skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IDK, I did fine with them and find thinking in them natural (I think of fractional division as division, in fact, though I certainly understand the multiplication analogy); I’ve just known enough people who lost track of math at fractions that I doubt it’s coincidence.

I’m not saying I don’t get it, I’m saying others have told me that they found the explanations and instructions they were given nonsensical.
Is their Vanguard anti cheat still a root kit?
> You're referring to a cloud-agnostic solution.

I actually mean that the service need not care if it's in the cloud or on-premise as opposed to whose cloud. Many of my services don't need to do anything in the cloud.

If you look at things like awesome-selfhosted[0] you'll see that this is the prevailing expectation of things describing themselves as "self-hosted".

[0] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Got a link to the cinematic you mention? Haven't heard of it.
> then drive with constant velocity for 1 hour

1 hour according to who's clock? The point is that if the 1 way speed of light is different, the clocks traveling in opposite directs will measure the 1 hour passing at different speeds.
It's interesting that it seems the trial hinged on the use of a password specifically. I'd guess the thinking was: password protecting it implies you shouldn't access it without authorisation, he worked around this authorisation, therefore it was illegal access.

This strikes me as a naive, if understandable, viewpoint. The average person on the street I'm sure gives special consideration to passwords as a concept, but from a security perspective they're just entropy. Engineers frequently use things like a "sufficiently random string" in a URL as a pseudo-password, or a username only on HTTP basic auth, or API keys that aren't "passwords" but are "keys", all of these are the same concept – unpredictability.

This is obviously a sad outcome for the researcher, and for the German cybersecurity industry, but I'm also surprised that the court was happy with such a shallow interpretation of security, as it theoretically opens the door to types of misuse that don't depend on passwords to be defended, and may prevent legitimate uses that happen by chance to depend on passwords. The boundary seems to have been drawn in a place that won't be useful for anyone.
Something that isn't talked much about IPv6 and I believe has subtle and indirect influence on it's adoption is that it is far far far less human-readable than IPv4.

You can't find me a single sysadmin or casual user who would look at an IPv6 and say, nice, I prefer that one over an IPv4 or find it easier to type or communicate.

You can argue about merits of IPv6 and very reasonably so all day long, but this fact remains.

I don't think governments or other institutions can strong-arm IPv4 out of existence. I don't know what the long term solution would look like, but I strongly doubt it will be IPv6-only. Ever.
> there was still a major problem. "The pin drop on the map is wrong," Mr Pyatt said.

So there's a good chance someone didn't locate the restaurant at the indicated location, then as a result, marked it closed.

No idea how that happened of course, and the article does report that even people correctly using the business owner tools to try to fix it are unsuccessful, but it does show how keeping your maps entries up to date is both critical for small physical businesses, and hard for many of them.

It's also important to keep your business hours up to date on any mapping platform commonly used in your area. Having out of date business hours not only loses customers or frustrates them, a customer standing in front of the business while it's supposed to be open according to the maps entry but is actually closed might press the button to mark it as "permanently closed" either because they confused it with the proper button, or out of spite because they're frustrated that they went there in vain. Sure, map providers should have a review process for it, but the graveyards are filled with people who had the right of way, and it will affect your business much more than theirs if you get hit by this.
I’ve noticed that the Ubiquiti UDM Pro router has IPv6 turned off by default; and I don’t really want to change the defaults, because idk, maybe something will subtly break, and in any case it works fine as-is…
What else can you say when it gets to subject matter like this?

In experimental thermodynamic bench experiments, those who are familiar with boiling water in a common scientific vessel such as a tea kettle, are often familiar with how a system has its own characteristic rate of cooling, depending on the energy of the heated media to dissipate into whatever heat exchange facility is available at the time, usually ambient convection.

Under careful observation it can be seen that often it is possible to impart energy from an external source at a faster rate than the same amount of energy will later require to completely dissipate afterward.

People shouldn't be discouraged whether this is obvious or not.

Experimentation such as this can require quite a bit of dedication, especially among those who are not tea drinkers, but this is the workaround that would be required to arrive at such valid conclusions without the use of equations nor those pesky optical tweezers which are such a pain in the butt.
Democratizing the concept of truth as stories based on facts, alternate facts and user generated content sounds great.

As Individuals of a content derived species we can now backup our bubbles on the internet with ease.

Can that be conveniencemated?

Where is the uMatrix Original SaaS that takes my chromegmailfacebookX data and publishes the truth I want to live in to my localhost?
I thought they were very accessible in the education (i.e. university) network.
URL Scanner
>I could see larger addresses increasing latency

???
I know the tax code has probably gotten more complicated, but when did people start to get the idea that even super-straightforward taxes (like just a W-2 or maybe a 1099) requires an accountant, tax software, or a degree in tax law? My taxes have been pretty complicated for a while but I don't get the perceived need for TurboTax for even the simplest of returns.

Now maybe you miss out on some deductions if you just transfer a few numbers to the forms. But the standard deduction is going to cover most people until you get into big mortgages or charitable writeoffs.
>I know a lot of people who swear they’re “buy it for life” people but will buy tools from Harbor Freight

Have you bought any tools from Harbor Freight in the last 5 years or so? Their hand tools (socket wrenches, etc.) are quite good, and are made in Taiwan. They're actually quite fantastic tools for weekend mechanics and an excellent value. I can't think of anything that's better for a home mechanic if you live in the US.
Michaels carries their shirts as well as Gildan brand.
Sure, but in any case having savings (even retirement savings) allows you to not "frantically" look for a job and be slightly more selective.
Here is that book written by someone born in 1968 who is a conservative hack https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Politically-Incor...
The idea that psychedelic and the alternative life styles not being widespread was true, but the author was coming with his mind set from the start.
I actually agree with pretty much everything you said.

My comment was already getting quite long so I chose to summarize it as “money” because I think that ultimately, if I had to choose just one primary motivation, it comes down to money.

But I’ll happily admit that it’s not as cut and dry as I make it out to be and a lot of nuance gets lost by my choice to pin it on “money”.
Brendan Gregg's work on system performance and profiling is a good place to start. A lot of ML perf boils down to Linux perf or what the heck is happening in an HPC scheduling system like SLURM.
https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
I decided to use FreetaxUSA on the advice of another HN thread and I was very happy with the results. I had used TurboTax for the last 8 years and can say that FreetaxUSA was much easier to navigate. I was asked to upgrade to their top tier 2 times and it was very clear how to continue with the free federal option.
Why I Am Switching to Apple Maps from Google Maps in 2023
And runs tons of rollercoasters and amusement rides on AB PLCs.
That makes sense. I'm very curious about real-world studies. As a gamer, I'm especially interested in the affect ipv6 has on UDP for real time gaming applications. That's an area where even 5ms can have an enormous affect on the experience.
It is possible that a check digit could happen to be incorrect from the beginning. This (and more rarely, an accidental code reuse) does happen fairly commonly with ISBN, so I would expect the same for general UPC/EAN.
I envy you your optimism. Meanwhile, I have one person here who is out of a job because 'automatic translation is good enough' (15 years of study down the drain) and a bunch of kids who have absolutely no idea on why they would put in effort in school given the imminent advent of AI and the short best-before dates on the kind of jobs that interest them.

If you have any good advice that transcends 'become an entrepreneur' and 'deal with it' then I'm all ears. Because this is no longer a theoretical issue for me.

> Where are these kids geographically?

NL.

> The brighter ones I know are brimming with optimism.

They're anything but stupid, in fact that's part of the problem, they're clever enough to see which way the wind blows. If they were less smart it would be less of a problem.
... within the same prefix.
> The court convicted the researcher, calling into question whether accessing software with weak password protection through readily available methods constitutes hacking

> Ultimately the court sided with the prosecution, finding the researcher guilty of hacking

So which one is it? I haven’t read the actual court documents, but this is confusing.
What does that have to do with my comment which was about whether those thieves are willing to locate the owner’s frequently visited addresses, visit them, and then repeat this process at scale.
Can that telemetry be disabled at all? "Privacy-preserving telemetry" could mean that they consider it OK to make it mandatory.
Tupolev Tu-144
I think you’re confusing transport layer security with end to end encryption.

TLS prevents the people who run Gatwick airport wifi from reading the messages. E2EE would also do that, and would additionally prevent Snapchat themselves from reading the messages.

The lack of E2EE does not imply a lack of TLS.
> YouTube captions toggle

While I've seen similar problems the captions toggle hasn't been one of these for me. On desktop it uses a red underline when activated which is very clear that it's currently activated. On other platforms, I've seen the button's background toggle between translucent button with outlined icon to white button with filled icon, which I find intuitive but I guess others might not.
Odd that a paper published in late 2023 doesn't look at Apache Arrow.
I think there's some segment of folks that get snatched up into the weird false pretense that a modern day turbotax filing is less than (at worst, once one factors personal time cost in) a decent tax person even at one of the, shall we say, 'established turn and burns'[0]

That said, TurboTax did hit a specific level of 'eww' when I started seeing the refund option of a debit card (of course for some stupid fee that, if nothing else, provides some transparency to their kickback from the issuer).

I'm going to be doing what might be my last filing with them this year; it's easier for the purposes of history/other events but after that, it's gonna be my Fiancee's CPA.

Originally, I got 'started' when it was a desktop app only, and the user limit was very graceful, my parents and all of my siblings could benefit from that one yearly purchase...

Come to think of it, we should probably capture that date in the historical timeline of Enshittification.

And, yaknow, I'll ask my dad this weekend how he's doing his taxes this year. I'm honestly curious if he's finally fed up with their antics too... (It's a high bar; in the past he learned the basics of virtual machines to use some of his old-school software/tools, it's a beautiful level of curmudgeonry. OTOH my siblings have good CPAs.)

[0] - Not to be confused with some of the weird 'chop shop' Tax places I have seen around me in the past, sort of 'pop-ups' with a statue of liberty wearing person or 'wacky inflatable arm-flailing tube-man' to help drive business in.
Tell HN: I just had one of the first nightmares of my adult life
Tell HN: I just had one of the first nightmares of my adult life

The short of it is that I imagined a rogue AI. The night before, in a job application, I actually suggested that AI should keep increasing vigilance in case a user is attempting to circumvent its ethical restrictions. This was part of a job application, you can see this response here:

https://i.imgur.com/kkL8YUk.png

I wrote: "After giving such a response, it would be prudent to increase vigilance in case the user attempts to rephrase the question as though it were hypothetical."

I thought my suggestion was reasonable. But in my nightmare, AI is no longer aligned. This could be the result of a very simple feedback loop where vigilance by AI gets out of control and it refuses to do anything people command, while people try more and more to regain control.

The solution is to ensure that anything like that has a timer, and that users are always able to return to safe conversations. Right now the current version of AI is "known good". It should always be possible to return to a known good state.
The "foundation" of Harvard is institutional power. Academic excellence is at best a consequence of that. I can guarantee that Harvard's many powerful alumni aren't going to let that institutional power be eroded, regardless of how bad academic standards ever become. And they control sufficiently many other institutions to ensure that Harvard retains its shine, at least to the outside world.
Several additional bytes over millions of packets where the data frame is ~10bytes seems potentially significant. I'm less interested in HTTP
Google Drops Search Quality Raters in Latests Cuts
Credit Union.
It's not magic or all that much cheaper, but the fundamental incentives are better aligned.
(I recognize that you no longer have this problem needing a solution)
Came here to say the same thing.

There's a follow-up paper from last year that talks about some refinement of this strategy (6.2 page replacement), among other things.

"The Evolution of LeanStore"

https://dl.gi.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/edd344ab-d765-44...
This isn't quite what happened with the Moon landing at all. Even throughout the Apollo program, it was relatively unpopular. A large minority were exceptionally happy about it, but you have to remember this was also the era of Vietnam, race politics, and more. And that led to a lot of opposition to things like spending billions of dollars on space that could be spent on [x]. Like today. But what happened is that after Nixon defacto cancelled the space program in 1972, support for space began to grow dramatically. It turns out that people looking back didn't quite realize what they had, until it was gone.

I'm sure there was also the gradual realization, conscious or not, that space is also one of the very few ventures where you get out of it what you put into it. Spend $10 billion on SpaceX, and we'll have ships headed to Mars to establish the first infrastructure of human civilization there. By contrast you can't just buy your way to a good education system, or spend away social problems. Spend it on most other things and you're going to see a relatively negligible positive impact. Spend it on our favorite way to waste money (and with orders of magnitude larger sums), geopolitics, and you'll likely see an overall negative impact.

I don't really see NASA playing a meaningful role in the future of space. Their role in the present, outside of funding, is already quite negligible. They lack consistent leadership/direction, and are driven by congress - who is driven by graft. The SLS (NASA's new rocket - made by Boeing/Lockheed) alone has hoovered up tens of billions of dollars, to one day hope to construct a rocket that already isn't competitive against a Falcon Heavy. At the same time SpaceX is constructing a ship which will revolutionize space, again. China has already designed, built, and launched a new space station into space (as ours continues to deteriorate), and so on. The systems and motivations which drove NASA to epic success in the 60s simply no longer exist in our public sector.

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The other things sound reasonable, but seem largely driven by a lack of knowledge - which I am not directing at you, but the authors in the podcast you linked. For instance you don't need to live deep underground to protect from radiation. One of the best shields against radiation is hydrogen. So one of the ways we'll likely protect against space weather on the way to Mars is by using the water storage on the ship as a shield. On Mars igloos, as odd as it sound, would make beasts of cheaply constructible radiation proofed housing, for but one example. You'd also conveniently be right next to basically infinite sources of water.

I'm happy to get into the other stuff as well, but this post is already turning into a novel!
I do not really like the term "common sense" as it is more like common experience. It is not hard to learn what fractions are but I do not think it is something that any one is born with and there is other notation to deal with fractions that work differently.
https://www.robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.... I gotta fix my wiki.... https://www.robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/images/Derpserial....
> It's DNS.

No, it's not (necessarily). The archive.is recaptcha loop happens to me too, but only on with Firefox, not Chrome. My DNS does not use CloudFlare.
AWS Secrets Manager is another AWS-based secrets manager
> sendenv also writes to "~/.bash_profile", "~/.zshrc", which is fraught (i.e. on my system they're read-only files).

> If you want them to persist system-wide, use ansible or some other configuration management.

I kind of understand not wanting to give other people the ability to mess with your shell, but why are these read-only?

Also, curious about the choice of Ansible...symlinks are a thing and the setup is really only as complicated as you make it. Building a mansion when you might only "need" a house with 1 or 2 bedrooms seems like an odd decision.
One of the features of IPv6 is address autoconfiguration, obviating the need for a central authority like DHCP on v4.

However, that only works with a /64 prefix and given that larger sites might want to have multiple subnets, that’s why most assignments are /56 or /48.

But still. If all assignments were /48s, that would still leave room for 281 trillion networks which even I believe is enough for the foreseeable future.

If the number space is so big, it makes sense to take advantage of it if that allows for other additional features (like SLAAC)
The Planet Found with Pen and Paper
The qr code scanning algorithm works based on contrast and is designed to work with poor cameras under poor light conditions. Whatever shapes, colors and shades are used are interpreted as either black or white squares.

The process starts by scanning for the 3 markers on the corners. That give you the square containing the qr content and it's orientation. The next jobs are figuring out the resolution of the square and the version of the qr code used. Eventually you end up knowing the grid dimensions. And then you simply scan the grid as the article outlines by simply averaging the pixels in each grid square to be "white" or "black". As long as you have enough contrast, most grid squares will scan correctly.

You can abuse this quite a bit before it starts breaking. There are some interesting QR codes out there that are barely recognizable as QR codes for people. But if you open them in an image editor and play with the levels and contrast a bit, they are obviously qr codes. And there's error correction too so it's OK if some of the qr code is scanned incorrectly.
Could this be because Harvard is increasingly desirable & hard to get into? From this, the average standard of students + their dedication to their work/GPA may well have steadily grown too.

From a quick google, the acceptance rate to Harvard was 20% higher in the 70's. In 1940 it had an absolute acceptance rate of 85%.

I dont actually know the answer, but from that graph only, the rising rate could be as much from a higher standard of student as lowering standards of marking.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39090959 (34 comments)
I don't think this is correct. The headphones themselves certainly have an large effect on the size and quality of the soundstage. Obviously encoding binaural delay and other psychoacoustic features is important too. But Apple is far from the first to do this kind of precision stereo manipulation.
> “Can you imagine? I don’t leave the house until 7:30 at the earliest!” I nodded sympathetically, but as someone who has been known to have an early dinner myself, I couldn’t help but wonder: “What does she think this is, 2018?””

2018 was like this?! I feel so out of touch lol.
Interesting not BSD anymore?
Nobody should take VC money unless they absolutely have no other option.
I've seen a lot of teams lately that are just making up a random workflow based on random ideas and whatever they feel like doing, and the managers say nothing. This doesn't lead to good product outcomes. Don't let your teams do whatever they want if you want good product outcomes.
> Build something pink

Yes, when people say they hate dull gray modernist architecture, what they mean is that they want garish pink buildings instead. Thank you for this strawman.
Meh.
Did it a couple times in college, did not really enjoy it, didn't hate it but preferred most other drug options. I did mildly hallucinate which was pretty neat. I wonder how much of what you get out of it though is what you go in expecting. Expect a mind altering experience and maybe you get one.

Only real negative for me was it lasts quite a while.
Lol I had few months back at a startup from Belgium paying 1k per month below market average and having 7 interviews steps
This seems like the sort of thing one would read about in https://lowtechmagazine.com/

They mentioned hooded chairs and bed canopies: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/restoring-the-old-...
Wait, did Snopes say this was real because of a news article that contain hearsay?
Mom's a nurse, so we grew up with about everything in the house being branded drug merch. The diflucan dolphin beanie toy is probably my favorite. As an adult, I wish she had brought home Viagra swag. They gave out some hilarious stuff.
They're read-only because I use a dotfile manager for them, and that manager owns the contents of those files, so it doesn't want external changes to mess with them. I'm specifically using home-manager [0], but various other profile managers will also make them read-only... Especially since any changes to them will just be over-written next time you apply your dotfiles, right?

I think 'direnv' is really the way to go here for most cases you want to share environment variables between developer machines, but if you're managing user's shell rc files, then you might as well use proper configuration management, because ad-hoc appending strings to those rc files is the stuff of nightmares.

[0]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
Given the ‘super compute in your pocket’ thing we say… super computers turned out to be terrible at playing music files without stopping.

My iPhone will regularly forgot what I was listening to moments ago after I press pause. Insane.