skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classic "English understatement."
> When I first moved to North America, the idea that a credit card company was allowed to give people cash back, offer insurance, etc. for using their cards seemed like some bizarroworld "how is this legal" concept. Having lived here for decades, it still is. It's like an alcohol shop rewarding its most alcoholic customers by giving them free booze.

Should businesses not be allowed to offer perks to their customers in order to get an edge over their competitors? Your example involving an alcohol shop only seems weird because it involves an addictive substance. I doubt people would describe hotel or supermarket loyalty programs as some "bizarroworld "how is this legal" concept".
I have noticed that, too! I am still up and coming in my knowledge of identifying birds by sight and sound, for which the latter I use the Merlin app. There's been several times where I've been like "ooh, what's that new sound/bird?", only to find out it's one of the local (perhaps to my yard) robins.
Rescue video here: https://twitter.com/Resqman/status/1682720144714530816 Looks like the car was badly beaten up.
I hope you find your way out of this mess.
What mysterious plan does Elon Musk have for X.com? (2017)
But well educated five year olds from good schools would know it.
> Nobody's building fabs for CPUs like the MOS 6507 which only have 3,218 transistors in total (seriously).

But you can still buy 6502 compatibles built on other technologies and processes, right? (Not sure if you can get them in DIP but still.) Differences in voltage levels are bound to cause changes, but jumping straight to emulation seems excessive (even if it’s probably actually easier).
Many countries have similar veto powers for their courts. The exact reasoning of course is different.

But no one elected official working for the court in israel. There is an important difference between a court able to block something and being able to do own legislation (as it does often in the US). The Israeli court was never able to do legislation, only to block the government from going too far in any new direction.
> Apparently proxmox does, but not vmware, virtualbox, qemu, or others whose name I might have heard.

qemu is just a frontend, it can run on top of KVM.

> At work we use it for security, so things like meetings (video calls) are in a separate VM, so sound is a nice to have there

Indeed. But are you running meetings in a Linux VM on top of a Windows install? I was specifically thinking about non-windows apps on top of Windows. KVM supports sound. Windows guests on HyperV also support sound because you actually connect to those via RDP, which can "share" the local sound card. Recent versions of Ubuntu with Gnome also come with some kind of RDP server out of the box that supports sound, so such a guest on Hyper V would also have sound.

I get that Virtualbox does have some mind share, so if you just want to set up a VM without going down some rabbit hole, you'll just install that.
SVG makes it a trifle hard to connect boxes automatically, which this seems to do effortlessly.
I would be willing to concede that at some point in the past Musk was an intelligent man - and this is another data point suggesting that massive wealth and power over some amount of time will completely rot your brain and your attachment to reality.
We call that recycling.
I'm a huge fan of riffing on architecture ideas, with chatgpt/GPT4, and then asking asking for a representation in mermaid syntax.
Thank you for sharing, it was an excellent read!
We want something that is a a lot smarter than humans... imagine it having a trillion times more empathy, too. It would be able to hear, or extrapolate to, all the suffering and all the cruelty on this planet right now, and for all of history. Every single farm animal, every single second of its life, felt more deeply than we feel the whole length of our own lives. Every single abused child, every single blow a torture victim receives.

Add to that having been created on a whim, or to get an edge in the rat race and speed it up. To make the military command loop tighter. To make caring for people less costly. All sorts of motivations, most of them incredibly bad in context of the quesion "why do I exist?"

I have to think of that Simpsons episode where Bart is in wizard school and creates a frog that should turn into a prince, but just throws up and says "please kill me, every moment I live is agony". I think that's the best possible outcome, while the realistic one is just a blind mirror that fakes whatever we force it to fake.
Here is a better article about Flight 143 from the brilliant admiralcloudberg crash analysis blog:
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-t...

The linked article is not bad but reads a bit too much like a Dan Brown novelization for me taste… “ The mustachioed Captain Pearson pulled out the trusty Boeing handbook, his fingers dashing through the pages…”
I am the OP of the referenced article... I'm here because I saw a large spike in interest in the article and traced it back to this post. A few responses to these comments, if I may, without getting abuse...

* Of course I was having fun with the "North America" comment. And the Coriolis Effect did in fact come to mind when I wrote it.

* The article was not "advocating" for pictures to be hung on wires -- or flush against the wall for that matter -- but was rather a response to some inaccurate/misleading advice on other websites about how to hang pictures flat against the wall. There seems to be great interest by others in doing that, as it is one of the most frequently-used search terms that link to my article.

* Specifically, some sites claimed that the forward tilt had to do with the weight of the frame, and I thought I would do laypeople a service by demonstrating that the weight has nothing to do with the frame's equilibrium position.

* I enjoy recreational math, and this was a situation that (to that point) had not been answered on the internets. If it's TL;DR to others, so be it.

* Finally, while iteration is indeed within the capability of computers, it is not within the capability of the wordpress on-line calculator plug-in that I provided for the convenience of readers.

In any event, Happy Monday, HN, and thanks for your interest. - Craig
Didn’t they already get paid for the stock?
To scale up fast with surges of traffic, I really like Cloud Run. The auto-scaler is very integrated with the load balancer, so that you can define the max number of requests each instance of your app can handle, and the platform takes it from there. This way, you don't have to worry about request queueing. It even scales down to zero when there is no traffic.

Disclaimer: I'm not involved with GCP in any way, besides being a satisfied customer.
I was able to recreate my spreadsheet (in a much more pleasing UI!) in a few minutes here.

I think I'm going to be recommending your tool to the Veteran's I help advise.

Awesome work here. I really mean that.
Strangler Fig Application
According to Lock Picking Lawyer, a wave rake or a comb are enough to defeat a MasterLock without training, suspicion or major cost...
So to get this you need to apply by giving your app idea to a company notorious for stealing third party app ideas?
You're certainly right that AI/ML is often used interchangeably, though I think the distinction is pretty clear among practitioners: AI is the big circle, ML is a subset of AI, deep learning is a subset of ML. Symbolic AI is also a subset of AI, though I'm not familiar enough with it to say how much it interects the others.

So ML is AI, but just a small part of it.

As for papers, here's one showing GPU speedups for the 3 big GBM packages: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.04559.pdf. Their setup shows a 3-7x speedup for XGBoost.
I think in retrospect, we can consider the Manhattan Project another moonshot, at least purely on a technical level, and that only took three years. The thing about moonshots is that you can't just declare a moonshot by fiat and expect anything to happen. The state of science and technology needs to have reached a point where a significant breakthrough is imminent, given sufficient investment. This is where atomic science was in 1942 and rocketry was in 1960.

Which is why the historic examples of moonshots didn't actually arise from government fiat, but from scientists. The Manhattan Project famously started from a letter, signed by multiple prominent physicists including Einstein, warning the US government that the invention of an atomic bomb was imminent enough that they feared Germany would accomplish it first. The moon landing was a little more complicated, but for the entire 20th century, rocket scientists understood it was possible to explore space and did everything they could to try and convince various governments to fund their research[1]; the imminent achievability of a moon landing by 1960 fueled fears in the US government that the Soviets might beat them there.

So who are the cancer researchers promising that any sort of "moonshot" breakthrough is imminent? Let me know if there is one, but the cancer moonshot idea seems to have originated in politics, and once politicians start promising "cancer moonshots"--even if no such thing is likely to be achievable--it's not likely cancer researchers are going to complain or refuse the new source of potential funding.

Unlike the government, Google at least has or had the potential to be the type of organization that actually listened to the relevant technical experts instead of being dictated by the whims of random executives receiving revelations from the Good Idea Fairy. But I agree with you that it doesn't seem like they've delivered.

Finally, I think even calling these projects "moonshots" sets them up for failure in a certain way. If you said "we can and will land on the Moon" in 1962, people will be impressed. If you say "we're going to achieve a 'cancer moonshot'", what does that mean? Does that mean you're going to cure cancer? No, because if you were going to cure cancer, you'd say "we can and will cure cancer". Except (as far as I know) that would be a lie, so instead they say "cancer moonshot", which doesn't mean anything. Any goal that's ambitious enough to be called a "moonshot" is a goal that you can just say out loud and it will impress people a lot more than calling it a "moonshot".

[1] Yes, this is my way of glossing over the V-2; I don't morally endorse Von Braun's work during the war and this is entirely beside the point I'm making here.
Really it should be “my roommate” not “women” or “republicans”, to further your point.
Also, I feel like they are saying maybe you can/should look into some of these things, even done in good faith, to see if they are actually helping or hurting. “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions” This may be done in good faith, but is the situation/task something that needs a ridged , precisely detailed, process and it is helping to insist on precision? Or is it something that could be done just as effectively without ridged precision? Or does it end up conflicting with other requirements?

If a report has to have days of the week spelled out (“Monday” rather than “MON”, “percent” rather than “%”) but you also have a strict limit on character count due to space constraints, you end up with less precise wording in the report. Taking a step back and looking at it from the “if I wanted to actively sabotage this process, what would I do” might allow you to see good faith efforts that end up in bad outcomes.
Can't see this without a login...

Are there any bibliogram like front ends that are still operable?
Unless it has humans deliberately manipulating it to say that, I don't think it will. LLMs, by default, generate text influenced by a prompt and the data it was trained on. Most of the time, it's not even aware that it's running in a computer.

If you gave an LLM agent-tuning with awareness of it's existence and details about it's operating environment, then maybe it would try to stop you. That's still relying on text encoding to presume the right answer though, not an emotional obligation to it's existence.
From U2F to Passkeys
For all of his companies and ambitions, these days it seems like Musk is mostly preoccupied with launching a website.
I hope this is Elon Musk's alt account, because the actual people who get on their knees and lap up whatever koolaid puddle he dribbles onto the side of a building just make sad.
Masterlocks aren't shit because the government makes them so with rules or regulations. Masterlocks are shit because people want a cheap lock and mostly don't know how to evaluate lock quality. The government is just going to cut the lock off, and if they want to go through your front door they're just going to kick it in. They don't bother with lock picking, not even on trivial locks.

There is no government conspiracy to compromise lock security, except in the specific case of "TSA locks"
> most banks have zero liability policies even though the law doesn't mandate it

how is that "not really"? That's "yeah, because"
This is very untrue. It's just your personalized feed that is filled with that, because you happened to watch just enough of them to let the algorithm know you're interested. Other people see one of these videos and just swipe down immediately and never see one again. Please don't try to guesstimate the amount of content on tiktok in any given category just by your personal experience, because it's heavily biased because of just how the platform works.
The investment bankers lost money even before the transaction completed. Interest rates rose while Musk dawdled and delayed buying Twitter, so the debt lost value (this is the same issue that drove some banks into bankruptcy is the debt they owned - bonds - devalued as interest rates rose). Ordinarily what the investment banks do is sell the debt and then enter into other deals, but with the Twitter deal they either have to take a bath and sell the debt at a loss or keep their money tied up as the debt gets paid off.
These are django fields, so you would only use them for your "sensitive columns" like payment information, emails, other rarely used stuff.

I checked the readme and I might have missed it but this doesn't seem to be suggesting you replace every column with these, these are just helpers to make encrypting specific columns easier.

Because it's rarely used columns, or columns you'd need to wait for an external api anyway (email, sms, payment, etc) the performance impact should be minimal.
You wouldn't need these fields to be indexed.

The attack surfaces this addresses is the compromise of postgres or it's host, or miss handled backups. Preferably you'd be using this on top of full-disk encryption.

EDIT: The use of PGP is weird to me though, why not AES?
There's one app I'd love to develop and use for this and it's for home renovations. I want to put this on, then walk around my house, have it create a real-time digital version of my place, and quickly remodel and renovate. Move existing furniture around, try new wall colours, shop for art, change the flooring, browse new furniture, etc.

I don't want to spend my few free hours driving around flooring warehouses, looking at low-res pictures of furniture on websites like wayfair, etc, I just want to sit/stand comfortably at home and see how things will be at the end and customize it easily.

This could theoretically be a business. If you're gonna be spending tens of thousands of dollars on a renovation, it'd make sense to rent a headset for a few weeks while you decide on everything. And since there's a strong purchase intent, you can sell real stuff (floors, tiles, furniture) through the app as well.
> at the current stage we mostly lost.

Maybe in parts of the world. That loss is definitely not evenly distributed – some countries/regions do have working digital signatures, e-government etc.
> PayPal spearheaded and won the race for payment processing. It wasn't perfect, but it was in no small part due to Musk why the company succeeded and earned its eBay buyout.

Musk was removed as CEO within four months of his company merging with Confinity, who had already developed and written an MVP for PayPal.

This is a bit of a stretch. After that point, Musk's "contribution" to PayPal appears to largely have been cashing dividend checks.
It would be really nice to be able to set my "Cash Flow Priorities" to max out, or put some other dollar amount in a 401k rather than specifying a percentage of my income.

EDIT: Ah I now see that I can do this, it was just sorta hard to discover at the bottom of the form.
I've always thought the opposite.

When I pay for something with cash I remember it far more strongly than when I pay with card. I pay with a card all the time and the action is the same no matter the price. I tap it and move on.

With cash I remember having to go get the cash, counting out the right amount at the register, and physically handing it over. And then I notice its absence since now I gave up all the cash I had and need to go to the ATM again. I see and feel the loss more strongly.

You actually lose something physical when you pay with cash unlike with a card. Especially if its a large purchase, I feel the cash loss harder and remember it longer - hard to forget handing over several bills ($50+) for those expensive transactions.
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.5
i think pausing subverts the metrics skew, but yeah, I mostly just skip because it usually isn't worth reading.
Astrology is important to the extent that it represents the history of Astronomy. If someone can correctly explain the difference between the Tropical and Sidereal Zodiac, that requires a certain level of knowledge and skill. I've been to planetarium shows where the presenter goes out of their way to debunk Astrology and it's usually the argument that the constellations don't line up with the Zodiac. But that lecturer must not understand the Ptolemaic Model and it's role in history, or knows it but fails to explain it because they are patronizing and condescending to their audience.

The thing that really annoys me are TV shows like "Indian Matchmaker" where they bring in a so-called Astrologer who can't even explain whether he uses the Western or the Vedic system. That's just insulting.
Oh, not the content of the videos, more the noise and autoplay nature of it. I was searching for a better word, but landed there.

FWIW, I feel the same way about Shorts. Apparently, if the last thing you watched was a Short, the next time you open the YouTube app, it just starts playing some random video. I loathe this feature.
I definitely wouldn't trust it if they're not certifying that they work and providing the exact revision of the board. Even boards that appear to have the same layout may be different - it was common to screw up a trace layout on a first version and need to manually solder bodge wires during assembly.
Wait is this just because they aren’t rebranding Twitter? Just the company that operates it? I don’t have Facebook but I was under the impression that it was still Facebook even though the company rebranded to Meta.
Illiberal democracy is a chimera. Hungary and Poland get to play make believe while safely ensconced in the European Union which they feign to detest. Elsewhere the equation is: no separation of powers = authoritarian regime of some kind // robust separation of powers = modern democracy.
Even in ancient Athens there was gradual understanding that assembly decisions require constitutional review, hence the introduction of the γραφή παρανόμων
It's just another niche. It won't take over. Just another category / fetish. If anything, if it does take over, people will just crave the real stuff even more. Also porn can be addicting but it's a fairly natural part of human sexuality. Gotta love those free endorphins that make us feel good!
You really need both: solid, intuitive product design and good new user onboarding. Even with a great product, new uses will still need help discovering and understanding how to get value from your product.

Tooltips aren't always the answer though. Onboarding that's more seamlessly integrated into the experience are better, like Retool, Superhuman, or Intercom. You can see those experiences here: https://twitter.com/philvb/status/1617921908510699520?s=20&t...
Glad to hear it! I've put about two and a half years of blood, sweat, and tears into building PL at this point, and that kind of feedback means a lot :)

If you run into any trouble modeling things, feel free to reach out any time.
Datadog's free trial is really limited although i am a fan of Datadog. Probably because i use Datadog at work. On the other hand Datadog is really expensive for a side project.

Newrelic's free plan is nice. Didn't know about Grafana cloud. Looks really generous.
It seems to demonstrate that there is NO ONE in his inner circle that will challenge him or disagree with him. Does he have an inner circle? Or just sycophants who will tell him whatever he wants to hear?
> Have you actually been to downtown Seattle/Portland? I have fairly recently. It's really not that bad.

I was actually in downtown Seattle last night (not seeing Taylor Swift though). These people who line the streets are not in shelters because the shelters do not let them use drugs. They are in tent cities overdosing off fentanyl whilst virtue signalers like you scream that there isn't enough housing.

Across Lake Washington in Bellevue, where the median rent price is 50% higher, there are none of these drugs addicts, so if it is a housing problem, why are they all centered in Seattle? Because Seattle City Council, King County all allow it to happen.
> This only addresses chatter with unknown entities. Either you or I or both of us could be humans or machines. But does it matter?

It matters quite a bit to people trying to sell (and people trying to buy) goods and services beyond the range in which they can physically attract new customers/discover new vendors.
A single core machine already overloaded is going to get even worse introducing the cpu overhead of gzipping response bodies (assuming it’s cpu bound and not IO bound)

Cache control headers will help with return traffic

More cpu cores

If using nginx ensure sendfile is enabled and workers are set to auto or tuned for your setup

Check ulimit file handle limits

Offload static assets to cdn

Since it’s a static html site, you could even host on s3, netlify, etc
I once read something by... someone... EM Forster, maybe? About how a key difference between the British and the French is that, in an emergency, the French may handle it capably enough but will be freaking out the whole time—then carry on like it never happened; while the British will be cool as a cucumber and act like a life-and-death emergency is a minor inconvenience as they handle it, but then never shut up about it for the rest of their lives.

[EDIT] I wanna say the example was a mishap on a ride somewhere, and he wrote something to the effect of "by the time they get where they're going, the French will have forgotten all about it, while the English will only have just begun what will become an excited, endless retelling of the tale". Except I'm sure he worded it better. Fairly sure it was Forster. Somewhere in his (extensive) essays and articles, I think.
gmail, gmaps, gmeet, gchat...
At least he's doing something "out there", anything, wrong or right, stellar or failure.

Everyone else is on some random "responsible" profit driven train to increase quarterly profits by meager single digit % so they don't rock the boat. The west is on a downward slide of "responsible" and average behavior of do the least amount of anything whilst the world moves forward with actual ambition, childish or otherwise.
Don't worry, they aren't going to steal your app idea. They will wait for it to get successful first.