skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think you're exactly right re:"just having a few off-the-rack workflows that are easy to play with would be helpful". There really seems to be standard conventions that would work for most workflows, kind of like what component galleries do for web design. I haven't explored where that idea may lead. We're a long way off from trying to tackle UI design, but it does seem interesting.
> Starting something from scratch involves a lot more work and skills.

Starting vs. buying/scaling requires a different set of skills and perhaps different work, but roughly the same amount as starting. Source: I've done both.
Probably individual comments being vouched for like the one here.
Because then the company has a financial incentive to reduce call-outs and overtime.
You caught yourself, didn't you?
you ever hear the theory about failing upwards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

edit: I think I got it wrong. maybe this is a closer fit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successfu...
> will we know
> history will tell

I’m not following the logic here. As opposed to lockdowns we should.. let everyone die so those who live could go outside a couple months earlier?
Right, The Humane Environment, following on his work with the Canon Cat and the Macintosh, before Steve Jobs took over the project and made it into a better Lisa. Later they renamed THE to the more googlable "Archy", a pun on RCHI, the Raskin Center for the Humane Interface, shortly before Jef's surprising death from pancreatic cancer. Jef's son Aza unfortunately hasn't kept Jef's stuff online, and he also invented infinite scroll websites. Nice guy though.

LEAP was Emacs incremental-search, but on the Cat the idea was to use it to replace all cursor movement except "creep" left and right arrows.

Thanks for the video! I had never seen it. YT suggested https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jErqdRE5zpQ, another Cat video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZomNp9TyPY shows a brief clip of the Forth interpreter.
Practical SNARK-based VDF
But dude, are we signing contracts right now? lol.
That's good to know. I've been through a few units (Denon, Pioneer, Onkyo) and they really feel like the weakest link in my setup, with fussy menus and strange failure modes involving cryptic error codes— the Denon in particular would go into a fault state that was probably a thermal problem but might also have been a voltage regulation issue.

It's definitely overkill given that I'm only driving stereo speakers anyway, so maybe next time I have issues I'll go this direction.
The best part is that since they're expensive, niche, and bought mostly by businesses, they will never reach consumer market adoption to the level where adding telemetry and ads makes financial sense.
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isn't this what happened to the ps3? the documentation said "use a random number" and they calculated it once and put it as a constant instead of...yah know...using a random number (each time)?
No worries and I should have been more descriptive. But since the context was within aerobic threshold and endurance, I was referring to the amount of calories burned from fat grams, per hour. Elite athletes can recruit energy from over 1g of fat per minute. At 9cal/g, we are looking at around 600 cal/hour. Poorly conditioned individuals (i.e. low thresholds) are less efficient and therefore their bodies resort anaerobic glycolysis much sooner.
Does it really matter? No matter what, extremely wealthy guy will still be extremely wealthy guy.
Wrong, try again. It's a lie.
> Banning Trump

After years of letting him say whatever he wanted, they waited until the opposing party was firmly seated and the threat of retaliation was lowest. Good move tactically I guess but it took no bravery.
To second this advice, I have a 4 year old 75" Sony Bravia that I did not connect to the internet in any way, despite being an Android device. I have updated the firmware using the instructions on the Sony website, downloaded a package, extracted on a USB stick and let the TV boot on that. Figured it's best to have an up to date operating system for bug fixes, security updates, file format support etc.

Never intend to use the "smart" features on the TV, internet browsing, Netflix etc., I handle that perfectly with my "broken lid" laptop, which is a well maintained machine, typing these very words on it.

So I can vouch that at least for Sony TVs in the KD or KDL series XD, XE, XF, XG (most of them launched a few years ago), you can use them just fine without internet, and you can even update them. You can also turn off Bluetooth and prevent the TV from advertising its presence.

Don't know about the newer OLED and QLED devices, you should try them on in the store.
I've got "just" an M1-powered MacBook Pro, and have not had the Finder lock up once in the last ~7mo of it being my daily driver

Are you up to date on macOS?
XLOOKUP
Nobody has yet convinced me that the effort spent on blockchain smart contract whatever would not have been better spent un-pretentiously re-writing traditional banking infrastructure with lessons learned in the last 40 or so years.
Nah. That's probably relevant for what Thomas imagines doing, but in reality what CT does is provide independent researchers with an easy way to see anomalies. I've done this a few times, academics have done it here and there, and when there are incidents everybody involved will be staring at crt.sh these days.

There was a recent m.d.s.policy policy change idea about requiring CAs to publish the SHA256s of problem certificates, perhaps as crt.sh links because again, in practice people are going to look at them on crt.sh (but SHA256 because one day crt.sh will go away and it'd be a shame to have opaque database row numbers instead of SHA256)

For example, suppose I find a certificate with a 1024-bit RSA public key issued last Thursday by a particular CA. Before CT if I told m.d.s.policy, you can be 100% sure the CA would say "Oops. But that's the only one, we know what happened and we've definitely fixed it". But with CT, they won't even bother with that lie, because they know a researcher is already running a crt.sh database query to find the others they probably issued. They're going to need to actually find and fix the problem. Ugh. Work.

This was a much bigger problem for the Web PKI than it is for DNS today, which is why CT was built.

Why? Because of "private" systems. For DNS, we're used to not worrying about private systems at all. You probably have or know somebody who has, a Pi-Hole, which deliberately trashes DNS in order to reduce the amount of advertising you see. It can't trash my DNS this way, and it couldn't trash DNS for somebody using say, Google's DoH servers (but when pointed out this actually makes HN readers angry!) so we don't fret about it.

But for the Web PKI "private" systems are a big problem. We don't want a CA selling you a certificate for *.ad-network.example so that you can block their ads "just on your private network". Because we don't trust that it'll stay on your network. Years ago we had a problem where some end users believed "int" was a TLD for internal use, and much worse some CAs believed them. It isn't so of course the certificates for testwww4.int and windows2000dev.int are a big problem even though the people who had them never intended to set up a server claiming to be "testwww4.int" on the public Internet
Your slaves worked in the kitchen. Nobody cared too much whether it smelled.
Releasing a project as open source is associated with a lot of work and responsibility. People get quite entitled over open source projects and get quite upset when developers don't do what they want. I can see why he's unwilling to undergo all that stress and pressure if he feels it doesn't benefit him.
> It’d be nice to see something similar on the mobile front at some point, but I doubt that will happen

AFAIK, Google Play offers a browser choice prompt on new Androids, at least in Europe
Oh wow. That is a new low.
Might have 4g or 5g chips in them. I'm sure they could get a good deal on data if they put it in millions of TVs.
> grant the fucker an internet connection over BT, it starts to rat on you

Or it does that by itself, with a mesh network that your neighbours have setup by accident with their Alexa or Ring - Amazon Sidewalk is an amazing end-run around your own firewall rules.
in zanzibar they all have their brights on at night. everyone is blinded
I can't prove it, but I suspect there is a more fundamental limitation to any language model that is purely a language model in the sense of a probability distribution over possible words given the precedent of other words. Gaining any meaningful level of understanding without an awareness that things other than words even exist seems like it won't happen. The most obvious limitation is you can't develop a language that way. Language is a compression of reality or of some other intermediate model of reality to either an audio stream or symbol stream, so not having access to the less abstracted models, let alone to reality itself, means you can never understand anything except the existing corpus.

That isn't a criticism of GPT-3 by any stretch, as comments like this seem to often get interpreted that way, but the "taking all possible jobs AGI" hype seems a bit out of control given it is just a language model. Even something with the unambiguous intellect of a human, say an actual human, but with no ability to move, no senses other than hearing, that never heard anything except speech, would not be expected by anyone to dominate all job markets and advance the intellectual frontier.

This, of course, goes beyond fundamental limitations of GPT-3, as I see this as a fundamental limitation of any language model whatsoever. On its own, it isn't enough. At some point, AI research is going to have to figure out how to fuse models from many domains and get them to cooperatively model all of the various ways to explore and sense reality. That includes the corpus of existing human written knowledge, but it isn't just that.
ftr - Finder's using ~108M right now, and I've got 12 apps running, with >500 processes, per `ps aux`
It's going to be time to crack the sucker open and burn out the traces to/from the modem, isn't it.

E: And in the ongoing arms war, then manufacturer's ship remotes that no longer use tried and true IR but instead go over the same bluetooth or 2.4ghz chip. Some probably already do, I would expect.
Perhaps he did reverse or prevent some actions the board in general felt he shouldn't, and this is the "please leave".
Welcome to public relations.

This is par for the course, ask a politician a question get a non-answer, ask an NFL coach about the next game “They are a good team, we have to practice hard.” It’s all just talking without really saying anything.
Likely to be either billets or sheet ingots.

Billets: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22aluminium+billets%22&tb... An example of dimensions: “Most of the produced billets by the South Aluminum Industries Complex are produced in the form of cylinders with a diameter of 280 (11 inches) and a length of 7,500 mm” and some details of their manufacturing process here: https://en.salcocompany.com/aluminum-billet/ Billets of various diameters are used in aluminium extrusion machines: https://www.aec.org/page/aluminum-extrusion-process-basics

Ingots are rolled to produce sheet, which I think is the majority usage by weight of Al: https://www.metalex.co.uk/expert-aluminium-plate-suppliers-e... “The rolling process kicks off with massive, pre-heated metal sheet ingots weighing as much as 20 tons. The ingots tend to be around six feet wide, twenty feet long and over two feet thick.”
Demystifying Closures in JavaScript
Well, at 60% turnout, you've got a true distribution of:

1. 36% unfairly unhappy

2. 24% unfairly happy

3. 40% meh as intended

Honestly, that places it at 64% meh-to-happy vs 36% unhappy vs. it going the other way as 76% meh-to-happy vs 24% unhappy. I think that's a pretty big improvement in happiness but I can see why the question was asked.
Hydroxychloroquine was only conclusively proven to have no effect on already hospitalized patients with severe covid. It is now known that this is the point in the disease where the significant portion of viral activity has already taken place, so it would make sense that an anti-viral would no longer do anything at this point.

Last I checked there were no large trials for its use as early treatment, but some small trials do show that it can be effective if used early.

Here’s a summary: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534595/
Agreed. There are way too many people in our industry who accept being treated like utter garbage, and that's a problem, but we should also be clear that at the end of the day people do need to learn to stand up to themselves and not to consent to insanity.

My previous job I was on-call 1 week out of every 6. My first on-call week I got paged 100+ times (obv many of these alerts were firing within a minute of each other, but even accounting for that I was still being woken up multiple times per night). That week was particularly bad but I was still woken up an average of >= once per week on my on-call weeks. My team - the sole SRE team - was on-call for everything, including of course the 6 other dev teams' services.

Even worse, when I would fight to get bullshit alerts removed (the alerts that don't actually indicate a problem), I would get incredible pushback from, of all people, my own manager! (who was the manager of the SRE team since like I mentioned we were the only SRE team)

So not only were half the alerts bullshit, but I was counter incentivized to actually fix the problems causing the alerts. One great indicator of how bad things were was that everyone else on the SRE team (except the manager but he somehow always had unusually light on-call weeks) had a 5 minute delay set for pages, because the vast majority of pages would resolve within 1-3 minutes.

Oh, and by the way we weren't given any extra compensation whatsoever. Indeed I was told it was "part of the job description", which effectively meant that SRE skills were less valuable than the devs, because the devs were making identical salaries with no on-call requirement whatsoever! So a more specialized and, at least at this organization, difficult skillset, was worth less.

Anyway, I quit that job, and never looked back. I still have a friend on that exact team who is still putting up with being on-call, despite the incredible impact it has on his ability to go out and do stuff (mid 20's guy). I hear him complain about it all the time. But, like most people, he doesn't have the balls to either (a) push for internal change (which in fairness I tried and failed, although half the reason I failed was because nobody else on my team was willing to stick their neck out and push for the change with me), or (b) quit and find a new job.

So...yeah. Kind of rambling but we have a huge problem in our industry with people who either "don't have lives", or kind of do yet have so little self esteem or whatnot that they can't actually say no and protect their personal lives. In most cases on-call is simply a case of someone getting a raw deal and being too afraid to admit it to themselves.
For what its worth, its highly likely that this comment had artificial negative points added in the background for its sorting, after which it stopped its super quick gain in points (156 in 1-2 hours) and suddenly dropped to page two.

I wonder what the mods found objectionable. Its a general news event, so this kind of commentary seems relevant. Social media CEOs are facing this problem everywhere and they seem unable (or unwilling?) to fight it.
Looks to me to be similar in approach and philosophy to Constellation Software (https://www.csisoftware.com/), which has done very well.
"Adaptation" is not synonymous with "intelligence". The latter is a much more narrowly defined phenomenon.
IIRC they eventually figured out to soak the sponges in soured wine (a.k.a. vinegar) as an antiseptic.

Which may add some depth to this passage:

> About three in the afternoon [while being crucified] Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[c] lema sabachthani?” ... Immediately one of [those standing near] ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.
It works on my Galaxy S8 when I view the page from HN reader Materialistic :)

That's because it runs fine in Firefox Focus. The error message shows up in Samsumg Internet Browser and Chrome though.

(S8 is a great device. I don't want to "upgrade" - hate the notch on newer versions, the S8 still performs very well, and I don't know of any feature only in newer phones that I have a use worth paying for.)
> But dude, are we signing contracts right now? lol.

You play like you practice.
Electrons?
Napkin math says about 343km^3/year of water to contend with, and the Panama canal work took 35 years to move about 0.2km^3 of earth, about 0.006km^3/year.

As a layperson it seems to me you'd need to channel a vast area already below sea level (3500km^2 at ~100m deep?) to put a dent in the rise.

Again, napkin math. Reuters claims "75.6 trillion gallons of water added to the ocean each year" and a Panama canal history page says the French dug 30M cubic yards and the Americans dug 238M.
Linux desktop is great now because OSes have stagnated and its easier to catch up. Mac was as good in 2010, 10 years ago. I do believe that its at least partly because Apple had the money to hire and support teams full of talented people working hard.

I see the same pattern in Firefox. Back when Chrome launched, and for years after, it was miles ahead of firefox and IE.

Anyways, if money is a problem then just work for free lol. Easy solve. Why do you care about Vulkan on Apple anyways? Seems like you were a Mac user.. if i had to guess you used Mac for many years and switched recently, now that Linux desktop has become viable. Why did you not use linux 10 years ago too? The money you paid to Apple only causes problems right? If money is the root of evil you should work for free contributing to the FOSS you believe in and find some other way to pay the rent. But I guess money is the root of evil only when you're paying, not when you're getting paid.
That usage (“there are scores of x”) is figurative and doesn’t literally mean “20 * n”.
You need a lot of plants though! NASA had some quality studies on types of plants.
In one of Cormans' answer to question "Is CLRS really an "introduction"? If so, what's next?"[1] he replied, "Yes, Introduction to Algorithms really is an introductory text—on algorithms". But then he recommended the next book people should read is Don Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming. Here is the quote "What’s next? Don Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, which I consider the greatest books (it is a multi-volume set) computer science has ever had or ever will have."

I suppose the target groups of people studying his introductory book is not any random junior student at a random CS department if he is expecting them to pick up Knuth's Art of Computer Programming right after Introduction to Algorithms.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-CLRS-really-an-introduction-If-so-w...
I assume you havent seen https://twitter.com/bluesky ?
Discuss HN: Amazon is going to win heavily aren't they?
Hi, It's been a while HN.

Amazon is going to win heavily aren't they?

Or to put it another way, 3 out of maybe 10 of my computers can checkout at the newly updated Walmart.com. For Apple's Online store, it says "please call us to make an order". For an indie online bookstore I went too and few others, it says "your browser is not supported" please use a new browser where some devices can't use a new browser. And other websites consistently giving errors and not load things.

For 10 out of 10 computers, Amazon.com works.

Why are web developers doing this?

I grew up at a time where the obsession was IE6 and backwards compatibility was key so that no customer was left behind. I remember we did everything to make sure as much of our customers can access our websites with fallback towards more universal and generic HTML standards that have stood the test of time.

I'm a tech person, I have access to the latest and greatest. Many of my friends, parents, relatives do not.

Now, so many websites demand the most up to date browser to work correctly and shop and apparently gives you no choice except to use it or not shop at their store except, well, Amazon. So Amazon they shop.

What's going on here?
In a walled garden, the ability to for the user to do what they want, where they want is perceived as innovation.
Your set up reminds me of Plato (W16?). I would give Parade a try. PM/founder here.
The world spins in pain and has for a billion years.

A billion Chinese people have been brought out of dire poverty by the manufacturing jobs that the export business has created. (https://ourworldindata.org/app/uploads/2017/02/poverty-decli...).

Life for half the world's people sucks - but companies like Apple make it better, not worse. I say this as someone who doesn't use any Apple products and doesn't particularly like the company.
http://cdevroe.com/2021/10/26/bluesky-status/

love this bit:

"The truth is that Twitter could become decentralized almost overnight by simply adding some JSON-LD serializers, an inbox endpoint and maybe tweaking their storage schema slightly to become part of the fediverse – anyone who wouldn’t want to use twitter.com could follow twitter.com users from their own server and so on. That does not require 2 years of making people who don’t work for you talk to each other."
then tax the electricity use (or, specifically, the fossil fuel use)?

(alternatively, tax the electricity use beyond a certain per-person allocation).

I agree that there can be harms from PoW, but this is because of the electricity use, and so the thing to tax is the electricity use. Rather than the state deciding what things it considers valid for an individual to value and seek, it should put the restrictions on the thing that more directly causes negative externalities to others.

If there is a concern that this would harm things that we are sufficiently convinced is objectively valuable (e.g. making it more costly than is appropriate for people to heat their homes), so that we want to not significantly impact the finances of people who are like, using "reasonable" amounts of electricity, then we can, as I said, put some threshold amount of electricity use per person below which there's no tax on it, and increase the tax rate above that amount to account for this (and use the revenue to pay for CO2 removal and/or green energy development).

Or, like, I suppose in the most extreme case you could (on e.g. an annual basis) give everyone an initial amount of CO2 credits and no one is allowed to emit CO2 beyond the credits they have (but unused credits can be bought and sold).
Why did he leave, and then come back? If it was so horrible? His poems were published in the Foxconn newspaper… Do you think they would publish it if they thought it was criticism of their own organisation?
What would you define as "Brave's 'bad stuff'" ? It would seem that Brave does a lot to leave power of choice while erroring on safety / privacy for the defaults. What issues does it have?
I would argue iOS is the easiest operating system. Toddlers are often very good at it.
Ad blockers don't work for YouTube on a TV or the native YouTube app (unless you are one of the few people with a DNS ad blocker). I wonder how many of YouTube Premium subscribers primarily use the website. I'm a YouTube Premium subscribers solely because I typically watch YouTube on my TV.
I didn't mean my comment to come off as hostile. The way you replied seemed to imply you were involved in some way but didn't make note of that in your comment, sometimes when people don't realize who they're replying to they make bad assumptions, I was trying to prevent that from happening.

This whole thread has a lot of unproductive animosity, and it's possible part of that is due to the opaqueness who the identity of those involved.