skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luck is great for modeling capitalism, actually.

Elon… is not that smart. Take the “hyperloop” for example, invented in the 1800’s, IIRC. When I considered it in the 90’s as a thought experiment, I quickly realized how dumb it would be. The earth moves, all the time. The pressure wave of a failure somewhere in the system would literally kill everyone on board. If any parts were above ground, a simple sniper bullet from several miles away could kill hundreds of people. I was a teenager, simply writing a report for school. In my report, I quickly (within hours of discovering the idea) realized the expenses and risks of maintaining such a thing would quickly overwhelm any benefits. Yet this “novel idea” a random billionaire came up with is somehow different? I don’t think so.

I could go on with dozens or potentially hundreds of examples where it’s clear he didn’t apply any critical thought at all.

Just to be clear, I’m not saying he is dumb. He just doesn’t think things through before saying them out loud. I think the majority of normal people do this. In other words, I think he’s a normal person who got lucky, and works hard to keep what he has. Just like everyone else. However, we live in a world that idolizes lucky people…
That "simple" change involves a ton of agency risk, which we already have. Who is going to force the politician to make the payment? Who is going to force the pension plan board of trustees to use appropriate assumptions in their calculation of liabilities and the requisite funding? Who is going to watch out to make sure the board members are not investing in their brother in law's cousins' real estate project?
Ask HN: How do high “value” targets protect themselves against exploits?
So I just read about the NSO 0 click exploit posted on HN.

I was wondering how politicians, well known business people, think senators, fortune 500 CEOs etc, protect themselves against these kinds of exploits or even less sophisticated ones?

Does Apple sell custom solutions for such users?
Do they run 3rd party software that locks down their phones?
Do they physically modify their phone's hardware in some way?
>whereas the Topics API uses the entire browser history

It doesn't use the full history. If a site is using the Topics API it will only get back topics that it has observed from sites in the last 3 epochs. For site X to observe a topic from site Y. Site Y must either:

* Be site X

* Embed site X in an iframe on the page with a special attribute on the iframe element

* Send a fetch request to site X with a special header and site X must respond with a special header
When police police police, we sometimes get oversight oversight.
Mars Has Far Fewer Minerals Than Earth Does
There's usually at least two single points of failure, the merchant processor (Square in this case, but other retailers use different processors) and the card issuer (Visa, MC, etc) responsible for approving/declining a transaction.
Really makes reading mail with inline images or org files etc. sooooooo much nicer.
Get a New Covid Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise
This is one of the best descriptions of statistical bias I have ever read.

"Dr. Eyal Shahar is a professor emeritus of public health in epidemiology and biostatistics. His research focuses on epidemiology and methodology. In recent years, Dr. Shahar has also made significant contributions to research methodology, especially in the domain of causal diagrams and biases."
Great reply, but don't forget to add Apple's bottom line to the balance beam of user risk and device functionality there
> But I do intend to arbitrate if the election information being input from multiple geographical locations is valid data or not.

How are you going to do that?

I live in a country whose supreme court routinely orders censorship of "fake news" and other kinds of "harmful" information, something not seen since the days of our military dictatorship. This year our government essentially created a ministry of truth. They censored "fake news" which literally turned out to be true after our current president was elected, it's comical.

How do you plan on being any different?

> Sorry, Error 402, please provide payment. You're a bot until proven otherwise.

OK. Do you accept credit cards?
I suspect that your extreme position must come with a sincere belief that nothing even close to human intelligence will ever be achieved. Imagine a robot with an AI brain. It would have to be blindfolded because just by learning to recognize, or even just viewing, the label on a can of Coke it would have “copied” it and become “illegal,” especially if it was capable of sketching it on demand. Any kind of intelligence cannot even simply view or listen to the world without encountering something IP-encumbered.

Learning, by human or machine, means extracting a copy of the essence of something and yes, storing that essence in a lossy way. It seems like learning from copyright-encumbered material ought to either be illegal for both, or legal. I know which world I would rather live in.
January 1987 Technical review of the CANDU reactor to the Chernobyl design[pdf]
What?

Go is not less popular than Chess in China or Korea
Officially, the Académie Française recommends the word for email be "mél" for message électronique (lit. Electronic message). In practice everybody says mail or email, but the official word is voluntarly chosen to not be the English word, as the Académie often does.
Because 123 countries do care.

Which limits the ability of the leaders of India, Russia etc to attend international events if they know that the hosting country will arrest them. Case in point: Putin unable to attend BRICs event in South Africa.
Everything of theirs is down. Not just the registers. I only use it to invoice my contract customers and I can't even do that right now.
Shogi also has the advantage that handicaps are easier, meaning people of different skill levels can play against each other easily.
Did you consider writing parts in Rust?
I was wondering if there was an infrastructure issue today. Feeld wasn't loading, and reddit kept throwing errors.
https://www.joom.com/ has such great design and UX that I had to try it and it worked great (about 5 orders)
Robot isn't even an old word - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
Thanks for the detailed feedback.

We see Phind as a superset of ChatGPT. For the problems where search results may not be relevant, it should still function as GPT-4. Do you see it performing worse in your use case?

As for mistaken library versions, we’re working on developing our own index as a long term fix. But in the meantime you should be able to tell it the proper version and it should work.

So our hope is that Phind is a complete ChatGPT replacement for devs. Soon we’ll be rolling out our own models alongside GPT-4 that will bring additional speed and quality improvements.

I’d be happy to chat further with you directly, my email is michael(at)phind.com
> That is a... bold assumption to make. Not just for Microsoft but for any large corporation.

I dunno; the average project on github isn't code-reviewed, while all the projects at Microsoft are.
At the end of the day, I think the categories are very broad and better respect people's privacy compared to what we had before. Some people in the privacy community seem to think advertising and tracking in any form should not exist and will always make a stink about whatever incarnation they take.

These proposals were made directly because of legislation like GDPR. It's not as if Google got up one day and said "Let's make our job harder."
Your argument would make sense if Texas had a near-term goal to decarbonize its power grid. As long as fossil fuels are burning, there is no spare capacity.
...and may I ask, how did your hobby roguelike projects factor into your career? (Hi ido! It's been some years!) Were they significant for gaining skills, or are coworkers and existing codebases crucial for learning from? I often feel like I learn more slowly writing code from scratch rather than studying and contributing to someone else's.
I'm with you. I understand how it's _meant_ to work, but that's just not how language works in my head. Without `that`, it's just not a sentence to me.

(Yadda yadda, prescriptivism is flawed, etc. Note my "in my head" and "to me" caveats above)
Private Access Tokens are built into Safari. Apple gives their devices a certain amount of tokens, and Cloudflare validates them. If Apple doesn't like your device, you won't get any more tokens. Cloudflare also hands out tokens if you install their browser addon.

The two companies are working together to make this an official web standard, but I haven't heard about it for a while. Maybe they're just laying low after seeing the blowback on Google's (worse) attempts at attesting devices.
The point is that those other apps don’t use email addresses as the handle to contact someone. If someone iMessages you, the iMessage might (appear to) come from their phone number, or it could (appear to) come from their email. If you have an iMessage contact that’s just an email and you iMessage them, it works fine. If you try to then add Android users to your group chat, everyone gets SMS and the iMessage user with an email handle gets an empty body email from AT&T with an attachment containing the SMS as a plaintext file. And then this user gets another empty email for every reply to that group text.
This is cool, but surprised to see no lip service paid to RoboRosewater, a pioneer in the MTGML space.
Infernal Light
2BB

Sorcery
Search your library for a creature card card with power less than or equal to the number of cards in your hand, put that card onto the battlefield, and then shuffle.

The eternal flame has no fuel.

Very cool generator and it creates real-ish cards that mostly follow the color pie, but the power level is pretty bonkers for anyone that plays Magic.

I think one thing that's a challenge for a LLM is that small changes to text like "Search for a card and put that card into your hand" versus "Search for a card and put that card onto the battlefield" can have very different meanings and power levels.
I’ve been trying to use emacs and vim/nvim on and off for a several years now but it always seems like a task in vain. Half of it works and it’s a real pain to get something usable.

I wish I could use Linux but I work in the gaming industry ina company that solely creates windows games so it’s not really an option…
On Apple's end, iMessage also supports email addresses as a user identifier (and it's the only one you get if you don't have an iPhone with an assigned phone number).

It's still not sending emails, though. The iPhone Messages app sends SMS, MMS, and iMessage; email is the responsibility of the Mail app.
>Someone could easily run the same kind of thing on the internet, providing free proxy service and telling their users to trust a certificate signed by them, without properly explaining the consequences of that.

Somebody already did do this, except as a paid service, and had their special 'client' simulate user clicks to install the self-signed root CA cert in your OS' cert store for you.
> Everyone should use it because it disables a lot of nonsense that doesn't serve you and probably even saves battery power.

Lockdown mode acts as a natural ad block which is great (as a reader). But it also disables JIT. I assume this causes wasted CPU cycles and perhaps, on balance, worse battery life?
As a former MtG player I think the difficulty lies not in creating cards, but in ensuring there's a level of balance between existing cards and new sets.
You’d expect that to happen as potential interactions increase, I assume. I’ve always wanted to learn how to use a modelling tool like TLA+ or something to find breaking issues in games - like first turn wins (that isn’t just Exodia in Yugioh)
There is a backup. It’s astonishing how many people don’t seem to know this. If you cut internet to the terminal you can make offline payments and they’re stored for 24 hours. I do IT for a retail chain that uses square and we did this. People can still buy stuff just fine (as long as its under $200 in one transaction)

They’re still down and just put out a statement that they’re still looking for the root cause, which is unbelievable to me that after 9 hours they don’t know what happened.
The miner load is the ideal type of load -- totally flat, very predicable. This encourages investment in supply. And the cherry on top is that it is super easy to turn off (if you pay them). There is basically no other energy consumer like this.

The miner load has other unique and favorable attributes, but those are the ones that are relevant in this situation.

Is the energy for sale or not?
Data from Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge
How can anyone and everyone prove that the tokens were actually properly paid for? Prove there were no secret smokey-room collusion deals. Prove there were no unpaid tokens minted. Prove that international government/criminal organizations didn’t blackmail a few extra tokens into existence.

You aren’t actually wrong. Tether operates the way you describe: Based on proof of Trust Me Bro :P You can build derivative products backed by Tether. But, that’s a shaky foundation on which to build a new world financial system. You’d have to hope to spin up products that earn enough trust on their own to detach their valuation from Tether before Tether collapses.
1. Luke had a knack for hitting things right where it matters most, a product of his ability to focus. Forget the long winded rituals and attack the target dead on. That’s Luke above everything. In spite of the weight of the galaxy, he doesn’t loose focus. Him thinking about killing his nephew was almost his failure in keeping target. He knows something else is more important to focus on which this won’t solve. He has a focus no one else in the story does. It’s again seen in his last moments of force projecting. No other user sustains that amount to focus in the movies, look at his face and for how long he did it. I’m tired of this innocent always positive Luke trope. That’s not his main quality. He was a crack shot and that’s his method of the force. Him reconciling with Vader is mainly about a one on one, how to topple the Empire with a single interaction, he just has to get close enough. Not goodness, which of course he does have. Only Sidius has comparable focus. Luke’s time in seclusion is rest and preparation for past and future unsustainable effort.
I believe Tailscale re-incorporated from a Canadian company into a US company for various compliance things being easier, but a consequence is that now they have to follow certain US obligations WRT Cuba, amongst others.
Do you really feel that way? How about prohibition of possessing and manufacturing radioactive materials? Think of all the research consenting adults could be doing and all the medical uses but a bunch of anti-science puritans are keeping them from doing it.(sarcasm)

I am assuming there is hardly anyone on the planet who thinks the public is able to make its own informed decisions about radioactive materials. So it's odd how instead of arguing the merits and costs of criminalization/decriminalization there is this argument that anyone who wants to limit drug use is an ignorant, corrupt puritan and that restriction has been generally a failure. There is a nuclear black market too and the spread of nuclear weapons has still happened. Does anyone think we should shut down IAEA because of its failures?
I don't know for riichi mahjong, but "mahjong" is pretty popular, yes. But the betting aspect puts it probably closer to poker than chess or other games where money is rarely involved.
In rotten tomatoes defense there aren’t really any commercial reviewers left that don’t work for sponsorships (and it’s not like audience scores are hard to manipulate)

Like, what is left for them to aggregate?
> I'm also not happy about the fact that I can no longer open large C++ files

Regex-based syntax highlighting is usually the culprit in these cases. There’s probably a new RegEx inside c++ mode that burns too many cpu cycles.

You might want to try out the treesitter mode „c++—ts-mode“ that does the syntax highlighting based on a real static parser written in C: https://medium.com/really-learn-programming/setting-up-tree-...

Disclaimer: I’m not a C++ dev so I have never tried that.
https://www.dfrobot.com/product-686.html > MQ7 datasheet > "Its service life can reach 5 years under using condition."
I use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, NewPipe/invidious, CookieAutoDelete to logout of Google as soon as the tab is closed.

I'm sure they track me nonetheless, but it's a bit less.
> will ever

As part of Europe's DMA plan they have precisely 6 months to do that.
> We should treat it like other dangerous medicines

We should decriminalize those, too.
We had this issue with a couple of our stores. Bringing it back online then pulling out the ethernet cable seemed to fix it.
All that's different now is that the script kiddies have grown up.
It's nice to see progress being made towards more rational drug policy, and also disappointing that this a "plant medicine = good" bill instead of a "criminalizing psychedelics is stupid" bill.

Chemically-derived ones like LSD and MDMA are not in-scope in Wiener's bill, even though (like mushrooms) they aren't the kinds of drugs that cause social problems.
It hides that by being incredibly restricted in what you can do with it, lest you leak side channel information. To the point that you can't do much of anything useful, much less general computation. They're finely crafted Faberge eggs that break if you sneeze near them now or discover a new way of sneezing in the next few decades, not broad tools.

So... yes, you could build a "browser" like that. It would effectively have no scripting at all though, nor could it ever introduce new semantics that send data to another site, directly or transitively. You can do some stuff with that kind of system, but it's limited enough that most people don't choose it.

Gopher exists I guess? Lynx too, though lynx supports css, and that largely can't be allowed either.
> Could you please expand on your iMessage comparison? I don't understand what you're referencing.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/apple-patches-clickl...

iMessage itself is a dumpster fire that time and again has been proven to be an attack vector.
I love that “Bad Lightning Bolt” is literally just Lightning Bolt that does one less damage.
Where is money, there is no freedom.
> This allows the provider to always know how much capacity it can shed ahead of time, in exchange for slightly lower revenue.

This is exactly what happened here, the difference is just how the payment is structured? Obviously an industrial operation can get a different contract than a home owner, and can provide different benefits for the providers.
> So someone who is poor can't get legal access to some potential life altering drug just because they're not affluent enough?

This seems to be the case for most things across human existence. Did something change recently?
I disagree with much of your post, but the first point bothers me the most. If the trilogy were about Luke's disillusionment and fall, I would have been much more interested. You are filling in a ton of back story that I can see making sense, but you can't just handwave it in, especially with a character as important a Luke Skywalker. I can see a creative and emotionally compelling series about how he deals with impostor syndrome and I could even see it ending very badly for him. Treating that character arc as a sidebar misses the point of the entire saga.
Interesting! A more direct English equivalent of that would be "teach your grandmother to suck eggs," which isn't used much these days. That's probably a good thing. I have no idea why grandmothers are supposed to be especially good at sucking eggs.
Your comment helped me finally get the original submission, thank you!
FPGA-Based Deep Learning Inference Accelerators: Where Are We Standing?
> How are you going to do that?

The same way it's organized among the political parties. Word of mouth, social media and good will among interested parties who trust each other for a common goal of maintaining democratic principles. I don't come from a country that censors such work. Their main problem is it's all pen and paper by people that are usually schoolteachers and farmers on a normal day and they need the tech help.

> OK. Do you accept credit cards?

No I do not accept credit cards. I'm neither a business nor a payment processor. Please contact the administrator. Don't expect a reply. If you have to cold call, you're not in the existing trusted network where others vouch for additions to the network and will be two-factor geo-IP verified. Good luck with your python scraping in your world.
I think it's better to give an obvious warning and archive it. As a reminder to people.
One thing that kinda sucks in Tokyo in particular is a dearth of just chill public spaces. I think Go and Shogi both benefit from incumbent status, with club spaces and the like existing. Chess meetups right now seem to be relegated to city community spaces (glad they exist!). But I was real jealous when I was in Brisbane for a bit and visisted a chess meetup that was just happening in a cafe. Also saw some kids playing in the local library. It's nice for there to be spaces that allow for activities that don't require an exchange of money beyond maybe buying one drink.
It doesn't even have to discard the communism. Look it Vietnam: we fought a war against them in living memory, and we invite their people to go through our military training schools now so they can see how we do things.
I hear ya, and it goes back to how we want to define everything. Technically the software itself does not need maintenance. The "why" is because of unchanging hardware. Maybe more software should be developed for unchanging hardware. The problem is that the real world does not map well onto this paradigm.

....maybe AI will solve this problem for us one day. :P
Paying someone to change their behaviour is very normal.
I ran the placeholder convo (Thatcher V. Targaryen) and started getting nonsense past the second message -- not sure how this is gpt 3.5?

Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Eating meat is natural and necessary for human health. It has been a part of our diet for centuries.
Margaret Thatcher
Indeed, the consumption of meat has been a longstanding tradition in human society. However, it is important to consider the ethical implications of our actions.
Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Ethics subjective, we can't that provides nutrients protein iron, and B12.
Margaret Thatcher
I that meat can essential nutrients such protein iron, and vitamin B., must consider the ethical surrounding the treatment animals the impact of meat production.
Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
I your about the treatment of the impact of meat production on the. However, is to that humans we evolved as omnores, and our bodies require certain nutrients that found meat It a part our.
Margaret Thatcher
I your point humans being omniv and needing certain nutrients found meat However we also the ethical concerns and environmental associated meat production.
> I have heard this many times but I've never seen convincing proof of that.

What kind of proof are you looking for?
Just wondering what are local LLMs used for today? So far they look more like a.. promising.
As much as I enjoy Go and personally consider it a better game, it's not what's holding chess back in Japan. Go isn't _that_ popular there.
Half the rich are rich because they were born rich. Maybe they were hard working embryos.
Taxi in Russian is indeed pronounced the same and is written Такси.