skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, no CORS either, all protections relied on having proper CSRF-tokens, but with JS access one could read that token as well.

My "hack" was mostly pretty harmless. Just did some layout changes to make my profile cooler. But the door was wide open for anything.
Running a node is a cost.
One of my favourite gadgets of history and a worthy link, technically it required external power, an illuminating external radio signal which is modified by local audio signals and rebrodcast in changed form.
In other words, Chinese brands still have IR blasters. I don't know I would trust Chinese-brand of phones though.
I miss print magazines like these. I learned so much from all three titles, but also Byte and Dr Dobbs. If the clickbait sites that have replaced them had even 1% of the personality and charisma of these mags, the World would be a happier place.
So while I've got no experience with kids -- and clearly there's no comparison -- I've gotten some experience in dog training. The one difference I nearly always see between people who successfully train their dog and those who don't is that the successful group allows their dog to fuck up. Not without getting mad at them after of course, but the unsuccessful group will actively prevent the behavior they'd get mad at.

I figure something like that applies to kids too.
The idea of "balloon-grade" led me down a rabbit hole. It seems that there are many defined grades of He with the majority being grade 5 (99.999% purity, 2 steps down from the purest) and the majority of He used, including in balloons is grade 5 due to ease of transporting just one grade. That made it cheaper to use grade 5 for party balloons than artificially reducing the quality.

In the last few years there has been more low quality balloon grade (97.5%
purity) produced by refineries in the US, increasing the availability and reducing the cost.

http://www.kornbluthheliumconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/...
https://zephyrsolutions.com/what-are-the-different-grades-of...
Terraform Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States.
A US federal judge postponed the trial of Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, citing extradition considerations.
Terraform Labs, the entity responsible for the now-defunct stablecoin TerraUSD (USTC), has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, according to a court document submitted on January 21.

The Singapore-based company, known for creating TerraUSD, listed its assets and liabilities in the range of $100 million to $500 million in the bankruptcy filing made with the court in Delaware. The move comes after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted a delay in the upcoming fraud trial of Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, pushing the trial date to March 25.
This company/app pops up on HN with some regularity, and attracts a fair amount of criticism:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359256

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058271

It's business practices seem distasteful, several legal threats against competitors and critics, heavy covert "submarine" advertising (i.e. ads masquerading as news), and apparently unexplained popularity among policy-makers despite criticism from those on the front line (e.g. emergency services). Technical criticism centres on the fact that it's algorithm is not as good as it could be, hence risking lives, and is not open. Several alternatives exist, some of which the creators claim address these technical issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20970664

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829267

I've no horse in this race, but frankly what3words seems a bad choice and an unpleasant organisation.

Edit to add links to reported issues and legal actions:

https://archive.is/6KVvL

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-wh...

http://web.archive.org/web/20210430005537/https://twitter.co...
To expand on this:

Contrary to constants which are fixed+ references to values, symbols are pure values: they're like integers but with a textual name. Explicitly they are not strings.

They used to be very useful because a symbol takes little memory and comparing two symbols means comparing two integers; it's a bit like `#define FOO 42` in C, except `42` is automatically picked up and you don't care what the value actually is.

They are less useful today because there have been a lot of improvements e.g with frozen string literals (which are now stored only once and thus can be compared much more efficiently). Still that has a lot to do as to why they're used for kwargs and hash keys and method names and a ton of other stuff, where without symbols you'd have a ton of the same strings showing up over and over, so instantiated and compared.

The hash syntax used to be only arrow but it was so common to do `:foo => "bar"` that at some point Ruby (1.9) introduced `foo: "bar"`, which makes writing hashes look like JSON/YAML and kwargs more like other languages like Python. This does make it a bit surprising because suddenly there's a symbol that is not prefixed with `:` but it also makes things a ton more readable in many cases.

I do use the "new hash syntax" liberally, but also still use arrow hashes a lot because it all depends on the way things are written around and sometimes one is more readable than the other.

For example in general I don't like writing rake task target dependencies or Rails routes with the new syntax, the arrow one makes more sense to me. Or when one can have mixed keys that can be symbols or some other types, I find it more readable to have a consistent hash syntax, so I go to the old arrow one.

+ well, although frowned upon, constants can be reassigned, they're essentially just some variables albeit with a different scope and resolution system.
Sorry, can you explain what unremovable central point of control you're referring to?
Patent trolls have also won cases from time to time.

Also AFAIK Masimo didn’t just want to be paid they wanted to have some direct on the development of Apple Watch.

Also… the patents themselves seem like a joke and shouldn’t be valid.
I'd love to see a more agile open source funding model: something like a freelancer collective that can draw together developers and share the admin and funding tasks. I.e. a platform, but a bit smaller in context, perhaps just for the sake of local tax rules. Re. the source of these funds (hinted it will come in a future article,) it makes more sense to expect companies to share their revenue, than to hope for donations from consumers.

There's also the other type of sustainability that has been shrinking as VCs make open-source a buzzword: contributions. I've seen more and more projects launch to great fanfare, and some years later close contributions, and perhaps even the issue tracker, because they are a small team. This leads to fragmentation, which leads to higher maintenance costs for the community as a whole.

Sure, the source is available, so a contribution to society has been made, but by doing so, you also become the "town square" where people expect to go to contribute. Perhaps the problem here is that the public VCS repositories should not only have PRs, but a list of contributed 3P patches without the expectation they will be merged, but they can easily be auto-tested against trunk, and patch authors be notified of breakages.
I'm not in the food business. My guess is discovery. GrubHub/DoorDash/UberEats are not just apps that process your payments and deliver food. They also serve as an avenue for people to decide where to order from. Most of the time when I want to order food, I look at my ordering apps first. Like opening Netflix to decide what to watch.

Weborder.net also isn't just some basic webpage that processes payment, It's part of an entire POS system. The kind you sign for multi-year contracts with.
I dislike my location forms a phrase with a negative connotation.
I think whether true or not, this will only ever be an anecdotal observation.
The same ideological forces that dominate academia, and are responsible for what you describe, will ensure no data is ever available to support your hypothesis.
The dolphin game is to allow them to avoid some import/export restrictions by classifying it as a toy, which it is, and not a hacking tool. It’s not a professional device.
So - does this book have any understanding of copyright outside of the U.S or is it all based on the idea that copyright exists to promote the arts and that's it?
Declarative home environments are pretty great. Being able to reproduce your entire user setup is fantastic when you manage multiple machines or want to make future migrations.

I run NixOS and use Home-Manager as well. This lets me define my entire system in addition to my user home contents declaratively. So with this configuration I can apply NixOS & Home-Manager to get the same results anywhere.

Here is an example of my Home-Manager configuration: https://github.com/jakehamilton/config/blob/a3da20eeab74a50a...

In this example I configure Git. This gets written to my user home's config directory.
Tales from a Solo Dev
Note about "modern languages with GC", this was already a thing in Common Lisp, Eiffel, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Mesa/Cedar, Oberon (and its linage),...

Java's mistake was ignoring them, as its was designed as set-top box programming language as Oak, pivoted to applets, and then pushed all over the place.
"The indie hacker spirit was strong in the NodeJS & Web community in 2014.

A couple of things then happened all at once:

DJB's NaCl became widely available, and, with it, more compact public keys"

NaCl was widely available in 2011. (Maybe as early as 2008 TBH.)

What came in 2013 was that someone took djb's concise presentation of the code and added some cruft to make it palatable to a wider audience.
I don't know if you're referring to https://controlplane.com but we allow you to do it.
Harder to censor isn't exactly the goal. Harder to capture is. The point is to make social media providers replaceable so that users are able to express a choice. We do this already with the feed algorithms, which are predominantly third-party services within the community. As the rest of the protocol wraps, hosting and application services will be able to do the same.
Yet C++/WinRT uses a background deletion thread to overcome pauses in cascade deletions of COM instances.
I think this is valid, but it's only one part of the equation - and I would guess it's the smaller part. The other side is manufacturing. In an era of mass production, making things like buildings look unique is expensive.

If your building is made from rectangles, lines, and few curves, you can use off the shelf panels to build it. Order them from a factory, have a truck deliver them, stick them together with cement and bolts.

On the other hand, even if you do pay someone for the extra time to create beautiful, unique, complex designs in a CAD program (which is not that hard), actually making those parts is extremely expensive so they will get rejected by most architectural and construction firms.

Perhaps as we come into the era of 3d printing, more complex structures will come back into vogue again. It will be kind of ironic if 99% of all futuristic cities depicted in scifi, all clean lines, spires, and cylinders turns out to be wrong and the skyscraper of the future looks more like the Sagrada Familia, but built in six months instead of three centuries.

(Although personally I'm hoping the future looks like forested garden cities.)
I mean, that seems in line with general free speech principles, really; you’re allowed say whatever you like, but also others are allowed point and say “that person is saying something stupid”. Part 2 here sometimes seems to upset some ‘free speech’ advocates, but it really is part and parcel of the whole thing.
The last one is hilarious, just endless speculation on how the guy could have handled it better, the guy coming in with the account of how he handled thing pretty nicely, and then just crickets.
Mj
All long-distance forces seem to follow it though. I think it's related to the energy conservation law.

It proves nothing of course. When we speak of these N+T universes, we try to imagine a system that follow the same "fundamental laws" but with different N and T. What exactly is fundamental is up to debate. You can even imagine a system that has different math, but it will be very hard to reason about it.
> AI is definitely capable of solving novel programming problems

I don't believe that. I think you are being fooled by the enormity of the training set, followed by the non-novelty of things you personally haven't seen before.

I'm not saying AI tools aren't useful though. I'm just saying they are what they are: a fuzzy search in an enormous problem space. This is impressive and cool, but not the same as being able to solve truly novel problems.
RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
What ever happened to them.. why don't Fujitsu and Hitachi design chips ?
My Flipper Zero has been useful for me while living in Ukraine.

For some reason, many apartment buildings require the use of a little electronic tag not only to open the outside gates, but also to operate the elevator to reach someone's apartment. This also includes trying to use the elevator to reach the ground floor, e.g., when you leave your friend's apartment and you are going home. So you can't leave the building with the elevator without your friend coming out and unlocking it for you. It's madness.

So, I clone my friends' tags (with their knowledge) and come and go as I please.
I order food that delivers reasonably well. Don't order burgers, don't order fries, don't order things things that'll be ruined from a rough ride.

Why is having Chinese delivered okay, but not other food? There are lots of dishes that follow a similar format to Chinese food that delivers well. I'm had plenty of good results from ordering Chinese, Indian, Jamaican, and certain Mexican dishes.
> implementing a very accurate technique developed by Masimo.

I’m not sure it’s very technologically complex though. Seems like the patent just covers the positioning of a few sensors. It’s about as silly as allowing “multitouch” to be patented…
It's some kind of formal analogue where you can't drop all terms that become infinitesimal, sort of like a formal power series compared to an actual power series.

So something like an exterior derivative where d(df) is not defined to be zero and such terms must be kept.
Where the "grand scheme of things" are the quarter reports of a few AI-invested companies?
Hey, pretty things are hard. Why isn’t half of HN looking their best at least once a week?

It costs money and time. I work with people in shirts that are only befitting for elementary school kids.

You can have the niceties, just have to pay for them.

But I think this is about where the market is going. People (with the money for homes) don’t care, so that’s how they’re catered to.
There are thresholds in both directions, and I find the state_machines examples go way too far in the direction of verbosity to the point where it makes it harder rather than easier to see what is going on.

I'd argue the same for your P-lang example.

The state transitions in your example are trivial to the point where a "framework" is entirely unnecessary, but even then they are hidden inside the implementation details in a way that forced me to read the implementation to realise that they're trivial.

If I have a state machine that is complex enough that I want a "framework" to simplify things, my first requirement will be that it makes clear the state transitions and criteria separate from the implementation of them. Both the state_machines gem and the other Ruby gem mentioned in this thread have examples that in my opinion does a far better job at separating that.
> This effort will fail if 50% of the people who would contribute end up not doing so because they don't have time to learn Rust or Haskell.

Lolwut. Choosing Rust as an implementation language is almost sure to attract lots of very smart people to the project.
He seems like a genuinely solid dude. I also got lots out of his older blogging and the book Startup Communities, and was surprised by his high email availability for random questions.
That's a lot of hot pixels for base ISO! Could be the focus stacking intensified them.

That camera can actually get a bit more resolution out of sensor movements, though the lens might be at its limit already, or focus was still a little off. edit: it's probably the glovebox glass.
I would really love to see Apple providing explicit instructions on how to jailbreak their own devices
> NMR spectrometers work on essentially the same mechanism as MRIs, just in a very different form factor.

That's a real understatement :)

A typical NMR spectrometer needs to hold a test tube, and an MRI machine kinda has to hold a whole human.
Back in 2011, the UK Government commissioned an "independent review" of copyright etc (The Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property").

It broadly agrees with your ideas - at least in terms of the fact that copyright is far too long (the report thinks 20 to 30 years would be long enough, possibly in two phases with a renewal needed in between) but notes that the UK is bound by international law to keep copyright longer than that.

It also recommends on weakening copyright with more exemptions...

...and in the case of patent law, making it more expensive to renew patents to encourage people to not just renew by default, and not allowing any additional things to be patented (cf US software patents).

It's also very grumpy about the way copyright law just happened whenever a wealthy industry asked for it
The Canadian in me wants to point out that this problem could have been avoided if they’d just used Robertson head.
It’s only a few seconds (maybe 7?) and it’s done by the time my son is in/out of his car seat so it’s not really extra time. Just like charging on a long trip - if you’re eating etc it’s not really extra.
I can't speak to Jack's thinking, but none of that tracks with how the team thinks, or is motivated by, or has built. My current work focus is on a moderation system which we've been designing from the start, and which includes both moderation by the application providers and the community.

If you want to see my personal views on the matter, you can watch a talk I gave prior to joining the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULFj714_Vvo
this isn't out of 18F -- the really cool tech team at the whitehouse(?)? what happened to all that digital govt funding?
Oh, i havent seen this, but this looks brilliant. I tried building something similar last year, awesome
> As you'd expect, the embryo was only tiny and measured just 27cm long.

27cm is not exactly what I would call tiny. For comparison, this is what Wikipedia has to say on the topic of ostrich eggs:

> on average they are 15 cm (5.9 in) long, 13 cm (5.1 in) wide, and weigh 1.4 kilograms (3.1 lb)

It's almost twice as long. Talk about megafauna.

Looking for alternative sources, I found this:

> The unhatched dinosaur’s 24-centimetre-long skeleton is curled inside the egg, with its head tucked tightly into its body. The egg is 17 centimetres long and 8 centimetres wide.

( https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302492-fossilised-dino... )

Okay, so they were talking about the size of the dinosaur if it stretched out of its curled position inside the egg. The egg meanwhile is a little larger than an ostrich's egg. Still not tiny by any means, but slightly less mindblowing.
I feel like you're being sarcastic here but I can't see the /s
I might be wrong but that’s not really a personal blog.
It would be a fantastic outcome if they managed to get the patent invalidated because it seems rather silly (not that Apple, just like other larger corporations, doesn’t have a tendency to patent perfectly “obvious” “innovations” either)
I suspect more likely this token is simply blacklisted after the r/counting incident - ie. any response containing it will now return an error.
Apart from the fact that it doesn't only solve a lot of security vulnerabilities, but also avoids a lot of bugs, by virtue of having a stricter type system and memory safety.
My major issue was how you ignored mention of slavery at all in your counter-factual.

Had the British government offered land and titles to the right people -- assuming such people existed, which seems unlikely -- how much longer would the British Empire have supported slavery as official policy?

With titles would have come representation in Parliament, increasing the control of slaveholders on British rule.

> I don't understand your comment about indigenous slaughter.

You wrote "I hesitate to say the slaughter of indigenous would not have happened", implying you think it might not have happened.
Java GC log files in LogViewPlus
What problems did OpenID face. It definitely looks bit risky but I can't think of any concrete problem.
> But because SQLite doesn’t want to break backward compatibility (even for a prior unknown bug)

Having been bitten by them breaking compatibility by fixing a "bug" that worked for a long time[0], I would dispute this (albeit mildly.)

[0] Using CTEs with views.
Why not? Most phones are manufactured in China anyways, and Xiaomi, OnePlus, Honor, Oppo are major and very widely popular and used brands all over the world (outside of the US which is allergic to Chinese brands unless it's for cheap crap or to outsource manufacturing to).
It's a meaningless distinction. You basically get sucked into a "what has AI ever done for us?" style debate analogous to Monty Python's Life of Brian. It's impossible to resolve. But the irony of course is the huge and growing list of things it is actually doing quite nicely.

We'll have decently smart AIs before we nail down what that G actually means, should mean, absolutely cannot mean, etc. Which is usually what these threads on HN devolve into. Andrej Karpathy is basically side stepping that debate and using self driving as a case study for two simple reasons: 1) we're already doing it (which is getting hard to deny or nitpick about) and 2) it requires a certain level of understanding of things around us that goes beyond traditional automation.

You are dismissing self driving as mere "automation". But that of course applies to just about everything we do with computers. Driving is sufficiently hard that it seems to require the best minds many years to get there and we're basically getting people like Andreij Karpathy and his colleagues from Google, Waymo, Microsoft, Tesla, etc. bootstrapping a whole new field of AI as a side effect. The whole reason we're even talking about AGI is those people. The things you list, most people cannot do either. Well over 99% of the people I meet are completely useless for any of those things. But I wouldn't call them stupid for that reason.

Some people even go as far to say that we won't nail self driving without an AGI. But then since we already have some self driving cars that are definitely not that intelligent yet, they are probably wrong. For varying definitions of the G in AGI.