skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. While people may have an issue with FISA being opaque they do not consider that maybe it being opaque is good for reasons that cannot be explained. With an explanation like that, how could anyone have a problem with such a thing?
You likely don’t do a lot of hardware development. VMs cannot talk TTL and even low-level USB properly without a significant amount of hassle. Typically unplugging peripherals (or rebooting an MCU) will disconnect the device from the host, and then you usually have to reconnect them to the VM and lose logging output.
That's not the tone and meaning of the article either, you're reacting to individual words. Simply trying to describe his mental state, possible motivations, etc does not somehow imply apologia. I'm not sure how discussing the book (I did just finish it and recommend it, you're right!) is going to help much, though, if just a basic description of some of its points seem so imbued with value judgement to you - it just isn't there, really.
Hare – simple, stable, and robust systems programming language
The downvote is surprising: e-sports is big in South Korea, so there's an obvious question: what's the female to male ratio in e-sport stadium? I personally wouldn't use the regular sports stadium as evidence of anything before I know more about South Korea.
> How did it get this bad?

Serious answer?

It's an LLM. They don't actually understand anything, they chain words together.

C and C++ are often used next to words like 'unsafe' and 'dangerous'. Not to mention that 'concept' isn't far from 'conceive' or 'conception' - something that a lot of people think is unsafe or dangerous for children to, uh, do.

There's a trillion weird edge cases that need to be dealt with to avoid pie-on-face moments like these.
This is awesome, but did they really need to use "supernatural"? There's an explanation for the strength using the laws of physics (or, dare I say, Nature) ergo it is not "supernatural"
I have a friend who moved to Portugal and acquired ~15 olive trees with the farmhouse he purchased. (And also oranges, lemons, pomegranates, plums, and grape vines). All for less than the price of a small flat in London.

It took him and his girlfriend a few days of work, but they harvested all the olives by hand (using rakes and nets), took them to a local olive mill and for around €50 (flat fee for any amount of olives up to a certain batch size) got back a 50-litre barrel filled with some of the most delicious extra virgin olive oil I've ever tasted. At least a year's supply for them.

Fast fibre internet there too despite being in the countryside. I don't think he's coming back!
Do they still offer ARM? I remember them killing the ARM bare metal back in the day.
Offline maps were a game-changer for me when exploring off the beaten path and I will keep this app in mind if I ever get a newer old phone. I realize even projects-targeting-older-phones want to move on eventually, but I am mildly sad to see this require Android 5 as someone whose dedicated offline car device runs Android KitKat (4.4) :)

Granted the newest OsmAnd requires Android 6 so I'm still using the older 4.0.9 release of that application and side-loading map updates since the built-in map update UI broke:

https://f-droid.org/archive/net.osmand.plus_409.apk

wget -mkEpnp --accept-regex 'Us_' --content-disposition -e robots=off "http://download.osmand.net/list.php"

I haven't used it but an app called Navit supports all the way back to Android Gingerbread (2.3): https://f-droid.org/packages/org.navitproject.navit/
No, not unless they installed special software (if so, just do a factory restore! That's why there is a hidden partition!)

The serial number was for the warranty and in case it got stolen (you did get a receipt from them right?)
What are FYP and TMNT?
Would be fun if true! Seems to somewhat match semantically as well.
Strictly speaking, Parisian women could not legally wear trousers until 2013: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21329269
Colonoscopy is confusing because it is both screening and diagnostic/investigating.

Most if not all of the complication/risk (perforation and major bleeding being the ones of note) is from the polypectomy / biopsy part of the colonoscopy.
I wouldn't compare it to actual diseases. As an European, the anti-vaxxer movement provokes profound disillusionment in me, and that last sentence... Apologies, I had to say this.

(You are correct in that using a XP machine is likely less risky today if you're only doing so in a LAN and with minimal access to the Internet)
Alphafold is not mentioned in the article, I didn't notice anything especially related to it mentioned in it either. I think Alphafold is a pretty insightful as a mental model, for thinking about how AI might help with curing cancers.
Yeah, I do think the thing that will date most 20th century science fiction is that it usually has humans actively doing most things, like mining, piloting space ships, fighting battles, etc. When it seems more likely that almost all of that will be done by AIs, with humans directing them at best.
The internet is good when it works. Mine has been out for a week. Motherf-ing Altice...
> Re-focus on merit and clear goals.

Googler here. We've structured the company to extract rent rather than innovate. We hire outsiders who are supposed to help us "grow up". That means processes and staying in your lane. Managers actively discourage work on 20% projects, because we "have a business to run."

Leadership needs to allow us to build things again. And they need to also recognize that innovative ideas can originate outside of SV and NYC.
Which makes me wonder what people in future will think about our science fiction media.
Yeah, for something like lightly frying some mushrooms, or caramelising onions (though butter is imo tastier for the latter) there's no reason not to use EVOO other than that it still won't be the cheapest option, but cooking won't get rid of all of its health benefits nor taste. I suppose maybe there's a case (I don't know if this has been studied or just people with differing anecdotes?) for cheaper than EV olive oil being as good as EV when using it for cooking over a certain temperature? I don't know.
Spaniard here. That case was so mediatic that no one tried to sell canola oil for the consumers. And of course the controls on that skyrocketed.
The basic method would be to assign a number, 0 through 52!-1, to each permutation in lexicographic order. Because 52! is not a power of 2, if you want to encode binary bits, you can only use 2^N permutations, where that number is the largest power of 2 less than 52!. You can not losslessly encode more than N bits, that's a hard bound, they just won't fit.

If you wanted to turn this into an actual protocol, you would presumably flag some permutations as invalid and use the other ones. You would then encode one bit at a time doing a binary search of the set of valid permutations.

Because 52! has a large number of 2s in its factorization, for a careful choice of the valid permutations it should be practical (or at least not significantly more impractical than the OP's proposed method) to perform this by hand because you would be able to "eyeball" most splits of the binary search.
If the audit was only run once as a exploratory measure, then you are correct, but that is not the case. If you run a audit intended to detect defects at the 1 M$ level 10 times and literally every single time you find truckloads of defects then you have statistical evidence on the quality of your processes.

As a simpler example, suppose you did a firing test of a bulletproof vest and the bullet went right through. They patch that up and then you fire again and it goes right through. They do that 10 times and literally every single time it goes right through. You can conclude that those failures were not a fluke, their bulletproof vest is just garbage.

To use a slightly more complex variant, suppose they had bulletproof vest version 1 and during acceptance testing the bullet goes right through. They go back to the drawing board and produce bulletproof vest version 2 claiming it is bulletproof and then the bullet goes right through again. They do this 10 times and literally every time they claimed it was bulletproof and every time the bullet goes right through. You can conclude that their engineering or validation processes are garbage and, additionally, you can only trust them as far as you can throw them. Until they conclusively demonstrate robust protection against bullets in representative tests their products and "expertise" should be ignored.

The thing in the cybersecurity industry is that they fail the audit every time across all fields across all products across all systems. This is not a one-off case where a company has never done it before and they failed once so it might be a fluke or they can improve. This is everybody doing thousands of audits each and literally every single one of them has never once demonstrated a defect rate better than the low M$ range no matter how many changes or "improvements" they make. And the entire time they have been issuing deceptive marketing making people think they can. That is about as clear cut statistical evidence of industry-wide quality control failures as you can find in any field.

Just for reference, this is extremely abnormal in other industries. Only in cybersecurity and software are poor quality control and validation processes so rampant that obvious global process failures are viewed as just the way things are done. Yes, some parts of the software industry are even worse, but even the "best" parts are laughably inadequate. Engineering is not about subjective evaluations like better, it is about objective evaluations like fit for purpose. And commercial IT cybersecurity fails that with a resounding no.
"Citizens Peace Treaty". Those words sound so nice to libertarian ears. Oh, if only the citizens of the countries could just get together, throw out their warring politicians, and make peace. Wouldn't that be nice.
From Other flavors of Christianity that were persecuting them. Also the general poor conditions at the time.
I understand the provocations and have warned the other commenter elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39584466). But you also broke the site guidelines badly—not just here, but also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39584713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39581939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39578386

Moreover, we've had to warn you about this kind of thing before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492784.

Please don't respond to bad comments by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
seems mostly right to me:

1) ok, but should be staring at iphones

2) not this one perhaps, given our treatment of whales

3) john deere tractors - it's a thing

4) could see many of our overvalued billionaires going for this

5) drone strike

6) robo hoover - available everywhere
5 times out of 6, so is Russian roulette
By this interpretation, do we then have to take any subject that rock and roll touches as glamorization? The sound of Heroin is dirty and gritty, the lyrics ugly and honest. The few positive notes in the song "It's my life, and it's my wife," "And I feel just like Jesus' son," "And now I'm better off than dead" are hardly glamorous. They just underscore the theme of the song: allure of self-annihilation in order to escape all the ugliness around us.

People will glamorize anything that someone famous or iconic (both in Lou's case) put out into the world. That doesn't mean the artists themselves have glamorized the subject.. This would be like accusing Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk of glamorizing incel culture and alt-right violence, when he was in fact intending to do the opposite.
Yes... And? We don't have to be happy with our lot if it sucks.
> And said taxes would trigger high cashflow costs, which would just force companies into bankruptcy ASAP.

And that's fine.

Those who didn't stick their necks out should be able to buy the distressed assets at discount and force the financing agreements to unwind. Real estate doesn't go away. People still want houses. Businesses making products don't go away. Places to work--maybe not so much.

Unless you allow bad businesses to go bankrupt, you'll wind up like China.

Vacancy taxes force that decision much sooner--before everything goes belly up at scale. The landlord has to decide to rent lower or sell the property.
It’s not, it’s the same bad. Pediatricians try to drill this into parents.
Now we just need a follow up that takes the average dev time for each language and show which one has the optimal ratio based on these two values. It should be possible to draw a curve based on how long and how often the program will run to plot exactly when it makes sense to switch to something more efficient but also more dev intensive. Sort of in this fashion: https://xkcd.com/1205/

E.g. assembly would have very low energy use by itself, but would require an inordinate amount of human energy (~8.7 MJ/day) invested to get that end result, making it very inefficient when the whole picture is considered. Unless that code runs everywhere constantly for years of course.
One of the interesting things about these photos is that, aside from all the under-water ones, many of the contraptions exist. We just call them Roomba, Kubota tractor, Audible, Philips All-In-One Trimmer, etc. One consistent facet is that many of our modern technologies are a lot more complex on the inside, but simpler in appearance. There really is one guy pushing buttons to harvest thousands of acres.

There's a complex kitchen one, and many people do have robot butlers in their kitchen today, they're just corporate chic instead of nearly alchemical, and called a Keurig. Though I would not invite such a creature into my home on account of its aesthetics I do admit its impressive.

Another observation is that we've abstracted away the robot-ish nature of a lot of these machines. There's a special factory that makes k-cups, so that our home environment can have the simpler machine. We decided to pave millions billions(?) of miles of road, and also perfectly flatten the square footage of nearly every store and warehouse, just to make the machines run smoother. I think it would be hard for a person from 1899 to understand just how much flatness we've engineered for our cars and roombas and shopping carts to work universally.
Debian support for RISC-V is presently only in Sid (testing release). So not production ready.

When I ask people what it will take to get RISC-V into stable releases the answer is always ‘better access to test hardware’. Hopefully this is a step along the way.
Sorry to hear that. I visited the museum Correr without knowing that that map was at the end of the museum. Discovering it right in front of me is a high time of my life.
Cool, that fixed it. It works well now on higher Hz settings.
All the streaming apps I have on my Roku TV, I also have on my Smart Samsung phone & Tablet. I was fortunate to have setup my Roku TV with OTA Free Broadcast Channels. So when I turn my Roku TV on, it defaults to Antenna input. By having my Roku TV setup to start in Antenna input, I am able to Samsung SmartView (Casting Directly to the Roku TV) from my Samsung Phone or Tablet and still watch the same streaming services as previous. I have not yet agreed to the Forced Arbitration Agreement. Wanting to wait some time, to see if this ends up a cause to bring a Class Action Case against Roku
The very link you provided says that client-side execution of server code is an optional constraint:

>The notion of an optional constraint may seem like an oxymoron. However, it does have a purpose in the architectural design of a system that encompasses multiple organizational boundaries. It means that the architecture only gains the benefit (and suffers the disadvantages) of the optional constraints when they are known to be in effect for some realm of the overall system. For example, if all of the client software within an organization is known to support Java applets [45], then services within that organization can be constructed such that they gain the benefit of enhanced functionality via downloadable Java classes. At the same time, however, the organization's firewall may prevent the transfer of Java applets from external sources, and thus to the rest of the Web it will appear as if those clients do not support code-on-demand. An optional constraint allows us to design an architecture that supports the desired behavior in the general case, but with the understanding that it may be disabled within some contexts.

I think this means you only do it when it makes sense. Perhaps this is too open-ended as you can run basically anything on the client, including a full application. But I think the stateless requirement means you should not require that the server be bothered with the client state, and that the client state should be easily recoverable from the resource URI. But I don't actually know. You don't have to commit to using REST principles if you don't want to. I think it was proposed as a way to reduce server load and bugs, not as a way of life.
> according to the mores of the time

I see what you did there.
FYP = TikTok's For You Page

TMNT = Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
What's up with the aversion to filesystems in forth languages?
I bought the cheapest one at the store, as I always do. It was even on sale. IIRC it was less than $200.

This was in 2022. My former "daily driver" Linux laptop was from 2009, and it gave up in 2023 (keyboard hardware failure, no problem running Linux). As for brand, both are ASUS. It's not that I prefer ASUS particularly, it just happened so that these were the cheapest on the days I frequented the store. A laptop is a generic thing for me, I can use any of them.

(I dont' get the Nvidia graphics cards trouble you are referring to, don't you run Debian?)
These are some great ideas! Thanks!
The video refers to him.
Programmable RNA writing with trans-splicing
Hope you're well!

I wasn't proposing keeping file metadata in multiple blocks -- just, might as well consider if any functionality might be worth adding in the remaining block of the filesystem triad, if it's gonna be a triad (source code, metadata, empty). (This makes the larger minimum size of these triads a bit of an attractive nuisance from a "Forth Zen" pov...)
A novel RNA-editing technique, with high activity and minimal off-target effects, appears to remedy gene variants linked to conditions such as Rett syndrome and autism.
I'm still using the cheap Brother laser printer that I bought in 2003. It currently has a third-party drum and toner in it, which work very well.

Unfortunately, I had a bad experience with one of their inkjet printers a few years ago - it just stopped working after a few months.
TLDR: The ‘threat’ is OpenAI’s GPT store
There should be. This is going to be a huge need.

Autonomous ships will probably also be a big thing.
Unfortunately, the opposite of that is everybody trying to file random things that aren't actionable. See the collection of mail sent to the curl maintainer…

https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2015/2015-06-08.m...
I recently rented a rack with a telecom and put some of my own hardware in it (it's custom weird stuff with hardware accelerators and all the FIPS 140 level 4 requirements), but even the telecom provider was offering a managed VPS product when I got on the phone with them.

The uptime in these DCs is very good (certainly better than AWS's us-east-1), and you get a very good price with tons of bandwidth. Most datacenter and colo providers can do this now.

I think people believe that "on prem" means actually racking the servers in your closet, but you can get datacenter space with fantastic power, cooling, and security almost anywhere these days.
Most companies in the world don't need to develop software. Software development itself is hype. But there's lots of money in it, despite no actual value being created most of the time.
Now I’m curious what would be a today’s vision of life in 2124.

Also, could we use these to train an AI? As in: pair 1899 predictions with the actual outcome, train a model, and later provide today’s predictions of 2124 as input?
Hm, wouldn't you want to set it up to route traffic preferentially to a nearby location?
> MRIs should cost 1/10th as much as we increase the throughput of machines with AI (as several people are working on) and reduce the need for expensive human labor.

I work in the emergency department of a busy hospital. MRIs are pretty labor intensive to perform and take 15m to an hour. We are not going to get to a point where we are regularly scanning people with MRIs without clear symptoms of CVA etc. They require techs to run, you aren't going to remove much "expensive human labor" other than making initial radiology reads faster. The article makes the distinction that someone needs to decide to order those time-consuming, expensive scans, and that is where the point of failure is right now, in that we sometimes write patients off as delusional. AI can't help in situations where we have no data.
Experimental Alzheimer's, drug addiction ultrasound trials helping patients
I got my account blocked for no reason and they required my ID to resume access. Apparently I don't trust that at all and registered for a new account with an alias email. They unlocked my primary account without me doing anything after a few days.
So my suggestion is to disregard it.
Duck fat's smoke point is actually rather close to olive oil's. Actually, a low-acid extra virgin or virgin will have a higher smoke point. Also refined olive oil, of course, not that many people buy it.
An apocalypse may have a slow onset. Not: everything normal one day, hungry / violent mobs in the streets the next day.

Services, supply chains, store shelves etc gradually degrading / emptying over the course of weeks, months or even years.

Also: a collapse of society could be limited in scope or duration. Social unrest, widespread protests, looting & other crimes, but things returning to 'normal' within months. Those security guards may consider how much they want to keep their jobs after such an event.

In short: societal collapse comes in many shapes & sizes. Private bunkers etc are just nice-to-have options for the ultra-rich.
It’s more likely you choose a higher frequency to narrow down your spot size vs growing your antenna comically large. Increased frequency also allows for increased bandwidth.
> These companies have gotten burned

Have they really though? Usually companies overreact to a lot of social media outrage that would blow over in a couple days. But their very online PR/social media employees turn everything into an emergency. Imagine infosec people making every CVE a big deal, you’d end up with a needlessly limited system - that ironically doesn’t satisfy anyone, because the infosec people will always have a new urgent CVE tomorrow.

This automatic fear based approach to doing anything, without actually balancing risks and tradeoffs, is its own ritualistic system of self-harm. Companies burning themselves on the stove.
Is there something inherently more meaningful about composing music? It's all futile and pointless, so if the dude likes making little Dr Suess machines and then destroying them to make new ones, who's to say it's not worthwhile? He's just raking patterns in his own personal sand garden.
> humanity, given 1000 years

The problem is that this makes almost anything sound reasonable, besides things that violate the laws of physics.

I don't think that thinking this far out is anything but pure speculation. Whether the mechanism is human intelligence, AI, or magic.
I still use LiveJournal.