skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (unnamed) favorite was an indie game that you could download with no payment required, but that would prompt you for a key at installation time. If you had 7zip installed, you could just hit context menu on it, do "extract all", click on <game name>.exe and there it was, the full version with no key required.
JSON is not the place to be so fussy about number widths, and things like MaxKey and 24-hex-value ObjectId would be ridiculous.
> Seattle turned a creosote saturated lakefront area into a city park. And then had to shut it down within a year, scrape all the topsoil off to a deeper depth and replace it.

You're missing the part where it has been reopened for decades.

Just, uh, don't dig or wade in the water.
It's just from some guy's office to his house, they aren't going to lay a cable across a few city blocks.
The signing accomplishes that. The chacha20 encryption with part of a public key, which is what I'm discussing above, is just obfuscation.
Google used to be fun and do them. Now they don't. The internet isn't fun anymore
Quantum computing just got hotter: One degree above absolute zero
Seems like single-byte XOR would be almost as good for obfuscation purposes, but I guess using chacha20 from the public key as a pseudo-OTP doesn't hurt.

> The only real improvement that I can see being made would be adding perfect forward secrecy so that a logged session couldn't be decrypted after the fact. But that would likely add a lot of complexity (I think you need bidirectional communication?)

Yeah.
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It's like a wilderness of mirrors.
Needs a more Bayesian understanding of the corruption stats they are using.
This is my pet peeve about Duke and Duchess of Sussex naming their kids “Archie” and “Lilibet”.

Even Harry’s birth name is “Henry” — Archie’s middle name “Harrison” is clever though.
This guy? :)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8
The Neuron vs. the Synapse: Which One Is in the Driving Seat?
95% is not as scary as it sounds. it's currently like 80% and without COVID it peaks to 85% all the time:

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data-research/dashbo...
> I'm trying to invoke broad consensus and reference to both history and cost (as independent from price).

Perhaps I'm not interpreting you correctly, but trying to compare houses in history to houses today is like trying to compare modern jetliners to the Wright Flyer. Houses have changed dramatically.

For one, houses have more than doubled in size over the last 100 years. And while I don't have size data for the previous 100 years, to my eye the typical home from 200 years ago was probably half the size again. Those early homes were tiny – just one room – with an average of 7 children living in them! The bigger the house, the higher the cost.

Secondly, we have much higher building standards today. Build a home to 1800 standards and you could build it for a song. But you'll be in violation of all kinds of codes. Those standards are not free. Not even close. Even trying to build a home to a more normal size is a code violation in many jurisdictions.

> It feels like you're not attempting to understand what I'm saying, though

I'm just waiting for you to say it. When I asked you point blank what "shortage" added to a sentence, all I got back was "I have no more detail to give to my argument".

> That is the type of situation I am trying to refer to.

Got it. Yes, if price is able to rise then demand can adjust as the market needs. That is a normally functioning market. When price is not able to rise then something has broken down. That unique situation is deserving of unique identification – to have a word to describe it. What word do you suggest?

A normally functioning market doesn't mean you can get what you want, of course. "Normally functioning" is not in reference to quality of life, or ensuring that you have a roof over your head, or whatever, it just refers to behaviour matching a certain economic model.
I just finished reading Kernighan & Pike's The Unix Programming Environment this weekend, and it has a lot of awk. I read it more as a history book (it was published 40 years ago!), but the awk parts were a highlight, second only to the long penultimate chapter building your own calculator/programming language. It kind of made we want to learn more than just the basics I've been using for almost 25 years. But it also recalled Larry Wall's intro in Learning Perl, and how Perl started as a "better awk". That intro is really a direct response to K&P's book I think. So I don't know. I loved Perl in those days, and I agree about how not everything is doable as a shell pipeline. But a second edition makes me want to read it anyway. :-)
I read about random bit flips but haven't read a good anecdote about it, if anyone can be so kind.
hahahah. Now I can't stop imagining Koko as a startup marketing manager
Yes, the only issue is the usage of tokens, which is obviously greater as we are sampling more of the solutions space. But it's a compromise to have GPT-4.5 level intelligence with GPT-4.
And? You mentioned that masks were harmful to children, without citing a single reliable source.
Far more housing than before? No… housing is being built at lower numbers than ever… that’s precisely why property values have increased—when you restrict supply and increase demand (via immigration) then the price equilibrium pushes prices up. It’s borderline market manipulation. And there are so many different areas of California… Bay Area and Southern California surely are not representative of Central California or anything north of Marin county. Yes, if you’re rich and insulated in a nice neighborhood where houses cost $2m you’re probably pretty happy. If you’re living in Antioch or some area where sideshows happen and you see homeless people more often than you see cops… I’d bet you feel different.
Interestingly, Mistral Large “wins” sometimes, and at least provides unique results in comparison.
> what did we learn

Minimise attack surfaces at all costs. For every thwarted attack there are likely other successful ones
1 is circular.

2 invites our prejudice for how we think conscious could work.
Also general failure to even attempt prosecution of the politically well-connected and powerful, unless of course other well-connected people were harmed or allege harm
That assumes that the model is assigning vanishingly small weights to truly incorrect answers, which doesn't necessarily hold up in practice. So I think "Unless you screw something" is doing a lot of work there

I think a more correct explanation would be that increasing temperature doesn't necessarily increase the probability of a truly incorrect answer proportionately to the temperature increase (because the same correct answer could be represented by many different sequences of tokens), but if the model assigns a non-zero value to any incorrect output after applying softmax (which it most likely does), increasing the temperature does increase the probability of that incorrect output being returned.
Even on low-volume projects I've noticed reliability issues with Fly.io too. For example today we have requests timing out at the gateway (before hitting our services) while the status page indicates their current outage is only related to delayed app logs [0][1]. Haven't gone deep enough with the other new-ish PaaS providers (like Render and Railway) to get a feel for their limitations.

Unless you're certain you need K8s and have the in-house expertise to support it, I'd suggest going for Fargate or Cloud Run. Are there any requirements that you're concerned they won't meet?

- [0] https://status.flyio.net/incidents/q4tvqhthjmsy
- [1] https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1774874993618255977
Paradoxical solution to affordability crisis: individuals take on even more debt
This line style API was included MATLAB[0] (and perhaps designed elsewhere earlier) in the Olden Days where terseness was both more necessary (due to space and performance constraints) and more accepted. MATLAB development started in the 60s, though this DSL was likely added in the 80s.

Later, Python's matplotlib library started life as an emulator for MATLAB graphics in Python so naturally included the same plotting DSL.

Only later still did matplotlib morph into the defacto general Python plotting library. And then because plotting is so complex and matplotlib exposes so much control, most subsequent plotting libraries were based on matplotlib, opting to add value via high-level abstractions and better defaults, often exposing the underlying matplotlib objects to allow for fine-tweaking. And so the linestyle API leaks into those libraries too.

All of that to say, this DSL was likely invented by a scientist in a lab in 1981 and has survived through inertia and "jumping hosts" a couple times, rather than careful design.

I think the DSL is bad. And the matplotlib developers may agree, because while you can pass a combo like "ro--", you can also pass these parameters separately and more descriptively like

color='#f00', linestyle='dashed', marker=matplotlib.markers.CARETDOWNBASE

[0] https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/specify...
(especially given the recent price increase) I hate having to recommend this, but pay for youtube premium (family edition), you'll get 6 accounts in the fam sub. I use one fore each of us and one for the family TV account.

Then setup each kid with their own accounts and add them to the fam sub.

1) this removed the absolutely revolting adverts. and revolting aside, it stops the videos being interrupted. Kids these days self educate with youtube videos (my sone taught himself to code via youtube videos). you dont want adverts interrupting that process. (I live in hope that one day youtube will let premium subscribers turn off "shorts")

2) log into the kids youtube accounts after they have gone to bed every few days and unsubscribe them from the rubbish you know they'll click the sub button for, and then subscribe them to things you'd like them to see more often. They will have no idea you;re guiding their viewing experience.
Was Yahoo Mail any better? Or even a free email from a web host? I always assumed I was giving up some privacy.

But Gmail swallowed up email, and that is so much tougher to forgive.
I always trust S3, tried and tested. The others aren't really production ready or proven.
> Only Jerry Brown has had the strength and skill to balance a budget in decades.

California has, like most states, Constitutionally-mandated balanced operating budget (it does have a bit of reserve fund which can be used to avoid immediate cuts when revenue projected in the balanced budget falls short, so it can end up with some deficit from bad projection, but that is pretty limited); it cannot monetize spending since it doesn't issue its own currency, and borrowing (which it can do for capital projects) takes voter approval.

Jerry Brown didn't do anything that unusual in balancing budgets, but what he did do is risk political capital to take ending the supermajority requirement to pass a budget to the voters, succeed, and thereby end the annual (good times or bad) minority blockade budget crisis that made California effectively ungovernable.

(Unfortunately, the supermajority rule for tax increases—which applies to any tax pokicy shift that is includes any increase in any situation—remains, preventing most tax policy shifts in practice.)

> Notably, the current Gov started tenure with a substantial surplus, and mysteriously now has record deficits again.

Its not really a mystery—the sources of volatility are well known, the swing (though not the precise magnitude) was predicted, and why the Governor argued for changes that would allow greater transfers to reserves in years of predicted surplus, rather than returning as much projected surplus revenue directly as is currently required.
You think people in Fresno, Bakersfield, Redding or Lancaster are better off than someone in Denmark? Is your only measurement the net worth of the person and not actually anything else like time off or life expectancy? The only people in California doing better are in Bay Area or coastal cities in Southern California or Tahoe. The rest of the state is worse off than the Midwest or rural Texas.
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Very cool! Form builders are really fun applications to build and teach you a lot about more advanced relational models (like polymorphic relations)

I scrapped together a form-builder-with-payments using RoR and RailsAdmin last year for my club and ended up spinning it off into a pay-per-use SaaS[1].

As it turns out, forms are a fundamental aspect of a LOT of things, and offering free use tools can change the game for clubs or organizations looking to keep their data in one place.

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TL;DR: A tree grew into the signal path. Rain weighed it down, bending it out of the way.
There were several. Clay tablets from Ugarit, a Linear B tablet from Pylos, cuneiform tablets from Hattusa (in the decades before the city was abandoned), and several records from Egypt during the reigns of Merneptah and Ramesses III.
California is ranked 15th in dollars collected per house by property tax.

In terms of "property tax as a percentage of personal income" it is only 24th.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/us-property-taxes-by-sta...
I think thats a gizzard conspiracy theory-capitalism
Flutter is currently required for the parent app, but I'll be lifting that requirement very soon. Stay tuned!
High-fidelity spin qubit operation and algorithmic initialization above 1Kelvin
Is there another library besides matplotlib (and its derivatives) that use this "linespec" format? And doesn't matplotlib's API derive from Matlab?

What's worse, using a terse linespec syntax and being stuck in Matlab-world, or using a terse linespec syntax in Python, and at least possibly being exposed to relatively modern and maintainable software practices?
It could be they are just waiting for the switch 2 to really focus on it. Somebody mentioned how atlus never removes denuvo and also aren't releasing persona 3 for the switch, but will release it for the switch 2.
That announcement came on March 29th. So I guess not.
I'd strongly recommend against this default - it's a major blocker for using the Haskell library with web APIs as it transforms JSON RPC into into readily available denial of service attacks.

8 billion digits (~100 bits?) is far more than should be used.

Would it possible to use const generics to expose a `BigDecimal<N>` or `BigDecimal<MinExp, MaxExp, Precision>` type with bounded precision for serde, and disallow this unsafe `BigDecimal` entirely?

If not, I expect BigDecimal will be flagged in a CVE in the near future for causing a denial of service.
Fair enough! Thank you for the writeup.
zstd (tries to) link to liblzma by default.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/dev/CHANGELO...

See v1.3.0

I compile it statically without xz/lzma support
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They know that we want smaller, cheaper vehicles, they just don’t care. They can throttle down supply and make it so you have no choice but to buy something big and expensive. They advertise small vehicles on the website but they make sure that your local dealership doesn’t have any on the lot- classic bait and switch. They know exactly what they’re doing.
I think it actually replaces an army of junior engineers or your offshore development house. The real engineering continues while the grunt work is farmed out to AI. It also kills the junior engineer since there will be years where they are less valuable than something with a marginal cost close to zero.
> One of the best tools is to be a role model for the kids.

It is a good model, but it depends on the age of the kid too.
More mature kids will follow through, but all of them, including adults, will need help when the attack is strong from online companies.
BEADS!?!?
Microwaves use the 2.4ghz spectrum but typically not with any real precision which means that while in use they just tank the 2.4ghz spectrum.

*As an aside, one of my favorite things I get to do at work is when onboarding new Jr. Net Engineers is getting them take our spectrum analyzer into our office kitchen and instructing them to watch the spectrum turn bright red while I make a bag of popcorn.

Anyhow to get to your question, the best answer would be to get some distance between your microwave and set-up you're using with the headset. Otherwise if that isn't possible, then you'll want some headphones that does use 2.4ghz. Replacing the microwave will likely not fix the problem since they all use 2.4ghz band for cooking and at least I've never seen one shielded well enough that it didn't impact others while in use.
Which one is it? Go, Ruby or Elixir?

I feel like these multi-lingual postings are just scams to trick people into working on a legacy Java stack...
> Why would you expect a person to be able to afford a family on minimum wage? Why would you even want that?

Society needs children to survive - someone has to pay the pensions after all, at least in common "societal contract" systems, otherwise people will have to literally work until they die.

For that in turn, society needs at least a replacement fertility rate, and usually there is a close negative correlation between wealth and amount of children (i.e. the wealthier people get, the less children they have), so it makes sense to strengthen the ability particularly of the lower classes to have children.
There are more houses in California than before, and the sum of their value has probably far outpaced any other state. There's no shortage of usable land here. And well, don't live in the bad part of Antioch.
Thanks for the suggestions! I do have a CO alarm and don't have a gas line to the house so I doubt it's that. It may just be nothing, but I'd rather err on the side of caution, so I'll get some blood work done and see if it's something to be concerned with.
Isn’t that set of videos from a well known right wing grifter and a bunch of stuff was written about him not that long ago?
Also it may br a coincidence but JiaT75 looks a lot like Transponder 7500 which in aviation means hijacked...
Probably even higher jump as the models have some amount of unique training data, and they are fact-checking each other, to a more common “truth”, and hallucinations are weeded out.
A Million Simulations, One Verdict for US Economy: Debt Danger Ahead
The COVID restrictions here were only removed last year so that makes sense.
For anyone who hasn’t read “Soul of a new machine”, Data General was the company featured. This book by Gary Kidder is a great read, and an insight into the computer era of the time.
https://archive.is/sHWuC
And unfortunately I see nothing to suggest it’ll fail at that objective.

US politics look like an unmitigated shitshow even before the stirring from outsiders
Trump isn't remotely anti-war. The man launched more drone strikes than Obama, increased military spending to record levels, launched cruise missiles into Syria, escalated American military activity in Yemen and Afghanistan and threatened war with North Korea over Twitter.
This is a good point.

It's not widely known, but US gasoline prices are actually in a defined currency unit, the mill (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)).

For most purposes, using mills as the base unit would be sufficient resolution.
Hedonic Hyperphagia: salsa, salad, chilies, oh my
True though - a bunch of places that would kill to have any California problem and nobody wants to move to try to put a “diss track” out on California.

It’s pretty funny.
It's rather trivial to fake git commits.

Basing this stuff on email times (especially replies to emails sent that same day) would be more relevant. However. if this operation was pulled off with the precision and opsec that it seems to have been, I wouldn't be too surprised if whatever group is behind this attack would've sent over + funded a developer somewhere in a time zone of their choice.

No doubt any nation state is able to station someone in Russia/Israel/one of the n-eyes countries.

I doubt OSINT will figure out who is really behind this, but I'm sure governments will, soon enough. Whether or not they report the truth of their findings, and if one should trust the official reporting, is yet another tough question.
So a big reproducible build issue.
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