skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Job post must be posted in the official thread that appears the first day of the month. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is good take on the topic focusing on intrinsic identifiers. Guix has their own approach but the article also mentions SWHID[1] and OmniBOR[2] which are both contenders to fill that space.

SWHID is on its way to become an ISO standard[3]. OmniBOR is quite new but a highly interesting approach.

Because it does not directly solve any problems for Guix, it's fair enough that they do not talk about much about extrinsic identifiers except to rightfully dismiss CPE as "showing its limits", which is put mildly.

I think there is need for an extrinsic identifier standard beyond CPEs (in addition to intrinsic identifiers).

While intrinsic identifiers allow us to pinpoint artifacts exactly sometimes this is not what we want. Sometimes we deliberately want to talk about sets of artifacts together, like variants or versions of an artifact. One contender would be purl[4] (as in package URL and not the older persistent uniform resource locator).

[1] https://www.swhid.org

[2] https://omnibor.io

[3] https://hal.science/hal-04121507v1/file/2023-03-27-SWHID-kic...

[4] https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec
I'm not sure there is a place where fans and the secondary market overlap. The closest we get is the rooting community.

But even there, there doesn't seem to be any particular standout models. Part of the issue is that OS versions have a shorter window and phones are only compatible with a few of them.

Even with this short lifespan, I wish notorious rooting favorites would emerge. It might reduce the 10 days of research I need to find my next (affordable+rootable) handset.

sidebar: It just took me 2 weeks to decide on a Moto G100. My req were: rootable, dual physical GSM sim, >4500 MAh, min 128GB/8GB, ~$200 & for sale in N.America.
Is the master’s really 2-4 years? I always thought it was closer to 1 or 2.
> How do we prevent humans from wholly relying on/trusting AI in systems that the world's stability relies on.

By being transparent and disclosing how the AI was trained and what content was generated by AI. That removes the magic, once people understand how simple these things are and how easy it is to tune the results to make the AI say whatever you want people will stop trusting them quickly.

And that is part of what these regulations are about. Transparency instead of marketing buzzwords.
> Neither of those, although since you bring it up I'm curious how much a rogue ccTLD could substitute DNS records and produce alternate certificates to take over a domain beneath it.

The TLD can change domain records at will. Change the NS and DS records, and you control the domain. Control the domain, and you can get a certificate.

If the ccTLD is sophisticated, they might carefully target the changes, but maybe not.

It would be bad for business, for a TLD to become known to hijack customers' domains. But, maybe its worth it, if you can steal a bunch of US identities?
This isn't due to type erasure though, it's due to allowing fallible subtyping; in particular, it shouldn't be possible to assign an array of a subtype to a variable of an array of a supertype. For example:

class Animal {}
class Dog extends Animal {}
class Cat extends Animal {}
...
Animal[] animals = new Dog[1]{};
animals[0] = new Cat();

The compiler could easily stop this issue by making the assignment of the `Dog` array to the `Animal` array an error because after the assignment, it's already impossible to add anything that's not a `Dog` to the array anyhow. Type erasure doesn't change this because regardless of any knowledge of the type at runtime, there's nothing reasonable to do but throw an exception because a `Cat` can't be put into a `Dog` array.

I think the focus on type erasure is also a bit of a red herring because Java _does_ actually allow introspection of types at runtime via reflection, whereas Rust doesn't provide this. What information is available at runtime isn't really a factor because type safety is a property that's enforced at compile time.
Stanford duck syndrome: How the myth of effortless genius hurts learning
State of Developer Tooling: Redmonk (James Governor and Kate Holterhoff) (audio)
Solar eruption hits Mercury, signaling solar maximum cycle
This is just the base rate, not the final prediction. Your actual prediction can incorporate any information you want, but the base rate gives you a starting point and a sanity check.

Also, as the article notes, scholars like Tetlock have studied the the track record of scholars and experts and found them to be less accurate than this type of approach.
Cerebras Unveils Fastest AI Chip with Whopping 4T Transistors
EU Embraces New AI Rules Despite Doubts It Got the Right Balance
I’ve never actually watched it, I just listen to it while I’m working or driving.
Find out which dinosaurs used to live near your city
Seems obvious that we would want a way to distinguish speech that is completely suppressed for all platforms vs speech that’s outside of the parameters of what’s expected on a particular platform but that you’re free to conduct elsewhere. If I can’t publish a paper on cell microbiology in a computer science journal it seems unhelpful to lump that in the same category as Putin arresting people in Russia for reporting on the war in Ukraine.

I guess ironically some of the people trying to equate the two are doing so to suppress discussion of moderation by shouting it down as censorship.
I am not the original author.

I was going through a Udemy course and wondered if I should make one as well and searched the web to find out if you can make a living like this.

Turns out — yes, absolutely so.
Your statement augments my point. All human beings should be concerned about their place in a system that doesn't need them, to the extent it's constructive to think about.
Is this LLM generated? It sounds like it
That sounds about right to me. I don’t have any plans to move on from FreeTaxUSA unless this IRS thing blows me away. Not that it’s available in my state yet anyway.

As a counterpoint though, I did move from Turbotax to FreeTaxUSA in my 20s after I started a business, because Turbotax wanted something like $400 just to file my Schedule C; FreeTaxUSA didn't charge anything for that form.
More than that. They're saying that they're running a userspace implementation of both the tcp/ip stack and wireguard. Your machine isn't a peer to the wireguard tunnel, only flyctl is.
How would the browser know when/how to display the capslock status? It doesn't know what any given web site is doing wrt to keyboard input. Firefox adds a capslock indicator on the text cursor but not all pages use standard input fields. They might use custom UI elements, or no visual elements at all. Some sites may not even care about capslock (e.g. an arcade game).
I don't think so, but it looks like it was worded by a marketeer in the style of a press release or a linkedin post. Very impersonal / nonhuman.

edit: comment history says a lot of their comments are suspected chatgpt.
Are you eating too many carbs?
They are all planted by people, they cannot reproduce in the UK because they need wildfires and more sun.
This looks awesome, nice work!
The author has done work on commercial releases, which is really cool for this niche.

They're also working on a colorization of one of my favorites, Kaeru no Tame: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=21642.0
You Have to Type It Out
There's some similarities and differences, instead of going through a TUN/TAP device each application communicates directly to the mesh with it's own userspace TCP/IP stack (and also retains compatibility with wireguard).
> it’s just suboptimal for community building and healthy conversations

By design Reddit's moderation model is a tool incentivizing unhealthy, one sided conversations and echo chamber-y communities. Reddit moderators have to go the extra mile to avoid those.
I made a readable passphrase generator[0] (in Spanish) with a UI that lets you configure the sentence structure. It's all generated in the client and code is open[1]. According to my primitive calculations I get up to 9x bits of entropy

[0] http://mirrodriguezlombardo.com/passphrase/

[1] https://github.com/mir123/readablePassphraseJS-ES
My God, this is truly beautiful. If this were the blurb of an actual novel, I would unhesitatingly drop EVERYTHING to read it, and I say this as someone who reads an average of 1 novel every 3 days.

I never knew SOTA LLMs have gone this far. Wow!
My one single gripe these days is that I wish the client would either allow customising fonts (since they already allow custom colour schemes), or that they'd use the native system font stack instead of Open Sans.

I forked Bitwarden and built a copy using the system font stack for myself, and it ended up looking far more palatable. I would have used it as my main password manager if I had the patience to figure out Touch ID support.
Why would you want a flat tax rate if some of the money you made is not taxable? How is it not worth it if it saves you a thousand dollars?

An efficient economic system is inherently complicated. It should support people who take chances, people who start businesses, and people who innovate. At the same time, the system has to protect itself from people who want to exploit the benefits afforded to people who add value.

Unsuprisingly these constraints will inherently complicate the process.

All these armchair accountants believing they could devise a better tax system shows their ignorance rather than their expertise.

Do you want to see bureaucracy and inefficiency? Go start a business in Germany and compare it to starting a business in the USA.

I think doing taxes in the US can be an enlightening process. It has many benefits, it shows you how much you made, where the taxes go, and that recognition makes politicians less eager to nilly-willy raise taxes.

And with that it does keep your taxes lower, there is no doubt about that.

You spend a few hours and around 50 bucks each year but in return you save thousands. It is a much better deal than the alternative.
Mandatory plug of new Azerty :

https://norme-azerty.fr/en/
I Think I Found a Cult
I was looking for proxies and I stumbled upon a website that was really into Discordianism. They called themselves terrorists but I don't know how worried I should be or if I should report them to someone.
If you need a large group of people to do something correctly, you need to document how to do it and train them on how to do it. The Army can't just assume that every pigeon handler comes from a background with pigeons, will just "figure it out," or that within recruits / draftees, there will be enough people who are interested in pigeons that it will "just work."

Nor can the Army assume that the pigeon expert, who wrote that book, will be available to handhold every pigeon handler with their pigeons.

This, BTW, is an important lesson for scaling a successful business. Properly documenting processes and training employees is critical.

Finally, this extensive attention to detail is why the US Army is one of the best armies in the world.
In that case the button changes color before sending, making it clear whether the message will be encrypted or not. (I have disabled the SMS fallback, which is indeed problematic.)
I want access to the developer program like you get with Apple for $100 / year. I want sanctioned and supported third party app stores. Direct download would be cool as well.
I hate Id.me. I had an interview with them and their hr reps conducting were the most egregious power tripping fools I've met in my career. In their hubris they demanded several hours of psychology testing for a basic, mid level tech role, paying right below market average. They harrased me for two weeks after I had the audacity to tell them "no thank you, I'm not wasting my time."
I don't underestimate the complexity of biological matter. I'm not stating anything. I question the statement that factory food will most certainly be less healthy. I'm also not assuming anything about lab meat processes. I don't know how it's done, how the taste and the nutrients will be kept.

Now, your last comment is certainly convincing and I understand your perspective better. Thanks for taking the time!
Just past 50 years in. It's fun watching new hires when they realize how old I actually am ;-)
Sales tax, gas tax, etc. Just not income tax.

The entire US tax system is broken. I'm sure we'll get a VAT or something worse.

So much is broken I doubt we'll see a fix in our lifetime.
People are just outright abusing the terminology. OP's argument would also conclude that a sorting algorithm is not a "real" algorithm because it too can be done by an infinite lookup table.

That said, the general debate is a valid one. Are LLMs just doing fancy statistical compression of data, or are they doing "reasoning" in some important sense, be that merely mechanistic logical reasoning, or "human-level intelligent reasoning"?

For that matter, did the paper authors ever define "Reasoners" in their title, or leave it to the reader?
I’m expressing that my opinion is that the Tor board may not have the public users best interest at heart.

I’m not implying that there is a vulnerability in WebTunnels. Just that the interface (Web Applications) is riddled with vulnerabilities and now less controlled. Compared to using something like the Tor Browser. WebApps are generally not open source.

Intelligence agencies abuse vulnerabilities. CEO of Intelligence agency is on board. Not saying they will directly do anything but it’s hard to argue that the particular board member is acting in the best interest of privacy and could be swaying descsions to favor intelligence gathering
Data USA: The definitive place to explore US public data
If you're in the EU, you do have a less shitty version of Windows : https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-microsoft-will-chang...

> Some apps that are bundled with Windows now have the option to be uninstalled. That list includes the Camera, Photos, and Cortana apps. In the EEA only, Windows users will have the option to uninstall Microsoft Edge and the Web Search from the Microsoft Bing component.

You can uninstall Edge, over here Microsoft doesn't even let you open all hyperlinks with something else that edge. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-do...
Yep, it's software
Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules
The question is WHEN are they more accurate, my weather stations and apps tell me as weather changes what it is, which I can usually do too by stepping outside. But weather forecast (a prediction) I have not noticed it being more accurate and often wonder what changed, is it too much reliance on this real time data?
I suppose we could do that too, down the line, if we plant trees now.

It's at least a method of buying time, but maybe not so reliable. It presumes no one will find a way to cut them down for profit later. So maybe we'd need to add each tree planted to a growing count of trees "never to be cut" in the country.
Don't forget about internationalization. Not all language have uppercase and lowercase characters [0], and tbh I'm not sure what effect (if any) caps lock has for these. And rules for converting case can sometimes be tricky.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Bicameral_script
Cicadas' unique urination unlocks new understanding of fluid dynamics
I've mostly moved away from i3, for XMonad where I have my workspace keys mapped to alt+qwer...zxcv in a waterfall pattern. That way workspace switching is always on one hand and I don't need to reach for the 10th workspace.

On i3 though, I find myself scrolling through workspaces a lot, especially when I have a trackpoint available. It requires almost no precision to just throw the mouse to the bottom of the display and scroll until you see the thing you want, then continue on your way.

Never once thought about wanting alt+tab, my hatred for inconsistent alt+tab is why I went to tiling wms in the first place.
His method was fundamentally sound though. He realized that moonlight is reflected sunlight, and that if you observe the angle between the sun and the moon in the sky at exactly half moon, you can calculate the distance to the sun relative to the distance to the moon.
Ibis, the Federated Wikipedia Alternative
> Some sort of error in how we measure the variations in the CMB.

IIRC, the prediction that comes from the CMB depends on the lambda cold dark matter model, and there are plenty of independent reasons to be skeptical of that model already. If I were betting which one's most likely to be wrong, that's where I'd put my money.
> the lack of visible improvement in their naval fleet beyond one Aircraft carrier

Their fleet is expanding rapidly. Usually the discussion from experts is about how quickly China's naval power is growing. China happens to have two carriers now, and one more under construction.

Regarding aircraft carriers:

China doesn't need an aircraft carrier for Taiwan, which is ~100 miles off the mainland; air force bases on the mainland work much better.

Also, the relevance of aircraft carriers to high-end warfare is now in doubt: Accurate anti-ship missiles can hit carriers at much greater range than carrier planes can attack. China in particular has spent decades building a military that keeps US carriers too far from Taiwan to join the fight.

Generally, carriers may only be good for symbols of power (perhaps China's purpose for building a couple) and against less capable enemies - the Houthi's, for example, not China. They also enable you to have an airbase without local permission - if the US wants to bomb Somalia (as they currently are doing), and nobody nearby wants to be involved and let the US use their airbases, the US can put a carrier in international waters. It's a floating, mobile bit of domestic territory.

> That and the highly internally facing quality of the rhetoric: Talking up Taiwan is seasonal politics as people jockey for control of the structures. It's not preparatory to invasion.

Such talk can create a movement that takes on a life of its own; wars have been fought because someone inflamed the population and the leaders had no choice (or, being human, were inflamed themselves). One way to look at it is that such talk increases public support for war.
So here’s the fun part of content moderation - you have to let communities talk about bad things as well.

You cant have your own community banned for talking about something bad that happened to them.

I would be curious how that scenario plays out.

Perhaps the content is only greyed out. What do you do about users though? Is their content greyed out?
`<input type='password'`, just like TFA was talking about?
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
[dupe]

Some more discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39681017
I'm assuming they are from a high populous area, and feel that overall popular vote should have the majority representation at the federal level.

I'm quite glad this is not the case, I don't want to be governed by the populist progressive votes in the coastal cities.
There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764
I know how old common law is, and how far back through time its predecessors go... but 50 years is long enough for loads of case law to appear.

Something else must be a blocker here.
> how would you define "high quality"?

You could grow solely A6 wagyu ribeyes. We’re not there yet. But the combination of precise control for quality and zero additional waste is there.

> It is delicious and have long proven health benefits

It’s better than corn-fed beef. But it’s no panacea. We could engineer beef that contains, for example, less saturated fat, or a higher fraction of healthy fatty acids.
This is well known potential conflict between Enterprise and Community in Open Core project. If you are unwise and reject too many important features community may come together and excersize their right to fork.
> I assume the people who are actually the best at predicting world events are making huge sums of money in the stock market. Or posting on /pol on 4chan.

Why assume that those would be people's highest priorities? If I had some superpower, I would not spend my time using it for either of those things.
Splink: Fast, accurate, scalable probabilistic data linkage
No issues that prevented use
> I suppose they don't have ways to pay taxes monthly there either, so it's all a giant lump sum yearly or a tax loan ?

Many (most?) people in the US pay their taxes by withholding, which comes out of each paycheck. But if not, quarterly payments are generally required. You can make payments monthly if you like, but for determining if payments were timely, they'll be aggregated by quarters.

> I always wondered why giant tax jurisdictions never try to just do one single non-micro-optimized tax rate ladder across everyone and zero other taxes / deduction / special regimen etc.

All the wacky deductions and special credits and what not are implementation of economic policies. Credits encourage behavior, and taxes discourage it. For some, a paperwork burden is enough to discourage behaviors.

> France collects directly from salary, so now there's no tax return for the vast majority of tax payers, it's a bit riskier since you can't escape it, but... can't do much simpler.

The US does withholding, but it's not necessarily correct for many reasons; some good, some bad. If income tax was a flat rate with no deductions, withholding would be enough. But other sources of income, such as bank interest or stock sales, usually don't have withholding, so you'd need to pay those taxes separately. And your employer may not know about your spouse's income, etc. And, people like getting a refund, even it doesn't make fiscal sense.
Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with?

"Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing from OpenAI"

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/robot-startup-figure-valued-...
There is no true quad support on x86. GCC implements double-double quads[1] via software emulation on many targets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-p...
Or, and this is the most likely in my opinion, but it is just a guess. The undercover said they had a lot of illegally sourced coins to mix, asked the Mixer admin to help them mix such a large amount and offered them an additional reward in exchange. That said, we should not jump to any conclusions until evidence is presented. The government could be fronting a strong case in the indictment and then it turns out to be much weaker when presented.
Move to Rio de Janeiro :) I have seen that city change people's life for good both socially and health-wise. Yes, that could be a "startup".
(It looks like it does/could.) I'd much rather file taxes than give the details down to the penny of my prior pay from employer 1 to my new employer 2 (which is what I think the P45 system does).

But that probably reflects more my own stance on personal and financial privacy than on anything fundamentally negative about the practical value of preserving that privacy.