skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh interesting. I didn’t realize certs get backdated a bit, but that makes a lot of sense. Interesting that the same isn’t done with SCTs.

I doubt my system time was off by 10 seconds, but I have seen it off by nearly a full second quite frequently. (I checked just now, 700ms behind?) I was checking it quite often via time.gov for a while, and I know the inaccuracy returns after each boot. Maybe my bios doesn’t keep milliseconds, leaving me at ~1s precision only. I suppose that’s probably fine most of the time, but I feel like it should be more precise. Depending on how much it drifts it could be drifting further...

In the case I saw this error, the cert did not exist until I requested the page. Caddy then handles cert creation on-demand and serves it immediately. It’s my own local server- so my latency to it is <1ms - there isn't much time for the cert to become-more-valid if its fresh. It seems likely that my PC fell behind the server enough that the cert wasn't valid for a second or more? I'm tempted to investigate, but right now I only have one cert that needs updating - and it seemed to reissue and load the page just now without issue. (But looking at the cert, I see what you mention - the cert got backdated but not the SCT.)
There are other ways to learn besides reading books, and it's probably my least preferred method. They often contain a lot of redundant/useless information.
Very nice. Are there any test covering the functionality?
That's not a technical reason. They could just as easily ask for cryptocurrency payment of $1 (which is more than a phone number would cost), or even proof of work. The fact that they require an identifier that is typically tied to one's real identity is suspicious on its own, IMHO.
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You don't need to implement a sales or income tax in order to subsidize the government's operations. One proposal by "single tax" based on property tax, proposed by a certain Henry George has interesting merits. One such merit is that it is pretty hard to hide from a property tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

I think that in this century we've become accustomed to the existing credit card payment systems that have access to all of our payment data and are allowed to do with it what they wish (and by extension, the government also can subpoena our payment data in investigations). But if you look back in history this is a pretty new idea. Giving the government access to every single payment you make is pretty dangerous if you have a change of regime into something more authoritarian like in the case of China.

I think that if cryptocurrency can provide about the same level of fungibility and privacy as ordinary cash, that would be fine. You can track marked bills with some level of effort (kind of analogous to an EAE attack in the cryptocurrency world) but the general principle is that not every transaction is automatically logged in some easily inspectable database and sold to the highest bidder.
So 60% of Britons have read a book in the last 12 months? That's a pretty good number.
Too much stuff to read already (teh internets).
Also, plenty of stuff to watch, or to play. Reading a whole book is a lot of commitment, and, unlike watching another season of whatever, usually can't be done together.
Do you think in words when you do a 3 x 2 digit multiplication?

I do it all in images and I think many other people do too.
> It seems I'm wrong with valuation it has surged.

Surged since when? 2019?!

https://imgur.com/a/G9fmGur

> No it's not. The value collapses every time there is sell side. Jumps every time there is little more than average demand.

That's not liquidity. That's volatility - otherwise known as price discovery - completely natural in a young extremely fast-growing asset. It continuously gets over-bought and then over-sold as it continues along it's exponential path of overall growth.

Just looking at Coinbase, its BTCUSD pair alone has a trading volume of ~$1B/day. How much liquidity do you want?
Do you use any GUIs to see the emails as a tree of replies? I tried using LKML and even subscribed to some FreeBSD mailing lists.

Its absolute trash. I don't know who's talking to who in what topic. Using ">" as a quote without any coloring and having to judge what level of indentation this is. Its horrible.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted. You're not the first person to make that observation. There's an actually an ancient author who wrote a whole epic about Dionysius and also wrote his own version of the Gospel of John. Ideas have always been moving around and mixing.
Tons of people listen to podcasts, that's a massive genre. That's probably better than doom-scrolling, although most podcasts are fluff anyway. It's often just entertainment masked as something intellectual.
I suspect it doesn't capture how knowledge is ingested now. I haven't read a book in over a year now. But I do read papers (academic), news articles, technical blogs and YouTube lectures.

I practically don't have the time to read for leisure - tech moves very quickly, and that takes up the bulk of my thinking/study time/energy
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Compaq Presario catching strays.
>"I don't want to have a choice" mindset that I only see here for stuff relating to Apple.

It's because the discussion is frequently more nuanced than "just don't use it".

Power imbalance is something that exists in the daily life of an individual: an employer, education provider(e.g. school), bank, insurer, government, law enforcer (and more) - are examples of people or systems that can compel you to use software or features that you don't want to use.

Those that can foresee how certain changes can be abused will appear to paradoxically act against their own interests. These people have already weighed the advantages of the change against the pitfalls they bring.

There are also different platforms were we can already see empirically how those changes are being abused - so it's not some hypothetical values discussion.

As always the opposing view isn't a 2-dimensional strawman of convenience.
The map isn't the territory
For me the difference is the amount of focus that reading a long, serious book requires. The other things you mention are much more passive.
It feels like, after the OCR step there should be language and subject matter detection, with a final sweep with a spelling / grammar checker that has the right "dictionary" selected. (That, right there, is my naivety on the subject, but I would have thought that the type of problem you're describing isn't OCR but classical spelling and grammar checking?)
Similarly, may I urge you to learn more about all the risks and issues coming with bitcoin?
I havent touched a real paper book in at least fife-seven years. Audiobooks, e-books, pdf manuals sure, but paper is dead.
I don't use discord in combination with games at all. But you can use it that way. That does not mean it's only for kids.
"YouGov Survey Results Sample Size: 2121 adults in GB Fieldwork: 29th - 30th January 2025"

I can't find their methodology anywhere. Given some of the results,

I expect:

- This is based on self reported unverified answers, probably overinflated in terms of how many books actually read because people don't like to be perceived as a 'non-reader'.

- potentially also a selection bias? How were interviewies selected? Ho random was the selection process? Did they randomly phone people (would this count as fieldwork)? Were they standing outside a library or uni? Did they hand out 10.000 forms and put up a dropbox?

As a student I worked for some of those companies to which 'fieldwork' eas outsourced. There was not much supervision besides "get back 150 filled out questionairs today".
Reading a book isn’t always easy and requires dedication. Some time ago I decided to read a Victorian novel in original (English is my second language) and it took me months to complete.

Adults only have so much time to read, that you need to do it at an expense of other important things.
Because books come in different sizes, but the number of different sizes is relatively small. So, if the number of books is more than can be fit on one shelf, it most likely makes the most sense to organize by size.
I suppose he means Fifty Shades of Grey (the novel) as an example. Is that someone's gold mine?
How can you not see that graphic media beams itself right into your lazy brain while reading fiction forces you to exert (and exercise) your visual imagination? Unless you're the type who doesn't form pictures in his mind as he reads on.

And (depending on what you read, of course), reading can give you serious literacy gainz. And focus too, as another poster wrote.
But why does that have to be reading?

Why can't it be meditation, programming, working out, listening to music, fishing, mountain climbing, going for a walk, or something similar?

Why the focus on reading in particular, as if it were some great act? What if someone only reads books written for the MAGA crowd, is that something that many young men are missing in their lives?
That’s what the gearbox is for! It will automatically kick into high gear
I imagine there is an impact on downstream water so needs to be considered before granting a licence
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I, and probably other people, are less enthusiastic about Musk projects since his recent antics. Also it's a bit similar to the last flight.

(Re the antics see for example a Tesla story - 537 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170090 and personally I'm not keen on his Ukraine stuff eg https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/2/21/musk-vows-to-fix...)
It's often said that book reading requires a lot of imagination, something that you don't employ that much when consuming other forms.
Other place I can think is in bed before sleep. I would guess that lot of reading happened at that time before too. But ease of smartphones replaced it.
Unironically, I believe the success of reintroducing beavers to the UK will be determined by how well they manage to follow planning legislature
In programming languages suitable for enterprise software development there are blessed streaming parsers for XML, because it's a rather common task.

It's very common that other programming languages have basic SAX parsers.

What are these languages that don't which you've encountered?
In America, that number is closer to 55%.

The devil is really in the details: not all books are created equal, because simply reading a random fiction book doesn't automatically convey moral or intellectual superiority. Elucidation through deliberate intellectual effort combined with a healthy information diet is necessary beyond simply cargo cult pantomiming one habit or another.
I think you are fooled by the general societal perception that reading makes you smart. This originates from a time when books were expensive and most people couldn't read without paying for private school which made reading the exclusive pursuit of the rich and educated. This is no longer the case. The truth of the matter is that a book is simply one way among many of presenting information. If a person spends 9 hours reading a fiction book for entertainment, they are not substantially better off in life than someone who spent that same time playing video games.
Modern cellphone networks support wideband codecs, e.g. AMR-WB.
Indeed. I would even dare to say most of /sci/ don't want to be associated with anime at all.
Sounds like one guy trying to benefit from the current instability by rebranding Fedora.
Too late, you triggered the relativist mob. Run for your life, mate.
>>> asking positively, with a smile on my face

Responding with unexplained fear in my heart, we’re just getting closer to Skynet!
Surely this will not have any unforeseen consequences whatsoever
192 kHz? That makes no sense, unless you want to have a telephone conversation between bats.
Yes but I want an alternative to anki because I find it horrible to create or edit decks
Remember, there was a moral panic about reading books when fiction got popular with the masses.
Do you have a recommendation. With the state of reviews these days, it seems 80% of well reviewed peripherals are like garbage.

One concern is that adding a layer to the screen is not intended for the device, and it will scratch or touch for example the keys.
Pensions are still common with government jobs.

> The pension programs were all going bankrupt due to various reasons

And my state is having this problem right now.
I think it also can relate to the “shoot from the hip first ask questions later” US style while say Europe is more of “let’s make a committee to make sure the plan covers everything”. One can be faster at the risk of doing things wrong, while the other is less likely to take a bad decision but will likely take much longer to do it.

…or maybe I’m just paraphrasing what the article said, I’m not really sure.
> including sheeting covering what I understand to be a fairly large part of the hull

This was done anyway as it was the primary way of getting rid of barnicles, shipworm and other attaching seacreatures. I don't see why this is an additional cost.
Well it was posted on the science and math board so there's a good chance. Headline is a bit clickbaity
HD Voice is genuinely what it's called:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business-insig...

They really do sound alot better. It always reminds me of the first time I ever made a FaceTime call, in 2010, and the high quality audio was just as interesting as the video.
Maga?
If we are speaking of reading a book to completion, I’d have to admit it’s been perhaps not a full year, but a while.

I do not like to read from screens. The next book I was keen on, from the Culture series, arrived from Amazon (ordered new) with signs of heavy water damage, making it unwieldy to read. I have been in a limbo of not wanting to deal with that and not wanting to be wasteful by ordering another one. There are also more non-fiction books that have been in various stages of completion for more months than I would care to admit.

However, while I like books, I wonder if in the golden age of information (now drawing to a close) it should be expected that fewer books would be read without a decrease in literacy or education: for a while in somewhat recent past non-fiction books used to be the only way of obtaining a wide variety of information, a lot of which is now covered by numerous other sources (blogs, references, and so on).
An impressive geology lecture [video]
Land of the free after all
Another day, another eyeballed price that in no way corresponds to actual value brought to customers nor the actual cost to the provider.

20$ for basic access, OpenAI is losing money on it.
200$ for the most advanced access, OpenAI is losing money on it.

20000$ for specialised AI agents, which are not actually going to work as an agent and will need to be sheparded by a senior developer. I beg you employers, just hire juniors. Invest in human assets, invest in people. This industry is doomed otherwise.
A "bicycle" for the "mind" where the quoted words are absolutely those things.
Note that if you are being specifically targeted then a warrant to the provider would presumably net the equivalent of real time 911 location data.

As far as I understand, outside of active interception the only use for these things is warrantless dragnet surveillance of location. (And active interception is increasingly not possible due to better security practices.)
Hi Graham!

Lots of exciting things here:

- Formally stabilizing flakes has been long awaited by everyone, I think.

- Parallel evaluation will improve developer experience - evaluation speed seems to be at the top of the list of feedback I've received from colleagues whom I've invited to try Nix.

- I'm hoping lazy trees will provide a better experience for flakes in monorepos.

Unfortunately I haven't had a great experience with the Determinate Nix installer when I tried it, though that was a while ago (shortly after launch) so may warrant revisiting.

I'm also concerned about the growing schism between Determinate Systems and the Nix community, as can be seen in the Discourse thread. I think there are opportunities to strengthen that bridge, e.g. naming things perhaps such that it's not possible to misinterpret this announcement as "Nix 3.0".

I am also curious to know what is your strategy for upholding the flakes stability guarantee without forking Nix. I'm not sure what the governance structure or roadmap is of the community Nix project, but would it not be possible that the project would want to eventually introduce a breaking change (e.g. to revisit the cross-compilation or parameterization aspects) that would affect Determinate Nix users?
And why exactly do I need to login?
What counts as a book? The survey gives the impression it's just reading for pleasure?

This probably plays into the class divide, my wife hates reading (for pleasure) she says that comes from having to read a lot at work. I imagine a lot of people read quite a bit but maybe have less interest in reading in their free time for entertainment.
Hm?

They sell you security but provide you with CVEs en masse.

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/palo-alto-networks--h...
Let me say as an international PhD student- I have marched for the freedom of Palestinian people, talk about it, and I won’t allow this Big Brother tactic influence my decision one bit going forward.

The US govt can do whatever it damn pleases.
put the porno book down.
Ukrainian Nazi groups apparently always had problems making connections with other Nazi groups because they were all pro-russia
Sidenote: `Tufa Labs` team includes the `MindsAI` team of ARC-AGI fame.
https://tufalabs.ai/team.html
I've been studying their theories pretty much every day for the last 4 years. Perhaps you could be more specific?

I will gladly educate.
I probably fall into this, as long as you don't count kids books.

I just don't get much time where

* It's a decent block of time

* I won't be distracted or need to do something else

* I want to be alone

* I can be alone

* I'm mentally engaged enough

* I'm not trying to fit something else in like exercise

If you include kids books it's 1-2k but they're not really the same.
These goals are what should limit the negative effects as much as possible. Its exact opposite of “disregard for any negative effect”. Its also broadly agreed on by sciencists and experts.
What are the latest developments on this front? Still ZFS for stability, XFS for performance? Now that we have NAND storage, would we create filesystems differently? Are there ways to make a step-change in overall performance somewhere?

Disclaimer: I know nothing about filesystems..
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I can only help with RL, that's probably reinforcement learning. As far as I remember that means you let the model perform a task that can be "graded" and then depending on how well it did it get's a reward it want's to maximize. I believe (this it where I'm very insecure, I could be wrong) the neurons (weights / biases) of the neurons that where involved in reaching the highest reward get adjusted to have a bigger influece.
Yep agreed, but on the other hand do you really need HA for them when you're perhaps a single user? I wonder, what motivated you to migrate to single-node K8s from Compose for your self-hosted setup?
Why is it the same as curriculum learning? I thought it's about starting with simple, more general samples and then progressing towards more difficult and complex during training?
It can carry 1 gigabit, over a few metres. I.e. Not even the length from the street to your house.

Australia tried this, it's physically impossible.
On the same boat. With a toddler, there is almost no time to devout to a full book. I got “lucky” due to a 28 hour flight trip and managed to read 1 book.
If true, this is huge for my balding brothers.
Money is the only free thing in America

so an American citizen’s freedom is directly correlated with their net worth in USA dollars
I consider those different in that these alternatives do a lot more hand holding. While all media is geared towards being engaging and accessible, the results are different if you're going the route of most common denominator visual content, or targeted at a niche and building a long form narrative with no visual aid. Social media is specifically engineered towards a short attention span, and most shows and movies don't tickle the imagination muscle a whole lot.

While there is no doubt plenty of content out there that I am sure is actually stimulating the brain in a healthy way, I wouldn't consider it the norm for either of the media mentioned.
I'm not trying to be edgy or misanthropic but I don't understand why would you attach emotional value to the abstract concept of existence of humanity over next millennia. Isn't it the same kind of extrapolation of kin selection instincts far into the domain of values as for example favouring your race over others?

To me robots are just as cool.
Thanks for sharing this fascinating insight.

I'd expect even if we were to move towards preregistration widely, that this situation would remain to some degree. Because universities lack the resources, pressure and time needed to turn a novel idea into a commercial product. As seen with battery research, being good at one thing is not enough, the solution needs to be bad at nearly nothing to compete with li-ion. In my experience some seemingly solvable roadblocks can turn into showstoppers very late and some showstoppers were not anyones radar whiling conceptualizing the solution.
Interestingly, his seminal papers on (alongside other major contributions) solving the Poincaré conjecture weren't published in a journal but were simply uploaded on arXiv. Moreover, similar to GP's mathematician may say, Grigori quit professional mathematics not just to avoid fame but also due to disappointment over the field ethics.
Doesn’t find any of my semi secret subdomains.
Using the artcles nomenclature, in my experience (only primarily knowledge worker businesses) ever company grows from 'cowboys' into layers of 'drone management' where actual production is still relying on 'cowboys' to get the actual work done and keep the company running despite the 'processes'.

This by the way is why most big ERP, BPM,RPA projects fail. Once the pretence is codified it turns out the emperor never had any clothes.
> You judge based on the denomination first

“Authoritarian” isn't, and isn’t analogous to, a religious denomination like “Catholic" or “Protestant”.

> Corruption was the issue, not catholicism itself nor authoritarianism

“Authoritarian” as a descriptor is more like “corrupt” than it is like “Catholic”. Not that the claim that being Catholic—or, for those positively inclined toward Catholicism, Protestant or Muslim or Secular Humanist or Satanist (Church of Satan) or Satanist (The Satanic Temple)—is not bad in and of itself is an uncontroversial pillar on which to rest an analogy,