skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have made photographs of the hex representation right from the screen with a modern smartphone, recognize them through the built in into the camera app software and call it a day.
Italian School of Algebraic Geometry
Can you share which configuration scales to $0? I am not aware of that being possible. Even the serverless option has a base ACU rate.
Yeah, I've definitely seen it come up with API methods and the like, that I'd never have known to look for in docs. That's not quite what I have in mind here, though, but more how well LLMs tend to replicate the ancillary context that is available when reviewing documentation. My experience has been that they tend more narrowly task-focused than I do, although it occurs to me I don't think I've tried prompts around "suggest some solutions for the following..."

In general, I still find it frequently surprising just how much subtle differences in formulating a question can yield significant differences in response.
Yes, it does. Gödel found a solution to the Einstein field equations that shows that it is possible to have closed timeline curves on a cosmological scale under particular conditions. (The universe is rotating and has a carefully chosen value for the cosmological constant.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_metric
France has basically abandoned their fast breeder effort. They defunded the next fast reactor.
> Then, the back and forth to narrow down that what they meant was that this person wasn't showing up in a certain part of the application

In my case I said that developers shouldn't spend more than 90 minutes reproducing a problem. If it took longer than that, the submitter wasn't correctly communicating the problem.

Everyone learned how to write a bug report after that.
Yes, completely agree; I'm equally surprised by the poor DXes.

(And: bugs. I'm also surprised by the kinds of issues I run into on some of those sites in my list -- problems that, even if not show-stopping, feel like revealing indicators of quality.)
Forewarning, I don't have a ton to say about the core of Carmack's criticism. But there's various points that I think show color, that are worth highlighting.

> Burdensome regulations are put in place because the regulators feel rich enough to impose the costs of the “box tickers” necessary to comply with them. We have hosts of food regulations because there is no danger of starvation.

It's wild to me that libertarians can believe such shit as this. Maybe perhaps we can get better about reducing what Master of Orion 3 referred to & which has stuck for me as "the heavy foot of governance", but this just seems like such a minor factor in the world, and it feels like this oppressive regulation but makes up the majority of so many people's entire personality, being affronted that our milk won't maybe start one day killing you.

I like to ask, who has it better? What programming languages are so exceedingly better that their coders exist in some entirely different sphere, are clearly better able to live the core value and/or duct-tape lives described here? There's ups and downs around but largely it feels like most devs are living in some vague form of parity, somewhat more or less encumbered but generally everyone somewhat in the same realms of possibility & success: im unconvinced languages matter all that much. What about regulation? We have some very low regulation places in the world. Are they killing it? Is their world radically better, and better for whom? It just doesn't seem like regulation is dogging us as bad as JC's/libertarian's world view wants to believe.

And we can safely drink milk.

> For a lot of people, the number of "heads" below them in an org chart is a measure of their self worth.

Striking a strong chord with my cynical side on this one though.

I think this is the other cancer within capitalism. Ideally we'd have metrics & measures, be able to assess how well people are worked at a lower level, but orgs just judge by the market adoption not actual productivity or innovation or use, and we kind of promote arbitrarily as a result, aggregating up.

Ideally I think we'd have smaller teams, smaller focuses. More different modest-scoped pokers in the fire rather than ever amassing fiefs of greater scope.

> Bullshit jobs are a luxury good, and we are only going to see more of them as society continues to become wealthier.

300% not the trend I see happening. We seem to be in a massive "fire by default" mode, the stock price will probably go up.
that is to say, the starlink terminals radiating EM sufficient to mess with the sensitive sensors at the south pole, which is fascinating since they're supposed to have passed compliance testing that they're not doing too much of that. but the south pole has a different definition of too much, it seems. fascinating!
WordOfDay – A Tiny DOWG
Welp, this is big enough to make Nano my default editor. While it'll take a while to become "ubiquitous" (as in version 8.0+) it's trivial enough to build for any systems I manage.

The new mousewheel behavior is particularly nice. It's totally up to my taste with --modernbindings and --mouse.
Great move. I'm not a fan of emacs nor vim complexity.
> although maybe they may dump heat into it.

Dumping heat into water is how they consume water. They either evaporate the water directly, or they heat a river, causing it to evaporate more later.
I assume they must have meant it doesn't have any TCP/IP networking software installed. As I recall, Macs had AppleTalk hardware from the very beginning and AppleTalk software was a built-in part of Mac OS. I don't know if it's even possible to remove if you tried.
Bullshit jobs exist because

- people need to have a salary to eat,

- compagnies/ceos who have the actual cash think "head count" is a valuable metric enough to invest in more people without assessing their efficiency (which is arguably not easy).

If you want to automate society these are the two main axioms you need to fight. Which mean you need

- ubi. This one is obvious

- make compagnies more efficient in terms of productivity pzr person and / or dissassociate the size of your compagny to your ego and / or the opinion of vc about it. Which is arguably not easy.

Another issue is that sometimes some people who work 4h a week are still actually valuable in a society (same as some small part in an engines that are not used a lot, or even your brain that is not used 90% of the time).

In that case its more about making those people freelance so they can still be useful and be paid w.r.t. their time whil they themselves are useful in several compagnies at once.
It would be incredibly weird not to be able to store urlsafe-base64 encoded paths on S3.
Apple, in 2024, is still unable to implement a functioning autocorrect, which is a primitive version of LLM's, in the iOS keyboard. Why anyone has any faith in Apple in the new age of LLM's is beyond me.
The best indexer for macOS, bar none is Foxtrot Professional. https://foxtrot-search.com/foxtrot-professional.html Very sophisticated searching, including regex, its own query language, and proximity searches - x within z words of y - which for me is the biggest win. I have 2TB of files indexed with this.
No, NTFS has always been at least optionally case sensitive; current Windows versions even allow case-sensitivity to be controlled on a per-directory basis[1], which even works for (some) Win32 programs:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.3593]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\jtm>mkdir foo

C:\Users\jtm>fsutil file setCaseSensitiveInfo foo
Case sensitive attribute on directory C:\Users\jtm\foo is enabled.

C:\Users\jtm>echo bar > foo\bar.txt

C:\Users\jtm>echo Bar > foo\Bar.txt

C:\Users\jtm>dir foo
Volume in drive C is Aristotle-Win
Volume Serial Number is E4AE-428B

Directory of C:\Users\jtm\foo

2024-05-31 17:55 <DIR> .
2024-05-31 17:55 <DIR> ..
2024-05-31 17:55 6 Bar.txt
2024-05-31 17:55 6 bar.txt
2 File(s) 12 bytes
2 Dir(s) 41,524,133,888 bytes free

C:\Users\jtm>type foo\bar.txt
bar

C:\Users\jtm>type foo\Bar.txt
Bar

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivi...
Some anecdotal evidence this is happening.

Most of the time, I've used local recruiting companies. I've had long standing relationships with several firms and they've always gotten me good gigs. Once C19 hit and companies started taking applications from everybody since remote work was the thing, I applied for a few roles on Indeed since a buddy had good luck with it.

Keep in mind, I never used any other platform like this. I never heard back from the two companies I applied to. But holy jesus and the mary chain after a few weeks I was suddenly getting up to a dozen emails a day from recruiters in India about all kinds of positions all over the country. Most of these places were sketchy AF. After trying to find some of them online, most just pointed back to a company profile on LinkedIn.

I figured I would answer a few just out of curiosity to see if what I thought was going on, was going on. The first two I answered, the recruiters immediately asked for my social and a copy of my driver's license "for verification" to prove it was me that was actually applying and interviewing.

Those two interactions alone confirmed that Indeed most likely had sold my information to either scammers or extremely sketchy recruiting companies who were making money selling their own lists to other recruiting companies.

To this day, I'm still deleting and blocking these companies - YEARS after deleting my account on Indeed.
That's not a nuclear reactor.
SMRs never made any sense. They have all the same issue as "large" PWRs but they don't have the advantage of scale. Classic PWRs are big, but they produce a lot.

SMRs end up requiring exactly the same infrastructure as large-scale reactors, but they produce only a fraction of power. The largest PWRs will produce 1.6GW, but SMRs are designed for <100MW. So you need around 20 SMRs to replace _one_ large PWR.

The math just doesn't work out.
Maybe they should have thought about that before firing thousands of them? Besides, Microsoft is a trash company and should go the way of the dodo.
As previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40328927

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325876

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40322104
Ask HN: Best Way to Stop Persistent Identity Thieves
About a month ago, my elderly parents lost their landline phone number in a sim swap attack. Since then, they have been battling with a scammer almost every day who has managed to gain access to their bank account, credit cards, and made fake IDs using their information. I helped freeze my parents' credit with all of the major credit reporting agencies, but the scammer managed to unfreeze that as well. I should note that the police have been useless here - a report was filed but nothing is being done.

Are there any stronger ways to harden my parents' accounts and frustrate the scammers? It's clear to me that they have quite a bit of information and persistence. Thanks!
In CA it’s still 15%, which is millions of people. There are other states with a higher percent. You’re right that the number dropped due to the SALT cap. But the SALT cap is set to expire in 2025 (who knows what will happen, though).
AWS alone is $100B/yr now
Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate
> The entry seems written by someone lacking maturity.

Agree with that.
The them-and-us mindset on display here is faulty. If you’re reporting a Linux kernel bug, then you are now a Linux kernel developer. Doesn’t matter that your name ain’t in MAINTAINERS or whatever, you still just joined the club. Please add your stone to the cauldron.
I think the following is also totally possible:

1. The attacker quoted in the Hudson Rock article did breach the sales engineer's account as described.

2. The data in those accounts, however, was just demo data (Snowflake unambiguously says the compromised employee account did not have sensitive data) and it seems possible the attacker is overstating the impact of their specific breach.

3. I've seen no evidence elsewhere that "400 customers" of Snowflake were breached. So it at least seems plausible that just Ticketmaster and Santander had their accounts breached because their own employee creds were stolen and that gave access to their Snowflake data.

I definitely agree the Snowflake announcement had too much corporate speak but from my plain reading of it they are explicitly denying that their employee's stolen creds resulted in a breach of real PII.
I think many people forgot what mastery entails. It's all about being reliable to reproduce a process or solving a problem. Sometimes the process is deterministic and we engineer a tool for it. Or it's not and we need to approach it the old way by learning and training.

Providing truthful information is one of the latter and one of the flaws is our memory. Writing it down or recording it correct this and the next problem was retrieving the snippet we need. That's one of the things lawyer does. They don't invent laws out of thin air, they're just better at finding the helpful bits. Even today, I spend a lot of time looking at libraries and languages documentation to verify a hunch I have. But I still have to go through the learning phase to know what to search for.

In Dreyfus Model of skill acquisition, we have these four qualities:

Recollection (non-situational or situational)
Recognition (decomposed or holistic)
Decision (analytical or intuitive)
Awareness (monitoring or absorbed)

The novice is described by the left values and the expert by the right values for each attribute. For the novice, every part is costly. For the expert, mastery has reduced the cost for taking actions while still having the possibility to do a more deliberate approach when the chance of error is too high. Novice are hoping LLMs can reproduce mastery, expert knows that LLMs inherent capacity of making errors make it a liability.

We need better tools, not probability machine.
Wild to me how someone can open with something as ridiculous as recognising "the non-negotiable need of humanity for ever-increasing amounts of energy" and then be taken seriously. Its not only negotiable, its a requirement that we do not maintain such consumptive expansion.
The instance cost is not much different then normal heroku compute
I thought some of the tips were interesting which is why I posted it. For example, the cutting board thing. I had never thought about it but obviously if you are using a plastic cutting board and cutting food on it with a knife, you are almost certainly getting plastic in your food.
> Alternatively, you can use the serial port to 'print' to, and just capture the serial output.

I've done this to recover data from a number of old systems. It's a great way to get at old data.

I've also done this to get data out of proprietary databases. As long as there's a report that gets the data you want it becomes just a parsing problem.
Jeep is owned by Fiat now
> high-quality GPT model running locally on the device and integrate that with their services.

Unfortunately very few Macs would be able to run anything like that since 8GB is still the base config for consumer models and I wouldn't be too surprised if 80-90% of all Macs sold in the last couple of years only have 16 GB or less.
Object lock until 2099 that can only be cancelled by deleting the AWS account is *nasty*.
How much (little?) radioactive material would there have to be inside the SMR for an impact of a 737 into the neighborhood to be more devastating than the release of the radioactive material?
This.

The past few years I've been a 'full-stack' engineer - which is code for a backend guy who knows frontend.

In my personal taxonomy, a frontend developer is someone who cares a lot about UX, and making things look pretty, who also writes code.

I've met a lot of these people and they were more than happy to hand over all the infrastructure plumbing side of frontend apps to me - which I did along whatever REST API needed implementing on the server.
Because instructions that change the PC have to be handled specially because if not correctly predicted taken/not taken, and the target address) then they cause a pipeline break, throwing away speculatively executed work etc.

When the PC is a GPR then any instruction (with PC as the destination) can be a jump to different code. Even a subtract, for example.

In fact I have many times written `sub pc,pc,#3` to switch an Arm CPU to running the next instruction in Thumb mode.

Gross.
Now if they add an edit.com-style menu at the top I’ll really never need another CLI text editor.
Prof G on Why Agency as your best Alpha in life
Don't even need patching. Could've CUA keybindings by entering them in the rc file.

bind ^X cut main
bind ^C copytext main
bind ^V uncut main
bind ^Z undo main
bind ^Y redo main
...

(Those are from an old rc that had around. The copytext/uncut have been renamed in newer versions.)
It is not standard operating procedure, and demos wouldn't be done with production data. In fact, most enterprises would have contracts in place with Snowflake that explictly state that Snowflake staff can not be granted access to their Snowflake accounts (this is actually the default in the Snowflake enterprise professional services contract now).

You can understand it: Snowflake lawyers are naturally reluctant to have their staff be granted access to any customer's accounts.

It is however quite common to have Snowflake PS guys have limited access to customer dev environments.

However, such access, even in dev, should always be network restricted.
Point of note that David A. Schlissel is the goto anti-nuclear guy for the natural gas industry.
Either they ran into a wall investigating and needed public help, or to get victims back what was stolen? Or, it says they expect charges soon, so maybe they waited until the investigation was over.

Just a guess, though.
Power plants can be designed to work in hot deserts. The largest nuclear power plant in the US (Palo Verde in AZ) gets cooled by evaporating treated wastewater.

French nuclear power plants were just not designed for droughts.
https://archive.is/SGfPW
I wonder if you could stick your own root CA into your OS'S certificate store and then MitM the connections slack makes, and then respond no don't update with burpsuite and cache with squid to alleviate the problem.
> I’m not worried about fission bombs necessarily, but I am worried about pollution and dirty bombs.

Realistically, the nuclear industry will just decide in a few years that it's too hard to properly dispose of waste and they'll dump it unsafely somewhere that it harms humans. This will be easier to do in countries that already have large hazardous waste problems. In the US it will require a great deal of lobbying, but at least 1/3 of the population will support it if they think it makes the economy stronger and sticks it to their enemies.
> spam the world with nuclear waste

You may be vastly underestimating the amount of toxic waste produced by our energy production processes, renewable or not. (Wind, as I understand it, being the least nasty.)
I more or less ignore the front page and use the bell as an rss, having found channels I like via recs from channels I like and friends
The impetus for my years long (i.e., lazy) effort to de-Google wasn't just about the privacy issues but that those seemed to stem from an utter lack of empathy for users overall.

In other words, it was recognizing an intolerable pattern of behavior, which seemed inevitable that it would cause me actual, material harm in some way eventually.
NASA Updates Coverage for Boeing's Starliner Launch, Docking
Databricks -does- work that way, iirc.
Use AI to generate apps in the build pipeline with prompts in source control
>and couldn't understand a company just taking features away from them

Every tech company who offers incredibly generous free stuff eventually does this, even Google. There's no free lunch. All the cloud storage, the dev salaries, the bandwidth needs to be paid somehow.

I remember when Google was offering unlimited photo storage in their Google Photos cloud. Well that's been gone for a while now, even for the Pixel users who were supposed to get this indefinitely.

Remember Cerberus for Android? They had a "lifetime license" you could buy at one point and after a while they revoked that with a sobbing email saying their business doesn't work without users paying a subscription and they'll have to move everyone, including those who paid the lifetime license to the subscription model, to not go bust. Fuck them.

I think enough users have been burned so far by this model:

Step 1: Start-up launches cool new app with amazing free feature to gain market share, even though it makes no sense how they're funding it all with nobody paying for it.

Step 2: VCs see the amazing user growth and invest.

Step 3: Business or lack thereof was unsustainable from the start so VCs start clamping down, shutting down free accounts and squeezing paying users.

Step 4: Business slowly dies out since it was never sustainable, and users leave to greener pastures as they see the freebies being taken away from them.

Sound familiar?

I wish tech companies would be sued for backtracking on their promises they made just to lure users in to fake growth.
In Europe VIN's of cars are treated a little like SSN's are treated in the US. Some governments assume that just because you know the VIN of a vehicle, you must be it's owner, despite many vehicles having the VIN written on every bit of glass and visible without even unlocking the car...
It should be noted that military naval reactors are still more expensive than propelling ships with liquid hydrocarbons. This is why most of the ships in the US Navy are not nuclear.
> Why will this time be different, when nowhere in the world has any nuclear industry succeeded in lowering costs over the life of a programme?

Russia (Rosatom) did it with the exported reactors. China is on track as well, although their finances are not as transparent.
The vast majority of people working on Firefox are employees of the Mozilla Corporation which is a for profit subsidiary of the Foundation.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations...
Why does Facebook keep pumping out 21st century moral equivalents of UML and OOP design patterns - trendy technological ideas that are often considered the gateway to writing 'professional' code, but end up being overengineered boilerplate nobody actually needs.

GraphQL is one, Redux is another.
You're right that the original 4 corners are arbitrary. The hole isn't physically present in the actual space. In fact the word "hole" comes from visualizing the space embedded in a higher space, which we know is not necessary and invites misconceptions. So let's call it a discontinuity.

The discontinuity shows up when you try to continuously map the space to the surface of a sphere. You can almost do it, except for one point. Different nearly-continuous maps have a different point of discontinuity -- it's basically your choice when doing the mapping. I think the 4 corners feels like a natural place for the discontinuity when I visualize that mapping -- and scrolling feels like selecting a different mapping -- but indeed it could be any point in the space if you visualize that mapping differently.
Off the top of my head, if I had to protect a shipping container sized object from a 737, I would bury it. Dig a hole maybe the size of a residential swimming pool, build some drainage and some concrete walls with enough space to allow the container to get back out, stick the container in, and backfill outside the walls. Put a lid on it and cover it with local soil. As a bonus: anyone trying to steal it would need an excavator of some sort.

Or build an underground parking lot, park the SMR in it, put a serious door in front, and use the space above it for something else.

Conventional construction underground, especially of something complex, is expensive. But much of the point of an SMR is that it’s built off site and then installed. Driving a container down a ramp or lowering one off a crane is straightforward.