skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws are written by legislators, not the Department of Justice. An administrative decision by the executive branch does not change that fact. Accessing a computer system without explicit authorization or "hacking" is a federal crime. If you "hack", you can be charged with a felony for doing so at the discretion of federal prosecutors. The law isn't some magical too-incomprehensible-for-mortals text requiring magicians and soothsayers to interpret _literally_ every single clause and statement for you. As an adult citizen of a country (with an IQ above room temperature), you should be able to correctly interpret statements like the above, as was done by the person to whom you replied.
What type of cheese did they put in their onion soup during the roman era? Did they have Comté & Gruyère?
just realistically. yes, the latter.
If I had the equipment to make ICs at home, it probably would be useless to make anything worthwhile in digital, but I could find a thousand use cases in analog where an equivalent either doesn't exist, or costs a fortune or had been obsoleted ages ago.
It is concerning, but this is pretty much a rehash of what was said last year: https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579777690454089729 -- what has changed since then to prompt this new piece?

This article ends a little disingenuously; of course Wikipedia is written by volunteers, and of course the server costs aren't a large percentage of its outgoings. Most of its outgoings on the core project that is "keep doing Wikipedia" is paying staff to fix bugs and implement functionality for the site, to support those volunteer editors.

Wikimedia does run campaigns to get people interested in editing, or drives to add or improve specific articles; much of this is language-specific and is done by the country-specific Wikimedia orgs rather than the main one. So it's not like they're frittering _all_ the money away, even if, yes, they seem to have made a number of grants that don't seem to fit with their mission.
You're arguing that the entire system is invalid because one of the concepts is poorly named?
It's an engine that's mounted on a gyroscope. Which means that the propeller can turn in every direction.
I suspect you're right, I'm not as familiar with our configuration (or the service) as I'd like to be

The 'ls' output is honestly superfluous, though - 'find' will report the paths.

I won't even get into how these are batched/time limited. If not this, it'd be something else eventually
The association with crypto wasn't merely about the math aspect, but also the principles of open source verification of the algorithms and credible neutrality.
But physically, if you put a 30 db noise reducer behind another 30 db noise reducer, you will get 60 db noise reduction overall.
Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did (2012)
Because options are limited and PayPal/etc. have pulled the same stunt, as alluded to in the article.
English inches.

I'm not sure I ever heard the Italian word oncia as a unit of length. I thought it was a translation of the imperial unit of weight, ounce. However all is possible in the world of the old semi forgotten traditional units.
Not related to git (I hope), but a lot of scientific data/imaging folks seem to think file abstractions are free. I've seen more than one stack explode a _single_ microscope image into 100k files, so you'd hit 1M after trying to store just 10 microscope slides. Then, a realistic archive with thousands of images can hit a billion files before you know it.

It's hard to get people past the demo phase "works for me" when they have played with one image, to realize they really need a reasonable container format to play nice with the systems world outside their one task.
>British Museum Director Resigns After Worker Fired for Theft

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/arts/design/british-museu...

https://archive.ph/1eMY4
Nothing like reinventing COM :)
> How old are you?

Old enough that I'm past the "I must know the truth!" phase of my life. Don't get me wrong, I was there once upon a time. I came to see it as a fool's errand.

> Like, what to do with your money?

Outside of basic things like food? Save it, mostly.

> Whether or not Car X or Car Y is good / bad / shilled / whatever?

I don't buy many things, but I have most certainly tried the whole agonizing over what is good, bad, shilled, whatever – studying a product in intimate detail in the past. I knew what was true, but when I got it home I was still disappointed in my purchase as what I thought was important turned out to not be.

Is it really worth worrying about? If you feel there is value in owning something, you kind of just have to try it and see what happens. Hopefully you made a good choice. If not, hopefully you have a chance to try again.

> Investments is yet another decision for anyone who is trying to provide for themselves and/or their families, so the truth in stuff to invest into (or not invest into) is of high importance.

I invest in things I like doing. I like farming, so that is where a large part of my portfolio is found. And, as it happens, I don't think I could have done better anywhere else – but, really, that was just a lot of luck. I won't likely remain a good investment forever, but at least I'll still have the fun. Where is the fun in crypto?
Are you talking about Soviet sci-fi or speculative sci-fi? If the latter, there's plenty of speculative sci-fi worth reading. I'd recommend giving "I, Robot" a read - much of it is about reasoning through a sort of moral philosophy, through the lens of robotics.
I miswrote that. Water cleanliness matters, but it doesn't guarantee a lack of infection.

Sorry for the confusion.
That's literally the capital in capitalism. There's not some other way to do capitalism that's not like that: it's inherent to the model and what you want is some other system.
Democracy works when most involved disagree actually, that's its primary function over other formats. Otherwise just go with a king since everyone wants the same thing.
See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW%3AUSB-PD - some of the USB-C ports respond to USB PD Vendor-Defined Messages to trigger a bunch of debug features, including rebooting the SoC or configuring one of the internal UARTs to output to two pins on the USB-C connector.
He is indeed the longest serving CEO in Silicon Valley

More impressive to me is that he didn’t let folk go because of the many downturns on the way
Yes, there are many nice people there and we are doing what we can to moderate the Discourse so that we can all have a nice place to discuss.
Most restaurant workers would gladly take the stress of owning a business over the stress of being paid 40 hours worth of near-minimum wage for 80 hours worth of actual work.
Dan Ingalls is one of my computing heroes. I admire how he has forged a fairly unique path of focusing on Smalltalk and dynamic software development and exploration environments, and how he turned Javascript into a Smalltalk-like system with Lively.

It's also interesting to me that environments like Smalltalk that required massive computing resources at the time are basically in the noise on a modern system.

I wonder if this uses webassembly or just javascript?

Noting that the Smalltalk zoo is hosted on CHM's domain, I note that I am a huge fan of CHM reviving historical systems as operational emulations in web pages - ideally with appropriate software and user documentation. (The same goes for the Internet Archive's collection of historical software and games running in emulation.) I really enjoy historical system demos as well, but those tend to be limited due to physical constraints (and the need for hardware restoration.)

One day I also hope to visit the MADE[1] in Oakland.

[1] https://www.themade.org
Elucidate us.
Protecting white-hat hackers could be seen as a reduction in "regulation", since it permits the good guys to do good things. It allows people to do more, but some people will be not be legally shielded from embarrassment and accountability anymore.

In the current status quo, everyone except the good guys gets free reign: companies can stop legal scrutiny of their security, black-hats run wild and answer to no one, and the white-hats wring their hands "please sir, may I check for myself that the services I depend on are secure?" to which the companies respond "ha ha, no, but trust us, it's secure."
Agreed. Take something as simple as a "quote tweet".

The physical analogy is that you're listening to somebody, then turn around to speak to a group of "friends" about it whilst the other person can hear you do it. And you'd likely misrepresent what was said and receive an applause for it.

It's a deeply anti-social behavior that in the real world would make you wake up in a hospital pretty soon.

Or how about a retweet of a hot take? Imagine going all over town and plastering walls with a low effort opinion.

Or how about digging into somebody's past to find something offensive from a decade ago? What would the physical analogy look like? Following somebody for 10 years, taking notes, making pictures, interviewing your friends and family? Which would amount to what normally would be a deep criminal investigation, yet here we do it just for kicks?

Social media has normalized deeply anti-social behavior and the consequences are severe.
> Are there any plugins that scan the whole codebase and can answer different type of questions about that codebase for example?

The models I'm aware of don't do that, they are either smart autocomplete or chat style "write a function that does x" or "what does this snippet do".

I can think of ways to approach indexing a codebase to try and ask questions about it, but I'm not aware if anybody's experimented with this to tried to turn it into s product. I'd be interested to hear as well.

Out of the box llms are not good at big picture stuff, they'd be much better suited to explaining a one liner than how a bunch of things fit together.
Not sure I follow. How did you ever read or learn anything more than pseudo code or, at best, Python? Any language at all will have hurdles like those.
> The majority of motorcycles are deliberately loud

this is peak reactionary nonsense - that majority of motorcycles are stock bikes from the manufacturer, ie appropriately muffled. like with absolutely anything else in life: you don't notice the ones that are muffled and thus, conversely, you assume the majority aren't.

> I can't say I have much sympathy for motorcyclists losing their hearing

it's just so weird to me that people will voluntarily be spiteful like this. like does this make someone feel good? to proudly proclaim their spite? i must've watched too much disney when i was a kid because when i'm spiteful i feel bad.
Yeah like, if OpenAI can engineer chatGPT, they can sure as hell engineer a lot of the apps built on top of chatGPT out there.
If you hang out with the tf2 people you might not see much in the way of good vibes towards valve. The community in that game persists despite valve, not because of them.
I don't think that sounds much like kids these days. If anything, it seems like kids are leaning back towards service now, and it's the older generations that are more cynical, nihilist, and dismissive of service as a priority. I say that as a Gen Xer.
You’re right, I agree, I’m more so glad that they are willing to use this as a place to point out other unanswered questions and incongruencies in SEC actions
New Leaf Insects Discovered
Sure, let's entertain the idea that Wikipedia should only use donations for 'keeping the lights on.' By that logic, any organization with a broader mission should only focus on its most immediate, operational needs. Schools should only pay for buildings and teachers, not extracurriculars that broaden students' horizons. Hospitals should only pay for beds and doctors, not research that could save lives in the future. Libraries should just maintain the building and pay librarians, but who cares about carefully selecting books that can educate and empower the community, right?

Wikipedia's mission isn't just to exist; it's to democratize access to information. Social justice initiatives often aim to do the same by providing resources and platforms for marginalized communities. So, if you're donating to Wikipedia, you're supporting that broader mission, not just the electricity bill.

and most imporatntly, if you don't like it, don't donate.
Oh, totally agreed on direction not being fixed. I live in Takoma DC and have noticed the general trend is against the boring bedroom communities - some people moved closer in to DC or one of the smaller but actually urban cities for amenities/culture, or much further out than you’d want for a daily car commute for rural recreation, family member’s business, etc. because MARC/VRE a couple of times a month is a much better commute than daily drives were.

My main thought is that a lot of urban planners have been phoning it in and are going to have to figure out what gives their area something a neighboring municipality can’t easily match now that “10 minutes less driving” isn’t as persuasive.
Which was a great boost to lobster populations (Cod prey on lobster), we managed to over-fish those too though.
Never been an issue, and I'm susceptible to oxygen deprivation being a big guy with weak lungs.

I get dizzy in crowds, but never while riding.
You're living in an alternate reality if you think the leadership of the SEC will move the needle on the election.
It’s not harder, it’s more tedious.
We’re currently developing a somewhat sophisticated AI/Image Analysis system with OpenCV.
While the backend is pretty straightforward it’s still not easy - reading papers about different AI models and implementing them is hard, but the path is clear to see so to say.
The client app is using React and already has 3 times the lines of code compared to the backend (which is C++).
Frontend has more moving parts that need to be integrated properly.
We evaluated other tech for the client, like Qt or even ImGui on OpenGL, but the effort for the client would still be much higher than for the AI services.
The only time I experienced a nice, less funky workflow doing frontend, was Delphi 6 and VCL
Had no idea. They’ve got great pizza with very reasonable prices. (and some huge sizes)
I spent last week freeing up 200GB from our 600GB db with just reindex and pg_repack. The worst offender was a 17GB (of data) table that had 142GB of indexes. Reindex took it down to 21GB. The table indexing is crazy and has multiple indexes over different sets of columns.

A contributing factor for the huge index I think was the distribution of data. It's had inserts, updates and deletes continuously since 2015. Data is more likely to be deleted the older it gets so there's more data from recent years, but about 0.1% of the data is still from 2015. I think maybe this skewed distribution with a very long tail meant vacuum had a harder time dealing with that index bloat.
There’s a lot of emphasis here about just adding storage, but that’s missing the fact that unnecessary indexing affects writes and reads performance also (and potentially quite significantly).

Using a partial index where it’s obviously matches the use case (like when a majority of values are null) is just correct modeling and should not be considered a premature optimization or waste or developer time.
Discussed at the time:

An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space in PostgreSQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25988871 - Feb 2021 (78 comments)
Have you looked at capabilities, like E, Mont-E and its descendants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model

https://monte.readthedocs.io/en/latest/taste.html#cooperatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(programming_language)
Looks like the company is trying to cash out and just looking for excuses, months ago they liquidated all their assets in Canada, even stores’ shelves and furniture were on sale.
The CUDA moat argument just doesn’t hold up in real life for foundation model training and inference

We get equivalent performance on non-NVIDIA chips without it and most of the stuff is abstracted away these days

We do write CUDA when needed but really only a handful of folk will actually train models as it is a pain
My sister and I used to play with lobsters on my grandmother's sun-deck while we were waiting for the water to boil.
Horatio Alger stories were about humble, brave, smart and hardworking boys from troubled, deprived backgrounds who found terrible, unrewarding jobs or situations, worked hard, smart, or bravely at them, and were observed doing this by successful, wealthy, and wise men who recognized that raw merit, plucked those boys from their situations, moved them into their businesses and homes, and gave those boys real responsibility and a start on their road to inevitable success.

Horatio Alger was a pedophile who preyed on young homeless boys and orphans.

It is very easy for the best burger flipper at McDonald's to remain the best burger flipper at McDonald's forever. His job is safe. The harder he's willing to work without getting a raise, the longer he will be working without getting a raise. One day, he will probably become assistant manager, and his promotion will mean a pay cut because now he's on salary, and his responsibilities will become greater because he has to show up when others don't. They know he will, which is why they gave him the job. Meanwhile, he works under a series of managers transferred from other locations, or hired from other companies. Eventually he gets sick, and his awful health insurance runs out almost immediately. He's demoted, then fired because he can't keep up at the job anymore. Then he's homeless, then he's dead.

Goofus, however, did the least possible in order to keep from being fired, and went to community college at night. He eventually was able to wrangle a paid internship at a company where there was a career path, and quit McDonald's. Everybody was happy to see him go, because he was a person like them who managed to get a good job, and also because he was terrible to work with because he was always so tired from school and didn't put a ton of effort in. Goofus is now middle-class.

postscript: Goofus later also got sick, his insurance ran out, and he became homeless and died. US healthcare is terrible.
But you can’t!

Sound waves have many paths to the eardrum and related tiny bones.
Nvidia, on the mountaintop, his arms open.
NFT was just all fake volume... Sell an NFT to yourself for $1m, boom, you now own a $1m asset. Then list it for $100k for the next sucker.
Sticking to Vim and other very well-established CLIs is partially what enabled flexibility for me. As long as I have access to a *nix machine locally or over SSH, I have a capable dev setup that I'm well-versed in. Same thing for the past 8 jobs I've bounced around in, whether in-office or remote, with whatever security restrictions, with or without a desk, maybe with just a 13" laptop. It's the lowest common denominator. Meanwhile my teammates at my current job are constantly trying to protect their workstation setups so they can use their IDEs locally, and they've also been forced to switch IDEs twice in the past couple of years.

And this isn't coming from some FOSS ideology. I don't personally care about any of that, but the best tools are sometimes FOSS. I've got a Mac and can deal with Linux as needed.
I predict that TylerE will not believe you.
Awesome, that's so good to see. IIRC the founder was ex-Cisco. I haven't lived in San Jose in over a decade but Slice of NY is the only thing I miss other than my friends.
Igalia: https://www.igalia.com/

Works on open source stuff, like Linux kernel, GStreamer, etc.
I don't know if community notes takes this into account, but you could weight bias according to how a contributor has voted in the past and medianize the output to prevent "dogpiling" or "brigading" from one side or the other.
I'm imagining some corporate scenario where Coca Cola or Pepsi are purposefully training models on poisoned information so they can out each other for trying to use AI services like ChatGPT to glean information about competitors via brute force querying of some type
Cyclists typically don't wear full face helmets with wind deflectors.
Effective Python probably: https://effectivepython.com/
See also Miss Belvedere, a time capsuled 1957 Plymouth destroyed by water intrusion. https://axleaddict.com/cars/MissBelvedere
This is a very confusing statement to be, statistically. Statistical power is the ability to detect an effect, given an effect is there.

This study detects an effect - and indeed, does so with statistical significance.

By definition, that seems like it can't be underpowered.
Mycroft.ai has a quest to produce a 'local' speaking and listening AI assistant that is free of the constant tyranny of cloud access and the present push to tie functionality to Internet access. Its platform contains elements (like Mimic3 TTS) that are functional in their own right. If you can, you should attempt to build a configuration that is useable by your mother and can have cheap equipment spares, works on and off the net. It does not have to be a standalone widget and could be a suite of software you and your mother develop.

Eventually it will have to be a menu driven voice steering system that delivers her into existing media (like commercial audiobooks), can speak from her library of text-only sources and keep her place, and can read off the screen on websites (such as news) for which the format is completely predictable.

The Cloud is host to many smooth voices for which the mechanics will never be known to you or hosted on your machine, but I found Alan Pope's voice as reconstructed by mimic3 ( https://popey.com/blog/2022/10/setting-up-mimic3/ ) to be a fantastically understandable and versatile one. I've produced hours-long listenable audio files from it.
If you can count cmake et. Al. As features of an IDE, Vim can also claim these tools as features, and thus it is an IDE by your definition.
I think I agree with the point but people don’t need to want all the same things so I think I’d rather phrase it this way:

“Democracy fails when the people and their leaders fail to realise that the thing they want above all is peace and general prosperity, and that neither of those is a naturally occurring phenomenon.”

Because the peaceful transfer of power as well as respect for the truth, and equality before the law is the absolute foundation that any prosperous democracy needs.
What's the Grayzone? I looked up the editor:

"Blumenthal is the editor of The Grayzone website, which is known for its apologetic coverage of authoritarian regimes such as the Chinese, Russian, Syrian, and Venezuelan governments, including its denial of chemical attacks by the Syrian government and of human rights abuses against Uyghurs."

Charming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal
Ask HN: Examples of SaaS Moats?
I've been digging Warren Buffet and its appropriation of "moat" to describe competitive defense a business set up and grow over-time to prevent new market entrants to compete, or solidify a position.

A moat can be a strong and established brand like Coca-Cola or, if we take in marketplaces, AirBnB with their network effects.

When it comes to a white-label SaaS (for example, a simple accounting software) - how should we think about building and growing a moat?
You could make this argument about anything but for some reason it was crucial in forcing new shots on an unwilling population.
Yeah but that's not what the article is about.
And thank you for going on that ramble. Resonates with me so much
Sounds like a personal issue.

Tell you what, just keep it on that side of the Atlantic and continue buying our natural gas, and since we're so biased to a fault towards "we've always done it this way", we'll keep buying your most excellent products that conform to Reinheitsgebot.