skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of agenda do you imagine people have? That you had a good experience with a friendly loan doesn't discount the bad experiences of thousands of people who did lose their friendships.

We've given money to friends on multiple occasions to pay for medical bills, groceries, and the like, but every time I've entered a reciprocal business arrangement with friends or family (be that a loan or a paid work arrangement), I've regretted it immensely.
How to Share a Secret (Shamir Secret Sharing)
Fifty Years of Gender Bias
The collapse of this network is a very real scenario for the collapse of civilization.

When the power plant can't get a spare part, because the shipping truck can't get gas, because the pump in the gas station doesn't have electricity. - and on and on.

The entire infrastructure of the world is intertwined.

During the last two years I was on projects where one single part could no longer be sourced, and it held up millions of dollars of other inputs. It doesn't take everything collapsing, it only takes just enough.
Your comments seem to be about other people's comments. I think you have lost track of this thread's topic.
I was curious about why The Pentagon would be the desired seller, when it's a British plane, and in my searching came across this little tidbit:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/three-iconic-harrier-j...

> The owner of the Harrier jump jets, former US Marines pilot Art Nalls, hopes wealthy British collectors will buy the trio of iconic jets which are the only flyable ­civilian versions in the world
I do not think this is a small business issue, but rather a dishonest small business owner working for disrespectful customers issue.

A few months ago, I had to get a screen replacement and straight upfront asked the repair guy how much it would really (emphasized) cost me to get the screen replaced after he gave me a quote indicating that either the screen would cost nothing, or the work hours cost almost nothing.

He smiled and admitted getting the original replacement unit would almost double the quote he had just given me, plus I'd have to wait a week until the unit arrives. I told him that's what I wanted.

Eventually, the repair cost me a bit more than double what he asked first. But I am satisfied, I noticed no defaults at all on my phone since the repair, it feels exactly like the original model. He cleaned it, and installed a screen protector on it (offered).

This is clearly a case of "theory built on one single personal experience", I agree. But honestly, I don't know anyone around me who would agree to pay a bit more just to get better service and I think that's the core issue.
Cigarette cartons are an unintuitively good currency object. They're high-density ($/volume or weight), storable, non-perishable, sub-dividable ("packs" in "cartons", I think that's how they're subdivided?). They're easy to count. They come in standard, audited sizes, the trusted-brand manufacturers certifying their weight (?) and stuff. The large population of tobacco addicts guarantees a stable demand, hence a stable value.

e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/08/29/...

(From a 30,000-foot view, it's kind of analogous to cryptocurrency. In a failed state, you don't accept cigarettes as payment because you want to smoke them—but because you know you can exchange them again to someone else, and to someone else, eventually reaching a smoker, who creates the demand sink. Similarly, people accept cryptocurrency units because they know at the end of the commerce chain, there will be drug dealers guaranteeing an intrinsic demand).
Or anyone who has to regulate calorie intake with a range, such as diabetics.
> Lock manufacturers will tell you how resistant their products are to particular attacks, eg being drilled out.

Most padlocks you can buy in Home Depot can be trivially bypassed in at least one way (typically shimming, often also vulnerable to comb picking or reaching through the core); virtually all wafer locks are highly susceptible to raking and can literally be opened with a paperclip. These are akin to admin/admin credentials.

Physical security is an absolute joke most of the time compared to software security.
I get the argument, but the random detour into complaining about the fiat standard was unnecessary and detracted from the point. All of that can still happen with gold backed USD.
> In this, our modern world, tiny speakers are what most people listen to most things on, except maybe in their cars.

Hmm... I think you're probably right, but the one thing that gives me pause is the enormous market for Bluetooth speakers. I see Bluetooth speakers everywhere! I suppose most Bluetooth speakers are still "small" in the grand scheme of things, but they're certainly larger than phone and laptop speakers.

Earbuds are similarly omnipresent. I'm not sure it's accurate to classify those as "tiny speakers"; the physics are different, because they only need to be loud enough to hear when they're next to your ears.
I used this to build a NES game in Rust https://github.com/kirjavascript/rust-nes-tmp
yes! I've seen that too, especially after a fresh reboot. But if you wait a bit and search again it'll find it.
Offtopic: Any recommendation how to get fit quickly? Currently battling thru it and also have lost all appetite
Is "found a company during period of historically low interest rates" one the elements of the framework?
AC-130J Ghostriders Could Lose Their Big 105mm Guns
To accompany the other comment, your Nix cache can be hosted by setting `services.nix-serve.enable = true`: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Binary_Cache

You do not necessarily need nginx.
or young children
> Be neat to get a little VM up on my site running some of these but I suspect it might be a pretty large undertaking.

It might not be too bad. I feel like there are a lot of little web assembly projects running on various sites that you could easily use. For a retro project I am working on I needed the MASM 5.00 reference manual and the site had PCjs running on it. Archive.org has there own web assembly emulator as well.
My Recent Programming Book
Lightning is a cashless alternative to cash with interesting properties.

Is HN read in El Salvador?

It would be interested to hear from someone living over there how it is going with lightning network adoption.
Any free-paywall link to this article?
Would be funny though

And would it be more work than the gtk2->gtk3 port?
I would love to hear your thoughts on my recent book. I had no desire to write yet another “Programming in X” text, and in fact decry the tendency of introductions to focus on a specific language and its features rather than the synthetic skill of programming. Somewhat cheekily, I wrote in the Preface:

In elementary physics, one doesn't start learning mechanics by studying one or another brand of springs and pulleys; rather, one learns Newton's Laws and how to apply them in arbitrary situations. Similarly, in this book, I eschew the study of any particular brand of programming language, opting instead to focus on fundamental laws formulated as rules of program composition.

I ended up with Principled Programming: Introduction to Coding in Any Imperative Language
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/tt/Principled_Program...
The concepts I bring to the fore in lieu of language details include: specifications and their implementations, top-down programming and stepwise refinement, program state and state transitions, preconditions and postconditions, loop and data invariants, termination, practical programming precepts, and simple patterns.

Thanking you in advance.
Maybe the hat industry hasn't invested enough in marketing to them ;)
Thanks for the explanation! But if his advice is to completely forego borrowing and lending, it's a bit counterintuitive to use his name for the borrow checker? OTOH, the borrow checker can certainly be described as "prone to fretting and offering kind of annoyingly obvious advice", so maybe it's appropriate after all?
I'm similarly mystified. I have first hand experience with that volume of traffic..

Per day. Per host. In 2009. On python.

How is everyone making everything so slow?
As dialogue agents become increasingly human-like in their performance, we must develop effective ways to describe their behaviour in high-level terms without falling into the trap of anthropomorphism. Here we foreground the concept of role play. Casting dialogue-agent behaviour in terms of role play allows us to draw on familiar folk psychological terms, without ascribing human characteristics to language models that they in fact lack. Two important cases of dialogue-agent behaviour are addressed this way, namely, (apparent) deception and (apparent) self-awareness.
Ugh, now I'm torn between wild urges to write a Raku backend for Fusion or port my C++ libraries to Fusion, neither of which is anything like a sensible project in the short term. (Possibly any term.)
And this I think is called gaslighting? Telling somebody they are wrong about what they think or feel? Or maybe not gaslighting. What is the term for this? Attack via psychology undermining?
There are a lot of fakes. Tax stamp traficking is a common thing. And it is much much less dense than a bill or a piece of precious metal.
I understand the sentiment behind your frustration - but it's worth noting that these support tickets are usually answered really quickly.

Specifically as it relates to Lambdas there's solid rationale behind these limits, but I agree that in many other cases the limits seem arbitrary and annoying.
Considering you had pneumonia, your appetite was low on your list of problems.

Try not eating for three days when you're otherwise healthy, and observe what it does to your body and mind.
> Except in our industry. In our industry the juniors often are the ones making the decisions.

If you're not a native speaker then I understand, otherwise lrn2read.
For DSP, we already can do that using something like Easy Effects[1][2].

Unfortunately, this isn't shippable for distros. The biggest issue is acquiring proper impulse-response data. In theory, it has to be tuned per-model, and turning basically requires pro-grade equipment and a recording studio. However, apparently many people assume Dolby is using the same profile for all laptops, so just copy-paste the same file here and there. Not really sure which is the real case.

Anyways, Asahi can ship DSP turned on by default because the distro is specific to Apple. That's how Apple boosts the quality of its hardware, and the same applies to a distro dedicated to it.

[1]: https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27122564/which-version-o...
27 trees per acre is a low number, and based on my own experience with land returned to a forest with decent canopy, the 150 trees per acre is not unreasonable.

That said, even with my estimates you’re correct that this is a lot of land, but I wanted to quickly put it into perspective. We are losing forests all over the planet, and this can also help understand the impact of that.

Also, the labor you mention is probably a wash compared to the construction of this plant.

Edit: as an example, if you ever have a chance, go tour a maple tree farm as a good reference. Now, that said I did just google for maple farm tree density and they estimate 70 per acre.
It's possibly even more dramatic than this in New Zealand. As a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember being pretty awestruck by the Franz Joseph glacier. You could park your car, walk up from the road and in a few minutes be standing on a vast field of ice. Now days you can't even see it from the road. You can't walk up either because the track has been closed due to erosion. The only way to get on the ice is with a helicopter. It's retreated by many kilometres in just those ~30 years.

Same story on the Tasman glacier, which is now mostly a lake which sometimes has a few icebergs floating in it.
It doesn't but you would need to sue to make it happen. Similar to the cases against Costco, and Wiley and Sons textbooks.

a. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-9th-circuit/1689936.htm...

b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_So....

Tesla would have to license the vehicle to you, or you would have to sign a contact to that effect, in order for it to pass muster. Even still, it's possible Tesla would lose in a lawsuit if they tried to enforce it. AFIK Ferrari, another bad actor in this space, as not been sued, but they do refuse to sell to certain people.

IANL but the First Sale Doctrine is pretty clear. Unfortunately you would have to sue to prove it.

c. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Yes: Azure Functions on K8s. [0]

> The Azure Functions service is made up of two key components: a runtime and a scale controller. ... The Azure Functions runtime can run anywhere. ... The scale controller monitors the rate of events that are targeting your function, and proactively scales the number of instances running your app.

> Kubernetes-based Functions provides the Functions runtime in a Docker container with event-driven scaling through KEDA. ... Using Functions containers with KEDA makes it possible to replicate serverless function capabilities in any Kubernetes cluster.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/func...
Poor Maintenance Loses Wars
Yes. I, too, was thinking that the three most important questions should have been four, and that the fourth is essentially what you say here.

What are we really selling? (To put it another way, what are our customers really buying?). Hint: it's not the software, hardware, service, etc. It's rare for new businesses to have a good handle on this question, but the question is a critical one.
COVID at least made people think about these things, but we have a long way to go.
This might be controversial, but I like the idea of school specific exams for elite schools. This allows the school to select the students they want and filter out the rest. They should have one for each of the majors (perhaps a more general one for related majors). They could just accept the highest scoring students. If there is a tie then they could either perform a waitlist or a random selection.
I did a Space Invader hunt in Paris about 7 year ago and used Invader's map (an early paper version). It was still fun! It was nice to have an idea which neighborhood to go to then take my time and look. It wouldn't be fun if it were too specific though, like an AR app guiding you to the exact spot.

The most fun for me is seeing them as a surprise. Most recent example was in Bilbão, a beautiful site on the river near the gorgeous old train station. Enjoying all the scenery and then bam, there's an Invader, placed just perfectly to be visible but unobtrusive.
Would you like it better if everything was bills? I agree that the change just accumulates and it’s even worse in Euro where 1 and 2 euros are coins.
The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life
I was excited to join the discord, but it looks like everything is in French!
Where is this coming from?

My theory --- people have some sort of natural affinity toward cults. Even when it is counter to their own best interests.

And Apple is approaching cult status.
GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
In this AI Age, It is crucial for developers to have a fundamental understanding of GPUs and their application to AI development.
Nah, it’s the kind of experiences you expect in a low-regulation market. You either pay a premium—beyond what would be justified if “defector” manufacturers and vendors weren’t a factor, i.e. if effectively-enforced regulations were mandating a higher quality floor—to a vendor with a good reputation you expect them to want to maintain, or you pay in expertise and time-cost. If you don’t pay in one of those two ways, you probably get screwed. Folks who already possess relevant expertise and have a hobby that looks a lot like the time-cost it takes to achieve the best measured-in-currency outcome in the above, may regard the situation as entirely fine. Folks with enough money not to care that simply paying for a decent product is priced above where it “should” be, also may not care. Everyone else just has to live with a bad situation, and sometimes people who’ve run into that post on HN.
This seems to be a problem being solved at too low a level of abstraction. It should be able to use the same architecture for performing say a 7.1 to binaural headphone 2-channel output, all by only routing and processing signals. Perhaps this is how it's being solved, but having "speaker" so hardcoded in the project work may not be the case, or seemingly so.
> Serverless architecture promises flexibility, infinite scalability, fast setups, cost efficiency, and abstracting infrastructure, allowing us to focus on the code.

The only thing I know that serverless architecture promises are big bills and a steady income for a cloud provider. I'd be happy to see a serverless setup that won't be blown away with a (way cheaper) small/medium-sized VM.
india has pretty much solved this "problem" by using UPI, which i assume this article is about, so there is that.

instead of using stupidly old age tech like cards and chargebacks and fraud protection, everything is verified by the user and approved manually. this also means everything works very very cheaply as compared to 2-5% of visa/amex fees which amount to a lot for a business in fees.
Automotive DRM has typically been cracked or bypassed by the time the car is a few years old. Dealers have the equipment in their shops and it eventually leaks. Mechanics are not hard to bribe. There are also crackers in Russia and China who work on this for their own profit.
I feel like we've been hearing about Polonius for years, the authors must be glad its finally here!
Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation
Canada seized bank accounts for unapproved peaceful protest.
The actual currency and methods of payment changed over the years – if you go back long enough, you will notice we have used barter systems that exchanged goods and services for other goods and services.

OP needs to read some Graeber and stop perpetuating this myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
I don't get it. Instead of a truck driving 100 miles from the factory to the store, you now have ships driving thousands of miles halfway across the world to a port, where a truck then picks up the product and drives 100 miles to the store.
> It’s odd to do this sort of flow-sensitive analysis on the CFG for a language feature that affects whether code is accepted or rejected

Is this something new here with this rendition of the borrow checker? I thought the whole premise of the borrow checker was to do a data flow analysis, decide whether to accept or reject the program, and if necessary to provide information about why the program was rejected.

It looks like what this project is trying to accomplish is to use better control flow mapping to reduce the number of unnecessary rejections that programmers see.
> Is this natural behavior of people who are also afraid of the freedom to be able to buy parts elsewhere?

No…I doubt that’s it.
With respect, I do not see why FBI crime statistics are considered racist. It is because it is a part of the US government?

There are many things people are mad at the US. Ukraine conflict, Israel conflict, etc. I wonder if people are flagging because it is US government adjacent.
Everyone's situation is different. The fact that you've regretted it means zilch for somebody else. Maybe it is you an the type of friends / family you have. I helped my daughter few times and did not think one second about it. No regrets. You can not and should not generalize a particular situation.
I'm currently doing it using pandoc

https://komsciguy.com/misc/write-a-programming-book-with-mar...
This reminds me of the story Alaska Public Media ran about the Mendenhall glacier also receding so quickly it might be gone by 2050 [1].

[1] https://alaskapublic.org/2023/08/07/crammed-with-tourists-ju...
I'm not sure I follow, why is anyone playing these games at all? What's the benefit, or what's the social aspect? How do the clubs work to encourage more playing?

I found the article to be a bit sparse on these details. Maybe there's another source?
Wait til Apple starts producing cars --- which they are supposedly working on.

The Apple car will cost way more than the competition and only they will be allowed to repair it --- and their fans will love it --- because Apple.
Case in point where it applied to physical goods : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_So....
Does your app do more or less work?
You have to manage a VM. For example, ensuring that the VM has an up to date OS. If you don't care about that, ok, but that's something that Lambda offers.

Ephemerality is a plus as well. Just from a security standpoint, having an ephemeral system means persistence is not possible.
We need better “cash” today. Perhaps bring the $50 back.

It’s easy to go through several hundred dollars a week. But since the $100 is barely legal tender, if you want to carry that much money, it’s a stack of $20s.

And, it’s a big stack, it’s uncomfortable to carry, and ungainly to use. Maybe if I was a mobster, used to a roll and a rubber band, it would be different. But I’m not, and whipping it out to thumb through it, just not comfortable with.

So the other alternative is constantly hitting up ATMs to reload. Or, I guess, take home a large stack on the weekend and withdraw from that throughout the week.

Before this was less of a problem. Couple 20s and you were set.

Nowadays, it’s kind of a pain in the neck.
I know it’s just the inevitability of capitalism but I’m just old enough to remember the early days of the internet (via a 9.6kbps modem if I recall!) and it was such a wonderful, positive force. Every now and then I’ll look back and reflect on how distant that memory feels these days. Locked down proprietary app stores with apps designed to do nothing other than part addicts from their money. Sigh.
> But unlike the gambling market, apps like Jackpot Magic and Big Fish Casino are under little oversight to determine whether they are fair or whether their business practices are predatory.

The apps are upfront that there is no possibility for a payout, right?

It seems stupid to spend money other than for entertainment on these apps, but it doesn’t seem likely to me that the app is unfair.
> I communicate with openai German and English how ever I see fit.

I did not foresee that you could mix input languages. That’s fascinating. Multilingual people use languages for different purposes, often in the same sentence. Ie: technical jargon in English, a joke in Arabic, etc.

I expect the difference in connotation/feeling/mood to be less relevant for an LLM, if you’re working with facts. But there was a recent post showing LLMs performing better when you said you were stressed/scared. Did you notice any such differences for your multi-lingual inputs?
We knew this about casinos. That's why they were relegated to a little hellish desert town.

What happened that we decided apps somehow solved the problems related to gambling?
The key is multiple copies everywhere. Storage is cheap these days, so you can keep more than one copy - and digital hoarding doesn’t take up much space at all.
Smartphones and candy crush will be our generation's cigarettes. FAANG = Big Tobacco.
Ethics in programming right here.
> What am I missing here?

> I just don't see this company (or any others for that matter) GPTing their way to AGI

> I'm not saying the company will go bankrupt but I'm also not buying into the hype that it's going to become the next Google or better / create AGI for us all.

What I'm missing is the connection between AGI & profitability. OpenAI has huge revenues from ChatGPT which look set to continue - they're distinct from cryptocurrency in that those invested in them are so on a service provision basis rather than a speculation basis.

I'm thoroughly unconvinced we'll ever see AGI - I see zero connection between that and OpenAI being successful.
https://gwern.net/tla#effective-gpt-4-programming