skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cultural Anthropology is a good field, but it is a qualitative field, and not a quantitative one.

While there are quantitative Cultural Anthropologists (UChicago, UC Berkeley, Columbia, MIT, Harvard, and Stanford have good researchers working on this), Roberto González is not one of those.

Furthermore, the truly interesting things to dig into w/ regards to the MIC are more Economics, Finance, or Commercial Law driven - namely digging into how fair or unfair RFCs are, analyzing changes in procurement regulations, actually testing whether anti-competitive measures in the Defense industry have a positive or negative impact on efficacy, differentiating between different types of budget spend (Cloud/Infra Security research vs foundational ML research vs simulations reasearch), etc.

These are questions that need a quantitative background in Business, Law, Politics, and Technology.

Also, not naming Nvidia is a MASSIVE red flag, as they are balls deep in the Defense R&D space (that was the only reason they were able to survive the dot com bust).

Finally, how STEM Innovation works in the Military/Defense space is entirely different from how it works in much less regulated spaces, due to the limited set of buyers and the massive impact that asymmetry can potentially have.

> you can disagree without immediately dismissing someone

I agree! There are a lot things to disagree about w/ regards to the MIC, but the questions and problems González surfaces aren't new nor unique to the Tech industry. This feels less like a research paper and more like a surface level op-ed.

He brings up very good points about the impact CNAS (and more specifically Eric Schmidt) and other peer think tanks (imo CSIS is not that hawkish) is having on the vision of innovation R&D on the Hill, but that is an entirely separate investigation (and something that absolutely needs to be done), and the larger paper seems to ignore that.
I feel like this post was a great case study of Zig. Interesting!
I'm pretty much never too far from either my phone and my security key, seeing as how at least my phone is my car key and my wallet the majority of the time and a security key lives in my backpack.

Sure, M devices can be quite large, but the odds of me being at only one device and not any of my portable devices is extremely small. As long as I have at least one other device I've previously logged in to somewhat handy, I can still easily get in. Maybe that initial login is marginally more complicated, but IMO the ease of future authentications more than makes up for the small bit of initial friction the first time.

And in the rare instance where I'm suddenly on the moon and realize I left practically every other computing device and physical authenticator on another planet, I guess I just won't have access to a DnD tool. Oh well.
I insist that it's absurd trying to beat big tech mimicking their models. A social? Just dress Usenet with some extras (a minimal, readable markup, that render allowing things like video/images embedding in-line for instance) and you get a social no X or Mastodon can beat.

We do not need to copy the big, we need better stuff, and those come from the desktop model. Pushing them cut completely out the big ones because they offer inferior solutions and they can't do otherwise to keep up their business. Try to copy them and nobody will care.
Oso seems cool. Is it something that can be run locally? Seems like there's an open source library of some kind, but it's deprecated.
Whatever happened with the "false or perjurious" testimony at the beginning of the article? Nothing?
They are objectively, literally fatally confused as to the abilities of their vehicles.

Tesla's systems, or any other ADAS for that matter, can not be safely used without a fully attentive driver and Tesla's system in particular further demands that you must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times. Deliberately and intentionally operating such a system without your full attention because you think it will safely drive you without your attention is like shoving your hand into a spinning saw blade.

That is not to say that everybody who is injured by a spinning saw blade or by inattentive use indicates a product is fundamentally unsafe. Many people just inherently display inappropriate caution and most become complacent with dangerous devices through repeated "safe use". For a spinning saw blade, they miscalculate the risk and overestimate the safety mechanism, but they are not confused about that fact that inserting their hand into a spinning saw blade is a very bad idea.

If Tesla ADAS operators only overestimated their attention then it would be comparable to a spinning saw blade, useful but dangerous. However, Tesla marketing aggressively misrepresents the capabilities of their systems and the Tesla ADAS operators routinely believe the marketing that it can safely drive without their attention; they believe you should insert your hand into a spinning saw blade and many people have literally died as a result. That is textbook fatal confusion about the abilities of their vehicles.
Rust is the "frontend wave" of the backends. All the woke kids gravitate towards it. A suffix of "Written in Rust" is a thing here so I'm throwing away my internet points now.
There is no auth panacea. There's too many different use cases, too many players involved. You cannot create one "thing" that solves all the problems for all the people. It was hubris.

Instead, if "the industry" wants to solve "the problem", they need to write down all the use cases. Then we can argue about how to do that, and the result will probably be a couple different things that solve a couple different groups of use cases.

But what will always suck is letting "the industry" dictate to us "tech peons" how that should happen. They always come up with bloated standards that are a pain in the balls. So rather than let "the industry" solve the problem, I think we need a loose confederation of open source contributors and corporate goons to meet on some forum somewhere and hash it out. Let the solutions (plural) come organically without a single player controlling the conversation.
Empirical testing of LLM few-shot examples shows that example choice is crucial
Hey there, I'm the founder of a company called Libretto, which is building tools to automate prompt engineering, and I wanted to share this blog post we just put out about empirical testing of few-shot examples.

We took a prompt from Big Bench and created a few dozen variants of our prompt with different few-shot examples, and we found that there was a 19 percentage point difference between the worst and best set of few-shot examples. Funnily, the worst-performing set was when we used examples that all happened to have a one word answer, and the LLM seemed to learn that replying with one word answers was more important than actually being accurate. Sigh.

Moral of the story: which few shot examples you choose matters, sometimes by a lot!
We know that height is a thermal dissipation issue. If someone can figure out how to make taller chips then good for them. Any time a chip goes vertical you also reduce speed of light delay between units, so it still has effects we desire and want to push.

mm² is perfectly adequate for what we are after.
>The US will never be involved in a defensive war - geography makes that more or less certain.

It should be pretty clear by now that the next actual war won't be boots on ground, it will be fully digital.

The fact that in 2024, a large number of people are going to vote for Trump if he makes it to the ballot is pretty much an indicator that a country like China can use the existing AI technologies to pretty much throw US into a civil war and then take over economically if there is no active defense against it.
Changed from https://old.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/s/f0pvwrLAMt now. Thanks!
Housing shortages are always a city planning issue and the planning problem doesn't exist for every city independently either. If one city does something, then other cities may do the opposite and ruin the effort.
The trade jingoism is only part of it. A decade ago, drone tech, including DJI's was far less mature, and not nearly as widely adopted as it is today.
I'm a cool headed person, but reading that sentence was rage inducing for me.

There's literally no good argument to protect politicians other than corruption.

If politicians are worried these powers could be used to target them then it could be used to target literally anyone, and the concern shouldn't have been that they could be target, but that anyone could be targeted.

Plus, if this bill is only going to stop bad guys then they should have anything to worry about anyway right? I mean isn't this what we are told!? Should we be worried about these powers being abused or not!?

What a fucking joke.
tl;dr -- Rust is not the language for startups who want fast iterations and are still finding it's pmf. It is perfect for rewrites of popular system software which already has millions of users and running in production because once a software becomes mature and at million user scale, safety and security becomes paramount
[A synthetic guess at] Greenland's Geology. Article: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL10...
A plotter, basically!
I agree you need to control for other factors. But I don't think that is particularly beyond the wit of man.
I get/got trolled ALL the time, and it was extremely frustrating. I would get irrationally angry at them. Then I started doing it myself and realized it was fun. Not sure if it was really a coping mechanism or I was just bored or what. IRL I don't think I troll people or say inflammatory things, I tend to be quiet and reserved. But most online chat platforms I have been on have been extremely toxic, with not really any better alternatives, so I guess if you can't beat em, join em... but I think that mentality mostly evolved subconsciously in me over time.
> to learn a whole new set of tools

The tools are how we find functionality that can be re-used and re-purposed to do what we need. A lot of exploring and reading existing stuff, less writing new stuff.

> Smalltalk files are not plain text but rather images (or something)

Mostly Smalltalk files are plain text files!

There's a plain text log file with a replayable record of what you've been doing. There's a sources file with the source code. There are plain text file outs and change sets.

There's the VM like the JVM — not a plain text file.

There's the image, a cache of byte code (like Java .class files, Python .pyc files) and application state — not a plain text file.

With a previous Pharo version:

$ bin/pharo --headless Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image hello.st

pharo is the VM.

Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image is the image.

hello.st is a plain text file.

$ cat hello.st
Stdio stdout
nextPutAll: 'hello world';
nextPut: Character lf.!
SmalltalkImage current snapshot: false andQuit: true!
This is my first experience closely following publicity for a product and the yoyo of "the discourse" seems both equally ready to overhype and overhate on each turn.

Between this and seeing Civil War twice in as many weeks I almost want to plug into the presidential race if only to observe publicity tactics.
What is the inherent worth of Wild Spaces?
I wonder if Microsoft grabs them.

Sad, because GitLab was great for awhile. Then they stopped fixing bugs and started adding unneeded features, and made their pricing very expensive.
Sorry to hear that. We don't have a developer on the team. Lennart (from AmbientCG) has great skills in development, and he perfected their website. We're hiring freelancers to update our website, but with limited resources. Still, we're always looking for ways to improve our website for our users.
It only makes sense if everyone else is gaming the system, and then it just proves it's still the best lol.
... complains about people using tropes and tired cliches in posts while using the worst of them, themself
How exactly is a DJI device going to spread propaganda? Fly around with a banner?
Yep, that too. It's especially convenient if you have both iOS and Android since you can easily log in using either.
See paradox of choice.
Patrick Boyle's channel on Youtube did a great video on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg

It seems unfeasible, bordering on impossible, and also a terrible idea even if aliens came down and built it for us tomorrow.
I think most people here understand that a language that is great for kernel development isn't necessarily great for everything else.
I think "want companies to freely use" and "avoid AWS-like predator" rules are mutually incompatible. Those licenses don't just prevent "AWS-like predator", they prevent anyone else from selling software services.

So from consumer point of view, they would avoid CC/BUSL/etc.. SaaS because it has a severe lock-in issue - there is a single supplier (you) and if you suddenly decide to increase your prices 10x, they have to pay anyway (or start hiring devops people to maintain private instance). Unless the product is much better than open-source alternatives, it's easier to just go to real open-source software, so that if one SaaS provider goes bad, you can switch to a different one.

And from the developer/contributor point of view, they would avoid CC/BUSL/etc.. software because contributing there is like contributing to commercial software - you cannot benefit from your own efforts. For example back in the college, my friend paid me to develop interactive website for their "tutor studio" (a dozen of their friends). Good thing all software I used was open source.. had I used any Common Clause software, I would not be able to receive money for it.

(Additionally, a lot of companies would not mind selling themselves to AWS or Microsoft for a ton of money. And incorporating a product with anti-AWS provision will make this harder.)

So I agree with others: be fair, and openly state from day 1 that your product is a commercial one, with source-available license. There are tons of commercial products on HN and there is no hate or disdain if they don't call themselves "open source"
It's 2024, everything but Windows is UTF-8 \n since twenty years.
People don't do that because it's not the right way and is explicitly discouraged by the docs: "While it’s highly recommended that you create proper template partials for more complex components, you can use Tailwind’s @apply directive to extract repeated utility patterns to custom CSS classes when a template partial feels heavy-handed."

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles#extracting-class...
...and some favourable contracts from companies buying into that hype...
Sorry, I should've made that clearer. With "long-distance" I meant cardholder address vs. delivery address.

Someone living in NYC (and thus having their card registered in NYC there) is usually going to have it delivered to their home (in NYC) or their office (also NYC, or close to it). Someone living in NYC is very unlikely to order something for delivery in London. The location of the warehouse-of-origin is not relevant here.

> PSD2 in the EU solves this with MFA (you have to open your bank app to approve the specific card transaction).

Still not solved, unfortunately. With my EU-based credit card it seems to be a coin toss whether it asks for MFA confirmation or not.
It's funny how our next PM will be the person who let off Jimmy Saville yet this bill claims to care about CSAM (signed into law by the brother of a known peadophile).

1st amendment is being killed in America, privacy rights are being killed in the UK.

Freedom? Democracy? Will of the people? Lol.
These kinds of experiments get even more interesting when you also pipe the IPs into Shodan and find out that a lot of the malicious login attempts are coming from pwned DVRs and other devices.
> I'm def smarter than people who spend $2500 on a few GB ram and no GPU

Tell that to Linus Torvalds, seen using a few different MacBooks over the years. So far, you've made the impression of an arrogant nobody who doesn't know what a GPU is.

> Apple is found on low to middle income consumer households

Citation needed.
If opencabbage is real, it is very hard to find.
My issue is caring about my constitutional (natural) rights (which cannot be granted by a government, as they are natural; they can only be infringed upon by government), but I wouldn't expect you to understand, being in a place where blind subservience to a literal monarchy is what defined the values of the society you live in.
As a bonus you get to fill out 500 captchas every day.
I use selfhosted vaultwarden [0] instance (its a rust implementation of the bitwarden server), and the bitwarden apps (i point the apps to use my server instead of bitwarden).

Vaultwarden + bitwarden client apps (for desktop/browsers) have passkey support, and i've been using them for a month or two without any issues.

That being said, bitwarden client apps for android and ios are going through a rewrite (from xamarin to native iirc), and are yet to support passkeys. However, the bitwarden folk said passkeys are the next feature coming to these apps.

[0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
No, I don't think this is engineer brain. That's something more neutral, more similar to a hacker mentality, IMO.

This is wealth brain.

> A lifetime of bending your brain in one direction, being well compensated, being told you are smart... it leads to tremendous gaffs once you step out of your little specialized world.

That's not explained by simple engineer brain, plenty of us engineers are not in this position. But those who are wildly, exceptionally successful under capitalism, get their ideas (good and bad) reinforced more and more. They look at their success - money, power, fame, influence, and believe it is due to the correctness of their ideas, not due to the exact stupidity of humans they look down upon.
Seeing Repology stat on how many projects are in nixpkgs, how fresh they are, you are very largely wrong... Snaps/Flatpack have very few and mostly outdated packages. They are behind ANY other package system. NixOS is the largest set of packages and the most fresh. Arch and Guix follow short. The others are behind.

Not only, try to see how many "default.nix" or "shell.nix" you'll find in FLOSS projects, like in the past the "debian" dir. and you'll surely have an Idea.
92% of what the DoD does is normal business junk like ordering pencils.
branch if not equal.

and noops.

we were reverse engineers, make no mistake
> No worries, I just tap my security token to my phone and I'm logged in.

What allows you to tap your token on your phone and register a passkey-stored-on-phone registered with TotallyCoolService? Did you previously set your phone and token to be "mutually trusted devices" in some way?

Or what's preventing a thief from tapping my token on their phone to register it on TotallyCoolService?
C/C++ -> move fast and break things

Rust -> move slowly and don't break anything
Yeah, I rather like the pattern of embedding a more rapid iteration scripting language on top for game stuff like Lua or stripped down Python variants, using Rust as the core and hot loop code. That said, there is a lot of folks wanting to do it all in Rust, and the article touches pretty well on that not being the pleasant case for a lot of valid gamedev approaches.
Do you think the people that named this program knew about the rapper?
I'm thinking about ditching my VPN sub. It just looks suspicious. Sad times.
I mean, Chinese electronics are everywhere. What's the specific threat here? I doubt DJI can easily exfiltrate HD video streams directly off of these drones. I'd be more concerned about their apps, cloud stuff and similar.

Instead of banning the communist hardware they could require open standards/access for interfaces, firmware and so on. Then again, sharing code does smell a bit like communism too. So let's better err on the side of freedom and ban everything.
Ah an essential comma in that first paragraph, that even in its presence I managed to read over and thought at first that it was about “Martin Griffiths, a post office operator who took his own life by “drip feeding” compensation payments to his widow and lining up a media lawyer to protect its reputation” (the article does include the comma after “his own life” that I omitted here, and it was only the possessive “its” that tipped me off to my own misreading).
By which time XP was already in the middle of releasing, so it was too late to get Windows on board.

It's too bad, with a bit more planning and an earlier realization that Unicode cannot in fact fit into 16 bits then Windows might have used UTF-8 internally.
NetworkManager and systemd-resolved are not really interchangeable. The latter is a local caching multiprotocol name resolver and NetworkManager supports its use for name resolution.
I'm still not following the limitation. You can use ~ in place of + in my example and it'll work for subsequent siblings too, not just for next sibling.
The idea is similar, but a component contains markup and logic on top of the styles.

The approach Tailwind takes is that since the component is named and contained, its elements don't have to be named explicitly. And while we could then use inline CSS, it has some limitations so utility classes are a more powerful tool.
Nah, I have no stakes in this market. Just the recent I do work for free in exchange for clicks movement baffles me. People are idiots, ruining complete markets because some bored individuals dilute the market with their free offerings.
> In the US, getting someone convicted of libel or settling for it is pretty solid proof. It means the person being libeled likely could prove that the person making the claims knew they were false and maliciously spread them anyways.

Proving actual malice is only a requirement if the plaintiff is a public figure per New York Times v Sullivan. People who are not public figures have a lower burden of proof, though it is still substantially more stringent than in the UK.
I am from Sicily, near Palermo. In my humble opinion the main reason of emergency of Mafia was injustice and bad government, most prominently from Bourbon family but also from previous kingdoms. When there is injustice and bad government you learn to despise the authorities and the laws and your priority is the survival.

Sicily was great when it was governed by the Normands but that didn't last for a long time.

I live now in Switzerland and I am studying its history. It seems one of the reason of Switzerland prosperity and order was they never got a prince or a king but cities were autonomously governing themselves.
True. but these systems are effectively equivalent to void if the enemy can cheaply come up with a way to defeat it.
Rewired the brain?

Isn't that just learning?
Thoughts on my first electric scooter purchase
Don't threaten me with a good time!

And I still to this day enjoy combining your #3 (emacs) with your #5 (MOO) via e.g. https://github.com/toddsundsted/rmoo

You might appreciate my project: https://github.com/rdaum/moor

(Though it's in a bit of a slow period because of Real Life(tm))
TIL: Bun runs on Windows and can be installed with scoop.
Architects get paid for making models, so why is it not fathomable for the poster that they should pay for the textures they use? Or, why do some workers deserve to get paid and others not?

Edit: And reading the reply from the architects, you can almost smell the entitlement.
I thought the same thing when I first saw the device
I am only elitst in the sense that I believe that if you are going to drive a car you should know what the steering wheel does.

Installing .deb's is the equivalent of only ever staying in first gear "because it works". Honestly NOT telling people they are messing up would make me feel worse.

If you aren't willing to listen to me listen to Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
You keep the leaves in the fridge? Does it make a difference?