skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a bizarre bit of strawmanning. The crypto brigade has arrived so this has all gone very desperately defensive.

No, that isn't what I said. I said that clearly crypto in any rational sense has failed. Not just failed, overwhelmingly, catastrophically failed. It has zero relevance to the broader market. It has retreated from even where it was five years ago, that being a massively failed experiment.

BTC has held value because most of the people who hold it didn't "put a ton of money into it". BTC is the very definition of HODL behaviour, with negligible daily liquidity. It is a house of cards.
Personally I think we should go one step further and introduce an <electron> tag to HTML so you can embed an electron instance within webpages
From working at a CLEC (competing local exchange carrier) in the 90's:

This mindset goes back to the AT&T antitrust breakup. It was decided that phone companies would not be allowed to reject each other's traffic, because the larger ILEC's (incumbent local exchange carrier) would find reasons and excuses to cut off the CLEC's. This would be more or less a death penalty to those businesses, and the ILEC's had exactly zero reason to want the CLEC's to exist at all, so there was a lot of fear and rulemaking to prevent this.

Fast forward 30 years and the details have changed, but the mindset is largely the same. The fear is still quite real, and that's why phone spam isn't treated like email spam. If i.e. verizon cuts off incoming calls from a random CLEC in a midwestern state, that business is just over, done, that's that. It would be impossible to restore the business after your customers left, which they would do more or less instantly; there's no court remedy that would fix it. Great pains are taken to ensure that such an action is legitimate.

The rules are oriented around the idea that the ILEC's were evil antitrust actors, and the plucky CLEC's are the competition we need to protect from big ILEC's heavy hand. In a world of spam, that mindset is backward. And that mindset is changing, but because of the reasonable concerns, it's taking longer than we expect.
Not having arm rests is hardly dystopian. The chair I've used for approximately a decade now came with arm rests, but I chose not to install them, because they just get in the way and provide only negligible benefits. There are many other ways to rest your arms: on the table, on your legs, by crossing your arms, etc.
Banks are investment vehicles that utilize a novel structure (being a bank) to enjoy the investment edge of, in case of failure, being able to hold customers money hostage, thereby strongarming the government into bailing them out to avoid the risk of financial mayhem.
I have been reading medical journals for 12 years and I have collaborated on a study that is looking into manganese transport and/or deficiency as a possible cause of ME/CFS and Long Covid.

There is a difference between something that could never be patented (Vitamins), and the possibility of something working becoming patented (Prozac for example).

The first does not get the funding but from benefactors, as in the case of the study I collaborated with.
Probably also because sign up for the product is done through their app rather then a browser where people have password managers handy.
Yeah but seeing these delivery trucks and ride share based delivery cars accelerating as fast as possible and stopping as fast as possible over and over again in your neighborhood where your kids play outside is not so great.
What comes after one side wins? Half the land, resources, population, and production? Collateral damage is in both sides' interest to avoid. We can use those tactics in other countries because we don't really care. That all changes on home soil.
It sucks because in theory all the "smart contacts" exist to create an instrument that holds its value. But that whole space has been saturated by wannabes, grifters and imitators. With all the day traders out there, I'm sure you could find a counterparty for a 5% X-year CD (dollar pegged, let's say). And I'm sure somewhere on the cryptosphere this exists, but good luck distinguishing it from a rugpull.
And it will kill you and your family in an earthquake. So much for iconoclastic hipster utopian-aspirational thinking.
The central planners got their way with covid lockdown rules. Medical privacy laws were waived because knowing someone's vaccination status was more important than their right to privacy.
We saw rehab of various kinds shut down in March of 2020, be it alcoholics anonymous gamblers anonymous and so on because they were non essential, but the sale of marijuana and cigarettes in a lung based pandemic was essential so the addicts could have their fix but rehab was non-essential.
We could also mention the failure of remote learning and how we will be able to detect this gap in our children's education for decades if not generations to come.

The cure was worse than the disease when it came to central plannings response
It actually crashes iOS Safari after a short while for me. Probably needs more gigabytes of RAM…
Probably not that big of a deal
I understand its a bit of a hot take but I just fundamentally disagree with the premise that we should be using one connector for such a wide range of devices. It's a recipe for garbage.
I mean, that's also to do with seasonality. Citrus is horrible outside of winter. I recently started noticing the oranges starting to taste much better, but that's the same as every year around now.
Racket fork of Chez Scheme merged into original Chez
Racket got ported to be based off of Chez Scheme some years ago. [1] It's had to use a custom fork of Chez which (among other things) included support for Apple Silicon. That custom fork got merged back into the main Chez repo yesterday. I couldn't find an official announcement; the commit seemed to be the best there was.

Anyway, yay for the Racket and Chez teams!

[1]: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/tmp/rkt-on-chez.pdf
A godfather is classically a close family friend who helps you get ahead in life by treating you like one of their own children.

In this sense the godfather of AI would be someone who is influential in the success and adoption of AI without being directly involved in the creation of the technology.
I do agree in that I think individual-targeting attacks are essentially outside the scope of this topic, since you're fucked for a lot more reasons in that scenario, and it's very rare, relatively speaking. I was just listing it to be thorough.
> look for an entropy source

I think even this is a bit of an assumption. I have a sort of thought experiment that what we call physics and what our ancestors saw as angels or spirits moving the heavenly bodies _could_ actually both be true.

Life as we know it is a source of entropy but if we take the view of God as an architect/clockmaker who created the universe as a (mostly?) deterministic machine with angels being his agents, it would stand to reason angels would be orderly as well rather than chaotic. Perhaps so orderly we would perceive their invisible involvement as natural laws rather than unusual miraculous intervention people usually expect from that sort of thing.

Of course it's unprovable and even if you proved it it doesn't really contribute much to our understanding of the natural world, but it's interesting to imagine a form of life so orderly that we don't even perceive it as life but as part of the machinery of the universe.
Huge shoutout to Digitale Kultur e.V. for that -- that club was founded by the folks that organize the Evoke demoparty!
In older CPUs there was no memory management hardware and no virtual memory. You could just read/write in code from any address anywhere and you'd be writing to that actual physical memory in the computer. This wasn't a feature so much as it is a lack of a feature.

Modern CPUs with virtual memory means the question is a lot more complicated. Every process in a modern OS gets it's own address space so you can write to 0 but it could go anywhere (even virtualized to disk) and all the actual hardware is not directly accessible (must go through the OS).

I'm not sure I'd call this ability "useful" except if you're writing an operating system. This is vast simplification but when your computer boots it's effectively in a mode that allows reading/writing to anywhere. The OS kernel has direct access to all the hardware and then it limits access when running user processes.
I greatly enjoyed my loss of smell. People in general and especially IT nerds are rather bad at managing their hygiene.

How many of you nasty hacker news readers and commenters go to work with the same T-shirt for more than a day and don‘t shower daily?

I had colleagues where I knew whether they‘d be in the office or not by smelling them when I entered the building.
I can understand that viewpoint, I presume a lot of people share it. You are one of the first people unrelated to our small team to give us feedback, so it's very appreciated!

> Boring is the new sexy!

I'm going to use what you said in addition to macarons in an attempt to persuade our designer to let go of macron in mementō :)
I am assuming the 1 IC element in the link I reference below is the DOE. It claims

"One IC element assesses with moderate confidence that the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. These analysts give weight to the inherently risky nature of work on coronaviruses."

Based on the quote (if the one IC element is in fact the DOE) is seem they are basing it on the "inherently risky nature of the work on coronaviruses.

I do find it interesting this was given with moderate confidence but the natural occurring is only given low confidence. Any idea how the whole confidence level is determined?

See the second bullet point on key takeaways.

https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents/702%20Document...
But what does Schmidhuber think?
What AMD CPU beats an i3-13100 in price/performance?
I have an 11700K and a 3070ti. Both of these were panned by GN and others as somehow pointless.

"Pointless" in the context of the hardware that already existed at the time of it's release. Not "pointless" as in it doesn't function as a processor.
> Long COVID is poorly understood and the research around it has overall been inconclusive

This is far from the truth. Over 400 long covid publications a month for the last couple years. Science has pushed this forward to be more conclusive and defined.

Covid contrarians like Vinay are nothing but minimizers with MDs. They cherry pick what serves their narrative while ignoring the rest.
I use a first gen iPhone SE. It’s fine — I don’t understand why anyone needs a $1,000 phone.
Reducing controversy could reduce costs. Plus I’m sure Disney would be happy to have fully generated and manipulable actors protected under copyright for decades upon decades. Essentially zero risk of actors making “bad” choices, especially “aging” or “getting fat”, or “retiring”.
The problem is that cables are not clearly marked by speed. Being able to get a $5 slow cable is a good thing.
the transfer fee isn't the main appeal of Wise, the currency exchange rate is. I've never seen a bank that offered anywhere near close as theirs.
I suspect people will use these comments to share their wishlist of Python features, so let me add that I really wish Python had a safe navigation operator, for when you are dealing with nested objects that could be None. I have been trying to parse a lot of XML and JSON in Python lately and a feature like that could really help reduce boilerplate checks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_navigation_operator
`vars` as well: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#vars

Although it'd be nice if it worked with slotted classes instead of just blowing up.

Dataclasses have asdict which work on both, but it's annoying there's nothing for regular classes.
Enjoyed this piece -- especially the evaluation guide at the bottom
so if it is one of your modules, does that mean that I can say "hey Pier, get me a lending license in NC" and they you handle everything and come back after however long and say "here is your NC lending license"? how do you handle states that require in state offices?

If you handle getting the licenses for the company that is super valuable
Why can't they just call these people the 'Father of AI'
Hmm I am sorry to hear that. Were you trying to refactor with gpt-4 or gpt-3.5-turbo?
It wasn't millions of accounts, it was an undefined number relying on scraping dna relatives after the breach. This article mentioned it, but last week I saw a better more detailed explanation.

Regardless, the key quote from the linked article:

"23andMe blamed the incident on its customers for reusing passwords, and an opt-in feature called DNA Relatives, which allows users to see the data of other opted-in users whose genetic data matches theirs. If a user had this feature turned on, in theory it would allow hackers to scrape data on more than one user by breaking into a single user’s account."
Is this satire based on your account name or is this genuine
But AMD can in theory also use the same DRR that Apple uses. There ale laptops already with LPDDR5X-8000 frequency.
The Hamas isn't the only armed organization in Gaza, merely the one bankrolled by Netanyahu. Its kinda obvious it was from Palestinian stock, not that it was the Hamas.
I just looked it up – if you're interested in comparing iMacs (2006) to iMacs (2021), it seems like the comparison is ~160W vs ~80W.

All of this is moot, though, if it's just a proof of concept/I did it to see whether it was possible!

That being said, it's a good question: I always wish there was a tool where you could calculate all of the tradeoffs involved - TCO for you (both purchase and operating costs), TCO for the environment, etc.
Correct - it's legalized extortion for all intents and purposes.
You are going to be very surprised when you find out that all your “practical” skills are nothing but the distillation of decades of research and applied science, most of it done at schools and universities.
AI does not (yet) exist. You can't father something that doesn't exist.
Fuck news.

If YouTube wants to promote "authorative" content, there are many documentaries on the platform.
Yes, but this epidemic of urban crime is very new for our generation. We haven't had these "catch-and-release" policies with violent criminals. We haven't legalized shoplifting for sums under $950 before. We haven't had DAs in many major cities that are opposed to jailing violent offenders for "diversity and equity" reasons.
I heat my house with a wood stove in the winter. It is inexpensive, works when the power goes out 1-3 times a year (I also use it for cooking then), and I can source fuel from my land. Ironically I use an electric chainsaw most of the time, and cut up big trees 45 minutes/day in the late winter, since the batteries last about that long.

I think pour-overs and the moka pot coffee maker, both of which I use daily, are better and nicer than technological advancements like the Keurig machine. They also work when the power is out.

I like to think and plan with pencil and paper. I like physical books because I like writing in the margins, or writing all the interesting words from them on the first page or inside the front cover. I suppose I highlight on the kindle too, so its not so bad either way.

For woodworking I have some electric tools but I really like using hand tools. The sawdust (or wood shavings instead of dust!) that hand tools create is much easier to clean up and I assume better for one's respiratory health than the ultra-fine particles. I also like that they are quiet, and I can work beside the wood stove at night to carve things.
I don't think they are aiming for the wow factor. Most people arguably watch the weather report to find out how cold or warm it feels outside, which heat index and wind chill are far better at reporting.
I strongly endorse Trystero (https://github.com/dmotz/trystero) for enabling P2P communication in web apps. It’s open source and leverages public infrastructure for matchmaking.
OK, you got me there. The 13100 is actually a great value.
Thanks for making the book process open source. That's a major thing for me and I want to support you just for making that decision.
Sorry if dumb question, but is LSP similar to what Steve Yegge talked about years ago, I think on a StackOverflow podcast, whereby a language would declare its capabilities to tooling?
> The burden of its possible misuse is now on you.

What does this mean? It sounds quite hostile.
While not as short as a proper operator .get("key", {}) does work.
Yeah I saw that but it's still not clear to me why someone wants a non-persistent OS in RAM.

That's why my question was about cloud transactional stuff, it sounds like something for Amazon Lambda or something like that.
This is interesting. I never anticipated so many people would think of it as a circle. I mentally picture a calendar we had in my kindergarten classroom. It was a regular (USian, with the start of the week on Sunday) wall calendar, but all the pages had been cut out and hung in a line with January at the ceiling and December just above the floor.

Relatedly, I've recently put a line in my .bashrc to display the ISO week number (date +%V) in addition to the traditional date. Knowing that we're in week 42 of the year somehow helps me get a better sense time passing than knowing it is the third Wednesday in October. In general I think the world lives in weeks rather than months and it's a little unfortunate that our date system obscures this.
In 2006, tech decisions were easy: shall I use jQuery or Prototype.js? PHP or ASP? Postgres or MySQL?

Nowadays, after the long decision process to go serverless I choose Cloudflare from the 13 best serverless frameworks and VueJS from the 30 frameworks they support.

So I choose SPA from the four ways to deploy VueJS. I chose TS over JS. SFCs thank you very much. Setup syntax please! Composition over options all the way.

I'm in the promised land! Types! Components! No server admin! No DB admin! Let's actually make something!

Trouble is, 18 months down the line, the commercial charts library I wanted to use is pretty much unusable with this setup. I've been through about eight dropdown menu libraries. How many person-hours were wasted with abandoned vuejs dropdown menus I wonder!?

It's been easier to write a desktop application to do the same thing in about two months.
Sure, but Apple laptops can run Llama right now. How many years do we have to wait till AMDs aquisition efforts materialize in products we can buy?
I would say my worst experience with self checkout was at ikea. During a busy time of year, we visited ikea and picked up about $1000 worth of stuff. As you know, $1000 can net you a lot at ikea - so we probably had at least 50-60 items.

We would have been happy to wait in line for a traditional cashier but there were only self checkout lanes. And long lines for those too! We finally get to the front of the line, dutifully scan each item. Of course it’s impossible to track what’s scanned already since the area to place items is no larger than the one at the supermarket. Fat chance putting a shelf on that tiny area.

Anyway, the system decides that due to our purchase volume, we were selected for a “random rescan”. So we wait for someone to come over and it picks three items for the person to scan. Of course they screw it up, and the system now declares the entire order needs to be started from scratch.

How exactly did anyone save time or effort in this case? What a nightmare.
You clearly haven't seen the new lights that suck oxygen from the air to work, some people call them candles
If I'm always giving the mugger my gun, why carry it? Seems like the danger from having a gun on my person and in my house vastly outnumbers the chance I become Dirty Harry for an evening, no matter how thrilling that thought is. And I won't be Dirty Harry, I'll be Bernie Goetz. No thanks.

> asymmetry in the benefit of the doubt of a known assailant is maddeningly naive to a point of near literal cuckoldry

Don't try to impress people with words, impress with ideas.
Due to political opportunity to exploit a regular accident or sabotage opportunity?
Red Dwarf predicted this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMIHNiR3CP8
The one that bothers me the most is landscaping trucks with trailers driving down the street (too fast!) bouncing over potholes with all of the mowers etc banging about in the back. Usually 6:30am-ish as they go to their first job of the day ... which usually starts with the mowers (and this time of the year the leaf blowers) around 7am.
> 23andMe blamed the incident on its customers for reusing passwords, and an opt-in feature called DNA Relatives, which allows users to see the data of other opted-in users whose genetic data matches theirs. If a user had this feature turned on, in theory it would allow hackers to scrape data on more than one user by breaking into a single user’s account.

23andMe's blame is an obfuscation of the problems which underlie this situation.

1. There is the matter of having insufficient granularity in their sharing options within the DNA Relatives program. It comes with two general levels, which is not enough.

2. 23andMe limits one to seeing the closest 1500 matches who have opted-in to DNA Relatives. That would have allowed a hacker to collect data on most people in the database despite having only a few thousand compromised accounts. (Haplogroups, ethnic origins predictions, names, profile data, a list of relatives, and information on geographic origins.)

3. The 1500 match limit would be helpful, in theory, however for some time (recently) it was possible to see profiles beyond those 1500 matches. I'm not certain if these were limited to only those who shared matching DNA segments but who fell outside of the 1500 match limit. And I can't be certain if this was part of the method exploited by these malicious actors.
yep. Due to the SVB failure, large banks are now backstopped by a guarantee that they can loan from the FED at 100% of the value of the bonds at redemption time (even though they're worth less right now, due to rates hiking).
That would have been enough to save SVB, if it had already been in force at the time.
see: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Pretending that incentivized manipulation of social media does not exist is odd.
Shameless self-plug but with my project Willow[0] we have a management server implementation to deal with multiple devices, etc. We have a new feature called "Willow One Wake" that takes the incoming audio amplitude when wake word is detected and uses our Willow Application Server (python) to only activate wake on the device closest to the person speaking. Old and tired compared to the commercial stuff but a first in the open source space.

The asyncio improvements in Python 3.12 especially (plus perf generally) have been instrumental in enabling real world use of this. With Python 3.12 asyncio, uvloop, and FastAPI it works remarkably well[1]. As the demo video shows not only does it not delay responsiveness, it has granularity down to inches.

[0] - https://heywillow.io/

[1] - https://youtu.be/qlhSEeWJ4gs
I like how you couldn't be bothered to provide a single citation or reference to back up anything you just said. If I wanted to learn how I am wrong, you certainly failed to deliver.

> Over 400 long covid publications a month for the last couple years.

Let's just assume that statement is true. I said nothing about the quantity of research on long COVID; I said it was inconclusive and largely low-quality. If anything, your factoid could support my "low quality" assertion given how little benefit has been derived from said research.
maybe they all share the same password-reuse gene?
Just ask all of the Moroccans and Afghanis who are now homeless and lost entire families recently.
You just named subscription services which by definition “weed out” the people the parent comment was referring to.