skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. And for some stuff you get cryptographic checksums for free.

Backup of Git repositiories:

... # git fsck --full
error: unable to unpack contents of .git/objects/a2/cf1a9631658799733f43c3b3f0a799696a4b21
error: a2cf1a9631658799733f43c3b3f0a799696a4b21: object corrupt or missing: .git/objects/a2/cf1a9631658799733f43c3b3f0a799696a4b21

Oops... No matter if it's a malware, the lack of ECC which by bad luck induced a bit flip that wasn't detected (on an otherwise okay Git repo) or a disk failing, it's trivial to detect if the repo is corrupted.

Same for my ripped archive of Audio CDs. The rippers save lots of information and the rips are bitperfect, cross checked with other people's rips' checksums. And the checksums are all there.

For family pictures, I add a checksum to the pictures myself.

Backups aren't really backups until they've been verified :)
I can't tell if you're talking about the "architects" here or the person saying that "architect" is a bullshit job.
Already confirmed otherwise but the key giveaway its not prompt engineering is the provided references with the answer.
They are pseudo-anonymous at best.
Mentioned it up thread, but this is _exactly_ what our Replay time-traveling debugger for JS lets you do!

We specifically let you add "print statements" to any line of code from the recorded app, let you toggle them or change conditions, and recalculate the logged output every time you make a change:

https://docs.replay.io/reference-guide/print-statements

Longer-term, we have plans to implement functionality for "persistent object IDs" and tracing individual values over time. No ETA on that, but from what our runtime team has said it's feasible. (We actually have a partial hardcoded implementation of that that we're using to track anything that looks like a React internal "Fiber" data structure, and I used that to build some of our support for the React DevTools: https://blog.replay.io/how-we-rebuilt-react-devtools-with-re... )
2 game series come to mind for me.

> Fallout 1+2. The level of detail in the world and story, and how your decisions affect your character and the dialogue choices, is just absolutely amazing. I haven't played too many RPGs, but nothing else has come close to me. The incredible amount of things you could do in that game that were handled by in game dialogue was incredible. If you married person A in one town, or killed person B in another town, that might come up in some dialogue tree in a completely separate town. It was just incredible how much detail existed in this game. Plus you could shoot bad guys in the dick.

> X-COM: UFO Defense + X-COM: Terror from the Deep. Let's be clear, the graphics were pretty dated back in 1994. But my god, the feeling of tension you have trying to find aliens and kill them is unmatched by any game. Seeing snippets of movement when it wasn't your turn actually mattered. And the different game phases (base-building, air combat, and on-ground missions) were all connected so clearly. The modern sequels (XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, and the fantastic War of the Chosen) are rare examples of genuinely very good sequels. But they lack that true sense of terror that I think was built up in the original.
> (And if you think ESP-IDF is a handful, good lord, pray that you never have to deal with Zephyr.)

Well, that's stings. Can you elaborate on your trouble with getting Zephyr working on ESP32? My memory is it's actually one of our simpler platforms, though it's true Zephyr isn't itself an IDE. It's an RTOS with a C API; you're expected to build at the command line with a wrapper tool (west), and to have downloaded and unpack an SDK tarball. But really there's not much more to it than that.
Opaque systems appear unjust whether or not they are in fact unjust. Perception of justice is as critical as actual justice in many public-facing use cases.

JMO
> more like

Based on what?
Not only that, but speculative trading volume isn't the same as a normal transaction like buying a pizza. You can't count that in the numbers, but these numbers don't seem to indicate they are eliminating that noise. They do explicitly say they don't include ponzi schemes that have collapsed as "elicit."
> Convoy is the fastest open-source webhooks gateway available today

The site mentions multiple times that convoy is the fastest, but fastest in what sense? Is anyone able to find/point me to benchmarks on the site to backup that claim.
> Nearly all my personal photos were encrypted by the helprecover@foxmail.com ("HELP") variant of Phobos.

I can't assist you with recovery, and without a lot of logs and forensics data (or a significant performance improvement), the described method is likely unfeasible. But I'll try to find a matching sample and let you know if it's vulnerable.

> Sidecar question: when automating your backups, what's a good way to make sure your rolling backups aren't simply backing up malware-encrypted files?

Lots of good responses, I like incremental backups without ovewriting anything (supported OOTB by all copy-on-write filesystems, like ZFS or BTRFS). Not sure how to configure this on Windows.
I don't vote SD, and I agree with you.

We need a lot of tax reform - it's crazy how working is punished so much meanwhile there is no inheritance tax or land value tax.

But I'd also support the death penalty for violent criminals - we need the carrot and the stick, and a lot more of both.
(aside - Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew is an interesting book. There were arguments and heresies and divisions in the early church between the Gnostic and proto-orthodox (and other) branches that played out in the scriptures, forgeries, and later edits to each)
When it comes to Google, here is another anecdote (loophole?) that I personally experienced once in my life.

I worked for a company whose business Google account was somehow deleted. The access to Gmail was entirely lost, which was super critical for the company. One of our employees spent hours dealing with Google customer support. If I'm not being mistaken here, the response that they kept getting from Google was something along the lines of "due to our data safety and data retention policies, we are not able to recover your Google account". That same phrase was repeated again and again by various Google reps. Long story short, the company recovered everything. The solution was to email one of the investors and ask them if they can help in any way.

It was hilarious. The mail thread was something like:

Company:

> Hey Joe, due to xxxxx, we lost access to yyyyy@yyyyy.com. Google customer support cannot do anything. Any ideas what shall we do?

Joe forwards the email to an internal Google employee with just two words:

> Handle this.

The account is fully back online within 30 minutes.
Rethinking HTML for WordPress
> It makes it easier for bad actors -- mostly advertising networks -- to bypass my DNS filtering. They can do it all with their own code, encrypted through HTTPS to hide it, and never touch my DNS systems, nor be affected by browser settings.

If that makes DoH bad, then privacy is bad too since it makes it easier for terrorists and pedophiles to evade the law.
Ah, I've been seeing more and more videos that were clearly tossed together by some algorithm using a synthetic voice. The text may even be largely written by an AI and then proofed by a human. They use the same clips again and again, almost in rotation.

I think they're slowly going to drown out the good producers.
> To maintain integrity and prevent misuse, we are releasing our model under a noncommercial license focused on research use cases. Access to the model will be granted on a case-by-case basis to academic researchers; those affiliated with organizations in government, civil society, and academia; and industry research laboratories around the world. People interested in applying for access can find the link to the application in our research paper.

The closest you are going to get to the source is here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama

It is still unclear if you are even going to get access to the entire model as open source. Even if you did, you can't use it for your commercial product anyway.
The US version of this is the shift of juvenile and young-adult literature to the first-person POV, which has been so complete that kids coming up now find the third-person off-putting and difficult to read.
An edited edition seems mostly a copyright renewal stunt, possibly combined with an attempt to reach the censored library market.
Netflix is doing a bunch of adaptations, which will naturally draw a bunch of renewed interest to the books. They probably wanted to avoid discourse criticizing the books when the new shows came out.
If 99% of BTC mixers' volume is helping laundering international drug trade money, arms or human trafficking, it's not exactly hard to demonize mixing itself. I have no data to base this on, but I assume that privacy absolutists are a tiny, tiny drop in the pool of blood and crime.
To be more clear, here is a quote from another article

> The company said it would publish 17 of the author's books in their original form as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection along with the planned edited versions so "readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl's stories they prefer."

To me, it feels like a way to quell anger but still proceed forward and possibly even make money. I bet that the “classic” editions will be quietly discontinued in a few years.
At this point I don't think there is anything I'm going to tell you in a short hacker news comment that will convince you that currency is useful.

Sergey Nazarov's interview on Lex Fridman lays out some uses for smart contracts if you are actually interested in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPXTmVdlyoc&t=4s
I understand the technical merits of Rust and how it's distinct from the JVM.

The point was non-technical merits matter just as much, if not more.
It does, yes. I think a lot of people haven't read the book or have forgotten that the world of Snow Crash is an extreme dystopia -- certainly not the sort of world most people want to live in.

That's why I was so baffled as to why Facebook glommed on to the term "metaverse" with such fervor. The "metaverse" comes from that book, and is a major aspect of the dystopia. The term does not have positive connotations.
I just can't see college-or-not influencing perceptions enough to be relevant.

As someone who grew up in the suburbs, and has since lived in a rough part of the city, it also resonated with my personal experience.

In the suburbs, nobody generally knows each other. In the city, due to density, you just have more neighborhood interactions.

Sometimes inner city interactions are uncomfortable or with crazy people, but they're generally non-violent.

If I had to peg percentages, I'd say:

Inner city: 30% awesome/interesting/helpful strangers, 55% ambivalent strangers, 10% unpleasant strangers, 4.5% crazy strangers, 0.5% potentially violent strangers

Suburbs: 15% awesome/interesting strangers, 70% ambivalent strangers, 15% unpleasant strangers, 0% crazy/potentially violent strangers
the main reason that all cloud providers don't form a monopoly is because they can't afford it. if google could buy microsoft or vice versa they totally would. of course they want the monopoly, but that doesn't mean they can have it.
I suspect my idea of what he was like was heavily influenced by the narration of the audiobook!
I agree.

But right now, it's so easy (and fun, I've done it myself) to spin up chatbots that there aren't enough folks doing the more difficult UI work for the various use cases, in my view.
The changes were meaningless. Things like "fat" to "enormous." If you called a obese person "enormous," they would find it more offensive, not less. The only people who would care are culture warriors, and they predictably made enough of a stink to make this marketing campaign work out just fine.
Except in this case the strong person fully disclosed up front that they would most likely take the wallet and run, but there is a chance they would give it back with twice the money. The weak person still made a choice.
Maybe that won't be so much of an ecological disaster. AIs don't need golf courses and marble kitchen counters.
My friend, thank you for your question. I understand how curious you may be about my penis. As a philosopher, I focus on the mental wellbeing of a person over the physical pleasures. I believe that pleasure is found in being free from mental disturbance (1). It is a crime to injure any man, as we are all fellow citizens in a larger state (2). To make sound decisions in life, it is important to have a firm and trustworthy mind, not one that is disturbed by lust, greed, envy, or ambition (3). Our soul has capabilities to reach its divine origin, so it is important to keep our vices in check to reach such heights (4). Men should seek pleasure from honorable sources, and not be overwhelmed by greed and forgetfulness of what is honorable (5).

Thank you for your question. I hope this answer has been helpful.
Yeah. I work in crypto custody and I use Wise to send money in France.
What do you mean "in a good way"? How do you control whether someone using your video workflow automation uses it for good (whatever that is) or not?
I was on my phone when I posted the above, so couldn't easily look up the exact way it's:

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> Im basing this on the fact that anti-woke usually is considered right-wing/libertarian etc

Maybe in your mind but not mine. Good liberals are anti-woke because woke is anti-liberal. It's a coercive force that any decent person should be against. At least anyone who critically examines it and the methods it uses to manipulate and gain unjust and unearned power over others.
That's not how anti-trust works.

Are you really saying that no company should be able to create a new product based on resources it already has?

Why stop at compute? Why not make it an "anti-trust" case that Apple leverages its same operating system and chip design across multiple devices? Or Amazon uses its same logistics network to deliver more than just books?
I don’t know if it was gang affiliated but other 6 year olds were dealing where I grew up.
> We all started off enthused about cryptocurrency

Speak for yourself.

Some of us saw right away it wasn't a solution looking for a problem, it was a scam looking for a mark.
It seems odd to suggest the bug is with Safari. Normal humans (and even most developers!) don’t care that the byte length of an emoji in a particular encoding that may or may not be under their control defines the maximum “characters” in a text box (character used to define a logical collection of code points each of which may fit into one or multiple bytes).
Malvertising certainly appears to be the flavour of the month for threat actors.

Must've seen a half dozen articles on fake ad sites for cloud vendors and various services in the last couple of weeks alone.
I would go talk with three engineers in the company and ask if they would work with him on a project, based on the answer should influence the continued employment..
Unless they mention fusion, they are likely using test plasma that isn't going to fuse.
We still don't know the answer to the most important question, IMHO: why?
Biden signs exec. order advancing racial equity and imposing equity on govt. AI
How many times have you seen a company with a privacy policy saying something like, "we value your privacy, we'll never sell your data" and also having a clause about sharing your data with companies they already do business with? Oh, they're not selling your data, they're sharing it. It's such an obvious loophole buried under gobblygook language.
I'm not making a nuanced argument here. Sony has a clear pipeline for creating games. And a somewhat established market for marketing said games. Along with a ton of experience for doing the same. Facebook... has none of those things. Just a fair bit of money.

Can you break into a market with money? Sure. Microsoft did it. They are still a distant 3rd in that market.
This (incredibly irritating) behavior isn’t an engineering failure, it’s a specific policy failure.

The idea is “we will not give you a way to make our conversional UI incomprehensibly quiet”.

It is an especially dumb policy decision on anything that’s not a HomePod, and it’s also dumb to willfully ignore the user’s intent and focus on the one thing the device is willing to do for you regarding volume, rather than explaining “sorry, I’m always going to be loud, my makers are worried you’ll complain I’m inaudible if you try to get me to stop yelling my responses” but it is deliberate.
> Calling HN "left-wing" seems just staggeringly bizarre to me.

Is it? Find any thread about COVID-19, the opinions are staggeringly on the left.

I can come up with more examples. If you can't see the left lean you're more than likely part of it.
What? That seems crazy to me. You would literally turn away people that want to add value to the FOSS foundational ecosystem, which in turn brings in contributors and donations to keep things going?

Also this seems to be a confusion about what FOSS is. FOSS "freedom" isn't about "free as in beer", it's about "free as in speech." The GPL even welcomes commercial software, provided they include the source. I'd be thrilled to see a category of "paid FOSS" in the store, and I'd buy quite a bit of it if prices are reasonable and the software is useful.
They should be expected to have common sense. If they don't then this is just economic darwinism in action.
> which started off strong and then seemed to just ... evaporate?

Welcome to every neal stephenson book. You get used to it.
I'm in the camp that holds that the artists needs to be trying to communicate something for the work to be art in the first place. There are other words for when you're making things and not trying to communicate: illustration, decoration, design, etc. These words aren't insults (I'm an illustrator and a designer), they are just different things and it's useful have different terms for different things, and use the most apt one.

> “Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.”

That's Tolstoy's definition, and it's basically the one I stick with because it filters out the most things that don't seem to be art, and leaves the most things in which seem to be. It's an ad hoc, imperfect definition, but to me it's better than the one that says "anything is art, and art means whatever I want it to".

In terms of interpretation, I believe most art is open to a pretty wide range of interpretations, and you can make a strong case for the meaning to be something other than the most literal reading. Artists have subconscious minds too. But, in my opinion there are wrong interpretations, and the easiest ones to identify are ones that have no textual evidence ("Macbeth is actually about radio astronomy") so I don't agree with statements like:

> I believe that no interpretation of an artwork can be right or wrong.

Because where does that leave us? A world where art has a lot less value because it can just be anything to anybody. If it can mean anything, it effectively means nothing. Hard to find common ground or have a shared cultural language when you operate like that.
> Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code.

That's the primary way hacks are conducted by most hackers. Hackers are primarily social engineers, not technical. Technical hackers are extremely rare regardless of nationality.
Yeah, I’m not sure peoples’ primary concern with Dahl was with the _books_.
Business orgs have been finetuning open-source models like these on their own internal data to create a moat since BERT in 2018.
>the fact just how coherent the bullshit is is still extremely impressive

great, so it's a politician?

I really hate that this is being heralded as a triumph. Someone being very confident in their wrongness does not make it right. This is something we've been dealing with for some time, but it seems to be orders of magnitude stronger than say 20 years ago. Now we're celebrating how our AI systems are amazing at this. I just want to hang my head in shame at what we've come to accept.
> Measured in dollars most international markets have gone sideways for 25 years.

This is not even remotely true if you include dividends.
Do you even know what A1c is? Or how GLP-1 RA achieves this goal?

GLP-1 RA does NOT achieve a reduced A1c through weight loss. It achieves improved glycemic control by slowing the release of glucose into the blood as well as promoting increased production of insulin in response to glucose. The overall result is a reduction in blood glucose.

A1c is a measure of your glycemic health that spans around 90 days with heavier weight on more recent trends. It's like a longer blood glucose average measurement. There are actually algorithms that can calculate an estimate of your A1c based on blood glucose trends, which is referred to GMI (glucose management indicator).

The gastric effects leading to feeling full sooner and longer are a side effect and is what leads to weight loss. It also fades with time. Having been on various GLP-1 RAs over a decade, they don't provide this benefit to me anymore. Even with Mounjaro also being a GIP, it's just doing its primary job for me.
I'm kinda surprised at all the hatred this unleashed. I do think MLM's are a scam, so I can't disagree with any of it. Except this:

Have a little empathy with all the poor suckers at the bottom. They're trying to better themselves, and most of them are kind, hardworking people. It's too bad the MLM pushes them to become exploitive b_stards, and it would be nice to use all that energy ethically instead of just shutting them down.
In that case are you saying it should be illegal for any company to leverage its resources to get into a new business? Should Netflix not been allowed to leverage profits it was making in shipping DVDs to enter streaming?
Housing for the houseless.
Ah, didn't hear about that fiasco. But I'd recommend switching to Firefox, as they're keeping manifest V2 support. Also, stuff gets synced in Firefox if you have a Firefox account, so it matches up with pretty much all of Chrome's major features.
I messed around with it. First, it didn't look one bit like myself as a younger me. It was like an artificially blemish-free version and it even tries, haphazardly, to fill in a receding hair line. To be honest, it was funny.

I'm sure people's reaction to get teary-eyed have less to do with the literal-ness of the filter and more of a surfacing catharsis deep-down that people have about the passage of time, lost opportunities, distant pain or hurt, disappointment, and also perhaps a nostalgia for once was growing up. It's a pretty human thing.
Cryptocurrency is a solution looking for a problem, unless you're a criminal then it's great.
I read a fascinating book about the Vikings recently that touched on this topic.

One really interesting tidbit was the route they took.[0] At first blush, I'd expect them to have sailed/rowed their longboats counter-clockwise around Europe, through the straights of Gibraltar and into the Med. But they actually took much more direct route--straight through Europe! They'd go east through the Baltic Sea, up a navigable river like the Daugava to a point where that river neared the Dneiper river, at which point they'd jump out and hump their boats down to the Dneiper, which would carry them to the Black Sea.

The world has small for a very long time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_from_the_Varangians_to_t...
Please give an example
Meanwhile, Terry Pratchett explains why fiat currency works just fine in Making Money.
Yes, this is the only actually legitimate use for it I can think of.