skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230223081016/https://www.figma...

It’s a client-server architecture with a bit of CRDT inspired algorithm sprinkle on for offline mode. The name of the game remains consensus and CRDTs convoluted approach is there to server a niche in the spectrum of distributed consensus. It is slower, more complex, and less transparent. I wouldn’t really use it outside of long lived and erratic P2P nodes — CRDTs solve that problem and that is what they are really designed for: partition prone, long lived, distributed, peer to peer, collaborative global state changes.
Brazil exists under the ever-watchful eyes of the United Fruit Company.
HTTP/3 is becoming more popular because Microsoft and Google white-washed google's QUIC through the IETF. It's popular because what they call "HTTP/3" is perfectly designed for meeting the needs of a multi-national corporation serving web content to millions of people. But it's only megacorps using it for their walled gardens.

It's a terrible protocol for the human person web. You can't even host a visitable website for people who use HTTP/3 without getting the permission of a third party corporation to temporarily lend you an TLS cert. Once Chrome drops HTTP/1.1 support say goodbye to just hosting a website as a person free from any chains to corporate ass-covering. While LetsEncrypt is benign now, it won't always stay that way as more and more people use it. Just like with dot Org it'll go bad and there'll be nowhere to run.

TLS only HTTP/3 is just as bad for individual autonomy as web attestation in it's own way.
It remembers to me, the HeartBleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed where there was only one person with salary in a important project.
You are delusional. That could happen in a single event, let alone "ever" as your comment is implying.
Don't take this the wrong way but corporate are such prima donnas!

I got flashbacks from my tiny startup days when corporate went to procurement companies which wanted specific terms and mode of payment. And after all the infrastructure was in place... they basically spent no money!

The SBOM idea exists in various forms. Few need it and few use it.

If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.
Not if that it requires me to reduce my conspicuous consumption by one cent! I've been trained all my life by media and advertisment to equate the acquisition of cheaply produced, low quality trash with freedom, and you can take it from my cold dead hands.

I need to continue buying all that useless crap to feel I have status!
Turbo Pascal 7 did syntax highlighting, as well as source-level debugging. That was on top of nice-to-have features like auto-indenting.

It was a DOS, Turbo Vision application.
There are times that I feel like I’m doing engineering when I write software. Those are often the most fulfilling (and most frustrating) parts of my job. But most of the time what I’m doing is just putting things together or repairing things to achieve a goal - not figuring out anything new. I’d say I feel more like a construction worker for 80-90% of my workload.
LOL, NICE
Often, there's no antenna for FM in the devices, even though they might be able to theoretically receive, and may even have an RF frontend for it. Older phones often used the ground of attached headphones as a makeshift antenna, and would refuse to operate, or just fail to receive anything.
The scientific use of both terms has been around since the 80s, and is pretty well-settled, with climate change evolving from "inadvertent climate modification" which was the go-to term in the 70s.

The memo you are referring to happened well over 20 years later. The term was not created by Frank Luntz.

>In the 1980s, the terms global warming and climate change became more common. Though the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably,[24] scientifically, global warming refers only to increased surface warming, while climate change describes the totality of changes to Earth's climate system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Terminology

https://web.archive.org/web/20100809221926/http://www.nasa.g...
>"No, I'm saying the people who are running for school boards so they can openly hate all minorities and setup christian-nationalist views are "right wing extremists"

Except this isn't happening. This is gaslighting to paint anyone who questions how schools are pushing racial curriculum as far right extremists. It's always the same argument with the left. Everything you disagree with is not racist.

Lastly, the idea that if you don't like schools telling kids that if they're a certain color they're victims incapable of ever having a good life, or they're literal slave owning devils that are given an unfair advantage.... well that's pure racist garbage. It's not "hateful" to want that to go away.
> I'm not saying anything about this specific case

Please don't assume that by discussing the appropriate level of initial fine in an interaction between a company and a regulatory agency, that I'm saying government doesn't have a role here. That does not follow at all.

I'm more questioning the presumption in this comment section that the regulator should have been harsher to start with.

To me it seems natural that a referee in an interaction will start off gently saying "hey, I'm paying attention to this issue now, here's a minor fine, but watch out" so the players know to care. If they continue misbehaving, they'll start being thrown out of the game.

But saying that the ref should start off his first enforcement with seriously damaging penalties doesn't seem reasonable. Nearly every sport in practice involves a gap between the rules "as written" and the rules as "as enforced" - i.e. fouling, traveling in the NBA, strike zone in MLB. In all of these cases, players need 1) knowledge of what's going on in this game and 2) consistency from the ref so they can adjust and not be outplayed.

Why don't refs always enforce rules to the max? To me this is a key aspect of human systems, the human freedom of refs as people to adjust to make things work well, especially when the rules as written are insane or incorrect, and are extremely hard to change upstream (due to government/publicity/etc) problems, in addition to just plain incompetence in congress.

i.e. "The NBA won't redefine the traveling rule to reflect reality, but refs enforce the 'real' rule which is used on playgrounds, and everyone knows the level of enforcement that will be used in each situation, even though refs never actually write it down."

You may want an exact match between rules/laws & enforcement, but it doesn't work that way with human referees. Same thing here. Enforcement is a kind of communication and negotiation between parties; starting off by nuking the company will scare them so badly, others will abandon the space or the US due to the harshness. Also, the discussions that come out of this will be things like "what's an efficient way for the company to do what the agency wants? Keep in mind our restrictions here (e.g. every rocket launch also has some harm/risk to your priorities; is there a way we can help all of our concerns from within the multiple ways to solve this issue?)"
Jagra: A task management system for Rustaceans.
US mental health startup Headway raises $125M at $1B valuation
Yeah it might be wise to invest into some backup solar and an inverter to run off-grid in a pickle, after all max heat will also typically mean max solar output at the same time.
Um, no.

Looking at NASA's climate graph:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming/pag...
the most rapid upswing rose almost 10C in 1850 or so years, or about 0.5C per century. (the total change was a bit more, maybe 12-13C)

In addition, you've evidently failed to notice that we're currently *not* in an ice age, which means that mean temperatures are near the peak estimated values over the last 800,000 years. Living in the Boston area, I've definitely noticed that my house isn't covered with a thousand feet of ice that's scraping it south towards Long Island...
If you consider your schizophrenic uncle to be "interpretable", sure.
First time I ever looked up the definition of an engineer:

“a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.”
A lot of comments are focusing on penalties.

Just asking this tech focused community, but shouldn't the correct action be for a UN level entity charge an automatic de-orbiting fee.

Even thinking it as a bottle deposit return if the launching company succeeds in its de-orbit burnup for ongoing constellations.
You never had a point.
Thanks so much for writing this up! I am super interested in learning about this kind of content (in particular I'd love to learn to "free" cheap wifi security cameras with my own custom firmware, dafang-hacks style, or how to create a new exploit to root kindle fire tablets, stuff like that), but it is surprisingly hard to find detailed writeups of the process.
Fantastic to see and I hope that this extends to upgradability too, it's absurd that the only way to get more storage on so called "professional" products like macbooks is to purchase a brand new one.
I think this is partially why things like discord and in general semi-private circles are very popular. Here on HN discord is often criticized cause it's inherently a closed platform but that also makes it less accessible for content enshittificators.
Not a CE myself, but computer engineers definitely consider physics in their solutions since they have to consider complexity, computational speed, memory restrictions, concurrency etc

Aka they take fundamental theoretical concepts and given the physical constraints we have from the existing computing systems they come up with viable solutions.
From Trolltech to Nokia to Digia and now to its own company, Qt has been through a lot. I wonder what license they're running under now.

Edit: looks like it's a mix of GPLs, LGPLs, and their own license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28software
As others have already commented:

The US government has added SBOMs to a proposed rule to update the Federal Acquisition Regulation. So if you want to sell to the US Government you'll have to provide SBOMs: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/03/2023-21...

Lots of large companies require SBOMs from their supplier.

In the EU we will get the Cyber Resilience Act which will make them mandatory as well in certain cases: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12536-2023-...

And yes, there's bascially two technical standards to provide them: SPDX and CycloneDX: https://cyclonedx.org/
Been using Internet since 1996, never made any money directly from it. But it sure has been helpful when pursuing a career in tech.
Climate change suffers from lying and politically motivated influence. Lets just look at the science itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P...

RCP6 isn't happening because we absolutely have gone into renewables, hybrid and ev cars, etc.

From link on RCP8.5: "Since AR5 this has been thought to be very unlikely, but still possible as feedbacks are not well understood. RCP8.5, generally taken as the basis for worst-case climate change scenarios, was based on what proved to be overestimation of projected coal outputs."

8.5 and 6 are not happening, therefore climate change is not going to result in any sort of catastrophe. Fantastic news, so why the lying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

If you look at examples of climate change representation, they near universally will always use RCP 8.5 as the prediction. Like the graph above, why the lying?

The models have been out long enough. We know we are actually following somewhere between 2.6 and 4.5. We have been doing a great job migrating away from carbon. We won't even be peaking similar to the peaks every 150,000 years.
> There are such obvious first steps we could take without a complete understanding of cause if we really cared.

That's the issue, a lot of people just don't care or refuse to believe it. Questions like the one in the parent comment are starting to seriously annoy me because they're demanding an unachievable level of evidence before doing anything, a level that's never asked for in any other kind of intervention (for example, interest rate hikes).
Didn't Texas freeze over a couple
years ago?

Edit: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/great-texas-freeze-february-2...
This article is about exported documents, i.e. the point at which you say "I am leaving the ecosystem of my chosen tool".

The wording of the interstitial page says "If you do not want to visit that page..." i.e. it's about whether you expected to visit one website or another. Surely google.com is as 'surprising' to the user as any other page.

BTW keyhole.com is an old Google-owned domain. From https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains

EDIT:

From my own experiment exporting a docuemnt it renders links as

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://example.com&sa=D&source...

I changed some param values, I don't know what they do. But with the original values it remembered my preference. So it seems like they're tracking and storing clicks.
‘Monk mode’ is the ‘new’ trend to improve your attention span
I know right. The kids these days. Most of them never learned to solder either so how can they assemble their own computers from ics? I caught one of my tech leads using a jet burner lighter and just scorching the whole board. And forget reading core dumps in hex!!! An intern was just putting the hex dump in the chat chibi and asking it what went wrong. Get off my lawn already.
This is an amusing example of how pervasive censorship coupled to the corporate takeover has created an atmosphere of fear within the academic community in the USA:

> "If the utmost end of the university is or should be the advancement and distribution of knowledge – an increasingly open question in some quarters..."

They just can't come out and say it openly - but the corporatization of the American academic system has resulted in a new primary goal for academic institutions: the generation of revenue streams. A secondary but closely related goal is to not damage any existing revenue streams (by, for example, demonstrating some negative side effects of a newly patented and lucrative drug / technology / etc.).

You won't find any career academics in the US system openly discussing this; that would be about as damaging to their career as criticizing Trofim Lysenko's plant breeding ideology in the USSR would have been for a Soviet scientist (although getting fired is less draconian than being exported to Siberia, I suppose). Some independent journalists have tackled it, however:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/195083

> "In the process, the university's culture of openness and collaboration on scientific discovery has eroded; and growing conflicts of interest, as well as the demands of start-up businesses operating out of faculty research labs, have the potential to negatively impact the professional development of future generations of scientists. The result of this trend poses what Washburn calls "the single greatest threat to the future of higher education""

It's not surprising that the authors of this piece don't dare mention this issue explicitly, though it is a bit pathetic.
I like this point of view, and I'll even go a step further...

If we're going to use LLMs as the basis for anything resembling general intelligence, it won't be through one-shot invocation of the model. It'll be through some kind of chain/tree/graph of thought where the model invokes itself recursively.

In this scenario, we have an exact transcript of the model's thought process, exactly as it occurred, written for us in english. The model can't even have a private "thought", everything needs to be in the visible context.

You can't get more interpretable than that.
MIT created SOTA, cost effective desalination system
The life cycle of Apple Phones for updates is 6 years. On Android, it’s about 2 - 6 years.

If you don’t like the terms, go with a Linux distro phone. There is choice now.
There is one that everyone uses, unfortunately.
Sure you can. Do you think slack can? Google can just down their entire fleet? Servers are an essential part of the world functioning. Curl is such a foundational library it's almost sure to be used in a large of part of existing servers.
Yes. And also, it's bad PR for the team responsible. Managers don't want to have trouble hiring people. After the first fine, the message can be "we're modernizing to stop this from happening!" But getting multiple fines over years is going to make the best of the talent poor essentially unavailable to hire.
One of my favorite arguments in this topic is when 'Real Engineers' say "If my part fails, someone could DIE!"...to the Facebook/IG/TicTok Engineer whose role in Social media drives suicides across the world.
There's little value in that statement.

Intelligence is IMO an inherently comparative measure.

It's not "on/off", it's "smarter" (than a pile of rocks, than a slug, than another human).

So, yeah, you can be a dumb human but you'd be a smart chimpanzee. But we want to be comparing apples with apples in the context of this topic.

When people say "AI", everyone implicitly assumes the comparison with human intelligence. So "AI" needs to be as smart as the average human to be actual AI. Ok, AGI, if you prefer that term.

There's a reason AI is moving farther and farther away and we're creating new, finer, terms like ML, shape recognition, etc.
That would be because that site is hosted on a Google service, but depends on the hostname to figure out which customer/backend to use. This is normal for any multi-tenant hosting. Your CNAME is not registered for that application in the hosting service's database and therefore they can't tell what it's for.

Remember that a CNAME isn't a redirect or anything, there's literally no way for the receiving webserver to know the domain that was CNAME'd in these sorts of requests.
Really? Are you a developer? Do you use any language that tries not to pollute the system or even user dirs (rust, go, npm/yarn, maven, virtualenv)? It's so much nicer to separate versions of things from system-installed versions of things. If you are one, could you imagine how annoying it would be if these languages all only allowed one installed version at a time on your system? How could you ever manage to work on two medoum-large projects at once? One requires left-pad 0.1, the other requires left-pad 0.1.1 etc.

This is solved for many languages: have one directory per project (node_modules, target) and optionally have a user cache so you don't have to redownload stuff. Or, have one usercache, but still separate by versions. I think people know how painful c and c++ versions are and don't want to do that again. Even with c/c++: cmake, automake, and bazel are there to wrangle package versions.

Though, I do agree things like Firefox or Thunderbird don't need to be hidden in a mysterious cache location
Other way around. The idea is that anybody can right-click-save whatever game they like. But when you run the game, the first thing it would do is check your blockchain wallets for authorization to execute this game.

Basically, accept that your game media will be copied willy-nilly and do a "does the user actually have ownership rights to this" check that is already common today, except that do this check against the blockchain so that there isn't a single-point-of-failure by putting all reliance on the vendor's auth servers.
I'd say the biggest risk is that upon one of the pushes of one satellite toward the other, the propulsion of an old satellite fails, keeps accelerating and causes a crash.
For me a real friend is somebody you can do important things together with, where trust is needed. I've never had a huge need for idle conversation. Life is in action. But people have unnecessarily limited themselves to think they are only allowed to do important things within their day job.

I think most real friendships among adults last when people also do business, projects and networking together. Just sitting and reminiscing on old memories, gossiping, or commenting on unimportant things gets old quick.
I think they could be drawing those menus with Krita
Yep. I've seen Bluetooth be affected by microwaves. Also seen WiFi be affected by Bluetooth.
It doesn't mean your microwave is unsafe.
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.

You can find the whole thing on youtube
macOS supports viewing USD, STL, Alembic, PLY, OBJ for almost a decade now (some formats being newer).

Windows as well supports gltf in many areas.

iOS natively supports USDZ for the last 5-ish years.
Let's say I want to make sure to donate to ALL open source projects I use in my company. Those in my builds as well as those used on our computers that are not build dependencies (e.g. Firefox, vim, Linux, ...).

How do I do that today?
I collect a list of that software and contact hundreds of individual people and organizations, figure out the donation processes, fill out forms, transfer money etc.

I want this to be automated.
I want this automation to build upon existing standards.

Does that help?
They might even care negatively, since AIUI being a full professor opens up new "opportunities" to get stuck doing administrative work.
On most of my old android phones you just needed an app (Next Radio iirc) and wired headphones to listen to the radio.
That’s the one yes, thanks.
Cypress blocking 3rd party libraries
Type bugs are so rare in regular code that it's significantly insignificant when measured during research studies. From a code correctness point of view, static typing is simply speaking useless.

You should have spent the time statically typing your code on writing more tests.
You're probably right but I fear the end of that road is a completely "re-terraformed" Earth we create to adapt to support our industrial society.
Probably not many if you don't count small individual art studios - the mobile gacha game industry(and anime animation to some extent) don't standardize art styles and pipeline art production as done in American movie and comic industries, but relies on intimate collaborations with external, individual artists for creative components.

So they mostly only import (Krita-exported) PSD into Ps, or even if Krita was used professionally on the floor by employed artists, choice of tools would be up to artist's discretion and might not become a corporate talking point in the way, say, what Maya or Lightwave debate would be.

Maybe OnlyFans/Patreon could throw a million or two for couple years...? But Krita is not the first choice across the board, and creators on those platform don't seem too concerned with CSP/Procreate subscriptions, so that might be a difficult path too?
I agree specific knowledge 'products' are difficult to predict. That science would grow beyond the capacity of any individual researcher to keep up with its field however, has long been contemplated [0].

Yet when a field is plateauing or saturated is difficult to say, and I don't find it a compelling argument for closing up shop and calling it a day as the article is suggesting.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Science,_Big_Science
Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Failures: Analysis of Production Failures (2014) [pdf]
This has been there from the start. It's to hide the referer from the page you land on. It used to be standard practice for anyone writing a web application to avoid inadvertently leaking user information in the referer header. There are better ways to do this if the user is on a modern browser. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/rduckdu...
"(Lenovo) said people buy new smartphones every other year but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. The industry needs to do better at motivating people to buy new devices"

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/microsofts-panos-panay-expla...