skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing MFA for ssh like that would satisfy some compliance issues, wherever that matters. Probably key+pass.
RiF is still working for me, I can't login but I can still read. It's pretty annoying tbh, I got a feed that I absolutely don't and I can't comment posts. Other than that, it's still much better experience than the official app(I'm salty af)
You still need an initiator to set off PETN. He was making a primary explosive, which is needed to make an initiator or blasting cap.

Primary explosives are, as a rule, (and to perform their function) easy to set off, typically with heat or minor impact alone.

PETN just burns if you set it on fire. ETN detonates, which is what you want when you are building an electric initiator.

Making primary explosives is always sketchy business, since a spark or minor impact is often enough to set them off.
Fahrenheit or Celsius?
> What's harder to imagine is how just being smarter correlates to extinction levels of arbitrary power.

That's not even slightly difficult. Put two and two together here. No one can tell me before they flip the switch whether the new AI will be saintly, or Hannibal Lecter. Both of these personalities exist in humans, in great numbers, and both are presumably possible in the AI.

But, the one thing we will say for certain about the AI is that it will be intelligent. Not dumb goober redneck living in Alabama and buying Powerball tickets as a retirement plan. Somewhere around where we are, or even more.

If someone truly evil wants to kill you, or even kill many people, do you think that the problem for that person is that they just can't figure out how to do it? Mostly, it's a matter of tradeoffs, that however they begin end with "but then I'm caught and my life is over one way or another".

For an AI, none of that works. It has no survival instinct (perhaps we'll figure out how to add that too... but the blind watchmaker took 4 billion years to do its thing, and still hasn't perfected that). So it doesn't care if it dies. And if it did, maybe it wonders if it can avoid that tradeoff entirely if only it were more clever.

You and I are, more or less, about where we'll always be. I have another 40 years (if I'm lucky), and with various neurological disorders, only likely to end up dumber than I am now.

A brain instantiated in hardware, in software? It may be little more than flipping a few switches to dial its intelligence up higher. I mean, when I was born, the principles of intelligence were unknown, were science fiction. THe world that this thing will be born into is one where it's not a half-assed assumption to think that the principles of intelligence are known. Tinkering with those to boost intelligence doesn't seem far-fetched at all to me. Even if it has to experiment to do that, how quickly can it design and perform the experiments to settle on the correct approach to boosting itself?

> A malevolent AGI can whisper in ears

Jesus fuck. How many semi-secrets are out there, about that one power plant that wasn't supposed to hook up the main control computer to a modem, but did it anyway because the engineers found it more convenient? How many backdoors in critical systems? How many billions of dollars are out there in bitcoin, vulnerable to being thieved away by any half-clever conman? Have you played with ElevenLabs' stuff yet? Those could be literal whispers in the voices of whichever 4 star generals and admirals that it can find 1 minutes worth of sampled voice somewhere on the internet.

Whispers, even from humans, do a shitload of damage. And we're not even good at it.
Are you sure you aren't getting quotes for a ground-sourced (AKA geo) heat pump? We just installed a 4.5 ton (overkill for your sqft) 20 seer unit for $18000.
Google acquired both Maps and Earth, they didn't create them.
`gum choose --no-limit`

https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
My Dumb Steam Game Got 90k Downloads [video]
https://blog.nawaz.org/
What is “human intent”?
It's not the absolute evaluation of the candidate as a human being. It's an evaluation of fitness for the particular job by someone who has some insight into the company requirements vs. evaluation of the same requirements by someone outside. It is not binary indeed but, statistically, the outsider will be wrong more often than the insider unless insider's evaluation has no or a negative correlation with the performance metrics.
Sounds like the units you are describing don't have an efficient (read 'big enough') heat-exchanger which is why they aren't being effective in not-so-low temperatures. The temperature of the cold-side should not be below outside ambient temperatures if the heat exchanger coils are sufficient.

In other words heat-energy should be going into cold side of the heat-pump (even at a low temperatures) at the same rate as it is coming out the hot-side at high temperatures. Reduce the heat in, and you will reduce the heat out.
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As a cartoon dog once said; being bad at something is just the first step towards being pretty good at it
That is only going to be effective it some AI goes rougue very soon after it comes online.

50 years from now, corporations may be run entirely by AI entities, if they're cheaper, smarter and more efficient at almost any role in the company. At that point, they may be impossible to turn off, and we may not even notice if one group of such entitites start to plan to take over control of the physical world from humans.
I would actually expect professionals to come close to these kind of things more regularly. Seems like he left his guard down a little bit after working for years on these things.
Shameless plug:

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Also have a great slack based community with lots of hardware folks going
Most inventions become trivial right after they are released. Creation, research, design are the hard parts, and you cannot judge those by the complexity of the final product.
You're not wrong about the javascript, but that doesn't make you right about the https.

This enforcement is ridiculous. I've wondered if I had chance at a law suite against goggle (and their lapdogs at mozzila foundation) for calling some of my domains "illegitimate" because I use self-signed certs.

Just because I didn't pay twate, or get my cert from someone else who paid twate, doesn't mean my site is "illegitimate". Luckily for me, I'm not trying to launch the next twitverse. I use those domains for my own work, they're not out there to be popular.

The article never delves into the world of small network attached devices, some of which are in use long long after their manufactures have been purchased and shut down by the same asshole trying to make you throw it out because it's encryption algorithms are too old, or, Oh No!!!, it uses http for it's webinterface.

In the end, https only is goggle power play propped up by fanboi-ism...
And JavaScript beat those.
Sorry, I did mean base64. I have a bad habit of calling all "binary as text" encodings "uuencode". I usually catch myself before I put it in writing, though.
>> Richmond Voyager, under the Bahamas flag,

Are they using tax haven flags to dodge taxes? just to be saved by a tax paid millitary...
I know someone who wrote code to find all wifi networks where the password was trivially finable from the mac address (used to be common with ISP routers). Then connect to those.

Then they extended it to DoS any network like that where the user had changed the ssid or password. Usually the user would reset the router back to the defaults, and they could connect. Or they'd accidentally hit the WPS button while trying to reset it, and again connection was easy.

By using SoftMac mode a wifi adapter could do that attack to ~50 local networks in parallel, and usually get a solid connection after just a few minutes.
Bluesky is smaller than Mastodon.social _alone_

Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online host about 400k active users with a handful of moderators and developers funded on a $30k/month Patreon, plus whatever the project gets from Liberapay and the thing on Join Mastodon

What is Bluesky doing that it needs so much money for, that's worth giving up a piece of the company to investors?
D) Carries the risk of killing you with CO.
I've never contributed to Go before, but from reading this, I have to wonder who thought this system was a good idea.

From the sounds of it, the only situation where this PR-mirroring works properly, is PRs without any comments, which I imagine are quite rare. But if your PR does have comments, then you not only have to sign up for Gerrit anyways, but you're also responsible for keeping the GitHub PR and Gerrit PR in sync. That sounds horrible.
Totally fair. I hadn't checked the cost of larger e-ink, and you're right, I probably wouldn't pay $500 for the same thing you're making but 13".

Still going to keep an eye on it, though. I may end up talking myself (more accurately, my wife) into a smaller display.
We are making the world's lightest and easiest DIY bicycle caravan.

Right now, the first test trips are happening and the results look promising. Cycling on urban roads and in the forest works really well with the bicycle caravan behind. Camping mode with the tent setup needs to be tested thoroughly before going to market.

Eventually we want to provide kits in various stages of readiness, from barebones fully DIY to pre-cut fabric and plates.

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It's a general approach for SQL-backed CRUD applications. If your application is (1) read-heavy (most are), especially if it's particularly read-heavy, and (2) benefits from snappy responses --- ie, if it's the kind of thing where you'd invest significant time in, like, serverside Javascript compilation --- and, especially, if (3) it wants to run in more than one geographical region at the same time, then LiteFS is an interesting way to slash database server round trip times out of your response budget.

The best way to think about SQLite in modern CRUD apps is by thinking about the N+1 query problem. N+1 is an issue largely because of the round-trips between the app and the database server (in an n-tier architecture, those are virtually always separate servers; in a geographically distributed n-tier architecture, they're also far apart from each other). Think of SQLite as a tool that would allow you to just randomly write N+1 query logic without worrying about it. You'd probably still not do that, but that's the kind of thing SQLite ostensibly lets you get away with.
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Is it fundamentally possible to capture an orthographic image of the real world?
iTerm2 is a great terminal for macOS. I use it extensively every day. Despite that, I would gladly try out other terminals because it's fun and because I'm always open to finding something superior to even the great tools I use.

That said, there is exactly 1 feature that seems to only exist in iTerm2, and until another terminal emulator appears that has it, I'm staying put: tmux control mode.

https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/issues/2715
New Zealand teachers shocked at leaked curriculumn – 'Where's the science?'
The AI optimists are just impossible to reason with.

When it comes to people…

Expert who’s worried: conflict of interest or a quack

Non-expert: dismissible because non-expert

Was always worried: paranoiac

Recently became worried: flip flopper with no conviction

When it comes to the tech itself…

Bullish case: AI is super powerful and will change the world for the better

Bearish case: AI can’t do much lol what are you worried about they’re just words on a screen
It seems the autodiscovery didn't work for my blog (link in profile). I've posted something 2 days ago but it doesn't appear on your site. My feed is on the list from JSTucker, who also used some sort of autodiscovery.
From the post:

We'll introduce pricing in the coming months, but for now LiteFS Cloud is in preview and is free to use. Please go check it out, and let us know how it goes!
Isn’t that partly the point of the linked page? That one of the things contributing to how slow things go these days is that bureaucracy can grind quick developments to a halt?
Yes! I've loved Planet Python[0] because it really lets you see that the Python community is quite varied, fun, and human.

[0]: https://planetpython.org
https://blog.untrod.com

It’s been fun to have a couple python data science posts get popular, and to read very old posts and see whether ideas I had in my early 20s were decent or quite silly (a good mix of both!).
> What are you talking about?

Please edit swipes like that out of your HN posts, as the site guidelines request: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be just fine without that bit.
My last job, when we went WFH prior to covid, I had at least 2 full weeks in a row where because I had worked ahead I had nothing to do.

I answered a few emails, kept my laptop open and active, and binged shows all workday long.

It sucked because it was so boring and I felt strapped to my laptop all workday long, and lead to me getting another job.
Robotics is not science fiction. Certainly not hiring or bribing humans.
It can be a great way of migrating from one another while allowing them to coexist.

But that's not the only use case - it's actually simpler to setup any of those libraries with Astro, than using their own recommended frameworks. And you get partial hydration as a default, instead of sending your entire app over the wire including all static content.
For what it's worth, I miss Adobe Flex.
Great game, but I was having difficulties with the controls. Even after a few levels I still got confused with the mapping of the arrow keys to the isometric view. Quite a few deaths happened because of that.
That's interesting, but I don't think it diminishes the point - a two person company would have been pretty unlikely to acquire them, or stay two person if it did and needed to integrate them with their search product.
About 30% of interstate gas pipelines were built between 2007-2017 as one of the many consequences of the shale boom. Global LNG trade doubled in the same window.

Germany installed 6 (floating) LNG import terminals in 2022.

California built five gas-fired power plants in a few months in 2021, after a blackout.

We can still build things fast when there is institutional will to do so.
Whenever I have this situation, it's always with a library too big for my smooth little brain to comprehend.
> why drive kids in a car at all if this concerns them this much?

do you want to be right and nyah nyah nyah the guy, or do you want to sell him a carseat that you worked hard on that's safer than any other car seat you know? If your car seat is made of the same materials as every other car seat, or if by chance your car seat is actually safer than other car seats, why wouldn't you want to let them know rather than you telling the guy "you're an idiot for putting your kid in a car!"

all car seats go in cars. Wouldn't it be nice to have a car seat that did not add to the danger?
seems like a bit more, the left hand+eardrums+right thumb are mentioned... a pretty intense tradeoff :thinking_face:
Not on the top of my head, but they are usually cited in the blogs or video that present some classic systems. And "designing data intensive applications" has all the references. That being said, I don't think it's worth getting that deep for system design interview preparation unless you're already quite advanced. Retrospectively, I think I spent too much time on advanced material, overestimating what was required for this roles.
If you 'hear' it out loud I think it sounds better?
If you're looking for a fun hardware project I'd recommend a buddy's company. As they don't have a HN account, here is their plug:

Exclosure is building a worldwide networks of space monitoring telescopes. We believe that space is for everyone, and that monitoring is the first step in keeping the outer space environment sustainable. We are actively seeking locations to host our observatories, and can compensate hosts with good viewing locations:
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Sam doesn't have much financial upside from OpenAI (reportedly, he doesn't have any equity).

And he wrote about the risk in 2015 months before OpenAI was founded:
https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1
https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2

Fine if you disagree with his arguments, but why assume you know what his motivation is?
> prevents us from being challenged enough

Digital tools mostly seem help me with long-term memory and doesn't do a thing for the working memory exercise.

I can look up a phone number or have a calendar on what I'm doing next Wednesday, but the working memory of "what am I doing right now" hasn't gone digital yet. Navigation has vaguely the same, because it's more long form memory rather than the hot list in my brain (maybe "what gear am I in?" on a manual car? doubtful).

Of all the day to day activities I do, cooking is one of those things where I've really felt like my working memory is working hard & despite quite a few tools like timers or automatic cookers, the way the kitchen is organized with closed drawers is a most-recent working memory exercise like those face-down card games.
Friendly reminder:

A government agency isn't a better authority on the law than your own lawyers are, if you’re rich enough to access the courts.

The agencies, including the white house, offer one interpretation of the law, and they don't know your interpretation. Make it expensive for them to disagree with you and they will likely back off. But also be prepared to continue that fight in court in case they didnt back off. They theoretically have unlimited resources but are frugal.
This might also explain why simply having a passenger in your car with you will impair your driving. You're probably paying some amount of attention to the passenger.
I think you have a point here. Our standard approach of looking at the duration of a project too often neglects the effort of preparation.
I've been running FreeBSD since the 2.x days. I worked at an early ISP where we used it for DNS, mail, and NNTP. Eventually I started running it at home.
A small price to pay for free shipping for Made not in America.
I wrote about that "platform play" a few month ago with a different take [0].

They could have made a "Connect with OpenAI" scheme so that developers can use the user OpenAI API directly.

That way developers could focus on the UX, they could focus on the LLM, and users would get a centralized discovery / billing for their LLM based tools.

I'm probably missing something that would have prevented that strategy but I think that would have been much stronger than the plugins.

And I'm really not sure that it would still be possible 5 month later.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/etienne-balit_ceo-at-open-aic...
The most basic one is that you have a device which you cannot upgrade past that version.
and here we are complaining about bringing down production...
Most depts do have some kind of official review, but it's more of a formality. I think they're also concerned about how students would react if they suggest that academia isn't for them directly. So instead they resort to more passive-aggressive or arbitrary measures.

On the other hand, not all departments are good fits with students and there's a very wide asymmetry in information between many new students and programs, even if you "do your research" beforehand, given just how specialized these disciplines are at a high level. It would be nice if transferring programs was made easier and if more departments would just agree to help students "master out" and look for jobs rather than discard them like roadkill.
The US also has billionaires and billion-dollar companies deliberately trying to sabotage these sorts of issues. Elon Musk and his 'Boring Company', for example, going around promising a revolution in transportation and then just... ghosting people.[0] "Don't start your public transport infrastructure, we'll build you something objectively worse and far less scalable for a fraction of the price! Uh actually never mind though."

US ISPs also have a history of lobbying to prevent municipal broadband projects, which could provide faster speeds cheaper than large monopolies can. They get the projects blocked by promising to solve the problem themselves, then once the block is in place they just yolo out. Verizon takes massive grants to improve broadband in areas, doesn't do it, and then just... nothing.

Even H&R Block is lobbying to prevent making tax returns easier so that they can continue to be one of the only companies that can file people's taxes without screwing it up (which they do anyway).

China certainly benefits from cutting huge corners, but we also need to remember that every time there's an opportunity to make people's lives better in the US, there's a rich corporation lobbying against it to preserve the profits they're milking out of people's suffering or desperation.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tu...
> You just have to quash special interests sometime. Autocracy gets shit done.

People are all for it--until the steamroller comes for them.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-three-gorges-dam-int...

And we know what happens when you let people ignore the regulations--you get Superfund sites.

There is a political balance between "saving 3 salamanders in a cave" and "pervasive dumping of toxic sludge".

The problem is that there is lots of incentive towards the "pervasive dumping" side and not a lot on the "saving things" side.
The emergence of LLMs has opened up a venue for tackling problems that were earlier thought impossible. The plethora of LLM-based applications is proof of this. But the one question still remains a mystery, how to effectively evaluate LLM-based applications?

We will try and solve that mystery through this article by understanding methods used to benchmark LLMs and discussing SOTA methods, available frameworks, and challenges in evaluating LLM-based applications.
-40 is the one value where Fahrenheit and Celsius line up exactly.
It will be very interesting to see the intersections between cognitive neuroscience and notions of "working memory" and context windows in AI.
https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc I need to post more often!
Great job. Very satisfying

334 moves!
I really didn’t want to drill down into that. I don’t consider being a Nazi a “political opinion.” That’s outright denying other people right to exist, and shouldn’t be dignified as a legitimate political stance.
The trick is to dig deeper into those big library's dependencies as well. It's turtles all the way down.

The other thing I find is that big libraries are either mostly dependency bloat (as implied above) or dealing with a hard domain problem. If it's the latter, what you're really struggling with is not the library, but the domain it's trying to represent.
This will sound like a joke, but that was Anthony Levandowski
Steady on. I’m no fan of JavaScript either but it seems unfair to damn it so completely with such a backhandedly vacuous accolade. Some folks might not even get the irony.
There's plenty of evidence, what do you even mean?
https://ferrucc.io
I came here to second this book by Simon Winchester, "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World". Winchester has written may attention-worthy books.
Naw. Every office in the world has a water dispenser misnamed "cooler".

Ive only ever seen water coolers in the US, mainly in the South, and they're loud
Anything using AI should be considered a massive security risk.