skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your bank was already compelled to do all the work of vetting your identity, so the state trusts the bank to pass on your authentication.

Long time ago I thought it's an okayish idea, but to think of it... banks and governments are separate entities with not exactly overlapping interests. Lots of heavyweight lobbying happening. Many of their interests are not in favour of an individual. I don't want to connect dots for them, it's not going to work in my favour. Ideally the only data shared between banks and governments regarding a law-abiding citizen would be only an IBAN.
Yeah, this stuff is harder than it looks. If you need too much time with the soldering iron, the temperature can conduct through the wire and fry other components, those sensitive ICs that are the flash chips in particular.
This is what I’ve used for my last couple of projects, including https://www.semiform.ai - not sure I’d call it “non-trivial”.

I’ve really enjoyed this stack. The structure just seems to click in my head better.
Ask HN: Why does the Product Hunt comment section suck so much?
Seriously. The comments there feel like they're written by ChatGPT or something. What the hell?
Maybe, but that's not what's being shown on the linked website.
lol all the sources you linked have consistently been wrong at prredictions over the last 2 years
Following AI-related RSS feeds from the ML research arms of the big companies is nice. Not as hypey as the popular press, and you get more technical details. Most mail clients support RSS nowadays, so you can even get notified when a new post is made, instead of periodically checking on Mondays or something. IBM, Microsoft, Meta (I don't think they have RSS though), nVidia, OpenAI, Google, and IBM all have great blogs that cover their work.

Another good resource is the YouTube channel "2-minute papers." It sometimes has a lot of hype, but it does a good job of showcasing recent work.
Most people who use official digital authentication appreciate the value and wish it was widely available. Such systems have not been breached or leaked information yet, despite being used daily by millions of people.
Shouldn't the article mention SIMD? I haven't seen it even being brought up.
I think this is a near-universal experience among people who’ve played a lot of Risk, but did everyone else collect their little dudes into units of 5, and then collect those up into further collections of five five-unit-squads? After that, 125 units is too many to really be necessary at once.
As everyone else said, redundancy equals reliability. You can automatically sync to AWS or backblaze for offsite backups. Locally you'll want a second and/or third backup. My proxmox server syncs to a USB hard drive locally, then I manually take that to the office now and then to sync to a different drive I store in my desk. Critical stuff is also stored in a third drive I keep in a firebox at home.

You can automate as much or as little as you want, but you have to keep multiple copies around. You can't trust any single source. Individual drives fail, tapes go bad, cloud storage can disappear or become corrupt.

The 3-2-1 rule is a good place to start. Three copies on two different media, and at least one copy off-site
I think that is a perfectly fair view but my concern is that this system is essentially taxing people who seem to have some kind of genetic make up. Also, this is true for certain kinds of food but the level of harm with gambling/psuedo-gambling is far higher. I don't like the conclusion any more than you do...but I don't see the alternative. The precise point is that these transactions aren't voluntary or anywhere close to it. Overloading charities is quite pointless (it isn't related to welfare either, poor people generally do not have the resources to really get in deep).

You have been downvoted because people think your PoV is illogical. It is also worth remembering that certain countries have tried to regulate this kind of stuff, and it hasn't worked at all. So I think the only option is to ban or permit and actually ensure that people who aren't making a voluntary transaction are getting help (to be clear, every country that I am aware of that tried to take half measures hasn't done the latter, the UK is a good example where gambling companies are actually taxed profits to fund gambling addiction...most of this money has disappeared into other parts of the govt health system).
Yeah, kinda no clue what the controversy is cuz I've never had any SanDisk drive fail. Only WD :)
I think you could argue that mainstream politics has borrowed more from internet politics than vice versa. I don't see Trump or Bernie getting nearly as much traction without the internet.

I'm very idealistic about alternative approaches, but in a "let's experiment on a small scale" sense as opposed to a "burn it all down" sense. I do wonder if widespread discussion of radical alternatives contributed to a "burn it all down" attitude. Yes, most real modern political systems are a mess of historical contingencies, but maybe democracy functions better if we ignore that and encourage everyone to buy into the system anyways. I miss the "Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" attitude.
What makes Gary Marcus a "Leading expert on AI" (in his own words)?
There's only four flash manufacturers: Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix and SanDisk/Kioxia. All of them have had problems over the years. All of them will change the internals of products without changing SKUs or anything visible to the consumer.

You best bet is:

- Buy a variety of manufacturers and SKUs

- Create backups regularly and test your restores
These sources all fall for a very different kind of AI hype.
Hilarious answer
A return to unsafe-inline? That feels like a bit step backwards when it comes to cross site scripting attack surface. Content-Security-Policy forces you to opt into unsafe for good reason.
This looks really nice, needed it a month ago, I'll try it.
it's the exact same email, only with "googlemail.com" as the extension.
> “Locality of behaviour” is such a poorly defined rule.

And "separation of concerns" isn't?

What should be separated? Along what lines? How do we determine these lines? When does it make sense to pull some concerns out into another class/framework/markup/whatever? When does it make more sense to leave things stuck together?

The answer is: "It depends".

Not separating anything leads to spaghetti. Separating as much as possible, all the time, everywhere, leads to overly abstracted code that is easily as hard to maintain as spaghetti.
This was an incredible video. Thanks for sharing!
Computer Vicinity Detector
Decided to level up my no-code GPT creation skills and hopefully become a millionaire before I'm 92.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-8fCeHSvsj-computer-vicinity-detector
The 2 in Northern France were a mistake, fixed. Thanks!
It's in Ireland's best interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_the_green_jersey
Dealing drugs is still illegal here in Oregon.
So far its more interesting than fire. Really recommend it
I think one possible reason for that, ideally these things need different memory.

If you use high-bandwidth high-latency GDDR memory, CPU cores will underperform due to high latency, like there: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-4700s-desktop-kit-r...

If you use low-latency memory, GPU cores will underperform due to low bandwidth, see modern AMD APUs with many RDNA3 cores connected to DDR5 memory. On paper, Radeon 780M delivers up to 9 FP32 TFLOPS, the figure is close to desktop version of Radeon RX 6700 which is substantially faster in gaming.
There's no inconsistency here. Silk Road knowingly and intentionally sold illegal goods and services.
Have a great day!

Good luck with everything!
> I remember making more genuine friends in the earlier days.

I used to have friends I would meet in a random video game or chat room and then communicate with them for _years_ over AIM or IRQ or mIRC. In a lot of cases not even knowing their real names.

Reminds me of this old 1997 MMO released by Sony Online Entertainment (and later reimplemented by KaZaA and Skype co-author Priit Kasesalu) named Subspace (renamed Continuum) I grew up playing. So anyways...

10 years ago or so everyone got added to a FB group and suddenly everyone knew each others real names and faces. It was a very strange feeling.

Just some reminiscing.
At some point is it easier to use Docker to maintain a stable runtime environment for the tools than to try to deal with three different native OS environments? That is, wrapping “docker run” with scripts so it looks like native commands. People do this to make a consistent “k8s toolbox”, for example.
It even kinda works for something like tar.

tar czvf output files

The czvf is really four arguments I guess, but it expresses a single concept in some sense.
There are arena in the brain which encode integers up to <small number I forgot>. Alex’s Adventures In Numberland was a fascinating book.
Here's a search engine for the archive:

https://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com/altavista
Don't worry, you'll either be an AI developer or unemployed within 5 years. This is indeed important for you, regardless if you recognize this yet or not.
This died out because ICBMs mostly made cruising bombers obsolete as a first strike weapon, and also because people don’t like flying reactors.
Not to mention their passing example of Mandelbrot set rendering only gets a 10x speedup, despite being the absolute posterchild of FLOPs-limited computation.

Terrible article IMO.
> It could be argued it's just plain old corruption.

How so? That's certainly a novel take that hasn't been raised by any parties to the case including the plaintiffs, so I'd like to hear your reasoning here.

> Also, it's unclear to me the things you are listing followed due to aforementioned corruption.

As a side-note, Ireland is one of the least corrupt countries in the world and broadly comparable to, say, Sweden (https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/ireland), so it's not a case that the country is a beneficiary of corrupt practices. It does, however, operate in its own interest.

Honestly, I think you don't understand the issues at hand here well enough to make this accusation. Are you aware of the political environment at the time? Of the path into law of the Lisbon Treaty? Do you know what the Irish Guarantees are, and why at the time this deal was uncontroversial in Ireland?

If anything, this is the opposite of corruption. It's likely that if the general public in Ireland knew of this outcome in 2009, the second Lisbon Treaty referendum wouldn't have passed and TFEU would have stalled completely. Short memories abound here.
> I don’t understand your comment.

It was in response to the parent comment stating this:

> I'd bet more information has been lost in the past 10 years than all of human history has created before it

I believe that more information is being preserved for historians now than ever before, and yet even so we should decry senseless destruction of early internet history.
EU can amend GDPR to make it compliant.
You don't have a safety net. You have interest payments on the Iraq War, Gulf War, Afghanistan War, GFC bailouts, HN bank bailout (SVC), and mountains and mountains of past spending. It will be 100% of the budget in not too long.
Inside China's Tech Boom [video]
> Why Is It So Difficult to Map the Ocean?

Because everyone hates the underwater level.
Very cool! Where is the script? Can't find it
Gahdafi was suicidal then ?

Doesn't make any sense.
I stopped buying WD anything early 2010's, but then they acquired everyone else like Seagate, meaning even decent Hitachi disks would be now tainted to become typical WD garbage. I still won't buy anything WD, but alternatives are hardly attractive with the market limited to like 3-4 players.

Good old monopolies in effect, your options are bad or worse.
They need to be spoon fed in the sense that you’re their eyes and ears. However they are human, so to win the war of attention, you have to communicate well and maybe be persuasive because there’s 10 other reports or peers doing the same thing. Their job is not to merely sign off but to triage too many problems to find at once.
This ask unintentionally sets up a vote between Emacs and vim keybindings, and I'm looking forward to seeing which wins.
Threads users report privacy option for posts showing up on Instagram, Facebook
Missing Elon Musk, guy is a leading authority on all things AI that even the British government asks what to do about it from him (big /s).
Uh huh. And if I log what addresses reach out to me to check for the presence of a particular certificate in the logs?

You're not thinking about it hard enough. Your CT's would effectively have to be implemented in a way where everyone had a locally cached copy of the log to check against. That at least shuts down an browsing activity leak vector.

If you centralize it, the abuse is a matter of when, not if.
You mean like an iGPU?

Edit: Oh, thanks for the downvote, with no discussion of the question. I'll just sit here quietly with my commercial OpenCL software that happily exploits these vector units attached to the normal CPU cores.
Illusion of Understanding: MIT Unmasks the Myth of AI's Formal Specifications
OOo interesting. Maybe it's one of those "decision pending" things and
the people who took them down were, er... scared off by lawyers making
noises.

Of course the manufacturers would assert legality. With a quick read
it seems to me a noise, even if intended to cause distress would not
likely be assault, but might be injury to the person above a certain
high SPL level of decibels. The more obvious thing I see is a public
nuisance angle. Even if the police wouldn't touch it, local
authorities could, as an environmental health issue.
Yes but how does your browser trust it? it has to check the cert log. who has the server for the cert log. for chrome this is google. Did you reach a different conclusion from the big table in the wikipeda page where it requires "1 SCT from a google log" ?
Movement for an Open Web
I copy my entire home directory across to every new computer, so I have a lot of random crap laying around in random places that I occasionally rediscover by chance. The oldest stuff I have is from ~15 years ago, when my hard drive died in the middle of a semester in college and I hadn't yet started making backups.
I get the sentiment of this, but I struggle to recommend it (not least for the spelling mistakes, especially in the code examples)

My main criticism is that you cannot really advocate for "View-Source Friendly" HTML with the view of widening the pool of people who can work on it, and then simultaneously recommend that people use libraries like HTMX or Hyperscript that have their own unique syntaxes that aim to be compact and concise, but actually are just confusing and unfathomable unless you are already familiar with them. This flies totally in the face of the main goal of this site because you're advocating for people to use niche and sparsely-used custom DSLs for coding part (...yes only part!) of your site's business logic.

I also don't really see the value in trying to aim for view-source compatibility on a page-by-page basis - a better approach might just be a link to your source repo in Github (or elsewhere) that contains your entire project along with e.g. README.mds etc. And if you expect people to "view source" to learn, how can you expect people to do that when you have inscrutable non-HTML/non-JS nonsense like `_="on input put me into #output"` in there? I get it - I learnt HTML originally back in the day by looking at the yahoo pages source code, but we are not in the early 90s now: people can learn HTML from other places these days that offer a better experience than looking at a sites source in a vacuum (e.g. Github but also so many more ways now than those early days - there are millions of decent online courses, youtube videos, bootcamps that teach the syntax (i.e. all you get viewing source) as well as the rationale and the reasoning for decisions made and approaches used)

I would modify this guide and offer some different/additional advice:

- Use vanilla JS + vanilla Web APIs (Element, Fetch, Promises/async-await etc) for all business logic, and split code into modules (e.g. https://byexample.xyz/javascript/ECMAScript2015/modules/ ) so that your code is simple, has fewer dependencies, and is understood by 100% of web developers (unlike HTMX, Hyperscript et al that no one understands without having to go specifically learn it specially)
- Use HTML-based Forms validation rather than custom-logic wherever possible.
- Structure your DOM logically and use the correct semantic HTML elements for their intended purpose (e.g. use <button>, don't use <div onclick="...">) so that your page is accessible and easily navigated by keyboard users ("power users" and otherwise)
- Either add CSS classes directly via inline handlers, or do it via javascript, but whatever you do make sure you are consistent within the same project.

Good luck with your project.
The most interesting one I ran into is a doctor I had, who thought “WhatsApp isn’t really encrypted, right?”
The term "artificial intelligence" is intrinsically hype.

That's why it is always a moving bar.

Good luck.
It’d be so cool if we can make safe and light nuclear propulsion for commercial ships & planes.

The more we can boost human wealth, the better.
Forgot to specify that I meant military purposes specifically, just edited it. I think the necessity of humans for scientific purposes is arguable, but it's definitely not as clear-cut.
> fully-asm coded polyfill (flat shaded) and it uses NO variables, only registers

As someone who writes small hobby OpenGL 4 games with zig for fun and because I'm not using a game engine I think I'm doing low level stuff, but this really appropriately puts what I'm doing into perspective. This quote is pretty awesome. I love how we got to where we are these days. Early game developers were true pioneers and we owe you so much!
> Would you care to spell out the connection between our military and preserving the dollar as reserve currency?

I don't know much about it but quick introspection leads me to the conclusion that it is partially because the US military does a lot to ensure free trade continues smoothly around the world. Without military might, any transport ship would be at risk of piracy.

But there are other factors. Most notably, the US dollar was once pegged to gold such that you could redeem a fixed amount of gold for a dollar. The US used this to sell the world on exchanging in dollars instead of gold because it was just as stable while being more efficient to exchange. Once the world switched to it, primarily to trade oil, FDR (decidely the worst president of all time) then pulled the rug out from everyone and decoupled the US dollar from gold. But everyone already traded in dollars and basically gave up their gold since they had the dollar guarantee, so it was not so easy going back.

The US is living way above its means. Most counties have to export goods in exchange for imports. The US only has to export printed dollars for tangible goods, and they can do so while ignoring that those printed dollars decrease the value of all existing dollars precisely because there is still demand for dollars driven by petroleum trade (hence the common term, petrodollar).

The adjacent sibling's comment is correct. Gadafi tried to take Libya out of the dollar market and into a gold based market, seeking to trade internationally with gold. The US knows that if this happens, the country will implode. The US has no goods to export and doesn't make hardly anything. If other countries switch to the gold standard, the US will almost instantly run out of goods, and will go straight into hyperinflation and die. I'm of the firm belief that the US will start WW3 if that ever happens so that they can throw up their hands when the dust settles and "reset" global debt if BRICS manages to achieve enough momentum or if any other countries try to start a gold trade standard.

The US is way beyond default. Our politicans say that the US always pays it's debts, but then they openly don't! For example, our politicans say we need to keep increasing the debt limit because otherwise we would default on our debt obligations. That doesn't make any sense! By increasing the debt limit, we are definitionally defaulting. We are choosing not to pay. We could pay, but then how could we give away more unconstitutional welfare? Show me one credit card company that will let you borrow more to pay them back. Tell them it's fine, you'll pay last month's bill so long as they let you borrow another $5k.

Peter Shiff's most recent podcast did a great job of describing how our past politicans described how we would fund social security in the future: we would never not pay, we would instead print and deliver, even if the money was worthless.
> If Ireland has closed all the loopholes then why do the phantom exports (US subsidiary buying IPs) account for 38% of total exports of this year?

I didn't say they have closed all the loopholes (nor have other EU countries). What I said was that Ireland is no longer reliant on them, in that the country does not fund current expenditure from the CT take. They are openly viewed as windfalls.

> Provided that they dont find another loophole.

It may happen, but one thing's for sure, Ireland won't be alone.
What is the reason for playing any computer game? To get a dopamine fix by reaching some virtual goal. People pay small (at least at first) amounts of money for access to the game or in case of free-to-play games for a better chance of getting to the next goal. If someone gets a bit of excitement every time they win a virtual jackpot, they might think a $1 is an acceptable price to pay for it. And then it just spirals out of control.
You convinced people that your ai project will be worth billions some day and you sell them a share of that promise.
Ask HN: Ideal life insurance/yearly salary ratio?
I am recently considering a life insurance, but I cannot decide how much sum I should go for.

I thought perhaps "ratio of insurance sum to yearly salary or average house price" might be a good metric to start, but I couldn't find much info on the internet besides from insurance marketers.

I'm aware that it depends on individual situation. My case is: living in Europe, single, 30s, no dependants, no health problems, no risk except travelling. I want my family/siblings to have some relief if I die sooner for any reason.
I like this. I share a philosophy similar to this: hew close to the grain of the material. It's heartening to see articles like this. I've created many expressions of my ideas on this in code over the years: Brutal.JS, VanillaView, Bang/Good.html and I recently created one that is even simpler and I'm very happy with. It's similar to a unification of these ideas with Custom Elements. You can check it out here: https://github.com/00000o1/-
Esports leaders discuss challenges: VC bubbles, layoffs, ageism, responsibility
Actual translation: Tesla doesn't want people scalping their cars, and are using a technique many other manufacturers do.
Any fake certificates the malicious CA signs will have to be written to a Certificate Transparency log, which would make noticing the fact that the CA has done something like this easy.
A friend of a flatmate made a lot of money selling some bingo halls. He knew exactly how bad the returns on fruit machines are, because a handful in the atrium were half his profit when he was running them. He still liked to play on fruit machine whenever he saw one...
Not sure if it's hard coded, but the brain is taking a lot of visual shortcuts because of the limited visual bandwidth you have.

https://youtu.be/HU6LfXNeQM4?si=PRdZP_hdwdyJQkdP&t=521

Your Brain: Perception Deception

This section is interesting on how little we see in high definition, and how much mental processing it takes.