" (a calculation) and "the Scharzchild radius of Saggitarius A-star" (a simple lookup).

Both answers were orders of magnitude wrong, and vastly different from each other.

JS code suggested for a simple database connection had glaring SQL injection vulnerabilities.

I think it's an ok tool for discovering new libraries and getting oriented quickly to languages and coding domains you're unfamiliar with. But it's more like a forum post from a novice who read a tutorial and otherwise has little experience.
See also: "the maelstrom" in the Starfish Trilogy/Series by Peter Watts.
> By comparison, the typical consumer shopping experience is much more one of discovery, not need-solution mnatching.

Even if I put full fucking detail with brand and model I keep getting pages and pages of random products with different "sponsored" brands, model, features and so on. Its clearly need of Amazon are taking priority over mine.

> Keep in mind the average HN user is not the typical shopper. You and I might like to "get in and get out" but so many consumer shoppers ...

Yes I love to stores and see various items that I wouldn't typically buy. I could even go to, say Costco website to see random "newly arrived seasonal items".

But on shopping websites when searching for products most people are not looking to enjoy "incredible joys of discovery" by being forced to scroll through search results for things which they haven't even searched for.

Its purely ads and "marketplace" bullshitery from Amazon and others.
I think he missed the cloud revolution.
Linux / containers and the browser is where the action is in 2020.
windows is just a truck that holds a web browser.
If there’s a “tangible problem” people solve it with a SaaS subscription. That’s not new.

We developers are hired because our coworkers can’t express what they really want. No one pays six figures to solve glorified advent of code prompts. The prompts are much more complex, ever changing as more information comes in, and in someone’s head to be coaxed out by another human and iterated on together. They are no more going to be prompt engineers than they were backend engineeers.

I say this as someone who used TabNine for over a year before CoPilot came out and now use ChatGPT for architectural explorations and code scaffolding/testing. I’m bullish on AI but I just don’t see the threat.
LOL. Yes we had to upgrade our Vercel tier: https://twitter.com/sethforsgren/status/1603425188401467392
They wouldn't be because HN is a self-selected sample of people who tend to have tech experience, which tends to lend itself to certain ways of thinking.

If an ecommerce site depended entirely on looking through their catalog with SQL commands, I'd imagine most of the HN community would be able to navigate it (although possibly unhappy with it). I'd imagine most of the general population would not be.
> but having your own domain is the most important thing, because you can always change your hosting provider

What if your hosting provider or authorities seize your domain?
And the award for dumbest headline of the year goes to
Show HN's are for getting feedback, first and foremost. If there's no free functionality, then people can only give feedback on your business model, not your actual product.
To be fair to those assumptions, there've been a lot of cases of machine-learning (among other tech) looking very promising, and advancing so quickly that a huge revolution seems imminent—then stalling out at a local maximum for a really long time.
> Can someone explain to me why the breakthrough didn't happen in India?

Many of the brightest students in India go abroad for their PhD studies.

Given that the article says “Indian student Rishi Rajpopat cracked the 2,500-year-old problem” and “I hope this discovery will infuse students in India with confidence, pride and hope that they too can achieve great things," said Mr Rajpopat, from India.” I think this is an example.
> Because the FSF has an absolutely asinine definition of "free software" wherein any code that can be modified or updated is non-free, but if it comes from an untouchable ROM chip they can pretend it's still "free"

That is gross misrepresentation of their position. It is more like if a project is claiming to be free software, then it should not have parts that are non-free software (like redistributing firmware). If the firmware is in hardware ROM or EEPROM chip (or just downloaded independently from third source), then then it is not part of such project and therefore out of scope (i.e. somebody else's problem).
Personally, despite its reputation I've gravitated more and more towards Twitter, because at HN I can't really trust what people are saying. People may sound smart and like they know their stuff, but you can come up with great sounding arguments for and against anything. It takes a lot of time and energy to figure out if someone is worth listening to, so to me it makes more sense to seek out the known experts and follow them on Twitter instead. HN has also become more and more anti-hacker, anti-technology and negative in general. Life's too short to be immersed in negativity, even if it's right, which it rarely is.

How would the ideal social network look like? A mix of HN and Twitter perhaps. There are rarely any discussions on Twitter with deep comment trees.
I don't see any problem with bin outside all the time. Then again the house I used to live in had fence that was about high as it. So it was hidden from the road.
If you're talking about the Carboniferous period, my understanding is that was a one time thing. There were no organisms to break down wood and other plant matter during that time period. Huge amounts of lignin in the trees meant that it just got buried as sequestered carbon. That won't happen a second time since nowadays it is possible for all modern trees to be decomposed by a subset of living organisms.
Perhaps GPT could run on top of Stable-diffusion, generating output in the form of written text (glyphs).
if you asked 16 years old me why are you studying so hard, the lie would be the whole story so i can do get into college get a job etc... truth would have been so i can look good and be admired
SHA-2 uses the same construction as SHA-1, but my understanding is that there are no practical collision (much less preimage) attacks against full-round SHA-2.
TikTok pays content creator $3.75 for video which got 7.5M views
Sure. That's the historical disadvantage of Labor in the USA.

But there may come a point where Labor can flip the narrative, if only briefly.

After decades of teachers being demonized, the mood in West Virginia, of all places, shifted enough for teachers to win historical gains, with broad public support.

We'll see how long that lasts. The revanchists controlling corporate media always regroups and retakes the initiative. But I respect those teachers for seizing the moment and scoring some wins.

The railroad union needs a cunning strategy. PR, lobbying, alliances, direct action, etc. It's hard to pull off. For all the reasons. Structural disadvantages, exhaustion, competing for limited attention, yadda yadda. Whereas capital never sleeps, has effectively infinite resources, and clarity of purpose.
Yeah they did. I hit a rut in gaming a couple of years back and the Steam Deck has really revived a lot of the joy I get from single player gaming. I've had a blast installing ancient games from my library and reliving memories.

The Deck can really take advantage of all the Xbox forward ported titles that still play better with a controller, and I've picked up a lot of those over the years on sale.
Heh definitely an eyebrow-raising comment!
On a second read of it though, I took it more as "because minimizing the code written is a pattern observed in the wild, AlphaCode mimics it as that's what it learned from."

I might be terribly wrong though. :-D
I might agree if their arbitrary App Store tax wasn't starting to eclipse their hardware profits.
A font empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency
> I would challenge you to tell the people in the Southwest of the US to move out... or the Middle East... or desert parts of Africa... or small island nations in the Pacific.

Why would I try to do that? Seems authoritarian and wrong to tell people they can't try to live some place. The issue is economics and risks. Let them assume them as they will, no need force move anyone.

Water has always been an issue in the west. I'm rather familiar with it as I have researched water rights and live in this region. There is nothing untenable about living in the south western US.

Going into the nuance here you seem to be missing. Water rights for the region are principally based on who arrived first. This was intentionally done by the first settlers to insure their own access. As little as 10 years ago you couldn't even collect rain water because you would impede the water access of a water right's owner down stream.

Over time this has been tweaked and oh so slowly modernized. It's time for a major overhaul as the quantity is based on the flows that just aren't there anymore.

So the water is over allocated, and the costs paid by the water rights owners often do not reflect its scarcity. So you have people with lots of water rights using it to grow animal feed and otherwise farm the desert in a region that is increasingly water scarce.

There is plenty of water in the region to support the population if the use cases are allowed to be more elastic. A system needs to be put in place that ALL users pay based on availability, which would provide funds to maintain and build more capacity.

If we really value humans then miscellaneous environmental concerns should not be allowed to block large scale water projects.

Making such moves would allow people to live there as they desire by removing the cheap water away from mostly farmers and some industrial uses in the region. Which will disrupt a lot of food supplies.

This is why I believe our efforts are best centered around food and water, not emissions.
It might improve like Go AI and shock everyone by beating the world expert at everything, or it might improve like Tesla FSD which is annoyingly harder than "make creative artwork".

There's no fundamental reason it can't be the world expert at everything, but that's not a reason to assume we know how to get there from here.
The thing that gets me about the unintuitive system for ranking is that you have zero idea how long something will be on the front page. It could be 3 hours old, #4 on the page, with a few hundred upvotes and more points than almost all of the votes on the front page, and then just disappear an hour later.

And once something drops off the front page, it gets seen by almost no one. I keep trying to stop myself from spending too much time on comments (editing them for clarity and grammar, finding sources that people can follow instead of just relying on my claims, rereading the person I'm responding to in order to make sure I actually got what they were saying), because it's easy to spend 30 minutes trying to make a solid comment only to find out that the whole discussion has now disappeared and no one is likely going to read it.
Hacker News users have already built a social network together. It's called Hacker News.
The thing is, the comment I'm answering, is not about FTX. I'm not talking about FTX. The user was making a very broad statement based on this case.
I agree, that was a load of horseshit, especially bullet 1.
For every fervent user of X, I can find you 5 zealous irrational haters who are 100% convinced that X is just a religious fluff and that there is no way it's actually better than Y (what they are using). I have in fact, been guilty of that kind of thinking myself.
The point is you can recuperate some money after donating it.

The optimal approach is roughly donating appreciated assets such as stock so you not only get to avoid paying taxes on the sale but also reduce your income taxes elsewhere by the full amount. Aka if a stock is nominally worth 10 million but you would only get 9 million after tax if you sell it you still get to deduct the full 10 million from income taxes. Which beats the obvious idea of using a corporation to directly pay them.

For the full tax implications you need to consider the benefits of avoiding income tax and gift/inheritance tax for the donors as well as the recipient receiving benefits tax free as well as a portion of their salary at much lower tax brackets plus the impact of payroll taxes.

(Not a tax professional and loopholes change over time.)
Y'all getting any coding time? Meme image to be insertrd here
Firefox's js runtime also do tricks like generate multi copy of optimized function when the function has multi call site instead make one with lots of if else. So it no longer suffer from the problem that function that frequently get multi different type of parameters from different call site has poor performance.

It's probably exactly how templates work, except the details are invisible to users.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performan...
The Fevered Anti-China Attitude in Washington Is Going to Backfire
Usable public transport is not limited to urban centers. GP mentions Europe and there, you have rural areas connected by good bus or railway system people use to get to school or work.
> I actually wonder if things have gotten worse over the past few years.

They've gotten consistently worse since about 2015.

I started transitioning in 2009 when I was 18. I come from a very conservative environment and growing up I'd even tried to come out as gay a few times only to be "shot down" more or less but in college I used my own money and I found doctors to help me look how I wanted and I started dating men openly and as awful as it is to say, because I looked and acted the part people got over it pretty fast and begrudgingly accepted that I - at least - wasn't a man. My parents even got upset with me a long while ago when I insinuated that I was a part of the gay community because they said it was disrespectful to my then boyfriend who is now my husband (he had only dated cis girls before me and is straight to anyone who hasn't run a DNA test on me ha).

These days I can feel a change even from people who were kind to me before. All the coverage on conservative media outlets, the JK Rowling "trans women are a threat to women" and the Matt Walsh "trans women are mentally ill perverts" talking points have eroded goodwill so much that more religious and conservative members of my own family avoid me now as where they didn't before and I feel that I'm only able to have a good life because I'm in the fortunate position of being "passable" and attracted to men.

In 2012 when I came out to someone they'd usually just be curious about my experiences. Even conservative Christians and Republicans. In 2022 almost nobody is curious except about which surgeries you've had because they've already made their mind up about how they feel about you. For about 50% of the population that means you're a piece of scum who deserves ridicule and punishment (if it looks like you could still pass as male physically) or excommunication (if it looks like you're so feminine and far gone that you couldn't fit in as a man), for about 40% of the population that means indifference akin to what you'd get back in the good old days and for about 10% it means an outpouring of support and love in an attempt to make up for the 50% who are openly hostile.

I think more and more trans people are taking the Wendy Carlos approach these days because of this. Much of the community wants to avoid attention and get along with their lives. There's a growing trend of people "boy moding" or "man moding" which is where they take hormone replacement therapies but dress in drag to try to fit in as their gender assigned at birth in public the same way that Wendy did. As an amusing sidenote, many of these people begin "male failing" which is where the hormone replacement therapies make it impossible for them to pass as their gender assigned at birth and so they are read as being trans still but coming from the other direction.... It's so sad that it has to be this way.
The signalling and actual actions is always so weird for me. Like the stimulus checks. To me those sound exactly like socialism. Such that would not have really flown in one of these socialist European hellholes.
The FAQ was ''Last updated on December 14, 2022''

https://docs.dahliaos.io/faq

but I don't know how that relates to latest work on the entire project. Here's their GitHub page:

https://github.com/dahliaOS
Well, the safest part of any seatbelt is the part that goes over the chest, not the seat :-)

Standards evolve, and SHA has grown new generations to replace ones that have become insecure. See also "Secure Sockets Layer."
This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs.

over time i have become more and more convinced that this state of affairs is _better_.
RAVE attacks the phase issue by using a second step of training. I don't completely understand it, but it uses a GAN architecture to make the outputs of a VAE sound better.
I've been thoroughly enjoying this blog and I'm looking forward to read about the heating infrastructure there!
My title is a bit ambiguous in retrospect. Many took it as: How can HN become a social network.

My intention was to address the many talented and accomplished makers who engage with the platform. The title should probably read: "How might we build a social network that benefits everyone?"

Sorry!
https://www.areavibes.com/seattle-wa/capitol+hill/crime/

okay!