skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a northern version of the Navajo culture that grew around the buffalo migration. It's a competitor for possibly homo sapiens' oldest profession, eating grass indirectly by following grass-processing devices around and eating them instead.
If people are so worried about this, why aren't important things cryptographically signed?

It's not a new technique or anything.
I can't find the link offhand, but he's discussed this on another page, or possibly in one of his videos (which would explain why I couldn't find it in 30 seconds).
Some homebrewers will wax nostalgic about how the human sense of smell/taste can detect almost all of the ways that fermentation can go wrong and make it toxic.

But we also keep pushing back earliest dates for precursors to civilization, I start to wonder if maybe there aren't graveyards of people who couldn't distinguish thymol from ethanol and selected themselves out of human history via acute liver failure.
Llama2.c running on a Silicon Graphics Indigo2 workstation
Every time there's some actual disaster on something like a commercial airliner, in the ensuing investigation it turns out there were tons of warning signs - missing bolts, ignored reports, etc. And then people, rightfully, go "why were all these warning signs ignored?"

And now here you are smugly telling us to ignore a bunch of missing bolts and that we're idiots for possibly thinking they could be indicative of a problem. Do you see how this is a big part of the answer to that perpetual question of "the signs were all there, why wasn't anything done?"
Unfortunately I don't have enough time to fully list all the problems we have with modern computer/smartphone technology, But they are just too many.

It's not just the about having Linux.

There are all kinds of problems around.
But here are my main concerns.

- The lack of an easy way to know what all programs on your phone are exactly doing;

- Sensible application permissions. (I just want to share 1 photo but somehow the application has access to my entire disk/folder?)

Projects like Grapheme seem to just lock down the software completely and make it unusable for all kinds of use cases
The free market economy promised to deliver better quality products with lower prices, but it seems to result in low quality products for low prices. Buyers vote with their wallets, and pricing seems to be more important than quality. I see this also in B2B where high quality products have a hard time competing with lower priced products. Whenever Microsoft decides to include even a half functioning product into their office suite, competition is hurting.
> Use tools to help workers estimate their contribution.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Yeah, no shade to you from me. I think my mention of a US law triggered some HNers' (justified) fears of US-centrism, and I was just explaining why I thought it was not unduly US-centric to respond to a comment about a company headquartered in the US with a remark that referenced the DMCA.
By the way, "spent almost 3 months on a 3 line tax calculation in a checkout flow" sounds about right. You say it yourself "had to work on several continents and query a silly amount of internal java services".

A problem in the scale of a giant company like Amazon is a different problem altogether. Getting these 3 lines wrong could have, I suppose, catastrophic impact so spending 3 months on it makes total sense for Amazon.
Aw, shucks :)
I can't say I'm widely traveled, I have no idea how desktop Office works, but Apple does this so well.

Using their desktop apps, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, TextEdit, Preview, I never hit "Save". I just close the apps. When I come back, the windows reopen right where I left off.

I wish emacs did this. I honestly don't know what it would be like for a code editor to be "constantly saving". I guess I would adapt, but there are times when I do all sorts of changes and go "Ah, this isn't right" and just kill the buffer. The ultimate undo.

But there's a great feeling, to me, when I go to close the app (or shutdown the computer) and it just closes. No prompts, no warnings, just saves its state, shuts down, and comes back later. And with the ever popular "naming things" issue of computers, I have a bunch of just "Untitled" windows. They're there when I open the app, and that's all I need to know.

The nag factor and cognitive load reduction of that is just unmatched. "Just deal with it, I'll come back later, maybe, and clean it up". One less thing.
I just have to link it here, because it's so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdqXT9k-050
Doing God's work!
So who is he?
Tbh they should really just learn it.
It's super simple and powerful
all good recommendations. I needed some encouragement. Thank you.

It's blowing my mind you willingly went to Pernik, though.
Starlink has this market cornered until another company develops sufficiently reusable rockets.

If AST SpaceMobile's bet is to try and work out the kinks in their hardware while waiting for an alternative launch provider to come online then OK, I can't fault that mindset.

IMO, if they get anywhere close to being competition then SpaceX will just change the contract terms going forward to neuter their viability.

And why go public so early? AST SpaceMobile has been public for 5 years and is getting destroyed by the market. They just sold off majority ownership of their satellite manufacturing capabilities.

Doesn't their strategy just invite pressure to monetize early at the cost of being able to experiment with R&D?
Snapchat texts are not end to end encrypted. I think we know exactly how that happens since Snowden.
There won’t be political ramifications. Though this might be more tangible to the average users that don’t care about privacy.
Alternatively you can also meditate/pray your way to similar states as the ones psychedelics induce. It takes a ton of practice, but I was able to generate very notable open-eyed hallucinations after just 2 years of low-intensity meditative practice (roughly equivalent to 120ug of LSD).

It is totally believable that a true religious zealot would be able to achieve much, much more with decades of practice.
> don't know about the US

It's old news here. From April 2018...

"Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936041
4 bolts (I actually think they are screws) is not a danger but it signals a failure in the maintenance pipeline.
I never did any game development but I feel the same way. I never pursued this path but I kinda wish I did in some way and the idea that maybe it's not too late to switch comes back every so often but the scope feels impossible. I wonder if AI tools making the art would be a big enabler for small indie studios. Still, it does seem like 10 - 100x effort required to make a good 3D video game that sells vs. making an even somewhat complex app.
Listen, if you think handing a kid a cavity magnetron and the multi-kilowatt power supply to drive it ON TOP of a high-voltage CRT display is a good idea -- then I really want to know how it goes.
But consider this: there may be an electrical engineer reading the article right now thinking "damn, apps are hard, building one at home is quite the feat!"
Where does the memory for the combined string come from? Even if Zig had operator overloading it's not clear how a runtime `string1 + string2` could work.
Didn't the USA recently auction off its helium reserve properties?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve

It failed to finalize a sale*
The RealTek 2.5gb ethernet on my Asus motherboard hits maybe 400mbps with a tailwind, because it only supports a single receive queue. Not hitting the advertised base rates is common to wired and wireless alike.
Anyone know how this EdTech site works?
I came across this EdTech platform recently and have been quite impressed by their content. It almost seems too polished to have been created by a human. Could it be an LLM (large language model) at play here? I'm really interested in understanding how this technology works. Any insights or recommendations would be much appreciated!
Travel is a surrogate "hobby" for people who don't really have a hobby, but want to do something that makes them look interesting.
> I feel like they are being vague on how the message was sourced purposefully.

Why does it matter? If he's innocent he shouldn't have anything to hide! /s
I just use OpenContacts from F-Droid and leave my phone contacts empty. OpenContacts has a extra button to open a contact in Whatsapp.
I think the author suggests that chemical-psychological research is quite inefficient, given that so many discoveries were random discoveries rather than products of systematic search and invention.
I would trust a build coming from the upstream project more than individual build efforts by people outside the upstream. It usually make it more more organized and do help people who wants a quick trial ( I wouldn't like having to build each thing I want to try). Also people keeping up with updates is a problem when you provide the builds. Imagine having to keep up with manually build 20 software/packages every couple of weeks.

Yes, we know it is mot requirement. But it is nice and convention to do.
i3wm, bspwm, etc, and many others have provided APIs like that "forever". The problem is that they're async and sit "besides" or "after" the actual window management.

E.g. one of the things I disliked about bspwm was that while I could get a feed of events and act on them, I couldn't intercept and modify or reject requests, so e.g. when a new window opened, bspwm would place it, and issue an event, and before my script could reconfigure the window it'd already be visible, so to get a floating desktop the way I wanted I ended up with windows flashing up in one location and then moving.

Put another way: The plethora of Wayland compositors is a strong demonstration of how these compositors don't give sufficient control via their external APIs, or people would write window managers for one or more of those compositors instead of writing more compositors.
What this does is demonstrate how to avoid ringing (and its destructive effects) by modulating the forcing function.
I don't disagree with these statements, but I don't understand how they're relevant to my point. The Javascript-in-SVG is what I pointed to in the spec.

18.2: "A ‘script’ element is equivalent to the ‘script’ element in HTML and thus is the place for scripts (e.g., ECMAScript). Any functions defined within any ‘script’ element have a "global" scope across the entire current document."
Spending commitment on AWS? Are you referring to ec2 reserved instances?

Even if you have one year reservations on your instances, starting service migrations/deprecations now would pay off quickly enough. Your commitment expires in 6 months, on an average basis.
A light sensor on an ESP taped to the inside of the mailbox would probably work, and a note to the postal carrier informing them of its function, but I suspect you'd have issues with the range of the device.
To be fair, for the vast majority of FreeBSD users flua is essentially nonexistent; it was pushed off into /usr/libexec and renamed so that it doesn't get used by consumers of base in such a way that it can't be updated.
I believe the concern is that, now, it's incredibly easy to make a very believable lie. It takes skill to Photoshop an image believably, or it takes social weight to push a false story as believable.

But now, AI has democratized these actions. A 15yo with an internet connection can make the fake Biden voice calls in about 10 minutes.
Stop playing God, Pope's adviser tells tech titans
OP should have a look at ZFS. With large amounts of data I feel that ZFS snapshots might be far more time efficient to compare than diffing full directories.

Bonus: FreeBSD is currently considering adding Rust to their base system. They have ZFS natively in FreeBSD already. Perhaps OP will find joy in FreeBSD :D
> How would a passenger know the limit of number of bolts to be missing before failure?

They wouldn't. That's why passengers aren't tasked with being safety inspectors.
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Thank you, got the same build M1 Max during Christmas B&H sale and can confirm it's amazing for running local LLMs.
Nice one. I'm glad you're still pleasing your user base.
As a cognitive scientist, I think there's nothing special about the ability to "understand", or about "intelligence". When I hear someone say "AI can't understand", I think they mean "AI does not have a soul", and I think they actually want to say "I can't emphasize with AI".

On the other hand, I think understanding is gradual, not a binary. If I teach a neural network what the letter "A" looks like, it will understand the general shape of the letter "A" and even generalize to unseen examples!
That's a remarkable amount of understanding for some chunk of metal.

I wouldn't say LLMs understand the world anything like we do, but they do understand something: what kind of text a human would write. That is, LLMs can work with the concept of "gravity", but do not have access to gravity.

So in my view, LLMs have conceptual, abstract understanding of text but they lack grounding in physical reality. But also it doesn't really matter whether we say they "understand". What would it change?
I'm really unlikely at this point to use zig or even less likely to use rust. But as an embedded firmware guy I'm happy to see people working again to advance the state of the art of actual low level compiled languages. That stopped in the early 90's when we went off the rails with Java and C++ OOP madness. So it's nice to see it again.
4 screws randomly distributed among the 109 might not be a danger, but these were 4 in a row, which seems like it would be more hazardous.
TikTok users report that they can no longer log in through Twitter / X
This took quite a while to get ready but I do believe it prevents 99.9% of the theft cases mentioned. I am downloading it right now.
Would this be dependent on the audio file that was being played during the crash to start at address 0 of the ROM? It seems like it'd be highly unlikely you'd be able to get 100% of the ROM.

Now if this was a hack where the thought was, "What if we dumped the whole ROM to the audio buffer, could we recover the complete ROM through audio analysis?"
By this logic assembler is the best, as the most explicit language. I believe "number of footguns" is a metric people use for C++ exclusively. C++ is a mix of a few generations of a few languages, but most importantly several cultures.
C++ is not bad. Qt code which uses STL here and there and a few unwrapped C libraries is bad. In that situation you really don't know what a "+" does in a particular case.

In Python or C# situation is quite different. For example I struggle recall a single case from my experience when property was confusing or was used in a confusing manner.
It is going to be so funny in 5-8 years looking back on this ridiculous "AI" hysteria. That people were taking seriously the idea that these fancy word guessing games might be actual intelligence is so far beyond the pale. Do you people realise you're being mugged?
Yup, made sure to setup good monitoring/limits, but put a large amount credits in there to make sure it can scale in case it gets good usage :)
She admits she made $0 in sales in her 3 months there and she is in corporate sales. It's no surprise that she was fired. HR said it was based on stats. These were the stats. There was probably a 90-day probationary period.

If I was a developer and didn't commit one line of code in 90 days, I would also expect to be fired.

They won't go into details because they probably aren't allowed to (based on legal).

I don't see the gaslighting, just someone trying to get revenge on a company for firing her.
It doesn't say what they're a replacement for in that definition.

In this review article, hydrogen and ammonia are classed as e-fuels.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

> Another example is transforming electricity into e-fuels (like hydrogen)

> hydrogen can be further converted to synthetic electricity-based fuels (e-fuels) as chemically bound RE and such as e-methane [27], [28], Fischer-Tropsch fuels [29], [30], e-ammonia [31], [32], and e-methanol [33], [34].

(that last paragraph doesn't say hydrogen is not an e-fuel, it says it's not a "synthetic" e-fuel, as hydrogen is as feedstock for synthesis here.)
I am partial to the following one about computers:

"A cpu is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking."
2-3 people daily I would be completely surprised there's any issues.

It suggests they're working on the same files and on the same lines, why??.

My current project has 40+ developers and I haven't seen a merge conflict in a long time.

Why do you think there's issues with merging and revising, pretty much all cloud solutions have a button to do both for you.
That's one approach and Daniel Bernstein is aware of it.

http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpclient.html
Both of us are reasoning from a lack of access to shuttle schematics, but I'm always hesitant to say "never."

I was thinking of a fire that incapacitated the commander, was spreading, and the best available option was immediately venting all oxygen in the shuttle (probably with some crew loss of life), in order to potentially save enough systems to return home.

On the one hand, that's an extremely far-fetched scenario. On the other hand, NASA has experience with incinerating crews because they lack the means to save themselves.
In the aviation industry the secondary surveillance radar (SSR), as it's called, passively interrogates transmitting air traffic in ATC's airspace (1090 MHz ADS-B and 978 MHz UAT). It's not the primary radar, which is active radar and what most people think of when they hear radar. It's a terminology issue which we're stuck with now given that SSR is part of the nomenclature.

The SSR receiver is usually a long conic rotating dish, the length provides lateral isolation, as the dish itself is tilted up to match the runway glideslope (inbound and outbound track for most transmitting aircraft).

The SSR can receive information well beyond the range of the primary radar. For an air traffic controller, a commercial aircraft shows up on the SSR first, and can be directed right away. The primary radar mainly catches anomalous behaviour, foreign objects and GA aircraft that may not be equipped with UAT.
yeah, I basically skipped over everything looking for the answer to "what happened after that" because I didn't give a shit about anything else.

and yes, I hate this form of writing too.
Psychopaths telling others how to behave so they don't stab them in the back. No thanks.
> making up an assault case is pretty dicky (and probably criminal).

The pianist actually did try to grab that woman, look at the video.

I can't even say if the asian guy overreacted because I can't imagine myself being in the same conversation and not busting the pianist's nose or balls - and that's what would have probably happened if the pianist gave the same attitude towards a random white British girl off camera.

> I don't know about the racism though, it's possible but he might simply not like the Chinese government and political system

He was calling them "Japanese" while cracking jokes about "Chinese government" and mocking their language skills, while the woman he tried to grab was explaining to him that she is actually British. That's clearly racist.

One's political preferences is never an excuse of such a behavior towards individuals - a lot of people tend to forget that.

> and assume that waving a Chinese flag means supporting it, which was probably the case

Tourist groups often use flags in order to keep track of the group members. Thousands of people use the Union Jack or the US flag as a mere garage decoration.

There are myriad of possible reasons a person could be holding some nations flag other than to show support for a certain political force within that nation.
Because they can take the profits from the launch towards launching more Starlinks.... I see this as an absolute win.
I don't know, but the requirements are different. They manage a single huge queue for your website (or part of it), and your own backend is expected to be able to handle some trivially small number of concurrent users. The most common use case is highly contentious online ticket sales, where users might even wait an hour in line. Latency isn't much of a concern.
This poses the opposite question: What might we have missed? Maybe there are some reverse-accidents, some significant random discoveries that, due to their randomness, didn't happen.
It sounds like he's being held liable for sending a private message that scared the people spying on him into arresting him unnecessarily.

It never occurred to me that end to end encryption would eventually have the use case of preventing security services from scaring themselves and then blaming you for a false alarm...
I don't think your first claim is true. It was "introduced" by psychiatrists and various philosophical zealots. MKULTRA attempted to research it to see if it could be used for the purpose you describe.

Without MKULTRA, LSD still hits the US and still causes some cultural tremors.
Errr phones aren't safe. They are backdoored up the wazoo. Same with all your messaging companies. Any that are decent in size have had a visit from authorities and aren't allowed to disclose to you they have.

Iphones, android it doesn't matter. Your phones about the least safe tech device you own. It literally hacks itself if sent the right messages.

Edit: OK so it seems a fair few folks don't understand how spying across borders and things like the 5 eyes mean your tracked without a warrant legally.

So here's how it works. All 5 eyes countries are not allowed to spy on their own citizens in their countries without a warrant. All 5 eyes countries are allowed to surveil info about foreign individuals without a warrant. 5 eyes intel agencies basically just have to pipe a copy of local data say fb or in this case snapchat out via a friend in a another country then back to themselves and they don't need a warrant. As the data has now come from Intel sharing from your 5 eyes peers. The 5 eyes intel agencies between them all have deals and flex with just about every other intel agency in the world except the obvious few.

Intel sharing these days is as much as a treasure hunt for legal loopholes to get the data as it is hunting the data itself.
> Also, if you write a library in Zig, aren’t you limiting your audience?

The Zig compiler has a C backend so at worst you could just compile your library to C so that anyone with a C compiler can use it. However you can also export C-compatible functions, which is roughly analogous to having an `extern "C"` interface for your C++ library. The consumer would need a Zig compiler, of course, if they wanted to build from source.
and finally, this justifies the "science" in Computer Science.
As the author mentions near the end, "Underlying factors like economic development still explain whether or not a country is primed to jump to democracy. (In poorer countries, dictators’ mistakes are more likely to produce another dictator.)" so I think this article would be more appropriately titled "Regime change by mistake".

I guess the author started out in the field of democratization research, but rather than the usual question "What determines whether a regime change leads to democracy?" he ended up investigating "What causes regime change?" It would've been interesting to learn whether particular mistakes are more likely to lead to democratization than others. (Maybe allowing freedom of speech?)

I also think a comparison to non-fatal mistakes is missing. I.e. if you pick any random year and check whether the dictator made a mistake, and the answer is usually yes, then it's unsurprising if you look at the year the dictator was finally deposed and the answer is still yes. Or framed differently, if you notice that the dictator made an obvious mistake, should you prepare for imminent regime change or is it more likely that he'll find a way to stay in power regardless?