skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but there's no way Cloudflare is making that kind of mistake. If it was a random person on HN talking about how they'd hooked up a bespoke hardware RNG to their TLS stack I'd write some tut-tutting thing about what could go wrong, but here the security of their system collapses down to the LRNG just like every else's.
That is only insider information for the person making the trade.
Ain't is also common in the US, but is stigmatized.

In the US, it is regional to the east coast, both north and south. It is also common in African American speech.
What this means is that in the next 5 years Microsoft will name 3 different things X.
>You could always make sure it could only increase and not decrease privacy or what have you.

How could one "make sure" of this, and with what authority?

>Similarly, the "expire every 19 years" must always be included and must never be removed.

Again, says who? The constitution has expired, and with it any legal basis for such a requirement.
Right, the Wired article is just a 1:1 reprint of the Quanta article. Both lack a substantive description of the algorithms in question
While we're talking about representations, there's something I've always wondered. Why are the objects that the maps which are the representations act on also called representations? Spinors don't act as the spinor group, S ⊂ Hom(Spinor,Spinor) does.
Please formulate your critique instead of simply labeling it with negative words.
Apparently the biggest problems are line of sight interruptions and cost:

> The team has figured out how to compensate for potential line-of-sight interruptions like bird flights, rain, and wind. (Fog is the biggest impediment)

> “It’s fast and reliable but quite expensive.” He says he spent around $30,000 for the last light bridge setup he bought from Alphabet for testing.

Interesting that Meta was working on similar tech but abandoned the project:

Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-google-taara-chip-inte...

More on Meta's internet via lasers project:

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/facebook-zuckerberg-internet-o...
> Really it's hard to point to any popular open-source tools that fully support HTTP/3: rollout has barely even started.

> This seems contradictory. What's going on?

IT administrators and DevOps engineers such as myself typically terminate HTTP/3 connections at the load balancer, terminate SSL, then pass back HTTP 1.1 (_maybe_ 2 if the service is GRPC or GraphQL) to the backing service. This is way easier to administer and debug, and is supported by most reverse proxies. As such, there's not much need for HTTP/3 in server side languages like Golang and Python, as HTTP/1.1 is almost always available (and faster and easier to debug!) in the datacenter anyways.

HTTP/3 and IPv6 are mobile centric technologies that are not well suited for the datacenter. They really shine on ephemeral spotty connections, but add a lot of overhead in a scenario where most connections between machines are static, gigabit, low-latency connections.
Build one city of Houston where? That's the issue. There are plenty of empty housings, the problem is it's not where people want/need to live.
>The link provided, from the USA gov. You may check other sources as well.

I'm questioning the "too fast" part. Not the specific numbers.

>And within Canada or France. But here we are.

"Housing might be scarce, but that's due to political factors"
I worked for an investment bank and on the inside no one even pretends, it's just a part of the job.
your graphic card isn't a stock market.
Earshot NGO analyzed recorded sounds and found 4 of these videos "consistent with Vortex Ring Gun or Vortex Cannon":

https://x.com/earshot_ngo/status/1901661518153781534

Note that many videos didn't record the sound if the phone was further away from that center line.

This is the recording which perhaps captured sound the best:

https://x.com/stonexman/status/1901034916961309148
I wonder why Mistral with Mistral Small 24B and Google with Gemma 3 27B aren't comparing against Qwen 2.5 32B in their press releases. As far as I understand it is a clear competitor in capability, model size and licensing of the weights.

That said: great to see a multimodal take on Mistral Small and it's really exciting to have more strong options in the 14B-32B range.
My general feeling is that folks tend to have somewhat unreliable memories about how early certain things got cheap. Catalogs are not perfect, but they don't change over time. That said, I managed to find a Computer Shopper from August 1992 on the Internet Archive [0]. There definitely are some systems in there advertised at the $1K price point with HD and monitor (though generally no sound card), but also a lot of sellers with nothing that cheap for a complete system.

Not sure what the proper conclusion is about how competitive the pricing of the 600 was from that, but I think the catalog does reinforce how much further in the hole they were a bit higher up the price chart. If you wanted to spend a bit more, the only 1st party offering from Commodore until the fall of 1992 was the Amiga 3000. Not sure what they were charging for one of those at the time, but apart from the builtin SCSI I don't think it compares very favorably with a 386DX with SVGA and those weren't all that expensive by then. The 4000 did launch a little after this catalog, but it was priced much higher than the 486 systems that were already on the market.

[0] https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-august-1992/
> They're more concerned with being a paramilitary police force versus stopping or preventing neighborhood crime.

Didn't they pull back on enforcement of quality of life crimes when the previous DA stopped prosecuting criminals? You can't expect the police to arrest criminals knowing full well the DA is immediately going to drop or reduce charges and let them loose.
Related Rippling (YC W17) Sues HR Software Rival Deel (YC W19) for Trade Secret Theft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391083
Fog is a bigger problem, it says here. (Also heavy snow, per the RONJA link in the other comment.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_optical_wireless_co...

This problem was possibly solved in the ten years since it defeated those four or five startups? Or not solved, who can say.
It succeeded because it was the only company to only sell EVs. That means everyone who wants to buy a gas guzzler is funding Tesla. In the past decade, over 40% of all of Tesla's revenue is carbon credits
Also alliterative.
Oh, so cycleMap is a non-threadsafe structure? I don't know golang so I didn't realize this.
> As someone who personally knows people in the industry, I'm pretty confident in saying that TSLA will never actually deliver any type of robust, safe autonomous driving system. The organization itself is just not capable of it anymore.

Very much so. I think it's at least a decade out, and when it comes, it won't be from Tesla. Like you say, the org mindset isn't there. I'm reminded of this story from a component manufacturer about the mindset of Tesla:

"Hey, we sent you over the new firmware for the component, check it out." (The test suite for this component takes approximately 36 hours to execute.)

Three hours later:

"This is working so much better, thanks a lot!"

"???"

"Oh, we just flashed a car we have here and took it out for a drive."

"?!?"

Oof.
Funny, I got the same answer from my neighbor when I asked him how much the NSA satellites can see.
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Blue means iMessage, and supports iMessage features.

Green means not-iMessage and supports SMS / MMS / RCS features.

Presumably when Apple rolls this out, both blue and green messages could be end-to-end encrypted. It remains to be seen whether Apple will add an indicator for RCS (and potentially iMessage) encrypted messages. I could imagine them being jerks about it and not indicating when green messages are just as secure as iMessage, or they adjust their messages that iMessage is more secure/private because Apple trusts their own key exchange more than RCS.
Wild if true.
Your analogy is bad because this doesn't happen at a public place. People can't privately sell goods between each other. If someone someone sells their gold to a gold buying shop, that was not a public auction, yet people are still able to price gold.
For education's sake and better internet search terms, there's some terms for this, the most popular of which is "embarassingly parallel": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel

And agreed; coordination costs are negligible next to the cost of the calculation, so it should be effectively linear, and dominated by the luck of the draw on when the correct key is selected.
A market is a market, is it not?
and Benjamin Sisko, too
It technically is! The ACLU has a model ordinance called CCOPS, which it encourages municipalities to pass (I got my own muni to pass a version of it last year), and it includes an expansive definition of "surveillance" that definitely includes tools that read public posts on social media.

Importantly, CCOPS doesn't forbid surveillance; it simply requires new instantiations of it to be approved at an open board meeting. Things like Dataminr would almost certainly pass.
That's exactly it. Thank you.
Of course starlink stations scoop mac addresses. They are in this way equivalent to and on par with every other wifi router.

A Tesla vehicle could also scoop up visible mac addresses, and is equally as capable of doing so as every other wifi-enabled device with closed source firmware.

Android phones have been scooping wifi mac addresses, pairing them with GPS data, and sending that to google for at least 7 years: https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/how-google-uses-wi-fi-n...

Apple probably has an equivalent system.

Privacy-wise, Tesla is shitty but not extraordinarily shitty. Their surveillance capabilities do not differentiate them from among the multitudes. Let's assume maximum maliciousness. Assuming you don't own one, could Tesla track you particularly better than, say, Square? Or Google? Or Palantir? Or Comcast? Or any cell phone company? Or whomever it is that owns the cameras at each traffic light intersection?
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There's not much to it to be honest. If you've got Home Assistant running then https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake_on_lan/ will sort you out, and I have Parsec (https://parsec.app) installed on my desktop so that it starts on boot.
Given the choice between glass or stainless steel, I'd still go with glass because it's easier to directly see dirty spots that you may have missed when scrubbing with the bottle brush and also because there's no risk of corrosion from bleach or other cleaning agents if bacteria/mold does start growing inside. If you're really thorough with cleaning and disciplined about doing it regularly, those might not be considerations.

[EDIT] I'd also give the nod to glass if you like flavorants with your water. I sometimes use a bit of lemon juice powder (not lemonade drink mix, that's something different; lemon juice powder is lemon juice that has been dehydrated with no additives) and stainless steel can develop corrosion pits from mildly acidic liquids over time.
Optical fiber is absolutely the simplest and best option for almost any form of long distance connectivity. Maybe this technology will become cost/performance competitive in about 15 years after the HFT firms have invested billions trying to extract an extra cent out of our financial markets.
The graphics card would repesent a stock. Both are a good.
It's quite fashionable, people call it "vibe coding" with Cursor in "yolo mode"
What about Waymo?
> You can't expect the police to arrest criminals knowing full well the DA is immediately going to drop or reduce charges and let them loose.

You can't expect the police to do their jobs?
I think it's weird that they (Alexa, Google etc) haven't tried to do something new with generative AI assistants.
Both types of landlord have their own problems.

Personally I’d prefer the state to own more properties.
I don't know for sure what Gibson intended. I don't even know if Gibson knows what Gibson intended. But I've always visualized it as black & white snow / static. To me (given my age, etc) that's the iconic view of what a "TV tuned to a dead channel" looks like.
Heaven help us if we can buy anything that isn't owned by the 10 largest corporations in the world. FTC is a joke at this point.
This. What's the difference between hft and gambling? Yet we put tight rules on gambling.
Fine, is OpenAI doing "manipulation" when they buy 10k H100s from nvidia directly, rather than on the open market?
Those are all fine examples but we see cooperative action on both smal and large scales, formal and informal... the heap of edge cases becomes so large i=t becomes clear that Hume is just not correct. It's more complicated.
That's very charitable to those in power. Believe me when I tell you most don't give two hoots about looting and vandalism.

You don't break up a gathering because there's the possibility of crimes occurring unless you live in an authoritarian society.
> Tens of thousands of people have worked on these products

I agree with the sentiment, but that seems like a vast overestimation on who would actually know what the device collects. More sophisticated things than this have been made with less. Programmers often have siloed concerns, and PMs only know what their incentives are. It's not hard to imagine less than a hundred people knowing, and what percentage of those people care about us?

Do we have some data that suggests tens of thousands of people have had an integral role in Alexa?
10 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278 129 comments
No, hospital doesn’t, but my group does often mix business and pleasure and I don’t have the luxury of ignoring them even if I happen to be on call.

The multiple-dial might help if we had a fixed location, but we don’t. Getting boosters or microcells in dead spots is just now happening, but the IT department could also enable WiFi calling, which they block.

It’s a long litany of hair-pulling.
LAPD has never been anything but a violent gang, and the DA didn't "stop prosecuting criminals"
That's not the market they're going for though. They're more of a competitor to Starlink

There's also obvious applications to places where weather is more predictable. There's plenty of areas and small towns in the Great Basin region that have basically no internet. This would be a quick and easy way to set those places up with internet with more reliability than something like starlink
Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
Why land surveying? Is it AI proof? Thanks for the reply
Do all trades get reported to some agency of the government (including those done in private rooms)?

Do companies themselves know who owns their shares (including those done in private rooms)?

If the answer is no to either or both of the above, doesn't that create all sorts of ownership problems? As an analogy, I'm imagining a country where there is no reliable municipal property registry, and no one knows who owns a particular house. Wouldn't that create chaos?
This link again?

I'm baffled by insistent behavior like this. I think it is just alienating people and even if they move ecosystems, the negative impression will stay.

If you engage in bad faith behavior in a technical discussion, can you be expected to conduct yourself acceptably in a professional setting? Unlikely.

This is a discussion about HTTP/3 support of all things. Why does it happen only when someone leaves a briefly positive note on C#? I don't know any other language (besides PHP, to an extent) that gets the same amount of hate.
One doesn’t need to rewrite an entire library; they only need the bits that they need, and should only implement those things. That is almost always going to be necessarily much smaller target.

If enough of these supply chain attacks keep happening, I’m going to become more and more of a hardliner about this. If we believe that we’re getting better as developers over time, on average, then surely this won’t be a problem in most cases.

Also, at no point have I been talking about anything like OpenSSL, or oauth libraries or anything that EVERYONE uses and needs. That doesn’t make sense. But a GitHub action that runs “git status”? I have a hard time telling someone to use any library for that, and that’s what the action this post is about does.
To be fair, Tesla is also producing actual drivable cars.

(Maybe that's why it's surprising that it's declining so soon.)
I looked it up and found this: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nasa_std_601...

I quickly read through and found it fascinating.
Archival Storage
Well, it does have the advantage of being actively maintained. If not necessarily very well. Recently, I had the fun of noting that their app was no longer behaving correctly with endnote links, and they suggested that my links were coded wrong. I pointed out that they were not, were standards-compliant and worked fine in every other epub reader I had. Even ADE! So I don't know what they were trying to do.
The maintainer jackton1's response to this is extremely shady. He tries to prove his innocence by showing that renovate bot changed the author of the malicious commit but I'm betting he's behind the whole thing.
One of the things I like about C is I can download a statically-compiled native GCC for use on a computer with modest amounts of memory, storage and a relatively old, slow CPU. Total size uncompressed is 242.3MB.

Using this I can statically compile a cross-compiler. Total size uncompressed 169.4MB.

I use GCC to compille zlib and a wide variety of other software. I can build an operating system from the ground up.

Perhaps someday during my lifetime it will be possible to compile programs written in Rust using inexpensive computers with modest amounts of memory, storage and relatively slow CPUs. Meanwhille, there is C.
I didn’t know there were still bottles using BPA, is that true?

We are a big Nalgene bottle family, as the wide mouths are easy to drink and clean from, and the caps are attached since our children would lose them instantly.

I’ve always had side eye to narrow mouths bottles, even Nalgene because it’s hard to clean without a brush.

I like the idea of stainless steel bottles a great deal, but a few detriments. The greatest is since they are have a steel to plastic/silicone interface they are harder to seal tight — always seem to leak. They also all tend to be made in China, and I’m unclear if they are coated inside or if the plastic cap is BPA free — Nalgene are US made by a scientific supply company which makes plastics for labs, so content is very controlled. Even though microplastics probably still issue with Titan polyester bottles.

Plastic bottles are also much cheaper and lighter, as for kids to carry around and frequently lose.

I’m not sure if sanitizing plastic is good or not — I remember dishwashing trigger BPA release from the polycarbonate Nalgenes.

So soapy hot water and let it sit for ten minutes, rinse, and air dry. Will give it a try!
second chance pool? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Harvard has never needed to charge a single student tuition at any point in my lifetime, it's just a polite fiction over their real business (as a tax exempt hedge fund that launders prestige for its connected donors). Note that they would never take advantage of their financial situation by admitting more students, because that would go against their real goals as an institution.
This is where tech arrogance comes in. We very much like to believe we’re the zero.

Judging by how much hyper-consumerist behavior I see in myself and my coworkers, we’re not. Everyone is constantly buying shit they don’t need and then justifying it.
Well, can you really expect an LLM to regurgitate e.g. the quarter-of-square method [0] without specifically prompting it for it?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/040573c0
Markets are supposed to be decision makers, and having pricing information be public helps firms and other allocators take better decisions. The question at hand is if the flow of information today is so fast that it deters smart decision makers because of other participants who can extract their decisions from them before they can act on them. Wether you believe markets should be more or less opaque should be decided by where you sit on this spectrum imo.
I haven't heard of microwave internet. Any recommended readings?
sure, i see cars where maga and greatful dead bumperstickers coexist, but overall this narrative of hippies becoming selfish seems a bit like a fallacy where we're attempting to understand the aggregated group behavior as if it were a single coherent individual

there was a small segment of boomers that were hippies, but there was a much larger segment that was resentful of the hippies. they were cleancut and voted for nixon. and then a few years later they REALLY voted for reagan.
Will probably play around with this, looks slick.

For folks looking for some other options I bought this cheap server raceway: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008VFAP. Super nice to run the cables into the slots and then let the mess be inside there. I screwed one part into the desk and the cover I cut into 4 pieces so I can remove only one piece if I need to move cords around or whatever.

3d printed a few pieces for power supplies and a power strip but for the most part all cables go to the raceway. I had something similar to this original "underware" at some point but it was a pain in the ass whenever I changed cables/etc. So many extra holes in the bottom of my desk now
C# has a strong high level feature set and lower level tools to keep performance up. The language itself is well designed and consistent. Its able to mix functional and OO features without being dogmatic, leading to better dev-x over all.

ASP is actually very good these days and feels cleaner than Spring Boot. There's less choice but the available choices are good. It has arguably the best gRPC implementation. It's just a nice experience over all.
https://archive.ph/O9f3E
It's interesting at 36 to look back at what I think would disrupt connectivity a decade ago:

- Google Fiber (it wasn't possible to do it cheaper than incumbents, so it devolved to standard incumbent x why would 40% margin company invest billions to get Comcast's peak profit margin of ~15% profit)

- Starry Internet (too expensive to build out, I have it and it's good, but the company certainly didn't scale)

- 5G in general (strictly inferior to incumbent, speed isn't faster, latency is higher, not as reliable)

It's hard for me to wrap my mind around why this would work at all, sounds like a more-susceptible-to-bad-conditions version of Starry.

I keep wondering how people make Starlink work, my understanding is the connection degrades then stops then reconnects every...idk, 5 minutes? as the satellites go overhead.
American cars already are irrelevant globally aren't they? The only US car brands I tend to see in Europe are Tesla (not for long though), and Jeep and Chrysler which are now French / Italian owned.
Question, how does DiceDB differ from Redis pub/sub? https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/interact/pubsub/
Just murmurs through the grapevine from people internal over there. I trust what I'm hearing but its nothing official or concrete.
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