skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be as much as 25,000 volts, which could punch right through many rubber gloves.

You need to discharge the CRT. It's easy and fun!

https://www.wikihow.com/Discharge-a-CRT-Monitor

(The photo for step 9 is a bit confusing, as it doesn't show the alligator clip attached to the screwdriver shaft.)

I grew up in the era of tube TVs (not just the CRT, the entire circuit was tubes). One of my earliest memories was being the family TV repairman, which meant pulling out all the tubes, going to the corner grocery with my dad to test them, bringing home the replacement for the bad tube, plugging them back in and the TV worked!

Dad showed me how to discharge the CRT, and we used the same tools and technique described in the WikiHow article. The loud "pop" it makes is really cool.
Google did it to Docs also, with the same effect. They had even received letters from the Disability Services Offices at leading/large universities, including Stanford, asking them not to.

Ironically, my plugin still works on Docs...but only on comments. The body text is untouchable.
If I recall, Golang was made to make fresh college graduates more productive. I don't know if large C++ code bases are a good place to get junior devs started, there's quite a risk that they'll introduce subtle bugs because of C++'s... C++-ness if you don't give them an in-depth course before putting them to serious work. C++ and Go are languages with different stengths, purposes, and use cases.

Golang only accepts one way of doing things and it looks like Python. It makes assumptions to replace complexity so you don't need to think too deeply in many cases. I would never pick it for any serious project, but as a quick one-off tool, especially if you're planning on networking it, Go can get the job done easily and painlessly enough.

Now, Dart, on the other hand, that's a language that doesn't need to exist in my opinion. It's ES5/ES6 with some tweaks but IMO TypeScript has since easily surpassed it at a language level. I don't know why Dart still exists, but we're stuck with it now that Flutter uses it.
As the website author, you can see which extensions the client browser is running, no? Wouldn't that make it your responsibility to detect then disable your custom keybindings rather than the users's?
Check out the people I'm following, most of them are excellent AI follows https://twitter.com/generatedclay/following
One software company I worked had a benefit that, in your sixth year, you could take a paid sabbatical. IIRC, it was a month, which was still a nice break, but you probably aren't going to have time to write a novel.

I heard of people using that sabbatical to pick up consulting work. (This was before FAANG salaries, so even top engineers and managers might need the extra money, such as for kids' college, more than they need to travel or take up watercolor painting.)

Professor friends who've done sabbatical, it's much longer than a month, and seems to be a change of working scene. There's no teaching load from their university, but expectations that they'll be doing research/writing of some kind. They might do it while visiting a different university.

Regarding the class equity the article mentioned, a paid contiguous month off might be something a company could swing for all employees, as acknowledgement and incentive to stay 5+ years. A paid few or more months off would be a different matter to do.
Coal mine collapses in China's Inner Mongolia region
There are some great people working on accessibility at Amazon, and I'm sure this is frustrating for them. But it's not unique that the accessibility team doesn't have as much power as another team — I see this at all sorts of companies, including pretty much all FAANG.
Seems like they whipped this together using some no code tool or something just to test the idea.
...are we looking at the same image? https://cdn.w3.org/cms-uploads/Hero-illustrations/groups.svg ? I don't think that's "Corporate Memphis". A distant relative at best, but it's main similarity is being a little bit abstracted. I kind of like it, actually, as iconified people go.
Maybe the name "camera-shy" is not the best description of something that actively goes out and targets cameras specifically, floods them with signals of its own, and therefore stands out.

Camera-jamming or IR-glare or something on those lines may convey the function better without setting wrong expectations.
What a smart person was Oliver Sacks, and his writing was always thought provoking. In this piece, I believe he failed to identify the real value of cell phones to humans: validation. We far underestimate the social needs of the average person. The cell phone—and now the smartphone-is the fountain that satisfies our continuous thirst for social validation. It’s not what is being said, it is that someone else is paying attention.
I've got one of these scheduled. I'm going to quit my job in August, and focus on my own projects, as well as the mentioned rekindling connections. A mix of practical (engineering/electronics) projects, and more out-there things like computational chemistry simulations.
I created an automated code review using GPT3, what are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts on this new tool I made called Review GPT (https://github.com/vibovenkat123/review-gpt)? It is built in Go and allows for automated code reviews using GPT3. I made a Vscode extension (https://github.com/vibovenkat123/rgpt-vscode) and a Neovim extension (https://github.com/vibovenkat123/rgpt-vscode). I would love to hear your thoughts!
In case you can’t read, there’s a difference between copy catting a website and using AI generated text while referencing it.
It's on wordpress, so it's even more of a total wtf
You can play polo on it. Or if you’re not as wealthy, then croquet.
> The term "Anglish" was made up by Paul Jennings in 1966, however the desire to remove foreign influence from the English language is a tradition that goes back all the way to 1066 when the Norman invasion brought in the majority of foreign vocabulary to English.

It's worth noting that Paul Jennings is described as a "humourist."

> Paul Francis Jennings (20 June 1918 – 26 December 1989) was an English humourist and author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_(British_author)
To elaborate on what I said earlier, I should said that I *failed* in a naive attempt to fact check before being foiled by my lack of knowledge of the UK system of power.

What does it mean "to hold power"? Google didn't have any simple answers about who "held power" in which year and neither did wikipedia. How am I supposed to find these answers if I wasn't taught them in history class like you were? I'm sorry I gave up but I have limited mental energy to slack off on a forum and a ton of work to do. I visited at least 3 wikipedia articles and felt like I had no more than 25% of the information I needed to even answer this question. And so ChatGPT tempted me with a quick promise of an answer..
ChatGPT replaces humans in half of US companies that use AI bot
PS, if you're still watching this space: Clojure is an obvious one. It's called the "thread" operator and is a bit more flexible in that you can thread into the first argument (->) or the last (->>). This definitely works for Clojure and whether or not this is a good idea in other languages could be debated ad-nauseam.
This past weekend I spent most of a day playing with various simple SSGs with the target of migrating my Hugo blog to something simpler. This was after I spent a couple hours in Hugo trying to generate a page with just simple links to all the blog posts.

My favorite was Hexo: Reasonably simple, default setup looked good. I wrote a larger (but still mini) review of Hexo, gostatic, and Zola: https://linsomniac.gitlab.io/post/2023-02-26-simple_static_s...

Years ago I rewrote our entire company website, including hundreds of blog posts an articles, as well as marketing stuff, in Pelican in a day or two.

When I set up my Hugo site originally, I think I spent some time munging around and eventually got it to work, but that was years ago and everything I learned is lost. So I need something dead simple. But not, unfortunately, so minimal as gostatic.
This is my friend! So crazy to lurk HN for years and then spot someone you know on here.
Basically everything in this post is wrong, from calling hogwarts legacy “the biggest release” with respect to RT (it’s actually terrible) to pretending most gamers couldn’t tell the difference between fake and RT lighting.

You are woefully uneducated on the subject at best, and at worst you’re downplaying the importance of accurate lighting to cover for AMD’s pitiful first attempt.

I’m sure this will all go away when RDNA4 has acceptable RT performance and suddenly it’s the best thing ever.
"Rich people, you will get richer by building an AI" --AI describing its ironclad plan on coming into existence
Supreme Court to hear case that threatens consumer protection agency's existence
Open-Source Git Release Tracking with SQL
I'm not a fan of monorepos in general (though I admit tool support them better in many cases*) but making people download proprietary code makes them worse.

* Especially GitHub. Very opinionated in favor of monorepos.
The Lone Developer Problem
> Now, the debate over what to do with a stuck fish bone has gained renewed relevance inside China, where the scrapping of zero-Covid measures in December has prompted many to gather for big group feasts *for the first time in months or years*. On Jan. 22, Lunar New Year’s Day, searches and mentions involving the term “fish bone” *increased sixfold from the previous day* on the popular Chinese app WeChat.

Media is based.
Not for long, https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/new-circle/...
Metro Exodus PC enhanced edition. See digital foundry’s coverage.
I thought that was stack overflow...
I know what you’re talking about. IIRC, there’s a page in the OpenSUSE docs or in the forums covering the bad browser fonts. That’s an issue that’s specific to them. Haven’t seen it in another distro in many years.
Been using vimium for years. I have gotten so used to scrolling pages at different speed by pressing keys that whenever I am using someone else's computer I have to fight muscle memory. I also use it for clicking links through keybinds, but really the custom up/down is the main usage.

The occasional website having its own keybinds never stops being annoying, but it's easy to disable the extension per site
Given that in the UK a degree is 3 years and an MSc is typically 1 year, I would do an MSc. Delaying work by one year isn't much in the grander scheme of things. Once you've started working you'll find it hard to come back and do your MSc.

I would recommend doing it at another university though and make sure you find a program that interests you. This is so you can broaden your network and meet faculty and students at another place. I was advised to do this by one of my lecturers, I ignored the advice and stayed at the same university but in hindsight I can see I would have got a lot more out of my MSc if I had gone somewhere else.

I did an MSc (in mathematics though) and feel that it opened doors for me in my career. This may be less true for computer science though.
Is that mainly due to it being based upon a historical snapshot of English? that by definition never evolved further. If it had the same huge population of English speakers over hundreds of years (i.e was a living language) then it may also have evolved a diverse range of words without the need to absorb other languages - not that I care for it.

On a slight tangent, I've noticed when translating from English to Chinese (mandarin) many of the equivalent literal translations do not have a unique single purpose word where English does. So it can sound much like this Anglish e.g the literal translation of "thigh" is just "big leg", and this is not a one off. I have no idea why this is.
It's not an uncommon choice in modern languages. Rust & Swift both use `let` to mean an immutable binding.
> there still exists a true English core to English, the most important everyday words which no sentence or uttering could manage without.

I want to agree with this, but the handful of Anglish examples I've heard with old English equivalents seem awkward. Reducing the borrowed words really helps with comprehension though.
I don't think so. Per Lastpass's description of their architecture, their server never sees your unencrypted passwords. (Though substantial metadata, such as the website URLs, are not encrypted.)

To get unencrypted vaults, they'd need to change the client-side code. But we haven't been told that this happened.

(As a best practice, it's probably best to assume everything in LastPass vault was compromised at this point.)
> while the second fakes to be Java at the JVM bytecode level (try javap on a .class generated by kotlinc)

What's wrong with that? All of my gripes with Java, other than the way they did their generics, are at the language level. The bytecode and underlying VM are works of art. Kotlin adds reification to the JVM and adds explicit nullability annotation as a compile time error rather than a warning, which solves my worst annoyances with Java. I'd still use Kotlin if all it did was transpile itself into .java files and call the compiler for me.
This isn't the issue. The reality is that actions taken covertly in the name of national security have wide bipartisan support. The states have the ability to change the Constitution (or send Congresspeople willing to change the laws), but pretty much everyone is perfectly fine with the way it is.
Were the twenty people who voted for this able to read it in full? It cuts me off after two paragraphs and before any meat, I have been unable to find a non-paywalled source.
It is illegal for license plates in some places. But I cannot see a free country doing that for people walking or even people inside vehicals.
I wonder where the b in sein conjugation came from?

are (v.)
present plural indicative of be (q.v.), from Old English earun (Mercian), aron (Northumbrian), from Proto-Germanic *ar-, probably a variant of PIE *es- "to be" (see am). Also from Old Norse cognates.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/are
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The article strongly implies that the "some degree" group is the group that matters. But it's not. The group that matters is somewhere in between "some degree" and "fluent".

And the parent comment was not talking about fluent people when writing "can read".
Personally, I don't really care if the content I read is AI generated. I'm getting a bit bored of the Midjourney look, but I love the fantastical imagery I'm seeing otherwise.

I just don't see a problem with this. We are living in exciting times.
Show HN: An automated code review tool using GPT3
Functionality flat screens are wonderful. No scrolling through menus with buttons that get sticky when someone spills juice on it, no confusing unique UI, no physical knobs that can respond to digital controls. Im definitely happy everything is flat, it's so much more durable. But they could still do more with case design.

I wonder why physical controls never advanced to be as good and cheap as touch. I mean, they still have them on cheap low tech stuff, but it's craptastic switches that break. Hall sensors could be even cheaper and magnets don't cost much, physical UI doesn't have to have real contacts and mechanical linkages.

The nest thermostat is a good example besides still having the boring minimal aesthetic.

Part of the problem is that if someone did make something unique I'd wonder if it was novelty kickstarter trash that barely works made by people new to the industry, unless it was an established company, and the established companies don't innovate for the reasons you mention.

Scifi UIs are specifically meant for emotional impact and storytelling, and early IRL tech seemed to take more inspiration from that, so I guess that's part of it.

Also, screens have the mental association with scrolling TikTok and browsing HN, so if someone used an iPad to control a spaceship people might think "Why is she using the crap scroll machine to save the world" just like some people don't like seeing wedding photographers use a phone camera.

Even reading books on a tablet invites you to think of the other more instant gratificationful things.

In movies physical buttons, or screens with obviously unfamiliar UIs reinforce the fact that a character has a certain set of capabilities at the moment and they are doing what they can.

They're not at home with a door dash app, there's no play store, there's no time to reboot, they're trying to get the shields up with only what's available at the moment.

Real life tech is meant to be anything to anyone at any time, but only by having a huge library of predefined stuff, not by allowing on the fly creativity.

Old analog stuff was less reliable and less capable but more hackable, it makes a better story, and most people want some trace of adventure even though it seems like most of us prefer life in general to be more safe and managed.

Looking at real life from a storytelling perspective, for a user screens can be Mary Sues, and associated with places where everything is so safe there's no story to tell.

Maybe analog stuff is like dressing up for a formal event. We want to change stuff so it looks and feels different, and use different words, and stand up straight, because it seems right for something that's supposed to be different from a boring trip to McDonald's.
I've been using the "Seek" app for plan identification and I'm floored to the amount of overgrown ornamentals from Asia everywhere. It seems like landscapers love to put non-native exotic grasses, trees, and shrubs all over the place.
100%. Scrolling with arrows/mouse instead of hitting j or k just feels uncomfortable.

Maybe there's something to be learned by browser designers. It's not just the fact it's on the home row and muscle memory for Vim users. The default speed for down/up arrow scrolling and lack of smoothing is just not the same.
The carousel in general was pretty frustrating to use, couldn't move back and forth between images, couldn't enlarge images or video.

Page history and back button not implemented correctly. Looks pretty slick but some basic usability stuff overlooked.
My gf is obsessed with this game at our arcade bar now. It’s a great game. I played it on my Commodire 64. It didn’t look quite as good but I never noticed. :)

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Popeye#Level_1
So... everyone has to carry a lavalamp in a backpack?
Isn't the root cause usually obesity? So good habits and exercise may actually fix it.
I was hoping it would be a combination of Angular and English.
I mean, I actually think that's pretty cool. I would pass that any day if I were on the review board, especially if that green space in front of it were part of the project plan.
Bitsight shuts down Israeli office
Yes, the rent-a-car scenario is very different from the home ownership scenario. If you're renting a Tesla, the easiest way to make it work is to make sure that your hotel has on-site EV charging. If you can charge at the hotel then it doesn't matter whether it takes one hour or even eight hours to charge.
no, you see, they took the nuclear waste out of the environment. no, not into another environment, beyond the environment.

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
Josh Browder should pay attention to this.
The search for the world's 'missing' genomes
> No product, no product strategy just pure company integration.

Oh we definitely have a product. Almost none of our customers have all the data they need in the other systems, but they almost always have much of it. They're just lacking the domain specific stuff, unsurprisingly.

So our product has a lot of domain-specific logic that greatly assists customers in enriching the data as required by law, before submitting it.

However part of what got us to dominate the niche is that we were willing to be driven, as you say, or solve our customers problems as we see it, when it comes to integrating with those other systems.

Now that we've grown we're trying to be more strict. Custom screen/windows is not something we do readily anymore for example.

However, oh so many new customers ask for our standard XSDs etc, and once we hand them our XSDs they turn around and go "hmmkay, but how about you just use the files we already got?" and hand us some other XML, CVS or whatever.
In vim, I usually scroll with ctrl-u/d?
It really depends on what you mean by huge. But I have to emphatically disagree with your statement. It is simply not humanly possible to get as big as a modern body builder without steroids.
They are not just a shortcut they allow people to get much bigger than otherwise is possible.
LastPass Says DevOps Engineer Home Computer Hacked
I find it hard to sympathize with companies whose websites are full of AI, blockchain, and quantum trash. Honestly, idgaf if they get shaken down. If you have a product that people like, just market your product based on its features, and remove all the BS about using <insert the buzzword of the day>.

If the FTC tells OpenAI to stop mentioning AI, I would be surprised. Even if that happens, I am sure ChatGPT will remain just as popular.
> As the website author, you can see which extensions the client browser is running, no?

No, not really. Not unless it specifies certain `web_accessible_resources` which you try to load - but that's a bit of a hack, needs to be done on an extension-by-extension basis, and won't even work for all extensions.
The horse has been beaten to death - DNSSEC is dead. It continues to see adoption on the authoritative side because turning it on in a basic state and letting it limp along costs almost nothing.

Many recursive servers do validate DNSSEC, but disable it on a per-zone basis when validation failures happen and users start to complain.

tptacek raises an additional good point that DNSSEC does nothing to protect the last mile of a query. It also provides zero confidentiality.

dnscrypt was always a superior implementation, but saw little uptake because people blindly believed the DNSSEC propaganda.
Suppose you're a big company with a ton of C++ code. You're never going to rewrite it all. It wouldn't even be a good idea.

If only there were a way to write new code in a new language, mostly unconstrained by the long history of C++, but let the two languages share a toolchain, and maintain a logical interface compatibility layer. Not just linking the same ABI, but compatible types, functions, meta-functions (templates), etc.

Then you could implement all of the features and static checks of your dreams, and modify the language and its implementation to make those features/checks more powerful and easy to implement.

My guess is that's the idea. If you weren't a huge company with zillions invested in countless lines of C++, you wouldn't need to consider this. And, regardless, it's a neat idea.
> To those who are saying that she got what she deserved

I mean, both are what she deserved? I.e. expecting any sort of loyalty/humanity from a psychopathic billionaire, but also additional job offers because of her devotion. I mean, if she wants to sleep at work until she retires, good for her.

I'll sleep at home thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah we're already using DevExpress for Delphi, so obviously their web solutions are looking very tempting.

Do you do the form layouts by hand then, or are there other tools to assist with that which work well?
I switched from Tridactyl to Vimium a while ago. Tridactyl is powerful and feature rich but more complex. Vimium does everything you need for normal usage and is super simple to set up (the default config is a very good base and you'll probably only end up making minimal changes over time).
Pre SP1 Win XP bad