skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly fun to mess with the hardware, but my personal preference would be to use VMs.

It's cheaper, in my opinion, to get a refurbished mini desktop from Lenovo or whatever. They're "real" PCs, and I've found the raspberry pi hardware limitations to be onerous. It's just really nice to have SATA, NVMe, and PCI Express lanes/slots. For the price of a couple of PIs, you can get a powerful CPU with loads of RAM.
Commercials on TV haven't been unskippable since the first DVR came out in 1999.
> Now compare that to what several crypto projects have achieved a handful of years after their inception.

By ignoring regulations entirely. Guess what, if you're the bank, now you're liable.
Super cool! Also super difficult to secure if used server-side…
It's perfectly common for a mathematician to successfully use a technique where another top mathematician tried and failed.
I've been thinking lately about whether mathematics "is" reality or whether mathematics merely represents reality, and something that I've noticed is that mathematicians and physicists seem to hold the philosophy that if one can create an isomorphism from one thing to another, then both of those things are "real" in some sense.

Take the holographic universe idea for example. There is an isomorphism mapping information within a volume to the boundary on that volume's surface; some physicists, like Leonard Susskind afaict, believe therefore that the universe is a hologram, even when there aren't any tests we can do to prove that the universe can only be a hologram because only holograms behave in such and such a way.

But when I think about it, this seems like a massive leap. We can hypothetically come up with isomorphisms that map, say, the four fundamental forces to like, four angels that work behind the scenes to orchestrate all the interactions in the universe. But that doesn't mean there really are four angels doing this. I suppose this is what someone means when they say we've "confused the map for the territory."

I can't read the text of the paper referenced by the article because I don't have a subscription, but the abstract says:

> We present an implementation of a recently proposed procedure for defining time, based on the description of the evolving system and its clock as noninteracting, entangled systems, according to the Page and Wootters approach. We study how the quantum dynamics transforms into a classical-like behavior when conditions related to macroscopicity are met by the clock alone, or by both the clock and the evolving system. In the description of this emerging behavior finds its place the classical notion of time, as well as that of phase-space and trajectories on it. This allows us to analyze and discuss the relations that must hold between quantities that characterize the system and clock separately, in order for the resulting overall picture to be that of a physical dynamics as we mean it.

Sounds to me like "we found an isomorphism between systems with internal time and systems without time that are entangled with external time..." and I just don't care, because I can come up with any isomorphism I want to. Without a prediction that contradicts our current theories, it's meaningless.

A lot of headlines in theoretical physics strike me as displaying this behavior. Listening to Sabine makes me think that this is the totality of string theory as well. Am I the crazy one?
Ask HN: Best place to host getting started courses for users?
My SaaS company wants to create getting started courses for customers to learn how to use our platform!

We're talking about simple video and text lessons! Essentially a series of guides.

We'd like to offer certifications in the future.

I'm looking into LMS platforms like Skilljar, Workramp, TalentLMS etc but a) most of them do not mention pricing and b) they look like an overkill for what we want to do!

Is there another/better/easier way?
Accounting regs are meant to reflect reality, not enable shitty startups
There is a comparison table in the Github docs: https://getludic.dev/docs/
I’m saying that poker players don’t ever want to play with nonstandard denominations, even in a home game.

It’s just not done. It also makes no sense: it’s confusing and slows down the game for no reason.
They were only granted that gTLD because in their application they explicitly said they would never allow GA registrations.

Google did extreme evil with .dev, with the blessing of ICANN.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is at the top of my list for pure literary beauty (and I also love most of the authors you mentioned)
> Apps arbitrarily getting "killed off" is not my idea of convenient.

For a TV, I don't see the problem with background apps dying.

> Using a mini keyboard (on my couch) is not my idea of inconvenient.

Okay, then that's a significant difference in our perspectives. If you don't mind needing a mouse/keyboard then I agree that the PC is a winner.

> Does it really matter if you're watching in a browser vs an app?

No, browser can be fine, but I think it's harder to control in practice.
Thank you. Hadn’t heard the name. Apparently it was a central part of Nietzche’s thought and similar to the concept of Eternal Return. Fascinating!

And yes, it’s a bit like the scene in Dune 2 when Paul’s mother, after taking the water of life, tells him he needs to drink it too, that his mind will open so he can see «the beauty and the horror»

Borrowing from signal processing, you could also call this “life aliasing”
"This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data."

This is what I'm getting from Claude.
That's because we also have the same thing: "If your society is structured such that you cannot have a child without the whole family being completely miserable"

Japan is basically where we'll be in 30 years if we are extremely lucky
When Youtube was in the midst of screwing with adblockers any way possible I used the platform basically not at all. I also applaud more apps going around ad avoidances as their primary mode of monetization.
None of the major ai engines are working right now. Fr thought someone logged in to my router and was messing with me with some sort of parental controls type stuff idk.
> As you wrote in your own comment, dollars are imaginary. Maybe they get paid in salary, maybe it's equity. Or benefits in the form of healthcare.

Well, no, I didn't write that, but setting that aside, maybe you can pick whichever one strengthens your argument the most.
It is popular and it is fiction, how can you say Harry Potter will never be that?
I don't think you can reasonably use expect with TUIs, but you can use this with TUIs.
It would also be very annoying at home games. It would take a special group of friends to tolerate or even get a kick out of how optimally you’ve solved a self-imposed problem.

It’s a fun mental exercise and programming problem, but that’s it IMO.
I did say "My steak pipeline:" but yeah, adjust as needed.
I think the benefit of mapping the world by languages (and color-coding it) is largely educational.

The previous version of Language World Map is used by universities and schools alike, largely I believe to outline the impacts colonization had.

I also see some people using the map for its original intended use: To visualize the benefits of learning multiple languages. :)
https://rekhtadictionary.com/meaning-of-ganj-e-shakar
sidenote: be careful when opening a webarchive from a third party, if that improvable opportunity ever materializes:

> In February 2013, a vulnerability with the webarchive format was discovered and reported by Joe Vennix, a Metasploit Project developer. The exploit allows an attacker to send a crafted webarchive to a user containing code to access cookies, local files, and other data. Apple's response to the report was that it will not fix the bug, most likely because it requires action on the users' part in opening the file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webarchive#Vulnerability
The combat reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead,
a touch-typing game that plays the cheesy zombie genre oddly straight.
That's why dating apps should focus on lifestyle and romance as well as matching.

Couples still could use apps to help coordinate their dates, etc. find suggestions of places to go, meet other couples for double dates, find couples events nearby etc...
One person’s hate is another person’s calling out of powerful people. Those in the 80s on campuses who espoused anti-American sentiments said things that were “hurtful” to those on the right. Today, on college campuses, if you say there may be a genetic component to intelligence and that not everyone is capable of learning any given topic you will be silenced. Even just asking this question will garner retribution.

Just about everyone tries to regulate speech. I co-opt a saying from the pro-choice movement: The only moral free speech is speech that I personally don’t mind hearing.
Thank you. You just proved my point that “categorically LC is not largely memorization” by reinforcing that only in specific cases in some specific levels that you do need some specific domain knowledge.
Can you be more specific?

He starts with a premise that if time is a real and fundamental feature, then he concludes the future isn’t predetermined.

So far, it’s not very interesting.
USPS tracking should be using an indexed id (you don't want to allow partial matches/searches here), so I'd expect even very modest hardware to handle 10s of thousands of requests per second. Likewise with things like CRUD forms.

Right now your link shows only ~5700 requests in the last 30 minutes for GSA advantage, or ~3/s. Sex offender registry has ~3500/30m or 2/s. Even USPS tracking is only at ~12k/30m or ~7/s. It's still only 9am on the west coast so maybe they need to handle 100000x traffic for peaks, but I doubt it.
Their efforts keeping up to date with current Linux kernels is better than most boards of that nature. That deserves some open source credit.
Many data engineering problems are impeded by strong typing, particularly type transduction applications (translating between a database type system and a transport such as Avro, for example). While in many cases that is somebody else's problem -- it is solved in a library -- when it isn't the strengths and facility of a dynamic language can save you considerable code complexity and maintenance. Type control is often central to reporting as well, and it is, again, more awkward in a strong typing context. I would tend to argue that insistence upon type frameworks such as pydantic in a data engineering framework is naive and imposed by academic rather than industry experience. There is a reason that python is chosen for data processing applications, and it certainly isn't typing.
Assuming you want "find all users in zipcode 12345" to be a supported query, it does not matter what encryption scheme you use, you will have one of these two problems:

On the one hand, you can require that 12345 always maps to AWERQ, in which case an attacker can use frequency analysis, metadata chaining, etc. to determine with some confidence that AWERQ = 12345. Calling this "pseudo-anonymization" is definitely more accurate than calling it "encryption", but you might as well just use a one-way hash function instead. It doesn't do anything against determined attackers with prolonged or broad exposure to the data; I don't see the value except perhaps for compliance with poorly thought out or outdated regulations.

On the other hand, you can require that 12345 always maps to a different string every time, but that means you need a different key/salt/IV/nonce for every row or cell, defeating indexing and aggregation, and so all queries become full table scans. This significantly frustrates an attacker, but also significantly frustrates legitimate operations.
The platform, or the users?
You’re the one that said “The one that no doctor recommends you to take it unless you are over 60?”

Obviously each of those exceptions means doctors are recommending someone get the shot before 60.

The flue shot is also highly recommended for people at higher risk of getting infected like Teachers. A vaccine is simply less harmful than the flue even for healthy people. So unless the odds of inflection are low it’s considered a good idea.
Trip Report: Local-First Conf Berlin
Judging by the commentary in the thread, it's very likely not the Harry Potter case :D

It sounds like the best analogy to the book are abstract paintings. There are people who can appreciate them, but it is an acquired taste...
Is this installed on one of the telescopes or integrated between both? I read about the LBT once and it seemed some instruments were on one and some were integrated. I assume it's used as a mono and binoc platform, depending.
Where? This is not my experience in the EU. The "whole family" here seems quite hands off and liberal with what their adult kids are doing with their genitals, as in whether they decide to have kids or not and with who they're having them.
> a process running on an OS on running on a computer

Such a process can be deployed/backed up/restored in minutes by anyone with basic sysadmin skills and can scale to serve nontrivial user bases while costing much less than SaaS.

Classic sysadmin is seriously underrated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491587
Hah, have learned about the book while searching for the text that androids repeat during their "evaluation" in Blade Runner 2.
It's happened with both of the G.hn powerline devices I've used; presumably they are all reskinned versions of the silicon vendor's firmware. You can send commands (including changing encryption keys and updating firmware) and sometimes they just go through.
Well done. I was downvoting you until the Non-LLM roasts part. Comment should be ranked in the top.
When people recommend Russian literature I'm always curious what they think about the other great Russian literary works. Because I find unnecessary complexity unbearable. I have no desire to read literature with 100+ named characters, unreliable narrators and Escher-like chronology. For some people narrative complexity is a draw but if I can't put a book down and come back to it two weeks later without having to start from the beginning it's just not for me.
what do you mean?

Meta have made the Instagram web experience terrible so that they can get people to use their app, which many people do because sharing photos with your friends is enjoyable.

it is appalling that they have just completely wrecked it, though, like everything else they - and other big companies that have set expectations of billions of dollars profit a quarter - touch.
All good until the part of you need them working, not interviewing. That’s not true at all. If someone has to enter a team, should be screened by the team lead
Also curious about the potential significance of a proof. The article is vague:

> (primes) are important for securing encrypted transmissions sent over the internet. And importantly, a multitude of mathematical papers take the Riemann hypothesis as a given. If this foundational assumption were proved correct, “many results that are believed to be true will be known to be true,” says mathematician Ken Ono of Emory University in Atlanta. “It’s a kind of mathematical oracle.”

Are there some obvious, known applications where a RH proof would have immediate practical effects? (beyond satisfaction and 'slightly better encryption').
MathWorld on Riemann: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannZetaFunction.html
Is it safe enough to buy a separate router and put the ISP modem on the "internet" side of it?
It's interesting that the view was "you've got 5 years to find yourself a husband". I suspect the entire concept was insanely progressive at the time -- a girl who moves away from her father and lives independently?!
Epoch Times Executive Accused of Laundering $67M
He has a blog which has some more elementary posts and some less. But I’m not sure if that would be sufficiently ‘beginner friendly’ for your needs. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574380
Didn't do it. I refrained from smoking in the building.

Refrenare rather than refringere.
It must feel like meritocracy. Like when ranking, particularly in strict order, is not the norm - so Terrence Tao doesn't see himself "on top" of anything. Moreover it must imply some solid grounding and a good understanding of how someone's actions are not expected to be correlated with their reputation. This is especially the case where getting the results is a personal or strictly team effort, not a popularity contest.

It can be unexpeted for anyone that's operating in the regular business, corporate, VC and general academic landscape where politics rule while meritocracy is a feel good motivator while popularity is the real coin.
Users Report ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini Down
There has to be some options other than sugar pills for the placebo. Niacin that gives a flushing effect. By pill or powder for long or short release respectively. Combine that with something else or a cocktail literally.

Possibly take another drug that gives you a ‘high’ at a dose which has no effect on the condition under test.

Get enough psychedelic and marijuana users at a focus group for a long list of possibly coherent ideas.

I read that they have no way of double blind testing cupping because it is painful and visibly leaves marks on your body.

I would put numbing cream on each participant’s back, put isolation headphones on them, put some pressure on the persons back, and then apply a temporary tattoo with an electronic bandaid that detects if a person removes the bandaid covering the cupping/fake marks.
I also thought about this in a few interviews and it wasn't the case. Often enough, the interviewer won't make this clear so you have to ask.

I've had this situation in a company where the interviewer told me they would like to hear my reasoning, but then I failed, because I didn't do exercise 2 and 3 and wasted all my time talking about tradeoffs etc, when the interviewed seemed interested about it.

Those recruiting processes are garbage, if you take this into account, it will help you to succeed at it, you need to play the game, many times and then you'll make it.

Wish you a good time on that career change, I myself, have given up and instead just accepted that I'll work with webdev for a long time, as recruiters and companies seem to be too concerned with experience to let a developer that worked on a different language or stack to work there and perform well.
I doubt it. From my experience, anytime you try to turn human interaction into a mass market app that can appeal to all users, it inevitably turns to shit over time as it keeps getting gamed by all parties involved till it implodes from the shittyness.

Tinder was also fun and cool in the early years when it was a niche app few people knew about, but it kept getting worse and worse over time: paywalled subscriptions and features, bots, women got a lot more flaky, men got a lot more creepy leading to a feedback loop of enshitification.

It's kind of like the early days of online internet chat versus the internet of today. It was safer, cooler and more fun when only a few geeks were on it, anyone you met online was an experience not a fear, but once all and sundry moved in along with profit motives of big corporations, it became shit with ads, dark patterns, bots, trolls and weirdos everywhere.

The same thing happened to Couchsurfing. It started off as a cool, niche, geeky way to travel and meet people, and over time it turned into a dating app where dudes from Paris/Barcelona/etc are renting their couch to young travelers form North America in exchange for sex. Same with the dozens of meetup apps for "making friends and meeting new people" which inevitably devolve into unofficial dating apps for creeps and weirdos who aren't there for any friendships.

IMHO, it seems that on the mass market for-profit internet where everyone is allowed (and encouraged) to join, we just can't have nice things. To whit, the best online communities I found are now either in public places that are devoted to super niche things which don't attract trolls or big corporations to monetize, or on stuff like private torrent trackers where getting in only happens through personal referral.
My experience is oddly similar. But I do question whether existential anxiety about the existence of a deity at age seven, is more of a symptom of trauma than a cause. In my case I grew up in a dismally religious family, in an alienated place, at a time when the disconnect between my families belief and the implicit beliefs of modernity were in stark contrast. It was fairly inevitable that the contradictions would become absurd. I don't see that revellation as responsible for my dark worldview though. That's likely more mundane toxic family, learned helplessness, chronic health related stuff.
https://archive.ph/1JJQq
It can't do it well now but who knows, maybe that's the gpt5 breakthrough
I think reason is simple "encryption at rest" == "it is going to be encrypted in backup".

People asking about "encryption at rest" are really asking if backups of your web application data are encrypted.

Earlier I think it was quite a plague when just un-encrypted backup files were leaking out because someone exposed them on some open FTP to "quick and dirty" copy backups to new environment or to some test environment - and forgot to close it down or remove the files.

Other threat would be developers exposing database server directly to the internet because someone from marketing wants to connect "new shiny super business intelligence" and developers not knowing better than "allow all" on firewall, then someone might steal raw db files but might not really have access to web application and encryption keys.

For the reasons mentioned by author I can see how it seems like security theater. But I think my reasons are quite valid and on topic.
Yes it does, just purely logically
The fact that Tolkien did care about the realism of his world doesn't mean that it is perfectly realist or perfectly coherent. I don't expect a writer to have a so perfect world building that you can analyse all parts and find it coherent and with real world counterparts
Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450M round
Phind is down too.
> Gnome 2 themes working well (for them) being one of them

For some definition of working well. What I remember was debugging a case where the KDE theme for GTK (that is, to make GTK look like KDE) wanted to fork() and exec(), and that caused bugs if you initialized GTK at a slightly different place in main() than what most programs did. I had to add a special case to QEMU just for that...

Proof: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/a59629fcc6f603...

Even if something "works well" for some people, it does not mean it is not (in retrospect - no offense intended to the original authors) a steaming pile of crap.
It is literary fiction, yes, to put the point more succinctly.
You must hang in the WordPress community.
Can the ISP load firmware onto your modem? I'm on Cox in the US (same ISP as in TFA) and you can bring your own modem, but Cox will remotely update the firmware.
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Of course. This isn't even a suspicion. They are using any publicly accessible dataset especially the piracy hoards.