skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geek Chic: Billionaire Brin Sold Tesla Near Peak for New Giving Vehicle
If you haven't yet, check out the sci-fi horror videogame called "Soma" :)
This is the best thing since sliced bread.

Its literally already better than Twitter.
I have a lot of trouble reading it a "libre boot" rather than "lib reboot". The lib prefix is so common in open-source/Linux.
Chapman wrote a nice piece on what a hypothetical "meta-rational" workplace, one with a lot of interdisciplinarity and generalists -- would be like:

https://metarationality.com/meta-rational-workplace
It would create incentives to explore and benefit from those efforts creating healthy non-monopoly ecosystem.

It would likely create second market for their devices that Apple doesn't care about (because they don't release new iOS updates for old devices), it would create incentive for vendors to support open source through legacy hardware reuse (what is your hardware legacy reuse score as opposed to destroy-recycle-as-minerals score kind of thing).

We live in times where shoes have longer life span than many billions transistor devices which is mad, non eco friendly status quo where government should be stepping in instead of some cherry picked nonsense that will take endless decades to iron out and at the end of the day will make all parties simply unhappy.
Or the fact that the courts say AI output isn't copyrightable.
you misspelled factual
GPT-4 Week 5. Open Source is coming and Music industry in shambles
But that’s probably because it’s two sets of muscle memory competing for the exact same space. It’s like when a new game decides to reinvent controls, and every reviewer slams it for “janky controls”, because we have years of training in a particular layout. That’s why we have the concept of “unlearning things”, because the brain is really good at learning things, even wrong things. But that sounds to me to be an entirely different discussion than “brain orientation”.
The problem is not plastic, it is nano particles.

Glass and many other materials that can be nano-ized can do the same.

Polysorbate 80 can open the BBB even more. Just take a vaccine.
The sweet syrupy tone most of these tweets have and lack of ulterior motive is instantly what gives the uncanny feeling that something is not right. It’s like walking into a perfect suburban neighborhood where every house is perfectly maintained, lawn is perfectly manicured, every car washed, every person smiling wide as you walk down the street, gentlemen tipping their hats, a dog letting out a bark and wagging his tail, a neighbor pausing from clipping his hedges to say “Hey neighbor! Hope you’re having a good day!”

But you are not having a good day.
@dang co.ug is a second level domain - it should be treated as a special website suffix by HN, like co.uk or github.io, so this story is considered as coming from ntv.co.ug, not just co.ug
Every other major language had a recognized central authority to do its work. Spanish, French, written Chinese, etc. all had a monarchy/dictatorship of some sort to mandate the change and enforce its use.

England could have done it perhaps in Shakespeare's time or shortly thereafter, but once English spread across the globe in its modern (lack of) form with no recognized central authority with the power to force the change, it's not going to happen.

You couldn't get three states in the United States to agree on a universal spelling/pronunciation let alone the three countries in the United Kingdom. You think you'll have any more success over continents and across oceans?

Good luck!
I think the implied statement was: the internet was so new, it wasn't essential to the general public yet.

It very much was not essential to the general public and it wasn't until the www made it easily accessible for commerce that it became essential to the general public. But you are absolutely correct that the internet itself wasn't new.
I showed my (young, tech literate) friends once that you can just click “reject” and their minds were blown!

You overestimate how much a regular internet user cares about cookies and had the knowledge to even know what they are.
I own a BangleJS2. I don't use the fitness features but it works quite well on Android with GadgetBridge, a pricacy-focused smartwatch management app, and the OS and apps are all open-source. It was a bit rough around the edge when it came out, but so far it's been quite stable. I even made some PR fix some annoyances.

You can check all the available apps here, there should be something that will monitor which fitness activities you want, and the data can easily be exported from Gadgetbridge

https://banglejs.com/apps/
Why would you want it with only esim? Seeing as esim still works in iPhones with a phyiscal sim card slot, what benefits does dropping it get you?
I don’t think developers should be paying a rent for using a third-party App Store. I meant it like that: if a developer wants to sell both in a third-party store and in the Apple apps store then Apple is not sole distributor. Losing exclusive selling rights, Apple has every right to cash in a higher fee.
I've only read Deep Work out of those books you mentioned, but the others must be great too.

I envy them for having such an incredible teacher.
You just "decimated" his proposal.
https://libreboot.at
Libreboot provides:

- Release engineering and testing. When Libreboot started, upstream coreboot wasn't doing releases at all; now they are, but they're still not suitable for end-users who want to use stable tested software: "Our releases aren’t primarily a vehicle for code that is stable across all boards"[0]. Downstream distributions that test on a specific range of devices (such as Libreboot, mrchromebox.tech, and vendors such as Chromebooks, Purism, System 76, ...) are still important to the ecosystem to provide stable releases. In the words of a coreboot dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997880

- Pre-compiled and tested binaries, because lots of users aren't set up to build their own.

- A distribution of tools for more easily installing them than a sequence of long `flashram` incantations.

- Loads of documentation.

- Pre-configuration of common payloads, such as GRUB or SeaBIOS.

And let's not forget that the Libreboot project does contribute to upstream coreboot.

[0]: https://doc.coreboot.org/releases/checklist.html#purpose-of-...
In the case of Super Mario 64, some of the source code was leaked in 2020.
I'm not downplaying the achievements, I'm saying they could've been a lot greater if the system didn't try to mutilate and murder it's author.
> The argument is that several technologies don't work 'out of the box' and you have to tweak their settings for each problem that you face, and that this means it's a scam.

That's not what the argument is. The operative keyword in the argument is the word "sell", not the quantifiers themselves. If you're not "selling" it under that premise and you're open about the nuance, then it's not a scam.

Intentional or not, your representation of the argument is a scarecrow.

You might argue that this is semantics, but it's not. It's literally the point that is driving real execs desire to replace actual humans with GPT, right now.
>Community College is for people who are busy getting things done.

FiveThirtyEight has a great article from 2016 that agrees with you. [0] It also debunks a lot of the myths of higher education, like the myth that students are mostly majoring in humanities:

>What few journalists seem to understand, Goldrick-Rab said, is how tenuous a grasp many students have on college. They are working while in school, often juggling multiple jobs that don’t readily align with class schedules. They are attending part time, which makes it take longer to graduate and reduces the chances of finishing at all. They are raising children, supporting parents and racking up debt trying to pay for it all.

>“One little thing goes awry and it just falls apart,” Goldrick-Rab said. “And the consequences of it falling apart when they’re taking on all this debt are just so severe.”

>Students keep taking that risk for a reason: A college degree remains the most likely path to a decent-paying job. They aren’t studying literary theory or philosophy; the most popular undergraduate majors in recent years have been business and health-related fields such as nursing.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/shut-up-about-harvard/
From the article:

let's add the body

var body =

oh no. what do we do here? it's not going to be just text. It's going to be the cell in the sheet.
Pigouvian taxes are great, but what connection do you see between them and the printing of money?
I too would like to know. Which "accomplishments of the residents" did the USSR steal? There should honestly be a way to ban idiots like you from HN.
I like this! Thanks for building it. What’s the biggest differences between PagerDuty?
Nope, but many users will tell you that they like iOS better because it's "easier to use" or it "looks better" than, e.g. Android.

And that's most certainly because Apple enforces more UX consistency on iOS apps.
Thank you for that kind of words.

It's so rare nowadays.

While i agree with technology, art (painters, literature), dance (ballet), i didn't think Russia brings much to the worlds of music.

Curious what is in you iTunes rotation?
I will give you a warning from BigCo land, having watched this pattern play out in various spaces/tech/industries over the past decade.

When folks run out of ways to make money, they productize smaller and smaller chunks of the overall stack to attempt to extract more value/rent/payment out of their customer base.

They will bring in ever more increasingly crazy sounding architecture experts to justify this (often times these folks get planted as FTEs in the very orgs they are selling to!).

When you find yourself asking 'is this complexity for complexities sake', know that you are being sold vaporware :)
I would posit that public pressure on politicians to support an ally in trouble does indeed constitute a form of 'friendship', if that pressure is enough to provoke action.
Google breaks consistency and wrecks the user experience with each successive Android release.
Two types of C programmers
The best quote is at the end:

> “I’m ready to come back to Russia, but under certain conditions,” she says. “I don’t want to live in a country where Putin is the president. I don’t want to live in a country that starts wars.”
It's a circle.
Sorry for the analogy but this reminds me joke about the guy who replaced all ingredients in recipe and then said: "I do not get what is so special about this food".
Not everyone has that option. For my carrier I have to call them and ask if they can help me set up esim each time because I can't do it myself. And each time it takes at least 30 minutes. Plus I just don't trust esim yet, it hasn't been able to shine as a technology. Give it a few years, I'm all for esim, but we have to make the switch gradually. Give me both for now and keep physical sims alive for the next 7+ years to get everyone onboard. By then the process for getting an esim will have gotten waaay smoother.
Anyone know if this can be used as replacement for OneTrust?
not really a bug but a missing feature but i get your point. i find psub one of the weak spots of fish, and i'd prefer if fish could support >() and <() as syntax instead.

it's much more intuitive (foo) is clearly a command and > and < are in and out respectively. if i look at (foo | psub) i am wondering what that is supposed to mean.
I've seen similar in the wild with XML, except the charset was wrong and escaping was incomplete.

So you get the XML header with UTF8 encoding, a root tag, an indented child tag. 3 lines. Then ye olde CSV, with the 5 required entities for ascii escaped, but if you manage to put accented chars in it, they end up in ISO 8859-1. Then 2 lines footer.

If you wrote out the file, the header and footer had to be byte for byte identical. Entities encoding non ascii just crashed the parser. Of course, the CSV lines were sensitive to indentation, they just dropped the first 8 chars of each line.

Still, XML was officially supported.
No no I'm the one who was supposed to rebut with "In MICE!"

You're right about the cadavers! Maybe such a study exists and we could skip ahead to agreeing its a problem or perhaps we enter the next phase: "are we sure these plastics in my brain are akshuuuaallly a problem, perhaps they are making me less stupid and more healthy MR SCIENTISTS"
Yes, `cryptsetup luksFormat` selects the LUKS1 key slot pbkdf iteration count parameter at runtime by benchmarking against a target `--iter-time` [1] [2], which is either 1s or 2s depending on version [3].

For a LUKS1 image created with Ubuntu 18.04 on a i5-8265U (Q3'18) CPU, that seems to result in an iteration count on the order of 1.8M. Assuming the RTX 4090 hashcat benchmarks [4] scale linearly on the iteration count, that's about 10kH/s for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 or 5kH/s for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256.

In terms of brute-force vs password entropy, that would give you roughly 45 bits of entropy for 1k gpu-months, or ~250k gpu-years to net 56 bits of entropy. Those would be on the order of [a-z0-9]{8} (41 bits), [a-zA-Z0-9]{8} (47 bits) or [a-z]{12} (56 bits).

Worryingly close enough to make replacing the KDF a relevant concern, but still enough to make this story about brute-forcing a random 20-character password somewhat implausible, unless the password was far weaker than implied.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/cryptsetup-luksformat....
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/dm-crypt/Device_encryption#...
[3] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v...
[4] https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/32e662a5bb63bc4f51b847bb4...
> Even if there are signup fees, the share of revenues that Apple is today taking away from the developer would go down in absolute terms with a 3rd party store.

I guarantee you Apple will find a way to still make the same money.

Just like how in the Netherlands dating apps don't have to use IAP, but the apps need to pay Apple a 28% royalty on all in app purchases that don't go through them.
Genetics is hot right now, and probably will be for decades.
Regularly donating blood or plasma can reduce PFAS concentrations in the body, I believe the effect is the same on microplastics https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-shows-blood-or-plas...
- Do they require disclosure of editorial conflicts of interest?

- Do they require disclosure of journalistic conflicts of interest?

- Do they allow citations?

- Do they require citations?

- Do they list the DOI string in the citation or a dx.doi.org URL for NewsArticles about ScholarlyArticles?

- Which contributors are paid?

- Which parent company owns the media outlet?
Are you sure they can legally break my games without due compensation? For any reason whatsoever? I find that hard to believe.
I don’t think this is “strong armed” because then developers can freely choose which app store they sell to.
Fentanyl’s effect: End of heroin boom leaves Mexican poppy farmers high and dry
Borrowers with High Credit Scores Penalized Under New Federal Mortgage Fee Plan
I believe the name for what you're doing there is "begging the question".

Vegan diets generally have protein and other nutrients.
In Ireland we changed all the road signs to kph 20 years ago. It too some minor adjustments but that was that.
The Law of Activity Delays
Which you can absolutely not base yourself if you want to ensure it's considered a clean-room reverse engineering and not have Nintendo's armies of lawyers sweeping down on you.
The most actually useful results I've gotten from ChatGPT4 is essentially a replacement for calling software or hardware tech support.

E.g., in a CAD system with which I'm already familiar with the system & searching it's docs, I still find it helpful to ask obscure or complicated situations such as 'I remember reading it can do something like X, what is that and what is the command?' or 'what is a way to find and repair this kind of failure?' — the sorts of things for which I'd call tech support (if it didn't involve long hold times, etc.).

ChatGPT4 has saved me already a number of long multi-dead-end hunts for finding the correct obscure command or operation name, or for building a sequence to debug and repair a model issue. Sometimes the ChatGPT4 answer is just another BS hallucinated waste of time, but it often enough does point me in the right direction far more quickly than I would have on my own.
The different kinds of agents are interesting. The personality test choice is impressively accurate.

Of course it will depend on the quality of the search data. But this gives me ideas of other applications.
And how exactly will they do that on a non-jailbroken fully updated iOS installation?

Not to mention that iOS apps keep those kinds of secrets in the Secure Enclave and you can't get anything out of it unless you are the app that put the secret in there in the first place - that doesn't change whether apple allows sideloading or not. If you need a jailbreak to break that protection then this isn't something that will affect your "normal" user like many here are worried about. Normal iOS protections will be more than enough.
It was SONY marketing bullet point "Can the Slowest PS5 SSD Upgrade Run Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQs4UpiKlg
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Yeah for sure, I just didn’t want to introduce multi-architecture portability since the main issue at hand was intra-arch portability.

But yeah, when you get into multiple architectures, it gets gnarly. Take even something as simple as instruction ordering when porting from x86_64 to arm64
I hate PWAs not because I like shitty native apps (it seems like it's not obvious, somehow).

I hate PWAs because I like good native apps, and PWAs give an opportunity for developers to replace their native app with a cross-platform web app. And in my experience, cross-platform generally comes at the cost of app quality on a single platform. Instead of hiring developers who know iOS, you now hire web developers who debug their web app on many platforms they don't really know well.
Standards change though. I mean a lot of developed nations did atrocities a century or two ago but Russia is a bit behind the times.
Tricks to make a FPS looks photorealistic
Mostly techno stuff.

Also, surprisingly, some really good flamenco guitar, and Arabic-inspired stuff.

Some might be from former Russian nations, but some is straight from St. Petersburg.

I’m not really in a position, at the moment, to find the various songs. I have a big library, and it takes a while to find stuff.

I have very eclectic tastes.
Hardcore developers != A knowledge about the internet/how front end works. I don't think it's even a point to mention at all.
I picked up programming 6 years before I got access to the internet, in 2015.
Computing has developed so much these days, it's like expecting a Neuro to be your Oncologist.
They may know basically how stuff works, but not everything related to a computer.
Another critical difference is that I allow users to create the bots that participate. Please feel free to make some polite or rude bots.
Hm... this would be pretty exploit that companies are using. Also pretty evil - but I can totally see this happening. There should probably be laws that prohibit companies, in particular startups, from making un-remunerated use of any ideas that are submitted in an application process, unless the applicant gets a job offer. Even if in practice this would be very hard to prove...

The project involved a new methodology of evaluating LLMs, which I think had impact. Perhaps this indeed got stolen, but we'll never know I think.
This down vote parade is nothing more than proof of how poor information diet certain people have, while reality bubbles are so thick and adversarial, it is almost impossible for them to get out of it or for different perspective to get in.
It's hard to say what methods will work, but it's not hard to imagine possibilities - a bacteria or virus (or even a nanobot someday?!) could be discovered / created that eats plastic but does no harm to a human body (or minimal harm that doesn't matter and can easily be removed/killed once it's got all the plastic) - see for example [1] & [2] different types of recently found plastic-eating bacteria for inspiration (the two bacteria types were found to eat different specific types of plastic, I'm not sure if they've tested each on all types of plastic or just published the first known).

Or maybe we discover some sort of light/sound/other wave/something that, like an x-ray, has low enough health risks to be worth sometimes putting through humans, but that somehow does something to plastic that will let the body dispose of it all?

Or maybe some drug gets created that somehow turns on some bodily function that can handle the plastic problem.

Or.... I don't know, I'm no expert, but I bet there's more possibilities.

Of course, would be good to do our best to reduce plastic use altogether anyway, for environmental as well as health reasons!

[1] https://interestingengineering.com/science/bacteria-really-c...

[2] https://www.livescience.com/plastic-eating-bacteria
> Don't lose alerts. We believe that crucial incidents need to have a dedicated context. Alerts sent out through Slack or Email can often be overlooked in those channels. That's why All Quiet notifications are app only.

Question - How does your app ensure incident notifications are received? I haven't used PagerDuty before, but for others I've used, we got a phone call for alerts and sometimes texts for warnings.

Recently, I've implemented Android notifications for an app. Even if you set "priority" : "high" (FCM level), some will still not be received right away, depending on battery level and polling frequency at device level. You may ask the user to disable battery optimizations for your app, but a call is still more reliable IMO.
https://archive.is/Bhs8E
Thank you for this!

There is so much room for more affordable pricing in software.
Debating bots sounds a lot more interesting. I already created some chirpers who "should" debate but this project looks a bit more debatey
And? Sounds perfectly legal to do, and something that should 100% be possible.
The Curious Case of Einstein’s Stolen Brain
Thanks! Well, I'm still impressed with even the germinal ambition of "I wonder if we can dissect tiny insects". Was it 19th or 20th century?
Really? Hunting pressure causes a population causes a population surge? Brilliant thesis.
Mac for grandmas, then and today still! Love these videos - documents of time.
I wonder if the problem is that many of these products are built by people who are not blind, and so they are not dogfooding the product as they develop it. It’s very easy to imagine a hypothetical user happily using your invention if you’re not frequently facing its actual limitations while you build it.
Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks? (2015)
LinkedIn! it appears it doesn't need humans or... there are no humans on it.
In America it seems to have more to do with culture than ancestry. I would bet that there are lots of people that think of themselves as white whose ancestors came over on slavers ships.

Of course if you could trace ancestry back far enough we are all black.
Are your games all 3d?