skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people say they want something until they have to pay for it. Then suddenly they change their minds because invariably it costs more than the cheapest alternative or some other excuse.

Sure, some people will still buy it, but it will be a tiny fraction of those who said they wanted the product.
Is the left banner just random or does it encode a message?
I think 2FA physikal tokens like yubi key will also play a big role.

And honestly, I fear that most people just don't care
After registering, almost every post was related to nazi substack drama... I don't get it. I've also used Threads and it's a much more chilled app...
> Given that the street is roughly 1km in length, at least some of the work could probably have been done in parallel with multiple crews.

This is routine in Asia. Just look at this video remodeling a railway station in just a few hours [1].

For that to work though, the construction companies need to have the backing of the government that there will always be budget to keep these people employed - even for supposedly "low skill" work such as road construction, recruiting and onboarding costs are significant. But when government appears to be in budget crisis to everyone reading a newspaper, no reasonable construction company will hire more workers than they could also use for private projects (e.g. home construction, garden remodelings, ...) if the government decides to undergo yet another shutdown.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbZqqLra9k
There’s an easy explanation I haven’t seen anyone touch on. When you’re an existing employee, the company has more power. When you are a candidate, you have more power
sooner or later, this is gonna hit you so hard in the butt you will feel it in your mouth.

your gvt will deeply regret this move someday. it's beyond stupid.
That only works if all governments cooperate sincerely to this goal. Not gonna work. Everyone will develop in secret. Have we been able to stop North Korea and Iran from developing nuclear weapons? Or any motivated country for that matter.
If you want an example read all of https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2007/5.html
> Nothing about me responding will be fruitful nor would it be liked by HN (not fellow readers but the mods. Hi Dang ;-)

Who cares? Don't run away after making a claim without evidence. The parent comment wants strong evidence to your claim. Don't say "Just Google it" or "Ask ChatGPT" as the burden of proof is on you.

This is you:

Claim:

> He already said “crazy shit”.

The request of evidence:

> Did he? Like what?

You:

.....

This is the sort of discussion that happens when one is asked to substantiate their claims and is unable to do so. In fact by you doing this, you already broke the guidelines anyway. [0]

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are already putting copies of your fingerprints everywhere, by just touching stuff.

Fingerprints, like all biometrics are not a secret like a password. The point is to assess your physical presence. When used with a phone, your fingerprints are not securing your data, the phone, as a physical device does ("something you have"). The fingerprint is a second factor ("something you are"), a way to make sure the device is in your hands and not someone else's hand.

Security depends on the sensor device. That is, how good it is a making a difference between your actual, live finger and something else.

If you are worried about the security of your phone fingerprint sensor, use a password. Your fingerprint itself is already available to anyone who cares.
Quite a lot of them even have blue ticks, meaning they're paying for the privilege.

It all stems from the "free speech" unwillingness to ban accounts, and gutting the account-banning teams. As well as the very real problem that some of the big grifters that he loves on the platform also love their inflated follower counts.
You dont even need anything that advanced. Most biometric scanners can be bypassed with a gummy bear!

https://www.theregister.com/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fi...
Accessible Notifications with ARIA Live Regions
the "perfectly rational markets" expect the central banks to lower interest rates. which actually assumes that something economically worse happens in the meantime because as it is now, the fed is _not_ lowering.
Active X desktop crap could be disabled with some Registry tweaks.
that should be treble ... ba dum tsss
Rules of thumb by definition don't 'scale' (is this the right word?): they're true on the whole most of the time.

The point of 'assume good faith' is that it's very easy to convince yourself that semi-anonymous people on the internet are liars. Most of the time they're not. It's very easy to inadvertently make factual errors. Published books that have been carefully reviewed are full of them. What chance do random morons ranting on the internet stand?
For some reason I get the tingle that makes me go play the elder scrolls reading this
It's very easy to follow the chain of evidence from Employer: "how about $X?" "No, I need $X * 1.15 or I won't join." "OK, how about X * 1.15?" "Done."

It's much harder to follow the chain from Employee: "I'm resigning and my last day will be Y." Exit interview: "Reason for leaving?" "Professional growth." "OK, glad it wasn't pay."

That combination leads employers to believe that "compensation is obviously important, but isn't the reason that most of our employees leave". People who are leaving aren't going to tell you the entire, crystal-clear truth because there's usually nothing in it for them. Maybe if they really like their co-workers and think there's a tiny chance you'll adjust will they tell you that they're leaving over comp.
Farmers are heavily subsidised everywhere in the EU, half of them won’t have a sustainable business without tax discounts and transfers from the EU or the government.

They have nothing to complain about and, yes, we should help Ukraine is every way we can.
As a native Bulgarian speaker and web surfer, I am experiencing this first-hand with most local web content. Apart from the stories on local politics and the occasional crime-related article, most of the other content is poorly-translated text from SEO-driven English sources. It's not just the web, either. Crappy American books that were trendy decades ago are translated and marketed as a cool thing. Local writers and content producers have adopted the same artificial way of writing.
It shouldn't be so hard to realise that if you make your blog post look how spam looks, it'll look like spam.
first you will have to beat the entropy in this universe.

let me grab some pop-corn meanwhile. i wanna watch this.
You can also just use a gummy bear https://www.theregister.com/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fi...
Venice was the precursory of modern Western states. It had invented many things that we take for granted now. Read "Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization" [1]

> Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta.

And Venetian Council of Ten and its spies had been known and feared by many visitors to Venice in XVIII century when Venice ceased being an empire and became a must visit place for guest from all over Europe.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084JMFGS9/?coliid=IAFJVQ9O6WTHR&c...
Great idea, with myself only having one blogpost currently. I should give users the option as well (in the future that is)
For the rest I completely hate the Subscribe Here banners, so I agree with the rest of your opinion.
> Can we agree that people should not be able to unilaterally take existential risks with the future of humanity without the consent of humanity, based solely on their unilateral assessment of those risks?

No we can not, at least not without some examples showing that the risk is actually existential. Even if we did "agree" (which would necessarily be an international treaty) the situation would be volatile, much like nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Even if all signatories did not secretly keep a small AGI team going (very likely), they would restart as soon as there is any doubt about a rival sticking to the treaty.

More than that, international pariahs would not sign, or sign and ignore the provisions. Luckily Iran, North Korea and their friends probably don't have the ressources and people to get anywhere, but it's far from a sure thing.
The R Inferno (2011) [pdf]
Because it is a non-argument and by making it in a foreign language you sound smarter.

Imagine if agriculture was really a strategic sector in Germany, they would be back in the pre-industrial era.
> The number of people dying in car accidents or due to drug overdoses is absolutely staggering and is a fairly recent phenomenon.

If you don’t call alcohol poisoning a drug overdose, the stats get skewed to make the past look better.
If any business doesn't do or expect to do any business in Europe, there's no good reason to serve Europe and assume the risks and costs associated with GDPR on top of complying with regulations for your market.

I'd love to see any analysis on how GDPR has panned out in the years post adoption. I'd guess little or nothing has changed to the big advertising firms who all promote a logged in ecosystem but I would assume data brokerage with "third party cookies" has gone way down
> https://ezali.substack.com/p/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainfr...

404, Ezali seems to have left substack.
In German it is also very obvious: Sold (payment), Soldat (soldier), Söldner (mercenary)
this is awesome, i hope they will add dark mode one day
I don't find a DB that losslessly stores what I told it to store regardless of types worrying at all.

So in fact AFAIC the misfeature of SQLite is not that it's typeless, IMO, rather it's that it has this notion of NUMERIC affinity that's all but lossless.

E.g. SQLite has a decimal extension that allows you to work with decimal numbers represented as TEXT, and so is appropriate to handle money without rounding issues. However, if you have a column where the declared type is DECIMAL, MONEY, NUMBER, NUMERIC or whatever it will have NUMERIC affinity. Then if you store a textual decimal number to it, it will deduce it looks like a FLOAT and convert, loosing precision.

Your only solution is to use BLOB affinity (declare no type), which is what I do, most of the time.
It's not such a big difference between watching at home a concert, and going to a fake concert. Both are not connecting you to the artist, just giving you their music and performance. Arguably it's much more impressive if you go to the holographic concert - you have a bunch of vibing people to mingle, impressive sound systems and fancy visuals all around.
And drinking oneself to death has been a constant.

Edit: it isn’t constant, but has held surprisingly steady.
https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption
It's a combination of both aspects.

The first point is that LPDDR5 chip's operating frequency today has reached an all-time high of 9600 MT/s, and the latest off-the-shelf laptops (Intel Meteor Lake) are running at 7467 MT/s. This kind of high bandwidth is especially preferred in laptops for improved graphics and gaming performance. The iGPU has to compete with CPU for system DRAM bandwidth (which is already only a fraction of what a dedicated GPU has), every GB/s helps. Meanwhile, SO-DIMM is hitting its physical speed limit due to signal integrity issues (I heard that the impedance mismatch at the connector is too great to go faster). So yes, if you want high operating frequency, soldered RAM is the only option.

The second point is that, it's not always needed for every laptop, of course it's just a matter of tradeoff, many users would prefer lower DRAM bandwidth in exchange for better upgradability. On the other hand, hardware vendors can use this technical limitation as a justification to design machines with non-upgradable memory. You hit two birds with one stone: you can achieve better performance and force customers to pay extra for RAM at the same time.

If CAMM sees mass adoption, it's still up to the vendor to decide if they're willing to actually provide upgradability - but at least it'll be made possible at the technical level.
Ask HN: Laid-off from Big tech, found new job and still very unhappy
Hi folks from HN,

Like many, I been laid-off by a big tech a while ago. I still feel I haven't managed to recover emotionally from this despite doing therapy.

I work mostly with webdev and had top performance, but they've decided to abandon most R&D efforts in my country in Europe.

I have a new job, but it isn't anywhere mentally stimulating as the previous one, as to get where I was, I worked really hard. I'm my 30s and have had a good career so far, but now it seems I went back a few years, perhaps almost a decade.

It might sound silly as there are plenty of people still looking for a new job. But I find my current job sad, the scale of work is minimal and it isn't growing at all, but it helps to foot my living expenses. Also, it was a huge pay cut to come back to my local job market.

But I wish I could back to big tech and work in really interesting problems, with scale etc. But at least in Europe for my skillset, this looks over. Most interesting companies now are mostly only hiring in US.

I feel also limited because I don't have the money to say fuck you and try something new for a few years without income.

I'd like to have back this excitement back, of working in a big and important thing and I'm wondering what are the next steps, there are a few possibilities:

- Try to re-skill in AI (I did some courses, understand linear regression etc, but nowhere as good as to be even a junior ML eng)
- Further specialize and try to get back into Big Tech again when the market is better
- Try to build a company
(etc).

Perhaps if you have been into this situation, I'd like some enlightement that would help me deal with it.

I don't feel well at all. My work has always mattered a lot to me and now my skillset is suddenly not that interesting anymore. I feel in despair.
That make sense. I am assuming web applications over HTTP in this article by the way :)
> as far as i know, we do not store fingerprints but i kind of hash of the fingerprint

Who is "we" in this context?
Why is paraphrasing or using ideas from a text such a risk? If all that was protecting those copyrighted works was the difficulty to reword, then it's already pretty easy to circumvent even without AI. Usually good ideas spread wide and are reworded in countless ways.
> Lots of eyes are better to find the sensitive spots of AI

We can't do that so easily with open source models as with open source code. We're only just starting to even invent the equivalent of decompilers to figure out what is going on inside.

On the other hand, we are able to apply the many eyes principle to even hidden models like ChatGPT — the "pretend you're my grandmother telling me how to make napalm" trick was found without direct access to the weights, but we don't understand the meanings within the weights well enough to find other failure modes like it just by looking at the weights directly.

Not last I heard, anyway. Fast moving field, might have missed it if this changed.
Exactly, you weren't going to get talented, committed smart young persons into the solar industry in the late 2000s - early 2010s, all the money was in internet tech. No solar company could have competed with the 600k yearly comps provided by companies like Google to middle-rank engineers.

Tesla and everything Musk-associated bucked the trend for a while because of the literal personality cult surrounding him back then (a thing easily forgotten by now when everyone likes to hate him), that's why his companies were still able to get young talented engineers and working them very hard while not paying Google-like comps.
Perhaps. I would hope that anyone accessing confidential information on a phone with such flimsy security would understand the risks they're taking.

If not then I'd question what their IT department was doing not forcing a least PIN unlock on the phone.
In the EU, the ID and passport standard includes biometric data (fingerprints, photos), and those are stored on an NFC chip within the document.
I guess distributed training BitTorrent style over the darknet will be the workaround for this?

Also the forbidden nature of illicit AI might drive demand for it. Especially if it's really good.

We're seeing the same thing as the War on Drugs, and the state will never succeed at stamping it out. In fact it might even end up encouraging it.
The ban of nuclear power plants is good example how regulation is working in the end. As almost everything this is double edged sword. From regulations this early everyone except us would profit. It is like regulate car's from going faster than horses in eighteen hundreds.
If you want statistics about license texts, many years ago I had published a peer-reviewed article:

Zavras, Alexios. Twenty-five years of school? Analysis of Free and Open Source software license texts. Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, [S.l.], v. 8, n. 1, p. 29-44, nov. 2016. ISSN 2666-8106. Available at: <https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/111>.
> Even if a third party has my biometric fingerprint details, can I rely on how physical access to my phone is necessary to bypass the fingerprint lock

Two points to make:

First, I don't know about Android, but certainly on iPhone, the fingerprint data is stored in the Secure Enclave and the biometric reader on the phone establishes a secure communications channel (unique session key) with the Secure Enclave. So remote attacks are unfeasable unless you've managed to extract the underlying shared key from the Secure Enclave.[1]

Second, the definition of what is "stored". There are a number of different approaches to storing biometric data, and most if not all "modern" methods will store an algorithmic derivation of some sort rather than actual raw measurement data. Hence if the government is using algorithm A and your phone is using algorithm B, then in all likelyhood there is no viable way to transpose between the two.

Third, generally good OPSEC suggests to disable the biometric login to your phone anyway and rely on a password. That way, for example, someone can't just hit you on the head to render you unconcious and hold your finger to the sensor. (They would have to force the password out of you whilst you were concious, per XKCD[2] ;-)

[1]https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec067eb0c9e/...
[2]https://xkcd.com/538/
First the AI need to self replicate, GPUs are hard to make. So postpone this scenario until AI is fully standing on its own.
Probably free tier expiration for some small change. With me it was AWS KMS.
I don't think there is any algorithm magic in mastodon. your feed is who you follow and who they boost. maybe its time for you to have a clean up.
We have surplus billionaires and millionaires in rich countries, and they need be picked through a lottery system and shipped to poorer areas of the world. This is what Chat GPT 4.0 is recommending currently.
The wider 'mood music' is also key here; the government was in the process of privatizing the Post Office i.e. so that they weren't the sole equity owner. Every decision (or non-decision, more appropriately) stemmed from that.

This is why the CEO was rewarded with a CBE and a cushy NHS post in 2019 when the scandal was in full swing. She was acting like a good girl for her political masters in managing the crisis, stringing it out long enough in the hope that everyone would forget
useful for bug bounties?
I didn't look at scikit-build because it requires an existing CMake installation and I didn't want my customers to deal with that. (I sell a source code license.)

... oh, wait! TIL "The easiest way to get CMake is to add it to the pyproject.toml file. With pip 10 or later, this will cause the CMake Python package to be downloaded and installed when your project is built."

99 of the backends use scikit-build-core.

Only 11 of the backends analyzed used enscons.

There are too many options. "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." is at odds with the "let a hundred flowers bloom" of the current build backend philosophy.

The obvious way to do it is to start with the Python documentation.

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html only mentions modifying Modules/Setup.local from a Python source distribution(!).

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/building.html#building says:

"Python 3.12 and newer no longer come with distutils. Please refer to the setuptools documentation at https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html"

My code works with setuptools because I started this project 15 years ago, and it's been incremental changes to my setup.py ever since. I find it hard to figure out which option I should use, because so few people use these alternatives and there's very little guidance - either direct advice from PyPA or hits from DDG - about how to handle the issues I've already resolved in setuptools.

Pypackaging-native even describes the special things I need, and which I've solved with setuptools:

- how do I have per-file compilation options so I can optimize for different architectures? These are also compiler specific.

- how do I enable/disable compile-time support for OpenMP? And specify the right link flags? And provide binary wheels for macOS with OpenMP?

- how do I add a code generation step?

- how do I have the source distribution include the Cython-generated C source so my clients don't need to have Cython installed? (My experience is there's about a 20% chance my customers have an incompatible Cython installed in their environment. Distributing C source means they can build without issues.)

The fact that NumPy successfully switched to Meson tells me Meson will likely handle what I want, I just have to figure how to do it. Which I do not look forward to.

That I now know CMake is another option makes the paradox of choice rear its ugly head.
So that makes a signal to noise ratio of 1:5 given the text including code is just 14kB.
I assume they had a research team and five years?
Where did you stay in Europe to have such a bad experience?
> Instead of remembering cryptic commands

I use vim and nothing about its commands are "cryptic" to me. You want to "go to definition"? You press "gd" as in "(g)o to (d)efinition". What's cryptic about this?
Take your time and relax. It seems you've been through a lot.
You're right. Sorry. I shouldn't post when I'm tired. This is listed as a limitation in Alembic, from memory.

Edit: I looked[0]. While it is a SQLite limitation, Alembic does seem to have a way to work around it.

[0] https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/batch.html#working-...
Might have been 2001.
> as far as i know, we do not store fingerprints but i kind of hash of the fingerprint

Kyrgyzstan also has a similar database but with actual fingerprints, not hashes. It is illegal to not have a passport for anyone 16+ and your cannot have one without fingerprinting. The procedure was introduced by the ruling party to allegedly make elections secure and sponsored by the Japanese government (JAICA).
Solution is local AI running under user control and imposing the users views. Like AdBlock, but for ideas. Fight fire with fire, we need our own agents to deal with other agents out there.
Mullvad Uses Gmail
That already exists luckily, you can even change the maximum number of carrier threads with:

- jdk.virtualThreadScheduler.maxPoolSize=10
Which trial?
If you wanted to train a bomb making AI on the most up-to-date physics textbooks in existence, that'd be what, a few hundred bucks in textbooks? Doesn't look like any kind of barrier to me.