skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally like VR meetings but there is still too much friction versus how quick it is to start up a video call.

In my opinion larger meetings do work worse in video calls. It just isn't great having lots of small squares. But small <4 people meetings do work better when you can really see and pay attention to every clearly.
The National Rifle Association is probably more government affiliated than NPR
Do you have references? I’m surprised I haven’t heard this previously.
It's not really. Supposed a nefarious group wants to get ahold of an executives phone who always flies out of LAX or goes to a certain mall and uses a public charger. It would be smart to zero day one of those and if a few extra people are exploited, maybe some bonus bank info.
Have fun with most devices only charging at 2.5 watts (ie. 6 hours for a full phone charge)...
> How do you create a shared transaction ledger without a central point of failure and control?

How is this not exactly what I was referring to? (solving an academic problem rather than a real world problem)
Intel sold off Xscale (née StrongARM) just before the touchscreen smartphone boom started. Seems like they would have been well positioned to take the lead in this market. Probably Apple would have used an Xscale SOC for the iPhone if Intel had taken it seriously.

Strategic blunder of the century so far?
that's the problem though, the mind isn't a muscle. lifting weights can make you better in a different but related activity, like a sport. but the research on brain games shows that they only make you better at the specific game they're drilling, not anything else.
as others have mentioned Twitter and Tesla get more government funds than NPR. The US governments budget is pretty big and handouts are plenty
You should consider the context of using that label on Twitter, not just the label name itself. State-affiliated label on Twitter means something as "biased", it's not used on its pure definition in a vacuum. That's the problem.
Can't the OS have a setting for public charging such that the software can prevent any hardware based shenanigans?
> They want to provide a single excessively complicated API which all client-side (web, Android, iOS, TV, IoT, etc) devs can consume without disturbing them (at the cost of 10 requests to render a single page)

I've seen that quite a few times. Basically moving the entire business logic to the frontend, so that the backend can remain elegant and generic (yet somehow complicated too). In the end it actually makes for a slower app experience and may cause insane complexity on the frontend.
I'm not interested in formulating an argument against, say, the efficacy of secondary education using the same methodology as Ned Block, because to do so would take something like 20,000 words, and then you'd just reject it anyway. What you're doing is just standard trolling. You're making an argument in 100 words that requires 10,000 words to refute (i.e. timewasting). Ned Block's argument is absolutely a selective demand for rigor which at its core just argues that in social sciences nothing is "certain" therefore nothing can be known at all.

I find it sort of amazing that folks will twist themselves into pretzels to argue that IQ's genetic basis shouldn't be the prior. The majority of smart people I've talked to in life had a similar experience to me growing up. Namely, they remember very well just being "better" at school than other kids, even though their environments were similar and they didn't honestly try that hard. I specifically remember teachers lauding me in 2nd grade for how hard I worked, when honestly I was and am pretty lazy. I remember very well sitting in class in 7th grade, watching the same presentations by the teacher that all the other kids watched and then with zero studying getting 100% correct on the test while many of them struggled. And I remember going to many of their houses and seeing that their home environments were either equivalent or superior to mine.

Athletic kids have a very similar experience, by the way, when it comes down to running or jumping or other sports. They're just "better".

At base, the environmental argument boils down to something like this: "Anyone in the world could have beaten Magnus Carlsen to become world chess champion if they'd just had the proper environment." Such an argument is so obviously preposterous that the prior should absolutely be that it's false.

Another point: We already know IQ is genetic. Witness that the housecat and humans have vastly different IQs, and no cat will ever perform better on an IQ test than the median human. Again, the prior obviously should be that IQ is genetic.

And again, note that I'm simply pointing out what the PRIOR should be. Thus, it should be on YOU to provide evidence that the prior is wrong. It is insufficient to simply argue that not enough evidence exists to prove IQ is genetic, because that is the prior. The burden of proof is on YOU.

Your arguments boil down to simply gaslighting smart people that their life experience is somehow completely inaccurate, unrepresentative, or misinterpreted. If you really are making it in good faith, it leaves me wondering what in your life experience leads you to believe the genetic explanation should not be the prior. Did you do poorly in school? Did you grow up in such a privileged environment that you can't believe that people like me exist?
And if you like to read papers physically https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045308/ideas-that-created-th... is a book of important papers in the field, complete with historical context.
interesting article, thanks for sharing
Imagine Terrence Tao manually entering data into spreadsheets!!
Scientists from St. Petersburg, Russia, have developed a neural network that enables a smartphone to remotely record lip-reading data and cross-reference it with sound recordings.

This technology can pick up speech that is undetectable to the human ear, providing an open communication channel for Russian authorities to spy on people without them ever knowing.
> I wonder what they used instead of outlook

Maybe something like Pine? Even into Web 1.0 days, it was still pretty common for people to use. Everyone in my high school accessed their school-provided email account by telnetting into a Unix server and accessing Pine via a menu system.
Lol, the good ol' "HIPAA bogeyman" strikes again.

It's my data. The entire point of HIPAA is that I own the data and I can send it to whomever I want if I decide to. I get value out of it, others may not choose to do it, that's their right. But I'm pretty sure sharing my CBC results is not going to be the death of me.
>How then do you explain the case of Iran I cited? Islam enforced as the state religion, leaving it is punishable with death (at least in theory), and yet there has been a huge decline in Islamic belief over the last few decades. That's evidence against your position.

'more likely' isn't the same as 'nobody leaves'. If you compare similar statistics between secular countries and conservative ones, it's quite clear that more people remain religious in the conservative countries.

>In those experiments, only a minority of test subjects adjusted their expressed belief in response to social pressure

It doesn't have to be a majority.
> while you wait to get the green light to "do your actual job"

In my experience as a pre-staff – it is your job to create the green light. You’re director level, there is no-one to say “make it so”. You’re the one who’s supposed to do that.

Org-wide stuff not happening? Guess what, you have to go figure out how to make it happen. Even if that means getting buddy buddy with some of the other directors and building informal networks within the company. That’s the job. Making things happen. Poking the right person at the right time, cashing in favors, building a rapport, etc.

And yes, sometimes pulling a VP into a meeting and asking “hey can you pull a string”
Force multiplier and 10x engineer are two completely different things, at least as they are usually described.

The 10x engineer is simply one who has an output far higher than average. The Principal engineer working as a force multiplier has the goal of raising the output of the entire team, group or company. If I can 1.5x a 10-person team, I'm already more valuable than that 10x engineer.
> they removed the state-affiliated media, from a ton of global times and CCT affiliated content creators

Source? Global Times’ Twitter accounts appears properly labelled [1].

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/globaltimesnews
Enjoyed your video, but quick FYI: Your SSN is visible on the shot of your tax form. Might not want that detail to go viral.
You should consider taking the initiative to meet with them every week where you get future / current initiatives from them and status on anything they need to do moving those forward. Maintain a spreadsheet you can share with them (or whatever they prefer) and you just get new statuses. The goal is to be on the same page and have some familiarity before you even bother telling anyone else in IT correct? So make it happen.

I say this because I host such a call with our marketing team. I know what's coming down the pipeline before any developer even hears about it. My boss also uses it as an opportunity to interject and remind marketing that they already are trying to push too many initiatives our way, so they have to push some back.

Keep titles, descriptions, projected development start dates, and projected release dates, and a column for all status updates (date them, and put a name to the last status).
We should all be quitting twitter tbh
YDD, Yoga Driven Development
Probably because that would much more mechanically complex and therefore expensive and failure-prone, and the market has decided that the existing options are good enough (I'm not defending this, just describing what I see).
Drugs and death in a Malibu beach house
Keyword is "Public", not "National"
There's some blatant astroturfing from new accounts going on in this thread - I gotta say it's not the best impression
I've lived all over the US (including the midwest) and it's the same everywhere: the message is that /our/ arbitrarily-shaped state has a unique and amazing culture, and if you don't like it you can move to ${our_major_sports_rival}. It's an easy way to move merchandise like bumper stickers and beer koozies, and a low stakes thing to incorporate into a (consumption-based) personal identity: wearing a Michigan State sweatshirt is a noop in contrast to wearing a hijab, which is possibly a quite dangerous thing to do. This kind of thing (e.g. lawn signs that say rude things about other college football teams) is mainly harmless IMO, but the real deficiencies you've identified are true of all of North America (Canada and Mexico included).

It's not Minnesota that has a vastly inflated sense of its success as a liberal democracy, it's the whole continent. Americans have phrases like "manifest destiny," and "American exceptionalism" that speak to this. I can't speak to the specifics of how this works in Canada and Mexico, but I know it does.

It's not Minnesota that willfully ignores the centuries of horrifying genocide and slavery that underlie our every footstep, it's the whole continent. Any attempt to inject a little more verisimilitude into the stories in our school history books (the most recent notable one being the 1619 Project) is rabidly opposed by white supremacists who eventually "compromise" with actual history by adding a sidebar or a separate few chapters about the middle passage or Algonquin culture /without/ ever actually stating the central point that /the purpose of America always was, and functionally still is, to enslave and steal from black and native people for the benefit of (historically exclusively white and male) elites/. Again, this is a USA-centric view but my understanding is that similar dynamics play out in Canada and Mexico.
That's a feature not a bug. Go intentionally forgoes abstractions of that sort. I personally prefer well written Java exception handling, but often Java exception handling code is a bolted on afterthought. Go's approach is to make error handling something you have to think about for virtually every line of code, rather than a superstructure built around the code. This can feel slow and painful to write, but it guides the developer toward considering each error case individually, potentially resulting in more nuanced responses to errors. It also makes reading the code dead simple.
more competition is better since Global Foundries drop out of 7nm and Samsung isn't doing any better.
If thats the threshold, then a whole bunch of other entities should get the "state funded" label, and get it soon.
Yael Tauman Kalai Honored with ACM Prize in Computing
Of course rich people are going to be made to pay for it if they conned members of the ruling class. Nobody who think rich people tend to escape justice have ever thought otherwise.

This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_sentencing_of_Robert... is what happens when they don't step on the wrong toes.
There it is in the post:

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm. Diego Ongaro, John Ousterhout, Usenix ATC, 2014.
This is also true for me, and, I suspect, for many people.
You could ship the victim malicious USB cables in the mail with amazon branding on the box.

Many people would use them, assuming they were just mis-shipped or ordered by their spouse.
I don’t quite understand what you mean by “excessively”, it’s a regional news outlet detailing injustice of a Texan? The backdrop of the story has been covered before.
They will look cool to a certain group of people momentary but it will hurt them in the long run.

The average user won't even notice their tweets are missing from their feed.
It does add a slight extra layer in that they have to both have a compromise for whatever chip is controlling your bank and a compromise for whatever phone is attached which is more difficult to pack into a small controller chip. Although I'm willing to be a lot of power bank controllers are similar across the market which narrows that difficulty.
> becomes successful after 2+ decades trying

Rich pro-ai argument.
Now it uses Python: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
> no mention of Mastodon in this announcement

Mastodon blew its moment. It could have eaten Twitter’s lunch. But onboarding—specifically, choosing a server—was too tedious for non-niche adoption.
SpaceX doesn’t report the news.
As with many recent Musk impulsive changes, it's being rapidly revised, and looks to be changing again soon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65248196

> And he confirmed Twitter will change its newly added label for the BBC's account from "government funded media" to say it is "publicly funded" instead.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-... has a screenshot of the "state-affiliated" tag that was recently present.
Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers
Ask HN: Alternatives to organizing code in files and folders?
I realize I spend a lot of time organizing code into files and folders. And usually, it's organizing packages, modules, functions and classes into matching files/folders, and then updating package/module import statements. That is, it's simply a chore.

A barrier to change is our current tools such as IDEs and VCS/Github are tightly tied to the files and folders paradigm.

Though, every tool that doesn't map 1-1 with the filesystem I have always hated the experience. Think: XCode, Visual Studio. But maybe it just hasn't been done right.

What are your thoughts on alternatives? Drawbacks to change?
They were labeled as "state-affiliated media" and after a retraction, Twitter referred to them as "government-funded"

On March 20th, NPR listed this retraction on their website "An earlier version of this story mistakenly said Musk bought Twitter for $44 million. In fact, he paid $44 billion." [1]

Twitter can't make mistakes, but NPR makes dozens of them daily. Should we rage quit NPR everytime they issue a retraction to preserve our own independence and integrity?

[1] https://www.npr.org/corrections/
The irony is that the English is bad in a lot of the astroturf comments… why don’t they use the LLM to generate them? It would probably seem more genuine than the current comments.
Yes, but the United States are the Good Guys, so their propaganda outlets must not get the label identifying them as such.
Now how does this compare to this material that sends heat into space:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supercool-mat...
It'd be cheaper than an Uber. That's what we're dealing with, its not like competing with foreign labor at 1/10th the price.
When Twitter originally created the "state-affiliated" label, the implied meaning was "propaganda rag that you shouldn't trust." It wasn't meant to be applied to any media organization that receives state funding, only those that go against the American mainstream zeitgeist, e.g. the narratives you'll read in the NYTimes or NPR. This label was never meant to mean precisely what it says at face value.
The 'state-affiliated' label is a bludgeon that the US gets to use, not get used against the US haha.
Solenoids and Relays – The Secret Life of Components
It really surprised me when this article blew up on Twitter as I thought it was common knowledge to never use public chargers and avoid untrusted usb anything after “bad usb”. It showed me how I live in a tech security bubble-a good reminder.
No really SpaceX isn’t a media company.
Why is this post full of n00b user 'comments'?
I actually worked on an App for a company that made home appliances. Originally they made everything local, so direct App to Washing machine communication. They had a really hard time with that approach for a number of reasons.

The first, and most obvious, reason is that getting your phone and (all) your appliances on the same network is non-trivial. Especially for a novice user. Sometimes the washing machine is in the basement and can't connect to your WiFi. Or maybe you're simply outside your house in your car and can't connect to your local network. The cloud approach solves this.

The other, not so obvious reason, is that the manufacturer made a ton of devices. Some of them a decade old, with very rudimentary interfaces. Originally the App had to handle special cases and workarounds for dozens of devices. This became a problem once they tried to port it to multiple platforms. For Android and iPhone they started with a shared C++ library. But that quickly became a problem, once they wanted to interface with popular home network and automation solutions.

To solve all this they decided to build a cloud API that would resolve all these problems in one go. A single, unified API with a modern HTTP interface and available via the internet. That solves the workaround and compatability issues by having a single abstraction layer (instead of one per app). It solves the "on the go" problem when you're not in you local wifi. It enables you to control devices outside your home network in a true IoT sense.

I totally agree with you that, if you're not in an urban environment with good internet and cell coverage, the advantages dwindle away. Also, of course, there is the privacy concern that is very real. At the end of the day the cloud solution is selected for the same reason companies select Electron. It saves development time and is very easy for the average end user to use. At the expense of performance and privacy.
The thing is though, im not trying to hide the fact I am on OpenVPN. Simple inspection of the handshake tells you EXACTLY what it is. But thats generally not the issue.

The issue is many will simply block UDP or the default port 1194 or basically anything other than a handful of outbound ports, of which 443 outbound is almost never actually blocked for obvious reasons. In fact I cant think of a single time I havent been able to use that VPN, even when my normal road-warrior profile to my house IS blocked.

Either way there are ways are ways to mask the fact that its clearly OpenVPN that if your issue is nation-states or things like the Great Firewall like Obfsproxy, but even then, something like Mullvad would be called for since you are likely going to need an array of endpoints.

Im just trying to ensure my traffic is running through a trusted source until the point that its supposed to him the open internet. Things like DNS filtering are getting more pervasive. For me that means I want to know the endpoint until I am ready for it to egress.

I have also had this setup for years at this point. Before tailscale or even hearing of things like mullvad. But I work in IT, so its one of those things that makes others that dont work in tech look at me funny if they see it.
Cloudflare and Stripe have just reached that stage where there isn't much to hype about. They're now dealing with problems that are gnarly, as opposed to "we just launched a storage service!" Not to diminish Supabase, Fly, etc. and their tremendous work, it's just a completely different lane of expectations.
It’s hard for me to believe that dogs, cats and horses aren’t sentient in the same way we are, not to mention other mammals. I know birds less well but what I know of them they seem pretty smart. I saw some snakes courting the other day (pretty erotic) and they seemed pretty aware of each other and even of me and my son.
Every single JS/TS codebase I have ever worked on, == was disallowed by the linter. There is zero reason to use == instead of ===, so while this is a cool quirk, it's hardly a 'gotcha, look how bad javascript is'.
client libs are one of our next focuses. we've been discussing internally how to do this. So far we have concentrated on the JS/Dart libs because that makes up a large portion of our users. Over the last 3 months the community has added (and documented) libraries for Swift[0] and C#[0].

We hope to continue making this a community-driven endeavor, so if anyone reading this would like to become a maintainer for one of the libraries (especially Python), please reach out. If we can't find maintainers we'll find a polyglot who can work on this full-time.

[0] Swift: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/swift/introduction

[1] C#: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/csharp/introduction
I urge you to think about what you mean by "It can happen with a human."

I guarantee you that if you try this with humans 1,000,000 times (cold start), you will never get the result you are suggesting is possible. In fact, most results will be of the following form:

Q: How much is two plus two?

A: Four.

Q: How much is two plus two?

A: Four. / Four? Why are you asking me again? / ...Four. / etc.

In the end, I think the question is not about whether NNs are themselves operating in a way similar to human cognition. The question is whether or not they can successfully simulate human cognition, and at this point, there seems to be increasing evidence that they will be able to fully do so quite soon. We are quickly running out of fields where we can point and say, "there is no way a NN can do THIS kind of task, because X." Cognition, it turns out, is not something intrinsically special about humans, and it feels foolish (to me) to continue to believe so after recent developments.
the problem is that cars have a much worse form of overhead: parking. A rail line that transfers 1M people's commutes per day doesn't use up any space in the city that people commute to. If the same 1M people commute by car, you end up needing roughly 15 square kilometers just for the parking.
He also mentions that he only uses said tool with "charging stations I find suspicious". Which is very curious, because I would assume an attacker who is willing to risk burning such an attack would make sure their charging station is looking the least suspicious and most ordinary.

I'm not sure if "find suspicious" is a good heuristic here. Although of course we don't know what he bases his suspicion on.