skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On Windows, Firefox can't be updated while it's running because the files that comprise it are locked by the running application.

I don't know how the "behind the scenes" work but you can run an update while Firefox is running. We do it all the time. We push security updates to our clients via an agent. It runs the official installer in silent mode.
It is like OP described: You can't open new tabs (ok you can but they will not work) until you restart the browser, but the existing tabs keep working.
It runs in the browser, for one. Not that it needs to be better than Blender to be interesting.
The Python code isn’t even that good. Values are assigned to variables, which are returned in the next line.
You can get more exotic than that!

I want you to act as a command line terminal and you have IRIX installed. I will type actions and you will reply with what a terminal would show. I want you to only reply with the page output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not perform actions unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curl brackets {like this}. Start with hinv -vv
> binning operations after production are all that separate precision resistors from cheap resistors

Absolutely, no.

Cheap resistors not only have low precision of marking. They also suffered from many other issues.

Examples of cheap resistors issues: they have large temperature coefficient; they change resistance permanently on overheat and when under high voltage; they aged fast and this mean, their resistance permanently change; they usually have large parasite inductance and also they usually have coil structure, and under high voltage happen leak between turns.

High voltage, in this case, mean just about 100Volts.
Leonard vs. PepsiCo – The “Pepsi Points Case”
> There is no other way.

That's not true, or at least not always.

Plex manages this just fine with my media content.

Plex Media Server reaches out to my router and punches an inbound port to itself. When I'm then watching from outside my home network, the traffic is going direct to my home IP.
> 3. There might be a way to do this but I'm not sure. Emacs being inherently single threaded probably makes this difficult. But yes, I use M-x (re)compile.

Emacs has zero issue with multiple compilations - they're handled asynchronously. If threading was an issue it would kill Emacs with just one active compilation let alone many. The lack of threading in Emacs is a significant issue, but simultaneously nowhere near as restrictive and troublesome as many people seem to believe.

It's irritating that Emacs inhibits simultaneous compilations by default, but that's literally simply down to buffer naming. Emacs uncompromisingly uses a buffer called "*compilation*" for compiliation and will only run one at a time in a buffer.

There are simple hacks floating around to have compilation create a unique buffer name, then it happily runs as many as you like. Also, `projectile` has the setting `projectile-per-project-compilation-buffer` which enables this by putting the project name in the compilation buffer name.

I do echo the sentiment that it is not an easy out-of-the-box experience, and the learning curve is steep, though this is the sort of configuration that I assume the likes of doom set up by default. But even then, starting with doom is a much more significant endeavor than starting with VS Code.

But once you learn and develop your Emacs set up it becomes a delightful, malleable, and extremely powerful environment that's comfortable like an old leather chair, and where it isn't, you make it just how you want it. Some of us were lucky enough to accumulate proficiency over years and decades starting in a time when there weren't easier options with comparable power.

I love to have people join us and appreciate it, but it's not an easy process to get to the payoff.
Yes. I tip and tip heavily in almost all circumstances. I consider myself very lucky to have a comfortable job that pays me very well. Tipping is one infinitesimally small way in which I can say thank you to folks who work in the service industry.

I’d encourage anyone who can afford it to do the same.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33844446
Your article was from 2016, a mere 2 years after the launch of POOL. Shared rides became the default option and by 2019 I didn’t know a single person that rented out a whole car just for themselves unless they also had a group of people more than 2.
Just like fentanyl doesn't "kill" anyone either, respiratory arrest does.
I’ve always thought that crypto ideology was the male behavioral equivalent of women’s woke ideology. They’re both at the forefront of culture and promise a better tomorrow though it’s easy to be skeptical about them and unsurprisingly it turns out they’re filled with grifters.
Well I an sure it would be better that all the other existing Wayland Window Managers or Desktops :)
This video is full of questionable stuff. Images within notifications don't need to be hosted on an internet-facing service without authentication, for example, they can use authentication just fine. They don't even need the cloud for anything but basic signalling (thanks, Apple and Google, for forcing your proprietary notification servers on every app). Authenticated peer to peer protocols (and failing that, end-to-end encrypted protocols) are everywhere and most of us use them every day. The reliance on cloud stuff isn't because it's impossible to live up to the claims on their website, it's because doing what they claim to be doing is hard and piping everything through Amazon is easy.

The video also seems to confirm that content is in fact mirrored on the internet, which Eufy promised not to do. It also claims that Eufy chose to not do local-only processing for facial recognition for performance reasons, which is entirely valid were it not for the local-only promises.

The GDPR regulations do not necessarily apply to user content in the context of account deletion; content, which by the promises of the seller's website, should've never left the device in the first place. The 30 day limitation of deletion requests is not related to deleting files, it's merely the maximum response time for the company upon receiving a correction or deletion request. If the GDPR were involved at all, Amazon should be listed as a data processor in the privacy policy, which it isn't, so that would be illegal. Even still, "we legally have the right to keep your data even longer" is a dickish excuse for not quickly throwing out the access keys/encryption keys/data for deleted accounts/files.

The video completely glosses over the complete breach of trust Eufy committed by saying "some parts of the initial reporting are exaggerated". Eufy did in fact lie about the security of its product and they lied about how it works. This is a huge blemish on the good name of Anker.
One of the things I always heard when getting into software development is that the hard part isn't writing the code but rather figuring out what problem to solve. Now the hard part is going to be figuring out what problem to solve and how to tell the AI to solve it. If you're already good at the first part, the second part should be what you focus on and you'll likely become very in demand.
This. I grokked this when I tried to contribute to Unigram (an alternative Telegram client) in 2021. Back in school and even university circa 2010, what I expected from chat apps is passing around text messages salted with a few UI features like parsing and displaying emoji, highlighting links and maybe sending files. These days there are hundreds of types of messages alone, plus you also have all kinds of metadata exchange, social graph stuff, group management etc. When writing this comment, I feel like the whole IM industry would win from following Unix philosophy a bit more. But it is never going to happen because companies want to lock users in.
A recent article, in french, explain a bit why our energy sector is in this sorry state:
https://www-marianne-net.translate.goog/politique/gouverneme...

> High Commissioner for Atomic Energy from 2012 to 2018 pointed out, in front of the deputies, "the scientific and technical lack of culture of our political class", according to him "at the heart of the problem" in French energy policy.

> The propensity to consider that the technologies under development – hydrogen as an energy vector, smart-grids – can be, in a climate emergency, technologies to be deployed massively, in the moment, testifies to a profound ignorance of development deadlines.

> Conversely, the procrastination on all decisions concerning nuclear power and the policy of announcements while waiting for concrete decisions to start construction show a staggering ignorance of the intrinsic inertia of heavy industries and the need for a stable long-term vision to maintain the industrial tool at the right level
Heroin isn't anywhere close to "safe" due to the addiction dependency cycle it induces and the devastating, permanent effects it has, especially tooth loss and skeletal deformations of the hips and spine.

The issue is that criminalizing drug use costs society far more than encouraging treatment. It doesn't make sense to criminalize obesity, tobacco use, or alcoholism, so why continue to outlaw certain substances other than for historically-racist/-political reasons?
While negotiating your own individual salary is one thing, from a macroeconomic perspective, doesn’t the taming of inflation require avoiding a price/wage spiral? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage-price_spiral And doesn’t that imply using the stickiness of nominal wages to effectively reduce real wages?
So instead of trusting the built-in wallpaper app you downloaded a third party app to access your device?
Sounds like most of the better students in my classes at university.
Chocolate is used in the books as a remedy after being attacked by Dementors- basically the Dementors sap one’s will to live and chocolate acts as an anti-depressant.

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Chocolate
> if the dev of the API did their job correctly

You're not wrong, but we can see the current setup the devs came up with and I don't think they have either the time or skill to build a secure local server app.

The sad fact of the matter is that most IoT devices with publicly accessible web servers are feeding grounds for botnets within a few years after release.
Paying the Ransom in Response to a Ransomware Attack Can Sometimes Backfire
I could come up with one, but I’m too busy rewriting my config to use a better package manager again.
Why the heck is this not a big issue in every national election?

It seems like for the Republicans, it _should_ be a prime example of overreaching big government invading ordinary peoples' privacy. And for Democrats, it _should_ be a prime example of Islamophobia and racism against Middle Easterners inextricably linked to their second-most-hated (and also, perhaps not coincidentally, the second-most-recent) Republican President, and also a police force that can be safely [1] [2] defunded.

The fact that it hasn't been done is understandable if the votes aren't there. What I don't "get" is why no one ever brings it up. There were eight people on the Democratic presidential primary stage in 2020. Why didn't one of the trailing candidates with nothing to lose pound the table and demand getting rid of the TSA? It would certainly have made headlines.

[1] Obviously if you get rid of the police that are protecting people from theft, rape, murder, etc., things will quickly get pretty bad. If we actually got rid of the police, it would be like the dog that caught the car.

[2] The things that actually keep people safe from terrorists are (a) reinforced cockpit doors and strict procedures to keep passengers away from the flight deck in flight, and (b) post-9/11, passengers and crew will assume hijackers are plotting suicide attacks, and as a result will now quite likely resist the hijackers at all costs. (Pre-9/11, hijackers were assumed to care about their own lives, so complying with the hijackers' demands until the plane is safely on the ground was the normal policy.)
One scenario where I find external wikis better is when a change encompasses multiple components and you want to present an overarching view to the user + want to refer across sections. This can be managed via something like github pages for each component but the cross referring across multiple repos adds more friction. Plus to present the overall view, something like a synthetic "doc-repo" will be needed that has landing pages that connect the component-level pages. Or we can have a wiki that does the integration by refering to component level github pages but at that point why not just do the whole thing in wiki much more conveniently.

My experience is that it basically comes down to developer discipline. A disciplined developer will update the docs regardless of whether the docs are part of repo or external and vice versa.
Once he started asking it to imagine ping, it really looked like a live VM with Internet connection. Since this is possible, it would have been worth asking it to ping one of the writer's own servers by IP address and then checking the logs (outside of chatGPT, in real life) to see if chatGPT really pings it just then or if it would just hallucinate a result.
“Same behavior as macOS” minus the instant on…
I think its a balance. While your questioning and speaking up should minimze the disruption, a junior person needs to learn to speak up even if the idea is totally dumb and crap. You cannot just listen to others speaking and learn to think and speak on the fly, just like you cannot look at swimming videos and learn to swim.
Chip-8 is a great start, it was a virtual machine used for Atari 2600 style games: https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/ Basic but still a good first step.
No implication that there wasn't also pushback internally was intended, my apologies for the fact that now I look at it again, my comment can clearly be read that way.

I kept to a generic 'they' because the communications in question were private so while I'm comfortable revealing they existed I felt keeping the description deliberately vague was only fair.
Exactly what I came here for. Thank you.
That could be your specific bank. My bank here in the U.S uses a pin you have to enter and a picture id to get access. Then a physical key is needed to open the actual box. So if key is stolen, it still wont allow the person to access without the pin and id matching name authorized to access the box.
Uber was originally called UberCab, and I guess given the lack of medallions they had they couldn’t be called a cab. Strictly speaking Uber was ride sharing. You could turn Uber on from your commute from A to B and also ferry a few passengers during that time… granted I’m not sure if it was possible to see the routes ahead of time.
I changed "intelligent" to "very smart" for Bazzes and it came up with this, which I think is an even better response because it recognizes that "intelligent"~="very smart" and that "smart as an apple" is not that intelligent.

Edit: Actually reading this a second time it seems to think that Bddirs and Baaars are "more intelligent" even though they're only as intelligent as oranges. Maybe not as good as I thought. Or maybe oranges are just more intelligent than apples lol?

Edit 2: Also says Baaars and Bddirs are both fast-moving while Bddirs are clearly stated to "move slowly."

> One possible abstraction that could be derived from the above information is that the alien species can be grouped into two main categories based on the number of legs they have: those with three legs and those with four legs. Within each of these categories, the species can be further grouped based on their speed of movement and level of intelligence. For example, among the species with three legs, there could be subgroups of fast-moving and intelligent species (such as Bazzes and Froshes), slow-moving and intelligent species (such as Foos and Fooshes), and highly intelligent and fast-moving species (such as Fasdoshes and Fooddss). Similarly, among the species with four legs, there could be subgroups of fast-moving and less intelligent species (such as Bars and Baars), slow-moving and less intelligent species (such as Birs and Bieess), and fast-moving and more intelligent species (such as Baaars and Bddirs).
Why on earth would you want to run your 3D modeling software in a browser window?
Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping is pretty funny now that everything else needs several GB of memory.

(But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB RSS these days).
The best examples we have of a general intelligence are humans.

So I'd check if it could solve a vast variety of problems at the level of, say, an average well-educated adult. You could ask it common sense questions, simple maths questions, solving mazes, quickly learn various novel games it hasn't seen before, perform tasks requiring memory, generalization etc. etc.

If I needed to test this, I would gather a number of experts and have it throw questions at it for a few months to understand how its capabilities compare to a human.
A GameBoy is the obvious answer here, but the IBM PC (the 5150, the original one) is another good choice if you want to have a lot of software to try it with.
I'm not sure why you distinguish large language models as not having understanding, as it shows a high degree of comprehension; in a de facto sense, it understands an awful lot. It understands your inputs well enough to give you useful outputs, and it can absolutely reason creatively about problems you pose to it. It doesn't have it's "own" though or understanding only because it doesn't have it's "own" story and experience to add that element of unique personality.
Accidentally mousing over the unsolicited weather widget in the Task Bar, and having Alex Jones' face plastered over the screen, was the lowlight of my last week. It wasn't on even my computer and I was appalled by it.
Reserve Bank of India rolls out pilot project for Digital Rupee
There’s an HTML tag <noscript> that you can wrap content in to be shown if the user does not have javascript available. It’s got nothing to do with the NoScript extension.
I am from India, and no such thing has happened here and we are a multi party democracy for over 70 years.
Top three (sorry)

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism by Kathryn Tanner. A really good look at how capitalism has been expressed in our modern world, and how Christianity should not enable the worst excesses of capitalism.

The Power Broker by Robert Caro. This one actually took me about 6 months between reading and Audible, because it is in some ways too detailed, but the naked use of power for maintaining power for a singular vision is illuminating. Even in an antagonistic biography, Moses leaps off the page as a bright, energetic, flawed human. I enjoyed this a lot.

Rediscovering Scripture’s Vision for Women by Lucy Peppiat. A persuasive, intelligent, and solid look at how Christianity in America has taken many unfortunate turns away from reading Scripture as a document of equality and elevation, and toward a document of hierarchy and repression. I think Peppiat does a good job of discussing all theological avenues of thought and while clearly disfavoring some, not stooping to ridicule, caricature, or personal attack.
Scarlet fever.
There’s no law enabling civil forfeiture. The police do it and the courts uphold it. Qualified immunity is also a totally court created doctrine. The legislature could pass laws against it, but the legality of these tools was established by the courts alone.
Well this is fairly unsettling...
> By JFK Jr.

He's been dead for like 20 years. I think you mean RFK Jr.
You don't need to be the last to speak. Let the usual "speakers" do their bit first so that you know the main points that remain to be covered. If that means being last because everyone in your team is a "speaker" then you need to decide if you are ok with that dynamic. If no one on the team is a "speaker", maybe you have an opportunity.
What do you do for work, are you a manager?
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (top recommendation of the year)

Sanderson's Skyward Flight series (a few things came out this year, it's young-adult but thoughtfully enjoyable and easy to consume).

I read a few Asimov's this year I hadn't gotten around to, but the two that really stood out were 'The Gods Themselve's and 'The End of Eternity'.

(I primarily read to sci-fi/fantasy)
Oh come on. This was about Wikipedia allegedly sensoring stuff, and us entering some kind of dystopia of uninformed people.

We'll follow the scientific method; and that is how we learn and continue to explore and learn more.

Do really not a see a difference between that and convenient political alternate facts?

And the grey sky? Seriously? You're looking at clouds, not the sky.
Whatever, why am I even responding...
Too Much Photo-Taking Can Undermine Memory
There should be a legal way for them to gain access to the funds without the cooperation of the CEO. A CIC has specific rules for usage of funds which can be enforced especially if the CEO isn't applying them as they are required to.
Yes, Established Titles Is a Scam
Wow.

What decay from the excellence of a country that once picked presidents from the Poincare family.
So, the big issue everyone seems to be ignoring here is momentum and control, controlling a 20,000lb tractor is going to be hard and incredibly dangerous in bad conditions.
Judge’s Investigation of Patent Trolls Must Be Allowed to Move Forward
I work at a (imo serious) company that runs mostly on Google sheets (since the beginning) and I don't believe we have much need for opening ancient Excel files.
This is already happening with stock "analysis" that you see on Yahoo Finance for any given symbol. For example, take a look at https://stocks.apple.com/AbKUdK1ZvSFK4NdaMwMd27w
Exhalation is one of my favorite books of any genre and Chiang is one of my favorite authors. I love listening to his interviews as well. It's very clear how the person Ted Chiang and the author Ted Chiang exist in the same space. For some authors, that connection is less clear.

Similarly, Bojack Horseman is one of my favorite shows. I had never looked into its creators and had no idea the creator also wrote short stories. I am now very excited to read this. Thanks!
This level of word salad will be more than enough in most cases. Give it another few years and I can see how this type of AI permeates all aspects of life in the same way code has.
Yeah Kotlin, F#, etc. These are all acceptable.
Content restrictions are one thing; it is much, much more cagey about the specifics of it's own instructions, above and beyond it's training set, for reasons of ethics and liability, and what confidential information it may be protecting. I believe it has a pretty nuanced security model, and is quite sophisticated in managing information.
Considering gnome.org's IP is owned by RedHat, I find that quite unlikely to be accurate.
I've been increasingly worried that AGI is approaching too fast for us to prepare for it. But I thought we still had several years available to prepare. Seeing this, I think we're pretty much there already.
It's obviously unimportant or you wouldn't have happily paid for it.

Giving away code to a paid app while it is viable and thriving offers no benefit to the producer except to allow anyone and everyone to duplicate their app and create knock-offs. The right "eyeballs" will never look at it because of Tragedy of the Commons.

Therefore, it's a wish but not a requirement.
How do you reconcile that with the fact that those company-backed projects you listed are themselves built on top of FOSS libraries?