skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how quickly 4chan often doxes someone who believes they are operating online anonymously. I think most of us remain anonymous online, only because nobody cares enough to figure out who we are.
Sure my point is more that this adding of commas business dwarfs any real prediction.

Suppose there were a superintelligence that figured out the theory of everything for the universe. It's unclear that would actually help with this task. You could likely easily derive things like gravitaiton, chemistry, etc but the vast majority of your bits would still be used attempting to match the persona and wording of the various wikipedia authors.

This superintelligence would be masked by some LLM that is slightly better at faking human wording.
I can't tell if this is satire or not, but of course you do your life your way.

Maybe we're old-fashioned. My wife's done some pretty "unequal" things like 2 pregnancies and many months of getting up at night to breastfeed. So I don't mind doing some of the "unequal" things from my side. Frankly, I think I get off easy :)
Airtable another round of lay offs cuts by 27%
Everyone wants the latest version even if they can’t afford to upgrade. No one buys the latest phone and is wishing “man, I wish I had bought last year’s iPhone”
These systems should not scale. Giving everyone free broadcast capability is a sign of mentally bankruptcy.

Its like giving every neuron in your head broadcast capability. What happens when they all fire at the same time?
Or like giving everyone in the world a radio transmitter that can broadcast on any frequency. What happens when they all transmit on the same frequency at the same time?

These idiots are scaling things because its become possible technically. There is no other logic to whats going on. And its producing/enabling massive amounts of useless noise. The UN report on the Attention Economy says 0.5% of content on the net is actually consumed by anyone.
The modern world has made a tangled mess of personal data. Is there any way to walk this back?
Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag
It's unclear to me how social democracy could be achieved without a labor movement.
Words like "MMU" are... poorly defined. Cortex M0+ has an MMU, but its nowhere near what is needed to run Linux.

I guess, "MIPS has a good enough MMU" is the better answer. Or perhaps, because MIPS has enough security features to match Linux's multiuser assumptions (virtual memory, kernel vs user mode, etc. etc.). And finally, because the OSS community has ported Linux to MIPS32 already, albeit decades ago but that code still works today.

There are weird Linux ports that are so customized I'm not sure if you can call it Linux anymore. I'm pretty sure I saw someone forcibly run Linux on a Cortex M0+ for example. So its not "proper" Linux due to the high amount of custom code they wrote and likely incompatibility with the greater Linux community. Its a wishy-washy definition because I've seen a lot of really weird crap in the embedded world, and I am not comfortable drawing hard lines anywhere.
You make a good point, with k8 the entire base layer is abstracted away to the point devs aren’t building to linux they’re building to k8 with single process containers. But I guess mileage may vary, you still learn a great deal self hosting typically.
eBay rolls out a tool that generates product listings from photos
If I were wanting do do secure tor browsing, I would use a liveUSB of ubuntu, running virtualbox, running vmware, running tor. On the host ubuntu, I would run a 2nd instance of virtualbox, running vmware, running Chrome.

Networking will be set up so the Chrome inner VM can ssh to the tor VM. The tor VM can access only some whitelisted tor nodes.

Now an adversary that uses a Chrome exploit needs to break out of Windows and 2 layers of VM's before they get to my host. Breaking out of a VM is fairly doable, but breaking out of two will require lots of zero-days chained together (expensive).

Same if they find an exploit in tor.
Honestly with most users the opposite seems to happen. They get warning fatigue and start clicking YES on everything
Turning an OLAP database into a fully-fledged data hub (ClickHouse PolyVLDB 23) [video]
ClickHouse is an established open-source columnar OLAP database that has gained significant popularity due to its ability to handle large-scale real-time analytical workloads without compromising speed and efficiency. As users and organizations increasingly adopted ClickHouse for their data processing needs, they also shaped the open-source project with an ever growing list of integration capabilities turning it into a powerful data hub.
In this presentation, we'll display how ClickHouse's integration engines (a concept to provide virtual tables to remote data stores like OLTP systems and datalakes) empower real-world use-cases from simply importing data or ad-hoc querying to leveraging powerful algorithms to perform data grouping locally. We will also explore how external dictionaries can be leveraged to augment ClickHouse's querying capabilities by integrating with external data sources and look-up tables. Finally, we will cover ClickHouse’s materialized views, focusing on their role in precomputing and aggregating data to optimize query performance and provide continuous transformations on top of heterogeneous datasets.
Game development is a very different space due to the extreme amount of middleware used and the fact porting between engines has been done since the 90's.
Have a client with many thousands of csv, json, xml files detailing insurance prices. Fundimentally they all contained the same data but wildly different formats because they were produced by different companies and teams. I used ChatGPT to deduce their format so I could normalize them. Easily underbid their current contractor who was using humans for the work and now I have an easy quarterly billing. :)

TBC, I probably could have optimized tokens but contract was profitable and time critical.
I think this can lull people into a false sense of security, and I don't think the author realizes how easy and powerful stylometrics is. E.g. the author says this:

> Spelling/grammar/phrasing
> If there are words you often misspell, people can Google it to find other sources where you make the same error (if it's uncommon enough) and potentially identify your other accounts. Use spell checking and maybe Grammarly or similar to minimize this risk, but I tend not to worry about this too much.

It's not just about misspellings, it's that we all basically leave fingerprints in the way we write.
Obviously! Assassination or imprisonment could also be considered censorship and tor or tails won't help. There are always edge cases. They are pretty explicit about their threat model and go into great lengths explaining it.

https://tails.net/doc/about/warnings/index.en.html
Right. My little cottage industry/side gig used to build electronic boards that were used to interface 40+ year old machine tools to modern controls when the original controllers broke and replacements weren't available. I sold to a small company that did nothing but retrofits like that.

Really wish I could find more niches like this. It's a boring but profitable domain to get into.
I would be surprised if anyone is even held accountable and it will just be the cherry on the top.
I wonder how much a crappy voltage regulator costs vs. 3-9ft of wire. Maybe you could step the voltage down at the device end?
Lab-grown diamonds booming as newlyweds opt for more sustainable option
You can certainly try to define it.

https://www.ifrs.org/content/dam/ifrs/publications/pdf-stand...
Playing devil's advocate here. Mathematics and concepts can be shown in the regular way: in books, or in configurations of bits. Their meaning is generally lost though, unless there is someone to interpret it.

I think we should be careful about the contexts that we are discussing things in.

If we consider, for example, a string of text that contains the King James Bible, and we assume that the string "exists", that does not imply that the actual stories in the text exist, let alone that the characters featuring in it exist.

In the above example, existence has three different meanings.

It would be great if philosophy would be able to use strict type checking on their arguments :)

It would also be nice if I could simply state my philosophical dependencies in a plain text file.
CMD Challenge
If I designed and made a robot that boxed an ambulance in with dumpsters while advertising it as something innocuous like a "street cleanup machine" to the public, and their patient died in transport, would I get off as easy?
CSS gets relatively frequent new features too. I think this status quo is fair enough - HTML is just there, and I never really think about needing more out of it. CSS and JS though I do find myself waiting for browsers to support upcoming experimental features often enough.
Located 100km from the Somali coast... I'm in Brussels, Belgium, thx for protecting my privacy :D
Particularly depressing:

> For those reasons, the documents say the books cannot be donated, as "they are not suitable for any learners."

> "When you talk to the librarian in the library, the books are being weeded by the date, no other criteria," Bailey told the committee.
Scientific retractions may be easier to spot as Retraction Watch finds partner
Tor servers were breached by the CIA/NSA, I would be careful
No, didn’t do a thorough check. Will do it again and report back!
btw, Sublime Text has a built in vim bindings albeit disabled by default. I suggest you give it a try.
We're not sports players or actors. How about listing unions that contain actual engineers in the US and explaining how successful or not they are at serving their members? There's SPEEA and...?
Apple’s involvement with ARM’s founding has zero impact on their negotiations or pricing.
If the Universe is the territory than Knowledge is the map. I'm not at all mistaking the map for the territory: I'm pointing out that the set of maps that can describe a given territory are virtually infinite. Asimov is saying the map is almost complete and I'm saying there are an infinite number of maps left to go.

Cartographers in the 18th centuries were "basically done" mapping out the Earth. In the 20th century we were able to use satellite imagery to get the "full picture". Does that mean we have perfect knowledge of the Earth? Absolutely not. There is never a final frontier of knowledge.
Promptly, sure - but there's a system that can be changed overall, we should have the power to do so. For instance, groundwater depletion from ag limits municipal water supplies, or other ag use uses State Water Project water 'before' it gets sent down to SoCal. The more SWP water they use, the less Colorado water they use. It is a grid, and not always fully fungible, but more connected than people think.
Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times for the industry
Kitchen aid stand mixers converted from using metal gearing to plastic gearing in their consumer stand mixers. After a certain amount of use, the gear wears out and costs $50 for a replacement.

The commercial line still uses metal gears. The maintenance on it is to check grease/lubricant after a certain amount of use.

(We used the stand mixer daily. Our home edition lasted 6-9 months before needing a gear change. The commercial edition has been going strong for a few years now.)

I’m sure there’s a reason why they moved to a fail-safe gear for consumer use — but as a consumer — I have no clue what that reason is. (We do ask a lot of our mixer tho!)
I think this is underappreciated by the "tech press" and by a lot of people who buy on specs and fashion (feels like the first is a subset of the second): most peoples' computing needs are overserved by what's on the market.

Calling a machine a "Pro" version was brilliant, because most people don't want to consider themselves an amateur.

And here we are, bunch of tech nerds who really are pro subverting the paradigm!
https://archive.is/GZayb
Vaccine Reverse Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s
This is a big victory for the parents, teachers, and students who wrote to Google asking them to make this change. https://pirg.org/articles/why-google-announced-chromebooks-w...

Google and other tech companies should continue to find ways to stop the disposability treadmill that pressures us to replace our phones and laptops in favor of newer models. With e-waste the fastest growing waste-stream in the U.S., it’s not sustainable to consume technology at this rate. This is a meaningful step toward a tech industry making products designed to last.
I'm currently using: C, C++, ARM assembly, some Python, and some C#.
Hi everyone! Jared Palmer (https://x.com/jaredpalmer) here from the v0 team and Vercel. Happy to answer any questions. The team is very excited to finally share what we've been working on with the community. We know it's early, but as the name implies... it's v0.

Link: https://v0.dev |
FAQ: https://v0.dev/faq
The game of any platform is to attract and keep more attention on the platform.

More advanced platforms will be better at this than less developed platforms.

Content that causes users to leave your platform is, from the perspective of the platform, worse content than content that keeps users engaged in your platform.

Articles on X don't go viral as much as they used to on Twitter? That certainly makes conceptual sense because consuming an article involves leaving the platform. If you'd like that same content to perform better on X then "tailor your messaging to the medium" by breaking up the ideas from the article into a series of tweets.

That's the game. If you don't like it then play a different game.
> you just cancel their credit card (and of course stop using the service).

IANAL, but I have always heard that when you do this you have not broken the legal contract obligating your payment. In practice, especially for modestly priced services, the strategy will usually work. But in theory they could come after you legally for the money if you do this. It might be a real concern for very expensive services.

I would like to have this confirmed by a lawyer, though.
Well, there is Open Motif for those that feel like using it.
They are doing it to mock the devs that want to take a stand against Unity
I don't work on that team, but I work _with_ that team and consistently hear that people think the support is excellent, so be sure to ask about that as you reach out to them.
Solar pairs well with hydro - a reservoir is basically a big battery that you recharge by pumping water uphill.
10 days too late to edit: the first link should have been https://wiki.c2.com/?CorrectByConstruction
Deleting protects you against stylometry (and further identity detection)?

Ha! Wishful thinking with all of the auto-archivers. If you post on reddit, it's likely already crawled and archived somewhere.
administrator/root is turned off by default, and even if the user turned it on during boot, they would still have to be tricked into approving or putting in their password again, am I missing something about the veracity of possible exploits?
> The only lesson to learn from this is that given exceptional resources and a long list of talent any stack can be made to scale.

Exactly. IIRC, Facebook itself is/was a giant ball of PHP, and they had to do all kinds of crazy things to make it scale, up to and including writing their own compilers and VMs.

That doesn't say anything about the suitability of the scalability of stock PHP.
https://archive.is/XK28z
The amount of ads after submitting a Doodle
New tech and new software is never going to be as comfy as your favorite text editor you've been using for the past decade.....
>property developer

Of course..

I think it's worth mentioning Australia has enjoyed a decades long property boom. He has , economically, one of the least challenging environments to sell property in.
Is anyone aware of unofficial (and maybe illegal in some jurisdictions) releases of Unreal toolchain that strips off the Epic Launcher and can be downloaded without making an account?
Do not fool yourself here, Unreal's main competitor was never Unity, it was the different myriad of proprietary engines that exist in powerful studios, there is were the millions are.

Unity could never get into that piece of business and Unreal Engine is barely scratching it.
True for SF & LA, but many other cities depend on State Water Project water which gets used by Ag as well - it's not just small towns.
Success in speculative enterprises is only remotely correlated with intelligence, or even competence.

I like the quote from the "Margin Call" movie. It's about hearing the music stop. That is, mostly just blind luck.
Databricks pockets $500M in VC cash
Python/Django (and most other frameworks) isn't the problem with scaling. It's following the 12-factor app rules.
https://archive.is/snEJ4
I think its because you need feature parity with smartphones where you can't have too much UI complexity, otherwise it becomes too hard to use with just your fingers, compared to a desktop website where you have a keyboard and mouse to use outside the screen.
Why would that be relevant? SoftBank wanted to sell to Nvidia, but the government did not stop the sale just because SoftBank owned it.
The website is quite dreadful, excessively verbose in some places and totally lacking in others. It took me quite a few clicks just to learn that this is effectively virtual machines with Tor but still didn't find much at-a-glance information on what the user experience is actually like. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Neat article. I think I'm going to start referring to my documentation at work as "techlore"
This is a very myopic viewpoint that ignores that such purchasing decisions aren’t made in a vacuum.

People make purchasing decisions based on their environment, and that environment is heavily influenced by public policy.
Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat
And still does Windows shading.
Wow, so much venom. My point about washing hands was correct. It also applies to quantum physics. And yes, there were old guard geologists that denied it to their death beds just as there were old guard that cling to sublumeniferous aether and the constancy of time long after Einstein published his seminal works.

The phenomenon within the scientific community is so common in fact, it has a pithy name: The Planck Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
https://archive.is/JWbt0
> Reddit and Craigslist remain incredibly useful and valuable precisely because their software remains frozen in time

Craigslist, sure, but Reddit has fallen off a cliff in terms of content quality since the whole API/3rd party apps debacle. More confirmation of the author's point, I suppose - valuing the marginal user and a broader base over what's already there.
Free GameMaker Engine exports for 3 months in case you are leaving Unity
Chicken is a really green choice for getting your protein:

- Chicken produces around 1/6 the CO2 of beef, and less than cheese.

- Chicken uses around 1/10 the water than beef does.

- Beef produces lots of methane and chicken doesn't.

Chicken consumption isn't really a problem. When we say "reduce meat consumption" we should be saying reduce beef consumption.
That’s pretty insane. If someone foreclosed on my home when I hadn’t missed a payment, next month’s mortgage would go to a rifle.
I wonder what's the last version you use? I do agree the plugin ecosystem is in shambles but they do have actively developed plugins. It's just not easy to discover.

The only significant thing that I think VSCode has over Sublime is the Live sharing stuff.
>why not more ppl switched to alpine

I think one reason might be musl and its compatibility.
If you're looking for a deep dive into the Threads apps, can check out this non-Meta written post: https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads
> I heard Blueprint sucks!

> Blueprint actually rules. Look, I get it - why would a visual scripting thing be good? They're all shit! I agree.

> Blueprint is the only one that's any good. It's amazing. It will also help you learn the engine. Everything you do there will be applicable to C++. No matter who you are, you should start in Blueprint. It's 100% true that you can build an entire game in Blueprint. Yeah, with multiplayer. Yeah, performantly. Yeah, maintainably. It's not just for rapid prototyping.

> Be a snob about Blueprint at your peril. I've helped a lot of people get good at Unreal and get hired for it, and Blueprint-related recalcitrance is the number one way people screw themselves - without realising, they sentence themselves to months of wasted time and frustration only to mould themselves into the type of Unreal user who sabotages any team they're on. Swallow your pride and look at some nodes.

Best advice in this page. Blueprints are excellent. They make the engine API extremely discoverable. You naturally gain a deep understanding of the classes and components and how they interact. They are performant. They can do 95% of what you want.

The C++ engine API is fine but it doesn't lend itself to learning the engine. I don't recommend using it unless you identify a specific need.
I don't necessarily think that's what the comment you are responding to is saying.

I agree with that parent comment, which is that trying to guilt consumers into worrying about their shower length or grass watering is plain bad policy if meanwhile we do nothing about agricultural usage. If anything, I think making it loudly known that consumers aren't going to do squat unless agriculture is tackled is a step in the right direction.
Aspartame isn’t safe of course. It causes cancer.
The way I see it, Twitter was one of the last sites standing in the content curation game. Reddit’s great, but balkanised. HN itself is pretty good and broader but Twitter was the best product I used for kicking up stuff from around the web I might actually find worthwhile reading. Now it’s lost that function.

Was it a good business decision? No idea. But it’s made the product worse from this consumer’s perspective.
But Unreal is doing the same nickel-and-diming though no?
Mastodon stats: https://fediverse.observer/stats

I haven't found public stats for any of the others.
and proved, yes, there is such as thing as a free lunch... it'll just taste like shit
Live in Phoenix, which as you know, does not have a lot of water.

Alfa-alfa is grown here, packaged and shipped to Saudi-Arabia because it's cheaper this way than for Saudi-Arabia to desalinate water and grown their own stuff.

Yet my water bill is going up by 6%.
You could've made the same point without insulting the commenter above you.
We have the same thing in California. We have rice and pistachio farmers in the Central Valley. It makes no sense to grow rice and pistachios in a water challenged environment. Then you see Congress Created Dust Bowl signs on I5.
I feel like I would immediately want to burn the house down. Illegal and the wrong move, but fuck that with a flamethrower.

More realistically I’d spend my last Penny on billboards saying houses can be stolen in this neighborhood.