skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tanenbaum: Robbert van Renesse ... said he heard somewhere that the 8088 generated interrupt 15 when it got hot. I told him there was nothing in the 8088 documentation about that, but he insisted he heard it somewhere. So I inserted code to catch interrupt 15. Within an hour I saw this message on the screen: "Hi. I am interrupt 15. You will never see this message." I immediately made the required patch to catch interrupt 15. After that MINIX worked flawlessly and was ready for release.

Lesson. Do not trust documentation blindly; it could be wrong.

Thirty years later the consequences of Van Renesse's offhand remark are enormous. If he had not mentioned interrupt 15, I would probably have eventually given up in despair. Without MINIX, it is inconceivable there would have been a Linux since Linus Torvalds learned about operating systems by studying the MINIX source code in minute detail and using it as a base to write Linux. Without Linux, there would not have been an Android since it is built on top of Linux. Without Android, the relative stock prices of Apple and Samsung might be quite different today.

Lesson. Listen to your students; they may know more than you.
I think mostly it is because people join servers that basically cater specifically to them.

For example, I'm on infosec.exchange. Needless to say, it is very easy for me to engage in conversations, and very easy for others to engage with me. In threads where people don't agree with each other, it still manages to not get hostile because well, we're all interested in the same subject even if from different angles.

Also, an important feature when it comes to people who might get out of hand on occasion, is that you can ignore (mute) and/or block them for a specified period of time (versus Twitter's permanent-only options). I do that when people post the songs they are listening to in real time, because I figure they'll be done the song list in an hour or so.
The number of SM parameters is not a lot, given the reach of the model, which is literally every physical phenomenon ever observed on Earth with enough detail, but gravity. Thousands of independent experiments, and observational data on a scale so absurdly large it's hard to state plainly. Any philosopher who wants to claim nineteen parameters is large is out of their minds!

Fine tuning, I agree, is a philosophical issue. I'm a physicist, and I don't buy it. Why does everything have to be perturbatively pleasant? Nobody promised us that.

The issue of artificial parameters is a red herring, I think. Properly computed, of course, well-defined observables are renormalization scale independent. You might have to pick a scheme/scale to do the calculation, but whatever scale dependence remains is an indication of some perturbative truncation. The continuum limit of LQCD, for example, produces real observables with no renormalization scale dependence. Hell, renormalization is not even mysterious in a computational approach.
The problem is you can't tell the difference.
It's not necessarily about the item in question, that's just one of several red flags, and missing pieces of information.

In any sort of 'case' like this, it's very important to have all the facts, and refrain from jumping to conclusions.
After a few years around the block (meteor, next.js), I'm back to Django. Got an mvp planetary web map annotation app up in no time, using Django DRF and just some plain hand-written js. Feels great to be back.
Who would you trust? People that -are-doing-it-their-whole-life- that have an interest to lie to you, or a correct sounding reasoning and the wisdom of billions of people for milleniums?
If your target customers are tech companies in the Bay Area it might make sense. I expect ASIC adoption to increase in datacenters over the next couple decades, for example, so if I were targeting that market I’d probably start in the Bay Area (given that Seattle has less history of semi manufacturing).
Yes, but not immediately. This is how it works:

1. There are a finite number of software engineers capable of competing with FAANG.

2. You outbid outsiders. At times, talk to your friends and tell them not to gum up intra-clique recruiting.

3. This continues for a long time, but at some point, salaries get a little too high.

4. Flush everyone all at once... resetting the baseline of what a tech salary "should be." This resets expectations for all the new talent coming in that might compete with you.

5. After the tech salary "should be" a few tens of thousands less... quietly start (2) again.

If you time it right, (2) happens when money is cheap and it's easy to found a competitor, while (4) happens when there is a "tech downturn" and VC are scared. What a tech salary "should be" is quite sticky, it takes a few years of (2) to actually change baseline expectations.

The existing cultural understanding of what tech workers "should be making" influences: what do the most promising new hires demand? how aggressive are your existing workers in asking for a raises, promos, etc? what do people take as a "given" and what do they think is a reach for them? These things operate as a sort of piggy bank. Every time you outbid a startup for promising talent, you are drawing from the piggy bank; that person tells their friends, makes a post on linkedin about it, which causes subsequent outbiddings to cost, pound for pound, ever so slightly more. When the piggy bank is empty, you refill it again by traumatizing everyone with a big, industry-wide layoff. But: you can only do this if you have a big hammer to wield.

As a bonus, if you can be a little bit discerning in your firings, you actually can shed dead weight in the process.
> Nothing drives me nuts more than expats who complain about having to pay an extra 10k for something because the locals were 'ripping them off'...

Not all expats are rich. Many Vietnamese are rich. So yeah, it is kind of shitty that if you're a foreigner you'll be overcharged for everything all the time. It's racism, to put it bluntly, and not a good part of Vietnamese culture. I think it's totally reasonable to be annoyed about racism.
Is it time for an open source adblocker that only blocks bad actors?

I am perfectly fine with ads, I've previously run sites where it was a small source of income myself. I know it would be in a cat and mouse game with the bad guys but if it blocked most of them it would certainly help a lot of people.
Make ad brokers share responsibility for losses due to scam ads. If the ad broker is unable to clearly identify the advertiser for lawsuit purposes, the ad broker should face consequences. They're assisting the criminal by helping them hide.
I will never use Paypal ever again. I created my account when I was still at university, around 2005 I think. They wanted a phone number for verification so I gave them my home phone number (if I remember correctly, they didn't support mobile numbers in my country at this point). Later, they added mobile number support so I added my mobile and moved on. 16 years later, I get a 2FA prompt on login and they will only accept my original home phone number as the phone to use. I haven't had that number for 13 years at that point, there was no way to use it. I called them and asked if I could verify with _any_ of the other numbers on my account but they refused, and said the only thing I could do was close the account.

Luckily the only subscription linked to it was my Nintendo Switch online account, and that was easy to fix. I didn't have any funds stored in the account luckily, but there's no way I'm risking anything else with them given the experience I had with customer support.
Well for a start you could make it more obvious what your service does do. I don't know what "geocoding" is. Converting things to/from "text" is meaningless. You have to get all the way down ... way down, past authentication to the details of the `q` query parameter before it actually tells you.

At the top you should have a diagram like this:

Lat, lon <- opencage -> address

With a few examples underneath.
Unfortunately as technology evolves our default operating procedures have to evolve too.

Take for example draining batteries until they die as the "battery health best practice". Obviously terrible advice for lithium-ion batteries.

Or advice to "never leave a car/lead-acid battery on concrete for longer than a few minutes." Which just doesn't apply with plastic/rubber shelled lead-acid batteries these days.

I'm not sure what a stop gap to replace the emergency check is, but I'm sure there are options.
You could sign up for an account, put a button on your website, and get payments presto. I think this was pretty innovative 20+ years ago. I suspect a Visa merchant account gave more grief then for someone making 100/month selling knickknacks.
The Nazis did it to disabled people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Prevention_of_Here...) and there are more countries listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization
So what does it take to get IT to approve software, particularly if no code signed installer? I was always a dev contractor so was never part of those decisions/policies.
> The US seems to be the only country that has this problem.

Here's my take on the issue from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32680201

Summary: We don't have safe roads and in most American suburbs traveling by car is often the only reasonable option available.
I agree that is the ultimate solution. But crypto is not necessary to facilitate such an arrangement. As soon as a human can override the outcome, you've negated the point of using mathematical proofs. Because now you're trusting in the human rather than the proof. You can't have it both ways. Either the ultimate authority is math, or it is a human.
Former employees say Twitter is stuck in a recurring code loop nightmare
Not judging, just recognizing. Been there, done that.

The reality is, except for being locked up in solitary confinement or being held on a deserted island with no members of the opposite sex, it really doesn't take much for a woman to get pregnant. In fact, without work to stop it, it's common for women be pregnant nearly all the time in any mixed social environment.

I think what you're referring to is 'not possible to start a family with the circumstances and standard of living desired', which is a different problem.

It's always about prioritization and choices. Most of the time, we just don't want to recognize the choices we're implicitly making - and there are a lot of reasons for it.

Delusions are a survival mechanism, and we evolved them for a reason, after all.
Are these really separate phenomena though? I'd strongly argue that between self-supervised learning, transformers, diffusion models, and LLMs we're looking at phases of the same phenomenon, each building on top of the knowledge that came before.

Like vaccines - inactivated viruses isn't a different "wave" than mRNA, they are logical successors within the same intellectual pursuit.

Or Vulkan vs. OpenGL. They aren't separate "fads" that gained traction.

Or ARM vs. x86. They aren't "fads" so much as entirely reasonable evolutions of technologies based on the evolving knowledge of the field and its needs.

Not everything is a popularity contest.
Perhaps. But the way juries are conditioned to gauge expertise is by using the brand as a proxy. That’s why “Vanderbilt” professor can make $200k giving expert testimony, whereas professors at no-name schools aren’t even asked the time of day. If prosecutors want expert testimony in encumbered by brand dynamics, they are free to ask anyone. But they ask for the brand-names because they have more weight in the eyes of jurors.
Isn't it just garbage went in, got weighed as a more reliable source than it should have been and thus garbage came out. Good old GIGO... It's just here, ChatGpt, as much as I love it, is amazing at imparting the impression that its shit don't stink.
On MacOS I like Little Snitch for OS level stuff, with some rule groups like ads_stevenblack and malwares_prigent.
There's a vast chasm between "whoever wrote this article didn't think to link to a similar issue a year ago" and "the first incident was a malicious hoax".
Cryptocurrency suffers from the same problems if not worse. There have been billions stolen in cryptocurrency due to no regulations and a lack of accountability. In many cases the one robbing the exchanges were the owners themselves...
Thankyou for writing about your experience. I hope I never have to consult it, but I'm glad it's there.
Perhaps it could be an effort toward an implementation of Local-First Web Development. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34857435
So can I, but luckily TV is not representative of the world at large.
Official announcement, December 2022: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221
Apparently there is no took for the Flatpak community in the community of communities.

While I see uptake of Flatpaks, I rarely see anyone pointing at a snap. Is anyone using Snap (out of free will)? Why do you prefer it?
I recently moved from a very low average income city to a very high average income city. In my former city it was nearly unheard of for children to unsupervised, despite most people having large families, because there was a very real concern about kidnapping/human trafficking and other issues (and this concern wasn't unfounded, this city made national news for masked men in a van grabbing multiple children while their parents were holding their hands in a Walmart parking lot and bailing).

In my new city, I see 7-8 year old kids outdoors playing without any significant supervision in the neighborhood and allowed to walk to school on their own or walk/scooter to a friends house. It's a stark difference. There are complex issues here, and a lot of nuance, but on its face this made a statistical truth really obvious to me, which is that socioeconomic status nearly directly correlates to physical safety and crime rates. The simple truth is that the high average income city is just a much much much safer place for anyone to exist in, to walk in, and this includes children.

I feel like every time this issue gets discussed, there's always people ignoring the socioeconomic factor, and worse, pointing it out is taken as a blanket attack on poor people.
Yes, and banks routinely charge $35 for each transaction on an overdrawn account. This is particularly easy to do if multiple people share a bank account with a low balance.
>Hurricanes have obliterated parts of the Gulf Coast, dumping more than 50in of rain in some places.

This is not evidence of climate change, and if you go and read NOAA's and the IPCC's own data they show that there has been no significant change in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, and any minor change is actually a decrease in frequency of the last 50 years.

>Wildfires have denuded the California wilderness and destroyed thousands of homes.

Forest fires are also not a climate change event but rather a natural occurrence that was made all the worse by California's/DNR/USDA policy not to let these burns happen more frequently and allowing the build up of dying or dead material that burns much easier and makes life harder in forest areas in the state, something that the Forest Service has admitted.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sierra/landmanagement/?cid=st...

>A once-in-a-millennium drought has dried up rivers and forced farmers to stop planting crops.

A once in a millennium drought would suggest that this has happened before and is not necessarily the result of any changing climate. Beyond that, how do we know that this is a once in a millennium drought? I'm no geologist, but I do know that weather records have only existed for the last approx. 150 years, during which I think water distribution of the Colorado river was meted out during years of very high rainfall, etc. that caused baselines to be determined incorrectly.

>In cities like Miami and Norfolk, where sea levels are rising

Again, NOAA's own data shows that while seal levels might be considered rising, they are doing so on average of less than a foot per 100 years, and that's often with only 50-100 years of data. This is not necessarily evidence of climate changing because over the next 100 years this could go the other way and average out.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/mslUSTrendsTable....

For an article that makes large assumptions on the movement trends, primarily of Californians, the author does little in the way of providing data to back up the claims.
I understand how Stanford is a proper univeristy, but given how the college industry as a whole has done nothing but abuse students with predatory tactics aimed to squeeze every last drop of money out of them, I'm hard-pressed to shed a tear for professors. Not their fault per se, but still.
It's distrust in Chinese gov , not in people or country
I had a similar experience with SMS dependent processes, only that time they also required access to an old credit card number I didn't have anymore, and that the credit card company couldn't provide because it was a temporary number.

Ebay isn't alone in relying on SMS. It drives me nuts and strikes me as irresponsible. There should always be multiple options and if they SMS something they should be able to call with a code over audio.
The problem here is a lot bigger than PayPal.

Consider people who sell through Amazon or even use Amazon for distribution. Amazon can arbitrarily decide you’ve violated their TOS, suspend your account and freeze any funds you’re due for things you may have already shipped.

You may be in limbo for months. It might be impossible to reach a human to resolve it if you’re not of sufficient size.

I get the need to combat fraud but what we have here is a financial incentive for companies to freeze and basically steal your money. Even if you eventually get it back just holding it has value.

That’s a problem.
I also believe that changing your domain after you build an user base is challenging from a UX perspective. Many users have saved their credentials on their browser's password manager, and if the domain changes, the auto fill didn't work anymore.

Courious about why Notion owns the .com but still using the .so.
No script is excellent, but it is certainly not for the faint of heart. It basically breaks the (modern) internet and then you have to go in yourself an unfuck each website.

The upside though is big, stops all the insane bloat that runs on most pages. Many websites run fine with all their scripts blocked too.
They're probably putting it in climbing chalk or something.
> If the US was under IMF supervision it would have been in violation decades ago.

IMF loans aren’t denominated in the recipients own currency, though.
I see no problem with pregnant women using the carpool lane. I certainly don't want them stuck on the freeway if they have to pee.

Really, I see it the same as any parent transporting their own kids. The real point of the carpool lane is to reduce the number of cars on the road by having multiple adults who are able to drive share a vehicle. Nonetheless we already make exceptions for other passengers who can't drive.
After clicking "Maybe Later" I get a "Don't Ask Again" option after that, so it's possible, but harder than it should be. This is definitely bad practice.

I don't feel like this should be enabled by default. It would be fine for them to advertise it when you click on the extension asking you to turn it on, but not inline on every email form with a double opt-out.
I suppose Ebay is the place that UX-norms go to die. It's a real chat
I think Modi is the best thing and the worst thing to have happened to India in recent history.
You wrote:

> Of course you will have to buy a maintenance contract on a yearly basis…

One does not have to buy a maintenance contract. It's entirely up to the customer if he/she does that.

> but it does not include technical support. It will have to be bought with “incident packs” costing thousands of euros; because yes, paying for a product and a maintenance contract does not mean they will fix bugs, and you will have to pay for each of them.

You don't have to pay for each of them. They clearly say that they "may" charge you money and they inform you if that is the case.

I have been reporting many things and for most fixes (for their bugs) I didn't have to pay anything additionally. For a lot of those I got patches immediately, sometimes they told me that it will be fixed in the next release, especially if it was in combination of a new feature. For example I once complained that the terminal listener/debugger wasn't supporting UTF-8. That feature got added in some release later. If I would have wanted to have it earlier, I surely would have had to pay for it.
It can even vary from one suburban neighborhood to another, without much difference in actual safety between the neighborhoods. Our last neighborhood had roving bands of kids wandering about and picking up and losing members here and there all day long in the Summer, just like it was 1975, everyone was totally chill about it. It was great. Our new one like two miles away is a "kid plays in the yard" neighborhood and we've had people come by more than once to make sure we're aware our kids are on their bikes on the other side of the neighborhood (yeah, we know).
Church-goers pay money to their local church in tithes (generally suggested as 10% of pre-tax wages), local churches pay to their regional church, regional churches pay to the Vatican, it's a bit of a pyramid scheme but people feel like they get value from it
Meta-display concept could retire LCD panels in big-screen TVs
> but the problem is very much downstream of the children-out-of-wedlock problem

If this were the case then there would be similar issues with children of single parents in e.g. European countries, no?
No, you're restricting it more than the law calls for. A child is not neglected when they are allowed to participate in any activities that a reasonable and prudent parent would judge to be within their capabilities. You're getting too fixated on that one example, and there are a lot of places in the US where a child of a certain age can and should be allowed to roam pretty much anywhere.

You're correct the language does leave it up to judicial interpretation, and I find that to be a weakness in the law, because it leaves too much room for police and CPS to claim that they thought they were doing the right thing.
For which civil or criminal?

For civil it’s largely because each side’s evidence must be disclosed to the other prior to trial. Therefore, the attorneys can pretty effectively estimate the probabilities and expected outcomes. Given these estimates, the two sides typically split the baby and settle somewhere in a reasonable range.

For criminal it’s because 99.9999% of the accused are guilty and everyone knows it. Juries don’t appreciate having a week or more of their lives wasted for some defense attorney to try to argue that the clear video of their client stealing the car isn’t them, or was a setup, or whatever.

Sensible criminals take whatever deal they can get rather than risking pissing off a jury.
Twitter, Mastodon too
Commentators thus far seem mainly interested in applications in cars, in the event this ever makes it out of the lab.

Frankly, cars are not the big deal here. Existing battery technology is good enough for most light vehicle applications, and continues to incrementally improve. A lithium-air battery car could be even better and would solve most of the edge cases (the people who want to tow horse floats across the country at 70mph, for instance, or for lightweight electric sports cars).

However, this would be a transformative technology for electric aviation.

Delivery drones double or triple their useful range. Air taxis go from pushing the limits of structural engineering to being easily doable. Short-haul all-electric airliners become plausible.
I think very many humans behave like that, actually. A recent example is people claiming that Flint, MI still has leaded water.

But in the past, HN users "corroborated" that Apple is spying on them etc. Fabrication is well and alive among us.