skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They absolutely were. Between 25% inflation, the student loan relief failure, two proxy wars and the current beating of college students across the country, the current administration would have been facing record low turnout in November.

I would be surprised if there is not some string attached to this that doesn't take place until after November. That's a good thing though, becuase it was seeming more and more like the current administration was sabotaging itself. The Democrats need the youth vote.
New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Others Sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Loved the Baroque cycle.

NS is, of course, an Emacs user https://youtu.be/RC5yGM8fk8g?si=FfoxlXNeD7gLpcx2
The discussion you brought up is, which I object to:

> Finally, a lot of people in this thread are missing that passkeys prevent phishing, and are basically the only way we know to prevent phishing. And phishing is extremely high in the ranking of security issues we currently have to try to solve.

And I can point out several ways phishing is currently prevented without passkeys. And several ways it occurs without logins, such that it’ll still be around after passkeys. And phishing is difficult, but per defense in depth concepts, it is not the mission critical focus you label it as.

So to turn it back around, I don’t think you understand phishing threat vectors well haha.
Founder of Binance, Largest Crypto Firm, Sentenced to Four Months
Eh, not that compelling.

Who cares if they “bloat webpages”? It’s 2024 our phones and computers can handle it lol. Either don’t go to the site again or deal with it. Websites aren’t free.

Some apples have worms in them. Some ads have malware in them. We don’t cry and whine about how terrible apples are as a result.

TV shows arent free. You’re welcome to turn it off if you hate the ads enough.
Nah, just a physical item representation of "single serving thing that makes the happy neurotransmitters"
Sankey Diagrams in Google Charts
Guess the Area
HN’s ranking algorithm penalizes potential flamebait stories as I understand it.

If you watch, you’ll see stories with more comments than points will quickly fall off the front page.
Quite a difference between him and SBF
NVME 2220 SSD + ElecGear aluminum enclosure + 180-degree USB-C male to male adapter, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTJ5GPT1

1. portability of flash drive
2. speed of DRAM-less SSD
3. no cables to bend
4. optional OPAL disk encryption
5. switchable write protection via USB bridge chip
6. storage enclosure can be velcroed to rear of tablet/phone case
> across unix multiuser environments getting used anymore for servers

I guess it depends on the servers. I'm in academic/research computing and single-user systems are the anomaly. Part of it is having access to beefier systems for smaller slices of time, but most of it is being able to share data and collaboration between users.

If you're only used to cloud VMs that are setup for a single user or service, I guess your views would be different.
To clarify, my team uses Go and prefers to stick with "idiomatic" Go. So, while we could implement our own types, there would be pushback. As an example I liked lo [0] but my team was resistant because it's not considered idomatic.

If were up to me we'd be using a language with a better type system :)

[0]: https://github.com/samber/lo
Which is a little silly given her credentials. Her antitrust research has been groundbreaking. She's almost single-handedly revitalized that area of law.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40207981
That might require some sort of collusion to accomplish. If only one company increases rates for SUV drivers, said drivers will just switch to a lower priced competitor.
Tangential, but this is the first time I’ve seen the .education TLD used. It’s odd that both .edu and .education exist and the former is restricted while the latter is not. Non-techies likely won’t notice or appreciate the difference.
> And similar for things like DEBUG or TRACE. Usually you reach for those log levels when you want to see extremely verbose information, but... That's not practical to enable in production environments, because the volume of logs you produce would be way too high. And if you can't use it in production, you probably shouldn't use it elsewhere! That's what your local debugger is for.

That's why you want DEBUG and TRACE. I'd rather have useful logs as well as a debugger when running locally.
Speed limits of 85 MPH sounds like the bad idea to me.
The language. I want to see it. I want to get an idea of how capable it is.
You're passing a broken-down vehicle, a deer that hoped into the road, a toddler, or otherwise go into the opposite lane. There is an incoming car, and you need to merge back before a head-on collision, without hitting whatever you're passing.

Floor it and merge.

I can name many other scenarios, but generally, emergency maneuvers are helped by good control over the car, including braking, turning, and acceleration.

There are nice charts showing accidents per million miles driven by car, and the best ones I've seen are anyone, but not testosterone-promoting agile. Crash ratings are misleading since many of the safest cars in a crash also crash a lot more often and have higher fatalities overall since bigger cars are less likely to be able to avoid an accident.
You must absolutely despise libc
> It took generic $5 inhalers off the market and replaced them with $95 inhalers.

OOTL, what is stopping companies from making generics of the older version & patients just not using the new version?
So by that logic, if we run a ML model with a consistent pseudorandom seed each time (so the output is deterministic), then it is not doing inference?
Maybe you're overestimating the amount of art in those art pieces!
Ask HN: Super-summary to go from "grapheme" to "bytes"?
Is this super-summary correct, to understand how what's shown on the user's screen is expanded into single bytes?

1) A user sees some character on his/her screen => that's a "grapheme", which is a collection of...

2) ...1 to N "Unicode code points", where a single "Unicode code point" can use...

3) ...1 to 6 "UTF-8" bytes.

Is that right (in the case of UTF-8 storage)?

(I feel like that I'm missing an intermediate step...)

(indirectly related to "You can't just assume UTF-8" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195009 , comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206149 , link mentioned in that comment being https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ )

Thx :o)
> You yourself just said these crappy commands were good, as a purely unfounded assertion. They are great because you just say they are great. That is even less objective than my rant. I at least explained what exactly I find so bad. Tell me more about not emotive.

Very well: I didn't say the commands were good or great. If you attempt a little objectivity you'll see it.
This is basically the idea behind various word puzzles. See: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
Lots of things enabled the xz exploit to work.

If the lesson you take from xz is "systemd bad" then you've really missed the wood for the trees.
Where I am, my car commute is 30 minutes. If I moved closer, shaving it to 10 minutes, my housing costs double. If I get down to 5, housing costs are about 4x.

If I use public transport now, the travel time is 2 hours. To keep my public transport to 30 minutes, I have to ~2x my housing costs.

I think, realistically, people will just end up commuting further, to offset the cost, since that is the best financial, and time, choice.
Check out twitter-scale-mastodon, which is an implementation of Mastodon's backend from scratch that scales to Twitter scale. It's more than 40% less code than Mastodon's backend and 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent.

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...
This is a reasonable supposition, but it's not true. The FCC can and has created a whole raft of specific rules that implement the m much broader Title II requirements as they apply to ISPs, including decisions not to impose certain Title II requirements (which is a power that the statute itself gives them).

If, say, you were an ISP, reading Title I and Title II would tell you very little about what you have to do to comply with the FCC's rules. You would have to read the actual FCC rules and the order to actually understand your legal obligations.

(Maybe you have in mind a quibble about what "rules" are. By "rules" I mean the U.S. government publications that tell you what you have to do in order to not be fined or punished in some other way by the U.S. government, and specifically the FCC.)
Is anyone using Rama at scale? This isn't a complaint about it being closed-source, people have to make their money somehow. But I've seen a lot about Rama's scale when the only things to check the claim are a private beta and a single-process dev build.

I'm super curious to hear from people who have tried it for larger projects!
I think the far more politically dangerous proposition is fighting with the automotive lobby.

https://www.treehugger.com/big-surprise-car-industry-doesnt-...
Well that requires a kext so it's a nonstarter, and fuse-t uses NFS which is extremely janky and unreliable on MacOS.

The fundamental issue is that macOS doesn't provide an API for this natively.
2.5% is generous!

People pick a startup, rather than an established company, for the potential benefit of coming in on the ground-level of a future unicorn, so equity matters BIG time.

As for the 6 days a week thing, I think they are setting expectations and filtering out the 9-5ers. I don't think they would realistically ask for an on-going 6 day commitment, but they are trying to target those that would not shy away from that ask.
Also, the "Alien Dreadnaught", a fully automated Model 3 production line with robots that move so fast you won't even be able to see them!

It was when he tried to pass that one off with a straight face that drove the final nail into the coffin containing any delusions I may have entertained about Elon's competence.
Like when everyone else is speeding.

If everyone is going 80 mph, then being the one driver actually obeying the 65 mph speed limit puts you and everyone around you in MORE danger.

Would it be safer for everyone to be going 65 mph? Absolutely. I'm definitely not disputing that.

But speed differential is more dangerous than speed itself.

EDIT: To be more accurate, speed differential makes crashes more likely, but speed overall obviously makes the crashes more likely to be fatal. Whether it's safer to go 80 when everyone is going 80 to reduce the likelyhood of a crash, or if it's safer to go 65 mph to reduce the severity of a crash if it happens is very debatable, and I'm not sure there are good enough statistics to back up either claim.
I'm not sure how this will affect the current "mom and pop" weed stores. I know that The Big Dogs are just raring to get in on the action, and I'll lay odds they have done things like preemptively register weed brands.
There have been cars that can do this and even provide geofenced exceptions for motorsport, e.g. the Nissan GT-R https://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/22/nissan-gt-r-recognizes-t...
> If you're only used to cloud VMs that are setup for a single user or service, I guess your views would be different.

This is overwhelmingly the view for business and personal users. Settings like what you described are very rare nowadays.

No corporate IT department is timesharing users on a mainframe. It's just baremetal laptops or VMs on Windows with networked mountpoints.
The App Store Review Process Is Actually Good
Significantly reducing the maximum speed of passenger vehicles would cause millions of Americans to suddenly have untenable commute times.

There are a handful of cities here with mass transit systems that aren't an absolute joke. Everyone who lives outside those cities relies on a car. What you're describing would be political suicide.
I think there are soft mechanisms which could enforce speed limits which would need both needs.

Even an obnoxious beeper like for seatbelts.

I prefer the seatbelt beeper to having seatbelts which won't unfasten until the car has come to a complete stop, or cars which don't start without seatbelts. Not everything needs to be enforced with force.
It's a bit unfair to talk about the garages in Palo Alto being attached to "multi-million-dollar" houses. When the people starting Apple, HP, Google and Facebook took over a garage, the places were solidly middle class.

Even now, the price tags distort our perceptions. I've heard some venture capitalists say that most of their investments would go for salaries that would be turned over to the real estate world.
Perhaps, but that is a strategy decision for the company, and potential employee.
> 2. Keep it until we accumulate enough votes for its rating to stabilize or until the model provider withdraws it.

> 3. Once we accumulate enough votes, we will share the result privately with the model provider. These include the rating, as well as release samples of up to 20% of the votes. (See Sharing data with the model providers for further details).

So... make the users do the work for free, but never publicly publish the data? That seems kinda scummy to me.

I was really motivated with the whole public ranking thing, but knowing I'm just doing work for another company with the data never being published sucks the fun out of it.
It’s easier to pull this off when the number of states fits on one hand.
So Google bets that TensorFlow is better for its AI efforts than PyTorch, it seems
This isn't (AIUI) relevant to that exact problem. As Wikipedia explains:

"[T]he Orange Book lists patents that are purported to protect each drug. Patent listings and use codes are provided by the drug application owner, and the FDA is obliged to list them. In order for a generic drug manufacturer to win approval of a drug under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the generic manufacturer must certify that they will not launch their generic until after the expiration of the Orange Book-listed patent, or that the patent is invalid, unenforceable, or that the generic product will not infringe the listed patent. "

It sounds like it's easy for manufacturers to.keep adding patents, and the onus is on the generics to make the case that they're not violating. Perhaps most are just scared away, until every listed patent expires (and no new ones are added in the interim)
Just giving credit where it is due :-)
So stdlib counts as dependencies now?
Challenging things like this is a great first step, but they’ve got to actually win.
Clearly the experienced highway engineers in charge balancing a ton of different variables to make the Texas road network function in accordance with its design goals should have sought your advice.
It is illegal to use the previous propellant, so they can’t be manufactured anymore.
Oh nice, I didn't even know that existed. I've been using qemu-nbd and parted by hand and it gets cumbersome, so this might help a lot. Thanks!
> This was a really big pain, yes, but I also remember how I could `tail -f *.logs`.

Others point out that journalctl supports `-f` and `-n` for determining how much journal to return, but for me what's great about journalctl is that I do not need to know where the program is logging to, how it rotates logs (or how it doesn't), or anything else. The program does not need special permissions to a log location in /var/log or /usr/var/log or ~/... or anything else, it just outputs using stdout and it gets captured. When I want to look at logs, I just use the same moniker that I use to control the service: its unit name. It is so incredibly nice- I do not want to go back to the bad old days of spelunking through /var/log and friends.

> --no-pager

To be clear, if you pipe journalctl somewhere, it will automatically skip the pager and just work. `--no-pager` is most useful for when you want to print some unpiped content in an automated script to avoid having a non-existent user exit the pager.
This alone would be a great start. Lately I've had at least three instances of people doing over 100mph barely avoid hitting me in the far right lane as they zig zag across the freeway. It's gotten to the point that driving after 1 AM is like being on the runway of an international airport.
A few of our private beta users are using Rama at larger scale (>1M appends/second). We'll be publishing case studies eventually.
FTC announcement: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...

Note that this comes following “the Commission’s November challenges led to Kaleo Inc., Impax Labs, GlaxoSmithKline, and Glaxo Group delisting patents in response to the FTC’s warning letters” and subsequently “AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and GlaxoSmithKline all announc[ing] commitments to cap inhaler out-of-pocket costs at $35.” This process is precedented with delivering wins.
I might agree with the decision to keep the one person alive, but right now we have limited numbers of machines and medical professionals to run them.

How many people would have to die because this one person is monopolizing the one (if any small N, even of one) ECMO machine before it’s unethical to keep them on it waiting to die of cancer?
Reminder that Marijuana was made illegal 90 years ago due to pressure by a cartel of other drug peddlers (including opium and cocaine), and also a culture of pervasive racism that painted Marijuana as a trap that brown/black races had fallen into and must be outlawed for white people.

Whatever you think about the effects of Marijuana on yourself or society, it's clear that it should have never been outlawed in the first place, and wouldn't have been outlawed if not for the factors above.

It seems that the fentanyl crisis has finally defeated the archaic drug policy in the states, but not in the way you think. If alcohol and tobacco were outlawed in the US, it would immediately become impossible to buy them without risking getting a deadly dose of fentanyl. Legalization of marijuana, controlled legalization, is the only sane answer.

(And this is coming from someone who doesn't partake)
There have been no big cves of container escapes for a while now. I guess it can be considered secure enough.
I believe low speed limits were raised in Texas due to the number of drowsy driver accidents that were occurring due to the amount of time it took to transit the state at the lower speed limits. Everything is a trade-off.
> Most importantly, he let people trade shady shitcoins but never stole customer funds

This undersells his crimes and overstates SBFs. The head of compliance for Binance sent a freakin text message to a peer saying "We’re operating an unlicensed broker in the US, bro" along with numerous communications about intentionally facilitating money laundering, sanctions evasions and a host of other securities law violations.

SBF, based on what was published in Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite", didn't really steal customer funds, he just did a negligently bad job of running the bank of crypto. When you put money into your checking account, the bank doesn't hold it in a vault, they re-lend it out as mortgages and car loans and small business loans. They just do it competently, and under the scrutiny of bank regulators and insurers. FTX was an unregulated crypto bank in the bahamas that did conceptually the same thing, just without any prudent risk management, due diligence or even reliable record keeping. But the customers were cool with that, because crypto and number go up.
That doesn’t seem like much of a deterrent.
You haven't driven through Texas. The stretch between El Paso and Dallas is 9 hours and there's almost nothing in-between.
Oh my word! Is this your project, then?
Guy does months of work assembling a ton of info and analysis, the page scrolls for days, and the first comment is gee couldn't you include purchase links for my extra convenience?
I'm not sure how your comment is relevant here. I'm happy for you though. No I cannot charge money as my services are free.
Sometimes, the old timers get too comfortable with the status quo and you need someone who is too young to challenge it.
no AI just natural stupidity
My experience has been that for day zero stuff, e.g. how do you get a system _prepared_ for containers, this kind of tooling is handy. I side with the sibling comment that cloud-init is The Way but it also requires (a) some trial and error (b) to think entirely in terms of cattle/pets which some folks/organizations are not there yet
Nobody suggesting that "both sides are the same" has a shred of intellectual honesty.
> This is no where near the level of readiness needed to be reliably used in a production environment.

This is baseless FUD.

Pyinfra is 8 years old, just 2 years younger than Terraform. It's well maintained, stable, and used by many teams in production. Just because it's not as widely known or adopted as other tools, doesn't mean it should be avoided. In fact, as you can see from testimonials here, users often prefer it over Ansible.

> Should probably just stick with the Terraform CDK or Chef if you need this level of expressibility.

Terraform is used for provisioning infrastructure. Pyinfra is a configuration management tool. They're not equivalent.

Chef is closer, but it's an older tool that has largely been superseded by Ansible. It shouldn't be anyone's first choice, unless they really need some obscure feature it does better than Ansible, or Puppet for that matter.

> Verbose logging is not a reason to introduce a non-standard tool into your stack.

Why would that be the only reason to use this? That's not even one of its prominent features, and surely all tools in this space support verbose logging...

What a confused comment.
Nobody wants to stand around for several minutes waiting for transactions to clear.
Most vehicles (and most drivers) aren't capable of safely driving at 90mph, no matter how "empty" the road is.
Fair, by "could write" i meant one intended for humans to write. Ie i would not say LLVM bytecode is intended for humans to write by hand. Can they? Sure.

The difference (to the parent comment) in my eyes is that the target language is the thing intended for humans, not the target output itself. As another commenter points out, transpiled code is often not intended for humans, even if the language is.
Does emergencies make speeding legal for usual cars? I could imagine police cars or ambulances could be exempt from the rule. Also, adjusting the insurance cost based on the speed limiter seems a balanced policy to me regardless of those freeways.
I would like to point out the administration's accomplishments in the last two weeks (shamelessly copied from Matt Stoller's recent piece "This Is What Governing Looks Like")

* Banned non-compete agreements for 40 million workers

* Raised overtime wages for 4 million salaried workers

* Forced airlines to automatically offer refunds for canceled flights and poorly handled baggage

* Banned illegal junk fees in mortgage lending

* Forced divestment of TikTok from Chinese ownership

* Blocked corporate merger in insulation

* Filed to block a corporate merger in fashion

* Announced tariff increases on steel to protect domestic producers

* Announced an end to the duty free period on Chinese solar panels to encourage U.S. manufacturing.

* Passed the first Federal privacy law to stop data brokers from selling sensitive information to China and Russia
ah will remember.
Is the payment service operating in a regulatory gray area or loophole?
Also prevent tailgating (have a minimum follow distance to car ahead based on speed, and auto-brake to match that minimum distance) and prevent going faster than the lane to your left while they are at it.

The minimum follow distance alone would prevent a LOT of crashes.
FF7 Remake and Rebirth are both incredible, but Rebirth's sales are significantly lower. I'm hoping this doesn't make them reduce investment for the third installment.