skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NATO Pretends it is a defensive alliance, and yet Russia can point to shit like this as proof positive that is a lie and use it as justification to take offensive action to prevent them encroaching closer and closer, encircling them[1], as NATO has continued to do since then.

So yes, there were unintended consequences from this non-defensive NATO war.

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2016/Jun/30/2001564177/799/799/0/1...
I suppose they could communicate through the app which was used to order the food and/or using whatsapp.
"In the joint study that IPEN published with the help of the Nexus3 Foundation, an Indonesian public interest organization, scientists analyzed 29 microwaveable popcorn samples produced by four major popcorn companies: the American Popcorn Company, which makes Jolly Time; Conagra, which makes Act II; Ramsey Popcorn, which makes Cousin Willie's; and Preferred Popcorn. Without exception, all of the popcorn bags tested positive for one or more PFAS."
Well, not everyone cares about passion and doing overtime outside work just to stand out for what is a labour per hour => money transaction.

So that leaves out resumes for the rest of us that actually have a life outside work.
One thing I have learned from Krav Maga, you don't act passive or submissive unless you are about to kick someone in the groin and smash them in the face.
It makes me think of that astonishing line by Susan Sontag: "The [_____] race is the cancer of human history; it is the [_____] race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself."

But also Emil Cioran: "What makes bad [technologists] worse is that they [are steeped only in tech-centric thought] (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched [and gain a sensible sense of ethics] only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant."
Stop raging, your argument is invalid simply because I can exchange crypto for goods and services and you don't even see this simple problem
I assume you are talking dubbed anime in English because Japanese voice-acting has been a mature industry since at least the 1970s.
Large GC jobs get scheduled on dirty schedulers today (a background thread pool), since it's not OK to block a normal scheduler more than 1ms or so in Erlang. If they could be split into smaller chunks of work, perhaps it could be done on normal schedulers, making time allocation more fair.
Honestly I'm not surprised to hear GM doing something this ridiculous. GM's primary business has been finding new footguns for itself since at least the 1980s; at this point, the only thing going for the company is that their cars are American made (sometimes), and even the beneficial effects of that are debatable at best.
It depends on what your goal in open sourcing is. Are you looking to provide a base for others to build software on, and to provide a way for others to contribute back to your code? Then publishing the code makes sense.

Are you looking to build public trust in you and your organization? Then dumping a bunch of code with no context isn't going to help much, as it's not code but behavior that builds or destroys trust.

Are you looking to lean into a polarized partisan environment, pushing a narrative where its you and your supporters against an unfair group of "others"? Then a big splashy move high on symbolism and low on substance that will inspire lots of high profile, divisive media coverage is a great way to go.
NTFS and ext4 have a 2^32 limit according to this table. The Reddit poster mentioned in the article [0] has 2 TB worth of space. I’m not sure if that’s decimal or binary TB, but if we assume binary, you get an average of 512 bytes per file, which is pretty reasonable (and on a real drive, you might be limited by sector size).

But even if you had a 20 TB hard drive, and you wanted a lot of files smaller than 5120 bytes, you can just create multiple partitions. Maybe a little inconvenient, but you can still use your drive to the fullest. Not so much with Google’s 5 million limit (for a 2 TB Google Drive, the minimum average file size is around 430 KB [2])

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/123fjx8/google_has_...

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282%2F2%5E32%29+TiB+in...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282%2F5000000%29+TiB+i...
Show HN: Write AI PenPals via Snail Mail
It took me until a couple years ago to notice Chef "Boy-ar-dee" was a phonetization of an Italian surname like "Boiardi"
I wonder what's the consensus on HN about April Fools blog posts like this one. It's probably a cultural thing but I really feel like it's a waste of time, both for the readers and the writer.

I don't want to be overly negative because of course they can be a way of publicizing cool things (in this case an open source library).

It's just that every April 1st I open a lot of links only to be disappointed that their content is a joke just without it really being funny.
Because the Followed feed is purely chronological. An interesting tweet from someone I follow could have happened 3 hours before I opened the app, and I would miss it.

This is why I preferred the old For You tab - it was (mostly) the people I had chosen to follow, but meant that I had the best content show up whatever time of day I opened the app. This is particularly important when I'm in the UK and most of the people I follow are in the US, so they're not tweeting generally at the same time I'm on the app.
Thanks for adding that. I thought it was odd he was discussing `wpa_supplicant` in the context of Android, it makes a lot more sense if he's not a greybeard!
The size mentioned is already quantized (and to integers, not floats). mmap obviously doesn't do any quantization.
Show HN: Sshmgr, simple SSH manager for busy and lazy people
Simple SSH manager for busy and lazy people. It's open source.
My problem with this is: for how many years will they guarantee updates? I already have a TV with built in Google software where half the apps don't work because they stopped updating it years ago. Now imagine this is your car instead.
People throw their PCs away. Many places gather "e-waste" in special piles for recycling. Just digging through that pile will get you more than you wanted.
I would have thought the browser was the most important thing. Do you have any examples to share?

Particularly and genuinely curious about how variable length instructions have affected browser security.

"not too difficult", I guess everything is relative. But I'd have to disagree and say that the work they do is quite difficult.

"aren't running into problems". How would we know? (obviously talking about security problems here)
I know people on HN seem to think it is, but the people here are a tiny subset of the people in the real world, even in the tech area of California. I really doubt it's a representitive view.
Well, when I plug my mouse, I have a window telling me "configure your keyboard" and asking me to press "Shift" on it ...
Developing a Vulnerability Detection Tool for Ink Smart Contracts
Yes but to compute a token it has to eventually read the data, either cached in RAM or from storage. There is no way that a fast SSD can compete with RAM in terms of I/O speed. To achieve any speed benefit the whole file has to be cached in RAM. This has different benefits eg threads can share memory, and the file does not have to be reread next time it is called because it is already cached in RAM, but, in final analysis, you need to have the RAM, or then you are reading from the disk, and reading 20gb for each token means you need to read 1T for a paragraph of 50 tokens. My m1, which by no means has a slow SSD, reads the file at 500-600mb/s, while a thunderbolt pci-4 enclosure reads at 700-800mb/s, even if you double that it will still take 10-20 seconds per token. To get less than 1 second per token for the 30B model one has to read there at 20gb/s. At the time we have done that, there will be even huger (v)RAMs and even larger models.
Am I missing something here? The Makefiles seem very standard for a C/C++ project, and could have been easily replicated from a tutorial or example project without much modification.

Not suggesting that the work is not impressive, but the kids of today grew up in the era of computers and the Internet, and a lot of problems that were hard for you and me are no longer hard today.
Is it more powerful? Well, more memory, better video, but in terms of OP/s?

But I don't think it's such a great thing for kids per se. It depends on the experimentation environment they get. The hardware is almost irrelevant. Something as direct as a Commodore 64 looks more appealing to me than VSCode on a Raspberry.
Removing ads and bloat from your website makes people want to use it more.

Who woulda thunk it.
Try "condescend".
$n00k of compute time is nothing, sorry. This is the kind of thing that academic institutions can give out for free…
It sounds more or less like something I could write when I was 14 years old, perhaps even including the misunderstanding of what WPA-PSK hashing does.
What languages are you comparing it against?

Python is more readable than C. Way better than C++. Far simpler to reason about than Java. Maybe Typescript is on a similar level, but throwing a beginner into the JS ecosystem can be daunting. Perhaps Ruby could be argued as equally simple, but it feels like that's a dead end language these days. Golang is great, but probably not as easy to get rolling with as Python.

What else? Are you going to recommend some niche language no one hires for?
I hope you get there and you're right! There are positive aspects of course, but like anything it becomes normalised.

It amazes me when I travel the world how many people live in places with absolutely stunning backdrops they take for granted because they've lived there so long. They forget and seem confused at first when you mention it. Anything becomes normalised and less exciting when it's your day to day.
I suspect technology for the younger generation who grow up with it from the crib, it gets boring, or too familiar. This may lead to many of them looking to the past for novel or interesting things. Specifically the recent pass. My generation, generation x, did not have this as much. Yeah we did like old cars, probably for same reasons, but not 8-track tapes or laser disc.... because the tech we were being introduced to was still growing and "unfinished".

The recent pass to the new generations, like gen-z, has cool things worth exploring or collecting. As an example I point to vinyl records. Vinyl records are being purchased more and more by the younger folk.

I further suspect, there could be a market for old tech that actually works and can be used, and not just collected. This is a bit hard for a rotary phone, since many houses no longer have land lines. I imagine there might be room for an RJ11 to USB adapter that you can hook up to your phone and connect a real genuine 40 year old rotary phone to it.
Not that I ever have anything untoward on my computers, but this is why I sledgehammer all my PC drives before recycling them. (My biggest fear is there's enough information to get access to a bank account, or otherwise impersonate me.)

Today, I use whole-disk-encryption on everything, but I still wonder if there's ever a hidden partition or unallocated space with something on it, and it's not worth worrying about it.
> - No hard requirement for a phone number

Only if you pay

> - Open Source clients.

Mautrix/WhatsApp

> - Telegram's track record

Which is?

> WhatsApp is a black box and nobody has any good arguments for it other than 'supposed' E2EE that nobody knows anything about.

With Telegram you have a guarantee that it is not E2EE in group chats and single chats if you don't opt into a way worse UX/features.

> - Business model not revolving around selling user data.

True for Whatsapp as well, it's funded by business accounts and perhaps other parts of facebook
Unintelligible speech is a big flaw of modern movies. Made me enjoy lots of movies less and less
Because I'm not on Twitter 24 hours a day. I want a recap of the best stuff that's happened since I last opened it. If I use the Following tab, I'm only getting the realtime firehose, meaning if the best stuff happened an hour ago I'd miss it.
> Where is the monopoly?

Disney, Netflix, Amazon and so on.

(And yes I am aware that technically they would be an oligopoly. I am purposely using the broader, more practical definition of monopoly that is useful for describing the real world.)
Using a memory mapped file doesn't use swap. The memory is backed by the file that is memory mapped!
At the height of bitcoin I wonder if the value of e-waste magnetic storage should have technically been higher due to the possibility of salvaging a lost wallet. Like ore mining, but for data.
If you’re in agreement, could you explain absence of sanctions against the US coming from the EU?
Yes but read about restore time first - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/333
That is my latchkey experience as well.
Charts: We analyzed revenue per employee to show why Amazon, Meta,etc. are axing
Maybe, just maybe movies remastered for home consumption should assume that people are sitting in their living rooms with normal setup rather then in large cinema? And that maybe they dont want to play the movie so loud that the whole building/house hears explosions?
> Italy, like the rest of south europe is hobbled by an army of bureaucrats doing busywork and their jobs are the first to be threatened by an AI speaking fluent Italian. So it helps them to keep unemployment from getting even higher

I wonder whether there are real hard numbers supporting this statement. Not saying it's not true, just wondering whether it actually is.

I checked once for another country of South Europe and the reality was that both France and Germany had more "bureocrats" (public servants) per capita, contrary to public perception.

There are many things we all think are true that, when actually checked, turn out to be false. Sometimes it's a matter of false stereotypes and sometimes it's something that was true at some point but it's not anymore.

For example, about social mobility: USA is known as the land of the opportunities and a much more open and meritocratic place than Europe. That was certainly the case when it was founded. But the reality is that in the last decades (Western) Europe's social cohesion system created a much more favourable environment for children of poor people to prosper somewhat equal opportunities to children of medium and high earners (good and cheap/affordable public education, strong social network of public services,...), while the opposite trend took place in the USA. The results are quite outstanding:

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index...
If you don't care whether the content is generated then you don't need to use a social network at all. GPT can generate you an endless interesting feed no problem.
ChatGPT plugins are in alpha as far as I know. 12 months seems like a reasonable timeframe.

I can totally see a set of plugins that write, debug and test code — all steps a human must now do — all automatically in the next 12 months. That, plus the GPT4-25k token model and you've got something that can replace high-level, high-boilerplate jobs or at least allow one person to 10x their output.
This is not the type of article I would post on April 1st
No one who has read your link would then question whether the chief executive is a principal: of course not. In polities who aspire to representative government, agents are anyone in public employ. Principals are the rest of us. Our interests are not served by solving problems without oversight, as GP suggests.
Show HN: Jogja, project generator for web frameworks
Project generator for web frameworks. Still for busy and lazy people. It's open source.
No, I'm suggesting the opposite, but stating that it (and the other social issues) are not surprising to most of us.

A significant portion of the world have thought it's crazy to live in the US and have viewed it as a reality show for many decades.
It does in India too. With Easter around the corner, I thought of Inri Appam [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inri_appam
[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=inri+appam+east...
That specific example proves conceptual understanding of the subject matter.
ChatGPT: lol, what the hell is this, who is behind it, what data was it trained on? this is so sketchy and probably full of something that isn't good.
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Plenty places in Europe were hit harder than Dresden, but lacked a world renowned author to document first hand account.
I’ve used backblaze for a decade on Mac and windows. I’ve done selective restores and also used their mail you a hard drive option.
As someone who has been in the other side of the table , I'm totally confident that they have another candidate and are dragging until they confirm their acceptance or rejection .

That, or there was 'something' that made them not pull the trigger with you, and they are waiting to interview more candidates.

I'll suggest to keep looking elsewhere,FAST, even if you get another shitty offer, you then can send them an "ultimatum" telling them about your other shitty offer.

You don't have to accept the other shitty offer.
If Philip Glass was a Film (2019) [video]
I don't think you need to apologize for your comment. Even if I post a Show HN I expect no special treatment on my comments. That would be ridiculous and this is not even a Show HN.
previous discussion around Malleable Systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22857551
I'm not judging, but I just don't understand why someone would save business critical data to Google Drive only. Is this a US thing? Aren't you afraid of privacy or trade secret leaks and potential legal ramifications?
Related: Hibakusha, 被曝者 - person affected by nuclear exposure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha
The gap between “understanding the problem” and “coming up with a solution” has become a lot narrower over the years.

1. To do anything interesting and at any speed on my Apple //e I had to know assembly.

2. Then I got a Mac in 1992 and the original Mac Toolbox routines could do a lot from a higher level language.

3. Then Visual Basic made graphical programs easier and later WinForms, C# etc.

4. Then AWS made provisioning infrastructure a matter of just writing a bunch of yaml

5. Now that LLMs exist and ChatGPT is well trained on AWS APIs in various languages, I can use natural language and it spits out code that works 95% of the time with only slight tweaks if any.
This. I have been in enough family businesses and startups to know that there is nothing to believe in. Upper management just thinks you're adorable. Middleanagemwnt thinks you need to eat shit, like them.
General Catalyst prefunds companies’ sales budget in exchange for customer value
You could just create a smaller filesystem in a file, mount it and export is as a Windows drive in winecfg.
Nvidia’s GameStream is dead. Sunshine and Moonlight are great replacements
So, a parent not familiar with 4-H Club concept teaches her kid that it is okay to snatch things back after entering into a legal contract and giving it away.

Double so for the writer’s lack of understanding of rural law enforcement with regard to historical and longstanding laws on cattle rustling and posse.

I forget, this is was an ex-BuzzFeed reporter. He does do this kind of articles with glaring omissions of current law standings.

Perhaps it is because he has refined city culture and rural counties operate differently … for a good reason.
Like that wasn't already happening?
Well, it's a member of the fruit-filled tart family, I suppose, like the Norman Tart, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_tart
The roots of Japan's Indian curry
> With this strategy, GC pre-funds a company’s S&M budget. In return, GC is entitled only to the customer value created by that spend, and GC’s entitlement is capped at a fixed amount. After GC reaches that fixed amount, the remaining lifetime value of the customers is the company’s to keep forever.

Good to see more ways of growing without giving up equity.
People have been tried retrospectively against laws and constitutions that didn't exist at the time of the crime.

In fact i think the US did it with Saddam.
Nah, classical guitarist here ;)
To be fair, the article is "Why You Shouldn't Gloat (Even When It Feels Good)" and is using the recent news about Trump as a starting point to talk about why you shouldn't gloat.
For Android, it's directly in the Phone App. Then, the 3 dots menu top right > Settings > Blocked Numbers > Block calls from unidentified callers
> It's still just predicting the next word.

Computer-generated random numbers are not truly random, yet they are practically random in most real-world use cases. You can’t easily cheat the RNG in World of Warcraft to get critical strike every time.

The output from GPT is generally very intelligent and versatile in terms of text. It may even be capable of handling more multi-modal problems with the use of enough sensors and motors. Perhaps the same idea of "predicting the next move" or "predicting the next idea" can still apply.

Who knows, maybe humans are essentially physical creatures that "generate the next thought and generate the next move"?

One of the biggest issues with GPT is its lack of mid-term memory like human do. Instead, we need vector store and search then bolt back its short term memory instead of letting it handle everything in a more coherent way. Perhaps it could benefit from lightweight fine-tuning technologies like LoRA and hypernetworks for stable diffusion. If this issue is resolved we would see it'll get even more practical. Again, the flaw is not about "predicting the next words".
As a consumer, I currently have the option of consuming video media from ~9 large companies (Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Paramount, WarnerBros Discovery, Sony), and then you have smaller ones like AMC Networks and whatever film studios there are, and then you can go all the way down to individuals who upload to Youtube or whatever website they want to host their media. This is just US media too, I am sure there are many more large companies around the world.

And there is zero or near zero friction in consuming media pretty much all of this media thanks to broadband internet and capable computing devices in everyone’s pocket, other than the price you are able and willing to pay.

I would not classify it as a "monopoly" or an "oligopoly", at least in the sense that anyone is restricting viewers from watching what they want or anyone is restricting media creators from making what they want.
Can’t you set page size to 100 emails, sort on attachment size, and delete the biggest offenders?
Yeah, and all of those have a .org on their domain.

I saw a recent interview with the director of the world food bank. So jealous.
I think he is saying that FDR stopped selling oil to Japan, in such a way that Japan was provoked to attack the US.

That’s why they attacked Pearl Harbor in the first place: to neutralize the US navy threat in the Pacific while seeking for new oil sources down South.

They were at war with many countries, but they weren’t at war with the US specifically up until that point.

And by the way the US sold oil to Japan to profit from their war machine in Russia, Manchuria and China. It wasn’t until the very end that they stopped selling it.
I have mixed experience with Wine, most of the times when I tried playing games it was close to impossible to install them. I go for Parallels Desktop those days (kudos to https://github.com/dreamncn/ParallelsDesktopCrack)
It sounds like WINE "just works" for their uses, "non-free" or not.