skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even spend $3 let alone $3k on the App Store without biometric authentication and my kids are grown and gone. Why would someone change this?

Handing a 10 year old your AMEX and dropping them off at a mall is a bad idea.

This is the same thing, on an iPad.
where are you buying these for $600? Lowest I am seeing is $800.
> It's likely to lead to the quasi-ban of LLMs sooner rather than later in the EU

It won't be GDPR but newer regs

> This is going to be an enormous challenge to the EUs tech industry if UK and US firms can use LLMs but EU companies can't

I'm sure they'll find a way

> a _lot_ of EU legislation is poorly thought out and given the slow pace of change extremely hard to revoke once it is in force

Kinda, but things don't change only by the original legislative process, but by subsequent regulations, agency reviews (like data protection organisms), judicial reviews, etc

> which were implemented in law in 2002 and _still_ haven't been changed, despite 10+ years of efforts to do so in the EU institutions

I'd love to know what kind of discussions went in regards to the cookie law and GDPR in legislative reviews. I'm sure it's all logged in a very verbose way in multiple websites and it would be some effort to get it all together

And the AI act worries me, but we know that actual enforcement and definitions and wiggle rooms exists (and as with GDPR, enforcement is kinda patchy)
I recently stumbled across a truly excellent 5-part deep dive into PCA on Peter Bloem's blog, which I highly recommend to anyone who's interested. It assumes you have some level of linear algebra knowledge.

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/pca
developer rates are dropping fast across the globe as more people come online and compete at low rates, especially when applying for fully remote roles. people based in high cost of living countries can't compete with developing markets where CoL is 10x lower
Time slows down from the perspective of an outside observer.

From the perspective of a particle falling into a black hole, the singularity will be reached in finite time.
An admirable position if we lived in a society in which fastfood workers or cleaners got severance pay.
>> In England and Wales, parents or carers are not automatically liable for the personal injury, loss or damage that the child has caused. However, if a parent was negligent in, for instance, allowing the child’s actions that caused harm or injury, or for failing to prevent the incident – the parent could be held liable.

But surely someone is responsible? If someone's kid goes on a joyride and crashes into your house, is nobody responsible?
Has to be better than the 1.5 hrs I get on my Acer running Mint.
The original 2017 PyTorch paper is probably a good one.
The GDPR allows for a bunch more escalations. Both in fines (that isn't 4% of global revenue yet) and in consequences (e.g. being all but expelled from the EU single market)
> that is just flipping a bit

The bit is flipped at runtime or compile time. In the old days you'd pay for an upgrade and get a new binary with the feature compiled in. Nowadays the feature is compiled in and gated at runtime. In the end it's the same.
> I don't really know why in-app microtransactions, and especially in-app currencies, like this are even allowed in apps targeted at children.

Because they can. Corporations will engage in any behavior that is not forbidden by law and makes a profit independently on how immoral it is.

The only reason that 5 years olds are not working in mines is because it is forbidden by law, nothing else. Corporations are not people nor have any human moral values.
The book was $1000+ on eBay for quite some time, there was a bootleg very-poor-quality PDF that was passed around for a long time.

He came to Hiller Aviation Museum to speak a few years ago, so I had to go. Turns out they had reprinted the book so it was only $150 or $200 or something, and I jumped at the chance to get a copy and get it autographed.
Interesting that they say the combination of setting is uncommon but somehow I had it set on my RB5009 running 7.9.0

IMHO it's disturbing that any component of the IPv6 stack can be exploited even with /ipv6/settings/disable-ipv6 yes

There also seems to be a disagreement between Mikrotik and the researchers about whether the vuln was actually disclosed in Dec. Hopefully some more info comes out regarding that.
not much effort in listening to quality (web) radio stations. A playlist builts itself from shazaming or checking the playlist archive.
https://archive.is/zLShs
Okay so you have no actual rebuttal of my points. Thanks for making it abundantly clear.
Which is indeed exactly what happened there. I honestly hadn't expected it to be problem that needed solving at the time.
As has been discussed many times on HN before[0], your read of history here is just wrong: we at Sun certainly did not think that Linux would let their own read of the GPL prevent them from integrating DTrace. More generally, other faults aside, Sun was emphatically not "devious"; as I have quipped in the past, one of Sun's greatest strengths was that it was insufficiently organized to be evil.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176361
> hostile towards Gebru

Her paper aren't really high quality. Her carbon footprint calculations had all of Google's compute running from jet fuel. [0]

In her "Gender Shades" paper she completely ignored the existence of the Asian race. That's a pretty big limitation for a paper named in such general terms. In another place she labels Asians as "white adjacent".

She can't argue about technical subjects (here's an example [1]) because she isn't technical.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...

[1] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
> "select or insert if row doesn't exist" behavior

I've hit this many, many times. It's such a common need, and yet I keep having to write it out as multiple queries to "select row" and if no result, do then insert query.
Not the person you're responding to, but I did grow up in the south (Florida) and lived in Texas for three years immediately afterward. My criticism about people equivocating democrats and republicans still stand.
She already tried to flee once so IMHO definitely flight risk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/21/elizabeth-ho... "Elizabeth Holmes, made an “attempt to flee the country” by purchasing a one-way ticket to Mexico after she was found guilty"
Suggest wrong direction. Make teams more autonomous and develop the art of the backlog. Too much management is what's wrong with organizations these days.
On the note about the seatbelt, At some point, I think someone said it _was_ car manufacturers’ faults if drivers didn’t buckle up. Otherwise we wouldn’t have that… oh so helpful chime when we forget to buckle. NHTSA 7.3
Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
I know the feeling. I couldn't imagine inserting that 24/7 type commitment into my life right now.

It was crazy driving home from work, getting a call that a phishing email went out when they clearly waited until we wouldn't be around to take it down. Then getting home, opening up the computer, making Skype calls to an ISP in South Africa to notify their abuse teams for the take down.
lmao right? My new hires spent the first week in corporate/domain training, then a few days getting situated, setup and stuff. Probably 2 weeks before I
"expect" a PR but even then the first few tasks are a gentle introduction.
> Email has terrible thread navigation

This doesn't make sense. Email is a protocol, not a UI. It would be fairly easy to make a UI that displays email like Reddit threads (the hardest part is probably stripping quoted replies). Thunderbird can display the discussion tree, but doesn't inline the message content. GMail inlines message content but linearizes the thread. I am not aware of any clients that inline the discussion content in a tree view.
As usual with these "underrated" lists, it feels more like "a list of movies you might want to watch if you haven't". Think I'll start replacing "underrated" with that from now on.

Personally I have "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"[1] and "Time after time"[2] from the 70s on my watch list. If we stretch the definition a bit, I'll include "The Lathe of Heaven"[3] (1980) and "Icarus XB 1"[4] (1963).

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213322/

[2]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/

[3]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081036/

[4]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/
pun intended? :D
Yeah, but you and any family has to be comfortable living there. Of late, the us seems to be quite polarized and where to live might be more important than where to work.
Both riding a bicycle and driving a motorbike is less safe than driving a car because they are harder to notice and less protected but there should be some compromise between safety for a biker and noise pollution or a large are around the road.

As to cyclists to be slower: 1. a motorbike driver can choose to go below speed limit is the situation / road configuration makes it unsafe to go fast. 2. low speed is not always safer - on a straight road outside intersections speed of the flow (or just below) is safer.
You just arrived to infinite density using a concept of infinite time. Now you need to justify existence of infinite time.

The argument is that there is no infinite amount of _anything_. That is a fictional concept of 'too many parts to count'.
If you read the article, it's clear the mom wasn't familiar with the game let alone spends money on it herself. She said the game looked "innocent" and "very basic."
That ChatGPT iPhone app has serious privacy issues you need to know about
Spotify, Apple Face Criticism for Removing Mohammed Assaf’s Palestinian Hit
GitHub Actions disabled for two weeks because we can't retry a failed payment
Give the MacBook (12-inch, 2015-2019) a look. They're Intel based and you can find a top end model for a few hundred bucks on ebay. I love mine - the weight and size make it incredibly easy to move with. They're also great to have as a second laptop, which never made sense given their price when new, but now that they're cheaper they're perfect for the role.
I struggle a lot with my hobbies because I do almost no coding or learning about code in my free time, at least not directly. I think I could be a great(ish) programmer if I did programming as a hobby, but there's just so many other interesting and worthwhile things to do. I get a lot of FOMO from people who code as a hobby, and I think it doesn't help that they don't seem to get FOMO about my hobbies. But I know I will always feel something is missing if I don't spend time marveling at the natural world and creating art, so I guess I'm stuck.
Yeah it's weird. They seem to have the same copy-pasted message ready with some old links and whatever they could gather that's more recent. Never fails.

As far as I can see V is well placed on TechEmpower so it must be doing something right at least: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...

Maybe they didn't deliver on all their claims yet, so what? They seem to be trying something cool. Certainly not reason for all the vitrol.
Cable ISP here locally has gone as far as to entirely remove access to the 196.168.100.1 diagnostic page. I can't even tell if my modem is properly synced with the network or not now. :-/
That's an interesting take on Dali's art. The article portrays Dali as a greedy businessman first, an artist second:

> Dalí ensured a steady flow of prints by signing his name on thousands of blank sheets of paper before he knew what would be printed on them.
I don't think that particular UK law applies here. Similarly, in the US, that's not how it works. You can absolutely be liable for your children's charges. In the US, it took FTC action and class-action lawsuits for deceptive billing practices to get similar charges reversed. And the only reason they won was because they were able to argue it was too easy for kids to do it without permission - it didn't hinge on them doing it without permission.

https://www.cnbc.com/select/whos-responsible-for-kids-unauth...

In fact, the article uses the exact same term I did: it's a "gray area", and some CC companies may not let it fly.

> "However, some credit card companies define 'unauthorized charges' as charges made after your card has been lost or stolen, meaning that if your kids make purchases on your card without your knowledge, you are still liable for the charges."
-1 Framework. Mine does not sleep. I've tried it all, and it won't sleep. It certainly won't hibernate. It's either on or it's off.

It's nice to use at home, but it's pretty much useless anywhere else.
>If you were a regular Wikipedia editor, you'd know there is a ton of resistance among volunteers to directly paying volunteers to contribute. It gets proposed every now and then, but the consensus is that this would short-circuit the motivation and lead to a bunch of people currently on Mechanical Turk flooding in to try and make a bunch of edits to get paid.

Kind of makes me think about the debate on elected officials' salaries (and the ban on Congressional insider trading that never seems to pass)
>"Sometimes you have to limit bad practices."

The way to do it I think is to properly mentor / monitor juniors rather than tying up hands of experienced developers.
Curious to get the May 2023 version of this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23579184
Yes, but this is the UK government. They are not benevolent. At every opportunity presented: they erode our rights, unless it has significant public support and costs absolutely nothing. (like gay marriage).

As soon as anything impedes special interests even slightly, be sure it will be legislated out of existence if possible.

One argument brexiteers trot out commonly is that EU regulations make it hard to be competitive. But human rights should impede "competition" otherwise it's a race to the bottom.
My "problem" is that if/when I open my mouth, people give me more responsibilities.

"Don't like how it's done? Now you're responsible for it." Granted I usually got a raise to go with it, but it was just admin work and not-coding - which I didn't like.
The 'ol spicy ball.
Running Mint 20 on ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 with GPU installed.
It took some time to get it working through GPU on Display Port (but I don't recall what I did).
Was fine for ~about year, but recently I am having Telegram crashing when clicked on a picture or video.
(Mysteriously, this happens only when displaying through DP with 4k resolution - 1080p is still working).

Other than that no other issues.
I agree with a lot of your comment (including banning tablets/IAPs for children and the mandatory 120 day refund).

I do disagree with your "this is a different situation" though.

In both an entity (unknown person/child) accessed your card details, and used it for a purchase without your authorization. Theft by any other name (aka "unauthorized charges") is still theft. It's just your child doing it in this case.

If, for example, you give your card to a bar and they charge your your bill, then charge someone else's bill to your card because they skipped on their bill, it's still theft even though it would be called an "unauthorized charge" in the banks eyes.

Besides, a lot of this is why there's processing fees (2.9% + $0.30 for stripe for example), chargeback fees ($25 instantly if someone issues a chargeback and more if you escalate after losing once), and interest on CC products. Even if the bank can't get their money back from the company, they will likely still make more on you by giving you that refund than not.
Sam, this is such a wonderful resource that you've put out into the world. Thank you for the time and care you've put into each paragraph and interactive component. You've not only given me a lot to think about in terms of my basic assumptions about memory, but also about how to write and teach better online. I'm really excited to start following you!
The MIG question is a curious one. Likely due to a very last line of defense battle plan but who knows?

I would also ask what avionics are being used in these F-16's? From what I know being in an F/A-18 unit many moons ago not all avionics are equal. Nobody with Hornets are getting the state of the art avionics but the US. I know the Hornet, even decades ago could be remotely controlled from what a pilot told me but I've said too much and will stop there.
I have never been in a situation where my own mobile data didn’t work and the onboard Wifi did work. (as a seasoned commuter on TPE and LNER services).

If it’s one less thing to distract the TOCs from you know, operating trains, then I say get rid of the Wifi.
That's not the argument I would go with, but you could. I would argue that the EU has more oversight into its spy agencies and can reign them in if wrongdoing comes to light, whereas they have little to no control over those in the US.
Searching for the elixir of life doesn't qualify as uncommon. You can find people lusting after longer life through all of history. The longest chapter in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds documents just some of the more recent mania. Instead of a magic powder or tincture, now we have supplements.

It strikes me as vain and narcissistic, to say nothing of the irony of devoting so much time and energy now to live longer.
I got it working on an M1 with 16gb. Quite slow but it trains and returns responses.
> I couldn't find any free VPS server providers.

If you don't hate Oracle already, they have a killer VPS deal where they give you 4 cores and 24gb of RAM for free. They aren't a great company per-se, but a free server is a free server. I use mine for an AI-based Discord bot, they're no joke compute wise.

> What do I need to look for at VPS server that I would like to use for learning?

You want a good selection of OSes to boot from, at least covering the basics (Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian). There are also a lot of "gotcha" charges you should be aware of - egress fees, storage charges, and more insidious bills often crop up in this department. Don't let those slip through the cracks, read the fine-print.

> Can I somehow limit the monthly cap and spending on AWS and other cloud providers?

Yes! Most services (Oracle, AWS and Azure at least) include this.

> Are there some security practices that I should follow for the very start?

This gets complicated, fast. I'd say use a strong key for your SSH login and you should be good. There are more specific configurations you can make for different security purposes, but auth is the biggest one to look out for.
Do you collect and store personal information for this website?

I bet you could find a dozen or more websites summarizing your legal obligations if you wanted to create one web page.

Since the context was Facebook, I was speaking about what businesses should do. And especially large businesses. As far as I've heard, the EU isn't chasing folks who run a small website.
lol, what are you talking about? You think that news sites should all be free?

If you think they do a good job, then I think it's worth the subscription. If you just dislike NYT in general then why are you complaining you can't read it?
People can’t even move properly on therapeutic doses.

Climbing power lines, lmfao.
The developers' salaries depended on kids changing url parameters to spend their parents' money? I doubt that. I doubt the developers ever expected this to happen.
Sensitivity Counts Against You
My current daily driver is a Thinkpad X230 running Mint which honestly does everything I need it to. The processor holds up pretty well and the storage and RAM are easily upgradable. The screen is my only real gripe and even that is merely fine. I've heard others upgrade them with different IPS panels too though I haven't looked much into that.

However, if you want something with the horsepower of the M2 MacBooks I have colleagues that run the Dell XPS 13.

One company that always interested me in the Linux specific laptop space is Star Labs out of the UK. They seem to have a competitive offering in the Starbook line when compared to manufacturers like Purism and System 76. They also have a very small netbook style laptop but the processor seems pretty weak on it.
Such a system could be fine up until you need to open a graphical browser. If you can get by with 2008 workloads it would be fine. I don't say this as a disparaging comment about the eeePC, it was an alright machine for the workloads of its era. It's more a problem with modern websites being festooned with JavaScript.

The other issue with an older eeePC is the original SSD may have non-trivial wear issues and the battery is likely shot. Unless you get the machine for next to nothing fixing those issues will cost as much as just a brand new cheapo laptop.
I noticed that too, right from the headline "Malicious Extensions with more than 45,000 Installs" with a screenshot showing "278 installs".

Exaggerate much?
Parody here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA
let this be a reminder that little snitch has existed for a long time and we all should be using it in prompt-for-everything mode.

there are multiple implementations for macos. there are multiple implementations for linux. run, don’t walk.

yes, there are tradeoffs. you may even changes your web browsing habits to avoid a tirade of prompts from some random chum bucket. it’s all worth it when one of your eyebrows goes up after some process that tries to make a dns request it doesn’t have any business making. then you hit deny. then you investigate.

now all we need is little snitch for filesystems. maybe we can build it on encrypted fuse mounts.
Einstein originally thought that black holes were simply an mathematical artifact, and not possible in reality.

Since then, we have observed objects that look a lot like we would expect black holes to look. There are theories, such as this one, that describe those objects as something different than what GR proposes, but thus far no testable prediction has contradicted GR's version.

Part of the problem is that many of the differences are about the interior of the event horizon. At least under GR's model, such differences are nit observable, even in principle.
Oh man, this brings back the days when I wrote special debug-version malloc and free code to try to track down heap corruption due to malloc / free misuse (in code I had contributed to). Stuff like kbyte-long boundary buffers with bit patterns in them, and all sorts of lookaside lists run in parallel with libc's default code. Those bug-detectors worked OK. Hard-nosed code inspection worked far better.

As an old-timer in writing code, I think my generation's most-challenging legacies (=== the things we f**ked up) are the non-robust malloc/free concept and null-terminated text strings. Bugs in code using those conventions have been exploitable to a really damaging extent. I learned to program in C from K&R. And getting data-structure code right, and safe to deploy, in that language and its derivatives is HARD.

The C inventors are (were in Dennis Ritchie's case) brilliant and Bell Labs was great. Their ideas shaped the the stuff the global internet runs on. But these parts of what thy invented ..... ouch. (All OSs had the same problems.)

I wish the wonderful article presented here carried a more prominent warning about this. Many will read it as they learn to code. The history of our profession can teach about what NOT to do as well as what to do.
Yeah well you’re REALLY not going to like Don’t Worry Darling.

My thing is when clearly a climax has started and there’s still 30-40 minutes left in the film, it really feels like the climax’s are drawn out these days, you have 2 hour plus movies with 30 minutes of no plot/character development instead of a under 2 hour movie which would just be over at that point.
Unfortunately the website is not currently usable, it's on a fixed loop.
I think I'd argue that the people whose emails can be sufficiently answered with an LLM are the ones whose jobs are first on the chopping block, so the product has a self-destructing user base.