skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The US does not require you to be an accredited diplomat to get immunity - members of technical and administrative staff can also get it.

Having had diplomatic "immunity" as a technical staff member, there are nuances.

Technical staff do not enjoy "full" immunity, but only immunity for acts committed as part of their official duties - this is called "functional immunity". That status does not protect "functionaries" against civil liabilities for activities outside specific duties.

In contrast, members of the diplomatic staff who deal directly with host country officials such as ambassadors or registered diplomats (political officer, econ officer etc) enjoy full immunity and that immunity devolves to their dependents.
In Germany housing is both not a good investment nor affordable :)
Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver to Be Introduced in Linux 6.8
The app verification method is better - it helps protect against people being tricked into calling a fake number (through a deceptive text message, email or internet search).
The whole thing is so messed up. Rates are high, so mortgage is expensive, but also prices have not really budged and so you are paying a lot in property tax compared to if you had bought even just a few years ago. Moreover, you are paying so much just to live there you probably don't have much left over to make any improvements... at least until your equity increases and you can take out another loan and start paying monthly for that! It's like it's designed so you are just renting everything from the bank. Houses many decades ago used to cost like as much as a car (or two)! something you could pay off much faster and have money left over to actually do things! That being said, renters have it worse.
I'm not convinced about the port stuff.

Until support is well over 99%, using a custom port will mean your website is simply inaccessible to some visitors. Even worse, a link which works perfectly fine on one computer will simply be completely broken on another, without any kind of warning or explanation. It's like trying to host a website on IPv6-only in 2023: nice idea, just not viable in practice.

Besides, weren't the issues with SNI supposed to be solved with ESNI and Encrypted ClientHello?
I mean, there is plenty of "experience" codified in the raw internet scrape they used. But not enough for LLMs, and not in-domain. So it won't contain the kind of errors LLMs make and corrective feedback.
> And CO2 remains in the atmosphere for 100-200 years after emitted.

My understanding is that methane is lighter than air, and circulates in the atmosphere until it breaks down (~12 years). CO2 is heavier than air, and readily dissolves itself in ocean water. In the pre-industrial era the oceans emitted carbon dioxide, to keep the plants on land alive. My earlier comment had a reference to estimates of how much CO2 is absorbed by the ocean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20002823

Searching now, the officially-sanctioned estimates are that 30-40% of human CO2 emissions are rapidly captured by the ocean. If we instantly stopped all CO2 emissions, I think most of the excess atmospheric CO2 would be captured by the plants and the ocean over just a few years.
You know, I used to think that design was a nuanced grappling of complex tradeoffs, but you convinced me: those you disagree with are just "brain-dead" "idiots". I think there is a relevant quote by Charles Bukowski about confidence, but it escapes me...
I really don't know what other production methods you would expect to find before docker.. install scripts and READMEs is pretty much all there is or ever was for complex software with many interlocking components. I don't really think there's ever been a way to install an entire stack like that from a single apt command. It's always been bespoke scripts and procedures with a lot of manual steps.
Well you definitely have a very abnormal way of coming to it. I've encountered people who came to it for the pure love of technology - but they usually gravitate towards one of the shitcoins because they actually harbor a bit of greed and feel they "missed the boat".

> What's dumb as shit is the idea of basing the future of finance on it.

As I said, I burned through my convert zeal a long time ago... but your situation does have me curious. Do you have any formal experience with the backends making up the global financial system? Because I do, and it blows my mind that anyone trusts it at all. The US has, in recent years, proven itself to be such an awful steward of the global reserve currency that it is at the point now where multiple militarily weak states are openly discussing replacing the petrodollar with something else. A few years ago that would have resulted in a coincidental horrific end for them, but after the naked weaponization of the international financial system against Iran and then Russia... well the end is very near. All that is to say that it is now clear that everyone now knows a fiat currency controlled by a single interest makes a poor global reserve. Combine that with the likely future in which software agents need to directly handle money in order to pay their own bills... and meatspace money won't work, because humans are thieves with access to fraudulent chargebacks. What alternative could there be besides a crypto currency? I'm not saying it will be bitcoin, because there have already been several fedcoin lead balloons floated, but bitcoin has thrived in an incredibly non-permissive environment (economic, technological and political) for a long time now.
That is easily solved by using Debian instead of Ubuntu.
I have a neighbor who's getting them for the bottom of his wings turbine on his farm. Will be interesting to see them.
I recently got a usb-a to usb-c cable from Ikea, I was surprised they sell cables... got them 3 months ago so can't tell how durable they are, but they feel solid and I can charge my equipment using fast charging mode.
Fluorescence detectors are volumetric though only operate during moondown at night, and in the case of both Auger and TA, are paired surface detectors. Auger uses more water tanks with a PMT lined with Tyvek and detect electronic and muonic secondary particle components for the EAS. TA has scintillation detectors with PMTs, which are polyvinyl toluene sheets embedded in a steel casing. In both cases, they have individual triggers, usually around 1 MIP (minimum ionizing particle), which will trigger communication to a tower, which would then poll nearby detectors for events greater than 1/3 MIP.

Or, at least this is how it was setup 15 years ago. Both experiments have added new fluorescence and surface detectors since then.
I didn't mean to say they are a phony, just that that statement is inaccurate/poorly thought out.
Hey! I followed some of the examples in the Streamlit gallery. I agree it looks like some phising page hahaha when I was trying some of the examples I used a openai key that I deleted after I was finished xD
> Right this thing only works if people are aware of it, but the only way for them to be aware of it is to do it every time*

It need to be done every time and it needs to happen frequently enough that people internalize an expectation that anything else is sketchy.

Now, how often does a bank representative call you? For me it's like once a year when their fraud department thinks that one of my monthly bills is sketchy, even though they've been unchanging for years.

Is that enough to build an expectation? I don't think it is, particularly for elderly clients.

Whenever I get a call from somebody claiming to be X organization I assume it's a fraud by default and don't provide them with any personal information. It has worked fine so far, as far as I can tell.
... Whatever you want? Even with a vector DB, embeddings are typically BYO to beginwith - dependencies not in your DB and computed in pipelines well before it. It's handy for small apps to do in DB and have support in DB for some queries, but as things get big, doing all in the DB gets weirder...

Edit: I see you run a vectordb company, so your question makes more sense
Full-Stack Web Dev in OCaml with Dream, Bonsai, and GraphQL
Meta’s already added their own versions with celebs to instagram. The pictures of the people are not AI-generated but all the interactions are with a chat bot.

See https://inspiramarketing.com/metas-ai-powered-celebrities-re...
Ancient 20-inch-long hand ax discovered in Saudi Arabia may be largest
Have you given Nix a try? It's fully solved this problem for me, and it also has Dockerfile generation down great. Nothing else comes even close

What's really nice is using direnv to cd into a directory and having a flake.nix file in it which changes the entire system to what I need to do in that folder. So I don't need any of my dev environment to be system-wide, everything is per project. That alone has cut my system down to pretty much just system tools (replacements for shell commands), productivity tools (Obsidian, bitwarden, etc), and my browser. It's just so nice.
Algorithmic Trading MACD in Python
Python implementation of technical indicators used by traders and investors in financial markets to analyze past market data and identify potential trends or patterns in the price and volume of an asset.
School Boy digging for potatoes found 'masterpiece of Egyptian sculpture'
So then what you meant to say was that _some_ Linux distros are not malicious.
It boggles my mind that any developer of a new language wouldn’t use Python’s significant use of white space.

You’re able to fit more code on a screen, and it’s less visual noise. It’s like Pareto better. I really don’t get why others don’t copy it.
Satellite-Sharing Enables Low-Cost Earth Observation
Do you happen to know what this is called in CanIUse & friends?

It would be neat to see what the actual support is. "All browsers" usually means "Chrome and maybe Firefox if you're lucky", unfortunately.
>sewing machine-like device

Unless my brain has a bobbin in it, it probably doesn't work like a modern sewing machine.
But atoms literally get heavier as you go down the table. If the actual elements were ordered in complexity of compounds, hydrogen would be at the bottom of the table, and periodic table posters would have to come with a special “carbon” sticker to attach to the floor.
That was beautiful and haunting, thank you!
It's a cat-and-mouse game of banks saving money by closing branches (or never having them in the first place) and wanting to make fraud as much as the customer's fault as possible, and implementing new laws to shift some of the burden back to the banks and other organisations and creating toothless regulators for political marketing purposes.
The Egg is one of my life long favorite histories.
kurzgesagt did a video animation of it a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
France hasn’t built a plant in decades [1]. Nevertheless, in each deployment series, the last plants cost less than the first. The story you’re highlighting doesn’t dismiss economies of scale, but instead highlights higher-than-expected maintenance costs in fifty-year-old infrastructure.

(“Operating costs have remained remarkably flat” because those are experiencing scale effects.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/graphics/EUROPE-ENERGY/NUCLEARPOWER/...
But everyone wants to work on geodiversified autoscaling superclusters. It starts with watching a presentation on AWS or Azure on YouTube, or even innocent Medium article.
> Maybe the problem will go away but the fees will likely remain and be joined by others.

It will only get worse as more people switch to electric vehicles. Currently the only real limitation is physical chargers. At some point it will also be the electrical grid, and other issues.
The (US) banks I've experienced will give you an "incident number"[1], you can call the number on e.g. your credit card or bank's website and say you have an incident number and you'll be connected to a rep who can pull up the details.

[1]: or something like that, I forget the exact words
Of course you have to maintain a backwards-compatible gateway proxy. But since most clients will not use it, and since it is obvious that it will be possible to remove it at some time in the future, this is, IMHO, acceptable.

> Besides, weren't the issues with SNI supposed to be solved with ESNI and Encrypted ClientHello?

Has that been implemented and/or standardized yet?
This is not the joke "Foreign agent" list.
This reminds me of the idea of people buying their debt out of collections, and I think it has the same price discovery challenges.

You say 5% is a win win compromise between 3 and 7, but how does any bank know that Jane and Joe wouldnt have paid 7.

Banks don't have a good tool to screen and price discriminate between customers for this to work.
BLAS can be implemented in any language. In terms of LOC, most BLAS might be C libraries, but the best open source BLAS, BLIS, is totally structured around the idea of writing custom, likely assembly, kernels for a platform. So, FLOPs-wise it is probably more accurate to call it an assembly library.

LAPACK and other ancillary stuff could be Fortran or C.

Anyway, every language calls out to functions and runtimes, and compiles (or jits or whatever) down to lower level languages. I think it is just not that productive to attribute performance to particular languages. Numpy calls BLAS and LAPACK code, sure, but the flexibility of Python also provides a lot of value.

How does Numba fit into this hierarchy?
True but the comment discussed that it should remove "heavyweight libraries". Unless you use an API service, those libraries will need to be imported somewhere. It doesn't necessarily have to run on the same server as the database.
Next improvements for the app:

1. Being able to access the comments and ask the bot about them (e.g. give me a summary about the comments, some kind of sentiment analysis, etc.)

2. Being able to summarise the content in the URLs (this is only applicable blog posts, news articles etc, but I think it could be cool for the chatbot to parse the blog post using bs2 and being able to reason and answer questions about it)
> what I'm specifically addressing is "can we do it without the internet bit?",

Monzo could open some branches, where it's somebody else's problem to verify the identity of the staff in the building and you can be quite certain the person behind the desk is in fact an employee

(Edit: I know they're a 'challenger' bank)
Yes yes yes! I’m in the very same boat, and came to an epiphany that the ranking trick here, combined with some subjective questions (ability to appreciate humor - seriously!?), that these things hide almost everything about actual skill. Not only does it amplify mistakes, it also forces the participants to have to know something about their cohort. Having to guess your ranking fully explains the less than perfect correlation. It also undermines all claims about competence and incompetence. They’re not testing skill, they’re only testing ability to randomly guess the skill of others.

What about the slight bias upwards? Well, what exactly was the question they asked? It’s not given in the paper. They were polling only Cornell undergrads looking for extra credit. What if the question somehow accidentally or subtly implied they were asking about the ranking against the general population, and then they turned around and tested the answers against a small Cornell cohort? I just went and looked at the paper again and noticed that the descriptions of the ranking question changed between the various “studies” with the first one comparing to the “average Cornell student” (not their experiment cohort!). The others suggest they’re asking a question about ranking relative to the class in which they’re receiving extra credit. Curiously study 4 refers to the ranking method of study 2 specifically, and not 3. The class used in study 4 was a different subject than 2 & 3. How they asked this question could have an enormous influence on the result, and they didn’t say what they actually asked.

Cornell undergrads are a group of kids that got accepted to an elite school and were raised to believe they’re better than average. Whether or not all people believe they’re better than average, this group was primed for it, and also have at least one piece of actual evidence that they really are better than average. If these were majority freshmen undergrads, they might be especially in calibrated to the skills of their classmates.

In short, the sample population is definitely biased, and the potential for the study to amplify that bias is enormous. The paper uses suggestions and jumps to hyperbolic conclusions throughout. I’m really surprised that evidence and methodology this weak claims to show something about all of humanity and got so much attention.
US dollar dominance is facing a crypto-yuan hostile takeover
Could they have chosen a worse image to depict Screwdriver Bits?

https://periodictableoftools.com/Images/002/002.640.jpg
People seemed to hate the Apple Lightning standard, but I never seemed to have this kind of problem before...
Flatpaks don't necessarily aim to sandbox applications by default. They just give you the platform to DIY in the easiest way possible, esp when coupled with Flatseal. If we really want to criticize Flatpaks for allowing access to /home or x11 for compatibility reasons, then we should do the same to traditional applications which are packaged non-sandboxed with the same permissions anyways. And before you say that this is an issue because of unknown contributors to popular Flatpak applications, verified apps from the project owners themselves ship with these same "express" permissions.

As far as I am concerned, no general purpose OS will ever come hardened to max defaults; which seems to be the standard applied for security here.
They (archive.ph/is) purposefully do that for anyone using CloudFlare DNS and some others because they object to not being sent location information via the forwarding resolver.
The alternative is to pay only $25/yr (fine print: $40/mo thereafter).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem going to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...

Bumping ADC to 16bit will remove some of quantization noise, but still leave you with inherent noise of the transmission medium and power limit (FCC/AT&T).
There has been a couple of decades since I last had to do any development in a newly created server.

Development is best done on well setup workstations.
Reasonable GPUs
What is the status of GPUs for general compute?

Last I looked, NVidia worked well, and AMD was horrible. Right now, it looks like the major limiting factor (if you don't care about a ≈3x difference in performance, which I don't) is RAM. More is better, and good models need >10GB, while LLMs can be up to 350GB.

* Intel Arc A770 has 16GB for <$300. I have no idea about compatibility with Hugging Face, Blender, etc.

* NVidia 4060 has 16GB for <$500. 100% compatible with everything.

* Older NVidia (e.g. Pascal era) can be had with 24GB for <$300 used, without a graphics port. Not clear how CUDA compute capability lines up to what's needed for modern tools, or how well things work without a graphics port.

* Several cards may or may not work together. I'm not sure.

Is there any way to figure this stuff out, and what's reasonable / practical / easy? Something which explains CUDA compute levels, vendor compatibility, multi-card compatibility, and all that jazz. It'd be nice to have a generic enough guide to understand both pro and amateur use, e.g.:

- A770 x21, if someone got it working, could handle Facebook's OPT-175 for <$10k via Alpa. That brings it into "rich hobbyist" or "justifiable business expense" range. Not clear if that's practical.

- Kids learning AI would be much easier if it's cheaper (e.g. A770)

- "General compute" also includes things like Blender or accelerating rendering in kdenlive, etc.

- Etc.

This stuff is getting useful to a broader and broader audience, but it's confusing.
Anker cables work for my CarPlay head unit. Others I had troubles with.
Great topic but aren't we still protesting reddit, or has that just fell off the radar?
I’m saying there are plenty of places on Earth that will still be more hospitable than Mars after a GRB or even a massive asteroid/comet impact. You could operate multiple colonies underground or underwater for a fraction of the cost of a Mars colony. Mars is so inhospitable that the only conceivable reason for using it as a backup plan is (1) you’re planning for events that completely destroy the Earth’s surface and oceans to a depth of hundreds of meters on all sides (this is not GRBs) or (2) you’re correctly worried about eight billion starving and well-armed humans trying to get in.
Pomodoro made me hate working
Show HN: No Pillow for You
Since the DNS record is extensible, it can be extended to contain any extra parameters deemed necessary in the future.
Would a bank pay cash to be relieved of a 3% mortgage? My brother sold his house half a year ago when he split up from his partner. I'm pretty sure they had a 15yr 2% mortgage. Did they do the bank a huge favor by just selling the house and dissolving the mortgage?
pystrace: Library and CLI tool for collecting strace events
That's amazing. How long ago was that?
I'm sure there are more.

things that have just broken a flower vase, things that tremble as if they were mad, suckling pigs
> It's like it's designed so you are just renting everything from the bank.

Nail on the head.
You have to pass a loop of wire up your nose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc

This video goes through the timeline of the main points
Boulder is the worst best small town in America. You know what I mean.
Even the subs protesting reddit forgot that
I don’t think apple wants us to play games with Wine and Game Porting Toolkit. Especially not games on Steam.

Apple wants developers to use it to port their games to macOS (using Metal) and distribute them on the App Store (only).
> They send email from an unfamiliar domain, not the one customers know from their website, nor a subdomain thereof

Prime example, Santander

From: Santander <santander@email2.yoursantander.co.uk>

Subject: Know more about Facebook Scams

Congratulations Santander, you've now trained your customers to trust emails from domains like "email2.your<business>.co.uk"
Speculations on Building Superintelligence
he's an anthropologist, he doesn't make predictions or be a prophet.

only Foucault, and not even on his research, only when being a rock star and giving interviews.

anyway, deleuze there is showing how society already is. how the phone company used privilege information since the 1890 or so etc.

now whatsapp and and apple replaced the phone company in that data collection, and scales are larger, but it's still the same, just intensified.

anyway, you must read the foundations. on anthropology every banal looking word carries a whole complex concept that is not clearly shown in bibliography or other means. losing that context seriously harms the understanding.
There often is nuance. I haven’t seen any positive for this feature, nor here, nor in the relevant github issues for the languages in question, which were quite argumentative.

But feel free to give me the nuance to this design issue that you so miss.
Ask HN: What Happened to Codepilot.ai?
Having bad memory is a nice solution to this. You just don’t remember, so there’s no problem.
Why would anyone offer a 5% mortage? That is only 0.4% over 30 year bond... Not nearly enough risk premium. Considering everything involved with mortgages.
Hacking WiFi Into a 1993 PowerBook [video]
So you are from Germany? :) nobody else invested in ISDN. Whats more US ISDN was incompatible and incumbent telcos fought hard against implementing anything allowing users faster speeds without bigger bills https://yarchive.net/phone/isdn_politics.html
AFAIK that proposal got dropped in favor of ECH, which isn't standardized yet [0].

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-encrypted-client-hell...