skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has probably been asked dozens of times, but honest question: how much of a technological dead end is the X11 architecture? Perhaps this ship has sailed, but what were the impediments to modernization? Lack of developer interest? Lack of consensus between stakeholders to make significant changes? I worry that other critical open source software projects will go through a similar lifecycle as it matures and the original developers retire.
Considering the lineage of virtual consoles going back to physical teletype machines, it makes sense to preserve some form of feature compatibility with current software.
> For accounting you should only ever use arbitrary precision math library with ability to specify rounding rules

Do these rounding rules need to vary by jurisdiction?
Then your risk identifying yourself in the Ashley Madison leak. You run the risk of not getting your message out in the Snowden case. The biggest threat is future publishing which is why so many countries broke laws made up charges going after Wikileaks.

A wikileak revival scares the most powerful
Jitsi works on Firefox just fine.

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/supported-b...
Hear, hear! And while we're on the subject, fuck Markov chains. It's abundantly clear that cause and effect are at the root of all our problems.
https://stacking.dev/ has a good summary of this!

tl;dr the difference is a stack is merged partially as it's built out (that reduces merge conflicts, allows you to revert individual parts as found) and a feature branch is long-lived. Hope that helps :)
Pay close attention to the word "temporary." In normal flight, it's not that unusual for flight instruments to have to be rebooted because of unexpected glitches.
Better Tech Could Save Lives in a World of Bigger, Faster Fires
Bill Braun’s Paintings
unless they wanted you to know and feel threatened by it
> I use the ad blocker in my brain

Blocking ads is about more than just not perceiving them (although that's a tremendous benefit). Ads are actually hostile: they often ruin the UI/UX, make the site harder to use, can install malware of all kinds, and/or directly harvest data from you for profit (which could also be called stealing, to use the language of the industry).

Ad-blocking software is simply form of self defense.
* the snake eating it's own tail

This feedback loop, when you extend LLM to the horizon, is my primary point against this approach. When 90% of the new training data is from content (a worse version of) it previously generated you get a negative feedback loop to zero quality.
I’ve actually heard a lot of success stories regarding chassis/frame/body straightening on trucks with trees (lots of YouTube videos but here’s a rare blog post [0]). The hilarity ensues when one attempts to straighten the chassis of a unibody vehicle in the same manner (true story, and no, it wasn’t me).

[0]: https://blacksprucehound.com/2018/01/16/redneck-vehicle-fram...
That's how people sold communism.
Ask HN: How long until an AI tool can process curated financial data?
I work for an organisation that collects loan data at a small pilot scale. As it scales we could use a regular fintech loan tracking tool, but I wonder how long it will be until we can submit our curated data to an AI tool for data manipulation and output. For example, if we submit 10,000 transactions, I would like the AI to generate a list of transactions made by only one borrower, available via a natural language Inquiry. Is this just around the corner? I have tried with ChatGPT and it manages it to about 90% accuracy with 100 transactions.
What would the stockowners care who pays them? I don't think they have much emotional attachment to Redhat.

IBM just have to pay more than the stockholders believe the stock is worth. It has nothing to do with if the owners believe in the company or not.
Going to keep my eye on this one.
"Unleashed AI"? Really? I don't know what you think has happened, but we've just barely got realistic chatbots. Skynet is nowhere near invented yet.
> But I think this is honestly unlikely - watching driver behavior is probably the worst indicator for drunk driving. You are way better off just using the lane telemetry data.

Yep. It's the lane drift that would give the cops probable cause to pull you over for DUI in the first place.

GPS could attest that you were recently parked at a bar.

The most the internal camera might see is an open container.
It's interesting that even the current financial system fits so snugly into 2^64!
Global GDP = $100T = $10^14. If we imagine global assets being worth 10x GDP, that's $10^15.
2^64 = 1.8 * 10^19. If people care about measuring values to precision at $0.0001, that's about the limit.
Guessing these weren't native Singaporeans (where English is an official language and British influence is still obvious)?

There are also names like Leslie and Ashley that are more associated with women in the US, but have historically been gender-neutral.
If they don't actually help then the attention weight for that connection would tend to 0, right? Then it becomes a problem of overfitting which we have a large arsenal to combat.
Great, so it’s (possibly) a housing cost problem. There are now more per-capita housing units in the US than at any time in the past 20 years (and likely ever). In the past four years, the US population grew 4M, and housing units grew 5M. There is currently 0.433 housing units per capita, more than enough to house every average household in the US.

Those aren’t new units in SF or NY, so why do people stay homeless in those locations rather than move to lower cost of living area of the country? How do those cities think they can get someone from having no income or resources to being able to afford $2-3K rents? If it really is primarily housing affordability, is it not reasonable to tell people they can’t afford to live in that city? I don’t live in SF, even though my previous job was there, because cost of living and quality of life would have been worse than my current situation.

I completely understand that increased housing cost is a driver of acute homelessness. I personally don’t subscribe to the idea that it is responsible for chronic homelessness. I also think the link’s analysis of policy is flawed. Benefit to rent ratio is not a granular enough measure. There are certainly some benefits that contribute more/less than others, the requirements to receive benefits, etc.
Those are two wildly different things. Most things are flawed. Deliberately fabricating results is anathema to advancing science.
> Nope, Tesla is not offering people the ability to "NOT DRIVE". They might do so eventually, but all that they actually offer today is an advanced driver assistance system.

That's not really what they are selling though, and that's one of the problems.
I, Voyager: an open-source software planetarium created using Godot
And ensure it's not by any windows, the case HD LED doesn't blink nor does the FAN make any noise.
Argyle volcano study reveals crucial third clue to finding new diamond deposits
That's an incredibly good point. I would think you'd need a pretty modest operation when it comes to that for a site like lichess, and the fact that it is the biggest expense really puts into focus the kind of scale the problem likely is at the bigger social media sites.
What prevents you from buying those separately and mixing them? You can also find nuts and dried fruits.
I find the time varies, and that the amount of attentiveness required is much lower than that for FSD. FSD will ding you very quickly if you have a device in your hand, especially compared to plain autopilot.

My car came with an internal camera that didn’t have IR lights, which made FSD completely unusable at night time (they put in a new one under warranty).

I only subscribe FSD every few months for long trips, but I have a 1400 mile road trip planned this weekend and I will be using plain autopilot.
You are only allowed to produce and sell an existing product, if the original creator allows you to do. In theory you can message LG that you'd love to sell one of their older models for a fee for every sold piece, but I theorize that it would be a much better world if you wouldn't need their permission for this.
Airbnb Is Different Now
That's a false dichotomy. It's possible to have a locked down device that allows full access/visibility if you jump through enough hoops.

(Android is almost there, software wise, but closed vendor firmwares are still rampant).
Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue
On a positive note, given a16z's feedback, I'm sure they can find another firm/partner that would be willing to back them at this stage. They are definitely in a hard position, though. Reading this I doubt I'd put money in as a consumer until they have the capital to execute. Sounds like they really need 3-5MM to hit their objectives even though they only say 1.2MM.

I've also seen a16z invest in far less (pitch decks and hand-wave demos). So my read on the feedback is they've made too much progress on one front (enough to show a16z that they're not a compelling seed investment) but not enough progress on the other front (enough to warrant a PMF A round). Doesn't seem like the most fun spot to be in, and I know how hard this part of the stretch is. Good luck!
The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption'
https://archive.ph/Zl8ms
compare:

“If it works for 99,999 microseconds for every microsecond it fails, then I should expect it to fail before 0.1 seconds of use.”

with:

“If it works for 99,999 hours for every hour it fails, then I should expect it to fail before 11 years of use.”

This comparison can be twisted to make any conclusion you want.
We have this stuff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911218
Someething similar to your “fake western names” has been a feature of Brazilian culture going at least back to the early 20th-century. A segment of Brazilians will give a child a name ending in “-son”,[0] even if it is invented out of whole cloth, just because an English sounding name sounds prestigious. A quick online search shows people disparaging this as a practice of the lower classes, but over the decades as some families have grown wealthier, this is widely found among the middle class, too.

[0] https://portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/8634/what-is-...
Network designs i have seen often include this for much the same reason. A perimeter firewall is from one vendor and an internal firewall is from another. If there is a security issue with one device the other should not be effected in the same way.
> If they don't actually help then the attention weight for that connection would tend to 0, right?

Not necessarily. That is what this paper is about. From what I understand, they also consider graph attention networks.
Where is the world collectively on outlawing data brokers? If your business model revolves around selling people’s data without their consent, you’re a nuisance. Literally nobody would explicitly agree to have their data sold and used to bother them. We have plenty of laws against nuisance, because nuisance doesn’t benefit society. Why is it taking so long to ban this business model?
Wars since the age of Napoleon have been caused by bankers, not maps. Let's be real.
Or you just add ALIGNMENT-1 and then mask. So if alignment is 16 then you add 15.
I mean in a world where data collection is pretty explicitly opt-out it makes sense. They do need to know what data to remove, right?
Bitcoin has a hyper deflationary monetary policy hard coded in.
There's a book by Jen Pahlka called Recoding America. https://www.worldcat.org/title/Recoding-America-:-why-govern...

Germany seems to have similar sorts of federal / state / municipal government issues and other bureaucratic constraints as the US. And, this article makes it clear it has the same sorts of opportunities for improvement.

Maybe it's time to establish Programmieren für Deutschland as a parallel org to Code for America.
FWIW, I have never bothered updating the car registration address and never had a problem. The DMV/MVD knows who owns the car (tied to your state id or driver’s license) and the latter has been updated. I don’t see a real need to update the former.
The big one is

> Use fake profiles / identities.

All the journos, mods, and celebs lobbying against, complaining about, and trying to eradicate anonymity/pseudonymity online are acting against your interests. I would even like to see more social norms against "namefagging."

Real names are for the most banal online activities (mostly buying stuff), for everything else there are aliases with varying levels of technical obscurity (alternative/temp email → VPN → Tor). Give them nothing, pay Mullvad the €5 privacy tax.
Yes and no... A VPN Gateway or VPN server doesn't have to be an exit node, and may route onwards to actual exit nodes. Some nodes may not "exit" at all - see setups where you are just trying to reach your private networks.

In a tailscale setup, an "exit node" has specific meaning and the term makes sense as far as I'm concerned:

https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/
> I want the technology, and I'm comfortable assuming the risk if there's a fuck-up. If Musk needs a way to prove I wasn't watching and that the liability to transfer to me -- that's fine. I want the option. And Ford/GM/BMW et al won't give it to me.

It isn't just about you, its about everyone else on the road as well. You don't automatically deserve to operate a less safe system on public roads just because you are willing to accept liability. Other manufacturers, at least with regard to autonomy, recognize that fact and design products that mitigate risks with a proper safety lifecycle and design domain.
I never like it when writers use the word "lose" to describe money not earned. Yeah, MGM is not earning as much as it could because of this attack. They are under pressure to settle with the attackers. Articles like this can increase that pressure. I'm glad that they aren't settling, and I'm certain that they will survive this attack.
floats are an imperfect representation of real numbers and as such, there are an infinite count of real numbers that cannot be accurately represented with floats (and doubles).

It gets even worse when you start doing calculations on floats/doubles.

These inaccuracies are ok for a lot of things. graphics often uses floats and the errors are small enough they don't matter.

But currency absolutely needs to be accurate, and for that reason, floats/doubles are in appropriate.
It uses their compiler javac. Then the class files get compiled into dex files for androids runtime.
EV batteries more reliable than predicted
There's a difference between between actually stopping it and laws. Sure, the law can be there but it's going to be hard to enforce and we need to see how the case law pans out.

What can you actually do to truly stop it? Ban deep fake software? How's that ban going to work out? To what degree is libel and slander present in current schools and how often is it successfully addressed?
I think letting me give you a gpg private key and you sign commits with that would be ideal. I'm not sure how the app signing commits would work, since it needs to be signed by a member of our org I believe?
It would not surprise me to find that in 30 years or so a new category of harm is codified into law which amounts to official and social condemnation of behavior that abuses the freedom of a free society. Or to put another way, behavior that pathologically elevates personal or individual freedom ahead of the net freedom of the society that forms an indiv9dual's supporting environment.

Particularly such behavior that in order to reduce the immediate harms it causes, would require reducing the freedom of society as a whole. A simple example, rather less
sensational or revolting than pseudo-nude photos of schoolchildren but far more pervasive and destructive, and similarly immune to attack under today's laws and circumstances, would be noise pollution ordinances, which are seldom enforced but frequently abused. Such abuses degrade the environment in innumerable, but sub-actionable ways for hundreds of people so that one person can have something they want, ie straight pipes on a harley/whatever being gunned through residential streets at 2:00 a.m. in the morning.

I feel like this class of abusive behavior is on the rise (at least, in Spain as well as my country) and will cause a much more catastrophic breakdown of a free society if it remains unchecked, but that we have no means of curbing under our current frameworks without compromising those frameworks themselves. At the same time I'm really tired of this posture of conceding to assholes on the grounds that tjey effectively hold "free society" hostage as a shield for their individual need for validation and/or financial gain.
> Probably, as I prefer the standard dictionary one.

you made me chuckle, thanks!

> Did Peggy Guggenheim and other such figures do it for money laundering?

Kind of? https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/

> As opposed to the non-manufactured consent or opinion plurality of Joe Random?

It is funny while postmodernism is all about deconstruction and questioning existing values, social structures and authorities, when its authorities are questioned by an outsider, it becomes so defensive...
Absolutely. IIRC most tax codes have specific rounding rules. Also e.g. some countries have done away with pennies or penny equivalents and have rules about how you are supposed to handle that, etc.
I used to work for a small software consultancy firm, and we used to configure some integrations between systems with public APIs using Zapier.

What you're looking from a no-code platform is a way to execute custom code, and Zapier has this little virtual machine step that could be either JavaScript or Python and then you can "meet in the middle" systems, that would otherwise not meet before. They behave pretty much like your typical AWS Lambda function, with an input and an output.

I think n8n and Huginn could be suitable for this, but I don't know for sure as I've not had the need to use them.

A few of the shortcomings I had with Zapier (and our people) in this regard:

- Both systems must have public APIs that could be authenticated using bearer tokens. If the system had oAuth or something that requires a token to be generated dynamically, then the integration could not be performed because Zapier's Python VM only has a few libraries (I relied on Python's requests for this).

- For the above: if you had a way to flatten library code in a single Python script, that would have a worked around it I guess.

- All your code must run under 256 Mb or 10 seconds.

- Our Project Managers believed any integration could be done, but actually very few of them could be done because of the public APIs limitations stated above. Our salespeople thought we were on a mission to disappoint them, but most integrations weren't technically possible given these constraints and we weren't permitted to develop custom installable on-premises code for these.

> I know most “normal” developers have a reputation for being hostile to low-code platforms

There's a reason for that, and it's that no-code is absurdly limited. The moment you need to do something outside of the use cases the no-code platform was designed for, it's the moment you'll outgrow it.

The thing is, you'll outgrow no-code faster than you think. Weeks, if not days.
> would have been the death of free to play gaming

That would have been ... perfect. And when did they back up on charging per install?
Analyzing a Modern In-the-Wild Android Exploit
Geopolitics complicates Apple’s relationship with China
True. But at a hypothetical 40 mph average, one accident per 6.57 million miles is one accident every 164,250 hours. There are 8,760 hours in a year. These are exceptionally safe machines.
The artist forgot to follow through on the work's title "Take the Money and Run."
If it's sold in a Western nation, the NSA has a backdoor in it, and probably everyone in the Five Eyes. If it's sold anywhere else, China has a backdoor in it.
Well they did try to sell cameras for video calling into everyone’s home…
First thing that comes to mind is an overhaul mod for OpenTTD which has a "Steeltown" economy that resembles the AIST Steel Wheel.

https://grf.farm/firs/4.15.1/html/economies.html#steeltown
My thoughts on AI based TTS state in Linux world with examples
“I can handle of people”? Cannot parse.
Ive been using it since mote than a year and it has become part of my toolbelt.
Especially the cli that allow to seemlessly rebase multiple branches at the same time.
Powerful tool, and nice community
It may be less used in driving website design, but I assure you it is very very widely used in marketing to determine which campaigns are working.
Traffic is a fucking nightmare in Atlanta and Los Angeles, and Atlanta's mass transit sucks bigtime. Having FSD crawl along in low gear while you read the news or finish getting dressed would make for a way more tolerable commute.
Still more useful than your comment
> Do those stars come with donations?

Some of them, yeah!

Godot has almost doubled how much money it gets from the community: https://fund.godotengine.org/ (though that sum should probably be much, much higher)

Here's their stats from a week ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20230912192257/https://fund.godo...

Sadly, those figures are for perhaps the most popular open source engine that's friendly to indie developers, which means that other engine developers really can't count on much funding at all being there. Reminds me of: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
I don’t see any problem with what you choose to do.

Neither do I see a problem with someone who would want their name to be pronounced correctly.
Yours looks ... shady.

Jokes aside, thanks for building this! It looks swell and I really enjoy your sense of humor on your readme as well. Looking forward to poking around tonight!
We use Graal to sandbox a scripting language based on EcmaScript 6 for our app.

It’s great.
Trade and free movement are definitionally not local issues with local effects.
Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative
Hi HN, we've released Dittofeed v0.4.0, a significant update primarily focused on facilitating self-hosting. Dittofeed is an open source (MIT licensed) alternative to platforms like customer.io, mailchimp, klaviyo, iterable etc.

Self-hosting is particularly useful if you:

- Want to evaluate Dittofeed without a long-term commitment

- Prefer fixed, non-volume based pricing models

- Aim to keep all personally identifiable information within your own infrastructure

In this version, we introduced 'Dittofeed Lite,' which merges the dashboard, API, and worker services, simplifying deployment, along with providing an easy auth setup.

We've also configured a 1-Click Render deployment. The Render setup comes at a fixed cost of $39/month. However, by using alternative hosting solutions for the Postgres and ClickHouse instances (neon, clickhouse cloud), the monthly costs can be reduced to under $20.

We personally feel that there’s a big problem with how existing platforms handle pricing, charging insanely high prices with low contact limits, while restricting access to really basic table stakes features.

Excited to share this work, and hear your thoughts and feedback!

Github Repo - https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Demo - https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/journeys

Docs - https://docs.dittofeed.com/getting-started
Good question. I just asked the same (well, different wording: “Have you heard of “Ego Death” by Polyphia? How would you compare it to some of their previous work?”)
… and it responded with the boilerplate about “as of my last update in January 2022”.