skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, my experience with The Register has been nothing but positive.

When all the websites were reporting on my "discovery" of a security issue, The Register has been the first (by over a week) and one of the few to ask me by email about the details and the only to publish article with correct information. I know they weren't rushing to publish it as they were far from the first. Also they have been fast to respond back.

Some other website that I will not name have made a lot of mistakes in their reporting and when asked for fixing, the reporter replied 3 days later and complained that my article has been too complicated! I also have a small suspision that they copy-pasted it from some much smaller website without mentioning it, as that website published earlier than them and had the same exact mistakes, which were very hard to make, unless you decided to skip random paragraphs and stop in the middle.

All the other websites have copied from that one without ever checking the authoritative source that was my article and I know this because I explicitly had put a warning to clarify the misinformation :).

Some other big website emailed me after all the other ones have published and I answered their questions and I even told them to not put X as a title as that's not what the issue is about as I saw others doing that. Guess what? They did that exact title :).
I exhale co2. Should I stop breathing? Should we stop using cars all together? Stop flying? Stop using computers?
Sorry but I don't operate in that absolutist way. Existence is not always fair, and it's not always without harm. Everyone has a footprint on their environment. Nobody is without one.
If you think for a single second that the monarchy is going to do a single thing that might jeopardize their free, cushy, completely out of touch lifestyle, you are horribly horribly wrong.

Philip had his fair share of completely out of touch gaffes, but even he wasn’t so stupid as to believe it wouldn’t ruin everything for him to exercise their “power”.
> What would happen if he tried?

He would probably be either asked to abdicate, or it would be the end of the British monarchy altogether.

It would cause a massive constitutional crisis in the UK where not only the monarchy would be called in question, but also the nobility (i.e. House of Lords)
Yes, there actually is a to-be merged fork of Cosmopolitan that makes Dear ImGui work, but no dynamic linking is generally a big limitation for GPU acceleration.
Show HN: BillDB – What were you charged?
BillDB is a searchable database of prices people have paid and where. What does each veterinarian charge to spay a cat? Who provides the cheapest oil change in your town? Which plumber has been charging the lowest rate? Which car dealership has been giving the best out-the-door price, inclusive of any surprise markups? Is your current dentist charging you a fair price?

Just like with the review sites we all know, BillDB is community-driven, so it's up to us to post what we've paid and where. This is the biggest challenge of the whole project, so it would be great to get your suggestions on achieving that as well as the site itself.

I built this with React, Material UI, and Firebase.
Oh, but you already can check instagram while driving, people do it all the time :)
You imply it's the only tax, rather than one of the total taxes.
I believe the border states did a bunch of things, including buying bus tickets, to flood the leftie cities opposing having a strong border and sensible migrant policies with a small taste of what border cities have been dealing with for decades. This is the lefties trying to solve the problem they exacerbated without having to admit the border states have been right all along.
I enjoyed this 2-Aug-2023 podcast interview covering some of this stuff: https://josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-kariko/
I feel like there are 2 schools of thoughts on learning about quaternions: #1: This article, and the associated 3Bl1Br describe their abstract representations. Visualizations of 4-component imaginary structures etc. They provide a deep dive from a mathematician's perspective. If you're into this sort of thing (You probably are if you watch 3Bl1Br regularly...), it's outstanding.

#2: Quaternions as a powerful tool for representing orientations and rotations. Applicable whenever you're programming something that uses these concepts. Most common are computer graphics and robotics, but you can imagine other uses like biometrics, scientific models of molecules etc.

The visualizations you might use for type 2 are standard 2D and 3D space operations. You don't need to directly map the 4 quaternion parameters. You need these building blocks; find from a library, article, first-principles etc.

- Rotate a vector using a quaternion
- Find the quaternion that specifies the shortest rotation from one vector to another
- Find the quaternion that rotates around a given axis a given amount
- Rotate an orientation and/or composing rotations
- Find the quaternion that rotates one orientation to another

Using these building blocks (And maybe one or 2 I left out), you can do any sort of work with rotations and orientations. If you can visualize the rotations, either in your head, or with physical objects or a computer render, you won't forget the principles.

Warning: There are 2 types of quaternions (JPL and Hamilton). Every article/lib etc uses one, but they rarely annotate which! Mixing the 2 will produce incorrect results.
> You can never straight up brute force a full-strength 512-bit key. That's just a fact of the universe.

If there is some number of bits n < 512 where brute forcing an n-bit key is not a "fact of the universe", does it stand that cracking 512 bit keys is also not a fact of the universe?
I use cash for so so so much. I will bring a couple of thousand USD on a trip and convert it to the local currency to avoid exactly this hassle. Not just for me but for the merchant as well.

Cash is king-many, many times.
As an expat, I've experienced lots of issues with my US bank recently. They started adding a 2fa through SMS, and they have no way for me to turn it off. I've been looking for banks to switch to, but it is hard to Google banks that don't require a phone number. What I've ended up doing is attempting to open an account and then stopping when they ask for a phone number.
The solution I found was to open a Schwab international brokerage account. They're okay with people who do not reside in the US, provide a debit card, can be used to pay of CCs, can deposit/write checks and allow money transfers. The only issue is that I suspect that my money is not protected by the government if Schwab goes bankrupt.
Kotlin Coroutines vs. Threads Performance Benchmark
The way the incentives work, if a store is mostly sure you're legit, that's not good enough and they would lose money if they served people indistinguishable from you; if their margins aren't huge, even being 90% sure may not be good enough.
You must have missed the part that says: `According to the report, "there is no factual basis for arguing that there is a 'moral equivalence' between the warring factions"`

Serbs committed many bad acts against everyone involved and there is no moral equivalence.
the result would be we'd end up with the law and William as king
He'd still be commander in chief of Canada's armed forces. There's that at least.
A take on why there’s so much over 40 discrimination, and why I expect it to decline somewhat in the next decade:

Imagine the crotchety (young) programmer you know. The guy who’s kind of a mild know-it-all, who gets disinvited from business meetings for being too abrupt, they guy you have to front with a good PM to talk to anyone external. Maybe a little autistic, perhaps undiagnosed; regardless, they seem to have trouble connecting and “getting” people.

Early CS - before it was well known that it would be a fast track to the upper middle class - was full of these people. Computers draws that personality type in. Limited interaction with others, working code wins, you can get lost in a math problem.

But we needed more programmers! And now, it’s well known that being a programmer is lucrative. So the younger generation is less full of people who really love computers and want to escape human interaction; they learned computers cause they’re smart, and want to make money. But they’re probably good with people too! Most people are.

Where does that leave the older generation? Over a certain age, you’re more likely to be the type that’s a bit hard to work with, swimming in a sea of graduates who have people skills now. And as you might expect, companies will pick the people with hard and soft skills given the choice. They don’t want to entertain the prickly guy who wants a math problem and a pizza slid under the door, if they have alternatives.

As the pool of devs widens, expect the age discrimination gap to narrow. Not go away, but narrow. People never really liked the no-social-skills aspect of CS nerdiness. They just tolerated it, for a time.
In the UK the police and military swear allegiance to the Monarch. So I think the true answer to this is that it really depends where loyalties lie.

In the US you have the second amendment to protect you against the state, but in the UK we have the Monarch. In theory the Monarch could tell the government to get lost, but their ability to do that in practise would depend on whether the police and military would side with them.

If Charles withheld consent for this he would probably be overruled in one way or another, but if it was about entering an unpopular war you could see how his consent would become much more important.
The parent comment was talking about aligning programming languages with the hardware. I am not commenting about the viablity of those languages, but rather that if your goal is to write the most performant code by understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the hardware than using fp concepts is not the way to do it.
Is the idea here that this is new for outer space? There are ground based inflatable antennas that you can buy that have been around for a few years.

I’ve heard a trade off with these is they aren’t very ridged so in windy conditions they don’t work that great. Maybe that is less of a problem in outer scpace.

https://www.cubic.com/inflatable-satellite-antenna
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2010/ps_5.html
UPenn made the right decision for itself. If Kariko was the real deal, UPenn would still get credit for Nobel. If Kariko was a dud, they let go of a liability early.

There is absolutely no incentive for UPenn to keep a professor who isn’t bringing in money.
There are four terms: an identity term and three rotations. Q = a + bi + cj + dk = a I + b R_yz + c R_zx + d R_xy = aI + v·R, where v is the axis of rotation.

Basically you have an extra degree of freedom because you can multiply the whole thing by a scalar that just scales whatever vector it multiplies. But if you just want to represent rotations, you want it to have unit magnitude, so you ensure that a = cos θ and |v| = sin θ. (or θ/2 on each if you want to use the two-sided qpq^{-1} rotation).
I think you're confusing a news source with city council minutes or a police blotter.

Journalists are trade professionals whose job is connect dots and follow leads to try to surface deeper issues and ideas in their reporting. They should adhere to facts, but they should also be using their immersion and expertise to contextualizing those facts and make them understood to an audience who isn't so immersed or expert.

If they can do that earnestly and with the transparency that lets you see where they're working from, and with a style that helps you read/engage, they're doing good work.
I'm not conflating anything. Why do you need to burden a language with a C ABI when you can just invoke the language independent mechanism directly?
Hah! I was like, "This guy has all the best albums of all time..."
This all reminds me of that description of the gigantic rover wheel from KSP:

> The RoveMax Model 3 was developed in total secrecy by Kerbal Motion's R&D team over the course of a year and a half. When it was finally revealed to the company's chairman, he stared in shock, screamed 'WHY', and subsequently dropped dead on the spot.

The reaction is about the same, anyway.
I'm not going to dispute that there are hidden agendas behind news organizations. The point is that in any case, the work they do is important, and the people working for these organizations should not be targeted and killed.
Most desktop operating systems will show you the DHCP lease time and subnet mask if you look in the right place.
I'm inclined to think that this is caused by prejudice against nonstandard TLDs which many, many services have; that it would work if the OP had their custom .com or .org domain.
Oh wait, you said trade secret.

Previously I was discussing copyrights, since that is what the video is about. My statements above do hold for copyrighted information.

Unlike copyrights, trade secrets are a not something I come across very often, so I'll politely bow out and defer to your expertise on that particular topic.
Yikes, that's weird -- can't reproduce but I will keep an eye out for it!
The beauty of cash is that it is money, not merely pinky-promising to be money. The “cashless” world was supposed to prevent fraud but clearly it doesn’t work. Instead we’re moving into a world of reputation and heuristics, with implications down to the level of individuals and small businesses.

I don’t particularly like to carry cash. But being shadow banned from existing by deliberately obscured algorithms could be much worse.
I've been thrashing around with agda (as a hobby) for a few months. Maybe it's time to take lean for a spin.

My thinking is still pretty fuzzy. But I feel like there's something important and valuable with the idea of "this is the specification of the software" and the "this software meets that specification".

Now, yes, maybe the specification is wrong. Proofs are hard to write. All software has a bunch of implicit constraints. I forget them for the code I wrote, and it's even tougher to figure them out when I'm handed a legacy project where the author is long gone.

There's something really important about that dual view of, this is what it's supposed to do, and this is what it does. And tools can help check that they agree!

There's like the classic Haskell example of verified email - at some point the user was sent an email and they clicked a link, so that string is special, pretty sure foo@example.com is a real email.

The ability to slap a type on something, then have tools tell you "this is everything that needs to be updated" is really appealing. Like, The account must be in good standing before shipping product. So I keep puttering around with it.

It's often difficult to add features and be super sure you're not breaking stuff. Well, maybe not you, but me, for sure.
As far as I know those two models of quaternions are the same thing. The quaternions in these videos are (an awkward representation of) 3d rotation operators, under the correspondence i = R_yz, j = R_zx, k = R_xy

(although you can assign whichever axis to whichever quaternion you want, and you can arbitrarily swap i<>-i, j<>-j, k<>-k. From googling it looks like the JPL convention is to swap k<>-k, such that ij = -k instead of ij = k).
> "she's what stupid people think smart people sound like"

It is what people without any real depth of thought think that geniuses sound like.

Stringing together a lot of occasionally insightful sentences without having any overarching and consistent point to the whole thing.

And if you're conditioned by social media to have a low attention span and you have difficulty noticing how frequently the argument skips between tracks then it all sounds brilliant to you.
> I've worked for one org that insisted the code stay entirely inside AWS GovCloud at all times.

Ah, this was the bit that I was missing. Thanks! That's.....certainly a constraint within which this feature could be useful. Seems extraordinarily niche, though!?
> essentially whether or not he'd be on the side of whoever won the next election (that would be swiftly triggered)

No. The only reason why the British monarchy still exists is because they are completely apolitical.

If that changed, it would very quickly become a bipartisan issue to end the monarchy, irrespective of which side he’d support.
Just add a GPT natural language to language proof assistant translator as a front end (with appropriate audio device permissions)

Change the need to be really good at proglog to just need to distinctly describe what want/need.
Yes the military in Canada also swears allegiance to the monarch in the UK. So maybe he could order Canadian forces to attack the UK government when they try to abdicate him?
If you were talking about asking someone’s permission to surfs your own cash money, that would be outrageous.

A bank account or a credit card is a relationship where you rent someone else’s infra to make payments. Makes sense to work together to minimise friction for both parties.
"FP" camps tend to come in two flavors: "I'm a mathematician writing a computer program, and all problems will be made to look like math problems even if it means the program becomes an inscrutable mess of types and dense syntax" and "functional-ish idioms are included". The latter is useful, sometimes, for cloud computing and parallel computation; the former tends to have too many problems (slow build, slow execution, poor jargon laden syntax, etc.) to be very useful outside of academia.

I am (perhaps obviously) biased, here, but I tend to just roll my eyes whenever any of my colleagues suggests we should use functional programming to solve a problem. There are actually very few real-world use cases where it's objectively better.
With Starlink, the downlink location determines your externally-visible IP address and that can change every 90 seconds or so based on where the closest satellite to you is at the moment. I'm in New Mexico and I frequenly see ads on web pages directing me to shops in Denver or Dallas because those are the downlink locations for me.

You can see the issue better on this visualization:

https://starlink.sx/
I live in the Bay Area. And this is basically the mentality spreading through most large cities.
Is there any chance you were in a StarCraft 1 earthbound clan for a week about 22 years ago?
The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete
The article makes it clear that Moose Boulder doesn’t exist, and that Ryan Island does exist. But, unless I missed it, there’s nothing about whether Moose Flats (the seasonal pond on Ryan Island which would contain Moose Boulder) exists.

The mother and son duo joke about creating a pond by pouring water around a rock, so I’m guessing that they found no other pond on the island at the time. But that’s not a complete answer.

And yes, I am purely interested in this so I know how deep the “largest lake in the largest island” chain actually goes.
I tried to message the CTO and SVP revenue of adidas for this same reason.

I was literally trying to hand money to the company in 5 different attempts.

I finally gave up, with a borderline ulcer

I ll never try adidas.com again
> The problem with many of these examples is that 99% of the time, it is a sign a fraud, and 1% of the time it’s a false positive.

That’s the key. It may very well be the wrong business decision to care about this 1%.
except the sentence I quoted from the report says it's talking about previous exposure in childhood. The original point I was responding to say half the population; children are less than a quarter of the population.

"...yesterday's children, who are victims of what we term legacy lead exposures. We estimate that over 170 million Americans alive today were exposed to high-lead levels in early childhood, several million of whom were exposed to five-plus times the current reference level"
A civil war happened the last time a King Charles broke with Parliament.
If my maths is correct, general aviation emits 380 tons of lead per year into the atmosphere.

If just 0.1% of that eventually ends up in a human (remembering many plants humans eat, like potatoes, bioaccumulate lead. Also, some lead may be consumed multiple times, since biosolids are used to fertilize crops, allowing the same lead to be consumed twice), the dose is still 100x the daily max consumption for every single american.
How does treating the tuition as a charge and payment (instead of the tuition being zero) benefit the university?
Wise.com works wonderfully in India. I know it’s late this time around but it should work fine next time around. And American Express has been a pretty reliable option for me for an extended period of time.
Wishing your family all the best in this time.
I thought of this too. The one issue, the always issue, is moderation. People will take advantage to be nasty or dishonest if there is no enforcement of rules. Just like any other social network. But OP is looking for "wish" so I too wish it existed.
Why do people love JavaScript and want everything written in it?
The idea that we live in a meritocracy is a fraud.
> Yes the military it Canada also swears allegiance to the monarchy in the UK.

Technically the military in Canada swear allegiance to the monarchy in Canada.

The monarchy of Canada is legally completely distinct from the one in the UK. Or Australia. Or New Zealand. Or any other of HRHs realms and dominions.

It’s just that they all share the same monarch and the rules of succession.

It’s actually theoretically possible for Charles to abdicate the throne in the UK but still remain the King of Canada. Which would be utterly ridiculous and it’s not going to happen, but theoretically it could.
Yikes, that sucks -- Vercel's free tier seems to have struggled. :/
I used to care about that

But play the cards you’re dealt

There are plenty of people with resources that do nothing with their lives, all the way to ultra high net worth trust funders, so celebrate that they applied themselves

If you have nothing, then you need to get a job and it doesn't matter what your drive or intelligence commands, nobody is going to back you. These stories of epiphanies dont apply to you

I respect people that apply themselves
Thanks, appreciate the kind words! :)
I don't think you realize what you are saying here. I agree that it is a large boost but 100x is just too ridiculous to take serious. Do you really believe an engineer can now finish in 20 hours what would have taking them a year before?
> Apparently ChatGPT 4 is better but I’m not paying for it

The thing about this is, even if 4 was infinitely better than 3 (it never lied, never hallucinated) leaving 3 open to the world is such an obvious unmitigated hazard that I'd never ethically be able to do business with them.

3 is a mischief machine, it should not be available to the public. People will trivially use it to generate horseshit websites that will clutter google with shit. We're already seeing this happen.

It's like buying caltrops from a company that advertises them by leaving 'demonstration samples' in roads.
This really is a feature on Macs. It works for Bluetooth too, apparently to allow network/keyboard/mouse functionality to work in recovery mode and to unlock an encrypted disk.
It has nothing to do with wrong assumptions, it has everything to do with the statistical similarity to fraudulent transactions and acceptable failure rates.