skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that the first paragraph is bad - but it's uncharacteristically bad. Maybe the translator/editor was still warming up his workflow at the start and never went back to revise it for some reason.

I think you'll find the bulk of the book to be much better. At the very least, the English prose itself flows beautifully. And clearly the typesetting and restoration of the illustrations are truly top-notch. The first few pages are really an aberration.

Considering the project is open source at https://gitlab.com/mirtitles/perelman-geometry, I'm tempted by the obviously-high level of effort to help patch up a lot of these problems in the early chapters.
Ticketmaster has engaged the ACSC[1]. I doubt its a rumour.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aucyberseccoord_today-i-was-a...
This reminds me of a funny book title: "Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards" [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Vote-Just-Encourages-Bastards/dp...
I live in a developed country with 4g/5g everywhere and its still no better than the 3g era I remember. Modern apps and sites have gobbled up the spare bandwith so the general ux feels the same to the user in terms of latency. On top of that there are frequent connection dropouts even with the device claiming a decent connection to the tower. Using mobile internet seems like 4g often can’t bring the speed to load a modern junked up news or recipe site in sometimes any amount of time.
Indeed, this is such an incredible and important project. Anyone who has tried to get free and/or public domain works in ebook format knows how bad the situation is. Some versions are good, but most are poor inputs processed through outdated and error-prone OCR. I'm extremely grateful to have even that, but the need for this project is very real.

I'll be supporting financially when I can, but until then if anyone involved is reading, please accept my heartfelt thanks and appreciation for your noble efforts.
Now lets do Docker next. :-)
> But I also short-circuit the back-and-forth thing by handing the server my card at the same time as I'm telling them I want the check. Then there's only one trip involved.

How can that work? Do you also give the server your card's PIN?
That doesn't make much sense. Hybrids literally have much better MPG figures and that takes into account that you can't run off battery to cheat these numbers.

Regenerative breaking is a huge MPG win and you can't do that without being Hybrid.
It all depends on what you define as "fake news" doesn't it? How about in that same time frame "51 Intelligence Experts Say Hunter's Laptop is Russian Disinformation" or "Trump will release an untested vaccine to boost his election chances," were those factored into the study? I kinda suspect they weren't.
You don't need a large sensor area or complex audio analysis. A spot with a few IR diodes on the windshield is going to get wet if it's raining hard enough to need wipers.
This is wonderful and something I'm aiming to do in the future, to some degree due to the Weekend Wednesday video from CGP Grey and some other places making strong cases for a 4 day workweek

Could you explain what other copernican moments have you experienced?
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaTm6VzTBw
I think of it as the one that powered 10+ years of accessible forum posts.
I had similar problem on a ship with many users share a 2M VSAT Internet. Few tricks made Internet less painful:

- block windows update by returning DNS query for microsoft update endpoints as NXDOMAIN.

- use a captive portal to limit user session duration, so that unattended devices won't consume bandwidth.

- with freebsd dummynet, pfSense can share bandwidth equally among users. It can also share bandwidth by weight among groups. It helps.

- inside Arctic circle, the geosynchronous satellites are very low on the horizon and were blocked frequently when ship turns. I was able to read the ship's gyro and available satellites from VSAT controller and generate a plot to show the satellite blockage. It was so popular that everyone is using it to forecast next satellite online.
How much do software engineers earn? It depends on the state
There was some interesting discussion about this on reddit:

> In Ukraine this is a very known problem, to the point when there are jokes about those bots , cause they often post texts translated to Ukrainian from Google translated russian text. For example a year ago or so there was a meme "I can't stand this hellish flour" , which was created cause Google translator translated "hellish torment" from russian to "hellish flour" in Ukrainian , cause 'flour" in Ukrainian written exactly the same as "torment" and 'flour' in russian, which isn't the case in Ukrainian language (well , kinda the case , but Google translator translated word that has two meanings in the word that means only flour)

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1d4j1oo/openai_has_...
There are lots of things that are easier to verify than to figure out how to do from scratch.
Thanks for sharing - you were fortunate to have a father who loved you as much as he did.
> Only a small minority of my email addresses I've ever had matches that pattern.

The example is illustrative, and not definitive, as to how the simple and innocuous decision about a regex can determine functionality, and it is not about someone going "out of your way to make that not work" to break things.
I have a Manifest v2 extension in the Chrome Web Store, it works absolutely fine, and there is no reasonable reason to change it. But Google says they'll de-list it if I don't rewrite it for Manifest v3. I don't wish to donate my scarce free time to a multi-billion dollar corporation so they can make the world worse.
> We are No Azure for Apartheid, a group of technology workers within Microsoft and its subsidiaries...

I wonder how long until they're identified and fired.
Yeah. Which describes tons of stuff I encounter every day.
Yeah I asked it about 8-bit Atari computers and it mentioned that they had MOS 6502 CPU's but did not linkify that part, which would have been where I wanted to go down the rabbit hole next.
> You asked for a one day work week. You’re either idling your equipment

Why?

An automated factory that has a team come in once a week to monitor and maintain isn't beyond our current capabilities for several simple products. It's simply uneconomic. It's not unfeasible to imagine that changing in the future.
Holy care that's huge if true.

What's the biggest data hack ever?
Tell HN: Deciphering Control vs. Cmd: Navigating the Keyboard Maze
I'm constantly confused about 'Control'; if a website tells me to press Control, does it mean Control or Cmd? Because sometimes I have to guess, one site means Control and another means Cmd, and I always type Control. So Control is Control and Cmd, but each site interprets it differently through key IDs.
Ideally OP would keep the source images of the original journal pages around even after transcription. I think ChatGPT (or LLM in general) is probably the best option, but the best overall solution would accept that LLMs are flawed and would require long-term iteration.
So it goes, and goes, and goes – on Vonnegut's death-mantra Essays
What? Mulder is not a typical alpha male, he is a handsome outsider UFO nerd. Mulder rarely comes out on top in any physical altercations and in his interactions with other law enforcement he does not come off as ‘alpha’ at all.
that's why i don't like to buy property. presumably you didn't want to just sell again because of the effort involved. if buying and selling was easier and guaranteed to never sell at a loss, then this would not be an issue. how did you resolve the problem?
Computer Science Eponyms
Those in power in Russia aren't waging war to win, they wage it to stay in power. Ending war is less useful to them.
Fax machines permeate Germany's business culture
Yes, the same reasoning is used whenever I have a choice. However, let's not pretend like choosing JS or NoJS is the same as choosing a browser. At least you have a small handful of browsers to choose from.

I mainly use NoScript and enable as needed for a select set of websites (banking, etc). I'm not a full on RMS, but I at least make choices that align with my thoughts and opinions, even when it's not convenient.
IBM’s problem was going to be inventory, labor, scheduling, and transportation costs.

Your mainframe is slow and IBM is going to charge you 6 hours of labor to come out for 90 minutes next Friday, or we can deal with it over the phone.

I can’t recall but did IBM use that extra hardware for physical redundancy in case of hardware failures? I know they researched letting equipment die and coming out and replacing it after multiple failures instead of single ones, but I don’t know if they applied that to shipping mainframes, to regular rackmount hardware, or just in Research.
There are very few engineers who wouldn't consider the POWER1 and POWER2 from IBM to be microprocessors.

They are also multi-chip units. The POWER1 was multiple chips on a PCB and the POWER2 was multiple dies on a single module (like modern AMD and Intel CPUs, but 30 years ago).

The word "microprocessor" was first used in 1968 by Viatron Computer Systems to describe its System 21, which had a multi-chip CPU spread across two boards.
Our software ecosystem doesn't work well with an army of ants. I think we'd need a paradigm shift to get there.

Also, FWIW, Xeon Phi hit 244 threads in 2012 and 256 threads in 2016, although it used 4 threads/core.
This story was initially circulated two days ago with a blanket statement of “AUS Home Affairs confirms the breach” - which at the time was false because they only acknowledged the rumour.

Whether or not it’s a rumour based on speculation has nothing to do with it. It either is or it isn’t.

There is no confirmation that it isn’t.

--

Just to provide receipts:

Home Affairs Department confirms cyber incident impacting Ticketmaster customers (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-all...) - May 29th

> The Department of Home Affairs said it is aware of a cyber incident impacting Ticketmaster customers in response to claims it is part of a data leak expected to impact millions of customers globally.

How exactly "being aware" counts as "confirmation" in this case?

Any other article (outside of those who used ABC Aus as a source) on this matter have specifically used words like "allegedly", "purported", etc.

That's the only argument I am making.
Google, Samsung, and Apple all have lucrative wireless earphone businesses, or would like to. Simpler design with less components is also a win for them.

Didn’t someone add a jack to an iPhone 7? Difficult for DIY, but not impossible. I saw a similar mod for an iPhone 13 as well. https://www.strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headph...

I’d pay quite a sum for such a service. The value of a lossless, universally compatible port is hard to overstate. At the very least they could give us a second USB-C port on top-end phones.
Why, after 8 years, I still like GraphQL sometimes in the right context
You all run on 2-bit (DNA) and you all seem pretty stable to me. You run your brain with couple of watts per day and add big numbers without much hassle.
The beautiful thing about engineering is that the skill differential is apparent all the way from conception to implementation.

But our industry is allergic to actually calling out actual skill issues that impact end users.
As others have done, I first looked for my house. I noticed something I hadn't noticed ever, namely a spot in the neighborhood that is shaded for most of the day. A good trick to know when summer comes and you want to keep your car cool.
Where should I put my toddler?
At my current employer we do allow this. It's handy for testing and not a big deal if we have users doing this to make multiple accounts (they don't gain anything by doing that). But at a previous job it was a bigger deal and we'd strip off the sub-address part because we were trying to match up email addresses across client sites (this was due to a bit of a shady thing the company was doing and part of the reason why I left).
Well, you have to go out of your way to prevent it. The sub-addressing complexity is on the email provider side; ticketmaster doesn't have to do anything for it to work except not reject valid email addresses.

In my experience, most but not all sites will accept "+" email addresses.
that was pretty good
It doesn't silently drop, it sends a header indicating it's closed the TCP connection.

This is a pretty common pattern whereby you want keep-alive.for performance reasons, but you don't want clients running _too long_ creating hot spots on your load balancers.
Anti-upgrade is disgusting. Upgradeability is a major reason to buy an tower PC. I would love to pay any remotely-reasonable amount of money for a motherboard which would let me just swap CPUs and cards for 15 years. This is what good motherboards were in the good old pre-PCIe days. It was so lovely to buy the best MB + cheapest everything else, then upgrade whatever as you need and can afford it. I've read Intel even used to make "overdrive" CPUs to fit really completely new generations into old sockets.
Same here. But knowing my ISP, it'll change throughout the day, sometimes by quite a lot.
Would you download a car?
Ukraine keeps having so many achievements in this war the notion it's losing is laughable. Do you know how long the war will need to be to get to Kiev with today's tempo?
If you got a mortgage at 14.5% you can refinance it when rates get lower, and people did.

The 2nd group can't "refinance" all the extra principal they owe.
Google blocked news searchs of 'manheim' and 'stabbing'
So as it appears this is not the casd but for a few hours google was not giving news searchs for these terms. Currently if you search for manheim you have 0 result about the event.

https://9gag.com/gag/aO8bYw2
(Sorry no better source but ive seen it with my eyes)

This is outreageous to me. Blocking news that doesnt go into your political position is textbook propaganda.

Because of the influence of google its borderline a matter of free internet since you cant exist on internet without google.

Do we need to lobby for a law forbidding to block basic news ?

Or ask elon tu buy it ?
Call me crazy, but it's almost as if these should be guidelines considered by a thinking person, with experience to help inform them, rather than hard-and-fast rules that must be applied to everything.
No, you can invent this idea that open access is a boogeyman, but it’s flat out corporate lies. This is free speech. I’m allowed to say I think a statement is untrustworthy.
"Polish media reports say Poland purchased Pegasus in 2017, using money from the so-called Justice Fund, which is meant to help the victims of crimes and to rehabilitate criminals." from the older 'scandals'.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/polish-...

At that moment it's safe to assume that all EU govs use Pegasus against the public in general.
GNU Poke 4.1 Released
I am happy to announce a new release of GNU poke, version 4.1.

This is a bugfix release in the 4.x series.

See the file NEWS in the distribution tarball for a list of issues fixed in this release.

The tarball poke-4.1.tar.gz is now available at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-4.1.tar.gz.

> GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.

Thanks to the people who contributed with code and/or documentation to this release.

Happy poking!
ElevenLabs: Generate any sound imaginable from a text prompt
Even with these restrictions, wouldn't it possible for a US company to move own funds/or loans from subsidied operations towards being more innovative? With this in mind, isn't this still a government backed business opportunity. Isn't using this opportunity or not on the company leadership?

Also doesn't this kind of thinking leads to an argument that says US govt does not want it's own companies to compete with Chinese ones with these grants by use of limitations?

And another question would be as USA is more of a private enterprise type of a country why wouldn't these VC's and car companies cooperate for this competition?
More inclined to always be working because there’s more of a love of what you do… they certainly aren’t doing it for the money lol.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521657
I think you are probably right, but if humans are at 99.9% (which seems very unlikely) I don't think it will be long before you can trust a model more than a human expert.

Really though I think this line of thinking is better to revisit in 5 or so years. LLM's are still very new, and seemingly everyday new optimizations and strategies are being found. Let's at least hit a plateau before assessing limitations.
Playwright – A Framework for Web Testing and Automation
This sounds like a very nice compromise actually. I'm surprised it helped with abuse though, since there's a lot of email providers that are easier to create an account with than gmail.
As others have said, ripgrep et al are faster than regular grep. You would probably also get much faster results with an alias that excludes directories you don't expect results in (I.e. I don't normally grep in /var at all).

I have seen some recommendations for recoll, but I haven't used it so can't comment. Anecdotally, I normally just use ripgrep in my home directory (it's almost always in ~ if I don't remember where it is). It's fast enough as long as my homedir is local (I.e. not on NFS).
Sure, would be interesting to know how it would fare against purpose-made compression under real world conditions still...
Looks like google says prius gets anywhere from 45 to 78 MPG, which feels like too wide a window.

Sounds promising but would love to see an exact apples-to-apples comparison before I get too excited.
Israeli too. Curious they left it out of the headline.
Ownership and Memory in Mojo
Opposite.

SEC 8K being enforced has been nothing but good overall.

These companies were being hacked and it was hidden from you.

Now, it’s open, embarrassing, and costly. So they’re taking security more seriously.

If you are concerned about share price, buy the dip on hack.
Just a note, from having worked in a Congressional office that phones are usually answered by interns and a staff assistant, mail is opened almost exclusively by the staff assistant, but this is still the lowest level position in an office so the marginal difference is pretty minimal. And for any issue that's time sensitive, don't bother physically mailing because it has to go through extensive security checks before it gets delivered to us. I'd say the ideal way to maximize impact with an elected official here is to ask them the question publicly (FB, at a town hall) and try to garner as much support as you can so they feel like they have to answer you positively.
Thank you for providing valuable insight. I wish these kinds of comments would end up at the top instead of the usual low quality "hurr-$COMPANY evil, it's all because greedy obsolescence-durr", from people who have no idea how CPUs and motherboards work together and the compatibility challenges that come when spining new CPUs designs with big difference that aren't visible to the layman who just counts the number of cores and thinks there can't possibly be more under the hood changes beyond their $DAYJOB comprehension.

Here's a video from gamer's Nexus on AMD's HW testing lab, just to understand the depth and breadth of how much HW and compatibility testing goes into a new CPU, and that's only what they can talk about in public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4eg2jOvVw
How to start an advance market commitment
Ages ago on Flowdock at work (a chat webapp kind of like Slack that no longer exists), I used the circle ones for a short time as my nickname, and no one could @ me.
Cheap, easy, and generally correct for the majority of people*

Just because it’s 800km off for your IP does not mean it’s 800km off for every IP and Maxmind is generally considered one of the reliable providers of this information.
And my personal favorite, the Radeon 9100 which was actually a Radeon 8500 in PCI format instead of AGP. With a slightly tweaked 8500 Mac Edition bios you would have a very fast GPU for first gen PCI Macs through the Yikes G4. I believe some faster NVidia PCI cards ended up appearing and being made to run on Macs but I had moved from my XPostfacto PCI Macs to an Intel mini by then.
What is your credit card number? Please free that information.
It use to be join this Facebook group, now everyone is pushing private discord servers.

I think the old phpBB was way better. But if there was some type of way to output the static html, it would benefit everyone in the long term.
I don't know if that's what you're trying to say, but what it illustrates to me is how easy it is to quickly cook up a simple regex to filter out certain patterns in email addresses and feel like it's doing the job, while unintentionally breaking things for a large number of people you don't have on your radar.
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
I love the project, but it really does need a way to find the most popular books:

https://github.com/standardebooks/web/issues/298
'Little Tech' sets its sights on Washington
The detection was accurate enough for me to complete one prototype experiment under controlled conditions- a single tardigrade in an otherwise empty field, and even then, it did lose the tardigrade once or twice. Different lighting conditions, and other things in the field like tardigrade eggs, algae and dirt all make it more challenging.

To make it truly ready for production science, I'd need to put more work into making the model robust. I'd also like better object tracking, so I could track multiple unique tardigrades.

If you want to see even better examples, take a look at DeepLabCut, https://www.mackenziemathislab.org/deeplabcut especially the video examples.
"Isolation" isn't an on topic response.
The only rational take is to believe nations when they say that they will use them, not when they won't. Capability is the only measurement. Active threats are its decoration. We live in a disinformation environment, and military tactics are at the core of it by definition.

Russia should give up and withdraw. But it's frankly ridiculous to assert that "Russia has no way to win" is a relevant statement, as Russia winning is not the relevant metric. Who says that they think that winning is their only option? They may be satisfied with the West losing, should they not see a path to winning for themselves. That's the game theory that needs to be articulated before anyone agrees to be lectured by someone dismissive of such threats.

Imagine thinking that "Russia has no way to win" is a statement of reassurance in light of such a threat. Or that telepathic proclamations about their motivations and strategies are, as other people are engaging in here.

What people want is for leadership not to play fast and loose with such possibilities.
That's the problem with FPTP systems. In true multi-party proportional systems, people can align with the candidate on much more than few extremely polarizing points. Also gets rid of most effect of gerrymandering.

On the other hand, later coalition building often results in significant compromises too.
I did consider the Intel Neural Compute Stick to accelerate with OpenVINO but they're discontinued and it turns out I can get away with doing fewer detections (birds, not people) by doing a pre-filter of motion detection (reduces the number of frames through OpenCV's DNN by 10x).
It's interesting how many people who engage in expensive luxury travel are unaware of the cheaper world of hostels, etc. exist.

They belong to a privileged class. They might be able to afford vastly more expensive luxuries like a roof over their head that belongs to them and healthcare too.
you cant download viruses or exfiltrate data if security tooling uses 100% of your CPU taps head