skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot of similar confident but utterly nonsensical responses from ChatGPT. It really comes across as the ultimate con artist. Project confidence and drown people in so many words that they start doubting themselves instead of ChatGPT. We may have taught AI to gaslight us.
In a nutshell, the algorithm computes

uint64_t hash = 0;
uint64_t magic_pattern = 0b001000010000100001000...;
for (size_t n = 0; n < data.size(); ++n) {
hash = (hash << 1) + random_table[data[n]];
if ((hash & magic_pattern) == 0) {
SetChunkBoundaryAt(n);
}
}

In practice, there's more bells and whistles, but that's the gist of it. By tweaking the numbers of 1's in magic_pattern you can influence the average chunk size (distance between two boundaries). With every additional 1, your chunk size halves. There's no special handling of compressed file types. You'd probably want to do that at a much higher level, e.g. just check for extensions.
Only if the DRM protects a copyrighted work, and even then only if the "protection" goes beyond protecting the software from being executed/used. (Chamberlain v. Skylink)
Yes, it's entirely client-side.
I take heart when reading about recovered parts of expensive ashes.

But I firmly believe that no project is wasted especially one that pushed the boundaries of what is commonly done. All the people working there learnt something. They might apply their new found knowledge to other fields or future carriers. The money invested is not lost but converted into bigger brains.

I look at VC money in much the same way. It's not great when a startup fails. But a lot is learnt.
There were countless arguments over the ladt decade about which part of crypto is pure speculation and which ones are legit investments.

Few people are willing to rehash old discussions - so few people want to discuss why Bitcoin is/isn’t like tulips.
Come on, an e-bike is much more like a scooter or a moped. I know it's not black and white, but cycling is getting forward purely on your own strength. Everything else makes you dependent on other things than your own body.
Actionable advice: eliminate this step in the buraucracy that does not serve a purpose. When can I expect implementation of my idea?
That's fair, I am probably outdated on that one.

Fair play if they managed to tidy it up, admittedly I've not checked a YouTube comment section in ages. I'll update my knowledge :)
Hand wave all you like.

If Microsoft is putting money into a 3rd party company for their AI (and, they are. right now)

…that is fundamentally not sustainable as the “total value” of the relationship increases.

Either a) Microsoft will in-house their own version and drop openAI, or b) they’ll buy them.

Any other conclusion that anyone draws about Microsoft’s commercial relationships is delusional.

The only point in contention is “is openAI special enough?”

Or will Microsoft just clone their models with their own army of engineers, using the papers they release?

Well; all I can say is right now they haven’t committed to doing it themselves, and the “total value of AI” is soaring.

So, bluntly, the current situation is unstable.

I guess it’ll flip one way or another this year, probably quite soon, given the news recently about share sales.
RIP lawyers...

And doctors, writers and programmers...
A quota is more « that’s all you will ever get to use, nothing more »
Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?
it's he. website name is his wife's name.
ImageMagick does the trick, for example `convert -delay 20 -loop 0 *.png out.gif`
Wow this is such a fail. It tries to fix a security issue but creates a much bigger hole in the entire system.
Is it? EU talks a lot about national carbon footprint, and GCP launched carbon calculator https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint. Sure, noone asks this in explicit way but given current trends it feels like we are going in this direction very fast.
I find it even technically outstanding. Is that some sort of natural Moire pattern on it's back? Spliced-in turkey genes? I find this cat oddly fascinating.
Honestly, the only people who hate social media are tech journalists who have an article deadline coming up fast, politicians during election years, and of course HN users.
> would have something a bit more comprehensive but i've been engrossed in trying to set up servers over the last 24 hours.

Maybe a slightly smaller and lighter "C" and "U" preceding them?
Well, the owners still have a couple of strikes before the city hall decides to fully take action.
So much this.... Crappy so called security software that only makes things more secure by slowing down the computer.

I get it we need to protect the network, but you don't do that by making sure that everybody is out looking for a way to do an end run around your virus scan and audit software.

I would love to know how much power is used just to run so called security software.
But Firefox doesn't look healthy, and it's such a shame. I'd welcome a world where Firefox was back at 30+%

As would I, but using Firefox and following its development since 1.5, the outcome is entirely understandable. They chose a dick-measuring contest with Google over sticking to what built its usershare in the first place: user control. Until Google finally kills off competent adblocking, Firefox offers me nothing Chrome doesn't. And it's damned sad. They threw the ten percent under the bus so they could chase that 60% fantasy and this is the inevitable result.
In the last three years, I have lost my dad and my mother and father in law. Don't worry, you will leave puzzles behind you whether you want it or not. Taking care of the administrative remains of a modern human being is a big big puzzle.
Awesome, thanks for replying here! If I may be greedy: I suppose you used something else for capturing the command prompt gif?
Is the Fediverse about to get Fryed? Or, Why every toot is also a potential DoS
* Venture capital investment in defense hit a record last year
* Ukraine invasion has spurred investment on the continent

European tech companies that work with the defense industry, long an investment taboo for many venture capital firms, are drawing record amounts of funding in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In the past year, governments across the continent have ramped up spending on military defense, pledging billions of euros to modernize and build their militaries. Private investment in defense-related tech companies has increased in tandem. According to startup data provider Pitchbook, investment in aerospace and defense last year reached an all-time high of almost €780 million.

This marks a major shift. “It’s just not an option to not have the discussion,” said Uwe Horstmann, a general partner of Project A, which invests in defense tech companies. “Because it’s so clear that the situation has completely changed.”
Nice tip about the placeholder, I will steal that. Thanks.
But it’s not the right solution. For example, the first word has the wrong number of letters, the first, second and third word are supposed to end with the same letter, and so on…
Most Asian countries are pretty authoritian by nature. Singapore is a prime example, tons of laws, very heavy handed.
Good questions. I particularly like the 10x price one. That might
mean 10x revenue or 10% of the customer base for the same
revenue.
Ah, if only I knew that years ago.

A botched BIOS upgrade bricked my mobo. I had a friend with the identical same model, had to remove the chip from mine, go at his house, and with his system turned on remove his chip, put on mine, flash the BIOS and put his back again.

Scary but a learning moment.
The Armory is a long-time host of various purity tests[1], which is probably why it's filtered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_test
Huh? I see three different Linux downloads here

https://webkit.org/downloads/

edit: ahhh, it's not KDE/Qt. Epiphany is GNOME. Okay
It's not about word games, it's about how high the prevalence of 1:1 locking is. Especially when you use words like "all" and "can't spot".

Looking at the moons in our solar system is evidence but not definitive.
I can't tell if this is legit or not, due to the typos, writing style, etc. I name searched this person and found some tweets of them collecting two other bug bounties from Facebook.

https://twitter.com/yaalaab/status/1603827006243733520/photo...

https://twitter.com/yaalaab/status/1431371005654618117/photo...

https://twitter.com/yaalaab/status/1268659389625483265/photo...

He got $3000 for finding this bug, which seems unusual since it sounds like the most catastrophic thing possible. Facebook also paid him $15000 two years ago for another bug bounty, so I can't imagine how bad that one must have been. Glad to hear the rewards for white hat hacking are so lucrative. He'd probably be better off applying for a job at Facebook as one of their janitors, cleaning the toilets of clueless SWEs.
This is so infuriating and irritating to read; well done, lol
My impression is that it was a combination of three things: internal Windows team dysfunction, ambition too far ahead of the storage and network technologies of the day, and lack of a clear customer use case at a time when the focus of Windows+Office shifted towards enterprise.

The OO database storage project was apparently Bill Gates's personal baby, so it didn't lack in executive support. That probably explains why the dream was kept alive for over a decade (Cairo started in 1991, WinFS was finally left out of Vista in 2006).

Steven Sinofsky's interesting online book "Hardcore Software" has some chapters about Cairo and later WinFS:

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/020-innova...

"Cairo aimed to advance personal computing with dramatic changes in how we thought of files—rather than single files and folders, Cairo intended for files to have the capabilities of a database. Everything on your PC was to be stored in a database to easily search, find, and show relationships between items: files, email, contacts, photos, documents and more. Advancing storage was a long arc of innovation Bill favored.

"Ultimately, the human toll of Cairo was high in the sense that so many people spent so much time early in career working on a project that not only didn’t ship but was viewed as squandering resources, at best, and misguided at worst. It was a bit of a black eye for Microsoft among the press and analysts who believed Microsoft would deliver on the idea of object-oriented the way that NeXT had done but at scale. The magnitude of the project would leave many people with Cairo war stories for years to come. I wish I could say that the lessons learned would prevent another experience like this from happening, but that isn’t the case as we will see."
The other problem with JavaScript source is there no built in mechanism to explicitly declare language version. That would be the first step in letting browsers
be more intelligent, or rather less intelligent, about how to interpret the code.

With the complexities of being backwards compatible with all the ECMA in the wild, TypeScript could be the candidate language for this.
"nearby" = 30ly
Haha for the record it's not thinking the name is cool that is a problem or anything, the name would be cool to me too at 34 if they'd put anything decent out under it, it's knowing if you're in business for a while you've got to start targeting the next generation's vocabulary!

Idk call it Google Poggers or something (I never said I had the answers, hah)
Sadly we do not live in a post-scarcity world, competiting for resources in an adversarial manner is the driving force behind most individuals, corporations, and on a larger scale - nation states.
Ask any nurse or doctor. There is somuch single use plastic used in the medical field that I don't think could be practically replaced with glass, paper, hemp, or something green.

Of course plastic is also lightweight and relatively durable. This makes our cars and airplanes more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly, among millions of other uses.
Did you look at the results? All models that were tested failed significantly (10%+) to acheive the passing range.
Had you been raised in a prison, that everything must be transactional?

also, https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t...
I'd be more interested in seeing the minimum training for a human + chatGPT to pass the bar.
sooooo fluffy <3
They'll provide "tools and manuals". If this includes service software that is good. Also I wonder what kind of detail is there in those service manuals. For the mechanical components I would at least expect drawings of each assembly showing every gear, every seal, every clip with spec. For electronics I would expect at least board view files if not schematics. Do I believe this will happen before it is law to publish it? Not really.

When finally those laws get proposed I fully expect manufacturers to claim "security and IP theft" exceptions and politicians will fold. I still have electronic equipment made in the 80's that had not just schematics in its manual, but pcb layout drawings so you could remake a pcb if it got destroyed... And somehow we didn't have clones of this equipment appear.
As I wrote to other reply, Epiphany (what GNOME calls "Internet", I... think?? I dislike GNOME names) is based on WebKit

https://webkit.org/downloads/

edit: oh it's "GNOME Web". OK
Wow, love your game! Interesting to hear the story behind it.

I just came out of Ludum Dare this weekend and always play with the thought of entering the indie game dev scene, but I'm just too afraid of leaving my stable dev job.
Does this make the Pi webcam a viable project now?

I looked into making one during the pandemic - but i think lack of auto-focus was one of the things that caused me to rule it out at the time…
I got the same when I was running Stadia on a 2.4 GHz wifi network. Once I switched to a wired connection, it worked like a charm. 5 GHz supposedly works as well, but my robot vacuum cleaner needs a 2.4 GHz network facepalm.
I have a video up on YouTube with some comparisons up close, and a blog post with one in particular that looks at center sharpness (my website's in my bio). I haven't had a chance to upload the originals anywhere yet, though.

I'd say the sensor is very good but the lenses they're using aren't capable of a full 12 MP of resolution. The wide angle lens controls distortion pretty well, but the standard lens shows a little distortion around the sides.

Still a huge improvement over the Camera Module v2 in every aspect. Autofocus worked especially well, even better than the ArduCam models I tested last year.
Clearly intended as a threat.
> Short term profit at the expense of everything else. At some point there will be a reckoning on all the damage this cult has done to society, but I don't expect it to happen any time soon.

I can't see how, the same people pushing for WTO/NAFTA are those who profited immensely from outsourcing in the 80s-90s are now the same one who likely stand to benefit the most from either supply chain disruptions, and war.

The truth is that JD is just another monopoly ([0] over 50% market share of tractors) that represents the underlying aspects of crony capitalism writ large. This is just another example how the mantra that 'tech should be in everything' needs to die, and how pervasive these horrible practices can become for the small sector of humans (less than 1% of the Human population feeds the other 99%) who grow the food everyone eats.

MBAs making supply chains inherently fragile and over who valued BS things like JIT are just reflecting what is most rewarded in the corpo culture: quick profits are the way to get fat bonuses and stock options in order to bail out when even the slightest hint of head-winds occur. This is just a symptom, not the cause and a reason why US manufacturing will likely take some time before it can get off it's addiction to the garbage made in China.

0: https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/cheat-to-win-the-j...
TL;DR: This year I want to learn Japanese, Python, and Singing.

Longer answer: I think it's good to journal your attempts with the understanding that it is okay to not accomplish them this year, but at least give it a try. There is always next year. So Just before the year started I got myself a book at Flying Tiger called "100 Things I want to Accomplish, Create, Learn, Share, improve, See, Fight for, Experience, Organise, and Dream of doing"

Each section is a list of 10 and then has a corresponding chapter with one page per thing divided in to "What, Why, How" with checkboxes for "I did it", "I tried", and "I changed my mind".

I've always had a problem with committing and making routines, which is essential should you want to learn something. For me I feel like having a physical book to keep track and to slowly fill out as the year goes by helps me focus on what is important and not get distracted. It also gives me a sense of fulfilment when I can look back at a page and say I did this, this is my accomplishment.
Apple has previously banned Apps for their backend content if they didn't like it. It's just that TikTok is too big and Apple is full of shit.
Reminds me of this letter from Kurt Vonnegut in his twilight years:

"What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow."
FWIW, quite a few of the collaborators on Love Death + Robots come from the video game cinematic world including Blur, the main producers of the series.

Blur for one heavily uses 3DS Max.
But it does provide interest perspective on the cost of not owning THE domain name for their company. Perhaps they should rename the company.

Disclaimer lest their be any mistake: I am totally charmed and bedazzled by the real gail.com, and hope that web archeologists of the future will still find gail.com running a hundred years from now. I just thought the post didn't deserve downvotes.
Learning how to incorporate AI into my workflow.
Democratising Business Decision-Making
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Crowd.Vote enables users to submit their ideas/solutions in response to questions raised and to rate the ideas/solutions submitted by others in order to find the best answers to the questions raised.

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- Live or asynchronous brainstorming
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Crowd.Vote has a feedback function that allows you to automatically inform everyone involved about next steps and decisions.

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Open Secrets – Ukraine and the Next Intelligence Revolution
The author certainly claims to be Gail themselves; note the reference to “my husband”
Yes, they do use bank.sbi & bankonline.sbi as redirect on some pages; for banking. For general information, they use sbi.co.in
Yeah it could be a cultural thing though - in our culture this kind of stuff is squarely up to the parents. I remember always BBS'ing from midnight because my daily connection time renewed at midnight :) As long as it didn't affect my school performance it was not a problem for my parents, and it was a handy time because they didn't make personal calls during the night so I didn't tie up the phone line for them. It would have been unthinkable that the government would decide I should be in bed at that time.

Perhaps the culture requires the country to take a stronger role in this, though embedding it into law feels very severe. Even in Europe a lot of this stuff that used to be up to the parents is being taken to central control. More and more countries are proposing laws for a website to verify the user is 18+. I don't like where this is going either. When I was living in Ireland my local provider "Three" routed all my mobile traffic through a super slow child-friendly filtering proxy and I had to ID myself in one of their stores to get past that. People were referring it as the "porn viewers register" and the people in the store were being weird about it, even though it blocked way more than porn sites (also random UDP connections for example so most VPNs didn't work) and it made internet access super slow and quirky.

Luckily the other mobile providers didn't have this boneheaded rule so I simply switched to Vodafone.
Lots of medical equipment is plastic. Most outdoor clothes are plastic. Many parts in a car are plastic. Suitcases, bags, etc are plastic. Shoes. Bookbinders, covers, cases, just look around the place you are right now and you will notice more plastic the longer you look.

I see the following advantages:

- Onetime use disposable
- lightweight
- durable
- manufacture is easier and cheaper
- often the better solution than the previous one

And I am not a fan of plastic!
To make use of one different key per host, you can use some ssh_config(5) magic[0]:

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keys/%h

See also https://try.popho.be/ssh-keys.html , discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32510475

[0] https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config.5
Yes it is not defined by accounting and finance but those are crucial skills just like learning proper brushstroke is crucial to being a painter. And I disagree that any skill can be taught. Selling, marketing, innovation etc are very dependent on the area of business you’re in, market conditions, the current state of technology etc - too many variables and some skills that are important in one area of business are wrong in a different kind of business, there’s a lot of art to them. Accounting is mostly done one way and the same way whatever your business is and necessary for any business. It makes sense for business schools to teach that first in their core curriculum before teaching things like strategy and marketing. And things like product sense, market timing etc can’t really be taught
According to Facebook Mercurial was faster for them, but that was in 2014 and they had to put work in to actually make it fast. Their use case is rather outside the mainstream of course.

"When we first started working on Mercurial, we found that it was slower than Git in several notable areas. To narrow this performance gap, we’ve contributed over 500 patches to Mercurial over the last year and a half."

https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...

Personally I can't recall any serious performance difference after I switched from mercurial (which included some large-ish repos) to git, but it's been quite a few years ago and perhaps I just forgot.