skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judge Alsup!

Man it's so just so refreshing when people are competent and capable & know their stuff. Alsup and Senator Ron Wyden are the two people who reliably make me feel better about the intersection of technology and law.

The topic here reminds me so strongly of Web Scraping for Me but not for Thee, which talks about how viciously companies are trying to fight scraping on the public internet. The use of contract law - writing whatever terms of use you want - to erode away at humanity's rights has been a long running war, and it's great to see some push back against companies being able to strip rights away from the public as they please (of course add in any DRM at all and suddenly that same exercise of rights is now a felony sooo don't get too happy yet). This could totally be a momentous red letter day! https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-f... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37264676

(It's not like Bright Cove is some noble cause here, but use of clickwrap contract-law to rebuff loose coupling of systems, to prevent re-use & remix, is a totalizing & winnowing horror against the spirit of the internet & against human cause. And it's been creeping outward for way too long. Thanks Mark Lemley's Terms of Use for discussing, back in 2006.)
Sounds like a marketing service had the idea to "simplify git", the presentation sounds like they haven't heard of git flows, and no offline mode is total no-go for me.

> Think about this: if your Internet connection went down, could you continue to do your job

Reads like "don't you guys have phones". My bet is it will be forgotten in a year.
[dupe]

More discussions on related NOAA posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356
Just Resolved VSphere Client Web UI Error – "No Healthy Upstream"
I recently ran into this error “no healthy upstream” while trying to access the VMware vSphere Client web UI. All efforts to restart the vCenter services, rebooting the VM hosting the vCenter, running the health check with “lsdoctor” did not yield any joy! And after days of troubleshooting, I finally landed on the source of my troubles. It was the DNS configuration! Apparently, the IT Team had changed the infrastructure DNS, they had swapped the old DNS(s) with new DNS(s), and that meant that the DNS IPs had changed. Checking in the vCenter Server Management Network Settings, I still had the old DNS IPs in the config, I edited these to the new DNS IPs and that did the magic.
Classic aurora move, I can almost hear the charged particles now...

"Und doch habe ich allein, allein auf mich gestellt, ganz Europa erobert!"

Sure you did charged particles, sure you did, but welcome to Europe's secret weapon: Light pollution!
> Yes, we have better health care and more products, but we also have more pollution, more meaningless jobs, weaker local communities (especially in the most developed parts of the world), and beautiful species are going extinct.

Small tangent, I just want to point out that all of the issues you've pointed out in first world countries are maybe a problem in the cities, but not so outside of them. To wit, where I live in small town Iowa, USA, there's no pollution; there's a strong sense of community; plenty of beautiful species; and if I wanted a "meaningful" non-tech job I could easily get hired working on any number of farms in the area.
except yubikey communications are not static, so unlike password, sniffing it doesn't allow attacker to open all future versions of the db
I show +23 points. Are popular comments down ranked to encourage diversity? Oh well, I'm proud of the brief success in challenging misinformation here!
Yes, but replacing a CPU with a Jetson is not the same as replacing a human worker with a GPU.

A CPU can be decommissioned and turned off, or get repurposed, while a human still generates CO2 at an equivalent rate as before being let go.

My intuition tells me that most “… and AI!” initiatives just add more energy use where there was none. Which is the point this article makes, too.

Maybe we’re happier and more prosperous for it. Maybe it does not justify contributing to global warming any more than derpcoins.
Is it visible from Australia as well?
More discussions on related NOAA posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356
I live in rural very northern England. It’s incredible, clear with the naked eye. iPhone 14 camera with 3s exposure is out of this world (pun intended, but misleading)
Discussion [0] (158 points, 4 hours ago, 179 comments), related Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora [1] (90 points, 37 minutes ago, 16 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40321821
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324179
Those proposals were not for unrealized capital gains.

"The proposal would impose a minimum tax of 25 percent on total income, generally inclusive of unrealized capital gains, for all taxpayers with wealth (that is, the difference obtained by subtracting liabilities from assets) greater than $100 million."
Ideally (for them) it would produce enough interesting and almost-good enough matches to keep interest up (think slot machines), while ensuring only the rarest actual matches for long term compatibility. (Aka a jackpot should have extremely long odds).
That one guy has been at it for a very long time. I remember buying Dinkum around 2000.
The NOAA forecast suggests it'll be nearly as powerful as the March 13th storm in '89 that took out the Quebec grid: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...
Light pollution does not help, probably.
Yes and no on order of magnitude required for decent AI, there is still (that I know of) very little hard data on info density in the human brain. What there is points at entire sections that can sometimes be destroyed or actively removed while conserving "general intelligence".

Rather than "humbling" I think the result is very encouraging: It points at major imaging / modeling progress, and it gives hard numbers on a very efficient (power-wise, size overall) and inefficient (at cable management and probably redundancy and permanence, etc) intelligence implementation. The numbers are large but might be pretty solid.

Don't know about upload though...
Is there a map of the world showing where it should be visible? I wonder how far I would need to drive.
Hey! I'm Matthew (at) beekeeperstudio.io
Scientists explore nature's promise in combating plastic waste
My first hard drive had 20MB. I thought I would never fill it.
Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU, is widely used in US
Now you know why it rubs musicians the wrong way
Yes, they had the little two seaters that are apparently a Smart car. I never saw any of that fleet move.

They also had nice 4 door Mercedes that I would see groups of people walk up to, fiddle with their phone then drive off in them.
I responded to the other user, but you can get around the app role being able to transition to other roles by passing the session auth token to the DB via a local variable in the transaction/query.

Create an extra session table with a column that stores the hashes of session auth tokens (JWT, shared secret, whatever) and another column that stores the user ID that owns it. Give the app's DB account access to read from, but not write to, that table.

Then set up RLS on each row with a policy that reads that JWT/etc local variable, hashes it, looks up the hash in that table and compares the user ID to the "owner" of the row.

The app account is unable to create JWT's, so the attacker will need either a valid JWT or a hash collision (which means you have bigger problems anyways).

Then isolate the "login service" into it's own application with its own DB account that has access to check passwords and write sessions, and that's it. Make it super picky about what it will run; it only handles usernames and passwords, so it can probably just 4xx any requests that contain SQL characters or just base64 all of its inputs so the character set doesn't even include injection as a possibility.

It ends up with an app account that basically only has CONNECT permissions unless the attacker gives it a valid JWT, at which point they could just impersonate the user anyways.
That doesn't work in Austin. Everyone I've met in Austin who didn't have a car told me about how bad public transport was and how they were saving up for a car.
I don't get how I can download all (free) icons locally, to use in another framework than react. Anyone could bulk download without having to favorite each icon independently?
Comac's Homegrown Aircraft Goes Global
Wow, I just went outside (South West of France) to plug the car for charging before going to bed.

I noticed unusual, faint light patterns in the night sky, like long spikes coming from the North. It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. Color was mostly gray slightly pink. Wondered what was that ... My first aurora !!!
just use bun and sqlite on your own server.
got burned by deno deploy and will never use deno again.
serverless is useless and slow.
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

We don't do that here, so I urge you to reconsider that approach next time.
I once paid someone on airtasker to research me ten cafes in Melbourne that have carpet. They only found one, and I already knew it. It has since closed.
> Sure you did charged particles

Well technically ... sodium vapor lamps are charged particles. But yea you are correct we're screwed.
GCC putting a pointer at the top of the structure seems reminiscent of the way Pascal stored strings. A PString is the address of a character buffer like C, but the length of the string is stored at a negative offset. I may be remembering wrong but I think there was an older C++ STL that also used negative offsets.

As much as these snippets make clang look heavier, I wonder what it compiles to in practice when the compiler can make better inferences. If you can prove the state of the `is_small` bit those branches disappear. Even at runtime, which implementation is more performant? Real-world profiling may favor clang with branch prediction and speculative processing. Then again, speculation has become a dirty word lately.[1]

[1] Get it? "Dirty" because of the cache. I'm sorry, that pun was entirely unintentional.
I've got my father's. Still in the original box.

I learned to use a normal linear slide rule at school, but every time I look at this I have to read the manual to sort out how to use it. I'd like to fix it in my head so I could whip it out at work when calculations are needed. Just for geek points
Europe getting very pink

https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324332
If you are getting a 403, you may read the HTML at https://bytez.com/docs/arxiv/2405.00738/paper
>yes we do have the right to make fun of people who are acting overly dramatic.

Not on hacker news:

>Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Dang isn't some overbearing dictator, but you'll find your time here short if the behavior continues.
Discussions [1] (98 points, 1 day ago, 115 comments) [0] (31 points, 2 days ago, 15 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301045
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310170
I don't think you actually have to find names of the partners. For any legal entity you can just sue the entity by its name, AFAIK.
>€130k for a good C++ dev is a steal in most markets,

In most markets? Definitely not.
They don't have to be at a construction site. It can be in a factory on a production line. Prefabricated homes have been around for a while. Mobile homes are probably the most common, but there are also modular and panel homes that can be made in a factory, then put together on-site.

This site has good info about factory homes. There's a lot of cool things going on in that area.

https://modernprefabs.com/
Proving with Coq the 5th Busy Beaver number, BB(5)=47,176,870
In 1989, transmission lines in Quebec were affected by a geomagnetic storm, bringing down the whole grid in Quebec, and the US grid in the Northeast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
There's no exponential growth, that's thermodynamically impossible. Heating the Earth with the microwaves would increase the Earth's radiation into space commensurately. It doesn't get stored forever. This would result in a new equilibrium almost immediately, with an unmeasurably greater temperature.

The Earth is always almost exactly in a radiative balance with space, except on pretty short timescales. If it weren't, we'd quickly cook. The radiation the Earth receives from the Sun fluctuates orders of magnitude more over solar cycles, but it's debated whether that even has a meaningful effect on global temperature.
Where do people get their forecasts? I often use this one, but it's not very usable outside Norway. Great if you click into each forecast (click the image) and get more details. Like how it actually covers the sky in that location. So that I can use that to plan (doesn't matter if it's strong if it's in a direction I can't see it) https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/os...

Used to use a NOAA page, but they changed it a while ago and don't find it as useful anymore. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...

Some weather services also have a kp index, but I often feel those can't be trusted, and don't tell the whole story. And aurora is quite hit or miss, so need more updated data.

I have an app on my phone (AuroraNotifier) that chimes when there's hope. And then I use these others to plan a bit better. But some more interactive map akin to the uit.no one but where I can place myself around would be nice.

Edit: someone posted this below, looks nice, have some other kinds of data https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html

Edit2: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...
My "Eric's Famous Pythagorean Triples" blog post is 5+ years old and possibly not addressing exactly the same issue as think-cell/Google cares about, but, you might still be interested to read it:
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/03/06/pythagorean-tr...

In my case, the blowup happens mainly because the Ranges style tends to turn easily fungible code like `if x < y` into relatively non-fungible data like the capture-list of `[y]() { return x < y; }`. The former is easily subjected to optimizations like the hoisting of loop invariants; the latter is not. Another way to put this is: The compiler is happy to mess with the layout of the function stack frame up until the very last minute; and to mess with the coroutine frame almost as long; but the layout of a lambda (or std::bind) capture frame is set-in-stone very early, by the front-end. And Ranges loves lambdas.
A virtual facsimile of destruction can still elicit an emotional response. Ever heard of "Happy Tree Friends"?
Could you explain more about what you mean by modeling interactions between comments and entities?
I wonder if this layoff statistics also consider the contractors whose contract wasn’t extended . The company I work for didn’t do any layoffs in theory but simply stopped extending expiring contracts. And let me tell you, there were a lot of contractors.
I love it. The permissiveness of copyright law preempts restrictive user agreements. Finally, a drop of sanity in an insane world.
They can but not always. For TUIs, it's mandatory.
It’s currently at Kp8.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html
What if we all are computer programs after all, to begin with ? :-)
Black Mirror: Hang the DJ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ
What latitude do we expect to be able to see this in the USA?
Let’s hope their renewable strategy works out because they’d otherwise be burning a lot of coal
Insteadofvery.com
As non-native English speakers, we're often advised to avoid overusing intensifiers like "very".

This is a simple app to find synonyms of "very x" phrases that are not always possible to find using a standard thesaurus.

It uses OpenAI, FastAPI, and MongoDB (to cache the results).
> What if the wheelchair malfunctions and injures someone else? What if my car malfunctions and causes an accident?

Yes, what if it does? Unfortunately getting FDA approval isn't going to do anything to prevent that. I fully acknowledge that regulatory bodies are good for dealing with externalities, but consumer protections do not fall under that category.

> Also, I don't want to live in world of frauds and scams and other crimes, trying to navigate it, for obvious reasons

Then, as I said, just stick with the FDA approved products. Government standards would still exist, you'd just have the option to purchase things that didn't meet those standards. The freedom to color outside the lines includes the freedom to color within them. You're not harmed by other people choosing differently.

> It's also an economic disaster.

Citation needed. Typically heavily regulated economies fare worse than those where competition is permitted.

> You're doing an awful lot of work to empower already powerful people by removing democratic power over our society.

We clearly have very different ideas about who holds power in our society.
Thanks for seeing my bigger point, I don't know the specifics of course but less people will have jobs in the future.

As is UBI would probably be more efficient then the patchwork of programs we have now. But I don't really see that happening anytime soon.
With Wayland, the compositor gets to decide which clients to send the "clipboard data available to paste from this file descriptor" event to (wl_data_offer). For example the compositor might only send it to the client whose window is currently focused. So clients that don't receive this event would not have the fd to be able to read from it. Clients that do receive the event can read that data without any restrictions.

That said, this ends up also making this like clipboard managers or wl-paste not work, so there is a wlroots protocol (wlr_data_control) that lets the client know about all data offers. How is a malicious process prevented from being a client of this interface (or even should a process be prevented...) depends on the compositor.
Zelda 64: Recompiled – recompilation of Majora's Mask
> I have a faint memory back in the day of using the parallel port to do super speedy file transfers (compared to serial at least).

In the mid to late 90s, I was sharing my main 486's dial-up connection with an old clunky laptop using PLIP:

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/plip.html

So my brother and I could both use Netscape at the same time, on two different computers. Felt like the future!

P.S: actually the laptop was just running an X (back then not even Xorg yet) and displaying a Netscape window running on the main, beefier, PC. All over PLIP : )
Even in the light polluted London you can still see it, even if it's faint.
REST itself is crap, at least when it comes to "APIs" serving things besides webpages. There's quite literally no obvious reason that an API actually should be RESTful besides that a lot of web developers believe that it's easier to understand. If REST is so great, then why do you keep finding yourself relying on documentation in order to use it?
If you mean https://github.com/foonathan/lexy , then yes, foonathan (Jonathan Müller) is literally the "I" in the first sentence of TFA.
Well visible in central Switzerland: https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-scheidegg
https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-rotstock
Fei-Fei Li: Stanford's Natural Language computing lab has only 64 GPUs
10M Context Token Window
> My bet is it will be forgotten in a year.

How much? ;-)
It’s just about visible (much more so through an iPhone camera) in central London right now
Death of the Hiker
> Except it's not as straightforward as this. There's usually some fine print at the bottom that says there's a 20% service charge, taxes not included, or whatever.

The point is to forbid the fine print. I dislike many German laws around taxation and stuff but one thing we're doing right here is that all consumer-facing prices must be final. You can give a rebate if you want but you cannot charge a surplus. Prices as displayed must include VAT and any service fees, period. It's annoying that for some reason airlines do not seem to be bound to this, but the vast majority of businesses are. And I don't see the problem. It's so unfriendly when you put this and this and this in your cart / on your table and then when comes the time to pay, jumps a henchman out of the bush and demands some more. Where in the world does that translate into consumer satisfaction?
I never use Signal because the moment you provide your phone numnber, there is no more annonymity.
I didn't downvote you (just upvoted, since you got me to stop and pay attention to that parent comment).

I understand and agree with your point that certain genres of music have significantly evolved, if not been entirely created in, the US, and that it's weird for a professional musician to take the stance that that isn't the case.

At the same time, I've often thought similar things to what Frank Zappa said (despite never hearing/reading that interview before, or knowing much about him at all). I often think about how a lot of the social/racial/religious/etc unrest we have going on in the US is because we have no national identity. We are a melting pot, but we're also just a melting pot.

Similar to convincing people to stop perpetuating racial issues in the US, when race used to be connected with nationality (and still is in some places)-- or convincing people to stop raking modern-day Americans over the coals for people 250 years ago taking the land from Native Americans-- it's going to be difficult to convince people to draw a line at a point in time where we stopped "stealing" or "being influenced by" other countries' music and started legitimately creating our own. It will simply never have been "from scratch," and people will either figure out how to accept that and (critically) move on at some point, or they'll keep being upset about it for eternity and we'll keep tearing ourselves apart.
I thought the ad was pretty cool and I'm a musician.
Does it shift around? It's quite absent in the western US and Canada right now:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...

Of course, it's still a beautiful sunny warm day too where I am so it'll be 5 hours or so before it's dark enough to see it.
The Parents Who Want Daughters–and Daughters Only
make it work, make it good, make it expensive.
Similar for me down south too (Cambridge). My first sighting and it is superb.
Oh maybe, I do remember hearing about that. Mine don't (Firefox & Chrome on Fedora) but maybe that's a default setting (on Linux) or maybe I changed the setting and forgot about it?
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> So an Aperture Labs reference?

It might seem that way to people of a certain age, but the "humorously inadvisable science experiment" trope is wayyy older.
I would think the basics of HTML resources is a minimal bar for calling yourself a "developer" (at that stage you're still a student or an apprentice)
If you live in any decent large city in Asia it's not an issue. I haven't owned a car in 12 years since I've moved to Singapore, then Bangkok and then Hong Kong. I wouldn't need a car in Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Taipei, Shanghai or Shenzhen either. Gosh, many people in Melbourne or Sydney don't have one.

Whose worldview is skewed then exactly?
When in doubt, any archeological find is thought to be a religious item used in various ceremonial practices