skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this thread means anything at all, it's 90% nihilistic cynicism wedded to 10% regurgitating talking points from their training data.

The real high-school-sophomore smelling thing, which you'd miss through all the purple prose about the Manhattan Project, is "open research is bad and proves it's fake bunko crap...that the Chinese are stealing(!?)"

I've been here for 15 years and am shuddering to think there are commentators here who would start selling you "open is bad" the instant they had a soapbox to pound their chest on.
> I’m also surprised to hear of this industry wide blacklist. That type of collusion feels like it could easily be abused.

MATCH/Terminated Merchant File are well documented to those who pay attention. Visa, MasterCard, and AmEx are happy to rip the payment rails away from businesses who carry undue risk or are perceived to be dangerous. There's an entire list of Prohibited Businesses that Stripe maintains, which more or less echoes what their dependent card networks also have problems with: https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses#prohibited-bu...

The truth of the matter is that this system is not fair, and if you want to use it, you're playing by the payment processor's rules.
Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
ETFs are mostly irrelevant from a 401(k) perspective because no one is trading on a daily basis. Some 401(k) plans do now offer ETFs among the investment options but for the most part they have always focused on regular mutual funds. Average expense ratios have come down a bit since 2008.
Saw this a few weeks ago, and while I admit the author's style-schtick might not land well with everyone, it does go into the author's adoption of free/free-er audiovisual software.

Yes, that includes going to Linux.
That assumption presumes the existence of more than one model. Currently, numerous models are being developed frequently, and I hope the price decreases. However, if a single model captures 90% of the market, the others will cease to be updated, making it easier to control. What would transpire in an authoritarian country? Would they permit a disputed border to be included in that model? If that company were acquired by the first trillionaire, could they alter history to favor any wrongdoings they committed to achieve that status? Power is accumulating, not dispersing.
Ha, last week I finally finished assembling my retro PC, and just yesterday I was showing Jazz Jackrabbit to my girlfriend's son. He liked it, and he was surprised to see the "Epic Megagames" logo, he didn't know it was such an old company xD

As for me, playing one of my favourite childhood games on real hardware again, with a good CRT and a Sound Blaster, almost made me cry, the nostalgia hit was enormous :S
Their comparison of themselves to Proton is rather deceptive. If you're willing have only 1GB of storage, instead of 3GB, you can get proton for free. And at the price they list ($48/yr), you'd get 15GB storage, plus a lot more. And no, I was not paid by proton to say this. I only have the free plan.
Do you want free email for multiple addresses on multiple domains with all the features of a Gmail? Just setup Cloudflare to manage your email, create rules to forward to regular Gmail accounts, which you can configure to send email from your domains. 100% free.
Except it refuses to talk about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre[0]. Are we really praising a model that is so blatantly censored by an authoritarian government?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
(2022)

... But I doubt OpenSSL has changed enough to make this out-of-date.
> The OpenSSL command line is more or less a test driver / reference for the library

hmmm, not sure about that. Its the main (only?) interface if an individual wants to mess with certificates or generate them. It is often reported ACME/LE took off because it is easier to configure an ACME client than the annual wrestling with openssl. But if openssl had been easy for common user tasks maybe LE would have taken longer to be adopted.

ffmpeg also has a notoriously difficult CLI interface. Today you can just ask a LLM to generate you a command, the consequences are low if it gets it slightly wrong. The consequences of getting openssl wrong could not be obvious immediately and result in a lot of debugging down the line.
>> The Thermette, a simple and effective device for boiling water outdoors over an enclosed fire, was invented by Manawatū plumber John Hart and patented in 1931

The Kelly Kettle was produced in Ireland decades before. The Thermette is a knockoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Kettle
I don’t have much to add other than to say that this is the most pleasant and useful and wholesome thing I’ve seen on the web in a long time. The technology looks extremely solid and the experience is flawless.

To the author, thank you so much for this trip to the glory days of the Internet.
Do I engage in politics on HN occasionally? Yes. Is it my primary motivation? No. I don't open up HN with the intention of having rigorous political discussions, even though I sometimes fall into them.

My comment history, which it seems you only partially perused, demonstrates this to be true. Especially if you go back a year ago before things became politically charged around here.

I also don't see what relevance my example has to this conversation. It sounds like you're trying to corner me into a specific label (Republican, maybe?). I guess thanks for proving my point about discussions around here?
I'm looking forward to "If Python Were a GUI."
> Coal, agriculture, manufacturing…

Coal usage is levelling off and might even start going backwards over the next decade: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-coal-c...

You can't farm in soil that's filled with landmines, unexploded ordinance, and various shrapnel metals. Just ask how productive the fields of Verdun are.

Ukraine wasn't exactly a manufacturing powerhouse before the war, and Russia nearly levelled a big chunk of it, such as the Azovstal steel plant.

> Russian army is currently stronger than before the war.

Have you not watched /r/combatfootage recently? They're doing suicide-runs with golf buggies. They've completely run out of entire categories of armoured vehicles. They might have more meat left for the grinder, but they're forced to buy shells from North Korea!

> It will be wrong to dismiss it.

Oh sure, they retain a lot of strength on paper, but we've all seen what that paper is worth over the last three days... err... years.

> very stable now and there’s no path leading to such destabilization.

“How did you go bankrupt?” The other responds, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

> They are scared now

"Everything is fine" != "They are scared".

> incentive to return will be high

What incentive? The Ruble is going to lose a lot of its value when the Russian government can no longer afford to artificially prop it up. People don't like being paid in turnips and promises.

> South Korea is cultural proximity, shared language and established travel routes.

Sure, maybe, but would you rather work in an air-conditioned robotics factory that looks like a clean-room and getting paid in hard currency or cutting lumber in Siberia and getting paid in Rubles?
Apple rejigs Siri and AI team with program management exec known as a fixer
It's not just size. Real banks maintain customer deposits in separate named accounts. They don't co-mingle funds like fintech companies. This makes a huge difference in the case of insolvency or any sort of fraud.
But why do they care? You're paying the transaction fees. They're getting their money. If anything isn't it good for the payment processor to get more transactions?

It's a real transaction. Nobody was deceived, the money really changed hands, and the payment processor got their fee.

If I own a physical shop I'm allowed to buy stuff from it if I want, why isn't that also the case for an online store?

I'm not saying it isn't against the ToS, but I agree with OP it isn't obvious why it should be and it seems like almost everybody would test at least one real transaction at some point.
Love your work! Thanks.
I think if most people actively chose how to shape their lives (as opposed to just floating through whatever may come their way), the world would look pretty different.
The artistic value isn't magically generated by the piano itself, nor by the LLM in isolation. It's the result of the skilled interaction, the human artistry expressed through this new and powerful instrument.
Basically what you are saying is that me robbing you, and me making economic policy that might lead to increased unemployment which might lead to greater housing or food insecurity which might lead to increases in crime which might lead to you getting robber are indistinguishable.

Adults can differentiate between direct and indirect causal relationships…it is basically the cognitive development definition of adulthood (c.f. Work by Piaget)
> Very low cash flow only with no growth

This is very typical in startups, where making revenue at all may be rare in many categories (social media for example), and a startup is either wildly successful or nobody uses it.

Hopefully, the startup is about to be wildly successful, but it's easy to end up in a situation where some funding was raised, the product has reached a dead end, but the founders continue to "try to make it work". Whether they are doing this to "draw a salary", are earnestly trying to make it work, or a little bit of both, there isn't much legal recourse for investors if they aren't doing anything worse than not being very successful.
37 years and 1 month her linkedin page says. Started at apple in 1988.
Absolutely makes sense to have something like that, for genuine scammers, mass offenders, etc. But being but on that list for a few measly test payments to make sure your software is working properly? That to me sounds LUDICROUS.
We are decidedly not like kiwifarms. rdrama is about having fun, not being mad on the internet.
it might make the admin look bad if they say bad things happened.
I don't know why, but three systems make me google the correct command line options every time I need to use them:

1. OpenSSL

2. Systemd

3. PGP

I have no idea why, but their command line interface is just somehow confusing.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rd...

rdesktop has a "-A" flag for seamless mode which looks like it does what you want. I'm telling you we had that working 16 years ago via AWS - the AWS side was running windows but there wasn't any reason we had to be [running windows] on the client side. I merely mentioned that microsoft apparently didn't rest on their laurels with msts, they now support even more thin client mechanisms.
Given how often LLMs hallucinate answers about relatively trivial questions where all of the material is in the public domain, I'd say quite a while.
"What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century? MonadGPT is a possible answer. MonadGPT is a finetune of Mistral-Hermes 2 on 11,000 early modern texts in English, French and Latin, mostly coming from EEBO and Gallica. Like the original Mistral-Hermes, MonadGPT can be used in conversation mode. It will not only answer in an historical language and style but will use historical and dated references. This is especially visible for science questions (astronomy, medecine). Obviously, it's not recommended to follow any advice from Monad-GPT." Available to install and run locally -- or you can try it out for free online."

https://www.metafilter.com/201537/O-brave-new-world-that-has...
I'm not saying "yeah let's rebel and keep doing it!" or anything like that; now that I'm aware of this I'll be ultra-careful going forward.

My point is -- it seems absurd that people WOULD get their account banned for a couple of trivial test payments. And since this practice seems so widespread in the software developer / entrepreneur community, I think these doomsday soothsayers telling us that your account WILL get banned if you do this are clearly overstating how serious this is and how aggressively it's policed and cracked down on by PPs like Stripe.
To be more clear.. That every neuron has different DNA (ID) makes the neurogenesis very costly.. - but for what is that ? - could thanks that relations between neurons like parent or distance be recognized in same way as by comparing just parts of IDs of nodes indexed with some XML/tree indexing scheme ? - could thanks that the whole branches of the brain be.. DNA addressed also ? - isn't there some code (DNA) being moved between cells by.. traveling mitochondria (symbionts??), for some reasons - sometimes then to be integrated into other cell nucleus ? - then.. why ? - and what more ?? Does that code have meaning or any of it in any way matter or connect ("intelligence" thanks from the mother inherited my cells power or its crew ? ;) - or maybe just.. lets don't mind it ?
I finally wrote the "CatBench Vector Search Playground" formal launch post and posted it using "Show HN" here too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837246
An interesting service, and very competitively priced. But for me, my email is fairly mission-critical. It's not something I'm prepared to endow in a one-man shop. I don't mean to offend, but it looks like something that might be used as something of a novelty. Were I to use it, I'd be backing up my email locally.
These were the only commands I ever needed and I found them pretty straight forward. With LLMs today at your hand, command line is the king, ux was yesterday.

Check expiration of web address manually:

openssl s_client \
-servername service.local.mytld.com \
-connect service.local.mytld.com:443 | openssl x509 -noout -dates

Check SSL cert:

openssl s_client \
-showcerts -connect service.local.mytld.com:443 </dev/null

Check local SSL cert from disk:

openssl x509 -noout -text -in wildcard.local.mytld.com.fullchain
> During COVID, the west suspended polio vaccination programs in developing regions, so now polio outbreaks are a thing again.

There are cough other reasons for that as well:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...
I think you are right. On the other hand it’s the fact that a lot of tutorials / getting started guides etc include some ssl invocations to execute a specific command for key/cert creation. And a user wishing to adjust and maybe understand things gets thrown at a man page that is so overloaded.
Similar to git. But git’s cli at least has a clear setup with optional vs mandatory values. I always disliked commandline interfaces with mandatory option fields.
> So much this, when you see Zuck or even Jensen Huang saying "software engineers won't be needed anymore" and being excited about it you get pissed off as a software engineer lol.

The real story nobody is saying out loud is that CEOs are much more replaceable by AI than are software engineers.
I don't know. Maybe you're more in the magical group than you think. I spend hours a day helping my client with prompt engineering for customer service training and it's my experience that most of the awe and positivity I see from people comes from a lack of rigorously evaluating the output they're getting back.
You'll be fine. BUT be sure to keep your live card out of a testing environment, because that's a PCI violation.
How about iCloud Private Relay?
I believe that the polynomial for GF2P8AFFINEQB is user-defined. One argument is an 8x8 matrix in GF(2) and the result is [A.x + b] in GF(2)^8 for each 8-bit section. Don't quote me on this, but I believe that matrix multiply in GF(2)^8 gets you a transform in GF(2^8).
Probably something related to LLMs. The LLMs picking up outdated info, them trying to hoard the data. Who knows, but it smells of something LLM related.
You put this better than I could have. I am really impressed by LLMs' ability to respond to a prompt with code which compiles and runs. That's a hugely impressive result. But it doesn't mean the technorapture is just around the corner. There's a vast gulf between what LLMs can do currently and what skilled people do, and it's not "obvious" that there's some path from here to a world in which LLMs become some kind of superintelligent engineer-gods. It could be physically impossible, for all we know. That's why the pseudoreligious twaddle gets under my skin so much--it's the naive assumption that progress is linear, instead of a jumpy "fits and starts" process of accidental discoveries building on one another (or encountering dead ends). There's no way to know whether these things can be improved enough to be truly useful for real work and pretending it's "right around the corner" won't necessarily make it happen.
Depends on the use-case, but openscad can be useful for simple parametric designs prone to deformation during manufacturing (we use it for printing off-axis parabolas.)

FreeCAD supports the openscad language plugin, and can generate proper solids. Many classic CAD/CAM users often see the parametric design workflow as baffling... not an entirely undeserved reputation.

Freecad tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/@4axisprinting/videos

Blender geometry nodes tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/@Entagma/videos

Best of luck, =3
Hi, LLM!

The thing is, ENS is strictly _worse_ than regular domains. If your key is stolen, then you are at the total mercy of the thief. With the regular domains, you simply lodge a complaint with the registrar, and they'll roll back the transfer within 90 days.

You can lose a domain if you basically register it, don't use it, and then forget to renew it for a year.

> But aside from that, I use cryptographic keys in my life for countless reasons other than cryptocurrency.

Can you please stop the bullshit? It's downright nauseating.

We're not talking about the general cryptography, which is incredibly useful. We're talking about "code is law" blockchains with proof-of-work/proof-of-stake method of consensus. They are completely useless for anything but paying for illicit drugs and other illegal transactions.
The way I look at it is that my ISP is very open about collecting and selling "anonymized" data based on users' internet usage.

On the other hand, a reputable VPN provider has everything to lose if word got out that they collect or sell information.

The privacy calculus is: 100% chance vs some small chance.
Where do I find the UI for it then?
You’ve legitimately never tested something you built in production, after having already tested it in staging and local? You’ve just, had complete faith in staging production environment parity your entire career on every project and it has never failed you?

I’m sorry man but I don’t believe you at all.
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I’ve heard somewhere that 85% of billionaires are first generation billionaires meaning they made their own money. I’m sure while they were making money they also had similar struggles to you and I.

I think if you work harder, faster, smarter and have some luck you will succeed no matter what and have some extra time to reflect on your life also.
Anywhere we can see your project?
Thanks for your suggestions, especially RocksDB! I’m gonna play around with it today. Do you have any ideas related to use cases? I was thinking something like dynamic RAG for transformers.js
> Real military planning works more like: "Intel says the enemy is at A or B, most likely at A. How much resources should we devote to A vs B, or hold in reserve until we find out by encountering the enemy? What's our plan if we guess wrong?"

Not quite, and you can't possibly capture all of that paper in that sentiment. For instance, there's this excerpt:

> People’s judgments and willingness to accept analytic findings are framed by multiple factors, including backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs. Every decisionmaker has cognitive biases, including theories that guide them (e.g., the liberal international order), beliefs about how the world works (e.g., the arc of history bends in a particular direction), or sacred beliefs (e.g., all things happen for a reason). Thus it is essential for the analyst to understand as much as possible about the decisionmakers and the environment in which they operate.

Military intelligence will happily give you high confidence leads that are entirely wrong because, by all appearances, the information came from a source in the right place with the seemingly right motivations when in reality they can be playing 4D chess better than the analyst.

The confidence level can only be expressed in finite ways but it can be analyzed in almost infinite, one of them being that the information needed to develop "high confidence" has disappeared and the window of opportunity to gain insight has long passed. Personally speaking, I do not think we will ever find out the origins because a whole gaggle of people with various interests had a vested interest in a particular answer at the time. This is the byproduct of a democracy and bureaucratic system which has not been functioning nominally for quite some time - doubly so now.

I would go so far as to describe the events at the time as parallel construction.
I don't think it's a critique of the library; calling the x509 specification complex enough to be magic seems accurate.

Honestly I love the UI presented: concise, shows all the options, a fantastic summary of the CLI without having to scroll a massive man page or website.

I'd love this for all the super complex CLI tools I need to use, as a visual cheatsheet on where to search in the man page.
Ah yes, the prompt engineers.
It's always strange to me people arguing against income equality.

Even though we have plenty of evidence and research that it makes society better for everyone.

And there is zero evidence that the more billionaires a country has the better it is.
You are told very strongly that you are not to do this, way before you get to a point where you are even close to touching live. So it is not common sense at all.

Maybe not industry wide but you could just be banned from say Chase/Paymentech (long time away from payment stuff not sure names now) or whatever processor. But guess what, some vendors only support one processor, or a preferred one has WAY better fee structures so you don't want to be kicked off.

And sometimes when you are a franchise you have to use the franchise approved POS/payment vendor (when you buy say a gas station payment system it doesn't support every payment processor just the subset of those approved for it by the payment system company AND approved by the franchising company/brand for example Exxon).

Also some people own a lot of businesses under an LLC/Corp so getting blacklisted from a payment processor and having 40 sites unable to accept cards could be painful.

So not a good idea to risk it.

Finally the Federal government PROVIDES industry wide financial blacklists. Processors aren't getting in any trouble for collusion for unbanking people/businesses. The left wants to unbank all weapons dealers and right wants to unbank all porn distributors and everyone wants to unbank supporters of warcrimes, drugdealers, etc.