skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone is wondering about the context for this 2016 article, it was right after the 2015 San Bernardino attack and the FBI was trying to get into one of the attacker's phones. Apple resisted the request primarily because they wanted a certificate that would allow them to install any rogue firmware/app/OS on any iPhone, not just the attacker's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack
You do realize you also need dns64 for this to work right? So in fact your proposed architecture is strictly worse
Can't see a something like "show answers to related questions directly under a single answer to the intended question" being a middle-manager decision.
Fun to see. When I worked on the implementation of Rod Burstall’s HOPE language (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800087.802799) in 1979 I “invented” pattern compilation and implemented it (in POP-2) for the HOPE interpreter. HOPE patterns were of course way simpler than Haskell patterns, so my algorithm was pretty straightforward. From the math point of view, any function or arity n that has a parameter whose possible actual values belong to a finite discrete set can be replaced by a family of functions of arity n-1.
ip -6 route del default

That does something different than

ip route del default
Quota was once a very good website. I spent a lot of time contributing and answering questions.

Then the email spams started happening pushing digests of irrelevant and in some cases harmful recommendations.

Then the increasingly asshole-oriented designs around serving up search results and blocking the content unless you signed in or registered.

Then the Q/A quality digressed massively to the point where it became less and less useful. There were also changes to the design that merged questions, answers, and recommendations into a largely incoherent mess where I was never really sure what I was looking at or why.

Not wanting any further association with the dumpster fire Quora was becoming, I ended up deleting every one of my answers and comments before deleting my account entirely.

Now I take pains to block Quora results from my searches and never click on a Quora link if I come across it. It seems like I’m not missing much based on the terribly awful “innovations” mentioned in this article.
Not something i would use in prod and also needs dns64
FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues.

"could exploited by criminals" is sadly a disingenuous claim. A cryptographic backdoor is presumably a "Sealed Box"[1] type construct (KEM + symmetric-cipher-encrypted package). As long as the government can keep a private key secure only they could make use of it.

There are plenty of reasons not to tolerate such a backdoor, but using false claims only provides potential ammunition to the opposition.

[1] <https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/public-key_cryptography/sea...>
> We are not going to replace PE or PVC jacketing for wires with cork.

What about hemp?
Think I'm just going to disable it. I haven't had a single person use it outside of me to test it.
Reminds me, I miss StepMania.

Off to build a new dance pad....
Risk-shifting is a legitimate service. If you buy insurance solely because of some legal (often perceived) legal requirement, then you are probably buying the wrong insurance for your situation. And missing out. After that, yes, the people making this their business can be expected to turn a profit? That doesn't seem unreasonable.

After that the word you should be looking for is competition: competition in keeping costs tight, competition in paying out easily, quickly and fairly.
Quora really captured lightning in a bottle around that time. I used to get a weekly (daily? Can't remember) email from Quora and I would read just about every question in it. I came to look forward to the emails. I've never had that experience with any other other newsletter.
Won't it rather have the same effect a slow phone or laptop has, like driving you really mad at times? I think I might have that issue if everything is laggy, unless I'd like to sugarcoat a very expensive purchase of an otherwise "cool" device.
Yes, I recall this as well. It didn't pass the smell test to me - probably wineries making up a reason to justify switching to screw caps.
I am. I released a new version of the Modern-Perl library a couple of weeks ago (apropos of this story).
Remember, these grids are already running 220v and the average labor cost is very low. There are many use cases that make sense within said economy with cheap range limited electric vehicles that do not support fast charging.

The calculus changes quite substantially when you are paying people tens of dollars an hour, but it is common in Ethiopia for people to spend nearly half of their income on the cost of commuting to work as wages are so low.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=plastics

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There's a Travel mode that you need to enable in the control center. When enabled, it keeps your windows anchored to your view, when disabled, they're anchored to a place in the physical world, so you can move around them.
Gently teasing: linking a 2 hour video with "shameless self plug" definitely did _not_ help obviate the surreality.
And Apple has a backdoor that only Apple can use. Why don't criminals exploit Apple's backdoor?
> [we were] storing a large time-series table

saved you a click
I haven't had time to deep read all the way through yet, but this feels so similar to the half-edge structure used in many 3d mesh editing programs but in 2d...
I do totally remember.

I remember the time when the press cried "there is no cork left on earth!!".

I remember the time when cheap wine came with plastic corks.

I remember the time when cheap wine had cork corks again.
As an aside to anyone who has a question like this for AWS — support is the wrong way to ask.

You have an account team whether you know it or not. The account team has an SA who will be able to help out or request help from a specialist.
Privacy Economics Sources (2023)
This list is long.

The problem with long reading lists is that it forces you closer to a box-checking mentality. That's dangerous for learning because people aren't computers---we don't read a book, ingest all the information, go onto another one, and then end with the sum total of the information as useable knowledge.

We need context. That's why the order of books, selections from books, and the discussion around books is so much more important than the books themselves, at least if your goal is true understanding.

This list is a good start, but if it is to help someone learn, it should be more than a list.
They should pull the BOFH of the edge team. For the greater good of all windows users.
A blog post can be sufficient reference.

The point is that Wikipedia isn't original research. You updating the page on the basis of personal knowledge isn't the way it is supposed to work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch?us...
I am the founder and owner of a business with 270+ employees. I regularly give employees final warnings. The warning always is because of issues directly related to their job (not working their shift, failing at their regular duties somehow), not asking them to do more tasks beyond their job.

If this description of Amazon's pivot process is accurate, then there is something very shady going on there. Probably just the bureaucracy terminating people who disagree with them and making sure they have legal cover for it. Lots of DEI programs pushed by Fortune 500 CEOs require doubling minority employee populations and also unless the company is doubling in size, require the termination of white people. They can't legally say that, so they make up weird programs like this to get to that DEI goal.
For $1 each, lots of people. Price will find buyers.
That's because it didn't work reliably. There were at least a couple of situations where Perl would have had to guess which operation you were trying to perform, so the feature was a source of potential bugs.
Quora is the spammiest large website, for sure. Depending on your query like 80 % of responses are scams from India and/or SEO fluff bullshit and self promotion.
I recently received an invite to work in Cambridge, England, for a year. (This is a simplification of a more complex situation, but I'll leave it at that.)

I have two very young kids.

It looks like I'll have to decline the invitation, as it turns out that nursery childcare in Cambride costs well over $1000 per child per month. (e.g., https://www.montessoricambridge.co.uk/admissions/fees-and-se... --- and these guys, at ~$1600/month/child, are far from the most expensive.)

In the developed world, in an upper middle class home, having children has become something akin to an extravagance: Very expensive, and quite uncommon. I'm the only one in my peer group with children, and I have two siblings and six cousins who are all childless in their thirties.
They can't do it without popular support, so they make up the numbers so the gullible people are happy with their rights being taken away.
yeah sure, physical exercise is vital, and even a few minutes everyday is a great boost for a lot of things in you

but I used to run / bike, and this didn't address the same movement as deep squat / dead lift affect
I wish I could double your karma. This comment represents the pinnacle of thought around vehicle styles and how unsound logic and manipulative sociology can create net harm in capitalist economies. Everything about modern American trucks and SUVs makes me want to vomit when I thino about it too hard.
Meanwhile, I'm over at a company where one of our most important products is literally a white-label-able chatbot, and we are very careful to corral any "AI" off into specific controllable parts.

This is partly because it needs to output reliable well-structured data for downstream integrations.
What is it? Year 5 of this bullshit speculation? Peloton is dying, why would Apple want anything to do with it? I see Apple buying Zwift or Traineroad before Peloton, and I don’t see that happening at all.
It's not a false claim, assuming the feds will keep such a key "secure" is not backed by evidence. Top secret materials are leaked all the time. Private keys from well secured systems are extracted from hacks. The FBI having such a key would make them a very profitable target for the various corps that specialize in hacking for hire. For example, NSO group.

If the power doesn't exist, nobody can exploit it.
A major difference is that Nix has no type system or schema. Pkl is typed.
I see a lot of people asking why so many layoffs now and this is the first person I've heard get it right tech over hired. I've seen a lot of companies over hire unexperienced and under experienced people for positions and it's now coming back into correction. It's unfortunate but that's what happens sometimes.
Apple Vision Pro User Guide
I never use containers from the web unless they're created be the company or developer themselves. If they don't produce one then I build my own.
Lawyers, courts, regulators have a more powerful word against insurance company decisions on claims. Consumer organizations could also apply plenty of pressure. Granted none of these are worthy solutions for individual small claims. And the US don't exactly strive for functional all of the above. So - yes in theory the insurance companies don't have the last word - and sure, in practice that theory feels like it never helps. It should help in a serious accident.
Yeah I agree with that. I don't agree with the notion that "there should be no individuals who are rich enough to fund great projects"
Apple's return policy is 14 days for all their products and is industry standard.

Also I am not sure what the problem is that is unique to those with ADHD. The issues raised are the same for everyone.
I think it's a pretty polarizing experience. Either you fall in love with it and go all in, or you don't and it's just not worth the squeeze. 14 days seems plenty of time.
"Rasti Computer" is a detailed GRiD Compass tribute made from Framework innards
Pseudo-golang with generics

func yield[G AnyGenericEvenInterface](promise G) G {...}

I'd have preferred the language expand yield() to take an argument which yields until the ((promise)d) variable is resolved to a value. This makes it more clear that the work is being passed off to runtime and will wait for that value.

I'm still somewhat confused that promise constructions don't have any well defined start time https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... They could start instantly or defer entirely until waited on by any of the resolution methods. It seems more complex than light threads / goroutines synchronized by communications queues and other first class language objects.
It's normal for a programming language to have the ability to define types and create values of those types. Pkl is entirely conventional here.
very similar arc to "plastic bags are bad, save the trees!" -> "plastic is bad, paper is renewable!"
I don't know how your performance expectations are calibrated, but for example on my i5 (4 cores) using a SATA SSD, I can get ~100k "Hello World" web requests/second, and ~60-70k web requests that update the database/second. The database can do ~300k updates/second on my hardware by doing something like generating synthetic updates in SQL, or updating by joining to another table, or doing a LOAD DATA INFILE.

Obviously the app is the primary bottleneck (well, they both are; CPU time is the bottleneck. Using an NVMe disk doesn't move the needle much). That's without TLS on the http requests. Turns out json parsing has a noticable cost.

Meanwhile I see posts about mastodon running into scaling issues with only a few hundred thousand users. Are they each doing 1+ toot/second average or something? 'cause postgres should not be a bottleneck on pretty much any computer with that few users. Nothing should be a bottleneck at that level.
The list specified the author: The 10 Day MBA by Steven Silbiger
I have one of those absolutely terrible cheap Cyberpower ones, and I actually use it with the battery completely removed for some weird reasons. Works fine, though it gets upset and wants to sound its buzzer even with that disabled in its configuration utility. A few dabs with the desoldering tool fixed that.

But really, don't buy those things they are awful as a UPS. Never did work reliably.
I am not paying 20£ to read am article and i dont see an archive link, so i am flying blind but here goes: the fundamental problem with all these types of articles and so i assume also with this one is as follows: govermment is not better than private wealth, it is just a different group of assholes interfering in my life. Thr problem with all of them is the interference (abuse of market power in economic terms) so lets stop crying about people being successful amd instead target market power abuse. This means severely limiting government but also empowering government to much more easily break up market power abusing companies (i.e most of the s&p 500 plus a bunch of large private companies).
It doesn't come across as laggy, but... smeary? if I move my head to the side, everything smears for a little bit before it snaps back into focus. It's a bit rough for me to move around in, but I'm pretty sensitive to motion.
>1. Connect America Fund (https://www.fcc.gov/general/connect-america-fund-caf) which has been around 2011

The FCC website seems to suggest the funds were given in exchange for ISPs providing internet in an given internet. Did the ISPs not follow through? If so, is there more on this?

>2. Obama's stimulus package of 2009 which allocated $8B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...)

The linked wikipedia page just lists a dollar amount with no accompanying detail, and google doesn't turn up much either, so it's unclear under what conditions the money was given out.

>I'm pulling these acts from this book: http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/

I didn't feel like reading all 581 pages of the book, so I looked at the summary instead. Based on my quick skim, there's little in the way of details in terms of actual examples of government money being handed out with the expectation of it being used for broadband, and the ISPs not following through. There were however, many examples of ISPs failing to meet their broadband expansion plans, which is a slightly different claim.
HuggingFace launches multi model HuggingChat assistants
The Logitech G Cloud
Ask HN: Blackbox or Unit testing Java GUI awt components?
I have been looking for a way to blackbox and white box test a Java program. If it’s free that would be great. The only thing I’ve been working with is Java.robot in awt. It doesn’t handle scaling/different resolutions. I can assert pixel color or manually try to grab ui components but that seems to be where I reach the end.

Has anyone used anything recently?
Gamifying fitness works fine, peer pressure does too. The gym I (41, male) go has quite a lot of pensioners due to the wide range of courses they offer. It's quite normal there to have a yoga course with people ranging ages from 20 to 70+.
It's a language implementation gotcha, not really a library problem. The internal data structure used to represent values is polymorphic and uses flags to represent the types of operations performed on the represented data (numeric, string, etc).

The only reliable way to serialize a value with a desired type is to request that type explicitly--as one might do to represent a large integer or very precise decimal in JavaScript or JSON, for example.
Wasn't there an Udemy course that was really popular? Has anyone had any experience with that one?
The NixOS module system has those and can be used independently of NixOS despite its name.
I completely agree on the extra overhead for opening new windows, and this authors thoughts on the pass-through quality. For myself I don’t think I realized how much I just look around while I’m thinking or working on some thing else but the Apple Vision Pro makes that very obvious as things light up, expand, etc.

I never used the iPad is anything more than a consumption device and as things stand right now I’m not sure if the apple Vision Pro is going to be more than that for me either. I wrote about this in my first impressions blog post [0], but what I really wanted was to use the Apple Vision Pro as a replacement for my computer monitors, it’s just not there yet. I look forward to future revisions and I’m also on a 13 day countdown to decide if I want to keep this or not.

[0] https://joshstrange.com/2024/02/03/apple-vision-pro-first-im...
"The problem with long reading lists is that it forces you closer to a box-checking mentality."

Most MBAs are checkboxes so someone can get a higher paying job. Most people do not care about the theory, nor are they really concerned with being a good leader outside of their ego.
Especially funny given that screw caps are inherently superior in every way except for hipster signalling.
World III War and the Rise of the Neo-Lippmannites
You're saying you don't want red squigglies in your IDE when you do your configuration wrong? Why?
cost-plus has largely proved to be a busted business model. in industries where it is de rigueur, such as defense and space, traditional business models have driven efficiency improvements and new product development alongside price decreases.
Running plus cycling is quite a feat already, if you do it serious. I'm a cyclist and 15 months into running I still dislike it but also know it's a good thing for me.
a passphrase is much shorter than a key and may be in memory multiple times.
Don't you see that 90% of these is just

"There is plastic in the environment"

It does not say "plastic harms this or that".

The equality "plastic presence"=="plastic harm" is not obvious to me

To me it is just like "man-made electromagnetic waves are everywhere, they are not natural, ergo this harms the environment"
i do not care for them, but profit cap is not the same as margin cap
Perhaps some, but only a small amount... current targets are hitting between 8.4-9.5 billion by 2050 (some estimates are we'd have already hit peak and be going down)! At about 8 billion today, we're talking between a 5% and an 18ish% increase. Either way much less than the increase in cancer diagnosis incidence.
Not so much for takeoff! Most rocket designs better than chemical rockets trade off thrust for specific impulse. That's an improvement in orbit, since delta-v is delta-v. But imagine a 10kg rocket- it's receiving ~100N of gravity. If your engine doesn't put out 100N of thrust you'll just sit there on the launch pad. As you pick up speed you no longer have to deal with that (after all, LEO has basically the same gravity and doesn't have to burn against gravity at all) but when you're launching off something other than a point mass, some of your thrust has to go towards ensuring you don't hit the planet, or you will not into space today.

The practical designs we have for NTRs are solid core, which after long effort got up to a thrust to weight ratio of 7:1, meaning they could in principle carry up to 6 times their weight and accelerate up in Earth's gravity rather than down. Chemical rockets can get 70:1. No one ever had plans to use NTRs in lift platforms- instead they could serve as more efficient upper stage engines, for orbit-orbit transfer burns and the like. In principle there are engines which are technically NTR and offer much better performance, but no one's ever gotten a working prototype. Also you probably wouldn't want to launch with an open cycle rocket, since the open part describes how the radioactive fuel is ejected out the rear. Unfortunately, with the technology we have, we have to make tradeoffs between efficiency and thrust. For the lift stages chemical rockets are, for now, unrivaled.

(Unless of course your nuclear propulsion is of the more, shall we say, entertaining variety. Project Orion has its proponents...)
Worth noting that modern AMD CPUs incorporate the TPM functionality in the CPU itself, not sure about Intel.
HuggingChat has existed for a while, but now with Mixtral 8x7B, and their assistants (basically their version of ChatGPT's GPTs), it is so much more useful. Especially because Mixtral doesn't censor conversations like ChatGPT does.
There is https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-io... and https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/.
Historians will probably mark the end of the American Empire to sometime around the financial crisis of '08 or perhaps even the invasion of Iraq.
The Earth is larger than Venus, but its atmosphere is 90 times denser than ours.

There's a lot more variables that just gravity.
Do military cryptographic keys leak often? Do nuclear codes leak?

The times highly valuable cryptographic keys leaked for various cryptocurrency exchanges it has generally if not always been due to gross negligence.

Such a key would be highly sensitive and it would also require very little traffic to use. You would just need to send the secure system a KEM (<100 bytes) and it will respond with the symmetric key used for the protected package.

I don't doubt they could secure it. Can even split the key into shares and require multiple parties to be present in the secure location.
Deepfakes will hurt 30% of organizations' trust in biometrics by 2026