skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stalin was very well read and and could recall his sources quickly. He was also reckless and good looking - his career path is not that of your typical bank robber. Simon Sebag Montefiore has written some worthwhile books on his life. ‘Young Stalin’ is an interesting read [1].

Stalin was a truely terrible human.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826564.Young_Stalin
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In many cities yes. The current mayor of NYC proposed using trash cans.

The proposal was met with open arms and without controversy (just kidding).

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-homeowners-to-be-charged-for-...
If one economic system does X then it’s a function of that economic system, if every single economic system does X then it’s a function of humanity.
It's a sovereign state in a common market union, so it has to follow the common market rules.
not a problem if you don't cross them - my wsl2 disk image took more space than the windows install. I basically used windows as a web/email/chat client and a terminal to the real system, which was wsl2.
Show HN: Vortex – Secure, Transport-Agnostic, E2EE Chat in Under 600 Lines
Vortex is a lightweight, end-to-end encrypted chat application that ensures message authenticity and confidentiality. It offers transport agnosticism, supporting both PostgreSQL and WebSocket, all in less than 600 lines of Python code.

This small project started with a demo to show the feasibility of using PostgreSQL as a message broker, a week later it gained TUI and E2EE. It's designed so that you don't have to trust the message broker, you can build a "driver" that stores the messages in a shared Dropbox folder, or publish the messages as QR codes in a newspaper - the outcome is the same.

But I'm no expert on cryptography, and I would like to got this code audited and (probably) destroyed.

Anyone that want to try without spinning up is own server, can use this: wss://t.42i.dev:35432/[10_random_a-z0-9_chars] - the random part should be the same for all your peers.
> I couldn't find anything that I felt comfortable recommending to him, so I pulled an all-nighter and made this.

All-nighters for an employer are one thing, but I have fond memories of exploration and discovery in computing while burning the midnight oil. There is something about programming that just excites the mind in a way that causes time to fly.

I hope your dad enjoys his new BASIC app! Really cool of you.
There were massive protests among the rat population, as the overwhelming majority of them turn out to be Republicans.
Harry Mack has done a few collaborations with Marcus Veltri and Rob Landis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXKJ3uv_XIk
Those who choose non-user replaceable batteries are prioritizing some socially valueless sense of aesthetics over the real negative social value incurred by e-waste. Different choices have different externalities and sometimes certain choices have net-negative outcomes no matter how well-intentioned the chooser or how much they insist on recasting the question as one of personal choice.
You know what they say... he is not your lawyer until you pay him.

I think an advisor would be an excellent choice in this situation. I have done these things in the past (providing advice) and I think it can be best bang for the buck. Sometimes you just need a third party to take a look at your business and point obvious stuff out. Somebody that already has answers to questions which will cost you a lot if you have to pay with your own experience.

(yes, I know, this was a shameless plug. But I do believe in the services I provide.)
On the contrary, it could mean you were, to some percentage of success, able to guess what problem is, and then, to some multiplier percentage of success, solve it.

The key is, can you guess the problem from the title and the function name? I'd argue, sure, at least half the time?, why not...
> The evidence is that we have so many incompatible systems that all claim to be true.

Imagine the mess science would be if it brought this level of accuracy and epistemology to the table when thinking.
I love how we thought Voight-Kampf would be used for sentient androids and instead it is just an everyday filter for job seekers.

Thanks I hate it.
Them doing nothing (i.e. having no effect on spacetime at all when in superposition) would be a very wild thing to happen. I can't overstate how incredibly unexpected that would be. We believe (pretty strongly) that objects with mass distort space-time when they aren't in a superposition and superposition is a continuous thing. You can be in a superposition with a very high amplitude somewhere and an arbitrarily small amplitude somewhere else. If they suddenly have no impact on space-time when in superposition something very weird happens when you continuously shift from being localised to being in superposition.

Similarly it doesn't really make sense for them to exhibit the same behaviour when in superposition of different positions to when they are not. Imagine we have an object with mass which can either be in position 1 or position 2, say the positions are a meter apart. Classically we have a description of space-time for the situation where the object is in position 1 and a different description of space-time for the situation where the object is in position 2. Now put the object in an equal superposition of positions 1 & 2. If the space-time is not "different from localised buckyball behavior" which of the two choices does it choose? What happens if it chooses one of them and we move some of the weight of the superposition to the other one?
EU CSAM/end-to-end encryption legislation secret expert list published
There is no investment.
Me: I was being in such a blah blah situation... does the article 3 of Digital Government Act applies here?

My lawyer: Hmm the article 3 says--

Me: I knew it! Lawyers are not intelligent...
If the feature is removed, unattractive individuals will cry out that this will give genuinely attractive individuals a large advantage over them, widening the beauty gap.
Iain Banks's culture novels are one potential outcome: we create artificial minds that basically do all the work and keep us around as partners. Fully automated luxury space communism.

More likely case is that there is a revolution to topple the trillionares who monopolize these systems to take over the economy.
Even the Smartest VCS Sometimes Get It Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets
> My point is: while I'm not OK with banning encryption or adding some backdoor to it, we cannot deny that the "at scale" differences are important enough to at least have an adult discussion about how the issue should be tackled. Dismissing it like many people in the tech world do is as naive as willing to ban it.

What? Maybe you're like 20+ years younger than me, because I feel like this boogeyman has been presented for 20 years and routinely shut-down as a bad-faith argument for 20 consecutive years. Maybe without that context it could look like it's never been considered, but it has, and it's been rejected.

The basic summary is this -- You weigh all the positive side-effects of breaking encryption vs all the negative ones and you do the math. And the math is that most governments already are corrupt and take too much power over their citizens and abuse it, and of all the problems in the world child porn and even terrorism are lower on the list than people slipping in the bathtub and it's all FUD.

If there's ANYWHERE we need to trade away privacy to for everybody's wellbeing, it's collecting and exposing information on political corruption, finances, and tax evasion (see US supreme court justices). It's so funny how the people in power forget to mention that auditing of their own behavior could be so valuable... odd...
Interesting.

So do you mean that as some part of the agreement, to be treated as a "genuine Irish company" (from a tax perspective) Apple was forced/strongly nudged open R&D, assembly or commerce centers in addition to the mailbox/lawyer shell offices?

While I'm sure the grunt of Apple's actual molecule movement business is in China (or elsewhere; not Ireland), these Cork job listings (for instance) seem real, no? https://jobs.apple.com/en-ie/search?location=ireland-IRL
The NVMe drives in a MacBook Pro are the same speed, or in some cases slower, than any modern PC laptop with NVMe Gen4. [1]

The arguments I've seen defending Apple seem to boil down to one of a few different base arguments:

* The software is better optimized! (dubious, needs evidence)

* Even when the software isn't as optimized, the OS does memory compression so swapping doesn't happen as often! (true, but so does Windows and Linux, so it's not a differentiator for Macs)

* Okay but when swapping does happen, the SSDs are super fast! (true, but not any faster than a comparably-equipped PC, and often slower if you're looking at PCs in the same price range as the Mac)

I could be missing something but I haven't yet seen any credible argument backed by evidence that Macs are anything but mediocre with 8GB of memory.

BUT, even if there were such arguments, it would add literally a few dollars to the BOM to make 16GB the base, so why are we all bending over backwards to defend Apple?

edited to add: don't tell me that it would cost more than a few dollars to make 16GB the base -- another common false argument is that the memory in a mac is somehow "special." It's not, it's completely standard LPDDR4X or LPDDR5, sourced from the same suppliers as everyone else uses.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/17qhxbl/ssd_ben...
> The reason why NYC has such a rat epidemic is because they literally throw their trash bags on the street.

NYC has huge underground tunnel networks for subway and other things. The only other city in the US with a comparably large rat problem is Chicago, which also has substantial tunneling. This gives rats a huge place to live. While trash is a contributing factor the huge amount of old tunnels is the main reason it's so hard to control.

The city can do all the control it wants in the parks but it isn't going to put much of a dent in the underground systems.
If we want to talk about relatively recent times, there's the forced removal of the Chagossians from the British Indian Ocean Territories in the late 60s and early 70s, certainly within my lifetime. And in 2010 the British government took further measures to prevent their return despite a High Court judgement saying they should be allowed. The .io TLD should be the national domain for the BIOT residents, but was operated for profit by a British tech company until sold off to an American company.
This assumes the only way to provide waste management is to replace parking with dumpsters.
copilot recently added feature to "ask your codebase"
replaced the battery 3 times! this new one not so much.

I bought it thinking 'ill get the best there is. At the time it was. Then all I used it for was very light web stuff and phone calls. So as long as it did those 2 things I was fine. Still trying to figure out what to use it for. I think one of the flash chips is EoL at this point.
There's always a cost and a tradeoff. The real question might not be choosing rats or no rats, but choosing between rats or parking. As far as I understand the proposed solution, the containerization proposed would take up somewhere in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 parking spots in NYC.
> The company looking for employees would be better off looking for people that are actually good at the job they are supposed to do there.

That's how most companies do it, even today. There is a special subset of companies that overautomate the hiring process, but it's not most of them (outside of SV-style companies, anyway).
Content costs money to produce.

The artists and staff who worked on the content want to be paid fairly.

It's great that consumers want cheap stuff, but we can't have it both ways.

If we go down this route, either the content will be crap (and AI-generated), or people won't be paid fairly.
Taking the Trash Off the Streets: Innovative Waste-Management Solutions for New York City (2023)

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/in...
Upgrading beyond the base spec is a very different game between the two: a base 13" MBA with maxed memory and disk (24GB/2TB) is $2300, whereas machine with the same upgrades is $1470.
>Microkorg or Minilogue replacement keybeds

I can't have a product that is built using these keys, can I? I assume Korg will not be happy about it.
I walked past a giant trash bin in Singapore one night and there were literally 10+ rats shuffling around inside it and I could hear it shaking and banging. Singapore has no litter problem (but the heat and humidity probably makes the trash more delicious smelling) but the rats can find their way into anything...
> How do you propose verifying a users age without sacrificing privacy?

It's usually obvious if you can have a short conversation with the person in question. Throughout my childhood escapades, I'm certain that most, if not all, the responsible adults I interacted with knew pretty much exactly how old I was. (I'd managed to navigate a legal loophole that, I believe, still exists in GDPR today, so they weren't required to kick me off – but while I was treated as an equal, I wasn't treated the same way I'm treated now.)

> If it can be done at small scale, it will get sold to data brokers and exploited at large a scale

That's quite illegal, and quite easy to detect (just give slightly different data to everyone and see what leaks). Most people don't commit crimes: individuals just don't have the kinds of incentive to buy and sell people's personal data that organisations like Facebook, Taboola and Oracle have. (And what would they get for betraying these people's trust? $30? Sure… I'd totally go for that.)
Batteries of the future: How cotton and seawater might power our devices
I have a similar setup to yours. I feel like the main thing missing at the moment is getting a list of all the sites that 1ft or 13ft support and setting up automatic redirection for them.
Possibly memory safe (possibly. Helix, for example, recently had a build that was crashing due to memory safety problems) doesn’t explicitly mean “great security”.
> I wonder how we could make them even more efficient, some way to stop the transfer of warm air when the door is opened? I wonder how we could make them even more efficient, some way to stop the transfer of warm air when the door is opened? Wonder if it's possible to create some sort of air curtain at the front when it's opened to prevent warm air coming in, ie use driven air velocity to overcome the cold air wants to come out, hot air wants to come in. Hmmm.

That is an interesting idea, but I don't think an Internet connection would help with it :)

> Shows you how creating and enforcing standards is the driver for stuff like this.

Also agreed that is an interesting graph, I agree that it shows how standards and better production has led to decreased energy usage -- but notably, a lot of those standards are around better insulation and more efficient components.

Putting an extra layer of foam in your fridge or having sensors in your fridge that help regulate temperature definitely doesn't mean you've lost control of your life. But needing to download a firmware update to your Internet-enabled fridge that uses a Samsung account where you now can't access your grocery list until you finish the mandated update which changes your fridge's UI on its mobile app -- I think that means you've lost control of your life :)
Dry ice sublimates into CO2 which also suffocates the rats as CO2 is heavier than air and will fill up a burrow, taking away all the oxygen.
A playground where every surface is foam-lined, and the whole place is relentlessly patrolled by fascists in mickey-mouse costumes.
I've been asking ChatGPT for Adobe Illustrator help over the last couple of days, and the results are as good as the video here. It gets things wrong, but no more wrong than someone very familiar with Illustrator would.
With respect, a lot of the founding priciples are not especially complicated. Of course you can keep adding detail and ability, that will make any domain hideously complex after some time. That doesn't make it fundamentally unwieldy.
1920x1200 is 16:10. Huge difference from 16:9, amazingly enough.
They've got all the Premium Prices. They've got $19.99 for sale for $200.00.
Yes, that's why I said it's a difference that Apple could support RCS if they wanted to.
I think this kind of thing will keep happening until we put extra safeties in our constitutions (sorry to the UK, they don't have one :-P ).

Constitutions are pretty hard to change though, so one would need to find fairly broad wording that would protect encryption and ensure secrecy of phone content.

Possibly we could extend and improve existing secrecy of correspondence provisions to also cover certain modern technologies?
Are they just ripping people off on memory, or is their whole “unified memory” thing more expensive than popping in a dimm?

I actually don’t understand their memory system at all, the typical trade off is high latency, high bandwidth for graphics memory, and low latency, relatively low bandwidth for CPU. They get those high bandwidth numbers, so it must be more like GDDR. But nobody seems to be complaining about memory latency on these chips?

Maybe they need some cheaper RAM, to get swapped into; a RAM disk formatted to swap, haha.
Noise pollution harms more than your hearing
Not my idea of a silver-tongued devil.
> taxation agreements between countries are a rational strategy to get a better outcome for all

That may be the theory, but the reality is that they are bully pulpits whereby the largest nations (in this case Germany and France) force the others into having to act against their own interest.
Something obvious I didn't understand at first: the earlier stage you are, the smarter the people you need.

They need to be autonomous, flexible, but above all brilliant at what they do.

If you get "average" employees who just wants to follow the specs and receive their salary, they will most likely cost you more to manage than they will create value.

In early stages, you're probably still trying to answer complex questions - and you need people who have the capacity to think outside the box to do so...

As you grow, you can start tolerating people who "think less" and just do what they're asked. You'll have managers to manage them.

In other words, the type of people you need at this stage are the type who could be almost be startup founders themselves. ;-) My 2 cents.
Please someone show this to the Tuxedo guys, as their supplier is the same (Clevo), but apparently it IS possible to get the Lenovo-style 6-button cursor arrangement in this form factor, and as a bonus, with separate Home/End/Ins/Del! I will never buy a laptop without this.

Does System76 ship laptops with an ISO keyboard layout? I don't see this as a configuration option.
Big words for a company that got rid of the headphone jack in their phones the moment they had bluetooth earphones to sell, without a user-replaceable battery that is.
The problem is the discussed results are comparing proportions of a relatively small number - 67 questions. If you model this as a binomial distribution, then 62/67 which GPT4-turbo got gives a 95% confidence interval of the 'true' performance of 83.4% to 97.5%, ie it comfortably includes the proportion that GPT4 achieved (64/67=95.5%).

I think the evidence from these tests are not strong enough to draw conclusions from.
How do you go about finding freelancers that are willing to consider employment?

From all my experience, there are very few freelancers in general that are considering employment at all (though the percentage is slightly higher among non-devs). And for the few that are considering employment, you'd would usually have to put a lot of equity into the compensation package to make up for the (usually) significantly lower salary.

As a freelancer I've also offered that option to potential clients/employers, but clients always decline that, citing bad experiences in the past, where they've felt bait-and-switched as after the "trial period" freelancers usually want to switch over to employment.
Contains

- 1 Person from EU academia

and

- 3 from the US academia

- 10 from US big tech

- Police

- 8 people selling message-scanning software

As it should be the job of European Union citizens to make their own legislation, it seems that in the case of CSAM legislation, the process was corrupted to its core.
And that's my point. The court case was about harassment, and (rightfully) quashed on the basis of insufficient harassment. The case was referred to in terms of gender politics. Call me triggered, I came to see what HN'ers thought of the law in relation to these sham end-to-end encryption laws, not G politics.
> They last for years with constant writes; on the order of magnitude with petabytes

For anyone else wondering, that test did use one TLC disc (Samsung 840). It had a major issue at 300TB, then went on till 800 (failed somewhere around 900).

Not many new MLC/SLC in the consumer market.

https://techreport.com/review/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-t...

Unless you meant another test?
Ah yes, 8 = 16. Silly me
> Or on dozens of other apps and websites (e.g. Chatroulette)?

Chatroulette, the one most similar to Omegle, like Omegle, was started by a teenager alone (at about the same time), with the additional advantage (from the point of vulnerability to civil liability) of being in Russia.

But even so, they very early on faced the same kind of criticism as Omegle, shifted to registration-required and adults-only very early on, had an easier way to report inappropriate content, automatic temporary bans for too many reports too close together, and adopted other mitigations beyond what Omegle has.
The list is now published

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38205743#38205787
Literally searching for HCQ-AZ on duckduckgo gives you the results quick, it's 2nd and 3rd on the list.
SKINNER: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
Memory scanning leaves attackers nowhere to hide
Good thing European union didn't hear you, then:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023...

From 2027, all batteries must be replaceable, FTA:

"The regulation of the European Parliament and the Council will apply to all batteries including all waste portable batteries, electric vehicle batteries, industrial batteries, starting, lighting and ignition (SLI) batteries (used mostly for vehicles and machinery) and batteries for light means of transport (e.g. electric bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters)."

"The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user"
I assume that is because Fortran is such a great language that you just didn’t think it was possible that the tooling situation on Windows could be anything but perfect. :)
The secret expert list is now published

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38205743#38205787