skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy who agrees with me reads Ivan Illich!!!

I've never read too much of him (no time, I have many of his books), but his argument that cars, on average, have an effective speed of 5 kph blew my mind.

That flipped my understanding of cars.

The irony is that he was a far left hippie who flirted with getting defrocked and I am supposed to be a "far right" conservative (whatever that means).

Have you read E.F. Schumacher? "Small is beautiful" is right your alley.
It definitely is! If you could hurry up and destroy Jupiter notebooks that would be sweet ;)
I looked at the map then and against tonight, can't find a city whose name rings a bell. Russia is large enough to overlook things ;) It was some way east of Moscow, a little north of due east perhaps, still west of the Urals, and from context it would be an industrial city in an industrial area. Sorry, but I just can't remember the name.

Are you suggesting that 81% is even close to reality? Almost 200 ethnic groups and one of them forms 81% sounded like cooked bookkeeping to me.
We have common carrier laws to cover cases like Comcast. Which Section 230 explicitly says social media platforms are not.

And the problem with Comcast is not necessarily that they will make speech decisions we don't like (an inherent part of free speech). The problem is that they're a monopoly and people don't have other options. So we should fix that problem instead of further limiting 1A rights.
_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS which is explicitly intended to be enabled for production builds.
Also, you know, honesty and facts.
Dry saunas are a thing also. My gym sauna is dry except for the humidity provided by the sweating people sitting in it. They prohibit putting water on the rocks.
The real problem is that people keep on inventing new memory safe languages that no longer support many of the widely-used features of C.

Ignore efficiency and all that. If you don't support `union` and `va_list`, you're never going to replace C. It's okay to mark them as deprecated, but you need to support them to provide a migration path.

The fact that C allows hand-written `memcpy`-style loops is another major concern in theory, but it is one that is much easier to port. Laundering pointers through non-process memory is rare enough that an explicit API is reasonable to require.

And yes, it is possible to support all these things with perfect dynamic memory safety and without increasing pointer size!
I'm a bit torn, it is complicated.

A government employee potentially illegally doxxed someone by giving their personal information to a journalist.

That someone wants to find out who it was using the only way they know how - asking the journalist who gave them the information.

Sources usually deserve protection, but if they were breaking the law and causing harm... is it warranted?

Not breaking the law like Snowden for the benefit of all, but to target a specific individual?
Is that accurate though? Do most people who get HIV never develop AIDS, without needing any drugs to keep it at bay? It's a nice analogy if it works, but if not then it's more misleading than anything.
$349 minimal phone, um no, a minimal phone should be more like $20 ;).

https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1661-pictures-2572.php

Not really minimal but the above is the type of thing I have in mind.
Please see philipkglass’s reply to wahnfrieden’s peer comment, there is indeed good news.
I don't think you're wrong but I do think putting all the burden and emphasis on the last mile (high-level software libraries and application software) will not be enough. Memory safety needs better support from operating systems and hardware, both of which have improved but have been much slower to change than application programming. Systems programming, sitting in the middle of the two, is caught between a rock and a hard place.
I thought fusion is special because the inputs are more abundant and the outputs less toxic than other fuel power plants.
I'm not sure "mature" is a word that can be applied to anything Musk touches. When Tesla abruptly stopped shipping right-hand-drive cars in the UK, they included complimentary grabbing sticks with the left-hand-drive cars that were delivered to buyers, in response to customer complaints about not being able to use toll booths.

Founder or no, I do think he deserves he credit for the company's early growth and viability, though. At a time when it needed showmanship, he was its showman. But it has long since outgrown him.
"The blame should always go to the party who violated the law in creating the content."

This, this, a thousand times this.
its just requiring a google account so you cannot take the survey twice, but other than that, I explicitly say at the very start that I will not record any emails or require that you put in any contact information
When I was at Facebook, I wrote a Python script to extract shell scripts from GitHub Actions workflows, so we could run them all through ShellCheck: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/69e0bda9996865e319db...
Windows Kernel bug fixed last month exploited as zero-day since August
The article recognizes this: "the primary attack surface is limited chiefly to network stacks, browser APIs, and a handful of multimedia transcoding libraries."
In my example I already have an idea, but I’m not sure how good or novel it is, or perhaps I tried it and it didn’t work but I don’t understand why.
Really dark bowling balls would still exhibit blackbody radiation
If they intend to go straight through Earth at relativistic speeds (to establish a hyperspace bypass, perhaps?), then there's really not much we can do about it anyway. :p
They know what it says, Masnick is being disingenuous.

Section 230(c)(1) says that platforms aren't liable "as the publisher or speaker" for third party speech even if they moderate. The platforms are arguing that moderation is first party speech, implying that doesn't apply.

Masnick is presumably referring to 230(c)(2), which protects platforms against liability for moderation decisions. But the title of that subsection is "Civil liability" and parts of these laws impose administrative/criminal penalties. Which is presumably why the platforms are trying to make a First Amendment argument to begin with instead of just relying on Section 230.
I think the explosion in interest and all the new software around GenAI owe their success to NLP advancements (coming from an NLP background myself, I may be biased though). I think the best projects are those pushing the frontier of NLP and sharing the learnings with the world:

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 - Mixture of Experts model like GPT-4 but this one is open source doesn't cost an arm and leg to run.

https://huggingface.co/mixedbread-ai/mxbai-rerank-xsmall-v1 - This is a very recent reranker, we will probably try it out. It's really nice that it's open source and small enough to run on CPU. I think an overall trend of the space in the next years will be to maintain/improve performance while shrinking the cost and hardware requirements.
and will always propped up in one way or the other

Maybe so. but that doesn't indicate it will be a good investment.
Sounds like you want a smartphone. Try some of the more better supported PostmarketOS models
Code while high, debug while sober. Best of both worlds!
"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation" -Thoreau

I understand caring about the huddled masses if you're trying to mass-market something. Here, as with so many other threads on hn, I feel like it's fine to acknowledge that most people won't be interested.ñ and then move on to discussing the subject at hand which invariably is going to be interesting to more significant portion of hackers.

I love this product idea, but the device itself isn't the hard part. Already pine64 or random Shenzhen supplier could do this, getting a UI (android or otherwise) is going to be the challenge.
The first one makes sense, but the other ones don't resonate for me. Is it hard to take off a mask? When would I ever need a mask when I get out of my car (I only ever exit to the outdoors, unless I'm parking my own garage). If I'm going to need to put it on before going into a store, I would just put it on before going into the store itself.
Never hurts to be useful, right?
Dark matter is the modern ether. There is zero evidence that it exists. What we have are distant phenomena that we can't explain.

If not MOND, then something like it.
Ill go back and change the question since that does technically fit my desired description
> If you pass by the slightly inflammatory language (“indentured servitude”) it’s just a different model.

"Indentured servitude" is the nice way of saying this. "Slavery" is the inflammatory way of saying it.

> As in: if I want to go and work on Mars, but can’t afford the flight, it’s not unreasonable to take a proportion of my earnings up front (in kind) and then work off that debt subsequently. Obviously the devil is in the detail of how that would work, and which protections I might be afforded, but the underlying concept doesn’t seem bad to me.

Those who do not learn history are bound to repeat it.
that is what I did. So I developed a new strategy, then the same thing happened. After a few times of experiencing the same I put the project on the backburner because I lacked funds to keep going.
I love how every time someone comes up with some random notion, a scientist can point at a chart and say “we’ve thought of that already and excluded it with experiment CoolName.”
Ah thanks for pointing it out, it look like an awesome project! We love open source so it's nice to see others going this direction as well
I tried a self-hosted Google Photos alternative but still can't switch
Python also has some a built-in statistics module:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/statistics.html

I'm sure statsmodel has many more features, but just wanted to call this out in case all you need are the basics.
> We have common carrier laws to cover cases like Comcast.

Not if you set a new precedent that corporate moderation is protected speech under the First Amendment and invalidate those laws.

> The problem is that they're a monopoly and people don't have other options.

But this is the same problem with large platforms. They have a dominant market position in a market with a strong network effect.
Interesting that the newest available is from 1963.
Did you eventually run across GraFORTH by fellow HN'er lutusp?

https://archive.org/details/a2_GraFORTH_1981_Lutus_Paul
MOND has successfully predicted:

- "no dark matter" in dense ellipticals and lenticular

- external field effect (including keplerian descent for the milky way)

- early galaxies
I think the natgas will still go somewhere else (mainly power plants), just not be used for small-scale direct-combustion heating.

The distribution companies are going to be SOL.
The future of AI video is here, super weird flaws and all
> And yes, it is possible to support all these things with perfect dynamic memory safety and without increasing pointer size!

You had me up to this point. A memory-safe union is a discriminated union, which needs extra information (a discriminator) to tell which case is currently active. That doesn't necessarily increase pointer size, but it does break ABI compatibility.
For the curious: https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/

Click on any mod, and you can see the decompiled source. The mods use function hooking to run before or after certain functions are called rather than the event based system you see in Minecraft plugins.
It's not just a advertising company. I happily pay them for YT premium, YT TV, and Google Drive.
This is pretty hard to read. For example, on the first page of chapter 1, it talks about "minimization of quadratic forms" and shows what looks like the formula for linear least squares. Is that right? It doesn't say anything about this. Some more exposition would help.

I do like that there are lots of exercises.
Ugh another minimal phone that tries to sell me new hardware.

I don't think there's anything wrong with current smartphone hardware. What I want is someone to reimagine the OS. My phone should be like a Startrek Tricorder - a very advanced tool that can assist me with anything. The key metric should be how much time it saves me... not how much time I waste using it.

What I don't want is spyware, ads, and interactions designed to maximize my engagement. I need to be able to use feature rich apps sometimes, but I also want very hard limits that I set on my social media usage and other time wasting activities. Every single blocker app completely sucks and needs to be implemented as an OS feature. Screen time on iOS isn't enough and Digital Wellbeing on Android is a joke. Sometimes I don't have the willpower to overcome the digital crack at my finger tips.

So bad I want a new OS to enter the market that reimagines my phone as just a tool and not the center of my life. Apple could do it and has the right incentives (kinda) but I don't understand why they don't make screen time more feature rich with an API. I've never owned an iPhone but I would finally switch if they did this.

Edit: I'm being too harsh to the creators of this phone. Clearly I am not the customer. I just want a solution that doesn't involve giving up useful tools like Maps.
>most big subreddits have proven quite effective at growing and surviving.

That depends on your criteria. If popularity and user engagement are the only important metrics, this is absolutely true.

If however, clarity of purpose and effective moderation are important, I would strongly disagree. From my experience, most big subreddits that used to fulfill a certain niche have devolved into primarily meta-posting and stealth (or not stealth at all) advertisement.

Of the exceptions to the above, many now just fill the exact same purpose. There are around 10 extremely large subreddits that regularly make the front page that are essentially just "look at this picture of something I have/something I saw" with no real boundary between them.
TCL NXTPAPER
The whole memory safety thing is based on a falsehood.

Memory safety is where it is because of misquotes and misinterpretations.

Here are the incorrect quotes:

"70% of all security vulnerabilities were caused by memory safety issues"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety
In 2019, a Microsoft security engineer reported that 70% of all security vulnerabilities were caused by memory safety issues. In 2020, a team at Google similarly reported that 70% of all "severe security bugs" in Chromium were caused by memory safety problems.

"Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues "
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

The actual quote from Matt Miller is this (quoted from the SAME article that has a false headline above) https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

"Microsoft security engineer Matt Miller said that over the last 12 years, around 70 percent of all Microsoft patches were fixes for memory safety bugs."

So it is FALSE that "70% of all security vulnerabilities were caused by memory safety issues".

What Matt Miller said is that "70% of all Microsoft patches were fixes for memory safety bugs" - that is VERY different.

As a result, the fiction that "70% of all security vulnerabilities were caused by memory safety issues" has become real to many people thus they are focusing their security effort on memory safety when that is not even the primary security issue and certainly not 70% of all security issues.
Moderation is a must or else there will be rampant misinformation and hate speech.

Reddit is fine but it's not really operable as a business enterprise unless you are fine with making a small tiny profit over long period of time.

Subreddits are a self solving problem over time. They grow big and shrink on their own merits and damage is self contained.
Myself, I'll use PWA to mean "promoted web app" - since it is closer in this context, and 99% of the market gets "progressive" wrong anyway.

I believe that third party browser engines will have the same privileges as WebKit (in the EU, on iOS only).

PWAs do not run directly on WebKit; they run on Web.app which is a WebKit-based application. Think something like Cordova, provided by the OS, but which does not require each PWA to be a separate wrapped app listed in the App Store.

There is a recently-added interface to create one of these Web.app PWAs by third party browsers, as well as to create home screen bookmarks (which I believe open in the default browser not the running browser, but I am not a browser implementer).

There is not however not a way for a browser vendor to ship their own Web.app-equivalent using their browser engine.

Simulating some of the behaviors of a PWA on iOS outside of Web.app is also difficult. For instance - the multi-window functionality of iPadOS is not present, so a fullscreen web app would block usage of other tabs.
I love the way that good economics gets down voted because it doesn't fit the zeitgeist.

Old business saying: "Never let your ego get in the way of your cash flow." which is exactly what the sanctions on cheap energy did.

Chinese manufacturers will now eat the European manufacturers for lunch. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Now that phones have turned into authentication devices for a lot of mainstream services, we’re screwed.
Thank you! I've wanted this for so long. Now that I have it, I'd rather spend money on keeping your company around!
I was replying to:

> Quite surprised now and then how its able to predict my next move

Not text, the user's next move.
All that tells you is that "what model number are you" statistically almost never otherwise occurs on the open internet, except for when people post chatGPT transcripts. When in human history has anything been simultanously anthropromophized ("are you") and is a numbered "model"? It approximates the next token, based on it's data set. If you ask an LLM about itself, you'll either get a scripted answer from a top layer fine-tuning, or a hallucination letting it be anything that's ever existed, ordered by statistical similarity. It replied exactly what one should expect.
What if the information could potentially be double edged (helps fight the disease or assist in bio warfare research) and you cannot control the agents that have access to the information? While obfuscation is not the answer, it def. helps.
When the context of IP Camera's/CCTV/surveillance or video security is establish, yes, it's very common jargon.
Yeah I guess you can look at ancient craters from meteors or volcanos to see how it would look.
It seems quite appropriate that luddites will opt out of the AI training space. Hopefully it will lead to better quality output.
That's what I understood as well. In a way, they live on with us because they are part of the same species. We know that we have bred with Neanderthals. Why aren't they just considered a branch of humanity? It's normal for some designs to die out in favour of others. Slightly stocky humans with bigger brains. If you met one, I wonder what you'd think in comparison with, say, a person from another culture?
The point is that rewrites are costly and introduce new bugs. New software written in safe languages to replace old software will inevitably introduce new bugs and repeat old ones. That’s not a reason against using memory safe languages, but the danger is that a too-keen focus on memory safety risks devaluing other, far cheaper means of improving security.

Yes, use memory-safe languages for new projects. But don’t lie to yourself and everyone else and say that they will come anywhere close to making a significant dent in the rate of security bugs.
It makes sense that the consumption side of the site isn’t as good, since super-niche sites like this are more for the benefit of the writers than the readers. The value and enjoyment is in collecting the information, not retrieving it.

And that might sound like a criticism, but it’s really not. Niche interest sites where people spend their time collecting a huge level of detail on a topic few care about are awesome, and I love them. Just realistically, they’re not there for the readers.
(Specifically in reply to your last paragraph)
Sure, but this isn’t just limited to AI output: If all the stock art used in magazines is etc… then all the magazine pictures are etc… I think it’s fair to say that most people recognise that showing always made doctors or always female nurses helps create or re-enforce those stereotypes, so that boys grow up thinking they can’t be nurses and girls grow up thinking they can’t be doctors. We (society) have decided that it’s ok to put our hand on the tiller (so to speak) to alter our course in these matters. (I know there are people that disagree with that kind of action)
You can use the bash 'caller' builtin to print a stack trace, e.g.: https://github.com/theimpostor/templates/blob/main/bash%2Fte...
Also, marble video aficionados might also enjoy this >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lso6OSfKrrk
It may not be in the memo, but I do think it's coming, at some point.
Cat,cp,mv,dd,install,split: set the default IO size to 256KiB
(and after one more thought about it, one would zero out the row /and column/ to preserve the symmetry of the matrix, if applicable, and thus keep the eigenvalues real. and one would probably want to think a bit about whether this kind of deletion actually makes sense for the problem... doing real PCA isn't /that/ hard in most cases - I think I would do something this janky only for extremely large matrices or for realtime operation on a microcontroller or something, and then only after thinking hard about it.)
100% agree that containerising on VMs is ridiculous.
It’s a figure of speech. Not literal.
Until you need one to defend you from... another lawyer.

A pattern emerges
I have definitely seen that before. In any case, despite the website being owned by an American, the language is not common American English:

> He is enjoying his sauna 4-6 times a week. Instead of watching the “idiot TV”, Malcolm has spent his evening watching his thermal meters in his hot room.

One would not use the present continuous tense in that context as much as in that sentence.
Votes for Sale – A Startup Is Letting Shareholders Sell Their Proxies
Finally a real reason.

A lot of the stuff above was complaining about issues where Python is a lot worse than R, about non-issues or with a fundamental misunderstanding of the language. I'd given up hope of seeing a real weakness named as such :)

There is bit64 and doubles being used as 53bit pseudo-integers - but if I needed 64bit integers, R wouldn't be my first choice, definitely.
There's a non-zero chance that many of the asiatic H. Erectus[0] found during the late 19th and early 20th century are, in fact, Denisovans or their relatives, but were recovered in a period where our ideas about human migration were quite different from today's . . and long before genetic analysis[1]. When the remains are examined in their entirety, the variations are quite extreme, with brain sizes ranging from near-ape to practically modern.

[0] i.e., Java Man
[1] Revealing peoples like the Andaman islanders as having a high proportion of non-Sapiens non-neanderthal DNA, something that would fit into a 19th century anthropology not at all.
One advantage Ente provides to a local NAS is geo redundancy. If your nas gets destroyed eg by fire or water or stolen eg by burglar or even the police your data is gone. Synology offers their convenient C2 service, but IIRC has or had some cryptographic weakness. So I hacked my own solution with rclone and some cheap cloud storage. Well, something like Ente would have been much more convenient.
In nature, exponential curves reveal themselves to be sigmoidal on a long enough time scale. Since you're on HN you probably have a mathematical bent, and you should know that.