skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The universe behaves very deterministically if we look at "clumps of matter". Why is it this way when this determinism isn't already part of the "base"? For me that's at least a "suggestion". Not a proof of course, but still a hint.

Just because a system is randomized doesn't mean it's not predictable: when measured in certain ways, it will statistically tend to clump around certain states. Suppose that every second, I flip a magic random coin and walk either 2 feet forward or 1 foot backward. Then after a million seconds, you'll quite probably find me about half a million feet from where I started. Small-scale random processes can easily create something predictable on the large scale.

Still, I wouldn't characterize "clumps of matter" as being deterministic even in our everyday lives. There are many chaotic systems in this world, e.g., the weather, which can amplify randomness on the molecular level into a completely different state. Even the orbit of the Earth becomes unpredictable after several million years.

> I'm even sceptical about special relativity: It's a good model and works well in most occasions, but it may still be wrong on a fundamental level. Most of the assumptions under which Einstein proposed SR (no QM, static universe) don't hold anymore.

Special relativity is already 'wrong' in that it doesn't predict any of our observations of general relativity. But it unavoidably has plenty of truth in it, in that it is very succesful at predicting an identical speed of light for all observers, and the effects (e.g., time dilation) that that implies. Any superseding theory has to explain the same observations, at which point special relativity will continue to act as a useful model for the large-scale effects.
Passkeys are signing a challenge using a captive secret, right? The relying party doesn't get the secret.
How to use Git to lose data (2012)
I have chat logs.
School principal framed using AI-generated racist rant. Co-worker charged
> a portion of the remedy both requires the owner to opt in and allows a driver to readily reverse it

I think ~all recalls are opt-in. The owner of the car can simply not bother taking the car in to the garage, turn off auto updates, etc.

It would be funny if Tesla decides to separate out software updates for 'recalls' vs software updates for new features, and lets users have the new features without installing the 'nannying' recall fixes. In most cases it would be easy to implement via feature flags.
> Still isn't "a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine."

I don't say an opposite. An entire counter-claim about "donations to Ukraine was only 217M" is not an argument against Bitcoin, despite your efforts to present it so.

> The U.S. Treasury isn't holding a pot of Bitcoins to back its value.

LOL the crypto is one of established commodities perfectly fitting for inter-government trade.

> A stablecoin holds dollars or dollar-denominated assets. This is particularly germane given the context of money laundering.

I don't understand why it is important. A couple of thugs believes they can call "money laudering" anything they don't like, and what? Their presence is clearly diminishes because they have no ways to control cryptocurrencies.
Is there only one ongoing genocide?
Yes

> RedPajama-V2 is an open dataset for training large language models. The dataset includes over 100B text documents coming from 84 CommonCrawl snapshots and processed using the CCNet pipeline.

https://github.com/togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data

> Dolma Dataset: an open dataset of 3 trillion tokens from a diverse mix of web content, academic publications, code, books, and encyclopedic materials.

https://allenai.github.io/dolma/
vaultwarden at the very least is libre
I recently learned of the term "progress trap" [0] and now I see it everywhere. In essence, when you invent the car you also invent the car crash.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_trap
GQL: The ISO standard for graphs has arrived
https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node104.h... has a detailed derivation of dielectric reflection, but you can also skip it and just look at figure 57 at the bottom showing the predicted reflectances for the two directions of polarization depending on the incidence angle.

You're right that for perfectly vertical reflection, the polarization doesn't matter, but you're unlikely to exactly hit that. For angles between 0 and 90 degrees, light polarized parallel to the surface is always reflected better. If you perfectly hit Brewster's angle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle the light will be completely linearly polarized, but that is equally unlikely. So in general you're going to get mixed polarization that's slightly biased in one direction.
Not quite - the current legislation[1] is that you must have a TV license if you watch/record live TV (however you do it - online, with a TV, etc.), or if you use the BBC's iPlayer app/site.

You do not require a TV license if you have a TV but do not use it to watch live television (e.g. using it for YouTube/Netflix apps)

1: https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/tv-licence
Have to say, I bought a DJI drone that I enjoyed, but then the app stopped working after my Android phone upgraded to a new OS version. Even months later, it appeared that DJI had made no effort to fix this issue (which clearly did not affect only me). There are open source apps, but the existing open source apps at the time did not control a specific unique and important feature on the drone I bought.

Never buying DJI again.
Weren't Marcus Aurelius' writings only ever written as personal notes and never intended for publication?
> "Our mission is to grow the GDP of the internet" is much better since it captures the value they are trying to create.

Huh. I thought that mission statement was terrible. It's vague to the point of uselessness, and the phrase "grow the GDP of the internet" is pure cringe.
Very much, yes.
The most value I’ve gotten from philosophy is the discovery of “anti-philosophy”. Or rather analytically countering thoughts and ideas that are not fruitful. Maybe Quietism?

The mind constantly makes philosophy. Kind of. Or mine does. Why this, why that. What if this and that. Sometimes it is useful to just let the thoughts be. Sometimes to more analytically counter it: this is not worth neither worrying about nor philosophizing about because A, B, C.

See for example William James and his counter-arguments to philosophers (according to him) who worries about “Angels balancing on a needle’s pin” (Pragmatism).

I’ve also incorporated William James thoughts on religion to reconcile my atheism with my spiritual/religious beliefs (The Will to Believe). He says something like: if you believe, what are the upsides, what are the downsides? You might not be able to prove it scientifically, but is that necessary? How I’ve applied it: if I believe in religion X and I find out before I die that it was not true, have I wasted my time? (This is more about praxis than theory.) This is counter to a lot of theists and atheists who mix religion too much with identity. I.e. I am rational therefore I ought to not believe. To be concrete: if I practiced Buddhist meditation for five years and found out that Buddhism is not true,[1] will it have been for nothing? Probably not because the benefits of meditation are well-documented at this point.

---

The most fascinating philosophy is the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy that rigorously analyzes things in order to ultimately arrive at conclusion that sort of says that most of metaphysics are ineffable to the analytic mind. Because you might need the process of analysis in order to arrive at that non-answer. Maybe that was something that Wittgenstein did in his first book?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlighte...
The meme of Tailwind is only for n00bs, look at me hand-crafting selectors is bullshit. Very similar to the clowns who preferred document.createElement over JSX for SPAs back in the day.

Tailwind can be a very productive tool that feels odd at first and remains odd for elements like input fields but absolutely has its place. It comes with a fraction of the foot guns typically associated with CSS for the tiny cost of looking a bit silly at first. And this is coming from someone who loves (near) class-less CSS frameworks.
I think the OP was trying to say that type theory is difficult, not that the kind of "no mutable state" idea is difficult.
Don't forget all the drunk, high & exhausted drivers too.

100 people are killed every single day on the roads in the US. Day in and day out.
The IIHS has repeatedly shown that Tesla airbags are the best in class. Deploying airbags when not needed can do significant harm to occupants. Not to mention total vehicles for no good reason.

There isn't a need to wonder when independent data gatherers have already answered the question.
Interesting data.
BMW drivers have 2x the DUI rate of the next highest brand, haha. Certainly fits the stereotype.
Emacs was amazing for that; builtin text encoders/decoders/transcoders for everything.
> I feel more at risk of losing access to my accounts if I were to switch to passkeys, because I don’t fully grasp their long term lifecycle.

It's my understanding that you can't switch password managers without generating a new passkey for each individual service you use (I'm not an expert here, so someone feel free to correct me). That's already enough for me to not switch.
https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/
Poorly written article on wats with the website asking needing to store cookies just to read ?
Hidden amongst all those updates is the fact that React finally supports custom elements. Advocates of web components can finally just say "web components work in every framework" without adding any disclaimers about React [1].

[1] https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/
Likewise frustrated by the passkey implementation but like the idea. I’ve been experimenting with passkeys leveraging SSH tunnels. You can read more about it with a demo here: https://pico.sh/tunnels
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158183
Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
It's back up!
> By requiring the passkey to be managed by a password manager, you get some anti-phishing protection. A passkey includes metadata, including the website domain that created it, and the password managers simply won't provide the passkey to the wrong domain.

There are so many apps that don't get this right. Make a login on the website, store it in 1password, and then try to login in their mobile app and it doesn't show up as a password because the associated URL is mismatched on the mobile app. Like mybank.com and auth.mybankmobileapi.com
Arguably the government was doing VC investment before he concept existed . DARPA even has the same concepts in their competitions at Defcon . Fail fast and evaluate many solutions at once.
Before tech privacy was a large concern, the capitalist formula was indeed to consider cost of labor (china) and its relation to roi/share prices.

It still is because that’s how corporations work: “how will x affect my bottom line?”

It’s just now we have layers of concern that involve privacy. In a world with no regulation, corps would be sharing a lot more and doing a lot worse.
This basically just doing the walls in 18 hours. A framing crew could frame a conventional wall in about the same amount of time. This does nothing about the rest of finishing work.
untrue, 1Password stores the private key just like any other key material, and one can export it or get the private key from the bamboo menu

"passkey": {
"type": "webauthn",
"createdAt": 1696352105,
"privateKey": "eyJrdHkiOiJ...",
"userHandle": "cafebabeDeadBeef..."
},
I generally agree it does great on freeways, but not in urban situations where there are tight corners and lots of parked cars, or rural areas with twisty roads and farm equipment. I'd turn it off in construction areas too.
Apparently this is the closest a post can get to discussing the in-progress genocide without being instantly removed from the front page.

A few other comments here are saying the Brown study is rather sparse on details or recent examples. Have a quick peak into the [flagged] graveyard and there’s plenty of examples of Amazon and Google’s projects in support of the IDF.
+1. It seems important to allow this person to at least partially address the damage to their reputation.
Listen I don't like the ring of it either but we need less engineers building adtech and more engineers building drones and bombs.

All of our rivals have absolutely no qualms about using AI or other advanced technology to build weapons of war.
On Community in Nix
Steve Blank's "Secret History" gives a pretty good overview, starting with Terman and WWII, and going heavy on Cold War R&D.

<https://steveblank.com/secret-history/>

Something of an HN favourite as well:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsteveblank.com%2Fsec...>
No offense, but I'm trying to help you understand and you're not even making an attempt.

And yes. The answer is YES. Yes, college kids need to be on their laptop all freaking day.

Can you think of a reason why?
> Thanks for that perspective. I wish there was more of a focus on people trying to improve their own countries versus running to another country, but I can understand why people would choose that option.

Most of the time the improvements are coming from the top. So what usually happens - and we observe it over the course of history - countries reach peak, then decline and decline until they collapse or fall, and then again rise by using some external means (finding cheap resources etc). Every time you need the government that actually does things (forces/gives morale boost to the people) - or a revolution. Any other time it will be endless bureaucracy in democratic societies (nothing is getting done or takes too much time) or nepotism and corruption (with authoritarian flavor) in less democratic societies.

> People will say they are trying to get away from the bad practices in their country and that they want to improve, however in practice it doesn't seem 100% true

It is not true for sure. Especially with many people coming at once or forming their own small communities. When you are alone - you are forced to adapt. But when you are not alone you can keep your own culture and traditions without changes, while having benefits of a developed society.

I see it all the time - if you are used to throw away trash outside of trash box in your home country, then by coming here you will continue doing that sooner or later with more people from your countries coming here. Same with public transportation - in my country in order to travel from one region to another region, we used to have a train once per day. Per day. Here you get trains once every 10-15 minutes. So even if the public transportation will decline (fall apart, more delays and cancellations) I will feel ok (and a lot of people will feel ok) because I am used to such conditions and with bigger populations coming from the same culture and gaining rights to vote and so on - nobody will care about such things because we are just used to have it worse.

Or another example - in my country we are used to have fully crowded buses, coming every 30 minutes. Here if they cancelled a couple of buses and it would start arriving crowded, I would feel "at home" and it would not be a shock me and I would less likely to care about that because I simply used to it in my home country. It would be a minor issue for me. And you can imagine that with more people coming with the same mentality, it will just degrade the quality of living.

That's why adaptation and supporting the habits, rules and laws of your new country is important - because you came here due to them. You wanted to live in that "clean and nice country". Don't bring your bad habits with you.
Not all "miles driven" are the same. Autopilot is going to be engaged on highway driving which already has a lower accident rate per mile driven. So that biases a simple comparison.

Edit: and even within highway miles, autopilot will be enabled more in the "easy" stretches and turned off in roadworks etc.
Can't tell if you're kidding bc my first thought was that if DoD can't host their own email, how can they do anything else correctly?
> Not just platform-dependent, but user’s preferred locale-dependent.

Historically it made sense to be locale-dependent, but even then it was annoying to be platform-dependent.

One is not a subset of the other.
On UTF-8, the Linux framebuffer should had had a good utf8 support (a proper one, not 256/512 glyphs) long ago. Even GNU Hurd since 2007 or so it had a better 'terminal console' with UTF8 support. It's 2024.
> The photo is of a Jan 2018 crash

So still more than 5 years out of date.

Would you accept a photo of a 5 year old iPhone on an article about some iPhone limitation?

Would you accept a photo of a 5 year old version of Uber on an article about some Uber limitation?

Would you accept a photo of a 5 year old robot vaccum on an article about some robot vac limitation?

These things all change drastically each year. Five years ago is ancient history, and it's kind of silly to think "evidence" that is more than 5 years old has any bearing on how things perform now.
For sure but also consider those autopilot apis are written by impatient coders, distracted proj managers, and with crappy specs.
> currently justified as slightly protecting them from the government cutting their funding.

How does that work? Who sets the TV license rate? If I hate the BBC and want to eliminate their funding, and I also want to be popular, what's stopping me from eliminating the license regime altogether?
Do you really have over 10,000 customers? The domain name was only registered on 10 March this year
> It's not like we'd ever allow a neighboring nation to join a military alliance with an adversarial force, and so there simply will never be a ground threat.

For what it's worth, I agree with your argument, but I want to point out that the only reason we have the luxury of never allowing a neighboring nation to join alliances is because we have such massive military and technological advantages that aren't being sabotaged from within.
Correction, outside of the ML groups and anything related to CI/infra. Especially if you remember that Starlark[0] is a dialect of Python.

And that’s without going into all the outside-of-g3 code (of which there is a metric ton, especially if you worked with any teams that deal with hardware or third-party/acquisition stuff).

0. https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
Google's competitor, that the "journalist" failed to name, is Tutanoa. Not Tuta. It's fascintating that bots like you and the other bot which replied to me don't have access to this fact in your training data.
Thanks for explaining, that makes sense. And yes, my question was innocent. I am not a frontend dev, I used to do some CSS and vanilla JS back in the day. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me!
No, literal React (or Vue or Svelte) Components. Not like making global classes.
Oddly enough you don't. We've been storing our ssh keys(ed25519-sk) as resident keys for years now without issue.

So basically we've been storing ssh keys directly on yubikeys the same way passkeys are stored since before passkeys were a thing.

It seemed a clearly superior option compared to letting ssh private keys roam around on random computers.
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I am completely unable to find any official source claiming that the lab-leak hypothesis was more credible than the wet-market zoonotic transmission hypothesis. Can you provide some support on that front?

The closest I get to an official US position is the "summary" of hearings from the House Oversight Committee, as published on oversight.house.gov. But the way that report is written (and the way the whole of the website is structured) casts a pretty dark shadow on the reliability of the whole thing (at the bottom of the page, there's some quick links that are, verbatim "Press Releases, The Overview, Biden Family Investigation, The Bidens’ Influence Peddling Timeline, Biden's Border Crisis, COVID Origins". Considering that Biden impeachment hearings around some of that have been repeatedly rebuffed by republicans, the fact that those are on the main page reveals a pretty seriously bias.

The WHO is pretty silent on the subject, as is the CDC and the NIH. This makes sense, both within and without the conspiracy theory context, so the silence is not damning for either conclusion.

More tellingly, the closest I get from the scientific literature is that we cannot definitively rule out a leak as the cause, but that's adequately explained by the Chinese government's historic silence on internal issues. That silence is not an argument in favor of the lab leak hypothesis. If the PRC had been an open book about everything else, but suddenly clammed up about the origins of COVID 19, then I guess, sure, but even then, more "open" governments have denied more over less damage.

That's pretty much how it goes for every piece of "evidence" that supports the lab-leak hypothesis: the whole thing is based on circumstantial evidence that is most readily interpreted as innocent or inconclusive. For instance, its true that 3 scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became ill with an unidentified respiratory illness in December 2019. But only 3, while quite a few more people became ill around the wet market. Sure, the scientists could've become ill at the lab, then carried it to the wet market. But why didn't more at the lab become ill? The simpler explanation is that the scientists went to the wet market in the city they lived in, and were exposed to the virus there.

And this is all for the best-supported version of the lab-leak hypothesis, that does not assume deliberate weaponization via genetic engineering or anything of that sort.

The point I'm making here is that while the conspiracy theory is the more emotionally satisfying explanation, you have to massively overemphasize certain bits of data, and massively underemphasize others, to arrive at the conclusion that its even as likely as the non-conspiracy theory.. That's the very definition of confirmation bias.
> their developers are tasked more with testing. And... they don't like it. Frankly, we've developed s/w development culture in which QA is relegated

They need reminding that testing != QA.
I don’t know why they would be different? It seems cool, but the DOM elements have a very specific interface, where ‘setAttribute’ is required to modify state. If you just hang some property off a JavaScript object - that you created to send messages to the DOM using that interface - then why would you expect it to get routed there? Again, that would be a much better API/experience, some challenges but cleaner.

Maybe I’ve just been writing backend code for too long. I see an interface like this and I figure there’s some weird shit going on under the hood, and some kind developer from the past gave me the best and safest wrapper she could.
Discussion yesterday:[0] (103 points, 33 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40142427
Making hardware in the US as bootstrapped startup
This is a story, more than a How-To, but hopefully it'll help other software people get into hardware products.
Looking forward to your zine publication.
What it says on the tin, though what it says on the tin fails entirely to do it justice.

I'm otherwise gobsmacked, and impressed.
It seems to me that there are 10s of millions of "L2 driver assist" as defined by synopsys that have zero driver supervising checks such as most cars out there with lane-keep and cruise control.
I can imagine ZFS taking lots of space, but liblz4 is only 123KiB on current-ish ubuntu:

$ ls -lh /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1.9.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123K Mar 24 2022 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1.9.3
$ ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1.9.3
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd3df82000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe560800000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe560b81000)