skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for about a year with a consulting firm that handled "Y2K compliance". Unlike this Andersen exercise in legal face-saving, it was a real job. Big companies hired us to do a full inventory of their site equipment (this included manufacturing plants, Pharma stuff) and go line by line with their vendors and figure out which components had known Y2K issues, which had not been tested at all, and which ones were fine/had simple fixes. We helped them replace and fix what needed to be fixed.

Y2K was a real problem. The end-of-the-world blackouts + planes falling from the sky was sensationalism, but there were real issues and most of them got fixed. Not trying to take away from this very interesting story of corrupt cronyism, but there were serious people dealing with serious problems out there. "Remember Y2K? Nothing happened!" is a super toxic lesson to take away from a rare success where people came together and fixed something instead of firefighting disasters.
I'm in Brazil, it still blocks me.
Same but 25 years in the future: "How I made millions, enjoyed unlimited prestige and an easy life as a fake AI existential risk researcher"
Interest on a fully collateralized loan + a share of the tax savings on death.
you could report anyone you disliked, as long as you could find out what their car looked like, even if they weren't speeding or running reds etc. convincingly editing the traffic light color in a video doesn't even require artificial neural networks. trump voters in progressive communities, for example, or progressive voters in right-wing communities
If we take the post at face value, one of the requirements for this strategy to work to have your "net worth exceeding around $300M". Already there it becomes pretty specific, how many in the US has that? As far as I remember, you're already in the 1% with $10M.
Could it be that a larger more representative portion of the general population has gone online since 2000?

Maybe a little earlier on in the history of the internet, it was a somewhat more individualistic and dare I suggest more educated and intelligent sample of people?

Whereas at this point, it's every idiot, their grandma, and their dog.

Or just a larger group, which becomes a mob. No one wants to be attacked by a mob. People learn that they will just have their comment buried and receive hate or disrespect if they write it in the wrong website, group or thread.

Actually, I think that sometimes the better my comment is in terms of actual truth or making fair points, the less likely it is to receive points or positive comments . Because to do that I will try to be a little subtle and look at both sides of an issue. So the comment can have something that both groups (who are often quite polarized) dislike in it. And will be longer. The average internet user today resents it when you make them read more than a few sentences at a time.
The United Kingdom is a monarchy [1]. Lord Peter Hendy is an un-elected member of the House of Lords.

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[1] More specifically, a Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Except it doesn't really have a constitution.
A lot of small towns never installed the surveillance beyond a few old ladies. There are plenty of small towns with tiny populations that would love for people to move in and have no intention of ruining their neighbors lives.

Of course the idea isn’t perfect but the visual imagery people imagine suggests otherwise. People are enjoying their youth dumping data to be resold not because they can’t do anything about it but because there has been no consequences yet. That changes when your data is a direct pipe to law enforcement.

The entire thing is a illogical reaction, surveillance and moving away.
That said, if Tom7 wasn’t meticulous about typesetting all his results, we would never have been blessed with https://youtu.be/Y65FRxE7uMc
Where were company located, and what is your country?
Reddit is enshittified.

Old.reddit.com is still usable, but i don’t know for how long :(
Wait to invest when there's a big drop in price and when everyone is saying bad things about crypto.
Better late than never.
On my team, is has been used to prevent developers from pushing code straight to production without being tested first. After some of those updates caused high impact bugs.
Think they're renting GPUs from the cloud providers?

Very plausible. I'm not sure at which point it makes economic sense to buy the GPUs and build out the infrastructure to continually be training something like Claude.
Try it, or work towards it as a goal
On the other hand, can I pay them already now a few thousand dollars a year to remove my share? That would be the first actual carbon offsetting.
So why market it as secure in the first place? If people don't care, you wouldn't have to also.

I don't think people don't care. From all those discussions in the recent days, you can see a wide range of different people who actually think it is secure.
Do insurers really know about citations?
It was on my property. Spying isn’t legal because you can fly a drone over my fence. My places have a right to defend yourself. How do I know it’s not an attack?
I use both Claude and GPT. The ONLY reason why I still use (and pay) for GPT is because it has a stand-alone app. Both Claude's projects and context size make GPT a child's toy (IMHO)
No doubt, but AI is already and will continue to make the web a true hellscape. The shitshow Google has created is nothing compared to what’s coming, sadly. Big tech is truly ruining everything.
> Why should you develop on Linux in a world where the environment for developing on Windows is constantly improving?

1. Because to the extent it's improving - it is through supporting more cross-platform software and Linux/Unix-like behavior?

2. Because why even use Windows in the first place, unless someone forced you to?

3. The BSDs are nice too.
I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Twitter, 2021-09-11

https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1436776641536090117
Lots of faves, for various reasons, such as:

1. Comfort reading/nostalgia/guaranteed satisfaction (e.g. Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, some of the SF greats)

2. Knowing there's more in there to absorb that I didn't get last time or have forgotten (e.g. various Neal Stephenson doorstops, biographies, history books)

3. Suspicion I didn't "get it" the first time and might appreciate it more now (e.g. not a personal example, but good summary - the famous line that "You read Don Quixote three times in your life. The first time it makes you laugh. The second time it makes you think. And the third time it makes you cry.". My personal example would be Code Complete!)

4. Plus, this being HN, straight technical books, which I reread to refresh and improve skils

The last book I reread was Kerouac's Desolation Angels, which actually for me was an interesting mix between categories 1 and 3.
Im inclined to agree, I dont think it's a sustainable moat. But AMD and intel have been trying to break through and have had minimal success so far. Until someone actually releases a CUDA competitor that is used the moat exists.
Because Debian and similar distros have a goal of maintaining all of the software that users are expected to use. And this means they commit to fixing security issues in every single piece of software they distribute.

A consequence of this is that they need to fix security issues in every library version that any application they distribute uses, including any statically-linked library. So, if they allow 30 applications to each have their own version of the same library, even Rust crates, and those versions all have a security issue, then the Debian team needs to find or patch themselves 30 different pieces of code. If instead they make sure that all 30 of those applications use the same version of a Rust crate, then they only need to patch one version. Maybe it's not 30 times less work, but it's definitely 10 times work. At the size of the Debian repos, this is an extremely significant difference.

Now, it could be that this commitment from Debian is foolish and should be done away with. I certainly don't think my OS vendor should be the one that maintains all the apps I use - I don't even understand the attraction of that. I do want the OS maintainer to handle the packaging of the base system components, and patch those as needed for every supported version and so on - and so I understand this requirement for them. And I would view bcachefs-tools as a base system component, so this requirement seems sane for it.
I felt a lot of relief on the morning of 1st when everything I had done was working perfectly. All the test showed that had it not been fixed there was a lot of data corruption.

I have been through another one of these where one part of a company changed their year entry from 20XX to just XX to save the people entering it time and multiple systems did not defend against this and suddenly started calculating all intervening years from the time of jesus up to the present day! Its was catastrophic, that simple changed caused several days of disaster recovery but months of defensive programming work as well. Date/time errors can be devastating to business.
It's infuriating.

I worked on a Y2K project in 98-99 for a major car manufacturer. They tested the ERP system for Y2K (in 1997) and it failed, in a way that would make the business fail. They replaced it via this project and the business continued to be successful without interruption.

Another company I know of simply backdated their whole system by 10 years. This worked, but unfortunately the contract cycle renegotation reminders then did not appear, and competitors took many of their contracts over the next year or so. They went out of business in a couple of years.

I implemented a new manufacturing and retail system in 1992, and we used 4 digit years. The company owner complained that they were a needless expense and annoyance and that there was plenty of time to deal with Y2K. They continued to use the system well into the 2000s.

The space shuttle never flew over New Year's eve/day as they couldn't handle a single year rollover, let alone a century. Some use cases can simply avoid the problem.
We should do this for HOV violators.
The same thing that allows drivers to run red light cameras and cover their face with their hand
> In nixpkgs we attempt to address this situation for the python ecosystem by providing one version of each package (with few exceptions) per release. But in return, we put in work to make sure those versions actually work with each other - generally by getting the projects' test suites integrated into the build system. The idea is that an app built to depend on nixpkgs packages should be able to expect to do dependency upgrades as a "jump" every 6 months when there's a new nixpkgs release, but otherwise be able to depend on a stable suite of packages that still receives security updates & backports.

Is this different from any other Linux distribution?
Believe me, I looked for a while. Nothing quite scratched the itch while also being free, ad-free, and private. I guess I sound quite picky, but SSH + python checks all the boxes.
Does that mean that datacenter hardware might be a cost wise option for making a home lab PC soon?
Yes my prediction remains to be seen if there is a dramatic effect. People can still leave nyc, the city can still grow in population and get terrible for surveillance free life. And people can still leave to avoid that. It doesn’t have to be a substantial event.

It’s like ad blockers, a lot of people don’t use them doesn’t mean there aren’t a significant portion of the population that doesn’t like ads.

And who cares if my circumstances are unique to the US or not. The article is about the US. So in the realm of reaction to increased surveillance, I’m referring to the US. But if we want to be pendantic, Mad Max doesn’t even occur in the US, so it’s not even a relevant comparison I would be making if I were making that comparison.
> CO2 emissions are 36B tons per year

It shouldn’t be analyzed (or sold) as a technology that has to solve the whole problem. We need a toolbox of solutions for different geographies, scales and budgets while we also reduce our overall emissions. Having said that, if we reduce emissions by an order of magnitude and improve the efficiency of this process by an order of magnitude then it might enter the ballpark of viability.
I didn't make this :)
Your journey was all within the Schengen zone, there are no border checks. Are you sure about why you were woken up?
>I can't find a price

The license includes a URL supposedly with pricing information, but it 404s, and the main website doesn't seem to list Supertree as a product. Maybe it just hasn't been set up yet, or it's copied and pasted from previous licenses and you're expected to negotiate separately.
If they can pull of that migration, it seems interesting enough for HN. It’s “just” a blog, but this is a huge technical challenge.
> I think one of the main selling point of Telegram is the public channels/huge groups where you can openly communicate with people,

There is nothing wrong with that. But why pretend to be secure and use that as a marketing claim?
By the way why does Tumblr now resembles Twittr so much? And they also lock the screen after viewing several posts.
Apparently the California to Denver part is especially nice; I'd recommend starting with that!

https://derikk.com/blog/zephyr.html
GSM is the first (civilian) cellular system to have any encryption at all. The fact that all the primitives are broken comes from the fact that all of them are custom and optimized for hardware implementation on for the time very resource constrained device, also the design predates the open cryptology research community and thus there were not many existing primitives that could just be used unchanged (one can imagine specifying something derived from DES as A3 and A8, but that is moot as the Comp128 in the spec is only an recommendation and these can be freely chosen by the network, I believe most current SIMs use somewhat convoluted algorithm based on AES and SHA256 as that is what is used for EPS-AKA procedure in LTE). As for the authentication being unilateral, nobody probably expected that to be a problem. And the weird way how the A5 stream cipher is used to encrypt the radio frames (which do not have cryptographic authentication, except the fact that what gets encrypted are FEC symbols, not the raw data) shows that the designers were somewhat familiar with military encryption systems, which often have similar availability-vs-authenticity tradeoff.

And well, given the track record of AES, we can probably consider AES secure for foreseeable future. And for many other modern symmetric algorithms (Salsa/ChaCha, Keccak…) one can produce quite believable arguments that they are as secure as AES.
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It doesn't. The baseband is still active and still responds to towers to a degree.
I made a free realtime multiplayer 2D cave gem quest game
Software Supply Roles
Because you have to then recover the car which is hard to do when your car was effectively stolen
I'm not sure how you got the impression that the discussion was about cameras/drones on your property. The OP talked about "Cameras everywhere all the time. No more anonymity in public soon". It's clear that we're talking about other people's cameras in public spaces, not voyeurs trying to look in your bedroom.
Thanks for your comment !

When you are doing parallelism, don't forget to protect the 'entry point' of the program by using "if __name__ == '__main__'", and also avoid the __main__.py file [1]

# this file isn't `__main__.py` !
from asyncpal import ProcessPool

def square(x):
return x**2

if __name__ == "__main__": # very important !
with ProcessPool(4) as pool:
numbers = range(1000)
# note that 'map_all' isn't lazy
iterator = pool.map(square, numbers) # map is lazy
result = tuple(iterator)
assert result == tuple(map(square, numbers))

[1] https://discuss.python.org/t/why-does-multiprocessing-not-wo...
Headline: "Carbon removal plant absorbs CO2 at 99,000 times the rate of all Earth’s oceans combined"

Subheadline: "The world’s oceans act as nature’s most significant carbon sink, soaking up roughly 25% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by human activities."

Good news, climate change is solved! Within 1-2 days, this plant will bring CO2 levels to pre-industrial levels!

How do such obvious bullshit "news" make it onto the front page?
Are you kidding? Absolutely. For moving violations you can look forward to the ticket itself plus increased insurance premiums.
The article is less about Y2K itself than it is about the absurdity of work in the corporate consulting world. It’s a good read.

I wasn’t there for the play-doh management fad but I sure experienced capital A Agile and honestly can’t tell which is more infantile.

In a sense, the corporate environment of constant indefinite emergency described in the article is the same as arbitrary deadlines and non-stop “sprints”.
Probably better to just throw your workload on the cloud unless you're using it close to 24/7.
> Think they're renting GPUs from the cloud providers

It's a major reason why they raised with Amazon [0]

There are actually a LOT of other large companies that participated in Anthropic's round but haven't announced it publicly.

[0] - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthrop...
This would be a dead giveaway that I wasn't home; my cats tend to get the zoomies in the small hours.
You are, in too many words, essentially describing data minimization principles.

But I don't believe that the existence of black markets means we shouldn't regulate legal markets. Even if it's true that bad actors would try to find new ways to exploit data as regulations change, this doesn't negate the value of regulation entirely. Lots of industries face similar challenges (e.g. financial regulation, environmental protection) yet still benefit from regulatory frameworks.

Furthermore, the existence of loopholes is an argument for crafting more robust and adaptable regulations, and knowledgeable bodies to govern them--not for abandoning regulation altogether.
Amazon/AWS has Trainium: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/trainium/
This is nice but this is what I would call hello world complexity. Like if you do a basic react tutorial or have the AI teach it to you (2 hours) then you would be able to make this in <30 minutes and most likely it would teach you tailwind as well.

The advantage is this lets you see what something would look like in a few minutes without needing to learn the thing (saves you 2.5 hours) the disadvantage is when you try to add new features or build a new site you haven’t learned anything. The 2.5 hours is an investment in the skill.

Another interesting thing to point out is how the UI pattern is off in your example. Do you see how “selected” category is in the same multi selection as the actual menu items whereas the normal UI pattern would be to have a Cart or something on the page. This is the issue that I have been running into with these Generative UI approaches is this stuff happens constantly and in very strange ways.
> This style of form is aggravating to fill out,

In what sense?

I suppose for me it kind of matters how many questions are being asked. I'm fine with this UX if it's a specific question or two, but for a whole questionnaire with 14 questions or more, then I'd also prefer to be able to get an overview first.
What I'm missing on Claude is a Python sandbox, which at least should be able to use matplotlib, PIL, numpy and pandas and be able to display results the way ChatGPT does.

Claude appears to be really good at Javascript-based conversations.

Also, a search functionality which searches in existing conversation would be at the top of my wish list. AFAIK only Mistral offers this. Gemini is the worst at giving you access to older conversations, where you have to use the "Activity" functionality.
A Native DataFusion Optimizer for Time-Based Analytics
Imagine trying to go to work and you don’t have your car. Are you going to say “well I guess driving is a privilege and not a right so its fine that the police repossess my vehicle at random times” or are you going to be livid like a normal person?
More like the AI winter from the late 80s.
Every few years I re-read the Count of Monte Cristo. I then wish I could forget it and experience it all over again.
Regional Persistent Disk was in beta in 2019. Usability hiccups and other annoyances meant it only GA'd in 2023, but it's been used under CloudSQL for quite a while.

(I work on GCP storage)
Maybe AI risk is also higher in Asia and South Africa, and for the same reasons.
The comment you’re responding to is postulating enforcement via higher insurance costs. If insurance gets ~20 reports of someone running a red light, maybe they’ll double the cost to insure that person.
Nice project. There should be some project which standardizes a mechanism to do that that with a browser extension. This would make it possible to share websites without trusting the web hoster.
A few possible sources:

- malware on phones (even though apps are supposed to only get anonymous information, there are ways to workaround it. For one a app can just ask your name and many people will put it in.)

- cell phone companies selling the data (see for evidence they do this https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-d...)

Bear in mind these companies advertising a capability doesn't mean it works on every target.
I wouldn't bet in bulk computation not being in high demand for the foreseeable future.

If the AI bubble bursts, people will use the available GPUs for something else.
And I’m in the EU, and didn’t get blocked… Enjoyed the photos, but don’t really understand attempting to geofence a personal website.
Planning to write blog post(s) about how i made the game, but basically the techniques i used are the following:

- 2D ray tracing visibility algorithm (spolight): https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/

- Simplex noise procedural maps: https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

- WebGL2 rendering

- Websockets with binary data

- Deno

- Hetzner dedicated servers

- Docker Swarm Mode
Kinda defeats the point of having a cell phone tho
How do you anonymize a person's location? It just isn't possible. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3038912.3052620
Well its quite different as they don’t put your home on a trailer and haul it away across town without telling you.
Maybe it will be fixed in Apple Calculator for iPad (soon to be released 2024) in iOS 18?!?
There's no good fast and interactive debugger on Linux, similar to RemedyBG or raddebugger. gf2 is just OK and is by far the best I've used.
I'm asking if the "brain fog" could be related to insomnia - like maybe the people who have the brain fog aren't used to not sleeping and a few weeks of illness where their sleep schedules are completely ruined may be enough to "throw them off" for months.

That is, by what mechanism does covid cause "brain fog" after the fact?
I might be off but that sums up Robert Kiyosaki‘s approach to wealth.
Back to School Is Crayola's Super Bowl
reporting is not the same as policing. Telling the police about a crime is the norm. Then the police police based on the report.