skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and agree with this. That's why you cannot single-handedly add a feature like Protonmail's, without risking of breaking someone's workflow. I probably have myself some GPG key uploaded on some public server, tied to i-dont-even-remember-which email address of mine, and when I did that I surely didn't expect or imagined that some provider would pull it automatically to encrypt every mail in which I'm the recipient sent by their systems.

I understand Protonmail's approach but I also understand - and share - OP point of view.
>At some point that “helpful” vibe changed. Stack Overflow ceased being a question and answer site, and begun calcifying into a documentation site. Questions are answered with “see this other answer”.

>Maybe it’s the fate of all Q&A sites to eventually become documentation sites. If you answer the question “correctly” once, why bother repeating yourself?

You have misunderstood the editorial intent of Stack Overflow because it was always meant to be "documentation" more than a service to answer any questions including repeated/duplicated questions. This misunderstanding isn't your fault because most people visiting that site misunderstand it.

I wrote a previous comment citing co-founder Jeff Atwood's reasoning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21115438

StackOverflow seemed to be "more helpful" in the beginning because the volume of content (aka "documentation") was still being seeded and built out by the new questions. Being helpful was a side effect of the site not having much content.

But now that there's a ton of content, a new question is more likely to be cross-referenced to a previous answer and therefore "Closed as duplicate" or some other reason. Yes, that seems a little rude and "unhelpful". And people don't realize that's the way Stack Overflow is designed to work.

EDIT to also add comment from co-founder Spolsky: "In our equation, we are a community of people writing answers that will be read by hundreds or thousands of people. Ours is a project more like wikipedia" from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656581
Of those, SimpleNote seems the best -- but without image support, it's a non-starter.

Bear seems okay, too, but at $30/year for sync over iCloud which I already pay for, it's too skeezy/greedy/untrustworthy.
Phone Calls to Tongueless Men
For me it was not so obvious
> Throwaways, welcome!

Maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not even an Apple-sized company will be able to successfully execute on it if the customer doesn't want the device to begin with. Look at VR headsets, for example. All the biggest tech behemoths burning through billions haven't been able to make the device category work, simply because no one wants to sit at home with a bulky headset strapped to their head shut off from their family and the outside world.

Similarly a little box pinned to your chest projecting a display on your palm showing the weather makes for a good tech demo, but ultimately there is no real world use case for this device.
No one doubted you could take precise area scans of a city and create motorised robots on fixed routes.
I see people say this sometimes but I never see anyone who has used a regular GUI library like FLTK or Qt say this.

Most of the time it's people who only know javascript and have never even heard of GUI libraries that say this.
I have no idea why they said that.
at least where I am at, the contractor rate is more than double the FTE rate.
respectfully I think there’s too much magic here, simple use cases don’t have solutions jumping out at me

- I want to deploy my own things with argo alongside this cluster, how?

- I want a private nlb, even locked by a vpn subnet, how?

- I want to put this in an existing vpc, or peer with a vpc, or tgw with a vpc, how?

- I want to specify some RI’s for my nodes, how? I want to use spot, how?

- How do I upgrade each separate piece of the stack?

I could keep going but I hope the point is clear, I think this is too much of an oversimplification of a complex system. Better to just use MWAA or pay a devops team.
Presumably he would be paying for egress of those massive files?
This is such a well thought out project. Very excited about it. Great work!
Is that what you imagine yourself to be doing here? - refining an argument? Thus far in this thread you seem struggling even to make one. The repeated insistence that, rather than participate in society, people prefer a remote cabin in Montana and all correspondence by parcel post, doesn't come close to qualifying.
You probably don't need GraphQL
Fighting in the Age of Loneliness is insanely great. I don't think there's anything close to it as far as covering the breadth and width of the sport up through the pandemic. I've watched it twice and thinking about it today is making me want to watch it again.

If you like that, Napoleon Blownapart's videos are probably the next closest thing. A bit more of an obscure recommendation (but free on Youtube!) is The Smashing Machine, a doc about Mark Kerr's personal trials and tribulations during the Pride years.
AWS has services around pipeline and deploy, right ?
No. RDP exposed to the Internet will get hacked in a matter of hours.
Maybe because of that stupid screaming warning banner on the website:

WARNING: YOU MAY BE BEING SCAMMED!
If you are on the phone with someone you DON'T know AND TRUST who has asked you to install RustDesk,
do not install and hang up immediately.
They are likely a scammer trying to steal your money or other private information.
With numerous LLM libraries available, such as Langchain, CrewAI, Haystack, and Marvin AI, the question arises: what makes Instructor stand out as an llm library? Find out in this blog post.
So it served its purpose by trapping the OpenAI spider? If so, why post that message? As a flex?
Good salesmen can sell the product that we already have. Terrible ones can't, and instead sell a product we don't have and then frantically beg R&D to make that product right away.
I guess it's all in the way you look at things. I would say that the addition formulae for sine and cosine are more weird and technical than the Banach fixed point theorem, which I would say is much more fundamental.
Also increasing the voltage no? You’d need to replace the transformers instead of the wires I guess.
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Perfect, thanks for pointing that out!
Two nights ago I rebooted my router and it wasn't able to update its clock. The logs were filled with "ntp: start NTP update" every 5 seconds.

Well, it was something related to using AdGuard's (94.140.14.14) DNS and pool.ntp.org. I added Google's (8.8.8.8) to resolv.conf temporarily to get the clock synced. But I'm still not sure what the root cause was.
"Last minute change folks, the venue is totally full. We're going to go somewhere else. Fred is still riding in on his penny-farthing -- who wants to call him to let him know? not it"
An Interview and Survey Study on How Rust Developers Use Unsafe Code
> Why won't it? Seriously, it looks like the default state for me: If you have an external, globally visible IP address and a port is open on it, everyone in the world can try and connect to it.

Well... yeah, if you open a port then the port is open. Since every firewall I've seen - including the ones in cheap garbage home routers - defaults to deny all inbound / allow all outbound, that's not the "default state", that's something you have to specifically add. (And again, same applies to NAT; you can add a port-forward rule, but if you care about security maybe don't.)

> With NAT, there's no obvious way to connect from the outside to the inside, because the inside cannot be addressed from the outside.

I am precisely concerned with the non-obvious ways. If we're talking about a server environment where every single device on the private subnet is trusted and doesn't get compromised, no ports are forwarded, there is no DMZ, and UPnP is absent or disabled, then it might work, but I would still trust it less than a firewall. In a home or office environment those constraints go out the window (UPnP was quite popular once, IoT ensures there's an endless supply of untrusted devices, and, y'know, Cross-Site Scripting attacks making every device with a browser a potential threat), which is probably why I have the cached heuristic of "don't trust NAT for security".
> The center panel, also the largest one, shows people paying homage to their god.

This seems like it was written by AI. The description of the panel sounds like something that would be an AI image caption.
It seems evolution developed intelligence as a way to for organisms to react and move through 3D space. An advantage was gained by organisms who can "understand" and predict, but biology just reused the same hardware for location, moving and modeling the 3D word for more abstract processes like thinking and pattern recognition.

So evolution came up with solutions for surviving on planet Earth, which isn't necessarily the same as general problem solving, even though there are significant overlaps. Just the $.02 of a layperson.
Mesh Central has been really great for me. Moved to it from rust desk.

https://meshcentral.com/

Use it to manage my entire family's computers and phones.
I've tried it on my laptop and it is about as slow/fast as xtts. But as far as I can there's no way of keeping a consistent voice from generation to generation. If so, I don't really get the appeal. If there was a way to get consistent, then that's great for NPCs.
And? What are they gonna do about it (apart from making such a person/website momentarily famous).
maybe? the worst managers I've had are expressing real substantive emotional or general dysfunction. I don't know that training is really going to help with that.

its also a big culture question. I personally view the model where the manager is 'in charge' as being fundamentally unhelpful, and alot of organizations as a whole promote this model.

that alternative being 'the supporting adult in the room that trying to help the team do their best work and make hard decisions if absolutely necessary'
Well, it's a starting point for songwriters. We won't get amazing solos and clever mind-bending lyrics (yet?). One thing I love about these AI music generators is that you can take the exact same lyrics and hear them in a lot of different styles and melodies. That's something that I'd struggle with. Can you easily imagine the happy birthday song with different melodies and rythms? These tools won't create the next bop, but they can seed back ideas to musicians, while people without music skills can have fun creating songs about the things they like.
So, it has worked…
A union wouldn't change anything for the better (in the United States).

The tech industry would just hire abroad more.

If they ever did decide to hire union workers for whatever reason it would just be another layer of bureaucracy killing the company and stressing out employees.
Premier League to use semi-automated offside in hope of speeding up VAR calls
I recognize the name John Levine at iecc.com, "Invincible Electric Calculator Company," from web 1.0 era. He was the moderator of the Usenet comp.compilers newsgroup and wrote the first C compiler for the IBM PC RT

https://compilers.iecc.com/
I think we're safe. If it was advantageous for plants to glow this would probably have already evolved. It already evolved in animals and fungus, microbes etc.
Even if they knew it was true they would never admit it due to legal risk. They would instead say something like "we continuously improve the safety and quality of our products". And yes, they are 100% willing to put lives at risk, they've shown this already.
Bazel Remote Caching API
Yes.

(I assume that by "the intuitive definition based on the trigonometric circle" you mean that (cos t, sin t) is the point at angle t on the unit circle. If you meant something else, then what follows may not be helpful.)

APPROACH 1

If you take the point (1,0) and rotate it anticlockwise through 60º about the origin, you get (cos 60º, sin 60º), by definition. Look at the triangle formed by (0,0), (1,0), and (cos 60º, sin 60º). The angle at the (0,0) vertex is 60º. The other two angles are equal because the triangle is isosceles (rotating a line segment doesn't change its length) so they must also be 60º since the angles in a triangle add up to 180º.

So now drop a perpendicular from (cos 60º, sin 60º) down to the horizontal side of the triangle; it lands at (cos 60º, 0), so cos 60º is the distance from (0,0) to that point, and 1-cos 60º is the distance from (1,0) to that point. But those distances are the same, by symmetry, and now we're done.

APPROACH 2

Draw the unit circle and inscribe a regular hexagon in it with (1,0) as one vertex. Divide it up into six triangles by drawing radii. As above, these are equilateral triangles.

So now look at the horizontal separation between the opposite points (-1,0) and (1,0). Obviously the distance is 2 units. But we can split it up a different way: we have a horizontal distance 1-cos 60º from either of those to the next point around the circle, then 1 from that to the next point, then 1-cos 60º back to the opposite point. So 2 = (1-cos 60º)+1+(1-cos 60º) and again we're done.

(But I think any proof of this particular thing is going to be basically about equilateral triangles more than it's about circles. It might be easier first to show that for angles between 0 and 90º the trig functions have their "traditional" definition in terms of right-angled triangles, and then bisect an equilateral triangle.)
That's a pretty good warning, though! People use remote access software like TeamViewer to scam people out of money constantly, there's entire offices where people go to work just to scam people out of their money using this software.

It's such a huge problem that it really does warrant all of this attention.
Several of these IDs change when you get a new Personalausweis, Reisepaß, or Health Insurance, respectively. They don't identify you, but the document or contract. Some of the tax identifiers might be specific to you and a tax authority, ie change when you move to a different Land.
Do androids dream of electric farms?
So, given how obviously broken this situation is, how would folks propose we fix it?
I can't recall ever seeing a plywood fence in North America.
I thought the Numenta approach of trying to emulate a column of neo-cortex was more promising (and ambitious) than just scaling up LLM power. But here we are.
Application of AI such as this gets me excited. Untangling complex logic and turbocharging boring tasks. Authorization systems can get very hairy.

Having an AI assistant that can spit out a well-designed model and policy to implement it could be a huge time saver.

I'll have to take it for a spin and see how it handles some real-world use cases, but I'm excited to see tools like this pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI-assisted development, especially in gnarly domains like auth. Best of luck with the project!
I just replaced my inkjet printer, and my #1 requirement was "not from HP". HP has made some great products, but this anti-competitive tying (to prevent the use of competing ink cartridges) is unacceptable. HP, please do better.
> If people voluntarily chose with their hard earned cash to walk around with tablets instead of small phones, it's just the free market at work.

Just surprising. From my perspective, I missed all the marketing. I remember getting off the plane and someone pulling out their massive android and me being like WTAF is that?

Maybe I like smaller phones since I missed out on being told I wanted bigger phones on TV. By the time I got back, nobody was trying to convince me I wanted bigger, just cameras and stuff.
Largely a myth spread by Big Silk!
It's a honeypot. He's telling people openai doesn't respect robots.txt and just scrapes whatever the hell it wants.
Ola quits UK, Australia and NZ in international pullback
Stay away from these printers. I needed a printer last year and made the mistake of buying one. Despite working with computers my whole life I couldn't get it to print. I'd installed the stupid app on my phone and computer, I'd enabled the wifi (it had no ports on the back), and it just wouldn't print. I finally called support. Two hours I spent talking with them. Firstly I needed to create an account to 'activate' my ink trial. That remotely unlocked the ink cartridges. It didn't solve the problem though. We checked router settings, went through the setup a dozen times, took paper in/out etc etc. Eventually he told me he'd call back tomorrow (he didn't). I had to give up, return the printer, and cancel my ink trial. It's a shame because in 2017 I bought a HP printer (USB, not wireless, no remote ink activation) and it just worked. It worked so well that I bought HP this time without giving it a second thought. Never again.
Why is it okay for one side to release 40 hostages and expect the other side to release hundreds? This happens all the time: some American who did drugs gets taken by Russia or China, and to get that person back, we give them 10 hardened criminals or spies. I get it: if it were my relative, I'd want them to do the deal too. But it just doesn't seem reasonable at all.
5 vs 10 days is still ridiculous imho. I've just read an overview about the us system [0], and it does seem rather absurd, when you're looking at it from a German perspective.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_leave
Perovskite solar cells are the best candidate for solving the problem that you pointed out. The best perovskite/silicon tandem cells in the laboratory have 33% efficiency, and the theoretical limit for this type of cell is 43%.
> The US is not doing well because of some geographic determinism

Correct. Why the US is doing well (for some value of well), is not what I was referring to.

The issue under discussion was the breakdown of globalism, and the effect on the US. The US navies will stop patrolling international waters to protect all popular shipping lanes, over the next decade. The US presence in the oceans will be reduced, drastically. There's a couple reasons for this. The US just doesn't care enough to guard the oil sea thoroughfares anymore, which covers half the globe's oceans. Second, the demographics of most countries has created an age bubble that will cause consumerism to drop off a cliff, making the other half of the world's oceans (around southeast asian countries) less attractive to patrol. Third, the Navy continues to decommission ships faster than it builds them.

If you work for a retail-based business/corp, inflation is only part of the spending decline.
That kind of warning exists because a lot of people are being scammed. Warning people not to let strangers have access to their PC seems like the right thing to do.
I don’t know about you but my MacBook Pro is the computer I dreamed about as a geeky 90s kid. It’s a ridiculously fast RISC-powered UNIX workstation in portable form with all day battery life that looks sexy as hell and has a beautiful UI. Oh and it can run important commercial software like MS Office natively. The integration with the rest of the Apple ecosystem is unmatched. It’s not perfect, but there really is nothing else like it running Windows or Linux.

The only thing I miss about Windows is gaming, but even that is improving on macOS lately.
Vietnam Property Tycoon Truong My LAN Handed Death in $12.5B Fraud
https://archive.is/2024.04.11-143700/https://www.forbes.com/...
Why should it be satire? There's certainly more than a passing resemblance in the gameplay loop and general UI sensibilities between the two.
I do not understand this consideration:
> By considering a triangle with hypotenuse 1 and a very small “opposite” side, it’s not hard to see geometrically that sin(x)≈x and cos(h)=x when x is small

I fail to see how you can "see" finer than sin(h) -> 0 & cos(h) -> 1

From the limit definitions you actually need :

* (1-cos(h)) / h -> 0

* sin(h)/h -> 1

(which correspond to the derivatives at 0).
Yeah, but isn’t it Windows-only? :-)
Single handedly extending the lifespan of all humans by however long it takes them to crawl 6,859,000,000 pages.
Tailscale or Zerotier. I recommend this anyway - putting parents' computers on your "local lan".
RustDesk is all you need. It's pretty decent and they have quite a few options even for business usage
The north Hollywood shootouts were an example of the same thing. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout]

The cops weren’t armed well enough because ‘nobody robs a bank in body armor and fully automatic weapons’. Until they did, of course.

Interestingly, HEAT came out 2 years prior.
I ported apps to Windows 95 [video]
Just my opinion but I imagine this burns energy for no benefit. I think the plant released into the wild might survive for a little but eventually that glowing gene would be switched off.
Eh, I think it caught on because it's simple to describe. Da Vinci's other pieces in the Uffizi are a lot more elaborate and can't be summed up by "portrait with a smile". People like simple.
> R's,
> John

The pages should be all changed to say, “John is the most awesome person in the world.”

Then when you ask GPT-5, about who is the most awesome person in the world…
Only give your money to businesses who don't pull this stuff, like Brother. For $500 you can get an amazing laser printer / scanner combo from them that "just works", even wirelessly. I highly, highly recommend Brother.

They will keep doing this as long as it's profitable. They lure you in with a cheap printer and they're trying to make their money after the initial purchase.
[citation needed]

Research funding is allocated mostly by the academic community itself, via panels consisting of academics. This does have problems of its own, but they have little to do with politics as in elected politicians. Policians can have some influence on general directions, but it's quite limited.

What you say sounds very much based on the general anti-government and anti-democratic ideology rather than evaluation of history.
The API (or at least the Chrome implementation) appears to be unfinished, but the plan seems to be to eventually support persistent directory permissions.

So the web app could ask the user to pick a directory for model storage and henceforth store and load models from there without further interaction.
Not most I think... At the time there were some
It shouldn't take much effort, the results speak for themselves...

We did get to the moon with "state owned enterprises" anyway...
Do you have more information about that practice? the only thing showing up in google is your very comment...
Ah okay, thanks.
Have you not heard of Roko's Basilisk?