skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OED added this use of "ask" (as in a big/huge ask) in 2005 and said it's originally Australian.

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/111601
Amazing indeed!
> That said, no proper leftist of any stripe would call Ireland a colonizer nation.

It's a rich nation with a welfare state and universal healthcare.

This is an issue for anyone whose philosophy says that all rich countries got that way by stealing their wealth from the third world.
> How did Telegram achieve perpetuating this lie?

Marketing. Specifically, very aggressive marketing that used a combination of "you can't trust them, we're the only ones keeping you safe" messaging re: WhatsApp and exaggerating+exploiting complaints about Signal and Moxie Marlinspike, to get support from earnest-but-uninformed tech types who went on to evangelize it to others, thinking they were doing a good thing for the world (like the early days of Firefox). It was a very cynical campaign and depressing how well it worked, even after their hand-rolled crypto was broken like a day after the initial fanfare-filled release.
Painless widget development using Web Components
"If you're defending the right for women to leave the household and work in co-ed spaces, you are defending the opportunity to rape."

This is what you sound like to me.
Sorry, I didn't mean to nitpick. I totally agree with you about the frustration, but I also wanted to highlight how authoritarian governments aren't simply the outcome of general social stupidity or a lack of education. IMO that's somewhat of an elitist or champagne-socialist scapegoat and simplification. A notable point would also be that the USSR had an authoritarian government while also maintaining a near 100% literacy rate and an exceptional regard for education.

Apologies if I misrepresented your statement.
Plate voltages can exceed the skin breakdown voltage of ~450V, which potentially makes them more dangerous than a domestic mains supply.
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Show HN: I gave AI a credit card
Hi HN, was thinking about the Agent economy over thanksgiving, and decided to hack together a prototype of what that could look like.

The key problem arises when giving LLMs your credit card information, essentially PII that could be leaked, used as training data, or manipulated. The next layer up comes from the Agent orchestration (CrewAI, etc) that needs to be secure itself, but this agent will likely be running on some server opposed to locally. Finally, to hold customer credit card information, the developer will have to be PCI compliant. If they use Stripe, they have to fund the account and manage the transactions, fraud, compliance & account funding.

In this demo, what I did was use CrewAI to ask to find me an 8.5x11" notebook with a hard cover & elastic strap, multiple agents separated did research, decision making and finally for purchase I used Browserbase to have an agent autonomously make decisions about the checkout.

During the checkout process it took the DOM, extracted the key data & sent me a confirmation email, which I used as the callback for the virtual credit card creation process. The credit limit is equal to the total purchase amount and only has a lifetime of one hour.

Would love to hear your thoughts on what the future of the AI economy looks like!
For public health decisions I agree, but I'm not making those decisions.

For private health decisions (should my family go to a splash pad or not) the average rate, or chance of infection from one visit relative to other activities, would be more relevant.

Still gross though!
Daily Reading with Bash
No, but hosting CSAM and not moderating it does make you liable of certain crimes in many jurisdictions!
An alternative you can try is txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).

RAG section: https://github.com/neuml/txtai?tab=readme-ov-file#retrieval-...

Disclaimer: I'm the primary developer
It's very cool, but we've gotten too many of these big bold announcements with no payoff. All it takes is a very limited demo and we'd be much happier.
Edwin Bentley may be behind the pit of 4k bones discovered in Fort Mason
Yeah, it's nearing time to replace my smartphone and I absolutely don't want to replace it with another smartphone. I'm struggling to find a real dumbphone, though. The ones that I've found that purport to be one (including the Nokia 2720) aren't dumbphones, they're minimalistic smartphones.

I fear that there is no non-smartphone option on the market anymore.
That squirrels death was just like the death of the gorilla in the Cincinnati zoo or of that lion on that it merged multiple realities together and profoundly changed our history. Harris won the election in the reality where that squirrel is still alive.
Sorry to hear it's not working for you . Please feel free to file an issue on the repo with any relevant details! While I only work on Glojure sporadically at the moment, I really value feedback like this, and I'll prioritize investigating critical issues like it.
Anyone know what is the sexy font used in this picture? https://i0.wp.com/spillhistorie.no/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...
The Great Fertility Shift
Actually we have empirical disproofs of this called "nearly every major social media network in existence."
We may have a philosophical disagreement since I think fintechs definitely are banks, or at least pretend to be banks. What you call a “bank” is what (for example) my credit union or my local town’s small bank calls their “banker’s bank”. They do indeed store their funds, generally speaking, at their banker’s bank; I know for a fact one of them primarily uses Chase.

Their banking software keeps reliable ledgers of balances and posts changes nightly to their banker’s bank.

They prepare for data loss with off site backups. This stuff has been done in banking since at least the 1970s.

Anything being out of balance is a major emergency. If it’s a software problem, they would immediately demand action from the software vendor, who will drop whatever else they are doing by and fix the problem.

The “journey of being not a bank” is puzzling since someone who doesn’t want to be a bank really isn’t someone who should be holding client funds.
The AI Iceberg
Human art most definitely can be reduced to tokens, since that's also essentially how we compress and transmit it.

Now, whether a statistical token generator makes "real art" is subjective (as human art already is). And again, I'm actually quite sympathetic to the "humans are special" perspective.

But the point of my comment is that this philosophical stance is not a practical reply to what will actually happen in terms of social dynamics and content creation/consumption. Whether we call it "real art" or not, generative tools exist and will be used. So, it makes sense to understand them, even if your goal for doing so is to mitigate their incursions into "real art."

In other words, art must adapt. Which, it always does.
Fresh releases of XFCE, Mint, Cinnamon desktops out in time for the holidays
All of my work has been with Elixir so far thankfully. I've also had to hire people for Elixir work, good dudes!
There's an ongoing "all the big liberal cities are scary" vibe in much media that's been internalized by a large proportion of the population.

I know multiple people (and have myself experienced this) who've been greeted with warnings and concern from relatives when traveling to major cities... when those cities have violent crime rates far lower than the places they/we live. Like, a fifth as much or lower. It's still "common knowledge" that e.g. Manhattan is way more dangerous than a "safe" red state suburban/exurban county (LOL, very not necessarily true) and that the largest cities must be way more dangerous than small and mid-sized cities (also very not necessarily true).
> In his email, Brain wrote that the school's head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering later informed him the department would stop recommending students for Brain's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. According to Brain's account, this led to disciplinary action against Brain for "unacceptable behavior."

This is a cowardly move by Srinath Ekkad.

The the article from the student paper is worth a read and includes information carefully removed in the Ars version, https://www.technicianonline.com/news/popular-nc-state-profe...

Please don't kill yourself when you have accidentally kicked a hornets nest of petty people in a bureaucracy.
As we know, there’s no such thing as an expert, everyone is equally ignorant or knowledgeable about everything, and there’s no reason to trust anyone’s opinion over anyone else’s opinion, especially if they disagree with your preconceptions or their opinion is inconvenient to you. They “did their research” themselves with Wireshark.
> It's just a principal someone can hold, doesn't have to have anything to do with peer pressure

Other cultures: All about signaling

Mine: All about real principles
I definitely do care for it, it's very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I am not sure if I understand exactly how you got it to pump that out, as your blog is a bit hard to locate oneself in and read around in. Like, it's fun and trippy but a tad disorienting. I went off and had a nice re-read about tiddlywiki though - I had learned of it at one stage and thought it looked very interesting, and your blog certainly is tantalising!
> If that makes me an anti-vaxxer, so be it. Don't really care.

I'm pretty sure setting a personal bar/risk tradeoff that lets you take a significant number of vaccines doesn't make you an anti-vaxxer.
That in no way contradicts my point.
Should be possible for saskatchewan to do the same then. No reason BC can't either since they've got the rockies, and an ocean.
We can also show that sparse NNs under some conditions are ensembles of discrete subnets, and the authors of the original dropout paper argue that [dropout] effectively creates something akin to a forest of subnets all in "superposition".
A few that come to mind:

React Laag

Apollo client+server

Vanilla Extract

Visx

Downshift

React Router
500 pounds of e-waste per second mostly do to software mechanisms that prevent the use of hardware. This is a bad situation for all of us.
A lot of wisdom here. And yet I often find something helpful in other people's comments, and I would like to think that occasionally my comments are helpful to others.
Cancer is no longer a definite death sentence and chemotherapy can make it go away for good, depending on what kind of cancer that is. I'd refuse too chemo after chemo in a very aggressive form of cancer though.
American roads and streets are crazy wide, due to standards set in the 1950s. This created more sprawl. OTOH it also provides a lot of room for adding bike lanes. E-bikes can then replace most local driving.
What are you talking about?

Most social media networks base their entire business model on selling your data. On practically none of them does privacy exist. And most of them would close up shop or sell out overnight if banned by a government.
Just played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup last night. The spirit is alive and well.
> Our politics has become all about hurting other people, instead of trying to create something positive. We used to go to the polls and say, here’s what I’m voting for. Now we go to the polls to vote against something and we hope it makes others really mad.

This feels like a really uncharitable interpretation on what is going on.

To me it feels more like you have two sides, the two sides have viewpoints that feel very alien to the other side, so extreme that they feel like attacks but actually it's just a clash of worldview.
On a lot of stuff, the US and EU advice are radically different. EU doctors would jail American doctors for the way we circumcise children with no requirement for it.
I have a little theory I like to tell at pubs that all of the intelligence comminities exist just because it attracts people who can't stand being bored. Advancing national security could be a thrilling entertainment.
Wow, 8 MiB, that's impressively small IMO. I expected a program that embeds V8 (let alone also having windowing and Skia) to have a binary size much bigger. something closer to Node's or Deno's binary size 40MiB+.

Using the Window.js approach of embedding V8, instead of using a windowing library + a Skia Canvas library in Node.js ─really makes sense if you would like to keep the binary size minimally small and only pay for the libraries/modules you actually pull in and use, instead of having them statically linked in the binary by default. For example, an offline app/game that doesn't use the network doesn't need to have a "net" or "http" module in the binary. These may be bad examples though, I don't know how much do those Node runtime modules constitute out of the final Node binary, it may be an insignificant fraction.
And a more recent discussion, specifically with game developers :

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/piracy-preservation-and-the...
> Now, imagine the uproar that might ensue from some corners today if a textbook made this sort of direct comparison between two groups, with one group happening to be white and the other black. Some social justice warriors would no doubt raise an outcry. The book would be branded as Eurocentric, racist, and white supremacist, since it doesn’t give equal space to describing the intellectual achievements of the Zulu or to recognizing the validity of indigenous ways of knowing. The picture of the African witch doctor might be described as a “culturally insensitive caricature”. The book would also be criticized for not describing ways in which Zulu society is more healthy than contemporary American society.

This textbook is from 1929 and was probably being written at the exact same time as the Snopes monkey trial (1925). You're reading science hype because science was under attack; and not from "social justice warriors" but from conservative Americans. Notice that the single most transformative discovery in all of biology, evolution, isn't mentioned.

That attack on evolution is still taking place. In Texas there was an attempt to strike all references to evolution and climate change from the curriculum, along with other attempts to introduce biblical references. When did that take place? That was this year; oh, and in 2023:
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/texas-education-board-...

Getting mad at "social justice warriors" for an imagined reaction while ignoring the actual attacks on science is... well, it's what I've come to expect.
I know libsoftikok and TERFs are lightning rods, but it is untrue that bluesky leaves moderation to the individual. Accounts posting squarely legal content are removed by the site administrators because the community demands that they not have to deal with 'nazis and bigots'

I like the architecture of bluesky a lot but it doesn't fulfill its promise until third-parties go through the trouble of hosting relays and appviews so that people whose opinion the first party admins finds objectionable could still communicate.
Seconding the recommendation of The Unaccountability Machine; if anyone wants a taster of the book, patio11 did a great episode of his Complex Systems podcast where he interviews the author about it: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/dan-davies-or...
> Jesus remained that way until the late Middle Ages, which is where the first accounts of the self-sacrifice begin to enter our history.

In scandinavia you mean? Even still I find that surprising. Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, and John Chrysostom for example wrote on this subject in the fourth century and were all incredibly well known among early christians and through the middle ages.

Some very early detractors of christianity latched onto the weakness and submissiveness of Jesus as being incompatible with their contemporary ideal of manly virtue. Influential early christians like the ones I mentioned accepted that assessment and used it to form the theological foundations of self-sacrifice that have always been present in christianity.

Certainly the warrior-figure conception has always been there as well, it has never been purely one or the other. And it's definitely true that that element has had more emphasis in certain times and places. But, not knowing anything about them, I find it very unlikely that scandinavian christians would have been ignorant of this entire, extremely significant, branch of christian thought.
The majority has all the power and the current system is what the majority wants. Being a frustrated minority does not excuse violence.
There's a manifest difference between people who are naturally humble+curious, and people who are idealistically seeking an "egoless" environment. The latter is what I am referring to.

Now that you mention it, there are parallels with the "tolerance" ideologues. There are people who are naturally patient and empathetic, and then there are people who opportunistically pursue the in-vogue virtue of "tolerance", and end up practicing de facto intolerance in the process. Don't conflate the two.
The true story behind the 'bison skull mountain' photo
Or many more at https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Main_Page and https://forums.roguetemple.com, though Brogue is one of the best.
Of all the crafts involved in making a movie, audio is one of my favorites (even though as someone from camera department I'd never admit that on set). One of the post houses I worked in had a foley studio, and it has always been one of those things I would love to do. It just looks like so much fun. It's as close to child-like playing as an adult can get. What would it sound like if we did....cool. What would it sound like if we....meh, but we can blend that will that other thing...cool.
I don't know! I'm very interested by boards like that but not by receiving email updates: I prefer to check them myself when I look for a job, and the more people get my email the more chances I receive scam (not saying your updates are scam, but that my email on another server is another vulnerability.

Wish you success !
Often to establish that the authors were first in the space for when competitors announce their tech.
> Separating them into different calls will introduce some additional complexity, but in the long run it will make your applications much more scalable and maintainable.

I agree with the scalability benefits, but not sure about maintainability. In fact introducing additional complexity usually leads to higher maintenance costs.
Growing up in AB, I really didn't conceptually understand what rats are like in other places. I can't think of another animal with that same ubiquitousness.

Having no exposure as a kid means I find them terribly terribly gross when I see them in other places - in a park in Mexico City a couple months ago I audibly jumped when I saw them rooting around in gardens. Probably something to be said about exposure therapy
Will the GPU go the way of the soundcard, and we will all purchase an "LPU"? Language Processing Unit for AIs to run fast?

I remember there was a brief window where some gamers bought a Physx card for high fidelity physics in games. Ultimately they rolled that tech in to the CPUs themselves right?
Yocto Hardening: Measured Boot
This makes sense. Do we need to begin exploring different socket configurations? IE, using something that more closely resembles a CPU socket versus a traditional RAM slot.
I don't think quoting RFK is a good example of showcasing a rational view of vaccines.
Except your original volley of comments was channeling the efficient market fallacy, whereby anything that's suboptimal must imply an opportunity for profit. And this comment is still focusing on economic inefficiency coming from external non-economic factors, when my point is that the market itself will sustain such inefficiencies on its own.

> Allow people to build the cities they actually want, so long as they don't hurt or endanger anyone else.

Keep following this thought experiment. There is plenty of vacant unincorporated land that a group of people could get together and build whatever city they might want. That scale of investment could even get some legal leeway from state government. The type of blank-slate freedom that you're idyllically invoking ("build the cities they actually want") actually exists right now.

The intrinsic problem is still that of social scaling. Cities need people, and those people will inevitably have conflicts (and these conflicts become more intense with residents' capital buy in - cf a building full of owned condominiums versus rented apartments). Cue you've just reinvented laws but are perhaps calling them by another name (eg "policies" "user agreement" etc).

And so sorry, there is no blanket "striking the root" answer here, just a lot of messy tradeoffs. If you think eliminating some type of regulation (eg minimum lot sizes, height restrictions, etc) might change consumer preferences to make neighborhood grocery stores viable again, you can argue for that! But recognize that you're arguing tradeoffs (eg denser buildings now mean more traffic, taller buildings mean the fire department needs higher ladders, existing properties lose access to sunlight, etc) rather than some imaginary null hypothesis of a blank slate where everything will be correct by construction.
Social Rules
Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo
I could never talk to my colleagues with the same abandon that I do with my friends. They’re always slightly at arms length to maintain decorum.
D.S. Wilson did a lot of work in that area.
I believe, as the parent comment alluded to, the rat patrol has established a substantial beachhead into SK. The front lines are now outside the province and pushing east.

I've wondered about BC though - outside the density of the lower mainland anyways.
Physical continuity, in the sense that there is no break so significant that at any point one could say, "Before this, smeej0, and after this, smeej1." Unlike the ship of the famous thought experiment, there is and can be no reconstructing of the replaced parts such that smeej0 could ever be reconstituted, so the analogy breaks down in any attempt to apply it to humans.

Change is ssential to human nature. A human exists--and the same human exists--fron fertilization to death. Fertilization is a change before which we can say "not smeej" and after which, "smeej." And death is also a change before which we can say "smeej" and after which, "not smeej." There will be vastly, vastly more cells at death than there were at fertilization (assuming smeej made it out of the womb and to an observable state), and the original fertilized cell will no longer exist, but there is no other point along the existence of smeej in which a change happens of such significance as to alter whether or not the same thing is present.
Out of curiosity: would ./30cc_gcc (30cc complied by gcc-hosted 30cc) and ./30cc (30cc complied by self-hosted 30cc) be identical binary files, if 30cc was operating as expected?
> The continuous HDMI input makes it look like the TV is never idle (so it can't show ads)

Why have the TV connected to internet if you've got a third-party device?

I've got a Sony Android TV that I plug into internet for firmware updates, then unplug and wipe the storage for the "Google TV" app to get rid of the ads it downloaded while having internet access.

(Sony does theoretically support firmware updates via USB, but I couldn't get them to work when I tried.)
This is impressive, but why are they all looking still like a video game? Could they have this render movie scenes with realistic looking humans? I wonder if it is due to the training set they use being mostly video games?
I'm guessing it would be far too expensive to make a free demo
Is there a more convenient way now? Not being sarcastic, but it's still pretty damn convenient.