skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you mean but I read it as more of an enthusiasm for a general category of practice and not a call to convert to a specific religion or cause.

The post was just a nice thing, a complete change of pace, and an opportunity to have an interesting conversation about something we normally wouldn't. That's on topic for HN. It doesn't mean the same thing would be on topic tomorrow—in fact it wouldn't, because avoiding repetition is one of the main functions here.

It was also a garish opportunity for flamewar, which plenty of commenters unfortunately took advantage of. But that's how the internet, and human nature, work.
User land generally doesn’t care about file system specifics. Even in your ACL, example, opening a file would succeed or fail.

I suspect this is much more likely to be a secure environment issue. Windows store wants to prevent piracy, there is no way the environment can be trusted because the boot loader wasn’t signed by Microsoft, and therefore may be modified to help people pirate software.
> That's not where the goalposts are for the definition of AI.

We've well past that goalpost, like decades ago, if you haven't realized.

The simplest form of AI is just a series of if-else statements (expert system). A highly sophisticated network of conditional statements can make fully informed decisions way faster and more accurate than any human mind.
You can check out the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/lugenx/ecohabit
> Although, oddly, he's never done a crypto transaction.

As Matt Levine wrote on his newsletter, saying that the SEC must have traded crypto to regulate it is like saying the DEA should have used meth to regulate meth -- if you think the thing is bad, then obviously you should understand it, then ban it, without using it yourself.

Now, people can disagree whether the thing is bad, but it would be foolish to assume that the SEC doesn't know how cryptocurrency works. If you look at the career paths and previous work of most of the top bureaucrats at the SEC, you'll see that they were usually involved in a great deal of legislation or had prominent positions in industry doing real projects.
The Proton Pass security model
Whenever I have to do something in a TTY I kinda wish my normal terminal experience was that crisp and snappy.
Great, when are they going to start solving hard problems? So far what we have is a rather unreliable collater.
Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive
None of those are resilient to politics.

See for solar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35661918

Same for everything else. Green Party in Britain is campaigning against literally everything including offshore wind: https://twitter.com/stuarthammond14/status/16486453145621217...
I am getting tired of hearing and reading the constant attempts to put a spin on this event. A partly failed test run has an obvious interpretation, nobody is concerned about investors pulling out of SpaceX, and they will have the new one stacked before long. Why dress it up? One might say that the rocked had enough spin already.
I’ve been using fly.io for little things and it’s remarkably nice and easy to use. I can’t vouch for large scale projects, but for little things you want to experiment with it’s a joy.
Isn't that what Pixel devices are supposed to be?
If it's only statistics, what is the neural network for?
According to levels.fyi, a typical entry-level FAANG job (L3 SWE at Google) pays $140k base salary.

An assistant prof. position at UCSD I was looking into a few weeks ago was paying $115-145k to identical roles in the department.

I know Google has some other benefits, like stock and bonus. Plus, compensation will grow more rapidly. And there are tons of high-paying SWE jobs, whereas good academic positions are scarce.

In Academia, it's hard to exceed $200k. Some professors often get $200-300k from consulting. But those I know that earn so much on side gigs are frequently gaming university IP rules.
Maybe I'm having a bad day and I just need to hear a rap song about how cool Donald Trump is, to help boost my mood.
> complete rooted control

I highly doubt that sideloaded apps would somehow be granted root by default
Sure, then use Netscape in your example. Something used to be part of the Internet, and many people was the Internet, and is now irrelevant.

Scrolling through search results to answer a question manually instead of simply getting an answer feels like using the Internet from 20 years ago.
Can you link to a better performing server for the same price.
Religious flamewar is not welcome here and will get you banned, so please don't do it again.

We've had to ask you about this before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24682545 - and similar things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497529 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046182 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26935566 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836417 (April 2020)

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?
I have fond memories of that game. 80% of the time I would play very patiently and carefully. Occasionally, though, I would go Rambo and take out the whole enemy team in 30 seconds.
> This won't be stopped by any government, you can only put your country at a disadvantage by ignoring it or trying to impede it.

Countries have tried and were pretty successful? China banned it, and now it's pretty difficult to trade crypto in China. The US can pass legislation tomorrow saying no crypto no more, and it will be effectively banned from the US. How are you going to trade crypto when nobody wants to touch it?

If you don't comply, your bank will shut down your accounts, the people running the exchanges will get arrested, their websites will get seized, etc. The US financial system is pretty good at keeping track of where USD goes after all, it'll get pushed into the shadow financial sector where all the other crime lives, and that seems pretty much the end for all the new crypto projects.
The Chomsky hierarchy will remain unchanged and very useful for constructed languages. I didn't mean break out, as in create a higher level. LLMs are not going to magically become more than a turing machine or anything. I meant we need to stop thinking about spoken language in terms of the hierarchy and try to find another approach.

You can't tell me with a straight face that actual spoken language fits well in that hierarchy. It seems we can shoehorn it in with a 100B parameter turing machine definition, but that just makes my point that the constructed language hierarchy is not well suited for describing spoken languages if it takes such a large definition.

We should be able to find something like a new probabilistic theory of language that will do a much better job of describing spoken languages. Such a theory could help explain some LLM behaviors we see, and apply generally to other forms of noisy communication.
Why do people keeping saying AI tools are free? You hire a freelancer for their time.

Doing it yourself has a time opportunity cost.
My PC cost about 400€ and I'm a professional user. Most people are fine with the capabilities of a Raspberry Pi.
Let it die...
Negative dollars, and some foreign asset
> I forgot to take screenshots but it was the AMD stuff from the Microsoft Store failing to launch.

What does AMD mean here? AMD the processor company? I don't see how that is related to changing the filesystem.
Producing an ICE is also polluting. Producing gasoline is also polluting. This is not an argument against banning ICEs.
I like switching gears, I truly don’t find it an advantage using the language for both. Have separate languages makes the distinction between backend world and front end world very clear. Also the backend code is mostly data manipulation and the front end code is mostly rendering so there is very little overlap in similar functions for both. The separation helps keep things tidy in my brain.

I much prefer not having to write JavaScript everywhere, not every problem is a nail and not every solution requires a hammer.
Ask HN: I’ve accumulated vacations. How to best use them to grow my business
I have vacations from my current employer (a few weeks). Dreaming of having my own venture. How to best use that time.
> “He was also questioned by the police without legal counsel, and said that he was denied a Tamil interpreter.”

That is concerning. Regardless of whether or not you think someone is guilty, they still deserve the best possible defense.

However, one thing I am genuinely curious about is why people condemn Singapore's solution in regards to substance smugglers. The state of their nation suggests that their solution works well.

Why should society condone the distribution of substances that ruin lives? I've seen people argue that capital punishment is unethical in this case. From the perspective of potential false-positive convictions, that is definitely a valid point. However, when people argue that the current punishment for such crime is too much, I must ask: what about the countless addicted people who lose their lives to drugs every year? Don't they deserve to live? Why does a smuggler who knowingly distributes a substance that destroys lives deserve sympathy? How can one expect such a menace to be "rehabilitated" in prison?
The problem isn't the news sources. It's the incentives. A lot of those big media that people view as untrustworthy today were really good back then.

But, eyeballs and ads result in emotional content and stories. Subscriptions means targeting a niche and always sticking with them, truth be dammed.

Watch Netflix, their ads and subs business earns more than pure subscriptions. So now their incentives are you as a product, not good content.
Plus last gen consoles have extremely slow CPUs. They were already slow when they were released.
I think you missed the point. They quoted an advert involving a pun because it was creative, you are just showing results because it includes puns as a response. Most of those are used or subpar.
No.

Land moves around, raises and lowers, plates crash lifting mountains and subduct continents under each other so stuff moves, but stuff goes up and down at the same time. Sometimes the land sinks, sometimes it's pushed up, but these geological processes happen on geological time. Sea level rise is a concern within a few human generations.

These are just much different time and volume scales.
The opium wars are a Chinese cultural memory. Islamic prohibitions are Malay. Between them there’s a strong consensus for these kinds of laws.

When I said “Arabs” I had gulf Arabs in mind. UAE is notorious for jailing hapless travelers for the possession of poppy seed bread rolls. But it’s true that there is no universal Arab culture, and certain substances are licit in certain Arab countries. For example qaat in Yemen.
The cores of the cities, yes. And those cores are tiny.

There are a few exceptions like London (7 million in the 19th century, 9 million now), but most cities are not London.
Man that test yesterday was great, here's a list of successes:

* Did you see them hold and restart the countdown in the last minute, just the ability to do that at all is amazing

* The full startup sequence which is super complicated for 33 engines worked

* The six second hold down and release system worked - holding down a rocket with twice the thrust of Saturn V

* They found out the limits of the pad, and we know now they were already working on a cover for the pad with water cooled steel that wasn't ready in time

* Stage 0 worked, launched the rocket, and the flight computers on the rocket worked as well

* The rocket was able to maintain stable flight with many engine outs

* The launch tower was cleared, that is a huge milestone to get past. Blowing up the launch tower really sets you back, it's also like too much damage to collect really good data from, as well as it probably would of blown up the propellent farm as well which sets you back with regulatory agencies.

* The engines survived what looks like multiple failures without taking out the rest of the vehicle

* There is tons of data from build and test to correlate all the engines that worked vs the ones that didn't and find all kinds of correlations. Lots of engines, lots of test data.

* It made it past max Q, another big milestone

* The tanks held their pressure the whole way up

* It made it all the way to stage separation, this is where many rockets flown for the first time have their failure so this is par for the course

* FTS (flight termination system) worked, no better way to test it than actually setting it off

* They probably flew with tons risks and unknowns that we'll never know about, but now they have the data to resolve.

Similar to Falcon Heavy, they are cheering because holy crap this thing is actually working
What Are Toys For?
> "Stress-energy" is probably better still.

There's better in the sense of correctness, and there's better in the sense of "words that will be useful to someone who has never heard that light can create gravity". My inference is the GGP does not already have a deep technical background in general relativity. This guides the words I choose.

But I'll always upvote for technical correctness!
Love the price. Arguably unbeatable.

Still shocked after more than a decade, Economics 101 hasn’t kicked in and put more downward pricing pressure on the major cloud providers.
You weigh kale double that of every other ingredient, as far as I can see.

Made me chuckle a bit.
> Don't they usually store a hash of it?

Any bank that restricts which characters one can include in a password probably doesn't store a hash of it.
Related: ProZD's skit "before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK8Z8hulFg
Clickhouse has been around for longer and battle tested at Yandex. In what cases might VictoriaMetrics be a better fit?
Please do nothing. Just let it die as it should have had already.
> It is, I believe, as I alluded to in the comment.

The FILE_STANDARD_INFORMATION_EX structure alludes to a common handling of alternateStream. Winbtrfs is a great resource on this, since it implements many bells and whistles from NTFS in an open way -- you just grep for a keyword and you will be close. The code exercising the Windows API for testing is src/tests
/streams.cpp.

Grep on FILE_STREAM_INFORMATION in the source should provide more useful hits on the source, but phone browsers are clumsy.
My journey has been to start with data visualization using d3.js etc and gradually moved into much more complex tech stacks for vis & data processing.

Data visualization is very much user facing and lots of opportunity to let your more designerly intuitions in visual storytelling, communication motivate you along the way.

Then gradually you start to learn more about UI programming, but also data preparation with larger and more complex datasets.
Normally the materialistic attitude is based on a conceit that we basically already know everything worth knowing. Your position seems to be that we don't, but that when we do it will be equally empty and meaningless.
I like that PHP is not popular and looked down upon by the masses. There is so much less drama in the communities, there isn't a new resume driven framework made every other week, no one is try to spike extensions with malware, no real build system, so much less bullshit. Its like everyone one who uses PHP is to busy making stuff to be stirring drama online while the PHP core has been steadily getting better for the past few years.

It’s super cozy and honestly I don’t want it to get popular again so it can remain drama free and cozy.
Grew up with C64 then A500 all the way to Athlon K75.

After that, I was an adult and I got a job and could afford more frequent updates.

Yes, it hurts to think about CBM management, and what they did to the Amiga.
That fixed header eats 40% of my phone screen realestate.
Russian internet censorship is very simple. They don't seem to be using DPI to target VPN protocols at all, instead trying to block IPs/subnets of known commercial VPN providers. Blocking IPs, subnets, and domains is the primary operating mode of Roskomnadzor.

There allegedly is DPI, but it only comes into play as an extra measure against things like domain fronting, proxies, and plaintext HTTP. It'd look at the SNI and inject a RST packet to drop the connection. As it does not even try to implement TCP, analyzing each IP packet in isolation, there are various interesting utilities[1] that mess with it by, for example, splitting the TLS ClientHello into two TCP packets in the middle of the domain name.

[1] https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
The real question is, will this lead to reduction in cost?

If yes, I hope they open-source it so that the fight against global warming can gain some momentum across the globe.
Implement the probabilistic model of token sequences and fit it to the training data?

You could say the same for a character recognition system.
Music has always been 95% sludge, 4% tolerable, 1% good.

Most of the top 100 from each decade will be at least decent, with a small portion of that actually timeless. The difference today is that consumers now have to sift through all of the music sludge that DJs used to short-list for you.

If you want good music, seek out curators.
Tidal is better than Spotify?
Give me one good reason why PHP should die. Hard mode don’t regurgitate the cargo cultish dogmas.
what're you upto these days?
> Information Security experts understood for decades that conventional password complexity requirements produced harmful outcomes. How long did it take an authority to produce an alternative standard?

Please tell me which authority is in charge of password complexity. The only one I could name is the NIST, and you mentioned them.

> Alternatively, how much do you think the European Parliament has slowed development of new USB connectors?

What makes you think that the USB standards committee didn't create the USB-C standard in anticipation of this and are happy that their connector became standard? The connector itself was designed to be configurable in software standards. Power is negotiated independent of the connector, as are data rates. The PD standard has already undergone multiple revisions as have the data standards and other uses for the connector. The connector is independent of its uses and standardizing it was the plan all along. Why do we need another one when the USB committee doesn't think we do?
Most of this content is going to a blog or newspaper that no one reads.
self-imposed vendor lock-in
I didn't understand why I need WebGPU to use WebGPT...
Discussed at the time:

Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8335226 - Sept 2014 (5 comments)
Crypto is the same as introducing your own currency and printing your own notes. "But it's on the computer" doesn't change the nature of it.
Fortunately this is changing with iOS 17. New EU laws mandate opening up the ecosystem.
> Most of the things people are worried about AI doing are things corporations already do.

There is a rebuttal to this view presented here by Robert Miles:

https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw
Its appeal is becoming more selective.
The federal government is not the main enforcer of this. Counties generally do the work of tracking this. It's the job of the register of deeds. Failing that, normally the state would step in.

You would require a failure of the federal, state, and county government for this to occur
Or Mega65 which is already out (and great) https://mega65.org/
Show HN: Dolores – Generative Agent as Virtual Girlfriend in Beta
I created a local Generative Agent using the ChatGPT API, which possesses memory, reflection, and self-awareness. I am testing whether it can have the capabilities of a virtual girlfriend.
In space you may have minutes of latency. Need some good edge caches.
I have a very eclectic taste in music - classical, jazz, prog rock, electronica, world music. I have found streaming amazing (I use YouTube Music Premium.) I might start with a playlist,or just a "radio" based on a particular track and often after 3 or 6 tracks there is one that I want to hear more of. I often "thumbs up" and find the album or artist to hear more. I'll listen to the album the track was from, possibly exploring more if I feel like it. The autoplay then seems to adjust its selections and end up finding something new. Listening to whole albums is how I think nature intended us to listen to music.
WSL 1 was mostly like this, where Linux shared the file system with Windows, albeit in a subdirectory.

WSL 2 is a completely different beast, with Linux storing its file system in a virtual disk image. \\wsl$\ just gives you the illusion of being the same system, but that’s just a networked file system.

See https://jmmv.dev/2020/11/wsl-lost-potential.html
Php got complicated. So it’s value is decreasing.
You don't think it strange that the guy who taught a course on blockchains at MIT has never made a transaction on a blockchain?
He claims to have lost his phone, but at the same time, he never reported it as stolen.

Also, "The Independent reported that Tangaraju had a prior arrest record in another drug use case, and that he was required to submit himself to regular urine tests. He had missed a test and was on his way to report to the police when he arrested."

Seems rather suspicious.

Nonetheless, the fact that he doesn't have a lawyer is extremely concerning from a human rights perspective.
I don't think fossil fuels will ever get completely banned from private use. Think of all the old timer drivers.
Whisper Jax: Transcribe a 1 hour of audio in under 15 seconds
Whisper JAX is an optimised implementation of the Whisper model by OpenAI. It runs on JAX with a TPU v4-8 in the backend. Compared to PyTorch on an A100 GPU, it is over 70x faster, making it the fastest Whisper API available.
Inflation would be a train wreck and the dollar could then be used as toilet paper. Most other nations would move to using other currencies since holding on the depreciating dollar would be a liability on top the liability it is already is proving to be. (sanctions happy freezing ,etc)
I’ve found that reminding folks who use the “you have nothing to hide" argument often quickly change their mind if you just remind them the political party they don’t like could use it against them

This worked surprisingly well and without fail for the conservative side of my family. The instant I reminded them who was president at the time (Obama) all of them changed their mind

I don’t love this strategy. It leans into fear mongering a bit much, but if none of the other very helpful rhetorical techniques folks have shared here don’t work. This one has some staying power.
>> Are light, radar, and sonar still not enough to detect obstacles that big?

> Radar is useless underwater, light would also be useless for spotting anything in time to react at speed, and sonar isn’t routinely used because it compromises stealth.

Any people with knowledge in the field care to comment on whether it's feasible for a light (em?)-type, active, near-range detection system to work?

It seems to me the basic problem is:

- enough energy to get a signal at a range sufficient to move around any detected obstacles

- high enough dissipation in water to minimize range at which detection by external sensors is possible
Those countries with only WhatsApp available for free over internet should do something about net neutrality. When the telcos can sell app bundles, they will not focus on acting as an infrastructure provider.
Jordan Peterson says things about educating children that are extremely questionable, I recommend you have a go at reading Gabor Maté...
Personally feel its double edge sword right now.

Many mergers indicate the weaknesses of the US banking system. Accelerating the non-USD assets and flow of cash into those instruments.

Non mergers will lead to defaults, forcing government to Print further