skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This throws away most of what your database can do for you. I personally like to do authorization at the database layer.

The whole point of writing maintainable software is to throw away most of what technologies can do, because you are way better off if you do not make the mistake of following that path.

For example, at a first glance doing auth at the database layer is a huge mistake. You design your systems with a few nodes having exclusive access to the DB to ensure your access is secure without having to waste the overhead of checking credentials in each db access. The main design trait is speed. But you do you.

> There are a tons of other things a DB can do, like trigger a webhook.

There are plenty of reasons and hard learned lessons behind principles such as separation of concerns.
Heavy dependence on coal has led to severe environmental pollution. As winter approaches and cold fronts sweep down from the north, increased heating needs drive up thermal power generation, releasing more pollutants into the air. During periods of stagnant weather with no wind or rain, smog settles over the sprawling plains, triggering both public health concerns and mounting pressure on the government to address the issue and explore alternative energy sources.
This is not the time to try for simple stabs in the dark, we really should make a serious effort to understand one. The west has been trying to get renewable energy working for more than 15 years, that was the strategy that has people talking about German deindustrialisation and having to read up on what the AfD's policies are. They dumped a lot of political capital into the Energiewende.

> ... because investors aren’t ok with an investment that might take a decade to pay off.

Sure. Why not? I'm happy making investments that take decades to pay off, I want to have access to machines when I'm old. What happened to all the investors who intend to live comfortably in their old age?
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> Gwendolyn Christie (of GOT fame) is 6'3" and can bench press you without breaking a sweat.

But she is still weaker than the strongest men. In the game she can put points into strength and be stronger than almost all men, but a person who plays a man and also dumps everything into strength will be even stronger.

So she is still represented in such a system.
What a load of horseshit.

Yeah, if a nation-state thinks you are a bad enough actor, they might use a high power way to get at you. See Pegasus, for instance

But those exploits are rare, expensive and can be blown.

No one has ever said Signal is perfect security.

But it is damn good. Your SMSes aren't sitting in plaintext on your mobile ISPs network. You aren't going to have them intercepted by a fake mobile tower. And if you and your recipients use disappearing messages, good luck to any prosecutor trying to get them off a device.

And as for Apple sending a fake update? Might could happen but 1) Apple fought this once and 2) it'd be hard to do in any widespread way without being detected

Saying Signal protects you from fuck all is not just wrong, it's irresponsible AF.

It's like saying that locks, firewalls, alarm systems, curtains and network monitoring don't work because some people know how to defeat them.

Signal is a great security upgrade for almost anyone. I love seeing more people use it.

Normalizing encryption is great.
I buy uses OnePlus phones off swappa and flash LineageOS with microG right off the bat.
For a tablet I have a Google Pixel Tab, which has official LOS support. Very happy with both
USB-C extensions are not approved for a reason
>Under communism, doesn't everyone get a job?

Under communism, there are no billionaires. China has several hundred billionaires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
Is there any vendor lock-in with this conspiracy? Even if startups are pushed out of the spotlight, what stops them from competing? If the meta model is bad, won't it be even easier to make an alternative in the future?
I think this is the perfect time to do something like this, in the midst of a presidential transition. Regardless of the outgoing and incoming politics, things will be more chaotic. While it won't be unnoticed, it's going to be down the lists of things to deal with probably, and possibly forgotten.
AIChat (https://github.com/sigoden/aichat) nearly fulfills all your requirements.

The only difference is that you provide subcommands, while aichat requires users to create various roles.

t2x 'Write a ...' => aichat 'Write a ...'

t2x ask file.md 'What is...' => aichat -f file.md 'What is...'

t2x summary /path/to/file => aichat -r summary -f /path/to/file

t2x summary "This is a..." => aichat -r summary "This is a..."

t2x orc /path/to/image.png => aichat -r orc -f /path/to/image.png

> Note, In AIChat, `-r/--role` specifies the role to use, `-f/--file` indicates the file or URL input.
Is it actually able to generate all the files and directory structure, etc? Or did the author just take all the responses he got from multi-shot prompting and eventually assemble it into the final product? I believe I used LlamaCoder some time ago to build the scaffolding of an app, but I'm not sure about the state of that project now.
No, the feds require CALEA-backdoors. Absent CALEA, a telecom could say we don't have the data or the capability
A little column a, a little column b.
Yes BYD had the most R&D staff, but that's the problem: There are simply too many brands under BYD's umbrella. Every line-up tries to re-invent the wheel with R&D of their own

- The vanilla BYD (discontinued, mostly ICE cars)

- the E series

- Dynasty series

- Ocean series

- Formula Leopard

- Denza

- Yangwang

- commercial vehicles, batteries, railway transports, OEMs, etc.

And many models are overlapping with each other. Jack of all trades, the best selling one is the Seagull from the Ocean series and it costs about $10k
I’m not saying I’m against 1pass adding the ability to export passkeys from 1Pass, however, doesn’t this increase the possibility of your computer is compromised (say remote control) and now your passkey is exported / moved to a new device and hacker auths in via that new device? (versus with a hardware passkey which cant be exported electronically)
Is it worse than Face Book?
Given the fact that all phones have closed-source baseband firmware and are hooked up to vulnerable networks running ss7, they've got worse things to worry about if they're using a phone anyway.
They happen literally every day where I live.
Swift Backups with root, and then Syncthing that directory of backupw to a home server. When I switch devices I just sync that directory to a new phone, install Swift Backup and do a restore.
It's the modern Titanium Backup
In my opinion, the browser has been much better since 2017/2018. Have you used it in the last few years? Complaints about Firefox aside, the Manifest V3/uBlock Origin issue should be a major concern for tech-savvy Chromium-based browser users.
Just the other week I dug out my old Qmodem floppies, and I installed it on my retro Tandy 1000 TL. I used it with a null modem cable and USB serial to my Mac, where using something simple like picocom let me send files back and forth with Zmodem.

The built-in serial on this machine is too slow to be seriously useful (max sustained speed is 9600), but it was enough to send different network drivers to try without having to play with disk images and plug/unplug USB sticks from my floppy emulator to my Mac.

Qmodem was as familiar and useful as ever.
The S5e is super old and many devices are likely facing battery age issues.

I wish I had known this device was going to see long-term support like it received. I would have bought one at the time.

The only modern tablet officially supported is the Pixel Tablet (tangopro). It's good enough but the screen quality isn't as nice as I would like. It should be supported for many years to come due to it's SoC being common to the Pixel 6-9 phones.
Richard Hamming Lectures on Learning to Learn [video]
much higher profit margins

That is an entirely worthless metric. Pharma and for-profit hospitals benefit from the insurance companies' perverse incentives to keep costs high. Higher cost for care means that the insurance companies can jack up the premiums to maintain their legally allowable margin. A 20% slice of a bigger pie is a larger amount than a 20% slice of a smaller pie after all.

Even better, insurance companies can wag their fingers at the doctors and all of Ayn's acolytes will chime in about how for-profit care is here to save humanity from the evils of doctors. All the while the for-profit insurance companies are laughing to the bank because they're disincentivized from negotiating more reasonable prices. There's a reason Medicare pays conversion factors that are about a third to a half of what for-profit insurance companies are willing to pay.

Even better, insurance companies have a captive audience. While the federal mandate to redirect your money to for-profit insurance was struck down, five states (and DC) have their own individual mandates.
Any thoughts on the vw id van?

I was looking at one before we moved somewhere we don’t need a car
The US could announce that all Treasury securities held by China will not be redeemed and are now worthless.
Yes, I think that the needs of the other few thousand others who live here are more important than the needs of a few destructive people.
Unreasonably large spreadsheets are surprisingly common. Excel 2007's row limit was 65536, and nowadays it's over a million. Spreadsheets actually get that big, too.
> "Sort these files"

There's aichat, which you can use in REPL mode to do exactly that: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

Shameless plug: I mostly use my own work: https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin

But it requires you to pipe: `ls | codespin go sort`. Maybe I should add what you're suggesting.
The example assumes two branches with a single commit being merged to the repo HEAD, so "testing the branch" and "testing the commit" are equivalent / testing the whole branch does not save you.

(But if you only test the last commit — and some implementations of "did path change?" in CI systems do this — then it is more incorrect.)
"Apart from this, with capitalist production an altogether new force comes into play — the credit system, which in its first stages furtively creeps in as the humble assistant of accumulation, drawing into the hands of individual or associated capitalists, by invisible threads, the money resources which lie scattered, over the surface of society, in larger or smaller amounts; but it soon becomes a new and terrible weapon in the battle of competition and is finally transformed into an enormous social mechanism for the centralisation of capitals."

- karl marx, capital volume 1, chapter 25

you should read capital my guy
becuase google is frienemy
The best monospace font for me for coding and terminals is Atari ST 8x16 System Font.

But Iosevka Term works for me the best of all the non-pixel fonts out there.
Agreed, and some kind of appeals process/ external arbitrator, if your account is terminated due to terms of service or automation.
Buy BYD, lay off 10 Americans. It’s all rock and a hard place nonsense.
It's a "distribution" of software. People taking care to make a number of programs works together well enough on top of the kernel in order for you to use your hardware. But the build scripts for one works well enough if you're trying to use a less common distro (I shamelessly copied from Debian and Arch for a few software on Alpine).
I drove my first BYD car last week, a hybrid Seal. I was pleasantly surprised by the confort and power, it kept up with the Audis on das autobahn. Only downside was the suspension, not european enough i would say.

However, software wise... They obviously are too cheap to pay a native to translate the UI. some translation end with _1.
The worst offenser was the copilot button, where you never know if it is on or not. It makes crazy moves and seem to move the steering wheel even while off (lane assist is off)
Also the Adaptative Cruise Control is not the best calibrated, but it works well
I was a hardcore Firefox user for many years. Today, Chrome just blows it away. Platforms are Android and Gnome Desktop.

I tried Firefox again about once a year, up until about 2022, and left disappointed again each time. Rust was important. Servo too. I'm not just hopping on the 'Mozilla blows money' train for no reason, I'm sad to see the browser languish while they blow money on things that don't matter. This doesn't matter.

I use Brave now, which has a whole host of haters, some for good reason. But it blocks ads and runs circles around Firefox on every platform that I use.
> To stop the problem you mentioned you can either tick the box in Github that says only up to date branches can merge

No, that checkbox doesn't save you. The example above still fails: the second branch, B, after rebase, still only touches files in b/*, and thus still fails to notice the failure in A. The branch CI run would be green, and the merge would be green, both false positives.
This is a difficult topic with too many tentacles to explore here in great detail.

I think Chinese EV's are Trojan Horses.

Why?

Well, without protectionist policies they could implode auto manufacturers everywhere. It would be a game-over extinction event.

In addition to this, they would also implode even more layers of industry and the supply chain outside of China. Again, game over.

The other effect has to do with energy. Nobody has enough energy to support a full transition to EV's. That has been the case for a very long time and it is even worse now when AI data centers are at the top of the list for energy.

Which means that the world will have to build new power generation capacity at a staggering rate in order to support EV's and AI.

Where will all the components and systems come from to build this generation capacity? China.

They manufacture everything and can do it (and are willing to do it) for less than anyone else. Their internal supply chains have been optimized over decades to create competitive advantages that do not exist anywhere in the world. From blenders and microwave ovens to solar panels, every component that goes into making inverters, storage, mechanical, etc.

Also, think of everything required to support massive EV deployment: Charging stations, transformers, power lines and myriad other components and systems. All made in China.

Finally, the renewables power generation infrastructure requires maintenance at roughly modulo 25 years. And, once again, all of that material will come from China.

If one were to be strategic and have the advantage of time and patience, making cheap EV's that can be sold by tens of millions of units per year into every possible corner of the world becomes a genius Trojan Horse strategy with massive long-term payoff.

And then, if we were to add a little conspiracy-theory flavor in there...Imagine a scenario where they carefully backdoor control into everything. They would be able to remotely shutdown any town, city, state, province or country. Did I go too far on that one? Well, human history proves we are capable of doing horrible things to each other, you know, like walking people into gas chambers and carpet bombing. We are one good power outage away from being cavemen. I wouldn't put anything past the realities of the human condition.

And then add cheap mass-produced humanoids to that equation.

Well played I say. The next few decades will be in a range between interesting and horrific.
Fira Mono.

I saw that some of the fonts had a ligature for === making it a long congruence sign instead of three equals signs, and I avoided those like the plague.
I prefer lucky goldstar
Not sure what the policies are on banning sites, but can this website please be banned?

I'm on mobile, this website has deceptive hitboxes so "dismiss" on the notifications prompt will almost hit the advert on the bottom. Once I finally managed to read the article and hit the bottom of the page, it had a popup which hijacked navigation so I couldn't easily return to HN.

Will record this behavior if asked.

That said... There's not much to say about this? Is it using "meta" lenses printed on silicon? Wish the article would have had any information whatsoever. I suppose we'll learn more at CES. :P
This is why we need device to device encryption on top of all the security that a telco has. There is no excuse for any connection I make being unencrypted at any point except the receiver.
Changed. Thanks!

(Submitted URL was https://lwn.net/Articles/1003797/)
Modern browsers are not an issue here, e.g. chromium allows 2MB; the issue is with web server's limits.
You are making zero sense. The point is the ids are random, so yes there are 74 quintillion possibilities. And roughly 74 quintillion 404’s. You need to check all of them. If you want to keep up with them you need to check them often. No one has the cash to check 74 quintillion anything even with a million 386s. Even the 386sx.
> OP is wrong, SQLite does match the requirements outlined in the OSI's definition: https://opensource.org/osd

OSI also says Public Domain is not open source: Public Domain Is Not Open Source https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
If you're interested in this, you might like https://nuggetize.com/ which works without installing anything and with any browser.
> What happened to all the investors who intend to live comfortably in their old age?

They got bought out by investors with shorter-term ambitions, because our economy is set up to reward short-termism, so those people end up with more capital (= market power), and this compounds over time.
I saw GDPR related blockage like literally twice in a few years and I connect from EU IP almost all the time

Overload of captcha is not about GDPR...

but the issue is strange. @benhurmarcel I would check if there is somebody or some company nearby abusing stuff and you got under the hammer. Maybe unscrupulous VPN company. Using a good VPN can in fact make things better (but will cost money) or if you have a place to put your own all the better. otherwise check if you can change your IP with provider or change providers or move I guess...

not to excuse CF racket but as this thread shows the data hungry artificial stupidity leaves no choice to some sites
That is not clear or generic. Source code available isn't that useful and isn't Open Source.
For anyone familiar with guns (as most Americans in the audience would be, anyway), it also illustrated how unhinged, dangerous, and reckless the gunman was.

You’re really going to point a loaded gun at yourself, including looking down the barrel (and potentially shoot your self in the face), to appreciate the fly you just caught? The fly you still haven’t killed? Which can now escape while you appreciate it?

And which, it turns out, ends up escaping when the gunman gets distracted. And which you could have killed at any point along the way in about 10 easier ways if you didn’t want to try to be fancy?

Well, it turns out that does indeed fit their character haha. And is good foreshadowing for most of the ‘bad guys’ in the movie, and to some extent the ending.

A really amazing classic, if you’re not stuck in ‘TikTok attention span’ mode anyway.

Also, a really funny parody of the spaghetti western (which includes some of the same folks - ‘Support your local sheriff’).
I miss the BBS days and the good folk like John that were part of that community.

Sorry for your loss Aaron.
Friendly reminder to fans of the genre that you can visit the film set of the cemetery in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly near Burgos, Spain. It's free and I the middle of nowhere. I went this summer and it was an amazing experience. Search for Sad Hill Cemetery.
I think this might be the “it” moment for AI/LLMs. I was hiking with a friend recently and we talked about this at length.

The arc-AGI results from O3 are apparently a result of chain of thought given enough time to explore a solution space. Reasoning might be simply a higher dimensional form of rubix cube solving. BFS, search, back-tracking, etc. It seems unlikely that humans think in “tokens” so why do LLMs?

By staying in latent space, the models are free to describe an “idea” in higher resolution than what language allows. English is coarse, granular. Latent space is a much finer representation of ideas and their interplay.

Latent space is also much cheaper to execute in. The model can think without the language encoding/decoding step. This lets it branch out hundreds of ideas and explore only the most useful ones in a fraction of time that reasoning “out-loud” would take.

The states also don’t need to be tied to language. Feed in a robot’s state, time series data, or any abstract data. Reason in category theory or linear algebra or complex analysis. Humans are hard wired for one set of math - an abstract latent space can represent anything.

I’m a bit disappointed OpenAI didn’t stumble on this first. I’ve been skeptical of LLMs since their big debut last year. LLMs seem like a great way of solving language, but reasoning is much more complex. Once you grok the math behind the current models, you immediately question why the encoding/decoding step is there. Diffusion models are incredible but it felt that LLMs lacked the same creativity. Encoding/decoding forces a token-based discretization and therefore a loss of complexity.

With the byte-latent paper it was quite clear we’d see this paper. This truly might be the “it” moment.
> If by "current state of things" you mean the Palestinians having no state, I don't think anything justifies that.

So we're all on the same page then. I never said Israel shouldn't exist, and your whole history lesson before (as much as you're leaving out) doesn't really matter. The ethnostate nature of Israel now is what matters, and that it requires Palestinian statelessness is key. At least this is the approach of the current Israeli government.

> multiple attempts have been made at a peace process that gets the Palestinians a sate, which the Palestinians have refused each time

Leaving out that the PA renounced violence against Israel as part of the Oslo Peace Process, which only led to more land theft, that Israelis so badly did not want Palestine to have a state that they murdered Rabin to stop it, that multiple Israeli PMs constantly sabotaged the process to Palestinian statehood thru the PA (most notably Netanyahu preferring to allow Hamas to threaten their rule and ultimately expel them from Gaza). Let's be honest about failures on both sides, not prop up one story or the other solely.

> By most surveys or interviews I've seen, most Palestinians do not want

Doesn't really matter what people want though. Like I replied to you earlier: "You're talking about what Palestinians inherently "want", but that's not really related to peace. Peace exists when nations can deter each other"

Unfortunately, giving Palestine the one thing that can actually enable peace (deterrence) is also a huge risk for Israel. One day Israelis will have to decide if that risk is worth it to have a nation not constantly at war, not constantly on edge, not constantly bowing to the "strong" far-right, and not constantly sending its children to do all the things they are doing in Gaza, some necessary in war, and some absolutely beyond normalization. Palestinians could change entirely tomorrow and it won't make any difference, the way the power lies right now. That is largely borne out by seeing what happened to the PLO/PA after they changed themselves substantially to aid the peace process.
The average IQ of Indian Americans is 112. That being the average I can see a large percentage being 130+.

https://www.forbes.com/2009/02/24/bobby-jindal-indian-americ...