skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice this too. I also see bureaucrats choose policy or implementation details without any way of trying to measure if outcomes match their expectations. This results in lots of bad policy and general state mismanagement.

Curtis Yarvin talks about how FDR created federal departments to ensure his programs could not easily be stopped by his successors. This is spun as “it is better to let experts work out the details.” But we don’t have a good way to determine who is best to make a decision, who is the top expert?

I think almost all policy should be fully democratic and it should be possible for the public to remove bureaucrats who make unpopular decisions. I like the idea of direct democracy but it does require a very well informed population which is a very high bar.
Does this sort of harvesting rely upon some internal accumulator like a capacitor before the energy could be fed elsewhere?

Also a question if such harvester need its own power source to be able to operate?

They cite a super wide range of EM freqs from Hz to MHz, and an efficient antenna...
I'm an app dev and I get access to most models except for Pixel.

I usually buy a higher end Xiaomi/Poco phone, and iPad Air.

Poco punches way above its price range. Gaming tier phones and a pretty screen for a decent price. 120 Hz screen, smoother video than my monitor, whole day battery life, charges to full in 10 min. Camera is good at night, and zoomed in. Macro camera can read the tiny text on money, the kind you'd need a magnifying glass to see.

Downsides: lots of bloatware, camera claims to have a bazillion megapixels but doesn't scale in quality, probably sells my data to the CCP

iPad Air is complementary to it. It's great for all "second devices" use, especially banks and auth if you have your main device rooted. Apple Pencil is amazing. I think most Apple stuff is overpriced and more style than function, but the Apple Pencil absolutely delivers on function. Also nice for signing business docs. The general iPad feels a little too big and heavy for casual use.
Enterprise is moving to bazel or similar, often with build caches, and using partial builds on checkin based on what’s changed.
Yes, gyms tend to have them here, but we're a very sauna dense country
"In other words, do I hire person with A and train them on B? Or do I train a person with B and train them on A?"

The real question is where are these places that are supposedly training people? The companies I've seen don't do any real training and expect people to just be proficient at everything.
Lack of oxygen. Anaerobic conditions exist in peat, which also happens to be quite damp.
Makes sense, thanks for pointing it out.
Also

Faux: made to look like something else that is usually more valuable

Common mistake, no worries
I'm not convinced by this part too, but it doesn't invalidate the actual argument that these are partly disjoint.
The youtube is about 4 years old. There does not seem to be much updates. Sounds like fun project overall.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
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This rationale is fundamentally incorrect. God's gift of Free Will (unto Man) is specifically the power (with faith) to manifest that which is nondeterministic. Where you got this notion of determinism, and thus nonjudgment, is a fancy set of mental gymnastics which is inconsistent with any known Christian teachings.
> - VB(.NET) is terrible for large or complex systems.

I can't say I agree with this. My experience has been that developers who write things in VB tend to be self-taught and don't know how to scale up small gadgets into large systems.
There are as mentioned, but additionally, for many models, you can split content up into several vectors (say one for each sentence or paragraph depending on how the model is trained) and pool the vectors together to get a representation that will span the content overall well.

Since the models trained to work on single sentences (like Mini-V2, the SBERT default) work worse at length, pooling representations of sentences is typically more useful.

For deliberately longer representations, generative model embeddings or document embeddings are the right answer sometimes.
I mean, it's objectively not inconsistent. If you take the formal postulates you will not produce an inconsistent result.
Incremental builds are something even enterprise build systems fail at.

I've had Visual Studio and MSBuild fail on me multiple times by deciding not to recompile a certain .cpp file, because they got the dependency graph wrong. This results in a running but inconsistent executable that's a bitch to debug.

If you're selling me another tool that duplicates this work, but that has even less context on my project than the build system, I'll pass.
Or, like, buildings. Far more birds die of hitting buildings than hitting turbines.
Insofar as one of the factors should be something the user knows, and one factor something the user has, that makes perfect sense. You know your password (or the master password to your password manager), and you have your phone with the SIM card. With email (or Authy), the second factor is also something you know, thus it's not 2F anymore.

Note that NIST also recommends against email as a factor in 2FA (A-B11 here: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/ ), and says that SMS OTP must be directed to a phone, not an IP address (such as with VoIP, see A-B01 in the same document).

"Methods that do not prove possession of a specific device, such as voice-over-IP (VOIP) or email, SHALL NOT be used for out-of-band authentication." (5.1.3.1 of NIST SP 800-63B)
Judging by the description, that project seems to be another DAG-planning meta-program with input-based memoization. This is the superior approach to fight complexity but, unfortunately, most engineers just don't understand the problem and the solution.
They are literally disincentivizing installation of games made by their engine, hilarious.
I've got a ~10 year old implementation that does something similar calling it "three way splitting" here: https://github.com/ryanbressler/CloudForest

And i got the idea from a lab mate, Timo Erkkila's RF-ACE project though neither of us thought it was a particularly novel idea.
It's nice that Google identified this security hole, but I suspect that Google is also the main reason for its existence in the first place: if Google didn't want to reduce by a few percent its costs for serving images, there probably would be no widespread usage of the WebP format.

(Similarly, it is nice that Google finds so many bugs in Javascript engines, but on the other hand they were one of the the main proponents of the bad idea of turning every web page into an executable program in the first place.)

ADDED. OK I was unfair in my guessing as to Google's motivation: the main motivation seems to have been to speed up page loading across the web.
It really isn't the lack of mobile support, as Fortnite shows, it is the fact Unity devs are cheaper and iteration speed from code changes is faster, which in hypercasual type stuff proves to be essential.

I tend to think the dev iteration speed is the core Unreal weakness.

The problem Unity have created is if something can be made with Unity it will get crowded out with clones in five minutes.
Yeah, it wouldn't need ChatGPT and it wouldn't take a week - my initial post pretty much came to my mind fully formed because it's just every action movie trope of any 90's/00's Blockbuster. I can probably write a 90-Minute script over the course of a week if I write only during toilet breaks, the main issue is "Will there be $40M in the budget to blow up an actual Volcano?"
According to the FAQ, it does apply to existing games.
Asimov was a people person though. He wasn't a nerd in the typical sense; he went to parties, conventions, meetings, mingled with people, belonged to multiple clubs, etc.

From Wikipedia:

> "Asimov was an able public speaker and was regularly hired to give talks about science. He was a frequent participant at science fiction conventions, where he was friendly and approachable. He patiently answered tens of thousands of questions and other mail with postcards and was pleased to give autographs."

I think that, in driving home a valid point, this essay gives the wrong impression of Asimov as someone who would scold his readers.
> How many managers do you know who studied to be managers of people?

Isn't this one of the aims of officer training in the armed forces?
Ruby and Javascript are interpreted languages! Why does there even need to be a build step?
Yep - customers will start getting pretty shirty if websites become unavailable only on their ISP, as their ISP fails to respond to abuse reports.
I want an OS that works for me, not for some corporation.
> what would be the point?

It was initially reported as an exploit in Apple's ImageIO library, which is not properly sandboxed on iOS. https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...
Generally very knowledgeable people know about this stuff. Give it 40-60 percent of the crowd on HN. I assumed that there was enough people who know about it to just say it outright.

Still not something I would call well-known though.

This country has plenty of stuff going on that falls into the "conspiracy category" but we now know is definitively true. Plenty. Everything Snowden revealed, the fact that the bush administration manufactured the evidence to push the entire country to go to war with Iraq. Plenty. I wouldn't turn my nose away when someone says something that seems "conspiratorial" given how much shit out there that has been verified definitively.

I get it though, stuff like area 51 captured UFOs will inevitably raise an eyebrow... it's hard to tell what's real and what's crackpot bs.
The “let it crash” philosophy is great, but at the same time a proper static type system protects you from a whole class of crashes before they ever reach deployment.

If you change the shape of a model object and break its type, it’s great that BEAM will gracefully handle that mistake, but no matter how many times that service restarts, it will still be broken at runtime.

I think type systems have gotten so good in modern languages (Kotlin for example) that it’s a disservice to your org to not use a statically typed language.

I haven’t looked at Dialyzer lately, but is it as robust and easy to use as a first class type system? Having experienced partial typing with annotations with python I must say it’s not nearly as smooth as a proper statically typed language.

I do wish something like Gleam was the front runner language on BEAM - I bet it would get taken a lot more readily.
(Quiet founder here) We already support Tor financially and will probably also run relays someday!

Quiet is a founding member of Tor's Onion Services Resource Coalition, which started in response to last year's DDoS against the Tor network, which affected onion service connection times. Alongside a small circle of other affected products we helped Tor raise enough to hire ~2 full-time engineers to work on onion service reliability, which had been a bit underfunded because onion services only represent a small share of Tor's existing usage.

See: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-network-ddos-attack/
+1, I recently got a Dell and it works great.

I have a desktop Linux PC but I often need to switch to my MacBook. If I plug the MacBook in, all my peripherals automatically switch to it. If I unplug, everything switch he's back to the Linux PC.

You can definitely use DDC to switch inputs, and the KVM is linked to the selected input. On MacOS I use Better Display which lets me switch inputs from a menu bar app. On linux there is ddcui (which is more like a proof of concept than a polished app, but it works). It's rare that I need to use this though since the auto-switching is usually all I need.
Free with splash screen, or Plus / Pro subscription to remove splash screen.

I don't disagree that Unity need to make money, but they should go the Unreal route with % of profit or something.

Tons of games don't even make back 0.20$ per user (mobile or f2p), what's going to happens to those? Force to close because they cannot pay the rent?
Question is whether this could harvest enough energy to store it in a small battery to continuously provide power. But really sounds frightening if you change the setup of a few appliances and then suddenly half of your autonomously powered devices don't get enough power anymore because the noise is not high enough anymore.
Instagram's backend is (mostly) a single, giant Django app. So it is possible to put together massive apps in it. I didn't have the time to delve into the architecture.

What I find lacking in most MVC backend frameworks lack is the componentization and composition of business rules in and across individual models. dry-rb and trailblazer were good efforts in this direction, but the reality is most backend apps in production stay mired in low-level implementation effort and duplicated code with whatever the MVC framework provides.

Also, the presenter pattern tends to require a bolting on in most frameworks.
Exactly. Also, not everything is going to be an URL, or human-visible at all.

Others have noted the usefulness of generating ids for user-created data without involving the server, while being able to post that data at a later time without worrying too much about collisions.

Suspenders-and-belt practice would of course dictate that the server do some type of collision detection and mitigation before storing the received data.

If UUID exists in database and user ID is different, tell client "Yo, we've got a collision here. Your new ID for this data is blah".

On the client end, when creating the data,

Generate new UUID. If I've ever used that UUID before, generate a new one.

When the client saves the data to the server

If the server rejects my UUID, switch to the new one provided by the server

In practice the collision mitigation code is likely never to be called, even in a very large system. The people who designed UUID went to great lengths to ensure that.

Personally, I'd look on home-brewed solutions for generating unique "friendly ids" with the same deep suspicion I look at home-brewed crypto, particularly if this were done client-side for multiple clients without involving a server round-trip. Getting it right is a Hard Problem. The perceived complexity of UUIDs is there precisely because it is a Hard Problem.
Quickly transferring high resolution ProRes videos?
I think you’d have a hard time divorcing the “religion” from its physical manifestation (or vice versa) in the world.
What do you think sending robots to Afghanistan or Haiti would accomplish?
so if Apple comes up with a better interface that might have a BOM of $1 instead of 20 cents, I as an Apple user will be held back because the Android OEM that is selling $50 unsubsidized phones doesn’t want it?
Or you know, just build a valuable company and VCs will line up to your door and you can tell them "I won't speak your language". This is how much I need for this much as a normal investor would.

Midjourney is a great example. An actual valuable product which people pay to use without VC funding.

And companies like context.ai and the thousands of others which are exactly the same have to do this whole monkey dance for VCs.
The new hotness for student status verification is ID.me. This is, despite some controversy, still the interface to various US Federal agency sites, and other sites as well. ID.me has a pretty rigorous verification system. They will not only verify your student status, they can verify qualified teachers/educators, HCPs, veterans, and recipients of public benefits. So it's sort of one-stop-shopping for a verification broker who will then introduce you to whatever site wants to authenticate you.

It was interesting, because I happened to graduate from college in May, much to my own surprise, and ID.me soon notified me that my student status had expired. I don't know if it was on a timer-deadline, or linked to the graduation event, but whichever it was, they were on the ball.

LinkedIn uses email addresses to verify employees, for example my own employer set up a thing, but it doesn't accept either of the work email addresses I've been issued, perhaps because we've got "two tiers" of employees and my email looks different from the full-timers'.

And you're right about folks keeping our .edu addresses in perpetuity. I worked for an .edu for 4 months, 24 years ago, and I still have access to, and control of, my email address there, in terms of where it forwards. I have no storage or other access, just the ability to point it somewhere.
Agree on the second part. The first part so, well, I am affraid that might not be as true as it used to be...
People might be mad at you for wearing an MR headset period for the same reason someone might be mad at you for looking at your phone all the time. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phubbing
Gooseberries are very different. Much more sour, very firm/hard, crisp and very tannin-y. Pickled gooseberries made in India are amazing if you’re okay with it being hot.
If you're going to stop people building anything that might kill a bird, well, you're essentially stopping people building anything; they tend to hit buildings. You'd probably have to abandon agriculture, too.
Importing 4K ProRes video for editing on a computer?
To broaden your horizon regarding OS API designs.
America Gave Up on the Best Home Technology There Is
This isn't surge pricing. This is just a price increase...

> the need to raise prices to cover extra staffing costs, more bouncers at the door, extra cleaning, washing glasses and “complying with licensing requirements”.

Finally glasses will be washed!
How is every webpage executable?
Ok, how many Lbs of reference manuals do I have to read to practically use it?
> Huh. The power for most of Marin County, California (just north of San Francisco) was turned off ...

Perhaps the commenter isn't from the USA?
In this particular domain, performance problems are tightly coupled with complexity.
Stopped at "Imagine you live in a world where no part of the build has to repeat unless the changes actually impacted it." because I'm already in that world by using Nx and Nx Cloud.
So if BuyerX installs the game, I get charged, he then re-formats his hard drive, and re-install, I get charged again, if he goes to another of his machines and install, I get charged again? Crazy.
This would be huge- but also a replacement forJitsi Meet, which just started requiring registration using google, Microsoft or Facebook accounts. So, anonymous E2EE( well, they used insertable streams, Firefox didnt have this fully implement
Yet but was working on it, spurred on by jitsu meet, actually)

Im a web browser accessible OR electron app form for any OS, open source, and totally anonymous, while able to host a good number of people all securely, for free, is not accessible to people anymore.

( there are other jitsi meet instances that likely will not require the same but this badly hurts nontheless, as they were perhaps the main free zoon competition in some ways.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37316959

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381508

You'll be filling that gap, and it is a badly needed one from an anonymity /E2EE functionality perspective.
Can you use GPS as clock reference?

https://www.gps.gov/applications/timing/

https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/timing/gpsrole.pdf
Ummm, extremely large teams develop monolith (single binary) things called OSes or databases etc. The modularity for scaling developers cross-communication comes from.... modules! duh! Aka libraries.
Wow, now we have to wait on legislators to set standards, in the hypothetical scenario, how long would it have taken them to move from Micro USB to USB C.

I am so surprised that people are okay with letting slow moving legislators set technological directions.
Funny, if you like this particular variety of snark. But there's a huge bait and switch in the argument. The English major doubts that we have "finally got the basis of the Universe straight" (in Asimov's words). But Asmimov's primary example of the "relativity of wrong" is the shape of the Earth, which is a particular fact about a particular object. Being charitable, almost no-one (not even the kind of English Lit majors that HN loves to hate!) doubts that we can learn facts about the shape and size of particular objects. It doesn't necessarily follow from this that we should be optimistic about the fundamental correctness of our best theories in the physical sciences. As the English Lit major was no doubt aware, there were plenty of people at the turn of the 20th century who thought that physics was basically finished and that there was nothing left to do except add more decimal places to the results.
except not really.. their tutorial [0] includes no-compile languages like python and JS, with only non-trivial compilation being and Java... and how do they do it?

RUN gradle build

At least in this case, Earthly has no insight into how repository is organized, and it _will_ recompile the entire repository with every single commit.

So what's the real value of it? this basically seems like a better "docker build" alternative, giving nicer inter-layer caching. Maybe will save some time on dependencies if they take some time to install and devs were too lazy to set up own workers and used ephemeral runners instead.

[0] https://docs.earthly.dev/basics/part-1-a-simple-earthfile
I would browse Reddit on Apollo for hours every day, and now I've stopped using Reddit save for occasional search results (in which case I'm sure to use old.reddit). For me that's a pretty big result!
You forgot the most important reason:

(0) zero community mind share as a result of extremely cumbersome and developer hostile APIs and the lack of standardization of essential functionality.

QtWayland won't be able to address this because vendor lock-in for a de-facto proprietary toolkit won't generate any community mind share either.
Multiple DBs does work, and large orgs do it this way with good results. But I'm not here to insult people for disagreeing. It's just software, nothing to get heated over.
monkeys throwing darts have often outperformed the index. what does that tell you ? evaluating trading algorithms for sustainable edge is science.

the competitive and zero sum nature of trading requires a deeper and almost scientific bent of mind to think well.
The MTA is a century old legacy system where all changes have to be made in production (because you cannot build parallel train tunnels, there just isn't unused space) with 24/7 uptime. It seems easy to assume a new system could avoid some of the issues that continue to plague it.
Which might be relevant if the most recent data we had was from a study published in 2009 except it’s not. As turbines got larger the deaths per GWh decreased due to multiple factors. Which is why people have largely stopped looking into it.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

“A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 9.36 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects.” And things have continued to improve.
Forgive me, if I may be so kind as to ask, but what makes you think such people are trying to "teach" you?
And even if you assume they only charge for legitimate, authorized installations -- what about free demos? This seems to create a massive disincentive to make those available.
> in the name of questionable science

... Hold on, are you suggesting that it's uncertain whether wind turbines work, or something?
Unless you get crafty, machine identifiers aren't stable on Windows and will change with updates. So if you update windows and reinstall an app, a lot of naive software will detect that as a fresh install on a fresh machine.

That would really suck for a small Unity dev to get screwed by a Windows update that forces reinstall of their users' game libraries - which isn't that uncommon.
Billed monthly for net gain in installs.