skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A greater saving trick I've found out recently, with even greater gains than saving on cigs is not buying cigs at all.
"nearly half his village" was concerned that they will not have what to smoke if Geoff would go away :)
I totally don't understand the comments under this comment or this comment, apart from about 8 months when Uber was being sold to SK, uber has worked just fine daily for the past 5+ years for me? Even during the "government crackdown" phase, X stopped working but although the press said uber shut down, uber worked just fine, only X shut down.

I hear this comment time and time and time again and I wonder where it comes from, I'm happy to show literally years and years of uber receipts from South Korea.
And in fact PowerPoint is Turing Complete and you can implement some basic programs in PowerPoint.
A new way to share files globally, esp to China
Zoom became a major business because of Covid and Slack benfited majorly. Neither were powerhouses like Microsoft before then.

Whether a small European startup would have won out locally without Microsofts market position + price advantage idk. But without details I'm not sure the financial decision making of a Fortune 20 matters in this conversation which was part of my point.

Once your sales team is competing on price vs Microsoft it's basically over for young companies. Your value prop has to be much more than that until you're a mature business.
My quick skim of the site did not show a time duration. Can I move 9,999 cigarettes per day? Or is it a lifetime kind of allowance?

Not a smoker, but vaping seems like it would avoid so much hassle. Buy a barrel of the stuff and be set for the rest of your life.
Funnily enough, I’m in the middle of a Newsradio rewatch. First time I’ve watched the show in years and it still holds up.

As Bill (Phil) would say, “good times.”
The main concern many observers (and I) have that is that Elon's insistence on not using LIDAR may mean that it's not possible to reach L4 with the current Tesla hardware stack, in which case TSLA can't even compete.
This problem came up for me when writing a tool to help an author index his work. He wanted to be able to enter reference ranges for a term and then combine, including disjoint ones, into a single entry. (There was also a roman numeral problem irrelevant here).

This has also come up for me in two dimensions when dealing with overlapping rectangles. For some reason the complexity of it surprised me both times. Sadly computing these cases is a straight-forward slog in 1-D; you can however reuse the solution for higher dimensions in a nice way.
Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags
Dorkly is a free open source Feature Flag backend for LaunchDarkly SDKs. It uses simple yaml files stored in GitHub as the source of truth.

Full disclosure: made by a former LaunchDarkly employee + current fan.
The burden of proof is supposed to be the other way around, as presumption of innocence is a thing in Germany (Unschuldsvermutung).

Good luck to the prosecution trying to prove that you did intend to hack other people's accounts when you can point to this blog post where the author demonstrates hacking their own account and reports the vulnerability to get it fixed.

I think people who get convicted of one of the "preparation to commit a crime" crimes mostly:

1. fail to come up with any alternative explanation for their behavior

2. put their plans in writing or told someone about their intentions
Chump numbers. If you are committed with your regular DMT usage you can get there within weeks.
If I'm really that good I have another contract lined up already and I'm out the door. The only way you're getting me back is with a fulltime offer after my next contract ends. Or you're buying me out.

Might as well skip the games.

I've been on both sides of it too and I would never hire that way looking for good, experienced people. My experience with people successful at work is that they're successful in other endeavors too such as their private life. Experience also tells me that most peoples' life partners are extremely intolerant of career uncertainty, unless as a couple they are both very young.
I don't think you understand what "loaded question" means.
Space Bricks: How Lego Bricks Are Helping Scientists Build on the Moon
plenty of popular instruments are continuous, e.g. synth, theramin, violin, and plenty of singing styles value glissando: eg some chinese folk music
How is the Teams we are talking about here integrated into Windows?

Teams is integrated into M365 and taking Outlook as an example you can register another calling/status app just like others do so your online status and calling functionality is not Teams (used to be Skype).
>There is an easy technical solution to this, just stream ads in the video feeds just like TV does.

You mean bake the ads into the stream? I don't think that's so easy to do in realtime. Even TV decades ago never did this AFAIK: they played the programming from one source, and then switched over to the commercial from another source (probably videotape) at the correct time.

Anyway, if you're talking about permanently encoding the ad into the video, that really doesn't make sense. The ad probably won't be relevant to many of the viewers. YouTube is global, so if someone from France watches a cat video uploaded by an American and it has ads in English for Applebees restaurant, 1) they probably won't even understand it unless they happen to speak English and 2) there's no Applebees in France. The same thing applies if it's an ad for a restaurant that only exists in, say, California: viewers in New York aren't going to care, and the restaurant doesn't want to pay to advertise to viewers outside their area. Even worse, ads normally run for limited times, so YouTube would have to constantly re-encode videos to change the embedded ads.
Scattered years, a year contract here and there. The toxic culture event was 2023 and EA was 2022. The fist fight was 2006 or so.

But interesting that you throw shade at Ruby with no explanation. Feel free to expand at length. I would like to hear your objections.
My automated long term investing bot is a standing order to transfer money each month from my cash account to a whole market index tracker. Happy to compare my returns to yours after a decade or few.
Meanwhile, Ola Bini has been jailed for a year in Ecuador? I remember him for his work on jruby.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/08/activist-ola-bini-sen...
How do we know how good our search results are? [video]
Humanity's satellite habit could end up choking Earth's ozone layer
> 200 plants is ridiculous for personal use. Even 20 is ridiculous.

Out of curiosity, why? (Not a big weed guy.)
The term "Conspiracy Theory" itself needs more scrutiny, IMO.

The range of arguments which may be called "conspiracy theories"
is far and wide. And the truth about many theories
only becomes clear after a lot of time.

What the author might have discovered instead is the tendency
of lonely people to seek new belief systems starkly
in contrast to the group they feel alienated from.
In TXR Lisp you can do:

1> (let ((s (copy "dog: bit person?")))
(rotate [s 0..3] [s 5..8] [s 9..15])
s)
"bit: person dog?"
Defo. I had always had a good implicit knowledge of grammar in my L1, due to early and extensive reading, so synthesising "correct" utterances was never an issue. However, it wasn't until I started learning an L2, and had to explicitly revisit even simple structures, that the light went on and from then on I was able to easily analyse my L1 as well.
I think some clients (like the server) must be able to sync with very old schemas because the user might have forgotten their phone in a drawer for two years. Each client just migrates itself asap.
One benefit to defining the codomain of a random variable as a (real) number because it makes defining the expectation of a random variable easier to understand. (Of course, it is possible to define the expectation more abstractly, but people who study probability often have not taken an abstract/linear algebra course.)
Discussion (181 points, 13 days ago, 116 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667786
In my case, because it crashes incessantly and its apps are all web applications bundled for a platform. None of them perform well.

It is somehow worse than mIRC and I used that 30 years ago.
I believe stuff like that is "at a time"
Show HN: Undupes, Find Duplicate Files
I am trying to see how I can go about finding duplicate files by leveraging what I understand of the Unix philosophy. j/f-dupes seem like great tools but I think I can reduce the amount of code needed for doing similar tasks by leveraging the philosophy of Unix. I have more ideas that can further simplify the software, but this seemed like something I could share. Feedback welcome! Cheers!
That is some happy and loyal customers if they are willing to commit perjury for you. This is kind of loyalty you should go for in business.
Would reselling duty-free fags even be legal? Because it sure doesn't feel legal.
I for one am absolutely against features not existing for customers who want it just because the Apple deigns that they shouldn’t have it. I don't want Apple to take away my agency to make my own choices.

Good thing governments are on the side of the consumer at least, right?
It's not the case very often these days but it used to be quite simple to blow up your script globbing in a directory with a lot of files and you can still hit the limit if you pass a glob to some command because it can blow up trying to execve() Here's more details of the issue and some workarounds https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120642/what-defines...
> However, hobby apps will not be able to afford designers or support or long-lived servers.

It's not like many professional services manage the long-lived part, either, is it?

I have much more confidence in my WebDAV server still being around in a decade than pretty much any cloud-based service.
> Why can't "black people" mean black people?

Because there is no common definition for blackness.

We code a lot into “black” in American English. Those frameworks don’t map to other cultures. A Black American, black Brazilian, Lagos native, Tigrayan, Darfurian and South Indian may have identical skin tones; that doesn’t make their cultures comparable or imply they’d each identify as black.
It also seems like a process that should scale horizontally pretty predicably.
That framing is a bit of a stretch given the widespread tendency of the religious to anthropomorphize God in terms like having human-grokkable preferences and communicating them to us.

I'd say that argument has itself preemptively "retreat[ed] onto ever-shrinking intellectual turf. Defining God as something akin to the entire existence of the universe is something that essentially cannot be proved or disproved. Stick to that definition strictly, and yes there is nothing that an atheist can take logical issue with. But that strict definition also yields no conclusions/advice/insight either, so it's not very interesting. Hence seemingly no one ever being able to adopt such a definition and actually stick to it.
Lol. If you weren't just repeating bullshit, why isn't information about the Assange series being funded by RT reflected on these sites? You have given me a line in an article that came out before the series aired, got upset and now... you have decided to list your "credentials"...

Ahem... hrm...

Edit: Haha is that you editing the Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Tomorrow&di...
>Why? How? Wuh?

Uh oh, someone's trying to think! You know why. We all know why. But stating it out loud makes you a bad man.

Better to just nod along and pretend it's all OK, especially at work, especially if you're not posting anonymously. And remember to be extra furious at Russia in your comments when someone reminds us that Russia spent 100k in "both sides" Facebook ads in 2015 (an act of foreign interference so ignominous, MSM ink will never stop spilling ink about it). It's what's expected of all of us.
I don't see how rounded corners and edges prevent that? It is still going to be mostly rectangular, just not "sharp".
Ola Bini: Again more violations. But I can finally appeal
I would not bet on bureaucracy speeding up anytime anywhere soon.
The problem with expecting a "unique tag into the back end" is that these systems have to work offline.

The QR codes are significantly slower to read than NFC.

I've built both NFC and QR (and ye olde fashioned magnetic stripe) ticketing systems.
tinycc is such a boringcc compiler
I’m waiting for Super Teams 2 turbo :)
For one, if you wanted to make $20k per month, you'd need at least $200k invested. Oh wait, we're talking long term, not trading. In that case, you'll make about $20k per year. So you'd want $240k per year to pay that kind of salary, meaning you need around $2.4m in the bank.

It's a lot easier to raise that money by selling the tool than it would by trading the stocks.

It also doesn't hurt to share knowledge. Very often you can compare your notes to another.

In fact, if you had an algorithm that picked winning stocks, just add a little delay to everyone else's bots. Your bot buys it first, then some whale buys it and pumps your stock.
> The meaning behind the woc.space logo is actually a photo of the founder's child, Oscar, processed into a pixel art style using AI tools. We believe a product, like a child, grows over time. Therefore, the founder plans to update the logo annually when photographing his son, symbolizing woc.space growing a year older along with its logo. [1]

What a heartwarming detail. Thanks for making me smile today.

[1]: https://woc.space/assets/i18n.a031bdb4.js
VW to invest up to $5B in Tesla rival Rivian
Dario Amodei on interpretability and Claude [video]
> Secrets have to be somewhere. Environment variables are not a good place for them, but if you can't trust your filesystem to be secure, you're already screwed. There's no where else to go. The only remaining place is memory, and it's the same story.

There’s a whole class of security vulnerabilities that let you read from arbitrary files on the filesystem. So if you end up having of those vulnerabilities, and your secret is in a file, then the vulnerability lets the attacker read the secret. And on Linux, if you have such a vulnerability, you can use it to read /proc/PID/environ and get the environment variables, hence getting secrets in environment variables too.

However, the same isn’t necessarily true for memory. /proc/PID/mem isn’t an ordinary file, and naive approaches to reading it fail. You normally read a file starting at position 0; reading /proc/PID/mem requires first seeking to a mapped address (which you can get from /proc/PID/maps); if you just open the file and start reading it from the start, you’ll be trying to read the unmapped zero page, and you’ll get an IO error. Many (I suspect the majority) of arbitrary-file read vulnerabilities only let you read from the start of the file and won’t let you seek past the initial unreadable portion, so they won’t let you read /proc/PID/mem.

Additionally, there are hardening features to lock down access to /proc/PID/mem, such as kernel.yama.ptrace_scope, or prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE)-that kind of hardening can interfere with debugging, but one option is to leave it on most of the time and only temporarily disable it when you have an issue to diagnose

Also, memfd_secret supports allocating extra-special memory for secret storage, which the kernel can’t read, so it shouldn’t be accessible via /proc/PID/mem
They really need to get their shit together. Even for a few years after the Instagram acquisition and having an established office in NY, they tended to be pretty wishy-washy even with new hires on whether they could work from NY or would be forced to relocate to the west coast and it would take going through their full orientation in CA before you found out.

Now that they have a big office in Moynihan and SWE teams that do operations work they're a little more consistent about being able to work out of the location that you expect, but they still can't seem to always figure this out for sure _before_ you accept their offer.
Show HN: Summarize Dwarkesh Patel podcasts with Claude 3.5
Love it, I actually saw that sometimes its cheaper to fly from Europe return to NYC take the bus to Delaware and buy a new Iphone or MacBook than buying it in europe. Could be a nice extension
But ISO does not explicitly say anything like "it is ok to aggressively rewrite programs...". ISO C says, "xy is defined and z is not defined in the standard and then an implementation is free to do whatever this wants". Note this is generally how standards works. You put them blame on ISO to give implementers the freedom, but not on the implementors to exploit this aggressively. Why do programmers still rush to the compilers that exploit this the most instead of choosing other ones? Why do they not complain more? Unfortunately, the effect of blaming ISO has exactly the opposite of what you may want to achieve. It deflects the criticism from the ones who do the decisions to ISO who can only harmonize behavior but does not really have the power to force implementors to do anything, as the realloc story shows. Even worse, this criticism weakens ISO even more, so we will become even less likely that we will be able to fix things using the limited de-facto power a standard has.
On rail systems with gates, these disposable "ultralite" RFID tickets are usually put through the old slot that used to take magentic tickets.

Exit gates usually capture the ticket on exit when it has been used up (ie single journeys, or after the number of trips encoded on the ticket).

These can (and are) recycled numerous times.
> Is that some kind of standard notation?

Yes, it's just algebra.
> Experience also tells me that most peoples' life partners are extremely intolerant of career uncertainty, unless as a couple they are both very young.

I can only laugh at this statement.
Engineers Discovered the Secret to Making 17x Stronger Cement
“ The US fought the japanese in ww2 mainly to protect european colonial interests.”

Pearl Harbor was the main reason. And perhaps the Philippines (a US territory at the time). But the US gave up most of its overseas empire after the war, so it’s hard to argue they fought the war to keep their colonies
Those QR codes are validated online.

Transit has to work offline.
Same in the UK if you don't declare and pay taxes. Source: Cigarette smugglers were caught on every episode of "Customs UK".
Discussion (60 points, 9 hours ago, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40793174
Seriously great use of monochrome bitmap graphics. These are my favorite old computer games.

I really like frame locked, often using sprite system, type games. Atari VCS comes to mind, as do many other systems that have sprites and some means to sync with the display.

But the feel of those is crisp, sharp edged, fast, sometimes too perfect if you can maybe guess what I mean.

Bitmap games are different! The drawing, masking, and every other thing happens on the CPU. It feels a bit wild, and the feel varies. Number of enemies, missiles, etc... do often change the speed a little. And that's nice, kind of wild! The game feels alive in a way. Not living but not stale either.

The author packed a lot of shooter into a 256 x (whatever) screen. And the art is really good! Takes a bit of talent to make multiple baddies stand out amidst quite a bit of background detail.

And the sounds! Little bits of this and that packed into the game loops. That's a feel I like too. Often sounds are just a click or beep. But sometimes there is a little more, and this game does that.

Great work. Just my kind of game.
That is what happens, however it exposes the transit company to a risk that many of them aren't willing to accept.
You don't even need to roll your own solution with memfd. Linux already has keyrings[1] as a kernel concept.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/keyrings.7.html
There was a world before the dot com explosion when tinkering with computers was odd, a passion that gripped few, and was looked upon as extremely odd by most. This museum was the closest thing to being able to travel back to that era. You could plop yourself down at a Xerox Alto and hack away to your heart's content. Being able to share this experience with my son is something I will always remember about this museum.

A sad day for computing, and a sad day for Seattle.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ffhD_dNzoM0

Any driver that makes this kind of move is typically in the top 5%ile of driving skills. Yes, it's an asshole and slightly illegal move, but the level of intelligence that needs to be applied for this move is all you need to know about Tesla's advantages.

I have been extremely critical of Musk's reliance on only cameras, but I'm impressed with the progress they have made because of the new architecture in 12.x series. Considering it'll be trained with 100x more compute, I'm willing to bet that Tesla will overtake Waymo's capabilities.

Yes, it's a speculation and you can disagree, but unless proven you can't tell it's wrong
And when it comes to non-technical roles, that "many" turns into "almost all".
First Ever Brand Film Created with OpenAI's Sora [video]
You mean immortal life in digital heaven will not come true in 5 years?
Finally he will able to properly process the results of the built up trauma, poor guy.

I for one am happy to see the global support for him expressed. It’s sad that those who stand up for the rights of others have to suffer so much.
Tough and Ductile Architected Nacre-Like Cementitious Composites
The many faces of undefined in JavaScript
If we don't get on top of climate change very soon there will be no singularity, that's for sure.
Presumably billg is reading this thread already.
Talking Moose, Kaleidoscope, Kilroy. So much fun and made your OS so unstable.

First rule of troubleshooting was always “turn off all extensions.” :)
Just saw this on Reddit. Self-medicating with cocaine and meth seems to have played a roll in his early departure.

The tragedy of addiction is that there are interventions that work rather well. But in modern America, self-medication is treated as a moral failing that must be punished.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1do3nwy/shifty_shell...
You can get over 16 oz of dried flower per plant if you grow outdoors in ideal conditions. Even with a super low final yield of only 1 oz per plant (this would be a beginner’s yield growing indoors, not someone with 200 plants), that would still be 200 oz of dried flower. 1 oz is like a year supply for an average person. I could see a heavy user getting through an ounce a month maybe? So this is still 10x what anyone would ever need, and that’s if you were a very inexperienced grower.
Typically I want to know about duplicate files in order to save space, but I don't necessarily want to delete a duplicate file entirely in case there's something referencing it over the other file it's a duplicate of. Seems like it would be more useful if it could turn duplicates into hardlinks/softlinks/snapshots instead of deleting them, so I could get all the space savings without having to worry about things breaking. As-is, it's only really good for organizational/clutter reasons on data that isn't referenced, rather than general purpose space-savings.
Let the robotaxi wars begin!
The Living Computers Museum Isn't