skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From wikipedia on recidivism "According to an April 2011 report by the Pew Center on the States, the average national recidivism rate for released prisoners is 43%." If 43% of all prisoners are re-arrested after they are released, then you can make a pretty good assumption that they were not committing crime they would have, if they were not locked up.

Or you could assume that the current prison system, in the States, is actually making recidivism rates worse by treating its inmates in such an inhumane way - hurt people hurt people.

One could discriminate between the two assumptions by comparing its recidivism rates with recidivism rates in the rest of the world.

> As you know, though, different crimes are punished in different ways, which makes sense.

Different crimes are punished in different ways. In most of the civilized world, punishment ranges from fines to more-or-less harsh limitations of one's freedom of movement. I don't remember corporal punishment being one of the possible consequences for theft.
No one is eliminating YouTube. We're making a better open source alternative.

If it's good enough, she will leave YouTube just like her mom left AOL and embraced the open Web. Why did content creators leave MSN, CompuServe, et al ?
I regularly change 3 to 2 in /new/345689 links when bored with today’s content.

Using ids makes logic to trac prev/next/page number incredibly complex and generally you don't need it.

When it’s a public site, users may post so fast that this “next” can show some previous page. Paging via ids is a must there.
I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket
I tried to see if anybody had updated this paper, but a brief search didn't turn up anything. (I scanned the citations of this paper, and the other papers of the lead author.)

The graphs show near-perfect polarization since the mid-90s and I doubt it would have gotten any better in the past decade. It couldn't have gotten much worse.
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Bezos is far beyond a garden-variety billionaire. About a 100 times beyond, in fact! And he did it riding his own coattails.
Like having children or helping another person.

Totally 0 sum.
Cloudflare Queues: Now with Consumer Concurrency and Explicit Acknowledgement
The most common case for failures is frankendebian [0] and just putting some badly designed packages that mess stuff up. I had never had, even on desktop, problems with vanilla Debian install, they all stewed from some 3rd party repo not playing nice.

* [0] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
At least with 1Password an export contains Passkeys, and Safari team has indicated the same will be available.
> I understood it as the admission that walking to work became untenable

I don't understand how you inferred that unless you chose to.

> And a whole lot of people managed to raise even more children before cars were invented or even horses were domesticated.

What on earth are you talking about? Either you've never been to London, or any major European city, or you're making spurious comparisons in bad faith.
Might have missed a bit of sarcasm.
Non violent and violent offenders should be treated differently. Hurting someone’s car is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. The author of this article killed someone. Making sure he is comfy is a bit disrespectful to the deceased and their family.

I don’t know all the details but it has always seemed a bit messed up that someone can hurt or kill you and your societies main concern would be how to rehabilitate that person.
Have kids grow up in terrible families (in part due to the government shitting on poors), put them in a cell for how they turn out, torture them and then expect them to become a better person who is ready for "normy life" from the terrible childhood + torturing in jail.

The US is probably the only developed country in the world where this line of thinking is accepted as "yep, makes sense, pretty good approach"?
This is a contract for a lander, it gets into Earth orbit on someone else's rocket.
I enjoy Cloudflare and have been using workers + D1 for a few months, but warn that Cloudflare's definition of beta is far more beta than what other companies mean. The API surface may change repeatedly without corresponding documentation and their Discord can be a bit sparse on help.
> denigration

is this the word you meant to use?
> WidgetService can either import `ItemClient` or roll its own

Can you clarify what is ItemClient in your context?
Running Outstanding Business Reviews, with SQL
The easiest sort to implement in assembly is probably selection sort. Bubble sort is actually messier :)

Source: written sorts in assembly more times than I would care to count.
I always have trouble with posts like these, the comments are full of people who ask why prisons exist, and seem to imply they would rather crime and criminal behavior not be punished at all.

They also chafe at the idea that prisons should be allowed to inhibit their inhabitants’ freedom in anyway. As if prison should actually be a really nice free hotel that we send people who commit murder and rape.

I totally get that someone can sound eloquent in written form, especially if a professional editor spends some time cleaning up the grammar, etc. but that doesn’t change the fact that this particular person ended someone else’s life in cold blood and is now whining about not being able to send his daughter poems in stanza form. The other guy can’t send anything to his daughter at all because he’s dead. Maybe you should recognize you deserve to be punished.
Are you implying that a girl would be unable to steal someone's car, or was that an accidentally misandristic comment?
As far as I remember, there's a lot of machinery involved to make a C call because C doesn't know anything about Go's goroutines and their resizable stacks. So the runtime has to prepare the stack accordingly every time you make a call - and it's done on a dedicated CGO thread with a traditional stack.
I've been working on passkeys for about a year now, and from my experience passkey support is fairly inconsistent. Every website+browser+OS combination can do things slightly differently or ask for a different set of features from the authenticator (some require PIN support, some require certain flags, etc), so the experience can be a bit buggy. I imagine that as passkeys get more common the support from authenticators and platforms will improve as it becomes more standardized.
Personally, I had a really easy time getting Supabase to work locally. However, we use `dbmate` to manage our migrations instead of built-in Supabase migrations.

Also curious to hear from others on this:

> After a bit of sleuthing, it ended up that Supabase was taking a database backup that took the database fully offline every night, at midnight.

This seems like a terrible design decision if true. Why not just backup via physical or logical replication?

And totally hear the issues here with database resizing and vacuuming and other operations. That stuff is a big pain when it breaks.
The local development & database migration story is Supabase's biggest weakness. I hate having to do migrations live in prod. The admin dashboard is just so much better than any alternative Postgres tooling that it's been worth using despite that. Takes care of the stuff I'd normally be sweating over when writing migrations like nullable fields / FK constraints / JSON formatting for default fields. Would be great if Supabase allowed for a "speculative migration" in its UX where it spit out a file you could use locally to test beforehand.
The point is that you can do these conversions in places where you'll make a ton of money from them. No one's talking about converting them to 3 or 4 thousand dollar a month apartments. I think most people understand that you do a conversion in lower Manhattan and you're doing it for the "multi million per" class. So there is plenty of money to pay for these in Boston, NYC and San Fran.

Of course, that also means there is plenty of money to pay for a teardown. But being torn between making a killing tearing down and rebuilding vs making a killing doing a conversion is a good problem to have.
Sure, but not everyone will use them. Or know how.

Which brings up the point of relying on false locks as security
FWIW, the fraction of co-workers I like to socialize with is significantly higher than the corresponding value for neighbors.

Liking my co-workers is an important part of good workplace culture for me, and if I wouldn't like them then it would be time for me to go look for a new job. Unfortunately, I'm less flexible regarding my housing situation.

Time-wise, I work about 50 hours a week, which is about an order of magnitude more than I'm even near my neighbors.
> cargo for rust, pip for python, etc

GOOD! I love that C lacks this pollution. Means that code is written for-purpose and tuned for-purpose.
From the article -- Information theorists use a measure called relative entropy to compare probability distributions. It’s like measuring an abstract kind of distance: If the relative entropy between two distributions is zero, “you cannot rely on statistical analysis” to uncover the secret, said Christian Schroeder de Witt, a computer scientist at the University of Oxford who worked on the new paper. In other words, if future spies develop a perfectly secure algorithm to smuggle secrets, no statistics-based surveillance will be able to detect it. Their transmissions will be perfectly hidden.

When I got to that paragraph I knew that someone has just invented/proved "undetectable" spam. When I was doing natural language analysis with Doug Smith at Blekko to improve the crawler's ability to detect spammy web sites we used Dirichlet accumulators to generate vectors of words that were common to topics, the idea was sites with a lot off "off topic" but keyword rich text were more likely spam. The side effect was we could generate bags of words using those vectors to create pages that weren't detectable as spam, but they didn't actually say anything useful. The LLM lets you fineness that and get the best of both worlds to generate hard to detect spam. But if you can match the entropy exactly (the last remaining signal that I know of for spam) then the problem gets really really hard.
it would be funny to see a SpaceX flag planted on the moon first. SpaceX needs the FAA to launch but do they need anything else once in space? afaik anyone can do anything they want once up high enough. If it's SpaceX astronauts would they control their own human rating process too? If SpaceX has the money and tech SpaceX should just goto the moon themselves first.
This is an incredible link. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before.

I had a rough sense that this was the case, but those quotes (and sources) make it undeniably clear.

[Insert standard caveat about his wide array of harmful and toxic behavior]
This might be a better link: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35998649
Not in the USA, people around me are doing "No Mow May" to leave flowers and long grass for pollinators.
Well I would hope that NASA wouldn't trust their astronauts to someone as sloppy as Elon Musk. Hopefully they looked at how his self-driving statements compared vs reality, and noped outta there really fast.
Yes. Java is old, java is big, java is not hipster, java infra is complex (often terribly and not dev friendly).

Though there are many ways of optimizing things, it's all on your (dev) shoulders.
I'm so jaded by modern startups and venture industry. There are people who've built entire careers building unprofitable companies that only sell products to other unprofitable startups and eventually get acquired by other unprofitable startups.

It's a gigantic game of hot potato that swallows up a gigantic pool of human talent, all for producing stuff that really adds little to no positive to the world.

If they're not disrupting (read: destroying) local economies, they're breaking all local rules and regulations. And despite playing fast and loose with any sense of ethics or legal compliance, they still can't be profitable.

Just end this ponzi.
"prompts submitted by our customers to the API"

^ they were reading and labeling explicit prompts provided by users. And explicit responses by the model to those explicit prompts.
An AI could be trained to detect whether the typing follows human patterns or not. Same as how "I'm not a Robot" clicks work.
With passkeys the private keys are accessible.

They have to be, because they need to be synced across devices. The OS will try to protect these keys by putting them in a protected process, with all kinds of safeguards. But in the end, the private keys will still be available.

FIDO also supports device authenticators, where the private key (by design) never leaves the hardware. These devices can be used for the true 2FA.
Jails and prisons don't let prisoners have net access.. Unless the jail or prison gets a cut. Typically a large, large company comes in and offers cash to the jail, and offers to foot all the hardware bill, and the support costs. The inmates have access, paying per minute. Seen as a wonderful revenue stream for the jail, and suddenly the free visits to the jail stop, but the "televisits" start at $20 or something.
Just remember when foraging for wild edibles (including dandelions) to avoid areas that have been treated with pesticides, or where dogs may have peed. Avoid golf courses and train tracks and old farms.

Dandelions are pretty prolific but I would also be mindful of abundance when foraging other plants. If there is only one or a few of them around, don't take it. There's a 1-in-20 rule for this.

There are a ton of books, YouTube videos, and probably some in person classes in your area on this stuff.
If you have a program that can spew lots of output about the progress it is making, you can redirect it to Pipe Watch:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/pw/about/

Pipe Watch continues to read from the pipe even when backgrounded.

Pipe Watch shows you snapshots of the text that is passing through it. You can set triggers and filter and such. The triggers work even when it's in the background, not refreshing the display..
These are not aspiring writers looking for a break

right, as neil wrote earlier here: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_04_23/

"We soon discovered, however, that these submissions were coming from outside the science fiction and fantasy community"
AI grading has been in use for years.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624373367/more-states-opting-...
It would require a lot of expansion for the required volume.

A barrel of oil has about 159 litres in it. The Keystone Pipeline would have transported 1.1 million barrels if it were fully expanded. 174,900,000 million litres per day. The City of Phoenix by itself uses about 1 billion litres per day.
It’s “Climate Change”, not “Global Warming”; mostly AFAIK for this exact reason.
Repeat after me: Education is not just about acquiring skillsets for jobs

- Signed every technical employee that didn't apply "Reproductive cycle of frog" at their Engineering desk
It seems like there's an opportunity here for SO to use an LLM to provide an immediate response to questions, then allow the community to discuss, clarify, expand, and even correct the response.

This could even be done collaboratively with the LLM to improve its training with real expertise instead of feeding back into itself.

This would be a bit of a product shift for SO though, and some people would undoubtedly be opposed to it and leave the platform. But if LLMs pose a threat to the platform it may be better than to alternative.
Where did you get the idea that Apple and Google's implementations are hardware-bound?
Not my personal immediate priority, but one of our ECS SMEs (subject matter experts) is currently experimenting with relations. The earliest it would land is probably two releases from now (around 4 months from now), but it could be longer. There is lots of demand for relations (or something like them), and our ECS dev team is very interested in building them. This will almost certainly happen in the "medium term".

(subject matter expert: a formal role in the Bevy project for experts in an area that have a say on big/controversial changes)
How I learnt to stop worrying and love global warming.
Do you mean the entrepreneur who killed the angel investor, or the fire chief who sprayed a homeless man (the last in a series) and the homeless man fought back in self-defense?
Measuring the Intrinsic Dimension of Objective Landscapes (2018)
Wow thanks, I had no idea
thread 1.3.0 is the one I'm waiting for.
> A software change in my prison-issued electronic tablet ate up my drafts

I didn't realize that prisoners were allowed tablets. Evidently there is a business that will give prisoners tablets at no charge, but then basically charge them to use those tablets. This seems like something a non-profit could do a lot better job of.
Pretty cool! The branches i got back from my prompt felt a bit too concrete, though. My prompt probably sucked, but sub-node felt .. off. It just wrapped my prompt.

Love the idea though, will explore again in the future
Oh right, how could I forget…
It definitely needs DB branching.
Thank you, I was real curious how this was working. It sounds so fraught, I admire people who are able to handle ambiguity, and avoid simple interpretations, better than I.

My naive read:
You have to convince a bank to give a brand new entity a loan, with the only real benefit accruing to the bank in the form of interest and yourself in the form of giving yourself a retirement gift. I honestly don't understand why anyone would play ball with that unless the interest rate was, say, 3-4 points above treasuries, so now it's the same thing as a PE buyout, but at least the money went to you
>> Things like Uber are a typical dumping cases. For years, they charged below their COGS and eventual profitability depended on driving out competition and raising prices.

Even these things get played. Sometimes driver/rider subsidies get classified as "Marketing expense" rather than cost of goods sold.
Last time I looked into your implementation, it looks very neat, but I would like to store each passkey to a file and encrypt with GPG. I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ like mechanism to store all my passwords.
Yeah, there's some of that, but hey, you can always fast-forward not to mention freeze and replay the interesting/confusing bits.
So people go back to ancient practice and use code books?
The direct fix for this (which I believe has happened in some countries) is to ban them from asking drivers to enter into exclusivity or minimum volume agreements with them. Then drivers can work for multiple networks.
NASA's entire mandate is to develop new technologies and do things that haven't been done before. If you could just order a lunar lander off Amazon, what would be the point?
Climate is not the air that you have inside your refrigerator. Its a system. If one part of it changes, the other parts will change in different ways to keep the system stable. So something cooling off somewhere does not mean that it will also cool where you are. It may rain more, it may be dryer, it may be much more hot, it may not have any effect or any combination of all of that may happen.

Climate change is basically pulling the levers in a slot machine. Better not to pull the lever at all.
> pretty much goes against everything I have read about quant strategies. They all say that technical analysis isn't useful.

could you expand on this? I always understood it as, technical analysis has become a self fulfilling prophecy and you have different players trying to manipulate that fact

you've got pressures (sizable... I think? not really sure how to measure) from ETF inflows long + short from the "day trading/swing trading" crowd, also the "0-day-to-expiration SPY/QQQ options" gambling crowd.

Then you have the "hedge funds" with the "high frequency trading algorithms" sitting there in a predatory fashion trying to manipulate the emotions.

"Just because the 20/50 SMA crossed doesn't mean it's going to rocket because I'm going to pray on the opposite"

That's how I see at least, curious to hear if I'm off my rocker. I agree with you, no mixture of boiling down the market into simple signals off of things like volume/patterns/averages is long-term exploitable, and that's the whole problem. What works sometimes doesn't work others because of all of the different factors/players at play.

With that said, is there any conclusive research on whether algorithm/quant based trading is actually profitable (generates alpha)?
Teleport Assist: GPT-4 powered DevOps assistant
> The Client Device should sign the sent public key with its own Attestation Certificate. The certificate is used to attest to the manufacturer and its capabilities.

A nitpick: should is a value judgment here. Quite a few of us would rather they do not, to avoid websites taking advantage of this to require specific proprietary hardware to authenticate.

Thankfully my understanding is that Apple's passkeys do not provide attestation, which is likely to make this kind of hardware requirement uncommon.
> Every time stories like this get posted, the first question is typically "when will they convert these buildings to residential?"

HN needs some AI to just autofill "asked and answered N times already - see here:..."
> I can't print out my passkeys and store them in a safe, nor does there appear to be any system for allowing someone access to my passkeys.

Recovery is handled differently depending on who you are using to sync your passkeys. Apple has a great recovery story. iCloud Keychain supports both a "recovery key" and "recovery contacts".

See the section titled "Recovery security" in the "About the security of passkeys" doc: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305

Additional relevant docs:

Recovery contact: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212513

Recovery key: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072