skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the linked article:

"Formally, the law only “maintained” slavery where it had not been abolished, i.e., in law, in the colonies occupied by the British from 1794 to 1802 (Martinique essentially) and, in fact, in those situated east of the Cape of Good Hope.

But in the instructions he gave to the captains general who were to administer the “reconquered” colonies, Bonaparte asked them to re-establish slavery everywhere, when they deemed it appropriate. This is what they would do in Saint-Domingue, Guyana and Guadeloupe."

And mind you, this is from napoleon.org, a pretty pro-Napoleon source.
Only applies to docker.

LXC for example designed container like a VM
Effective Obfuscation
The Flies (1997)
WinGet isn't really a package manager.

Package manager role is, well, managing packages.

WinGet is just a repo with installers of the programs listed, but dependency managing and installation it self is handled by the installers, not winget.
(Don't know if the ms-store package format isn't exception to that, but still)
> with their jobs potentially on the line

That would be a bit much and not accomplish improvements.
Oh, I definitely need to read those books, cheers!
I was pleasantly surprised with the passport renewal process. They said it could take months to get a new passport. Got it within two weeks without doing the rush delivery.
In trying to confirm Bountysource is toast, which according to TFA should be at least one-month-old news, I found this GitHub issue [1] from May claiming it was insolvent and not paying out bounties. The Internet seems really quiet on this otherwise. I guess they are hardly used by any project?

[1] https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1586
Not too long ago, archive.org put out a dos games library. This was the first game I looked for. I just looked again and they've got a nice interface for the library now! And, much to my delight, I just found an old fave

https://archive.org/details/msdos_International_Bridge_Contr...

It ain't much, but we only had the games my dad brought home from work back in those days. But I've been looking for this darn game for decades and couldn't remember the name. Guess it's high time to donate to the archive.
We need to get an AI to run this experiment at a large scale for a long time.

Although at that point, do we even need the people?
Can't you blame every single president since then for the same thing? Why single out Reagan?

Keep in mind the Democrats controlled Congress during much of Reagans tenure. The President can't create laws, only support them.

Clinton ('93 to '95), Obama ('9 to '11) all had periods where the Democrats held every single office - the House, Senate and Presidency and could have passed whatever they wanted along party lines. Yet they didn't.
I keep seeing these kind of comments and wonder why that might be. I personally run Firefox on 2 different laptops running Windows 11, one of the laptops is dual boot and I also run Firefox on Linux (Fedora). In my previous company I also used Firefox on MacOS.

I've had exactly zero performance issues. I watch YouTube, Netflix, AppleTV+, HBO. I access many SPAS. I use Google Meet for conference calls at work. I use websites that have a custom video player to watch their stuff.

CPU and memory usage are always low. No freezing. Nada.

I'm not questioning you or anything, I'm genuinely curious why some people seem to have these issues.
This an anecdotal.

I tried LM Studio the other day, which is a cool project, by the way.

Downloaded a dozen different LLM based on the recommendations and reviews and size and loss of accuracy, etc. None of them were able to help with a project I’m currently working on. They were all so grossly wrong or plain weird responses. I have the source data for the project I’m working on, so I know what’s correct and what isn’t.

GPT-4 is accurate and very helpful with the project. It’s light years ahead on everything I’ve used it for.
Sorry for the slow reply — I was ill. I appreciate your thoughts, and they largely capture how I feel about the medium too, though I'd argue that television is definitely the bigger thought-polluting opiate of the masses.

It's funny that you say "transmitting vibes" almost as though that's a bad thing. At least, I think the vibes are necessary, but not sufficient. I also, personally, think that "entertainment" gets short shrift, though nailing down why would take us on a tour through the sort of define art and the point of a game is to be fun, right? morass of culture literacy / criticism, and HN is definitely not the venue for that.

In any event, thank you for the blog post. It made for some spirited opening banter on our latest bonus episode. And hopefully you'll make it out to the next meetup. I don't live anywhere near London sadly, but I've seen the videos and some of the demos people show are delightful. I need scissors, 61.
Also -- HIDE THE VIEW OF YOUR OWN FACE! This is a significant factor in "zoom fatigue" experienced by many. Looking at yourself in the mirror during high-stakes professional interactions is a footgun.
You confused PHYSICS definition with ASTRONOMY definition, they are different.

For ASTRONOMY, dark matter is just what they could not see, but have gravitation features. And as I said, for astronomy, ~50% of dark matter is nothing special, but for example, only extreme models could suggest tens of thousands Black holes (to fill 50% of emptiness), because of this, they conclude, that exists something other matter which we don't know.

For PHYSICS, technical meaning of dark matter is special type of matter.
I assume you mean BroadcastChannel?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastCh...
We did that for years and got more breaches and vulnerabilities…
What term is appropriate to describe what the author is referring to?
It's quite simple actually, when you are using a currency, you are not actually using "your own money/dollars", but you're actually using an amount of value that is abstract, but the value of that abstraction is actually shared by all the currency holders concurrently.

The value that your currency holds while you own it is based on the current market rate and is inherently tied to everyone of the currency owners. (It is true that yes, other commodities also work via market forces, but they're inherently different as they aren't abstractions and have inherent value to them.)

To not get into the weeds, your rights end when your actions start to affect other people, so limitations on how currency can be used are put in place.
Using a shared currency is a type of social contract that you bind yourself when using it. Society has over the years observed how shared currencies work and set limits on the freedom of use to limit abuse.

And to drive the point home, governments have seen that cryptocurrencies are used for abuse, so they're making steps that limit your rights to exchange their currency directly to crypto to inherently decouple their currencies value from their currency.

To get around this, you'll have to convince your employer to pay you in commodities and you to sell your physical items via cryptocurrency. Like how traditional currencies were originally designed to do. The market for exchanging physical goods or other services set the rate for a currency.
But unfortunately the inherent unregulated nature of crypto made it ripe for abuse, also the unregulated and rampant speculation of the value made it infeasible to use as a traditional currency.

TL;DR: Currency is a type of social contract, your rights end when your actions start to affect other people negatively.
I feel like I've explored thoroughly, and I don't have any more white "To Visit" dots on the map, but the menu still says "14/17" next to explore, and I haven't found the third bestiary entry. Does anyone know what (if anything) I might be missing? Or is it incomplete?
Rock climbers like to connect with nature – but are they also destroying it?
People do it, but why you would when zsh is right there, is beyond me.

Possibly the same type of people that target bash specifically in shell scripts I guess.
Seems like something you can do with Istio External Services.
I'm a little unconvinced to be honest. As one of the other comments here states, syntax highlighting can also be explained as removing the need for parsing syntax as heavily, freeing up mental resources to focus on semantics. Now, whether or not it actually has that effect, I don't know, but it seems like a reasonable belief, and also seems more like it would be the intention behind syntax highlighting in the first place. Though again, I don't know.

Furthermore, I'm bot sure that I even agree with the premise that syntax problems are less of an issue than semantic. The number of problems I run into that turn out to be syntax errors feels greater. Particularly thorny ones. Although that also speaks to syntax highlighting's shortcomings.

Nevertheless I enjoyed the article because it's good to rethink our assumptions.
Tiny Tapeout's take many months - I expect it before the end of the year
It's a pain in the butt. Recalibration means physically trimming the crystal. Which side you trim depends on whether it's too fast or too slow. It's really fiddly though (especially too slow, which requires grinding the ends down instead of the face). Even in the 20s they would have been producing these dozens at a time with a big lapping wheel, so they could just pick a better crystal from the same batch.
Exactly this. There was a time I tried diversifying from mostly FDN (tech only) to include VTI (S&P) to still trend growth. And eventually realizing these indexes are mostly the same, switched the lower-growth side to include VT. But I find even that, while not as much, is still dominated by the same companies. I would say these two are the vanguard of passive investing (pun intended) but are not working as they used to at diversifying. It might not matter though given these big companies seem too big to fail at this point and some growth is still desired, cash doesn't seem far worse than equal weight indexes at least for now.

I suspect everyone is saying the same thing, S&P isn't broken, it's not as diverse as it may have been, but that doesn't mean it's something to avoid when doing passive investing, knowing it's not quite diverse would be a plus though.
His points about networking and the file system are spot on. It still blows my mind that the default user in a container is root and that dealing with the UID issue is such a pain. The only solutions I have seen can only be described as hacks.
Yes even the so called uncensored ones give very wokewashed answers.
Napoleon: A Life
by Andrew Roberts
now the rocks are more rational rocks
Napoleon wanted to do a naval blockade against England. It was possible to do it through the countries he now controlled, but Russia made it impractical to implement such a blockade since they were too big to be influenced in other ways.

Russia was not sitting still, While Napoleon was busy fighting in Spain, Russia with the Tsar Alexander was attacking Sweden and Turkey - they were just as expansionist as ever. There were rumors that Russia was going to march on Warsaw next, too. Russia was also preparing for a larger army to go further into Europe. Both countries were preparing for a clash, and it does not really matter who stroke first.

The same thing happened between Hitler and Stalin in 1941: they distrusted each other's and both eventually had plans to turn against each other.
Interestingly, a CVE has been assigned for this issue: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49298
I'll be the first to admit the city cleaned up a lot between my first vist there in the late 1970s and more recently a year or two ago ... that said, for whatever reason, a lot of non American first time visitors seem to still carry that '70s image of NYC as a crime hub.

Might be all those 'classic' NYC films exporting a vibe.

I still haven't seen an NYC rat chase a cat while carrying a pizza though, admittedly I'm an infrequent and short term visitor.
You can imagine Kasdan sitting there with an increasingly-horrified look on his face, wondering what he's gotten himself into.

There's a lot of cringing and disillusionment in that conversation in general. It's not hard to see where "nuking the fridge" and other just plain stupid crap came from.

Then there's the recurring incestuous theme "Let's make this look like (some ride) at Disney World." Meanwhile it's safe to say people at Disney were sitting around saying, "Let's make this look like (some Spielberg or Lucas movie)."
Not a UX designer, but I would try worsening the UX of B/I/U/size operations to make users more inclined to reach for the formatting style picker instead. I would also heavily optimize the process to edit styles, so changing the font size of a heading changes all headings of that level unless you specify otherwise.

(In fact, as I talk through this, I think the solution may just be to abandon the idea that attributes like bold and size are applied directly to text, and instead associate them exclusively with styles. Basically the migration from <b> to <strong> at the dawn of CSS, in WYSIWYG form.)

Ultimately you'd end up with a word processor that's harder to use but easier to use right. And no sales team will greenlight that.

But this entire discussion is predicated on a very prescriptivist viewpoint of the "right" way to use a word processor.
There are plenty of rubber-tired metros in Japan. The Yurikamome to Daiba in Tokyo, for example.
I was halfway expecting /bin/[ -> /bin/test, but that did pass the smell test since the ] is required, so it couldn't just be symlink
I'd like to be part of the meeting that decided cookie jar was an appropriate name.
Arguably Firefox has never been a bad browser, at least technically speaking for sure. But instead of staying the leader, they started to trail Chrome unfortunately.

And of course, on Android, they messed it up big time when they switched to Quantum, and stopped supporting most extensions for years. (That was when I switched to Samsung browser, and realized that it is pretty much the best one on Android - after Firefox 68, which got pretty old after a while).

Of course I'm still a Firefox user on Desktop (and I also support them with code actually in the embedded space), but I consider them a wasted OSS opportunity.
Huh, I wasn't trying to argue one license is better than the other. I was just trying to clarify what the licenses require. I didn't want someone to see your comment and think that it would be ok to use someone else's MIT-licensed code in a product without giving credit.
Not my downvotes but this is factually incorrect.

A LLM will give you the highest likely suggestion. If that happens to be a DROP, it will not stop.

Now that is of course going to be extremely unlikely in your example. What is more likely though is that your SELECT may include a sql injection vulnerability, even more so once your prompts get more complex. The chance of that happening or not, is completely random from a users point of view. Are we going to blame the user for not providing the requirement “without vulnerabilities”? Even if they did, it’s not sure to be fulfilled.

In this parent case, the scenario was inverted. Given a sql query, will gpt explain if it has vulnerabilities or not? Will it even explain the gist of it correct? Who knows if it will hallucinate or not?

As will answers from stackoverflow, always read the comments, always review yourself.

Use gpt all you want. I do it it myself, it’s great for suggestions. Just think that using gpt to explain things you don’t understand and can’t verify easily, can be risky. Even more so in bash where the difference making a destructive command can be a lot more subtle than select vs drop.
Browser Ball maybe? https://experiments.withgoogle.com/browser-ball
Dockerfiles are really really simple. they do essentially three things: set a base image, set environment variables, and run scripts. and then as sort of a meta-thing, they prove that the steps in the dockerfile actually work, when you start the docker container and see that it works.

if you don't want to run in docker, a dockerfile is still a perfect setup script. open it up and see what it does, and use that as install instructions.
You’re just spouting theoretical numbers here, not actual real-world numbers.

First, ChaCha20 can easily be around 1-3 cpb, which translates into around 4-12 c/u32 (source: AVX2 perf of Go ChaCha20 package: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/aead/chacha20#section-readme). So that’s already a lot better than your theoretical claim of 60 c/u32.

Second, a multiply-add PRNG is going to have abysmally poor statistical properties. Those are the kinds of statistical failures that show up real quick if you generate a billion numbers. If you care that little about random quality in your application, why not just increment a counter and be done with it?

A more realistic assessment is that it will cost you around 0.3 cpb for a decent quality generator that passes statistical tests. Yes, you want that, at the very least: you don’t want spurious correlations screwing up your billions of Monte Carlo iterations. There’s a plausible claim that you can get down to ~0.1 cpb with AVX (cf https://espadrine.github.io/blog/posts/shishua-the-fastest-p...). In any case, the best case here is that a CSPRNG is ~5-20x as slow as a decent-quality PRNG.

Sure, a crappy RNG is 10x faster than this, but the tradeoff is that sometimes your “randomized” algorithms produce nonsense, and the last thing that you want to debug is stochastic failures in your stochastic algorithms.

ChaCha20 implementations don’t usually need to have special handling for side-channel security because they don’t perform data-dependent lookups or branches. Indeed, as the article points out, a lot of these decent PRNGs kinda look like ChaCha-style ARX ciphers with a lot fewer rounds.
People who have problems to walk tend to avoid taking public transports that long walkways, long connections, stairs (and elevators or escalators not working, which is a frequent problem in Paris), lots of people who are in a hurry to get somewhere else. It makes for a stressful and pitiful experience. They are much better served by having their own car to remove all the pain.

Sure, public transport is all fine when you are a teenager or a young adult, but thinking it's a good solution for people of all ages and medical conditions is just believing in a lie.

> but solving it by sitting in a two ton bubble is kind of the wrong way to go about it, no?

There is safety with known risks, which is taking a car and driving somewhere, and then completely unknown and random risks when taking public transports in Paris. I prefer known risks any day.
Correct. The SR-71 uses JP-7 fuel, and is the only aircraft in the fleet known to do so. So, the USAF has to have custom KC-135Q tankers just for SR-71s. They can't be used for any other fuel.

The thing that made it obvious to me that there was a replacement for the SR-71 was that when they retired the aircraft, they didn't retire any of the tankers. That meant there was now some other unknown aircraft flying that also used JP-7, and it must therefore be the replacement for the SR-71.

Note that JP-7 is so hard to light on fire that if you throw a match into a bucket filled with JP-7, the match will get snuffed out. You've got to be a lot hotter than a match to light that stuff.
You're saying you'd be willing to pay 20% more for a Mach E straight from Ford than from a dealer?
Another fun offshoot combining New Wave and Cyberpunk is Transrealism. Rudy Rucker has a way with illustrating immense mathematical ideas while keeping the zany hippie dreams alive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrealism_(literature)
After running this through Google Translate, looks like it.

https://www.theblockchain-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
A company that markets themselves as a blockchain group scamming & ghosting users? Absolutely shocking. Still... all sarcasm aside, it's very sad and unfortunate for the great people out there doing good work that they've screwed over.
Yes, like I did first with homebrew and now with nix.
what about AWX then? it moved from shipping as a simple docker compose to a kubernetes operator! I'd much rather it didn't.
I've yet to go to the Udvar-Hazy museum, but it is on my bucket list. What I've seen of it online is absolutely amazing.
The solution you want is to target posix compatibility; you can choose how strict you want to be with that (ie essentially every posix compatible shell also supports the `local` keyword).
I thought they were estimating their performance on the test relative to others. There was no “real world” element.
What those kids probably did that you few admins couldn't while using "your" FTP and other antiquated tools, was to reduce the friction for anyone who wanted to maintain a server.

Embrace new technology or be left behind. I can't think of anything in the past decade that has made more strides in software distribution than docker has.
It's always been surprising to me how little people seem to care about the provenance of their images. It's even more surprising that infosec isn't forcing developing to start their images `FROM scratch`.
That is unfair to Microsoft, which has been an almost impossibly nimble megacorp under Nadella. Afraid that the US is in far worse shape.
Somewhat related:
https://github.com/tldraw/make-real

Was posted some time ago on HN, it was a twitter link, can't find it anymore.
Refer to the preceding comment. I gave an example.
https://raytracing.github.io/
Is this what envoy (by Ambassador Labs?) is named after?

https://www.getambassador.io/learn/envoy-proxy
What, if a human reads the content that is marked as noml, and then types the main ideas into a document that is used for ml?

I don't think that this proposal is a particularly good idea, I think restricting data like this is very ineffective (honor-system? sure... that always works) and useless.

A bigger problem is senseless crawling by each projects individually, eating up the resources of the website. If crawling happened in a considerate way, no one would even notice that anything is happening - and let's face it, LLMs are happening, at they are here to stay for a while. It might fail in the near future, but not this year. And not next year most likely.
It’s not just security flaws you should worry about, because the arguments against CSPRNGs often involve situations with no security implications (e.g. rendering in games).

It is absolutely the case that a crappy RNG can compromise a renderer by creating visible patterns where none should exist. You can get really visible artifacting with e.g. an LCG-driven raytracer. Granted, the artifacts should go away with a higher-quality RNG, but the fact remains that if you choose a CSPRNG in the first place then there will be essentially no chance of such artifacts in the first place (barring errors in the implementation).
This post is a data point about the definition of “healthy diet”.
PS: To elaborate, I took this train once and 2 men got on and started a big fight. I was thinking of getting off but the surrounding area looked like a bad one.

I've never taken it since. If there was a nonstop airport express it would be lot safer (and faster)
If Bountysource is truly insolvent, then there might not be any money to collect.
There must be reasons to use the standalone programs instead of the shell builtins. But the test builtin will be the same in, e.g., NetBSD sh as it is in Linux or Android dash. That is what I use 100% of the time. It is much faster to use builtins.
Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicating cancer stem cells
Interesting. I feel like if you decide to share your OS session (and therefore your browser data which goes well beyond that cart: things like the passwords it offered to save!) all hope is already lost when it comes to isolation between users.
Also, an important sidenote, that is unintuitive and very hard to internalize:
When quantifiably making profit via speculation, someone else is strictly losing value. This can be a major contributor for inflation.