skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting finding in the UNFPA annual population report: 60% of the world’s population lives in a region where the fertility rate is below replacement level, up from 40% in 1990.
Incredible! Is the random looking stuff at the top an oscillator for timing seconds?
If you already have sysadmin skills what's wrong with self-hosting an IdP like Zitadel or Keycloak?
Is it really that hard?

https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Luzer Lockdown
I imagine you’d okay if you ate gelatin (whether in stock, or jello are the knox stuff added to whatever)?
> they're almost literally a 1950s Jeep with a modern diesel engine in them

For those who aren't aware, Mahindra secured a licensing agreement with Willys in 1947 to make them. They're actually as close as you can get to a modern Willys Jeep, so much so that they were sued by Chrysler for infringing on Jeep's trade dress by looking too much like a Jeep brand Jeep
Retina display is a term coined by Apple to describe a display with a high enough pixel density that the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels at a normal viewing distance. This means that images and text on the screen appear very clear and sharp, with smooth edges and no visible pixelation.

You can read the article on our website: https://www.getreview4u.com/what-is-the-retina-display/
Japan is famously mountainous. I can’t imagine they don’t road test them on “real hills”.
I'd go so far as to say the article directly contradicts the headline.

The author spends an enormous amount of time explaining how the rights of "end users" have been cemented, such as the right to change formats. If a consumer lends a book, they are, by definition, no longer the "end user" and none of that precedent applies.

It's probably true that anyone can lend a book but that's not an "end user" right. In fact, that allowance is the very reason libraries can exist in the first place.

The case and article are about something completely different (making copies, then distributing the copies). Odd headline.
Agreed, if you know how Ubuntu works fairly well, and want to maintain a relatively modern system feel, LTS might not even be the right track. I used to aim to upgrade to non-LTS plus an .01 or .02 at the very end, ideally.

Moving to LTS later on as an experiment was extremely stable but I had to ask how much stability I really needed, as the excitement with my desktop was waning. :-)
If we weren’t beholden to payment processors, we as users could simply set our browsers to pay $0.001 or $0.000001 for every website we visit with an additional button for “give this site more right now” or “send $ every month“

That would be transparent, cheap, and sustainable.
Wow. Ceramic keys sound really nice tbh. Damn.
This is assuming the point of not having disks is to keep the confidential data in RAM.

The problem with disks is they're hard to securely erase. Some NAT mapping gets written to a log or swap file and then you overwrite it but the device silently reallocated that sector and the old one is still there. DRAM doesn't do that. Then if you e.g. power cycle the machine once a day, it never contains data more than a day old.
Amazon Announces Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange to Help Eliminate Counterfeits
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> Those 4% would still spend their lives in prison, and prison is a terrible place to be.

You're missing the point. If someone is incarcerated and later found to be innocent, they can be released. If someone is executed and later found to be innocent, nothing can be done.
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Oddly, I've once had a dream that I was being held at gunpoint.

A person unknown to me was holding a submachine gun, and I could literally feel the muscles tensing in my stomach, where the gun was pointed at, anticipating the pain of a bullet. It was one of the most uncomfortable and frightening things I've felt in my life, so much that I still remember the dream quite vividly.

I assume being held at gunpoint in real life would be even more frightening.
One of the biggest mistakes was trying to change technology without changing culture. Sure, we had buy-in from the CEO and board but they don't actually run the company. You can't force-feed cloud into a culture that doesn't understand/appreciate it. You can't take calculated risks in an organization whose whole purpose is to avoid/outsource risks.
I can add to these stories because one time I needed to overrule my doctors opinion and use a digital interface to point where the problem is. The peoblem involved X-ray.
I run selenium for a ton of tests and snap + chromedriver is easily one of the worst parts of the experience.
Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'
The viability of the Starlink constellation depends on getting large numbers of satellites on orbit quickly. And the newest generation of Starlink birds are too large to fit in the Falcon 9 fairing.
It's even less likely that a 25 year old vehicle will meet current safety and emissions regulations.
To build on what you said:

Elon Musk also said during one of the Tim Dodd interviews that the shuttle had so many limitations because they locked in the design too early. One limitation is the difficult, fragile and hard to reuse heat-shield on the shuttle.

The NASA approach makes it far to expensive to change the design down the road, since that requires resetting all the analysis. Whereas the SpaceX approach never stopped changing things and always tested them in flight.

Much cheaper to take a known good and polished design like Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon and do the analysis after you've proven it works well for non-human flights.
OK, the headline and the first few graphs are a bit angering…which, mind you, they spent a billion dollars with nothing to show for it…but then the rest of the piece goes into in-depth discussions on what went wrong.

It’s pointing out the lack of an org chart for figuring out who is responsible for what. It’s pointing out their observational study basically doesn’t include a control arm. It arguably does lean a little heavy on long COVID patient advocacy…but given they spent that much money and produced nothing, at all, apparently not even a patient registry…that’s bad! That’s not misplaced anger at our institutions—when you can't even come up with an org chart, that’s objectively bad!
> I don't think this really iimplicates the death penalty specifically. Those 4% would still spend their lives in prison, and prison is a terrible place to be.

You can set a prisoner free and try to compensate them for being wrongfully imprisoned. You can't un-kill someone.
> It even shows us why generals and senior civil servants were eunuchs

The place the Byzantines got those eggs from tried that too, didn't always work out too great in terms of stability and good governance, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Attendants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zong_Ai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Tigers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Zhongxian
And the station wagons got killed off by CAFE standards because they were treated as cars instead of as their own category. Taking a sedan and turning it into a station wagon is going to inherently make it heavier and less fuel efficient.

So if the auto makers are already struggling to make their sedans hit MPG goals, suddenly those station wagons have to be phased out.

Though to be fair, minivans start in the mid 80s and were very popular in the 90s instead of SUVs. Comparable MPGs to the wagons but felt a lot more roomy inside.

The big problem came in the 2000s when the auto makers started subtly turning their minivans into SUVs. Even the last wagon hold outs like Volvo took this road eventually.
Yeah, the whole “death is the only irreversible punishment” is pretty weak. 60 years in prison starting at age 18 is pretty darn irreversible too.
I used to think that the space elevator is a great and necessary concept for building a space-based civilization. How else can we get enough raw physical material into space? There's no way rockets can scale up to the enormous tonnages that will be required.

Now I think the solution is to build an industrial base on the moon. The lunar factories and mines (mostly run by robots) will harvest the necessary material, do some initial refining, and then fling the products into space using mechanical techniques (something like SpinLaunch, or a giant catapult). Lifting off from the moon is far easier than getting off the Earth (think of that tiny lander that the Apollo astronauts used).
Holy cow, are you still copying and pasting stuff into this thread?

To save you the effort: I am familiar with US history.
Currently 900 subscribers, and similarweb estimates 480k total visits/month. I wonder how that compares to similar publications?
I am always willing to share my wisdom, such that it is. ;-) I truly believe you'll come up with a better system... please post about it somewhere. I LOVE reading about how people improve "standard practices" to fit their local requirements.

Even if I disagree, I have to sit an think about it to try and figure out WHY I disagree (and then sometimes I realize I misunderstood what was said.)
> fundamental idea that "retribution" needs to be a component of the criminal justice system is erroneous and the big issue here

It's irrational. But probably necessary for broader buy-in. The other purposes for prisons are reformation, incapacitation and deterrence. Deterrence and retribution are tightly linked.
does it count if you use Okta to log in to Google?
A small improvement in my life I made was to always use the disabled toilet at work and spend a few seconds stretching and sometimes even doing 10 squats or push ups.

I don't have the confidence to do something like that in front of other people.

But now I do it 5 or so times a day everytime I pee.

Perhaps I could add these stretches although 15 minutes is too long, perhaps in 5 lots of 3 or 2 minutes once an hour or something.
There are titanium, steel and zinc anode keycaps floating around. I know because I've owned some for about a decade :)

You can probably replace every component on a keyboard, today, with metal with the exceptions being limited to the switches and PCB.
Depends on where you live, there are street-legal kits and some places allow off-highway driving for side-by-sides.
I wish the actual story was “US manufacturers announce line of small, Japanese style pickup trucks”

Importing adds friction both up front and for ongoing sourcing of parts and maintenance. Just give us some options for local pickup trucks utilizing existing repair facilities! Instead everyone bitches about truck drivers having such large vehicles, when that’s all that’s on offer here!
GPT cannot do this? Not even a bit?

Well... that's definitely an opinion. A reasonable person would grant it _some_ level of reasoning ability, however flawed.

To dismiss it all as 'pattern matching' rather shows some confused ideas about how cognition works, as if pattern matching plays no role in human cognition or intelligence.

I'll understand difference in opinion if we're talking about more nebulous aspects like consciousness or qualia...
ngl, that sounds like a great, quick lunch for when I don't want to put much effort into cooking.
“What if OpenAI enters your space?”
Copyright law didn't prevent you from copying video for home use. Look up the Disney vs. Sony case, which was a landmark.
A lot of people are using Vermont registration to get a title then transferring it to their home state, but I'm not sure how well that works everywhere.
> As it turns out, compared to endless war, global economic whipsaw manipulation, climate crisis, mass incarceration, widespread poverty, and heavily entrenched political corruption, the Articles of Confederation actually were pretty viable.

I’m not seeing how the AoC would have prevented any of those things. (In respect to some of the global effects, they might have made it more likely the US was part of the global peripheries rather than great power in respect to them, but that doesn’t really change the global situation, just the local experience, and if you think the periphery experience of those things is better…I don’t know how to help you.)
The states that don't allow street-legalified side-by-sides are unlikely to allow imported Kei trucks, either.
Statistically, yes. There’s thousands of risks you don’t even consider that are more dangerous. So probably not rational to worry about collagen.

There is no definite proof that gelatin can contain infectious prions, as long as it is manufactured according to industry standards. It’s theoretically possible. But your odds of getting struck by lightning are far higher in any given year. I wouldn’t worry about it.
Again the same point applies. Either you become fan of low level languages with little-no time saving features, or you are willing to use helpful high level language features (or add your own).

You can use unit tests as replacement for type checking system, for example. Test code in prod and all that.

I’ve also built macros which snapshot check output of functions for tests. So the test just calls a bunch of functions, and it saves sexps in a test dir with the expressions commented. Difficult to do that in Go or Java. Would you just use ruby/python? or some bespoke non macro code gen system?

Unit tests can also verify macros work.

It seems your point is something closer to how macros are too hard for people to maintain. That’d be more interesting of a point to make (and details for you to provide if you have any.)
And do you acknowledge that sometimes people will be wrongly convicted of those crimes?
I don’t think your conclusion follows from your premise. Things were lost in the past because no copies survived. Now we have machines which can copy a million books a second and hard drives which can store thousands of movies, but we’ve created a powerful legal regime which discourages the proliferation of archives of this material.

Google tried to archive every book in existence, and was stopped by copyright. In our lifetimes copyright has prevented preservation. The whole effort of google books was shut down half way through. Who knows what they would have preserved if they continued.

Your suggestion that no one here really wants to see these films is irrelevant. Someone studying film might want to learn how film techniques progressed. Someone studying technology might want to learn how certain effects were achieved. Someone studying sociology might want to learn how social messages have evolved (or stayed the same) over the years. Lots of information will have been lost with these films.

Punishing and discouraging copying will certainly help ensure that fewer copies survive. Discs will rot, licenses will change hands, and the few copies that survive will dwindle and vanish.
"So what are concepts good for? I think it is mostly about documenting your code".

I think the purpose of concept is to add constraints to help the compiler to do static checking instead of just 'documenting your code'.
It's a jack of all trades with no very particularly weak points, that allows me to just work. I'm done fucking around with config files because oops Arch wants to install glibc-alpha-rewrote-in-haskell.

Want a recent kernel ? Ubuntu is relatively good at that. Want software that's more or less up to date, without needing the bleeding edge ? Their repos are good at that. Not in the repos ? You can probably add-apt-repository something and you'll be good to go. Need a reliable DE ? Gnome is fine. Hate Gnome ? It's alright, there's a KDE and Xfce version too. What's that, you want snaps ? Yeah, it's there. Flatpaks ? There too. Is more or less Debian compatible, which is pretty much the only distro you can expect people to properly package for ? Gotcha. Weird setups like Optimus that end up being broken in most places ? Works just fine. Proprietary nvidia drivers ? Sure.

I'm done fucking around for hours getting Arch to not be crap, or Fedora to not use fucking pacman, give me apt. I just want a work distro that will handle 99% of what I throw at it without any issues.
but like, SpaceX's whole thing has been blowing up test rockets over and over as they experiment, iterating quickly. once they've nailed the design down, the result is pretty reliable, but look at how many booster recovery fails they had before they got successful. your logic works more for defect rates on parts than on the design itself.
Man I know this is HN, and I know we have a certain decorum we should be maintaining, but with the recent activity in this field the most appropriate response to these posts is "4bit when?" or "f16 when?". Not sure which one is applicable. I am having no luck running it on a 6GB vram gpu, so I guess its the 16 bit floating point one.
This obviously isn't a pitch to totally fresh people. They're appealing to the thousands and thousands of regular readers that don't subscribe.
Is it crazy? Copyright is the right to make a copy. Libraries can buy and loan books because none of that involves making a copy. Digitizing a book and loaning digital copies does involve making copies, so it's a violation of copyright. Seems very straightforward to me. Am I missing some major detail or catch or something?

Sure, there's an exception for "fair use," but I don't think fair use has ever covered making a complete copy of a work and giving it to someone else. And of the four factors judging fair use, the "amount and substantiality of the portion taken" one fails completely here. Doesn't seem surprising.
Ask HN: Are mathematicians less likely to be impressed by ChatGPT?
Mathematicians demand proofs in their work and maybe this means that they would be less likely to be impressed by heuristics in general and AI in particular (even in topics outside of math)?
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Any discussion of the iAPX 432 should mention IBM's earlier stab at building a minicomputer around a single-level object store hardware architecture - the System 38. It too struggled in the market, although being a sibling of the system 3X -> AS/400 line, didn't die quite as ignominiously as the iAPX 432.
1. You don't know what the error means, or how to resolve it.
2. The real error can be surrounded by a wall of other errors and you have to figure out the root cause.
That may have been true in the 70's and 80's. However, I worked for a 2000 person (startup) software company in the 90's that was acquired at 1.8B, another 4000 person (startup) software company in the 90's that was acquired at 3.4B, and then a few years ago, the acquirer of both was itself acquired for 18B.

I survived ALL the layoffs somehow. Boots on the ground agrees with "doesn't really work all that well" but the people collecting rents keep collecting. Given the size all of these received significant DOJ reviews though the only detail I remember is basketball sized court rooms filled with printed paper for the depositions. I'm sure they burned down the Amazon to print all that legalese, speaking of scaling problems.
> it's orthogonal to the important reforms to stop convicting innocent people of crimes

This is a good ideal. But in practice unachievable.

Realizing that, we should have mechanisms for double checking our work, correcting mistakes when found, implementing procedures to prevent it from happening again and minimizing the degree to which irreversible consequences are dealt.
Research was made impossible for 30 years but now there’s a thriving literature.
The report itself: https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/swop23/SWOP2023-EN...
> On the other hand, the SLS — having a launch escape system and not requiring sophisticated acrobatics
> in order to reach land safely — is totally the ship I'd rather be on.

Have you ever flown on a Boeing 747, without a launch escape system?

That said, I do agree about the flip maneuver. I am very interested to see how that evolves.
The article says that the US needs to provide re-export permission. It’s likely this won’t be granted.

Given Australia is an extremely close US ally, it’s likely these particular F/A-18’s contain top secret components that are not authorised for export to Ukraine.

They also may be stored in an airworthy condition, as a tactical solution for any major escalation in the APAC region.
> It's wildly rare for the innocent to get wronged here.

This is objectively false.

https://innocenceproject.org/the-death-penalty/

And even if it weren't? One is too many.
Very neat! This is useful in countries like Cyprus, where the local banks suck and many international banks don't want to have you as a customer.

Last I heard Wise & Revolut don't onboard any cypriot businesses anymore, so maybe you want to adjust your availability in that regard. Juni is a good solution though.
>Yet, the most reliable services people use every day run on x86. It's not "really bad".

When reliability is paramount (e.g. pacemakers), x86 is naturally avoided.

>I don't see the complexity of the instruction set causing downtime. Compilers abstract 99% of it away.

Complexity of the ISA affects the whole system. It breeds bugs not just in hardware, but also in operating systems and toolchains. These can affect reliability.

>I've never seen SMM mode cause down time

I have. With SMM, the rug is pulled under the OS's feet. Your CPU can be taken away at any time, for any unexplained reason, without prior warning, and for an undetermined amount of time.

I have seen SMM cause spikes of latency breaking pro audio pipelines, and I have seen SMM grab a CPU and not return it.
This is why it makes my blood boil when TV shows and movies that recount historical events try to dramatize everything and add their own silly unnecessary fictional touches. The actual events that happened are dramatic enough!
They pay royalties.
Yeah, what I always try to bring up when people point out the possibility of executing innocent people is that the people on death row get the best shot at proving their innocence that society is willing to give them. No one else in prison gets more legal representation made available to them, both from the state and various non-profit groups.

If somebody can't get off death row, it's not a matter of could, it's that they would have spent the rest of their life behind bars. So while, yes, convicting innocent people of crimes is evil, and absolutely must be avoided at all cost, it's not really a compelling argument against the death penalty, unless you have a really sunshine-and-roses view on rotting in a jail cell.

My personal view is that the death penalty should mostly be reserved for cases where the question of a trial isn't so much "did this person commit this act" as much as it is "did the act this person commit constitute a capital offense". War criminals are the quintessential example. It's public knowledge that the suspect was in charge of a group of soldiers, and those soldiers took certain actions. The war crime tribunal isn't trying to figure out if you did it, they're trying to figure out if they should kill you for it.
They're not at _all_ similar.