skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that is incorrect, and The Founders of the United States are crying right now.

One of the reasons that some members were opposed to the bill of rights was because they were afraid that the population would take it as a defining list of things they were allowed to do, as opposed to the stated: "The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I thought you meant Steve Scharf for a second there.
Tailscale is really nailing service connectivity for the way people are looking at building systems these days.

Excellent collection of enterprise features.
There's a middle ground between the two. You can take it slow enough to ensure well-regulated production, but you can still aim to _iterate_ over your designs for a fast-feedback cycle.

It's the latter that's really causing SpaceX to run rings around its competitors.
Not being beholden to a foreign company or government is a strategic advantage.

It’s not always worth it, but being able to say No often lowers the cost of saying Yes.
Chase Reiner's SEO tool Shine Ranker has been gaining popularity recently as it has helped businesses and entrepreneurs generate more sales with SEO. If you're trying to get your website on the first page of Google, this tool will help you get there.
could this thread be sub-texted as "To the fed's hammer everything(including VC capital) is a nail"?
Oh I completely agree which is why I put it in quotes. I've never found anyone on any side of the political spectrum actually self-identify with that label except ironically. Right now today it just seems to be pejorative-de-jour for people who are vaguely liberal.
In materials, not physics (in my case). Tulane was also privatized in the 1880s and occupies a unique place in the state constitution with many functions as part of its formerly public nature (supervisory functions over state police, legislatively nominated scholarships, etc), but presumably still has enough influence to ensure this bill doesn't apply to it.
An empty threat.

Edited: what are they going to do, rent out the Spaceship for low-income housing? I don't think there's enough plumbing.
> but will become a reality is the personalization of the 'messenger' where we listen to the same song, but mine is personalized to me, and you, yours.

Which would totally destroy one of the things that makes music powerful -- it provides a shared, deep experience. Not to mention that it all but eliminates another purpose for music: to communicate to people.

The more use cases I hear about AI, the more I think that economic devastation isn't the only thing we're flirting with. We're also flirting with destruction of society as we erase people and meaningful societal bonding.
They do mention condensed matter physics. If it really makes maths easier there, that means instant practical relevance.
But.. you can use stored procedures right?
There are cases where using someone's voice can harm them, sure. That doesn't mean we should give everyone carte blanche jurisdiction over what can be done with their ideas or their voice.

I think the onus is on the speaker/singer to prove they are being materially harmed by a fabrication of their voice. In many cases, this could be simple: "That fabrication is being used to misrepresent my beliefs AND it's causing me harm." Fair enough. But is someone making a Drake song causing Drake harm? No. He could argue loss of income, but that would be shaky. He didn't come up with the lyrics. He didn't come up with the beat. He didn't even actually sing it. If it's so easy to rip off his voice to create a hit song, then is he actually still losing income? Why doesn't he come up with the hit song?
I'll be honest, any time I see EA groups latch onto an idea, its a good heuristic that the idea is fucking terrible.
Hey - I took the drone video in that article :)

One of the very first DDIs in the country is in Springfield, MO. They’re trippy at first, but not nearly as confusing as you might think. They’re also much more efficient than I would have intuited.
Load balancing rules/paths are certainly relevant to front end development in a modern architecture. Especially around mitigating vulnerabilities. Shared responsibility
I see a lot of love for Tailscale, but I'm curious what people use Tailscale for? Is it mostly to access services running on an internal network? Do you use it for work or for fun?

The use case I can see is streaming from my personal Plex server from anywhere outside my home, but maybe I'm not thinking big enough.
I really wish the Smart cars would come back.

The plan now is just to get a ICE Mini. Then sell it in a couple years once the Mini-E comes down in price and goes up in mileage.
And what grounds did this prof cite?
That's a description of what happened. It doesn't say why it happened. Nobody is being blamed for anything. For all we know, somebody at Southwest tripped on a power cord and shut down the machine running the firewall. Facetious, yes, but I have once had someone literally trip on a power cord for a machine running test software I cared about, shutting it down. (Yes, we fixed the issue and got UPS's for these machines after that lol)
Even without this change, if you can get the other folks to use Tailscale you can share out devices. So he doesn't need to manage other users, they can create their own accounts and access his server.
We can't turn CO2 back into fuel without an input of energy, but we can store CO2 for the long term without turning it back into fuel. For example, we can pump it into deep basalt formations, where it will turn into rock.

And of course when we do want to turn CO2 into hydrocarbons we can use solar and nuclear energy sources, in which case the hydrocarbons play the role of a battery rather than primary energy source. We can also use non-fossil energy to concentrate CO2 from the air; in theory at least that takes quite a bit less energy than hydrocarbons release when burned.
OP here. A while ago, I saw a book and set of videos (if my memory serves me right) going over the design and source code for one of the BSD flavors. I was thinking about finding that book.
First of all, I am not bashing EU or Europe -- great countries, great history, etc. But I would pretty strongly disagree on "just as easy to move around the EU" part. From what I understand it is super smooth for vacations, but not nearly as frictionless to move around semi-permanently. For example, someone graduating in Norway, moving to Spain for 3 years, then on to Germany would see friction in renting a flat, sending children to school or buying a house. If this is not the case, I would love to be corrected.

Also, it sounds strange to me to look at guns as an inverse proxy for safety. I would, especially with kids, first look at drug prevalence and second at accidents on the roads (both cars and bikes). Which reinforces what I started with: the ability to select the place I want to live in based on my own preferences. Given a wide variety of options, both politically and socially, one can usually find a place they are happy in. My 2c.
What Was Twitter, Anyway?
> Whether the platform is dying or not, it’s time to reckon with how exactly it broke our brains.
Yeah but identity theft can be dealt with without giving people rent-seeking monopolies. Everyone is worse off except Drake and the argument that he was materially harmed is very shaky at best.
Announcing Astral, the company behind Ruff
Fair. Maybe another old school technology will be dusted off with greater density.
I think part of the issue here is that the SEC is being decidedly coy. The remedy they are seeking is for the industry to essentially end itself.

I think it's fine to say that the SEC is trying it's best to apply a mandate and them seeking guidance from congress are all good ideas, but them beating around the bush and attempting some subterfuge is not a good look for a regulatory agency.
https://archive.ph/yHfah
I thought about that, but it's also true that most software without any developers maintaining it goes stale in 1 or 2 years at most.
I'm not sure if amortizing it over 5 years is reasonable.
> English has ~1 bit of entropy per character.

I think the discrepancy here is coming from the fact that you are assuming the password is using English words, where others are assuming completely randomly selected characters from the set /[a-zA-Z0-9]/, plus some special characters, which yields substantially more than 1 bit per character.
I don't see where I stated that anyone was claiming ignorance. My point still holds: users had the option to create a record, but it was not the default. From that perspective the comparison provided does not hold.

The real debate is about whether "off the record" text can exist at all, and if so, under what conditions/duration? Are captions on a video call a text record? Do those need to be retained?
I simply cannot understand how you can have this take. This is the same bizarre wishful thinking that infested this forum during the crypto bubble. Just because you have a hip new tech doesn't mean artists will go against their material interests to engage with it and be won over.

What you are describing is a work loop where the artist is being pushed to the outside, and in the medium/long term this will make artist's working lives much more precarious. And just like with NFT scams, most artists saw the impact to their material interests much more clearly than the tech bro set imagined they would. It is a lot more likely that producers will simply cut artists out of the loop and produce mountains of bland but acceptable crap at near 0 cost, instead of keeping an artist on retainer to re-record/edit songs.
Just because you have a good experience, doesn’t mean everyone will. There’s plenty of history in America to defend the assumption that minorities will have a worse experience in rural towns. You seem to live in a very diverse town which is great. That’s not most towns in America.

As a counter example, someone has called me a slur in almost every area I’ve spent time in besides big cities. Like driving by me on a sidewalk, in a bar, whatever, it always happens.
Apparently the last CEO cut a lot of costs in favor of profitability.
Airlines generally treat all flights as part of a matched pair: Home-out and back again. Even with a non-hub-and-spoke flight system like Southwest, this is still the case. Crews and (to a lesser extent planes) don’t wander the earth like Cain, they go out and come back (perhaps with a stop or two along the way).

Southwest should be more resilient in some ways in that all of their flights are done with the same type of plane, so they can always swap in a different plane for the task, and within the limits of employment contracts/government regulations, they can also easily swap crews around, as long as they keep that out-and-back scheduling.
I didn't know who Chuck Close was to appreciate the article's metaphor, so for those wondering:
"Close was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera."
At a minimum, that firewall appears to have been a single point of failure.
Clicked on this expecting to read about an AI enhancement technique. Was very refreshing to read about actual hardware improvements.
So if I'm personally inspired by a Drake song I heard and use that memory and inspiration to create music in a similar style to Drake, I'm a criminal? Why does the kinds of tools/software used to create the end product matter at all?
... and most people delete files all the time.

Maybe

https://www.linuxtrainingacademy.com/linux-commands-cheat-sh...

satisfies your needs.
Yes, we should build it immediately!
Standard VPN stuff really. Set it and forget it. Accessing my NAS and home machine without opening them up to the world mostly.

The most specific use aside from "it's my network, wherever" I've got is setting it up with NextDNS for adblocking no matter where I am in the world and regardless of what network I'm on https://tailscale.com/kb/1218/nextdns/
I fully expected the opposite to this.

I agree, this is a good way to treat customers (even small ones) and seems to be a rare occurrence!
> The only conclusion we're able to come to is some kind of procedurally-generated music that is more specifically catered to each listener.

How would this not represent the death of music? Music is much more than a sequence of pretty sounds.
True, with the connotation that architectur and preprocessing pipeline are kept equal. E.g. if you're training convnets, data augmentation like rotating and flipping increases generalization.
Is headscale becoming a bigger threat? Seems like they're trying to offer a better on ramp so folks don't try and self host out of the gate.
Thanks for pointing it out. I blacklisted the domain. I don't mind commercial content, but if they're using SEO like that they're being a nuisance.
Yeah, it's a bit obscure and "meta"...

Y Combinator is named after a computer science concept - the "combinator," and more specifically, the "Y combinator" function. Paul Graham and Robert Morris (co-founders of the Y combinator company), both computer scientists themselves, likely chose the name as a nod to their background and the company's focus on technology startups. The Y combinator function is a higher-order function used in functional programming languages that allows for the creation of anonymous functions, which can be useful for creating new functions from existing ones. This aligns with the company's mission of helping startups to iterate quickly and efficiently.

Also see: https://www.ycombinator.com/faq under `Why did you choose the name “Y Combinator?`
Use it as a building material is probably the most effective way. The mass of a tree is nearly 100% from the air, not the soil.

If we could create a carbon capture machine that turned CO2 in cinder blocks using the energy from a nuclear reactor, we'd really be set.

just my $0.02
I was also skeptical of this claim. It seems to come from Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" and assumes you are using whole words in the password.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#c...

> English text, treated as a string of characters, has fairly low entropy, i.e., is fairly predictable. We can be fairly certain that, for example, 'e' will be far more common than 'z', that the combination 'qu' will be much more common than any other combination with a 'q' in it, and that the combination 'th' will be more common than 'z', 'q', or 'qu'. After the first few letters one can often guess the rest of the word. English text has between 0.6 and 1.3 bits of entropy per character of the message.[6]: 234
I really want to better internalize some of these models of the brain. Some of the info graphics here- the very first one for ex- feel like they contain key insights about what our hiamn lives are, would help us understand ourselves & each other so much better.

The article has a bunch of argumentation & points that are interesting but more than a bit hard for me to hang on to & follow along with. The the experience of going through this was exceedingly fun.
That's this https://tailscale.com/kb/1084/sharing/ right?
No more limits on subnet routers is huge! Amazing!!
State sponsored programs can move fast. Kennedy gave his "man on the moon" speech in May 1961, and we put a man on the moon in 1969.

8 years to develop the Saturn rockets and all the associated lunar module gear, without any ability to do sophisticated computer modeling or simulatoins. That's pretty competitive; SpaceX is about 20 years old now.
I really like this change of plans, I use Tailscale daily and this affirms their presence into my tech ecosystem
Unfortunately Sealab 2021 was more accurate in predicting the future.
> “We think the most onerous outcome could be that, if various crypto assets are deemed securities, Coinbase would therefore need to register as a securities exchange, in order to keep offering trading in those assets,” Barclays added.

All this, plus talk of leaving the country, just to avoid registering as a securities exchange?
The Midwit Trap and Why Tech Companies Are Falling for It
Bury it in the ground before decomposition, not that hard.
This might be true but it is better for everyone. When the sun was shining everyone and their mothers became VCs due to personal connections. They brought nothing else to the table. They didn't know what was a good startup. They depended on hype and VC networks of other equal fools.

Those VCs are dead. Gone away. Swept up in the storm. Good riddance. And along with them the dumb companies which should never have seen the light of day.
Please pay attention to this comment OP. The zombie dynos were likely not “closed”. Look at your bill closely.
Funny enough, I've lost friends over time due them taking on pets.
They aren’t managing anything to my knowledge, Goldman Sachs is.
We need it all. Even if we're carbon neutral the CO2 is still in the air. We need a way to remove it. This is especially obvious given how long it's going to take to even get to carbon neutral.

Can we stop with "we don't need solutions like THIS, we need this other solution." We're going head first into a climate crisis. We need all solutions here.
OP mentioned some of the jobs were full-time, and some contract. Assuming a few 3,6 months contract jobs (not uncommon) it is not necessarily a red flag.

I mention this because I see many people reading contract jobs and evaluating it in exactly the same way as a full-time position. Many wonder, how come they list several jobs at the same time? less than a year? and discard the candidate.
"People underestimate what you can do with engineering."

That seems optimistic. If that's the case, why is it that we still regularly have engineering debacles and failures? Whether it be software, or rockets, or dams, it's not a magic "we can solve anything with engineering and enough money." Engineering is amazing, but it's not magic and engineering mistakes and oversights are a regular occurrence in every field.

And this:

"To pay for this, the people who sell you the gasoline will have to be billed an extra 53 cents. And of course, it’ll appear at the pump. That would amount to around $2 trillion, which sounds like an awful lot of money. But the GNP of the world is about $100 trillion. So it will set the world economy back by 2 percent."

This is elitism on an absurd level. Does he have any idea, how much just "reducing the world economy by 2 percent" would actually do? He's casually talking about the livelihoods of millions as though they are expendable. And 53 cents? I mean, in Silicon Valley it sounds great. But considering the median US income is only $31,000 (not joking); that's a cruel tax. Also, that would be worldwide, and I think it goes without saying that 53 cents a gallon in China or India added to the pump is a non-starter.
One mechanism covering both "I agree"/"your post made me feel good" and "factual information"/"contributes to the conversation" means neither one is represented well, and because most people are driven mostly by emotion, the signal you get is basically "how many people did this post make feel good"/"how many people did this post make feel bad".

This is not specific to politics, despite your framing. This happens all of the time on HN with technical topics, too.
How is building sidewalks a subtractive solution? Every mile of new concrete sidewalk emits about as much CO2 as driving a million miles. In some urban areas, you'll eventually make up for that. In places where people are not going to walk much anyway, probably not.

The most expedient way of "getting people out of their CO2 producing cars" is to focus on the "CO2 producing" part, i.e.

1. Get people into electric cars, which even on the current grid cuts your CO2 emissions by over half due to better efficiency, and

2. Convert the electric grid to 100% clean energy.

And it turns out there's a lot of money to be made in doing this too.
Not sure how it's done in the US but an effort to crack it like this would happen only on very high profile cases in France which is not the case of this one.

I'm betting on the second option, he reused the same password somewhere else or they just got lucky and seized the computer already unlocked
> Dell kicks back $30 million a year to the city of Round Rock in sales taxes

Cupertino is expected to lose $30 million net revenue per year (not counting the 35% of the apple sales taxes that it kicks back to Apple) as a result of this deal being disallowed going forward.
Worth pointing out it looks somewhat up over a 2.5 year scale!

I think we really are going to have a hard time setting good expectations & doom & gloom will be upon us- not just in VC but broadly- because of the absurd height that markets climbed to. Did it ever make sense? How do we compete with well-fueled (0% interest among other factors) mania again? How do we live in it's shadow?
> Obviously we can do both at once

Who is this "we" [1]?

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57018837
I'm just old enough to remember the massive optimism associated with the Apollo program (I was a space-obsessed nerd kid). The mid to late 70s though were depressing by comparison, without the rapid cadence of the moonshots.
A summary.

Correctness: the primary objective. Code that does what it's supposed to, bug free.

Readable: strive to write code that will be understandable by others (and your future self). Review what you wrote for clarity and be your own critic.

Idiomatic: Write code the way people in your community expect to read. Don't surprise them with your own quirky and clever conventions, when there are well established and perfectly acceptable ones already.

Simple: Your code should do what it says it does directly, with no funky side-effects. Repetition is not always a sin, don't DRY things up just for the sake of it. Don't do too many things. Be parsimonious.

Performant: be aware of RAM (a bit of a letdown, was expecting "code to data structures" advice).

---

Author concludes with a few interesting take-away points. Some highlights (paraphrasing):

- don't trust foolproof software engineering methodologies sold using a neat backronym.

- words like "clean", "simple", and "readable" are as vague as "freedom", "justice", or "equality".

- neat slogan like "don't repeat yourself" or "clean code" are moot.

- correctness above all else.

- tests only prove that the code can pass the test.

- No info is better than bad info. No tests is better than bad tests.

- all software has two types of bugs: those you've found and those you have yet to find.

- we all want readable code, but we have different definitions of "readability".

...
> This article is written as if the delays are some kind of gotcha, but is it really that bitter a pill to swallow? The goal was never to outcompete SpaceX on price.

Sort of.

It's easy to forget, since SpaceX has such dominance over the space industry currently, but commercial space was mostly split between Europe and Russia before SpaceX. The goal of Ariane 6 was to help ArianeGroup maintain its marketshare - particularly of GEO/GTO launches - in the face of aggressive pricing by SpaceX.

> Shopping around for launches now that the Ariane 6 has been delayed isn't some kind of epic defeat in the battle for spaceflight, it's just an inconvenience necessary to keep other projects on track.

I think there may be some missing context here.

There has been a somewhat strong movement to limit European institutional launches to European rockets, in the same way that the DoD/NASA does with US launchers.
Did you read the content at the link you posted? It seems to imply the opposite of the comment you made.