skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the need to include "the types of websites you visit" in GPU driver telemetry.

AMD's telemetry doesn't seem to include that:
https://www.amd.com/en/legal/privacy/user-experience-program...

I couldn't figure out what telemetry is collected by Nvidia.
Reminds me of working on a ranch for community service for high school. I assumed I was working for some charity.

The truth is that the ranch charged for service. I don't think it was even a non-profit, but even if so, it was basically just a business this one asshole owned. I have no clue why it was helpful for the community to service it.
Reflections on running my own mail server for 10 years
What in the hells?! This is absurd. How does someone that steers their company into the gutter get financed to the tune of $350M again?
I just went through that article again ... I see not a single mention about "governments ordering farmers". Have I missed something?
I just send them enough cash for a year at a time. No issues yet. I suppose there is a chance someone grabs it out of the mail but I'm willing to risk it.
Same here. And they’re a BYOD shop too, which I found strange.
Eh, there are, but not sorted by skin tone or location. If you consider a situation as "home" (the species cycled through crisis/conflict every generation), certain neuro-types pop out as adaptions to this situation cycle parts. A shizophren might look out of place in SF, but he might call us out of place in a warzone.

Its not a good thing though and hardly something to claim pride from or for. Nobody wants to be on team wheel chair.
I avoid the 'news' from disreputable papers because it's obvious they are regularly lying intentionally to boost a specific political group.

OP is washington post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04...

or

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/...

These are not possible to reconcile, obviously Bernie Sanders was not the liar. The swamp beat Bernie.
I am defining "push for UBI" as "actually do something to pressure the government" and not just state that a for profit business you've established is trying to accomplish that goal.
> Not everything can be meaningfully quantified.

Sure, but written words _can_ be meaningfully quantified. We have been doing that for thousands of years. Starting with numerology and other mystical/religious beliefs, poem metrics, stylometry, crypto analysis, stroke counting, to name a few.

> Not everything needs to be.

Why not?
It will not affect Linux
Same. Got a subscription from work. Never really used it. The few times I tried them in HK they were horrible. Only the New Street building was nice enough but for some reason they were allegedly always 'full' (they clearly weren't) and wouldn't let me in. Enough nice cafes in the area that are more comfy and have friendlier personal.
I have lived in a country under communist rule until it fell apart in 1990.

If you haven’t experienced communism first hand, you have no idea how bad it is, even the watered-down communism of 80s.
There is also the command line version: `qalc`.

I use it since I discovered it.
AWS is some of the most expensive infrastructure available. And people who break these things tend to rely on stolen CPU time.
Time to change the name to Armazon.
Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?
Yes, and they have 1000 times the spoilers and quotations and judgemental attitude of ... a summary of adverbs and voices.

So yes, I understand what a review is, thanks for the put-down, that certainly added something to the conversation.

I think we are in agreement - doing statistical analysis on written works is entirely a lesser thing than simple review, and is harmless.
> . Otherwise, the public fund managers should go after this complete lack of governance and oversight.

The public fund managers would be the ones guilty of not doing their due diligence.
Naloxone blocks placebo analgesia (2009)
> If his models could predict useful room temperature superconductors, it seems we would have found one already.

A model that can check a given solution is not one that can quickly check the entire solution space. For a pure-CS analogy, this is the very definition of P vs NP.
Ask HN: Is Sourcegraph.com Down for You?
In East Asia I can't use github1s.com to inspect the GH repo suddenly, and I noticed that sourcegraph.com is not loadable. I checked with https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/sourcegraph.com, and the result seems positive.

I patiently waited and saw that the frontend loaded, but subsequential loading of the site is very, very slow right now.
After a lifetime of being on the boot end of capitalism, I don't think communist systems are special in being full of horrors. I don't think the particular system humans use to justify those horrors is the issue.
The problem is that FPGA's are not 100% hardware replicas of the chips. The only way to be close to tru experience is to use newly made silicon, but made according to the blueprints from 1970s. For example 6502s sold today are of this type; also 74AC/HC/LS chips.
Did anyone think it's a bit weird that they don't give you a laptop? Are you supposed to buy your own hardware or something?
Spot on.

Generalizing: QA/Test and dev people just think differently.

I served as QA manager for a while. I was fortunate to have worked with some really, really good QA/Test people. They're more rare than good devs.

Some individuals can do well in both worlds.

I've had great devs who were pretty good at test. It seems to me like these devs came from outside of software and CS. Like from aerospace or ballet or history.

I've mentored QA/Test people so they could better automate and manage their work. Then they could pick up tasks like CI/CD, testing scripts, scrub data, etc.

But, in my experience, devs are bad at testing, and just terrible at QA.

Getting enough QA/Test support on a team in the 90s was a tough sell, even though everyone gave lip service to quality.

It's been a long time since I've worked with an actual Test person, dedicated to that role. And that was just 1 person vs 8 devs. So ridiculous.

These days, any kind of "test" is done by "business analysts", whatever that means. And I can't recall the last QA person I've worked with (since my stint as QA Manager in the '90s).

FWIW, I wholly agree with Dan Luu's observations about today's QA/Test standard practice in software vs hardware.
This isn’t true, Mullvad completely disabled port forwarding earlier this year. See: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-f...
Along with Wikipedia and Linux maybe the top three projects of the open source movement. The most solid indicator that alternative, benign, do-no-evil visions for organizing our information landscapes not only exist, but are extremely effective.

Long live and prosper and may thousand more siblings follow in the paths OSM has opened up.
Nobody said anything about the latency issues of GEO stationary satellites. Starlink very much has real latency differences and potential bandwidth capacity limitations vs a dedicated point to point microwave link as previously stated.

Starlink has to travel minimum of 550km twice + distance from ground station to destination server. For remote locations, you generally also have an additional satellite to satellite relay distance as well. So realistically say 1500km minimum, likely way higher. Speed of light time on that distance is ~5ms, and that doesn’t account for latency losses at each hop and also remember that’s one way time.

There’s a reason microwave is still used, even sometimes over fiber, where latency matters.
Yeah, you can't say a big no-no to private companies doing this and in the same time collect everything on everybody without any good law to back it up, even about hobo half around the world as long as they leave any kind of data trail (or somebody else does on their behalf).

Somebody may connect the dots and uses it against you in election campaigns. So we are where we are, all politicians are well aware of this topic, all pros and cons, but nobody wants to touch it with 10m pole unless they can somehow spin it into their advantage. But then again, politicians have supporters, donations etc. Can't bite the hand that feeds you, can you.

And there is always that cheap argument about 'think about the children...' when terrorists don't terrorize general population enough.
That was the accusation, and it was misplaced here. So we agree, this is a smear campaign in this case, not a sensible reaction to a reasonable application of machine algorithms.

The idea that counting adverbs is steal their work to the point they won't want to publish anymore is clearly FUD. As my remark made clear.
> somewhat similar to the demonization of communism that the west pushed for decades?

I'm not sure what you mean with 'the west', but in Western Europe communist political parties were allowed just like any others.
When I went to high school in the 80's it was even kind of fashionable to have communist sympathies. This was before the fall of the iron curtain though, once it went down it became clear how terrible communism had really been.
Thanks a lot for your explanations :)
If I ran WeWork my evil plan would be to move to a franchise model, collect a franchise fee from each lucky winner of the franchisee stakes and transfer the leases to them. And then I would sit back and collect a modest fee based on revenue (say 10%) for the branding and the concept.
If your heatpump takes six hours to warm up your home, the system is wrongly designed.
Crimea is in Ukraine.
This is really cool! I’m doing something similar with Lemon Agent (https://github.com/felixbrock/lemon-agent). What I find most powerful about defining workflows in a json file is that you can add additional fields to let the LLM know about specific execution requirements, like asking the user for permission before executing a specific workflow step. This allows for infinite configuration options. Curious to hear if you already experimented with something like this or if you are planning to include something similar?
Grafana Integration
If you’re an author of books intended for children, your texts are likely already being quantified to produce a reading level difficulty score:

https://metametricsinc.com/parents-and-students/lexile-for-p...
I have always wondered whether something like hypnosis is possible with all humans. Maybe hypnosis is analogous to searching this abstract space?
Comparing Tortoise and Bark for Voice Synthesis
Ah, essentially they are selling office desks to start-ups who don't need them anymore post-covid. Sounds bulletproof to me /s.

I think that many fast-growing start-ups have decided that it's cheaper and safer to work from home, so maybe WeWork needs to start working and look for other sources of revenue. or do nothing and implode.
Say I make a tool where you can enter the title of a book, and get the full text of the book without paying for it. I assume we all agree that would be illegal, right?

Now say that instead of distributing that tool as an executable, I distributed it as a library. It would contain all the same books as the illegal executable above, but some developers would need to write an actual executable that would use the library. Obviously that executable would be illegal (same as the first one above), but would the library be illegal? I would think that we all reasonably agree that my library would be illegal, because I would essentially be selling the content of books for which I don't own the copyright.

Now what happens when I distribute a trained model that has the potential to generate illegal work? Is it suddenly legal for me to sell it, because some developers write legal executables with it? How is that different from my library example above?
> There will be a 12-year gap until the next investments pools increase from the new workers entering the working market.

Why 12 years?
your answer really doesn't make sense to me, can you explain it a bit more?

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

> While Muslims agree that riba is prohibited, not all agree on what precisely it is.[2][3] It is often used as an Islamic term for interest charged on loans,[Note 1] and the belief this is based on — that there is a consensus among Muslims that all loan/bank interest is riba — forms the basis of a $2 trillion Islamic banking industry

This is enough to negate what you said here:

>it does not. there is absolutely no basis for "islam forbits interest".

Could you explain what you mean here?

>the problem didn't exist till then so someone just literally invented it and then sold a solution

What problem didn't exist and what was invented and what was the solution?
If he says he didn't do something, the pitchfork mob will simply tell each other that he is lying. They will do this in the most confused and twisted way possible, driven by lack of understanding of what was happening combined with a need to drive outrage and thereby advertise their work.

If he says he didn't intend to do that thing, this is still compatible with a later update that he didn't do that thing, but immediately dampens the outrage machine. The reader who knows nothing about either side relaxes -- "No need for me to get worked up, because we won". Conveniently, saying he didn't intend to do the thing is also compatible with a later reveal that he was doing the thing (perhaps for later release, since he wasn't clearly doing the thing here).

Therefore, regardless of whether he was doing what he was accused of doing, this is the lowest energy response, and probably the default unless this was the hill he wanted to defend.
I guess I'm glad I noticed this when it appeared on a driver update.

Another box to uncheck on each update: arc control and telemetry.
The breakdown in semantics reminds me of the Broca-area zombification process in the Hour by Hour novel Pontypool.
The biggest challenges you faced when launching your product?
The biggest challenges you faced when launching your product?

Every product launch comes with its own unique challenges. The biggest one is managing expectations - both yours and those of others.

it's easy to get caught up in the launch excitement and to start dreaming of overnight success. reality, though, often looks different.

Building and launching a product is a process, a marathon, not a sprint. instant success is rare; most products need time to gain traction and grow.

Then there's the challenge of feedback. Launch day usually means a flood of comments, suggestions, and critiques. Some of it is invaluable, and some of it is noise.

Learning to discern between the two, to take what's useful and let the rest slide, is an art in itself.

And lastly, dealing with the post-lunch slump. After the initial rush, there's often a dip in energy and motivation. It's important to anticipate this and to have a plan for what comes next.

These challenges are tough but they are also growth opportunities. Each one teaches us something about our product, our audience, and ourselves.

Embrace the challenges, they are part of the journey.
I am curious what rural areas have 2G only. I've driven all over the contiguous US and hit plenty of "No Service" and 3G, but never 2G (T-Mobile Samsung S22).
What’s the trick?
> Bash doesn't even support floating point!

But bc (and dc) does, and shell authors deemed this was good enough.

And that's part of the problem with the "Unix philosophy"
> In reality Texas is about average when it comes to reliability

Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, I felt the need to buy a generator when I lived north of Austin, because outages were frequent enough that it seemed warranted. Since moving to North Carolina (just north of Charlotte), I’ve had exactly one outage in a year, and that was on a mild day, just had some equipment failure.

Never once here have I received notice that I needed to reduce consumption to help the grid.
Tell HN: The NCDMV online experience is the best I've ever seen
I just renewed my registration, paid property tax and got a duplicate ID with a new address online within 5 minutes. Oh yeah, and got a vanity plate.

This is far and away better than anything I've seen from the public sector, even in the UK where I lived for five years.

Just thought I'd share.
It's a commercial property management company that identifies as a tech company to get dumb investment money. Maybe not outright fraudulent, but definitely scammy.
It's also not true and gp corrected themselves
> However, this is Bitcoin. The only thing the attacker has is your hash.

You're doing exactly the "confusing entropy with key length" thing I was mentioning above.

That's not the situation at hand. The entropy in question is the private key generation, it's not related to any SHA256 hash in the protocol. But you're right, if you were trying to generate symmetric keys using a 48 bit password expanded using SHA256 as a PBKDF that would be a disaster. But no software is doing that[1]. All you need to do is pull a key derivation function off the shelf and use it with recommended parameters. Really these have been stable, even bcrypt is still very solid.

Your question was essentially "can a human being remember enough entropy to secure a bitcoin wallet". And the answer is absolutely yes.

[1] What it was doing was even worse, of course.
Jet Pac, Attic Atac, sabrewulf, Knightlore. Easily the greatest British games company of all time. They were so far ahead of everyone else, they had to delay the launch of Knightlore because it would have blown Sabrewulf out of the water. They became Rare and then released Donkey Kong Country and then Golden Eye. They were the Rolls Royce of labels.
The previous incidents the article mentions are about the aptly named Demon Core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
> If I get good enough at bash, will it get better?

Bash itself will not get better because you'll be stuck writing scripts targeting some ancient version to ensure wider compatibility.

It's still a powerful skill to develop. It's a sweet spot between a one-off shell pipeline and something that involves actual logic.

Bash scripts should not be used for their logic. Think of them as a way to document a series of commands that you do not want to manually type. That can be including long argument names, generating includes or classpaths, or generating log file names based on the current time.

A good rule of thumb is if your script involves any if-statement other than parameter validation or basic on-success-of-x-do-y, it probably should be in a real language.
Always critics but never providing a viable alternative. So please tell us your model, yank the cable out of the wall and pitch your phone in the lake? I'm mostly concerned about advertisers, corps, and my ISP. I know that in my country (the USA) that if they want something out of me they'll take me to a back room and beat it out of me, so generally I don't do illegal stuff.
„We“ will most likely not include all eight billion of us in that scenario.
>..a lot of the comments here seem to be hailing VPNs in general as the solution to privacy on the internet.

..where?
Curiously that is a pretty close description of a normal neighborhood library.
Without trying to sound flippant - what do you define AI as? Things like autofocus in your video cameras or automatic gain control or noise cancellation in your audio pipeline could also be considered AI. Do you remove those too? What about the AI recommendation algorithm built into YouTube - how do you reconcile being AI free while still using that platform?
>If you care about anything these days, don't use Chrome.

I care about a lot of real world stuff - human rights, wars, the environment, friends etc. I don't care if Chrome knows who I am and tries to show me ads which uBlock then blocks. There are more important things to worry about than privacy geekery.
The octolets will get back to you.
I also, like the person above, heard we're not descendants of apes and, while it seems odd, took that as my best available knowledge.

I never considered that this makes a ton of sense: of course we didn't evolve from apes, after which the apes just stopped evolving and froze their DNA and never had mutations again. Of course they'll be different from their ancestors. But that doesn't mean that our common ancestor was an alligator or something and we developed all ape-like features independently of each other. That's what I took it to mean (when I heard this, idk, maybe as a teenager more than ten years ago), but your comment makes a lot more sense.
Yeah. The title is clickbait and the post describes what every other binary protocol used to be like before JSON took over.

Honestly I can't see what the point of the post is. If you create a protocol that is optimized for bytes, you will get a protocol that is optimized for bytes. It's a trivial tautology.
How his this different from all the vampire novels that hit the shelf after the success of Twilight? Publishers alway preferred the money makers, just the measure changed.

Nowadays writers can at least publish their books without the need of publishers and I think some like the help of the bad Silicon valley stuff that made writing, publishing and interacting with the readers easier.

I'm on your site if it's about automatic content creation and style copying but text analysis is not the real danger. Especially when the usefulness of such statistics isn't even given.
Schizoid?
Maintenance concerns should be part of the requirements for the project to be considered successful, the same as pretty much any other engineering. If the only reason to have SEs care about maintenance is to have them do it later, then incentives are wrong.
There’s no major difference between a chihuahua and a German shepherd in the same way there’s no major difference in “insert your X & Y breeds here” - it’s pathological to think that there isn’t a bred phenotype exposed within a population cluster.
Happy birthday. What's the easiest way to contribute data to it using my phone? I want to start mapping my city but I really have no idea how to do this. Any google maps style app that asks you questions about your surroundings?
I suppose there might be others, but I just wanted to mention http://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/, a conference on the pkgsrc packaging system. This had been going on for years, but seems to have stopped in 2019 due to the pandemic and not resumed...
Greater level of irony is that we say things like that while steadfastly refusing to look in the mirror. Civilization as it stands isn't the most sustainable either.
If you experience something, it's already subjective. No need for the "imo" -escape. Same goes for sentiment. The sentiment is already what you observed, no need to further interprete that. Just share what you see. This is overly careful to a point where it almost lacks any content.

Edit: To make this constructive, you could add why people think so and share a related link or something.
>> The American usage, I suspect, evolved from our "pissed off".

Correct. Americans might say: "Watch out! The boss is pissed." which is the same as "Watch out! The boss is pissed off!"

>> "I got pissed" means "I became very drunk"

The American English usage is typically: "piss drunk" meaning "so intoxicated that the person might urinate on themself".

See also: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/351812/pissing-i...
Also outside of Hollywood movies there's not a great intersection between people who are great at this sort of hands on crime (e.g. robbery, pick pocketing) and the high level strategy needed to want a specific person's MFA token. Tom Cruise would play a character who does that (and rides a motorcycle, obviously) but in the real world it's not a thing.

Unlike car keys the tokens don't even know what they're for. You can walk around a car park with keys and match the car, these days it'll even remotely blip the lights - but if you have some random guy's Yubico Security Key, you don't even know if he uses Facebook, Google, PyPI, or what, let alone what the account's username/ email might be. Good luck.
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