skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to be able to instantly spin up servers collocated you just need to have spare capacity. There is nothing that restricts you from delaying expanding your capacity until you need it. That is what slows you down.
I think the .xxx TLD was made for solving this problem.
I've told my kids and some others about my ability to hear certain RF emissions. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. Thanks for posting this paper! I'm glad somebody did the research to prove I'm not crazy.
... otherwise you become unmanageable and subvert the reality assumptions of the ruling caste.
GP has also listed FIDO authenticators (Yubikey etc.), which are arguably a much better alternative for non-tech-savvy people than TOTP.
This is interesting, been putting off setting up a discord <> Matrix bridge but will have to tackle this.
That depends on your ISP. Mine is notoriously bad at maintaining their DNS servers. In the past you'd be online if you had defined your own DNS servers (e.g. using CloudFlares or Googles), but if you used those provided by the ISP you weren't going online that weekend.

Personally I use an experimental DoH service that my employer is working on, and CloudFlare.
My ISP is Verizon, so I changed my DNS settings shortly after my first typo led me to their capture site instead of my browser's page-not-found page.

"It looks like you're trying to find example.com. Here are the advertisers who paid us to talk to you about example.com" grrrr
Nokia Keeps the Dream of the ‘90s Alive with an Update to Its Dumb Phones
Ask HN: Good ML Bootcamp?
Looking for a Bootcamp that will give me autonomy to deep dive into the academic setting but also practically apply what I learn immediately.
The whole experiment takes as a premise that merit doesn't matter (coin toss)... and arrives to the obvious conclusion that merit doesn't matter.

Especially since, as someone indicates in another top level comment, the percentages are not even chosen properly, gambling on absolute money is a dumb choice, one should only gamble on log-money. So, a bunch of people making a dumb gamble with no merit involved produce a distribution.

I don't understand why anybody at all cares about this - it's just garbage in, garbage out. The only real-world connection one could make is... don't play lottery, I guess? Oh wait I do understand why people care - that's because this "supports" a social conclusion they already pre-supposed.
I would be glad to use cloudflares domain registry. But anyone else worried that to much of the net is already tied up with them
Ha ha but really.

I’m not trying to explain why you shouldn’t change it. I’m trying to help you understand what competing forces made it that way in the first place so you can decide if any of that’s still relevant.
> Walmart has noticed this and called it out in their earnings reports IIRC

Is there a link to this I can read somewhere? I’d be curious to see their analysis.
Taiwanese giant Foxconn's growing interest in India
If you worked for Sama and was sent to work in Kenya, would you take a salary cut just because your cost of living has reduced? Pay people what they are worth, not based on where they choose to live.
Fusion energy will have to wait for 2024 though
I think it is possible if you create an /etc/fstab file. I'm using fstab to mount an SD card readonly and prevent automatic mounting of a specific external drive.
Any form of repeated exposure to content or propaganda is bound to have a lasting impact on both our cognition as well as memory. This is how we are wired. The key is to ensure we are able to draw boundaries - a key reason why we are all talk about social feed / content moderation.

The challenge is when you can afford to pay and get someone else to do it - is it your problem and do you care if it affects someone else.

Do corporations bear responsibility for affecting people who they employ and put into severe conditions which they are aware have long lasting impact?
See my above response. Admitting that your political adversaries aren't "bad", just "dumb", isn't exactly conciliatory.
If you have nothing in your checking account, it does not mean your wealth is zero. In real life you can earn more money, in the given example you can't.
Arggh, can't believe I forgot this wonderful line. :)
ChatGPT (instruction tuned autoregressive language models) indeed already seems quite general (it's good at conversation Turing tests without faking it like ELIZA), even if the absolute intelligence is limited. Level of generality and intelligence is not the same. Something could be quite narrow but very intelligent (AlphaGo) or quite general but dumb overall (small kid, insect).

Okay, ChatGPT is only text-to-text, but Google & Co are adding more modalities now, including images, audio and robotics. I think one missing step is to fuse training and inference regime into one, just as in animals. That probably requires something else than the usual transformer-based token predictors.
Built ins aside, I find most uses of recursion to be better served by Enum.reduce.
I've had snarky replies to my anti-M$ comments basically saying that without a hint of sarcasm.

I would gladly pay Microsoft for a non-spyware laden operating system. If they will not allow me to do so, then I will utilize every opportunity to dismantle and destroy their spyware in regards to any system I run.

Because people should be allowed to play and communicate without some nebulous 3rd party recording everything they say and do. I don't care what they plan to do with the data they are scraping. It's amoral that they try to collect it in the first place regardless of their justification.
> The plumber generally exploits one or two employees. But otherwise your point stands.

It's hard to know where to start with things like this. How does the plumber exploit employees? Why are you assuming anyone exploits anyone by default?
(The above comment is now obsolete. The GP originally said “pallate”.)
What ever came about from the CRU hack [1]?

I was walking my dog there most days when that happened, and to my knowledge they never caught the spooky hackers did they?

For now, just call me spooky Patsy.

Anyway, whilst more and more cars and buildings with air conditioning expel heat without a considerable lag, thus amplifying the thermal heat island effect [2], and the reduction of aerosols that were contributing to global dimming [3] making it possible to warm up the sea and land to new record highs since records began [4], have the climate scientists adjusted their models yet, or are they still in full on fatalism and alarmism mode? I feel like Roy Castle [5] still lives on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming#Relationship_to...

[4] https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/06/16/sea-surface-tempera...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Castle
It's activism, not journalism. The purpose is to persuade, not inform.
I feel like people are responding to my posts based on reading half a sentence or something. I don't really understand what's so hard to get about this. As I said elsewhere:

1. I use Chrome because Chrome works best for me

2. People are proposing I use Firefox because Firefox has a mission that people want to align with

3. Firefox has terrible leadership and can not execute on their mission, I am not switching browsers to one that's run by an utter failure unless they either build a much better browser or they fire the fool who has put them in this position

This is not complicated. If you're asking me to use a worse product (from my perspective) for ideological reasons, which I actually align with, then using that product had better actually advance that ideology - something I do not believe Mozilla is capable of doing while their current CEO is sitting. I have then expressed why I believe the CEO is incapable and a failure. Saying "But Google's CEO is bad" doesn't change that - I'm not using Chrome because of ideological reasons.

This seems insane to have to spell out repeatedly.

edit: I think Dang consolidated the posts - thanks, I realized that it was getting egregiously repetitive.
Is this new? I distinctly remember this as my own experience starting out in the late '90's, and it basically feels like the experience of every new hire I've seen. Actually, with better tooling, Google, and the like, I feel like new hires are more able to fix and solve their issues. (in software, anyway)
Continuing with the Monty Python vibe, the first code I wrote was in machine code (ie hex, not even assembler). Though I worked with a guy who wrote machine code on a magnetic drum and they used the delay of the rotation of the drum for their timing. The good ol' days.
How good is recall at 4k and 16k prompt sizes?
What setting was it?
I still download new apps on iOS and once in a blue moon on Android, but they're rarely discovered through the App Store/Play Store.

Nearly all new installs are apps by indie devs that I saw someone mention in a Mastodon post or HN comment or something, because that's where the gold is. Midsize and up companies generally don't care enough about user experience to build great apps (instead, optimizing for "engagement" and leaning on A/B tests for design decisions), and obviously neither do shovelware devs of any size. The interesting stuff is almost always built by small operations run by passionate people.
I've just tried it on my desktop. I probably wouldn't use this mobile.
Your experience matches mine. And ChatGPT has been a game-changer - if there isn't an Elixir library for some third-party API, GPT is very good at generating some wrapper functions in Elixir using the API docs.
First Lambda-Ingo ZK CTF: ZK Challenges Using LambdaWorks
There’s a middle ground between “Move fast and break things” and “Don’t make any changes in case you break anything”
"anyone can become an "attester"" - and no site has to respect that.
Read between the lines - using TLS as example: I can attest that my site is my by being self-certified but no browser will accept that - as my certificate is not "attested" by browser or OS.

The WEI attester is exactly same - if site decides that it trust only Google, Apple and Microsoft - you do not have any way to access the site if you don't have attestation from that group, period.

"Opera would need to trust Linux" - Again I need to stress out to anyone who doesn't understand anything about Linux - Linux is not single uniform OS - it is bunch of distributions (OSes) that agree on some common API (not always) to produce more or less something that seems to be single OS for application (often not really) - binary compatibility is not a thing to this degree that linux has many (again no uniformity) separate solutions to make closed source binaries to work.

In reality trying to attest "that binary is not modified" on Linux is simply fallacious or outright misguided on basic idea - leaving aside distros that do not ship binaries (Gentoo) many ship often modified versions of software. And Users may modify software as they see fit - so there is literary no way that you can attest Linux.
When I looked, the evidence I found was quite strong. Younger age of maturity seems to be driven by nutritional improvements of the Industrial Revolution.

> Compared to the 19th century, women have become younger and taller at age of maturity (Worthman 1999). This secular trend has been most intense within groups of low socioeconomic status (SES) (e.g., Abioye-Kuteyi et al 1997). This class effect only pertains to countries where low SES groups do not suffer from systematic malnutrition and disease (it is absent in e.g., Denmark Helm & Lidegaard 1989).

https://kevinbinz.com/2022/08/18/the-pace-of-life/
"Wizard's dataset + ChatGPT's conversation extension + Vicuna's tuning method"
I used to have a lot of fun making replacement Netscape "throbbers" (as they were called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber ). I made a color changing dragon, the USS Enterprise flying by, Xena animations, etc. Good times.
$2 portable water purifier prototype
Lol. I think I was a part of this story. In the early 2000s, I was one of those faceless, nameless government people who were complaining to MSFT that their software was insecure compared to Solaris or even ConvexOS. I KNOW I am not the only one to have done this, but we gave them a copy of the rainbow books at a meeting and asked them to read them. MAC (Mandatory Access Control) isn't the be-all/end-all of computer security in general, but it IS a good model for government computers in the 1990s. Plenty of people understood the Bell-Lapadula model, all our machines were self-managed behind locked doors and we could afford a small army of sysadmins and infosec people.

I've talked about interviewing as the Office Security Architect in 2003, but the job that got me talking to MSFT was one in what was going to become NGSCB, bits of which were eventually rolled into Windows Vista. My interview for that team was scuttled when I talked with their senior tech person who asked me... "Oh. I see you have experience in Crypto(graphy), then you clearly know how to tractably factor a 2000 bit number." I admitted that I was still under the impression that it was a difficult problem, but he assured me that all you had to do was print it out in binary and apply a particular regular expression to it. When I pointed out that primality testing and factoring are different things the interview went south. I later found out this was some sort of MIT shibboleth and I was supposed to respond with some comment about the compilers class.

In any event... It always seemed odd to me that NGSCB tried to make MAC a mainstream feature, but I wasn't really thinking about DRM. Like I said, if you're a big organization and can properly manage the classification problem, and have info security peeps who are cleared and trusted, MAC (as embodied in any of the C2 Unices from the 90s, NGSCB or SE Linux) can be useful. But yeah, the only reason you would want this on a consumer machine is to prevent the "owner" from doing something with downloaded media the person who produced the media doesn't want you to do (aka DRM.)
You might want to try out Arc if you're a Mac user – this was top on my wishlist from Firefox, too, and they're hitting it out of the park.
Wow, yeah, that's a good reason to use something else. Fortunately, no ISP has pulled that on me yet.
Good luck, I ran into Polars by coincidence just yesterday and already a big fan.

Will you also offer paid support?
Yeah, there were a lot of near retirement workers who had their 401k/pensions wiped out by the financial crisis. I've met quite a few who pushed back retirement 7-10 years to rebuild their savings. Now that bond rates are up, they're headed for the exits en masse.

The industry that wasn't affected by a large demographic of near retirees was technology. Because age discrimination was built into the culture. Not a lot of old programmers sticking around. They get RIFed right outta here. So while there is a shortage on teachers, nurses, trades, and police there is a surplus of junior and mid-career tech workers.
I use an adblocking DNS. Slightly better than in browser and works for mobile devices too.
Yay, the last TLD I still had elsewhere!
Just a few comments above yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36985178
Net.net: the first domain name on the internet
You're confusing "is" and "should". Politics violates the HN guidelines - the fact that lots of people are violating them doesn't mean that it's now acceptable.

Also, if you go back say, 10 years, you'll see that most HN threads have very little politics in them, so yes, that has been the norm before.
The cartel that controls the US meat industry
>The problem is becoming a very good programmer who is never tired or rushed.

So what stops that programmer from being lazy and wrapping all the blocks in unsafe in a Rust code base?
It's one thing to engage suspension of disbelief when watching a movie. It's another to engage it when discussing actual scientific papers.
Isn't that justification to get rid of pluton then? Why keep it if all it does is make your life more difficult?

Or is it that you have to have it for business purposes?
Isn’t it just a reasonable application of the “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”?

And I say this as someone really hoping that this is true, since I assume this would be great news for renewable energy (and we really need great news on that front)
I mean.. tech people are kind of nuts on this.

For literally years Google Authenticator had no means to move between phones. Of course people who were told to use it decided never to use OTP apps again after getting screwed.

Yubikeys (and google's keys) have had issues where the keys were extractable and needed to be replaced.

and so on.

SMS has just worked. Yes, it has reliability issues, but it's almost like people can't model even the most basic ways that the non-SMS tech is basically terrible. Even Apple doesn't work well because of the broadcast behavior of the confirmations.
Oh, I don't think the library thing and ecosystem is really an obstacle for using Elixir so much as it makes Rails a 'safe bet'.

If I'm putting on my business hat, I need a reason to use Elixir instead of Rails and that probably has something to do with a better concurrency story, but I'm always curious to hear what other people are getting out of it.

My previous experience with BEAM was using Erlang in a semi-embedded environment and it was fantastic for that. Solid, dependable, deterministic, great response times... all of that. But while we did have a web interface to the system, it wasn't a web site.
The only problem with Lens is that it is "magic" and doesn't have a failure state beyond giving junk results should it fail. I don't think I would ever trust it for a "can I eat this" indicator on a mushroom with how many visual lookalikes there are out there. What if the contrast isn't good enough to catch colorations and the gills are not in sight?

Merlin Bird ID is so good in comparison, probably the best in the "ID this thing" category of apps I have ever tried. Photos do a lot, but if you don't get a good ID it will ask some questions about the bird's behavior and your circumstances to narrow down your search.
It doesn't seem like a bad way to go. If the company is stable enough and you can cash in your engineers salary for 25 years and have crazy good job security.

Seems better than being a 50 year old trying to wow a 28 year old interviewer with your skills on whatever hot new framework just came out.
Either an application of empathy to the business, or a filter to allow only completely unempathetic people into leadership.
> Construction work can be an issue indeed

As it is in suburbs too. My parents' house is fairly quiet, until a neighbor is hammering or sawing. And that doesn't even include the loud insanity of lawn mowing in the desert.
Does that apply to macOS wanting to make sure you want to use Chrome after you install it, and, 'just checking', not Safari?
Please use the original blog title. The blog post doesn't mention threads, is that listed somewhere else?
Labour generates value. An employee generates value and the employer pays the employee only a fraction of the value generated, after paying off all expenses. That is called profit. Marx defines exploitation in the amoral sense, like exploiting natural resources.

Customers don’t get exploited in this way. They generally are also employees of some company that does exploit them, but that is a separate relationship.
Yeah I knew someone was going to say that (see last sentence), but a for loop is more powerful and general than reduce().

Mutability within the loop is useful, and it can be controlled by processes and message passing.
Tap tap tap, is this thing on?

To quote: The "other than data-mining" part is still unanswered
> justify the existence of whatever Rube Goldberg machine

I'm at least going to be waiting for questions to be asked.

"Why was it done this way?"

"Circumstance combined with 'path of least resistance'."
Makes sense. I was assuming the idea was that you could nudge long term prices a little bit. But I do have to consider that houses are largely bought on loans now.

I'd guess that the automobile market is similarly impacted, just has a larger buffer in the used marketplace to eat in some of the negatives?

Is there a viable path to lower costs on housing? :(
The anglosphere is vast though
Was he on foot?
For sure. I meant to say that was _one_ of the points the author was making. You're absolutely right about what the core sentiment/point of the post was.
pg: "Being too cynical will cause you to miss out on the most important phase changes."

Defaulting to "no" might get you the right answer the majority of the time, but it also makes you miss the times that "yes" is correct. And correct things that are a radical departure from the status quo are probably the most important and useful to get right.

Skepticism is good (it's still ambiguous whether LK-99 is anything at all), but pessimistic cynicism is not the same thing.
I am very happy for you, egoistically I want Polars to become a the best tool it can. On the other hand it is not going to be easy to build a company around it, I think you need a different/better business model compared to Databricks/Spark.
I use Firefox to log into cloudflare without issue. Surely there’s something else going on other than monopolistic collaboration.
Stop. Using. Proprietary. Software.

If you don't control the software, the software controls you.

If users are disallowed from auditing the software source code easily, then this is bound to happen.
Steering failures are Tesla’s new federal safety worry
Author here!

I love this so much. I've totally been this guy :) Learning how not to be an insufferable doucheb*g was a surprisingly hard challenge for me

I've been writing a longer fiction piece about overzealous know-it-all engineers in the style of Confederacy of Dunces. Probably won't be done for a while, 'cause there's a lot more of my soul in it haha
I'm honestly surprised by how low that number is.
I’m guessing the key here is in the term itself. This avoids the repetitive-ness of it.
I'm guessing some people feel like the time spent discussing/keeping up to date would be a waste of time if it turns out it isn't true.

Which I guess is fine, the friction comes from when those people think others shouldn't "risk" wasting their time, as they start wanting to impose their own will upon others. But this happens all the time with humans so...
I think it's worth noting that MV3 also solves problems. Like, the fact that an extension can do arbitrary things is obviously very dangerous. The ability to intercept arbitrary API calls and scripts is very powerful.

So the goal is to remove that power, so that it can not be abused. Then the question is "and how do we solve the legitimate use cases?" - hence the years of working with people like Gorhill to help build a better API to serve the ad blocking use case.

MV3 was delayed because, despite the numerous changes made to MV3 to satisfy these use cases, it's clear that there needs to be more work to do so.
What's wrong with macros? I use them every day. They're fine.
It was a bitmap image that consisted of a strip of individual frames. It was common for a while to make them from animated gifs (which were plentiful and popular on the web). http://leighb.com/throbgif.htm
I worked in some ex-USSR government facility, and they had an old hp-9000 system, that needed ram upgrade. HP wanted some ridiculous thousands of $$ for like 16MiB of RAM. After some inspection it was discovered that the RAM is nothing more than 72pin SIMMs. We took some ram from nearby old 486 and it worked.
> The same is true of how Mac's limit external displays in software

Really? I thought this limitation was in hardware (which is just as bad and just as much Apple's choice)
Adequacy Decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework