skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really? I'm not a stickler on the term "open source" but they're both proprietary at the end of the day. It's a weird nit to pick. Why even bring it up at all, unless you're desperate to defend Redpanda?

I can see the source code of Unreal Engine too. Does that make them "further into the open source world" than WarpStream too?

I don't have a horse in this particular race but WarpStream's blog post is a lot more charitable towards the project in question, and the open source world in general, than Redpanda's.
Author here. I was also surprised by this.

I simplified the story a bit for brevity. I actually tried a bunch of different font styles, including a 47 page fax using a pretty large size Courier (with only 72 characters per line). The screenshots from the blog post were after the point I decided OCR wasn't working, so I was using a heavily reduced font size to optimize the transfer time. Hence the characters looked like barely-legible blobs.

The Fax-to-Binary converter isn't doing anything particularly complicated with the image, just breaking it up into an accurately-aligned grid and hashing the pixel data of each tile.

Replacing the characters in the document hadn't occurred to me at the time! It's a good idea, but for my programmer brain, writing this software was the easier (and more fun) solution :)
Snowflake’s blog about this incident mentions “former employee”. If she was actually fired as a result of this, I would hope that the entire security organization also went with her.
It makes a huge amount of sense to control what programs can snoop on each other. There won't be a lot of people against the idea in principle. Eventually the Wayland ecosystem will be strictly better than X because at least there is some amount of control over that sort of thing.

The problem that Wayland had is it took the stance of "just no!" and that means Wayland is now almost an adult (15 years, so a little time to go) and only just arrived at a place where a Wayland compositor is about as useable as an X11 based system (thanks Pipewire). Wayland has been a mess for so long I think even in Debian Bullseye swaywm didn't support Zoom (or any other program) screensharing. Which for 2022 was a remarkable gap in capability. I'm all aboard for the Wayland transition because it is a definite improvement, but Wayland's "security" debacle is a legendary case study in design gone wrong.
That's interesting, because I ran the benchmarks on that version of Go.
It makes me wonder how difficult it would be to create a shader in order to replace everything with LED or even eInk displays. The cost is certainly a large factor as print news suffers more and more capital depletion.
I've been using GV for over a decade. It's the last Google service that I still use regularly. I use mailinabox for my email/contacts/calendar/drive. I've looked, and there aren't any drop-in substitutes for GV. I've had a Number Barn account with two phone numbers for a few years. They seem to provide better voice quality than most alternatives, but their SMS integration is poor. I'm not sure if they even do voicemail, but I don't think they do.
If you are asking a best cop, what can they do? Legos shoplifted from Target were being openly sold at a thrift stall in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, everyone knew they were stolen, but until there was someone to formally connect the dots (they noticed legos from their store stolen at the thrift shop), the cops really couldn’t do anything about it.
> make impulsive purchases

My (elderly) father is unfortunately doing this now. Blowing any spare cash he has on crap from Ali Express. Ugh. :( :( :(
GPT-4o is consistently hallucinating
We found that gpt-4o is consistently hallucinating. Here is an example: [ https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat?models=gpt-4o&pr... ] In this case, we never mentioned any store location in Ringsted. However , gpt-4o still fakes a store in the address: Adresse: Ringstedet, Klosterparks Allé 10, 4100 Ringsted Åbningstider: Mandag-fredag: 9.30-19, Lørdag: 10-17, Søndag: 11-16 Tlf: 50603398 Email: ringsted4100@gmail.com This hallucination is quite consistent. The gpt-4-turbo or even gpt-3.5 model doesn't have the same issue and correctly acknolwedged that there is no store in this location.
Can you use this in basically the lower 48 with a long antenna?

Free RTC L48?
Wow, added to wish list!
Bit of a deeper dive gives a very different picture..

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/15/lebedev-the-kgb-spy-who-h...

> Britain’s spies were not worried too much about the boy, Evgeny, a seemingly self-obsessed featherweight who once, while freelancing for the BBC, asked Alexander Lukashenko, the strongman of Belarus, what he thought about group sex. Their anxiety focussed on the father, a once and maybe current KGB/FSB actor, who helped put Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. All of Evgeny’s money flows from this single fact, that Putin was grateful to his father for his service as a spy and he was rewarded handsomely for it. And Alexander Lebedev still owes fealty to the master of the Kremlin.

> On the face of it, Alexander Lebedev looks like a model anti-Putin oligarch. He’s big mates with Mikhail Gorbachev with whom he part-owned the now closed Novaya Gazeta, the last good newspaper in Russia. He’s a liberal, or poses as such, and, like his son, he’s thick with the luvvies: friends with Kevin Spacey, John Malkovich, Sir Elton John, Ralph Fiennes who plays M in the Bond movies and Hugh Grant.

> No wonder Boris Johnson ignored warnings from MI6 that the Lebedevs were to be avoided. But look into Alexander Lebedev’s past and the story gets dark, very quickly.
Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside – Pat Helland [pdf]
I think there's a feature to visit HN in the past, ie to see at least that front page as of a specific date. So you can check out HN 2009 or so?
The system we have with SSNs are just fundamentally flawed. It's like a password you can't choose or change, that is also in a million databases (in plaintext) and regularly gets stolen and resold. We have better systems for authentication and we're stuck treating this number like it has any value at all.
SSN was never meant to be a form of identification. Now, let’s figure out a way to consistently convert an individual’s DNA to a hash… oh wait. Worldcoin?
I would invest in that
Think about all the LinkedIn clout you missed out on by not incessantly talking about the ${NEW_THING}!
The "getting bigger" actually happens in reverse. `main` has god-mode privileges, and it can selectively grant smaller or equivalent privileges to the functions it calls, which in turn, grant smaller or equivalent privileges to the functions they call. A function can't call another with greater privilege than it has itself. Ideally we should aim to grant only the necessary privileges to functions that need them, with the leaf functions in the call graph being pure functions - those which have no privilege to do anything but compute (or never return, which can be considered a side-effect). We might also want total pure functions, which are guaranteed to return (they only use primitive recursion), though there's no guarantee that they'll return in any reasonable time.

Haskell is a pretty lousy example because it bundles everything up into one big `IO` privilege, which gets passed around everywhere, and monads aren't that great. Monad transformers are terrible at scaling.
that won't be an escape from the ad/ai slop though
Have you ever been paid to do work before? There’s a price at which a business will prefer to pay to have SaaS/PaaS solve a problem. Allocating engineering hours to setting up and maintaining a Postgres cluster has a cost. You’ll want someone senior on it. Their time could be well over $100/hour. And that’s assuming your business is small enough to only need one DBA part time. A business that’s spending a ton on Aurora might need 3 specialists. Now you’re talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. It could be better to just pay AWS.

However, at large scales cloud won’t make sense anymore. They do have a markup and eventually what you’re paying in markup could instead buy you a few full time employees.
Slightly tangent: being substantively patriotic is cool. It should be cool. America has done some incredible things like this and I’m sure it’s not just Americans that find it cool.
Ask HN: Are we at the start or the peak of a boom cycle in tech?
Feels so hard to identify.

Baffles me that 18 months ago we were discussing a “VC winter” and possibility of a ‘07-like recession to reign in the excess of late-2020 & 2021.

Now it feels like froth and companies that barely do what they claim is everywhere. Yet so much VC money is still on the sidelines.
Yes, I misremembered it and I was wrong about it which I discovered by googling it. But the number of police is way down, so it had the same effect as defunding. Part of the reason for the reduction is the Seattle City Council abused them by calling them murderers. The cops felt unsupported by the Council and unwanted, and they left.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/defamatio...

https://www.bigcountrynewsconnection.com/local/seattle-counc...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12656567/Seattle-la...

The suburb cities did not experience an exodus, so it has nothing to do with the pandemic.
I’ve improved my night vision (headlights on the highway at night kind of thing) with some exercises I made up. I think shifting from light to dark focus uses muscles and those muscles can just get weak. You can just exercise them and they get better at adjusting
The fact that police aren’t going after stalkers anymore also doesn’t help. But ya, it’s impossible to tell the difference between a stalker and someone just trying to recover their stuff.
Given how often I had to deal with crackhead infestations: the place would have burned down in a month if it wasn't restricted to an in group.
No. In fact for example the C++ standard says such a loop can be optimized away by the compiler, even if syntax suggests it is an infinite loop.
The problem with this approach is that frequently the business doesn't care much about serving you. If you say no, they just say that's okay. Come back when you will. And then what? Fine if there are many options, but often there aren't. I'm thinking medical and banking here, but I'm sure there are many more where all the companies that offer the service you want/need require you to give them your SSN.
Small business owner related skills & investments that generate steady reoccurring revenue.
I wouldn't label this a "Revolution", not yet, it's a strong word. I think the real next tech revolution will be along the lines of room-temperature superconductor, or finding a solution for stable qubits. Former enabling the latter would be exciting time to witness.
> This token is repeated ad nauseam.

It's been a single day...

> As if the objective is less about justice and more about political ammo; gleeful celebration of tokenized, distributed memes and sound bites.

Again, maybe you don't understand American politics if you don't know why people would be happy about this.

> Biden had his prepared statement ready to go: "Nobody is above the law"

Not exactly a statement one needs to prepare, it's what he's been saying for 4 years.

> Your comment begins with "you don't understand", followed by "you didn't pay attention".

I'm not questioning your cognitive abilities, I'm calling you ignorant in as nice a way as I can. In your post you recited a bunch of things you are confused about:

- $130,000 is nothing.

It's not nothing, it's $130,000. In fact it wasn't only $130,000, the total payments to Cohen was $420,000. Either way, you should see the amounts normal people are prosecuted for. The Just Security article linked elsewhere in this thread shows people prosecuted under this law for returning unpurchased items at a store and using store credit. So prosecutors better be lifting their heads for $130k.

- NDA payments are legal

Not if they are unreported and excessive campaign expenditures.

- classifying the payment incorrectly is some great crime

If it's done intentionally as a lie to conceal a campaign finance violation, hell yeah that's a crime.

- Who cares if they had sex 20 years ago?

Trump cared, he thought his wife and family would care, but moreover he thought his voters would care, and he voiced that fact to Hope Hicks, which she testified at trial.

All these facts were learned at trial. So yeah, you would not be asking these questions had you paid attention to the trial.

> Left and right, tantrum politics is the norm. If you can't see the circus, you are unable to remove yourself from the circus tent.

So you can't point to a specific circus in the case of this trial as alleged. Instead you gesture vaguely to political tantrums, which is unconvincing. But note the person throwing the biggest tantrum at the moment is in fact Trump and Republicans. Everyone else as far as I can tell is acting like an adult.
> I'm happy with one caveat: If Microsoft 'recall' is not opt-in so is forced on me I'll switch to Linux, which I like too. It's not as nice as Windows imho but it works.

At this point it's opt-out.

Every minute you spent not switching from Windows is a minute you spend endorsing their inevitable coup against your agency. Why wait? Why live in fear of that happening?
Pre-COVID I had a WFH job that decided to sunset remote work after 7 months of employment. I was offered severance or relocation. The choice was simple at the time, but the market is very different now. Think it over carefully.
Well, we've got the next 6 months to make 2024 the year of the Linux desktop...
Unicode case folding is a complicated algorithm, and its definition is subject to change with updated Unicode versions. It's nice not to have to worry about that.
I personally think this is the wrong track to take. What we should do to social security numbers is make them so ubiquitous, make it so that you know all of your friends social security numbers, so that it is no longer used as a private identifier, which it isn't, and is thoroughly unsuit for purpose as.

Especially as "AI", the ubiquity of chat GPT and AI generated images makes it easy to fake people, having a public registry of every real citizen becomes a much more sensible thing. There is an insane take on "PII" that the list of "Your real name and address" are sensitive information. A generation ago everybody's name and address were in the phone book, and we were better off for it.
You’ll never get any real insights reading Crime and Punishment or East of Eden anyway. You have to live it.
Hah, I could live with being a Rand villain. I suspect it’d be closer to a David Foster Wallace kind of subplot though.

I don’t actually think that’s what happened. However, if it came out that it did, I wouldn’t be entirely shocked. It’d be less “I knew it!” and more “huh, that explains a lot”.
So you just sit there and take it? I don't see why people allow this behavior and treatment from companies, especially when there is a shift in direction. If people kee buying, they will never stop selling.
We probably don't need programmers either, the compiler should be smart enough to know what the stakeholders mean.
> a more popular idea seem to be to piggy back onto GNSS signals

Don’t all GNSS systems provide a highly accurate time signal (maybe needed for computing the distance to satellite)? I know GPS does at least.
Startups aren't disrupting shit. Lol.

Here's the lifecycle of defense. I work in this sector.

Small company invents shit that works.
Pentagon loves it.
Big defense contractor buys them by making a offer they can't refuse.
Big defense contractor also owns the politicians and DoJ review process.
Small company product ultimately stagnates.

Rinse and repeat.

It's been going on for decades.
Are we still talking about the police in the OP? Who needed someone to give them GPS coordinates to find the stolen goods after at least 14,999 previous tool thefts went unsolved?

Not exactly batman level detective work here, this case was cracked because it was handed to them on a silver platter.
The labor could actually make prison mildly less worse, as it breaks up the monotony of doing nothing. There is also often some comp, although way below minimum wage, and you can opt out (most don’t).
Decoding these signals should be a fun 1st project for Software Defined Radio. Google search shows several projects which did just that.
Airlines Are Mastering the Dark Art of the Upsell
I miss this kind of maths. Any book recommendations for such maths puzzles/questions?
40 million is a drop in the bucket in the computing world. That’s barely 10% of the United States’ population.

Maybe that number could be higher if people were told about it and given an option when buying their computer.
.. as long as you're in the USA in both those cases
This looks nice and oddly nostalgic. One bit of feedback: each time I toggled the checkbox I expected the checkmark to look slightly different, as if it were being redrawn by hand each time. Adding some "noise" might be a neat feature for a version 2.0.
I definitely think there’s merit to the conspiracy theory that people who own shares in companies are the same general groups of people as those who own commercial real estate interests.

Or there’s the tried and true explanation that it’s just micromanagers who want play power games with their employees.

The senior leadership team member can’t really conceptualize a world where an individual doesn’t sacrifice their entire personal life for work, so hearing that an employee has time to do laundry makes them think that it’s anti-productivity to be home.
China exports lots of stuff to the USA and those containers go back empty. They can easily be filled up with stolen iPhones and catalytic converters for recycling, so that they aren’t all empty.

Power tools probably not though.
Do you have some examples? I'm curious
It's certainly worth it, especially if you have some appreciation for the craft of writing, a love for words and the English language and the patience to take things slow and put the effort to really understand what you're reading. After the clouds clear and you can see what he is doing a monument reveals itself and there is this feeling of astonishment that a human was able to create such a thing.

The second half of the book (chapters 10 to 18 although page-wise it's more like two thirds) is especially satisfying. Each chapter is written in a vastly different style: imitation of music, a romantic novel, a play, the historical development of style in the English language, how a bad writer writes, a technical text, and a couple of others.

It's challenging and might not be satisfying if you're looking for plot (there is none). I suggest to read a chapter and then the accompanying text in https://www.ulyssesguide.com
HN's title editor drops the word how at the start of titles in, I think, an attempt to combat clickbait. Funny enough, this might actually be a good use case for an LLM.
I always say no. I can get away with it in every case except banks and loans.

At the same time, anytime a company asks for your birthdate, give them a fake one. I frequently use my mom's birthday and a sibling's birth year so I can remember it.
About 10-12 years ago there was a car rental company on Nantucket that offered either model T or model A cars for rent. From what I can remember it was slightly more affordable than renting a Jeep Wrangler during peak season. I believe they might have limited you to around town/no further than the mid island Stop & Shop.

We were staying about 1/2 mile from the The Wauwinet on the bay. It would have been a real adventure driving from there or Siasonset to get lunch at Provisions. Single lane, driving with other cars doing 45+ miles an hour on Milestone/Poipis Road. Not to mention Wauwinet Road has a number of twists, turns and grade changes.

https://compassroserealestate.com/about-nantucket/getting-ar...

Island Buggies Auto Rental
Classic American made cars; Ford Model A’s, Packards, Taxis, Roadsters, & Woody’s
41 Old South Road
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508-680-1063
Because PC as GPR complicates implementations immensely, for virtually no benefit.
It’s usually implied that “effect” pertains to observable effects. Anything that doesn’t affect referential transparency gets handwaved away. A memoized function might use a private stateful cache, but as long as it doesn’t affect determinism, you can keep its existence secret.
There's a spike in births on Jan 1st if website records are to be trusted.
The tech described in the article features superconducting memory in combination with the 'SPU':

> To complement the logic architecture, we also redesigned a compatible Josephson-junction-based SRAM.

[...]

> But there are also some striking differences. First, most of the chip is to be submerged in liquid helium for cooling to a mere 4 K. This includes the SPUs and SRAM, which depend on superconducting logic rather than CMOS, and are housed on an interposer board. Next, there is a glass bridge to a warmer area, a balmy 77 K that hosts the DRAM. The DRAM technology is not superconducting, but conventional silicon cooled down from room temperature, making it more efficient. From there, bespoke connectors lead data to and from the room-temperature world.

... with the idea of stacking this technology to put a 'supercomputer in a shoebox':

> It is also straightforward to stack multiple boards of 3D superconducting chips on top of each other, leaving only a small space between them. We modeled a stack of 100 such boards, all operating within the same cooling environment and contained in a 20- by 20- by 12-centimeter volume, roughly the size of a shoebox. We calculated that this stack can perform 20 exaflops (in BF16 number format), 20 times the capacity of the largest supercomputer today. What’s more, the system promises to consume only 500 kilowatts of total power. This translates to energy efficiency one hundred times as high as the most efficient supercomputer today.

... or make datacenters a fraction of the size:

> In addition, with this technology we can engineer data centers with much smaller footprints. Drastically smaller data centers can be placed close to their target applications, rather than being in some far-off football-stadium-size facility.
It’s sorta hard to trust that your data is unbiased fact when you use the term “copaganda.”
David Hilbert's 1930 Radio Address [video]
I've reported his GitHub account [0], & reported Raivo (on his first account) [1] but I haven't reported an app from his second account [2] because I have yet to see evidence of wrongdoing, but I would be surprised if there is absolutely no wrongdoing of any kind. Additionally he controls the following domains [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. If his real name isn't Soufiane Benabid, whatever his real name is, he (MobiMe) also uses the name Soufiane Benabid to publish other apps on the App Store under that respective account.

[0]: https://github.com/mobime-org

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/mobime/id1502822219

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/soufiane-benabid/id93880...

[3]: https://mobime.org/

[4]: https://mobime.ma/

[5]: https://plantme.ai/

[6]: https://cryft.com/ (see https://cryft.com/terms & https://cryft.com/privacy)

[7]: https://benabid.me/
I think this comment misses just how big of a leap chrome was over the competition for at least 5 years. The speed and stability improvements were light-years ahead. It was finally able to break the IE6 stranglehold and quickly overtook Firefox's adoption rate.

After that it's just inertia, it's the head of the pack because it's the head of the pack and people already use it.

To convince people to change generally you can't just offer the same or similar performance and features, it has to be a worthwhile reward for the user to bother. This change which just might be crippling enough for adblockers may be enough to get people to switch.