skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So you grew up without AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo accounts, web forums and MySpace? Or for the generation before that, Geocities and Usenet?

Both.
Switching from AWS/Azure to Alibaba Cloud by the end of the month ???.
Good luck with that one.

Sanctions works if you don't have the money, technical or the knowledge to replicate the technology with your own.

China is willing to spend huge sums to subsidize their way out of technology dependence on the West but who is going to buy subpar products unless you sell it on the dirt cheap???.

Huawei used to be a leading Android cellphone brand worldwide - it tanked to nothing giving up market share to the likes of Xiaomi/Oppo/Vivo when the US cut them off from using the latest mobile chips from Qualcomm or getting their own ones made by TCSM and the latest Android/Google Play.
This is adjacent to some ideas I’ve been working on in my farm. My focus is more on weed control though.

At first the title gave me a vision of a rage fueled automaton laying waste to awesome tulips lol.
If they worked, a solid set of device parental controls would let the parent manage their kid's usage of social media without the privacy risks of doing effective age verification.

It'd be a privacy nightmare if everyone ended up sending all the major websites a copy of their passport/driving license to get access.

And policies like "tick box to confirm you're over 18" are a pointless joke.
> very well might have resulted in the deaths of US officials

US spies that knew the risks of their profession.
Apple: Reasons to Upgrade
This brings up a great point, that tech debt is literally that; debt. Debt is neither good or bad, it's all down to how you use it. Properly utilized, debt makes things possible that wouldn't be otherwise. And it can be maintained indefinitely, so long as your payments and interest are reasonable.
Shame. Purchased a V2 suite licence despite being perfectly happy with V1 because I wanted to support them, I don’t see anything good coming from merging with Canva.
We have better tech. Printing presses, social media and the like. At least the sold into slavery thing is mostly over.
You can do plenty but if what you do:

- doesn't work because we're still buying and selling to them through third parties

- impact yourself more than the enemy

- is detrimental to your long term goals

You can start asking questions...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fuels-russian-oil-ge...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
Not sure if being facetious, but FWIW you can't really rely on these. Next year you'll get a much faster CPU and memory and the timing will be all different. Or, tomorrow you run it while encoding video on the CPU which eats 99% of CPU, and it's hundred times slower.
How well can LLMs solve chess puzzles?
On balance, devs have more agency than ever before, but they choose to use it to load in every daft technology imaginable that makes their resume look good. IMO developers are less and less inclined to act like professionals that bring data to the decision table, so as to create meaningful business solutions.

Take scaling for instance: there is such a thing as unnecessary scaling. I've seen junior devs in AWS shops insist on embedding insane levels of serverless AWS tech, all to serve minimal systems with minimal data and bandwidth and minimal customers. When questioned about the drivers for all of this scaling, they have no reply - its all fairly obvious that they feel that they do not have a career without all of the latest TLAs on their resume.

Apart from creating billions for Jeff Bezos, this is creating bloat on staggering levels. PMs are often unable (or unwilling) to push back, because who wants to questions devs these days?
> Reporters Without Borders, a press freedom group which had been maintaining a backup version of the WikiLeaks site, revoked its support for the whistleblowing site in the wake of the decision.

> "Some of the new cables have reportedly not been redacted and show the names of informants in various countries, including Israel, Jordan, Iran and Afghanistan," it said in a statement. "While it has not been demonstrated that lives have so far been put in danger by these revelations, the repercussions they could have for informants, such as dismissal, physical attacks and other reprisals, cannot be neglected."

* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/02/wikileaks-publ...

> The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter. The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents' publication.

> The human-rights groups involved are Amnesty International; Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, or CIVIC; Open Society Institute, or OSI, the charitable organization funded by George Soros ; Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; and the Kabul office of International Crisis Group, or ICG.

* https://archive.is/XPuki / https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/SB1000142405274870342860457...

> “We are deeply concerned that WikiLeaks decided to make public the names of diplomatic sources who may face reprisals by oppressive governments,” said Elisa Massimino, president of Human Rights First, an independent nonprofit organization.

* https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-aug-30-la-fg-wiki...

Whether reprisals then occurred I do not know.

> "We fear the names could create new targets", Nader Nadery, the president of the AIHRC, told the French news agency AFP.

> The WikiLeaks editor, Julian Assange, replied to the letter by asking the groups concerned to help WikiLeaks redact the names. He also threatened to expose Amnesty if it refused to provide staff to help with the task, according to the Wall Street Journal.

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-wa...

Assange "threatened to expose Amnesty" International?

To me it seems that Assange was not pursuing some noble cause, but was on some kind of vendetta, given all the (collateral?) damage he was causing to others.

(Generally I knew of him, given he often made headlines, but have never really dug into the details.)
You made my point! Congratulations.
I thought I was the only one here reading
Between lines.
>That means the government has a lot more resources to work with though how it spends them is another question.

it's not that clear-cut. regulations regarding construction are many times more strict, as well employment restrictions and safety code.

I mean, the things like the transcontinental railroad were built with what would largely be considered inhumanely treated human slaves by today standards -- that kind of 'advantageous hiring condition' thankfully no longer exists.

Stuff like that plus millions of other regulatory nuances that drive the cost of development to be many times more expensive than during the bad old 'wild west' make these kind of value analysis gapped by many years near impossible.
So...

In some senses, I think internet culture (maybe modern intellectual culture generally) gets stuck in these repetitive conversations.

Reprosecuting without seemingly knowing about all the previous times the conversation has been had.
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More recently Bloomberg video:

Steve Wozniak Says He's Taking His YouTube Lawsuit as Far as He Can (3M Video)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820607
Serde-YAML for Rust has been archived
Related thread:

* https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/1921

* https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1772576163371655263
Regarding the always on top: Microsoft PowerToys includes a module that can pin windows to the top, maybe that would help with that?
oh no, the whole reason why I like Affinity products is the pricing model. I can't imagine that will last long.
> Arguably, the rest of the "free world" can be seen as provinces of an American Empire with their independence

Arguably, this is bullshit. The UK might be dangerously friendly with the US on multiple fronts, but e.g. France has refused to extradite Polanski forever, refuses to hand over control of their nukes to NATO, and pursues an independent but aligned foreign policy to the US.
total newbie here and honest question:

why would I recommend a product that I haven't used? won't it be cheating my viewership?
About 10 years ago, I worked at a place where we were embedding both XML and JSON in CSV fields.

Then there are always the people who can't generate a valid CSV due to escaping issues...

Nothing is ever simple.
The design of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, specifically the tunnel part, makes a lot of sense now. Imagine a US navy port (Norfolk) being inaccessible if this happened there.
Yes and no. I emphatically agree that the way the Path Loss Equation (Friis) is taught is misleading. I much prefer the way you interpret it, with the transmit antenna represented with gain and the receiving antenna having only an effective receive area. It's much more intuitive because I can visualize a spherical shell of power radiating outward.

That said, a receive antenna does absolutely have "gain", which is evident by the antenna receiving a stronger or weaker signal depending on its orientation with respect to the transmit antenna. The key is this: for an arbitrary antenna, the (transmit, if you like) gain has a one-to-one relationship to the "effective receive area" at a given frequency, so talking about area and gain are equivalent, if not intuitive. We usually assume for point-to-point links that the antennas are oriented at each other, and in such cases (for good aperture antennas), you are absolutely right that the physical area and effective area are approximately equal. For ideal wire antennas, however, the physical area of the antenna is 0, but the effective area is nonzero (because of magic).

Now, I disagree that the path loss equation violates conservation of energy. The link to the effective area and gain depends on the wavelength. When I increase the frequency of operation but I keep the gain of the antennas constant, the areas decrease, so my receive antenna is physically smaller and the power goes down. Not breaking physics. A lot of people will say "path loss gets worse as you go up in frequency", and this is extremely misleading if not "scientifically illiterate" as you pointed out. Sure, there are molecular absorption bands from oxygen/water that literally dissipate power in the atmosphere, but generally speaking, the path loss didn't get worse, your receive antenna just got smaller.

Now wait a minute, what if I just made my receive antenna larger? Well, you can do that! The problem is that because gain and area are linked, efficiently receiving power in a given LARGE area (with respect to the wavelength) implies high gain. High gain implies a very narrow beam (more like a laser pointer than a normal dipole spilling energy everywhere). So it becomes really important that I "point" my receive antenna perfectly at the transmitter. Satellite dishes are really big, and they absolutely have to be pointed accurately at the satellite.
So according to that "specification" no optimization is allowed. Since that would almost always change the "heating behavior" of code. Therefore, it is absurd.
Tennessee first state to protect musicians and other vocal artists against AI
I have a WF-4833 and CUPS/SANE support is really great. The only problem I've noticed is if you use two-sided scanning with the ADF, the odd pages will be upside down. You could probably fix it if you use SANE at the command line, but I've only ever used XSane, and had to manually flip the pages after scanning.
Why mention Emacs here? I'm sure you know CL works fine with Vim and other editors like Jupyter notebooks, Atom/Pulsar (very good support), VSCode (still in development), etc. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...
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Please avoid AOL syndicated articles.

Reuters source last week: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-dips-day-after-str...
Short answer: it doesn't, though I understand why it's misleading. Read my response above.
I don't think I understand what you're asking.
> when this bridge was built boats that large weren’t a risk

Doesn't sound plausible to me. Very large Panamax ships were used in the 1970's when the bridge was built.
Yes - this is exactly what AI/robotics should be targeted at - things that currently would have to be done manually, but aren't feasible (at least not in high-wage countries) like this one, or sorting mixed trash into non-recyclable and recyclable (and further into various metals and plastics) etc.

Instead, it's targeted at replacing graphics artists and software developers...
what is CDO?
Well, whether this is a "win" depends too much on the definition of "win" for me to care to debate. But there are certainly advantages; a vulnerable code path that is never executed and can not be reached from the external library is now a safe code path. A nerve wracking one to be sure, but safe.

Another advantage of vendoring like that is that you do have some tools for attacking the code now. If you have solid test coverage on your own library, you can now run your library and run code coverage tools on the newly-vendored library. Fixing the library may be a challenge, but you might be able to just go hacking into it and deleting anything your code doesn't touch relatively easily. Depends on the structure of the vendored library, of course. If you end up deleting all the vulnerable code, you do have a clear win. If you discover you were hitting some of it after all you may end up with an even more clear win.

Or, to put it another way, forking a library in general for public maintenance is a big commitment. Vendoring it and hacking it to just the bits you need is much smaller. Even if you don't actually perform this pruning, just the act of making that pruning easier is itself progress.

There are disadvantages too, certainly, but it's not all bad.
Check out this one "Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0cR_Nhac0
Interestingly, a surprising number of ship-ship collisions occur due to an unnecessary last minute evasive-action manoeuvre between ships that weren't actually on a collision course in the first place. There's a whole section devoted to this in the outstanding book 'Normal Accidents' by Charles Perrow.
Ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated
Collateralised Debt Obligation
It’s amazing how flexible the law can be when powerful people need to to be.
Is it me, or does rust suffer badly from important functionality being contributed rather than baked in by design, leading to, e.g., multiple incompatible ways to do async?

Or am I spoiled by .net, which has an excellent bcl?
Introducing Stable Code Instruct 3B
In the black powder era of warfare, soldiers were given similar warnings about “slowly” rolling cannonballs.

People would think they could stop them like soccer balls, and lose a foot.
This brings back to memory 911 conspiracy theories.

Many revolved around the unlikelihood that a building would collapse the way the towers collapsed just due to knocking out a few floors at the top. But the truth is all these mega structures are quite fragile and can instantly collapse in unintuitive ways.
Obviously, there is an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/1172/
It's because energy created by the transmitter must degrade as one over R squared in the far field. The frequency (or wavelength, have your pick) has nothing to do with the energy transmitted because energy must be conserved. Putting in the frequency term then violates conservation of energy between the antennas. Then, at the receiving antenna the error of conservation of energy is then patched up by assigning a bogus 'gain' at the receiver. The transmitter and receiver are asymmetric but the path loss equation pretends that they are because that's easier for most people to understand and it works out 'end to end'.
Collateralized Debt Obligation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation
Polanski says hi.
"as if something as complicated as comparing Roman construction and resources to modern day construction and resources could be possible."

Well, one can compare the results.

Personally I like things that are build solid and can last a 1000 years.

But I don't think I said the romans build better. They just had a different intention: long lasting.
> I need to introduce my customers using Excel to the typecasting concept.

I misread this as "... the typesetting concept.".

I immediately feared someone adding LaTeX support to Excel cells.

But now I'm thinking "hmmmm..."
> What investors?

GP made a broad statement, I was replying in general following suit.
I heard on the local radio here, with one of the DJs being an ex-cop, his contact with EMS said the driver of the boat called a mayday and said to clear the bridge. Nope, can't prove it, but I imagine it'll come out in the news soon.

So, not intentional.
> They have to be looking at Adobe and going "yeah we don't want that kind of reputation".

They can also look at the market and Adobe and go “yeah, they have no alternatives, everyone is a subscriber now”
We’ve been burned so often by those kinds of statements that every time I see a company repeating them I’m left wondering if the founders are unbearably naive or they think users are stupid.
Unless you print a ton, cost is definitely an issue. I was excited when I got a free color laser that was fairly new, but it was over $200 just to replace the black; my inkjet and a dozen replacements is still cheaper than refilling the all the laser cartridges
Intuitive Machines' historic private moon mission comes to an end
interesting how the chinese version has zero mention of the great leap forward and it's insanity -- a major plot point in the books.

but nonetheless, thank you for the YT link, will give those a deeper look.
> US spies that knew the risks of their profession.

What about their sources?

Multiple human rights organizations criticized the underacted release of information:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827756
The biggest problem I see is that we’re now essentially requiring ID to use substantial parts of the internet. So many business only have a Facebook page, Google maps has social features.

I already didn’t want a Facebook account just to see a businesses specials, now I’ll need to present ID too?

Certainly interested to see how all this plays out.
I don't have a GPT account. I would start with: "Do you like dogs?" Next question: "Why?"
Actually I thought it was weird that the View of Our Solar System one used only hard-coded constants instead of Wolfram's information about planets.
In interviews IIRC ex-Sega staff has stated that they thought they had one more console generation before a 3D-first console was viable to the home market. Sure, they could do it right then and there, but it would be kind of janky. Consumers would rather have solid arcade-quality 2D games than glitchy home ports of 3D ones. Then Sony decided that the wow factor was worth kind of janky graphics (affine texture mapping, egregious pop-in, only 16-bit color, aliasing out the wazoo, etc.) and the rest is history.

Nintendo managed largely not-janky graphics with the N64, but it did come out 2-3 years after the Saturn and Playstation.
There are similar warnings for sailing vessels, but because the standing rigging of the ship is usually kept in high enough tension that putting your hands on a pilon to stop a collision might leave your hands vulnerable to being cut off by a mainsail's shrouds.
Yes! There are modules such as encryption, compression and more thorough test suite (for safety-critical users) that SQLite authors only offer at charge.
There's not enough money in it, as Google's scale.

Especially because the people who'd pay for Premium tend to be the most prized people from an advertiser perspective.

And most people won't pay, under any circumstances, but they will click on ads which make Google money.
> let's no forget he is also a Russian asset

No one with half a brain believes that. Please try harder.
A lot of these ships are controlled via GPS to keep them in the channels. I wonder if this crash will entail a software bug or system failure.
Enjoyed Open-Source Collaboration
I've worked at the ASF for over 5 years. Arriving in the new (Rust) ecosystem and connecting on platforms like HN extend my reach, and I enjoy that people collaborate to deliver software :D
References this paper on Time Series transformers. First I’ve seen someone apply transformers to time series specifically. Very curious how well this might work for low-frequency events.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02592
And how do you update a project started with template x version 1.2.3 to template 1.3.4?
I think the parent is pointing out that this description is of someone literally above average.

In no other circumstances would it be referred to in this way.

e.g. it’s like saying someone with above average work ethic is ‘lazy’, someone with above average intelligence is ‘stupid’, etc…
>Except that the premise of ChatGPT is that it "knows" things, and that you can ask it about these things in specific ways and it will answer.

The premise of ChatGPT has never been that it knows everything.

>So, it's not about whether it's been tuned to be a grandmaster. It's about whether it can even execute on the knowledge it clearly possesses.

Factual knowledge on paper has never been a guarantee you can actually perform the task. In fact, it usually isn't.

>And certainly, there are some humans who fit this "appearance" description as well, perhaps through some processing deficit or otherwise. But as a broad category, this is something humans do quite well.

I'm telling you this is a normal occurrence and not something that only happens with a "processing deficit".

You can rant about all the details or rules of a tennis game all you like and fail to play it, you can know the physics theory but still struggle to solve problems.
Hell we don't need to leave chess, give our stranger a proper book with rules and the strategies employed by grandmasters. For a while after, He's still going to make illegal moves and he will be nowhere near the level of a grandmaster.

>Again you are still not bringing up anything that serves as the distinguisher you want it to serve.
The concept of understanding is really not complicated. When we explain something to someone and we ask the question "do you understand?", we're not asking whether they can memorize or repeat back what we just told them. We're asking something else.

Ok and ? GPT passes many tests that demonstrate understanding.
It's a mistake from the point of view of the small minority of people who'd pay more taxes – no surprises there.
You aren't going to gain life experience before the age if you keep raising the age of being allowed to live life to match that age.

I know you're specifically referring to voting age, but just making a general observation on how everyone seems to only want to keep increasing these various arbitrary age gates as if simply being older is all it takes. Have you guys all forgotten when you went through these points?

I still distinctly remember how glaringly stupid I realized the world was when I had to take a waiver notice to my university dorm room and sign as my dad a few days before turning 18, and that just a few days later I'd be fine to sign it as myself, despite obviously not changing much in a few days. Either way I had been living at a university thousands of miles from my parents for nearly 2 years and had said as much, so it was a farce all around.

Similarly with turning 21 and being allowed to drink.
VLC can't update on Android without giving Google private signing keys
Culture is a more powerful drug but it is spread out over vast periods of time so we don't notice it. It also defines reality, which is more than a little helpful during disagreements.
How is extradition a kidnapping plot?