skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm annoyed that ls is not the same depending on the OS
I read this over the summer, it's a great read.
I suspect given they seemed to understand LLMs this was a bizarre in the sense of they’re not semantically similar despite being syntactically similar. A sufficiently powerful LLM should be able to distinguish the difference. Probably the prompt classifier isn’t as powerful as the backing LLM.
Are we still obsessed with every little thing Apple does? Not much substance in the article.

>Again, the whole thing is beautiful

Uh, okay.
> You won’t be able to create new accounts

On what criteria? IP address? User-agent? Easily spoofed.

Getting a burner SIM is tricky depending on where you live (Mandatory KYC is required in some countries)
I'm sure there's a simple circuit that can put a load on the mains in a way that doesn't cause fires or electrocute anyone
In this case, dilution is not the solution :(
And we don't know if they do or don't have that information, they haven't said either way. So its a bit early to complain about them not knowing something when we don't know if they know or not.

If they truly don't know, then that's a problem. If they do know but are waiting to release information until they know all the facts, that's probably fine.
Russia has been using them, the UK already has given them, we knew they were coming with the Abrams, no news here
This attitude is the path to hell. If you own nothing (not even your own attitude, or the quality of what you are doing), then you’re a perpetual victim, always at the whims of others, and always unable to change anything that matters for you.

If you take ownership of you and what you do, and how it impacts others and can produce value, you can make choices. To say no. To say yes. To push for recognition, and leave if you don’t get it.

Owning what you’re working on (and refusing to work for someone who won’t let you) is usually a key part of mental health and actual real world success for everyone.
These kinds of posts are one of the things that keeps me coming back to HN. Right when I start thinking I'm a professional badass for implementing several features with great well tested code in record time, I stumble along posts like this that set me in my place.
Written news is indeed hellish now.

I don't know how niche outlets are even making it, even with large fractions of pure SEO "pay the bills" articles.
> What this means is any chat system that isn't using end-to-end encryption is subject to these laws. Anything using end-to-end encryption is considered unfeasible to scan.

Why are you asserting this is true?

Adding a backdoor to an e2e system is technically feasible, what makes you imagine that is excluded?
You also left out "allegorical".
It isn’t. Venture debt is a whole different thing.

Disclosure: is founder who has raised money through both equity financing and debt financing.
Does Plenoxels also count? I believe they also use a similar approach

https://alexyu.net/plenoxels/
Make it purely client side JS and use URL fragments -> host (and receive) nothing.
The observable universe probably isn’t old enough for that. If you don’t restrict “out there” to our past light cone, and/or assume the cosmological multiverse, then there certainly may be.
100%. It's a cheap motivational "hack" to call it ownership, but it's just responsibility without little power to make necessary changes. A recipe for frustration.
In the example with the trash above, can the boy now choose to get a bigger trash can, so that he does not have to carry it outside so often? ;-)
Reviews have incentives, so crowd sourcing them is broken, in principle. You can try to monitor the reviewers, and put punishments and bans in place, or just pay them to do your job for you.
Oh yeah, point is "legal ain't cheap". Or maybe even moreso that it might ultimately hurt per-capita output and GDP more than just the apparent cost of immigrant labor value provided.
EV's

This will become a bigger issue for all as more EV's gain adoption.

And with the reluctance to use nuclear, there's not many reliable options for clean energy.
That's an interesting difference - I wasn't aware the TRS-80 didn't.
The parking company replaced all the old meters with the boxes and wrote an app, so they definitely did invest a bit. The boxes alone easily cost millions of dollars
Is silent prayer illegal outside some abortion clinics in the UK?

Has the UK banned some prayer and arrested at least one person for thought crime?

The answer to both of those questions is yes.

It’s not about whether she would have been convicted for something else anyway.
Did they all get in on the crypto grift frenzy? I know in Canada there's a certain political slant (up to and including the leader of our official opposition who spoke highly of bitcoin) that seemed more enamored with it than the rest.
My family has lived in Texas for 100 years and I monitor all utility construction that occurs in the state. I can confirm that it didn’t happen.
Your US tech today characterization is likely a strawman; from what I see in left leaning spaces, opposition to US military is more along the lines of your best reason.
It depends on how they're joined to the "grid" - if a company running multiple plants is providing 10 GW and later is providing 9900 MW did a plant go offline? Did clouds obscure solar? Did the wind die down?
That won't do. Your number is way too low.

You need either at least an order of magnitude more (still iffy, people don't buy boards all the time), or to sell into some larger market. Are there 100M electronics hobbyists to sell to over the world? Maybe if you make it into schools...
Sure, but buy the rumor, sell the news, as the saying goes (though I guess the reverse in this case).
Linux groups like this are an absolute joke at this point - it's beyond a circus of political / virtue signaling that's metastasized to a point that it's basically a net negative to anyone actually trying to contribute or learn...

I miss the early 2000's when hacker culture / defcon culture etc could exist on its on merits and wasn't coded by race, gender, politics or orientation...
Yup. Actual good management is hard.
A lot of people still program ESP32's with the arduino IDE.

And there are a good number of devices on the shelves of stores today which contain the arduino bootloader. It turns out the "point and click and get a working IoT product" tends to outcompete hiring a professional embedded coder to spend months to make something bespoke from scratch.

My dumb fridge for example runs on top of the arduino bootloader on an atmel chip - it has the distinctive 1 second startup delay and speaks stk500. And all that chip supports is four temperature sensors, two fans, two door switches and lights, a little 7 seg display and up/down buttons for temperature, a defrost heater, door edge heater, and a relay for the compressor motor.
Incidentally, and naively, I have to ask: Is there a business model that can promise customers a product that's immune to eventual usurpation? It's a hidden cost to build your world around a product only to see it turn into pay-to-play.

What is the antidote to this trend?
PgCompute: New PostgreSQL Client-Side Extension for Database Functions
Hey folks, I'm the one who created this extension. Looking forward to your feedback, thoughts and suggestions.
Then you will be unhappy to learn that exa itself isn't deprecated, only the original github is because the owner isn't reachable.
$50? Even Congresspeople can't be bribed that cheaply. Great return on investment.
So I'm certainly not a Java developer and I barely know very much about urls, but isn't that a semantically surprising comparison as well? You can host wildly different websites on the same server/IP as a temporary or permanent arrangement, but I'm not sure I would expect that to make you group them together
Why doesn’t it feel scalable or elegant.

It’s just a function call and you can always transform the NeRF into a new representation if you want to use traditional 3d software.
Not everybody here is "under the roof of a VC". I recently read a very inspiring article here about a successfully bootstrapped company. It's too bad more companies can't get off the ground without VC funding.

I also think the cynicism hits extra hard when this happens with direct-to-consumer and educational companies. I don't think people care quite so much when a B2B company takes a round of funding because whatever change happens there is not something that will likely hit consumers directly, and of course the whole for-profit educational aspect has been been beaten to death.
This top-level comment in this thread links to a excellent case-study which presents an architecture that may answer your question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418015

For performance, drop down to C/C++ (carefully);

1) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1811516/integrating-erla...

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14771658
Clearly corporate leaders believe that in-office is a competitive advantage. That’s why they are pushing RTO, conspiracy theories aside.

If they are instead forced to offer universal wfh as a concession to the labour market, then yes, outsourcing might be more attractive.
Has anyone ever written a book on what makes bad writing?
I really want to understand that second part! I think that's the part I haven't been able to get my head around yet.
I think both your comment and the reply by scrozart are hyperbolic. A particular person accruing perhaps undue historical acclaim in the popular press relative to the actual scope of their accomplishments happens all the time.

In this case, yes, there's a lot of "wanting it to be true" involved because the tale of a black woman mathematician working in the 1960s makes for a heroic story of triumph over adversity.

Per the "How Did It All Get Started?" section of the PDF it seems like the misconstrual of what happened began not as some kind of woke project in the last 10 years, but in the 1960s with the mathematician in question, proud of her accomplishments, inflating them beyond their real significance. And then the tale grew in the telling as the events receded in her memory.
I had a six character username at Fidelity. Every few weeks I'd get a few password reset emails (or something similar, it was a while ago) and my account would get locked. It was a real pain to deal with but I didn't have a choice, such is the suck of a 401k.

Eventually I went with a much longer username and the problem went away.

I don't know if this is related (probably not), but fun fact: Fidelity lets you log in to your account over the phone using numbers[0] -- one per character. Yep, passwords too.

> Use your telephone keypad to convert the letters to numbers. There is no case sensitivity. Substitute an asterisk (*) for all special characters. Here's an example:

> To enter a username, e.g., Smith123, press or say 7-6-4-8-4-1-2-3

> To enter a password, e.g., Lucky1$23, press or say 5-8-2-5-9-1-*-2-3

My 6 letter username mapped to numbers that corresponded to up to 4^6 accounts. That's really bad but not nearly as bad as what they're doing to passwords.

The longer username is both worse and better. Worse because it matches way way more possible accounts and better because (I presume) it matches fewer actual accounts so it gets fewer failed attempts. That's my guess, anyway.

Edit: it is possible that they only allow one account per "folded" username. That increasing the username length resolved the problem immediately suggests otherwise, but like I said, I dunno. I have no insight into their systems.

0: https://www.fidelity.com/customer-service/faqs-managing-your... look for "telephone services"
I think the replies and downvoter may have missed my intended point, which is that WhatsApp seems to be simultaneously treated as not an official channel and yet also treated as containing officially sensitive messages.

Whether Boris was telling the truth or not was irrelevant to my intended point.
It won't be politically possible to change much of anything about the legal immigration system until we stop the ~200K[1] of people illegally coming across the border every month.

The minute you announce some kind of concession for people already here (which would most definitely be part of a broader immigration reform bill) then the floodgates will open with people trying to make it in before the effective date.

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-enc...
> Seems like the "Spectre secret" is a massive risk given that compromising it once without detection would compromise EVERY PASSSWORD THAT USER USES, even ones that didn't exist when the secret was stolen.

All password managers have a single point of failure: the master password. This is why 2FA is crucial. Spectre/Master Password doesn't have 2FA, but you can turn it on with all the accounts you have so there is at least that.
"I expected this, and it can't be helped." messaging implies to readers that those who would try to stop it are the ostracized out-group.

Among all the possible reactions to news of corruption (of any sort) I've come to the opinion that humorous-resignation normalizes corruption and is, therefore, just as corrupt.

In fact, if I were a bad guy, I'd hire people to leave comments of "The system is broken", "This is normal", "Everyone does it", "There's no way to stop it", and rebuff anyone that proposes solutions. "[Your solution] won't be enough because..."
--help doesn't do anything functional so that's not a good example.
The demand is there, the building is there, but if you overbuild you can get screwed very hard, so the power companies have (very complex, mind you) models that they use to determine if a plant will make sense to bring online.

Those models may have been wrong, or based on assumptions about temperatures that turned out incorrect.
Ukraine disarmed their nuclear stockpile. Obviously Russia wouldn’t have invaded otherwise.
That's a phenomenon specific to used LP's. It has nothing to do with the current classical market or streaming.

For whatever reason, of the people who are into vinyl these days, only a vanishingly small proportion are into classical on vinyl. Far, far less than the proportion of people who bought that classical vinyl in the first place. So there's essentially no market for it. Record stores will generally buy only specific rare/historical/mint classical LP's, in contrast to how they'll buy anything by Bob Dylan.

I'm not sure why -- curious if anyone knows. The two obvious theories are that buying LP's is a "hipster" thing and hipsters aren't into classical, or else that classical listeners are always looking for the highest fidelity and vinyl ain't it. After all, it's classical listeners who have long traded FLAC files rather than MP3's.
That's because AI as a buzzword means deep learning now, but there's plenty of other AI that doesn't use training data and requires good knowledge of the problem you want to solve.

If you look at one of the most widely used text books machine learning is one of seven chapters, and not all of that is deep or supervised learning.

https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
You joke but in August the biggest Bitcoin mine in North America got paid 3.5x more by the utility to turn their rigs off than they made in actual Bitcoin mined -- and they say openly that collecting credits is core to their strategy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-rio...
The city itself would be losing that revenue if it retained control, and even with the deal they still need to budget the loss in parking ticket revenue.

The primary reason the parking deal never goes away is that it allows the city to blame "investors" for doing something it was already wants to do (keep lots of street parking).
Or put cowcatchers on the busses and drive right on through the bus lane. Sure you can legally park there, and you can get your car legally demolished in a bus collision.
~~~That's entirely wrong. You can play the game straight out of the cartridge with no Internet connection. Of course, without patches.~~~

Edit: Sorry, I misread your comment. :|
Or maybe I'm trying to whet one's appetite for learning the thing by showing a relatively simple expression that demonstrates the power of the language.
Except that if you sell or liquidate the company, you have to pay it all back before you can get any of the money.

So... It's completely equivalent to a low preference loan.
Your entire argument is appeal to false (and made up, and un attributed) authority. I've been fully based on real world happenings and provided plenty of documentation on them, for you to simply turn around and claim they didn't exist. Hilarious that you even go so far as to claim the sources I already provided don't exist.

Also your entire argument is "the Government would never do something illegal! That'd be wrong!"

But I don't really care about France, the French, or their burkinis. Good day.
fair. This was similarly amusing at least:
> ERNIE’s opinions are surprising, to say the least. It believes the best American president is Richard Nixon:

Impressive to see the RLHF penetrate deep enough into concept maps to teach the model (surely implicitly!) that the best US President has to be whichever one normalized relations with China.
> Sony Xperia X Compact

You can run custom ROM on it (the suupport is provided by Sony themselves), though maybe you need to actually build it yourself (which yeah not great, but you don't have to write the drivers, the build scripts and everything related yourself)

> Samsung A40.

You can run custom ROM on it (using Generic System Images)

> I buy the smallest phone I can find. Apparently no ROM developer is interested in those phones.

Well, I am interested in those phones :P. I currently daily driver Asus Zenfone 9 (compact in nowadays standards, but not really compact), and Qin 3 Ultra (actually compact, usable one-handed). And I definitely run custom ROMs on it.
If you're more of a numbers guy or gal, it's probably worth pointing out that the audited financial statements are available here [1]. I see that they have five lease deals going on and the reporting is only about the one (the worst deal???). A counterpoint is the deal in which Chicago leased the underground parking garages two years prior. Looking at those financial statements show that the deal was absolutely terrible for the bank(s) that financed the investment company - the original "owner" went bankrupt and the new "owner" has lost tens of millions over the last few years.

I have to wonder whether the aggregate of all the deals is a "disaster", "a little bit bad", or maybe "a little bit good" (lowest probability?)

[1] https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/fin/supp_info/public_p...
Yeah, there are definitely a bunch of edge cases like this, but the main problem right now is that there aren't enough people for these to even happen, so having that sort of stuff to deal with would be a good problem to have.
Sadly I don't remember GetRight had to google it.

That said I remember how happy I was with Z-Modem when it came out.

Before I had an error correcting modem with lots of line-noise I thought Z-Modem with it's built in error correction, ability to resume an interrupted download, and even auto-downloading (not having to tell my terminal to download) felt like magic!
on mac I do this:

alias ls='LC_COLLATE=C \ls -F'

doesn't sort dot directories before dot files, but it's good enough
Would it help if the state were to provide tax incentives for in home battery backups?
Probably yes. In case of modern Xbox backwards compatibility with 360 and original, it works more or less this way.
> This attitude is the path to hell.

I disagree the other way around is.

A lot of people suddenly realize they are 50 and they put decades into someone else's dream.

Be realistic, do what you are paid for, but save the heroism for your own efforts.
Any form of harassment is illegal. See the pics I posted in an edit above; the protestors make their opinions clear to visitors to the clinic, even while being silent.
It doesn't really make sense to use URL today (it does not even support encoding). URI can be used to identify the resource and then more explicit API can be used for I/O instead of URL.openConnection().
Principal-agent problem, no? Daley's job was to help out some buddies at CPM. He did it successfully. Chicago is the principal. He was the agent. But you can't align a city's objectives with that of the guy running it because he's essentially managing something that has the potential comp on the (black) market equivalent to a high-end hedge fund manager for the pay of a chump.

If you put someone in charge of something, they will extract all the surplus from it that they can. The idea of governance that rests upon electing the incorruptible is a bit silly.

Hard to manage, though. Do you say that every city deal over 5 years must go to a proposition? That no deal can exceed 10 years? In a nation with massive state power, the state would renege on the deal and CPM would be left up shit creek. In the US, individuals and groups of them negotiate as equals often.

The state occasionally strikes back, but it's not privileged in any sense. Some pluses, some minuses.
cool for microGUIs for technical end-users that want to move quickly
The most shocking part to me is that this is "news." It's like saying "Exclusive: there are fake reviews on Amazon!"

Companies depend on good reviews to make sales, so dishonest companies and reviewers see mutual benefit in purchasing dishonest reviews. It's a frustrating but old problem.
This is only true for driving on public roads.
Yeah, but if they pay you to not mine Bitcoin and then find out you're not mining Bitcoin, won't you be in trouble?
At the same time, the general definition didn't pop up out of nowhere. I can't speak specifically for the history of monads, but very often these ideas start as specific ideas with very practical intuition, and are then carefully generalized.

If you tried to learn linear algebra by starting with the general definition of linear transformations on vectors in an abstract space, you'd get nowhere. You need a reference point in order to effectively generalize.

For example, I first came to understand functors/applicatives/monads as contexts, so the idea of a list being a monad was actually kind of weird to me.

The other problem with monads (in Haskell) is that it's sometimes far from obvious what a particular monad actually does. If I see code like this:

thing1 >>= frobify

It tells me basically nothing about what the computer will actually do, unless I have some familiarity with the types involved. You see similar issues with things like context managers in Python, and with languages that support operator overloading for user-defined types.

The difference is that we all have some generally correct intuition about what "+" means, so when we see that operator is overloaded on a custom type, we can at least have an idea about what it might do. But a programmer who lacks concrete intuition about what monads do will not be able to perform the same reasoning when they see ">>=" or "join".
This would likely be impossible politically though.
Definitely mind the tags and ratings if you mine AO3 for anything.
There’s also Apple Bank which has a lot of branches in New York. They have a logo that’s even more 1970s than the Apple one:

https://www.applebank.com/
He’s talking about how HN is magnanimously hosted by the VC firm YCombinator
if I was looking at potential power cut during a heat wave in my home, I would probably lower my AC a few degrees, and if your honest, most of you would too..
How is it related to economics?