skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the GDPR in one sentence for you: "do not process data from people that haven't consented to that processing".

The rest of the text is about specifying the terms of art processing, data, people, and consent.

> If you weren't doing anything harmful then your preexisting behavior shouldn't become unlawful.

Exactly. Except that you do not get to define harmful, the law does. If you weren't processing any PII, then your preexisting behaviour did not suddenly become unlawful.
> Samsung lives and dies off their huge marketing budget.

This is a ridiculous take. Samsung is the entire reason Android didn't go the way of WebOS and Windows Phone.

Samsung had pressure-sensitive pen support on Android 5 years before iOS. Samsung DEX desktop environment can turn my phone into a proper work machine with just a USB-C display cable and a lapdock.

They've also had folding phones that can turn your phone into a tablet for several years, but I suppose we'll need to wait until 2030 when Apple launches it "the right way" to recognize it as an innovative form factor.
> It is basically LineageOS that someone else installs for you so you get everything in a package [0].

From what I read, Murena has a Google Play services reimplementation that isn't compatible with Lineage. Is that still the case?
> We were indeed, and sadly like many true wizards - we were grumpy and too smart and too weird for the world.

The submitted post exemplifies the worst characteristics of what we can call coding culture. Larry Wall was a polarising character. He could be witty but also tiresome.

The C and C++ coding cultures have had their problems too.

Python has been successful as a language and as a coding culture. I don't like the bigotry of the Python community towards other languages, but the openness and focus on coding ergonomics has been different from most (all?) other prominent languages.

It can't hurt to have a couple of MAANA (was FAANG) giants providing material support.

> And we had too many sigyls and weird symbols

This I think is an unfair criticism frequently aimed at Perl by people who haven't reached fluentness. The language is expressive. To attain higher complexity, languages will adopt new symbols and forms. Anyone who knows Python and uses DSLs such as pandas and numpy knows that "sigils and weird symbols" make their appearances in the mutant notation.

Python has its own TIMTOWDI at this point.
Linux did break adobe flash when it used memmove like memcopy after fixing a kernel bug. Can't think of any other examples though.
Yes, life is complex literally!!

Even our DNA has lot of "unused"/"dormant" code
> surge in superlatives like "vital", "essential", "crucial", and "pivotal"

This is very interesting. It could also be an effect of Grammarly, which suggests these replacements for the generic "important." Perhaps it's a combination of several effects.
I say ecosystem to mean the majority of packages. That's the ecosystem.
Funnily enough, Dan calls out the differences of opinion of the styling of his site starting at this paragraph:

> Just as an aside, something I've found funny for a long time is that I get quite a bit of hate mail about the styling on this page (and a similar volume of appreciation mail). …
As the tech lead of the OpenTofu project, I can tell you that I'm positively surprised by how quick the uptake has been so far since the stable release! We're also seeing a ton of external contributors jumping in, which has been heartwarming!

I also invite anybody using OpenTofu (or considering it) to join our Slack[0], it's quite active there. It's also a great place to influence the shape of new OpenTofu features.

Now 1.7 is coming out soon as well, and this week we have OpenTofu Day at KubeCon happening :)

[0]: http://opentofu.org/slack
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years
ATSC 3.0 is dangerous because it brings encryption to the table, and it's already clear that encryption will not only be limited to entertainment and for-profit content, but also E/I content like news.

Encryption must be banned in OTA television.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/How-the-alleged-co...

Maybe not the sailing team
Data centers produce 30M tons of co2 [0], concrete 4 billion tons [1]. 2 orders of magnitude.

I'd really like to see more depoliticized, scientific discussion of the topic. So many discussions of climate change end with all participants satisfied that nothing is being done and very little can be done.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba1
[1] https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/11/3/cement-and-concret...
There are a lot of naturally occurring elements and compounds that are extremely lethal. That does not make a reason not to be afraid.
My local butcher provides good content without being terminally online.

Unfortunately this means needing to use Facebook to find out if they’re open on a national holiday.
Yes they do now! And it was firefox on mobile. Desktop firefox didn't support CTAP2 mode either except on Windows but it was fixed a few versions back (finally!)
Isn't the former basically a JsonResponse? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/request-response/#...
Didn't use to be that way. Android phones with Qualcomm SoCs used to be incredibly easy to modify with alternative versions of Android. That changed around 2014-15, can't remember why.

Now it seems only Google's own Pixel phone is the only one that's hackable enough to run LineageOS or /e/ or other de-Googled distros.
Happy to answer technical questions about OpenBao as people have, though some might be best directed at the Technical Steering Committee, which I do not represent. :-)
We've been in the cyberpunk dystopia timeline for at least 10 years, maybe since the 90s.
I was not even trying to make one. I was questioning the validity of "1% overhead" claim by providing the counter-example from respectable source.
Perfect. Thank you i will do that.
Imitation learning field has produced learning and inference algorithms that produce regret minimizing policies that don’t depend on the length of the sequence of decisions. Naively training will likely lead to “label bias”. NNs manage to delay it significantly due to very good learned representations of data. But without proof that the learning algorithm produces bounded regret or that the inference/learning is not done over joint loss (of sequence of decisions) the error will most likely accumulate .
> This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

https://archive.is/CFrk2
https://marketplace.upbound.io/providers/upbound/provider-aw...
It's not a problem that breaks all JVM based software instantly. So maybe Apple tests but not long enough to trigger this issue.

I really don't know what Apple would be 'warning' against. Don't use Java? There are tens of thousands of business and development tools depending on the JVM. Blocking Java would diminish the value of macOS tremendously and doing so without warning would open Apple up to lots of lawsuits.
> There's certainly intelligent life out there…
> Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes

Certainty without evidence is faith. There’s nothing wrong with that exactly, I just like to point it out for the crowd, that may not include you, who judge other faiths for the same unavoidable human behavior that they blatantly and hypocritically indulge in.
Aren't photos and radio waves basically the same thing?

I guess the only issue that could happen is the scattering due to atmosphere, but as others have noted it's barely existent.
I agree. I love the imagery and I am jealous.

Imagine being able to look inside a weld with this level of detail...

We have crude tools in my field compared to this...
While that is true, most of the current complexity has nothing to do with enabling the present computers to do far more.

Most of the complexity is caused either by the need to provide backward compatibility or by the fact that the many parties who design the components of a computer had very different ideas about which is the right way to design them (so many compatibility layers are required) or by the fact that the manufacturers insist on implementing various additional features that are not really needed, because they may be useful for them even if they are harmful for the final owner of the computer.

Many of the most horrible features of the modern computers have been caused by the fact that Microsoft could not be bothered to implement in their operating systems certain features whose right place was inside the OS and Intel has kept piling workarounds over workarounds in their CPUs, one more ugly than the other, like the System Management Mode and the Management Engine.
Believe it or not, no. We're using cluster-api.

I've got a github actions pipeline that stands up a kind cluster, installs cluster-api on it, uses cluster-api to stand up the control plane cluster and then copies over the cluster-api config to it along with argocd, and after that it's self-managing. We did have to do a little bit of terraform to get iam roles set up, but that's it.

Everything after that is pure argo cd, cluster-api and crossplane.

I work at something that's basically a startup incubator and we can stand up and manage the infrastructure for an entire enterprise, on either aws or azure (including stuff like SSO artifact storage and CICD pipelines), from a central control plane with just a few lines of yaml, and they can be deploying code within 30 minutes. And it's continuously reconciled, so there's no drift, and if we push out an update to something, it rolls out to everything within minutes.
Okay but how much does that really say? All HN/startup advice says that when you sell to enterprises you have to charge enterprise prices. Meanwhile techies are notoriously for preferring to spend a month's worth of salary building an FTP server to replace Dropbox with.
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https://archive.is/cg4U0
You may enjoy this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14619
The old programs do their job. They work and they're stable.

But I guess you can try to change that if you want.
> or any shopping website

Could you give an example? I used a shopping website yesterday, both on a laptop and on an android phone, and apart from cookie banner popups (design choice, not hardware limitation), did not have any significant inconveniences.
> A single use of an electric kettle sounds like it would completely dominate this consumption.

But at least that gets you tea, instead of engagement.

You've got to put X joules in to boil Y liters of water. No choice there, except giving up on the tea.

You can greatly reduce the joules necessary to see cat photos though. And you don't have to give up on seeing the cat photos.
I wouldn't mind so much of Google/Microsoft/Samsung etc collected all data in house (including subcontractor companies who won't share this information with anyone else). If they kept it to themselves and said "just trust me, bro" to advertisers and kept my data to themselves I don't think I'd mind too much. But clearly that's not what happens here. They don't have nearly enough leverage against the advertisers.
Meanwhile I'm over here on a rooted android phone with no pre installed anything and a custom build of chromium that let's me have ublock origin on my phone. And RCS still works cause I guess they can't detect my old version of magisk.
"I have not witnessed one machinist harmed by lead in 40 years." Do you know what you're looking for? Lead poising can be subtle but eventually devastating. This is like the asbestos industry saying that miners didn't get harmed because they didn't follow up with them years later when mesothelioma slowly strangled them.
Kind of related, a few weeks ago I've been thinking to myself what happened to the open source free software operating system developments for mobile devices? Specifically, how are operating system environments such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, etctera, only able to be used on a single company's (Alphabet Inc) manufactured phone devices and not any other devices and where are the operating systems that work on as many to practically all of the devices that exist and the general idea of linux-style developments that represent collectively compiling all the hardware variations to have drivers and support for practically everything for everyone to get mostly the same experience regardless of which hardware they use

Is the mobile computer hardware industry that hostagedly cowardly locked down that this is no longer possible as it used to be, where people don't even own their own computer devices and instead have to use devices that are owned by other entities? Or what other explanation is there for no such multi-device operating systems? Or did I just miss something that I am blind to?
This is a problem in tech in general, where people don’t or haven’t studied math beyond discrete and counting stuff.

Some people think that SGD was invented 10 years ago by ML “scientists”.
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Hashicorp's prices are not what i'd consider to be 'enterprise prices'. When we looked at buying "enterprise vault" a few years ago it was six figures a year for a relatively small install. It was basically "we don't want your business" pricing.
Make 2 pdfs.
Haha! As long as you’re happy with your current laptop, I count it as a win!
From his reply tweet:

N-body simulation made with Python, parallelized with numba, and animated with matplotlib.

N=100.000. Computation time around 5h for 2.000 steps. Around 1s of compute time per step. Collisions are handled with a softening length.
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A bug in the spec doesn't necessarily mean there will be a noticeable bug in the browsers; e.g. a crash.

The browsers may have been written to "work" / not crash over adhering strictly to the spec.
Another buy for Broadcom ? =)
> Larry Wall was a polarising character. He could be witty but also tiresome.

To whom? Unless you were working on the Perl language itself, there was no need to interact with him.
if it can make test from the decompiled code, we could reimplement it with our code style. might be cool to have some bunch of llms working together with feedback loops.
Alot of money.

I overheard some office ladies gossiping about a co-workers Starbucks cup.

It cost over $85 and they were pouring over it to determine if fake or real.

A cup.
At pico.sh we are developing a completely different type of passwordless authentication all leveraging what developers are already familiar with: SSH keys.

No passwords, no JWTs, no bearer tokens, no complicated webauthn, and no passkeys. All we need is an SSH keypair.

We have a demo if you are interested in learning more: https://pico.sh/tunnels
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https://github.com/reproducible-containers/buildkit-nix
That reminds me of a small project I did to classify drawings of cats and dogs 10 years ago with machine learning https://jeena.net/catdog but no neural networks back then, just things like Canny edge detector, Hough transform, k-nearest neighbor, etc.
I like Sony personally. They let you root.
Bonus points that New Outlook(tm) can't launch offline. At all. Throws an obscure error that doesn't even say it's from Outlook and fails.

Meanwhile, New Teams(tm)? It'll happily open up offline, let me browse all my chats, everything, while telling me that I'm offline.

Learned this one the interesting way by watching my laptop take an extra long time grabbing a network connection during boot as everything was launching.
Skype and Teams are also electron. That's probably a better predictor.
I agree that LLM can be used as a tool by non-native English speakers.

But the examples cited in the article are indefensible. The authors of the paper we either so care less they did not notice the the “certainly, here is…” preamble made no sense in a paper. Or they have such a poor grasp of English that they are unable to comprehend what they copy-pasted to notice. Either way this suggests that nothing in the paper can be relied upon.
This is why round-tripping the code is important.

If you decompile the binary to source, then compile the source back to binary you should get the original binary.

You just need to do this enough times until the loss drops to some acceptable amount.

It's a great task for reinforcement learning, which is known to be unreasonably effective for these types of problems.
It's weird to you. Who says the universe must be isotropic?
It's actually available in beta. It was announced while I working on this project but I kept going with pure Excel functions because I wanted to illustrate the transformer without abstractions getting in the way. It would make many aspects easier but also make it easier to hide a lot.

That being said, Python+Excel makes a ton of sense in general. And in this project, it would help in the tutorials. For example, in the embeddings tutorial I'm working on I wanted use PCA plots and SVD to illustrate the workings of embeddings but neither are natively supported in Excel without paid plug-ins. But both are easy in Python.
> Is it something USA-specific?

> I'm from Europe, I don't have FB account, but I have (and use) Instagram one.

I’m the same as you, except in the US. I haven’t seen them either.

It’s likely a matter of scale. Meta has literally billions of users. You and I are never going to see every ad on the platform, obviously, but that doesn’t mean some people are slipping drug ads into the system.

I would guess that ad targeting also plays a big role. Maybe if someone started following a lot of marijuana themed accounts and posts tagged with obvious drug references, they’d be more likely to see them.

The scammiest ads I see day to day are on YouTube these days. Lots of get rich quick investments, too good to be true products, and people selling guides or courses on the pending collapse of society.
This can be nice in Python. The `dis` module makes execution pretty transparent, & it's easy enough to know what bytecode a given line will compile to (granted, comprehensions creating closures does make that a bit harder)

CPython's implementation is also straightforward enough that you can look up ceval.c to get a gist of what an opcode is doing
Fortunately we can also use ChatGPT to summarize this nonsense into the concise statement which should have been written in the first place.

Maybe even one day society will re-value conciseness and precision of thought over linguistic diarrhea.
>Mushrooms are amazing

Lichens are incredible. Check out the book Entangled Life, which Paul Stamets proclaims is "a must-read!"
I thought you should bleed money for the sake of unbounded growth.
I have never understood why web browser designers don't care to provide a default style sheet that makes unstyled web pages look nice i.e. with proper spacing of elements and sizes of headings etc.
I do some local image generation now and then (mostly using Photoshop). Are you happy now? My only point was that any CPU/GPU-intensive applications I run (and really most local applications) I do on my newish computer. But most stuff I run is in a browser.

The relatively little LLM use I do is in a browser and it doesn't matter which computer I'm doing it on.
It's really /elimination/ of cable management. Essentially the same thing that makes printed circuit boards superior to wire wrapping. Turned a manual labor process into a (photo)lithographic process. Not that different from the replacement of hand-lettered manuscripts with the output of a printing press!

In larger electronic and electromechanical systems, cables and connectors ("harnessing", collectively) are still major weak points.
https://archive.ph/FrBaL
> a shift in their user base towards open source forks

I wonder how we can verify this. If I look at HashiCorp's quarterly results,[1] revenue is up, and they're adding customers, but net dollar retention rate is trending down.

OpenTofu has 3k followers to HashiCorp's 6.9k on Github. The opentofu/opentofu repo has 18.8k stars to 40.9k for hashicorp/terraform. Sentiment on a recent r/TerraForm thread seems decidedly mixed.[2]

Are any of the (edit: other) forks of HashiCorp's viable yet?

[1] https://ir.hashicorp.com/financial-information/quarterly-res...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Terraform/comments/19egjs3/thoughts...
Personally I don't think an up to 20-40 minute lag for communications will be that big of a deal, it'll take a bit of getting used to, plus mechanisms to synchronize internet data with Earth, but we're pretty used to asynchronous communications, and prior to the advent of electricity, not having realtime communication over large distances was normal and tolerable.
Conway’s law does not define a maximum size of a system.

It simply defines that the systems as measured reflect the structure that created them.

If you look at the software ecosystem as a whole, it is increasingly indivisible without the underlying structure, because interface types have been totally monopolized - you need a create a client-server REST/LAMP service with stateless agents consuming services

That is to say if you wanted to build a technical service, but that does not comply with existing trends in engineering then you just don’t exist

Technology is social it’s not simply mechanical

Socially, we don’t have holism as a goal. Cybernetics is socialism according to academia and increasing specialization means that nobody can fully understand the whole thing.

Because nobody can understand the whole thing there are opportunities for fragility, and basically stuff to break catastrophically with nobody knowing how to fix it.

I anticipate the next couple decades look like a lot of broken stuff that people rely on, that increasingly nobody knows how to fix
The universe is such that the computers that do exist seem perfectly matched to its properties. How could it not be so? Other possible universes might have completely different computers and the kind we have here would be unimaginable there.
Meta should also be penalized for facilitating scams, such as https://juicyfieldscase.com/
> so much wasted render time and energy.

It was amazing two decades ago when we came together as an industry and refocused our priorities on making the web faster and more energy efficient</sarcasm>