skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They even have a healing tool I like to use: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/tools/smart_patch...

Nice.
It first I would also have expected vh and vw to do this, i.e. do what dvh and dvw now do. And I think on purely theoretical grounds that would be the correct behavior, after all the view port dimensions do actually change. Well, unless you think of those dynamic elements as overlays in front of the view port.

But what would be the implications? Every time some of those dynamic elements appear, everything based on the view port dimensions would also change in size. There are certainly cases where this is exactly what you want but I guess more commonly you would not want to have things change.

There is a real difference between changing the size of your browser window where you want things to adapt and temporarily showing some additional user interface where you do not want everything to move around immediately. This seems actually to suggest that those dynamic elements should be overlays and not change the view port size, but I guess only if one focuses on this single issue. If done as overlays, then you could never see the very top or bottom of a page while those dynamic elements are visible which is not good eitehr.
Canonical is a UK company.
Having an appointment at least makes you sure you will get it done around that time and schedule your day around it. Showing up without one makes it impossible to plan for the rest of the day if you are unfortunate to go do it on a bad day, no?
With iStuff and generally Apple things, I keep getting the feeling that I don't actually own and control the device, I rent it, and it is Apple who ultimately controls it.
You can have privacy or you can be a public root CA.

It's a choose only 1 sort of deal.
> August institutions including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal

TIL that august can be used as an adjective:

au·gust adjective \ȯ-ˈgəst, ˈȯ-(ˌ)gəst\
: marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
her august lineage
an august mansion

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/august
You get some form of cross-platform sync. Apple, Google, and so on each have syncing, but in their ecosystem only. You can break out with the QR codes, but this might not be the preferred solution to some.
UTF8 is only superior in encoding the american keyboard (7 bits of ascii). All the latin letters map to 1 byte encodings. This is why UTF8 wasn't universally hailed to begin with.

Countries like Japan had already solved encoding differently while US was still using ASCII. (See JIS encoding).

As time passed tho, the byte savings matter less. Also combined with transfer compression makes the encoding size differences negligible.
Too late to edit but I realised there's another one: William "IV" was only the third William to rule Scotland.

I guess we're in for another round of this when Charles dies and William the "fifth" takes the throne, although at the rate we're going Scotland might be a republic by then.
There’s a subtlety there. It isn’t suppose to be about who you are but what you’re about.

Stopping caring about whether projects work or not is practically the point. Research isn’t about only tackling things we know will work. That’s effectively engineering and not research.

A lot of the funding today is already about status. There just needs to be less funding given out to people based on status and funders’ pet projects and more funding based upon the people and proposals. Solid people and proposals should not be turned down via lack of status or not fitting into some box of “this will work”.

A lot of topics are lumped into “that will never work”, but it’s often the case that they were never tried or even explored.
There is a paper from DeepMind

RETRO - Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens (2021)

> With a 2 trillion token database, our Retrieval-Enhanced Transformer (Retro) obtains comparable performance to GPT-3 and Jurassic-1 on the Pile, despite using 25× fewer parameters.

https://www.deepmind.com/publications/improving-language-mod...
Honestly, if you're generating these responses with GPT-3 that's a pretty funny and creative use of the tool, and you completely got me for the first couple of posts!

If there's an actual human in there that thinks that it's tenable to argue that 'Epstein Island was taken seriously by mainstream media' is a "comprehensive and bold" claim that no amount of articles which report on Epstein Island in detail in a serious tone could possible prove, whereas assertions that normies run on delusions of omniscience is just something you know ... I'm a bit less impressed.

Can't speak for other normies (I'll leave that to you), but personally I don't laugh at conspiracy theorists because they "care", I laugh at them because they make mind-numbingly stupid arguments.
This was the immediate and exact same thought I had the moment I read the first sentence of the post. Then I stopped reading. Clearly this was not an engineering decision, and passwords should be trusted to no one but competent engineers and cryptographers.
>People put all of their digital lives into these devices. I really don’t want iPhones to be as a open as a Mac!

Maybe users should be more mindful and more educated on the pros and cons of dumping their entire private lives in the devices they don't control and are instead controlled by publicly listed trillion dollar corporations who's sole purpose is revenue growth and shareholder ROI.

Just a thought.
Is it really the case that a decade ago journalism was not telling the story that media conglomerates wanted the public to hear? Or did that just seem to diverge from what you personally wanted to hear about a decade ago?
We have all been there
Boy do I hate that BoE paper.
I commuted 2 hours each way. Now I work 2 jobs from home and it's obvious that commuting was not only not paid but preventing me from making a decent income, keeping me poor and trapped in a crappy suburb.
> 0-days

Title says spyware.
> https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/1505946734345994241

This is a very weird source, of course US defence manufactures stocks go up when the US buys a lot weapons for other countries, its a huge investment in the company and any publicly traded company would see a stock movement with that kind of investment.
Ask HN: Anyone using SteamOS as their desktop?
Stay the heck away from these small-time CAs. In particular if they are based in North America or have any ties to the US Goverment.
The fun is in the lack of wit; when you tease it, it keeps giving perfectly logical and unemotional answers, even if it is not the right tone for the conversation.
I encountered a lot of them. Especially ones that use recaptcha, a lot of times hidden recaptcha and you just get enigmatic error messages.
Ask HN: Why don’t companies build a browser app to get around Apple 30%
Companies like Spotify, Twitter and others could get together and build a browser app that provides Native API access using Capacitor JS. They let their own apps be deployed with it. No need to pay the Apple Tax because it’s a browser, just like Chrome.
I don't understand unions. Why not, I don't know ... just look for another job if you don't like the current one?

If you are as valuable as you think, then you should find a better job in no time. If the firm is in the wrong, people will follow suit and the company will fail and competitors which treat people better will thrive, no?
The steam deck has really been a breath of fresh air to me. To have a company release a device in 2022 with a full linux distro with root access telling you that it's yours and that you can do anything you want with it and also releasing all the parts you might need alongside guides and stuff is really amazing.

Of course it's too big to whipe it out like a phone and too small to comfortably replace a laptop but their philosophy is great.
"A journalists job is to report the news"

Nope. A journalist job is to make clicks. That’s how their job is evaluated: how many click did the story bring.

That’s all. That’s f**ing all.

Every news outlet office now has a giant screen with the list of the stories and the number of clicks. "Journalists" are expected to competed on that metric and that metric alone.

It blew my mind every time to realize that, even in tech, people are still naïve enough to not see that. Just change the word "journalist" by "click farmers" and, suddenly, everything makes sense. (Television has "audience" instead of "clicks" but the reasoning is similar)
Just to be clear, your code makes postgresql connections from fly's servers to heroku's servers, I'm a little surprised. I'm not a web programmer, more of a
traditional systems programmer, I have some questions.

I assume you use SSL, and these are not made on demand (connection pooling ?) On 'cold start' do you get massive latency ?

What kind of latency is there between client and server ?

What made you choose Heroku and not a specific managed postgresql service ?

Did you try flys postgres service?
I remember that loading a flash plugin would choke the browser for a while. I think we always had to to pay a startup penalty.

I have experienced flash for the last time a while ago though, so my memory might have been corrupted in the mean time. Also, I am talking about computing capacity of a decade ago, so the comparison is never going to be fair.

But I am definitely sure that the java applets were a disaster in terms of UX (slow to load, interaction feeling very foreign).
To be fair, journalists are meant to also use their own knowledge and judgement to assess the relative validity of sources and frame the story in a way that communicates the truth as they see it (as opposed to just uncritically reflecting whatever their sources told them)
Ask HN: Should I build or buy data infrastructure products?
Given broad support for the Web Audio API these days I can’t think of anything that’s not been standardised, unless you wanted some form of preloading baked into the spec. ActionScript had actual integer types, if I remember correctly.

As others have said, it’s mostly tooling and workflow. As much as I’d like to sneer at Flash in general, my experience with it on projects was positive. The IDEs and tools were good, you could approach everything code first with unit tests. The process of cutting up PhotoShop PSDs from a designer and building UIs in FlashBuilder, while orchestrating everything in code in an MVC style was very pleasant.
In the US, if laid off, you get 60 days and can apply to convert to a B visa (visitor) and as long as it’s pending review you can stay.

It’s not that hard to stay for extended periods to either settle affairs or find another job.
The same reason that lies behind many problems in IT: a lot of the early (and now still foundational) protocols date back to times where the participants in the network were universities or other large entities (governments, large corporations) and trust was assumed between them.

Obviously, that broke down over time, and nefarious actors (both governmental and private) popped up.
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell really challenged my political ideology in my mid-20s. I left unsatisfied or in disagreement with a lot of it, but it was the first time I could clearly apply conservative ideals to my social justice beliefs. Most importantly, it helped me sniff out all of the BS in our (U.S.) sociopolitical system, and subsequently not have my emotions co-opted by the us vs. them culture wars.
The tooling is the main issue here, and that's even worse for webassembly than the usual HTML/CSS/JS stack.
> a digital dollar means that you have a dollar where it is impossible to commit crime.

This is overly definitive. For example, in Poland, it's illegal to run a private online poker site and yet there's plenty of operators doing it. They offer digital money transfers via payment processors which specialize in skirting the law, such as Neteller, Payza etc. The Polish state doesn't care enough about its own laws regarding online gambling to clamp down on such practices and so people are happily commiting crimes using the "digital dollar".
For me, it was just that I have been using Photoshop for years, and GIMP for 3 times max. I took the time once, and clicked through all of the menus, and settings, taking at least some seconds to read what they do. I think it took around two hours. After that, working with was much smoother. And now, when I sit back to Photoshop, I appreciate the adjustment layers and text effects, but I'm similarly confused about the UI as I was back then with GIMP. It really is just a matter of familiarity.
No, we said fund _people_ not status. Someone’s status is their job title etc. that should be irrelevant in funding decisions.

Funding projects is a terrible idea that you should keep at a minimum. If you fund projects you will end up with the BS we have now - marketing in the form of grant proposals.

I think a really helpful analogy for how science should be funded is to think of how angels and VCs fund early stage startups - I mean, how they really fund them. Which is: is this a promising area to startup within? Is this a great team? And that is pretty much it.

The downside of this approach I think is that personal biases can creep in and create a lack of diversity. You can counter that with pots of funding that directly target diversity.

Fund people, your assessment of their ability, their team, and their area of interest.
I think the biggest blocker is the distribution cost of it, the unit economics may not match the thought to build it themselves
But the massive plugin ecosystem and the endless configuration possibilities is part of the charm!
How many Windows users do benefit significantly from using UCS-2 encoding, I wonder? Chinese and Hindi (along with Japanese, South Korean and various Arabic language) speakers would surely come close to outnumbering those of us using European alphabets (I gather that Cyrillic & Greek have single-byte encodings, but maybe they mostly use UCS-2 these days too?). On that basis it seems a reasonable choice as the default storage method for human readable strings. But if course a high percentage of strings don't exist for that purpose at all, at least not primarily - using UCS-2 for storing/ transmitting CSS or configuration files or of course source code for most languages is less justifiable.
Right, in some sense m.d.s.policy is the more authoritative source, but unless the discussion ends up being distorted because of reporting elsewhere that's inaccurate the existing thread ought to "win". Doubtless HN has policy about this that I have not read.
Curious what you mean? Like the cost to build the app itself?
In my experience, they shouldn't be about work at all. It should be a bonding experience. Better if there is a non-work task to be solved, or to work for, together.

Alternatively, make it leisure.

Everything else is mostly BS.
Removal/Relaxing of the 7% rule, which uniquely inconveniences Indians. (If the idea is diversity, then in almost every way India is more diverse than arbitrarily formed culturally homogeneous tiny nations around the world.

Everybody loves diversity until it’s not them.
Android has had this from day one(?) and it has never been an issue.
Sure, but GP objected to the term AI.

Although ML is also aggressively co-opted by marketing, to the point where it's questionable what it means in practice.
The important parts of the article:

The two senior physicists behind this, Joe Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, have histories that go way back of successfully promoting to the press nonsense about exotic space-time structures appearing in experiments that have nothing to do with them.

and

Update: Andreas Karch on Twitter I think has an accurate characterization of this “mostly a publicity stunt”:

Experimentally it’s of course cool they can do SYK – as a demonstration they have control over their device. They can couple 9 qbits in a pre-specified way. But I guess we knew they could do this before. Going after SYK in particular, in my mind, is mostly a publicity stunt.
Same way an abused dog will flinch when you raise your hand. You recognise the signs of bad things to come. Most flinches are wrong, but if you're always quick on the defensive you don't get hurt as often.

Someone looks shifty, or pauses at just the right moment in their sentence. Or scratches their nose while trying to get you to do something, or can't keep eye contact when they usually would. If they excessively look away for a moment during a disagreement get yourself ready to block the sucker punch. Or they accuse you out of the blue of doing something that's a complete 180 of your character -- ask them straight back if they're doing it themselves.

I can't really explain it too well I realise, having edited this comment like 20 times, as I've only just started looking into it myself.
Prototyping with Pluto.jl
Of course. Every country is a sovereign nation and has complete autonomy to run their immigration as they see fit.
MidJourney V4 vs Dall-E2 – Same Prompt, Different Results
And my mate Tim, a designer not a coder, could bang up really neat stuff really easily. Now you need to be Bartosz Ciechanowski and only he is.
Krita can do that though https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.ht...
And what are the mediocre coders to do, if only the best coders get hired!
Clicking on the helicopter to crash it :)
> In this case, it is very odd that much of the coverage has not been centred on fraud. I genuinely don’t understand why.

Its because news is for entertainment purpose not knowledge acquisition from the journalists perspective and secondly because powerful players are involved.

This guy donated 40 million dollars to the ruling political party and has parents with connections. Why would you write a truthful article outlining the grand fraud that took place when you only have something to loose by doing so?
Good news, Apple is also becoming a tracking and data company.

The only reason Apple went after Google and Facebook with the new privacy feature is so they can swoop in and take some of that money for themselves. Hence why you are seeing them pushing ads left and right across their platforms.

MacOS will soon be as filled with ads as Windows.
That EFF page is really weird - English text, but right-aligned, with question marks to the left of the text, as if the text had been translated from a RTL language (Farsi perhaps given the /fa/ in the link?)

From the looks of it the EU wants to push out a wide spread identity management system, which is fine.

It's unclear to me after a brief perusal why they can't use a normal root certificate, or create their own along a letsencrypt line (indeed that would be a great benefit having another widespread free ACME powered certificate authority, one funded by the taxpayer), with the same protections and transparency as LE.
UTF-16 is simpler and more efficient to handle than UTF-8.
Those are the equity investors in FTX, but it has been reported that there are about a million retail customers owed about 8 billion dollars. You might think they’re not “crypto people” because they sent their coins to a centralised exchange but if that disqualifies you then crypto people are a tiny and unimportant part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Make no mistake, real people chose to purchase cryptocurrency and send it to FTX based at least partly on some pretty sophisticated marketing and endorsement from establishment figures. They will almost certainly lose that money. It’s definitely not just VC funds being burned here.
What's the 7% rule?
I understand AWS is the bread and butter of Amazon. Their infrastructure to run a book store as consumer goods was a good move.

With that in mind.

AWS is over engineered. It took me 12 mins to learn how to turn on an instance 4 years ago.

When I was learning,by randomly clicking, I apparently open up machines in 6 different locations. Got a bill for computers I didn’t know where on, which I haven’t ssh into.

I called the service and they pointed out all the instances; the customer service representative knew this was a common issue for beginners. My money was refunded.

Nowadays, they have global views.

AWS is extremely complicated just so
you can SSH into it. Come on. Not cool.
Would that be worse than the current disaster though?
vh was also invented to solve the height problem and it didnt. The current workaround still involves javascript! And dvw doesnt even solve the scrollbar problems so , javascript again.

There s so much going wrong with CSS through the years (cough, grid) that one wonders if it's being deliberately sabotaged. But most likely it's suffering from FOMOitis where , every weekly design trend must make its way into CSS.

Or maybe at some point Chrome developers will get fed up and say f'it and invent a new simple pixel level language to do whatever you want.
I don't believe libertarians have a problem with punishing transgressions against sensible anti-fraud laws post-fact, which seems to be what the article is calling for.
> what he did is less bad than literally any violent crime.

Stealing and wasting billions is definitely worse than many violent crimes.
Glad I'm using Firefox Sync.
I think you mean hardware attestation. And yes, it is the biggest problem I have. I can do without KNOX, but it is becoming harder to do without these locked down apps (ex: bank), and workarounds are harder to get by, no matter the manufacturer.

And of course forget about anything that isn't iOS or Android. I don't expect banks to support alternative OSes anytime soon.

I probably won't root my next phone, not worth the hassle for a daily driver.

What could be nice is if phones could run VMs, so you have your stock ROM with all your "important" apps, and a VM where you can run anything you want: hacked Android, Linux, maybe even a desktop OS. Modern phone hardware should be more than powerful enough to do that.
Not really, if there is an easier way. Buying cards is risky; if there is a free service they will go for that instead
Moral non-realism is intellectually attractive (especially to religious non-believers who cannot accept divine command theories), but in practice practically everyone seems to speak and act as moral realists. Example: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2019/10/is-richard-dawkins-mora...
I think it cannot be understated how important this may be in the future, given the geopolitical situation btw the US/EU, China and Taiwan.
That’s ignoring the entire premise of the H1-B visa. It’s never intended to be permanent (6 year limit).

It was never intended as “come here permanently”.

You’re basically expecting something it never promised.
I love this example, because while I used Photoshop and then GIMP for quite some hours, I never had to draw a circle once.
Yes, and that specific spyware that it's talking about was exploiting 0-days.
Unfortunately I think you're correct. I see this as a move for the US to pull back as they did with Europe (see economist frontpage this week[^1]).

[^1]: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/11/24/europe-faces-an...
Surely Spotify has reasons related to music licensing that makes them enforce strict control of playback interfaces? I remember the days of libre Spotify clients, but that was during the days of Spotify still being a relatively small service compared to the iTunes' of the world. Spotify won the battle for 2010s music and that made record companies more eager to control the distribution of their IP.
> UTF-16 is simpler and more efficient to handle than UTF-8.

Only if you never go out of the basic multilingual plane. And then find out so many bugs when people start using emojis.
Taiwanese wages are still much less than US wages, so it won’t be simple.
Oh! They work now! Hell yeah nice :)
Same reason you used "women" and not "other people".
Then don't install it or only install it if its worth the trade off. The only real reason for 99.9% of apps to want to do that is to prevent Apple from taking a huge portion of the revenue. Decrease the tax and this problem virtually goes away.
> To review a document that you wrote.

I've never thought of that. I guess it's also useful to detect typos and weird sentence constructions.