skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people say "the internet is dying" (and really, they mean "the web", not "the internet"), they don't mean it will cease to exist. They mean that it's changing in a way that makes it increasingly worse for them.

"Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected.

At least, this is what I mean when I say the web is dying. Most of it is already nonsense of no value to me and comes with ever-increasing security exposures. There's not a lot further it can go before there is no reason for me to use it at all anymore.
Diffusion Models from Scratch
While the sentiment on that is laudable, it's that kind of assuming that leads all kinds of idiots to jump to entirely ridiculous conclusions.
I'm running a 6.7 kernel on an AMD lenovo and would respectfully disagree that there's a hardware support problem. I have full suspend/hibernate/resume and everything comes back up just like it would in Windows or Mac OSX.
If you put a modern ICE car in neutral while moving, you’ll use as much gas as you would while sitting in a parking lot idling.
However if you just coast in gear with the engine braking slowing you down, a modern car will turn off the fuel to the engine, so zero gas is used.
It won't happen people choose comfort instead of freedom. Eventually it will become a full blown totalitarian state, and we are going to relive 20th century again it seems.

I can't wait to pay ESG tax because I am breathing.
It doesn't mean it's impossible, but it's definitely cumbersome. Any non English people who has had to type in their native language from an american keyboard can tell you.
A root CA key doesn't automatically decrypt the TLS traffic. You just need a single root CA key for a widely trusted CA to perform an active MITM attack. The attack is however likely to show up in Certificate Transparency logs.
Fatality rates for riders, passengers, and pedestrians from horses in the early 20th century were actually comparable to those for cars in the in the late 20th century.

I doubt the rates would be as high now if we went back to horses, because a lot of injuries that would have been fatal around 1900 would be survivable today, but I bet a lot of people would be surprised by how high the rates would be.

Some articles:

https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/cars-and-horse...

https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...
seeing these number makes me wonder if bounty hunting these days is more profitable that working on a side project
Airbnb bans the use of indoor security cameras
> Is it demonstrable? Allow me to skeptical until New York's Finest crack a case that the NSA, CIA, and FBI can't handle.

It's demonstrable that foreign intelligence is within the NYPD's purview given they're doing it. No claims were made about efficacy.

Also, I don't think the NYPD aims to crack cases the Feds can't. It's more about directing resources towards areas they believe the Fed's aren't monitoring effectively or won't commit the resources they believe it deserves. If something were picked up, the NYPD would loop in the Feds.
How is something like this or other services like cloudflare's D1 an actual scalable solution for any serious app? Is it the pattern where you give every customer, team or "workspace" it's own database and manage this through some distributed kv store? I am just trying to understand how this is a relevant solution and not some weird SQLlite fetishism you see going around.
“The spirit of the law thing” is something I’ve seen repeated WRT the EU, but it seems like a really bizarre way to run anything important. The law obviously can’t tell us what its spirit is beyond what the letter is.

We can guess what legislators want… I guess a lawyer must have come up with this idea, because inconsistent guesses are going to give them lots of extra business.

Maybe it would be better to annotate laws with what their spirit is, so we don’t have to guess. In fact, just write that down instead of the apparently non-functional letter of the law.
> Before long we end up with what is seen in the Android system.

Please elaborate what is seen in the Android system.
I think that's the rationale behind organizing separate teams as service organizations (mini contractors who serve multiple PIs).

Other option is research "centers" with multiple PIs. Not an option for most fields, but a few, like bioinformatics, can justify both the cost and the shared employee.
My hounds and other critters always enjoy cicada years. Cat find them amusing toys.
Feynman's role in the actual project was pretty limited too. He was not one of the major figures.
> I think the traditional desktop will go away slowly anyways and most people will use operating systems like iOS and Android.

What a nightmarish hellscape that sounds like.
It's hilarious. If Devin were any good, they wouldn't be selling access to it to random SWEs, they would be replacing Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc for that sweet sweet trillions of dollars!

Where's the app they built in an afternoon using Devin? Where's the software product that Devin actually built a month ago and was being used by thousands of people?

Their actual business seems to be closer to "Lets milk some of that sweet sweet high income from SWEs with FOMO about AI"
The DevTerm is their closest form factor imo https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-devterm. I bought one for kicks, the keyboard kinda sucks but the built in receipt style printer is badass.

The uClonsole also looks pretty sweet.
Just how badly is the internet compromised at this point, as in are there any countries or internet corporate policies that forbid contributing to this type of action and would route around the Netherlands due to it violating privacy?
I'm willing to make a new phone that only runs code i approve, since iPhones can no longer support this maximum security use case. You must be a journalist or have production access to a F500 company's database (containing PII/PHI) to qualify to purchase the device; I'm sorry if you don't qualify, but I fear the EU might come and force me to break the device security simply if 'too many people' begin to use my device.
> safety/security is about tradeoffs

I don't disagree with this, but I'm struggling to understand how aiming for zero CVEs would somehow be too onerous a tradeoff when six is reasonable. Assuming that nobody wants to have any CVEs in their codebase, the idea that ending up with six is reasonable but aiming for zero is preposterous sounds like another way of saying "it's easy to accidentally miss six future CVEs in your codebase". If that's the case, how can you have any degree of confidence that by aiming for six, you won't end up with 12 instead?
Don't buy into farming something until there's at least 2 places to sell it to. nearby.
My wife has consistently bad experience with iphone, namely 13 mini. Just a badly designed product from her perspective, doesn't integrate well with anything via open standards that others implement effortlessly. She is not a techie, so theoretically an ideal customer, but no she still hates it with passion and next phone will be something-android. Personal anecdotes are sort of meaningless here, aren't they. But apple fans like you seldom disappoint, you seem to take my post personally, not sure why.

I don't get why you immediately try to move discussion into extremes, maybe your style but not most of folks - either you have everything X, or everything Y. Sort of proving exactly my point. You don't even try to understand my argument - I can integrate anything, from any manufacturer. Plug in DELL monitor via usb-c, just works, immediately. Connect Sennheiser earplugs (since airpods pro sounds quality leaves a lot to be desired), bam and flacs flow via aptx-hd seamlessly. I could go on and on.

Apple has very tiny offer to cater to all our needs and budgets. These days, even if price is not the problem, often they don't offer the best on the market. So smart thing is to have a diverse set, the opposite of locked-down you describe. People are beginning to be fed up with that since apple is showing its true colors, and this topic and discussion is exactly about it.
Some people, when they have a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use floating point.” Now they have 1.9999998 problems.
The second[1] C program I read in my life was Fractint[2]. It is called that way because it calculated fractals with integer math[3].

At that time integer math was not only faster than floating point, but the only thing available to most of us. Processors like the 80386 did not come with any floating point facilities whatsoever. The FPU was a separate unit (aptly called a coprocessor at the time) which was expensive and hard to obtain where I lived.

[1] The first one was DKBTrace, which lives on as POVRay. Thank you David K. Buck, where ever you are now. I learned a lot from you.

[2] https://fractint.org/

[3] Technically we should call it fixed point I guess, but in the end it was all done with the integer instructions of the CPU. So integer math is not completely wrong.
Hahaha, I knew it. We all knew it.

Seeing the aftermath of corporate acquisitions, especially in the tech industry, is always interesting. Over my ten years in the field, I’ve seen three companies go through big changes during and after being acquired. It’s funny how companies try to convince everyone that nothing will change, even though it almost always does. People’s reactions range from hopeful to in denial about the changes.

Is it because people are delusional or psychopaths trying to make other people believe their lies.
> Hundreds of billions?! What software vulnerability ever caused financial loss even close to that?

Does seem high but Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal comes close if were talking about market cap they (it-least temporarily) lost over 100B [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/26/facebook-...
That was strongly true for a long time through Windows 9*, but with Windows NT/2000 much less so as the core was primarily influenced by David Cutler's experiences with VMS.
> Processing warrantless subpoenas costs time and money.

You can actually bill police departments for that. It's not as common when it comes to basic records, but it's not uncommon when it comes to wiretaps/trap and trace.
Fast enough for large majority of projects on CNCF project landscape, where C and C++ are a minority.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_standing

It’s possible to criticize Apple without making stuff up. It’s a road traveled by few, but it is there.
Fun fact: So is the braking. There are no hydraulic backup systems in place.
That's sad but expected. I actually had switched and disabled fig a few days ago because the app was using a lot of resources and probably had some memory leaks and crashed.

I find the autocomplete feature useful. I don't trust the GenAI commands even with gh copilot. I really hope that one day we can get a tool that will simulate the consequences of a command on your particular machine/environment but I admit that would be very hard.
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN, and especially not as a way of working around moderation.

If a comment is in some state that you think it shouldn't be, you can ask us to change that and we can at least have a conversation about it, but just reposting it is not ok.
You cannot understand a thing if it kills you first.
I think you'd be hard pressed to take the $99/yr they make from the dev program fee and use it to cover the salaries for the engineers implementing and maintaining all of iOS' developer-facing APIs.
The new law also lowers the bar for Dutch law enforcement to obtain records from these taps significantly, removing the necessity of a judge to rule whether the request is justified in the investigation.

Surely no law enforcement would overreach when given tools like these, right? Right?
What I meant to say is that most people can only verify an algorithm is correct if they already know the correct solution.

If they already know the answer then it’s probably more efficient if they write it themselves rather than having AI produce a potentially difficult to verify answer and try to verify it.
I agree. I also can't see a New York politician dismantling that infrastructure, given the downsides that would result were a plot to get through. (Irrespective of whether the NYPD's international offices would have helped.)
They all work for the same team
The Patriot Act was temporary too...
Perhaps the strangest element of the AI alignment conversation is that what is most aligned with human civilization (at least the most powerful elements of it) and alignment with sustainable life on the planet are at odds, and "destroy humans to save planet" is a concern mostly because it seems to be a somewhat rational conclusion.
This is a weird take - dunking on a product from more than forty years ago because it doesn't have modern ease of use.

It's like complaining a 1990s dumb phone wasn't an iPhone, or that a 1920s string and canvas biplane wasn't a 1960s SR-71.

Yes, obviously, but why would anyone expect that?
Zero to Hero – Tech Lead Edition
Lessons learned from the first year as a Tech Lead, which could be useful for those walking into a leadership role for the first time. Also points to a number of books and articles which proved useful getting started.
In addition to what's mentioned in the comments, timing attacks are also possible. If you see what time every packet is sent and received, then you can correlate streams with each other. This is how they figure out who is visiting what Tor websites; you compromise the network of the website, then the network of potential clients, and then you match up the packets. Now they know you visited the website even though you never actually sent a packet addressed to it.
A language that contains all Lisp features becomes identifiable as a member of the Lisp family, and is then removed from the discussion of languages that don't have all Lisp features.
I love csvkit, particularly csvstat. I just wish it were quicker on larger files. The types I deal with routinely take 5-20 minutes to run and those are usually the ones I want the csvstat output for the most.
People run "guard llamas" on mixed pastures, or with sheep and goats.

Male llama can kill dogs and coyotes and will protect a diverse herd.

They're also pasture Cassanovas that can and will talk anything into laying down with them for an unreasonably long time.
Why is size a question here? If apple is subject now, but then dropped to 1/10th the number of users, could they suddenly no longer be required to adhere to the DMA? Why is the size of the provider suddenly a test to determine if consumer protections are in order?
And no one, not even Apple, complains about that kind of tracking nor attempt to stop it.
Definitely both. You never really want to stop understanding, but understanding in public interest cases serves to inform advocacy, and any story can cross the evidence threshold where advocacy becomes the primary concern. I think we're there with Boeing.
SerenityOS Emoji Set
I think there are many other solutions, such as producing a Wine-like layer in between. But that requires active effort and commitment.
Been awhile with eleventy, but I really like the "islands" concept from Astro. It lets me break out into Svelte when I need for server stuff. Astro is also excellent at building shiki, TS and content generation together natively.

Overall it feels a little less bare bones, while still being flexible.
The impact on bandwidth is the main reason smaller is better I belive, certainly when it's the bottleneck. I'm only really familiar with CPU but with say FP16 you might convert back to FP32 when you're doing the actual multiplication (so conversion plus multiplication is actually slower) but because you're moving half the data in and off you still get a huge speedup.
the link is working for me. it's showing a court opinion
Kurzweil predicts that, thanks to exponential progress, by 2025 we’ll have 100% renewable energy (and a grid to go with it) and then 2045 is the Singularity. AIs will be at human-level brain intelligence next year. We’ll be able to stop, and then reverse aging, within 5 years.

Kurzweil comes across as an old man, slow to respond to Rogan’s rapid-fire and well-informed questions.
Oh gosh, I have this recollection of a line like "investment opportunities so good they only get offered to dentists, like ostrich farming" in something I read a long time ago, probably the nineties, possibly the eighties. I wish I could place it.
Fair enough - personally, I'd use a digital camera to scan large things anyway, possibly using an XY gantry if needed. Use a monochrome sensor + color filter wheel for extra points.

Scanners terrify generations equally in my opinion ;)
Ok, but back to my main question, how do I get into this?
Just being able to analyze the network connections to apply filters and visualizations upon, providing optional deep dives into certain cohorts to create reports or even forecasts is a totalitarian wet dream.
Hey WarpStream folks… does your blog have an atom/rss feed?
I seem to remember non-blocking io with named pipes was unreliable, in the sense that the test suite of whatever-it-was (memory is reeealy sketchy, this was tens of years ago) would fail randomly often enough that we had to throw the easy solution away and do actual networking.

A bit like the .signature named pipe from fortune thing, where sometimes you got two signatures and sometimes none? Anybody remember that?
> Provided you're fighting for the liberties they care about

Sure. The point is the ACLU doesn't wait to get sued itself. That would be stupid. It finds test cases and supports them with external resources.
But according to my math it was 10> of their profits for that year. 7% of revenue for 10% of net income is pretty good imo.
What's the overall steelman here? Something like, "Rust isn't a silver bullet. Let's make a subset of a superset of C++ that's safe." Okay, cool. Sounds great and the attempt at making C++ without breaking existing users certainly seems like an uncontroversially good thing to try. I don't really have any response to that.

I don't need a "lense of negativity" to criticize the details of Sutter's argument. This part of the article in particular would be a lot weaker overall if Sutter presented the reality than some sloppy non-sequitur. And that actually matters for his argument because it cuts to the heart of just how big of a trade-off Rust really is. If it isn't as big as he seems to be suggesting, then Rust's value proposition gets stronger. It's a critical flaw in his reasoning.

Steelmanning is great and we should try to do that. But I don't actually see a stronger version of Sutter's argument here. It's not just a phrasing issue, although the phrasing is certainly what jumped out to me. And I could just as easily say that the problem with Sutter's article is that he isn't doing a very good job of steelmanning the case for Rust. Whoop de do.
16 bit support got dropped from Windows over a decade ago. It's not like macOS drops things at random, Monumental architecture changes are good reasons to break any apps that hadn't been touched in x years.
Based on a long experience making open source for a living (I created XWiki, an open source wiki), I think it's though to finance OSS using time based support, at least using usual consulting rate. Either it needs to be understood by clients that the rates should be very high, or have different rates for time based paid contributions versus consulting. Maybe some option could be also to allow paid support by non committers provided they share revenue with the maintainer. If the project is sufficiently popular this could finance maintainers. The maintainer could still provide consulting but at a higher rate. There could also be a special rate for "faster" support, or even a retainer.

Ideally to help sustainability, creators need some fixed yearly support, but while this works for products, it's difficult for libraries.

What is sure is that it's important to bring some margin to the maintainer so he can fund his work.
Perhaps someone on the team thought it was neat, bought one, and is now desperately trying to justify spending nearly 4 grand on their new toy.
Who Killed Prestige TV? Toward a "Good Fan" Theory of Television
> In the not too distant future a $99 no brand phone will be equivalent to the iPhone experience for 80% of use cases, modulo the camera

I'm not so sure, for the same reason people still buy MacBooks when cheap Windows laptops are available, and luxury cars when there is no shortage of lightly used Kias.

Laptops and cars have been around substantially longer than smartphones, but it's still very easy to see the difference between cheap and expensive. While technically yes all of them do "the same thing", people are willing to pay for premium, and I suspect (due to relative affordability if nothing else) that the market of people able and willing to pay for a nicer phone is and will remain quite large.
Yeah, I don't get it either. All the Android fanboys seem to be wanting iOS to turn into Android for some reason (what, the blue bubble is so bad?) and I also don't understand how a company that isn't a monopoly (because there is in fact choice in the market) can be dictated to how they run their app distribution. That's akin to telling me, a software consultant, how I should do my software consulting. Maybe the EU will soon tell me what IDE I have to use or I will get fined. Maybe I have to start offering my services on some public forum where everybody can bid on my time equally.
If they find something that is really criminal they can notify the police, but it is not straightforward. Search for "ambtsbericht".
Please make your substantive points without name-calling or swipes (e.g. "absurd and deranged").

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Nice try, but unfortunately article have few factual mistakes and bias.

First, Earth shield is not just magnetic, but it is complex, magnetic + 100km of thin atmosphere, where most secondary particles just decay with time.

Calculations said, for comparable shield, need approx 6 meters of just water. Sure, it is lot of weight, so other calculations said, interstellar ship (or even martial ship) could use tanks with liquid hydrogen as shield, as they should be huge (for martian ship they should be thousands of metric tons, for interstellar, magnitudes more).

Second, very long text, but not said clear, that after cancellation of Shuttles, AMS-02 was modified, to use permanent magnet instead of superconductor.
And some provisions expired thanks to Trump!

Biden, on the other hand, renews them promptly, to bipartisan satisfaction.

Funny how that works. :p
More details here: https://twitter.com/iamgingertrash/status/176759390225142176...
The big difference is that back then, anyone with a consumer-level computer in their bedroom could turn it into a server and be a first-class citizen on the Internet.

With generative AI, models will be controlled by a handful of giant corporations who have the enormous corpuses (of dubious provenance) and compute ability to train them.

So it will be like last time, but even worse.
Wrong. Consider the standard backslash escape: represent literal comma as "\,", and literal backslash as "\\". Backslashes are otherwise forbidden.

It will be difficult to find pathological cases for this grammar, because they don't exist.
> The decline in student population might be a thing system-wide, but not for certain areas like STEM

I remember applying to UCs and CSUs for CS/CE barely 10-15 years ago and it looks like the amount of seats available and faculty in Engineering has remained consistent despite the massive growth in popularity of Engineering majors system wide.

Hopefully it doesn't tip over and collapse due to underfunding, but having seen the state of facilities at Cal recently, it doesn't seem to be going the right way.