skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Registration like you propose opens up completely unauthenticated Sybil attacks

I proposed no such thing. If it’s important to know which client made a particular call, then it’s important to authenticate that client.

An old school CD-key can provide a one time shared secret to bootstrap a client install, or even a PBKDF if matched with a serial number to securely share the client secret.

Most implementations are concerned with AuthN and AuthZ for users and don’t require these extra controls for client security (i.e. you don’t care which client instance a user interacts with) I was responding to erroneous assertions that these controls couldn’t be implemented.
See my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050157

TLDR: because it is done over a slow protocol (I²C) and because of artificial delays in code to account for slower devices
Your answer wont be found in monitors. You need a media switch, a good one like thise used in the enteraimment industry for broadcast-quality transitions between inputs. Alternatively, look into streamer-quality "media switches" used by streamers with multiple camera rigs.

https://restream.io/blog/best-video-switchers/
> This point is at the center of the move to subscriptions, and I think we should be more explicit that we want companies to eventually _not_ significantly upgrade products and keep them alive with minimal changes for a long time, while we're still paying for subscriptions.

How is that different from rent-seeking?

In particular, what does "keep the software alive" mean? I can understand that cloud services have a fixed cost of upkeep. I can understand that less so for software that runs on my own pc.

> The roadblock is of course customers wondering why they're still paying every month for a product that sees little change, and I don't have an answer to that, except the alternative had other issues as well.

That question is not that dumb. If you don't want any meaningful change to your software, why do you care that the company still exists? You might just as well have an old version that still works, whether or not the company is still maintaining it.

So yeah, in that situation, apart from the occasional security fix, I really wouldn't know what I'm paying for.
>The fascination with this guy has always been peculiar to me.

But he's building reusable rockets and cars that do 0-60 in 2.2 seconds, and trying to build sci-fi stuff like AI and cities on Mars. As a tech geek I find it hard to see how that isn't interesting.

I find the hatred many people have for him odd. I mean yeah he's done some bad stuff but no more than most. Like he insulted a guy 'pedo' who insulted him first 'stick his sub up his wotsit' and the haters are all like that's the end, he's evil, like they never insulted someone who insulted them.
> You self-host things that are easily self-hostable.

Exactly, which is why you can self-host e-mail, as there are turnkey packages available for that. Self-hosting e-mail does generate some extra workload, but that's atypical, and has to do with a) somewhat arcane tech that's underpinning e-mail, and b) whether it works or not with a wider ecosystem depends a lot on where you're self-hosting it. That b) in particular is not something you encounter elsewhere.

As for error reporting... I'm gonna risk asking: what's the challenge making it hard to self-host?
My first thought while reading the article was that this could be used as a water supply treatment, not necessarily source remediation. Any thoughts on that?
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Swapping out rendering of Portal game with raytracing [YouTube]
Absolutely. I'm becoming allergic to subscriptions and I'm even dropping all my website and service ones now as much as I can. I've just had it with this money-grabbing. Subscription models just won't work for me.
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Particles can be an awesome way to make your website stand out. So let's take a look at how to add animated snow to your React App using tsparticles.
You can use any ActivityPub frontend you want to see the same content, it can be very light Pleroma for example.
Twitter users vote to remove Elon Musk as chief executive
Russian aggression started from Ukraine wanting to join EU in 2014, not NATO.

There is one really simple fact explaining why Ukraine wants to join EU.

Polish and Ukrainian economies were exactly the same size in 1991 after collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian economy was actually a bit bigger in 1990. We had almost the same population of around 40 million people, similar location and culture.

Yet, in 2013 Polish economy was almost 3 times bigger than Ukrainian ($521B Polish GDP / $190B Ukrainian GDP = 2.7). By 2021 there were almost 2 million Ukrainian economical immigrants in Poland.

Many Ukrainians conclude that being in western sphere of influence is just economically better.

Noticeably better, by example of Poland, maybe even 3 times better.

Putin on the other hand is afraid that if Ukraine becomes richer than Russia, then Russians will also start revolution. Hence the desire to subjugate or destroy Ukraine by all means.

And having your land invaded and annexed by Russia (2014 annexation of Crimea) kind of makes you really want to join NATO. Nobody, not even Putin, could have foreseen that.
There’s a whole community of Leo/TWIT haters. There’s a website and everything. It really seems like a bunch of people have gone off the rails and the rolling of the dice has dictated that this is their obsession.
Recent growth in one specific Mastodon instance
My comment wasn't about being two-sided; it's more againts being single-sided. "Keep in mind" combined with "pushing agendas" means: you cannot trust the message, because it was written to manipulate you. It's guilt by association.
> "Tweets" are much longer, so it no longer feels like microblogging. Sensitive content feels even dumber, I don't want to click "Read more" in order to view a tweet like it was some kind of a ad-bait blog post.

While messages can be longer, IME they tend to be about Tweet length.

Content Warnings are optional and can be expanded automatically by your client.

> And I have no idea if I chose the right Mastodon instance with the right hall admins that won't read my private messages and ban me for having the wrong opinion.

Valid. But I'm not sure this is much different at Twitter. And at least with Mastodon, you can leave and take your data with you. If you're concerned about this, you have the option of hosting yourself. I know a lot of people rankle at that suggestion but Twitter doesn't even give you that option.
I seem to recall a demo where a trumpet sound was plugged into an aggressive high quality speech denoiser, making it sound like a speaker. Does anyone remember this demo, or have similar links on creative use of this tech?
> It’s hard to separate Marxism from the USSR

That makes more sense if you are talking about Leninism than Marxism (yes, I know Leninism markets itself as Marxism-Leninism, but, its quite easily to distinguish Leninism from non-Leninist Marxism.

> in the same way it’s difficult to separate facism from Nazi Germany

I mean, Naziism is a lot closer to the original Fascism (that of Mussolini’s Italy) than thr USSR is to original Marxism, but it is still pretty easy to distinguish the features of either fascism in the broad sense or Italian Fascism in the narrow sense from the distinct features of German Naziism.

> I don’t see how one can reasonably separate a predominant ideology from the empire that popularized it.

Marxism was a significant global force about which regimes were concerned well before Lenin made a radical alteration to make it seem relevant to societies that had not yet acheived well-developed capitalism.
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As long as you're happy with your hobbies, who cares?
It has but not for mountain lions. The likes of toads and hedgehogs only need a small below-ground tube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis,_California#Toad_Tunnel), squirrels and marters can be helped with an above-ground rope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_bridge)

One issue with narrow passages is that predators may learn to take advantage of them, eventually driving other wildlife away.
This is by Arthur of k and shakti (k9) fame; most his code is definitely not standard practice. His c code is still very terse etc. You get used to it.
She didn't ask the chimp's permission though. Definitely a colonist.
Why is it false? Those security updates are important and it's very nonintrusive.
> one problem is the difficulty of measuring what we are talking about: when is a language "dead", when the last program in production stops running? when the last programmer that can program in it retires? when the last school that is teaching it removes it from the curriculum? or maybe when the last computer scientist that can enhance it decides there are richer academic and/or commercial pickings elsewhere?

When no company willingly starts a greenfield project written in this language.
As someone with a fixed amount of monthly disposable income, I could buy new software every month - or I could maintain a fixed number of subscriptions.

Subscriptions sort of take the first derivative of your buying power.
No, I don’t know what you are saying because you are being deliberately indirect amd avoiding making an argument rather than vague handwaving and innuendo.
Looks like we'll shortly be finding out https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-your-money-64021412

As a cynic, I agree with the anonymous quote in that article:

> "His investors are surely looking at this now and questioning whether he was the right horse to back. I imagine he's getting pressure from investors to step down and is using this poll to make it look like he's following the will of the people instead of the will of those paying his bills."
Wow that's insane glad I decided not to use gitpod.
People have asked about the recent growth in Mastodon instances, so I thought I'd post a quick'n'dirty graph of what's been happening on mathstodon.xyz.

We've grown from about 2K users (600 active) in mid-October to around 12K as of Dec 19th. It's been an interesting ride.
Most likely a huge relief to Musk himself, can't imagine he's been enjoying presiding over all this past month's nonsense.

Best get back to making cars and spaceships like he's good at.
...And then let me bother you with the lated MSNBS celebrity nonsense in your start menu when you're trying to find an application
Rich people owning a media don't need to do anything for the media's editorial line to be changed.
Yeah. Different stokes for different folks I guess. Personally the less Dvorak the better in my books. I stopped listening to TWiT ages ago and even by that point you could really tell that he was a bit unhinged.
Maybe. I rather opposed it to a harm to humanity. I’m not ready to discuss the absolute values. Let’s say I see the Internet as an absolute benefit to humanity and the social networks are (were) a useful part of it.
If I connect such SSD externally via usb to another laptop and choose in its BIOS settings to boot from USB, will the OS on this SSD boot up as if it were inserted into this another laptop?
That's just a gender swapped Wesley Crusher story.
IMHO all nonsense is by his own business decisions.
That may technically true, but on the Intel MacBooks, switching resolutions was still a major ordeal with multiple black screens flickering past.
Also, it's not like these "investors" preordered a game for $100 and it never released.

They wanted to get in and out early before the hype dies. They wanted to get rich quick. Of all the games out there, why shell out tens of thousands for an unreleased egg hatching game?
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Wouldn’t it be the case that the art itself might not be copyright but the figure itself is and requires a Disney license?
Isn't the retraction of the paper the author's point? That people are pushing nonsense and it is getting into "peer-reviewed" journals?

The rest of your comment doesn't really follow the HN guidelines when it comes to the principle of charity – you seem to be trying to deliberately come up with the worst possible interpretation of each point rather than actually attempting to have a constructive conversation about these things.
https://archive.ph/RiKja
Since the neural net is just trying to predict the response based on examples its seen before, it's not surprising that it would do this.

E.g., give it 1000 examples of someone on stackoverflow asking "how to I do X in python?" and being answered with "just import this library and use this obviously named function", then it would make sense that it would assume that for other questions, a similar response would have a high probability of being correct, even if no such library actually exists in this case.
The December 7th, 2022 MOLA blog post (the progenitor press release) here:

https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/%E2%80%98once-lifetime%E2%80%99...

Twit release:

https://twitter.com/MOLArchaeology/status/160048215093513421...

The earlier site geophysics and excavation field reports can be found (as an exercise for the reader) with a bit of searching.
oh lol. Yeah, messed up while rewriting. Fixing. Thanks!
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
This is still fundamental research not commercial engineering. Like everything good before it.

Even in engineering problems, two people started a little electric car company in 2003. No, youknowwho wasn't involved yet. Would you have said "i can't see how electric cars can ever be workable" then?
Yes exactly, he's way out of his depth on this one. Can't be a very enjoyable experience for him. Would probably be humbling for anyone else, can see why he wants out though.
I don't see one part of the article that sold this from a dull business and product oriented perspective or any unreasonable sci-fi nonsense. They only explained some of some people's future goals of fusion. Not necessarily even the goals of this program. You can't ask about a commercial POV of something that likely isn't even close to existing. Think past the damn business perspective! It's science! This is Hacker News not Shark Tank! It's like asking what is the commercial POV of lake houses on Titan. It's just ridiculous. One step at a time.

The comment I replied to stated "Better to focus on standardised production lines for small fission reactors." To you, is that not shitting on the research? It implies the only purpose for this research is for power generation. And that it is clearly inferior to small fission reactors for that purpose, when the technology doesn't even exist yet. It just diminishes the accomplishment as a whole. It's so short sighted from a group of people who's jobs only came to existence <100 years ago.
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Sorry for the ignorant question, but who is Huberman Lab and why should we care? What drove you to make an AI interface for it?
For generic necklaces yes, but when we're talking about necklaces with a religious symbol on them, I'm not so sure.
Oh no! Don't trust those websites. This is how people get viruses.
The people have spoken. Or maybe he rigged the poll.

Either way, he can enjoy not running this shitshow into the ground any more. Get back to making spaceships and cars.
You greatly underestimate the order of magnitude difference of produced energy in these two examples. You can't contain a bomb's hydrogen fusion reaction in a chamber for the simple reason that you need a nuclear fission warhead just to ignite it. So if you want to produce useful, controlled energy outside of killing things, the lasers are your only shot for inertial confinement fusion. Yes they still get damaged, but lasers have seen ridiculous advancements in precision and instantaneous power over the past few decades. This news shows that practical fusion is now only an engineering problem, not a fundamental physics one - like it still is for Tokamaks and Stellarotors. For them noone knows if it is even possible to e.g. control turbulence long enough to achieve net positive energy gain.
Yeah compare broken water pipes with broken facebook/whatsapp etc. If the former is broken, people don't have water until the issue is fixed. With latter, at least they can use one of the alternatives (and they do, usage counts of alternatives go up during outages).
Surely this is unsurprising. It seems like nearly everyone who makes a big deal about "Free Speech" hasn't really put the effort into fully and authentically understanding it.
I experienced something absolutely bizarre with this, making me want to try and reupload to see if the same thing occurs. I had some footage laying around that was taken on a windy day, with buses and wind and kids screaming, and for the most part it was greatly improved.

However, a few seconds into my recording there is a part where there is someone else's dialogue for a few seconds. I can't make out what they're saying but it definitely sounds like a man, with a Latin-American accent, speaking English for a second.

Could that be a hallucination or somehow they mixed audio from another recording? It only last for about a second, but it's so strange.
Of those only the Copper is programmable though, and only marginally so.
I wonder if “trigger warning” has been labeled offensive because those doing the labeling have realized it’s become a joke, almost pejorative term in the eyes of the rest of the world. I think 80% of the time when I hear someone use the phrase these days, it’s through some layer of satire.
Sorry mate. Have not used hyperscript so any comparison from me would be less than objective.
I’d suggest that certain persons have benefited for sure but that doesn’t make the case that Twitter et al have been a net positive for humanity.

My personal view is that they have not been a net positive for humanity and have created a generation of young people with more mental health issues and less attention span amongst other issues.
Not to defend anyone; but being around a lot of these people, there's a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to nutrition whilst on steroids. People often attempt to switch up their diet when starting and give it outsized attribution to their success. It isn't helped by people with poor diets not getting the same results, but in my experience it often has more to do with a person that can consistently eat chicken and broccoli will be more consistent with pinning, etc. than a person that can't stick to a diet.
The guy who slandered a rescuer as a pedophile because his nonsense idea of building a special submarine to rescue kids from a cave was snubbed is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who claims degrees in fields that never existed at a university he never studied at is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who made sure to add a clause in his separation agreement with PayPal that required PayPal to list him as a founder despite having made no meaningful contribution is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who gave himself the title "Chief Engineer" at his own company SpaceX despite having no credentials or other qualifications in aerospace engineering is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who replied to a random person's tweet about him being booed at a Dave Chapelle standup show to insist that it was actually 90% cheers and 10% boos except for the quiet parts, deleted that reply and then still insisted that he was only booed because the crowd consisted of woke SF leftists (who famously dislike Chapelle due to his recent history of mocking trans people) is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who fired the entire communications department of Twitter so all requests for comment would have to go to him just like with his other companies is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who slept on the factory floor at Tesla likely contributing nothing whatsoever by doing so is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who became Twitter famous for pumping dogecoin, sharing other people's memes without attribution and trying to incorporate the numbers 420 and 69 into anything he can is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

The guy who went through multiple chaotic rounds of layoffs after buying Twitter, regulations and local labor laws be damned, even going so far as to make the remaining employees virtually sign multiple "pledges" to do what he says is not "too interested in other people's opinions"?

I'm sorry to say, but based on his actions alone Elon Musk is one of the most insecure and fragile individuals on Earth and seeks constant reaffirmation by surrounding himself with yes-men and wielding whatever power he can get his hands on to shield himself from being subjected to any criticism.

But you're right in that he wouldn't be where he is if he were any different. His Twitter buyout literally started as a "meme" and blew up spectacularly because of his utter disregard for the law (or specifically in this case: contract law). He's used to get by by presenting himself as "real-life Tony Stark" and people are increasingly waking up to the fact that he actually is neither an actual engineer nor even remotely as business-savvy as everyone used to believe. Peter Thiel once called him a con artist and no matter what one may think about Thiel this description seems increasingly apt.
There's a link in the video to one where they compare different projectile speeds - up to, iirc, a 50cal
Surely disproven by the blog post you're responding to?
I'll gladly sacrifice the second list for the first list.
If its cold enough in Europe they install dedicated heaters rather than idling the engine - they install a small heating device and pump plumbed into the cooling loop and to the petrol or diesel supply.

When it runs it heats the coolant and circulates it through the engine block.

Newer ones can also talk to the ECU to open the heater core valve and fans to pre heat the interior too. They also can use either SMS messages or an app to turn on remotely if you don't want to use fixed timers.
They are not talking about a few seconds, they are talking about a few nanoseconds. Which is NOT stable at all.

A few seconds would be a major breakthrough indeed.
Wow you’re right, this is a great improvement in quality.

Also, very enjoyable & clear presentation.
Then I would say someone needs to make the best “thing” that entrenches their “thing” to a name. For the most desirable names, that would be the only way to maintain stability; constant innovation making something synonymous with the name.

This concept can be extended to support more stable namespaces. It just requires a little thinking. Could be as simple as a numeric queue for a name, like say you want the “search” name. You are the first to associate with it. You might have the permanent address “search.one”. Someone else wants to associate with it. They get “search.two”. This goes on and a million people want it. The millionth gets “search.million”.

These sorts of details have meaning but are irrelevant to the core problems what I’m talking about solves, and the core problems that need fixing: the CA system is inefficient, archaic, and tyrannical. They can be, technologically speaking, easily replaced with far more secure, purposeful, and democratic technological, autonomous systems.
Afraid of superintelligent AIs gone rogue? Let's start wargaming!
Fungal toxins are widespread in European wheat
I think that mindset is deeply mistaken, even though it may be understandable. If you don't research it you will leave a void that the actual racists can fill with their pseudo-scientific babble, and if you don't do any actual research or have any arguments to counter them because it's all taboo then all you have are ... the racist's arguments, strengthened by a "they're covering it up!"

Everyone can tell the different between bona-fide research for scientific and historical purposes and eugenics. The dangers are strongly overstated: eugenics was used to justify existing racism, it didn't cause it.