skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument, is that sometimes you need things to break before you can build something new in their place. I have considered it, and determined I don't want things to break that badly.

And again, I'm not courting the self-destruction button. I'm giving you feedback on why this message is losing its efficacy, and you're ignoring that feedback. This is your wake up call that people are tired of the race to the bottom. Give me a convincing reason to vote for you. Not just a convincing reason to vote against the other side.

Democratic primaries are hella corrupt. Which is why they're not a valid 3rd button. See Pelosi pushing against people getting primaried, only to primary the more progressive wing of the party.
This was posted yesterday: Local TypeScript Super SDK to Call 200 LLMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844517
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"Hi, this is Bob from blah support, we need to confirm your account is a correct. When prompted please confirm to give us access". if someone is dumb enough to hand out a password, they are dumb enough to click approve. Phishing is a social attack, not a technical attack.
Discussion (322 points, 10 hours ago, 242 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41861056
My partner has celiac, and has mentioned something like this, but rather than chemicals, it purportedly had to do with heirloom seed strains. europe apparently has more variation among the same crop, and they're also closer to the things our body evolutionary expects since that entire region is much older w/r/t western diet. the USA has basically been hyperoptimizing a monoculture in relative isolation to such a degree that it's kindof its own thing, and some people's bodies don't tolerate it well. now, is this actually supported by a mountain of evidence? I don't know. But at a glance, it at least sounds plausible.
I've upgraded my Kindle once, to get USB-C charging and a waterproof device. For the price, extremely worth it.
Where to Host (Colocation) Your Raspberry Pi
When I was younger, I was fascinated by evolution, especially the intricacies of how things just work. This fascination also explains why many people believe in the intelligent design theory.

However, witnessing the rapid evolution of AI with just a few hundred GPUs, enough data, and power, I no longer wonder what a billion years of feedback loops and randomness can achieve.
Hire internal software folks who can judge the signals better?
I love it. The only thing I would want different is to maybe give control for the number of stories on the page so I could only view 10 at a time if I wanted?

For me it seemed like more effort to skim than HN but I am not sure why that is.

My first impression though is this is better than anything I use currently for news. Really a testament to what complete trash "the news" has become.
Ooh, thanks for this. I was having all kinds of font and margin irregularities with my side loads, assumed I just had to power through and manually adjust the fonts in each book
Thats good enough for me. I have no intention of using my car as taxi. I'd love a reasonably priced SFSD in my country.
I haven't been able to find any sort of option to export from the web interface, and poking around at it with dev tools I don't see a non-trivial way to grab whole books. Am I missing something obvious?
I've actually just finished watching the video linked elsewhere in this thread and a drive-by is exactly what they propose, using multiple telescopes launched on staggered schedules in order to make repeated observations and gradually refine the image.
"CPython now has experimental support for running in a free-threaded mode, with the global interpreter lock (GIL) disabled. This is an experimental feature and therefore is not enabled by default."
You completely missed the point, it seems.
> don't understand that a game's lifespan is contingent on anti-cheat

Or you could spend a huge effort on cheatproofing only to find that no-one plays your game in the first place, e.g. Concord. I imagine getting cheaters in your game often falls into the "nice problem to have" category and it is easy to kick the can down the road.
is it down right now?
I don't think they had a point tbf
> The other thing is that multiple keys can be created.

That depends on the site. For Google, sure you can add multiple passkeys. But many other sites will just do minimum effort and only allow you to register a single passkey.
Any clue what a company around a javascript library could have been valued at?
If it makes any difference (although I fully agree it does not excuse past bad behavior), for the current gen devices, Kobo has partnered with iFixit to offer user serviceable parts and guides, including replacing batteries [0]. Although iFixit has had partnerships in the past that have fizzled, as long as user-repair is pretty easy, things like batteries are probably generic enough that they can be sourced even if Kobo doesn't end up sticking with it. If the screen fails though, then yeah, you'd better hope they have committed to maintaining stock of OEM parts, which, even with an iFixit partnership, is in no way guaranteed.

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Kobo
Java and C# are languages of different class. C# is perfectly capable of systems programming and manual memory management that is at least more convenient than C (but not C++ with move semantics and operator overloading abuse, otoh C#'s type system and build process are saner which at least partially pays for this).
This is very interesting. Unlike us (who focus on the decoder) they focus on changing the representation itself so that they can achieve better generation. Thanks for the link.
Microsoft hasn't chased Amazon back to the office. It's even cutting back
For me, they were drm free ebooks I bought legitimately and had to sideload via calibre because the kindle doesn't support epub. It's an old Paperwhite, and it only happens when I go out of airplane mode. However, I have to go out of airplane mode (or had to before I ditched the kindle for a kobo) to get library books and the occasional actual Amazon kindle book when I didn't feel like waiting for the library to get me to the front of the list.

*Edit to add: I believe the kindle won't delete epubs you sideload via the Amazon kindle email gateway, but I have no interest in doing that.
Text is such a protocol.
That’s fair, one of the big things I always enjoyed about languages was the communities that form around them, I actually think that’s more important than the language itself. I will say that the Clojure community has to be one of the better ones that exists.
The problem is email regulations prevent you, the individual, from taking them to court for spamming you. As I recall only the government (like DOJ) can file a case for spam. Basically the US law was actually a bad compromise for everyday users
> Your customers end up with a whole bunch of cloth to dispose of

We're coming up on Great Depression 2: Electric Boogaloo pretty soon [citation needed], so we could just do the same thing our ancestors did with flour sacks back in the day and turn them into children's clothes. Or maybe even tents for the ever-growing homeless camp-cities. The dystopian possibilities are endless!
>If you believe that the progress is achieved when the masses have it the worst, then the deteriorating condition of the American middle class will naturally help it.

Thats what we have seen historically. People always demand improvements. The leadership of this country hasn't actually done it until they really have a pissed off populace at their doorstep. I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the historical precedent.

>What's the point in this accelerationism with allies as casualties then?

Americans should be first in line when it comes to who the government serves but if you just look at the US government's actions vs other governments in the west, the US government clearly does not have their citizens interests first and foremost.

Think of all the rights and regulations the EU(or hell even many third world countries) have vs the US.

It manifests itself in so many ways:

Some easy examples demonstrating small issues as well as big ones:

1. EU countries mandate physical addresses for VOIP number registration. US spends years not implementing its half assed regulations Result: Americans are drowning in spam calls

2. EU negotiates drug prices as a government and refuses to pay more than a specific %. Companies would rather get something vs nothing from the EU market. US despite being the largest market, refuses to negotiate as a government even though they have a universal health program(for seniors only but thats a different issue). Result: American made drugs are sometimes up to 10x more expensive in the US than elsewhere. A vial of insulin in EU: ~9$ USA: ~99$

3. US sends its Navy to patrol world seas, ensuring flow of goods. Result: EU does not meet required 2% of NATO spending and instead funnels that money into social services like subsidized colleges. Result: US citizens either drown with a lifetimes worth of college debt or take a chance in the Military for subsidized college after giving up 4+ years of their young adult life serving their military contract while EU citizens graduate debt free and take a gap year traveling instead.

I can go on for literal dozens of examples. I specifically chose to go from small to big to show that the problem is systemic and permeates all aspects of American life. In many ways the American system is one giant scam and they only people benefiting are people who have managed to survive in the upper echelons of the income stratosphere or are foreigners.

If the US changed its focus to be more inward, it can focus on rebuilding manufacturing which would increase jobs availability and give more power to workers which would lead to other rights for the common man such as demanding more from the government to help US peoples among many other examples.
Reminds me of boringreport.org . I would seriously consider also allowing filtering by type of news.
Should be noted that there's still debate on user presence, to the point that someone submitted a CVE[0][1] on KeePassXC for not abiding by this part of the protocol (and which I take Keepass's side).

[0] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/9339

[1] https://keepassxc.org/blog/2023-06-20-cve-202335866/

edit: This actually might be a better thread to hear some of the debate between an Okta dev and the KeepassXC team:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406
As you've noted, citizen is clearly written to handle pretty much everything within the application server itself, which stems from my own particular use cases.

I suppose that's my anti-pitch: citizen caters to apps that can run comfortably on a single instance and accommodate storage within that instance, or have a web server in front that can distribute clients across multiple app servers and keep each client on the same instance so as to preserve user sessions across requests.

Now that I consider it feature-rich enough for general use by other devs, I'm thinking about how it could be expanded to accommodate external storage solutions and make the app server stateless.

I opened this months ago and it directly addresses your point:

https://github.com/jaysylvester/citizen/issues/120

The same question applies to citizen's built-in caching, but if I uncouple that from the app server, I have to ask why the dev wouldn't just use a third-party caching solution instead.

As for external data, I deliberately left models wide open and un-opinionated. They're modules you can put anything into. For my own apps, I use node-postgres, and my models contain all my SQL queries and interact directly with the database. citizen doesn't interact with the model in any way besides storing the module in the global scope so it can be retrieved without importing it (which I do to support hot module reloading).

Curious to see what you've been working on and your approach.
Seems slow. I went by (night)train from Bonn/Cologne via Belgium to Paris, France, and from there to Madrid, Spain. Which involved that bogie change thing in Hendaye/Irun at the French/Spanish border. Took maybe 45 minutes. In 1980/81.
This is even better than that: "Libertarians" getting rich on government contracts to run surveillance for governments.
Why bother with a parachute? Just redesign houses with bungee-net drop zones for packages. It'd probably result in less damages than the average FedEx delivery anyway.
That they are capable of this level of precision but choose not to use it in Gaza seems to imply that destroying and depopulating Gaza is the military goal there.
they use autoencoder/autoregressive model to predict the big picture, and diffusion for the details, similar to yours.

The difference is they use discrete tokens.
Find a way to leave, at any material cost.
I fell in love with optimisation problems but haven’t played with them in a while…

What are some books to read more about non-linear optimisation that’s also non-machine learning (I’ve dabbled a lot with metaheuristics and genetic algorithms) but haven’t implemented a SAT solver (only played with what Prolog gives you)
Firefox use-after-free RCE
> HackerNews sadly never fails to disappoint.

FYI, that means the opposite of how you used it.

"Never fails to disappoint" is an idiom that means a person or thing consistently disappoints.
Laravel Performance Optimization Strategy
That's exactly my point. The current system is working. We explicitly don't want to go to the place where inheritance forces a sale.
What's the deal with ereaders and their seeming disdain for sane battery life measurements?

Amazon boasts "up to 8 weeks on a single charge" in all their selling points, then, in the fine print states "A single charge lasts up to eight (8) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13".

So, it has 28 hours of actual use time, got it. Why not just say that?
You elk of America's international reputation and foreign fiscal affairs is ironic as you are only inconvenienced a fraction that the hundreds of third world humans endure daily to prop up our unsustainable standard of living.

You have definitely maimed and killed a non-zero amount of humans indirectly by the stochastic math that tallies the bodies on your Luxury products.

We are bias. Your gas wouldn't be less than $10 a gallon if we didn't drop $10b a year policing the Canals, Gulfs, and ports.

The higher your standard of living, the more dependencies, the more complexities, the more abstractions, and more susceptible to changes/perturbations until the "millionaire if not for taxes" thinks he can go without the "taxation without representation" route.
The laws are not unreasonably great. There is no actual blocker to them spamming you again. There’s many ways to maliciously comply like opting you out of a tiny category of their email and making that less obvious so they can keep emailing you unwanted spam. And the law doesn’t let you take them to court for abusing you. That’s why platforms like Bandwidth.com and Sinch have so many spammers as customers - it’s just revenue for them.
As far as I can tell, it's a fairly rare bug. I've only had it happen to me once in 6 years. But the moment it happened, I decided I was never buying a Kindle again. I still have my paperwhite because it works fine, but it's never connecting to the internet again.
Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic “racial” groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within “racial” groups than between them.

I've never understood this argument. The same could be said about computers in terms of performance. Laptop and desktop computers have much more variation within their groups than between them. Some laptops are extremely low-power and perform worse than desktops from a decade ago. Others, like top-of-the-line Macbooks, are true beasts that surpass most desktops even today. On the average, laptops are somewhat less powerful than desktops, albeit much less so than the variation in their respective groups. But I don't see how this invalidates the distinction between laptops and desktops. It is still completely reasonable to assume that any given laptop has lower performance than a desktop computer.
I also have a Kobo Libra 2 and sing it’s praises.

I upgraded from an Oasis 2 and couldn’t be happier. When it comes to upgrade again, Amazon DRM readers will not even be looked at.
It's been rescanned from the original negative. http://web.archive.org/web/20121019150128/http://www.computa... (tiff)
Anonymous Sudan Charged with Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
Yeah I got the Signature Edition of the Paperwhite 11 with their black leather cover, and it's just brilliant. It was a huge step up from the 10 that went before it in every regard.

The resolution and size just nails it, and my favourite feature is the warm backlighting for reading at night. Battery lasts forever, and I can just put it on my Samsung phone stand for wireless charging once in a blue moon - not once have I run out of battery.

I fall asleep so easily to this, currently on the Eisenhorn 40k Omnibus book - and a 184 week reading streak.

I used to be excited about new Kindle releases, have had one since the mammoth DXG - but no more, I'm good now with this, so don't see myself forking out $400 AUD for the new one (with a leather cover).

Also bought one (also a SE) for my son, with a different colour magnetic leather cover. :-)
> So, sure, it is possible to create it, but it is impossible to make any sort of safety guarantees.

Right, because cars and planes and trains and boats and bicycles and footpaths and airships all famously have 100% perfect safety track records, right?
About a year ago I was using an earlier version of Claude to help analyze the transcript from a podcast episode.

I'd fed in a raw transcript and I was asking it to do some basic editing, remove ums and ahs, that kind of thing.

It had streamed about 80% of the episode when it got to a bit where the podcast guest started talking about "bombing a data center"... and right in front of my eyes the entire transcript vanished. Claude effectively retracted the entire thing!

I tried again in a fresh window and hit Ctrl+A plus Ctrl+C while it was running to save as much as I could.

I don't think the latest version of Claude does that any more - if so, I've not seen it.
> Kindle only shows "minutes left in chapter" which is functionally useless

The kindle recomputes your reading pace as you go, so unless you prefer to do that math in your head and track your own pages-per-minute moving average, I don't see how it's functionally useless
Jensen Huang on xAI building the fastest supercomputer on the planet in 19 days
That's exactly the point. We don't want to change anything that leads to these inheritance tax problems.
This seems to disprove the idea that a year off from school will necessarily be a serious setback.

Closing schools during covid might seem to support it, but there was also a global pandemic going on at the time.

It would be interesting to compare TY during the pandemic vs. non-pandemic years.
One example I remember from CoD warzone is they've increased the number of in game 'wallhacks' available to players like UAVs and heartbeat sensors. So if you get killed by someone with wallhacks, it easy to tell yourself they were using the plethora of legitimate ways to be detected. It could just be a coincidence that these new features obscure a hackers visibility, but given the behavioral psychologist they have on team, I won't write off any coincidence as chance.
Want does mobile data tethering make it harder to ban an IP address?
You missed the rest of that sentence from your quote. It's an open spec, suggest changes to the spec, not me. I didn't write it. I actually agree you should be able to use whatever device you want. I'm a relaying party and I don't require attestation.

There are businesses and their employees trying to influence passkeys to push more towards their business models, because this does shut down a whole avenue of fraud and associated fraud fighting tools that are no longer needed, so there is a boatload of money out there trying to make passkeys worse. Comment on the spec and make your voice heard please.
Thank you so much Niki :). The P2P sharing is a great idea. I really hope this feature will get things moving in the archiving field.
You’re welcome to read through my history if you’d like to consider my experiences in detail; you, and many others in a prior thread on HN about pot, insisted that, since some people’s reaction scales linearly with dosing concentration, that clearly everyone’s does and so therefore my outcomes of “2x strength, x^2 effect” are invalid. I just chose “hyperpot” on a whim as a convenience for typing on mobile. I don’t agree with the 70s anti-drugs fervor. I was exposed to D.A.R.E. as a kid and I thought that it was largely bullshit back then, and now. So certainly we agree that weed isn’t Satanic.

As I said, finding the minimum potency necessary to minimize the nausea is a good goal. As to the taste, well, chocolate does a fine job of masking it, but I’m certainly not averse to psychedelics that have temporary nausea as a downside. It certainly helps offset the human tendency to chase hallucinogens into oblivion. But I do respect making it less nasty.

I have the same outsized reaction to high-concentration to all sorts of pharmaceutical drugs, not just pot and shrooms. My medical record has one medication in particular now listed as an allergy, that I just assumed was “everyone suffers when they take a normal dose of it”. Turns out, no, waking hallucinations are not a normal side effect for adult doses of that medication, and we all agreed that instead of testing lower doses, we would permanently reject it and find something less complicated and lower effectiveness (which, as is usual for me by now, treated symptoms far better; sigh). They have genetic tests for some of the drugs now — apparently there’s one drug that’s potentially fatal to me if I take the standard recommended dose for my weight — so doctors are gradually fighting me less and listening to me more when prescribing medications, which has done wonders for my quality of life with drugs.

The doctors used to sound just like this, twenty and thirty years ago: “we need to get your dose up to normal”, “there’s nothing wrong with your kidney levels”, “but this is the normal dose to prevent clotting, how could it be causing significant and continuous pain, you must be making it up”, “you just want to sell half of your dose” (when I’m fighting them to the mat to lower the dose prescribed ) and so on. It taught me a lot about standing up for my experience even when I’m a statistical outlier, trivially dismissed as not within someone’s preconceived expectations and therefore not worth listening to. It also taught me a lot about how anyone can be wrong with respect to the bodily reactions of others to statistical outliers that contradict their preconception that “2x dosing strength = 2x effect” — which, while true for many, is definitely not the case for all.

Some things are fixed with education, indeed :)
Two Sudanese Indicted for Alleged Role in Anonymous Sudan Hospital Cyberattacks
I avoid those jobs, though sometimes you find out that things weren't as benign as originally pitched.