skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoy this author’s voice. I also found it amusing to reflect that in an article arguing mathematics is about giving different names to the same thing, the author goes on to explain set theory to me by, essentially, calling it bag theory and giving it the same definition as set theory except all the words in the definition have also been renamed. And it works!
What about programming a dance?

https://youtu.be/2z9XTeeA43o
All captchas are soon going to be difficult to solve for humans and easy to solve for bots. Many already are. They also have terrible accessibility.
Which Countries Pollute the Most Ocean Plastic Waste?
Chomsky has already addressed Norvig's objections before he even made them as anyone how has actually listened to what Chomsky has said would know.

> Norvig's reply: He agrees, but engineering success often facilitates scientific success.

There has been virtually no progress in understanding of the human language faculty from probabilistic models or LLMs.

> Norvig's reply: Science is both description and explanation; you can't have one without the other; in the history of science, the laborious accumulation of data is the usual mode of operation.

Probabilistic models don't describe anything in a way that leads to understanding (as the fact that no progress in understanding has been made shows).

> people actually generate and understand language in some rich statistical sense (maybe with statistical models several layers deep, like the modern AI models of speech recognition).

They do not; there are studies which Chomsky cites involving trying to learning "impossible" non-structural languages that give strong evidence that this is not the case.

> Norvig's reply: Certain advances in statistical learning methods provide reason to believe that such learning methods will be able to do the job.

It has nothing to do with the human language faculty.

> My conclusion is that 100% of these articles and awards are more about "accurately modeling the world" than they are about "providing insight," although they all have some theoretical insight component as well.

If you have a black box machine and you write a paper that says the black box reproduces some natural phenomenon with a billion of its knobs to turned to these specific settings you have wasted everyone's time.

> Norvig illustrates that rules about language do not always capture the right phenomena. (i before e)

The fundamental character of human language has nothing to do with spelling.

> [Norvig]: so any valid criticism of probabilistic models would have to be because they are too expressive, not because they are not expressive enough.

Yes Chomsky has explicitly said this. Any model that accepts virtually everything is a bad model.

I don't have time to go through the rest.
This was a strange comment to come across after reading 20 comments seriously engaging with the essay.
Yes, and it is sad to see people thinking that something as universal as dancing (that literally exist in every culture in some form) is "not for them".

It sadly implies that this person went through bullying and rejection.
Obama and Eich are both people, but the president of the USA and the CTO of Mozilla are completely different roles. It "doesn't make any sense" because the comparison is invalid.
Yeah thats why i'm asking, i also added everything but /etc is not as static as someone would think.

For certbot i would recommend to just install it with pip and throw snap out of the window.
https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip
It is a bootloader bundled with the ARM64 firmware. That means you don't need to add the firmware to each OS that you might want to use so it is easier to switch between them.
I don't believe DRM fingerprinting is used in the wild. Firefox shows when DRM is being used (like Netflix) and I've never seen it used outside that.
sadly it has nowhere near the same quality though. I am considering between the two and so far ChatGPT is winning still. Its nowhere perfect, but a very good boilerplate.
The Glass Half Full of Layoffs
This is exactly what I mean. What other activities to people start claiming "you are being anti social" because you don't participate? Why do people treat dance as if it's a sacred act that everyone must participate in?

Respect people's choices. Let people be adults who have the right to choose.
This would have false positives for some accessibility software, I believe
Good luck with you idealism, given that over 95% of 'society' does not care either for themselves or others, let alone the weak.
Queues can be full most of the time without the system being in a precarious state. Take for example an extremely spiky pattern of processing: once a day, a big batch of jobs is delivered. You know ahead of time how many items there are and have a pretty good handle on how long it takes to process one item. The items should be processed before the next batch arrives. You can then tune your system to empty the queue just before the next batch arrives. The queue is non-empty the majority of time, yet the system is perfectly stable.

Now, that is an extreme example, but similar behavior exists. It’s fine to have queues partially filled most of the time, as long as your average rate of processing exceeds the rate of incoming items by some margin.
How does this work? Wouldn't a lot of real user-agents not have this capability and therefore not be able to be fingerprinted and banned in this way?
This is what everyone says about their scam token.
I don't remember that episode but is a no brainer to understand that mixing fantasy with reality has the ambiguity of being really nice or smoothing the path to catastrophe.
I believe they further adapted the prompts to be even more concise and that in turn means worse code.

I have gotten better results by telling it to not be concise and therefore more detailed.

What i also have noticed though is that by now i "expect" more from it than it actually can handle too
Also shutting out a lot of older and weird devices (internet fridges, dumb smart tvs, and more, many Linux and bsd users) who can’t play DRM.

Some sites won’t care, but for some this will be too high a price for avoiding headless bots.
“Game” is not pejorative in this context.
Not a browser but Arkenfox[1] hardens standard firefox. But it's not for everyone and using something this specific can be a problem in itself.

[1]: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
Your comment clearly shows your bias. Amateur orchestras are a mess just like amateur sports teams. Nobody has a common vision and each is mostly left to their own devices.

Now switch to professional ensembles and professional sports teams and the level of coordination and complicity is exactly the same.
This one https://www.netflix.com/title/80038162 ?
headless browsers or are faster than the normal browsers (no GUI) so your tests run faster
> "Looking at the available offerings [...]"

The slight problem with the deservedly often-recommended RP4 is that for most people it's so hard to come by it effectively doesn't exist.
Made me think of this
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
Before big tech came in, San Francisco was the mecca for the disillusioned, adventure-seekers, protestors, hippies, artists, writers, and many more groups of people who wouldn't be able to afford SF at today's prices.

I suspect they'd be doing just fine if not for the tech boom.
Pretty much all of the small boxes just use the iGPU.
Educate yourself before writing such selfish nonsense.

https://www.sense.org.uk/about-us/statistics/deafblindness-s...
One would think, but most advances are also followed by increase business activity to use that new productivity. There have been huge advances in technology, yet we need more technology workers than ever before.
You made 3 points:

First one:

> There's a lot of misinformation about BMI[...]It's actually quite accurate for men though.

I replied with a detailed study from 2004 on how, no, it’ not quite accurate, even for men. (I didn’t push on it, but how garbage is a population wide indicator that would be accurate mostly for men?)

Second one:

> RFM as a new index that does a better job correlating to DXA measurements for all populations

> Someone else mentioned waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR) as a better marker for metabolic health, and I tend to agree that it's superior to BMI

Both are indexes based on external size measurements, from a body of subjects that has 70+% european american, 70% of the total with a BMI bellow 30. From CDC’s numbers, 40+% of the US population is above 30 of BMI (https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html) so the conclusions we can draw from these results are pretty limited (the lack of diversity in the panel is further mentioned as a limitation)

WHtR is a different philosophy altogether and is used as a trigger value and not an indicator.

> If you get an annual checkup, you should get everything you need to calculate your metabolic syndrome markers, which is an excellent way to assess metabolic health

In an annual checkup I’m not sure how relevant metabolic assessment is. My point was indicators are useful to decide on further and potentially more costly/invasive analyses. If you’re already getting a full checkup with blood analysis, echo scans and all, a metabolic score won’t be the primary trigger for more action.

> BIA

I’m not saying it should be used in lieu of more accurate scans, but I see them as more reliable than RFM for instance. Variability throughout the day and weakness to water levels will also affect the other external measurement methods.

> Most people who argue the most against BMI or whatever as a marker already know that they're not as healthy as they should be

BMI reliance has real world impacts. Every year people will be sent to extra checkups, health programs etc. because of the BMI cutouts. It’s not some cute number people ignore or not, time and money and potentially extra things like company programs and insurance premiums will be affected depending on the bucket you fall in.
Yea, the stumble is usually at the step of gaining control of the whole board or keeping money in the chunk of the board you control.
> The thing with hogwarts legacy is that the minorities who are affected are like 1% of the population.

There is not a single person anywhere in the world who is negatively affected by Hogwarts Legacy.
My comfort is a measure of business aversion to risk. It depends on the business of our respective industries.

Either way you have admitted that you tuned the system to operate with an acceptance of risk. Likely for cost reasons. This is fine, if you deliberately chose to do this.
If you go to an event in which most people do X and you refuse to do X then you're marking yourself as an outsider, unsurprisingly people find this suspicious/odd.

You could apply it to anything. If I went along to a LAN party or an arcade and then said "I don't play video games" people would think I had a stick up my arse and they'd be right.

If you really don't enjoy it then it's normal to not go along to those sort of events, there's nothing weird about that.
This is a terrible notion.

> Accessibility is for everyone, including you, if you live long enough and the alternative is worse. So your choice is death or you are going to use accessibility features.

– John Siracusa

Also, making services accessible is not only the obviously right thing to do, but also the law here in EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Accessibility_Act
I think the worst part about it is the same insecurity that causes someone to always say no to dancing also makes it difficult to say it with tact.

I've been there. It's even worse when you get the fake sympathy after you had to get fake mad at their insistence.
I understand that part. What I'm talking about specifically is part of a bootloader, see for example this page in the documentation of SWUpdate: https://sbabic.github.io/swupdate/bootloader_interface.html

By adding communication between the OS and the bootloader it's possible to implement redundant updates for whole partitions (specifically A/B-updates with a boot counter). U-Boot supports this (depending on the state of the vendor-provided fork better or worse), and Tow-Boot seems to be based on U-Boot.
Django is nice, and python's type hints can be nice. Why not have a nice django?

>I really just want to write business logic, wire that up to endpoints in a nice DSL, and move on.

Not really sure what you mean, but django ninja? https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/

Just write a function, use type hints to say what arguments it takes, and throw a decorator onto it. Very similar to fastApi but with the django framework behind it.
Well an entrepreneur would see this as a business opportunity to hire people who are drummed out of japanese firms because they can't kiss ass, and provide a credible alternative to japanese firms.
saw your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34164748 and now I'm curious which manufacturer it is? is it a manufacturer of expensive german cars?
Ask HN: Are you preparing for WW3? If so, how? If not, why not?
Basically the title. I get the feeling from the news that the ruling class is driving us to war. What's a hacker to do?

For me, I've leaned heavily on the internet (especially youtube) as a superpower when it comes to learning all kinds of new things. I'm considering trying to archive as much as I can (even without war, I'm skeptical that the same quantity and quality of info will be freely available forever).

Other than that, I don't know. What would folks who had to go through WW2 have told themselves if they could have sent a message back in time?
I believe the general consensus is that the double dot notation might not have been the best idea.

FWIW it's mostly used for inequalities like `(a . <= . b)`
which some people find easier to read than `(<= a b)`.

But `<=` allows more arguments as in `(<= a b c d)`
and here the double dot notation can't be used.
I am the PM working on Headless. Feel free to ask questions in this thread and I will try to answer them if I can.

Edit: Please also note that we have not released New Headless yet. We "merely" landed the source code.
The word "anti-social" comes embedded with a moral judgement. You can't just claim you're not making one.
I think this person went back in time a couple of years and stole the thoughts out of my head for this post.
In a First, a Woman Issues a Thunderstorm Watch, Officials Say
Does anyone know if this release includes universal link support?

The flexibility of multiple instances separated by manifest ID is great! But it makes universal links challenging. Would need to include the ID in the URL path?
As the other commenters said, my Moto G Power has one, and you use the earbud cord as the antenna. It's super useful when storms knock out communication towers in our area because I can still get the local weather and news over FM.
You can do many other social things at a gathering. Dancing is just one of them.
Ask HN: Good guide to turn an existing Xcode project into a template?
I recently got into MacOS development and totally love it. My hard won new code / understanding of Objective-C I realized could be reused for many of my other projects that I would like to realize as MacOS apps. But unfortunately I don't think it's as simple as just "forking the repo" and starting over. I've searched online a lot, but all the guides are like "1. Open Xcode; 2. Construct this Rube Goldberg machine in 10,000 easy manual steps; 3. Profit" and I really don't wanna/sure there must be an easier way. No takers?
Neither, but every one of those impacted all of us.
Even with connections to localhost? Should a computer no longer trust itself?
Tesla driver killed after plowing into firetruck on freeway
As a connoisseur of the Chomsky-Foucault debate summarized as one intellectual giant completely missing the other's point, it's quite funny to see Chomsky in the opposite role here. The more operationalist you are, the more depressingly wrong you get - but also it seems the more likely you are to win debate club antics.
I browse with DRM disabled. Every time it gives me a notification about it, I view it as a "hah, fingerprinting avoided!" signal.

Sites that use it get my anti-traffic. I don't buy, support, or condone DRM'd media and I actively disable EME on every browser I come across...
This comparison doesn't make sense. Dancing is present at many events that you would have legitimate reasons to want to attend for reasons other than dance. That's not really the case for a LAN party or an arcade.

> If you really don't enjoy it then it's normal to not go along to those sort of events

I guess I'll just never go to a wedding again, or a live music event, or a house party, or any of the other random events where dancing happens but isn't necessarily the focus.
Why does Apple buy to kill service like Primephonic?
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-classical-music-streaming-service-primephonic/
https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/28/primephonic-x-apple-music-where-are-they-now-and-where-is-apple-classical/

This was a great app but only bought to be entirely killed. There is no news about it or anything anymore. How does this decision make sense? I don't it take years to already built app to integrate.
> They optimize for the wrong thing; making code easier to write but harder to read and edit.

No, they optimise for making code easier to test.
Companies are already used to hiring frontend and backend separately, it is much easier to find an expert in either than an expert in both. It is also one of the few opportunities where you can meaningfully split up work. How much of an upside that really brings, is secondary. It already happened.

I do not buy into the YAGNI or in-most-cases arguments. Most cases are interactive applications, not the overengineered listicle websites that would be crap, even if they were not SPAs. If you write an interactive application, SSR will soon make your life miserable. The scrolling document approach to application UI sucks, especially on mobile.
KeeWeb keepass compatible password manager is looking for a maintainer
China took Tibet which has no significance whatsoever. They are feuding with India about borders. They are trying to undo the meme of the great embarrassment that they have endured under the yoke of western dominance and are taking what they perceive as theirs with much gusto.

Rationally, China needs to focus on China. They have an economy propped up with a phantom real estate market, a population that is rapidly aging out and a whole fuckton of poorly made infrastructure that will need increasing amounts of maintenance and repair as time goes by, a lot of which is not justified by the traffic it supports.
Another Opinion: 5G Fails to Deliver on Promises and Potential
Doesnt HN disallow bits of any kind?
> If one graphics card or TPM serial number starts acting bot-like, you can ban just that one.

I don't think you can get the serial number, though?

(And if there was an API for this it wouldn't be a passive one, which makes it inapplicable for fingerprinting)
Take the aftermath of the recent Kahramanmaras earthquake, the status quo should be improved even for well established engineering fields, and more so for the software industry.
What does the diversity of the groups have to do with anything? Trans people are (in general) oppressed in today's society, and the be perpetrators of that oppression are (in general) cis people. It should follow that trans folk finding a community of their own is admirable, but a community of cis-only folk should have to justify they're existence as something other than a tool to maintain oppression.
When someone is fat, they should feel some level of shame.
> But in practise nobody uses 100 character long strings.

Multiple websites I use daily have that length of password or longer.
The number of stars a project has is meaningless to whether if the company would decide to sell themselves out or not.
When javascript started being able to change HTML significantly the result was literally named "Dynamic HTML". So it is clear this is not a static HTML page. The only thing left to argue is weather it is a static web site. People who got into web dev after 2010 will say yes, people who watched HTML/JS evolve over it's lifetime will say no.
The weirdest thing to me is that a person with a high personal, financial involvement in the subject went and took that quote from an old man (which to your and my understanding only states that these things are not linguistic "science", but they solve problems alright), then created a strawman from thin air (points A-E) to then say "oh, all my arguments are void, statistical models are great, don't you dare criticizing me, you old fool".

And then he went and took "Science", aka the epitome of publish or perish academia and tried to argue that all this looks the same as the thing he does. Oh well, who would have guessed...

The looks on this are weird, even more so as GPT nowadays works wonders, but still doesn't help explaining why and how language evolved (which seems to be the idea of linguistics, no?).
I don't look down on dancing, but like with everything really people are just different, there's no Tabula Rasa. No amount of trying will make me enjoy dance (believe me I've tried), just as my wife who is a dancer will never consider an afternoon spent reading a sci-fi novel to be the epitome of happiness. Unfortunately dance is something that pops up at parties and other occasions, and it's implied that you're weird if you don't participate.
Well this is Orwellian. Good job "liberals".
What are bots used for? I can think of a few reasons, wrote a scraper/submitter myself in the 90's for a cooperative of subcontractors that was being forced to use an extremely sluggish web app by the big company that provided their gigs.

But I guess there are all kind of purposes, some benign some nefarious, and that they somehow influence the bot operation and detection.
I'm not one for clubs either, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as some inferior, primitive pursuit or imply that it's indicative of some mental deficiency. Clubs are not for us, that's ok we have other things that we like. Let people enjoy things :)
You could say the same about religion and a lot of other things. Still, no, thank you.
Reminds me of USSR's "экраноплан" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle). Wonder if it will be able overcome the challenges inherent to the setup.
So similar use cases as MSSQL in-memory tables?
Dancing isn't a focus for a live music event, a house party, a wedding?

I mean, yeah, you come off as a bit weird. Sorry. It's fairly integral to all three. Maybe not the wedding depending on the couple.
Yeah, going to a club and not wanting to dance is weird, but I'm not skipping weddings or various parties because I don't like to dance.
The commenter stated:

but not the anime type that the Techcrunch article seems to have as pixelated examples
I use two companies: name.com and one local provider, mostly because the local provider has an offer and when you move a domain to them the renewal costs USD2.
I get it. I understand your meaning.
268 lines.
> I find that just concentrating on one thing at a time really helps

Yes, I do this as well, using a multi-pass approach. E.g. quickly flicking through checking that all the bullet points have consistent indentation and terminal punctuation, then checking headings for consistent capitalisation, checking that all acronyms are expanded on first use, etc. Actually reading the words is usually the last thing.
Yes but we can at least write something from a genuine place of empathy. You can't realistically say anything to help a grieving person feel better, but there are many ways to say something that makes them feel worse.
For people who don't enjoy dancing. Try playing Beat Saber in VR. I think it's closest thing to dancing I am actually enjoying.
Prayer is a worthless activity that deliberately offloads any and all action to a faceless other.

Its hope that someone else will do a thing for you.