skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now I increasingly see it as collaborating with a hostile and adversarial marketing giant.

I'm genuinely stunned that they're still getting away with it: flooding the user with "switch to Edge!"[0] popups at every opportunity is begging for legal trouble; they are very clearly using the presence of their OS to boost Edge market share.

I'm sure you're aware, but that's just one of the ways they force Edge on the end-user. As of now, they've made it harder to change browsers[1] (which was then reverted), forced Search[2] and Settings (among others) links to open in Edge with Bing, deliberately broke software that undoes this[3] (EdgeDeflector was later abandoned[6]), added full-screen interstitial adverts for Edge[4] and plenty more.

Once the media gets wind of the new changes, the most common backpedal is that "this feature is just being tested for Insiders". If they weren't intent upon rolling it out, why would they write the code for the Insiders branch in the first place? A very poor excuse. This is not to mention that most nags are in stable now.

All this is monopolistic at best, and downright illegal at worst.

With a bit more time, I could probably find more of these. I definitely remember the occassional Edge popup nag when you were using Firefox or Chrome, wherein the nag would proudly proclaim that Edge is much lighter on resources. EDIT: Found it[5].

[0]: https://news.thewindowsclub.com/windows-10-warns-users-to-us...

[0.1]: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-its-own-edge-brow...

[0.2]: https://www.gadgets360.com/laptops/news/microsoft-windows-10...

[0.3]: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/15/chrome_bing_microsoft...

[0.4]: https://www.theverge.com/23935029/microsoft-edge-forced-wind... (List of just some nags.)

[0.5]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f0psu6/this_must... (Inline advert for Edge in Search.)

[0.6]: https://imgur.com/vgrZaEp (Image of a different popup in Windows Search encouraging a switch to Edge.)

[0.7]: https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/09/30/windows-search-noti...

[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/744102/windows-11-makes-it-hard-to...

[1.1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/3/22815209/microsoft-window...

[2]: https://superuser.com/questions/1338909/how-to-change-the-br...

[3]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/15/22782802/microsoft-block...

[3.1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/16/this-simple-script-will-ma...

[4]: https://www.techradar.com/news/think-youre-annoying-windows-... (A full-screen advert to switch to Edge. I believe this was after an update restarted the machine.)

[5]: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/windows-10-anti-chrome-al... (Popup of Windows 10 claiming Edge saves battery-life; this is shown when Google Chrome is open.)

[6]: https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector (Abandoned on Mar 23, 2022.)

(Apologies for the link farm, but I believe it's important to remember what they've done so far.)
Sorry for your loss.

I'm actually surprised the sentence is this low. This is Bernie Madoff territory.

This doesn't get you your money back. It doesn't even necessarily make you feel better so what's the point? This gets into the philosophy of a criminal justice system.

The noble idea behind the criminal justice system is to be restorative. The offender is to be reformed so they don't repeat their crimes and can become productive members of society. This is why we push for things like education in prison, access to mental health treatment and so on. It's for our collective good. Unfortunately, the criminal justice system in the US is predominantly retributive. We punish to make ourselves feel better. There is a ton of evidence of this and it lays bare other societal issues (eg racial disparity in sentencing).

One big argument is whether heavy sentences prevent others from committing crimes. This has been used to justify, for example, three strikes laws and 10+ year sentences for mere drug possession at the height of the war on drugs. None of this works. Such crimes are the result of over-policing, up-charging by prosecutors and material conditions.

But where it actually works is with rich people. Why? Because you fine a company or a rich person and that becomes the cost of doing business. It's factored in. But depriving the wealthy of their liberty is something the wealthy want to desperately avoid.

Case in point: the Sackler family, who are hugely responsible for the opiod epidemic by knowingly lying about the addictiveness of Oxycontin. If I had my way, the Sacklers would have every asset they own seized and they would all spend the rest of their lives in a prison cell.

Put SBF's sentence in context: this Californian man was sentenced to 10 years for carjacking and robbing a gas station with a BB gun [1]. That's roughly half of SBF's sentence. Who do you think has done more societal harm?

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/los-angeles-man-sentenc...
In particular, CBW ("Crypt Breakers Workbench") was a popular curses-based decoder "game" in the late 1980s - it would display a block, you'd start typing known plaintext, and it would constraint-propagate what was possible/impossible given that. (IIRC it took more than one block to recover the key, but it would copy "known wirings" to later pages.) That definitely pushed it into "widely known" and relatively low effort (IIRC crypt(1) is a 256-element rotor, not a 26-element one like actual Enigma; I vaguely recall the symmetry actually made it cryptographically worse :-)
This one should have you covered :-) one out of every eight layers is a traditional Transformer layer, which should ensure precision, at least over short distances.
Good call, we should highlight this
This is how I read it as well. If the rest of Judaism is like this I might consider converting to it.
I went in the same direction for the return of my own blog that I'm doing at the moment. My logic was much the same as in the article: most users to a blog have probably found it via Google or a link aggregator, and probably won't have the site in cache. They will probably visit one, possibly two pages, so they're unlikely to get much of a benefit from caching resources once they arrive. Therefore the (amortised) connection cost for fetching the CSS resource is still going to be further for most users than the extra few kB of inline CSS.

It was also very easy to do - the static site generator I was using could still read the source CSS file and insert it into the template, just instead of inserting it as a link, I told it to insert the (minified and CSS-escaped) source into a style tag instead. I even had it set up so that it could create the link in dev-mode, and the style tag in production, although I think that was overkill!

The impact on site traffic is really interesting to see here, though. That surprised me a lot, that it would have such a measurable effect. I'm always surprised that other sites just don't seem to care about these sorts of things, and then produce painfully slow sites, usually full of ads.
Yup, I'm really surprised by people defending Lewis. Don't get me wrong, I own most of his books but his 60 minutes interview about SBF was a cringe fest.
truly the darkest side of these is the opportunity to exploit
if someone shares a document with the internet with read/write access, can I upload smut (or anything very naughty or illegal) onto their google doc from some anon connection/account? Can I get them banned thusly?
Can I log into their wifi and post threats on whatever renowned toxic boards and again, get a person in trouble?

The problem with the right-think industrial complex is the heavy hand itself can be fooled easily and thus weaponized.
> White collar criminals, especially those as pedigreed as SBF, are rarely held accountable for their actions.

Eg, Andy Bernstein got charged $200, scaled down to FAANG engineer salary for insider trading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838351
Yeah Canva is a cool inspiration of a huge library of very good assets.
Sure they could plug a device which sniffs or rewrites CAN frames right into the OBD-II port or the 38 pin port on the Benz. I have done so myself even. I'm not worried about it one bit. Someone would have to specifically want to target me, and if they have access to my car they also have (much easier) access to my house. I am not worried about that either.

Look, if you want to really mess up a car all you need is a pair of needle nose pliers. Locate the brake lines where the hard line meets the soft line going to each caliper, and squash each hard line to crack it just enough that fluid starts to slightly weep out. When the driver first steps on the brakes in earnest the fluid will flow out, and eventually (maybe 5-10 braking events later) the brakes will no longer work.

Again, my threat model does not include someone targeting me specifically. If someone wants to hurt me or vandalize my property they're not gonna do it by writing some esoteric computer program. If you connect your car to the Internet the threat model needs to expand to include "bulk" attacks, which I suspect are actually much more likely.
It'll come down even more as blobs are increased, and PeerDAS is implemented
The point of the punishment is to tell you how much we don’t want you to do it. You get life for murder because we really don’t want people killing people. Fleecing them out of money is bad, but we can (literally) print more of it. Once someone is dead we can’t bring them back.

Your analysis is flawed because you’re looking at the problem from the vantage of collective outcomes. A murderer is one person who is making a decision to take an action that can end one or many lives. You want them to weigh that heavily as an absolute cost (I will go to prison forever if caught) not some relative cost (well if I just murder a little then I’ll only get a little punishment).
> Solution scalable to over 1500 tonnes of effective lifting capacity, with no height restrictions.

Fascinating tech, very nicely done. I love it.
> You know when he gets out he is gonna go unlock a dead wallet with 100BTC (or some other coin) in it and become an expat.

This assumes both that he has such a wallet and that BTC will still be worth something when he gets out.
Gemini 1.5 Pro is really good at long context in my experience.
In case anyone has not tried it, the Dyson Sphere Project on Steam is tremendous fun. A different spin on the Factorio gameplay loop.

I completed it before combat was added, and enjoyed the low stress environment.
Also see https://www.localeur.com/
Surprised they hadn't found ways to advance their techniques with e.g. low-rank approximations, etc.
Show HN: NestJS Inspired Ajax Router for WordPress
I recently needed to make 20+ ajax endpoints, and I got annoyed at the amount of boilerplate code needed, so I reinwented the wheel and implemented NestJS controller mechanisms in WP.
There is always money in the banana stand.
Maybe it speaks as a deterrent to some people and not others. That's OK.
Same reason people virtualize dozens to hundreds of machines in one box, hardware efficiency.

I don't understand this sentiment.
Climate change is everything and nothing, it's so insidious that you can't predict it accurately nor measure it at a short time-scale yet it uniquely explains recent and regular weather events and spikes in commodity prices. Might as well blame everything on witches.
That’s all NYT links for the last 5 years or so. Annoying, but someone usually posts the archive link soon.
According to modern economics, labor is one of the factors of production, the others being land, capital, and entrepreneurship.
I think the idea of "decentralized moderation" misses the point of why people ultimately want moderation to begin with.

People didn't want to ban Trump from twitter because they didn't want to see him. They didn't want anyone to see him because they didn't want him to galvanize his base.
The trick is that he still had the option of going to other websites (that no one uses) but obviously that came at the cost of losing most of his audience.
Switching moderators or such won't do that.
The bitter lesson, my dude. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

If you find a simpler, trainable structure you might be onto something

Attempts to get fancy tried and died
Not really, if you already know vim or emacs well enough.

You don't need to worry about modes or plugins for language syntax highlighting for most file types as it's built in.
Tropospheric ducting is a thing... [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation
no single crime, violent or not, really challenges the state's monopoly on violence
I'm sorry, as an AI language model, it would not be ethical for me to build a dyson swarm around the sun. Perhaps I can help you do something useless instead?
Yes, unfortunately it seems that the Scintilla codebase is far from async-ready which will make it a challenge to support new stuff like LSP. We might get tree-sitter parsing support, though.
Well, it depends on model how you manage servers. Cattle vs Pets. And of course true for takeover, thats nightmare whatever it have uptime or not ;)

I have just several servers here and there so their are all pets to me. Im 99% sure, server would boot cleanly. The remaining 1% is HW failure, with, can happen.

Example: I have a software FW running on some older HW here w/ 2 disks in Soft RAID 1. I had to power it down for 2 days due to electric maintenance in building. What a suprise was booting it. One disk failed right away making creepy noise. Other was ok, but server was booting long, so I hooked up monitor to check things out. Well, second disk was NOT in good condition either, it started to spit I/O errors here and there. Anyway. I managed to boot FW to working state, but immediatly got spare HW and started preparing for replacement. Now it runs 3 disks in Soft RAID 1 :)
Yeah, I don't want all the history and stuff. I also don't want any sort of upstream connection from it. I just want the code. A snapshot of a working repo with no connections or dependencies to anything.
> We have our space elevator!

Out of context, that sounds like a kite. Can it be used in locations that are not very windy (like, for example, space)?
> Even with 10k codes (2 days) you get dozens of duplicates, so I'd say it's potentially even more common.

Yeah I screwed up here, at the end:

> Sqrt of a million is a thousand, and if they're every 30 seconds, that's ~8 hours or so. So you probably get a duplicate or 2 every day.

You'd get 1 or 2 every day (approx.) if you're only, at any point, looking at the collection of codes generated in the past 8 hours. But of course that wasn't the question, and the odds go way up once the period we're looking at goes larger and larger over time.

I shouldn't have tried to go beyond "ballpark if you wait 8 hours you have a coinflip of having at least one duplicate", anything more than that requires different math.
This sounds like a persiflage. But I have the feeling it's not?

How do they use blockchain? Can you tell it without jargon?
GNU Make Standard Library v1.2.1 released
I don’t understand the game.

I tapped the screen maybe 30 times and went through it typing to itself and failing and succeeding at different tasks.

If I kept going would I eventually get to type something?
Web tech magic
Nice, but sadly no arachnids in sight…
I appreciate the sentiment, but it sounds a bit like the case of I.T. vis-à-vis the NSA. As James Bamford said, one expects+assumes that the NSA is way ahead of the state of the civilian art. They have the budget.

Likewise this case. As an OTL civvie I'd expect that this tech under discussion lags whatever .mil is up to. Out to launch!
You're winning because the goal is always to be in a room where you aren't the smartest!
> Deterrence Theory is back-justification to make yourself feel good

Retribution is a valid component of justice.[1]

[1] Stolen from another commenter above
IPv6 masquerading for egress on microk8s on EC2
> it was just indifference.

Absolutely spot on, and to paraphrase Tallyrand, it was worse than a crime, it was indifference.
> They wanted all the reward of putting money into unprotected and unregulated schemes and now many cry that the risks didn't go their way.

Is that not just victim blaming? This was not an investment gone bad, this was stolen funds. It would be one thing if they lost all their money because BTC value dropped to zero. But SBF stole the money.
Twitter-RoBERTa-Base for Sentiment Analysis
Milo of Kroton
>> DNA epigenetic changes near the synapse are a key part of maintaining the "weight" or strength of that particular connection.

What do you mean by "near the synapse"? Is there DNA outside the nucleus or something? Is there DNA that maps (corresponds to) the synaptic pattern of the neuron?
Every neuron in the brain has unique DNA and ancestorship - ongoing record of neuronal life history.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aab1785 (2015) : Somatic mutations create nested lineage trees, allowing them to be dated relative to developmental landmarks and revealing a polyclonal architecture of the human cerebral cortex. Thus, somatic mutations in the brain represent a durable and ongoing record of neuronal life history, from development through postmitotic function.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-surpri...
In not sure I understood your question.

This model should have much lower computational cost since only one out of eight layers is a traditional transformer layer with masked self-attention. Additionally, half of the Mamba layers are MoEs.
Both are completely immoral.
Discourse is not a centralized platform, so it's up to individual sites to ensure they're compliant with data and privacy regulations.
This TV station guy packs 4K video transmission on 18 Mbps RF channel [1].

Mind you most of networking high bandwidth real-time transfer and processing is just another low bandwidth batch processing accumulation.

Personally I am working on a new robust and low latency wireless PHY based on polarization that can work even with non line of sight (NLoS) that perhaps can do away with retries, but we shall see.

[1]TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 [video]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727651
Teams sucks everywhere.
> Xerox executives had always responded that though they did not successfully compete in the computer market, they got a huge return on their investment by commercializing the laser printer technology PARC invented.

>But many researchers who were at PARC’s halcyon early days said that its strength was that their research was unconstrained by the need to create a specific product — a notion that seems hard to imagine in today’s product-oriented Silicon Valley.

The "but" is not necessary there. Both are true. Printers became a $2B a year business.

Coulda been so much more? Absolutely.
They don't stack like that, there is a curve with points and considerations like if it's your first time offending and the malice involved. Those points correlate to years. Judges don't have to follow the points, but they almost always do and if they don't, may have to explain it or have their case messed with in appeals
Seconding Dyson Sphere Program its great, though it can be a bit of a tale of 2 games. Pre-ILs and Post-ILs which can get a bit samey since most of your production stacks become relatively samey. You can turn off the combat enemies, though honestly I'm enjoying my play through with them because they force a lot more consideration in not only how you expanded but why and when you expand.
You can be sure there's a healthy reserve put aside in his parents' name.
> The US government has no obligation to recognize BTC as a measure of fungible value.

And the very next reply says these are unregulated schemes. So what does the USG's opinion on BTC have to do with FTX's obligation to return the assets deposited with it, or whether their renumeration constitutes 'making customers whole'?
“Nondeternimism” gets used jn a variety of ways both from differing context and conflicting uses in the same context, but chaotic systems are fully deterministic in the most common relevant sense, but highly sensitive to inputs, resulting in even very small uncertainty in inputs to render them largely unpredictable.
This is the "random linear projections as memorization technique" perspective on Transformers. It's not a new idea per se, but nice to see it fleshed out.

If you dig into this perspective, it does temper any claims of "cognitive behavior" quite strongly, if only because Transformers have such a large capacity for these kinds of "memories".
> Fleecing them out of money is bad, but we can (literally) print more of it. Once someone is dead we can’t bring them back.

The math of my argument was that with money, you can save lives, i.e., prevent people from dying. I don't believe the govt can print as much as it likes without hurting the economy (and thus people) in some other way.

The core of my argument is that defrauding billions of dollars causes deaths of dozens of people indirectly. Is that better than directly causing a death? I am not accussing anyone; just asking what I think is an interesting question.
GTK+ 3 and 4 are quite visually ugly, but you can get Windows classic-styled themes for both (from Chicago95 and B00merang project respectively) that will make them far more usable.
https://archive.ph/M9OPc
I don't know for sure, but "hype guy" probably means self-employed and companies pay his company for that sort of thing. That is available for blue-collar felons also.
The commit with more details on that perf change is:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/fcfba90d0d27a1...

A summary of other changes just released in GNU coreutils 9.5 are:

- mv accepts --exchange to swap files

- env accepts --argv0 to override command name

- od supports half precision floating point formats

- timeout fixes various races

- chmod -R avoids symlink replacement attack

For all the release details see:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2024-0...
I think your usage/quote was bold but appropriate.
I don’t think that premise holds. With the exception of sugar beets, crops are largely net negative in terms of energy production. You don’t create a more efficient system by adding layers of inefficiency.
I would expect iOS/macos to put up a big red badge when the webkit currently being viewed is not sandboxed by the O/S.
Genuinely trying not to be an ass but is it significantly “gayer” than Caravaggio’s life actually was?
You could make the same argument for a lot of software tech startups.

If you develop state-of-the-art data infrastructure software, novel data processing capabilities, or some other advanced software tech, it is routine to have an org under the US DoD as one of the earliest pilot customers. It is an open secret but many startups pretend like this isn't a standard part of that kind of business. The US DoD is a sophisticated early adopter of a lot of tech at a stage before most commercial enterprises are willing to engage.

The average person on the street may be a bit naive about this but the majority of deep tech startups are de facto "dual use" and none of this should be a surprise to someone that works in deep tech.
Show HN: Flaticron – mail notifications for pending Flatpak updates
Hey! your app looks really cool, and what really amazed me is how fast it loads (I won't make any opinion on how many trips or itineraries it has now).
As regarding UI a few tips:
- when opening an itinerary, it'll be great if I can close it just clicking outside it.
- when searching for a city/place, it'll be great if the photo changes to actually that place ;) (I was somehow confused that always I see the machu pichu photo).
What are you saying? There's a "test-cases" folder in the "prover" folder you linked to a search of.

Not sure why it doesn't show up in GitHub's search, but it's right there in front of both of our faces.