skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly like the moderation on this site, but I think you're missing the mark on this one.

The man - and the institution - facilitated and covered up the abuse and rape of countless children. Calling him a bastard seems pretty small potatoes for you to start clutching your pearls over.
The paper that I'm seeing only has 4 figures.

In any case, the need for impurities would not itself surprise. Having controlled amounts of impurities is called "doping", it is well-known from studying semiconductors and other high temperature superconductors that the amount of doping can have a huge impact on a substance's properties.

See https://physicsworld.com/a/the-ups-and-downs-of-doping/ for verification of this point.
NASA has already awarded all the ISS crew flights up through it's scheduled retirement in 2030. Boeing is contracted for 6 flights, and SpaceX for 14 (including the 6 it has already flown). NASA hasn't published the milestone payment schedules, but the total contract was for $4.2 billion, so Boeing would have needed to budget a 26% profit margin on the whole endeavor to break even at this point. That wouldn't surprise me, but they are probably quickly reaching the point where they will actually be losing money.
One theory I have about all this is that doing deals with zero trust is that ... people don't want to do that ... and no matter what you do there's going to be this whole process around these transactions to provide some assurances and so on. On the surface all this title company stuff is silly and it is, unless there's a real problem with the title and then you want it.

These are human problems.
I'll admit I have unrealistic expectations. My favorite retro OSes are Apple's minimalist takes, and modern MacOS is the opposite of that. I bought my first Mac ~a decade ago because I expected MacOS to lead the fight against Electron apps and cruddy software, but... here we are. Now your Settings app is a WebView and all your important software is Electron because Apple refused industry inroads.

There's a glimmer of hope for an "ideal" version of MacOS that cuts away the marketing cruft, trusts the user more and uses less ancient internals. It's just not what Apple is known for though, so I moved on.
https://archive.ph/FBrRD
This comes down to the difference between certain people around town recognizing your car if they happen to see it pass by, vs them hiring dedicated car-watchers all around town to keep track of your comings and goings and selling the data to anyone who comes asking.
One is acceptable, the other is simply not.
Please don't bring in extraneous information to attack someone on HN, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can't wait till we've added another turtle to the stack with a full browser engine implemented in WASM running in a host browser that is mandatory for all media sites.
I mean the top musicians are still millionaires so I don't feel too sorry for them
Before they added SQLite as WP plugin, I would use https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db/ and I would use `define('DB_DIR', '/absolute/custom/path/to/directory/for/sqlite/database/file/');` to define the database location of my choice; I believe they would let users do the same with core support.
Well, for starters, if you witness a hit and run and don't note the EXACT time along with the plate number, you're outta luck.
> We have seen major cities renamed to racial slurs, for example.

Once in 19 years, I think?

It’s not great but let’s not pretend it’s more of a problem than it is.
Chris Cornell's cover is way up there too.
to call the write-up underwhelming is to be the most generous one can be. the minimum requirement that qualifies one to add 'unpacking' to title wasn't met. this all reads as a poorly argued opinion of something google is apparently trying to force down our throats. the specification isn't discussed (they're generous to point you to it though), a cursory mention of the supposed pros are mentioned but an even lazier attempt is made at describing the cons. really disappointing read!
> Marines are the most prestigious branch of the military, by a huge margin.

I hope it lasts. Surely every generation has faced the challenge to uphold the same principles as The United States Marine Corps but, just as certainly, the struggle of today seem more perilous than before.

I often think of how the British refused to burn down a Marine Corps barracks during The War of 1812 out of respect for an honorable opponent.
I don’t get this line of thought. These employees were well paid, and earned good money for many years. They’ve had their fill, it’s time to move on to some new job.

A company should be praised for trimming the fat and reducing headcount: Making leaner more efficient operations. People complain why it takes thousands of engineers to run an app, but then they still complain when you try to reduce amount.
How exactly does the Spanish bank get the USD that the American bank sent without trusting a third party?
Dow rises for a 13th straight day, posting its best winning streak since 1987
Is that at all relevant to the product they sell?
> We had proposed a hold-back to prevent lock-in at the platform level. Essentially, some percentage of the time, say 5% or 10%, the WEI attestation would intentionally be omitted, and would look the same as if the user opted-out of WEI or the device is not supported.

So, does that mean that sites would need to fallback to existing practices for these users (or for custom forks)? So, these users get the worse ux and that's considered "supporting custom browsers"? Now sites can spend less time and resources on detection, but wait...what about the 5-10%? So IT departments will be less likely to spend precious dev time and funding on improving detection due the overall risk reduction. I'm not sure that's a net win.
If you follow the LTS releases, it will be delivered only on the next release, expected around two months from now.
> expensive data scientists

Different people estimate compute costs of ChatGPT to be between $100k and $700k per day. Compared to these numbers, data scientists aren't that expensive.

> just run standard CUDA stuff

I doubt data scientists have skills to write CUDA, or any other low-level GPGPU code. It's relatively hard to do, and takes years of software development experience to become proficient.

Pretty sure most of these people only capable of using higher-level libraries like TensorFlow and PyTorch. For this reason, I don't think these data scientists need or care about standard CUDA stuff, they only need another backend to these Python libraries. Which is much easier problem to solve.

And one more thing. It could be that most of ChatGPT costs are unrelated to data scientists, and caused by end users running inference. In that case, the data scientists won't even notice, because they will continue using these CUDA GPUs to develop new versions of their models.
Explanation:
bankA -> bankB -> bankC.

bankC creates a secret number, hashes it and sends it to bankA. bankA sends money to bankB locked to hash. bankB can't get money until they have that secret number. bankB sends money to bankC locked to hash. bankC reveals secret number to bankB to unlock that money. bankB does the same with bankA.

Tada, we eliminated the risk of bankB running away with money. This is the lightning network
I've seen the same thing. Presumably there's lots of misc crawling and scraping going on so you wouldn't expect it to regular, it's not just one org doint periodic updates.
Like the clowns I used to work for, cancelling daily standup with 5 minutes notice or just not showing up at all

its really the little things of being professional
Meta’s Reality Labs has now lost more than $21B since the beginning of 2022
So you would be fine with letting China seize control of the Western Pacific Ocean and strangling our trade routes? How do you think that would work out for us in 30 years?
> WEI is really about denying the user full control of their own device. If you give people full control of their devices, you will have bots. Do you believe eliminating bots is more important than general purpose computing?

Worse than that -- unless you disallow any sort of scripting and accessibility hooks, WEI doesn't prevent malicious requests. It just forces you to script your system via autohotkey or its equivalent.
Opera Browser had revenues of $87mm last quarter. You and I might get buy with Chrome for free, but it's not zero hope.

https://investor.opera.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
As much as someone is willing to pay him, I guess..
Otherwise typical midwestern kid, for some reason I've always hated beans - especially refried beans but also black beans, pinto beans, etc.

Rancho Gordo beans are transformatively good - I absolutely love them as long as they're not criminally overcooked. I still hate other normal beans from the supermarkets.

They're really THAT good. Highly recommend them to anyone.
This is basically the idea that motivated "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"[^1]

"The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the
minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions [...]"

And more recently Brave, the browser tried to implement it.

"Crypto and DeFi are hard to use and the $330 billion digital advertising industry is failing users, publishers and advertisers. With Basic Attention Token and Brave we want to take Crypto to the next 1B users and solve the endemic inefficiencies and privacy violations hobbling the digital ad industry."[^2]

I personally think this is a beautiful idea, had it worked out as envisioned, the Internet could've been a very different and likely better place now. Pity cryptocurrencies came to be what they're in their present condition.

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[^1]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[^2]: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
OK, great example, so I'll explain why a smart contract couldn't work here at all.

So, to start, going to be clear I'm using your specific example of "escrowing funds on purchase of a piece of real estate (and I mean actual, real, real estate)". Simple enough. But, at the end of the day, who is to say "the keys you gave me are really the keys to the house you said you sold me"? That is, there needs to be some way to import to the smart contract ecosystem "yes, these are the keys to the house he sold me, and yes, the seller is the unencumbered title holder of this house". There is no real way to do that without some sort of oracle, and then you've just moved the problem back a step (i.e. you need to trust the oracle).

I happen to think title insurance is vastly overpriced in many states, but that's not the same thing as thinking that title companies (who normally do escrow in the US) don't serve a very important purpose. Most importantly, they ensure the seller is the actual title holder. And I can hear the crypto fans saying "Well, if you just held that title on a blockchain, there would be no ambiguity about who owns it." But that just pretends that all the real world examples don't exist, like a contractor who puts a lien on a house because he claims he wasn't paid. Also, in the real world, if someone steals the key to your house, it's not usually that hard to evict them and change your locks. In the crypto world it's "sorry, finders keepers".

So again, this simple example just falls apart on further inspection. Very happy to hear why any of the rationale I've given above is not correct.
Had never heard of these plates. At least the current models may well make the problem worse:

> "In addition to the flexibility of the display, the digital plates also sport a tracking device that will alert the police to the location of a stolen vehicle and allow for general vehicle tracking. While a lot of people can get behind the idea of never going to the DMV again, not a lot of people are thrilled about the whole “license plate as tracking device” angle"

From: https://www.reviewgeek.com/4225/california-unveils-new-e-ink...
This is great. Apps and frameworks should work with the lowest-common denominator of SQL. I get physically ill when I walk into yet another Rails shop to find that they have used every cool feature of Postgres and as a result, the CI must spin up a huge postgres instance and multiple plugins just to run a single unit test. Ugh.
Love to see this amount of thought being put into something that nearly everyone encounters on a day to day basis.

I greatly miss using tiling window managers, like i3, but I don't miss having to fiddle with all the little temperamental settings to do things as common as set up my wifi.

Having something like this as a default would be a great middle ground.
Climate change and the anxiety it causes is another factor to be considered here.
Fun project! "Back in the day" there was a speedup for the PC/AT called the Chang Modification: when the CPU was executing an internal instruction, the clock was switched to a faster one since internal memory didn't require wait states.

I noticed that there was a pin on the MC6809E that indicated whether the current instruction was accessing external RAM or running from registers and realized that I could do the same thing. A Chang-modified CoCo2. However, I was young and had far more projects than I could get to. Most of which I never finished... 30 years later I still have the same problem!

Anyway, the challenge is open if you want to take it up :-)

> Absolutely remarked AliExpress parts, but I do wonder what these used to be.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we validate our Supply Chain :-)
The experiment that demonstrably makes cars safer than a human driver? Why would people not want to be a part of that? I sure do, I want to be safer when driving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3I6lbpF68Q

You might like this as well...
Lock-free techniques are not "obviously better than locks".

Lock-free techniques offer a different trade-off than locks. Lock-free techniques are a little faster in the typical case than locks, but this advantage is paid by being much slower in the worst case (because they may need a very large number of retries to succeed). In the case when a great number of threads contend for access, the worst case can be very frequent.

The best application for lock-free techniques is in read-only access to shared data. In this case they are almost always the best solution.

On the other hand, for write access to shared data, which one is better, between optimistic access control with lock-free techniques and deterministic serialization of the accesses with locks, depends on the application and it cannot be said in general that one method or the other is preferable.
Yes, "replication" in this experiments usualy means foloeing the oficial recipe and many small variants.

Publishing an exact reproduction is difficult, but a new record a few degrees hotter is easy. (And even another variant with a lower temperature and more tolerance for current or magnetic field can be published with the right text.)
It is an improvement to better understand the glyphosate effects. Rational decision cannot be taken by only considering the glyphosate effects. Decisions have to be taken with an holistic view on the agricultural systems.

Eg. glyphosate might an option to regain control over weeds versus a systematic plow of the soil that has for consequences to damage its structure and its organisms.
Companies like Boeing, General Motors, Starbucks, Home Depot, and Nordstrom would be glad to hire those laid off software engineers.
And similarly in Canada as we are finding the unmarked graves of children at the former sites of the Residential "School" system.

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

O'Connor was right.
This sounds similar to the goals of the "Wait until 8th" group: https://www.waituntil8th.org/

(In the US, kids typically turn 14 before or during 8th grade.)
This is a fascinating discussion. I have ADHD and have experienced RSD to an extreme level my whole life. I think the RSD has been more deblilitating than the ADHD, honestly. Up 'til now I just figured I was particularly sensitive, but hadn't considered it was amplified/caused by my emotionally neglectful mother.

That would definitely make a lot of sense.
I'd love to be in contact with you, just because of this.
Fed raises rates 25 bps
Ask HN: Should the government provide email to its citizen?
In this day and age email is basically a necessity. To use any online service (and increasingly common for offline ones) an email address is required at the minimum.

Currently those are provided by private corporations. But will, or even should, governments step in and offer this service to their citizens just like with regular mail?

Came to this idea thinking about the development of the postal service and immediately thought of it as a natural continuation/evolution, but the more I think the more gotchas I see with it. Like what to use as the email identifier (people change names and places, random number are hard to remember, etc), how to stop bad actors from spamming everyone, what if someone uses it to send objectionable content, etc.
Are you saying everything else that they do that generates revenue fits into just 1.6% of total revenue?

That's wild given that they also have a somewhat successful VR headset product and I assume that they also charge money for a bunch of other stuff like API access, etc.
Pilots, both commercial and military, are constantly under scrutiny to maintain a healthy mental state for fear of their license being revoked. You can not be mentally unstable and be a pilot. For years it was generally well accepted that people who believed in UFOs are crazy, so pilots have kept this to themselves for fear of retribution. Go ask any pilot how they would feel reporting something moving in unexplainable ways right up against their aircraft.
Does speculative execution on my CPU affect your computing environment?
Not necessarily. Even with WEI, spammers could farm legit tokens and then set up their own api that hands one out to their bot when one is necessary.
Not really special to them, and I don't think they're an outlier, but:
16% effective tax rate.
Many people (both poor and rich) are leaving china, places with sharia law, and moving to the west. Why are they leaving to the west? The west isn't perfect, but people seem to see it as an improvement to their homelands.
Bit-Stealing Made Legal
That only works so long the "car" resides entirely within the blockchain.

In the real world, there can be disputes after the sale. The property might have some horrible undisclosed effect. You might have stolen it. Or something else along those lines.

Securely swapping a bag of cash for some keys is solving the trivial part of the problem, and ignoring the rest.

The blockchain will do its thing and give you the title to a house infested from top to bottom with termites, but everything went according to the smart contract, so as far the blockchain is concerned there's no problem to be solved.
Everyone at my Olympic weightlifting gym does the McGill Big 3. Great way to protect lower back.
>It is fueled by the advertising race (companies bidding against each other to complete for consumer's attention)

Exactly but I would like to add that the companies which are in the advertising race are most likely monopolistic competitors[0] or in another words, they have very similar products and the only way to reach customers and to build brand is to invest heavily in the advertising. That's why advertising will stay strong and viable as a business model for very long time.

>In other words, we injected money into that sector, so we saw it growing.

But if the money is not used efficiently and if no innovations come about then no matter how much you invest, you won't see a sector growing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolistic_competition
Thank you for recommending this! I just finished it and this is one of the best video essays I’ve ever seen.

Do you have any more recommendations?

Or suggestions of channels to check out?
Bit-Stealing Made Legal: Compilation for Custom Memory Representations of ADTs
Source: just made it up
To the extent their actions delay the development and deployment of self-driving vehicles, they're responsible for deaths due to bad human drivers (since that's what self-driving vehicles are replacing). The faster we get self-driving vehicles, the better.
Sounds like an excellent idea that will work really well because it's incredibly well aligned with how humans actually function. I really wonder why no one else has thought of communism before.
>The moment I read the headline, I was expecting to find a bunch of low-effort comments that don't engage with the article

When did you first realize that you have the Gift of premonition?
Waiting for obligatory comment of "WP sucks. Who still uses PHP in 2023"..

On a serious note, this is very interesting. SQLite is just awesome and this will be a welcome addition to the core.
The Ukrainian famine of the 30s was not caused by either world war. It was caused by forced collectivization. It was caused by Stalin. It was peacetime at that time.
One has to distinguish the importance of a topic from the quality of internet conversation about it. We moderate for the latter, not the former. Most important topics, including most atrocities, don't make HN's front page, and most things that do make the front page are neither important nor an atrocity.

People tend to respond to activating topics with intense pre-existing feelings. That's understandable—I'm not criticizing it and it would be futile to try to change it. But it does not make for curious conversation, which is what HN is for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Curious conversation is about learning new things, changing one's orientation, and so on. That's one reason why the best HN threads tend to have a whimsical aspect—when a topic isn't high-stakes and one doesn't have a pre-existing position about it, curiosity is the natural state. Not so much otherwise.
Impressive turnaround from the post iOS 14 stock price devastation.
> I'm not talking about syscalls, but that in modern times everything of value is in your account, and computers are rarely shared.

Huh? No-one is advocating using user accounts for security.

> So when you download a game your threat model isn't that it might want to mess with the kernel, but that it's going to steal all your data from your browser cache.

Why do you think this contradicts anything I said? And what mechanism do you think it's going to use to do that? Maybe not syscalls in the narrow sense, but certainly via one of the "zillion different ways apps could potentially interact with each other".

> Dealing with that requires some sort of sandboxing.

Is this the "something must be done" fallacy? "We need some kind of sandbox, snap/flatpak are some kind of sandbox, therefore we need snap/flatpak".
Modular programming: Most think they do it but hardly anyone does [video]
One annoyance with that approach is that a single non-latin-1 codepoint is enough to double the size of the String; if it were an UTF-8 String, it would only add a couple of extra bytes.
Scale, Linkage and Permanency. If I drive around, people seeing that don’t permanently record it but a data broker will.

These have long been things overlooked by the “who needs privacy” crowd but they’re what’s most important.