skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are you defending them.

If you're going to cherrypick (and distort) some of the worst things people on one side have said, why not cherrypick his signal amplification of insane anti-reasoning and alt-right and fascist-adjacent bullshit?

Do you think that amplification is 'doing great things for the world'? Are these guys in desperate need of a platform? Why defend them?
> and he's the bad man because he disagrees with the official narrative? Which itself is the one spreading dangerous conspiracy theories and disinformation all the time

Oh, Elon is just telling us the truth that "the man" doesn't want us to know? Truths like: Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer by his gay lover? That the government is running a false flag on the latest mass shooter and his white supremacist viewpoints? That the guy leading the cave rescues in Thailand was a pedophile? And on. And on. And on.
I found the sidecar files by going to Photomator > Settings > Editing then clicking the "Manage Files..." button.

This revealed a potential showstopper for me. Each RAW file that I worked on created a 100 MB sidecar file. I think this is just an image preview though. I could delete the sidecar file and my edits were preserved.
No, because Section 230 specifically and extremely explicitly protects one of those things and not the other.
‘Small cars’? The Toyota Corolla is like the go-to example model for a ‘midsize’ when you’re renting a car. Subaru Crosstrek is a midsize crossover.
Recovering your costs through advertising isn't really dumping. Chrome definitely makes Google way more money than they put into it.
Right. The idea that pleas are anything except compelled when they come from the imprisoned is farcical.
I think all Git commands show progress if they end up taking more than 2 seconds.
I oftentimes miss the internet before YouTube so that instead of a link to 20 minute video there would be a link to an article instead that I could consume and understand in 5 minutes while still feeling that I'm consuming slow internet instead of moving pictures.
Quidsi founder Marc Lore sold his next company, Jet.com, to Walmart for $3.3 billion [1]. Both Quidsi and Jet.com were never profitable, meaning Lore was also playing the game of venture predation, so hardly any pity from me.

To add, Lore's current startup is a premium food delivery service called Wondery that raised $350 million at at $3.5bn valuation last year [2], and it's not profitable too. None of Lore's companies have ever turned profits but he's made enough money to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves...he's the perfect example of venture predation, lol

1- https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2016/08/08/walmart-ag...

2- https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/17/marc-lores-food-delivery-s...
I think the comment you are replying to was referring to the openbsd issue that apparently adds 10-20secs per boot in the GP comment.
Will it be renamed to New Venice?
Turns out we weren't optimizing these builds for size. We just merged a fix! We've also set the right content type on cloudflare to enable streaming/compression. The raw size is down to 13mb and the actual download size (with compression) is now 3.9mb.
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8636
Dr. Lyubomir Ivanov proposed the name, it was approved by committee in 4/2005, and then promulgated by the president.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubomir_Ivanov_(explorer)
I've always found the French word for dandelion unreasonably amusing. I'm imagining walking in a garden or nature path pointing out plants to a child:

What pretty crocuses! And there are some beautiful tulips. Here we have some bed-pissers. What a lovely rose bush! Oh, look out for that patch of pants-shitters. Etc.
https://archive.is/Owzg2
Though it is not often appreciated re SpaceX/NASA, I side on the "competition is good" side of this argument.

I don't think gov should act like a single consumer, instead they should err on the side of producing an ecosystem of solutions to spur an economy around the problem.

So, two is cheaper than one long term, I hope.
I thought JB was pretty much a garden-variety billionaire. Is there something that sets him apart from the median billionaire? Or is it just his position at/near the tippy-top of the list (can't be bothered to check his position today) that makes him seem eccentric?
A new proof of security for steganography in machine-generated messages
I am running “full-blown” desktop with relatively minimal Plasma (I installed only the KDE software I actually need). The initial setup was quite straight-forward, without any tweaking or particular issues. I do use binary packages (available in Portage) for the stuff I do not care - like LibreOffice or Rust compiler.

Upgrades where you are expected to do something rarely happen and even then it is fairly simple.

The major downside is when you want to try out something - it takes time usually, so it is not instant as with binary distros and other OSes. For now, when I am not willing to wait, I just use Fedora VM to test stuff first.
Isn’t progress reported on stderr?
I used an HP-41 for years which finally died. I was really tempted to buy the equivalent from these folks but couldn't justify it given that I use a physical calculator once in a blue moon (and have a good HP-41 app on my iPhone).
flat income tax: if you earn more, you pay more tax, but it's still the same percentage, so "earn twice as much, pay twice as much tax"

progressive income tax: if you earn more, you pay more, but also a higher percentage, so something like "earn twice as much, pay three times as much"

sales tax: spend twice as much, pay twice as much, a flat tax.

it's not regressive, it's flat. "progressive" doesn't mean the political tendency, it means the tax rate progresses higher with income. A "politically progressive" sales tax, you might say, would change the tax rate on the basis of total spend, but difficult to implement because it can't be properly calculated at purchase time, unless you just want to make more expensive items have higher taxes, but you'd lose the tax efficiency described above for the VAT.

now, it's not necessary to bend our thinking like a pretzel to try to make sales tax include an extra bonus for low income people (or extra burden for rich people) but why not just do that as part of progressive personal income tax?† and as discussed, fix sales tax with VAT... which we should simply call company income tax because that's what it is.

† capital gains tax is interesting to discuss but not here, except to say "don't try to fix your problems with capital gains tax rates by making the sales, income, or VAT taxes crazy"
The 1960s architecture was not sustainable. Artemis is supposed to be sustainable, was supposed to have reusable landers, which implies refueling. So refueling as a technology was already something NASA desired.

Starship is also about 50 times more capable than the Apollo LM.

Artemis is also supposed to be preparing for Mars, which Apollo didn’t do.

Artemis is also less well funded than Apollo.

I’m not sure why Starship HLS gets the hate it does. It’s by far the best choice NASA could’ve made, and it’s cheap enough that NASA can select a second lander provider, allowing redundancy.
Are there companies that offer web UI access to GPT4/Claude with privacy and security assurances that make it easy to provide LLM access to teams?
> Mostly just questionable hardware design and spoiled programmers who want to do too much in early boot. There is no technical reason why you couldn't have a modern desktop booting in a couple of milliseconds. It's a tradeoff between being fast and being compatible with the rest of the world.

You wouldn't even be able to initialize CPU & DRAM in "couple of milliseconds"

Loading BIOS from flash alone would eat that budget few times over
Should roll out soon
Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs
This seems a bit odd in comparison to how the Apollo program worked with private contractors - each contractor was assigned a specific task, e.g. "Boeing was responsible for designing and producing the Command and Service Module", etc.

https://apollo11space.com/apollo-program-and-private-compani...

Generally the competition and the bid takes place before the awarding of the government contract, doesn't it? This is rather like having two companies build competing bridges and then deciding which one to use after both are built, or am I missing something?

I suspect the Bezos lobbying machine had a hand in this decision:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/king-hill-how...

> "There are a lot of opportunities for influence once you get your own people insinuated into the elite clubs, schools, and other social venues in D.C."
I certainly don't. I learn much better from videos with graphics and audio than from dense text. To each their own I guess.
That is silly. I already said I do not intend this as a criticism of the folks working on it. Kudos on the improvement.

That said... for most people, you are better off learning to use threads or processes. It is almost certainly less effort than spinning up a VM. Not to mention everything else you will, by necessity, have to do if you are using VMs for everything. Unless you find ways to do shared network connections across VMs and such, but... I'm curious how we can make things closer to threads, without eventually bringing all of the dangers of threads along with it?
So 95% of the market.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-init...
The corolla was a small car. In the 90s. Not any longer
That it's insulting has nothing to do with my reasoning. You have it backwards.
The video is less then four minutes long, is that too much for you?
You can have an apollo style mission, or a strong ecosystem / competition that serves a wide range of consumers, but you can't have both from the same source.
The issue with video is that there isn't really an efficient way to "skim." So, for those who can learn from text, learning from a video is like 100x slower.
I'd imagine if you wanted absolute boot time you'd just use a container
Its no longer recommended on Debain to use pip to install system-wide python packages. Instead

* apt is used to install python packages that system packages depend on.

* Users are ---required--- strongly encouraged (see below) to use virtual environments or conda to install python packages for their own usage.
U.S. Will Support F-16 Training for Ukraine
This shouldnt be a problem due to the massive demand for office space in SF...

I wonder at what point it will be cheaper to lease out an entire floor of a corporate office and throw an air matress in it then to rent a 3 bedroom house.
This could be really promising but I seem to be lacking the background to grok it easily. I'll get myself edumakated.
> Who cares what he did to some diaper companies. Are consumers paying more or less because of amazon? Much less.

They are probably generally paying less but Amazon isn't the surefire low-cost provider on the internet the way they used to be. I don't expect the trend of them raising prices to reverse as they gain market power.

> How much would you have to charge for same day delivery for that many products? Could you get close to Amazon? You would have to rip off you customers so badly just to stay alive.

It's not "ripping off" it's just charging customers the actual cost of the service they are getting.
Somewhere I read a short scifi story about a scientist that digitized his mind as part of his research. The copy was so stable it ended up pirated and used as assistant for millions of people. Each instance believes it's the original research copy, and the users must not let it know the truth, otherwise it becomes unhelpful.

I asked Bard for help, and it allucinated the fictional "The Last Human" by Isaac Asimov, and even described the plot when asked.

ChatGPT allucinated that Ken Liu's story called "The Perfect Match" was about personal assistants named "Jorges", after Dr. Jorge Luis Borges, who volunteered for the mind-uploading experiment.

Crowdsourcing to the right subreddit would likely bring the correct answer, so at least we know it doesn't help if AIs think faster than humans, if they don't learn to think as different personas.

I just wanted to quote the story, but this got me sidetracked.
I agree totally with you about the cave diver thing. And so does he. He said it was a huge mistake and he regrets it. Have we not all said things in the heat of the moment we regret?

The false claim about one of most powerful and privileged people (Pelosi) in the world was another mistake and something he quickly deleted. Oh no. Be sure to fall on your fainting couch. Elon gets false accusations like that sent his way every single day. But one sent briefly in the other direction is an unacceptable slight and worth endless hand wringing?

And please explain to us how any of those are remotely as consequential as examples like Weapons of Mass Destruction or Russiagate or stoking a race war for clicks.
I don’t know how to tell you this, but virtually all of the work done for the spacecraft and launch vehicles and such for Apollo was done by private contractors, defense contractors. This is no different except the companies are pitching in much of the funding and will be paying for their own missions with their vehicles (well, at least SpaceX is).
Agreed, but my math also says that if this is your pain point, you'd save even more time by not firing off more VMs? That is, skip the startup time entirely by just not doing it that often.
China

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-bytedance-shou-zi-chew-8d8...
The precedent the Supreme Court actually set here is somewhat interesting. If the work had been used to advertise a magazine issue about Andy Warhol, there may have been grounds for fair use. But because it was an issue about Prince, stealing another artists' work and slapping colors on it doesn't excuse you for not crediting them.
Also:

Passkeys: A Loss of User Control? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854216 - May 2023 (175 comments)
Whatever is on that list of tasks though we will rationalize why it doesn't count once the computer can do the task.

"It is just doing next word prediction, duhh"

The whole line of thought is muddled thinking and not bothering with exact definitions.

Even the mental image of moving the goalpost is wrong because we haven't bothered to define the goalpost or even what game we are talking about.
I don’t believe it’s as simple as the articles puts it.

How is the alpha in this strats not exhausted? Either they don’t make money or it’s not fully transparent.
Private prisons cost taxpayers 2-3x more than a public prison. And that doesn't include the lawsuits taxpayers are on the hook for if the private prison gets sued.

Most non-profits are funded by government grants or by donations from normal people, not ex-finance bros.

Moreover, a non-profit financed entirely by a single wealthy donor is not a 501(c)(3), by definition. It is a 501(c)(4) private foundation, and there are very strict rules governing the finances of a 501(c)(4) entity. (The Marshall Project is a 501(c)(3), while it was initially funded by an ex-finance bro the majority of its funding since then comes from other donors.)
I'm saying "it is harder to consume good libraries in C, because it is harder to find them & harder to build them; and once you have done both, you find that good library A and good library B work in very different ways, so you have to do more work to adapt".

And I haven't mentioned the lack of a strong universal string type, the way many libraries typedef their own family of different kinds of integer, the way one library will require you to free() a returned structure and another will require you to call my_library_free()...

It all adds up to additional friction.

You don't have to agree! Maybe I am out of date, I haven't really dealt with this since the mid 2000's. I'd be thrilled to hear this isn't an issue any more.
From the article

> About 31% of downtown San Francisco’s office space is now available for lease or sublease. In early 2020, the vacancy rate was around 4%

Demand is gone
I think you misunderstand my point. It has nothing to do with the ongoing debate about whether or not passwords are good or bad and should be superseded by some other approach. It has to do with whether or not it's a second factor.

To remind people, though I alluded to it in my post, the factors are: A thing you know, a thing you are, a thing you have. A second factor must not merely be an additional thing in the same category, it must be in a separate category. (Otherwise we could increase security simply by requiring that the user input six passwords instead of just one.)

My objection is that TOTP is still fundamentally a thing you know. The fact that my "thing I know" store (more typically called a "password manager") can store them is strong evidence, if not proof, of this fact.

Your argument in a way further reinforces that point. If they're better passwords than passwords, hey, by all mean make users log in through a TOTP token and skip the password entirely. But that's exactly the problem! It is sufficiently passwordlike for this to be a valid possibility.

The rest of the frippery around TOTP that tries to turn it into a "thing you have" are all on the client side, and thus, security theater. Google Authenticate making it a pain to get my secrets out wasn't actually security (and they had to let it out anyhow because when people upgrade phones they don't want to have to rotate dozens of tokens). It was a "thing I know" every bit as much as my password to my bank is a "thing I know", despite the fact I don't actually "know" it in the sense that it is in my memory. I have no idea what my bank password is. But the things stored in my password manager and the things I can store in my password manager are all "things I know". I can't store a thing I am [1] or a thing I have in my password manager. Being able to store them in my thing-I-know manager shatters the illusion that this is about a thing-I-have.

Push notifications to specific phones aren't perfect but they are a lot closer to a "thing I have".

[1]: I mean, in principle. Certainly I can store the things that I am in my password manager. However if my password manager could present my fingerprint directly that would generally be considered some sort of security violation. That said, I'm not a big fan of "thing I am" in general precisely because while it may work when everyone's honest, who cares about the characteristics of a security system when that's the case? In case of active attack, "thing I am" degenerates to "thing I know" because it will always be possible to fake it if I know it, generally quite practically for any feasible consumer solution. Only super high security installations can justify the degree of expensive hardware necessary to do good checks of "thing I am". And if it degenerates to "thing I know", it further degenerates to "thing I know that I also can never change", which means that biometrics are actually much worse for security than the traditional "thing I know" until possibly quite high on the expense curve for the biometrics hardware and invasiveness.
These are the same people that think "global average temperature going up 2 degrees C" means that the only outcome is local maximum temperature being 2 degrees higher.
For folks interested in the rest of our vector search 101 series, here's a link: https://zilliz.com/blog?tag=39&page=1
Memory Persistence, Enrichment, and Search for Langchain Apps
This is what I thought as well, that the habits that drive some of these activities would be dramatically weakened, but it looks like the body is not actually re-aligning to a new homeostatis level, so when a person gets off the drug, the body is trying to get back to the old level. I don't think it all comes back to habits, often your body is working really hard against you to get back a level it feels is right(whether that level is 'healthy' or not).
I recalled that specifically because I remember having the same reaction when I found it out (I think? I have a distinct memory of learning this) back in 2012 or something.
Oh now that SpaceX won we're back to asking for old school single-performer contracts and redundancy is bad?
That's a content free and meaningless response. "fascist" and "woke" are usually just shorthand for "people or viewpoints I disagree with".
Probably a Korean packaging company
NASA has ALWAYS contracted this stuff out. ALWAYS.

Grumman (now Northrop Grumman) made the Apollo lunar lander paid for by public tax dollars.
"musk bad hur dur"

really curious conversation, really thought provoking
Drugs tested on white people that don’t work for Black patients
Team up with microsoft and asobo.
Χόρτα[0] is a common dish in Greece. I recommend giving it a try with dandelion. My great-grandmother used to stop alongside the country road with a little sickle and cut various greens for cooking down later.

[0] https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/11/05/greek-leafy-greens-goo...
Were the Wifi or Thread?

I'm generally disenchanged with Wifi for bulbs and such - having SO MANY devices on my network has been a big maintenance and performance pain on the 2.4 bands - and have been thinking about moving away from that to Thread (which seems to be new replacement for the old non-wifi Z-wave/Zigbee).
There are zero cars making disruptive tire nosie at 2:00am in my neighborhood.

Actually, wait, there is one asshole on a scooter who locks his wheels & creates incredible shrieking horror "omg an accident is happening" sounds at every intersection he stops at. But that too is not regular tire noise, it's another boy child antisocial asshole.

There's different situations. Sometimes yes tire noise is an issue. The video has one of my favorite bits, 'why did this not take off? Because car makers are assholes' or some such. The aggregate noise can be a problem. But I think the video is spot on. Car drivers don't have any conception of how fucking obnoxious to hundreds of people it is that they blow their horn. They love shitty preening pathetic loud cars. It's only like 10% of them, but those 10% of car drivers are anti social assholes with enormous ability to make life much worse for everyone. And most societies have almost no restraints, no ability to create counter pressures against the anti-social.
We actually submitted a patent on this exact idea (using hierarchical list centric design for ideation with LLMs)

Maybe not as non obvious as we thought! :)
Android seems to be the most popular Linux distro on the planet, though? Does it use systemd? I was under the impression that it doesn't, but as it often is, I might be wrong.
My personal/corporate, n=~500 experience is that it boots faster, shuts down slower (technically because it is doing it "properly"), and if you have any problem during shutdown it is absolute PITA to debug why.

We did managed to throw away few thousand lines of code of fixed init scripts after moving to systemd and get rid of few other stuff so it has been positive but definitely some of the bad with a lot of good. Journald logging format is also kinda fucked that causes some nasty edge cases

Except of systemd-resolved, this utterly radioactive piece of shit can go fuck itself.
if 4.5ms is 7%, the entire boot time is 64ms?
Linux did also spits out status if you kill -USR1 it, which is useful when you forgot to progress=status it.
Because the costs to publish online are zero there would be innumerable other copies of the work posted, meaning the initial outlay for the studio time etc cannot be recouped.
this is basic content marketing strategy, Pinecone can be used with LangChain and a decent chunk of people searching for tutorials about LangChain will indirectly learn about Pinecone as a result of this article
It's still possible, you just need to provide the additional command line switch "--break-system-packages". When trying to install packages without, pip will even tell you that.
Twitter no longer ‘high risk’ after new chief hired, says top ad group
Exactly. If "every C++ dev has their own C++ that is idiomatic", which is the reality you'd want to match it up with?