skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks! I hadn't seen Celestia until another commenter mentioned it. Cool project, definitely some UX cues to take from it like the progressive hiding of labels and ellipses as you zoom out.
Cygwin has been using the W variant of most things. [0]

Unfortunately, they're using it on "__argv", not "__wargv".

Which means they are probably vulnerable to this.

[0] https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/ker...
It was the project page for this design:

https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dkw/papers/ieee-hst-2013-paper....

The usable part of the work was a metadata co-processor that could enforce micro-policies:

http://nikos.vasilak.is/p/pump:hasp:2014.pdf

It was spun off as Dover’s CoreGuard which I don’t know much about:

https://www.dovermicrosystems.com/solutions/coreguard/

The original design did for your CPU what Jesus Christ does for your soul. Keeps it from burning up due to user failures or external attacks. The product can’t guarantee eternal life but others are researching that.

Back to the devices, there’s at least two families of coprocessors: typed, tagged designs like Burroughs B5000 and capability security like CHERI. SAFE was more like Burroughs or even System/38’s object-centered approach. If patents are a concern, one could always just redo B5000 model itself since it’s more secure than any mainstream architecture.
The guidance you're saying isn't there does exist, but you're only exposed to it when you screw up.
> Reasonable people are objecting to copyright law violation, for the simple reason that it disincentivizes further knowledge creation.

Do you honestly believe that our current copyright framework is mainly aligned at maximizing incentives for knowledge creation?

This sounds absurd to me. From my point of view, the copyright framework has been shaped (by continous lobbying efforts) into a system to maximize extraction of profits from existing IPs.

That is very different from incentivizing "knowledge creation", because the lions share of income is spent on overhead or distributed to shareholders, with the "knowledge creator" (i.e. author), getting <20% of each sale. Furthermore, the mechanisms to balance income are ALSO abysmal (to maximize knowledge creation incentives, it would be necessary to "overspend" significantly on "young" writers, enabling them to feed themselves at the start of their careers).

> weaponizing copyright law violation on behalf of the vilest dictatorship on the planet.

How is Annas archive weaponizing copyright violation? How is it furthering Putins interests?
>how does Stack Overflow keeping all the posts but removing the name protect you in any way?

Well that's just a violation of the license they attribute posts to

>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

That's not even a moral argument. They just broke the contract they signed up to.
Work wherever you like and respect the people more.
BlinkenCity: From Art Project to Europe-Wide Blackout Scenario
Hello fellow builder. I think the BI space is definitely ripe for change and I do wish more products had better dashboards for users!

That being said, embedded analytics is a tough space, because established BI tools (PowerBI, etc.) can be used and are preferred by data teams, or software engineers just fiddle directly with things like plotly or highcharts.

Similarly by now "AI Analytics" is getting crowded: https://github.com/Snowboard-Software/awesome-ai-analytics

Looking forward to watching your journey and ideas!

FYI, we're building https://getdot.ai
90% of content on HN is repetitive. "Unit tests suck", "managers forcing return to the office are assholes", "Fauci lied about Covid", ...

I've never seen a single of these things being called out.

This is an article about a proof Stephen Wolfram claims to have discovered. Somebody further upthread already mentioned that this may not actually be true, or that the credit at least should be shared.
Same for KPN:

http://195.121.82.125/

Would Tweak have blocked this? Most households in the Netherlands currently have the choice of Ziggo, KPN, and Odido. Long live VPNs…
Sorry, I have to ask...

Does it support also braces? :)

IIUC the source is writen as a long heresting and then executed.

Does it have the same speed than normal Python?

Does it suppont numpy, numba and other similar packages that use jit?

Can a function inside the modified code call a function outside? (It may be helpful for porting conde one function at a time.)

Is it possible to do something similar with a decorator instead of a herestring?
IMO randomness removes accountability. Imagine needing a class to graduate and the gods of the PRNG don't allow you to register in time.

Better to have at least one aspect within your control (e.g. completed credits or GPA). I'd much rather have to go to school for another semester because I'm lazy and drank too much than just getting cursed by bad luck.
fair enough!
Perhaps I arrived at this mental model due to an incorrect understanding of this result:

https://www.emc2-explained.info/The-Light-Clock/
For what it’s worth, the touch surface can be disabled so that the latest remote only accepts physical presses. I discovered this after losing my mind for a month or so, and it’s made a huge difference.
It's also the official name in several non-English countries, including variants like the French "soleil"

https://idiot.vitebsk.net/i43/sun_english.htm
As someone who nearly died a little over two years ago from cancer... It's irresponsible.

Point to the experts, but don't cause further pain through at best, false hope, and at worst, a murderous experience for your last few days.

Lots of people want to help. That leads to questions like this. You're desperate to help someone who is suffering. But you will absolutely make that suffering worse if you act through ignorance.
EF's dataset is students who take EF tests (eg. TOEFL). What this degradation means is that TOEFL scores are much lower.

This makes sense because there's less of a need to travel abroad for studies, and it has also become much more difficult for Chinese nationals to study abroad over the past 4 years (eg. Zero COVID from 2020-2023, Visa restrictions in the US).

Edit: The TOEFL's methodology has also changed to actually test for speaking and writing fluency. Before, the TOEFL would overindex reading skills, but not speaking and writing.
> The number you are looking for is e^(sqrt(163) pi) […] It is not an integer of course.

Of course? I’m not aware that we have some theorem other than “we computed it to lots of decimals, and it isn’t an integer” from which that follows.
One of the best things you can do to your API key is to give it a fixed prefix. Makes it very easy to tell that you have the right string, to detect accidental secret leakage, etc...

IMHO this makes key much more beautiful than any internal structure.
Even if you believe that women sharing notes with each other is "petty and toxic", just think of it as an incentive for men to behave themselves appropriately.

There wouldn't be any need for or interest in such groups if there wasn't such a problem overall. Keep in mind that this is the sex responsible for over 95% of violence, sexual assault and rape. Is it any wonder women are being cautious while seeking out a partner?
Maybe people are just very fickle these days, but last I checked: "someone posting on your server" is not association. Site owners put in that one article precisely so that cannot be the case.

But this does break the CC license by unattributing content but not deleting it, so that's bad.
> Also note that the medical field selects hard for people who can memorize information

Easy to agree with

> to the exclusion of people who can understand systems

On what basis do you draw this conclusion? I'm not saying the field is full of systems thinkers, but I have no evidence that they are at higher or lower concentration than many other skilled disciplines. Many of the specialties within medicine require systems thinking to be effective physicians.
Huh maybe I'm misreading, but checking out some random cpu comparison sites, the Ultra's out perform AMD when at similar price points, and a difference of about $100-200 when the same performance? The article is very marketing-heavy
N of 1 stories don't really work as I could easily find a ton of terrible stories of why the private system in the states is bad for people.

The Canadian system (or any public system) gets a bad rap for wait times, but it's not like everyone is just walking around with open wounds and broken bones here. I work in a hospital, and if you come in and need an MRI urgently, you get it. If it can wait, you wait. We aren't fully public, and if you want a private MRI next day you can pay for it (and in fact, the last time I compared local prices vs prices in Montana, we were cheaper).
Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).
Just about large enterprise data store like an enterprise payroll system, college general ledger (multi-fund accounting - fun!), DMV rebuild, etc.
Slowly?
Perhaps you underestimate the amount of protection that this class of people provide for themselves. There’s a reason that these groups have golden parachutes and other such protection mechanisms that allow them to exist well beyond any individual contributors. Observe the number of incompetent executives and politicians at the highest level that effortlessly fail upwards.
The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf.

These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship.

Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essentially flying blind with little reliable, verifiable insight into the process.
Yeah, and I don't need a person's name erased to choose not to read something. Especially when it's not me manually blocking them.
Lego Retro Radio #10334 – play your own music using a Raspberry Pi
I respect your position, some points are reasonable, others will likely keep many great hires out of your reach. I'm a Staff Level SWE, with 13+ years of experience (startup, not corporate), been head of engineering at smaller startups in the past, I focus on payments/fintech, have lots of experience in many areas such as FE, infrastructure, k8s, dated technologies (angular, old react, php, perl), know some foundational technologies (c, c++, java, assembly), know some computer and circuit design technologies (vlsi, vhdl, etc), know some very proprietary technologies and languages (many embedded manufacturers that make programmable devices create their own ecosystems) etc, and I also know and work daily with many of our modern SFW technologies and languages (go, k8s, Kafka, all the fun stuff).

Most of these I had to know bc I also run my own company and in the beginning if you're bootstrapped, you really need to know lots of things. Recruiters always look at my CV and say it's pretty unusual. I mean, I've been a SCADA engineer in the energy sector, and a transportation systems engineer, so my career is not the typical SWE’s. In fact I have started trying to list experiencein problem domains, like distributed systems, microsservices, kyc, instead of in tools and languages. If you need Django, I can learn it in 1-2 weeks tops, while doing other stuff.

Regarding AI, I have started testing it. My flow is basically feeding my current CV, generic cover letter and a job description and asking it to output a more specific cv and cover letter for this position using the info from my career. I then spend some time editing and making it mine. it saves me a lot of time and I don't think this is cheating.

My main reason for rejection? That I live in Africa, and so:

- Hiring managers think I'm probably scamming them and inflating my credentials

- They have assigned poverty salary brackets to this region and choke when I tell them my minimum rate. Interestingly I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, so I wonder when they tell me they are matching cost of living, what actual research have they done.

- They post remote positions, but really they're US remote positions.
This is not a good move. The data is most likely not deleted (since it's easily copied). Not only that, other groups now know that ransoms get paid out.
I was actually going to comment on how breathtakingly ignorant the blog post author was for making this statement. What on earth ORM would make a UNIQUE constraint against multiple columns without an explicit instruction, much less where some of the columns are NULLable and then leave the user entirely unaware that anything like that was happening? ORMs do nothing like this and the developer would always have built this constraint explicitly and therefore is working at the DDL layer. ORMs have nothing to do with whether or not someone knows SQL just like cars have nothing to do with whether or not someone knows how to walk.
And rightfully so. Germany has a peculiar history in this regard, and that implies a federal obligation to account for it.
Around this time of year we often get scam calls about tax debt. We might even fall with it because sometimes my wife is late to file the taxes for her business.

It doesn't fool me because I've learned the IRS is the nicest creditor on the planet. The real letter from the IRS leadw with something like "If you file your taxes you can claim $X,XXX that we've withheld"; unlike a bank, the IRS sees you as a stock rather than a bond because the more you succeed the more they can get out of you so they don't want to ruin you.

I wonder how much right-wingers holding up a caricature of a scary evil government contributes to people thinking that the IRS or FBI might want to get paid $X,XXX in 7-11 or iTunes gift cards. My experience is that those kind of agencies like getting certified checks.
I have and stopped. A few people said that domain blacklisting is the killer feature worth $10. Well, actually it felt like paying to do work and locking myself in. You need to maintain those lists, new spam websites appear daily, and it does not really matter if you use precise queries. Most people don't know that Google is capable of them and Kagi capitalizes on them
So you need to be famous to get banned from the internet?
That's like saying PHP is not good enough for HN.

Not everyone here is building an AI based SaaS for YC
Hi! We're the team behind this research and are looking forward to join the discussion and answer any questions :)
For your convenience: https://archive.is/dYpuJ
Amiga BASIC was pretty bad. It was slow, generally shared similar types of restrictions to Macintosh MS BASIC, and it didn't work on future 68k CPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if, similarly to Z80 and 6502 MS BASIC, their 68k BASIC was built from a single codebase. There are just too many similarities.
All personal data - photos/videos, mail, messages, etc - is synced to my own server. Since I mostly use web apps running on my own server there isn't that much personal data or configuration on the things anyway. Configuring a 'new' device comes down to installing an AOSP-derived distribution without any Googly bits, add F-Droid to get applications, add Termux and the necessary applications to:

- connect to my network: Wireguard (encrypted tunnel)

- keep out unwanted content: Adaway (hosts-based content blocker), AFWall (firewall configuration)

- access control to my own and other services: Aegis (TOTP app, configuration is synced to the server)

- access services on my own server: Nextcloud (sync), DavX5 (contacts, agenda), K9 (mail), Conversations (messaging), DSub (audio), Antennapod (netcasts, syncs with gpodder on Nextcloud), Audiobookshelf (audio book player), M.A.L.P (controls several MPD instances around the premises), zmNinja (Zoneminder viewer, used for video surveillance around the farm), Timelimit (access controls for my 13yo daughter's devices), Librera Reader (eBook reader, connects via OPDS to archive on server)

- add the few proprietary applications needed: BankID (Swedish electronic ID), DigiD (Dutch electronic ID), DB Navigator (German railway app), NS reisplanner (Dutch railway app), Västtrafik To Go (Swedish railway app for western Sweden). These all connect to accounts on remote services and do not keep local state so backups are not needed, for the first two backups are not even useable on other hardware since their state is directly connected to the IMEI and/or IMSI of the local device.

Once configured I make a backup in the recovery (TWRP, PBRP etc) which I sync to the server. After that I only make backups after more radical changes to the device, e.g. when I install a new distribution. The rationale for this is that it is always possible to recreate the device from 'scratch' by following the above steps, these are scripted for a number of devices. All personal data ends up on the server (currently a DL380 G7 running Proxmox) which gets backed up daily. If and when a device breaks or gets lost in some way I can recreate it after repairing or replacing the hardware and firmware.

Apart from the mentioned proprietary apps there is no data leakage outside of my own network.
Don't feed the troll, The Economist.
I just now checked out my theory of switching to a keto diet - this appears to be terrible advice.

There appears to be some initial idea of using keto to control cancer [1]. My working theory is that cancer is a high-replication cell, and the ketogenic diet is anti-growth, increasing the probability of it outgrowing the resources available. It appears possible to starve them of glucose [2].

In reality, it appears the keto diet may encourage metastatis, by promoting BACH1 [3]. You may end up with weaker cancer spread around the body. It's extremely unclear if this is a better situation or not.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6375425/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08999...

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11152127/
I don’t think that is entirely correct in the cost angle but it’s ok.

As I said before the homes are of course an issue but the larger issue is basic fire prevention, not the fact that homes are as you say “built out of twigs”. It is certainly a factor but the more important piece are all the other steps that go before as I linked earlier.
I would rather != stay the way it is, and have the language support ≠ as a synonym. 30 years ago, on the mac's HyperCard, the language supported ≠ as an inequality comparator (as well as ≤ and ≥ for <= and >=, respectively). On the mac it's easy to type with the Option key and =.

Back then, those characters weren't easy to type on dos/windows so it seems to be a case of being stuck with the "lowest common denominator" in terms of character input across OSes, reminiscent of C's trigraphs where "??<" was used because keyboards didn't have "{"—thankfully those are long gone. Ligatures are a hack around that but it always struck me as an inelegant solution.
He is trying to do alternative theory of science.

It's like rewriting (and clarifying things here or there, putting in new analogies, etc.. not just translating) everything in Klingon, and creating new Klingon words while he is doing that.

Sure this is "interesting" in academic sense. Good luck finding a journal accept paper written in Klingon.
My comment was really about language semantics. Compilers should respect the semantics and, for instance, only re-order a(); and b(); if there is no data dependency between them and therefore no consequence to exchanging them. But that's in theory: all abstractions leak.
> because these two numbers are not supposed to be related

Says who? They’re not known to be related in that way, but it’s not like nature set out to prevent such a thing, or that large parts of mathematics would break down if it happened to be the case.
I agree. Perhaps you could help me add examples to this Feedback thread?
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5354-kagi-ignores-search-terms

I've added a few, but I worry that adding more is counterproductive. Maybe it would help them prioritize if more people chimed in.
I've turned up several of my own HN comments using FastGPT, from Kagi Labs.

Whether that's training data or live search results I'm not entirely sure, but HN definitely contributes to results in that case.
> ORMs are just a terrible idea - conceptually messy, hard to debug and optimise, full of needless complexity.

and that's why ORMs are so unpopular and entirely absent from successful production applications for the past 30 years
As with most other platforms there is no system & compiler developer option. I do device drivers, kernel internals, clang and gcc internals for a living. What should I select from that profession list?
90% of everything is repetitive. The generic analogies method is not really that useful in discussing the specific thing you asked about.

I've never seen a single of these things being called out.

Happens all the time plus many repetitive things constantly get moderated away by users and moderators. The goal is a less boring messageboard, but it's aspirational rather than perfectly achievable.

Edit: Ok, fine, let's do analogies. Imagine Elon Musk started writing long, interesting, researched articles about some topic, say, Chinese history. If every such article got flooded with discussions about who does and does not like Elon Musk and by how much, those would start getting modbleatings too. This is what happened except it wasn't Elon Musk but Stephen Wolfram and it wasn't Chinese History and it started about a decade ago (as you can see from the comment dates).
>What smartness in modern TVs can I get that's important to me that I can't get via a Roku or similar device?

Only you know what is important to you, but I like automatic volume levels, for example. I stayed at AirBnB a couple years ago, which had some commodity TV (Vizio?) w/o automatic volume and learned they still do loud commercials. My home TV keeps volume at the same audible level during commercials.
Same with auto-brightness, I get nice image all through the day and night illumination levels in the living room.
Voice control is handy when you don't live alone so other people may have a remote at the moment or it could take some time to find.

Apps on my 6 y.o. TV still work just fine, I don't need to attach devices to a TV, which neatly hangs on a wall without things hanging from it. The TV is running Android so it will keep updating from the Google's app store as long as the app vendor keeps maintaining it.
All this legal bullshit could have been avoided if this was a program for people to run on their own computers. Why oh why is this being run as a service?
LLMs are trained with a data which may contain both truthful and false information.

But at inference time it’s not referring to that data at all. Some of the data is aliased and encoded in the model’s weights, but we’re not sure exactly what’s encoded.

It may very well be that vague concepts (like man, woman, animal, unhealthy) are encoded, but not details themselves.

Further, at inference time, there is no kind of “referencing” step. We’ve just seen that they can sometimes repeat text they were trained on, but sometimes they just don’t.

The LLM based systems you’re probably using do some RAG work to insert relevant information in the LLM’s context. This context still is not being referred to per se. An LLM might have a document that says the sky is red, but still insist that it’s blue (or vice versa)

So while the info an LLM may have available is limited by its training data and the RAG system around it, none of that is guaranteed at inference time.

There’s always a significant chance for the LLM to make up bullshit.
Why is it an ai? Why does it have to communicate with me like it's a person? Why can't it just be a nature camera?
Freemium Pricing: Make the Cheapskates Pay (2011)