skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was definitely not holding us back. Rejection was not the weapon. The effort was to write the best software, not to kick the other side on the butt.

The "other side" did indeed act in probably unethical ways that hold us back. Legal threats, defamation campaigns, lobby... All that was used by "the other side" and that really did hold us back. The SCO scandal and Halloween documents are just very good examples.

With reagard to the "bunch of hackers"... well, those were just trying to write awesome software. And they did.
Here’s a visual, interactive explanation with d3:

https://mlu-explain.github.io/neural-networks/
Your obversations might be true, the cynical bend is offputting.

The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while. Boomers have been doing it for a while. The article drives home a sense of hopelessness about the whole affair.

If a war ever broke out, I'd much prefer to be living in the countryside like a ww2 british mom in a roald dahl novel, than sitting next to the local recruitment office and thirsty government official making "no, sir" a very difficult proposition indeed.

I know ww2 references are basically irrelevant in this day and age, but given the articles bleak outlook, it seems that the Hope of living offgrid in world war 2 and the infinite religious commitment of a Monastery, though difficult, is somehow more realistic and a tonal 'step up' from an American blogger in 2023.

I don't know how that happened, but here we are.
4am has cracked loads of apple ii games, and after doing several hundred manually, automated it as a set of python scripts, https://github.com/a2-4am/passport an article with interview here, https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cra...

These lab notebooks of the cracking process are shared for titles that could not automatically be cracked.

These are the only public records of reverse engineering these titles, though many did this in the 80’s the techniques and findings were never shared beyond the cracks themselves, and 4am is so practiced and proficient I think he definitely wins the title of the best apple ii cracker in history!
Economic darwinism at its best.
My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3
Floods fill tunnels in Detroit, force water rescues in Ohio and Las Vegas
According to the article it seems like the impact will primarily be felt in terms of:

1. the commercial property market
2. the loss of high-income taxpayers

The "$2 in assets" figure seems a bit misleading because that isn't money that those states are taxing directly.

What is it that is driving these companies to relocate their HQs? Are the companies themselves saving money on taxes? Is it just that their high-earners want to be in a low/zero income tax state? The article doesn't make that entirely clear.
hint: there aren't . the web is like all the media before it
I think you're underestimating how LLMs can help here:

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-visi...
Recently I (new to it myself) introduced Terraform on my team at work (my department historically mostly uses CloudFormation), and this whole license rug pull left me wondering if I'd made a mistake.

But if OpenTF really flourishes, this could end up being better for us than if the license change had never happened. I wish you guys the best in making OpenTF a clear winner! The sooner that happens, the less of a shakeup this will be for the whole userbase and the more teams will stay invested and stick with terraform-the-technology (if not the trademark). I'm optimistic. :)
Not OP, but this seems like a weird gotcha. It did exist to me and I didn't go hungry. Certain luxury items became hard to get for a while, but necessities were never a problem.
And you must never again attach that VM/container to the network/internet if it had access to sensitive information at the time of running the untrusted code.
> The EU is just protecting its own partner states' IT industries

Doesn’t the GDPR go back to a largely grassroots effort, including from members of the Pirate Party phenomenon that people initially scoffed at? I have no doubt that there has been local IT lobbying, but one cannot deny some level of true popular will.
Maybe many vegans claim that, but you can find many of any group that claims something because there are many people. Most vegans will probably warn you that the diet is likely to be nutritionally incomplete and require B12 supplementation, for example.
Why not both??
Does it impinge on your personal freedom, if the government decides to put up special privacy protections for groups it deems too vulnerable?
That means that we're living in your ideal world then... :)

Right now, behavioral ads are on their last legs, and privately encrypted comms are still around. Proposals to limit encryption are being thrown around, but they are met with serious resistance, and none of them are currently close to implementation.
I watched this video a few days ago and what they've done is truly amazing.

I live in the Ozarks in SW MO and four of the five acres are hill side littered with rocks.

A few years ago I piled up some of those rocks in an area that was washing out and now it has about 8-10" of soil built up and is covered with mostly weeds growing.

When it cools down (we've had about a month of 100º temps here) I'm going start making rows of rock piles to catch soil and hopefully slow down the erosion and green things up a bit.
End to end encryption can be implemented in open source protocols. More than that - you can be sure it's actually there instead trusting marketing.
Even this is still a bad take...

There are countless example of individuals doing it, because the rest of society is in the business of not caring what they are up to.

This paradigm completely fails when if those countless millions are forced without the grid. Once this happens those that will survive are not the ones that survive off the grid, but those that marshal human resources and create a new grid.
they always did, to the extent that was allowed by the tech of the time
By Angel’s I meant Angel’s + Bob’s, I don’t think anyone ever recommended Angel’s alone.
I assume their vig is at least 1% if not higher too so that’s at least 20 billion in management fees.

If I recall correctly NYC has a 1% income tax so the City alone is missing out on 200 million a year in tax revenue.

Edit: thanks for the correction
I really wish Canada would grow a pair, and stand up to the big social media platforms -- especially in the light of the latest shenanigans with the availability of / paying for news. Whichever side of that debate you fall on, you have to admit that meta et al are in a position to strong-arm a country and have an impact on its laws. That's a terrible precedent, already having played out in Australia.

Anything that chokes off the flow of money via advertising to these companies is a two-tier win in my book.
NP-hard does not mean easy
Its a symptom of several things by my anecdotal estimation

- Bootcamps & self learning resources don't emphasize CSS. JavaScript gets you hired. A huge amount of web developers in the last 5-7 years came out of bootcamps and career switchers self learning, and the resources available overwhelmingly focus on frameworks and JavaScript, to the point that I've been in interviews where someone can give really good answers if the answer is framework specific but they don't basics like `call` or `bind`.

- See previous comment. JavaScript gets you hired. Rarely, if ever, have I seen candidates get rejected because they lacked proper CSS knowledge nor have I seen it be appreciated on the same level as having "deep" JavaScript knowledge

- CSS isn't programmatic[0] like JavaScript. The rules are different, and more fuzzy. Its one of its strengths, but its also a bit of a weakness, as you can't simply algorithmically design something and test its outcomes. You have to understand spatial concepts like placement and understand how to design / create with tools that have multiple different ways of achieving the same outcome alot (but not always). CSS does have more "exceptions to the rule" than JavaScript does.

- In many ways, it doesn't help that CSS has had no API culling. IE, we know that flexbox / grid are much preferable but many developers don't grok things like when you should use negative margin, border vs outline, or proper usage of media queries. Then you have things like color formats, e.g. HEX vs RGBA vs HSLA. Which one is "better" isn't obvious to many. There's alot of CSS features like this.

- In many ways, CSS has a bigger surface area, a much more expansive API, and way less backing documentation from the community. MDN is pretty good, but its not exhaustive (nor could it ever be, really) to every situation.

- The reliance on CSS frameworks / generators. I think a big part of the popularity of things like Tailwind is you can just "try until it works the way you want" by throwing combinations of different classes together that a developer may semi-understand should work together until something happens, basically, which side steps having to have deep knowledge of CSS in many ways, or take bootstrap. Bootstrap made it easy to build websites following a formula. There are many other examples of this.

- Developers really don't understand how to properly leverage the cascade. The industry general notion is "avoid it at all costs" because the same thought that goes into organizing your logic (JavaScript) isn't given to CSS. There's really bad hygiene practices in our industry with regards to CSS and its derivatives (SASS, LESS)

[0]: I realize CSS is turing complete if you abuse custom properties a certain way or with the recent addition of container queries you could model this as well. I'm talking about it more in the way that CSS isn't like JavaScript, in that you have no familiar programming constructs (like if statements, for loops etc). Yes, I understand in the most literal sense, CSS is technically a programming language, but in practice, I don't think it is (at least, not yet)
The EU's war is on US companies. They wouldn't be playing fast and loose with these regulations if their home born companies were the ones getting disadvantaged.

They push draconian surveillance laws then claim sainthood when they go after Facebook.

I guess you can hate Facebook et al and welcome this stuff but it's hard to deny how these laws are basically trade barriers aimed at the US tech industry.
If the function of this medium is to promote thoughtful, useful discourse, the emergent conventions are working against that premise.

Rule 0: this isn't reddit. Pointing out this isn't reddit isn't a shallow dismissal, it is an apt response to an equally shallow pun/joke.

Rule -1: you shouldn't downvote for disagreeing unless you post some substantive or tangible response. If the post doesn't deserve a response, you should report the post.

Sorting comments by popularity, with the convention of Up=agree down=disagree, just promotes populist opinions explicitly.

A much better metric would be the amount of responses a post gets divided by the entropic density of the post/thread.

4 paragraphs of "musk bad. rust good." gets 13 replies? decent.

Posting "Whataboutism is whataboutism.", gets 40+ responses, back and forths, multiple tangents of discourse, all in a fraction of the timeframe.

Which one results in a more higher-quality discourse? As it is now, the circle jerk floats to the top like a buoy, the actual discourse gets hidden in a spectrum of contrast.

The presentation, ranking, sorting, and conventions of all major aggregative and news sites forgo a metric that optimizes for quality (of discussions) and instead optimizes for quantity of participation, no matter the detriment.

minimaxing shallow PKI's and forgoing second-order effects, as always.
It's not possible, because functions, pattern matching, guards, typespecs and success typing are fundamentally incommensurable: each specifies and/or enforces a subset of the other, they are all useful in their own way, but not isomorphic.

Formal attempts have repeatedly failed, even when they exclude message passing, which is the most difficult (and most useful) aspect. If Wadler cannot do it, I'm sure I (or you) cannot.

A typesafe concurrent language is possible, but only a new language layer on top of E/E and the BEAM.
Who exactly is forcing them to?

There are tons of non-Apple repair shops they can go to.
> My concern here is ground water will have septic contamination, don't know if that's stupid or not.

It's not just that, dug and shallow wells are also getting surface water run-off -- basically anything on the ground in the immediate area or uphill. There's actually an acronym for this: GWUDI (Groundwater under the direct influence [of surface water]). They're highly susceptible to seasonal changes and rain. The worst ones are people that in a lower-lying area than nearby farms -- nitrates (from animal feces and fertilizers) and pesticides are all extremely expensive to remove from water.

When you do a drilled well, the annular space (the hole around the casing) actually has to be sealed (with bentonite) to prevent surface water from getting directly into the well and aquifer. I see no mention of this in the article.

Where I live (Ontario Canada) there are environmental laws protecting ground water. Badly done wells can actually contaminate a huge area and affect other people's wells and drinking water.
>It depends on what the goal posts are for what "work" means.

Name one major example where it has worked. North Korea still making nukes, Iran only significantly slowed down its nuclear weapons program when it received sanctions relief as part of the deal that Trump ripped up.
Huge fan. Thanks for reminding me :)
This could well be much worse than nothing.
I already explained how I personally do it in that comment chain: Doctrine ORM and Symfony. Instead of working directly with raw database data as arrays, you work with classes where all the database columns are defined as typed class properties and let the ORM handle the conversion between the two for you.

If you're starting a new project in PHP, I recommend giving it a try. The SymfonyCasts tutorials are a great way to start (though sadly they're not free).
UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water
The keyword you want to look for is: SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) optimization at hardware level.

This is how many aggregate functions can run real fast.

To take advantage of that, data has to be structured a certain way: In a columnar way (which is then be vectorized and pushed to SIMD).
Typically killed by other communities...
We can dream!

I think there a lot of fitness/diet professionals that are posting videos with the message of "WTF!! I'm trying to get my obese, prediabetic clients off of sugar water!!"
>Apple on the other hand wants to prevent parts from falling in the wrong hands given the already prolific grey market for their parts.

Why would apple restrict parts sales? They still make a profit from selling the components. They are only needed for repairing a product, there is no other use for them.
> If you are considering going to live in the woods, try starting with short, two-day camping trips

And not the "camping" that involves pulling an air-conditioned trailer to a paved campsite with power and water, a fire ring, and a shower and toilet 50 yards away, and a convenience store with ice and beer at the camp entrance.

Real camping is not that fun, unless you're a kid in the boy scouts. At least for me. It's hot and sweaty and dirty and uncomfortable.
Not enough to even notice. I live in Texas. They always have some blurb about X company moving to Dallas and "creating" 500 jobs, and that's the last time you hear about them until they pop up in a WARN notice.
Moves like this happen all the time. The evidence in the article isn't enough for me to know if there is anything worth reporting on going on. A few firms moved - but that happens all the time.
Housing is a local, or at least federal matter. EU is about interstate commerce. The advertising/consent regulations are about commerce so it makes sense. Pan-EU housing regulations wouldn't as those are typically in the domain of each country/locality.
And when I attended scout camp (in Connecticut) our tents were all painted with block letter warnings not to bring a flame anywhere close to them because they were similarly weatherproofed. Always gave me the heebie jeebies in a campsite full of teenagers!
Backprop is the same algorithm?

Autodiff computes a derivative by examining a computational graph (either up-front all at once, or implicitly by examining each computation) and producing a new graph. The person defines the forward pass (graph), and the computer figures out the backward pass.

Backprop is what happens when you tell the programmer to do the thing autodiff is doing. You examine the computational graph, write down all the local changes that autodiff would do to compute the derivative, and that new code (that you hand-wrote rather than letting a machine generate) is a function computing the derivative by backpropagating error terms through each edge in that computational graph.
if you re in tech your salary depends on advertising money somewhere along the chain
Worth noting that many uses for hard drives are IO limited. Ie. you're running a database and keep a few hundred GB of hot records in RAM, tens of TB of medium records on SSD, and a few PB of rarely accessed records on hard drives.

However, even those rarely accessed records often have more accesses per year than the hard drives can support - so you are forced to buy 400 drives instead of 200 drives and keep each half full.

End result: There is a lot of 'almost free' space on the hard drives, as long as you are happy to only read/write the data very rarely.
I apologize, because HN does tend to automatically go to crypto when discussing blockchain.

I was not talking about crypto. Blockchain “solutions” in enterprise were spinning up all over the place for non-crypto applications. In particular, in you work financial, supply chain, government or random startups, you probably heard blockchain a lot in non-crypto contexts.
This is Spore done right.
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Such claims seem counter to all of the paywall avoidance that is done as response to paywalled links
I used Ubuntu as my daily driver for 14 years. I'm now on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. A stable rolling distro plus automatic Btrfs snapshots out of the box.
Nope, I got throttled and never learned why. It's dang's empire here.
I read through the forum thread, it's not clear to me - has a bug been reopened for this?

Thanks for diving into this btw.
And the tech changed and suddenly there was the privacy issue. That's... the whole point.

Quantitative changes enabled by technology can present qualitative problems.
Yeah.

Having thought about this long and hard, lucrative behavioral advertising seems like a fair price to pay for an open, free (as in beer), internet.

I fear this type of regulation will only serve to make the internet become much less equitable.
Right, obviously self-signed is worse than a proper cert. The argument is that even self-signed is better than no encryption (plain insecure HTTP), but browsers treat it as worse. The idea gets raised every now and again that self-signed certs should be treated exactly like no cert at all - no lock in the address bar, but also no big massive warning page screaming that this page is insecure.
Not before they try to exit rob you one last time.

https://www.flclaw.net/understanding-the-california-exit-tax...

Considering that nearly half of California’s income tax revenue comes from the top 1% that are now fleeing along with their businesses, I wonder what other kinds of nonsense they will try to pull off. At least this firmly puts to rest the myth that taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use.
This is actually better than the raw source for understanding the development; you have to start at the beginning and read forward.

Basically - tests, reproducibility, and dedication to tracking down "weird minor bugs" before they become "major show stoppers".
The long-lived transuranics are fuel.
It is rare for journalism to go against the interests of the powerful since it’s overwhelmingly owned by the powerful
I'm not seeing the benefit from behavioral advertising.

I should be an easy person to target -- I buy techy stuff that fits into pretty neat categories.

Yet Amazon seems to be completely unable to figure out some very simple patterns, like that if you're not a company, you're probably not looking to start a collection of printers, cell phones, UPSes or monitors, and that buying one is a sign of that you're done with the product category for a while.
Wizard's Guide to Statistics
If you choose to do that with warnings, that's your prerogative. I pretty much take the opposite approach personally; before putting code into review (or merging, if it's a personal project with no reviewers), every warning is inspected and I decide whether to fix it by changing the code not to generate it or manually suppress it only in that specific location. 99% of the time the warning is a sign of something actually wrong, but the 1% where I know that I actually don't care (and the extremely frequent occurrences when I don't while in the development part of the cycle and not finished with the implementation), it's much better to not have it completely block me.
Liberals lied when they told you about it. There is no free market and the whole concept would only work if actors had equal powers which is not the case.
Why do you think adding laws that forbid advertisements in certain configurations are a subsidy?
Even when they work I just can't handle the long startup times of most snap applications that are just instant without snap. Makes me feel like I'm running my system off a spinning disk again.
cf. Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of social, cultural and economic capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu
Why not? Sugar seems to be, at least partially, causing a LOT of health issues right now.
After distro-hopping for years, while still also using Windows for gaming, I have settled on Mint Cinnamon on my two circa-2010s laptops and the same on my new-ish Dell laptop at work (nothing we do requires Windows).

I gave away my gaming computer to a teen whose mainboard broke. I don't miss Windows one bit.
Wouldn't another explanation of the result be that eating more calories is correlated with ingesting more PFAS?
You may not know exactly which part needs to be replaced, until you go to a shop to diagnose the issue. That would be 2 trips instead of one. And there could be issues with multiple parts. And you can't know about further issues until you fix rhe first one, resulting in a lot of back and forth.

Honestly this is a major spit in the face from apple, there is no reason to not make the parts available for sale.
Please, share your "scientific research" on how they're proven to work. Every serious analysis I have read concluded the exact opposite.
And last I saw the Russian currency was doing great, and its exports are still being imported to the west, via India and other BRICs affiliates.
Does anybody use these at work?
The apparent source of this rewrite: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-asset-management-rel...