skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, except for the Play Integrity API (formerly SafetyNet). As soon as you do anything remotely interesting you can't use NFC payments, your bank or even the McDonalds app anymore.

This notably doesn't even achieve it's supposed goal of keep anything secure from anyone - bypasses are found usually days after it's "fixed". That only leaves the conclusion that Google wants to make it painful so as to discourage anyone from stepping out of line. Because that's the only thing it actually achieves, and it does so remarkably well.
Also, every material that goes into them needs to be tracked (with paperwork) since it was mined/smelted.
Is it another, like Mastodon, rise and fall of so called social platform? Why social anyway when there is no socialising? If anything, those platforms makes humans less socialising and communicating in real life.

I might be old fashioned but RSS is future of subscribing content for me.
> If it's easy, then it means you already know this material, and you're wasting your time.

One thing I'm anticipating from LLM-based tutoring is an adaptive test that locates someone's frontier of knowledge, and plots an efficient route toward any capability goal through the required intermediate skills.

Trying to find the places where math starts getting difficult by skimming through textbooks takes too long; especially for those of us who were last in school decades ago.
According to an excellent mentor: all of it minus epsilon.
The article doesn't mention that the security vulnerabilities are inherited from Debian, so Debian users are also affected.

The article is incorrect in implying that users must either upgrade to needrestart 3.8 or adjust configuration to mitigate. If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, the correct thing to is to upgrade to the distribution's already patched version by using the usual "apt update && apt upgrade". This won't take you up to 3.8 but will fix the issue, as is the point of stable distribution releases.

On Ubuntu, this is automatic since unattended-upgrades installs security upgrades nightly by default.
Zx adds a couple nice ease of use things to node.js, designed to help shell scripting. Among other things, if you call /usr/bin/env zx, it will automatically retrieve any module imports you have in your code! https://github.com/google/zx
I am curious to know how you decided to built this...? It must have been HUGE amount of work to built it. Why you want to compete with the free offering of Google?

Also when I login there's no https in that page. Enable that please.

All the best and all the powers to you for competing with Google :)
It was not a bug in windows, it was a bug in SimCity: it would UAF some memory, but the Windows 3.x allocator did not unmap / clear that memory so it worked.

Windows 95 changed that, and so one of the compatibility shims it got is that the allocator had a 3.x adjacent mode, which would be turned on when running SimCity (and probably other similarly misbehaving software as well).

Nowadays this is formalised in the compatibility engine (dating back to windows do), which can enable special modes or compatibility shims for applications (windows admins trying to run legacy or unmaintained applications can manage the application of compatibility modes via the “compatibility administrator”).
there's thinking mathematically and then there's being able to fluently read math articles on wikipedia as if they're easier than ernest hemingway. I can do the former and the latter I will insist until my grave is impossible for me.
> I have done some preliminary tests: with a script (a small program) that standalone runs in 0.4 seconds, the extra network requests that Apple performs are taking that number to 6 seconds in average, and in some cases when my wifi is slow, 70 seconds.

I just do not believe that. It sounds like a bug in a beta release. I'm sure I would have noticed if every ls I run took 6 seconds, and I'm sure many others would have too. Heck, I've used a Mac with the network turned off and it sure doesn't just refuse to run everything.
Google's Chrome Worth Up to $20B If Judge Orders Sale (2)
Solution to the specifically mentioned problem: Don't use string-based errors, use sentinel errors [1].

More generally: Don't produce code where consumers of your API are the least bit inclined to rely on non-technical strings. Instead use first-level language constructs like predefined error values, types or even constants that contain the non-technical string so that API consumers can compare the return value againnst the constant instead of hard-coding the contained string themselves.

Hyrum's Law is definitely a thing, but its effects can be mitigated.

[1]: https://thomas-guettler.de/go/wrapping-and-sentinel-errors
The relevant talk is "Lighting Technology of The Last Of Us" by Michał Iwanicki: http://miciwan.com/SIGGRAPH2013/Lighting%20Technology%20of%2...
It creates an incentive for you to get married, so you are the relevant family instead of your parents.
>The idea in industry that pirated copies represent "lost sales" is wishful thinking.

The idea that _all_ pirated copies represent "lost sales" is wishful thinking.

But the idea that without piracy sales would be greater, sometimes substantially, because some pirated copies do represent "lost sales" is much more realistic though.

The idea that piracy helps audiences find and then buy the stuff they like, is also, for the most part, wishful thinking. Even for stuff one likes, once they have it in pirated form, they have little to no incentive to buy it (except a small niche wanting to "own the physical product" like a collector, which can sometimes be the case for music and games, but not software in general).
It's strange how much some people are assuming this is as a result of a mistake or incompetence instead of simple corruption.

"Whoops I made $600 from something that cost me $10"
>some are not just intact, but in use, right now.

Thanks for giving me something to research at work. What query do you recommend I put into a search engine? "intact aqueducts italy" doesn't seem to help much
When do you want to store your time series data in Redis and not a database like TimescaleDB or Clickhouse which is optimized for storage on disk and analytics queries?
I was just looking at the repo this week. It’s under heavy active development. It’s just intentionally not talked about much at the moment.
I did, yes, lol. I mean the most expensive one on sale at CB2 which is kind of a mid-range home furnishings store. I'm confident I can find a soap dispenser that costs more than $671 for home use, though.

[edit] Here you go, just under $845. I present you the Labrazel Discus Brown Pump Dispenser available at Nieman's. Only $77 per month thanks to the magic of Affirm. Good news is thanks to Black Friday you get a $125 gift card. Still not MIL-SPEC though.

https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/labrazel-discus-brown-pump-di...
They apparently aren't really any different from the sort you see in public restrooms and those are so cheap the supply companies give them to you for free when you buy a case of soap.
"Everyone missed" and "no one is talking about" are just click baits.
In short, quantum mechanics has a major issue at its core: quantum states evolve by purely deterministic, fully time reversible, evolutions of the wave function. But, once a classical apparatus measures a quantum system, the wave function collapses to a single point corresponding to the measurement result. This collapse is non-deterministic, and not time reversible.

It is also completely undefined in the theory: the theory doesn't say anything at all about what interaction constitutes "a quantum interaction", that keeps you in the deterministic time evolution regime; and what interactions constitute "a measurement" and collapse the wave function.

So, this is a major gap in the core of quantum mechanics. Quantum computers are all about keeping the qubits in the deterministic evolution state while running the program, and performing a measurement only at the end to get a classical result out of it (and then repeating that measurement a bunch of times, because this is a statistical computation). So, the hope is that they might shed some light on how to presicsely separate quantum interactions from measurements.
>>>>> I have been tricked into working to contribute training data so that they can profit off my labor.

> Unsarcastically, a lot of people believe user data belongs to users, and that they should have a say in how it's used.

At some point this stops being a fair complaint, though. Most of the AI-related cases IMO are such.

To put it bluntly: expecting to be compensated for anything that can be framed as one's labor is such an extreme level of greed that even Scrooge McDuck would be ashamed of. In fact, trying to capture all value one generates, is at the root of most if not all underhanded or downright immoral business practices in companies both large and small.

The way society works best, is when people stop trying to catch all the value they generate. That surplus is what others can use to contribute to the whole, and then you can use some of their uncaptured value, and so on. That's how symbiotic relationships form; that's how ecosystems work.

> I'm sure I would be in the minority, but I would never have played - or never have done certain things like the research tasks - had I known I was training an AI model.

I have a feeling you wouldn't be in minority here, at least not among people with any kind of view on this.

Still, with AI stuff, anyone's fair share is $0, because that's how much anyone's data is worth on the margin.

It's also deeply ironic that nobody cares when people's data is being used to screw them over directly - such as profiling or targeting ads; but the moment someone figures out how to monetize this data in a way that doesn't screw over the source, suddenly everyone is up in arms, because they aren't getting their "fair share".
Well, if it's being used for "military" purposes, it's sure not safe for someone!
You’re gonna need a bigger boat
Elon Musk's xAI Startup Is Valued at $50B in New Funding Round
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.
> The author of the book has picked out mathematics because that was what he was interested in. The reality is that this rule applies to everything.

My first thought when the article got to the dialog between logic and intuition bit was that the same is true for school level physics.
Likely when it's small enough to keep in RAM and you want to do some sort of on-the fly aggregation/correlation.
I’m kinda flattered my post history was even looked at.

Your position conflate the limited power mode have with tan ideological harm.

The surest tonic for this is to volunteer as a mod. Please try. I got into it because I felt I had to put my money where my mouth. Most mod teams need volunteers, and normal people to share their experiences.

By your criteria police are simply violent. Judges are simply judgemental. Heck everyone with a gun is a violent person.
Haha, I actually did a project on this last month with arduinos. Cool to see an open-sourced project for this
It might even go further than that - I'd say the typical person is more suspicious of free open-source software than the typical "IT professional".
I thought people stopped using Redis and moved on to a fork because of licensing issues. Is this true?
Two thoughts. . .

> California, which is reasonably rural

This kind of remark always makes me think about how such things are defined and about 80-20 rules. Perhaps California is "reasonably rural" in terms of the proportion of its land area that is rural. But population wise it most definitely is not. The [US Census definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...) has classified California as the most urbanized state every decade since 1980. California has an 80-20 thing going on where almost all of the population lives on a tiny portion of the land, and then there is an enormous amount of land that is almost totally empty. This is different from more prototypical east-coast-style "urban" states with not so much rural land, and also different from prototypically rural states that don't have any very large cities.

It's true that plenty of CA roads are in bad condition. But CA is in a situation where it has miles and miles of roads in remote areas that barely anyone drives on, and then it has roads in dense urban areas that see some of the heaviest traffic in the US. It's just hard to compare things in terms of miles of road.

The other thing that comes to my mind whenever I see comparisons of US roads with those in other countries is the signage. It does vary from place to place in the US, and outside the US my only real experience is with Europe, but I'm amazed at how much better and more consistent signage seems to be on highways in the US compared to Europe. In the US you can be driving through totally empty land dotted with tiny villages, and still you will see a sign "Tiny Village 20" then "Tiny Village 10", then "Tiny Village next exit", and then the exit. In Europe sometimes you can be almost in the town before you see the one and only sign saying "Medium-sized Town right here!"

In urban areas, it's fairly rare in the US to encounter intersections without street signs that are pretty well visible from all sides of an intersection, whereas in Europe many signs are flat against walls, making them hard to see except from certain angles.

There's more to driving than just road miles. :-)
Here's my list of submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ben_w

Of those ten:

• 6 had zero comments, 1 had only my own comment

• 1 had 7

• 1 had 17

• 1 had 148

I have no reason to think there's a nationality thing here, stuff just falls off the top fast and most people don't comment or upvote… same as with most comments themselves.
True. That’s really a bridge too far for people who believe a Boeing executive who says tactical soap dispensers really do cost $700.
Which webview does it use?
Flehmen Response
I think this is superstition. Vaccines are a medical intervention that have almost zero downside. There isn’t some mythical cosmic cost-benefit scale that needs to be balanced in every new technology that is deployed.

Vaccines and antibiotics and germ theory are all things that seem “too good to be true” but nevertheless are. Should we be worried that clean fusion power, once commercialized and practical, is going to somehow cause some catastrophic unknown future event just because it yields immeasurable benefit to us?

I think this is just another form of magical thinking.
Still a pretty good example of having to support something which is definitely not part of the official spec.
The inborn part is how quickly you get results (good or bad). Stupidity is the results.

If we spent 50% of time thinking productively - inborn thinking speed would matter. But in my estimate even 5% is generous.

So it matters far more what kind of feedback you have to filter out the wrong results, and how much time you spend thinking - than how quickly you can do it.

Also practice helps with speed.
Hi, do you offer proxies?
> You'll be able to buy ICE vehicles.

Depends on the country. I think 2035 is a realistic date for an ICE ban for personal vehicles, and I'm willing to bet that several countries will have implemented a ban by then. Norway targets 2025. Netherlands is looking at 2030.

Most other countries are saying 2040, but if EVs become cheap and good enough by 2030 it's not unthinkable that some of them will move up the timeline. Keep in mind that by 2035 we will probably feel the consequences of climate change even more severely. Perhaps we will see a year with practically no polar ice cap in summer. And the 2040 goal may anyway make it so it's practically impossible to buy an ICE personal car by 2035 because what auto-maker or dealership will want to focus at all on a rapidly shrinking market that they know will be completely gone in 5 years? A few sports car and recreational vehicles, maybe? But a car you want to daily drive, probably not.

> That same effect will also impact revenue from petrol/diesel sales. That's already starting to happen as well.

Yeah, this is a very good point that I don't think many are considering. In the area in Norway with highest EV share the sale of gasoline started falling 30% every year. I've seen gas stations change all but 1-2 pumps to charging stations recently.

That's why I think the last few years of this transition may see larger fall in sale of ICE vehicles than you'd expect from a gradual transition, as people who would otherwise have bought a new ICE vehicle may try harder to hold on to their old one.. because why buy a brand new car that's going to be extremely inconvenient to fuel in a few years? Even if EV prices go up to due spike in demand caused by this panic, people may still hesitate to buy ICE.

By the tail end of this, people may be reading news from Norway and Netherlands that you can't easily find gas stations anymore.. We've got lots of German tourists coming by car in Norway. That could make Germans think even if they don't have their own ban.

All that said, this all depends on whether we can make enough batteries. That's a huge challenge. There are many multi GWh factories being constructed now. But still.. there could be limitations on say lithium mining. So perhaps we need Sodium-Ion to go mainstream for the really low cost vehicles.
The humor is attained afterwards when one reads the comments who take it seriously, they become the punchline.

That completes the circuit. It's a nice setup.
> Seriously, first Apple's App Store is declared not a monopoly while the Play Store is, despite Android allowing alternative stores while iOS doesn't.

1)Because Apple didn't conspire with (potential) competitors to Google Play - both cellular providers and device manufacturers - bribing them with payments and revenue sharing agreements on condition they not pre-load their own app stores, thus maintaining a monopoly that caused injury to Epic. Motorola is a competitor to Google Play. F-droid and whatever other alternative app stores are out there, are not. https://mashable.com/article/google-epic-antitrust-play-stor...

Nobody, and I mean nobody, considers "you can install non-play-store apps if you go deep into menus, click past scary warnings, and the app developer will not get access to a huge swath of APIs and toolkits" to be "competition" to Google Play.

2)The matter in Epic v. Google was about Epic's app being removed after they added in-app payments - forced to use Google for in-app payments because of the monopoly Google was actively maintaining - not "Google won't let us run an alternative app store."

3)Apple was not a defendant in Epic v Google. That was a separate case. In Epic v Apple, Epic lost on all but one of their claims - Apple was found to have violated California's Unfair Competition Law in barring app developers from "steering" users to purchase content in places other than in-app (and thus through Apple's payment processing and their 30% cut etc.)

Maybe the next time you can't figure out why something is the way it is, your reaction should be "I should try to learn about why this is, see what experts in this incredibly complicated field have to say on the matter, or at least google it and read major tech industry news coverage" instead of forming an incredibly strong opinion rooted in complete and total ignorance of the matter at hand.
Been working in this space for almost 9 years and written a lot of scrappers and web automations for various clients, I am really excited to build something like this too. Are you guys hiring? Would love to chat.
> Those are hard to rectify once internalized, and have a tendency to even overshadow historical research for the general public

The "people told Columbus the earth is flat" is one that is still repeated by people who should know better.
Maybe AI changed this, but..

Google is entirely where they are because the web is a powerful capable rich interesting place, that was able to rise & grow & flourish without the typical platform gatekeepers.

In my view, Google's whole reason for making and continuing to fund Chrome have never ever changed: they want a great (and powerful, not small/retrogressive) open web. Because if the web falters, the proprietary platforms from yesterday can come back & reassert their control. Because if the web falters, information will be someplace where a Google can't index and link you to it.

Google's existence depends entirely upon the web being a good place, a place for good sites, that people want to find & go to. The couple hundred million a year Google pays engineers to make the web good is a very affordable existential hedge, upon which the entire company of rests.

A corollary to this is that attempts to tilt the web towards themselves - to take advantage o Chrome - risk poisoning the web & killing the golden goose. Which is why - imo - Google has taken web standards so seriously, and gone to such lengths to create an air of transparency around browser standards, starting the Intent to Ship process.
We are not really taught (thought) to think, we are taught to memorize. Until one actually tries to think, you really can't tell if they're able to do it.
Show HN: AI Landscape Design Generator
Working on an AI Landscape Design generator to help people come up with ideas for their gardens and landscapes

Just a basic set of features right now, but planning to keep adding more as time goes on
This is a good example of "stringly typed" software. Golang designers did not want exceptions (still have them with panic/recover), but untyped errors are evil. On the other hand, how would one process typed errors without pattern matching? Because "catch" in most languages is a [rudimentary] pattern matching.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
> another mil tied up in some gravel pits

> MHSA regulates him like he's running a pit mine

Sounds like he does? As per your own comment.
Yes, We Have Noticed the Skulls (2017)
You don't get it. The first rule of startups is to put up cool tech-logos around your website. The second rule of startups is to put your logo on the homepages of cool tech.
I think the ML people want to get (a narrow band) of stuff done and ivory towered people want to understand a prove things. ML is applied mathematic. Both are needed.
Thank you for the insight that academic (in a very broad sense) bulk-fixed-time approach does in fact produce both of the cycles, and the gap indeed only widens with time (speaking from personal experience, especially from my life as an undergrad student).

Reminds me of my personal peeve that "studying" should not be "being taught", studying is pursuit of understanding, "being taught" is what happens in primary school (and I'm aware I'm simplifying here).
Well yeah, tactical soap dispensers do cost 8000% more than soap dispensers because they have tactical in the name
People often associate illegal logging with general environmental destruction, loss of specific species (esp. long-lived hardwoods) and exploitation of protected national parks - which is all true.

The reality on the ground is just like any lucrative illegal activity, such as drugs: it is run by violent mafia cartels. The cartels bribe senior national politicians, terrorize/bribe local officials and threaten communities. Rival gangs often have shoot-outs in remote forest areas. Many poor/desperate young men who join the lumberjack crews never come back. The bodies will never be found.