skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As browsers close the gap they simply become the OS but slower, more abstracted, and with less security

Browsers are forced to implement standards like CORS, single-origin policy, and multiple levels of SSL certificate validation and thus are more secure than most of native apps. How do you know whether that mobile app is not signing in over HTTP? In a web browser it's obvious instantly.

> motives to decrease dev time and increase ability to spy on users and extract rent from them.

Literally the worse what can happen over web browser is tracking based on various forms of fingerprinting. Native apps? MAC addresses, SSIDs, serial numbers - EVERYTHING is available for the native app to send ANYWEHERE, even over HTTP.
CSS Grid the Right Way
Huge fan of notion. Although I understand why you think its too complicated, I think it will without a doubt do what you need entirely.
I'm not sure it has much in the way of implications.

There is no real profit to be made by generating realistic looking text. Spammers don't work that way, spammers haven't cared about realistic looking text for years. Nor have spam filters cared much about text for a long time, exactly because it's so easy to randomise. Anti-spam is not a good reason to hold back on language generation models, in my view.

As for HN, if bots can write posts as good as humans, great, why hold back?
I’ve occasionally thought of doing SSR but making it possible to server render only a small part of the page in response to an API request and then just use JavaScript to swap in the html from the backend.
Yea more likely, I think, is that management is hesitant to give people a shot. They’re probably worried they’ll ask for more money or something.
You joke, but there's a real point here -- many commenters in this thread are complaining that OpenAI's position on this is a marketing stunt. Presumably, if this stuff gets commercialized, it will probably be adept at a few domains first, and I feel like writing good marketing copy will be one of them. So perhaps the bot itself didn't do so here, but it wouldn't surprise me if a self-marketed bot exists in the near future.
You could use `Accept: text/html` to indicate that an API should return html rather than Json.
The difference is that app stores are pull-only. I have a subset of apps I allow on my phone, and random ones aren't downloaded every time I open it up. With websites, you don't get to pre-approve the ads that get downloaded, and since these adds are auctioned dynamically, you can't even say that one website is safe or unsafe.

If you want to make an analogy with app stores, visiting a website that's hooked up to an ad network is more like opening the Google Play store, entering a random search, and then clicking install on whatever the first result is. Yes, the web has better sandboxing than Android, but that's still a wild thing for any user to consent to.

When I installed the Play Store on my phone, I wasn't agreeing to give every single app it hosts access to my device. But that's what ad networks essentially force me to do.
It can seem quite extraordinary when stated plainly.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14400.htm

The main goal of inflationary monetary policy is the shameless "maximum employment". Since the cost of manufactured goods will not go down (technological progress and fundamental economic optimization), in order for CPE to continue to rise then some other component must go up. The closest consumers get to new money creation is taking out loans for housing, therefore the price of housing goes up.
Years ago, I was told by a drunk* ex-Digital engineer at a lisp meetup that one of the big reasons that Alpha died was that y'all were getting yields of something like 6 wafers/chip, vs. Intel's 97% for the Pentium. Given that, those 500 alphas still must have cost a pretty penny to produce.

* I was also not exactly sober at the time, so these numbers may be a bit off. The number of wafers per chip being greater than 1, though, I am absolutely certain about.
Banks still apply cutthroat conversion rates, the law only stops extra commissions.

TransferWise still offers a very useful product even after this.
> a deeply personal topic so you should expect one might take those comments personally.

I see, and I agree. My apologies.
You could always make a new platform for chatrooms like back in the day but with modern technologies.
You get quite a few of the things that SPAs often break for free with more traditional apps, because it's provided by the browser.
Welcome to crypto. You're on your own
I truly wish I never learned to touch type. The RSI issues are simply not worth it. I don't need to type fast to create software. That includes writing emails and such. I've adapted now to a slower workflow where I spend a lot more time thinking and a lot less with my hands on the keyboard/mouse and productivity has mostly stayed the same.
I use two phones, iPhone 7 and Note 9. I actually prefer the Note 9 because it is easier on my eyes. The iPhone is handy for tight jean pockets but it gets used far less.

My Note, I can do all sorts of work in a hurry and it feels fine. The iPhone I can do all the same but the size of screen means I prefer not to use it excessively unless needed.
I’m on my phone so I can’t get into it, but there were bugs around this with lua and rust that got resolved, so there is some way of dealing with this.
I'm afraid so. It's my job and, alas, the community doesn't solve this without moderation.

In case it helps, moderation comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read.
I came across Butterflow while trying to smooth out the ragged motion in anime. It didn't work out-of-the-box unfortunately, but there are other similar attempts happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvgcCyfVVog
Transferwise would only suffer if banks were to offer significantly better FX conversion spreads.

My UK bank (Lloyds) charges 16 times as much as Transferwise for EUR/GBP (5% vs 0.3%) plus higher fees on top of that.

Currencyfair is another good option by the way.
> OpenVPN doesn't even ship builds of Windows-TAP anymore

WireGuard's creator discussing OpenVPN's TUN/TAP driver and a possible alternative back in 2017[0]: The OpenVPN Windows kernel TUN/TAP driver is really super scary. That alone has a larger code base than all of WireGuard...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597883
Markov-chain generators are extremely lacking in long-term coherency. They rarely even make complete sentences, much less stay on topic! They were not convincing at all-- and many of the GPT-2 samples are as "human-like" as average internet comments.

Conjecture: GPT-2 trained on reddit comments could pass a "comment turing test", where the average person couldn't distinguish whether a comment is bot or human with better than, say, 60% accuracy.
I want[ed] to get one but the options are overwhelming. I dislike buying not-the-best product. I also dislike eBay, which seems to be one of the main methods of purchasing a setup (have been burned too many times by sellers).
As I see it technical people don't want to do the mundane repetitive and boring tasks that a recruiter does. And introverted technical people, which many are, especially don't want to spend significant time socializing with random other people.

You can try to automate the whole process, which various companies are doing, but keeping the spam out is difficult. And bad automation is also even worse to deal with than a human recruiter.
LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve
An Italian Town Fell Silent So the Sounds of a Stradivarius Could Be Preserved
I think a curriculum based upon alternating between builder and programmer would be the best of both worlds. Just one perspective only would be incomplete
You clearly don't see the implications of the laws at all. They demand prelicensing and that it includes terms of liability. Yeah it doesn't require an upload filter - if they don't mind paying blank checks! There is no way to tell automatically whose copyright everything belongs to! The law makes assumptions it will be easy. The law is an ass. There is no reasonable way to know ahead of time what will fit. So the way to go is guilty until proven innocent leonine contracts with /everyone/ and if not undefined penalties whee!
> don't bother calling a lawyer or legal expert to ask what the legislation means

You would do well to take your own advice. Explanation on how those articles effectively mandate filters and a link tax: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/
I can use large phones with one hand (Note 9, LG V20)... perhaps my hand is larger than average. I don't think there are than many uses cases where I absolutely need one hand. Driving here we legally are required to have a cellphone mount.
What exactly do you think is involved in making it “chill for anyone to just pick up this job if they feel it’s their thing”? Like, should anything different be done? Should anything be done at all? Or should we tell anyone who has any criticisms, 'nah we made it chill, so your criticism is actually invalid'?
There has not been an instance of a real world exploit being run (e.g, you don't know what memory address you are attacking and the system is running under a real world load), and I saw a release by a con sec company (can't remember which one) that said they haven't seen any indication anybody was trying this in the wild either.

There is so much that needs to line up to get Specter to work in Javascript that I'm at the point that I don't think it is possible.

Everybody keep saying that the POC shows it is possible and that a real world exploit is easy after that. But Specter has been around for a year now, and nobody has yet to even get close to make a working exploit that didn't require some large leaps of faith.

And every time you bring this up, you get voted into the floor in HN. I get it. Specter is very cool, almost magical, but coolness doesn't make it any more likely to work.
> Their standard consulting agreement was very fair, I imagined due to a desire to reduce "legal support costs" that would arise from prospective vendors constantly requesting the same set of edits.

That was our motivation at BindView (now part of Symantec) for developing what many customers' lawyers said was the greatest vendor contract they'd ever seen: We didn't want to spend our time repeatedly negotiating the same T&C changes like gerbils in a wheel. This was especially true as the game clock was running down at the end of the fiscal-reporting quarter. [0]

[0] https://www.oncontracts.com/balanced-contract-forms/
Oh Please. Anytime someone tries to hard sell a position, I'm usually just impressed by their sales skills but I know that it usually sends a red flag for me.
OT: The outline page claims, "We remove the clutter", and yet it has a giant footer ad that clutters the page. Why can't we have nice things ?
There's actually nothing out there smaller than 5" apart from iPhones (the older ones), the Sony XZ2 compact and old, bottom of the barrel Androids.
I really find this list awesome as it is. And the short explanations are really good IMHO.

Without any offense intended, if you need more writing then maybe you need first to read some of the documentation resources before going back to this list?

Also, what I really like is that the author doesn't try to justify why and that's refreshing and lightweight, thanks for that!

But that's like my opinion, man ;-)
I am not a/your lawyer, but what you are describing is known as a ["Holographic Will"](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/holographic-will.asp). Such a document may not be sufficient depending on your state/circumstances, and may not be respected by the probate court if the document is lost, destroyed, or otherwise called into question.

What you want is a [Testamentary Will ](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/testamentary-will.asp) that has been notarized and/or signed in the presence of witnesses.
There is a sort of "cancel" for ACH transactions, and they were talking about both credit cards and ACH withdrawals.

I'd be concerned about the 1099 thing. They've already demonstrated some poor practice in that area, so it's reasonable to raise the issue before they calculate it wrong.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178990
But the article explicitly states that Lena Forsén herself requested the extra 'n' in the spelling of her name so that she would not have to hear it mispronounced as 'Leena'.
According to the site linked below, the average American produces about 100 lbs of plastic waste a year:

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/trash-on...

To my mind, that is a significant amount of waste, and definitely worth chasing.

* Durable Plastics: 72.9 lbs

* Nodurable Plastics: 28 lbs

* Plastic Bottles and Jars: 17.7

There is more, but this gives a sense of the statistics they quote on their site. These do not seem unreasonable to me, and they suggest that recycling plastics would save a refrigerator or two in weight per household per year, depending a bit on the size of the household.
jemalloc is written in C :) That aside, I don't think merging with an existing allocator, if it weren't obscenely unlikely due to the general conservatism in such projects, would necessarily accomplish anything.

In terms of contrasts it'd be like trying to merge Ruby with Python.. this project's approach stands independently. It may be better to ask what features it can gain from merging with something like jemalloc
Have you looked at the Sony Xperia Compact line? They're the only small form factor premium smartphones that I know of.
The lack of wheels as a mean of transportation in pre-columbian civilizations is a classic example.

Steam machines might be another, basic ones were already in use in ancient Greece but their development stalled for millennia.
My solution: don't print. I find very few reasons to print anything. I get kinda irritated when I have to. I donated blood recently and was miffed that the RapidPass required printing out. Why? I have a phone.
Copperheads are bad, especially since many other species look like them. They can put you in the hospital. Avoid the triangle head.
The "trail following the cursor" effect is an instant jolt of year 2000 nostalgia for me.
Rasberry Shake Community Earthquake Network Activity Map
I think your drastically overestimating the cost of landfill space, and t-shirts. A middle class american's time is worth at least 20$/hr, a t-shirt costs $2 to make from scratch in a factory and the landfill volume of that shirt might round up to a penny.

Disposable goods are disposable because people tend to act rationally about time and costs.
It's a symptom of the SPA architecture. Since you give up a lot of basic functionality by not using multiple pages, that same functionality has to be reinvented.
Fake and gay
This story reminds me of this recent NPR interview with an anthropologist on vaccine hesitancy [0]. The upshot of the research is that "skepticism of vaccines [is] 'socially cultivated.'" Many of the people refusing vaccines are intelligent and well-educated, but they end up trusting bad information for a variety of reasons.

Hopefully this parent and others in his community are now receiving better information. It's not mentioned below, but when I heard this interview it was longer and made the point that vaccine hesitant parents need to be approached with respect; the more confrontational the approach, the more defensive people with anti-vaccine views will become.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/13/6944497...
>Are your concerns about antibiotics based on a fear of reduced effectiveness of human medicines?

Yes. Over 60% of the antibiotics given to livestock are medically important to humans. There's clear evidence that this is translating into increased antibiotic-resistant infections in both livestock and humans. The FDA have implemented the Veterinary Feed Directive, but these regulations are light-touch compared to the EU and have some fairly glaring loopholes.

There's a legitimate debate about the use of ionophores, but medically important antibiotics are all too often used as a sticking-plaster to ameliorate the effects of poor animal husbandry. If you're keeping huge numbers of animals in cramped and unsanitary conditions, you should really fix that issue before you start routinely dumping lincomycin or penicillin into feed. The use of medically important antibiotics purely for the purposes of growth promotion is both widespread and unjustifiable.

The problem is inarguably worse in the developing world (particularly Asia) but the US should really be a leader rather than a follower on this issue. The WHO have issued clear guidelines on preventing antibiotic resistance in agriculture, but the FDA have been dragging their heels on actually implementing those guidelines in an effective manner.

Other countries (particularly the EU) have implemented relatively strict controls with no real impact on animal welfare and fairly marginal economic impact. Even if you doubt the strength of the evidence, the risk/reward calculus strongly points towards heavy restrictions on the use of medically important antibiotics in livestock; slightly cheaper meat is a pretty poor upside compared to the risk of an antibiotic-resistant epidemic.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/258970/9789...
If you find yourself using complicated custom methods with Dockerfiles, you should probably be building Linux packages, publishing to a local repo, and installing them from the Dockerfile. You gain the idempotent, immutable, versioned, system integrated, dependency-mapped, cryptographically verifiable, remotely distributed, cacheable benefits, and you don't have to adopt any new software or systems.

Your organization can follow any workflow/lifecycle it wants to build and publish the packages. Once they are published, developers can just install and use them with no learning curve whatsoever.
Document ranking, question answering, caption creation, keyword generation. Basically these model are super useful to search engines or any kind of engine that performs some kind of reasoning with text.
The Savage Detectives and 2666 remain among my favorite fiction books.

I’m sorry that I’ve only heard of Bolaño after his death, and it’s sad that here in Brazil such a great South American author was only published after being hyped in the US.
There are rattlesnakes everywhere in areas I've lived all my life. I've never seen a live one. They do not seek human interaction. About the only way you'll get bitten by one is if you reach into a hole one is trying to sleep in such that it can't get away and thinks you're threatening it.
If I want to use WireGuard on Windows, what's my best option, currently? TunSafe? Looks like there's some development on Windows going on atm but no releases afaik

https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-windows
Then you should train them so they can do the thing. Having a bus factor of 1 is a bad thing even if you have room on your plate.
I can tell you, out of 10-15 people, there are none that can do my job.

This is obviously untrue, they can definitely do it, and there are people I’d be happy to see in those roles, but the quality of work would suffer in the short term, and we have a ton of deadlines/projects to complete.
Agreed. This isn't a one-action problem to solve. But we need to lay the foundation for alternative incentives to be possible.
AWS Nitro System
Would anyone know how this compares to Vimium? I hadn't heard of Tridactyl before. I was using Firemacs before WebExtensions.
Can confirm from conversations I had with the authors.
Great! They don't seem to have historic ship positions though.. hm.
Last I checked there AISHub was the biggest reusable source of AIS data. Coverage map here: http://www.aishub.net/coverage. They are used by various sites like https://www.vesselfinder.com/

MarineTraffic has a more comprehensive monitoring network but they keep the data to themselves. Details at https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/p/expand-coverage

As noted by another comment, AIS signals are being broadcast line-of-sight from the ground so you need more receivers than you do to track airplanes. OTOH you only need the receivers on the coastlines and on major inland waterways, not over the whole earth's surface. (If you want to track a ship mid-ocean, you'll need a satellite. Those exist but cost $$.)
YouTube Ranked as Most Trusted Brand by Millennials in New Study
I think open source does let you move in a good direction though. I switched from a Mac to Manjaro Linux for my main desktop, and I haven't missed anything so far. Latest Gnome and KDE are both really nice desktops, there are apps for everything I need, and the OS is rock solid.

I've used Linux on the desktop previously and it left me wanting, so the fact that I haven't gone back tells me that things are indeed improving.

Meanwhile, OS X hasn't added a single feature I use since 10.6. All I've experienced over the years is that it kept getting more bloated, slower, and flakier.
[2014].

There's much better approaches these days.
50k radius if not more off a 10 sailboat mast. In context of sailing boat that you only meed couple of kilometers.

BTW new Iridiums are capturing AIS and ADS-B from satelite.
I agree with the direction of your idea but I don’t think it applies here. Invasive species are a major cause of loss of biodiversity. Typically, habitats change over a much larger timescale. If you introduce a species that’s suited for a habitat and it has no natural predators, you’re going to end up losing a lot of biodiversity as a result. Why is biodiversity important? Biodiversity gives us new opportunities for research (lots of new medical discoveries come from biodiversity), it allows an ecosystem to adapt to pressure (imagine if there’s a deadly new avian flu and you have 10 vs 100 bird species in an area, it’s a lot less likely that all birds will be wiped out in the second scenario as there’s more varied adaptations in that system that might allow the birds to survive). Change is of course natural for all ecosystems but as you lose biodiversity from things like invasive species, you lose the factors that allow an ecosystem to surmount potential extinction (extirpation?) events.
Everyone still names their crap like this. "Dell Optiplex 7010" or "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GTI RTX ETC ETC" gives me absolutely zero information about the product other than what to google.
That's not quite fair. The sample output they're touting is really nothing other than false text (when it's coherent), almost all of which is in the style of news.

So for the Ford analogy to be apt, Ford would have to have designed a car nobody has ever seen, and released a video which is basically just hundreds of hours of the car running people over.

I mean, a car has lots of well understood non-running-people-over capabilities. But have they demonstrated that this model is useful for anything other than generating fake news-sounding spam text?
That doesn't sound that outrageous. AWS S3 would come to close to $50k/yr for that amount of data and presumably this body camera footage storage company provides some additional value beyond just raw data storage that is encapsulated in that cost.
Switching from WordPress to Hugo
I'm someone that was impacted by this (had about $2700 put on my credit card), and yes I will trust them again.

Mistakes happen, and I think it's silly to overreact and completely cut ties with a company over a single mistake.

It does suck, and it was hilariously bad timing for us due to some personal stuff going on, but I trust that they will do a good job rectifying the issue.

I do have some issues with how they are handling this (I should have gotten an email when they found out this was a problem and not have had to find the forum post on my own), but at the end of the day it's a mistake and one I hope they will learn from.
Good suggestion, I did not think of search 3D printing designs. The model of my microwave is pretty common. Oh well.