skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most normies "internet" is synonymous with their favorite social media site and maybe Google. I've been talking to quite a few Zoomers lately about the Internet. Not a single one of them knew what the WWW was. They though it was basically something Google made.

The important social media apps (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and to a lesser degree Twitter) are barely part of the Web. They mostly treat the WWW as a minor traffic acquisition platform.
That's almost 2 weeks! Amazon Prime comes the next day.
Why is it odd? The goal isn’t revenue, it’s profit.

That may have been forgotten during central banks’ long experiment with zirp but we are no longer in that.
> And there are bit flags in the encoder instructions that carry header values that signal they should never be inserted into a dynamic table.

My understanding is that these header values have to be known to the Qpack implementation beforehand. As a result, it isn't possible for an HTTP/3 client to signal to Qpack to treat a particular custom header as a never-indexed literal.
I had a bed desk with the monitor above me for about 9 months. It was a total gamechanger and I would definitely recommend it if you have the space. I don't have the space anymore, but one day I want to go back to that method of working.. no back or neck pain, more concentration
I would have thought most progressives absolutely believe crime is rising - due to the increased wealth gap in the U.S.
Ask HN: Properties of a Production Service
What are the most useful nonfunctional properties that any service would benefit from?

For the purposes of this thread, let's assume that the cost of development is not an issue. After all, well designed software can be reused at virtually no cost.

Observability?

Backups?

Data import and export?

Authorization, multitenancy?

Admin UI?

Clients in all languages?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine

Hydrazine is the reason for the full hazmat suits and chemical sniffers used by personnel handling loading spacecraft propellant, handling landed spacecraft [1], and even the F-16's EPU [2].

1 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/X-37B_OT...

2 - https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/17/2002743830/1200/1200/0...
It can do all of those things though. Usually does. Usually is why you are there. I can't imagine anyone who has even just test driven one doing anything but frantically scanning the roadway while somehow white knuckling with a loose grip. The manual and the somewhat erratic behavior of the 3d model representing what it is aware of are not confidence inspiring. Added since this incident, the driver monitor camera, which uses ir illumination at night, disables autopilot if it decides you aren't looking at the road, has some false positives. The only thing I trust it for is stop and go traffic on a major highway. It does that reliably. I'm still scanning nervously to avoid a low speed collision. I've had it automatically engage brakes once in what it thought was an emergency when cruise control was off. I saw the person cutting me off and was about to brake with plenty of time. My wife agreed with the car...
I dunno. We have some politicians in the US that appear to be totally enamored with these totalitarian strongmen, and they have very large domestic followings. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see them try to follow their methods.
and your point is...?
You raise some good points about the data and analysis here, but it seems curious you’re willing to accept Target’s claims without any data or analysis at all.

Certainly retail theft is a big problem, and Target is strongly incentivized to put pressure on government to do something. So I would expect them to blame theft for any store closure, even if was for orthogonal reasons like low sales, problems with building systems, demographic trends, whatever.
I took a look at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27419/00000274192100... and searched for theft, and found this text as the only hit: "data loss or theft [...] could [...] adversely affect our results of operations. We continually invest to maintain and update our computer systems."

What are you finding in the SEC reports about theft? I'm not an expert at reading them.
> I think Gödel had a proof for how it’s impossible to fully describe a system from within that system. That’s the nail in the coffin for AGI.

Gödels theorems are about formal axiomatic theories. To apply them to human intelligence, you'd have to prove that human intelligence springs from formal axiomatic theories. I don't think this is possible, which would mean that you can't apply the theorems.

> No matter how much data we give it, no matter how big it is, it’ll never be “human intelligent” since it’s impossible for us to describe a loss function for being human or describe being human in a dataset.

How do you know? If we were able to fully record whatever is going on in someones brain, we should be able to build a loss function for it. How do you know that this is fundamentally impossible?

> We’ll never be able to evaluate it, since we can’t fully describe what it means to communicate because to do that we’d need to communicate it and that process can’t be fully self describing.

Why not? Again, if you argue that this is due to Gödels theorems, you'd have to prove that our communication itself is based on formal axiomatic theories.
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> so I don’t see how it has any bearing on stores which were closed because they are outliers.

So we have flawed data and a corporate press release with no data and motivation to avoid any conversation about closing stores for any reason that could reflect poorly on the company's fundamentals.

(hard to take a comment seriously when it doesn’t even acknowledge this possible flaw in their premise?)
This article is well sourced, transparent about definitions and data. It’s a post child for high quality content.

And you are rambling about propaganda, trying to move the question of the quality of reporting and data to “who is the author”, some casual whataboutism about “why don’t they do something else” and outright miss the point where the definition for hatespeech used is clearly the one Meta themselves defined.

Then again your overall comment profile is just that, so if you want to make it about who is the author, you probably have to accept a “who are you”
No, I'm saying "'your solution sucks' isn't constructive criticism". There are many solutions you can choose from, and you're welcome to choose any of them. The fact that this has privacy issues doesn't invalidate it as a solution, it just makes it unsuitable for people who want privacy. Those people will choose something else.

It's not Cloudflare's responsibility to do anything, really. They could just as well not have released this. As a service owner, I want to be able to distinguish legitimate users from bots. If I can't do that, there's a real possibility that I will stop offering a subset of my service. If someone can find a privacy-preserving solution to distinguishing legitimate users and bots, amazing, but, until then, users will have to choose between the existing solutions and not accessing my service at all.

I don't see how this could be any other way, and complaining about Cloudflare's implementation of a CAPTCHA doesn't do anything constructive, as far as I can see. The problem still remains, and no amount of "your solution isn't good, do better" is helping.
Plants slogan: 'The only good vegan is a dead vegan'.
I don't think they're making that assumption. I think they're saying that not all theft is reported to the police.
I find that using a standing desk during at least half of the day is ideal for me.
Are you professing that we should pass on everone that doesn't have a perfect record?

I mean, is there someone with a perfect record?

I think you learn and grow to be good, to take care of others, and this process goes with mistakes that impact yourself and others... You cannot expect someone to be always 100% perfect all the time.

As for myself, I did tons of shit that I am not proud of, so you should pass on this comment as well...
I think it's more that they're already engaging in that behavior, and hate SBF because he did it so openly and poorly. Nobody hates an incompetent scammer like a competent scammer.
I read the article and perhaps I missed it, but does the author propose a reason other than theft why these stores are closing? Is there an implied reason that I’m just too obtuse to catch?
Lots of problems could be at least severely mitigated if you could throw literally millions of bodies at the problem - if AGI could deliver a $50 chip that could substitute for a human, then could shove each one into a roomba wired to an arm, and you basically have an infinite free workforce.
I'm not poly, but if I had to guess, the resurgence of that is the pendulum swinging back the other way against how atomized social media has made us. Many people, myself included, don't many or any friends. Poly is one way of closing that gap for those who are open minded and searching for deep familial like bonds.

The coming advent of genetic engineering will make poly more interesting as it be possible for more than 2 people to be biological parents. In fact, we see this already in popular sci fi like The Expanse.
Instead of chatting about trivialities or sitting in endless meetings about upcoming meetings i go for a walk. That gives me the opportunity to plan my day ahead, stretches my legs, clears my eyes, lets me breath fresh air, greet a neighbour, and smell flowers. All in all that’s more time spent standing than if i were given the opportunity to do so only when going to the loo or walking towards … meeting rooms. Apparently it will also help me avoid dementia.
Yeah no, they contacted us for an audit because a few people had the previously free and confusingly licensed JVM installed, and wanted us to pay for licenses for all thousands of employees. Just dealing with them cost us significant resources. The reputation is well deserved, I will never touch an Oracle product and will try to stay away from Java as well.

Don't believe me? Here's another example https://old.reddit.com//r/sysadmin/comments/165kzxg/oracleja...

> Oracle isn't nearly as oppressive as people on the outside are desperate to believe.

Why are you so desperate to believe this is normal? I dealt with dozens of software vendors and even Microsoft was nowhere near as bad even when they found actual widespread piracy of their products in an overseas sister company that we don't control. They made sure the used products got paid for and went away.
How will frustrating users make it better?

Of course things need to be paid for, but throwing up a giant stop sign is maybe the worst possible user experience. The web needs a native value transfer mechanism, but so far all efforts have failed.
That makes no sense. Implementing libc and related libs literally means implementing their API. getaddrinfo() is a part of that.

Also, getaddrinfo() is so elaborate because it handles a huge amount of networking layers. It's specifically broad and flexible because its predecessor (gethostbyname()) was not, and was found to be inadequate.
> In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine (devised by English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing).

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
>Imagine going for a stroll, unencumbered by a phone, preoccupied by the glories of the world around you:

>we have the opportunity to imagine new versions of the public sphere,

>psychogeography has become a ripe tool for analyzing environments, both real and imagined

>imagining post-Katrina New Orleans

>This malleability of psychogeography, from the literal concrete to the stretches of the virtual imagination

>it’s hard to imagine the impetus it would take for the observations made on a psychogeographical journey to have a tangible impact

>How can living communities be completely reimagined

>The imaginative potential of psychogeography can play an important role

I guess I lack the proper imagination to fully understand what this is about. I went through the article twice; I've also gone on thousands of walks all around my heterogeneous neighborhood, never looking at a smartphone screen (although I do listen to my favorite music).

What can or should I do with the information/opinions in this article?
It's the same reason comments criticizing journalists or mega media corporation is flagged now. Most social media are propaganda platforms.
Target is planning on opening 20 new stores in 2023.
This. Everyone agrees that retail theft is a problem, the dispute is whether to address it by looking at root causes or just to yell at people to get a third job and stop criming.
Curious to know how you found this paper? I'd like to be able to find interesting papers but I've not found a place of curation unfortunately.
The previous parts do say that Facebook was not doing well even when it was just disorganized masses and some provocateurs, but I am the only one who feels it is weird that Facebook, a private company, is expect to "fight" state organizations? Is this consequence of free market capitalism really how the US should do things?
Generally people who are bored are, themselves, boring.
You may be interested in

- Using IEEE floating-point error for ML transfer functions http://tom7.org/grad/

- Using IEEE NaN and infinity to build logic gates and a whole CPU http://tom7.org/nand/
this report? https://app.quotemedia.com/data/downloadFiling?webmasterId=1...

i'm not seeing losses due to theft broken out anywhere.
The article is BS, just look at the SF map where it states that there's barely any shoplifting in SF because only ~80 reports where made on a particular area.

Anyone from the Bay Area will tell you that there is much more rampant shoplifting, than what is reported because everyone knows there is no point in reporting it
Humans don't put ants in zoos because the ants overconsume their localized habitat though. A naive super intelligent agi has no reason to care if global warming makes the planet 150 degrees F on average, if it's self-interested it would surely be able to be "ok" on a planet under those conditions.
Although I missed seeing the Orchestrion tour in the 2010s, Pat still takes a subset of these instruments on tour with him. Both of his two previous tours, Side Eye and Dream Box had parts of the concert that had robotic percussion and wind instruments.
Reddit is in that list and I have to imagine a lot of their traffic is still WWW
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The phrasing “Autopilot is safer than human driving” makes it sound like Autopilot is a replacement for human driving, rather than a supplement. That kind of marketing is part of the problem: it’s teaching consumers to rely on Autopilot too much and encouraging users to misunderstand Autopilot’s capabilities and limitations.
I think KiCad is suitable for beginners, even if you haven't breadboarded yet, but note that Breadboards exist to give you lots and lots of practice before you start spending money on PCBs.

Each PCB is a bit of money after all, and if you are inevitably going to make a mistake it's better to breadboard.

But as far as difficulty goes, things like KiCad exist for a reason. Computer automation and checks help, as well as parts libraries for you to download/copy rather than building your own footprints.

So feel free to start KiCad + ordering boards the moment you are willing to lose money on your mistakes!!! It's not any harder IMO. Just costlier.

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As far as learning Kiad, this guide is good but it's missing the broad overview IMO. So here's my broad overview:

1. Build symbols representing each chip or part you plan to use. Standard parts (like resistors) already exist in KiCAD7.0 library, but inevitably there will be a few missing parts for your project. This may be called symbol editing, but perhaps it's more accurate to call it pin-naming.

2. Hook up the parts together in the schematic editor. Double check symbols and their pinouts now. Fix symbol mistakes now. This creates a computerized set of nets (connections) that KiCad will try to enforce moving forward.

3. Choose the footprints for every part in your schematic. Beginners should probably use 0805 (inches) parts or larger. (equivalent to 2012 metric). Like #1, there is a footprint library for common parts, but you will inevitably have to create at least one or two footprints of your own for your personal projects. Footprints tell KiCad where pins are located physically (inches or mm) here vs there.

4. PCB layout begins. KiCad has a 'rats nest' based on your schematic. As long as #1, #2, and #3 are correct (ie: correct symbols / pinouts, correct schematic, and finally correct footprints) you probably can't make a mistake anymore. Assuming a low speed beginner circuit anyway (the professional would focus on physical issues like heat, noise, EMI, crosstalk and other such issues. Beginners can likely ignore all of that assuming you chose a suitable beginner project).

By step#4, KiCAD knows the name of every pin (#1), which pins should be connected to which pins (#2), and where each pin is located physically (#3). All that's left to do is draw your wires together in step#4.
I doubt a teacher would have charges because I assume there must be mens rea for this to be a crime.

This is not a "haven't they suffered enough" issue. They are idiots paying too much at an actual grocery for what they thought is magic water without rocket fuel in it. They're not intentionally giving bleach to their child or anything like that. The culpability is with the manufacturer.
I’ve spent a lot of time playing Elite: Dangerous since the open beta. A beautiful game, with phenomenal sound design.

Some thoughts I wrote 9 years ago: https://hypertexthero.com/elite-dangerous-education/

The Odyssey expansion is fun, too, and I hope they add EVA space walks and 0-G missions at some point!
It's already moved over. The data can be reduced to a fairly compressed form where it's about 1.6 TB in total, so it's easy to just tarball and check with an md5sum that it's the same on both ends.

As described in the post, a lot of the data is also heavily redundant so even if something goes wrong in one or a few places, the missing parts can be reconstructed from the rest.
How much are you willing to pay for such a product?
If you’re accusing them of lying, it would be nice if you brought evidence.
Are you asking if shrink varies store to store?

Yes. I grew up in a grocery store basically, shrink could vary 30% or more between stores. Stores with liquor in the back corners could easily be 10% more.

Theft is only reported if you caught somebody, which you basically don’t try to do anymore
You might want to look at Cosh[1]. I'm puzzling over the paper right now, actually! It's a model for providing a message-passing abstraction that still allows for optimizations. I don't think it's really known outside of the research setting, and writing an efficient Cosh implementation will probably require some time.

In short, it provides three modes of transfer: move, share, and copy. For instance, a move transfer takes data that the sender has R/W permissions to and wholly "gives" it to the receiver. This may be done with page table VM remappings. It also has a strong or weak property that indicates whether the sender and receiver can be trusted to cooperate or must be strictly corralled with VM permission remappings.

To be honest, I don't know if it can be optimized well enough to match ultra-optimized pipes or whatever reliably. That might be a "sufficiently smart compiler" issue. Still, I think it's worth a shot.

[1] https://barrelfish.org/publications/trios14-baumann-cosh.pdf
You can wrap search terms in quotes for exact results
The second interview on TF, released this month, was good.

But Arnold’s first interview with Tim back in 2015 was much better (IMHO).

https://tim.blog/2015/02/02/arnold-schwarzenegger/
Social phenomena (such as crime) are not distributed evenly.
Fun game! I can see myself coming back everyday to play this
> Git is hard because it solves a non trivial problem.

But other version control systems are solving the same non-trivial problem, yet I don't find them hard to understand and use...
Yep, it's not undying, but the murder happened at no fault of theirs. I'm taking credit for that one.
There's more to it, because plenty of journalists and writers get paid without a paywall, but that's because some vastly wealthy person or corporation is using them to create and spread propaganda. Fox News will always be free, that's the point.

This disdain for paying for things disproportionately advantages propagandists who aren't in the business to make a profit, and undercuts outsiders who want to genuinely dive into long-form, investigative pieces.
That seems like an insane number for an experienced person--that's almost an application every two days--and a yield of less than 1% which presumably wasn't even a compelling offer.
There’s a lot more overhead than just replacing the hardware. You have to manage the rest of your software stack as well; no vendor will update log4j vulns or let you know when your k8s needs an upgrade. For some users the cost of cloud is worth it for these kinds of reasons.
Haha, I have heard that from a lot of people. I actually really like that `f` for some reason.
Not a great optics.

Everyone knows Google has been swirling the tank for over a decade for actual web search and AI will likely finish the job. The main vector I look at is how much control does the user have over the results they see? That has been in decline at least since Google+ took away the + operator.

Remember "did you mean" results? Now we get "let's assume you meant" with fewer and fewer ways to force "actually I did mean..." This is the obvious trajectory for any corp that needs to show quarter over quarter growth for 20+ years, at some point you hollow out from the middle until the whole thing collapses.
Yes it's definitely not ideal for all situations, this is more for when you own the API.
If you've ever dealt with NYC cops, you know they loathe to accept crime reports. I'm not sure the reason, maybe they want to keep the reported crime rate down, maybe they just don't want to do the desk work of writing the report, but they may gaslight you to stop you from reporting a crime.

Example: a neighborhood acquaintance (pizza shop operator in the UWS) was unloading supplies from his car. A dude jumped in the car and tried to take off with it. Revved the engine but wasn't able to get it into gear. He was wrestled out and the cops came. The cops kept asking questions like "are you sure he wasn't just taking a seat and relaxing?", "How do we know you didn't say he could sit there?", "Are all your restaurant licenses up to date?", "He could sue you for holding him down like that", etc, ultimately leading the victim to tell the cops to just fuck off and they let the dude just walk away.
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Over my career I’ve watched the transition from on-prem to public cloud. The cloud paradigm shift is as much about empowering engineers as it is about elastic infrastructure, but the tooling for on-prem and private clouds is at best heavyweight and at worst stuck in the last century.
We've tackled some interesting problems in the process of building this, such as providing a cloud-style metadata service from our platform.

We’d love for you to read our story and try it out!

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Second one is possibly my favourite YouTube video of all time.
Those paywalls don't save you from any tracking, it's just more bad on top of bad.