skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been hoping someone with the right knowledge would do a public update to the Segal method. The stuff that's widely documented wouldn't meet modern code or work as well with modern materials, but that's probably fixable. There also was apparently significant refinement to the methods over time based on lessons from the field and changes in available materials, also not well documented. The core idea still seems good though and with updates it could be an answer for how to lower the cost of backyard cottage type construction.
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BYD overtakes Tesla in Q4 EV sales
Just a bummer that these index funds are unavailable to expats :(
As a biologist who moved into software engineering I love working with actual machines.

You can think of a design, build it and have it work as you expect. You can’t do that in biology.

The reason is that we “understand” how computers work. Our understanding of biology is nowhere near that level. A high percentage of established knowledge is wrong or so incomplete that it’s not useful for designing new systems. This is hard for engineers or even scientists from physics and chemistry to accept.
But I don't prefer using an app over a website in general. For me, the biggest benefit of tabs is is that they don't clutter my task bar or my workspaces and that I can ctrl+tab through them.
People keep getting fatter and fatter and nothing seems to work, except for weight loss drugs or surgery or a small minority of people who can successfully diet without regaining it.

People with cancer or infections not uncommonly lose a lot of weight effortlessly even when they eat more. I think this can offer clues as to the etiology of the obesity problem. That is, the focus should be on metabolism, contrary to the popular belief that metabolism does not matter much or does not vary much individually. Falling mean core body temperatures over the past 100 years can be casual for obesity by slowing metabolism.
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anti-capitalism ideas, so great they're mandatory and a wall built around you so you can't flee to somewhere else - everywhere it's been tried
I wonder why some countries are shutting down 3G but are keeping 2G around for several more years (UK, Germany), while others do the opposite, and yet others can get away with turning off both and going 4G/5G only (like the US).

Maybe it's a function of what type of M2M devices were rolled out most commonly in a country? For example, parking meters and vending machines often communciate via SMS in Germany; that works on 2G, so they might not even have a 3G modem.

On the other hand, I've seen a mobile payment terminal with a built-in 3G modem (but no LTE) that basically became obsolete with the 3G shutdown, since it falls back to GPRS which is hopelessly overloaded and/or just too slow for applications not geared towards it.
Ignore requirements of paying customers because product guy or developer guy knows best. - The Amazon Way(tm)
ChatGPT for Teams
I mean corporations in the multi-billion to trillion dollar definition rather than a small mom-and-pop "corporation". For one I think antitrust legislation should be more thoroughly prosecuted - most notably I think network effects beyond a certain threshold should not be legal. For example, Hacker News has some kind of network effect - network effects are invariably going to happen in society.

But the network effect that Instagram/Facebook/Discord/Twitter/etc. has reaches so far that any teen or young person that wants to be part of digital life must use these corporate ran companies. Having a stronger world wide web and a weaker app based internet would water down some of these network effects.

Automobile companies have network effects because of their historical lobbying that made teen life in the suburbs nearly impossible without a car. I'd like to remove money from politics to remove a lot of these incentives big corporations have to protect their bottom line.

Now... what about a regular company like Nike or Proctor and Gamble or UPS? I think the way you don't create mega corps like those is to prevent globalization with these companies. Keeping supply chains within their own countries would help, for example. Keeping companies like Meta operating within the US or even within California only would create much more competition, and make many smaller companies much wealthier. An Instagram like app operating in only New York would make it much easier for social media competition within New York because there would be limits to how large that app can get. Trying to compete as a new social media company with Instagram is nearly impossible when you're up against a multi billion dollar company with a billion users.

These are all just random theories from some guy (me) on the internet, who knows if any of these would actually work. But I guess the point is I believe in more smaller markets rather than fewer, larger markets.
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> Austerity occurs when the cost of government borrowing becomes so high governments are would be functionally unable to operate in the medium term without brining it down.

That is not why austerity happens, at least in recent history:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...

During the 2010s, when rates were at an all-time low, Very Serious People were going on and on about "expansionary austerity" to boost the economy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansionary_fiscal_contractio...
> PS Would accepting the hyphen actually destroy your database?

IDK but every time I programmatically create an AWS resource, I have to go crawling through masses of disorganized documentation to see what character substitutions to make.

Hyphens do destroy AWS's database. :shrug:
For those who are unable to access the store here is a preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBczU14pnyU
Dask is actually similar to spark in that it will let you compute outside of your computer over multiple machines.

Matt Rocklin (the dask creator) has put some effort into benchmarking across all these recently. You can see the presentation here: https://youtu.be/5YXiRl41DKA?si=5Pt9XQHp5Y1cG7tM

If you don't feel like watching a whole presentation, the main take away is local is faster, until it isn't.

Polars outperforms spark by a wide margin, until data size gets sufficiently large that things swap over.

Some operations can be performance sensitive without having scaling issues. So I guess those kind of jobs are great candidates for something like polars.
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I mean I'm kinda curious in smart machines that I can hookup to my own dashboard or self hosted smart assistant to automate something like make coffee every day at 9am. Or to see how long till the laundry is done.

But I would never let a smart device connect to the cloud aka internet. I'd isolate it on a clan and I'd probably be sniffing the network traffic and autosave the last month of traffic.

I trust my network....I don't trust devices that run who knows what firmware/software.

I know it seems paranoid and to some it probably is but iv read to many storied of smart devices being insecure or the company going under and then you being left with something that dosnt work because it can't talk to their cloud server.

I like the smart tech when I'm in control of the data and not reliant on some company.
Tax Justice Network: Country Profiles
They claim "If your project is in the UK, USA or Netherlands, we can connect you with a WikiHouse structural engineer" [1], so probably?

[1] Step 3 here: https://www.wikihouse.cc/process
> If it alters the mind people will use it for fun

That is not true

There is (usually) no law against atropine and other Deliriants because they are not fun. No fun at all for most people

Drug users generally try those drugs once
It is not the medicine by itself but the whole experience around it. Practitioners feel deeply that the medicine is an essential part of the experience. This raises the question, which I think is a very good one, of what a valid control would even look like.
Life may have been harder and crazier, but the challenges people faced were far more local and solvable. One's community truly needed the upcoming generation of children to step up and help out with their sweat, blood, and tears to keep everything together. That infused purpose and meaning into the struggles.

Now a young person is hyper-aware of how large the world is, how small they are in relation to it, and how all of the big problems that command so much attention are completely beyond the scope of their influence (and are likely to be that way for their entire lives, outside of some astronomically unlikely events).

There's also a somewhat related argument to be made that with the homogenization and erosion of culture in the modern world. We've almost completely lost coming-of-age rituals where adults and elders in local communities induct children into the world of adulthood. Whether by design or by accident, this leaves more and more young adults feeling disconnected, purposeless, and adrift in the world. Which tends to leave many holes to be filled by consumerism and other potentially harmful tenets of modern society, which now includes social media addiction.
The possible need to integrate with other systems that don't. If you tell me your name is (real Unicode Chinese here) but I have to integrate that with a system that requires English letters only, I may be stuck.

There are cases where that happens for real and not just due to other computers not supporting Unicode properly; for example it is completely unreasonable for every postal system in the world to have to support every language in the world for addresses.
Analyzing plot trends for every top-grossing film from the past 50 years
Did the glassmorphic vibes. What tools/libraries did you on the CSS side or is that custom styling?
Well, it seems like when you give people an option to not live in small boxes on top of one another many will take choose that option.

I don’t understand why urbanites have to scream and yell about someone else’s choice to live in the suburbs.
> Emphasis on "cores". Relative to each one of these application processor cores, how many embedded smaller cores doing specialized tasks do you think there are?

Fair point, but the context here is your original comment:

> Great idea, but not a fan of the timing yielding a legacy (ARM) SoC.

So you're talking about the main processing cores of the SoC, the one(s) that are responsible for running the Linux kernel + OpenWRT user space, right?. Not the random other 8/16/32-bit MCUs...
JIT and static typing are not mutually exclusive or necessarily opposed. For example, MKL added JIT for small matrix multiplications quite a while ago.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

I think people just reach for JIT more often in dynamic languages because they carry more information around and have more of a performance deficit that they want to mitigate.

I dunno. I mostly program in Fortran but JIT seems way cool. Fundamentally I don’t see why a JITer couldn’t beat my code in a very dynamic language, it would just need to find a big loop that calls a kernel a bunch of times, where the exact computation in the kernel is determined at run-time, and then jit the kernel and the loop together.
I completely agree, and these are required features for a full app that is planning to reach the world.

It requires a lot of extra work, but real world apps like Figma [0] are rendering directly to the canvas, and frameworks like Flutter offer support for canvas rendering (via Skia's CanvasKit) [1] [2].

I guess my point is that if someone is using WASM to ditch JavaScript, why stop there? Ditch the DOM and CSS too! Render all of the graphics with OpenGl or WebGPU!

There is a class of applications that I want to explore that would be better suited to by doing just that. I don't believe every app should do that, just that for what I want to build, that's where I'm looking at going (hence my "if it were up to me" comment above).

[0] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/renderers

[2] https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/canvaskit/
Or similarly a clbuttic mistake (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clbuttic).
HSBC had this problem. Not sure if it still does, but it's a big enough institution that I feel it deserves being called out.
In my experience, outright forgetting is very rare because an unused err should be a warning, but the following is not nearly as rare as it should be:

if err != nil {
return nil
}

With how boilerplate the correct version is, you learn to skip over it entirely, meaning it can be hard to spot that anything is wrong here. Linters do exist for this now, but they have so many false positives on other error handling cases that most people don't bother with them.
Cybercrooks play dress-up as 'helpful' researchers in latest ransomware ruse
I don’t really understand why certain residential ISPs carry a higher risk score. In some cases the consumer doesn’t have much or any choice over their provider. What’s the reasoning behind this?
I once had a distant co-worker whose entire legal name was "Steel". It was a government job, so I can only imagine what sort of nightmares he went through for payroll.
Not very apt; The accusation here is that the insulation use is overkill, which just means you are installing (and paying for) more material to yield the same performance as less material.
They can be fired but if so the school is still on the hook for paying out the rest of their contract....so, maybe easy to do but painful financially.

Football coach but the same principles apply:
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/12/jimbo-fisher-buyout/
I see it both ways. If you are the type of person Trump targeted with his insults and attacks, which is a lot of people in the US, and you're young and don't really 'get' the political situation, that could cause some significant psychological distress. Imagine you're 17 and the president says "Mersenne and people like them are destroying our country".
Best Buy used to be an AMAZING media company!

To your point, they had everything! And it was all 30% to 40% cheaper than anybody else was selling it. The same was true for movies for a while. Then physical media collapsed. Don't know how Best Buy stays in business these days.
It doesn't look like an IDOR attack. The poster says they had read/write access to the Firebase DB with their Firebase user they registered. It appears they had the database entirely open to all Firebase users. I agree the usage of "splice" in a JavaScript context does imply that they had an IDOR exploit
SEC Hack Adds to Unease over Bitcoin ETF Approval
I enjoy the companionship of ChatGPT when reading articles like this one to get through the jargon, `ELI5: ${articleAbstract}`.
I took way more ibogaine/iboga root than I needed to in my younger dumber days, and couldn't really recommend it in good conscious. Heart issues aside, it has the potential to seriously twist up your mind, and not just short term. I always think of the trip report I read where the narrator is raving about how good his life is now that he has the voice of an African god in his head, guiding him down the right path. Thankfully I never reached those 'heights'.

I'm also curious why 'flood dosing' is so often recommended. A large dose is necessary for interrupting opiate addiction, but I don't see why it should be for PTSD or major depression. Micro dosing over a long period of time, complemented by talk therapy, seems like a much safer bet to me.
When a person tells you they are suffering and in pain, what criteria do you use to determine weather to tell them that their feelings are invalid?
> Brains that understand the natural world do seem to often be generally more likely to produce offspring

I would argue that the evolutionary pressure only applies to a limited level of understanding of the physical world. Think how many kids people like Stephen Hawkings have and how many poorly educated people have.
I was seeing this on Gmail on Linux Firefox about a couple of weeks ago for a week.
DatPiff Uploads Whole Catalog to the Internet Archive
Am I reading it correctly that the authors say it's possible to build organic cellular tissues that mimic parts of the human brain (developing typical markers in the different regions of the developing human fetal brain) from human fetal cells of the brain or spinal cord? And these organoids show signs of electrical activity?

"We thus find that the human developing brain is capable of robustly self-organizing in vitro over multiple passages into a 3D, layered structure."
LLVM is so much easier to work with.

You can get started on reasonable optimizations and be done with a prototype in hours, compared to days or weeks in gcc.
He said if anyone connected to the attackers cashed in on bitcoin’s price swings following the hack, the SEC may never know

hardly. the feds are really good at tracing crypto now
The UA for Desktop Chrome looks like

`Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`

The UA for mobile Chrome looks like

`Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.210 Mobile Safari/537.36`

There is very little here different that could twig an error in the google.com UA handler.

In contrast, the Firefox Mobile one is

`Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:41.0) Gecko/41.0 Firefox/41.0`

They're the only one (I can find) with "Mobile" inside the parens; bet you money the issue is a badly-formatted regex tripping over the paren / symbol combination and thinking that UA describes some deny-listed crawler somewhere (or falls off the end of recognizable UAs and trips a fallback to "Vend nothing").

Since they're always testing on Chrome Desktop, and Chrome Mobile emits an almost-identical UA string, my previous statement holds: issues with Chrome mobile are generally more likely to come up in testing on Chrome Desktop than issues in Firefox Mobile are likely to come up in testing on Chrome Desktop.
Not sure I understand the start here: Twitch Interactive is literally a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon, in the same way that Ring and MGM+ are owned by Amazon. "Clever accounting for tax purposes" aside, it doesn't "pay Amazon" it is Amazon.
I'm pretty sure you have to transpile SPIR-V shaders to GLSL first. WebGPU has its own Rust-inspired language as well.
PagerDuty Considers Options Amid Takeover Interest
Yes! Optimal designs may not be "elegant" from the human perspective. Reminds me of these complex computer generated airframe designs https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-ai-transform....
In some way, neural networks and newer ML models seem to be going in this direction. We are starting to get faster/better results with black boxes than with if-else style code
English translation (for non-crypto owners):

> Until you learn what money really is

Until you agree with me unconditionally,

> you'll have no hope of understanding bitcoin.

You'll see straight through the scam of unregulated currency.

> Bitcoin doesn't need you, you need bitcoin,

You don't need Bitcoin, but Bitcoin holders need your fiat.

> but your attitude gives me zero motivation to help you understand further -

Explaining myself fully or discussing this in detail would prove that I am lying,

> I've got way better things to do with my time, like stacking more bitcoin.

So now I will pretend like my quality-of-life wasn't so bad that I felt obligated to defend Bitcoin online for free in the first place.

I really hope you do have better things to do with your time. It would bum me out if the Jordan Belfort of Bitcoin spent his free time trying to convince the tech industry he's a principled investor. Alas...
What? Don’t accessibility API’s just do OCR?
https://archive.today/qBQpj
Both “the coddling of” and “the righteous” mind were pretty poor scholarship. The kind where the researcher starts with the conclusion and then looks for evidence that confirms the theory. Good science should either neutrally look at the evidence or, when starting with a theory, search for disconfirming evidence. Haidt does neither.

Furthermore, Haidt struggles to accurately represent his ideological adversaries. Another red flag. Disagreement is natural but public intellectuals should be able to effortlessly make a strong case for the positions they have themselves rejected.
This is such a predictable response

I’ll say it for the millionth time:

The Trotskiest-Leninist State-Command Economy (aka USSR) is not the opposite or even that much different than State Capitalism.

I won’t fight this strawman
Did you roll out your own implementation of Outbox pattern? It is an important pattern to address potential data inconsistencies, but I did not see yet a good scalable implementation of it.
> Hanhikivi: Never passed the phase when they tried to certify a Russian reactor for western safety requirements.

Hardly an opportunity to learn how to build reactors efficiently when they didn't build anything.

> Olkiluoto 3: Construction start 2005. Done 2023.

This isn't "other projects", it's the one they brought online in the last 15 years.

> Flamanville: Construction start 2007. Hopefully finished 2024. Five times over budget

> Hinkley Point C: Political decision and construction start 2008. Investment decision 2013. Hopefully done by 2028, costs spiraling. n:th of a kind reactor.

The newest of these was started only 3 years after Olkiluoto 3 and 15 years before it came online. The premise is that you can learn from past efforts, not that you can't make the same mistake concurrently in parallel projects.

These are also each in a different country with a different regulator.

> The problem with nuclear is the Baumol Effect

> France famously experience negative learning by doing in their nuclear program.

The Baumol effect would explain the negative learning, but then that isn't anything unique to constructing nuclear reactors. The cost of constructing wind farms or natural gas plants would be equally affected. So something else is going on here, and the something else has a cause that can be analyzed and addressed. If it was possible to do it in 1975 then it should be possible to do it now.
Which probably means they are storing your password rather than a hash of the password.

I complained about this to my bank when I found out they stored passwords and their response was "don't worry about it - you aren't responsible for fraud".
it was changed after being called out

https://archive.is/jUtip
Why did they turn off comments on their YouTube video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wlLy7hKP4&ab_channel=rabbi...

This smells fishy.
And yet obviously fake Drive shares from "Wells Fargo" or "Chase" get delivered to Inbox
Don’t quit your day job.
Hackers are deliberately "poisoning" AI systems to make them malfunction
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Well, for me there is. As an actual cybersecurity professional I feel bound to not create extra work unless it is for some clear and valuable purpose. Coordinating with the company expends minimal effort and can save them a lot of effort. That is just the right thing to do. It is mostly the wrong, already overworked, people's time getting wasted anyhow if you do trigger an incident or investigation.
I would argue that it is only messy because we are looking at the wrong level of abstraction with an incorrect computational model. At the end of the day, if it has inputs and produces outputs, it is a computing device (i.e. a computer).
It’s worth reading some of the other posts on this blog.

There a lot of very thoughtful consideration that goes into how the data is looked at for every post, and frank and earnest discussions of how much credence their conclusions merit given the quality of the data.
The SEC Got Trolled on Bitcoin ETFs
Famous HP(E) buyouts:

- Digital Alpha: dead
- Digital Storageworks: dead
- Left Hand Networks: dead
- 3par: dead

And these are only the ones that died in my own datacenter; the full list is much longer.