skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OOOH I've got one - I made a short script that lets me play any video on any site at arbitrary speed (speed controlled by arrow keys).

//@ts-check
window.kVideoSpeed = 1;
window.initialVolume = 1;

NUMPAD_3 = "99"
NUMPAD_2 = "98"
NUMPAD_6 = "102"
NUMPAD_5 = "101"

UP_ARROW = "38"
DOWN_ARROW = "40"

let timeoutId = null;
document.onkeydown = (e) => {
if (!document.querySelectorAll("video").length) {
// no-op for pages with no videos
return;
}
window.initialVolume = document.querySelector('video')?.volume || 1

let myDiv = getOrMakeDiv();
e = e || window.event;
let KEYCODE = e.keyCode;

// NOTE: can't use left/right b/c those go forward/back 10s on some sites
if ((KEYCODE == UP_ARROW || KEYCODE == NUMPAD_6) && window.kVideoSpeed < 4) {
// up arrow
window.kVideoSpeed += 0.5;
myDiv.textContent = window.kVideoSpeed;
} else if ((KEYCODE == DOWN_ARROW || KEYCODE == NUMPAD_5) && window.kVideoSpeed > 1) {
// down arrow
window.kVideoSpeed -= 0.5;
myDiv.textContent = window.kVideoSpeed;
}
for (let el of document.querySelectorAll("video")) {
el.playbackRate = window.kVideoSpeed;

// prevent volume from changing
setTimeout(() => {
el.volume = window.initialVolume
}, 100)
}
if (timeoutId) {
clearTimeout(timeoutId);
}
// set timeout to remove div
timeoutId = setTimeout(() => { myDiv.remove() }, 1000);

};
function getOrMakeDiv() {
if (!document.getElementById("myDiv")) {

let div = document.createElement("div");
div.id = "myDiv";
// add styles to div
div.style.padding = "8px";
div.style.textAlign = "center";
div.style.fontSize = "16px";
div.style.position = "fixed";
div.style.fontWeight = "600";
div.style.border = "1px solid yellow";
div.style.color = "white";
div.style.backgroundColor = "black";
div.style.zIndex = "999999";
// insert div at the top of the body
if (document.fullscreenElement) {
document.fullscreenElement.prepend(div, document.fullscreenElement.firstChild)
}
else {
document.body.insertBefore(div, document.body.firstChild);
}
}
return document.getElementById("myDiv");
}
I know the reference, but I can't put my finger on it ;)
Fed Says It Failed to Act on Problems That Led to Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
For years. And then Mr. Wall went all Perl6. (le sigh)
These things are quite useful for speed runners and other fans; it could be worth digging it up
I improved our kitchen hood vent by attaching a semi-rigid aluminum duct to one of the fans. The other end of the duct can be positioned right over a frying pan to suck in cooking smell. It works much better compared to the vent itself.
Ceteris paribus, but ceteris are never paribus. The effect of inflation (generally around 2%) is smaller than the variations of supply and demand, the opportunities to invest and expand, etc.

It's notable that a company whose supply costs have gone up should be experiencing record profits. All other things being equal, you'd expect their profits to decrease.

Of course these events don't happen in a vacuum, and a company like that may well have made fortunate decisions (such as locking in low prices via options). But all oil companies have a habit of having record prices every single time prices go up -- not the kind of pattern that can be explained that way.

The effect is much larger than mere inflation, and occurs despite the significant variations in supply. A strong competing hypothesis is that they are raising prices disproportionately. That would imply that they were colluding on prices, otherwise they would undercut each other to drive the price down.

Proving that is difficult. But this kind of circumstantial evidence suggests that investigation is warranted.
yeah, same here. ( for example, I can't access forum.xda-developers.com anymore.
YIMBYs Won Montana
Then they should either setup an international arm abroad, which is perfectly legal[0] or raise your wages. If you can afford the overhead of the H1B system (there's a bunch of ongoing legal costs to doing this) then setting up an international arm of the company isn't that much different.

The H1B program is not and its stated goal is not, to be able to undercut the US labor market with foreign labor

[0]: though as someone in the labor market, it does have negative consequences on me potentially
Photo comparisons of Solbourne and Voyager:

http://www.sonic.net/~coad/s3000/index.html

The orange display is classic. Is it the same tech as in that Toshiba laptop, and that HP luggable?
These idiotic hot takes will be washed away by the veritable ocean of piss that will be uniquely generated AI generated hot takes designed to constantly spam / market / propagandize.

The level of bullshit will be unparalleled. Because of AI.
TVS ==
Transient-voltage-suppression diode?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient-voltage-suppressio...
> if you really are as morally sound as you claim

I think only true fanatic Republicans would claim this. Normal Americans would not claim this, in my experience.
I'm not just talking about one specific school - this is basically state policy.
Open source please?
>While Linux support for old hardware tends to be great, lately various kinds of Linux support are suffering in some ways, as higher percentages of software techies are now using Macs and MS Windows.

Any examples or evidence of this? Seems easier than me than ever to use Linux with all kinds of hardware
That sounds more like a problem with the law than with the police.
Bypassing the garbage/sensationalist/clickbaity BI article about the poll, as posited initially under:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35745170

The responses may be worth reading, but the poll itself is also inherently garbage-y as it requires registration to vote, and doesn't allow an option for the only reasonable answer: "don't know".

But there you go, bypassing BI at least.
> Net worth goes from $0 to $1 million: Ecstasy. Net worth goes from $10 million to $1 million: Despondency. Can we agree that all wealth is relative?

I think that's more because when going down on income (regardless of the starting amount and difference), that usually comes with having to resign from some luxuries on that way. While earning more means experiencing luxuries you couldn't afford before.

Like, moving from public transport to nice car vs the other way around. Or living in cramped apartment vs nice house.

> A lot of people like making money more than they enjoy having money. The change, not the accumulated amount, is the thrill.

I would not say a lot; I think there might be some self-selection when people focus on making money that might just become their hobby and so have higher motivation to earn more and more vs focusing on other areas in life.

The few well-off people I know don't exactly feel like ones making money for money sake

> The last one is the biggest mindfuck to me because I can relate to it so much. Every single online MMO I play I'm happy making tiny amounts of money and watching the balance go up. I don't care much for upgrading to bigger and better things or end-game content. I played this game called Tibia pretty seriously for a period of time and then got bored and was going to stop. There were a few months where the only thing I would do is log in, do about 6 daily quests I enjoyed doing that were dead easy, collect my 1000gp or however much it was and walk around town for a bit debating if I want to level up before quitting.

I am complete opposite. When I was seriously raiding in WoW (we were usually somewhere in top 5 guilds on our server) I still did just enough to have money for any gear/consumables I needed.

Same in other areas, I need to have some end goal, else I don't have all that much motivation for work or getting better pay. Else I'd just burn money on random crap (I got better with that over the years)
I had a friend who was the son of a billionaire who threw elaborate dinner parties at his house and he very generously asked for $20 for each attendee. The food obviously cost more than $20 but paying the $20 made us feel like we weren't freeloading.
I should have said (to the CrabLang folks): this is why the Rust foundation cares about trademarks.
I'm pretty much a carnivore whenever given a choice. I find the Impossible line of beef replacement perfectly edible and usable in any dish where cooked ground beef would otherwise work. (I don't think I'd enjoy it as mett, but it's fine for anything else.)

Impossible's only problem for me is the price makes it impossible for them to succeed in the market. Their product tastes fine; it's not enough better than $3/lb ground beef for people to pick it.
I love Paprika, one of my favorite apps I use. It even syncs a grocery list between my phone and my Mac.
I use PlantUML every single day.
It can be embedded in Markdown docs and even Confluence (which I hate but I'm forced to use).

Diagram as Code is simply awesome. My only issue is how ugly it looks, even using themes.

I wish an application managed to be a drop in replacement that looked like it wasn't drawn in MS Paint in 1996.
I asked GPT-4 to explain it to me, and asked if it could identify the algorithm. It didn't do a good job here (returned name of function). But when I told it that it was also called "Shar's algorithm", it immediately identified the author as Andrei Alexandrescu who apparently goes by the pseudonym Shar as well.

> Yes, with the name "Shar's algorithm," I can confirm that this branchless binary search algorithm is indeed known as Shar's algorithm. It's a variation of the Binary Search algorithm that focuses on minimizing branching to improve performance on modern CPUs. The algorithm is named after its creator, Andrei Alexandrescu, who goes by the pseudonym "Shar" on the internet.
My wife and I built our own Laser Maze for our front yard so kids could try it out on Halloween. https://www.tiktok.com/@bobbylox/video/7163380326008425770
> See hobby horse mentioned in title

> Click into comments

> Don't engage with TFA

> Rehash random pet peeves about hobby horse

> Become top comment thread above 100 other comments actually discussing TFA
> like a carpenter refusing to try power saws and power drills because craftsmanship will be lost compared to using handsaws and awls + hand drills

Rejecting AI-backed software tooling reminds me more of Amish power tools.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/22/172626089/insi...
Bluesky Social: former Twitter CEO has a new app that looks a lot like Twitter
And what if I have to use 3 browsers and don't want to set up accounts or give up privacy?
Given the bare-bones API and semantics, probably because it describes absolutely no fault tolerance at all.

Lose a processor or a message and it's just lost. Try to address that with copy-put-take and you now have duplicates. Try to address that and you now have byzantine failures with no resolution or supporting tooling. So it's wonderfully simple until you need to do something outside of a single process and then it's useless.

Internet-friendly stuff generally has a hard requirement on being fault tolerant.
present tense?
Guessing this was up voted because of the recent rulings of the US supreme court?
I find it hard to imagine that someone could be an ex-Google employee and struggle financially. Unless they were financially irresponsible.

Being a Google employee for any amount of time is a huge privilege
Yes, but what if you want to alter, restructure, or abolish parts of that bureaucratic apparatus? A lot of US officialdom (and business) is operated by unquestioning drones.
I would much rather my friends invite me to spend time together while cooking rather than go to a restaurant. For one, the mean will be guaranteed to be delicious and more healthy than the restaurant. Two, it is cheaper. Three, we get to do an activity together as opposed to sit around. Four, at least one person does not have to travel.

I could go on, and restaurants are okay and all, but I prefer them for casual acquaintances. With the closest friends, I would hands down pick cooking (assuming eating together is all we are doing).
The analogy doesn't apply because a hotel has an override using a master key. In this case, the website, hopefully, would just open a support ticket with CloudFlare, and add a level of indirection that likely means my HAR file wouldn't even make it to CloudFlare. However, I think you make a good point that reporting to the website will put more pressure on CloudFlare or the website owner may choose a different vendor that has fewer problems. I think it's worth reporting to both in this case.

Now that CloudFlare has engaged with this problem, I'll give them some time to try to fix it, and if they don't, I'll start complaining to every website that uses this CloudFlare feature.
Like almost everything on BI it seems.

It's just an awful, spammy clickbait-y site, all the way down. Almost by definition in violation of HN guidelines.
>> "use just once in awhile" use case.

Like the non-removable link in my start menu for the MS "Mixed Reality Portal". Total waste of good pixels.
Cars are wholly other kind of funny. Get 15 years old sports car, especially "looking" sporty, and people will look at you like you're trying to show off your wealth when they are driving SUV 3x as more expensive as your car...
In all my previous houses I just cut a hole in the door. $50s from a big box store for the proper door and a jig saw. I think they even sell templates you can attach to the door to make them more seamless.

But also I'm not trying to keep the cat out so there's that. I just like the door closed
Hey, I joined up a few days ago and wrote a little intro post, but I seem to be blocked from posting pending admin approval. I know you’re busy, so I don’t want to bother you, but I’m eager to participate.
I'm building my own Large Chair Model with stricter restraints on emergent behavior. I want no part in fueling the rise of sentient chairs.
From OpenAI's Sam Altman
https://playbook.samaltman.com/
The 300zx in the video appears to be non-turbo. (No rear spoiler)
My HP-29C could use something like that. I have it on the shelf beside me
I use AA batteries and the seem to have both a good shelf life but I do now about life span because I don't use it much but when I do it still works.
> I'm talking about cryptocurrency

What restricts people from putting their money in crypto?
GEFS: A good enough file system
having ported Yale's Gelernter and Carriero (sp?) Tuple Spaces to Alliant FX-2800 in 1988, so familiar for a long time, you just gave rise to a question that I can not answer.

Is NoSQL close enough, so MongoDB etc displaced tuple spaces?
The "more to it" is that the use-after-move checks aren't bugprone in Rust, you cannot use a value after it has been moved in safe code (additionally, when you call a function, values are moved and not copied, and when you capture a value in a closure, it is either by unique mutable reference, immutable reference, or moved and therefore safe*).

Essentially all the stuff that makes std::move questionable "just works" in Rust. It doesn't even exist, values are moved by default and clones must be explicit (equivalent of a copy constructor for non-trivially copyable types).

The other giant advantage is that use-after-free doesn't exist in safe Rust, since you can't have a reference to a value outlive the value.

* It is also a compile error for a closure that captures a value by reference to outlive the value.
Many, many years ago bind was an absolute giant complex ball of security holes.
> I'll never understand why we don't just staple green cards to master's degrees.

As someone who has interviewed and worked with a number of international students with master's degrees, approximately 70% of them somehow manage to get a master's
from a US college without actually knowing anything, so my cynical side says we definitely should not automatically add green cards to master's degrees.
Nice! (Full disclosure, I work with the author) I'm super glad you published this :) We've been using this where I work for about 6 months, and it's been super helpful. It's insanely fast to build, deliver, and modify admin workflows for our ops team.

It's surprisingly flexible, so we don't actually build out custom workflows in our main app unless they're either 1) very complex (think interactive sales pipeline), or 2) we've iterated on them in Runnable and want to pull them into the main UI.

Again, nice work!
Well.

Finally, Betteridge's law of newspaper headlines is letting us down :)

I've had a bit of a email server for my family in 1999-2002 era, as a high school and university student. I've looked into it several times recently and it seems like the barrier to (effective, practical, reliable) entry is so much HIGHER than it used to be, unlike with almost all other technology.
Yea headline isn't true. I send out email from my business and lots of people with gmail address get it.
Lyocell is technically in the rayon family but it's got roughly double the tensile strength of viscose (common) rayon. You can see the difference with an electron microscope:

https://www.undershirts.co.uk/blogs/research/viscose-vs-moda...

Having owned several articles of clothing made from both, they're very much not the same — in particular, lyocell lasts a lot longer.
A lot of people told me about this “chair EMI turns off screen” after I published my “weird monitor bugs” article: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird%20monitor%20bugs

Curiously, I never had someone contact me through https://lunar.fyi/ about this problem so I could not include it in the article. But it is mind boggling how many people have this problem and just now start to realize what is causing it.
Saws certainly can project a laser beam across the cutting surface, and don't get me started about AI powered CNC cuts. I mean, just the other day I found the words "WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME?" CNC'd onto a piece of plywood I left in my shop. I didn't do that by hand.
I'd get the 1.9 deal anytime, if it's so good I end up using it more than a year I'll happily pay twice the lifetime price in the end.

If it's like 99% other products that offer bulk deals, I don't know such a long time ahead whether I'll end up using it that much. The expectation of savings by taking the "worse" short-term deal is higher than taking the supposed advantageous lifetime/bulk deal in my case.
Then these services need to model their threats with more sophistication. The existence of this project indicates there are security vulnerabilities in services that use OpenAI. In any case, I maintain that increased attention to this topic is a good thing rather than a bad thing, which is contrary to what GGP was suggesting when they referenced the Streisand effect.
Buying better, more durable things that won't break after a year or two is one way to spend more money for less environmental impact. Tho the maths on that is kinda iffy, as it is hard to tell how much of the "more expensive" is "longer, harder production process that generates more emissions" and how much is "we put actual good engineering into it".
I switched to an iphone mini and experienced a minor improvement in my typing accuracy, but it’s still pretty torturous compared to back in the day.
"Scripting" language is a misleading way to view Bash.

It's a popular "command" language. PowerShell's language is another "command" language, but Bash is more popular than PowerShell due to its vastly longer history and Unix's superiority as a platform for technical work compared to Windows.

Other "scripting" languages (like Python or JavaScript or Ruby) are not drop-in replacements for Bash or PowerShell. You can do with Python what you should do with Bash (such as a nightly system maintenance script or a script that installs a program on your system), but it will be more work (assuming you've already paid the not-insignificant upfront cost to learn Bash). Bash directly interfaces with the system shell in ways Python cannot and was not meant to. Python's a general-purpose scripting language, meant for general work on any system, while Bash was designed to be your gateway to the Bash shell (the terminal) for your Unix system, same as PowerShell for Windows.

Arguably, on the flip side, that's why it's so horrible for general purpose work compared to Python. Making a Space Invaders game in Python? Great. In Bash? Morbidly cool but horrible.

There are Python-based shells for Linux, for example, but I don't think Python can ever be as ergonomic of a "command" language as Bash since they're two different paradigms. They just happen to both output script artifacts.
Indirectly.

More directly: spammers are killing independent email. Email's peer-node-trust story is so "version 1.0 Internet" that webmasters are left basically using heuristsics, shared models, and tea-leaves to determine whether arbitrary incoming messages should be trustworthy or not, and "they should not" is a good first-pass guess!

So Google (as the thousand-pound gorilla) is serving as a lightning-rod for a larger network-effect problem, which is "Users generally consider themselves better served if most unsolicited email they receive with no strong trust priors drops into a black hole." But that makes it very hard to be a newcomer who wants to establish trust priors.
You didn't even mention the 3000GT :(
not exploits of the OS, but I've used this to exploit web applications quite a bit. Tricks like these get your past a lot of input filters or validation logic. This allows me to trick these apps into making HTTP requests to internal or private IPs/hosts.

As an example, think of a cloud based web performance monitoring system. I trick it into making HTTP requests to 169.254.169.254, and I get access to data from their AWS metadata service...
Spam is killing independent email.
gmail is fairly good at blocking it, is easy enough to get into, so it's been winning for years.

I used to run independent email. It took constant work to get close to gmail's level of spam blocking. So I switched. Found most alternatives weren't anywhere near good enough, and I don't have enough hours in the day even for my own email.
I'm not actively trying to avoid detection (e.g. VPN, Tor, etc.). Another user mentioned Firefox's privacy.resistFingerprinting might be the issue, but I don't have that enabled. Maybe there's something else in Firefox that is avoiding (A), and I'm willing to open a Firefox bug report to investigate that, but the core issue here is CloudFlare blocks without any diagnostic information and its community support forum didn't engage. This HN post has caused some amount of engagement from CloudFlare and hopefully it'll be fixed.
Yeah, I should have put “because it’s fun to drive without contributing towards global warming” (I live in a hydro-power area) - guilt-free pleasures are hard to come by.
LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions
Their github is here: https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/LaMini-LM
Spam (and the resultant filtering) is killing independent email, and it's an ongoing problem on Big Company Hosted Email too.

I barely use email anymore. Everything at work is mediated by Slack or Atlassian. With friends and family it's almost all text messaging. My kids' schools and sports teams use a bunch of different proprietary web and mobile apps to communicate with parents.
Yeah, the call box in general is just not a great system in my experience. I often just tell guests and delivery people to text or call me when they get there, which works for me because my apartment is very close to the lobby. It’s just easier than hoping they figure out how to use the call box and follow my directions to get to my apartment.
> PhDs on the other hand, regardless of the field, you've contributed something unique to the collective knowledge of humanity. Instant green card, it's even dumber to kick them out.

Depends on the field. I've met PhDs that are fantastic, and I've also met PhDs whose defining contribution to human knowledge over their entire lifetime was "I made this algorithm 2.3% faster in a specific tiny edge case that no one will ever care about."