skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not in the public interest if it's not authentified.

We had a similar leak during the french presidential election, the "MacronLeaks". It was a mix of fabricated scandalous data, and legitimate boring data. I'm glad the media chose not to cover it.
> I don't need a good graphics card.

Wait, then why are you looking for a gaming laptop? It's usually the GPU that separates them from regular laptops. What do you want in a "gaming" laptop if not the GPU? What are you going to be doing with it?

If you don't a need a dedicated GPU, small-biz laptops (Thinkpads, Latitudes, etc.) are similarly capable, usually more durable & repairable, and often have better keyboards. The screen is the one part that's sometimes different (some of them have low-res screens, but you can usually upgrade to a nicer OLED or such if you buy them new). Macbooks have OK keyboards too (not great, but better than a lot of the budget PC laptops).

If you only want to game occasionally, I'd just buy a used one of those business laptops and then subscribe to GeForce Now for $20/mo, which gets you a desktop RTX 4080 in the cloud. Then your laptop hardware doesn't matter so much; it's basically a dumb terminal with a keyboard and a screen.
Garmin Fenix 8 – hackers discover exploits to take control of watch
> How did we let discord take over is a mystery to me, or rather a tragedy.

Anyone can set up or join a Discord server. If you give users the choice between a complex open platform and an easy proprietary solution, they will pick the latter every time.
But he's not describing Smalltalk. He is describing what he wanted Smalltalk to evolve into. Which he didn't know how to do, because otherwise we would have it by now.

This quip by him from OOPSLA '97 is well-known:

I made up the term object oriented. And I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind..

A little less well-known are the words that immediately follow:

So, the important thing here is: I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk

https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?t=634
> Our parents and teachers were living with their own fallacious assumptions and we just didn’t know it at the time, but most information is very pliable.

Indeed. When I was 14-18 in the UK, the opinion pieces in the news were derogatorily describing "media studies" as "Mickey Mouse studies".

In retrospect such courses were teaching critical analysis of media sources, in much the same way that my history GCSE went into the content of historical media and explored how both primary and secondary sources each had the potential to be either accurate or biased.

Even now, even here, I see people treat the media itself as pure and only the people being reported upon as capable of wrongdoing — e.g. insisting that climate scientists in the 70s generally expected an imminent ice age, because that's what the newspapers were saying.
Thank you very much for your feedback! This is a work-in-progress draft, and while I'm not exactly where I want to be yet, your insights are really helpful. Here's my first takeaway:

I'll make sure to include a stronger technical background. Although it's a whitepaper (not a full research paper), I agree that it should be approachable from different critical perspectives.

Regarding your comments:

I see the need to distinguish more clearly between BFT in pre-blockchain systems like PBFT/Paxos and more modern PoW/PoS consensus systems. I'll refine that distinction.

I do have a specific catch in mind regarding the "governed list of signers" that I'd love your thoughts on when I include it. It might align more with the type of well-governed, high-throughput systems you're describing, but I understand your concern about using the blockchain label, which can carry negative connotations.

As for the "Introduction for crypto skeptics," I'd really appreciate hearing more from your perspective on how to make that section more convincing. What do you think would help, if possible, alleviate those concerns?

On the topic of updating protocols: I was trying to highlight the challenges of moving from specification to implementation in multiparty contexts (based on experience with government agencies), the idea is independent from blockchains.

Lastly, this is a side project for me, so progress might be gradual, but I would truly value your input again as it evolves. Would you be open to reviewing updates from time to time?
Kay cites McLuhan A LOT in his talks.
Well at least for those CEFR and TOEFL exist.
There are any number of cases of “specialists” having arrived at some incorrect consensus due to social factors/groupthink and a failure of the process.
Just to be clear: You're asserting that the average citizen

* has the same capacity to research an unknown number of medical procedures and the doctors performing them as they do researching onion prices or CPU specs

* faces a similar scale of consequences when failing to properly analyze medical procedures as they do when they fail to properly price-compare onions or PC services

* has the same freedom of choice to "purchase their preference" in an emergency, life-threatening situation as they have when shopping for PCs or groceries
Grad students who are technically under the employ of the University...that is not outsourcing.
Easy come, easy go. Now everyone is looking for machine learning engineers instead of front end for the "current thing".
that is how every elite school that offers these views it
Yep, I sure did. I never got anything about why they reached out to me specifically or any such explanation. Just that they needed a "node expert". The call lasted maybe 5 minutes when they'd scheduled half an hour.
I fail to see how. If the content quality and instructional quality is the same then there is no damage to the perception of quality. So then if they charge a lot for the targeted certification, then they don't diminish the value of the degree programs.

The difference then is scope of instruction. I think high quality certification programs are quite valuable to the market and properly run ones but trusted institutions are a benefit for the institution and the marketplace.
Linguist List is an online resource for the academic field of linguistics
> a way to exchange credibility for short-term profits

Immediately on reading this I thought "ah yes, Hewlett-Packard's business model for the last few decades".
at least at harvard you can get a degree in “extension studies”
> What we need is a high-quality, no or low cost state university system (like California and other places used to have) as a balancing force to keep skyrocketing tuition costs in check.

Doesn’t California show exactly why this doesn’t work? California has, today, a large system of well-supported state universities where tuition is under $10,000 per year. But the best students don’t want to attend them. Since most people understand high-quality to mean things like “will I be surrounded by some of the smartest people in the country” or “will employers looking for the smartest people seek me out”, they often don’t get perceived as high-quality no matter how good their instruction may be.
I see it as attempting to provide a patina of quantifiability for an essentially qualitative or incalculable result. If it is actually used as a measure, then it will lead to horrible distortion. The "next article" on the site is about OKRs (objectives and key results) and how they can be used to motivate and also destroy motivation, inspire and also make people afraid, by how faithfully you stick to the measurement and how much you assume the Os and KRs are actually tied to business results. The example of the Virginia Mason Quality Equation is somewhat egregious because it is presented as an equation but nothing in it is properly quantifiable, the units are meaningless, and the authors say it's not to be calculated.

However, there is value in putting everything in a mnemonic so that you remember its parts, and what adds and subtracts from the results. Amazon shipping and FedEx Express have different types of quality. Amazon is next-day or better for virtually everything and unreliable. It comes with a guarantee to refund the cost of shipping, which is 0 in most cases. FedEx Express has varying service levels at increasing costs for performance and includes meaninful guarantees and insurance tied to the performance goal. If Amazon fails to deliver on time, it is frustrating but probably not typically enough to make the user quit using the service or attempt to sue, as they didn't pay for specific service and they are satisfied with the overall expediency of the service. If FedEx Express had Amazon levels of performance, they would lose to competitors who are willing to provide the requested service, regardless of whether they refund people's delivery charges. Putting it back in the equation, the Appropriateness of the service dominates the difference between Amazon Shipping and FedEx Express, where Amazon can tolerate more bad outcomes in their model and FedEx can tolerate more waste (higher fees). Amazon can impress you with same-day delivery you didn't ask for while FedEx has no need to do so, people want merely on-time delivery at the price level they requested.
There are no humans on the second stage reentry. It burns up.
> Get the government out of the student loan business and take a lesson from the Germans: promote vocational and technical schooling. Not everyone needs to go to university or get a university education.

And while taking that lesson top with another: remove the profit motive from education, since you want to remove the government from providing loans you will need a backstop so the have-nots don't stay forever bound in the have-not enough money for education.
People [sadly] put a lot of "exotic" cryptography/distributed systems under the term "blockchain" eg. If you want to do byzantine agreement with sub quadratic message complexity, where do you look it up? If you want to do high throughput threshold signing, where do you look it up?

An allergic reaction to the term "blockchain" is to miss the forrest for the trees... and I would imagine the authors share the same point of view.
It's also, if not more so, a factor of transistor voltage. 1.1V transistors are less prone to upset events than 0.7V. It's possible (assumption, here) that some 3+ volt circuits are still used for critical components of the system
> it wasn't a Boeing issue in this case. One of their supplier

Isn't farming things out to unreliable suppliers the core problem with Boeing? All of their problems boil down to "we have the lowest bidder manufacture everything"

That is very much a Boeing problem. They're responsible for choosing qualified vendors and verifying the quality of their work because literally everything puts hundreds of innocent lives on the line.
I would take a look at this demo [1]. Pay close attention to what is being interpreted vs bound as a symbol to compiled code. The `yaegi extract` command will not work on exported generics atm.

If you want to collab more, shoot me an email: chris@breadchris.com

[1] https://github.com/DCjanus/yaegi_demo
Yeah,I've found that for the vast majority of Rails apps, the bottleneck is the database, not Ruby. Even a 100x speed up in the application code would have very little end user impact on performance in most cases.
I find ironic that we are talking about ML where we have vectors of thousands of quantities and then we go to measure social/economic stuff with one (or a couple of numbers).

The general discourse (news, politicians, forums, etc.) over a couple of measures will always be highly simplifying. The discourse over thousands of measures will be too complex to communicate easily.

I hope that at some point most people will acknowledge implicitly that the fewer the number of measures the more probable is that it is a simplification that hides stuff. (ex: "X is a billionaire, means his smart"; "country X has high GDP means it's better than country Y with less GDP" and so forth).
Actors solves a very different problem. Alan Kay was talking about enabling computing across heterogeneous systems.
I always often feel this way about folks who give probability based estimates of their certainty, instead of just describing their level of certainty with human language. Some caveats for things like 99%, which can be said in a way that makes it clear that it is actually just being used as and expression.

A funny way to describe 95% certainty, among a certain type of nerd at least, is a “critical failure.” IMO it is a nice way of expressing the fact that you’d be very surprised to be wrong, but then, D&D has a whole mechanic about 1-in-20 events happening occasionally. All without any numbers.
I deeply appreciate your feedback on my thought. Correct, E-Commerce is not free cashflow and your feedback is really valid. I cannot generate cashflow from E-Commerce from the start and even if I achieved it, I need to put my time and energy on it. In other case, getting a job is really good option to make cashflow and have some experiences like you mentioned.

I want to share one more thought which is important decision point for me. I’m outside the US and want to move to the US to make a company there. So, I thought I need location independent work to move and E-Commerce would be suitable for this. That’s one of the main point I considered for my direction.

Based on your feedback, I’ll think about my direction again. I really appreciate it again.
These people will likely end up going to prison, despite the painting being undamaged which is clearly excessive. Even if you dislike the cause or the method they adopt.

Let us remember that these paintings are behind protective glass, meaning the actual item is not affected. This is a shock tactic protest and to also send a message regarding the recent excessive custodial sentence (2 years!) for the previous protestors.
I totally agree with your thought that I have to choose one path. Previously, I have been thought that tech startup is the only way to grow. However, I have changed my mind that E-Commerce could be a good way to make growth. Growth is the key rather than tech or E-Commerce. If I I get into the E-Commerce, I have to put my all energy and need to be serious to make a growth.

In either case(E-Commerce or tech startup), talk to user and build a product is the only work founder need to do at the first stage like you mentioned. I wasn’t good enough at it until now and I’ll try my best for that again.

I was quite confused for this matter when I think about it for myself. But it’s getting clear after getting feedback. I really appreciate you.
I agree with your overall point, but also the person you’re replying to. I think that clean and jerk may be the example that least supports your argument. If I had to optimize an athlete for one movement and then test them on 20, C&J would probably be my pick. Bench press would be lower down the list.

This isn’t just nit picking exercises here. There are some measures to optimize for that lead to broader performance. They tend to be more complex and test all components of the system.
The previous implementation we built at VMware went from datalog -> Rust, and we supported other language bindings using C bindings and FFI. The same ought to work here too.
This isn't the capsule; it's the second stage.
Just pull the bandaid off, it will hurt a little, but not as bad as this endless agonizing about the problem.

For what it's worth, on openbsd this problem is fixed, all architectures, even the 32bit ones, have a 64bit time_t.

http://www.openbsd.org/55.html
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It was a free trial account
I have essentially never[0] had open comments on any of my own[1] sites since ~1995[2] since it is too much work to prevent and always has been.

[0] For a brief interval I did try.

[1] With CAPTCHAs and other complex rules such as manually approving new users, preventing insertion of links within the first few posts, etc, and multiple attentive moderators, sites that I have helped moderate/admin have managed to keep SPAM count low.

[2] One such site page: https://www.exnet.com/springboard.html
It's a limitation of your approach. If you have an idea what you are trying to do, a good detail might produce the correct code. But if it doesn't, then your next prompt will not be asking for it. But explaining to the AI how it went wrong, suggesting and guiding it towards a different path. It will often help you resolve the issue. If you have no domain knowledge or just keep regenerating responses in home that one will be correct, you are going to be wasting time and money.
he, I got the popup to donate to wikipedia. The irony.
It was an Alibaba project before it's adopted by Apache. It's battle tested so it gotta have its value.
Just spitballing, but couldn't you have a new device login as three fields, username, password, and encryption key? Then if you don't add the encryption key you don't get the history, but still access the account. Then if password managers really saved all three, then would simplify it for more people (at least those with password managers). But there still has to be a cultural shift for a lot of people to password managers asking non-tech people
My strategy is I never accept the ToS on the TV. By and large major manufacturers don’t track unless the ToS are accepted after Vizio was caught. I still get firmware patches and can do home automation signals from the TV activity on LG without ever accepting the ToS. YMMV. Periodically after a firmware update it prompts to accept the ToS again otherwise it’s pretty silent. I do not however use any smart tv features. For my prior generation I just never attached them to a network.
That’s also the conclusion I’ve drawn. This seems to be the reason Web Components exists.
It's funny, I thought the exact opposite.

> Flexible... isn't that the point of any central processing unit, to be able to handle many differing types of work?

Oh, pliable? that's cool, I wonder how that works?
> In general everything about it feels like it makes projects easy to work on for 5 days, abandon for 2 years, and then get back into writing code without a lot of problems.

To me this is one of the most underrated qualities of go code.

Go is a language that I started learning years ago, but did't change dramatically. So my knowledge is still useful, even almost ten years later.
It is still unfair tbh.
HN is leftie programmer sock space but loves tech and there is no denying the SpaceX and Starlink tech is good, but Elon is a trumpie so there is a dissonance where certain people cannot admit this or their whole world-view crashes so it is easier to say "Elon bad!!" or downplay that this is an emergency rescue mission as seen.
with the scale of the planet, it would be more like really unlucky if it actually hit someone
The neat thing is, you can rasterize 1D space into 2D, 3D and so on. Trick as old as analog TV signal processing.
I'm a big fan of what Georgia Tech, UT Austin, UIUC, and CU Boulder did with their online masters programs - the courses are the same as on campus (and I've verified this with alums and/or having taking courses at these universities as an undergrad), and they give the hard skills needed to truly become a decent SWE.
Show HN: I Built a Multimodel AI Chatbot to Avoid Having FOMO on the Best Models
Hi HN,

I built ChatOne while working on a project and constantly switching between AI models like GPT-4 and newer ones like Claude 3.5. I kept wondering if I was missing out on better answers, so I created ChatOne to get responses from multiple models at once and compare them easily.

-Teddy
It’s almost laughable how the general public tries to apply their own soft feelings to these people built for high-stakes work. None of these people are bothered by this and their families have become accustomed to this sort of thing and too obscenely full of pride to let their own emotions get in the way.
Here is the link to the full text:

https://iai.tv/articles/science-publishing-is-a-multimillion...

@dang: Could you edit this, please?
Given the recent events, I would say even top-tier universities are quickly destroying their own brands, and outsourcing their online education is one way they're doing it.
> Google has never published anything of that sort, ever. I'm pretty sure of it.

Android Enterprise Security White Paper

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.android.com/e...

Chrome browser security

https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/chromebrowsersecur...

Google Cloud security Whitepaper

https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/google_security_wp...

Facebook

Communicating
About Privacy:
Towards People-
Centered and
Accountable Design

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Privacy-Tran...

By Epic, I'm assuming you don't mean the public interest research center in Washington, DC seeking to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.

their white paper about the harms of genai is at though https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/EPIC-Generative-...
I love simple and accessible websites as much as everyone else, but I believe this leans way too much into extremity and dictates solutions instead of requirements.

JavaScript has appeared in 1995, it's now technically impossible to use a browser that doesn't support JS, because it will fail to load the website due to its old SSL/TLS stack, worrying about JS support is just insane.

Not using JavaScript doesn't give you accessibility by default, see: <a href="/121/"><img src="abcd.jpeg"></a>

The whole article feels like it was written my someone stuck in the early 2000s, you can make a well designed and accessible SPA. Using stone age technology should not be the goal, accessibility should be the goal.

The tax section of the gov.uk domain follows these guidelines and it's a mess, other pages can also be very difficult to use.
Matt is just using WordPress and the WordPress foundation to justify his personal vendetta, the same way Musk uses Twitter against people he doesn't like.

And this is not the first time he does it, so this is nothing new and he is not the only one.

Rich people and big companies do this all the time, but Matt is doing in public.
And the only one time where I have seen this (in a private discussion of the mobile app with a bank employee), they said that they see no valid use case for a managed MitM against their production website. Preventing proxies like Charles and mitmproxy from working was one of their explicit goals for the app.
But many times, such top-down structure cannot work, especially if your program interacts with external systems, such as hardware. In such systems, you need a model in your program that is very similar to biological systems. For example, a module that interacts with hardware needs to be self-sufficient and asynchronous, interacting with the rest of the system through messaging. Even if there is a top-down structure at the higher-level, such structure cannot fully dictate how the hardware behaves or performs. For example, someone outside of your program could go off and change settings on the front panel.
As I remembered them, many of the "extension" courses at universities are taught by people with at least a minimal affiliation to the university. I took one at Harvard that was taught by a graduate student, and another that was taught by an assistant professor.

I'm personally glad, as a Caltech alum, that Caltech got called out on this bullshit, because these bootcamps really are not related to the university, and just cribbed the branding.
Honestly that sounds like how that one MS employee said that Windows 10 was "the last version of Windows" but that statement didn't actually have MS's blessing and everyone took it literally and flipped when Win11 came out.

I've heard differently. You can turn Recall off but not remove it. And if it's anything like other privacy settings, Windows Updates tend to, er, adjust those settings... to the ones Microsoft prefers you'd be using.
I think they're referring to the dimensionality of the input / output space, not the intermediate internal representation.