skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I eventually dropped all pretense of understanding that they were on autopilot, and began commenting as I deactivated and reactivated the alarm AGAIN "I thought universities required students be able to read".

this is an odd sentiment. so what, you were originally pretending to give them the benefit of the doubt, but then you just gave up? so your original thought was that they were doing it on purpose for some reason? why on earth would they do that?
I had no idea this image was pornographic. I’m surprised this decision had nothing to do with copyright and was instead ideological.
We don't have a water shortage now. We lack easily accessible fresh water. By "we" I of course don't mean the average reader of HN
TVL for Algorand, 111M USD: https://defillama.com/chain/Algorand

TVL for Ethereum, 53B USD: https://defillama.com/chain/Ethereum

If doing DeFI on Algorand is so much better/cheaper than on Ethereum, then why is it only 1/500th of Ethereum's size?

Mind you, it seems that this calculation is not attributing "bridged" TVL as related to the chain size and activity. If it were, there are 330 Billion USD that depend on Ethereum's base layer security.
> The script was not present in the git tree, only in the released archives.

I confess I couldn't quite figure out the branching and tagging strategy on that repo. Very weird stuff. That script seems to have been added by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior just ahead of the 5.6.0 release. It's definitely present in the Debian git tree, and probably in many other distros since others seem to be affected.

The commit where the script was added to Debian is tagged `upstream/v5.6.0` despite the script itself not being present on that tag upstream: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/tree/v5.6.0/m4

> I'm also suggesting that there could be more than one exploit present. All of their commits should be rolled back, none of it can be trusted.

I agree.
We have much better tools now and much simpler support matrices, though. When this stuff was created, you had more processor architectures, compilers, operating systems, etc. and they were all much worse in terms of features and compatibility. Any C codebase in the 90s was half #ifdef blocks with comments like “DGUX lies about supporting X” or “SCO implemented Y but without option Z so we use Q instead”.
> Every time I type "make" in an Autotools program only my code runs.

Says who? Make is just as good at calling arbitrary code as Cargo. Including code that reaches out over the network. Have you audited every single makefile to ensure that isn't the case?
Snowflake.simulate(workloads) –> (Cost, Performance)
I'm tinkering with a tool that can essentially simulate the cost/performance tradeoffs of running production or dev ETL/ELT/BI workloads using different provisioning setups. It can analyze the impact of 500K queries in 2 seconds. If this is something that sounds interesting to you, shoot me an email to aviv@8knots.com
TnT-LLM: Text Mining at Scale with Large Language Models
My impression from the outside is indeed that the man is a problem. And part of the problem is that the problem is allowed to continue to exist by the Alphabet board. Which means the real problem is over there. They are just looking at the stock price, which is of course fine. Until it isn't. I think the whole point of Sundar always was that he's very obviously not a leader. He's a care taker.

I used to work in a big multi national (Nokia) with a care taker CEO (Olli Pekka Kallasvuo) who took over from the man that grew Nokia from a large but insignificant Finnish company to the smart phone behemoth it was around 2005 (Jorma Ollila). Kallasvuo presided over the emergence of the Apple's iphone and Google's Android as the two new competitors that ultimately killed it off. And did nothing whatsoever about it. The man was a bean counter whose job it was to protect the stock price.

By the time the Nokia board (under leadership of the former CEO, Ollila) appointed a new CEO (Stephen Elop, an MS executive) with the clear intention to orchestrate some collaboration with and the eventual takeover by MS, it was already too late. Nokia flailed for a few years and MS eventually pulled the plug a year after acquiring what remained of the phone business unit for next to nothing. By then the stock price had tanked, market share was in the gutter, and the value was gone. Everything the board thought they knew about smart phones was no longer relevant. Ollila got removed from the board in the aftermath.

People blame CEOs, but it's the boards of these companies that appoint these CEOs, protect them, and decline to fire them when they fail. That's where the problems are. Nothing changes until you fix the boards. It's always fixable with the right people and leadership. Just look at MS post Ballmer. In Alphabet's case, the two founders are on the board and they are the ones that put Sundar in their place. Maybe it's time for them to move on? Of course the issue is that they have a lot of shares (class B) in Alphabet. Institutional investors have about 35% of the class A shares and the rest is publicly traded. So, nothing happens until the stock nosedives. By which time it might be too late.
The kid's customers have no reason to be unhappy. They come, pay for their lemonade and go. No problem if that other one goes off and makes their own; at least it's a more fair affair and they can honestly compete on actual merits. Although it still isn't even that fair IMO as the other is still using water and sugar that isn't theirs. They should be using all their own resources from scratch.

If only the license change could be retroactive so said cloud companies had to either go to something totally different or build from scratch with their own hired team, instead of only having to fork from the last version before the change. They still have it really good, and that's why they continue to call for and abuse permissive licenses.
Identifying and Defining the Digital Self
You talking about Sir Demis Hassabis?
How many B200 GPUs is $100B? ;)
This in of itself can be legitimate. ifunc has real uses and it indeed does not work when sanitizer is enabled. Similar change in llvm: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1ef3de6b09f6b21a...
I have contracted about 1/2 my career. I love the freedom and the honesty about outcomes and money. I missed the benefits (esp group health insurance) and the sense of teamwork.
Just curious, what's the source of the excitement? Did you "do your own research"? Is there a book or a movement or some source that helped you dismiss the standard concerns from "the establishment"?
Lasse Collin has been working on xz for decades: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/0...

Now, whether his GitHub account is currently being controlled by him is another question.

Also, for some more context: In 2022, Lasse said he was struggling to work on xz and was looking for maintainers, and mentioned Jia Tan: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.h...
You’re so human after all.
Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem
Show HN: I Started Selling Physical Art Online
Reasonable attempt, but not generally accepted as true. Just ask yourself which philosophies might disagree with that statement, there's quite a long list.
My mom lived in Paradise, CA. There was at least one black bear who roamed the neighborhood because it took a dump in the middle of her lawn to proclaim ownership of their land. According to neighbors, it didn't get into garbage containers there. There were red foxes, opossum, deer, and corvids to do that.

In parts of rural, wooded America, you don't venture outside in situations where you could surprise a large animal without some sort of stabby weapon or firearm if you value your life (if they decide to charge) and that of critters (to try to scare them off).
I've recently discovered `git switch -` and `git merge -`. It switches to the previous branch you were on or merges the previous branch you were own.

No need to know the name.

So if I need to pull updates on the previous branch I was on and merge them into my current branch, I can just:

git switch -
git pull
git switch -
git merge -
pushd
popd
I think we are in furious agreement. SSPL &friends suck, if you see it, fork.
> But there is some value to knowing how far removed from me and people I trust the project authors are

That's true!
“Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.” - Colin Chapman (Lotus)
> Roosevelt himself used the term concentration camps. You learn about it euphemistically as "internment" because "they had a good reason to do it, and sometimes you know we get things wrong!!".

“Internment camps” and “concentration camps” are historical synonyms, the latter has subsequently taken on additional negative loading because of euphemistic use of the term for German extermination camps.

> The main difference between US camps and USSR camps is that the US camps were nicer and had food.

That's... A fairly substantive difference. Detaining people without just cause is bad. Doing so without food is murder.

WW2 era ethnic (primarily, but not exclusively, Japanese) internment in the US was definitely a violation of moral human rights, as were numerous post-WW2 efforts targeting people in the US of Hispanic/Latino ancestry, often on the pretext of illegal immigration. Neither was genocidal; not all bad things are genocide.
Whisper it to me lover.
so are origami. you wouldn't catch me excusing them of the mass-murder of vital, comparably aesthetically-pleasing animals
Too true. I often point out to others that a transformer like gpt-4 operates wholly on numbers- it knows nothing of meaning in the real world- nothing at all
What did Sega's blast processing actually do?
Ended my last software engineering role in 2022 and have been doing carpentry and recently welding since then. Huge pay cut. 10x the satisfaction of building something tangible. If you can afford to scale back your lifestyle, and take time to learn the skills, do it! You won’t regret it.
Also git actually stores the timezone information. You could see it is consistently China time (GMT+8).

P.S. could be Taiwanese as China and Taiwan share the same timezone.

Below are links to the git mailbox files where you could see the timezone.

From 2022:

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/c6977e740008817...

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/7c16e312cb2f40b...

From 2024:

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/af071ef7702debe...

- https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/a4f2e20d8466369...
Our VW e-Up is just below 1200kg and has 150 miles range from a 36kWh battery, fits two of us, baby seat, and Costco shopping. You can absolutely have a lightweight electric car, just be realistic about what you're getting.
And I bet if it ended up on a NATO system, things escalate quickly for the person / nation states being scrutinized (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_78170.htm)
> But then I get dozens of political donation spam messages and I wonder if Twilio and others even give a shit because they make so much money from these.

They don't care because most all political messages in any form are exempt from spam legislation, so, at worst, the impact to Twilio is perception in the market (and how many people know what companies are driving SMS communications?)
From the title it seemed to me it was something of a revival of that old thing, Project Looking Glass 3D (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass).
I tried this (or something like it) and there were a few oddities. I found I've gotten used to Cmd-Tab for switching apps and Cmd-` for switching windows within an app. Now I don't feel the need to modify the stock behavior.
Right now, fresh college grads aren't getting tech work.

Unless your coming to the table with a background in design, usability, or product management as well your not getting a job near anything technical with just "boot camp".

The only thing anyone gives a shit about at the moment is AI/ML. Thats some capital intensive work to do at scale, so masters and PHD's are all the rage.
The web of punches?
Thing is, there aren't many marketing firms that don't have (or can't buy on a work-for-hire basis) upvote/downvote networks. It's trivial to promote comments in ways that look organic. It's equally trivial to downvote commercially harmful comments into oblivion.

What's more, Reddit posts are usually actively discussed only for a day or two. But votes can be cast, and new comments can be added, for months. One strategy is to wait until the conversation has completely died down, then hijack it with new comments that somehow seem to get as many votes as they need to rise to the top. When, a year later, somebody digs up that thread on Google, they'll see the promoted comments first.

Reddit has severe structural flaws that are, I think, unfixable. In making the upvote/downvote thing a kind of game, and in enabling easy throwaway accounts whose votes are weighed in the same way as those of the longstanding accounts of regular commenters, they've naturally made their forum easy for commercial interests to game.
Yes, it inarguably is. There is no room for reasonable disagreement on this issue of objective fact. Attacking something personal—such as motive—is a personal attack.

"Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, MOTIVE, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem (emphasis added)

Arguing against preservation of an artifact—based on the the opponent's ostensible motive that "we should glorify some sick mind" who created the artifact—is a personal attack. It is unbecoming, and it is prohibited on HN.
I've been working on Logdy.dev a web based UI for browsing logs. I want to offer developers a similar experience to logs browsing on production but during development stage.

More on https://logdy.dev
I just ran the k3s install script on a vm, and then ran 'systemctl status k3s', and apparently it's using 1.4GB of memory (I haven't started any pods yet). I understand why you might opt for Kubernetes in a multi node cluster, but what does this provide in a single node cluster that you can't achieve with Docker Compose (or Podman Compose)? Not trying to be snarky, I'm legitimately curious.

EDIT: After playing around with this, it appears to scale its memory usage relative to the machine's total available memory. If you run it on a vm with 1GB or less of memory it'll use up roughly half the machine's memory.
Agreed. This a good engineering effort over at Snap. It does clustering too.

https://docs.keydb.dev/docs/cluster-tutorial/

I wished they'd release some of their "Pro" stuff and/or internal-only features.
Agreed that it doesn't do Alice any good, necessarily; but it seems that it does get information between Bob and Charlie? If the detector at Bob's site influences what Charlie would see at an aggregate level, do they have to wait for the end of the experiment to know? Couldn't they make an inference at every hour on what the detector was doing at the other end? Even if they were a lightyear away from each other.

If the answer really is that they have to wait for the end of the entire experiment, I think that settles it for me. Will think some more on it. (And again, as noted, I have not thought that hard on this. Even with my odd "would this work" you need some way to get entangled particles sent across stupid large distances. Which... already seems silly?)
Wow, I never even thought to compare Station Eleven to this adaptation of 3 Body Problem, not even the same ballpark as scripts
Fuzz testing is incredibly effective at finding gaps in the programmer’s understanding. You should read Barton Miller’s papers on fuzz testing https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/ to see how effective dumb fuzzing still is over 30 years later.
Wow. Timeline-wise this appears to be a clearly coordinated attempt, unless I'm missing something.
It's also a known fact that China will coerce people by threatening family and friends.

Seen this happen to friends here in Australia who were attending pro-Taiwan protests.
Forever, for two reasons.

1. It's a large financial hit at an already highly stressful time. It's usually also a non-optional expense.

2. It also taxes those who are childless.

We already do free childcare via K-12 education in the US via taxes, we just need to fill in the gap before that.
It’s not inherently offensive, it was the ideological statement being made by those still putting it in research papers that was objected to.
On Mapple devices, if you don't wait long enough after boot to send a message from iMessage, it will fallback to SMS and green bubble between legit Cupertino-designed devices anyhow.
Since moving to Washington, I've discovered just how easy voting can be, and how we can drive voter participation (oh, if only that's what everyone wanted). I always voted when I needed to in person in other states, but now ballots just show up in my mailbox without me even knowing there was an election; it makes having 3-4 elections every year a complete non-issue since all it involves is finding a pen, and making the trek back to my mailbox to drop it off.

I buy that it's rife for abuse in many countries, but the US has such a well-protected (legally-speaking) postal service that it's probably the best country of any I know to do mail-in voting.
That's the whole thing right - most people don't actually care about having 600 miles of range, they care about being able to "refuel" quickly. My Mercedes AMG would only do like 200 miles on a tank of fuel and I don't ever recall having any kind of range anxiety with it, because you could gain all of it back within like 5 minutes and keep going.
The GP is saying that all of the issues existed in years past. I'm saying that what happened is a lot of the current cohort of parents on this website were kids that excelled and likely did outside of school studying. For us, it may seem natural to think many of the things that you are seeing promoted on this site. That does not make these assertions true.
Diversity of color is good and all, but now you're comparing apples to humans. We're very good at knowing how her skin tones and face are supposed to look, and if something isn't right, it's nowhere near as easy for a human to visually catch the inaccuracy using exotic plants and animals.
For those who may not know, `cd -` brings you to the previous directory.
true, that is suspicious as well. A person that hasn't even created any bugs or issues suddenly has a big problem with the speed of development? Especially the way this was phrased: "You ignore the many
patches bit rotting away on this mailing list. Right now you choke your repo.
Why wait until 5.4.0 to change maintainer? Why delay what your repo needs?"

"Why delay what your repo needs?" This sounds like scammer lingo
Yes, but there was also little pressure to really build the WOT. People, like myself, did it because it was fun, but no one really relied on it. This could change, but it is still far from certain if it'd work given enough pressure.
i don't know if i agree that it possibly will be too late—but i sincerely doubt i'll be around long enough to find out one way or the other. i think that's another inherent part of the problem.
The two active maintainers seem to be: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> and Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com>

Searching DDG for "jiat0218" I came across a blog post which I found weird. Seems to be dated: 2006-05-03

Blog post: "Kuso拍賣．有靈氣的筷子 - 闕小豪" <https://char.tw/blog/post/24397301>

Internet Archive link: <https://web.archive.org/web/20240329182713/https://char.tw/b...>

The contents of the page when translated seems to be about jiat0218 auctioning a pair of spiritual chopsticks as a prank.

The blog entry is basically a QA between jiat0218 and various other people about these chopsticks.

If Jia Tan does turn out to be a compromised maintainer working for a state actor then some of the content on the blog page can be viewed in a more sinister way (i.e. spycraft / hacks for sale etc.).

Example question 38:

Question 38
accounta066 (3): Are these chopsticks really that good? I kind of want to buy
them! But I recently sent money for online shopping but didn’t receive anything.
It’s very risky; currently jiat0218 you don’t have any reviews, you can
interview me. Do you want to hand it over?! … A sincere buyer will keep it.

Reply to
jiat0218 (4): First of all, I would like to express my condolences to you for
your unfortunate experience! What can I say about this kind of thing...My little
sister has always been trustworthy. What’s more, this is a pair of spiritual
chopsticks, so I hope to have a good one. It’s the beginning! As you can see,
my little sister is very careful and takes her time when answering your
questions. Except for the two messages that were accidentally deleted by her,
she always answers your questions. If this still doesn’t reassure you, then I
can only say that I still have room to work hard. You are still welcome
to bid... ^_^

Note however, it could all just be what it purports to be which is a prank auction of spiritual chopsticks.
Priuses do use the ICE to drive the wheels though, no?
Your experience is not universal. I get very few SPAM messages or calls on my iPhone.
> I often point out to others that a transformer like gpt-4 operates wholly on numbers- it knows nothing of meaning in the real world- nothing at all

This is like saying a brain operates wholly on electrochemical states and knowns nothing about meaning in the real world, though; the mechanistic description is accurate, the cognitive conclusion attached to it is, at best, based on unsupported conjecture about the relation of mechanism to understanding.
> I'd swear I remember discussion here a handful of months ago about a startup marketing a similar EV range extender engine design.

Possibly https://liquidpiston.com

Prior discussions:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Probably not. I did some pattern of life analysis on their email/other identifiers. It looks exactly like when I set up a burner online identity- just enough to get past platform registration, but they didn't care enough to make it look real.

For example, their email is only registered to GitHub and Twitter. They haven't even logged into their Google account for almost a year. There's also no history of it being in any data breaches (because they never use it).

Burn the witch.
I set this up to provide RDP access to 10 Ubuntu lxde VM's that we used for students on a training course. It worked very well in the browser for the most part, but isn't yet quite as smooth as using Microsoft Remote Desktop client. Very impressive though :-)
Yeah that’s crazy to me as well
"To open your car door in inclement weather, go to your phone, remove your gloves, open the Tesla app, bring down your mask for FaceID, and then swipe a couple of times and hit open driver door."

> but not as bad as the TikTok videos make out

I think we have different bars for "not as bad".
imho it depends on the vuln. I've given a vendor over a year, because it was a very low risk vuln. This isn't a vuln though - this is an attack.
An asteroid could hit the earth tomorrow too.

Tossing out a bunch of hypotheticals doesnt convince me of anything as plausible and or likely.
I see California collected 69.3B & 65.5B in 2021 & 2020 respectively [1] and Texas collected 73.5B & 70.5B in 2021 & 2020 respectively [2]. This leads to more like $1732 for California & 2450 for Texas which is ~40% higher per capita in 2021.

[1] https://bythenumbers.sco.ca.gov/Raw-Data/Property-Tax-Raw-Da...

[2] https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/docs/96-172...
It's more like, addition is an XOR. (In fact, AND as mult and XOR as add are GF(2)). Throw in NOT (or, really, just a constant 1) and you can compute any circuit.

Biologically, inhibitory neurons are every bit as important as excitatory ones, so if you squint just right, XOR looks like a neuron's activation being inhibited by another presynaptic neuron.