skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the blog post and all I could feel was that if someone did the equivalent of running `chmod -R a+rwX ~` and then running an unauthenticated ssh server. Then yeah, they might have some security problems seen in that post. Their computer is probably already FUBAR from doing this as a habit though so...
IBM Zurich did some work on etching microchannels into dies for water cooling.
> Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act it is illegal for HP to renege on their warranty unless the reason for warranty work is demonstrably due to the consumer's changes.

Aside from what would be morally right to do I doubt HP is legally compelled to repair it.

I'm guessing that since this was handled under "extended warranty" the rules of your "minimum legal warranty" don't apply since those have already expired. So the rules of the agreement of the "extended warranty" apply. Which as far as I know is basically just a sort of insurance product with it's own agreement. Guess it's a pretty safe bet the terms contain a clause about not allowing modifications to the product in any form.
What kind of dev-specific use case would this help with?
Sure, but sharks use them as a sense. We all pick up photons in the sense that we can all feel the warmth of the sun on our skin, but also, it is sometimes interesting to think about how people who aren’t blind perceive light.
Washington Post CEO tried to kill story about himself. It wasn't the first time
Metaphysically and morally, yeah.

Getting the job done for things like photoshop replacements, no.
You literally cite the Wikipedia article which describes (with citation) the fact that that was his job in Vienna under the Third Reich.
In some countries, the loser pays for both lawyers (and there are rules about how much money that can be).
'Cyber terrorist' who reported fake 911 calls across US sentenced to prison [video]
For people lacking some background, South Korea used to have coordinated mass labour strikes across the country in the 90s[1][2] and early 00s[3], some of which turned violent. This type of 'polite' (possibly 'passive aggressive') protest is a signal that will be taken much more seriously by South Koreans across the board.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%931997_strikes_in_S...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-02-mn-152-st...

[3] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/11/kore-n19.html
HP is falling behind the state of the art, though. I hear Samsung would have just stolen the thing.
It took me a seriously long amount of time to realize this wasn't software for MANAGING AN ACTUAL BAR/PUB.

Must be frustrating as a Mac user to be locked into paying lots of money to have a desktop OS that works how you want
Autism is a sensory processing disorder in which symptoms are triggered by your brain receiving too much stimulus.

That’s why autistic people like to do repetitive behaviors (it’s easy to predict the outcome), don’t like change, and so on. It’s why autistic people tend to be highly sensitive to certain senses (loud noises, bright lights, touch). And it’s why they struggle in social situations-there is too much complexity to process it and decide what to do.

The research about too large brain size and too many connections seems consistent with this, being a physical explanation for these effects.
Every time I read corpo-speak like the voice in my head is Joe Isuzu.
I was skeptical but this is pretty slick -- its ability to recurse through connections really puts it in another class.
Microsoft has plenty of similar stories, perhaps most famously the story of how Xbox was developed.

I was lucky to be at MSFT during what might have been the last gasps of when a single person could have a huge impact, and it was something I saw from time to time, but it by the 00s and surely the 2010s, it was in huge decline vs the stories that were told about the 1990s.

Edit: Someone posted below about how Windows 3.0 was also a misfit project.

There is also F#, which has had a huge impact on C#.

The entire async framework in .NET was originally developed by a small team headed up by one brilliant engineer.

Silverlight started as a project by a small team in Microsoft Research to see if they could shrink .NET's runtime down to be small enough to complete with Flash.
I am supportive of the idea of trans bathroom rights, but there are many details to work out. Where are the lines? Does a person need to have full surgery? Do they need to have a gender presentation of the gendered bathroom they wish to use? Can any gender use any bathroom?

There is a lot of bigotry involved, but I don't think you can point to lack of laws solely as a bigotry problem. There are a lot of lines to define and details to iron out.
I said that they couldn't have another way to synthesise vitamin D than sunlight, it can only be synthesised by sunlight. So for the Inuit, vitamin D mostly comes from diet.

The claim I was responding to was "they [unlike other humans] don't need sun to produce vitamin D". They do, they just don't rely much on this source because it doesn't work in their environment.
Yes, but is there any guarantee that the complete sentence makes sense?
Writing memory safe JIT compilers
You’re referring to some usage of the word “problematic” and you’re making an assumption that we have enough shared context that I can understand what you’re talking about—but honestly, no, no, I do not understand what you’re talking about.

I think you are just complaining about some specific usage of the word, and there are a lot of words which happen to be used poorly—like “dopamine” which people use to talk about the feeling of scrolling through social media. This isn’t a complaint about the word “dopamine” but a complaint against its misuse!

> And the issue is that it's kind of a cowardly word.

I think, at the core, complaints against the word “problematic” can be boiled down to emotional sentiments like this.

> Thus, they often should say more precisely what they are implying; often e.g. this person is racist, or a pedophile, or homophobic, etc.

Usage of the word “problematic” to describe people is somewhat minor, I think. I definitely didn’t think of this usage. I see the word “problematic” used to describe practices, processes, ideas, situations, etc.

Sometimes, a problem is complicated and multifaceted. You can’t boil it down to a single thing like “pedophilia”. The word “problematic” is there to say “there are problems with this, but those problems are many and don’t boil down to some simple, other word.”

We need both broad and specific words. The correct, specific word does not always exist.
free instruction sets: this "langauge" should be spoken by all! a public ISA

private instruction sets: this is a private matter, restricted to a need-to-know basis. private ISA

the main difference is the private one can sneak in magic backdoor instructions, lost in the vastness of a 2^bit_depth space

which is better for a languge? to be spoken used and known by many? or to be unkown and obscure? the funky business is that ISAs pictured as "languages" are spoken by microcontrollers; which scrambles the private/public issue
HPE stuff is fine imo, networking stuff is decent and the servers still have some quirks from the HP days but other than that are great.
DJI Seems to Believe That It Is Possible Its Drones Will Be Banned
I'm fairly certain diffusion refers to the overall architecture, not the emergent self-organization process.
"Commit less atrocities" in this case is just code for permitting others to commit whatever atrocities they want. American "atrocities" against Japan pale I comparison to what the Japanese were inflicting on the rest of Asia.
You seem to have missed the point of the research, which is all about underwater sound propagation.
Yes, but the issue with opinionated setups is that you don't get a "why". That's all in someone's brain, but if you don't know what you're looking at, you have no idea whether this is a good feature
i managed to get https://rin.dev very easy to remember
Apple TV Go: How a USB-C Mod Spiraled into an iPad-Based TvOS Workstation
That is not the point though. I know threading allows using a custom convention and just jumping. What it doesn't, IIUC, is allow specializing your code for runtime data. Copy-and-patch and Jitter do. It's essentially static vs dynamic.
I'm new to this so I may very well be misunderstanding threading, but I don't think it allows for modifying the functions on runtime by itself.
The thread on 4chan:

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/100843783

Magnet link:

https://files.catbox.moe/jsowk8.txt

(Archived: https://archive.is/N3M8F)

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It looks like most peers are at 86%, so should have confirmation pretty soon.
One of the great pleasures in life is watching Chaos from the side with no stake
No human on this planet has gone to that much trouble to repair an Envy before. Bravo!

I think we've all been frustrated by HP/Dell/Others support. This guy took it to the next level to prove it's not the freaking ram.

Nicely done.
Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

Although my coworkers and I have yet to figure out how to use LLMs in a way that actually increases productivity. I also don't see them representing any sort of "looming threat" to devs, so right now, my personal answer is "neither".
Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
Not being able to solve a problem "in general" does not mean that it can't solve specific and useful instances of the problem. There are lots of SAT solvers that can't solve SAT problems in general (in any reasonable amount of time), but nevertheless can solve many useful categories of SAT problems.
That guarantee didn't exist with regular GPT LLMs, did it? It just came about as an emergent property of throwing more and more compute, training data, and training time at the problem
You are correct about the downplaying. I do not see how this adds any appreciable danger in terms of data stored, that isn't already extremely accessible in a place on the computer with the same permissions that exist for Recall.

In turn, I do not see people complaining about Firefox storing all your browsing history in plain text, your chat history in cache files, so on and so forth.
People at Microsoft Research certainly do. But the bet is that, with scale, these limitations won't matter in practice. For example Transformers can't recognize well-nested brackets (like {[()]}) to infinite depth; the depth that Transformers can recognize is limited by how many self-attention layers they have. But in practice, you rarely need much depth.
Can you please share how you know this information and if you know more on the topic or could point to a good source to learn more? Thanks
xAI alleges (with a ton of citations),

"In short, Starship is on track to sway the balance of nuclear war and finally allow the U.S.A. to construct an effective space-based missile defense system."
I think you are generally correct- but just because someone disagrees with you, or hasn't seen the same information you've seen, doesn't mean it is intellectual dishonesty.

There are good reasons why this seems to be true even if it isn't... you take a hyperactive person with ADHD, because they have poor executive control of motor function, and give them a therapeutic dose of a stimulant, suddenly they can control motor function. It appears on the surface to be almost exactly the opposite of giving someone a high stimulant dose. They appear to be opposite responses, but in fact are the same type of response... it's just that the ADHD person is regaining a level of executive control that the non-ADHD person already had anyways.
It's true that an individual isn't going to invent A* on the spot. They learn how to use it.

An individual isn't going to invent a VCS either. They learn how to use it.

I'm not seeing the difference here. If somebody needs to use A* search, it's entirely plausible they just pick it up in a couple days on their own without spending 4 years studying a CS degree.

In a sense most knowledge these days are just a youtube video away.

To be fair the world has changed so much in the past ~30 years that I think in general universities should be thinking long and hard what their position in society ought to be going forward. They can't gatekeep knowledge any more, and word has gone out that degrees don't imply employability. Lots of people believe universities are required to learn theoretical knowledge, but I don't see what's special about those over trade skills (other than universities' traditional gatekeeping roles).

I'm pretty sure college degrees did open up a lot of doors in the past than today though. A simple matter of supply and demand I guess.
Fascinating tidbit:

> A helicopter will not come when it’s above 120 degrees outside.

Heat directly affects flight. Hot air is less dense and provides less lift. It's kinda obvious in retrospect, but I had no clue!

https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/in-some-nati...
0 km, its twice the best tow rating of a model X and you'd likely lose your warranty if you tried to tow something that heavy.
You have taken the first step towards understanding Tom7.
Then you ask another LLM to explain it to you lol, like - I don’t think people are thinking hard enough about what this future is likely to look like.
Technically awesome, but policy-wise, sic Tech Jesus from Gamers Nexus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY) and/or Louis Rossmann on HP!
YouTube videos are not very difficult to edit. If you search YouTube for “noisy windmills,” I’m sure you’ll get… something.

Anyway windmills are all over the place, lots of people have had the experience of being near them. If they make too much noise, that’s a problem of course, but I think lots of people can verify the existence of non-noisy ones by virtue of having seen them in person. So, sure, loud designs should be avoided since there are perfectly good alternatives.
How can a news outlet even have 270GB of source code to begin with? That’s like 2’000 times the entire Linux kernel…
I'd make a distinction there.
The question was about OSes with hardened runtime protections. The most basic of them all is W^X. All BSDs use it, and IIRC Linux is able to enforce it as well. I'd be surprised if it isn't the default in most distros, but I guess it's not impossible. I need to go for lunch so I won't check right now.
When I look at the weather app, I don't need to know what the weather is now but what the weather will most likely be later when I'm outside.
> Particularly since "Place Hold" is another way of saying "Authorize Payment".

As the article explains, it's not, at least from the merchant's side (from the customer's side it is). A CC hold tells the bank "hey guys, make sure that there will be at least X dollars available when we call in the hold", and the bank can either respond with "yes, hold confirmed" or "nope, declined" (say, due to a lack of funds, wrong CVV, whatever). When the hold is confirmed, and the customer makes another transaction at another vendor that would cause the amount of open holds + executed but not paid-off transactions to go above your limit, that transaction gets blocked.

And eventually, only once you as the merchant call in the hold, you will actually initiate the flow of money. Or you call in less than the held amount, and you'll only get that amount of money (usually seen in hotels and car rentals, where the hold can be significantly larger than the bill, to account for stuff like minibar expenses, room cleaning or damages to the vehicle). Or you release the hold, or it expires, and you get no money at all, and all you can do is try to create a new transaction and hope it gets approved.
Discussion [0] (58 comments, 23 hours ago, 25 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600052
Would it be hard to try this on the Azimuthal Equidistant projection?
Console-based analysis over SSH is much easier when your console tools can just output charts etc directly to the terminal. Also image processing scripts are easier to write when you can directly view the images created at each stage of the process.
I agree the vast majority of people aren't going to invent A* on the spot. But I don't understand your emphasis on "formal" education. I'm pretty sure a sufficiently smart high school kid interested in the subject could learn all these topics online in a couple months without enrolling in any college.
And? And it's pretty easy to surmise from the comments.
if you could make static analysis fast enough, GitHub could it make it so that the git push itself is refused, so no one ever sees it.

Of course, an escape hatch (like adding some "I know what I am doing" tag to the commit) would be necessary but that's trivial to setup.
I got a HP Spectre x360 around 2018 and it was the worst laptop I ever owned. Ever since that experience I steer clear of HP stuff.
That's true. But it's still a stretch to say they are the same thing. That's why I said it can be seen as generalizing the approach.
Hi HN, this is a project I created initially for code gen from Yaml DSLs, but after hacking imports into Yaml... I went soul searching and discovered CUE. Since then I've become a big fan of the language and have been experimenting with various ways to use CUE, many of which have landed in hof.

https://docs.hofstadter.io

My favorite feature from this release is the TUI for CUE. You can explore CUE, Yaml, and JSON from files, apis, or shell commands... build workflows on them, and chain them together to create ETL like pipelines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBqBWO4y08
This is the biggest nasty secret about cloud (and SaaS for things you don't build in-house).

When my last company transitioned to cloud, all of the on-prem folks had to additionally take on that responsibility. We then had to hire a bunch of new folks to ease the transition and manage the cloud pieces. And then there are new teams spun up for permissions and security. Your headcount requirements are not going to go down because of cloud.

As for those that like to call DIY systems "weirdware": homegrown systems are expensive to engineer, but cheap to run. We 10x'd our cost going to 3rd party visibility and feature flagging versus the thinly staffed [1] homegrown systems. And those 3rd party systems also required a ton of engineering to support, the migrations weren't clean, and they missed a lot of key features that we had to upstream to the third parties!

When SignalFx got bought out by Splunk, I've never seen an annual plan get re-wired so hastily. Top priority was moving to a new vendor, and that impacted every single team in the company.

The only real tangible benefit to cloud that I've seen is that a team can instantly provision hardware, database, etc. resources without much planning. That's it. And is that worth it? (I don't really think so.)

[1] Once built, half an engineering headcount per quarter to accommodate new features. Oncall rotation for one team that owned the systems. Our stuff was high resiliency and barely paged at all. No SEV1 or worse outages ever.
It's not surprising that left wing "journalists" are going out with a bang after being fired. They weaponize media to their advantage wherever allowed. If the CEO is to be believed at all, this is a completely false claim.

Not surprising. All the left does is lie about people.

Edit: Of course this is flagged. The left instinctively does this when they have no counter-argument
Mintty is an excellent windows terminal with sixel support fyi.
Lol, 100%, it's overeducated for "dumb"
This reminded me of a so called "micro-vibration ventilator" https://www.pcworld.com/article/1388332/new-airjet-chips-can...
But both are untouchable.
Relevant: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA067209.pdf
Yacht in this context typically refers to a rather small sailing boat. It affects small-scale fishers and things like that, not the large motor yachts rich people have.
That doesn't seem to work in the USA?

I don't think any of this matters in the end FWIW, starting to sound eerily similar to the chain posts my uncle shares on FB telling them they don't have permission to use his photos....
Yipee!

Thats me sorted for the weekend.

Down the pub and get paralytic celebrating a new community.

Second thoughts. I was a little rash there.

I get so excited I sometimes forget myself.

I dont have and never will have any meta accounts so it is meaningless.

Dont worry, I will go fishing instead
IF I said something truthful but unflattering about one of my CEO's, publicly (slack, personal blog post, linked in) I would expect to get fired.

They weren't asked to say something nice, or make something up. This wasn't an advertiser.

Leak the story somewhere else and keep your dam job.
Let's first build a self-sustaining mega-city in the Sahara desert, or in the Antarctic, and then we can use what we learn doing this to start thinking about a colony on Mars. Building new self-sustaining mega-cities on Earth has obvious direct advantages, and it is a reasonable first step and case study for doing so on another planet.
There is no API key. The URLs are not public, not guessable, and traffic runs over HTTPS. Any attempt at accessing a wrongly guessed URL bans the IP address. I have no intention to rewrite this stuff.

You need to have the app to get to know the URLs.
A large part of the “value” a DJ brings is track selection; for sure. Playlists can do part of that, say to create a certain mood. But DJs get to adjust these on the fly as they observe the crowd reaction. Additionally, DJs rarely play full songs. Transitions can be drawn out over 16,32,64 bars, taking 1-2minutes. During that time DJs use tools like EQs or stem splitters to ensure the two tracks playing don’t clash.
There’s lots more detail; just take my strongest recommendation to try DJing on hardware with a friend at some point; it’s a richer and more rewarding experience than the “Skrillex pressing play on his MacBook” meme suggests.

Edit: there’s lots more to say about DJing of course, maybe someone else will chime in. One aspect to keep in mind is that DJing is important primarily in dance music. If you don’t go dancing at clubs you may not be aware how different dance music is to traditional music meant for listening. A lot of the focus of dance music is generating tension (“build”) and releasing it in a pleasant manner (“drop”). Doing that at a pace that works for the energy level of the crowd at that moment, without unexpected shifts in energy levels, is not trivial. It requires taste and experience, and aims to create a more cohesive and unified experience for the dancers than a playlist could.

Phew! Can you tell I recently got into DJing? ;-)
Images/Video maybe?

Though I would not want to use that git repo!
You would never do that, I wouldn't either, but in machine-to-machine API interactions, this tends to crop up - i.e. a SW stack where this implies "an array of `a` values and a scalar `b` value" sends the data to a SW stack where "last `a` wins, last `b` wins", and strange bugs ensue, as both sides insist they're doing The Right Thing :)
I want to echo this sentiment. It was a really well written article with a fascinating and practical operations improvement playbook
yeah I totally turned all of those off...way too noisy :)
Related context:

HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601711
I asked it to generate the weather for "The Purple Forest" (Narnia) and this is what it came up with:

https://i.imgur.com/kmKiqbO.jpg

You can zoom in on the purples. I would say it looks like a wine purple IRL.
Not necessarily. It's well known that strategies only work under certain conditions (scale, market dynamics, etc). And there's a lot of noise these days, so even if you're right it's very hard for people to catch on. I find it similar to other business advice.
You know what really ruffles my feathers? When aerospace constantly steals names from the far more interesting field of ornithology.
Discussions [0](230 points, 2 days ago, 92 comments) [1](499 points, 5 hours ago, 289 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591860

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607442