skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people who have loans, particularly mortgages, which are frequently traded amongst financial institutions, are locked in to a particular company like it or not

When we got the mortgage for our house, we went out of our way to arrange it with a bank with which we had (and have since had) no other dealings.

Result: Our "mortgage bank" has no insight into our day-to-day finances. Our "day-to-day bank" has no insight into our mortgage.
Curious about what apps you really can't replace. I think the vast majority of my usage could be replicated in browser. I had thought that maybe my only one would be the 2-factor authentication that my bank uses, but I just checked and they have a hardware token I could get if it didn't work on linux. Almost everything else I do would work in browser (although admittedly the reddit mobile browser experience is pretty terrible. Then again, me spending less time on reddit wouldn't be the worst thing in the world)
Getting an infinite captcha loop on archive.is and archive.today
You can run Android apps on GNU/Linux phones with Waydroid. Works for me, but depends on your bank.
I guess Georgism is the usual alternative proposed by internet urbanists. Interesting but largely untried.
> the researchers say that children may be "evolutionarily primed" to expect exceptionally high levels of physical contact and care,

This seems like garbage article with just one interesting line that's never further delved into.
Cookie Monster was my gateway to Vinge, highly recommend.
Storing data in pointers
I wanted to love this article, but:

> The Fairphone's use of eco-friendly materials has a positive impact on the environment. The use of ethically sourced materials helps to ensure that the mining of these materials is done in a responsible and sustainable manner, with fair labor practices and minimal environmental damage. This can help to reduce the negative impacts of mining on local communities and ecosystems. Additionally, the use of recycled materials in the phone's construction helps to reduce electronic waste and the demand for most used resources. Overall, the Fairphone 4's design and materials choices reflect a commitment to sustainability and ethical practices, which can have a positive impact on the environment and society.

> Overall, the Volla Phone X23 seems to be a solid choice for those looking for a rugged smartphone with a unique operating system and features.

> Overall, the Sony Xperia 1 is a good choice for those looking for a high-end smartphone with a focus on entertainment.

Overall, couldn't I have just asked ChatGPT for this article?
> I wonder if the other end is a person who'd rather have stacks of physical objects as their task list: read what the issue is, write down how to fix it, hand it over to someone who'll run and fix the problem, and give the replacement object and the paper to a delivery driver, job done.

Happens, yes. Part of my job is digitizing analog processes, mainly for technicians in the field. And often you have the problem that the back-office really wants to get back the information what they need to reorder, what they cause bill the customer and so on, as fast as possible. But technicians don't want to bother with having to type into their smartphones or tablets while they are in the field. They just want to jot it down onto a paper, load the whole stack of at the end of the week and let the back-office do the rest.

One of the many sources of 'friction' if you make something digital that was done on paper before that, not made easier by the fact that the offices now want the information even faster, cause "you have the machine with you. You should do it the moment you've done the work."
Monopoly by what metric? What’s the difference between being a market leader and a monopoly?

Investopedia defines a natural monopoly like this:

“A natural monopoly is a type of monopoly in an industry or sector with high barriers to entry and start-up costs that prevent any rivals from competing.”

But there are many rivals to Tesla in this space. ChargePoint, ElectrifyAmerica, and even a start-up called Volta that does free ad-supported EV charging. Shell bought them earlier this year. KBB lists a ton more, including regional ones:

https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/ev-charging-networks-list/
You don't get the cardinality of the data type, just when the object was created.

There are probably some business cases where the “when” information is potentially useful (I cant think of any) but, you cant know, for example, how many users are in the database.
Guix is very focused on "free" software and as such is very limiting. IE, if you want to use Discord, Slack, or Steam on guix you're going to have to figure that out yourself.

Nix makes this much easier and you're much more likely to find ready made packages for even esoteric software. Nix has over 3 times as much software as Guix.

Nix also goes for a lot more composability than guix with nix flakes. It makes it nearly trivial to package any software you want.

You may want to give Nix a try if you had trouble with Guix.
Quite the acronym soup, but off I am to Google it...
In short yes. We plan to leverage the effect system for this. Stay tuned.
That is an opinion, not a fact. Freedom of association and to be happy can include not interacting with children you choose not to, and optimizing for happiness is important (versus a social contract requiring otherwise). No one will optimize for your own happiness besides you.

I have kids, but fully respect people who don’t care for or want to avoid time and interaction with kids. I respect their boundaries, that is what I advocate for here.

I’ve had over a decade of therapy, so I’m fairly confident in my position on the topic.
Many of the "power users" were outright liabilities for Reddit, and they should consider their departure a good thing.
Before anyone gets into how much cheating there is, notice the conclusion

> I am convinced that there is no evidence that cheating increased after the chess boom in 2020, compared to the offline baseline. I am also convinced that there is no evidence of pervasive and consistent computer assisted cheating in titled tuesday tournaments.

However, re "Since then, a former World Champion published an hour long video, and accused Hikaru Nakamura of cheating." see https://www.chess.com/blog/VladimirKramnik/informational

Lichess discussion: https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/kramnik-i...
Actually I think they would send an army of recruiters.
We may consider WASM as support for GC, tail calls, and multi-threading arrive.
How come they don’t demo their product not doing the same vulnerabilities?

Seems like an easy marketing win
FWIW, I tend to write a lot of error checking code that checks for division by zero ahead of time and just returns zero instead. Found an example:

public double magnitude
{
get
{
double c = max_magnitude;
return c > 0 ? Math.Max(c, c * (this / c)._internal_magnitude) : 0;
}
}

I could delete quite a few if statements in pretty hot codepaths if division by zero just returned zero.
ffffffff.net
> cutting the brake cables in 1950

Service brakes were typically hydraulic long before 1950. Only parking brakes would have been cable operated on the overwhelming majority of cars on the road in 1950 (or since).
Obviously. It'd be one of the tables known to Harvard. Just leave enough room for the ones to be discovered.
> It goes on and on. You should read the OP; it is really quite informative.

I'm going to let this pass since I don't want to start a flamewar here but I think it's very rude to imply I didn't read the OP, and I think less of you for it.

So to summarize, you believe ChromeOS is immune to the Kernel's security vulnerabilities outlined in the OP because:

- it uses sandboxing (unrelated to kernel security)
- disabled io_uring
- it uses SELinux (unrelated to kernel security) which other distros do as well but you believe ChromeOS does it more effectively for desktop applications

I remain unconvinced.
Unpopular opinion, functional programming style got a big push because the inability of languages and compilers to deal with state especially mutable state, so they bring out the purity big gun and ban all mutable states. However, state and mutable state are natural and useful for programmers to work with, thus functional programming never gains mainstream.

With the advance of lifetime analysis, mutable value semantics, and local mutability, there’s no need to ban mutable state outright. The push for functional programming will be waning in regarding to purity.
Replace "Apple" with "Microsoft" and "macOS" with "Windows" in your post, and it is the exact statement I would have written ~2003 when I first played around with wine. Around 2004 I ran CS 1.5 online using wine on a linux box, and changed my mind. Today, in 2023, it seems like Windows games are better run with wine on Linux or macOS (the wine-bottles are basically sandboxed windows editions that I can create or scrub anytime I want). It is incredible how usefully sometimes software becomes 20 years later.
"It takes a village to raise a child" is more than just an empty truism.
We are entering an era where AI can potentially enhance moderation. How can we ensure it aids rather than hinders? Imagine AI not as a lazy censor, but as a tool capable of discerning the value of diverse contributions. Unlike a Wikipedia editor who might be overwhelmed by thousands of articles across numerous domains, AI could objectively evaluate scientific results in peer-reviewed journals. It could also connect current discussions with past contributions and provide gentle, rule-based corrections. Could this be the future of fair and efficient online moderation?
Any power routed through batteries is expensive - compared with power pulled directly from grid / solar panels etc.

Sodium ion batteries won't change that equation any time soon.

But they can make whatever grid storage is installed (whether in homes, electric car, or grid scale), a lot cheaper.

Some limited amount of such storage + some smarts to control when heavy users are run & when batteries are (dis)charged, can go a long way. Just 'flattening the curve' is enough.
> Especially when author thinks some minor medieval squabbles are equally important as the galactic space part, giving it same page count.

That was a major plot design point to me.

That pre-spacefaring civilizations have things that are incredibly important to them, but questionably important relative to order-of-magnitudes different power galactic civilizations.

One of the reasons I like Banks fiction as well -- in all likelihood, given evolution and technological maturity timescales, advanced civilizations will be wildly displaced in time as well as space.
There's MakerNexus as an alternative now.
Based on decades of historical precedent. Apple has migrated from 68k to PowerPC to Intel to ARM. You can no longer run PowerPC applications on current MacOS, as Rosetta v1 was dropped five years after migrating to Intel. Likewise 68k emulation was dropped some time after transitioning to PowerPC. Rosetta v2 is another temporary solution until x86 support is completely gone a few years from now, unless they intend to continue offering the Game Porting Toolkit.
How to Maximize LLM Performance (Lessons from OpenAI DevDay)
Did he change his look so people wouldn't recognize him?
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jadegomez510/andrew-ca...
Was he that assembly professor who was way to interesting to be just a professor? Had a similar one.
> Is “the hero’s journey” not a story about rugged individualism that has been told over and over in different forms across cultures since the beginning of history?

I don't think so. The heros journey does not need to be about "rugged individualism" at all. Not is about it all across cultures and history.

We like stories about rugged individualism. We prefer them. And oftentimes, we change original stories fro. other culture to fit the patterns we like or ignore those that don't fit them.

And also, across cultures and history, the hero journey is far from the only or even primary kind of story.
Hikaru talking about the cheating allegation against him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2R--_fBj0

I'll add that he live streamed the tournament he was accused of cheating in. If you've ever watched how fast he moves and quite often pre-moves & talks through his strategy as he goes, it'd be very surprising to see that he cheated (and I don't even know how he'd go about doing so - he's faster than the engines!).
> Many apps make this impractical by not separating the notifications into separate categories

I can't say I share your experience. There are apps that spam you with notifications and intentionally don't use categories but I generally just uninstall those.
I don't want to say you should never do this.

But if you aren't writing a compiler or an embedded system, you should never do this.
>ellen pao blackout

those were some innocent times
https://archive.is/Q1jdu

> Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, told the FBI agent during an interview in February that he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight. He was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course, the document states.

> “He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights,” FBI Special Agent Mark Hurley wrote in his warrant application

Goes without saying this is so reckless and dangerous. Was he ever charged? I couldn't find any information.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s a perfectly cromulent promo video.
And we don't talk about the VirtualBoy
[Quoting:] "But it was never about the performance or security, some things won't be available outside the App Store or Play Store, because large corporations, governments and banks enable Google and Apple."

OT: so when you are going to rent an appartment you have to do it via an app like airbnb (in german: there is a "vivawest-app", and you can not visit the appartment physicaly before you sign a (minimum 3 month) contract (to rent from them), no -you'd have to use the app for a "sightseeing" (cos "migrants" and um you wont know or hear about otherwise))?

There's once was a saying (in german): "lass dich nicht ver-äpp-eln" (-;

regards...
Has anybody tried something like this? While ChatGPT itself already is pretty useful (especially given browsing capabilities with GPT-4) - I wonder if there's a way to train it on a specific vendor's licenisng rules.
Script kiddies of the future would own the airplanes of today.
There are no shortage of billionaire tech bros there. Just need to find one with a butler.
I agree especially with the second argument.

But most people who toy with LLMs will probably never make money out of them.
Even those who do will often spend a lot of time getting their bearings during which the GPU sits idle. Then you begin to ramp up your use but by the time, there's a new generation of GPUs out.

That's why my recommendation is to start with something lightweight.

It's also much less frustrating to start working for a few hours on a rented A100 rather than running into OOMs all the time while fine-tuning batch sizes and waiting for the nth highly quantized model to download.
Andd I'm back. Got to love when it all comes together :P

CF is compact flash card, kind of like the big memory card in cameras. PCMCIA is a PC card whose function is to "introduce peripheral capability to a laptop", kind of an interface. DMA is direct memory access.
If a car can receive OTA updates it can receive OTA hacks, no passenger in car required.
Ask HN: Where is VR going?
Where is VR going in 5 years? Will Apple Vision Pro or the Metaverse going to be able to shake VR/AR/MR out of being a gaming side piece?

Every technology goes the Technology Hype Cycle (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle) but it seems VR is stuck with hardware that’s not socially acceptable or enjoyable.

I’m starting to think seriously about non-gaming applications of VR and am interested learning more if there’s a future there

Thx in advance! :]
thanks, I now get where your number are coming from and it make sense
Given that it requires changing property market choices, its only going to happen on a big scale if working from home beds in and people feel they can rely on it longer term.

Having said that, I've seen some adverts for 'student hall ' like living for young professionals. That works because the investor can switch to the actual student market.
This is not advocacy for replicating indigenous societies parental habits, but perhaps a key is hyper-focused for 2-3 years and then a steeper dropoff on the hand-holding (literally and figuratively).
You're correct, but if a company invest money in this project, just like all big open-source projects, it can work.
How about Winegar? Has “wine” in the name, and vinegar is essentially what wine ends up becoming after some time anyway.
Will the "Mad Scientists Theory of Governance" be cited by someone important?
I didn’t explicitly call for violence and in what world are those people “ordinary citizens”?
I wouldn't call armed robbers ordinary citizens. Self defense ok.
I don't think C++ and Rust has that big of a performance difference. They are probably neck to neck with no clear winner.
> We had a system; it was working pretty well. In fact, it successfully kickstarted the industrial revolution

You mean like when both parents worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week and 3-4 years old roamed streets in little gangs? Older siblings and other relatives worked those 12 plus hours a day too.

That was industrial revolution and actual situation. In Germany, it led to kindergartens - you know so that 4 years olds have a place to go to.
The author continues,

> Some scholars observe that Fig. 5.2 looks like a regression effect, and then claim that this constitutes a complete explanation for the Dunning–Kruger phenomenon. What these critics miss, however, is that just dismissing the Dunning–Kruger effect as a regression effect is not so much explaining the phenomenon as it is merely relabeling it. What one has to do is to go further to elucidate why perception and reality of performance are associated so imperfectly. Why is the relation so regressive? What drives such a disconnect for top and bottom performers between what they think they have achieved and what they actually have? [...] As can be seen in the figure, correcting for measurement unreliability has only a negligible impact on the degree to which bottom performers overestimate their per-formance (see also Kruger & Dunning, 2002). The phenomenon remains largely intact.

The DK effect says roughly, "low performers tend to overestimate their abilities." Yet when researchers analyzed the data, they found that high and low performers overestimate and underestimate with the same frequency. [0] It's just that high performers are more accurate than low performers (note how this statement differs from the DK effect). Since you can completely explain the "X graph" by the random noise combined with the ceiling effect, and since beginners' self evaluations are noisier than experts', you don't even need regression to the mean to explain why you get the "X graph."

0. Nuhfer, Edward, Steven Fleisher, Christopher Cogan, Karl Wirth, and Eric Gaze. "How Random Noise and a Graphical Convention Subverted Behavioral Scientists' Explanations of Self-Assessment Data: Numeracy Underlies Better Alternatives." Numeracy 10, Iss. 1 (2017): Article 4. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/ 1936-4660.10.1.4
A more generalizable explanation is regression towards the mean: everybody thinks they are an average person.
I like that Andrew brought up the idea of containment. I've lived in the major cities he described and it's the same pattern. It's invisible to the well off neighborhoods. The poor neighborhoods have to live with it. The fact that it's always been there - just hidden.

Re: tech - it def disrupted the fabric of the city. As quickly as it came (gentrification, raising rents) and as quickly as it left (residents losing adjacent jobs), it's been bad for the people who had to live through it without high paying tech jobs.

I liked that Andrew touched on the opioid epidemic and how it's spiraled. Heavy policing historically disenfranchised poor minorities so that's not the way to go. Progressive policies were tried and the people pushed back.

I wish there was a single solution. It feels like we fell off a cliff and the only way up is to crawl back up.
> 4. using `openssl enc` in the first place.

> OpenSSL has always cautioned against using the `enc` command for anything serious, so I feel obligated to mention it.

Can you talk more about this? I can't find anything in the OpenSSL wiki and my searching skills haven't revealed much except about the possibility of the ciphertext being modified when using AES-256-CBC.
Deepness has the same "split brain". Half the story is set in the future, but the other chapters are told as a picaresque fantasy in what appears to be a kind of fictional alternative reality circa World War I, that is eventually revealed to be a "humanized" version of the alien civilization's history (similar to how the aliens are described in The Three-Body Problem).

I didn't love A Fire Upon the Deep because, while the sci-fi parts were amazing, the medieval fantasy telepathic dog society was much less interesting, basically a political fable with some children thrown in; it seemed like a different novel altogether, and in fact the plots don't really ever intersect except when the adults finally land. It felt like two very different books cobbled together from two different authors. The dog half reminded me of Terry Pratchett for some reason, another author whose schtick involves making the story go faster and increasingly more breathless towards the end, like some Hollywood action movie, often involving a bunch of running or flying.

I liked Deepness even less, because once again you have fantasy politics, and while I understood the conceit, the storytelling just didn't work for me. Like before, the science-fiction stuff was fantastic and full of great ideas, but the other half was the exact opposite.
> author thinks some minor medieval squabbles are equally important as the galactic space part, giving it same page count.

Since the showdown with the blight is in the medieval dogs’ turf, the effects of that minor squabble could determine the fate of the galaxy!
I don’t think remote work is the bottleneck to people living like this. It’s fun when you’re young but most people outgrow the situation relatively quickly as they age (barring budget-driven forced decisions).

I also see a growing detachment from reality in some of the remote work maximalists who forget that not everyone has a job sitting at a computer all day. A significant number of younger people have jobs involved in-person work where remote isn’t even possible. This seems to be forgotten about in some of the writings about how remote work might change society, especially on HN where many commenters have only known jobs sitting in isolation at a computer.
1. It's amazing that they're doing this as a gradual C++ to Rust rewrite, while keeping it working end-to-end, if I understand correctly.

2. It's amazing how quickly this is going.

3. If you haven't tried fish yet, make sure to do so! It's a really ergonomic shell and overall very pleasant to use, with good defaults (you don't have to customize it, even though you can, for a great experience). I've switched from bash a couple years ago and haven't looked back since.

Bonus: you won't have to google how to write a for loop in bash ever again (which I, writing them rarely, and them being unintuitive enough, had to do every single time)!
Either way the PR (https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/12949/files) should have been accepted. Clearly the [^a-zA-z0-9_] regex will not do what it appears to be intended to do without the delimiters.
The Dynamics of Network Effects