skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like spreading the wealth to me
> The good news is that you can mitigate for much of the consequences by simply not being in the West, ideally in a commodity rich country.

That's interesting, my impression has been entirely the opposite, that Global South is going to suffer the worst of the consequences; as most parts of the West can afford to mitigate the effects with large investments in infrastructure and for western countries these consequences are outweighed by secondary-order effects i.e. migration and conflicts due to the more affected places.
For another, older, weatherproofing material that was hazardous, consider tent canvas covered in paraffin thinned with gasoline: https://todayincthistory.com/2023/07/06/july-6-the-saddest-d...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus set up in Hartford, CT and a fire broke out with a big crowd inside the big tent. 160+ people died.
I'm certainly not saying I have a situation where it's impossible to do automation. Just that it's sometimes not feasible, in that it takes too much effort and introduces more points of potential failure. In other words, that it's more complex than just buying a cert with a longer lifetime and using that.

In my case, it's not a DNS issue but one of the systems themselves not having enough available resources to put the automation on, which means that I'd have to do the automation on another machine and either set up some sort of automated method of moving the certs to their ultimate destination or manually install them.

> domain registrations aren't forever

Technically true, but practically? The youngest domain name I have, I've had for over a decade. Most of my domain names are much older. They are, for all intents and purposes, permanent.
It's not quite wrong either. The truth is more complex. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-spent-millio... and https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nasa-pens-idUSL1N2...

I think any of us would balk at a government agency spending 1300 bucks on a single pencil (first link). And the graphite conductivity problem is a non sequitur, given that the Russians used wax (or grease) pencils, not graphite. This is really the point of the anecdote: wasteful government spending.

Though apparently the Russians also find the pens useful and bought some as well.
Has anyone explored using a technique like a Bloom filter or partial hash matching (like haveibeenpwned does) as a preliminary step for CRL lookups? You could do a cheap initial query, and if you get a negative, you're good. You only have to do the full expensive one if you get a positive, to ensure that it's a true positive. Which should be rare since most certs that are presented won't be revoked.
“Some people have been releasing wild beavers illegally. Guerrilla beavering, if you will, because of their ability to heal ecosystems.”
> Just ship ZFS or BTRFS please.

ZFS has been an installer option since 20.04 and it's been working great for me.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/zfs-focus-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts-whats-...
Sure, but Ventile was designed for exactly the opposite, to prevent hypothermia on WWII pilots while they were awaiting rescue in the North Sea.

It was also worn in the summit of Mt Everest by Edmund Hillary as it is a great windstopper.

It has nothing to do with regular cotton.
What impact will the EU's Digital Services Act have?
AFAICT, the model used doesn’t ever allow the jumper to push against the ground. Since it also limits the time spent getting up to speed, that limits the amount of energy one can load into the system.

They also use l1 (distance between top of swing and seat) = 2m. I think that’s way too short for a swing. The modeled height of the seat from the ground is also small, at 40cm.

The final expression isn’t simple, but even keeping that height the same, the first term is l1 sin Φ, and that grows with l1. I didn’t check, but suspect v also grows if l1 increases. If so, the other terms also go up if l1 increases.

They also don’t model what Olympic swingers would do. I expect they would start by standing on the swing, grabbing the ropes high, and pulling hard, bringing their lower body almost horizontal, at a height at least a meter above the starting position, and then almost let go of the ropes, dropping down on the falling seat.

Just before jump-off, they might even try to hang below the seat as far as possible, like they do in ring or on the horizontal bar in gymnastics.
What does this even mean? The tax money moves to another state, so it’s being spread out.
> Uranium is actually pretty rare

Where did you get that notion?
I hope to see a lot more of this kind of thing. I never liked or understood that massive Google San Jose project. Hope they change course and spread that investment around more of the country.
To make life better for people: the end to which economic prosperity is the means.
Almost like they are trying to find alternative funding models for the web here… I fail to see that as anything other than a positive.
Go is not modern and has never been modern. It's an old language that just happened to be designed and implemented recently.
I'm kind of surprised about how many people seem to believe that societal collapse = go back to 'stone age' overnight.

Yeah sure, if an area turns into a disaster zone, many conveniences of modern life (water supply, power grid, supermarkets, gas stations, internet) may become unavailable for X amount of time.

But all the materials & gear that modern society produced, doesn't just disappear. Houses would still be standing, the hand tools in your toolbox would still be there & do the same they did 20y ago, the groceries in your pantry are still there & your clothes would still be hanging in the closet. Your smartphone keeps working as long as you have any way to charge it.

That 'installed base' of modern stuff can go a long way in dealing with challenges as they come. Especially if (for example through hiking / camping trips) you have learned to get by with limited gear. Eg. a swiss pocket knive serves many purposes & lasts for decades.

It's just that many people are NOT prepared for modern conveniences falling away for extended time. One example - ask 'random' people: "If tap water goes out, how long until you run out of drinking water? And what you do if tap water wouldn't come back at all?". And be amazed at the answers.

I mean, that's #1 survival material after breathable air. And neither difficult or expensive to get a grip on.

What's that saying again? "When supplies break down, a modern city is just 3 days away from large scale riots & looting".

If anything, it's people being unprepared or panicing that'll get them killed. Not so much whatever disaster that struck them.
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“But whose hands can be said to be truly right”, says the chopshop car parts dealer
Not to the extent where advertisers had this level of fine-grained information about their target though, which is the whole point of contention.
What about this free market that everyone talks about?

I don't think there are any protections around the reasonable expectation of privacy from a private industry perspective in the US.

If you use the internet, or an app, you must protect yourself.

I assume everyone is a capitalist, so wouldn't adding laws here somehow subsidize and therefore tarnish the market?
Crazy to me that it is common for some places to not have screens on their windows. I live in Minnesota in the US and I don't think I have ever seen a screen-less window here (but I do remember the windows in our B&B in Munich didn't have screens)
Why Reduce or Evict VM's Resources When You Can Borrow Them from Other Nodes?
More like, they're bleeding money on Commercial real estate
Do you mean LUKS? Those fs aren’t encrypted by default.
> The business model of having an autonomous news room that holds itself to factual standards and is largely sequestered from advertising is shrinking and shrinking.

In large corporations it's effectively already dead, because many of the "trusted" names have already abandoned it, and you can't even tell which ones they are without being inside the newsroom to know if stories there get spiked on behalf of advertisers.

Where you can still get this is the likes of Substack, where you're paying a subscription to someone who doesn't have advertisers.

> The loudest voices that castigate the media, in America at least, tend to be the ones that profit the most from being the sole arbiter of truth for their own audiences.

That's to be expected when it benefits them. But their criticisms would sure have a lot less weight if they weren't accurate.
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On a typical ‘real’ swing, 1m is falling of the swing backwards at its highest point.
To me, if artificial intelligence means anything, it means automating mundane tasks -- most of which humans can accomplish already. If someone tells me they're an AI pessimist because they think automating tasks like "converse intelligently about nearly any subject at length" and "drive my car anywhere while I sleep in the back" isn't an impressive AI achievement, then I think our disagreement pertains to our ambitions for the field, and lies outside the realm of the technical.
The issue the Pentagon has is not that SpaceX is a private business but that they they do not depend on orders from the Pentagon even if Elon owns it.

In the US the companies providing hardware and services to the Pentagon are private, but many of them depend so much on government/military contracts that the Pentagon effectively controls them. For instance, it takes a few minutes to find out that 85% of Northrop Grumman's revenue comes from the US government and that 2 former military high-ups sit on its board...
While i see what you mean, this will blowover like the "reddit revolution" in about two or three months time.

Do not get me wrong, i would prefer that everything stays at is, but i do also understand the anger with the fact that other people are simply integrating your hard work and are not returning on it.

With the business license you can also still compete, you just have to pay for it. THIS is what i want hashi to be more open about but i also find it hard to not decide that on a case by case basis.

Finally the ultimate truth is that we are way overdo for a completely new tooling in the space and you are also simply free to not use it.
Jeans used to be standard hiking attire in the Sierra Nevada in the '80s. Most of them survived the experience. It's fine in the summer if you find them comfortable. They chafe and if you dip in a stream get wet and heavy, but for casual hiking it's fine. I wear nylon running shorts and cotton socks. For winter, I have a closet of 3L, 2L, soft shells but in all honesty 99% of hikers will not find themselves in those conditions.
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I always saw planning for a social collapse as a way to not actually resolve issues because you feel helpless.

"people gonna attack us? IM PREPARED!" you are not. You know what's better than prepping? Fighting tooth and nail to make sure the grid is rock solid and free of corruption. And every day is a battle, because there's always a schemer who will try to get in and hoard for himself. If preppers got depressed from thinking how things are in collapse, and how they need to improve things, as a society, in order to improve things for themselves, they'd actually maybe act.

I see preppers as poor "throw money at it" rich folks. Rich folks don't care if the education system isn't working, they can find a private school which costs $100k a month to give their child the best education possible. They can get a bunker professionally built so if anything happens their thick doors and automated guns will take care of any people trying to get in. They can hire a chef and have the best food possible in an ideal diet to keep them happy, sated, and healthy all their lives while most of us have to suffer from over-sugared foods and affordable food being incredibly poor in nutrients

Preppers are similar, they don't want to solve societal problems, they want to feel like _THEY_ are insulated from societal problems because they are "off the grid". But they are not. No living up in the mountain is gonna protect you from a bad harvest, or from a crop disease, or from a fucking splinter. I love something someone said recently "if you're in a zombie apocalypse, you won't get to have the cool hair, the cool bat, and go smash zombie brains. You'll likely die from diarrhea pretty early on."
Good riddance. Hope it extends beyond the EU as well.
europeans did not go to the streets because they were afraid of advertising. politicians ran with it because it sounds good

instead they go to the streets because of the awful economy, unemployment, inaccessible housing. Still waiting for a pan-european affordable housing regulation (not gonna happen because EU is run by the boomers)
Also the mythical Hydra
> Did they even lose tax revenue other than income tax from some admin jobs?

There's no doubt that there is more to lose than just the direct job losses. There's the GDP impact of those people traveling to the city, eating lunch, taking out clients, sticking around after work to socialize. It's not easy to put a number on it but it's definitely much larger than just the direct income tax losses.

> Most states have moved to market based sourcing rules for corporate taxes, so revenue is taxed where the services are received. If the clients are still in CA/NY, I presume it does not change much.

It doesn't work like that for managing assets as the client is delivering the assets to the manager in their jurisdiction. Where the manager's revenue is taxed is based on the location of those employees and the company headquarters. Not where the customer assets came from.
> If you care about security, you have to audit your dependencies very carefully

The problem is Cargo is yet another iteration of the npm-ization (maven-ization?) of code. It requires a BDFL or a team of such BDFLs to proactively police the repos in order to prevent trivial supply chain attacks. Your statement misses the point that not only do people NOT do this it's now trivial to avoid it with Cargo.

This is not the same security risk that is present if you use git submodules and build with a makefile. The key difference is ease of use. Cargo, like NPM and to some extent Maven, are so easy to use you've accidentally created a massive attack surface.

The result will likely be yet another incarnation of JFrog or the like. Code will be audited, built into dylibs, and then pinned via some enterprise supply chain manager. This is a big lift for companies who might otherwise switch to Rust for new projects quicker.

Cargo is my main gripe with Rust almost all the time. So many people say "you can just build manually with rustc!" but this is not true. It's not as simple. Again, it would also be one thing if Cargo was just the package manager but it's also the build management system, test framework, etc. It's the ecosystem. It not only introduces supply chain attacks. It also introduces other attacks directly from the owners such as vengeful removal of packages, changes in CoC that ban certain libraries, etc. I don't like it. Of all package managers, it makes me feel the worst.
Found the online marketing person!

And there are plenty of reasons.
A friend of mine put a list of over 350 amateur radio YouTube channels, many of which fit in the undiscovered electronics/maker label. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1BiqqCvRnzNx-iuH9...
Yeah, but they vote the “wrong” way so they’re not important. /s
It seems you're talking about different senses of spreading. Geography versus economic structures.
there are a decent set of publications describing data analysis with tda/ph; a source with citations to several can be found in:

Otter, N., Porter, M.A., Tillmann, U. et al. A roadmap for the computation of persistent homology. EPJ Data Sci. 6, 17 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0109-5
How many Walmart's worth? (Not a joke, genuine question) Big numbers are meh and for the clicks, just tell us what the aggregate state income tax delta is (federal taxes still getting paid). It's not a total loss, people will still move and work in the locales these jobs moved from, as well as pay property taxes (as real estate prices and rents aren't going down in CA and NY from all available data).

If California and New York want those dollars back, extract it through the federal government and the top 40% of taxpayers who pay federal income tax and can't avoid it (congresscritter hustle). You know, like red states do [1].

(tangentially, this will not age well when Texas and Florida come with their hands out for climate costs [2] [3]; grab those bootstraps y'all)

[1] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/florida-and-texas-are-expe...

[3] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aal4369
Ask HN: Could you share your personal social handlers (X,Mastodon,Threads) here?
Similar to Post about personal blogs[1], I would like to find and follow people from HackerNews on social networks. Mastodon and Threads are new to me (and most of us), and I would like to build a base of who to follow.

Please post: Twitter(X), Mastodon, and Threads. And anything else, if I am missing something.

Similar to the HN post about the personal blog posts, I will try to build a list [2] so it will be easier to summarize handlers for each social network, and maybe create some kind of mass-following script (if it is possible).

To make it parsable please post links, like

- https://mastodon.social/@mastodon

- https://twitter.com/x

- https://www.threads.net/@threads

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[2] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
Why would it? The EU is just protecting its own member states' IT industries and its own interest in undermining encrypted communications.
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I don't think it's fair to include the billion years of human evolution as a cost on the human side of the chart but not include it in the AI side. AIs didn't evolve themselves out of the primordial ooze, they were built by humans and required herculean human effort to develop and improve. They stand on our shoulders, yet they're still in infancy when it comes to capability. I have yet to see any evidence of an LLM being able to replace an accountant, or an HR person, never mind a trash collector.

The best use of LLMs that I've seen so far is as a boilerplate-producing autocomplete system. Considering that we have better ways to automate this (better programming languages that can abstract away the boilerplate), this is not very high praise.

Edit: If you look at the total footprint (considering not just the efficiency of the neurons, but the whole animal) the figures are very close - the llama model card indicates that v2 70B caused the emission of ~300T of CO2, and an average human in the US emits 16T of CO2 a year, so a human would emit ~320T of CO2 in 20 years. I assume children don't have as high a CO2 output, but even so it seems like it's the same order of magnitude.

If you're going to include the whole animal on the human side, you need to include the whole supply chain on the LLM side. The cost of building all the fabs and doing all the R&D to develop and manufacture model training-specific computers (matrix multiplier hardware). Just like with crypto, these resources had to be diverted away from other things (e.g. causing the price of gamers' graphics cards to skyrocket). It's only fair to interrogate the ROI.
The risk of 'bad' code is that it might be hard to make the change you want. I would believe that spaghetti code is more likely to have bugs than 'well designed' code.

When code is fresh in your mind, there's more tolerance for how disorganised the code can be and still be easy to change.

If your shipping method is "one shot".. time spent cleaning it has a chance to provide value; but time spent adding features is very likely adds value. -- Probably if the code is very clean, then at least some time would have been better spent adding features.
It was far more than sanctions that brought down that apartheid regime (and to be clear, the US was against much of those measures). It was a truly international coalition, bolstered by widespread support from the general populations of the nations seeking to bring down the regime. That is nothing like what the US has engaged in.
What an insane way to think about programming.

A service should never crash in response to a runtime error, or any kind of business logic conditional! Crashes are not normal, they signal critical problems and/or programmer errors. A service that crashes in production is a priority-0 bug that needs to be addressed and fixed immediately.

More specifically, if you can't trust that calling a function will always return execution to the call site, then there is no way to build a practical and deterministic model of control flow, and it becomes impossible to manage resource lifecycles.

Consider a network protocol that expects an explicit disconnect/teardown procedure. If your process creates a connection with this sort of protocol, you need to at least try to tear the connection down before terminating the process outright. You can't just yolo kill the client and expect the server to deal with it. And this is just one example among infinitely many possible examples: basically every API that understands a concept of a resource has similar expectations: filesystems, consensus protocols, etc. etc.
I wrote a purely functional AD library in Mercury [0], which adapts a general approach from [1]. I believe that Owl provides a similar approach [2].

[0] https://github.com/mclements/mercury-ad

[1] https://github.com/qobi/AD-Rosetta-Stone/

[2] https://github.com/owlbarn/owl/tree/main/src/base/algodiff
it will not, because that is unsustainable. but we can shove our head even deeper in the sand and hope so
> Ubuntu Desktop is the most used desktop Linux distribution for gaming (when you include older LTS and interim releases grouped inside the ‘Other category’ on the Steam hardware survey)

Where do they see that? Opening the link they reference gives the following table:

"SteamOS Holo" 64 bit
42.07%
+2.74%

"Arch Linux" 64 bit
7.94%
-0.39%

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS 64 bit
7.38%
-0.49%

Freedesktop.org SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit
5.99%
-0.03%

"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit
4.29%
-0.08%

Linux Mint 21.1 64 bit
3.84%
-0.71%

Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit
2.97%
+2.97%

Other
25.52%
-4.02%
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Our goal is to make it simple and intuitive to compose an image with visual assets instead of just text i.e. photobashing.

To help with this, we've made img2img the default workflow, along with tools that generate PNG stock images and human poses.

We've also incorporated early versions of familiar Photoshop tools like Generative Fill, Remove Background and Object Select.

Check out our subreddit at r/vispunk for more details! And for those interested in contributing to development, keep an eye on https://github.com/vispunk/vispunk-webui.
Isn't the destruction of advertising (not just online) a good thing?
It's skewing markets by creating demands that were not there before, but only for the big players who can afford to be in peoples faces everywhere.
Advertising is often misinforming (or not informing) people about the products/services. It promotes a throwaway society where resources are wasted.
I agree with this sorry state of affairs; it does not seem that there is a proper successor to X at the moment.
Factorio is basically a sandbox game that generates logistical puzzles for the player. If you get bored of solving logistical puzzles, including those that self-imposed challenges and mods are able to offer, then I think what you really want is a different game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HkASndEXo&t=40s [SFW]