skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problems are enormous. Fixing them requires either many small, incremental changes or some large, sweeping changes like the one you suggest.

My proposal is meant to be incremental, beneficial, and implementable, since it can be adopted by individual actors in the scientific ecosystem. It has the obvious imperfection of not solving all or most of the problems.

In terms of sweeping changes, I'm in favor but we need to get the answer right. Corporate science generally fails to pursue long-term research aims. Taking an example from the history of electricity, it was more than 200 years from William Gilbert's isolation of static electric attraction until electricity was commercialized. If science is to be owned by business, business will need to think on timeframes many times longer than it currently does.

If people were interested, I could produce a proposal for overhauling science in general. One important challenge is the need to think about both (1) scientific progress, and (2) how science fits into society. Approaches to both need to change.
There are also ways to add some flexibility into a "fixed" schema when you need it. Entity-attribute-value tables, views, JSON columns (as a last resort), or a semantic layer like https://github.com/totalhack/zillion
The winning move is to go along but then call the local whistleblowers for that government entity.
They are much more moral than you'd think. I've had a judge push my claim to the very end to ensure there were as few people in the court room, then totally rail on the plaintive suing me for wasting everyone's time with absolute bullshit.

Then, after he said his piece and made it clear there better they needed to be quite persuasive, they did indeed lose. They tried to win on a little technicality in the law but as the judge said "that is there for X reason, this is Y. It doesn't even apply, especially with ample evidence that the defendant was attempting to work with them to resolve the issue."

Point is, civil court is usually quite different than criminal court; basically preponderance of evidence vs. reasonable doubt and a judge can say that the evidence is not preponderance enough.
And those at the top pander to the bottom for power with public money.

Disadvantage: the kulaks.
The most mysterious song on the internet
Does it use compressed sensing?
Someone reading the headline of this might think "oh, they're using Cockroach, or Fauna, or Planetscale" -- nope, this is about next-gen hardware powering their single-write (with a number of read replicas) MariaDB instance.
Jesus, I was talking about societies with modern justice systems focused on rehabilitation, not civil-war era wild west. Yes, of course absent a functioning justice system revenge cycles will occur. But the whole argument in this thread is about the relative merits of rehabilitation vs. punishment in modern society. And on that front the evidence on the outcome is pretty solid: Punishment-focused justice systems (like in the U.S.) result in more people in prison, are more costly and correlate with higher crime rates (not sure about the current evidence on causality, but I think it is pretty obvious that the trauma and stigma associated with a punishment-leaning justice system would tend to lead to more crime).

Studies quite consistently show that increasing the punishment for a given crime does not reduce the rate it is committed at, all other things being equal. Because guess what, criminals are either unaware that they are committing a crime/are committing a crime in a moment of passion (in which case the punishment is of no consequence) or they think that they won't be caught. Which is one of the many reasons the death penalty is so stupid. Catching criminals and bringing the to trial quickly is much more relevant than the severity of the punishment and the concept of rehabilitation is an extension of that: You find criminals quickly, you sentence them quickly and you invest in them leaving the justice system as quickly as possible to become productive members of society again. Why would I want to spend hundreds of thousands of Dollars on keeping someone behind bars for the rest of their life when I can also try spending a fraction of that on cognitive therapy, apprenticeships and social work to get them out of prison and into a stable life situation in which they have a decent chance of not committing a crime again?
With few conservatives, academia won't develop a theory of progressivism
The Unity runtime phones home.
Both of those are in fact true.
https://archive.is/lJvPa
Obviously can't go into details but there was a budget. Changes of course meant the budget evolved a little...

But as they say you can pick two of cheap, fast, and good.
This is super cool. Cinemagraphs have always been a bit of a passion of mine, and I try to bring that feeling of subtle-stillness in a lot of the work I do, whether it’s marketing or shooting, so i can see this becoming a regular tool.

The trick to a 10/10 cinemagraph is the more subtle, the bigger the impact. You almost want the viewer to think it’s a still photo before their brain clicks in thinks “wait, something isn’t normal here, this isn’t a photo, it’s a video”
It's hard to say, if microsoft or google where behind prql and promoting it, it may as well become a typescript. There's a reason many developers use query builders, while not exactly the same, they want programming language features and familiarity of modern programming languages. Not saying prql is the correct approach here since I don't know it.
The problem is seeing yourself as part of a “community”. You’re the customer/user of a business. They owe you nothing other than what you’ve paid for.
The point is that for a consumer to start the process to attempt a fair and just outcome costs $2000.

Unaffordable justice.
I don't recall reading anything about lessening the soul, maybe as a byproduct of the process but not something that was intentional.

Horcrux was to backup the soul and I believe any one fragment is enough to allow for recovery.
I wrote something like this [1] for the team at my old workplace. We mainly worked on static html files but some functionality required loading via http. Many of the devs were quite new to development in general, so I built a simple static server in Go, as an exe which they could set as the default for `.html` files, and therefore they could just open html files on the webserver via double-click as normal. The program would watch the directory (if not already open and watching) then open the right path in the default browser. I also built-in livereload, management via tray icon and a basic web UI.

[1] https://github.com/ssddanbrown/webby
I only know the guys name in passing but wasn't he tied up in one of the exchange scams that imploded last year?
> Lying is not an embellishment or puffery, it's a lie. Engaging a company for a 3 day pen test that's totally insufficient, that would be an embellishment.

I agree, but if the RFP question was phrased "have you done penetration testing?" then that leaves a lot of room for embellishment. If the question is "do you have SOC2 certification?" and you answer "yes" untruthfully, then that is a lie. If they ask for the SOC2 or pentest report and you give them a falsified document, that's where you're (probably) committing fraud.

> One of the most important part of pen tests is that they are external.

AWS/Google/etc have internal security teams doing their pen tests, so no, this isn't true.

> Just doing your job as an engineer and looking for bugs is not a pen test.

What about an engineer spending an afternoon running ZAP[0]?

> It's like saying, "what is an audit really? We have accountants and they check our books for anomalies."

Yeah, which is why you don't just ask a company "do you keep track of your finances?" if you're investing in them, you request external auditors.

[0] https://www.zaproxy.org/
End of ZIRP is making them all suddenly have to actually make money instead of relying on loans and investments. Unfortunately two decades of ZIRP means that none of the current leadership knows how to make money.
ART is an elegant way of thinking about the problem of index representation. I've been using ART variants for almost 15 years now. The algorithm was somewhat common in supercomputing/HPC (used to index some types of sparse data models), which is where I originally came across it. In addition to being performant, ART is considerably more expressive and flexible than people might assume.
I am not interested that much in interoperability with Git.
But I am afraid of data corruption, crashes, etc.
Also, Pijul used to have severe performance problems in some situations.
I would call it ready for production if it is stable and performant.
Is there an update to this article?

Since the article was written:
- AMD has gen4 available - Genoa
- there's NVMe drives 15tb capacity each
> However, penetration testing done that long ago would have little current value anyway. What I will do is talk to my leaders and get regular penetration testing scheduled, and get that schedule to you asap".

Just leave that out. No point in saying it other than to make more trouble and work for yourself.
So have I. I was not fired. In fact, it probably helped my career.

It was scary. I was a pretty brand-new, low-level manager, at the time.

But I also live a life of rigorous Integrity, and will resign, instead of doing unethical stuff.
Hospitals can also shame the criminal organization better. Shutting down hospitals gets more eyes on you, and as criminals, you don't want that. I'm sure MGM is a major political donor, but most people don't have much sympathy for them in this case, either.
Unfair contract terms in a B2B scenario are generally really hard to enforce/have a high bar to meet.
You can’t get to those settings without logging in unless you change a registry entry (assuming Windows for the server).
It seems like every few months some hot expose’ comes out about how Ivy League schools are anything more than a legacy diploma mill for the elites and cover it up by accepting a few minorities they can take ample photos of to deny these allegations and every few months people act surprised.
What about using it to share information with people for them to use in an emergency. Data is stored in multiple locations, but only someone with access to 3 of them would be able to read the data. The existing physical access controls would be the actual safety mechanism. A thief would have to break into 3 locations in order to get the data.

We could just encrypt the data and then split the password into three pieces and store those in different locations, but then you would have to store both the data and the password.
Unlikely. Startups are way easier to attack than big tech.
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Hitler : message board arguments :: Galileo : scientific debates.
There's really no way for them to recover the lost trust. Even if they backtrack everything the mistrust will be there. The only way out in the end might be to open source the engine.
That’s because the mafia behind the casinos is already assembling hit teams to go make an example of these hackers.
Same here. Having issues with the failover.
I found one (generally) related past thread - have there been others?

Birth Order Effects Exist and Are Strong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16104491 - Jan 2018 (193 comments)
If you have the money to pay for these services, your children’s “success” (defined professionally by prestige roles) is preordained to be fine because they have a fallback cushion and it’s not that hard to buy your way into these professions. The reason parents do this is so that they can burnish their personal reputation by saying that their kid is good enough for these schools. Viewed through that frame, the whole thing is rather sad…

The biggest surprise to me is that:
1) Enterprising wealthy parents haven’t figured out that the value of elite schools is only based on their own value of it. I’m surprised they haven’t decided to make another school “elite” that they could control by deciding en mass to send their kids there.

2) Elite institutions haven’t decided to capture the value of these services that hack their own admissions by acquiring them or offering paid “on-ramps” and “bootcamps” themselves.
I don't think these concepts occurred in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.

Is it possible you maybe you made these up?
If you present a document you know to be untrue, that’s the same as lying.

OP, get a pen test scheduled and tell the client, “You know, we’ve had a lot of changes since we rolled out. Since you asked, we felt it was best to get a current pen test to reflect our present state.”

No lies (just a slight deception with the truth) and you get a legit pen test your client can rely on.
Thanks for linking that. I think it's a good interview. I take it as extremely damning of Grusch's claims. You might take it otherwise. People can make up their own minds, and we can leave it at that.
The Windows Task Manager with the Original Author [video]
TL;DW Windows Task Manager, created 30 years ago by Dave Plummer, has evolved from facing internal resistance to becoming a staple utility with user-friendly features. It's had its quirks, like a bug where CPU usage exceeded 100% and unintentionally including Plummer's phone number in a beta release.
To be perfectly fair, Peter Higgs is quite an outlier, who published a grand total of one paper in the 20 years between his 1966 paper (continuation of the seminal 1964 papers) and retirement in 1986.

https://inspirehep.net/authors/1019617
When the images are clear we dismiss them as fake.

The root of the problem is one of trust. Ask yourself: which person or institution do you trust enough that you would accept an image from them as proof of the NHI hypothesis?

Because I've been called a crackpot multiple times in this HN post and yet I don't trust any source enough to accept any image they could provide as proof of NHIs.
There's no obvious alternative but there's nothing stopping other countries from using other currencies than dollars to do transactions, just the infrastructure that supports it. It feels like the dollar is more stable than other countries currencies, due in large part to our strong economy and strong military. China is big enough that they can probably do transactions in their currency, but any week they can significantly devalue it.
I have a very negative view of cryptocurrencies generally but I cannot imagine the anxiety and stress those in cryptocurrencies must feel:

- "Not your keys, not your coins" very frequently turns into "your keys, some scammers coins". Or "your keys, not your coins and no ones coins" when you lose access to a wallet by losing the private key, seed phrase, etc. Look around forums, subreddits, twitter, etc... These people expend tremendous amounts of time and energy just trying not to lose everything forever.

- Your other option is hosting them with custodians that have frequently proven to be anywhere from incompetent/reckless to outright criminals.

Time and time again individuals who are significantly more technical and astute than the general population STILL fall victims to both of these scenarios and many, many more.

Almost 15 years after the launch of bitcoin and at least tens of billions of dollars invested in development in the space there is still nowhere on the horizon any of this is ready for anything approaching mass adoption.

Other than the basic human trait of greed and gambling, get rich quick schemes, criminal and nefarious purposes, etc I have no idea how any of this is still a "thing".
My advice is to answer the questions politically instead of literally.

Compliance people (on the other end of the line) actually like this in many cases… literal answers can make their jobs harder than politically worded (but not untruthful) answers.
How did it help your career? Did the people who wanted their asses to be covered seek retribution?
https://archive.is/GAHDe
Austria in particular is really bad here. If you send commercially packages into Austria you need to register with the recycling system, license packaging and go to a notary to declare a proxy for packaging. There is so much crazy protectionism going on that the single market is effectively no longer free.
I love this vision, I think of this in the context of the future of science museums.

Imagine a museum where you could go from room to room and make each of the discoveries. There could be the easy walk-through version or the hard "escape room" version where you can only go on to the next room when you make the discovery, and you don't know what the discovery is supposed to be. (Of course you could have hints available.)

The DIY at-home version is great also.
You’re attempting to justify lying on the basis of “I can decide whether the customer actually cares about the truth”

In the process, you're reinforcing all my negative perceptions about the (non-existent) ethics of sales staff.
How do you handle global infrastructure on AWS/GCP?

The performance is great in the US for my Next.js app on GCP/AWS as that's where I deploy to, but elsewhere the TTFB is poor. Deploying to multiple regions would probably end up costing more than Vercel for us.
Could be a winning move, but it's also common for whistleblowers to end up under some bus at some point. Turning against your director (and colleagues, etc.) will most certainly cost you your job. A lawsuit for disclosing secrets is also likely.

Cover your ass with clear paper trail. And even then, I would prefer losing the deal getting fired. Whistleblowing is really the last resort nuclear option, IMO.
I think most people mean walkable to be more than maybe a half dozen square blocks of restaurants and small stores that aren’t really connected to anything else though. Bunch of examples in Silicon Valley.
Is a real investigation even possible? CIA leaks indicate they have tools to conceal the US origins of their malware and inject Chinese/Arabic/Russian etc text to fool forensic investigators
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Marble%20Framework
Maybe, but Unity said it doesn't need to for them to "estimate" an install number.
That's a little tone deaf considering how the whole crux of this is that they have altered the terms of "what you have paid for" post transaction.
And for a product that studios invest in over years, leaving many with no recourse
I hope this leads to a fire sale. Maybe Apple could buy Unity and make it free, period, just to encourage Mac and Vision development.

(edit: and iOS! Lol I always forget mobile gaming is a thing. Facepalm.)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973, which is currently on the front page.
I think the achievement here is mostly about generating the image dynamics, so for example there is a cat in an image, the model understand that cats need to breathe so the dynamics show the lungs contracting, then the paper covers how to traslate the image dynamics and the image itself into a seamless video. I could be wrong tho
Why is housing magically different from from the innumerable other things we regularly buy even though their value depreciates after purchase?
I couldn't disagree more. You can easily twist his letters to his son to create this narrative. If you read it as a whole his message isn't at all anti-marriage, he was a devout Christian who believed wholeheartedly in marriage. His message was that marriage takes sacrifice, faith, and a conscious effort (in his opinion specifically on the side of the man). It's a bit Kierkegaardian.
Remix V2
Yeah sorry, it's silly. Use the term "licensed engineer" or something. Don't come up with new definitions for words and then get offended when people point out that you're being silly.
I notice there are no named quotes here, it's all "a holy man" "a woman". I admit I didn't read the other sources like the book but it's a bit of a red flag for me.
It’s a riot especially since they realized they can accept rich Chinese/Indian students to meet SoC “quota” without forking over subsidized tuition.
I’m not justifying anything. I’m just communicating the reality of how security, procurement, and compliance works in the real world.

See the note in the original comment:

> Note: I don’t like that this is how compliance works. I wish compliance were more closely tied to security. But that’s simply not reality.
> The only way out in the end might be to open source the engine.

Do you have faith they know to monetize an open source engine? Wouldn't that actually expedite the fall in their case?
It depends on the implementation, but in general you prefer the parameterless version because in theory a bug that shows up in print_table has less code it could be in (less surface area to debug).

Without understanding the implementation no one can truly say which is the better approach, but this idea of "surface area for bugs" is something that should be considered when approaching these types of decisions.
> only driven by market forces

Which money are you talking about? Most monies are driven substantially by monetary policy and other direct government intervention. The very reason fiat is no longer finite is due to government intervention in the 1930s (going off the gold standard).

Bitcoin (e.g.) is actually much more like gold in that the amount of it in circulation isn't determined by any law, policy or intervention.
You're right, of course, but that one got hit by the flamewar detector (kind of correctly, unfortunately), which sank the thread. There's obviously community interest in this story, so I think we'll leave the current thread up and merge the comments hither.

As compensation for luu (surely one of the best HN submitters of all time) I've put this one in the second-chance pool, which will give it a random placement on the front page:

Birth Order (1999) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532299 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

If anyone wants to read a long rabbit-hole description of how we handle these cases, I wrote one for some reason a couple weekends ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364619
I’ve transferred a few million dollars with CurrencyFair by now, the transfer across continents has always been less than 24hrs, the notification from my bank arriving before the emitter tells me it’s sent; only 4$ per transaction (so 0.003%) and the rate always within 0.5% of the stock exchange (less than the 2-3% it costs with Bitcoins).

Therefore the point of faster settlement and less burocracy doesn’t stand unless you are selling weapons, which proves that Bitcoin is only useful for criminal schemes.
Should be interesting to see how these work in the combination of wave action, high wind speed, and high rotor tip speed. Seems like the rotor blades would be under flexing action from passing waves. Cool idea, and reduces the classic killer of windmills: heat from friction in high winds.
Id recommend anyone who can to move to https://godotengine.org/ and give it an honest try
That's because people found Bun's native npm package manager ;) ouch
I like US electrical outlets. They make for small, foldable plugs.

Yes, it's easier to shock one's self than with most other outlet designs, but the consequences of that are usually mild and help to instill a healthy respect for electricity.
Thanks for finding that. So we're talking about 100 passenger/km for 12 litres of fuel (very roughly). That's.... 10-20% worse than an SUV with a single occupant? Double a fuel-efficient car? And apparently 3-4x a commercial jet.

With all the other problems people have mentioned, I can see why air passengers would be far more desirable from the destination's point of view.
Wait, file-server without arguments does dynamic content (templating)?!

I assume that's just poorly phrased?
It sucks to get fired, but you might get severance or something instead of lying and having to deal with the government in court