skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But switzerland have strong laws about what you're allowed to do with your gun, how you have to transport it (hint: not loaded) and how you can store it (which is especially important if you have young kids).

Also, "Because they are not awash in illegal drugs", talking about Switzerland is rich. Switzerland, if you count drugs like cocaine and amphetamins is probably consuming at least as much drug per capita than a large part of the west (I had a classmate who "fixed" between brothels and nightclubs in Switzerland, i have stories). Also, they used to had huge drug death issues before they changed their law enforcement in like the late 80s/early 90s. I know here we talk a lot about Portugal and how Portland mimick them and it doesn't work. and how it seems to have stoped working in Portugal (funding stopped so result did), but the original country that implemented the "harm reduction/treatment/prevention before law enforcement" is Switzerland, with amazing success until recently.
we tested this, it had many more admin controls and finer controls at the basic level that 1password
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422752

SCNR
List of devices upgradable easily from Linux by using firmware released on LVFS: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/
You mean brought up to be Muslims. No one is born with religious beliefs or faith.

You are right the was always Muslim.
The actual scope of what Steve Jobs would be doing if he were still alive and serving as CEO today doesn’t seem like it would be much more than it was when he was alive though.
Just adding context, elaborating a little on the deterministic / statistical aspects of an LLM. I don't disagree with what you said, I'm afraid - so not much prospect for a back and forth :-)
>it’s the ability to try things and get them wrong without dying. Often several things. If one of them works out, maybe they justify the rest

Yep, just look at 3M for instance. They were already an established chemical manufacturer, but they could afford to have some people spend their time investing adhesives. One of these was a total failure for the desired application (they wanted a strong adhesive for aerospace, they got a weak but reusable adhesive), but then they spent more time looking for applications for this, and now everyone and his dog uses 3M Post-It Notes.
When I lived in PNG, fruit bats were fairly common. You could see them roosting in trees all over the place, and they are huge. They're harmless though, and a great source of protein, if you're any good with a slingshot.
This is definitely an interesting idea. Pgstream does offer the ability to unsubscribe from the notifications (https://github.com/xataio/pgstream/blob/main/pkg/wal/process...), but it relies on the receiver actively making that request.

It can be annoying to have to re-subscribe every N days when your application is working as expected though. I wonder if one way to work around this could be to "blacklist" servers that have failed consistently for an amount of time. They could be deleted from the subscriptions table if they remain inactive once they've been blacklisted.

I have opened an issue in the repo to track this (https://github.com/xataio/pgstream/issues/68), since it would be a critical feature to avoid denial-of-service attacks.

Thanks for your feedback!
> PS. But, can you do fence-wire comms with fiber? :)

Maybe with a transparent plastic fence :-D
Impressive! The grammar.json file is just a little bit too underspecced to automate some things. Not to mention it's self-referential. How did you deal with extras and other 'specialisms' that are secretly hidden away in the C-level scanner and so on?

I ask because I wrote Combobulate [1], a structured editing and movement tool for Emacs using TS.

1: https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate
1password is solid, and works everywhere and in most situations. Features are however quite limited on the more basic packages
'weekend warrior' could be as good for brain health as exercising over the week
The trick here would be getting your spacecraft to be exactly Sun-antipodal from the planet you want to view, right? At multiple times Voyager's distance, its orbital period would be thousands of years, and any thrusting would make for impossibly tiny changes to your solar-relative angle.

Doing the math: the Wikipedia article says the solar focal distance is 547 AU, which would be an orbital period of 547^1.5 = up to 12793 years to line up with any particular target along that plane.
> Some say that if you can memorize facts and algorithms and apply them to new data, it is a memorization. Some say that it is reasoning.

Memorizing facts and algorithms is memorization. The rest of what you are talking about is not.

Applying existing knowledge on new data without deriving new information is generalization. An example of this is the case of a semantic segmentation model classifying a car that it has never seen. If the model was not trained on birds, it will never classify a bird as a bird.

Computation of decidable problems is a large, possibly the largest subset of reasoning. Most humans do not struggle with solving decidable problems, the problem is that they are slow and can only solve small problem sizes, but most problems encountered in practice aren't one large decidable problem, but a long chain of many small, dozens to hundreds of heterogeneous problems that are seamlessly mixed with one another. LLMs struggle with decidable problems that are out of distribution, but you can give a human instructions on how to do something they have never done before and they will follow them with no problem.

> More than that -- It's not clear that what humans do is not "just" a memorization.

I hope it is clear that I did not memorize this message I am writing here and that it is the unique result of processes inside my brain that were not captured in the training process of an LLM.

>We can always look at human experience mechanisticly and say that we don't think -- we just memorized thinking patterns and apply them when speaking and "thinking"

Again you are trying to twist this in an absurd direction. Let's come up with a teleoperated humanoid robot on Mars that is controlled by a human on Earth. The robot acts exactly like a human does. Does this mean the robot is now capable of reasoning and thinking like a human, simply because it is replaying a recording of the human's body and speech? This is the argument you are making. You're arguing that the robot's ability to replay a human's actions is equivalent to the processes that brought about that human action.
If I understand it correctly, the URL lets you download a file that maps every Toshiba disk model to a firmware version (???). So having different disk models doesn’t change anything, the program just gets the file, checks which drive needs which version, and then downloads these firmware binaries and installs them.
Write code peacefully,

No more fuss and endless mess,

Mind at ease, clear skies.
> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good

Discord as a text chat app is appalling. Whether on mobile, chromebook or desktop PC it's slow and janky to transition between channels. It is a measurably worse user experience than using IRC on a computer from twenty years ago with 1,000x less raw MIPS.

Maybe it has some advantages for voice chat, but to me it's a lowest common denominator we use because of the people and despite the software.
It’s re-upped.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
He is also incentivized to use it before the 10 good samaritans do. And police is incentivized to use it before he does. Also, police cannot arrest someone because he carries a fully loaded machinegun.

I'm not against guns, i think the open carry of the BPP did way more for human rights than MLK and the civil right movement, but the fact that you can carry loaded war weapons and not be arrested for it in some states is fascinating to me.
Good question.

One answer would be focusing on basic human activities. People will still probably be eating and traveling in 500 years.

Another would be to figure out and/or develop the “temple” of whatever future belief system or religion one thinks will be necessary and popular in the future. And this could be a currently existing religion; Islam and Christianity will probably be around in some form or another for a long long time.
> Some steel plants already use arc furnaces or induction heating to melt the steel.

Electric arc furnaces are used for around 30% of global steel production

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelmaking#/media/File:Evolut...
I think that the vast majority of the power usage is actually spent on crunching the data for advertisers so a social network with no need for monetization could be a lot more energy efficient
The grandiose claim would be that LLMs have reason to begin with. It is quite normal for things to not have reasoning capacity.
Or use conda.
Not sure about that, but maybe you are right. I think Firefox holds like half the market share vs Safari on desktop, I do not think that merits hiding all Firefox achievements into a dot in the map.
Is this a principled defense of free speech or a case of a man treating ostensibly independent companies as divisions of his personal conglomerate?
I'm the same as you wrt expecting my e-reader to work offline, and got a Pocketbook Verse (~$115 on Amazon in the US) that I've been happy with. It supports Wifi but I've never needed to connect it to the Internet and it works totally fine. No accounts, and has an SD card slot so you can just dump all your books on a microsd, slot it in, and the reader will automatically index them and make them available in the default reader app. The web browser and "store" (not sure if it's an app store or a book store - never tried to use it) don't work offline, obviously.

I was about to recommend it to you with no shortcomings, but I just turned it on to check the model, and it greeted me with a popup letting me know that "Pocketbook works better on WiFi! Connect to WiFi to make the most of your device!". I've never seen that popup before in the months I've been using this thing, it was easily dismissable, and everything that you'd expect to work still works fine offline, but that did just sour me on its offline story a little.
I used to joke that retro computing was my answer to being stuck as a support engineer at AWS working on Kubernetes all day (I was bait-and-switched on what was originally billed as a Linux support job and dropped into the "Containers" team instead. I had no prior experience with containers and would prefer to never work with them again!)

I built the "Worlds Fastest Windows 98 PC" [1] kicking off a small YouTube channel. And have demoed it live at the local computer festival here in Seattle [2]. Thanks to Re-PC and others in Seattle I've slowly accumulated dozens [3] of old machines of all stripes that absolutely fascinate and delight me with their quirks.

Despite being thrown overboard from AWS over a year ago now, I still very much enjoy retro computing. I would love to be able to turn my hobby into supporting "legacy machines" into a "real" Sysadmin career, but it seems like YouTube is a more likely bet on that front these days.

The biggest thing I've learned from retro computing is an appreciation for viewing things in their historical contexts. Something that is surprisingly difficult to teach "younger people" or programmers who've only ever really worked at FAANG's.

Younger people today bang the drum about rewriting the world in Rust. Rust is great, and I'm not here to argue for or against it.

But when they bemoan using C they seem to misunderstand exactly how big a leap forward C was from pure assembly programming. Just having portable code in the era of everybody having their own bespoke UNIX system (with their own processor architecture to match, of course!) was an absolute game changer. C is entrenched because it was an evolutionary leap in a landscape that was shifting by the day.

Retro computing has taught me that people weren't nearly as "clueless" or "incompetent" as they're derided for these days. These were smart people making the best decisions they could at the time with what they had available.

People in the 1980's didn't "want" to cause Y2K. They simply never thought their software would be in use 20 years later. How could they? Technology was moving at such blinding speed. Just 20 years before them they were still using punch cards and printout teletype machines on mainframes as big as houses!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETxI4rA_gs

[2] https://sdf.org/icf

[3] https://wiki.cursedsilicon.net/
It's in the page title.
I assume the charter issued by the king in 1347 declared limitations of liability for the owners of the company.
What kind of sorcery, i tried this and yawned within second.
Yes, if I expect such an expensive, targeted attack on me. This is a Snowden's case, not for normal folk.
> I thought that one was unable to handle domains without a protocol

Check if the protocol is included and add if necessary
What do average people do when something happens with their secure boot? Search the web, and apply whatever they find, hoping that their system boots again. They want a solution under 1 minute, and don't care whether they expose their system. Secure boot is utterly complicated, a mess, and badly documented and people doesn't know shit about it.

And we want this to be default for users? I like lennart's work, but this further complicates things A LOT. What happens in case of hardware failure? If parts of the drive becomes unreadable and you need to retrieve as much data as possible? Oops you forgot to enroll your recovery key...

What will people do to avoid data loss and to avoid learning how the system as a whole works? Create backups and those will be stolen by nefarious entities instead.

Linux is mostly not so complicated. But this latest post... if this becomes the norm, oh god, unnecessarily complicated way to protect against imaginary threat. How widespread these hard disk removals are in the wild? I know maybe 1 case in the last 10 years that was publicised.

People are paranoid about things they can't control and don't understand at all, and these measures calm their nerves. Whew, I'm so important, my data is so important, now I'm protecced. While the ones who really want your data already waltz in anytime they want into your system and you can't do shit against it, because you are expert at max in one domain. The threat modelling already tells you that the compromise you have to take is that there are peepz you can't defend against.
Roughly the same as the difference between a country and a business.
The main takeaway of this piece is to be wary of the principal-agent problem but hey everyone already knew that, right? RIGHT?
This is hilarious and perfectly sums up my experience with Mac developers. Half of them have no idea Docker Desktop actually installs a Linux VM. They think how amazing their incredibly expensive system is, yet it's mostly a glorified text editor. The WSL experience on Windows convinced me buying a MacOS machine makes no sense.
I don't understand the mentality myself, but some people just turn off their brain immediately if you say "command line", but somehow they see the arcane key combinations that you have to remember and do in the right sequence as more of an exciting challenge.
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Show HN: Ban 'Any updates' emails – this is super-efficient client communication
Looking for 100 beta users to use RSP for free (in return for great feedback!)

I've made a Monday/ Google Sheets hybrid - making it really easy to share structured data with clients, in real-time, with no extra effort from you. This eliminates clients being in the dark or sending multiple emails per task.

Project management tools are usually black boxes, where the team only communicates with clients via email threads (in the plural). Instead, with RSP, you choose at the column level what data you want to share with clients and what you want them to edit and not edit, and also have a side-by-side messenger for each task. Client communication is instant, real-time, and super-efficient.
We often talk of developing nations "leapfrogging" landlines and going straight to mobile, but they're also going straight to fiber. It would be fascinating to see this same type of breakdown for rural fiber infrastructure.

One obvious difference is that fiber can't self-power a phone, but with ubiquitous mobile phones/solar panels/powerbanks that doesn't strike me as a huge show-stopper.

Thanks OP, great post and content. Now I'll go through the world with new eyes!

EDIT: found the fiber page http://cityinfrastructure.com/single.php?t=Fibre%20Optic%20C...
Yes, but no battery life. I run openmsx on a boox but it drains pretty fast. But yes, I see the point; I can pack one in a 3d printed case with keyboard and a stack of batteries I guess. I have a few toughbooks I don't use anymore; that has a nice enough case really for this. Just a disaster of a keyboard :)
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And that is 1 user in a million. So we force people to do everyday things in a bulletproof vest, because of that 1:1000000 use case?
Nothing beats testing in prod
Or someone social engineers you into clicking on a .reg file which changes these URL's to something malicious that will brick your drives.
I don't believe people can't find 30 minutes on weekends to go for a run. Hell, you can go for a run after work!

That being said, I have no family or social life.
All right man let me tell u something.

When I was playing GT 7 (racing) on a simulator, I used to either go hard gas, or hard break.

It’s like a baby. Either they hold something with 100% strength or not at all.

As you grow older, or better at racing, you learn to apply the right pressure to the gas and brake. Very rarely full on.

The same goes for life. Your sort of “grabbing” with full strength. Instead, I suggest a more nuanced approach.

When we are young we just go on or off. But in the area of dealing with “bad” people (we don’t know if they are or not), it’s best to use as little force as possible because you can really hurt people and make life worse. You also get a worse result because police are expensive.

More importantly, each of these people is on drugs because they are in pain. When u hurt them and ignore them, your cutting off an important sense in our communities that’s telling us something is wrong. It’s hard for us to know because we adapted. But for them, they may be more sensitive and can’t handle the suffering so they took drugs.

Society has so many issues we don’t even know. We need to ask God or whoever for wisdom to understand the issue. But going full “brake” when these guys are puffing drugs is overkill and it’s not as effective.
Pretty sure Rust's compile times are a function of the complex type system and generic instantiation. Everything's a trade-off.
Apple reportedly plans to drop USB-A ports with the M4 Mac mini
Vampires have to stop and point out the typos.
Login screen doesn't wait for graphical.target, its the other way around - display manager must be started for graphical.target to be complete. So in my case, ly-dm started 3 seconds into boot and it doesn't depend on anything significant. Either way, the broader point is that even if distros somehow managed to cut the time in half, thats still just 2 seconds compared to the massive time needed for firmware.

The only thing that pops out is systemd-binfmt.service somehow taking almost 1 second, which is strange since AFAIK it just echoes some strings into /proc file. There is still some room for optimization by mounting external drives asynchronously but that's not a safe optimization to make for general use.
I love Tor - but the exit node IP addresses do not have a good reputation, because they're a source of a lot of misbehaviour.

Sure, 'serious' attackers have botnets of home users' PCs and insecure IoT devices and whatnot. But because Tor exit nodes are easily used by even unsophisticated attackers, they quickly get flagged as sources of abuse.
I dont run a single native application across five operating systems that requires a popup nag to access the clipboard or that is unable to put any data other than text, html and PNG on the clipboard.
Then like I said, treat everything like trash. Recycling requires some effort on your part.
I've used it a few times, I had a little script that processed a big important JSON file in functional test. PyPy is pretty easy to setup, and it's free 5-10x that lets you iterate faster as soon as you start to have bigger input files

At some point if it's a heavy process that has to run often, I would probably have rewritten it in Rust or something else, but in this case that script only needed to run a few times, and it needed to be correct, hence the heavy tests before running it for real

I think of PyPy more as making the dev feedback loop faster, rather than something I'd run in prod
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It's more like "social engineering" and other uses of the word which don't directly deal with engines, which is what "engineer" used to mean. For example, Google lists one of the definitions as "the action of working artfully to bring something about".
There are two key assumptions here:

1. All these changes work for everyone.
2. You are just like everyone else.

Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. The benefit of the tracker would be to find out.

Maybe you don't even have a problem with sleep anyway.
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They might just as well send any other .reg file that runs a program (e.g. by creating an autoboot entry, COM server, service, ...) that bricks devices.
Water has memory? We should build a homeopathic computer first of all.
Ever hear about the Kessler effect?
The only speech this man wants to be free is his own.
Cannabis suggests we evolved with it, see Endocannabinoid system or whatever it is called. However, I do believe it is random. Magic mushrooms have been around for longer than we have, so it's probably just chance that they make us trip (which enabled lots of mental healing power).
"that defies the laws of physics" I hate those click bait titles. It obviously didn't.
> Everything […] just seemed so predictable or unsurprising

That are people for you. Most of the time, we are uninteresting, predictable, and unoriginal. Especially when you got used to some subset, like HN, where there is a bit if self reinforcement, through the voting system.