skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it funny? I empathize, but maybe I'm too soft?

A lot of people bought cars based on bad, lying, PR. Appreciating assets, $30K/year robotaxi service next year, we'll rent out your car for you. Coast to coast in 9 months, again, again, again, and again.

It's sort of the opposite of what OP praised: loud, not quiet, scrambling in public, not head's down.
Developing Using VS Code with Nix Flakes
GitHub link below

https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/blob/main/M...
Transcending My Father's Abuse
And yet, we're not speaking out loud.
A good thing that such a thing has already been proposed.

For the lawmaking I follow, many of the systems in use tend to share some rudimentary ideas of version control, but they are all awfully bad at this job. I suppose the problem is that amendments and related important things are often done in closed-door cabinets; hence, it is often difficult if not impossible to determine (without leaks) who amended what and why (and/or was lobbied to do so). This issue is something I've long considered to be problematic for democracy, but politicians have their own reasons to disagree.
That’s what the Black-Scholes equation does: variation is risk. It’s manifest everywhere.
If it's user controlled what stops an attacker from bypassing it as the "user"? Most people just want to have a secure device and will not think about security, not want to do any work to secure their device.
Indeed. You can't publish a tool designed to defeat copyright protection any more than you can publish the copyrighted material itself. Hence the dmca takedown request.
It sounds great until you realize that, in the US at least, the corporations spend a lot of money lobbying Washington to have the rules set in their favor if not eliminated. Fix that first and then I will believe we can have a government that would actually try to place appropriate ethical boundaries on corporations.
There's a good chance that I'm conflating some ideas here, but I think there might be a kernel of something that isn't completely useless.

I'm not sure if it's possible (given that there's overlap with public key/private key encryption it may be), but I think that if you could produce a homomorphic computer capable of plain text export, this would be a resolvable problem.
Eh, I have an opinion about that effort, but I do not want to put her down, because it is honestly her first idea that is not as big of a pie in the sky. And she does seem serious about it.. more serious than her pet selling business in UK (long story). In other words, by comparison, this idea seems tethered to reality.

As to why IT.. I think she was told and convinced ( I honestly don't know real data ) that old country has a lot of jobs in that field.

Her reason was 'I want to try something new and not cry in ten years shoulda woulda coulda'. I can respect that.

<< If she wants career security, might I be impertinent and make a recommendation?

Impression I got from her is that she wants to change ( she has a boring government job now ).

<< From my experience, I think people severely need and are lacking child care resources.

Ain't that the truth. The prices near me are bananas. I would take anyone halfway decently priced.

<< Does she have business acumen

That remains an unknown, which is why I carefully tried to tell her that freelancer's life isn't for everyone.
Biological DOOM: A brief overview of biological computation
For Spanish, Destinos is something like that. It's a reasonably interesting telenovela that starts out with beginner-level language and quickly works up to more interesting dialogue.

https://www.learner.org/series/destinos-an-introduction-to-s...
If it hurts some humans while helping others immensely, the question becomes murkier.

Some questions are easy to dispense with, though: should we hold back the progress of ML because of the job-security concerns of some Hollywood writers? Answer: "No."
>This post comprises good points.
>This post consists of good points.

There are items in the set that are good points.

All the items in the set are good points.
IIUC, aren’t those the public keys, and not the actual, leaked, private keys?
Yes. My cheap motorcycle had drum brakes and was fine for many many kilometers. The problem with electric vehicles is that they brake with motors and not with brakes. Brakes gather dust and silently corrode. Apparently latest vehicles periodically activate brakes without driver’s intervention to prevent corrosion and uneven wear.
Playing in different musical keys would be a lot easier if the piano keyboard was like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard , https://www.lumatone.io/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout
> in March, Nasa asked Congress for funding to start development of a "space tug" that might be needed to perform the task – a spacecraft that can push the station back into the atmosphere. Kathy Leuders, head of Nasa's human spaceflight programme, later revealed it was estimated the tug vehicle would cost just shy of $1bn (£800m).

This part sounds insane. Use a docked Progress, Soyuz or Dragon to give it the right calculated nudges at a fraction of the cost. There is complexity, angular momentum and rotation in there I'm sure but NASA is good at rocket science, why develop a new vehicle.
There's an upside to this. It can be used politically as an argument against backdoors for "lawful access"[1] to encrypted data.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission/lawful-access
You'd want something more powerful than subtitles - otherwise you get n^2 scaling with the number of languages.
>The dog has been dirtying the kitchen floor for long enough already that we're also going to need that toothpick.

And the dogs (pollution sources) are standing by to provide as many toothpicks as it takes to discourage anyone from bringing in a shovel any time soon.

Especially if the toothpicks cost so much it ends up with shovels remaining out-of-reach.
> The content is mostly written by subject matter experts that contribute large blocks of useful text to just a few articles each.

That sounds like the ideal scenario. Any evidence that it is or isn’t this way? I would guess it’s skewed more towards a handful of folks simply writing many articles about things they’re moderately knowledgeable about.
Having majored in political science it's rare that political arguments are due to a lack of understanding. They're almost always due to just prioritizing things differently.
there are games where you can only trade, in game and there is no easy way to find groups (diablo 2 resurrection for example) and there are multiple discords servers to trade and most of the time you befriend/message somebody in discord first (outside of the server) and there are ways to get help with killing diablo clone where you also first get messaged globally.
There is a tension between prescriptivism and descriptivism, and it has to do with the rate at which the language evolves. Prescriptivism resists language evolution. Decriptivism allows the language to evolve as fast as people wish to evolve it.

Some rate of language change has to be accepted, but it needn't be as fast as if we rejected all prescriptivism.

We each prescribe or refuse to prescribe language rules as we see fit, and thus the language evolves at some natural rate.

We do need some grammar/spelling pedantry.
running a 40 year old car (ev conversion) with drum brakes just fine. its a solved problem.
I usually don't post my own articles to HN but I think the subject of this one is one that HN readers would appreciate. Namely, how can we engineer digital logic into biological systems? I really want to play DOOM on a cuttlefish someday.
But someone has to pay for the energy storage and generation: either you or the power companies, but you don’t benefit from economies of scale.
Their auditors reported that they couldn’t be sure the (reported) 500 million in subscription revenue actually existed because the financial controls were so underdeveloped. I can see why the regulators dont want to give them a banking license. What are the odds of them going the way of Wirecard?
I’m a big fan of AT-ATs but I like AT-STs as well.
<< You're both un-hireable.

Could you elaborate? I wasn't really asking about myself, but I am curious about your rationale given I did not really disclose that much about myself.
Wanting to play competitive games without cheaters is something that real users actually want and they get real value from. Your mockery of these people doesn't remove the value they get from being able to play without cheaters.
Thanks for the reply, very helpful.

Well done for maintaining that publishing momentum. That's a good strategy it seems, spending a little time each day, but enough to maintain a weekly video at least.

Will give it a go and see if it helps. Cheers!
>This commenter is failing to make a case for the current regulations being just right.

I don't think they're trying to make a case for the current regulations being just right. The point here is very simple:

1) X is unethical.

2) This guy said they'd do X if it wasn't against FDA regulations.

The key point about X is that it's unethical. Whether or not FDA regulations are perfectly calibrated is beside the point.
Because:

- It allows swipe gestures and thus triaging emails much faster

- Gmail extensions function properly

- Gmail mobile UI sucks versus desktop because most people will use the app

- It works offline

- It has push notifications

- You can make audio/video calls via Google Meet

Data collection isn't a problem for me in my email because my threat model assumes all email services are compromised either at my end, the servers it passes through, or at the recipient's end.

Anything sensitive goes via Matrix protocol, or you tell people to login to Nextcloud or Bitwarden to access a specific piece of information.
My PHEV weighs 30% more than the non-PHEV version, yet my brakes have lasted longer than anyone I read online with the regular version of my car.

This is because of regenerative braking not using the brake pads, using the motor instead.
> Other times it insists the task is impossible ("too complex").

This is the lobotomization. It's interesting to watch the interviews with some red teamers and bing integration devs who had access before they did this to it. They are fully Blake Lemoine'd.
I understand you, but it's more difficult than if you wrote correctly (according to my arseholish prescriptivist rules, if you like, yes) - you're communicating less effectively by not subscribing to the standard rules; I misread you, take longer to understand your meaning, it takes patience and begins to frustrate.
I don't think it makes financial sense to build new nuclear, but solar and nuclear pair reasonably well if you have existing nuclear, at least in areas where air-con is used (demand peaks in summer afternoons).

The problem only arises when you don't charge coal and gas plants sufficient carbon/pollution fees, then they can underbid nuclear and drive it out of the market and stop it earning enough overnight.

to quote the nuclear industry:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/nucle...

> Nuclear could provide cheap energy but would only be competitive with gas and coal if carbon pollution is priced, nuclear association says
> Why won’t existing companies that already have the users and existing connections fast follow anything the startup does?

In this case, I think the founders realized that by focusing on UI and data engineering, they were not focused on the right things: what kind of digital financial assistant is worth paying for?

Finally, the question, "why won't big existing player come eat your lunch?" directs conversation away from opportunity. Products like maybe.co often end up being acquired by big, existing players because huge companies often struggle with invention and ideation, and it's often easier to deploy money to buy the kernel of a great product than what happens in most large, risk-adverse companies when innovation requires internal failure after internal failure before success.

> Why are investors excited by this pivot?

I'm not an investor in maybe.co, but I'm much more interested in what they are doing now that they aren't focused on pretty UI. They have a long way to go before they have something, but as they say, keep a good team on the field long enough... and good things happen.
If it's a master key you can't run the business risk of losing access to it.
Intelligence isn’t going to be defined, understood, and created by statisticians and computer scientists.

There’s a great deal of science on figuring out what intelligence is, what sentience is, how learning works. A good deal of it is inconclusive and not fully understood.

AI is a misnomer and AGI is based on a false premise. These are algorithms and systems in the family of Machine Learning. Impressive stuff but they’re still programs that run on fancy calculators and no amount of reductive analogies are going to change that.
English is a programming language once you stop looking at or storing the output of the LLM. Like a binary. I'm not seeing anybody store their prompts in a source repo and hooking it directly up to their build pipeline.
So it never hallucinates APIs, theorems, biographies or places?
just wait until they learn about the etymology of awful and awesome. both come from the word awe, but mean completely opposite things.
Coincidentally, I just became Top Rated Plus (as opposed to normal Top Rated) on Upwork thanks to finishing my first large contract! I'm going to have a mini-party with my wife to celebrate, haha. Upwork dramatically changed my life. I don't care much either way about the fee change, but I get why other people do.
No, they would call that out specifically in the model name. It’s just a further snapshot so you don’t have to jump straight to the next finetuned version without testing your app.
Yes! FUCK "secure" boot! Another win for freedom.

On the other hand, never underestimate the ability of the "security" establishment to spin this as a bad thing and instill more fear and paranoia.

All these user-hostile in the name of "security" features do is take control away from and put it in the hands of some centralised entity whose interests certainly do not align completely with yours.
People like to see things in black and white (they're not always wrong, sometimes a compromise is the worst of all worlds).
Do you have a phone number? Do you find that confusing? Imagine if you had to claim a globally unique username to use a phone. Is that better?

Discriminators are, in my mind, are a clever hybrid. You have a unique name plus a short randomized "telephone number". This is easier to remember than a 10 digit phone number, or a username with lots of random junk (xxxxMyNameIsBlahx1203923) added it to it to make it unique.
> Corporations are soulless money maximizers

This seems stated as fact. That's common. I believe it is actually a statement of blind faith. I suspect we can at least agree that it is a simplification of underlying reality.

Financial solvency is eventually a survival precondition. However, survival is necessary but not sufficient for flourishing.
To all those saying SecureBoot brings absolutely nothing security wise...

Why is a project like, say, Debian, even bothering signing kernels:

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot

What's their rationale for supporting SecureBoot?
We're not speaking. You might as well be saying "if things were different, they'd be different."
Nvidia's Crazy New Neural Engine Is Redefining Realism in Graphics
Maybe, just maybe. We should design our cities around more sustainable and scalable forms of transportation. American (yes, Canada is included) city planning and design is terribly inefficient.
“in order to” and “to” have different shades of meaning, and sometimes different meanings entirely (although I guess you’re right that most instances of the first can be replaced by the second).

Think about

“I walk to work.”

and

“I walk in order to work.”

Close, but not quite the same.
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The keys are OEM specific. Intel gives them to MSI so they can sign their firmware/BIOS updates. Clearly MSI didn't handle them well.
> "com" + "prise" = "grasp together".

This is a terrible argument first because etymology is not meaning, but more importantly because "grasp together" doesn't seem to rule out the errant meaning. "This table setting grasps together a plate, a cup, and several pieces of silverware." seems if anything less wrong than "A plate, a cup, and several pieces of flatware grasp together this table setting."
It's what the customer has come to expect.
The aesthetic usability effect / paradox
American English is trying to do away with adverbs entirely! Sometimes I find myself shouting '-ly!' at the screen. (I just wanted to leave that comment here real quick.)
The weirdest bit is that concern for the child apparently ceases at 18, and the same proposal considers elderly people - typically with more descendants than anyone else - so incapable of considering others' long term needs that the whole system is designed to reduce the effect of their votes.

If old people are so selfish that "a large generation of retirees who essentially vote everyone else's resources to themselves" is the problem this proposal aims to solve, maybe parenthood just doesn't make people much more thoughtful about their votes...

Say what you like about gerontocracy, at least it's the product of old people actually being more motivated to turn up to vote rather than the bizarro logic that twentysomething single mums of eight kids with unknown fathers are so good at decision making they need two orders of magnitude more votes than the average retiree (provided they sneak their phone into the voting booth to look up the trivia quiz answers)
Touche! I would argue though that the anti (existing) nuclear energy movement is separate from advocacy for investing into renewables over nuclear for new capacity.
I don't think they screw up in human ways though. That's not a human way. A human freelancer or friend wouldn't get away with just ghosting like that after promising something. They would have to own up and face the music. They screwed up in an institutional way: by changing policy when it suited them, and trying to cover their tracks.
Sure, I agree. I simplified my SaaS product SticAI.com and removed any unnecessary features to make it work better. This reduced any difficulties for users. I did the same thing for my open source portfolio website spikeysanju.com, where I made sure that users could consume the content without any distractions. That was the main goal for both projects.
Yeah, in Medellín most houses have 2-3 floors [1] and those who live on the street level often have businesses that they run from their house. They have small gardens outside and there's always people in the park, dogs running around, kids playing, music everywhere. It's very cozy and nice compared to Swedish suburbs [2], where you're forced to stay inside 8 months a year because of the climate.

One time a man in Sweden said hello to a neighbor and the neighbor perceived it as harassment and reported him to the police [3]. It's not illegal though, but generally only weirdos and drunks talk to strangers. Maybe it has something to do with the climate.

1. https://quad.pe/e/5m5r0td9nK.jpg

2. https://quad.pe/e/5EJdfRGdIb.jpg

3. https://www.st.nu/2017-11-15/kvinna-anmaler-man-for-ofredand... (run it through some translation service)
Editing for grammatical/stylistic clarity isn't an alteration of the 'cultural landscape.' By that standard nobody would be allowed to pick up litter.
Too late for the edit window, so I'll reply to add:

If a person gets in the habit of cheating because they don't think the thing they are cheating on is important, then they have to develop the skill of always knowing what is important, and what isn't, or they risk cheating on something with serious consequences. Patrascu died at the age of 29 from brain cancer. I wonder if he ignored any symptoms because he didn't think they were consequential.
Isn't clicking really only helpful for the first few minutes anyways?
Thanks for the suggestions waboremo!

I never would have even thought to film myself practicing, I would have thought it would be way too boring for any of my subscribers to want to see.

Honestly I feel fairly camera shy, and in life I managed to roll a 3 in charisma :-) Luckily I don't need to speak in my actual published videos. But I'll give it a think and maybe try it out some time.

Yeah I mix it up w/ covers and originals. Every cover is in my own unique style, and has at least some bit of originality in it.
1111…1111 is −1.

1000…0000 is the minimum.
My friend's startup is similar but for YouTube videos: polyglatte.com
The argument doesn't matter because the federal government and politicians don't give a shit about facts
> I remember an undergrad guitarist complaining to me about having to be able to play all scales in all keys with all possible variations of articulation for his practical.

> A frikkin’ guitarist.

What instruments do you play? I'm going to guess not guitar. Guitar is one of the few instruments that very many people learn by themselves, by ear, and can get extremely good without foundations like scales and reading notation. I am not surprised about a guitarist struggling to "formalize" their guitar-playing as an undergrad, where it can be as hard as learning a new language when you're an adult.
Antibiotics target certain bacteria and may not wipe all types even from intestines, not to mention rest of the body.
Doesn't this enable them to be installed on systems with Secureboot enabled without having the user muck around in the BIOS? Smart for VMs?
No worries. You did have a point, which is why I updated the title.
Is the perpetrator nation-sponsored?
There was this recent article (here in HN) about these "evil public charging ports that can hack your smartphone" and how there is an entire ecosystem of devices to protect against them.... when in practice no one has heard about any one single example of such evil charging port, and that in practice carrying out such attack is so target-specific and leaves so many warnings signs that the entire thing sounds implausible to say the least.

These evil maids are even more implausible than that. Has to be ridiculously targeted. If you are really targeted by such a powerful state-like entity, wouldn't it make much more sense for them to just send a NSA letter to Intel (or whatever the weakest link in your chain is, and there are plenty of extremely weak chains here, like the BIOS manufacturer) and/or backdoor the hell out of it?

Secure Boot was never about security for normal users nor security for the majority of us. This is like https://xkcd.com/1200/ all over again. At the point the attacker can write arbitrary bytes to your hard disk, its way past the point where the majority of users care.
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