skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trying out different ideas is good.

And that's all we're asking, guvner. Can we try not having "tech giants"? We've tried and there are all sort of issues that negatively affect society, privacy, innovation, ...
Unless you're in the habit of taking daily holidays that is practically untrue. The US dollar has been dropping in value at a rate of ~5% per annum for the last few years. And have an official policy of dropping ~2% per annum.

So even if it strengthens 10% against the Yen then that just means that someone in Japan will be feeling really poor, but a US dollar still won't be buying as much as a US dollar from a few years ago would have once inflation in both currencies gets factored in. The purchasing power of all the currencies is dropping, it is just the Yen is dropping faster. These are policy choices by the respective governments (although they often don't feel like choices).

I'm sure there are a bunch of currency traders making good money and it is certainly possible that US dollars buy more in some places. But it is more likely that a US dollar in 2024 buys less than in 2023 everywhere, because the US government has an official policy of making it so. Over 5 year timelines it is all but a guarantee that they will succeed in their policy. There isn't a global trend where the US dollar buys more than it did some time in the past; it is strengthening against other currencies, not rising in value.
Basically https://replicate.com/

Because it happens when running your own models on localhost too. I have ollama and all the ones they support, but there are some on HuggingFace I run through llama.cpp inside apps where I won't have ollama installed, Replicate also has Stable Diffusion models, not just chat ones, and OpenAI which is its own thing. So it could potentially all be unified under a provider like that.

Haven't actually tried Replicate because I'm just running locally for free, but probably would try to find a single cloud provider for all deployments, like a Heroku of LLMs.
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Well, some things are improvements. But many are not, and are just changed for the sake of it.

I'm a fan of SELinux (and the similar mandatory access control on BSD) because it gives strong security but the user or admin keeps control. This is a much better solution than things like immutable OSes where the user can't control anything and just has to trust the developer of the OS.
> I wrote up a little demo and explainer at

They give you the ed25519 host key to insert into your known_hosts file on their homepage, which itself is served over TLS with all of the protections you describe in your article. They could go into more detail on being careful with not falling into the tofu trap perhaps, but I don't see that there's an inherent PCI-critical problem here. ssh tells you who, cryptographically, you're connecting to.

If I mess with my DNS and point it at your "little demo", this happens:

$ ssh foo@terminal.shop
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!

Anyone ignoring a big scary warning like that probably isn't going to brew the coffee properly anyway.

And guess what? My browser lets me bypass HTTPS warnings too! Yes, even when HSTS is enabled I can take steps to bypass the warning.
> That first link especially is hyperbolic disingenuous bad faith nonsense. … I glanced briefly over the other articles and it seems like they're the same utter drivel… …I've explained at length why, and why their UX choices were justified, before…

Yep. There we go. Saying anything about GNOME that isn't adoring praise immediately draws out the victim-playing accusations of bad faith, and refusal to engage with the actual problems. How dare anybody scrutinize the way GNOME developers treat and conduct themselves around other people. Nobody can ask GNOME to listen to them, but everybody else must listen to GNOME. There's genuinely something strange going on with the mindset around the whole project; it's like they've actively weeded out anybody with any functioning empathy, self-awareness, or non-zero neuroplasticity…

It's not GNOME that's crazy; it's literally everybody else [1][2][3][4][5][6[][7][8][9][10] that's ever tried to work with GNOME! They must be out to get you.

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1: Solus/Budgie — See second link above.

2: Linux Mint — https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4149#comment-239629

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-More-GNOME-Forks

> We want to send a strong signal upstream and towards other projects. We cannot and will not support applications which do not support our users and environments.

3: Transmission — https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685

(Cited in first link, which you dismissed as "Hyperbolic disingenuous bad faith nonsense".)

4: System76 (as villified by GNOME) — https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/10/system76_gnome_deskto...

(Mentioned in second link, which again you dismissed as "utterly stupid and wrong" "utter drivel".)

5: SpaceFM — https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687752

6: Inkscape developer — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFGXVN9dZ8U

> …you talk with people and you get an exasperated sigh, like "Why are you bothering to like report this issue to me?," or like "Why are you asking this question, it's stupid." It's a bit caustic.

7: Ubuntu (though diplomatic) — https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-gnome-plans-fo...

8: Wayland — https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hnoksv/comment/fxfax...

> They just skip "embrace" and "extend" and just go straight to "extinguish". …They don't just decline to implement standards, they actively work against the establishment of standards at all.

(Cited in the fourth link.)

9: Kernel (Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox) — https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/torvalds-pou...

> The gnome people have their problems. They do seem to like to blame pretty much anything but themselves.

10: Subsurface (Konstantin Bläsi) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0&t=6m8s

> There is no way to get an answer. The only thing you can get is abuse.

It's literally endless.
Also an engineer doing software. The best book I’ve found for this is “Documenting Software Architectures” by Clements et al. It’s a lot but it shows different reasons to use different styles of diagrams and when they are appropriate. For instance, when it comes to creating diagrams for certain stakeholders versus others or when the system is structured in a certain way, certain diagramming techniques would be better than others.
Call me old fashioned, but I think the constant monitoring of citizen's movements is bad even (especially?) when the state does it. If we're going to live in 1984, the involvement of corporations seems like the least of our troubles.

Good on you though, for actually going after this information and sharing it with your community. People absolutely have the right to know if they're being subjected to this.
"Giving order to one's assistant" is a class of interaction that some people desperately want, and I expect we'll see these kind of devices being made until it works, even if it's in two decades from now.

Fundamentally it's the model of the boss giving orders to its secretary, and people dream of it as some pinnacle of evolution (perhaps it is, I don't have a paid secretary to assess the point). That's actually pretty close to the concierge services offered by phone for instance, and some people with enough money seem to enjoy it, so why not (try to replicate it, even if it miserably fails for a while) ?
How is running a database hard? It is more annoying to receive alerts from AWS of expiring certificates and suddenly they start charging for extended support when the version goes EOL on their definition and having have to deal with them.

At least by running stuff yourself, you gain universal knowledge that lasts as long as you're using that software but learning the way of AWS is a complete waste if you ever leave them.

Do people nowadays think they're smart by using the myriad of provided services for no good reason not knowing they're being locked and milked?
Survivor bias is so strong here, though. None of us can predict the future, and for every iPhone there's a swarm of largely forgotten devices like the Newton, WebTV, or Nokia M510.

See also: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit
If you're arguing that judging people is ok, I think you could do a better job than tu quoque.
Wait, did I understand this correctly? Every file entry in the file system has a copy of the icon? What happens if you want to change the icon?
Sorry, I meant Secure SHell. Oh wait, that wasn't the widely-known acronym you asked about.
IIRC, the spiral for LaserDisc goes the opposite way from CDs (like vinyl records)
What about the other buildings?
everyone conveniently neglects to mention that we have an interest on our national debt that goes up by 1 trillion dollars every 100 days.

so this is going to create inflation which means that money is effectively decreasing in value.

so this means that people need to park their money somewhere in a safe asset.

property is a pretty safe asset.
books are great... and important! its a nice idea. what does it do? i filled in a book and hit share and that was it. is it making lists? am i suggesting good books? when i click on other peoples books i dont see anything, no review, no summary, no suggestion. am i missing something?
In terms of MITM attacks, yes, they were trusting

Even back in 2010 lots of sites were http, like Facebook, & there was FireSheep which would snoop on public wifi for people logging into sites over HTTP
If Chinese were phonetic - a brief thought experiment by Ted Chiang (2016)
I think the exploit you demonstrate in your video is pretty reasonable/realistic. There's plenty of times where I eye-ball a repo in the GitHub UI before downloading it since I want to know what's happening under the hood for trust reasons. And this def throws a little bit of a wrench into that process.
Hardware is … hard.

I remember a post, here, some time ago, that was an explanation about why someone wasn’t going to be making a webcam, even though they had a great idea.

The post talked about all the various details and hurdles, involved in sourcing parts, making, promoting, delivering, and supporting the product.

It basically said it wasn’t worth it.

Backing a hardware project requires substantially deeper pockets than an app.

Sometimes, a good hardware wrapper could make all the difference, but it’s a really big deal.
Awesome! Probably a fair compromise. Also, the "why no networking?" question has also been asked and answered by the developer here:
https://beyondloom.com/blog/responses.html#doesdeckerhavenet...
exactly!

as interest increases inflation will increase which means people need safe places to park their money... property
>As a personal anecdote, my car was broken into last year and I did not bother filing a police report.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it". —Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>
Because Ubuntu is actively fighting the community they once helped build. They don’t take feedback seriously anymore. They don’t build Ubuntu for users.

Thankfully there’s plenty of alternatives where feedback is actually appreciated.
Haven’t seen downpour mentioned, it’s pretty neat https://downpour.games/
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I disagree with the premise that the tax reduction for land with homes built on it exists to de-incentivize people from tearing down abandoned homes. Much the opposite - the purpose of the law is to encourage the efficient use of land. There are similar tax breaks on agricultural land - where unused agricultural land is taxed at a significantly higher rate than land that is being farmed.

I think they probably just didn't foresee a massive population decline coming when the law was originally enacted, and this was just an unintended side effect. Now the government views the huge number of abandoned homes as a social issue that needs to be addressed. And, as I mentioned in another comment up above, the law was already amended in 2023 to exclude abandoned homes from preferential tax treatment.

I do agree with your point that increased demand for demolition services will increase prices and probably divert labor from other industries. But I don't see this as a huge problem. The supply chains/expertise already exist due to Japan's historical preference for demolishing and building new, and it requires mostly unskilled labor (except for the guy operating heavy machinery), so it should be fairly straightforward to ramp up.
Wow I didn't realize things were so black and white
I'd love for the iPod to come back. I have a small DAP, the Shanling M0, but it has not the iPod ergonomics. A phone can do what the DAP does, but not the way it does it. A better phone ergonomics would probably be a PDA.

(I'm not defending Rabbit R1 and I think it's useless).
Yes it’s a very hierarchical way of thinking. I’d much rather imagine a world with more collaboration between peers than every person having a servant, but it seems those that run tech companies prefer the latter.
SecOps Alert Enrichment: Tor Exit Nodes
My POV is it's a GNOME issue. If GNOME doesn't want to comply with the FDO icon standard, they shouldn't include metadata that allows Adwaita to be registered as an icon theme.
Don't be discouraged in such a competitive world these things usually happen. I understand that you need to put more effort into introspection, the question you ask would be the first step. You need to diagnose why you are being ignored by employers. Think of it as debugging practice. Regardless, I wish you all the best in your search for that dream job. You have a lot of work, don't give up.
> The VCR’s recording function also served to lower media costs for those willing to borrow and copy a neighbor’s tape of Back to the Future.

Lol, only if you had a dual tape VCR, which almost no one did. VCR recording was mostly used to record TV shows or movies (and you'd try to remember to pause the recording during commercials). VCRs were also quite useful for camcorders, that would record on tape. The form factor of a laser disc was impractical for camcorders, although much later mini DVD-R discs did see some adoption for this.
It doesn’t fix anything. Rents in major cities like Shanghai or Shenzhen are proportionally pricier than even the priciest American metros. All these ghost houses are in places no one wants to live. On the same note, rent is pretty damn cheap in Toledo, Ohio.
That makes sense.

A quick search didn't reveal any good resources for how to test the quality of a random number generator in a number range. Is what I came up with the best strategy, and you just need to run it for much longer (and compare to a known-good implementation) to see the difference?
I just made this so I'm looking on adding features! I'm going to add liking shared books a feature soon aswell and summaries will also be added!
My son, around the same age, liked p5.js the most out of several things I introduced him to
Can data be reviewed retroactively to track someone that wasn't a suspect at the time the image was captured. E.g., "we now suspect john doe was involved in a series pf bank robberies. Tell me everywhere his car allowed up in the last 30 days."
The websites faq says they are still using stripe for payment and ordering - however this may work.
That is an epically cool story from the early days of the Internet / web. Thanks for sharing!
I don't think you understand what the poster was saying.

leaving the gold standard allows the Federal reserve to create any amount of inflation they want which allows the government to loan as much money as they want as the Federal reserve can just print money to pay the debt.

the usa is currently hitting unforeseen levels of interest rates on that debt which means inflation is going to increase in perpetuity.

which means rich people need places to park their money as this is the beginning of massive currency devaluation
Oh wow. You’re the guy who knows Adam right? His Laravel video was so inspiring.
I worked at the Arch Mach at MIT for a very short period in the very early 1980s. The Arch Mach was the predecessor to the MIT Media Lab. I made absolutely no impact there, but I do recall one of the successes of the lab was a kind of prototype of today's Google Maps Street View, where you could drive around Aspen, Colo on the computer and look at image taken from a car driving around the town. You could choose to drive forward, then turn left or right at an intersection as desired. You could thereby explore the entire town via the computer. It was regarded as extremely cool at the time. It's clearly the inspiration to today's Google Street View. Although I didn't work on it myself, I was able to play with it.

The images were stored on a laserdisk, and as you drove down the street the laserdisk player would pull the appropriate images off the disk and show them to you on the computer monitor. The images were stored on laserdisk because they were large files and at the time the only way you could store a lot of such large files was on a laserdisk since it was designed to hold video. For the 1981-1982 time-frame the Aspen exploration system was very forward-looking, but I do recall a delay between the time when you'd hit the button to move ahead, and the image would appear on the monitor. The delay had to do with first seeking, then reading the image off the disk.

I just looked around the web, and found this link describing the system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map

I see a bunch of names I recognize in the Wikipedia article, so here's a shoutout to all the folks I worked with while I was an insignificant undergrad.
> folks who protested a contract with the Israeli Defense Forces

I encourage anyone who believes this was somehow unjust or an overreaction to pick a pet cause and go disrupt executive offices at their own company to see if your company would act differently.
We need this lawsuit against X, formerly known as Twitter. That's where it's really bad.
> Palestinians don't want a two state solution

This is a pretty generalizing statement about a whole nation that surely has varying opinions on the subject. I would even say a bit racist and dehumanizing.

Can you share the survey’s you claim exists which demonstrates this?
Taylor expansions for all functions do not exist. Furthermore, our characterization of infinity was still poor, so we didn't even have a solid notion of what it would mean for a formalism to be able to compute all computable functions. The notion of a universal computer arguably didn't exist until Babbage.

I stand by my position that having a mathematical proof of computational universality is a significant difference that separates today from all prior eras that sought to understand the brain through contemporaneous technology.
Wait. What if the range is bigger than the file? Say if I made a request for a 5 TB range but the file is actually only 1kb. Would you get charged for 5 TB of egress?
> It was along the lines of better the devil we know

Israel also "knew" the PA, but worked to marginalize them anyway.
How do you handle hardware failures or screw ups for the server to go offline?

When I saw one of my server not coming back up at home for some reason on a reboot, I realized I needed spare hardware to reliably operate them. I can't let it stay offline while I order for the spare parts to arrive, even though I have backup data ready elsewhere to be restored.

Agree that cloud is too expensive these days. When you realize buying a server with 32 GB memory with 1TB nvme is only $250 (apparently
no virtual neighbors bugging for your resource) and you're meant to pay that same price monthly to be on the cloud, it starts to feel like a joke.
they're talking about something different I think.

they're saying houses are becoming an financial instrument to keep money safe instead of a place to live.

we currently have 1 trillion dollars of debt interest payments every 100 days.

the only way to pay this is for the Federal reserve to print money which devalues the current currency with inflation.

so houses have become a financial instrument to keep monies safe.
Yes. And his Tesla stock was reportedly very heavily leveraged already, which made the banks a bit hesitant.
https://hyperscript.org/ claims to be.
That's grim. Don't light yourself on fire to keep others warm or nothing, but in my experience most people are hoping to make the world better where they can.

This sort of hustle culture belief is definitely present in the world, especially among finance and us techie types, but there's tons of examples of people Not acting like this. Teachers don't do it for the pay, etc. There's a reason meaningful jobs tend to pay less, and its because so many people want to do useful helpful things that badly.

Anyways point is, that I want to explicitly condemn this type of thinking. Yeah don't let fear of doing the wrong thing paralyze you but also think through the consequences
> If elections were to happen again, Hamas would still get voted in, that's why they haven't happened.

If Hamas believed they would win, wouldn't they be more inclined to hold elections in the territory they control?
Siri is nowhere near an AI assistant or even a decent AI query bot.

It mostly does simple commands and for the rest kicks you to web search results.

Apple surely understand the opportunity here, maybe their view is LLMs are just too variable / hallucinate too much to go all-in on it?
... huh! Today I learned that visual selecting throws stuff in PRIMARY. (and also "* "+)

That's helpful for sure :) unfortunately I'm often running vim on a remote system though
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