skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grandparent's argument is ridiculous but so is yours, how is free will required to make a conclusion on the existence of free will ?
NASA to announce stranded astronauts return as SpaceX preps risky mission
Hey, glad you enjoyed it! And I agree – the sudden freedom to shape the story and really form relationships with the NPCs is mind-blowing. It's definitely a glimpse into the future of gaming and storytelling.

Also, having the text appear in sync with the voice is a great idea. I'll experiment and see what feels best, but even just having the words fade in one-by-one at a speaking rate could be good. Thanks for the suggestions!
This is so nicely designed and smooth! The response time is super impressive!
For mainland France it's reasonable to assume the French national grid. But what about French Guiana in South America or Mayotte in Southern Africa (an island north of Madagascar)?

France still spans the globe, with many places treated as equals to the French mainland.
Ah I did not realize this. Whoops. Thanks for clarifying!
Longtime Joplin [1] user here, how does the most recent version of Zettlr compare? I have grown really comfortable with the simple interface of Joplin, plus using S3 for sync makes life easy for me as I'm living on my own infrastructure.

[1] https://joplinapp.org/
Or if editors swap ***, :fediverse:, etc. for it automatically. There's no* emoji keyboards, but people use emoji all the time.

* Well, there is, but there isn't a widely available consumer product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk
Little-date: Small and sweet date-range formatting
Say what you will about Wolfram: he's a brilliant writer and teacher. The way he's able to simplify complex topics without dumbing them down is remarkable. His visualizations are not only extremely helpful but usually also beautiful, and if you happen to have Mathematica on hand, you can easily reproduce what he's doing. Anytime someone asks me for a quick introduction to LLMs, I always point them to this article of his, which I still think is one of best and most understandable introductions to the topic:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
> If someone is interested, I will link my GitHub repo.

I'm very interested...this post has encouraged me to play with aerc again, and the first filter you posted is something I have always wanted in an email client!
I think some of this is starting to come into focus. It appears the way these keys are commonly stored necessitates careful treatment after generation. For instance, if this reference is accurate, an RSA private key in PKCS#1 includes the p and q prime factors on which the whole security of the key pairs depends, so you certainly would not want to mix up the files: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/79606
As someone that is familiar with using nvidia-smi to track util, what are some commands people use to track the SM efficiency? The end of the article had some references, but no examples of what to use explicitly.
What mechanism do they use to overstate it?
I wonder if this is still the same handbook new hires get today. Would be interesting to see the current version, if there is one.
Any Nethack veteran knows this can happen to you if you try to read a cursed spellbook.
> Instead of using UDP he reads the firewall log.

Hah! I'd never seen this before, but in a fit of pique driven by ssh scanning one day I did a similar pattern on my OpenBSD router: I added a block in log to a high port in pf.conf, wired up a little shell script that did tcpdump on pflog0 and watched for a packet to come in, then added the IP to the allow port 22 table.

I knocked on the door three times, two of which were testing, and ended up throwing it all out in favor of wireguard & making SSH no longer listen on em0, which seems infinitely less silly.
> or transmit to places that cannot generate themselves

Sticking to the 1812 scenario; that is a substantially harder problem to solve than putting the nuclear plants somewhere extremely remote and moving power to where it is needed. I'm not convinced you're really thinking about the cost-effectiveness of the redundancies you're suggesting here.

I wouldn't say impossible, but I would say there is room here for a solar catastrophe to turn out to be worse than a nuclear one. It is hard to overemphasise how mild the nuclear industry has been so far in terms of harm done - even including the catastrophes. Places like Fukushima apparently have exclusion zone limits of 50 millisieversts per year [0]. That is almost a third of what humans left to their own devices live with when left to their own devices with no local panic [1]. We're talking damage done that is right on the threshold of our ability to even detect it. It won't take that many sigmas of a correlated outage for solar panels to do worse than that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup#New...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar%2C_Iran#Radioactivity
It says "once chosen" not "once opened". Certainly it would be madness if opening a browser makes it the default.
You haven't thought about this enough. Make it small so it's understandable - say any game involving choice. One has free will within the predetermined set of conditions of the game. A choice to buy a property or not in Monopoly seems like free will but it isn't really. Life is the same.

Considering that we as human beings don't get to decide what exactly we remember, recall, when we recall or how much we recall - that is memory. What we remember and what we forget. I point this out because it's not a conscious activity but also determines actions, greatly so even.

In the Monopoly example perhaps a property is bought bc its a favorite color or they remember winning before with it or its the one they kno their cousin wants. Whatever the personal reasons, there are reasons - nobody plays Monopoly with all logic and reason.

So we have limited circumstantial choices and predetermined biased assessments of those choices - both beyond our control.

What is free will in that context?
That wouldn't happen to be from this story, would it?
https://hackaday.com/2020/11/18/larry-berg-and-the-purple-op...
One major difference is that Netflix has a monopoly on much of its content, but LLMs are fungible.

Dell was never able to jack up its prices, even when it was dominant in the market, because people would just go to another vendor. I think OpenAI is closer to a Dell than a Netflix.
GMail, the web client, is an almost worthless email client. It has like maybe 1% of the features of thunderbird.

As with most web apps, it's more of a preview than an application.
There’s significant money to be lost (lawsuits, massive reputations damage) if it was discovered they weee deliberately training on data they had guaranteed that they were not training on.
Employment is not a meaningful metric. During the Nile-floodings, employment was at an all time high - and that was a pyramid-scheme.
I live in Finland nowadays, and this system is nice.

I moved from Scotland where there are frequently buildings containing multiple apartments - tenements - there are there are two systems for the labeling of the apartments.

The first is the obvious one, "flat 1", "flat 2", "flat 3" (often this would be written after the number of the street - so flat six at number seven example road would be called 7/6 Example Road).

The second approach is the more physical layout. I used to live in "TFL, 7 Example Street". "TFL? Top flat - left side". You get "GFR" for "Ground-floor right", and similar examples. This worked really well if there were three floors to a building (top floor, middle floor, and ground floor) but the confusion got intensified if the building were higher.

There were times when you'd enter your postcode into an online service, ordering a home delivery for example, or setting up a new electricity contract, and you'd be presented with one/other of these systems. And broadly speaking it would always be the same. When I lived at TFL it was *never* called Flat 6, although I'd often enter it as 7/6 Example Street a time or two just to keep the posties on their toes!

To be honest most of the time the postal delivery people were smart, if I got mail addressed to "Steve, 7 Example Road" it would end up at the correct apartment. Either because the postal delivery person knew - they tended to have fixed routes - or one of my neighbours would do the decent thing and redelivery if it was sent to them in error.
That's interesting. What's your take on what ego is and why it won't let you experience it and what to do about it?
If you have a price competitive modular rapidly approved and scaled meltdown proof plant design that can be built in a couple years.

Unfortunately, that does not exist in nuclear power. As in, not a single one of those requirements is fulfilled by any commercial design.
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
That test is actually funny, in a good way; like how you said you got those links in the first place on the about page is pretty much what any experienced web dev finds out day-to-day.

Most sites I sent to it came back with plenty of false positives, mainly because htaccess rewrites resolve the URIs as query string IDs and returned empty pages with "Sorry, but the information you're looking for doesn't exist..."
Sending encrypted messages is obfuscation? Can you elaborate?
Sure, but I di already ask:)

- which specific people do you think committed crimes?

- which specific crimes do you think they committed?

- what evidence do you have of these crimes linked to these people?

- bonus question, given how mad the US was at bankers post 2008 and how hard prosecutors tried to link people to crimes, nothing came out of this, why did prosecutors fail to find any data to charge people?
> opening a browser is going to automatically set it as my default

Pretty sure that's not what that says.
Hey, I’m on the Vercel team. We don’t block Protonmail, however we do have different services used to help prevent abuse and malicious signups.

They look at signals to determine whether the email needs a second review, which is why it’s suggesting to reach out to the provided email. Once you do that, we can get it approved and moving along. Sorry about the friction here – we’re continuing to tune the heuristics.
With two different significant discussions, it's basically a dupe twice over. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (under 'reposts')
do you have a source on the tiny goodstein sequence machine? that sounds like a really interesting read
It is protected by if the request uses JSON or similar. The point is still that this is the target problem that it is trying to address.

> Why not use a canonical example that is protected against by default?

I think demonstrating how full of holes the default policy is is a great way to emphasis that you should not rely on the default protections. It is a huge hack and you should put into place proper protections if your site uses any form of implicit credentials.

> You describe CORS as blocking things. I think it's the same origin policy that blocks things

CORS and the same origin policy are the same thing, two sides of the same coin. They express what is allow and what isn't. CORS is a configuration layer for the same origin policy, allowing you to change the default policy.
the graphics in it make it so much better
I think you’re misreading this one. I don’t think they’re saying “opening a browser sets it to your default”, they’re saying that when the OS prompts you to select a default / when the user changes the default, it should automatically download that browser application for the user. This in contrast to either A) only showing you which browsers are already installed or B) showing you options, taking you to the App Store for the replacement if it’s not already installed and then requiring you to return to the selection to select the new browser after it’s installed.
Manufacturing is getting worse from the U.S. Air Force having to reverse engineer parts to the U.S. Navy facing similar challenges with obsolete components and diminishing manufacturing sources for its aging fleet. Boeing in decline ... the list goes on but then there is SpaceX.
Playbooks that I've found value in:
- Generic application version SLI comparison. The automated version of this is automated rollbacks (Harness supports this out of the box, but you can certainly find other competitors or build your own)
- Database performance debugging
- Disaster recovery (bad db delete/update, hardware failure, region failure)

In general, playbooks are useful for either common occurences that happen frequently (ie every week we need to run a script to fix something in the app) or things that happen rarely but when they do happen need a plan (ie disaster recovery)
Excellent point, thanks for the correction!
Common Risks Associated with APIs
Sometimes precision dies, no one cares, and that's ok. There are vanishingly few people who can maintain pipe organs, which is ok because historically speaking relatively few people want to listen to pipe organs anymore.

We can't prioritize everything all the time forever.
Except it... is an OS? It may not be rocking its own kernel, sure, but that doesn't make it not its own OS.
>Just send the request without cookies if CORS doesn't allow it.

The problem is how will the browser know whether CORS would allow it or not? It could send a preflight, yes. In the current rules that's only done for complex requests, not simple requests. You seem to be suggesting preflights be sent for all requests. That would balloon the number of requests, adding RTTs, slowing down page loads.

E.g. if example.com embeds an image from imgur.com and the browser happens to have a cookie in the imgur.com cookie jar, should the browser send a preflight request first to decide whether to attach cookies to the request or not? That preflight would slow down the page load. In the current rules, the cookies are simply attached, with no preflight required for that type (simple) of request.
I applied to one of those positions at Canonical. Their hiring process is so bad, I noped out. No wonder they have open positions all the time, since serious engineers are not going to put up with those shenanigans.

What does my high school GPA and traits have to do with my work as a senior kernel engineer? It reeks of cliques and I want nothing to do with it.
About 40, of which I only use a few. It actually got me started on a project: how can I minimize the cost of keeping all of those domains.
After a lot of tinkering I could cut costs with a healthy amount, not sure if it was worth all the time I put into it though, haha ;)

Maybe it will help someone out: https://www.dot.bs/registrar-combinations -> copy-paste a list of your domains, and it will find the cheapest combination of registrars for you
"You might not have noticed it, but your brain did" - H. Plinkett
Powell indicates rate cuts ahead: 'The time has come for policy to adjust'
> Only a child brings their activism to work.

Heavily disagree. We are not robots/tools to simply do what we are told, we are people with free will and morals. It's only a child that will simply do what they are told by "authority" without asking any questions, having any objections, and not having an opinion on their own.

> Do the job you were hired to do

That's the motto of many war criminals, notably the Nazis, who were doing horrendous things to other humans, simply following orders. We each have a brain to think, and morality to guide us, and there is nothing wrong with people banding up to change what their job requires of them.

That's how we got the 40 hours work week and a weekend. People gathered together and together pressured their employers to respect their demands. And now you have your Saturday and Sunday off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated_Clothing_Workers_o...

> it is your livelihood and how you survive

You are forgetting the fact that workers also have rights and also can demand things from their employers. It's not as one sided, as you try to make it sound, and as a matter of fact, it's employers who need their workers, not the other way around.

> Such people were raised by others who told them that their feelings matter

Not sure if this is trolling, but people's feelings do matter, and those people seem to be raised right, to have a moral spine.

> than objective reality.

Objective reality is that the workers are pushing the company to drop the military contracts, and, as many other cases where workers gathered together, they might actually succeed. I wish them luck!
A really exciting product from many years ago was Meteor, which included a realtime database layer on top of Mongo that facilitated many very novel realtime apps.

However, it didn't scale well in terms of performance to large numbers of users.

Would anyone have thoughts on comparisons to Meteor?
> Dumb capitalism only?

More slightly-ethical, hopefully sustainable capitalism. I liked my products pre-enshittification, when they lasted 20 years and were built like tanks.

Hark on them all you want, but I‘ve been using my 2016 MacBook for 8 years without problems.
"Simplification" via centralization and convenience is how we ended up with Facebook and similar basically owning the Internet. People no longer using email or hosting or using webpages "because it's too confusing" and instead using Facebook or Twitter for everything. Everything accessed via "apps" on closed platforms. Gov't agencies and news orgs without their own online presence, just broadcasting via Musknet or YouTube. Schools or daycares sharing critical information over closed Facebook groups. Mass privacy violation & data collection. Mass disinformation campaigns over the same centralized mediums. Unmoderated hate speech or climate denial given giant-sized megaphones to hit naive audiences of grandparents and others unable to separate information wheat from chaff, because they're naively trusting the "simple" service they're endlessly scrolling through.

Usenet, e-mail, IRC, MUDs, MOOs, Gopher (and before that BBS) etc all required multiple sentences to explain, but they are the literal roots of the Internet, and how many of us got our start. The effort to "web-scale" and "simplify" is directly implicated in monopolization and shitification.

I'd rather have complexity than garbage.
Silicone -- easy to throw in the dishwasher, too.
You are touching on my thoughts exactly. It seems everyone would come out better if the insurance company just paid for them to rebuild. I suspect that'd come out cheaper and it would maybe deter the attacks by making them worth less..
https://archive.ph/vDBmI
It’s more like CEO‘s are focused on short term gains in order to get shareholders to grant them large pay packages.
Most mainstream distros work fine with secure boot still enabled. You can disable it if you want, but if you use Bitlocker, disabling secure boot will require you to enter the recovery key, which is a massive pain.

You can always disable secure boot if you want to, but in this case installing the patches released two years ago would probably be a better fix.
Ah, I see. You were saying that green threads can usually be scheduled on multiple os threads and take advantage of parallelism. Yup, I agree. Apologies for the confusion.
>That's because I worked with the actual lift controllers. They have TONS of additional states, like "door jammed". Or "elevator takes too long to move between floors", or "failed to transition to high speed from low speed", etc. Literally dozens of states with their own conditions and state machines.

I feel your pain, I really do - the next step from oversimplification is "how hard could it be", right? (see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33263261 where the responses mostly misunderstand me completely) Just about every state machine example that models a simplified embedded application suffers from the same issue, though. It's not unique to Drakon.

I haven't used the full Harel statechart formalism or modeling tools in production, though I expect I eventually will, but I've worked on a project whose state table got about that big before it shipped. Yes, some hierarchy would help a lot. Next time.

No, I wouldn't reach for a flowchart representation of a state machine as a first step in anything I can see myself doing. But even though flowcharts for programming pretty much went out with goto, they're still used to represent things like business processes and manufacturing processes (see Six Sigma, ISO 9001, etc). You will find a surprising number of non-programmer stakeholders that are comfortable with them. So I could see it being handy having the approach shown in that link in my back pocket in a bunch of cross-functional ways.
> Browsers should be allowed to know if they are the current default browser.

No. No no no no no.

Once my default is set, it is SET. I don't want Safari or Chrome or Firefox or $UNKNOWN_FOURTH_OPTION to prompt me every single time to make it my default browser. I just want the browser to know that it is running. Period.

Is there any good reason for the browser to know whether it's the default? Serious question. Because the only reason I can think of is whining about not being the default.
I can say from using the chat interface, Claude 3.5 is a top tier model for coding tasks. I used ChatGPT Pro previously, but I really find the experience of using Claude much more enjoyable overall.
> [...] there is widespread rootkit level malware and they are trying to stay ahead of the curve.

There literally is. BlackLotus bootkit actively abuses a vulnerability Microsoft has been trying to patch (by updating the blacklist the vulnerable bootloaders) for the past two years and it's still ongoing AFAIK.
Purposefully clickbait title.
I wish we could just phase out the USPS altogether and make better use of email. Get the big providers on board with some sort of signed delivery and receipt confirmation system, with an optional tie in login.gov identity verification for official matters.

The only mail I've gotten in the last 20 years is spam and receipts from old school companies they refuse to go paperless (usually some form of insurance).

It's such an antiquated, annoying system, and I wish it didn't exist so that agencies and businesses would be forced to use a more modern alternative.
O(microseconds) = O(years), this is not what big O notation means.
So no data to support it?
Yes sure, watching Netflix and killing people by accident is bad. But embezzling this amount of money has surely had very bad consequences for the affected people? And it was done on purpose!

It makes sense to me he gets five times the prison time...
Most of our politicians are arguably working against the American people...
of course, i didn't think of it as unkind. i was genuinely happy that someone took time out to reply. also, any tips on content marketing? if you've written a blog on your experience with it i'd be happy to read it.
No mistake; Hanlon's Razor does not apply; the current situation is a desired outcome.
They gave schneier.com 55/100.

https://inspect.new/schneier.com
> in aggregate, advertising always continues to grow.

Yes, like a cancer.

> Both buyers and sellers of advertising love targeted advertising.

Of course they do. But that's all at the expense of everyone who isn't in the business of buying and selling advertising.

> There's no going back at this point.

We'll see. I cannot accept that being forced to live in a massive surveillance state is an inevitability.

> Regulations will only distort the market further.

Bad regulations will. However, the appearance of ubiquitous spying by marketing companies are also heavily distorting the market. The introduction of rules to correct the serious misbehavior of these companies has the potential to correct, or at least reduce, the harm.

At this point, it's pretty clear that there is no other mechanism available to us. Simply resigning ourselves to bending over and taking it is not acceptable.