skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess its just that people are used to slow moving freight trains compared to an 80mph train in florida. I can't otherwise explain why so many Floridians insist on driving past a rail gate. I can't blame brightline when they seem to have the exact same sort of flashing light and gate in socal without this safety record. So in these two cases the train is operating at the same speed, the level of infrastructure is the same, so the only factor I could think to be different that might explain the difference in safety is the culture of the drivers. It just doesn't make sense to knock brightline imo when they are just doing what other rail agencies are doing, and its probably something that's federally standardized somehow anyway, so if anything blame falls on the agency writing standards that aren't enough to meet the realities.
It can be manipulated by bad actors however, keeping someone constantly 'doing' for the other parties benefit and not noticing they never seem to actually get paid for it. It tends to attract NPD folks in particular.

Like anything, it's about balance. Sometimes, it really isn't anything you should be doing to fix (or anything you should change).
There’s something about this comment that’s tongue in cheek, and something that’s earnest, and I cannot decipher it
`use-application-dns.net` to me means:

As an application, don't do your own DNS lookups but respect the ones from the OS.

Which makes me wonder, does Windows respect `use-application-dns.net` when I enable DoH?
I have mixed feelings about this. The problem is that if you are being attacked, you will gladly allow people to make big profit if they save lives. You can try to fight the war without profit but you might not like the results. Ultimately, wars are started by governments. They cajole the resources of the nation to fight the enemy. Each country has the things they are good at it and they will use those things to their advantage. In the US we are a free market society and happily give out big rewards (aka profits) to those that can make a difference and build things that the nation wants.

So the reason I say I have mixed feelings is because I can imagine a world where the entities that make profit off of war can use their influence to prod the nation into war. And this should be prevented. I suspect this has happened in the past.
I’m building exactly this! https://vanna.ai
If someone could figure out the next step, that would be great. So many good series died on their third entry.

Heist might make sense.

The trajectory could be something like survive -> kick ass -> pulled back in at a disadvantage? Maybe.
This is exactly what Cloudflare wants - they want us to blindly "trust" them with our DNS lookups, even though they've prioritized paying scammers over doing the right thing for years.
If the AI generates a new Eric Clapton album, with the same similar voice and guitar playing style?
There are plenty of different types of dictionaries, organizing their data differently.
All the comments here asking to kill Shorts because "vertical video looks shit on my desktop", like who do you think YouTube is made for? A HN nerd running Linux on a desktop or the average person who has likely never touched a desktop in their life?

I remember few years back when it was genuinely cool to make fun of and take moral high ground over people taking vertical videos. How times have changed indeed! Even back then I felt vertical videos were the future (on a mobile device it was the natural filming pose, and the videos looked more immersive and personal). The UI just had to catch up (and we have to credit tik tik for discovering that).
Partly to simplify design and reduce cost, partly for market segmentation.
I'll never forget when I was at HBO in the '90s (large Oracle shop at the time) and we were trying to figure out an Oracle product. I wasn't core to the effort; I was just trying to help, since the people smarter than I was were completely stuck.

So I asked for the install cd. I figured I could install the product in question (Oracle Forms? It's been too long and I barely remember) and poke around, and maybe a beginner's eyes would see something the masters missed.

I stuck the cd in my computer and clicked the installer. It asked which install file I wanted to execute. There's more than one? Yep, several. And not all in one folder, clearly labeled. They were in several different places on the cd, and named things like x39usethis21 and yz2nousethis982. It was a completely garbage experience.

And to be clear, this wasn't some hand-crafted one-off. This was a silk-screened, mass-produced, official Oracle product.

So I went to the documentation, also on the cd. It wasn't in text files, or even standard html files -- there was a special documentation reader application, because of course there was -- even though the files were obviously (nearly) standard html. And again, the documentation app wanted to know what file to start with, and the doc files weren't well organized, and didn't have an obvious starting place. So I opened the most likely candidate, which turned out to not be the documentation root. But it did have a menu of links, and there was one that was labeled "index" or "start here" or something.

I clicked the link and got a 404. Double-check: yes, it's pointing to a location on the cd, just not one where there's a file.

There's more to the story, but the above pattern continued throughout. And the experts never got the tool to work, after months of trying, with Oracle consulting on speed-dial.

This confirmed what I've described since the '80s as Canyon's Law of Inverse Usability: the price of a product and the usability of that product tend to correlate inversely.
Agreed! I lived and help organize in Lower Nob Hill for several years, and it was a nice experience, but Mission Bay just has a better ambiance and quality of life (assuming you can afford it).

I know some people hate on it for being quiet, but it's only like 10-15 minutes away from other bustling parts of town like North Beach, Chinatown, Mission, etc via public transit or Uber - so honestly idk why people hate on it. I guess it's those 90s rage against the machine types.
> sober voices as Geoffrey Hinton sounding the alarm about super-smart AI

Can someone please explain to me what exactly the danger is / the dangers are of "super-intelligent" AI?

AIUI, an AI is a combination of hardware, software and parametrization. In broad terms, it exists as a black box which supplies to humans responses to token sets fed to it.

Even if an AI has the launch codes for ICBMs somewhere in its training data, it doesn't have an interface to the nearest missile silo to use them. It cannot commandeer the resources (hardware, space, cooling, electricity) it needs to operate, it is dependent on humans to supply those. So humans can pull the plug on it at any time.

Even if an AI were to become both sentient and nefarious, by what mechanism would it harm humans?

I'm genuinely looking for concrete examples of such a mechanism because I can't imagine any which humans couldn't trivially control or override.
It is also about removing some I/O instructions entirely and removing all others from ring 3 ("userspace"). Removing 16-bit addressing support frees up the 67h address size override prefix. They also suggest having CS/DS/ES/SS segment override prefixes do the same as in 64-bit mode: nothing, which should allow for repurposing those 4 entries in the primary opcode map some years down the line.

They are suggesting freeing up 5 bytes in primary opcode map in all modes (4 for string I/O, 1 for 67h address size override) plus 8 bytes in ring 3 (userspace) plus making it possible to free up 4 more (segment override prefixes). That means 13 (17) free bytes for userspace!

I think part of the plan is to enable more compact encoding of certain existing instructions (and allow for compact encoding of future instructions).

I think they want to do that to enable wider instruction decoders -- more compact encodings => more instructions per 16-byte/24-byte/32-byte/whatever size window the decoders look at. Wide decoders are inherently harder for x86 than for architectures like ARM because there are so many possible instruction lengths (all values between 1 and 15 inclusive), so they need all the juice they can squeeze out here.

I am surprised they didn't suggest getting rid of the BOUND instruction (which is used for the EVEX prefix in 64-bit mode).

And what about HLT? It isn't allowed in ring 3, anyway, so maybe they are looking at repurposing that as well?

And INT1, too?
The debt ceiling was created so that Congress does not have to pass a new bill for each time bonds are issued. It's purpose is to streamline running a modern country, not to be a weapon against the running of the country. It is not and was never intended as a sword of Damocles to keep debt down. It is also carries less weight than the 14th amendment as the Constitution supersedes laws created by Congress like the debt limit was.
I guess you have to think about it like this.

How much would it be worth to you to learn 3-5 years of math in a single year without getting stuck? And I mean really learning it to the point where you're able to solve the more difficult problems and are not merely able to recognize some of the symbols and terminology and talk like you know it. If you're just kind of curious about some advanced math topics you see pop up on HN from time to time and aren't really willing to invest any real time, effort or money into learning the material, which is totally fine and is probably where most people reading this comment are, then sure, spending more than $40 on a book or watching some free online videos will seem expensive.

But the reality is that very few people will be able to learn a significant amount of math by simply working through some problems in a book. Eventually they'll get stuck or just run out of gas, and when I say eventually I mean probably in 2-3 weeks. But if you're that one student who successfully taught themselves multiple courses worth of mathematics on their own from a few books and outside of any educational institution, then hats off to you! You're like that guy who put on 30 pounds of muscle doing pushups and pull-ups at the local park. You know, ... that ONE guy. ;)

But if you want a sure fire way of mastering a large amount of mathematics as efficiently and painlessly as possible, then you want a system like Math Academy that will adapt to your individual learning curve and knowledge frontier and push you through the material using the most effective pedagogy available - careful scaffolding, active problem-based learning, spaced repetition, gamification, etc.

The bottom line is this. Our system is more effective than any course available and is much cheaper for what you get. In fact, we just had a group of students ages 11-13) start with basic pre-algebra in the fall of 2021 (as in Solve x - 4 = 10) and from what I've heard all did extremely well on the AP Calculus BC exam a couple weeks ago. That's like 6-7 academic years of math in 18 months and we're expecting mostly if not all of them to earn a 5 (the top score).

But take my word it. Try it out for yourself. You automatically get a full refund if you cancel in the first 30 days, so there's no risk. And we're always available to answer your questions and support your progress.
EU regulations were updated. Not everywhere.
but not all human thinking is worthwhile. I had it do a simple chrome extension to let me reply inline on HN, and it coughed out a manifest.json that worked first try. I didn't have to poke around the Internet to find a reference and then debug that via stack overflows. Easily saved me half an hour and gave me more mental bandwidth for the futzing with the DOM that I did need to do. (to your point tho, I didn't try feeding the html to it to see if it could do that part for me.)

so it's somewhere between 1.2x and 10x for me, depending on what I'm doing that day. Maybe 3x on a good day?
64-bit Linux does not have 32-bit kernel modules.
Even with a DSG-equipped car like the parent likely has, you can use the "manual" mode ("M" on the shifter) and downshift to as low as the car will allow. This also has the benefit of 'preparing' the transmission for further downshifting, as it will pre-select the next gear down instead of up. My car is indeed a 6MT, and downshifting happens exactly as described.
Absolutely loving GrapheneOS for the past year plus. It's my primary device and I have no problems.
Really it is a vast oversimplication. It's only what the system is made to look like it's doing, it's actually doing something completely different.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66109.html
The OS cares, sadly. When the OS, running one one CPU, instructs another CPU to start (which happens — your system boots into your OS and also resumes from suspend with only one CPU running OS code), it sends a message called SIPI to that CPU. The CPU responds by running OS code, in real mode, at an address <1MB. So the OS needs to find valid memory below 640kB that doesn’t conflict with any other horrible legacy use.

Also, the “LA57” 5-level page table design has a little whoopsie: you can’t switch between 4 and 5 level page tables without exiting paged mode entirely.
I think Itanium was a success for Intel in some respects. It effectively killed off PA-RISC, Alpha, and MIPS (outside of network hardware).
> Shoutout to my Google Mini which ignores DNS servers in the DHCP response.

Put Roku on that list. They also break in a spectacular fashion if you redirect the queries to a DNS server that returns NXDOMAIN. Its like they query in an infinite loop with no rate limits. They absolutely hammer the DNS server.
Got any more reading for that?
List of most populous cities in the United States by decade
Chill out, realize that if you hold to a higher standard, then everyone else will have to adhere as well.

If someone is asking for changes, that implicitly means they're willing to review those changes as well. If it's good feedback just comply. Realize that if that person is holding you to a high standard, they're probably holding others to the same standard, so your life will be easier.
You Didn’t Build your PC… This Did (ASML San Diego Facility Tour)
The part where you said:"I am less concerned that Apple will exploit my data because they make plenty on the hardware." feels like such a naive way to think about Apple.

This is what Forbes had to say about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/10/19/apples-...
I was so happy and surprised at first, but then realized that Stories is a different feature than Shorts.

P.S. if you use Signal, you can turn of Stories from the settings
A company I used to work for did this. Layoffs happened, lots of bad reviews. All of the sudden a lot of glowing reviews from management and HR. Somebody even called them out for it.
Agreed. Right now a lot of very unsafe behaviors are ramping up (predatory and at work and in many of our some of our personal lives), and recognizing when it's actually time to withdraw and when it may be because we're not actually safe is important.

Additionally, physical health issues and pain can take away our feeling of safety, and sitting on our butts all day is REALLY not healthy. But it's hard to notice when it creeps up on us.
If I lose my ssh keys the business I work for will no longer have access to their production sites.

They can rebuild them from backups somewhere else but that is about it. They're printed on paper in a safe because of this.
I recommend checking out the fantastic, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth". The book provides very strong evidence that the era of American growth which produced our modern standard of living starts in 1870 and actually ends in 1940, though there was also an era of less important but still strong growth from 1940-1970.

Furthermore, this is a bit of a counterfactual as we don't actually know the trajectory of technology without the war. Some thing we know for certain though, mass electrification and public health were well underway before the war and continued through it. These being probably the two most important developments that improved productivity and the quality of life for most people.
Looking only at workers earnings is misleading in both Germany and the United States because it ignores monetary transfers through the government, which is a huge component of GDP.

I can't speak for Germany, but for the US, worker earnings continue to climb if you count government mediated benefits.

Similarly, it's impossible for worker income to grow at the rate of GDP while taxes grow faster than GDP
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> many of us who care about privacy believe Cloudflare would sell access to the data they collect

The Cloudflare DoH privacy policy is already one of the least privacy friendly, so anyone who remotely cares about their privacy should not be using Cloudflare DoH.

For example, "transactional and debug log data" is stored for 25 hours at Cloudflare.
Those hating on shorts need to watch old people use YouTube. They have no idea what TikTok is, but they get suckered into shorts so fast when they open "YouTube".
Are you saying no one really knows how these things work? I am very curious about if you can “peer into the weights”. I have seen simple examples of that with image recognition but only for early layers.
https://cyphrme.github.io/ed25519_tool/ed.html#?alg_type=Msg...
So, yes. You are saying "nuh uh smedly, ww2 was a proper justified fight"
https://archive.ph/c4c2j
> If it was my call to make

Luckily for the rest of us, it is not.
Submitted to HN 6 times, by 6 different users, in the past week.
People switching from Android to iOS for privacy reasons seems myopic to me. Apple is, ultimately, a company. There is no such thing as them “making enough money.” If they can double-dip by both selling data and selling hardware, they will. It's not a matter of if, but when.
De-Googled Android is objectively a more privacy-friendly option than iOS.
Huge issue with those having to use a phone from one country with apps local to another country - very common for extensive travel, as the formal Google play store locality change is only allowed once per year.
> Every watt consumed must be created, and every extra watt a bitcoin mining operation uses is a watt that can't do anything else. And using "surplus" energy merely keeps electricity expensive.

No, that's not how large scale commercial power works. Please study the history of the Moses-Saunders dam. I've been to the Hawkins Point Visitors Center and studied the history, have you?

> Bitcoin wasting power is as designed.

'wasting' is the wrong word there. It is converting power into work in order to validate blocks of transactions. We have tellers in banks who drive their cars into nice air conditioned offices every single day, that effectively do the same thing. Is that also wasting power in your eyes?

> Mining operations have few employees because there isn't much work to do.

Speaking as someone who's run very large mining operations, that is untrue. There is a ton of work, but it also requires relatively skilled labor since most of the ongoing work is maintenance of the equipment. Of course it doesn't require hundreds of people like the old aluminum smelters, but it also isn't creating a superfund site. I don't see why computerized solutions should be expected to create massive amounts of jobs over the long term.

Massena is in the middle of nowhere upstate NY and was decimated when the Alcoa plants shut down. Population in 2010 is a whopping 12k. The people who are left are trained as factory aluminum smelters, not computer technicians.
I kind of get your point (i think?) but maybe you shouldn't try to belittle the use of the word "supremacists" in the context of modern language. Try looking up a definition if you are unsure. Maybe you disagree on the definition but that is probably the mainstream one...
To add to the Eisenhower quote - I highly recommend watching his 1961 Farewell Address, where the term "military–industrial complex" was first used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36070646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36073342
You've got it exactly right. Unfortunately, Google's Play Store is the only source for a number of proprietary applications that work mostly okay on degoogled android systems, including:

* my bank app, and probably your's too

* iNaturalist

* various dating apps such as tinder, bumble, hinge, coffee meets bagel

Edit: wonder if I could use a mirror instead?

Edit2: ugh tried apkmirror. Might work. The client has ads (pretty sure google ads...) and popups. Some of the ads contained a download button? I got confused and concerned. Dipped out. I'll just be more dependent on my workstation(s). Phone still works as a phone, I presume.
This RFC recognizes that, and does not require additional annotation.

It's important to recognize that in plain C the above is simply an aid to someone looking at the header and is no different from

void foo(size_t elem_count, int elems[]);

As such

int j;
foo(20, &j);

is fine. Under this RFC this is an error and the call site would trap at runtime (if not picked up a compile time).

The RFC also comments on (and handles)

void foo(int elems[] __counted_by(elem_count), size_t elem_count);

Look for references to "delayed parsing". It also handles similar in structs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#cite_note-81
I did not see any content related to number theory and combinatorics (or counting) in the list of courses.
This comes up in discussions quite a bit but in practice I have never seen that become a thing. There is technically nothing stopping a DNS provider from using random CDN nodes but unless you have found a working exception they all have well defined static IP addresses, sometimes even novelty IP's. Perhaps some day they will do this at the risk of CDN nodes getting blocked.

I block DoH/DoT quite successfully on my network, not to invade privacy but to block privacy invading sites and usage statistics that the current DoH/DoT providers gather. Thus far it has not been an issue.

I was surprised to find that cell phones automagically discover my DoT 853 listener on my firewall that is served up by Unbound. I do have a "_dns.resolver.arpa" hint record but nothing has ever queried it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36013257
Who gathers together to wait for the waiter to bring the check?
Mach3 CNC https://www.sainsmart.com/products/mach3-cnc-software
It depends on believing in classical logic. Constructive mathematicians can instead choose to adopt intuitionistic logic and postulate Church thesis, which states that all functions, and thus sequences, are computable.
Please tell me there's a way to stream YouTube videos in 256 colors in the terminal as ASCII art. As God intended.
Thanks most kindly for that link. I'd never heard of phind, but it instantly solved a knotty CSS question I've been stuck on. I really like the matter-of-fact tone of "here's how you do that." Refreshing, after days of unproductive paging through wordy explanations and definitions and tutorials. Bookmarking.
If the US does default, then Biden probably will use the 14th amendment.

Unfortunately for the Republicans that are trying to play brinksmanship, that will make Biden look like a hero.

A huge economic disaster occurs, doesn't matter who caused it, but then Biden gets to swoop in and solve it with the flick of a pen. Cue victory lap.

Sure, the Republicans will try to tie it down and to make it seem like he caused it. Doesn't matter though, because he's the one that solves it.

As Rove said, never let a good crisis go to waste.
I first saw this movie in the late 80's soon after my roommate and I had just graduated from nautical school. Everything about Nostromo, down to the personalities of the crew, reminded us of an oceangoing ship. Ridley Scott got the atmosphere perfect.