skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, security always operates with some threat model in mind. Of course some government-level agency with physical access and any amount of money to spend could likely get access to your device (though the usual $5 wrench is probably still the "better" way) at the price of a (or a few) zero days. But you are likely not a key person in toppling a government and it would be a giant waste on their parts.

The threat model the general populace faces ranges from something as mundane as your ex wanting to extract something from your device to basically being the know-all key to every important document, photo and data you might have. I think I can safely say that under this circumstances not even physical access poses a real threat to the device's security -- it is tamper-proof to replacing most critical parts and the boot-sequence is cryptographically secured. Biometric data is not stored in software, so not even that can be spoofed.
disable mouse acceleration and install unnatural scroll wheel to flip scrolling direction

https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels
> confused about the strength of opposition to the measure

I’m also genuinely surprised and frankly intrigued by how quickly this topic gets flagged off HN. It seems there is serious disagreement about this in the tech community.
Reviving Sega's forgotten golf MMO after 14 years
Birthgap – Childless World Part 1 [video]
Isn't webrtc leaking the IPs of call participants anyways, regardless of which service?
I was thinking the same - ecology. People need to have 3d Tetris with raytracing while there are millions of hours of old games to be played through. There are few titles that are avant-garde and IMO better in 3d, like GTA VC/SA, Minecraft is revelation of a sandbox game. But otherwise we don't need such good graphics and DLC, when we want story and playability. Recently we played with kids Pokémon fire Red - the world is huge and full of secrets. But I guess this only applies to me and my kids, because other kids I know (my brother's e.g.) don't like pixel games at all
And any sustainable farm (which uses less chemicals / farms in the fish tanks) has no chance, because it is all about the low price in the end.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, especially ideological flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You may not owe capitalist parasites better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Purchasing and using a 132 column dot matrix printer just isn't feasible these days, hence my question.
Found via raarts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326317
Somebody please bother to explain why this is downvoted. The reasoning seems perfectly valid. Of course, there are a lot of ways how somebody could fuck up, but in theory automated builds on github have the same trustworthiness guarantees as Microsoft's very own VSCode binaries.
Even easier with docker/docker-compose

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...
My bold prediction is that reactive frameworks will eventually be considered a mistake, as will its functional programming paradigms.

It's all very computer-sciency and academic but it's simply not intuitive enough when used by a mediocre developer with no strong computer science background. They are leaky abstractions with lots of magic involved that get in your way. There's too many ways to do the same thing and it's way too easy to make a mess of things.
Though its corresponding anti-video in your mind is consumed when you watch it. As in, you can't watch it twice "for the first time", and the first time is always special.
Yeah sorry I just don't agree with that reasoning.

Even if cost per user hasn't gone up (which I would actually bet it has, if we had a way to measure it), the total cost has gone up, and for a distributed non-commercial Internet you need to have a total cost, not a per-user cost, that is affordable for lots of people, not just for large market leaders, like it is today.
> These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search used to run on them. These were donated by Intel.

Absolute beasts of machines for their time. What's wild is such hardware would probably be perfectly fine for serving a modern static site on modern software today, like OpenBSD i386, which still supports CPUs back to the Pentium MMX.
If their CI is one day compromised by an attacker, potentially anything.
.KKRIEGER – Fully Functional Sci-Fi FPS into Just 96kb
Perhaps the wrong thread to ask this question... Is it not possible to load a model on something like an NVMe M.2 drive instead of RAM? It's slower of course, but only 5-10x if I understand correctly.
> I know superficially why you think that: PDF are Good Guys killing Bad Guys, and ISIS are Bad Guys killing Good Guys.

Like I said, I feel no obligation to explain myself to someone who frames their questions in such an obviously bad faith way. But it does make me want to ask you a question - if you view people killing other people as all the same, do you see no distinction between ISIS suicide bombers indiscriminately killing civilians, and Russian airstrikes killing ISIS militants? If you can see a difference, then maybe you can figure out on your own why I view some armed combatants differently from others.
Was curious so did the math backwards assuming the previous 1000 years had a 2% growth rate.

The world used 9,717 million tons of oil equivalent in 2017.

Plugging in our growth rate that would mean the world used the equivalent of 13 tons of oil in 986 which is 515.84 million BTU.

US residents making <$20k and having wood as their primary heating fuel source use 50 million BTU of wood a year.

While we can argue specifics 10 households worth of fuel sounds a little low for a world with a population of 390 million.
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https://openai.com/research/deep-double-descent

Yeah, the line keeps going down as the model gets bigger. What's your point? That there's a hump in the middle?
> So it seems highly unlikely that the authors of the constitution saw copyright as "integral to capitalism functioning" rather than as a way to promote the arts.

They didn't. GP is speaking out of ignorance and desire to prove that "capitalism bad".
tangentially related: refact recently shared 4 bounties worth $9,000 to help improve their tech!

https://algora.io/org/smallcloudai/bounties

disclaimer: i'm a cofounder of algora, the platform enabling these bounties
"The thing is, when you bring your own machine, you tend to have to spend time setting it up, installing games, updating drivers, etc. There's always that one person who has to reinstall Windows from scratch. I remember many LAN parties where we couldn't even get started until late at night. LAN parties had to be overnight affairs otherwise you couldn't get any gaming in.

"

Exactly, that's half the fun of it :)
A big one is to just remove the option to be distracted at all.
Use an extension to block time-wasting websites on your browser while working. Keep your phone out of reach. Set breaks and try not to pollute your thoughts during breaks (and try to keep a schedule like Pomadoro or such).
>You can pry vim from my cold dead hands.

I won't need to, you're already giving yourself carpal tunnel with all the :wQ! INSERT-MODE :wmkGDonzn zz CWSFD, these hands are already marked for death.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Montréal is now the fifth most important city for video games in the world due to tax credits that are directly applied per employee. No company needs to strike a backroom deal to get a lump sum. The more employees they bring to Montréal, the more they save automatically.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/01/04/1068916102/how...
A simple example is (using the traditional understanding of these differences):

Science-based: Cholesterol levels are associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), statins lower cholesterol levels and therefore statin therapy is recommended to reduce MACE.

Evidence-based: A [specifically defined population] was given statin therapy or placebo. We observed lower MACE in the statin group, therefore statin therapy is recommended in [specifically defined population] to reduce MACE.
Nice article, is ECC properly supported with error reporting on your server?
If you are going through Jitsi (a SFU) all your media goes through them.

If you are doing P2P then you will be able to get the remote's IP address.
This is an insane ask, but I would love to hear more about various reviewing and synthesis styles, their strengths and weaknesses, which are particularly promising and why, etc. you’re welcome to link me to material, but I’d also appreciate a brief overview.

I have nothing to offer other than thinking that this is a super cool area of study and I’d love to hear more
I'm sure GlaDOS would give it a try... You are trying to kill it after all.
Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
Tech's Gen Y seemed to have a big 'NIH' thing about things that predated them, and it seems to have continued with Gen Z. Resulting in a lot of things just being trashed for the sake of it 'not being modern enough'.
I've heard of him, but TBH I'm generally not into that format of YouTube video, regardless of topic. I think I'm just too impatient to wait through the parts of the video that aren't actively interesting, or are telling me things I already know.
My daughters are competitive sailors. On the back of one of their regatta shirts is a semaphore message that, when decoded, reads “always sail with the confidence of a mediocre white man”. Ouch? :)
> they dumped it out as a budget release at the time

I remember buying Katamari Damacy and Gradius V on the same launch day for C$20 each. Incredible value for two insanely great games. Just wild in retrospect.
“the rotation of the Earth would lock to the Moon in about 1000 years.” — based on unlimited exponential growth. That’s not worthy of a high school term paper, let alone the work of a PhD. Thanks for saving me the read.
When insurance companies are legally forced to choose between providing insurance at a loss and not providing it at all, they'll predictably choose the latter. I have to wonder: who on earth thought those price-restriction laws were a good idea?
- "Pay or not to pay?"
- "G needs revenues."
- "Abuse in qty of ads."
Valid points but...

What about all the deleted or demonetized channels in the last 4 years?
What about the increase of blocked-censured information ?
Have we forgotten that, although they all (GAFA & more) were seducingly sold to the people, they are tools for mass control ?

Maybe this issue with YT ads... will bring attention to freedom of speech's erosion.

just my grain of salt.
This is quite interesting, I feel like at some point we need to cut those middleman that bail out as soon as paying is involved
I run one. I built an iMessage-like frontend to it using plain JS and a Python websocket backend. I use it mostly for curiosity and playing with different prompts. I only have 16GB of RAM to dedicate to it, so I use an 13B parameter model which is enough for fun and chitchat, but I don't find it good enough to replace ChatGPT. In the future I would like to upgrade to Llama2 and observe the difference.

https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
I am not familiar with state-run insurance plans but I would be worried if it was ran as a potential form of taxation/revenue for the state government, because then homeowners would be subject to the whims of the current dominating political party without the mechanism of free market competition to lower the cost of insurance. I would want it to be run "at cost" as much as possible.

Edit: To be clear, what I am saying is that the stockpile formed from insurance premiums should not be accessible to other causes (even during emergencies unrelated to homes). I'm fine with tax revenue topping off insurance, but never insurance money being redirected to another budget.
I don’t think it makes any sense to dismiss regex “because it’s so universal” — you’re disqualifying a DSL because it’s successful, then saying all DSLs are unsuccessful. It’s just a tautology at that point, same as the article.

(And SQL is not a dsl because it’s a … programming language? But also HTML is not a domain specific language precisely because it’s not a programming language? I don’t follow your logic at all. I don’t think either are programming languages, but both are languages in another sense of the word, as evidenced by their full names, and certainly dsls.)
First sales in the world at midnight in Auckland, New Zealand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YluEi-WhTiI

I think Mick Jagger said I'd never allow his music for a commercial. Bill Gates proved that everyone has their price.
Good luck trying to sue Microsoft over a security vulnerability.
Most people cut their teeth on Windows, where the system environment bars are just a basically a section of the registry.
And then maybe redistribute those taxes back to the people contributing the least to the community. That system could be named, something like “societ-ism” or “communit-ism”. idk just spitballing
ugh. just ugh! what a biased article!

The IITs are hard to get into and the sad fact is that no matter how high they raise their standards, there will be more than enough candidates who exceed those standards. In what is fairly close to a purely meritocratic exam, casetism, sexism, x-ism are just labels some people use to rationalize why they did not make it when competing with people who are brilliant and driven.

These institutions have educated some of the finest minds in the country, and their alumni have gone on to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, raising people of all castes out of poverty.
Tons of comments here highlighting that 2% annual growth rate in energy consumption is ludicrous.

But so what if we made a more reasonable assumption that annual energy usage will stabilize at, say, 5X of what it is currently, and the (unreasonable) assumption that we get 100% of that energy from tides.

Then how much of a rotational slowdown do we get after 1000 years?
>big companies go to great lengths to ensure chain of trust

lol.
"Yeah but you can sue" is not really that viable. How's that going for anybody? Not everyone can dedicate their time and savings to gambling on getting compensated. At the very least, the open source community is vigilant and quick to ostracize bad actors. Big tech companies get tax breaks to screw us over
Yeah a professor’s blog post was shared recently that he only felt safe to disclose his caste once he had achieved tenure, and that basically every CS professor of South Asian descent in North America is from the higher castes (as in, the number who aren’t is in the single digits).
personally I think its weirder how CSAM (or a mere rumor of it in this case) gets people to not question anything

when without that rumor the criticism of the change would be criticism

“is this the only solution” is actually just me being diplomatic on a topic people are emotional about, as its clearly not the only solution, but even that is met with deflection

maybe thats the reason this “weird standard” is only noticed on CSAM mitigation discussions, because people know they cant be frank to you
Me and my wife cook meals with fresh ingredients every night and it takes between 20 and 40 minutes. Do you order takeout for every single meal? Did your family spend every day cooking all day growing up? I'm curious how someone can have this take.
Definitely vessels of some kind. I think the author overstates the brightness which is hard to judge in such dark conditions
If you do anything in editors or edit command lines in the terminal, maximise the keyboard repeat rate and minimise the repeat delay.
All these LLMs are pretty general if I understand correctly. Are there any efforts to create specialized models (other than for coding)? Or, what would be even better, "extract" certain areas from existing LLMs as a way to specialize them? With the goal to drastically reduce model size to be able to run on less powerful devices.

E.g. a model specializing in chemistry doesn't need to include data on world's history or to be able to write poetry.
From what I understand, they have not yet confirmed this [1]:

> TechInsights has received the Huawei Mate 60 Pro in its Ottawa, Canada laboratory. Work has begun to determine if the application processor is indeed SMIC’s latest generation process node – advancing it from its N+1 7nm node found by TechInsights in July 2022 in the MinerVA7 Bitcoin Miner.

From what I can tell, Reddit has also mistakenly jumped the gun too [2].

[1] https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-confirming-sm...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/168wewl/review_of...
It's perfectly fine and understandable if the two-handed backhanded didn't click with you personally.

But to generalize your idiosyncratic experience to everyone and claim that there's no point to the two-handed backhand is absurd, obtuse, solipsistic.

Moreover, "I never learned it" suggests that you didn't spend a lot of time on it, which does imply ignorance.
> If I understand correctly, wind mostly caused by the coriolis force, which is a consequence of the earth's rotation.

You understand incorrectly. Wind is largely a form of solar energy. The sun heats the earth and its atmosphere at different rates depending on the location, and wind is primarily the result of temperature differentials.

The Coriolis effect can definitely affect how wind behaves, but it doesn't provide the energy. E.g. a hurricane's winds travel in a circle/spiral due to the Coriolis effect, but a hurricane is a heat engine that gets its energy from the sun heating the oceans.
> Wayland is the poster child for a rewrite that tries to be 'simple' and in doing so over-complicates things by under specification.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37350221

(And did JWZ get rid of the special picture for people with Hacker News in the referrer?)
I've heard the same about c. difficile
That's implying that GPL is the only good license?
I know when I bought I had to have a quote for appropriate insurance policy in order to close. I never asked what appropriate was however.
You can absolutely still report them, if you’re no longer in the university they don’t have much power to influence your career anymore.
And here I thought it was the UK, EU and the US funding the 'revolution' in myanmar.
Ukaliq Script
There were a small number of scientists who in the '70s were predicting cooling.

Those scientists agreed that greenhouse gases cause warming, but they thought that the cooling effect from particulate pollution would be more significant.

The thing about particulates is that they and some of theor bad effects are very clearly directly noticeable to the average person. You could see them in the air, and feel and taste and smell then when you would breath that air.

That makes it much more feasible politically to deal with them, and Congress and the states enacted many laws and programs to do so.

And so particulate levels dropped dramatically over the next several years, invalidating the assumption of the models that predicted cooling.
You know the "Editor Wars" meme? That was a thing because vim and Emacs were the canonical editors; you could expect just about every serious hacker (in a Unix environment) to main either one or the other.

Today, there is only one canonical editor: Visual Studio Code. 75% of professional programmers use it. Microsoft was trying to get the open source crowd back into their tooling fold -- and they've succeeded! Which means now they have a hugely expanded developer base to sell tools and services to. Remember their money is now in cloud, not desktop software -- so think things like GitHub Codespaces. (The entire devcontainer ecosystem comes from Microsoft and is oriented specifically around Visual Studio Code's model of remote development.)
They aren't in business to give away money. Insurance is all about paying to mitigate risk. If the risk of loss increases or becomes too hard to predict, insurance will get more expensive or simply not be offered.
tl;dr: it translates images of papers into TeX documents.
Solar energy is not renewable too in the long run (very long run).
Your count here relies heavily on the 2-3 million Poles, but to the best of my understanding, those were killed in war, either during actual battle or during the Wehrmacht's pillage and destruction. I say that because, according to the article, only ("only" ... yeah) 0.5 million non-Jews died in concentration camps:

> While as many as 35 million people were killed overall because of Nazi aggression, the number of non-Jews who died in the concentration camps is no more than half a million, Bauer said.

... so I can't see a way to reconcile that with the figure for Poles except by considering them overwhelmingly casualties of war, not a policy of extermination.

And so, as far as I can see, the original article is broadly right and your comment is inaccurate.
I didn't intend it to be an equivalence, just merely a couple of examples of blatantly immoral laws. Apologies if that caused any offence as I certainly didn't mean to directly compare them.
Meanwhile in the real world, Microsoft is actively screwing up, losing control of their signing keys, failing to implementing even basics of Azure authentication, destroying Azure customer VM security, and so on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37261500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28532531
Fake Google Chrome updates launch StealC and Lumma infostealers
Mine is Mari0:
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Controversially my suspicion is what we're doing to the oceans and the rest of the planet will cause more suffering to humans than any other species, which will mostly just die out without really understanding what's happening to them. We all know what human suffering feels like, and we're all able to communicate with other humans one way or another, yet none of us seem able to accept we might have to change our lifestyles or reevaluate our priorities to help minimise that suffering in others.
Still, I'd be fascinated whether whales actually had any interesting (and comprehensible!) thoughts to share about human behaviour, and whether we might learn at least something from them.
I you want to have good teachers, you need to pay them good yearly salaries. Probably 200K in the tech hubs, 100K in the rest of the world.

If your teaching assistant gets 54K from you (in SF!!) and then has to work odds jobs during the summer, you're going to get the rare idealist and a bunch of ppl who are bad at making decisions.
There are some pretty decent guides for VxD programming still floating around on the web that give a pretty good overview of how VMM32 worked.
Pat is the 4K player.
7b runs on my 4gb vram machine (8gb memory). I.e. quantization helps a lot too
I grew up in Cornish. Most of us knew. Our plumber was his plumber etc etc. he was left alone, there’s a lot of interesting art in the community to see, his house not being one of them.