skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a programmer by trade who grew up on DOS and early Macintosh computers and ran Gentoo on my main machine for a bunch of years. I’ve done sysadmin work and Internet system architecture and blah blah blah.

The reality of my actual behavior these days is that my primary device is an iPhone. All the stuff I do that actually matters in my personal life (not work) takes place there.

“Real” computers are worse at or totally incapable of doing a lot of what it does for me (I don’t want to use a laptop for turn-by-turn directions or to hail an Uber or whatever, to call out just a couple examples) and its lack of “real” computing capabilities are somewhere between irrelevant-to and beneficial-for what I need it to do and how I need it to operate.

I use Windows and Linux for play but nothing that matters happens there. If every computing device I own except my phone stopped working, I would have no actual need whatsoever to replace them, and nothing bad or even inconvenient would happen. (Exception for my work MacBook, but I don’t own that)
Web site says:

> does not reveal any identifying information about Alice or Bob

In my opinion this is not really true, any radio transmitter can be triangulated (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding), and once the position is known, the identity of the user can possibly be inferred. Of course the transmitter can be concealed, or operated from a remote location, but this might cancel the benefits of using no infrastructure.
Citus gets close for many usecases but the HA story sucks: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/7602
You still need need a public end point to host your tunnel. Is an internet facing bastion host with ssh not what you're looking for?
i was looking for one myself last year, this is the list i compiled then, might have been changes since, i dunno

pcspecialist.de

bestware.com

tuxedocomputers.com

au-banggood.com/en/

xoticpc.com

sagernotebook.com

au.starlabs.systems

slimbook.es
For. The. Love. Of. The. Game.

Your skills are cause you wanted to do it, not because you wanted to be famous. That's the by-product.
Don't disrespect Alan Turing by reanimating him with AI
Torrent files have hash check sums of the fragments. If someone sends you a bad fragment it will be discarded.

Magnet links are also hashes, so when you retrieve torrent metadata from your peers from a magnet link that data will also be verified for integrity.

However, if the original torrent itself was made from malicious data then it’s still gonna result in malicious code on your system.

Interestingly though, it is probably far more likely that a torrent with a very low number of seeders is malicious, than that a popular torrent contains malicious data in the files you download.

I suppose it could still be possible that the malicious code sent by a peer was targeting a weakness in your torrent client itself though. And that they could get remote code execution on your computer that way.

The main thing I would worry about with torrents is that your IP could be seen in the swarm by one of the companies that monitor torrent peers on behalf of rights holders and send you a nasty demand for money and threats of legal action.
It’s still a WIP but skops (https://skops.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) may be of interest (for secure sklearn serialization)
> If you want WYSIWYG, do WYSIWYG. If you want Markdown, show the Markdown. Trust me, it’s meant to be shown.

One valuable thing about using Markdown as an data storage/exchange format is that it's often easier to manipulate; for example, diffs are normally going to be better, and content edits often easier. Mind you, a proper encoding of a WYSIWYG format, and corresponding tooling, will be better... but for quick-and-dirty that normally works well, Markdown is ultimately pretty good (unfortunately, in my opinion).
Mark Zuckerberg reveals 7ft statue of wife
I never understood the desire to idolize famous people. Almost always the achievement was done by a group where the famous person took the credit and marginalized the other contributors. We teach our kids that somehow a single person did these amazing things when in truth they were the lead or figurehead of a larger movement organization or group.
>The app store is, at its heart, an enabler of totalitarianism. The first link of the chain is forged from the freedom to own your computer for marginal profits, but the rest are forged from your human rights.

1. Practically speaking, those restrictions are trivially bypassed by changing the region on your apple account, or using an alt account for app store. Yes, this presents a hurdle, but given that any serious totalitarian regime would probably also be implementing network-level blocks for such services and you'd need VPNs to bypass those, I don't think this materially changes availability of those apps.

2. Apple is doing those things because they have to comply with local laws. Would you rather have multinationals flout local laws? Or only when it suits your politics? What makes one country's laws more legitimate than another? Some of the hate speech/defamation laws in European countries are arguably pretty draconian as well. Should Apple, being an American company, push American notions of free speech to European countries?
> half Greek and half Latin

For your amusement: What a physics textbook might look like without borrowing words from French, Greek, or Latin. [0] Such as isotopes that are unstable:

> Most samesteads of every firststuff are unabiding. Their kernels break up, each at its own speed. This speed is written as the half-life, which is how long it takes half of any deal of the samestead thus to shift itself. The doing is known as lightrotting. It may happen fast or slowly, and in any of sundry ways, offhanging on the makeup of the kernel. A kernel may spit out two firstbits with two neitherbits, that is, a sunstuff kernel, thus leaping two steads back in the roundaround board and four weights back in heaviness. It may give off a bernstonebit from a neitherbit, which thereby becomes a firstbit and thrusts the uncleft one stead up in the board while keeping the same weight. It may give off a forwardbit, which is a mote with the same weight as a bernstonebit but a forward lading, and thereby spring one stead down in the board while keeping the same weight. Often, too, a mote is given off with neither lading nor heaviness, called the weeneitherbit. In much lightrotting, a mote of light with most short wavelength comes out as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
I'm not sure that one can distinguish between a russian asset and a russian prisoner so easily.
The concept itself ("being on the payroll") is archetypical head-in-the-sand American. All countries have intelligence assets on the payroll, and that absolutely includes the US, probably on the #1 spot.

Its like Americans complaining about how Chinese or Indian hit movies are covertly pro-Chinese or pro-Indian propaganda pieces. Ever heard of Hollywood?
Keep drinking the Kremlin Koolaid (TM), friend.
A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled
I got in today. I'm very impressed. FormKit is something we were looking to adopt for our CRM. It's clearly a very mature form library.
'Uncensorable' yes, but still vulnerable to novel government regulation, jamming, rubber hose attack, etc. Folks using Meshtastic in Ukraine rapidly found out that they were advertising their positions, as well, resulting in being struck by opposing forces. I enjoy LARPing as a prepper, but I'm afraid this technology has been demonstrated to fall short in times and places where people really needed to use it in anger.

The moment this sort of technology begins to pose a real threat to the control soft-authoritarian governments like the EU and UK have over the populace, they'll simply ban or regulate it the way they already do guns and large cash transactions, and are currently considering doing with Twitter[1]. Once you break that law, you'll be doing 18 months in prison for your ham hobby.

I suspect we will just have to go back to talking to each other in the pub :-(

[1] https://youtu.be/mrTj6XdpXPM
If the salt is public, what’s the point, then you can get all the salts, and combine them with every possible ssn, and you’re back where you were before.
Here in Germany you can see how this argument evolves. For the Green party everything which disagrees with their position is declared nowadays rated as "hate speech" because the only conceivable reason for disagreeing with the green is people hate them.
Oh wow. From headline, I first thought this meant that viewing a markdown document should show me the markup. Which falls on its face with images and links, of course.

No, this is about editing the document. And... I confess I'm confused on why folks would want the opposite? WYSIWYG is, of course, a thing and popular for many reasons. So, I can see having the option to operate in that way. But a huge benefit of markup languages of any kind is that I can see the markup. Fully agreed that I should be able to see it.
I still remember lots of microwaves coming with metal racks so you could stack multiple things in them. Sometimes they still do come with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14oO_saaM9Q
They're following the Mongo playbook
I don't think this is Galois theory. Galois theory is about "The Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory", which states that there is a nice mapping from field-extensions to group-extensions, where the resulting groups are usually finite. When the resulting groups are finite (as they usually are), many problems involving field extensions can be solved using brute-force search.

Galois fields happen to be something else named in honour of Galois.
which has yet to leak. as far as we know, the equifax data never became public.
I used to use a Surface Pro 3 on Linux just fine, I really don't think the hardware requirements are an issue. And circumstantially, Linux has upstream Wacom device drivers that still supports hardware from 2003 (at least my CTE 430).
I find this a very interesting observation! (Don’t have a dog)
Note though, that the paper describes the different speeds that are possible when walking with equal efficiency to be quite narrow in comparison to running.

There is this related saying that „the fastest marathoners burn just as much calories as the slowest to complete 42km, they just do it in a much shorter time“. This kind of range is not available to walking.
There is no evidence anyone who used their services would of paid. The "theft" is propaganda. In fact from the article itself it even says Mega had a notice and takedown system available to the rights holders. So once again what is it that was stolen?
Megaupload was not deleting content. They only deleted links to the content. So, if you had 10 links to the same video, and a copyright holder contacted them to delete their content under link #1, they would only remove that link but leave the rest (links and content) intact.
> Regardless of what you think that's exactly how democracy works.

As I said, I can't continue this conversation. Our understandings are too far apart.
Also, just because the light is green does not mean it is safe to go. You should still look and make sure the other traffic is actually coming to a stop.
1. They could be required to store a private copy of the removal requests, data that they can't sell (not ideal)

2. Sounds like "data brokers" that sell private information just shouldn't exist...
This isn't a problem on Linux because there's a careful community oriented path for users who may not understand what they're doing without cutting things off from knowledgeable users.

In fact OSX let everyone just download and run binaries and even that didn't have this problem. That's not a hypothetical situation, literally everyone used computers that way until recently.

There's a long tail of people who will manage to blow their devices up regardless but maybe they shouldn't be using computers unaided. It's very frustrating to make literally everyone else's lives harder just for them.
Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....
Personal experience (sample size: 1), a lost sale when I was age 16 made a true believer out of me for some developers, so at 35 I buy their games no question day 1.

A lot can change in 19 years, but I've gone back and bought most every game I pirated on steam now that the income isn't as scarce.
Well... yes, one does have to make good decisions and be intentional about using private software even on open platforms. But at least with open platforms, one has the choice to do so without a corporation being able to unilaterally wipe something away from that platform, or impose terms on that software due to market capture.
Patent threats can be used to stop something being taught, rather than being used? That is awful.
It shouldn't be too surprising that these are peptides. It should be easier for a bacterium to evolve a new peptide than would be to evolve a new non-peptide antibiotic, since the latter requires evolving a new sequence of enzymes, each of which is a peptide.
I don't care what Schmidt's opinions are but at least stand by your comments. Stanford you're just as bad.
YouTube didn't bribe congress. They built significant tooling that gave the rights holders what they wanted, even beyond what the law required them to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....

To this day, rights-holders don't even have to take legal action or issue a formal DMCA takedown to have videos taken down or siphon off the profits of those who use their content. It is even automated.
Matt Levine is great at writing about the difference between laws as written and how they work in practice. He's pretty fascinated by some of the cases where the two diverge sharply.
I had no idea Plank's work connected to Galois. I wish a University was able to publish free open information but money decides research.
The book doesn't have 2024 in the title. I suspect they put it there because last time a post about this book was made, I noted that it was from 2022, not realizing that the book has now been released in 2024.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940799

> So what's different about writing a compiler in 2024 than say 10, 20, or 30 years ago?

As far as I can tell, the main difference is that static single assignment (SSA) as an intermediate form was not the norm 30 years ago, but it is nowadays. Also, in newer books, it's more common to go over global register allocation now, whether that's graph coloring or linear scan register allocation. If you read old compiler books, the main optimizations they talk about are use-def chains, moving computations out of loops, and using the local and tree-based Sethi-Ullman register allocation algorithm.
Was your Social Security number leaked?
The back of the house is not suddenly paying more. The front of the house would just be paying less.
> ... the neuroprosthesis achieved 90.2% accuracy using a 125,000-word vocabulary. With further training data, the neuroprosthesis sustained 97.5% accuracy over a period of 8.4 months after surgical implantation, and the participant used it to communicate in self-paced conversations at a rate of approximately 32 words per minute for more than 248 cumulative hours.
I’m not sure it was a much considered cutting edge rather it was considered cost effective. 99.99% of office workers did not need this kind of workstation, windows systems were cheaper and became ubiquitous.
I don't like the fact that even free users need an annual license key.
Pictures text just fine to non-Apple users. Videos don’t go through, but that’s because of a limitation of the text protocol (and Apple is finally providing support for the extended text format that allows videos to be sent via text)¹. Claiming that iMessage should be opened up is kind of like saying that you should be forced to allow people to park their cars on your front lawn. iMessage is a non-zero-cost service that Apple provides to add value to their products. You might as well insist that Apple allow people to install iOS on a non-Apple phone.

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1. I will criticize Apple for bad UI design in that if you text a video to a non-iMessage user, it silently fails rather than alerting the sender that the video can’t be sent.
I happily pay some money for not maintaining another server/service in my private time. 10€/month for a managed server with ssh, Postgres, MySQL, mail, and backups is worth it for me: https://uberspace.de/en/ (not affiliated, just a happy customer)
>Again: you can literally go on Patreon.com on your iPhone right now and subscribe to any creator you want without paying Apple’s fees.

I'm glad that walled gardens like Apple and their App Store teach people how valuable is the Open Web.
Disagree. Someone who is well and truly addicted to drugs does, in fact, need it like the air they breathe. Drug dealers provide a necessary service to those folks where a lot (most?) of the "above the belt" services aimed at rehabilitation either fail completely or make matters actively worse.
Maybe I’m too liberal here, but in my opinion, that’s how a job market works (and should work). As long as they get minimum wage, they can either do the job with the agreed upon conditions and payment or they can work somewhere else. And if they don’t get minimum wage like you claimed, they should sue. If the contract was broken, they should sue, too.
Onnx is really helpful for shipping models from development to productionisation environments. It's standard is only designed to allow "safe operations", anything to do with text manipulation, for example, you'd have to write your own operator or glue logic for.

Shameless self promotion here but I wrote a little bit about calling Onnx in Scala here - https://tajd.co.uk/2023/10/15/onnx-interface-scala
Lately? This was cool like 12 years ago. Then you turn commercial once you get enough users. It’s the open source chameleon model.
I think you are entirely correct in that assessment, that the physical layer is vulnerable ...

A different question - one I am curious about - is what can be known: Just the fact that A and B are running a transmiter -or- their identities ...
Traceroute, firewalls, and the modern Internet: a horrible realization
But doing so increases risk from regulators
Diablo 1 Ported to WebAssembly
The issue is there’s no choice. There’s Apple, Google, Samsung and there is utter trash. You just can not buy a good phone that you can fully own. You can’t even buy a mediocre phone you fully own.
Cockroach marketed themselves as largely Postgres-compatible, so I guess there's that.
Yes exactly, it absolutely occurs on a spectrum. You can feel the difference in a startup when no one wants what you're selling, when some people are pretty into it but most people don't care, and when everyone has to have it.
I remember companies pushing their own listening apps so they could collect more of your behavior than from podcast apps. Patreon will not pay the fee if they pull all payments from their app. It can be a player/browser app with all the instrumentation they want.
> If you are trying to protect against nation-state-level tampering or data leaks for two full generations, the enemy moves much quicker, and so you will need to advance much more quickly

It's supposed to protect my users' data for two full generations, but the advice is only good for 3 years?
It's the language barrier between online forums and "the real world". Increasingly blurred, but still present.
Is that alleged or proven? Because the law does no require you to take down a file and the make sure that file is not uploaded by someone else. In fact all it requires is you to take it down if you're hosting it, so if someone else uploads a file they would have to notify you of that file as well for the simple fact that it may actually now be the rightsholder uploading it.
It's all abstract nonsense until it starts having practical results lol :)

The main motivation for Galois theory was proving the insolvability of the quintic. For those not aware, there is a general formula solving the quadratic equation (i.e. solving ax^2 + bx + c = 0). That formula has been known for millenia. With effort, mathematicians found a formula for the cubic (i.e. solving ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d = 0), and even the quartic (order 4 polynomials). But no one was able to come up with a closed-form solution to the quintic. Galois and Abel eventually proved that a quntic formula DOES NOT EXIST. At least, it cannot be expressed in terms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents and roots. You can even identify specific equations that have roots that cannot be expressed in those forms, for example x^5 - x + 1.

I took an entire course on it that went through the proof. It's actually very interesting. It sets up this deep correspondence between groups and fields, to the point that any theory about groups can be translated into a theory about fields and vice versa. And it provides this extremely powerful set of tools for analyzing symmetries. The actual proof is actually really anticlimactic. You have all these deep proofs about the structures of roots of polynomial equations, and at the very end you just see that the structures of symmetries of certain polynomials of degree 5 (like x^5 - x + 1) don't follow the same symmetries that the elementary mathematical operations have. Literally, the field of solutions to that polynomial doesn't map to a solvable group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvable_group

In almost the same breadth, it also proves that it is impossible to trisect an angle using just a compass and straightedge, a problem that had been puzzling mathematicians for millennia. It's actually almost disappointing: we spent then entire course just defining groups and fields and field extensions and all this other "abstract nonsense". And once all of those definitions are out of the way, the proof of the insolvability of the quintic takes 10 minutes, same for the proof of impossibility of trisecting an angle.
redwoolf: as you’ll no doubt have noticed by now, the internet is awash with bots (or worse, people) pushing right-wing and/or blatant Russian propaganda. This is one of the standard lines: any pushback against verifiably criminal actions is “censorship”.

You and I know the legal difference between posting “I disagree with the government” and “You should get a gun and shoot somebody”. One is protected free speech, the other is incitement of violence - which does not matter if you incite in person or on an online forum.

Don’t worry about the trolls and Kremlin-lovers, they’re a dime a dozen these days and not worth the hassle.
I’ve been scouring the preferences pane once again but can’t find anything like it. Any tips?
Fine and dandy until half the software I want and/or need to run requires a root kit or otherwise dangerous access and the alternative is “don’t get to do that thing” where “that thing” may include stuff like communicating with clients or a job interview or whatever.

Short of legislation (please! Please just outlaw shitty behavior like this!) you need a platform too big to ignore that prohibits the worst behavior, or you’re gonna be forced to choose between two kinds of loss constantly.
I believe you have to install "Firefox Nightly" from the playstore to be able to use extensions like uBlock on mobile.
My memory of the story was they got some research funding from the troll company and were naive about human greed.
That depends on the topography a bit.

He presumably means there's newly oceanfront property, too.
Deno KV uses FoundationDB, for example:

https://deno.com/blog/building-deno-kv
I’m not even necessarily agreeing that it’s suspicious (ok, it is a bit suspicious but not so weird that I would immediately proclaim that he’s guilty), I just don’t think it’s productive to post sarcastic comments rebutting strawman arguments. If the commenter wanted to say that having a lot of cash isn’t suspicious, they should have just said that instead of making a point about google making a lot of money, too.