skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Threads about diamonds are forever:

(btw, reposts are fine after a year or so! These lists of related links are just for amusement.)

Diamonds Suck (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698511 - April 2021 (53 comments)

Diamonds aren’t special and neither is love - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978139 - Jan 2021 (90 comments)

Diamonds Are Bullshit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25059605 - Nov 2020 (27 comments)

Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502201 - June 2020 (104 comments)

Shaking Up the Diamond Industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209364 - Feb 2020 (120 comments)

Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21522898 - Nov 2019 (389 comments)

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818618 - Aug 2019 (237 comments)

The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20555503 - July 2019 (200 comments)

Would You Pay $32,709 for a Lab-Grown Diamond? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19287565 - March 2019 (34 comments)

Diamonds Suck (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17186457 - May 2018 (215 comments)

Diamonds Are Bullshit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184539 - May 2018 (45 comments)

De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183603 - May 2018 (439 comments)

Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551147 - March 2018 (301 comments)

Diamonds Suck (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12944464 - Nov 2016 (576 comments)

A Lab-Grown Diamond Is Forever - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903409 - June 2016 (106 comments)

What the diamond industry is really selling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11099809 - Feb 2016 (83 comments)

Diamonds Suck (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10834567 - Jan 2016 (2 comments)

Diamonds are Bullshit (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952 - March 2015 (75 comments)

A Diamond Market No Longer Controlled By De Beers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793386 - May 2014 (111 comments)

Diamonds Suck - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6868968 - Dec 2013 (3 comments)

Diamonds Are Bullshit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988 - March 2013 (734 comments)

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 - Sept 2012 (225 comments)

Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698 - June 2010 (85 comments)

Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283 - Feb 2010 (76 comments)

The Facts About Diamonds (and why I don’t like De Beers) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109318 - Feb 2010 (41 comments)

De Beers profits fall 92% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=722115 - July 2009 (25 comments)

Diamonds on Demand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330749 - Oct 2008 (16 comments)
Thank you so much for asking HN! I can't think of a more informed, higher signal community to interface with and get open and honest feedback from. Really brilliant idea.

I don't have much input on this issue, but I wanted to ask that if you know folks in the US Copyright Office, that you recommend the same approach to them with regards to their upcoming regulatory stance on AI.

The copyright office is going to hear one-sided input from artists and the largest tech companies (seeking to build moats), but they need to broaden their inquiry to include technologists, researchers, and startups. HN is an excellent place to increase their understanding.

If you can, I would greatly appreciate it if you tip the copyright office off about HN!
Puck is for integrating with your existing component library, so not completely no code.

Having said that, a developer could add any type of form input as a type of component!
No, but it's very hypocritical. They should at least have the decency to shut up. But BMW cars and decency is a contradiction in terms. What's even worse is that almost every European automaker, including Renault is now copying their butt ugly X class hatchbacks on steroids.

Don't care if they build EVs or hydrogen burning ICE cars as long as I don't have to inhale smoke while tailing another vehicle or just walking or cycling along a busy road. If they converted current vehicles to burn H2 it would be even better.
The labeling program provides a signal to consumers that the device meets a certain standard. The incentive to the manufacturer is that it allows them to borrow the FCC's reputation and advertise a security that is well defined. The consumer can see that the device has that certification, and know that product has legal obligations, and

It's a pretty reasonable first step. No manufacturer is being punished, there's no warranty requirement, and the gov isn't taking away choice. Instead the FCC gives manufacturers a way to reliably signal to consumers that their product meets a security standard. Google can do that because they're Google and have a reputation - this approach would let joe-schmo IOT device manufacturer do the same.
It depends... I just worked my part of certifying a product(security) and it was only ~$40k.

Agreed on the current state of the FDA filings - there's a lot of paperwork and process auditing - but guidance is lacking and I'd like to have more clarity rather than just "industry best-practices." That said - things are much better and it seems like the trajectory is improving.
What does this mean for DIY hardware?
For one I like my ESP32 and Arduino hardware because I can do whatever the heck I want with it. Will I be limited in choices if a bill/regulation is passed so as to make it restrictive on buying IoT hardware that’s not compliant with “security features “?
Yes, you can extend the logic forever, however that ignores the obvious and enormous power differential between the two parties.

The first has to go down and get their food, a minor inconvienience.

The other has to risk losing their delivery vehicle / property when it gets stolen while they are in the building (an enormous, possibly income-destroying inconvienience)

I'm saying that the person in the building should maybe have a little gratitude for their position and empathy for the delivery driver
My mistake - yes this makes sense. If they install an EV charger at every single gas station that would be fantastic.
GDP is estimated on a value added basis to avoid complex supply chains being worth more than the final sale price, FWIW.

It's one of the reasons it's so easy to screw up the estimates when companies have bigger inventories than usual...
It’s 0x777, making fun of all the l33+ 666 groups
> It would be great if schools taught students how to choose problems as well as how to solve them.

Reminds me of this quote: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions”
Seriously. I'm a SWE and I would throw out a TV and get a new one before spending hours minimum figuring out how to switch the firmware to a open source version.
In the browser, can it integrate with SharedArrayBuffer, worker's postMessage or transferrable offscreen canvas?
I'm new to Mac, so here's a question for HN:

This app needs accessibility access in MacOS. The OS warns ominously: "Allow the applications below to control your computer". Did I just pay to install a keylogger?
Transformers Revolutionized AI. What Will Replace Them?
The archive.today link is: https://archive.ph/SDJMv
You can buy them readymade from Keebmaker for around $200 if you're going wireless

https://keebmaker.com/collections/custom-keyboards/products/...
Signed up for umbrella coverage Friday. This came up and yes for my policy they were the same. Got it in writing today.
Kind of mind blowing to see a name (Razor1911) from my C64 days make an appearance again 0.o
Labour couldn’t win an election even if the opposition was Myra Hindley and Skeletor running on a platform of universal torture. They’d be photographed drinking shandy on a bus, or eating a sandwich, and that would be that.
I have been waiting a long time for this to play out.

One big factor has been the exploring prices for sports content paid by the cable networks on the basis that they could get everybody to pay for it. Sports is probably the most popular kind of programming on TV but still only 40% of people watch any significant amount of sports. We’ve seen lately that cable carriers have given up on many regional sports network and for ESPN it has just been a matter of time.

It’s a big problem for the teams because the way that you become a sports fan is through being exposed to it, if you watch some games and like what you see you can rapidly find yourself watching more games and going to the stadium and buying gear, etc. So it is in their interest to have at least some content widely available as much as they like the money it comes from the games being paywalled.

(For me free broadcasts on NBC were an important step towards becoming a Premier League soccer fan; first there was my fight with my RSS reader over whether or not I was interested in soccer, eventually I conceded it was right which got me reading about soccer, which got me watching the free games, which motivated me to get my first streaming TV subscription.)
> Currently EV charging in many places in Europe is a joke.

So what. It's time to move, not wait around indefinitely for some perfect time to switch. Even if there wasn't a single public EV charger in all of Europe, it would still be time to ban gasoline cars.

EDIT: Wow, HN really loves burning gasoline. My kids are in a LOT of trouble. My city, which is farther North than Toronto, Canada, just hit 116f a couple years ago, and now reliably spends at least a week with highs above 100. If you guys can't even imagine another way to get around, things may be hopeless. People spend so much effort to defend wasting their lives stuck in traffic.
Dunno it might be more interesting to compare actual slang searches. In my case "slang mula" returns:

- no5 in DDG

- page 3 in google

Having said that I keep being disappointed with Google search results in general and use DDG these days instead. It might be related to their algo becoming shittier with time.
Wingo is great, and I even used BurntSushi's XGB to build my own WM a long while ago... but I'm hesitant to switch back to X11. Unfortunately writing a Wayland compositor is much less of a simple task.
"Windows os" instead yields just nonsense
I'm boggled by this - assuming it's not a joke of some kind. Would anybody actually pay to have a clacky key sound if their keyboard doesn't do it already?

I do the bulk of my typing on ancient Microsoft Natural Pro keyboards from the pre-/early 2000s era. (Though I'm trialing the Cloud Nine ergo split keyboards with some success...) Noise is inevitable. Not sure I'd pay for it if it didn't happen, er, naturally though.
For visibility into Linux IoT firmware contents, you can upload the public firmware binary for any IoT device to the Microsoft binary analysis service. This free service is based on their acquisition of ReFirm Labs Binwalk Enterprise.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-fo...

> Firmware analysis takes a binary firmware image that runs on an IoT device and conducts an automated analysis to identify potential security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. This analysis provides insights into the software inventory, weaknesses, and certificates of IoT devices without requiring an endpoint agent to be deployed.
You can run Linux VM on Flex. You cannot use the Play store and Android apps.
It's not that you won't be able to have a general purpose computer, it's that nothing that touches valuable services will be accessible to it.

You can run your toy rpi hobby server, but you won't be able to buy goods, check your bank statements, file your taxes, buy your insurance, pay your rent, check your email or message your mom.

Doing any of those things will require getting permission from the gatekeepers of those services, and your device won't get it if you have root.

In the BEST case: the government heavily regulates what those gatekeepers can do. In the worst... they "convenience fee" away absolutely all surplus productivity so a very small group of people holding digital keys gets to be stunningly rich.
They've been a consistent name in cracking since then!
Totally valid point. Escrow then open sourced, or perhaps even some insurance policy so that the future patching and vulnerability remediation is guaranteed.

There's a bunch of stuff consequential to EO 14028 which could allow for some automation of library vulnerability.
New Photon Polarizer Lights Way to Quantum Communications
In this case this is a legitimate problem. There are many apartments where the density of units and/or layout of windows is such that "peering in" is possible. Delivery companies need to adjust their policies to protect privacy.
>They just have to sack rishi sunak.

Yeah, because getting rid of the last four Tory leaders has worked so well for them.
Researchers identify stem cells in the thymus for the first time
I literally wrote an m68k emulator core, along with multiple z80 variants. I'm intimately familiar with the internals of both, thanks.

To reiterate my point, with sourcing (to counter your glib dismissals):

> The design implements a 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers and a 16-bit internal data bus.[4] The address bus is 24 bits and does not use memory segmentation, which made it easier to program for. Internally, it uses a 16-bit data arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and two more 16-bit ALUs used mostly for addresses,[4] and has a 16-bit external data bus.[5] For this reason, Motorola termed it a 16/32-bit processor.

Highlighted portion italicized, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000

When people refer to bit-width around the generation aforementioned (8-bit to early 32-bit), this is what they are referencing. This is because many CPUs operated on different bus sizes throughout the architecture. What people using the term care about is it's native arithmetic capabilities. Unless you want to run around calling ARM11s "16-bit CPUs" because they support THUMB.

As to what Motorola opted to call it, I couldn't care less about marketing speak regarding notoriously fuzzy buzzword CPU-capabilities; I care about technical capabilities and consistency.
The Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US govt
People need to admit one can't protect systems from the unknown. Thus, detection and incident handling is arguably more important.

If CISCO/Google/Amazon/Microsoft can't keep their systems clean, than you can be certain adversaries who feign ignorance will be much worse regardless of the paperwork.

A certification program similar to EMC testing in labs would however be favorable, as it does not consolidate the attack surfaces. Additionally, it allows the test to evolve with emerging threat vectors.

If you think companies will let people poke around their security policies for paperwork stamps, than you are fooling yourselves.

Good luck, =)
The Afghan Girl was shot with Nikkor 105mm Ai-S f/2.5 Gauss design, not with 10.5 Sonar. I know it only because by some chance I own one :)
https://www.grc.com/freeware/clickey.htm

(42k with 26 built in sounds)
It's been said before but I'll say it 1000 times again:
the over-saturation of subscription saas is annoying and wholly unnecessary.

new models of business should replace it, or even larger economic policy.
We could start by asking iot companies to be ISO 27002, stop saving passwords in excel files or in s3 bucket publicly accessible could help

Security is not an update, security is a cultural trait of an entity or an individual
Ask HN: Is there a problem with “Open Source” in AI?
Open Source as a term is very loosely used in the AI world.

"Open Weights" is what comes closest.

Everyone's creating their own version of Open Source license, Hugging Face has got RAIL, Llama License and there're are few other twists and turns.

Do you think it's healthy?
Though... RISC-V support in gnu c and clang have evolved significantly over the last 5 years. Did you re-run any of the tests with more recent compilers? When we were doing benchmarking 5 years ago, it seemed we got slightly better performance every month as Palmer integrated improvements into the gnu toolchain. There were at least a couple months there where we REALLY didn't want to publish benchmarks because we were expecting the numbers to be noticeably better in n days.
This might be an unpopular opinion but I respectfully do not see it that way. I agree with promoting security for IoT devices, but there needs to be consent from the company being probed for vulnerabilities or else I find it hard to consider it legitimate research, regardless of intent.

I dont think anyone would like it very much if someone came to their house and documented all the ways to rob it they could find, even if it's for research purposes. There is an inherent risk of your vulnerabilities being broadcasted somewhere either on purpose or accidentally once that information is collected and organized by the researcher.

It isn't harmless and innocent to probe anything for weaknesses unsolicited. It is reasonable to respond to that as a threat. It is genuinely threatening behavior.

Now I do understand it gets complicated when it's a business being trusted with sensitive information / access to devices in your home. I am just saying as part of the solution we need to keep possibly threatening behavior in mind and try to avoid the promotion of it as part of the solution unless there is really no other way (imo)
> Have you never sat down and talked to someone with ADHD describe their basic experiences?

My answer to this is the same as 99% of peoples answer: no.
100-500 years from now is enough time for AI to develop small nuclear and/or laser sail micro spacecraft that can colonize other systems at a good fraction of the speed of light.

Which would leave 4000 years or so to colonize every system with 1000 light years.

In each system collecting and engineering with low gravity material (asteroids, centaurs, smaller moons, etc.) and using that to capture solar energy will get routine.

Gas giants are basically massive hydrogen nuclear energy depots.

Earth and even our solar system don’t form any kind limit to resource growth on time scales like that.
The use of "piracy" to describe unauthorised publication of a copyrighted work dates back to the 18th century, it's not something the MPAA came up with.
> and you didn't even start with Kubuntu as a base.

Sorry, just wanted to test-drive KDE without wiping my entire system. My friend even had this problem on KDE Neon.
That's good to know, and I apologize to Mr. Shishkin! Reiser did have a flamboyance that would have made anybody not in the spotlight hard to see.
Certainly true. Source code escrow should be part of any kind of company selling internet connected devices.
AWS Bedrock.
Decreasing taxes right now is likely to increase inflation and hence interest rates.
> "Most people do not care at all."

I think that might be directly contradicted by your first sentence. People do care. Design matters, and typeface selection is a big part of that.
See also: https://nextjournal.com/try/samritchie/sicmutils
You can't both have autonomy over the same resource.

It sounds like you and your partner have a mutual understanding of the other's spending, and your expenses are low enough and/or your income is high enough that it doesn't create problems when you spend below the implicit limits.

That's great for you, but it comes across as narrow-minded to talk as though a $400 expense is unworthy of discussion to every couple.
> even further backward with the mechanical keyboard obsession

My impression has been that, along with 3D printing, the mechanical keyboard obsession has has spurred a renaissance of keyboard innovation in the last decade or so.

You can now buy keyboards or kits with ortholinear/columnar keys, split hands, built-in displays, modes/layers, non-QWERTY layouts, Hall effect keys, non-uniform resistance, and more.

I haven't seen this degree of keyboard innovation in a long time. The best part is that they're an order of magnitude cheaper than the wacky keyboards of the 1980s and 1990s, many of which cost thousands of dollars. These days you can try something innovative out for just a few hundred bucks and even less if you're willing to solder it yourself.
One of Elon's kids should marry one of the Quandts.
The thing that allows Kickstarter to work in the first place is that it uses low risk on the one side (the backers) to enable the initiators to engage in much higher risk ventures than they would ever be able to do on their own.

If the backers 'back out' because they see that risk as too high retrospectively they should not have engaged in the first place. Because you are out only $50 or less. But collectively you've enabled someone to take on a risk that they could not have carried by themselves, as a backer you underwrite that risk. This is such a fundamental component of crowdsourcing that I find it bizarre that it needs to be spelled out like this. Legal recourse should be reserved for outright fraud, no less.
Well of course it has to register the keystrokes first. And only when it knows which key you struck can it produce that Dolby Surround spatially consistent clack.
I don't think most law enforcement agencies have any second factor to authenticate themselves online. And it's not the social media companies that suffer but their users whose privacy is being violated.
Matt Cutts and the early era of SEO and spam. If you are into SEO history, feel free to google "Matt Cutts John Chow" as an example of how things evolved when the Google SPAM boss himself was approachable directly.

I remember many interactions between them and at the time, Matt was pretty open about the then-new SPAM filter team at Google and penalties. Here is a blog posting for context: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/something-is-wrong-on-the-int...

John Chow was a blogger back then and prominently gamed google ("Made for Adsense") using - and enter Matt Cutts: abusing - Pagerank to boost his website.

They had many interactions and several bans were lifted because of these interactions.

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/comments-on-our-webmaster-gui...
how does one add a public key from a second box? does ssh-copy-id work?
Why would we want to write our bash scripts in Javascript?
Hopefully someone with more astromomy knowledge can help me here: Is this just material from the accretion disk that is being ejected somehow? It's not material that has past the event horizon? (As far as we know material that has crossed that threshold cannot come back, right?)
Norway is a very wealthy country. Most of the EU don't have Norwegian money to buy Teslas instead of Skodas.
I am not an US citizen, so I cannot have a say here, but I have another idea.

What's the problem if an IoT device is vulnerable? In the worst case the user will have to buy a new one (or pay someone for fixing it). Is it a serious problem? I think, no. Eventually users will understand which manufacturers are reliable and which are not.

You probably want to argue, that infected devices can be used in DDoS attacks. But in this case, why don't you take measures against DDoS attacks directly and leave IoT devices alone?

Why, despite Internet existing for 50 years, there is no protocol, using which any host can demand all upstream providers to block traffic from specific IP addresses? This would make low-level (transport-level and below) DDoS attacks impossible.

Make such standard and make it required for all top-level ISPs. In this case the malicious traffic can be stopped at source network or at least at Tier-1 level. Middlemen like Cloudflare would become unnecessary, and you would be able to withstand a multigigabit DDoS attack even having just $5 VPS.
The reminds me of selectric-mode for emacs: https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode