skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I've also been buying up retro games to play; modern games kinda suck, I remember when I was a kid/teen there were dozens of major releases a year that I was excited for, now it's maybe one AAA if I'm lucky and a few indies (even though the indie scene has changed, large companies making "indie" games, smaller devs making "omg this is gonna make us so much money" games rather than passion projects).

I should probably start buying physical media for shows and movies as well, but again, there's not much coming out that's actually good. Most of it is utter trash.
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One way to assess these numbers is to conduct a quick sanity check. How many cars per minute or second would this be?

11.5 million cars/day is equivalent to :

~48,000 cars/hour
~8,000 cars/minute
~130 cars/second

Clearly, somethings ... a tad off.

11.5 million cars per year however works out to:

31,000 cars/day
1,300 cars/hour
21 cars/minute

Or roughly a 3 second headway per vehicle. Given four traffic lanes (two in each direction), that would be a vehicle every twelve seconds per lane, which seems far more reasonable. That's spread out over the day, so peak-hour traffic would be much higher.

Peak capacity for a highway lane is just shy 2,000 vehicles/hour:

<https://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-every-traffic-engineer...>

Which would put the Key Bridge's maximum capacity at about 192,000 vehicles/day.

For comparison, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge saw about 42.7 million paid toll crossings. As these are metered only in the westbound direction, actual crossings are likely double that, or 85.4 million/year, or about 230,000/day.

(The bridge sees 1/3 the total traffic of all California state-owned bridges.)

<https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/programs-projects/bridges/san-...>
Outside of the work to study and improve available technologies ("how far can we push a hammer"),

you do not draw an individual with anomalous hands because you have an ontological model in which "humans normally have five fingers per hand".

Knowing "how the world works" is the appropriate source for subsequent expression of a representation.

Somewhere in the architecture a world model should be formed.
Yes, selling the problem with OpenAI and the solution with Worldcoin.

Enormous resources transfered to him, and the world remains the same.
Exactly. Emmanuel Todd says it in his own way : in the US your best bet is always to work in or around finance, because printing money became the main business in the country. That's also why the US must import engineers massively, for instance. That's why the military industry is under such pressure, because it can't rely upon huge numbers of Indians, Chinese or Russians to conceive and build its airplanes, missiles and nuclear submarines.
Are they all sand monkeys to you?
At least on for icloud sign ins (not sure about password resets, too lazy to check), clicking "allow" doesn't allow the sign in, it only displays a 6 digit code that you have to enter to log in.
No-code AI on request
Power all existing API traffic with AI without writing code with declarative configuration.

quite impressive!
That's a compelling story, I wish you the best of luck!

EDIT: Explore AI as part of this (e.g. using RAG), many have found it super useful as a tutor for personalized explanations when you don't understand the textbook. If you have it grounded in the textbook or other sources, it should have fairly minimal hallucinations.
I was surprised the video playing over water which seems to be one of the best demos of the device, the reflection is running a frame behind the video above the water so when a cut happens theres an obvious mismatch in the reflection.

Doesn't feel it would be difficult to fix this with video playback, sorta thing I'd expect Apple to solve.
I think concept-wise, it is a great idea. I saw some other examples in the GPTStore - e.g. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-RR3RCyK8N-language-teacher-ms-sm...
Reddit may need to ramp up spending on content moderation, analysts say
I've started to bring up Admiral Rickover's speech Doing a Job in all of the Boeing threads because he is just so relevant. Admiral Rickover was the man responsible for America having nuclear submarines. https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

The speech is well worth a read in its entirety and it feels prescient in regards to Boeing. I think this paragraph more than any other hits at the core problem at Boeing:

> Unless the individual truly responsible can be identified when something goes wrong, no one has really been responsible. With the advent of modern management theories it is becoming common for organizations to deal with problems in a collective manner, by dividing programs into subprograms, with no one left responsible for the entire effort. There is also the tendency to establish more and more levels of management, on the theory that this gives better control. These are but different forms of shared responsibility, which easily lead to no one being responsible—a problems that often inheres in large corporations as well as in the Defense Department.

To contrast here is a statement from Calhoun: “We caused the problem. And we understand that. Over these last few weeks, I've had tough conversations with our customers, with our regulators, congressional leaders, and more. We understand why they are angry, and we will work to earn their confidence,” Calhoun said.

That we is him failing to take personal responsibility and choosing instead to spread responsibility to all employees, making no one responsible for the state of Boeing.

Boeing needs a leader who will take personal responsibility.
Between the two sentences "good fit for industry" gets rephrased into "needs of 93% of their students".

I think it would have been clearer to just stick with "good fit for industry".
Wet roads, cold ice, and dirt still provide enough friction to send you over your handlebars at speed. They just increase the maximum speed rear tires provide any benefit. Near its melding point ice isn’t going to provide enough friction for rear breaks to matter.

So sure there’s a minimal benefit in some very specific conditions, but no they are there for redundancy.
I think it’s an interesting philosophical point to consider. In fact, I remember finding researching and writing a paper on this general question fascinating as a philosophy undergrad.
Unless you're thijson's cousin, you can't really say that can you.
Ray Dalio's video explicitly explains the causal link between printing money and corruption.

Printing money (as a fiat reserve currency) implies the decline of rule of law and therefore corruption, but corruption does not imply that money was printed, nor does the lack of printing money imply low corruption.
European flying car technology sold to China
Fair enough, though it seemed disingenuous of OP to question the optimization of a hugely common process and say "just fix your code" when it's not applicable to a vast (majority?) number of (obvious?) cases. It's not like a huge part of today's computer software was not currently running on servers needing to check user input, including the very website we are commenting on. Browsers themselves need to do it too because they can't blindly trust what the server sends them. It seems like it almost takes effort to ignore those cases. To the point people commenting here even forget that there are other things than the web.

If OP wanted to share with us the idea of moving validation to another step in the process, giving a case where it would be applicable, that would have been fine but why question an optimization in the first place? Why not both? It just feels like they are rejecting stuff for the sake of rejecting stuff and I assume this is the reason they got downvoted.

UTF-8 validation is something that happens constantly. And even if it's was not, this optimization is probably an interesting technical feat, and we are in a Show HN post too, rejecting stuff like this is just not going to fly on HN. You can question things but you need to be insightful and nice.

You make good points but OP didn't make them.

Anyways.
It's a dupe if it's the same story and that's where the discussion is happening.
I'm curious about the psycho-social factors that have led us here. The vast majority of people just don't care that their data is feeding the surveillance economy. The mechanics of the advertising+surveillance behemoth are built by other people who equally don't seem to care.

Some people are trapped in these systems and don't have any choice, but plenty simply don't seem think or care about it.

This all continues to happen despite rumblings about the problems it causes. Wealth is concentrated into the hands of an elite few, the gap between rich and poor is growing and leading to depression and unrest. Social media fuels addictive behaviours and depression. Politicians foment polarisation, malevolent actors use disinformation to influence elections, governments become increasingly isolationist.

What happened?

Maybe it's not a single, new phenomenon just a combination of others. Diffusion of responsibility, the banality of evil, bread and circuses. But now they're all 'blazingly fast' and at 'global scale'.
controlling the producer is such a hard problem, even with exponential back off and backoff times in the response headers, you still get at minimum 2x throughput increase from the producers during a retry storm

problem is that the most common backpressure techniques like exponential back-off and sending a retry-after time in the response header have constraints on maximum backoff time they can do, in some scenarios that is much much less than the normal.

for example, imagine a scenario where a customer explores 10 items on Amazon, and then finally places an order, so 10rps for the product page and 1 rps for the order page. if order services goes down, slowly the customers get stuck on the order page and even with backpressure, your RPS keeps on growing on the order page. exponential backoff doesn't help as well

while dropping requests is a good idea, but that action is not designed by default every time, systems go into metastable state and you need the ability to control the throughput on producer side

you could solve it by keeping a different layer in between like load balancer or some gateway layer that is resilient against such throughput spikes and will let you control throughput on your service and slowly scale up the throughput as per your requirements (by user or by random)

for frontend devices, it gets exponentially harder to control the throughput. having an independent config API that can control the throughput is the best solution that I came across
You probably not going to get a voice clone from someone saying "hello?" 100 times. However, you don't really need to "MFA Bomb" people to clone their voice, just call them with a plausible sounding reason that will cause them to engage in an extended conversation (eg. "hey this is your uber/doordash driver/doctor/school/daycare).
The hyperparasites in Tierra are strictly speaking not parasites of parasites, rather they’re host "species" that evolved a resistance against some parasite types and, critically, a trick that causes the parasite to actually make a copy of its host when it tries to copy itself using the host’s replication code. So essentially the hyperparasite steals the parasite’s CPU time and still has its own timeslice left to replicate itself.

The whole thing relies on the fact that the Tierra "organisms" live in a flat memory space where you can jump anywhere, including into the middle of other individuals, and just merrily keep executing code from that point. I wonder if something like that was possible in the (hypothetical) RNA world, before cell membranes developed, but I don’t think cell-based life can have a precise equivalent of Tierra hyperparasites. The closest analogue is probably mutualistic relationships that have evolved from parasitic ones.
Imo, async/await is useful in that it's a simpler approach - developers don't need to worry about threading and all its inherent problems which for the large majority of web and semi-web related tasks is completely fine; the same reason we use languages with GC; no point managing your own memory for most tasks.

Someone writing a driver or something is obviously going to use proper threading and deal with all of the intricacies and gotchas.
If your person doing DevOps can't learn GoLang, you have bigger problems.
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952
Alright well feel free to read my original question as if I knew and meant that then, I don't think I precluded it.
Humans with less than 5 fingers per hand do indeed exist. How does that lead to a default of 7?
I figured that but agree with you. I generally wouldn't use that meaning but it's not like I'm going to fight about it being used.
Is it used to sign a commit, right ? Which are the probabilities to have a collision that:

a) is still code

b) is still code AND is code similar to a previous commit

c) is still code AND is code similar to a previous commit AND is valid

d) is still code AND is code similar to a previous commit AND is valid AND makes sense for something

OR at least

a) is still code

b) is still code AND is valid

d) is still code AND is valid AND makes sense for something

Let me know.
I was unsure what this Recovery Key was: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109345

It is kind of scary too — lose the key and no one can get you back in to your account.
Let's say I have a string S.

MD5(MD5(S)) = Y

Now, I find a collision string SS (of length 128 bits, like an MD5 hash), where MD5(SS) == Y

Then I find a collision string SSS (this time, length doesn't matter), where MD5(SSS) == SS

Then we have MD5(MD5(SSS)) == Y, which was only twice harder than finding a single MD5 collision.

Could someone explain what is wrong with my reasoning ?

Edit: Oh okay, got it, when we say "MD5 is broken, it's possible to do a collision attack", what we mean is that we can easily find 2 strings S1 and S2 where MD5(S1) == MD5(S2)
But S1 and S2 and found randomly, we don't have a way to find a string S3 where MD5(S3) == Y for any Y value (that is what we call a pre-image attack, not a collision attack)
Nearing that phase of my life (55y) where I have to think about my old age.

My genes seems good as my parents are still healthy and living in their own home at the age of 83.

It is expensive to get old - how do Japanese do it ???.
Retirement homes or folks just living with their children like in some cultures ??.
“Choice editing” is another way to put it. Which is precisely what i was alluding to. It is a feature of the US system. Professional media including the so called papers of the record excel in it.
Link to the actual database:

https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/arkotheq...
It says so under "rational actions for capital owner", along with "Friedman Doctrine" in business ethics (often mistaken for an actual law). A company/factory/workers are just a constraint, a limitation, a problem to be worked around, in the capitalist mode of production where the capitalist (owner of capital) tries to increase said capital.

If the capitalist can bleed an entity dry, then use the profits to spin up and dry another entity, resulting in higher wealth increase over the same time than setting up stable long-lived company, then it's the rational action to do as owner of capital.

When you repackage and dilute ownership enough, you end up with ultimate investor having simple desire of profit from shares they hold in an intermediary, and said intermediary then trying to squeeze those profits out of portfolio of entities. In absence of any other constraint, the rational action is then to increase short-term profit while reducing long-term risk - for example by dropping the involvement before the harvest of sown risks comes by.
I am amused that among the words we suspect have descended into multiple language families from Proto-Indo-European, there is a verb equivalent of "getting high".
I like to think there's some level of self-awareness on HN. You can be excited about it as a tech nerd (with salary to afford such an expensive device), while recognizing that it's not going to attract the average person.
Destroyed? Other says he saved it.

Financial Times considered Marchionne as having been "one of the boldest business leaders of his generation".
Given that the gp was talking about victims being "SIM swapped", I strongly suspect he's referring to the classic sim swap attack where you sim swap, then use the newly registered sim to receive a password reset code. If it just involves discovering your phone number, you wouldn't need to sim swap at all.

>The gp proposes a different "private identification string" that's not public. Public IDs such as "email address" or "phone number" are susceptible to what this article is talking about.

This is a non-starter for the general public. If they can barely remember their password what are the chances they'll remember a "private identification string" or whatever?
It's 100% Adobe.
a lot can be done via gitlab auto-devops. you get alot of out of the box feature like pipelines, deployments, review environments...

you can quite easily connect it to GCP/AWS/Azure
As Michelle Obama said: "When they go low, we go high"
This is 10 times faster than almost all of the fast image generation models.
Is it ableist to role play as someone with mental health issues? I haven't played the game. Was interested by the positive reviews here but then the central theme jumped out and I felt a bit uncomfortable.

Can anyone who played the game say if it comes across sympathetically to John's issues or are they othering in their effect? Does it feed at all into negative perceptions of mental disorder?

I know social issues are a bit frowned on here so apologies if this question is inappropriate.
Security is typically measured in bits. But yes you're right, maybe I should have written "square as difficult" to be more clear :)
At least where I was taught, death penalty reduces someone's punishment in the afterlife. So in a way capital punishment is a "mercy" because without it they'll be punished even more in hell.

So yeah, this perspective really depends.
> He's one of the more intellectually dishonest guys in tech," said another VC, who has interacted with Altman and invested alongside him. "I've had plenty of meetings with him where he says things where I'm like, 'That just cannot possibly be true,' but he can kinda get away with it."

I like the photo choice for that article. On that picture, he looks like he really doesn't want any of this and is increasingly horrified over what he is getting into - but the little Roko's Basilisk in the back of his head is forcing him to go on and on and he can't do anything about that.

So it's fun to imagine that he actually believes the things he is saying and is not intellectually dishonest - but simply insane.

But yeah, the more reasonable explanation is indeed that it's all just an act and he knows exactly what he is doing.
ODBC drivers for SQLite are just a thin abstraction over the C library.
I'd say it's more of a failure of certain search engines, among other things.

Personally I've found reddit karma to be correlated with the obnoxiousness of the
user, not the inverse. There's plenty out there who feel the same. Even with that point aside, what is there to prove? I don't understand the assertion. Wrongthink will get you censored on Reddit faster than anywhere else regardless of how much karma you had.

Even good posts on Reddit get shuffled past the first pages after a few days. There's too much negative incentive to put effort into content when it can get censored, downvoted, or buried. Sure, you might potentially reach more users in the right circumstances, but many of those users are addicted to notifications and doomscrolling, not enthusiasts of the subject matter. Plenty of that here on HN as well (more on the side of trend-chasing, manufactured two-minute hate about climate or national news, while rarely challenging the status quo) but it's at least tolerable, and I know the moderation is fair here.

Forums haven't "lost out" when they can still serve to bring people together who have, or want to read unpopular opinions. I could go on about use cases. If there were none, there would be no forums.

The takeaway here is that Reddit can be and is considered by a decent proportion to be a dystopian failure, not a "convenience". A black hole of siphoned search traffic that regurgitates a watered down and sanitized imitation of something resembling a community.
Well if you fine companies for using SMS for security… you should put the CEO in jail for authenticating with social security number… if we go by just the number of people who get affected by skimmed SMS and by stolen ssn.
Crises culminating in wars going back to the 1400s, but yes, according to the theory this crisis period was triggered by the crash in 2008 and will likely climax sometime between 2028-2035. So this decade's gonna suck, will probably involve a war (civil or great power). But I err on the side that a conflict will leave the country stronger as happened in the past (no guarantee, especially if we lose a great power conflict) and America will be a more egalitarian, prosperous place by the 2040s. Thus the cycle will begin anew and the country will suck again circa 2115
The trigger was pulled by Boeing lifer who started out as Engineer, and the McDonnel Douglas CEO who followed him was also someone who started out as Engineer.

Both of them were instrumental in the divestment, outsourcing, and other strategies that created for example Spirit Aerosystems out of Boeing Wichita.
What would be the percentage of researchers left if they weren't trying this hard to create them?

With a good theoretical background in CS, most of what you need for the industry can be learned more easily throughout your career.

That universities are not dedicated to teaching how to be an immediately productive economical actor makes sense. That's of course assuming you don't have to take on 300k of debt to get a degree...
Identifiers aren't short in C (or any other language) because disk storage is expensive but because readability suffers with long identifiers.

The example here is very much C-style (short, lowercase, underscore). The list of argument is called "args" (short and descriptive). It is not called argumentListArray.

It is not a coincidence that math have very short and well known identifiers. The rate of change in horizontal position is called x'. It is not called posHorizontalChangeRate simply because the latter is harder to read.

There is, of course, such a thing as having too short identifiers.
You can find this in any introduction to cryptography textbook/course. "Generic attack" is a common term for "just use brute force" [1]. It's called "generic" because it works regardless of the implementation of the primitive. For pre-image resistance the generic attack just hashes messages until it finds the right image, for collision resistance you can get a quadratic speedup via the so called birthday problem / birthday attack [1][2], where you keep hashing messages and storing the hashes until any two of the messages happen to hash to the same value.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/19194/is-there-an...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
The BBC going at it, as usual. They've been on a roll the last couple of years, a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13705854
One of the fine things in the Starship Troopers (the book) was that no one can become supreme commander without climbed high in both the army and the navy.

You have to know engineering so that engineers can't push you around and you have to know business side so that the bean counters can't push you around. But most important you have to have a person with the right values. Rigid quality control becoming the top priority right now. Also optimizations of the whole development process. Things right now are taking too much time and money.