skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not maximum size? Larger lobsters produce significantly more eggs than small ones. A big one might be worth 2-5 times a small one and it’s a proven survivor
> "the choice of letters SHOULD NOT affect the meaning of a mathematical statement"

I mean, that ship sailed a long time ago. You can't understand any modern math or physics (or ML, or CS) paper without depending on variable naming conventions. Attempts (like Sussman & Wisdom) to have a properly lexically scoped notation end up being quite verbose.
I really wonder whether we at some point are gonna get physical switches to disable camera’s and microphones. My iPhone camera is also pointing at me while I type this and the microphone can record the room. Also interesting: people keep raving about the Chinese EVs, but what about those camera’s and microphones? There was a big scandal about the Chinese spy satellite but I hear nobody about Chinese cars with cameras.
This is so degrading, I hate it with a passion that we've come to this.
If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.
Why animals shrink over time explained with new evolution theory
If you want to get technical and into some ships of Theseus nonsense, technically, anyone over the age of at least 10 was never born.
Most of us who make 100k-300k made 70k at one point. I made 70k (5-8 years?) a lot longer than I've made 235k.

I was absolutely not broke at 70k. In fact I thought that was the most money I'd ever make and that I was killing it for 25 or whatever I was.. lmao

I made quite a bit more money than everyone my age I knew, most were still in college or in the 35-50k brackets.
Maybe don't trust it?

It seems to accept sharklasers.com (aka anonymous) email addresses though, so you don't have to use your real email address. :)

It also seems to work via Tor Browser, although it's a bit slow.
Does no one notice that ChatGPT sucks at summarizing? Am I the only person in the whole fucking world who looks at LLMs without rose glasses? Does no one else test these things before declaring how great they are?

Good luck outsourcing anything interesting to ChatGPT, but I think all you are getting is mediocrity minus minus.

It's one thing to want flying cars, jet packs, hoverboards, etc. It's another thing to pretend we have them when we don't. Sober up, boys.
Laziest option would probably be the option that developer is most familiar with.
Thank you for pointing that out! Correct link:

https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/
If it's about text compression can't you say the same in the favor of upper case?
On HN, we love walls of text. Thank you for yours!

Any chance you might be able to brainstorm an example or three of what a well known equation would look like in that formalism?
If you choose a $10 commodity vs an equivalent $5 commodity, that’s not inflation.

If you pay someone to fetch and deliver a commodity, that’s not commodity inflation.
Does it matter? Going through a divorce and freaking out doesn’t explain or justify murder.
This is a good thing. Prior to this, I had to make up a paper explaining why my team was R&D with help from an outside consulting group annually.

It was always a sham. We were building product.
Apache Kafka essentials in one tool
> multiple people saying they made many times more money from Bandcamp than steaming services.

While it might be true that they get more money on bandcamp. They get exposure through streaming websites like youtube, spotify that brings ppl to bandcamp.
Im glad I rented a Tesla (as opposed to buy one)... I even rented it on accident because they were out of small gas sedans.
What would you propose? Video? What about people who are invisible? Just because you haven't seen anyone as such doesn't mean they don't exist.
Apple just needs to make it easier to install Linux on these machines. Or, make their own server software that's "good enough". Like OS X server but actually good.

But I doubt they would do this well. It would be way, way too expensive and probably not have upgradeable RAM.
You're right, it is hard to do. But a little compassion and empathy goes a long way. Publically calling someone polarizing and creepy might feel good, but it is hurtful and unhelpful.
"Theft of services", yes -- but the marginal cost/loss to the provider was effectively zero.

In this way, phreaking was exactly like media piracy.

But all of the above are entirely unrelated to the meaning of "Hacker" in HN.
Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators
Well people tend to forget this is Hacker News. Finding creative workarounds is part of the fun.
It should be an OS-level implemented feature at the TCP/IP layer so all non-local traffic is unrecognizable to anyone but the true recipient.

IDS/IPS's are virtually worthless these days anyway so I can't see much downside if every Window's, Mac's and Linux OS's network traffic appeared to be completely random/obfuscated out-of-box.
(edited)

NPR also wrote this about Tesla batteries: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224913698/teslas-chicago-cha...

From that article:

> The challenges Tesla owners are facing aren't specific to the carmaker.

I ask myself why is the title not about EVs generally?

I will offer a very cynical answer: NPR and The Guardian (which is misrepresenting the scope and cause - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065628) have an axe to grind, but need to walk a fine line as to come across as being anti-EV.

I want to see my news sources be more even handed and objective.

Call out the privacy issues like this article, but refrain from "going after" an organization or person in order to create sentiment.
What does Spotify being crap have to do with a software engineer or musician being paid for their work?

You think they shouldn't be paid because you don't like the company they work for?
That must be something like 40-50 billion in investment.
I think the "buy on Bandcamp" advise extends to any other of a large number of marketplaces you can purchase popular artist albums from.

I personally want to own music that I like and not just lose it if I decide to cut my subscriptions.
I use Bandcamp for smaller acts and Qobuz for everything I can't find on Bandcamp.
Kind of related to this mentality, perhaps: On Sam Harris's most recent episode of "Making Sense" with TED's Chris Anderson[0] he shared a Reddit conversation he came across where people were discussing whether or not they subscribe, i.e., pay, for his podcast:

>> I spectated upon this [Reddit] thread, something around "Do you support Sam's podcast and and you if do, why or why not?" and someone said "Well I would support the podcast if I knew what he was going to do with the money" and another person said "Well I would support the podcast if I knew how much it cost to run a podcast" and another person said "I would support the podcast if I knew how much I thought a person should earn from a podcast" and I looked at those three statements and my head practically fell off my shoulders, because I realized at a glance there was something deeply wrong here because these are the kinds of considerations that would never have occurred to a person when they were thinking about buying my next book. I mean there's literally no person on Earth who's ever thought the thought "Well I would buy his next book if I knew how much I thought an author should make from writing books" or "I would buy his next book if I knew what he was going to do with the money." These are just not the kinds of thoughts people think. Either you want to read the book or you don't and you buy it or not. [1]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCl-5vC7aW8

[1]https://youtu.be/cCl-5vC7aW8?si=CqRcQ-kLUF7JMyXg&t=3604
Yeah, sort of, except Brik-a-Bloks allow you to build enclosed structures, so it feels more like a fort.

But Quadro would still allow you to use sheets, etc. to complete the fort look.
That page lowered my IQ 10 points.
I’m sorry, I didn’t intend my tone to be hostile, just excited. Thanks for the questions :)
FWIW this survey links to ~10 articles on Pratt Parsing, including the featured article -

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/03/31.html - Pratt Parsing Index and Updates

I wrote it several years ago and updated it recently (probably should give it a better title)

The later articles are in TypeScript, Rust, Elm
I haven't had many issues with Tidal's CarPlay support. I've only used it in rental cars (so cars that shipped mid to post pandemic) though.

It definitely shows subscribed albums, etc. The one exception was that, on an older Toyota, it only showed the first dozen or so albums in my collection one time out of the dozen I drove the rental. Parking the car then coming back a few hours later fixed it.
Why are these things uploading videos at all? And, particularly, why are they uploading videos _when not in use_?! And, if they must upload videos, why are employees able to access them without good reason? This whole thing just seems like a tower of terrible choices.
It's like the Matrix. In my opinion, there's 1%-2% of the entire population that pirate out of principle or "cost savings"
I promote Free Software (GPL licensed) over Open Source often, and it seems there is a lot of opposition even in places like HN. Some of that might be RMS issues, but I think it's something else. I used to think it's a lack of understanding, but BSD/MIT license folks do understand the differences in many cases. It's a difference in what or whom they care more about. I think there's a bit of contradiction in their thinking though, but maybe they see it as more philosophical and not practical? IDK, but it seems weird how many people are against FSF.
We don’t even know what like, 20% of the genes do. Simulations are neat, but they miss a lot of underlying biology that actually makes an impact on engineering.

One of my favorite papers was published 40 years ago on this topic https://pitp.ias.edu/sites/pitp/files/morowitz-completeness_...
Well, Singapore is a Chinese city at the tip of Malaysia. This is also why they split from Malaysia.
I spend quite a lot on bandcamp and amazon's mp3 store (couple of hundred bucks a year maybe?)

I am very very happy to pay for DRM free music

however this getting increasingly difficult as companies don't even seem to want to provide it for sale at all

under no circumstances am I going to pay a monthly subscription for a digital product that can be delivered as a one off download
A company or an individual can bring a private prosecute.

They would have to prove the case against you beyond reasonable doubt though.

The real real problem is that the courts (not just in this case) assume computer records are sufficient of guilt without independent verification they are correct. There have been previous HN discussions on the law behind this.

The Crown Prosecution Service can take over a private prosecution and then drop it.
While applying the worst possible reading to RISC-V, and despite not considering fusion, it is not worse than ARM.

That's awesome.
That's not an example of company executives personally profiting or being invested in the company's real estate though. The comment to which I replied implied that executives personally profited from the real estate.

> This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments
Many of us never see reality. Air-conditioned home to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned office. Artificial goals and artificial entertainments. All communication with members of your office and echo-chamber social media organs.

The whole population is fugueing out.
10-15 years ago Unicode obfuscation was used by corrupt Russian bureaucrats to start online procurement auctions on a government platform, so that only an affiliated supplier could find them. E.g. if you sell cars, you monitor the platform for the specific keywords, but you find nothing, because the description contains the keyword with latin A instead of cyrillic А.
He probably meant text. Which is what I had in mind when I asked the question too. Text is way cheaper than audio and you can opt in audio after an text ice breaker.
Technically you are buying VPN services by giving your credit card :D

use a dummy email -- if you feel so unsafe. At least Squarex is free right now so no credit card needed
The article seems to be making the case that the greed of the managers let them to do a shoddy job made the magazine unprofitable but doesn't provide any supporting evidence other than a one-line quote about how they wasted a colossal amount of time.
Crashes for me too on Safari/M1 MBP.

Github's client-side rendering "enhancements" strike again. Maybe I'll submit another cranky support ticket this weekend...
Absolutely not, this cannot be to restrict access of bad actors TO the West. This is to restrict regular old Russian citizens from getting information FROM the West. There is no chance at all that such blockage cuts off the ability to conduct military operations on the internet.
In this case I was talking about the Post Office investigators, not Fujitsu, although it's also very depressing about the Fujitsu side of things.

From the article:

> Mr Thomas, of the Post Office security team, told the inquiry there were “bonus objectives”, including a 40 per cent “loss recovery objective”, available to his team.

> Asked if that influenced his behaviour as an investigator, he said: “I’d probably be lying if I said no because… it was part of the business, the culture of the business of recoveries or even under the terms of a postmaster’s contract with the contracts manager.”

> In an email sent by Mr Thomas in 2021 to Nick Read, the Post Office’s chief executive, and which was disclosed to the inquiry, he wrote: “My yearly objectives that were bonus worthy at the time were based on numbers of successful prosecutions and recovery amounts of money to the business.”

> He also discussed “a proceeds of crime unit within Post Office Ltd that ensured some of these individuals lost their homes and families”.

> Mr Thomas was the lead investigator in the case of sub-postmaster Julian Wilson, who was convicted of false accounting and died of cancer five years before his conviction was overturned.

> Mr Thomas did not include any of the problems Mr Wilson had reported with the Horizon system when writing his report after interviewing him in 2008. Years later, Mr Thomas told a colleague he was “pleased” to have his hands on documents relating to Mr Wilson’s case because he wanted to prove there was “no ‘Case for the Justice of Thieving Subposters’” and that they “were all crooks”.
Hahahah same exact experience here. Clicked the tab and it was like touching a stove as my brain caught up with the title - noped out immediately. Now reading through comments while trying to work up the guts to try it.

Edit: I did it. I spoke with three people and it was really cool actually; thanks for sharing this.
There is negligent connection between my buying a Spotify subscription and the artists I listen to getting paid because of the scheme they devised to support big fish only. So I try to support musicians directly and treat Spotify as a discovery tool (rather lousy I'd say).
That looks really cool! Let me know if you ever want help porting it to Firefox!
With the planet getting warmer and warmer, it must be nice to have a little cool breeze from that moral high ground.
I do not - however, I keep meaning to write up a generic version of our CDK code for sharing/reuse. I'll make a post here when I do.
This is excellent. We need more tools like this, for text content as well. For software we need GPL 4 with ML restrictions (make your model open source or not at all). Potentially even DRM for text.
The relationship between the amount of overload and how fast the fuse is supposed to blow is quadratic, not linear. As an example with somewhat made-up numbers, at 1x it might take hours to blow, at 2x it might take a minute or two, at 3x it shouldn't take more than a second and at 4x it should be nearly instant.

If it's supposed to blow in 0.1 seconds when overloaded by 4x, then taking 10 minutes is many orders of magnitude in my book. While that fuse is taking its sweet time, wiring or other components are being heated out of spec (16x more heat at 4x the current), potentially posing a fire hazard or damaging the device it's supposed to be protecting.
AI is just a tool in someone's hand, there's a human who intends something
A company owning its own building is common. The parent comment said "This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments" which doesn't sound like a business owning its own building.
His kids lost their mother.
And he told them that she ran away.

If you are able to do this to your kids you are a special kind of human.
Can anyone confirm Shadowsocks works anymore? When I tried to use it a few years ago, it got blocked in a few days.

To be honest, I think they are blocking anything that exchanges a lot of data with oversesas IPs, after hitting a certain threshold.
`async` is neither multi-threaded nor single-threaded by default. It all depends on the underlying runtime.

Rust's Tokio runtime, for example, is multi-threaded by default and makes progress on several tasks at the same time by using multiple threads.
I gave a talk at that workshop! (I’m making the 61 codon version of JCVI-Syn3a)

You can get the cells as a researcher, but basically forget about it for a commercial user or hobbyist. They’re also annoying as hell to grow. I’m trying to synthesize it from scratch for the precise reason of freeing it from MTAs (material transfer agreements)
It sounds to me the exact opposite.

Apple's bad-faith compliance will backfire. Enough of this.
You should note that these sorts of tax law changes are largely a revenue game: Someone wants to cut some other tax, so they find a place to raise taxes elsewhere without thinking about the consequences. But also, the vast majority of people employed by R&D-heavy companies are Democrats, so it's hard to impute motive one way or the other.
Same here but I have seen people are/were using evernote, Microsoft one note etc for

1. Note sync across devices
2. Easy search
3. As to-do list, read/use it in future
4. Capture audio/video/images from mobile
5. Store visiting card etc
>>but in reality they take power away from people and consolidate it in energy suppliers.

What kind of power did you have before the introduction of smart meters, exactly?
That is throwing the baby out with the bath water. The amount of fraud doesn't justify creating such burden on users. The problem is there is a market failure in the form of misaligned interests (the provider's best interest is to make the process as difficult as possible, not only to curb fraud, but also to avoid paying actual customers). This can only be fixed with government oversight and steep fines (so steep that they are more expensive than doing right by their customers).
This has not been my 99% experience. I'm sure one or two of those stories are handy to have to justify a lifetime of unnecessary theft, but the bottom line for me is that I don't mind playing by their system on principle.

This is how the artists asked us to do it, by selling their rights to distributors. Similarly with Spotify. I'd love to pay more to artists, I do go buy songs when I love them, and I'm happy to pay for a family Spotify account because Spotify has brought an amazing amount of positive to our house.

Bottom line I'm actually willing to endure a small amount of inconvenience in 1% so that my happy path still supports artists and yes industries that have brought so much good to me.
Working around DPI blocks is possible as long as you can get your hands on foreign VPS. Just invent your own protocol and use it for yourself. Wrap it with HTTPS or even HTTP, nobody's has resources to analyse every single website protocol.

However some huge ingress/egress traffic to unknown website with few random pages looks very suspiciously. So it's possible to select those websites using statistics analysis.

Now the question to hackers: how do I hide tunnelled traffic so its statistics does not look suspicious?

Ideally one would use some CDN webserver (like cloudflare or amazon), however without encrypted SNI, host is extractable with DPI.
I used to pay for Spotify but canceled because the player experience was so bad, not because of the cost.
Doing the work to increase OpenAIs moat
> companies devoted to providing user experience tools and services were worth $548.91 million in 2023 and are expected to reach $1.36 billion by 2029

I can't see how this intangible design market doubles in 6 years. With AI attacking it on both fronts, by making GUIs at will and negating the need for them, it could easily go the other way to $0 in 3 years.

We needed GUIs to feel like we could achieve anything if we just saw it done one time by someone else. Once we know what they can achieve and exactly what we want to achieve they become a feel-good feedback loop essentially capping user power at that level until an update occurs, which was a good thing, but perhaps there is a better thing.
That is indeed exactly how much of the world works. We have the irs because some people would refuse to pay their fair share of just asked to. We have speed limits because some people will force too fast otherwise.
Their Strategy - send Snapdragon to the tech-reviewers, sell Exynos to the consumers. I have experienced that with my S5, never gonna return to Samsung as a mobile consumer.
For others like me who might be curious about the Han Unification controversy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Rationale_and_...

> In 1993, the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA) published a pamphlet titled "未来の文字コード体系に私達は不安をもっています" (We are feeling anxious for the future character encoding system JPNO 20985671), summarizing major criticism against the Han Unification approach adopted by Unicode.
I just see a "start" button when I open the page. What made you panic?
Great idea, since they don't have a fight or flight reaction! I wonder if some kind of simple thermal camera/PIR sensor could be useful here.

Tangentially related I'm curious if it might be possible to distinguish hedgehogs that come into our garden based on their spines (I understand their paw-prints are similar to human fingerprints, but recording that automatically might be trickier!).
You highlight a problem with talking about politics online. It seems very easy for people to become emotional with responses like "Whoa. What’s so bad about “hiring people from there”?" and assume a comment is racist rather than assuming the best intentions.

My intention was to highlight how the dynamics between other countries have changed and how the UK seems less independent and less interested in progress all while spending money on war (while aimlessly following the US).
A common belief but not quite true. You can have race conditions and weird shit happening in async systems.

The usual way it happens is that you write some code inside an async function that's straight line not suspending, and then later someone adds an await inside it. The await returns to the event loop, at which point an event arrive that you didn't expect. You now have control flow jumping to somewhere else completely, possibly changing state in a way that you didn't anticipate. When the original function resumes it sees something change concurrently.
This is a tired argument; whether or not the diffusion models are "learning", they are a tool of capital to fuck over human artists, and should be resisted for that reason alone.
I have no idea why Rajat Khare, the co-founder of Appin, an India-based tech company would campaign to erase his name from news outlets. He was allegedly into shady things.
Are you using EFS to share the DB between containers?