skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it’s funny you mention that. I actually think Marx made a fantastic critique of capitalism. He kind of nailed the inherent flaws within the system. I compare his solutions to someone predicting that every desk would eventually have a telegraph through. Identifying a problem doesn’t therefor imply a solution.

Regarding the modern Progressive movement though, I find them a bit too authoritarian for my tastes. There are countless examples but classic Western liberalism is at odds with their ideology. They’ve fallen into the classic revolutionary entrapment of their own power being tied with continued upheaval. If you are not with them completely then you are the enemy. From the Google Manifesto to JK Rowling’s cancelling, they remind me of the mob during the French Revolution. They just eat their own and refuse to accept any kind of meaningful critique.

Liberalism requires debate, disagreement and questioning the status quo. I don’t see that amongst the modern Progressives. They would rather burn it down than build something better.

Ironically, I fear them gaining power as much as I do the religious right. Neither contains the capacity for building the coalitions needed for stable governance. I like moderates. Stability. Peace. Compromise. Mutual Respect. Empathy. I just don’t see those values in those circles.

Now that I’ve politely disagreed, I suppose it’s just a matter of time before someone comes along to insult me and prove my point.
> it's generally the case that a less developed, up-and-coming economy will have new stuff quicker.

My credit card in the UK had chip-and-PIN in 2004 - it was probably around earlier too, though less common. Almost every bank card issued has had contactless for over 10 years too. Simply being a developed economy is not the only reason!
What’s the tasking time on these? Could future governments use these for military purposes?
Saying Android is bad is irrelevant. It’s an important project for Google.

> Seems like quite a stretch

It’s not a stretch, they’ve been talking publicly about their increased Rust usage in Android (among others) for years now. Here’s a 2023 post for example https://security.googleblog.com/2023/10/bare-metal-rust-in-a...
How about embedding the contents of the HTML files so that no access to the filesystem is required?

That would make it not only faster but also safer.
What about Vioxx?
Wow, this site was seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Very reputable... /s
I have a top level "Projects" folder, one subfolder per project.

I have a "Clients" folder, One folder per other person or company, I'm doing anything for, a subfolder per project.

I have "Archive" which syncs to all my devices, and from my phone it syncs to Google Docs. From my laptop it is backed to a Synology NAS with the rest of my disk. I use it for things I will actually want to see in ten years.

I have music/videos/books folders, and I also have a "Collected" folder for anything downloaded that I think I want to keep(Sorted by category in a low effort manner).

I don't make enough for deductions to be a thing, so I don't really have any accounting to do that isn't already done by some cloud platform somewhere.

I don't see why multiple people's files would be in one account, that sounds like a hassle.
> It comes down, in the end, to whether or not you believe that the “digital town square” Musk talked about when he bought Twitter can really exist and, if it can, whether it is of any benefit to anyone.

I'd argue the moderation is the issue. It's one thing to have a discussion between different ideologies, but there's no more conservatives to discuss anything with. They've left twitter too, and the only people left are... not engaging in good faith discussions, to be polite about it.

Users seem to have an expectation of(or rather a desire for) civility, moreso than echo chamber agreement, but the current owner of twitter seems to think that restricting hate-speech is restricting free-speech. Then, for whatever moderation is left, all the most popular alt-right accounts also get an exemption from that, which encourages all their followers to be their worst version of themself.
When I bought my house as a first time buyer in sf, my agent walked me through my disclosures over email..
I like your stand. I’m wondering if it will fit the case I use on my iPhone 14 Pro, an Otterbox Defender XT.

What case did you design it for use with?
If you had your own iron, had to co-locate it somewhere, keep the OS updated, etc. all that time (and hardware) adds up. Factor in opportunity cost and hosts like WPE are relatively cheap.
IIRC he tried to back out of the deal under the premise that twitter over-represented its value by under-reporting bots. He stated something like he wanted proof of non-bot users before proceeding. When taken to court, the judge ruled he could get more info from twitter. I don't remember what came next, I think elon quietly dropped the point and the next set of rulings held him to the already signed purchase agreement.

Citations:
"Elon Musk says Twitter deal 'cannot move forward' until he has clarity on fake account numbers" [1]

"Musk was seeking information on essentially all of Twitter's account reviews and actions. Judge McCormick dubbed that request "absurdly broad," noting Twitter has already agreed to produce a "tremendous amount information.""[2]

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/17/elo...

[2]
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-scores-half-win-ab...
"AI-detection" is harmful to students
Strangely, we don't in my field!
Fwiw redfin is also tiny with 0.78% market share and slim or negative profits
> A move only the reigning search engine king would dare.

It was a reskin of Limbo, which they had released at Bell Labs without a lot of traction.

> Most new languages never overcome basic performance issues.

Poor performance is a problem with an implementation. Poor expressiveness is a problem with the grammar and semantics of every implementation, especially when you don't let end users extend the language to their needs.
I use it so much everyday, it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn. I would hate for it to crash and burn.
I often joke that every startup job post <<getting lots of funding>> is you playing <<game about cleaning up gore>> for the <<people who made the MVP>> of the <<before getting lots of funding>> stage.
So there are two solutions to the noise problem, better sound isolation or putting dwellings further apart. Why have you decided that one solution is an obvious winner over the other? I really think you need to inspect your own assumptions.
For fun, sure. Small mistake can be big security nightmare
Currently Rust is only acceptable in drivers. These are inherently platform specific, so there’s no issue with platform support. If Rust doesn’t support the platform, the driver won’t be written in it.

Rust’s platform support is better than you might assume, but it is missing some platforms the kernel itself supports, so until that’s resolved, it can’t be in the core of things.
Google cache had what, 15 years of support, with no promises ever?

I think of all the google.products, that's pretty good.

Inbox still hurts though, but not as much as google music
I'm not talking about bullying, where the person being offended is the only one who suffers from it, but rather things like saying "X is false" which offends believers of X and they retaliate with insults. Yes, people get angry when you offend them or even just disagree with them. If you don't want to cause that, don't offend them. Unfortunately a lot of people are so arrogant about their own beliefs, they feel they have the right to both offend people who disagree and be protected from being offended in response.

Not saying the people making death threats are innocent and of course the law should try to stop them, but often it's not powerful enough so people who don't want that unfortunately have to keep quiet or be anonymous when they want to step on the toes of death-threat-happy communities.
> I feel like immutability is overrated as hell

Logic defined in terms of immutability can trivially support "undo" and "replay" functionality, amongst other more interesting workflows such as event streaming.

Logic defined in terms of mutable collaborations cannot do so with the same ease.
The article puts the important part at the bottom.

> There are some minor protections built into Apple and Google’s current systems — you can display an encrypted ID without fully unlocking your phone, and various authorities can scan your ID wirelessly if they have special readers.

Don’t hand over your unlocked phone.
But without a stable ABI can you expect modules to realistically work across versions? It seems like a similar problem to shared libraries, which rust punts on.
Exceptions can always be made, this seems disingenuous.
Right. If you are a rich country there is enough margin in business or resources for government agencies to use alternatives with people who don't provide SSN.

The total cost of implementing Aadhar system is less than couple of months of SSA admin expenses. Median per capita income tax in US is $15K and in India it would be 200-300 dollars. The point is at that level of revenue and expenses the quality of service, privacy, sensitivity to ones belief, one can expect from government is very low.

Complaining about Aadhar is more in tune of complaining about wine selection at Dollar store. This even if obviously true hardly rises to level of public welfare.
The WP Community - as led by leadership (i.e., MM, Automattic, etc) is fond of bragging about the plugin and theme ecosystem. What they conveniently neglect to mention is how many are shite, many are ok but poorly coded, and only a very few are worth their weight. Even plenty of the premium plugins have performance issue, are sloppy, lack hooks, etc.
Is it a random music generator?
The mandatory "Buyer Broker Commission Rule" was in the NAR Handbook, which was binding for MLSs. Moehrl vs NAR went after twenty offending MLSs and the four largest national real estate broker franchisors in America. They got caught red handed price fixing they had no choice but to settle.

Realtor services are valuable, but they aren't worth 6% of a person's largest investment. On the median home that's $24k, which is considerably more than other professional services related to buying a home.
I've always fundamentally disagreed with the idea of being able to block individuals from seeing the things you broadcast to the world.

Imagine if TV or radio or newspapers could do this because they didn't like something you said or did.

This is touched on in the Black Mirror episode "White Christmas". It's just creepy and an abuse of technology.

If you want to communicate privately, then do so.
>Which is why a naive perf/Watt metric like Notebookcheck does at each chip's top operating point is almost worthless for comparing efficiency.

It isn't worthless. It clearly gives a good enough picture on efficiency to draw conclusions. It's not like Apple and Qualcomm drastically slow their chips down in order to get better perf/watt. No. They have better raw performance than Intel's chips regardless of perf/watt.

You can't even get perf/watt curves on Apple's A series and M series of chips because it's impossible to manually control the wattage given to the SoC. On PCs, you can do that. But not on iPhones and Macs. Therefore, Geekerwan's curves are not real curves for Apple chips - just projections.
Dehydration maybe, gastrointestinal issues maybe. If it concerns you, go see a doc!
One fun thing is a lot of state consumer protection laws have a punitive damages component.

The diminished standard of intent and the fact that a mere advertisement can trigger liability in some states makes UCL/CFA extremely powerful in some cases.
Yes and yes. It's called picking your battles. If you're not equipped to stand up for yourself or have anyone else do that for you, you're going to get hurt when you insult someone else's beliefs they they've linked to their identity or even their purpose in life.
Only 3.4k of C code for a full http and https server? I honestly thought you would need a lot more for it to be fully compliant with the spec.
I'm only just digging into the site, but some ONT pages (ex [1]) have information on how to set low-level parameters (MAC, various equipment IDs, etc). Probably won't get you free HBO, more likely to get your ONT banned at your ISP, but maybe you'll get free internet before that.

[1] https://hack-gpon.org/ont-nokia-g-010g-t/#gponomci-settings
Ultimately it depends what the model is trained on, what you're using it for, and what error-rate/severity is acceptable.

My main beef here involves the most-popular stuff (e.g. ChatGPT) where they are being trained on much-of-the-internet, marketed as being good for just-about-everything, and most consumers aren't checking the accuracy except when one talks about eating rocks or using glue to keep cheese on pizza.
That's not really realistic though, you shouldn't need to use "mechanical movement" _every day_ but that's a far cry from never needing it at all. At the very least if you ever want to go somewhere else you're going to need a way to get to an airport (or I guess in this ideal utopia a train station).
K3s I’ve self hosted out of my house on 3 servers, can’t speak to a large scale operation though.
Heroku's glory days and Postgres vs. the world, with Craig Kerstiens [video]
> It's quite foolish to assume that they couldn't quietly code up a "God mode" for Elon's account, or assume that isn't already in place, and instead had to create a feature to roll out to 350M users where Elon had an account no different than the unwashed masses.

Maybe they want to keep the code simple or ready for immediate open sourcing if desired.
> in general

No one is under the illusion it’s perfect or ungameable. A drug slipping by every few years is bad and often tragic, but IMO nowhere close to indicative of a systematic problem. It is a system that is worthy of a high degree of trust.
I do not use The X Formerly Known As Twitter, but if I write a message that is intended to be public (regardless of what service it is on), I would intend that people I had blocked are still able to see the message (and make copies of it) if they wish; I would block them because I don't want to see their messages and I do not want to allow them to send messages to me. I would also not want the number of users who blocked someone to have an effect on moderation; if something is enough abuse to be reported that should be done separately than blocking, I think.
Not sure what's worse, the smug glee for doing something trivial or the amateur code. But I did publish some lame repos as jokes and statement pieces back when I was a beginner, I'll admit.

As for Marques Brownlee's wallpaper app, it's pretty harmless. It's not like it tricks you into spending money like those $7/week PDF scanner apps. I'll take his word for it that people in his fanbase ask him regularly about his wallpaper.

Would it still be dumb if 1000 people ($50,0000/yr) were willing to subscribe to get his curated wallpapers, or is it only dumb if you imagine that 0 people would do it?
Because ores on earth get concentrated the amount of iron in typical soil is very low. But on the moon, it ranges about 2 to 10% of total weight.
Caroline Ellison of FTX, jailed for role in 'biggest financial scam of all time'
not sure if this is what the op referred but like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41450347

didn't find threads that regarding "clarify APIs semantics", but kernel docs are indeed not in a very good condition. Since C does not provide same level of soundness that Rust does, there are many hidden traps.

asahi developer had a good discuss about this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1829852697107055047.html
So she establishes a hypothesis (draws a graph or picks a point to make) and then tests it through experimentation (looks for data to support the hypothesis)? Isn't that just the scientific method worded another way?
Hollywood is coming out in force for California's AI safety bill
> TX has seen tremendous growth in renewables, and grid pricing is excellent there from the prices that I've seen.

Kansas and Iowa are 40-60% wind and have lower prices than the national average: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
Cool but this article doesn't discuss the Lisp 2 GC in any detail. It is a clever method, a relocating mark/sweep GC that moves old objects to a "sediment" that it doesn't rescan unless it has to, iirc. I read about it in the Spitbol source code. Spitbol uses the same method and credits it to Lisp-2 and I don't remember seeing it anywhere else, including in Richard Jones' 2006 GC book (I haven't gotten to see the 2023 edition yet). I had been thinking of reimplementing it for ulisp which is a small lisp that originally ran on the Arduino.
Yea definitely playing a bit of persona since comments drive up the rating on HN. 3500 uniques inbound from this post, couple home tours scheduled from inbound users, I'd say I'm happy about it. I would say 75% of people I meet face to face when I say I'm making an ai realtor, it's a negative reaction. Although it does much better in the bay
Please Stop Copying and Pasting Larry Tesler's Obituary
Larry Tesler, inventor of many things including cut/copy/paste,
passed away four years ago. Many people are unaware of this,
and that's fine. But it seems there are people who believe it
is a great joke to copy and paste his obituary every couple of
months. Then people who did not know of Larry's passing re-post
the news. I quit social media long ago because I found such
behaviour irritating, but recently friends started emailing me
links (like the one above) linking to a screen-shot of a post
announcing his passing.

I appreciate you trying to alert the world of news of people's
passing, but please do a quick scan of credible news sources or
even the Wikipedia before reposting such alerts. I knew Larry
only peripherally and it's a little shocking to see news that he
keeps dying. I can only imagine how this makes his family feel.
Physicists just discovered the rarest particle decay
McDonald's touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers
Why is it not realistic? If you feel the need to leave, is it really the ideal city? It seems that you're hung up on imagining the shitty cities of today, except without cars, not anything resembling an ideal city.
Dang, I thought maybe someone had figured out what the vault organelle[0] is for. Not too disappointed though, this still sounds crazy.

That said, did anyone else have a really hard time parsing this article?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_(organelle)
Discussion (146 points, 6 hours ago, 175 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640789
If you’re shopping for a CSPRNG, one of the items that should be very high on your list is being able to call the setSeed function multiple times and have the inputs compose instead of clobber each other.

You can send half-random input in and then send more half-random input in until you’re satisfied that the RNG has gotten a suitable amount of entropy. Do not chop, rearrange, hash, or bit shift the data trying to make it “stronger” the CSPRNG will do an infinitely better job of doing that for you. Just treat it like a Mr Fusion. Drop a can, a banana peel and the stale beer in and let it cook.

I gave a similar speech to a team trying to initialize SSL sessions on an embedded machine. “But what if we XOR…” No. Stahp.
> This means if I am getting $X per week in welfare but I get an employment offer of $Y per week where Y<X, then I am incentivized to stay on welfare.

Yes, sure, but this applies to UBI as well. If Y is not worth my time actually doing the work, after you pay for that card and child care, would I bother? Is UBI a comfortable life, or is it bare minimum to live?

>a major reason is that I consider it payment for the loss of "natural rights" that we give up in order to live in a modern society.

I don't mind this argument, but lets remember that in order to assert your natural rights you need to actually work. If you were allowed to fish and hunt, you would have go out and do it. UBI suggests you can just do nothing and be handed a living.

I would much prefer we provide unemployment or disability to anybody who wants it because I want to live in a compassionate and caring society, but we don't have to call it a UBI, give it to everybody, and turn the world on its head.

Then I think we should also guarantee a job for anybody who wants one, with a significant step up in income. (And right now that job should be capturing carbon.)
[citation needed]

Also, very low quality post, amounting to just a tweet, and an unsubstantiated one at that.
Judge sharply criticizes lawyers for authors in AI suit against Meta
Some discussion (15 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613991
A thief will steal from a few stores. A fraudster of that magnitude steals from anywhere between thousands to millions of people.
1000 lines are easier to secure than 5 million lines
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/third-party_beneficiary
I rolled my eyes but then I realize you self-replied and actually laughed out loud.

Maybe next time do a tiny bit of looking before asserting unsubstantiated statements and then doubling down calling your own unsubstantiated question "serious". Not a serious way to conduct discourse, just tossing that out there.
Automattic has had the trademark for a little under a decade. WP Engine has existed since 2010. The argument for the trademark has been lost. If you don't actively crack down on usages of your trademark, you can't arbitrarily decide to enforce it in the future. Especially not against a company allegedly making hundreds of millions in revenue from your trademark: you've had to actively ignore its use for a decade.

That's even ignoring the question of whether you can really argue that they're violating your trademark for calling their service "WordPress hosting" as shown in the exhibits. They're not passing something off as WordPress, it's literally WordPress that's being hosted.

Highlighting Reddit and Twitter posts calling WPE "WordPress engine" is nonsense. Highlighting a page where a WPE partner uses the wrong company name ("WordPress Engine") is embarrassing for WPE but still something of a reach. Highlighting a content farm post saying "WP Engine" stands for "WordPress Engine" is absurd. Making the argument that "WP" is covered by the trademark is ridiculous, especially when the replies on Twitter screenshot the receipts of WayBackMachine snapshots showing Automattic telling folks it's totally fine to use "WP".

I own a trademark for my business, and my lawyers had a (very gentle and kindly written) letter sent to two teenagers who started a podcast whose name infringed on the mark. If my lawyers care about that, Automattic has exactly no business trying to turn around on WPE at this point. This is just petty drama.
Is this comment legit? New account, no activity…
Depends a little bit on what you mean by "like these". In the broadest sense, quicksort is an algorithm like this in that it can use random numbers to minimize the likelihood of bad data messing up an algorithm.
Can you give some examples of CSPRNG implementations that allow this?
paste-fail: (146 points, 6 hours ago, 175 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640789