skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this have to do with industry wide push to RCS over SMS, to help with 3rd party doctrine. And in FB case to unify US (messenger) with rest of the world (whatsapp) audiences.
Why do so many tech executives seem to make the actual worst decisions possible when it comes to symbolic leadership?
Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams, and The Crippled God - aka Malazan Book of the Fallen - all by Steven Erikson.

Talk about a renewed interest in reading. After getting through Gardens of the Moon, I realized that I didn't really know what was going on or why these characters were doing what they were doing. I found a readalong podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-very-big-books-a-m...), which really helped me put into context the storylines throughout the series.

It's the most epic fantasy series out there. The stories are based on GURPS games that Erikson and his gaming partner Ian Cameron Esslemont ran in the 1980s on archeological digs.

And there are an additional 16 novels, written both by Erikson and Esslemont, which continue to flesh out the universe.

I became completely enamored with the books. I couldn't put them down. It took me from about February through October to finish all 10. There's so much content, and they really shine on a readthrough.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft aren’t members either. But they’ve been mentioned.
Got stuck in Rule 5. Why does this not count as defining my own print function?

42 + sum(print(0) for print in [lambda x: x])
Doesn’t that imply that we should object to all dna databases? If a database can be used to identify people not in the database, does the scale of the database matter? The consequence would be that law enforcement can no longer compile databases of dna materials (a curtailment which I wouldn’t mind, but many people see these databases as essential for modern law enforcement).
> It is offensive and rude.

If you take one of the world's most popular pastimes that personally, and want it legislated against on that basis, I have no time for your arguments.

Like - Manhattan. Yeah, you're gonna smell cannabis in Manhattan. It doesn't matter the tiniest bit what the laws are; you're gonna smell it. It's not something to take as a personal insult, and it's wild you insist that it is.

Anyway, weren't we talking about a serious issue? Like, is this why Americans are ok with all the domestic spying - they're too worried about sniffing a reefer on the wind? Ugh.
> This new tier is deeply innovative, and Amazon will likely enjoy a monopoly on low latency object storages for the next couple of years.

I don't think S3 Express will be lonely that long :)

It looks like it already isn't - Azure Premium Blob storage promises similarly low latencies, and is available as a regional service. They also talk about the main distinction being SSDs instead of HDDs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storag...)

Google Cloud Storage is layered on top of Colossus, which I gather is a zonal service that can be SSD or HDD. Basing that on Bigtable, which stores its log and SSTables in Colossus, and lets you pick between SSD/HDD with the former enabling single-digit millisecond latency IO.
I think you're probably right. It's the sort of thing I can watch but I certainly don't love it the way some people do. I can even take or leave a lot of Monty Python (though some, e.g. Life of Brian, I do love).
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the article points out it's just good old fashioned speculation in the commodities market! Clearly there was a massive bubble over the past couple of years driven by hype. The spot price is still higher than 2020
No, "belief" in unions in highly variable and so is their power.
Llama Guard: LLM-Based Input-Output Safeguard for Human-AI Conversations
> Now you have to audit the LLM generated code - all of it - and you have gained exactly nothing. It's even worse, because you can assume your library code has been tried and tested by others

You're right to raise the first part as a concern and observing that, all things considered, you probably haven't gained anything on net. (You might actually be losing.) But you're wrong about the last part.

What we've seen in practice is that like the free-rider problem there's a dearth of folks performing the work that people are assuming everyone else is doing and a glut of people relying on that false assumption. And it's worth considering how many of those fixes are _only_ necessary because of the rampant code sharing.

Monocultures have downsides. A single vulnerability in a single package ends up exposing people to greater risk because the package is trying to be all things to all people and therefore contains functionality that only a fraction of its dependents actually wanted/needed. Because there's a monoculture, though, everyone is impacted. This is the counter to your #3: when you aren't following the same path others are on, you don't get their fixes, but you also aren't impacted by bugs that others are introducing in the first place. Anyone who's ever stared at server logs for an application that isn't Wordpress can see this principle in play when you consider how much protection simply not being on Wordpress provides for thwarting would-be attackers.
For many, many centuries. It's not anything from the last few years, nor is it "we against them".

The West is essentially all the world's nations whose cultures are derived from or greatly influenced by Latin speakers and Judeo-Christian values, which traces its influence back to Ancient Rome.

It's a very valuable and important thing to recognize, because things that people in the US and Europe often implicitly assume are human universals, aren't. They're only universal across the West, and not found in e.g. China or India.

So it's not creating division. It's recognizing difference that already exists, but that not everyone is always already aware of, because we tend to exist in our own little bubbles.
You're getting a lot of hot takes, which is too bad!

For my part, I've been trying to come up with something constructive to say but I'm having a rather hard time understanding what this project is, so I guess that's my feedback. The landing page tells me almost nothing about why I'd pay for a third-party debugger, and the docs on GitHub are only a little bit better and not super persuasive.

Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I think you need to really capture the pain points you're solving before showing me screenshots and videos of how you've solved them. As it is all I'm seeing is a developer tools window with a slightly different layout than Firefox/Chrome.
Long delay between releases and the departure of Dan Houser are both concerning developments.
AMD needs to launch drivers, not chips. Who’s going to develop ML models on a card that can’t connect to a popular ML model?

I look at their financial performance and it’s staggering how they’ve missed the boat - and this is during a huge boom on gaming, crypto, and AI.

Compare:

https://valustox.com/AMD

VS

https://valustox.com/NVDA
There are old munitions dumps where nobody has any idea what was actually dumped.
This year, I discovered "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem (after seeing a video of the game based on the novel).
You will probably enjoy The Lobster.
The lwn.net article linked in this post has an excellent, seemingly neutral summary of the issue that casts a lot of light on TFA; I highly recommend anybody interested in the OpenPGP schism read this.
You just forgot to specify the end condition for the recursion, that's all. It's a common mistake, and one you should fix before going to bed. Otherwise you'll blow out the stack, which is what leads to migraines.
Maybe it’s time being reflected off of light.
If your argument is that EU regulators need to be more like America's, boy, did you pick the wrong crowd to proselytize. People here are actually clued in to the dangers of big data.
My favorite is Bing AI refusing to not include Internet Explorer support in its generated code because removing it would “go against ethical guidelines.”
Several years ago I was working on an interface and we were using SVGs for some graphics. We had two color schemes but one of the graphics was only in one of them, so I walk across the hall to get the hex codes for the other color. The design guy was blown away when we popped open the svg file and simply find-and-replaced all the colors to get the second color.
Next to nothing is written that targets this. Not Stable Diffusion, not RVC, not Vall-E, not Tacotron, not Tortoise, ...

Maybe the LLM space is better about this, but the generative media side definitely isn't.

AMD has a market share of 0% here, and nobody publishes models with AMD support.
> Just, why?

Next.js is marketed as a super cool framework you can just install and run anywhere, and while that's mostly true... it has a lot of limitations and architectural decisions which make sens only on their hosting platform, but if you're running it on a different platform or your own servers, those limitations make no sense and feel super artificial, even if those are good trade offs for their "serverless" platform.

So everything mentioned in this post, plus all the shady behaviours I've noticed from them have driven me away from it, I'm so happy I did.

Some of the things I'm talking about:

* Middleware runtime artificial limitations because that would make it more difficult to move to their platform later. They don't even respond anymore in the issue: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/46722

* They refuse to add a config file option to disable the telemetry. Yes, you can do the env var or run the npm script, but they're betting on people forgetting to do it on every project, on every computer and on every server/environment they deploy to. A single boolean config would disable it everywhere, but they won't do it: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/8851#issuecomment-9...

If you still choose to use it just because "it's the most popular one", then good for you. I prefer to make different trade offs.

In my own opinion, that's why.
This is really neat! New SVG concept per lesson. Thanks for sharing!

As usual, a lot of these things I could learn if I decided to, but it’s nice when someone puts it together in a pretty package and shows up on HN.
Hyperion was a big surprise for me this year as well. I expected it to be good, but the way the first book unfolds a larger universe is incredible. I'm not sure I've read science fiction that feels quite so... planned, and intentional? Especially the way it incorporates Keats' poetry.

Thanks for tipping me off about the Annotated American Gods! I read it ages ago, and I've been yearning to get back into Gaiman lately. This sounds like a good way to do it.
Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
Hi HN, just wondering:

What other good forums are out there with an active user base that engages in high-level discussion like here? Not necessarily about tech. Could be law, philosophy, geopolitics, literature, etc.
[I'm on the Wing team]
I get what you mean about adoption and maintenance overheads.

On the adoption front, we are aware it takes time for languages to get adopted. We also plan to release the Wing SDK to other languages soon, but the best DX is still provided by using Winglang itself simply because we are not constrained by what other languages support.

The language server is actually the same one for different editors, but we do need to create and maintain different editor extensions. The best supported one at the moment is VSC.
Streisand effect: Reuters takes down exposé on Indian mercenary hackers
Link to original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20231116164611/https://www.reute...

Very well-researched, seems like they are behind a surprisingly wide range of hacks (government officials, business executives, telcos and political activists), almost feels like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel
Which ones? And why are they less convenient?

I like Spotify and use it a lot, but I think their UI is somewhat okay at best.
Remedy[0] would be one good example of a studio not only avoiding the garbage devolution route, but only getting better with time.

And that’s accounting for the fact that one of their first games was Max Payne, which created a very difficult hill to top.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedy_Entertainment
It's actually the opposite. This is why we have nice things.
Like what? Audit is not equal to attestation. Some platform did attestations, but those are meaningless.
But in many jurisdictions that would still be completely legal as long as you didn't share the downloaded content with others.
Show HN: Easy Multiprocessing in Python with QuasiQueue
I built QuasiQueue to make it easier to create multiprocess projects in Python. I found dealing with the multiprocess library and queue to be a bit difficult by itself, when it really shouldn't be.

With this library you define "writers" (which push things to the multiprocess queue) and "readers" (which take items from the multiprocess queue and process them). The library has a lot of settings that can be used for tuning.

I've used this library for several things, such as crawling github repositories for analytics, crawling the fediverse for metadata, and experimenting with building out a webserver.
One of the things that kinda clicked for me recently was learning that I can inline SVG tags in a react application as if they were JSX tags.

I dunno specifically if that’s first class or webpack is covering it, but it really feels good in a few cases to make an SVG component with some logic built in. So now I can have an SVG and some react-driven logic modifies its shape, colour, omitting sections of it, etc.
I just threw together a pipeline for MittaAI (my new startup) that replicates this using OpenAI calls (except it's not Sir David Attenborough) : https://github.com/MittaAI/mitta-community/tree/main/cookboo...

To use this, download the JSON file, then import it into a pipeline after you login. Logins on MittaAI only require an email. Secure tokens are prompted during pipeline import.
Idealists?
[I'm on the Wing team]
Yes, but it's still in early days, you can see our support matrix here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/standard-library/compatibility-...
NDC TechTown 2023: Safer C++ with MISRA-C++ 2023 [video]
A Voyager mission only tells us about things in our solar system. A big telescope can tell us about the rest of the universe.
This post does not include the original title; it has been editorialized.
I don’t even know where to start.

The buying and renting markets for houses are linked.

These landlords need to rent their houses, so clearly they meeting a demand in the market. That demand would not go away and thus prices would not go down if the houses were owned privately. There would simply be more former renters, now trying to buy.

You can keep blaming the messenger or you can just accept that the housing demand is real and work to increase housing supply.

One of these things works.
Films are "polarizing" for many reasons, and this article attempts to categorize some of them - Low-Budget Cult Classics, Inescapable Franchise Films, Horror Movies That Went Mainstream...

But there is one film in that list that defies categorization along those lines, and it happens to be the only film in it I have watched and enjoyed multiple times. A film quietly ignored by all the discussion. That film is Babe: Pig in the City.

I am not eloquent enough to unpack what makes this film special. Fortunately, someone else is, and you can read their take here: https://junkee.com/babe-pig-in-the-city/299986 . Some excerpts: "a fetish object made to satisfy a sexual proclivity that does not yet exist", "some hideous goo scraped off the surface of the human id", "What You Think About Babe: Pig In The City Tells Me What You Think About Art", and "essentially purposeless in its horrifying nature".

It strikes me that the common feature that connects Babe: Pig In the City and the other categories the article mentions is a mismatch between the expected and received amount of "art house-iness". An arty film thrust into the mainstream through organic hype? Polarizing. A bland high budget corporate thing popular through the sheer weight of overmarketing? Polarizing. A haunting and wildly tonally inconsistent study of the crushing weight of society upon the underprivileged marketed as the sequel to a beloved and uncomplicated children's film with talking farm animals? Polarizing...
I've been using GPG for about as long, and I've had problems with it.

They've used some cipher, was it IDEA, than then got removed. So then I had to hunt down years old versions in order to be able to extract my old backups.

Or was that more of a PGP than GPG problem, and I misremember?
I'm surprised The Birth of a Nation didn't make it on the list. It's probably one of the most controversial films ever.
US regulators will now have access to years of Binance transaction data
I haven't used Wayland in years and have no real intention of trying to again until x11 becomes unusable so I can't answer that.

My initial interactions with waylands, years ago, including attempting to write a compositor from scratch, left a very source taste in my mouth and the strong impression that wayland was going in the wrong direction. Some things have no doubt changed by now, and a lot of cost has been sunk into it, so I'm deleting my rehashing of some of those concerns as no longer relevant, but I just have no interest in being an early adopter of it.
It was mostly only ST-506 MFM and RLL drives, almost everything parked automatically by the time IDE drives passed the 100MB size.
Yep, don't run your centrifuges on windows 98 is probably sound advice.

>In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions..

Ooh now you've got me thinking about Chernobyl...
One of my top series. Alongside it stands Shadows of the Apt and The Stormlight Archives.
Are your organs ageing well? The blood holds clues
I meant for all intelligent species that could be living in our universe, I can see interplanetary life as something rather easier to achieve. You don't have to think far out of the box for this.
I can imagine some solar systems having multiple liveable planets for a single lifeform, which would make it something we could even do right now.
Our some transpermia on planets that now host different but communicating lifeforms that are cooperating.
Signal does have offline backup support though?

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
I watched a recent 3C presentation, which was about gender selection in UIs, presenting different websites with dropdowns allowing for male/female, male/female/other and some dating app that had 72 options, then arguing that "that's not enough and it should instead be free text because "new genders are discovered all the time". Presenter was absolutely insufferable as well, especially during the Q&A, misinterpreting questions and attacking people who asked completely innocent questions. Yeah, I'd rather watch some videos selectively afterwards than go to the conference and get stuck in something like that. But who knows, maybe they have a bigger venue and more tickets available this time around.

Interestingly, I can't find the video on YT anymore.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125350/https://www.ft.co...

I tried this, but this capture seems to just have gotten the "subscription required" page.
> https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=li&u=...

It looks like it's returning to its pre-pandemic levels. Demand is increasing with EV's so it's still interesting, but possibly less interesting than the title implies.
This time AMD will win for sure (Copium)
They gotta keep working on the software side of things like drivers, FSR and more.

AMD is so far behind on this.

In the other hand though, their 3D Cache chips are amazing
I feel like, as far as general electronics goes, I have the absolute basics. I understand basic components and circuits 101 stuff like voltage dividers and filters.

I have trouble with:

- Putting all the concepts together to understand larger circuits

- Concepts that are hard to visualize, like feedback

- Recognizing circuits from the diagram on the PCB

Maybe I just need more practice?

Thanks for talking through this with me. :-)
I would have assumed that you don't want to use uint_fast16_t to store anything that doesn't fit in 16 bits.

If you cast to signed that can't represent the complete range that still wouldn't be called "overflow" AFAIK, and no matter what you call it it is not "undefined". And assuming 32-bit ints there is no loss of information given a 16-bit ints.

You can also just cast to unsigned or whatever type you think is enough (you should know). The point is, use a conversion, cast to a simple type, make your code compatible.
Ta. You might like Wild Tales. It's on prime and in Spanish with subtitles. My son and his mates loved it too.
Thanks, I'm not reading it after this comment. I was hoping to be explained something, but as you put it the article is merely explaining the title is clickbait.
I also got Netflix and Prime. Recently, I wanted to rewatch House M.D. on Prime, but it's not available in my country anymore. I'm forced to use a VPN to enjoy content I am already paying for.
As a Studio Lead at Sanctuary Computer (https://www.sanctuary.computer), you’ll partner with two other Studio Leads to support our project teams, define the strategy of the studio, and lead internal projects to help us achieve our vision. You’ll help cultivate a culture of intellectual curiosity and continuous improvement that empowers us to push the boundary of our technical projects year-over-year.

Based on the responsibilities of this role, we think the right candidate will be a decade or so into their career and will have prior experience in an Engineering Manager role. Maybe they'll be a little burned out by Big Tech and intrigued by a worker-first company with profit share and an optional 4-day workweek.

If this sounds like you, check out the full job posting with detailed information on the role, the studio, and the compensation program:

https://garden3d.notion.site/Technical-Studio-Lead-Fall-2023...
> utilising a GPU acceleration

GPUs are incredibly versatile. As CPUs struggle to add more cores instead we should shift software as much as possible on to the GPU and use the CPU as a coprocessor.

At least the GPU should be given direct access to storage.

Perhaps GPUs should come with 1-2 NVMe slots and upgradeable VRAM.
Limit scope to "northern europe" or "nordics" , or "Zeroth world" , I guess?
> Is this a - the NSA made a offer to backdoor nobody can refuse and the idealists abandon the "standard"- situation?

Why would the NSA bother to target PGP, when the biggest threat to their surveillance is the use of other encryption mechanisms with better usability (and therefore lower chance of misuse)?

If anything, the NSA would want to encourage people using PGP, because it's far easier to break PGP using the default settings than any modern tool, even before you account for the extremely high likelihood of "user error".
Ukraine is not a U.S. ally. Period. So what does all this information have to do with that fact?
Anyone take a crack at the underside characters on the counterfeit chip?
What’s the vacancy rate in the affected cities?
They are not only missed AI boom, they are also seems to be overpriced by a huge margin compared to Intel or even NVDA.
Ooh, thanks for the tip!
From 2009, what I think was a famous video on which some kids in the UK put together a 6-gigabyte RAID with 24 256-gigabyte Samsung drives: https://youtu.be/26enkCzkJHQ