skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. Even being careful to always have a printout Google's onetime login codes, we hear enough stories of people being locked out of their accounts. I do a few things to mitigate this possibility: 1. about 3 times a year I do a Google Takeout data dump. 2. I forward my Gmail (which I don't use much) to my main email. 3. I love YouTube Music, especially music with videos, but I have purchased the MP3s for my 200 favorite songs and I will always have those. 4. If YouTube 'went away' both my wife and I would be very unhappy, but we would get back a lot of free time.
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The Conservatives recognize that they are probably set to lose the next general election, so clearly had to speed up the timeline on implementing their facist policies while they've still got the time left in power. Saying that, it seems to be in favor for both parties, so who's to say what happens with this.
Can't upvote this enough, thanks for bringing this to HN
> The thread is flagged, because HN is marketing branch of YCombinator, and publishing information that's inconvenient to their business partners isn't in their best interests.

No, it's flagged because it's one of those controversial political topics that often leads to polarized slapfights and flamewars.

And that's proven by the a number of inflammatory, flamebait comments already in this thread.
Ah, I think you copied the list from https://zellwk.com/blog/why-vertical-rhythms/. It says these might be properties of “better”, largely without quantifying what they mean, as part of comparing something with simple rhythm (and quite ugly in its spacing, in my opinion) with something that’s deliberately terrible.

To the best of my knowledge, no one has treated “rhythm” in any way rigorously, and it’s mostly just a crock, something that sounds good on paper but is utterly without actual reason or value, rather like modular scales for typography.

I don’t respect that article. Its analogies are lousy, its examples of non-rhythm unnecessarily bad (straw-man arguments), its rhythm not great in any case (and lacking any attempt at anything like baseline alignment), and after the first instance it only really shows rhythm with an unrealistic superimposed grid which obviously makes rhythm look better than non-rhythm. I get the sense that the author has read a bit of various things, and then attempted to justify an opinion in any way they could, and ended up producing an incoherent and completely unsound argument.

There are certainly major places where consistent spacing and sizing is of value. But slavishly following it page-wide without something like a background pattern that you’re aiming to match (which is absolutely a legitimate use case, but is æsthetic rather than functional)… I’ve never come across any argument that seemed to hold any water, and I’d like to understand why a few people are so attached to the notion that it has inherent virtue.
This will also make a lot of difference once we can run lightweight, userspace kernels ("rump kernels").
Funny that this is what trends, and not the flame chart of the different boot times of different FBSD versions: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1659059445685420032

At a glance looks like 13.1-RELEASE booted 3x faster than 11.1-RELEASE, and 14.0-CURRENT on Firecracker boots 45x faster than 11.1-RELEASE on a c5.xlarge
Yea. Especially folks that lived in cities their whole life and Europeans that are surprised it takes more than 4 hours to drive from NYC to Florida.
Love Synthea, it's an amazing project and you should be very proud of it. My only gripe is how clean the data is compared to what many other EHR providers actually generate, but that's more on them than you guys.
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neither. Firefox 104, uBlock Origin, works perfectly.
I also often forgot to add progress flags, but lately I don't even bother... I just start, then `progress -w` or `watch progress -w`. Works nicely.
And pattern-defeating quicksort is one example of a solution to that
You can use drizzle-orm with Cloudflare and that is fully compatible.
Sure. In this case though the list doesn't change from boot to boot, or for that matter from system to system; if we hit a worst-case we would notice before the release shipped.

Also, the worst case would be "systems take 2 ms extra time to boot" so it's not exactly a disaster.
The big cloud providers aren’t cheap but they do get things done quickly (unless they are out of some resource in your zone…)
There’s the rules of physics to consider.

There are more than a few places where desalination is necessary, and we still haven’t come up with a way to make it cheap.

The current issue is that there is just no way that we know of to reliably desalinate that isn’t super energy intensive, so it comes down to trading energy for water. That’s why desalination is expensive.
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My interpretation from the article is they're not after e2ee they're after the unencryted end points. That'll be the technical measures they're after. Something like the ill-fated apple scanning all media before anything.
Discoveries and analysis like this blog post and the parent show the difference between programmers and engineers.
I'd say adblock (or maybe some other extension) - it works fine for me in Firefox.
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Because sales taxes are ussually set by the local jurisdiction.

So it could 10.25% in one place, 9.75% in the next town 8.750% and 8.975% if you drive for another 15-20 minutes. Imagine if you run a business, have multiple locations and want to buy a TV/Billboard/etc. ad with the price how would that work? You'd also need to make different price stickers, won't be able to print the price on the packaging etc.
Just because things are different doesn’t mean they’re “outdated”.

The optimal amount of fraud is not zero. Merchants, and consumers, both benefit from the equilibrium where there is much more commerce, backstopped by bank fraud detection.

Credit card fraud is just not a large problem in the US, and the extra commerce encouraged by continuing to use a relatively insecure system generally outweighs the benefits of tightening security.

Tokenized NFC payments are even more convenient than swiping credit cards, and they’re gradually replacing the old system, but there is no urgency here.
> Disregarding that small bit in one of the constitutional amendments, isn't this straight up slavery?

No. Slavery is reckoning certain people as ownable pieces of property, and prison labor is not that.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927509 ("The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems", 80 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917362 (".zip is now available as a TLD", >90 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920336 ("The .zip TLD sucks", >300 comments)
OpenAI's data privacy policy is... worrying. Even when they say they don't look at your data, they leave a carve-out that they will look at it if they are "concerned" about it. I hope things like this help pressure them to change.
As someone who may slowly be working his way toward RSI, I'd like to try to mitigate it before I get to the point of the author.

To that end, I'd like to try to build a maximally ergonomic setup (for the back and neck in addition to the hands) that doesn't necessarily have to conform to the standard chair+desk setup (e.g. a custom setup where one lies on their back with their monitor suspended above their face and their hands lying to their sides with a split keyboard).

In order to do that, I need the principles of ergonomics for the hands/wrists/arms, neck, and back - something that's been very challenging to find on the internet, as most of my search results are either trivial knowledge, blogspam, or just regurgitate the standard advice about various joints being at right angles without revealing the principles that drive that advice.

Where can I find those principles?
I am a sucker for falling sand games, thanks for making this. Makes me want to make my own, I've been brainstorming ideas of complex "ecosystem" games for a while but never thought to just use a sand engine!
Are there any unhopped beers on the market? They seem like they would be an interesting thing to try.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_2140
I am on same on Ubunutu 23.01 and seems fine. ff 113.01 fwiw
I used to live on the 8th floor of a highrise with a medium sized arterial road below. Car engines are annoying, but far, far worse was when it rained, the sound of cars plowing through puddles. Being the rainy PNW, this sound was ever-present and very annoying. EVs might solve the car engine problem but I don't see them solving the puddle problem.
Yea the site is totally functional, but with the big red "THIS SITE IS A SCAM" our traffic is down over 95%.

We also can't email or share the link with anyone cause the mail servers and social media all block it as phishing.
Being the national equivalent of independently wealthy does sort of change the sort of risks you're able to take, even without actually dipping into the fund. I don't think GDP captures this fact at all.
In the last round of ballistic excitement (called "Operation Shield and Arrow" by the Israelis), according to the Hebrew Wikipedia, 460 rockets had been shot into Israeli residential areas, of those 439 were intercepted and 21 weren't.
Those 21 rockets killed 2 and injured 7 directly due to shrapnel and blast.
For economic damage I couldn't find a report, but one of the deaths probably made a 3 story building in Rehovot condemned due to structural reasons. The costs of 3 bedrooms apartment in Rehovot appears to be around 2.2 mil ILS. It looks like there is at least 2 apartments per story. So around 13.2 mil ILS to find a new home for everyone. Therefor If these are representative damage of typical damage, so per rocket we get 0.1 deaths, 0.3 injury and 104k ILS.
Deploying OpenBSD template with Terraform on proxmox
Have you actually sat down and used these models quite a bit?

I pay for GPT-4 and it is worth its weight in gold, I can engage in a conversation about technical topics.

Sure, they do "hallucinate" sometimes (so do my coworkers FWIW), but you can engage in a conversation about why it is wrong and they are quick to correct themselves (...this part can be less like certain coworkers).

Here's an example of a random question (relevant to my job) that I asked gpt-4

> In linear/logistic models, it is common to take the multiplicative interaction between two features which might be one hot encoded. For instance, A is a vector that one hot encodes your college and B is a vector that one hot encodes your employer, you would take the product len(A)*len(B) as the size of the new interaction vector. How do you make such cross/interaction terms in tensorflow?
We didn't, no.

I'm sure there's a lot of really cool local-first databases out there, but SQLite has the benefit of being incredibly widely battle-tested, with literally billions of installations worldwide. It has received thorough security research and fuzzing (it's part of Chrome's attack surface after all). And there's tons of resources online to help people understand how to use it. Although I'm sure there are alternatives that serve certain use cases better it's hard to imagine anything coming close for ours.

That said, the storage engine we've built is not that heavily dependent on SQLite specifically. Any database that uses a write-ahead log like SQLite does should be possible to adapt to it in the future. So maybe we'll eventually open it up to a variety of choices, or even let you bring your own as a Wasm module.
> while left-wing conspiracy theories remained stigmatized

I don't think that's true. CIA involvement in South America or Italy, for example, used to be a leftist conspiracy theory; and now it is documented history.

In fact, I'd argue that the Left effectively ran out of conspiracy theories, as most of them were proven true. Once the Berlin Wall came down, a lot of "pro-capitalists" activity became overt and acceptable, often even initiated by leftist governments, and historical actors came out of the wood to describe what really happened - the Cold War was over and winners didn't have to be ashamed of the extreme measures they took to get there.

The only conspiracy left to the left (eh) was basically Echelon and internet surveillance; Snowden confirmed that too, so now there is nothing.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983475
If you want to make it out like it was some huge success, remember IBM PC clones ruled the desktop market for decades, not Apple stuff :-)
> Just to point out the detail, slavery is totally legal in the USA AS A PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME:

>> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

You're misreading that. The exception applies to involuntary servitude not slavery.

If I'm wrong, prove it: point me to the prison website where they offer convicts for sale.
The paradox for me is that my noise experience has been inversely correlated to the environment for decades: the more rural, the more noise; the more urban, the less noise. Looked at another way: noise was inversely correlated to walk score, the higher the score the lower the noise, the lower the score the higher the noise. Intuitively that makes sense since we can infer that walk score means all else being equal, more people are in quiet transit options.

Suburban has been between the two extremes, but the noise leans toward the rural end of the spectrum, though Harleys aren't the cause, car dependence and lack of transit options are as predictable from the walk score.

Reasons are easy to state: Harleys and the quiet but unusual confines of a single floor flat in the city (at least in the United States).
But if software is getting slower doesn't that apply you do need a faster cpu unless you are okay running outdated software?
This post on Reddit always comes to mind when I think about Musk and what his wealth brings him.

"What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/comment/c...
Sorry to hear your experience with the community. Complete opposite experience for me - didn't encounter any toxic developers (well, a few well known jerks on the forums who were easy to ignore - someone else would always help me).

The Off topic part of the forums (e.g. "Off the wall") did require a thick skin, but you never needed to venture there and they did warn you about it in the description.

I can see how your attitude on the bug system could be incredibly annoying, but banning you is overkill.
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The vibe I got reading Tim Cook wasn't involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4 (wasn't expecting him to be because he's an ops/logistics guy, but that bit was a bit alarming).
Is it because of cognitive load? I briefly looked at your project, and I'm still not convinced that your solution is easier to comprehend than

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The author of the tweet has given talks and made written articles about his work on speed up the FreeBSD boot. Some examples:

https://www.daemonology.net/papers/bootprofiling.pdf

https://youtu.be/10XRCiBtyhA
Can one not just note the timestamp of last change with a monotonic clock. Then, dependencies check the timestamp of last computation, and pessimistically determine if recomputation is needed.

Seems like the trouble here is you'll have to traverse the tree every time to check timestamps but if the dependency is dirty that needs to happen anyway.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35987157
Russia is decrypting 256-bit radio. Cryptographers HN is it plausible?
made a new post that's better titled... can't delete this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003391

/ Seems like they've both caught on.. Here is the original post. Not sure if there's a way to merge.

I'm part of a subreddit that reads defence reports and tries to keep up with "credible" news about the War in Ukraine. A newly released report by RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest defence and security think tank) says that Russians are now "near real time" decrypting 256-bit Motorola radio communications by Ukrainian forces. Here is the relevant passage.
Ukrainian officers recalled one incident in which the Russian headquarters gave pre-emptive warning to its units of an artillery strike based on Ukrainian troops calling in a fire mission. The Ukrainian troops were communicating with Motorola radios with 256-bit encryption, but it appeared that the Russians were able to capture and decrypt these transmissions in near real time. The most likely system for such functions is the Torn-MDM. (57)

They cite two interviews with Ukrainian military personnel and their own analysis of the system as a source:

57. Technical assessment of Torn-MDM conducted in Ukraine, June 2022

Some are saying this is impossible, that near real time decryption of 256-bit encryption is not possible.

I'm not an expert, so I'm punting over to the cryptographers here at HN. Could this be? Is it possible/feasible to do battlefield decryption of 256-bit radio encryption?

I don't know the particular model of the Motorola radio they are referring to.

Here is the report in question. Page 23 https://static.rusi.org/403-SR-Russian-Tactics-web-final.pdf
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> What a patronizing take. Cars are freedom - you can go where you like, when you like, with whom you like, and you can do it without dealing with crowded, noisy, sometimes dangerous buses/trams/subways. It's as true in the developing world as it is here.

It seems like many people would opt for this form of social isolation, an illusion that they are removed from the society that is what actually makes our civilization function. But perhaps this "freedom" of fully isolated mobility for the individual is damaging, both to this individual as well as to the fabric of society as a whole.

Maybe "freedom" to be isolated isn't actually good for us, despite how much many of us seem to want it? Maybe like junk food, or social media, or gatcha games, or many other technological marvels of the last century or so, we have a predisposition for addiction to it, but can fail to notice the damage it is doing to us as we embrace it.

If we focused on building a world where personal vehicles at least weren't required, perhaps we would see what we've been doing to ourselves.

For what it's worth, walkability demands a massive housing price premium in the US, so it is obvious that many people do desire it - just as some people clearly desire the freedom to be apart from their fellow humans.
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For context it's sinking at 0.1 cm / year, versus 50 cm / year in Mexico City and 20 cm / year in Jakarta.
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King: It goes well!, We're winning!

Peasant: So why are we so poor?

King: You're losing

[some cartoon, long forgotten the source for it]
It's interesting that in the future, asking the same question will lead to a less interesting result because it'll be in the training data already. How to measure model performance over time when newly-trained models obsolete the test suite in terms of what signal they provide is a funky problem.
In my experience, having done both, it is a bit more time efficient at the Costco, but it also changes what you buy (lots of fresh food doesn't actually do well for two weeks). This is assuming you have the places you need in easy walking distance of course. At one time I had a grocer/butcher/wine shop/etc. all literally on the way I would walk home from subway anyhow, so my overall time was probably even shorter than a big grocery run every 2 weeks. I paid a bit more, but then I got better produce and bread, and could change meal planning on a dime if I saw something good. All tradeoffs I guess.
Had this problem in xBase (Clipper with NTX indexes): sorting by date but there were many null (empty) dates in that particular column. Added another date column (that was never null) to the index just to provide entropy.
Its not funny. Its accurate. Roads are more decentralized than trains.

Your argument is anti-scientific in a way. We see in nature that decentralized systems are more robust yet you are arguing the opposite.
How long until Hacker News commentators wake up to the fact that the OSS models are terrible on complex tasks compared to GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
React isn’t the only library using JSX, first, and then it’s also true React is the biggest web framework and TS applies best to writing web apps, second, so it seems pretty natural to me they would bake in JSX support.

I suggest you just find one TSConfig setup that works for you and go from that… I’ve never felt these integration pains in the 4 years of heavy TS usage. That said, I authored my own component library, so maybe that’s a factor
We're rebuilding our web stack on Lit and it's noticeably faster
This is CTO of Reddit, saying they are moving from React to Lit because react is too slow
I'm really thinking/hoping that offices become the new lofts.
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Scrap has storage and disposal costs, especially for things that go boom. Giving old war machines and ordnance away is probably a huge expense reduction for all NATO donor countries.