skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure clickbait.

>While writing an article about all of this for The Times Magazine, I’m pretty sure I found a loophole buried deep in the forgotten annals of the U.S. legal code that could end this pointless penny plague. I think there is one person in the United States who can unilaterally kill the penny this afternoon if he or she wants to. It’s not the president of the United States or the director of the Mint or the head of Coinstar, the private coin-recycling company that has become a crucial cog in the U.S. monetary system (though I had a lovely long talk with him). In fact, it’s probably not anyone you would think of. Find out who in the magazine story.
Yes, I'm at the cut cartoon stage, just choosing glass it's a long thin panel so I needed a design of about the same shape - what I'm building (actually a full adder, I misspoke above) looks a lot like the design on page 5 here

https://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/8-1.pdf
It says total wear time is 30 days, so it's 15 days per device.
Can you provide us with any indications that the charity in question (Razom) channelled money towards actual military drones for Ukraine?

We see they had a project in 2022 that did provide some drones, but this seems to have been in the context of supporting search and rescue operations and the like, not military operations.

Razom maintains that it does not provide military supplies of any kind. Let alone "weapons and ammunition" per the FSB charges.

Overall the charges seem to have as much credibility as the initial charge against her of "swearing in a public place".
The footnote on page 122 leaves room for some parts of the cell to be amenable to mechanistic explanations, but that since large parts of the cell aren't, it's insufficient to explain what's going on overall:

> this conclusion does not imply that every entity or process within the cell is being (or needs to be) reconceptualized. To be clear, the thesis I have sought to defend is not that all organelles exist as irreversible steady states, that every protein complex is a pleomorphic ensemble, and so on. It is rather that a very large number of cellular and molecular phenomena that were traditionally interpreted in terms that support the MCC are now being explained in terms that directly oppose it.
No, your job is not to disprove me. Your job is to show evidence via studies that 100 ng/ml is better than 50 ng/ml, and you haven't yet shown any studies to do it. In contrast, I can in principle show evidence that 50 ng/ml is better than 30 because Covid studies say so. Until you do, you don't have a basis to ask people to get their level higher than 50.

This is not about convincing me. It is about converting me. If you can convert me, I will convert many others, but you don't have the evidence to do it. If you are going to ask someone to gamble on a higher level, at least they deserve to know exactly why.
I like Pyramid for a WebApp framework. It is very malleable and it has a large and vibrant user community.
"Literally" has been abused so much that they have officially made an informal definition of it to mean "figuratively."

Which means "literally" is now its own antonym. Pretty wild
Yes yes but openly flouting the court order to block Twitter is not helping their case. It's being used as an argument to retroactively justify the minister's argument that Starlink and Twitter are part of the same corporate group and therefore Starlink should pay for Twitter's fines.
Sure, but compared to matlab or STATA it's still great news.

I mean, we dependency management in python is a complete mess. It's not something we can expect a mere Nobel winner to solve.
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Many people with a wide range of experience parsed that sentence as:

Ideally babies need { A }, and have a broad range of ­experiences

Further, " many different people " includes adults, teenagers, preteens, and barely speaking post babies.
I'm skeptical that this would be easy to learn. I haven't thought about what row certain keys are on for about 25 years. I imagine there would be a long period of frustrating typing and not being able to get things done as fast as you need, with constant corrections.
The description and feelings resonate, but I've realized a huge drag on my personal projects is the accumulated accidental* complexity due to tools and dependencies. If it's been a few weeks since you were last able to code, then not only have you lost a lot of context in your working memory, but your tools and dependencies will have marched on, and what seems like a harmless update will often result in hours untangling a bug with Someone Else's Code.

Fixing Someone Else's Code is not the point of such endeavors. Reduce tooling and dependency complexity to the bare minimum, even if it means adopting a bit of NIH mindset.

*as used by Fred Brooks in _No Silver Bullet_, https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/pc204/NoSilverBullet.html
What does that have to do with an IME library/project?
There are a lot of nice indie surprises on the Playdate. I was not disappointed by it. There’s still new titles on the way too
Has anyone tried it without flipping the P and ;? I understand the reasoning, but having it be a symmetrical flip might be even that much easier to learn?
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404229
I just don't think Qualia emerges from computations. I think it's a wave phenomena, because all the neuroscience evidence indicates that. There's nothing magical about EM waves. Waves are a well understood physics with well understood mathematics governing their behaviors.

People often just hear the phrase "brain waves" and immediately think of "woo woo spirituality" because all the spiritual crack pots are constantly talking about waves without even having a physics background.
Public push back, people don't like that their purchases get price to the nickle. It's psychological. There's a reason why 99 cents is a bargain but a dollar is not. It's all in our heads. if it was easy it would been done ages ago.
Aye, exactly that. Even as someone who loves to do a dumb research project, it's starting to irk me how much funding can apparently go into essentially studying the various detrimental effects of poverty in exactly the same ways and concluding "well clearly poverty correlates with [broadly defined bad outcome] but there's no way to determine causality here"
It's incredibly easy relative to Dvorak. Dvorak changes every single key across the whole keyboard and you have to relearn typing from scratch. This just changes a few keys, and when you "miss" you immediately know where the right one actually is, either directly above or directly below...super easy fix and the muscle memory will redevelop quickly.
I generally prefer using vim (and have started using neovim recently). Does anyone know when/if Cursor will provide official support to plug-ins that allow me to us its functionality in neovim? I've tried VS Code a number of times, but even with vim-bindings, it doesn't feel as nice as pure vim.

I'm aware of open source alternatives like Avante.nvim [1]. I mean official support from the folks at Anysphere/Cursor, Codeium, Poolside, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353835
As a publisher who publishes a full-text RSS feed at a time when not a lot of publishers do, I must say: The publisher should have a say in this.

This is not to say that this is a good idea or a bad one, but I think you will, long-term, have better luck if people don’t feel their content is being siphoned.

A great case-in-point is what my friends at 404 Media did: https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...

They saw that a lot of their content was just getting scraped by random AI sites, so they put up a regwall to try to limit that as much as possible. But readers wanted access to full-text RSS feeds, so they went out of their way to create a full-text RSS offering for subscribers with a degree of security so it couldn’t be siphoned.

I do not think this tool was created in bad faith, and I hope that my comment is not seen as being in bad faith, but: You will find better relationships with the writers you share if you ask rather than just take. They may have reasons for not having RSS feeds you may not be aware of. For example, I don’t want my content distributed in audio format, because I want to leave that option open for myself.

People should have a say in how their content is distributed. I worry what happens when you take those choices away from publishers.
Really fine points.

Rust definitely has more going for it than some of the earlier hype cycles. That being said, and speaking from my own experience with Rust, there are some design choices that I suspect may pose a barrier for its widespread adoption. Rewriting small discrete components while maintaining C interop is a very fine use case for Rust - building and maintaining a large, complex, and stateful system wholly in Rust is quite another. I'd be very, very surprised if Microsoft switched en masse to Rust for their bare metal stack, at least with Rust in its current shape.

Clojure is a great parallel to bring up here, and should serve as a cautionary tale for Rust: Java was unpopular, Clojure showed that a better way was possible - but was itself just a bit too alien and hard to work with for many Java devs - so the more-familiar Kotlin swept in and carried the day. I have a sneaking suspicion that this might happen again, with C/C++ in the role of Java, Rust in the role of Clojure, and _ in the role of Kotlin. I don't quite know what the _ will be yet, but I suspect it will be a lot more accommodating to grizzled C wizards than Rust is. (I'm keeping an eye on Zig.)
Massive attack surface. That's true as a security risk, but also as a dependency risk (eg. left-pad).
> I feel sorry for people who measure their self based on some consumerism yard stick, it is pathological.

I mean, if you think this sums up every job everyone has, then I feel sorry for you. Many people are doing laudable work that has nothing to do with "consumerism"
Well no, if someone is a habitual liar or always wrong, then you're free to assume they are lying or wrong. The ordinary opinion of random people is not a court of law where innocence is presumed.
I have a special caching system the enables networked /dev/null AAS to reduce it's network overhead considerably.
I’m a publisher. I am telling you this, personally.
As someone who can type on Dvorak, this is exactly what would happen. It doesn't matter that it isn't as radically different as qwerty->dvorak, you still have muscle memory for where everything is and now it's different. It's a bit like learning a new language. If you're going to change keyboard layouts, you might as well do it right and pick a better layout than this. I like Dvorak, but Colemak and Workman layouts are also well-regarded.
Clearly there's some correlation between poverty and unemployment, but since we didn't do an RCT there's just no way to tell causality here
Doesn't that also describe, like, plate tectonics and tornadoes? Once you expand the definition of "machine" that far, what doesn't it reach?
> You have to explain to the LLM exactly what it is that you want it to do to get the right result, then it gives you a solution. Mostly the solution is right, but when it's wrong you'll better understand the problem through the act of writing it out.

The solution is either correct or incorrect. In general its level of incorrectness is not trivial. My language of choice is C#. Anytime I ask it to generate a series of classes (say a data model of a particular domain, using specific well-known patterns), it gets it wrong, quite wrong and it would take more effort to explain it to unfuck itself, by which time it would have forgotten 3 deliberate instructions from 5 interactions ago. It’s a brilliant moron.
It uses RAG, so your whole repo is indexed locally, but of course anything relevant is put into the context window in order to get results. So in that sense it's no different from any other LLM solution, and the models you use are pluggable. You can even provide you own Open AI/Anthropic/etc. API keys.

I honestly think the "oh no, enterprises are scared about where are code goes" is overblown. I mean, companies host tons of infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. And heck, why would a company trust GitHub (a subsidiary of Microsoft) Enterprise's guarantees and not trust Open AI's (basically a subsidiary of Microsoft at this point) guarantees?
I've had companies ask to read it DB, answer is no and over my dead body. They get API access or data dump. I've been asked to read external companies DB, I always refuse, give me API or data dump. I don't even agree for internal teams to share DBs. It's a bad idea, but I can see the draw for startups and small companies without the skills. BTW, can we chat about your former charge acts oriented startup? My info is in my profile.
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We use Bitwarden.

Every employee has a collection. When employee needs access to something, we add that password to their collection.

When they leave the company, we revoke access to Bitwarden and then change all passwords in their collection.

For small companies of maybe up to 100 employees, this is a super cheap and practical solution.
Not me, but have seen this with a number of vendors.

- Customer buys a service from a vendor

- Customer creates a Vnet peering in Azure between their subscriptions

- Customer queries the vendor's DB's directly

I will not name names for the vendors or customers, but you have heard of all of them.
Log files have lines that are long enough, I was thinking more of one/two-character long lines (such that the overhead of malloc bookkeeping would be more than the line size in memory).
Regardless, Emacs also stores the data in a single array with a gap in middle (and memcpy is relatively cheap), so what slows it down is probably not the choice of data structure but everything else built around it.
> the fintech not being able to dedicate engineering resources to send data to an API endpoint of ours

There's an extremely real chance that this fintech giving you direct DB access was breaking the law by doing so.
Last time I counted there were three or four of us, but bookofjoe is a prolific reader and poster courtesy of being retired.

We have a lot of down time during the day, just in very short increments. Thus the stereotype that we’re all crossword/Sudoku nerds. HN is something you can pick up and put down in a moment.

Also, I have always thought of the job as a sort of human engineering, or a big physiology lab. Programmers have REPL; we have vital sign monitors for instant feedback. Thankfully it is difficult to crash a human accidentally.

People think doctors bought computers early because they were rich. They could, but it’s worth remembering that if you were a science-and-math kid in the post-WW2 era, medicine and engineering would be the fields you would be pushed toward. That is not as prominent now as tech has started paying better and medicine less, but it’s still not terrible reasoning. I would have to screw up a lot to be unemployable, even if it did take me a lot of school to get to that point. Doctors bought computers because they looked fun.

Only one of my partners has an engineering degree (MechE). I majored in chemistry. Two pharmacists, one accountant. Don’t know about the rest.
the keyword here is at the end of the article: alarming amount of coffee. There is something neurochemical in highly creative people that needs to be counterbalanced artificially.
This is quite obviously not a “real” syndrome caused by foreign adversaries. The physics, scale of “attack”, timeline, vagueness of symptoms, etc, all do not add up to a coherent phenomenon. Please put your skeptic hats on regarding this subject.
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Exponential Rate Limiting
Just learn dvorak or colemak - they're not hard to learn, have tons of benefits, and are readily available on all operating systems
It's harder and harder to use Linux at work outside of bigger tech companies these days. Security standards like SOC2 seem fairly difficult to satisfy for Linux workstations without serious compromises. This is a damn shame because there are approaches to secure Linux workstations that seem pretty powerful but security standards now are prescriptive about what you must do to secure your systems, and for Linux that's going to mean paying for some subscription software that most likely only supports a couple of distros, and if you're lucky, they might support kernels from the _current_ decade.

I used Linux workstations for most of my entire career, at nearly every job. Seems like around 2018 something changed and now I'm going to have to fight to get a desktop that I feel vaguely productive under for every single job I get going forward.
why haven’t these studies led to increased social services and poverty interventions?
The general takeaway is that you can prove you know something without revealing what it is, or how you know!

If you can't think of the possibilities that unlocks beyond the examples others have already discussed(none of which were crypto related), that's a limitation on your end.
> You can't just provide a hash of the solved board

Wait, why not? You could represent the Sudoku board as matrices, here's an example of one block:

[

[9, 5, 7]

[4, 8, 3]

[6, 1, 2]

]

(same idea for 9x9)

Imagine a "Sudoku Online" where we all have our own private boards, but we have a shared public chat like an online game. Any of us can click "Check Solution" which hashes our Suduku board and sends it to the chat. A message might look like:

*magicalhippo is checking a hash... f3ghziiv × Failed*

*bschmidt1 is checking a hash... 242eef7z × Failed*

*magicalhippo is checking a hash... zzw4zq3x Passed*

All players see the hash activity in the public chat, but none of us can see each others' boards - we only have insight to whether or not the solution was valid.

The validity check could run on a central trusted server, like where the game is hosted, or in a peer-to-peer setup a condition of passing could be that a peer machine must validate it. So no client can validate their own hash. It could even be in an "Unverified" state until some threshold % of players have validated it - could do anything you want, but I don't see how "ZKPs" offer any solutions.

Most of the libraries are either utils that have like generateUUID functions in them, or they're private/public key libraries that let you wrap functions in an additional encrypted layer. Haven't seen a goto ZKP npm yet or heard anything about what it improves/solves.
> What if you're not close enough to the device at the time to see the indicator? That's the bit the worries me in terms of mic use.

The odds are stacked against the attacker. Unless they can also figure out whether you're looking at the screen or not, they're rolling the dice every time they attempt a recording. As they make more recordings, the probability of being discovered approaches 100%.
Go to a doctor in an honest medical system and they will tell you which MRI to get

Doctors here are hamstrung by liability and insurance
Ah interesting. I'm now colliding this thought with how unnerved I was by the tacit acceptance of very visible elements of the surveillance state in UK. I wonder if the state needed different tactics to make the population legible, and so (without express intention) needed to recruit citizens as more willing participants to reach the functional level of legibility...
Many DBAs don’t even like internal analysts directly querying production line of business databases. Usually they’d set up replicas, or even a full blown data warehouse.
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Same approach: I call it "Ten Tiny Tasks"
I see, thanks for replying. I agree, Unicode specs are hell to work with (I tried doing a auto-codegen thing based on them and just gave up due to the size of tables generated and the seemingly-arbitrary edge cases). libgrapheme looks pretty good otherwise, I'll keep an eye on it for whenever I have to wrangle with Unicode on a low level again (hopefully not for a long time).