skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how can you use public and private keys without encryption

Signing is different from encrypting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm

And yes, 100% agree we can do better in terms of explaining passkeys. The hardest part is that different audiences require such different approaches.
> The userbase that plays these games do not care. They are a sustained revenue source. A majority of them do not overlap with gaming and tech communities online. They simply play the games and move on. It's a large silent community that we don't often interact with.

What's with the need to use such an insulting tone, simply because you don't like a certain type of games?

I buy F1 every single year, and I'm an avid gamer and part of the tech community. The game doesn't require massive changes every year, there's simply no need for it. Improved graphics, and an up to date grid, cars, circuits and regulations is what I want from such a game.
The 4th amendment already exists and is ignored by the federal government (e.g. the border search exception [1]).

Passing another amendment will accomplish nothing, it will get ignored just like the 4th one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
The Benjamin quote at the top of this piece is absolutely brilliant. I'd run across it ... somewhere ... in the past day or so, Richard turned it up following an ask I'd put out on the Fediverse.

Memorialising that here:

“Already today, as the current scientific mode of production teaches, the book is already an obsolete mediation between two different card file systems. For everything essential is found in the index box of the researcher who wrote it, and the scholar who studies it assimilates it in his own card file.”

“Und heute schon ist das Buch, wie die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Produktionsweise lehrt, eine veraltete Vermittlung zwischen zwei verschiedenen Kartotheksystemen. Denn alles Wesentliche findet sich im Zettelkasten des Forschers, der’s verfaßte, und der Gelehrte, der darin studiert, assimiliert es seiner eigenen Kartothek."

Walter Benjamin - Attested Auditor of Books, in One Way Street (1928)

That appears once before on HN as Richard notes, by qznc: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23388285>

I've thought a great deal about information, books, and knowledge as a social construct over the past decade or so. The thought of books as a form of inter-process communication, where those processes themselves are the read- and write-heads of databanks (index cards, Zettelkasten, Wikis, databases, personal organisers, Zotero and Calibre archives, ...) hadn't really occurred to me, though I in fact practice just what Benjamin describes myself.

It also seems as if books are struggling to sort out what it is that they want to be and achieve, though I suspect this has pretty much always been the case. Recordkeeping technologies are forward-moving but strongly backward-influenced. The form, style, and structure of books is governed by numerous requirements, audiences, interests, and constraints.

To join with another thought I've had recently: we are not defined by our pasts and histories, but we are from our pasts and histories.
Unit Testing with Async/Await
Keeping the restriction aside, you can still log into most websites even inside webviews.
It also means having instrumentation and observability as first class features. First party support for containerisation, the app needs to be robust and capable of handling shutdowns and multiple instances gracefully. In a cloud environment, when hardware fails or instances get resized, multiple containers may get spun up and everything is kept in sync through the database (or an external data store).

Authentication and integration with auth and secret providers are another distinguishing feature. I personally find "cloud native" software to be a pain to use locally because they usually come in the form of a docker-compose and kubernetes setup, and those absolutely gobble up ram and disk space.
> That straight up reads like SICP and lisp are inseparable and that exactly means that SICP is not as general as people claim.

They are separable, but there is a loss of elegance.

For example Scheme has linked lists and symbols built-in in an elegant way. The JavaScript version tries to provide them, but in a clunky way. Symbols are replaced by strings and the (a b c) notation of Scheme looks as ["a", ["b", ["c", null]]] or list("a" "b" "c") in the JavaScript version.

That a text may make use of the language it is written in, that should not be surprising. Thus the language shapes what and how it is said.
That's why in python that raises a KeyError, or if you use explicitly .get() you can specify anything as your default value.
Tangential: I was going to suggest "protocoli(s|z)ed" instead of protocollar, but I Googled "protocollar statements" just to check and found 2 things. First, this page was the top result! Second, "protocolar" (one ell) and "protocolary" are apparently real words. New to me, thanks.
Ubisoft: Ubidead

Does that also include console copies I wonder?

I have blacklisted EA/Origin and Konami already, now Ubisoft is entering the list. Do not support money-milkers.
This is exactly how the legal system works. You are railroaded from the start and effectively coerced into a plea. Truth does not matter. Justice is exceptionally rare. It is terrifying.
THE SCYTHE OF THE GODS DROWNED IN DEATHLY SILENCE DECREED BY THE LORDS OF THE INFERNAL CASTLE.

(It is banned to mow the lawn here on Sundays, by a municipal bylaw.)
Can reproduce too
and what if the economics textbook contains "much like Charmander evolves into Charizard, free markets evolve into monopolies"?
From the perspective of reducing actual deaths and other drug related harm, Portugal's policy is in fact working. You can read a rebuttal to that Wapo article here: https://www.econlib.org/was-portugals-experience-with-drug-d...
Oh it's not only the astrology loons, you have the UFO crowd, conspiracy theories crowd, people who make their political cult leader a semi God, &c. it's also super easy to embrigade them in extremist causes by promising them to be part of a group

Instead of having one big cohesive group you get hundreds of sub groups with a lot of conflicts

I'm not advocating for going back to that, which wouldn't even be possible, just saying we lost something and what we replaced it with is lacking in a lot of aspects
This reads like the return of the 'ops' function from years ago, that DevOps/SRE was trying to get rid of.

It would be good to know if anyone's companies have implemented some or all of these patterns. Reading through the examples gives me a sense of "corporate happy path divorced from reality" because I've never seen these work, despite sincere attempts to make it work by those involved... but that's my own observations, perhaps I'm an outlier?

The platform team has no customer incentive and a different sense of urgency compared to the product team. Platform teams will always be understaffed and overworked, the company has no incentive to invest in them as long as stuff's kind-of working. So why would any sane product team want to accept an unsupported platform/integration into their codebase when they're then at the mercy of this team which is barely able to support the thing?

Slapping fancy terms on these like "tour of duty" silly. It's a grand term for absolving responsibilities afterwards. "Trusted outsider" is sillier, in an organization you don't really get a choice to tell someone they're untrusted, it means you are forced to accept a code contribution from someone else who won't necessarily be keen on your practices.
Sure it would. Ohhh, ya got me.

But this thread is about how the cure is often worse than the disease with prohibition. See: 18th Amendment, War on Drugs. Concocting a hypothetical scenario where the drug is Disney-villian evil and enforcement is not an unmitigated disaster is hardly a decisive rhetorical victory, wouldn't you say?
What are good resources to learn about this new trend of using messaging? We already had this stuff MoM (message oriented middle ware). Pretty interesting.
I find Jupiter and Semele personally significant.
As a great example, the current BBC and its tendency to lean towards UKGOV fawning in its reporting since not only do they control the purse strings (and have been tightening them on a regular basis in response to perceived BBC trangressions) but also get to appoint the people in charge (cf the last chairman and his blatant links to the Tories.)
Mellon. The rest are left as an exercise to the reader.

It does always amaze me that we trained LLMs on a dump of the internet and then people are shocked that they're about as trustworthy as a random web page.
Two of my favourite and easily most intelligent friends are deeply into astrology and have been for decades. One is a PhD as well, the other an accomplished writer.

It’s always hard to put these things together, though it’s actually very stimulating to talk with them about it. It’s an entire world for them, loaded with meaning and salience. It doesn’t take away from how intelligent I think they are (they both possess capabilities I can’t fathom), but I don’t think it’ll ever properly make sense to me.
I most enjoy conversations that end with "Oh, and one more thing...". That style always gets right to the point and makes it in an irrefutable manner.
Gmail is the bugger to get rid of. I need a backup email for my FastMail account, but I don't want to pay for two accounts when I'm only ever going to use the second one as the backup (and the obvious hack of creating a second alias for the FastMail account is equally obviously bound to fail).

Drive is still useful sometimes, mostly because my wife is addicted to it, but for a lot of the stuff I was using this for, I now use my Remarkable (and their SaaS).

Photos is one of those where I debate the usefulness of any of it. 99% of my photos are shite and not worth saving. The 1% that are, I need to curate a lot more than I do, and the curation is the problem not the storage. Ideally I'd like 2 buttons on the camera, one for "take this photo and delete it in 24 hours" and the other "take this photo and add it to my long-term storage with $this tag"

Getting third parties off Google login and on to email/password (using a paid password manager) was pretty simple, though I still find occasional sites that are just "welcome back <gmail address>!" and I have to work out how to get that changed. Haven't had any huge problems with that so far, apart from the usual "change email address, try to login again, get wrong password, reset password, 745395739 captcha attempts, generate password in password manager, save new password, login successful finally" dance.
The encryption issue is nuclear bad, an imminent threat to speech & freedom & liberty.

It's not as immediately catastrophic, but telling everyone running a site network or service they now have to actively police that shit &tell the DEA everything is also a pretty awful walk back of safe harbor. Discord is going to have to go through hell to survive & comply with such a measure.

Where does it even stop? Do the feds now get paged every time someone says they got high? And it's the feds... are the feds here trying to route around an ever increasing number of state's decriminalizations/legalizations? It may be legal but the feds are listening in all online places?

Government's ability to concern-troll the world into illiberal shitty authoritarianism is so manifestly endless & diverse. They are just horrible pathetic chumps, in nation after nation after nation. This is why the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace was written: because there is a moral obligation to obstruct deny & prevent exactly this sort of illegitimizing intolerable nonsense that these power grabbing maniacs would gladly foist upon us.
Yes, since Lisp isn't hard to read.
How about "falsehood quotient"? Count the number of counterfactual assertions in a given text, then divide by the number of sentences. Of course, the question of what is a falsehood is an exercise for the reader, but this would at least give a unit of measurement, flawed as it is.
I thought we were talking about the potato famine?
I don't think people will associate the depiction of a someone in that movie to any actual people, given that the movie is a completely fictitious rewrite of a real event (i.e. Tate murders).
Do you really think that's why they make such a big deal about it? It seems like a heavily exaggerated type of virtue signalling to scare people into voting heavier restrictions. I am extremely cynical towards the notion that they are actually "afraid" of it in any sense at both the individual and bureaucratic levels.
Just show it. HN folks are curious types. Give them the keys, they'll take it for a drive, be pedantic about flaws they don't really care about, and then buy it. You shouldn't have to explain it very much.

That's also why waitlists are frowned upon here. There's little to play with and no buy button. The final product can also be quite different.

There's usually a lot of negative comments on Show HN. That's because there's no downvote for topics here. People who like it upvote without comment, those who don't usually leave a comment. And frequently they get to the point, without thanking and such. Don't be discouraged by those.
If you’re playing against the house yes, statistically you’re gonna lose over time. But in games where your winnings come directly from beating others rather than pure luck (poker is a popular example), you can indeed beat others based on your skill.

That said, there are still a lot of factors you cannot control (like the skill of your opponents, luck of the draw) which mean your approach is absolutely the wisest. Anyone who walks into a casino with money they can’t afford to lose is setting themselves up for failure (both at the table and potentially in life).
This is correct. Current LLMs work by predicting the next word based on a bunch of preceding words. In other words, they are autocomplete. You can often form a valid sentence on your phone if you click on any text field and then press the automatic suggestions several times.

Transformer-based LLMs are interesting because they are such good version of autocomplete that they can, for example, complete a news article about scientists discovering unicorns, using just the first sentence (this was one of the first public demonstrations of GPT-2). But fundamentally they are still just auto-complete.
AskYoutube – Ask YouTube Anything
Guide to QucsStudio: Circuit Simulator with C++/Octave Support
It might be a Google/Facebook to Alphabet/Meta rebranding.
As I mentioned in another comment [0], a domain which looks like X.com but is a Unicode X https://xn--vm8a.com/ can be bought for 9,000,000
USD and I'd think that the real X.com is worth much more, as it doesn't get converted to puny code [1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36844079
[1]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
> Like if a toddler is of the age for first words in summer where long daylight and warm weather encourages interaction with more people

In that case, we need to look at more than just the time. As somebody else pointed out, we need to consider the Earth latitude where the person is born - since that affects the length of daylight. Similarly, we need to consider the pandemic for babies born during that time - since the longer daylight would have made no impact on their isolation. Despite all that, I have never seen anyone consider anything more than time for astrology.

> Also a lot of anti-astrology screeds have an air of “I don't hate women, I just hate everything women like” lol

It's easy to push off anti-astrology arguments as misogynistic. However, many statements here give a hint that astrology may be more prevalent among the female folk. What if that trend really exists? There are so many practices that are biased by gender - it may be worth studying that possibility.

My personal experience though, is different. I'm from a society where belief in astrology is biased by the generation you belong to, rather than the gender.
protocol extension adds another axis of design, with all its new gotcha ( pat , overrides, etc)

It looks great on paper and do enable beautiful designs in some cases. But after tasting languages like go you realize you can get away with struct & functions in 99% of the cases, and that having less design options is actually a plus. It lets you focus on what really matters : domain modeling.
> Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck.

That only applies to the optional Extension Pack. The base software for host and guest is GPL v2, as described in the FAQ you linked.

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Will the licensing terms of the VirtualBox base package be changed in the future?

We are not currently planning to do so, but it doesn't really matter. The license that applies to the VirtualBox base package is perpetual and cannot be taken back unless you violate the license. Even if Oracle were to change the license again, this would only affect future versions, and anybody still in compliance would still be permitted to redistribute the existing VirtualBox code under the terms of the GPLv2.

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(author of libtree): I believe that downloading, compiling and running libtree is faster than the startup overhead of pax-utils lddtree ;) maybe C is the better scripting language?

$ alias latest_libtree='curl -Lfs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haampie/libtree/master/libtree.c | cc -o /tmp/libtree -x c - -std=c99 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64; /tmp/libtree'

$ time latest_libtree /usr/bin/vim

real 0m0.179s
user 0m0.119s
sys 0m0.019s
/usr/bin/vim
├── libpython3.11.so.1.0 [ld.so.conf]
│ ├── libexpat.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
│ └── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
├── libgpm.so.2 [ld.so.conf]
├── libacl.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
├── libsodium.so.23 [ld.so.conf]
├── libselinux.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
│ └── libpcre2-8.so.0 [ld.so.conf]
└── libtinfo.so.6 [ld.so.conf]
As often with Rust, someone transliterates something that already exists just because they can, without providing any benefit at all. Sometimes it even results in fragmenting the community efforts to improve the project.
It's clearly often and falsely attributed to Einstein:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8742/did-einste...

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22If+you+can't+explain+it+s... (60k results)
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality might not be complicated to read. And while all this stuff about good and evil is valuable context to understand religion, all the other slave morality babble feels pretty close to a YoutTube rant video.
It's not an insult to point out the obvious 'ignorance is bliss'. You can still like bargain bin fast food while admitting such food is garbage.

That's the thing happening with these companies, changing things to be more consumer-unfriendly while riding on nostalgia or branding. Pointing it out doesn't make it an insult to those still enjoying the game.
It's a rhetorical victory against outright banning all prohibition of substances.
It seems like you don't even know what you want. If it's a red flag, you should just end the date fast. If it's not, have fun with astrology instead of just ,,faking it''. The cool thing is as it's all made up, you can show your creative side :)

At the same time if you can think about ending yourself for something light and fun, you should go to psychologist to process why it's the case.
I would be curious to understand the "How to Prompt" section more. As someone who does not interact with LLMs regularly I have no idea why this looks like a templating language.
Would anyone be able to explain what's going on in that section or point to resources that explain what the goal is / why this looks so programmatic?
> with a literal deity involved

That was not necessarily the case in the most literal way at the time the bible was written (or rather it was a bit more complex that that). Orthodox Catholicism especially became increasingly more polytheistic over the years as it presumably tried to maximize its appeal to the masses e.g. worshipping saints and holy relics (I’m sorry… “venerating”.. lol). The exact nature of Christ remained a massive controversy for hundreds of years.
The last paragraph took me down an interesting rabbit hole reading about Catullus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 (warning: NSFW text)

We certainly weren't taught any of that in our Latin classes at school!
How would you design it? Accept messages of any length, reject messages over maximum length?
It doesn't use the huggingface.co libraries?
Hard to disagree with Rich Hickey re non-breaking changes.

See for yourself the "Fig. 3. Clojure codebase—Introduction and retention of code" chart at page 26 of https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pd...

Rich Hickey is right and has a track record to show.
How to Prompt
As a fellow F1 player, I do feel less comfortable buying these games at full price and that's why I don't buy them every year, even though of like the updated grid and tracks. I wish there was a cheaper upgrade option, since I'm clearly not buying a full game. Your point that it doesn't need a full overhaul is completely correct, but we are still paying full price.
You can ask them to keep the deposit for 120 days and send them your delivery evidence at the same time.
But there's a fundamental issue here. The real strength of LLMs is not just information retrieval, but being able to dynamically recombine that information. Of course that's also their weakness. The reason GPT will regularly produce code with nonexistent API calls is not because it's been trained on 'fictional APIs', but because it's combining various real calls to make new fictional ones.

The obvious answer then is to tell it to make sure that what it's finally outputting is really part of the "real" API, but I think it's safe to say there's some technical hitch there, as it's safe to say OpenAI probably spent quite a lot of energy trying to solve the code hallucinations, and ultimately was unable to do so. I'd guess that the more you restrict its recombination ability, the more you end up with it inappropriately (and incorrectly) just regurgitating large chunks of its training input verbatim. Basically it becomes more like a keyword hunting search engine, and less like a generative LLM.
This page disagrees: https://www.costarica.com/business/water-rates
I never listened to that (probably should), but I do like Symbolic very much. Maybe in part because the vocals are much easier to understand, and I like the lyrics.
Precompiled headers were created for C and predate C++ compilers.

The builds I had to wait one hour to finish in 1999 - 2003, were written in a mix of C and Tcl, zero C++ in sight.
> But why can I not purchase raw dairy that I know to be raw and produced in good condition?

Because the people selling it routinely lie about it's safety and health benefits as compared to pasteurised milk.

I don't support that risk being put onto consumers who are intentionally misled by snake oil salesmen looking to benefit financially.

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/rawmilk-outbreaks.htm...
I came away with a different interpretation of Rich Hickey’s talk. I think he was advocating against using slots, where a slot would be a struct field. A slot has to have a value and if a value is not available then null is put there and now null must be dealt with. Instead I think he was advocating for using dictionaries. You either have a key or you don’t, but you never use null. However it seems that now you would have a bunch of “key in dict” checks which are less efficient than “value is null” checks. Plus confusion about what exactly has been supplied in a dictionary. Although there may be cases where code can just sequence through what exists without worrying about what doesn’t exist.
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