skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books are good, but don’t underestimate the power of overcomplicated home networking as a teaching project. Pick up some gear and VLAN your network so all the IoT stuff is on its own network away from your protected devices (also make it so IoT devices can only talk to the WAN). Set up a guest network. Make it so you and guests can stream to your streaming devices but guests can’t ping your protected devices (this one is a whoooole thing involving MDNS and reflectors). Set up a site-to-site Wireguard VPN with a cloud VNet (try it without using Tailscale first). Set up a Pi-Hole, then DNAT all DNS traffic to it. Come up with a fun naming scheme for your machines (mine are all ships from The Expanse). Set up DNS nicely so you never have to remember IPs. Anyway, those are just some ideas that come to mind.
Even though this laptop seems to be a bit impractical and really made for very specific (hacker) use cases, it's great to see more open hardware options coming up.

Hopefully MNT will use the same philosophy and design a
more main stream laptop with better ergonomics and a faster processor in the future. Then it could be something, I would consider purchasing.
By Rock, it seems they mean guitars. No doubt the industry was dripping with greed and corruption, but what does that have to do with the growth of the synths, drum machines, Hip Hop, etc.?

Tastes change. Rock became one of many genres. Case closed.

p.s. And if you still want Indie guitars I would start with Fontaines DC.
There is at least one (I would say rather nice looking!) nuclear power plant that was build in arid climate & is cooled by evaporating treated waste water:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...

Also you can reduce the heating requirements to use some of the waste heat for district heating. Modern heating pipelines have negligible losses even over dozens of kilometers, you you can heat even quite distant cities. Such a project is now in the works here in Brno:

https://energycentral.com/news/czech-nuclear-plant-dukovany-...

Though its just an older project that has finally been restarted:

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:13700211

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:20085810
Are there any books or resources to learn troubleshooting, debugging with linux networking. Like I can read the books and know the theory, but deploying the theory in reality needs a lot of intuition that can only be gained through experience.

That's what all the training materials are missing. I want to fast track this section with practical practice problems.
Bold move given the current job market. Always a risk, but seems especially so in 2024. Hope it works out!
Wow, so much to rage about.

Radio appears to deserve most of the wrath — or rather Corporate Radio™ as brought about by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. If radio is dying, it should and it deserves it.

I confess that I would so embrace the widespread emergence of pirate radio stations. Honestly, there is nothing worthwhile for me on the dial anyway.

And then there is the record industry itself that deserves so much blame. I remember when CD's came out and started to displace vinyl. We were told the high price of the CD would come down to the price of vinyl. Records were about $8 or so at the time, CD's double that. Yeah, no, that never happened.

The post makes it clear what we all knew — the music industry was raking in the cash reselling us our albums at twice the price with little overhead.
Great let’s just have 2 vendors in every industry in the world with a combined 90% market share.
Why paying bonuses to employees isn't always a good idea
wait until you learn about 'engineered beams'

I shudder thinking about all the structures built with those things that're one undetected bathtub drain leak away from serious structural failure.
It has more parameters, but not all of them are used during inference. They compared models that use equal numbers of parameters.
Wait until you hear what people do under the effects of alcohol!
It looks like Indexhibit is still around, which is really a wonderful framework for folks with a lot of visuals.

(Edited to add link because I accidentally hit send...)

https://www.indexhibit.org/
I do think OpenAI has a point in what they're saying: if we expect human-level competency of AI, it needs to be able to see and train on human-accessible content and ideally with a similar distribution.

For example, I make an open source Firefox web extension for filtering internet content with my own classifier. That literally would not be able to exist without being able to be trained on web content, much of which is copyrighted. Requiring that I somehow either a) use only attributed data or b) detect and not use copyrighted content when trying to build something representative of my source distribution (e.g. the web) sounds like a recipe for a poor outcome. Now maybe my addon isn't your cup of tea - but what if you found out that the next generation of uBlock Origin etc. could not be as effective because of legislation because it wanted to use an AI model? Legislating too heavily around this area will, I believe, have a tremendous chilling effect for small businesses and open source folks trying to innovate in AI.

I've also worked commercially in the creation of two closed source machine learning models, but the domains were restricted enough that web content was not a particularly helpful input. One did all right, and one did not. Seeing bets succeed and fail gives me appreciation for the long-term and uncertain bets that OpenAI has been making for ages finally coming to fruition. I think without businesses being willing to make those bets the GPU-hours would have been hard to pay for.

I've wondered if potentially a different way out of this is not restricting the use of copyrighted material in the training process itself, but rather to instead only consider the created final works. Of course there are thorny problems there, too, but I don't see that having the same chilling effect on research and probably a lesser effect on business as well. One thing I think is clear though: we've reached a tipping point in the US similar to 1998 when the DMCA was legislated where the technology is forcing us to think carefully about what copyright means.

So I have question for those on HN who have meaningfully worked in the creation of not just AI-generated content, but in the creation of some AI model that others use freely or commercially: what seem like promising paths forward here?
Or to those working in copyright law (like @williamcotton): how do you see the status quo and potential paths forward?
Propofol is a useful, well-tested anesthetic. Michael Jackson abused it and discovered the consequences, but that doesn't make it any less legitimate of a drug.
i think so, if they didn't have any other sources of randomness; even the traffic on the can bus would give them all the same 'random' bits if they started at the same time
I'm coming to this conclusion as well.

Something like DynamoDB can be great for simple data. I liked the idea of Graphql (technically the API query and not the database). Both of them turn into hot garbage once you get into complex data, especially if it's being aggregated from multiple sources. Or maybe the systems I work with just implemented them poorly.
I hope this OS becomes main stream
Sounds like OP (as with many reading Top-Down) don’t really care about physical layer.
Rock looked pretty good at the 4 Phish shows last week at MSG!
I would not say a subreddit is a good representation of a movement that existed long before it
Do you write software for a living, or at least write scripts, deal with complexity, ambiguity, and humans?

I think both the moderator and I are trying to explain to you that you can't talk to people on HN like this because because it's not what the forum is for. That's all.
I think it’s NixPlay. I think they’re commodified though so I don’t know how much brand matters.
Propagation suffers from the leaking problem. Rust has solutions for that, but it's not clear how that translates to Go, hence why the "try" proposal failed. I'm sure there is some solution out there, but nobody has come up with a good one. It turns out if nobody does the work, the work doesn't get done.

Again, needing to be explicit about your intent to do anything with an error is faulty. The values are not dependent. Just because some languages have gotten it wrong doesn't mean they all should.
>Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production

For the record this exact thing does exist for bigger streamers. See Ludwig for example, he switched to YouTube exclusively because it was a better deal than his twitch offer.
I use dictation in Google doc to write official docs. It's time saving and I'm pretty sure it's powered and improved by ai
> What to do now, what to do...

csco beckons thee
I think it's more a sign that Go will eventually pick up (some of/all of) the features people complain of it missing, in time. Maybe when it's a complete language it will still be simple; maybe trying to keep it artificially simple now will hamper it later. Remains to be seen.
I don't understand why multicast isn't used. I imagine starlink multicast will become a thing and maybe we will all get transceivers. Everything old will becomes new again...
Cloudflare is operating a VPN service without using its name? Are you sure it’s not someone else forwarding their traffic through Cloudflare (as common with many v2ray providers)
Marine plywood is a thing that obviates the problem somewhat. Admittedly though, a very very expensive thing.

When that's factored in, you may as well build with straw bales. (really, it is great, and much cheaper)
They should have ceremonially defenestrated him from a ground floor window.
for classic network programming that's relatively hands on and has a lot of examples, beej's guide to network programming is great (and free online):

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
To be fair, the cannibal that ate his children looked up how to do it on Google.
Actually, these active flow control concepts can shape the flow so much that it's possible to create ridiculous L/D, and even create negative drag in certain regimes. So it's possible to be paying for a compressor and have it still come out ahead.
>> Honestly, the entire web stack isn't great: HTTP, HTML, CSS and JS were all designed in an era where websites were documents viewed on desktop computers, not responsive interactive apps that can replace everything from email to Photoshop.

We've had and discarded, that already. Flash was a different platform, much more powerful, better UI, very good response times, and so on. It was supported in every browser. Building a Flash app was common, done a lot, and well paid.

But there were unexpected consequences.

Flash apps were not searchable, or deep-linkable. (It turns out, that's a big deal).

Their UI was "fixed". You might not love CSS but it's amazing when it comes time to refresh the look of a site.

Accessibility for less-than-perfect-ableness was non existent. HTML has accessibility front and centre. Screen Readers, zooming etc.

Maintainence sucked. Change the source, recompile, redeploy. Whereas HTML, CSS and JavaScript are all source that can be edited on the fly, on the server. Sure, you're not doing that on big production servers, but for the long, long, tail of small sites, it makes maintainence a lot easier.

Learning is harder. To learn Flash I have to learn Flash. To learn CSS,if I see something I like, I can inspect it to see how it's done. (Oh, line-spacing, good to know you, I like what I see you doing.)

HTML is easier to scrape, and automate. That may be good, or bad depending on your perspective, but there's no shortage of "we integrate with x" (where x has no API) by "driving" the web site externally.

So yeah, I can see the value in talking about JavaScript, but the benefits of HTML and CSS are well understood. We tried replacing them. It didn't go well.

(I've avoided talking about the security nightmare that adding a Flash, ActiveX, Java Applet, caused. Or CPU usage. Those are issues with implementation, not the concept. But for those who weren't around, it ultimately killed all of them.)
Pivotal begins US sales of the light eVTOL Helix
I don't think it's a comparable situation.

A lot of Tesla drivers, especially the early ones, are part of some kind of cult. Think about all the people who paid thousands of USD/Euro to buy a license to "Autopilot is coming in two weeks", to still haven't gotten any return on investment at all (over here in Europe it is not available at all).

And I am saying this having bought my Tesla three years ago.

Also, while their build quality is pretty terrible compared to oldschool car manufacturers, with the exception of Autopilot most of their build quality problems are not safety related. Think of the excellent Euro NCAP Safety test results, for example. It's more like that you know that if you buy a Tesla you can not expect the wipers to be any good at cleaning the window, or the doors not being aligned properly.

My impression is that Tesla has a very good QA, but with a policy of "we'll ignore all cosmetics".

Boeing on the other hand does appear to have completely broken QA processes in the safety sector. Their priorities might be the opposite of Tesla's. Kind of "It's OK if it explodes as long as it looks nice while doing so".

:)
https://electric-sql.com/

https://www.powersync.com

https://watermelondb.dev

https://replicache.dev
Said this last time Atuin popped up, but absolutely love it. I’m by no means a power user but there’s just something so elegant about the UX of combined shell history across multiple machines.
DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are old hat and implemented by anyone serious for years. What's buried in this article is the required https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058 support for one-click unsubscribe posts. I don't see many messages in my inbox yet with that.
"Networking for Systems Administrators" by Michael W. Lucas.

In retrospect, should've been called "Networking for programmers". Short. Concise. Examples for all operating systems including Windows. That will get you started. After that, to level-up, any book with good ratings would do. And you will also know which part of the networking stack you want to learn more about, thus, you'd pick the correct book for yourself. But this one is a must have if you're feeling very uncertain about your understanding of networking concepts and how everything glues together.
Super cool work!
Model = geometric space

Translation = geometric operation
Oh my god, I had this same idea (but never made it! probably wouldn't know how to implement proof of work).

I thought this was pretty specific... trust the internet to show me I have never had an original thought.
With a bit of math, it should be possible to devise a sequence of zlib flush blocks (and other tricks) that don't affect the PNG checksum, either.

As for the "other tricks", you can get 10 bits of do-nothing padding by starting and immediately ending a fixed-huffman block, and various other lengths by starting and immediately ending dynamic huffman blocks. I use the former in unPNG[1] to pad things out to word boundaries, for alignment.

[1] https://github.com/davidBuchanan314/unpng
This is not new at all. I did this 2-3 years back to find the phone number of some teachers/classmate with some random open source tool on GitHub.
Twitch Laying Off 35 Percent of Its Workforce in Latest Round of Staff Cuts
This seems like only 1 aspect of what's broken now.

Interviewer:

First, congratulations, out of the 13000 applications we received, our AI selected yours for further consideration.

Now please take this test on the chemistry of lignin, and it's reactions. If you don't hear back with your results, it's because we decided not to persue a relationship at this time...

After the test, we will ask you to build a mock tudor house from rosewood. It should take no longer than a few days.

Again, if you don't hear back...

Then you will have an email interview with a junior from our Department of Talent, where we'll grill you on any blemishes in your record.

Following that, assuming you hear back from us, there will be a psuedo-scientific psychology and personality test.

By this point, some weeks or even months later, we may well have already hired internally, or just dropped the hiring requirement (even if it actually existed), but assuming we still need someone, you will then have a brief video call with whoever happens to be free in the department, to discuss wood and possibly carpentry, and houses and such ...

There will be 3 such interviews, and, assuming you hear back, you will then move to the next round, where we will ask you to build a ship's hull, and carve a medieval gargoyle ...

...

Thank you for your application to the role of 'nailgun operator'. Here at L'Arborious, we are passionate about hiring the top 0.01% of talent!
Oh my, they nailed this!
The military nuclear industrial complex needs civvy nuclear power to share an industrial ecosystem and skills base. They run expensive PR campaigns to manufacture consent for subsidies. Those PR campaigns work.

Loud PR campaigns dont work on everybody but can reliably convince a large % of people to believe most things.
Obviously in real code you need to return a new error each time, not simply pass on the error you received. In actual usage, it seems that one line is going to become painfully long, or span multiple lines in some way. Do you still think that is an improvement once you move past this contrived example?
Simple tools like this are not to be underestimated. This random egg boil time calculator is solely responsible for me having perfectly boiled eggs the past few years: https://www.omnicalculator.com/food/eggs

(the main three variables that dramatically alter boil time are soft vs hard boiled, starting temp [e.g. refrigerated vs room temp], and egg weight)
Is there material written in text or books? Always have a hard time learning from videos.
This is also a much healthier way to live life
The irony here is carpenters aren't generic. You don't hire "a carpenter", you hire a cabinetmaker, a framer, a fine woodworker, a cooper. It would be ridiculous to hire a framer for cooperage.

Most people doing tech hiring are idiots. But most people getting hired are also idiots. So I think it all shakes out about even. If the results actually mattered, we would have some kind of industry wide standards, people would need to understand the tools they use or computer science, etc. That's not really the case anymore. You can hire any monkey who's gone through a boot camp and they'll fake like they know what they're doing pretty well. The work will be shit, but you can sell shitty work as long as it looks good to the customer.
"X drug was bad for one single person, therefore it is bad for everyone in all situations and should be outlawed."
> My point is that you don't need a psychedelic to cure depression of PTSD.

That’s quite the standard. Obviously there’s some depression and PTSD treated in other ways. But maybe this treatment does better in some cases over alternatives. That makes it valuable.
No, PNaCl used LLVM initially and was working on a faster compiler internally (SubZero) before we refocused efforts on Wasm. You might be referring to the effort to port V8's compiler(s) to emit sandboxed code, but that was never merged into mainstream V8.
> Timeline (DD/MM)

> 06/01 - Vulnerability Discovered

> 09/01 - Write-up completed & Emailed to them

> 10/01 - Vulnerability patched

Note those dates are DAY-MONTH. At least they patched it within a single day.

I find it funny that the author found a massive vulnerability but chose to wait a couple days to report it so they could finish a nice write-up.

Reminds me of my experience with HackerOne: We had some participants who would find a small vulnerability, but then sit on it for months while they tried to find a way to turn it into a larger vulnerability to claim a higher prize.

Then when they finally gave up on further escalation and submitted it, they'd get angry when we informed them that we had already patched it (and therefore would not pay them). The incentives in infosec are weird.
Ask HN: Hackable Laptops for Young Kids
I want to get a laptop suitable for a kid under 5 where I could load what I want instead of the typical "50+ lessons, games and music". Does anyone know about anything suitable?

Unfortunately, I am software engineer, and making one from a custom case, RPi, etc is not an option.
Probably any college radio station is going to be similar.

The point they make in the article though is that with the death of the industry we no longer have a collective listening experience.

It's like the insane movie streaming world we live in now. Ever hear people these days around the water cooler?

Ann: "Been binge-watching Undersea Cable Warriors — amazing."

Bob: "Haven't seen it, me and the S.O. are hooked on The Harmonograph Mystery."

Carol: "Wow, Return to Topkapi was amazing. Anyone else see it?"

:

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More like, because it's so damn hard to get reasonable rates paid for small developers solar projects power output?
Unfortunately, this is the type of interview you get when you don’t do the god awful LC kind.

I personally like the untimed take home + a conversation about the job. It’s not difficult to come up with a take home which can’t be “cheated” easily, and as a candidate I can look at the take home and decide at some point I don’t want the job that much.
Pretty sure, because the static ip-addresses were offered only for the servers located in very specific countries and particular locations - namely in the US & Canada. And, "coincidentally", that's were the ip-address of their website was.

In addition, they were very adamant about advertising how a static-ip address would relieve you, the customer, of the pains of captchas and thus be whitelisted.
Rooted: The Good the Bad and Freedom of Choice
Shell Taskfile
Secgov X Account did not have two-factor authentication
Does anyone know a way to run recent kernels like 6.8 on AWS?
I’m not a parent nor am I a teen so take my comments with a grain of salt. The one thing that has consistently jumped out to me on this topic is how quickly people seem to jump to convenient answers. Of course you can’t ignore the rise of social media since 2010, but what about the level of control, structure, and surveillance that most young people have been subjected to over the same arc of time? That gets no attention, possibly because it’s an inconvenient truth for a lot of parents who prefer it that way.
the fact that there's a whole crowd here that think the old guard actually got hacked by dastardly crypto punks instead of just their own incompetence with scheduling a tweet
Ibogaine can be tricky as a therapeutic because it carries cardiac risk and because it lasts extremely long (>20h)

There was a pilot programme in my city to treat severe addiction with ibogaine but afaik the idea was abandoned because of the cardiac risk and the patients need supervision for such a long period.
Games for which Nintendo has chosen to grant licenses and manufacturing to produce the cartridges and been paid for the privilege. It's exactly as limited as the online store, but sold as plastic instead of bits. There's no homebrew Switch games at your Best Buy.