skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't understand at all how someone with your coworker's voice might lull you into a false sense of urgency and safety?

Security is a weak-link problem, not a strong-link one. You have to plan for the least security-minded people, the tired and stressed employee.
> Nowadays I'm sure it will be scripts on GitHub, botnets of IoT appliances, and volunteered GPU farms for PoW algorithms.

I'd be surprised if it's anywhere near that exotic. It'll just be a webpage with a list of games you can pick, input a number of "installs" to fake, and it'll fire the requests off with Javascript. Or maybe a browser extension if they feel the need to distribute the requests. Half the gamers will install it at some point when their favorite absurdly over-hyped game flops.

There's not much need to run an optimized and complicated tool like JMeter when each request costs the other side $0.20. I wouldn't be surprised if a browser extension could get out something in the ballpark of 100 requests/second.
There are multiple problems with this.

First, if you just hand money to individuals, it's very hard to remove that money from the economy later. If the central bank injects money by buying an asset, like a government bond, they can just sell it later to (approximately) remove the same amount of money as they previously injected.

> If the central bank printed an equivalent amount per capita, more of it would be invested (into both productive and unproductive assets).

What makes you think so?

Btw, 'money' doesn't really get invested, at least not on the level of the whole economy. If someone invests money by eg buying stock, that same amount of money is now in the seller's hand.

> On the other hand that wouldn't increase consumer good inflation as much.

And if you have an inflation target, you just print more money, until you hit it.
> your account's credibility

> like you more

This is all incredibly sad. You should look for affirmation in other, more meaningful places.
Well sure, but with time prices drop, and with lower prices, you get even unscientific uses.

Flir units were for army use, now you can buy cheap chinese ones (without US export restrictions) for a few $100 in a form of a dongle that you plug into your phone and see what part on your PCB is overheating, or where your house insulation is bad.

Keeping liquids at precise temperature was a thing used in labs, and now you can buy a sous-vide machine for $50.

Even medical stuff, such as blood oxygen meters are at single dollar/euro prices now.

So yeah... it's a circle... if prices go down, more people will find more uses for it. If more people find more uses, more companies will produce them and prices will go down more.
Badass. The `GOOS=js` build had so many workarounds needed that it was barely worth it to port existing code, and wasm_exec.js always felt like a terrible hack. I'll be updating all of my stuff with this and pulling out the shims.
Back taxes from 1600 millionaires is going to be drop in the budget of the revenue.

So when they say this they mean you, the 'technically millionaire' category who is not going to fight back with laywers.
Once upon a time, this is how applications worked and this was a pretty good experience.

Now, you'll introduce a huge amount of user frustration around why their changes never made it to the central database. If you have users closing a form, especially if it's on a webpage, they are going to expect the write to happen at the same time the form closes. Making a bunch of changes and batching them in a single sync is going to be confusing to a ton of users.
I'd forgotten about VirtualHere, thanks for the reminder.
> cheap nuclear is a fallacy that many fall for (Jevons paradox)

Jevons paradox does not apply here. All of human progress has basically been about being able to use more energy per capita. You're right that people will always need more energy -- if they want to progress.

A call for higher marginal energy prices effectively means that you're declaring that this is as good as humanity will ever be, and nobody would need anything better (in the sense that "640KB ought to be enough").
Replit ModelFarm: Zero-Config LLM App Dev Environment
Or the southern hemisphere
There isn't any evidence, it isn't actually true. Debt is inescapable in a country where a trip in an ambulance can wipe out a family's entire income. It's just a cultural prejudice born from the American idolization of free markets (which itself is a vestigial expression of European classism and belief in noble divinity), rugged individualism (and a pathological fear of societal bonds) and the Protestant work ethic, mixed with a bit of racism and xenophobia.
The Day Elon Musk Decided to Rip Servers Out of a Data Center
Being that smart translates to more financial gains.
I'd say the US and Russian populations are just as susceptible to conspiracy theories and propaganda, but Russia's propaganda is on another level and much more blatant. Their line seems to be further than the US'.
That’s what I was thinking.

Wouldn’t harvesting the stray noise lower the impedance of the thing being noisy, making it use more power to compensate?
The irony here. Is everything corporate/information/cultural warfare propaganda these days?
Came here to post this myself! TIL

https://youtu.be/qguICtJLTCI?si=rqmocnetOEXIq1X_
https://www.virtualhere.com - VirtualHere might be exactly what I've been looking for ...
My ATT Fiber IP address never changes, so I've been running an IIS web server on it for about a year.
No, it's merely a personal observation. In that vein, I'd think it more correct to say that there are always addicts on the margin of every culture.
Name an over the counter medicine you need to show ID for.
Arithmetic coding isn't the key thing here. That's just a bit wise algorithm. You predict the next bit is a 1 with 90% certainty? you don't need to store much data with arithmetic coding. That's all arithmetic coding is here.

What your getting at is the 'predictor' that feeds into the arithmetic coder and that's wide open and can work any way you want it to. LLMs absolutely have context which is similar to what your asking and they are good predictors of output given complex input (pass gpt a mathematical series and ask it what comes next. If it's right then it's really helpful in compression as you wouldn't need to store the whole series in full).
It probably makes most sense if you have a middle-tier-less application where the UI IS the application, and effectively it just dumps the whole application state out through APIs anyway. We have ended up with this scenario playing out and you eventually just throw up your hands and make the UI hit the server with a giant "send me a huge blob of JSON that is most of the tables in the database on first page load" query anyway.

So the assumption that "if anybody changes anything everybody needs to know it" is close to true. In that scenario, putting a bunch of APIs in the way just makes the data less coherent rather than more. In most other scenarios, yeah, it's hard to see that it really makes sense.
It's weird to me that we've completely normalized having to present ID to buy any medicine at all, especially one that has an excellent safety and efficacy record that I was buying without an ID for a decade. Why should I have to ask the government's permission to cure a runny nose?
People have invented many kinds of materials as alternatives to plastics tho. It's just not economical. It's not about technology
My guess would be one of the main causes of this is "can't be arsed to migrate Wordpress." I've done that and it's surprisingly straightforward (with a plugin), but I guess FTPing a folder involves less mental steps (so has a lower "activation energy".)
Feels fairly oscillatory for me, 95 98 nt*.0 were mediocre, 2k was great, me was horrible, xp was decent, xp64 was useless, vista was awful, 7 was better, 8 felt spammy, 10 was ok, 11 is bad again.
he also invented milled edges, which arguably did even more to preserve the coinage: https://www.perthmint.com/news/collector/coin-collecting/how...
Well Zerowater is really clear in not claiming to remove PFAS, just significantly reduce it. Furthermore they say no filter can remove PFAS completely.

"Forever chemicals can’t be removed from drinking water but they can be reduced in a fairly affordable way."

It can be done by having a material in the filter medium that absorbs some of the chemical thereby reducing whats left in the water. I think the material will need to perform an ion exchange function:

From Wikipedis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_exchange

"Ion exchange is a reversible interchange of one kind of ion present in an insoluble solid with another of like charge present in a solution surrounding the solid with the reaction being used especially for softening or making water demineralised, the purification of chemicals and separation of substances"

Here is what Zerowater says: they don't claim to remove just significantly reduce: https://zerowater.com/blogs/filtration/what-are-forever-chem...

Berkey is more ambiguous, they claim to "Remove or Reduce PFCs/PFAS (PFOA and PFOS)". Which one is it?

https://www.berkeyfilters.com/pages/do-berkey-water-filters-...

I guess what they are implying is that in low concentrations they may be able to remove completely?

I don't know if Berkey uses the resin beads but in the video I posted he cuts open the Zerowater filter and it definitely seems to have both activated carbon and the ion exchange resin beads. I think Berkey has two different filters the water goes through and he only cut open one in the video.

EDIT: I want to also go back to my original point, this is why there is no one method to judge a water filter's performance. You have to judge it on what you are looking to reduce. TDS is something that can be electrically measured. It is possible that not all chemicals will be detected by a TDS meter so it is not a singular solution.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_dissolved_solids#Measure...

EDIT 2: The Zerowater article references a study from Duke University: https://nicholas.duke.edu/news/not-all-home-drinking-water-f...

In the study it says that filters that are reverse osmosis or two stage reduced PFAS by 94% and that Activated carbon filters reduced by 74% but inconsistently and sometimes removed nothing. This makes me believe that the activated carbon is just absorbing some of the PFAS maybe through a some physical method but it is not holding onto it and just releasing it back into the water in subsequent filter attempts (this is just a random guess because the report also states that activated carbon sometimes added PFAS, it must have come from previous filter removals).

The Reverse osmosis filters in the video included the Aquatru brand and the Zerowater is "five stage" which includes first activated carbon and then ion exchange (plus some other stuff that I forget) so I guess they are technically a "two stage" filter?? But what type of filtering does two stage imply? The basic version of Brita/Pur is just activated carbon confirmed by tearing down the filters.
what slurs?
You could still come up with a scorecard for lossy compression, for example area under the rate distortion curve. It would be very hard to calculate.
> let them age out

Doesn't work. A long time ago I thought when all the old farts are gone, everything is going to be better. Had to have faith in my own generation right?

You know what happened... Humanity just grew a new set of old farts.
Technically you’re correct. If you can rebuild the original losslessly then all the original information is present, just in a different configuration.
Thanks for the example, it helped me understand the idea.

The thing that I'm unclear on is how do I figure out what data to ship to the user? Like if I don't already have a database-per-user then I have to extract only the data the user has permission to see, and ship that as a database?

That would be the case even if I had database-per-customer - not every user is necessarily able to see all the data owned by the organization they're a part of.

It seems like a lot of extra work, and error-prone, too (what could be worse than accidentally shipping the wrong data _as an operational database_ to a client?)

Edit: the article covers this at the bottom, but IMO it's a show-stopper. How many applications of any real complexity can actually implement database-per-user (database-per-tenant is probably not enough, as I mentioned above). As soon as you need any kind of management or permissions functionality in your app then you can't ship the database anymore, so you may as well start off not shipping it.
Water Filter Guru did some testing of one of Berkeley’s systems and aluminum was leaching into the filtered water.

https://youtu.be/AVZmZwTxnMc?si=OVynjj17zjjQdHu2
It’s an attractive nuisance which seems to provide zero practical value overall, let alone for it’s stated reason to exist.
Sudafed isn't an OTC medicine; it's a BTC medicine. Most medicines aren't OTC. But there are, obviously, OTC products that require ID; for instance, every alcoholic beverage.
Is Tesla the only company the EU is funding for chargers?
> I hear a lot of people say offshore workers are low quality or don't care about the work yada yada.

IME it's just like everything else - you get what you pay for. Bulk offshore TCS consultants will be as bad as you'd expect (again, in my direct experience), but that doesn't mean any/all offshore labor should be instantly discredited.
This is going to haunt me. I recently discovered a major plot hole in Fletch (I know) and now this is going to bother me too.
I don't understand:

> Google first, and then others wanting to get users' phone numbers associated with more data they collect on them

Perhaps you mean SMS 2FA, instead of a non phone number related MFA such as T-OTP?
You'll have to use more words to explain why other Investor Owned Utilities have power at 1/3 the cost. Not really a unique differentiator.
Have you read the rest of the discussion, or at least the comments higher up the chain?

> Is there supposed to be a restricted demographic with a monopoly on identification? [...] mitigated by, for example, making it free to get a state ID.

We were talking about how many ostensibly free resources, rights and welfare are gated behind paperwork and bureaucracy. The discussion was exactly about just making something free is only a small part; and most of the time money isn't even the biggest hurdle for poor people.

I don't have too strong of an opinion on voter id laws. (I grew up in Germany where approximately everyone a government ID, and you need it for voting. And that seems to work ok. And the US system of mostly not requiring voter ID also seems to work ok.) But despite my lack of opinion on whether those laws are good or not, I can understand that just making ID cost $0 misses most of the hurdles in practice.
Agreed, having C# be the default would also better incentivize former Unity devs to jump ship. Not to mention that learning C# has value outside of Godot, whereas GDScript is not exactly transferable knowledge.
> Rules

> Publish a compression program comp9.exe that outputs archive9.exe given input enwik9.

> If archive9.exe is run with no input, it reproduces 10^9 byte file data9 that is identical to enwik9.

> Total size is measured as S := length(comp9.exe/zip)+length(archive9.exe).

In other words the input is indeed set to zero, but the size of the .exe is actually measured. And even stricter the thing that made archive.exe is included (which I think I a bit mean)
There was no "coup". There was a protest. Identical to numerous others in the past. Even the pictures look the same. I even saw one of the several brazilian socialist parties condemning the criminalization of the protesters for obvious reasons.

If only there had been a coup. They're all being punished for attempting one anyway. Might as well have tried, right?
https://www.yepkit.com/products/ykush linked elsewhere seems available.
Most of the Internet spent the last 10-20 years moving away from this because business metrics generally benefit from realtime updates and background autosaves. By and large, users expect systems to autosave their work-in-progress nowadays.

You might remember horror stories from the late 1900s when people would lose critical data and documents because they "forgot to hit Save and the computer crashed." Or, maybe you've never experienced this — because a couple decades of distributed-systems engineers and UX researchers made that problem obsolete.

So now we've... reinvented the Save button, but somehow needed a Paxos implementation to do it?

Everything old is new again, I guess.
I know Teeline shorthand, which is easier to learn than Gregg shorthand. It is fine for taking note from books or articles, but not quite fast enough to take notes from spoken language.
My $0.02 is "yes, JSON everywhere". Specifically, one object per line, newline delimited, sorted keys, compressed with zstd or gzip.
FTX Approved to Sell More Than $3B of Users’ Crypto
Looks neat! Do you have any idea how much the compression degrades search results, if any?
> when he saw that one of the most competent men in the history of western civilization

The thing, this is only decidable in hindsight. Many a confident person has declared themselves to be "the most competent" and proven to be... not that.

(competence & confidence are perhaps entirely uncorrelated)
I wasn't really suggesting that the intercity rail system should be designed around my needs as an occasional intercontinental traveller to Bath.

However, the rail system exists. Every train stops at Reading. The trains also go to the capital and largest city in Wales (Cardiff) and Bristol (the 10th largest district by population in the UK). Access to this intercity rail line requires back-tracking into London, something that I don't consider absurd, but do consider a bit silly.

Also, taking population considerations and making them central can lead to strange results in the UK. 1/6th of the population lives in the London metro. While that's important from some perspectives, it can't be the overriding principle for integrated transportation.
I absolutely loathe YAML and avoid using it. I use TOML for user edited configurations and I use JSON for things that a user doesn't need to touch, because it's human readable in name only. I like the type enforcement.
I have been to Galveston and I can assure you that you have not missed anything. There is no good reason to visit or know anything about it.

Making a word list that could work well for speakers different English dialects and for speakers of English as a second language sounds really hard. Has such a list as been made?

Probably it is too hard so we will continue to ignore the problem.
Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?
What happens if two users want to make changes at the same time? What if their changes conflict? How do you even detect conflicts?
Computer prices should continue to fall as they have since the 1980's. Only Apple raises prices to prop up a business that has come to rely on irrational, cult-like behaviour.

Pretending to be ecologically-focused while at the same time trying to get people to "upgrade" is the height of hypocrisy. Back in the day Apple hardware was high quality and, IME, built to last. Today, the company is focused on convincing people to dispose of working computers and generate more electronic waste.

The stock price dropped more after this iPhone annoucement than it has after any iPhone announcement in the past.
Apple has sued them. So has Meta, and the Supreme Court recently declined an NSO appeal, which means the lawsuits can proceed.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-lets-metas-wh...
My high-score is 247,641 which is basically a 3072 and a 1536 but at that point... I don't know. I feel like my technique is lacking, it's as though there's just something I don't know that will make me better and I can't access that knowledge. Probably planning ahead for potential killing cards?

But as you say, still out there trying.
"Why?
I agree many didn't but in what way was there any impediment for people to do this? We both know eTrade existed back then..."

It's 1999 and I have 10,000 dollars to invest. How the heck do I invest it among 382 internet companies at market cap rate on etrade? Etrade isn't going to let me buy fractional shares of stock in 1999 in proportion to the market cap. Good luck dividing your investment so you own 382 companies in proportion to the market cap.

And have you considered Etrade was probably charging 6 dollars per trade? $2,292 dollars in expenses to own 382 companies means I've lost before I began.

"(again, it's one of the greatest strategies in the history of time)"

It's not really a strategy so much as a data mining exercise. It doesn't even seem to have resulted in a lesson you can apply today, you earlier said you don't even know if Nvidia is a good buy.
Exactly maybe but I don't know Conan Doyle knew about this
You know, I've been toying with this very idea in my head for a while, as a way to make safe schema migrations. But I also know very little about databases so had no idea if this was a stupid idea or not. Glad to know I'm not alone.

One issue I've considered is fk relationships - that could get complicated depending on the approach.
> The Amazon rainforest was created millennia ago without human intervention

The Supposedly Pristine, Untouched Amazon Rainforest Was Actually Shaped By Humans

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...
> None, to date, have worked for a company that has a process established for safely establishing identity of the person they're calling

What's fun here is, the moment they ask you for anything, flip the script and start to try to establish a trust identity for the caller.

Tell them you need to verify them, and then ask how they propose you do that.

Choose your own adventure from there.
If the pharmacy counter is closed, something that maybe might work is better than nothing.
I use 1Password's authenticator, so no-one needs my phone number, and I don't have to worry about losing my phone, as there is a Linux CLI, a browser extension, etc.
>Can to elaborate?

The overhead of a runtime can easily make WASM code run slower than native JS functions. This only applies to GC languages like Go which require that.

>But I've seen several projects where (non-GC) WASM has improved performance significantly for specific tasks. You won't get native performance obviously.

You absolutely can if you're writing the raw WASM or compiling from C.
Pretty sure that's what this court ruling just did.
Their DX is good. They just have a lot of reliability/availability issues.
Yeap. Mail, apps, DBs
He was never gonna do any of that. Half the brazilian population practically begged him to do it and he didn't.
If what you are building isn't an actual house, or an actual game engine, then how could anybody claim they had build that particular house, or that particular game engine?

If what you were working on--for the entire time you were working on it--was a completely different thing from a house or from a game engine, how could you clame to have built a house or a game engine? Putatively, what you were working on what an entirely different thing from the result.
for transportation, there is one kind of out: synthetic fuel. It's 3x the cost of normal fuel at the moment, but in exchange you get a very dense form of energy storage that can be used with a lot of existing infrastructure.