skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any tapes that offer "read and write simultaneously" functionality?

A common usecase for tapes seems to be to store a big archive of data. Imagine having some API to my archive, which says for each record/file stored whether I want to keep it stored, read it, or discard it.

Over time, many tapes start to be only half full of data I want stored (the rest has been discarded). It makes sense to read all the important stored data, consolidate it, and rewrite it to a new tape, perhaps with some new data.

For this usecase, you only need half as many tape drives if a drive has the ability to read data while rewriting a new data stream.
How exciting to find hoarded/forgotten texts in an age when non destructive palimpsest analysis through modern imaging techniques has improved leaps and bounds.

Who knows what lies underneath the top layers of usage?

Texts were copied laboriously by hand. Each one carrys stories of where it came from. It could inform trade links from monastic scribe houses across the globe. It could have DNA fragments of value.

It almost certainly has pictures of cats in it, somewhere. Doing strange things with snails.
Does this mean we can use npm packages with Deno Deploy? Or is that another issue?
>The problem with all the other bounds checked languages is that they aren't binary compatible with existing C

source?
> It makes me sleepy.

A sudden blood glucose spike can do that. Source: Being a type 1 diabetic. Drawing conclusions from just eating/drinking is however a bit optimistic since many variables are at play.
Trust in PGP land is end to end. The keyservers don't matter. They are only a place to pick up keys. Your software verifies that the key is unchanged in that the fingerprint is unchanged. Otherwise it is treated as a separate key. Dead simple.

The confusion here comes from the confusion in the PyPI article about PGP. The article complained that many keys could not be found on keyservers as if that mattered.

The Debian web of trust is a good example of how this stuff actually works. Before you can submit packages to Debian you have to get an existing Debian developer to sign your PGP key. In Debian the trust flows downward from older developers to newer developers.
As an EU citizen I think it's about joining SkyNet or falling behind in productivity. I prefer joining SkyNet.
Can't say I'm a fan. The old logo was a bird carrying a letter, delivering it to you. The new one is a bird, but with a big furry tail, playing with a letter like a ball. It's just the Firefox logo but blue. You know just because Google turned all their app icons into the same thing you don't have to copy them, right?
Python.js ?
It's A UNIX System!
Ask HN: Which VPN service do you use, and why?
I recently shopped around for VPN services, and found one that in my opinion seemed the best (for my use cases and privacy posture). But the sheer existence of multiple VPN services made me curious as to what other people here might use, and which factors drove the decision.
UK's Migration Surge: A Tangled Dilemma
Cheaper (yes), computational and billing model that's sufficiently different to mean something, works on AWS.
> Conversely if the AI system is reasonable, but the regulations are making them illegal, then the blame is on the regulations.

have you read the EU's proposed approach to regulating AI?

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory...

it seems to be an extremely reasonable approach to me, if anything a little too lax

the problem for OpenAI is its products can't easily be segregated into the different risk buckets...

and they want ChatGPT wired into the high risk areas as that's where the profit is
> All such groups of sessile filtering animals have greatly simplified bodies and very reduced nervous systems.

Yes, as the joke goes, as the larva of an anemone settles into its permanent feeding spot it will consume its own brain, much like the professor that has finally achieved tenure.
That would be an interesting coincidence if bright people were eating organic while dumb people were eating processed food
You are most likely aware but just to point out, Node now also has a version of the permissions features [0] (not sure on parity but it was obviously deno inspired) behind an experimental flag!

[0] https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html
Agreed.

Another adjacent PoV is improvement, not complete, is the steady state.

What I mean is, throughout our entire schooling career we did work and turned in assignments that got graded. They were done. The work was over.

Our professions aren’t like that. There’s no done. There’s always improvement.

Therefore every piece of criticism, critique, or feedback has some data in it (sometimes layered in poorly worded phrases that can feel mean) on how to get better.

Your goal is to figure out what that data is and whether it’s valid, then act on it.
TSMC: We Have Working CFET Transistors in the Lab, but They Are Generations Away
This is my reasoning. I’ve never seen anything more advanced than a link to a pdf. Yes it’s possible to do some basic tracking or even serve a different pdf depending on the os. No, I don’t believe restaurants would care enough to do that. Also I’m not sure of the legal implications if it could be proven they actually do that, but at the very least their reputation would plummet, and this is the last thing a restaurant want.
Think more about the consequences. Many times they don't matter.

But think about why this is common amongst engineers, the consequences seem to matter. Software engineers initially get clout from being right, that devolves into criticizing other engineer's code while the usefulness of being right tapers off very quickly. Many of engineers got into the trade after being told they were so smart and intellectual, and this incentivizes being correct and making correctness your whole identity (to the annoyance of others and all your interpersonal relationships). But this is not productive, there is a limit to the utility of this. When you get criticized by another engineer it might seem like there is a consequence, but often there isn't.

One way to combat this is to ask yourself what game you're in:

Are you in the money game? then perfection doesn't matter, you can make the most barely functioning antiquated software that powers the government and fortune 500 companies, and be protected by the state for your own fuckups.

Just remember that.
It can do "Hello world". How cool is that?!
I can see them mandating another GDPR like popup saying that the content is AI created. Europeans have the right to know if they are being bamboozled by AI created content.
> the live stream just didn’t work

Are you sure ? Others say 6.5 M listened to the livestream that was delayed 20 mins
The real take away is that he’s out front shaping regulation before it impacts him.

In the US he knows it’s easy to manipulate our policy with a little song and dance because our policy makers don’t understand what they are looking at.

It’s a different story in the EU where you have competent leaders.

That seems to be the reason for the inverse approach.

US: “let me help you write the regulations ;)”

EU: “you’re gonna be behind it you regulate me :0”
Criticism made will ill intent can be disregarded. Shame on the critic.

(Easier to say than to embrace, of course.)
I think, as ever with these things, the name is misleading. It's not "hate". We've no idea what people are feeling. Why do we a) think someone feeling "hate" is enough to suspend speech, and b) think if we want to justify censorship, we can't just say it out loud?

Why not just say "we ban speech that says the Holocaust didn't happen"? Why get it classified as hate and then because somehow hate is censorable get it autocensored? It seems somehow disingenuous.
I've been on keto for over a decade and I feel like it keeps me mentally sharp. If I accidentally get carbs I feel very sluggish and like I can't think straight
Everything Announced in Sony's Playstation Showcase
If you could build a nuclear power plant as quickly as you can build a wind turbine you might still have a window where you could recoup the investment. Unfortunately building nuclear plants takes ages. If we started today to build the hundreds of nuclear power plants it would take Europe to go fully nuclear they wouldn't be done before renewables+storage ate their profit opportunity.
You don't need more than the basics of HTML 1.0 to make a menu for a restaurant. I had those figured out at 10.
Yes, but what if the one skill you are lacking is the ability to identify what only you can do?
As IBM seems to be the last man standing in the tape storage market, the TCO price of tape is not a market price against competitors, but against HDD storage.

The TCO of tape only makes sense at scale, and is much harder to assess than HDDs, as tape cost includes media, drives and libraries, each of which have different life times. Tape libraries can be used across many tape generations.
Here's my anecdotal experience with fasting and training (lifting).

Something like 12 years ago I started fasting and training based on some of the regimes olympic marathon runners were putting out there at the time. I went 24 hours without food and did a set of leg workouts. Within minutes of leaving the gym I developed a fever and a pain in my back. When I checked myself into the emergency room I was expecting to hear that my appendix burst but had a serious conversation with the ER doctor about a giant tumor that they found in my retroperitoneal cavity. Wild shit.

Years later I found out that studies have shown that fasting causes "Autophagy". .."Autophagy allows your body to break down and reuse old cell parts so your cells can operate more efficiently. It’s a natural cleaning out process that begins when your cells are stressed or deprived of nutrients. Researchers are studying autophagy’s role in potentially preventing and fighting disease."

I'm of the opinion that had I not have fasted and did an intense workout I would have never have caught this stage II\III cancer in time. The malignant tumor's in that part of the body leave no physical symptoms. The next stop would have been the lungs and the brain...Take that for what it's worth.
A bunch of people are commenting here on how much of their karma comes from submissions and how much from commenting. But they are not treated equivalently for karma. Submissions give significantly less karma than comments. 100 points for a submission is worth less than 100 points for a comment.
First of all, it's not an article, it's an opinion piece. It looks like yet another angry white man (uh oh, spot my racism...) screaming "discrimination!" and fanning the flames of "Look at us, we're being disadvantaged!".

IMHO, advantaged white people screaming for "equality!" is basically saying "I don't want the short people to have extra boxes!": http://i2.wp.com/interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads... .. maybe this cartoon would be better if the tall person is sitting comfortably on his box.

Whether the program made sense or not because the dad said the black kids in his son's school didn't look disadvantaged (honestly, I wonder how carefully he looked...), is a different question. And if we're going to some place like W. Virginia where even the white people are suffering, I would agree offering help to just non-whites would be concerning.
AFAIK Google hasn't even taken any civil action against y(ou)t(ube)-dl(p) at all, that was all the music industry.
SaaS makes more money and fits into the 4HourWorkWeek “make recurring revenue from people” playbook.

Building a thing and selling it seems like it will make less money to me.

It’s funny that on a larger scale I used to hate enterprise software. It took a year to install and had to be patched and run servers and stuff. But you paid a big amount and then like 10-20%/year for maintenance and that’s it. So many things are saas and cost $500-100+/user/year and it’s not just the cost but it’s the planning and gatekeeping. Making it available to more users can be expensive. I kind miss the simplicity of budgeting $1M and being done. Now each year it’s figuring out who really needs it and cleaning up expired accounts and being stingy on if another team can use it or not.

One of my favorite things was how easy it was to scale and share with new users.
When you’re 20, you care about what everyone thinks about you. When you’re 40, you don’t care about what other people think of you. When you’re 60, you realise that no one was really thinking about you anyway.
Show HN: Unlocking Insights Hidden in Data Charts with GPT-4
My name is Victor, I’m Head of Product at DoubleCloud, a platform that helps data pros build sub-second data analytical solutions and pipelines on open-source technologies like ClickHouse, Apache Kafka, ETL and Business Intelligence services.

Hearing from our users, we know how daunting it is to gather insights and try to make sense of all the charts, graphs and metrics, especially when you have to explain it to your business stakeholders.

That’s why we’ve just launched our new feature — GPT-4 integrated into our platform’s BI tool. We all know how good ChatGPT is at summarizing texts. But we also discovered that it is capable of comprehending and evaluating structured data such as tables, HTML, CSV, and other file types. So we decided to utilize its potential to provide our users with quick and easily understandable data insights.

Users don’t have to write prompts, as it is automatically done under-the-hood, so that the system comprehends the chart's context and provides the raw data needed for in-depth analysis.

The feature brings the best value working with complex dashboards where multiple factors like scale, numbers and context need to be comprehended to ascertain the underlying insights.

The greatest thing is in the ability of ChatGPT to track trends and correlations, insignificant deviations that may not be visible to our eye, but carry an important trend. We tested it across various industries and some cases are really cool.

Just a quick example: a food delivery service with over 20 KPIs across 30 warehouses. Since there are so many warehouses and measures to keep track of, it would be really hard for people to notice everything. But ChatGPT picked up on a few warehouses that were slow at packaging and suggested sending some workers from those places to another warehouse as a way to raise business productivity.

Here's access to a free trial: https://double.cloud/services/doublecloud-visualization/ without credit card and without any GPT-4 API Key.

We encourage all data pros to test our new feature and provide us with honest feedback as we strive to make it better.
It's a tactic of all businesses. In the US they play states against each other to get higher and higher tax breaks for moving.
In a way, it's easy (I'm being deliberately flippant here, I know it's not easy) - if continual learning and growth is one of your goals, the worst thing that could happen is never getting feedback. Getting feedback means you have information to process and improve.
I guess it’s a few questions here:

1) is the person honestly just trying to help make the codebase better?

2) is the person wording it in such a way that doesn’t insult you?

3) what is your preferred way they would’ve made their comment, if any at all? Is it reasonable for you to have that preference?

4) what are your thoughts when you receive good faith, non-insulting criticism, and why do you have those thoughts? What is the underlying emotion you’re feeling that’s triggering that kind of thinking? What are the justifications you have under those feelings & are they reasonable ones?

Breaking down why you react the way you do, and all the aspects of that interaction, will help a lot in figuring out how to feel less defensive over it.
> If hypothetically no AI can be created with respecting the citizens

The problem is you're assuming the people writing the regulations are perfect. It's not that bad AI should exist, it's that we're probably at least a decade away from regulators even having a hope of starting to understand what's going on.
As far as I remember, I fully own all the right to the output of OpenAI (for example).
You give yourself permission to make mistakes. Too many of us come from a background where making mistakes result in bad grades, being marked as a failure, being held back. But making mistakes is how you learn. When you're no longer getting a grade for how you did as an individual along the way, but rather are "graded" by how well your team delivers final results, then you appreciate that constructive criticism is entirely necessary for getting winning results. Ultimately, by being on winning teams, you promote your own growth.
No, but piping can be detected by curl's behaviour responding to the shell's consumption from the pipe, see link in reply to sibling comment below.
The implicit threat is fascinating. He clearly believes in a higher authority around what is or is not acceptable regulation. From whence comes this magical source of authority and reason? I mean sure, arbitrary law is bad. But does he truly ideate the EU like that?

I wonder what jurisdiction he winds up in and why?
https://youtu.be/zbHP5FbJNAw
honey is not as beneficial as whole raw fruits, because thy lack the most important thing - that bees can't carry or even need - but that primates guts love and need: fiber
Or realistic. In literally all the restaurants I’ve been to in the last years, the QR code is nothing more than a link to a PDF version of the menu. Everywhere.

There’s no way they’d risk their reputation by serving a different menu to people depending, say, on the OS. Also it’s probably 100% illegal where I live.
vaccines are like the medicine analogy to regulation.

You have to first prove that it is not going to do more harm than good. And without knowing what sort of harm AI's do - it's all theoretical at the moment - any regulation is merely speculating a harm, and the cost of prevention might be high (or stifling).

ABS and ESP in cars came _after_ harm was shown. And so is emission controls, and crash-related safety measures and testing/certification.

> And then they forbid stuff which can cause cancer…that was smart!

which makes sense, as those stuff has been shown to cause cancer.

In other words, harm has to be shown, rather than speculated, before regulation is desirable.
Thank you; TIL!

I assumed without checking that Microsoft would have their own competitive offering in the space.
Pathetic mixed messaging from a hypocritical CEO.

Releases the most powerful LLM the world has seen pretty much publicly and next to free.

However now that he has the lead wants everyone to be regulated and now allowed to open source it.

Tells the US gov, where his competition is mostly likely to come from that they need regulation.

Tells the EU, where the actual enforcement of privacy and legislation happens via billion dollars fines, that he doesn’t want regulation.

Comical display.
Not really, because it's not a fork and is written in a different language.
Because things like adoption and longevity of a project correlate with it not being abandoned, etc. Dealing with abandoned tech in your stack sucks
Fwiw, if a stupid joke makes me exhale through my nose slightly faster than usual, I consider it valuable, and may even upvote.
Everyone makes mistakes. The actual mistake is not fixing your mistake. Why take something personally when they are helping you?

The problem is that most people take criticism as if you punched them in the face. If you never criticize another person or thing ever again you'll be way ahead in life. Polite people will never help you, but here's the problem. Your enemies will also not help you. "Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake"

So imagine the rather unique individual who will actually give you criticism. It's the most wonderful thing to experience.

"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults." -Ben Franklin
I found Mimestream to be very pleasant (before I switched from Gmail). Everything felt much snappier than the native MacOS mail client.

Highly recommended!
I put this in another comment also but yeah, the permissions feature is documented here https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html

It definitely seems that Node is surfing in deno's wake here and taking heavy inspiration from some of the more successful features.

I guess remains to be seen if this will follow in something like the Java / Scala / Kotlin model or if it'll lead to more of a merge a la io.js - I tend to think that a merge fits better since we're dealing with runtimes and not separate languages, but I think the former model could work too.

Either way, great thing for the ecosystem!
why,who started is crucial to any war. also,china sent troops to Korea many times over history to fight why was it in korea again and again?

and here is how the war started:

https://www.history.com/news/korean-war-causes-us-involvemen...

historically countries all had conflicts and wars, if that's where you're going for "USA did something to China", you can list what they exactly did. While you do that, please do not forget, Chinese killed each other over history and it's probably 1 million times more than whatever the western alliance did together. Not an excuse for any sides, history is just sad and bloody, but focusing on blaming other countries is barking the wrong tree, for the most part.
The organic vs non-organic argument is a false dichotomy anyway, so you got to be joking right?
> It's probably a lot easier to quit carbs than fat. Most people just don't know that fat is a (healthy) option.

Not just healthy, but essential. You need a certain amount of fats for your sex hormones to actually work, so unless you want to stop menstruating/not interested in having erections, keep eating healthy fats.
(Harm has already been shown. Its more nuanced than this.)

Also proactively, indeed, but usually rather reactive. Why bother with say cops on the street to check for weapons when civilians tend to not carry them there? Proactive is rather: seemingly proactive, like AI is seemingly intelligent. In reality 101, its reactive, but the quality of the reactivity matters (speed, thoroughness, accuracy, transparency, cost, etc). Some of these qualitative measures are at odds with each other.

> And then they forbid stuff which can cause cancer…that was smart!

Tobacco is regulated; not forbidden.
Uber and Airbnb?
> Since a company is usually harmed by increased regulation their opinion is biased.

I know this is the prevailing point of view in business, but is it actually true? How many bank failures would have been avoided if US banking regulations hadn't been slackened so much?
It is just more examples of late stage capitalisms where any individual contributor has no bargaining power. This is focused on 'content' creators like writer, but its really the same for anybody. Big Corp has stacked the deck against any competition. But conservative/republican's belief in the rugged individual, and belief that companies are individuals, then all manor of dog-eat-dog brutal competition is ok, even if Big Corp gets big enough to re-write laws to remove the ability to compete. If many many individuals happen to be destroyed, then it is just the state of nature, the 'corporation as individual' have won fair and square by being last entity standing.

This video is actually pretty infuriating. I can't believe we've let this happen. Why is the 'free market' mantra pushed by the same people that are ok with big corp reducing the competition in the 'free market'. There is no longer a free market, it's just big corp merging into giant monoliths.
My 10+ years old poor-man's image background removal through ImageMagick alone

https://gist.github.com/mvsantos/5554663

It does a good enough job for studio photography with clear subjects and plain backgrounds. But fails miserably if the background is multicolour and/or contain too many objects.