skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in a logically defined way (everything is a chain reaction caused by everything else and our available options at least limit our free will) but in the sense of what I personally choose, I have free will to assess my available options (or not) and act on whichever option seems best to me at the time.

I'd not post this comment after writing it to prove my free will but it wouldn't prove it to you that way lol
Herbert wrote about an AI that decided to abort a baby and save the mother. The result was a religious war against AI and the eventual removal of rudimentary computing or AI capable technology. The resulting world of Dune is filled with horrible people, slavery, and chemical dependency. Might be a lesson in Herbert’s work.
Not really, that fact supports the premise of the article.
Yep.

Especially if there's a suspected incident or a new vulnerability announced, I'd much rather be reading port 2234 sshd logs that port 22 sshd logs - far less haystack to wade through looking for needles.

And as another comment mentions, every time an sshd zero day is announced, pretty much the entire IPv4 address space gets probed on port 22 within about 30 minutes. A non standard port number _might_ buy you an extra hour or three if you've got a vulnerable sshd. But don't rely on that - someone's bound to have portscanned you recently enough and knows you've got OpenSSH_8.2p1 listening on port 2234 (or whatever) and they won't be far behind the whole-internet port 22 exploit probes.
> I also think part of what makes a lot of modern life so disastrously ineffective is the belief by those running society that everyone can reach a similar intellectual level given the right "system".

Well, it's a nice belief to have, even if it's not true. But I think what's worse is the belief that everyone can reach a similar intellectutal level given the same "right system".

I'm pretty sure no system could teach me how to say draw legible sketches of pretty much anything, a valuable, intellectual skill. I'm ok with that and will move on with my life. But I'm even more sure a system that could teach me that skill would be unable to teach very many others. If you want to get everyone to the same intellectual level or maybe to at least some specific level, you've got to be flexible about how and what to teach and how long it's going to take.

I know plenty of people who can do basic 3d sketching with no specific instruction, but that's not me. I've got things I can pick up too. Some people are going to need a lot more time for things...

But schools will say they want to do flexible, student driven teaching, but then it's more of the same one size fits some.
I do love how, seemingly to counteract the US-centric nature of many discussions, some Europeans act as though Europe is this one homogeneous block where everything works the same everywhere.

I guarantee you there are quite a few people in various countries in Europe where they don't have great cellular coverage, whether because of their location, or because of the building materials used in whatever house or office building they spend a lot of time in.

Regardless, I don't really get the hate toward VoWifi. Like... it's an added option. In some cases it might be redundant (or worse than the normal VoLTE option), but... it's an added option, that you don't have to use, that can be a great fallback in some cases.
If english is good enough to talk about what genes 'want' then it's good enough to talk about what AI 'wants'.
The Inevitable Fall of Putin's New Russian Empire
Not to beat a dead horse, but the use of these patterns is one of the many reasons Apollo was so much better than Reddit's official app. Consistent navigation, consistent gestures, consistent behaviors.

And it's not like these concepts are hard, you just have to care enough to follow them. It's really disheartening to see how many apps don't.
For me, googles 'featured snippet' for 'What is Android Baseband' is extracted from the almost unreadable https://www.mi.com/global/support/faq/details/KA-11986/

I think the parent comment is almost more informative.
Writing at the Speed of Thought - A Look at NotebookLM
Do you guys live in abandoned missile silos?!
The point about Eric Schmidt’s leadership seems to be lost in conversations about Google!

The Google we all loved was Schmidt’s Google.

Schmidt built the culture and set the tone.

He is to my mind one of the greatest tech CEOs of all time in that he did exactly what he was hired to do beyond anyone’s expectations.

Unlike Scully for instance who all but destroyed Apple.

I’d love to see more validation of that claim from ex-Googlers, as I’m not on SC and have never worked at Google.
>You can leave the country and stop paying taxes, you just can’t come back.

No, you can't. You have to renounce your US Citizenship to stop paying taxes in the US, no matter where you live. Renouncing requires acquiring citizenship in a new country, which isn't that easy: just ask anyone who's tried to naturalize in the US.

>Again, you’re part of a society and you can’t opt out, even if you don’t want to pay.

You're not really a part of the society if you don't live there, but if you're a US Citizen, you're still required to pay both federal and state taxes, even if you've never lived in the US in the first place.
Hey, that looks really cool. I've been wanting to mess around with this stuff on PinePhone, which is in a unique position here since there are third-party images for the baseband which are mostly open source[1].

I've been especially interested in trying to reverse engineer what's going on with Google Fi on Android, but it is definitely a bit over my head, given that until recently I didn't even really know what an AT command was :) I'm guessing since it's Google the carrier stuff is mostly for fallback and all of the actually interesting stuff is done using protobufs over a data connection. (Fi is also interesting because you can make phone calls on the web over WebRTC. I wonder if that's some kind of gateway to SIP, or what.)

[1]: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk

(Note: I didn't dig deep enough, so it wouldn't surprise me if the blobs in this are actually where the interesting stuff happens, but it's still probably a great base for experimentation nonetheless.)
How on earth do you read this article, see them say "We just announced our new subscriptions and people are asking about these other products- it won't affect them." And you ignore that, and post a link to the same news they themselves linked in their blogpost? What on Earth were you trying to accomplish?
For "professional" stuff, yes, it matters.

Cyber criminals follow patterns, starting with very low-effort trolling for new services without much defenses. Bots scan the internet for open services, enumerate them, and try to gain access. If they find some, they will use a tiny amount of effort to see if the target might be worth exploring. If it seems profitable, the cybercriminal will spend more effort on things like account enumeration, login brute force, scanning for commonly exploitable methods, phishing. The more they find, the more they're willing to invest in exploiting it. But a bot can perform a ransomware hijacking of a newly detected open service all on its own, so it doesn't take much.

Simple mitigations can be very effective in holding back their interest. Captchas, rate limiters, error pages with no information leakage, block lists of low-reputation IPs, or outright blocks of countries you don't do business with. They make the difference between 50k login attempts per minute, or crickets.

Don't use port knocking tho. It technically works, but is embarrassing, like a grown man in a trilby. Something else (like rate limiting combined with certificate auth) will be more effective and less weird.
The cycle ends once there is true justice.

That is: human rights for all (Israelis and Palestinians) and reparations made to those who have been forcibly displaced and killed ever since this conflict began.
> The physical limitations of libraries are immaterial.

No, it is not.
It’s worth saying that visualizing 4-cubes is hard but _that’s ok_: it’s not a task our brains had any evolutionary need for, and even if we could visualize 4D, 5 would be harder still, yet it’s easy (relatively) to usefully imagine very high dimensional spaces, even infinite Hilbert spaces, when talking about ML feature space or quantum mechanics or whatever. So don’t get hung up on visualizing more than 3D. After 1D and 2D, you get the idea.
afaik there are no coins. Each account is merely associated with a set of transactions to it. The fees you pay to send money scale with a number of transactions that got you that money in first place, e.g. if you got $1000 from 1 transaction and send $1000 to someone, you pay less fees than if you got $1000 from 1000 transactions, because making the transaction actually work means joining all these old transactions into a new transaction. Also if you got $1000 from a transaction and need to pay $999 to someone, it will send the whole $1000 you had received to them and create a transaction to send you the change ($1) back.
If you’re going to run a forum where blatant rule breaking comments can’t even be reported, maybe refrain from hosting threads on politics, especially one that attracts people who claim that broiling babies alive is some sort of “resistance”.
No food shortages, like never? Health care, including dentists, that render almost all health problems that killed our crippled our ancetors harmless? Vaccines and anti-biotics? A warm roof over our heads, all year long?

I don't know, I personally like all of those things. Especially since I wouldn't be around anymore without them, neither would be my wife or my son. There is nothing romantic about a constant struggle for survival.
"Social networks are not the only medium allowing the group that advertisers most covet—the better-off with money to splurge—to wriggle beyond their reach"

I wonder what the median disposable income of people who use archive links to circumvent paywalls is?
St. Bernard puppy. They're not expecting it.
If Android was locked down, it would be tiny and irrelevant.
Yeah I suspect the lack of competition and difficulty to enter the market as a new player make it difficult for employees to demand higher wages.
This is the response I recently got. Seems they sit around and meditate if they should let you in. Also I am sure they mediate around your last name, country of origin.

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Our onboarding team reviews each application by hand, and takes a holistic view of your application and business information and makes their application decisions based on a variety of internal factors.

I know this may be frustrating, but we are unable to provide more detailed information as to the reason why your application was denied, and aren't able to reconsider.
If Google Docs were down for 15 minutes while you were trying to get say a CV together or refer to some notes it would be pretty frustrating. SaaS is replacing the desktop so the expectation is similar, I can access my data whenever I want. And 2am might be OK except many SaaS have global customers.
Very interesting. Now that you know, how do you interpret those numbers ?
No data provided, just hearsay from Elon, who has a history of being economical with the truth.
A donation has been made in your name to the Human Fund.

The Human Fund - Money for People.
1Password (and maybe others) are able to act as 2FA providers for Microsoft. You have an option when you set up the second factor to use a different app. I'm pretty sure that Authy works too
Fine as long as there is a workaround or the impact has been assessed.
And yet here we are on a venture capitalist forum instead of huddled around a communal campfire. If life was so great back then, why would we change? The narrative of anarcho-primitivists claims that the transition to civilization forced by the will of the elites. However, that characterizes everyone else as helpless victims without any agency.
It's hard though - I've been an Android dev for 8 years but have always had an iPhone.

I've never considered switching to Android.

And despite the fact that I want a wide variety of options, I prefer MacBooks, I prefer many Apple services, including software.
Why Was the Longbow So Effective?
Google and Microsoft have gone too far in the direction of shoving ads into all my interactions with their products that I now have no interest in using, much less paying for, most of them. The only Google services I still use are Nest and YouTube (both of which I pay for). I use MS for some of my email, but I’m migrating away. Unless Google and Microsoft see the light and accommodate users who hate ads, it’s going to be mostly Apple and Linux for me.
This is a ridiculous comment. Do you really think the decedents of 150k Iraqis are going to go back to Iraq for example???

In what world would that ever happen? Would those people ever be safe there?

And that’s just one of a dozen countries that tortured and killed Jews in the name of Allah.
I'm glad there are so many more /16s in IPv6 than there were in IPv4.

(/s for the binary impaired)
Reminds me of 4dtoys, which does a great job introducing you to 4d interactions one step at a time. It’s great!
https://4dtoys.com/
Many toxic chemicals can increase your risk of cancer, and many plants contain toxic chemicals, often to stop animals chewing on them. Nicotine is a toxic chemical, but it could be others.
Mandating that your property disobeys you, and instead takes orders from someone else. They're starting with "benevolent" stuff like drunk-driving, then it'll be quarantine enforcement, then congestion control, and pretty soon your e-scooter will refuse to enter an area with a sanctioned protest taking place, and your TVs automatic content recognition will block channels spreading disinformation and malinformation.
Or you could just use a USB cellular modem.
I’m actually really glad to see that this is the first Israeli conflict where its actually easy to keep our jobs, its been awkward for decades in the US on this one topic.

The needle needed to move to show where that soft power has waned and where it really stands

To show that we never agreed about labeling everything antisemitism in an antiquated 20th century way, when everyone involved are semites

Every call for a statement was met with laughter, every kneejerk lobbing of the word antisemitism was met with more laughter. Every liberal Jewish American has to reconcile the perception we’ve all had of their of their pride and joy country their whole lives, and now has to consider being a Trump supporter after all that social justice work, c’mon that’s admittedly hilarious.

I get that most of this everyone with ties to this conflict feeling isolated and traumatized. Along with an algorithm fueled echo chamber where they only see the other side getting attention and empathy, no matter which side that is. These are problems for a therapist.

Regardless, that needle needed to move. I dont agree with how it did, Hamas was accurate in noticing that it would move.

For balance, Hamas is already on the sanctions list. Israeli leadership and military and settlers and financiers should be too. I dont think every comment needs every disclaimer.
Low prices are not the only thing customers care about. They are a factor, but not the only factor. A company that has the lowest prices, but does so at the expense of customer service, and various other factors, will likely be hated by consumers. They might get some business, but customers will curse them while handing over their money, and the second something better comes along, the customers will leave.

Costco shareholders were very vocal with the founder of Costco, wanting him to do things that were against the mission of the company, all in the name of making a quick extra buck in the short term. He told them to get bent, and Costco has a lot of die hard fans who will defend Costco until their dying breath. You can't buy that kind of loyalty with some extra profit after treating customers like shit.

And obviously, if a company is going to spend extra for excellent customer service, the business needs to be able to support that. Operating at a loss, thinking they'll make it up on customer service, is not a business plan. That isn't what we're talking about here.
> it was done entirely at the expense of the customer and their experience.

this is what it means to be a monopoly.

Adobe may not be one by the legal definition, but it certainly is a monopolistic suit of products, as their "customer" does not have a way to switch, regardless of other competing software.

I personally think that the current legal idea of a monopoly is too narrow. I say the definition should be focused on the customer's cost of switching - and if it's higher than some reasonable threshold, the provider of said service/product must be considered a monopoly.
The whole point behind VMware products was that they offered full control to orgs that want it. That's what made some large orgs choose them over aws or google cloud even when the later are more cost effective. It's fascinating to see VMware (Broadcom?) fumble their only real uvp like this.

On the plus side, there is now a nice big clearing for new competitors to pop up. I hope open source uses this chance to catch up and offer something good to compete with nsx-t Datacenter or, at the very least, the SDN component of it. We have decent open source solutions for vms but no real open source solutions for software-defined networking or software-defined data centers. At least not any that I know of.

Either way, I think this is very good news overall. VMware was far too strong.
Hackernews discussion at that time, posted by sama.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720176
I designed control panel modifications and programmed an upgrade to a hospital diesel generation system so they could transfer from diesel back to utility without an outage, and have planned transfer of load to diesel without turning the lights out.

We had three windows at 1 am where any new critical patients would be diverted to a different hospital. The first we used for major maintenance to the breakers in the switchgear, the second we used for modifications to the bus work, and the last outage was to test the operation of the new control system.

They do a transfer to diesel every month and the whole hospital is aware of it in case it results in a blackout.
Nothing worse than the status-quo, presumably: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22361762/iphone-russia-sta...

Given that US/FIVE-EYES surveillance is a prerequisite for all American smartphones, I'd at least appreciate them using their state power to benefit the customer for once. The US' negligence in prosecuting any of the transparently corrupt FAANG companies makes it obvious how they don't want to butcher any of their own cash cows. Trusting corporations to dissent this late in the game is a futile and sad way to watch your hope for humanity deteriorate.
Heartbreaking story. Truly heartbreaking.

“It does not belong to man to direct his own step.”
Sorry, but I can only laugh at Aljazeera, an outlet from Qatar, and Qatar is the main sponsor of Hamas terrorists. It's something close to "crocodile tears", when they show these "tortures" after saluting beheadings of Israelis. If they want to destroy Israel and do ethnic cleansing, why do they keep complaining about being bombed and detained.
Where's the printer part?

You could connect this to a cheap chinese termal ESC/POS printer and print out the image too... there are probably libraries availble that do most of the esp32->print work.
I mean, it was time to support the fork from the day it was forked, but now is good too...
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Mercury+bank

I don't really trust anything a16z touches anymore
> do you really expect those people to start liking Israel now?

That boat already sailed long ago when the populace is brainwashed into hatred of Israel and Jews from school age. You can find footage of interviews with Gazan children talking about how they hope to murder Jews when they grow up because it will make their family proud.

There is no bloodless solution to this problem. And why should the otherwise peaceful Jews sit and wait for their blood to be spilled by an ever growing population of genocidal anti Semites?

They have offered peace to the Gazans 4 times now? Each time receiving saliva in their face for their efforts. The Gazans don't even want a two state solution, only the extermination of all Jews.
The article nominally under discussion in this post claims that Israel is torturing Gazan civilians without cause. As far as I can tell it’s a convincing demonstration.
Apathy is definitely the issue. Sometimes you tell a vendor about an issue and they say their app doesn't use Log4J even though it's gobbling up the Log4J test script in the username field...they don't want to care, so you can't make them.
There is a tiler who lives in a region that houses engineers of companies like Audi and Siemens. Apparently these folks take their habit of being so extremely strict, the same habit that is the base for Germany's economic success and that creates high quality cars and other products, to their homes too. It ends up in requirements are so unrealistic that this tiler ended up not accepting requests from the employees of these two companies.

German source: https://www.donaukurier.de/archiv/audi-ingenieure-unerwuensc...
Drag force increases with the square of speed, so it’s probably more to do with a longer flight costing more operational hours than a short one. I can’t sell flights on a plane that hasn’t landed yet.

I mean, they do anyway, but eventually it leads to refunds, and fines from the FAA. Actually on second thought it’s probably not physics or logistics, it’s the FAA.
Ask HN: Is this audio AI generated?
Supposedly there was a chat between Elon Musk, Alex Jones, and Andrew Tate on Twitter Spaces. The only "recording" I can find of this is from a random YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEW2aYQlXo4

It sounds extremely strange to me. Musk's cadence is completely off and cuts off his own sentences.
Something is going to fill the niche. We reap what we sow.
You can do nested aggregates though unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean by nested aggregate
Where I grew up Donald Duck magazines were super popular (this was during Don Rosa so they were quite good as well). I got a magazine delivered weekly. I remember being a kid and always skipping the Micky Mouse stories as they were always really boring.

First I would read all the Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories, then I would read the weird stories (like Goofy [but only if it didn’t involve Micky], Chip ‘n’ Dale or even the Big Bad Wolf), and only if I had nothing else to do, I would first re-read the Donald and Scrooge stories and then finally read Micky.

Growing up I never understood what the big deal was around Micky, objectively the worst of the Disney characters.
We're at a strange place in computing right now.

At one end of the spectrum we have machines that are fast and efficient. Able to store data, search for data and retrieve data as accurately as it was originally stored.

On the other end of the spectrum we have machines that are so creative we can't control the creativity so it lies and is inaccurate.

What's missing is the machine in the center of these two extremes. A machine that can be creative and factually exact at the same time. We're slowly converging on that goal right now as chatGPT can now use bing to look things up.
I don’t know any ORMs except Zapatos which does what I’m describing with lateral nested joins
Black Holes, Explained by an Astrophysicist
Professor in Jordan sues sleuth who exposed citation anomalies