skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that much about the security model. But I think if you really want to verify device integrity you should use an attestation key. That is supposed to be un-spoofable (although bugs can still occur in any software, which would defeat the integrity guarantees).
Rhodes had a couple of advantages over his priors (Jungk for instance)

1) there were enough of the first crew alive to get good oral history from the people in the room. Oliphant, II Rabi, Teller. Not everyone, but enough to bridge from deep past in physics, to the dawn of modern physics, to the people who built the bomb. Ok, he shared this with Jungk.

2) he was late enough that nobody's career was on the line if they said what they really thought. When Jungk wrote, people were still a bit hot under the collar, and the consequences of speaking up could kill your career.

3) more of the soviet union archives became available. This mostly relates to the follow on book about the H Bomb. It was impossible to write some of the story from only western sources, before 1991.

I think the book make a pair. Some people hate one or the other.

One of the most intesting parts of the A Bomb book for me, is the stuff about Michael Polyani. His comments on the nature of scientism, and its analogies to the craft guilds and apprenticeship is fascinating.

If you read it and enjoyed it, the Robert Buderi Book on the invention of Radar is also worth reading, it carries the story of the MIT radiation laboratories, which for some of the scientists in Manhatten was tactically as, if not more important in the time: inventing radar, and proximity fuzes.

Or, Florey, the man who made penicillin by Lennard Bickel. About the invention which literally saved lives and changed the face of medicine in warfare.

Lastly "from apes to warlords" by Solly Zuckerman which is about operations research and the scientific analysis of bombing.
If we took all the lives lost to waiting for Jira, we’d have the time to speed up things like Jira.
click on the link - plays in the browser
It's not really the kind of audio that you'd be able to notice looping. The white/pink/brown noise files are each a minute long, and the stream/ocean/rain sounds are comprised of 17-20 sound files between 1-3 minutes long (and I'm guessing it randomizes the playback order).
which is why the Linux approach is superior: it has a stable ABI that is language-agnostic.
Same here. Screen time really should mean un-directed TV time.

Directed TV/PC time can turbocharge learning: khan academy, scratch, or math maze (put together by another HNer, thx!) https://gogamewise.com/games/math-maze-2/
Are people still taking Covid booster shots? I ensured my parents got them, but since I'd just recovered, the doctors recommended waiting for a while and then I never got around to going to get it. I don't know anyone in India going and getting booster shots. Isn't the pandemic mostly over?
Wind and especially solar were massively subsidized for decades before accumulated innovations from the subsidized at-scale manufacturing, and economies of scale, pushed prices per unit down to levels that are competitive in the market.

What nuclear needs is massive subsidies, especially in reactors using small modular designs that are more amenable to mass-manufacturing techniques and transportability, and it needs them sustained for decades until the competitive forces of the large market for SMRs has brought the price of reactors down to levels where they're competitive in the market without subsidies, at which point the growth of privately funded nuclear power would be self-sustaining.
Nitpick, but the title SHOULD be 'I come to bury Delphi, not to praise it'

The whole point of Mark Antony's speech is that he was, in fact, praising Caesar, despite the line stating otherwise. Flipping it around removes the entire impact of the speech.
Does anyone have more information about this webpage/resource? Legality etc? It's fabulous.
Technically, the best that can be said is that like any placebo, they can work pretty darned well. Parents use placebo treatments with kids all the time because they work. :)
Except the article doesn't say "he is [in] league w Putin"--it does say he repeated talking points that are Russian talking points. Even Reid Hoffman, whose comments gave rise to the article in the first place, isn't really saying that; he seems to be saying that Musk is just mistaken, not that he is in active cahoots with Putin.

The article brings in a number of facts surrounding Musk's statements and involvement w/r/t Russia and Ukraine, such as the Star Link stuff you reference. Unless the article genuflects to him and pretends like none of the other facts it mentions exist, you think it's biased?

> Musk is one of the only individuals in the world that actively tries to solve real problems.

Even assuming this is true (though it is a daft and cultish claim), that doesn't mean that he is above criticism.

> And people hate him for it.

You seem to be confused or simply disingenuous (my bet is the latter); people hate him because he's an arrogant man-child who has done things like used his fame to repeatedly call some guy a pedo, and who actively supports a political party that recently launched an insurrection in an attempt to overturn an election, among other acts of malfeasance. Even if you agree with his politics such as his views on things like Covid-19 and what he considers to be "free speech", don't go around pretending like people hate him because he "actively tries to solve real problems".
Great, so now I can tell it "Block all cookie prompts on all sites, disable all javascript, and if what I click on doesnt react as it should because of turned off javascript, run the javascript code behind the element just that one time." ? No? So what is the chatbot actually capable of, telling me what is the weather gonna be tomorrow? Is it also able to tell me what the weather was yesterday?

My point being that AI chatbot could be incredibly powerful system, if always weren't implemented in the most basic way.
Transcending the Transactional–Part II – By Luke Burgis
Yep, and the major killer with Wind is people falling off of the turbines.

Hydro is extremely safe except for a handful mass casualty incidents that completely skew the numbers. Nuclear is in the same boat, with really just 1 significant incident.
Yes, because they would lose all their customers to their competitors, which is exactly what has happened to Docker.
The commitment alone is probably a deal breaker for many. The shortest contract is longer than a person can expect to stay at their first full time job, and that doesn’t need to come with a lifestyle overhaul.
Any definitive statements made about the past half century are pretty questionable, ideological biases notwithstanding (see “ The constant turnover in the Fortune 500 is a positive sign of the dynamism and innovation that characterizes a vibrant consumer-oriented market economy, and that dynamic turnover is speeding up in today’s hyper-competitive global economy.” and “Another economic lesson to be learned from the creative destruction that results in the constant churning of Fortune 500 (and S&P 500) companies over time is that the process of market disruption is being driven by the endless pursuit of sales and profits that can only come from serving customers with low prices, high quality products and services, and great customer service.”).

I think it’s not an unreasonable argument that the process of market disruption (over the past century at least) isn’t being driven by “the endless pursuit of profits that can only come from serving customers with low prices, high quality products and services, and great customer service” (LOL) but by some insane demographic changes occurring in the background of equally insane technological progress.

It actually seems quite delusional that, knowing about Moore’s Law/baby boomers/more than 5 tv channels, this person decided that customer service would be more important in deciding how the economy moves. Bonkers levels of autofellation, I say.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I know nothing about AI but it seems like we're approaching it from the other end - the human mind seems like magic and when we approximate it using technology it feels like we'll reach a moment of "that's all it is?" and refuse to believe we actually did it because we doubt ourselves.

Along the same lines, if achieving equal human rights for all humans were a trip to the corner store, the fight for AI rights is going to be like Mount Everest.
Utilities don’t particularly like rooftop solar here either, but a combination of factors has meant that their efforts to stop rooftop solar have been less successful.

Now, the constituency of people with solar panels on their roofs is so large that it will be very politically difficult for the industry to turn back the clock.
Isn't threads already dead and gone?
> Of course there's not one on-duty staffer per car. You'd only need that many people if all rides required human support at exactly the same time.

Now I'm curious what happens when a lot of cars need support at the same time, and not enough support people are available. For instance say SF gets magnitude 8+ earthquake. That could cause a lot of problems for traffic, probably including many things that would confuse current self-driving systems.

So say you are in a Waymo, such a thing happens, and your Waymo is having problems. You decide you'd like to abandon the ride and proceed on foot. Is is safe to just open the door and leave? Or do you have to do something locally to tell the Waymo you want to immediately exit, so that it doesn't decide to start moving while you are getting out? Or does it automatically stop and stay stopped while the door is open?
That's not a red flag, that's a scam.
This time it's nuclear winter.

Examples:
Graphics User Interface. The iPhone seated mobile compute as a permanent fixture, it and Android bringing internet and computing to billions of humans for the first time. Not just the wealthy industrials. Or IBM DB2 for SQL. Or Ford's Model T. Or the Gutenberg. None of these were the first first. Maybe even on the n-th iteration 2 decades after coming out of DARPA or global university research, something is just ready for commercialized prime time.

Computing was solved by Lady Ada and Babbage. It's all electrical engineering, software, fabrication, productization, mfg, displays, sensors etc. after that.

Semiconductor was a big deal in making it happen. But that's almost besides the point of the theory of compute if it can be solved in other novel ways using alternative material science.
> Talking about open source in the same context of a paid subscription might be confusing people.

It's making some useful work though. It's only going to be free for non-profits who develop open-source software.

(I work at a non-profit which makes some closed-source software, and I'm an Orbstack user, so I expect to pay when the time comes)
For an description of nuclear waste storage from someone in the industry I recommend this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnxksKmJa6U
I don't think large media companies are ever going to stop pretending they don't have political motivations or any truthfulness or objectivity.
I think the more interesting story is about the death of the IPO and how the number of public companies today is half of what it was at the peak in the late 90s.

I don't know if this is due to more private funding, more acquisitions, regulatory capture, or what.

Despite living in the internet Information Age, it seems like it's less viable than ever to find public investors and Investments via IPO

https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/...
If we had built 30 Votgles they wouldn't have cost $30B each. One of the huge problems with modern Nuclear plants is there is no economy of scale. They're all bespoke projects with fresh people re-learning the skills of the past. If they were being mass produced there would be an established industry with veterans working on most of the plants, saving enormous amounts of time and money.

This is where Wind and Solar are really winning. The industries building them are growing mature and as a result efficiency goes up and costs go down.

This was the promise of nuclear microreactors: that they could be mass produced in a factory and shipped where needed. But it seems like they're never going to get off of the ground.
It means a lot to me. Thats the first thing I look for in a company/concept. releasing code to the public is an act of social responsibility. I means quite a bit to the public good.

The public good still exists no matter what people in business think. It just takes awhile to effect your bottom line if you ignore it.
What is a "mercenary?" Someone who wants to make money?
To continue watching baby shark please:

solve the Riemann hypothesis
It doesn't matter if you're hauled in front of congress if 2/3 of them are on your payroll. This is certainly the case for Google, Amazon, and probably TikTok at this point. It's been true for big pharma for half a century. I can't even remember a monopoly that was smashed outside of Big Bell.
Google solved this with circles. Too bad that thing didn't catch on.
Show HN: Sandtrix, formerly known as Setris is coming on Steam
https://koryogroup.com/blog/who-were-the-rooftop-koreans
Actually it played the same game (volume with ultra low margins) but to a different set of users
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup, "In 2016, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry estimated the total cost of dealing with the Fukushima disaster at ¥21.5 trillion (US$187 billion)" (with breakdown following). Hyperbole does not serve to convince intelligent people of your point, much less your objectivity in the matter.
Even better, thanks for the correction
Almost every child that uses a screen is just using it to consume. Yes in theory it is simplistic to say "screen time bad", not everything needs to be a super detailed, super nuanced discussion all the time.
I’m of the same mindset. A cab is still a cab to me, even if it’s autonomous. We’ll still have to deal with traffic all the same. Uber and Lyft showed us ride share even worsens congestion in cities. As a result, in dense locales, taking the train can often be quicker and cheaper than hailing or ordering a ride during rush hour.

While other developed nations show us it’s possible to reduce our accident rate per mile driven, we could also make progress on reducing the time spent in a car. So many suburbanites drive the whole way into the city for weekend trips here in my city because their local commuter rail stinks. I see missed opportunities all around.

If cities are increasingly considering offloading public transit burden off to private entities, they might as well consider introducing the private sector into rail…
Have you ever used a mainframe OS like MVS, or the z/OS or earlier versions of it?
Tesla data breach blamed on ‘insider wrongdoing’
Also agree on the use of language extends beyond transmission of thought - the art comes into using language as a tool. I bet all languages has these hidden corners of complexity for it to be expressive enough to be wielded, just under appreciated by non-native speakers.
Who is "we", Docker or (co)Lima.
Looking at their post history they might do. Posted about a Smart TV blocklist.

I know that when I've noticed anything strange with accessing anything or authenticating I temporarily switch off Pi-Hole to test.
I don't know the exact age I was. I can tell you that I don't have any memories from before I could understand German.

It probably was in the 1-2 (maybe 3) age range though based on what my parents have said.
I should start thingsthathaveanOSandshouldnt.net or something.
Being truthful is an action, the best kind of action. It develops trust with people over time.
You appear to know what you're talking about (I certainly don't), but it also seems to me that the knowledge in this post is not accessible to I would imagine the vast majority of people. Do you have any recommendations for where to start learning about this kind of thing aimed at music theory troglodytes like myself?
Arriving at a place with a Delphi codebase developped over the course of 30 years (some files had 80ies copyrights), the tendency tot have enormously long ones was apparent. 10k lines would be short, and 100k nothing unusual. Really hard tot navigatie, the Delphi IDE doesn't really help with that (or much else really).
Kudos for him for reverting the binary requirements but it was still weeks after the initial objections to foisting binaries onto users unannounced, with not much productive discussion in between that and that pre-RFC. It's not clear to me that anything would have happened without the mob attention, which sucks.

But, I think the attention on proc macro performance and overall weaknesses in security with cargo could be net benefits, even if I don't personally care about a 9 second speedup in clean builds. I was also really dreading dealing with serde forks, selfishly.
This game was released for free as Setris, got mildly popular and quickly DMCA'd by the Tetris Company.
After that I began working on removing the copyright infringing elements and implementing community feedback. I am now finally releasing an extended version on steam while keeping the base game free and updated.
>transfer both scientific and socio-emotional concepts from the show to the real world. It really is mind-blowing as a parent.

The last place I would want my children to get socio-emotionql concepts is YouTube...
But the way to get there in my opinion is to make tasty Indian food available to people’s diet for example. Maybe start with school lunches
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>Would be interesting to see how the interpreter works actually...

It's quite easy to see, there are interpeters for Lisp in like 20 lines or so.

Here's a good one:

https://norvig.com/lispy.html

(It has the full code in a link towards the bottom)

There's also this:

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

> I would guess it checks what `defun` is, which is a macro...then expands it, and the expansion should ultimately result in an s-expression, which is then parses? Is this right?

Yes, but macros (like special forms, but macros can be user implementable) have some "special" powers regarding controlling the evaluation of the code they produce.

Here's some more discussion with examples:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42470940/how-is-the-defu...
Found this via a tweet that quoted the article, saying "I think most people don't spend more than 10 minutes a year seriously contemplating this question yet assume they are orienting around its answer."

I wonder if that's true. How much time do people actually spend understanding what they want versus asking others what they should do, admiring what others do, thinking about what other people have, obsessing over what other people may think they have, etc.
"Company lifespan" is a stupid metric. Any given company can hold on as best it can or be driven into the ground in a few years, depending on what management and the board does with it. There's no rule in business that says "oh, too old, time for you to go out of business now."
They are implying Twitter will default on their debt and the debt owners will take what's left of the companies assets - the company.
Despite the cynical responses here there is actually a practical reason why OpenAI is paying for this: The AP News Archive is not available online to be crawled. See https://www.ap.org/content/archive

There's a reasonable strong argument that crawling public pages for "indexing" (aka learning) is fair use based on the Google precedent and case law from ther early 2000s.

The argument is much less strong if those records aren't available.
I notice that a lot of really successful people speak quite quickly early in their careers. It's almost as if their own voices can't keep up with the excitement they have about their product/idea and they haven't quite honed in the outward presentation of it.
I guess it's newlining on certain key words like AND which is ok if it's a new where condition but unnecessary if it's part of an between clause.
I don't know how to call it but it seems to be a process similar to Mormon's lost boys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentali...
I'm kind of confused by companies like the one in the post. What is the selling point of the these hosted DB companies running in AWS, when aws and the rest of the providers them selves provide pretty good, probably much better, DB services? Is there that much money to make between running DBs on EC2 compared to the existing offerings they have?

Amazon, google, MS, these companies print money, have built up massive engineering cultures to run reliable storage. I just dont see what the value is with trusting data with some VC funded group over proven engineering work.

I worked on one of these in house storage systems, all we did was look at how the cloud providers did things already for inspiration. Might as well just use those. IDK maybe someone can convince me of the value?
Watching TV in a language you don't understand isn't entirely passive consumption though. That's how I learned the language and that's how basically everyone learns their native language.

They will make sounds and then show what they're doing. Over time you associate the words with activities.

I think a critical part is "no subtitles" so that your brain has to do the work to try to figure out what's being said.
You probably already know this but there's no way for them to verify name on card. They can only verify address with AVS.
Reflection Mapping (2006)
> Personally I think it's both - they execute incredibly well given their scale AND they abuse their market power.

They execute well to clear the competitive landscape. Then just well enough to prevent new competition from exploiting a subpar performance gradient.

Success grows fat off of easy cash flows instead of staying nimble. That's every major tech company and most big conglomerates.
A potential reconciliation is that most of the companies left those lists via mergers with other companies on the list. It both consolidates power and gives churn to that list.

I don't know whether that's true or not, but it's notable that your article counts companies as "leaving" the list if they merge with someone else.
no, the web wasn't intended to be such a commercial hellscape. if you want to make money ethically you should come up with your own way to reach people.
> It doesn't matter if you're hauled in front of congress if 2/3 of them are on your payroll.

Everyone likes to say this, and sure, lobbying is a thing. But I doubt 99 percent of the people saying this can produce evidence of wide-scale bribes and corruption at the Federal level which could justify them saying it as often as they do.
Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel
Break them all up 10 ways to Sunday. I'm with Cory Doctorow on this one.
Ok the close up photo of how it attaches to the intestine is not helping.
The web is, in theory, an open venue, and somebody publishing on the web is not unlike somebody performing in the street. It is not your duty, as the consumer, to ensure the producer’s income—particularly not at the expense of your privacy. The producer has something to say, and you the consumer are willing to hear it: that may just as well be the extent of your relationship. How, or even whether, the producer monetizes this state of affairs is not the consumer’s responsibility, though some consumers (who can) may choose to patronize the producer.