skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a separate question. The fact that you want to do something doesn't make you automatically the owner of somebody's else money. You can't just say "I want to do X therefor it's fair that Elon Musk will pay for it, and if he doesn't, he is evil and must be jailed". There's nothing "fair" in this. It's not what "fair" means or ever meant. Especially given that Elon Musk is already paying for so much - and still you think it's "not fair" he doesn't pay more, with the sole foundation for this being that you want more.

> And if we jointly pay for them, don't each of us have a share to pay?

Yes, but despite them paying orders of magnitude more than you do, you still complain they don't pay their "fair share", the definition of "fair" being based solely on the fact that you want them to pay more. I don't see any justification for claiming this has anything to do with "fair".
This is so cool! And built with GraalVM, too. Amazing
This was a delightfully weird question! I'm sure it makes sense to calculate this before landing on another planet, though.
This is what I tell patients. Eventually something happens to all of us, we just try to extend the time until that happens.
> It is a bit worrying that both freedom and security are thought 'fanatical' by some.

Because those are your grandpa's and your dad's causes, respectively. The operative word for this generation is "consent."

Manipulate someone into giving Consent and you can do whatever the hell you want to them. They asked for and agreed to the abuse!

It all starts with clicking "I accept."

My skin crawls anytime I see someone bring it up; it's a red flag that someone is trying to apply BDSM protocol negotiation to an otherwise-simple interaction. Attorneys do this shit too. People only ever do it at all when they're trying to rewrite the rules in their favor.
I can see how 'authoring from your lap' with a laptop actually on your lap (while on the sofa - like I am doing right now) might benefit from bigger/multi screens instead of the tiny portal the laptop gives you, but as soon as you want to do something more complex probably you'll reach for your mouse, and perhaps a paper and pen/pencil (if you think with your hands). Thus to the desk you go, where all your monitors are anyway.
Why every time a new technology comes out with crappy obvious limitations does somebody feel compelled to write a blog post trying to justify it as actually good? This is just somebody trying to talk themselves into keeping their $3,500 toy
Yet another reason it should be a crime to sell a phone with a non-removable battery.
I wish them luck. Even institutions like Harvard are richly rewarding frauds and resisting punishing them when they are caught.

https://freebeacon.com/?post_type=post&p=1854123

https://freebeacon.com/?post_type=post&p=1843758

https://freebeacon.com/?post_type=post&p=1846914
> If one end of a quark is pushed on does the other end move instantaneously

Quarks don't have an "other end." To the best of our knowledge, particles are points.
So they don't do it again! He wants to protect _you_ and you're mad about it?
The powerful are protected while vengeful laws silence their critics
Ehhhhh. I got one of the fancy Breville toaster ovens because the (gas) oven in my apartment was so janky. If that's best in class, I'd hate to see the competition. The controls take 1–2 seconds to wake up, it makes the most horrendous beeping noises, the convection fan causes some funky resonance occasionally, the nonstick coating means you have to be careful cleaning it, the preheat timer is overly optimistic, the door spring is way too strong, etc, etc.

It works but I definitely don't love it, and I'm left wondering how hard it would've really been to remedy most of the annoyances. For the price (and given the reviews) I was definitely expecting better.
Wikipedia is extremely hard to edit these days, and some of the other language Wikipedias are dominated by ill intended accounts. The Portuguese language Wikipedia is censored by mods that work for local politicians in Portugal. It’s virtually impossible to add corruption cases to their page.

So now you have this bizarro world where English language pages on Portuguese politicians have corruption scandals but Portuguese language do not.
Still No Silver Bullet?
In the sense that the signal that’s generated by the photons hitting your eyes are transformed by your brain. They don’t change the essence.

However, going from text to pixels is a bigger and more profound change. You’re still in the same domain from framebuffer to the brain, with an optoisolator in the middle.
Yeah and has this actually been audited? Tech companies routinely lie about data collection. What's more likely, JetBrains decided that 1 year old LLMs are so foundational a technology that they needed to embed this crap irrevocably in the IDE? Or that they purposefully embedded it so that slurping up your code is hard to disentangle from diagnostics data collection?
Cycling Condition: Shermer's Neck
You’re going to have a hell of a difficult time trying to construct anything that tall on a high-g planet. The taper ratio between the base and the top would have to be enormous – likely a sizeable fraction of the radius of the planet! Though I guess it would have to be anyway so you have somewhere to attach all those first-stage engines…
An occupational therapist test I've seen is to lift one foot off the
floor slightly and remain balanced with eyes closed. Time is the
measure and anything over 10 seconds is "healthy".
Random as in you're not deliberately targeted by the loathsome subhuman creature piloting the weapon without paying any mind to its surroundings.
About the ADHD part: I don't know whether I have ADHD but I do lose focus quickly once I figure out how to solve a problem, before doing any implementation -- after all the implementation, however long it could take, is boring and uninteresting comparing to figuring out how to implement.

So what if I get myself a Raspberry Pi 8GB and jumps into VSCode and VSCode only? Is it possible to make a VSCode "terminal" that only shows VSCode? OK let's make it more interesting: it also has network connection and the ChatGPT plugin for VSCode installed, so that I don't have to leave for another desktop to "find" something.

What do you think?
This!

Gibbs/Heavysides style vectors are convenient because it works with our 3D intuition, but Grassman/Clifford style works better for the differential calculus of gradient decent, hyper planes of DBScan, computer graphics etc...

Here is a programer friendly site that may be of help for those who are interested.

The geometric product being the sum of the exterior and dot products also solves a lot of things you run into with vector and tensor analysis.

https://bivector.net/
Why is it so hard to go after the person's assets? In a just world, everything she owns should be sold and the proceeds handed over to her victim.
Show HN: Creative Coding Framework for Swift (Written in Metal)
Creative coding framework for Swift. Written in pure Swift and Metal.
You can create sketches with Processing-like syntax.
Also supports Apple Vision Pro's Immersive Space rendering.

Example projects are available in github.
It's quite interesting that they're not more of problem thus far.
It can be interpreted as having a personal backup copy, because a) you already paid, and b) you don’t distribute the unprotected copy you have.
I expected better from the BBC but I guess that's over.
This is very counter to reality . In high income societies ppl who have kids are often the ones the without good access to childcare and education. People have less kids as you move up the income spectrum.

Prerequisite to having kids is removing choice and meaning in life.
I drive an SUV. Not in Paris. If this came up in my town I’d vote yes if they send the $ to the public transit.
its bleeding edge research so take it with lots of caveats but it looks like big cat digestion may destroy prions

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34878289/

but yes they are extremely challenging to destroy
Sounds a lot like Reddit.
I've always felt like instead of public, private, protected, there should be something like security groups and acls on classes and functions. That way it's very explicit when you are newly coupling things, and brings tighter scrutiny to those changes.

Edit: oh, looking at the docs, apparently that's exactly what this tool does. Though it would be nice to have function level granularity. Maybe by annotating the code itself.
The delta is even greater - due to covid most credit/debit card payments were contactless (from [1] 60% in general, 73%+ at bars/restaurants) - I'll assume it will take awhile for contactless payments to drop back down to pre-COVID levels, if they ever do.

For contactless payments, I can see payment taking less than 5 seconds total. In Canada, probably spend more time dealing with tip/receipt screens than the time required to perform the contactless payment.

[1] https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/payments-in-swe...
Most economics consequences will never be measured ever
> "Norway being on the other side of the spectrum."

I suggest you follow the public debate around EVs in Norway, especially with regards to their performance this winter.

The public transportation system (which has largely transitioned to EV-only fleets) has collapsed completely and come under severe pressure to roll back to fossilized vehicles.

There's a growing pressure to reverse the push for using EVs everywhere, since the technology just doesn't seem to hold up to the weather conditions. Electric busses, taxis, trains and ferries have all underperformed, broke down, and brought Norway's largest cities to a halt on plenty of occasions this winter.

Outside of the large metropolitans, in the rural parts of the country - nobody uses EVs because they're completely impractical. People just can't risk running out of battery when it's -25 Celsius outside and the nearest charging station is an hour's drive away. EVs are heavier to drive up icy and snowy roads, and often get stuck in such conditions.

The busses in Oslo are driving without air conditioning, even when it's freezing outside, to preserve battery power.

People in the large metropolitans are now regularly being asked by the authorities to just stay at home and not go to work due to public transportation systems collapsing completely under the slightest snowfall or rainfall.

There's another debate in Norway about the severe lack of EV charging infrastructure. Coupled with the doubling of electricity prices this past year and the economic downturn - the public discourse has turned on the rapid adoption of EVs.

> "Many poor countries never even built land lines and leapfrogged straight to cell phones even though that was the more expensive technology to start with."

Cellular technology requires much less infrastructure to set-up and maintain (as opposed to land-lines).

EVs are the complete opposite. They require charging infrastructure everywhere. You need to connect the entire country to a reliable electric grid, and spread charging stations everywhere.

It's the complete opposite analogy to the deprecation of analog telephony...

As opposed to electricity - fuel can be easily transported and stored around the country in numerous ways... you can transport fuel with donkeys, trucks, trains, cars, jugs, bottles...
So you're saying there is no CVE in php, java, go, js, and python?
In a sane place, that would be the answer -- in a place where healthcare exists to care for people's health, and insurance exists to protect from consequences of accidental or deliberate damage.

Here, both exist to extract as much profit as possible for the operators of each, leaving us the unlucky participants as little more than units of measure.
Yes, I am not necessarily disagreeing with this approach. The problem is the imbalance. A PR company can buy a news article, link it and update a Wikipedia page. It means the balance is in favour of big corporations and wealthy individuals.
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Market Manipulation May Have Hit Majority of New Ethereum Tokens in 2023
See the posting above about the Arstechnica article.

During the last days of 2023 there was a big discussion, also on HN, after it was revealed that all recent Apple devices had a hardware backdoor that allowed bypassing all memory access protections claimed to exist by Apple.

It is likely that the backdoor consisted in some cache memory test registers used during production, but it is absolutely incomprehensible how it has been possible for many years that those test registers were not disabled at the end of the manufacturing process but they remained accessible for the attackers who knew Apple's secrets. For instance any iPhone could be completely controlled remotely after sending to it an invisible iMessage message.
what do you mean by this, sorry?
I really don’t think they will ever cost only a $100.
When it comes to industrial processes, I have zero faith that a biological alternative will end up being better than synthetics, in the same way how certified organic products are still allowed to use “approved” chemicals, many of which are even more toxic or harmful than the conventional solutions they are meant to replace.
> To sell the public that he achieved the dream of giving Ethiopia “access to sea”(which they already have access to)

Sure, but the vision pro offers "bigger" monitors that can fill your vision (if you want)
no, that mentioned number was the salary of many employees

and I don't find it controversial, I find it amusing and aspirational, while part of a jurisdictional patchwork system that undermines populist efforts like LA City is aiming to do
All I want is logibots IRL, is that too much to ask
Interest thoughts, but forgot one very practical calculation, unfortunately not easy to calculate. I say about shock-wave, which is known from practice on Earth, and for Earth limit rocket starting mass about 10k metric tonnes at sea level.

What it mean, shockwave from supersonic engine exhaust creates literally powerful pressure on construction, so on mentioned scale, nothing will withstand it long enough.

If it is possible to create much stronger materials, as I know at the moment, is unknown and we cannot forecast.

Sea level is important, because, at the moment I only remember TWO space rockets, which started from much different position, and high altitude (air) launch have very different atmosphere properties, which could be solution to shockwave problem (but have other limitations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne
For perspective on the numbers in that map, the first meter of each of those square kilometers of water weighs 1,024,000,000 kg. (At least, using the first number for sea water density I could find.)
> As long as the government can keep a private key secure only they could make use of it.

Well, keep in mind they would have to keep it secure in perpetuity. Any leak over the lifetime of any of that hardware would be devastating to the owners. Blue Team/Defensive security is often described as needing to be lucky every time, where as Red Team/attackers just have to get lucky once.

This attack vector is in addition to just exploiting the implementation in some way, which I don't think can be handwaved away.
My gut tells me there is still plenty of down-market demand for software engineers. Not sure how you would be able to show this though, maybe through average salaries going down? So "shrinking" doesn't look like jobs being deleted (this seems a bit too zero sum), just engineers taking less lucrative gigs.
So specifically compare compact minivans to SUVs then. Categories are made up and the average of a category is not always relevant.
I have almost never done that. I just touch my personal computing device to a payment terminal and it's done.

I agree that giving anyone your card number is insanity. I only did it few times in hotels and it required tremendous leap of faith from me. To be honest I should have gotten plastic prepaid for this purpose.
You can't? How do you think it happens in a fairly large company, then?
The last few versions made a lot of the lifetimes elided so you can drop them.
ISMO on silent letters: https://youtu.be/dBpMlRmkV1Q
Funny because I was saying “Yes! Yes! Yes!” to myself as I was reading. This author totally gets me and what I want out of AVP and it’s the first time I am even seeing it written somewhere.
If it was cheaper the government wouldn't force you to take part in the scam under pain of death.
And since AWS/Amazon gets more money by not supporting IPv6 everywhere, why would they enable it?
Things aren’t “slow” in the sense that they’re unresponsive. The UI actually feels great to use—it’s a lot of fun, it’s fluid, and it responds very well to my actions. It’s just that I’m not as fast navigating apps on the Apple Vision Pro compared to using a mouse or a touchscreen. Frustration only occurs when trying to perform a certain action and getting a different result, which doesn’t happen much for me (except in iPad apps with poor compatibility).
More details here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200212014117/https://www.washi...
IF the EPA bans vinyl chloride all that means is instead of manufacturing PVC pellets in the USA we will import them from some place else. The EPA banning the use of PVC is about as realistic as banning the use of cardboard or paper. It is bewildering to me how many people think you can just ban an essential material and magically come up with an equivalent substitute. That is not how the real world works.

In the case of asbestos the harm was much greater and the substitutes much better and more readily available and the use range of the original material was much narrower.

The blind, ignorant hate for "plastics" online just goes to show how people can be led to believe anything.

For example polyethylene, used in milk jugs and water pipes is absolutely harmless. You could swallow a fist full of PE pellets per day and they would simply pass right through you unchanged. This is a scientific fact. If a PE container can hold concentrated sulfuric acid your stomach is going to do nothing to it. Yet for some reason drinking out of a plastic milk jug is bad because some random person online said so.
These kinds of attacks aside, the intent is that you need to turn on the PC and then actually boot to the intended operating system, which is then protected with a login screen
The telegraph has always been anti EV, or anything to do with moving off fossil fuels.
On any Linux system you can have no window manager (or an extremely minimal one) and just start a single application on login. It's been a while since I've done that and most stuff has moved away from X11 now, but yes exactly what you want is possible. To log in and have nothing but a single application, no menus, no desktop, etc.
food retail margins are 2% every time they turn over their inventory, which if they manage it properly can be much less than a month. so that 2% is annualized via a large multiplier

the margins for telecoms are considered on an annual basis.
Would love to see a comparison with some of the many other vendors out there. Vultr, Supabase, Tembo, …
> Anyone using punchcards would be amazed by keyboards and so we will be amazed by interfaces that are beyond our imagination.

Typewriters, proper, pre-existed alongside punchcards for many decades before being incorporated into computer interfaces as keyboards. The fact that they did pre-exist computer keyboards may have led to them becoming the default so fast. While keyboards are amazing, they certainly weren't beyond imagination.

I guess you can say that QR codes, projectors, and cameras predate this Folk computer idea as well. But they are also far less intuitive. Using a typewriter well requires knowing basic literacy and a few new functions (carriage return, line feed, shift, etcetera). Graduating from a typewriter to a keyboard requires learning some additional functionality.

What current devices are teaching the basic functionality needed to jumpstart adaptation to this Folk computer interface?
> very similar arc to "plastic bags are bad, save the trees!" -> "plastic is bad, paper is renewable!"

Over four decades, environmentalists have simply won the discussion. 99% of paper products made in the US are made using farmed wood. Now paper is renewable enough that I don't worry about putting it in the trash (since I know we have an incinerator).

Still uses petrochemicals for harvesting and processing, there's definitely a risk that certain kinds of tree farms are counterproductive. I don't think that's ever really broadly been the case though, it sounds like a whitepaper released by a thinktank funded by a plastic company to me. Those often get repackaged into low effort local news, it's not surprising that people get so confused.
Today it is pretty much actively a scam and you are better off searching for a newsletter subscription that often come with a 15% off code etc.

(I assume the mechanism here is to obscure the coupon enough that Amazon doesn’t get mad you’re selling under their pricing but you let the customer have some of the savings from avoiding Amazon’s commission.)
> Tbh this site is pretty misleading

The website is pretty explicit about that it's testing if a domain/website is available over IPv6 vs IPv4. Clicking on a website also sends you to https://ipv6.fail/domain/cloudflare.net/ where it's even more explicit what they're testing against. Wouldn't call it misleading exactly.
> a row of little cars people can see over and between is better than a row of big SUVs that they can't

An underappreciated criticism of modern vehicles.

Diminishes the visibility of and for cyclists as well.

I'm 5'11 and as a pedestrian SUVs and 'trucks' block my visibility. Not to mention that along with the 'ride height' you get a front bumper that looks designed to just flatten you (you'd be forgiven for thinking this was intentional given the fetish for 'aggressive' styling). In addition you get the added bonus of much higher headlights. Why can't we at least keep these closer to the road like on real trucks, buses, and vans?

Regulators really dropped the ball on this one. Is there actually any limit to how large a personal vehicle can get? Seems like a massive oversight due to a fixation on safety of occupants to the detriment of everyone else.

From a personal point of view, I think people who buy these bloated vehicles should consider how they would feel if their neighbours all decided minibuses were an acceptable means of personal conveyance.
People with families should probably not work at a FAANG.

They have borderline inhuman performance requirements and the politics are absurd.

Even top-notch Engineers can get caught up into some political BS.

While the money is good it's a very unstable place. So with the increased reward comes increased risk.

you would think smart people would create pleasant workplaces for themselves.
> “The question is not will Ethiopia access the sea. We want Ethiopia to have access to the sea, there is no question about that,” Mohamud said, adding that the federal government was ready to negotiate a deal with Addis Ababa. “But grabbing a piece of land, we are not ready for that.” - President of Somalia

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/1/23/dont-do-it-soma...
president-warns-ethiopia-against-somaliland-port-deal

The UAE (and later the UK) invested in a major trade corridor and investment in a port in the region, initially Somalia rejected it but later agreed after UAE negotiated with the government.

Ethiopia has access to a major port in the region, in fact they own 20% of the DP world project. What they want is access to sea not for commercial reasons but for military reasons. You don’t need 20km of land for a port.