skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“at what point are we ready to let the algorithm start doing some things on its own that maybe we are or aren’t comfortable with.”

Well, if you start by stating that your enemy doesn’t really have morals, it makes sense to let the algorithm take care of it for the greater good. We don’t want no stinky immoral people going around, do we? /s
I'm going to guess that they got a lower or more competitive bid from another vendor which is why you lost the contract and it is less about you more about them. You know just like dating. If they actually wanted to work with you they would have given continuous feedback since responsiveness to their concerns is usually part of the deal.
Nobody gets to decide what's more or less sensitive. Younger generations can argue being rendered homeless due to mass housing affordability issues is also insensitive.
Learned a lot of new tips today.

I have found a few obscure publications at the [Defense Technical Information Center](https://discover.dtic.mil).
It's not just old people. I'd say 80% of people would not use a website with that system.
I kinda wish there was something like cookies, but even more persistent. Lets call them permacookies.

I want to "remember my device", and have that keep me logged in forever with a permacookie. I don't even want to have a username and password. I want to create an account and be forever logged in.

There would be mechanisms to backup my permacookies, or transfer them to other devices. I'd have control of which sites could set permacookies for when I didn't want to be tracked too.
Yeah, shape up and learn to code, grandma!

In all seriousness, tech must adapt to humans. Engineers are at their best when they aren’t dictators
I guess the author doesn't know but setting password for users used to be more common. They would put it on a sticky under their keyboard or something(i did it myself too and I was in IT at the time, didn't give a shit, getting locked out every other day was affecting my perfrormance/metrics).

The latesr NIST guidline is goes further by eliminating password complexity and focusing memorable high-entropy passphrases. This is a "what you know" auth factor, even with password managers in play, the master password for that or for your high-impact sso password (work sso that can access everything) should ideally be stored only in your head.

But if the author insists, users should be given printed password books and enable MFA.
How much with the arm though? I would only like something that has an arm so it can potentially be programmed to do something useful. Maybe many versions away that will become actually useful but still, working towards that seems more interesting than having something basically worse at everything than my actual dogs.
The real "trick" wasn't getting DOS licensed to give to IBM, it was getting IBM to allow them to sell it themselves.
Frankly, most 'hard-workers' aren't doing the innovative work.

Tenure-track faculty have barely any time to breathe given all the hassle they have to go through. It's mostly done by grad students who are still learning the ropes. Ofc. this is different in places like Math depts. where it can't work the way it does in CS/EE.
> These days, the idea of compelled vaccination is pretty controversial, so the idea that we are going to take away peoples' liberty and force them to take psychotropic drugs after we've imprisoned them seems beyond belief.

This is already happening. Compelled vaccination is completely different than a mentally disturbed member of our society roaming the streets unhinged. I have been party to several title 36[1] cases and it's very, very difficult to get dangerous people "petitioned". It requires coordination between disparate agencies like hospitals, Fire/EMS, Police, community mental health orgs, etc. None of them share a database.

Once they are found to be incapable of living on their own, what do we do with them? Jail? Hospital? Half-way house/Assisted Living?

I will tell you... They end up back on the streets and it isn't pretty. The underbelly of every American city is a nasty, grimy, horrific place. I need to retire.

[1] https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=36
Then don't go to the UK.
in my locale's keyboard, curly brackets and the dollar sign are not obvious to input. they require an additional combo of keys that most people have no idea about.
> I don't know what on earth you're talking about.

I'm talking about your statement: "Maximum profit extraction, the kind of product is irrelevant, as are the customers"

The Soviet movies were not about profit at all. Why didn't they make better movies than Hollywood?

> We're getting ever crappier products in nearly every consumer category, because short term profits for shareholders are prioritized over the long term viability of the firm.

Which corporation has done this, and have you been shorting their stock? After all, if you know which companies are doing this, you can make a mint shorting their stock.
Compiz still rocks it
What is the end state here? A way to measure personal life KPIs? Or just building a dak board?
I used a pretty straightforward formulation, with a binary decision variable for each possible tile placement/orientation, and constraints to ensure that the pattern is possible to build: uses correct number of tiles of each type, no overlap ("if there's a 2x2 tile at (x,y), there is no 2x2 tile at (x,y+1)").

Another approach to the constraints could be to define the set of covered subsquares for each placement, and have a single constraint that says that each subsquare must be covered exactly once.

It was a pretty small patio (about 2 by 3 meters), with 17 square tiles and 12 rectangle tiles, and this formulation worked well enough to find all solutions to that in reasonable time. However, you get a lot of minor variations on the same general pattern. On this small scale just quickly scrolling these variations was manageable, but with a larger project you'd have to do something more intelligent.
Ten years ago also redmine was rock solid, a bit slow and not up to today usability standards, but solid.
The macbook air only has up to 16GB of memory right now. There's plenty of cases where one might want to run a javascript script on their laptop which uses quite a bit of memory, and they'd rather it complete at all, even if it's a bit slower.
What does verified C offer that rust doesn't? Is Ferrocene addressing that requirement?
When getting the life expectancy numbers did you exclude all deaths from before "working age"?

Because a significant effect is imparted by childhood deaths to the average life expectancy, especially for men, and those individuals never contribute to any pension fund nor taxes.

That has a massive impact on the results of the calculations.
Or maybe just iterated on until it gets more functionality? Linux has quite a large API surface, I'm not surprised it takes a while to replicate all of it.
2400 baud. I wish. I had to manually dial my rotary phone and then place the handset into my 300 baud CAT acoustic coupler modem.

To be fair by the time I 1st used Slackware that 300 baud modem had long been replaced and I at the time I had bonded ISDN channels for 128kbs connection paid for by my employer. Soon replaced by a T1 to my home also paid for by my employer.
lol. This really is the issue. AWS certifications are great way to know how services can be over engineered. Adding seemingly complex solutions to "prove" technical worthiness is an Amazonian thing
As you have yourself said, system() is not a wrapper for fork and exec, but it executes a shell process and it gives to the shell a command to execute, which may be a binary executable or a script.

Fork() and exec() are POSIX functions, while system() is a Standard C function that is available in C regardless of the operating system and regardless whether fork() and exec() exist.
Yes, because the modern day worker would be able to afford the former without paying 30% of his income if there were laws that strongly discouraged using property as an investment vehicle e.g exponential property owner tax, 0% for first property owned, 1% of land value for second, 2% for third, 4% for fourth, 8% for fifth etc. The issue is that those with capital are basically using their capital to bully the rest of the population, who cannot continue to exist without shelter, into paying high prices, that wouldn't exist if such measures were taken to discourage property hoarding.

Here's another way of looking at it. Imagine that medieval society had the same construction technology we have today. Everyone lives in modern homes, with solar panels providing electricity and their own septic tanks for waste, and their own water collection systems. Other than that, the social structure is the same. Is there much difference between that and what we have today? Or is one set of people in society essentially freeloading of the other?
You should write more on this topic.
You’re missing my point - the imputed rent on a $600k home is like $4k/mo ($48k/year) or ~$60k pre tax. Who would you rather be someone making making $40k/yr with a $600k home free and clear, or someone making $80k/yr? You don’t need to talk about the super rich to see that the median California home dramatically changes the “income” distribution
I still wonder why the west hasn’t supplied long range anti shipping missiles in bulk, allowing Ukraine to destroy the Black Sea fleet through a saturation attack. Russia wants Crimea for Sevestapol naval base. They should be shown that’s not viable.
The team at GH really have been knocking it out of the park with Issues and Projects, especially the new Task Lists.
For a login situation with extreme rate limiting (say 3 tries a day) "high entropy" might not involve a lot of randomness. A random 8 character password handed out to a user is overkill. Two random words is overkill. Heck, a single diceware word would take 7 years to guess in that environment. For 100 years you only need something like 4 base32 characters.
The top row is Sean Allen, Jim Batson, and Mike Dodd. Center square is Peter Hoddie.

(Fun fact: Sean is why QuickTime Movie root atom container headers have a type value of `sean`.)
If memory serves me right they had a project to set up digital radio in Africa so low-bandwidth that the spectrum would have room for stations in even the most niche languages. Languages on the edge of extinction, to help those languages survive. No idea if they ever helped a single language, but they sure weren't without impact.

(I suppose the project was one of many related to audio compression, but it was the one I heard a presentation of, to highschool-age youth in the style of "this is what a career in science might look like")
> My own browser erases all cookies from an origin immediately after the last tab from that origin is closed

I like this idea, but what browser config does this?
I don’t know when the video was taken. It could have been early in the pandemic. I saw that video and found it odd that the CEO didn’t take his own vaccine in the middle of a pandemic - that’s all.

What does concern me, is the reason why Pfizer would be willing to give up on a market of 1.38 billion people. That single local trial could have doubled their potential global market.

I don’t understand the logic of foregoing so much profit. Why do you think they would do that? Any explanations?
That picture with the developers just made it for me. Great read. The floodgap website read like quite the treasure trove as well, with the neatest showcase [1] of the author's collection.

Thanks for bringing it up!

[1] https://www.floodgap.com/etc/machines.html
Chicago May Be Slowly Sinking Because of ‘Underground Climate Change’
Managed NAT Gateways are one of the more expensive services in the known universe.
So, like Passkeys / WebAuthn?
Honestly that feels like what apps are. One of the most compelling reasons to install an iOS app for something like an online bank is so that I won't have to worry about my cookies expiring and forcing me to login again.
The math is simple.

In the East Bay right now the cash flow (mortgage + prop tax + maintenance) alone for home ownership is 2.5x my rent for an identical property. It comes down to 2.2x when factoring in mortgage interest deduction and rises back to 2.3x when considering opportunity cost of capital.

I did a broader analysis and came up with 1.75-2.25x for other homes.

For a rational actor to buy a home right now, it implies a 5-6% expected return on the home price every year for an average of 10 years.
Well, if the cycle repeats and enough people die, the entire situation will sort itself out.
An actual child that signed up to HN in 2013 when they were 1 or something and has worked on the industry for a while, huh?

Running away with a false accusation and a dishonest "good wish" is just sad.
English isn't my first or even second language. --smol creates a lot of confusion in my head. It doesn't even make any sense. Why not --less-ram or similar?

What does UWU means? Why using an artificial language instead of established one?
They got the soft-glove Republican run investigation treatment and they still ended up charging 30+ people, including those closest to Trump. They also proved _numerous_ extremely suspicious ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, and produced a report that showed obstruction all over the place. Obstruction, by the way, is what you do when you know you broke just _all_ the laws and have to break the law more to prevent getting caught.

That was never followed up on due to _other_ Trump admin corruption. Congratulations, they managed to cheat the rigged system. It's good to be rich and well connected if you're going to crime I guess.
Ask HN: Is it too soon to rely on LLM frameworks? Better to code it myself?
I've seen many LLM libraries that aim to facilitate using LLMs. Langchain, LMQL, guidance, AIChat, TypeChat, etc.

But a lot of times I think if I implement the desired functionality on my own, I'll be able to debug it more easily. Also, frameworks come and go, but the simple API call remains the same. Am I being too cautious here, or is it too early to start using LLM frameworks?
> Faceless corporations literally cannot act in a way that is not financially optimal without committing a crime.

The financial optimality of things depends in large part on government laws; changing the laws could re-align incentives.
He received some vitriol in the 2000s from some Christian groups about Da Vinci Code being blasphemous. I think these days he’s mostly just seen as a bit of a literary punching bag who makes popular, digestible books for Gen-X Americans. I read DVC in high school and thought it was a fun read, definitely not a book I’d expect someone to be later criticized for.

Perhaps it’s a bit like Michael Bay or Roblox or The Bachelor, smart people being overly critical of popular things mostly just because they’re popular.
Knowing how ELF works is certainly useful for many reasons, at least if you are building applications that compile down to ELF.

You may want to know why they are the size that they are, be able to extract meta-information, configure how the dynamic linker works, extract debug info, etc.

Some of things are actually critical for installation or deployment.
> API keys are used to secure the highest-stakes APIs that exist today — all of AWS's services, for example. Yet while API keys seem to be considered an entirely reasonable and industry standard design approach,

This is not actually true. API keys are highly disfavored because they are easily stolen, and these days if you try to create an access key in AWS, you'll be shown a screen called "Access key best practices & alternatives" which tries to get you to use something else (such as temporary credentials from the EC2 metadata service). There's even federation between providers now, so for example if you need to access your AWS account from a GitHub Action, you don't need to use API keys (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-harde...)
Seems like a good thread to ask (I brought this up a few weeks ago too): Why not use little bits of botox to prevent wisdom teeth from growing in the first place? It'd be a heck of a lot less invasive than removing them later.
Our Chosen Chains
Remind me again how many wars the US has started under false pretenses? How many groups the CIA has trained in torture? Napalm, MKUltra, Henry Kissinger, support for various fascist and apartheid regimes…

Even Hitler was inspired by the US’s successful genocide of the indigenous population. Not to mention slavery!

The US has absolutely no moral high ground from which to preach.
ChatGPT for Android launches next week
It's a ~12 hour drive. No need to fly.

I have far more shame about how much food I waste or worse how much I used to consume if I am honest. When I look at the environmental impact of the food I eat it dwarfs everything else.

Even if I were to fly every time that would have been 42 two-hour flights over two decades. I wouldn't have shame over that number of flights considering I've worked with people that fly more than that in a couple of months just for meetings.
Surely. One could become a world leader, CEO, or criminal despot. For many, those are rewarding outcomes.
Or, they can be considered as a great way of understanding the tools in your toolbelt when working in that environment.
Where on earth was Chrome installed by default? Android didn’t even ship Chrome by default up until the Pixel came out. There was absolutely nowhere ever that Chrome was a default browser in the early 2010s.
Detection of overlapping slender bodies using Deep Learning
Finding the Space Between Utopia and Dystopia
A compiler is certainly a service, as is an interactive shell.
This theory and academic prep that you dismiss is actually pretty damned important. It lays the foundation upon which the experience becomes valuable. What you've suggested is taking the lazy way out on the premise that you don't really need to understand any of it as long as you can muddle through doing enough of it. It is not very good advice.

I do agree that experience is important but experience on top of knowledge is much more valuable.
This is why I hope PWAs take off more. If there is an implicit "save first party cookies forever" for PWAs that have been "installed" and we make them discoverable it's a net win.
This isn’t the attack vector to be concerned about. More concerning is when there’s a data breach and an attacker gains access to hashed passwords. At that point, you attack the hash not the API.

This comment is an example of why I wouldn’t want any given website to choose my password.
So your prior is that Bayesian papers are likely to have unfounded priors. Now I'm wondering how well-founded your prior is.
A lot of LLM libraries seem incredibly overhyped. I've found that I'm able to do a lot with the underlying API calls.

If you're comfortable with doing API calls in your own code, I'd suggest trying to prototype your desired functionality without those libraries to start with.
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
It’s so intuitive to me that it’s hard to explain why economic diversity is a sign of a healthy economic system.

The best I can do is give examples. I’ve been to Disney World, and it was very fun and nice, and there were no homeless people asking me for money, and it was clean, and the windows weren’t broken… but it was also obvious that it wasn’t a healthy economy. I was paying an unsustainable price for that, those who couldn’t afford it were excluded, etc.

I’ve also been to somewhere in south america and (where I was) it was largely the opposite. There were people aggressively selling / begging, everything was dirty, buildings were in disrepair. This also wasn’t healthy. Everyone I saw was poor. That wasn’t diverse either.

Parts of Europe were largely a toned-down Disney World. There were nice areas with a fair degree of economic diversity and an absence of the very worst poverty… but then there were places I was cautioned to not go, places were the symptoms of an unhealthy economy existed and were hidden from public view. It was still fairly healthy. There was a lot of diversity. I saw a couple supercars, a bunch of neat European beaters, and a fair number of cars that I’d say were fairly average in the US but were clearly fairly to do.

Meanwhile theres virtually nowhere in the US that I cannot freely go in relative safety. I routinely see people from every walk of life… and the US is the strongest economy in the world.

Eliminating the diversity may be good for some people individually, but it’d hurt the whole. Of course I’m not saying that it can’t be too extreme, but people pursing an utter absence of poverty or utter absence of extreme wealth don’t know what they’re talking about.

Economic diversity helps. It means there are people with means, others with motivation, others with a mixture, etc. It creates a economic system where systemic needs are most likely to meet a person who can recognize and fulfill the role.
Why, was there a joke I ruined or something?
Oh, I agree that it's plenty, though apparently it's not enough to get restaurant style wok hei. It's also well into the range that regular induction stoves offer.
Just a personal opinion, and one shared by many. The cultivar was bred by a dentist named Huey not for looks or scent like most roses, but for the rootstock. It tends to grow long unorganized canes very prone to disease, and the flowers are small with few petals. We have 32 rose bushes, and every spring I have to watch out for Dr Huey taking over.
Does it still require filling an update form to change any aspect of a ticket? Maybe we've used an outdated version or it was poorly configured, but I remember switching to modern Jira at other company to be a huge UX improvement, with interactive and responsive everything.
Would you want the structural integrity of your house to be assessed by someone who wasn't taught the principles of stucture engineering?
>I'm pretty sure most serfs were renting pre-existing dwellings.

Who built the pre-existing buildings? I somehow doubt that the feudal lords were pre-building the houses landlord style. Also, after the building is built, there's the cost of maintenance. Today, that's the responsibility of the landlord. I doubt that back in the day the serfs would be contacting the lord if they had a leaky roof.

>And I'm not sure what you're getting at with this welfare state stuff

That was brought up because the original commenter was talking about all the taxes that people have to pay.

>The only benefit the modern worker is getting over his medieval counterpart is better quality housing.

That's exactly the contention. Renters today are getting access to the land and a living unit that costs a non-trivial amount of resources to build. Serfs get access to the land and a mud hut. Sure, maybe if you work out the numbers the "living unit" part of the rent is actually trivial, but as it stands right now the numbers aren't directly comparable.
I let people set their own password. This is like canary letter for them to know if anyone accessed their data. If sysadmins need access they take it and go through a new password rotine with the user.

I also have no password requirements (other than non-blank)

I do this because I see it as user centric. I have never had a problem.

One environment requires no privacy expectation. That environment we use simple nouns all in the same category.

All the environments are full SSO they only need to login.