skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way back in the day working in an Apple Store Genius Bar, this is what we used in the workroom when we needed to keep a computer working continuously (say, to reproduce a problem)
Walmart's brand of corporate Koolaid also happens to be good for customers, as that's their market differentiator.
> Every year gets better and better for most of us on average.

No, it’s not that “better”. Life expectancy increase but stress increase, smartphone penetration grow as well as children working in mines, there’s less and less food shortage but people eat crap and die from obesity. Meanwhile slums continues poping and growing everywhere - even in rich countries - and there’s a ton more lung cancer even for non-smokers.

Is it being misanthropic to point out what feels wrong in our world ? Not being mad or sad does not makes you more a humanity lover.
Your undo operations will be very simple.

So instead of having a complex logic. Have a simple lambda function that talks to a queue. That's it. It accepts an undo command. You read a command you stuff it in the queue done. No DB, No servers. If you were running this yourself. You will have a simple API (distributed) that does the same to a distributed queue/cache. Done.

Your complex job can now pick up the undo commands from the queue and execute with logic to retry if for some reason it fails.
Ideally it would be {keysigned_string}@{yourname}.{yourdomain}
Text available at https://www.reddit.com/r/Dragon029/comments/5aj5m6/stealth_p...
If you are any kind of nerd I recommend watching it. It shows an optimistic view of the future. In many ways it's the anti-cyberpunk. Steve Jobs famously said "give me star trek" when telling his engineers what he wanted from iPhones. Star Trek has had a deep influence on many engineers and on science fiction.

When people talk about Star Trek, they are referring mainly to "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

"The Inner Light" is a highly regarded episode. "The Measure of a Man" is a high quality philosophical episode.

Given you haven't seen it, your criticism of McFarlane doesn't make any sense. You are trying to impart a practical analysis of a philosophical question and in the context of Star Trek, I think it denies what Star Trek asks you to imagine.
A lot of Google's top suggested results / autogenerated answers tell you nonsense or misunderstandings as well.
Or, you can get on the "Deceased Do Not Contact List" for free :)

https://www.ims-dm.com/cgi/ddnc.php
If it's anything like AirBnB, it probably depends on whether you're getting the chipper day-shift call center or the cheap outsourced offshore call center as far as what kind of support you get. My wife and I landed in a cockroach-infested but very beautiful condo through AirBnB once and the night shift guy basically accused me of being used to living with cockroaches as a business traveler and that one or two should be expected. I had to offer to send him video of me spraying the walls of the kitchen with roach spray with tens of wriggling bodies of various instar stage falling onto the counter before he would even commit to looking in to it.

I called the same support number the morning after and the support people were all very accommodating. Called them one more time that afternoon to confirm that our payments were refunded and got the same treatment as the previous night.

This experience is one of the reasons I never use AirBnB for anything anymore. Their support was awful at the exact moment I needed them to offer me any option other than sleeping in our rental car on the beach.
Talking about climate change is good, but the root cause is the warming and that’s what’s actionable.
The plastics need to be stopped at the source. The plastic recycling logo is a meme created by some PR geniuses trick us into accepting pollution and passing the problem down to the public.

No institution wants to tell you it's all a lie. My municipality pick up this trash under the name of 'recycling' meanwhile some naive people are busy washing out single use containers.

Decades ago when plastic was more expensive society did it right. For example Milk and beer was sold in glass bottles you'd return. Jack up the price of these nasty materials and suddenly the easiest thing to do is actually 'recycle'.
In enhanced security checks in the EU, they often make you turn on your electronic devices.
This appears to be an "individual vs company" case, so I think expecting some cost-cutting on the individual's side is normal. Just not done this poorly.
"Nobody" is carrying a lot of weight there :-). Do you have any reasoning here for your point of view? (not criticizing it, just wondering how you got there given what we know.)

For example, a ticket for the 49ers on the 50 yard line is ~ $1200 - $1500 depending on how important it is as a game. Also, existing renderers for sports figures are quite good given the market for video games featuring them, so it isn't clear that the visual quality would not be "just as good." Finally, the ability to do SLAM for stadium events is so good they can paint graphics on a moving player in real time as it happens.

So this is how my reasoning about it goes; Let's say it costs you $1000 for super hi-def VR goggles.[1] And the NFL decides to charge you $200 to sit on the 50 yard line "virtually" [2]. Your initial investment is $1200 ($200 less than the actual seat). Presumably you and your buddies would be allowed to be "next to each other." So there you sit, as a group, in great seats watching the game how you want to watch it, and all your friends are chatting with you. Every time you do this you save another $1200 off the cost of doing it "for reals."

But how can we even know that something like this would even be fun? The answer lays in the enjoyability of watching a movie "together" in VR. I think this is something of a sleeper as it isn't "a thing" in many people's mind yet, but it is definitely better than "simulwatching" while you have discord running. I suspect "twitch watching parties" would also have a similar vibe.

Other than the sex in Second Life, just hanging out is a very popular reason for participating in a MMO type universe. Having your "idealized" avatar with your face morphed on to it with all of its expressions retained intact and I think that would be pretty powerful.

So that is why I think it could be a thing, but I'm interested in your take on it as well.

[1] https://store.bigscreenvr.com/products/bigscreen-beyond

[2] https://theathletic.com/4522408/2023/05/16/nfl-average-ticke...
I'm pretty sure that is the reason why support for Fusion Drives was abruptly ganked and punted out by a year.
In actual practice though they don’t. If you walk across the bridge from Mexico after a night out 99 times out of 100 they’ll just ask your citizenship verbally and if you speak English without an accent they wave you on.
> Time to go back to bottles and paper.

In the 90's, it was all about saving the rainforest and reducing paper usage. Which led to the rise of plastic bags and bottles.

Turns out - doing what sounds and feels good is often completely unscientific. A la banning plastic straws...
> During the boot process, unless boot security has been downgraded from Full Security, the contents of that SSV are verified against its tree of hashes. In the event that they don’t match perfectly: “the startup process halts and the user is prompted to reinstall macOS”.

This is written a bit confusingly, if you don't already knows how it works (even though a later reply to a comment tries to clarify it). Because it sounds like the disk is fully and instantly validated at every boot, and "the startup process halts" if there is a mismatch.

Instead, depending a little on the actual implementation, most hashes will very likely only be validated when the corresponding block is actually accessed (up the entire path to the root, where the higher level hashes may be validated now or may have been validated already; this again is an implementation detail).

The result is also, that some blocks may never be validated during normal operation, simply if some files are never accessed. Unless there is some explicit whole disk validation sometime, e.g. during installation, though any corruption happening after that last "full disk check" will still lay dormant until access or the next full check.

But since this is a tree of hashes, it still provides all security and integrity benefits to anything that does get accessed. What never gets accessed does not matter per definition.
Wise is near-instant it doesn't take multiple days. Even Western Union has money in minutes to over 200 countries [1].

Almost all delayed transactions are due to fraud. The delay is often implemented to protect the sender from losing funds.

How does crypto handle fraud?

[1] https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/restrictions-money-in-min...
Backbone.js used 2-way data binding. Some people mistakenly think MVC implies 2-way data binding. It does not.

The point here is that you can write maintainable, clean, efficient JavaScript web apps without the load of complexity added by React.
That's at least not true for Lyft as of October last year. But there are many factors, like other apps, traffic, getting offered something better from another app, etc.

> With upfront pay, drivers can now see ride information and what they’ll earn before accepting a ride. Drivers will have access to trip details including the pickup and drop-off locations, estimated time and distance to complete the ride, and a map view of the full ride in addition to the fare.

https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/upfront-pay-and-the-next-cha...
Back in the dial-up days, my family's internet account was shaped by time. We had thirty hours of internet usage per month.

We had an notebook where you had to log what hours you intended to use it.

I always thought it an effective way that I have now adapted. I keep a notebook full of things I want to read or learn about. Especially if you have a partner to keep you accountable.

It also helps my children learn to use technology instead of it using them.

Not in the book? I don't look at it.
JDK 21’s Approach to Beginner-Friendly Java Programming
In the US, I have heard of small claims court dealing with this, especially given that the Big Tech defendants are often unable to provide to the court any reason for their action (since it came from an algorithmic black box that they don't really understand either).

Having said all that, I notice you don't mention what this part that you're printing is? It would give your story more cred if you mentioned that. Unless, you know, if it's something that would give your story a whole lot less cred.
sure, but leaning on probable cause to prevent the LEOs from doing something to you in the moment is not a sound practice. it will always be retrospective, and not everyone can afford to avail themselves of the legal remedy. the LEOs know this and behave accordingly
> There's a lot more to life than software.

There's a lot more to a banana than the interior. Like the peel and the tree and the backbreaking labor to grow it and the Phoneutria!

> Work at a sustainable pace, maybe do a few unambitious hobby projects, and spend the rest of your time doing things with people who matter.

You had me at the first

Sorta lost me at the second (hobby projects: good, but necessarily unambitious?)

Devastatingly puzzled at the third (can I work on ambitious hobby projects with these as-yet-unidentified people?)
Where would you sell? Seems like with these kind of things, you just have to expect that they won't be fair with you out of sheer lack of diligence and laziness. Be prepared and have a plan when it does happen to you.

It doesn't matter if it's YouTube, Paypal, Amazon, or esty. Going alone is harder and more expensive.

The other options is to change regulations and that's something can't merely be done by a person.
Volunteer fire brigade. Great way to connect with local community. Also a pathway into experiences and skills you’ll never get anywhere else.

Kids school. Everyone is local, engage with the other parents/etc.

Local dog park. Get into a routine of regularly heading up at a similar time and you’ll get familiar with the others that do the same.
Oh I did Google you, it appears you occasionally end up as third author on a bunch of papers funded by grants that have never been put into any meaningful action, you "run" a crypto startup that seems to have no actual employees or users or momentum, you were involved in the ethereum launch but now exaggerate your role, and finally there are frequent examples of you behaving inappropriately as a response to someone lightly grazing your vast ego.
‘I feel constantly watched’: the employees working under surveillance
> The "less bureaucracy" is the lack of the same trademark policy. That's literally it. They're not threatening to sue you if you don't include disclaimers on everything you do while using their language.

Neither is Rust, so we're back to this being pretty stupid.
The same regulations that mean you can't cheaply Venmo the person on the other end instead. If Venmo has to follow the law, cryptocurrencies have to follow the law as well. Being your own bank makes you liable to the same regulatory penalties that Venmo has to worry about.
can they force you to log in?
100% agree.

I get a little annoyed at people seeing this AI, seeing how it's not absolutely perfect, and then acting like it's horrible.

I think the expression "All models are wrong but some are useful" applies very much to ChatGPT. It's a useful tool, even if it's not perfect.
My dog, the dog park, and subsequently my neighborhood. If you go to the dog park twice a day you'll meet people and start chatting with them. Everyone needs to walk their dog so you end up seeing the same crew regularly. Its a great way to meet the people who live around you.

I think the pandemic definitely helped people realize that their job can't be their only social outlet.
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I'm perusing the Fabric docs and they are using Delta Lake, Spark and Azure Databricks as part of that solution
Male mental health support group. First attended in Nov 22, now a volunteer facilitating local meetings, and taking Peer Support Worker training course. Inevitably there’s some tech help in the mix, but it’s all worthwhile.

https://www.mandown-cornwall.co.uk/
Actually, I think he shouldn't be - if suitably scared and scarred, the guy will likely stay away from anything resembling AI/ML for the rest of his life.

Unlike language models, humans really do learn.
North Korea launches ‘space vehicle’ towards South
As usual in these "big company did something bad" stories on HN, OP carefully avoids saying what they were actually selling.
They are allowed to stop people who have crossed the border at (often permanent) checkpoints many miles from the border. They can ask to search anybody! And within the ambit of their authority they can probably search with reasonable suspicion. It's not my claim that CBP can't search you anywhere but the actual border, but rather that the notion that everyone living within 100 (or 50 or 12 nmi or whatever) miles from the border is subject to constant CBP search.

If you check this in the search bar at the bottom of the page you'll see this has come up a bunch on HN (it's a lurid and exciting notion to toss around!) and there are SCOTUS cites in the results.
> Movie producers have been producing 3D movies for ages.

And they do a reasonably good job of it now. And yet -- 3D movies are still not as attractive to most people as the studios expected.
SCPs: Protecting Your AWS Environment (and your job)
Hello everyone!

We are working on an open-source IAM-as-code solution called IAMbic, and recently added AWS Service Control Policy support (AWS guardrails, typically used for compliance) seen in the attached blog.

IAMbic represents your IAM in Git as YAML Files (called iambic templates). An example repository of templates managed by IAMbic is at https://github.com/noqdev/iambic-templates-examples. The goal is that you can download IAMbic, and go from your cloud to code in ~10 minutes without needing to write any code. Any changes you make (via clicking in the cloud console, running `terraform apply`, etc) are captured by IAMbic and updated in Git, so you have a running Git history of all IAM changes over time, and Git is an eventually consistent, reliable source of truth for permissions.

IAMbic templates are bi-directional, so when you want to start managing identities in IAMbic (like cookie-cutter engineering IAM roles or AWS SSO permission sets), You go through a GitOps workflow, get approval, and instruct IAMbic to apply the changes. We have some examples in our IAMOps Philosophy docs here: https://docs.iambic.org/reference/iamops_philosophy. If you want resources to be solely managed by IAMbic, you can instruct IAMbic to prevent drift on these resources.

You can also declaratively define temporary access or permissions in the format (Example use cases: "I want userA to have access to the Salesforce app in Okta for 12 hours" or "I want to have S3 permissions to BucketA on the engineering role on the prod AWS account until DATE").

What are your thoughts? How can we make this better?
That's an amazing document. Practically every sentence, though tersely stated, hints at hours (or worse) of experimentation and head-scratching. The "would have been 5 months ago" bit at the end is remarkably restrained. I'm certain I would have quit (or worse) by that point. Respect and condolences to whoever did this.
>Maybe these people have good intentions and are just being naive

Ive noticed a lot of good people take awful political positions this way.

Usually they trust the wrong person - e.g. by falling victim to the just world fallacy ("X is a big deal in our world and X wouldn't be where they are if they werent a decent person. X must have a point.")
Or, learn how to say “I don’t know”

It can't. Correct me if I'm wrong - I probably am - but as a generative language model I was under the impression it has no actual understanding of the meaning of it's words, only the probability they work well together.

You wouldnt expect dice to understand why you didn't want to roll snake eyes
That's how credibility works for everyone else, no special treatment
You are almost entirely wrong, of course. Visitors in the US do indeed have rights.
Everyone is human, with very human reactions. Even celebrities.

I'm not excusing choices. Just saying we all sh*t on a toilet.
That's still putting a lot of trust into the AI that it's not going to overstep in some way that's problematic to you, and given the lawyers that have to sift through the content you create may not be very happy about it, they might be more than willing to jump on any excuse to cause you problems based on what you submitted.

As an example, just search about ChatGPT being "confidently wrong" or "confidently incorrect". It's also possible that in restating things ChatGPT may be "colloquially accurate" but "legally incorrect" in how it restates things, given it's trained on many sources of natural language, and I think most people would choose to communicate with a court and lawyers (especially ones they assume antagonistic) with a higher level of caution than colloquialisms as they would when speaking informally to others.
While true the ones doing media tours and speaking the most vocally in May 2023 are the LLM crowd.

I don’t think it’s a mischaracterization to say OpenAI has sparked public debate on this topic.
Start a morning coffee group that meets weekly. Been regularly attending the last decade. A silver lining of the pandemic is now we meet around a morning fire when it's the proper season.
> company they ran has been found guilty of criminal charges twice

I’m wondering about the “members of the Sacklers family.”
For Linux - I think this will do: keep /tmp off tmpfs, don't mention it in the configs of tmpfiles.d

I might be missing something but these are the key suspects
(I generally prefer this to be wiped, using tmpfs)

Not sure about anything else *nix
Thank you for saying it. It’s 100% hype.
There were never "cost" savings. Look up "negative externalization"; this has become (or, arguably, always has been) the modus operandi of capitalism.
> configure k9 to Bcc me

Is that Bcc to gmail?
> view = func(state).

If this was actually how it worked, I'd have much less problem with react. What I mean, specifically, is that not all function dependencies are explicit. This makes it look like the state is passed into some function. And then the view is returned, depending only on state. In reality, half the state is passed in (as in the argument to a function call), and half comes out of some mysterious hook storage structure. If the state was really a function argument, you could easily inspect the whole state in a debugger. Instead of... I'm not sure how you'd actually do that.
>Then why are people set up about the trademark/copyright/license issue?

For the same reason people go ballistic over myriad other trivial things (e.g. Twitter), they find drama entertaining and outrage is effortless and consequence free (for them).

I'm not thrilled with the trademark changes myself but forking because they posted a draft and asked for comment is absolutely dumb as heck and not productive. It just adds to the drama.
I guess adding some post-processing classifier to check generated docs for self-incrimination would lower the odds by 2-3 magnitudes.
Except 'probable cause' means that the search was in 'good faith' which is my understanding basically makes the officers involved practically immune, (even if you're awarded damages say), and at the very least makes it more likely to happen by them knowing they're off the hook either way.
Embrace it for awhile and it really is special.

You've a function that returns JSX which is your HTML where you can use Javascript to reference functions/variables (e.g. the state variables)

One of the key parts is that you can break it all down into different files/functions that return jsx so you can isolate complicated parts
My neighborhood! I got my dog during the pandemic and its been a great way to meet my neighbors and also the people at the dog park (many of whom are also my neighbors). If you start hanging out in the same spots regularly you'll eventually meet people to talk to.

Having a dog is a huge plus since dogs are generally playful and can be a great way to start a conversation.
As someone who hasn’t followed the details of the case, was her long prison sentence mainly because she defrauded investors rather than knowingly falsifying medical tests?
Merkle trees! You (simplified) hash the data at the leaves of the tree, merge adjacent leaves (concatenation for example), and hash the new leaves, until you're left with just the Merkle Root, a single hash representing the entirety of your data. Verifying the root is easier than loading the data itself into memory and hashing it there since you can verify it piecemeal and without loading it all into memory at once.
Well, the problem is that the HN crowd is smart enough to build that part itself and ruin any chances for me in the market. ;-)

It's an accessory for the caravaning/vanlife scene. Nothing obscene, nothing legally critical.
> That was a great way to show my non-tech family members the limitations of AI and why they shouldn’t trust it.

These are the limitations of the version of ChatGPT you were using at that moment. They are not categorical limitations of AI or even LLMs.

It’s amazing to me how many people are sleeping on AI, mixing up the failing cases of a freemium chatbot for the full capability of the tech, even on HN. LLMs can say “I don’t know”. Even ChatGPT can do it. Ask some super niche historical questions of any version and see what you get. Is it perfect every time? No. But that’s something that can be reduced.

Over the next year, you’ll see more instances of lawyers citing hallucinated cases. There will also be a handful of startups that hook up LLMs to document stores, and they’ll be able to check for this sort of thing and do an even better job.