skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between hackers and users. You probably don't rebuild your car's transmission and don't build your own long-distance radio, but there are people that do it for fun. However, there was a time when both drivers and operators consisted mainly of people that hacked on cars and radios. Some of the hackers were involuntary hackers and gladly became users when cars became appliances.

The same applies to PCs. Gen X and older Millennials had to become hackers just to get the sound working in their newest game, so if you saw a guy on IRC you knew he was a fellow hacker. Now everyone is online, including people who would simply not use a PC back in the 80's or 90's. They can afford to treat their personal computing devices the way I treat my personal commuting device: fuel goes into this hole, I need to consult the manual to open the boot to top up window washing fluid, the rest I happily delegate to a professional. But the hackers are still there: grease monkeys, DXers, hackers proper.
This is actually great. You basically look like a stolen device with a sim swap.
In my case, maintaining software usually ends up reducing complexity. Many bugs, are because I wrote an overcomplex kludge, which I only recognize upon reflection.

Also, it’s not just users and their environment that changes.

I have had software break, when Apple comes out with an OS update, and I had, for example, relied on a certain behavior that was not specifically dictated in the API.
The primary objective of the NHS is to save money, it can seem. Therefore they create policies that reduce costs, write advice on nhs.uk that results in lower costs, restrict access to tests/drugs etc.

I DO understand the arguments about excessive diagnostics, antibiotics etc - but they certainly hide behind those arguments _a lot_.

Honestly it is so stressful and time-consuming to get anything other than a basic blood test or an ultrasound for any kind of issue. They will happily gaslight you in order to dissuade you ("Lyme does not exist in this area of the country". "These links say it does". "No")

There's a reason why private healthcare spending is on the rise ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/317868/private-healthcar... ) but AIUI private GPs leave a lot to be desired - they seem to be just for single-visit issues, and aren't included on anything except the most expensive private healthcare plans
It's something I had said before in another thread, but oh well... Here goes again:

The so called privacy-presevation of CGNAT is a double edged sword. Other websites can't track you, simultaneously that also means other internet users can't reach you.

The most obvious consequence is that to host a server, you must purchase a VPS or rent an public IP address from your ISP, and the price for a public IPv4 address is getting higher and higher.

The less obvious consequence is that you're giving up control to the VPS providers (and other centralized services). Does your VPS provider allow you to host Tor services? Run BitTorrrent?

It's rather ironic that people on HN, a website whose name literally includes the term "hacker", would support things like CGNAT which hurt hackers/hobbyists/"privacyists" the most.
I moved to Fedora (Xfce spin) for that exact reason and I've been incredibly happy for the last ~2 years.

The last straw for me was the calculator app being a snap. I was frenetically working on a thing, and suddenly opening the calculator app took ~15 seconds. Looked deeper into that, it (suddenly) was a fucking snap. Ubuntu developers had decided it was a good idea to mount a 500+ megabytes layer full of gtk shit in order to run the calculator. A fucking 600kb binary. And I was running a gtk based desktop environment anyway (xfce).

Nowadays I run Fedora on laptops (or systems where I prefer software abundance to stability) and Rocky Linux (basically RHEL without logos) on my home server.

I've kept myself far from Ubuntu and GNOME and stuff works and I'm happy.
>My conclusion - have two physical phones + laptop all synced, plus hardcopy of important pswds etc.

Why do you need more than a single phone plus a hardcopy of your Google recovery codes (assuming you know your Google account password)?
Thanks for your explanations. It's all the more reason to be pissed about what the big corporations are doing.
Less profit than anything theoretically, and in practice, less than the US treasury bond rate.

If the company is spending $1B/yr for a 1% return in that division, but the return on bonds is 5%, the financial answer is to liquidate, and put the cash in bonds.
I don't invest in real estate
Let me know what you think, happy to set people up with demo keys!
A USB adapter for an old Depraz mouse
Not to put words in their mouth, but I read that as basically "when DoorDash says they need to raise prices to pay their workers, I don't believe a word of it."

They have a history of breaking laws, being hostile to labor, and doing whatever they can to maximize profits at everyone else's expense. Why would they balk at lying about the reasons for increasing prices?
Same. How would that work? What would be the end result (email body)?
Click the Red Button [Beta]
It always seemed weird to me that Texas celebrated getting the headquarters of the zombie companies from past waves of tech innovation, like HPE or Oracle.
That Pi/Pi-likes can do traditional embedded things like i2c or GPIO seems almost incidental these days. The used/low end laptop is much more comparable but then you have something big, bulky, power hungry (almost always with a fan), and already outdated (maybe not in terms of absolute performance but in technology/support). If you have any need for more than 1 at a time things get awkward and dissimilar and if you happen to run across a need for a traditional embedded use case e.g. GPIO on the side then the interfaces won't really be there.

And the other side is the cheaper ones still exist e.g. the just launched CM4S goes down to $30 with some storage included. Not exactly microcontroller cost but not exactly bad for the convenience even if that's your own use case. Then if you need to scale up your ceiling is much higher (in relative terms even) than 10 years ago.
As an aside, at one point I experimented a little with transformers that had access to external memory searchable via KNN lookups https://github.com/lucidrains/memorizing-transformers-pytorc... (great work by lucidrains) or via routed queries with https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_routing (don't fully understand it; apparently related to attention). Both approaches seemed to work, but I had to put that work on hold for reasons outside my control.

Also as an aside, I'll add that transformers can be seen as a kind of "RNN" that grows its hidden state with each new token in the input context. I wonder if we will end up needing some new kind of "RNN" that can grow or shrink its hidden state and also access some kind of permanent memory as needed at each step.

We sure live in interesting times!
Everything you're describing could still be done in PHP (or another language)
LLMs fail at so many reasoning tasks (not unlike humans to be fair) that they are either incapable or really poor at reasoning. As far as reasoning machines go, I suspect LLMs will be a dead end.

Reasoning here meaning, for example, given a certain situation or issue described being able to answer questions about implications, applications, and outcome of such a situation. In my experience things quickly degenerate into technobabble for non-trivial issues (also not unlike humans).
I don’t think the inefficiency between 75 and 85 is going to be that much.

Maybe yes on the scale of everyone….

https://www.mpgforspeed.com/
Bank overdraft fees are entirely optional and preventable. Consumers can turn off overdraft protection on their accounts.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/avoid-overdraft-f...
what might be an acceptable solution here? just curious
I'll dare to say I like it!

N8n seems to have a pretty fine gui for configuring little pipelines, sort of alike node-red. If the author wanted to embellish & enhance what they have there's a variety of other connectors & processors they could easily snap into place. It's easy to glance at a pipeline and see what the general shape is. This high level world feels much more normative & clear than scratching together "simple" php scripts.

Ditto for sending data into nocodb. An Airtable spreadsheet/database like system, with a good gui, with form submissions being fed into a spreadsheet: it's again nicely high level. It integrates with other documents or reports, if you want. It's easy to access from the web. It's a very slick very user friendly solution that still brings a ton of power. Another huge win for a high level system.

I too had an initial WTF reaction, are you serious reaction. But it wasn't that hard to find some empathy when I tried. I didn't have to work that hard to appreciate what the post is going for, to envision what the actual usage/configuration looked like, and to see there is a pretty neat high level set of guis here that are used to program a very flexible small little pipeline. And I can see how each piece is extremely malleable by end users. That freedom to rework & reshape this system freely is really neat.

There may be good tailor made solutions that we can agree to dub as "simpler" for form handling, but the composability & flexibility of this end-user driven solution is super neat & super compelling to me. These tools are extremely generic & could be used for all manners of tasks, and that is enormously compelling, to good general systems that we can use to tackle all manners of tasks. This is a cool pick of tools to bring together.
In this specific instance:

The idea that astronomers had stumbled on such a structure triggered headlines round the globe – though not for long. Subsequent research has now undermined the idea. “We have found that light of different wavelengths is blocked in different amounts: exactly what you would expect from starlight passing through a dust cloud,” said Lintott.
> This assumes you only have one TV doing 4K streaming, but most households might have more devices consuming bandwidth

But no households are doing 8 simultaneous 4K streams. The "but you might be doing more than one thing at a time" case is really uncompelling once you get up past 100Mbps, as much as ISPs want to make people believe otherwise in their marketing.
I have been trying to generate some text recently using the ChatGPT API. No matter how I word “Include any interesting facts or anecdotes without commenting on the fact being interesting” it ALWAYS starts out “One interesting fact about” or similar phrasing.

I have honestly spent multiple hours trying to word the prompt so it will stop including introductory phrases and just include the fact straight. I have gone so far as forbid the words “interesting”, “notable” and a few others in the prompt, and it just ignores me and uses them anyway.

I’ve tried all the different available models and 4 will once in a great while get it right. 3, 3 turbo, and even 4 turbo basically never work as I want.

Overall, it seems pretty bad at being told not to do certain things. For instance there are a number of topics I don’t want mentioned in its response, but telling it not to seems to only increase the likelihood that it will mention it, like you put the idea in its head.
A explanation is visible to users on each comment and story, mod actions show up in a public log, and the site's source is available for any remaining questions on how things happened. There are users who store everything as it comes in via RSS or mailing list mode and call out mod mistakes as they see them. More broadly, modern moderation systems have evolved in response to the failures of the systems you describe. It's not about secrecy or power, it's about how leaving up abuse had a lot of bad effects that contributed significantly to the decline of platforms like Usenet.
I’m going to find a doctor to confirm to my diagnosis and try to get every doctor who disagrees with me reprimanded or fired along the way!
Why not? seems like a pretty good barometer to know whether or not someone’s worth talking to.
Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness'
It does not sound accurate to me that only 18% of crashes appear in police reports?
Let's see with 24.04.

Afair, for switching from 20.04 to 22.04 I had to ensure network configs are under netplan and that's all.

What's imimportant as well, there is no rush to switch to newer LTS, no problem to plan and test migration over 1 year be needed as old LTS is still supported.
I also moved from Ubuntu to Mint, and from GNOME to MATE. Been very happy.

The only time I got annoyed at Mint was when they recently changed the default mouse pointer into something that looks like a deformed marshmallow. So instead of a pixel at the end of the pointer, we get a fat finger. I don't understand the UX mentality that thought that this was a good idea.

It's easy enough to change, but every now and then, something clobbers my UI settings and I have to remember how to change it back to the mouse pointer that actually works as a pointer.
You should ban knives too! We have an epidemic of knife crime here in the UK.
The Convenience of System.io (2023)
I just clarify managements priority before making decisions. It won't be framed as short vs. long-term but it's always clear. What are devs going to do, ignore the business realities and stomp off to create their masterpiece?
The US is doing great at achieving this non-goal then.
Ah good times. I started out with one of the early ones, maybe 4.04 or something like that. Ubuntu was my first Linux, and then Mint. Unfortunately, for work purposes, I had to switch to MacOS (not a bad OS), but I still miss Linux from time to time, especially reading about that story on the frontpage about people losing access to their Apple IDs. I think I'll give it another shot soon...
I think that’s a bit missing the mark. The emphasis in the story, contrary to the parent comment, is that rote memorization and repeated problem solving, lead to understanding. Whereas most American education claims the exact opposite: that understanding comes before fluency.
Things have sure gotten better now. :D
I agree with all of this, but even this is overlooking a simpler point: the software probably wasn't perfect in the first place. Even a few-line algorithm, isolated from any APIs or IO, can have subtle bugs. Remember the headlines when people noticed that most textbook implementations of binary search had an integer overflow bug?

If you take any old C or C++ code, for example, it's extremely likely that it has at least one construct with Undefined Behavior. Many instances of that binary search issue had outright UB because of signed integer overflow, and most code has much more subtle UB than that.

The more time passes the more likely that UB manifests with a newer compiler, a new OS version (especially if it's Library UB rather than Language UB), a new CPU family, etc.

This is nobody's fault as such, UB wasn't well understood until compilers became aggressive enough to actually exploit the letter of the standard rather than the common intuitions. Even so, good luck finding old code that would pass modern scrunity.

In the unlikely case that a program had absolutely no defects of its own at the time it was written, it could still use a deprecated API, make a stale assumption that increasingly limits its interoperability and versatility, fail to utilize modern resources like many-core CPUs and RAM larger than entire enterprise disk arrays used to be, etc. Any number of things could merit improvement without a single bug or change to requirements as such.
To be frank the response itself indicates that you don't really get what was being asked, or maybe how to parse English conversation conventions?

I.e. It doesn't seem to answer the actual question.

They seem to be half responding to the second sentence which was a personal opinion, so I wasn't soliciting any answers about it. And half going on a tangent that seems to lead away from forming a direct answer.

Run these comment through a translation tool if your still not 100% sure after reading this.
Well, by voting with your feet, you’ve decided not to vote in California elections.

Of course your approach will lead to greater polarization between states.
A lot of problems because they are also starting to align with other autocratic regimes like Russia. This is why it was so hard getting Finland and Sweden to join.
> at least one study found that we [Texas] have one of the ten highest total tax burdens in the nation

I guess you can find "at least one study" to say almost anything, but for what it's worth, Wikipedia found different numbers placing them around #30.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/State_Ta...

And the first link on Google was WalletHub, who ranked them #37.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...
I haven't rigorously tracked all of the instances I've seen of this happening over the years, but I've tried to quickly find some more prominent examples for you.

This bug report, for example, has various "This comment has been minimized.", "rust-lang deleted a comment from ...", "rust-lang locked and limited conversation to collaborators" interference:

https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671

A Reddit thread discussing the situation from that bug report mentioned above has numerous "[removed]" comments and down-voted comments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...

When Rust is discussed here, it's common enough for reasonable and relevant Rust-related comments to be voted down, sometimes severely. These threads have some examples I quickly found via a search of high-activity Rust submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24334731&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343867

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802674

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812047&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29488336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24337001

Here's an example of a recent submission on this site for an article very reasonably and thoroughly questioning Rust. It got some attention, and now it's currently marked as "[flagged]":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091427

Keep in mind that strict "moderating" (ie, censoring) has been an integral part of the Rust community's identity for many years now via its Code of Conduct and Moderation Team -

https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct

https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/moderation
"trying to lasso global companies is like trying to wrestle the wind, and that the economic-development incentives that were so vaunted here earlier this century can only do so much."
but that means exposing an email address in the page source code
Alcohol is legal. But it's ilegal under some circumstances (driving). Or it's not tolerated on some places (work).

There are a number of low risk drugs, like LSD, that are very ilegal. In fact, they were made ilegal on false premises, like "they led to suicides" or "you'll stare at the sun". Often people make a big bag of drugs, from LSD, shrooms and marihuana, to heroin and fentanil, put them in a bag and stamp "ilegal because some of them are very bad" on it. Sorry, what? Ban the worse of them, and leave the less harmful out. I'm personally for full legalization, but I get that some people want to ilegalize at least the worse opioids.

To go back to your speed example: yes, speeding is bad. Yet we put a limit reasonably high that allows you to use the car. We didn't outlaw car usage altogether! We know there are traffic related deaths and injuries every year, and still we are allowed to drive: we study the problems, we try to fix it, new regulations are in place... We try to get a balance between the risk and the benefits. But the current discourse with drugs is "going in a car at 5mph in the highway is very, very, very harmful". Except alcohol: that "car" can go at full speed.
This is part of that pattern. Best wishes for your future endeavors.
I agree SUVs are wasteful in general, but EVs are actually pretty heavy too!
but mailto is done on the client side. I am not sure everyone has a local mailto handler these days.
In case one phone doesn't work or is lost or stolen or broken, I guess. Plus buying a second phone is great for the economy!

Society was collectively sold this deal where if you entrust everything to a trillion-dollar company, you'll be treated well and this sort of thing wouldn't happen. Yet it appears to be happening, and the trillion-dollar company that has the resources to deal with this so far isn't being very helpful, and it's falling to the consumer to take insane amounts of proactive measures to not have their digital lives fucked up when the exact deal was that you wouldn't have to, but of course now the party line will be "well you were obviously stupid to believe the trillion-dollar company's trillion-dollar marketing, then."

And I'm annoyed as one of the people who did not buy into it.
Telecom operators have admitted to being able to identify people through CGNAT since at least 2015 https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-can-be-identified-despite-s...

You just have to have the source port as well as IP instead of just the IP (which the MPAA et al surely gather). CGNAT is basically just port-based DHCP; it still has to keep an inventory of what ports are available, practically requiring the ability to tell who was using what port at what time.

Even from a first principle's perspective, if they can't identify subscribers for relatively benign things like piracy, they also can't do it for something like CP. Those logs 100% exist, if only so the telecom has something to turn over when the FBI comes looking for pedophiles.

> One of the tools Wikipedia gives admins to protect pages from vandalism/abuse is ip address blocks and not browser fingerprints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_IP_addresse...

And yet that very tooling will detect if a hard-blocked user tries to log in from a new IP address and block that new IP address. It's almost like IP address blocking doesn't work very well...

You're of course free to do what you want, but it seems naive to me to assume that anyone operating even a moderately popular site isn't browser fingerprinting. Even if the site isn't, CloudFlare will if they use CloudFlare (and I wouldn't be surprised if other CDNs).
The "Californian exodus" story and the "techies leaving Texas" story are both overstated.

Once you remove politics from the picture, the reality is California and Texas are fairly similar with each other on an attitude, infrastructure, and diversity basis.

Both are states that were founded with a history distinct from the 13 colonies, a massive mix of state run services and pro-business measures (LBJ was a TX Dem, and the Great Society was sparked by his experiences as a poor teacher teaching the children of Mexican migrant workers), have very forward facing innovation cluster, and are almost pigheaded in their superiority and moralizing complexes.

As a Californian, I never feel culture shock in TX compared to NY, DC, MA, or IL.
I think he means 18% of crashes that the police report have an airbag deployment.
I’d like to pick the brains here on HN.

I’m looking to do something like autoinstall for my office but is there an easier way have my employees do their own thumb drive (remote users) and get the config they need from me? I’m looking for an MDM Intune like enrollment that’s easier and configured it a certain way. I’m not in a position to use and manage Puppet.
The number one search result for "Autopilot" on HN is still this 2017 article claiming a 40% reduction in crash rate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437905 The subsequent revelations of the many flaws in this analysis never had one tenth the fanfare of course.