skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years

This whole idea is almost aggressively stupid. We're talking about a bigger gap than all of recorded history.

The civilisation we're trying to communicate with either doesn't see this waste heap as even a minor threat, or the situation is so dire that radiation poisoning doesn't matter. This is even more futile than the vikings trying to send us a message that we need to keep an eye out for depleting our lumber stocks.
Article is not about becoming a pro - it is about creating a company that doesn't fold like most of companies.

Most startup companies are run by amateurs and that is advice for amateurs.

People who have experience already stuff that is in article ;)
No Dunder-Mifflin Method?
I’m not sure that all counter-espionage problems are necessarily crimes, in the sense that a specific law was violated.
>That said, correct me if I’m wrong, but, as far as I understand, what Redis Ltd did, they could do regardless of the license. Copyleft wouldn’t have stopped them, given the CLA.

Redis never had a CLA and Redis Ltd does not hold the copyright for the work, it's held in aggregate by all contributors. Redis Ltd did use a CLA for their products surrounding Redis, like RedisJSON, but Redis itself did not use a CLA.

>To people outside of Redis Ltd who don’t want to be Redis Ltd customers this move is indistinguishable from them just closing down business and stopping development of Redis.

Redis Ltd was only ever responsible for about 20% of the development of Redis. If they wanted to shut down operations in good faith they would just hand it over to the other 80% to manage. Instead they used their trademark to try and do a hostile takeover of the IP.
I really wish people developing local applications would allow users to specify an API endpoint. Most applications use an OpenAI compatible API, and if they don't the browser's implementation of local model inference can be used.
Careful to not propagate the stupid Russian propaganda that aims to hide all the stupid things the Russians are up to.
That would be far from unlikely.

But have we seen anything that would require more than a very smart individual with some time on his hands?
It seems many domestic hosted smtp servers are served as spam, even after an history of legit traffic. Pure IP SMTP or SPF forbid spoofing with proper analysis of headers, namely we would be talking about pown accounts or servers.

But how to verify that? Only gmail people can tell us. And even then, we would have to trust people which interest is to kill alternative SMTP services.
Chemical batteries, potential (pumped water) and kinetic (flywheel) batteries.
Do those tie into Python syntax conventions? That seems to be the over riding theme of the dunder methods in the article.

If not, dunder methods do not seem appropriate.
Maps I've seen of the water in the affected area (I'm not sure what the technical term is, nautical chart?) indicate that the channel depth near the bridge is alittle over 15m deep. According to Wikipedia, at its heaviest the dali sits on the shallow side of 15m below the water. I'm not sure what you could reasonably do to impede a ship with such little room.
> Also "writing a shopping list for a party" can be boring (or at least I might definitely enjoy some external support), it doesn't turn me into a cog of the "system", or does it?

It is a step in that direction. It is one tiny step to making you less dependent on others. Yes, that single step may not seem like much, but over time, it transforms the social act of a party further towards being a commodity. More resources and more energy are put to use so that you are less likely to ask another person for help. And then there's the matter of having to interact more and more with technology, and spend less time without it, which itself transforms you into a person more habitauted to interact technologically.

Perhaps the next step will be a party where some of the participants are AI, or where some of your friends join by virtual reality. Or perhaps some of them will have an AI assistant that will help them complete their sentences so that they don't have to be fully present, or it will help them show the pictures they took, lots of which have been AI augmented.

The point is that all these small steps lead to the greater mechanization of the human being, which destroys the possibility of more genuine relationships and community.
Opera was the reason CSS exists.
For years in my 20s I considered myself mildly depressed. Not a go-see-a-therapist or take medication depressed, but I felt a general malaise that something was missing. This was also the time when I was living alone in cities. Then I moved to the suburbs and started seeing kids go off to school again. I had a small backyard and had some agency in what my living arrangements were. I could reliably drive to a location and know I'd find parking.

Everyone is different, but man... I'm the guy that likes to fire up the bbq and chat with neighbors in the backyard while the kids are who knows where (but safe) in the sprawl. Seeing a teenager in their first job at an ice cream shop sort of reinvigorates my sense of community. These are things I recognize and grew up with, and everyone has different upbringings, but the suburbs are where I'm happiest.

I also realize this might be a very American skew. Living in cities with children feels a lot more normal in Europe.
I always use "zstd --long=31 -T0 -19" to compress disk images, since that is a usecase where it generally offers vastly superior compression to xz, deduplicating across bigger distances.

XZ offers slightly better compression on average, but decompression is far slower than Zstd.
It's "Elo", not "ELO" (it's not an acronym).
The language comes first then the applications. There’s a reason the order of topics evolved the way it has.
> If society is collapsing who will cover up the hole?

You pre-wire the site for demolition and set a countdown timer: if the counter is not resent regularly it goes down to zero and the charges go off sealing things off.

Society is needed to prevent closing things off, so if it's gone then it happens without intervention.

If they accidentally go off, then things are fail-safed closed, and you have to expend resources to re-open things. If you don't want (or have) the resource to re-open then you don't have to worry about it.
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I've always had a problem with browser tabs and I know many others who do too. The problem is, once you start retaining reading material for later, it quickly piles up. People often have hundreds of tabs open across their various devices that cover many different topics. And it becomes impossible to organise them or even get through all of them.

As the context capabilities of LLMs grew, we thought we could finally solve this problem. So we decided to give it a shot and see how far we can get. It turns out that it’s super demanding for today’s models, but with some optimisations and experimentation, we made it work pretty well. The link shares our methodology as well as a lot of what we have learned along the way. I hope it helps others experimenting with LLMs and I hope you find TabCrunch useful too!

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Samsung Unveils CXL Memory Module Box: Up to 16 TB at 60 GB/S
To me this reads like marketing fluff. A lot of the purported use cases amount to "better Siri/Alexa". It also fails to convincingly answer the most obvious question:

> The primary argument against all these AI gadgets so far has been that the smartphone exists. Why, you might ask, do I need special hardware to access all this stuff?

The proposed answer is because smartphones are too hard to use(???)

> To do almost anything on your phone, you have to take the device out of your pocket, look at it, unlock it, open an app, wait for the app to load, tap between one and 40,000 times, switch to another app, and repeat over and over again.

And an allusion to app stores being bad:

> And they’re not going to get better, not as long as the app store business model stays the way it is.

The part that's left unsaid is that none of these AI devices promise to be some new open model of computing. Instead it's a play at the same or more lock in than with app stores. The Humane pin, for example, requires an expensive ($24/mo) subscription to even use the hardware. The lock in is just in a new playing field where the incumbents don't have a dominant position yet.
Toyota sells about six times as many cars each year as Tesla, so I don’t see how that’s better for Tesla.

Also, I don’t understand how 261,000 vehicles can be 43 days of supply for Toyota given that they sell about 11 million cars each year (https://www.automotivedive.com/news/toyota-annual-sales-2023...)

Also, 11,200,000 / 261,000 is conspicuously close to 43. ¿Sounds low to me, but maybe they miscalculated, and they have 1/43th of a year or just over a week of inventory?
The difference is that TF is a widely-used acronym for Terraform, while Redict is a distinct word. That doesn't mean Redis won't try to put pressure, but it does mean it's not as obvious that they'd win if it came down to it.
This problem is cute and all, but completely overblown. Just put it in a deep hole. Meanwhile we have waste storage issue right now. In Japan for example, there are many tons of waste sitting in random poorly secured warehouses right now.
Does that mean Opera doesn't consider Brave a "major browser" or that Brave's Leo is not a local model?
People are losing control over phones
Dark extinction: the problem of unknown historical extinctions (2021)
Completely selfish plug, but it's not very hard to implement, so here's my implementation using p5js: https://editor.p5js.org/alexduf/full/c-iSj_b4p

you can play around with the code. Clicking generate a new solar system. There are a few constants you can adjust at the top of the file.
revertto probably just means "revert to" but it does sound quite italian lol.
That's literally what I said. :)
> Edit: I'm furious with YouTube for forcing this to be a "short" with bad-on-purpose UX but here's a video of odd water behavior in a port https://youtube.com/shorts/91Rmacvw4ho?si=d78KAUvDTeg_ovbh

Is that water receding as a form of pre-tsunami?
I don't think PowerShell is a big improvement, though. Still allows no signature checking of functions. Shells are optimized for fast entry, not for writing comprehensible (or even secure) programs.
If we're looking out for civilisations descended from ours then there's likely no need for this because they will likely be able to deal with it, or might even find it a valuable resource of elements.

Someone else knows better here, but I think a lot of the waste exists because we don't burn it all in nuclear reactors - in which case why not make reactors that can burn it rather than leave it as waste.
It is a security measure. Sure it doesn't secure anything in the container itself. But it secures the container from other containers. Code can (as proven) not be trusted, but the area of effect can be reduced.
As I understand it, hazardous material loads cannot be transported through tunnels. So having a bridge that allows that (and prevents the need for hazmat loads being routed through the city center) does make some sense. I suspect the cost of a bridge replacement might also be cheaper than both a tunnel and redoing all the roadways and infrastructure leading up to it, but don't know for certain. If anyone has a more informed estimate, please share.
There's no __mifflin__ method. Such a missed opportunity
I don't agree. You're baking for humans, right? Well, humans can't tell the difference between e.g. bread with 80% hydration and 85% hydration. It's just bread to them. You have to introduce a very big variance to get over human biases ("mmm that sourdough bread is delicious" - and it turns out it's sourfaux, so now what?). Cooking ingredients are mostly not standardised and you can't exactly measure taste anyway (or touch, or smell) which is the effect you're going for, so exact measurements are not going to have the same importance as, dunno, mixing exact proportions of ingredients for nitroglycerine.
This adds some features on top of ssh tunneling.

The tunnel you can set up in 5 seconds does not serve all of the functionality that this project does.

So I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
Yeah. Anyone knows how much of that opera is left over in the current opera?
> A dolphin might have mitigated a glancing blow

Are you referring to the animal, or is this slang for some sort of nautical device?
Legal may sometimes be stubborn dicks, they can be overly conservative and afraid, but basically they are there to protect you from doing stuff that would create problems for the company and usually lead to you being fired or even being arrested in consequence. And they are working from the context of potentially fighting against a hostile legal challenge from people like them working for other companies, agencies, the law or the government. Yeah, they know that we are talking is just common-sense, but the law machinery not always work according to common-sense, and they know it far better than you.

Be cooperative with them, and they will usually try to help you. And don't try to teach them their work, after all, they don't try to teach you how to architect and code.
Taking less money than what you would have earned as an employee seems counter intuitive to me.

The salary reported here is well below market rate. I would definitely have enough savings to tank taking a lower salary for 1-2 years, but ideally I like to keep that for emergencies.

Is this what founders are doing now? Or maybe these founders are just so well off personally that taking a lower salary doesn’t mean anything.
It took me far too long to realize that “dunder” just means “double underscore” and it wasn't some academic term from grad-level CS.

Knowing that made hem less scary
Browsers are for browsing internet. So many of them are now turning into bloatware..
I think it is good advice. These are reserved for future use. If you define `__data__` and then Python decides to use it, it will cause problems. See "Reserved classes of identifiers" in the Python docs: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#re...

> System-defined names, informally known as “dunder” names. These names are defined by the interpreter and its implementation (including the standard library). Current system names are discussed in the Special method names section and elsewhere. More will likely be defined in future versions of Python. Any use of __*__ names, in any context, that does not follow explicitly documented use, is subject to breakage without warning.
except that "average" is like 1 or maybe 2 MAX data points, so I wouldn't read too much into this.
Most major distros include mechanisms to install packages not security updates, either via the package manager, or through specific repositories.
I get your point but in your analogy don't you think startups should be considered amateur chess players rather than experts? "Forced errors" are a thing in chess and tennis but I don't see that applying to startups. I can see Apple, Microsoft and other big companies playing chess through lobbyists and lawsuits but I think the article was about startups.

P.S. I've never founded a company or have any experience with it.
There is an interesting argument to be made that pre-JT xz code is probably pretty secure due to the fact that the threat actors would have already audited the code for existing exploits prior to exerting effort to subvert it.
> And there wasn't really anyone to say "nope, it's fine, fuck off"

That's because for people for whom the project is doing fine and they haven't experienced any bug, why would they go to the mailing list, forum or whatever other form of communication channel the project has?

One has to understand and keep in mind that places that can gather feedback will invariably attract more of the negative kind than the positive kind because people who are happy are not motivated to say they're happy. Those people wouldn't even know people were complaining about xz.

There's thousands of libraries/independent software projects installed on any computer. No one has the time to check the place of all those software projects and go there just to say "hey, I'm happy, no need to change anything, thanks?", right?

People who are discontent with something on the other hand are sure to be vocal about it. But just because they're the most vocal doesn't mean they are the majority of your users.
> And their SEO is terrible, I've started to preface all python searches with 'site:python.org' to not end up on crappy monetization blogs..m

That's a problem with your tools, not the Python docs. Use a better search engine.
There are people who downvote things that present facts that aren't in accordance with how they think the world should be.

I do think it's difficult to verify identity in any reasonably acceptable lightweight way. That said, for the larger projects I'm most familiar with, a lot of people work for companies, attend conferences, etc. They may go by nicknames day to day, but they have known real identities and their professional existence wouldn't be possible without one.
Correlation between tear and blood glucose using wireless smart contact lens
IIRC memory consumption is generally worse for Zstd at comparable levels of compression. Which, these days, is generally fine, but my point is you can't thoughtlessly substitute the two.
Sure, but you know what your margin is for the unexpected. If it says you will have 100km of range at your destination, that's how much range you have for detours etc.

120V plugs are everywhere and far more common than gas stations and work great for those once in a decade type experiences. The infrastructure already exists.
Legally speaking, the pilot is only present in an advisory capacity. The master is ultimately responsible for safe navigation.

As for the anchor, you seem to misunderstand the basics of ship handling.

https://youtu.be/qZbUXewlQDk?si=GBPMFyHPZGAF1v5z
No, you would have to calibrate the clocks to run slower to match earth seconds when they are in the moon's weaker gravity. Or constantly sync them to an Earth time source with over two seconds latency.
Or sheep in wolf's clothing – like Arc.
Great. Yet another time zone I have to worry about when writing my scripts.
> ...rotating it after using it on an untrusted source?...

> ...the "cattle vs pets" way of thinking...

Good points both... To the former, of course you're right that once used, an emergency cert should be replaced, which could be onerous either from the point of view of having double the number of certs to manage (rather than one master key), or else having to rotate the master key on all servers. To the latter, I'm definitely thinking about pets, so I hadn't considered just throwing away the VM and starting again; that neatly sidesteps the issue.

Thanks!
> what looks like a tangential attack

Does it? I expect that finding someone vulnerable was the more likely approach rather than messing with the life of a stable maintainer, but it does seem very much like the attacker was acting with malicious intent from the start of his interaction with the xz project.
Shocking. It was previously reported that Apple wouldn't let him talk about China or AI and it turns out that the AI segment was related to antitrust and Lina Khan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewar...

> Mr. Stewart told members of his staff on Thursday that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives
It's also a term that implies the competent, official hacking departments or espionage agencies of that country, rather than government-supported amateurs (e.g. an untrained policeman) or generic people from that country.
Not much. They are Chinese spying apparatus nowadays.
The problem is making those investments only guarantees cash outflow. Not that you will remain competitive. In the case of Intel it is rather obvious they are not going to be competitive again in the next 50 years for fab tech.
Task automation?
Double leading underscore has a special meaning and causes the name to be mangled in order to avoid collisions with other classes e.g. `__foo` -> `_ClassName_foo`

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#descriptive-naming-styles
That was my thought. Who cares what time it feels like on the moon, if the people making plans and decisions about it are at, say, Cape Canaveral?

Once we get humans on the moon, they'll probably want their own time zones -- but in that case this solution still won't be enough, because they'll probably want the time to depend on their lunar longitude, just like it does on Earth.
'The Manipulaters' improve phishing, still fail at opsec
Newer libraries tend to be written to use Swift value types rather than classes, avoiding the bridging penalties you mentioned.
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That's what many people seem to think, but it has not been legally challenged yet. We won't know for sure until Google or AWS decides to test the limits, in your jurisdiction.

You should probably ask Redis, Inc. what their intention is. Keep in mind, though, the run the risk of being re-rug-pulled. They have changed the license once and they can do it again.
Neoliberalism/anarcocapitalism has stoned these corporations, I hope it has arrived the day that we start putting them back in line by punishing well these monopolistic practices, anti unions strategies, stock dumping and buybacks, fiscal havens, mass layoffs, etc. it has gone out of hand. Companies can’t just leech out of general population undisturbed
I agree and get your point.

But localsend has worked well for me. Yes, it requires an app but if we could get vendors to bundle that rather than a boatload of bloatware.

I know that it would be to optimistic to hope for Google.

See https://localsend.org/

Spread the word.
In that case why bother with the Jia Tan persona at all instead of just pushing the malware as Lasse Collin.
Your application is already most likely a big binary blob of uncertain origin that's hard to reproduce. Containers allow these big binary blobs of uncertainty to at least be protected from each other.
Take much lower salary now, for potential far greater gains in the future.
most important: What impact will this have on the timezone picker for my (yet to be widely used) SaaS app?
> My understanding is that advice today strongly suggests getting under something sturdy in the attempt to end up in a void during a collapse event.

A table is sturdy?

The doorframes here are made out of solid steel. It's literally the most sturdy place to be next to pillar. On top of that if the solid steel door gets stuck you will not leave the apartment until emergency services with steel drills or someone with welding equipment frees you from there. I'm a bit puzzled at what you were taught there.

Contrary to the US, Taiwan has had proper earthquake compliant building codes that for the most part have been enforced(and reinforced) since the last disaster stuck the island over 20 years ago. For most places in the world outside of Japan, Taiwan, and a few other places an earthquake of this magnitude would be a mass casualty event.