skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am being a little hyperbolic with the whole “destroy the PC” thing. I did have one engagement where we generated keys on a PC before importing into an HSM. (We did this to be vendor agnostic on the HSM for an intended 25 year lifetime for the keys.) The PC was destroyed after the ceremony and after the plaintext keys were committed to tamper-evident envelopes.

I would prefer a “security key” device with its own USB host port so I could plug a keyboard of my own choosing directly into it. A poor man’s secure PIN pad.

Edit now that I'm not on my phone:

I'm resigned to the fact that no mainstream hardware is ever going to be made that will do what I want. There isn't enough of a market for my desires, like so much technology today. It's yet one more step toward in my ending up a "digital hermit" figuratively living in a shack in Montana.
So then I'm either underthinking or overthinking this. Inherent food allergies feel like a rare thing to me.
That was my thought too, most of these happened in the early days of nukes. Hopefully the rate of losses has truly gone to zero post 1968, though I wonder if such a loss would be reported today if it happened.
Pot calls kettle black - as if "driving us all insane" is not part of the media outlets' job ...
Been high on my interest list, I feel like electric aircrafts/drones just need some in air power delivery as a force multiplier. Not sure wireless transfer is "the way" but a worthwhile effort. With smaller drones especially, sending a couple hundred watts is super interesting potential, from a bigger airborn power-carrier.
Thanks for the link. I’m planning on revisiting this.
I enjoyed Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 even more!
Too much to address so I generalized.

I don't have time to go into details but the very big problems you could encounter mainly revolve around misses on compliance because you took a very lax approach to Finance ie. accounting standards, tax rules, payroll records, stock options and more. Just as a very simple example - I've seen a $1 million MRR company get eviscerated for not paying attention to something as basic as sales tax rules.
They believe the books are sound, but people (depositors and investors) are a bit jumpy / skittish currently.

No bank - and that is no bank - can survive a majority of its depositors all withdrawing their funds rapidly. Even the big banks can't survive that.

The $250k backstop for the FDIC should prevent the regular depositors from doing a bank run, but when the depositors are more single sector business oriented then that is a more real fear.

By putting in $30B into the bank it provides a few things. First, it is $30B of money that the big banks aren't going to be moving out soon. It is liquid money that can be used so that First Federal doesn't have to sell securities at a loss to close out depositors accounts (this is what got SVB). Secondly, it is a statement from the banks that they trust (with their money where their mouth is) that the bank will not fail - because if it does, they're way about that $250k FDIC insurance number. Those deposits are very much like yours and mine - just with a few more zeros on the end. They are deposits - not bond sales or other financial instruments, but rather cash in the bank.

From yesterday: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/16/first-republic-bank-3...

From this morning: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report...
Yes, that's true in this case, but it's not unusual to have something which uniquely identifies a debounced/memoized/cached function though, so that subsequent calls look it up against a registry and avoid repeated computation. In the context of requests, that's usually the URL itself (or some combination of the URL and some parameters). This sort of registry is basically exactly what a component instance serves as is in the context of hooks.
Modern SSR is for the first page load. After this all navigation and interaction is AJAX.
Being too eager to dismiss a technology and move on is just as much of a bandwagon-jump as being too eager to adopt it in the first place.

The Gartner Hype Cycle[1] has both a 'peak of inflated expectations' and a 'trough of disillusionment'.

The thing a lot of tech cynics fail to spot is that both of them are wrong about the long term value of the technology.

The 'plateau of productivity' awaits, where graphql, nosql, serverless, and SPAs will join every other technology, finding productive use in their appropriate niche.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Twitch’s Chief Executive Says He Is Resigning
https://archive.ph/9f01i
You could put it behind cloudflare tunnel or something
It isn't an error to distinguish between credibility or competence attacks and logical refutation.

PP is technically - which is to say logically - correct.
I’m not dismissing or minimizing what a blog can do for you. I just have a different perspective.

I had a fitness blog on Blogger between 2008-2011. I was a part time fitness instructor. I found it relatively useless. By then, normal people stopped going to random websites. I started posting everything to Facebook and I had a lot more engagement and virality.

I stopped teaching in 2012 after getting married. Fast forward to 2019, my wife got into the fitness industry and I see how it has changed - YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc.

The “aggregators” have taken over.

From a tech perspective, if I cared about my “brand”, it would be to set myself up for independent cloud consulting. I would be trying to establish myself as a “thought leader” by posting vapid crap on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The department I work for at $BigTech (consulting) does have a very easy open source approval process that allows us to publish our “reusable artifacts” from consulting projects on to their open source GitHub organization with an MIT license and then we can fork it under our own profile. I do take advantage of that to have sone type of public presence.

If I were to start a career focus blog, I would host it on Micro.blog and talk about my open source work.

I have a blog there now that’s more of a public journal than anything else. My wife and I will be “digital nomadding” flying across the US for the foreseeable future every March -September. I really don’t care about “engagement” or if anyone actually sees it. If I wanted to showboat about our travels I would post to FB and Instagram.
SVB CEO Bank on the Economy (2021) [Bloomberg TV]
What I meant by tooling not being aware is that its hard to pinpoint what exactly is using that memory.

Best you can do is do dumps, verify, enable NMT, verify.

It gives me no value to know that my heap is 60m, but my RSS is 600mb while reserved is 40GB. Need more details and those are not always provided i.e. “Unknown” category in NMT details.

Best is that top, pmap and nmt are all showing completely different values for resident size :> and its not a unit issue.
> Philosophers professing to be scientists has been troubling me more and more the past few years

Hmm, I don't recall ever coming across a philosopher professing to be a scientist.

> Is it bad to upvote an article on HN, just because I think the comment quality is enlightening?

Not bad—I and others do it all the time, when you want more people to see the existing comments and to comment more. Often the worst articles provoke the most interesting conversations.
Could they have been delivered to another nation in a clandestine way and reported missing to cover that loss? To me it seems viable and probably if my hypothesis is correct there's a country that became a nuclear power soon after we stopped losing them
The date is in the comment metadata already and don't you have a better place to store your "private" notes than in-front of millions?
> Really makes me see the partisan stuff in the US as silly, so I don't get heated about it,

Some of the partisan issues are not silly if you are affected by it. To pick a left issue, if you are gay and would like to marry your partner and get the benefits of such legal recognition, the differences are very consequential. To pick a right issue, if you think that Democrats are voting illegally by the millions, then addressing such threats to Democracy is incredibly important.

There are many other issues where there is a real difference. As an affluent, well educated, older white guy with job security, I'm well insulated from many of the issues. But I have empathy for the people who can't be so aloof; to say "both sides are equally bad" across the board is lazy enlightened centrism.
Why is no one talking about the bird flu H5N1?
Less birds is equals to fewer eggs!
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-flu-summary.htm
That's probably the least of our concerns right now.
39. The Spyglass Self:
We develop our identities by glimpsing ourselves through others' eyes, imagining how they see us, adjusting ourselves accordingly. Since personality is a performance in the limelight of another’s gaze, we cannot be someone without someone to be someone for.
U235's half life is 700M years, even Pu242 is 375k. The materials in the neutron sources for the primer/initiator are much lower and those are indeed surely useless now (though there were a lot of variant techniques here and I'm no expert).

But that just means that the bomb's original ignition mechanism can't blow it up in situ. The cores themselves are absolutely still useful.
Certainly not for lazy FP language like Haskell. Its GC is highly specialized for that, including performing some non-allocating reductions during GC, having special support for detecting looping computation (holes), etc.
Cool, thanks!

Though given the framerates I can also guess why they didn’t bother for the Mario circles with like 20 segments.
> Philosophers professing to be scientists has been troubling me more and more the past few years.

Scientists professing not to be philosophers has been troubling me more and more the past few years.
It depends. If I remember some bombs would use tritium (half life 12 years) to introduce neutrons to ensure chain reaction at right time. As to the fissile material itself, those all have long half lives and should be viable for tens of thousands of years.
Classic and apropos LRB essay https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n15/mike-kirby/diary
"How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
Has that page changed a lot since then? Every link out of a dozen or so that I quickly checked were all real <a> tags that worked fine with middle- and right-clicking. I couldn't reproduce the back button behavior in your complaint either.
They did give their workers cancer and denied it for 10 years. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/samsung-electronics-apology-sic...
Similarly related:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-u-s-media-so-negativ...

Freakonomics had a decent episode which explained some of these mechanisms.
What is going to change the scroll position on a state or "page" change? It's not that they figured it out, it's just the nature of a single page.
I don't think they're equally bad, only equally silly. They use the same scare tactics every time, and it helps to look past that. Yes I care about the issues.

But how I vote is different: just straight down for whatever is the minority party in my state. Only battleground states get the pandering, and I'll stop doing this if I ever live in a battleground state or they change how voting works. State propositions are a separate thing.
That's a great example of knowing exactly what ??? means: the program is misbehaving and should terminate.

It's dead in the current call stack, but over time programs change and that is how errors creep in. If it's a precondition that _baz_ is in a particular range for the function to behave, why not check that in an assert and save yourself or a future programmer a ton of stress trying to work out why some unrelated part of the code blew up when they made what seemed like a simple change nine layers up the call stack?

There's no runtime cost to an assert in production code, but it makes your intent clear to both the compiler and other humans.
Over the course of the last 3 years I found myself clicking on less and less HN stories. This place definitely feels like it lost the inventor spirit and the clever "how to" articles. A lot of stuff is either political or has very close political outcomes, and the rest is blind hype (ChatGPT won't revolutionize almost anything, and I'll stand by my words, bookmark this comment and show it to me in 5 years, I dare you). Let's not forget the yet-another-500-comments thread arguing pointlessly about whether startups are a good format or not. Or office vs. remote. And several others (but they are not many and it does feel like a tool a la ChatGPT could have generated them).

Today I've gotten much bigger value for my time when reading about various CLI tools that process and ingest / export data (recent thread about `miller`) than all of the above, combined.

HN, I feel, became more popular, and that has hurt its quality. So yes, I started reducing my consumption of it as well. I treat it like all other news sites 99% of the time, and I am right to do so at least 90% of them. I barely find 2-3 good articles per week these days.

Soon I might start checking HN biweekly because the value proposition is just not there.
Hey mate, as a fellow obese (soon to only be overweight) person, I found something that makes a lot of sense to me: the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.

The thermodynamic model of calories-in-calories-out doesn't work because we are not a thermodynamic system; it doesn't take into account the hormonal and metabolic changes that occur when calories are chronically restricted.
Maybe the 50000 Token Version of ChatGPT can understand it.
> Maybe it's possible to set up the system with some kind of self-feedback loop, where it continues evaluating and improving its answers without further prompts.

It can do that while it generates output. Humans do the same thing when they figure out what they really mean while they're trying to express it.
Both good comments. I love the article, but the "Safety Remarks" probably shouldn't have been so far down in the text!
I don't know which sites use what particular frameworks and paradigms (and I don't recall offhand which sites I've had these problems with), but I frequently have problems with sites that will, when I command-click on a link (standard shortcut to open in new tab on Mac), either open the page in the new tab and change the current tab to it, or just completely ignore my expressed desire and only change the current tab.

"But all the frameworks support doing the good thing! But only people who are bad at it make bad UX!"—well, it's still happening. No amount of contempt for the people doing it changes that.
You miss the point. On Jan 19 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC, the very next second of a signed (2's complement) 32 bit time will roll over from +2^31-1 to -2^31. Which happens to be -2^31 seconds before Sun Feb 7 06:28:16 AM 2106 UTC. So if you were just to interpret those negative dates as relative to 2106, you are good to go in 2038 without changing anything.

Any system of assigning epochs needs to have some method to determine which epoch you are referring to, so that's no different no matter if the scheme starts in 2020, 1970 2040, etc. So just use the natural modulus of 2^32 if you are using signed 2^32 to represent dates. When it rolls over, you're in a new epoch.

I'm kind of trying to point out that if you have a calendar that repeats after every 2^32 seconds, and you have more than 2^32 seconds to count, your problem is that you have too small of a counter, not wherever the arbitrary start point is - changing that is silly and just adds complication.
They actually have studies that show people consistently score lower on IQ tests when they know their phone is in the same room as them.
Yeah, I’m doing that to get GPT-3.5 to remember historical events from other conversations. It never occurred to me to let it write it’s own memory, but that’s a pretty interesting idea.
What did he say about logical grammars and neural nets in the past? Sorry, not very familiar with him.
Rippling is great. Doing everything we need from HR with none of the usual jank. I hope it will scale.
I would not be so sure about compute capacity? Neural network architectures are still in their infancy, it is very likely that more efficient approaches exist.
The Linux one is slow too. You have to manually turn off animated profile pics in the friends section otherwise it’s unusable slow, like 1fps.
So many comments saying it's just a matter of time before someone connects this to a humanoid robot. I think there is a big gap in advancements between GPT and physical hardware robotics. GPT is able to improve exponentially because it's just software, but we don't have the equivalent type of acceleration in hardware improvements today, not remotely.

If it learns how to build hardware better, faster and cheaper, and then starts making it then we're talking.
What's with the snake?
Or the young. I spend so much time helping my teenagers and early 20 somethings with online tasks. They know how to use a few select websites/apps, but outside of that they are pretty much clueless about computers (despite my efforts to educate them).
Thanks for the link!

You’re right, when I say quantized I do mean finite, countable, represents me symbolically. I realize how staggering large finite can be.

We are in the midst of exponential growth in our ability to manipulate reality. The mastery of physical reality feels achievable to me now. I could be wrong, but I could also be right. It’s a fun time to be alive.
Open Circuit dive to 80m with 15 mins of working bottom time (CCR would cut total runtime down to 85 mins and slash the helium bill). I ran it with Nominal conservatism since I figure we're talking about people crazy enough to play around with explosives. You can likely cut off of half the O2 stop and as long as you pass your saving throwing against type I DCS and don't have a PFO you'll likely be fine for 4 dives. I would assume these people would wind up pushing the tables exceedingly hard.

V-Planner 3.105 by R. Hemingway,
VPM code by Erik C. Baker.

Decompression model: VPM - B

DIVE PLAN
Surface interval = 5 day 0 hr 0 min.
Elevation = 0m
Conservatism = Nominal

Dec to 80m (4) Trimix 15/55 18m/min descent.
Level 80m 15:33 (20) Trimix 15/55 1.34 ppO2, 24m ead, 30m end
Asc to 54m (23) Trimix 15/55 -8m/min ascent.
Stop at 54m 0:45 (24) Trimix 15/55 0.95 ppO2, 14m ead, 19m end
Stop at 51m 1:00 (25) Trimix 15/55 0.91 ppO2, 13m ead, 17m end
Stop at 48m 1:00 (26) Trimix 15/55 0.86 ppO2, 12m ead, 16m end
Stop at 45m 1:00 (27) Trimix 15/55 0.82 ppO2, 11m ead, 15m end
Stop at 42m 1:00 (28) Trimix 15/55 0.78 ppO2, 10m ead, 13m end
Stop at 39m 1:00 (29) Trimix 15/55 0.73 ppO2, 9m ead, 12m end
Stop at 36m 2:00 (31) Trimix 15/55 0.69 ppO2, 7m ead, 11m end
Stop at 33m 2:00 (33) Trimix 15/55 0.64 ppO2, 6m ead, 9m end
Stop at 30m 3:00 (36) Trimix 15/55 0.60 ppO2, 5m ead, 8m end
Stop at 27m 3:00 (39) Trimix 15/55 0.55 ppO2, 4m ead, 7m end
Stop at 24m 4:00 (43) Trimix 15/55 0.51 ppO2, 3m ead, 5m end
Stop at 21m 3:00 (46) Nitrox 50 1.54 ppO2, 10m ead
Stop at 18m 3:00 (49) Nitrox 50 1.39 ppO2, 8m ead
Stop at 15m 4:00 (53) Nitrox 50 1.24 ppO2, 6m ead
Stop at 12m 5:00 (58) Nitrox 50 1.10 ppO2, 4m ead
Stop at 9m 8:00 (66) Nitrox 50 0.95 ppO2, 2m ead
Stop at 6m 10:00 (76) Oxygen 1.60 ppO2, 0m ead
Stop at 3m 16:00 (92) Oxygen 1.30 ppO2, 0m ead
Surface (92) Oxygen -6m/min ascent.

Off gassing starts at 62.2m

OTU's this dive: 110
CNS Total: 53.2%
Gas density: 5.7g/l

183.8 cu ft Trimix 15/55
32.0 cu ft Nitrox 50
21.9 cu ft Oxygen
237.8 cu ft TOTAL

DIVE PLAN COMPLETE

********* WARNING & DISCLAIMER *********
This V-Planner generated dive schedule could indirectly kill you.
The author does not warrant that it accurately reflects the Varying
Permeability Model algorithms, that it won't get you bent or dead, or that it
will produce safe, reliable results. This dive schedule is experimental
and you use it at your own risk. Diving in general is fraught with
risk, and decompression diving adds significantly more risk.
Deep diving utilizing multiple gasses, including Helium, is about
as risky as it gets.

This schedule is not intended for uneducated users. V-Planner and the
decompression schedules it produces are tools for experienced mixed-gas
decompression divers ONLY. If you have not been properly trained in
mixed-gas decompression diving by an internationally recognized technical
certification agency and/or don't have a firm handle on decompression
planning and mixed-gas diving, then DO NOT USE THIS DIVE SCHEDULE.
There's two big problems with the Canadian system. The first is brain drain; doctors can make way more money in the US. The other is politics. Slashing taxes is a short-term political win, even if it has disastrous long-term consequences.

The Canadian system is far from perfect. But nobody can match the waste in the US system.
SETI@home is in hibernation
Then we shouldn't use the 10 year-old (lesser) popular sentiment as a reason to discount AI either.
1. You'll note I didn't call him a sociopath. One does not have to be a sociopath to believe a sociopathic take. In this case, merely being deceived by anarcho-capitalist rhetoric explains why the person I'm responding to believes this.

2. The question was rhetorical. Nobody "wonders" anything in this conversation.

3. The extremist capitalist ideology espoused by many of HN's members is among the most harmful ideologies alive in our society today, and the mentally stable thing to do is treat it as the harmful ideology that it is. Consistently prioritizing corporate profits over basic human rights and decency is not healthy, and it's not healthy to treat it as if it were okay.
Again this seems like a "God of the gaps" thing - if this universe isn't strictly deterministic then it's superdetermined by a meta universe, and so on
At some point we have to assume time travellers are taking all the bombs that did start Armageddon, alternatively our luck might be extremely close to running out.
Do you baby tips for finding cheap ones?

The cheap rentals in my city are at the airport and that makes it a pain to use them. They're not really cheap if I ascribe a sufficiently high value to my time. The ones close to me often have limited inventory and don't have a pickup truck right now.

Even at the airport, it looks like a pickup truck is $200 for the weekend. And honestly going to the airport is enough of a pain that I'm less likely to do things that require a truck as a result.

If I owned a pickup truck and kept it in a garage by my place then I would be far more likely to make last minute decisions to go camping or yard sale shopping or whatever.