skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I got laughed at for saying Haiku would beat linux to the FOSS desktop and I still think that will happen. Have been enjoying watching them pick up steam recently as they near their first release.

Edit: I am referring to widespread adoption and industry support, if that was not obvious. The biggest problem with the linux desktop is if you sell a linux computer a large number of people expect that to mean it will work perfectly with their favorite distro, not just what the manufacturer packages on it and that makes it a support nightmare. Haiku is a single entity and that will work in their favor, once they prove themselves viable I suspect the industry will start getting behind them in a way they never have with linux.
or the danger it imposes on more vulnerable road users, or the negative externality of huge vehicles littering neighborhoods

What I struggle with is how it's socially acceptable for people to ignore all of these negative externalities. Just another example of Moloch winning: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/. For some reason we scorn people who drop litter, but air pollution is totally fine
Perhaps, at the same time if they DO fail badly, they would likely be replaced. Not as much in Google's case, where the highly paid visionary CEO has missed the greatest trend of the decade and still makes 200M. I could have equally missed the same trend myself for only 20M if they had given me the opportunity.
When India wanted specialised secure communication equipment for confidential diplomatic communications between its government and embassies, they ordered it from a European country to avoid spying by the US. Unknown to them, the US approached the European country and convinced them to sell compromised equipment that would enable the US to spy on indian diplomatic cables. Cisco has worked with US agencies to sell compromised routers to many countries. Chinese security camera and routers have been found to have backdoors in them. That is just the minimum extent of international spying. I have no qualms in claiming that you are ignorant if you think AMD / Intel management engines (built to enable remote management) sold to specific foreign government agencies haven't been root-kitted for spying.

Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need a way to disable it - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/intels-management-engi...
Yes, and perhaps even more the MacGyver show. But those references are getting quite old.
Im looking forward to a solid ActivityPub server written in Go or Rust that can run on modest hardware/small resource Docker hosts.
despite having ruined the world economy

How will he do that?
Interesting that this was generated on such an old version of Ubuntu. There were known implementation weaknesses in LUKS that would have surely cut the cracking time down to a manageable duration.
Worse Maths through Politics Pt 1
Large language models and the akashic records
One thing to note is that Duolingo is often compared to various "better ways of learnng a language". Which I think misses the point - it should be compared to not learning a language at all. For me and everybody I know, Duolingo is the gateway drug - something you use for 5-10 min at a time instead of Facebook (or hacker news:). Then one day "if serious" you graduate to other methods. Or you don't, and you're still better off than if you hadn't used it:)
I don't agree fully with your assessment of Star Trek. It was made as a sort of ideal future, something to aspire to. It wasn't above criticizing the past, but it was optimistic about future.

Now everything is pessimistic about the future.
> But there is one gizmo of which the Sahel’s gold miners can claim to be the most important users worldwide - the cheap portable metal detectors, which became widely available in the region around 2008-2009

The article (which I quote above) argues that the artisanal mining in central Africa is often called "primitive" but is actually a modern phenomenon based on the availability of metal detectors. Certainly these devices have been around since much longer than 2009. What changed? Manufacturing cost? Regional distribution networks? Trade agreements with China?
That might be true if the blue check were a sign of quality. As it is, at best, it's an unreliable sign of quality. And many power users have obviously concluded that it's a sign of poor-quality — why would you pay to associate yourself with poor quality?
I guess I'm adding my own to the pile with this, but your last paragraph resonates. I feel like it's getting to a point where one can predict with reasonable accuracy the first top comments just by the title of the post, and been thinking more and more about what a proper quantitative analysis of this feeling would yield.
> as time goes on this problem will get worse and we'll be basing our simulations of intelligence on the output of our simulations of intelligence, a brave new abstraction.

If we build a system where we feed the exhaust of an AI to another one at each step, should we call it the AI Centipede, like in the movies? https://m.imdb.com/list/ls064583741/
Nowadays most basic LED bulbs just put the LEDs in series to get the combined voltage drop close to the rectified and filtered mains voltage, and a linear regulator takes care of the rest. This is cheaper and simpler than other methods mentioned by other users (switching or capacitive dropper). Here's a nice video with a schematic and even a way to hack them to lower the power: https://youtu.be/5HTa2jVi_rc (feel free to skip around, no need to watch the whole video to understand it)
Well, there is one already as the reference implementation for a suite of libraries I wrote. You can find it at https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox. (Contributions welcome)
Funded by Ashton "Chat control" Kutcher.

No thanks
As others are saying, the high federal funds rate makes this quite easy. Vanguard offers a Federal Money Market that can be used as a cash-sweep in its brokerage accounts that's currently offering 4.88% compounded yield (VMFXX). I'd rather use that myself than Apple's lower 4.15%.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, because this is precisely what I'm seeing from both the IT crowd and the general public.

"Computers understand English now, but they occasionally make mistakes, so who cares?"

Something I've noticed is that GPT 4 seems to make mistakes less often than humans. That is, if you asked a random person to stand up in a lecture hall and answer questions thrown at them like the type people have been trying on ChatGPT, they would fail at least 50% of the time, like more.

For example, from what I can tell, GPT 4 has nearly perfect spelling and grammar. Better than mine, certainly, and up there with professional copy editors.
What's worng with YAML? It seems to be the best of the kind I have seen.
> > Just the vision data of a baby’s first year easily adds up to petabytes

Just to add to this, the human brain also encodes quite a lot of evolutionary lessons. We didn't have to learn edge detectors.
So there is a lot of negativity about duolingo, and yes I can see some of the arguments.

But.

It is largely free, and builds vocabulary.

It is the only system that has kept a language in my head.

Through it, I can now converse with my family in their native language.

Sure, immersion is miles better, but its also n months wage.

Yes, its not great for talking. there are better apps out there for it. but again they are not free.

As a companion to learning, its brilliant. as a replacement, its sub par
After some time to think, yes, I'm pretty sure that it's all solutions. The shape of the function in the article means that there is only one b for any a. The formula I gave gives a solution, so it must be the solution. If you can find an n to generate an a, the formula must give you the correct b.

(As n goes from 0 to infinity, a goes from 1 to e, so the formula covers the entire range of possibilities.)

In my formula, however, n may be irrational, even for some rational a. I haven't proven that.
Is Apple a significant player in proposing new standards and working with say Mozilla to get consensus as a genuine alternative to Google or are they simply not implementing much? The latter is certainly my impression.
I believe Sundar will be remembered as one of the weakest CEOs of his generation, and a person who caused actual harm to humankind by wasting one of the highest concentrations of talent (Google circa mid-2010s) that has ever existed. Imagine what these people could have achieved elsewhere if not lured by Google to be subjected to Sundar's incompetence.
Not in most of the world, no. Most place will have to scan your ID when selling you a SIM card.
Prog rock is interesting and enjoyable. Reading is a hobby activity. Taking notes on paper in an organized logbook has merit. Programs should be lean and easy to maintain. Abstraction. The Unix philosophy and tool orientation. Programmer vs code efficiency. Muscle cars. Hacker is a title earned by years of practice creating code that solves problems, rather than a mantle to be claimed. It becomes obvious. You really are reinventing wheels most of the time. The cloud is “somebody else’s server”. You don’t have to be an asshole to get people to follow you.
other humans used red-blue glasses to watch 3d movies. If you've ever tried this, after a while your eyes sort of adapt the red and green out of each eye and you stop seeing the wildly contrasting colors.
Web development has trained me to Google (now often ChatGPT) everything even if I already know how to do it because it changes so much haha

It makes me look stupid in code interviews because I commit very little to memory but professionally it's helped me catch a lot of syntactical upgrades.
They won’t have a choice. Low quality crap is cheaper to make so in a lot of cases that is all there will be.
Looks like your BambooHR account does not allow applications from personal email. Misconfiguration?

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Are you sure PWA doesn’t work on iOS? I remember installing websites as apps on my iPhone. According to this SO answer I think one can even make it full screen (with a workaround at least): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53061258/pwa-not-opening...
Europe is a large enough market by itself. It’s slightly bigger than the US one.
> Once you start coming up with rules about how you'd do that, you're inventing a serialisation format, and you're exactly back to the problem where your original question arose.

Which is exactly what savefile does.
I used to be an iTerm user long ago but haven't used anything but Terminal.app the last decade. Can't really say I miss the bells and whistles.
People with cataract replacements can see UV and in fact this capability has been used in military situations to see special lights/signals at night.
My parents want to cook dinner with knives. They have no interest in side loading custom applications though.
> To be so stuck in this reality that I can't create any reality of my own.

You are still creating your own reality. It is just more stable.

The point is not for me to live like you or for you to live like me. The point is to be OK with your own life and learn what you can from others. We need each other, but we do not to be each other.

You have a gift of your own. To not be able to trip from psychedelics is a super power. You are just as much a genetic freak as I am.

In the past I would have looked at your life and been just as jealous as you are of me.
I use Alacritty as my terminal emulator plus hammerspoon to get the same effect.
> It started to go dogshit about ten years ago

They've only been around 13 years.
https://twitter.com/Dadsaysjokes/status/1173674848587005957?...
I think we have given Linux on the Desktop more than enough time to solve their chronic infighting issues and it appears that decades later, they still haven't solve them.

Even Chromebooks aren't being supported well [0] despite having a slither of a chance at challenging Apple Macs and I would expect ChromeOS to move to using Fuchsia.

Other than Chromebooks which are closed and controlled by Google, the Linux on the Desktop and it's FOSS distros is a commercial failure.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-educatio...
you seem to be completely sure that everyone loves and wants pwa

newsflash: many users hate pwa, they prefer native apps
Being first doesn't make an example the most canonical.
Ballmer lost is CEO job.
While I could see how the camping scenario might matter to a few people, I would personally rather have a couple mAh larger battery because of the slight physical space savings that I imagine eSIM brings.
They're still ruling by force not consent. Unrest in the "ethnic" Russian federation states has been on the rise since late last year when Russia exposed her weakness in Ukraine. Countries that previously leaned towards Moscow are now distancing themselves and asserting their independence. Even Kazakhstan is now openly bypassing Russian oil and diversifying its foreign relations. The younger generation see Russia as a colonizer and are pushing for a Kazakh ethnic identity.

This latest invasion is the push these groups needed to finally throw off their yoke.
A distributor cannot strong arm producers into exclusivity contracts while in a dominant position, this is text book example on how to get fined heavily in most countries, and would not fly at all in Europe.
> the whole mainland full of Chinese people sure is a minority when compared to one tiny island. Those people aren't real Chinese, the Taiwanese are

What? That isn’t what’s being asked. It’s whether Taiwanese identify as Taiwanese exclusively, Chinese exclusively, or both. And following Xi’s mistakes, the fraction identifying as the last has quartered.
The bigger Dhall type libraries are usually generated from OpenAPI specs - there is a core package that consumes them.

If your language has an OpenAPI library, you can create a hello-world web app that exposes your configuration object as an HTTP endpoint, and generate Dhall types from that.
In particular, one can calculate minimum base load and amortized base load.

Critical infrastructure informs minimum base load. For example parts of defense grid, AC when disabling it would kill people, medical systems, certain lighting, running and monitoring the power plants, certain kind of industrial cooling, mining safety equipment like air and gas pumps, certain sluices in regions with flooding.
More or less anything that if turned off would or could immediately cause a catastrophe.

Amortized base load adds some other things that just cannot be off for long or you incur huge restart or lack of function costs.
Examples would be microchip manufacturing, water treatment, key mass transportation, oil pumping and drilling.

A lot of amortized base loads are on week scale rather than day, so they tend to be reasonably solar friendly, but less wind friendly.
I've used Airalo for years as well, but their global sim only supports 84 countries, and is usually 5-15x the price a local sim per GB. If you're spending a considerable amount of time in the country and tethering, it adds up.
Yep, you’re right. Not much of a choice given the limitations of HTML forms, etc.
Citta! ;)
in this specific case its Google decision, not whole market, Google is usurping web space and web standards
Why? Most of those """native""" apps are a pile of HTML and JS anyways.
Why would removing all those features be helpful? Most of those are important and very useful
(wishful thinking. no Zhuge Liangs in sight)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Red_Cliffs

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/s...

also B.x. not B.p.
JSON initially had comments.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/comments-in-json/

They were removed from the standard because some were using them for custom parser directives.
> Laws trump ToS of any kind. Do you disagree with that?

What do you mean by that? The steam ToS (which are enforceable by law) make pretty clear that Valve can revoke your access to any game at any time. Further, your access is dependent on Valve's continued existence. The argument that you are "buying a license" is like saying you "buy a rental contract" at a car rental place. The contract you have with Valve to play the game allows you to play the game for an indefinite period of time, but crucially only while Valve is still in business and while they let you play the game. This is in the ToS and in the USA there is no reason (IANAL) that I see to think the courts won't enforce this contract.

> If things are different in your jurisdiction, please do share how and why

Which law in your jurisdiction makes the Valve ToS feel more like a purchase and less like a rental?
I think you need to compare the service tier of what world eSim carriers provide before mentioning the price.

Yes, you can get service for that price. It has paltry data allowances compared to what OP is describing.
What I find weird is that not many talk about one of the parameter to PBKDF2, c, the number of iterations desired. Someone here mentioned it a few days ago: just make decryption fast enough to be acceptable for you but still a big multiplier compared to the default. What do people care, when unlocking their SSD, if it takes 3ms or 300ms to unlock the SSD at boot?

I mean: attacker shall have a bazillion RAM and a trizillion GPUs... Fine. I augment the number of iterations by 1024, there, it's brute-force attacking cost just rose by 1024.

(I'm not sure that person was attacked by bruteforce but I'm surprised it's always left out... And now I've got friends sending me that picture with "time needed to brute-force a password if it has x, y or z characters" and I don't know what to answer except that "it's more complicated than that picture which circulates everywhere)
[Podcast] How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers?
Wait, how exactly is the US to blame for any of what's happening in Sudan? Would it really have been better if they had just wholesale ignored the Janjaweed massacres? As it stands, both sides just seem to trying to court anybody who can support them, be it the US, Russia, Egypt, UAE etc.
The marketing campaign for W95 was literally everywhere when it was released. People camped out at stores to buy it. The same happened with the iPhone. When you consider how garbage the cellphone was pre-iPhone then it rescued the market. Jobs knew Apple zealots would buy it as the iPod market showed it possible.
I think a Play Store on iOS is possible, but unlikely. Google haven’t done it on any of the open platforms they have Chrome on.

[edit] Ultimately, they have almost no incentive. They can install their apps just fine and they don't make their money by users paying them. Epic care because players do pay them directly.
The natural carrying population of bison eating grass is going to be considerably smaller than cows being fed grains produced using artificial fertilizer and major irrigation projects, given antibiotics to grow larger, etc. Part of what makes American beef so carbon intensive is that massive supply chain moving around animals and feed.

Another thing to consider is that American beef cattle are famously rich methane sources due to the artificial diet they’re fed and how early calves are started on corn. Not only are there fewer bison, they would be smaller and eating the food they evolved to eat so each of those animals would be smaller and less gassy.
In some cases you can get away with simple solutions like just printing the BEL character a few times:

make install; printf \\a\\a\\a
a bit of history massaging in this comment.

Chrome and Firefox are as secure as Safari, if not more, banning them is a commercial choice not a technical one.

iOS exploits still exist, there's no real advantage in Apple sandboxing apps, they are routinely leaking users data and being exploited as well.

OTOH Apple refusing to implement certain web standards is proof that they cannot guarantee a safe implementation, which is a reason more to allow better browsers on their platform.
You're right from the start. Obviously, this is a PoC tool that is not mature enough to be used in a real-world and big-enterprise scenario. I have some ideas on how to make it more usable, like the automatic analysis of all emails by the tool and the creation of a case only when necessary. However, these last ideas will be only implementable when the API for TheHive 5 becomes stable, because of the many new features the latest version of TheHive offers.

However, as you may agree, phishing is one of such things that cannot be completely automated. If this wasn't true, there would be no need for a tool like this, since the big tech companies that run email services would have already solved the problem with their automated inbox scanners. Those scanners can help filter some attacks, but they are far from being perfect, and this is why you receive phishing emails in your inbox in the first place. A human analyst should always be needed if you wanted to analyze incoming emails, and this tool is just a way to simplify the job of that analyst, not to completely replace him.
Reading this comment and others, it sounds to me like legislating the carriers and phone manufacturers to force them to make eSIM more user friendly would work just as well (or better?) as legislation to mandate physical SIM slots.
https://xkcd.com/221/ (Just substitute 0 for 4)
By this reasoning our SIM cards would still be their original credit card size.
We had one. It was called Pebble. And then they kickstarted a watch for 3 million and decided to sell themselves to fitbit instead.
After trying both Dhall and Cuelang, I really prefer the latter.

But this turns out to support OP's point. JSON is good enough, and there are many alternatives that we are debating and don't agree on.

So if you have to pick something, and I have to pick something, since we don't agree, we will fallback on JSON.
> Ever thought that maybe ... shares are unfair?

No actually. I won't ever enter any other kind of business-relationship with a larger company unless they have real competition that affects price because my experience is that larger company will try to mess you up if there's any chance at short-term gain. A joint-venture is ideal protection, but with Apple my size makes that unlikely. Revenue-sharing is a fine alternative to me, and if my product becomes worth more than my share I can always renegotiate, even with a big company like Apple, because we both want the revenue to continue. That's the point.

The pure-play alternative is much harder for small companies and individuals because they need cash up-front to get into the market, but I do understand the advantages for big pockets who don't create value though -- I just don't have any intention of being a company so big that my only purpose in life is to group-together smaller companies that aren't good enough to survive on their own.
I spent a fair amount of time building things like this until I discovered Airtable and gained many, many valuable hours of my life back.

Airtable is basically Google Sheets with with all of the things a smart developer would say “why can’t they just add” and it has the most well documented API that I’ve ever seen and it’s free or close to free for small scale applications like this.
Thanks! It’s starting to make sense.

How does this jive with conservation of energy though?
And I'm saying that the metrics they used are bullshit.

It is also important who made the survey. If it was one of the pro-West NGOs, then the results will be skewed in their favor. Opposite if the Chinese government did it. As is the usual with these kinds of surveys.

They mean jack sh*t.
Yet the warming continues at exactly the rate we expected since the 1980s, given the rise in co2 we are measuring.

Strange coincidence, or maybe the fact that the code is fortran doesn’t say anything about the accuracy of the math.