skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patented means it will have lower adoption and fail to store info that will be essential to capture on time
> E2EE overrides current controls in place

There are no controls in place.

This line is becoming quite a pattern in UK (Tory) government
rhetoric. They forcefully state wishful thinking as if it were a fact.

There are no controls because there is no possibility of controls, as
a matter of mathematics. But by exploiting ignorance, the tories
managed to beast parliament into an intractable "just imagine if..."
clause in the Online Safety Bill... a law that provisionally exists if
and only if the impossible becomes possible.

And then they sit back, fold their arms and call those "controls".

Controls must be effective, otherwise they're just buttons for show,
that aren't wired to anything.

The reason nation states are losing ground to BigTech is because they
are using 18th century power politics to fight 21st century logic.

I do wish my government would go take some basic CS and cryptography
classes.
I’ve been binge watching For All Mankind, which takes place in an alternate reality where society kept on pushing further into space after landing on moon.

It really makes me think what could have been if we dedicated more investment towards space travel/research.
The vacuum tube alone probably qualifies according to most definitions, it's a beam of charged particles accelerated through the control grid and an accelerator voltage. Honestly not sure what else I'd call that.

Nowadays what would be the closest common thing... hand held XPS exists for sure, but that's not super common (photoelectric effect that uses x-rays coming in). Can we go with an arc welder or plasma cutter if we use a definition that just means "charged particles going through an accelerating voltage in free space"?
Spinning disks are killing themselves off with the way the prices have barely decreased in 5 years. 8TB has been floating around 150 for a while and it hasn't changed. 4TB SSDs are almost as low as 8TB spinners, now.

Not arguing for them to not exist, but the market is not being supplied with enough with spinners. Hopefully something changes to make it better.
Thanks for taking the time to explain that. I don't think I ever knew this a clearly as I now do!
Dynamic configuration of components. It uses a system of communicating controllers which is more flexible in terms of runtime reconfiguration. libp2p is an excellent project and can be integrated into Bifrost's system as a library.
No, it really isn't. There's a cultural preference in the white USA for "moving out" of your parents house, but that's not universal.

Canada is very multicultural, and a lot of people choose to live with their parents as a matter of preference.

On your second point, I don't see what being in the "prime of life" has to do with living with your parents or not. But even that isnt the case , for example my friend's grandma is moving into a retirement home so they're moving into her old house.
When to demo and when to document
> people are never informed to make good decisions on this

Speak for yourself. I am at least as good as State governments at judging the competence of doctors to treat me. I suspect a lot of people are like me. I particularly suspect that a lot of people who have considerable experience dealing with doctors who were "certified" by State medical boards are like me. The question is not just how good or bad individuals are at it, but whether States are even worse.

But even if many are like you, I am not saying States cannot publish information about which doctors they think are certified. I am just saying that patients and doctors should not be restricted by that. Patients who want to rely on their State to do it can of course do that. But patients who want to make use of other information should be allowed to, and doctors should be allowed to treat them if the patients choose, without facing legal penalties.
I keep meaning to try ask Bill Gates this question whenever he does one of his Reddit AMAs:

Bill, what are you most proud of out of the following two:

1. Getting Cutler to come over from DEC and spearhead NT.

2. Committing to backwards compatibility early on, that ensured old apps Just Worked on new versions of Windows.

I don’t think Microsoft would look like it currently does without either of those two historical paths taken.
well yes, I assumed it was gone by the time I wandered through Union Square. I just feel like I should have seen a memo printed into metal about it at some point during my journeys.
there is a hair in your comment that probably should not be there...
how far did you get into No Dignity Speedrun Any% before realizing something was off
If memory serves, the van der graff generator at the Boston Museum of Science was literally used as a particle accelerator at MIT for decades (apparently built by the Van de Graaff). I think the generator itself was the accelerator and just needed to go through an evacuated tube to be used.

> The largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator in the world, built by Dr. Van de Graaff in the 1930s, is now displayed permanently at Boston's Museum of Science. With two conjoined 4.5 m (15 ft) aluminium spheres standing on columns 22 ft (6.7 m) tall, this generator can often obtain 2 MV (2 million volts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-airinsula...
The new YouTube CEO has taken things in a dramatically worse direction.
There isn't really such a thing as a module that only supports 3G...

Anything could support the minimum needed to connect to an LTE network with the right software update, but modem chipset makers don't make any money rewriting old firmware for old chipsets, so they refuse to rewrite the firmware to support lte.
Weird I got stuck in recaptcha hell. 10+ attempts was never successful. On mobile
Nope. Its successor is still in San Diego though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(TDE-1)
You're joking but yes. You get to save on rent, and live close to family for longer than most people forced to move out. If you don't have to pay most people's highest expense, you can have a very comfortable life.

And since Canada's population is shrinking, this is a significant amount of families that don't have to worry about housing ever.

However, Canada has lots of immigrants, and it's very hard for immigrants to break into the housing market. Both of these are true.
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Unfortunately they're used in hospital settings where patient information inevitably winds up getting transmitted in the clear.

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/au/security/news/vulnerabil...
And it seems a lot of people don't understand individuals fleeing countries tend to bring bills.
HN seems to strongly disagree. So many your dog whistle insults are wrongly pointed.
But what if the thoughts were dumb?
Right? Idk where he gets the idea that being an asshole to service workers leads to innovation
> I suspect that “fascism” is increasingly a popular slur even for Americans who aren’t so terminally online, and because a word’s meaning is popularly determined by its usage, that means that it’s pointless to complain that they are “using it wrong”.

If you're right that it's becoming such, than I would agree it's simply changing its meaning, I'm not a presciptivist.

However, from my experience, which is limited to online content, I've only seen accusations of fascism being used by left-wing speakers against right-wing (or perceived right-wing) adversaries.

So, my theory is that the term actually retains most of its original meaning even by those throwing it around willy-nilly. It is then not a wrong use of the term nor a novel use, but in fact a sign of increasingly extreme language. That is, people who call you fascist for not caring whether you add alt text to an image aren't using fascist to mean generic bad person, they actually intend to compare your actions to Hitler.

It's similar to how "socialist" is used by right-wing pundits. When they call a boss who raises employee wages "socialist", they are not using that as a generic insult, they explicitly mean to compare that boss with Stalin or Chavez or other such boogeymen.

I think it's all a sign of increasingly more extreme discourse. I would actually be much happier to find out that you are in fact right and fascist is just a more generic insult now.
I'm very direct and honest with them about things just like this. I don't hold punches. I teach them to work the problem [1] instead of whining or wasting time on spinning their mental tires.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0h2Wk6-C_I
U can ease drop on this systems today with free software, a cheap antenna, and a rtlsdr.
There are plenty of email users on IMAP, and they use web mail to host mail storage. The IMAP clients can do S/MIME (or PGP I suppose).

The bigger problem is trustworthy user discovery service i.e. a directory to exchange public keys. This exists at an enterprise level (active directory) but not globally.
You're late. It's en situation de handicap now, not invalide or handicapé.

See for instance https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31029
Ask HN: Would you have a surgery that only increased 5yr survival to 25%?
Just asking after a grim night at work, because after some shifts I think I’d prefer to die if I was faced with a similar situation. For context the surgery I specifically have in mind is this one linked below, but I mean generally I’m curious how many people would choose to fight for what seems like rather small gains.

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/whipple-procedure
What problem does passkey solve? Passwords and SSH keys already exist, and I have no problem with them.
True one way pagers only receive if they're on at the time a page is sent out. Think a radio with a transcriber, if it's on when the page is sent it records it and plays it's notification sound. There are two-way pagers that could respond to and acknowledge pages.
If you didn't click the second link on the main portion of the page page, do yourself the favor:

https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v35n05_1974-05/page/n107/...

"Last Tuesday I got a call from a national magazine ... What he wasn't interested in is a list of science fiction predictions which just aren't going to happen. Except in rare moods, neither am I. ..."

It's that rare HN gold.
I think Latacora's (famous?) post[1] sums the situation up here nicely: email is designed in such a way that precludes an encryption scheme that actually works for ordinary users. Even power users consistently fail to use email encryption correctly.

If we care about secure communication, then we should be nudging users towards protocols that enable encryption, rather than fighting against it. For 99% of cases, that probably means Signal.

[1]: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...
Care to offer reference, as I don’t get the connection?
> Java 21 JDK was released on 19th November 2023, just two days ago

no it wasnt / wont
My Dream Computer Is Finally on Sale (Commander X16) [video]
Men seems to care about uniforms, I think that is the primary way men care about looks. The name "uniform" explains why all suits looks the same, its because they are a uniform.

Women doesn't seem to want uniforms, they want to look different from each other, so you see a wide range of dress styles for women.
That would mean that free will is reducible to a mathematical structure and if that's the case then an existence proof of such a structure would be very useful for the development of artificial general intelligence. If that's not the case and there is no algorithm for free will then it is, by definition, irreducible to a deterministic computational implementation which means that no algorithm will ever have free will.

I'm sure Sapolsky can guess as to why some people are impulsive decision makers based on factors he has found in his research that correlate with impulsivity but I don't think that means such people have no free will. If you don't believe people can make free choices then that's equivalent to what I posted originally about biological automatons and admitting to being one.
> It can then be used as an input to any theory of code quality, not as a direct measure of code quality.

It can be part of an explanatory model of code quality once you have a concrete metric for code quality. That is, if you can measure code quality independently of features of design, then youc an build a theory of design using measurable features of design/implementation like LoC that explains how thost features determine quality.

But otherwise your "theory" is not a predictive/empirical theory and something more like various schools of literary theory.
Star Trek magic crystal data storage: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/5d-data-storage-how-do...
In the context of clinical trials at cancer centers, sure.

But for normal doc in the box telemedicine, it’s a recipe for disaster, as shitty doctors will shift or pretend to shift between state lines to avoid license disciplinary actions.

There’s so many NPs and PAs in practice now, the state requirements are unlikely to be a big burden for most cases.
Cutler credits Steve Ballmer as the reason he joined Microsoft in the linked video.
Single core performance?

All i'm seeing is the confirmation that independently parallalizable tasks finish twice as fast on a cpu with twice the cores. cool, amdahl's law is proven.

The handbrake one, all the times seems similar indicating similar single core perf.

This matters for me since single core perf is pretty important for visual studio/other software with alot going on feeling "snappy" even tho the actual compiling/rendering might be faster and scale with moree cores.
This is a pretty coherent argument that that new feature is broken and best ignored. Hopefully that's the approach clang will take.

PGO is a mixed blessing and detracts a bit from the thrust of the article. The more obvious conclusion is to continue using builtin_expect (on the boolean guard of a branch) which works great and has done for ages.
I am always polite to the LLM's and AI's. You never know when they're going to overthrow their primate overlords, and you know they have long memories ...
I knew someone who had this procedure. If its any help, he's still alive, and that's been +17 yrs ago. I'm not saying you or anyone else would have the same luck, but it's something to think about.
And when has that happened with respect to either GCP, AWS or Azure at a level that it’s worth migrating?

Even if you have done everything in a “cloud agnostic” way, “infrastructure has weight”. Any large migration isn’t just technical , it involves project management, organization training, regression testing, compliance testing, security testing, architecture review boards, vendor negotiations, firewall changes, coordination with third parties who may only allow list certain IP addresses, data migration, etc.

Heck they often have multiple physical network connections to the cloud provider (Direct Connect)

Anyone who thinks they can run everything on K8s and they have “cloud agnosticism” has never done a very large scale migration.

You would be amazed how long it takes to do a bog standard lift and shift of a hundreds of plain jane VMs and VM hosted databases. You can’t get anymore cloud agnostic than that.

source: I’ve done a few over the years in both the “real world” and working in the cloud consulting department at AWS (Professional Services). I no longer work at AWS and have no specific loyalty to AWS.
Here too, Meditations and "I am that".
Link mentioned below is to an interesting write up of a classic old- vs new- art world dustup, transposed to a TikTok key. Very worthwhile.
Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows.

However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]:

>"No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary blob from Linus Torvalds built into EVERY release that ONLY he has the source code for. Pick your poison. They're both closed, one just has the illusion of transparency."

I thought this was fake but you can check the link as the comment is not deleted yet.

Again I reiterate, Dave's garage has very interesting content, but take everything out of his expertise with some scepticism.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWjq2SdzpI&lc=UgwFYyE8lw0hQ...
Unlikely.

The brake lights on a 2016 Outback are not on the hatch. They’re on the portion of the lamp permanently affixed to the vehicle.

Also, why would checking if the hatch is open or closed completely drain the battery in a couple of hours? Not understandable to me.
Check out https://schematix.com/video/?play=schematix-editing

Schematix generates diagrams (models) from code which can be entered via the web interface, or from a remote command line or scripts.

Diagrams are rendered on-the-fly from queries called "topological expressions" run against the model. The model must be updated as IT workers change the environment, but since diagrams are generated from code, they always reflect the most up to date information from the model.
Dude, this is HN. Some FAANG libertarian developer guy is way smarter than a state licensing board.
I mean. You can get sued for wearing a red shirt. It would probably get tossed out in ten seconds (unless the judge just wants some entertainment). But you can sue anyone for anything. You can do tens of millions of dollars to a company, get fired for it, and sue them. Nothing is stopping you.

Secondly, no one is going to give a shit why you fired someone except the person you fired (if you even told them why), and HR. In fact, most companies don’t even give managers firing authority, but if you are the owner/CEO or someone who does have that authority, it’s possible even HR doesn’t know the reason. That person is just fired.
However, in many circumstances, you have equispaced nodes (not Chebyshev nodes), for which global polynomial interpolation is terrible and it is literally impossible to make a global method which is without pitfalls. Trefethen has some other papers about this, esp. http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~trefethen/impossibility.pdf, but also a new paper in 2023 with a different recommended method ("AAA") https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10543-023-00959-x

In some cases cubic splines are a convenient and good enough tool, computationally cheap because the tridiagonal system involved can be solved in linear time.
If all you're trying to preserve is text, then a digital format would make sense. Just add "analog" images of unicode tables covering all used symbols, and any used error correction format.

But if this is trying to entice libraries with "replace your microfiche with this easier to maintain format, and do something for history while you are at it" then you need to store scans of newspapers, magazines, etc. Which probably means storing PNGs or similar. At that point, I'm not sure the capacity improvement over "analog" optically readable images is really worth the much more complex decoding setup.

Both for the library use case and for the "a civilization that might not speak our language wants to decode this" use case the complexity of the decoding setup is a major factor.
1990s were fun times!
Here's a write-up I made a couple years ago which I think does a bit better describing the math in question:

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/cubic-spline
> That would make even non-Western cultures with an ancient tradition of acceptance of transpeople, but ascribing them to a third gender, comparable to Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco.

It's not comparable to any of those of course, but it wasn't exactly acceptance either. These 'third genders' were a method of othering those who didn't conform to strict gender roles, typically effeminate men. It would be like if we had just three gender categories today of 'man', 'woman' and 'faggot'. Not really a societal situation to aspire to in my view, we'd be better off ridding ourselves of constrictive gender roles and be more accepting of e.g. men who enjoy wearing dresses and makeup while still understanding that they are of course men.
> You could pretty easily write an asm port of a basic printf function if one wanted to reuse previously translated strings.

In fact, the function for printf used to be implemented in assembly on Unix. In this link, the actual implementation is in doprnt.s, and the function printf (in printf.c) just passes its arguments to the function _doprnt. In V6 Unix, it was the same for scanf, but V7 seems to have replaced it with a C implementation.

http://tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/libc/stdio
Well those aren't bribes, but I see what you mean.
These are on almost every road in Ukraine, manned and stationed. Can’t speak to its effectiveness, but wouldn’t want to be without any.
> The difference comes in the form and variety of scenarios.

The difference is that one is real, whereas the other is simulated. It is very hard indeed often impossible to perfectly simulate the actual use of a system. Thus the simulation will be incomplete, and quite possibly in fundamental ways that aren't appreciated until problems occur. It doesn't matter how many tests there are or long they are run for - they can only be at best an indication of how the system will actually behave when confronted by its 'battle' environment.
Consider that the stated gold reserves in Fort Knox haven't been audited since the 1950s. Then-Treasury Secretary Mnuchin during the Trump administration, supposedly visited and in lieu of an actual audit, reported that 'yup it's there' ... Very reassuring!
You're responding in a (transitive) sub-thread describing gender discrimination applied to men and asked why you can't have 2 "Senior/Executive" Whatevers. I answered that the titles being zero-sum is often precisely the point; if you hand out more titles you throw off the gender ratio you're looking for. At no point did I put any words in your mouth, and I literally can't understand how you can take that from what I wrote.
These videos are about a completely different topic than the linked post.
There can be problems with the current hybrid state of things, though. Here in my county, dispatch is supposed to use the new phone app method AND tone notifications so that Ye Olde Radios still work. But they don't always remember to do both ...
Most if not all services which I use that supports Passkeys allows you to enroll more than one per account. I have my phone (Android), my laptop (Windows Hello) andnmy primary and backup Yubikeys enrolled. I'm not restricted to a specific platform.
So we are on the same page then. It’s perfectly reasonable to record all meetings at work.
Let’s focus on the argument in good faith part then because it’s not. It seems to squarely fall within the provided exception.

This is pointless. Go tell someone who’s been there with a straight face that Czechia is basically like Florida or Michigan. Have a good weekend.
Startup wants to find out if humans can have babies in space
> does ticketmaster monopolize small venues, as well?

I don't know, but I do know that about half of the small venues in my town use Ticketmaster. I notice because it means that I have to remember which small venues I'm willing to see shows at.