skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GhostTouch: Targeted Attacks on Touchscreens Without Physical Touch – [pdf]
It was probably turning corporations off the platform entirely since turning the likes off looked bad and leaving them on created risk.
Mirror Image Pinpoints a Nanoparticle’s Position
This is not very true if you look at the numbers. Manufacturing stuff is a pretty tiny proportion of emissions, and even if you shift all of China's manufacturing emissions back to the countries that import, it's barer a blip.

I ran the numbers a few years ago to see what personal actions I could take. (Even though climate change is a collective action problem, not a personal action problem.) In the US, stopping buying so much stuff isn't much of a climate action, at least not nearly as much as switching off driving a gas car, changing your natural gas water heater to electric, ir changing a natural gas furnace to a heat pump.
> Ethanol is naturally occurring.

That's... decidedly not true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95DPkPW5_PE
I concur with this. I drove an RV for a period - possibly the least aerodynamic vehicle around. It was a losing battle to keep it remotely clean of bugs. Now driving in the same areas in a normal vehicle, it is a practically non existent problem.
Ah, that is very misleading though since they're discussing confidence intervals. Maybe some methodology section would be good.
Or instead use specialised communities that does do moderation like peer tube, odysee.
iOS 10 is definitely not 10 years old but it is nearing 6 years. For the iOS ecosystem, even iOS 13 is kinda old.
Apple does not limit minimal version of iOS during the submission process - which is a signal that this version is supported.

By removing the debugging ability it's almost pushing the responsibility onto publishers/developers to say "hey, we don't support iOS 10 anymore - we are these bad guys".

In a case when we would like to provide the best possible experience to all players (even if the market share is less than 1%) - I consider as a regression, an unnecessary change and complication.
I didn't notice the (2016) tag when I first clicked and kept thinking "How long has the NYT and their readers been so out of touch that they are just understanding Minecraft now."

I feel like Minecraft has really drifted a lot towards the description of modern lego:

"Today many cultural observers argue that Lego has moved away from that open-­ended engagement, because it’s so often sold in branded kits: the Hogwarts castle from “Harry Potter,” the TIE fighter from “Star Wars.”

“It’s ‘Buy the box, open the box, turn to the instruction sheet, make the model, stick it on the shelf, buy the next box,’"

The way Minecraft has changed is no longer about figuring out the solution, but about saving up the specific resources needed to craft the "solves your specific problem" block. Maybe that's Microsofts influence. Maybe that's what's incentivized when the money comes from "sell this game to the kids that haven't bought it yet."

When you step back and look at it, the articles surprise about what kids can figure out on their own is actually kind of patronizing. Imagine the opposite: "the voting game is finally teaching adults about how running a server really works. These are the worst people I can imagine, yet somehow they aren't falling flat on their face."
I think YouTube/Google has a big leadership crisis at the moment. Removing the dislike counter was the obvious sign.
Maybe someone decided to exploit one of the myriad of security vulerabilities they noticed there the last time they visited... a decade plus ago.

(It's gonna be a big suspect list. Good luck to... Scotland Yard or whatever.)
>My personal "in case of imminent nuclear war draft email to everyone"

I think you've misunderstood the purpose of this work. It's not about the end of the world, it's about the end of you and making the transition for the ones you love as easy as possible.
How so? I'm not seeing any language in there that implies exclusivity...
Well, if the entire thing was generated, then no (according to the first link I posted above), since it was not produced by a human. However, no useful program is going to be entirely written by an AI, so any real program would have quite a lot of user input (I regularly will take what copilot suggests and then tweak it to what I specifically want). And then, yeah, it's copyrightable.

Also, there's no way for anyone to know what portion of code that I commit was hand written vs. generated, so you kind of have to treat it all as written by the committer anyway.

Though this does bring up interesting questions about what happens with things like automated PRs that fix bugs / update dependencies... are those then non-copyrightable? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wanna know something funnier also posted in previous thread? The hello_world.v has potential memory leaks. I tried it myself and got a similar result. Somehow the creator cannot reproduce this.

==57519== LEAK SUMMARY:
==57519== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==57519== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==57519== possibly lost: 816 bytes in 3 blocks
==57519== still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==57519== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31931083

edit: Got something even better.

$ valgrind --leak-check=yes v examples/hello_world.v
...
==58037== LEAK SUMMARY:
==58037== definitely lost: 4,463,772 bytes in 106,561 blocks
==58037== indirectly lost: 5,275,772 bytes in 84,005 blocks
==58037== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==58037== still reachable: 47,149 bytes in 263 blocks
==58037== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
...
The entire german government is terminally defeatist. They've been dragging their feet on digitalization for so long, they've been dragging their feet on accessible internet for so long they've been dragging their feet on transport infrastructure, they've been dragging their feet basically everything for ages. You go to Eastern Europe and wonder how things seem to be progressing much faster there.
There are many repetitive lyrical themes that seem to be associated with particular genres, and personal preferences associated thereof. I feel like country used to have more variety- my father used to listened to it- but it's kind of coalesced into "I drank a bottle of whiskey and cried in my pickup truck when you left me" which isn't really my thing. Whereas I'm kind of ok with every power metal song being some variation of "fire! dragons! swords!". The things that aren't really stand out though, such as Kamelot's concept albums Epica and The Black Halo, which are based on Faust. There's also Van Canto which is a rather impressive German a capella power metal band (with a live drummer).
In general, power metal seems to be more self-aware of how ridiculous and repetitive it is. See Gloryhammer, which is effectively a power metal parody band, taking the lyrical absurdity up a notch and replacing dragons with unicorns etc.

If there's any self-referential/parody country music out there I'd actually be curious to hear to it.
if they don't moderate it up to a standard? yes.

to use dreaded food analogy - same thing with food safety, if restaurant isn't up to the standards they get closed down.
Why is this so hard for these massive companies? A single reasonable person can make better decisions than this.
It seems like the biggest growth in the industry is in hard seltzers/alcopops, which range from 4-12%, but mostly on the lower end. So it does seem like in general there's a preference for strengths in a range of beer - craft beer - wine.
Thanks for sharing the story - this really is impressive. And the tool looks solid and well thought out! Congrats
This would make js module writers disproportionately rich vs the people doing the hard work that makes their 1 line module run.
If you truly had a week of above average days, by the end of it you'd probably be threatening to put the local KGB recruiter's head through a Starbucks window.

(Maybe be happy if they do a little art thing in your cortado rather than overanalyze. every. little. thing.)
Apple are using a single 256gb nand chip in the base model of the M2.

So parallelization of read/write isn't possible. You have to wait on that one chip. Which kills random I/O speeds, which are the more real world model of usage than blasting a 500mb file all at once.
Same ... but for me it was plastic sleeves in a laser printer ...
Single point of failure ?
I can see this being difficult for random people, but I can't imagine it being a hard ask for developers.
Escape from the Office
if there's was ever any mention of identity politics in
jiggawatts' comment it has now been removed.
Let me provide you with a counter-example.

Suppose that there's a law that states that water and access to it is always supposed to remain public, because water is a public good.

Suppose that someone comes tomorrow and starts claiming ownership of all the water springs in your country, he becomes the only entry point to get water, and you have to pay him a fee every time you open a tap.

Is he still free to do so? In other words, is the freedom of someone who restrict the freedoms for everyone else still a form of freedom that is worth even considering, let alone respecting?

Because the foundation of your ideas is exactly the reason why capitalism fucked things up and just let a bunch of jerks get rich without merit.
Optimizing TCP for high WAN throughput while preserving low latency
You give them cash for food, then see if they can pull that off more than once.
I seriously doubt you have the resources available to effectively evaluate all the claims for yourself.

No one is an expert in all topics. We are literally not qualified to evaluate all claims.

E.g. Joe Schmoe is not qualified to personally evaluate the the safety/effectiveness of seatbelts/vaccines/pesticides. At some point they will need to trust someone else's evaluation.

People pushing an agenda can also choose to include all the indisputable facts that support their agenda and omit the ones that don't. Evaluating claims without the full picture doesn't give you the truth.

So I ask you, how did you "evaluate" the claims in 2000 Mules?
I think I fundamentally disagree with the premise that anyone "can't afford" something that the state provides for free. Would you say that someone "can't afford" to use roads because they wouldn't be able to afford to have them constructed if the state hadn't already done so?

There may be many other things that that person can't afford, but the thing provided to them is not one of them.
I've always thought that the reason to avoid garlic-in-a-jar-of-oil was because of botulism:

https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Can-you-get-botulism-from-gar...
I understood it just fine. An "imminent catastrophe" draft is really just an "end of me" draft without the automation needed to handle the "no warning" case.
Knowing that microwave oven transformers are extremely dangerous is critically important, so this represents a serious failing of basic education.
> In the 1960s the army, with support from the U.S. CIA, committed a mass slaughter of half a million suspected communists. In 1998 there was a huge series of riots against ethnic Chinese people, which ended up toppling the country’s dictator at the time.

There's book called The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins that goes into this topic in detail. It's a very interesting (and tragic) read.
As if paying MS will stop them from deprecating services.
I've completely converted over to frozen minced garlic. I especially like that it comes in a blister pack you can push out without having to get garlic all over your hands.

I also buy cilantro frozen as well now too since dried cilantro is basically useless and I waste too much when I buy fresh.
I just looked into it.. Ugh, this kind of content is just abysmal.

25 GLUE GUN HACKS YOU HAVE TO TRY

24 SIMPLE BEAUTY TRICKS TO MAKE YOU LOOK FABULOUS

https://www.youtube.com/c/5MinuteCraftsYouTube/

Who are the people watching this stuff? I assume it's largely women and parents, as a lot of the "hacks" are beauty or parenting related. I watched a few minutes and all the ideas were just... terrible? Ranging from silly to impractical to dangerous.
Well, that's what they think isn't it? That's what I understand the steelmanning technique to be. Frame the argument as best you can in the way they see it, then you discover the assumptions that led them to their conclusion.
It looks like the only feature blocking their move to self-host is importing data (issues and PRs) exported from GitHub. Which is to say, it's perfectly ready for hosting new projects.
>I'm afraid you are mixing me up with someone else?

To clear this up – they were addressing phk, their parent comment.
Here's a list:

https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/Resources/Safety-Mater...
Amazonian?

I don't know if you can graft that onto a company, though. Amazon's like that because Bezos is. It seems like Facebook/Meta is more like playing fast and loose and damn the consequences, which isn't exactly the same thing. Being the best is not the same as winning, though neither of 'em are necessarily nice at the highest levels of performance.
I've been putting cheese in the vertical toaster my whole life… he just did it wrong.

You have to put 2 slices of bread, cheese in between, and of course take it out before it all starts burning.
Tech layoffs keep stacking up
The second isn’t an assertion, it’s a hypothetical.

Eg, “let’s imagine that elves are real” is distinct from “elves are real”.
This is such an US centric take, on an article about Germany.
Illinois dispensaries offer a wide range of products with a lot of light options. I’ve seen 1mg mints for instance.
> then a couple of hours of my time wasted on removing every last piece of burnt greasy cheese from inside the toaster

Do you have a fancy toaster? I wouldve just replaced mine, although mine is pretty basic
Yeah, i really don't understand the point he thinks he was making. These companies spend BILLIONS on employee benefits to take away the noise of "real life".

You CAN NOT attract top tier talent easily to a dumpster fire and they know this. You can't be giving away free food, ice cream, no performance reviews for two years during the pandemic and shipping 10s of thousands of office equipment to each individual employees homes for two years during the pandemic, continue to approve aggressive hiring plans and laying out $10 Billion dollar outlays for the fucking Metaverse and then turn around and say to the employees you hired that "You guys suck"

I would just call it childish, but this asshole deserves no benefit of doubt. It's downright disgusting.
Now I want to try to make a three layer cake in a toaster. I'm sure it can be done with the right technique and tools. Even if it's wildly impractical and will yield a tiny result.
Vienna, Austria: public transport costs 1 EUR per day without any limits. It is also extremely well developed and reliable. Most people, especially without kids don't even consider getting a car.
Or the other trick is to microwave the uncooked sandwich slightly (10-20 seconds) so that the cheese starts to melt and then toast it so bread and cheese both get toasty without burning.
I liked MIT when it was "increasingly recognized yet still underdog" a lot.

With ambitions, there are different levels:

- An ambitious scientist should be driven to make ambitious discoveries

- An ambitious scientist should not be driven to steal credit, fake results, hype, oversell, and defraud

MIT's culture changed over the past 20 years. High competition (e.g. 4:1) leads to the type of people who do good work. With insane competition (e.g. 1000:1), the only way to "win" is to cheat.
Other products ARE designed with use cases in mind.
Take your car to a track and see how many hours you can push it for before it dies. Bonus points if it’s electric.

> If you'd like to run some intensive numerical programming on your laptop just because, I would find it outrageous for it to shutdown due to thermals.
If you get a laptop without a fan and expect to push it like this then don’t be surprised if it can’t keep up.

Again, is the thing you want to do with the laptop within the scope of that the designers meant it to be used for.

That being said, I find it strange that their performance oscillates rather than hits a steady state. That part they should fix in a software update.
> We need things to change here. We need Google to moderate their services properly,

Human moderation isn’t perfectly consistent, either. It would be extraordinarily expensive to expect YouTube to have humans moderate everything manually.

What are people willing to give up in exchange for a human-moderated version of YouTube? Would we be okay if they charged a $3 “moderation fee” on every upload to cover the cost of paying someone to watch the video and evaluate how it fits YouTube’s rules? The big creators wouldn’t care, but the small time videos would immediately stop being uploaded and competitor websites would become popular overnight.

I don’t see demands for perfect human moderation of YouTube uploads as realistic in any way.
Comcast Xfinity Stream app with live TV and DVR content is available on Apple TV
Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs
Yep, don't blame the second hand smoke, blame your own "first hand" desire to conform to the social norms and behavior of your peer group. This is why you should choose your friends very carefully.
Higher concentrations allow people to use less material. That higher concentrations cause harm is not clearly established. There are always people who will manage to misuse and hurt themselves with anything, even Hacker News.
It is a form of flanderization, but I guess the difference is that nobody would boo at Flanders if he stopped (well, "if his creators redesigned him to stop") being the current caricature.

But I think the phenomenon here is that the audience actively and aggressively discourages deviation from the expected behavior, which becomes more and more extreme.

I've seen this even in mild YouTubers, as soon as they make a statement (say, about inclusiveness or whatever) that was out of the norm -- or even, surprisingly, changing the focus of their channel -- a group of very vociferous fans will leave while heaving insults and claiming the YouTuber has "sold off" or is not being true to him/herself anymore.

As an example: I don't know if you're familiar with the current Return to Monkey Island debacle, but some "fans" and trolls are harassing Ron Gilbert because they don't like the art style of the new game. They are judging the previews, because it's unreleased. Now, regardless of what one may think about the style, what the trolls are saying is brutal. They are accusing him of trying to put (and I quote) "left-wing BS" in his new game. All because they don't like the polygonal cartoony art style! A minor deviation from their expectations gets punished with insults.

The feedback loop with an aggressive audience is essential for this phenomenon, I think, and it doesn't happen with Flanders.
Tyranny of majority is an apt summation of the problems facing Nom white peoples but is not accurate when applied to religious groups seeking to impose their regressive theological practices on everyone else. That is in fact fascist and unconstitutional. Weaseling around these intents is a tired tactic of the radical right that they’ve been using for decades to sway the opinion of their poorly educated constituencies.
That is just insane behavior
This is cool product, but but I don't undersatand this statement:

"Importantly, Akita did not impact processing loss or extra costs inside AWS, a main concern at our company stage."

Author specifically talks about AWS Fargate and links to Akita docs where it says in AWS Fargate setup, Akita agent should run as a side car in each container you deploy. How can that not bring significant amount of extra compute cost?
Interesting reversal. When Apple introduced the bitcode requirement for watchOS and tvOS, I thought this was the beginning of a coming series of restrictions that would ultimately make it impossible to ship apps for Apple platforms using anything other than Apple's LLVM toolchain. I thought that the only possible future for AOT-compiling alternative languages for Apple platforms was source-to-source translation like J2ObjC, which I then proceeded to use in my next project. I'm glad that, in this case at least, Apple didn't end up locking things down just because they could.
An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love
> When public-transport-as-panacea folks create laws to disincentivize vehicles, they typically don't make distinction between cargo/utility and personal travel.

... Wait, I mean they absolutely do. Pedestrianised streets are usually open to goods vehicles early in the morning for delivery, etc.
I have a memory of an Easter egg that I enjoyed when I was a kid, 20 or so years ago. Wonder if anyone else can remember it.

It involved clicking a metallic (?) dot somewhere on the UI and it would pop out and could be dragged and thrown about with bouncing physics.

I feel like it might have been audacity? Can anyone remember what I'm talking about?
You opened up a jar of object-oriented programming to make your stir fry and your roommate sneered that you hadn't used functional programming. After doing some reading online you come to the conclusion that real programmers don't use object-oriented programming, they only use fresh, all-natural functions and monads!

Every human endeavor, even the supposedly logical ones, have their idiosyncrasies.
If you are hard real time, then the ability to country hose many cycles each assember instruction will take makes it easy to prove your code is correct. Run on a much faster modern 64 bit CPU with branch prediction, caches, and other tricks and there is no way to know how long any instruction will take. Getting non-real time things done is faster on the 64bit CPU, but the 8 bit is going to get the things it does done one time every time.
I think this is a bad idea. The potential for a malicious/incompetent/malfunctioning actor to wreck havoc becomes enormous.

Vehicles should assess and plan driving from first principles and physical sensory inputs. Networked inputs could be helpful as augmentation but it's not something one should rely on at all. Kind of like you shouldn't take a human showing/not showing a turn for a reliable signal of intent.
Blockchain for the rescue!
/s
I had one the other week where I was replacing an outlet in the kitchen. I flipped the kitchen breaker and the lights and appliances all turned off. I skipped the important step of actually testing the outlet and stupidly assumed it no longer had power. Turns out it was on a different circuit from the rest of the kitchen. The outlet was stuck in the wall box so I reached a flathead screwdriver in to try and pry it out, and turned my screwdriver into an arc welder for a second. Fortunately I wasn't hurt and only got a melted screwdriver tip and a smoky smell out of it, but I'm definitely not going to let myself make that mistake ever again.
The most recent gadget to not support 64-bit was the Apple Watch Series 3. (such as armv7 or i386)

Apple Watch Series 3 support has now been discontinued by Apple. They were content to stop supporting bitcode.
That's a super wasteful solution to this. The toaster is perfectly salvageable.
its a super user friendly tool. its the second version of a much older mapping tool.