skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the assumption should be that it does not work, and it should be up to the prosecution to demonstrate that the software is working correctly.

Phrased differently, you want them to prove there aren't any bugs. You can't prove a negative so this is a non-starter. There will always be "but what if it requires specific timing" or "maybe it relies on some other software being installed" or "maybe the computer had a virus". It's basically the same reason the government has to prove you're guilty; because you can't prove you're not guilty.

I think the onus has to be on the defense to prove some kind of a bug exists. The interesting question is whether that implies that the software provider should be required to hand over the source code in discovery. It seems unreasonable to force someone to go on a bug-hunt where their future hangs in the balance without access to the source code. Ditto for providing some kind of a test instance; I can see companies being leery of providing binaries to someone trying to publicly prove there are bugs.
> What are those Sanskrit dictionaries you checked?

I like the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries site, which hosts several different dictionaries and has a powerful search interface.

https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/
The default option worked not by conscious thought but by desire for sex. Now we have found a way to decouple that from procreation, so people have to actually think, and they often end up choosing a path that leads to dead end.
> Analysts say claims costs are 25% higher for electric cars, and that they also take about 14% longer to repair than a diesel or petrol equivalent.

That seems odd. One of the main things about having an electric vehicle was supposed to be theirs reliably and simplicity compared to the complexity of an internal combustion engine.

At the same time insurance actuaries figured something out that is counterintuitive to the general expectations around EVs. Do people in EVs drive more dangerously? I can see the repairs being more expensive due to needing specialized skills, but it would seem higher reliability should have offset that, but perhaps it didn’t.
I've migrated a number of projects that didn't strictly require a Pi to ESP32/8266 and PandaBoard over the past few years. Depending on what you want to teach and how, there are lots of great SBCs to choose from.
I haven't been asked for this bullshit but I probably won't either. Or take a burner or something.
Microsoft mainly uses adiabatic cooling today in the US, the water is evaporated not dumped in the sewer.

https://datacenters.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05...
It's kind of mind-blowing that we're three times closer to the Romans than the Romans themselves were to Gobekli Tepe. Gobekli Tepe is as much older than the pyramids, as the pyramids are themselves old.
The responsiveness of maintainers to PRs has nothing whatsoever to do with whether it's actually open source.
The United States might not have entered the war at all had the Japanese not attacked. The American public was split up until Pearl Harbor.

Entering WW2 is the most righteous thing the US has ever done. I know that the US has done a lot of wrong, but I cannot imagine how much more suffering there would've been if the Axis had won.
I'd think private enterprise would be the last people able to be trusted with nuclear power. Not to mention there seems to be no support from dc for building them to power, you know, useful things like lights and heat.
Running 1980x1080, the horizontal strokes on many characters in the font disappear on my monitor. It's completely unreadable. Zooming in helps, a bit. But at anything less than 3x zoom it is completely unreadable. (Chrome on windows 10, Chromium on Linux, both are broken). 20-20 vision, so it's not a vision-impairment thing.

The font weight is too light. It's not a body font, it's a display font. And using small-caps for body text is absurd.

I read some of it. It was too exhausting to read all of it. Not worth the effort.
How odd. You must live in a different Canada than I do.
I'm not Australian, but Southern American food is absolutely horrible, as someone who has lived there for decades (so more than your "years"). It's completely overrated, and the only thing arguably worse is the people who try to evangelize it.

I worked with an American from the south, "born and bred", as he wouldn't let us forget it. We were having a lunch conversation once where he was telling us about all the different cultural variations of southern food. Naturally, a co-worker and I were curious, so we were asking questions. We then went to talk about regional variations of our food (Chinese / Indian), and this was the American's response: "How many different ways can ya'll make dim sum and butter chicken?"

He seemed to not understand that regional variations actually exist outside of USA, and never backed out of his viewpoint that "only country in the world is the US that has cultural and regional variations of food".
The reliability under day-to-day usage is higher, but the costs of repairs for issues under ordinary use are borne by the owner. Insurance is only concerned with the repair costs for catastrophic accidents, which involve far more than just the engine.
>But at which point would they stop being persisted?

You can either manually run the cleanup after the build or when you need free space. Alternatively a systemd timer that deletes old stuff that hasn't been accessed in weeks would work too.

The same issue exists even only the system toolchain is used. There will me gigabytes of dependencies or object files that aren't needed taking up space.

This is a problem of all dependencies. Toolchain dependencies are not special.
Perhaps Sam Altman found that startup in the same way Musk found Tesla, by making an investment and being recognized as a co-founder being one of the terms.
What do you mean by "poisonous"?
I'm pretty interested in this question. I feel like the study (as much as it is described) would not do much to challenge the Shor school of thinking.

The description said they asked people to report what they thought of the ads. It seems like that would be unable to capture turnout effects or even measure true swing voters that well. Shor's main thesis is that things that score well among the base (like focusing on racism) don't do well and driving votes while things that aren't very hip (like talking about protecting social security payments) actually do a lot to bring turnout up even if people filling out an online survey wouldn't mark the ad as interesting.
Seems a bit like a hand trained neural net overfitted on multiplication of single digit numbers.
It's indeed sickening how seemingly sane people constantly repeat the company PR line like brainless little corporate drones. Or post stupid jokes or "investment opportunities". I immediately unfollow everyone on my feed when I see them do that. I have very few people still on it.

LinkedIn brings out the worst in people but in a really weird corporate PR packaging. Or some people really believe in their own marketing. I can't decide what's worse.

Ps I also hate all the sales people using LinkedIn to find my details and offer commercial services, usually totally irrelevant to my job. I block them and their companies immediately. But I wish I could report them to spamhaus or something. Microsoft 365 does nothing with the reports because most spammers are also their customers.
The Greenhouse Effect (1977) [pdf]
I would prefer to give up my ID (with mailing address censored, of course) because at least then they cannot use it to contact me.
Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
Covid-19 Virus Infects Coronary Vasculature
Fear and anger on the face of a human and a wolf are very similar. Include body language in general and the similarities expand. If a mammal drops its head, widens its eyes and its ears pull back (yes humans do that too), its time to look for escape, or a weapon.
I don't tan easily, and I don't think everyone is like me. I have friends who are even paler than me, and I get their use of clothing & sunblock. My curiosity is about why so many people use it, many of whom would appear to have no genetic requirement to do so.
You're totally right: the outcome of WW2 had a lot of effects that ultimately benefited the United States.

My reply was directed towards the idea that the US entered WW2 as a "power play", not that the outcome of the war resulted in more power for the US.

The primary reason the US entered WW2 was because of Pearl Harbor.
The book came out a while ago.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101873469/

Here's a review of the part that applies to India: https://www.brownpundits.com/2018/03/30/the-indian-chapter-o...

There has never been a back-and-forth on the issue, only ideological insistence on ignoring the facts.
Not sure I follow since there are very competitive tools written in Go such as https://victoriametrics.com for an example in this space.
>But why are you hell bent on making it harder for your users to build from source?

Building from source would use the toolchain you designed the source code for meaning that it will always succeed. If someone wants to fork the project and add support for a different toolchain they are free to do so. If they want to get rid of the requirement to have no compiler errors they are free to remove -Werror or disable the new warnings.
Appreciate the info and links!
I'm riffing on what Theil said in the article. The NHS considered as a system in it's present condition makes some people sicker than when they came in much as routine prescribing of fentanyl is held to have triggered americas addiction crisis in working poor. For different reasons. Delay, and use of outdated treatments because of health economics, and because of problems like c.difile and golden staph in the residential hospital system.
As someone who has prototyped games, no. This just isn’t true. When stuff happens without sound it feels plain and empty and lifeless and demotivating.

Further, the “is it fun question” is honestly a nonsense question. That’s usually a question about the larger game loop. A lot of games’ gameplay that people like is in fact not actively “fun” but is perhaps engaging or immersive. Which is not something you deduce easily from barebones prototypes.

This advice works ok if it’s just an arcade style game that you play and that’s it, but that’s not really common
There was a rather speculative article that went into what mightve changed from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32364631
I think there is huge demand and faith from corporate executives. They can secretly propose their wild ideas without any employee resignations, ethics concerns (spending millions on a contract, you won't get consumer-restricted "safe" AI), etc.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
I'd assumed that somehow connecting to or using their wifi got local privileges?

There's things like cellular modem exploits that bypass all the higher layers of the stack and get access to your cell phone at the base layer. I'm guessing similar stuff exists for wifi. Heck it could have even been a power cable I maybe mistakenly plugged in trusting it! I'm not an expert on any of this tho.

With the MITM I think you're right, I would have expected to see some cert issues. But I know I have seen GitHub MITM'ing before with a state issued MITM certificate (won't say where right now), tho I did notice that because there were connection issues and then I paid attention to the address bar.

It could have been that there were cert issues, I just wasn't paying attention to them, as it was an interview. That sounds plausible.

I guess the issue is there's all kinds of exploits and zero days that most regular people don't really know. Of course they could have combined it with a PDF exploit from something they emailed me. I don't know!

Did you find anything on this in the meantime, on theories on the different ways it could be possible? How would you rate your cybersecurity redteam/blueteam knowledge in this domain on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best)?
Canada is a small market. Better to just shut off access there.
It’s also weird that any criticism whatsoever of what is loved by techies - EVs, self driving cars, AI supremacy - is brushed aside as a conspiracy, exaggeration, and lies.

Go right this second and try to find the cheapest EV with the $7500 tax subsidy and it’s still $10000 more than a comparable gas car.

Do the math on solar panel installs and it barely makes sense even with the subsidies, and you are only 1 sudden roof replacement away from making it all worthless.

Wind is being renegotiated / written off on the East Coast.

Yes, if we dump trillions of dollars into this tech and squint really hard it might make sense. But it’s pretty dismal.
There's an argument to be made that the extreme breadth of scope that modern web browsers are obliged to support (in order to gain/retain market share) heavily contributes to there being no worthy contenders against Chromium's web monopoly.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....

When you're the leader, you can further widen your lead by bolting on additional functions & features that require at least X amount of effort to implement. Any new contender will have to put in SUM(X effort for each feature) to match feature parity with the existing leader, and existing competitors will have to put in at least X effort to catch up. Existing OSS work can help bridge the gap, but only for what's already been done.
The reason I refrained from giving specifics is that I'm mostly trying to figure out how everything fits together in (my version of) "mind-first" concepts, so I'll try to illustrate with a grossly simplified example only for the purposes of explaining the general idea, but not as a statement of fact, nor it is intended as a serious scientific hypothesis.

Let's assume a particular universe where only minds really exist (and more than one mind). Let's further assume that the imagination of the mind can shape the physical world, and in a way that the "local" reality is more strongly influenced by the minds in the vicinity.

Let's say A and B are in an isolated room. They are into alternative medicine and strongly believe A can cure B of a disease. Because there only two minds involved, and they both believed it, B is apparently miraculously cured of the disease.

Now, let's change the setting slightly. This time, in addition to A and B, there are also C, D, and E, who are researchers trying to validate A's claims of miraculous healing. C, D, E are scientists who don't believe in such woowoo and are determined to expose A's frauds. A performs the same acts on B. This time, it does not work, because CDE did not believe in it.

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Now, back to reality. Given how modern science operates and general disbelief that mind can influence reality, you can see that it is not hard to tweak some variants of these "mind-first" approaches to fit the vast majority of modern scientific observations (i.e. there's no magic healing). But the theories can produce divergent predictions (i.e. magic healing can work if you have enough "faith") under conditions where modern science is unwilling to collect evidence.

And I personally think there should be some way to tweak such theories in a way that first and foremost respects the observations and conclusions made by modern science, but also in a way consistent with a large portion of the religious and mystical traditions. (Did you know why Jesus requested people to have faith as a condition for performing healing? Now you have a theory to explain that. [disclaimer: I'm not remotely close to being a Christian])

I understand that some philosophers may feel content arguing whether we've made up all this and it's all in our imaginations (but not claim any predictions beyond accepted modern science), but it seems (to me at least) to defeat the whole purpose of the exercise if we're positing the universe is just a thought of our minds, and not even consider the possibility that we can imagine something other than what we are imagining right now.

Yes it sounds like quackery and the grossly simplified theories has holes in them, but that's why no self respecting person dares seriously bring up these topics (or let you fully into what they're actually trying to steer the topic towards)...
Under one possible protocol, you'd generate and give Spotify a special key that they'd need to send you along with any of their message to you. (Spotify would include a field in their account-creation process and existing-account settings where you could specify such a key.) You'd either manually look for that key in any message you received from Spotify or (ideally) you'd set up your email client/service to reject any emails from Spotify unless they also include the special key you gave them. (Maybe such keys could be placed in a custom X-header specified by this protocol.)

If this were a common and popular protocol, it'd be easy to generate per-service-and-per-account keys, provide them to a service, and set them up for whitelisting in your email client/service.
9 levels. Most of them have a simple pattern like "attack, shield, repeat with same attack" but some are more complex.
No, the vast majority of companies are entering a mature market with a product that is based on what the market wants, but with their own value proposition.

It seems that only in Silicon Valley startups and the like do people start companies with only the vaguest idea of what they are actually going to build and no idea of whether or not they're solving an actual problem that anyone cares about.
Add the makey makey and it is a lot of fun with Scratch.
Well, for a start, two people in that group wore sunblock religiously. But that's just anecdata, and I would certainly ridicule e.g. anti-covid vaccine arguments framed like that.

It seems that the argument that solar exposure causes cancer, and if not cancer than weathered leathery skin when you're older, has been widely and effectively made, and this has been enough to get most people to hedge and just use sunblock anyway.

I'm not convinced they're wrong - I'm more interested in the way sunblock brings out my own inner "conspiracy" self, even if I don't feel inclined to defend that version of me. It's actually a way to have some empathy towards people I otherwise feel no empathy whatosever for (e.g. the anti-vax crowd).
Fun fact: sns.amazonaws.com still has no DMARC record. This is where AWS SNS messages originate from unless you use a custom domain, and it's where all CloudWatch alerts come from (no-reply@sns.amazonaws.com)
Arguably, ideology is and has always been the largest contributor to death (and birth) rates no?
That's my understanding as well. We _may_ have entered the war if Pearl Harbor had never happened.

If the Japanese had not attacked, the United States certainly would've entered the war later, but I don't think you could ever refer to it as a "power play".
It caused thousands of families to fight and never talk to each other again.
US v. AU population is a large factor here also.

W.Australia is 3x the size of Texas with a total population not much more than 2 million. Australia is ~ 24 million or so (IIRC) against the US's 350+ million.

The task of governing each AU state can likely be mapped in complexity against the task of running a few small US cities or smaller US states with low populations.

The US requires an extra layer or two to match representation.

The US also carries a burden of weight of years, AU Government is just over 120 years since 1900 Foundation and still relatively nimble, the US has ossified and become somewhat deified in the eyes of some since its creation.

Strong agreement on the election of judges, etc. in the US - that just comes across as wrong to outside eyes.
Thanks. That's a little better, because it has a higher chance of turning back to rain somewhere around (or at least making air a little more moist).
We've also engineered our society to make cars too convenient and necessary.
My impression was that a segment of the population felt that the lockdowns and other constraints imposed by policymaker were primarily fear based. This may have been due a perceived difference between religious versus secular acceptance of death (a continuation versus end). My point isn’t that policymakers can’t make nuanced decisions about the value of a human life (since it is done on a regular basis) but instead that from a policymakers perspective it was irrelevant. The bigger concern was the collapse of the health care system which is a non-negotiable.

The assumption that friends and family will calmly watch a family member’s untended death from covid when ICUs are over capacity and that essential workers will continue to show up for work knowing there is no hope for care if they fall ill is unrealistic in my opinion.
So this is Tesla specific? I've certainly seen no such thing with my Nissan Leaf in the US.
Insurance is a profit driven business. If EV premiums have risen then the actuaries have made an assessment to risk of loss of profits even under re-insurance.

When brand specific theft surges, theft insurance for those brands rise.

I hate the effect this will have on EV uptake but I caution against assuming there is no factual basis to why insurers are moving. It's like futures markets and one of the reasons why they were invented: to manage farmers future risks, not just to benefit derivatives investors. If premiums are rising, future and current owners need to know why, and EV manufacturers need to be responsive.
I know this is tongue in cheek, but normal internal combustion engines convert the explosion into rotary motion of an air pump, whereas this uses the explosion in a more direct way via the expansion of the membrane. I thought that was really cool
Mozilla is providing a defense card for Google's lawyers when the anti-thrust sharks circle around..
I started using HN because I'm a rust fanboy and there was a lot of rust content (same with lobsters). I'm glad to say there is a lot of other HN content that interests me, I might never have known.

Funny enough, in contrast to when I joined, the pendulum seems to have swung, and comments disparaging rust seem to be en vogue.
I think the Microbit is a nice starting point for kids 10-11.

You can code it with block programming, Python, or Javascript in the MS Makecode interface.

If you have two Microbits, they can talk to each other over the built in radio.

I have created my own remote control lego robot with two microbits, a breakout board, and two micro servos.

I think there are over 25 million units sold all over the world.
I see a whole lot of LinkedIn profiles who have identified/verified themselves with a "Government ID." Imagine that.
This seems like a bit of a "duh" article? Most widely-used plastics are basically (very) long-chain hydrocarbons. Hydrogen and carbon. It's just like crude oil, except less... crude.
I was a good US citizen and used what little influence I had among my social circle to encourage others to follow the COVID protection measures. And I adore Nate Silver. So, pardon me if I confess that all I read in this article was:

Blah blah blah 'I mostly agree with ... an October 2020 anti-lockdown statement signed by a large number of scientists and medical professionals. “Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal”' blah blah.

I don't have any regrets about the position I took, since it seemed to be based on all the verified information we had at the time. YET, I hope our society will embrace the fact that we were largely wrong to prolong the lockdown measures. Humility doesn't hurt the Left either.