skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that discussion does not warm me at all to OpenBSD. A lot of those responses seemed way more abrasive than they needed to be.

It's interesting, though, that at least initially, the only examples of memory-safe languages were ones like Java or Python, which are both very high-level and come with a lot of runtime tradeoffs that would practically make them unsuitable to tools like ls or cat that need to be run quickly and a lot. (Also interesting: this never seems to be given as a reason not to use memory-safe languages.) Later on Rust and Ada are discussed, but it feels much more cursory, except in the final comment.

The big reason to use C seems to be that it provides a signal that the developer is competent - you need to be at least good enough to learn C in order to contribute to OpenBSD. And more specifically, if you would rather write code in a non-C, memory-safe language, you are probably a bad developer who should not contribute to OpenBSD. To me, this intuitively feels like quite a weak argument (are there so many people clamouring to contribute to OpenBSD that they need this kind of gatekeeping mechanism?) but it's pretty much the main one that gets repeated. The more convincing argument at the end is that, practically speaking, most of the benefits of memory-safe, low-level languages like Rust or Ada can be provided by static C linters/checkers, and so they don't add much value overall. This seems very much the opposite of what some other companies are saying, e.g. Google and Microsoft, which is that even with static analysis of C/C++, Rust is still dramatically reducing the number of memory safety issues they're running into.

I find it interesting that they don't bring up what seems to be the more obvious reasons not to bring in memory-safe languages, which are mainly the classic "rewrites are hard, here be dragons" arguments - the existing tools have been hardened through years of use, and rewriting them is more likely to add new bugs than remove old ones; new languages/tools means new knowledge which means having people on hand familiar with the new languages to understand what's going on; reimplantation tends to be slow initially, which eats resources and prevents ongoing maintenance and development; etc.

My main takeaways from that discussion are (a) I really hope I never have to work with the OpenBSD maintainers, and (b) their main arguments seem more about maintaining the exclusivity of their club than about the technical details of any transition.
> parents' perception of how dangerous it would be to give kids that freedom - a perception that may or may not be strongly correlated with the real risk profile

I would guess correlated with the advent of the 24-hour cable news cycle.
Jesse makes very good videos - deeply technical but very approachable, and with nice examples showing how the technology is used. Too bad it takes so long to make them.
There are a lot of options in this space.
I think the delaying of the publication of “The Snow Forest”, more exactly, the actions and words of the author about it, was an excellent place to start this essay.

It pretty effectively construct the context to culminate in the sentence:

” How did a heartfelt writer like Elizabeth Gilbert come to adopt the neutered rhetoric of brand management?”

Which is a great summarization of the point that the author is going to discuss in the way they want to discuss it. That artists are not bad, or evil, but they are doing art with the emptiness of corporations’ public relations.

I read it as a brilliant way to start an essay. It introduces the topic with a concrete example that provides context of what the author is going to talk about, in a short, straightforward form (unlike, e.g. how the New Yorker tends do these introductions, with long, writer-centered ramblings).

I saw no intention of fabricating outrage or t baiting in this introduction at all. Not a single drop of it to be honest. Much less that is supposed to be pointing to the fact that this example is something big, strong to any side of the current ideological disputes. On the contrary, it is there just to show how empty it all is. Irrelevant one-Star reviews, about irrelevant concerns of association to the current war, followed by an irrelevant stance, justified with an irrelevant speech, all coming together to become an irrelevant act of pseudo-activism. All so empty. Which is the whole point.
It is taught in primary school, yeah. I remember learning pseudo terminology like "do-words" for "verbs" in first and second grade.

Pre-school they try to teach "reading" letters nowadays, but then they get drilled in that "A is for apple" and now the shape A could mean the sound apple, and they have even less of a clue on what letters are.

(Even though in the 90s research already pointed out that reading should be taught with complete lowercase words instead of by letter picking.)
5 months ago - a friend wrote me a python script and sent it to me...i couldnt get it to work. Used phind.com to explain what to do...it worked out my windows environment variables needed to be changed, told me how to structure a folder schema to place the src script...mindblowing stuff. And i have been using it - when it turn the same friend told me to write a similar script in python myself...it has been amazing to forego stackoverflow/google to get answers. When the GPT-4 model kicks in - my questions are answered with beautiful clarity...whether or not this technology "hallucinates" or not...without a doubt it's empowered me to learn to program. If it's helped me out of 50% of my ruts - i count that as overwhelmingly positive!
Magsafe is not wireless charging.

A Magsafe cable/port is a "trip safe" charging system, as the power cable is attached to the computer solely by magnets so that it will not break the port if yanked out at an angle.
I remember reading this chapter and being blown away by the "construction" of the entire Mathematics (for me at that time) by Feynman in what seems like a barely over an hour lecture. In particular, the successive "expansions" always seemed so logical and consequential.
I always assumed Google bought Waze to prevent Facebook from buying it.
Except that it isn't
Sounds like how I was as a kid, always with a novel and then the advent of access to desktop internet in middle school hit. But hey, at least it’s a better foundation for literacy.
Reading Amiga Disks in the MEGA65
DNS supports TCP largely because of packet fragmentation issues with UDP. I don't have a lot of experience with it but from what I understand DNS attempts to switch to TCP (with varying degrees of success by implementation) when the size of the response exceeds or is expected to exceed the MTU.
The numbers from the health ministry are historically accurate, and even often cited by the US State Department in the past[1].

Or, if you trust Israel's numbers, they are pretty open that they dropped, for example, 6000 bombs on Gaza in a single week. Very conservatively, a typical JDAM bomb kills everything in a 30-40 meter radius and more deaths out to 10x that distance. That's just bombs, Israel is also using artillery, mortars, drones, small arms, etc. And then there's whatever deaths a water+fuel+food+medicine blockade might cause. Gaza's population density is high and well known, as is the percentage of women and children. Try some emotionless math that tells you thousands of women and children aren't dead...it just doesn't work.

[1] https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-...
Are any languages objectively simpler to learn than others as a native speaker?
> 400M pool of devices running Windows 10 will simply continue using an operating system that won't receive security updates.

This.
Can you elaborate on this? Not sure I understand.
Commutativity has been abandoned? What?! Nothing could be farther from the truth!

The requirement for order independence is literally everywhere … where would we be without being able to add or do set unions or lattice joins without fear of getting the order wrong?! Imagine getting two different waveforms when adding one to the other, depending on the order!
I second the recommendation for IBKR which quotes FX rates at market compared to Wise. When the sum is higher, the differences can be drastic.

As long as you run an active trading account with them it should be fine for occasional cash movements.
What's CodeLlama 33b? I couldn't find anything regarding it online
Yet those 400m machines have been happily running this entire time?
Yeah, but that's just an artefact of that particular scale. You'd have trouble measuring -5K
That looks great, have you tested it?
Fedora, obviously.
The "not fun" mentioned by the author is the same principle as good children's movies have to be genuinely scary or sad. See Disney/Pixar classics like Lion King.

The larger amplitude of emotions makes the positive ending stand out.
Didn't Amazon invest in Google in the Google's early days? Now Google is returning the favor by saying: "Look FTC and DOJ, we are not a monopolist, web users prefer Amazon over Google when they search for products to buy."
Soto. :p Rinzai don't look at the wall.
The documentation is lacking, but the important context is that you can run this through the Wasmer webassembly runtime, which provides complete isolation.

It would only be able to access host directories that you explicitly grant access to (--mapdir from the CLI)
Where is my file's metadata?
> Really, raw UDP makes very little sense in today's Internet. It might have been marginally more useful if BCP38/RFC2827 were more widely adopted.

I might agree if the only purpose of UDP was to avoid the handshake. But this issue alone only affects some usecases.

Naive workaround/thought, require the client to pad the first packet to the point where there you can't use it for amplification attacks (not an absurd amount, just 1k or something. Of course depends on the context).

And possibly embed the source IP in the first response so that the indirection isn't as effective either.
The Apple reality distortion field is in full swing:

"The memory is not inside the package"

vs.

"The SoC and RAM chips are mounted together in a system-in-a-package design." [0]

Every mobile SOC does the same? All Intel SOCs do this? Which one? Can you point out the 16Gb of RAM in this Meteor Lake SOC?

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/20046/Meteor_Lake_Hotchips...

The Wikipedia article on Meteor lake doesn't even mention memory at all [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M2#Memory

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Lake
MKBHD did this with the iPhone 13 Pro:
https://youtu.be/dSL6KiMeNOI?si=rI0-FYrf0ZHt9FYQ

Magnet paper goes on at around 0:15
What websites are you talking about?

I do use a feed reader already but it's not good for discovering new things. The problem is when I venture out to discover what's going on in the world I'm deluged with Musk spam. A couple of years ago it was Trump spam.
There is a new product called LymeShield which uses the old Lyme vaccine (which was effective but a commercial failure) to vaccinate mice via food pellets:

https://news.uthsc.edu/uthsc-researchers-lyme-disease-interv...

https://usbiologic.com/

https://lymeshield.com/

It's a clever idea, vaccinate the carriers to break the life cycle and get rid of it for good, instead of vaccinating people. I'd like to try it but haven't been able to find a pest specialist who carries it my area yet.

There is a product called Met52 also, which is used against several agricultural pests. It's a fungus that also happens to kill ticks:

https://www.planetnatural.com/product/met52-ec/

https://www.plantproducts.com/ca/images/Met52_EC_label_2015-...

It seems they've changed the name/ownership of it to LALGUARD M52 GR:

https://www.evergreengrowers.com/lalguard-m52-granular-met52...

I had it applied to my yard and haven't see a tick for two years. I'm hoping it took up residence in the soil.
The options aren’t iPad or uncontrollable noise. I think you’re missing the third option - parenting the kids. Disciplining children (even just verbally) seems to be something nobody wants to do anymore. If I was told to be quiet as a kid I did it because I knew I’d get in trouble otherwise.
Show HN: Finding Speaker Similarity Scores for Voice Cloning Models
ref blog: https://black.dubverse.ai/p/evals-are-all-we-need
https://archive.ph/ZyGo8
Okay, so "a line was defined only by having no breadth" should be "a line was defined only by having length and no breadth"
And what kind of verification would a site like Wikipedia even need? Does it need to classify all articles with respect to a minimum reader age? Or generally allow all contents only for visitors that are over 18? Or what?
I think people having less number of kids is also makes parent care more about safety of their kids.
>Imagine a version of ChatGPT that has tight integration with Google Search, Google Scholar, Google Patent, Google Books, Google Deepmind, etc.

Google wants Google Bard to become that and use all the Google's services.
There have been several plans for deploying IPSec everywhere as a evolution of IP with different key management strategies. There needs to be a way to look up a public key for a ip address, there's more than one way to do it.
Could you name a few of these proposals ?
So you are saying 3 colds a month isn’t enough? I should modify my lifestyle with the expressed purpose of getting more? For my health?!?
More speed generally means more noise, though.
Weed also does the same thing and I smoke that and drink coffee. I must be some sort of zombie at this point.
In all the eu countries I've been, most cities or even local towns are car centric and I grew up in one.

Walkable options I've experienced:
Uk towns in the country with a large walkable area and plenty of shops (and I've heard about some spanish cities although I have not seen them) or London with frequent transport.

Even though my city was definitely car centric I could roam freely as a kid wherever I wanted by bike.

Since I was ~16 immigration from Africa, the middle east and balkans became a massive problem and every week there was someone getting knifed in the park in front of the train station.

I didn't lose my right to roam freely, but that's because I was already big enough.

I moved country (still eu unfortunately) and immigration is becoming a problem here as well. It's like when I was 16 all over again. In comparison, in my own home country my grandma stopped going out in the city centre because it's so dangerous.

It goes without saying I am not going to let my kids roam freely here.

Maybe if we move somewhere else safer, eg Dubai.
Uplink is a contender for the most immersive game ever as you play it sitting at a computer, playing the role of a person sitting at a computer.
My experience of education in the UK is that reasoning and questioning were actively discouraged by some teachers. They were pressured to go through course material quickly, and having students presenting counter-arguments would slow things down.
No, the article (and linked youtube) is about the magnets on an iphone (apparently also called magsafe, hence the "that magsafe" part of my comment). This, among other benefits, aligns the phone perfectly and thus alleviates wireless charging alignment issues.

Which at least 10 years ago used to be a big issue. Not sure how current iterations perform.
Order independence is not a property of general-purpose programming. As much as we'd love for that to go away, it is very much a reality of day-to-day programmers.
Show HN: Easytables.nvim – Easily edit md tables in nvim with a live preview
When writing down markdown tables, I find it much easier to see a live preview of the table and being able to swap cells with just one command. That's why I created easytables.nvim - my first NeoVim plugin ^^
Does anyone know vision models that detect ads? I wasn't able to find any, which is kind of surprising... That sounds like an armsrace that would exist.
I am not going to visit the website you just posted here unless you explain how the mechanism works, otherwise I will assume it's just crappy advertisement in this post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37902599
Of course, but Lagon and Blueboat (from my memory) are the only ones which are multi-tenant, unlike Deno and open-source version of Cloudflare Workers
TCP is like automated driving or a taxi. you get in your car, tell it the destination, and it takes you there.

UDP is driving yourself. you have to adjust the speed and direction as you go. if you go to fast accidents can happen.

so obviously, when using UDP you have to add safeguards against attacks, but, you get more flexibility to adjust things along the way. you are not locked into the way TCP does it, and that is the benefit of creating a UDP based protocol instead of just using TCP.

TCP is not built on top of UDP, but i think it could be: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10680592/can-tcp-be-impl...

and it is a good idea to not just use UDP blindly, but implement the necessary saveguards on top of it.

but claiming that all UDP based protocols are bad because of UDP is like saying, cars are bad because of bad drivers. (well, they are, but that's a different topic)

so UDP based protocols aren't bad. only using UDP without safeguards is bad.
> You gave them a massive lead with a novel approach...

From everything I've read/watched, the original researchers didn't know at that point their work was going to be so impactful. In hindsight, yeah. But otherwise no.
Rk3588-based are gaining traction. Upstream support for uboot and linux has been improving rapidly.

I bought orange pi 5+ to replace my x86-based odroid-h2+. Will start the installation in the next few weeks. I have seen enough anecdotes people running NixOS on this chip, so feel pretty optimistic about it.

Also, #nixos-on-arm Matrix channel is amazing.
Boeing assessing Lockbit hacking gang threat of sensitive data leak
I'm confused. Ok, Bard isn't cutting edge but it's pretty damned good for every day stuff ... and I actually detest Google ... but I've been using it because I'm sick of Edge on my PC and I think the UI is just 'friendlier' and quicker.

N=1
"lies in the fact that you've been presenting the trappings of modern society as if they're the bedrock of modern existence" Yeah, I am not.
I’ve always wondered about that. Yeah, you can objectively say Shakespeare was a master of the written word based on how many new words and phrases he coined and all that, but who are we to otherwise judge the qualitative merits of Elizabethan writing? How does a modern gauge whether Christopher Marlowe or any other contemporary authors are any better or worse than the Bard himself? What if there were other plays that were superior but simply got lost to history?
They plan to have 3rd party companies that do verification. Of course this will be a privacy disaster and likely intentionally so.

The Tories are obsessed with weakening privacy and data protection laws. It's part pro-business/anti-consumer ideology, part dislike of the EU and its goals and a large dash of corruption. See for example giving away NHS data to Palantir, a company literally funded by the CIA.
A robotaxi crash got Cruise's self-driving cars pulled from California roads
> I was told by my boss I needed to upgrade my car to, at a minimum 2yr-old Lexus NX

to which you should be replying "sure, let me send you the receipt so you can expense it". If it is for work, the employee cannot expect to pay for a required piece of equipment.
i think we're forgetting Intel's backdoor https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/disabling-intels-backdoors-o...
Can't wait for the day where it makes sense to export all my ChatGPT history and import it into Google's competition product in order for them to customize my experience.

At this point Google is offering nothing which comes close to ChatGPT, Bard is a laughing stock compared to it. But I don't doubt that Google will catch up and then offer a better experience.

The only thing OpenAI has from me is that (valuable) chat history (and the monthly subscription money), so I wouldn't have any problems with moving away from them once they are no longer in the unique position they're currently in. This is different with Google, which has several orders of magnitude more data about me and which they also do manage for me.

I'm concerned that it's only a matter of time until OpenAi gets hacked and some of the user account's data gets leaked.
" In other words, she says as little as possible, passing on the easy opportunity to defend her right to free expression and anyone’s right to read or not read whatever they want, both of which are currently and repeatedly threatened in Russia, Ukraine and the United States."

I'd agree with you except for this sentence, which frames the controversy as about free speech.
I'm interested in learning Idris2, I thought it was intended to blend the strengths of proof assistants and general purpose programming:

https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2
Well this particular forum is owned by OP. That's the value proposition for him. Now, for users, I'm not sure there is a value proposition to be a part of a dead forum.
DNS Supports TCP due to some responses to requests being > 64Kb

Initially for domain transfers, and now for DNSSec etc where you can get rather large certificates embedded.

Also it's rather handy if you're tunneling over a proxy that only supports TCP ;)
Fwiw I see the extinction rebellion groups as a beacon of hope (even if they’re way more pessimistic than I am). I live in NL and as far as I can see their work is actually beginning to move the needle.

You don’t go sit on a highway and block all traffic with 200 people for a month straight if you believe it’s all futile anyway.
There are some sparse examples

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.08.210

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1811.04115

https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164587
I tried to disable the cookies through the consent form on this site. But that form is very, very long... Just impossible to disallow cookies in a standard way.
Was the 4 hour workweek republished? Metaverse edition?
I regularly compare queries with both GPT-4 and Claude 2 and I find I prefer Claude's answers most often. The 100k token context is a major plus too.

Claude is more creative and that comes with a higher rate of hallucinations. I hope I'm not misremembering but GPT-4 was also initially more prone to hallucinations but also more capable in some ways.
It will enable a greater genocide of gay people across the world.
Survivorship bias. The rural kids riding their bikes all over the place who unfortunately got eliminated by cars didn't get to write hacker news posts.

My own 6 year old has to cross a busy main road to get to school. Have I damaged him mentally by personally making sure he gets across twice a day, or have I mitigated the low risk of a catastrophic outcome?
At least one must be prepared for some unpleasantness. All these sensations, thoughts and feelings bubble up. You kind of go through them. With prolonged meditation (like for days) it gets really strong sometimes.
This is very interesting desire to me.. Wont you end up with a weird, contrived context for everything else you do read though? Like you would be reading an article about the UN and it would say: "and then, some country put forward a new resolution." Wouldn't that, like, kinda drive you crazy?

Like I know the state of journalism is less than stellar, but patching it after the fact for each reader seems like the wrong direction. The implicit conception of "the news" in this desire reifies it into a weird kind of commodity for your personal entertainment/edification; which is precisely the conception operating today which makes it so bad!

Like, maybe, if you have psychological considerations where certain triggers are very damaging, I can kinda understand this. But if that is really the case, then just why read the news anyway? Of course you gotta read some sometimes, but in general you can read other things. There is a lifetime and a half of fiction and nonfiction to read, no GPU required!