skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t have to go overseas to ask questions like this.

Millions of Americans suffer everyday from poverty, homelessness and not having access to healthcare.

We spread the shit within our own borders too.

Looking at the candidates for the next election actually scares me. It’s not good.
A job is a job. Ethics are about who you are as an individual. It’s a policy for your life and defines your character. I’d scrub toilets before I would defraud a customer.
Scraping is huge business for people who don’t have your best interests in mind, too. There are many businesses built on the idea of gathering as much of people’s data as they can find in the public internet and selling it to anyone willing to pay.

Contrary to what many people thing, Facebook, Google, and other companies do not sell your data! They are ad companies that use their private data to target ads, but they aren’t selling it to 3rd parties likely many people have been led to believe. This has created a market opening for nefarious companies to scrape these websites, compile the data, and sell it to everyone from police to governments to spammers.

I’m not saying there’s a right answer to regulation, but it’s incorrect to say that scrapers are always the good actors championing the public’s best interests.
Metrics rarely increase the amount of rate top quality work, but history has shown how bad metrics can decimate the top quality work produced, eg Expulsion of jewish scientists in Germany during the 1930s.

I suspect todays short-term, glamor-based metrics improve the median quality of work, but decrease the amount of top quality work being produced.
While the part about the English aristocracy is somewhat glib (at the point in time when the "u" was added, arguably the aristocracy were still French, or at least Norman), but the fact that it was "color" in old French and Latin is indisputable, and that for a while both spellings were acceptable in England even as "color" become enshrined in America.

Quoting https://www.etymonline.com/word/-or :

In U.S., via Noah Webster, -or is nearly universal (but not in glamour), while in Britain -our is used in most cases (but with many exceptions: author, error, tenor, senator, ancestor, horror etc.). The -our form predominated after c. 1300, but Mencken reports that the first three folios of Shakespeare's plays used both spellings indiscriminately and with equal frequency; only in the Fourth Folio of 1685 does -our become consistent.

A partial revival of -or on the Latin model took place from 16c. (governour began to lose its -u- 16c. and it was gone by 19c.), and also among phonetic spellers in both England and America (John Wesley wrote that -or was "a fashionable impropriety" in England in 1791).

[...]

Fowler notes the British drop the -u- when forming adjectives ending in -orous (humorous) and derivatives in -ation and -ize, in which cases the Latin origin is respected (such as vaporize). When the Americans began to consistently spell it one way, however, the British reflexively hardened their insistence on the other. "The American abolition of -our in such words as honour and favour has probably retarded rather than quickened English progress in the same direction." [Fowler]
well... My company was aiming to do codegen to fix errors. We took quite some time to figure out what to do with AI in our product. When we finally implemented something, we found apis like gpt4 to be quite expensive, though GPT4 did work well for the task. We later turned towards llama2 and codellama, which worked decently but had a higher "wrong output" rate.

And then they laid off 60% of the workforce (We were only 30 people)... I am not sure LLMs are going to affect their outlook very positively in the long term.
Bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked by a reporter why he robbed banks.
Weight loss drugs and the pre-existing condition of being American
Thanks! I assume on macOS that means they use MoltenVK?
At one point in the article there is a photograph of a chair in the uber hallway and a caption indicating that the couch in the picture (or one similar to it) was where most of the work was done for this project.
Haskell. It has a bigger ecosystem, although nowhere close to python’s
Hey there. Just wanted to say the code is really good in this.

It's super simple to read (once I found the setting to display tabs as 4 chars in GitHub), well organized, and has some neat patterns that seem to work well for building out TUI apps. Come say hi in the Ratatui discord sometime.
Node and others are now plagued by this as well, the vulnerable packages used by the inexperienced.
Well locking it is certainly interfering with the use of the property.

But taking a programmer’s look at paws like this is ill advised. These laws are there to smooth the process of the state enforcing whatever the most powerful lawyers involved in a particular matter want. No more no less.
No, but it should be illegal to handcuff their bags to the table until they pay $150.
Worth noting that it also has Django-CMS although having used it, I wouldn’t advise adopting it as a lot of QoL things are not really well developed. Doing a migration into it by creating pages in a programmatic way for e.g. was not straightforward.
Cecidology: Anatomy of a Biohack
To gather wider attention from people speaking other languages.
If we all lived in tents, cost of living would go down.

It's silly. If you can afford not having to worry only about the price, congratulate yourself and enjoy it.
There are dark patterns in the way. I need to know when my Doordash arrives. But I can't opt in only to useful notifications and opt out of marketing offers. If I turn them on and off only when I need them, I'm gunnuh slip up. So currently I'm accepting a noisier feed. I'd like to do something about it programmatically but it's hasn't worked it's way high enough on my to-do list to actually get done.
Distributed out-of-memory NMF on CPU/GPU architectures
"Same great taste, but LESS SUGAR AND FAT!"
What percent of SF's road network can you name from memory?
Dlarc Amateur Radio Library Tops 90k Items
The way I like to think of it is that life, most broadly and abstractly conceived, falls like water through the space of possibilities afforded by nature, and there is no limit to how complex that "shape" can be (where "shape" is something in a space of possible combinations of forms, mechanisms, tools that are simultaneously used by one organism, a search space of possible combinations rather than a literal shape).

And whatever "intelligence" it would take to consciously think from first principles to those kinds of shapes, well, there's no upper limit to the possible sophistication that might be required to manually get there. But nature gets there blindly, and uses every possible thing.
Flask (or fastAPI more recently) will give you a basic webserver... and that's about it. You'll have to do everything yourself basically. I would not go this route, unless you have no deadlines and want to learn a lot on the way.

WP will be easy to set up, but adding custom functionality can be a real pain, and lots of plugins are of ... questionable quality, especially regarding security. I personally strongly dislike WP, but it does the job so long as you keep things simple and lock down your plugins.

Django will give you a good structure and some core functionality like login out of the box, and the built-in admin site is great, but you'll need to code your functionality. It looks like you're doing some custom code so this approach could work. You could also use something like django-cms or wagtail if want some of the WP functionality.

https://www.django-cms.org/en/

https://wagtail.org/
Still an order of magnitude slower / less efficient than OpenLDAP / LMDB.
I think the experience is better with more well designed languages like Kotlin, which can reduce boilerplate and allow you to focus on the handler and controller logic instead of boilerplate.

Regarding magic... I think it is a matter of pulling away the curtain; once you know how the DI works, it becomes drastically easier to write code with it, since you can predict its behaviour. I have always had trouble when I don't know all the rules of a system.
That sounds pretty good. I'll think harder about where I should consider doing the same!

But if you are self hosting then it ain't a "Web" font IMHO, and you contain the time/latency and page-weight cost, and probably eliminate the data leakage.
If the boss said "put that we pen tested" couldn't op argue that he was answering to the best of his knowledge given the information the director gave him. As long as he had the email receipts, or would there be an argument that he should have known differently and shouldn't have replied on the other directors assertion that it had been pen tested.
The individual must always be before the collective.

Putting the collective before the individual has a name... and it is...
This one event may have caused more deaths globally than nuclear power plant accidents.
An average person (whether in academia or industry or in society) is one that
understands how to survive in the system.

A smart person (whether in academia or industry or in society) is one that
makes the system work for oneself (= hack it).

However silly academic systems will be designed in the future, thankfully there will always people like Wiles or Feynman that go for the hard problems no matter what, whilst managing to be at least tolerated by "the system".
Well locking it is certainly interfering with the use of the property.

Much as someone could interfere with use a car by locking something to it rendering it immobile, perhaps. If locking the boot to it isn't a crime under the very same law, unlocking it surely also isn't.

I do agree that the law is whatever a lawyer can successfully argue; I bet there are lawyers who can successfully argue that unlocking the boot isn't criminal trespass.
I never said that you said that.
Yeah, I think it's the law in many countries now.
I honestly wish they did this in the UK. It makes it so hard to budget for a family of 5 when products suddenly reduce in size by 20%.
What's the name of the mod (or mods)?
Wow, that's a neat idea! That could potentially be pretty cool. It'd almost be like a form of photogrammetry but for physics. Kinegrammetry, maybe? I wonder what the storage efficiency and performance would look like. Perhaps something like ths could be adapted into a framework for object modeling.
No Boilerplate: The Cult of Done [video]
> (if any downvoters could explain why they find this post to be disagreeable, I'd love to hear it.)

Making it from scratch takes enormous amount of (expensive) more to make any graphically competitive game.

Sure, you can make 2D games even with vector graphics, but when you need anything more realistic without making every asset or 3d animations with collision checks manually yourself, you are in trouble and never deliver your game without AAA budget.

There is a reason why game engines exists. They solve very difficult problems, in tested, reusable scenarios, providing cross-platform support out of the box.

If your libraries calculate collisions, velocities etc. all or even add ray tracing, they are already engines.
$225K for this sounds bonkers:

24x 6.4TB Intel P4610 NVMe SSD = 24 x $310 = $7440
2x AMD EPYC 7542 = 2 x $1300 = $2600
2 TB DDR4 ECC RAM ~ $13700 (estimate from a couple of Google results)

Those add up to something like $25K. Sure, there's also the price of the motherboard, chassis, maybe some other peripherals like external network cards, assembly + support + warranty etc. but that doesn't explain an 800% markup.
Counterpoint, OP is overthinking pen test = certification. He definitely needs to talk to his boss about it, but it could be a simple matter of discussion about what pen tests were performed. If a more recent and/or external one is required, simply tell them that you will work towards that. OPs goal should be to get clarity of what the client expects as a pen test.
Interesting! That would make things way easier.

Another feature that comes to my mind is setting up watches for products you are interested in. Especially for people who need to watch every expense, this could come very handy.

Yes, time..
> though, you're still probably over at the company, even though they'll diplomatically pretend that you're not

If you're professional about it (be factual, straightforward, and don't do a burn-the-world email blast), I wouldn't assume this to be true. Sometimes companies simply make bad high-level hires and are happy about exposing and terminating them.

Or sometimes not. But the vast majority of CEOs want to know when their direct reports are lying to them and would be happy about this outreach.
Yes, I'm aware of casinos ties to organized crime. However, they're a lot more above ground these days and the money that was extorted wasn't illegally gained. If you go to a casino on the strip tonight and cheat or steal chips you'll be arrested face felony charges. You won't be taken to an alley and shot or even worked over like you might have 50 years ago. It makes no sense for them to commit serious violent crimes when they can ruin you through 100% legal avenues.

The idea that they're paying because a hit squad is about to drop in, murder them all and get the money back is pure fantasy. If modern casinos figure out who did this they'll forward it to law enforcement. In all likelihood they have no idea, though.

If there's any evidence that these casinos still commit murder like that I'm all ears.
I wonder to which extent this fear can be attributed to the school system which literally penalizes students for being wrong.
People underestimate how many locks/doors a 3" grinder and some time can open.

The beauty of it is that it's an economic argument... in order to make something impervious to grinding, you'd generally have to make the thing too expensive for its primary purpose.
Short answer: no.
Sometimes a failure is a failure. And instead of adjusting language in a sad attempt to cope, use it as a punch to the face to either get back in the game or move on.
My least favorite Sinclair computer game was Ram Pack Roulette for the ZX81. If you jiggle the 16k Ram pack, do you crash the computer and get to reload your work?

It came free with all ram pack purchases too!
Old academics lamenting the good old days - that never gets old.
ChatGPT again:

The ideas of positive geometries and amplitudes in physics don't directly suggest that we are living in a simulation. However, the notion that our universe might have underlying, simpler geometric or mathematical structures can be taken as a hint, among other things, that our universe might be a type of computation or "program."

The simulation hypothesis has gained traction in recent years, both in popular culture and in some scientific circles, due to several arguments:

1. *Computational Power*: As our own computational capabilities grow exponentially, it becomes conceivable that a sufficiently advanced civilization might have the power to simulate entire universes.

2. *Indistinguishability*: If a simulated reality were advanced enough, its inhabitants might not be able to differentiate it from a "real" one.

3. *Statistical Argument*: Some argue that if one assumes it's possible to create realistic universe simulations, there could be countless simulated universes for every real one. Therefore, statistically, it's more likely we're in a simulation.

The findings in theoretical physics, like the success of positive geometries in describing physical phenomena, can be interpreted in different ways:

1. *Emergent Reality*: The fact that complex phenomena can arise from simple rules or structures might be seen as parallel to how complex simulations can arise from simple programming rules. This might lend some indirect support to the simulation hypothesis.

2. *Mathematical Universe*: Alternatively, these findings could be interpreted as evidence for a type of "mathematical universe hypothesis" (as proposed by figures like Max Tegmark). This suggests that the universe is fundamentally mathematical in nature, not that it's a simulation, but that its true nature is described by math.

3. *Platonic Realism*: The effectiveness of mathematics in describing the universe might be seen as evidence for a form of Platonic realism, where mathematical entities exist in a realm of their own and the physical universe is just a reflection or instantiation of these entities.

While the ideas of positive geometries and amplitudes are exciting and could reshape our understanding of reality, linking them directly to the simulation hypothesis is speculative. It's crucial to differentiate between what our scientific models suggest and broader philosophical or speculative interpretations of those models.
Are you the person drinking from the free self-serve soda dispensers at fast food restaurants?
What I imagined initially were perhaps people with resources but not the elite network or know-how. But from the sound of it, you help people who are already elite, people who know exactly what they're doing. Before all the technology and surveillance, elites had nothing to worry about - the kid just got in. Now the kid has to jump through all of the hoops, say all the right lines, deliver all the test answers etc. And it has to happen before he goes to the institution that's supposed to do the magic.

Looking at my cousins' kid I didn't know what to think. They didn't do it on the level that you describe, but they definitely trained the boy to perfection. I couldn't say a bad thing about him, really - humble, ambitious, smart, clever, all perfect grades etc. Doesn't seem very "happy" though.

How do you feel about it? Seeing how this sausage is made would you see it worthwhile to get your kid to do this sort of thing?
pointing at several different sensors, or relying on the speed of light to time shift arrival at the sensor? I still can't tell from the article, but any of those would be a neat trick.
This reminds me of the Be Friends With Failure [0] comic, which is utterly timeless.

[0]: https://m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-art-of-being-an-artist/...
> That's why we're here in the HN comments.

I half-agree with you. I think it's possible to cultive environments where content consumption is more intentional and anti-Marlian. I think HN does a pretty good job of this.
Mentioning some relatively niche gadgets as a showcase example actually supports the premise of Bitcoin being nowhere near being ready for mass adoption. People would want to hear something like "I paid for all my needs for a full week with Bitcoins".
Coming up with quality, original contributions in STEM, especially theoretical pr pure math/physics is hard. In psychology you can always run new experiments, find new case studies to look at, etc. It's hard to find new particles or come up with a 'new string theory' or a 'new general relativity'.
Blazor server but with the new .NET 8 release coming up, I am curious as now there will just be Blazor web app and you can choose both in same project.
The claim to have photos. They did not seem to have shared them :/
In other words: people are surprised by how market capitalism works.
Can you share some examples of such stores?
IME not only does the size reduce by 20%, but the price also increases by 10-75%....
> Until that time, it appears that Americans had some kind of inferiority complex about their regional accents.

The phenomenon of Mid-Atlantic English appears to have been a class marker rather than merely people being embarrassed about having a regional accent.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent :

It is not a native or regional accent; rather, according to voice and drama professor Dudley Knight, "its earliest advocates bragged that its chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so". The accent was embraced in private independent preparatory schools, especially by members of the American Northeastern upper class, as well as in schools for film and stage acting
1nce [0] and Hologram [1] offer low cost SIM cards for these type of applications.

1nce for example charges €10 for 500MB of data which lasts 10 years. Assuming you are economical with the data it's €1 a year, which is a very appealing price point. Even if you need 500MB a year that's still less than €1 a month.

Hologram charge by the MB (although I'm not sure exactly how much as their pricing page isn't fully transparent), with a 70¢ a month charge per SIM card. I think they offer a free SIM card with a certain amount of data a month free (maybe 1MB) if you just want 1 SIM card.

[0] https://1nce.com/
[1] https://www.hologram.io/
Njson–One JSON Library to Rule Them All
I've been teaching programming to complete beginners for a few years now.

One of the things holding them back the most is being too afraid to admit when they don't understand something.

This is despite many efforts on our part to give them a safe environment where such an admission is not ridiculed, but congratulated instead.

I really wish that culturally, we all were more kind when people openly display confusion, misunderstanding, and errors in thinking.
IIRC it relies on HostCPUFeatures.jl which parses output from LLVM. However, this means it just crashes when used on a different CPU than it was compiled on (which can happen on compute clusters) and it crashes if the user sets JULIA_CPU_TARGET.
this is where you really want to consider something like datalog instead.

but wouldn't an abstraction (I think like 'connect by') that computes the fixed point or transitive closure be really useful in many of these cases and involve less cognitive overhead (even if its less general)
Yes and no.

I had a cop help me try to cut an unlabeled bike lock off my bike.

The business had double-locked it to a rail I'd locked it to, because apparently that was forbidden. Unfortunately, there was no sign, so I had no idea.

Cop and I worked on it for awhile, then he gave the security guard an earful for not leaving a message.

Side note: of all the bike locks, braided are by far the most annoying to cut, because they're impervious to bolt cutters.
How is a crypto custodian immune to court orders, corrupt or otherwise?

> my phrases on paper and USB locked in safes separated by 2000 miles

That's nice (unless you lose access to both or make some other operational mistake), but literally the opposite of central crypto custody, which is what this thread is about.
Totally agree. To be clear, I am technical, and I definitely was able to evaluate the work being done once it was delivered. My mistake (among many) was letting the work go too long without any visible progress.

That's why I get annoyed when people just lament about the problems with things like OKRs and KPIs, while totally disregarding the problems these things were designed to solve and pretending that if managers just had a more "trusting" mindset that a million Higgs and Wiles would be free to blossom.
Sure it does, because it really happened.
Caddy's appeal when I last looked at it some years ago was that the configuration file format was very easy to read and use; and that configuration itself was minimal. It came/comes with Letsencrypt integration which was novel some years ago, so setting up a secure site was even easier for people who weren't used to it.

Its syntax for being configured as a reverse proxy (secure front-end to less secure back-end servers) is similarly pretty easy.

I haven't looked at it in a long time because I recall them screwing with their terms of service so it wasn't fully FOSS by the most liberal definition.
In my other reply I offer the suggestion of using Wagtail, a Django CMS used by Nasa and Google. It offers up much of the same features and user experience as Wordpress and is much more customizable and extendable.

https://wagtail.org/features/
It is not technical at all. But it is more dense than a typical non-fiction book you read these days. Also heavily referenced like a scholarly work.

I would highly recommend reading it, as it exposes you to the many biases in the orthodox framework of economic thought prevalent in the world today.
That’s a really interesting point - thank you!