skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only times I can think of where a re-branding exercise has worked well, have been where the brand started off in the mud and they fixed their image rather than the name.

Specifically, Skoda — and when they did the transition, their adverts were very much aware of the need for an image change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTJ_TPraLQ
> NVR + decoy NVR.

A friend did this - he hid the DVR in a space under his steps then took a cheap dead DVR, gutted it and shoved an RPi in to run Firefox and the DVR web UI. Even set it up in with a monitor and mouse on top. He left the old HDD in there for weight too.

One thing to think about though, he had a NAS box in his office next to the router on a table and I said, what if they take that thinking its the DVR? That is now under the steps too.

> Any room with a safe should have EMF shielding.

You just made the target that much more visible.
“just”

If you get caught with over $10,000 undeclared at any US border or at the corresponding border, it gets seized

If you declare it, it gets seized.
A checksum is usually intended not to match if the checksum itself is corrupted.
Ketamine is a hell of a drug. https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e...
Most CI/CD configurations are also a mess. Often YAML, shell command snippets, weird conditional syntax... I can't say it's better.
In fairness, there probably wasn't much going on with the source code for the internal COPY command in 1993. It had been stable for years by then. So I don't imagine it being particularly difficult to spot simply from what parts of the source tree a change touched.
A Case Against Fox News Tore Apart a Media-Fighting Law Firm
So our bar of what is considered acceptable is now anything above the levels it was during a period that include the first world war and the 19th century?
As someone that has started to draw from scratch five months ago, I was disappointed by this book. It was basically not much more than a show and tell of pictures he mostly traced of photos and then shaded in pencil in or painted, and a naming of tutorials he watched and classes attended. I would have hoped for something a little less prosaic. There is a lot to talk about regarding the magic of learning to draw (including the fact that anyone can do it, and ruminations on the basic division between observational atelier style drawing vs constructive drawing), and the author completely avoids the thing that is the most brain expanding and thrilling part of drawing which is learning to draw from imagination rather than copying or tracing photos. This is 100% a learnable skill, and it is very addictive when you first start to see things on paper that you had in your head.
I know people underestimate the impact. Before the 1800s or so Europe didn't have negative numbers, except for the odd mathematician who claimed you could calculate with them even if they were obviously meaningless.

It was only after bookkeeping became ingrained into all levels society that negative numbers were considered equally real as positive numbers.
Show HN: Remi, the easiest way to remember every day (A journaling tool I made)
Hello HN! My name is Brice. Remi Journal is a project I've been working on with my sister to make it easier to remember thoughts, memories, and little moments from every day. It also helps you stay on top of habits, track personal stats, and stores images to go with your journal pages.

I made Remi since I've always wanted to look back on old memories, but I'm too lazy to sit down and write a journal for a half hour each night. I tried recording voice notes, but they were too disorganized and hard to search.

It's still in very early beta, but I was hoping I could get some feedback and check that I'm headed in a good direction.

To use Remi, you can fill out the form on the site (it needs to know your phone number to work, but no credit card info necessary). Afterwards, you can add Remi as a contact on WhatsApp. You can then send Remi voice memos at various times of day to journal - feel free to ramble, since Remi will handle the organization for you.

Remi will ask questions to guide you through different reflections and gather stats to get a full picture of your day so that it can create a journal entry. You can also send up to four photos to store with the daily entry.

Each night at 4am, Remi will generate a journal page for you based on what you said in the conversation. You can view your page through your dashboard and make any edits or revisions you'd like. It will try to highlight any potentially misheard words or phrases to make revising easier.

By the way, all of your data on the database side is encrypted and not human readable. I have been working hard to make it as secure as possible since I have lots of my own private thoughts and memories in there.

I think that's about it. If any of you are interested in this sort of thing, I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and let me know your thoughts! Thanks so much in advance!
No, it is not.

For those who want to avoid Google altogether, switching to Chromium does not solve those issues. From https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/09/open_source_unbranded...

"there are 50 or so Google services that have been integrated in the Chromium code base."

"The services are free but have commercial value by providing data that can be used to inform advertising and marketing algorithms, or in some cases, such as Google Pay, have more obvious benefit to the provider."
Seems like an insane amount of work for the satisfaction of only having to check one chat app.
Because it’s not about being a shareholder. It’s about trying hurt Dorsey’s pride. “Watch me destroy your greatest achievement!” Musk is trying to damnatio memoriae.

That is assuming Muskbis doing this purposely.
Is there a company he owns where "X" is not a thing? There's X the social network, Tesla Model X, SpaceX.
At my company, the big thing that I think would help is if people would stop treating data engineers as if they are a cheap way to get both software engineering + data analytics in one package. They’re not. Data engineers are brilliant at data things like writing complex pipelines and wicked queries, but they just aren’t as good at writing secure code. Meanwhile, software engineers are the opposite.

Data engineering teams need at least part of their team to be designated software or systems engineers that are experts in stuff like how to create a robust cloud environment. This is not only beneficial for security, but also for cost optimization, performance, operations, etc! It drives me crazy when I see a data engineer or marketing team told they have to fend for themselves when trying to figure out how to build a cloud environment.
Can you be a human being and cut him off? Who is this sick person enabling this? Who is passing out the money? This is no different than buying heroin for someone. Say hey, "No money, get job, bye". Let them begin the human experience. The video games will go away fast. Show humanity, cut them off.
If the hazard is just me skulking about and punching you in the back of your head every time you let your guard down, you could strengthen yourself and make yourself immune by never going outside and always keeping your door locked and barring up your windows.

How is that inherently preferable to the addressing the harm itself? By what principle do you conclude that we should prefer one over the other whenever possible?
> “While obviously C/C++ and Rust came to the ecosystem early on, other languages seemed to slowly put a ‘toe in the water’, first having limited support and then gradually investing more as usage takes off.”

This is the biggest limitation for me. I like WASM fine, but anytime I want to use it I have to turn back to Rust. I like Rust fine, but without support in other languages, it's not necessarily worth diving into.
> Like, in my imagination, within five minutes of anyone seeing this, a person with responsibility would have stepped in and said "No, you can't do this. And if you insist on doing this, here's five layers of audits and sign-offs that this needs to go through first, because the thing you're proposing is potentially really dangerous". Am I thinking it about it wrongly?

Which part of "anyone who is not a Musk yes-man has already been fired or quit" are you having trouble with?
I am now shadow banned on HN because of this post; so we'll see if I get to ever reply to you.

>I read /r/Canada regularly,

This subreddit was subject to a number of studies in relation to echo chambers. The mods chose to ban all conservatives. At least this was true many years ago. It's possible they have since stopped doing this, but I don't know because I was perm banned.

>I have formed a strong belief that domestic government propaganda (or to be more epistemically cautious, misinformative messaging, intentional or not) is a much bigger problem.

My take was that the mods for r/canada are liberal party affiliated and curate content against the conservatives and to a lesser degree the ndp.

So yes while the liberals are in power, it doesn't quite logically follow for me that this is equivalent to 'government propaganda'

Now outside the context of r/canada. The CBC can be seen as domestic government propaganda. Obviously defunding the CBC is #1 most popular position the Conservatives hold.

It's unclear to me why the CBC decided to give up on their political neutrality but in the end conservatives are never going to be able to fix this situation. Defunding is the only option. It's only a matter of time until this is the case now.

>Do you believe I have formed a necessarily incorrect belief?

Going back to my comment above that it's possible they stopped banning conservatives. It's also possible they got even worse. I really don't know. It's completely reasonable that you know more then me as I havent been on that subreddit in many years.

I know way back in the day there were often sticky threads saying they'd stop censoring conservatives but then just get caught again and again doing it.
I thought facebook already had all of those?
>Double-entry, I suppose, means each event must be ingested exactly once by an even number of actors.)

No, the number of accounts (actors) does not have to be even. The sum of debits and credits has to be equal (or zero if you like).
This looks amazing! I’ve spent so much money crashing my drone while trying to tune it. Does this sit on top of an existing flight controller firmware? Or does it replace whatever firmware we are using?
An Advanced Hexacopter for Mars Exploration
Although many characters in Unicode are there thanks to things like CP437 having those characters (thus the line-drawing characters, among others). Backwards compatibility is also why different Brahmic scripts handle vowel markers that surround the consonant differently (e.g., in Devanagari, it’s a combining mark while in Thai it will be three separate characters).
> Explicit patching would be just fine

Not fine. Just less horrible.
New Redis Inc logo and branding [video]
Probably against document disclosure rules of any competent medium to large company.
Perhaps don't upgrade your Python willy-nilly? That seems like a sane solution to this problem.
> Given that wires can also be cut, is that worth it given the extra cost to install?

First off if the wires can be reached the installation is a failure. My cameras are up high with all wiring well out of reach or in metal conduit. Getting near the wiring also means theives get closer to cameras setting of motion sensing algos wasting time and risk making a racket trying to climb up to disable them.
> Conversely, your brain does not contain infinite storage.

But you can address it and use it, you can think of a system which can make use of infinite memory and then execute that system.

LLMs they cannot use something like `set(0x8080, "ABC")` and later retrieve that with `get(0x8080)` without keeping the initial command in it's context therefore it's memory is not expandable. Likewise LLMs can call a external function but the input of the LLM is a fixed context on which it's trained, and it has a fixed amount of time to use that context so it's not expandable.

Now this is not necessarily a limitation of the architecture, but rather how we train NNs. It's also not a necessity to do something useful but the efficient/optimal solution for many problems are often turing-complete and are thus not findable or even searchable by NNs.

The video goes into more depth everything metioned, and on the distinction between turing machines and NN limitations.
The issue talks about one vs. multiple frames. That's exactly the issue. It's not a matter of complexity, it's a matter of bad compromises.

The issue can be easily played through. The most simplistic encoding where the issue happens is RLE (run length encoding).

Say we have 1MB of repeated 'a'. Originally 'aaa....a'. We now encode it as '(length,byte)', so the stream turns into (1048576,'a').

Now we would want to parallelize it over 16 cores. So we split the 1MB into 16 64k chunks and compress each chunk independently. This works but is ~16x larger.

Similar things happen for window based algorithms. We encode repeated content as (offset,length), referencing older occurrences. Now imagine 64k of random data, repeated 16 times. The parallel version can't compress anything (16x random data), the non-parallel version will compress it roughly 16:1.

There is a trick to avoid this downside. The lookup is not unlimited, there is a maximum window size to limit memory usage. For compatibility it's 8MB for zstd (at level 19), but you can go all the way to 2GB (ultra, 22, long=31).
As you make chunks significantly larger than the window you are only loosing out on the new ramp up. E.g. if you use 80MB chunks then you have a bit less than 10% of the file encoded worse. You could still double your encoded size with a well crafted file.
If you don't care about parallel decompression then you are able to only parallelize parts like the lookup search. This gives good speedup, but only on compression. That's the current parallel compression approach in most cases (iirc) leading to a single frame, just faster. The problem is that back-references can only be resolved backwards.

The whole problem is not implementation complexity. It's something you algorithmically can't do with current window based approaches without significant tradeoffs on memory consumption, compression ratio and parallel execution.

For bzip2 the file is always chunked at 900kb boundaries at most. Each block is encoded independently and can be decoded independently. It avoids this whole tradeoff issue altogether.

I would also disagree with "no need". Zstd easily outperforms tar, but even my laptop SSD is faster than the zstd speed limits. I just don't have the _external_ connectivity to get something onto my disk fast enough. I've also worked with servers 10 years ago where the PCIe bus to the RAID card was the limiting factor. Again easily exceeding the speed limits.

Anyway, as mentioned a few times it's an odd corner case. And one can't go wrong by choosing zstd for compression. But it is real fun to dig into these issues and look at them, I hope this sparks some interest in it!
This one?
https://github.com/arplaboratory/learning-to-fly

That's weird, it should work
Boeing somehow managed to get itself into even bigger trouble
I mean once you buy a domain (for whatever price you paid), isn't it basically 20 bucks a year to keep it?
I do think it is worth considering how social media effects people at a more granular level. For instance, I think the focus on "engagement" probably makes the negative effects worse, and we would see less negative effects if social media companies weren't optimizing for that.

However, my understanding is that Haidt wants to completely kick kids off of social media. This is a bit different from how we engage with opioids, which are still used for pain management. Opioids only really have positive effects for pain management, and so I think that it is reasonable to keep them regulated. (although I've heard grumbling from doctors about how them trying to be careful about who they give opioids too leaves a lot of people in severe pain) On the other hand, social media's positive effects are things like staying in touch with old friends, building community with people like you when people around you hate you, and learning new skills. I don't think that restricting or eliminating social media use will help here. Instead I hope that people take the design of social media more seriously. (for instance, HN or Mastadon)

EDIT: additionally I'd say that the negatives of unregulated opioids do far outweigh the positives, which is not the case for social media.
Well, that is the specific outcome Elon wanted when he laid off three-quarters of the company. He very clearly stated that he didn't see the value of the "trust and safety" teams that would have been the ones to flag something like this down.
> Everything about this rebranding has been baffling to me.

Everything about the purchase and the way the company has been run since Elon took the reigns has been baffling. The bizarre forced-push of the X brand is just the tip of the iceberg.
I don't think I've directly given Elon any money [1], but there was a time that I really wanted a Tesla car, and if I didn't live in NYC I probably would have bought one.

I'm very glad I didn't now, because I'm pretty convinced I would have done this half-baked quasi-self-driving feature and probably be dead, or worse killed someone else.

[1] I own a few ETFs that probably buys Tesla stock, so indirectly sure.
Every time money is exchanged, it has to come from somewhere and it has to go somewhere -- that's two places it need to be recorded (or "entered in the books").

Money can not be created out of thin air, and it can not be destroyed. Every movement of money has to be accounted for, which is why it's called "accounting". Double-entry accounting means you have to account for where the money comes from, and you have to account for where it goes, and each of those is a separate entry and it all has to add up to zero.

Where it can become confusing is when money leaves you or comes in from an external source. There are still two entries, but one entry is in one party's books and the other entry is the other's. For example, I get a paycheque and I enter my income in a little book with green paper and DB/CR columns. At the same time, my employer has entered an expense in their book. Double entries.
I'm all about most of this. I disconnected from facestagramitter a while ago, and it was the best thing I've ever done for myself bar none. Got a change of career out of it and a vast improvement in my personal life.

But...

> Did life in America suddenly get that much worse during President Obama’s second term, as the economy was steadily improving?

Yes. Yes it did. The bank bailout was one of the worst things to come out of the oval office in my lifetime - a significant portion of the middle class just dried up and financial security for everyone but the wealthiest was all of a sudden a pipe dream. "The economy was steadily improving" is an incredibly ignorant and narrow take. The numbers for GDP looked good, but that doesn't account for distribution.

Social media in the form it has now is toxic. But it's not outlandish to think that a whole generation watching their parents lose homes and having what meager inheritance they might have relied on evaporate would be a little depressed about it.
Her, but alright.
Another issue is the enclave-style construction of American neighborhoods. I live in the very very front of mine, with a bunch of commercial businesses just outside that are ~100-150ft away as the crow flies.

Unlike the crow, I can't trespass and hop a fence, so to get to these businesses that are "right there", I'd have to walk 0.7 miles, almost all of it with no sidewalks, and more than half on busy 4+ lane roads.
Show HN: Circuiter
What an interesting group including their parent org. I can’t really find anything about them post when this article came out other than a single reference to the clockmaker getting an official position in 208 maintaining that pantheon clock due to his experience fixing it in the first place.

I wonder if they fell apart, all the details on them on the internet are only in French, or they actually practice good opsec and don’t talk about their shit online
This is why I run multiple online identities. I learned back in the '90s when I got death threats because of my MUD character (a text based multiplayer rpg). I knew people who had their power pulled in real life by rival guilds so they could kill them when they disconnected.
> but it’s an incredibly shitty move on a personal level.

Shitty to whom, on a personal level? Tim Cook? People really aren't kidding when they say HN is the orange Macrumors, huh?

> at the direct expense and risk of a non-profit community built around it.

I don't know where you learned the definition, but iMessage is not a non-profit product. It's not even an open one.
Do we have the same DoD and State Department? Whiggist progressive ideals are the reigning ideology of the executive bureaucracy, and the idea of a benevolent, democratic US empire enforcing prosperity and freedom on tyrannical despotic regimes rules the roost in the halls of the Pentagon. By contrast, American conservatism has been isolationist for far longer than anyone currently alive has been around. The Reagan and Bush neoconservative (read: Whiggist) years were a blip in a very consistent longer trend.

Or am I reading too much history to be taken seriously in this myopic place?
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I imagine that changing it would break a lot of things, otherwise they would've done it already. Copying a link to a tweet already makes it an x.com link too.
Because domain names are tied to security model, they're often the last thing you can fix.

So let's say, hypothetically, they build in a redirect from twitter to x-dot-com. Off the top of my head...

- All logins are now busted. Some percentage of users is lost forever because they can't remember their login credentials and instead of going through the recovery flow, they go use Bluesky.

- A huge amount of third-party integrations are busted because they aren't using client libraries that understand redirects

- A full code audit is necessary. Someone has hard-coded twitter.com into a critical system somewhere. Other people have referenced a variable, but it's the wrong variable. Still others are looking up the value in a database somewhere that doesn't have a search frontend anyone knows about. And some other database has a huge cache of absolute URLs it vends and everyone who built it got fired by Musk. This is probably the most predictable-cost step, but it's still a cost to be paid.

- A significant number of users are confused. The median of web user is profoundly ignorant of how the web works, and no matter how much you warn them and how much you prepare them, day-of-switch they will panic. Staff up your support team. Customers-lost-forever-two-point-oh.

- Every business integration needs to be updated. Google App Store, Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore... They all have bindings to twitter.com, and some part of their flow will panic and flag a security issue if they see it's turned into a redirect to elsewhere. That probably triggers a security audit of every version of the Twitter client (and those companies aren't particularly inspired to foot the bill on Musk's behalf, billionaire that he is...). Hell, Google indexes twitter.com via a dedicated side-pipe. Will that side-pipe handle a redirect?

(source: I've been in the side-seat for a merger-become-rebrand, and the number of things people expect to "just work" and don't is impressive).
Which begs the question: why buy it?

(And when the answer is "someone knows how to pull his strings and push his buttons", that makes me more worried about prompt injection in organic intelligence than the same attack in artificial intelligence).