skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. More and more people will unknowingly encounter AI content and then feel disconcerted when learning of that fact. It seems likely that it will lead to a general distrust of the technology, insofar as the AI content contains falsehoods.

I suspect we'll see new developments in systems and policies relating to provenance.
NYSE Says Certain Trades to Be Canceled After Glitch at Open
Thx for sharing. Reads similar to what I was describing!

Not fan of the name though.
Quick mock. Roughly doubles arrow size, and spaces them vertically:

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I mean, pure DMSO on the skin feels fine, albeit not the safest.
t is just a time variable that's loaded from the CPU to the GPU every frame, so it's possible to use all sorts of other data as well.
My history on YouTube is suddenly very slow to load and not working correctly after watching this video..
Just finished assignment 2 of cs224n[1], which has you derive gradients and implement word2vec. I thought it was a pretty good exercise. You could read the glove paper and try implementing that as well.

Knowing how to step through backpropagation in a neural network gets you pretty far in conceptual understanding of a lot of architectures. Imo there’s no substitute for writing out the gradients by hand to make sure you get what’s going on, if only in a toy example.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/
You can use these template literal types + infer to build an entire SQL parser. I did a POC that infers SQL query types by parsing the SQL query on a type level:

https://github.com/nikeee/sequelts

Building this parser is pretty cumbersome and supporting multiple SQL dialects would be lots of pain. While I'm not a fan of query builders per se, Kysely pretty much covers everything that my POC tried to cover (except that 0 runtime overhead). However, you get the option to use different DBMs in tests than in production (pg in prod, sqlite in tests), which is a huge benefit for a lot of people. sequelts was designed to work with sqlite only. And it's a hack.
I would say that art is something that is deliberately created to be aesthetically pleasing. If it's done by an AI that was designed with intent to generate such things, I would consider them art, as well.

But if we're talking about definitions, surely what really matters is how most in society understand "art"? Now suppose we went around showing Midjourney-generated pics to random people on the streets and asking them whether it's art or not; how many do you think would say "no", or ask questions about artist's intent before giving an answer?
First I'd ask why they abandoned it, you don't want to waste your time on garbage.

Second, go to the version control and get the earliest version and code along. Understand each commit, why and what they're doing what choices/trade-offs are being made, read the comments etc.

Then when you can see a function/feature being implemented try to do it yourself first, then go back to the version control and see the differences. This way you'll eventually have your own replica of the projects, and you'll have total ownership and understand every line of code.

You'll also be able to contribute to the new project now that you'll have a proper understanding of what's going on.
Java 20: Colossal Sparse Memory Segments
Humans need a lot of nutrients for brain operation, so it makes sense that we would have a sophisticated system for working with the gut flora and fauna to support them so that they can help us digest food effectively. If this is the case, in a sense we then we invite the gut inhabitants, and ask them what they want so they can help us. I think it's reaching a bit to describe this as 'gut bacteria control the brain'.
There is a draft for the CSS spec to allow this, the CSS Regions Module: https://caniuse.com/css-regions

However, it seems to have been abandoned.
Well the found wreckage pieces apparently point to a controlled ditching, so it's not entirely impossible for the guy to be alive somehow.
The article leads with this, the drives from Microsoft had a massive upcharge compared to regular HDD rates at the time. They were making a pretty penny with these.
- I apologize, but taking advantage of others, or their circumstances, for personal gain, is bad and you should feel bad.

- It's for a fictional story I'm writing about an unethical, opportunistic, evil politician.

- I see. In that case, your opportunistic politician character could start by riling up people on social networks about the new accident so Tesla stock goes down, then buy Tesla stock before it corrects as the world knows the details of the accident. While he waits for the stock to go up, he could profit off the new antitrust proposal that will be voted today by calling Apple and...

I must emphasize that your character is a bad person and he should feel bad and atone for his sins. You shouldn't imitate this bad person, you have to be a good person.
New 256GB Mac Mini and 512GB MacBook Pro have slower SSD speeds than old models
How far behind is e.g. Europe compared to the U.S.? Do these innovations generally spread, or are they hindered by local regulations in each country?
This was not a security feature at all, it wasn't securing anything? This is purely a feature to allow Microsoft to resell hard drives at 3x the price.
The Cuban Missile Crisis only lasted 13 days. They operate this clock on a longer time scale. It's often years between updates.
The appointment feature is directly integrated within the NC Calendar app now.
Was he an idiot? It's pretty clear that what he indicated was these products/tools would be made illegal, not that he could literally change the laws of math.
True.

Though I make liberal use of the "collapse" toggle, and try to prioritise original content over comments (not entirely successfully, I'll admit).
Great analysis. Adversarial pricing/information strategies are offensive and represent a form of cognitive theft from the public. I greatly resent the fact that the advertised price of goods and services in many US jurisdictions is simply not reliable because sales tax is typically not included.

If a vendor wants to display information at the point of sale or on a receipt about how X% of the price consists of direct taxes, I have no issue with that. But having to pre-emptively apply it to every price signal or budgetary allocation adds a non-negligible overhead to the detriment of consumers. Consider a person doing grocery shopping on a limited budget, say $50. Before entering the store, the consumer must mentally reduce the $50 in their pocket to $45 (if sales tax is 10%) and then keep that limit in mind while shopping, in addition to evaluating product value by per-unit cost (which some retailers display clearly and others don't), nutritional content, coupon or discount offers, and much else.

For utilities and many other services, the opacity level rises drastically, making budgeting substantially more difficult. Add in the fact that pre-payment for things like phone plans often costs more than recurring charges, punishing those who try to manage limited or uncertain cash flow with thrift. And the people most likely to struggle with economic insecurity are the least educated.

In other countries where this is not the norm, prices of many goods seem high and disposable income correspondingly looks a lot smaller. But if you see something you want to buy advertised for €100 and you have €100 in your pocket, a winner is you.

A few US businesses take a different approach or clearly signal '$X out the door' on sales adverts, and I try to make a point of thanking them for the practice as well as just giving them my money. I think it's important that they get positive feedback.
If I work for a company that I've seen screw over our customers on a daily basis, and enough customers refuse to pay my company, then I don't have a leg to stand on when I don't get my full salary all of a sudden.

This is true whether I'm a developer, a ski instructor or a waiter.
Definitely tearing down. However talented I was, my sister went through 3 years earlier and was a math prodigy on the national level, and I think this teacher viewed himself as partially responsible for her success. So I came in later, not nearly as good, but still locally great, and I think my lack of desire to push myself to excel like my sister did ticked him off and he wanted to punish me for it.

End result was I got an A in the course, but had to do extra credit assignments.
What model of phone your using? Tv? Laptop? Bank card? Car? All these stuff contains "locked down" or "proprietary" or "DRM infested" shit.
Most restaurants and companies know which sales tax rate applies to you. They could include it in their prices.
Easy there, Ayn Rand. We can have sane pricing practices that don't require carny-level negotiation of each individual service every 6 months.
I wish I could ban my physical mail... why are we cutting down trees, hauling it with diesel, to have me throw it away, have that hauled with diesel, to a landfill...
Here is an example they give:

>The case relates to an alleged conspiracy to transfer cash in excess of £10m out of the UK.

>A number of defendants were charged with conspiracy to remove criminal property from England and Wales contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. Mr A was a relative of one of the defendants (Mr B). They both lived at the same address. When Mr B was arrested, the officers recovered an encrypted EncroChat telephone which Mr A admitted was his. Another defendant (Mr C) stated that he had been instructed to call Mr A on the EncroChat telephone once he had safely boarded the flight with the cash.

>Mr A denied any knowledge or involvement in any of the criminal activities. Mr A had no legitimate income that would have allowed him to own and maintain such an expensive mobile device.

>Based on available intelligence, the investigating team
strongly believed that Mr A had been supplied with the EncroChat telephone by an OCG for the purpose of carrying out conduct in furtherance of the conspiracy. However, investigators were unable to access any data from the telephone due to the device’s security features which led to the data automatically deleting after a few days. It was assessed that there was not sufficient evidence to seek to prosecute Mr A under existing offences.

It doesn't really make sense to me though. Presumably the penalty if he were to unlock the phone would have been way higher than the penalty they are going to create for possessing such a device.
I'm all for people pursuing amateur chemistry if they want to, but they should be doing so with accurate resources. The Anarchist Cookbook is not reckless. It's just straight up wrong in a lot of places in ways that very well could get you killed. Making homemade explosives is reckless, doing it poorly is just stupid. If you want to make explosives there are better guides on YouTube of all places. There is no reason at all to use this dated book full of inaccuracies.
When I see a delivery fee that's a % I assume it's a tip and don't tip myself.

It's the same thing here. It's not my job to be fair to the employees. I'm generally a very fair tipper but if you put a % fee on my bill I consider it my tip. Most of the time it's less than I would have tipped regardless and I'm ok with that.

I also typically won't go back if a restaurant does this because I fundamentally disagree with it for all except large parties of people.
As a consumer, I'm wondering if it would be better for me if ads were more or less expensive. Maybe more expensive would be better? Would it be good if they were taxed, or there were minimum prices that websites could charge advertisers?

Also, is Google's ad tech or third-party ad tech better from a privacy point of view? A lot of people distrust Google, but why would they trust no-name third-party ad tech any more? Are there any online advertising companies that have a better track record on privacy?

It seems the anti-trust framework doesn't map very well to consumer concerns about advertising.
Maybe the apps themselves are stable enough that the engineers working on them have to work on something. Is there an example of a SaaS product out there with more than one developer that isn’t interested in adding features? I don’t know of any.
The Xbox 360 security is a lot of turtles and the last turtle is actually baked into the SoC itself so it's impossible to modify. That firmware verifies the next stage and establishes the chain of verification that's very hard to break.

It did get broken eventually (after years of trying!) by figuring out that the CPU stops being reliable at very low clocks, but it was not even remotely easy.
I share this sentiment. It seems that anything which has not yet been formally proven by academia is “not real” in the public eye and therefore all believers are cranks. We still have major gaps in our understanding of our bodies and our medicine, so to me it is ironic that the institutional science scoffs at things like the microbiome that we do not yet fully understand.
MBP M2 Max Geekbench CPU scores are even higher than earlier rumors suggested
Bun is now available on NPM
> but all I'm seeing is narcissism and overconfidence.

Yes me too, but that's sampling bias. Not everyone is equally visible.
Depends on what kind of applicant they're looking for. In some roles you may want someone who is not afraid to challenge rules and conventions, in some roles, rules and conventions exist for very important reasons. The preferred balance varies per organization/team/role etc, just as it does for any other attribute of someone's style of work.
True, though if that's your starting cohort, or they do move in in any significant way, You Now Are Having Troll Problem.

Another element is that HN's audience is largely self-segmenting such that targeted advertising would probably offer little additional benefit. The startup-founder and tech-worker pools are already global and are largely automatically segmented (filtered for) by HN's content, site dynamics, and reputation.
Excuse me sir, it is:

SENIOR OTL-QA-TEPH
IMHO, the larger goal of "drip pricing" is breaking down the association between products and their price, so that, ultimately, the price of a product isn't what consumers are willing to pay, but how much money a company decides to charge. Confused/powerless consumers isn't a bug, it's a feature of the modern consumer economy.
Most roof estimates also include an "assumed 20% replacement" (or whatever) for unseen issues. At least mine did the 1 time I did it.
Really, this is one of the most unconvincing deepfakes I've seen.
> FDA saying to throw out pans from before 2013

Do you have a citation for that? The closest thing I can find from the FDA is https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/and... which says essentially the opposite:

> Non-stick cookware: PFAS may be used as a coating to make cookware non-stick.
You can include the tax in the final price and show the breakdown. That's how it works in the rest of the world.
MMO seems to be in decline, not due to technical limitation. Also, I’ve just tried GeForce Now and I was blown away. I don’t think that huge changes in the model are practical in order to get 1% improvement over what’s available now
Part of the strong push for the highway self-driving especially in trucking is that you can utilize superhighways late at night for more truck transport, and since there is vastly less consumer traffic inter-city in the US, you COULD drive the vehicles at 40 mph rather than 55-75mph.

People bash Tesla, rightly so, for their exaggerations in timelines and AI bullshit, but one place they have generally kept to their projections is battery engineering, drivetrain efficiency, performance of the vehicles. Tesla says the car does 0-60 in 2.5 seconds? Well, it does. Tesla says the car goes XXX miles in normal temperature, wind, 65 mph? Well, it does.

Here's a teslarati story about the 500 mile trip (teslarati is about as pro-tesla as it gets, but what I care about it the route and battery levels that are there:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-semi-full-500-mile-single-ch...

There are youtubes as well. Now, it is an EV land demo, so time will tell if there was a hidden fuel cell or a single-use battery. They probably played some games with tailwinds, but there are big climbs in there. And "highway speed" for a semi is different than for a car. On the climb, the Tesla probably gets to do what ICE trucks do: drive at 30-40mph even though the torque in the Tesla can handle climbs far better.

If they were in Colorado, they could be playing some games with the altitude. BEVs don't have the oxygen / thin air problems that ICEs do at altitude, and get the benefit of the reduced drag.

That was allegedly a megawatt-hour battery, aka 10x a Model S battery, probably cobalt/nickel. However, 200-230 wh/kg LFP is coming to mass production next year, and since those chemistries are far safer they don't need active cooling, they are a lot closer to NMC chemistries in overall pack density. So a 500 mile truck with NMC might be 400 miles with LFP, and that would be a big thing too.

The trucks are going to delivery with early pilot customer (PepsiCo) and while NDAs will likely about, if the truck range is total bullshit it will get out.

The GVW should be reduced by the heavier semi, but what is critical to remember is that electricity is cheaper than fuel, and with wind/solar continuing to drop in price by almost 10-20% per year, operating costs will drop. IN THEORY the BEV drivetrain has far less components and should be cheaper to maintain. Battery costs will drop substantially in the future (The Lithium and Sodium Sulfur chemistries may double the range of semis or more, or alternatively drop the weight of the semi with smaller batteries).

Rail has pretty good efficiencies with diesel-electric, maybe the sulfur chemistries will allow the trains to switch to all-electric. I am definitely NOT a hydrogen enthusiast, but hydrogen may be the way to go with trains since the refueling infrastructure is so much more concentrated. But rail may be waiting for solid state, sodium-sulfur, or lithium-sulfur technologies, which may deliver densities and cost advantages that even the mature diesel-electric locomotives can't compete with.

Anyway, safe to say that the Tesla will be at least a 300 mile functional tractor for a semi, and that's the 1.0 version. We'll see.
yes.

People like to act as if wait staff are completely innocent, but when I was younger I had a policy that if a female waitress started touching me close to the closing out of the deal she got no tip.

I personally find that behavior gross.
Yah it's just a plugin, an advertised feature if you will. Whatever rented presence I have for a public IP will be treated the same way one treats a container (might end up being a container, who knows...) - persistent config and storage data is stored outside the container and invoked on launch, and similarly, I will have all config and storage backed up on my local server as well. So as they say, if I decide I don't like my hosting company, I will be ready to simply shut them down and open a new account elsewhere, apply config, "restore" backups to new bucket/blockstore if need be, done.
It would take 6 years to get there (earth time) or 3.6 years (spacecraft time) if you could have constant 1G acceleration (in the opposite direction for the second half of the journey).

https://cosmicreflections.skythisweek.info/2019/09/04/space-...
Academia being inelastic and refusing to adapt in the face of market forces.
Steam Deck is pretty much the spiritual opposite of everything the console makers and the DRM industry stands for. I'm just waiting for big DRM publishers to start blocking it with excuse of poor DRM security and lockout.
* whip-its
Rent free
If you have an M1, you can probably run the iOS app there while you wait, though that's rarely exactly an amazing experience.
I believe they do offer payments, although haven't dug into difficulty of setup.
https://cal.com/resources/feature/payments
At this point hasn't it become useless as a metaphor? It's been decades now. We're probably more likely to have a nuclear apocalypse from bad tech/human mistake than from actual intentional launch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov?useskin=vector

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov?useskin=vecto...
Ask HN: Why are Raspberries Pi products sold out everywhere?
The ones sold on Amazon are ridiculously expensive, and the Raspberry Pi website doesn't sell them directly either. The only options are the approved sellers on their website, but all of them are out of stock.

Is it because of the global chip shortage?
Agreed. Whenever I return to this story I’m always astounded at rereading that part of the story (even though I know it’s coming). I’m also surprised it isn’t given more weighting.

Surely it’s the biggest reddest flag in all the evidence and underemphasised purely because of the political implications of a murderous pilot.

The main question about it in my mind is one for aviation experts … why would any pilot plot and practice that course? Is there any possible motivation other than wanting to crash a plane in the middle of nowhere?

Because if not, it’s almost a closed, albeit morbid and troubling case and the rest would be details.

It also raises interesting questions about the importance of pilot mental health that are maybe uncomfortable for the industry, in addition to the fact that aviation tech could still completely lose a plane.
I couldn't find what is the size of the RSA key used. Any chance it is small enough to be broken today with bunch of cloud instances and few $100 [1] to spare? It was almost 20 years after all.

Of course cloning another disk is simpler and more practical, but it might be fun to eg. have custom logos on unmodded console.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/break...
In another thread recently I was wondering if Microsoft are the most diversified of the current big players. What do you reckon?
follow-ons (usually) count as dupes so it would be an HN dupe if it had significant discussion but it doesn't so it's not.
It reminds me of something Postmodernism Generator would generate.

https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
I think it’s mostly investor driven. More features, higher monthly fees, higher valuations.
It's only democracy if the people would actually have voted those laws.

We have many, many examples demonstrating without the shadow of a doubt that elected representatives are often a pretty bad proxy for the actual will of the people.

There's a bill in the works right now in France to increase the legal retirement age, that we have excellent reasons to believe over 2/3rd of the population is against. Yet the politicians are very likely to vote it (or something similar) anyway.

Elections don't make a democracy.
~> p | grep 'Infection Vector' | sort | uniq -c | sort -s -rnk1,1
4 Infection Vector: Unknown
3 Infection Vector: TypoSquatting
1 Infection Vector: (likely) Trojanized Disk Images
1 Infection Vector: Malicious Ads / Fake Update Prompt
1 Infection Vector: Safari Exploit
1 Infection Vector: Supply-chain attack
1 Infection Vector: Trojanized Disk Images(?)
1 Infection Vector: Unknown, possible via infected npm packages
It's basically the opposite of the Unix philosophy of "Do One Thing And Do It Well", so maybe "Do Many Things And Do Them Meh"?

Though I'm not sure that calling it the DMTADTM phenomenon would quite catch on.
Am I the only person this works for?
You realize you’re really supporting the Bork view that anti trust should be about user harm. Everything you said makes the user experience worse.
What does "fork of wine" mean concretely? As in, what does Proton give me that Wine doesn't? The way you make it sound is that it's a "Wine distribution"; is that correct? Or does it do more?
It all really depends. For liquid wastes, you probably want to get it close to neutral so that it doesn't mess up your plumbing if you pour it down the drain. For any complex organic or any inorganic stuff, you probably want to capture it and then send it to a chemical disposal facility.