skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Rank, Epochs, and Learning Rate on Training Textual LoRAs
TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression
This isn't actually end-to-end encryption, right? You have to trust the server not to corrupt the JS context to exfiltrate secrets. If that's the case (if I haven't misread something here), what is this buying you over just TLS?
They certainly can. I think even people outside of EU can open companies in Estonia.

The problem is that you need to pay taxes in the country where the work was physically done. So if you have Estonian company while living in Germany typically the same taxes need to be filed and paid compared to having a GmbH in Germany. Plus you need to also do the taxes in Estonia as well so you would end up having double bureaucracy instead.

You can read about tax agreements between your country of residence and estonia to find out more. I'm not a lawyer and this is simplification and Can even be wrong but it's the best understanding I have so far.
Give it a few weeks.

- crashes weekly, often down multiple times

- randomly slow to load, frustrating when trying to quickly respond (the point of chat)

- Video quality/stability is poor compared to Zoom

But maybe you’ll get lucky.
Can you tell all loud in an airport in the U.S that there is a bomb?

Would be a lie. But I'm certain that you can't lie about that in public...
From the comments, it even seems to account for some instructions needing an extra cycle when crossing page boundaries, nice! This seems pretty comprehensive then.
Good call out, it’s incredible we went from local file transfers with Bluetooth to needing an internet connection to transfer to a person sitting next to you just because they have a different OS. If only the EU could pressure the big folks to adopt one wireless transfer protocol like it did USB C recently with Apple.
An interesting property of pentaborane (and other boranes) is it reacts with hydrazine to make boron nitride and hydrogen, with passable Isp (around 250 s). The hydrogen is then available for further combustion with air in combined rocket/ramjet engines.
The Instagram accounts poking fun at influencers
> Anyone who draws China into a prolonged conflict is too dumb to live

On land. Attacking Taiwan necessitates combined-arms warfare.
I had a former coworker (who sometimes is on this site, maybe he'll even see this comment and know I'm talking about him) who argued that Lucifer was essentially the same character as Prometheus in Greek mythology, which gives a bit of an alternative perspective to him. The idea was that both figures brought knowledge to humans against the wishes of the higher power(s) and were punished for it. If you view it through that lens, he's more of a tragic hero for humanity against an authority that presumed to know better than we did, which would explain why the narrative from the other perspective portrays him as reckless and full of hubris.

I don't particularly believe that either Satan or Prometheus existed as literal beings at any point, but I do find the idea of their stories being different perspectives of the same tale fascinating.
Smells like someone trying to sell another AI tool no one asked for.
Which is ironic, because the Justice Alexandre de Moraes is a right-wing conservative.
> Cloudflare isn’t pleased with their vendor’s separately located data centers still having correlated failures.

I hear you, but …

… what’s now core fabric of the internet (cloudflare) shouldn’t be suseptable to a single vendors data center going down to - knock out their service.

It create a situation where an attacker now knows all they need to do is target that single data center (PDX), cloudflare will go down, and now they can attack any website previously protected by cloudflare.

I’m not trying to be a hater.

I’m just trying to call out, it’s a bit unfair to solely point the figure at this data center provider when architecturally this issue shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Genesis of the “Golfball” Selectric
Because building small binaries takes more human effort than building large ones. Most developers would rather invest that effort in building other stuff (like user-facing features) than invest it in shrinking their binaries.
Yes, IMHO the world doesn't need another build system. Bazel sounds great, and the mobile development community seems to be converging arond it as the go-to tool for huge apps, e.g. see rules_xcodeproj [0].

It'd be a lot of work, because no good Bazel rules for Dart exist (there is [0] which is old and unmaintained, although it was recently forked [2] by a Google engineer working on Flutter), and of course, no rules for Flutter exist as well. Another problem here is that a lot of flutter_tools [3] code assumes that Android project uses Gradle, and iOS project uses Xcode.

After some investigation, it looks that to change this situation one could either:

(1) reimplement flutter_tools in Bazel, or

(2a) contribute to flutter_tools to work with Bazel, or

(2b) fork flutter_tools to work with Bazel (like you forked the engine)

Each of these is quite a lot of work. I'm curious to hear what you think about this.

[0]: https://github.com/MobileNativeFoundation/rules_xcodeproj

[1]: https://github.com/cbracken/rules_dart

[2]: https://github.com/matanlurey/rules_dart

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...
Yup then that’s a totally fair point.
I think of it as the easy way and the hard way to gain karma, but I'm biased as a "commenter" user. In reality, some people work hard to supply HN with interesting stories and that's important, but it's pretty easy to have sizeable karma without really ever engaging in conversation.

I think the tradeoff there is that the HN submitter crowd are very fast to the draw. I'll often encounter a story elsewhere that I want to hear from HN about, so I'll do a search and find it was submitted 15 minutes ago, or even days ago (and I wonder what RSS fueled craze people must go through to find and post things so fast). Of course, for me those are the best cases, because I can go through and read what people think and reply without having to wait for the uptick. But no karma for the slow.
Arch Linux Retro Homepage (2002 style)
I'm one of the authors. We built Minibone as a community contribution because we realized how unnecessarily vulnerability-prone E2EE app development is today - after seeing app after app repeatedly making the same mistakes.

Minibone is an initial attempt to address this challenge in the single-user setting (that allows a concise and easily auditable implementation).

This is all part of our broader work that you can read about here: https://backbone.dev/company
They have both MagSafe and USB C now, and MagSafe is much better as a charging adapter anyway. Maybe a USB C MagSafe could be invented?
The only factor that has any bearing is whether total emissions drop to an acceptable level, and are projected to continue doing so. Under such a scenario, "trying to" limit carbon emission would be a moot point. There is no reason to believe geoengineering in itself would lead to people throwing up their hands at the problem. The entire point is to aggressively lower emissions.

Notwithstanding, this is already a solved problem for the long-run, just not the short-run. Renewables are heavily invested and improve in efficiency and cost perpetually. Battery/storage is also improving. Even previously non-abatable tech is starting to see emission-free innovation and nuclear is helping bridge the gap (or should). The issue is that demand for fossil fuels in East Asia is growing faster than innovation lowers it.

I agree however that we don't have time to wait for the downcurve to play out naturally through the market. Some level of policy may still be required to both limit fossil fuel use and accelerate adoption of alternatives. This is an imminent problem that will cost billions and some lives.
My music app is written in Flutter and I think the performance is pretty good. In fact I did some prototyping in SwiftUI before settling on Flutter and was having a hard time getting the same scroll performance on image grids in SwiftUI that I got in Flutter without even trying:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimoon-music/id6478451132
They're pen drawings, done by hand. Most of the history of Botany was done this way - Drawings by skilled artists, using life samples painstakingly removed from the soil, as was most of the history of biology and physiology.

You can grow plants specifically for this purpose, using less dense soil so that you can more easily extract the root system without damaging it.
I would be interested in some links!
No I get what the response meant.

It’s the muscle of being able to quickly orient yourself in sudden problems and drive towards useful solutions in a focused manner.

And to be fair, if the product line hadn’t been thrown out before I started, the project would have been useful in either A) fixing the product or B) providing justification to scrap the product line (probably the more likely outcome)

And I developed a nice tool that got used somewhere else later useful.
Not in the 1970s, which was when these events took place.
Ask HN: Examples of complex diagrams working well in mobile?
Looking for good examples of big technical product/service/networking diagrams that are done well but al's do which work effectively on mobile.

Most SaaS companies tend to just insert a big JPG which in mobile can be really annoying to pinch zoom in on and examine.

Curious if anyone out there has done it better.
You told a lot of fake things, so I'll just point out the first obvious thing:

> In Brazil, a judge cannot open an inquiry.

That's false. You can open an inquiry, if is an attack against the Supreme Court itself.

Article 43. In the event of a criminal offense at the headquarters or branch of the Court, the President shall initiate an inquiry if it involves an authority or person subject to its jurisdiction, or delegate this task to another Minister.
Stripe "Bug Finder" Program
Silver coin boom in medieval England due to melted down Byzantine treasures
Seems to be down for me :( Large "Under construction" banner
DRAM mfgrs stop publishing contract DRAM prices after quake, price hike expected
One of my first programming assignments was to fix bugs in a 100KLoC+ FORTRAN 4 codebase.

All one text file (300 baud VT-100 CLI). The line printer saw lots of use.

No comments.

No subroutines (just lots of GOTOs).

Helpful variable names, like A32Q3

It was mid-1970s vintage. The original developer was a Bob Ross-looking guy that I wasn't allowed to bother.

I was on my own.

My most effective tool was a magic 8-ball. Lots of guessing.

It helped me to ensure that I would never do that to anyone, ever.

It did help me to be better, in the long run. Once you have seen Hell, everywhere else is Heaven.
>cloudflare will go down, and now they can attack any website previously protected by cloudflare.

Neither this outage nor the previous broke Cloudflare's protection.
The internet being what it is, it’s a guarantee that you’ll always find someone who can dislike anything someone else posts, sometimes for no other reason than to be contrary.

Especially when the comment is either 100% factual, e.g. “1+1 does not equal ‘an Iguana’” or where someone clearly states a personal opinion “I’m not partial to eating Iguanas, myself”.
I have had previous accounts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=unabst

So now my parent comment is +5 and the comment you responded to is 0. Of course, though shall not mention downvotes is one of the cardinal rules of this club, so warranted again I am sure. Guilty as charged.

I appreciate the empathy. If more people would just lay out their counterarguments and objections, that would be discourse. But so long as downvotes are used the way they are, any discomforting or nonconforming facts will continue to simply be downvoted, which is no environment for challenging existing ideas. An environment for whatever these environments are.

And as long as any system relies on dictatorship and censorship, as all of these systems do, there will never be true intellectual discourse.

Yes, there needs to be a way to encourage responsible behavior. But that is not done through censorship. Not even through democracy really... as modern politics shows.

Then what would? Not a topic of discourse here. Sadly.
> On the web, I still can't help but find "rendering text and UI elements to a canvas" incredibly weird.

Flutter's docs explicitly say [0] that it is not a tool for building websites, it's for web apps. If all you want is to render some text onto a canvas, look elsewhere.

[0]: https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/faq#what-s...
Nowadays this is often filled by interest group Discord servers. The more niche the better, tbh. A lot of people think of Twitch streamers or video games when they think of Discord, but I'm in C++, Typescript, Minecraft mod development, Unreal development, and politics discords, just to name a few. There is a lot out there.
Normally, I would also prefer reading, but for special effects, I would rather see them on video.
Why didn’t Douglas Comer, Bob Metcalfe, Vint Cerf and John Postel (in no particular order) think of that?
Think of it this way: if your database gets breached, your app won't leak user data if your users aren't all targeted by active attackers. It's not a substitute for transport security.

If active attackers are an important part of your threat model, you do want to assure the integrity of the payload - and you can ship Minibone in things like Tauri (or Electron) apps, like we do at Backbone.
I work on embedded firmware that has a web UI (as embedded firmwares have nowadays). I don't touch it much, but when I had to a major bit of development on it, I did as much work in JS, out of a big JSON generated by the firmware. One thing that allowed me to do was to capture the page put out by the firmware and then iterate on that, and work the changes back to the original source files. In fact, I accessed it as a local file (file:// URL).
Otherwise it's: run the build to make the firmware image; flash; reboot; wait for firmware to bring up webUI server; navigate to the page, trigger some DOM event and wait". :)
> quite impressive to make major infrastructure and architecture changes in a few months

And have it work first time round.
Because the land version of Phalanx, the Centurion, is big, needs a large transport and a lot of energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_C-RAM

Although an auto cannon seems to be the right thing. The current thing seems to be the mobile, smaller Skyranger systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyranger_30

That’s still rather big and is a dedicated vehicle. I wonder if there are initiatives of coupling the remote-controlled weapon turrents on normal vehicles with radar and such enabling anti-air capability:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_controlled_weapon_stati...
I'm curious, how do you imagine using it in Python?
Postgres does several things better than MySQL, but tooling isn't among them.
You vastly overestimate investors' level of critical thinking. Look at coverage of Boeing. Boeing was a shell of its former self since the 787 went tens of billions over budget and saddled Boeing with a huge pile of debt. And yet Boeing CEOs, one of them fresh from gutting the innovation environment at 3M, would blow their own horns and investors lapped it up. Sometimes it takes years or decades for the bullshit detector to be heard by most people, even most professional asset managers.
My initial ideas were injecting the tree with a chemical and zapping it with radar, and growing it hydroponically in translucent gravel. But this seems wildly impractical.

They probably just have a team of students dig them up with a brush, one layer of soil at a time.
To those who downvoted this comment, can you please explain why?
10 Mbps was fine for, frankly, just about anything under 100 MB. And since 100 Mbps hubs were rare beasts, most being switches, they stayed a lot more expensive for a long time. Hell, my first home network was 10 Mbps on thinnet because it was so much cheaper than a 10 Mbps hub, and that was ca. 1997. I'd had 100 Mbps available in the dorms the year before, but you were looking at $250 for 100 vs $40 or less for 10 - which, in college student dollars, is a lot.

When we had hard drives that barely topped 1 GB, which could be copied in under 17 minutes even on 10 Mbps, there just wasn't a huge incentive to upgrade speed. But once 100 made sense for homes - supporting 802.11g - the price of switches fell rapidly because it was no longer just businesses buying them. And so 1 Gbps fell more quickly, because the background hardware was getting cheaper.

My 1998 computer with 100 Mbps and a 6.4 GB drive got used a few times as the piracy data exfiltration machine because it could pull down the 5 GB of stuff we'd accumulated so much faster, then plug it up to the three-apartment network we had set up and let everyone pull it to their own machines on the 10 Mbps we had there. Our outgoing connection was a Linux box on a 56k connection shared among six of us; it's not like 10 Mbps slowed any of that down.
Hi thanks, I'll need a couple of more days to get back on this.
A Cross-Country Road Trip Where It's Always 70 Degrees
i did read the article but didn't come to the conclusion that "Eternal September" is here. although i don't argue that the quality of posts has gone up recently, i do believe that many of the new users of 2022/2023 have become - or will become - the high quality posters that attracted them here initially. as i said in the first post, i think this is true because there hasn't been an unprecedented spike in new users.

basically, quality(new user + time) = quality(old user), as long as the proportion of new users/old users remains small. of course it's subjective as to where you put this value though. i just think it hasn't been reached yet here.
Feedback Systems is probably the book you are looking for:

https://fbswiki.org/wiki/index.php/Feedback_Systems:_An_Intr...
The reason for the accounts to get banned changes depending on the account.

But most of them is related to 1. Attack to Supreme Court justices (some of them even threatened Justices life) and 2. misinformation's about the voting system.
I watched a presentation on this today. The presenter focused on the soldering and proximity as well. Is this really the only difference or is this transistor based memory (like L1, L2, etc.)? I get the proximity factor of course (1ft / ns EE rule of thumb). In any case, soldering and proximity don't seem like breakthrough innovations (but maybe I am wrong).
Tesla settles fatal autopilot crash lawsuit
You should work on your reading comprehension. I will quote myself:

> - The inquiry violates the Supreme Court’s own internal regiment. That regiment, which was created in 1969, says that the Supreme Court can open inquiries for crimes committed “within its premises”. This was superseded by the 1988 constitution, which transfers the investigatory function to the judiciary police and the Federal Prosecution Service (Ministério Público). Still, even if you ignore that and go by what the internal regiment says, clearly the facts under investigation by Inquiry 4874 have not happened within the premises of the Supreme Court. To justify that, its justices have extended de definition of what consists the premises the Supreme Court to be the whole Brazilian territory, with the argument that crimes committed on the internet have a “diffuse character”.

Does “the headquarters or branch of the Court” include X?
That's thrown around by people who have been around a long time, but hasn't been true by default for a decade, since 5.7 was released.
Hi, I have been using it for around a week, is there any way I can group the urls?
Consider spending less time online.
FTC Announces Winners of Voice Cloning Challenge
Have to disagree with this.

There are a number of paper glasses made in the USA with quality solar filters that meet the ISO standard.

There are also plenty of Chinese fakes out there that will fry your eyeballs - just like fake laser goggles, which is nothing new.

That's why it's important to buy quality glasses from an authorized distributor and that means not Amazon.

The material of the frame i.e. paper vs plastic has no relation to the quality of the filters in the glasses.
I think you might be over-estimating the ability of many software engineers to write a whole project - any whole project - from scratch.

I mean, you're not wrong - it's not that hard - but it's also amazing how many people in our profession aren't particularly good at doing more than make small modifications in some giant monorepo at work.

And like, if you don't have the drive or desire to outside of work, that's fine! Maybe you've got other hobbies, or a family, or as much interest in practicing your work at home as an average dentist. So the lack of a Github repo full of fun side projects shouldn't be a negative signal. But I also know that I've worked with people in the past that I don't think actually could make A Thing from scratch without someone holding their hands the whole time.
> I find myself considering my online comments more carefully now than I did 10 years ago across all platforms.

I find myself doing this, but I chalked it up to aging and the reality that I may eventually have no choice but to work for one of the companies I have ridiculed online.
While I fully believe this could work, seems like it might need to be a temp solution. Ripping out the battery seems like a solution that might have more downsides than advantages.
> The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality

This is not true. The 'neutrals' were not even granted the honor of a place in one of the circles of hell.

'These souls are forever unclassified; they are neither in Hell nor out of it, but reside on the shores of the Acheron. Naked and futile, they race around through the mist in eternal pursuit of an elusive, wavering banner (symbolic of their pursuit of ever-shifting self-interest) while relentlessly chased by swarms of wasps and hornets, who continually sting them'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)

And they certainly weren't anywhere near the hottest places in hell. If we are to assume the lowest circles to be the hottest then it would be the lowest part of the 8th circle which housed the falsiers and counterfeiters. The 9th circle, which housed satan, was actually a frozen lake. While we think satan is burning in hell, he's actually freezing in hell according to dante.
I evaluated Stow for dotfiles, but I wanted something simpler to deploy (single binary). I built a solution myself several years ago, which shares many features with Stow, and it’s still kicking along. https://github.com/cgamesplay/dfm
Until one pulls a USS Vincennes.
It lets you have informal package management of self-compiled binaries in parallel with your distro's package manager. With Stow you can install updated libs and applications into /usr/local and don't have to be concerned with conflicts. At worst you may need to set LD_PRELOAD to bypass system libs. Very useful with Debian stable when you need a new feature in something and don't want to wrestle with backports.
For me, reliability has been similar. I will say that it is much faster, though (no wonder – hundreds of Mbit/s over 802.11 vs. 2 Mbit/s over Bluetooth EDR). UX is much better too.

But would it kill them to just support both? I’d take sometimes janky, always slow transfers to Android over having to WhatsApp photos to somebody literally next to me any day.