skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one difference is that you are seeing things as defaulting to “not allowed to use the work for whatever purpose, and the only reason it is ok for people to look at it to learn from it, is because they have a human right to do so, which overrides the default”

I think in law the default is “can use as allowed by the owner”. If the owner doesn’t specify, then the default is something like “can’t distribute”.

This is thanks to the idea of property, and more specifically intellectual property responsible for a lot of innovation (including computing and LLMs themselves).

If you think some sort of intellectual property communism—you make stuff, but you don’t get to own it, and you get what you are given—is best, then fair enough, that’s your opinion.
Replacing "downloading 2kb of text on a device with minimal technical specs" with "buying a top-end computer to download hundreds of megabytes of video & shove it into an LLM to mangle and hallucinate the message down into 2kb of text".

Thank god for progress. What would we do without it.
Sure, but in the next sentence it asserts that either electric or steam couldve replace ICE in vehicles, which is true only if you ignore air pollution (and fuel efficiency) in the steam scenario.
From https://github.com/tst-race/race-docs/blob/main/what-is-race... it sounds pretty similar to how TOR works
This is easily prevented by requiring at least 2 people in the cockpit at all times. Some airlines had this policy long before Germanwings happened.
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It is quantum cryptography: the smallest possible discrete piece of cryptography. Please buy my xor gate.
And "Windows Subsystem for Linux".

Which, to my continual surprise, is a subsystem of Windows, not of Linux.

(Yes I realize this makes me sound rather dense.)
Thanks for the support, it means a lot to us! It would be a dream to see our products working together in the near future. Here's to a high-context future of debugging :)
The US military is kinda weird because the offensive and defensive sides have opposite interests when it comes to privacy and anonymity.

(1) The defensive side wants the ability to de-anonymize and decrypt everything on demand so they can catch threats to the US.

(2) The offensive side wants to promote anonymous encrypted communications so they can encourage pro-democratic dissent in authoritarian regimes.
The first electric cars date from the 1890s. The reason we're having trouble* now is because ICE cars are so entrenched in society, much more than 60 years ago. Back then it would have been easier than today.

*I take the word "trouble" to mean "progress is slower than some people would like." To that I say, be patient. Societal-scale change takes time.
Or, one can make a conscious decision to only be sexually intimate with a person with whom one has a sufficient emotional connection that raising a child together is a reasonable premise.
Amazon CEO: Company's AI Assistant Has Saved $260M and 4.5K Dev-Years
Microsoft Remote Desktop is a list of machines to connect to. It doesn't need to be more than that. It's a tool, it has to be functional first. People often have approximately 50 entries in there.

They never asked anyone for feedback. Why are there big squares instead of a list in that screenshot? Why is there a button "All devices"? I want "All devices" right now, from the moment I open the thing.

I certainly hope it won't suck, but it probably will.
In another post, he states that the 960 mg/l of calcium was found in his water. That would be enough to cause hypercalcemia if drinking 3 l per day, let alone 6 l.
Sometimes I think that when a Product Manager is feeling unimportant, they rename the product so that every. damn. department. from marketing, to sales, to all the peer products have to take notice. "Fear my importance! I'm changing the name of this product!"
Microsoft is so bad with naming I suspect there is a bonus program for employees that can came with the most confusing names.
I think the general argument is have kids so you don't leach off someone else's when you're old and take more from society than you contribute.
Maybe the whole idea was that people would be looking for other things and accidentally discover that there was a 'Windows app'.
What great innovations would have been made 60 years ago to the lead acid battery powered car that would have put them on par with contemporary ICE, to say nothing of surpassing it?
Looking forward to "Linux App".
Maybe it alludes to a future where you land directly at the Microsoft Store when you login and from there, everything including the desktop is an App - everything is on Cloud, you don't have any control over your machine (because there is practically nothing local) while simultaneously requiring you to have a 10ghz CPU to see partner-supported-mandatory-value-ad(d)s.
Pretty sure I still have my NR70 around here somewhere. I still have a few other PDAs from that era as well. Wonder if I can find my old HP pocket pc that ran Windows CE...
It was also a vicious dictatorship, and the live tended to stay alive longer if they did what they were told.

A feature of St Petersburg is the weather. It helped keep the place sanitary when corpses just froze.
I Left the Verge – Becca Farsace [video]
Compare broadcast television's first days with what it is now. There are a lot of parallels.
That's why the saying "actions speak louder than words" exists...

In any marketing research it is well-known that what people say they would pay for and what they actually pay for are two different things. Hence also the mantra about MVPs and going to market as soon as possible.

But specifically on AnandTech and "written journalism", I think they are right about the "written" part. These days the topic and hardware reviews are all over Youtube.
This would be the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWSRgsk2oaw
I will NEVER understand how the name xbox one could have ever come to exist. Simply unfathomable.
Marginally Important: Automatic Differentiation with Dual Numbers
I remember playing Sokoban on Mac around 1994.
This version had something I never saw since then: when you clicked on a square, your character would move automatically to that square, provided there existed a path. This was VERY convenient and I miss it.
Ironic you would post that, since Jay Leno was also badly burned by his gasoline-fueled steam car.
Shared here because when watching it the first reason for her departure was the sterility of being on her own and not part of a work group since people increasingly work from home. It made me wonder how many other people have found this. I don't do anything remotely similar to YouTube videos, but I also find working on my own quite stifling
Tom's Hardware took a nosedive when Thomas Pabst left.

Selling it to have time with his kids (IIRC) was a fantastic choice, but I miss his version of it for sure.
If I were a senior executive at MSFT I would probably ask someone to send me the personnel files for the people who figured it was a good idea to pointlessly rebrand something from a descriptive name that is understandable to something pointless and generic. Because these are almost certainly managers who have nothing better to do and should be trimmed out of the org chart.

I'm not kidding.
"Windows App" is way worse. You won't be able to reliably find information about it
Is it that ICE cars are entrenched in society or is it that electric cars are still inferior in some pretty obvious ways?
In the 1960s not everywhere had completed the shift from automobiles as a nice-to-have to a complete necessity. Perhaps we would have had more investment in public transit and better designed places.
There was an interesting article about how much more common it is for people to cut off ties with their parents over things like politics or whatever else, things the parents did not understand as a big deal. I do think it's increasing. The ones I know who do it and I'm close enough to know the family, I think it's entirely resolvable and sad
Thanks! Yeah, we're finding a lot of interest from small teams who want to move fast without accumulating tech debt / creating a negative trend between customer count an reliability as they start to find traction themselves.

Want to drop us an email (founders@getpatchwork.io)? Right now we do our best to make pricing work for our customers because the real value for us in this early stage is your feedback. (Cliche but true :) )
Without -0 or Infs, IEEE-754 would be significantly worse for doing scientific computations. I personally find these to be among the most useful and important features of floating point arithmetic.
Steam turbines can certainly be much more efficient than internal combustion engines, though there’s a scale factor; I’m not sure that a car-sized one would be.
I just had a look at the Xbox models. There's no way to know what order they were released in. 360. 1. X. S.
The goal of US gov is not to create, it is to control.
Interesting! There's a difference though to me: if the building has a giant poster of a popular IP on it, afaik it doesn't give the photographer any rights to use that IP in their creations. I see enough series shot in Vancouver that avoid including things like that or keep it blurred out if it can't be out of frame...

Content on websites has copyright in some form, just because it isn't behind a paywall/accountwall doesn't make it public domain.
Ubuntu, and probably other distros, have screen as a hard dependency for doing upgrades to new release versions on the command line (do-release-upgrade command). I encountered it again just the other day while updating to an LTS version. It's a fantastic feature to have by default, in case your ssh connection gets dropped during the upgrade or something.
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Texas allowed midwives to personally issue birth certificates. The political machinery in Texas has been historically pretty egregious on their abuse of these sorts of systems. They’ve cracked down in recent years.

Birth certificates in general are pretty awful. IIRC there are like 12,000 known entities that issue them. Big states have required central registration for decades. For example, in New York the local municipality issues the birth certificate, but files a copy with the NYS (or NYC) Department of Health. Some smaller states left it to the town clerk in some tiny village. (Or did until relatively recently)

There are many many corner cases with these sorts of records. Normie middle class people born in the US with two parents have very neat chains of custody of their records. There are millions who have very messy backgrounds or who don’t have their DOB or name officially recorded at all.

Thats why voter ID laws are awful. You don’t have a fundamental right to an ID or obligation to have one, but you do have a right to vote. Putting friction in front of that is a means to disenfranchise people, it’s a form of poll tax.
The impact of memory safety on sandboxing
> It's been adopted for core components in Firefox, and Chromium/Android are likewise moving towards adopting Rust. In general, Rust has seen broad industry adoption from the likes of FAANG, M$, etc.

Rust has seen slight interest, but saying that companies like Microsoft are 'moving towards adopting Rust' is just flat out wrong (you realise MS make their own language stack, right? and that it's far more used than Rust?). There's probably more ActionScript 3 in production at MS than Rust.

On the nine year point, your assumption appears to be that Zig is trying to learn from Rust and is behind, but I'm not sure what you're basing this on. Zig isn't trying to do what Rust does, and has no reason to try to relive Rust's growing pains - instead, Zig is trying sand away the rougher edges of C. Zig is not chasing nine years of Rust, it's building on fifty years of C.

Imho, the momentum isn't for moving to Rust, the momentum is for trying to bring memory safety to systems programming (as distinct from most other programming, where GC'd languages are already dominant). Personally, I quite like Rust, but these are early days, and it is not yet clear that Rust will be the language that wins this fight. The history of computing is littered with examples of the slightly less elegant but more practical tool triumphing over the pure but inflexible one.
How did they get the keycode? It’s basically two factor. You need both the code and the pilot allowing you in.

I’m pretty sure there is a second code on some planes that alerts the pilots someone is attempting to force the crew to open the door.
If you are overweight, you need to take responsibility and change your lifestyle.

Of course, everyone instinctively knows this even if they want to use mental gymnastics to explain why it is OK. Alcoholics, drug addicts, etc are defensive too and have many excuses at the ready for why their behavior is acceptable.

In the end, however, reality will hit hard and five dollar words aren’t going to save the obese and those with unhealthy lifestyles from sickness and early death.
Have you used the Windows App?

Which Windows App?

Google it!

Oh, you mean the Windows App Store?

No, the new Remote Desktop Windows App.

You mean there's a new version of Remote Desktop?

Yes, and it's called Windows App.

Right, it's always been a Windows app.

No! It's THE Windows App now. Get it?

No, I don't get it.
Note that even the bill’s creator only wanted to limit the number of cars per person in the first place, but grew bolder after the initial failure.

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his intention to introduce a bill that would limit each California family to just one gas-powered car beginning in 1975. “[The] internal combustion engine is pouring out poison,” Petris …
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Xbox One isn't even that bad compared to XBox Series X and S following the XBox One X and S.
Ask HN: Would you use (or recommend) Windows as a developer laptop?
Ask HN: Would you use (or recommend) Windows as a developer laptop?

There have been a number of new features added to Windows over the past few years that make it a more developer friendly operating system. (WSL2, improved developer tooling, package managers, etc)

That being said, mac is still the answer I get most often when asking this question. (And I almost never get Linux as an answer).

Imagine, someone new to professional programming, or someone that's looking to learn, also needs to buy a new laptop (for a totally unrelated reason), and asks you for a recommendation based on their need to use the laptop for programming/development.

What would you answer? And WHY?

PS: Yes, mac software can only be developed on a Mac (and Windows needed windows, but that may be changing with Parallels on Mac, or other virtualization software). Please consider any generic web project for this question. (eg: a Node.JS webapp).
A good ZigBee stick like the Conbee and a plethora of open source controller options will allow exactly that, at a fraction of the power consumption of WiFi in every bulb
I hope you are right, my man.
Which countries make Jury Nullification a constitutional right for defendants? I looked at the wikipedia article (US section), and it only refers to it as power possessed by a jury.
> we’d rather talk through the nuances of the issue

In other words, theres a very specific part of what they are doing that the lawyers want them to stop, but they dont want to make it public, and they dont want to make a scene by asking them to stop posting everything.
> Exactly I'm having a hard time getting past the assumption in the article that energy use is tied directly to GDP per capita and that by not following the 7% growth of the Henry Adams Curve

Yes, this was a central simplifying fallacy in the article for me too.

Plenty of phenomena follow a logistic curve [1] — which starts out exponential but then flattens out when it reaches constraints or fills a niche or fully satisfies a need or something.

The initial exponential growth may have been a period where economic productivity was constrained in a major by energy availability. We still have some energy constraints, but they seem to be secondary — and in many areas energy requirements have fallen, as others have pointed out in this discussion. It's too complicated to simply flatten, but modern energy use does seem to broadly resemble a logistic curve.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
OpenAI searches for an answer to its copyright problems
> Not 100% sure how I feel about random companies being able to definitively identify me.

But that is not what we are talking about. It is not that you are browsing the web randomly and some random company identifies you as d1sxeyes.

It is that you can identify yourself towards any company if you choose to. Then you can decide if that is in your best interest or not.
It would have been easier then I think. Far less people had cars, Many people remembered life without cars then, and at least my city had a far better transit system in the early 60s than today.

In the 50s my grandfather was living in the country without owning a car, working in town before he attempted farming. He knew someone with a car, and if they were free they gave him a ride home, if not he walked 7 miles home. He would know if they were free by if they showed up at the end of the day or not.

So obviously, a car was a huge improvement in quality of life for him. But also, pretty much any car would do. 50 mile range? Fine. Slow charging? Fine. He had been just walking.
We've built our infrastructure around ICE vehicles. Our entire built environment might have looked much different if we had optimized for a different technology.
Is it harder to understand than when to put lambda: in Python code?
Telegram can't moderate the encrypted content. Most of Telegram is not encrypted. A more apt comparison might be Facebook groups.
CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 18-in-1 Hub Reviews
i really wish the scarewords like darkweb would go away.

the internet is not google, no amount of sand over the head or in the eyes will change that.

Columbus officials chose to invalidate threat to public safety by way of misinformation,
then retaliate when the threat and true situation was revealed.

keeping people ignorant of threatscape is not good government.

thinking the 'darkweb' is some sort of containment by obscurity, is beyond naive.

the city of columbus is actually inhibiting a proper response and perpetuating a cavalier security stance.

this is not going unnoticed.

[1] [This is a bigger issue here': Columbus resident wishes the city told residents about the data breach sooner]

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/columbus-woman-wishe...

[2] Second class-action lawsuit, representing police and firefighters, filed against city after cyberattack

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/second-class-action-...

[3] Ginther confirms personal information of Columbus residents exposed in cyberattack

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/ginther-press-confer...
Maybe start with the 360?
What you’re missing is that the landing zone for SpaceX booster stages is also cleared of marine traffic.
Hey, it's my talk, AMA :)

If you're interested in Elvish, you may also be interested in the talk on its design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrl9foNXdgM
Having thought this before I got my first EV - every fear and assumption I had turned out to be based on trying to think about my EV as an ICE. Everything I need to do in life is honestly easier with the EV.
It's almost like PR said "Windows" had to be prominent in the name.
Telegram dude was already allegedly cooperating and moderating for the Russian government. If true he loses any argument that suggests he was defending privacy or free speech.
I agree. Archivists shouldn't hold their breath, anyway.
Top talent seems to also be born, not made. So if you know how to search (probably IIT), you can get some of the best people in the world.

Likely China is also able to make use of their numbers, but they're able to keep much of their talent internal. Or it goes through proxies like Singapore, HK, Taiwan.

Corollary: Countries with really good education probably isn't as cost effective as well. Maybe it is for higher end stuff like ML or operating systems, but the filter for a React programmer is entirely different.
I submitted the reviews because there are technical insights there and its a unique offering now. My own is (unpublished yet):

I am a relatively happy owner of the CalDigit TS4, which I use exclusively with an Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max. Considering that the M1 Max is the only MacBook Pro that supports three external monitors simultaneously, I’ve found this dock to be a good fit for my setup. I also own other Thunderbolt docks (e.g., Dell TB16) with Thunderbolt 3 support. My three external monitors are connected as follows: one via the HDMI port on the MacBook, another through the DisplayPort slot on the dock, and the third using a USB-C-to-HDMI adapter. This setup works flawlessly.

However, problems arise when I connect more power-demanding devices. Even something as simple as charging my mobile phone or tablet via one of the ports causes issues, leading to other devices or connections failing. I believe this is a design flaw in how the CalDigit TS4 handles power distribution.
> . Could a public encryption standard be made secure enough to protect against everything but a massive brute force attack, but weak enough to still permit an attack of some nature using very sophisticated (and expensive) techniques?

And this, I believe, is the main reason crypto algorithms are usually broken after 20 years. They were designed to be breakable with very expensive tech, and over time that tech gets cheaper and 20 years later it's within reach of phd students and it gets broken.

If it weren't designed with deliberate weakness, some crypto might still have design or implementation flaws, but the majority would last thousands of years since the underlying math its based on doesn't suddenly get weaker.
That was publicly and openly stated by a Nokia researcher during a local university guest lecture in the late 90s. He also strongly implied that wired traffic between base stations was specified to be plaintext for easy wiretapping.
++++++ to Kagi.
Yeah- I am personally struggling to understand how a website could be successful in 1997 run out of an apartment, but now that the PC and tech industry is many times bigger these sites can't make a go of it. And the headwinds Anand and Ars etc faced... I remember back in the 90s they wouldn't let them into Computex and CES.

Interestingly it was just last week that I was looking into building a NAS (Synology is leaning in hard on enshitification lately) and its suprisingly feasible, and I was wondering why no one talks about motherboards anymore, only CPUs/GPUs, and occasionally disks (spinning rust or solid state)- I thought I might have just been mentally ignoring those articles, but they really don't exist anymore. Ars/Anand/Toms had reviews for models once every 6 months or so.

Into the graveyard you go with, Aces Hardware, Sharky Extreme, Thresh's Firingsquad, and I am sure I am forgetting others that I used to load up every day but just don't exist anymore.
I create internal software in Python, and the boss likes results in an Excel spreadsheet, which I create from Python pandas dataframes. Much of my work has been translating business logic in Excel spreadsheets to Python. So for me Windows is a natural choice.
Maybe we wouldn’t even exist, nobody would use this mostly-for-webdevs website, because we’d all be busy programming machines in factories that make things.
Japan has only just begun its implosion. Population dropped by about 0.5 million last year but that will 3x within a decade given their population pyramid.

Losing 1-2% of your population per year is catastrophic and exponential.
> Dunno why Americans put up with it.

Have you seen the guns that enforce it?
It's what I do. You get more for your dollar with a Windows machine than a Mac. Historically I felt Linux distributions had problems with the fit and finish of the UI but in the last few years I feel better about Linux.