skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed.

Worse, the ounce, as a unit of mass, has two different meanings in English law, one of which is so obscure and differs so very little from the internationally agreed quantity, that it is hard to believe that it could ever matter, but strictly if you are thinking about the law of food labelling - and I do sometimes - then you always have a slight twinge at the thought.
No, because they have a different internal crystal structure with more space. The kosher salt is, to use a vague term, more fluffy. There's a photograph in this Cooks illustrated article, if you go to the end of it and click read more: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/taste_tests/2109-kosher-...

The article also points out that the salt structure differs not just between table salt and kosher salt, but between kosher salt manufacturers depending on the process they used to make it. Weight wins.
Have you tried Datasette? (Not terminal)
https://github.com/simonw/datasette
For someone to optimize something they need to have a good domain understanding. I do not buy that someone who developed games before just becomes an expert in LLMs overnight.
Ask HN: Voice ID adoption at financial institutions
Given the inevitability of easy voice cloning[1], it seems irresponsible to be using voice as a positive authentication signal.

Unfortunately, major US financial institutions seem to be ramping up adoption of this technology[2].

Am I missing something?

[1] https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice

[2] https://www.schwab.com/voice-id

[3] https://www.fidelity.com/security/fidelity-myvoice/overview
This is really, really well done. Thank you!

All the open source ngrok alternatives I've seen miss the importance of inspect and replay - looks like you've done that nicely.
profit margins is my guess. They are low at the cheap end, and licensing will take a big hit off that.

You gain margin by controlling the supply line. Otherwise you should just be a subsidiary of one the big ones you mentioned.
I saw a funny collision of imperial & metric measurements a while back. My BIL went through an Irish soda bread phase and wanted to learn to bake it himself. I suggested he find a recipe that used weight instead of volume, at least for ingredients like flour.

He went off and found a YouTube video by some Irish lady, tried her recipe, and was very disappointed with the result. I watched the video to help him debug and when this lady measured small quantities like salt and soda with a teaspoon she used an actual tea spoon, as in a spoon you’d use to make tea, not a “teaspoon” like a specifically-sized baking measuring implement.

So no wonder the recipe didn’t turn out for him, who knows what her “teaspoon” worked out to actually be. But it was very funny to me to run into this weird disconnect of a modern European “x grams of flour” combined with the very traditional “this spoon I happened to have in the drawer” (which of course is how measures like cups and teaspoons got started but I didn’t expect to see anyone use that approach in a published recipe this century).
The GPL has more strings attached than the LGPL.
Toll, aber normalerweise sollten HN-Posten mindestens auf Denglish sein, oder?
If people think there's no regulation on the US side of things, the FAA and the FCC would like a word
The cheapest option (and most profitable to tug operators) is to require that ships over a certain tonnage be tug escorted past the bridge.
I've pretty much given up on reusable bags. I almost always do grocery shopping at random times, and never bring my bags with me when I leave the house.
That wasn't a fork and Elon has stated it was a horrible idea that didn't work.
Neither of those jobs require serious tolerances
What was your incentive for building this?
Agree, nice catch. Also, there are many other opportunities in this patch to hide memory safety bugs.

This is the kind of optimization I might have done in C 10 years ago. But coming back from Rust, I wouldn't consider it any more. Rust, despite its focus on performance, will simply not allow it (without major acrobatics). And you can usually find a way to make the compiler optimize it out of the critical path.
Redict is LGPL, a less restrictive GPL allowing linking to projects with other licenses.
The best approach is that you do it like my grandma. She taught me to make pastry. You put the right amount of flour etc in the bowl and then make it. She taught me this when I was too small to understand what I was doing intellectually and so just know what the right amount looks like. Not something you can put in a recipe book though.
These studies and ideas are fascinating, but frankly they sound like someone got a little bit too excited by the task. Dig a hole a few hundred metres deep in an unattractive, geologically stable area without risk of polluting water sources; put the stuff there, cover with concrete, close and forget. Any future civilization advanced enough to actually dig up the hole will also have the tools and knowledge needed to detect the danger.
It's a pretty huge ship. How do you stop it?
"reduce the attack surface" is Security 101. Noting again that sshd doesn't natively use xz/liblzma (just libz) or systemd, so I don't think I need to point out where the billowing attack surface is ;)

Apache (by way of mod_systemd) is similarly afflicted, as is rsyslogd, I guess most contemporary daemons that need systemd to play fair are (try: "fuser -v /lib64/liblzma.so.?" and maybe "ldd /lib64/libsystemd.so.?" too).

Like a Luddite I still use Slackware and prefer to avoid creeping dependencies, ever since libkrb5 starting getting its tentacles into things more than a decade ago.
> sole purpose is to further technology

When, in all of recorded history, has this not been humanity’s sole purpose?

The only difference over time has been the pace of progression.
That seems an amazing value. Here in NYC, it costs $50-100M to build a subway elevator.
An Incident Notification Platform for NIS 2
Intel GPUs got quite a bit of penetration in the SE Asian market, and Intel is close to releasing a new generation. In addition, Intel's allowing for GPU virtualization without additional license fees (unlike Nvidia and GRID licenses), allowing hosting operators to carve up these cards. I have a feeling we're going to see a lot more Intel offerings available.
It is not good to take into consideration something with any unreadable text instead of the open text of the programme. It should be excluded.
In real terms I'd expect Chinese middle class to be converging up to European standards right now. The Chinese have quite a lot of infrastructure; by the numbers [0] they're capable of sustaining a really comfortable existence. It hasn't stabilised but China isn't a byword for poverty any more.

That being said, it does seem likely that the US living standards will drop. It isn't obvious what is supposed to be driving living standards given that the US has been undermining its own energy and manufacturing sectors. Their political situation also seems to be deteriorating.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
Ask HN: First came CLI, then GUI, next is BCI?
Brain computer interfacing has been there for a long time now, but companies are using this to treat disabled people only. To make BCI a true successor of GUI, it will require to redefine a computer and OS like apple did with vision pro, intially we won't be able to do much with this "new computer" but eventually people should adopt. BCI has its challenges with non-invasive techniques, but no one is talking about it, is it really the successor of GUI?
When I was in high schhol I won a game in a tornament because I hoped thet my opponent didn't know the rule. Otherwise it would have been a draw.
Easy. Just slice of parts into your bowl until the scale shows the desired weight.
I am a bit envious of American butter packaging, because it saves so much time, but if they ever change anything about it, you are all hosed, because nobody will know what 5 tablespoons was supposed to mean. ;-)
Plastic bags were great, I could hook as many as I could lift on a padded carabiner.

With mandatory paper bags they seem to have made them as flimsy as possible. I can't go grocery shopping when its raining any more, the bags just turn into mush at the slightest drizzle.
But if he was paid he might not have given up control
This is especially significant for all the stuff outside the virtual environment.

Is there a standard method of making a "deploycontainer" from a devcontainer? Something that strips out everything not necessary to execute the application (however that is defined)?
Microsoft needs to remove GUI from kernel: BSOD with WinForms after KB5034848
"The exploit was caught promptly, so almost no users were affected. Debian sid, Fedora Rawhide, the Fedora 40 beta, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Kali Linux all briefly shipped the compromised package."

One thing that is noteworthy is that Kali Linux integrated the backdoor briefly.

So we should have a discussion about security of distros packaging speed. Is it more secure to integrate all patches as fast as possible or is it more secure to wait a bit until it is being tested elsewehere. The "elsewhere" would catch the bad effects then. Integrating security patches as fast as possible could be very costy.
Probably true - but having a great many soldiers in an area where there are an extremely isolated people such as the "uncontacted" Yanomami also poses its own risks. If they're focusing on the most sensitive areas with highly trained personnel and making use of the impressive knowledge and expertise in Brazil's Indian affairs department, FUNAI, much could be achieved. The situation in French Guiana is quite different, with perhaps only small numbers of Wayãpi living in isolation.

Brazil is rolling back the free-for-all that was established under Bolsonaro, but if they're handling it delicately, that's likely good news.
Donald Crowhurst
In the Python world "package" implies something that can be published to PyPI - the Python Package Index - and then installed using pip, a recursive acronym for "pip installs packages".

Package is a better term than library, because some of the things you can install with pip, such as command-line tools, don't really act like libraries.
Yes, Linux and Git are GPL-ed, so the parent is asking if you also feel about them in the same way as about this Redis fork ("needlessly ideological", "have strings attached" etc.).
The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT
I'm not saying money would absolutely fix the issue, but I could also see it helping. If Collin was approached by a government that said "Hey, the thing you're maintaining is important, if you want, we'll fund 2 additional full-time maintainers that can contribute based on your guidance", maybe Collin would be in a better position to ensure the Jia Tan contributions were genuine and proper.
No, no they don't. They already tried that with NT4. It went badly for anyone wanting decent graphics performance.
llama.cpp only support BERT architectures for embedding but not with classification heads - although there is a feature request to add that
Containers and Unikernels: Similar, Different, and Inextricably Intertwined
Agreed, this feels like it could be a helpful free directory - no “AI” needed. I’m guessing it’s paid to cover whatever LLM that is used?

I respect the hustle, but personally, I’d just dump the recommendations on a directory site, or share the prompt you use on whatever LLM.

Agreed that this idea doesn’t make a ton of sense. I feel a bit strange to pay for this.
How FPGAs Are Used in Medical Imaging
Feels wrong to try to monetize someone else's content. I did not like what I saw at all when I looked at the service and would never use it.

Offering this for free as a stepping stone to establish your credibility in the edu space, and another more significant product launch seems like the move here.
Huge effort, because it is the default .deb compressor in Debian for example
Yeah but people will cry "dead project" if there hasn't been a release for a week.
Everyone's discussing the license and the hosting, but I think this is the truly interesting differentiator:

> In technical terms, we are focusing on stability and long-term maintenance, and on achieving excellence within our current scope. We believe that Redict is near feature-complete and that it is more valuable to our users if we take a conservative stance to innovation and focus on long-term reliability instead. This is in part a choice we’ve made to distinguish ourselves from Valkey, whose commercial interests are able to invest more resources into developing more radical innovations, but also an acknowledgement of a cultural difference between our projects, in that the folks behind Redict place greater emphasis on software with a finite scope and ambitions towards long-term stability rather than focusing on long-term growth in scope and complexity.

It'll be interesting to see what Valkey's future is with the maintainers having some lofty goals, and expressing frustration that they weren't able to move fast enough or be innovative enough under Redis. As a small-time user of Redis I kind of like the idea that I could just have what I've got now, but with a promise that someone's looking after it. I don't feel the need for millions of transactions per second, a timeseries database, etc.
He never mentioned about any financial problems, it was more about his mental health
I read a blogpost long time ago which said he made more money on working on startups which he sold during the bubble economy rather than bust. All boats rise during high tide. It is better to sell your boat during high tides.
It sounds like that is already the case.

https://youtu.be/2Wim-_Q_59o?t=13m30s
And also a feature which exists that way for reasons (not everybody with the details of a lost or stolen card actually has the right to bill you, not everybody you gave card details to in the past deserves up to date card details to bill you again in future, and an organization that stored card details for the purpose of sharing with third parties might encounter a few PCI compliance issues even in the unlikely event of people being willing to pay for their services)

Lastly, a particular service having access to a card number to bill you with that isn't affected by the status of cards you share with anyone else is a solved problem with virtual card numbers...
> The users are all on Steam, getting their recommendations from Steam, and buying games in Steam sales. Hence all the indie developers publish to Steam.

Which is how Steam charges 30%. Devs yell at Apple because they can say Apple is overcharging because of its "monopoly", they can't blame the monopoly on Steam.

With Steam, devs recognize that retailers get paid for shelf space, both as a percentage of 'retail price' the buyer pays above wholesale, and as literal payments for shelf space, inclusion in weekly mailings, posters on the windows, and more.

That these models worked like this long before digital distribution, and still work like this on platforms with no technical barrier to creating competing stores, gets ignored.
Copyleft is a string. The default would be complete permissiveness.

If someone gave you something the correct presumption would be that you can do as you like with it, unless - and what follows are strings, like copy left.

It isn’t inherently bad, but it is what it is.

My happiness with Linux is irrelevant because Linux to my knowledge was not re licensed to be more restrictive.
Question: does the YouTube content found by your algorithm have the follow/like/subscribe promos in it? Sponsored content in the videos? Is there some sort of score/rating for the “youtube creator self promo” (# of seconds per video), which is not there on udemy?

Note: I think it’s 100% fine that YouTube creators put this in their YouTube videos, but it’s why I prefer to pay for content on udemy/skillshare/others.
This is something I also wondered but havent seen discussed anywhere. This could all be a smokescreen to get distros to switch to the next best compression library which already contains malicious code. Hopefully maintainers of any upstream compression libraries are all looking hard at their code bases right now.
Russia's gravest crime is that it still exists.
"I mean, how hard could it be?"

It's an incredibly rare event. Retro-fitting things in the water is crazy expensive. Somebody estimated that the force hitting the bridge was 30 Million Pounds. That's a lot of protection needed.
It is NOT seamless. Same issues, and more, but worse service, as is customary in EU.
This reminds me of a short story by Ken Liu, The Message, which details a xeno-archaeologist digging into a place full of radiation. The main character doesn't get the warning message until it is too late and almost loses his daughter.

Googling it now it seems at one point is was going to get adapted to film [1], but seems like that went nowhere.

[1]: https://reactormag.com/ken-lius-the-message-to-get-big-scree...
The point is that you are in control of whether you blunder or not. It’s more important to avoid obvious mistakes than to have a good strategy.
Nice to see St. Francisco up there in Argentina!
Starlink, it's enabled lots of awesome nasty shit.
I agree! It's good enough and survives. We also aim to be "good enough" at DOSYAGO/BrowserBox/CloudTabs but for a slightly different niche: rather than desktop virtualization, we do Browser virtualization and all that entails! :)
And also ensure they can continue their journey to having 1TB large game assets, as suddenly hundreds of 3D modellers need to create thousands of new foliage models each.
Thanks! I think one reason why I don't feel the convenience is because I usually don't cook rice on its own. Most of the time it goes in casseroles, pilafs, risottos, stuffed veg and things like that where it doesn't make sense to boil the rice separately (although sometimes it makes sense to parboil it). I did use to eat plenty of plain rice in the past, but I got into cooking more and more over the years and I don't eat plain rice that much anymore.
The "cup" size for measuring ingredients is massively confusing as there is the US Customary Cup at about 236mL, the US Legal Cup at 240mL, the Metric and Canadian Cups at 250mL, the Imperial Cup at about 284mL, the Latin American Cup (which has multiple sizes), and the Japanese Cup at 200mL.

As if that wasn't confusing enough, I seem to have measuring cups that want to make things even more confusing. Firstly, the 1 cup is labeled as being 250mL and the 1/2 cup is labeled at 125mL, which conforms to the Metric Cup size; however, the 1/3 cup is labeled at 80mL and the 1/4 cup shows 60mL, both of which would give a 240mL cup size, which is the US Legal Cup. As if that wasn't bad enough, if I fill the cup and pour it into either of my two measuring jugs, it actually only holds 200mL, which is the Japanese Cup size.
I thought the American Slice is it's main source.
Considering large numbers of Russian troops were sickened after digging trenches and fortification near Chernobyl during the current war Ukraine, I tend think these warnings will go unheeded in the far future.
no, no, because you can just grow your own, or just buy guns with cash and use them to exchange them to food. (and if it's not interstate no need for paperwork, right? - in freedom states)
As a native Swedish speaker (and someone quite familiar with the "Bamse" [1] comic), this usage in Python always looks funny ("dunder" in Swedish means "thunder").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamse
Of course it is a crime. This is in fact more than a crime, it's a counter-intelligence problem, even if done by a non-state actor.
Thanks, this looks indeed much more interesting. I'm definitely looking into this.
Exactly! Caution is required because the ecosystem is not modelable from our current understanding :)
Any performance benchmark against 'llamafile'[0] or others?

[0] - https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
Hate to break it to you but there are so many better and free ways to get free courses online.

If you provided this for free then it would be valuable, otherwise I'm sure people will keep finding their courses as they already do.

Also coursera has tons of free and great content.

And YouTube search is not that scandalous, especially if I really don't want to pay for something.
It's a massive stretch to read "distributing the executable to people" as "distributing derivative works by somehow using this service in your network". The language is very clear.
A more detailed blog post may get more traction. (IIUC you are going to write a book, a short version may be a goo teaser.) For comparison, look at the post by patio11 "What I Learned Selling Bingo Card Creator" https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... (HN discusion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347006 (439 points | March 2016 | 84 comments))
Make sure to include warnings in dead languages that people from many cultures have taken an interest in, such as Latin and Ancient Greek.
Storing Files in the Walmart Chip Aisle [video]
I think a pan is for frying bread, not toasting it. Or to make flat breads. Anyway I see the point, thanks. I do eat lots of rice, btw, except not plain and this thread has given me to understand that this is an important detail I've been missing.

A while ago I met a guy from Argentina (on the night train from Paris to Venice, where you meet all sorts of interesting folk) and he was complaining about the plain white rice he eats in China, where he goes often for work. He told me he absolutely loves rice and when he went to China for the first time, he was thinking to himself "oh boy, here I'll eat the best rice!". And was very disappointed to find out that the Chinese eat their rice plain white. I thought he should have gone to Iran, where they really go the distance when it comes to cooking rice, and making it a very special thing.

So I guess if you are coming from the more far-east side of Asia then a rice cooker makes sense, but if you're used to pilafs, tahdigs and biryanis and things like that, then it's probably not very useful.
"an opening a container ship could slip through" -- I'm going to use that to mock security people at my work
Sorry to sound boring, but don't you think it's a good idea to know who is charging you and how much. You probably have subscriptions you don't need any more.
While I disagree with this approach in general - manually executing a task and following the data flow is the best way to understand a new system - I will say that with the rise of LLMs, writing documentation, stubs and comments first may be the fastest way to bootstrap a new project.
voice ID adoption won't work anyways, its not a secure way. consider a person has throat infection, his voice will obviously be deep due to the infection. if we spare that as well, openAI has launched a voice clone AI. Those who are using it now will eventually change it.
Why not? Most malware utilizes uname to either whitelist or blacklist infection on a system, so an APT may benefit from lying.
Yes, but Redis was even less restrictive to begin with.
That doesn't say they're avoidable blunders. It says that they cost time and energy, and therefore preclude other opportunities.

But is having a good marriage a blunder compared to having a great career? I don't think he's saying that.
Which then leads me to wonder...

The risk vs reward calculation for human-involved missions is necessarily higher than robotic missions.

Is that additional cost an order of magnitude higher? IE, we can afford one and only one human mission, but three robotic missions? Does the math work out in favor of the single high-success mission, or the three slightly lower success missions? Obviously depends on the expected success rate and cost of each.

But, probably why we haven't done a lot with human missions since the 60s.
I think what are seeing here is the true power of an open license. There are now two forks with different approaches and two dedicated and competent teams and we will see not only who wins, but if any or both win (for some definition of win).