skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that sucks when moving registrar is that some (Namecheap, Porkbun, Enom/Tucows) doesn't let you set DNS entries before migration. Move reg, updated NS and then add entries.

So, my process now is to put DNS service OUTSIDE the registrar - so that switching one doesn't have to impact the others.

Why these providers don't let me create the NS Zone before transfer confounds me.
I didn't even know that setting was there until I saw this post. Seems pretty sneaky to have a thing like that enabled by default.

In comparison, when Chrome pushed out ad privacy setting update[1], there was a popup that asked users to make a choice before moving on, so there was no surprise as to what changed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401909 - Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting (2023-09-06)
> It's literally just running an algorithm over your data and spitting out the results for you.

I don't want any results from AI. I don't even want to see them. And there is too much of a grey area. What if they use how I use the results to improve their AI. I hate AI also and want nothing to do with its automations.

If I want a document summarized, I will read it myself. I still want to be human and do things AT A REASONABLE LEVEL with my own two hands.
I wonder though, if compute was solely on-premise, would we be using so much of it?

My instincts tell me that because the cloud is so easy to spin up new computation resources, that we're just using that much more of it. If a company had to buy the hardware, buy the licensing, buy the time of the system administrator, would they scale up as large?

The cloud has driven efficiency gains. But those gains have been consumed and, under the premise above, even exceeded. The cloud might very well be contributing to more energy use than it would have otherwise.

Unsure on this, of course. Just a gut feeling. It would be interesting if someone did an actual study on this.
AI Agent Exploiting and Debugging a Jenkins RCE
Human cases of H5N1 bird flu
Equally difficult, no. Equally important in principle, yes.
You are mostly correct. But there are definitely common instances where hemp that is strain specific to be low in THC is sprayed with outside sourced thca. I have found this to be the case for most brands I see in texas, unfortunately. That and added synthetic terpenes imo bastardize the legal hemp industry as it is.

It's this exactly that turned me off, especially after a sales person misinformed me that their products where definitely not sprayed with anything, when the flower brand website itself told me otherwise.
Building a code question answering pipeline with Swiftide in Rust
One common theme I see in the paper(e.g. in protein folding) is:

"Identify what properties are important (geometry, algebra, topo) and which one is an useful prior and then "use" the guide to select an initial struct. This is probably harder than it sounds(unlike bayesian priors which are more forgiving for one to select, but quite like them in that they both require special assumptions)."

I wonder: could one use it to bring together certain multimodal data and a proposed network for a task? Like could one bring in sensor, map topology, urban topology, pictures which have certain properties and that help me use this guide to make a statement like : "Street data could be embedded with Sensor data to do ABC kind of inference using XYZ NNetwork structure because this paper suggests that is a reasonable thing to do"?
This is partially true. Let me correct that vegans faced serious health issue before the 50s when b12 source (bacteria) got discovered. They may have survived by eating dirty vegetable (without the washing, bacteria are still on the plant) but it’s very unlikely they got enough.

Veganism definition has nothing to do with industrial farming, however try ask vegans if they would have taken this way if industrial farming does not exist, you’ll make them think twice. In the circle I gather many says they would prefer eating flesh from an hunted wild animal than buying soap containing glycerin from pigs that never saw the sun.
It was useful because it integrated super nicely into workspace account administration. Unfortunately all the issues have been painfully predictable and the rollout has been bad.
Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go
I don’t keep up. When someone asks why some memory corruption happened, I can participate. When we are dealing with performance issues, I raise my hand. OOM? I can take a look. Slow SQL queries? I’m your guy.
An issue with React hooks? I don’t know man. Something wrong with the Jakarta annotations? Uff, ask Joe. Your graphql thingy is not working? I can give you a hand, but I’m clueless.

So, people around me value my knowledge about the former stuff. Nobody really cares about the latter (because deep down everybody knows that that stuff will die anyway in a few years)
You're telling me that of MasterCard's 33,000 employees and Visa's 28,800 employees, only a "few" are "capable"? Either management is negligently incompetent or, well, maybe the hubris is from a different direction.
Which ISO C standard is this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969452 says ISO C23 is cancelled.
Thank you. Just sent you an email
I agree. And ideally, every time you raise the question and get the "no" response, you learn something about the system you're modifying or the reviewer learns something about your solution. Then you improve your solution, and come back.

Eventually consensus is built - either the solution becomes good enough, or both the developers and the reviewers agree that it's not going to work out and the line of development gets abandoned.

Large-scale change in production is hard, and messy, and involves a lot of imperfect humans that we hope are mostly well-intentioned.
Alan Kay – Doing with Images Makes Symbols: Communicating with Computers (1987)
Why regulate it now? We dont even know what it can do yet. Any regulation now will be full of loopholes we dont even know exist.
I got to 65 left... So 49 correct. I wish it counted the correct ones. And I want to see a list of what I forgot once I give up! (I cloned the Pen to see...)

I'm sort of ashamed I couldn't remember more off the top of my head.

You know you've been doing HTML for a long time if you remembered 'base'.
At least Sony cameras can do automatic uploads either directly from camera, or tethered to phone. Afaik its primarily aimed at (sports) photojournalists who need to get photos out as quickly as possible, basically you can have editor pick up photos in near real-time. At least the couple models I checked advertise 2.4/5GHz 802.11ac wifi, so that seems like it should be decent enough. For geotagging, it should work fine if you have tethered to your phone.
I assume 'work life balance'
Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries
Hypersonic missiles can defeat current defense systems (based on available intelligence)
I don't think there's much use currently. But I kinda like the direction of the paper anyway. Most mathematical objects in ML have geometric or topological structure, implicitly defined. By making that structure explicit, we at worst have a fresh new perspective on some ML thing. Like how viewing the complex numbers on a 2d cartesian plane often clicks more for students compared to the dry algebraic perspective. So even in the worst case I think there's some pedagogical clarity here.
Have you seen "good vs services employment" graphs, like this one? [0]

Number of people producing goods has been shrinking for a longest time, its under 20% now. It'll likely keep shrinking as automation becomes more advanced, and in the future "service" would be much more important.

When I was a kid, I've read some sci-fi stories about societies like those, where most people were working in service industry.

[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2023/09/0...
That sounds like a very low-margin business, if literally anyone can create and maintain it with close to zero human input. Its like the sci-fi equivalent of generating books with AI and selling them on Amazon. The cost of goods produced by your hypothetical business would plummet, and the real value would simply shift somewhere else that is still able to benefit from human labor or ingenuity.

If you're talking about a world where AI has become so advanced that humans have literally nothing to contribute to society, in any field, then that's called a post-scarcity society, where the very concept of a "business owner" (not to mention the concepts of "business" and "owner") starts to lose all meaning.
Direct link to the retrospective:

https://securityalliance.notion.site/A-Squarespace-Retrospec...
> xdg-desktop-portal was created to allow applications running in a sandbox to access system resources.

There are many problems with it; I do not use it on my computer. A better sandbox system would be possible, but xdg-desktop-portal is not designed very well.

> Oh the joy of going through the bluetooth pairing process for my controller, or physically getting up and connecting a physical wire to it, only for the system to wait until I'm in the game and touch the controller and immediately the game hangs

That is also a problem of a bad design. If a permission is required, it should be possible to set up the permissions ahead of time (and to configure it to automatically grant permission if you do not want to restrict it; possibly could even be the default setting), instead of waiting for that to ask you and to hang like that.

> Or having to manually reposition my windows every single time, because a window knowing where it is is somehow "insecure"

I would think that the window manager should know where the windows are and automatically position them if you have configured it to remember where they are. (The windows themself should not usually need to know where they are, since the window manager would handle it instead, and the applications should not need to know what window manager is in use, since different window managers will work in different ways and if the application program assumes it knows how it works then that can be a problem.)

> I'm the one putting the software on there and deciding what to run. If I run it, then it's because I wanted the application to do what it does.

Yes, although sometimes you do not want it to do what it does, which is why it should be possible to configure the security, preferably with proxy capabilities.

> Because the OS cannot possibly make any informed assumptions about what's legitimate and what's malicious.

I agree, although that is why it must be possible for the operator to specify such things. I think that proxy capabilities would be the way to be done (which, in addition to improving security, also allows more control over the interaction between the programs and other parts of the system).

> To me it feels like I can't do certain stuff on my PC because someone else might misuse something on theirs.

Yes, it seem like that, because it is the badly design of some programs, protocols, etc.
Work-life balance.
It does happen, but I find it overall more preferable than documents, tickets, meetings, meetings and meetings.

Spending time in the terminal with vim and shell is healing.
> Well it's not just indicative of that. It's also indicative of the lack of regulation for something that didn't exist previously. The shops could exist in a less-unpleasant way... just, nobody has forced them to yet. It's coming, though. Everyone is pissed.

I suppose people could also just get used to them.
It looks like the comment tag isn't included. (Not sure whether it should be. Not even sure the proper way to identify it, I suppose a single "!")
Ah the good old days of Michael Arrington. TC was my gateway drug to silicon valley produced news, including HN.

He had the habits of pulling stunts like showing up at meetings he wasn't invited to. And the ways of a savant lawyer at extracting information from people. I've always suspected he knew well in advance about the iPad; and he convinced investors to back him up to produce an equivalent product, partnering with a laptop company. The product got shipped, only just at 8-10 times the weight of the iPad though.

He'd have made a fantastic COO, or investor relationship manager IMHO if he had not chosen to do TechCrunch. I hope he's doing well at his cryptofund.
This makes sense because “the market” rather than a handful of cellular companies decided that people want LTE connectivity to be expensive and relegated to phones
> Maybe, maybe, if he had contemporaneous notes that described what he was thinking at the time.

We do! There's an audio recording! https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-doc...

> “See as president I could have declassified it,” Trump says. “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”

> “Now we have a problem,” his staffer responds.
I clicked JUST to see the name of the whale. It should be in the title.
Can we please stop talking about replacing employees with AI?
"One man's trash..." and all that.
This feels like a ban on free speech... Given that money is speech, and this would be the gov't stepping in to chill that speech #justSayin.

That's far from the worst thing wrong with this, but if I were to make a court run with this case (IANAL) that's what I would do with it.
Yeah, I'm using it in the Dawkins context.

I think this is an interesting topic, so I've been posting all over the thread with some of my thoughts.

I'll start with increasing memes that I think are contributors to childrearing. I think risk aversion is a leading one. You see this in terms of teenage sex, drug use, and other risky behavior. The next increasing meme would be viewing the world through a materialistic and increasingly utilitarian economic lens. Think this comes at the cost of more sentimental for romantic view of existence. just looking at this threads, nearly every comment is materialist in nature: opportunity costs for leaving the workforce, social economic implications, ect. Conspicuously absent is discussion of experiential and emotional implications. What about people missing out on watching their child take their first steps or the joys and pains of the creative process that is nurturing a human into a functional adult.

I think this also plays into the idea that work is intrinsically something to be minimized or avoided, opposed to something powering that can be directed. I acknowledge that I'm presenting these all as unsubstantiated personal opinion, but I think they have Merit and would be worthy of further scrutiny.

Im not religious myself, but cant help but acknowledge the decline of religion it as an elephant in the room. Less so due to any specific religious doctrine, but the attention brings to non-material topics.
Slight OT: are is the best documentation management system these day?

ReadMe, Docusaurus, Mintlify, etc?
The biggest question in oncology today is whether this approach could also be used for solid tumors

Yeah. I'm dying of a squamous cell carcinoma infestation: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce... and the most recent clinical trial drug that was working, has stopped working: https://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/20/in-which-the-antibody-dru....

One of the options for a next trial is from TScan, "A Basket Study of Customized Autologous TCR-T Cell Therapies." https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05973487?term=tscan0.... On the one hand, it looks very promising; on the other hand, lots of promising treatments fail during dose-escalation, first-in-human trials. To my knowledge, the first humans dosed with TScan's TCR-T therapy got it a few months ago.

I got lucky, too, in that a slot for BGB-A3055 with Tislelizumab, an immunotherapy drug and trial, opened up at NEXT Oncology-Dallas: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05935098?term=BGB-A3055&.... One challenge, however, is that I received a bispecific antibody called petosemtamab from Sept 2023 to March 2024, then PDL1V (an antibody drug conjugate), and they're considered immunotherapies, so there's a question of whether continuing to pursue immunotherapies makes sense. By now the number of lines of therapy I've gotten make me ineligible for some trials: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-drugs-killing-dying-..., and I've also blown through the more promising drugs for what is a difficult-to-treat cancer type.

It took just five years to get from their first promising results to FDA approval

This sentence is insane. "Just?" It should be happening in months, not years. These are people with fatal diagnoses. Having the FDA hold up therapies like this is criminal.
do they really matter anymore? I remember them from the pre 2010 days but even then it seemed to me like linkedin for startups just without the social network thing, i.e. suits posting boring things. These days I can't remember clicking an article linking there ever.
I really didn't intend to be dishonest.

I just wrote a catchy title (which can be a bit misleading, but not dramatically, as all the audiobooks I'm mentioning are really accessible to people; I developed all the infrastructure needed for that), and tried to clarify everything in the post itself.
Locking a password manager and your computer is certainly good enough in many cases. But gaining access to memory might not need the sophistication of using nitrogen (see eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack).
They always owned the police anyway.
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 already exists and is the "text-decoration: line-through"
tag.

Incidentally, there's also "strike" and "del", which look the same in
my UA style sheet. I think strike was "deprecated" at some point,
but I probably added it because websites still use it.
Instructor-Go – Structured LLM Outputs in Go
It looks like Michael Arrington agrees https://x.com/arrington/status/1812902866899902857
NAC Imagery of one such pit in Mare Tranquillitatis

https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/layers?prjExtent=941477.606759...
While "photoshop" may have entered the current vernacular, it's annoying (maybe even misleading?) in the context of this article because I doubt Comstock used "photoshopped" as a verb. More to the point, we still have verbs like "edited," "retouched," and "altered" that just as accurately describe the process, are more likely to have been used at the time, and are still understood by everybody today (believe it or not, there are people who don't know what Photoshop is, and wouldn't understand it as a verb).
You could say that about any tech blog of that era—RRW, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. The point is that tech has thankfully grown up, and they lost it to Bloomberg, NYT, FT, et al.
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You're still missing the part where you win the judgement but now need to spend more money and time to attempt to collect. It's circular...
The fictional automated business may cost tens of billions of dollars to build. That means almost no one, not literally anyone, can create it. If a small group of giant conglomerates are the only companies wealthy enough to build these automated factories, then there's no competition to drive down prices, and no automatic path to a post-scarcity society. Instead, it's the dystopia ryandrake described.
I don't know of any state or jurisdiction where you would be legally allowed to just show up and tow away someone's property without involving law enforcement in some capacity.
I love articles that completely dispel the idea of singularity - that point out that the feeling of our age that things are changing too quickly has been around for a very long time.
Porkbun definitely lets you do that, they allow you to add an "external" domain which runs on their DNS (actually Cloudflare) but isn't registered through them, then you can seamlessly transfer the domain in to Porkbun later.

IIRC Spaceship (Namecheaps soft-relaunch) lets you set up your DNS records as soon as you initiate a transfer to them, before it completes, so the records are ready as soon as the nameservers switch over. Not sure about the original Namecheap, I haven't used them for a while.
I think there is a misunderstanding, which I tried to address but evidentally failed.

UTF-8 is fine for a display encoding. However, not every string encoding need be a display encoding, which the parent post seems to not be considering.

You could also have multiple display encodings, if it makes sense to (a tool only intended for use in a certain part of the world for instance), however that is not what I mean.
He should have added a few numbers in there to really throw off some login systems.
These were sufficiently expensive that many people got some form of Spectrum/PC before their first calculator, bang for the buck it made more sense.

Then there was a post-soviet wired phone design with Z80 in it which had a built-in calculator among other apps, which it had half dozen. Alarm clock, phone book, etc, etc. The killer feature was Caller ID variant - it could read caller's number from the PSTN and display that one. A feat that required accepting the call and then emulating the beeps.
I'm sorry, do we need another way to push weight-loss drugs? The stigma of being fat is already so high that supply can barely keep up with demand for the drugs for weight-loss. It's so bad that we can't even fix the thing it was originally intended to fix (diabetes).

If we're regularly supplying this (and there are no longer term negative consequences to these drugs), then maybe there's a question about prescribing it, but it hardly seems reasonable to prescribe a drug we don't have.
> nobody is forced to accept their name unless they're running a government service

I dunno, would you expect that the government should be allowed to dictate how long a person's name can officially be? If yes, then problem solved, nobody may have names longer than X, and all services will accept X. If no, then there has to be a practical limit on name sizes that government services can accept, and people will be unhappy because it doesn't accept their "official" name.
Yes, but he said that 19 years ago. Much has been learned since then.
Again, that's like saying you don't want any results from spell-check.

OK, sure. But then just don't use it.

The problem is that you're calling for a legal policy against it to be "mandatory, enforced, and come with strict fines".

Have your own personal preferences, that's great. But I don't want you imposing your preferences on the products I use. I want companies and the market to decide.

An auto-summary feature that is enabled by default is not something we should be asking for government regulation over, any more than we should be asking the government to prohibit wavy red lines unless they're explicitly opted into.
He is still in charge. I was expecting him to have been forced out. Very hard to fight shiny.

https://www.pionline.com/pension-funds/nevada-public-employe...