skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was a supplement you could feed your cat that allowed it to speak a few words like a parrot there would also be endless chatter about the use of that product. It’s amazing.

‘Meh. Let me know when your cat can recite T.S. Eliot’
Alienation I can see, but austerity? One of the things I plan on doing is building custom UIs for all the apps I usually use. Termux on stock Android is hobbled by unremappable key bindings that make using the Super key almost impossible, but when I can finally actually control the computer I carry around in my pocket all day, a blank canvas I can mold and shape is infinitely better.

I bet your Subaru is probably hackable, all these things run Linux under the hood, wouldn't be surprised if there were already a group of people on Reddit that have already done it. Lonely, this lifestyle does not have to be.
One piece missing from the description is the "write protect" notch in the 8" & 5 1/4" floppies. if the notch was present, the biscuit was read/write on that side. If it was not present, or was covered with a piece of tape, that side became read-only. If looking the diskette from the top, the notch would be in the upper right edge.

Early drives only wrote on one side of the diskettes. Someone discovered that diskettes had magnetic material on both side, so the diskette could be flipped and written on, doubling the storage. A notch would have to be cut to make it read/write, but it worked relatively reliably.

Later drives got second read/write heads and the flipping went away.

On the 3 1/2" diskettes this became a sliding tab. But, in their wisdom they flipped the concept. They reversed it. "missing" or open notch meant write-protect, and closed notch meant read/write.
> That something is more complex does not automatically imply that it is more valuable.

I believe the statement is that there are valuable things (in parent opinion), but they are not discussed on HN due to being technically difficult. This statement doesn't claim 1st half is implied by 2nd half at any point.
I think curation is inherently valued too.
Truth. Been learning this the hard way, myself. But what do you do when you've never been one with heavy soft skills? When schmoozing has never been natural or enjoyable? Is there really nothing more than either choosing to suck it up and accept your fate or else force yourself to be what you're not?
You can literally type

write a simple raytracer in python

into chatgpt and it will return fully working code of a simple raytracer that can handle spheres and Lambert shading.

To be fair you can type the same thing into google and get a link to fully working ray tracer in python back, so maybe not the best example.

edit: What would be interesting would be to see how far you can push ChatGPT by asking for more and more advanced features before it stops giving valid answers. Basically what is the most advanced raytracer currently 'stored' in ChatGPT
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-nasa-phytoplankton-species-spa...

Not all phytoplankton are beneficial for ecosystems. Some species can produce toxins that are dangerous for humans or other marine species. These harmful algal blooms can disrupt ecosystems as well as daily life for people near coasts, lakes, and rivers. Blooms of cyanobacteria, for example, can spoil drinking water and recreational water use with the toxins they generate.
For sure. The guideline isn't about reading any future Hacker News article.
Anything that enables homebrew on those systems probably circumvents "effective" copy protection under the DMCA and would thus be illegal to use or traffic in.
Sure, there are workarounds. But I can't ask people that download the app to perform Apple's rituals.
Like the other person already said, no way an average sw engineer makes 2-3 times more than a teacher in Western Europe.

In countries where teachers are well paid (such as Germany), it's not rare for developers to earn less than teachers. Otherwise it varies by the developer seniority, but 0%-50% more would be a realistic range.
So what’s everyone thinking? Move to Vermont to close out our dying years in 70 degree weather?
You’ll notice when the api call breaks or the google search comes up empty.
I have tried to do something I thought really simple this weekend: having a C program on a SoC running Linux with a FPGA component e.g. to pass two integers to the FPGA from HPS with mmap, multiply them, get the result within one clock cycle and without doing much (integrating ) on the bus/bridge. It seems I will have to integrate some bus in qsys and complexify the design beyond what I wanted to validate.

While its knowledge is impressive, it continues to spout nonsense fairly easily.
Or jump through several hoops into System Settings > Privacy & Security, and authorise the app.

It's designed so regular users don't / can't bother to do so, tho
0 - 2 staff in a typical DC is not unusual at all, with people who are on-call usually within a 30 minute drive.

Larger DCs can and do have more staff on-site 24/7 and typically the amount of staff on-site at any given time is driven by SLAs.

I expect the DC in TFA to return to lower staff levels once they've worked on reducing their total "time to restart chiller" or reduced the amount of manual work involved in doing so.
>like 100+ miles etc (or more!) to cope with natural disasters)

People talk about this often but this failure mode seems to never happen? When was the last time us-east-1 went down because of a natural calamity compared to some technical issue?
> Not sure why, but broader Rust community really loves participating in drama, and seems incapable of applying the modicum of Hanlon's Razor.

This has been my frustration with it all. I quickly saw how this whole thing could have happened in a purely innocent way, not to dismiss other explanations but to see that multiple narratives could exist beside the one the mob was currently latched on to.
Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization
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What Is a Callback?
> At the tiniest scales, Kubernetes stops making sense because it's too complex to manage.

Managing k8s at the smallest scales is actually easier IMO. If you're using a managed k8s (you should be) then there's not much to actually manage. I've been using single-node clusters to great benefit for my business for years. Let's me focus all my time on billable hours and product updates. Huge force multiplier for me as a solopreneur.
It's very hard to hit a two handed backhand on the run and keep your balance. I play and would like to see more players hit two handers, but when on the run hit a one hander. Also, I find it easier to hit recovery slices one-handed. I was two-hander all the time, but a few years of squash helped me make my tennis one-hander workable.
Exactly. The only interesting thing here is that it managed to convince this person that "they built" anything. Also it seems there are tons of blogs about this exact task. I guess it's slightly interesting that there now exists a way to find example code snippets besides Google, but it's funny that the supposed insight here is that the important thing is implementation of novel ideas when that's exactly the opposite of what has been demonstrated
My mind works extremely quickly, have to stop myself from finishing other people’s sentences. I don’t think it’s a sign of intelligence, just perceiving the world a little bit differently.
> Regardless, which one is more likely to be ported to a different architecture in the future?

Not sure I understand the question. I'm talking about CPU architectures. The current implementation is in x86 assembler. So if you want to run it on AMD64 or ARM, then you have to replace all assembler files, in the present case probable the full source code.

> what are the comparative performance benchmarks of the low-level language versus the high-level language?

I don't have any measurements. But consider that many operating systems are implemented in C (e.g. Linux) with only isolated parts in assembler, so it is easier to port to other architectures. Linux apparently is fast enough and available for nearly every CPU. Oberon in contrast to C is garbage collected, which also affects performance. I have measurements comparing the same benchmark suite implemented in C++ and in Oberon, where the former is about 22% faster (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/blob/master/testcase...).
This is... wild
You can create a virtual Id to protect phone number
I really like skaffold for stuff like this, and it's a single binary.
Some time ago, I did the same thing, and doing something without knowing the full path might be worthless, so it's better to know exactly what to do in the future, having learned from my own mistakes.
In 2008 at univ I had a few classes using http://krakatoa.lri.fr/. Tools definitely exist, although you could probably argue that the production ready version of that that people use in practice is really Ada/SPARK (built on similar technologies if not the same)
I agree it should, but good luck getting Elon to cooperate to gather the necessary data points (e.g., was FSD enabled?).
I fully agree, but in fact stored-value cards offer a plausible path forward for private electronic money:

Most existing stored-value systems use "shadow accounts" for reconciliation (in case one of the card-level private keys gets compromised and makes it possible to "double-spend" electronic cash), but that's not really a required part of the system. If it's secure enough, it's possible to just leave these out!

It's probably also possible to create some kind of hybrid system which does create pseudonymous traceable logs which offer some trade-off between privacy and security, similar to how banknotes have serial numbers which can theoretically be traced, but practically mostly aren't.

And the enormous advantage of a privacy-preserving e-cash/stored-value system over cash is that it works on the internet too.
I hear this view about jury nullification quite a bit, saying it's fair to ignore the law and acquit if the law is unfair.

Under that opinion, is it equally fair to ignore the law and convict if someone committed some evil act but technically didn't break any law?
The Social Cost Behind the AI Boom
you need strong wrists for the one handed back handed I've been told, and you can get a lot more spin on it then, particularly slice.
Lots of things that don't make a great deal of business sense still nevertheless occur in large corporations. Frequently. I'm not sure that's a useful metric by which to judge a situation.

I personally didn't reply to that other poster, simply because their tone suggested (to me) that they were more looking for an argument than a civil debate. Yours is very different, and thank you for that. This is something I'd genuinely like to bottom out, because from my perspective there's been a noticeable, ongoing decline in the quality of search results from Google.

So, challenge accepted. Here's an example for you, and it's not even that subjective: Run a Google search that includes a minus term and tell me how effective the search results are in regards to obeying that instruction. That was a feature I used on a daily basis until Google made it completely non-functional.

If you want an example that doesn't rely on specific features, trying searching for "<thing you might want to buy> review". Enjoy the avalanche of low-quality SEO and link spam you're about to receive.

Also consider the fact that many searches you perform on Google are already offered with a "reddit" suffix, because so many people can only find the information they're looking for by appending that term to their search. Google by itself just cannot find what you want any more.

If that's not enough for you and you want specific examples, that's certainly possible. I was searching for a solution to a programming related problem on Google just a few days ago, and came up empty-handed after 20+ frustrating minutes of it including "related" search terms that weren't relevant. Reconstructing that search wouldn't be terribly difficult, if there were an indication the effort was worthwhile. In the end I went to ChatGPT and got my answer, including a fully-functional example, in less than 30 seconds. An experience that is becoming more and more the norm as time goes on.
Romania implements a similar system as described in the article for appointments outside of the country (for example in consulates or embassies). Scalpers book the appointments en-masse and then sell them for 50-200 euros.

There, you can book an appointment and then simply cancel it and it becomes free. So, they have two browsers, in one they cancel the appointment and in the other they book it immediately for the person they're selling to. Or another way is to just send the person to the consulate to say that the the person who booked isn't coming anymore and asked them to take their place.
This is like saying you built an operating system in 120 seconds because you typed "docker run...." into a terminal
I have never seen an example of curl working with SFTP. Does anyone know or have used curl over SFTP?
All politicians are bad and politics in general too? That would be a grim and unconstructive view.

The US is a country of 330M people, the world is a community of 8B people. If we want to be able to live side by side, we need rules and policies. It's always going to messy.

I would love it if in the next few decades we improve "the game" and figure out better ways to incentivise the players towards common good.
From docking bonuses to desk checking: the WFH clampdown begins
I agree it is cool and extremely useful and the other posts are a bit cynical

But it’s really just a really effective search engine. It works great for info that’s plentiful online and does a great job with aggregating it for specific examples. But it isn’t anything you can’t just google yourself with some more effort.
Show HN: LLM Code Interpreter
https://archive.ph/IOdcA
I’m no expert in this field, so my question might be completely nonsensical.

If this surface treatment is physically destructive to bacteria, is it also damaging to the human cells it is trying to sit next to after implantation?
For those interested in more details on XProtect’s status on their systems, Howard Oakley (the author of this blog) also provides free utilities: https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/

XProCheck, which allows for easier viewing of XProtect log details: https://eclecticlight.co/consolation-t2m2-and-log-utilities/

As well as SilentKnight + LockRattler for checking the status of XProtect updates and other security configuration: https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/
Euchre is comparatively simple, and while it's fun to drink with people and play (when you are in the Midwest), it's only a little bit deeper than hearts in terms of strategy. Bridge widens the problem space enough to make it interesting.
> I just met you. And this is crazy. But here's my number (delegate). So if something happens (event). Call me, maybe (callback)?

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
Oracle Cloud, NetSuite, and Azure Face Outages in Sydney, Australia
I unfortunately don’t have the detailed picture, but only several layman’s view of the problems they were working on.
From what I understood, a lot of their research involved pattern recognition in strings of the size of about 4-6 GiB, combinatorics of smaller patterns, classification across multiple samples etc. I kept thinking these are elegantly solved problems in other domains, and if one were to possess both the skills of algorithms and the knowledge of what is it they are looking for, then it can click for a win.
Education is essential if we want to give children a chance at social mobility. Traditional schools have their problems, including those you list, but at least children taught in them can get some qualifications, and those qualifications give the children a shot at doing something other than the same as their parents.

If the only education the parents themselves got was walking a pony up and down a railway line, it's unlikely that they are in a position to effectively homeschool a child.
Encryption is banned. Almost any unencrypted signaling method is allowed. Your opponents must be informed of your agreements.
-OJ is nice but doesn't work with -C- for some reason
We had a client that needed similar project, but for small amounts of domains, and we had the list of domains 'just lying around', so we thought 'wait, if our client knows where to use it then there's a market', and, well - wrote some more and combined the two.
I think what surprised me is just how much I took for grated from my parents. My dad always handle bills and cut our grass. My mum would always cooked and clean our clothes.

It's surprising how much effort just running a house is, especially if you're alone. Cooking, maintaining your furniture, tending to your garden, dealing with service provides and bills, washing your clothes, going shopping for groceries, etc...

Obviously I had cooked and cut the grass before, but it's different when these are now all your responsibility and no longer optional. Living alone forces you to grow up and take responsibility in ways I don't know I would have had I always lived with others.
Then you don't do it that way.
Repeat?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319562
The bastion rulesets won't impact your macOS app, unless you're attempting to do something that only malware or otherwise sketchy software would do.
Yeah this is why for the times when I know I'm going to want to double-check the sources, I use Bing's AI chat bot since that one will do a web search to find pages to summarize and then stick in the source URLs in to check
There is no law that says that the customer has to bear the costs of returns in the EU.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Cody the tool? https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody

The names are very similar.
So in the article she mentions some of the extreme stuff that's on there, but I think that's conflating what exists with what people are actually looking at. Aren't most people probably looking at pretty benign stuff?
> Up until verification is done, the money shows as "provisional" in your account - but you can still spend it.

Who would accept "provisional money" though, if there is a realistic risk of it being double spent and therefore effectively worthless?

> Double-spends will happen in any system that allows offline transactions

Only if you assume untrusted devices. That's why in most past and existing stored-value systems, smartcards are being used – these have different security properties.
Future OS programmers -- should understand the following:

If there is an object format present, that is, if a file is an ELF file (as opposed to a pure raw binary file with no ELF header/sections/information in it) -- if a file is an ELF file -- then that means that there is an expectation that it will be loaded into memory via an external loader program or externally executing code of some sort...

This loader program could be implemented as part of the code of an operating system, or it could exist as an independent program or code that executes as part of a boot program.

The presence of an object format, any object format -- says that there is the expectation of an external/independent set of code which will be used to appropriately relocate (move) its code in memory prior to passing control to it, AKA executing it.

If say, someone is using GRUB to say load an OS, then GRUB (or specific parts/modules of it) -- can indeed be used to load/relocate ELF files containing the OS's kernel, prior to passing to control to it.

It's one potential way to do things...

But not all OS'es use, nor choose to use GRUB...

Not all OS'es expect (especially many classic or homebrewed ones) to be relocated in memory via external loader...

Some OS'es -- choose to take responsibility for their own relocation in memory IF they need it -- some defer this to a custom-programmed boot sector -- but the point is, if there's an object format present (aka, higher level container (ELF, etc.) construct around the binary machine code), then that suggests that there's an expectation present that the OS code will be relocated by relocation code external to it...

What's the problem with that?

Well, if that expectation is present -- now there's a dependency on that relocation code existing...

I'll say that again:

IF that expectation is present -- now there's a dependency on that relocation code existing...

If that code brings in another library or codebase, which in turn brings in another library or codebase -- now we have the unnecessary dependency, complexity and inauditability demon all over again...

That is, if that code needs to exist, it makes the boot sequence more complex and it makes the compiler which needs to emit it more complex...

The net complexity is increased.

Which runs counter to principles of understandability, simplicity, transparency, and auditability in codebases...

That's the bigger picture...

Object formats may be necessary for application programmers to get their application to run on a given operating system, but when someone is an OS programmer -- they do in fact have a choice of whether to use container file formats -- or not.

Similarly, when someone is a compiler writer -- they do have a choice of whether to make a given container output format compulsory or optional... my suggestion to that community is that if a happy user base is desired, then they should always make it optional...
> Frankly some of mine have gotten better after the replacement mods have less of a stick up their ass

Very much this. A few tiny little despots got toppled, and the world goes on.
Another issue is group chats. In my middle school (in US), people started planned events / set up hangouts / got to know people better over group chats. The people who didn't have phones were just heard of less often. I think having some type of phone is useful for that. Then having honest conversations with your kid about the responsibility that comes with it. My parents were relatively free range with me about things, and I respect them for it. They never set parental controls on my devices, never enforced downtime from screens, never stopped me from doing something on a device because I wanted to. By high school I was tinkering with computers and doing tons of side projects just for fun. I think they recognized my love for tech at a young age and let me run with it. Now I'm in my last year of school doing Industrial engineering and computer science, and tech has always been integral to my success.

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I think you should have honest conversations with the kid about what you think is the good and bad about having phones, then share with them personally how you've felt while using it. There are times tech can be awful, but also times it can be really helpful.
One issue : Wansee takes place in 1942, that is in the middle of the war. Until now, most camps are "just" concentration (death by labour) camps, and Jews are mostly in the ghettos. Only after Wansee you have start of mass transports to death camps - most people who died in Auschwitz were never inmates there - they were brought from other countries, sorted on ramp and send to death. Not to mention - at that moment camps were already full of people (Auschwitz was started for Poles and Soviet POV). So no, they didn't "stop" with gas chambers - they have inmates in camps and Jews in ghettos (all having to work in one way or the other), and the idea of Final Solution wasn't complete until 1942 (and took place until 1944).
also Hardspace: Shipbreaker