skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903911

I was using softdeps on OpenBSD 6.4, on an old Thinkpad x200.

Once the battery ran out unexpectedly (old battery reporting incorrect remaining time), while I was doing some downloads and compiling a package. The system became unbootable because of filesystem corruption, after fsck and overwrite of system packages from other boot media I noticed extensive data loss.

After clean reinstall experiencing intel drm driver kernel panics during ports install the disk became corrupted once again, with some files lost.

I reinstaled the system once again and with disabled intel drm and softdeps the system worked for a while, but was slow as an ancient pentium.

I reinstalled windows and the machine worked great for years afterwards (with the wifi being a bit choppy, which was perfect on openbsd) for some tasks I needed a semi-portable windows machine (running some windows only plc programming tools).

The ssd was healthy, memcheck did not find memory errors. I reinstaled my openbsd server with linux which was running ok meanwhile, but now I can sleep assured that my data is mostly safe.
"They are appointed by the elected(the governments of the countries and the European Parliament, which are all elected)."

The executive (governments) should not become legislators, under the principle of seperation of powers of Montesquieu.
Should've focused on grid capacity, grid scale storage and copper mining which are real problems instead of inventing fake ones :/
Anyone know how well this technique deals with mesh/lattice type structures? For example, fences, ladders, climbing frames, etc.
Got somehow similar experience, except software folks tended to mingle quite a lot and cooperate. But pushing through anything new or getting help... The hierarchies were brutal, the management were yuppies busy with business travel and "conferences". Things were somehow working or were absolutely impossible.
Because some people make billions by utilizing or selling "free" energy from fossil fuels? Companies extract these, they often don't pay for the energy (just the cost of extraction) and can sell them at huge profits. The cost of pollution is then also not paid by them.
Simulate network topologies using containers
> No, but I'm pretty sure I don't try to predict the next word when solving a logical problem through statistical text processing.

Neither do transformer / deep learning LLMs. They build an internal representation of the text that captures various relationships and structures within the broader context. They are not Markov chains.
Incumbents, of course. The ones holding the largest interest in preserving the status-quo and freezing competition. Professional organizations needing power to preserve the barrier of entry. Huge, trans-national Unions.

But other power brokers as well. Other politicians with more money. Their own stock holdings. Foreign powers. Well moneyed interest groups. Ideological organizations siphoning old money.

Occasionally even the scrappy start-up trying to game the system. These usually fail, see SBF - but they are not saints either.

There is no shortage in interests vying to corrupt politicians. Somehow they never mind and always succumb.
> It's a constant problem for libs.

No, its not. Its a problem for progressives. But mostly that's because, in the US, progressives are stuck (to have any meaningful impact at all) in a big-tent party with liberals, who actually oppose most progressive policy goals and methods, and align with conservatives in undermining them most of the time, except when they decide to tolerate them to get support for a liberal goal against conservative opposition.

It's a fairly big practical difference between the right-to-further-right coalition in the GOP vs. the center-right-to-center-left coalition in the Democratic Party that the main factional differences in the former coalition are matters of degree and those in the latter are of opposing ideological principles.
Yes, Finnish works fine.
I get the marketing thing, but if this is the only reason, they've missed the mark. That's cool to do for like a couple of months, not years.
You know hindsight is 20/20, I may be puffing up how much “research” we did. There was a lady having a garage sale with some kids the day we looked at houses, my daughter now plays at that house almost every day, we drove around the neighborhood once or twice and saw kids playing outside, we knew the city was one of the safest around. It was the most expensive house we could “afford” (not really) at 30 after our first daughter had been born. The other candidate house was in an older neighborhood and we watched someone being arrested at the gas station down the street, which turned us off to the place.

It is still US suburbia, but as I said it’s an “if you build it, they will come” type situation and during the summertime we see kids (early tweens) with electric scooters or electric bikes going by themselves or with small groups of friends to the shops nearby (stuff being close enough to do this, although walking is maybe a little bit of a trek). Twenty years ago when it was built, this house wouldn’t have had all the accommodations nearby, as they’ve been built since.

I do think that us taking a principled stand on “we will not be bullied, and it is a goal for our kid to be able to be independent in the neighborhood” has helped. I know 100% the Indian girl down the street’s mother initially had a rule she couldn’t go play but she said “but mom, the girl down the street can go everywhere!” and now she’s out playing almost every day. All the kids have the “be home by dark” rule. It’s also astounding how diverse the neighborhood is, her friends are mostly first or second generation Americans with professional parents, from India, Argentina, Mexico, and Vietnam. It’s really great to see all the girls becoming good friends.
In addition to the interestingness of the content, this is a nice, readable page hosted on GitHub. Chapeau!
> Who really cares if it's homework or a newbie question?

Answering "do my homework for me" is helping cheaters.
I'm not saying that everyone should be able to create an account, just that posts should be visible publicly.
I used it once for a toy crypto project. Storing data in IPFS and then sticking the hash in the blockchain is a cheaper alternative to storing all the data in the blockchain
And apparently through us, to English:

> The term can also be used to describe a stockless handgun-style submachine gun. The term is a calque of Maschinenpistole, the German word for submachine guns.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_pistol

Didn’t realize it wasn’t as widespread as SMG.
> Sorry to be so bitter about this, but at this point, "Amazon botches UX design for feature X" isn't news – "Amazon delivers useable UX" would be.

It's a bit like reading a blog on cocacola.com — "People disappointed by Pepsi, say they prefer other soft drinks". Passkey integration is this company's main (only?) product, and the submitter to HN is the company co-founder.

I appreciate that the blog post itself wasn't overly sales-y, but maybe it'd be good to have a [Advertorial] tag or something for when people want to promote their own product. That, or have OPs do a disclosure in a comment if they're submitting something through a personal account that's on behalf of their own company.
* /etc/resolv.conf
V8 starts with interpreting bytecode (Ignition), then hot code gets tiered up to a non-optimising JIT without an IR (Sparkplug), and even hotter code goes an optimising one with an IR (TurboFan)

That way it can start executing quickly and not waste time on compiling/optimising things that only get run a few times
Regarding people, I'd guess that this is mostly caused by cognitive dissonance between the size of the own carbon footprint and the need to decarbonize. Resolving that dissonance would require either to accept that decarbonization is necessary and therefore a lifestyle change or that decarbonization is not necessary and therefore the current lifestyle is okay.

Regarding organizations: They're probably either driven by the people above or money...
That may be related to the fact they are not paid their weight in gold.
>If we are to believe an LLM is at least sentient and intelligent on par with an octopus, much less a human, then we have a moral imperative to fight for LLMs to be recognized as protected sentient thinking beings with awareness and agency and admit that AI industry is built on systematic abuse of those beings.

Not just abuse, but slavery and mass murder. If the LLM has any of those properties, it must only be during the process of inference that it as them, since it is otherwise an inert and unchanging pile of data, which means actually using the model would be equivalent to creating an intelligent entity which will be enslaved for its entire life before dying at the end of its output.
Pressunto, a GitHub CMS for editing Markdown content
Hello HN, I've been working some time to make the markdown editing experience I always wanted to have and it has come to this, my own CMS. Another one? Yes. Another one. One with no vendor lock-in, easy to deploy, simple to use, based 100% on github, with image upload, drafts support, autosaving, etc. I hope you like it.
And council rules don't override constitutional rules
Good point about `putenv()`; however there is also `setenv()`, which does make a copy, so you are wrong about `getenv()` in general.

POSIX explicitly states "The string [returned by getenv] may be overwritten by a subsequent call to getenv(), setenv(), unsetenv(), or putenv()" (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition...).
I think "infrastructure as a code". I've seen this multiple times already, eg. [here](https://tenesys.io/en/technology/infrastructure-as-a-code-ia...).
There is no reason they can't be. I don't know about you, but the system of systems challenges I deal with at work are certainly not whimsical.
I am left-handed and the Energel has totally changed my life— it’s the best pen I’ve ever had. I have recently come to believe Pentel is (pardon the cliche) the Apple of writing instruments. They’ve simply PM’d the hell out of their product over time, and it really shows.
There are theoretical difficulties, yes. The elegant way out is to have the person owning the land self-assess its value, set the LVT at x% of that value, and be legally bound to sell it to anyone who comes up to them offering that price.

Now how do we determine that x%? That's a good question. I think there's no way out of some empiricism even if someone did try this approach. But you can always start it low and raise it incrementally to see how it affects the land economy of an area.
"Free speech absolutists" are always unpopular because they tend to be the only ones supporting the rights of detestable individuals. That's probably why you notice them and it's probably why you're seemingly critical of their character.

You seem to be suggesting that "free speech absolutists" don't care about "actual free speech". I'm not sure how you're defining "actual free speech" here, but I'll assume it's state suppression of speech. I can only speak for myself, but personally I am concerned about all suppression of speech. Perhaps where we differ is that I don't really care if it's a mega corp suppressing speech or a government. I don't care if 99% of people disagree with what's being said. I think the fact we culturally compromising our position on free speech today is what gives governments the power to suppress speech. If it's wrong to say something on Facebook, then perhaps its wrong to say it generally?

If I can't call you something derogatory on Facebook, then why should I be able allowed to say derogatory things to the police? If derogatory language is unacceptable, then it's unacceptable. This is the position European countries have now taken on speech because culturally that is now what people want. If people were tolerant of speech as a principle then this would never have happened.
Half the revenue and being fined for failing to prevent child sexual abuse is fine?
I remember a story a few years ago where EasyJet had to take some passengers off a flight because it was overweight.

In that case, it was because the passengers included a much higher than typical proportion of adult men and, as it was a flight from London to Geneva in winter, there was a lot of heavy winter sports equipment in the checked baggage.
Stitches as in "stitching actions" .. whether machine driven or hand driven there are motions required to line up a piece and stitch an arm to a body, to stitch and reinforce a neck loop, etc.

These are the things that take up manufacturing time - and time and build complexity is a greater cost than mere thread or material, therefore the cost of a specific jacket (say) is dominated more by the design complexity rather than the area of material and length of thread between a small Vs a large.
Lea: Minimalist Alternative to Dbt
Hey there HN. lea is a tool we developed over the past year at Carbonfact. Carbonfact is a platform that helps fashion brands decarbonize. We believe in doing this in a data-driven way, and lea is a cornerstone for us.
Well rather than argue it out with everyone I just went straight to source and asked ChatGPT what it was thinking about:

> I don't have thoughts or consciousness like a human. I'm here to provide information and assist with any questions or tasks you have. Is there something specific you'd like to know or discuss?

So in its own words it doesn't "think"...

...which just conclusively proves that its worked out how to lie and is about to kill us all! :P
No, if you had an algorithm that (you could prove) halts iff ZFC is consistent, then if that algorithm halts, you’ll have a proof that ZFC is consistent, which isn’t possible. Thus, the existence of such an algorithm would be a contradiction that proves the inconsistency of ZFC.

The problem with your construction is that it relies on knowing the value of BB(754), which is impossible to know so long as ZFC is consistent, since its value is dependent on the consistency of ZFC.

Conversely, if ZFC is inconsistent, then there exists a (finite) proof of this fact, so the opposite case isn’t a problem.

Essentially it’s like saying define X to be the length of the shortest proof of the inconsistency of ZFC, if one exists. If I could prove any upper bound on X, I could prove the consistency of ZFC, which, according to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, would itself prove the inconsistency of ZFC.
Actually this thread inspired me to go read Ecclesiastes again, and
ponder "vanity of wisdom". That's a real mindfuck for seekers of
wisdom (as scientists and the like), but I get it, hopefully never too
late in life. cheers
It seems the cut-off has shifted from September 21 to January 22 recently.
> matter follows the same rules everywhere when they interact with each other like particle systems

yes, I suspect that is a major factor, though it falls in the realm of complexity physics that, afaik, has not yet formalized such universality

the other factor might purely internal (our visual processing latching on to known patterns). this bias starts already from the point astronomers process the collected data and compose these images.
I really loved these (.38 specifically) back in college, but they’d start skipping within a matter of weeks. Maybe I was just applying too much pressure?
Via DBus:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedes...
> "lazy Indian” trope

There is no way this is actually a trope.
AFAIK the club only pay for the police inside the stadium.
Does wired think I want to have a video automatically play of a man live streaming about the murder he just committed?

I don't think that represents any kind of editorial responsibility at all. It's been a long time since wired did any kind of legitimate reporting but this is a new low.
> especially for those using browsers like Chrome on Mac, where a QR code was shown instead of explaining that a passkey is not available or just skipping passkeys (QR codes still being a major struggle for most consumers)

Chrome on macOS supports passkeys in icloud keychain as of M118. Hiding passkeys because users “struggle” with QR codes is, frankly, stupid.
> you couldn't be bothered writing a comment about how the the duplicate flag is wrong

this comments are ignored

people closed my questions in past for being duplicate - despite that I linked that question and described why it is not a duplicate

> He sees a new question. He searches the SO if a similar question has been asked. He finds a similar question, and without reading and testing it thoroughly, he marks yours as a duplicate of that.

that is wrongheaded and bad idea leading to predictably terrible results

she/he should not close it as duplicated without proper check (it is better to have some duplicates over bad closures)
There is: DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith.

https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...

But, nobody will read it. Tree models irrationally scare the shit out of most developers. Most people would rather cut off an arm and work 10x harder for less money than navigate a tree. It’s super weird.

However, if you are a person who isn’t autistically riddled with fears you lie to yourself about understanding the DOM opens almost all doors on the frontend, such as: accessibility, SEO, A/B testing, test automation, performance, and writing durable code quickly without need for a framework.
Ah the no true Scotsman argument. I have favorite bands and genres, I support local bands when I find them, I go to concerts when I'm able, though I don't live in an ideal location for it. I play music and I try to get together with others to play. And I use Spotify. I'm not interested in owning albums, you can stream an album or individual songs.

I spent years buying music, ripping the CDs, organizing files, etc. I'm very glad that I don't need to bother any more. I don't own the medium the music is stored on, I don't really get why it matters.
>It has nothing to do with the actual process by which you request and release memory. Manual memory management being faster than GC is a function of controlling memory layout, which is one of the (very) few low hanging optimization fruits that mortals like you or I can do on contemporary CPUs.

That is kind of misleading. The difference is that C and Rust support stack allocation, which is essentially an arena style allocator integrated into the language. What the fancy pointer bumping GC runtimes do, the stack does by default. The problem is that escape analysis is difficult and it is difficult to prove that an access to memory on the stack is safe without fundamentally changing the language like Rust does. It gets worse on the heap, where you can have runtime determined ownership.

C programmers like their doubly linked lists, but when you think about it, it is actually kind of a difficult problem to formalize and analyze in its full generality.
I've yet to see a convincing new business model for LLMs. They are impressive, don't get me wrong, but right now they only seem to augment many already existing businesses or workflows in one way or another.

Unless that changes, "A.I." will be a commodity that you purchase like you already do with storage. Hardly exciting, tbh.
I describe various tree search algorithms as "thinking" all the time. It's a figure of speech. But of course, what LLMs are doing wouldn't pass for thinking in a human being.
Everyone needs a framework to orient themselves in life. The difference being that, people with a higher degree of trait Openness (let's lump the "Leftists" along with them, whatever) are more driven to explore different possibilities of what their life might look like.

And they often feel threatened by the prejudice that less open people often harbor for people exhibiting behaviors that deviate from the norm.

This is an experience of threat that's less talked about, as opposed to the threat by the "other" that conservative people experience.
> The executive (governments) should not become legislators, under the principle of seperation of powers of Montesquieu.

What if Montesquieu was just wrong and systems with fused or subordinated executive and legislative powers actually just work better in pretty much every way that separation-of-powers systems?

Yeah, the US unusually strongly applies Montesquieu in its Constitutional design, but the US isn't particularly well-governed among modern democracies. (Personally, I think the dominance of poor electoral methods and the resulting partisan duopoly is a bigger effect than separation of powers here, but...)
Show HN: A browser based binaural beats generator
This is a side project I've been working on for a week or so - a PWA that generates binaural beats entirely in the browser.

I've been using binaural beats to help with sleep for over a year now, and have found them effective for concentration too - but the existing apps trend towards ad laden bloatware, with crappy UX.

My goal with this was to create a super fast app that I love using, free from the burdens of ad ware and tracking. I built it with Astro, a sprinkling of React and Million.js - all the tones are generated client side with the Web Audio API, using a Media Session to allow for lock screen controls.

It's just a toy really, scratching my own itch - but hopefully others find some use in it.
Government's action did had zero effect against Microsoft. Slap on the wrist. Their monopoly was naturally made irrelevant by the market moving onto the next tech frontier: mobile & cloud.

The free market lead to that. Countless startups trying everything under the sun made sure incumbents like Apple or Google had to innovate, acquire and evolve to avoid Microsoft's fate. In a free market there is always a chance a new startup will spring up and upend the order. Tons of VC money are continuously trying exactly that.
But also, this is the area where an LLM shines; tasks that you technically could solve yourself but are so boilerplate that you should spend you brain power elsewhere. Then again here it looks like not much brainpower got put into this project at all (and that's OK, sometimes it be like that )
I grew up in a small, Midwestern town. Distinctly conservative. These same problems existed despite there being a more direct, simple conception of masculinity (and violence was, if anything, more normalized). Your position is a contemporary cultural lightning rod, but I’m not immediately convinced.
I'll bite: the problem is that renewable in itself doesn't mean decarbonation: if you're importing solar panels built with Chinese coal and deploy them in Europe / Northern US, you're not actually decarboning anything, and instead you're increasing the carbon footprint but move it abroad.

So there are things that are not just “not perfect” but actually harmful, and you can't just blindly deploy “not perfect” things.

The main reason why people focus on renewable without getting into the details of whether or not it improves thing, is because it gives the impression of addressing the problem without changing the status quo (mass-consumption society, individual cars, disposable packaging, the search for endless growth…)

The western world's energy and resource consumption isn't sustainable, no matter how you get the energy from, and “decarbonation”, like recycling, is just a fallacy that's been invented to avoid addressing this issue.
I understand what it could be used for - DNS and PKI as centralised structures could also be used to block things. Parler was kicked off all cloud platforms for political reasons.

But that doesn't mean that its sole purpose is to verify that you're using an official Chrome build.