skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
however big, you're only required download an app once. Next time there is an update that you cannot download, generally that won't block you from using the app at that point in time.
Rules Based International Order, the rules just changed half way the game.
I uninstall so many apps like this. I would rather pay $2 up front.
I would have expected some 3dfx based GPUs to be on the top end of the list, considering their rarity, like the 5500 etc, but none are listed...ah D3D benchmark... explains it.

Edit: Realised its D3D benched...
You are very wrong, lots of people saves down email in order to be sure.

You can use Maildir with IMAP. mbsync will do it fine. Dito with SMTP and msmtp.
Production database access must always be locked down from external traffic, and only allow traffic from the production application or within the production environment.

Aside from mitigating local dev accidentally pointing to the prod db, if you have the db accessible externally means it’s susceptible to network attacks and password attacks
It's so sad when Android invents something truly useful and then abandons it, only to find Apple doing it a few years later.

The first culprit that comes to mind is swipe to the camera on the lockscreen - useful, but not Apple enough, so they delete it. Then, Apple ships it, but Google already deleted it.
Many companies are already solving the same problem, and then resend comes into the picture with the support of YC. They are doing everything except sending the mails.
Your pizza must look for ants :(
> Who cares, if a graduate is using their degree?

Whoever paid for that unused education probably cares, especially when the graduate ends up unemployed or underemployed.

For most people, most of the time, work isn't about "passion" but rather it provides the means through which to support themselves financially.

In addition, working class "passionate" people are vulnerable to exploitation, as e.g. seen in the videogame industry, the media industry, etc. "Passion" is only a benefit to those too wealthy to fail.
It’s the new boot camp dev. It is still the same as copy pasting SO solutions lol
It took me the entire comment to realize that QCOM is Qualcomm. Doesn't seem worth the three-letter savings.
This seems like a reaching explanation to try to wave away an ideological embarrassment as not being a consequence of the ideology.

"No one could have predicted the outcome of the instruction set we put in - which was followed precisely and in predictable fashion."
Yeah. Another way I would put it is to also look at inputs that strayed off the happy path. There may be something to learn from them as well, maybe something that adjusts the happy path.
I'm not mad. The shitification of new developers just gives more edge to small software companies who can be more productive. If you're smart and use these tools for genuine advantage it seems you only stand to benefit from this dichotomy.
hmm, antimatter? dark matter?
That's how it works with USB too these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39003469
Downloaded a whole island yesterday. Was 40mb. That's a lot better now, has less resolutions packed in tho.
> We're talking about a meaningful fraction of the Earth's surface,

said the previous poster in this thread I was responding to.

And why am I not allowed to rebut individual points?
It might not tell you what to do, but done right it sure as heck can point you in the right direction.
does this not create a feed back loop, if you're training data based on things the LLM said?
I am super curious to know what kind of software magic they did to bring the NDL system as the primary navigation system after their own system failed to function prior to landing .. From what I understood listening in to the broadcast, NDL was only a demonstration project and folks somehow managed to bring it up on demand and use 2 of the sensors on it (?) iirc .. Like how !? Was NDL set up in the same orientation as their original system ? If not, they updated their guidance system on the fly too !?? Simply amazing
I am pretty sure the whole point is trolling.
My personal opinion is that what he says is non-sense divagation.

The problem of woke instructions like this is that it goes against the physical reality of the dataset. And it is the physical reality that does that we have what we have even if we don't like it.

Such a case better show us the issue with the woke mindset that tries to bend the reality.

You might want to ask the AI to only generate positive opinion, messages. But it would probably not be possible to be a real actor of the current world without a component of anger, hate, violence ...

For example, in general I would like to have friendly messages generated, but if you were wronged by a company, you might have to generate threats messages and then generate litigation content even if it is negative.
This tweet would have you believe otherwise:

https://twitter.com/zbingledack/status/1760743783132746131
Vice got super activisty toward the end - obviously there is a place for that sort of content but mainly I watched Vice so I could see nerdy white guys in strange places doing weird shit
Both data mining and intuition have their uses. The key is to recognize when you should use each or both.
You can have intelligent people in the largest orgs, if they are good at hiring.
You can have inexperienced people in small teams or companies, and it happens often.
I'm happy to see that sanctions might finally give Russia reason to pause, but I wonder how accurate or complete this analysis is.

Economic sanctions is an appealing alternative to hot war when it comes to penalizing regimes that violate basic rules of coexistence. With the evident inability of the UN to hold the reins regarding such, the US now hold the baton.

But it is obviously largely unsatisfactory for the most populous countries on the planet that the US in it's role as an enforcer of a "rules based" order seemingly inadvertently promote US prosperity and influence, many times at their expense. It would seem that the flocking of countries to BRICs and related organizations is an attempt to escape this stranglehold that the US financial system holds on the rest of the world, countries that also are among the worlds most repressive and undemocratic.

It is likely that the more effective and restrictive sanctions are, the greater the impetus will be to create a "multipolar" world that escapes the dominance of the US to some degree.

To be clear, I don't think this is anything but a dangerous development for our planet. It builds up to a situation where we have large economic and military blocks with opposing interests, and that can only end badly if left unattended. We need something like a restored and effective UN, but I really can't see that coming any time soon.
Here is the .net version

https://github.com/noahfalk/1brc

a bit faster than fatest java still
I predict the end state of Windows is a user experience like Aqua is on Darwin for Apple.

That is, Wubuntu = Darwin.

If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?
Concurrent parallel execution of NFA directly in Elixir:

https://github.com/mike-french/myrex

It is concurrent in all senses: a single match is split into many concurrent traversals of the network; multiple inputs can be matched concurrently within the same network; and string generators can also run concurrently in the network.

That's possible because all state is in the traversal messages, not in the process nodes, and the whole thing runs asynch (non-blocking) in parallel, automatically using all cores in the machine.

> you see how regex syntax compiles down to various configurations of automata

That is Thompson's Construction [1]. The myrex README contains a long description of how regex structures map to small process networks, and how they glue together. The final process network is almost a direct 1-1 representation of the NFA.

[1] Russ Cox has a nice explanation https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
It is invasive.

In theory they can do something like "Why do you look so sad? Maybe a Mars can cheer you up!". This can be done while being GDPR complient but people don't like that. It creates a feeling that everything is watching you.

Privacy is not about hiding things, it is about controlling what you want to show.
Would have been interesting if I could have seen any of the images.

What I find interesting about knots is that different sub-cultures have settled on so different knots. Scouts join rope with a sheet bend, while climbers pretty much would use a double fisherman's knot, etc. ad infinitum.
FTFY: nobody ever gets credit if they don't publicize their successes. By default, fixing problems before they happen doesn't make headlines, so you have to find clever ways to earn publicity. One politician classic: let it become a "problem" enough to earn publicity, THEN fix it. Two examples: Y2K and Healthcare.gov
That argument was tried by Lindows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....

While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the trademark officially), others sided with Microsoft.
congrats on the launch! what do you think about taskade?
The world regime as it stands prefers efficiency to justice. The cybersecurity industry is this regime's "hat tip" to justice, without incurring the full expense of it. If a trespasser is caught on my property, fiddling with my door handles, lock-pick in-hand, there will be consequences, since that scenario had already been addressed and codified by a much earlier regime, with a different value system. If a trespasser is caught trying to brute-force my SSH, and I notify their cloud provider, the response will be something ranging from a temporary block to nothing at all--and more often the latter than the former.

Ken Thompson underlined the crux of it it back in '84 with his "Reflections on Trusting Trust"[0]. People chattered, but it was effectively ignored. All of the nessus scans, rustifications, yubikeys in the world aren't going to solve the fundamental problem, which is lawlessness. When it all breaks catastrophically, this will change. Actual cyber-security will increase, but we will be presented with a different set of problems, which may be worse than the ones we already have.

What is worse? The occasional Mossad hack, or the impenetrable digital despotism of FAANG walled-gardens, but with even bigger moats built on either federal regulation or better technology? From what I've seen, the appstore has screwed ordinary people much harder than east euro hackermans would ever dream of. If the problem were solved purely with engineering, the jailbreakings of geohot and bunnie never would have happened. If the problem were solved via regulation, geohot and bunnie would be rotting in jail like Assange. In other words, be careful what you wish for.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Check your browser settings, all images are displayed for me.
We pretending there's an OS out there that doesn't suck in it's own particular way? Neat.
are you deliberately not getting the point for some reason? How big is considered bloated in native apps, how big can a native app can get before it hurts accessibility because people cannot download it? Is it a few MB?

Web apps are soon going to be if not already matching native apps in terms of complexity yet we are still distracted from the real problem and quibble about some arbitrary and frankly pathetic code size restriction. Fix the root problem with PWA or something.
Unfortunately, they are. It’s hard to overestimate how scary govt contractors, especially PMIs can get.
Psychological Reactance to Anti-Piracy Messages by Gender and Attitudes
Found on Slashdot.

> Digital piracy is costly to creative economies across the world. Studies indicate that anti-piracy messages can cause people to pirate more rather than less, suggesting the presence of psychological reactance. A gender gap in piracy behavior and attitudes towards piracy has been reported in the literature. By contrast, gender differences in message reactance and the moderating impact of attitudes have not been explored. This paper uses evolutionary psychology as a theoretical framework to examine whether messages based on real-world anti-piracy campaigns cause reactance and whether this effect is explained by gender and pre-existing attitudes.

> An experiment compares one prosocial and two threatening messages against a control group to analyze changes in piracy intention from past behavior for digital TV/film. Results indicate that the prosocial message has no significant effect, whereas the threatening messages have significantly opposing effects on men and women. One threatening message influences women to reduce their piracy intentions by over 50% and men to increase it by 18%.

> We find that gender effects are moderated by pre-existing attitudes, as men and women who report the most favorable attitudes towards piracy tend to demonstrate the most polarized changes in piracy intentions.

> The practical implications of the results are that men and women process threatening messages differently, therefore behavioral change messages should be carefully targeted to each gender. Explicitly, threatening messages may be effective on women, but may have the reverse effect on men with strong favorable attitudes towards the target behavior.
Stable Diffusion has a much deeper learning curve but can generate far more accurate images fitting your perhaps special use case.

Although I don't understand the criticism of the images in question. Without a prompt comparison, it is impossible to compare image synthesis. What are examples of images that are beyond these?
Absolutely. Margins on cars are surprisingly thin at the manufacturer level.
Maybe. Or maybe Firefox users have sophisticated ads & tracker blocker, sometimes even UA spoofing. Then it really depends on your analytics method, if these users show up at all. You might have a lot of FF users, but analytics tells you otherwise.
Does ebay offer a public API? If not, aren't they rate limiting the requests?
It's easy when you're playing with a mod that calculates time to suicide burn for you. Otherwise, you'd better overbuild the lander, as you'll need that extra Δv for "pumping the brakes", so to speak.
There's always a speed/storage tradeoff. Apps should be more economic too, but you download native apps once, and web apps almost every time you open them. So indeed, caching could help, but how large would your cache have to be? Big enough to hold all 50MB downloads for every website you visit? That's an awfully large cache. So I'd say economy is more necessary for web-apps than for native/store apps.

I just checked my web usage on my work computer. The last 120k opened URLs were on 8300 unique hosts. 8300 * 50MB is not feasible.
I am a little confused by Retool. Every page on retool.com has a different look and feel, different font styles and colour schemes. It feels extremely disjointed and almost like hacked together by completely different people who then merged html pages into a single web app. Then Form to DB has even its own domain and is marketed as a complete standalone product here but I can't find a way to only sign up to it or find pricing for it. How is From to DB related to Retool?
I wonder if we’ll ever get something like ‘AI-recursion’, where you get an AI to apply specific transformations to data which is then used to train on, sort of like machines making better machines.

E.g. take some data A, and then have a model (for instance ChatGPT-like) extrapolate based on it, potentially adding new depths or details about the given data.
It is pretty hard to make most AI systems talk broken English with bad grammar. That means if an essay is submitted with that grammar it's probably real
> Word around the campfire is that it’s a Cisco issue.

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-February/2250...
> I don't know enough about it to give feedback. However Martin Kleppmann's[1] involvement is a huge selling point to me.

Oh, so it's just hype.
Another interesting debugging story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32709045
Your editor downloads a 32.6MB ffmpeg WASM binary on every page load.

Throttling the network to "Slow 3G", it took over four minutes of a broken interface before ffmpeg finally loads. (It doesn't cache, either.) A port of the Audacity audio editor to web[1] with WASM takes 2.7 minutes on the same connection, so the binary is totally reasonable, but I think claiming less than 2 MB is disingenuous.

[1]: https://wavacity.com/
Can any English word be turned into a synonym for "drunk"? Not all, but many can
The AI will analyze your codebase next year and the company will sue you if you do stuff like that...
Deploy containers using Nomad on Ubuntu
It's far better than Microsoft Teams, so I must disagree.
> Would love to see this test with unblock origin enabled.

Me too. I suspect most of this code is for user tracking and ad management.
I have ADHD and have tried all kinds of medication. These posts make life harder for people with ADHD. I agree with pursuing alternative treatments before trying out stimulants.
You mean the billion dollar "cost of doing science in a democratic country" / "jobs program" Senate Launch System?
Speak-a-Secret: Your Password Visualizer
Who doesn't know it, spelling out a secure password to someone and making a small mistake in half of the password. This has to stop!

Speak-a-Secret is a tool designed for the visualization of password pronunciations directly in your browser.

Emphasizing security, Speak-a-Secret ensures that no passwords are sent back to the server, preserving your privacy and data integrity. Remember, while this tool claims to be secure, always exercise caution with online tools - trust is a privilege. For utmost security, consider asymmetric password exchanges as a safer alternative to share passwords.
I think the title buries the lede... FTA, the cranes have sensors that can track the origin and destination of a container. The US military, which reasonably would want to unload cargo at any port in the USA, does not want their logistics to be trackable by anyone but them. It would seem that currently if they wanted to send or receive a shipment of secret goods, their options are increasingly limited as to where it can be routed.
No. If I’m burned out I go until I’m turned into ash.

I spent the last 30 hours getting something to work. I took a couple of walks, cooked some food, but kept going back to the problem.

Now that I fixed the issue I’m feeling down because tomorrow I’m going to jump back into the fire to take on the next problems.

I have no other choice. I love it. But this is how it is.
They're probably generating based on GitHub code.

If I were training a code model I'd take a snippet of code, have the existing LLM explain it. Then use the explanation and the snippet for the test data.
Citizen scientists find rare crab anemone off WA's Kimberley coast
Let’s agree for the sake of argument that you can have whatever guardrails you want around your AI. It stands to reason that you want to test those guardrails pretty thoroughly and see if there are any unintended consequences like this. It turns out that Twitter is full of irreverent shitposters and trolls who really want to make this particular guardrail self-defeating, and as a result they managed to do it. This raises a question: why can’t Google, one of the richest corporations on earth, have testers who are similarly capable? OK, you’re never going to match the sheer creativity of all of Twitter, but OTOH Gemini seemed to ship in a broken enough state that you’d think they wouldn’t have to do too much testing to uncover this problem before release.

The problem is, when it comes to “sensitive” or potentially “offensive” issues, it’s very easy to effectively stifle the sort of irreverent lateral thinking required to do thorough testing. If the intended guardrails are excessively sensitive to begin with, which seems likely based on some of the reports I’ve seen on Twitter (e.g. categorically refusing to generate images of white people even when explicitly asked to, or categorically refusing to generate Norman Rockwell style depictions of classic Americana), that implies a similarly sensitive corporate culture. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that testers were afraid to even try and test for these failure modes because they reasonably believed they might be fired for it. But what’s more insidious is a widespread avoidance of even having thoughts that seem out of bounds.
Honestly with Microsoft's Windows 11 direction I want to like this, but they took it too far. I don't miss the start menu and control panel, I just want really good WINE integration.
In the FAQ it says that the Browse API is used every 4 hours

https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/buy/browse/static/overvi...
Show HN: I built a botnet to scrape Reddit and why I used OrbitDB and rust
Surely you are joking.

You want us to rely on models that are overfit to hallucinated LLM interactions.
Such a Life of Brian "What have the Romans done for us" vibe to all this. :)
Come on baby, run Linspire...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ
Three letter agencies are part of politics. For anything this big it's usually all three: 1/ an industry that can benefit from the policy (US-based crane builders), 2/ the government itself (extra port resilience), 3/ vote getting (union jobs for the company that builds them).

It's not a bad thing by the way that there is broad alignment - although it's not necessarily the most efficient or ideal at the global level.
> What's the alternative?

Many websites listed on the page don't even need JS.[0]

Consider how just a few years ago there used to be an entire suite of alternative frontends to major "web apps"/"social media platforms", which generally worked without any JS, and were created & ran by volunteers. In general, they all provided superior UX by just not loading megabytes and megabytes of tracking code; this would be the alternative.[1]

Now they are slowly evaporating: not because of lack of interest, but because it was affecting the margins of these companies, and they actively blocked the frontends.[2]

So I think of it this way: these megabytes and megabytes of JS do not serve me, the user. It's just code designed to fill the pockets of giant corporations that is running on my computer. Which is, indeed, quite infuriating.

OK, maybe not even that; after all, you get what you pay for. It's just sad that despite the technological possibilities, this is the norm we have arrived at.

[0]: Of course, there is valid use of JS, it's a wonderful technology. I'm talking about cases where you could pretty much write the whole thing in pure HTML without losing core functionality.

[1]: Well, only if there existed a viable financing model besides "selling user data to the highest bidder" :( technologically at least, it's possible.

[2]: See cases of bibliogram, teddit, libreddit, nitter, ...
Don't forget the ones with background videos of random diversely raced young good looking models having coffee and looking at screens while nodding.
This could be because they've negotiated an exclusive distribution deal, where the new distributor gets to monetize all the old content too.
Companies that do this kind of stuff are really either late stage where everyone is just cruising and vesting, or it’s on the way down.
Its under "advanced" tab in BIOS. How many people accidentally stumble there? And how many of those people will have problems with it? And of the tiny number of people who end up enabling it and have problems, how many will then complain to Lenovo? That seems like really marginal case! Especially when it needs also things to happen from OS side too, so just flipping the flag in BIOS in itself shouldn't do much. How much trouble would it have been to add warning "this is not supported, use at own risk"?