skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The task was impossible because they gave them light bulbs that simply cannot light up with a low V battery.

The one scene where a student appears to succeed (this clip is spliced in after the segment where the professor says "it's not the case [it's not a trick question]") is not with the light bulb they were given (they essentially say "here, I can show you, see, with a small bulb I would do this and it works", laughing which to me indicates they didn't get it done with the initially given large bulb).

But maybe not? Maybe they were given several bulbs to choose from. And yeah some people clearly didn't figure out the basics ("I need two wires"). The others, unclear, they showed short cuts of them fumbling around (possibly after failing a few times) but they might have already tried the right approach before that.

The core issue with the video is that it doesn't establish a base line. What is it they expected from the students? That they identified they cannot do it with just any bulb or any battery before saying yes? I don't think so, based on the professor interview that really seems to imply that the folks should know how to do it (and get it done).

If there was a way to do it they should have shown. They just go on to folks saying "see, we need to teach the basics better" and I still don't know how it connects to the "experiment".

The way it stands it really does seem to be designed to make the graduates fail the test without making clear (to the viewer at least) what the test really was.

I mean at this point I'm not even clear if the reporters were the stupid ones not realizing it cannot be done. Again, they didn't show it. It's more likely they did actually make it impossible / pose a trick question.

I am not doubting the professor as much. They probably conducted an actual experiment that showed a significant number of subjects (was it MIT grads though) weren't able to accomplish it despite feasibility. It's just that the adhoc on-video tests there seem to provide a false hook into the story, like all these types of on the street interviews.
The real question is how many other wreckages did they find along the way
Reminds me of this other "covert information receiving technique for individuals being closely watched", but in this case used for cheating on a proctored exam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675666
The troll farms have been very quick to start accusing the 'evil USA acting against the EU interests'...

Given that their strategy have been for decades to try to sow discord in the west, EU and NATO, I would not be surprised if it was another idea towards this goal.
Is Bariatric Surgery the Solution to America's Obesity Problem?
> An integer overflow in WhatsApp for... iOS prior to v2.22.16.12, Business for iOS prior to v2.22.16.12 could result in remote code execution in an established video call.

Huh, I guess you can finally run your own software on your iPhone. Whatsapp FTW.
Fantastic. You may not be the Chosen One, but you're what we've got. And that's enough.

(This made my day.)
Its a paranoid reading of the normal launch process.

Behind the scenes every major change like that is a flag that's deployed first off then slowly flipped to default true as a rollout so that it's as low risk as possible of unintended damage / failure.
Now I’m really curious if they pronounce it “zoogler” or an “exoogler”. Either way seems to be another “how do you know if a man went to Harvard or the Marines” type cliche.
It's certainly possible to train an autoencoder with enough data to make it a reliable compression engine, provided you have a way to deal with all resolutions. Once the training and validation were done, I expect you'd get somewhat better than JPEG compression at some cost in compute more than JPEG. A standard implementation and weights would be all that were required to be agreed on at that point.

I wouldn't use stable diffusion for that task.
That's a very well expected and deserved consequence of being pathological liars.
If you are looking for some other bad TLS configs, I run a site that augments this at https://badtls.io/.
Yup! The library is named Buttplug just because I like making large media publications say "Buttplug". I even made a whole video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bghuCy6d8

Buttplug.io actually works with 100s of different toys. There's a full list at iostindex:

https://iostindex.com

In terms of multi-match API support, we're... getting there. One of the dreams after the next big feature (MOBILE APPS! Thank god for flutter and flutter-rust-bridge) is getting WebRTC connections going, which should make situations like this easier to support.
Turns out the FreeWrite team make a clamshell style device with a larger screen called the Traveler: https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler

But at $779 AUD I could buy a small, basic laptop and set it up as a dedicated typewriter.
>4) if possible, tag onto a group of strangers (run to catch up if needed, then stick with group). Cars have a lower chance of running over a larger group of people

There's an old saying in Japan that goes: "It ain't scary crossing a red light when you're in a group!" :V
I mean, using DTMF for toy control is a thing that has happened:

https://twitter.com/buttplugio/status/1034616449753464832
I think you're right. Executives need to be held personally liable, it's the only way to ensure that they take these issues seriously.
People who earn a lot discuss their salary more, so without public ranges your perception will be biased towards the higher end so likely you'll ask for more.
Disappointing there was no video of people using this live.
That logo is on point.
Though Analitik would seem more fitting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Аналитик
If only Shannon were here to see what's been done to information theory.
If the server has all the data, and does the homomorphic math, couldn't it selectively change some of the data inbound to a second job with the same user inputs, (in the background) and compare outputs, eventually using a a binary search to figure out what data was selected?
This reminds me of a script I wrote at work. A lot of us do our compiling in VMs. This means we're left out of all of the fun of hearing fans spin up for large jobs. My script fixes that by polling top over SSH every few seconds and modulating the volume of a looping fan sound by the load average.

I think you could make a pretty good product by doing something similar (varying beep, boops and clicks) for database accesses, server reboots, etc. and making an acoustic uptime monitor. Keep it in a pinned tab and you'll notice right away when your web server's RPS goes way down or way up.
I stopped biking to work decades ago because I figured it was only a matter of time before a car whizzing by 2 feet away at 50 mph was going to hit me.
The front page of HN is littered with silly/pointless stuff this evening and I just love it so much.
I so want to make a joke about perverse incentives but I don't want to be judgemental.
"At the end of the nineteenth century, many laypeople had a "working knowledge not only of electricity, but also of the buttons they pushed and the relationship between the two," according to Plotnick. Those who promoted electricity and sold electrical devices, however, wanted push-button interfaces to be "simplistic and worry-free.""

Imagine people promoting websites and apps not wanting "laypersons" to have working knowledge of computers and computer networks.

Imagine them artificially separating all people using computers into two categories: "developers" and "users".

"They thought the world needed less thinking though and tinkering, and more automatic action."

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/think_cul...
The other side of the coin is that you're safer inside a bigger and heavier vehicle when you're inevitably in an accident. A big Ford F-350 is going to have a much better chance of successfully protecting its passengers than a Toyota Camry.
… where is n-gate when you most need it …
Why do they keep it after opening your account / activating your SIM, though?
> But instead of doomscrolling about news, I see people doomscrolling about how they aren't good enough programmers.

It's Not Getting Better

Situation Has Not Improved

Solution Elusive
Are you on a very old iPhone model? I haven’t found disabling jit to be noticeably slower on my iPhone 13 when running iOS 16 in “Lockdown Mode”. The Microsoft Edge team has benchmarks supporting the impact is minimal on Chromium based browsers too (https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...).
I'm not saying it doesn't have effects, or that it was good. But calling it "violence" dilutes the meaning of that word into nothing, as the threshold is so low almost anything qualifies as "violent".
I guess the multi-cultural misunderstanding is an angle I hadn’t considered. However, if you’re not operating in that context (multinational with big cultural/ language differences) I’m not sure why you would pick the lowest common denominator and choose the lower bandwidth, less engaging, less human way of collaborating.
I still don't understand how this is worse than no information. Both scenarios can have the uninformed not know about stocks.
I am veey opinionated. I report that I don't think something is good at times, but I report that I don't have good rationale for that and as such, my opinion should be disregard unless I manage to put together an objective line of reasoning.

Sometimes, the line of reasoning is there but it's too small.

Other times, when I put it together and write it down is big enough to show that there is a lot of value in doing what I suggested.

So being objective pushes toward challenging your own ideas, if they are still ahead the "competition", there are usually really good reasons.
Posits have a variable size mantissa, and the largest mantissa for a given bit size (eg, 32 bit floats) is larger than the mantissa in the corresponding IEEE float. For example, in a 32 bit float, the IEEE mantissa is 23 bits, while the maximum size Posit mantissa is 27 bits. So a Posit FPU requires more mantissa bits than the IEEE FPU of the same bitsize, and this is why the Posit FPU will have a larger silicon footprint. IEEE needs a bit more silicon to manage all the special cases of IEEE logic, but apparently this is less than the extra transistors required for the Posit mantissa. (The extra cost for the mantissa is related to the better accuracy reported for posits.)

Gustafson's paper is old, and doesn't reflect the language of the recent Posit standard. He may have had a different silicon implementation in mind than what has been implemented. Gustafson says there is no NaN. But in the Posit standard, there is a single NaN-like value called NaR (Not a Real). In IEEE, 0/0 is NaN, while in Posit, 0/0 is NaR. The rules for NaN and NaR are different, so they have different names.
They absolutely didn't pay list price. Even the rookiest AWS account manager is going to be able to get a discount on $600k of compute.
A lot of HN visitors think they're master salary/compensation negotiators, and fear this will hurt their endeavors to pull one over on their next employer.

The reality is that the tech industry is like any other industry: the percentage of IC and middle-management role workers who can successfully negotiate higher pay for a job offer is tiny. I'd guess it's less than 1%, but that's just a hunch.
Sounds like another attempt to turn two cheap generic drugs into one super expensive patent medicine.
Either that or FIDE starts hiring proctologists.
In Seattle, they paint bike lanes everywhere. The craziest ones are the ones that Kriss-Kross the car lanes, like those slot car tracks where the cars swap lanes.

Madness.

There's no way I'd ever ride a bike in those lanes.

I hate the Kriss-Kross when I'm driving, because in slow traffic the bikes often move faster, passing on the right and then Kriss-Krossing in front of you.
Yeah honestly with just the clicks it seems quite inaccurate to me.
Just ban political discussion on company communication channels and the problem is solved
My problem with second life is that it completely sucks, the interface, everything about it, is super low quality and hard to use. I think that game would have been way more popular if they had invested in making the game's experience less janky.

I would personally be very interested in seeing what a Second Life experience looks like when reinvented for modern computer hardware. I think it will be a pretty compelling experience.
So what am I supposed to do, can you give a prescriptive description of how to keep up with news? This is likely the most interesting era when it comes to geopolitics after 1930s, am I seriously supposed to ignore news because it increases my stress levels and makes me "glue eyeballs to screens"? That doesn't make any sense to me, if I live on this planet, and this planet is going through an extremely important event, seems like being ignorant to it is not really the best course of action. For people who lived at the beginning of WW2, wouldn't it have made sense to keep up with the news?
If your assumption held true, Chrome's market share would not be so large. Technical people are a minority after all.
Maybe. But pop science, pop psychology, and webMD are all things. None of these speak particularly well to the idea that complexity reduces cleanly, or that anything useful is produced by the attempt.
And yet, you have to sign up to use it, whereas anyone can use Stable Diffusion anonymously. Diff'rent strokes...
Not a lawyer, but have been curious about this before. Last I checked, format shifting is legal in Canada. Breaking even the known-broken DVD encryption, however, is illegal. We also appear to still pay a blank media tax. Considering I back up important documents to blank CDs every few months, the Music And Film Induatry of America [0] is still being paid, and so I pirate with a (relatively) clear conscience.

[0] Not the real acronym, but this one allows me to call the media conglomerates the MAFIA for a bit of a giggle
I've developed a pavlovian response of listening for noise when the computer is taking longer than expected to tell if the process has hung.
It's also fair to shareholders of public companies who are often also getting screwed by their executives who are abusing an agency conflict of interest in order to pad their own bonuses, at expense to both the shareholders and society.
It makes sense to do this, because you can reuse so much of the infrastructure, the area for the coal pile can be utilized for more power transformers, etc. The main limitations would be grid ties, cooling water, and security.
Arduino's original IDE forked processings java IDE. The similarities are intentional.
The big grain of salt for all depression treatments is that depression is a "wastebasket diagnosis". The only real distinction available between numerous pathologies is what medication seems to help them.

This means any group of patients diagnosed and not treated yet will have a grab bag of different actual pathologies. Whatever thing you try might help a few, make a few others worse, and have no effect on the rest.

This is why we keep seeing reports that antidepressants "don't work".

If the patients in this study were already on bupropion, that has narrowed the field and can explain the difference from others. It doesn't mean DXM is much better than others, it just means it has been better targeted.

You can think of a regular RCT of an antidepressant as if it were checking whether splinting the lower legs is good for trauma victims who come in with all kinds of broken bones -- arms, legs, clavicles. In the RCT, everybody gets their lower legs splinted.

Of course only the patients who broke a shinbone benefit.

So if this trial pre-selects people on bupropion, it would be like splinting shins only of people with leg injuries. You still miss on the femur, knee, and ankle patients, but the odds of a hit are better.

Validity of RCTs depends utterly on reliable and specific diagnosis. It is very easy for an RCT to go wrong. Treating them as automatically right is like treating any other experiment as automatically right. Calling RCTs "the Gold Standard" blinds us to its failures.
You should, I maybe work 25 hours a week and and the only people in the company that make more than me are directors and C levels. And everyone on my team makes the same. Work life balance is important and working 20 or 80 hours won’t get you more pay, only more responsibility. I have one workaholic team member and we literally force him to take days off.

Your taking the pessimistic view, your salary is now floored by the highest quality most value producing person the company actually wants. If that floor is low then they clearly don’t want any rockstars on the team so kick your feet up and relax. And if the floor is high you found your group of live to workers.
The fact there’s a right way and wrong way to check free disk space is a problem in the first place.
All 3 versions of my app updates are now available to fix the bug. iOS/iPadOS, MacOS and Android app updates have all been approved finally.

Please give it a try and let me know if you have questions. The update version should be v86.86. If it's not visible yet on the app store, please give it an hour or so for it to become available.

Here's a direct link:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

This should solve the bugs related to the HN news website changes.
> I would not even need to be given moves, just the answer on which move was way better

I feel like people keep looking past this line, and suggesting that the device transmit things like "caution" or whatever. In another thread, someone suggested it could warn you if the most tempting line was a bad one.

These all rely on the idea that Stockfish can think like a human and say "Carlsen will be thinking of X, I'll warn him that's a bad idea."

I've never seen any indication that Stockfish can know what a human is thinking, novice or grandmaster.

Instead Carlsen suggested something else: he asks about two moves, and Stockfish tells him which is rated higher.

That's totally doable by stockfish, but means all these suggestions require an input, such as a butt-squeeze detector.
I was just telling my wife the other day about a book I read a couple of years ago that I've completely forgotten.

Most of the time I can remember at least the broad strokes. I can tell you that Guns, Germs and Steel is about how physical geography matters in the development of civilizations. (That book also introduced me to cargo cults, a concept I think about a lot.)

But gun to my head, I couldn't tell you what Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve is about. Not even the title—I don't know what "the swerve" is referring to at all. My degree is in Humanities so it was right up my alley but I've completely forgotten that whole book.
That sounds incredibly frustrating, to be honest.
I recently worked on a project that includes an in-flow step for users to sign an agreement without leaving the site. DocuSign makes this inordinately difficult. Their docs are obtuse and confusing, especially around auth, and you get a ton of annoying emails from a salesperson just for signing up for a dev account to figure out how things work.

HelloSign on the other hand provides a library for embedding an agreement into a flow and makes it a cinch. I didn't need to create a HelloSign account--I just `npm install`ed the library and got it working within minutes without having to look at any docs.

I'd imagine this is a big factor given that developers often have a lot of sway in influencing these kinds of decisions and get annoyed by unnecessary "enterprise" baloney when it's not really needed.
What I had actually suggested 9 days ago.

But with better bandwidth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32910676
The original Fate novel depicts Gilgamesh as a rapist and a thug.

But he's there to be a villain, threaten the heroes, almost rape one of the heroes, kill some people, and eventually be killed by one of the good guys.

He's certainly not there as a protagonist.
And even then, I feel like I was "Lockdown X" ony every other page. A lot of them quite close too like "Lockdowns Are Inevitable" and "Lockdowns Inevitable". "lockdowns return" was there like 4 times or more.
The bill requires companies of a certain size (100+ employees or contractors) to publish the median and mean for each category, across race, ethnicity, and sex. It's not the complete distribution, and the numbers can probably be fudged with clever identification of what a "category" is, but it's something. Knowing the median and mean can show just how skewed the distribution is.
The whole idea of forming a business entity is to limit the liability of its principals. This is an important incentive to make people go into business without risking their home and whatnot. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Surprising.. Who else is competing to be an "air taxi"!?
Only tangentially related but .... In California, a double white line is supposed to mean "don't cross period"

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

> (b) If double parallel solid white lines are in place, a person driving a vehicle shall not cross any part of those double solid white lines, except as permitted in this section or Section 21655.8.

> (d) The markings as specified in subdivision (a), (b), or (c) do not prohibit a driver from crossing the marking if (1) turning to the left at an intersection or into or out of a driveway or private road, or (2) making a U-turn under the rules governing that turn, and the markings shall be disregarded when authorized signs have been erected designating offcenter traffic lanes as permitted pursuant to Section 21657.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

> (a) Except as required under subdivision (b), when exclusive or preferential use lanes for high-occupancy vehicles are established pursuant to Section 21655.5 and double parallel solid lines are in place to the right thereof, no person driving a vehicle may cross over these double lines to enter into or exit from the exclusive or preferential use lanes, and entrance or exit may be made only in areas designated for these purposes or where a single broken line is in place to the right of the exclusive or preferential use lanes.

> (b) Upon the approach of an authorized emergency vehicle displaying a red light or siren, as specified in Section 21806, a person driving a vehicle in an exclusive or preferential use lane shall exit that lane immediately upon determining that the exit can be accomplished with reasonable safety.

> (c) Raised pavement markers may be used to simulate painted lines described in this section.

Given that, it's interesting that a few sections of Valencia street, between 18th and 19th

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Valencia+St,+San+Francisco...

Between 15 and 17th

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Valencia+St,+San+Francisco...

Have double solid white lines separating the bike lane from the car lane. But, past the bike line are car parking spots. Given the law above, it would be illegal to use those parking spots since it's illegal to cross the lines to get to them.

I brought this up because cycling down Valencia the cycling lanes are often blocked by cars stopped for deliveries, pickups, dropoffs, other and so cyclists have to dangerously move into the car lanes.

I did see some police the other day telling these cars they had to move but I suspect that's rare. I don't know what the perfect solution is. Further down, like around 14th is I think a better solution where it's street->parking->bike instead of street->bike->parking. This puts a barrier of parked cars between the bikes and the traffic. At the same time, some accommodation for deliveries to businesses, people moving into/out of apartments, etc needs to be made.

Also, more on topic, the latest "Not Just Bikes" video is all about how deadly roads are but don't have to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY
When nothing is posted, you do secondary research. When something is posted, you could assume that's all of it.