skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same way any number of understandable or even reasonable reactions can end up being suboptimal or even counterproductive. See the prisoner's dilemma.

Any history of ethnic suffering creates a situation where it's natural to suspect outgroup society can't be trusted to reliably treat the ingroup adequately well. So in response, they might create institutions that privilege the ingroup and prioritize its security and prosperity. Outgroup rights & dignity may even become negotiable or disposable in the name of ingroup priorities, sometimes even basic rights like property, freedom of movement, or life.

This of course guarantees the outgroup will have legitimate and serious grievances (along with any less legitimate ones they may or may not have), which will eventually mean they too may feel justified in approaching the problem from a never-again ingroup-first perspective, probably eventually including organized violence and whatever system oriented around these values that they can.

Voilà: self-sustaining conflict dynamic. And everything seemed at least locally justifiable all along the way. After all, what's wrong with providing ingroup security, and punishing outgroup aggression?

Or is there something wrong with it?
The problem with time-lock encryption is you need to design a scheme that remains secure for the entire duration you target. As you know: technology changes rapidly so that if your time-lock is far ahead in the future its hard to predict what technological developments might exist to break it.

- If you use repeated hashing (or other measures of lengthy computation to derive a key) there's no guarantee that future computers won't be able to run your algorithm much faster than you did. A problem that will probably show up quite early with schemes of this nature.

- If you use the threshold approach listed here. Can you guarantee that the machines providing the service are still available when you need decryption? Moreso: that they don't end up being hacked between the encryption and decryption time-frames through some 0-day.

- You could use a hardware device to protect the keys. But this would mean that the devices weren't compromised by hardware attacks. We have seen Bitcoin wallets fall to hardware attacks and trusted computing environments like enclaves have numerous attacks that can be used to compromise their contents.

What makes time-lock encryption so challenging is you need a scheme that is intentionally weak so that's it's broken after a certain point. In cryptography that level of specificity isn't needed because schemes are designed to be well and truly secure past the life-times of all the subjects who use them. Even greater than the life of planets.
Put it through a limited company and you’ll pay a lot less than as salary (and PAYE). It’s a weird quirk, but it’s about half the tax roughly. Means you’ll net about £80k minus some small costs. It’s been some years since I did this but an accountant can advise you and help you deal with any national insurance payments need to be dealt with.
I feel a better way to account for Solar panel costs is to look at the cost per KWH over the expected lifetime of 25 years. A system might pay itself off in 5-7 years which is fairly typical but the other way of looking at it is the power is about 1/4 the price of power from the grid. Makes you wonder how it is that power from the grid is so ludicrously above its actual capitol cost of production, the systems getting that power to places must be crazy expensive.

Tilt systems aren't worth the money. They cost too much to make and with the same money more panels produces more power.
Total nonsense. An EV running on coal emits less CO2 per mile than an average efficiency gas car, and that’s the worst case. Almost nobody gets all their power from coal. California can be >50% solar during the day.

Transit is better but there is zero chance of replacing all cars with transit. Car centric development is deeply entrenched nationwide not just in SoCal.
Starlink will soon be able to connect normal smartphones to the open internet
I find it absolutely baffling how often the prettiness of UI comes up as a HN comment.

If you asked me objectively "do you think it's pretty?" I'd probably say no, but never once has this even occurred me when using it since I'm usually just trying to get work done, which I find it very useful for. It's a productivity tool, not an art piece I'm hanging on my wall.
The whistleblowers are not designated parties, they are just any Ethereum user. They would have a financial incentive for whistleblowing, and they could never falsely whistleblow because the smart contract can check whether they actually have the private key early or not.
Heck even in a single user environment like my homelab SSO is the simpler option.
hrm. I was going to say it's extremely wasteful, but since it's sequential I guess you're only burning one core. There's no computational arms race like with blockchain PoW.

How does the math work? The decryption key is some kind of exponentiation you can compute directly with a trapdoor, but without the trapdoor you have to repeatedly multiply instead?
EPFL, DEDIS, university of Chile, University College London and cloudflare aren’t crypto organisations
Doesn't seem all that passive, considering you have to find locations, buy machines, get trained on how to run them, stock them, and fix them.

Seems like an industry where you might be better off selling shovels and pick-axes rather than mining for gold.
Most of the inverters for this are mostly installed by solar companies and so you tend to find them more on specialist websites dedicated to solar gear. Its the same with solar panels there is a very limited set available in standard retail channels especially of the 400W size and output.
Ah yes that sounds about right.
FYI - this has used 33% of Cloudflare's daily free tier limit for workers since I posted this 3 hours ago.

Every pageview and API call is an invocation. You get 100,000 calls per day for free.
A "sandbox" that can freely send anything it wants to any computer connected to the internet
Also the typical setup is to PAYE a small wage and take the rest as dividends and other tax saving mechanisms.
Yes. Prefabricated Coca-Cola bottling plants. Eisenhower ordered 10 bottling lines and 6,000,000 bottles per month. To start. By the end of the war, Coca-Cola had over 60 bottling lines in war zones.[1]

[1] http://www.nww2m.com/2011/08/coca-cola-the-pause-that-refres...
If the person writing the questions is a Senior Engineer already and knows how to evaluate the answers properly for correctness, you probably would not be able to tell, even if they've only had minimal exposure to let's say, Ruby or Python as opposed to JavaScript/TypeScript. Or writing advanced SQL queries when they don't do this very often.
Homo sapiens "with the same intelligence as people living today" existed for at least 160,000 years, possibly 300,000...

Some even go as far as argue that invention of agriculture actually made us dumber, because we did not have to fight for our survival as much as before.
Apparently, the cause of the long standing windows disk IO problem was discovered a month or so ago, and MS were said to be working on a fix.

Whether it'll be constrained to Win 11 is yet to be seen.
It feels like there's a lack of imagination here. Could you conceive of a world that was successful in its research of drugs, but was propped up by an economic model other than pharma venture capitalism?
Another point for Geyser and Floodgate.

I have Minecraft on iOS, as well as two Java licenses. You can have both mixed on the same server if you are using Paper with Floodgate and Geyser. It's great; my younger child can use iOS, while my elder kids can use the java licenses on their computers.
Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant
You are right. In my defense, I meant to say "about 4 cycles per byte of input" but in my editing I messed this up. I'd just deleted a sentence talking about the number of bytes per cycle we could bring in from RAM, but was worried my estimate was outdated. I started trying to research the current answer, then gave up and deleted it, leaving the other sentence wrong.
Do flat panels need regular cleaning though? I'm in a rainy location and was told to always have at least some tilt so that you don't have to clean them as frequently
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https://archive.is/ig7fL
They had a much better contrast and brightness.
Boo. Sure it’s probably wrong to call someone “cogent”. But is there such a huge difference between saying “Harry has cogent writing” and “Harry is a cogent writer”? Is the reader confused about the meaning?

I might use “prosaic”, “flowery”, or “confusing” in the same way, even though strictly speaking those words are describing the writing and not the writer.
Accessibility Improvements in GTK 4.14
You're assuming the red flag relates to technical correctness. It doesn't. It's a red flag about mindset and diligence.

Using genAI is fine, using it to bolster a lack of underlying knowledge as I read it, is a red flag.
Your assertion that LLMs cannot reason is some exquisite irony considering the extensive theoretical foundation in support of the idea.
Probably we need a firmer definition of "create" but I think the main thing that holds people back is it takes a ton of work and focus to get to state-of-the-art in most fields. Many people won't be able to receive that kind of training and make that kind of investment in time for many reasons. So already it's going to be rare. Then combine that with your reasons, and it's super rare. On the other hand, the population is big, so it does happen. :)
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It's the year 1991. You're a teenage computer geek.

You've just upgraded to your first "16-bit" computer, and the possibilities are infinite. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and your friends embark on the computer geek equivalent of forming a heavy metal band: You create your own video game.
At least 3.
Military assets are so large and populated, it seems incredibly challenging to not leak this level of information.

There was a story[0] about a military base that was revealed because soldiers would track their runs/workouts with GPS watches. Which is completely ignoring the resources available to nation states (satellites, hacked telecom infrastructure, or just bribes for data).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
We don't have a model for "Where the conversation is going," we have a model for "What's the next token" which implicitly models "Where is the conversation going."

The difference is significant here, because direct manipulation the implicit modeling task is required to do the type of planning that I've described.

It's the same reason these LLM are not "agents." It's because you can only manipulate their world model through the interface of tokens.
Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
I believe only not-so-strong developers actually believe this, after actual experience with this tech. That's just like saying that "Stackoverflow is like having a Principal Engineer around 24/7" which could be true to a degree, but it still doesn't make up for not knowing stuff.
> The best possible essay at any given time would usually be one describing the most important scientific or technological discovery

To a hammer, everything is a nail. I love technology and science, but that doesn't mean that is what makes the best essay. Relationships are key to our survival, so I suggest personal relations could be just as good an essay as anything scientific - yes, I'm suggesting that social science isn't really a science.

This also then leads to timelessness. The essay on natural selection is timeless. It wouldn't be written today, but it is still a viewport into the discovery, and of the time, and the knowledge is still valid. Maybe I am misunderstanding the point about timelessness.

> The other reason the initial question matters is that you usually feel somewhat obliged to stick to it.

I also disagree with this comment. I'm currently writing a talk I've been asked to present, and in the process of my writing and researching, I've discovered a whole new and better question. I find the point of a good question is that it can lead to better questions. I do feel that PG is suggesting this as well, but maybe this one sentence just stuck out to me.
You can also send secret messages to future crypto analysts: just encrypt your message with a random key and throw it away. Guaranteed to be delayed until the chosen primitives are broken.
Riot is cutting off its most inviting entry point to League lore
Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an "RNA World"
I hear you, but for your consideration people create throwaway HN accounts all the time for commenting on sensitive topics, and thus one created to submit a link to GitLab for sure wouldn't stand out as belonging to you
It’s not really comparable because the pollution was being generated as a byproduct of a presumably useful service or industry.
This puts polluters under a regulatory limit that didn’t exist before, gives the time to adjust while also providing an early incentive to decarbonise sooner rather than later (they can sell the credits they didn’t need to use).
I always felt like Pugh was pointedly ignoring the cost of inconsistently sized data structures and felt like more transparency there was necessary. It's been a really long time since I dug into them though so I could be out of date.

I'd also like to see better investigations into Treaps balanced not for fairness but for average access time, so that more frequently used values are faster to look up than uncommon values.
This is a bit like complaining the people who fit the modern meaning of "Fashion Police" are not, in fact, officers of the law.
Anyone can nitpick anyone by listing whatabouts they didn't intend. Whatabout this OTHER sense of the word "best". It's in the dictionary. You didn't address it, therfore you're a lazy man of straw. The only defense to that type of attack is to write everything in a way that never chooses any one path, spends all it's time mounting a defense to every whatabout, vaguely floating over eggshells, immune to attack. Who wants to read something like that? Or, you can trust the reader to try to understand the context. The context is a man who calls himself an essayist, has about a hundred essays spanning a decade, all in a very distinct style, where most folks reading them are fans of the prior ones. The context is the Paul Graham Essay sense of the word essay. It's not discussing emotional, spoken, money grossing essays. And to help the reader not get hung up on those whatabouts, he even explicitly spelled what sense of best he is talking about.
Whether you feel the employee should have been fired or not, whether you feel Israel is right or wrong - That article could have been written much more fairly.

Sometimes I get so frustrated by the one-sidedness of so much of our news. I try to read at least one article a day which opposes my worldview with an open mind, just to keep myself balanced.

Lately I feel like it's color war, with more details omitted on both sides than are written. I feel like I'm standing in the supermarket isle reading the tabloids, and that is all there is to read.

/endrant

Could anyone point me to a site that offers relatively short articles, lots of facts and minimal hyperbole, and which represents all sides of an issue - not necessarily the middle [since I don't think it is possible to truly be impartial], but something that will give fair representation to both sides [you could have a staff that includes, say, liberals and conservatives]?
I'm out of the game (Even out of the UK) but I work for a British company, with about 30 contractors on board. We're starting to wind the project down, and I think there's a genuine sense of fear that the market has considerably dried up.
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Disabling kexec would prevent unauthorized operation in the event of a zero-day root compromise. It would require a reboot to re-enable, which should generate a security event in a SIEM or central monitoring for unauthorized change in operating state.
While your point is understandable there are various types of people. An important aspect about user experience is aesthetic and ease of use. Some people care purely about functionality and others have mixed opinions on this. It's not fair to call it petty when you guys are just two different customers and users with different needs.

People sometimes forget the importance of user experience and it's why some amazing software barely gets used.

Personally I care about aesthetic and consistency but willing to sacrifice depending on what I'm doing.
The calm life is the way to go, I'm hoping I can retire from the industry one day and do only FOSS development as a passion in my free time.
Except imagine the situation if you faced true positives every day. Working in a court made me do a 180 on my views of the criminal system. We would see the pre-sentence reports, and most of these guys had been engaged in criminal activity since late adolescence. I remember one case where a guy committed crimes in a tri-state area. He ultimately wouldn’t even be prosecuted for most of them after the feds got him.
That's going to annoy any old school Goths out there!
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Even if the meaning gets across, the latter is a less cogent sentence.
Most engineers will come across something they haven't used before in most roles. Perhaps some legacy system in some dying language, for example. Previously, they might have spent hours on Google. Now, GPT-4 can unblock them in seconds.

It cant replace the mindset of a human, but what I'm basically saying here is with GPT-4 and good prompting skills, you can be alot more brave when it comes to new unfamiliar tech. That's an advantage in a fast changing tech landscape.
DBeaver is great and has been in my arsenal of dev tools for at least 5 years.
Woah, that’s really something
> in everything else he wrote and spoke

Can you quote anything that would directly contradict the above quote?
I did this a bunch in another country for a few years, then moved to the UK and did contracting through a limited company for a few years.

But now, I've switched to a perm role and I'm enjoying it a lot more. There's a lot less admin and tax stuff I need to deal with - I can focus fully on being a developer - plus I'm working on more fulfilling projects over longer periods, and making longer-term plans.

Technically I guess I could be earning more cash, but that came at the cost of time and stress that I just don't worry about any more. I'd much rather be happy.
> Alternatively, AWS does publicly provide legally binding availability guarantees, but I have never seen any prominently displayed legally binding durability guarantees. Are these published somewhere less prominently?

It's listed prominently in the public docs: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
https://archive.is/RQlHH
I am in the same position. I used Postico in the past, but unfortunately it doesn't offer support for non-Postgres databases. TablePlus has really good native UI and I wish more apps went that route as you can definitely feel a difference between a native app and something like DBeaver.
Many of them don't even have video out ports, they are purely for the compute power.
Is that a dataflow architecture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture
Renumics/spotlight: Interactively explore unstructured datasets from dataframes
Is that earth rendering really with 5300 dots orbiting or are there more dots there?
How would it require a reboot to re-enable? The root user can write directly to kernel memory by a number of means, patching the kernel live to re-enable kexec.

Closing those holes requires using a pretty extensive MAC policy restricting root in all sorts of ways.
> Makes you wonder how it is that power from the grid is so ludicrously above its actual capitol cost of production, the systems getting that power to places must be crazy expensive.

This is my thinking behind delaying getting some panels for my own home, if they're getting cheaper AND more efficient, surely that's going to have knock-on effects on the suppliers too?
In addition to this being pretty mean-spirited, I'm also fairly certain it's wrong. I have no trouble coming up with examples of the adjective "cogent" modifying a noun indicating a person; you can quickly find one such example ("one of the most cogent writers") in the archives of The Atlantic, and all over Google Scholar. I dug through every usage of the word "cogent" in the New Yorker and, while it took awhile, I did find a couple. Alas, there was no section in Garner's Usage Dictionary covering the use of the word, presumably because there's nothing controversial about it.

I think the jury is pretty well in: obviously, the word "cogent" describes the expression of an idea or an argument, not a person, directly, but idiomatically, a "cogent writer" is simply one who produces cogent output.
I recently released NAISYS, and open source command shell wrapper for LLMs that makes the shell all context friendly for them. I've been testing it out with building web sites, and improving things along the way. It's funny how good AI is at answering questions, but not like project management. So I'm using NAISYS to explore that.

https://github.com/swax/NAISYS
Whatever you get, will you consider buying it refurbished?
Clifford-Steerable Convolutional Neural Networks
Wrong BLS link. The number of software developers is projected to increase 25% in the next 10 years.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
> Did Arduino recently regain their relevance for serious work?

IMO: No.

Arduino, as a company, wants that to change, but I have yet to see anyone take them seriously. Most of the "industrial" Arduino products are unsuitable for purpose; they lack critical features which would be required for those applications like protected inputs, wide range power input, or field bus interfaces.
I tend to agree, and it’s weird but there are probably lots of actual ML practitioners that have never even heard of the neat vs scruffy debate. Naturally most that have heard of it will feel that the issue is completely resolved already in their favor. On the whole not a very open minded climate.

Credit where it’s due for the wild success of fancy stats, but we should stay interested in hybrid systems with more emphasis on logic, symbols, graphs, interactions and whatever other data structures seem rich and expressive.

Call me old school but frankly I prefer the society-of-mind flavor of system should ultimately be in charge of things like driving cars, running court proceedings, optimizing cities or whole economies. Let it use fancy stats as components and subsystems, sure.. but let it produce coherent arguments or critiques that can actually be understood and summarized and debugged.
Moral standard is progressing. No matter what spectrum of politics you are, it is way different than 200 years ago.
With an AI program... how is it going to evolve?
I don't like the subscription options they offer. I just want to throw them $50 a year for the CE version -- which I would think is better than $0 a year I'm giving them now.
JsonToSmartCsv: https://github.com/instantiator/json-to-smart-csv

It's a little tool to help flatten JSON down to rows of CSV data.

If necessary it'll duplicate data in rows to achieve that (ie. if you need to iterate through objects within objects...)

It's highly configurable, so things can get fun and complicated if you need them to.
> gratuitous license

What does this mean?

Also.. do you have any references?