skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even if the guy will die to steal it that doesn't mean he will live long enough to accomplish anything. And note that he's trying to tote around a gamma source--that's something that can be detected from some distance away. As soon as said terrorist gets it out from behind whatever shields it normally lives behind the alarms start blaring. I remember reading about one, anti-nuke guy kept showing up at meetings at a nuclear facility. Then one day the alarms go off--traced to the old radium-dial watch he was wearing. Rather silenced him.
Submitted URL is a newsletter linking to a Nature blurb linking to the actual paper, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2024.01.001 "Decimal fractional numeration and the decimal point in 15th-century Italy" (Glen Van Brummelen, 2024). That paper's abstract:

"The earliest known appearance of the decimal point was in the interpolation column of a sine table in Christopher Clavius's Astrolabium (1593) [...] We trace Clavius's use of decimal fractional numeration and the decimal point back to the work of Giovanni Bianchini (1440s), whose decimal system was a distinguishing feature of his calculations in spherical astronomy and metrology."
Running a scheduled function on ValTown to import Atom feeds into Datasette
Huh, dunno. Probably a dumb bug in my hacky script.
Null pointer dereference in the vast majority of cases will segfault. In the cases where it doesn't, thats fully on you for running some obscure os on some obscure hardware.

>Whereas whenever you use a library in C, you need to pass it a pointer,

When it comes to developing with Rust, any performance oriented project is necessarily going to have lots of unsafe for interacting with C libraries in the linux kernel in the same way that C code does.

As for comparison to fully safe Rust code outside the unsafes, you can largely accomplish analogous behavior in C with good mempool implementation. Or if you don't need to pass around huge amount of data, you can also do it by simply just never mallocing and using stack variables. There is still some things you have to worry about (using safe length bounded memory copy/move functions, using [type]* const pointer values to essentially make them act like references for function parameters, some other small things).

The point is Rust isn't the defacto standard for memory safety, and while it can exist as its own project, porting its semantics to other languages is not worth it.
I use it extensively for coding, and I have used it to ask questions in things I know nothing about. But in anything I do know something (or maybe a lot) about, I’ve found GPT4 very limited.

But why are these use cases different?
It appears to me that code is at least subject to sustained logic which (evidently) translates quite well to LLMs.

And when you ask an LLM to be creative/generative, it’s also pretty amazing - j mean it’s just doing the Pascal’s Marble run enmasse.

But to ask it for something about the world and expect a good and reliable answer? Aren’t we just setting ourselves up for failure if we think this is a fine thing to do at our current point in time? We already have enough trouble with mis- and dis- information. It’s not like asking it about a certain period in Japanese history is getting it to crawl and summarise the Wikipedia page (although I appreciate it would be more than capable of this) I understand the awe some have at the concept of totally personalised and individualised learning on topics, but fuck me dead we are literally asking a system that has had as much of a corpus of humanity’s textual information as possible dumped into it and then asking it to GENERATE responses between things that the associations it holds may be so weak as to reliably produce gibberish, and the person on the other side has no real way of knowing that
Why are you sharing this on this post?
> Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card? Genuine question.

The sheer number of people in here espousing great volumes of text to explain the ulterior motives of a shitty OEM android control panel on a vending machine crashing out of kiosk mode is utterly unbelievable.
Every single person I converted to using Signal stopped using it when SMS support was removed.

HN tends to be a younger crowd whose peers cycled through a number of social-networking and messaging apps as popularity waxed and waned. But older generations don't see any compelling reason why they should bother splitting their conversations over multiple apps, when literally everyone with a mobile has texting. Being a drop-in replacement for texting, so they could have additional features without additional hassle was the only thing that convinced them to switch and now it is gone.

I've given up evangelizing Signal, and resigned to the idea that cross-platform RCS is the only thing that will bring encryption to the majority of my contacts.
How have you been using RAG in your browser/on your phones?
You know there is a manufacturer who doesn’t offer insurance to their own cars. I don’t think it has stoped people from buying

https://youtu.be/RCR-5-rf3MM?si=0vFozL7NKMC14NB2

00:29
And? Using American technology, huffing American propaganda, voting for American political ideals. I'm Canadian and I see us as no different from Americans. We are Americans.
Mr. Doctoro is right about goggle being shit.

But in the casse of this article, the repeated reference to a "deal" goggle made with us, is just not correct. There was no deal.

Goggle never promised anyone that they wouldn't flood their search results with shit.

Goggle will do whatever makes it the most money, like laying off 1000s of workers while buying back 10s of billions of $ in stock. I bet those workers thought they had a "deal" too, they didn't.

The only correction is for us citizens to elect legislators, and demand regulation anad breakup of massive monopolies.

Instead some of the poorest trailer park trash in the us south are sending their spare nickels to the cheeto's gofundme campain. In spite of the fact that he's billionaire brat child from a NYC family slum lord empire.

So, don't expect any of this to change in the us, except to get worse, because at this point american's are just too stupid...
Clarifying - not 89% of UK firms overall - but those in the trial!
Of the 61 organisations that took part in a six-month UK pilot in 2022, 54 (89%) are still operating the policy a year later, and 31 (51%) have made the change permanent.
What browser? Just tried it out on Firefox for Android (version 122.1.0, with uBlock Origin enabled but JS still allowed on ars) and for the link above, I see the whole article after immediately switching to reader mode.
Fibroblasts in the are more important for erection than previously thought
> Is ADHD really the highest source of stress in your life, or is wage employment?

For me, it's the highest source of stress in my life. Wage employment is obviously fuel to the fire, but one has to remember one thing. ADHD is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 365 or 366 days a year.

It causes disorder in employment, but as the late, great Billy Mays once said, "But wait! There's more."

It affects literally every aspect of my life -- personal relationships, hobbies, responsibilities, sleep, physical health, etc.. ADHD doesn't only affect me from 9 to 5.

People get pissed when you don't respond to their emails/texts, when you don't pay attention to what they are saying, forget to do whatever they need, etc..

It's crazy to me, because to my knowledge, it's one of the only diseases, if not the only, that is mainly characterized by how the symptoms affect others and not the person suffering.
Would it even be painful? Wouldn't the stuff from the reactor just kill you promptly?
I seemingly can't link to line numbers in their nest thing, but https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul:main/SXEYMYF7P4RZM.ERRQA#... is ssh.rs in the pijul-remote directory, so presumably "yes"

also, an especial :fu: to whatever the hell is going on with SXEYMYF7P4RZM.ERRQA being a permalink to a file with a specific name, forcing me to write out in english what's going on there
What is SAML and why you should care
> the same people who threw away roughly two thousand of years of the most successful philosophy have doomed themselves to a demographic death spiral

I don't think this is true. Falling birth rate is positively correlated with key markers of quality of life (especially infant survival rate, education, overall lifespan, and productivity) irrespective of dominant religion or religiosity in general.

edit: changed "infant mortality" to "infant survival" so as to not contradict "positively correlated"
> Just stay busy and it will work out.

Your partner probably needs more tools than that.

It's easy enough to say that she shouldn't dwell on negative thoughts, but that's hard to do in practice.

Therapy can help. Meditation can help. Quitting drinking alcohol can help. Exercise can help. Maintaining a sense of humor can help.
Blame your medication sourcing problems on the DEA for shutting down a factory for violations as egregious as crossing out a word and not also writing the word "cancel" on the paperwork, and not on other people finding the help they didn't know they needed in life.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adderall-shortage-ad...
Python is basically the same thing, just slightly less thoroughly OO and with a different syntax.
> you should instead look at Market share.

Unless your goal is to make money on the platform, then you should look at wallet share, not market share.
Gemini. I first asked it to tell me about the Heian period (which it got correct) but then it generated images and seemed to craft the rest of the chat to fit that narrative.

I mean, just asking it for a "samurai" from the period will give you this:

https://g.co/gemini/share/ba324bd98d9b

>A non-binary Indigenous American samurai

It seems to recognize it's mistakes if you confront it though. The more I mess with it the more I get "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" responses.

But yea. Seems like if it makes an image, it goes off the rails.
You mean 200 terabytes.

This usage of bits over bytes, to make the number go higher and therefore sound better, has always been a big issue with speed measurements of network hardware, and I would like not to see the same misleading pattern used in headlines for references to storage media, which has always used bytes (1000 vs 1024 notwithstanding).
> had a car stolen and they (insurance) treat you like absolute trash when it happens.

You've said this twice, but what does it mean? I have had my car stolen twice and the insurance company didn't give me any trouble at all and just paid out.
Ask HN: Why are there so many AskHN today
This is what I'm referring to when I say BFF - https://remix.run/docs/en/main/guides/bff

Essentially, its the backend for frontend model, where I guess you really just have a node backend specifically for hosting your frontend app, so you get all of the advantages Remix/SSR/etc provide. The node server usually would handle auth between the frontend and the node backend with a cookie, and then the node backend would call your other backend services, either by forwarding the auth the frontend client sends, or transforming it into maybe a JWT token, or just mTLS? aka a glorified proxy server I guess.
If you haven't traveled/lived in many major cities since covid, they are all the exact same now. None of the police are working. I'm in Denver now, previously Austin in 2019, Dallas 2020, Denver 2020+, and Denver banned qualified immunity so the police work even less. Seattle just did the same thing + IIRC king county is doing that "police cant lie on stand" or whatever law. I lived on 2nd and congress in Austin for 12 years until 2016 and the entire downtown has turned to absolute trash.

I'm sure its the same in Chicago, LA, Portland, Tampa, etc and I don't even need to ask.
From the mind that brought us pmwiki!
They did exactly that. Just not esbuild.

They sponser https://github.com/kdy1 (see the vercel in his profile), who spearheads swc, which is very similar in goals and scope to esbuild. swc may ring a bell, as it's the parser/compiler that is used by deno and bun.
Wow, this is sweet! With a little better latency and less perfection, it'd be well over the uncanny valley (not that it wouldn't fool many people as-is). Are you planning to add more "human" elements like filler words or disfluencies? If anything it feels too perfect to be human. Awesome stuff!

P.S: I tried to fool the Dental Office demo trying to book on Sunday or outside of the slots it had indicated, and it did a better job than many humans would have :)
Was it OS/2 2.0? If so, rare. But MS OS/2 1.3 LAN Manger was pretty widely distributed.
My mom also uses Bernina; newer versions don't need the dongle but do install a 'driver' as part of the copy protection. She runs the software in a VMWare Fusion Windows ARM VM running on an M1 macbook air; I'm astonished that it works.
I'd agree that Alabama can't thwart all of the prosperity it gains from being one of the weakest components of the largest economy in history. Without that massive, continuous boost, it seems difficult to imagine AL rising to even the worst assumptions of Argentina.
If crime is economically possible, it will exist. With a society large enough, statistically some people will fit the persona needed to be a criminal.
Something else you can do is to not add to your partner's anxiety. Be understanding of her flaws and failures, just as you would like her to be understanding of yours.
Terrorists willing to blow themselves up at a time of their choosing is the key there. With nuclear waste hot enough to be a menace, the window between getting the material and being painfully incapacitated and/or dead by the material is pretty damn small. Especially since nuclear plants tend to have things like lots of checkpoints and security.
> You have? How? You barely have any. And the ones you do have you rarely enforce.

Lack of enforcement was actually part of my point. More broadly, though, we don't need more regulation so much as we need less legal protections that allow companies to get away with it.

> That sounds like a flaw in your political/electoral system not in anti-competition regulations.

No disagreements at all that our political and electoral system is flawed. I'm not so sure if that's the direct cause here though or if its the other way around. Meaning, we could be here because runaway anticompetitive behavior led to political and regulatory capture rather than the flawed political system being the proximal cause.
Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) – Craft, Beauty, & the Future of Payments [video]
This application is exactly what I was describing. I'll look it over to see how it scales the encryption strength based on token length or how it deals with short messages, which is the only thing I'd think it'd be very hard to do. If you print 2 paragraphs it's easy to change some tokens with a secret key mask but if you print "Yes", it's not so easy. Thanks for the great share.
Architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing: molybdenum disulfide transistors
The Unnoticed Plague
> there are no secure modern car options

I don't think there can be such a thing as a secure remote start option. The only way they can make it more secure than traditional keys is if they also make it less convenient to use than traditional keys, and then there is no point because the traditional keys will be easier and cheaper.

What happened is that consumers did not know that the remote keys were unsafe, and now they know.

What I don't understand is why insecure cars should be banned by law. Now that everyone knows about the issue, surely everyone will switch to a more secure system of their own accord.
In college a friend of a friend locked themselves out of a car. A nearby police officer loaned him some tools to break the window of the car so he could get home that night.
The explanation in this video is what made it click for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K026C5YaB3A
Waymo's robotaxi expansion plans in California put on hold by regulators
Once more for the people in the back.

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Ah. In that case, that is not a mode (which is why I misunderstood), that is the default way Remix works and it's more or less what every user of Remix is doing. Some people might implement API endpoints in Remix itself, but for the most part people are calling out to APIs in loaders.

Here's a Remix site that works that way: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/

We have an API written in Rust that serves the RFD contents and powers search. For logged-in internal users, we are also talking to GitHub APIs in loaders to pull in PR comments.
Evidently, electric poles that don't fall over at the slightest breeze are also below PG&E's threshold for support.
We've been thinking about software integration wrong for the past 50 years
I don't remember the terms but there's a category of crimes that are "crimes because that's what the written law says"(i.e. driving without a license) and "crimes that morally abhorrent and actual harm to someone"(i.e. murder, theft)

"Actual crimes" would be category 2.

Building or owning a flipper zero would be in category 1. (As would laws that ban things like owning/carrying lockpicks without being a licensed locksmith)
Yep- we use Dart at Dart. It's kind of fun since improvements to Dart means that Dart does a better job at helping us develop Dart, which then feeds back in again. Dogfooding has been great- highly recommend.
I'm not sure why this was voted so high or would be news to anyone. It's a single website and historically this is nothing new (IE used to be the only supported browser on nearly all sites, or the reverse became true once Chrome had enough traction while IE development languished).

Firefox is not that popular of a browser. Not news at 11.
Reddit Plans to Sell Stock to Loyal Users in Unusual IPO Wager
4 years ago I posted "What is the reason no one is competing with UpWork?"
Every anniversary, I am reminded of the first time this thought crossed my mind and the original post on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/fhsn0v/what_is_the_reason_no_one_is_competing_with_upwork/). The sentiment in that thread was overwhelmingly negative, implying either too much competition, a futile effort, bad timing, etc. Well, it's been 3 years since our first launch, so I am here to update you.

We've started with the idea that an open marketplace with favorable terms will attract and retain high-quality clients and talented freelancers. Launch after launch, we continue to prove our thesis by growing a user base that shares our ideas and vision. Just 3 years later, there are 700,000+ of us! Over 20,000 clients are using our platform to hire. These include companies like Framer, Webflow, AppSumo, Spline, and many more. Today, our platform is a comprehensive solution for talent discovery and project management, essential to the workflows of many companies. Even as I say so, this is just the beginning. Our growth rate is steadily increasing, and the network effects are compounding month over month. Good things take time.

This post is your reminder that if you truly believe in something, no matter how absurdly big the undertaking is or what others say, you go for it! It will not be easy, but the journey will be rewarding, and the destination will be worth it.
About Licorice
> Meh. I've seen taller flames from a lone page of crumpled newsprint.

Are you Jason Bourne?

https://youtu.be/4yEFqDqTFPc
Unfortunately, it needed a new kind of editor, one which has yet to be discovered, even after all these years.
You posted 4 hours back. Timer for me still shows 4 hours ;) no worries, feel free to procrastinate on the purchase
Thank you for this comment. I've had some similar thoughts and it's comforting to know that some people out there at least think like mindedly. Recently on my city they have been rolling out myriad automated speed cameras and red light cameras and my feeling about them is quite mixed. I feel like it's trying to create a world in which all infractions are flagged automatically without need for subjective judgement. Many people laud this kind of so called justice but I am quite concerned about it.
Not adding E2E was a conscious design decision by Apple specifically to aid surveillance.

Virtually every other big messaging service offered (optional) E2E at that point.

I’m not sure how much clearer you want it.

“Surveillance” doesn’t have to mean that Apple allowed the FBI to jack directly into the iCloud servers.
I think the point is that is the number Mitchell jacked her salary up to while presiding over FF’s demise.
Just guessing, based on HN groupthink patterns:

1. that tax return shows the former CEO was paid almost 7M annually

2. sharing that on this post, they are probably insinuating that it was a mistake for Mozilla to pay their CEO that amount just for them to lose so much marketshare that they're now nearing an inflection point

The inflection point being where a negative feedback loop starts: FF loses marketshare, devs stop testing against it, sites break for users, users leave FF, FF loses marketshare, repeat

This post in particular shows that there are breakpoints where government and government-adjacent entities have policies stating that they test against all browsers with > some % of marketshare.
Thank God I have an account so I can say this:

This is the most funny thing I've read in a while. Thanks for writing it man -- wiping tears.
Even tiny amounts of radioactive waste are dangerous over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...
I think that that is supposed to prepare web apps for verification in the browser, in order to not allow them to run or connect to a remote server unless they are confirmed to be not tampered with, and that the main goal of this is to disallow usage of websites and related services unless ads are served. An adblock-blocker in the browser, sold as a security feature that protects against no real threats.

I refuse to believe that rouge browser extensions and userscripts are such a big problem that Meta decides to invest in security against those attack vectors.
Are you using pattern matching in the sense of Standard ML and the ML family of languages?
> It is a strong assertion...

I think you may be right if you consider humanity as a whole, but when evaluating LLMs I think we should perhaps hold them to slightly higher standards. It seems silly to compare a system that clearly has an incredible level of knowledge and writing ability to toddlers or completely uneducated remote tribespeople (or even just bigoted people living in otherwise advanced societies). Since LLMs can operate on vastly different timescales to humans, we should probably evaluate them against reasonably knowledgeable humans given several hours and a chance to look back over their work as many times as they like before final submission. Since we’re trying to abstractly compare some sort of computational ability, we should probably give them equal amounts of computational resources/number of steps/clock cycles/etc. Given this setup, I think some of the ‘human mistakes’ we talk about would no longer apply.

Comparing systems like this is not an easy (or objective) matter anyway… I’m not claiming this is the only way of thinking about it and that all others are wrong.

> it is interesting to see which problems are uniquely LLM (or human)

I certainly agree with that. It’s fascinating to be able to observe and study something in real time that appears on the surface to approximate human thought so shockingly well whilst also being so different.
The link is broken for me (may be a transient error), alternative: https://github.com/GaussianObject/GaussianObject
That'll be awesome! If we ever reach "an ai era"...