skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am actually very sure that Elon is an extremely smart person. I can also see that he amplifies and posts disinformation posts that spread hateful narratives. That's why I make a conclusion that his intentions are reaching his goals in this, quite evil and harmful for the society way.
Even if I liked him, this still would had hold true.
I think the “32-” should have been “23”. Transposed digits and an extra hyphen-minus.
Are there any manufacturers/standards that both pair parts to your phone (to make theft not worthwhile) but also allow authenticated unpairing of parts to your phone (to allow part reuse)? I am conflicted in that I like the idea of right to repair but I also like that locking things down helps fight phone theft.

I imagine that something like this ought to be feasible:

- the phone comes with a secret key baked into it

- upon installation of parts, some secret generated from that key is baked into some secret enclave in the part to “pair” the part with your device so it can’t be harvested

- the OS a provides a function to “unpair” a part with your phone that requires use of the secret key, so you can reuse that part elsewhere

- parts are sold “unpaired” and therefore can be used with any phone (maybe via some open protocol to allow many manufacturers to provide parts, not just the OEM)
>An excel spreadsheet crashed this company's network.

>But it wasn't malware.

>The truth is much weirder.

>Try this out, open up a xls (not xlsx) file in your favorite text/hex editor. Notice all the repeating characters in the header.

>When receiving POP3 emails with an excel attachment, the characters bit patterns caused a signalling pattern on the physical copper of the company's T1 line, crashing the network equipment.
monazite isn't radioactive enough to be dangerous unless you're breathing the radon. chemically it's very stable, even without the epoxy encapsulation
I wonder, aren't there specific attributes of the Go language that makes it a particularly good fit for things like Docker/Kubernetes?
Yeah, that's why California with >10GW of installed battery is not using gas/not importing at all in off peak hours... Oh wait
In the other direction, have you thought about if the gender binary is being pushed on your child?
I, as an indie hacker/developer, have had countless times where I need to access db from mobile. I have even logged in via terminal to get to psql.

Sadly this specific app doesn't seem very polished or useful.
The original topic of this thread was environmentalism and Apple having a greener image than they deserve, while they are just a corporation (like all others), which is following its incentives. Now, I never said I wanted to outlaw branding. I am just stating that corporations can escape the fair competition of the market by playing a meta game doing things like advertising or lobbying.

What I am suggesting is to keep the markets and let corporations follow incentives to make the best products, while trying to limit these meta games. This thread shows an example where this is arguably already working. I am suggesting to do more of it, e.g. make corporations publish reports of how they are actually doing in that regard, maybe even as a sort of disclaimer next to their own branding efforts.

I just want our rules to be a little stricter when it comes to false advertising and fraud. Why should a corporation be allowed to say: "We care for communities in America." This is not true. They care for shareholder value. There should be a disclaimer like: "We care for our community. We have no independent proof to back that up. Our main objective as a for-profit is to maximize profits. We are making XX $ / year and have in the past moved our production facilities to the cheapest location."

I am exaggerating here and am not providing a finished solution, just trying to illustrate what I mean.

> But then where do we draw the line?

That is in fact tricky, but I think our society as whole should move a little closer to facts.
"unauthorized person detected in room, please purchase another copy of mario kart 8 super deluxe"
Facelens – Face Editor for YouTube Thumbnails
ROCm versions are fairly closely tied to kernel versions. Debian 12 should run fine with the ROCm that was released around the time of whatever kernel you're running, but it's going to be a bad experience mixing the latest ROCm with an elderly kernel or vice versa.

Old kernel + old kernel driver + new rocm => the driver doesn't really know what the userspace is doing and you get the bugs which have been fixed since

Old kernel + new kernel driver => very ymmv, the internel kernel api is not stable

New kernel + matching driver, old rocm is probably OK, unless you're using upstream clang in which case it's all bad once more

ROCm was designed and implemented in the HPC environment, where you know the exact kernel in use and the whole stack is deployed as one self consistent lump. Driver, compiler, libraries and so forth. It's not having such a good time in the Linux world of mix and match because the aggressive internal testing structure assumes you're using a consistent system. Backwards/forwards ABI and API compatibility is difficult, expensive and slow so it's not where the money is being spent. Rightly so, probably.
it works better than the offerings from competition, and Apple isn't beholden to China.
> Are there other examples of AI generating speech in... hallucinated languages?

Sure: https://suno.com/song/0c05e4bd-5879-4e1d-9bdd-555d76569501

No chance that it's getting ancient Summerian correct.
Infinite traffic? That's a heck of a pitch, actually.
This is also how most professional licensing works. The idea isn't that the license guarantees quality, it's that the license can be revoked when the licensee in question makes an egregious mistake.

Democracy isn't about voting people in. A monarchy or dictatorship can be voted in and stay permanently. The point is to vote people out of power.
Thanks! Gonna take this into use, seems fun.
> Pakistan has had a western nation rule over it before and it didn't exactly go well.

I don't support colonialism, I think it's morally wrong. It's not an argument about whether there is some hypothetical upside or downside, it infringes on the freedom of a people, which includes their freedom to run their country off a cliff.

That being said, if you ignore the morality of it, as is fashion in the west, I'm not sure if it went relatively worse in a material sense than it's going now.
[dupe]

Actual article and submission from the dev: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600756)
So it's 2024 and Linux still doesn't have what Windows NT had 30 years ago?
Illegal immigrants will go to "the better" at probably any difference between two countries. Is that all that "the west" aspires now to?

And the level of hypocrisy in many countries is astonishing. A lot of companies in said countries take advantage of illegal immigrant labor, but nobody thinks about blaming them for the huge number of illegal immigrants.

But I think this discussion is in favor of "some elites". Rather than asking also for industrial development, redistribution, environment protection people are "encouraged" to blame everything on the immigrants. Look at UK. They wanted out of EU to "control their borders", and check how well it went for them in living standards... Probably now they complain their neighbors don't fix the problem for them.

To circle back to the start, everybody has a different opinion about what others should do, so doubt someone telling country X something will improve a lot the outcomes.
Linearizability Refinement Prophecy
The west does not depend on Pakistan.
Somewhere in the US Midwest, Jeff Geerling suddenly decides "nah, I don't wanna recompile the kernel."
Ask HN: Switch Career from Developer to Designer?
Has anyone made the switch from software engineer to product designer? Earlier in my career I went exclusively for developer-designer roles, then I switch to full stack engineering. After the past 5 years as a pure engineer, I'm itching to move back to design, but getting zero engagement in my applications.
Based on some of the floor plans I've seen, architects also seem to have developed a habit of designing weird floor plans somewhere after the year 2000. I don't know why they thought apartments could need corridors with diverging or converging walls in the hallways, or why rooms without 90 degree angles are a good idea, but their decisions don't seem that far off the floor plans this tool generates.

These outputs are far from perfect but unfortunately they're not unrealistic.
without permission

easy to obtain permission

accelerates reason to generate new genAI humans with no meatspace counterpart

actors still don’t get paid
I've been considering changing the SSH port, just for that extra bit of security. As for fail2ban -1, I just like seeing the Banned IP list slowly engulf the screen over time ;)
>intellectually aware of anything not sanctioned by the board of censors

You are aware that this already happens without bans, right?

The ultimate board of censors is the school and library staff that decides on your behalf what kind of books you and your kids should be exposed to.

It's not like the school library is some sort of the Great Library of Alexandria and the censors came to take out the "good stuff".

What happens is that the library staff is in position to censor and proselytize their ideologies and weird secular religions. These bans really are aimed at library staff than restricting childrens access to read whatever they want.
Maybe my information is out-of-date but traditionally home internet connections were heavily over-subscribed - so that "10 Gbps" ISP would transfer at that speed for short bursts, but their business model relies on you averaging <100 Mbps over the course of a week. That's still enough for you to watch 24 screen-hours of 4K video per day - but the reason residential bandwidth was 99% cheaper than commercial bandwidth was that if you routinely used more than 1% they'd cut you off, throttle you, or apply traffic shaping.
Cowboy Bebop is good, but what really makes the show is the music. Exceptional talents involved if you can deliver such a broad range of awesome tracks. But I know what you mean with the usual confused engrish songs...
If you sell my aspirin in your shop, you will have to accept what I put on the packaging or stop carrying my product.
No need to imitate giants, meaning there is no reason to use k*s. We have declarative systems like NixOS and Guix System, there is no need to use paravirtualization, who is born for commercial reasons: selling ready made stuff to those who do not know at a price you can't sell for a snippet of nix/scheme.

A company can simply develop their own decentralized infra, hosted by their employees. If it will need more it will also have money to buy sheds with p.v. and storage with good enough fiber links to have their own small datacenters.
I think that would make it a multi-person job. Keeping the relevant part in focus while you’re manipulating the device distracts from figuring out what to do next.
Comparison between refrigerant gas R-32 and R-290
It always surprises me when some talk about european settlers like they have been the only ones in history that have conquered other places, who invaded and had battles through history. AFAIK there have been wars since the human being was born, many civilizations still exist, many were not worth and are extinct/almost extinct, like native americans, why do you feel the need to point out "Post-european invasion"? I feel it is some new woke bullshit
There are several sources of timing information, and I think in this context "nanosecond precision" just means that Tracy is able to accurately represent and handle input in nanoseconds.

The resolution of the actual measurements depends on the kind of measurement:

1. If the measurement is based on high resolution timers on the CPU, the resolution depends on the hardware and the OS. On Windows, `QueryPerformanceFrequency()` returns the resolution, and I believe it is often in the order of 10s or 100s of nanoseconds.

2. If the measurement is based on GPU-side performance counters, it depends on the driver and the hardware. Graphics APIs allow you to query the "time-per-tick" value to translate from performance counters to nanoseconds. Performance counters can be down to "number of instructions executed", and since a single instruction can be on the order of 1-2 nanoseconds in some cases, translating a performance counter value to a time period requires nanosecond precision.

3. Modern GPUs also include their own high-precision timers for profiling things that are not necessarily easy to capture with performance counters (like barriers, contention, and complicated cache interactions).
They use Go's net/http package which has support for HTTP 2 but I think it lacks support for HTTP 3? Maybe someone can correct me.
Blackrock is on the board of both these entities.
The flagged comment did indeed mention K-12
> Is the ability for your daughter to read about gender identity and sexual orientation pushing it on her?

Yes. That is the literal definition of having information pushed on to her.

The ideas contained within whatever book would not pop up on her mind out of thin air, they would be contained in the text. As a father, who is responsible for her health, well-being, education, happiness and future, I want her to occupy her mind with things more suitable for a child.

I won't give her the Bible for the same reason.

> The bans are targeting books that even have characters in them that are non-standard, not only books that are telling your child to become trans and gay (Are there even any books that are doing that? I've never seen any)

I don't know. And honestly, I don't care. She has the world to explore at her young age, and there is so much more in the universe. I want to leave themes of sexual orientation and gender identity to be explored at a later stage, when her body and mind are more suited to such things. If at that point she wants to be whatever, she will have my support. I want her happiness after all.
To clarify: the PSF did not lose $1.8m on PyCon. It spent $1.8m and made most of that money back in revenue from the event.

Most years the cost is fully covered by tickets and sponsors and the event makes a profit.

When PyCon runs at a loss it’s generally a sponsorship problem. The tech industry has seen a lot of layoffs recently, and companies that sponsor large conferences are often doing so for recruiting. If a company is laying people off they are likely to drop their sponsorship budget.
"2024's AI Revolution: The Ultimate List of Top Humanizing Tools for AI Content"
An Investigation of How Developers Spend Their Time [pdf]
All the US social media posts were crapping on unions about lazy teachers earning a ton of money and film productions waiting till an electrician comes in and turns on a switch. I didnt realize the alternative was corporates having the unchecked power.
I'm extrapolating exponentially.
Although I'm a fan of io_uring, a reason to avoid io_uring is it involves quite major program restructuring (versus traditional event loops). If you don't want to forever depend on Linux >= 6 but also support other OSes then you'll have to maintain both versions.
I am sorry, I searched for "page zero" in the ANSI C specifications and couldn't find it. My source code printouts begin with page 1...
„If you just locked yourself out of sshd because you didn't install ssh keys first, STOP HERE. You are not ready for this.“
that one had me chuckling
Ammonia-Powered Engines for Boats
There are a bunch of good reasons to believe there really is matter there that we can't detect aside from its gravity. Here's a talk: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8KV9Ht5o_M>.
E2EE is not enabled by default on their cloud sync journals.
> The EU is structurally difficult to effectively, ah, lobby

Also the EU doesn't have almost any any successful consumer tech companies (and the entire sector itself is small and has little real influence).

On the brightside this leaves a lot of leeway to pass laws that protect consumers, regulate and limit monopolies etc. There won't be any domestic economical/political impact if MS, Google, Apple make a bit less money from ads, services and other stuff. So politicians have no reason to care about them.

The few billions in occasional fines might not be a big deal on the whole but it's still extra revenue (and the EU budget isn't really that huge). e.g. the ~1.5 billion Google antitrust fine is almost 1% of EU's yearly budget. GDPR also provides a constant trickle of revenue (https://www.enforcementtracker.com/) of course it's still pennies compared to the economic benefits of having a few successful tech megacorpos in Europe would have but I guess better than nothing.
How to avoid losing your crypto
Manning is a good quality publication (unlike Packt). Congrats. Looking forward.
Will this be available on Safari books O'Reilly portal?
Some US Kaspersky customers find their security software replaced by 'UltraAV'
'Places to heal, not to harm': brutal prison design kills off hope
Knowledge gets lost constantly, there is just so much of it that it happens on the sidelines. Just think about all the old software and hardware stacks which have been replaced and the people who were experts in it are now retired and dead.

Even the knowledge of today is not well-preserved. If Stack Overflow were to disappear tomorrow, how many other resources would there be for all the programming knowledge? There aren't that many great programming books. Thank god Github has been archived in the Arctic Code Vault. It could all be lost in a few decades.

Even cultural significant things like how to produce Saturn's F-1 Rocket Engine gets lost. The manufacturing processes, machining techniques, and supplier expertise is gone and wasn't written down. That was just ~60 years ago. The recipe for Fogbank, a material for nuclear warheads, was lost, and it took 5 years to reverse engineer it.
That's really cool, I really appreciate how the legs are barely extending beyond the table itself. I wonder how much it could carry, whether it could also be a trunk (someone else already mentioned the Luggage), cabinet, or fridge. (The walk-ing fridge pun was already used in a beer advert)
Can AI agents do scraping without guidance? Yes
I grew up in the 80s and 90s for that matter. Being a nerd was being an outcast. Not socially acceptable at all. I find it ironic (and in many ways disgraceful) that being a nerd became sort of mainstream.

Back in the day a parent was absolutely the gatekeeper of what was socially acceptable to a child. Nowadays, probably less so.

Teenagers were always uncontrollable. Try to control them and they will defy you. I know I did, and essentially every other teenager I came in contact with.
If you find this interesting you might also like repairing graphics cards and with that I mean stuff like fixing traces on the inner layers of the board. I just picked the first search result [1], not sure if that one is especially interesting or not.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwNB4uD5Pts
But don't people use phone cases anyway to protect these fragile devices? what's the point then?
Hm ... I keep hearing about tcl and I'm aware Rebol and Tcl have some similarities, but I've never really looked that deep into it. Now I looked at the first example that I found (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/A+little+stopwatch) and visually there really are many similarities. We also seem to use the same word-formatting combinations. I see ".word" "::word" { } and [ ] blocks. They are all probably used for different things, but it is funny. I really need to look at Tcl at some point.

I was a little discouraged by "everything is a string" idea so far, but I keep hearing that it is conceptually very interesting language.
>100 trillion reads per location over 30 years still means you gotta read locations at over 100 kHz 24/7. Not good enough for main memory, sufficient even for frequently accessed configuration values.
Also the comma would be after 3 digits, no?

Like 1,000 and 100?
> And that was...?

Probably around the same time as yours.

> But, jokes aside, the whole point of YouTube is that anyone can upload anything. There are no gatekeepers. What do you expect? The content was always shit from the beginning; the only thing that's changed is that it turns out that, if you remove the gatekeepers, people will exploit it. (And if you have gatekeepers, the gatekeepers exploit their power.)

Well there are gatekeepers: moderation! It's one thing during the beginning of YouTube... but honestly, YouTube could and should go and detect viral trends (they do it anyway to present to users) and moderate stuff that's dangerous.
In terms of energy use the human brain is way more efficient than LLMs. It's a completely different hardware model - the brain may have trillions of synapses but they only fire occasionally. I agree you have to compare more on the results than number of synapses etc.

It's something that gives me pause on the idea that we have to build many GW of power stations. It may be possible to get much more energy efficient AI via better algorithms.
Having been repeatedly annihilated by my mother, I'm resilient as hell': G Lewis
each platform provides a different flavor of poison too
You're right, it is a simple concept.

Avoid talking about any and all things you deem uncomfortable and strange. Reject the identity and existence of millions of people until it's "appropriate".

Maybe we should ship all transgender people to a reservation so that children don't interact with them until it's age appropriate? It's so simple!
Walked in to find gf with laptop performing bios update
As the title says, I walked in to the room to find my gf with my laptop in the middle of a bios update. She claims it did it itself, but there's no Windows update in the history. What should I do?

I've performed a Malwarebytes scan and a Windows offline scan, but nothing shows up in the Windows scan history.
Polishing marble, limestone etc. (as opposed to just engraving something on a rock) still requires skilled workers, equipment etc. The small, underdeveloped early colonies couldn't really sustain such a specialized industry.
Some people recommend avoiding citrus and onions in compost and worm farms typically because worms don't like it in the early stages of decomposition.

I've never followed that rule personally and my compost system works really well. I get some black soldier fly larvae and other vermiculture in the early stages. In case you're wondering the black soldier flies aren't annoying like houseflies and typically steer clear of homes and humans. I usually only see a few BSFs around the compost and sometimes a lot of larvae, but it's seasonal.
Yes, that's my understanding and why I asked. I disagree about "in this context", though, which is a pitch. If I was going to buy hardware that claimed ns resolution for something I was building I would expect 1ns resolution, not "something around a few ns" and not qualified "only on particular hardware". If such a product were presenting itself in a straightforward way to be compared to similar products and respecting the potential user it would say "resolutions down to a few ns" or something more specific but accurate.

There was even a discussion on this not long ago on how to market to technical folks and things to not do (this is one of the things not to do)

https://www.bly.com/Pages/documents/STIKFS.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368583
Doesn't Tracy have the capability to do sampling as well? I remember using it at some point, even if it was finicky to setup because windows.
Unauthenticated RCE (CVSS 9.9) in GNU/Linux Systems Awaiting Full Disclosure
> if you routinely used more than 1% they'd cut you off, throttle you, or apply traffic shaping.

This is true, but how many projects will routinely use enough bandwidth to matter? Unless you're streaming media, very little.

Keep in mind that cloud backups, P2P/torrenting, etc also uses upstream bandwidth substantially, and ISPs have come to terms with it.