skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chesterton's fence might not be ideal for a fast moving startup. Perhaps it is a better strategy to question the wisdom of anything that existed only for a few month/years. But if we are talking about society-wide or nation-wide changes, Chesterton's fence seams to be quite relevant. It is rather easy to destroy a society, but it is so damn hard to create a prospering society.
Yeah I think it's trying to make a joke about "dark patterns" and pantone colours, and failing miserably.
One reason might be that aluminum reacts with sodium hydroxide (lye), which is used in just about every drain cleaning product.

"Yep, that 5" hole in the side of the pipe sure keeps everything flowing."

Heh.

The manufacturer could put a warning label on it, but you and I both know how well that's going to work in practice.

Edit: oh, and the reaction produces large quantities of hydrogen gas, for extra fun.
for those who didn't know what is RAG offhand (like me),
https://research.ibm.com/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation...
The proposition coding assistants like Copilot and Sourcegraph make, is that they can help in writing code for every programming language, and speed up a lot the process of software development. While this is true, i consider as a lot more relevant discussion, to talk about the end of software development [1]. The end, as in 98% percent will get automated very soon.

Every time i try to generate Rust code, all LLMs perform very good, while by trying to generate untyped code like Scheme, all of them perform okey-ish at best.

Better data can be produced for LLMs, like cargo-public-api to teach the machine about the api exposed and afterwards the code, as well as cargo-modules to teach the machine about the hierarchy of modules and only afterwards the code and so on.

Tricks like that, also mixture of experts architecture for LLMs to second think their response, will put an end to the coding soon. My point is, that coding assistants will not exist soon, because coding will be a thing of the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCl-GeT4jw
I prefer an analog clock because I can read it at a glance without even needing my glasses. Without glasses, a 7 segment display just looks like a row of 8's.
Yes, usually breaches take time to detect, and usually the attackers are around for a while first.

I'm sure they want answers too, but they're working on it, and this is what they have right now.
Dare telling how to build a network to sell art to?
How far does a $762 million deal get you? Doesn't seem like such a huge sum for priority access to next gen 2nm machines, but also hard to judge as a layperson...
Ah, that’s the real explanation for dark matter: massive numbers of Dyson spheres everywhere
Did some DIY in the US (PEX and PVC), now live in nordics; water pipes here are copper (or PEX). Expensive, but basically just really tiny EMT conduit, so totally fine to DIY.
Having lived in the UK, I found the balance between systems to be quite nice. I think that the Imperial System is actually underrated for daily use: most of the measurements are intuitive (based on sensory information and easily visualizable objects) and align better with common uses of measurements (rough approximations and division into equal parts). I think the metric system is beautiful and elegant, but for non-scientific tasks I don’t think it’s as valuable.
Lead isn't used in new copper installations nor in bronze fittings for potable water.
Interesting. Having HTTP/3 layered over the top, which I presume allows for SSL certificates to be applied to the connection, might result in the SSH connection appearing to observers as standard - uninteresting - website traffic.

Assuming one could connect to an SSH server this way and tunnel ports, could this allow for a means to bypass China's GFW?

China's firewall allows http and https connections through however VPNs, SSH and similar are detected upon connection and blocked on demand.

Hiding a VPN connection by tunneling to a remote SSH server over HTTP/3, forwarding the VPN port and connecting to it might fly under the radar as it could be perceived as regular web traffic.

Would be an interesting thing to try.
Why not both? That doesn't mean it's necessarily a good thing at extremes.

Lets imagine a fully automated world where 10 billionaires own all the land. For them productivity is pretty much infinity. They push a button and robots make it happen.

But the 6th person that is not part of the owner class is effectively screwed in this world. They don't got no land, and they don't got no robots. They have no means of supporting themselves. The only way they'd survive is by slumming off for scraps of the wealthy.

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This is the question many of us are asking now. As things become more automated, what value are you going to add to require the ruling class to keep you around?
Copyright is rent seeking
"barely been growing" is still growing - and a reversal of the much needed drop that occurred during the pandemic years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

There's still a lot of FUD about the need for change coming from the major fossil fuel players who are knowingly responsible for the current situation:

Best estimates show a total of 1,499 gigatons of global-warming–exacerbating CO2 have been added to the Earth's atmosphere by the actions of us humans since 1751, only 342 gigatons of those were emitted up to 1964 — 23 percent of the total emissions during those 213 years, which was 80 percent per cent of that full time frame.

On the other hand, 1,157 gigatons were emitted between 1965 and 2015 — that’s 77 percent of total emissions emitted during only the remaining 20 percent of the period in question.

Again: 77 percent of total emissions have taken place since fossil fuel companies became aware of what the dangers of burning their products would be.

"Instead of using that knowledge to change their business practices, or to alert the public or policymakers about what the dangers of burning fossil fuels would be, they’ve doubled down on their business models. They have funded climate obstruction on every level from global to local."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/16/fossil_fuels_wildfire...
This is almost certainly normal activity under a 10b-5 plan, meant to protect specifically against suspicion of insider trading, which is what you’re implying.
Based on that lifecycle doc, the 4.2 line is already EOL, and 4.4 will be soon.
Obviously there are different points of view on this point, but I view transparency and regularity as orthogonal features.

Crypto is easy to make both transparent and regular.
When will Tether implode?

I've been reading about how that is imminent here for 3 years now.
People have gotten a lot taller in the last several millennia. Perhaps our island just earth itself?
AI Workforce Is Already Coming for Junior Developer Jobs on Wall Street
Traceable via otherwise anonymous addresses. It’s the de-anonymization that’s hard.
As a slight tangent to your question- kdb/Q works beautifully with numpy, it’s very useful being able to work with numpy from the q prompt and pass objects between the environments.
Embarking on a Journey of Innovation
posted this three months ago, where am i at now? tbh nothing close to what i initially planned, got a lot of things that sort of drifted me away from this, but hopefully very soon i'll get back on track, maybe with even better ideas and actually working on it and not just writing about it. let's see what life has in plan either way, build...live life...be happy.

seeing how this does on here lol :)
Twitter is a private organization, and like all private companies, they get to decide for themselves what is acceptable on their platform. Individuals also decide what they find acceptable and choose to be on a platform or not.

Twitter is free to have such ads if they like and the journalist is free to report on what kind of content they find on Twitter. It helps more people know and decide if they want to stay on Twitter. I've left because of the content problem, generally, not just ads. Elon gutted the moderation team and went with a sorta free speech absolutism. The fallout from that decision is increase spam, hate speech, and toxicity. The good people and advertisers are in an exodus.
Nitter mirror for those who can't see the thread due to loginwall: https://nitter.unixfox.eu/gorhill/status/1735718771908628724
Problem really isn't during the employment. It comes after it ends. If you tie your housing to being employed, it can mean that you will get kicked out if you quit. And this could happen in multitude of ways.

People in USA already worry about losing their health care, but what about also losing your home?
I've tried implementing ima+evm. Not hard to setup but very hard to maintain securely. It would require distros and package managers to support it but every distro is still stuck in the 90's with their anti-pki ideology. Imagine if every system managed binary was cryptographically authenticated? Like macos and windows (well, windows has holes as always).

Another issue is, IMA isn't used much so I am not confident about adequate security research/scrutiny having been performed to bypass/disable it.
Maybe it was put there by aliens from the future to punish earth for their sins? Sounds familiar somehow.
I get the impression that a dark mode/dark theme isn't a priority for YC, even though it seems to be a priority for more than a few users of HN. I doubt YC puts a ton of resources into this site, which could be another reason a dark mode/theme is taking a long time to appear.
This is what I referred to as "speculation" in the literature for life's origins on Earth. This speculation is a good first theoretical stab... or it might not be. Until life is created from inorganic matter in a laboratory (enabling us subsequently to estimate how rare or not it might be elsewhere in the observable universe), we should substantially dial back our confidence from "life is likely extremely plentiful throughout the universe at one point in time or another".
> Isn’t that what XWayland does, except for the fact that it runs X Windows windows inside a full screen Wayland window?

I don't know. But if it does so, how does it integrate wayland windows with X windows? How does it stop X programs from observing the window contents of wayland programs?
I'm just surprised there seems to be no bridge whatsoever between the two.

Like the developer asks, "what's the address to set this bit?" and the tourist responds with whatever it is.
We already had search engines for our walking encyclopaedias, which the chat bots can use if we tell them to. The hard part is making the physical androids walk without falling over, but even that got much easier when someone realised they could be trained in simulations and what they learned would transfer to the real world.
A subscription is different from a one-off exchange. The expectation is for it to continue.
This is the 3 hour video of the final apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGdPE_C9u8

The bit where Andrew Ngai's scores dont correctly update seems to be at about 24:00

Hope someone can make a highlights reel or something?
This is true. You can tease dogs with it before throwing, and they'll be all over you. A cat will watch you acting silly, waiting for you to finally throw it (unless they get bored of you first).

At least that's my experience.

Incidentally, the laser pointer is the only thing that almost all of my pets have universally chased. Cats. Dogs. Even fish chase it at the bottom of the tank! Just be careful to not get it in their eyes.

Interestingly our various birds have never seemed to care much about it at all.
> My understanding of crypto (having worked in the industry for years) is that it's not about decentralisation so much as it is about reliability and transparency.

None of those have panned out. Reliability and transparency aren't there either, because the state of crypto so far is that people keep on falling for scam after scam and getting screwed.

No, just like with the original concept of "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", there's very few true believers that are into it for any such reasons like decentralization, reliability or transparency.

The vast, vast majority just wants to get rich. It's that simple. The technical merits or characteristics of the underlying system are completely unimportant to the vast majority.
Why come ask a question if you apparently have inside information that contradicts the answers you get?
Maybe it's to convey a lack of precision, "quarter till 3" is ambiguous and could be anywhere from around 2:41-2:49 (pretty much any time the minute hand is past 40 and before 50), while if you say 2:45 you generally mean 2:45 (2:40, of course is "20 till 3", but is also a bit ambiguous)

It feels easier and more natural to round to the nearest 5 or 15 minutes with an analog clock than a digital clock. But I grew up in a time when analog clocks were the norm and digital clocks and watches were an expensive novelty (or used for special purpose clocks) so I became used to analog clocks (and use an analog display on my watch, even though I could just as easily set it to a digital display).

When I do use a digital clock, I generally read the time that's displayed, I don't mentally round to the nearest 5 or 15 minutes, only with an analog clock.
It’s only year 1. Sooner than later it’ll feel silly not to accept it.
Asked 11 years ago and still going strong... "To what extent are 'lost data' criticisms still valid of MongoDB?" - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10560834/to-what-extent-...
They did solve many problems, and then they caused many more problems...

At first at least, haven't checked in on that in awhile
Bilipid membrane is not necessary for life - life may have evolved inside naturally occurring bacteria sized pores inside inorganic material.
Canada and Australia are also pretty car oriented.

I did notice that in parts of the US nighttime lighting of even some major urban and suburban roads can be nonexistent. I wonder if it’s more common in Canada and the US.
We regained dashboard access around 5:15 pm ET.
The difference is which goes up, GDP or unemployment.
Just based on some price familiarity with previous generations and extrapolating forward, that does seem like a contract for one machine with a gold-plated service contract or two machines with a good service contract. It seems to me more like a pilot program, but Samsung is a very significant player in semi so idk... I'm not familiar enough with this industry. It could just be because it's very early in the generation.
You're worrying about second or third order problems when we have a massive problem right now. There are no solutions to housing affordability that don't have risks or hurt someone. Not acting and allowing for this insane market to continue would be far worse than dealing with problematic company towns in the future.
> This is, at best, security through obscurity, which can be layered on any network protocol (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking); this implies that the authors don't have much of a security background...?

This isn't security through obscurity. The url would be a secret. This is a form of capability security, where to connect to the server you must be able to name the server.

A URL with a secret is, in my opinion, far more sane than port knocking, and will be much more efficient as well.

> (i.e. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/148292/why-is-o...)

Your link doesn't support your statement at all. No one there answers "here's why oid is less secure", they say the opposite.
Mentioned in the infinite monkey cage, big things also get smaller when on islands, as though there is an ideal size.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gr7m49
Not a greater concern than the possibility of losing your rented apartment from eviction; or losing your home over unpaid HOA assessments.

As long as the mindset is right that this is free rent, it might not be worse than many apartments in the area that can only be afforded through that job anyway.
> If that's the aim then just state that.

At the top of the first page, under the Chimera Linux logo: "A modern, general-purpose non-GNU Linux distribution"
The first two lines of the abstract are enjoyable. Worth skimming just for that!
Came here to paste the same quote, just to highlight how disconnected from reality can be advertising "does not have to require endless setup" and then describe a rolling update distro, focused on power users and based on FreeBSD userland with a Linux kernel.
It could be lot worse. At least with other capitalist there is some competition.

But with company owned housing you could have setup of them giving discounts to employees. And this discount effectively being part of compensation.

So when you change job, you would need much higher change in compensation or you would have to leave...

Tenant protections of not being immediately kicked out when you are laid-off or resign could be circumvented in many ways...
SSH over HTTP/(url) is a killer feature if you're working on hostile networks that block SSH and go even as far as to try and detect the protocol over the wire.
My partner's been using ChatGPT to correct everything. But I suppose that doesn't really help improve your ability to write. It does improve the writing itself, though.
> Well, books also continue to fail a lot of people

Yes, because learning is hard. A book is not a guarantee that you'll learn something - but neither is any other sort of resource.

The thesis of this discussion is that "books don't work" and that's blatantly false. Maybe there's certain people for whom they really "don't work", but as a general statement, it's false.

> Which topic do you think can't benefit from one?

I don't need fancy data visualisation if I read up on the history of the Roman Empire, for example. Or if I want to read Plato. Or to understand axiomatic set theory.

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I'll just put it differently: if you prefer other kinds of resources and they work for you - great. But to say "books don't work" just means that you artificially limit the things you learn. Writing books is comparatively easy (if you're an expert in the area). Doing fancy interactive experiences etc. requires much more time, skill, knowledge etc. - there's probably 3 to 4 orders of magnitude more stuff that has been written in books than has been made available through other means, so saying "books suck" means just locking yourself out of a lot of stuff.
I think it's "worth remembering" precisely because it seems not to be the base case anymore! To see this, just look at all the expressions of confidence in life's ubiquity throughout the rest of this thread!
Not just not GNU: they also ditch systemd for dinit, syslog-ng and a bunch of homegrown plumbing:

> We are also putting a lot of effort into writing fresh low-level plumbing. For example, Chimera comes with first-class and built-in support for user services and other things dependent on session tracking (such as a shared session bus), implemented from scratch thanks to our Turnstile project, finally bringing functionality previously only available on distributions using systemd. This is being implemented in a vendor-independent manner so that other distributions can adopt it.
> Strawman

He isn't arguing against a strawman, i.e. a misrepresented argument, he's saying the issue is not what OP claims and saying the issue is something else.

> Ad Hominem

He isn't using insults in place of an argument, he is including insults with his argument, so it's not an ad hominem.

> False Dilemma

He isn't falsely reducing the choices down to two or a few, he's just asking why Apple's customers don't act a certain way or have a problem with something.

> Hasty Generalization

What is it you think he is incorrectly generalizing to support his overall argument?

> Appeal to Emotion

He might be including emotional language, but he isn't relying on people feeling a particular way to agree with him at all. There is no appeal to emotion.

> One more for free; Begging the Question...

What question do you think he is ignoring/assuming to have been answered in making his claim?
You jest, but given America’s preference for traditional units of measure, I’m amazed they adopted a decimal currency to begin with.

Pretty sure they’d still be on the Julian calendar if Britain hadn’t switched over before American independence, too. Think about the bullet we dodged there, programmers who hate time zones.
Life is much more than a mix of ingredients. A dead bacteria cell has all the ingredients needed for life, but is not alive.
My “inside information” is just basic knowledge of the software industry. If MongoDB is growing is like claiming Morbius is a good movie. It’s just silly. Go ahead disagree with be, but it’s kinda silly.
I'd agree with you. The readme calls out "Significantly faster session establishment" and goes into greater detail later on.

> Establishing a new session with SSHv2 can take 5 to 7 network round-trip times, which can easily be noticed by the user. SSH3 only needs 3 round-trip times. The keystroke latency in a running session is unchanged.

I, for one, can say that sometimes session establishment can take a little while but not to the extent that it would be a selling point (so to speak) for me to adopt SSH3.
What real problem does it solve?
No, €80,000 luxury cars are not doing the same as the economy cars are. Their job is more than just point A to point B. You can get electric cars for much less than that if you dont care about luxury and signaling.
Copper piping is unfortunately several orders of magnitude more susceptible to corrosion from a variety of sources: water acidity, high temperatures, and exposure to common household chemicals like bleach and drain cleaner.
They had it, it was Google.
But it isn't just free rent. You have to move when you get fired. You can't just start paying rent and stay.
It's really cool, but I get worried anytime I see something that seems to want to be a user friendly, mainstream distro, after seeing how hard Manjaro tried with the whole "Bring simplicity to the masses" stuff and how many issues they still have.

Is this an experimental or hobby distro or does it intend to be something grandma can use?

If I had to choose this or BSD, it looks like I'd very strongly considering this or something like it, but it definitely doesn't seem like an Ubuntu or Windows replacement. Simplicity is just not a factor end users consider.

As a dev who likes modern software and isn't really into lightweight hacker friendly stuff... the odds of me using anything that's not at least 1% or total desktop market share is pretty low. Anyone who's not an Arch/Kali/BSD/suckless enthusiast type has a finely tuned sense of "Oh no, that makes me feel the same way that thinking about a project car does, I'm outta here".

It could drill be a wonderful worthwhile project... but it's going to be an uphill battle to interest anyone but tinkerers and I always kind of worry about people, because this stuff takes a lot of time and without managed expectations it can really be a disappointment when it doesn't take off. I've tried several times to start new projects and it's been pretty hard realizing they're unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon.

I think getting any mainstream adoption would require changing the entire software ecosystem in general. I would imagine there would be some kind of issues trying to port current mega apps like Steam or Chrome to this.

Plus, dynamic linking seems like it's not that well suited to user friendly distros meant for end users.

Unless you have snap or Flatpak or something like that, I don't see how you can have cutting edge large complex third party packages without at least occasional compatibility issues.

My experience with dynamic distros generally hasn't been terrible, but it always seems like there's some issue or other.

Does this have any kind of AppArmor type sandboxing?