skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds sort of like the near-irresistible impulse to achieve the high score in the "Your Speed Is" sign game.

I was bummed when they capped the reading at 70 on the signs in the I-5 mountain passes in Oregon, but that's Oregon for you, I guess. At least they let you pump your own gas now.
Here's another modern example (ICE and LexisNexis)

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/20/lexisnexis-ice-surveilla...
Thanks. I even skimmed the article a 2nd time to give WSJ the benefit of the doubt, but somehow missed that.

(I would also argue the lede is a bit buried down in the penultimate paragraph, but it's still my misreading.)
My only reason for not using phind is next 13. I use it for express and node js. But in the new app router it hasn't read the documentation and can't provide me with answers. In contentlayer with next it gave me a solution full of hallucinations and I spent a couple of hours implementing the solution it gave but later on I found that the issue was brand new due to new update.

An AI that says i don't know would be my next feature ask and that says using bing or something else with this search query. That would give me the peace of mind of not crosschecking to google too. But love it.

Please add support for jet brains/webstorm. I don't really use VS code.
Dumb question but how would they know the content is different unless they're also crawling incognito and comparing the results?
No Emacs mode?
I can’t help but notice the accusation of hysteria is backed by a conspicuous lack of evidence or meaningful policy proposals whereas the people you’re attacking have both decades of data, accurate predictions, and detailed policies which have been heavily analyzed.
> It takes me days to make Windows usable for myself by hosing all the garbage off it.

I guess it's what you're used to. I don't find Windows decrapification to be that much more effort than Linux configuration.

> it's not worth the money of buying the overpriced unrepairable and unupgradeable hardware

For your use case, presumably not.

The ship seems to have sailed for upgradable Apple hardware (and I expect Apple did their homework and discovered 90% of Mac Pro systems were never upgraded anyway) but I still appreciate the advantages of hardware-software integration, nice form factor and battery life, unified CPU/GPU memory, etc.
Cheap 3D printers are actually really useful for prototyping. There isn't really an equivalent to hand-assembling a PCB in the 3D world. At best you're going to have a machinist spend a few dozen hours milling your object, that's going to set you back thousands.

With 3D printing, any company can just get one for a one-off $1000 and have a physical representation of their design in a few hours. That kind of innovation radically alters the entire industry.
Does WarpStream guarantee correct order inside partition only for acknowledged messages or also among the acknowledged messages (in different batches)? If so how do you keep clocks synchronized between the agents?
The problem with disabling paste and what to do instead
It would be a win-win if the company promised that they'll keep the AI as it is, and as free as it is, as long as the company functions. Then they would take something, give something, and we could discuss if what we get outweighs what they took.

But the street is one-way, and it's the company that has the upper hand. The company can (and does) retract access to the AI, but they themselves keep what they took. If in the meantime people became attached to what the company gave, the company even does damage to them, not just by taking away the access, but because of severing the supply for a dependency.

So the people are taken advantage of because the company took the assets, they are taken advantage of because they help to further train the AI by using it, and then they get, at most, the privilege to pay for something that grew out of them.

That's why it's not a win-win. It's a win for the company, and a questionable outcome, and a risk for the people.
Of course, as soon as an AZ goes down that had all of your Kafka nodes in it, you get eviscerated on HN for running such a setup.
love the ending: "Shortly after the call, an Arthur AI employee confronted Mr. Ngo in a LinkedIn message, a person with knowledge of the exchange said. Mr. Ngo responded by trying to recruit the Arthur AI employee to Arize AI, the person said." If all else fails, hire them!
Healing our nation? Censoring social media and ruining the lives of people with opposing viewpoints by getting them fired from their jobs and other nonsense does nothing too heal this nation. It only creates more animosity and hate.

Start by looking in a mirror. The current corruption scandal with the Bidens that should be the largest in history yet is now absent from the headlines after barely covering it should tell you all you need to know.
The battles are usually things like invasive user tracking, insecure storage of PII (comprehesive credit reports), locking people out of accounts without recourse, dinging people's credit scores, giving out (potentially incorrect) information to police without warrants, etc.

So, upper management, government agencies, finance departments, and marketing departments.
Goddamn that's pretty crazy
It might be getting more common to export this particular part of SE Asian culture. I'm seeing it at ramen shops around me as well.
I wouldn't put too much faith in them. The cookie law is a joke and the UK government is trying to get access to everyone's encrypted messages.
Do you have the source code for the scripts you wrote to help? I'd be interested in seeing them
I would guess that Apple make business decisions based on metrics that others do not have access to, including those unknown to Google and average internet users.
I actually think Google Meet is a decent product. Feels lightweight and is browser-first
Realistically speaking, the hash would be your smallest problem if you're being DDoSed.

Bcrypt for example would require at most ~6.4Mb of memory to do the hash, and more realistically only the 100k plus some constant. And modern CPUs are pretty efficient at doing the encryption steps, meaning little additional load for encrypting a larger value.
I'm actually significantly more skeptical of OpenAI after discovering that one of their founders is behind this.

The tag line of universal basic income is so absurd for an iris scanner built on the blockchain.

Are we still in the world of 0% interest rates???
> One of my research topics last year was self-modifying code mainly for *obfuscation*.

I think obfuscation is generally a really bad idea, but that was brought up in the article. One practical application for self-modifying code is hotpatching. Sometimes you really don't want to stop the process but want to change the implementation for some function.
I think it's kind of sad and insane that people seem to have forgotten (or came into the industry too late to know) that it's possible to build fun and useful things that way.

I built a forum/social site that way back in the day and it was active and profitable for 10+ years.

It also feels like the art of optimization has been lost.

For small and medium sites a lot of today's crazy build pipeline and distributed asset hosting complexity can be sidestepped if you just focus on optimization and making sure that cache expiration dates for your assets are set correctly.

On the server side, it is considered "normal" these days to have maybe 50+ database queries per request. People then reach for expensive and complex database solutions (clustering, etc) before doing simple app-layer optimizations like caching.
Agreed. It's actually much worse in LA than SF (I've lived 20+ years in each).
Built "Free Enterprise" (AKA 'Big Bird") with Dave Elliot. My boss was Tom Jewett. That plane along with the golden Q2 shown at Oshkosh 1981.

I'd be super impressed if anyone knew my name ;-) (Fred Jiran would know me) (plus, I was hired by Boeing in 1985 and worked in MR&D Composite Primary Structures)

P.S. G. Michael Huffman is a BFL (big fat liar). He came on after Dave and I completed the aircraft, INCLUDING the landing dolly. Actually, I give 95% credit to Dave there, he did most of the final work, since he was a registered A&P.
Godwin's law does not mean that any comparison involving Nazis is automatically a fallacy.

In this case, it was a relevant comparison. Court cases involving former concentration camp staff have established that "I just work here" is not a particularly strong defense. If your work enables harmful actions, and if you are aware of it, you may be found responsible for the consequences. Even if you don't participate directly in it. Even if you could face adverse consequences (including death) for refusing to do your job. And even if someone else would likely just take your place.
Related: Sam Altman saying himself that users who are concerned about privacy should not sign up:

https://youtu.be/4HFyXYvMwFc?t=3186
Do some research? I do this for a living.

"digitally signed SolarWinds Orion network monitoring component"

Do you even know what that is? It's a .net dll. It was absolutley self hosted. Updating the self-hosted software meant that included the backdoored dll. There is no cloud involved. Do you even know what solarwinds does?

> just because you install something yourself does not make it self hosted

It does when you install it on your own server that you manage.

> Lastly this was a supply chain attack. which means too that if the government is able to roll their own stuff, or use open source products that can be reviewed properly, this would not have happened.

So now you moved to every company and government should write their own software? And you think opensource means it will get reviewed because unpaid people who are not responsible for review will review it no matter what? Opensource is an even bigger nightmare, I am sure you must have heard of the log4j mess.

Perhaps you should look into what security professionals have to say about the subject instead of presuming things.
I certainly do not want my private chats, meetings, nor any non-public company information shared with anyone else. This seems like a massive privacy breach. Where is the opt-out to disable this?
CryptoBro Sam Altman will have to deal with goat eyes being scanned in as well pretty soon
I am not an expert on homeless shelters and the exact pros and cons. You seem to have thoughts that getting someone into a shelter would be overall net negative, which is fine for you to have that opinion.

But in the context of the discussion, if we take for granted that doing X for homeless people is good, whatever X may be (e.g. moving them into a shelter, attending an AA meeting, seeing a doctor, whatever), my point is that you may need to apply moderate, reasonable and proportionate levels of force and/or coercion in order to achieve X.
I was a co-builder of “the funhouse”.

Have a look - https://funhouse.house

My ex and I built a large physical love note to each other by way of turning what started as her boring studio apartment into an interactive art installation we would live together in and build.

It’s now an exhibit in Manhattan and over 100k people have moved through the whimsy and magic at a huge scale… and yet, it started with a huge crush between a nerd and an artist.
I bet it's much easier to put range warnings into floating point than to switch to fixed point, and that the effect on bugs would be similar.
That is insanely cool, I would love to see the script to convert png to string placement.
As a hint on how to self host I can suggest galene. Now there is a caveat in that It turns out that seeing someone while talking to them does not actually provide any value add(actually it is a net negative) to me and my normal non video chat go-to's(cough mumble) have proved good enough. so I don't really use it. But it was very easy to build on openbsd, which is a plus in my book, and the documentation is pretty good at explaining various scaling setups. from one idiot who likes to run servers(me) to full on video chat as a service(zoomish).

https://galene.org/
Responses to queries I made today seem quite slow compared to responses to queries I made back in March. Was that part of the cost saving measures?
> insta-block [...] seems at the heart of the brokenness of online discourse.

> having seen what some of the women in my life go through re: abusive behavior online, I also understand the hair trigger

Even from your own words, it sounds like the heart is not in the reaction, but what people are reacting to.

I am moderately mouthy on social media. I get a much, much smaller level of pushback than similar women do. When I do, the level of respect is higher, and I almost never get my credentials questioned. But I regularly see women with much stronger credentials get those inspected and/or dismissed. Just yesterday I saw a woman with a relevant PhD getting talked down to by some random guy. And then when she made a separate post about her frustration with reply guys and how she was thinking about leaving Mastodon, some different random dude told her to "get a live".

Historically, we spent thousands of years keeping women in "their place". That was partly legal, but mostly social. We've solved the legal stuff in the US, but only recently. (E.g., states only started to outlaw marital rape in the 1970s, and it wasn't fully outlawed until 1992.) It should be no surprise to anybody that the social mechanisms did not magically evaporate the moment we passed some laws. And I think one of those social mechanisms is the disproportionate negativity women get from men when they are not in "their place". When they have the audacity to act like they know things and have valid opinions just like men do.

If you want to read more on this, Manne's "Down Girl: the logic of misogyny" is a very careful examination of the mechanisms and their effects. If you're looking for "the heart", I think that's a good place to continue your search.
$40k USD is a fine amount of live off of is you are living in Carbondale, IL. But less so Chicago.

It's a pretty decent way to live in Belize or Costa Rica. Good luck in the UK. Germany, probably not, but Czech Republic may well be fine.

It depends on where you want to live. One of the factors which makes a huge difference is how old you are - the older you are the better healthcare you're going to need. Some of those low cost destinations don't have that great of healthcare - but some do!
What does this mean? You already have a unique identity as far as the government are concerned, and who would pay UBI if not the government.
Because the charge was for carjacking and she was eight months pregnant at the time. You're right that the facial recognition aspect was bad enough, but there was a very obvious way they could have verified their arrest with the victim "was she obviously heavily pregnant"?
Those look fantastic!
The pandemic is over. Most companies never wanted people to work remotely in the first place. Expect more of this.

I built my career on remote work 10+ years ago and continue to do so today. It's built into all my contracts and I won't work anywhere that makes me go into an office. I no longer rely on the kindness of my employer's heart.
Sure, if 1Password's cloud service can inspect and validate the structure of the vault. I kind of hope they can't since the vault should be encrypted, but I'm also not quite that naive.
Best no-word, visual, intuitive explanation of how CAT scans work ever!
Awesome! We'll blogging about its benchmarks compared to Redis and SQS soon.
Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Containers
> They identified some significant advantage that made the cost-benefit analysis line up.

I don't know if this is true or not but I don't rate the fact that they used it as much evidence that they should have used it. IME decisions like this are because some early engineer wanted to use that particular bit of technology.
Et Tu, Zoom?
Same in English. (At least, in medicine.)
Building my own mechanical keyboards and learning to paint with gouache (not that super amazing end result, but is for me super cool to have a physical painting at the end of a session).
Oooh, do share some details. I've been meaning to try making them after stumbling upon https://www.pelikanpuzzles.eu
> If only we actually had that ability.

"We" do, if people would ask properly for it instead of trying instead to break the customer/common carrier contract.

The carriers withhold information from customers that is useful to determine the nature of traffic and whether it should be accepted or rejected. The amount of metadata that accompanies a modern phone call is substantial, and the carrier typically relays only ONE FIELD to the customer.

Customers should demand access to all call/circuit/packet metadata that is necessary or useful to implement their own traffic policy. To the average person, I can see why it might seem that the carriers appear to be ideally suited to police this problem, but the correct way for them to do it without violating their obligations as a common carrier is to empower their customers with the information and the tools to do it on their own.
"...whereas positive results are strongly indicative..." [if the claims come from highly respected labs with experienced experimental scientists]
(WarpStream founder)

It guarantees correct ordering inside a partition for all acknowledged messages regardless of which batch they originated from. We don't synchronize clocks, the agents call out to our cloud metadata store which runs a per-cluster metadata store that assigns offsets to messages at commit time. Effectively "committing" data involves two steps:

1. Write a file to S3
2. "Commit" that file to the metadata store which will then assign the partitions at commit time
3. Return the assigned partitions to the client
Thanks for letting us know! We'll try to get this fixed soon or at least direct users to a desktop view.

For now, it's best to sign up from a desktop, as the onboarding flow requires connecting GitHub and specifying repos, so this is not very convenient from mobile right now.
First time I'm seeing anyone suggest that MFA and biometrics are less secure than a password.

Also you have to consider that companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, are making decisions based on what's good for most users, not a single user.
That is an argument against it. If they already solved the problem with mobile payments adding blockchain to the mix doesnt add any value.
> I know this is Hacker news

And honestly given the interest in topics unrelated to programming, I don’t think it’s implied at all so agree on the specification
2 weeks after launch and a government is already able to disrupt their operations? Liz Truss lasted as Prime Minister for longer than that.
We've quietly launched these features recently. As for response length, we have a feature called Answer Profile where you can tell Phind exactly how you like your questions answered (you must be signed in for this).
You're right! I've only heard it being used as a contradictory phrase though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_th...!
This looks great but reading the accidental SRE gave me two questions:

We’ve had bare metal for a very long time now and it seems that managing your own bare metal hasn’t become much easier. If it were very easy, we’d see more of these sort of things be managed by the end user. That being said how are you managing this service? A cloud provider or bare metal?

Both you and Ryan have much experience with foundationdb which generally is managed yourself. Speaking of which, did you go with that for your metadata store again? Why or why not?
My understanding of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu really shot up once I started teaching.

Teaching forces you to put things into words that you only had an implicit understanding of prior. It reinforces your existing knowledge and forces you to seek answers to questions you didn't know you had.
This list is fantastic.
Blockchain would not be the right tech if you don't need decentralised trust.

Write once media on a server is what you want.
Also in that same screenshot, hurd used to drop you into a shell as the nobody user where you could run the login binary... Curious if that was changed as part of debian, or changed for some other reason.
Oh they do, but now it's in the name of electrification .

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/03/child-la...
I'm still waiting for a GTK and Windows GUI as good as the one provided by vim.
Oh man, I would if I had any contacts at all. I live in London, and my deep, deep dream is move to the countryside in a large farm house/art and hacking collective with like minded engineers.

Imagine a high tech eco-commune as close as possible to nature and social life. Gigabit fibre and organic garden. A solarpunk, Raspberry PI powered collective of nerds and artists.

But I don't know where to start, and don't know where to recruit others for this endeavour.
Barefoot vs. common footwear: A systematic review
I've been saved from tickets by Google maps several times now, mostly because when it warns of a speed trap it reminds me to look at the speedometer and realize the prevailing traffic speed had been more than 10 km over the limit.
The federal government should absolutely have their own software development department that exists entirely to make software for governments. I'm so tired of us saying "nononono government can't do it efficiently" just so we can spend 10x as much on a "contractor" who works only ever for the government and spends all their R&D on circumventing government procurement contract clauses.
I do use the full fledged nvidia drivers on linux (I don't know if with the mentioned libre drivers the steam games, LLM's and image generation I use would work?), so I would also like to know if this telemetry is also present in the linux drivers
Cal Newport has become a particular kind of hustle culture charlatan, and it's been pretty fascinating to watch. I began reading his writing when was focusing on teaching study habits to college students when I myself was a college student. As he grew up, finished his PhD and started his academic career, he began building a brand around offering advice on "deep work". It sells the idea that you can, and should, only work on meaningful problems with limited distraction, and have a solid work-life balance, filled with "valuable leisure activities".

You can debate the merits of his arguments, and should, as ultimately what he sells is advice, but something truly rubs me the wrong way about how he has continued to market himself. A kind of Andrew Huberman-esque, long form podcast, a thinly veiled advertisement for his courses, books, and products.

One would think that if you were truly living a "deep life", watching a two hour long video podcast every week wouldn't exactly fit into your schedule.

While I credit his critique of the attention economy to opening my eyes a little bit and changing how I view my time, I can't help but feel that as he's risen in popularity following his "deep life" work, he's continued to become more and more of what he used to decry, just another way to waste your time while feeling like you're being productive.
Yeah, I've been working on Noticias, which is an implementation of NeWS in Typescript targeting the browser.

Initially, I used HTML5 Canvas to draw, but I'm now in the process of switching over to SVG. Once I have demos that I can show, I'll be making the repo public.

If you're interested in working it, please reach out to me, duncanmak@gmail.com.
End Server License Agreement
(WarpStream co-founder) We use S3 for data replication, availability, and durability, but not for the log ordering guarantees. For that, we have our own custom metadata store that "imposes" ordering guarantees on top of the data that is written to S3.

We don't rely on any kind of timestamp-based last write wins policy for concurrent writes. In fact the agents will never write a file to S3 with the same name more than once or overwrite an existing file.
Fully agree, I've been using cinnamon instead for a long time already