skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In resume, somebody was teached again the hard lesson that people dislike buying with security breathing on their napes.

Is a spiral of death. Being watched destroys the pleasant experience of browsing things. People buy just what they had in mind and exit, spending much less time in the shop looking for things that they could want to buy. Big red flag. Soon, the big store is half-empty most of the time and being the only customer in a place full of vendors is psychologically disturbing for many people. Less objects are stolen but you sell less, and soon realize that are paying more to security than the loses by shoplifting.

I had seen this before when, lets call it "Computer World", decided to increase their results fighting against shoplifting. Warnings in the walls, everything in plastic cases, cameras and security sucking all the fun. They closed in three months.
> [...] 'just connect' people in your contacts via the phone number [...]

Threema also allows that.

I think they really nailed that aspect: Tie the primary identity to a key, not a phone number, and then add a discovery layer on top of that.
To me it seems like a way to really consider internet to be a public utility such as water and electricity. I'm sure there is a law that says any new construction requires it to be connected to the electricity grid, even though it would be pretty unreasonable to not connect it to the grid. Does that mean there is no need for it to be a law?

At least this way you can have a good expectation of a new buildings utilities.
What you're thinking about, in my opinion, is best referred to as a spider.
My bet is that someone serendipitously found out about it, while searching for info about the current situation in Brasil
> Everything comes instead of something else.

Not everything is zero-sum.

Sure, it takes effort to wire up every home for Gigabit, but on the other hand you're employing more telco workers to run the cables, creating more jobs. Gigabit costs more, but economy of scale means that average prices will be lower. Increased bandwidth opens up space for new technology innovation, and letting more people effectively work remotely (so less cars on the road).

In practice, from what I've seen in the US, I'd guess this work was probably going to happen anyway. AT&T has been busy running fiber-to-the-home for every major neighborhood in the bay area. (I've gotten 10x the bandwidth, for roughly half the price I was paying for DOCSIS cable internet before.) It wouldn't surprise me if telcos in Europe are on a similar roadmap.

Once the neighborhood fiber line in place on the poles, running a line to an individual house has negligible cost - especially if it's new construction and you're already pulling copper for power/telephone/TV. It took AT&T 30 minutes to do it at my last two houses.
That seems really poor; they clearly thought (probably correctly) that 'gigabit' was an easier sell (to the masses) than '500Mbps symmetric' or some other split.

It doesn't help you, but Hyperoptic are an ISP in the UK with all plans except the lowest being symmetric. I used to pay (moved out of the area^) £28pcm for symmetric 100Mbps, or maybe 150 - either way it was fairly consistently 160/180Mbps as measured. A&A are also by all accounts amazing, but only HN-browsing nerds more impressed with 800M symmetric than 1G are their customers anyway. Hyperoptic I like because they're primarily serving 'the masses' but seem the only non-shitty ones.

^I now use a Mikrotik 4G modem & router. It's not as fast but it's enough, (ongoing) costs even less; I think with some tweaking - especially mounting it outside - I can do better, but it's been so fine that I haven't bothered yet, over the course of months. A lot more asymmetric though, I wouldn't build and push images quite as casually as I might have before.
To be precise, as an Italian, the Italian dictionary in my browser doesn't.

But I actually don't care.

I'm quite sure my English is way better than your Italian, Spanish, some French and some German, will ever be.
I suspect it's probably a global library that handles this. So refactoring it in one place would be difficult. If I had to guess their implementation looks something like this.

SomeUrlService.pushState(JSON.stringify({ foo: 'bar' }));

SomeUrlService.navigate('/some/url/here')

Likely, that "SomeUrlService" is also tacking on plenty of other shit to the URL that is passed along. I don't work for Yahoo and never have, so this is all pure speculation.
If a language model can run a D&D campaign, what do we need Wizards for?
Correct: it was made clear to me in no uncertain terms that the only thing I was allowed to say was "yes" or "no" to this offer.
There is the new Lenovo thinkpad twist that is coming out with dual OLED and Color Eink display.
Don't have specific advice/experience on getting a manager to re-think meeting scheduling. But the Org I work at, for meetings, makes any "unscheduled overflow" time optional. So you can just say "gotta drop thanks" if there's a conflict when things run over. Meetings should have a purpose and scope anyway so if this is an issue it sort of seems to be an issue with scheduling for the manager or whoever. Even so, people will probably always gripe about meetings. Good luck, hope you can find a resolve here
With v2.7 reaching EOL, what are AWS plans for Ruby lambdas?
Ruby 2.7 is reaching its end of life come next March. While other runtimes received updates, there is none in sight for Ruby. Mind you, Ruby recently had its annual Christmas release, gifting v3.2 to the community.

There is a short thread at the issue tracker of the official Docker image repository over at GitHub [1], which has a tumbleweed-y feel to it.

Is this a signal for everyone still rocking Ruby lambdas to either plan a migration to another language or to roll their own custom container image?

[1] https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-base-images/issues/54
And what are you going to do when you need a human to read sixteen trillion bytes of compressed logs streamed off a single SATA disk?

Once you face the fact that the performance of a single SATA disk means you can't search the logs in any quick time, and nobody can possibly read that much log data, so nobody will use it, you start to see it as a hoarding disorder not a useful tool.
Wow. Surely Disney of all companies can probably break clean of the OGL and do their own thing, right?

I mean, I would totally watch a battle between Disney's and Wizards of the Coast's legal departments. I suspect the Goliath in this case is Disney, and there are no Davids.
UK legislators are really something out of this world. In October I will have 10Gbps for 2 years, I can't even remember when I got 1gbps. The reason you get such services (and in my case for dirt cheap) is because of competition, not because you mandate it.

Just a dumb idea to impose this thinking it will somehow improve the situation overnight. Sadly again I'm not surprised given the location in question.
When I found it in a second-hand bookstore in roughly 1990, "The Third Wave" by the Tofflers had a huge impact on me as it made the future seem foreseeable and not automatically gloomy. I don't think it would stand up today, but that's a different matter
Oh god no. That video is very misleading and pretty much borders on pseudo-science.

For starters it depicts photons as balls, when it would be much less confusing and more intuitive to instead think of them as waves with discreet energy amounts. If you think about it as a wave, what's happening is a wave with a photon-amount of energy passes through both slits which causes an interference pattern. When it hits the wall it coalesces into a single particle/dot.

Also, it talks about 'observer' and strongly indicates the observer needs to be a conscious entity. Instead of observer, just use the word "detector", and bear in mind that detector interacts with the photon (whereas at the classical level you can watch or observe something without affecting the system).
I am not a lawyer and please correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it rules and mechanics are not copyrightable. What is copyrightable is the flavor text and specific compilation of the rule set into the "Rule Book". The rule book becomes a copyrightable work. This means that your are within your legal right to make a game called "Dragons & Daggers" where all the combat mechanics, rules, etc are identical to Dungeons & Dragons as long as the "glue" text and flavour text is original content. It seems to me like a community fork licensed under CC that plays exactly the same is not impossible.
What's wrong with nostalgia, though?

People like to criticize back-references as a cheap way to entertain the audience knowing the referenced works, but I think it's a legitimate feature. A movie or a show doesn't exist in a vacuum; watching a sequel or a work in the same universe, I expect to see both subtle and direct call-backs.
This website brings me Joy. So elegant.
On the contrary: I get 80% of my woo-fix from AI True Believers.
You know, I wanted to type out some sassy reply, but I keep failing to put my finger on what's romantic about it (even though I guess I "relate" to that position).

I don't think it's the suicide aspect, and - maybe besides the point - personally I don't think the guy was trying to die (not anymore or less than a freeclimber).

Maybe the Webster 1913 definition for "romantic" can help shed a light:

> Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
I've been foregoing books more and more, and just reading papers. Concept in compsci I want to understand? Why bother with a university text where I can just freely grab the pdf (inevitably from the 70s and 80s) and just dig into that? It has more detail and more context.
True, a french press tends to leave sediment at the bottom of your mug. Easily solved by leaving the last tiny sip behind.
Though UK median speed is well below US according to speedtest.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
From the paper, my reading is that it's meant to highlight a larger weakness in Threema's design (the decision to rely heavily on a long-lived private key, which then needs to be exported with a potentially attacker-controllable password in order to transfer identity).

Edit: notably, this wouldn't be a problem if (1) Threema required a preconfigured password to encrypt the private key with, or (2) used an identity transfer scheme that was detectable on the target device. But since they're just copying a key, it's entirely undetectable.
I commented above, but agreed. I never got the schtick of “you guys suck and I dislike this country I moved to” as a talk show.

Ok? You chose to come here, no one says we’re perfect. It’s bizarre to me to move and stay somewhere you so clearly dislike.
That's disappointing to hear, especially since many RPGs out there are both more fun and simpler than D&D.
I don't use a content blocker. The only extension in my browser is Bitwarden.
If my experience in Physics is somewhat typical, it's barely taught as an interpretation, it's just as Feynman put it "shut up and calculate".
It isn't shocking to Americans. It's frustrating.

Keep in mind however, we're really talking about 50 different 'countries', when we're talking about laws like this so far.

The EU for instance has no such Europe wide mandate. The populations are roughly equivalent.
I've been using the cheapest Keurig machine for I think four years now without issue. Roughly five cups a week go through that thing, and it never fails to work. I use unlicensed biodegradable k-cups.

I initially bought it as backup for my Aeropress, but eventually switched to using it full time and keeping the Aeropress as backup instead. I use a French press while camping.

They don't seem to sell the model I have anymore, so perhaps all the models available today are garbage, but the one I have is notably not.
Non-fiction books are a great way to “catch up” on a mature topic (Chinese history, physics).

Blogs are better than ever for learning about topics that are still developing (LLMs, startups).

I vacillate between the two as I get into different topics.
Truly open RPGs already exist. Fudge, for example. And Fate (based on Fudge, because it's open and they can). And if Pathfinder 2 is indeed free from any old d20 content (I don't know), then that one counts too.

The big problem is that there's not a single one that everybody agrees to use as the new standard. D&D is the standard. Like Windows. Everybody knows it sucks, but nobody can agree on a single alternative, and the market stays with what people know.
Aeropress and French Press make fundamentally different coffees. The paper filter in the Aeropress changes the taste and "feel" of the coffee in ways that many people prefer. Additionally, the pressure created during the "pressing" process changes the extraction a bit (nowhere near as much as espresso type pressures, but more than nothing).
One of the key takeaways here that I think might be under-emphasized (although Kenny Paterson did say as much):

Even if you use good cryptographic building blocks, and good libraries that implement the building blocks, you can still make horrible mistakes with protocol design.

The best mechanism we have for preventing weak cryptographic protocols is to use formal methods (proofs, checked by a computer).

https://twitter.com/kennyog/status/1612337097247002624
If you don't mind sharing, what was the reason to get in the car with them to drive? Were you planning to head out to an event like a hike or something that you had arranged online, but hadn't known the people ahead of?
> DnD is a platform now. That's really cool for them, and long term will benefit them a ton, even if they aren't able to "optimize" their revenue right now.

Assuming they don't tank their platform, which it very much looks like right now.
I once asked a church choir director: how many people in a typical choir do really believe in god. His answer was: zero. As for the priest - he said - it's more like a coin flip: some of them are still religious.
How Do We Achieve Sustainable Growth as an Open-Source Company?
Excellent, I was waiting for the protobuf suggestion.
Good point! Log levels are pretty useless most of the time.

I would add that there can be value in having 2 log levels: verbose and non-verbose. It is helpful if you can selectively switch on verbose logging by user or by API endpoint.

In one application which I maintain, when verbose logging is switched on for a particular user, TCP/UDP socket objects are automatically wrapped and packet captures are logged, only for packets sent/received while servicing that particular user's requests. This has been a lifesaver when debugging things like weird, transient authentication problems stemming from upstream providers.
Would you mind linking to a better video, suitable for a general audience.

The difficulty is most video are either way to technical or way too high-level.
Is it similar to https://chartbrew.com ?
Originally en-AU. I was trying to match the "have" with a "has". My sentence has a truncated " the problem" in my head.

Your version reads more correct, thanks for pointing it out.
Capitalism doesn't work when the government grants monopolies to local companies.
Racket does this in its web framework and docs.
You need to grind your coffee into bigger pieces. With a good coffee grinder there should be no dust created. The coffee grinders with a rotating knife are just awful, throw it away and get one that works like a pepper grinder.

If you buy already ground coffee you need to tell the shop to make it coarser, tell them you need it for the French press they will know. If you buy the coffee online, you can usually chose the grade of grinding in the online shop.

It’s the opposite for an espresso machine, there you need it extra-fine.

Pre-packaged powder from the supermarket usually tastes like mud, because it’s not freshly grinded.
Just in time for wired internet to be obsolete. Especially for apartment buildings, makes much more sense to provide WiFi throughout private and common area than running cables to each unit. Even for individual homes, neighborhood 5g cells can do the trick for most people's needs. Also locking in current technology when constructing a building that could last a century is really dumb. Better to have access panels in the walls that allow easily installing and maintaining any type of cables / pipes / etc that may make sense in future.
I hope to see such devices available for USB-C one day. It doesn't need to sit flush with the outside casing, a PCB with a vertically mounted USB-C connector would already be awesome.
Same question, I cannot wrap my head around this. If this is true, the OGL was a trap. But how did they not realize this, did they have no lawyers going over the license?
No one owes anyone anything in terms of expectations. As long as he's happy and isn't harming any other people, it's for him to decide to quit and go do something irrelevant, if he wants to.
In written US English (especially online) the double quotes around "pro" imply sarcasm or that the word is not meant to be taken literally. In context it means the author knows it isn't actually a professional machine despite the manufacturer marketing it as such.
They are missing the forest for the trees.

The "emergent phenomena" can be trivially explained by the input they are giving it.

They are not using a dataset that contains an equal amount of "correct" and "incorrect" responses. They are using datasets of human communication, which are obviously filtering for "correct" data. We get things wrong occasionally, but that is quite rare relative to what we get right. We can't even structure a sentence without getting something correct!

If you feed a dog good food, is it really a surprise that dog is healthy? You never fed it poison!

The language model is only returning semantic relationships. The "emergent phenomena" is that most semantic relationships in human communication just happen to also be logical relationships.

But the language model doesn't know that. In no way does it interact with logic. It only interacts with semantics.

If anyone actually bothered to train an instance of GPT or whatever on poisoned data, (i,e nonsensical stories) then you would see that emergent phenomena disappear. But no one is writing the nonsensical stories in the first place, so such a dataset does not exist.
Wow, thanks. I just realized, I misinterpreted your comment as a sarcastic criticism of HN, when it was not.
That's the correct take, thanks.
Do you have Linear Algebra knowledge, and Stats 101 knowledge?

Then start with ISLR.

Then go and watch Andrew Ng Machine Learning course on Coursera (a new version was added in 2022 that uses Python).

Then read the sklearn book from its maintainers/core devs. It's from O'Reilly.

Then go do the Deep Learning Specialization from deeplearning.ai.

Then do fast.ai course.

If interested in Deep RL, watch David Silver lectures, then read Deep RL in Action by Zai, Brown. Then do the HF course on Deep RL.

This is how you get started. Choose your books based on your personality, needs, and contents covered.

And among MOOCs, I highly suggest the one by Canziani, LeCun from NYU. (I loved the 2020 version.)

The one taught by Fei Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy is nice.

These two MOOCs can substitute classic books based on quality.

I have never read cover to cover any of the famous books. I read a lot from them sticking to specific subjects.

Get to reading papers, finding implementations. Ng + ISLR will give you good grounds. Fast.ai + deeplearning.ai will give you capability to solve real problems. NYU + Tubingen + Stanford + UMich (Justin Johnson) courses will bring you to the edge.

You need a lot of practical experience that aren’t taught anywhere. So, get your hands dirty early. Learn to use frameworks, cloud platforms, etc.

Then start reading papers.

A crystal clear grasp on Math foundations is a must. Get it if you don't have already.
UK house prices in no way reflect the build cost. The developers do the least they can get away with, which generally means the shittiest fabric with some polish that lasts until the end of the warranty period, just about satisfying the building regs (which are not really checked properly), then they flog the result at whatever the market will bear and pocket the difference. What the market will bear is entirely dictated by where the identikit houses have been built and little else.
you are totally right - I just watched the original Point Break over the weekend and all the surfing scenes obviously have different human beings from the actors they are meant to resemble but your brain still wants to think they are the same.
This is in-home/last mile. It's basically a law requiring every home have a minimum degree of ethernet or equivalent done and pulled to somewhere it can be connected to a provider, not a requirement that a provider of a specific speed be available.

Which is pretty good, and about time! It's like requiring the house be wired for electricity to a bare minimum (1 outlet per room, 1 switched light per room, that kind of thing).
Unless it's still at a proof-of-concept stage, that person is out of their depth.
Many DNA specialized formats are delta from a "baseline" model to the actually described DNA strand.

`zstd` has a `--patch-from` mode, which does essentially the same thing, computing a new file using another file (typically an older version) as a reference. When similarities are larges, it leads to a huge reduction in compressed content.

I wonder what would be the performance of `zstd --patch-from=` when employing the same reference as these specialized DNA compressors.
ah, azure does the same for generating the "share" URL for their cost dashboards.

it additionally gzip's the data to compress it futher, with.. some savings..

in the above example you've shared, gzip would've,

orig=1177
base64=1572
gzip(orig)|base64=768
Well, to be fair, if you filmed yourself in a car, with a windshield-attached camera, driving over rough terrain, and then stabilized the footage, it would also look like you and other passengers lurching around - though perhaps in a more synchronized fashion.
> Can we maybe edit the title to say "UK" instead of "England"?

No, because the law only affects England - Building Regs a devolved matter in Wales and Scotland.

There is a separate law mentioned in the article which is telecoms related and not devolved in Wales - but that is about landlords not needing to grant access to engineers.
Ask HN: What supplements do you take that have good scientific backing?
Apparently Multi Collagen Protein is a thing now, but I can't tell if it's bullshit or not.
Alec calls this out in both the description and in the video itself, but be sure to check out The Engineer Guy's video on the topic as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j4Q_YBRJEI
https://impress.js.org/ uses this extensively to create impressive presentations.
It's a good question I think. Even people who haven't reached the level of financial success that you have may struggle to find purpose in their lives.

I think about my death to inform the way I want to live. When the movie of my life plays in front of my eyes when I die, I want to be proud of my actions and so I try to have that perspective when I live my life. I ask myself, "What would "dead me" want me to do in this situation?"

The answers are less romantic than you might think. Something as simple as building a model train set could be very fulfilling to you, if it were aligned with your purpose.

This is your new "startup" grind ;)
That is just the next iteration on the "fake it until you automate it" path.

And it can actually be a mistake to try to jump from zero directly to fully automated nirvana.
They would also have to convince a court that Paragraph 9 is intended to be restrictive, rather than permissive. Nowhere does it say that only authorized licenses can be used, and it seems obviously wrong for a license to preclude its own use.