skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hated my old iMac because it went dead and I couldn't just remove the hard drive and hand the device in for repair (because the hd is only accessible by taking the device apart).
This is a great point! I would love to use this while exercising on a bike or strolling around my house.
While caution is needed with all media, more caution than usual should be used with anything coming out of CBC, especially recently.

In January 2022, for example, a long-time former journalist with CBC discussed some objectivity and quality concerns:

https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely

Among the mainstream news organizations in Canada, CBC is, in my opinion and experience, the least-trustworthy and lowest-quality of them.
Yes, but taxes on capital gains are much, much lower than taxes on interest. You probably need bond yields to be about 10-12% to be tax equivalent to equities returns.

Using your 401K, you can create tax equivalency between stock and bond returns. But then that creates perverse outcome of putting shorter duration / lower risk assets in your longer duration savings account. Thanks Washington!
> If I'm remembering long-ago reading on the topic, 5% is near the point at which interest service on debts exceeds all government revenue

A key thing to note here is that the US government typically holds shorter term notes which have much lower yields than their 10y counterpart.
Do you want Trisolarans? Because that's how you get Trisolarans
Per the repo, it runs certain models on a Macbook Pro with an Apple M2 Max.
I have actually made a pi powered eReader with a 2.7 inch eink screen with Python. I could pretty easily swap the code over to work with the 1.3 inch screens they use here.

And no, I suck at doing write ups on my projects so I don’t have one lol. But here is the write up someone else did when they saw my post on Reddit. https://www.hackster.io/news/diy-e-reader-incorporates-mecha...
> he wants the same Russian empire as Putin, but with less corruption.

Exactly. I don't understand fascination of some westerners towards Navalny. He used to attend nazi rallies (literal sieg-heiling nazis, not "you are slightly right of Bernie"), then assumed veneer of political respectability without ever formally denouncing his previous talking points and started campaigning with the main premise of basically "I'll be better and less corrupt Czar of Russian empire". There is nothing liberal or democratic about this guy's political views.
Governments Shouldn't Be Allowed to Use a Drone to Spy on You Without a Warrant
Show HN: Navigate through the browser tabs using speech recognition and GPT [video]
Odin Tabs, an opensource effort to enhance your browsing experience across various scenarios:

Empowering Independence: Odin Tabs promotes independence and autonomy for individuals with motor impairments. It eliminates barriers that might otherwise hinder their ability to access information, communicate, and engage with online content.

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thank you! also ironically, together we fixed it -- no AI
Soon there will be a “study” showing remote works causes cancer and indeed leads to wars.

Idk but by this point people should understand we are being taken for fools and a significant portion of society are useful idiots.
Quick math $33T US national debt times 5% is $1.65B. Federal revenue around $5B in 2022 so not quite there but very substantial.
Worse, “A parking structure adjacent to a hospital was destroyed, unknown numbers dead” is the more accurate headline.
Far from being an expert but from my understanding China’s economy is in a fairly difficult situation at the moment. They are selling because they urgently need lot of cash, not because they are afraid of USD value.
Completely agree! The antagonists also dig tunnels and otherwise subvert city infrastructure. I feel like it was a perfect example of what the author talked about.
Sounds like you're already aware of the pain points. Is there some reason to expect the issues you mention are not addressable?
Show HN: Build a multiplayer app with Reflect in minutes
Hi Hacker News, the announcement blog post for Reflect was on the front page Wednesday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931373). But that was big picture thinking, not fun hacking.

You can also just try Reflect out right now, in minutes, right here: https://hello.reflect.net/.

Reflect has a unique approach to sync, inspired by the way video games work. I'd love all of your takes on the dx, docs, approach, and whatever else you want to talk about. Thanks!
Signal is working on that feature right now.

And as far as I know, Telegram still requires a phone number (or some crypto nonsense) as a primary identifier and for signups. They just allow you to hide that from your contacts.
History of the Center of the Universe
The founder left the company and brought in a new CEO from amazon. He was still on the board. Then he saw they were hiring and complained on twitter, presumably fired the new ceo and came back to rescind the offers. I think it's believable that he was chilling on the beach or something until he saw the hiring news.
The very first sentence says "abruptly coming to an end... the result of creative differences".

Next paragraph "taping of episodes... scheduled to begin within a couple weeks"

Why do you think it would be because the show wasn't doing well? Networks usually would have a system to not renew a show for a third season if it wasn't doing well. Maybe the reasons are something other than China and AI but I don't think there's some cover here from Apple. This makes them look awful.
From the article, it seems like ‘big tech’ companies are pretty much on board with Right to Repair.
My safety versus someone else's rights?

Convince someone that they'll never be the "other" and rights become a far away theoretical concept.
Man even these top tier enterprise drives are now surprisingly affordable, I’ve been looking at building a NAS/home lab for a while now and there seems to be little reason not to use these datacenter drives for it.
The purpose of non profits is to handle all the cost centers. Everything that is expensive is billed under the non profit. Then they have exclusive deals with their other for profit entities in all high margin areas.

Thus the whole non profit becomes a loss lead for other services to be pushed and offered. Its a good thing for them their cost center is not taxed.
If you let your interest guide you when you have time to explore and play, you'll set yourself up with skills that support you in a career you enjoy.

I believe my lego play informed my career in software development, but that might be a stretch.
It might have been a practical decision too. I guess he calculated that if they want to get to him they'd get to him pretty much anywhere on the planet and still maintain deniability. So might as well go back.
It’s a common logical error. Infinity doesn’t mean all possibilities. An infinite universe doesn’t have infinite copies of someone. Pi doesn’t have everyone’s source code. There an infinite number of infinite random digit series that don’t contain anyone’s source code.
While, in spirit, I agree with Silver here (especially in regards to the Times, and journalists in general, treatment of their own errors), this event and the criticism around it, are such a stark example of how headlines, not stories, have become over-weighted.

The Times headline is accurate, but, because its a headline, misleading as it doesn't convey – as the text of the story itself did – the fact that nothing was verified yet, and things were in dispute.

But the story laid out that nuance. If you'd read the story, and not scrolled past it, you'd have walked away with a better sense of the context and doubt around the story. I had to correct several friends when they brought it up as a point of outrage.

Had the Times ran a headline without blaming a party, "Hospital blast in Gaza, hundreds dead", any person, reading it, and having a passing understanding of the context, probably would have thought, "Israel did that".

It's a no win situation.

But, Nate's right that the problem isn't the initial headline, but the follow-up.
> Could you prevent or monitor this kind of attack?
There are several indications which could be used to discover the attack from day 1:

> All issued SSL/TLS certificates are subject to certificate transparency. It is worth configuring certificate transparency monitoring, such as Cert Spotter (source on github), which will notify you by email of new certificates issued for your domain names
Useful links. Noteworthy that the Guardian reports 'The hospital had also been targeted last week' where I suspect 'The hospital had also been hit last week'. Or do they have evidence it was targeted?
>Same thing.

You have to look at the alternatives. There is only one earth and there only a few countries on it with stable enough monetary policy to invest in "risk free". The US tops that list by a massive margin, even given all of our other issues. Can you name a single safer investment today than US Treasuries? And do you think that any other country on earth is able to maintain the stability that we can into the future?
> finding it there requires more effort than coming up with it in the first place

What if you have access to [enter arbitrary number] computers?
Yes. Several. They're called CT "Monitors".
Sandflies bite southern plains rats and pick up the parasite and then bite people thereby infecting them. There are records of the genetic sequence of the Texas strand of the parasite going back 18 years ago so it has been here a while, but it was assumed it was picked up in Mexico.
Graal is a JIT compiler. Truffle is a framework/DSL for building self-optimizing AST interpreters. Truffle also provides a partial evaluator that works with Graal for the metacompilation part. However, any interpreter you build with Truffle will run fine on any JVM. It'll be pretty slow without Graal, but it's a functional AST interpreter all the same. You could even use Native Image to AOT compile it to native code and cut the JVM out if you wanted.
> residential redlining enabled white families to abandon inner cities

aka it allowed people to do what they were wanting to do. Those people weren't forced to leave the cities, they were given opportunity to do so and chose to do it.

Nobody here is currently debating whether this was "fair" or "good" or that it wasn't subsidized or enabled by the government, just pointing out that things are the way they are because that's what the people wanted. None of your post goes against that idea, you're just pointing out racial disparity of the actions.

People chose to move to the suburbs. They weren't forced. People continue to choose to live there. Have you actually talked to a lot of suburbanites? Most that I know would say they prefer that way of life. Tons actively fight against densification/urbanization. As the old suburbs get denser and more urban, they continue to flee outwards, buying bigger and bigger lots and houses each move. They specifically don't want to live in dense urban areas. If they wanted to, they would, but they at least think they don't want to make those tradeoffs.

Do you think the vast majority of people living in the suburbs just like wake up every day thinking "man I really hate living here, welp, guess I'll do nothing about it!" Do you think the people shopping for a 3,000sqft house on a 1 acre lot deep down really want a 900sqft apartment?
I always thought the best way to do handle this scenario is to have removable storage. If a device breaks you could swap that out and send the device for repairs with zero worries. Of course it doesn't fly today because Apple started the board soldering trend... Let's hope for a return to sanity in technology
> - Is my internet down? Can I access any page?

...and in a few seconds the same user opens google.com. What then?

> - Is that a region accessibility issue for my location?

Why does a user care? A user only cares if they can access the page from where they are at that moment.

> - So they killed the status service and I won't know when the main service is back.

Users check if the main service is back by hitting F5 to try to access the main service. Either it's up or down. If they can't access the service, it makes no difference if they can access the status page or not, because they already have their answer.

I think you're trying very hard to overthink and overcomplicate something that's quite simple and straight-forward. All a canary does is check if the service is up, and possibly track uptime as well.
Ah that makes sense. I missed the API auth part, assumed BYO(OAAK) was the default
I am sceptical that this is really bad for the stock market.

Those 5% must come from somewhere.

Either from a growing economy: Good for the stock market.

Or from freshly printed money: Also good for the stock market.

The "risk free" interest rate is not really risk free. You do not get back 2023 Dollars. You get back future Dollars, which are devalued by a currently unknown factor.
> What is the way to interpret this situation as other than a 10 year countdown to chaos?

Officials sadly have realized that they have a solution to everything: inflation.

What is really hilarious is that it's officially to "combat inflation" but their only way out is inflation because they're never ever repaying that debt.

> cease to pretend that the US currency is a stable trading platform

It is toilet paper. But so is the EUR / JPY / etc.

Wealth is anything that is not that toilet paper.
If your assertion is that increased competition would reduce exploitation, I’ve got some really incredible snake oil to sell you…
Supermicro Launches Nvidia MGX Systems and We Find a Grace Hopper 1U
"Two independent Arab journalists" isn't exactly a reputable source - It most likely means they found 2 random people on Twitter.

And initially I thought it was probably Israel, but the evidence is fairly overwhelming to support that it is a failed Jihad rocket.
Cloudflare does that
And our poor mothers!
Not at all. If you mean SCRAM, it was actually pretty novel when it was introduced because it allows the server to store a hash, the client to store a hash, and only a hash is exchanged over the wire.

SCRAM also allows the client to verify that the server possesses the password (or a hash of it), so a MITM that just says "yep, your credentials are correct - go ahead!" can be detected.

Channel binding is an addition to SCRAM (it's usable outside of SCRAM too) that allows securely checking the TLS stream as well. Specifically it allows verification that the TLS stream is terminated by the same entity that has (a hash of) your password.
This all may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that I have no interest in donating my money to an organization that is going to give a sizable chunk of it to some rich CEO rather than the people that I'm trying to donate to.
> it's not true, there is encryption

Yes, but not by default, and it’s weird/custom and not properly peer-reviewed.

> somewhat better than meta AND the whole US government having access to my data

How do you know that that is the case for WhatsApp?
Law enforcement routinely manipulates the DNS; famously so.
> 16GB of memory

Speaking of memory, I think yours is failing! Ain't no way!
The fact that the string "12345678" occurs only once in the first 200M digits already gives an impression of the amount of information you may find/store there.
I largely agree - I have no personal issue with someone earning a lot of money (good for them) and I'm not convinced it comes at the cost of other people's real earnings or living conditions. Indeed Amazon and similar services are very convenient, and allow me to focus my attention on more meaningful things (i.e. Terraria).

I must say though that I do worry about people having enough money to bend the "rules" of the market. I.e. paying for lobbying, having an outsized say on regulation, or wielding influence over politicians to give special tax favors, etc.

The direct problem there has to do with laws, not wealth - but it must be said that increasingly massive wealth does unlock corrupting influence that would be otherwise infeasible.
Yes, but note both suggestions omit doing anything to ultra-wealthy and continue to drive the wedge between the lower and middle classes, each being told the other is why they can't have nice things.
The original iMazing license model was to charge a one time fee for X duration of updates. When a next major version released, you would pay to upgrade (at a reduced cost if you already paid for a previous version).

So, for the local app, there should be a fee. The fee includes updates under 1.X.X. If they want updates to 2.0, then they need to pay an upgrade fee (this covers your reoccurring development). (Also you should have a recovery mechanism if they want to install it on a new computer and invalidate the old one).

Then if you add a cloud component, you charge separately for the cloud features. Using the software sync, or in browser, or x, y, z...

I don't mind paying for software that does its job, because good software rarely exists and I want the devs to keep making it. But if the software has no way to purchase it outright, then it is less ethical. At least allow payments for X amount of updates, so I can always run 1.5.2 as long as I need to. That is stability needed to trust the software.
This is more an artifact of liberal attention than of Democratic governance, which inevitably includes plenty of things to get mad about on the basis of the same kind of values.
What is in the OpenLLM Leaderboard?
Thanks does a vpn will do work?
no, scram is all about not exchanging and not storing plain text passwords.
the plus variants add tls channel binding.
Well there's nothing much to add. This is a good piece.

It isn't anything surprising to read from Andressen, rich capitalist wants "the market" to regulate everything and claims we're being lied to (note - without any data), and we should trust him and people like him to guide society to a better place since we're here thanks to him and his predecessors in the first place. The planet is burning, wealth distribution has been on the decline for years, there's the opioid crisis, the subprime crisis, and all these things, but we should keep our faith in the market because it obviously works so well, and we're the ones who don't see the light of truth for the beauty it is.

I used to have some respect for him, mostly because of "hard things", but I guess this kind of point of view comes with the job and wealth
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825

More digestible announcement: https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/
Time to get rid of the certificate of need system
Hamas literally have no weapons that can cause this amount of damage. Most of their weapons are homemade. But yeah Hamas blew up their own hospital. Yeah thats a great way to build local support.
EarSkin and EarCartilage
What is worse is the people who went thru the trouble to make those edits in the first place will conclude that it is not worth the trouble to fix this. Then go on to not make other edits because 'of that last time'. That sort of fight you basically have to stay at until someone gives up. As neither side is going to budge. Then you can do like what happened here. Let the other side think they won. Wait a year and put what you want and it would probably stand as they moved on ages ago.
Power consumption?
I have a distaste for many LEO, but this comment is out of line and has no place here.
I don't know, but the filtration media that goes into consumer products that filter dust from indoor air last about 5 years before they need to be replaced. Many of those products use HEPA filters, which get all of the dust out of the air that passes through them, and even those last 5 years.
X doesn't apply its own filter to those potentially biased reports. You can find pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel tweets. These are all suspect. What gives credence to certain points of view are the details provided. Fabrications are often shallow and when repeated offer no new insight (it's often the same tweet with little change in wording). The truth can be supported in many ways and becomes more clear as more data becomes available.

It's not that any one tweet is more accurate, it's that the collection of tweets that provide info and insight eventually steers us closer to the truth.

We don't need fact-checkers or disinformation checks. It's more useful to remove duplicate posts, low-quality posts (e.g. "Israel should bomb Gaza!!") to give us more signal to noise.
Wasn't there analysis that company performance is inversely correlated to CEO compensation?

I remember seeing a chart, though I don't remember whether the analysis was well done & researched or not
I think it's more a repeal of his manifesto
I’m cool with two way lawsuits as long as we can drop qualified immunity.

You can’t have it both ways.
RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Which Platform to Choose in 2023?
Frankly, I think this sort of thinking is wrong almost all of the time. I understand why hiring boards feel they have no choice, but the reality is, outside of maybe 15 people from the past century, there are no clear number ones and number twos. Talent ranking just isn't that accurate. Pro sports has exactly the same problem. If you happen to actually get a LeBron James or Shohei Ohtani, then yeah, they absolutely deserve probably 50 times what they'll ever actually get paid. They're worth more than the rest of the team combined.

But if you don't have them, you're locking yourself into a supermax contract for Russell Westbrook or John Wall and scuttled your franchises hopes of winning for at least the next decade until you get the balls to suck it up and blow up the entire organization and admit you were wrong.

A tiny number of elite individuals are legitimately worth all the damn money in the world, but they're nearly impossible to identify in advance. But that promise sucks in the money men to pay these ridiculous salaries out of sheer hope that maybe they'll strike gold even though they almost never do. Hell, it's even worse in business because someone can just get lucky for a really long time. Market conditions you didn't even see coming might nonetheless make you look like a genius just for making a correct guess. At least in sports the winners are actually the best at what they do.
But we can already do `Span<int> ints = stackalloc int[5];` without using `unsafe`. The array size doesn't even have to be const in that example. They could have just made an optimization when a const is supplied for locals, and then use the existing fixed array syntax for members.

It seems to me the budget for C# lang dev is way down. This seems like it was implemented this way so they didn't have to change many internals.
When Sci-Hub made a lot of papers available to the public, I started clicking through to more references on Wikipedia.

My goal was to learn more and go deeper on subjects, but I was stunned by how often the linked citation didn't support the claim in the Wikipedia article. There were many times where the linked citation said the opposite of the Wikipedia article.

My theory was that overly competitive Wikipedia authors were skimming PubMed abstracts and assuming the paper would support their assertion. Ironically, some of the statements with 5 or more citations were the most incorrect.

Trying to correct these articles is some times like going to war with editors who refuse to admit they were wrong.
I cannot express how little I would want to spend staring at that typeface for more than 31 seconds