skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treat the word algorithm as a "magic black box". Because that's what it is, 90% of the time. It could be that chronological sort. It could be a rage engagement sort. People don't know. It's not a consistent thing either, since pretty much every social site out there that people use is constantly tweaking it, A/B testing it, or having it modify itself to an extent (that is, I assume randomness is built in).

I do think the internet would be a better place with more openness about those magic black boxes, even if it's just an ability to tweak it yourself without having to do some arcane incantations and rituals (ever gotten your YouTube recommendations completely fucked? How do you unfuck them?).
Seems evitable to me, given how poor software-wise are competitors and how hard it is to make software quickly.

Afaiu, Nvidia is a software company. It chose a headstart of a decade.

GPUs are just a platform for running it, in a sense. It’s Nvidia who could run on a competitors GPUs if it wanted, but not vice versa. With own GPUs it has a full lock-in mechanism.

Judging by the history of this industry that seems inevitable.

You mean games?
Okay let’s be fair, people do want better low-light photos. And text recognition in photos. And translation.

Or maybe they don’t, but I somehow see people using those features all the time.
> Businesses can have missions quite distinct from what the majority of their prospective customers would want.

Failing businesses.

> I would have a purpose for it, stemming from my own ethics.

I never said that business is inherently in conflict with ethics, and I, as an entrepreneur myself, believe that ethics are necessary for business: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951447

> I think it quite naive to consider Bezos has not done the same and that this decision is simply in line with his personal political interests.

I claimed that his decision is simply in line with his personal interests. Whether those are financial interests or political interests is difficult to determine. Nonetheless, the decision was bad for The Washington Post. Compare to Twitter/X: Elon Musk is indisputably using the social network he acquired for his personal political interests, and that has indisputably been bad for the business, driven away users and advertisers, and his creditors have vastly downgraded the value of the investment.

> Neoliberalism is a really poor substitute for personal morality and accountability.

This seems like a nonsequitur. How is "Neoliberalism" relevant? Is that what you believe I proposed? If so, you're wrong.
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(ehum... vegetable steroids -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberellin ).

Genetic and care help, a lot, but there are fertilizers and "fertilizers".
Incredibly isolated - Canada is a huge country. Property taxes, access to basic services, Power/Gas might be incredibly expensive. Groceries are very expensive. Too expensive to build homes in those locations, because of isolation. there is a reason these properties sold for 10 dollars.
> especially as they mature and gain from 30 to 50 pounds per day

That's about 0.25 grams per second. Or 15 grams per minute. If put on a scale, i am assuming you could witness it growing in near real-time.
White college graduates voted for Biden only by 55-45.
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> iirc, based on what I've read earlier. i could be wrong, but don't have time to check it now.

Please, if all you've got is a vague recollection of stuff you read ages ago just don't comment at all. You're just adding noise
BTW, which OSS exchange would you recommend for self hosting and simplicity?

Doesnt have to be state-of-the-art, just for trading in-house used banana peels
I am using GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS has a compatibility layer providing the option to install and use the official releases of Google Play in the standard app sandbox.

See https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play

NetGuard also shows network requests from GrapheneOS itself, all proxied by the GrapheneOS project, as described here:
https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections
>To be fair, chromium has an inordinate amount of access. We all trust chromium’s developers but I’ve never met them. So it’s a realistic risk but we (hope) not a threat.

>To be fair, Windows has an inordinate amount of access. We all trust Microsoft developers but I’ve never met them. So it’s a realistic risk but we (hope) not a threat.

I can keep going to point out how flawed this line of reasoning is, especially the second one with forced push for Recall.
Games are information. You can literally print the game's code and assets on a book.
That's a very simplistic view. Isn't that exactly the same as saying "guns don't kill people, bullets do"?

It's the bad farming practices that created the situation where the soil was vulnerable.

We're not talking about blame, but rather about determining the direct causes.
It sure makes sense.
The endorsement is extremely unlikely to decide the election.
On the contrary, the chance that the endorsement will lead to retribution after a lost election is arguably much higher. They think it happened last time around.
You can say it's cowardly to act like this. But it does make sense.
> Bean counters bathing in blood, all the way down.

No resource is infinite and money is an important constraint in any engineering project. Engineering is all about making compromises. Good engineering is making the right compromises: especially when life and death decisions are being made.

Casually blaming "bean counters" is a distracting fantasy available to anyone that doesn't have to make real-world decisions. Understanding the causes of how Boeing systematically screwed up requires a bit more maturity than you appear to show. "Bean-counters" particularly comes across as childish name-calling to me, and clichés don't help either.

The fact that the MAX has been cleared to fly again shows that the design decisions were not utterly flawed.
I had to switch from namecheap to porkbun when they decided to get all political. Vote with your wallet.
Very nice. Some are actually very useful. Suggestion: keep the sidebar on the left when inside an app, instead of requiring users to going back. Easier to explore the tools.
That's so true. Could we then use a new word, say malgorithm to denote algorithms that don't work in the interests of users? Just as with we did with malware?

btw: The Malgorithm does actually exist, and ironically is the name of a electronic music device that applies bit-crushing (undersampling and/or bit resolution reduction) effect to audio signals, that is, it mostly makes the signal sound worse although it can be used creatively, which however occurs very rarely in pop music.
Are you sure about the non-working code point?

I've yet to try it but my understanding is the repo here has got working code along with installation instructions:

https://github.com/microsoft/OmniParser
If the Post endorsed Harris but then added an addendum that this was the last election they’d be endorsing, this would make sense and seem a lot more impartial to a now 40-year tradition.

I went to return something to Amazon and though it was clearly their fault for sending the wrong item, the rep said “we’ll make a one time exception here” and I said fine whatever. Seems like there’s a Bezos precedent for this kind of “last time” approach lol
I edit a bit and it seems mostly accurate but I've followed covid origins for a while and the bit "While other explanations, such as speculations that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a laboratory have been proposed, such explanations are not supported by evidence." isn't really true. There is evidence but for some reason they only want to cite papers from the scientific establishment saying the scientific establishment is innocent.
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An Open Source jacket actually makes more sense to me than an open source LLM. I generally understand hardware to be open source when all design files are available (for example CAD models of a case and KiCad files for a PCB). If the patterns of a jacket were available in an editable standard-format file, you could argue that’s an open source jacket.
Nice, I love it!

It reminds me of Prisma and yet, it's all Rust. Also good to see that async is the focus point of the API so the usage feels ergonomic.
I think the "user-uncontrolled" or possibly "user-oblivious" algorithm (if you believe that the mere controllability is not enough) is a clear enough term.
Wait, you're a Captain, and you fear of taking off and landing? I have so many questions :). Also, as someone who is scared of taking off and landing, I'm even more scared now.
The Permission Portability Problem: Rethinking Auth for AI Agents
Show HN: Create forms faster with minimal form builder
This summarizes my relationship with Chipotle.

We have 1 location in my area. I go maybe once a month hoping for a decent experience, but every single time they are out of key ingredients (no chicken, no beans, no chips, etc).

I really don’t understand how that can even happen at Chipotle where the entire menu consists of a grand total of (maybe) 10-15 core ingredients?

I would go way more often if they simply weren’t out or ingredients 90% of the time I go.

But he’s right about not canceling the order. I think last chipotle visit I subbed black beans for pinto, and tofu instead of chicken. The “sorry no chips today” was icing on the cake at checkout.
Shiloh alum here (my sister went to Catoctin)! My memory of camp food is pretty poor, but one dish I do remember is couscous with gato gato sauce. Canoeing or rock climbing trips had better food because you could carry more gear.
Not the OP, but the '*' is already the common symbol for multiplication.

Not much of a problem for people who are used to C syntax of course, but may be confusing to anybody else, especially in expressions which have both pointer dereference and multiplication, for instance this is entirely valid C:

int a = 3 ** int_ptr;

The '^' is the pointer symbol in Pascal, so it's not a new thing either, it just fell a bit out of fashion.
> Censoring isn't inherently an abuse of power.

I didn't say it was, I said governments will abuse the power they do have.

> The fact that people in Russia or Gaza can use bitcoin doesn't make them a great place to be right now.

It means they can participate in the global economy and internet to an extent despite their government trying to prevent it.

> But I'd much rather a government that doesn't need to be overthrown in the first place.

Sure, and I'd much rather no one was ever mean to anyone ever again. But realistically, it's likely there will be a need for an internet that can't be censored for a variety of reasons.
And not a single Blandings Castle or Lord Emsworth joke.
> What kind of thing do you have on your PC they’d care about?

You get that's not the point, right?
Greed. The strings of words and an underlying logic don't matter.

If you sell your money rain dance you get paid and move on.
How can software run on different CPUs when they support different operations?

When you download "debian-live-12.7.0-amd64-kde.iso", all the programs in the repos support all current Intel and AMD CPUs, right? Do they just target the lowest common denominator of operations? Or do they somehow adapt to the operations supported by the user's CPU?

Do dynamic languages (Javascript, Python, PHP...) get a speed boost because they can compile just in time and use all the features of the user's CPU?
I am guessing you would be on the hook for the other side of the bet. Apart from the potential legal implications, that could be expensive.
Storing the distances for all pairs is prohibitively expensive. Also, you'd need to store the path information as well. Fortunately, road networks exhibit a lot of hierarchical structure. For example, when going far away, you will almost certainly use the long-distance sub-network, i.e. highways. It is possible to exploit this in a preprocessing step that adds a linear amount of information, which is in turn used to speed up queries.
The Tesla supercomputer became self aware and is now trying to eliminate humankind. Worry not, the supercomputer can't handle California power outages!
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> This fundamentally doesn't work because internet is not something existing in a vacuum - you need wires, fibers and servers to make it work, and those are located in somebodies jurisdiction.

The reason it works is because there are numerous ways of hiding traffic at various layers.

Eventually it will probably be feasible to do DPI on every single packet and prevent that, but at the moment it's quite doable.
Those things (parentheses and free software) don't make Guix a bad solution. It's just not for you.
Man companies are basically already doing that, except they compile that into advertisements to be ran on our subconscious
I see, the ORM backed objects are lazy and trigger I/O when the data is accessed. On first blush I'm surprised that Rust culture would go for this as it spread network i/o (incl network errors), async waiting and memory allocation widely in your code. This would seemto hamper eg the common "functional core, imperative shell" architecture which gets you many of the classic FP virtues. I wonder if I'm missing something that makes these less of a problem?
Looks like typo or "noisy phone".

In current fiber-optics solutions using multi-wavelength, so on fiber input mixed 8 or more laser waves of different lengths (to be strict not wl but bands) and on output mix divided with optical filter and all wavelengths processed separately.

But you don't have to use exact wavelength in this, you could use any wl within band (yes, 4 colors in each of 40000 bands looking possible), if you have light source with changeable wl and detector with enough precision, and number of wl's could be much larger than in for example LCD or OLED.

Unfortunately, authors of article for some reason don't write about this important nuance, but it mean, in reality to make this technology, need precision light source(s) with adjustable wl's (classic RGB is combination of just 3 wl's, and modern amoleds usually 4 wl's) and precision compact spectrometer (for example, what I seen myself gives 1024 lines for visual spectrum, so just 10 bits). All these are not impossible, but will not easy to achieve.
Ensuring government employees are following best security practices and not being negligent, and thus not passing the buck to citizens is maybe a little bit more realistic.
Feel like I want to say tu coque. Fallacy or not, one would surely recognise that it is a tango where both dancers are walking, not just the libs. But this authors goal is to say, imply it's a story of failure to mature by SJW and not somehow, actually "both sides" but I am afraid snot is pretty evenly spread about here.

Never thought I'd miss William Buckley but at least he was a literate intellect, capable of discerning the beams in his own eyes as he battered the motes of the left.
I wonder how the UK will deal with foreign companies that are allowed to have code in their name then?
> Given people now have a choice of exactly 2 different political positions

False, and ridiculous.
I'm not sure this can really be simplified without changing a lot of the system. Or maybe even at all, without sacrificing some of the current features.

If your threshold is based on the inscrutable language, I'm not sure that can be really solved by anyone in nix community at this point. You're just looking for a different solution, and that's fine. But nixos still solves real, practical issues for many people.
Pump'n'dumps are far less risky than running a massive ponzi?
Without knowing what they actually use, I feel comfortable to state that the industry has moved on from Contraction Hierarchies to somewhat more flexible techniques. These allow you to take traffic information and road closures, and user preferences, and whatnot into account without requiring a full re-processing of the input data with each traffic update. The state of the art is a two-step preprocessing that first decomposes the road network into cells, and then processes these cells independently. Sometimes it goes by the name of customisable route planning, sometimes it is called multi-level Dijkstra.
Ye I think there's either more to the story or a misconfiguration. I've done WireGuard at Azure, Hetzner, and AWS. All work fine.
Yes smalltalk and whatnot are supposed to be "real OOP". But today, OOP is just Java's model for most people.

Erlang probably got the message passing thing right, but it just doesn't make sense to declare it OOP, today.

That is my opinion, that it makes sense to talk about OOP in those terms.
So piracy just gets boosted again. Nothing really changes here.
I don't assume leadership, even in Wikipedia, is particularly concerned with freedom of knowledge. The foundation is flush with cash, constantly begs for more and still can't manage to stand up to this challenge?
Putting Data Centers in Space Could Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
I think apple didn’t wait long enough.

In my friends circle, iPhone Minis are the most popular smartphone model, it’s even peculiar how pronounced it is.

But they all bought iPhone Minis 2 or 3 years after they came out.

I’d like to see iPhone sales numbers per generation, over multiple years. Like „how did iPhone 12 models (minis, normal, pro…) sell in 2020, 2021, 2022, etc.
Found a bug in the article.

Maximum for signed bytes is +127, not +128. Minimum is correct, it's -128.
Author projects lack of depth and preference fro tribal affiliation over principle onto audience.
Or as they might phrase it, a skill issue.
AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
People are going to nit-pic and while some of the concerns have some weight to them, so far they are trivial IMHO

The fact is we need an alternative to X because the current owner has done and will continue to do terrible things not just to the service but apparently on a personal and political level that is beyond distasteful to a HUGE chunk of the users (if not even greater than 50%)

And Threads isn't going to cut it for similar reasons.

So in an imperfect world Bluesky is what we get and it's a legit alternative that's better.

The fact a Mastodon<->Bluesky bridge exists says A LOT. Good luck ever getting something like that with X without paying a literal fortune for it.
I think that the opportunity costs are just too high.

Since the reliability of these machines seem very low, even having 2 machines doesn't guarantee that you're always able to serve ice cream.

And if you're able to serve all your customers with one machine, in times when both are functioning, the second machine doesn't really enable more sales. But you do have to power it, have a dedicated space for it, have someone clean it daily, and pay for the maintenance contract.

It's probably more beneficial to dedicate the space for an extra ice-cream machine to storage, frying station or something else that is more useful.

Another point is that I don't think not being able to sell ice cream reduces sales that much. Because by the time you find out the machine is broken, you're already in the store or drive through anyway
Quality material.
> Do they just target the lowest common denominator of operations? Or do they somehow adapt to the operations supported by the user's CPU?

Mostly the former. Some highly optimized bits of software do the latter—they are built with multiple code paths optimized for different hardware capabilities, and select which one to use at runtime.

> Do dynamic languages (Javascript, Python, PHP...) get a speed boost because they can compile just in time and use all the features of the user's CPU?

Hypothetically yes, but in practice no for the languages you mentioned because they don't map well to things like SIMD. Some JIT-based numerical computing systems as well as JIT-based ML compilers do reap those benefits.
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There's a false dichotomy in assuming the alternatives are 'single corporate borg' and 'a million little handrolled systems'.

Separate websites and online services having their own authentication bubble but implemented with industry standard libraries would probably be a better alternative to both.
I dimly recall a Daedalus DREADCO column which, starting from hydroponics, was exploring the limits of artificial vegetative growth, and came to the conclusion that under the right conditions, it was all a question of how much energy one was willing to pump in.

Maybe we need a fleet of satellites beaming formed microwaves down to our giant Cucurbitaceae?

(my wife kept prompting me to harvest my radishes this summer; by the time I actually got around to it, they'd grown to sizes ranging from a small potato to an entire fist)
"Lets not oppose nazis in case they gain power again."

You're morally and humanly bankrupt if you believe and act this way.
Does the migration also work if the server I’m migrating from actively wants to prevent me from taking over my stuff? If they ban me from their server because they don’t like me, they aren’t going to set up a redirect for me, right? Is this a real thing that happens?
Anyway, it is not really a reliable source of info
Yes, while you code, you train Copilot. No guarantees that this can become easily federated learning.
You might want to read this: https://deedpolloffice.com/change-name/restrictions-on-names
The chord progression generator doesn't return correct chords, as it uses the Chromatic scale, while it should probably use a diatonic scale.

So for example for I-IV-V it gives me C, D#, E while it should give me C-F-G (https://www.justbuildthings.com/chord-progression-generator)

This should be easy to fix, though. To point you in the right direction, see e.g.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_progression

Fascinating topic, keep up the work!
I remember this...started by the hacker known as 4chan. :)
I mean, Twitter itself borrowed most of its concepts from either the user base (@ mentions, replies, retweets, quote tweets were all informal behaviours before they were features) or other social media platforms, particularly Tumblr. It is very much a field where doing it well beats being the first.

Of course, if you’re earlier you have network effects, but Carface seems doggedly determined to compensate by driving the existing network away.
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Bluesky’s more accessible to the general public. I’m on both, though use Mastodon more (partially due to _far_ better third party clients available); it’s a very different crowd.
Well yeah, context matters. When Ben gvir or smotritch say one of their extremely stupid things, if you label it as “Israel says” it will be very disingenuous addressing their opinion as the official opinion of the state.

And in the case of Gaza health administration, calling it without mentioning Hamas does the exact opposite, removing important context. And is especially egregious since they never mention how many combatants killed, which makes readers assume that all deaths are civilians (as Gaza health administration is a civilian body).

Think of it like these 2 sentences-
Hospital says 10 people killed.

Military hospital says 10 people killed.

Both will be correct, but omission of context makes you assume different outcomes
Also be careful connecting new domains to cloudflare. It has a habit of adding old info from presumably a previous owner.

Managed to get a takedown notice thanks to that idiotic "feature" while not even aware the domain is serving anything
>The USA is not a nation-state, it is just a state, nor is Canada.

That throws up the question in my mind: What makes a people into a nation? How uniform do they have to be?
...and today somebody posts a WSJ article on exactly this subject.