skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes when I am at the gym I wonder if there could be a better set of weight denominations.

I feel like 1,3,9,27,81 could be an optimal set; but I am not sure how to prove it.
Why did they have to flag it? This was an interesting discussion.
Mexico City's reservoirs are at risk of running out of water
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I get the perspective, but I also like the fact that ISPs do take over some of the admin burden associated with running a piece of equipment like a router.

You, I and most of the HN crowd may be well capable of maintaining a reasonably secure state of our own hardware and troubleshoot our way through common errors. However, the average internet user isn’t that experienced nor are most people interested in learning those skills.
Doubt anything will come out of this.

I wonder how the vote for the biggest compensation bonus in history will go. Probably going to pass.

Situations like this make me feel really bad about the world. It's hard for me to look up to or admire someone like Elon Musk.
500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a 'Giga-Goose,' Fossils Reveal
That's a pretty stunning visualization too
Evidence of Earth's First Rains Found Trapped Within Primordial Crystals
If you're looking at HCI Proxmox is amazing for homelabbing, with a 3 node cluster or 2 nodes with a qdevice. I use PBS for automated backups and RAIDZ and while there's quite a learning curve and initial setup time actual cluster maintainance is pretty hands off.

With enterprise gear it becomes outdated and then you replace it at your leisure, whereas with consumer equipment it dies so you need to replace it. The disvantage of that is the noise and power consumption so it's a tradeoff you need to consider.
80 years after D-Day, Microsoft uses AI to enhance archival materials
Practically everything you are saying here is nonsense as it relates to a partnership. The partnership agreement for the actual fund, ie not the entities created for purposes of someone acting as the GP, will lay out the economics, who can do what, how/if the the general partner can be replaced, what they can and cannot do.

The statement that he owned 75% of the fund is deliberately misleading. That he was in control of an entity that acted as the GP of a partnership means "he was acting as GP". But, that doesn't sound as nefarious, and it doesn't sound so sensational, and that's why it's not being said that way.

The only way to know if something shady is going on is to read the partnership agreement of the actual fund. That's where the rubber meets the road.
Fairly sure he was talking about Pale Fire, not Potter.
Ethics aside, there are many thing that move people, and it's not always money. For instance, selling the vulnerability means the author wouldn't have been able to tell their story.
Better isn't objective. Not supporting it is fine but outlawing it ultimately means sending men with guns to stop people from interacting with a block chain. If you put bullet holes in people for their cryptographic fetishes, which is what the state will do ( or maybe if lucky they just flashbang a baby), you might be the baddie.
> such that as many chips are distributed as possible, and such that the denominations are nice

Could you expand on what the optimisation criteria are? you want each person to have the maximum number of chips for some set of "nice" denominations where the total number of chips and players are constrained?

What does a "nice" set of denominations mean in this case? Why do you want to distribute a maximal number of chips?
That's the wrong level of description. It adds little to the argument about whether neurochemistry or perception underly the efficacy of psychedelic treatments. As a counterpoint - human cognition and perception only exist in contexts beyond the brain - a perceived world, brain development through perceptual stimulation, language acquisition etc. Brain in a vat does nothing.
I've written a whitepaper about our encryption at rest at work, which includes a bit of considerations about the threats considered.

The first important part is: Encryption at rest protects higher levels of the stack from access by lower levels of the stack. If your attack is working at an application level - e.g. you have a database connection - encryption at rest is no tool to deal with this. Encryption at rest is more about protecting the database from an attacker with physical access.

The second consideration is: There will always be a tradeoff between availability and security when dealing with encryption at rest. Manually decrypting a system is very secure, but if that system goes offline at 3am, it'll be offline until the device is decrypted. Automatically decrypting a system using Clevis/Tang, TPM, Bitlocker and such gives you more availability but could make it possible for an attacker to access your data if they have sufficient control.

And that's the third consideration: If an attacker has sufficient control, they can defeat automated decryption of encryption at rest, and they may have ways to start attacking manual decryption of encryption at rest as well. Like, you might be able to start looking at memory contents, disk writes and start doing some differential cryptoanalysis to attack encrypted data and such.

But with all of these three together, you arrive at the goal and security level we have formulated for our encryption at rest:

Our encryption at rest is supposed to defend us against employees of our hosters getting access to one or two of our virtual or physical storage devices. If they have access to one or two storage devices, they must not be able to access customer data on the devices.

Naturally, the question is: But what happens if they have more drives?

Well, the simple answer from the whitepaper is: That's a problem for the lawyers.

Handling 1-2 of our drives is entirely arguable as daily business. Swapping drives via remote hands or dismissing dedicated servers with 2 drives at a specific hoster happens a lot and then they handle 1-2 drives, and our goal ensures they cannot gain access to customer data then.

However, if a datacenter tech starts pulling 3 or more drives and starts analyzing data on them together, that's outside of normal operational procedures and we can start considering that an attack and start sueing them. Or they are being directed by law enforcement. Both are issues for the legal teams though.

At least that's our view. Encryption at rest works in a very different set of circumstances and mindset than other security topics in a software stack.
I enjoyed reading this. It’s easy to follow along.

It’s also relatable to find answers to Swift documentation questions in some talk by an Apple insider rather than in Apple’s official documentation.
For servers no, but we’re talking about endpoints here. Also this isn’t only about reducing the existing vector bandwidth but also about not increasing it outside of dedicated co-processors.
We are not your slaves, you have no rights to us
Related: https://www.404media.co/why-do-these-instagram-electricians-...
OpenAI Employees Call for Protections to Speak Out on AI Risks
If it's only video, you will benefit significantly if you upload them to YouTube. Create a channel "MY PRODUCT Learning", "MY PRODUCT University", etc.

Videos not only help customers use your product but also serve as effective ways to reach people organically. Many people find watching a video to be enough compromise of energy given to learn a subject than reading text.
Yes. I could implement split DNS, but I don't.
Aragorn is not a ‘feudal king’, he is a king of legend.

Tolkien was trying to write a mythology - it’s meant to be a mythological past for our actual world. It isn’t set in the medieval era of our world though, it’s meant to be timelessly ancient. Myths set in an ancient past often are told with protagonists who seem to come from a more recent time though. Consider Saint George and the Dragon - a 12th century myth about a knight in shining armor who ‘long ago’ fought a dragon. A knight - a saintly one in particular - was a contemporary character but the story was set in the ancient past of legend. Similarly the ancient Greeks told legends about the Trojan wars where characters who resembled their contemporary warriors fought alongside gods.

The anachronism is part of the form. The shire isn’t ’medieval’ or ‘feudal’, it’s timelessly rural or * bucolic*. Hobbits are in behavior far more like 19th century farmers than medieval peasantry and that’s appropriate because they are meant to represent a nostalgic persona to an early 20th century audience, even though they are participating in a story that is meant to take place in a nebulous prehistory, before the world changed.

The journey in the Lord of the Rings is almost as much a journey back through deeper and deeper legend as it is through space - the hobbits travel from a Napoleonic era Shire, through Renaissance Rivendell, back to a medieval Rohan then classical Gondor, and then into the strictly mythological Mordor.
What could ChatGPT and Claude have in common? Azure Infraestructure?
fish-shell does for its integration tests, and yes, it’s brutal :)
Current and former AI employees warn of the technology's dangers
Show HN: I made a simple unified LLM client with tool calling and vision support
So I could get rid of Langchain and not have to write response.choices[0].message.content in a different way every time I changed models.
> I don’t see the relation with apples.

Replacing an ICE with a EV results in a drop in energy by your calculations even if they are doing the exact same trip. Thus showing your argument is based on nonsense.

When someone burns oil in a car you measure the energy before it’s burned and therefore before engine inefficiency. If you burn oil in an electrical generator you measuring energy after the engine inefficiency.

Thus the amount of useful energy IE what people want in electricity vs other sources is closer to 50/50 than 80/20.

> You're saying "just waste solar panels during the summer so that you have enough during the winter", right? I thought it was pretty clear that wasting energy was not a good idea for the future.

People build grid infrastructure for the worst case. Nobody complains when a natural gas power plant is only turned on for 12 hours a year because without it you get a blackout. Hell dams build spillways that can sit unused for decades, you still need them.

Thus no the panels aren’t wasted, they are doing exactly the job someone built that infrastructure for.
> Moving to a more customizable design will allow Intel to better optimize their P-cores for specific designs moving forward

Amateur question: is that due to the recent advances in interconnect or are they designing multiple versions of this chip?
My experience with these kinds of tools (and I've built some myself) tells me that you're better off hiring people who know what they are doing or having enough experienced people PLUS culture to train up juniors.

The idea that you'll just build a tool that makes hiring 10x as many inexperienced devs work is dubious. Just one more new DSL bro. Certainly we have cracked the code that no one else has.

The problem with these types of orgs/tools is that by its nature your DSL constrains the juniors/inexperienced devs to what is currently possible. There is not a lot of learning unless you rotate them through the tools team periodically, which no one does. It's also awful for the devs who are building in experience in something they can't use anywhere else.

I was in one shop where the "tools team" guys epiphany was he would meta-recruit by poaching the best data engineers out of the ETL team, lol. Very explicit "good team / bad team" vibes.
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Thats a good point the knives he was familiar with were probably case hardened! So you would get to mild steel just like you said if you kept removing steel.

Nowadays though, knives are generally homogenous or some other composition like san-mai which will have the good steel in the center all the way through so even if you grind it down to a toothpick most modern knives will still have the good steel on the edge. Modern metallurgy means we can have high hardness, high toughness, high wear resistance and high corrosion resistance all in one composition. See Magnacut and other modern powder metallurgy knife steels:
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/

I am sure there are still some case hardened knives but for the most part case hardening is a historical technique. Same goes for the type of laminated construction you describe above.

All told the metaphor makes sense historically and in context but taken in the context of modern knives it makes less sense. This is interesting in and of itself because the meaning of metaphors and sayings can change drastically across time and social context.
Pretty sure dating apps are doing fine business wise.

Why rock the boat? It seems to me like the strategy is for the match group to buy off competitors and then slowly but surely turn these into tinder clones once they start gaining traction.
For a TV, I don't see the problem with background apps dying.

What does this mean? I wouldn't describe a streaming service, like Netflix, as a "background app" in the context of a HTPC/set top box. It's almost always a problem when devices, especially mono-purpose devices, slowly become bricks.

No, browser can be fine, but I think it's harder to control in practice.

Can you elaborate on this, too? If I don't like my browser anymore, I can switch browsers. Every browser I'm aware of has plug ins and and settings that give me control and the ability to extend functionality and to some extent, turn off some things I don't want. With apps, you're at the mercy of their developer. If the app sucks (or, again, gets killed off), you can do nothing but deal with it. I don't see what control one has there...
I prefer to invite the other party to perform an autoerotic copulation in any location that is not their present one.
Lion Cove doesn't remove hyper-threading in general. Some variants will have it so Intel still has to validate it (eventually).
But the first part shipping, Lunar Lake, removes hyper-threading. It may have saved them validation time for this particular part but they'll still have to do it.
The trend continuing with 0.2C added average global temperature the past 16 years ended all sane opposition.

> The same people who called it a communist hoax back then call it a communist hoax now.

Yes, but the people who didn't think there was enough data then think there is enough data today. Talking about the group that didn't change isn't very useful if you want to find those who did. Today the sane opposition argues that raising temperature isn't a bad thing or that it can be worked around, they don't say that global warming isn't a thing.

Edit: If you want proof look at discussion about global warming on conservative reddit, top post says that climate change denial is dumb, the right today doesn't believe that climate change is a conspiracy except for a fringe and the rest of the right think that those are lunatics.

This all happened since 2008, if you believe most right wing people today are climate change deniers then you are ignorant, but if you thought so 2008 then you would be not far from right:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/yzdcqy/global...
Awesome work!

Are the cameras similar to what's in a consumer digital camera, that is, a single image sensor behind a bayer filer and a lens? Or does it use some other configuration, like an array of image sensors?

And does sensor readout work similarly to a consumer camera, sequentially reading out rows of sensor data? Is there any cool software processing during the capture, like decovolution?
> Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat

This is _only_ because, in medieval times, when there was enough food people had more children until there was no longer enough food for everyone, maintaining the equilibrium and making it to be "just enough" most of the times, with a lot of "not enough" between those. Incidentally that is also how most animals and normal evolution operate.

But what if they only have ~2 children per couple, so they CAN easily maintain this lifestyle? Specially given they are long-lived (taking care of things long-term) and have culture+technology either from abroad or from long ago (mills, craftsmen, etc). I can definitely see this more plausible than the jump to classes the post does.

As a personal note, once I visited the UK countryside and was surprised by the amount of wild berries there were, we grabbed a bunch and there was definitely enough that we could've eaten for few days. Sure probably not a whole town and not all year round, but these were _just_ the wild ones, with a bit of work I can see how lush the land could become.
No, I am merely pointing out that they are already in a very precarious position that Google (who is notorious for "ending" projects) could decide to cancel that funding source overnight.

I don't know what the solution is. Maybe they are moving towards alternate sources of revenue, since google makes up "only" 80% now, whereas it used to be over 90%.
That's why I asked you some questions. If you don't answer my questions or clarify anything then there isn't any other way I can understand your point of view, sorry. You are the only one who can explain yourself.
The exceptions are exceptions. The general rule for recommendation is age/immunocompromised people.

Post-hoc rationalization bogs me to no end. If you feel good about taking it, fine. But why keeping this idea that anyone who declined it is automatically a brainless moron?
Multiple people.
I built a data processing framework at GE that let junior devs write whatever code they needed to transform a particular input. It provided an interface that they had to satisfy (for data lineage metrics) but otherwise scaled their code without them having to understand the distributed architecture or anything about the platform. Exceptions flowed up to the platform and became part of the data lineage metrics.

I walked into 20 years of adhoc code that had zero data lineage, recoverability, or scalability that was breaking daily. There were contractors with over a decade of tenure whose job it was to troubleshoot and fix their own brittle processes (and make new ones) daily.

I got laid off (747Max plus pandemic) as I was rolling it out and they went back to the old way.

Subsequently, a new startup (Pantomath) emerged with former GE engineers (and other former colleagues of mine) from my former department to address that problem domain.

Based on my experience trying to socialize this type of solution, sales are going to be a bitch.
Never new about that. Fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
So do you think then that power doesn't corrupt?
The real world: USA
Unfortunately https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... is down so I cannot show, but it is absolutely not showing off. It's an extremely detailed document showing how to place widgets on the screen down to the pixel.
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TikTok accounts getting hacked via a zero-day that only requires opening a DM
Cool, but consider monolith for this instead (https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith)

- Outputs a single .html file, consumable with any web browser on any platform

- Rust, so, you know, +1 HN (;D)
How can you actually open and view a warc file? I've never found a good application for this, have I missed something obvious?
You probably don’t want to expose that service to the internet…

I see this as something like the console management for VPS. Back in the day, I remember reading about how prgmr.com had setup a console that you’d directly SSH into. That’s now this interface [1] (and a company name change), but I could see how programmatically working with this would be helpful.

[1] https://tornadovps.com/documentation/vps-console
Wasn't aware of HomelabOS, looks pretty interesting!

How is your Longhorn performing? I tried setting it up on my nodes but with Gigabit networking and possibly the Pis pretty average CPUs I would get pretty awful performance both in distributed volumes (with replicas etc) but also on strict-local ones (for reasons I haven't yet figured out).

I am now considering using something like https://github.com/rancher/local-path-provisioner, since I mainly intend to use Longhorn for DBs that handle fault tolerance / backups etc on their own.
ah, so the same genre as House of Leaves
It's good to know that I'm not the only one!
>What is a clock? A system that, um, keeps time

In colloquial use, a clock is just a set of rotating gears with some spring - or some other such contraption - from sun dials to hourglasses and quartz. It might be used for measuring time, but it's existance as a device is not based self-referentially to the concept of time anymore than a drinking glass is based on the concept of liquids to exists. What's more, in this case the "clock" is just an example of an oscillator.
> Your post constrains another misunderstanding about the hiring process: The goal isn’t to hire the first person through the system who is good enough to pass some arbitrary threshold. The goal is collect a number of candidates and hire the best one. People hate this reality, but it’s true.

I definitely do not have any misunderstanding here, and my description of hiring is the same as what you wrote, just in different phrasing: after a period of time, the company has to pick a candidate, presumably the best one by their interview signals.

I am disputing the standard claim of "it's better to have false negatives than false positives" by pointing out how that mindset does not work: since you have to choose someone anyway, the whole "avoiding false positives" might not be a thing at all
I wrote an integration testing framework which I wanted to integrate with a tool exactly like this so it could be used to, e.g. test a command line app like vim.

Expect is what I tried to integrate with first. It falls over quite quickly with any kind of app that does anything mildly complicated with the terminal.
It is still down
Distribution of polystyrene nanoparticles administered to the chicken embryo
I listened to this kind of preaching and got myself a Lenovo ThinkCentre with Ryzen 5. What everyone forgets to mention is that these are loud. Fans are small and they spin fast. And fanless used mini pc market is kind of dry.
Other books I know of that play with part or all of the text itself being an artifact of the fiction:

- The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brian. Fictional scholar of a fictional esoteric philosopher weaves his commentary on same philosopher into an account of his… journey.

- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino. You(!) embark on an adventure to find the book you believed you purchased, which was If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.

- The Princess Bride, William Goldman. This has a very different framing narrative from the film, and is very much worth a read.

(Setting aside epistolary novels like Dracula)
Perhaps focus on arguing against gp’s conclusion rather than against the analogy.

Meaning, respond to this:

> Just because some particular damage can't be measured financially or settled with a fine, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

This conclusion is applicable regardless of the analogy’s aptness. You obviously don’t like the conclusion. But can you argue against it?

Also, as you seem to be focused on the “buying” rather than the “driving” of a truck, would you be ok with a tax or some other disincentive aimed solely at truck drivers rather than truck buyers?