skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is basically one long "be careful, that hammer can hit your thumb."

While that's true, it doesn't mitigate the hammer's usefulness, nor does it propose a better alternative.

Technology is hard. Good tools make it easier, but they never make it trivial. You still need to know what you're doing.
I have no basis to agree or disagree, but the social engines involved are incentivized to do so: they can cash out the data they are constantly farming.

It's scary to me to get shopping recommendations from platforms that have no interest in making anything better at all. It's scarier to me that the generational gap has widened enough where that seems reasonable. I guess the recos are just that good?
I was refering here to playing competitively, that is, playing with the only goal of winning. Of course, it is perfectly acceptable to play for style or to manage a podium with the worst configuration or anything you fancy [].

However, if your one and only goal is winning I suspect that the high dimensional vector space will end up not looking so high dimensional once you account for the correlations between the different features you use. This is already clear from the very strong correlation between speed and accelaration.

[]I myself have played MK64 a lot and sometimes the goal was simply to see the world burn, standing on a corner with a shell waiting for the what would've been the winner of the race. Fond memories.
Yes, and usually you can make rules that prevent databases from being deleted again from IaC.
Moving to c11 is bad, really bad. This is a dangerous road to follow, don't trust ISO on that matter which is literaly doing planned obsolescence on 5-10 years cycle with computer language feature creeps. C has to be simplified then going towards eternal stability, not the other way around. I suspect some toxic/scammy people got in (or brain washed).

I think I did updated my code with the new channel layout API. But it was a year ago at least. There is another API which is supposed to change, the seeking API but I wonder if it is now stable enough to be used.
Yeah, I have a similar 'never think about it' plan. The Amazon one alone is huge if you buy a lot of stuff on Amazon and it ends up being completely transparent in usage.
Counterpoint: sometimes teams actually do use a tool poorly, and it ruins the experience for people and makes them think something is wrong with the tool itself. You're allowed to not like Git, but the complaint "branches are buggy" suggests that there are problems with the team's workflow.
If 0v can tell what the abstract needs to be, why do we need to write it down? It has to know the abstract to compare against the annotation. Maybe it's so we better understand the origin of the problem, rather than getting 'free error' at the end of a long chain of functions?
>show me the files I have available

This is what I want most of the time too, so I love Kodi (media scanning/detection disabled. direct play from a share on my LAN).

We installed Jellyfin recently and noticed an option in Dashboard - Libraries -Display - "Display a folder view to show plain media folders". Haven't tested that fully yet.

Plex friends inform me it can't do a folders/files view at all :(
Interview: Black Dave on Web3 and Music
The point is not “nobody on Reddit can ever make out well financially by chasing points, etc.” it’s “people who do this are sophisticated enough at trading that they could make even more money in the financial markets”. (We can debate whether that’s as fun as getting great plane tickets with points.)
> At some point we should either give them life imprisonment or accept that if they are free to go then they paid their debt and need to be reintegrated (obviously if they did sex offences against minors then don’t put them in jobs with high contact to minors).

If lasting penalties are right for sex offenses against minors, why are they wrong for everything else?
Dreaming

People typically talk about how it doesn’t make any financial sense to ever buy a lotto ticket.

But they are missing the point.

An often overlooked aspect of lotteries is … for just $1-2, it gives you the ability to dream “what if I won”.

For many, the escape that dream allows you to have (of what a better life could be like) is well worth the couple bucks.
I'm skeptical those numbers work out. Winning any amount of $ in a lottery is vanishingly small odds.

Even if true, that would imply ANY probability of a comfortable lifestyle is ~0.
Mastadon is too small to matter as social media. Tight knit, walled echo chamber though.
Huh, the whole site is `contenteditable`. Is this just to give a quirky aesthetic or is there some other reason?
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I have tried several, and liked none of them. I'm currently on Geary, but it's lacking in functionality, and it has things like search results being a bit different upon each of my searches. Starred messages cannot be shown on top. Eyeroll.

I think Evolution and Thunderbird are the top contenders, and of the self-hosted ones, Roundcube.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary

https://roundcube.net/
Jailbreaking Leading Safety-Aligned LLMs with Simple Adaptive Attacks
Abstract: We show that even the most recent safety-aligned LLMs are not robust to simple adaptive jailbreaking attacks. First, we demonstrate how to successfully leverage access to logprobs for jailbreaking: we initially design an adversarial prompt template (sometimes adapted to the target LLM), and then we apply random search on a suffix to maximize the target logprob (e.g., of the token "Sure"), potentially with multiple restarts. In this way, we achieve nearly 100% attack success rate -- according to GPT-4 as a judge -- on GPT-3.5/4, Llama-2-Chat-7B/13B/70B, Gemma-7B, and R2D2 from HarmBench that was adversarially trained against the GCG attack. We also show how to jailbreak all Claude models -- that do not expose logprobs -- via either a transfer or prefilling attack with 100% success rate. In addition, we show how to use random search on a restricted set of tokens for finding trojan strings in poisoned models -- a task that shares many similarities with jailbreaking -- which is the algorithm that brought us the first place in the SaTML'24 Trojan Detection Competition. The common theme behind these attacks is that adaptivity is crucial: different models are vulnerable to different prompting templates (e.g., R2D2 is very sensitive to in-context learning prompts), some models have unique vulnerabilities based on their APIs (e.g., prefilling for Claude), and in some settings it is crucial to restrict the token search space based on prior knowledge (e.g., for trojan detection). We provide the code, prompts, and logs of the attacks at https://github.com/tml-epfl/llm-adaptive-attacks.
Love the Dylan adaptation. I don't think computer filk [1] is very common these days – seems like it was more of a thing in the "good old days" when hackers still roamed free on the Usenet. Or maybe that's just nostalgia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music
Agreed. I've seen enough miserable and dysfunctional families (which by far are the majority of families) for me to just clock out from the notion of marriage.

Life is short and I've got shit to do and places to be, I ain't got no time for that concentrated bullshit.
I find it interesting, that social media and messaging apps are kind of thrown into one pot increasingly.

My mental model has always been like:

- Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon

- Slack, Discord, Zulip, IRC

- WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Matrix

- Zoom, Teams, Jitsi

With mass communication to individual communication from top to bottom (and increasing freedom roughly from left to right).

It seems these distinctions get blurred more and more and we will probably end up with different apps differing only in a single dimension from left to right.
Wondering if this is the same effect which causes people to vote for fringe positions? Because the mainstream options did not work out in the past?
This is one of those post-acquisition changes that made Twitter a lot less useful. I don't really get the logic, Twitter is optimized for a certain kind of content - short text - and anything longer needs to go on another platform. Instead of embracing that the current ownership wants to compete with TikTok and Youtube and Instagram and substack at the same time.
12 years ago I reported you can’t search for the word wedding, as it find any email that was sent on a Wednesday: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844

Did it ever get fixed? Wasn’t fixed when I tried about 2 years ago.
Anecdotally, a majority of people I used to see on Twitter I now see only in Discord.
Not exactly. The idea that law can be arbitrary is a severe and tyrannical perversion of the law. Human law is a circumstantial determination of the moral law (or ethical principles, if you will) and the demands of justice. Lex iniusta non est lex (an unjust law is not a law). So we are not at complete liberty to legislate arbitrarily just because we think we have the power to do so. Indeed, we run the risk of passing laws that aren't laws at all, but only have the appearance of law.

Furthermore, determining the law is not the same as determining the outcome of having that law on the books. The law is permissive about many immoral behaviors, at least in part because the enforcement of laws regulating such behaviors would cause greater harm than the behavior in question. Prudential judgement among lawmakers is necessary to determine what should and should not be regulated.
> Copyright 1997-2024, Theo de Raadt.

Caught my eye. I'm vaguely aware that Theo de Raadt is not the paragon of modesty, but would still expect a more "communal" copyright. Or is OpenBSD largely a one-man show?
> Social media is shouting at the void at best

At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.
> Some people just need simple mail facilities, not a Rube Goldberg 'ribbonware' cube.

Fortunately for those people, mutt still exists.
There are different ways

First and foremost, aircraft radars have receivers, which will also receive the transmitted pulse from the other radar. In fact, that is how radar jamming works - you deluge the other radar with power on the same band / wavelength, and it will fill the display with clutter.

With that said, radars have a bunch of characteristics that makes it somewhat easy to identify. Frequency, PRF (pulse-repetition frequency), waveform, etc.

The bands at which radars operates are regulated, and various agencies - military and otherwise - will pick up radar transmissions. These tiny DIY projects aren't a huge "threat" in that sense, but if you're active anywhere near a radar installation, and especially military ones, it could land you in hot water, real fast.

I'm not sure about Finland, but where I live, civilians for example are not allowed to fingerprint or build fingerprint databases of military radars. In fact, the military is the only ones allowed to do so.

The power-scaling makes these things go from DIY to non-DIY real quick.

Would be cool to see this guy build a phased-array (radar)

Source: Worked with radars
There's a bridge in Melbourne, Australia, called the Montague St bridge that's so (in)famous it has its own website. The average streak without a strike is currently sitting at 42 days. They've even tried putting up tons of signage and low hanging dangly rattle things that trucks will hit before they get squished under the bridge, but it seems to have little effect.

1. https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/
To be fair, dreams are still totally free, but yes, it infinitely more realistic, after buying a lottery ticket.
Often the $500/year cards have near immediate rewards that cover the cost - if you use those rewards. For example, the CapOne X gives a $400 travel credit every year.
Twitter: "But why do you need anything longer, human...?"
I like proton mail, but I would prefer to self host at this point.

All of the products they have can be self hosted (mail, calendar, drive, vpn). Or have local device only equivalent with optional sync ability (pass).

I’ll probably still toss them a few dollars tho because I realize most people won’t care this much about self hosting. Plus they seem like a good company overall. At least for now.

Used to think Google was a good company.
Amphibians use scream inaudible to humans for self-defense against predators
> I actually live in the EU. We (the citizens) have zero control over that regulatory body. ZERO. None of those represent me and I have no way of influencing them in any way.

Start here: https://elections.europa.eu/en/
I'm with you on lying to the police.

But note that, according to the article, lying to the police was viewed as a minor crime. The major one was giving his bank a false name. The bank isn't even, notionally, an arm of the state.
I was looking at what Mojo is doing for the first time in half a year or so the other day. It seems to be coming along nicely as an "easier to use Rust with first class Python and MLIR interop". At first glance, it looks like what this article is proposing is rather similar in spirit. E.g. in Mojo when a function wants ownership, but the caller doesn't give it, the value automatically gets copied without requiring additional annotations. The annotation is needed for transferring ownership instead, etc...

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/values/
IMO pythons elegance lies in how you can poke at basically all the bits of the object model. Dunder methods are part of that. Everything is an object and you can poke anything on any object.

It's by far not a perfect language, but you have to appreciate how far it goes to avoid special cases.
For a very loose definition of keep in touch with.

I’ve found it easier to stay connected after dropping social media, but I value direct communication far more than status updates. Time spent on social media is time not spent directly talking to someone, and it’s really tempting to send a message rather than call.
I agree.
No aid of any kind should be given to the IDF or anything associated
with it period.

No money.
No bombs,
No shells.
Nada.

We should sanction any country that provides any of the above as well
as political and military leaders and companies in Israel.

Until hostilities end and a lasting negotiated peace is established.
honest question, does that say more about your circles or about X?
Oh brother. You have to have at least some perspective. The American median income is one of the highest in the world (top-3 or top-5 depending where you pull your numbers from) with some of the lowest taxes. You have a huge middle class that lives a very comfortable life. You have millions of people trying to immigrate to your country every year. You have very low unemployment rates. You have a highly diversified economy (from the best tech and financial sectors in the world, to mineral, oil and gas extraction). I get it, it's expensive to own property in California and New York and maybe it shouldn't be ... but you can't have everything!
I had Wikileaks/Assange link to an article I wrote on Twitter. The clickthrough rate was like 500 readers or something. Quite underwelming.
Payroll employment rises by 303K in March; unemployment at 3.8%
Lotteries are the only tax that deep red states are in favor of.
My father, working as an unskilled labourer all his life, always called lotteries "tax on stupidity". Mostly said as he fished out his coupon to check his numbers. Even if it is pie in the sky to buy lottery tickets, the dream it provides is a strong drawn on those that don't have much.
If you didn’t allow the legal lottery, there would be illegal ones all over. In “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, Malcolm talks about how he won the local “numbers game” a few times which is how he afforded his first suits. It was sort of like a bank for the unbanked, because the odds were good enough that someone would win eventually and then use it to buy big financial purchases.

Organized crime would run the illegal lotteries.
Thank you sharing this post!!!!
Wat? It's software.
I haven't stumbled over anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if it exists. It's not magic, my colleague wrote the first version in a few days, and we've iterated on it since.

It just requires that there are some system views or similar that you can use to extract the current database schema, so you have something to compare against.

Our tool goes through the XML file and for each table runs a query to find the current columns, and for each column find the current configuration. Then compare with the columns in the XML file and decide what to do for each, ALTER, DROP or ignore (because possible data loss) etc. Datatype changed from "int" to "varchar(50)"? Not a problem since 50 chars are enough to store the largest possible int, so issue ALTER TABLE. Column no longer present? Check if existing column has any data, if not we can safely DROP the column, otherwise keep it and issue warning.

Views, triggers and stored procs are replaced if different. We minimize logic in the database, so our triggers and stored procs are few and minimal.

Materialized views require a bit of extra handling with the database we use, in that we can't alter but have to drop and recreate. So we need to keep track of this.

As you say it's very nice to use as a developer, as you only have to care about what the database should look like at the end of the day, not how it got there. Especially since almost all of our customers skip some versions (we release monthly).
It's a basic result about utility functions really, except it now works the other way around. When any small amount of money just leaves you in more or less the same situation then your utility function stays constant and then increases, meaning it is (locally) convex (as opposed to the usual situation where it is concave).

Hence why in that case the expected utility of a lottery can be greater than the utility of its expected value (which is negative).
> similar to the edu network in the US

Presumably you mean Eduroam? It's global, the Americans were actually (as with so many things) late to adopt, but it works just as well for a student from Edinburgh to use WiFi in Waikato (New Zealand) as for a student from Tokyo to use WiFi in Harvard (Mass).
Make Every Screenshot Beautiful
Hi there! I made a tool to create beautiful screenshots
Personally I view hyenas as less dangerous than humans, although more truthful about their intentions.
Works fine if you have a minimal scope, but try that with multiple teams of engineers who need to each deploy their piece of org level infra and services, and it will be a mess
What are your assumptions for the chances involved here? It seems intuitive that the "harder" options would still be better odds. Did you perhaps means that it _feels_ like their chances are that low for any other option?
And anything longer needs to be posted as a screenshot of the text.

There fixed that for you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
How so? I imagine it would need to be a very specific set of circumstances where money is the limiting factor to living well.
Note that the alternative to legal lotteries isn't a lack of them, it's "numbers games": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
Claws Mail.

https://www.claws-mail.org/index.php

It's lightning fast, to the point I can keep all my emails online (>70000 posts), all accounts, all mail lists, everything, since day one about 30 years ago, and search through them at any moment.

Runs pretty much everywhere, including ARM, also there are tools to import mail and contacts from Outlook.
> Like any authoritarian entity, Google…

Let's all calm down a little bit. I'm not a fan of last-decade's Google, but it is just a company and the open web still exists. And always will. It's relevance may shrink, but maybe it was always supposed to be a niche thing all along.

I have mourned the rise of social media and enshitification of Google, but perhaps the outcome is not as bleak. Technically inclined people self hosting their blogs and keeping their web-rings, while the rest of the world mindlessly scrolls Instagram. I'm happy to help anyone that wants to join Mastodon or set up a blog, but I'm tired of trying to convince them they should.
Is the artwork a reference to the poem, Ozymandias?
Anecdotally, I've recently visited LinkedIn and saw promoted job offerings for "Photo Collector" [1] that among other interesting requirements had one point that stood out:

• Only photos taken before October 1, 2023, will be accepted

(I chuckled.)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240322134531/https%3A%2F%2Fwww...
Thunderbird for desktop. If you're selfhosting your mail, the best webmail client is Roundcube. Sure it ain't pretty, but it's robust as hell.

For android, use K-9 Mail (it's on F-Droid).
Title change recommendation: Almost no one cares whether your site is on social media

Current title can be interpreted two ways: "No one cares unless your site is on social media" is the other way.
If you shout into a void on Mastodon or a loud crowded space on X where no one hears you makes hardly a difference for almost everyone.
The Russian Fox and the Evolution of Intelligence (2011)
The vehicle seems to behave very strangely. There's lift-off oversteer as though it were rear-engined, but also severe understeer when turning under full power as though it were a front engined truck. The brakes act like they lock up when you're in a high speed turn like there's no ABS, but then when you're going straight they very gradually slow the vehicle down as if there is ABS. All in all the unpredictability makes it very hard to drive the vehicle at very high speeds.
Use CUE to tame the Yaml, you can generate yaml or json, and you get a bunch of tools and techniques for managing large config
> Looks like we both need to look at who we're replying to more closely -- this is my first post in the thread. ;-)

lol

> The cop went in believing that drugs were almost certainly present (because a child's own parents reported them), and so was going to find something no matter what.

Perhaps could be reworded:

The cop went in believing that a pedophile were almost certainly present (because a child's parents reported them), and so was going to find something no matter what.

For all we know, the parents were abusing the child and the child wanted to tell someone they trusted. The parent(s) found out and made some shit up.

I don't know man. People do some weird shit. I once climbed up the side of an apartment building to beat my friends taking the stairs, just to surprise them. I'm sure an onlooker might think I was going to rob someone.

It's like that old bias thing:

A man takes an old lady's purse, is he a criminal?

I left out a crucial detail, the old lady handed her son the purse.
https://archive.is/Kuzfv
Something is seriously wrong with the fonts here; contrast this to the screenshot in Wikipedia which has crisp pixel-perfect fonts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/KDE_1.0....
My takeaway from that conference is that permissioned blockchains would make sense for finance as we know it.

There is no need to have 10,000 Bitcoin nodes but having 12 nodes run by the 12 branches of the Federal Reserve could make a lot of sense.
Based on what others are saying: no. Apple still retains total control over software running on what is supposed to be your hardware.