skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone has to say it… if I get a phone call and it’s an Indian, it’s 100% a scam and I hang up. Good rule to live by these days.
Well played!

And, as someone who considers open source/free software movements politically infantile, kudos for advocating bans on restrictive code-signing practices. Profit is the problem, not the solution.
Just a reminder that HP also abandoned its “Don’t be Evil” policy (they called it “The HP Way”) though Google ditched theirs much more quickly.
I trust that Amazon own products will function, because they don't want the returns. I don't expect them to have any frills, or look nice, but if I just want the job done then they're reliable.
There are multiple translation layers in between the game and the GPU. I don’t think this is a fair comparison.
Cash also incentivizes violent crime. Muggings have trended down since people have predominantly stopped carrying cash. It's a win for businesses as well, because payroll for managing tills and the cost of armored couriers is expensive. Cash is a liability.

Also, having credit is far preferable to worrying about day to day liquidity. It's not like you can cash stocks out or shift money from savings accounts in minutes if you have an unexpected expense.
Cocotron used to have pretty good AppKit API coverage:

https://www.cocotron.org

I was able to get a ported app running with it at one point. And I think Microsoft took a pass at it more recently: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC

But it appears Darling uses Cocotron so maybe you've already seen how well it works for you.
Because it works for us. We don't have any weird problems from having set things up in weird ways, and so we use it.
It would certainly be convenient for me if it is a proton, given the experiments I work on (protons at the highest energies -> more ultrahigh energy neutrinos -> maybe my experiments will see something!), but, unfortunately for me, I don't think we know that. Nuclear species composition can typically only be done statistically, and it looks like this wasn't even measured in the fluorescence detector, which would give the best measurement of the penetration depth of the particle in the atmosphere (the best handle on particle id). In,the journal article, which admittedly I've just skimmed, they give direction reconstructions giving different species assumptions (and Milky Way models, which are important for heavier nuclei) and say that while they can exclude a photon (which... would be weird!), without data from the fluorescence detector, they can't tell the difference between a proton and a heavier nucleus.

Though given how TA mass-composition measurements turn light at the highest energies, they may perhaps privately argue it's likely a proton. But, alas, Pierre Auger Observatory would argue otherwise. I'll ask Toshihiro what he thinks next time I see him...

It is intriguing that the smaller TA has seen more high-energy events than the bigger PAO. Maybe there really are big differences between the northern and southern hemisphere at play here...
I suspect there is a bug in the selector. I need to investigate. Thanks for the report!
Well if you come with an assumption we are like the other animals you are going to make an ass of someone.
You can totally reference a trademark without infringing on it, see Nominative Use / Nominative Fair Use[1]. Whether or not a usage falls under Nominative Use is ultimately up to a court to decide. Of course a company can send C&D letters whenever they like, that doesn't mean it's going to hold up in court.

With all that said I have never heard about Mojang or Microsoft sending C&D letters over someone giving their project a name vaguely referencing Minecraft. Do you actually have any examples, because when I google Mojang and C&D I only get examples of Mojang receiving C&D letters, not sending them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use
Yes, just like with the 401k. Get pretty much every working individual in America heavily invested in stock assets by default. During even a reasonable market it’s a win win win for everyone involved. Companies make more money, people get high returns on their money, employment is higher and the government doesn’t have to guarantee anyone’s pension. The downside is an extended bear market can collapse the entire system.
I had a similar "delivery failure" experience in bangalore anomaly a decade ago and that too from courier company FedEx which kinda guarantees delivery times. When I talked to the guy the next day, he apologized and said there were too many packages and that's the only way they see to push things to next day without getting docked for it. Shitty but that seemed to be the common practice - not that I ran into it again just going by how it was explained to me.

And then I have had it happen a couple of times here in US I think mostly during early Covid days probably when the prime delivery was new and still building its edge conditions around deliveries (taking pictures, emails split second after delivery).
The only remotely controversial option was whether they should “explore other alternatives” or not.
I'm not sure about Germany. In the US, probably. It's not usually laws as much as stores having very generous return policies. To be fair, this was in the UK, so customs and laws are different.
They probably only allow it for business customers. In which case there's a shipper account associated with the tracking number and they have online access to view/manage all outgoing parcels/deliveries.

This used to be called Quantum View; a quick google suggests it still is.
Because it is so often capitalized, lowercasing it looks like a mistake, it looks exactly like an acronym, Elo was not nearly as famous for anything else, 'ELO' exists as a real acronym for many other things (eg. Electric Light Orchestra), and you can even easily define pseudo-definitions for it as a backronym - 'expected logistic odds', just off the top of my head.

I host a copy of his book and I still struggle every time to not type 'ELO' instead.
Per [0], the book was published by Tor in 2001.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Verno...
From your lips to God's ears with iMessage.
I mean “home to the most advanced companies”
True, true. I don't worry about it for explicitly simple indexes because too many quotes are ugly. But in general it's completely right.
> The technical sophistication of PipeWire is almost purely made possible by Linux improving

I'm not sure about that. I guess improvements in ALSA have contributed. But PipeWire was created by none other than the guy who rearchitected GStreamer's foundations after GStreamer had been brittle and prone to crashing for years. I don't think that there was a better person in the Linux ecosystem to do it. It's the second system effect without featuritis, like when some of the Unix people created Plan 9.

Personally, I was not happy with PulseAudio, and I'm very happy with PipeWire. Great, great stuff.

I say that as both a user and somebody who created a prototype for a sound system for an embedded platform on top of PulseAudio that was, AFAICT, abandoned because it just couldn't deliver some things. PipeWire was on the radar at the time but too much in its infancy to use back then. That stopped being the case years ago.
To protect science, we must use LLMs as zero-shot translators
I don't understand how people think so little of Musk to mention Eberhard and Tarpenning as essential to Tesla, when practically all of the difficulties in novel car manufacturing involve the factories that actually build these cars. Tesla started work inside their first factory in Fremont in late 2010, years after Eberhard and Tarpenning were gone. There's 20 different EV companies that have flashy designs on paper. Almost none of them are manufacturing for profit.
That’s in Australian dollars. In terms of USD it’s “just” $11 billion…
The Zionist youth organizations [1] worked and work in a similar way where teenagers take care of children and a cycle is built. This is implemented also in Kibbutzim [2] and the diaspora as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_youth_movement?wprov=s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz?wprov=sfti1
Interesting. We had the exact opposite reaction. We switched from Java to Elixir at my current company and we'll never go back. It has been a two-year migration, but worth every second. We're twice as productive in Elixir, it's easier to test and deploy, and we don't have to paint IntelliJ lipstick on the language to hide all the shitty parts.
> I would bet good money that if GPT-3.5 could have magically interacted with those 1966 participants, it would have fooled most of them, as it would have been inconceivable for a computer to exhibit such capabilities then.

You cannot just "fool" someone in the Turing test, the interrogator knows one of the two partners is a computer. To pass you need to perform better than your human companion.

Whether the interrogator knows of the existence of advanced auto-complete systems is not very important in this setup. He knows of existence of fellow humans and needs to identify one when he meets him.
Does LinkedIn cause imposter syndrome? An empirical examination of well-being
I used to live nearish this nightmare. It’s truly awful planning and design. It’s got everything:

- lanes that surprisingly lo you into turning off

- lanes where you start in the left, and then find yourself on the right, and unable to take the turn you want (you have to lane-dive across another 2 lanes of traffic).

- confusing split-and-rejoin mechanics that happen for now reason other than apparently “the designer wanted to fit every kind of junction and road shape into their project”

- it’s so poorly designed, if you’re in Balmain (the peninsula side) and you want to get to Glebe/Forest-Lodge/Annandale; you have to spend 5 minutes (per light) in 3 sets of lights, to join all of the main traffic for a grand total of 200m, and lane dive, just to turn off again. For anyone not familiar with Sydney traffic, the “cross traffic” that goes city <—-> west is hideous. If you’re in Balmain, and you want to go the ~1km to Glebe you’re in for pain and wasted time.

Spaghetti junction is an understatement, whoever worked on this, and had any role in it other than saying “this is awful” should be barred from working on infrastructure ever again and be made to sit in the corner and think about what they’ve done.
They can recall if the seller requests a recall for any reason. Not the customer. Typical use cases include wrong product sent, wrong packaging, missed an item etc. It's a rare scenario but it has happened to people I know.

From a customer's perspective, they cannot recall. Likely, if you order via Amazon with Amazon delivery, the contract they have with the seller for Amazon delivery mandates them to deliver it to the user. Every seller is charged for returns/replacements as well and so it would be kind of confusing and arbitrary if they just returned the product on the way to delivery.
That’s not even close to staging. That’s more like a local dev environment on a dev’s pc with quickly generated mock data.
Hah, in one of the replies someone mentions a session hijacking issue https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/12939 but the guy's response was:

> what a great hacker! this man should be put on a pedestal for as the worlds greatest hacker for using inspect element and copy and pasting his user_token var from the browser. now if he can only get it to work on a 3rd party who's cookie and user_token he wont know! lets not forget SSL.

> fucking dickhead banned!

Wow mate, that issue mentions social engineering (Facebook has a big fat warning about SelfXSS if you open the browser's developer console), and you choose to ignore this part? Also, relying on other tech like SSL to hopefully keep the hole in your code from losing your users' money? Haaah.

It's GPL, anyone wanna fork it and call it DickheadCart?
I never was a huge Reddit user before, but I have noticed an increase in lower-quality reddit-style comments here on HN in the last year or so. Thankfully they usually get downvoted or are already dead. I might have to turn off showdead though.
> there is nothing for us up there

No one put you in charge of speaking for "us".

Me, I enjoy having worldwide communications, accurate weather forecasts, crop information, and all manner of other remote sensing.
Strongly disagree, it was very impactful to me. A few communities I really liked and used for support up and left to other platforms, leading to other issues. I tried to follow some of them but it didn't work. My take away of the blackout is "reddit broke, lots of the good people left, life is more lonely as a result".
Sydney CBD is notorious for it's terrible roads.

Unlike Melbourne which has a perfectly rectangle CBD.

Yes, it's a rivalry.
If the counterfeit is cheaper it should win the buy box AFAIK.
I have never experienced difficulties adding high (HPC level) performance libraries into my code. Can you elaborate?
Channel specific SKUs is common already, but would it be legal to use the same trick for same-channel seasonal sales? I'm not aware of it being done, but maybe it is and I just haven't noticed.

For example, sell product all year round as item sku-0001 for $100, while also listing an identical product as item sku-0001b which costs $150 but is not promoted at all. Then the day before black friday, stop selling item sku-0001, and promote item sku-0001b for $105 with a flashing "30% off!!" sign?

If you're a third party trying this on Amazon then it has downsides such as lack of reviews, poor ranking etc. on sku-0001b that most of the year nobody is buying. But if you're a retailer with your own online shop, then you just say that the reviews are for this family of products and display the sku-0001 reviews on the sku-0001b page while promoting sku-0001b heavily during the black friday campaign...

And then the day after the sale ends, item sku-0001 magically reappears for its usual price of $100 ($5 cheaper than sku-0001b's sale price, but no flashing banner to promote the fact) and sku-0001b spends the next months to a year not being bought or promoted again.
If Santa handed you a hundred billion dollars or so to study this stuff, what would be your dream detector?
Doesn't it increase inequality if the children of highly paid tech employees also get double the amount in their investment account compared to those born from poor parents?

That feels like it's not aligned with the original idea of giving all children an investment account.
The article mentions reducing attack surface several times (in the context of VMs, sandboxing, etc.) but it never considers the ability to reduce the surface of the entire OS (no VMs, sandboxes, etc.). What are other OS that make shrinking the size of the entire OS even easier. Do they exist.
Ask HN: What gifts are you giving to loved ones this holiday season?
I think the lesson was that business travellers prefer comfort to speed, as business class funds the entirety of transatlantic passenger aviation. There's plenty of business-class-only flights.
Seems like the commercial interest was caused by a lot of people loving it.

Most hate seems to be from enthusiast/tinkerer types who want to hand maintain highly customized systems.

Systemd is great for ople who just want a commodity OS, maintained by pros, and kept stock.
Parsing Pokémon Red and Blue Maps (2020)
> sometimes even at 11pm you receive a SMS saying something on the lines of "not present at address", "attempted delivery failure" and you know that was not the case

LaserShip in the US is notorious for this. Amazon uses it for a lot of same-day/1-day stuff, and I'd say at least 80% of the time I get a fake "not present at address" around 9:30 pm that evening, and it actually gets delivered the next afternoon.

I have to assume LaserShip has some contract that they have to deliver x% of packages on time, and this is how they manage to avoid that entirely. And I'm sure Amazon is 100% aware, but they don't care because if somebody calls customer service to complain, they just blame it on LaserShip.
"We didn't have time for that." (Bjarne Stroustrup, before an invited talk, Cambridge Computer Lab)

(in response to my complaint to him that hastables again hadn't been included in the most recent standard at the time.)
> For the private jet and yacht owners?

How about indigenous people in rural Alaska? Africa? Polynesia? Central Asia?

Look, I realize that Elon Musk has become the designated Emmanuel Goldstein du jour, but let's not be ridiculous.
>That doesn't seem advisable

Has been working ok for hundreds of millions, so there's that.

Almost all drugs are sold in "nice round numbers" anyway.

Given that you can drop orders of magnitude in scale from grams to milligrams (or whatever) to suite the dosage calculation, nobody is going to notice the difference between X with decimal points and Y which is X rounded, as if 247.3mg was going to be optimal and 250 will be bad.

The variability of what the patient actually needs (e.g. an adult male could be 1.55 and 50kg to 2.10 and 150kg but they usually just get the same dosage in the instructions - and for most drugs no doctor would bother to suggest a more fitting value) would be higher than any rounding error anyway, but in practice it hardly matters.
Odd, how?

They're not unfamiliar with biological systems containing meat, they describe beings that are a "meat head with an electron plasma brain inside..."

We have a word for wood, yet we would be astonished by consciousness and civilization coming from plants...
Nothing, some of us already knew nothing would come of it. People are just so dramatic and they don't understand the services they're using.

Most people have no idea what's behind reddit, facebook, youtube. They just see a free shiny thing and start using it. Then one day the free shiny thing has a gross ad on it, and one day it has another one, and before they know it, it's unusable.
USB 3.0 cables are thicker because they have more wires. Pretty much by definition a thinner 3.0 cable is going to be substandard.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/ublock%20origin

"users", which I assume means "devices".
I’m not an rg wizard by any means, but it is one of the few utilities that I end up using daily for one reason or another.
[Random advice from the internet]

Write a book because you want to write a book and let the chips fall where they may.

Wanting-to-write-a-book often reflects the idea of wanting-to-be-the-kind-of-person-who-writes-books more than it reflects an embracing of the work involved.

Or to put it another way, asking-HN is a lot easier than showing-HN a draft for feedback and if you really want to write a book, you need a draft not a comment thread.

Not that there is anything wrong with not writing a book. It's a lot of hard work for little to no reward other than the work itself.

Good luck.
While this story is great advertising for the agency, these images are not subject to copyright, are they? [0]

It would be a shame if a competing agency used them in a disparaging way, with no compensation due to the anti-human advertising agency.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...
That's exactly the kind of detector that observed this event. It's been done. Multiple observatories exist that have effective observation areas of hundreds to thousands of square kilometers. Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina is more than 3000 km²
C++ is my favourite programming language precisely because one of its main designers is so sensible.
Heh, I always love the rugged individualists in this kind of thread pretending they are some kind of island, no asteroid floating free of gravity in space. Where as real life down here on earth represents a huge number of social contracts that we commonly agree to without realizing they even exist.
You can also set max dollar amount on account
How is this better than the api at stat.ripe.net?

https://stat.ripe.net/docs/
Microservices are surprisingly common in game server platforms.

Also, I would argue that latency almost always matters.

Those microseconds add up faster than you think. You have to factor in things like TCP slow start, congestion issues, buffering, the extra CPU spent encoding/decoding, etc…

Not to mention that it rapidly becomes impossible or impractical to do things like process requests in a streaming fashion, so for large requests you can’t overlap the stages of a pipeline. You can easily bloat out a “1 second task” into minutes without ever knowing where you went wrong.

“We’re following best practices!” you say.

“Oh, is that why I’ve been waiting ten seconds for the little spinner while the site is processing a 1 KB transaction using 5 GHz CPUs?”
The "imitation game" that was Turing's model was a parlor game with a man and a woman behind a screen. The interlocutor could ask either of them any question. The winner was whoever convinced the questioner that they were the woman. The game was all about deception and tricky questions and no holds barred.

No, GPT-4 isn't remotely anywhere near being in the same ballpark as passing the Turing test.
> It's just that the lame browser engines aren't set up to remember the line from move to move, so they recompute.

I didn't realise this. Appreciate the correction.
Is there a real time UI that you like, which is able to read data from a real timestream like Kinesis or Kafka? You could use Python to write into the stream and then see the results in the UI.

For wrappers around command line interfaces I use Gradio. That might not work so well for your use case which seems more real time.
Sorry, kid has long grown up and moved out. I guess I’ll get a second wave when grandkids start appearing. But any bookshop kids’ section will have heaps of them. IIRC Gerstenberg Verlag was a good source, but that was a while ago.

Also the Was ist Was series had the best explanations of how real stuff (locomotives, printing press, sexual reproduction, etc) works. If you can’t find the books I’m sure some of the videos are on YouTube.
The article offers no such comparison. It says that MacOS has sandboxing these days. That's good, but it's not a comparison.

The MacOS sandbox is really complex. It's a rule based system specified in XML, and an unknown portion of that complexity is in a kernel module. That's both more attack surface and more room for mistakes than for example Firejail, which the article in turn rules out for being too complex. That's not a comparison.

Traditional Linux software runs with the right amount of privileges. But that's not a fair comparison. Linux is a server OS from the start, which Mac or Windows isn't. Chrome is one example that really takes advantage of all the sandboxing possibilities Linux has. The article notes this as an example of how ChromeOS (which is pretty standard, as Linux distributions go) has much better security (what does that even mean?).

It all boils down to that standard Linux distributions allows the user to download and run unchecked binaries. Well, yes. But that's not more security, that's more like a difference in expectations. A modern desktop should allow for all applications to only access shared data with well defined protocols, but neither Mac nor Windows does that. One that does is Android (which is very much non-standard, as Linux distributions go). Feel free to use that and get your work done. Again, it's a matter of expectations.
It does.

With Go, it would have worked out of the box on all the targets Go can support.
I wonder how far up the HP org chart that decision (to call back a direct sale shipment from the shipper) was made.

Maybe doing so was aligned with that person's OKRs or KPIs, whether or not they considered that this would plausibly lead to complaints on social media (or to a news org consumer columnist?) that'd hurt the brand.
I liked his test structure: write "I don't know" for minimal credit opposed to wasting his time with a false paragraph. Also, a very prepared prof.