skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if the people want sludge, why not give them sludge? That’s the argument of entrepreneur Oleg Stavitsky, who points out that “functional” sounds—designed for focus or sleeping—always feature among streaming platforms’ most popular playlists. He’s one of six cofounders of Endel, a slick Berlin-based app that uses AI to generate one endless piece of music that adapts to your surroundings. When I use it to soundtrack my daily dog walk, the app uses the accelerometers in my phone to generate music that falls in time with my footsteps. If I start skipping or jogging, the music’s tempo catches up. For Stavitsky, functional sound—he’s careful not to call it music—can co-exist with human-made compositions. He believes people want both.

Satie and Eno obviously come to mind, but this more specifically reminds me of the multiple Ballard stories about weird sound generating sculptures, clothing, etc. Been years since I read them, but I think they always appear in his Vermilion Sands locale.
What about using the camera batteries, based on Sony’s original Lithium ion battery pack?
Those operators are in "2.6.4 Arithmetic Expansion" in your linked doc. See the link to "Arithmetic Precision and Operations"[1].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201219013931/https://pubs.open...
OK, the system improves with scale. For some metrics which have thresholds of success, that looks like a discontinuity. But the discontinuity comes from the metric, not the improvement.

Anything measured by "winning" has this property. Small changes near the "winning" threshold result in large changes in wins. This is well known in sports.

Is there more to this issue than this amplification effect?
Some crawlers execute JS, but last I heard or checked even Bing’s crawler seldom did, and Google’s clearly tried to avoid doing so.

Of humans that deliberately disable JS, certainly going to be under 0.1%. (I’m one of them, incidentally, because on average it makes the web much better, lighter and faster.)

Of humans where various JS doesn’t run, due to having an older browser, a corporate proxy that blocks some things, a content blocker like uBlock Origin that incidentally blats your script, unreliable network conditions, and more things… well, that number is regularly quite a lot higher than 0.1%, often above 1%.

As for something like the Statcounter tracker, which these specific stats are built from, their methodology is obviously stupidly broken and has been for many years: ad blockers will tend to block it. (uBlock Origin does by default, and I expect others to as well.) And that number is generally agreed to be well above 10% (some say as high as 40%, though I’m sceptical of that), and heavily overrepresents users of less common browsers like Firefox.
I'm inclined to agree. Intel's iX branding sort of make sense at one point, i3 meant entry level/budget, i5 was mainstream, i7 was enthusiast.

Except actually Celeron was entry level, and i3 was entrish-level. Also i7 wasn't enthusiast, no you needed an i9 processor to be a REAL enthusiast. Also now mainstream tasks can run just fine on the i3's if not the Celeron chips.

I long thought their branding was over-convoluted MBA mess which was overdue for some simplification.
To be fair, a household servant got room and board too.
I think that's the case everywhere - certainly all cars in the UK haha immobilisers as standard.

However, there are some brands of car where it's possible to gain access to the CAN bus, and inject "start the car" messages, so then it's just a case of a standard ignition lock theft (which is easily done in old school sawn off bit of scaffold pole style).

Some cars headlight wiring connects to the same CAN bus as the immobiliser, making the theft easy from outside the car. Don't have the link handy, but there was an article on here a few weeks ago about it.
Lynxmotion is good for servos.
Apple is not doing it right.

You have the "MacBook Pro with M1 Pro" which makes my eyebrow twitch.

You also have the "M1 Max" which is lower grade than the "M1 Ultra". Despite it you know, being the MAX.

I will say that this branding while uncharacteristically sloppy for Apple, is better than bullshit like the "Intel Platinum i6-43065GF Extreme edition" which is simply incomprehensible to the untrained eye while the trained eyes roll in the back of their skulls.
I think Lichess already does this. When players do this, there's a warning in the chat that repeatedly doing this will result in a temporary ban. I don't know how long the ban is and whether it becomes permanent, since I never do this unless my connection actually dropped.
Wow maybe this would be news if it was made last year
Funny story, we wanted to watch it recently and found it streaming online somewhere. Unbeknownst to us, it was in reverse, presumably to avoid copyright infringement/getting caught. But there was no mention of it in the description so we had no idea and watched it beginning to end, or rather, end to beginning. After a while I was wondering why nothing I'd read about it mentioned the very interesting artistic choice to play all the footage backwards. The famous music was also istaqsinaayok but I thought maybe after a little while it would switch. It didn't but by then it seemed perverse not to continue. It's really quite poignant in reverse, i recommend it!
In terms of security they aren't the same, the semantics are different.
An analogy is "if you take half of what's left each day, you'll never run out".
Are you serious? Jsx was first implemented in php by Facebook. One of the most popular features of modern JavaScript was original designed (and implemented) in php.
> The Ukrainians are inflicting heavy losses on the Russian side (including Wagner mercenaries) without taking losses that are nearly as heavy.

IIRC, the Ukrainian losses are still pretty heavy. Most other countries have advised them to stop squandering resources trying to hold it, because they think that could undermine their spring offensive.
How about making a chat interface for email? They won’t ban email. Or will they?
Doesn’t seem like many games at all have achieved this. If any. Seems like an extremely difficult problem to try and shard a multi player game on to multiple machines while still being able to interact with everyone.
The world’s first wood transistor
same as recycling. it makes me sick. no one with power gives a fuck and then someone has the idea that we should blame individuals for cutting their own grass?
I had a similar experience in jiu jitsu, everyone is way better or way worse, so it’s very frustrating to play usually.

Unfortunately there isn’t an online jiu jitsu platform :)

I’ve also found there’s many many parallels between chess and jiu jitsu, which is really interesting, chess really is a super aggressive combat sport in terms of mental work.
Might be no chase policy -> use it to do some crime -> ditch
If the window is cracked open, you can usually get a tool in that will allow you to unlock the car from the inside, as you would if you were inside the car. You can then get in without any noise.

Source: I used to hang out with people who knew car thieves when I was much younger (very early 90s). I knew the area's worst car thief by name, and he would tell you how skilled he was at any opportunity. He always had a thin piece of metal with a hooked end on him (fitted down his jacket arm) for this purpose.
The potential for a 9.0 magnitude earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Absolutely. I know from personal experience that much of what remains of independent journalism in India, as well as some NGO work (long under government scrutiny) is conducted through Signal and Element.
you don't know anyone who got Lyme disease do you?
It is a clone of RoR. Pretty much all open source projects take inspiration from other projects. Ironically, there’s not a single good clone of Laravel (or RoR) in node. Wonder why... (sometimes the language and it’s features do matter apparently (and yes I’m being sarcastic))
It's not just economic cost, it's also energy cost (the EROI). It costs some % of a barrel of oil just to pump up a new barrel of oil. When that ratio is 100%, you can no longer pump oil for energy, though you might still pump it for the raw materials, or to convert a different source of energy into tasty gasoline.

So there probably always be oil remaining in the ground that costs too much energy to extract.
But is he actually a viable check on the legislature? If he stopped the legislature from doing something popular isn't there a good chance he'd lose the power to do that? And hasn't the Queen used her influence over the legislature corruptly? [1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
And pretty much all forums.
They don’t need get everybody, just prevent the network effect.
I suppose real secret agents run a VPN client that looks like a game of chess, or go, or something else innocuous, and playing a particular unpopular debut switches on the VPN, while fumbling with settings just so switches it off, etc. Otherwise it's a standard-enough chess program that can honestly play some chess.

I don't think that TLS to port 443 can draw too much attention, too.
Did he cheat in the end? I couldn't keep up after the internet mob kept going back and forth on who was right and wrong.
Modern Turkey has the limited right to block passage of warships through the Bosphorus, a right which it is most notably exercising right now, during the war in Ukraine.

The Montreux Convention does not allow Turkey absolute discretion here [0], but international law is really about practicalities rather than theory.

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/01/turkey-black-sea-strait...
Microsoft is already having issues to move Windows development community into ARM for the last decade, it is a pipe dream they will ever care with RISC-V.
Chess variants are fun too, like shogi. Pretty fun to play once you learn the pieces.

And... there's lishogi now. Which means you can play, do exercises, observe games, all in the browser and in English.
Open AI is not taxpayer funded.
Yes, I always blame people for the things they do; to themselves, and to others.

There is a time where it's excusable, like when it wasn't clear that smoking causes cancer. But when you should know, then you should know.

I also understand that addiction is extremely difficult to fight, so I don't judge people who are addicted. But it is still their responsibility to solve the problem, or not to. It's the community's responsibility to support people fighting their addictions.

I judge people who pretend that there's no problem, say it isn't their responsibility, and let their children get addicted too.

Meta, and the entire internet, is a shit show. Corporations poison people's minds and addict them to useless content. They ruin lives. But that doesn't mean I'm not disappointed in myself if I give into it.
OpenAI threatens OSS maintainer with lawsuit
I thought it was a "ride faster if you don't want your laptop to shut down and drop your call" kind of experiment, but it's more of a "let's run a laptop on a big battery from an e-bike", should have read the title more carefully.
Actually I think php docs are one of the best in class, the api at least. Try python, very little (and cluttered) official docs.
Read "Designing Products People Love" by Scott Hurff.

Good TLDR to start from is "From idea to paying customer" in Linen blog[0].

[0]: https://www.linen.dev/s/linen-community/t/545988/from-idea-t...
His website also has a version for printing out on 36 sheets of paper and folding into a real book:

https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl-a5-booklet.pdf
Spain breaks record temperature of 38.8C (101.84F) in April
It's not just handwaving. It's knowing the context. As late as the mid 80's it was not unusual for multiplication to take tens of cycles if your CPU even had a built in multiplication instruction (e.g. on the M68000 in the Amiga, a MULU - unsigned 16 bit -> 32 bit multiplication - took from 38 to 70 cycles plus any cycles required for memory access; if you needed to multiply numbers larger than 16 bit to depend on the overflow like in the case of this article, you'd need multiple instructions anyway), far worse if it didn't, while memory loads were often cheap in comparison (on the M68000 a memory read indirect via an address register could be down to 8 cycles), and so until years after that it did make sense to do all kinds of things to reduce the need for multiplication. But it doesn't any more.

While it'd be worthwhile doing tests to confirm a specific case, the default assumptions have changed: Today memory is slow and multiplication fast (in terms of cycles; in absolute terms both are of course far faster).

You certainly should not today pick a more complex hashing scheme to try to avoid a multiplication without carefully measuring it just because it was discussed even by someone as smart as Knuth in a context where the relative instruction costs where entirely different.

If you're actually using the function as the primary hash function, then the distribution of the output might well make up for significant performance difference, so this is not to suggest that tabulation hashing isn't a worthwhile consideration.
And how come WA is not blocked?
It's a really shitty job. Americans think it's glamorous.

The Dutch king earns a few million euro per year. His clever brother prins Friso, with no royal duties, became a businessman in London and amassed a fortune without being stalked by a hundred reporters.

Mind you I prefer the monarchy because I shudder to think what absolute clown the people would elect as president. My faith in democracy has been shattered thanks to America.
Startup evolution – from idea to IPO in 10 hard steps
They're over with the people who said weight lifting was over after cranes were invented, or that athletics competitions would be obsoleted by cars.
Super cool demo. I uploaded a messy fraud dataset and asked it some queries like "when have you seen the most fraud", and it was able to convert this to a COUNT aggregated on days.

At least for investigative workflows (where it's pretty common for data scientist to often have to rebuild custom dashboards), it'd be really cool to have the system handle prompts such as "give me a regex on email address that seem to incur the most amount of fraud" -- or unveil some insight on the data that is usually just a mix of operator/data scientist domain specific knowledge + pattern matching.
When this stuff started happening in Russia qlmost a decade ago, everybody was joking about bureaucrats instead of taking measures. Fast forward a few years, Internet access is not unlike cheese with holes in it, and a great number of people had to invest in VPN access.
I like AS Colour - a company from New Zealand - who make great, reasonably priced tees. Available in the US too.
Depending on what terminal you use, this is likely to be related to the remote host missing the right termcap files and therefore there's no way for tmux to know how to do certain things.

One of the nice things about xterm is this basically never happens.
https://carolinainnnc.com/
Yes, the "let's heat a plate of metal" -type ancient electric stoves suck.

Ceramic ones suck a bit less, induction is pretty damn good.
This is called DeltaChat ;)
Andrew Tate is a chess player and promoted chess.

Andrew Tate was the most internet famous person for a period of time with a huge following in the teen male demographic.

Possible cause-effect.
Is there any indian EFF equivalent who can legally challenge this?
I didn’t see that in the ET article. Is there another source?
Just out of curiosity, how much would a site like reddit cost to run?

From a quick google, they have 55M daily users.

How much data would the average one use, and what would that cost? What about the other costs?

How much would a not-for-profit reddit have to charge users for an ad-free experience?
It's in there.

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British-American director Christopher Nolan's 2020 film Tenet, incorporates all the five of the names from the Sator square:

The main antagonist is named Sator.

The artist who created the forged Goya drawings was named 'Arepo'.

Tenet is the title of the film as well as the secret organization that works to save the world.

The opening scene is set at an opera house.

Sator owns a construction company called 'Rotas'.
It's not like Ubuntu was made from scratch, it's on the well engineered shoulders of debian.

Unfortunately that's going to shit now with snaps and similar choices.
I think that would prevent regular joes from accessing whatever it is the article is referring to as messages from terrorists to supporters. But I’d be surprised if terrorists are not organized enough to know to use VPNs
> It’s ok to pay money for things that are useful to you!

I do pay money for useful software! For example, I have no problem paying for intellij. With intellij, my data isn't trapped behind my subscription. If I stop paying for intellij, the software I've written is still on my computer. It still works, and I can still edit it just fine using vs code or something.

Likewise, I don't have a problem paying for Procreate on my ipad. Now that I've paid for procreate, I own it forever. And I can backup all my procreate documents onto an external hard disk (though the process is awkward) and they're mine forever. Thats important.

I even don't mind paying for Fastmail. All my data is stored on their computers, but because its email, I can at least get all my data off fastmail's servers if I ever want to. And then I can migrate my custom domain somewhere else, and I won't have lost any of my data.

But programs like Notion are no good to me. If I do creative work in notion, as far as I know my data is trapped. Does Notion even have a data export tool? Can anything even read notion's data format? Not that I know of. Google docs has the same problem (though at least thats free for personal use). And Figma.

(I just checked - you can export notion data to HTML & PDFs. But you can't get the raw data. Presumably, notion databases and things are all lost. I'd have to copy+paste into another tool losing all my formatting and start again.)

I don't like my creative work being trapped like that. I don't want to be lose access to my own work because the only tool which edits that data gets shut down or aquihired. I don't want to pay a monthly subscription fee to continue to have access to my own work.

I bought MonoDraw years ago (an ascii art drawing program). The developer has stopped working on it, but the software still works great. If it were a web app, I'm sure the website would have stopped working or gone down a long time ago. Just like Google Wave did. Or LiveJournal. Or hundreds of other sites over the years.

> in reality there are almost always ways to migrate your data when you need to.

So long as they put up an API that lets you get your data out. And the data you can get out has the full data model (lots of sites don't provide this!). And you personally remember to back it all up before the site goes down. (Oops - I've failed at this before). Even then, you can't really interact with your data any more except through 3rd party tools.

Sounds like a bad deal.
Fruity -> Fruiterer -> Fruiterist
You shouldn’t, but if you do tell them in writing only to protect yourself against being fired.

Assuming you’re employed by big tech in the US you’re likely in an at will state. That doesn’t mean they can fire you for any reason, as many reasons are illegal.

So if they do fire you, even if they claim there’s “no reason”, if dismissal happens after they’re informed, or after you request “reasonable” accommodation you want that sequence of events documented to show that your dismissal is in response to that information, which is generally illegal. Similarly your performance reviews might suddenly nose dive, to try to create “justification”. In any event document trail is something you need.
There is a simpler way to make ammonia, if anyone is watching Dr Stone =D
Email is very easily snooped. Even where message content is encrypted, there’s a valuable metadata trail.
You sound like me from another mother!
I am 2 years into compost. I am obsessed with the concept and reality. Magical nature.
>Only applicable to CHIP RAM. CPU could access FAST RAM, the default allocation target, all the time.

"default" haha. Afaik the only Amiga that ever shipping with fast ram was A4000. It was introduced at $4600 in 1992. In 1993 it was down to $2500, same price ARL was selling Pentium 60MHz system with 8MB ram.
I disagree. This may or may not be effective, but it's not theatre.

Criminals, terrorists, dissidents, politicians, even intelligence people sometimes... they're users. Just because they can sideload, or otherwise use more sophisticated methods doesn't mean they will. The margins are wide.

Imo, same thing is happening in India as is happening in most places with an active security-intelligence service. They receive valuable intelligence from PMs. Then they fret about potentially losing access or want to increase access.

If you read HN/Reddit/Twitter, you'd get the impression that all this stuff is fake. It's not. Intelligence agencies in 2023 are all about these sources, and jelously guard them. Once they have a source, they're not giving it up willingly.
Last I checked Signal has reproducible builds at least on Android, so it should be possible to verify it doesn't have back doors.
That wouldn't exactly help people who rely on screen readers and such.
What if they also get blocked on a DNS level, just like how they did those porn sites?

You can actually use VPN. But what if the vpn services also get blocked?

While achieving 100% of a blockage is not possible but achieving even a 30% is great.
Terrorist use crypto, they also use cash. Ban them too?
Doesn't make a lot of sense that something is banned just because it was used by a bad actor. Or this is just security theatre.
> Gas dryers are awesome compared to electric for example

Have you tried a heat-pump dryer?

Using gas to drive a clothes dryer is the most American thing in a good while =)

> Plus electric goes out often.

Where do you live when you have a 100% reliable gas hookup but electricity is down "often"?
Took ~30 for me to get one wrong.
So does blood donation have an effect on life expectancy?
They do deep packet inspection on the telco end and drop packets to the blocked servers. Sure there might a way to circumvent, especially if there’s a p2p app, but even those packets may be detected and dropped.
When I lived in a particularly sketchy part of Glasgow about 20 years ago, I lost the keys for my car. It was an old but quite nice (and fast) Citroën CX, so I was a bit worried that I'd dropped them somewhere and someone would use them to steal the car.

I'd been running around in my work van for a week or so, before - by chance - I parked up beside the Citroën, where I saw the keys hanging from the driver's door.

They'd been hanging in the door all week. No-one had touched it.
Ask HN: Are We Being Censored?
The link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35765373
which is an important article about the AI discussion went missing from the front or second page soon after it started gathering lots of upvotes. Can you find it there? AFAIK there is no personalized feed and there are links with less upvotes in more time (its how ranking works but not this time).

Is the connection between HN and OpenAI somehow relevant here?
Do you remember what made the Haskell experience unpleasant?
My 5 year old hallucinates. Ask her about horses and she’ll gladly tell you that she knows everything about them. Hallucination is just not knowing that you don’t know. It’s an absence of doubt. And doubt itself, what is that if not another learned behavior of cross checking your conclusions? Also, it’s easy to spot in someone else, but hard or impossible in ourselves. To know what you don’t know.