skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other option you may not have considered here is that you are immensely entertained by boring and derivative writing.
I don't either. Selim wasn't kind enough to loop us in so I looked it up and I think it means "naked person." I have to say, if that's accurate, I like it. It has an "emperor has no clothes" vibe that I enjoy.
With lightning!
I have a copy on my desk. The bit about designing data structures by analogy to number systems (and limiting carry propagation) is really fun.
Yeah but it does lower the dependency on Taiwan, with is the T in TSMC.
OpenSSL Security Advisory (CVE-2023-2650)
If you need any values, check this page [0]. It’s run by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (the Fraunhofer Society [1] is a large organization for applied science and has lots of different institutes).

[0] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society
Your milage may vary
The Sleeper Train Awakens
Source code of the X-Road data exchange layer software
There is an add-on called unhook that allows you to disable almost everything on youtube.
I turned off shorts, recommendations, the home page even the comments. Now all I see is my subsriptions page. It really stopped me from wasting hours hopping videos.

It also workes on firefox mobile, I stopped using the default youtube app.
> easiest way to rad harden things is to stick them in a big lead box

Or work in a permanent shadow. Cosmic rays are easier to deal with than solar radiation.
Guess you don't remember the fail whale? Twitter was held together with gum and bailing wire for a long time. Yes it got better, but I'm certainly not going to use it as the example for good engineering.
I'm seeing a lot of these kinds of comments, and think this might just be an American worry (because it's such a litigious place)?

People in the Netherlands and England where I also lived for a short while, are pretty chill with these kinds of things. I can't imagine them doing anything other than thanking you profusely.

I mention this because I'd rather this kind of attitude wasn't imported to Europe.
> All the computer nerds were shocked when Google came out with just a single bare text input as its primary UI.

Yes, if by "shocked" you meant "delighted". Not just that it was a single text input, but that it could also do the desired task better.
The Problem With ‘No Regrets’: A cycle of mistakes
> Advertisements are a malignant cancer of capitalism

I'm stealing this.
Great point - a good threat model usually targets all companies first, such as FAANG, since they are the worst aggressors, and are well known to be leaky (data dumps of personal info are leaked almost daily now), whereas the government tends to be seemingly less leaky and have more narrow data interests, i.e. less interested in the wide array of data that companies extract from people.
It's strange how often the government is the main entity discussed in privacy concerns while completely ignoring the much larger problem of corporations in that area.
In their community repo:

> We want to welcome as many developers and companies joining and participating in WASIX. This is a project that aims to be governed by many entities, not just one.

> Wazero, Zig, and AssemblyScript could be great additions to the governance team, but any others will be more than welcome. As long as you want to move WASIX forward you will be welcome to chime in and participate in its progress.

https://github.com/orgs/wasix-org/discussions/1
I saw lots of examples of white children being classified as seals
> But, when we need to design things for 80 IQ crowd, everything suffers.

I really think that the only way to adequately serve both demographics is to have two different UIs.
I dispute that AI tools are not useful for any good purpose. I’ve had success with GPT-4 generating blocks of code where I’m not familiar with the relevant APIs. The code needs to be checked, of course, and doesn’t always work, but neither is it mere noise.
I recently went from a quest 2 (limited 3 IPD settings) to a pico 4 (that has gradual fine adjustment) and makes a huge difference. Specially in the headache and nausea department.

Even with pancake optic artifacts, just that setting alone makes a huge difference in don't feeling dizzy in rapid movements.
Accidentally Hacking the Planet
Earlier submission about same statement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123082
I'd say it's more the opposite. What characterizes cargo cult development is having too many principles and rules, rather than lacking them, they're rules without any real understanding of why they exist and what they're for or when they're applicable. As long as you adhere to the strictures, good code emerges somehow.

The way to bring a cargo cult developer into the light typically involves debunking or contextualizing a whole bunch of weird ideas.
I've sold my stock, so it will obviously keep going higher. That being said, I don't see how it's a sustainable price, it has massive P/E and Price to Sales ratio. In the past when a stock finally hits the $1 or $2 trillion mark the stock will give it up relatively quickly before it finally reclaims it for good. AI is the new "blockchain" in terms of the level of hype it is getting where every company now can mention it and get a 5% jump in their stock price, to me that means we're getting closer to a saturation in the hype.
The article says that 40 GW power was reached. And you are talking about MwH (i.e. energy), so that is a misconception I think.

Renewables share for the whole last week in Germany was 77.4%.

https://energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?...

You can get a feel for how the production is composed over the day here https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&...
> I might agree with you if I ask for the fact some of the most popular beginner languages use sigils

20 years ago I might've agreed with you. But I do not think that PHP, BASIC and shell scripting are popular beginner languages in 2023.

> It’s also worth noting that all languages have special tokens to identify properties of the code. Eg why does a string need to be wrapped in quotation marks but integers do not?

Quotation marks and especially parentheses after function calls don't fit TFA's definition of a sigil because they aren't at the beginning of the word and (arguably only in the latter case) don't communicate meta-information about the word.

> At the end of the day, if you want to learn to program then you are always going to have some degree of syntax that you just have to learn.

I'll agree with you that the line between sigils and general syntax/punctuation is a bit of a blurry one - where do you stop? Using my definition above, I think wrapping strings in quotation marks is a clear win because it fits our widely-held shared understanding that quotation marks demarcate and group a sequence of words. Single and double quotes behaving differently is unintuitive for the same reason while not conferring a corresponding benefit on experts.
There are efforts to make more accurate classifiers (2021), which seems to come down to avoiding dataset biases, but for them to work, they essentially have to group humans into racial subsets (of which 'gorilla' and 'chimpanzee' might be a discrete entity, which is evolutionarily interesting at least, as humans/chimps/gorillas are more closely related than to each other relative any outgroup).

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/9/2/195

> "Studies have shown that due to the distribution of ethnicity/race in training datasets, biometric algorithms suffer from “cross race effect”—their performance is better on subjects closer to the “country of origin” of the algorithm."

However, these classifiers are also problematic as racial identification is a bit thorny politically. It's comparable to gender identification classifiers in the context of trans politics (as, regardless of personal identification, there are some classifier-accessible differences between the vast majority of female and male faces, although I suppose there's an androgenous middle ground).

To go out on a limb a little, imagine an 'Aryan vs. Jewish' classifier - who wants to be associated with that? Lots of downsides for any commercial outfit, certainly, and few upsides.
I think the part you're not addressing is the fact that DDOSers aren't using their own hardware and more importantly: their request still goes through at the end so what do they care if it took 2000ms longer?

I actually do like your puzzle challenge idea from an obfuscation standpoint of making an API less attractive for clients that aren't your own, though. A challenge system + an annoying format like Protobufs instead of JSON is too much work for a lot of abusers.

Biggest problem with DDOS though is that if the volume is even reaching your application server, you're probably hosed.
I think it's idiotic and racist to dismiss people offense of being labeled as an animal with a long history of being used as derogatory racial insult
No, as prompt enginneering skill is a subset of anyone working with a LLM (not necessairly limited to DS/ML) and the current cases of hiring a prompt engineer are effectively PR stunts.
Both gorillas and black people have dark skin and reasonably flat features.

The lack of contrast can make things hard the evaluate, especially if you're dealing with SDR content in a format that struggles to accurately encode darker colours.

It's not racism, it's a lack of information to the evaluator and a failure of communication by the company.

If they actually put out a statement regarding the technical issues around the problem, rather than trying to bury it in order to minimise the backlash, we could be having some far more reasonable and level headed discussions.
> How can this be the case?

Jobs with degrees pay just a bit more than a family's responsible spending on expenses. We had news stories for ages about people in degree-req positions on food stamps/SNAP. The state resolved that by opting out of food assistance programs.
agree more zero click searches, and extend that to zero 'google' searches as well (no need to use google if the X-bot on your Y-device can give you the answer without the need of google.

coming chatgpt bots on device will cut out google, and the stupidly overly long recipe sites, completely for most searchers.

However SERPs weren't just acceptable, they were / are wanted for many searches - including many that google now censors.

I discovered uncensored gpt recently and I see a totally new way of tech coming soon for the average consumer / user.

I'll say it again, google is and will be the 'new' yellow pages - it will still be the goto for finding how late the store you are going to is open and the phone number for it.

The short term challenge with the new search and find will be monetizing the new answer bots - pay a dollar per year like whatsapp was? someone going to come with a decentralized adwords like tech that can insert local ads in various cities?

I recall a post the other day, someone running a local-like gpt and it's getting lots of use and costing him/(her?) $50 / day for hosting.. that's not tenable without some flow of cash.. but ads could be 1/10th the google prices and be successful and fund smaller instances people can use.

and ads not needed if 100 people are paying $1 per month for a server costing 50.

a half gig of knowledge saved on device or on router could eliminate a lot of repeated searches completely as well - a smart bot would locally store the last years worth of recipes you've searched, the safe temp for chicken / salmon.. how to convert cups to quarts..

A smart bot would also fetch rss-like the latest news / weather / sports scores and such - no big G needed - except to check for changing open hours around holidays and such.
I would have thought that being "added" to anything is a two-way confirmation:

1. One from the party wanting to add the group to their account. Based on a prior comment, sounds like you are prompted to confirm an external group being added as admin.

2. One from the party administering/owning an external google group being requested to be added. Is there any confirmation here?

Without the 2nd confirm, I start imagining security exposures in the family of Ransomware - let's call it "RansomAdd". You randomly add external google groups until you get someone to poke around "too much" and then threaten them with legal action unless they pay up. Ugh.
It’s funny but it hurts. I read the whole thing amused but with disdain on my face.
What's the merit compared with pydantic or beartype?
Context:

>OpenSSL 3.0.x and 3.1.x are vulnerable to this issue.

>OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 users may be affected by this issue when calling OBJ_obj2txt() directly.

>OpenSSL 3.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0.9.

>OpenSSL 3.1 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.1.1.

>OpenSSL 1.1.1 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1u.

>OpenSSL 1.0.2 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2zh (premium support customers only).
Isn't this a little like reaching out to Linus because someone changed their home directory permission to rwxrwxrwx? It sucks for them, but what could google do?
Why does everybody hate databases?
They had the option to handle it any time between 1957 and 1993

> After the siege, McLennan County Sheriff Jack Harwell told The Dallas Morning News: "I would have tried to arrest him, and I would've never walked out of there alive. One day there had to be a confrontation with them. They were building for this."
Code Attestation needs to be easier
Visual-Design Principles and UX Design Best Practices
Thank you so much for making such a delightful guide! I wish I had this when I started baking :)
I mean, no hard FSF/GNU, no GPL, no Linux - with only the BSD/MIT license around, any good kernel feature would have been simply coopted and repackaged like the TCP stack was, keeping commercial software always ahead. From that perspective, the world is undoubtedly better off like this. Even the projects that compromised just a little bit with LGPL often got swallowed: see KHTML, for example.

> consider an alternative universe where the FSF and/or GNU had invested in to a good code hosting platform

FSF/GNU were created by nerdy hippies, expecting them to ever be great at running such a service is unrealistic. Besides, they did provide platforms, they just were never as good as commercial alternatives.
China is counting on the US and India, et al, pushing for fabs elsewhere.

Once the fabs are out, there is less impetus for the US (plus Korea, Japan, etc.) to put a lot on the line to save Taiwan.
An Introduction to Pokémon ROM Hacks
Can't or won't
401(k) Hardship Withdrawals Tick Up as Inflation Stays High
> until we develop fusion-based propulsion that makes orbital travel dirt cheap…here's a good summary

The tyranny of the rocket equation describes the exponential fuel cost of lifting propellant, with propellant, out of a gravity well.

One workaround is non-propellant launch [1], e.g. an orbital rail gun. (Fusion propulsion is still tyrannical because you’re carrying your propellant.) The other is in-situ resource utilisation, i.e. not lifting out of a gravity well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
Because gravity is a bitch when making squishy things. They like to collapse under their own weight before they can harden. Imagine a pipe that is rigid when fluid is flowing though it, but collapses and sticks together when none is present. There would be a massive amount of difficult in attempting to print/build said pipe under pressure.

In zero gravity you don't have to worry about pressurizing it, but you do exchange a new set of difficulties.
> I do, however, have a huge HN problem.

So I've noticed — you and pjc50 are on enough threads, with interesting enough comments, that you fit into the same bit of my brain otherwise used for celebrities like Tom Scott and Scott Manly.

(Weirdly, most other high-karma accounts don't get filed like that in my head)
Right, it does get abused, but I don't see anyone coming for its niche and I don't see its niche evaporating.
Perhaps my analogy with studing at the party was not perfect. The point was that your friends are here and now, not that someone is making noises and having fun.

You're right from the structural/organizational perspective. If you visit astronomy forums and not 4chan, houses analogy holds true.

But my analogy comes from how my brain perceives reachability of other humans (especially one I care about). When I'm "in house", it takes a lot of effort to meet someone and have the human connection (i.e. you should agree on time and date, arrange the meeting, exit the house, reach the meeting point). But internet makes this almost instant – just open messenger/social media and here they're are, virtually always online.
My point is that it should not be up to an individual to save for their own retirement (right to exist after they are no longer useful as a laborer). If someone works their whole life, society should sequester some of the profit they generate and keep it to pay for them to life fairly comfortably until they die. That's the idea behind social security.

Hell, even if someone doesn't spend their whole life working we should still afford them that comfort. But to spend your whole life working and consuming and helping push forward the engine of the economy to only be left out in the cold is a real gut punch.
It's funny. In my experience, stereo rendering is not a make-or-break issue in VR. I mean, it depends on the app design, of course, but a lot of apps can get away with monoscopic without most people noticing.

I had a regression in an app I was building where it was rendering in a monoscopic mode and it actually took me a long time to figure out what was "wrong" with the app, but apparently, I was the only one who thought it was wrong. It went for at least a month before I noticed a problem and another month before I eventually had the time to diagnose it. All during that time, nobody made any comment about it, people were enjoying the app.

I eventually figured out that you really only notice stereo rendering in modern VR headsets if you have a lot of near-field objects with which to interact and you interact with them with direct hand gestures (either hand tracking or controller bumping). So, you need stuff to be within a meter of the user for them to really notice "this isn't right".

There is a gap past a meter and before 10 meters where it's hit or miss if anyone is going to notice the lack of stereo rendering. The more the user is moving around, the less likely they are to notice.

And then, anything past 15 meters, I don't think there are any VR headsets on the market (other than maybe the Varjo VR-1, but I've never seen one myself) with fine enough pixel pitch that anybody is going to notice the lack of stereo rendering.

Now, that's just "where does stereo rendering take effect"? Part of what I think makes VR good is the ability to get up close and personal with the environment, to manipulate things in your hands, so typically I think "good" VR apps are going to need stereo rendering, but it was still surprising to see that it's not a universal issue.
I believe Xi Jinping has said something to the effect of "Taiwan should be a part of China by the end of this decade," although I'm having a hard time pinning down the exact quote. Although it should also be noted that Xi also tends to emphasize his desire to see Taiwan unified peacefully rather than force, so it's difficult to assess with accuracy how likely China is to invade Taiwan to compel an unwilling unification.

As you say, 1% versus 6.5% is a level of precision that isn't helpful. The way I prefer to think of it is that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is sufficiently probable as to warrant making contingency plans for such an event, but not so probable as to warrant making active efforts to avoid Taiwan.
To quote myself:

> without extensive human adjustment and editing

Current AI tools are a bit helpful if you're using them for "good". They're immensely helpful if you're using them for "ill" (spamming, scamming, astroturfing, et c.)
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

Reading understanding here not only as "intellectually grasping" but also "standing under it", as in supporting it with your actions.
> at some point the code has to hit hardware

Yes, but that's not a concern of a computer scientist. Implementation and execution of the algorithm are up to the reader.

It's like complaining that engineers don't do enough novel computer science research; of course they don't! It's not their job.
If there's anyone who can speak to the risk of AI, its Sam Altman, the signatory of this letter, CEO of OpenAI, a member of Y Combinator, and a contributor to Hacker News.

Instead of making this a diversionary puff piece, I would like to hear Sam provide tangible feedback on how we can mitigate the risks AI bring us, since he is the one that started the AI revolution.
It may continue up to 1.25T or so, but the current price is absurdly overvalued at 37x sales. Even with the stellar guidance they gave, at best, the company is worth 0.5T. It may not go down that much, but folks buying here for the long term are in for disappointment.
> didn't help Stallman alienated the GNOME and GTK people

I don't know the details but, I mean, GNOME/GTK people themselves have been very good at alienating folks of all sorts...
Actually it happened way before 1970 when Dodge sued Ford.

Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, 204 Mich. 459, 170 N.W. 668 (Mich. 1919) is a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a charitable manner for the benefit of his employees or customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
> just look around, people wearing $300 foam shower sandals, new trucks towing dirt bikes/jet skis, dinking $6 coffees, and the talking on their iPhones etc. these are not people worried about saving

That's a picture which doesn't well represent the folks I've known, associated with and worked with.

Out in the public tho, I can see where spendy folks would be the ones that register in our awareness.
I was generalizing the bug but my basis is an assumption that the programmer didn’t make some conscious or unconscious racist decision, but just something basic like “match shapes and colors” and the training data had a bunch of gorillas for one reason or another.

I think this gets fixed by better training data and more pictures of really dark skinned people. So with more supervised labels of dark skinned people to people, properly so the matching doesn’t think people are closer to gorillas.

Comically/sadly, we’ll know we get closer to fixing the training sets to be more inclusive when google starts labeling gorillas as people.

I think there are some systemic reasons why there aren’t more diverse populations in training data. And those are more society issues than AI issues (ie, rich people are more represented, rich people are certain races, therefore races are more represented).

And finally, I’ve worked in software that people just test what they are and know so I’ve seen so many test plans that are too simple and only test the programmers dob and address. This doesn’t mean racist because all the programmers are Asian males. It just means the quality review wasn’t thorough enough to include proper test conditions.

I might be inappropriately conflating software bugs from different areas but this is what makes me think “stupidity or weakness more likely than racism.”