skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it seem like a bad idea to trust something that is probablistically correct with security?
Thanks for the encouragement! I admit to being a bit intimidated by it.
Perhaps. But I'm sure Microsoft releasing Agent mode at the same time is not a coincidence.
This is really cool, is it OK if we iterate on the design?
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I own three of their systems, one since 2019

They are far and away the leader in quality affordable robots that are able to be used in real life at a reasonable price point

You can hack on em and add a lot of capability

I’ve worked with a lot of robots and they are leaps ahead of everyone, and have a good supply chain that can actually deliver

All of their control policies are developed with RL too so they are improving all the time
Europe is also seeing far-right ideology spreading and taking over mainstream politics so this really isn’t an American problem only right now.
Not everyone is a deontologist, some are moral naturalists and others still are utilitarians.
The problem with Americans is that they believe themselves to be temporarily embarrassed millionaires. In its original context we find this a funny if depressing cliche but when applied to our current context I think it explains in a very dark way why no one does anything and collective defense never forms.
That's just I²C with some features disabled. It doesn't add any of the things I²C is lacking.

Well, okay, I guess SMBus ARP kind of does. Thanks!
Well that would be something. Assuming it's not being delivered via Apple Intelligence summaries.
Why does the US need to do this?

> Canada exports 45 billion CAD (USD ~30 billion) yearly, mostly to the USA

https://vizhub.com/curran/canadian-exports-to-us-treemap?mod...

According to this (2022) it seems lower than that?
Do they share the original CT scans?
> the same way how various LLMs for programming have been trained even on codebases that they had no business using, yet nobody hasn’t and won’t stop them

I remember the discourse on HN a few years ago when GitHub Copilot came out, and well, people were missing the fact that the GitHub terms and conditions (T&C) explicitly permits usage of code for analytic purposes (of which training is implicitly part), so it turns out that if one did not want such training, they should not have hosted on GitHub in the first place, because the website T&C was clear as day.
operational.co is a good open source alternative if you're in the product space.
Wow that was interesting. Every track I listened to had this beat that was way too fast and heavy for me, at least it's not something I could listen to when working - it would send my blood pressure skyrocketing and make me want to go party or something. I guess this sort of thing is highly individual.
> England punished all felonies by death for centuries

No.

For less than a century, during peak "Bloody Code" almost all felonies specified a death sentence .. that doesn't in any way mean that all felonies were punished by death.

A large number of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century statutes specified death as the penalty for property offences (even minor ones), meaning that the vast majority of the people tried at the Old Bailey could be sentenced to hang.

This body of statutes, which later came to be criticised as a “Bloody Code”, meant that one could be executed for stealing as little as a handkerchief or a sheep. Nevertheless, judicial procedures prevented a blood bath by ensuring that sentences could be mitigated, or the charge redefined as a less serious offence.

[..]

As a result, as documented on the Digital Panopticon website, between 1780 and 1868 less than a fifth of convicts sentenced to death were actually executed.

Take it from the Old Bailey: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/punishment
If American made prices did not increase too match tariff adjusted foreign made prices that logic would hold. But we know from recent and not so recent history - American made prices some increase, even if they are not impacted at all.
The author did a fantastic job explaining complex cryptographic concepts in accessible terms. I particularly appreciate how it builds up the problem space before introducing solutions.

I spent several years implementing TLS in embedded systems, and I've never seen the intuition behind authenticated key exchange explained this clearly. The author manages to capture both the "why" and the "how" without getting bogged down in mathematical notation.

The explanation of the man-in-the-middle vulnerability was especially well-done - most articles either skip over this crucial weakness or explain it so technically that newcomers get lost. The starbucks router example makes it immediately obvious why key authenticity matters.

One tiny nitpick: the article simplifies by saying "you can't know you're talking to someone if you don't already know who they are" - but this overlooks the role of certificate transparency logs and OCSP, which add significant layers of protection beyond just trusting certificate authorities.

For anyone wanting to learn more, I'd second the recommendation of Julia Evans' materials. Her zines explain these concepts visually in ways that make this stuff click for many engineers.
There you get arrested for being a Nazi. In America you get disappeared for not being one. There was a bit of excitement in the 1940s that gives us moral guidance on what to do when Nazis rear their heads.
"Sure get rid of coins but cash is not going away.

…but people do not want to be locked out of their money."

I'd like to think cash is not going away but I'm not at all sure that it won't disappear, I reckon its life is in the balance.

I make a point of using cash whenever possible to the extent that I'll withdraw cash from an auto-teller before I go, say, to a supermarket where I'll pay cash. It's my small way of bucking the trend to e-cash.

I find it alarming that so many people are just prepared to pay with their smartphones and do so without a second thought. It's clear to me these people have little concern about being 'locked out of their money'.

Even when e-transactions fail through the network being down these people aren't deterred, they expect merchants to give them credit. Recently, the e-terminal at my local coffee shop was down [I pay cash] and the proprietor told me that he had to credit all his e-customers because they didn't have any cash and it turned out that many never repaid him. Not only that but he actually lost some customers—rather than repay the debt they went elsewhere (there are about a half dozen similar shops near by).

BTW, that e-outage was a big one and was well publicized but even then it seems few bothered to take cash as a precaution.

Unfortunately, I don't see the decline in cash contining unless there's widespread disruption to the banking system and banks start failing as they did in the 1930s. Nevertheless, I hope I'm wrong.
Arguably it would. Not my argument, but just listen to any of Bessent’s thinking on the topic.
I wonder why they left nginx off their comparisons. Is it simply because nginx is still faster I wonder
It's clearly not good for the US economy, but I think that is a red herring. This has been so far, and continues to be, a highly successful endeavor from the perspective that matters: that of the US president himself, who wants to benefit personally.

I think it's helpful to ask "What if this president actually doesn't care one way or the other what happens to the US economy, the world economy, or even geopolitical stability (beyond the US not getting nuked, causing him to die), and everything is just a grifter's instinct for how to benefit personally?"

In that light, literally everything this administration does makes perfect sense.

This is a man whose main accomplishment before the presidency was "being famous" — starring in a reality TV show and professional wrestling (the fake/scripted kind), and he clearly wants to be the center of attention in the media.

Although his tariffs are widely mocked by knowledgeable people as "insane", "stupid", or as the Financial Times put it, "one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history", imposing them gives the man himself the opportunity for corruption on a scale unprecedented in modern US history.

He can easily (very easily) benefit financially and otherwise because heads of state, captains of industry, and the ultra-wealthy have to come to him to beg, flatter, or do something — buy his memecoin, rent out his hotels, buy his otherwise-failed social network for billions, the list is near-infinite — to get out from under his tariffs.

So I don't think there is any upside of the kind you are talking about. But there is substantial upside for the man himself, and it is enough to explain all of his actions.

They only seem nonsensical if you believe he is trying to act in the best interests of the nation.
Right? The "notify me when this specific email comes in" problem has been well solved but on the other hand: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Seems like an unfair advantage in a market they control. Exercising monopolistic control
I’d rather get an email from them. At least with email I have a multitude of spam detection and filtering tools that just don’t exist for SMS text messages.
looks like caddy clone in rust ;) good luck. I think it is way better than caddy. Auto TLS renewal is a banger. I was thinking the same to build but had no time to do it.
At least stocks are up /s
Just to play devil's advocate on de-industrialization here -- The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.
>Knowing what I know now, I wish Rust existed when I started out so that it could have been my first language

No offense but I don't think this makes any sense (or only if you take the first part of that sentence literally). It's like jumping into Calculus 3 to introduce a kid to maths. From a teaching standpoint, if you're a beginner, you can't even understand what problem Rust solves. Someone who doesn't know what manual memory management, a heap and a stack is should not be handed a borrow checker.

You can either start from the top, the old school way, teach a lisp or python as a more modern alternative and teach people symbolic computing, or you can start with C and teach people from the bottom up how computers work, but frankly throwing you into a language that basically exists to solve problems professional C++ developers have in large projects is kind of wild
It is the unholy union of a new unregulated form of communication, social media, and unregulated privatized intelligence companies, such as Palantir and Cambrdige Analytica.

Ironically China implemented the GFW because they correctly predicted this exact scenario being used to destabilize themselves.
Iam amazed at the epic levels of ruin one man can bring upon a country and how a whole country of people can elect someone so utterly out of depth. This level of idiocy wouldnt be tolerated in companies if done by an intern.
Today my mind (system 2) almost feigned surprise*:

The intersection of RL & policy (/politics) is a blind spot of HN*

*(Having factored out emotion+humour)
> bring a ton of money to the US

Are they? Or do they keep their profits overseas?
Trump only owns one stock: a major portion of the parent company of Truth social. Nothing he’s done has caused that stock to rise or steady.
> Sure words themselves bend and break under the weight of hype. Novelty is randomness. Everything is a work of art. For a work of art to be non-novel it can only incorporate randomness.

> Since an LLM cannot do that, we must wreck and ruin our ability to describe this plain and trivial situation. Poke our eyes and skewer our brains.

Change the temperature of a model, and you will have your randomness.

There is no explanation of how a biological brain can have randomness but a silicon process cannot.
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/security/#unprivileged-conta...
I get this message on mobile: “An AI Overview is not available for this search”. But it does work on desktop.
I remember reading in a PJ O'Rourke book about Comparative Advantage - I've found the section, as the 'non-trivial and non-obvious' sleight stuck with me, even decades later:

> Todd G. Buchholz, in his book New Ideas from Dead Economists, says, “An insolent natural scientist once asked a famous economist to name one economic rule that isn’t either obvious or unimportant.” The reply was “Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage.”
>
> The English economist David Ricardo (1772–1823) postulated this: If you can do X better than you can do Z, and there’s a second person who can do Z better than he can do X, but can also do both X and Z better than you can, then an economy should not encourage that second person to do both things. You and he (and society as a whole) will profit more if you each do what you do best.

There follows some droll examples around the implications of this law, comparing John Grisham and Courtney Love's contributions to society, which doubtless helped consolidate the lesson.

Point being - this foundational law would seem to trump any interest in mistakenly attempting to optimise for inputs vs outputs to your nation.

EDIT: From his book 'Eat The Rich: A Treatise on Economics' (1998)
This. Don’t buy into the propaganda.

Honestly I’d love to see the world move away from timber to an easier to manage renewable resource. Whatever happened to those homes made out of 100% recycled material?
Why would I want small businesses to be able to spam me as well the large ones? I’d prefer no one does, but less is better than more.
Telco has so, so, so, so many obscure and complicated technical specifications. They love their acronyms...

https://www.openmobilealliance.org/specifications/

Is probably a decent place to start
> The entire new tariff scheme is napkin math.

See the 2024 paper (40 pages) by Stephen Miran, current chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, which has influenced tariff policy, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589350

https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump...

> Miran.. points to Trump’s application of tariffs on China in 2018-2019, which he argues “passed with little discernible macroeconomic consequence.” He adds that during that time the U.S. dollar rose to offset the macroeconomic impact of the tariffs and resulted in significant revenue for the U.S. Treasury.. “The effective tariff rate on Chinese imports increased by 17.9 percentage points from the start of the trade war in 2018 to the maximum tariff rate in 2019,” the report said. “As the financial markets digested the news, the Chinese renminbi depreciated against the dollar over this period by 13.7 per cent, so that the after-tariff USD import price rose by 4.1 per cent.”
Countries that stayed on the gold standard were practicing austerity bunky.
I made a little viewer to see the dataset. Spoilers, it shows you the answers. It's mainly to see the mistakes they've fixed on GitHub since it was released, and also to make proposing fixes easier.

https://9eorge.com/arc

Supposedly, they validated it upon release by showing each task to at most nine people and only keeping the ones that at least two people got correct in two tries. But still, they have had to subsequently fix more than a dozen of them.
My first Unix account was on a Sequent. I tried to put together a dual processor box in 1995 but they were having supply issues and it didn't work out.

I think it is important to differentiate multi core from multiprocessor, but not so much for the context of that article.
Or, alternatively, it's called "taxes" and "wealth redistribution".

High inequalities is proven to be bad for development, so clearly there is a point where people have too much and it's harmful to society.

Ergo it would be immoral to allow some to hoard wealth infinitely, just because they can.
> The example you gave with public restroom do not work because of two main concept: They are usually getting paid for it by the government, and operating a company usually holds benefits given by the government.

This is not the case in the US yet many places still have public restrooms, due to it benefiting the users themselves regardless of government.
i do not know, but they sometimes publish altered photos with digitally added red tint in them.

( websites have to be good from accessibility standpoint to provide good experience for this. i got fed up with every webpage, font looking different. I like internet/www/hyperlink like it was meant to be consumed in early days. website is just api which provides me data and my emacs / webbrowser does styling and everything. like email or rss - decentralized, local first. because there has to be global mechanism to provide styling so there are no transitions from bright white, to dark and vice versa. and this global styling can be achieved only, if in current state of things, webpages are made in a way that screen readers and other similar kind of things have good experience too. even tho i do not have any health issue, need for accessibility features, just need for global consistent styling. )
The joke is that it comes down to prejudice.
It's more an argument for classical economics. Getting the most benefit for the least cost is the most fundamental economic motivation.
https://github.com/errantmind/faf is the fastest Rust static "web server" per the most recent TechEmpower Round 23 (Plaintext); it is purposely barebones (provide content via Rust callback!) The top 3 Composite scores are all Rust web frameworks, also not necessarily intended as general-purpose web servers.

https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server wins the SEO (and GitHub star) battle, though apparently it is old enough to have a couple unmaintained dependencies.

I use https://github.com/sigoden/dufs as my personal file transfer Swiss Army knife since it natively supports file uploads; I will check out Ferron as a lighter reverse proxy with automatic SSL certs vs. Caddy.
That’s not relevant to this discussion at all.
I remember playing Space Quest IV and we got to a part where we were completely blocked. We got parents permission to call Sierra's 1-900 hint line (who knows how much that cost) to find out that the game won't process until you stand on a certain pixel in the back of the arcade. There was no reason to go there, so while we had walked around the arcade many times apparently we never stepped on that precise pixel.
> The idea of open sourcing everything and nullifying patents would benefit corporations like Disney and OpenAI vastly more than it would benefit the people

No, support open source AI and this will not happen.
There is if you believe the “globalists” are the same people from #1. It doesn’t help that there is some appreciable degree of overlap.

Dona nobis pacem!
I'm with you there. And TCR doesn't do a thing to stop that. Big corps just pay for a compliance officer and blast away.

Small biz who know their customers - this is who TCR stops.
A16Z built a super-efficient AI GPU server from scratch with RTX 4090s
As I look at it, rhetorically, when is the point for a US citizen where taking up arms against the US government seems less dangerous than business as usual? I’d say it’s still quite a ways off for most.
Message stuck in Kafka queue for months delivered, writes bestselling novel
Maybe because of marketing reasons or because I am biased in the comparisons?
I've seen that postulate in the very first chapter of wealth of nations. But perhaps Ricardo expressed it in mathematical terms?

And I'd argue that there are properties of nations that make them distinct from individual humans or even companies.

The relative autarky possible for a country is much higher.

I've read a similar position by a libertarian Hayek I think in "I pencil", but I never did buy the argument, the idea that a pencil is the product of global trade, I don't buy, you can make national pencils without a sweat.
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> what should be a simple scroll

Because the scroll, as you see, is not simple. The complexity of the real-world scenarios outlined in the post force the complexity of the solution. It may feel that "it's simple common sense" kind of thing, but if you ever tried to implement a simple common-sense thing, you know that it only appear simple.

By the same token, some UX person might read about the mechanics of database transactions with two-phase commits, or about MVCC, and ask why so much complexity exists around what should just be a simple write to disk.

"Reality has a surprising amount of detail."
> People cross the southern border illegally without knowing the local language and with close to no skills and still get jobs, build families and give a chance to prosper to their offspring.

Those people work jobs with illegally bad working conditions and illegally low salaries.
That's not "broken". Docker Inc. is just rate-limiting access to their service. A service which, for what it's worth, has been used to bootstrap the technology required to sustain a pile of money for a lot of people.

There are other container repositories, and as you said, you can build your own containers and run those.
Nov 2024 analysis, https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/north-america-prepar...

> Some Members of Parliament have also advocated for increasing trade barriers on Chinese imports alongside the United States, which the Canadian government has recently begun doing unilaterally. Suggesting Canada could be interested in coordinating those China-related trade policy measures across all three USMCA members, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland recently said she sympathizes with US concerns that “Mexico is not acting the way that Canada and the US are when it comes to its economic relationship with China.”
Every large scale cloud/SaaS software has been using parallelism for decades [well, almost two decades give or take]. Requests run in parallel on millions of servers and one server processes many requests in parallel.

In that sort of setup the old school optimize one program by doing things in parallel is somewhat less relevant because everything by its nature is massively parallel and complex operations are often broken down into bits that all run in parallel. In that sort of environment over-parallelizing can actually be a pessimization because there is often some cost around breaking the work up to run in parallel and your little bit of this massively parallel system may have some fraction of resources anyways.

Not to say there's no value in knowing "old school" parallelizing (including using SIMD or GPUs or whatnot) but for many types of applications that's not where I'd focus.
Ideally you shelve several antibiotics for decades, with the goal of bacteria dropping resistance to it. Sounds like a game theory compliance nightmare though.
Not in the US, it's not.