skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like leaving something like gitlens on so I can see the super old lines ad-hoc when I naturally come across them. It's fun to get glimpses of the past.
Truly high-speed printers do that.

Think of the printer that prints out all the Chase credit card statements for millions of customers. It uses a "roll to cut sheet system"

Example: https://offtechne.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Roll_to_Cut...
At the moment I'm working for an observability company building an observability agent. That includes aspects of backend but it's a bit like writing a computer virus. It's a bit like hacking.
i think you're exactly right. but to blog with zero SEO in mind sounds foolish as well.

you should blog, and by a blog definition that is going on the internet. to get more people to read it (often the goal) the easiest thing to do is utilize the tool people use to find things on the internet (search engines).

if there are issues with spam, keyword stuffing, forever run-on paragraphs of nothingness, well that is the search engine algorithm's job to fix. And they have a lot of money to fix it.

and if they don't fix it we should use a new search engine. it'll take time. but those seem like the dynamics at play in this scenario.
How would that be useful for humans? Machines should make life easier for humans, not vice versa. For humans, I don't see any benefit to having to use a universal timezone. Being able to talk about time in a relative manner without converting timezones is very useful. I don't want to check timezones whenever someone tells me that they had to stay up until midnight, or wake up at 4am lol.
>or create, reinforce, or perpetuate discrimination

Perpetuating "harmful stereotypes" reasonably falls under this language. Trying to correct the bias of the dataset, or worse, correcting the bias of reality, is a fool's errand. The same motive produced the Google AI images controversy last year and constitutes a substantial percentage of instruction fine-tuning for "alignment".

I agree that care should be exercised in rolling out algorithms for sentencing guidelines.
we hired contractors to move us from source gear to git and they said "moving the history would be too hard, so we didn't"

lost probably 10+ years of history
Some people in the magic community alter cards (painting over them to expand the artwork or such) and take some pride in doing this only with original authentic cards. It's interesting, since it won't even clearly resemble the original card at the end.
I have some experience that tells me that not all professional PCB designers know this stuff...
Yeah, for sure, searching for "japanese massages" means I will at some point search for "robotic military rapes by US allies", its just how things like this go.
The rules are complex but if a company wants to lay off many people in one location they have to give notice in advance and usually choose to just payout that notice time.
Existence is all we know; there is nothing more ordinary.

The idea of nothing existing is just that: an idea. Like god.
Show HN: Super Simple Business News Ticker
I put together a super simple Business News ticker I can have opened on a second screen. Not sure why I couldn't find something this simple already made without clutter, sign up popups, etc.
The Slingshot Effect of Gravity
> macOS have superior security compared to standard Linux/BSD distributions even at the software level

What evidence do you have to state that claim?

> including proper verified boot and exploit mitigations? If not, why?

Any operating system with TPM and Secure Boot support has this, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD is in the planning stages for Secure Boot.

It sounds like you're unaware of the available security features that have been available for a significant amount of time on x86.
I kinda don't buy patents at this point. There were very decent printers in 90s and those have any patent expired already.
Zerodium to Close Its Doors?
They replaced their website with just their PGP key and email address too.
Sep 30, 2008 at 5:03:58pm, revision 1.

It is SVN, though, and not Git.
I am currently working for RISC Zero on a ZK circuit compiler. Prior to that:

- tensor compiler for inference acceleration (plaidml)

- static analysis tools (coverity)

- photo manager app, specifically an ML-based self-organization system which never shipped (mylio)

- scripting language for internal streaming computation pipeline (google)

- various embedded firmware projects at a product development contractor

Before that, I spent many years working on compilers and related tools.
Even funnier to me, there are relics of real people around, it used to be a big thing historically. So there's some saints or whatever where there's 3 or more "arm of X" floating around, multiple heads for the same person, all kinds of fun stuff.
Fun. Definitely looking forward to competing with a bunch of newly-former-Googlers on the job market now. :/
Hopefully, it's to help enable their success and wellbeing in such a way that it gives them steps towards becoming self-sufficient. Your tone is slightly crass, but you're not wrong that enabling bad behavior in your children is in opposition to your goals as a parent. If you can reason that your nourishment of resources gives them opportunity without becoming a direct dependence and the cost to yourself isn't too high, I don't see it being a problem. Essentially, it varies on how you see your role as a parent and your relationship with your child.
>We were discussing the acceptance of immigrants (legal) versus the acceptance of illegal immigrants.

Thats your take, not mine. I think the national conversation and rayiner's point is primarily about illegal immigration.

If you want to talk about why a big part of the US public feels betrayed, I think illegal immigration is both relevant and useful.
Pythonista Lab for iOS
Basically re-inventing conda
and how would you personally achieve that, when Sama wants it to keep running?
Are judges at tournaments pulling out loupes and inspecting cards?
Because people aren’t okay with manual feeding, print times in minutes to hours, and 0.4mm resolutions on printed text.

open source plotters that fulfill these requirements do exist. Commercial solutions are just far more mature and accessible for printed text.
I knew an idealistic woman who went to the 9th ward after Hurricane Katrina to help people. She joined an impromptu group that had amongst it's organizers a Black Panther. The group was infiltrated by an undercover FBI agent and broken up. That's my anecdote. COINTELPRO was alive and well in 2005, at least.
Yeah, I've been collecting many bits on my obsidian notes but I'm still in the stage of mostly dreaming of putting them together. But it is very interesting to see what thoughts i deem worthy of recording and which i don't. It's helped me significantly to form a coherent understanding of the world and politics, and i suspect one day it'll help me with finding novel research for my PhD
MTG cards are among the best investments of the past 20 years. I think it beats out everything except bitcoin.
I see - that's not quite what I was asking. Rather, I asked if the parent believed AI would get a physical body, with all that implies.

> Do you think AI will soon get a physical body, and experience "sensory input, emotional responses, social interactions, and the unique context of each moment"?

In fact, my point was that it's not clear that all of these features simply "added inputs." (Hence my questions around emotions, pain, mortality, and morality.)
Against RL: The Case for System 2 Learning
Apparently many Americans are concerned with how PBS Kids is brainwashing your children to have empathy and treat each other with dignity and respect.

https://idahofreedom.org/publicly-funded-pbs-kids-tells-pare...

https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2020/02/pbs-kids-is-ta...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12059267/Oklahoma-G...
like there's nothing i can do about it so i should embrace it, learn from it and integrate it.
I purposefully avoided “thought leadership”. When everyone is a thought leader - no one is. And 99% of thought leadership you find is vapid especially on LinkedIn.

And these days if you are just a commodity enterprise dev, it’s almost impossible to stand out from the noise.

Those were my Plan B jobs last year and the year before and it is a shit show out there right now and it’s worse than I have seen since 1996. Including in 2000 and 2008.

Luckily, in my more targeted niche, I was able to find a job quickly both times. But I would have been up the creek if it weren’t for my last three or four years of experience.
Some Say AI Is the Greatest Invention of All Time. I Don't Get It
A better build system for OCaml
Yes, but that's still all the same ballpark. It's useful to know that 9am is in the morning for almost everyone. Yes, there are exceptions but they are still just that - exceptions. I'm not sure how useful it would be to add even more chaos.

And again, it's a weird inversion in the role of a machine. Machines should make life easier for us, not the opposite.
I would expect that a handful of retroreflectors, along the lines of lunar laser ranging, would be much less expensive and work about as well if not better. A radio beacon can give direction, at least within the precision of whatever array is used to locate it, but it does not directly give distance. And, with a reflective system, you can get extremely precise radial velocity by measuring Doppler shift, and all the fancy equipment needed is right here on Earth where it’s easy to maintain and upgrade. Doppler measurements of a remote beacon are dependent on the quality of the remote clock, which adds complexity and dependence on gravitational redshift at the beacon [0].

[0] I haven’t tried to calculate how much this would offset the apparent velocity, but it seems very likely to at least be detectable.
I remember my son really wanting a copy of The Nightmare before Christmas which Disney wasn't selling at the time because, at least then, they regularly let movies go out of print.

I found a "used" copy on AMZN which was obviously a fake with inkjet printing on the box and the disc, metadata on the disc indicating it was a DVD+R, etc.

Served Disney right.
We pay lip-service attention to the two-century-old rhetoric of Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and others who drafted the first constitution.
The lack of education and hostility towards knowledge in the US is becoming untenable.
Debugging AI voice agents is way easier when you have the right dashboards. With DuckDB & Structured, you can pull logs locally, run instant SQL queries, and turn messy data into clear, interactive dashboards. This post walks through setting up a real-time AI debugging dashboard to spot ASR errors, intent misclassifications, and slow responses, so you can fix issues fast and improve performance.
What a beautiful story. Thanks for bringing me out of the High Tech/AI anxiety loop with just a nice human story of beauty and a cat :)
Not if they print the write-up.
That mic looks fun to play with. On their site there’s a link to a bunch of recordings that can be downloaded:

https://library.soundfield.com/
In a game where there are rules about deck content, but scarcity around the existence of cards, I don’t see the ethical problem with counterfeiting a card for personal use.

If you add a fifth ace to a deck in the middle of a poker game, that’s cheating. If poker decks were printed without aces but aces were allowed, then why should anyone care how you got these four aces, as long as they were shuffled fairly into the deck? Just play the damn game.
Precisely this! This seems like a hard thing to spot from a layperson's perspective, but this is literally the purpose of their company, and these printer identification dots seem to be quite well-known in art and printing circles! This should never happen and the fact it did definitely should bring some reputational harm to CGC.
In 2016, I wrote a short essay about my epiphany, as a Millennial, concerning the attitudes towards technology of people living in the 80s - the sense of suspicion and paranoia, living under the glow of green CRTs and the threat of nuclear annihilation - and how it was likely that our relationship to that technology had transitioned to one that was more trusting not because we'd become acclimated to its alien character, but because that tech had morphed to become more (superficially) friendly.

I went to revisit it a few months later, and found that an OpenOffice/LibreOffice bug had blanked the entire document.

(The essay was inspired by watching an Otaking animation of two anime characters dancing in an arcade to the RoboCop 3 main theme, on repeat. (Said animation has also been erased from existence.) Sent me down an empathetic rabbit hole of trying to understand what it felt like to live during that period.)
the TCAS data would have been displayed. but not on instruments or in any place that you typically pay attention to the most during final visual approach (ie., mostly outside).
Hahaha we've had this conversation internally a couple of times.

Definitely a few places that we'd probably avoid. But also plenty of others (e.g., Kenya, LatAm, Turkey, etc.) that have been quite friendly and would be fine to visit.
No. Rust is only applying any constraints to reading from it.

The entire discussion is how to make an API which defines which portions of the memory can be read from because they have been written to, so we can expose an API that cannot be misused. There have never been any constraints on writing to uninitialized memory.
Pangolin: Tunneled Reverse Proxy Management Server with Identity, Access Control
Sure wish it meant more than it does. Sorry that "Front page of the NYT" phrase is one I've been using since back when everyone would have expected it to be the death of a company!
I remember reading a story about a (now) well-known MTG player. It was about their experience at one of their first tournaments, and had this detail about how during the tourney he got some pointers from Kai Budde (I think) on drafting - and in particular on print sheets.

My memory is fuzzy, but it was something like "Kai looked at a few of the boosters in a practice draft, and then was able to tell us (something) about the cards that should be in the remaining packs just by reasoning about print sheets."

I'm sure I'm getting the details wrong here - I'm not positive that it was Kai, and I don't have a good enough mental model of print sheets to know what was possible back then. And I think these skills aren't relevant today (?)

But I thought it was a fascinating detail. It's always fun to hear about the wrinkles that serious players of a game pick up on in order to find an edge.

(I've searched for the story a few times and haven't been able to find it; I just don't remember enough about it now)

edit: some discussion below, but I think the story here is approximately "Kai memorized all possible print runs, which was feasible to do back then, and was therefore able to back out which cards had probably been drafted and who was probably holding them" or something like that. Nothing about reasoning about runs across boosters!
Interesting point, but I'll push back a bit.

Whole Foods was a standalone viable business with high-quality retail locations. Sears was neither.

But I'll certainly grant you that with the resources, a fantastic new model, and lots of luck, there were better outcomes possible. Not sure about likely.

As for the free market failure, I do think Sears was out competed, by a wide margin. By Target, Best Buy, Amazon, Home Depot, etc. New (ish), smarter, more nimble retail without the lethargy that had been inside Sears since the 1990s at least.

I agree that there's something wrong with the fact that management can do right by shareholders but simultaneously wrong by consumers. I don't know if I'd call that a free market failure though. Some kind of corporate governance discontinuity perhaps?

But the "market" as I think of it is strictly the retail consumer market, so when Sears failed the consumers, they were removing themselves from the retail gene pool. It would not be healthy for the market for them to continue operating.
David Foster Walleye (Sic)
this would have to be a largely targeted endeavor to offset such a fact. probably not worth the trouble. but interesting to think about.
It reads like AI slop too. Not so sure why it is getting voted up.
Cute Winter Boots: Explaining TikTok's Latest Viral Trend
I'm not fussy about who's in control. Be it global or national; corporate or governmental; communist or fascist. But technology progresses more or less uniformly across the globe and systems are increasingly interconnected. An AGI, or even a poor simulacrum cobbled together from LLMs with internet access, can eventually hack anything that isn't airgapped. Even if it doesn't have "thoughts" or "wants" or "needs" in some philosophical sense, the result can still be an all-consuming paperclip maximizer (but GPUs, not paperclips). And every software tool and every networked automated system we make can be used by such a "mind."

And while I want to agree that we won't see this happen in the next 3 decades, networked automated cars have already been deployed on the street of several cities and people are eagerly integrating LLMs into what seems to be any project that needs funding.
> Why would you favor this approach over say, a command line tool that can pipe input into and out of a configurable AI backend, fork subprocesses [...]

I think what you're describing is something that's built to perform agent based tasks. iterm-mcp isn't intended to be that. It's intended to be a bridge from something like Claude Desktop to iTerm. The REPL use case is a key thing to understand here.

What you're describing is great if you want to delegate "install python on my system" for example, but it doesn't support the REPL use case where you want to work with the REPL through something like Claude Desktop.

The other key use case iterm-mcp addresses is asking questions about what's sitting in the terminal right now. For example, you ran `brew install ffmpeg` and something didn't work: you can ask Claude using iterm-mcp.

> This tool seems like it locks you into iTerm2.

This tool is intended for use with iTerm2. It's not that it "locks you into iTerm2" - iterm-mcp is something that you would choose to use if you already use iTerm2.
> This image shows buttholes. Lots and lots of buttholes.

I wonder what it would say if shown a real butthole.
the "bad" people you mention need "good" people to work for them

so yeah, when will ethics > money?
All 'unpluggable.' It's a metaphor.
What you described sounds more like a sales manager.

Product manager in my view is a manager of a product, not someone who cobbles up demos for customers (if you need to actively sell custom solutions to customers, I argue you're not a product company).
Funny, you could just replace “American” with “German” and the comment would still work, even like 90 years or so ago!
Prompter IDE
I was told by the racetrack in Vegas that lets you drive exotic cars that the reason they don't have any Ferraris is because Ferrari has a policy of not selling to non-rich people. They want Ferrari to be an exclusive experience for the rich only so they won't sell the racetrack that lets anyone drive one.

(don't know if that was in the article as I can't read it)
Surprisingly many forgeries were exposed due to Calibri, Wikipedia has a short list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics

I feel like I remember the topic having its own list article but can't find any trace of it.
Read the parent post to this one, AI slop has an uncanny valley associated with it. Somehow it sticks out like a sore thumb but i can't put my finger on why.
I did not argue God exists because no one can prove he doesn't.

I claimed that your claim is just as unprovable as the claim that God does exist.
Reminds me of Inter Mirifica.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_coun...

These are notable because they are not tweets or op-eds, one in thousands produced daily to keep you hooked to a source of information.

Rather these are published once by the church as part of their core mission and in response to the events themselves once. There is not necessarily a huge conversation here, although of course there might be conversation that lead to the letter and conversations that arise from the letter, but the center, core of the message from the church is very clear and static. It is long yes, but you only need to read it once and you'll be up to date with the church for years. You don't need to turn the news on everynight or keep your twitter feed clean and stay hooked every 20 minutes.
I avoid passkeys like the plague. There's no good outcome to that in the long run. It's a reasonable solution in a vacuum where nothing changes and people aren't human, but it's disastrous as soon as anything accidental or unforeseen is introduced.
Apple's approach to verified boot is pretty intense: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7...

Recently I learned about an interesting approach to this through a presentation at CCC about a small project known as sixos. Go to the part at 18m27s where ownerboot is presented: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-sixos-a-nix-os-without-systemd

Repository for ownerboot: https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/ownerboot
Is anyone producing HP LaserJet 4 reproductions? It was a ridiculously long time before anyone beat that printer.
The discussion above is nuanced, but in short: the concept doesn't work for B-Trees or as a replacement for B-Trees at all. It's for a different thing where you have a fixed set of keys (especially 1 to n or something of that form).
Why aren’t time zones enums and instead still text strings?
Don't be such a Redditor, if you're here you already know Google doesn't support their products. So you already made the choice long ago.
Small pedantinit, the cruise ship piece was written for and published by Harper's, not The Atlantic
> I'll just say that this definition of "militia" is completely incorrect in the historical context in which it was written.

That's also true for the definition of arms.

You can define "militia" as "all the of-age white males" if we get to define "arms" as "muskets". Fair trade!
Romanian fossils show hominins in Europe 500k years earlier than thought
Working on software for zeiss semiconductor. Scientific stuff, all inhouse
> I'm slightly surprised that examination of the CMY pattern in the color wouldn't have been sufficient to identify a fake.

If I'm understanding the post correctly, these counterfeit cards were claimed to be from an early playtest which would in fact have been printed on normal consumer/office grade printers and not using a commercial large scale printing process. Some of the fakes are noted to actually have two sets of dots, one set from the original printer and another from whatever was used to make the fakes.
I think it is definitely possible if you are smart and motivated. This is my career path that worked for me -

- Started out at a small research organization after college. The pay was very low but I got to have a lot of autonomy and own interesting projects

- Moved to a old fashioned manufacturing company doing software (think the complexity of a microwave). Tried to learn some backend engineering on the side while there by proposing new projects.

- Got a remote job at a startup which was growing. I think this helped me the most get relevant experience in system design.

- Applied and got interviews with 3 FAANG companies (2021 was great...). Was able join in 2021 during the rush.

The nice thing about large companies is that they are more likely to take a flyer on non-traditional backgrounds. Your evaluation is based a lot on your interview performance, which you can study for! And you should have good behavioral round answers in whatever career you've had.

Good luck!