skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So are you suggesting that every time an employee commits a crime, CEOs should go to jail alongside them?

Pretty much, yeah.

Happens in the military (not always, of course, but more common).

The argument I always hear, justifying the enormous pay differential, between the CEO and their staff, is that the CEO is ultimately responsible for everything.

In practice, this almost is never the case.
Private meetings are fine. No issue there. The judge however, erred. He should've never allowed the disclosure to not be disclosed. You can redact information that is harmful to the state, or is not relevant to the case, but in this case, the fact that the system that was being used as the basis of detection of fraud, was in itself being audited, should've meant that it was to be included and disclosed to defense.

In my non-lawyer opinion, the judge is the one that erred, and it is compounded that this matter came up in a private meeting without defense, thereby supporting the idea that private meetings should never be had, when there are always exceptions for them.

So yes, this looks really bad all around.
Should have a setting for autocrlf and safecrlf to avoid shooting yourself in the foot while copying the config between platforms.
Stuff like this is why I built Cosmo. I saw the writing on the wall, when the Java installer started adding toolbars to my browser. I made a solemn vow on that day to never build software that can't run unless my users install someone else's software first. Now, after walking away from hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock, and putting forth years of effort hacking in my garage, I'm finally a first-class citizen of all platforms and you can be too. If Java starts supporting building Cosmo binaries, the amount of love and trust that'll earn will be like how Meta pulled themselves out of the Cambridge Analytica mud by releasing LLaMA.
What's the useful frame of reference?

Looking better than other things that are also bad is sort interesting in that it represents progress in some direction, but it isn't very interesting to people outside of the topic.
From what I understand the original dashboard is based on Angular v1 which is not maintained anymore.

This would be the main reason for the rewrite...
Hammers don't kill people, people kill people

... with hammers
My cousin wrote a book about this topic (it is not only about blue animals but the general scarcity of blue in the natural environment): https://www.amazon.de/Blue-Science-Secrets-Natures-English-e...

I never gave this much thought before but the book quite successfully managed to interest me in its subject and lead to me understanding some of the underlying mechanisms (which lay all outside my domain as a software developer).
He just laid out the rule. It's a bad idea for very good reasons.
I beg to differ. Using "Incorrect" to counter the statement that distribution is illegal implies it's largely untrue. While a distinction between "illegal" and "de facto illegal" exists, your own explanation doesn't support such a strong rebuttal.

You acknowledge that legal pornography, while technically possible, faces significant hurdles due to rampant piracy and legal loopholes. This creates a situation where accessing legal pornography is difficult and impractical for most, making the initial statement, that distribution is effectively illegal, more accurate than your initial "Incorrect" suggests.
Botched is being kind. Lied, cheated, and covered up to destroy people's lives when they knew at the least these people were working with a faulty system, at the most they knew these post masters were completely innocent.
Why do FOSS projects use github? Because it's a good product, simple. It has lots of features that people use every day that you don't necessarily find on other source code platforms. For example, their new code search is top class. You won't realize what's missing until you try to do the same thing elsewhere. GitHub also gets a lot of details right e.g. in pull requests and issue management.

Added to that, it has the largest community of developers, and those who would potentially participate in FOSS projects likely already have an account. It's where people already are and what they are familiar with.

(I have contributed to a few FOSS projects on github.)
I think it’s reasonable. You weigh the quality of content by the amount of effort its creator put into creating it.

Has nothing to do with AI directly.
10 hours ago 7 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40806477
Nobody has any clue what the thing is. :D

It claims to be BSP, but it’s 1 inch (1.1?) with 19 threads per inch (18?), which matches no standard I’ve ever found.
University of the Faroe Islands
As someone else said, why did you raise $10m but only spend $3m? Presumably at least some of that extra $7m could be used for marketing, sales, partnerships, etc. to get more users and ultimately revenue, even if it requires another round to get to profitability.
> People like me expect to not need to change jobs every 5 minutes because a new AI development replaces it

So, again, what do you expect to happen? New technology comes along and your company doesn't embrace it?

> And if anything can be learned from history, people like me will get fed up at some point and make the people not like me stick their snarky comments some unpleasant place and burn everything down while at it

Can we? Can you point to some instances in which workers displaced by technological progress "burned everything down"?

> Because people like me don't hate technology but what gets done with it while obliviously claiming "but there's nothing we can do".

Notably, I didn't claim anything like "there's nothing we can do" - I'm just curious what you think we should actually do, instead of just complaining about the technology and progress.
> Undefined behaviors, unspecified behaviors, implementation-defined behaviors, and other portability issues enumerated in Annex J of the Standard should be eliminated or reduced.
> If right to property is a God given right, why the hell I as a atheist should give a damn?

You can argue it from political necessity.

Some kind of property rights are necessary for the operation of any social group. Even in a communist society you can't have the air force stealing land from the navy, or the transport department taking electricity from hospitals, or neighbours taking each others food allocations.

There needs to be some kind of organised transfer of property or you get chaos.
So you are telling me that a certain linear city will also not materialize?
Haha yes, I misphrased a bit but that's what I meant when I said you'll need to use C++ to use the stdlib. It's not quite pure embedded Rust but yes it does work.
It's relevant because you challenged me to put my money where my mouth is, as I'm challenging you. And I have.

You say you haven't because of onerous regulations and it's true, I associate France with a heavier regulatory burden than most Anglophone countries. If it's the coal lobby that killed Nuclear's profitability in the US, I have two questions:

1) why are you attacking renewables rather than the coal industry? If you think Nuclear could compete on an economic basis with renewables, surely you could make common cause with my side of this debate to properly price fossil energy's negative externalities and let the market sort out the winners once that's achieved.

2) Why not build a nuclear reactor in Mexico and export the power to the US? Or in any of the other low-regulation countries with a neighbor looking to import power? If it's regulations that make nuclear unprofitable, surely nuclear investors could regulation-shop.
> They sure spent days and months of blood and sweat but can't get around to do a last mile of uploading files.

The people making these decisions didn't spend any time, blood, or sweat on producing this content. That's why it's so easy for them to discard it: they're only concerned with making (big) money, not figuring out how they can preserve content without incurring a loss. Which, IMO, should be the goal for older, historical content.

I'm pretty sure the money we're paying countries for wars would cover historical content preservation costs a gazillion times over.
Most people from St. Louis are used to hearing the phrasings "the STL", or "the Lou" when referring to the city.
If its not simple enough to use for someone with a 6th grade reading/comprehension level then it will not be widespread (I think that's about 50% of adults in US). I think de-centralized as a concept fails that test. Widespread meaning 100's of millions of users aka people's grandmothers are on it.

If a free service requires fairly involved explanation of how it works, its not going to catch on. So the problems you are asking about don't need solving because the nature of a de-centralized social network prohibits widespread adoption. Previous flavors of decentralized internet forums never gained widespread usage either and the people that administered them typically didn't want them to.
"SnailLoad: Exploiting Remote Network Latency Measurements without JavaScript": https://www.snailload.com/snailload.pdf
Freight trains are great for moving huge quantities of freight from classification yard A to classification yard B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_yard), not so great for moving smaller quantities door-to-door. Ever wondered why, despite the existence of freight trains, there are still so many long-haul trucks driving around? Because freight trains aren't the answer to all logistics questions!
(1997)

The last time it was discussed, four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722803
Root cause of the issues: Trying to connect to an SMTP service to send OTP's that began to block me after "suspicious activity".
What's the meaning of that?
You're re-stating GP's point. I agree with both of you.
I know AI will be used to spam, but to not see or acknowledge the positive capabilities of this technology is absolutely flabbergasting to me.

This is going to make filmmaking cheap and accessible to a broad audience, and that's nothing short of a miracle.

I typically do each year's 48 hour film project with a team of 8 or more people. This year I did it with myself and an editor, and it was amazing - no 6 AM trip to the prop house, no lifting heavy props from the top shelf, no signing location release forms, no sweltering lights. I didn't have to put on makeup or do blocking for hours. (I used mocap, rotoscoping, and compositing.)

I've been using AI diffusion canvases to design - something I'd previously found entirely intimidating and unapproachable. I'm having so much fun and enjoyment with this.

I don't see the world the same way, and I don't get this negativity.
It also really stinks at resizing raster images, as does all Gsuite apps. It makes diagrams look terrible.
I’m not sure Congress can regulate the Supreme Court’s voting rules, but I agree with your first point. We should’ve done that during the Warren court and stripped the Court of jurisdiction to challenge law on social and moral issues.
"Collision detection is usually a tree search"

Yes, because of the very limited numbers of CPU cores. With a GPU you can just assign one core to one particle.

Here is a simple approach to do it with WebGPU:

https://surma.dev/things/webgpu/

It uses the very simple approach, of testing every particle with EVERY other particle. Still very performant (the simulation, the choosen rendering with canvas is very slow)

I currently try to do something like this, but optimised. With the naive approache here and Pixi instead of canvas, I get to 20000 particles 120 fps on an old laptop. I am curious how far I get with an optimized version. But yes, the danger is in calculating and rendering blocking each other. So I have to use the CPU in a smart way, to limit the data being pushed to the GPU. And while I prepare the data on the CPU, the GPU can do the graphic rendering. Like I said, it is way harder to do right this way. When the simulation behaves weird, debugging is pain.
I love the thought that middle age philanthropy apparently carried potential for making the hackernews frontpage 500 years later.
It's what people call a "gadgetbahn": something that does the job of a railway, but not using railway technology, thereby introducing a whole load of unproven tech. This looks great in the AI renders but then turns out to make it infeasible.

Currently the world's longest conveyor belt is 61km. This is five times longer, and could equally be done with a narrow gauge automated railway. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150869/worlds-longe...

The unanswered logistics question: how do the packages get on and off this thing?
I even got a call from a person who received one of the popups over the internet. Because the message had my name on it. I just happened to have a common name in Finland, and the receiver dug up my phone number and called. Of course, it was not me who sent the popup, but it was pretty amusing to explain that indeed it was not me, and I gave instructions on how to disable the 'feature' completely.
Ya but the article is about a conveyor belt, which arguably has even less flexibility than even a freight train.
In many, many cases - teams don't have enough time to do maintenance. The programs where our developers become line order cooks, only having cycles to add the features for that sprint, almost always spiral into despair. Dependencies will go unpatched, tests become untrustworthy, and the code review cycles from those who should catch things goes away. Business gets what they wanted and then starts to shrink the pool of developers to save even more money - either with fewer resources or less experienced. You really have to force teams to give time to polish things, because I don't think business understand they need to change the oil on the car.
FWIW Debian uses _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for building its packages for a long time now, so there should be plenty of experience there for using the option.
Most creators work for hire and the company owns the IP. Anecdote: I can't remember the song written on a bus and sold to the record company for $250 to keep food on the table that has earnt billions for Warner, Sony, or Universal Music. Nothing more for the creator.
Big company stealing from another big company to benefit the rest of us? Seems like fair use. Nothing to do with creators.
That incentive was meant to be something like 20 years (same as patents) not almost "forever" like the Mouse wants who expropriated from all of those European folktales and sanitised them.
No incentive if you live off the earnings of a "one-hit wonder".
Sub-heading

Microsoft and Qualcomm have convinced software developers to lean into their latest Arm push.

Content

In my own testing, I’ve found that Prism handles compatibility for non-native apps well, but the performance varies depending on the complexity of the app.

Now, it feels like app compatibility on Windows on Arm is changing on a daily basis, which is a scenario I wasn’t expecting to see five years ago.
Pointless bitching and negativity with no real substance or conclusion. Throw in a few choice culture war tidbits and we’ve got a real shitter of an article. You can just tell the author loves feeling tortured and morally superior.

Hey man, I hate AI bullshit too, but did the world need this article?
Bezos' Blue Origin Wants to Cap SpaceX's Starship Launches
> If such a thing were invented it would effectively become mandatory, because anybody not willing to use it would be out-competed for work by people who were.

I believe this dynamic is already happening to ADHD drugs.
Re-reading it, he did limit his rule to not using HTML for _connectors_. I can't refute that; that sounds like a bad idea for anything that isn't a toy POC (which this submission certainly is).

I do think a mix of HTML (for boxes) and canvas/svg (for connectors) is viable, however.
San Francisco has seen the most dramatic drop in solar adoption across CA
What's the reason for radon at the end?
It worked out in Paris for quite a while, granted it was smaller than pallet workloads but still, a large physical object transportation network (akin to pneumatic tubes) was quite useful. IIRC the downfall was flooding combined with degraded infrastructure due to lack of maintenance, but those are procedural and planning issues, not foundational issues that cannot be overcome.

Similar smaller-than-container transportation networks exist elsewhere, even temporary ones used for evacuating tunnels while they are being bored. Even coal strip-mining type of situations have extremely long length conveyor systems that work pretty well.

If you forget the nonsense AI picture for a moment, what they are doing is essentially not much more than extra-specialised rail, which when built for a specific purpose makes a lot of sense, especially when you want to factor in autonomy, or per-object routing instead of single-train based routing. It's already done in factories too.
I get it. I play with image generation myself, with the odd bit of training and fine-tuning. But you have to recognize that the low marginal cost of this kind of generation is self-cheapening, and a world filled with gaudy saccharine content (the kind of stuff that wins RLHF head to head comparisons) upvoted and shared by people who don't recognize it for what it is, is a little bit dispiriting.
Turned out to be my email service blocking me for "suspicious activity". Error logs weren't helpful for some reason. I didn't realize my server would crash if it couldn't do an initial connection to the email server.
> Now i am starting to think all the great efforts were in vain

This is such a big story, precisely because it's rare that the judicial process goes this wrong, and so when it does everyone wants to know why and what can be changed to prevent a reoccurrence.
That doesn't always work in a way that's clear, though. If I said a microcontroller felt pretty army, that's different to saying it feels arm-y, since army is already a word. I wasn't trying to say that it was like chess player Paul Morphy, I was trying to indicate it was an adjective derived from "morph". Language is meant to convey meaning, and you understood the meaning I was trying to convey, so what's the issue?
> I'd ask you to consider that the situations in Syria and Ukraine are not nearly as straightforward as the US would have us believe; indeed, the US and Israel are, as usual, the main instigators.

OK, you've sounded mostly reasonable in this thread so far, but that came to an abrupt halt here.
It's great to see Java Web Start finally being used in anger 24 years after its initial release.
I have stopped using MicroUSB in my designs because without fail at some point I rip the thing off the board -_-

normally only occurs while aggressively debugging
A bit tangential to your argument, but

> Especially if its not even something illegal in the first place (like spying on Angela Merkel).

There's a good chance that this was illegal according to German law, and depending on the exact details on how it was done, there's also a good chance that it could be considered as being under German jurisdiction.

Think about it in the opposite direction: if a German citizen had wiretapped the USA president's mobile phone, the USA would probably consider that act as being under USA jurisdiction, and illegal according to USA laws, even if said German citizen had never set foot outside Germany.

That's the reason "some might find [this] distasteful". They're breaking other country's laws, in a way which would also break USA law if the situation was reversed (so they can't even say that the other country's laws are bad and wrong), and hiding behind "[it] is very much legal" (in the USA), even though that argument would not be accepted by the USA if the situation was reversed.
It was posted yesterday to reddit on "Today I Learned" and got over 59,000 upvotes. I knew I had seen it here before and now I'm seeing it here for the third time.
We've had sorting conveyor belts for decades. Amazon warehouses are full of them. Way more potential flexibility than a railway.

(With downsides, of course.)
If you leave out the toppings it's definitely fraud.

Doordash doesn't get the pizza they paid for and want to resell.
It isn’t necessary usagligt to argue that the new policy will be ineffectual, and that its just political posturing. However, its not position that either side here in DK holds. Both sides agrees thats its a major reform. You're making a novel claim here.

Given how politics works, its unsurprising that the legislation isn’t completely consistent with other DK policies. The public opinion on nuclear has changed in recent years - maybe we’ll see some changes here soon.
I'm a native English (Canadian) speaker and, given this context, would never pronounce "morph-y" as "morph why" (if that pronunciation was intended I'd capitalize the Y and probably not hyphenate it, "Morph Y").

Indeed, sometimes I'll use the -y construction when I'm inventing an adjective from a noun like this, especially if omitting it looks "wrong" to me because it's an invented word (not sure if I would've for "morphy" but whatever).

I don't know if you're a native speaker and there's some kind of cultural or generational gap here where some of us are more/less particular about this than others or if you're a non-native speaker trying to be helpful but underestimating the flexibility of casual written English.
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

To read this and get upset is very bizarre to me. LLMs as most of the public know, is just a few years old. The things these services are doing are nothing short of sci-fi ideas 10 years ago. And were complaining it can't do our laundry?

IMO this is peak first world complaning. Give it some time.
That’s pretty good. Feynman keeping problems in his mind constantly, like a monk, is easy said but difficult to do. Attention and the harmony required to maintain it, in this day and age, is a few new theorems the reward for that? I guess you have to enjoy the process of working on problems like that as well, to dedicate your attention to it all day long even passively.
That works for me, to be honest. not the short context, but definitely the short replies. Contrast that with the current implementation of ChatGPT's voice mode, where you ask something and then get a minute worth of GPT bla bla.
From the concept pics they have up it looks more like each container is a self contained 'train'. They say it is for zero emissions but it takes energy to move cargo. 'conveyor' belts do not have free energy. You have to move the belt and the cargo.

Interesting idea though. I hope they come up with some cool ideas.
Intellectual property in the form of trademarks is generally good for consumers, you don't want a new database product to be called Postgres despite no association with the developers of PostgreSQL.

Intellectual property in the form of patents and copyrights is often harmful for consumers. In music, academia and mechanical engineering it's clearly been harmful in slowing the spread of innovation. It sucks to wait 20 years for a new excellent new dishwasher tray shape.
My father went to Princeton for a year for post graduate work when I was in kindergarten in the 1970's. We went to a Concrete Canoe race (like this one https://paw.princeton.edu/article/throwbackthursday-racing-c...), and for years afterward I remember him wearing a Concrete Canoe t-shirt.

It wasn't until I was much older that I realized that the impracticality of building a canoe out of concrete was the whole point of the endeavor. For years my childhood brain assumed that concrete was just one of the materials people commonly used to build boats. Want to build a canoe? Likely options are wood, animal hides, or concrete.
We should find new ways to fund essential services like journalism and the arts, rather than artificially crimping the possibilities of new technology in order to get a half-assed solution under the current paradigm.