skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, battery life, trackpad, monitor quality, performance (especially now with LLMs and MXs) and case are really hard to top.

I think Dell has would have a chance to be great but they do lots of plasticky and heavy stuff.
Well, grok 1.5 hasn't been released yet, except to very few private testers.
Sure desire but not right, and then almost everybody engages in exactly same desire, in exactly same self-centered perspective (I want best possible location, biggest house, ideally biggish land around, convenient to work and fun and schools etc.).

Its physically impossible to satisfy everybody who wants that, we don't (yet) build cities in 3D with this in mind. Such demand will literally every single time outstrip supply unless given society is in deep demographic spiral.

There used to be times when people thought about buying houses when they reached cca 40. Worked their way to it, patiently. These days, 30 year old will complain to you how world is unfair since he already doesn't have it all since he wants to retire at 50. Or how they are priced out of some great place since almost everybody wants to live there too, including boss of his boss of his boss. Working class was priced out places like Manhattan maybe 50 years ago in much higher numbers, and nobody bat an eye.
The headline is very obviously trying to reference Stargate without technically being false. That the article "explains" the headline doesn't make it any less shitty clickbait, in fact, that's the very definition of clickbait.
Roundabouts don't have any traffic crossings, and sometimes don't even need traffic lights either so no one has to stop/give way
> So how are JWTs inherently more insecure than other authentication methods? Almost all data passed over the wire nowadays is TLS encrypted.

JWT's security -and that of all bearer token systems- depends utterly on the use of TLS.

The security of JWT used correctly is comparable to that of Kerberos or PKI. There are some things to look out for, like that it's way way too easy to write implementations that fail open (e.g., you don't recognized a signature algorithm so you don't validate the signature but also fail to fail), but other than that there's nothing particularly bad about JWT.

> Log out can be implemented in a user facing client by deleting the JWT and refresh token.

Logout has to be implemented either by letting time pass w/o re-authenticating (i.e., let the session expire) or telling the server that you're logging out. You can login again, even with the same token as before (IFF it's not expired yet). There is no reason to have to "burn" a token, and that would add a significant amount of complexity akin to revocation.

> The only downside I see is that if you want to log out of all sessions it is impossible to implement without maintaining session state in the server.

Sessions imply session state. What you probably meant is that if you want to revoke access then you need a revocation system, and that effectively bolts on extra state on your servers (and a pub/sub system). Generally no one wants that headache.
Don't just stand there watching, stab it with a sharp stick...
Niven walked so that Baxter could run.
Radiation affects cameras.
The root problem here is that the market structure for energy should change to adapt to new technologies and new climate realities, but we have a century of regulation, infrastructure, and entrenched incumbents that have a vested interest in preventing the change.

I could believe that we need some form of a grid to smoothe out demand across consumers, and some form of time-based demand pricing. It is probably not the grid that PG&E owns, and it is probably not the rate structure that CPUC approves. Renewables generally have much smaller economies of scale than fossil-fuel based generation - you can craft and install solar panels in much smaller modules than a single power plant that services tens of thousands of homes, and you have much more flexibility where you put them. At the same time it's becoming much riskier and more expensive to run transmission lines through tinder-dry forests and burn down another city every few years.

I think the future is microgrids and municipal grid defection. We'll still have electric grids and electric companies - but they will likely service and be owned by the city-states that they serve. To the extent that we have a rural population, they'll setup their own rooftop & community solar, and back it with generators and iron-air batteries. The grids won't interact much - people in say San Jose are unlikely to want to subsidize the tree-clearing needed to run wires out to say Petrolia.

We also need much more transparent time-of-use pricing, to encourage demand shifting back to daylight hours. You actually don't need huge battery setups: well-built homes with energy-conscious owners draw only a couple hundred watts at night, vs. several kilowatts during the day. You do need a couple things that have passed under the radar screen so far: 1) workplace EV charging, so all your vehicles get charged during the day, and 2) better insulation, so you run your heat pumps during the day. Shift those loads from nighttime to daytime and you'll end up consuming 90% of your energy usage while the sun shines.
While yes they did introduce GUI changes they also introduced a lot more fundamental changes. Typically the second release is seen as better because it's usually a refined version or at least the changes had more time to perculate.

For example Vista introduced many things that changed the fundamental nature of Windows, UAC (split tokens, integrity levels, etc), new audio stack, overhaul of IPv6, new display driver model. A lot of these new driver changes and the extra hardware requirements caused a lot of issues whereas when 7 came out the requirements were no longer as burdomsome and manufacturers had more time to release better drivers.

Windows 8 introduced UWP silos, new startup process, Hyper-V as a client. 8.1 and 10 were definitely more iterations on the GUI and other features to make it a bit more palatable.
The whole premise of this article seems to be wrong because the author is misreading the quarterly report:

”What’s confusing is that in its Q4 2023 earnings, Meta reported it had 2.11 billion daily active users across its properties — a number that is somehow distinct from the 3.19 billion “family daily active people” that it reported in the same earnings. Daily Active Users is a simple metric — how many people have engaged with a product in a given day — but Daily Family Daily Active People is a number that is somehow so distinct that it’s a billion users higher.”

The number that’s a billion users higher is the one that includes all the properties. The 2.1 billion is for Facebook only. This is plain as day in the linked Q4 report:

”Family daily active people (DAP) – DAP was 3.14 billion on average for September 2023, an increase of 7% year-over-year.

”Family monthly active people (MAP) – MAP was 3.96 billion as of September 30, 2023, an increase of 7% year-over-year.

”Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 2.09 billion on average for September 2023, an increase of 5% year-over-year.

”Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) – MAUs were 3.05 billion as of September 30, 2023, an increase of 3% year-over-year.”
Not clear value prop.

Text "What makes Plan B different" reads:

- Has polls
- Has 360 surveys
- Something about integrating tools

Pretty sure other tools have all that
The performance of Gemini 1.5 Flash is the real takeaway. It's priced roughly similar to Claude Haiku, but in this leaderboard it's performing better than Claude Sonnet.

I may have to run tests to see if Flash is really that much better than Haiku. From the win rate heat map (https://x.com/lmsysorg/status/1795512212456645074) Flash has a 62% win rate vs. Haiku.
The original video by Joe Grand: https://youtu.be/o5IySpAkThg
> I kinda recall a big marketing campaign saying just that

You recall a bunch of publications saying that, but not an official statement from Microsoft. It was all conjecture based on one comment one person made during one breakout session at one developer conference.
It's a new proposed standard. Where I work (in healthcare in Europe) we have it as a requirement for any new APIs we offer public access to.
We have our own auth service, but looks like Okta already offers DPoP.
I agree - I've travelled enough on my own dime and the corporate one to know that you definitely don't want to get the cheapest room on Expedia, but satisfaction doesn't scale linearly with the amount you spend. Filet mignon doesn't automatically beat a nice warm rock to sit on.
Not sure, but there's a popular meme image of him on an expensive boat: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/ehw96j...
Haha what total crap.

Anyone who uses/used Gemini knows its

>Not good, the quality of results are quite generic and low quality. It talks more than it answers. When it talks, it gives you the straight and narrow, nice, happy answer.

>It denies seemingly half of my requests, so I have to reword it.

>It denies genuine requests, even when reworded.

I have chatgpt4 for 99% of things, including the denied requests. I have 7B Berkley Sterling for anything chatGPT4 doesnt answer.

I continue to try Google's, Microsofts, Claude, etc... I am always looking for better, I always pay for premium, I've ran 100B param offline models. Gemini is inferior to their direct competitors, there is nothing redeeming.

I'm convinced Gemini being at the top of any ranking system is some sort of over-fitting error or dealings with Google to promote their product.
ARP poisoning to get packets routed to a machine with a misconfigured default IP sounds cooler to me but that's just me.
Sears was killed off, though.
It's been brought up for some time, and kind of looks like one of those open-source situations where any progress that falls short of perfection is deemed not worth implementing. Just my interpretation though.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/336
> used to chew on lead fishing weights

Chunks of lead just aren't that bad. https://doi.org/10.2146/ajhp060175 lists common sources of lead poisoning, and none of them are lead weights.

Common sources involve things like airborne lead powder (from grinding or smelting), lead compounds dissolved in food & water, paint, and lead in soil.
Imagine that the CLI tool you use most often every day - a compiler, a package manager, like that - adds animations like these in common operations. Now you have to wait for the animation to finish before you can continue your work. How do you feel about that?
The developer experience when trying to maintain a Python codebase the size of an average enterprise Java codebase is pretty...abysmal.
Windows 11 feels like the kind of OS you would get if it were free (ad supported). Ironically, the actually free OSes are much less cluttered and much more stable.
Given the damage is already done, why not leave it in place? Encase it in concrete and come back in a decade or two when the worst products have decayed?
I'd add that it's easier to abstract your software service from authentication. It's allowed me to write bridge signing from AzureAD, Okta etc, to a supported application deployed to differing environments on client hardware and readily integrating to different SSO systems.
> The "game" is just as broken as it was years ago, if not more broken.

A proper Star Citizen conversation would be:

- "Is this bug fixed yet?"
- "We added a new prototype feature!"
Why not just use a roundabout?

This design seems odd to move traffic onto the wrong side of the road and make people come to a complete stop? Over-complex?
It gets less hot than my iPhone
It was an offhand comment from some dev that was seen as some as a promise. MS certainly tried to do a rolling update model but shifted a few times in the frequency to finally releasing Windows 11.
If you look at that graph for a whole day you will see a huge kick-in of power company owned battery storage in the evening. There is no reason the grid cannot operate batteries at scale to absorb excess rooftop generation. NYT: https://archive.is/t1uPj
Having to list the tokens to revoke is a problem in several ways. Obviously publishing the tokens themselves allows attackers to use them before relying parties get the revocation notice, so publish a token hash instead. But even publishing a token hash is annoying because you then have to record all the claims + token hashes issued, and that's a failure point. Instead you'd want to revoke _subjects_ (`sub`), but since tokens don't have to have those... (In enterprise systems though your tokens should name subjects.)
Just this weekend, I was told that we were in WWIII, but in secret. Of course there's all of the big lie nonsense. There's still talk of which ever Kennedy coming back. Why should I be the one that as to point out specific issues with content being pushed. Are you denying that bullshit is being spread?

> did people not believe crazy things in the mid-20th century?

Why is that even a question? Of course the crazy was around. It was just much more difficult to spread it around. You had 'zines that were available. You had AM and shortwave radio programs. Just by telling someone you listened to AM/shortwave content already set people in the correct frame of mind of where the information was obtained. In modern times, it's everywhere on the socials. It just so happens the time the socials were gaining usage with people that specifically do not know critical thinking nor have been taught the ways to investigate sources.

The internet as been an equalizer for everyone doing anything. As much as it has done for retail, it has also been huge for not just the conspiracy theory sites but propaganda from anyone including foreign actors.
Do you have a link-local v6 address on that device? My first attempt `ping ff02::1%enp9s0` didn't work because I use VLANs and don't actually get addresses on the base device, using the VLAN virtual device (in my case `ping ff02::1%lan`) worked for me.

You shouldn't need `-6`, given it's a v6 address.
Article OK, headline...not
It’s somewhat unclear, but in this case Guido is responding directly to a particular - broken - attempt to add TCO to self-tail calls to CPython in the fashion described. I assume, having not read the linked article, that the author must have done that as a quick hack - because CPython’s bytecode must allow arbitrary jumping within a function body but doesn’t have the means to express a true tail call. I guess.

He goes on, later in the post, to describe how he’d go about adding tail calls - although this treatment is also confused.
This works better if you do a Show HN following these rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Facebook is probably the largest free content management system for people who don’t know what that is. It’s also extremely difficult to export that much less migrate that to another site with similar features. Are there even any?
I guarantee you professionals using math at work - for example in finance - not have a 1% error quota. They use tools. We have tools. Nobody in any serious role (money, etc) works unaided.

Math inference is a palor trick as is the whole “world model” bullshit - physics doesn’t work with 99% accuracy.

It’s the same reason agents are bullshit right now - error compounding at 95% reliability per step murders them and currently there is no path to triple 9
I wonder how many home/commercial/community solar systems (battery-backed or not) have the equipment needed to (a) generate their own 60 Hz sine wave (of good-enough quality to sync to the grid), (b) automatically disconnect from the grid when it loses its connection (to prevent backfeeding during outages), and (c) properly reconnect (including syncing) when the grid comes back.

I remember, at least in the beginning, smaller systems were unable to provide their own sine wave, and would rely on the grid for that. And even today, if full net-metering were in place (with the possibility of export), I would expect the grid to still provide phase synchronization (when solar is not exporting), and a path to other consumers (when solar is exporting).
visit any page which should be cached. click any link. unplug. click back. dead end instead of cached page.

cache only works on https for extra assets. which is useless if you have a simple static site anyway
Human Life
Indeed, launched the project a couple of hours ago, and that one stayed by mistake, thanks
Try Stephen Baxter, if we're working on these sorts of scales.
Doesn't seem like that much? It must be one of the most expensive games ever developed. Can you name any games that cost more than this one, except for the unreleased GTA 6?
while I agree with your point, I stopped using CL after several people on different occasions tried scamming me. One, I took my stuff and left after I felt I was about to get robbed for my $200 smartphone.

I used to love CL. I used it so many different ways. From getting rid of stuff we didn't need, to older tech stuff I could give away and always have a bevy of people wanting it. Now? It just seems rife with sketchy people trying to scam or outright rob you.
IIRC at one point CryTek tried suing StarCitizen for some kind of violation of their license (something about releasing 2 games - StarCitizen and Squadron 54 - instead of one I think). There were some rumours that the Lumberyard thing was an attempt to get a more favourable license for basically the same engine.

There's so much history with this project it's hard to remember it all.
How viable is this for getting a day of work done, against projects hosted on Github?
The BIPOC and LGBTQ communities are disproportionately impacted by the unjust distribution of electric potential so I don't see any problem with California requiring that PG&E work to achieve Electron Justice and ensure that those electrons whose voltages were created by clean solar energy are distributed equitably.
oh how fun this must have been to implement these effects. absolutely love it!
Wouldn't you argue that Star Citizen is mostly marketing?
Looks like there was one.

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/motorola/_dataSheets/682...
This would be the best solution, but other low-usage customers (retirees, low income workers) have come to rely on the implicit subsidy granted by not charging explicit infrastructure fees. The solution to that second order problem is to grant some sort of government financial aid to low income customers with low monthly electricity consumption. That way most households pay for infrastructure proportional to infrastructure costs, but the most vulnerable are protected against financial hardship.
LMSys is not a perfect benchmark, but it's much better than the more academic benchmarks which do not reflect real-world use cases and may or may not be trained upon by the LLM.
> This is quite editorialized.

Well, yeah. It's an article in the "Opinion // Editorials" section, by the paper's Editorial Board.
> Background: I helped my mother die, and in the process decided NOT to be an organ donor anymore.

Do you distinguish between "helping to die" and "killing (with consent)"? Or is the former a nicer way to say the latter?

I ask because I think most people would be viscerally uncomfortable making a statement like, "I killed my mother," even if "at her request" was added to the statement, but the way you say "smothered her with my bare hands" suggests you might not be as uncomfortable with such a statement, so I'm curious if there's a reason you framed it that way or if you just use a variety of descriptions interchangeably.
EmailGuard
To be clear, I’m not saying high schoolers shouldn’t be learning more complex languages.

My main point is that Scratch should not be stigmatized. It can be a good introduction to get kids “hooked” :-)

Harvard even uses Scratch in their CS50 course!

https://cs50.harvard.edu/scratch/2024/
> Hence the existence of Chrome OS.

Which is useless besides browsing the internet.
D-wave managed to sell some devices. I'm not clear on what they could be useful for, but they still managed to sell them.
see, that was missing from the tutorial, or did I miss it? :ok and :nope - are those valid keywords or functions?
Related:

Automata via Macros (Lisp) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723429 - July 2011 (3 comments)
Wait, they still expect people to pay for Windows? I thought the whole play now was giving that away as a loss leader for the services that actually make money.

Granted, I haven't paid attention to Windows since about 2020, when a brief flirtation with an OEM copy of Windows 10 turned me off the platform permanently. So maybe this is just me being out of touch - although, if they are still charging money for it, maybe not as out of touch as Microsoft's product leadership.
By the latest count they have ~1300 employees. That's a lot of salaries.

They recently released financials up to 2022. Back then they had 860 employees, spent $130 million in a year and earned about the same from pledges, subscriptions, etc. It looks like they have some cash on hand but mostly always just spent what they received rather than building large reserves. Which implies they have indeed now burned though just shy of $700 million in 12 years.

https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cloud-imperium...
Yeah, I'm just using Arch's default iputils:

> pkgfile $(which ping)
core/iputils

That doesn't provide a `ping6`, presumably as `ping -6` is the preferred solution.
The humidity matters when considering how "dangerous" temperatures are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Well, actually

1984-5: Big corpos, banks and so badly needs IBM PC's for everything.
Every big serious office gets computerized.

1993-4: We want PCs for everyone -> Windows 95 and the Multimedia PCs with MSOffice, CD Players and so.

2003-4: Internet for everyone -> Flat rate broadband and P2P plus IM changues everything.

2013-4: Social media for everyone -> Everyone got its smartphone.
I've had to report on users for previous media companies I have run. Using a daily number will make the overall number seem higher than the monthly total unique users.

Here is an example of one site I ran a long time ago to illustrate:

Average daily unique users: 111,000
Total unique monthly users for the same period: 2MM unique users.

I could see how the interpretation of the average daily might have someone inferring it's x 30 for a month so call it 3.3MM users during the month but the actual monthly total is lower.

I don't think there is anything wrong with reporting daily especially if it's the type of site or app where the user is likely to be there on a daily basis vs say the websites of the past two decades where half the readers only come once and the other half come 2 -10+ times.
Unfortunately, and as much as I wish this wasn't true, it's not even close...

Sure, macbooks look good, but it's not the looks that make them great laptops.
Hmm, I’m not sure that’s a great comparison…Brainfuck is deliberately complex, and certainly not designed for learning.
It's the same dynamic as crypto games. It's the hype that people are buying into, not the actual lame/incomplete/broken gameplay underneath it. The video game is just a MacGuffin in a findom ARG.
Indeed, and this is underestimated (esp. security improvements). But let's face it, some of it was just half-baked at release.

Source: I was there
So the people against it argue, good faith or not, that it violates federal law, and the article arguing for it mentions this repeatedly but chooses not to tell us what federal law it is so we can read it and form an opinion ourselves. I don't appreciate being manipulated.
The environment is an enormous externality that throws off market mechanisms.