skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is the U.S. is built on immigration, people from Spain, Germany, Africa and many other countries live with each other, and because of relatively successful integration, the U.S. is where it's now.
How does this NABU service ("Internet 10 ahead of its time") compare to networks such as CompuServe?
Payment processors are a natural monopoly and as such they should be regulated like utilities, i.e. not allowed to deny service without good reason. Unfortunately the government rather likes having a way to destroy the livelihoods of undesirables without any of that pesky due process.
> The idea of growing new teeth is every dentist's dream.

Reall? Dentists prefer rotten teeth which takes a lot of money to fix.
Buran-Energia 1988 – Soviet Space Program [video]
Linux is NOT GNU/Linux

Gnu = coreutils + POSIX + gcc + others;

Linux = the kernel
"Fraud orders are usually easy to spot by shipping addresses"

You can find some of these by searching the shipping address and seeing if it's a freight forwarder or an obviously vacant home (listed on MLS with empty room pictures). Those kinds of shipping addresses have a pretty high fraud rates.

But, if you mean seeing that the shipping address doesn't match the billing address on the card via AVS... That's trickier, especially for B2B spaces where a business owner buys with a credit card tied to their home address, but ships to their business.
Creating a Full Text Search Engine in PostgreSQL
The living computers museum in Seattle was amazing. Volunteers maintained all kinds of computing devices there. Visitors to the museum got to interact with any of the devices.

https://livingcomputers.org/
I really liked walmart.horse too. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/19/jeph-jacq...
That’s a bug/oversight in a specific VM implementation. A JIT with a code cache (like V8) could have the same type of bug. It says nothing about about the inherent security of JIT vs AOT
I’m astounded you see it as a stroke of genius. Reddit may weather this storm, but spez made it worse at every turn. If their initial goal really was killing third-party clients, there are so many other ways they could have done it without astronomical levels of negative attention. The “landed gentry” sound bite made it to sites like TechCrunch and the verge — not a good look for Reddit’s IPO.
Just building off what you are saying and trying to find a way around it.

Possibly an alternative could be to offer a bounty on a top you use and if needs x item patched. Instead of getting an interval to do it they could offer it to candidates. This would mean these external patches that often distract internal teams in big companies but are necessary could be turned into hiring opportunities. This wouldn’t totally resolve the problem you pointed out, but perhaps it would give more companies the chance to leverage that option. No?
This depends on your use cases. If you running stable distribution like Ubuntu LTS and use Blender (or any professional 3D software) Nvidia proprietary driver is still make sense to use. Also Nvidia is obviously your choice if you want to run any machine learning software.

But if you want to run some bleeding edge distribution and play games on Linux then AMD open source driver will work great for you.
this seems to misunderstand what tarrifs actually do. It's the US companies that pay the tarrifs. The concept of 'if we increase the tarrifs, US manufacturing will come back".

That's not how the world works. It takes years to switch a manufacturer depending on terms, who owns the molds, etc.

Placing tarrifs on China hurts American consumers. Instead, there should be tax incentives for producing stateside.
It’s not really an issue for me because I generally know very quickly if it’s wrong or hallucinating and can easily get it back on track.

And in general I find it’s more accurate and far more concise than anything that’s going to show up in a Google search.

I mean, there’s no way I’m taking what it says at face value or copy / pasting code from its response, but that goes for stack overflow, or any other source too. (maybe sans official docs)
Double roundabout?!? Madness! I would rage quit and just walk if I encountered anything like this.

It is so absurdly and satirically British.
What do you require from a "C replacement"?

Zig in particular could scarcely do more to scream "I'm a replacement for C" without maybe asking WG14 to write "Just use Zig instead" in their next document.
The most valuable book in terms of increased income to me is _Exploring Requirements_ by Gauss and Weinberg
Tell HN: Note your DNS records before transfering domains
With the upcoming death of Google Domains, I wanted to move all of my domains out.

It seemed easy, given that the NS records were preserved when transferring. I figured: this meant I could take my time in copying over the DNS records to somewhere new.

Wrong -- when my domains transferred, Google deleted all their associated DNS records.

Maybe my real mistake was letting Google manage my domains and DNS records. Forgive me for thinking that the largest web company would be the best place to do so.

I don't remember all the DNS records I threw onto my domains or where they came from. I restored the ones I remembered, but I'll surely notice things breaking over the next few days.

It might be an amateur mistake not to back-up all DNS records, but I'm sharing this so others don't make it as well.

It's not every day that you need to migrate registrars.
> Users understand passwords

Do they though? Sure they can use them, but that's a far cry from understanding.

We can keep telling people to use long passwords, to use different passwords for different webpages, to stop storing them in unencrypted on their phone or desktop.

So far this has had limited success and even with a better than average understanding users usually just end complain they can't remember all that.

At which point you try to teach them how to use password vaults. Which increases the layers of indirection by 1. Which is never a good thing when you need to explain stuff.

And then you've got webauthn, which in theory solves quite a few of these problems by simply giving people two buttons 'Give me an account' and 'Log in using my account'. Unfortunately it does this by increasing the levels of indirection another time by effectively being built on top of a password vault (but not the normal kind of password vaults because that would be too easy).

If users understood passwords they would know how and why to use a password vault. If they understood password vaults they'd understand how webauthn could help eliminate passwords.
Yeah no problem, this is even closer to my area of focus! What do you know about physics and thermodynamics?

I'd say a good intro for low background is from Tomczak[0]. He has a book, but the blog posts are nearly identical. He did a post doc with Max Welling (someone you should learn about if you want to get deep, like I was suggesting before). So I'd switch things up slightly. I'd go Intro -> Autoregressive -> Flow -> VAE -> Hierarchical VAE -> Energy Based Models -> Diffusion. It is worth learning about GANs btw, but this progression should be natural and build up.

Continuing from there, you're going to want to learn about things Langevin Dynamics, Score Matching, and so on. Start with Yang Song's blogs[1]. Your goal should be to understand this paper[2]. Once you get there, you should be able to understand the famous DDPM paper[3]. But why we went through Tomczak wasn't just to get a good understanding of diffusion at a deeper level, but because you need these tools to understand Stable Diffusion which really is just Latent Diffusion[4]. This should connect back with Tomczak's 2 Improving VAE papers and you should also be able to understand NVAE.

This is probably the quickest way to get you to a good understanding but if you want to dig deeper, which I highly encourage (because there are major issues that people aren't discussing) then you'll need more time. But you'll probably have to tools to do so if you go through this route. Other people I suggest looking into: Diederik Kingma, Ruiqi Gao, Stefano Ermon, Jonathan Ho, Ricky T. Q. Chen, and Arash Vahdat.

[0] https://jmtomczak.github.io/

[1] https://yang-song.net/

[2] Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03585

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239

[4] High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752
If the licensed code was written by a patent licensee, then to replicate it in-house you’d also need to license the patent yourself.

In other words, the patent licensee may have a license to write and distribute their specific piece of software, but not to sublicense that to other people to write their own software, just to use the parent company's patent license. That is actually probably a common patent-license scenario, microsoft doesn't automatically get sublicensing rights just because they bought software developed by a licensee.
I agree with the other commenter that this is not how psychedelics work. They do not "make the pain go away" like depressants. If they have any effect on solidarity it would be to strengthen it, not disrupt it.

This is interestingly a great example of the point being made in TFA. That we need a new category for psychedelics because they are not anything like opiates etc.
TIL: Poop Funnels vs Poop Umbrella

I think the term "Shit" works better than "Poop" particularly for the especially bad managers.

I can't wait for my next 1:1 with my boss: "Hi, thanks for being a poop umbrella instead of a poop funnel." Or the next time I get a shitty boss: "Hi, have your heard about the MBA vernacular 'Poop funnels' vs 'Poop umbrellas'?"
Not sure if anyone has experimented with this but I wonder if there is a solution but it's just relatively unused. I've heard suing the company (or in most cases, taking them to arbitration) works and often times the company is the one paying for the fees (because that's how arbitration works).
Well, in the case of the Tor network its whole premise is that it's resilient to attack. So either it is or it isn't. If it's resilient but only as long as people treat it nicely, then it's not actually resilient. And anyone who can demonstrate that is doing a public service. It would be irresponsible to discover a flaw and not disclose it, or to continuously exploit it. But it's not irresponsible to look for the flaw in the first place.

In the case of GitHub, it's owned by a nearly trillion dollar corporation. Nobody is hurting some mom and pop business here.
It's a constant fear, and there's no way to avoid using these companies. I'm currently dealing with a bakery business that was suddenly suspended from Google Maps. This is a big deal because it's the main way, by far, that people find us.

7 days ago, boom. Your account has been suspended for not following the business guidelines. The only thing I've updated recently was our hours. It's been listed without problems for about two years.

Of course they don't tell you what the issue is. They just tell you to fix it and then beg them to reinstate you. It takes up to two weeks apparently (7 days so far). And if they decide not to, the only thing you can do is delete the listing, and two years worth of hard earned reviews go up in smoke.

A few days ago one of our staff told me a Korean tourist came in the day before we were suspended and accused us of being fake. I don't know exactly what happened but due to the tourist's limited English nobody could persuade them we were the real location. Or maybe they were looking for somewhere else entirely? Who knows. Apparently they left a negative review, which I can't see while the account is suspended. Probably they reported the location as fake.

So that's it. Two years, over 100 positive reviews sitting at 4.9 stars. Gone because of one confused tourist. Or maybe because I updated the hours. Or maybe an automatic spam check didn't like us.

I sincerely hope that the next round of EU laws tackles this instead of privacy. It's just as big an issue, especially if you're running a small business.
Related:

Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31504052 - May 2022 (43 comments)

Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your database management system? [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936104 - Jan 2022 (127 comments)
another modpack that should be mentioned here is pyanodons [0]. similar to space exploration it also extends the game significantly after the rocket launch, but it also adds additional content before (in fact, the rocket launch itself becomes rather unimportant and is an at first optional blue science tech)

pyanodons adds very realistic ore processing chains, petrochemical processes (the main developer, pyanodon, is a chemical engineer by trade), energy generation mechanisms, electronics overhauls, and also farming components including both plants and animals.

overall, a full py run will easily take 1500+ hours. it's probably not particularly enjoyable for most vanilla players, but if you liked mods such as space exploration or nullius, you might find some enjoyment in py

[0]: https://mods.factorio.com/user/pyanodon
I disagree. WebAuthen has been conflated with USB/NFC hardware keys, while that’s technically not correct, I have found plenty of non-technical people to fully “get it”. “I don’t have to have a super complicated password because this YubiKey stores an un-hackable password for me” is the sentiment I’ve heard.

Previous attempts at replacing passwords were all nonsense. They were all about replacing symmetric keys with asymmetric keys, which to anyone who doesn’t understand the difference, it makes no sense. I mean even if you understand the difference it hardly makes any difference in usability. I still have to manage my private key and secure it myself. the only usability difference is that I don’t have to transmit it, which is not even something that I do, it’s something that whatever software I’m using does.

With a hardware key, it makes intuitive sense. Sure, maybe the distinction between a TPM, Secure Enclave, Knox, Titan or a YubiKey is hard for non-technical people to understand or reason about, but luckily for WebAuthn simple external hardware keys are becoming a norm. I have seen many completely non-tech companies adopt YubiKeys which I was delighted to see .
A language from 1989 made a mistake? SAY IT AIN'T SO!
Or maybe these processors should train an AI to find whatever pattern you are describing.
Outside of the Great Rift Valley, every country was built on immigration at some point.
Again, no it isn't, what are you talking about?

Human beings are incredibly incredibly expensive to "make" into any useful adult thing. I have spent more money just this week just on a single one of the humans who are dependent on me than it would cost me to buy a fully packaged GPU in a box at best buy (and I think that box would actually have multiple GPUs packaged together in it). And I'll do that week after week for many more years. And then it will still be like four more years after that before they're capable of being a teacher.

It was harder to make the first GPU than to make one marginal unit of human teacher, but it's vastly easier to make a marginal unit of GPU.

I'm honestly curious what your mental model is, where you seem to think human labor is cheaper than computer hardware...
fglrx was pretty nightmareish itself 15+ years ago

nvidia driver on the contrary has always been reliable
Not where the law says such terms are unenforceable.
Git commit timestamps are 100% fudgeable. You could implement this based on GitHub repository age, but the assumptions would break for imported repos.

(Understanding we’re waaaay off in edge case territory here and this is all basically academic.)
> I think Red Hat was fully in the right

I think the reason for the initial uproar was this[1]:

Q: Will the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux continue to appear on git.centos.org?

A: Yes, the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux will continue to be published on git.centos.org. Nothing will change about how the source code is published. This change is only related to the binaries the CentOS Project is building and how they are published.

They struck that answer and replaced it with:

A: June 2023 Update: CentOS Stream is now the location for public RHEL source code, sources will no longer be published to git.centos.org.

The problem is for any downstream users (not just the 'freeloaders' or 'license abusers'), the main reason they remained in the RHEL ecosystem after the great CentOS to Stream migration was because free clones (Rocky and Alma) appeared in the wake of that decision.

Timing is important here. Companies and individuals were working on migration from CentOS 7 to 8 when CentOS 8 was killed off 2 years into a planned 10 year cycle.

Then once companies and individuals started migrating from Rocky/Alma 8 to Rocky/Alma 9, in the middle of the next 10 year support cycle of offering git.centos.org code dumps, Red Hat rugpulled the second time in as many release cycles.

Red Hat is within their rights, but I don't think they are 'in the right' either in the way they announced the change, or in the timing. And IMO in the way they are treating the response ("we do so much good, so it's okay for us to have a EULA which is against the spirit of FOSS/GPL").

Also, the discourse started getting weird when there were implications by Red Hat leadership someone did something so bad to trigger this sudden change, yet nobody will say who it was.

I admittedly don't know much about the Rocky/Alma situation, but it would be great if instead of vague accusations, someone would speak up because right now, for downstream users, it is annoying to have Red Hat imply one of these two orgs (maybe both?) is doing something nefarious, but to not know which one.

[1] https://www.centos.org/distro-faq/
TypeScript animation library Shifty 3.0.0 released
My lived experience is simply that most people don't actually care about finances _that_ much.

If you went to the gym you would find that 90%+ of people are not trying to deadlift 510kg for a world record and accept that as fact.

But somehow when it comes to money it's assumed that everyone's #1 priority above all else is to stack cash, and it's just not, and that cannot be characterised as a "bad decision".
Concerts aren't like most other goods though. You have to be available on that date and the price needs to seem fair to you. Maybe you'd pay more for one concert vs another even if you can afford it either way. Maybe depending on the venue the cheap seats might not be that bad. All sorts of confounding variables are afoot even if you know joe shmoe likes Billy Eilish and makes 50k a year.
Aside from the question of whether Harvard _can_ admit who they want, we get to express opinions on how they _should_ conduct admissions.
they've been in France a few decades, France is a more than a thousand years old, how can they have been integral to building to French economy ? were they here during the industrial revolution ? the "30 glorieuses" ? no.
> If social science teaches you anything, it’s that sweeping generalizations are a poor framework for understanding anything.

Here are some sweeping generalizations that seem to be helpful:

E = mc^2
a^2 = b^2 + c^2
F = ma
If there's anything we've learned in the past 20-some years: the stock market has very little to do with the health of the overall economy.

Stock prices are the measure, and the measure is manipulated.
Basically every modern language has solved this...
What charities are supported?
Measurement perturbs the system, always. Most of the time (radar speed check on a car, e.g.), the perturbation is so small as to be insignificant.

When one bounces a photon off an electron to measure its position, though, one moves it.

Likewise, when one uses a magnetic field to detect an electron, one deflects it.

Add to that that position is poorly defined for such quantized objects in the first place, and things only get fuzzier.
Watch the video for yourself:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killing_of_Nael_M._Vide...

You should also be aware that this person was known to the police and it is easy to research why.
- python repl, or similar iterative environment.

- chatgpt plus.

- curiosity.

there’s never been a better time to learn than now!
It does perhaps change the ball game though I would presume - if the goal is to grow a tooth which didn't develop, it changes the requirement to regrow a tooth to just regenerating whatever root structure you need to trigger that (which I would assume is a collection of specialized cells/nerves etc. which you could imagine maybe assembling from stem cells in a scaffold and implanting).
The IE6 debugger, specifically, which Did Not. Especially when it was a very specific IE6 crash bug that did not occur in any other context. Drawing vml polygons on maps.
The payment networks (Visa/MC/etc.) may be monopolies but there are ton of processors (Stripe/Paypal/etc.). Sure, all the smaller processors "suck" but somehow they worked before Stripe was founded.
It reminds me of the end of Neo’s “tears in the rain” monologue when he says “Now I know what a TV dinner feels like”
If I could get a pound every time the Telegraph predicted the end of France, I could safely take my retirement in a paradise island right now.

Too bad they were much more "conservative" to predict this bloody mess that became Brexit...
There are some geometry and rate problems such as multiplexing resources on a belt.
The park stabbing was a lone crazy person, that was clear to everyone.

The police murder was perpetrated by a member of an omnipresent institution that people in disaffected communities have negative interactions with regularly.
> Every time you modify dependency list, some of the dependencies print out screens-worth of messages to your console, asking for donations, warning about breaking changes.
MIR for Ruby is in no way related to Canonical Mir.
1500 plus hours.... people sure have different philosophies on life
The concern is mostly a moral one, not a legal one.

The idea that someone can take GPLv2-licensed code, build a platform/product on top of it, then coerce people to not share the source code after becoming a customer through a threat of ending their business relationship... that's what people take issue with.

I do too, though as I said in the OP, I agree it seems they're in the clear, legally-speaking.
Like tweeting without Twitter.
Reading this (why?) I got the impression the writer was working feverishly to make people think France's police weren't heavy handed enough the past 25 years. Rabid authoritarianism is a core Telegraph value, and it's weird to see it getting upvoted here.

So I clicked her name.

If you've ever wondered what a blatant apparatchik looks like: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/anne-elisabeth-m...

I'm certainly no great fan of Macron and his neolib smuggery, but this lady's list of articles is concerning. As are some of these comments...
If you read what I said, I said nothing about predictions. Predictions are fine. Stating things as certainties, not so much.
EVE is bookkeeping disguised as a game.
Linux Gamer here. My primary machine, built around 2015 or so, runs Void Linux and an Intel CPU (an old i7-4770S + 1060 Ti 8GB). My next one, however, will definitely be an AMD Ryzen, probably 5600X. Will still stick with nVidia for GPU, likely a 4060 Ti 16GB.
I don't know what happened behind the scenes. But I thought it was amusing when one of our mutual fund customers tried purchasing one share of each of the ~1000 funds we offered in our catalog. It obviously broke things; there were various UI things we hadn't tested for that kind of portfolio.
You can clone a few latest commits

git clone -–depth [depth] [remote-url]
If you invest in Vanguard funds, you are a Vanguard shareholder.
Great job by the officer. If we treated all criminals this way, there would be no crime!