skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does FSD stand for again?

If Tesla wants to sell Fancy Unpredictable Cruise Control they should label and market it as such. It is insane how many dangerous lies Elon gets away with. Anyone else without so much wealth and power would have faced serious consequences by now.
What is the goal here, actually?
That's what I do, and he happens to be a machinist and welder. The static site is generated from Local WP, pushed to a GitHub repo, which is connected to Cloudflare Pages, which hosts it for free with SSL. I even set up a website monitor in GitHub Actions, but still have a separate website monitoring service with alerts. All for free.
I've used Everything for as long as I can remember, and it has completely spoiled me on search/launcher functionality. Perfect UI, perfect results ordering (no cute prediction about what you might want), and, of course, truly instant results and a truly live index - it will find files created one millisecond ago.

I also use Launchy specifically for launching programs. Same instant results, though not live-indexed.

Which makes me question every single time I use the Windows default search box: How? How is one of the most fundamental features of the biggest software platform in history, made by one of the biggest companies in history, after decades, still not even close to as good as multiple basic indie replacements?

To me, when I think about how hopelessly bad popular software is (or becomes), this is the representative little example that comes to mind.
It happens so that we don't have "a single 15,000 line file that had been worked on for a decade". We don't have the luxury of asking the GitHub team and John Carmack to fix our code when we are forced to show it to the stakeholders.
yes, doesn't respond.

Domain Name: puri.sm
Registration date: 05/05/2014
Status: Suspended

Owner:
Purism SPC

...

DNS Servers:
ns1.puri.sm
ns2.puri.sm
ns3.puri.sm

hmm... and DNS servers are in the domain
Me too. Was there some regulatory change that makes spraying SMS more difficult? It'd be great to hear from someone that works there or at Vonage which sees to have suffered the same fate.
I suppose this is a case of where filling in the text field when you pressed submit would have helped.

What is a Purism and why should I care?
I've had two pull-aside moments exactly like this on social media! They changed me for the better. The pull out and up of a quote never had that effect even if that's the stated intent of its most ardent defenders.
It's called 2nd / 3rd order effects.

The entire Tech sector was propped up Nvidia and GenAI since Nov 2022.

The bloodbath that would have ensued in the Tech sector (depressing salary and accelerating layoffs) would have been unfathomable.

If you think the $4 Trillion created in the Tech sector since Nov 2022 didn't affect non-AI people positively, you are naive about how the economy works
It allows me to reflect on all of the jobs that I have left without also posting some odious blog entry about it. So much missed opportunity.

Maybe it was cathartic to write, I dunno. I think if I'm at that point, I waited way too long to leave. Golden handcuffs, hey?
Just made it, enjoy :) https://api.isprimeapi.xyz/api/isprime/7
This doesn't appear to have any real sources supporting it I can find at this point. Sources look like:

> according to a report by Iran’s Mehr News agency quoting Avia.pro website
That's a yearly price, not monthly, so not really a high price. If a professional developer saves one hour per year with this tool it's already paid for itself.
tech is a large component of the overall economy though, so like it or not, we're all attached to this. I'm not a banker investing into mortgage-backed-securities either, but the 2008 GFC still affected me.
It depends on the market sentiment, it can go both ways. On one hand a stock buyback can be considered a bullish signal, the company is strong and doing well, on the other it can be a bearish signal, the company is out of useful things to do with all the cash it has laying around so it's buying back stock.
This is one of two SQLite DB metadata that I really like. I've used `user_version` in the exact same way: I increment it by one every time I change the schema of the database. It's a four-byte signed integer (stored in the DB header in big-endian format), so it supports a large number of possible schema changes.

Folks should also be aware of the `application_id`, another four-byte signed integer accessed via pragma. This is meant to be set once, at the time you create the database. It's a way to ensure that the SQLite DB you are accessing is something that your code created.

For example, I use a line of Python like this to convert some human-readable characters (like 'KARL') into an application ID:

>>> import struct
>>> struct.unpack('=i', struct.pack('cccc', b'K', b'A', b'R', b'L'))[0]
1280459083

So, I'd run `PRAGMA application_id = 1280459083;` when I create the DB. And on first access afterward, I'd run `PRAGMA application_id;`, look at the first (and only) row of output, and check for the expected number.

Finally, one thing to note: Because they're part of the database file's header, they are not affected by transactions. So, if you're using `user_version` to track schema changes, a schema upgrade becomes a "stop the world" sort of activity, so you can ensure it took effect.
Academic authors are consistently better at editing away unclear and ambiguous statements which make their work seem less impressive compared to ones which make their work seem more impressive. Maybe it's just a coincidence, lol.
That was a rant, that was not structured nor reasoned well.
It made no attempts to substaninate its own assertions nor
semi facts.
but perhaps if you buy the book I will make more sense,.
It's still fine. You can just go to Costco and get blocks of cheap ahi, or farmed salmon at Safeway. People are too nervous about this.
I ran this way back in probably the late 1990s in my college dorm!
That’s so good you totally got me. I can never tell on HN
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> Section 230 immunizes ICSs only to the extent that they are sued for “information provided by another information content provider.”8 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1). In other words, ICSs are immunized only if they are sued for someone else’s expressive activity or content (i.e., third-party speech), but they are not immunized if they are sued for their own expressive activity or content (i.e., first-party speech). Anderson asserts that TikTok’s algorithm “amalgamat[es] [] third-party videos,” which results in “an expressive product” that “communicates to users . . . that the curated stream of videos will be interesting to them[.]” ECF No. 50 at 5.

> The Supreme Court’s recent discussion about algorithms, albeit in the First Amendment context, supports this view. In Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, the Court
considered whether state laws that “restrict the ability of social-media platforms to control whether and how third-party posts are presented to other users” run afoul of the First Amendment. 144 S. Ct. 2383, 2393 (2024). The Court held that a platform’s algorithm that reflects “editorial judgments” about “compiling the third-party speech it wants in the way it wants” is the platform’s own “expressive product” and is therefore protected by the First Amendment. Id. at 2394. Given the Supreme Court’s observations that platforms engage in protected first-party speech under the First Amendment when they curate compilations of others’ content via their expressive algorithms, id. at 2409, it follows that doing so amounts to first-party speech under § 230, too.

Footnote:

> We reach this conclusion specifically because TikTok’s promotion of a Blackout Challenge video on Nylah’s FYP was not contingent upon any specific user input. Had Nylah viewed a Blackout Challenge video through TikTok’s search function, rather than through her FYP, then TikTok may be viewed more like a repository of third-party content than an affirmative promoter of such content. Given the type of algorithm alleged here, we need not address whether § 230 immunizes any information that may be communicated by the results of a user’s search of a platform’s content.

This is excellent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism_(company)
Check out Hetzner (Germany) and Entrywan (US). They have good prices and a no-nonsense approach.
Slippery slope arguments are absolutely legitimate when (a) dealing with policy proposals in relation to difference from a perceived "normal" situation, (b) discussing issues in which factions that wish to push the status quo toward an extreme endpoint manifestly exist and exert influence, and/or (c) there's a demonstrable history of incremental expansion of similar policies' scope and effects in evidence.
Nothing is “completely safe”, but several orders of magnitude more people have died and suffered from COVID than have from any of the vaccines.

That you are having to reach for “well this other vaccine for this other condition caused a thing that was rare enough it took a lot of luck to link it back” is an unambiguous consequence of this. You know what we don’t have to search that hard for? The 7+ million actual deaths from COVID which reduced dramatically once the vaccine became available.
As submitted 2 days ago with an extensive sales pitch but may be useful. A self second chance queue submission, perhaps!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351839
I agree in broad strokes with almost everything you say. I don't think adding rules is the correct way to build societies with some desired ethics.

That said, open source software licenses are extremely simple as far as contracts or licenses go. At least an order of magnitude shorter than closed source software EULAs, for example. What I see people advocating for is not tackling on additional complexity onto the existing licenses, but replacing the fundamental principles of existing licenses with new simple principles that slice the world into acceptable and unacceptable behavior in a better fashion.

Of course, licenses alone are not sufficient for change as you say. A lot of other social structures will indeed need to be built to change large scale behavior. That's a hard long slog.
The problem is that all the profit goes to the people who own the UI and the hosting, while the stuff solving the deeper problems is often completely unsupported.

I'm not saying the people taking things the last mile to the customer and making a good UI/UX should not make money, just that the people who built the stuff they're building on should also make money.

Software has turned into an industry where that largely is not the case.
I worked about 12 years in restaurants, held every job besides mgmt level, including one of the hardest being an upscale dive bar with actually decent food and a sparkling kitchen (read: lots of elbow grease), where the cooks also had to wash dishes, there was no dedicated position for that. I’ve worked in kitchens that maintained over 100°F ambient temps next to pizza ovens wearing long sleeved chef jackets. Kitchens where we dragged pieces of ovens, stoves and entire coolers/shelves outside after every Sunday brunch to power wash them.

I also worked for a week one summer with an uncle who laid brick. We built a chimney on a two story house. Mixing concrete and mortar in mixers and wheelbarrows and getting it to the work spots, carrying bricks around, carrying 100 lb sections of flue up half finished stairs and ladders.

No comparison. I never slept better in my life than that week. Hardest work I’ve ever experienced.

I’m sure construction, like foodservice, has easier and harder jobs. But I’d be willing to bet the hardest construction job is way harder than the hardest foodservice job. Not to mention more dangerous.
> Reading through game cheating boards, it seems many hardware devices have been detected over time. It's an arms race. Here's a discussion of how anticheat started to detect people using HID-emulating devices by forcing a disconnection event

That's a hack which only works for some devices in some specific state. At that point you're playing whack-a-mole, and you'll always lose.

> I think it's not about "solving" cheating, so much as making it sufficiently annoying to maintain working cheats that fewer people try

Annoying? I don't think you understand the hacker mentality. Breaking anticheat or DRM tickles the same nerv as CTFs or puzzle games. What you consider "annoying" is an activity others do for fun.

It's fun to break a system that's intentionally trying to keep you out. That's why I reverse engineer proprietary, obfuscated file formats and protocols. Whether that's brother plotters, blackmagic's input devices (which also function as license dongles), apple video codecs (actually still WIP) or my landlord's wireless water meter so I can add homeassistant support for it.

When kernel-level anticheat became a thing, I actually built a custom hardware aimbot out of an HDMI capture card and a custom Sandisk wireless clone that I was working on at the time. I've only used it once or twice, as I'm not a competitive gamer and don't actually have any use for it. The entire fun was in breaking the system.
I used both, but the thoughbook with Windows and the GETAC with Android. The touchscreen experience was much better in the GETACs I used. The thoughbook is good in the laptop format as linked but not the thoughbooks that are meant to be used as tablets - those die easier.
More sellers than buyers.
The fact that Tesla will only release limited cherry picked stastics tells us a lot. If FSD were actually as safe as Elon wants us to believe he would release the data to prove it. Until then we should not assume that the system is any safer than the anecdotes of crazy failures imply.
The market thought Nvidia was toast when cryptocurrency flopped over. The demand for GPGPU compute is pervasive, and even if LLMs go nowhere then there's still applications for CUDA and high-performance server compute. When the dust settles, Nvidia's lifeline is less the AI demand and more their server niche they fill.

Besides Apple, who can't be forced to build server hardware at gunpoint, Nvidia is the only TSMC customer bringing HPC to the consumer. That's an enormous segment they can capitalize on, and AI is really just the tip of the iceberg. With so many other OEMs laser-focused on AI performance, they're entirely glossing over the flexibility that made CUDA successful in the first place. Pour another one out for OpenCL, the industry hardly knew ye.
This seems like a weak excuse, the same problem exists on UNIX, but slocate solves it well enough. The slocate solution is to build the index and record permission and ownership, then it can restrict output to entries you have permission to see at query time.
Loss of resistance is a common phenomenon when you're really, really cool.
MemHive: Sharing immutable data between Python subinterpreters
This looks doable. Create a Wayland compositor that does not do visible window management itself, but exposes an API to help relatively easily port and run an ICCCM-compliant WM.

This looks so obvious that it ought to have been tried.
> I find it absurd that if I create a model architecture, publish my source code, and slap an open source license on it, I can call that open source…but the moment I publish some weights that are the result of running the program on some proprietary dataset, all of a sudden I can’t call it open source anymore.

Then you don't understand open source. You would be distributing something that could not be reproduced because its source was not provided. The source to the product would not be open. It's that simple. The same principle has always applied to images, audio and video. There's no reason for you to be granted a free pass just becauase it's a new medium.
Purism is a company in California that sells Linux computers and other privacy-focused devices and services. Their Librem 5 phone is probably the most famous product they've had; it was originally crowdfunded and had a lot of delays with production and delivery, but on the other hand, it resulted in a lot of contributions to the GNOME project (specifically the current GTK and Adwaita combo, which has incorporated a lot from Purism's libhandy project).
Oh I bet the registrar didn't pay the annual fee and that .sm suspended the domain as a result.

Context, this would be the third time I've heard of this, I was the second time I heard of this happening to .sm domains and it was via Gandi screwing it up. The first was actually Purism.

https://puri.sm/posts/the-great-purism-dns-outage-of-2018/

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/386644/
BSD? No, that's operating system(s)

Good documentation? Yes
I think there are other reasons something didn’t happen 10y ago.

- No one thought of it.

- Someone tried, but the implementation, execution, or something soured the project, not the foundational idea.

- The world wasn’t ready for it. This could fall under social trend, but I think it’s its own thing.

- Something might exist that’s “good enough”, until something better comes along that shifts the market. The iPhone is a good example of this.
you are way off. These is a tool to simulate and validate systems and expose edge/race conditions of that system.
Censorship? No.
I have never been given a probiotic while getting an antibiotic.

Seems like a good idea. Is that a common thing? Does the evidence support this?
Commonsense Clues: A Defense of Longtermism – The Latecomer
What about other applications? For example lighting for evening events (concerts, sporting events, festivals), burning man.
Catching Up with Elixir
Yeah, what an absolutely awful idea it was to add a shitcoin to a private messaging app.

I stopped donating to Signal when they added it and I can't imagine I'm the only one.
Another good one that does iCloud sync only is News Explorer.
Formal specifications benefits are clear and I think well understood at that point. If you want to ensure that your specifications is coherent and doesn’t have unexpected behaviour, having a formal specification is a must. It’s even a legal requirement for some system nowadays in safety critical applications.

The issue of TLA+ is that it doesn’t come from the right side of the field. Most formal specifications tools were born out of necessity from the engineering fields requiring them. TLA+ is a computer science tool. It sometimes shows in the vocabulary used and in the way it is structured.
The counterpoint is, to be a really good next-token predictor, it has to have a model for the process which created those tokens. It's how they can fill in the gaps where prompts don't exist on the internet, e.g. nowhere on the internet does anyone ask:

ᛁ᛬ᚹᛟᚢᛚᛞ᛬ᛚᛁᚲᛖ᛬ᚨ᛬ᛃᚨᚹᚨᛊᚲᚱᛁᛈᛏ᛬ᚠᚢᚾᚲᛏᛁᛟᚾ᛬ᚹᚺᛁᚲᚺ᛬ᛈᚱᛁᚾᛏᛊ᛬ᛟᚢᛏ᛬ᚨ᛬ᛊᚺᛟᚱᛏ᛬ᛊᛏᛟᚱᚹᛁ᛬ᚨᛒᛟᚢᛏ᛬ᚨ᛬ᚺᛟᛒᛒᛁᛏ

Because asking that in this manner is a ridiculous combination of things to do. (A quick Google at time of writing says that even just ᛃᚨᚹᚨᛊᚲᚱᛁᛈᛏ doesn't appear on the internet before I wrote this).

And yet, ChatGPT understands what I wrote: https://chatgpt.com/share/f6979795-7ae6-4308-ad52-1f111560de...

(Custom Instructions, in case you're wondering why the response starts like that)

Fortunately for all of us, current models have quite a poor display of reason. But "low" is not "zero", they do display some signs of this.

Also fortunately for all of us, most of the things LLMs will read on the topic of "taking over the world" will be fiction, much of which will have some plucky heroine or hero who defeats the entity which took over the world, so even a really capable future model that's being asked to do this on purpose by a misanthrope… may deliberately keep failing due to that being part of their world model.

Un-fortunately, that's only a "may" not a "will", as people keep wanting models to solve problems rather than make up stories. Also unfortunately, this also affects someone who actually does want a nice easy to defeat fictional villain for e.g. an AI version of Disneyworld with the AI controlling these new humanoid robots, because that's basically the backstory behind the original Westworld film.
> Record quarterly revenue of $30.0 billion, up 15% from Q1 and up 122% from a year ago

Looks like things are slowing down (second derivative)
How odd. You have to read and copy the data from the web to your hard disk, to the SSD. Why not just run the program on the web copy, streaming. Tiny amount of ram for all the hash tables, and you do not need to move the data around. Multi threading would improve the runtime, but reading the table is the bottle neck.

He makes a great optimization, by using hash tables, but I was wondering about optimizing about the evaluation of the Chi-Square Test for Equal Proportions.

If the Chi-Square test diverges from the Chi-Square Test for e, then there is little likely hood for pi+e to ever converge on rationality.

My hypothesis is that because Pi is cyclical, and e is exponentially transcendental, that their sum and product are not rational, and nether are their respective powers ( Pi^e and e^Pi ), but those will take a much larger homelab than I have access to.
I don't know much about filesystems, but I have heard it said (including at least one comment in this thread) that only NTFS enables the live indexing of Everything, and that there is not an equal tool on Mac because of this. Can anybody corroborate or give details about why? APFS is a very recent filesystem, and it was designed by Apple - so if this capability really is absent, presumably that's on purpose, as a tradeoff for something.
'Russians do everything via Telegram.' Pavel Durov's arrest upends military coms
Doesn’t work as insanely quickly as voidtools’ Everything, but I use Thomas Tempelmann’s Find Any File as my Everything replacement on macOS:

https://findanyfile.app/
It reads the MFT. Then it stores its own index in a file called 'everything.db' which I am pretty sure is a sqlite file.

I don't think the windows indexing service is utilized at all.
With Warren on this proposed legislation whatever the pain for vendors. Lock-in on service might be acceptable during peace but not at all in combat. Slightly ironic that this should apply with equal force to code.
That's very metal!
In my experience, if you give the conspiracists a foot they take a mile.

If we're all being a little more honest, I think many of those "just asking questions" types aren't just asking questions. They're working in bad faith and already have an anti-vax position, and so they're prodding hoping for a "yes, but..." so they can say "aha! Exactly!"

Is it the right thing to assume all those asking questions are of this variety? No. Is it the right thing to just lie to these people? Also no. But will they respond well to honesty? no. Does being honest pose a danger in the context of these people that will manifest as real lives lost? I think, yes.

So I think that's how this sort of thing came to be. It's a legitimately hard problem because of the stakes.
I don't know, this looks great for T-shirts but how about for various undergarments, dresses, pants, sweatpants, jeans, etc?
We'll see about that. If you need an api you will be pretty limited versus that you can do about anything for Gnome Shell Extensions.