skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding of open firmware is making sure that the booting process is accessible to the user. Securing the boot process from intruders is secondary to that. It appears that these talks are more about securing the boot process, rather than talking about how to make the boot process more accessible.

Secondly, these events looks like their geared toward the private sector, rather than enthusiasts. Why would I want to invest my time in contributing to a problem that is already made worse by commercial endeavors that seem to want to take control away from the user?
>Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system?

>Hint: it isn’t big pharma

When the Economist - the neoliberal paper of record writes an article downplaying the profitability of a particular industry I have to say I get a little suspicious.

And I discovered that the Journal of American Medical Association apparently doesn't agree that Pharma makes mediocre profits:

https://www.biospace.com/article/how-profitable-is-the-pharm...
> The whole piece is self-congratulatory

How so? The author just describes their values and how they shape their workflow. How are they not honest with themselves?
Who's Harry Potter? Approximate Unlearning in LLMs
you come across as someone who doesn’t make sense or someone who knows but doesn’t know how to explain themselves across industry borders.

you can assume everyone here is a bit technical, but not experts on film.
Useful XKCD here regarding weird units: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

TLDR; "If you took all the gas you burned on a trip and stretched it out into a thin tube along your route, 0.1 square millimeters would be the cross-sectional area of that tube."
I would love for Google to just start blocking all websites that do that kind of thing.
I also just added this as a feature to https://catnip.vip
None of the visuals in the examples are distinct. Usually I have like chrome to a box labeled alb... I'm not sure what c4 is getting me over that
It's constantly updated https://github.com/h2o/h2o/commits/master

Also see: "switch to a new release model" https://github.com/h2o/h2o/issues/3230

"Every commit to the master branch is considered ready for production"
Massive scale*
Unreasonable people can disagree on the exact threshold. Sometimes they decide that 10,000,000xers are out of reach, but gullible upper middle class schlubs like you and I are quite ripe for the looting.
The Secret, Scary Way Your Friends Are Losing Weight
So you know. Do you disagree? I have only built one from scratch.
Js13kGames – JavaScript Game Development Competition in just 13 kilobytes
Anecdotal “proof”: In the heart of Manhattan’s ultra trendy Chelsea neighborhood is the Chelsea market which is now this super trendy food hall. In the basement is a delicious butcher named Dicksons where literally hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists eat and drink craft beers while they literally saw entire pigs and baby calfs in half and dangle their carcasses in clear eye sight of where you sit and eat. I take my family there all the time because of how tasty and fresh the meats are and my children love it.

Showing people where their meat comes isn’t going to reduce the demand in my opinion. I personally believe people should know where their food comes from as it reduces waste and garners introspection about our role in the planet and ecosystem.

I’m Greek American and lamb on the spit is a cultural tradition on Easter. As a kid, it was very weird for my American friends to pick food directly off of a carcass but so many told me over the years it was an unforgettable experience. My uncle once took me to the farm in Georgia where he got the lamb, handed me a large knife and asked me to slit its throat, I was 13 at the time. I couldn’t do it, I cried and watched him do it. I will never forget that. To this day I have a profound love and appreciation of animals, especially lambs. I still eat them. The two ideas for me are not conflicted to me. The only thing I abhor when it comes to meat is wastefulness.
The double-edged sword of revealing mental health issues at work
How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation
> Something I was rather ignorant to for the longest time was how fascism can exist at both ends of the spectrum.

Both extremes are the same. It's like love and hate. You shall not have freedoms is the point.
I guess it's subjective - some websites like X / twitter are super terrible if you're not logged in, but almost usable if you are logged in.
Ok, your previous comment seemed to imply that the only alternative to monetary policy was violence/war, that sounded absurd. Now you seem to confuse currency controls with monetary policy? Anyway, maybe it would be a good idea to read about lists of economic policies to get a better view of the matter?
> Why is it relevant whether one can put a finger on the difference?

You brought this up, not me.

> 1) the scale of suffering is obviously far far greater than family-scale slaughter

Not if every family has to slaughter their own meat, the scale is the same just distributed so you don't see it.

> 2) the way in which we do factory farming reflects poorly on us as a species

This isn't inherent to factory farming though, just the ways it is done in some places. And this goes for family farming as well, some families would put animals in small cages and not take care of them to save money and because they are lazy. If you filmed them and their animals I don't think people would feel any different.
“lossless image format" maybe?
> If you had looked them up before commenting. You wouldn't have been wrong on every single thing you sayed.

And these sentences are why we aren't pedantic in public.
Floats are bigger, and math with them is more difficult.

But really, I wondered why the cpu-bound LLMs do quantization, which from what I understand is the process of reducing the precision of the weights to use less memory.

Does the lack of precision make a difference? It's unclear. If that's the case, then why use FP at all? If precision doesn't matter, then the extra precision is just making the process use more resources for no real reason. And likely orders of magnitude more resources than required.

I mean, this field wasn't started by people who understood performance. They used tools and built something...but there's no 'why.' This is what the tools did, so they did that.

Here's why that might be important: on a normal CPU, accessing data one way can be orders of magnitude faster than another way...but you have to be aware. Would you like to reduce your LLM costs by orders of magnitude?
There’s an online museum of signatures collected from the Polish Usenet here: https://hell.pl/nina/newssigs/newssigs.htm
Milton Friedman's Interest Rate Fallacy
I was a janitor for a long time in my younger years, and I actually did find it enjoyable and fulfilling. Just sayin'.
The lazyness of ours is not limited with Discord only.
Why is this flagged?
I think it is a relevant piece of information.
Just bought a 2023 Forester, no problems yet but wondering if this problem is just for the Outback?
Left or right, the Canadian government serves business not individuals and it shows everywhere. There is only ONE independent ISP left in Ontario and they have recently been talking to law firms who specialize in the sale of businesses. That leaves Bell, Rogers and Cogeco as the only way you can get a home phone, cell phone or internet connection. Most places you have only one option for your electrical and natural gas provider!

Canada is just 3 monopolies in a trench coat and there is nothing we can do about it.
Looking back on all both Daves said, there is an extraordinary amount of attention paid to getting things done and out the door, and almost no mention of planning ahead, and actual security strategy. Its all commercial pressure to get the sausage out of the meat grinder, and keep the failures down to an acceptable level.

No wonder things never get better, and never take a turn in the right direction, industry wide. I used to think we'd eventually get to capability based security, but now I see we'll always be stuck with application permission flags, the almost worthless bastard cousin, instead.

I weep for the future.
The trick is to not build it yourself but judge what will be enduring.

A bunch of html, css and js files will work in 100 year’s time and if no there will be an archeological AI bot to convert them!

For the short term, say 10 years Wordpress ain’t a bad choice for most.
I think the broken assumption is that they make these decisions on the granularity of a channel rather than a video. A channel like Dave Plummer that talks about multiple topics (tech and neurodiversity) gets neurodiversity suggestions even if that's not the video you've watched within the channel.

I assume some followers watch only the tech, others watch only the neurodiversity topics, and some watch both.

You could have a recommendation engine that works in almost exactly the same way as Google's that suffers less from this problem.
If true, it's the bacteria/parasites. Undercooked red meat is much more dangerous than non-red meat.
chuckle it was a joke man. Most of these types who complain about UBI are trust-fund babies.
Go show your kid a real factory farm instead of a high-end butcher in a trendy food hall and report back! Easy experiment to run and your kids’ reaction could settle this debate.
How can I solve this problem cheaply? Here are a few thoughts:

- Generate an encrypted token based on the redirect state value.
- Store the mapping of tenant_id and unique state.
- wait Microsoft support wildcard redirects.
That’s a really good point, I’ve had to redo diagrams before to fit them into a presentation, and because they were sprawling all over the place in Figma or Miro, they required extra work to fit correctly and be readable. Powerpoint or Google Slides forces you to concision and the aspect ratio of the slide, for good or bad.
Honestly a lot of kids in the US/UK should have no problem finding a used desktop/laptop to play with if they're into that sort of stuff. Even a 15 year old computer can run Linux today and people are practically throwing those out.
Show HN missing
I quite like this! I see a lot of people quoting the line "I have very high and unusual standards" and only paying attention to the first adjective. It's obvious that many of the things people are complaining about are simply not important to them, which is fine! Part of the magic of the personal website the author talks about comes from how different people prioritize different parts of the website creation and usage experience differently.

Where I do think the article misses the ball is on static vs. dynamic websites. If you need a dynamic website (for example, to display the user's IP), build a dynamic website. If you don't, build a static website. There really isn't another argument presented here beyond "some things you can't do with a static website", which is really just the fundamental tradeoff of a static site.

Anyways, a neat glimpse into a particular development philosophy that I will very likely never do but I will share with some similarly-minded friends :)
> there was a part of the city that was kind of fenced off for security purposes. that’s where all the hotels were

I've been to Medellín several times, and stayed in some of the nicest and most popular hotels, as well as in various local neighborhoods. I never saw a fenced off part of the city.
That’s sounds like an adventure.
I re-read the chain and don’t follow your argument.

Do you mean that your original point was about deployments to begin with?

FWIW I work in a microservices shop for a global app in an extremely regulation heavy industry, and we run a single codebase per service, segregating regulator-imposed behaviour via flags to deployments
In honor of Caps Lock Day, I will write this comment without using Shift.

Silly anecdote, but one of my close friends somehow learned to rapidly toggle Caps in lieu of Shift, and still does it to this day.
The voice of reason always comes from the trenches.
> While it's true that he didn't explicitly say he supported Hamas, his suggestion that Israel's response constitutes a war crime, less than 1 week after Hamas' brutal slaughter of at least 1400 innocents, may be interpreted as insensitive and biased.

I get what you are saying, but whether or not an action is a war crime is not really contingent on how justified the war itself is. I also think he did plainly condemn Hamas's actions. But also: wouldn't it be insensitive to ignore the slaughter of Palestinian innocents and civilians? That strikes me as really biased as well. Really think about the implications of what you are saying.
I apologise for questioning if you read the comments.
We're not big on microservices, but we do integrate with a lot of other systems.

I find the opaqueness of other services to reduce development speed quite drastically. With local code I can view both sides of the fence and easily see if I'm using it wrong or if it's a bug in my colleagues code.

Seems that if you're constantly developing against opaque services you'd end up in the same quagmire quite quickly?
> how does performance measurement and optimization work in that environment?

SRE here. Generally speaking, each API or each service will have a contract that it must adhere to depending on upstream and downstream relationships and their fail safes. Each service (or API) will then load test in isolation.

After that, if you want to be really sure about regressions (which would include fail safes) you load test the whole thing put together.

> Is the key some sort of meta tooling that understands relationships between microservices?

This is quite hard to do when you have a lot of transactions. I don't think there's commodity software that does this because you'd need to configure that software to map on keys, then map those keys to services. Generally, the easiest way is to get engineering teams to declare upstreams and downstreams.

> Q2: How do you ensure the stubbed deps behave like the real thing?

Generally, generation. Something like protobuf or Open API generation will do.

> Q3: how do you handle logging and metrics in an unified way across the stack?

You issue high level standards like, "We'll use JSON logging with UTC time formatting". At the end of the day logging is very contextual and in a service ownership model the service owners are usually the ones reading and alerting on their logs.

> And related to this: how do you ever get to upgrade services crosscutting concerns that ideally are not invented in every service?

Shared dependencies. I'm not actually sure what's a cross cutting concern; generally services that are this small should be designed to operate mostly independently. They're small, but "microservices" tend to have a lot of fail safes built in. If you're referring to how do we not write 4000 config loaders then there's usually a team that builds a very generic config loader and everyone or a majority use it.
And the vast majority of trial balloons go nowhere, so Tiktaalik's original comment is basically correct. There's nothing to see here.
I was just pointing out (obviously in a too indirect of way!) that nobody seems to care about the UBI that somebody inherits from their parents.
A good overview.

While the article reads on the pessimistic side (in short: existing solutions won't cut it), in general: all the things described are happening already. Mostly getting worse.

And 99.99% certain: humanity is not prepared for the combination + 2nd order effects of these issues.

On a side note: shouldn't "polycrisis", "multicrisis" or a similar term deserve its own WP article? If only to explain the concept? There is one on societal collapse:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse

But it doesn't mention any such term. Or much discussion about how causes may interact (other than that causes are complex & may involve domino effects).

As HN readers will know: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
I switched to Kagi a month ago, and it's fine but the experience of using it doesn't live up to the hype IMO. You don't really "feel" the privacy benefit, so it's just a paid search engine that mostly lines up with Google's quality.
Sketchy. Metals warehousing is notorious for embezzlement/fraud.

My hypothesis is that everyone assumes it's too obvious to check or hard to steal.
> Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage

This probably depends on your country. Here in Finland they are almost nice.
Well, this is disconcerting. I've used Harvest and found the support to be absolutely stellar, with prompt responses that clearly and deeply understood the nuances of how customers are using the product and detailed steps on how to creatively use existing features. Anything unimplemented yielded, "we'll put that on the backlog but no promises." Given the 30 headcount cited in engineering [1], I don't know where it goes because I didn't see other features getting cranked out either.

I started getting spammed as a "user of Harvest" which prompted me to suspect that they were selling their customer lists. They took this claim extremely seriously, connecting me with company heads immediately to issue stern denials and execute a prompt investigation. That was great.

What I think it came down to, though, was also engineering. I figured out a rather easy way to reliably infer active customers, which also, "went on the backlog" and remains unfixed months later. And it's a fix that appears to be super trivial.

They also only offer MFA if you're signing in with Google [2]. But the app itself is DAMN good at what it does.

1: https://www.getharvest.com/about/meet-the-team

2: https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/36005266713...
Looks similar to me if not better.

I like the “chonkiness” factor.

Looking forward to the detachable sideview mirrors since I’d prefer cameras and more horizontal room inside.
For example, in reference to the WWI experience in specific:

> Some men with shell shock were put on trial, and even executed, for military crimes including desertion and cowardice.[16] While it was recognised that the stresses of war could cause men to break down, a lasting episode was likely to be seen as symptomatic of an underlying lack of character.[17] For instance, in his testimony to the post-war Royal Commission examining shell shock, Lord Gort said that shell shock was a weakness and was not found in "good" units.[17] The continued pressure to avoid medical recognition of shell shock meant that it was not, in itself, considered an admissible defence. Although some doctors or medics did take procedure to try to cure soldiers' shell shock, it was first done in a brutal way. Doctors would provide electric shock to soldiers in hopes that it would shock them back to their normal, heroic, pre-war self. While illustrating cases of mutism in his book Hysterical Disorders of Warfare, therapist Lewis Yealland describes a patient who had, over the course of 9 months, been subjected unsuccessfully to numerous treatments for his mutism; these included strong application of electricity to his throat, lit cigarette ends applied to the tip of his tongue, and "hot plates" placed in the back of his mouth.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock
> Keeping the battery 5 feet away from the door instead of next to the door solved that problem.

Do you mean the key? Otherwise how are you moving the battery?
> when someone points out that actual animals are being killed, like cut with a knife then let to bleed out then seperated into pieces and shipped to the consumers in a package that doesn't look like an animal that was minding its own business a few days ago?

The argument is entirely emotional. Another person can say "I like killing animals for their meat because eating animal meat makes me feel good" and it will be equally valid, because neither are any valid, both arguments are entirely subjective. In fact all the people in all of history were pretty much enjoying killing other living beings with sharp tools, then let them to bleed out, then dice, slice, heat and eat them. Someone can even go on to say "I like the industrial cruel killing methods technological society employs because they allow me to eat meat for cheaper." It is equally valid as saying "Oh poor animals don't kill them!"

I personally believe in Islam and thus believe animals are specifically created for humankind to benefit, thus it's both moral and fulfilling a purpose to kill and eat them. My faith also says that an animal must be killed in the traditional least-cruel way by a human, for it to be halal (permissible) to be eaten.
Similarly to a sibling poster, I also live in my car. It's a $3000 hatchback. I work full time and my income is in the 95th percentile nationwide, so while I appreciate the savings, it is not a major factor. I decided to try it this summer and continued, among others, for the following reasons:

- I wanted to try something I haven't done before

- My former house didn't qualify for a residential parking permit. I found it annoying that all residents aren't equal in this regard

- Coping with the death of a close relative who had been homeless by choice for decades

- It makes it easier to reach my financial goals

- I learn a lot of things I wouldn't learn otherwise and get to explore my surrounding area; it's been easier to avoid dull stereotype so far (but I realize that even this could become repetitive, at which point I will likely find something else to entertain myself)
It reassures me. Because if gorhill cared about money, he would have a 100% ethical, simple way to immediately open the floodgates and make a five- to six-digit amount per year.

This suggests to me that he doesn't need nor care about having more money, and will be very hard to corrupt by offering money. How do you bribe a person that has free money with no strings attached offered to them and says "no thanks"?
The larceny-theft clearance rate for Texas municipalities over 100,000 population is only 7%: https://www.dps.texas.gov/sites/default/files/documents/crim...

So I think it’s pretty common for property crime to have a low clearance rate especially in larger municipalities.

I think you’re also downplaying the fairness of misdemeanors for property crime under $950. Why should stealing a candy bar or a DVD be a felony? Do you realize how life-ending a felony conviction can be? You basically can’t get a decent quality job ever again, which isn’t going to lower the property crime rate by making desperate people more desperate.

And also, misdemeanors can be upgraded to felonies via repeat offenses and surrounding circumstances (e.g., armed robbery is always felony).

Here’s an example of the San Francisco DA seeking life sentences for violent robberies: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-mission-distric...

I think San Francisco has a perception of being a liberal haven for criminals with lax enforcement, but the more likely reality is that it operates similarly to most other large cities. The DA isn’t twiddling their thumbs and allowing violent robbers to get off with misdemeanors. That perception of San Francisco law enforcement is pushed by political opponents.
There is a solution. Create a cross-airline list and ban them for one year on the first offense, three years on the second and then it’s a lifetime ban. Ban alcohol on flights and if someone is caught bringing alcohol on flights they get a ban too.
> Oftentimes, people need a push, and doing so can be an act of compassion.

Only if those people have asked for the push. If they haven't, then it's not at all an act of compassion.
PPACA was one of the biggest policy fails and put us at a great competitive disadvantage. We were coming out of the Great Financial Crisis and the Rust Belt desperately needed manufacturing revival which the likes of Walmart forced abroad. At least some of that is reversing.