skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloody love the Scarfolk stuff.

As someone who didn’t live through the 70s in the UK, but did live through the 80s, I caught the tail end of the materials and design choices (because never let it be said that the British local government departments move with the times)… it reminds me of the old posters hanging around in town halls, and the older tv shows of the time.

I find the way that the designer has managed to amplify both some of the dystopian images of the time, but also make a pastiche of exaggerated blandness into comedy, to be quite genius.

“Don’t” went round all the social media sites at the start of lockdown too!
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It’s not just fire but explosion as well with bad battery packs. Some years ago some friend bought a “comparable” laptop battery off eBay for an older laptop. They were charging it one day and battery exploded. Fortunately they were not sitting in front of it. I was in the office when my friend got the call from his wife and asked me to come look at the computer. We arrived with smoke in the room and little fires burning in different corners of the room with a scorch mark on the desk and the laptop in the middle of the floor with smoke wafting out of it. I dug some charred plastic out of the battery compartment and hooked it up to external power and it booted ok.
Be safe out there kids.
I am both a Youtube Family Premium and a dedicated ad-blocker user.
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There are many extremely intelligent people who post here. There may not be Gandalf the Grey's here but there are dozens of tribal shamans.
You can have privacy and many of these things. You may be interested in homomorphic encryption or the weaker version differential privacy. There are such things as zero knowledge proofs.

But I think it is far easier to have these technologies without doing the encrypted aspects or protecting privacy. Then it is more a "never let a tragedy go to waste" situation. Paved with good intentions, right? This will always happen though as we rush and are unable to do things the right way. Often the right way can take the same amount of time but generally appears to take longer and that is enough, even if the wrong way actually takes longer. Because it also matters at what resolution we're concerned with.

So I'm saying it is mostly stupidity, not evil. Though evil loves and leverages stupidity.
So I see nothing really changed :(.
What about a highspeed quantum channel to transfer all the data?
The most famous line from Henry the VIII's speech is?

They didn't give speeches back then because they didn't give a fuck about the public.
Really interesting. One thing I particularly appreciate is how it is fully commented and you can decide only to extract the parts that you need. The part to add line numbers to code looks very nicely done!
> The roaring of a vacuum cleaner breaks the silence and researcher Dr Penny Wozniakiewicz, dressed in hazmat suit with a bulky vacuum backpack, carefully traces a gutter with the tube of the suction machine.

I reckon every week my house gets a load of meteorites on it. Please email to make a weekly arrangement for cleaning the, er, meteorites up. My rates are very reasonable!
I also believe that no two people can have the same mental model of a god, just something very similar. Religious doctrine is useful for getting everyone "on the same page" so to speak.

When comparing notes, the doctrines are that absolute medium. For the multitude of reasons, binary conclusions are easier.

To say one does or doesn't accept the existence of a thing is to acknowledge that there is a model of that thing that does or does not exist.

The model of that thing is what has to exist to rationalize a belief.

--

The point I'm trying to make here is that the discussion doesn't end at binary conclusions of religious doctrine. The discussion of a god is continuous by nature in the same way science continuously models the universe.

Faith here is engaging in the discussion knowing it doesn't end. It's really not about belief either way. We all share the same experience.
I've just tried a sample vcf and on my Samsung phone and it shows the URL field (https://codeberg.org/nfraprado/vcf-test/src/branch/pages/vca...) in the contact page. But not the other links. I'm not sure about the iOS contacts app.
Not being e/acc doesn’t make one a doomer. It means being someone with a healthy relationship with technological progress, who hasn’t given up on the prospect of useful regulation where it’s helpful.

The US is great but the best AI researchers aren’t gonna want to live here if it becomes a hyper libertarian hellscape. They want to raise a family without their kids being exploited by technologies in ways that e/accs tell us we should just accept. It’s not sustainable.
At a previous job I was using destructors to ensure motors and other actuators in a telescope would shut down properly, and in the right order. This was very important, because incorrect shutdown could cause damage to equipment and potentially people.

This was actually my main reason for using C++ to program the control software: the fact that constructors and destructors run deterministically, especially when something bad happens and an exception is thrown. And while the language doesn't specify in which order they run for global variables in different compilation units, you still know how they are ordered with respect to `main()`, and if you pay attention to how the linker works, you can actually know how they will all be ordered.
What is the problem that QKD is solving? On the one hand you need a totally separate point-to-point network for the quantum connection. On the other hand you get relatively short symmetric keys on both ends. I’ve yet to see a proposal that wouldn’t be better served by transferring the key material via DVD/USB-stick/whatever and an armed guard. I’m certain I’m missing something rather obvious.. but I don’t see what
Are you aware of Delphi, the programming language? You may end up having a trademark clash: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
But how far away are we from hardware for stable quantum key generation/storage that would fit on a tabletop, much less a home laptop or smartphone? Almost certain that consumer devices will stay in classical computing and use PQE.
Here's an example of some thing I tried at random a few weeks ago. I have a bunch of old hand written notes that are mind maps and graphs written on notebooks from 10+ years ago. I snapped a picture of all of the different graphs with my phone, threw them into chatGPT and asked it to convert them to mermaid UML syntax.

Every single one of them converted flawlessly when I brought them into my markdown note tool.

If you're using chatGPT as nothing more than a glorified fact checker and not taking advantage of the multimodal capabilities such as vision, OCR, Python VM, generative imagery, you're really missing the point.
The grandparent I'm responding to sure uses a very sloppy presentation of things. Not everyone here is a trained mathematician though, so you may want to give people some slack.

Obviously, if h² = 0, then h = 0, so this statement made no sense. What the author probably tried to convey, is that one can reason with infinitely small values as symbols, and perform automatic differentiation with that.
Trip Winter ISO C++ standards meeting (Tokyo, Japan)
> "there is a concern here analogous to Blackstone's ratio" is a different thing than, paraphrasing what was up thread, "this is substantially more extreme than Blackstone's ratio should forbid".

I agree with this. What's happening here is different than the scenario in the original ratio, even though it's a similar concern.

> I just would also say that the kinds or amounts of harm being done there are manifestly not what Blackstone was talking about in his "formulation" as it leads immediately to absurd conclusions that go very well past the present case.

If we direct ourselves to the case at hand, I'm not sure that a general rule that the government can't compel innocent bystanders to assist an investigation against their will would even be a net negative, much less cause serious problems. When a crime is committed people will generally be inclined to help bring the perpetrators to justice, because who wants thieves and murderers and so on going unpunished? Whereas if someone is disinclined to help, we might consider that they could have a reason, e.g. because the law being enforced is unjust or they believe the investigation is not being conducted in good faith, or they simply don't trust the government with the information, at which point the ability to refuse acts as a reasonable check on government power.

> I just think if we are enlisting support from historical figures, we should find a quote where they're talking about the question or acknowledge the distance, rather than pretending the quote means something it didn't - that will only turn off those who might be persuaded.

I feel like historical quotes tend to detract from discussions in general, because they're effectively an appeal to authority and then the discussion turns to exactly where we are now, debating whether the current situation can be distinguished from the original, which is a separate matter from whether what's happening in the modern case is reasonable or satisfactory in its own right.
I would love to have this as a Blender add-on.
> > The Snowden files changed nothing.
>They didn't change enough, but that isn't nothing.

The biggest change IMHO was the entire industry got off their collective assets to finally move to HTTPS.
Why are you linking to paywalled scam sites?
We also, apparently, shouldn't even try to discuss and figure out any other possible approaches or responses to any given problem that might exist.

We don't care if this wall might possibly be easy to simply walk around and obviate, we shouldn't even look, or even talk about looking. The only rational way to attack any problem is to just look exactly in the direction you were led to look, bang your head on that same spot forever.
It isn't. If the police are investigating John Smith and they get a warrant for the files of John Smith then they don't also get the files of anybody else along with them.
I suspect a lot of them know it's a scam, they just want in on it and don't want to admit it.
Leonardo.ai have basically done exactly this and seem to be doing OK.

It’s a shame because they’re literally just using stable diffusion for all their tech but built a nicer front end and incorporated control net. No-where else has done this.

Controlnet / instantID etc are the really killer things about SD and make it way more powerful than Midjourney, but they aren’t even available via the stability API. They just don’t seem to care.
> I finally discovered that I hadn’t imagined it—it’s a 1977 public information film called “The Finishing Line,” which was made to deter children from playing near railway lines. The film was screened at my junior school

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXGqwCbeFD8
"I feel good about this article!"
- guy who reads Braille
They should probably remove that Posthog API key as well...
That's one way to construe what he said, I think it's a little generous. What most of us get, and I think it's probably closer to his intent, is "women in the bay area expect you to make half a milliom dollars a year at google and do half the housework." That's a perfectly fine thing to advise a young man on if he's not in that position and doesn't want that kind of family life, but let's not pretend that he was calling them valuable. He was calling them too demanding for what they have to offer.
> they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form

which is only possible because he's so important.

imagine doing this as a stack-ranked IC in an org like AWS.

The old days of a software as an artisanal craft is long over imho.
> notification system

More-generally, imagine if every citizen was entitled to a yearly report on all how many times law-enforcement received records containing their names or personally identifying information, except in cases that are formally unsolved and in-progress.

So a line item might be something like:

{Ref ID}, {Date}, "All Youtube accounts that watched {Video Title}"
After starting to use Feather blades I have discovered the same.

I still use from time to time a traditional shaving cream, for the pleasant scent and freshness sensation, but most of the time, when I want to waste a minimum time with shaving, I just shave like you, with the bare Feather blade, without using other consumables except a little after-shave balm.
As a counter-counter-point that gets rarely discussed on HN, VCs aren't taking as much of the pie as people think. In a 2-founder, 4-engineer company, it wouldn't be unusual to have equity be roughly:

20% investors
70% founders
2-3% employees (1% emp1, 1% emp2, 0.5% emp3, 0.25% emp4)
7% for future employees before next funding round
Certainly it's better to stick with the factual conspiracies like NSA's PRISM program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

or Room 641A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

If they can install hardware in companies and run data collection programs, I don't see why wouldn't they be directing the data collection policies too.
Yeah squashfs is one of the good ones right now.

for sosreports (archives with lots of diagnostic commands and logfiles from a linux host), I wanted to find a file format that can both used zstd compression (or maybe something else that is about as fast and compressible, currently often uses xz which is very very slow) -and- that lets you unpack a single file fast, with an index, ideally so you can mount it loopback or with fuse or otherwise just quickly unpack a single file in a many-GB archive.

You'd be surprised that this basically doesn't exist right now. Theres a bunch of half solutions, but no real good easily available one. Some things add indexes to tar, zstd does support partial/offset unpacking without reading the entire archive in the code but basically no one uses that function, it's kindof silly. There are zip and rar tools with zstd support, but they are not all cross compatible and mostly doesn't exist in the packaged Linux versions.

squashfs with zstd added mostly fits the bill.

I was really surprised not to find anything else given we had this in Zip and RAR files 2 decades ago. But nothing so far that would or could ship on a standard open source system managed to modernise that featureset.

(If anyone has any pointers let me know :-)
Exactly how you would verify the result that your human underling yielded. You can even delegate the googling and summation to the AI and just verify the verification.
Understanding relational algebra helps you write better SQL the way understanding lambda calculus helps you write better JavaScript. The language is warty and but a shadow of the pristine purity underneath, but it gets the job done and the theory guides your reasoning on how to use the language.
Or signaling external systems, or removing lockfiles, …

Anything the kernel does not do on program exit, which is most things.
> if it becomes a hyper libertarian hellscape.

Releasing cool open source AI tech doesn't turn the world into a libertarian hellscape.

You are taking the memes way too seriously.

Mostly people just joke around on twitter while are also building tech startups. e/acc isn't overthrowing the government.
Storybook Apocalypse: Beasts, Comets, and Other Signs of the End Times
As a counterpoint, my 1970s (though full of C8H20Pb) were not very malaisey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084117

(there was MAD of course, but being young I had confidence then that people, being basically good, would figure out how to avert the Big One. Maybe it would help if we could all dial in to some computer network and type directly with one another? Surely that would usher in world peace!)
AFAIK if you are a US citizen, you pay the taxes regardless you work inside or outside the country, the IRS is onto you anywhere!
Source on them burning tens of millions? What are they burning it on?
Nothing new here. That was the original idea of the (open) semantic web. Failed miserably as all social media companies lock in their customers. Technical solutions have been there for decades. They don’t fit the business model.
Admittedly pumped hydro can't be scaled up that much. However, the few places that are suitable are very well appreciated and likely won't ever be dismantled like these dams.

For grid-level batteries, absolute space efficiency is not critical, so they allow a wider range of battery types to be used. Prices are rushing down. They are being deployed on such a massive scale that many new gas powerplant projects get cancelled.
If you read through it wondering about the slightly odd style and explanations, the end of the article reveals why --- the author "has an MS degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Genetics from Albertus Magnus University in Cologne, Germany. He has been working for 12 years on interdisciplinary research involving molecular biology, physical chemistry, software, and electrical engineering." In other words, it's an "outsider perspective".
> Aren't "innocent bystanders" literally the first people the police wants to get ahold of, to interview

Yes. But that's not the same

> potentially investigate if there's something off?

If you're asking information from people who witnessed a crime *and volunteering information* (which is not investigating that person and not accusing them of a crime, nor is lack of volunteering information a suspicious activity) and they then generate suspicious evidence, then yes, that enables capacity for investigation. It is true that things are not static, time exists, and entropy marches on.

That's the difference. There is nothing that these people did that warrants suspicion. These people are not being asked or questioned. This was not done voluntarily. They didn't even know this was happening to them. This was a thing imposed upon them, full stop.

I want to give a scenario to help make things clear. Suppose I send nudes to my partner. The government intercepts these without my knowledge, looks at these, and deletes them, and literally nothing else happens. Is this okay? I did not know this happened to me. No "harm" has fallen upon me. And as far as I know, nothing has changed in my life. But then later I find out this happened. Let's say 20 years later. I feel upset. Do you not think I am justified in being upset? I think I do. My rights were violated. It is worse that it was done in secrecy because it is difficult for me to seek justice. It is because I have the right to privacy. It is a natural, de facto, negative, but a god given right. They put my information at risk by simply intercepting it and making a copy. It was unnecessary and unjustified.
I thought this was driven by ISPs inserting their own ads in normal HTTP.
I don't think that's true. We already have significantly varied working hours between countries. China has 996. The US has a 40 hour standard work week and the culture is such that people often work longer hours. Whereas in Europe 35 or 37.5 hours or even less is common. Different countries have different numbers of public holidays, etc.
Yes. The Petoi site boasts about how many stars they have on Github, but don't actually link to it.
Not surprised at all to see how unpopular this sentiment is on HN. For some reason HN seems to love one dimensional stereotypes for every job that isn't theirs.

Actually that's wrong, even the idea that engineers are smarter than managers is very prevalent here.
Granted, I have iCloud turned on (for syncing notes and calendar) but I have it turned off for everything else. I’ve never had it ask me to turn on any of the other iCloud features like iCloud backup or drive / desktop sync. (And I’d guess if it synced things without my knowledge it would show up in my iCloud storage usage?)
No, but I'm not going to invest in a bunch of grifters and con artists holding up a technically bad solution because they want money and power.
I wonder why they didn’t try a pdms resin as well

here’s the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07061-4.pdf
Everywhere but Chicago.
using old nvidia cards as space heaters
I've been let go. It was fine.

The premise of your quip is nonsensical, since people are let go anyways. You wouldn't know that you were the marginal human that was cut because we are in inflation or not.
External transport of wings has been done:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/wreq34/antonov_an...
Maybe they're interested in our culture and willing to exchange some toys for knowledge.
Nay I'm just refuting the idea that performance is the utmost, singular goal, as is pointed out by vlovich123 4-levels up in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785690

Modern storage hierarchy has become so convoluted precisely because of many conflicting goals: performance, efficiency, durability, cost, etc.
You can do this if you're in US, salaries elsewhere for tech jobs are more inline with salaries for specialized professions (doctors, lawyers). They're still larger than other jobs but it goes nowhere near the levels of western/eastern US (exceptions exist ofc).

Then there's a question when you start a family, that's subjective and something you can control but the model of creating career and then having kids (in late 30s/early 40s) seems more common in US. If you have your first child in mid 30s, then few laters 2nd one for example, you still need to be very hands-on, attentive and provide at least until your late 40s/early 50s.
Ok but yesterday I was on a plane coding and I wouldn’t have minded having GPT4 as it is today available to me.
Yes, agent Smith.
I looked this up and apparently the controversy is that Stable Diffusion was trained on child porn? How can the model itself not be considered objectionable material then? Does the law not apply some kind of transitive rule to this? And don't they want to arrest someone for having the child porn to train it on?
Pretty sure YouTube has been losing a lot of money every year before they very aggressively ramped up ad frequency and duration as well as subscriptions in recent years. They could only do that thanks to Google’s main cash cow; YouTube would have been dead if not acquired and subsidized by Google.
That's right. We invented programming AI a very long time ago, and called it an "assembler". All you had to do was tell the assembler what kind of program you wanted, and it would do the programming work for you!

Then we invented another AI to tell the assembler what kind of program you wanted, and called it a "compiler". All you had to do was tell the compiler what kind of program you wanted it to tell the assembler you wanted, and it would do all the not-exactly-programming work for you!

And so on...
But they ARE a KPI that is easy to understand and measure.
QUGV? UAV? ISR? SBC?

OMG, WTF!
Yeah, I'm detecting signs of intelligence in the crafting of that grammatically true sentence, and I'm kinda disgusted by it.
I don't disagree with everything you said, but I don't think its extreme to uproot yourself in search for a partner. Choice in a life partner is going to be one of the most consequential decisions you'll ever make. If you've got to go to the end of the earth to find your soul mate, will you do it? Extreme, hyperbolic example but it shows my point. All the things you need for a successful pairing and family, similar culture, similar socioeconomic details, similar values, similar philosophies, similar life goals... Going somewhere where the potential partners are more like you (while of course simultaneously making sure you meet their criteria as well) is not that extreme when you consider that you will ideally spend the rest of your life with them and raise your children with them.