skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused by that, too.

I found this video where Congressman Pallone summarizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dlYHN8dQ8

I'll type a quick transcript:

> In the last few months, we've seen reports that hacking groups linked to China, Russia, North Korean, and Iran are gaining access to our communications networks to conduct surveillance, collect massive amounts of data, and manipulate our elections. And because of this, there's a real risk that the information they collect could be used to launch cyberattacks on our critical infrastructure and undermine our democratic values of free speech and expression, as well as civil and human rights. But fortunately, Congress has acted with strong bipartisan support to bolster the defense of our communications networks. My bipartisan Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, which became law in 2020, established a list of equipment and services that pose a national security risk and prevent their use in our communications networks. And HR 2864 builds on that bipartisan work by adding the telecommunications and video surveillance equipment and services provided by so-called DJI Technologies, better recognizes the equipment and services used in their drones to the Federal Communication Commission's covered list. With this action, Congress will ensure that future versions of DJI drones cannot be imported, marketed, or sold in the United States.

This is the current bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2864

This is the earlier law that establishes the list that DJI stuff will be added to: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4998...

The law prohibits providers of "advanced communications service" from using certain equipment, if they receive subsidies. And if they do, it reimburses them for replacing it with other equipment.

And here's what the current bill says about the DJI equipment:

> The communications equipment or service being—

> (A) telecommunications or video surveillance equipment produced by Shenzhen Da-Jiang Innovations Sciences and Technologies Company Limited (commonly known as ‘DJI Technologies’) (or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof); or

> (B) telecommunications or video surveillance services, including software, provided by an entity described in subparagraph (A) or using equipment described in such subparagraph.

So, if you're a phone company, ISP, cable company, etc. and if you get federal subsidies, then you won't be able to buy DJI drones or use their software / services, and you won't be able to "maintain" (keep using?) whatever you already have either.

I'm not sure what threat they're specifically trying to protect against. One guess would be exfiltration of video / photos of important infrastructure. Another guess would be DJI's software running on systems which could be used as a springboard for hacking.
Opinion: Lauding Lise Meitner, Who Said 'No' to the Atomic Bomb
I think the puzzle idea is that, if you could figure out a weakness in the hash, you could claim it faster than the brute force approach. So each prize that's claimed "on schedule" supports the idea that there aren't any widely known shortcuts.

Obviously if you found a shortcut in the hash you might do other things first, but I think that's the idea.
Yandex has no way out of Russia. Most of its businesses are russian-targeted and going “full outside” makes zero sense for them, because to continue they’d have to bow before authorities anyway. As a media company, to condemn the war for them meant being instantly raided and re-owned, which sure isn’t far from truth, just was less dramatic.
do you also run a comic book store?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897427
This does indeed exist in the latest version I have running. When opening a CSV all automatic conversion can be disabled
Works barely
Does walking the Easter Island Moai statues across the island flush birds and fish?
There's somewhat of a internal forum question - nobody wakes up saying "today I want to be a septic engineer" but you can make the decision, to if not enjoy it, at least be good at it and be fulfilled.

Happiness is an internal action and if you depend on external stimuli for it, you're going to be perpetually unhappy.

And the people doing the "low-class/low-respect" jobs are often some of the happiest I meet - most of their complaints aren't about the job but about other things, much of which boils down to money and its consequences.

One aspect of the jobs you listed is that at least you feel you did something; trash got collected, a sewer kept working, a ship moved location.

Many of our "high-pay/high-class" jobs have nothing you can point at at the end of the day - no "I did that" to feel good about.
"that they will suddenly stop what they are doing after a certain age and let younger generations pay for their salary. That’s something I struggle to accept."

I mean I pay ~40%-55% of my income toward various taxes witch fund pensions among other thing. I would expect to get something 'back' after the age of 65. But chances are very slim what that will be any meaningful sum.
Where I live (Tacoma WA if anyone wants some) there are wellheads you can go to and get water for free. I use it for brewing beer (because of the mineral content). I've never seen anyone else filling. I was curious so I asked, and they measure how much water people take and it's only in the hundreds of gallons a month per wellfield. There has to be over 200,000 people within five miles of one of these wellheads.
This is just sick.
I think it was the ancient Greeks(?) that walked while learning the epic poems in order to recite them by recalling their journey, using the associations made on the path they took. I think the method of loci[0] is similar except using purely imagined locations/details ("memory palace").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Is there something unique or special about the private keys that are guessed? This seems like an incredibly wasteful allocation of compute (which wouldn’t be surprising given that it’s bitcoin but still)
somewhat-related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
Good to know the pension thing was fixed under Biden. This administration also stopped progress on USPS privatization (which seemed pretty inevitable under Trump).

You can guess how I’ll vote, but it’s important that people pay attention to the actual actions taken by the parties, and then also remember to vote.
Why still use MS Office when LibreOffice is freely available?
That’s Hume and it is indeed devastating. Only Kant had an answer, but not everyone likes it.

Simple things like causality break down if you consider events to be discrete and unconnected. I believe modern AI research could do with someone (re)thinking some of this stuff.

Kant has a solution, but it requires letting go of ever knowing True Reality(tm).
Im in the same boat, I have no interest, but when I talked to people who enjoy it, it feels more like a religion than sports. That has something to do with its appeal
I have these Git shortcuts stored in my .zshrc file:

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4298960/git-add-a-git-co...

git config --global alias.ac '!git add -A && git commit'

git config --global alias.acm '!git add -A && git commit -m'

git config --global alias.ll '!git log --graph --full-history --all --color --pretty=format:"%x1b[31m%h%x09%x1b[32m%d%x1b[0m%x20%s"'

git config --global alias.gst '!git status'

git config --global alias.gca '!git commit -a --amend'

git config --global alias.gp '!git push origin HEAD'

git config --global alias.bd '!git branch -d'

git config --global alias.bdd '!git branch -D'

git config --global alias.mc '!git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U'

git config --global alias.co '!git checkout'

git config --global alias.po '!git push origin'

git config --global alias.cp '!git add -A && git commit -m "Content" && git push'

Out of those, I only – but often – use `git acm` and `git co` and `git po`.

Edit: formatting (oh dear).
I'd assume there's a hint, but I can't find anything
Leaving "-3²" to be "interpreted" according to context is not a good idea. Mathematical notation should be unambiguous and context-free as much as possible, not "do what I mean". A computation involving "-3²" will be right or wrong depending on what it means; that shouldn't depend on who is reading it or under what circumstances.

Not to unduly slight your teacher, but it could be they weren't sure about what "-3²" means. Everyone who teaches has gaps in their knowledge -- I sure did. :-)
create a .timer file in your service directory
with

[Timer]

OnBootSec=2min

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers
Does it fix subj-related issues?
They are unusually expensive.

Here in Sweden university education costs less per head than highschool education (we of course pay for research separately). In Russia there's even one university, the Independent University of Moscow, which is just a bunch of mathematicians who give courses.

University education can be made into something really hardcore but simultaneously incredibly cheap.

For example, I think the IUM has exactly zero administrators.
I tried giving it questions like 9.11 > 9.9 and it got basic stuff like that wrong more often than right
PoW crypto is an exercise in finding new ways to spin boiling the oceans as actually being productive.
If it's only 2 decimals, surely you could trivially test every single possible input? I think of fuzzing as random, but that's a specific optimization that you might not need.
I really miss the old snappy windows console, AFAIK it is no longer accessible on win11. I run semi-scripted actions at work and the new windows terminal has an annoying startup latency.
This is cool but I was hoping to see one (or more) thrown, bounce around, then see the software piece together a 3D sort of layout of everything it captured. Excited to see v2!
“This is from August 2000!

Since them, much more detailed magnetic fields maps have been made of the Milk Way:
“

I was surprised to see that followed up with link from 2019?
Alternative title: How to cope with the stranglehold neoliberalism has on us.
My favourite thing about the Newcastles is that one is under and one is on. I was pondering just recently whether there's any other under/upon pairs in the UK.
Interesting: Reading the first page of the bitcointalk forum, the puzzle originated from this wallet, which has an incredible amount of volume going through it. 10,000+ transactions and over a million BTC sent/received.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/173ujrhEVG...
Who is paying to the puzzle solvers?
Oh wow. Awesome. I had an idea for similar game for system design but got bogged down trying to learn game dev. This is so cool
I had the same reaction. Isn't Bitcoin wasting enough energy as it is?
Why your Nintendo was on Channel 3 (except in Cleveland) [video]
The scientific community is rife with pretentious know-it-all types. The type that draw conclusions before something is conclusive. Better not to take them seriously.

They recently built a cafe deep inside carlsbad caverns. If food was an issue, that seems a dumb idea.
Is it known who set it up and for what purpose?
Kevin Hart's Vegan Fast-Food Chain Suddenly Closed All Locations Overnight
If you open a CSV file without going through a specific import process, you don't even get the option to specify a data type. And once it's open it's too late to fix it, the original data is already gone.
Input: Hey dog, what time is it now?

Output: Yo, check your damn phone or watch. I ain't a clock.

https://ibb.co/Xs2NP6F
NYT (and The Economist) are IMO pretty good but they're expensive--especially relative to free. If I were in school or just out of it, I probably wouldn't pay for them like I did for Time and Newsweek when that was more or less your source of news other than subscribing to the big city newspaper or watching the evening news.

There are good magazines out there but overall there's been a decline in quality and, at least in the political/cultural arena, they're mostly some rich person's pet project--though that was historically also the case to some degree.
I think you are conflating two different things here: where you come up with ideas and where you produce the goods.

To stay on the topic of drones, Skydio is an example of a US startup that produced drones in the US, and for some applications, it produced better drones than an established and sophisticated competitor. Is every component in Skydio manufactured in the US, very unlikely ...

I am no DJI hater, I have owned multiple of their drones and I think their products are awesome of extremely high quality.
That being said, a SkyDio was light-years ahead of them when it came to high-speed object avoidance.
In C++ land, I've actually rolled std::pmr with jemalloc in order to have better allocator than OS one, be clean, and avoid global hooks [1]

Two big issues were found (and some others):

- std::pmr:: introduces news types - e.g. std::pmr::string is different than std::string

- std::string becomes much more expensive, especially for small strings, as there is 8 bytes added for each such strings to keep the pmr allocator.

So we removed this code, and went back to a globally hooked allocator (mimalloc in our case) - targeting Windows mostly.

[1] - Globally hooked allocators are magic: mimalloc, tbbmalloc, google's, etc. The issue becomes apparent when you try to use now optimized code in a different host - for example you have 3D model exporter that works great in your tools, but poorly under 3DSMax or Maya where a different global allocator is used, and no longer works as expected.
People with physical jobs should definitively be able to retire, a construction worker is not getting up a scaffold at 70.
same. I never liked sports. can't understand the meaning of a group of people chasing a ball.
> If there is no unity to the thoughts, then there is no single principle that unites the thoughts.

Not sure what this means. Buddhists would say “everything is a formation”

> If there is no single principle that unites them, then there is no single, unchanging person having them.

This is the core teaching of Buddhism, so we can just start from here.

> If there is no unchanging person having the thoughts, then there is no connection between the thoughts

This is a non-sequitur. In the Buddhist view, each thought or mental moment is conditioned upon the previous one(s).

There is nothing in “logical thought”, or even illogical/emotional thought that logically requires a self. Thoughts can arise, like pure functions operating on their inputs, and returning some output into the global workspace. Subsequent thoughts can compose those previous ones, or consume new sense percepts that are emitted by the sense organs.

Now as a matter of empirical fact this model could be wrong, but I don’t think your attempt to disprove it with logic succeeds.
I used to, now I don’t.

I think youth sports can be really great for people but a lot of people have a bad experience or don’t get the opportunity and that’s a problem. (A friend of mine has thought a lot about how to run a youth soccer team that develops the best players but is still a lot of fun for the average kid). Bitching about the refs’ calls is a ‘game within a game’ that players, coaches and fans all indulge in. India and Pakistan could have had a nuclear war but instead they have the greatest sports rivalry in the world.

Last year I was getting bored doing photography and decided to try sports photography because my office overlooks the sport complex. Since then I’ve attended almost any kind of match at the college level, met a lot of people, learned a lot and had a great time. I still can’t stand to watch baseball on TV but the new facility my Uni is fan-friendly and intimate and I enjoy the smells and sensory experiences.
Shoutout to the excellent podcast The Memory Palace

It's historic stories told well, nothing to do with memory palaces
Show HN: Mini-Retirement Planner
By what means might you prove or disprove this theory?
How does one go from years and decades of imperative programming to becoming fluent in Haskell's style of functional programming? It feels like a steep price to pay when most over languages don't require such substantial re-learning.
It seems like the article is based around the very flawed premises that what people enjoy doing can support them monetarily, and that such activities even can be carried on until death. It all sort of falls apart when you consider the passionate artist who isn't actually very good, or the skilled woodworker that develops arthritis.

It's no surprise that the author is a software developer, as we are the rare cases that are often well paid, often enjoy what we do tremendously, and the job has few physical requirements that would exclude an elderly person (though age discrimination is very real). The author's points come from a very privileged position, and I'm not sure they realise it.

I'm all for not giving up on life at retirement age, but even though I like my job I sure as hell don't want to be doing a 9-5 when I'm 80. I don't even really want to be doing it now.
You should check out BYOK

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/byok/byok-the-ultimate-...
Handling datetime entries with native HTML inputs
Wouldn't it make more sense to try to develop your own production instead of trying to prevent import of someone else? Even preventing import doesn't stop your geopolitical competitor's production. But you never hear any public politician arguing the drones should be made in-house, only that the ones across the sea might be evil.

And since the US supposedly is pro-capitalism and free markets, wouldn't it make sense that someone in the US develops a superior consumer product and "defeats" the evil competitor products that way?
> recording ui interactions, etc

This is a sign that the software has grown to become its own operating system. They also have to add their own version control… remote editing, etc.

Unix style versions of tools are interesting in their own right (photoshop vs imagemagick).
Everyone in blue collar jobs knows the secret is to get into management or change fields before you start getting up there in years.
I agree with everything you said. My point was that today's culture is unhealthily obsessed with words and meanings, to the point of destroying any nuance or understanding that might have been. I see it as one of the main problems of today's society, that will have long lasting consequences. People can't express themselves freely, can't discuss many complicated topics without fear of being torn up by a crowd. This is not a situation that promotes understanding, reflection or leads to civilized solutions; this is a boiling pressure cooker with blocked safety valve.

Today's people, in my experience, more often than not default to using the inverted Hanlon's razor in their judgement — trying to find enemies everywhere, instead of taking it easy and accepting human imperfection. This is not something new of course, but today's technology and lifestyle accelerates this to levels where any genuine dialogue between people of different world views is highly unlikely. In today's society people are more likely to just claim someone they disagree with as an enemy, rather than try to understand why they're using the words they don't like. In my opinion this... psychosis will not end well, and I could only hope that we'll take that hit and be better for it in a long run.
I do recall a handful of the full-page PopSci "back of the mag" ads being articles in their own right, and sometimes they were as well-written as the actual articles written by PopSci. Although those were always the exception, rather than the norm, I feel like that kind of thing is just gone.

That said, I wonder if it's caused by limits in the ad delivery methods we use today, rather than some industry wide lack of interest in making quality ads. I can't conceive of how such an ad would be delivered through Google, for example. Meta? Maybe.
The stranger thing in this thread is how many people are breathlessly defending nepo babies. They really don’t need your help guys. They are fine.
Whatever this is supposed to be criticizing exactly, is misplaced and doesn't matter, because they are right about the limitations of openscad and the real world problems that result from those limitations.

You will discover these problems while still green, and their report is corroborated by anyone else who has used openscad.

You could try it yourself and discover that what they said is true.

If you've tried to use openscad to model more than a cube, then you have run in to the limitations. If you have gone on to spend years building models in openscad, then you know even more limitations and problems than you did while "green".

Even people like myself who use openscad for as much as they can because they love being able to describe an open source model in about 1k of human readable, editable, parametric, gittable text instead of several megs of xml or binary, even we will say that this is all simply true. the more experienced you are, the more you know how true it is.

I will still call myself green because I will simply call myself green about almost everything as simple facet of my character, regardless how many years or how much work I've done with something.

Should such people not advise others on what they have learned? Do self-proclaimed experts largely give better advice than experts, or even mere practitioners, who don't like to self-aggrandize?

Regardless, in this case their statements were all sound. As someone who has spent a lot of time figuring out methods to get things done that a new user would not know yet, I have no notes on this greenorns opinions.
CU was a strange but IMHO probably correct decision. A lot of people don't like its practical effects, and that's certainly their right, but purely as a legal matter, it does seem odd that you would lose autonomy when you band together. It is, in a way, the ultimate conservative comeback to "government is just another name for things we choose to do together" - well, so are corporations.

Maybe it's not the way things should be, but it's hardly as though the news business has not had far more radical things happen in the past, oh, forty years.
> If your goal truly is to stop people putting laptops on there, then account for people who may not follow the directions if they don’t know why.

Why? If they decide to ignore the sign, and they fuck their laptops up, that's on them.

A note of direction doesn't need to justify itself. People that think they are owed an explanation so they can decide whether or not to follow a note are the problem here.
One thing I do enjoy is low cost clones of mainstream software. So more power to this guy. A reason I use Zoho is that it’s a complete suite I can use at low cost to run a company. There’s lots of non venture scale businesses where you don’t raise and costs matter. And software like this helps. If he can offer it at low cost that’s great!
Clickhouse is great, but it’s more complex. It’s not a direct comparison but it’s like Redis to Postgres.
That may be among the cooler things that tech like this is bringing us one step closer to.
LLMs are the new trust and safety force multiplier.
Everyone who trades fiat for crypto.
DSLs are not dead.

I have had the opposite experience. For complex tasks, LLMs fail in subtle ways which requires inspection of its output: essentially “declarative” to “imperative” is bug ridden.

My trick has been to create DSLs (I call them primitives) that are loaded as context before I make declarative incantations to the LLM.

These micro-languages reduce the error space dramatically and allow for more user-friendly and high-level interactions with the LLM.
Three letters agencies? Could be a nice way to find out if a foreign entity has an enormous brute-force capability? But more likely I'd say they got their bitcoin back when a core2duo was enough to generate a few of them overnight...
I put another trending HN article¹ into it... got "rotfl"

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545495
I think Alpine would be a smaller jump?