skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had similar complaints about the UX for the built-in containers extension, so as a labor of love, I wrote a helper extension to make containers a little more intuitive:

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/containers-helper

The simplest improvement is that you can use e.g. Alt+Shift+D to open a little popup and start typing to find your container(s).

You can also use the extension to import and export containers, as well as some other features.

The extension respects your privacy completely and is not programmed to make any outbound network requests.
Banning or regulating AI wouldn’t impact scammers at all.
Influencer is a category of people that ad agencies are interested in. It's anyone with a large enough audience and influence over it. They are of interest to ad agencies because an endorsement will turn into more buyers.

Anything other than that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if the influencer is a YouTuber who does their original research and tech breakdowns to give an informed opinion of a product, or if it's an Instagram model that is willing to hold a purse for a photo. Both, when paid to endorse a product, will influence people into buying that product. LTT's sponsor breaks in the middle of videos (that usually have nothing to do with the subject matter of the video itself) influence people into buying those products. So, LTT is an influencer.
I guess it depend on what you mean. Will it kill all people in NA? No. Will it severely and catastrophically affect the US and Canada? Yes. But the people who remain should be able to recover if we have enough food to take us though some years of lost crops and bad crops. Would adversaries take advantage? Most likely but we do have allies and most adversaries would also be affected by the following mini ice-age conditions if ash remains airborne for years.
When you switch out one for the other people die. 300 children, to be precise.
1) You can have several independent projects in a monorepo

2) Private/public/internal modifiers

3) Independent builds/project in a monorepo
Direct link is

https://annekadet.substack.com/p/nocell#%C2%A7the-last-man-w...

and, FWiW, I'm also a person without a cell phone; I have a server rack, desktop working area, a few million SLOC of historic code I maintain, live in a remote area, and don't bother with cell phones or GPS, etc.
This feels like a major step forward, not for the software itself (although it probably is) but for the release schedule. KiCad 5 came out in 2018. KiCad 6 was long delayed and waterfalled and did not come out until late 2021/early 2022. And now only a year later we see KiCad 7. Seems like release engineering is coming more on lockdown which is super great news!
the US shooting down unidentified aircraft over the continental US is unusual for any period of time in the nation's history. the US is at least an ocean's worth away from most other countries so having foreign interference is a big deal
Of course.

It's all to appease the major powers to not use their nukes.

To a degree, it also gives the lesser players a voice to feel heard so that they continue to participate in the economic system that benefits the big players. Again, this keeps the big players from acting unilaterally, imperialistically, etc. in a way that threatens the use of nukes.

A side benefit is that this lets the bigger players test their geopolitical strategies without dangerous surprises. If tensions can be expressed and gently eased into a final state, that prevents a flash bang.

It's kept us from having another world war. Or nuclear exchange. Here's hoping we keep it up.
I like how not paying actors is listed as an upside.
Ask HN: If you were assigned as an instructor to teach programming
.. to a freshman class of say 50 students, none of whom has programmed before, how will you design the curriculum. What will you teach and what will you leave out for later courses.

P.S: It is not an enforced class, all take it on their own will, because they want to learn it.
Deepfake technology has been in a good enough state for years that a bad actor could do just that. There are many reasons they haven't. (How would you distribute a deepfake of Pichai such that the markets would take it seriously?)

Even during the crypto boom there were deepfakes to manipulate the market, which didn't even work.
Can definitely feel this pain personally. Need to upgrade tooling across some dozen or so services and we're investigating how to migrate with potentially incompatible upgrades. So just suffer outage while we merge PRs across some 20 repos? The atomic changes of a monorepo are very beneficial in these cases, removing the manual orchestration of GitOps practices segmented across individual services..
The US bombs the air defense, then it bombs whatever else.
Tab groups sounds great but the permissions required for the addon are too invasive to grant to a third party.

For this reason alone, tab groups should be baked in imo
As I always say, you either have warfighters or peacekeepers, not both.

I used to be in the 82nd Airborne and the inevitable problems when they got sent on peacekeeping missions in the 90s was no big surprise at all.
I have not, but others have detailed examples where it produces rubbish. Certainly not the kind of risk to take with safety critical systems like what an astronaut may rely on.
Playing a Game on a MC14500 1-Bit Single Board Computer
You can't have that; it's not something people actually want. It's part of an envisioned future that is not our future.

Star Trek was a good look at the future of humanity, but not our future. This was revealed by the various episodes set in the "mirror universe". The thing that people don't understand is that Star Trek (most of it) is set in the "prime universe", which to us is a different universe. It's a universe where humans are benevolent explorers, and where people are generally competent. That's not the universe we live in.

The "mirror universe" shows us a different universe, where humans are evil conquerors of the galaxy. This might be our future, but I'm not so sure. The humans in the mirror universe episodes seemed to be far too competent to be us. Setting up an empire spanning a large chunk of the alpha quadrant isn't easy.

We're probably in some other alternate universe that was never shown, because in that universe, we're both evil and incompetent, and end up either destroying ourselves entirely, or being conquered and enslaved by the Pacled.
Interesting. The dataset it trained on was rather messy. Creating a curated dataset with better source content to train a more polite model on will be expensive, but it's a matter of time. It's fun to see the issues that prop up as this tech is deployed en masse though. I won't lie though, this gives me visions of my toaster berating a geriatric me in the year 2063 for setting the temp too high.
Yeah but the difference is a headline is written by a human who will make human mistakes.

These AIs make weird mistakes that humans are not well equipped to detect.

No human would write an article claiming the JWST was the first to detect an exoplanet, but Bard did, and your average user won't even know to question the answer because it's written with authority.

Whatever, I guess we'll see what happens. These companies are rolling out this technology regardless of concerns about safety or ethics so now we all get to live the experiment.

I genuinely hope you're right and I'm wrong.
Or hostile nation-states, for that matter.
A lot of people (including me in the past) have used the term intermittent fasting to describe this, but it's not a good label for this. Intermittent fasting should describe protocols where one fasts for at least a full day. If one is eating daily but only during certain hours, it's better described as time-resricted eating. It's also possible to do both time-restricted eating and intermittent fasting.
Yeah I used a 2012 MacBook Pro 15" Retina until 2017 when the overheating and throttling of it in summer became just unbearable, upgraded again in quick succession due to the crappy keyboard, thermals and battery of the successors, and then finally settled on the 16" M1 Pro.

If the 2012 lasted me 5 years back then, this M1 Pro should last at least as long since the things that drove me to upgrade from the 2012 (mainly thermals) are not a problem with this machine.
Doesnt that just mean you need to validate the source of the video? If LTT says to stay way from a product on the LTT main youtube channel - that would seem valid?

If the video was a re-post or hosted elsewhere - then you would start to reconsider it?
“ That doesn't even make sense. Why would having simple gravity manipulation stop progress on the development of other technologies, particularly weapons?”

It’s kinda like asking - why have some of the world’s brightest minds spent the past 20 years trying to get people to watch more ads? What else might they have achieved or discovered instead?
I don't know. I count the logo loading screen (i.e. Sonic the Hedgehog had an incoming "Sega!" announcer and logo, which is at least 2-3 seconds). It's much faster than the loading times of current consoles, but not 1 second.

NES might qualify, as it often "loaded" (turned on) right into the title screen.
The chemicals don't look that bad. Chlorine, iodine, potash, peroxide. I wouldn't go swimming in them but it's not like they're HF.
‘Accio Privacy’: Exploiting Steam to Keep Your “Played Time” Secret
People still listen to the real personalities via their official outlets.
Endorsements are not the problem. They are clearly promoting a product, and we all presume they've been paid to do do.

The real problem are the not-endorsements. The "our cameras caught this when he thought his mic was off". For politics especially its the unscripted moments people believe.

Equally it offers plausible deniability to anything that is captured. Just claim its a deep-fake and the vast majority of supporters will believe you,because they want to.

Phrases like "a picture never lies" or "I'll believe it when I see it" all start falling away.

In a world where people want to be right, not informed; when anger wins more elections than hope, where fear of the future overwhelms the comfort of the present, deep fakes erode one more thing you can trust.
Discriminating against things that are damaging or threatening helps over the short term. But over the long term, diversity leads to more adaptability. When things are going well, it can take a long time for a monoculture to find out that it has become vulnerable. Nature rewards adaptability... eventually.
I just finished playing half-life 2 in VR with a third party VR mod and it was amazing how well this game stood up to the test of time.

There's really a lot of value in retro and mods IMO. Sure it's not for everyone but what is?
The video signal is 4:3 aspect ratio and the blue is the area cropped out to result in the frame you’ll see on film
> One thing that's really sad to me is that older games end up being a lot more durable than newer ones

Not just games, it's really.. everything.

I predict that a 100 years from now the collectors of old things of any kind will have a lot more from prior to 2000-2020 (depending on the item) than anything newer. Whether it is computers, electronics, games, cars, doesn't matter.

All of them are becoming so dependent on third-party cloud services and phone apps that simply won't exist and will be impossible to recreate in a century. All that will survive is the older generation of products that did not depend on anything. Very sad.
A fast Windows self-contained native DLL to input the path to a jpeg file and output the jpeg with background removed, like https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg does or https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/remove-backgroun...
You have a point and I actually understand that rationale. I have no real argument against it beyond general question of whether individual loneliness should be solved with my forced presence.
If I was a developer of the game I would say “well, that was working as intended, this clearly wasn’t the game for you”.

If I was a bean counter, however, I would say to axe the demo and add some micro transactions to the game. It’s a bad idea to let people try it beforehand and make their own decision on whether the game is good or not. Clearly we haven’t traded enough goodwill of our players, excuse me, customers, in exchange for some short term profits.
If you are worried about being unjustly bullied by their lawyers I guess you can also set up a builder for images yourself- according to the docker hub page they're built from the github repo. Could be a good exercise to do anyway, to ensure you know what's in the images and to not depend on random blobs off docker hub.
I have no horse in the race as I rent in the east bay.

This just isn't going to happen. If anything, the declining commercial real estate is going to push up home values further because people want better WFH setups.
You'd expect lots of smoke on a battlefield
I feel like fake celebrity endorsements for scam products are the least of our concerns.
Her (2013) gets more real by the second.
Be very wary of trying to bootstrap your own course. It's a huge minefield and you risk not delivering what they need.

Find out a LOT more about priors: has the course existed before? Whats usable from before? Whats different now? Does anywhere nearby, including community colleges teach this niche?

I could say "teach them FP in Haskell using GHC" and do most of them and you no favours, 2-3 aside who go on to become brilliant (maybe)

I could say "teach them scheme" similarly.

I could say "teach them R or Julia or Jupyter"

It's so context specific. If you have been given blank canvas, be prepared to consider this a lead chalice, not the chance of a lifetime. Education is risky and first time programmers can be come script kiddies very quicky.

(took over somebody else's introduction to programming and computing course 40 years ago)
The article argues that nonhuman animals play. This is probably true.

The article implies that the play is "for no other purpose than fun", specifically it's not an evolutionary adaption. This is probably false.

Mainly because even in humans, play has evolutionary reasons. Children play to calibrate their motor skills. As do puppies. Humans play to attract mates.

Just because something is play, doesn't mean it's not evolutionarily adaptive. And in my book that doesn't spoil the "purity" of play.
The main competitor that came out is pico which is "not owned by Facebook" but it's effectively owned by the guys that own TikTok which is worse IMO.
Don’t know why you were downvotes.

This technique has promise.

In short, you construct a shape made of inflatable cells which, when pressurized, contort in such a way that a vacuum is formed in the space within the collection of cells.

The problem, though, is that the additional air needed to make the cells stretch away from the center (and thus make a vacuum) is greater than than the air ‘missing’ from the vacuum part.

In any case, it’s been tried before:

“Vacuum/heat formed cushion with pyramidal, inflatable cells”:

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/5596781.html
Definitely this is a weird take to me because most web developers just use a Mac and then setting up an environment is fairly easy with brew and nvm. I haven’t tried but I imagine linux is also pretty straightforward. If you’re doing web dev on Windows I think it would behoove you to use WSL rather than mess around with the weirdness around path limits and the like.

However, the security issues are valid but not necessarily an issue solved by the framework. Ultimately some kind of package manager that had a manual review step before packages could go out would be a nice step, and would work at scale as well.

Manually listing permissions for an application works for security until people get tired, or are just so used to saying yes. Its also very bold of deno to assume their sandbox is impossible to escape. It’s much more likely that no one cares to really try.
Okay, and is that bad? The entire world has systems which parasitic relationships exist that if they simply did not the entire ecosystem of live could collapse.

But here we are with 26 letters complaining on perhaps the most advanced thing humans have made because you don’t see the value of saving some money while trading.

People don’t exist to give things a way, expecting people to pay more is parasitic.
The US market opens at 6:30 AM PST. In the 30 minutes before the market open, BTC and the SPY/QQQ futures tend to be highly correlated, but let's say NQ (which is a futures contract that tracks the Nasdaq) rises .5% but BTC only rises .25%, then this would be relative weakness on the part of BTC. The trade would be to short BTC and go long QQQ in equal size.
Perhaps it was ball lightning?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
I’ve seen multiple examples of GPT being dumb like this. Not a stretch to think it’s real.
Ha! Fair on my answers not being too concrete or coherent, either. Was why that was my "stab." I don't have a firm grasp on the idea, myself. My examples were trying to build on my other post bringing in Ender's Game as a neat take. (No, I didn't link those correctly.)

I also should have pushed back to your terms. I think it is surprisingly useful to constantly ask what that sentence would mean in different situations. Such that I plan on doing just that for the next few days. Specifically, what did you mean to synthesize new ideas?

Would love to have success getting my kids to try this. I love your narrative there, as it shows how rapid the progression can go. At least, that is my current read.
For what it’s worth, Safari’s incognito mode works exactly how you described it — separate session for each incognito tab/window.
A solution might be too only allow traditional flags to be shorthand, and require the full long option for new flags.
How do you propose you provide the number of services Google has without lots of code? For context, the entirety of the Google suite is in there, and a lot more. I'm even somewhat surprised it's that little with their scale.
LLMs Are Jobu Tupaki
There are no presubmits that prevent breaking changes from "going into live". If some shared infra updates are released, the merge from live breaks for multiple individual teams rather than preventing the code from getting submitted in the first place.
Yeah, this HN headline might be based on a game of telephone from this quote (from [0]):

> "We’re calling them objects for a reason. Certainly, the event off the South Carolina coast for the Chinese spy balloon, that was clearly a balloon," he said. "These are objects. I am not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure, or it could be some type of a propulsion system. But clearly they’re able to stay aloft."

[0]: https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-heightened-alert-increasing-sc...
Lifting gasses provide two things: lift (of course), but also structural integrity: their desire to expand reinforces the structure containing them. Vacuum provides slightly more lift than helium but also provides negative structural integrity, since the atmosphere is actively trying to crush the vacuum chamber. From all accounts it would be a seriously challenging materials science endeavor to build something that could withstand containing a vacuum without adding more weight than the gain in lift, so in practice it would be very difficult to realise the 16% lift improvement.

One method is to go bigger: because of things like the square-cube law, the lift provided by a vacuum container increases faster than the demand on structural integrity, so a sufficiently large container lets you use more conventional materials. It’s been a long time since I did the math and I wasn’t very confident of my calculations even then, but I vaguely recall if you used steel you’d be looking at containers with multiple cubic kilometers of volume or something - highly impractical.

Another approach is only using vacuum in the upper atmosphere. The pressure on the vacuum container is much lower up there so you would have less of a structural integrity challenge. You don’t gain as much as you’d think from this approach, however, because the positive structural integrity provided by the expansion of lifting gasses allows for containers that expand, increasing their volume in response to lower air pressure (we call these containers “balloons”). In fact, because of this property, to a first approximation altitude has NO effect on the lift provided by a set amount of lifting gas (counter-intuitive, I know), and getting a helium balloon to STOP rising is a real challenge. Getting the vacuum chamber up high enough to make it safe to pull a vacuum is obviously a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem too, not to mention you’d have to bring the extra weight of a vacuum pump with you. Where this idea might work is if you’re coming in from space in the first place. Assembling the container in space means you don’t need a vacuum pump, and since you’re descending from above you don’t need a container strong enough to withstand containing a vacuum at sea level pressure. So this might have some use for putting floating structures into Venus’s upper atmosphere.
That would make it not really what distill was about. Concretely, the article my students wrote wouldn’t have been possible - it was literally proposing a new visualization method and showing a real implementation on the web.
Gaslighting-As-A-Service
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It confused me as well.

This post is mistitled. The original Tweet is:

A 1-meter meteoroid (small #asteroid) has been detected and is expected to safely strike Earth's atmosphere over northern France between 3:50-4:03 CET.
In the case of the original submission, I suspect Joe Rogan's lawyers can sue the energy company explicitly named, and subpoena TikTok for more detailed business identification and ad engagement for quantifying damages.
Show HN: Garden grows and cultivates collections of Git trees
Garden is a unique tool that I've been tinkering on for a bit and figured it was worth sharing.

Garden is a unix-y powertool that mashes together shell scripting, a flexible and simple variable expression mini-language and multi-repo environment variable management into a simple command-line tool.

Garden is an improvement over a big pile o' repos and personal shell scripts. If you find yourself tinkering with random repos and writing one-off while scripts for building random projects then you just might find garden useful as a way to automate, record and share your workflows.

Have fun!
The joke (at Sun) back in the day was that a Vax MIP was constant, like an electron volt.
> Not sure if you're being serious or if this is one of those silly, "why not Rust" responses that are becoming a trope...

I am being serious, and no I never used Rust in my life, but I do know many OSes trust it and are gradually adopting it

> Read the article, and you'll see the most glaring reason: Rust doesn't have an interpreter.

Are you sure we are pointing to the same article? Where does it say anything about that at all?

for the entire small article, the author just plays around with a kernel module that implements lua interpreter somehow with no context presented at all by the author of why there is a kernel module for lua in the netbsd, and that is my doubt.

why is it there rather than being used normally on user-space? what is netbsd goal with integrating lua on the kernel?
And so far nobody has answered me properly.

> Also, Lua is much, much more relevant for uses like this, and suggesting that Rust is more mature is just... well, wrong. Lua has been around for ages and has matured quite well.

Mention me a _serious_ operating system using lua on their kernel side and I'll acknowledge that last sentence.

Be sure we are talking on the same page, we are talking on the context of being used for programming operating systems, is lua mature for that domain?