skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all a very fair points. Of note at least there is no giant leap on possibility. By that I mean there isn't a step with '?' in it.

But there is a big gap between what is technically possible and what is economically possible. Yes, with a limitless budget, they could probably over come the technical issues. But can it be done within a budget limitation.

I am with you however, I am very skeptical we will see this happen but more than happy to be proven wrong. It is easy to say something, it is the doing that matters. Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.
Does anyone else notice the irony of enforcing a license on software whose widest use was probably to play pirated music?
Report on the Military and Security Developments Involving China (2023) [pdf]
I'm not calling arc arcane. Have you genuinely ever come across a "small" C project that uses arc? I can't say I have, only large industrial projects like the kernel and gtk. That's my point, it's almost never done by people writing "plain and simple" C, it's something that crops up much later when people start building a bunch of infrastructure onto the language to restrict things into safer patterns.
Love2d.
Scratch is fantastic.

There are also a number of similar (block-based) tools that let you create your own custom blocks and see the code behind them - e.g. Blockly (https://developers.google.com/blockly)
Look ma, I can do it in python!

$ python3 -m http.server
You can precisely control "your content" with subscriptions. Otherwise, "your content" is intermingled with everyone else's. Content is probably the wrong word. Conversation is a better one.

Malicious blocking is blocking a non-troll as an anti-social form of aggression.

It could be:

"I block people who disagree with me because I know it makes them angry."

or

"I block people because I get a lot of interaction, and not being able to see my posts in those interactions so that they are missing context or are forced to log into an alt will worsen people's experience, and knowing that makes me happy."

Imagine how terrible X could become if Musk had the motivation above. He would be able to significantly impact not just your interactions with him, but with a large chunk of the largest and most important accounts—because all roads lead to Musk.

Just blocking with a hair trigger, even blocking non-trolls, is not necessarily malicious. It's malicious if harm is the point of the block and not just a side-effect.
How would one achieve something similarly locally, short of just running a proxy and stuffing the request/response pairs into a DB? I'm sure it wouldn't be too terribly hard to write something, but I figure something open source already exists for OpenAI-compatible APIs.
I wonder if this only works for stories with narratives or will it break down for other kinds of reports?

I guess even research papers have "narratives"
Radxa Reveals Specs for Siengine SE1000-I SBC with Linux Support
This sort of trivializes the effort and the fun of a project like this, doesn't it? Yes, you'll want to put all of your ducks in a row when you go to full production and you've reached full virality and your project is taking 5 million RPS globally and offloading all of that onto a CDN and making sure your clients requests are well respected in terms of cache control and making it secure and putting requests through a waf and and and and and. Yes we know. Lighten up. The comment you're replying to was meant to be lighthearted.
I think it is indeed a joke on microservices and the other commenters just didn’t get the joke yet :-)
Less than four doublings is not a lot. We’re at the beginning of the storage expansion. The interesting question is not when we‘ll be able to cover a night, but when we’ll be able to cover a month.
> For what it's worth, I suspect those containerized builds are responsible for the overwhelming majority of Setuptools downloads, for example

I agree to that hypothesis. But other distributions (say, Debian) should be facing the very same problem, right? How often is Python downloaded from Deb mirrors nowadays?
This makes a lot of sense when it comes to vibrating large volumes of air in a concert hall.

But something in this realm that also surprises me is how a small amount of strings can sound like a much bigger ensemble through composition and arranging techniques. For example I’m always amazed at how full Mozart’s string quartets sound.

It’s also interesting how early game systems had to make use of these techniques since their synth chips had limited voices. Sometimes just three waveforms and a noise wave form (for ‘percussion’)
"Your password validation rule must not contain a 'your password must contain a'"?
I thought a relevant comment on that story by o11c [0] was particularly insightful based on my experience with Debian packaging. The format is probably optimised for long term maintenance or running up against inherent complexity or something (works great as a user) but the process of setting up a package did have a weirdly high-friction feel. The last time I tried to package something for a Debian system it felt a lot more like constructing a fork of the project than distributing something that already existed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638352
This can be a good stopgap, but the solution is to lobby for a law that mandates free ONT/modem/router choice.

We have such legislation in NL and the ISP is required to make it possible to use your own equipment.

Coincidentally, I had my ISP register my Fritz!Box Fiber 5590 as my ONT yesterday, so I have it directly hooked up to XGS-PON with their SFP+ module (no more Genexis ONT \o/).
Not sure if this meets your specifications, since it's code first, but Processing (in it's JavaScript incarnation, p5.js[1]) might be worth looking at.

In terms of games that include content creation tools within them, I've been impressed with Fortnite and Rocket League. Using the in-game editor may be a good gateway to building mods offline.

1 - Examples https://p5js.org/examples/ and on online code editor https://editor.p5js.org/.
The scene where the girl goes "It's a UNIX system, I know this" was one of the most realistic computer scenes in movies during a time when computer output on screen was mostly fake mockups.

I was a kid back then but I'd seen otherworldly expensive SiliconGraphics workstations at PC fairs (my dad could only afford an XT clone), and seeing one in a movie was so cool.
If you would like to run this comparison for tileservers reading from disk, I wrote a small tool to simulate traffic based on access logs of OpenStreetMap tiles:

https://github.com/bdon/TileSiege
Where is this mentioned? Is there a github(etc) somewhere that someone can use this without using the hosted version?
Very cool! I'm wondering how to apply it to the type of RAG problems I usually encounter which are more technical in nature. Specification A refers to Specification C which has references to X, Y, and Z, but only X is really important context. You can traverse the tree, but how to select the important nodes? Semantic similarity is not appropriate since the specifications refer to different components of a system and are not semantically similar at all.
Tell Average Joe that CERN invented URLs.

The first big application of URLs was precisely this use case: distributed access to particle event data in databases and tape silos across different international institutions. The mainframes (mostly IBM 3090) would then crunch the data to analyze and filter the interesting collisions.
https://www.etched.com/announcing-etched

I think there's another one but I can't remember the name of it.

Also a bit further out is https://spectrum.ieee.org/superconducting-computer

"Instead of the transistor, the basic element in superconducting logic is the Josephson-junction."
Unless they knew you were going to have a billion dollars once you got out.
Once again I find myself flabbergasted at working in an industry where the people working in that industry have no interest in getting paid for the work they do. You can spend $100 these days just eating dinner at a mid-tier restaurant. Quibbling over $100 for the software that makes your life / job easier is just crazy to me.

> If you rely on a paid product to do so then prepare to be a laughingstock when the license changes in a way you disagree with.

Haven't we seen multiple times in the past couple years when "free" products that people rely on have also changed their licenses in ways that people disagree with?
You need ollama[1][2] and hardware to run 20-70B models with quantization of Q4 at least to have similar experience to commercially hosted models. I use codestral:22b, gemma2:27b, gemma2:27b-instruct, aya:35b.

Smaller models are useless for me, because my native language is Ukrainian (it's easier to spot mistakes made by model in a language with more complex grammar rules).

As GUI, I use Page Assist[3] plugin for Firefox, or aichat[4] commandline and WebUI tool.

[1]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases

[2]: https://ollama.com/

[3]: https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist

[4]: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
While I can see Mark stepping away from direct action in politics simply because it is exhausting. Unfortunately his wealth is an indirect means of politics.

Money is a token of power, billions in the bank influences politics.
Are you the owner of the site that is linked to? How are you able to complain about linking to something you published openly on your website?
Author here, ready to answer any questions.
This is heartening to read for sure.
> When I ran short of air at the wreck, Tom would swim over and hold out his backup breathing line, known to divers as a "reserve regulator." I'd catch a breath to stay down longer.

Taking breaths off a scuba tank at depth is something only someone trained as both a diver and freediver should do. I don’t get the impression the reporter is either. Tom seems a bit cavalier.
You call that a few lines of code!?
That’s not the case these days. Due to TLS, there is very little catching in between you and the server you’re hitting.
Forks predate GitHub and have another almost opposing definition that sets up for a confusion here. By that lingo forks go their own way (like a fork in the road) independently of the upstream and clones are copies of an upstream.
Ah I wasn’t aware that any US Teslas were coming from China, I thought those all went to Europe/Asia, while we mostly got Fremont/Austin.

I was referring to the period when there was a piecemeal credit amount based on a few factors, one of which, iirc, was having final assembly conducted in a unionized factory.

They have of course been massive beneficiaries of federal subsidies, including a massive boost early on from the DOE Loan Programs Office, this isn’t to say they’ve been a victim overall, but it seems there’s been an attitude shift, and the legacy carmakers are getting more love from the current admin despite contributing only token efforts to the transition.
FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records
> I get the feeling it's going to break all shar archives with binary files (not that they're particularly common)

Base64 encode them.

This is not diverging further, this is bringing sanity to the table
In Canada, the government successfully requested banks to freeze accounts of peaceful protestors.

Once an increasing share of your transactions with society become connected by an ID number, it is becomes trivial to limit your freedom.
I get that GCC and Clang does all sorts of optimizations, but doesn't unoptimized C map closely to 1:1?

I've heard it being called a high level assembly that maps closely to assembly many times at this point, it makes sense to me why people would say that.

> If C maps 1:1 to assembly in your view, then (unsafe) Rust does; if Rust doesn't map 1:1 to assembly, nor does C. It's as simple as that.

I thought the mapping issue was unrelated to the borrow checker, and that it's possible to write a borrow checker for a restricted subset of C. I thought the thing that was making it not map 1:1 was actually all of the extra features in Rust, like the ADTs and async and all of that. Is that not actually the case?
That's a valid way to look at it, but Fisher (who all but invented hypothesis testing) took a different perspective. To him, most things we know because of informal experiences. Only when trying to find small effects or when we have insufficient experience do we conduct experiments, which are effectively experience meticulously planned in advance.

A significant result in an experiment, according to Fisher, is just an experience to add to the mental pros-and-cons list. It is not defintive proof of anything.
I think you may be mistaken. My understanding is that while courts encourage trademark owners to pursue timely enforcement, the Lanham Act does not mention a time limit. Maybe their use of the marks has changed over the years? A court will decide.
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What is a rat race? I've heard it all my life but until this moment I never questioned what it actually meant.
Why can’t I see the difference? Does this only work for older, standard resolution screens?
Cool, I guess. But WinAmp is in the category of software that is easy to write, but benefits hugely from the network effect. Nobody would care about WinAmp if it weren't for the huge number of skins the community created for it.
Cool never tried Mt Hagen

I’m not too picky with my instant coffee, which I drink in the morning, microwave water and off you go, or when in a hurry/lazy which is most of the times. I usually go with Nescafé Taster’s choice or sometimes Bru with milk (Indian instant coffee with 30% chicory)

To make up for my coffee sins, I also roast green coffee at home and use either Hario V60 or go the espresso route.
US investigates China-backed venture firm over Silicon Valley dealmaking
Can someone comment on the effect lcdfilter has?

Seems like full hinting + RGB antialiasing is the way to go on non 4K displays.
Isn't this overly complicated for what amounts to what could be a single file with 7 lines of information, instead of 3-5 tar archives that contain a single file with 1-3 lines of information?

but still, that was a pretty interesting write up.
Yep. The unlocked part seems to be missing from the headline. You don't have to unlock your phone to show something on your wallet.

This is entirely how airline boarding passes and Starbucks coffee cards work.
Recently did this workflow.

Started with nginx proxy with rules to cache base on url/params. Wanted more control over it and explored lua/redis apis, and opted to build a app to do be a little more smart for what i wanted. Extra ec2 cost is negligible compared to cache savings.
Thanks, will look for them. Where do you get it?
Right, that was the real value of the feature: you got to see what Google saw or thought it saw. Plenty of sites serve different things to Googlebot and the Google cache could often help untangle that mess.
Judge declares NYC law on sharing food delivery customers' data unconstitutional
It feels about right to me. OpenBSD's httpd(8) [1] currently clocks in at just below 15,000 lines when you include its documentation. Take away a few features, make a few assumptions , and I would not be surprised we are in the 5,000 lines territory like this project.

$ wc -l *
31 Makefile
910 config.c
314 control.c
34 css.h.in
257 http.h
100 httpd.8
1262 httpd.c
882 httpd.conf.5
843 httpd.h
19 js.h.in
218 log.c
319 logger.c
2563 parse.y
309 patterns.7
713 patterns.c
46 patterns.h
829 proc.c
1484 server.c
849 server_fcgi.c
826 server_file.c
1997 server_http.c
10 toheader.sed
14815 total

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8
Also forbids 'security questions' e.g. "What is your mother's maiden name?"
edit: Some of this language was a tad harsh and cynical. Apologies, was in a bit of a mood. I'll leave it as-is for posterity.

> We have experimented with this and are releasing an API that you can explore to see if this chunking strategy works for you.

Call me when you release literally any details at all. Even better - call when you've open sourced your code.

It's kind of hard to just take your word for it when it comes to a alleged superior method. Demo's are interesting but again, I don't really trust that even those results do what you claim (semantic chunking). The best way to do that is with a rigorous evaluation and probably good old fashioned "read and compare" by a human being. Somehow, I doubt that this UMAP technique always maps directly to semantically important aspects of a narrative, at least not in a way that is substantially more accurate and useful than previous methods.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but again this blog post is _extremely_ light on details. Hell, even saying "we don't want to release our algorithm because of the competitive landscape" as OpenAI does would be more useful than this.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

Interesting that lowest risk is at 4-5 cups for ground but 2-3 for instant.
Second screenshot looks blurrier to me than the first. Both are bad. It’s not a Mac.
Agreed - I just keep a spreadsheet but only track things that have Latin script (I don't really collect anything that doesn't, and if I get something it generally just goes into the odds and ends box).
The actual lender for a CC is not Visa, it's the associated bank that's backing the CC. So the redistribution of wealth is occurring on the banks books not Visa's.
Are there any sample tracks extant that utilize the broad range of chips that Furnace has ?
Primary Keys for Large, High Volume, Distributed Systems
If you want something really pure, or want things other than the core constituents, sure. Otherwise you can just smelt it. https://hothardware.com/news/blue-origin-details-lunar-plan-...

It's incredibly energy intensive and very inefficient compared to methods used on earth, but you aren't trying to compete with earth mining. You're trying to compete with the efficiency of shipping things to the moon.

There's a ton of methods available:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/university-of-utah-ta...

You can also grind it and perform chemical extraction:

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/spacegrant/2023/all2023/44/
There Is More Than Is Dreamt of in Our Academic Philosophy
I could only see the difference when I viewed the images at 250x.
It's an improvement, but it's still absolute garbage. Just throw in the towel already. Copy whatever MacOS does and have it be the default.
Nescafé Tasters choice is lighter roast than the default Nescafé.
For an additional attack vector of people spying on screens?

Having password masked makes sense by default, but I agree users should be able to see passwords explicitly by tapping an "eye" icon.
Yeah it’s pretty hard to imagine an AI negotiating important stuff.

I bought my first house last year and the amount of back-and-forth was insane. So many different ways to move money around, so many different conflicting and seemingly-but-not-actually-conflicting interests.

My agent recommended we get a sewer scope, even though the inspector didn’t think we needed one. Well guess what? The sewer line was fucked, and could back up at any moment and destroy the finished basement.

Thus ensued many many more emails and small changes to contracts that many people needed to sign. It seemed like such a random thing, but all of a sudden $10,000 was on the line that nobody knew existed. All because my agent had worked in that neighborhood before, and knew that those sewer lines were all old!!

After that experience, I’m convinced you cannot automate out the human element of real estate. There is so much nuance, and the stakes are so high.

But like you said, I think there’s room for a LOT of automation in tools that realtors use. And if you can make realtors more productive, maybe you can get fees down.

I think that’s compass’s main draw. They make a bunch of fancy internal tools for their realtors to use, so that they can do more business at a lower rate. At least I think I remember hearing that on a podcast once…?
Absolutely. That sounds like all the qualifications you need.

There are general channels where you can ask questions (like Debian Mentors on IRC and the mailing list), but feel free to reach out if you need a bit of extra help getting started. My time is limited and I am a relative beginner myself, but I'm happy to give a few pointers.
Sounds like people weren’t content with how bubble it was and needed extra double bubble.
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If I may suggest, try condensed milk. It’s even tastier since it has a little caramel flavor. Vietnamese “iced coffee over condensed milk” is amazing, try it if you haven’t at a Vietnamese restaurant.
Again, disagree. The copyright trolls need to be fought in the courts as well.

Obviously the law needs to be changed.
People have in fact done prison time for "uncapping" DOCSIS CPE (although I believe only in situations where they were making a commercial operation out of it). I love seeing sites like this, but if I were involved, I'd tread lightly around commercialization, advertising, taking donations, etc.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/oregon-man-sentenced-boston-3...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/hacking-cable-mo...
Sure but AFAIK FedNow is not going to hold funds or authority to payback or revert "fraudulent" transactions?

If I lend out $X dollars but my client says the loan was accessed fraudulently then who pays for this loss? The bank, the payment processor (FedNow/Visa), the customer, or the vendor?
Too bad it won't get adopted by existing systems. I know huge companies still doing mandatory frequent password changes despite us telling them it goes against NIST for years.
It's like when your joystick seems to be on the fritz, yet you keep going for way too long before deciding to do something else entirely.
My kiddo want to make game on Nintendo Switch, which is almost impossible at this time, but I recently found Fuze 4 (https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/fuze4-nintendo-sw...) that allows him to do exactly that. Quite happy with Fuze's workflow. We can even connect an external keyboard so he can type on it.
The resentment is strong within the UK as well against their elites.

The boot of the British crown is stomping down on their white subjects as well.

I think they are just more used to it
I might not have made it clear enough, but I was speaking specifically about plain ol C rather than dialects like kernel C or other languages like C++.

Anyway, what do you prefer to lifetimes? They go back to at least the 60s with lisps and algol and possibly earlier. I wouldn't be surprised to find that idea predates electromechanical computers entirely.
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Guessing that this is the result of years (or decades?) of incremental changes maintaining backwards compatibility.
also raises the suggested max password length to a much more reasonable 64 (many sites have a max of 20 that makes passphrases impossible)
This has been in their guidance since at least 2017.

"Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator"

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...

Also worth pointing out that NIST doesn't set policy, so unfortunately this doesn't directly "forbid" anything, though many other policies reference 800-63.
If I have a 4K display, do I still need to worry about font rendering settings?
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