skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>fans pretend they won't pay whatever it takes to get in.

Uh, no, I've abandoned multiple carts after seeing the final ticket price with hidden fees is 175% the advertised price. Those shows didn't end up selling out, either, they just left revenue sitting on the table. Entire live entertainment industry would be double digit % larger if the ticketing experience wasn't uniquely dogshit
We're in the "the orthodoxies of conventional wisdom have been established, and only a small percentage of people think beyond that" stage?
GTA V is an exception because it's so easy to cheat in. I believe it's peer-to-peer with no verification among peers that what happened should actually have happened. It's basically impossible to secure that.
I don't think the word "definition" means what you think it means!
I still use my MacBook Air M1 and given my current workloads (a bit of web development, general home office use and occasional video editing and encoding) I doubt I’ll need to replace it in the coming 5 years. That’ll be an almost 10 year lifespan.
The realities of building an IPv6-only city – APNIC
I understand - I'm not wishing evil on the West. I want prosperity for all humanity. All I'm saying is that it's shortsightedness and hubris that even got Western automakers (and businesses at large) to this stage. Rest on their laurels, not learning from history, assuming the good times will continue unabated.

Just like Jack Welch and General Electric: financialize companies to the max, optimize for quarterly share increases, and earn billion-dollar bonuses. When the company inevitably collapses/shrinks after you retire, it's no longer your business.

Whether it's China's foray into nuclear, wind power, carmaking, solar, etc., they simply copy existing Western designs and keep developing them diligently while the incumbents optimize for quarterly earnings.
It doesn't have to be like that. There are valid reasons you have to resell your ticket. There is a way to make it work without scalpers - ticket provider can provide resell platform and force that tickets are sold at purchase price.

This was the case in David Gilmour's concert in Rome a month ago. TicketOne.it has their own resalle site fansale.it. Good business for Ticketone as they also take a fee for resale, good for sellers because they have a safe way to sell if something comes up and they can't go. Good for buyers because they know these tickets are valid, and price is the original one.
There was a circuit split and a matter of first impression in this circuit.
we've decided we can't be bothered with traditional search

Traditional search (at least on the web) is dying. The entire edifice is drowning under a rapidly rising tide of spam and scam sites. No one, including Google, knows what to do about it so we're punting on the whole project and hoping AI will swoop in like deus ex machina and save the day.
New Horizons was launched in 2006, and it will reach the same distance from the Sun as Voyager 1 is _currently_ in about 32 years.
How much of that generated code is `if err != nil { return err }`?
> find it hard to believe you can flip enough burgers to pay that mortgage

To keep a $1,400 within the 28/36 rule [1] you need to make $60,000 a year. That's around the median wage for a fast-food manager [2].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/twenty-eight-thirty-six...

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/fast-food-manager-salary-...
And food supplies and healthcare and energy and transportation and housing and... At the US army scale, what isn't death business? There's almost every profession with some connection. As long as OpenAI sells what they normally sell to everyone anyway, I don't see a problem. The document doesn't even mention any special deals.
If I still had my 2015 I would have applied some liquid metal TIM by now, I did a paste refresh and that worked very well to get the fan under control.
Who reverses an appellate circuit ruling? The Supreme court does. The Supreme court is objectively more often of the time Conservative leaning.

That a conservative court overturns the 5th as often as it overturns the 9th is in itself telling.
But preventing memory leaks is actually impossible. Even with garbage collection, memory leaks are common.
Seems just overhyped tech to push up stock prices. It was already claimed 2 years ago that half of the jobs would be taken by "AI" but barely any have and AI has barely improved since GPT3.5. Latest Anthropic is only slightly helpful for software development, mostly for unusual bug investigations and logs analysis, at least in my experience.
Bloomberg was the source that claimed SuperMicro servers were compromised by a grain of rice sized chip that only had two conductor leads on it. https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...
> “Mens rea” is a key component of most crimes. Some crimes can only be committed if the perpetrator knows they are doing something wrong. For example, fraud or libel.

We're talking about orthogonal issues.

Mens rea applies to whether the person performs the act on purpose. Not whether they were aware that the act was illegal.

Let's use fraud as an example since you brought it up.

If I bought an item from someone and used counterfeit money on purpose, that would be fraud. Even if I truly believed that doing so was legal. But it wouldn't be fraud if I didn't know that the money was counterfeit.
Lots of discussion and testing of that over on https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/, worth following if you're not already.
I don't agree that it would be proof beyond reasonable doubt, especially because neither google nor law enforcement can produce the original image that got tagged.
IANAL either, but from what I've read before the courts treat searches of your home with extra care under the 4th Amendment. At least one circuit has pushed back on applying private search cases to residences, and that was for a hotel room[0]:

> Unlike the package in Jacobsen, however, which "contained nothing but contraband," Allen's motel room was a temporary abode containing personal possessions. Allen had a legitimate and significant privacy interest in the contents of his motel room, and this privacy interest was not breached in its entirety merely because the motel manager viewed some of those contents. Jacobsen, which measured the scope of a private search of a mail package, the entire contents of which were obvious, is distinguishable on its facts; this Court is unwilling to extend the holding in Jacobsen to cases involving private searches of residences.

So under your hypothetical, I'd expect the police would be able to test "your drugs" that they confiscated from the thief, and use any findings to apply for a warrant for a search of your house, but any search without a warrant would be illegal.

[0] https://casetext.com/case/us-v-allen-167
No, the local elections should - and will - be determined by those cities, the state elections should be determined by the inhabitants of the states and the federal elections by 'the states' in a weighted manner so as to make sure less densely populated states also have a say in all things federal. If you think this gives too much power to the less densely populated states I'd suggest this is caused by the idea of the federal state having too much power, not by the electoral college or anything related to it. Don't want to have people from 'fly-over states' to have a say in ${issue}? Make sure ${issue} is handled at the state or local level and those rednecks, deplorables, 'garbage' and hillbillies don't get to have a say in it while thanking you for keeping out of their affairs.
- If you demand more than an FDIC limit of liquidity in cash, you're not really in the same market for banking services as most natural persons. If the off-the-shelf banking products don't do it for you, you should probably be shopping around and negotiating.

- Private insurance is stil a thing. Banks are like some of the most underwriter-legible institutions known to man.

- Four is a bigger number than two anyway.
Sure, I supposed you could calculate a limit by looking at how many human eyes there are, how many frames per second they can see, and max resolution visible. That still isn't actually a limit on how many images could be made, only how many could be consumed.

That said, if we got to such a massive scale I'd expect us to hit other limits first (electricity available, best produced, storage space, network transmission, etc.).

Or did I totally misunderstand your example here? I may have misread it completely, if so sorry about that!
> do they have 25% trivial code?

From what I've seen on Google Cloud, both as a user and from leaked source code, 25% of their code is probably just packing and unpacking of protobufs.
Some anti-cheat has clients for Linux (the ones that don't generally just disallow playing on Proton). I don't think the Linux ones are kernel level but don't quote me on that.
Valve is trying to obsolete Windows, so they can prevent Microsoft from interfering with Steam. Apple could team up with them, and help obsolete Windows for a very large percentage of game-hours.

There will always be a long tail of niche Windows games (retro + indie especially). But you can capture the Fortnite (evergreen) / Dragon Age (new AAA) audience.
Is any of the AI generated code being committed to Google's open source repos, or is it only being used for private/internal stuff?
Exactly my thought. Humans can correct humans. Machines can correct, or at least point to failures in the product of, machines.
>The US needs to show its commitment to free market principles and lets its auto industry die already.

Given that the car industry here in Germany opposed the (even much more moderate) tariffs the state subsidies certainly don't seem to scare them more than a trade war. It's just a repeat of the automotive industry dark ages of the 70s/80s when tariffs vis-à-vis Japan were enacted based on the same reasoning. You're just gonna have 20 years of no competition.

China is going to win the markets in the rest of the world, which is where the bulk of cars go now. It's gonna be funny when everyone in Asia is driving a 15k modern electric car and we sit here driving old second hand gas cars behind a tariff wall. It's like a reverse Soviet Union situation
> edit: also, unless you are the digital equivalent of "off the grid", I would argue most people are going to need some sort of cloud-based identity anyway for messaging, file-sharing, etc. iCloud is far and away the most secure of the options available to most users, and the only one that uses full end-to-end encryption across all services.

"You need some cloud-based identity, and this is the best one," even granting its premises, doesn't make being forced into this one a good thing. I'm an Apple user, but there are plenty of people I need to message and share files with who aren't in the Apple ecosystem.

EDIT: As indicated in the reply (written before I added this edit), it sounds like I was ignoring the first part of the post, which pointed out that you aren't forced to use it. I agree that that is a sensible, and even natural and inevitable, reading. I actually wasn't ignoring that part, but I figured the only reason to include this edit was to say "that isn't true, but if it were true, then it would be OK." (Otherwise, what's the point? There's no more complete refutation needed of a false point than that it is false.) My argument is that, if it were true, then that wouldn't be OK, even if you need a cloud-based identity, and even if iCloud is the best one.
Usually we answer questions about prices using markets. Markets are a great way at determining exactly how much something costs
The more scalpers suffer, the better. May they suffer infinite pain.
No. The calculation is what determines what the assignation should be. It does not actually assign anything.

This FOIA litigation by ACLU v ICE goes into this topic quite a lot: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-2nd-circuit/2185910.htm...
Why don't we take it to the extreme then? Just make the time the Sun rises 6am always. And make seconds longer or shorter to adjust.
It was just a joke, and perhaps a bad one, poking fun at the propensity of Rust fans to insist on rewriting anything and everything in Rust :)
This is very cool. What optimization algos are being used?
> Most people can’t afford to buy a house and never will

Most homes in America are owned by the person who lives there.
> This goes to show even the most cautious and conscientious of users can get caught out by their extension changing hands

That's why on chromium I only install extensions that have their source on GitHub, as unpacked extensions.
> are people really this naive to think Bezos didn’t orchestrate all of this intentionally?

I think it is completely within the bounds of the reasonably possible that he did.

But I don’t think anyone has hard evidence he did, just suspicions. Sometimes, the devious answer is the correct one; other times, the real situation is more innocent and it just looks devious. Given the paucity of evidence, I think agnosticism is the most rational position.
Cryptocurrencies and Crime: Separating Facts from Myths
I mean, the security features are pretty well documented. The FBI can't crack a modern iPhone even with Apple's help. A lot of the lockdowns are in service of that.

I'm curious: what hardware and software stack do you use?
Never seen it in Europe, visited concerts in dozen countries. There are some platform fees, but let's say 5% or at most 10%.
I don't know about ALL of Japan, but in Tokyo, pedestrians frequently ignore red lights and seeing cars with green lights waiting while a large group of jaywalkers is crossing in front of them is not an uncommon sight.
Looks too big to fail now
> MacOS also tightens the screws on what you can run and from where, or at least require more hoop jumping over time.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I have been doing software development on MacOS for the last couple of years and have found it incredibly easy to run anything I want on my computer from the terminal, whenever I want. Maybe I'm not the average user, but I use mostly open-source Unix tooling and have never had a problem with permissions or restrictions.

Are you talking about packaged applications that are made available on the App Store? If so, sure have rules to make sure the store is high-quality, kinda like how Costco doesn't let anyone just put garbage on their shelves
Why is that relevant? Google used a hashing function to persist a new record within a database. They created a record for this.

Like I said in a sib. comment, this FOIA lawsuit goes into questions of hashing pretty well: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-2nd-circuit/2185910.htm...
Thanks! WebAssembly gives Modus some superpowers, including polyglot language support, near-native performance, and sandboxed isolation. On each of these points:

- Language support: At the moment we're supporting Go and AssemblyScript. We plan to add more languages in the future. Python is definitely on our wish list. I'm also looking into ways to support advancements in the WASM/WASI space to be more language-neutral in the future (but for now, it's just these languages).

- Performance: We leverage Wazero for its AOT compilation capabilities to take a WASM binary and convert it to a native x86 or arm64 in-memory instruction set. We do this when _loading_ the module, so it's cached and prepared ahead of time - before the function executes. We also do a lot of leg work on building an invocation plan (similar to how a database builds an execution plan) that instructs the Modus runtime in how to marshal data in and out of the WASM memory space on each request, in a manner that is compatible with the guest language's default import and and export calling conventions. Thus when the function runs, the hot path is very fast.

- Sandboxing: Each function call executes in its own dedicated memory space, with its own instance of the compiled wasm module. You could completely crash one instance without ever affecting the another. You can't accidentally leak memory, or access memory of the host process or another function execution, because each function run is starting fresh. On top of that, the only system resources are those explicitly exposed to the function instance. So there's zero risk of (for example) accessing a system credential or spawning some other process.

Hope you'll give it a try! :)
> I love hearing about this magical world where police harass random people for no reason.

Nothing random, magical, or pretend about it in the states. https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/race-and-criminal...

Talk to folks that don't share your skin tone. Make some friends. Ask them about their experiences, then judge for yourself.
The Rendered Manifests Pattern (2023)
China's national security assistance law came up in the TikTok hearings. There's no reason to believe that the CCP doesn't have the legal authority to compel Riot to push an update with a backdoor to a few select high value targets.
It's a fun read, but the end is a bit wild imo.

I think the reason for needlessly complex software is, that at some point a developer with a really high IQ is need (the famous 10x).

We needed a lot programmers, so the relative number of those guys went down.

And to be honest I think those people dont even do well in corporate environments.
Imo the most successful people there have like 110 and can really enjoy senseless discussion in useless meetings
> If you send your computer/phone to Apple for repair you may get back different physical hardware.

I happen to be in the midst of a repair with Apple right now. And for me, the idea that they might replace my aging phone with a newer unit, is a big plus. As I think it would be for almost everyone. Aside from the occasional sticker, I don't have any custom hardware mods to my phone or laptop, and nor do 99.99% of people.

Can Apple please every single tech nerd 100% of the time? No. Those people should stick to Linux, so that they can have a terrible usability experience ALL the time, but feel more "in control," or something.
And the non junior developers will then just magically appear from the aether!With 10 years experience in a four year old stack.
LLMs are experts in everything you are not
> ...Google alerted the police to a hash match without actually looking at the image (ie, entering the bedroom).

Google cannot have calculated that hash without examining the data in the image. They, or systems under there control obviously looked at the image.

It should not legally matter whether the eyes are meat or machine... if anything, machine inspection should be MORE strictly regulated, because of how much easier and cheaper it tends to make surveillance (mass or otherwise).
I still have my 2015, and it lived just long enough to keep me going until the death of the touch bar and horrible keyboard, which went away when I immediately bought the M1 Pro on release day.
Why is this flagged but the thread titled "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris" with 1041 comments isn't? What am I missing?
Ollama, docker and "open webui".

It immediately works out of the box and that's it. I've been using local LLMs on my laptop for a while, it's pretty nice.

The only thing you really need to worry about is VRAM. Make sure your GPU has enough memory to run your model and that's pretty much it.

Also "open webui" is the worst project name I've ever seen.
> I can't eat index funds

You can't eat cash either. If "can I eat it" is your metric, buy army rations.
Thanks! Eventually, yes - in any language supported by LLVM.
How about partial refund? (For example: 90% refund when the event is a week away, 66% up to 3 days away, 33% up to 24 hours away, 20% up to 3 hours away.)
you can sell index funds and buy stuff. you will mostly be ahead of inflation.
It's quite the opposite isn't it? Drivers don't have to see pedestrians; they stop at red lights, and pedestrians cross when they get a walk signal.
> I can't eat index funds

You can't eat cash either. If "can I eat it" is your asset metric, buy long-lasting preserved foods.
I don't care nearly as much about the 4th amendment when the person is guilty. I care a lot when the person is innocent. Searches of innocent people is costly for the innocent person and so we require warrants to ensure such searches are minimized (even though most warrants are approved, the act of getting on forces the police to be careful). If a search was completely not costly to innocent I wouldn't be against them, but there are many ways a search that finds nothing is costly to the innocent.
Measuring human productivity is hard since we can't quantify output beyond silly metrics like lines of code written or amount of time speaking during meetings. Maybe if we were hunter/gatherers we could measure it by amount of animals killed.
Who knows what it means but I don't feel super hopeful that RDNA (Ryzen/consumer) & CDNA (Compute/data-center) are being merged to UDNA after RDNA4. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announce...

The consumer gpu's were unobtainium during COVID. You can't make money if you don't even have cards to sell. Then rx7000 series offered a pretty minimal upgrade.

I'm very hopeful I might finally upgrade my rx580. An affordable chip that did pretty great. RDNA4 sounds similar, after their expensive multi-chip flagship got cancelled a long while back.

It just feels absurd that AMD is slacking so hard here. Nvidia got where they are by selling consumer cards that ran CUDA well. AMD seems to think their high margin data-center GPUs don't need any consumer market to succeed and maybe they are right but it's such a gamble to have ROCm with so few consumer offerings available for it, so have such a decaying consumer side.
Cheats and bots are ruining online games though.
It is incredibly difficult to damage cast iron and not hard to clean. I love the stuff.
Chinese made Tesla's are generally acknowledged to be higher quality than American Tesla's.
I mean, they're not rootkits. Rootkits are either to gain root access (thus the name) or to hide something from a user. Anticheats don't do either of these.

They expose a kernel API to allow games to verify the state of the system, and they're knowingly installed by the user.
WARN notices are public.

> your estimation of HN users is probably out of date with the current state of the employment market

You're probably not around start-ups if layoffs are a top concern.
It’s a fair point, I’ve never even thought about that. I think it’s just something that’s awkwardly come about because there was an early broad categorisation of lipoproteins by density, and then there a subsequent need to divide those species even further by density.

I tried to come up with a corollary but the best I have is “jumbo shrimp”. Sigh.
They're also chosen by users when the game is filled with cheater. Counterstrike 2 is an example of this with players moving to FaceIT and ESEA (with kernel anti cheat) as the higher ranks of official competitive matchmaking are filled with cheaters.
My 2019 i9 going strong as ever. With 64gb ram, really don’t need to upgrade for at least a couple more years.
NAFTA doesn't exist anymore. Trump replaced it with a "I can't believe it isn't NAFTA", I doubt he will reopen that again.
> They expose a kernel API to allow games to verify the state of the system, and they're knowingly installed by the user.

Can you give examples of games where you do that?
‘Murica!
You're assuming people will create content to consume it, and not just to spam various platforms, competing for attention. Most of it might only be ever consumed by crawlers, if at all.
Data broker offers access to voters likely to back Jan 6 and right-wing militias