skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any sources to this? I've long thought traffic cops should be their own separate entity, and would like to know how this played out
The French were really into decimalization for a while. They tried decimal time (10 decimal hours per day, each 100 decimal minutes, each 100 decimal seconds), and a new calendar with equal 30-day months (the extra days at the end were national holidays, in September in the Gregorian calendar). Also 10-day 'décades' instead of weeks.
I have in the past run markdown through an exporter that base64-encoded the images into the document before sharing with someone

solves this one issue at least
This is the inevitable endpoint from treacherous computing. If you don’t own the equipment or the software then you are a slave.

Hopefully over the next few years as we see more of this in the post zero interest rate world we will have a new generation of people who learn the hard way that they need sovereignty over the code they run.
oh thank goodness
> Almost no one who uses JCL would describe it or think of it as a "language."

That's an odd statement. JCL stands for "Job Control Language", why would it not be thought of as a language? I certainly did when I was using it (two decades ago or so, now). If you mean it's not a programming language, well, it is. It's just a particularly bad one. In the same way that YAML config files are not a good programming language, even if they're an effective description language. That doesn't stop Ansible and the rest from turning them into terrible programming languages.
> However, it's interesting to note that in both 2002 and 2024 we got a backdoor rather than a bugdoor.

As far as we know.

Related, there was a pretty interesting backdoor-by-bug attempt on the Linux kernel (at least, one that we know of) back in 2003: https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/

The Linux "bug" was unsophisticated by modern standards, but you could imagine a modern equivalent that's harder to spot:

Make the "bug" happen across several lines of code, especially if some of those lines are part of existing code (so don't appear in the patch being reviewed). Ensure the compiler doesn't warn about it. Make the set of triggering events very unlikely unless you know the attack. It would be very surprising to me if three letter agencies hadn't done or attempted this.
> unfortunately the following three situations look exactly alike from the outside.

That is what the werewolves in the Steering Council intend. Normal people cannot believe that someone is suspended for three months over a heated discussion.

As pointed out below, some posts have been deleted, which fuels further speculation.

The reason for the semi-public ostracism is that whenever the victim Tim Peters speaks again in public, someone will point out that "he was suspended by the Steering Council" in order to shut him up.
The docs say:

> it can also be configured against a local data store for a fully free and open source route to managing large repositories.

I can't find the docs for hosting oneself is that maybe available?
I'd also like to see the timeline of XZ's landlock implementation, I haven't seen that discussed much.
I think this does what ostiary does except worse. It has replay protection. Of course, that project is long abandoned although I use it.

The only difference is, knocking is via tcp as it makes unique challenges instead of this repeatable udp packet.
This. There’s no way to evaluate citations at scale. Further, once a medical doctor “learns” a false fact, it’s hard to unlearn it and journals rarely publish contrarian material
In the US it is because District Attorneys have an explicit, open policy of not prosecuting petty crime. That has led to police not investigating or arresting, because there is no point.

https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/magazine/leadin...
aww man i was looking forward to consuming even more content and seeing even more relevant ads in virtual reality!
Asking genuinely, what common footguns do you see? What are the usual failure patterns?
For the landlord units is elastic. If you have many units you can always not rent out a few, in fact you should always have a few units that you are remodeling and thus cannot rent out.

In general as a large landlord should have around 10% of units not rented, if you have more than that rented you should raise your rates until people go elsewhere thus bringing you down to 10%, while if you have less than 10% lower your rates until people start renting from you. Different landlords have different numbers, but 10% is a good starting place. 100 units at $900/month = 90,000, 90 units at $1000/month = $90,000, but you have a few units free in case someone desperate is willing to pay $1100/month (and of course you can remodel one of those empty units thus making it more desirable)
Sometimes your credit union turns out to be Patelco and you get locked out for a while [1].

Since we can't vet a bank's IT infrastructure, having multiple bank accounts seems like the only way to guard against certain risks.

[1] https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/industrynews...
> I've seen some complexes down to 1-2 units by the end of July.

And you're sure the building is actually occupied and the units haven't been strategically taken off the market?

> I am not sure if this is price fixing,

It is on RealPage's part. It's their stated _intention_. Whether cases should open against landlords who used it, I agree, I'm not sure, but it _is_ clear that RealPage broke the law here.

> I think it really depends on the internal communication and what they sold to landlords.

The real question is "does realpage charge landlords for it's service?"
Many apartment complexes do have packages delivered to USPS lockboxes attached to the mailboxes or increasingly Amazon Lockers.

In other cases delivery people can open an exterior door to access a hallway or ante-room that connects to individual residences and contains mailboxes and lockers. Or they might just leave the package there. Theft by a neighbor in the same building is vanishingly uncommon.

But for larger items (or if delivery is to a house), it's common to just leave them at your door or on the porch (or just inside the outer door if possible). In some places this might be a theft risk (porch piracy), but in most it's just not.

If you're worried, just request verified delivery so you have to sign for it. Today we have informed delivery services so you get alerted that a package is coming your way and can request that it be signed for yourself, even if you don't know who sent it.
Wasn’t this the broken windows philosophy that may or may not have reduced crime in NYC in the mid 90s?

It seems like cracking down on low level crime should reduce bigger crimes, but the research seems to become politicized based on who instituted the policy.
Ah. Found it.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4227132

The Safe Withdrawal Rate: Evidence from a Broad Sample of Developed Markets, 2023, Aizhan Anarkulova et al.
Is Amazon actively trying to kill of their Echo/Alexa business? Every story about Alexa for the past six months, maybe a little more, have been about Amazon taking steps to dismantling anything with in their business or product line up that could potentially be useful.

If they aren't making money, and don't believe that they ever will, then why not simply shutdown the whole thing? Is this some weird way of doing that, while not upsetting the stock market for the next quarter?
What has been done is done, no point wasting time waiting for miracles from amoral companies, accept losses and move on.

Want long term quality without ads? Dont look at biggest corporations milking ads where they can, any words they say are just farts in the wind, long term behavior is the only thing that matters. Either find a long term moral manufacturer and pay accordingly, or hack it together yourself if you can.

If none of above is possible, throw it out, its a gimmick at best. I live in Switzerland among pretty wealthy people and in 2024 know absolutely 0 people having any such device. Happiness and quality of life lies completely elsewhere.
True, just as people from Mexico don't have a right to live in the rich and nice USA, people from the sticks don't have a right to live in the rich and nice SF.
We can literally transpile and run everything client side these days. You can run a recompiled quake 3 inside your browser. Why is a hosted notebook anything other than a static html+js+css site that runs behind a cdn (effectively free to host)?

I suspect that’s a matter of time right?
Google is clearly doing whatever it takes to sell one more Pixel device, but why make it so easy to create entirely synthetic photos, thereby normalizing them? With the growing difficulty of distinguishing real from fake on social media, this only adds to the confusion. What societal benefit comes from democratizing the creation of fake images? Is Google crossing a moral line?
If you don't need personalization, I think you can turn that off in the Home app.
The Rise and Fall of the Largest Radio Telescope [video]
To follow this analogy, isn't it possible then for someone to study precisely what the difference is, and become an expert, thus bringing us back into the level of expertise we were at at the start of the analogy?

Surely the experts didn't all learn from each other; who was the first expert? That expert surely learned in some other way, so the only thing lost at the start of the analogy is the time required for someone interested to (re)achieve mastery.
That's why I look mostly at the H100 temperatures. Gives a better utilization metric
Stealing things is illegal in every state - yes.
However, stealing mail is a federal crime. There is a difference between stealing UPS package and stealing USPS package.
We don't know. We won't know the negative case, but we may someday in some circumstance find out the positive (bugged) case.

But we do know some sane things:

- The stakes couldn't be higher.

- Good: Don't allow inbound SSH connections, even through a fancy $100k firewall.

- Best: Don't let people login with SSH (treat SSH like we treat the serial port: a debugging option of last resort)
Slow news Friday and WSJ is hanging out some clickbait?
Did you read https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/ ? Because your comment here is a text-book example of what I was talking about there, right up to the bit where you say "you can't trust them because they've already shown they'll train on unlicensed scraped copyrighted data" (a very reasonable point to argue).

(Update: actually I didn't make that point in the original post, it's from the talk version of this I gave https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/27/ai-worlds-fair/#slide.... )
Firebase, Parse, and Meteor were definitely inspirations for us.

Instant's main advantage is that we support relations. This means you can create data models like 'users -> comments -> apps'. For a bit more about why this matters, this is a good post:

https://mdp.github.io/2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-n...
> While RealPage might command 80% of the market for this type of software, they only have 12,000 clients. There are over 5.2 million multi-family dwellings in the US. It's only a monopoly in that they offer a very niche product. So I doubt the implication the justice department is making here - that RealPage is having a significant impact on market price through widespread collusion.

Well, given your only justification for your doubt is that you compared clients to multifamily dwellings, I gotta say, your doubt is pretty not founded in reality.

> Furthermore, housing is a market - nobody is "competing on merits".

Oof, bro.

"Competing on merits" is the entire justification for why free markets are important. If you're arguing that nobody is competing on merits, then that starts to sound like you're arguing that competition isn't working here.

> Realpage advertising that it gets the best dollar for its clients isn't that much different than your Schwab account letting you know you shouldn't sell your MSFT share for $50.

The difference being that Schwab doesn't have the pull to price-fix MSFT. In cases where a single coordinates to control 80% of shares of a stock and then price-fix it, that is, in fact, illegal.

> While I appreciate the breaking up of a potential cartel here, and this is a software I would never use, I would hold my breath if I was expecting a sudden change in the rental market because of this. Inventory is still fundamentally limited, and unless the DOJ bans all market research, the going rate is still the going rate.

I agree with you that housing prices are not likely to drastically change as a result of this, but my reason is that this isn't the only price-fixing mechanism in place.
The fundamental problem is that system headers don't provide enough information. In particular, many programs need both "min runtime page size" and "max runtime page size" (and by this I mean non-huge pages).

If you call `mmap` without constraint, you need to assume the result will be aligned to at least "min runtime page size". In practice it is probably safe to assume 4K for this for "normal" systems, but I've seen it down to 128 bytes on some embedded systems, and I don't have much breadth there (this will break many programs though, since there are more errno values than that). I don't know enough about SPARC binary compatibility to know if it's safe to push this up to 8K for certain targets.

But if you want to call `mmap` (etc.) with full constraint, you must work in terms of "max runtime page size". This is known to be up to at least 64K in the wild (aarch64), but some architectures have "huge" pages not much beyond that so I'm not sure (256K, 512K, and 1M; beyond that is almost certainly going to be considered huge pages).

Besides a C macro, these values also need to be baked into the object file and the linker needs to prevent incompatible assumptions (just in case a new microarchitecture changes them)
None of these are performance concerns. Modern JS engines are plenty fast for most of my use cases.

It irks me that I can't trust it to be an integer within a given range. Especially with Number, I often have the sensation that the type system just doesn't have my back. Sure, I can be careful and make sure it's always an integer, I've got 53 bits of integer precision which is plenty. But I've shot myself in the foot too many times, and I hust don't trust it to be an integer even if I know it is.

As for BigInt, I default to it by now and I've not found my performance noticeably worse. But it irks me that I can get a number that's out of range of an actual int32 or int64, especially when doing databases. Will I get tto that point? Probably not, but it's a potential error waiting to be overlooked that could be so easily solved if JS had int32/int64 data types.
It is a different unit every month though as renters are moving out all the time. This isn't about 1 unit that is empty or not. It is about 100+ units where it can be 89,90, or 91 empty - if the other units that are not rented pay enough higher rent because the empty is not on the market you are better off.
At my previous credit union (before moving), the local branch manager knew me and my family (mom, husband, etc) by name. And she either (1) had actual power to make things happen or (2) could just call the person that did in any given circumstance.

This is a medium sized credit union, with a dozen or so branches.
This is why Bitcoin is ideal. You can hold and transfer any amount, any time of day, without fear of surprises like this.

Would I use it as a primary cash account for my business today? No, because of the obvious exchange rate/price swings. But long-term, moving toward Bitcoin as a settlement layer (i.e., a modern SWIFT) would solve a ton of problems and avoid situations like this. The more people that do that/normalize it, the more stable the price in other currencies, too.

I get that people like to hate on it because it's not a perfect solution to everything, but in a hostile unpredictable environment, it's a life saver.
You'll get the same tingle at a greater distance. In fact, if the current is finite and current density decreases with distance, it is bounded by the inverse square law.

240v will give you more distance to react between the tingle radius and the kill radius
Before the bandwagon jumps on "Metaverse is dead", Meta is pursuing multiple headsets, devices strategy and trying to find the right Features / Price mix.

Quest 2 is the most successful headset and it seem to have the perfect balance. Quest 3 although great, probably is slightly expensive for the mass market. But there will be a chatGPT moment for Metaverse in the next 5 years and Meta's strategy will pay dividends.

It's Ray-ban smart glasses is already a huge hit. Like a startup, you just have to keep iterating and I'm glad zuck is on it
I think this situation, while extremely unfortunate, is just the natural consequences of how banks are regulated in the US. The big banks face a constant threat by the government: if your customer does something illegal with your product, YOU will be fined millions of dollars. Therefore, if your activities have any resemblance of money laundering, they'd rather lose your business than lose millions. Different banks have different "sensitivity", and Chase, unfortunately, is one of the more sensitive ones.

What are the solutions? Laws should be passed to protect customers' rights in the event of an account closure; banks should probably be provided some safe harbor so they aren't as skittish; and in the meantime, bank with a smaller credit union that have a smaller target on their back, and also if something breaks you can yell at someone who can actually fix it.
Good.

There are two new aspects to RealPage in terms of being anticompetitive:

1. Using information from one customer to help set prices for other customers. Once you hit a certain market percentage, this effectively allows you to set prices; and

2. If everyone uses the same software that spits out the same results then this is effectively collusion even if it's not actual collusion, as in the trope of dark, shadowy figures meeting in a cigar-filled room.

Every aspect of our life is getting financialized as companies seek to extract every dollar from us. You see it with PE buying up vet clinics en masse for example. If you've wondered why your vet bills have gotten so expensive, that's probably why.

Anyway, using rent to squeeze every dollar from people in a way that raises everybody's rents with the blessing of the state (which has been the case until now) is state violence. It is using the necessity of shelter to cerce money from you.

People in general don't see this sort of thing as violence but it is. Just like polie crackdowns on protests are state violence.
Except that even when the DA was trying to pursue stuff, the SFPD refused to help, and forced the DA's office to do stuff like move evidence in a U-haul truck.

https://www.ksbw.com/article/sfpd-refused-to-help-stop-san-f...
You mean HomeKit? I'm a big fan, despite the warts. I think that's really useful.
No privacy policy link on your landing page is a red flag and will discourage users.
Netflix subscription - Netflix stopped access to streaming for accounts unless you're in the original country of billing. Are you streaming Netflix through your tunnel as well?
Airlines do this internally all the time. However they do not share this information with each other.
I contend that almost every problem solvable by a wearable can be solved “well enough” by a smartphone, to the point where an additional device is not worth the trouble for the marginal benefit (unless you’re a person who likes gadgets).

For exercise specifically I do see the value of a watch form factor since people don’t want to carry a phone in their exercise gear. But, that’s pretty niche.
In fact a quick google: https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlite

Yay I really can have serverless notebooks! Not just an easy to manage server environment but literally a static html file that can be passed around and runs the full notebook environment. It’s weird it was ever done any other way.
I think something with the "wow" factor of the Vision Pro but the form factor of a pair of glasses would be the holy grail of AR/VR. I wonder if there are fundamental tradeoffs which would make that impossible in the near term? I think it would remain very niche indefinitely in that case.
I really, really wish there was just a way to put a hard limit on how much a cloud could charge me.

I am never going to want to spend 200k of my personal money on some project on a cloud. Never. I don't even want my ant-based basket viewing project simulator to cost me 1 thousand dollars because it went viral and all clouds overcharge for bandwith.

Just let me put in a limit.
> Or maybe these are just products we don't need?

That's exactly it, they're products we don't -need-. If you already have a smartphone, that's good enough. This is the same problem that plagues the AI assistant devices - it doesn't matter what they can do, they won't replace your smartphone. Which means you're asking someone to carry (and pay for) a smartphone + an extra device. That's a big ask.

It's also the reason why you see these stories of people living smartphone-only lives, doing everything on their smartphones without needing or even having a desktop/laptop. Smartphones are good enough for everything, for a lot of people.

For the record: I -love- the Vision Pro. Tried it out, loved it. But I fall into the `Tech nerds like it because it's "cool"` part. I recognize that that's not going to be the popular opinion. Not now, not ever. There's just not enough value in VR/AR to really change societal norms to the point that everyone's going to want to wear these devices.

Ultimately: Just because a product is a cool idea, doesn't mean it's society-altering. Some products just aren't that valuable.
The difference between AI art and AI code is that the latter can never be used for anything more than prototypes for someone who doesn't know how to code. For people who know how to code it becomes a super power.
The Talon voice dev created his own STT model that's very performant. The transcription quality is... good, but not world-class. It's better than anything that came out before Whisper IMO, but the newest generator of models can do things like inferring punctuation and words outside of its vocabulary (although the downside of the new generation of VTT is that they can sometimes hallucinate words that are very different from what you said).

It's a bit overkill to use Talon for just voice dictation, but that is 90% of what I use it for, and it's pretty good at it.
Apple Targets Sept. 10 Debut for New iPhones, AirPods and Watches
Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem (2016)
I just tried it. I enabled it at the "Max Protection" level, used the default provider setting (Cloudflare) and it works. So it seems the answer is yes. So that's a pretty simple workaround that covers most cases. I'm guessing that most of the DNS lookups that people would want to be private are happening via a web browser.
Unironically Splatoon 3. It's so fun once you master the motion-controlled aiming and Squid Rolls and all that. Clam Blitz especially is the most fun I've had in any multiplayer game in years and really scratches that old UT2004 Bombing Run / Tribes / TF2 itch: https://old.reddit.com/r/splatoon/comments/13eslyb/at_the_bu...
OpenSearch is a protocol for sharing search engine query-tenplates. You can just list it in your page's link tags, & the browser ought then be able to afford the user the option to add that's search engine.
https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-...

It is alas a bit complicated I'm that this particular spec allows for multiple query-parameters. Where-as most browsers seem to have a single substitution, %s.
Early science and stone engineering in Menga, a Neolithic dolmen
I do not. I don't like clickbait titles.