skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Furthermore, Peretti told the remaining staff that he would be focusing more of the company’s energy going forward on AI. “We will empower our editorial teams at all of our brands to do the very best creative work and build an interface where that work can be repacked and brought to advertisers more effectively,” he said. “And we will bring more innovation to clients in the form of creators, AI, and cultural moments than can only happen across BuzzFeed, Complex, HuffPost, Tasty and First We Feast.”

What the heck does that mean? It sounds like someone is talking about AI as purely a buzzword without really understanding what it is.
Indeed, totalitarian states are well known for their ability to cut through red tape.
I think the risk is that they are both driven by what the CEO finds cool which may or may not be what's most effective
> The catch-22 of this is that subscription models more-or-less can't work while ad-based business models exist.

I suspect this dynamic also applies to software, including, perhaps counterintuitively, FOSS software. "Free" (but ad-supported) competes for attention with both paid and free (actually free). Interest in developing FOSS is lower, I would wager, when interest in using FOSS is lower, so we likely get less and worse FOSS in a world with lots of ad-supported (mostly spyware) software, than one without it.
I'm satisfied with the transparency Mullvad has shown by publishing its 9 audits[1] and with their efforts to ask for as little information from users as possible. I also appreciate how Mullvad releases up-to-date source code for all of its software clients, which I consider a bare minimum for any VPN to even be considered.[2]

Private Internet Access, on the other hand, does not release up-to-date source code for its software clients:

- PIA Android client: latest source release v3.14.0 (Mar 18, 2022) vs. latest Google Play release v3.18.0 (Feb 22, 2023)[3]

- PIA iOS client: latest source release v3.14.0 (Mar 18, 2022) vs. latest App Store release v3.20.0 (Mar 1, 2023)[4]

- PIA desktop client: latest source release v3.3.0 (Feb 23, 2022) / v3.4.1-beta1 (Aug 18, 2022) vs. latest downloadable release v3.3.1 (unknown)[5]

- PIA browser extension: latest source release v3.1.0 (May 31, 2021) vs. latest Chrome Web Store release v3.2.0 (March 8, 2022)[6]

It's not clear to me how much of a say you still have in PIA's operations, but if you have any influence, I kindly ask you to direct them to release the source code of PIA's clients on time, every time a new client version is released. Open sourcing PIA's clients was something you promised PIA would do to reassure customers after PIA was acquired by the former adware/malware distributor Kape Technologies.[7]

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[1] Mullvad's audits: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits/

[2] Mullvad's GitHub repos: https://github.com/mullvad

[3] PIA Android client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/android/tags / Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privateint...

[4] PIA iOS client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/vpn-ios/tags / App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vpn-by-private-internet-access...

[5] PIA desktop client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/desktop/releases / PIA website: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/download/linux-vpn

[6] PIA Chrome extension - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/extension-chrome/releases / Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/private-internet-a...

[7] Our conversation in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21613267 (I appreciated your response at the time)
there are like 3 devs that don't like it because they are used to the github way of doing things, they always have the github tab open and prefer not to have notifications in slack.

We disabled pullpo for these people. However they can still collaborate with the people that use pullpo. The comments they send to github are brought to slack too and viceversa.

Still, code reviews take 2 to 3 times less
It's been invaluable to me in a few circumstances. A common one is when there is a diagram of a physical object with dimensions and the dimensions are used in the code. For example, say you are doing a volume calculation of a complex enclosed space that uses quantities like length, height, clearance, diameter, etc... A diagram illustrating what those dimensions are can aid immensely in understanding the code.
Considering that the failures don't appear to point to fundamental design flaws of the structure of the vehicle (if anything it kind of overperformed structurally with how long it just tumbled despite being a 100m tall, mostly hollow tube), they'll do it the same way you would fix/upgrade a car, by swapping out the bad parts.
> Almost every political party in western democracies are “liberal” in the classical sense.

There is an interesting case made[1] that while this used to be true, it is actually not the case any more and that things are starting to become rather anti-liberal on both sides of the political spectrum.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102146148-what-s-our-pro...
Is this not Han dynasty? it’s rather well-known
It's not unique solutions are 2,4 and 4,2 :p
Watching the mission, I noticed that engines kept shutting down. There are 33 of them. When they had turned off 7 of them, with 26 engines remaining lit, it started to lose control. The engineers all seemed ecstatic about the mission. I have to wonder if they weren't intentionally shutting off engines to see how many could fail while still retaining control. If that was indeed tested, the answer appears to be 6--they can operate nominally with 27 engines lit.
Who is guarding the land? Does it have cameras on it that you can use to see how the land looks? Feels like a waste of money if the authorities can’t protect the land.
The first letter refers to the location of the engine. The second letter refers to the drive wheels.

FF = front engine, front wheel drive

FR = front engine, rear wheel drive

RR = rear engine, rear wheel drive

MR = mid engine, rear wheel drive
And indeed as I have said: A reason this is a big problem is that we have like 1.5 competitors out there (for search: Google, Bing) and they’re all trying to sell ads into all the jurisdictions ever. As a result all of us who have nothing else to use find we are practically limited by the set-intersection of all the extraterritorially enforced liberties in the world. Our set of liberties is getting smaller.

I will be upset at that even if today it’s a marginally better reason than most.
In 1981, Intel released the iAPX 432
My first thought was that this person would be an excellent consultant for some arthropod-based game or film (Arthropods Attack?)

I wonder how common it is for folks to try to understand some new field in order to build something vs. the other way around vs. just outsourcing that expertise.
Neat (re: godbolt). But the output is super bloated for Rust -- even with no_std and the panic handler stubbed out.

https://godbolt.org/z/nW79G1o71

Also my old 6502 then 68000 brain never learned to read x86 assembly. :-) I find ARM/Aarch64 easier to grock. I might do this same test on the M1 Mac I have handy here, but fiddle with compiler until I can get an absolutely tiny binary and then compare to C. Some day.
Excluding 99% of the population from applying fairly generic advice from listicle isn’t that high of a bar?
> Usually I can't read at all in dreams

I thought this was just me! There have been times when I've "read" in dreams (signs, usually), but I don't actually visualize the words. I just "know" what they say.
xkcd: Escape Speed
He has a bad habit of cherry picking data to support his point.
It actually was expected to do a flip and perform stage separation. It was a problem when it kept trying to flip and Starship didn't separate.

The explosion at the end was the Flight Termination System. In case of uncontrolled flight you detonate the rocket to keep it from flying somewhere dangerous.
He has a newsletter which seems to function as an rss feed. Also his twitter is fun to read!
That was the line that was repeated for years, but it just made me wonder why they didn't put out the news under a completely separate branding. The word "BuzzFeed" inherently sounds like low-brow, unprofessional shlock. You should not be experiencing a "buzz" when reading the news. It shouldn't be an endless "feed" of throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks content to keep my monkey brain stimulated.
A large profitable business can still be overpriced or inflated by a bubble. Like Cisco/Intel in the 90s
> China is not a single entity.

I wish more people knew or understood this. The central government, as much as it wants, doesn't have great control on the local level. It's even enshrined in a Chinese idiom: 天高皇帝遠 or "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away". Furthermore, China's model is actually quite decentralized. There's a lot of freedom at the provincial and local level -- it pretty much has to but the CCP has been able to leverage it to experiment with different ideas at different provinces.
This post quotes top SpaceX engineers like Tom Mueller, Kevin Watson, Garrett Reisman, Josh Boehm, and others like John Carmack about Musk's involvement in engineering:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
It's not a panic and not recoverable in any way. I'm fuzzy on the details but AFAIK the specifics of LLVM means that it deliberately generates an illegal CPU instruction which manifests as a segfault.
> 174(c)(3)SoftwareDevelopment
> For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.

My understanding is the problem is the phrase "any amount paid or incurred in connection with". It is unambiguous and provides no leeway. Any costs related to software development are R&D. Period.
Why ban tiktok and not facebook + instagram?
Related:

Show HN: Cozo – new Graph DB with Datalog, embedded like SQLite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518320 - Nov 2022 (67 comments)
The government will just use eminent domain to take the land needed for roads. You can be annoying to loggers, but you can't stop them that way.
This is the real legacy of propulsion flight. What is the end goal of this? Moon trips for rich people? Disgusting.
Show HN: Create your own full-featured VPN server
We think VPN providers encrypt our data and increase our security and it is true but there is a problem: we have to share our data with them instead of ISPs. AdminVPN is a side project that allows ordinary people to create their own VPN server.

PS: This is my first post here, your feedback is really appreciated!
I know about that case as a Canadian and it doesn’t require misgendering to discuss accurately. No one is forcing you or her to pretend she isn’t trans.
Or a CPU that executes e-lisp as it's machine code.
>That massive hole in the ground should not have happed, and I suspect that was not an expected possibility.

Interestingly, this post predicting exactly this kind of damage was flagged on HN just days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590279

I think it's unlikely that SpaceX wasn't aware of the damage that would be caused. They have a pretty good engineering team, and that aspect didn't involve an anomaly, it was the vehicle operating as planned at launch. But admitting the inadequacy of the launch facility would've undoubtedly led to significant delays. Fortunately for SpaceX, the rocket blew up, which will draw media attention away from the damage on and around the launchpad.
I like this parable!

The counterpoint to it is the probably apocryphal Soviet nail factory (but with more verifiable examples nearby):

Once upon a time, there was a factory in the Soviet Union that made nails. Unfortunately, Moscow set quotas on their nail production, and they began working to meet the quotas as described, rather than doing anything useful. When they set quotas by quantity, they churned out hundreds of thousands of tiny, useless nails. When Moscow realized this was not useful and set a quota by weight instead, they started building big, heavy railroad spike-type nails that weighed a pound each.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22375/did-a-sov...
https://archive.ph/gyIky
I was about to post the same. One of the best technical articles I've ever read.
This sounds consistent with the parent comment's point. The case where it seemed to work perfectly for you is the one where you didn't know much about the subject.
Oh yeah, I agree with you. It just raises the question, is it even possible to find security related companies that won't cave to US pressure?
Except for the process listed here: https://old.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/11hodde/is_1pass...

It suggests that one can use the unlocked stolen device to learn the appleID.

Then follow a series of steps on the device to turn off the screen time passcode by entering the appleID and the device passcode.

Namely "forgot passcode", "enter appleID", "forgot (appleID) password", "enter device passcode".

If correct, then the use of a screen time password can not defeat this attack.
No, the concept of having corporations is 100% about this since their creation. If you look into the history of corporations it's kind of the point. Not more 'you and your family will be completely ruined and destroyed' but instead 'you can lose your business' sparked a revolutionary change in business the enabled the modern world and allowed people to undertake huge products that no sane person would take a risk on if they assumed responsibility for.
I mean, 70+ years old judges don't represent or reflect people between ages of 20-30 either, but appointing people of that age to be judges isn't the solution. And that's ok. There are no judges representing people with borderline personality disorder, and I don't think this is a problem in need of a solution either. That's what the jury is for.
This assumes the dreamer is a human brain.
My apologies, what does FF and FR stand for?
You're not totally wrong, there is a lot of cheerleading going on, putting a positive spin on every little bit. There are a lot of uncritical fans here. I hope that internally at SpaceX the engineers are a lot more serious. Based on the results they've achieved with other rockets, my guess is they are.
https://archive.is/AT4Td
A True Why
because it does what i want my computer to do.

sure, VI would be faster, but i would have to use vi.
Where is the gas lighting? They said getting off the launch pad would be a win going into it and people are pointing this out after the fact. There is no hypocrisy or doublethink involved
What would be a more neutral and accurate headline?
It's a settlement. Maybe the DoC thought the fine should be $600M but they only had a 50% chance of succeeding at trial; getting a guaranteed $300M win is then rational.
Chalk me up as a member of the group for whom melatonin works, but gives me extremely weird dreams.

The point about dosage was very interesting, I didn't know typically available pills were so much larger than the advised dose.
Ah HN, where you can denigrate the hell out of anyone as long as you say it politely and sufficiently passive aggressively While clearly following obediently with the new "Elon Musk bad now" doctrine. Being blunt and direct is more virtuous through sheer honesty.
Let your pride go and free it.
I don't understand what the point of sanctions are. Is Huawei going to stop existing? No. Is the US government ever going to trust Huawei? No. Might as well allow US businesses to make some money selling Huawei spinning rust platters.
Bed Bath and Beyond Preparing for Bankruptcy Filing Within Days
So, nothing like "The Ancient Order of Hibernians", "The Ancient Order of Druids" or "The Ancient Order of Foresters"
Used it recently to try and diagnose a weird networking issue on a server. It got me pretty far, but then the only next steps it could suggest involved installing some software that wasn't pre-installed. I don't like modifying prod servers by hand, especially because we do the whole infrastructure-as-code thing.

So I pinged a more senior engineer, they solved it. I asked what they did. They did exactly what GPT-4 had suggested for me to do. (Don't worry we ended up fixing it "properly" afterwards and re-launched the instance). I'm still not going to trust it when it tells me to do something I don't understand on a prod instance, but that was fun to see.
I have been trying to fool other players to think that I am a bot and noticed others players doing the same, so this might result in a weird dataset
I don't think it actually hit max Q. I know the announcers announced it, but they were following a script. It should have been at max Q at the time, but with the loss of 3-6 engines it would not have been going as fast as scheduled.
Why wouldn't they? It's free marketing material.
You can get that by using Gemini protocol sites alone. There's no reason to spend time on things you dislike.
One good demo can get you a job, get funding, etc.
https://archive.ph/2jccB
> For instance, the two sets {1,2,3,4} and {A,B,C} are such that none is equal to a proper subset of the other. Are you suggesting these be treated as "the same size as" one another?

No. The paradox is that intuitively

1. If there is bijection between F and G, they are the same size.

2. If F is a proper subset of G, F and G are not the same size.

For finite numbers, these principles are compatible, but for infinities, it can happen that they contradict each other.
Elon Musk Is Transforming Twitter, Not Killing It
Probably the Chinese will have to rely on some derivative of the Russian PD-14 engine.
It is very probable that the chinese will lose access to western engines due to sanctions in the not so remote future, and their indigenous projects are still very far behind the state of art in jet engines.
Ding Liren blows chance as prep leaks online
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but 4% of annual income for a nonviolent, political-games type of violation seems quite high to me. Especially considering this was only one sale, and only one product, not their entire income that was involved in the violation.
Software developer gets $5M judgement against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell
I think this is just a side effect of most of the current EV offerings being expensive premium products.

Once cheap EVs become more common, FWD will return because having the motor in front allows for much more efficient energy recapture with regen braking.
> I was a bit disappointed with the number of engine outs

Who knows if they were controlled tests, you need failures to understand the reliability domain. Engineering is about handling failure, not success. You learn very little from success, esp with so many free variables.
The linked articles appear to refer to "BuzzFeed" rather than "BuzzFeed News". I wonder if you caught the topmost post which points out they're different?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641611
Precisely.

The real national security issue is if a major power can weaken a rival power to a significant degree without even raising a weapon. That indicates an enormous lack of resilience for a culture that prizes free expression, warts and all.
Apologies, GPT summary please? It's quite long.
Yes good point — we’ve previously done a ton of environmental damage so as long as we are doing less than that it is silly to mention it.
Tuning RocksDB well is a very very hard challenge, and one that I am happy to not do day to day anymore. RocksDB is very powerful but it comes with other very sharp edges. Compaction is one of those, and all answers are likely workload dependent.

If you are worried about write amplification then leveled compactions are sub-optimal. I would try the universal compaction.

- https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Universal-Compactio...
It is worth reading this in the context of the wider discussion around the EU CRA and free software, and the previous joint response by ISC, NLnet Labs, CZ.NIC, netDEF: https://www.isc.org/blogs/2023-cyber-resilience-act-comment/ There is much more detailed analysis in that earlier post. I work for ISC but I have not been involved in the work on this issue and I have not read all the material linked from the earlier blog post.
This is wonderful sage advice:

> Google Adsense was profitable on the site for many years, earning me some really nice pay checks here and there. That is, until I got my Adsense account banned by trying out some too good to be true website purchases that turned out to be using fraudulent clicks. Since there there has been next to no profit, and that was years ago.

Be very cautious about services in that field as there are lots of shady things going on, and the ban hammer falls hard, and there's often no remaining options if you lose adsense.
Who was behind that thought process… why did it need to be elevated? Was it even possible to do so? I think that answer to both of those is an obvious no. Somebody really liked the name they came up with, I guess.
Yeah it's truly incredible w scripts
Although TikTok should do better to demote these kinds of videos, I can't buy the conspiracy theory that this is done intentionally. Anyone who knows a bit about recommendation systems can understand that watching depressing videos will get you more in your feed. Collaborative filtering with i.e watch time as a signal will lead someone who watches them to more.
Also, Asperger's, which he's publicly admitted to having.
Industry awards are pure wankery, particularly in media/publishing. Why are people so sure such awards confer credibility? Few industries are as self-celebrating as journalism, they shamelessly self-suck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Dies_in_Darkness When industries like this give themselves awards, it's meaningless noise.
South Padre, about 5 miles away has been covered with a layer of dust.
Unless something has changed, Proton's "open source" doesn't include the servers themselves, only the clients.

Whereas if you really wanted an open source server-based password manager, you could use VaultWarden with BitWarden clients, or one of countless other options. At this point, people are spoiled for choice.
Your link there is compiling in debug mode, using opt-level=0 (the default), which is why it produces 1800 lines of output. If you do opt-level=3 (which corresponds to `cargo build --release`), it becomes 300 lines of output:

https://godbolt.org/z/aYKMne5Wq
> they probably didn't expect such a bombastic finale so quickly

Is this some mind game you are playing? They said they don't expect the test to go smoothly, and that their goal is to learn as much as possible. They did this multiple times, before the test, during the test, by the CEO, on the stream, everywhere.

They told us that if they can learn from the test that is success, if the rocket on top of that clears the tower that is a win.

And then you comment that they didn't actually mean any of that. Why? Why is it not easier to take them at their word?

> it's the second-worst thing that could have happened,

Not at all. As you say the worst thing would be injured or dead people. Second worst would be damage to third party property. Fourth would be breaching their allowed airspace. Third worst would be a failure where the telemetry and tracking also failed and that prevents them from learning.
You can!
https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
I'm amazed at how people will happily (enough) coalesce into two parties and align their views accordingly. Maybe it's just an exercise in dimensionality reduction.
This will be more of an issue on landing (the moon, mars, mercury, the bricks in red square).
Patreon isn't the most reliable income source either. They suspend accounts all the time because someone reports that they were able to find incest, gore, or similar content from the creator. Credit card processors won't give you time of day either. There is a concerted effort from activists to shut down all forms of payment for immoral industries, and they have been very effective at influencing credit card companies.
wouldn't embeddings be a better than ChatGPT?