skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a better way to find out about NET SEND than attempting to use it for a somewhat vulgar in-joke to a work buddy one desk over, and instead popping a message on every single one of the about 10,000 PCs installed throughout the bank where you work.

Despite being phone support (think "cattle") I didn't get fired or indeed anything at all past a half-shocked, half-laughing "never ever do that again" sort of chat, and even that not from any of the floor mommies or daddies who were careful not to have to notice any of this, but just my line manager who might have been all of five years older than I was then. I assume this was slightly because I was extremely good at the job, and mainly for the sake of whoever in IT's job it was to make sure nobody could officially do what I, somehow, in the end turned out only unofficially to have done.
> what people have called google fu

I don’t know what that means in any specific sense.

I don’t want to think about how to interact with the search mechanism. It’s the same problem with using voice assistants like Siri - I have to think about how to construct my query so that it will be parsed correctly.

With most search engines I can just type in disparate terms that might be related. The order doesn’t matter, the phrasing doesn’t matter, I don’t need to give it instructions on how to respond, etc.
"I tested myself on a subset of my training data and found that I am the greatest!"
Sure, but your data is only getting relayed through DERP servers if it cant otherwise establish a direct p2p connection. This can usually be resolved at either side of the connection - if you know about it (which is what the parent was suggesting could be made more clear).

As for your bandwidth concerns in the case of needing to relay, you can even set up your own relay (https://tailscale.com/kb/1118/custom-derp-servers), which would satisfy your desire to be more centralised (i guess you could force all traffic through it, but cant think why you would want to) while still allowing the flexibility of the overlay that tailscale provides.
Deconstructions of the Jigsaw Puzzles
China strikes back with 84% tariffs
One faction will win and then you will have Russia but with more power.
While this is definitely annoying, most of the time this can be worked around by the extension without workarounds that themself weaken security.

For example I helped uBlock Origin out in 2022 when they ran into this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/235#iss...
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619571
Before ARM took over the world long time ago, in 2030, people used other CPU architectures like x86.
Sadly no one I've mentioned Wero to knows about it so I've never used it. I feel like banks were too set in their old ways and PayPal ate their lunch.
"Conclusions
Obesity, particularly severe obesity, was strongly associated with the incidence of 16 common health outcomes."

Euh ... , well done I guess, but, what did you expect?
Just wait.

When SpaceX gets the same status then Boeing they will become similar in quality.
Removing security headers like Content-Security-Policy is forbidden by the addons.mozilla.org policy.

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-p...
>relatively

Why are you suddenly, when faced with data that doesn't fit your narrative, using that word when it was nowhere to be found in the original discussion?

>Why? Does the UK need to deal with this "fact" too then?

If the interests of UK and China ever seriously clashed and led to a conflict, yes, they would. I can't believe that military capabilities and force projection in the modern world need to be explained on a website meant for professionals.
That seems like even more reason to use an overlay - it abstracts all that instability away and gives you a consistent, secure network regardless of what the underlying IPs are doing. Obviously peers can have static IPs too if you think that makes them more stable to routing changes (it doesn't).
These people all have cushy jobs already. You haven't seen how people optimize for TC in the Indian market. There's a certain scale after which petty dishonesty starts to have a bad impact on overall environment and turn it into low-trust.
> There is ZERO honor in offloading what could have been a SQL view into a shitty pile of nested iterators somewhere. I don't understand where any of this energy comes from. The less code the better. It's pure downside.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. As to why we use ORMs, the impression I get from the engineers I work with is that many of them a) don’t know SQL and b) feel like it’s “data analyst” stuff and so beneath them to learn it. Real engineering requires objects and inheritance or structs, pointers and arrays (depending on the engineer).

I think it’s the declarative nature of SQL that turns them off.
I think the LOC is of note because it shows that these models might be capable of building large, complex systems in the future.
i'm a native english speaker and even i can't complete most of these because it's so US-centric. this is virtually unplayable for non-americans, which is a shame because it's a really good game.
Who said you can't do both? NAT makes things easier and you can still properly configure your firewall to keep track of all the NAT traversal rules
The founder may have had an "imperialist" mindset, where he dreamed to succeed to convert everybody to follow his rules, but in this respect there was no difference between him and any European king or noble, or the Pope, or the Patriarch of Jerusalem, or any Chinese emperor or any successful ruler from any part of the world, at that time.

So you cannot single out Islam as a special religion from this point of view. At most it can be said that all monotheistic religions are structured to support imperialism, because they replace the previous multitude of gods, all of which had their specific jobs, at which they could not be supplanted by others, by a single all-powerful God who knows everything and who can do anything, and this structure of the celestial realm is supposed to be mirrored on Earth, where there must also be a single all-powerful ruler, whom everybody must obey without questioning.
I don't think this is being enforced in practice, thankfully.
strace can tell you what system calls it's doing, what the results are, and how long they're taking, which may help narrow it down.
i can only conclude that you're either from US, Canada or Western Europe and somehow don't know, even in this age of global information, what a prison outside of the Western world is. And if you add that in case like El Salvador they intentionally make it "tough". There is a reason another "tough" guy - Duterte - has recently been delivered to ICC for the crimes against humanity. Because that is what "tough" means in those places.
React for Two Computers
Off-topic: is the rate-limit because they host on a Cloudflare compute service? I ask because I would like to know if this feature would be available for just using the domain hosting.
While "third world" isn't a modern term and you should try to avoid it, it's also not correct by any means. If we consider 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world countries to be analogous to high, medium, and low income countries, Brazil is easily a medium income country[1], and considered to be in the higher end of that bracket, for what it's worth.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=BR-XT
“Obituary” is a poor word choice. A shame, because the article otherwise is detailed and interesting.
> The Treasury is the machine you're looking for... In a sense, yes dollars are "destroyed" in that they leave that monetary system.

So are you saying there's an procedure where the US treasury takes USD out of circulation, and the ECB introduces the equivalent in Euro, according to some official exchange rate? How do they set the exchange rate?
When I say "Rust alternative" it's precisely because it competes in the same space: very low-level, no GC, extremely high performance constraints, safety guarantees.

Re: safety guarantees, much digital ink has been spilled on how Zig can give Rust a run for its money when it comes to safety.

When people say: Rust <=> C++, Zig <=> C; they forget that C++ was precisely meant to be an enhanced C, which is what Zig is trying to accomplish. They simply eschewed chasing complexity as the holiest of holy grails, which in turn leads to the cognitive load of writing/reading Zig code to be MUCH smaller than C++ or other langs in that space.

All that said, I'd never recommend a company build their product on Zig just yet, at least not with some kind of red telephone to the Zig team or a dedicated Zig developer, given it's still not fully mature.

Re: managing memory yourself, Zig's defer makes this much, much more straightforward than you would think, and feeding in your own allocators can simplify this in many cases (and make testing for leaks much easier).
This is how the Apple world works. Things go from unnecessary to revolutionary at the point Apply implements them, no matter how long other implementations might have already existed.
You are still trusting the tailscale coordination server for proper key exchange. Yes, traffic is end-to-end encrypted and the private keys stay on the device but there's no way to verify that tailscale is negotiating keys for the machine you asked for
I've always struggled with this concept. I ask people to define 'free will' when they start to talk about it. As there only seems to be either causally determined processes or indetermined (random) ones. There's no inbetween where something like a consciousness can make a 'free' choice between options. That choice is always a product of weighted factors like memories, mood, stray particles blasting through my brain, etc.

My will is my ability to weigh up options but it's not 'free'.

The one angle that's started to pop up more and more in research that looks promising is that of the brain's possible use of micro-tubules that allow for cognitive interaction with a quantum state. i.e. possible decision-making within an indeterminate plane.

Here's a study on the concepts:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/integrative-neuroscienc...

Or that just means our brains found an evolutionary edge by shifting decision-making to a dice roll when being locked into totally causal decision-making was becoming a disadvantage. i.e. the ape that could innovate because it did random things came out on top more than the ape that was totally derivative in its behaviours.
CSP is a soothing cream but is most usually easily bypassed by other simple attacks relying on poor DOM management and security - to this day my team has never found so many web vulnerabilities just going into the DOM...
> Who else honestly thought that they'd have moved the charging port on their current mice by now?

I remeber that hullaballo a few years ago, when they introduced a mouse with the charging port on the bottom, so you couldn't charge it and use it at the same time.

Are you saying they still build them that way?!?
Lightmatter unveils high-performance photonic 'superchip'
That feature exists on cloudflare outside of using CF workers or their own compute stuff. It's part of their WAF featureset.
> As a downside, Rust libraries typically have a large fan-out of dependencies, much like Node.js. This requires taking care to avoid the blow-up of dependencies, and to deal with annoyances of dependabot.

In the linked situation, the were using the library of a binary. This get into the tension between "make it easy for `cargo install` (and have a `cli` feature be default) and "make it easy for `cargo add` (and make `cli` opt-in).

This is not a great experience and we should improve it. There was an RFC to auto-enable features when a build-target is built (allowing `cli` to be opt-in but `cargo install` to auto-opt-in), rather than skip it, but the dev experience needed work, The maintainer can split the package which helps with semver for the two sides but needs to break one side to do so and if its the bin, people need to discover the suffix (`-bin`, `-cli`, etc).

Current workarounds:

- `cargo add skim` will show the `cli` feature is enabled and you can re-run with `--no-default-features`

- if `cli` wasn't a default, `cargo install skim` would suggest adding `--features cli`
I have not started to use LLMs, so yes I still use search engines.
> And emphatically yes, I want scrollbars back where scrollbars are due. Aping Apple in this regard was a very unfortunate choice by GTK.

Apple is not as great in UI as most people seem to think. But I must say that I don't miss scrollbars on my phone.
That's something I've wondered for a long time. Especially know when real time bank transfers aren't allowed to cost more than regular bank transfers (usually free), there's really no point in creating a seperate system.

But it seems to me like banks don't really want to make bank transfers more comfortable for small transactions.
I always thought there was a very basic intelligence proof that the biologists & neurologists overlooked. Engineering.

What are humans? If we focus on early-noticed similarities with Great Apes, people often took to saying "We are the tool users", but "We are the builders" is maybe just as accurate. We produce not just jackhammers, but skyscrapers. Tool users modify their environment adaptively for utility, builders modify their environment adaptively for utility. The evidence is in the works.

Building a stacked stone house requires creating an abstract concept of a future dwelling you would like to have, figuring out how the wall works in that dwelling, modifying the wall according to the layout of the terrain, finding and modifying the appropriate piece of stone that works in the correct position, and then iterating on this piece by piece as each stone provides a slightly different opportunity for the next stone. It requires persistence in pursuit of that abstract goal much longer than routine biological feedback loops; We're talking about a delayed gratification "Marshmallow Test" because you don't get to enjoy sanctuary from the weather until you're done. It requires a consciousness of the environment, the available tools, one's one's own limitations, and the shifting outlines of a hypothetical future. There's literal Gantt Chart type prioritization and preparation involved. I don't see how this could possibly be less complex cognitively than a mirror test.

A number of of animals build nests, piece by piece in the fashion of a human rather than purely through biological secretions. I argue that all of them, even the really weird ones (eg ant nests), are in one sense intelligent.
The best study on the optimization of line breaking algorithms is now only on the Internet Archive. Lots of examples.

"Line Breaking", xxyxyz.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20171021044009/http://xxyxyz.org...
Have you had a successful SaaS besides the one this post advertises for?

Feels a bit like "buy my course, I'm very successful from selling courses, and can teach you too."
It's not really about that.

If I hire you to make software for me, I don't really want software; I want a problem to go away, a money stream built, a client to be happy. Of course, that probably requires you to build software, unless you invent a magic wand. But if you had the magic wand, I'd choose it every single time over software.

Not so with food, furniture or a fancy hotels, where I actually want the thing.
Not if Chinese PV is half the price per watt.

One must also consider if the raw materials to produce the PV in the USA are supplied domestically, without tariffs, which doesn't appear to be the case in general.
Thank you for this comment! Only it made me re-read this word correctly
I've found my current job at Remotive dot com. Not a lot of jobs compared to other job boards however.
At least my free Cloudflare-hosted blog was able to withstand being on the HN front page once. I think they've over-engineered their "static" site hosting to the point where it can fail under heavy traffic.
China slaps retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods in response
BTW for anyone who interested, I've packed pg_search and vchord_bm25 extension RPM/DEBs
https://pigsty.io/ext/fts/vchord_bm25
https://pigsty.io/ext/fts/pg_search
In case anyone want to benchmark by themselves. ;)
Beijing Announces 84% Levy on U.S. Goods
This might be true for HFT companies. They usually start at 200-300k and mid senior engineers probably make close to a million
I can somewhat understand people developing AGI, but directly working on superintelligence is on extremely shaky ethical ground. A good proportion of AI researchers and philosophers believe superintelligence stands a significant chance of displacing humanity and it is widely regarded as one of the most, if not the most, dangerous technology yet to be created.

Crazy that this is legal.
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>The best software is no software.

Eh, I disagree. I like a lot of the software I'm using. There's inherent value to producing music with Ableton, cutting videos with Final Cut Pro, or just playing Super Mario for entertainment. Those are all more software than no software.
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> If we are waiting until every human being is content and happy, and environment is perfectly stable, we'll be waiting past heat death of the universe.

Do you feel that’s a good faith interpretation of my point given what we’ve discussed?
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What I think happened is that this is probably one of the biggest "speculative steps" physics has taken without enough experimental evidence

Sure, it's fine to think about and theorize, but I think they got way ahead of themselves than what the experimental results allowed them.
When Postgres Falls for DuckDB
What? The original coordination server, which is not running headscale, is closed source so yes, they are still a closed source company
AI is especially toxic to anyone who truly believes in their work -- who puts a bit of themselves into it. These are the people AI sucks the life force out of while giving it to those without giving their stolen energy to managers-of-managers seemingly devoid of passion, care, love, empathy, creativity, and humanity
The new ChatGPT image generation is insane. It's available on the free tier, just strongly rate limited.
Do you think there's a way to train focus?
Infernet is an open-source, peer-to-peer protocol enabling individuals to contribute spare GPU cycles for inference workloads and earn compensation in return. Clients can rent distributed GPU compute power from the network, scaling inference jobs across multiple provider nodes with security, verification, and trustlessness.
I always get a lot of pushback for avoiding frameworks and libraries, and rolling most things by hand.

But, most frameworks and libraries aren't built to be audit-grade robust, don't have enterprise level compatibility promises, can't guarantee that there won't be suprise performance impacts for arbitrary use cases, etc.

Sometimes, a third party library (like sql-lite) makes the cut. But frameworks and libraries that reach the bar of "this will give me fewer complications than avoiding the dependency" are few and far between.
Yes, a move to static IPv6 addresses everywhere would help a lot.
You don't ask to run four models, it's just that every single prompt you give it will return four models. You can then choose to have one of them iterated on, or upscaled.

If you're still not sure let me know and I'll show a screenshot.
Is it? I can buy a pallet of 500ml bottles from a science supplier. Hell, I can buy a bottle from Amazon for $30.
The best programmer and the best Linux wizard I knew had absolutely no background in CS, he stumbled into programming in this 20ies because he had to develop a tool for his Master thesis in a completely unrelated field (agriculture). He then quickly taught himself Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, PHP, and PostgreSQL scripting. By his early 30ies he was the established senior developer at the company I worked back then. He was very strong and quick in non-algorithmic programming tasks, but I also often marveled the naivete with which he approached algorithmic tasks: he would google around for a day, and then find out about standard undergraduate CS algorithms, would then get very excited about them, and quickly implement his own version.
What if there was a chair in the forest and no-one there to sit on it?
If I had a magic wand to make you satiated, you wouldn't need food. If you're in it for the taste I will magic wand you some taste in your mouth. If I had a magic wand to give you a roof over your head, protection and a bed, you wouldn't need a hotel.

The magic wand argument doesn't make sense. Then you can also get everything else.
Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience here. I'm excited to hear that the service had the desired effect. I also really appreciate your last sentence, I'll be riding that high all day...
I can agree with all of this
I think it's kind of a status thing that you can afford a short word domain like wise.com. But yeah, in conversation I still call them transferwise.
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Nginx successor with native auto TLS using Let's Encrypt, similar to Caddy
I can think of three things off the top of my head:

- Rust doesn’t let you pretend that memory is a flat array of bytes
- Single ownership of data can be annoying in some cases
- The borrow checker pointing out that you’re trying to do something stupid with pointers (again) can be annoying

Of course, I’m of the opinion that the hassles are worth it, especially the borrow checker. Almost every time I have to fight the borrow checker, it’s because I haven’t thought properly about the pointers involved and tried to do something stupid.
yeah, we call our end-of-year 'summaries' 'retros' at work, i put it there without even thinking
In the first society, the probability of the artist completing and selling that masterpiece is correspondingly lower, since money is a strong motivator and even artists have bills to pay.

Thus the first society tends to create less value overall, since value creators are demotivated by punishing taxation. Because of that, prospective buyers for that piece of art will be overall poorer so they will bid less for it, pushing the artist's reward even lower.

The first society ends up poorer than the second, from its own policy. And that’s how you get inequality between nations, which you can’t “redistribute” away. Which inequality sooner or later leads to wars, as we can clearly see these days.
They are specifically talking about "general intelligence" here, something which hasn't been achieved and so we can probably classify all attempts towards it as failures at this point.

I don't think that the author meant to write off the entire field of symbolic reasoning because Cyc didn't achieve general intelligence but I think it's fair to say that the lack of progress Cyc made towards it does make it less likely that purely symbolic reasoning will lead us to AGI. That's not to say it might not play a part in AGI or that it doesn't have other uses.
The biggest difference I'm aware of is that ECharts has an add-on for 3D charts (echarts-gl). Chart.js doesn't have any 3D functionality.

(Our project mostly uses Chart.js, so I'm more familiar with it.)