skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question:
How is Tesla legally allowed to beta test machines capable of killing on pedestrians who are none the wiser and have no business with Tesla?

The fatal crashes might have been Tesla's passengers, but the article doesn't specify. The question still stands though.
User defined functions without recrsion do not increase computational power.

And they definitely don't make a language Turing-complete.

They just make large code bases tractable for humans.
see what people can do best and have them do something else. I am not convinced.
I want to point out that none of your points are an actual indicator of how good someone is at programming.
They are important in the context of a job, especially in a team, but not for actual coding.
So its really two different things we are talking about here.
> So if nothing else... my family has a mantra: Never sell real estate

"Warren Buffett: $10,000 invested in an index fund when I bought my first stock in 1942 would be worth $51 million today"

Looks like he could have done 51 times better for no work

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/warren-buffett-10000-investe...
In all honesty I've always wondered why airlines don't offer similar services. Imagine flying under the influence of sleeping pills or anesthesia, it's basically teleportation services!

I can settle for anti-anxiety meds of choice too. (microdose of psilocybin should do the trick)
LOL

There is definitely a religious feeling to some of their arguments.
It depends, I asked about geocaching and it was spot on. Then I asked about the summary of the "Getting things done" book, and yes, it was surprisingly bad, like 50% correct with some misleading statements.
I worked for a Japanese corporation, and a really major default posture, was to make sure that someone was always on the hook for $THING, at every step of the development/maintenance process.

We never ended a meeting, without making sure that everyone had specific, well-documented marching orders, and we had an insane JIRA workflow, designed especially, to ensure that someone owned the issue, at every point. GitHub issues (my preferred method, these days) would never have been acceptable, as it does not force ownership.

They had huge Excel spreadsheets, that tracked issues, and there was always a “responsible person” column.

It could be a massive pain, but things seldom “fell through the cracks.”
Exactly this. Eliminating variable modes and especially additional work or slower paths during a state change like a failure.

Another classic is debug logs. Turning on additional logging when your system is under stress is a great way to increase the impact. Instead always record/emit the telemetry youll likely need and discard later if its unnecessary to retain.
They sound non human by design.
> If you hold onto these things for decades

It's always amusing when people bash tapes for the lack of backwards compatibility, but...

Hey, try to find a working system with PATA drives support? Try to connect SATA150 drive to SATA-III port? How about SCSI-320?

People like to talk, but I always said what if your data has a value then it's your responsibility to have means to backup and to restore it. If your data "is extremely valuable" but all your C-level are approving is a single drive decade old library - you can write your backups straight to /dev/null, because your data is worthless for your C-level.
Hiring to keep trees alive for the next 3 years (done).

The second part is where I needed help. Thanks for the link.

Yes that's a lot, around 2.5 tons of roasted beans per year apparently.
I’d say the things hitting your endpoint are going to be entirely automated scanners that are looking for unauthenticated resources or low hanging common passwords. If you have even a moderately strong password, it’s just noise. I’d be wary about drawing any significant conclusions from logs, because the sophistication of attackers you’ve excluded are quite low.

I’d say defense-in-depth is more about nesting strong cryptographic primitives, than simply adding layers. What you’re trading off for is complexity and convenience vs security. In the URL case, a password is more secure (and treated as such) and lots of care is usually taken to make sure the hashing scheme is timing resistant etc. I don’t know if Caddy makes equivalent guarantees, but I’d be very surprised if path matching was not just a string match/regex/trie. In terms of time to crack, just prepending these characters to the password would give you more protection, because that then has to go through a resource intensive hashing process.

An example of defense-in-depth would be to host at home only. Here, it’s because you’re nesting actual isolation (which is a good security primitive by itself), with a strong password. This gives you protection even if your threat model is “caddy is borked and is letting anyone do anything”.

Now in reality, you can do just about anything and it’ll work (because in the grand scheme, you’re probably not a high value enough target for any high cost attacks). If you secretly happen to be, then you can afford an actual security audit, rather than relying on random info from HN :)
Not sure about that, if there is no additional thrust the aircraft will be decelerating because it's running "uphill", pulling the gravity vector forward. It'll be balanced, so you don't "feel" acceleration or deceleration.

It's the same in a car, if you are coasting in neutral and encounter a hill, even though the car will be slowing down there is no "perceptible" longitudinal acceleration because it's caused by gravity (equally acting on the car and the occupant), just like in space or one of those zero-G flights.

There would be an increase in drag when pitching up, that would also cause deceleration.
Solid case! Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

Those who care and have to use TikTok can probably add their own virtualization layer (and tolerate the hit in cost/performance).
They are told that, but unawareness of the danger (No mass panic) makes them do the usual debark dance. Just dont offer them access to the luggage.
Most of my family are farmers. It's crazy hard work, requiring a massive amount of effort and know-how. Most of my farming relatives are better educated than me from a pure academic perspective.

Making a success of a commercial farm requires deep knowledge of the crop, the land, the weather and the local pests. Gone are the days of doing things the way your forefathers did things. Moreso if you actually want to be competitive in the market that you are producing for.

Please dont make the romantic mistake of thinking you will become this farmer and it's all sunshine and success. One bad crop (which could be because of no fault of your own) can mean financial ruin.

My advice: rub shoulders with the locals in the area. Maybe theres a farmer interested in renting your land and trees. Alternatively, appoint an expert to manage and run the farm for you.

Theres a certain romanticism associated whith owning land you inherited. But you have to be honest with yourself and look at the numbers. If it's not your expertise and the financials don't make sense you'll probably be better off selling the land.

My dad and I had exactly this conversation recently. He has some land that he got from his father, that he's renting out to the farming relatives. My dad's at the age now where he needs to plan for what happens to his estate. We looked at the numbers and relaized me and my brother will be better off selling and taking the money. In my country you are liable to pay hefty taxes on inheritance. Neither of us have the reserves to pay those taxes on a piece of land we have no idea how to run or manage. You inherit an asset that you are forced to liquidate in order to afford the inheritance taxes on that asset.
Yes I want to do it but not as a farmer, I will hire a farmer. I'm more business inclined and will handle it from a higher level.
i forgot to mention but i also wrote a bash script
It's good to be reminded more often of this can-do attitude. It's becoming way too prevalent to consider everything done that can be done, or to say that all territory's already been staked out by the billionaires leaving no hope for the rest of us.

Imagining a thing and then spending a lifetime making it a reality is not the same as wanting to get rich or famous. It's not even obliquely related to the drive for success. In fact it's a failure mode. It's an intellectual pursuit that might make you wealthy, but probably won't, because wealth and acclaim are orthogonal to satisfying your own curiosity.
Also try the HN Tokyo Slack group.
i mean even if they released it today, i wouldn't use it because i'd automatically assume it'd get killed in 3 years
https://archive.ph/DrD0n
I have >200 unique randomly generated passwords in my Keepass file for various accounts (granted, a lot of them are throwaway accounts). No way I could ever remember those passwords, so any attempt at using that approach would necessitate less secure passwords.
Apple has beautiful squircle curves the rest of us can't have unless we want expensive CAD tools and extra JS files, but they also have plenty of sharp transitions. Look at their cables, that have no strain relief, being a bad influence on every other cable for a decade.

It's basically just Bauhaus design but with a few nice soft features, it's gonna be a bit uncomfortable, it's gonna be expensive, it might compromise functionality, all to create a sense of precision, authenticity, and high-endness.
You're completly right: the real problem is not telling upfront what is the "ideology" (really: the training set) of the AI !

For an "AI" to be really usefull, it should be clear what datas made it, what bias was in the datas. Every society, every community, has bias... and it's a good thing ! The diversity of bias is what make the cultural richness, the difference of point of views. Moreover, as a culture is usually a consistent set, it means that different culture provide different consistent sets of options...

So, let's keep using biased IA... but let's explicit, discuss, acknowledge their bias (entry datas set) not to AVOID them (not technically possible and not humanly good) but to ensure that the right bias (wrt to the view of the society on the problem is) is used !

And let's stop trying to find an "universal" AI that could please everybody in every situation - like a kind of omniscient oracle or god - but let's build "specific customisable/adaptable AI" instead
Indeed at our family gatherings we do not speak of politics which to me is all trash and nothing to place anyone I care (family or friend) about over.
One alternative Librewolf needs some more promotion, has safer security by default
The trick is to find channels you trust and follow their content.
If it is unknown then I am dumbfounded as you are. The algorithm is undoubtedly getting worse over the years.
Tesla/Elon fans will tell you because human drivers also kill alot of people therefore we should also let robots kill people because as long as they statistically kill less people than human drivers they are therefore "safer", so it's fine to let them kill people as well, otherwise it's a double standard if only the human drivers are allowed to kill people and the product of their favorite mega corporation and meme lord is not allowed to kill just as many people while trying to learn how do drive.

So now you have humans and robots out to kill you on the streets. What a time to be alive.
Oh are there other HN ($place) groups?
lol. this is the press release.

yesterday a Twitter thread was on HN front page proving that even extremely strong passwords were cracked, which I suspect is because their hacks that double encrypted things with the user's strong pass and with the employer's weak pass. or even lastpass own internal key so they can have recovery features for corporate clients
Welcome to farming, it's a continuous learning curve and like everything, be mindful of those who sell snake oil.

The next few years should see coffee prices increase due to the losses this year in South America due to the prolonged / unexpected frosts.

All I could find for a starting point. This might not be totally applicable to your region, but I'd suggest you seek out coffee growers association in your area for further advice. Best of luck.

https://agrifutures.com.au/wp-content/uploads/publications/1...

https://www.agrifarming.in/coffee-growing-information-beginn...
Does this mean that the jokes are already in the training database, and ChatGPT just repeated them?

If not, how does it work exactly? Is there any difference between "a sophisticated pattern matching on a (very huge) corpus" and how a human would invent a joke?
> What is the weight of 1 kilogram of nails?

Correct answer: Depends on your current acceleration and/or the current force of gravity, puny human.

:-P
So instead of search bubble, we ended up with a single answer without any reference. Great.
That would require a body: robotic advancements and not "just" ai.
This looks fun!
What are you expecting, a post where you say "you're not allowed to talk about controversial topics"? No, the way this works is that a controversial topic comes up, an interesting conversation ensues, you see something you don't like, and the post gets removed or flagged or you come in with a vague comment like "please do not start flame wars <insert link to HN rules>", "personal attacks are not allowed <link to rules>", etc. Do this enough times and people obviously stop having these discussions. Most of the people I used to enjoy talking with on this site either no longer post here or treat HN as a sort of linkedin, as the ancestor post described.

You are not directly responsible for all of this - there is also a less tolerant culture among commenters, resulting in massively more echo-chamber-ish voting and flagging patterns, as well as a tendency to bother people off-site. I have started using nym accounts because in recent years, people have tried to harass me or my employer over posts that wouldn't have garnered any special attention whatsoever 5-10 years ago. This cultural shift is (I think) partially due to growth, but also partially due to the culture your moderation techniques encourage (intentionally or not). The culture of rigorous open discourse over novel/controversial topics has been almost completely destroyed here, in favor of a culture of facially polite business-friendly chatter (i.e. linkedin).

I think I understand the constraints you are operating under, and this outcome is a not-unreasonable compromise given those constraints, but it is not the one I would have picked. We already have linkedin for this. HN used to serve a different (and arguably more socially useful) function, and it still could, in theory.
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The best managers I ever had were those that actively created room for team members to be creative.

It's been almost 10 years when I last had such.

Tear it down.
It might be the anglosaxon revenge for the programming language / theorem prover coq.
20% includes shooting someone and then getting caught with 10kg of heroin. Nobody gets prison for 0.1g.
No, in my opinion you do not need to understand farming.

Liquid Death bought water wholesale from a bottling company. At 8000 trees, that’s a business, but barely, and would not support a real growing coffee business. Running building and running business is all about focusing on the right thing at the right time. Realize there’s sentimental value to fact trees were planted by your family, but in the end, it’s critical you’re clear about your goals and situation.
Early this century, I was a reader of a rather intense pair of guys that wrote Web Pages That Suck[0].

A pretty common refrain, was talking about design that prevented people from easily giving you their money. NNG[1] takes a similar posture, these days.

They tend to hold up Amazon, as the king of “Make It Easy to Give Us Your Money” design.

[0] http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

[1] https://nn-group.com
As you said it's a huge dilemma. I will keep it as green as possible, even if it cuts production by a big percentage. I'd rather have it fail that be not environmentally friendly. My life does not depend on it, I can afford to fail and that is why I want to try. I can hire people, labors are cheap where I live so that won't be a problem. A partner is fine if competent enough I guess. For now the goal is to break even, If I can achieve that it will be win already.
TikTok changes this algorithm about once every three months. I've reverse-engineered it about two times, and have since given up and decided to run a headless browser to do it for me. I'd love to see some tool developed to automate solving this so I can sign requests in a more limited context (ala Cloudflare Workers / C@E)
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I recently discovered the joy of abstracting away time. I write a lot of software in Go for work. This library, https://github.com/benbjohnson/clock, provides a Clock interface that can be used for creating either clocks with the same interface as the standard "time" module, or to create a mock clock that increments to the next tick on any and all tickers defined in the app. It really makes unit tests go faster, though it can be tricky to get the code right.
If you start using shell scripts, you are throwing away the whole advantage of build systems, which is only rebuilding what is necessary. Using multiple manual build phases (even if you have a shell script calling them all) also increases contributor friction and is terrible for FLOSS.
Need to go now, but here is my another $0.02 on this:

yes, complex enterprise networks really benefited from WPAD (at least for some time)

yes, it is primarily Windows because... well, because it was implemented there

and yes, it's not used in *nix-like because for 99% of time any of them are not in the AD and doesn't support NLTM SSO, so on any Windows machine you get a seamless and silent auth on proxy, while any *nix-like at best nagged you for credentials with an explicit modal. Oh, you restarted your browser? Who are you? Can you provide your credentials?

> if the company stuff is set up right, there's nothing any of those URLs could grab. Or better, tack on some always-on VPN or whatnot when not on the trusted network and all the better.

yes, just like in any other case, a proper planning (preferably done before deployment) is a key for a proper security, by not having an attack surface in the first place.
What happens to the perceived value of money if UBI is introduced? Wouldn't that be the cause for inflation?
> I’d say defense-in-depth is more about nesting strong cryptographic primitives, than simply adding layers.

I like this insight, thank you.

One rebuttal I have: appending those characters to the password would make it a stronger password, but it wouldn’t add another, wholly different, mode to authentication. It would be the same thing, just harder (and I don’t need a longer password as it stands). What if this mode is flawed in itself? That’s when a wholly different one is desirable.

In that spirit, I had also thought about just slamming http basic auth in front of everything. Even if that basic auth uses weak credentials, it adds to security in a multiplicative/exponential way (multiple passwords/systems), over just a linear one (single but long password). I suppose that’s also what you mean by layering.
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The cost of this sort of thing for a company comes from support and maintenance, not initial device acquisition or setup. As a thought exercise, consider a company with 50,000 of these...

- How do you patch and update them?
- How do you deploy configuration changes?
- How do you support them as they break?
- How do you refresh them as they go EOL / get outdated?

And, while this could solve the router layer problem, it doesn't solve the problems with people's home internet connections. Almost no one would use this in place of their home router, so it'll get plugged into them, and then this becomes nothing more than an additional layer of complexity on top of the home network.
“There is no sky fairy controlling the universe”

“BUH BUH BUH WHERE IS YOUR EVIDENCE?”
AFAIK this can be done with a mix of custom targets and adding the result to the input of the shared lib in some way.

What thing you cannot do? I have used capnproto, generated c++ files and passed the result to the input of targets perfectly ok.
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I played hundreds of hours of farm simulator.

just spend 2mi on machinery and you should be good to go.
Of course there are. And in a good company, those above you will listen to your suggestions for improvement and work with you to make them happen, or something addressing the same issues. Just like you should be listening to your reports and work with them, not against them.

This whole "opposing forces" attitude is what makes hierarchies toxic instead of supportive and I'd run the other way if somebody described a workplace like that to me.
Apple devices are in fact fairly difficult to fingerprint. In my experiments [1] all instances of the same hardware model (on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS) give the same fingerprint, so the best a tracker can get is "uses iPhone 14". Better than nothing, but not terribly unique.

[1] fingrprintr.pages.dev
In the recording of Elon Musk on Spaces the other day, there is a bunch of conversation about views being computed off prem in Google Cloud unlike, say, the likes count which is computed in the main Twitter in prem database. Wasn’t quite clear if they’ve changed this since - I assume not.

My sense was it is pretty good but was more designed for AI use - for example the Tweet recommendation (which Musk seemed to think was really well done compared to the ad algorithm).
Please don't spread obviously untrue conspiracy theories.

The main reason is that it's really hard to avoid fingerprinting (while providing rich features like WebGL and WebRTC anyway).

A secondary reason is that web browsers started off from a position of leaking fingerprint data all over the place so there's not much incentive to care about it for new features.

You might be interested in this effort to reduce fingerprinting: https://developer.chrome.com/en/docs/privacy-sandbox/privacy...

(The real conspiracy is that Google added logins to Chrome specifically so that they don't have to rely on fingerprinting. They have a huge incentive to stop fingerprinting because it leaves them as the only entity that can track users.)
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Ah so the parents are in on it then and they’re all going to run.

“Oh no we accidentally paid bail with worthless assets and didn’t touch our billions in stolen goods”
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I like to follow Pieter Levels in this regard. He’s very open on what works and what doesn’t. Yes he has thousands of followers now, but that didn’t come easy. He tried a lot, only 4 projects out o 70+ made money: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817
So your point is that pdf is a shit format that needs a custom parser for each document type before it can be used for anything but print...?

I'm really confused here, it seems we all agree that pdf is a bad format?
These few favorites from my days of being wild into Wong Kar Wai movies:

- Love is just a matter of timing, from 2046, with Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song https://youtu.be/F-J0P9K9BJc

- Meeting, from In the Mood for Love, with Nat King Cole's Te Quiero Dijiste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62qQQVaREU

- Missed chance, from In the Mood for Love, with Nat King Cole's Aquelos Ojos Verdes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDS8hJBVJUM

- The End, form In the Mood for Love, with Nat King Cole's Quizas, quizas, quizas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMmgKPiAhw