skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To cite the main origin:

> Stillwell recalled distinctly the final meeting of the committee at which this recommendation was agreed upon. They were disposed to adopt 50 cycles, but American arc light carbons then available commercially did not give good results at that frequency and this was an important feature which led them to go higher. In response to a question from Stillwell as to the best frequencies for motors, Scott said, in effect, “Anything
between 6,000 alternations (50 Hz) and 8,000 alternations per minute (67 Hz).” Stillwell then suggested 60 cycles per second, and this was agreed to.
>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Let them ask a tenner for an album download code.
Agree

The more I hear about "community" the more I roll my eyes

It can be great at doing the work but it is awful at setting direction, evolving with the times and focusing on what's important

Going by another story on the front page, I have my long list of criticism about systemd but the "get things done" attitude needed to be commended
good. Reminds me of a sign put on every back-of-seat in train Narita-Tokyo ..

"please be considerate of other passengers while using your computer (keyboard noise, etc).."

i have a photo of it but no idea how to post it :/
There's a huge difference between "acknowledging other people are upset" and "actively advocating against freedom of speech".
> We do not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any such notices

Cloaking mass privacy violations under "operational matters" is the most doublespeak bullshit I've ever heard.
I think the point is, using Spotify is already essentially listening to your artists without supporting them. You might as well do that without supporting a company that is harming them.
While a humorous response by Milton and an interesting debating point, the argument he makes is pretty weak because it almost inevitably reduces to complete lawlessness, doesn't really define which government "granted" monopolies he's willing to give up, and ultimately relies on a fairly arbitrary definition of what government even is - and one that if you really let it go to the extreme not only obviously just doesn't work well for most people, it also does not avoid monopolies as is witnessed every day around the globe.

After all, the natural inclination of a powerful elite is to protect their interest. It's business 101 to want a moat, and tearing down one set of artifical legal protections that allows for a moat allows on the other hand for the far more extreme quite physically violent moat in the form of a putin-esque kleptocracy.

The argument merely sounds convincing because it's very selectively implying that certain monopolies are created by state power and might be weakened by free market principles without considering what a free market even is (generally a regulated one), nor addressing the fact that other monopolies will arise precisely because because the lack of regulation allows winner-take-all brute force strategies to work.

That doesn't mean Milton's ideas are without merit - but that there is a breaking point; dogmatically hoping for anarchy to avoid harmful centralization of power is problematic because of the dogma; not because it's never a valid approach.

But sure, if you're going to embrace Milton's (intentionally) vague proposition in the way it was likely intended - to provoke thought - then sure; there are state regulations that are in part to blame for some of today's near monopolies - the interaction between intellectual property, incorporation, and state-enforced contract law. As a matter of debate, sure, it'd be interesting to weaken all three and in particular their interactions. I just highly doubt that's very practical, nor would it be very easy to predict the outcome, especially once international power-plays start circumventing even the best of intentions.
Rust is bad news for Linux.

No because its Rust, but because it's a bad idea to use more than one single language across the entire code base.

I also am surprised that Linus has not ended this folly.

If Rust wants a Linux kernel it should make one.
Maybe they should “learn to code”? I heard that software developers are having a real easy time getting high paying jobs these days…
Man. I did stuff like this as an 18 year old. Then I grew up to be a mature professional. I don’t want to taint these people for life, and at the same time I don’t want them anywhere near sensitive data or critical systems for our national infrastructure.

In other words this reflects way more poorly on the “management” than these kids themselves.
Self-reply P.S., from that one quirky neuron that keeps satirizing book-quotes:

> "The rest of us sleep less soundly in our beds, Republicans, knowing that you have put Pentagon fraudsters in the care of an auditor who will ignore them the instant they make a good offer! He will not remain loyal to you, taxpayers! Joining in can offer Musk much more scope for his powers and his pleasures than you can!"

-- Not actually Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire pointing out that the government shouldn't rely on dementors as prison guards
MDMA and ketamie synergize nontrivially and strongly. I highly recommend against taking MDMA to ease off the ketamie. If you want to combine them for the resulting experience then power to you, but taking MDMA to make ketamie "simpler" is a very bad idea.

I've taken care of multiple ketamie and MDMA overdoses (in the sense of unexpected effects, not just the amount) and they did not have a good time. (I also know plenty of people that had a blast on the combo, my point is: don't recommend drugs or combos easily.)
Having read through the email thread, I think both vocal people are basically in the wrong here. There is a way to constructively disagree and the DMA maintainer did not do that. The Rust maintainer should not have brigaded using social media.

The “in hindsight” version of how this should have gone without ego:

* Patch adds Rust bindings to C API

* Maintainer has concerns about increased maintenance cost and clarifies policy about C changes and Rust abstraction if unsure.

* Since R4L is approved, the binding is allowed to exist in a form that doesn’t inhibit changes to C API. C API is allowed to break Rust (I assume, otherwise the entire effort is moot).

* Any concerns about tooling etc which DON’T exhibit this property (and can demonstrably show that merging this Rust code will make C code harder to change) are brought up.

* These are resolved as a tooling issue before the change is merged (I don’t think there are any in this case).

All the discussion about multi-language projects etc is for the project as a whole to decide, which happened when R4L was approved and the breakage policy was decided (might need to be properly formalised).

If the maintainer (or anyone) is unreasonable, then the only approach is to have someone with more authority weigh in and make the decision to bypass their objections or sustain them (which is sort of the direction this was going before the diatribes).
I moved to Europe too. I have a few transformers that let me use my expensive American kitchen equipment (angel juicer, kenwood giant mixer, etc) here. Slowly I’ve been getting rid of the American equipment and replacing it with European as it’s obvious that I’m not moving back.
A new jailbreaking method with this level of effectiveness against these models that can produce the entirety of those unsafe outputs?

Yes.

May I see it?

No.
Pretty sure it was [1] that finally got them moving (old hacker news discussion here[2]). Not to take away from your bug report, but there were a bunch :) The main issues were that the spec allows engines to pick their own implementation (including only having 2^32 possible values) and there were benchmarks like sunspider where overfitting encouraged the implementation to be as fast as possible. That was a lot less of an excuse for the RNG they used in 2012-2015 compared to when it was added in 2007 or 2008, but by then there was a decent argument that developers should go to crypto.getRandomValues() if they wanted actual random values, which probably stalled action longer than it should have.

> Safari, Firefox, and IE were all already using more robust PRNGs for Math.random

This wasn't true at the time. I actually don't remember what Safari was doing in 2012 so I won't say that one for sure, but Firefox and IE were both using garbage RNGs as well, they were probably just generating across the full (or at least more of the) (0, 1] double range so didn't produce the collisions you saw in your testing.

[1] https://medium.com/@betable/tifu-by-using-math-random-f1c308...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598065
Well when you say it like that, it sounds like the government is an unstoppable bureaucracy that only cares about its own expansion.
This doesn't seem to work very well. Searching for "grocery store" netted me a set of 22 locations spread across the entire country.
It looks like you are doing a pretty good job of filtering with this approach.
Indeed, so what's the solution? How can a startup afford to hire anyone these days with essentially AI + employee fraud?
I went to a Jesuit high school but am not religious now. But I still have a soft spot for the Jesuits. They tend to be liberal (relatively speaking) and taught extensively about social justice, and generally are very education-oriented.
I doubt they even took an oath to the Constitution
the point here is that you need to be able to analyses things to get evidence and everything else is just a "seems to"

and it is quite suspicious if someone decides to breach laws they had been complying with in the past just to prevent such analysis
I like this lovely tool!
Exactly. I’ve driven by it before and it is just a regular apartment complex without parking. Neighborhoods are made out of multiple complexes. Their marketing must be working though because I keep seeing articles about them.
I agree that opportunities for redemption are important... and it looks as if this is literally his very next job after being fired, an extremely high-trust position with no intervening events to indicate he's reformed or learned better.

That indicates whomever hired him is either incompetent, or they did so because they plan something malicious and need a compromised henchman and/or scapegoat.
> Before Hellwig put his foot down as "not merging because rust sucks"

He didn't say this at all. He explicitly and repeatedly said he has no problems with Rust as a language.

And you can't just assert "there are no valid technical reasons". Just because you don't agree with the objections, or even think they're dumb, doesn't mean you can just dismiss them and start ascribing bad faith motives.
Do we need to always have big-budget films and productions? Perhaps we should live smaller, and enjoy local art and low-budget films. Do I really care that Jurassic Park was made? I could read the book and it's more detailed and imaginative anyways, and any lessons to be learned are definitely better when read than when watching a blockbuster CGI film with more effects than message.
I have a jailbreaking method that's 100% effective but I can't share it until the authors of this article share theirs because it seems like we can just make up claims about effectiveness without sharing any evidence.
Great idea, looking forward to someone implementing it!
To everyone going for the shovel metaphor: Samuel Brannan cornered the entire shovel supply of San Francisco before running down the street shouting "Gold! Gold on the American River!". He'd have gone broke if he had just done a big capex to offer Shovels as a Service. He still died without enough money to pay for his own funeral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brannan
Here's the thing: I bet if you were to take the children who performed well at complex abstract mathematical problems and placed them in a job that required complex applied mathematical skill, the ones who eventually performed best would be the same. And vice-versa for the children who excelled at complex applied mathematics. So mathematical skill might not be immediately transferable, but would be a useful indicator of innate ability.

This relates to the (somewhat controversial) economic theory that much of higher education is not about training or creating transferable skills, and instead is about "signaling". Essentially, we place children in simulated quasi-work settings and use it to determine who has the most of certain economically valuable abilities. By performing well at abstract mathematics, a child signals that they have the requisite mental ability to tackle similarly complex "real world" problems. But also, they signal that they are capable of obeying authority, working with diligence, delaying gratification, etc.
As someone who came over from physics to CS this has always been one of the weirdest aspects of CS to me. That CS people believe that testing code (observing output) is sufficient to assume code correctness. You'd be laughed at in most hard sciences for doing this. I mean you can even ask the mathematicians, and there's a clear reason why proofs by contradiction are so powerful. But proof through empirical analysis is like saying "we haven't found a proof by contradiction, therefore it is true."

It seems that if this was true that formal verification should be performed much more frequently. No doubt would this be cheaper than hiring pen testers, paying out bug bounties, or incurring the costs of getting hacked (even more so getting unknowingly hacked). It also seems to reason that the NSA would have a pretty straight forward job: grab source code, run verification, exploit flaws, repeat the process as momentum is in your favor.

That should be easy to reason through even if you don't really know the formal verification process. We are constantly bombarded with evidence that testing isn't sufficient. This is why it's been so weird for me, because it's talked about in schooling and you can't program without running into this. So why has it been such a difficult lesson to learn?
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With no standards of ethics for conflicts of interest, nepotism, etc, our government will fail us more and more
Can LLMs do lateral thinking puzzles?
> It would avoid the problem of a kid sticking a fork in an outlet

One of the best things about living in the UK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
Ironically all the top tech companies instead require you to have the answers for ~50 leetcode questions/concepts already memorized. You then pretend this is the first time you ever saw a problem like this and "work your way" to the optimal solution.
Well of course, bullies always prefer targets that can't fight back. That itself is unfortunately a basis of the legal system from it being run on flawed monkey brains. Why else is hitting vulnerable children okay but getting into a consensual bar fight illegal?
Firebase provides the auth, and the fact that it's easy to take a look at the database, but indeed I'd rather use Postgres
Interesting! I did an internship where I tried to use transducers for fast information extraction.
In theory, you can use FST's for fast approximate parsing.
I didn't really work out, but I had lots of fun implementing a libary to compose FST's and explore cool algorithms to compose them. Not much business value was delivered, but I learned a lot.
Slowly getting removed: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e8612e21-4ea4-4e6f-8c73-9fbee11...
Uncommon Sense Was a Common Vice
Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.

Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.

This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?
Yep, you even see it on HN with artists and devs complaining about AI, especially when things like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion were first announced. People who were pretty lax about copyright when it didn't affect them personally suddenly became copyright maximalists, talking about "stealing, theft, etc" Since then, people have calmed down and realized that AI is simply a tool like any other.
> A good leader is someone who can deliver hard messages while still keeping your team inspired.

Do you have examples of this? The only "good" leaders that are strong and opinionated I can think of always comes across as leans towards being an asshole.

> Same message, but completely different impact on your team.

Let's change it from "you're a fucking idiot" to "this code is fucking trash". It's not insulting to the specific person, but it definitely gets the point across that the code is no good and much less ambiguous to "it's not up to standards".
They can also sue in France, or Spain, or Japan.
This does bring to mind the Jack Nicholson quote (1972):

"The censors say they're protecting the family unit in America when, in fact, the reality of the censorship is if you suck a tit, you're an X, but if you cut it off with a sword, you're a GP."

His point being that in the US there's a preference to violence over sexuality.

Let's face it, we're a violent primate species... I hope wew can get better...
What’s the alternative? Not have the capacity when needed?
>What we should have been doing all along is YOLO-ing everything

No it isn't. The actual sucker attitude is copying what they do. You should act morally and with integrity out of respect for yourself. I never had any illusions that large tech companies act with respect towards the law, but it also has nothing to do with me.
I was under the impression that the Cambridge Analytica situation was largely about 1: private data, 2: exclusive access to that private data, and 3: the secrecy about that data-sharing even happening in the first place.

I think none of those things are happening here, do you agree with that?
The 60 Hz grid is why we have HDDs spinning at 7200 RPM. Because of 60 Hz, it was simpler to design AC electrical motors to spin at 3600 RPM or 7200 RPM (1x or 2x factor). When DC motors were made, for compatibility with AC motors, they often spun at the same speed (3600 or 7200 RPM) even though there was no electrical reason to do so. When HDD manufacturers selected DC motors for their drives, they picked 3600 RPM models as they were very common. Then, for performance reasons, in the 1990s, 7200 became more common than 3600 eventually.
Applied math in daily life, such as making change, also involves a lot of memorization, it's just that the person doesn't realize they're committing various formulas and equalities to memory.

The problem with proficiency in, e.g., making change, is that it doesn't carry over to higher-order math, logic, and reasoning. Arithmetic as taught in elementary school is attempting to achieve two things at once: proficiency in applied arithmetic, and foundational number theory (e.g. commutativity).

My mother was a waitress and emphasized skills like making change. While she never articulated the rules, I ended up developing many of the mental arithmetic techniques that (I later discovered) Isaac Asimov discussed in Quick and Easy Math: https://archive.org/details/QuickAndEasyMath-English-IsaacAs... But I never developed an appreciation for number theory until it was too late--i.e. after high school. I did get into philosophy and logic during high school, but the connection (theoretical and applied) between the two didn't click until later.

Sadly (or not?), proficiency in mental arithmetic has become much less common even among waiters, clerks, etc, at least where they don't deal in cash directly and without the aid of a register. And professional mathematicians have always humble-bragged about their impoverished mental arithmetic skills. So maybe we should drop the pretense that we're attempting to teach applied mathematics in the early years and admit the purpose is to lay theoretical foundation for higher-order math, applied and theoretical.
I wonder if GDPR Art. 22 is applicable here?
> Thinking that Starlink satellites exist to make people think they're UFOs [...]

These are your words, your interpretation. Not mine.

Moreover, the meaning of UFO is Unidentified Flying Object. That could be anything, from Starlink to a swarm of drones to a SR-71 to a meteorite or some fireworks. Or just someone's vivid imagination, LSD or opioid trip, lying in a death bed, hypnosis, etc.
That sounds about right - the medium is the message. If you can't stand the clunky-but-working, decades-old, patch process, you probably won't stand the clunky-but-working decades-old code.

I'm grateful the kernel still supports MIPS, which means an old appliance of mine still works perfectly fine and is upgradable. I would be cery sad if someone were to rip-out support of an old MIPS arch, just because it's old and unwieldy
Remember you also have to determine the coin is biased and the results are in a biased order.

"An ideal unbiased coin might not correctly model a real coin, which could be biased slightly one way or another. After all, real life is rarely fair."

https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/coinflipext.pdf