skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Plexiglass vs. Plexiglas®: Acrylic Sheeting Facts

> These two terms are pronounced the same, spelled almost identically, and can be compared to the relationship of tissue and Kleenex. These are known as proprietary eponyms, meaning a trade name has become the generic name for a product or service. Sometimes these are referred to as generic trademarks. What makes it particularly difficult to know the difference between plexiglass and Plexiglas® is the small variation in spelling. The difference in one letter stumps many people. Plexiglass with two s’s is the generic term synonymous with acrylic sheet. Plexiglas® with one s is the brand name. Other trade names that have become comparable to Plexiglas® include Acrylite®, Lucite®, and Perspex®.

[0] https://www.acplasticsinc.com/informationcenter/r/plexiglass...
The end-to-end encryption also works on the web. I’ve used it and it’s excellent. You need to use a PIN to access your past messages from their backup HSMs, but other than that it’s completely transparent.
Yes that's true, but good luck making large CRTs using that method. Those ceramic-walled tubes were fine when the screen is 5" diagonal, but for a 29" arcade monitor, that won't do.

CRTs will never again be made in the quantities required to make it feasible economically.
I'd try borg, but I need more of an archival software. A number of large files that I don't want to gather all in one place every time I run the backup command. I'm trying out git annex for now.
Apple Executive Who Invented iPhone Screen and Touch ID Is Leaving
I do not use "do not track" mode but these banners are still there.
> The pessimistic person defaults to the "risk averse" stance without even understanding the risk (regardless of whether the risk is even calculable or worthy of considering).

I guess you could say that about "blind pessimism". I guess we can discount both "blind" optimism/pessimism as just irrational, and it doesn't make much sense to discuss those.

But I think in the case of "rational optimism", the person might reasonably evaluate the risk, even understand it's low, but still not act, because it doesn't make sense given their goals, risk aversion etc.

> I'm not following the logic here. Someone can be optimistic about life, and still prefer a middle class lifestyle. You can also be optimistic and risk averse.

Well, you defined optimism as spending 90% looking for opportunities. Now assume, that the person in question already has a middle class lifestyle, they already achieved their goal, have basically what they need to be happy. Why look for opportunities if you already have everything you wanted? Isn't it more rational to rather protect those assets you have and always desired?

So I don't think optimism (in the general sense) and risk aversion necessarily contradict each other, but specifically your definition of optimism doesn't fit with the risk aversion IMHO.
Once upon a time in the universe, there was an alien civilization, and they were very interested in figuring out the question, why, despite universe seeming so vast, there are no signs of other alien civilizations.

What could it be? Near-zero term in the Drake equation? The dark forest? A great filter?

To understand different possibilities, they decided to determine the cause using a computer simulation. However, due to hardware limitations, they were only able to simulate one civilization at a time.

We can only speculate what the final answer was.
What do you mean?

According to [0,1] they are requesting known-ill people to stay home, attendees to wear masks if possible, attendees to self-test beforehand, and they will be providing masks and self-test kits at the venue too.

Considering the current pandemic state of Covid, that sounds fairly reasonable?

[0]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/corona.html
[1]: https://events.ccc.de/en/2023/11/25/37c3-a11y/
Complying with warrants and other requests has a cost. By claiming not to have access to them, they can save money. I think they or some other advertisers have used the actual messages before, but concluded it was too noisy to be worth it.
I was reminded of the Irish Natural History museum, which is itself a Victorian (?) era relic, stuck in time, with it's wood and glass cabinets of natural "curiosities": https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Natural-History/Visitor-...
Meanwhile, many useful idiots willingly support Hamas..
It’s more than “so what” because those people aren’t coming from nowhere. American businesses spend a lot of money promoting libertarianism to this end, and it’s been effective enough that any reforms will face unified opposition from every Republican in Congress and likely some Democrats. Most of these are minority positions in the public but not in terms of legislative votes.
Oh wow. Could you talk more about your use of all these GPUs? And how you handled all these disparities for real usage?
But review magazines, and word of mouth, would have helped identify the good games?
IIUC the Brave browser is already experimenting with this model. They promise[0] "privacy-preserving" ads to users AND targeting to advertisers:

"...when a Brave Ad is matched to you, it is done on your own device, by your own device, inside Brave itself. Your personal data never leaves your own device."

The mechanism is very similar to what you describe.

[0] https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026361072-Bra...
Is this the most affordable Windows Cloud PC?
Have to agree with part of this.
I'm not sure how bad the New Yorker is.

Over thanksgiving did have this happen.
Wanted to lookup a recipe. Just Instructions.

But had to wade through 3 paragraphs about the authors trip to see her grandmother as a kid, riding in her parents car through the country, the sun through the trees, etc......

I just wanted a recipe.

As much as I recommend telling stories, do keep it to the point.
People back then, including DaVinci stole bodies for study. I think Ben Franklin did similar. They did it out of curiosity and to learn. It was taboo, so they found ways around that that obviously today would be major crimes.

People today donate their bodies to science. Some people prefer for scavengers to recycle their bodies, even some westerners.

That’s to say, those were different times. People used to grind up mummies for different purposes as well. Grave robbing was a thing.
Microsoft to offer consumers paid Windows 10 security updates
You probably see this attitude a lot because of modern C++ features that do make it a lot easier to write safer code. However that is not absolute.

Just the other day I had used std::sort on and std::vector. Pretty simple stuff, figured there can't be a way to screw that up, but my app kept crashing in the sort call because it was trying to write past the end of the array. Turns out if your comparison function doesn't perfectly follow strict weak ordering sort will just blow the bounds of your array without checking.
I’ll say it simply: consumers had nothing to do with the demise of the Atari. It’s retailers, who bought cartridges without ever thinking the gravy train would stop. Atari and everyone else told them consumers had an insatiable appetite for full price cartridges.

But when the sales cratered, due to an oversupply, retailers were stuck with the cartridges without the ability to return them. So they turned to the measure that killed the Atari: clearance bins. When all the games you could hope to ever play are in a bin for a buck each, no one is buying anything at 30$ anymore.

Nintendo’s never going to say it, but their practices with the NES were not quality control; they were doing price control.
and how do I find out more?
New features in Microsoft .NET 8
Yes, but note that this attack works against a locked or powered off device. I’m not saying it’s perfect or that we can stop replacing C code, only that it’s safe to buy a used Apple or ChromeOS device in a way which is not true of a PC.
Depends on the setup, disk encryption has disadvantages such as needing to decrypt each time you reboot (and if that's the root partition, you can't really boot unattended). It can be advantageous to not have to trust the server and have a non-encrypted zfs dataset for this.
Twitch Shutting Down in South Korea in February 2024
unvis(1) has been useful since last century for avoiding needing to know how to escape all the things...
People have been predicting far more than 100k for a long time, so I don't think people taking about 100k can be reasonably described as maxis... Highest prediction I've seen is maybe 1m.

100k is a pretty mainstream belief now, with e.g Standard Chartered predicting it by year end 2024.
This is Georgism, of course. There's a lot to recommend it; I was convinced by Henry George that land ownership is uniquely difficult to defend ethically compared to other forms of property, since it all comes from conquest in the end. I'm not sold on it as a panacea, but big land taxes do seem like a good idea.
Optical disks might be fun. Try DVD±RW or DVD-RAM.
Absolutely. We got a usb c iPhone, apple will have to allow sideloading in the very near future, there’s some repairability stuff in the works, etc.
All in all, as an EU citizen I very much feel like the regulation has been a big benefit for consumers.
It could be people who lack confidence, have social anxiety or similar.

Sometimes with time they gain confidence.

Usually they would have better written communication though. So if you are saying poor at both, then maybe not really.
Fancy. I'm guessing it's 60k+ USD. The next logical iteration is panoramic FLIR-NVG fusion 90+ degrees in the spirit of GPNVG-18.
https://history.howstuffworks.com/medieval-people-drink-beer...

https://gizmodo.com/no-medieval-people-didnt-drink-booze-to-...

No idea what the concensus is, but it also doesn't make sense that everyone drank beer instead of water. Young children almost certainly didn't drink beer. And I expect it to have been out of reach for large parts of the population: cost and availability of ingredients.
I have always thought of it like Virtual Lego, and would definitely consider it a creative outlet!
After years of seeing people being "cancelled" for much less, I don't blame someone for not wanting to write anything specifically normalizing or in anyway explaining what western cultures usually consider child pornography.

Even Google/YouTube gets in on the dog pile. Just try to mention Epstein in a YouTube video and see how quickly that strike or demonetization comes in.
I don't think HN is hosted on AWS.
AI with Terraform on AWS
It is an alternative solution to data platforms such as AWS Sagemaker and frameworks such as ray.io
The solution offered here is about a Terraform microservice, similar to ray.io cluster, that works for multiple instance types and a wide range of configurations, for AI and general purpose tasks.

Contributions are more than welcome to that open-source project
It takes lots of time to add features and I can only go at a moderate pace on my own . There are still lots of things to do and improve!
Yes, I'm very happy the the EU is trying to protect the privacy and data of its citisense. I prefer this much to the "friss oder stirb" mentality of other countries regulations.

And also let me mention the unified usb-c atpater regulation, the opening of messenger protocols and app shops!
I honestly believe the EU is making tech better for the whole world!
Voidr – Cutting-edge open source alternatives to mainstream cloud services
you either intentionally or unintentionally phrased it in a way that blames unnamed participant 1. And given the context of this conversation, it seems that you blame US for CCP's inevitable spying. Seems weird given the kind of government CCP is(hint, the name).

In my opinion US is only at fault for spying on it's own citizens(im not citizen nor resident of the us), and in doing so it undermined its counter intelegence actions against state adversaries. Next time there is a good guy in the white house, All intelligence apparatus should be dismantled and replaced with something more transparent for the people, even though the reality where most of the world is despotic by design and there for hostile to a supposed to be free nation is still there.
If you aren't using OOP features (such as inheritance), you're not really doing OOP, despite using C++.

In the case of C++ I'd put something like: you can use free or costly abstractions, and OOP in general has a preference towards costly ones.

Also vector is a weird point to make, it's been some time I had to deal with Java (luckily) but arrays there are also linear AFAIK. And there are GCs that have a bump allocator for new objects (not sure if Java fits here), so cache would benefit more than in sparse malloc allocations in C/C++.
They can, but they lose their certification. Same if you don't use a certified board your antenna might need new certification of your device. It may work, but if authorities find out it may become quite expensive.

I can also remove my lights and breaks from my car and it will still work, but if authorities find out I might be in trouble.
…or that OpenAI is ignoring regulation while Google isn’t?

I don’t know which case is true but there are multiple interpretations, unless you’re saying this based on some fact?
> UBI or gradual population reduction through unemployment and homelessness

I actually think that if we get to a superintelligent AGI and ask it to solve our problems (e.g., global warming, etc.), the AGI will say, "You need to slow down baby production."

Under good circumstances, the world will see a "soft landing" where we solve our problems by population reduction, and it's achieved through attrition and much lower birth rate.

We have met the enemy and he is us.
Yeah, actually it could be the case, where someone who is so deep into what they are doing, they don't understand how everyone else doesn't understand the intricacies and so they end up explaining and communicating in a way that others don't understand. Even though it is said that if you can't explain a concept to a child, you don't really understand it, but I think there still can be cases in which you are so deep in there, you have hard time grasping what is the best way to make it simple for others considering their understanding.

Especially if you have been working around other people who are deep there and now you are put into a group where people have completely different levels of understanding.

It's sometimes easy to assume that something is common knowledge when it really is not, because it seems so natural to yourself.

And obviously I have faced it the other way in different fields where I absolutely lack all the knowledge and they start to use terms I am clueless about, but I feel stupid about asking about each term because they talk in a way that it seems they think it's so obvious that I should know.
https://text.npr.org is pretty good for news.

I made https://blogs.hn to help people find small tech blogs :)
Why do you think so? El Salvador gamble has failed spectacularly and HN crowd is skeptical about tokenbro scammers, so this checks out I think :) .
The person was talking about "the West" vs China. India is not part of "the West".
Tesla Meets the European Model
subheadline: "Elon Musk should adapt to the Swedish system, not the other way around"
Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers
>> Is it less safe to share the “Default Folder” as encrypted then? Its folder ID is always just 'default'.

> In the sense that someone could easier pre-brute-force all passwords for that specific folder ID, yes.

That's the definition of a rainbow table, and a fixed, known folder ID makes the "salt" effectively worthless.
I specifically said small beer, and that is something that has been commonly served to children in various places even into modern times. Your claim that beer was too costly also seems to be based on how beer is made and sold today: back then, beer was made without hops, and grain was available to medieval peasants because they were growing it themselves. A sort of beer was drunk by the working classes in Ancient Egypt, it has never been an elite drink.
Yes lightstones go in primary weapon slot so they are one of the items that are considered visible.
Why Europe Needs a Digital Knowledge Act
Some good points, I think:

"University researchers lack access to essential data, impeding their ability to conduct the same state-of-the-art research done in other parts of the world."

"On top of that, a big chunk of published research funded with public money through Horizon Europe or other public sources ends up locked behind paywalls, putting a huge financial burden on research institutions that need to access it."

But this one is a little more debatable vis-a-vis the declining PISA results throughout most of Europe:

"Educational establishments and libraries are also facing significant barriers when trying to provide learning materials in digital form. Although more and more learning takes place online, knowledge institutions do not get to buy ebooks under the same conditions as physical books."
> The legal cost of dealing with a few _mistaken_ (or fake) GDPR complaints can wipe you out.

No, they can't. It's not an automated system that automagically fines companies if they get flooded by fake emails or whatever, they're pretty reasonable most of the time and you get given plenty of chances to work with regulators before they decide to fine you even a single euro (assuming you're guilty in the first place). Even if you get fined, they're usually scaled to the severity of the offense as well as the company's size.

Plus the solution is super simple, just don't invasively track your users without consent! I love that I can use the GDPR to tell my manager to fuck off when he talks about using some invasive tracking bullshit on our users, I'm glad it's there.

I'm not sure if this[0] is the most up-to-date list (I've seen a number of these lists), but take a look yourself. Most of these fines are tiny, certainly not earth shattering for any company of any size with any stability.

And if your business can't survive the financial burden of complying with GDPR, then good. There's no reason for a small business to even be violating it in the first place, since we've had about a decade of forewarning at this point regarding these privacy laws.

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[0] https://gdpr-fines.inplp.com/list/
Indeed, plus the jumper switches for master/slave mode
The transformer model and architecture is not limited to text-based token input but again I'm not the expert on how this new LLM model namely Gemini are being implemented, and whether the text-based token is necessary. For Gemini, if Google has truly cracked the native multi-modal input without the limitation of text-based input then it's really novel and revolutionary as they claimed it to be.
AIUI consensus is that people did drink water but also quite a lot of beer.

"Young children almost certainly didn't drink beer." - wanna bet?

> In his A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools published 1797, writer Erasmus Darwin agreed that "For the drink of the more robust children water is preferable, and for the weaker ones, small beer ..."
I started learning programming in the mid-to-late 90's.. a teenager learning with Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, and VB6... eventually to Visual C++... to then attempting to jump on the OOP bandwagon with Java, I began to dislike coding.

I was questioning whether this was the career but, after a few years, decided to give it a go.

Job interviews, particulary then, were about "OOP this" and "OOP that" and I would purposely be agreeable but was unahppy with the code I was writing. Eventually I would come out of my shell with views to other devs.

Roll on to 2014 watching Mike Actons "Data Oriented Design" - and I immediately felt at home, not because I consider myself an 'expert' or on the same league as seasoned game programmers but I felt I had the right mindset all along!

In my 20 years, primarily a C# developer to pay my bills but at home my personal projects are written in C, and tried D.. and now Odin. I just prefer the control they give.

(Scheme as well, I do like Scheme)

Whenever someone asks me (a developer) what Data Oriented Design is, I try to explain to them it is like building a decent database. You are not thinking about the code (so much) but the representation of data. With databases, you create tables that have relations with other tables, with keys and indexes. You are setting up "lookups" etc.

Once they grasp the idea of building a database (which most developers can easily understand) - it is a case of transferring that energy not to tables in a database, but to data structures in your programming language.

Of course, this idea is easier to understand if you have experience in languages like C. For those coming from Python or Java or C#, etc, can be a little trickier but only if they think purely in the OOP mindset.

However, if they struggle to grasp this, then ECS is a great way for understanding in that OOP-ish way. The penny drops when I discuss Entities and Components. You are not building classes and inheritence, you are building entities and components. It is more flexible creating an Entity and "attaching" a Component for it to do something. Then you don't have some kind of Update method in a class, you just have one function which passes in all of it's type.

Anyway - it all comes back full circle now reading this article. Great reading! Now I can just refer people to this link instead.
That's a hint for you. Guys Danning and Kruger have something to say about this phenomenon :) .
https://apirone.com/blog/forwarding
The park thing happened before the GB era of the hard drives
They literally are cross-dressing, not that there is anything wrong with that by default of course.

My point was that for a considerable number of trans-identifying males, the primary motivation for their claims of being women begins in sexual arousal from cross-dressing. You can verify this from reading their forums (the r/AskAGP subreddit is also quite an eye-opener), and some have even written books about it.

It's something to keep in mind when considering how far the polite fiction of 'trans women are women' should be taken, especially when it comes to the rights of women to enjoy single-sex spaces.
In the UK an unfair contract term or notice is not binding. It is defined as "contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations under the contract to the detriment of the consumer."

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/62?view...
I’d encourage you to temper the hyperbole.

It’s easy to dismiss these types of articles as straight sales pitches when the problem is presented as “…a fate worse than death.” and the solution so easy and painless, you’d be a fool not to dismiss any other approach! Thats the MO of snake oil sellers.

Instead, I think a more objective comparison with much less editorializing would be less of a turn off for folks curious about a better approach to solve a problem that you did well in outlining at the beginning of the article.

Hopefully you take this as constructive feedback! I think the substance of the article is interesting, I was just turned off by the presentation.
What a shame that companies in question don't even address that a human's right had been violated and do what is right. At least Foxconn could have done the some thing for Tang Mingfang if it wasn't Amazon, if it adressed the issues they had.
AI could reveal secrets of handwritten documents
A lot of times yes they do.
I would almost be okay with 40 months in white-collar prison for $104 million. It is a pretty long time, though.