skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still see personal websites that are almost unreadable on small phones, for instance.

My personal website is like that and I’ve made no effort to improve the phone experience. I really don’t care if phone users have access or not, on every other device it looks fine.

It’s a personal website, if it looks good on my machine that’s enough for me.
> I don’t know where we took the wrong turn within the past decade but we desperately need to correct this mistake.

I don't know if these ideas are worse technically or politically, or both, but what comes to mind are these alternatives:

1. Have someone start a non-profit that curates public data goods, maybe gaining access to data through voluntary donations and through buying all the data provider feeds, and funding through subscriptions by people and organizations who want to understand the data provider infrastructure.

2. Get legislation passed that identifies public data goods and requires that they be made available to all.
Manyverse: An off the grid social network built on the SSB protocol
Why didn't the industrial revolution start in 1360 then?
An issue with both the Osprey and the VTOL F-35 is that they each have two engines involved in VTOL. So, if one engine fails - then the plane becomes unbalanced and probably flips over. (That's why the F-35 has auto-ejection [1])

This technology is interesting because, if you can have one engine involved in VTOL (like the Harrier) but vector the thrust easily, then an engine failure during takeoff or landing can avoid spinning the plane.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-f-35b-can-eject-it...
On the other side of this, push-phishing through MFA fatigue has become extremely frequently used to hack into enterprise O365 instances (as well as Google Cloud accounts and the like).

People don't generally read it when their phone apps send them a "please login" notification after the 200th one that day, they tend to approve it without thinking (or worse, accidentally approve a phishing notification while trying to login), especially when busy, which results in them letting phishers onto their device.

The DigiD login flow is a bit of a mess, but it seems very well designed to avoid that particular tendency. The entire process requires active involvement from the end-user, which means they'll be paying attention on whether it's them logging in or not.
Signal on Android blocks screenshots too.
The thruster component needs only source of high pressure air - the thrust is generated by using this air to generate a low pressure zone that sucks in air from the front of the thruster element.

The turbine that is used to generate the high pressure air has blades so it's bladeless in similar way as the Dyson bladeless fan is bladeless. Not really bladeless, but established use of language allows this.
This is definitely overstating its case. The problem I've seen isn't so much that there isn't research taking into account problems like this, it's that research which ignores the hard parts of the problem and comes to the conclusion that switching to green energy would be easy if only governments stopped dragging their feet gets picked up by the media and pushed into the public's perception of what science and the experts say is possible, making it seem like the only reason that governments aren't swiching faster is because they're in the pockets of big fossil fuel.

In particular, there's been a lot of work done here in the UK on switching these voltage and frequency control services over from fossil fuels to other, renewable sources that's public but not widely known about. Meanwhile, the voting public think that the government has literally done nothing and isn't even trying because all that gets media coverage is overly-optimistic claims based on ignoring the hard parts of the problem and attempts to spin anything they're not doing (like onshore wind and large-scale solar) as the solution and anything they are doing (offshore wind, hydrogen, etc) as stupid.
It’s actually possible to at least make it harder to do screen grabs on iOS. But you can always take a photo of the phone’s screen using your other iPhone :)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-...
That’s sadly true given the design trade offs: M1 CPU package includes RAM - that makes it fast by lowering latency and removes the category of errors related to physical sockets but means any failure requires the entire part to be replaced.
Tesla engineer says company faked “full autopilot” video: Report
I can't really compare non-standard analysis with filters due to not knowing much about NSA, but filters are a natural sort of completion of the poset of subsets, the pro-completion. Every subset can be naturally regarded as a filter (a principal filter), and I think of filters in general are sort of "thick" sets -- sets with some sort of infinitesimal fringe. There's also a helpful coincidence that open filters (filters on the poset of open subsets of a topological space) can be perfectly represented as filters.

It makes sense to work with "functions" whose domains and ranges are filters. From this perspective, a function X -> Y is continuous at x if it can be restricted to be a function nbhd x -> nbhd f(x), where nbhd x denotes the principal open filter from all the open neighborhoods of x.

If you're familiar with the germ at x of a smooth function f : X -> R, this is exactly the same concept as the restriction of f to a function nbhd x -> R. It's also possible to restrict to a germ at any given subset of f, which I think is neat. For example, you can restrict a smooth function to an infinitesimal neighborhood of a smooth submanifold.

These are some of the reasons why I think that filters have some "user friendliness," once you get a feel for them.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the quote, but it sounds like dunking on 2nd year Phd students?

1. As a professor, you don't get to dictate how something emotionally impacts another human. A frustrating problem set....should in fact be frustrating. no?

2. The students' performance directly reflects the professor's performance

I do like that they are stating their expectations. Seems like the professor is growing as well. Live and learn.
There was one in the MX Revolution mouse (the one before the MX Master). The thumb wheel was spring loaded.

I prefer the free spinning MX Master thumb wheel. Having said that I've never enjoyed a trackpoint either, so I expect others would prefer it.
I was skeptical about this concept when I first heard it, until I actually tried some of the latest image models.

Now, I’m fully bought in that this is correct.

There’s a model you can use on hugging face, for example, where you can feed it any PDF or image of a document, ask it a query (“What is the total of the invoice?”), and it just spits out the right answer.

Turns out decades of work trying to make universal data interoperability standards will most likely be replaced by screenshots and images! (Again, this is for inter-app data movement)
Except for the blades, it's bladeless.
I don’t really enjoy coding, software engineering, or the bullshit work dynamics around it.

But they keep paying me hundreds of thousands of dollars (sometimes more) every year - so I do it anyway.
This could be a boon for thieves, allowing them to scan for empty houses at night, so they know which ones can be more safely targeted.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
Is there anything at all effective you can really do against the dragons? We might see them as particularly destructive lately but we've been breeding them to do just that for the past ten millennia or so.
Yeah, maybe when your younger than 16 or 18. If you're at Uni you're an adult and it's on you to study.
Lenovo seems to be doing alright. But Apple has one big difference from IBM, they control the software side. So allowing generic Macs wouldn't turn them in to IBM. It would turn them in to Microsoft.
Google reportedly working on a location tracker to compete with AirTags
It hasn’t arisen for me yet but the recovery mode (Command-R at boot, or boot holding down Option and select it) has a hardware diagnostic which does at least basic memory testing.
It's semi-voluntary; the request to open source the application came from the Dutch congress/2nd chamber if I recall, but took a while due to private information leaking concerns.
Not yet, but I've been hacking on Kirby to create a regular blog-style personal website and I just want to throw everything out and have a way to host pure Markdown. Someone recommended PicoCMS elsewhere. That's my weekend sorted.

You are one step away from a garden. Move those links out of "KB" and collect them in the home page.

RSS is a bit harder to do on that type of websites. Here's my crappy definition of a digital garden: a website where most likely you have to write your RSS updates by hand. Not the literal XML but you will have to keep a changelog, because the cool stuff is outside the blog section. See also: https://journal.miso.town/
I love Kyocera's dumb phones. The only thing I miss is having a decent camera in my pocket. Every other aspect of smartphones are a disease. I don't miss it at all.
// Fat? Just start running! Never mind that you can’t afford a gym subscription and live in a car-centric hellscape that’s not even bikeable, let alone walkable

So here's something that's true: you can only move forward from where you are and with what you have. So while it's surely easier to lose weight if you can hire a coach and a nutritionist - if you can't do those things you nevertheless have to find a way!

So if you are "poor and fat" as in this scenario, the idea that you need a gym membership and perfect running streets is a trap. You don't have those things and therefore you are going to be fat forever.

The reality is that plenty of poor people lost weight when they decided to. They found a way - whether by walking around the block or taking the bus to a highschool running track or whatever. It's not easy but it was the only way to do it.

So how to avoid this mental trap? Rather than obsessing on the fact that it's easier for someone else, obsess about the fact that someone in your situation and even worse can do it and has done it. And then start.
> as well as a late start to industrialization

This is true for the more rural southern states, northern states industrialized way earlier (which goes to prove the rest of your argument about slavery).
Ultrasonic lens cleaning: A solid-state technology you didn’t know you needed
> a "PNG four byte integer", which is limited to the range 0 to 231-1, to defend against the existence of C programmers.

Kind of an odd thing to say, considering the existence and prevalence of libpng, which is written in C, and which uses setjmp() and longjmp() as part of its API. It's difficult to think of a more ill-advised and bonkers but extremely C-centric thing to do.
an API
No. I was referring to the "standard concentration bound" in that paper, which applies when you have separate validation and test sets. I think the argument can usually be improved by applying small-variance inequalities such as Bernstein's, to excess risk-like quantities such as l(f_hat(x), y) - l(f_ref(x), y), to show that accuracy difference / relative rank enjoys better guarantees. For ImageNet we can use the 01 loss and set f_{ref} to a SoTA classifier which, while having its loss bounded away from 0, is "mostly similar" to most f_hat's, and thus leads to a small excess risk.

The CIFAR experiments I mentioned were https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.00451.pdf. It doesn't contain this argument (unfortunate wording) but appears to support it well.
But what is the cost of enlarging your 'luck surface area' as opposed to putting your energy into other things that are more likely to bear fruit
> 3) The feeling. The glass surface make it feel like you're sliding your fingers on butter.

That's something you can get with aftermarket parts for a thinkpad as well. Personally, I installed a glass touchpad in my T470 and it's incredible.
It is not “mostly just [them]”. Many, many people - most people, maybe - would rather the world not smell like weed.
Saqqara Bird
What's more PNG is flexible enough that Macromedia Fireworks used it as native file format for its documents (like more reasonable psd equivalent).
For an app that cost in the tens of millions to produce[1], and for which the company (gov-owned and operated) behind it charges implementors/users (not end-users ofc)[2] for each and every single successful DigID authentication event €0.13, DigID authorization event €0.88, and even for every digital message delivered into your "berichtenbox" €0.32, it could.. no rather it should indeed provide a much better experience than what we have now.

1: https://www.rijksfinancien.nl/memorie-van-toelichting/2019/O...

2: https://logius.nl/onze-organisatie/zakendoen-met-logius/door...
I used to write a lot of telnet/ssh games back in the day. Telnet has a bunch of command codes as part of its protocol. Each command starts with an IAC code. This code could be anywhere within the stream of bytes coming from the end-users terminal. IAC is \x01b\x0ff\x0ff. The fun part of implementing text-based network protocols is you must scan, byte for byte, until you reach a \n or whatever your line-feed is. As you are processing the stream, if you come across an escape, you must branch off into the command processing loop instead of the input processing loop. Likewise, responses to these commands can come AT ANY TIME. Mid sentence from a user? Yup. Randomly as you are sending your buffer? Probably. Full-Duplex mode with ACK? Not a guarantee.

When developing terminal services, you're standing on the shoulders of giants and must account for 30+ years of terminal hackery. The up-side is you can also use that same terminal hackery for fun things like progress bars, emoji's, colors, blinking (ux faux pas) for attention, spinners, tables, and yes - even matrix rain effect by positioning cursors and clearing partial screen coords. [1]

[1] https://github.com/gabereiser/go-rain
> On iOS applications can't prevent screenshots

Maybe not, but it’s all the same if they can make the screenshot useless. Using Netflix as an example: when you take a screenshot video controls will be visible, but the content behind them won’t be.
That is a factor too. Slavery is expensive because you have to feed the slave even when they are not working. Same problem applies to using horses, they eat even where the fields are plowed. Machines sitting idle do not cost additional capital (other than taxes) - of course machine sitting idle don't make their payments, but you can arrange those terms with the bank.

Before the cotton gin, wool was more popular because it was less labor. (I'm not sure how silk and flax fit in, but all have their own labor intensive parts pre mechanization). By making cotton cheaper, the labor needed to separate the seed from the cotton was much less and so it was more competitive with others despite the high labor costs elsewhere.
It sounds like you missed the main point of the author: the blog-CMSs did not just impose a certain look, they also imposed some fundamental assumptions about the content, namely that content is produced as a steady stream of distinct "posts", and that the newest posts are the most interesting and massively more visible than "old" ones.

And that is a very different kind of content than webpages that are not inherently ranked in importance and discoverable through a TOC, where updates don't necessarily add new pages but often also extend or modify older ones.

Blogs are not the web. That you could even think of making that statement is the most resounding confirmation that the author is right.
What's the purpose of the code you're entering from the app? Isn't that a bit superfluous/couldn't the app open a communications channel with the server via the QR code you scan and provide that itself?
But why wouldn't disenchantment towards the rat race lead us more towards a "I'm just not going to play the game and enjoy myself doing art or whatever" rather than a "maybe the current conflicts will explode spectacularly and destroy the status quo" mindset?

As mentioned, this seems to be more prevalent in people who are, objectively, well-off in the financial department, so it's not like they "hate" the system per se and could afford degrees of financial independence that many others will never be allowed to.
Holder of Dutch passport here. I created a DigiD account from France, using a French phone number.

You plan a video conf using their web app, connect at the right time, and show your passport when asked.

As an aside, I login without using their app, as my Android phone does not support Google Play.

Don't know what happens if you don't have a dutch passport though. I guess they are under no obligation to render services to people that are neither citizen nor national.

A bit like when I got married and the French state wanted proof that I wasn't already married before, during the period I had lived in the UK. The UK services wouldn't give me the time of day, since I was neither British nor living there. I ended up getting an official looking note from the Dutch embassy to the UK, stating that "to the best of their knowledge I wasn't married" =)
You can't understand the rapid development of western Europe without examining how it's colonialism simultaneously enriched europe and sparked conflicts that are still raging.

Who would you suggest modern developing nations colonize?
For some people -- some people will die if peanut dust gets in their mouth. We decided to use warnings and labels for this small subgroup.
This seems naive and inviting exactly the kind of bias we need to avoid. For example, you say “democratic” which means different things to different groups of people.

Transparency and trustability are precisely the tools that once installed can allow the public to peer into the workings of an AI system, it's models and training data. To achieve that, we need the cooperation of a wide variety of specialists in domains like ethics, computer science, law etc. Also, the right choices must be made while creating that AI system (e.g. in regard to data collection, diversity of the sample data etc).
Walter Scheidel argues Roman Collapse started the IR. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172187/es...
This looks really impressive! Thank you!
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eBay Created a Language Model with Three Billion Item Titles
Just curious, since it's been a dream of mine to have public services powered by open software: How often do bugs in the services get reported either, with direct references to the underlying software (function names, line numbers, etc.), or as changesets/PRs with proposal fixes?

Especially for simpler things like style/accessibility issues, I could see this being somewhat common honestly.
Do you remember what the model was?
Sure, basic writing is probably still important, but more nuanced things, for instance, do students really now need to learn the form of an argumentative essay? That is/was a good skill to have. But now or in the future one could say i want an argument essay for why we should build this feature. i'd just get ChatGPT to do it.
Because customers want electricity 24 hours/day, 7 days/week and 52 weeks/year. Conversely renewables are intermittent. So the basic solutions are to massively overbuild renewables, to massively increase the capacity of the electric grid--so you can move huge amounts of electricity all around the country, have massive amounts of very expensive electricity storage and/or to have a massive fossil fuel backup system.
So here's the question - right idea, wrong time? Or is the idea flawed in some way?
That was my opinion for a while as well. It depends on your audience but about 50% of hits to my site come from one mobile device or another and in the end I felt I had to put the effort in to support them.
I also agree. The whole reason a got an X1 Carbon was that I figured Lenovo couldn't screw up the trackpoint or keyboard too much. I was wrong. The trackpoint frequently meanders off on its merry way and the keyboard is unimpressive and now has some keys which don't work. Even though the screen and sound are a big step up, I'm back on the X220.

Naturally, like every device nowadays, they've traded thickness for function so it is also impressively thin. If I enjoyed using the keyboard, I would also be pleased with the battery life.
Ridesharing - arguably it's Google Maps who're ignoring it.
Invalidation more or less doesn't work. Mandatory OCSP stapling could change that, maybe, but it also means your clients need to have much tighter time synchronization[1], and your servers need to be able to make the OCSP requests, and the OCSP servers need to have relatively high availability. An extended DDoS against an OSCP server in a mandatory stapling environment would effectively invalidate large numbers of certificates and be a real big mess.

[1] and no localtime bugs; I've worked with platforms that don't accept certificates where NotBefore interpreted in local time hasn't been reached. Which means you've got to let your certificates sit for hours before using them if you have customers in Hawaii or other pacific islands on this side of the date line.

At least certificate errors are big and in your face, unlike bgp and sometimes dns.
I recently bought a car second hand, and for this flow logging in with ID verificiaton was mandatory.
a few years ago there were talks about having cameras shut down when they detect watermarked content to close the analog hole. Luckily it didn't go anywhere, but start hoarding cameras!
Tesla’s tech stack is a testimony to the need for Open Source
Oh wow thx for the pointer, I overlooked those. For business I would need a more generic oauth- or saml-based one to work with our Keycloak, but for quick private/hobby sharing the password one looks perfect.
I have experience working in the company of friends and partners. How you did it is probably a mystery. Most likely, I think it is an exception to the rule rather than the rule.

It's hard to work in practice, and it's even harder to work with friends because there is always a backdrop.
No need to go this deep, even. Knowing about expected value and applying it irl will get you decently far.
To tie into the original post, we joke that our retirement plan is a good backpack for the post-apocalypse wasteland (you get to choose your flavor between war, climate, or many others) trekking, so I like your scenario better.
UK Sub Stole a Top Secret Soviet Sonar Device
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Down?
The website [1] says that "ChatGPT is at capacity right now". Do you see the same message or is it only me?

[1] https://chat.openai.com/
while (hasData) {
switch (code) {
case INSTR1 -> …,
case INSTR2 -> …
…
}
}
Someone, some day, will write an elegy of how TikTok broke social networks.
People in general treat the slaves near them well, and slaves far away bad. Having a slave as a household servant was most expensive because you treated them well, while you demanded many more hours of work from the slaves working outside who you didn't see as much. And if you can remove the slave to a distance mine - work them to death (that is dead, not the figure of speech), which was more efficient use of money.
Stupid idea: What if one could charge the particles of air with a charge and then charged parts of the planed depending on the wished for airflow.

So air is negative, surface beneath the wing negative charge, surface above the wing positive charge, etc.