skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The research has prompted fears that a lack of major regulation in the data brokerage sector may constitute a national security risk.

At least you have to pay now. Historically OPM just gave it away for free. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Manageme...
Adept is doing it.
Supported is a relative term.

Current OpenBSD Platforms [0]:

alpha

amd64

arm64

armv7

hppa

i386

landisk

loongson

luna88k

macppc

octeon

powerpc64

riscv64

+ ~20 retired platforms

OpenBSD 7.4 pre-built packages for each architecture:

aarch64: 11508
amd64: 11845
arm: 7705
i386: 10603
mips64: 8995
powerpc: 9683
powerpc64: 8351
riscv64: 10170
sparc64: 8469

Current NetBSD Tier 1 Platforms [1]:

aarch64

amd64

evbarm

evbmips

evbppc

hpcarm

i386

sparc64

xen

[ "Currently there are 49 NetBSD ports with Tier II status" ]

Don't know about NetBSD/pkgsrc software packages for each arch

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

[1] http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/
The German ID also has an online verification function already in it, but if you are a Spanish citizen for example on holiday in Germany that doesn't help you. One EU-wide system is much better than a different one for each country as it helps to give equal access to online services regardless of your country of origin.

That system is mostly just used for government websites, stuff like getting a new passport, change your registered address or view/submit your taxes. If you could do this stuff anywhere in the EU online no matter where you are from it would be way easier to move between countries and navigate different bureaucracies.
Queue the "yo dawg" meme for rent-seeking.
Personally, I am happy to see someone else thinking about cutting down stuff and simplifying. Similar posts have started popping up more frequently and as a fan of simplicity, reliability and maintainability I am very happy! Don't get discouraged.
Not sure, but I'd check two things:

1) Make sure you're chatting with GPT-4, not GPT-3;

2) Try something other than recipes and lyrics. It so happens that ChatGPT models have been instructed (via system prompt) to specifically not reproduce recipes and lyrics verbatim[0]. Those two categories are verboten - ChatGPT is literally instructed to not repeat recipes found on-line, but rather invent its own.

I suspect you're hitting 2) - sure, you provided your own recipe, but from the POV of ChatGPT, this isn't clearly distinguishable from how "web search" works (run web search, inject results into temporary context, let the model generate reply, send user reply without the temporary context), so it may be acting dumb because it's over-eager to apply the instructions from its system prompt.

(That's a good reason to prefer using API directly via code, or a third-party chat frontend: you get to control the system prompt this way, and can cut out some of OpenAI's restrictions.)

--

[0] - Yes, they literally mention those two things in their instructions. The linked tweet has a reply showing the reconstructed system prompt of newest GPT-4 iteration, where you can spot this, but this also applied to earlier iterations for some time now.
I miss community-hosted servers in games.

Nowadays it's all servers that are only run by the developer, who could just flip a switch tomorrow and tell you "Remember that $80 you spent on Game 1 few years ago? You're gonna have to pay up again for Game 2. Also we're turning off the servers for Game 1."
> What part of what I said was incorrect?

All parts of it. You are asserting that a sufficiently skilled attacker can magically overcome all privacy controls. This fundamentally misunderstands how privacy controls work. Don’t make absolute statements, they’re always incorrect (see what I did there?).

When data is compliantly anonymized, the ability to deanonymize it has been irrevocably destroyed. When evaluating privacy controls, you evaluate them against a trusted insider with full access and unlimited time. There are lots of organizations whose controls meet this bar.
social media consumers is the a better description. influencers peddle shite, and it is dutifully consumed by the followers. we've all been co-opted into eating bowls of shit and enjoying it without asking any questions. i say all, but there's a few hold outs.
Which means, crudely simplified, that your biometrics can be extracted from an Android or a Windows. I’d prefer companies being extra paranoid about my biometrics, because they can’t be changed if they’re leaked
> On the one hand, the resistors used in these SSDs are too big for the circuit board, causing weak connections

I am an electronics / PCB hobbyist and I can't for the life of me figure out how they came to such a weird conclusion. What does this even mean?

Larger components will have more surface area at the joint and should be stronger than a smaller component

> On the other hand, the soldering material used to attach these resistors is prone to forming bubbles and breaking easily, according to Häfele.

Never heard of solder doing this - it seems more likely to me that the solder wasn't reflowed properly in manufacturing.

What's more is that the component pictured is a capacitor.

The only conclusion I can draw here is that the guy has no clue what he's talking about
Oh, thank you. The original covers almost 50% of the screen (iphone) with the static heading!
The point of the article is that those hundreds of thousands of dollars are NOT disposable income -- they are life savings and home equity loans. What a callous comment.
> credit cards on my phone

Take a physical card and a phone. Throw both on them on the ground and step on them, then let them lay there for two full days without connecting any cables to them. Then let me know which one will still work.

> Inconveniencing yourself due to some vague paranoia about government is for the tin foil hat crowd.

I'm equally irritated by an another extreme. Nowadays the bank branches are all hostesses selling credit deals. Cannot update personal details, refuse to deal with cash. On whatever non-credit request they almost snatch a mobile from my hand and force to install their bank app - "simply do it on your mobile". That's an inconvenience.
Sounds harder than just making your own maps tbh.
0. https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_Mosaics
Good question, thank you.

> who needs money for what

I want my family/siblings to have some relief if I die sooner for any reason.

> for how long?

This is the part I don't know or can't decide yet.
https://trendingpapers.com/

Pure numbers: the top trending papers surface. They are a function of PageRank (citations and the importance of which papers cite each other), authors' previous body of work, etc...

The filters help select a sub-area (NLP, Computer Vision, etc.) and slice what's really new (released over the last week, last 3 months, last 6, etc.).

The tool is designed to solve this problem.
How to vet a potential co-founder: my failed founder story
Just because you work with someone does not mean you can start a company with them. This is a set of questions for founders to ask of each other.

I hope someone learns from my failed founder experience.
Yes.

There are master keyed systems that don't have that combinatoric weakness. Here's the Lock Picking Lawyer disassembling a prison lock where there's a separate "master ring" for the master key. So combining settings from the master key and the operating key will not open the lock.

This lock was opened with a wave rake, though, so it's not very good.

[1] https://youtu.be/dleQ_bcbMJo?t=159
I maybe could have done a better job of what so captivated me watching the 'The Computer Programme' and why that feeling's so different today. The idea of ordinary people buying a computer and programming it to do useful things was one. Personal address books was covered in an episode - that's gone. There was the implicit assumption that your machine and your data was your own.

As for specific technologies, here's my rough list of what we're either starting to forget, had to re-remember recently, or have completely forgotten:

- low latency, simple, native UIs that don't require a designer

- operating on data locally first, and not over a network

- information highway instead of doom-scrolling

- message passing (constantly re-discovered, and then forgotten because people complain it's not RPC)

- relational and logic programming - I firmly believe this will come back one day, but it will be called something else and look new.

- static memory allocation. turns out it's still incredibly fast to do this.

- software design
Huh, TIL StackOverflow is on Windows Server
Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs
The Early Modern English Plan to Colonize Russia
Yeah it's exactly like buying Gucci, except if it was dispensed in a slot machine and you had to spin it 100 times to get the clothes you want.

And the odds of the machine were rigged and personalized to you, which is illegal in real gambling
Last I heard, it's the same supplier as the Switch OLED; that's why it uses MIPI over eDP. Samsung is the manufacturer I think
Increase Your VS Code Productivity
This comment made me chuckle. Because I am a sober alcoholic. One of the things I remind myself all the time is: "It's wonderful that people can enjoy alcohol in moderation. I am not one of them."
> this is a key advance for the european union to be a global reference in the digital field, protecting our democratic rights and values.

very few things are as abused as ‘democracy.’ the mind boggles how a global identification system has anything to do with democracy. not to talk of protecting ‘democratic rights and values.’ bear in mind that at the european union level there is no democracy. at least in the form that we have come to expect it at the national level. it has become an all-recipe ingredient: drop a few pinches in there and criticism of the scheme is criticism of democracy itself.

update:
more broadly, communications in general, but political communications especially, have intentionally embraced the nonsense and murky. they don’t expect it to make sense to you, but worse, they don’t expect to be grilled through their own words. see the US’s white house press briefing for example. stinkiest of word salads but hey!
>malicious incompetence by everyone in the Experian security chain

How do we know it's malicious and not just regular incompetence? Hanlon's razor and all.

My question was related to this quote:

>the GDPR has fines of up to 4% of global turnover.

I was asking what GDPR has fines on. Does it have fines for incompetence? snthd claimed that "this issue (verification by SSN) doesn't affect GDPR-land" saying GDPR-land somehow prevents this with a specific fine. I'm wondering what the specific fine is that GDPR-land has that prevents this issue.
My advice is, be prolific in many areas and find something that sticks. The old saying: 'throw mud at the wall and see what sticks'.
https://thegradient.pub/

is not bad.
Credit Cards: The Business of Enslaving Poor People [video]
Would it be any less useful if the coin were 2,5 Euros?
That's what I've heard too. And yeah, Samsung makes the Switch's panel according to iFixit's teardown.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/53272/nintendo-switch-oled-teard...
That is plenty large enough of a chunk to have significant economic influence. As a reference point, it's about the same percent marketshare OPEC has on the oil market.

Even though the topics are frequently discussed together, anticompetitive behavior is something different than being a monopoly and one does not require the other.
Twitter is good but you have to filter it. Start by following AI researchers doing real work, not pundits. However that's not enough by itself. It is essential to use the "mute words" feature to aggressively prune any and all tweets about politics and other crap. You're left with a much denser stream of people's informed thoughts about the latest research as it comes out.
glsmac - Open-Source Reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
And here is a demo mashed up using LeapMotion free space hand tracking and a projector to manipulate a "bigGAN's high-dimensional space of pseudo-real images" to make it more like a modern dance meets sculpting meets spatial computing with a hat tip to the 2008 work of Johnny Chung Lee while at Carnage Mellon.

https://x.com/graycrawford/status/1100935327374626818
> This is the only part that seems to need to be low-level, anything else could be done at a higher one, generally EQ type settings like 'loudness'.

But that already is the only part that is low level. The EQ stuff is done with PipeWire.
I've very rarely had an SSD fail in general, to be honest -- though I do generally stick to reliable brands[0], not "Xykdidlwo" or "Dyewkdlo" off Amazon.

Right now I've got 3 SSDs in my server (2 mirrored so 1TB for apps, and a 500GB boot drive), and I'm interested to see which one goes first.

[0]: Crucial, Samsung, Kingston, SanDisk (until I hear any information which discourages me) etc.
You're giving him a lot of credit turning a vague angry anti-tech tirade in to that.

However, I tend to agree and say that it would be hopeless to try consider something with a bazillion influential moving parts and as volatile like human civilization something we could try to "make safe" before working on better space access, which itself might well increase our robustness.
I don't think I buy the premises under the goals here.

> The main goal of HTML First is to substantiall widen the pool of people who can work on web software codebases.

Fair goal.

> A second goal of HTML First is to make it more enjoyable and seamless to build web software.

Also a fair goal.

> The way we achieve these goals is by acknowledging that HTML is very easy to understand, and thus using HTML as the bedrock of our product - not only to define content and structure, but also to set styling and behaviours.

It's not. It's a large, heterogeneous collection of behaviors based on the arrangement of various tags with coupling between the tags defined by hundreds upon hundreds of pages of individual tag descriptions. And that's before we even consider that there's a matrix of browser compatibility layered atop that.

If I code up some complex behavior in React (such as the details-summary example here), the result is obvious, shows up in the deubgging tools, and works on every browser that supports React. Most importantly, the knowledge is composable: that approach to showing and hiding content works regardless of the content being a "details" and "summary" or a shopping cart contents pane or a modal dialog. With vanilla HTML, every aspect of the default behavior is dictated by the browser, and very few pieces compose with each other sanely (what happens when I nest <details> tags? I have to try it to find out; if it's a React component, I can read the JavaScript and know).

I'm not saying one shouldn't use vanilla HTML or should only use <div> with style for the whole layout or anything like that; there are semantic concerns that make using HTML where possible a good idea. But I'm not going to trip over myself to memorize every behavior and interaction of the declarative HTML model if it's easier to build things like collapsible details tags in React.
Waiting for the obligatory saint, who answers with the actual URLs.
[/] I’ve been using this for partials

[-] But I kind of like this too
> If my [...]

> I don't need a credit card.

All those statements are true as far as they go. And sure, you don't need a credit card. (There are some scenarios such as some car rentals, that are going to be difficult with a debit card, but if you don't need those things then you don't.)

> It's a false vision that I'm missing out on anything.

This, however, is not true. You are certainly missing on a number of benefits. Obviously it's a choice to make, but it is not true to state you're not missing on anything.

* Credit cards give you back some of the fees that you're going to pay regardless, so you're losing money by not getting the cash back from a credit card.

* Unused credit limit increases your credit score. If you don't have credit cards your credit score is lower than it could be, which means you lose out on better rates and deals.

* The credit card regulations are more pro-consumer than debit card regulations, so if you ever experience fraud this may become relevant to you. In tech terms, a debit card is an open port to your bank account, a credit card is a firewall between your bank account and charges.

Those are the big ones. There's other smaller but real benefits to some credit cards like extended warranties and misc perks. I wouldn't have a credit card just for these but occasionally they help.

> Credit cards are only fine if you can pay off the full amount at each month.

Sure, exactly the same way how debit cards are only fine if you spend less than you make each month.

> If your lose your job and you have no buffer, your screwed.

If you lose your job and your account balance goes to zero, how are you paying anything with a debit card? You're not. Exactly equally screwed.
I've been trying to do this on my blog. Here's my AI tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/
Well the point I was trying to make was to not do what the article says and name your class e.g. "green", but instead to name it something more sensible like "approved" or "updated" or something about the semantic nature of the style, rather than what the style actually is.

The reasoning is that maybe today it is just "green" but then what if one day the color in the CSS is changed, and it is not actually green anymore? You now either need to change the CSS class name everywhere, or leave it as "green" and confuse everyone because it is actually blue on-screen? This only scratches the surface - there are all manner of other considerations to think about (different display/print medias, dark/light preferences, HCM etc)
This seems long overdue. The US owes ~$260,000 per taxpayer and is still regularly running trillion-dollar deficits. Our elites care more about retaining power than about solving this problem, as evidenced by the fact that we have a spendy party who refuses to raise taxes on the middle class and a (self-described) thrifty party who refuses to make meaningful cuts to spending.

There is zero chance that this debt gets paid off without massive inflation. Zero.
I think that when people accept that a machine can be intelligent, the goalpost will stop moving, but of course it will take time.
For learning basics of GPU programming your iGPU will do fine. Actual real-world applications are very varied of course.
"I really don’t see how these would work in anything other than very basic scenarios, even less how they would achieve the objectives."

Well, what are the objectives? If they are complex, so should the code be complex. That's the nature of our job. By adding an advanced framework you up the complexity by default. Instead of adding more code, you add more build dependencies. This is especially wasteful on websites.

In my opinion, people today are afraid of writing code. Everyone wants some framework to write code for them. That is not how we push our industry forward.
In my experience companies that advertise their stuff at the edge of its capabilities aren't the ones that make long term reliable products.

It's like with audio amplifiers, you can buy cheap amps that advertise insane power levels but at really weird conditions, or there is the quality stuff thats very conservatively rated in terms of its specs because they know their customers are buying it for other reasons, like quality or reputation, not just numbers in an advertisement.

Ultimately I don't think charging bikes fast is an issue, the batteries are relatively small compared to cars so they already charge relatively faster, and if you really need quick swaps like in a race or something swapping out the battery pack is a far better approach.

Ultimately I know nothing about this bike, I'm just poking at their advertising really.
I really like your blog!
If they did I'd honestly love to get the details and be proven wrong.

With just this list it's hard to imagine how this would work.

The only scenario where I can sort of imagine it being potentially helpful is an agency setting with many not-too-complex projects and limited ongoing development. I can imagine updating projects being a hassle. That said I don't have experience in that field, and I bet there are other ways to deal with that.
I mean why isn’t multithreading the answer?
Raúl Gúrru Miau {Miáu} 8
If your edge manager doesn’t understand the value in clean code then you’re screwed.

However that doesn’t mean it will be invested in. Clean Vs messy are binary descriptors that devs love to throw around. A lot of time messy code is not worth fixing. Managers have to make judgement calls. But what they should always let you do is marginally improve the code each time you’re in it, and especially let you invest in test coverage.
If you assume humans will never live on a non earth planet then it has literally 0 value lol but if we set up a moon or mars base in the future it will hold a lot of value
Propaganda from EU haters?

Pointing out how EU is corrupted by Big Tech?
"Ihre Papiere, bitte"
Whats the point of the bit.ly links?
Well, also, you make some claims that could be interesting then provide zero proof or even discussion at all.

The entire world: interesting in eng being more productive and interested in more maintainable software. So the first 2 sections are interesting.

You then chase them with a list of assertions with zero discussion as to how they make eng more productive, or lead to more maintainable software. Also without even a hint of why people eg prefer not defining styles inline (protip: fun at first. Now try changing one of them... have fun reviewing 3000 inline bits of css.) Like the industry settled on certain things for a reason, and you don't even attempt to engage with that reason.

You also cite dhh when you like his reasoning and ignore him when you don't. about which, well...
EDIT: dumb typo, I meant "residential IP"
> You think people like going to a government office and standing in a queue forever?

You do it once in your life. Then you have a sign on to the social security website and never have to go back to the office. It's not that bad.

> As far as tracking concerns, those were already dealt with during the long period that this legislation was being drafted.

It isn't possible to deal with them except by not building the system. Its existence is the vulnerability.
I feel like getting customers to talk to me is the hardest part. Even when I have hundreds of people using an MVP for free, literally less than five would say anything in the Discord.

I feel like I could immediately build multiple great products using generative AI for specific communities. If I could just get three people from that community to tell me what they were trying to do and then try the solution I build.

But it seems like people just want to do the specific activity they are doing in the specific niche they are in. They don't want to do new things. So it seems like somehow it's a social problem not a technical one. I need to be inside of a community and observe their existing activities and insert something that just makes it easier. Without requiring them to think differently or try something new or go outside their niche.

I did do that last year and managed to make several hundred dollars on transaction fees multiple months in a row. That was a big win, for me. But it was a small niche and that dried up.
And thanks again for the Zenodo clue!

I now have my first two DOIs, one (data) via Dryad and one (code) via Zenodo.
And the podcast guy that speaks really slowly ...
I find Zvi Mowshowitz to be the best source available (https://thezvi.substack.com/). He’s in the X-risk camp (and so am I) but seems to have a clear view of some AI things being exciting, others being dangerous, and still others being irrelevant.

I don’t trust most AI-positive sources because they almost never have anything negative to say at all, so they’re clearly in it to hype AI and not to inform anyone of true things. I don’t trust Gary Marcus’s opinion for a similar reason.