skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just spent a few hours in my attic running Cat 6 but before I did that I actually did some research to figure out what it would take to run fiber instead: Too much. Not way too much. Just "too much" compared to cheap cat 6 (of which I already had a spool and tools; sunk costs and all that).

In theory, modern fiber is fantastic! You no longer need incredibly expensive tools and the cable itself isn't really any more expensive than Cat 8 (the current standard you should aim for if you don't already have a spool of Cat 6). It's also much more flexible than in the past and less fragile. There's still some big issues making it problematic for DIY home installation...

You gotta be careful and thoughtful. With something like Cat 6 or Cat 8 it's stiff enough that you can just push it through from above/below, go into an attic/crawl space and just tug on it. Yank that sucker! If it gets caught, push it back and yank again... It'll probably be fine! Even if it's not (you pulled too hard on a loop and kinked it), you can always just cut off that end of the cable or use a coupler and you won't lose much other than your time. Fiber isn't like that: You need to attach it to something like a solid metal cable snake while you fish it through a tight spot otherwise there's a good chance it can get caught and kink/break. Forget pushing it through from below something! It's just too floppy. You also shouldn't let it dangle! Be very careful and use proper screw-in or nail-in wall fasteners.

Very few things accept the various fiber cable connectors/standards. The modern solution to that is to wire your home switch-to-switch, using fiber as the back end connection between them. You buy switches with SFP/SFP+ ports and use fiber SFP adapters with your connector/standard of choice. This isn't really a problem per-se but it means that instead of "just" having a keystone outlet on the wall near the device-to-be-connected you'll have a little switch there and your device(s) will connect to that.

Aside: SFP is fantastic! It's absolutely awesome that even cheap, consumer switches have SFP ports now. Just bought a 2.5GBit ethernet switch for $50 the other day that had 4 2.5Gbit ports and 2 10GBit-capable SFP ports :thumbsup:

It's way too easy to break your fiber cable when you need to run something else alongside it. For this reason, when you're running your cables make sure you drill separate holes for all your fiber runs. Don't just shove it through the hole that already has your home's coaxial cables and other wires (e.g. phone, alarm, smoke detector wires). In fact, go the extra mile and install a grommet in any holes you drill (or just use some PVC/PEX/PTFE pipe/hose with couplers to prevent it from coming out) and WRITE WITH A SHARPIE on or near it, "FIBER ONLY!". Make it glaringly obvious that it's a bad idea to try running anything other than fiber through that hole.

Anecdote: A friend of mine ran fiber through their attic and an air conditioning repair technician stepped on it and broke it. Keep those wires up high and out of the way of possible accidents like that.
To mitigate dry seasons.
Krebs investigations' overwhelmingly rely on reused emails and phone numbers across services which he follows back to some account they registered in 2008 in their real name. This is very effective because he is investigating cybercriminals who 1) have been at it for a while and have left extensive trails and 2) don't really care that much if they are identified because they can just stay in Russia. In the Alphabay and Silk Road cases, they relied on similar techniques (AlphaBay welcome emails sent from Cazes's hotmail, "altoid"/Bitcointalk/Shroomery posts in the case of Silk Road). These kind of things can be prevented by making a new email with a service that doesn't require your phone number and your real name.

In the recent Monopoly Market case and seizures from the huge hacks, it was all chain analysis. Only the Bitfinex hackers even tried to conceal what they were doing (by using Alphabay as a mixer, which became their undoing once it was seized), the others went straight from crime -> accounts in their name. This can be obviated with Monero.

Yes, I'm aware that the US government used some sort of probabilistic attack on Monero in 2018 against North Korea, which has since been fixed.

I don't want to spend my whole life looking over my shoulder and IRL opsec is a whole other thing that I am not really familiar with. I don't use the techniques in my post because I'm not leading a double life or something like that, but I think it's entertaining to read about.

Edit: Also, is your contention that there is no Internet anonymity anymore, therefore it's fine to even further limit Internet anonymity?
> Coming to the US you have to go through the special US pre-clearance zone that has extra security

This may once have been true but I don't believe it's the case any more, at least not at the major European hubs I've been to.

There is no additional security screening if you fly British Airways to the USA out of LHR. This was no additional security at Frankfurt last month either.
Yes, not the article but I found that section in the paper and it does appear to be better than existing techniques. I wish the author of the paper could have told us that lol. Thankfully the paper is not paywalled
>The population of CA, meaning the number of people who need water for drinking and growing food, has doubled in the past decades.

... but water usage is flat-to-down.
You make a good point. I have watched several Hancock shows, including the one on Netflix, and while some of his points seem plausible, he tries to link everything into a common source that does not seem plausible to me.

There are some things that are plausible that I think would be interesting to see actual academics researchers spend time on, such as the Sphinx and a few other claims.

- The Sphinx:

To me it seems plausible that the Sphinx may have been constructed before the Egyption civilization, based on geological analysis that indicates a wetter climate and that the head seems to be carved much later than the rest (even proportions are wrong).

The findings in Göbleki Tepe proves that you don't need a massive agricultural civilization to create impressive stone works. People can get together and make amazing things without having to invent an Atlantian civilization that travels the world.

Unfortunately I think that Hancocks involvement may prevent serious research into this, as they don't want to be associated with him.
there is an unfortunate reality that in neighborhoods like mine, there is a culture of imitating gun shots. It's tangential to this tragic incident, but it's also an issue that I assume will only explode as it becomes "cool" to trigger shot spotters with your fireworks, cars, motorcycles. It's daily here in Brooklyn as soon as the temperature is above freezing
> How does Gleam run in the browser?

There was some detail in its announcement in January: https://gleam.run/news/gleams-new-interactive-language-tour/
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Access to this page is forbidden"
(edit) TL;DR: see tivert's comment.

In most cases, the Commission sets a fine which is based on the harm caused by some anti-competitive conduct, with relatively small adjustments for extenuating or attenuating circumstances. In this instance it's the opposite; the economic harm was small but the adjustment was huge.

You're right that the logic - deterrence - is the same in both cases. But what's different (at least in my view), is the object of the deterrence.

Ordinary fines are designed to make anti-competitive behaviour unattractive in terms of the costs and benefits. Maybe some underhanded conduct generates €40m extra profit, but the risk of a €40m fine plus legal costs and adjustments makes it not worth it.

The trouble is that these fines might are essentially just rounding errors for large firms. In this case, a €40m fine would be tiny in relation to Apple's revenue stream (~€350bn euros a year), thus not an effective deterrent. That's for two reasons. First, the 40m figure is too low since a "significant part of the harm caused by the infringement consists of non-monetary harm, which cannot be properly accounted for under the revenue-based methodology as set out in the [Commission's guidelines]"[1]. Second, the fine is trying to to "deter [Apple and] other companies of a similar size and with similar resources from committing the same or a similar infringement"[1] even when they could absorb the ordinary (small) fine as essentially a rounding error on their cost of doing business. In that case, large conglomerates could basically just ignore competition law.

So here, the Commission is deterring all firms which have a "particularly large turnover" [2] (e.g. Big Tech firms) from using their power in one market to gain an advantage in another market, as in this case where Apple used its control over its App Store to gain an advantage in the music streaming market. The fining guidelines allow for fines to be much larger (~50x in this case) for tech giants, even if the actual infringement didn't cause that much quantifiable harm.

You're right, there's no restitution here. As you say, the fine is payable to the EU and would be paid into the EU budget.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
[2] Para 30 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...
> Suspect this ruins the app store for everyone, in the way that boosted discovery ruined Twitter/X.

Well, that is more because every bot and their toaster is able to pay a 8$/month fee to have top visibility, especially when it partitally gets reimbursed due to the payouts.
I think of it as an art project rather than an engineering project. His medium is CAD software and CNC, and the purpose of the machine is to make more art. There should be more engineering-heavy art in the world like this.
GPT has for some time output "analyzing" in a lot of contexts. If you see that, you can go into settings and tick "always show code when using data analyst" and you'll see that it does indeed construct Python and run code for problems where it is suitable.
I think this might be due to load unfortunately.
SourceSafe was rather nice with its integration too. Right from the GUI (amazing!). The downside to SourceSafe was its tendency to randomly corrupt things and then you get to deal with that for the rest of the day instead of working on things.

Locking had some nice side effects. The devs talked to each other. Things where someone was getting in the way all the time showed where the code needed to be abstracted better. In practice it was not that big of a deal (all in 1995).
Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
Glad to see the pendulum swinging back on DEI. Being racist against "the right people" is, and always will be, racism. I don't know if Google's culture is too broken to fix but they really seem to be the corporate equivalent of Kuwait. They have a serious resource curse and with that resource in jeopardy, the question of whether they can innovate and productize is basically an existential one now.
My first job was at HP in the late 90s and I remember that "the merge" was an event for which significant time was reserved. It was heavily planned. I don't recall the system we used, though.
Couldn't you solve that issue with nodeenv in python? This is how I usually add J's to my projects. It will keep node &nom/yarn/whatever else and your js in the venv as well.
100% OpenAI is Microsoft in a trenchcoat.
Methinks several parties can play this game and military interventions are about to become extremely difficult and bloody for the US worldwide. Think Vietnam but with far deadlier weapons, and this time not from one country, but from 3-4, about 1.7 billion people in total. They either aren’t thinking this through or don’t believe the US will last much longer.
Haha yeah you are stuck in Bortle 9 until you fixed it
Also production servers with /etc full of files appended with .bak, .bak.oct, .bak.incident, .bak.goddamnit2
Platforms are very intertwined, where third party products increase the value of the platform far beyond the base value of the platform (i.e. the value created only by the creator of the platform).

A feedback loop is created as bigger platform attracts more third party products, which in turn make the platform even bigger. At some point it becomes impossible for new competition to enter the market.

IMO laws should treat platforms as special in order to promote creation of environments with a healthy amount of competition. Laws requiring openness of platforms seem to be one way to do it.
> Listening to audiobooks is reading, end of story. Quit gatekeeping,

What is it with people complaining about so called gatekeeping. Most of the time there is nobody guarding the gate to keep people outside. Usually, there is just some reality of life that if you don't put in the work, you don't get the reward. Listening to audiobooks, can be entertaining or very educating or boring just as reading a book. But I severely doubt that there are more then 10 human beings (obviously made up number) that can listen to a classic algebra math book with all the proofs and get the same learning experience as from reading and working through a paper book with a stack papers and a pencil. On the other hand, listening to Elon Musks autobiography is something I can do while driving without any problems.

> FWIW, recently I've started listening to audiobooks of nonfiction books while also reading along with the physical copy.

That is an interesting approach. I've bought several books in their paper and audio book form to listen them first and use the paper as reference later. I will try using both at the same time.
You've been able to access SMB shares from the Files app just fine for years now. Linux supports SMB. Windows supports SMB. You're welcome.
There was a company maybe about 15 years ago that was looking to design solar panel array structures using automotive construction techniques. They essentially wanted to hire “surplus” autoworkers.

I would think these days you’d be looking for the automation people as well.
Gusto sending notifications to all users that bank account details were updated
The user did not make any changes to their account.
Y2K Was a Joke and 2038
Did most/many of the existing ones get filled to capacity?
> 150% more expensive input tokens 250% more expensive output tokens, I wonder what's behind that?

Nitpick: It's 50% and 150% more respectively.
Maybe if you run ML on it, it will find Ryan Gosling?
The money DID go to public transportation. The cost of the Concorde program is peanuts compared to how much value was gained from it. Concorde brought many innovations such as its electric control system, which was developed further for the Airbus A300, and then reached its pinnacle in the Airbus A320. This tech tree is one of the cornerstones of unprecedented safety that modern airliners have brought to air travel, flying hundreds of millions of people every year without causing the loss of a single life, regardless of whether one is a self-important elitist or a regular schmuck on a 20 EUR flight to Ibiza.

You can't just go out and buy such innovation. It's the natural by-product of relentless pursuit of borderline impossible goals.
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I am a student at school 42 and I am looking for a “data and database” work-study program to become a Data Scientist. I have 6 months of experience in Deep Learning on image segmentation and classification. I also did data Viz.

I would be delighted to participate in your company's projects, do not hesitate to contact me for more information :)
> Young devs won't believe it

Sure they would. They believe anything. I made up some nonsense one day that bytes weren't always 8 bits and they believed that shit.
There's nothing wrong with growing almonds! Almond are valuable. It's alfalfa that's the problem. You can't grow almonds in the Midwest, but alfalfa grows fine. Just stopping alfalfa buys at least fifty years of predicted snow and rainfall reduction, for a crop that's just shipping to Saudi Arabia.
Interviewing Louis Castricato of Synth Labs and Eleuther AI on RLHF
I must say I really like the crowd behavior, where awesome related posts pop up the days after something from years ago hits the front page :) In this case, it must be the Wintergatan post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39573093 Wintergatan is also a pinned post on the Youtube video.
So one shouldn't expect any privacy.

GDPR is easy to comply with unless you don't offer basic privacy to your users/customers.
This is also (slightly) incorrect.

When trading the VIX, you are trading the implied volatility not the actual (realized) volatility.

VIX represents the implied vol of options on S&P500 expiring 30 days into the future.

Trading the realized volatility is not easy :)
Probably not.

> Keep in mind I'd asked for permission and got it in writing BEFORE I started. But yes, it was generous of MSFT to allow me that flexibility right from the first date of hire...

source: https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/1764646948769079705
It seems like it.

https://tinyurl.com/49v8mfv3
I'm sitting in Berlin, Germany, EU right now using Claude-3 Opus. I've been officially onboarded a few weeks ago.
Couldn't you similarly say that realism is a one trick pony?

> It does not age well. There is not a semi-infinite 'fountain' of newly interesting realism (other than your own reality). It can span the rough drawings of buffaloes (you know the ones), through the flat forms of hieroglyphics, to the impeccable fine art of Vermeer, and the architecture of Burnham, but not much more (okay maybe the spare documentarian writings of Ernest Hemingway et al.).

I think in both cases, this is oddly reductive. The reality is that there is a huge continuum of different ideas from both "reality" and "surreality" and the mixture of the two, some of which have been fruitfully explored, but most of which haven't.

I think maybe what you're responding to is the fundamental success of surrealism. Nobody argues any longer that the only "right" way to do art is to seek ever more verisimilitude. That's just the water we all swim in now, without needing to realize we're wet. But that's freeing, not limiting.
Everything that you can imagine, no matter how trivial, is a consistent notion that can be expressed mathematically as a true logical proposition. This includes an empty room, a Platonic solid, physical entropy, whatever. As Wittgenstein once noted, "logically consistent statements which are a priori true are possibilities which ensure their own truth."

What stands in opposition to this? The logically nonsensical – the incomputable. This includes anything discrete that can't be simulated, even in principle. These things cannot exist even in an infinite mathematical universe; for everything in such a universe is emergent, but such things cannot emerge.
My current setup is Stellarium + Clear Outside + windy.app and with that you really do need to know ahead of time which objects are visible for your particular location at that time of year or spend a while browsing. Your app looks amazing for my main use cases, but still lacks some information that I rely on. First, it is useful to know the direction of the cloud coverage throughout the night to be able to compare it with where the object you’re shooting will be. I also like to know the brightness (magnitude) of each object to help with planning. The last thing would be to get a list of recommendations rather than using lists of favorites. “What deep sky object do I not know about that today would be perfect for shooting?” is a question I have only been able to answer well with the ASIAR’s list of suggestions, manually curated calendars online that are not tuned to my location, or social media. It seems like you might have all the data to do a better job than all of those options in answering that question. Super cool app! Excited to see where it goes.
I kind of disagree. Yes the person on the moon wasn't that important but all the technology outside of the moonlander itself had nice utility.

Its just that the US kind of messed up its space investment strategy. Instead of leveraging all the parts of Apollo it was systematically killed.

Had the doubled down on Apollo and simply continued investing in the technology they could have done impressive things.

The could have built a Saturn 1C as a workhorse rocket for the military and commercial. And then have the Saturn V as your super heavy for the occasional deep space probe, huge telescope or space station.

The Apollo capsule could incrementally be made reusable and could continue to be used for LEO or occasional moon missions.

During Apollo they were already deep in development on second generation version of the different components.

This was not actually finically unsustainable, it was just financially unsustainable while also investing in Shuttle. And because a Saturn 1C wasn't considered, the military built itself up with Titan rockets instead.
It's insane that they think the deterrant to a single line of business should be based on the revenue of the business as a whole instead of that line of business. 0.5% of app store revenue would be far more reasonable than 0.5% of Apple revenue.
Not sure 'neoliberal' existed as a term in those days,
and so it's not clear how it could have created all the woes of the world.
Perhaps you are back-projecting modern leftist (SI - Socialist International?) critiques of capitalism.
A.I. Startup Anthropic Challenges OpenAI and Google with New Chatbot
The compaction associated with installing permeable concrete is in the top 10's of inches of ground at most. Typical aquifiers are 10's-100's of feet below ground surface, so that doesn't matter.

California has particularly terrible drainage. Although engineers and installers around here are correct when they point out that soil heaving is a real issue (everything is clay, and so it expands and contracts a lot), it's mostly gross incompetence from what I've seen.

The contracts we ended up signing with geological engineers, etc, all limited liability to the price of the contract. So we paid $10K to a useless engineering firm to get obviously broken designs approved by the local planning office and environmental review (the plan reviewers are also completely incompetent from what I've seen -- think "water likes to flow uphill", or "I dropped out of grade school because I don't understand trigonometry" incompetent).

The broken plans ended up costing us $150K, and now I'm good with a shovel and earth-moving equipment and material relocation logistics. It's probably illegal for us to touch the drainage without a permit, but we also are apparently legally liable if we don't maintain / repair it.

It's not just us: Tons of roads wash out, basements flood, suburban yards end up with sinkholes that could swallow a car, drains clog, roads flood, bridges wash away, etc, etc. This sort of thing happens on a widespread basis every few years.

Anyway, tl;dr: If you want to reduce the environmental impact of construction and drainage in California, mandate legal liability that includes damages + replacement / upgrade costs to a working system, and spread that liability across the engineering firms and planning commissions that are approving these plans.
Thanks! When people search for objects, I import the data from SIMBAD Astronomical Database. Also just a lot of manual bootstrapping.
The title is clickbait.

FTA: "Fewer than 10 people will be affected, one of the people said, out of a team of about 250."
yes it was also a joke