skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that as long as you use it for some simple configuration, you can use JSON, YAML, .properties files, TOML, whatever.

The problem IMHO is that we're using "configuration" files for things that aren't configuration. The "story" example from the blog post illustrates this. I find it hard to read YAML files that are dozens or hundreds of lines long.

Furthermore, once your "configuration" starts being so long, there's usually going to be enough repetition that you want to extract some duplication. YAML does have some facilities for this (anchors), unlike some other formats, but they're extremely limited.

So what happens is that different tools using YAML all start designing their own mechanism for sharing behaviour. It's all usually very ad-hoc, has edge cases and may not do things in the way you expect them. It also forces you to learn the specific rules for these facilities instead of allowing you to reuse your general programming knowledge.

On top of it all, YAML is essentially just a structureless key/value data structure. You can add schemas, but as far as I know, this isn't really standardised and editor support is... variable. In the worst case, you don't get any indication that you've configured something wrong. This is also part of the reason why I think that significant whitespace is OK for a programming language (still not a fan of it though), but bad for a configuration format, because bad indentation in a program either won't parse or will lead to obvious runtime errors, whereas bad indentation in a YAML file might just mean that a key isn't being set even though you think it should be.

For authors of tools that consume YAML, this means writing a lot of custom validation logic instead of relying on standard techniques like type systems.

I think we're on the wrong track and essentially just repeating XML's mistakes (just slightly less verbose, but also without schemas). We should rather use the programming constructs we know, e.g. by leveraging internal DSLs (I think that's part of the reason why Ruby was popular for tools like Chef for a short period, why Jenkins uses Groovy and Gradle now uses Groovy or Kotlin - these languages make internal DSLs easy). If we're worried about Turing completeness, maybe Dhall or something like it is the answer. But 400 line long YAML files with custom "!reference" tags that my editor doesn't understand doesn't seem like the solution.
I'm having the hardest time finding it, but I read a forum post about a few people that were able to add vram to existing 40 series cards after they finally cracked signing for the bios.

we're creeping up on the time where more consumer cards will have increases in vram (looks like 40 series supers will have a bump) and within the next couple of years i wouldn't be surprised to see mid priced cards with >= 24gb.

Exciting times for sure.
How is Web3 doing these days, I must ask?

The only thing I've heard of it recently is that 4chan is still doing good business selling ads for NFT and coin scams.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37440551 ("The IRS is going after 1,600 millionaires who owe hundreds of millions in overdue taxes, and it's using AI to catch them")

To your point though, the marginal rates these folks are exposed to should go up.
This happened to me on one of my domains, and Spotify support was similarly useless.

I finally resolved it by resetting the passwords and deleting 5-10 accounts a day, until the spammers decided continued use of my domain wasn’t worth their time.
Thanks for this. Will likely defer until this lands, but looking forward to trying out Brotli and Zstd for this use case!
Sorry, I don't count LA as a city. It's endless suburban sprawl. It doesn't have the density to live up to the claim to be a city.

I'm not claiming that other cities are NYC. There's only one NYC. But there are cities, even in the US, where there's an urban core that has useful "Subways, trains, buses. Taxis, Ubers, CitiBike" or equivalent.

Try:

* Seattle

* Boston

* Chicago

* Washington, D.C.

* San Francisco

* Philadelphia

* Baltimore

* Denver

* Portland

* Atlanta

* Minneapolis-St. Paul
No, it's Apple's fault for setting up their PR event just when French civil servants have got back to work after their summer holidays. ;)
>No. Because you cannot outweigh a wrong by another wrong. There's no balance, it only adds up on wrong.

This is not in line with consequentialist thinking, so there is no logical fallacy. You're failing to consider a line of reasoning in terms of a different moral philosophy to your own.

>They are also to all the rest of society that, witnessing that, can only deduce and fear that _no one_ is safe from being wronged the same way, because of the actions of a third party (be it family or other).

As other commenters have pointed out, this is not a statement that holds in general in consequentialist terms. How great are the harms to the rest of society? How great are the harms of the crimes prevented in this way? What is the real net benefit or downside to the whole population? These are the questions consequentialism wants answered to judge the morality of such a policy.
A design system has little to do with UX. "Design system" is a nuclear term.
I can't tell you how they've implemented it, but OpenBazaar has a Onion transport implementation of IPFS that seems to work. It's not as simple as "glue Tor to the IPFS port and hit go", of course.

TCP DHTs may not be efficient, but efficiency isn't one of IPFS's strengths anyway, in my experience.
I also found this, though it didn't archive super well: http://web.archive.org/web/20190329105713/http://moveordiega...
Launching the Digital Futures Project to Support Responsible AI
are you attaching the camera directly with an adapter, or is it projecting on to whatever lens you are using? i guess i'm coming at this thinking of it in terms of astrophotography using T-adapters to connect in place of on eyepiece vs taking an image from the eyepiece
It sounds more like break core haha
This is a very important truth to keep in mind and an interesting new thought for most.

Either humans are unique and non-animal, or we and all our works are as natural as anthills and bird nests.
What a strange idea ? Are clothes really heavy ? Just put a tax on heavier luggage ?
Blackcurrant leaves are widely used in the pickling liquid for pickles where I live.
Not sure about Canada but in the U.S. it's 30%. Just curious as it's seems contrary to the prevailing narrative out there...why would you assume it's a small fraction?

https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/programs_campaign...
I'm also curious about regional ads. All this talk about topics, etc. is mostly a non-issue for me, but what is the current state about ip/location/regionalized ads? Is this already off the table because the website gets my IP when I browse to them? Some websites ask for the browsers geo information which has a permission toggle - I haven't noticed if those correlate to more specific regionalized ads.
We’re one step closer to hacking the Gibson

https://youtu.be/b2OYNMO_mNw?si=Mg1XISFnF2DNS-ZU
> Since there is almost no money to be made with the "stablecoin" business model

Currently, holding USD and giving out crypto USD makes a lot of money for the holders. Just look at Tether making $850 million last quarter alone.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/tether-at...
it's used, but not very often.

tftp is one that is regularly served out of there.

In reality, larger software projects like nginx and apache have their own opinions and usually serve out of different places.
Ask HN: How long does it take to investigate a cyber-attack?
Hello,

When companies or organisations are victims of a cyber-attack, they often claim that it will take a significant amount to time (i.e., months) to investigate and assess the impact of the incident, what parts of their systems were accessed, the type and amount of data stolen by the attackers, etc.

As someone with no expertise in cybersecurity I have no idea if that argument makes sense or not. I suppose that larger companies with more complex IT structures will need more time to complete an assessment compared to smaller ones. But, a technical investigation spanning months?

Part of the relevance of this question is because, often, the potential victims of a cyber-attack are not just the company or organisation that was breached but their employees, suppliers, customers, etc. The limited or lack of information while the investigation is being conducted might leave them "out in the cold" for quite a long time.

So, I wanted to ask you. Thanks.
Likely another unsustainable pipeline off of the Colorado river if I were to venture a guess.
>Before stable diffusion, nobody released weights at all.

That's not true. There's been a lot of models with weights from every player before Stability.

>Without stability, all of AI would still be closed and opaque.

Most GANs (the practically spiritual predecessor to diffusion models) for example were available. Huggingface existed and has realistically done more to keep AI open. And again, this specific release we are talking about by Stability is not Open.

Stability is great but you are re-writting history and doing it on the release where it makes least sense to do so.
Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
It's more about how it does it: injecting executable code directly into the stack so that some other code unwittingly transfers control to it. Stack-smashing is a lot more malware-ISH than a few lines of shell script.
Train is often more expensive than budget airlines in Europe too. (And the Shinkansen in Japan isn't cheap either.) Long distance train can be a comfortable way to travel but economy (and, often, speed) aren't really why you choose long distance rail much of the time.
No, they don't. If you get scammed on a purchase the bank will simply say "Tough luck!" and ask you to stop bothering them. Credit and Debit cards offer unparalleled consumer protection, that's why consumers give preference to business that accept cards – it takes away at least some of the worry when purchasing.

What I don't understand are the people who - as customers - want to do away with credit and debit cards and replace them with these bank transactions that have no protections.
I use a sewing needle to pull out lint. Using an exacto knife would scare me, but I'm glad to hear that it works - the ports are more durable than I assumed.
People get the quality of journalism they pay for I guess...
I immediately assumed this had something to do with https://loopypro.com/ - which is wildly popular for certain music production niches.

You may want to reconsider that name imho.
Isn't it ironic that you reply to a remark meant for someone else showing that you also missed my point/context?
Aside from Buster Keaton's stunts lot of that is just early filming of vaudeville. Little of it was new and viewer would have been familiar with most of it from the stage. The later stuff dips it's toes in to comedy but barely gets wet. Take your examples of Singing in the Rain and Annie Hall, sure there is some comedy in both films but that is not the point of the film.

No Brooks, no Python, it's hard to take those lists seriously...
Only if you think of it in advance, when you fix the standard for where everything goes.

But how many UARTs should you allow for? 2? 16? 256? No matter what you choose, someone many want to build a system with more, and if you choose 256 (or more) then that's getting to be significant wasted address space for people who only have one UART.

All the more so for things that use a lot more address space than half a dozen control registers for a UART. What about 4k (3840x2560) x32 bit frame buffers? Those are 37.5 MB each. Some people want one. Some people want to drive a wall of monitors.

Much more flexible to let people configure their address space how they want and supply a devicetree in ROM / SPI flash etc.
As a counterpoint, here's a brief history of social movements that were powered (in part) by considerate consumption patterns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

They were organized of course, which starts by communicating your cause and action to other individuals.
never broke my phone until i moved into a house with all hard floors instead of carpet

with carpet you could drop it from the ceiling and it would be fine
Well... they hardly tried all genres :)

It sounds like it can't handle lyrics or semantics that well so I suspect any genre where the lyricism is important would also be quite mushy and recognizably AI
I ended up going into a bit of a rabbit hole. I learned that there is this telescope you can use[1] and there is a small guide[2] in there to check out how to use it. It is a bit more information from that.

[1] https://www.pictortelescope.com/observe
[2] https://www.pictortelescope.com/Observing_the_radio_sky_with...
For each piece of PI/PII data, generate a mapping in a table of that piece to a secure random number, and store the generated random number in place of the personal data, and use that in the log.

Then, if deletion is required, simply erase the row that holds the mapping.

And finally, be sure to not store that mapping table in the same place as your backups or your logs.
What is the "dollar" in your traditional PayPal balance backed by?

The differentiation is written in plain English in the article.
Money + a certain kind of ambition.

There are some rich people who inherit it who are as dumb as a post. Other people who make money are single-mindedly attached to business in a certain way but not really curious or creative (you can do that in sales, real estate, and many other fields.)
There definitely are predatory F2P games as there are shitty cash grabs masquerading as premium games (pay once).

But games like Diablo Immortal, Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail wouldn't keep their player base if they were just a 100% psychologically manipulative cash grabs.
Is anyone working on a OS LLM layer? e.g. consider a program like gimp. It would feed in its documentation and workflow details in LLM and get embeddings which would be installed with the program just like man-pages. Users could just express what they want to do in natural languages and Gimp would just query llm and create a workflow that might achieve the task.
Something like that 4^30 >>> 8^13?
This exactly. When the author is complaining that the configuration syntax doesn't support DRY you know something has gone wrong and configuration isn't really to blame.
ha, 1) nginx is a webserver not a development ecosystem, and 2) You'll probably find if you look that many people using Node are also using nginx, because they are complementary, not exclusionary, and 3) open your eyes and reality a bit
I've always loved that to do basic auth nginx has you make an apache2 directory and place your htpasswd in there as a best practice/recommended setup. And use apache-utils.. but I guess why reinvent the wheel.

# auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/.htpasswd;

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/c...
Similarly to others, I haven't really used other things in a LONG time but Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist is usually a list of bops that I enjoy a lot. I frequently end up adding a huge portion of them to my liked songs and to regularly used playlists!
I love the concept of Lua, but the linguistic features always drive me up the wall. Poor FP functionality, the weird double-dipping on associative and non-associative arrays into the same data structure, and 1-based arrays all drive me batty.

But I'll always gladly suffer through it in exchange for an easy and clean and secure embedding API.

So yeah, I totally understand why LOVE is made like that, but I don't think I'll use it.
if you're talking about the random person that approaches you on the street, then yes, that's a high possibility. but there are homeless that are not addicts and don't necessarily live on the streets.

i think this confusion is something holding back progress on homelessness.
Seems like a weak conjecture, since it's so contrary to common sense. Are there any modern or historical examples?
What's an example repugnant conclusion for the axiom "don't punish innocent people"?
Well, a lot of what people make with Unity could be done perfectly well with Löve. It's not intended to replace the Unity target public, but Unity is used well beyond its target public.
Aren’t all countries doing boosters? Which countries don’t have boosters? Do you know of any specifically?

This comment surprised me so I looked it up. The WHO report from Jan 2023 says 91 countries are reporting data on boosters. [1] The ‘our world in data’ site shows booster coverage for most of the world, only missing some countries in Africa and maybe small countries and islands too small to see on the map. Aside from the US, there’s booster coverage in Australia, Canada, China, Russia, India, all of Europe, all of South America, among others. This URL has the map view scrolled to May 2022, which appears to be the peak of the data reporting for boosters. [2]

[1] https://apps.who.int/gb/COVID-19/pdf_files/2023/05_01/Item1....

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccine-...
Adjusting the release-price for inflation seems like a pretty straightforward way to define affordability.

What it doesn't account for though is the quality and price of alternatives.

In 2007 there was no "budget smart phone" that could basically do the same things. Today there are tons of options that are much cheaper that can do (essentially) the same things, just not as well.
PureBoot 28 – Upstreaming and Upscaling
They clarify in the comments that it's a single game they're talking about. (Otherwise the whole math wouldn't make sense in the first place.)
That were exactly my thoughts.
Same! New songs, new artists, new genres, it's pretty cool! I agree it can be hit or miss but it feels like the longer I use it and the older, and more mature the platform gets, the more hit discover weekly ends up being!
Do you have a source for "newly released"? Everything I can find talks about "new" only.

I am not surprised that Apple have planned this for a while, because the EU have been pushing this for a while even before making USB-C mandatory. Previously it was only a recommendation for micro-USB, and Apple was practically the only manufacturer that didn't adopt it.

If it was such an obvious change, why did it take them 5+ years longer than other manufacturers?
you could with anti-exploit techniques (or within windows itself) hook VirtualProtect and such functions to check if its not making the stack executable. Also you could check it on process startup. However, it won't solve much, because then you simply slap it on the executably mapped heap region and do it from there?

There are cases for allowing memory protections to be changed, and because of that, it's possible and people use it. (code-generation / JIT etc.)

the stack being executable used to be a big problem, for example in 1995 with things like stack overflows running wild, but I think those have been largely mitigated by having things like stack canaries/checks stop stack overflows from being done (stack smashing detected!). those canaries were introduced around 1999 or so, and yes there are ways around it (rops/jops etc.), but not through the simple overflows from 1995.

I am all for not allowing it, but admittedly, that's likely some impractical utopian stance on the matter regarding the current use of operating-systems.

Perhaps in 2995 :)
Theoretically, it's Acela only I believe but in my experience no one cares.
You are not wrong that big content-creators can more easily get 1000 new followers than someone starting from scratch. But the amount of followers is only one metric that for example the YT-algorithm uses. Viewer-retention, amount of comments, amount of videos posted and the length of plus probably hundreds of other metrics are important as well and only ticking one of those boxes will only get you so far
https://archive.li/H11lM
> Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist

By LinkedIn:

> New York, New York, United States · Head of Science & Physics

Of course teens in the US don't know what folder is. US teens bullying every non iphone user for no reason. Iphone do not have folders. What do you mean by folders? I don't see any folder in my album!
I love critiques of consequentialism, but I found this piece to be fundamentally free of meaning. Then I looked up the author's bio. "I am a Professor of Economics." Well that explains it. The only thing worse than an economist is an economist trying their hand at philosophy.

Snark (somewhat) aside, this is the worst kind of philosophizing, where the author clearly read a couple SEP articles and then described their position with a mix of half-understood and contradictory jargon, and dumb thought experiments where the only possible subject can be Hitler.

It's pure sophistry. No actual philosopher worth their salt would use such extreme and intentionally trolling examples.
> They do if they want to deliver ads that are relevant.

Advertisers can still attach ads to relevant content without knowing anything specific about the person who might see it. Consider an advert for a car attached to an motoring article.

> substantiates why advertising is inherently bad

I'll try tackling this. Advertising is inherently bad; it's the source of a great many of our problems.

It's inherently manipulative. It tries to persuade, coerce or deceive us into buying things we wouldn't otherwise. This is a huge driver of obesity and ill-health (pushing UPFs, alcohol, tobacco etc.) and climate change (generally increasing consumption).

By definition, it absorbs our time and attention. It interferes with our enjoyment of sports, written articles, and wastes our time sitting through video and audio adverts.

It corrupts services. It provides an incentive for companies to maximise advertising revenue instead of the best experience - take Google or Amazon, who design search to push ads rather than what users ask for. Or social networks, who use algorithms to maximise engagement instead of positive interactions. Or news orgs, which publish clickbait fury-inducing articles for the ad impressions.

It sucks a lot of our brightest workforce into useless work designing ads and ways to push them. It absorbs a lot of economic activity into zero-sum competition between rivals running to stay still.
I once asked it for naming suggestions which referenced the concept of jailing a process for a concept I was working on

It refused because the request was "offensive to prisoners"

They must be paying a heavy alignment tax.
> It sounds weird, but running into friends and acquaintances is one of the things I miss the most about living in the city

Hah, I guess I worded that awkwardly. The weird part isn't the joy of running into people, it's that it was a very common occurrence in the city, which (I think) is unexpected for many people.
Yeah, seeing what PayPal already does I just wanted to point out that this shouldn’t surprise anyone. If anything this is slightly better because it’s all public. You can see calls to them banning accounts from transfers.

Number 4 being included just peeves me a lot because it seems like proper OOP to decouple increasing supply from any other logic they have to accept deposits.