skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's bound to be better than what I'll come up with

Nah, I'm struggling too, so urine good company.
ABL Space Systems pivoting to missile defense
I am almost never use my phone at home anymore. And even when I leave home for gym or stuff like that, I will have my phone with me, but will interact most of the time with the apple watch. The only few times I will actually use the phone is to answer some urgent message.

For lazy reading and media consumption I will use the ipad.

I really enjoy apple ecosystem.
There's very little chance they leave entirely, but there's every chance future products or functionality simply don't roll out in Europe due to regulatory uncertainty. In as far as the goal of the fines is to 'change product behaviour', it's working. Europe is, for the first time in my adult life, being specifically and deliberately excluded from tech roll-outs. Right now that's still nascent, but let's see where we're at in five, ten years.

It will also have a disproportionate impact on small and mid-sized businesses. Apple, Meta, etc. have the lawyers and profit margins to do EU compliance; many smaller companies do not, but were they to trade in Europe, they would be exposed to the same risk of arbitrary fines issued for non-compliance with complex and unclear laws. This sort of thing has a chilling effect. There's nothing particularly commendable in passing deliberately vague laws designed to facilitate the arbitrary enforcement of fines - it's a fraying of the rule of law.

And to the glib sarcas-bro who's about to say 'good riddance', just remember that this is Hacker News. Innovation is good, actually. Smart-watches with medical sensors, AirPods as hearing aids, those things are good, and missing out on future versions of tech like this is not a win.
yes. It is only the opinion of the last buyer and for part of the company. It may or may not translate to a total price.

Ill offer you $1 for 0.000,001 stake in your HN account. That doesnt mean someone else will buy the whole thing for $1M. Valuations in general are moving estimates.
The font on that book is so awful. As someone with bad sight i have to strain my eyes a lot to read even a single sentence.
I think 404Media was first to confirm this (I could be wrong). It’s a subscriber article and I couldn’t find an archive link with the full story, but they do good work and I encourage people to support their work.

https://www.404media.co/apple-quietly-introduced-iphone-rebo...
> My most-used programming language is Go, but I’ve been writing mainly Swift for the past year or so. While there’s a lot I like about Swift, its verbosity leads me to waste an inordinate amount of time pondering what the correct verbiage ought to be, and I often miss Go’s more terse, often single-character naming convention.

Huh. I was expecting that comparison to go the other way given Go's notorious verbosity in terms of error handling, generics etc.. Maybe people compensate for verbosity in one area by being more concise in others (though that doesn't explain e.g. APL).
If we weren't, we (as in developers) weren't needed, right?
I first learned to program in CBASIC on an Eagle II (Z80), then later TI-BASIC, and finally MSBASIC. Thank you, Mr. Kurtz, for introducing me to a wonderful career and fond memories of hacking “BASIC Computer Games” by David Ahl into my early PCs.
_why the lucky stiff (also known for https://poignant.guide/ and a bunch of other things) had written something called "hackety hack" for kind of these purposes I think, but it may be abandonware at this point: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack

But I'm not sure it was anything particular about the environment per se. Like, visual basic was written to do business software, truly the most boring thing imaginable. I think it's more about being left to your own devices with something that intrigues you for hours on end without an adult trying to control or direct what you're doing. Maybe. I'm not sure :-)
> the value of research is vastly over stated for things like nutrition, health, and exercise.

Well said! People talk as if all empirical health practices that different cultures all over the world have developed are worthless without "modern research" while the researchers themselves are looking at it for inspiration and study.
Breaking something is easier than protecting everything from all fronts.

Hackers write the worst code, but all the mess needs only one successful hit to become a 0day.
This says more about the cost of rent than it does the compensation of FAANG.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5529908z.texteImage

Mostly figured out the deal with the Leningrad (just noticed the logo animation..)

Shnurov runs a restaurant in Peterburg, “Cococo”, those are prob his employees, and the drink could well be his fave counterseasonal laptop class drink

(Who is his man in Hainan i wonder)

Update:

Lions for ZA?
The problem is that a cable saying that it's something does not mean that it actually conforms to the standard and can deliver that speed/power. And proper testing requires complex hardware.
We have similar experience with VB6, though I was the opposite. Instead of reading a book about BASIC, I was reading a book about VB.NET.

My first interaction with Visual Basic was through VBA in MS Word. The first time I opened it, I know that it was a place to code, but I don't know what kind of code I have to type. I don't know any programming language at that time.

And then sometimes later, I found a VB.NET book at a bookstore. I was overjoyed at that time, and immediately tried it on VBA to be dejected because the code didn't run at all. I still remember how I several times, until I swear that if the last trial I do also didn't run, I will give up. Fortunately, it does run!!!

Turns out, I didn't know that the VBA on MS Word in my computer is based on VB 6 while my book is about VB.NET. The code is a little different, and that's why my code didn't run.

After that, I bought every book I can find about VB 6. I also somehow stumble upon a VB 6 IDE installation on my relatives CD stash, and installed it on my computer.

And till today, I still think that VB 6 GUI Builder is the best I have ever tried.
> Lawyers file cases they can win to establish legal precedent.

That's actually very rare. Most cases get settled out of court and most court case don't make it to appeal; thus no legal precedent.

> Shouting Fire in a theater

This is a common misconception. This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court.

> sedition, inciting mobs, entrapment, accessory to a crime (by encouraging someone to do it). None of these are covered in the 1st Amendment.

None of which are what Jones was sued for.
iOS alarms continue to work after overnight upgrades which involve a reboot, and also work when you plug in a dead phone before bed, so they’ve apparently figured this out.
> Once it was set by default, it ceased to be an indicator of user intent.

This presumes that it isn’t the default user position. There are three people on the planet who actually want ad tracking, and they’re welcome to go change the setting, but default off was the correct setting.
mfc has resizable ui layouts called Dynamic layouts (since the 2015 update?), and for wxwidgets there is wxformbuilder. Most stuff for mfc can be set in the dialog builder wrt to resizing, or in code.
I cant remember doing manual pixel layouting ever, there are dialog base units or sth like this. People have been setting the ui to 120dpi from the 96dpi standard already decades ago. And the dialogs automatically readjusted without recompiling.

I also recently found out my mfc tools are per monitor high dpi aware without any interference from my side.
I work like all day every day. This is just a fun project idea, so would prefer to save time with a dynamic language like Swift.
Less wrong folks are particularly libertarian. My impression is that most are some sort of state utilitarians.
Not really. Despite having a platform with lots of people. Most are out of date software and hardly use any features.

It’s like the claim that Microsoft teams has hundreds of millions of users just because it’s installed on Windows by default.
Their intention was to silence him. Literally what they said; which is illegal.

> They don't need money,

These are normal people, what are you talking about?

> I'm very impressed at their restraint in choosing the legal system over violence.

That's not impressive, that's what the vast majority of people do.
In the US, you can stay 100% anonymous using shell corporations, but it's fairly expensive to set up and requires some discipline from anyone who knows the secret.
> Also when doing joins its cleaner to use the table_name.id or alias.id then table_name.table_name_id or alias.table_name_id or whatever else besides id is used
However, using 'table_name.table_name_id' and then having another table with an FK that references it with the same name i.e. 'table_2.table_name_id' allows you to use a shorthand 'USING' clause instead of 'ON' in databases that support it.
Whenever medical advice is being thrown around by anonymous handles, it helps to ask one simple question to clear the air: “Are you a doctor?”
I’ve done it. What you’re describing is like an hour of work. Moving TLS outside of the application is possibly the dumbest reason to spend the resources and complexity on a side car.
Five Eyes infosec agencies list 2024's most exploited software flaws
wow. that's quick. my two year old galaxy takes ~37 seconds.
?? why would openai even want to secretly embed chess function calling into an incredibly old model? if they wanted to trick people into thinking their models are super good at chess why wouldn't they just do that to gpt-4o?
Just bought that tester two weeks ago! Labelling my cables now with type / speed / max power
That's true of every cable that has ever existed, including basic electrical wiring, and so feels like a separate problem than merely identifying what kind of cable a cable even intends/claims to be in a world where they all have the same shape connector: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Not OP. But I am using GrapheneOS for almost 4 months now. It is a breath of fresh air. Network Permission, Contact Scope, Duress PIN, Hardened Malloc, JIT tuning, Sandboxed Google Play etc.. are some key privacy and security features in Graphene. Will never go back to Apple's or Google's surveillance platforms.
Logical fallacy here. Every vote matters, as they are made in a blind prisoner's dilemma kind of context. We can have assumptions/expectations about the likely outcomes, some of which would statistically make individual votes "insignificant," but those assumptions may or may not be true (see: this year, duh); therefore every vote is made on the tacit recognition that it MAY matter. And this tacit recognition contributes to the behavior of the masses. It is a category error to think that only some of the votes matter, due to the quantities being what they are on one side or the other.
If I wanted to phish for personal information that I could use for other attacks, I would set up a public service where people could send all their apparent scams and then go looking for all the personal data that is leaking through.

I could even make it seem legit by using the collected data to block any of my competitors, and only “accidentally” allowing through the attacks that I make or that are made by my real customers.
Alex Jones just created a new company and be shielded by Texas very protective laws against civil damages. So they accomplished nothing and will get barely nothing after legal costs.
I didn't say we have currently reached a limit. I am saying that there obvious is a limit (at some point). So, scaling cannot go forever. This is a counterpoint to the dubious analogy with deep learning.
Theory 5: GPT-3.5-instruct plays chess by calling a traditional chess engine.
Honestly, the development of the PHP core has always been rather amateur. From historically just adding features whenever to know adding hundreds of breaking changes per minor release. This results in a terrible codebase and a language where upgrading minor versions is so painful and costly for some firms they end up stuck on old version.

The last part makes the fact their could be massive security holes like RCE in the core language very worrying.
Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Starting today, we have made Amazon DynamoDB even more cost-effective by reducing prices for on-demand throughput by 50% and global tables by up to 67%.
I don't trust FaceID (technically, I don' trust the cops with FaceID), so I'm entering my (6 digit) PIN every time I take my phone out of my pocket anyway. The only thing that'd make me hesitate to set this down to single digit minutes would be the risk of missed calls/notifications while the phone reboots.
Vespel – A Wonder Plastic
The biggest weakness of generative AI to me is knowledge. It gives the impression of knowledge about the world without actually having a model of the world or any sense of what it does or does not know.

For example recently I asked it to generate some phrases for a list of words, along with synonym and antonym lists.

The phrases were generally correct and appropriate (some mistakes but that’s fine). The synonyms/antonyms were misaligned to the list (so strictly speaking all wrong) and were often incorrect anyway. I imagine it would be the same if you asked for definitions of a list of words.

If you ask it to correct it just generates something else which is often also wrong. It’s certainly superficially convincing in many domains but once you try to get it to do real work it’s wrong in subtle ways.
In some cases (cough javascript sdk) you can literally feel the fear of being fired from the people who were writing these services.
Windows NT 4.0
Mutual envy hits the sweet spot imho.. to me the (median) Informatiker has superior naming/notation/training. Recall that bit with Moitra et al cutting the Gordian knot of thermalization vs entanglement. (That dude couldnt touch-type to save his bacon, pls forgive the (reverent) gossip)

Here: how far is this regex from non-associativity.

[& this connection is exactly what i was hoping for! I’d hoped the regular in regularity structs would trigger smth, & save us both weeks (of procrastination, in my case)]

Was i born decades earlier, i might have wandered into a VC “human capital destruction” job, since i have a roughly equivalent mix of traits..
Thanks for sharing this!

It looks so much cleaner in my eyes.

Plus it uses constant-sized indents, which means less futzing about with spaces and all that.

Also means you can comment out the first select item, something you can't do with the article's approach.
Yes! I also was waiting for this seemingly obvious answer in the article as well. Hopefully the author will see these comments.
Musk's amended lawsuit against OpenAI names Microsoft as defendent
Be prepared to pay the DOGEfather his requisite “listening fee” in billions of DOGEcoins.
Ask HN: How to pay myself on F1 Visa as startup CEO
We recently raised ~$200k on SAFEs. I live in SF. I quit my internship job earlier this year to start this company with my co-founder. Right now my CPT in invalidated from quitting previous job. I'm not eligible for any CPT/OPT for another year, and my personal runway is so low to a point I will need to pay rent (1.2k/mo) and food using company's card. Is there any chance that this may be illegal?

Potential Risks:
Immigration: Working without authorization
Corporate: Improper compensation documentation
Tax: Unclear treatment of founder expenses/benefits
Personal: Risk to future visa/immigration status

Looking for advice on structuring founder compensation compliantly while maintaining F1 status. Has anyone navigated this successfully?
> Why not Mastodon?

Not simple enough for normies.
Not enough people. Who wants to be on the 10th largest social media?
Full of sketchy content.
That sounds bad, have any more details on what happened? You plugged in something external and ‘fried’ your ssd ?

I don’t know how likely that is here, but there was a class of attacks called Thunderspy which could allow an external malicious device full access to your computer via thunderbolt.

https://thunderspy.io/
No, anyone who knows more than a surface level understands the difference between these and doesn’t muddle them.

What you’re doing is the equivalent of saying there is no difference between a parachute and an airplane.
BTC is decentralized and the genesis block is not necessarily tied to a specific or known particular company.
While I agree for the most part, I have an observation and a question:

Social media, specifically microblogging networks like old Twitter, were uniquely effective at delivering near real-time breaking updates in ways that left older news delivery systems in the dust. I could do without the vapid comments, but this one aspect has real utility and I don't really know of a way to replicate that in other systems. I say this as an outsider that would only occasionally use the site to search for breaking news that hasn't hit other outlets yet.

My question is about where you draw the line on what constitutes a social network as the edges get blurry. Are comment sections social media? Are sites like Reddit and hacker News? Blogs? Blog networks with social features like Tumblr?
Thanks for explaining my comment clearly. It was frustrating to see people reading it in isolation and drawing the wrong conclusions either unintentionally or willfully.
Apple fanboys are insane, no way around it.

They were successful in annoying every customer of this product and being the laughing stock of even their most die hard supporters.
Like even across all the very Apple oriented publication, almost no one is recommending this mouse (even though the touch surface can be usefull).

I have the Magic Mouse and I had the previous version that just had battery swap. The experience on the newer one is much worse, previously you just had to spend 30 sec for a battery swap and you were on your way. Now you need to wait at least 5 min and you better not forget to put it to charge before leaving the computer, otherwise tomorrow the same problem await you.
And this is compounded by the fact that it has terrible battery life to begin with, especially considering the extremely mediocre sensor they put in it. Logitech has mouseq with much better sensors that last much longer on battery and they don't even have the charge problem.

If anything, the last generation of Magic Mouse is a testament of Apple's utter disdain for its customer and the general lack of care they have around user experience today.

They have the best chips around but it can't be just that.
Yeah, none of this is plausible. These are mostly true statements about Elixir that have no bearing on the memory safety of Go, in the sense that term is used in vulnerability research.
It's a new approach I am experimenting with.

https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/a-new-chunking-approa...
If you think there is a business opportunity do it, but what is the opportunity? how do you make money if you are open source and not selling hardware? I think it's a ton of work to actually make something like this that's reliable and broadly available.
Exactly: I came here specifically to point out that Python is definitely NOT inspired by C++, nor does it transpile to C. Nor is it anything new, as implied by the lack of a year within parentheses. This headline is wrong.
Dupe: (213 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138289
I'm okay with the tradeoff. PHP prioritizing speed over uncommon security is the right call here.
I guess I have to give `jj` a try then!
That's not a feature of a shell corporation, but of agent listings where incorporated such as Delaware series LLCs. One way would be to have an S corp that owns a series LLC.
I just want to point and shame this top-voted comment [0] that dismissed with the characteristic self-assurance of the armchair specialist the very possibility of it; and all the users who upvoted it, purely because it sounded like a “rational opinion”; and all the users who impulsively downvoted my post which provided partial evidence to the contrary.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083555
People don’t have to use GitHub, and certainly don’t have to use GitHub Actions even if they do
It's hard to square 'antitrust' with continued availability to use and ship stuff based on GPL core code, and continued right to fork and do their own development.

Trademark rights are real and separate from copyright, it's also hard to see the judge being impressed with posturing about it.

It all feels like a code of conduct situation, the project unilaterally decided they won't work with an individual any more and withdrew credentials for working together. WPE's position is Automattic just can't do that to them, perhaps doesn't have the right to cancel anyone, 'cos antitrust. I guess we will all find out.
It looks a lot like reinventing the wheel, but as an octagon.
missing /j
Government entities should post to their own Mastodon instance first, but then also syndicate to other social media sites.

That way they always maintain control of their main outlet (even if not many people actually access it there) and not have to worry about who controls other sites in the future.
> imagine that those humans are armed, and many of them routinely fantasize about what they do when "it's time"

I don't think those people actually exist. I've never seen an actual person who wasn't satirizing or parodying an image of this person.
> Spaces should be used to line up the code so that the root keywords all end on the same character boundary.

SELECT file_hash
FROM file_system
WHERE file_name = '.vimrc';

This style is annoying and I wish it gained less traction. It looks neat but it puts so much burden on the query writer, especially when you modify the query and all of the sudden you need to indent multiple lines just to make them all align. You know what's neat and still easy to modify/diff? Just indent a new line for each row.

SELECT
file_hash
FROM
file_system
WHERE
file_name = '.vimrc';
Well, since now you are eating less chocolate, your waist should have thinned. So the garment followed up.
I have the odd post about it on theroadchoseme.com
Most of them I don’t get because I don’t use a user hostile operating system.

And it’s not really complexity, it’s deliberate choices being made.

The internet used to be run by technologists.

Now it’s run by project managers and web monkeys
Just think about the trade off from OpenAI's side here - they're going to add a bunch of complexity to gpt3.5 to let it call out to engines (either an external system monitoring all outputs for chess related stuff, or some kind of tool-assisted CoT for instance) just so it can play chess incorrectly a high percentage of the time, and even when it doesn't at a mere 1800ELO level? In return for some mentions in a few relatively obscure blog posts? Doesn't make any sense to me as an explanation.
Well, VB subclassed the Windows common controls for the most part (and their class names all's contained Thunder, so when I wanted to know whether an application was made in VB, I looked at a button with Spy++).

That being said, technically the controls and VB of course don't have to be linked that closely. In this case they're Avalonia controls anyway that just expose different properties.
I’m happy! I didn’t know about it! Thx
Suppose all police would just undo that setting as soon as they got the phone.
Eye tracking in an HMD and eye tracking through a selfie camera are not on par.
Because Verizon's report, while a good read, isn't the end-all-be-all of threat intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-rus...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/u-s-treasury-commerce-de...

Software supply chain attacks are rare, but when they happen, they're usually high-impact ordeals.