skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember Twisted.Dal.Net server? :) Admin of it did some magikery on his server and hosted 50k local clients!! :) And it was 2001 or so... Thats crazy :)
Here's something I hadn't thought of: there's been 10–12 thousand generations of people, stretching back ~250000 years. And, yet, you could (in theory) meet ~7% of all humans who've ever been alive right now.
> Not sure why that's "ironic". Seems reasonable. Only people trained and accountable should be doing things that would violate people's civil rights and take away their freedom or possessions.

Maybe ironic wasn't a great fit there, I stand by the rest of the comment though. I blame Alanis Morissette for my inability to recognize irony accurately.

> You sound like the kind of kid who would put their hand an inch from their sibling's face and constantly utter "not touching! still not touching!" and think that you were "technically" not breaking the rules, so your behavior was ok.

There's a legal definition of "criminal". Is it being an annoying little brother to think definitions are important?
Are We Thinking Ourselves Sick?
People mostly hate observability tooling too.

The point isn't that people like or dislike - it's that the fact a system someone in the industry tells you isn't worth even trying to compete with might be replaced a handful of years later.
Being the moon is not geostationary this doesn't seem very useful.

Also between atmospheric distortion and dust/micro meteorites you'll going to need to be very careful on your error encoding choices.
Nintendo Switch system software(Horizon OS)
After watching the videos the other similar crash it comes to my mind is a civil 747 that was incorrectly loaded with military vehicles. I think admiral cloudberg covered the details of that accident.
Looks like the motherboard would have to be thrown away, not the CPU, even if the vulnerability was facilitated by the CPU.

> For systems with certain faulty configurations in how a computer maker implemented AMD's security feature known as Platform Secure Boot

Seems like this actually requires two vulnerabilities, then?
The success of Electron tells us that memory usage concerns are overblown. Memory is seriously dirty cheap nowadays. Time to spend a bit more to simplify the ecosystem.
The dumbed down version is that no one will be allowed to register a .internal domain on the internet, ever. So you are free to use it for your internal network in any way you like and it will not come into conflict with registered domains and internet standard.
Pregel actually doesn't require the structure of the graph to be declared ahead of time, the next set of tasks (functions) to run is computed at the beginning of each step, so in theory the graph topology could be entirely dynamic. Langgraph supports dynamic topologies too, ie. don't declare any hard edges, add a conditional edge after every node
Agree with this. I'm fine with companies that make profit while still providing "free" knowledge/diagrams/software. Valve's contributions to proton/drivers has improved Linux gaming potential, even if you don't have/buy a Steam Deck. I view this in a similar lens.
This isn’t news, this is exactly what we said when the don’t be evil company was pushing them in the name of page loading speed (b/c the faster they get to display an ad making time to sell another ad!)
Wouldn’t you need to have a JVM installed to deploy a JavaFX app? Is there something for bundling self-contained Java apps easily?
In high school (over 2 decades ago), I figured out how to crack the school security software (and obtain its master password, thank you Windows swap file!) and after doing so, I installed a keylogger on the school library computers. I got access to dozens of email accounts, instant messaging accounts, etc. I'm self-taught all the way. In fact I dropped out of high school junior year with a 1.76 GPA. I knew what was right and wrong, but not yet mature enough to fully grasp the harm it does. I don't think any sort of ethics teachings would've changed anything.
While not everything might be available, I was making the point that this isn't FORTRAN 66 in punch cards.
I'm not an aficionado on latest drone tech, admittedly, but the old DJI my friend had - maybe could see on a shotgun house or something right on the street. There's no way it would be able to see mold on my house's roof at that distance without encroaching the property line, unless it was way worse than the homeowner was claiming here and lit up like a big grassy knoll.
Can anyone confirm if this is Open Source or not? Looks like it used github as an issue tracker but I'm not seeing the source code anywhere.
> He has a lot of ethics, because he wouldn't dare to hack Chinese citizens

That has to do with fear, not ethics; the consequences of getting caught doing this to Chinese (vs foreigners) are significantly high (you do not f*k around with a system that has no due process)
So you’ve barely added anything to the cost on top of salary. Depending on where you live in the world there is no extra costs on insurance or other benefits. Cloud resources on a brand new app in development? Let’s be generous and say 100k/yr for the first year. (If they were using more than that I would fire them as they clearly have no idea what they are doing)

But let’s say they have a 5 man team for in-house development. 1.5m/yr would be a stretch to spend.
There is, of course, a limit. OTOH, if your devex is so terrible you can’t push out improvements at the same cadence of your competitors, you are doomed as well.
This is Jake’s sister. He was reading and replying to as much as he could up until the end. He loved this community and would in turn be touched by this entire thread. Thank you all who supported him and read and shared his writing. He said it was bittersweet to go out on top.
You have a capacity for missing the point.
The microcode store in the CPU itself shouldn't be writable (if it were we wouldn't need to load microcode updates from the firmware or the OS on every boot), but there needs to be some microcode on there for the CPU to be able to execute the firmware code that updates the microcode. And yes, microcode is signed (and typically also encrypted). SMM shouldn't have any special level of access to the microcode, any persistence here is likely via the system firmware (which should, as a result, be caught by Platform Secure Boot on platforms where that's enabled)
I'm not sure what point you're making about backend complexity. We're talking about Electron as a toolkit for desktop apps. You can distribute it as a binary with an installer. That's a big part of the Electron value proposition.

Is using web APIs for things like networking and storage really more burdensome than using the corresponding POSIX APIs? It's the same stuff with a different spelling.
Somewhat related: resonance figures formed by a vibrating plate, https://americanhistory.si.edu/science/chladni.htm
Outside Bell Labs many other languages came to be.
His ideas are incorporated into everything around you, you just aren't seeing or understanding it.

The dymaxion car redefined both aerodynamics and space efficiency in vehicles. It inspired the VW bus, and lives on today in cabover vans and buses around the world, which efficiently transport a lot of people by allowing nearly the entire footprint of the vehicle to be used for passengers.

It was in no way a practical vehicle itself, but it showcased a huge number of new ideas that were later incorporated into vehicles- it was a 'concept car' with a huge impact.
I wish someone from the bandwagon could answer.
And the bigger the operation, the more $ is at stake for them and the more resources they have to allocate to stopping you and/or revenge.
It's more like `Configured<T>` -- a Functor, something not too dissimilar to `List<T>`, but a) with just one `T` in it, b) with all your configuration things in the `Configured<T>` instance.

So everywhere you deal with a value that is of some type `Configured<T>` you can then refer to all the configuration methods you'd expect of you `Configuration` types. In Java you'd say something like `this.getConfigBlah()`, and it would just work.

> I'm taking some parameters and baking them into methods that I will call later.

Yes.

> But does this have anything to do with monads or some monadic version of state?

In languages that have monads: yes!
True, doesn't change the fact that outside Linus hate for C++, other places, with more sensible persons, have chosen otherwise.
Not 100% true - a microcode-based CPU without microcode isn't able to execute anything, so CPUs will ship with an early version of the microcode that's then (as you say) updated during boot.
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Something has absolutely been lost in the transition to 3d and voice acting, and all of that crap.

When I was a kid, I was playing games made for adults, or at least teenagers. Mega Man X, Super Mario World, Turtles in Time, Metal Slug... those games were tough!

I learned to read from Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. We would go to our mom as 4 and 5 year olds and beg her to teach us so we could play these mysterious games with amazing graphics and music.

We all went into kindergarten learning to read, and I tested at a 12 grade level in 3rd grade.

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Modern game design in some ways is better than it ever has been. Games like Dead Cells have taken the arcade "keep starting over" mechanic and fine-tuned it into an amazing mechanic. Elden Ring has such rich, amazing lore, coupled with a challenging adventure game with awesome combat, and the ability to build a character to fit your personality. Baldur's Gate 3 feels like a real tabletop RPG, it really is the zenith of modern RPG storytelling.

However, something has been lost in translation. Beat-em-ups, SHMUPs, and character action games like:

- Devil May Cry 3

- Godhand

- E.S.P. Ra.De

- Ninja Gaiden Sigma

- Resident Evil 4

- Streets of Rage 3

- Contra

- Metal Slug

- Alien vs. Predator ( the beat-em-up )

are not simple games, as they first appear. They are challenging masterpieces that emerged from arcade genres, and were developed by former arcade developers.

They have intricate scoring systems that let you push-your-luck and be rewarded with a higher score. Your competition was the other kids in the arcade, and climbing that leader-board. The ultimate achievement was a 1cc, clearing the entire game on one credit. Bonus points if you get a high score!

They came from a culture where scoring systems mattered. Modern games are great, but I miss the old days.

There is a youtuber called "The Electric Underground" who has some great content on arcade game and character action game design. Highly recommend his review of Resident Evil 4 Remake.
Meta and Google with the GDPR. It started nicely with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist but Meta finally got hit with a 1.2 billions fine for towing the line on international data transfer mostly because it’s the fifth time they are fined and apparently they had yet to get the message.
Yes, fair enough. My hasty anger was emotionally driven because I just built a fairly powerful gaming computer with a Ryzen 3600, and because I am perpetually chafed by the hardware treadmill. I still think "no fix planned" for their CPUs that are widely used and <5 years old is ridiculous.
Good point! I've also played almost a year's worth of World of Warcraft — it happened organically!
Um... no? .intern is not a valid TLD; you can't get any domains with it, nobody has proposed that TLD, and if someone did that issue would be discovered then.
> In any case, it is now vital information infrastructure in ways YouTube isn't.

Potentially, but then there is still the risk of what the government knows. Russian citizens living in the West who donated to Ukrainian organizations are at risk if they travel to Russia. If telegram is surveyed by the Russian state that turns into a problem quickly.
I always do <a href="#" id="logout">logout</a> so there is no url to accidentally GET call anyways.
Yes, the general spirit is good but the clinical trial stage is the very end of a long process. The clinical trial the most visible part of getting a new cancer treatment to patients, but the bulk of delay in developing a new treatment is waiting for the basic science. More aggressive clinical trials could save ~ years. More aggressive education and fundamental research could save ~ decades. Can't run a trial on a treatment that doesn't exist yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Yes! WhisperKit's TestFlight app does all three on Apple Silicon: https://www.takeargmax.com/blog/whisperkit

I wish they had Speaker Diarization, but they are waiting for upstream Whisper to add it: https://github.com/argmaxinc/WhisperKit/issues/31
How many years of our lives would be saved if Jira was rewritten in Verilog and ran on the fastest FPGAs?

Not much. I bet it spends most of the time looking up data on their massive databases, which do the best they can to cope with the data structures Jira uses internally. You could, conceivably, write a competitor from scratch in highly optimised Rust (or C++) and, by the time you have covered all the millions of corner cases that caused Atlassian to turn a ticketing system into Jira, you’ll have a similar mess.
My sense is that it's more of an "it is what it is" situation. That is, if you're operating in a domain which requires or presumes literacy, then you'll do better to have a realistic appraisal of what the reality is.

Among other factors, the level seems to be relatively consistent over time, it corresponds to other similarly nuanced measures (the OECD computer literacy survey mentioned in my linked 2021 comment, Jean Piaget's work on intellectual attainment levels, presumably based on 1950s/1960s France), and other broad measures.

The US has a strong sense of the actual literacy situation because it actually tests for this, where many other countries apparently do not, or don't publish their findings. "Highly literate" is a pride and prestige factor for many countries, and rates of 95--99% literacy (often given) likely are based on very low minimum standards.

I also suspect that there may be some negative consideration given the large immigrant / non-native-English speaking population in the US (where some of the latter is in fact native-born but in insular communities), where individuals may have literate capabilities in their native language but not English. Given that the lowest rates of adult literary attainment are in southern border communities (most notably in the Big Bend region of Texas) this seems at least possible.

If you are highly literate and technical you're all but certainly an outlier amongst the general population, and your own immediate experience and that of those you encounter most often is probably not a generalisable one.

In the technical context I've called this the Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User, which addresses both the fact that widely-used computer interfaces must be exceedingly basic (to avoid disenfranchising the vast majority of the population) and that this means that proficient or expert users face challenges in trying to address their own complex needs on such systems unless there are ready means of extending the system capabilities to match their personal ability and needs. The tension here is absolutely innate and inevitable.

Also, if you're trying to sell books, you're selling into roughly 10--20% of the population at best, most of the time. Which is why other forms of media (music, video, games) tend to be so much more popular, in all senses of that word.
If we are comparing a desktop app to a web app, an apples to apples comparison has to include frontend and backend.

>Is using web APIs for things like networking and storage really more burdensome than using the corresponding POSIX APIs?

Yes. Absolutely it is. If nothing else, you don't have an auth step. Not to mention the infrastructural and management overhead of web APIs. I don't have to worry about the care and feeding of a customer's hard drive the same way I do my service's database. Or pay Amazon for the privilege of using something more convenient.
Hey Breck, I'm not sure you understood properly what Anyquery is. It's a CLI to run SQL queries on "anything" (APIs mostly and files). Therefore, it's hard to provide a version without downloading anything.

But I guess it's because the landing page isn't clear enough. Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to fix that.
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That looks very useful for use with older lenses. With a modern lens, shouldn't Lightroom be able to apply a precise vignetting correction based on the image metadata and the lens parameters?
Which vehicles have you taken off road?

I've done Toyota Landcruiser, Toyota Tundra, Subaru Ascent, Subaru Outback, Subaru Crosstrek, Chevy Silverado.

I don't do crazy cliff stuff on them, I take my dirt bikes and quads on gnarly terrain.

The Ascent has impressed the hell out of me. Two wheels off the ground at 30% grade (40% on one corner) getting up a winding switchback in the Smokey Mountains.

If I got a citation from the National Park Service, I'd be pretty danged annoyed, and lose a lot of respect for the sensibility of the organization.
Ohh, IRC will eventually die, unfortunately. Why? When last dinosaurs like me vanish. I love IRC, I met hell of people on IRC in golden times.. 1998-2004. IRC will be always special in my hearh. I wrote IRC bots, IRC servers.

Currently, I still run my own IRC server for friends, I have syslog channel where bots are idling and msg importand/criticial messages from my infra (semi-centrliazed logging). I see no reason to move away from it.
IntelliJ pretty much has this; your can put changes into different changers sets, even within the same files.
This idea is really interesting to me but it seems like it would be hard to capture a similar kind of fun as progressing in a traditional metroidvania. That there is a trade-off between player movement abilities and map shortcuts is interesting enough to warrant a purchase (big fan of the genre, personally) but "100%" saves and the like could possibly be un-fun to make.

Although, I'm already imagining a sequence where you trade away your last movement ability and walk down some long-ish path to a place where you get all or most of them back (or different ones!). That could be fun and rewarding but it would definitely have to be done right.
Maersk Orders LNG Ships and Takes a Detour on Its Green Goals
If you think about it, the logical conclusion here is that insurance companies could end up with no customers at all. The ideal customer for them is someone with almost zero risk. But if their algorithms get advanced enough to accurately assess who’s a safe bet, anyone they do insure might as well take it as a sign that they don’t actually need insurance in the first place.

It's a self-defeating cycle. As the models improve, they'll start excluding anyone who might ever need to file a claim. The more they optimize, the less relevant they become. In the end, insurance might evolve into something entirely different or become obsolete altogether. It's the ultimate paradox of trying to reduce risk to zero: You end up with no business at all.
I mean, it's still a poor title for HN.
The ICANN root zone only contains gTLDs and ccTLDs which are delegated. Other TLDs which are explicitly reserved for non-public use, like .localhost, .test, or .invalid, don't appear on that list either.
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Not only that - when your ticket system becomes a Jira because of all the feature creep required, it’ll perform like a Jira.

Perhaps a little better if you can implement more in less crazy ways (it seems to keep a lot of logic into a relational database, which is a big no-no for the long term evolution of your system).
Thank you so much for feedback!!
> Electricity has no 'Logic Levels' to it.

Yes, but transceivers do.

> This is why TTL vs CMOS vs RTL vs Diode Logic vs whatever is a thing.

Yes, and they all have /different/ logic levels.

> the specs of electricity / logic chosen

Yes, what one might call the "logic levels."
The x86 family didn't come out of Bell Labs. It's not a question of where the programming languages came from but of the boundary line between hardware and software.
That may be the case for software development but custom tailored software for small businesses that can’t afford to hire a developer and spend months iterating with them will absolutely see a huge benefit.
XMPP? That is a protocol right?

Can you name drop some good client and server software for using that?
I'd like to hear more about this! I keep coming back to trying to OCR my journals, but nothing I've tried so far works well (enough) on handwriting.
ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web
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I'm more worried about the opposite- categorizing these type of manic visionaries as "charlatans" ignores the value of being able to advocate and try new ideas, and think radically outside of the box. I think this dissertation operates from the attitude that "nothing is possible, nothing is worth trying" and then extrapolates that taking risks and being innovative is charlatanism. It is what Nietzsche calls the philosophy of the "last man" - someone that takes no risks, is tired of life, and has goals of only comfort and security.
I've been typing with one hand for 20+ years. No AI.
They are willing to give you the only key, provided you release them from obligation to help you get your own information back if you lose your key.

For most people's threat model, this is not necessary, as even in the case of the San Bernardino terrorist iPhone, Apple doesn't tend to defeat their own security measures on demand. But following that situation and others, Apple added additional measures making it even more difficult for themselves.

See this support article:

"Advanced Data Protection for iCloud is an optional setting that offers our highest level of cloud data security. If you choose to enable Advanced Data Protection, your trusted devices will retain sole access to the encryption keys for the majority of your iCloud data, thereby protecting it using end-to-end encryption. Additional data protected includes iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes and more."

https://support.apple.com/en-nz/102651
> meaningless HN and reddit threads

Maybe they aren't so meaningless. Congregating in public forums to exchange ideas is something humans have done for millennia. I should hope that, amid the noise, we find value in the conversations here and leave a bit more enlightened or entertained.
You can also get to the new site from one of the hits further down ( https://textbooks.aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/tr... ) if you pay attention. But it's far from the transparency I'd have expected googling an openly available and multiply linked website.
I don't believe Nitro would allow you to access a GPU that's not directly connected to the CPU that the VM is running on. So swapping between GPU type or scaling to multiple GPUs is still a problem.

From the developer perspective, you wouldn't know that the H100 is across a network. The experience will be as if your computer is directly attached to an H100. The benefit here is that if you're not actively using the H100 (such as when you're setting up the instance or after the training job completes) you are not paying for the H100.
My totally unscientific model is that memories are run length encoded, so the monotonous periods' length is compressed, whereas if they are more diverse, the more info you have, so it needs an expanded storage which is proportional to the perceived time elapsed.