skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, if I was in charge of LockMart, I'd be really angry. I'd suspect that some kind of cryptocurrency bribe was involved. I don't know what resort Boeing has here, given how the courts have ruled recently.
I think they think when that happens they'll change it. Or they'll change it on a schedule... "Just use HTTPS" is good enough for every website and web app on the planet (including ones that handle more messages than the entire country of France) but not a state intelligence agency can't keep their TLS keys secret?
I think Tim was right, it's 2025, Nvidia just released their 50 series, but I don't see any cards, let alone GPUs.
Yes that's the idea, and now I'm wondering why I'm being downvoted. Maybe the patent trolls don't like it.
> Fascist behavior and actions aren't limited to the political right wing.

Fascism is a right-wing political ideology, not a set of personal/non-governmental behaviors and actions.

So while this is a series of words that grammatically forms of a structurally valid sentence, it doesn't actually have any meaning.
Russian Names (2018)
Would you like to explain how directing your user agent to use the internet just as you would in order to complete a task or solve a problem is "mass scraping"?
Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
I implemented some evolutionary computation stuff on the Cell BE in college. It was a really interesting machine and could be very fast for its time but it was somewhat painful to program.

The main cores were PPC and the Cell cores were… a weird proprietary architecture. You had to write kernels for them like GPGPU, so in that sense it was similar. You couldn’t use them seamlessly or have mixed work loads easily.

Larrabee and Xeon Phi are closer to what I’d want.

I’ve always wondered about many—many-many-core CPUs too. How many tiny ARM32 cores could you put on a big modern 5nm die? Give each one local RAM and connect them with an on die network fabric. That’d be an interesting machine for certain kinds of work loads. It’d be like a 1990s or 2000s era supercomputer on a chip but with much faster clock, RAM, and network.
Why does this concern apply to the French intelligence agency but not, say, the code signing certificate for Whatsapp?
I always heard SCSI as scuzzy, never with an A sound
It has the words "police state" right in the title. Is that a term you've never heard before?
You're Clever Hans-ing yourself into thinking there's more going on than there is.

Machine learning models can do this and have been for a long time. The only thing different here is there's some generated text to go along with it with the "reasoning" entirely made up ex post facto
I made a mistake and misinterpreted your comment as about past administrations. Sorry
First, it's not "America", it's "The Americas" -- we're talking about the two continents, right? The New World?

Second, that's the word we use in English. If you've lived here for millenia, you can use the appropriate word in your own language.
I think this is an excellent point that a lot of people are missing.

There are a lot of GNU utils. For now, Ubuntu is only taking on the ones that are actually in coreutils. Those are the ones that uutils considers "production ready".
> Over time, the meaning of the word 'Xerox' changed. More specifically, it gained a new meaning. For a long time, Xerox only referred to a company named in 1961. Some time in the late 60s, it started to be used as a verb, and as I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, the word 'Xerox' was overwhelmingly used in its verb form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbqAMEwtOE#t=5m58s I don't think this dramatization (of a court proceedings from 2010) is related to Xerox's plight with losing their trademark, but said dramatization is brilliant nonetheless
Inmos was a disaster. No application ever shipped on one. EVER. It used a serial bus to resolve the problems that should have never been problems. Clearly you never wrote code for one. Each oslink couldn't reach more than 3 feet. What a disaster that entire architecture was.
As far as I know there was an earlier project called "Hot or Not" where Zuck and some others scraped Harvard's students roster to build.
I acknowledge that industrial farmers go to university, etc, but of the 8 billion people, most of the farmers probably dont really know whats going on. they just know what to sorta do with the plants.

which was true 10,000 years ago before humans even know what cells or photosynthesis was. people had farms then.

so the point is, even without a genuine understanding, if the causal relationship between seeding parts of the ocean and the desired result is achieved, then an understanding wouldnt be necessary.
The "security" in Wayland, Snaps and Flatpaks are starting to irk me. Macros aren't working, clipboard forgets my copy, drag n' drop is flimsy - AppImages like Cursor can't even open on vanilla Ubuntu anymore. These "features" no one asked for should be opt-in.
Oh, and Llama is pretty cool.
On flattening address spaces: the road not taken here is to run everything in something akin to the JVM, CLR, or WASM. Do that stuff in software not hardware.

You could also do things like having the JIT optimize the entire running system dynamically like one program, eliminating syscall and context switch overhead not to mention most MMU overhead.

Would it be faster? Maybe. The JIT would have to generate its own safety and bounds checking stuff. I’m sure some work loads would benefit a lot and others not so much.

What it would do is allow CPUs to be simpler, potentially resulting in cheaper lower power chips or more cores on a die with the same transistor budget. It would also make portability trivial. Port the core kernel and JIT and software doesn’t care.
I totally forgot to hit "Reply" to this. Apologies!

> Are you an historian?

I published some work in undergrad but stopped afterward (much to the chagrin of my professors.) I still keep up with historian circles, folks who either are academic historians or participate in the general community.

> I know people will often use a digital scan, a reliable transcription, etc., and not necessarily the original - but then isn't that based on the assumption that it's a reliable representation of the original?

Veracity of a source is a very, very complicated topic in historical research. Sometimes documents are authoritative. For example, the American Declaration of Independence is a well-preserved document that has been commented on millions of times at this point and has many, many copies. We can be very sure that the Declaration of Independence exists and says what it says. This isn't the case for a lot of historical documents.

Until use of the printing press became widespread in a culture, distributing copies of documents was laborious. Usually a scribe would have to read the original and copy it. Writing media from this time (paper, parchment, tablets, etc) were also usually expensive. Each document was usually considered an individual work of art and so even if a scribe was copying a document, we had no idea whether the scribe editorialized the work, forgot to copy some of the work, or otherwise modified its original intent. That means that while we may find a document with a title in our modern era, we don't know if that document was the authoritative original or even if the contemporary readers actually consumed the version of the document we have in our possession or a different edition.

Then there's the question of veracity of the claims of the document itself. A lot of surveys and statistics from historical writings are false. There are usually numerous cultural and political reasons for this (maybe the culture didn't count women as people, maybe the culture only counted landholders, maybe the author didn't see a certain tribe in the area as people to be counted, etc.) and so even when we're reasonably confident of when a document was authored and by whom it's hard to be certain of the veracity of its claims.
Cache has no cachét, if done right (other than speed of access)
History often rhymes because we clearly aren't teaching it effectively enough. Every six-year-old schoolkid should understand the Cobra Effect (perverse incentive) and how to recognize it around them and in their own thinking.
No, it’s more economical to use a fixture with built in LEDs and an external LED driver that will last for 10 years.
As a French, English is my default language for most queries on the web, but it wouldn't cross my mind to look up for a recipe in English. I also find that we have a lot of good science/maths youtube channels.
The way the run the departments is up to the President is my point. Here, the President decided it would be best to cut down the ED as much as possible. Doing it via Congress would in all likelihood be impossible, Congress cannot get anything done these days, so the best way to get it done is via executive order.
for price of heat pump you can buy 3-6 times bigger PV array.

heatpumps are not expensive but they are not cheap COMPARED to other alternative. cop is not constant, it changes. closer the outside temperature and indoor temperate is, less work is needed / higher COP heat pump provides.

buying 4 times more panels gives you always 4 times more energy. in -40F you get 4 times more energy from 4 times bigger pv array. heat pump will probably just start running integrated resistive heater IN THESE temperatures.

heat pump can be configured in a way that it not only heats but also cools, so yes in that situation heat pump can be cheaper. then not having one and be less comfortable / productive because of it.

you can buy PV system and after it paid itself, it still works, still generates electricity. gas can not be 0 $. so depends what / how you calculate things.
> I still don't get why Euros are so freaking upset that USA decided it wants to operate differently. Why doesn't usa have that right.

Why doesn't the EU have the right to their tax rules and what their courts decide?

You're framing this as if the US is doing something that has nothing to do with the EU.
Actually, this fund is THE money printer. Ever increasing in value, not directly usable but great for accounting. It can be used to balance real spending.
You are extrapolating from the past into the future, but a lot has consolidated in the last five years. You used to need babel to use crucial language features that are now supported across the board, at the same time the avalanche of new language features has subsided.

Conditional types (not statements) are not a basic feature.
A more accurate description might be “stole and used to make a pile of profit speculating on a memecoin”
Weren't there any other solutions? (Searching ...) Norton? Citrix? VNC?
yeah but one of the reasons why land value for single family homes is even higher is due to the zoning constraints which cause what I like to call "land value spillover" effects. Land value in suburbs an hour from a city center is higher than it naturally would be because zoning constraints closer to the city center cause housing demand to spread out across a larger geographic area. To give an example in the bay area, the cities of Livermore and Concord primarily exist in the form and population they do today because more homes could not be built closer to the core of the bay area, not to mention places like Antioch, Brentwood, and Tracy.
Ask HN: What tricks do you use to protect yourself against cyber attack?
Let’s hear it… As developers and engineers, I think we should all adopt the “assume breach” mentality.

Do you have your own personal tricks to stay safe?

I’ll start:
I like to drop canary tokens on my personal machines, servers, and even in the AWS config file under the "admin" profile. I also use an old Raspberry Pi running knockd that triggers a simple bash script to alert me via Slack if someone scans my home network.

I used to have a cron job that hit my server’s website on specific URL paths, one for HTTP and a different one for HTTPS.

Each path included an encrypted version of current Wi-Fi name. Every time those endpoints were accessed, I’d get a Slack notification. The idea was that if someone managed to MITM my traffic and got curious enough to check the URLs, it would alert me.

There’s more, but I’m curious—what tricks do other HN-ers use?
To be clear, Bluey was actually the most streamed show in 2024.
> Rocky Linux is one of many choices for a RHEL-compatible distribution. I would also say CentOS Stream is also a viable choice.

One of the main value propositions of RHEL (and RHL before it) is that each distro version has a fixed ABI throughout (kernel included), making it a valid compilation target for binary-only software. Neither Stream nor even Alma are that.
There are two Japanese operating system development books I wish have English translations because they take you as far as getting a graphical environment with windows working [0], one of the books is even a 30-days challenge of sort [1].

Here is someone's take on MikanOS [0]
https://github.com/uchan-nos/mikanos

And another one on 30-days Homemade OS [1]
https://github.com/kamaboko123/30daysOS

An attempt to translate "30-days Homemade OS" [1] to English but it didn't get far https://github.com/handmade-osdev/os-in-30-days

I do not know of any English book nor article that go this far, except Fusion but the graphical environment chapter is not done yet [2]

[0] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4839975868 - MikanOS

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00IR1HYI0 - 30-days Homemade OS

[2] https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev/ - Fusion, an OS made in Nim
The Persian Gulf would be a goldmine for this.
Obviously you missed the sarcasm.
No, Hot or Not had no connection to Zuckerberg, and no connection to Harvard. You may be thinking of Zuckerberg’s Facesmash.
I'm old, and hate the bastardization of language when it's done out of ignorance, and particularly when it's done with some sort of manipulative agenda.

But this is a perfectly reasonable new term, describing an interesting subset of 'avatar' that has its own unique traits, and that is useful to distinguish from other types of avatar. Getting upset at that is like getting upset that somebody used the term 'recliner' instead of a 'chair'.
Here's RDP over ssh, per one commenter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43441584
> It comes up constantly, just not by politicians and lobbyists with ulterior motives.

Thanks for your useful comments, I hadn't heard much discussion of the issue but I'm pleased someone is talking about it.

Wrt LLMs filling the gap, given non-techs rather wide-eyed view of what they can, or will, do, I'm concerned that the discourse will become one of "don't worry we've got ai on the job".
Everything in uutils is under the MIT license. The only thing you're missing is the "viral" nature of the GPL. Nobody in the BSD world seems to be particularly suffering under the thumb of unreleased forks of `chown` and `mkdir`.
> the fact that the Republicans are telling companies "You can't discriminate against employees because of their race or gender"

That’s not at all what’s being said. What’s being said is “you can’t ever do any outreach if you wonder why women aren’t applying for your roles. You can’t ask if a college degree is actually necessary for your role. You can’t ensure that veterans, who may lack professional experience but nevertheless have relevant non-professional experience, are considered.”

It’s weird how many people have bought into right-wing messaging on DEI, woke, and CRT before that - terms most of y’all probably can’t define.

But even beyond that, I work in data. There is negative value to having a team of people who all think and approach data questions the same way, because they have the same background. There is immense value in having a diverse team. I don’t particularly give a shit if that makes some 20something white dude sad because he thinks hiring should be purely checkboxes who has the highest score in the bar chart. He was probably going to be a garbage employee anyway, regardless of his credentials.
a sexy adventure.
i met a hot japanese girl online. i wanted to meet her but during covid japan was closed. so i enrolled in a year at a japanese language school to get a student visa.

well now we are married, baby is due soon. and i can speak japanese.

in a couple years well be making a slightly larger cottage back in the US and then ill be a cottage man again.

whenever we are having a tough day, we just think of waking up to the blue sky and chirping birds in the countryside. but now the vision includes little feet
Good attempt at caricature or is it humour?
Do Anglo North American American-Indians also share the practice with Latin North American American-Indians as well as South American Indians? I thought that was mostly a Mexican isthmus thing in the Americas.
Want to preserve biodiversity? Go big, researchers say
Given who this this, the source of information is a dramatic improvement over past sources.
This man is my hero. What an absolute legend
Time and money are interchangeable.
It can make a huge difference in performance and batterylife, as well as how well images are rendered. I learned this by chance through this (great) site https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-f...

This was after a year or two of suffering through bad performance and a janky experience. Except for the purchased books of course. Somehow I never thought it was possible to fix.
I get an adrenaline rush just reading it
I love RDP! It really is an impressive technology. I work in-office somewhere, and when I'm on campus, RDPing into my desk laptop from a conference room client has native performance, with audio even.

What is the best remote desktop server for Linux?
Not that I'm particularly convinced myself but you quoted the part about the prior paper, not the one the link was talking about:

> The current paper presents more realistic mathematical and computer models. It incorporates factors such as socially driven mating, physical barriers of geography and migration, and recorded historical events.
My gut is telling me you're being intentionally obtuse but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. To reiterate in detail:

AI is poised to disrupt large swaths of the workforce. If large swaths of the workforce are disrupted this necessarily means a bunch of people will see their income negatively impacted (job got replaced by AI). Broke people by definition don't have money to spend on things, and will prioritize tier one of Maslow's Hierarchy out of necessity. Since shit like pergolas and oil changes are not directly on tier 1 they will be deprioritized. This in turn cuts business to blue collar service providers. Net result: everyone who isn't running an AI company or controlling some currently undefined minimum amount of capital is fucked.

If you're trying to suggest that any notional increases in productivity created by AI will in any way benefit working class individuals either individually or as a group you are off the edge of the map economically speaking. Historical precedents and observed executive tier depravity both suggest any increase in productivity will be used as an excuse to cut labor costs.
> to them the relevant knowledge is knowledge of what voters will
support or tolerate

That's relevant knowledge. It's not the relevant knowledge. Another
piece of relevant knowledge is facts about complex things like
political science, cryptography, etc. Since politicians actually need
to decide and implement things, as a side gig to being popular,
lack of the proper knowledge to do so is a shortcoming.

> I would like to know what the public opinion on these issues is

Not big sample sizes, but I regularly ask and interview people from
all sides of life, and to a simple question like "Do you think the
police should spy on you if that catches criminals?" the answer is
always a resounding "no". Especially young people. They just way "No
way. We're not criminals". They "arguments" may be choppy, muddy
waters, but I don't think peoples feelings about being spied on is
much of a mystery.
That I presume is just the natural evolution of language, their origins fade away, they become culturally assimilated, and pronounced more in line with the hosts. Nothing new. But interesting nonetheless. I don't have a definitive answer but I presume it was something like that.
The last 2 paragraphs of this interview with David Chisnall really made me think differently about that: https://lobste.rs/s/ttr8op/lobsters_interview_with_david_chi...

In particular:

> I think the GPL has led to fairly noticeable increase in the amount of proprietary software in the world as companies that would happily adopt a BSDL component decide to create an in-house proprietary version rather than adopt a GPL’d component.

It also aligns with my experience: my company couldn’t find an LZO compression library that wasn’t GPL’d, so the decision was between implementing one in-house or cutting the feature. We ended up restricting use of the feature to in-house use only, but opening up our core source code was never an option.

If there had been a permissive license option available, we would’ve likely donated (as we do to several other dependencies), and would’ve contributed any fixes back (because that’s easier to explain to customers than “here’s our patched version”).
I was thinking this would involve farming the mining (the energy intensive part) out to clients. That basically just means they have to do sha hashes at some difficulty. The good thing is if you do 10 hashes at difficulty 5 you'd expect one to also pattern match difficulty 6, so I expect even low-difficulty hashing will eventually result in a block mine.

Of course it isn't very secure because if the client sees a mined block they might have the technical savvy keep it. But you'd be forcing big web scrapers to run a horribly inefficient mining operation and they'd hate it. Plus you can run a blacklist of hated clients and double the difficulty for them, which is very low-cost for false positives and very high-cost for real scrapers - that isn't a result of using Bitcoin but it'd be funny.
Thanks I did not know this.
Those students would all drop out and start meditating. That would be a fun course. Speed run developing for all the prickly architectures of the 80s and 90s.
These comments are frightening since they throw away decades worth of work and stability for whatever is being advocated for right now. How do we know that we can trust Rust developers to actively maintain a project when they seem eager to follow whatever the most current thing is? It’s the same situation with the Asahi Linux lead dev that quit at temporary pushback. There’s no faith that they will actually be committed to it.
No one in, or on the border of, the United States should use a biometric lock.

The police can apparently force you to unlock

E.g., https://proceedings.nyumootcourt.org/2023/11/press-to-unlock...
Any thought about a pass-through server for various non-local databases?

It should be extremely simple for databases that support ADBC (for example Snowflake, PostgreSQL).

For others it might just be a matter of mapping DDL, DML, DQL, etc to a supported database protocol driver (JDBC, ODBC, etc). Of course this is where things may get challenging as it would become the responsibility of your server to convert result to Arrows (tables/streams/etc). But could potentially be delegated to "worker" Flight servers (not a Flight SQL server) and then the server could return/forward their Arrow results (Flight results).

Of course some of this is to some degree already possible through DuckDB's MySQL/Postgres Extensions.

I imagine this could also be useful for developing/testing locally?

It might also provide a way to interchange databases while potentially easing database migrations (vendor to vendor) if ADBC isn't supported by the vendor.

Another potential value-addition could be to provide SQL dialect management by providing Substrait conversions (or sqlglot but looks like the server is Java, so unsure if possible, maybe Graal?).
Direct injected gasoline engines have a high pressure fuel pump (in addition to the electrical low pressure) mechanically powered by the crank