skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Have you suspected machine generated content in HN comment threads?

Yes absolutely. The thing which breaks bots is if you ask them to answer a specific question. They reveal themselves.

>Would it pain you to discover you had responded to a machine?

No.

Fundamentally the HN comment section has had its eternal september because of HN being listed high on the 'alternatives to reddit' options. HN now doesn't allow discussions.

Instead, the comments are about sorting your thoughts on the matter. See if there's thoughts which you haven't considered.

>Do you know anything about the prevalence of such content here or on other fora?

Bots reveal themselves through absurdity which makes sense in depth. A handshake with 5 hands as it were.

>Do you disagree with my statement? Why?

There's a 0% chance that there's no bots. Bots of vary degrees of sophistication have existed since irc days. My favourite I found was one which copied conversations from 1 irc channel to another. So conversations are happening which you think you are interacting with but truly you arent.
Binance to acquire FTX
I wouldn't say the lower the better. A lot of bass music is written in keys around E/F since that places the root note just within the lower end of audible range. Most sound systems don't respond much below around 20 Hertz, anyway.
Center of mass; the object itself.
A foxhole isn't necessarily a fixed fortification though.
I feel people really don't understand what a YIELD sign means ...
Try to name the bones you used to type this sentence?
+1 to this advice. I've heard it as "do you want comfort, or solutions?"
This is EXACTLY what I'm thinking about. Tons of talents were wasted. To fix this we have to change the global political climate.
Toki Pona definitely has fewer phonemes than English (which IIRC has an above-average number of phonemes compared to other natural languages). Having fewer phonemes is important for a language like Toki Pona because it makes pronunciation much more forgiving.
Not sure why, but now I really want to know how this turns out!
GitHub lawsuit threatens open source?
Angular comes with a powerful concept known as Observables. This article will help you avoid one of the most common usage mistakes in your code: memory leaks.
Not only that, my place is not even fancy by any standards. It is actually a pretty old building with patches here and there.

If I wanted a nice newly built (newer than 15 years) place, I would have to pay around %70-90 of my salary.

London housing market is ,famously, a joke, literally. There is a whole trend of Tiktok videos making fun of housing ads in London.
In the situation where help is clearly needed, 'let's consider possible solutions' is a better entry point, along with 'let's ensure we don't make it worse' - i.e. take a snapshot of the current situation, store the current working file, etc.

Meh. Just goes to show how communication is a very subjective and personal thing. To my ears, both of those phrases would sound extremely condescending and patronizing. If I were struggling with a problem and someone approached me and said either of those things, I'd be more inclined to say "go f%#@ yourself" than anything else. shrug
>we believe that auditory masking of the VLFs contributed to their being undetectable.

Not good enough for science.
Moment of inertia tensor [1], and principal axes of rotation [2].

Principle axes are the axes where a weightless body can rotate around without "wobbling". These axes are orthogonal to each other. If a rigid body has I_1 < I_2 < I_3 moments of inertia, then rotation around the first and third axes is stable and rotation around the second axes is unstable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia#Inertia_tens...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia#Principal_ax...
I see. Yeah I had cookies disabled in both browsers I tried. Trying using a narrow viewport does load fine, although it's possible to have dual-purpose desktop and mobile styling in a single SVG using media queries, which I've done before (not sure how your desktop version differs though).
Indeed it does. That is the most requested feature after E2E encryption and publishing messages from the app itself. See https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/159 and +1 it if you want it too.
Markov probability matrix where the entries are probabilities of some physical event happening.

The the eigenvectors will be the long term stable state probabilities.
Irfanview

Nirsoft?

I believe Hollow Knight started out as a three person team?
> We just take for granted that cars will blast through stop signs at a pretty high speed (maybe 10 - 20 km/h?)

No, we don't. This doesn't happen, at least where I live.

This sounds like a made up statistic, to justify bad behavior.
A Modest Proposal...

Give all ~15-year-olds a day-long standardized test. The test is mostly a bunch of boring "do lots of not-hard math", "read dull stuff & kinda understand it", etc. Kids are encouraged to bring their phones - but can't use them in any way that plausibly amounts to cheating on the test.

Kids with good scores on the test get admitted to high school. Ones with not-so-good scores (whether really dim, horribly prepared, or too addicted to their cell phones to pay attention) go to a menial labor training camp. Where they get to post pictures of the ditches they're learning to dig, potatoes they're learning to harvest, bathroom fixtures they're learning to clean, etc. all over their social media accounts.
That must be why you never see tanks around there.
Honestly doesn't look that different compared to a lot of "modern" oversized gridless webpages people peddle nowadays.
I saw an early 'Etruscan' exhibit years ago. All the artifacts were so 'pat', so neatly calculated to be interesting that I had suspicions that they were fake.

It can be hard to tell, especially when some folks do fakes with the intent to deceive
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Don't fight CZ.
SBF and CZ tweeted.
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590013613586411520
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590012124864348160

Reading through the lines:
FTX is in trouble and faces a "liquidity crunch", Binance might acquire them (But will do Due Dilligence first).

FTX US is not affected (SBF says funds are SAFU for FTX US, probably withdrawals are working for US but not FTX global)
Cryptocurrencies slide as worries about FTX fester in crypto liquidity scare
Ask HN: Developer opinions on SaaS in-product walkthroughs
Hi HN!

We recently launched our company/product (https://vectara.com) a few weeks ago. Just as background is a new neural search SaaS product (think a bit like Elasticsearch or Algolia I guess, but with natural language understanding). We know we have a lot of work to make our UI/UX in the administrative console better, but we've received really good feedback from users that do enough onboarding to reach the "aha" moment of doing a search (and seeing that it provides very good relevancy for text without any configuration).

Looking at our adoption funnel, we've had some discussions on how to get users to that "aha" moment faster and more reliably. There are a variety of tools that provide in-product walkthroughs, which is one idea. However, the prevailing thought that has emerged from past dev-tools product/design teams I've been on is that console walkthroughs "are a crutch for bad UX" (but maybe a crutch is needed for us right now), and not particularly helpful for products where the main ongoing usage is outside of the product like an API-focused SaaS product. Instead, the prevailing discussion has always led to “helpful post-registration trickle e-mails to encourage onboarding, good in-console help links/hover-over, good documentation, and example code” is a better use of time.

I realize there’s no single/correct answer here and we’ll likely need to tackle/improve a variety of facets. But as a largely technical community here, what are your thoughts on the best and most helpful ways to onboard to an API-first product?
Sounds like a neat trick. Why poorly quantized?
There are already different sets of rules for trucks, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians.
Probably because there hasn't been a ton of browser-level work on their SVG engine, as opposed to CSS rendering at least. Like the SVG2 spec has been lingering for years. Personally I'd love to see more activity there - SVG is awesome and it has more potential than is currently being utilized (IMO).
The next trick to learn is that the customer will still blame you for not telling them that landscape won’t fix it. Then you’ll waste less time the next time your customer asks for something stupid. Fail fast can work well for client management.
Binance Acquires FTX
Perhaps not an outright scam, but the tax-free structure of Cornell and much of the art world is certainly a benefit that most normal people and businesses don't enjoy.
To be fair, what the Poles broke was early Enigma, same idea but not so close to the late-war Enigma that these machines need to target. The M4 Enigma on a late war U-boat is too sophisticated to be practically attacked with the pencil and paper approach the Poles were taking just prior to and then during initial periods of the War.

On the one hand a museum of flight which doesn't mention the Wright Brothers is stupid, but on the other hand if they act as though from the Wright Flyer to an A320 or an F35 is just trivial refinements that's not telling an accurate story either, you want to mention e.g. Frank Whittle and ideally the larger context (Ohain in Germany also invents this engine, before Whittle, but by the time he gets it actually working Germany is losing the war anyway)

Edited to add: It's actually razor thin the difference between what would have been enough to defeat Allied cryptanalysis and what Enigma actually does. If tradecraft by German military groups had been 100% there's every chance Ultra would have gone nowhere, and we'd see Bletchley Park, if it was remembered at all, as a failure. "Why did the British think they had any chance?"

Fortunately Germans are human and they screwed up. They'd send similar messages with the same encryption, they'd forget to choose random keys and then remember and begin again with the new keys, they'd be lazy and use the simplest change rather than fully randomising. All things you'd expect humans to get wrong, but it's nice that they did or things might have turned out very differently.
I know you are joking but dropping from 250K to 125K is a significant life change and while you would still be fine in most of the US it could be really damaging for many families.
Visualization of European history (1500-2022)
Or, the way I do it: "do you want me to just listen, or do you want me to offer advice?"
The survey did not include any question about start-up career prospects, I suppose what Paul Graham touted regarding software startups is not widely applicable across most fields.
Indeed, I believe the initial plan was to continue the line, but Belgium opposed it. And the Ardennes was thought to be difficult enough terrain that it didn't need to be strongly defended. It was actually the Ardennes that failed expectations as defensive terrain, not the Maginot line (though as you noted, it would have worked as defensible terrain if there was more competent leadership).

It's kind of like building a giant fence around an area, then leaving an opening in the middle of it, and then deciding that you don't need to have people guard that opening. And when people inevitably get through the large unguarded opening, you declare that fences are idiotic and useless.
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590013613586411520?s=...

From CZ
This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
AGPL is a variant of the GPL, not the LGPL. Meaning that dynamic linking still constitutes (according to them) a derivative work, meaning that even programs that dynamically link against it must themselves be AGPL in their entirety. Dynamic linking is also meaningfully complicated to do in Rust, and this licensure of the crates.io crate will be a footgun for anyone not using cargo-deny.

I think this is a very cool project, but its use of *GPL essentially ensures I'm not going to use it for anything. If you're planning on reducing it to LGPL, I'm not sure what the GPL is getting you over going with the Rust standard license set of MIT + Apache 2.0.
I am absolutely making promises. See the privacy policy: https://ntfy.sh/docs/privacy/

> I love free software, and I'm doing this because it's fun. I have no bad intentions, and I will never monetize or sell your information, and this service and software will always stay free and open.

If you're still paranoid (which is your right), go host it yourself, or wait until I finished implementing E2E :-D
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Relevant? https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590012124864348160
I go with "my first impulse is to suggest..." which IMO adds the diplomatic nuance of admitting an incomplete understanding of the problem and/or the person experiencing the problem.

Same here, with a slight variation. I usually say "my first thought is to try ..." or "the first thing that comes to mind for me is ..."

Depending on the situation I might also use the old "Have you tried ..." phrasing.
I would think that electric assisted biking would be covered by the laws for vehicles, not human powered bicycles. Is that not correct?
That would be great! I've only had a quick look at the docs, but the API seems reasonable:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/oauth/
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/
I don't doubt there are compromises being made. I guess I'm just a bit surprised that immersion via realistic physics isn't in higher (and competing) demand. It also seems to me there could be a lot of interesting gameplay mechanics to explore there.
«The investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires cause 393 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year, according to a report by Oxfam. Billionaires “have escaped accountability for too long”, Danny Sriskandarajah, CEO of Oxfam GB, says.»

This makes me so unhappy. They're counting «cement and non-renewable energy» not against the people who build houses or drive cars, but against the owners of the cement factory and oil drills. The message this delivers that it's fine to build a new house far from the city and commute to work in a SUV, because it's not your emissions, those billionaires who own the cement factories and oil companies are responsible. I'm sure that's not the intentional message, but WTF, this was written by adults and adults are responsible for the effects of their actions, not their intentions.
Heh, similar to "never let your coworkers know you are good with Excel". Or, in non-tech offices, never let anyone know you understand technology at all.

I wonder if there's a name for that general sentiment, and how far back comments on that sort of thing go.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Strong_Bad.pn...
> In my experience, most people don't have a great understanding of what keeps cyclists safe in mixed traffic (i.e. not within a protected lane)

There is really no fundamental difference between pedalcyclists and motorcyclists on surface streets where traffic moves between 0 and 30 mph. Neither one needs a barrier separated lane to operate in traffic.

> As a former professional urban cyclist, I constantly broke the law to keep myself safe,

By breaking the law, you made yourself less predictable to other drivers and pedestrians. That actually decreased your safety because people were expecting you to do one thing, but you did something else. The key to safety is to be predictable and following the same rules of the road as drivers of other vehicles. When I rode my bicycle yesterday, I just stayed in the middle of the travel lane and complied with traffic control devices. I didn't have any close calls or threats to my safety even though I was riding in moderate to heavy traffic.

> Cyclists need a different set of laws on the road for everyone's benefit ... A kind of Three Laws where the unarmored travelers come first, then myself, then the folks in big steel boxes.

The current rules of the road require pedestrians to follow a certain set of rules when crossing or walking along a roadway and group cyclists with drivers of vehicles in that they have to follow the same set of rules in terms of right of way, signaling, and where to position themselves laterally when preparing to make a turn at an intersection.

Some cyclists want to operate in a manner similar to pedestrians (using side paths and crossing at crosswalks), but the problem with that is that even the slowest cyclists move much faster than a walking pedestrian. This means that a cyclist a second away from entering the intersection would be much further away compared to a walking pedestrian. This makes it less likely a motorist or motorcyclist would see them and yield to them compared to the pedestrian. In fact, this is the reason why statistics show that riding on the sidewalk is more dangerous compared to riding on the road with traffic.

Even if the rules were changed to match your proposal, that doesn't address the issue I brought up about cyclists moving too fast to really be seen by motorists so that the latter have time to see them and yield to them.
I can't judge the math directly, but I do know that my local Subway makes good, healthy sandwiches full of vegetables and other things. So that's a plus on his resume.
Elon Musk Is Bad at This
I forgot almost all of the movie but the portrayal of the Gaugamela is breathtaking. They could do better job with Persian equipment.. but Alexander's cavalry action was awesome to see. Also it showed well just how terrifying phalanx advance was. I was reading Xenophon recently and I thought it did awesome job showing why most other troops just ran when confronted with that.
Going to open a Twitter just so Mark Kelly isn't so lonely out there.
谢谢!
> 1. The driver behind me doesn't expect me to stop and almost (or does) hit me.

> They're asking how to signal continuous travel through an intersection.

No, they are not.
I roll through stop signs on my bike all the time. I don't however get mad at pedestrians or fellow cyclists for crossing the street or stopping. Too many cyclists view pedestrians the same way drives do, and I've seen the lycra set get red and mad about fellow cyclists exercising caution.
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>I keep seeing this claim, but I rarely see it in reality

If you were a crappy driver that didn't "get" how traffic worked and thought everything on the roads should follow the law like a robot you would "see" these instances far more often because you would misidentify "perfectly fine and predictably but not technically legal" behavior as egregious violations.

In reality 99x/100 (probably more) a <anything> ignores a light it's done in a situation where that behavior is obviously fine. Your eyes may see it but you don't remember it as memorable because it fits your mental model of how traffic is expected to act.
Steam Deck is in disagreement.
This effect is also used in dramatic movies, for example sci-fi and horror. It was used in the recent sound-award-winning Dune movie, where they used some interesting techniques for recording low-frequency sound, like recording moving sand dunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHcbp8szrY&t=257s

There's also an app for detecting low-frequency sounds, although it seems surprising that cell phone microphones have the necessary frequency sensitivity. They seem to use some interpretation processing though the code is proprietary:

http://www.toon-llc.com/support/lfd_en.html
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Anything that big companies are enforcing, as a rule, is not going to be in alignment with Marxism.
Good point. It's true that the edict from Cyrus which helped Jews return and rebuild was a pivotal moment. However, the prophet Isaiah prophesied that the Jews would get to return and rebuild before the Persians ever conquered the Babylonians. God lets bad things happen and crazy rulers create chaos, but even in the midst of the most unlikely of scenarios, when he wants something crucial to happen he makes sure it happens against all odds. The prophet Daniel served the court under both Babylon and Persia, and when he was serving the Babylonians he prophesied about 4 kingdoms which we now identify with Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. He even details the fragmentation of the Greek empire! The rest of the world was taken off guard by each of these empires, whereas God was giving advance notice that he not only knew what was coming, but could harness these whirlwinds of conquest for his purposes to usher in the Messiah and spread the news about him easily thanks to the upcoming extensive Roman roads.

https://jewsforjesus.org/learn/the-messianic-time-table-acco...
I just find funny the idea that people might spun research into something they aren't able to do themselves but is completely obvious to everybody else.

Not saying it is the case here, just pointing a potential for humour.
Racism exists.
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How long should it take to get funds from a cold wallet to a hot wallet?

Hint: if it's more than 1 block (~10mins) you're either incompetent or fraudulent
It's a kind of nice mystery, at least nobody died (I hope so). There will be novels and movies.
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I agree with the article sentiment. The threshold for what could be considered a viable business was much lower 20 years ago. My first tech job doesn't even exist anymore because Squarespace et al have consumed the lower end of web development.

Granted, certain things like game development are a lot easier now.
> I dislike its type system

Fair, it is not the best thing under the Sun (pun intended), but it is pragmatic and sufficiently strong (actually, with generics it is quite expressive, you can do almost everything besides actual Monads in it)

Come on, it has very good debuggers, you can get very detailed runtime data with basically zero overhead even in production, you can display the number of instances of all the objects and where were they created, and due to the language being uniquely big in both academia and industry it has so many niche tools that you can probably find everything for it. (You can literally statically prove a sort function with JML for example).

That Oracle part is just bullshit — oracle open-sourced the whole platform, made OpenJDK the reference implementation and there are more vendors available for that to choose from than I care to list. What other language can just go on as is if the main corporation behind it would disappear tomorrow?

Your sarcasm is not warranted regarding JIT compilation, for code that does the same thing it will be competitive with AOT compiled code.

And regarding talent pool, there are more java devs than people living in my country. I’m sure for every “locked in” one there is someone on the other end of the Gauss distribution.
Amazing move by CZ
SBF tweets for more clarification: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590012124864348160

Apparently this is for the international exchange business, FTX.com, but not FTX.us or Alameda quant trading firm.
*CRYPTO EXCHANGE BINANCE TO BUY RIVAL FTX; TERMS UNDISCLOSED

Binance Announces Acquisition Of Distressed FTX After "Significant Liquidity Crunch"
I wouldn't hesitate to take that assistant professorship for a second. A life of the mind beats the hell out of building yet another web site or CRUD app for decades on end, which is what most in our profession do.