skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not learning if the AI is feeding the person an incorrect model of the world, though. There's less likelihood of that if someone is reading information curated by a human that understands the shape of the problem and the domain. The AI doesn't "understand" any of that and just spits out words in an order that "seems correct" — that's precisely the problem.
I think that it is this in the head:

<link rel="canonical" href="index.html">

I had to stop submitting ISC SANS posts because they similarly have a canonical link in their head which HN, for reasons I'm not sure about, use to 'correct' the URL, errantly.
It is indeed a decimal escape: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.2/lex.html#char-literal
After seeing Carl Sagan's Cosmos I got and read the coffee table book "Cosmos" I really liked it at the time(about 10-12 yo). It was pretty influential but I do not know if I could sit through the book again.
Rare is the western world tech worker without kids or debilitating illness who can not easily retire early.
Have you done the math on this? At your current expenses, you can live indefinitely on the proceeds of pretty safe investments of the 5.5mm, and still hit 10+mm by the time you are “regular” retirement age…

It’s probably too early for you to decide that you are done forever, but you could be if you want to.

You could take a break of 1-2 years and see how that goes. Call it a sabbatical on your resume if you want to go back to work after.
Contrary to everyone I think it was pretty mediocre. The significance of the book is barely covered and the contents of it are not mentioned at all. The story itself is dancing around the “message of the book” and how it prevails over everything (see the allegory with the abbey’s wall) but somehow they just never say it’s the four Gospels of the New Testament which are the most important texts of Christianity. If you don’t know what the Book of Kells _really is_ then what’s left from the film itself? Not so much just a generic fantasy story.
I'm not up to date on the best auction sites. Check reddit.
Walking back from the pillow analogy a bit, I'd happily pay for homeowner's insurance that also covered lost wages, a temporary rental place, legal fees, and the other incidentals likely to arise in a fire or flood (as opposed to paying whatever high deductible I'm comfortable with on top of those other large, unknown costs). Adding those to the policy would necessarily go beyond the home value. Is that level of excess allowed?
Don't worry - they're only collecting (Meta)-Data
Some of the autocorrects may help with the bio research, see eg. https://bmmagazine.co.uk/tech/deepmind-chief-predicts-ai-cou...
PC Floppy Copy Protection: Xemag Xelok
In this post in a series on PC copy floppy protections, we take a look at XEMAG duplication's "Xelok" scheme.

Xelok was quite devious on the Apple II, implementing "fat tracks" that could not be produced with a conventional disk drive. However the PC doesn't allow such tricks, so Xelok appears a bit different on the PC platform.

We take a look at two titles that use it, Sargon III and The Ancient Art of War.

We also take note of a rather amusing bypass for this protection!
Fair enough. I feel like I've been seeing a lot of questions on Reddit along this line that comes off as very low effort to generate engagements so that's really the reason behind my comment but I see how my response also comes off as snarky.
I think a much closer analogy to function inversion is MCMC (or Bayesian inference in general), where we can easily compute the density p(x) of any point x, but finding the x given a p(x) is intractable. Strictly speaking it's about finding a set of x's that are distributed as p(X), not finding the x given any single density p(x), but it's close.

Relatedly, probabilistic programming was originally imagined pretty much like your second quote: you define a model, get some data, run them both through the built-in inference engine, and you get the parameters of the model likely to have produced the data. In practice though, there's no universal inference engine that works for everything (some people disagree, but they're NUTS ;)
I guess pretty much for the same reason P is probably not equal to NP.
I thought it was because USB connectors occupy 4 spatial dimensions.
Just because you can write everything on one line without any spaces doesn't mean you should.

You can ofcourse removethe capability to do thatand you'll effectively force the programmer to write more venous code, but then its strength as an interfacing tool is very much reduced.

The Iversonian languages has the capability to write incredibly terse code which is really useful when working interactively. When you do, your code truly is write-only because it isn't even saved. This is the majority of code that at least I write in these languages.

When writing code that goes in a file, you can choose which style you want to use, and I certainly recommend making it a bit less terse in those cases. The Iversonian languages are still going to give you organs that are much shorter than most other languages even even it's written in a verbose style.
we incarcerate at a higher rate per capita, not just in absolute numbers. based on your apparent view of things, that ought to result in less crime per capita, but it does not.

> more or less stringent about jailing criminals

is quite different than "fill the jails, empty the jails"

Quite a bit of research on the effect of deterrence on crime seems to strongly suggest that it is the level of certainty of being caught and punished that has a deterrent effect, not the severity of the sentence. This would correlate with "more or less stringent about jailing criminals".

> the primary purpose of jail is not rehabilitation, it is to protect the public from criminals

This is a statement of belief, and there are people who believe otherwise. I don't have a strong position either way, but I don't like people asserting that their opinions are self-obvious truths about the world.
Adding elements to stuff we assume UNIVERSALLY is universally wrong because we do not assume them at similar level. For instance here in EU most table salt is with added iodine, witch in general is good IF you do not live near the sea, but being universal this salt also goes to people living near the see adding potentially to much iodine (an thyroid problems are on the rise since decades).

For fluorine it's the same: some drink tap water, some drink only bottled water, so some get potentially too much some potentially nearly none.

That's why "universal" is essentially wrong.
> Using https to a well-known source that relies on DNS for location adds very little to the security against poisoning a DNS cache.

I think this analysis doesn't factor in the MTA-STS cache. While an attacker could block the MTA-STS records with a DNS cache poisoning attack, they'd need to perform the attack persistently to prevent the policy from being cached. This greatly reduces the window of vulnerability and complicates the attack.
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So that's what happened to Captain Carnage!
But this doesn’t really explain anything: ‘\010’ isn’t really any more primitive than ‘\x0a’: they’re just different representations of the same bit sequence
The engineers of his day and his client both raised concerns. This is the first I've heard that engineers build to barely last. Maybe that's true in software. I hope to hell that it is not true for homes, cars, roads, bridges, aircraft, and spacecraft.
It's like the Two General's Problem embedded in a single connector.

You never really know it's right until you take it out and test the friction against the other orientation.
Great advice. Microservices also open the door to polyglot, so you lose the ability to even arrive that everyone uses/has access to/understands the things in a common libCompany that make it possible for anyone to at least make sense of code.

When I talk to people who did microservices, I ask them "why is this a service separate from this?"

I have legitimately - and commonly - gotten the answer that the dev I'm talking to wanted their own service.

It's malpractice.
Arweave if you want to use a blockchain built for it, or upload it to the bitcoin blochchain
> what do you mean by this

That books are not a commodity.
True but if you go to Telekom you're basically _asking_ to pay a lot.
A 30 second search cuts that price already by 66%:
https://www.alditalk.de/kombi-pakete
https://www.nettokom.de/tarif/nettokom-smart-l/

If you can settle for 50Mbps (not really 5G, but already Aldi and Netto had a 100Mbps limit which is... basically the ITU definition of 4G), here's 50GB/month for 13 EUR: https://www.lebara.de/de/vertrag/hello-flex/hello-25-flex.ht...
https://archive.is/WqBPA
Discussion (255 points, 12 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633551
Chester Beatty Library
That depends on the specific code. Some code is written to be agnostic to the rank, while others make certain assumptions.

In my code I'd sometimes write assertions in the beginning of a function to not only ensure it's called with the right shape but also as documentation.

Also, in practice really high rank arrays aren't used much. Even 4 is pretty rare.
I'm pretty sure everyone is using a standard pressure and composition on their spacecrafts and stations now. If you want to dock with existing craft and not have managing atmospheres be a big problem, you want to stick to the standard.
Your comments here seem to be based on the assumption every country in Europe has plans like the one you have (€20/100GB). Those plans don't exist everywhere.
Oracle is the worst.
The UK ditched coal. Here's what the world can learn from it
Yeah I tend to take it more as satire or wild exaggeration than real investigative reporting.

When his buddy Joel McHale, who also acted on the fictional TV show "Community" along with John Oliver, tried making his own hot take comedy news show, it really put things in perspective for me.

Now I watch it for the comedy aspect as much as anything I see on other news media these days. Take what I see with John Oliver amped up to a solid 9 or 10, divide it by 10, and that's probably how serious or impactful the thing actually is that he is reporting on.
Google glass all over again. If you walk by me with these on, chances are I will smash you in the face for being obtrusive and rude or worse without asking for permission. If you bring those around my small kids worse things may happen.

But first person porn videos may look more natural compared to GG.
I know, but IF we mandate openness from the start with a public development process this could not exists or the company does not respect the law, if we do not, we will never get much usable things, "open source enterprise" and "open core" are nowadays common ways to profit from FLOSS being not FLOSS at all while formally respecting the license.

The problem to arrive at the laws is how many know enough to understand why we should and we must have such law, because if for most it's not even clear what is something you own vs something you can use via a proprietary remote service...

Physical ownership is a clear concept for most, digital ownership for most is a mystery... That's the damn issue.
Both docker and podman support rootless containers. Podman is in no way "better" or "more modern" as you suggest, mostly everyone still uses docker.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
Anecdotally I can say that red squirrels and Pine Martens can co-exist quite happily, as I live in an area where we see both regularly and the presence of the Pine Martens doesn't seem to intimidate the squirrels or reduce their numbers significantly.

Also turns out that Pine Martens are quite fond of peanuts.
In my experience, adults were comfortable saying FUBAR around kids but didn't explain it to be an acronym. I learned it simply as a regular word, which though context I understood to mean something was badly messed up.
Thanks your for your feedback. What browser are you on ?
That's good, because otherwise we'd never be able to find them when we need them.
law enforcement is so bass-ackward on privacy/security tools

Of course, if a hammer is for sale, some will use it to build houses and a subset will use it to hurt people. Just because something can possibly be bad doesn't mean we shouldn't have it
I boosted my USB plugged-in-successfuly-on-first-try rate when I imagined the offset block in the cable male USB connector as being heavy, so it should be below the centerline when plugged into a laptop's female USB connector. (Only works when the connector is horizontal, but better than nothing.)
Detailed simulation of Atari Pong at circuit level
CrowdStrike investigated over breach of fiduciary duties
Corporate Insiders Are Sitting Out the 2024 Stock-Market Rally
The output file is in your download folder. If not, can you tell me what browser you're on?
Show HN: I made it even easier to self-host my open-source form back end
On a bit of a mission here. Just made the first addition to what I plan to be lots of variations of self-hosting this Formspree alternative. The goal is to allow you to host just what you need, and avoid the bloat and complexity of self-hosting the entire service.
AMD has been shipping billions of dollars of "chiplet" GPGPUs by the name of MI300A and MI300X.

So I think they're beyond the experimental phase.
Circuit diagrams and firmware source code for Gboard DIY keyboards
Yeah it should works well on Chrome. There is still some issues on Safari.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757858
I noticed the same problem in my dashboard as well. No new visits counted from 5 october
Good reporting would have sourced more pagers of this model and examined them to verify this, but regardless, how many copycats did this inspire?

DB Cooper's antics led to several security procedures and aircraft modifications being implemented - not because of a single incident, but because it inspired other threats.
What a company 'requires you to agree to' is unrelated to fraud. The issue I'm considering is whether the relevant crime is fraud.

def., Fraud, "knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment"

For it to be fraud, they would have had to relevantly misrepresent themselves in some transaction. The question is whether their actions were misrepresentations. This is unclear.

If I upload a song to Spotify I am not promising anything wrt to who listens to it or how. If I stream a song from Spotify I'm not promising to listen to ads, or only to listen to as many songs as are profitable for Spotify. So it's unclear that any misrepresentation has been made.

Spotify is well within its rights to terminate these accounts for TOS violations, and there might be some crime in taking payments from spotify.. but this is quite unclear.

There's a real problem in saying that whatever BS a company puts in its TOS defines fraud and if you dont do that you're defrauding a company. If that's true, then you're probably defrauding companies all the time, as are many.
Why Vulture Bees Prefer Rotting Flesh over Pollen (2021)
I'm fully on board for this trend of frameworks made to be Tauri-compatible out of the box. This era of truly cross-platform app development via the web stack and is looking very promising!
How often is front-month /ES not right around 20-50 points ahead of whatever SPX is trading at?
Related

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds (30 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724957

Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox Strangers in Real Time (13 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310
What about a tourist walking while filming their vacation, are you planning on assaulting them in front of your children as well? Shed the burden of your hate and walk forth without being such a tool, friend.
XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support
Exploiting Vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from Signal'
Georgia's Clean Energy Outpaces Fossil Fuels with New Nuclear Boost
People were most certainly simultaneously using the much dumber predecessors to AI to read gobs of resumes whilst forcing candidates to spend 15 minutes transcribing their resumes into whatever slow web forms years prior not to mention longer yet on automated tests, writing about ourselves, or in one case writing a short story! Turn about is fair play.
Is it really impressive? It's just feeding search into an LLM.

The fact it's so easy is why its a nightmare.
A climate scientist criticized his own study. Is he a hero or a villain?
Because it begs the question, do you have intelligent beings designing intelligent beings all the way down? An infinite regression of writers writing writers?
From the abstract "The guidelines here cover both the LaTeX source as well as the output, so this PDF is intended to be read alongside its own source code," which I found here:

https://github.com/michaelchanwahyan/latex_templates/blob/ma...
*unable/unwilling to self-deceive ;)
First place I read about this idea (specifically newlines, not in general trusting trust) was day 42 in https://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compile...

"For example, my compiler interprets "\n" (a sequence of backslash and character "n") in a string literal as "\n" (a newline character in this case). If you think about this, you would find this a little bit weird, because it does not have information as to the actual ASCII character code for "\n". The information about the character code is not present in the source code but passed on from a compiler compiling the compiler. Newline characters of my compiler can be traced back to GCC which compiled mine."
I find it humourous that their logo looks like what happens when older generations of Windows failed on popups.
How to with rental cars?

I don't own and no local insurers will offer me non-owner insurance. I have to get the crappy expensive insurance at the rental car desk.
I was very influenced by Kurt Vonnegut when I was a teenager. Coming of age is a perfect time to learn that the fact that life is absurd doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't laugh, just the opposite.
Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse Five are some of my favorite books of his.

As an adult, I've been very influenced by the late Daniel Dennett and his naturalist philosophy.
Books like From Bacteria to Bach and Back or Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
Oh yeah that can cause lots of weird problems. I've run into that sort of issue a lot when cross-compiling, cause often then you might have a system copy of a library and a different version for the target, that can be a real pain.
Conducting a Time Audit
This is one of the biggest mistakes in reasoning people make, they come up with fantastic explanations that require fantastic explanations, solving nothing. People like you are really INTERESTING.
As long as it starts every email with “I hope this email finds you well. I’m writing to …” it’ll be easy to spot these submissions and apply whatever your organization’s policy is for AI-Aided applications.
I read that those things' orbits degrade in like five years tops. So at steady state, for a constellation of size N, you need to launch N/5 of them each year, with the attendant fuel burn. Seems like that kind of pollution is a bigger long term worry than the short-lived junk? On the other hand, until it does fall down, I suppose it's a risk to anyone who wants to launch up through it.
The Count of Monte Cristo -- I've read it a few times and I know I'll read it again. While there are a few books I've read more than once, I can't think of any I know I will read again.
I used to be so good at this. Then I started smoking cannabis. Then I became ultra good at this. Stains on walls became unbelievable works of art. I miss those days. I also use to hear symphonies in my brain as I’d fall asleep. Crazy, except it was beautiful
Tech Exec Growth Curves
How to add animations to Hotwire's Turbo Streams
> This style of learning is hands on. You learn a little bit about the shape of the problem before you sit down and learn the theory.

We're talking about getting some project or task done. It's a practical exercise by definition. Any learning experience to be had is going to be hands on, and for student/junior-level tasks, it's not going to be some product of knowing deep theory in the first place.

But the process of identifying the boilerplate that needs to be written, the process of manually entering it, the process of debugging your own code that you wrote, the process of scouring for examples and explanations, the process of being held accountable in a teacher or colleague's review, the process of discussing your experience of the task with someone who already understands it well... these all provide extra opportunities for hands-on learning that are short-circuited when having an AI put it together for you.

Yes, script kiddies and VBA/Excel junkies in the sales department have been slapping together programs they didn't understand for decades, and many people have now joined the industry thinking that they might secure a career as an "engineer" by following tutorials well and pasting StackOverflow snippets efficiently. And while some people who found themselves starting on that path have eventually come to transcend it and learn fundamentals more deeply, the "slap it together" mentality, the "find a tutorial" mentality, and now the "have a chatbot do it" mentality easily become quiet traps for people who don't realize that they need to actively transcend them at some point.

You can genuinely learn a lot about football by playing Madden on your couch, but if you don't get out on the field and actually play some games, your dreams of making it into the NFL are probably not going to pan out.
"allow", unless I see the code and DB and all data flows on it for all branches, its extremely safe to presume with companies like Meta that with private data they do morally the worst thing possible, and breaking laws is just part of business. Why the naivety in 2024. Company that stores users password in plaintext (recent EU fine) ain't the forefront of user security in any meaningful way.

Thats core of their market value, just think for a second what is valuable to them and what they couldn't care less about.
> Fewer, dimmer, satellites at higher orbits are actually cheaper

GEO satellites are pretty pricey. Each Milstar satellite cost $800 million, others in the same category are also in the hundreds of millions, WGS-11 was over $600 million. Starlink V2 cost $800k per satellite.

And if you spent $800 million on a constellation of 1000 Starlinks, you'd have better coverage and bandwidth than the entire 6 satellite Milstar constellation put together for 1/6th the price.

Digging around for more recent prices, GEO is around $100-300 million. That's still orders of magnitude more per satellite than LEO. At the low end this means you could get 100-400 Starlink V2s up there for the price of one GEO. One GEO that only covers part of the globe, versus 100-400 satellites providing global coverage.
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done
Or when you win solitaire!
Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disparities Between Sedentary and Active Individuals
You’re partly conceding that this level of corrupting and mistrust is just what we have to live with. It has not always been this way though.

Side note. If I also accept it this is why cryptocurrency being able to reduce the cost of securing a transaction is still interesting to me. When you use a bank you don’t see the army of night guards, vaults, auditors, and IT people keeping it safe.
Really? Nobody else would use that?