skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I wasn't going to watch a video to find out how the LLM actually affects any output.
Santander Employee Data Breach Linked to Snowflake Attack
Raise their salaries?
>deep yearning among all peoples for peace.

>the glamour of war is gone

>Peace is indeed in sight if we are wise.

Times have changed. The horrors of war are forgotten or far away.

War is entertainment and many people have their favorite team.

Why should you be wise when warmongering serves your career?

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Did not know: William James was a member of the American Anti-Imperialist League

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Imperialist_Leag...
My thoughts on Vim, terminals, and GUI editors (2022)
> meanwhile, a lot of tooling nowadays is written in Go, and I have no idea why

No-dependencies final static binary.

> it's not friendly for os manipulation at all

If you say so. I'd love to hear how did you get to that conclusion.

> and number crunching power is not needed in many, many tasks of that sort.

You are aiming very wrongly, it's about startup time. I got sick of Python's 300+ ms startup time. Golang and Rust programs don't have that problem.
It turns out that some small amount of nano silver is perfectly manageable by the body, although I make no claim for the lungs. People even apply or drink it as an antimicrobial medicine without issue. It's when they take too much silver over time that it becomes an issue.
You keep saying medical records are not a website. But if you make it that way then they are.
For VOD can I just open connection and send single message and then stream will continue forever? And HTTP is message oriented protocol. I can't just send infinite length HTTP message. Which would be processed as it arrives or can I? Meaning can I upload something not that small like terabyte of video data over HTTP?
But besides the buildings, walls and the roads, "what did the Romans ever do for US?"
I agree. Ruby is a _fantastic_ language for getting things done quickly whose credibility was unfairly maligned by Rails.

Unbelievably easy to read, and, with rspec, it is stupid easy to write tests for. No need to fuss with interfaces like you do with Golang; yes, that is the right thing to do, but when you need to ship _now_, it becomes a pain and generates serious boilerplate quickly.

I've switched to Golang for most things these days, as it is a much safer language overall, but when shell scripts get too hard, Ruby's a great language to turn to.
Minor note, I'm not an expert in this field but I believe SPHINCS+ uses smaller key sizes than RSA, but is notable for producing much larger signatures than RSA or ECDSA.
"unprovability" is not a property that it is necessary to prove to pick something as an axiom.

There is generally a project to reduce axioms to the simplest and weakest forms required to make a proof. This is does result in axioms that are unprovable but does not mean the "unprovable" is a necessary property of axioms.
I read it as wages, which makes total sense. A well-off person in one country could earn less than a poor person in another.
Correct link: https://notgull.net/device-afd/
You can submit this without a Show HN, Show HN itself excludes most types of reading material, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Artificial intelligence has spread lies about my good name
Oh I see, my problem is specifically with Google having a lot of data on me, I'm fine giving that to a trusted paid provider (migadu in my case)
Ye or 'foreign adversaries' they seem to be so uptight about nowadays.
We have littered the entire planet with stuff, some of it virtually indestructible, like the silicon chips in our digital dust, like mobile phones.
You clearly have aphantasia.

> do you see the apple just like you see it in your dreams?

Yes, pretty much.
And since you apparently haven't seen, the abstract now includes the following note.

> Note: Update on April 18: Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix. See Section 3.5.9 (Page 37) for details. I sincerely thank Hongxun Wu and (independently) Thomas Vidick for finding the bug today. Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold. I leave the rest of the paper as it is (added a clarification of an operation in Step 8) as a hope that ideas like Complex Gaussian and windowed QFT may find other applications in quantum computation, or tackle LWE in other ways.
https://github.com/fuglede/llama.ttf
To make your calculator word search more attractive here is a video about segmented display fonts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA
I don’t feel great about lambda (outside of jobs processing and such) as it sometimes feels like you took your application and broke it into a thousand little footguns where a mistake or bad actor can tank your business, but if your company experiences very spikey workloads or not enough income to pay for 24/7 ECS and such, I can see the appeal.
40 Years of Aerial Glacier Photographs
Yes, sign up for a service I would never use otherwise to send money is a very convincing and straightforward way to support this project.
A plant’s metabolism still needs to function even when the sun isn’t shining.

So they consume oxygen at night, in their roots, etc. This is most apparent for the occasional parasitic plant without chlorophyll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino_redwood
I've watched something about an autistic person with a photographic memory who said they had trouble with the concept of "a church" because in their mind they could only picture specific churches and they all looked different. I've seen anecdotes of people with perfect pitch saying that if a tune was transposed to a different octave or played in a different key or interpretation, everyone else says it is "the same tune" but to them it has different notes so it's a different tune.

I don't know if it's weird; generalising a category from specific examples is saves memory space over remembering every individual teacup we've ever seen, so going the other way starting with a general concept of a teacup and only specifying as and when needed seems to make sense.
The author’s mistake was assuming that interfaces are unique to Go. I think it’s still a helpful article as someone who works frequently with interfaces because, while I “discovered” the interface upgrade idea on my own, I had never considered the proxy problem.
Note that "not knowing how to correctly interpret a boxplot" is not equivalent to "boxplots are useless".
Something that makes this even more insidious, is that trying to change roads to be safer often triggers many studies about the impact of those changes. These range from studies on traffic congestion, to safety itself, local business impact, etc. What makes this so hypocritical is that hardly any of those studies were done when the roads were put in, or subsequently widened. There were no studies on how wide, fast roads would negatively impact neighborhoods. How they would make it dangerous just to walk around, or increase the local pollution (air and particulates ending up in streams). They didn’t study how these widened roads might negatively impact downtowns, etc. All of this car investment happened as though it was for the greater good, and many people still believe this.
If there's any randomness involved in inference, it ought to be deterministic as long as the same seed is used each time.
No way they would go for that. That limits the potential upside. Tips have unlimited earning potential. A salary, even if higher, is a fixed quantity.

I'd be okay with eliminating tipping. Frankly, it would be way easier for me to take my margin if the price was baked into the menu! In a vacuum, it would be silly for me to do anything else. But you don't have a business without the staff. You are pretty much beholden to their whims.

There is a restaurant on every street corner and they are all hiring. If you don't keep staff happy, they aren't sticking around.
You need to introduce a build and release process then to do this then which still detracts from it being simple or the selling point being it's already installed.
Usenix LISA (now called SRECon) had a paper about this technique in 2004:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

Those who ignore Usenix are doomed to repeat it … 20 years later.
"Bug Report: My framerate significantly drops in Microsoft Flight Simulator for Vision OS but only when not using headphones"
> Why do seemingly simple customizations aren't allowed

1. They’re not as simple as they seem from the outside.

2. Don’t want to put time/resources into that specific feature.

3. To spite the dorks who yell about how they are power users and as such have the right to customize every little thing to fit their workflow — when the reality is that 99% of users have no interest in customizing these things.
Does it still require global library / module installations for your script's dependencies? If so, hard pass.
The devices they tried are 1080p and not pushing enough pixels for reading text. Even the Quest 3 with much more per eye is not great if you want to do knowledge work in VR. The main issues is that text is blurry at the edges, so instead of glancing with your eyes, you have to turn your head. You're definitely going to want passthrough.

Suggestion, if you have a VR setup already, is to try out Immersed(.com) that can connect any computer to multiple virtual monitors. If you like the idea, you'll want a 4k/eye device, which is still what we are all waiting on. They have their own Vison(.com) in the works, founders edition supposedly shipping later this year. (My understanding is that Immersed cannot unlock AVP enough to operate like all the other headsets, but I'm also not trying to spend that much again on a first edition (bought the HL2, which is the best experience for smart glasses still, FOV sucks tho))
Nokia not only missed what users wanted but also how developers would like to work. Symbian had a strange and easy-to-misuse API, poor manuals, and app deployments were tied to telecom operators as there was no app store. I remember my ramp-up as a developer with the Apple ecosystem after working with Symbian. It wasn't evolution; it was like a leap to the next century. The documentation was excellent, the APIs were clear and logical, the code made sense, and the system was familiar. And then the App Store arrived with all the implications, such as a sudden mass market and less-obvious features like crash reports with stack traces from users. Apple was on an entirely different level than Nokia, and literally not a single developer wanted to touch Symbian anymore. It was effectively dead, even with millions of devices still in use, but it was obvious. Today I see a similar story unfolding, much more slowly, but the same thing is happening with Microsoft Windows.
Holidays are the time I feel best about tipping. When I first moved to my local area for school, I had no family and no place to really go for thanksgiving. And really no place was open (what with it being a holiday and all). The one exception was a local diner that's open 24/7/365. As a broke college student in a new town, that diner was my go to spot for that first thanksgiving and many a holiday after when everything else was closed and I had no where to go.

Since those days, even though I have family and friends to have holiday meals with, I've made it a point every year to have a small meal at the diner even if it's just coffee and a desert. And since I'm doing much better these days than a poor broke college student, I do it because I want to leave a large tip for the staff. No big Oprah style "you get at tip and you get a tip" performance or videos for youtube, just a simple card and big tip expressing my gratitude for them being there those years ago for past me, and for being around today for all the people who don't have anywhere to go still.

Whether they consider themselves exploited or not. Whether they're there because they need the work and the money, or (like I often did when I worked retail) they volunteered for the holiday shift because they had no where to be that day either. In either case, I was and remain grateful and the holidays are the one time a year I truly enjoy giving a tip.
What about using rotated, symmetric histograms--like a quantized violin plot?
> There's no reason to hold off on sending chunk n+1 of the file, just because chunk n hasn't arrived yet.

Congestion control comes to mind -- you don't necessarily know what rate the network supports if you don't have a feedback mechanism to let you know when you're sending too fast. Congestion control is one of those things where sure, you can individually cheat and possibly achieve better performance at everyone else's expense, but if everyone does it, then you'll run into congestive collapse.

> You can build a 'reliable' protocol on top of UDP, and still not get TCP.

I agree -- there are reliable protocols running on top of UDP (e.g. QUIC, SCTP) that do not behave exactly like TCP. You don't need an in-order stream in the described use case of bulk file transfer. You certainly don't need head-of-line blocking.

But there are many details and interactions that you and I wouldn't realize or get right on the first try. I would rather not relearn all of those lessons from the past 50+ years.
I disagree respectfully. Before I write anything substantial, I re-read the few books that I really like to let me subconsciously absorb their elements. If I read modern journalism right before I write, whatever I write will be just like modern journalism: bland and boring. At least for me, there is a very large but temporally proximate influence between what I read and what I write.
Not really, my point is very different! I love people starting and doing things, making products even for a small audience.

Starting a business because you used an AI is pointless. There are way more things you have to know and also don't forget that other people likely know something about AI and/or consulted to incorporate it to their existing business. It just can't be a single/biggest reason to start a business.
It was the most robust way to write c++.

Ownership model in Symbian lead to really good memory efficiency. The testing tools made it really hard to import open source code cos it brought out all the memory correctness issues in addition to the usual porting problems.
This was the safest systems code before rust came along.

Most devs did not understand that it was a "take your medicine for healthier code" situation and hated the dev experience
WTF that was uncalled for.
Tons of scripts rely on coreutils (sed, awk, grep, head) to manipulate data.

All of those have wildly different behavior depending on their "flavors" (GNU vs Busybox vs BSD) and almost all of them depend on libc being installed.
I always see a face together with the name, yes. The name is mostly audible but I also visualize the text in a white font.
I’m open to your idea, but can you explain in technical terms why a wasm sandbox is invulnerable to the possibility of escape vulnerabilities when other flavors of sandboxes have not been?
As someone outside the spectrum completely, I can sympathise with your lack. I find you experiencing both sides fascinating. But the reason I replied is that my wife is a Chinese medicine practitioner, and also treats using a not so common method of scalp/brain acupuncture. After contracting COVID myself and losing all sense of smell and taste, she cured me in one session of that technique. Minutes after the needles went in my scalp I got back about 5% of my senses and by the evening it was all back. I don't know where you are geographically but it might be something worth exploring.
The risk is that you could have the text content say one thing while the visual display says another. There are social engineering and phishing risks.
Sure, but we've seen time and again where someone got hacked because secrets got committed, whether accidentally or deliberately. Why tempt fate with something that encourages committing of any env vars?

The reason why we even pull these things out in the first place is because they're considered dynamic values. Otherwise we'd just hardcode them in a committed constants file.
> while thinking their views are insane 50% of the time.

As a moderate conservative I feel the exact same.
Plants still perform respiration using oxygen. Photosynthesis lets them create their own sugars, but their process for using those sugars in the mitochondria is similar to how we do it. Plants release more oxygen than they consume because they grow: in order to grow they must pull CO2 from the air, use the C as building material (instead of respiration fuel), and dump the O2.

https://www.pthorticulture.com/en-us/training-center/basics-...
> If LLMs were capable of understanding, they wouldn't be so easy to trick on novel problems.

Got it, so an LLM only understands my words if it has full mastery of every new problem domain within a few thousand milliseconds of the first time the problem has been posed in the history of the world.

Thanks for letting me know what it means to understand words, here I was thinking it meant translating them to the concepts the speaker intended.

Neat party trick to have a perfect map of all semantic structures and use it to trick users to get what they want through simple natural-language conversation, all without understanding the language at all.
Shopify and GitHub are still mostly Ruby, right?
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> Their protocol only uses cryptographic hash functions, which means that it's post-quantum secure

Can you elaborate on this?
Does a compiler use special cases for division by two (and other integers as well) that it implements as single bitwise operations? This seems like a lot of work to scan through all mathematical operations. Is that why compiling code takes so long sometimes?
So was I when I was 21 :-) It doesn't say much about age or experience. His dilemma on the other hands speaks volumes.
Wow didn't know fluentd is a Ruby production. Who said Ruby is slow?
I remember reading this anf it's reasonable. But it doesn't matter who invented it, Italy has mastered it. The quality is so much better and the price is low (due to the very low salaries in the country I presume). Hard to compete.

Domino is still one of the worst pizzas I have ever tried in Canada.
Turning it into thousands of still very big fragments traveling in roughly the same orbit is a fantastically bad idea!
I never started using python, ruby or node because all of them were a pain to use for me - this was 7-8 years ago, so maybe it has changed a lot. But even 2-3 years ago I had lots of issues just running one python project. Module, not module, pip or not...

Way too confusing, compared to go for example. Or hell, even Java/Kotlin when you use an IDE and it autoconfigures most things.
How to Recruit (2016)
It's definitely clunky and tedious to switch between every projects or scripts environment.

Idk why people are pretending there aren't tons of useful libraries out there. Like if you want to script anything with aws, use yaml
The key is "nano wires". What we drink and eat gets pooped out and doesn't permeate organ tissue and cells. Nano stuff does.
Rightsizing Recommendations for Amazon RDS in AWS Compute Optimizer
Its missing 5038 aka BeOS, there is even a song about it …
Neurology is still such a black box medically. Did you by any chance have a brain MRI at any point? If yes, and your willing to share, what portion of the brain was impacted? If more than one, has there been diagnostically visible change between them? Did you get any treatment? I can be reached at first at full tod moc if you prefer.
I disagree with your three points.

> *”because they immediately get a ride close-by”

That’s is unsubstantiated utopia (from you POV). People do not have uniformly distributed locations for starting and ending routes. There are concentrations of where people work, live, go to restaurants, schools, etc. More so if you are assuming suburban homes. The direction of routes also have very strong biases.

You very strongly and, again, unsubstantially overestimate shared rides. Shared rides could already be happening at scale with a human driver and are not. There is nothing about self-driving tech that solves any urbanistic, social or economic barrier to shared rides. Also, a shared ride negates most of the benefits of self driving cabs. You are not alone in the confined space, you are sharing with others, others that will likely be more intrusive than a professional driver. The vehicle will not be as clean, as comfortable, as silent, etc.

About commute getting cheaper seems a pipe dream. There is nothing in the self driving tech remotely indicating that a currently $60 ride will cost $5 with self driving cars.
The second paragraph of this Guardian article mentions, and links to, but doesn't expound on the biophysical pupillary response to mental visual imagery.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbq8w/how-pupil-size-can-re...

If someone with normal mental visualization ability pictures a "bright" scene, the pupils contract just as they would in response to a bright visual stimulation. Aphants' pupils show no physical response to this test.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9018072/
Can open source software use copyright material without permission?

Any copyright holder that can prove their material is a part of the training data could have the model taken down.

But again this will all hinge on the court’s definition of “fair use”.
Cybersecurity is a Social Justice Issue (2017)
It is end result of free market. Every side, consumer, buyer, seller, employer, employee and so on try to get away with paying least they can. This is usually by choice, not many actually combat this... The strange bit is how we have ended up in situation that there is some moral mandate that there is extra payment between consumer and employee. In all other parts system operates rationally. You pay what you have to get something. Be it the product or the labour. Paying more will have indirect benefits like better retention and maybe better quality(more effective or better selling staff).

On employee side, well there is usually not option to forgo work as money is needed for survival... So their only option is to take work that is less than they might think they are worth. But this often results in poor retention as they will move for better options when possible.
> The font shaping engine Harfbuzz, used in applications such as Firefox and Chrome, comes with a Wasm shaper allowing arbitrary code to be used to "shape" text.

Has there already been a proposal to add scripting functionality to Unicode itself? Seems to me we're not very far from that anymore...
TCP kind of supports that with selective acknowledgements these days, I think.
For people that are currently paying 20% tips that's a big win. It doesn't change what they pay but streamlines the process.

But for people who are currently not tipping or paying less than 20% it would be a price increase.

If the people not tipping or tipping less than 20% were evenly distributed across all age, income, and other demographic groups probably nobody else would care.

Unfortunately non-tipping and low tipping is not evenly distributed in the US. That would need to be taken into account.
I think they mean that 1 USD = 20 theircurrency, which is meaningless.
Apple Watch reimagined in the style of a Newton
McDonald's changes the recipes based in the country. In Italy you can find sandwiches with prosciutto and parmesan and they often use different buns than the soft, sugary ones.