skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thoughts exactly!

Great blog, love to see more
I wonder whether the results change with the pressure cooker.

I had ilizarov apparatus[1] on my legs for over a year(once during age 7 and another during age 15) and my mom used to sterilise the instruments (Scissors, Forceps) used for dressing wounds at home(every alternate day) in pressure cooker(on advice of the doctor).

I presume, pressure cookers are still being used for the sterilisation of instruments[2] in several parts of the world as its still common than an electric cooker.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilizarov_apparatus

[2]https://cdn.ymaws.com/sites/adint.site-ym.com/resource/resmg...
The SOTA "AI composers" don't feel formulaic - if anything, they feel a bit too random, much like noodling with little long-term structure.
You’ve clearly never been in the Eastern European countries. Eye contact is... iffy.

There is an old joke. How do you tell an extroverted Estonian from an introverted Estonian? He stares at your shoes, not his own.

There are (at least now) plenty of “extroverted” Estonians, but I’ve heard dozens and dozens of stories of the “don’t make eye contact, just keep walking” variety during the USSR.

Also, staring at either party’s shoes may mean their own smartphone these days...
Copyright and patents protect the producer

Trademarks protect the consumer
Sure, family comes first. My intent was to imply that the space of meaningful work is plausibly a lot larger than space vehicles.

My intent was not to imply that an employee can always utilize complete deterministic agency in their career path.
That's true! To be more specific, the British had just invented the ground interception radar to spot incoming aircraft, and didn't want the Germans to think they had developed a technological solution.

I don't know if they ever thought the myth would catch on as well as it did, but it's still widely believed today. (Perhaps because there's no downside, eating carrots is still good for you, it just doesn't improve your eyesight.)
A picture of these vertical farms would have gone a long way towards helping me understand what all would be required to deploy these things. Yet they decide to use white-space to tell me what the population of the world is and estimates of it in the future and why farming is important.
Refusing to fix bugs and issue patches is much cheaper, if forcing obsolescence is your goal.
>It's kind of broken, but it took zero effort. And that's the direction we're headed

That's not the same as artist connection to the audience (which is a big thing even for pop music), or popularity.

We've had such schemes for ages, even without AI (e.g. 3D or anime artists with songwriting teams behind them) but outside of a few cases (mostly in Japan) they're irrelevant...
This makes me sad.

One of the last things in modern life that brings people together is live music. We can argue whether AI can actually produce art or merely a veneer of art, but there are far more talented musicians, writers, and filmmakers in the world than will ever be able to make a living at it.

So why crowd them out by flooding the zone with machine-generated shit? Why customize the culture so much that there are no more common experiences, that every person is a musical island?
Ask HN: Problem with NJ Probation Taking Money
I am looking for input, help, perspective, case-law that might help in the following situation.

I am divorced in NJ as of 2015. As per standard procedure, money is collected from my paycheck and sent to NJ probation who disperses it to my ex-wife for child support and alimony.

The issue is in question: NJ Probation erroneously thought I was in arrears. I got a NJ judge to vacate e.g. to tell NJ probation no money was owed. Regardless, NJ probation took money after this judgement from my Federal tax refunds, and bonuses.

I asked for that money back. Another Judge at the same court denied my request saying I'd waived my rights to it. There is no dispute the money was taken, or in the amount taken. My ex-wife and her attorney were aware that I had overpaid previous to the Judgement, and I communicated with NJ probation to no ultimate effect numerous times prior to the Judge vacating the alleged amount owed. NJ Probation told me they will not take action without a Judge's order, which I got. Nonetheless they proceeded to take money anyway.

I am appealing this case to the Appellate level. What can I do to win on appeal?
Disappointed but not surprised to see nobody mentioned "A Silent Voice."

Most of the others here are movies I love too, but I think A Silent Voice is a separate category. Many of the others are fantasy, this is a high school drama about a bullied deaf girl and relationships between people. When I heard that, I first thought it didn't really sound like something that would interest me, but it is just an amazing story.
I rotate 10 masks, wear each of them 20m/day at most. Drop out of rotation if smelly (only happened once with serious sweating).
Robocalls are super annoying, but kind of an amazing way to ask someone out on a date (not first date - followups where you know they'll say "yes").

Twilio has this thing called "Twilio Studio" [1] that is essentially a UI that can be used to make these fairly easily. I've asked things like cuisine and alcohol preferences, what time is best for them, and even done more creative things like SMS a scammy link for them to send details in order to collect their "grand prize" (the date).

Also, for the same person, I built an online game for her to play with her students, tailored for speech-language pathology. She works in a public school and was having a really hard time adapting curriculum to an online format (due to COVID). She and her co-workers loved it, and since then, we've made a lading page, more games, and thinking about turning it into a business! [2]

[1] https://www.twilio.com/studio
[2] https://slpgames.com
It's been about 10 years since I touched that code, so apologies if these are all things you know.

I am pretty sure most of the work was just extending the documentation in https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La... with looking up application "dictionaries" (iirc, a box of supported commands) and all menu items being accessible by default.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
Children of Men: My favorite movie.
Sounds like wetting the towel first would be the way to go.
I love the idea, but if successful, I don't how the Warp record label will feel about the name. https://warp.net
I've seen people in the Seattle area and SF area who want to live in cities so badly that they reverse commute out of the city to their offices (Seattle to Redmond for MS, SF to Menlo Park or Mountain View for FB and Goog). These companies have a large group of private buses that handle this commute so it's common enough in those groups that there is evidence people move to the cities for things besides work.
Expository Programming (2006)
It’s not about pay. People that don’t sleep make mistakes - no matter what you pay them. Rest is an essential part of performance. Some people may need more and others less, but there’s no one that doesn’t.
> Decades later rumors swirled that the British Royal Air Force pushed that message as a cover-up for the recently adopted radar technology they were secretly relying on for their nighttime skirmishes.

> whilst the [British] Air Ministry were happy to go along with the story [of carrot-improved vision], they never set out to use it to fool the Germans.

> The German intelligence service were well aware of our ground-based radar installation and would not be surprised by the existence of radar in aircraft. In fact, the RAF were able to confirm the existence of German airborne radar simply by fitting commercial radios into a bomber and flying over France listening to the various radio frequencies!

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-c...

I wasn't however able to find if there is any reason for the british to push such a message if it wasn't to confuse the germans.
> one may be lucky to live in a place where this is left to the individual woman.

"Lucky" if you're the woman in this scenario; not so lucky if you're the unborn child.
When I was a kid in the early 90s (in Czechoslovakia), I watched Wargames and Short Circuit, and they influenced me a lot to become interested in artificial intelligence. I found the idea of intelligent computers fascinating. Although the anti-war message in these movies sorta went over my head at the time.

I still like Wargames today, although I appreciate very different things about it. I also really like the library montage, which just so nicely captures the effort sometimes needed to solve a problem.
That seems a rather silly distinction to me: "They're a special case because they're not on React's list of special cases".

You've correctly pointed out that the special cases are the problem, but are putting the blame on the things that are not special cases instead of the thing doing the special casing.

This is fundamentally React's problem. It's the only major framework to even have issues here.
Ah good, it wasn’t just me that measured the increase in performance of 286 -> 386 -> 486 with DIR then!
Thank you for putting this idea in my head! I’ve been trying to get better at expressing infrastructure as code, and one of the big blockers has been how adding new services to e.g. Terraform is tough when you don’t know all their permissions they need (see also https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/2834 for example).

Using a test AWS environment to stage and then checking CloudTrail to see what was actually called would be a step forward. Having software to extract it would be even better.
It's been there for a very long time. I used to teach DTP with QuarkExpress back in 92 and this feature was gold. It helped to preserve and not destroy the page templates of the magazine. The fine folks at this publisher had a hard time adjusting to the new world and it saved me so much time when they messed around with the layout and page settings
Second paragraph in the article: malicious media (i.e. video) can exploit it
Pretty weird for me in America too.

A lot of people criticized Richard Stallman's "rider" [1] for the same reason, but at least there I can understand you're hiring someone you don't know personally for one engagement where you also have to get them room and board. Employer-employee is much simpler.
I don't see it as positive or neutral, more like unintentionally nihilistic. I consider it a failed propaganda movie that is very successful as art for art's sake.

And maybe that was the artist's intent all along. From the title I doubt it but I read that originally the filmmaker wanted it released without any title.
Now Apple Inc. is literally com-pear-ing Apples to Pears.

Maybe the offending characteristic of this is the leaf. But really is Apple Inc. seriously complaining that a Pear is similar to an Apple?

Unfortunately, they will still win this legal fight anyway.
AFAIK, none.

Recently Lattice updated their licensing forbidding reverse engineering, but changed their mind once the community complained.

Also, a while back, lattice added support to something that was already implemented on the open source tools, but with a different name -- thus, code that worked on open source don't work on the official tool. (I'm not sure if this was "fixed").

The open source tools have been create by hard work of many hackers. If you want to know more, watch this 35C3 talk [1] where MathiasL describes how they reverse engineered the Artix-7 bitstream.

Last time I checked, Symbflow [2] only supported Lattices FPGAs and Artix-7 (smallest fpga from Xilinx 7-series). Both are quite small FPGAs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Wwa8csFjk
[2] https://symbiflow.github.io/
Contact w/ Jodi Foster
Could it be accessing the microphone which causes a switch to the Bluetooth HSP profile?
God, I hope not
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Inform6 is much better and easier.
Firebase Pros and Cons for a SaaS Company
They mention 70 tons per hectare. That’s 1.43 pounds per square foot.

To grow 1000 pounds would require an area 26 ft by 26 ft.

For a product worth less than $1000.

Counting space, heat, light, equipment - doesn’t sound like a paying proposition.
Embedding of world cities according to music popularity
I am sure they perform sterilization effectively, but introduction of water/steam (which is under pressure in a "pressure" cooker) will almost certainly deform a mask like an N95 mask.
Additionally, sugar was also heavily rationed, while carrots (which are quite high in sugars) IIRC weren't.

Carrot cake also had a surge in popularity at the time (if the great show "Supersizers eat..." is to believed).
Happy Hour with Architects Episode 5: The Role of FPGAs [video]
One of the features blogspot, wordpress and the like offered when blogs started becoming popular was the ability to comment in addition to publishing content.

This commenting feature distinguished it from other sites with only content and no ability to comment.

I don't know if github pages have commenting ability.
> I wonder if it will feel formulaic.

OF COURSE it will feel formulaic. You will never get anything but as long as you're simply mashing different source training material together, which is all these things are doing
This setup reminds me of operation PIMLICO:

> Every Tuesday, shortly after 7:00, a British MI6 officer would take a morning stroll at the Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. He would pass outside a designated bakery at exactly 7:24 a.m. local time. If he saw Gordievsky standing outside the bakery holding a grocery bag, it meant that the double agent was requesting to be exfiltrated as a matter of urgency. Gordievsky would then have to wait outside the bakery until a second MI6 officer appeared, carrying a bag from the Harrods luxury department store in London. The man would also be carrying a Mars bar (a popular British candy bar) and would bite into it while passing right in front of Gordievsky. That would be a message to him that his request to be exfiltrated had been received.

https://intelnews.org/tag/operation-pimlico/
Oh ffs...

If your 2020 Google had been in charge of the Apollo 13 mission it would have been game over.

..

I will spell it out:

Sometimes your software team messes up really badly. This would be one of those times: 1 billion vulnerable people.

These things don't happen that often, but when they do happen your better step up.
> If you need 5V compatibility...

The devil in the details is that when 5V-tolerant I/O are naively configured as such, device reliability drops like a rock. You'll likely find this disclosed in the manual fine print. Something to consider when prototyping a design destined for production.
https://twitter.com/lil_morgy/status/1291871226936221697
I tried Cmd-b search in spotlight but it went with Firefox+Google when my default is Firefox+Duckduckgo, any chance someone knows how to fix it?
Keto has some awesome pancakes though, honestly at this point my favorite pancakes are all keto recipes.

Almond hazelnut pancakes are /good/.

Keto has come a long ways since the days of steak and eggs for every meal.
You two might not have used up your free stories. I'm seeing the following:

> You have 2 free stories left this month. Sign up and get an extra one for free.

Presumably, if I read 2 more stories on medium, I'll get a paywall, too. Unless I sign up, then I'd get a paywall after reading one more story.
This sounds like a horrible future. Nobody will be able to come together on anything and there will be few shared experiences if everyone lives in their own little bubble of AI-created garbage
Yups, that's the original source. Not sure why all of a sudden everybody decided to pick it up.

Here's the firsthand account by the author, last April:

https://twitter.com/metaweta/status/1246166302688808960
Is writev seems to be the *nix version of WriteFileGather on Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectored_I/O
I once spent some effort to make my handwriting very legible, without concern for calligraphic sensibilities. For example I had serifs on several but not all letters. Perhaps such handwriting (and similar efforts) would lend themselves more to handwriting fonts than digitizing handwriting that is not practiced for legibility. I mean: perhaps it would look handwritten when digitized more so than fonts based on handwriting not optimized for legibility (optimized in the sense of my effort). The author’s handwriting looks quite legible. I wonder how they approached their own handwriting before digitization.
The 8088 (maybe 8086 too) had a bug where an interrupt during a “rep movsb” would return to the rep, so any prefixes were lost.

You had to do e.g. “rep cs: movsb” instead of “cs: rep movsb” because the latter would switch to ds: on return from interrupt. Fun times.
I find that take on the future of music depressing. A big part of music is how shared it is. This is why I love piano bars and people singing along with every song. This doesn't work with everyone listening to personalized AI-generated earworms.

To your point, while the value of old songs usually drops over time, I don't see new music, AI-generated or not, driving it down more. A familiar song takes you back to a different time and place, and there's no substitute for that.
Do you also send "the drop isn't ready" on other days? If not the fact that you sent a message tells the attacker everything without knowing the content.

Also can anything be inferred by the length of the signal message? Do they pad they out or will all of the sudden sending a 2kb vs 3kb message give you away that something is different?

Personally if my life is on the line, I'd stick with the shoelaces.
This reminds me of the (live-action) show Tiger & Dragon[0] is pretty great, although I watched it a decade ago and can't fully say whether it still lives up to my expectations.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731947/
China is basically: low start + motivation + good education + low costs + state level protectionism + long term planning
It's hypocrisy that Facebook allows religious groups, but doesn't allow conspiracy theory groups. Conspiracy theory is a belief system. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant. You cannot allow religion and not allow conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories help people to make sense of the world, this is a fundamental human need.

I didn't see Facebook banning the Catholic church for its stance against contraception.
What do real composers do? How often do you hear a song, or read a book, or see a painting, that wasn't heavily dependent on the artist taking in experiences and mashing them up into something new? Don't all artists take things they've come across and mix them up? What's the nature of novelty, is there some reason a machine can't make new things?
> Do you think Facebook would lower someone's wages for living in Davis rather than Palo Alto or San Jose?

Yes of course. You only think that would be surprising because until now companies can tailor salaries to the office location, based on the reasonable assumption that most people will live nearby, and the annoyance of commuting long distances will roughly cancel out the lower cost of living.

As soon as the annoyance of commuting is removed they will definitely take into account your cost of living.
People who don't make their living off their art shouldn't get to decide how long copyrights last.
Ok, this is both creepy and brilliant. I'm totally doing this for the next major life event in which we set up a website. Kids bat-mitzvah maybe?
I don't think I've ever been more triggered by a hn comment.....
Apple Takes Legal Action Against Small Company For Using a Pear Logo
If I recall, what he was really saying was - when he was in college, he chose to go to some classes that weren't required, but were interesting to him, personally - one of them was on typography. He learned a bunch of non-obvious things about how fonts are designed, and how they use things like serifs for legibility, etc, etc - just this huge swath of things that he didn't necessarily "learn in depth", but he became aware of the existence of, and aware of why anyone ought to care that they exist.

So then a few years later, he's running a computer company, and it's the heyday of greenscreen, monospaced fonts. And a lot of people - without this connection to the font-making culture of western history, genuinely thought that's perfectly fine, no room-for-improvement, etc. Monospaced stuff was honest, straightforward, industrial - it didn't waste any effort on silliness like "looking pretty" (very much like soviet brutalist architecture).

As a manager, he was able to at least greenlight the idea of "wasting money" (lots of it, in fact), on decent typography, because, thanks to that education, he understood it wasn't just being done to make stuff prettier, but was actually being done to make it easier to read. That there was a powerful, utilitarian reason to do fancy fonts, not just an aesthetic one.
Jeez, my point isn’t that Facebook is equivalent to Nazism. It’s that Oskar Schindler and this guy both thought they were part of a bad organization, and one was way more effective at handling it than the other. Are you familiar with his story?
Menu-bar search.

Press CMD + Shift + / to open a search over all Menubar-actions for the current app.

If you're used to action-search in IntelliJ or VSCode, this will feel familiar to you. It's for those countless features that you use often, but not often enough to remember their proper shortcuts.

There are Launchbar- and Alfred plugins that provide a nicer interface.

(Germans need to reconfigure the shortcut in the settings, because our keyboards are weird)
Well, you still have TCL/TK, Lazarus, and such.
They shouldn't allow religious groups either then. Humans don't need belief, they affect nothing in the physical world and lead to division, ignorance, and holy wars
If you took this to the extreme and added glyphs and rules for for each letter combination (e.g., aa, ab, ac, ad ...), that would probably get you something that looked pretty natural for text that didn't have repeated words too close to each other (since the same word will look identical).
How did the bug originate and what about the timestamp fixed the problem?
Yeah I used all the privacy settings of WPD (Windows Privacy Dashboard) on my computer and was never able to re-enable my microphone for visio-conferences !
The cells amalgamate you mean.

But this is obviously a discussion which will not lead to anything constructive. Like I said I am happy to have the freedom of choice thanks to Ms Veil and the women who fought for that.
NO way? Really? You sure about that? Seriously?
From the article:

Reuters reports that Official Q/QAnon "crossed the line" on bullying, harassment, hate speech and the sharing of potentially harmful misinformation.

The FBI last year issued a warning about "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists" and designated QAnon a potential domestic extremist threat.
Usually when I see this sort of coincidence, I think that it is a matter of information relevance/leakage.

You read an article about bug spray chemicals and don’t think about it, but start seeing exterminator ads online. If you read the article because you’re looking for pest control, the it feels suspicious. If you’re not, you ignore the ads and go on your way.

I don’t want to discount your experience. I haven’t seen it myself, but maybe I’m not paying enough attention.
> It's very rare for me to really like a song the first time I hear it. Once my brain has become accustomed to where the song goes (even for a jazz song), then I tend to like it a lot more.

I think there is probably a wide range of human experience in this regard, since I have the complete opposite experience: I know with extremely good certainty (~95%) how much I like a song the first time I hear it.