skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The name alone, but even the description sounds like a special item in an RPG.

> These droplets are characterized internally by very high residual stresses, which give rise to counter-intuitive properties, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer or a bullet on the bulbous end without breaking, while exhibiting explosive disintegration if the tail end is even slightly damaged.
https://archive.is/zWRxh
>I'm not knocking it (here, anyway)

>but for folks who care about reality

You tried
unAmerican...

I'm American. I've always liked this way of describing things that we don't like. It somehow (to me) implies something. Maybe I don't know what that is, but it seems mostly anti-bad.

If anyone wants to hate on me, I think that HuAC was tragically misrepresented to the public, and the Hollywood blacklists should have been longer and wider. Sorry, but that's how I feel about it. Many of the jokers that ended up there were acting very irresponsibly and as if there were no consequences for their actions. The actions being a hidden alignment with an internationalist organization actively seeking to undermine the USA from within. (Something we can accomplish without any outside help.)
Logic Pro for the iPad is fun with few compromises
A Decade in Data Engineering – What Has Changed?
All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year
My biggest issue with Jira (and Confluence) is that it is unbearably slow. At every company I've worked at, we've used Jira, and everytime, it is slow.
> You should expect similar results as if it was bunch of people passing a single piece of paper to each other, each writing a single word on it, not communicating with each other in any other way and trying their best to come up with coherent result.

I'm pretty sure GPT-4's context window is bigger than '1 token'.
I wish there was a better way to scale receiver feedback. It is very hard/impossible to scale without the server saving every frame and being able to come up with the frames as needed.
The only name in this list that gives me pause is Daniel Dennett. At least he has a philosopher’s historical perspective on the challenges ahead.

Very few neuroscientists as signers. Perhaps they know better.

For me the basic sociopolitical climate today (and for the last 120 years) is at an existential boil. This is not to say that birthing AGIs is not frightening, but just to say that many real features of today are just as, or even more frightening.
"Tiny Transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm" was the title.
Small c compromise, not big C. These are invented toy examples, but when I say compromise I mean things like chat logs, public transportation/taxi ride history, supply chain attacks, etc.

If you want to think about the attack surface, look at companies that serve other companies and ask "what can someone with root on all of this companies machines do?" and more importantly "How mature are these companies security teams?" Imagine compromising a law firm, a public relation agency, or a newspaper. A VPN provider, a corpnet provider, or a cloud provider.

My password vault doesn't have my ssh keys, but it does have my no 2fac required github recovery tokens. Phones have a lot more than just security tokens. They could provide information useful for phishing or extortion, too.

I think you asked this because I used a rather grand example and that's fair. If I were to look at my post critically I think I under-stated both the potential security mitigations in place by competent security teams and the difficulty of really compromising someone's phone, and therefore somewhat overstated the problem.

When playing war games, you give your opponent every conceivable advantage somewhat grounded in reality, and I have given this idealized attacker the advantage of an incompetent security team, easy compromise of phone, and lack of political consequences for taking a phone out of someone's sight and/or compelling them to enter passwords by threat of force.

If you had an intelligence agency with a significant amount of APT penetration, you might look up every person who requests a visa on LinkedIn and determine if they can amplify the position of your APTs. Maybe you have compromised a taxi app or and and know what hotel they are going to and you can steal a notebook when they leave the room.

I think phone out of your possession is a credible attack, maybe less so today, absolutely 10 years ago it was. Pegasus is a thing, and there were definitely rumors that Chinese police had a little USB stick they could put into peoples phones that would install an app that then disappears from the home screen.

For as long as I can remember, it is hammered into every person who works around security that "no physical security means no security." Losing possession of your phone is the loss of physical security.
> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

The comparisons selected here seem off to me.

No mention of climate change? It's a more recent and concrete problem with more hard science (spanning decades) than our current understanding and presumed speculative risk of AI, which governments have also failed spectacularly at curtailing.

The pandemic was similarly mishandled and was not solved with regulation of any sort.

Nuclear war is an arguably apt comparison but happens to have become prioritized by militarization of nuclear resources and research which ... doesn't seem like a good goal here?
>two tiny TVs a couple of centimeters away

Distance doesn't matter for light. It just adds a delay that is the distance divided by the speed of light

>vomiting direct light with high intensity into them

Most VR headsets are only 100 nits. That's less intense than than the intensity of light by being in an indoor room. Going outside is many magnitudes more intense.

>natural light is the same

What is "natural light"?
Absolutely agree!
Vue + Pinia = This is the way ©
Specific rule is they can't solicit new members, as badly as they might wish to. You have to ask. The advice to check out multiple lodges is key, as they really are different. Most of the guys in mine have said they probably wouldn't have joined another one, so they're really that unique. A lot of them have pub nights and lunches where prospective members meet everyone, and having those is a good sign they're growing and lively.

When the work in masonry is good, it lets guys really, really shine. When it's weak, it's hard to watch, but seeing what any mason can do and how well he chooses to do it gives you a lot of perspective on where you are. If anyone from HN does get initiated in the Toronto area, track me down and I will show up for it.
> Playing “20 questions” with ChatGPT is another great way to expose its limitations. It knows the game and tries to play, but is terrible at asking questions to narrow down possible answers.

GPT4 did well enough for me. The questions below are asked by GPT4, and the yes/no answers are my responses to GPT4. I think it did quite well at 20 questions.

Is it a person? No.
Is it a place? No.
Is it a tangible object? Yes.
Is the object man-made? Yes.
Is the object typically found indoors? Yes.
Is it an electronic device? No.
Can it be held in one hand? Yes.
Is it used primarily in the kitchen? No.
Is it related to a specific hobby or activity? Yes.
Is it used in a sport or physical activity? No.
Is it used in creating or making something? No.
Is it associated with a board game or a card game? No.
Is the object related to music? Yes.
Is it a musical instrument? No.
Is it used to control or manipulate sound? Yes.
Is it typically used in the process of recording music? Yes.
Is it a type of microphone? No.
Is it used to alter or modify the sound of a musical instrument during the recording process? No.
Is it related to the control or adjustment of volume or sound levels? No.
Is the object used to store or convey recorded music? Yes.
Is it a vinyl record? No.
Is it a compact disc (CD)? Yes.
(22 questions total.)
The old green-screen keyboard only interfaces took longer to learn how to use but with time you could get much faster than modern mouse-centric GUIs.
If you're afraid of crawlers that will feed into AI datasets, why not just render images into canvas elements?

This kind of watermark makes images bad for everyone, not just the AI. Do you really want to see this on every website you visit?
I think the metaverse would kill morale regardless of how it was implemented or who's idea it is.

I mean, just thinking about it kills most people's morale instantly.

It will be great for disabled people who can't do these things in the real world, but at the moment the tech is not good enough to complete with anything that has a real life equivalent already.
I don't think being bizarre or not adds much to the fear of alignment. Whether it is or not, the issue remains the same, i.e we are not the ones controlling the learning process. There isn't really any solace in the other option (surprisingly human) in terms of alignment fears.

Let me put it this way. Unaligned intelligence is dangerous. You don't need a Sci-fi book to realize this, just a history one.

Our history is replete with examples of the slightly more technologically advanced group decimating their competition.

Humanity is directly responsible for the extinction of hundreds of species. Not because of any particular malice or offense, simply that our goals didn't align with the interest of any of those species.

Just looking at Humans alone, Unaligned intelligence is potentially catastrophic even when the advantage gulf is fairly low.

When the advantage gulf is large, it is potentially genocidal.

So personally, "Human SuperIntelligence" doesn't exactly warm the heart.
The problem is why "bare minimum legal requirement" is so low?
Flashing OpenWrt onto the Cisco Meraki MR33 access point the hard way
One of the strangest and most awesome things in LA. RIP Milt.
So would you suggest that US Customs not operate at ports of entry?

I guess we could go back to 1910 and only import stuff and admit people in coastal cities. Make everyone from Europe fly to JFK on the way to Atlanta.
Even if you close an eye entirely VR still works. I don't understand what your point is. If your eye only has 10 to 20% clarity than VR headsets are already clear enough that your right eye can't see a difference in clarity between real life and VR.
Thanks, I was look for well supported and actively maintained C++ library and libdatachannel looks like it!

Btw you need to check the links the AWS one is broken, and rawrtc has had only a few commits over the last few years. Also neither of those is compared in the webrtc-echoes.
The difference from petroleum-eating bacteria is that the genus found in these sargassum patches, Vibrio, includes some much more virulent pathogens. These include (1) flesh-eating bacteria, (2) the species which causes cholera, and (3) the species that causes vibriosis, the intestinal illness commonly contracted from undercooked seafood or exposure to seawater.

The common factor between cholera and vibriosis is the effect these bacteria have on the human gut, increasing permeability ("leaky gut syndrome").

As such, the Vibrio genus is "the dominant cause of death in humans from the marine environment" (quote from the article's FAU source.)

On top of that, sargassum has been increasing due to factors like increasing water temperatures, and large amounts of it end up on beaches or just offshore. It is collected by people in various ways, and even sometimes turned into animal feed. That's not the case with deployments of petroleum-eating bacteria.

Sargassum also acts as an important habitat for many kinds of marine life, increasing the number of vectors by which new Vibrio bacteria could come in contact with humans.

This all means that the potential for a bad outcome is relatively high, but as for any actual concrete risk currently, as you say that hasn't yet been established.
Back to the Moon Full Special – Nova America
They're doing a survey according to the article, to use as data for their weight calculations. This can only be seen as a good thing.

Also, I think I've been weighed going on smaller planes, say the float plane from Victoria to Vancouver. Am I remembering wrong?

I'm really not a beliver in "for your safety" as an excuse for anything, but knowing the proper weight and balance of the plane seems trivially justifiable, and completely worth any intrusion that comes with weighing people.
I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”
Maybe I'm inferring a subtext here, but I think you're asking about how environment facilitates this. It's definitely true that homes with lawns make this easier than say apartments. Part of this is that you're more likely to spend time outside owning a home as you need to simply work on the yard. But the main causal factor is likely just seeing people frequently. Like one reason it was easier to make friends in school was simply because you sat next to people and see them every day. That builds relationships. The same thing happens with work, you spend 8+ hrs a day there with the same people. Some businesses try to curb this, which is curbing natural human interactions and others encourage it too much which feels forced. Weirdly the most significant factor to building relationships is spending time with people. More so than things like religion (correlates because time in church), politics, or other things that we think are major barriers and encourages us to turn to bubbles.
As Louis Rossmann has pointed out in other videos he's made from the comfort of his lay-z-boy, it's not just Nikon wanting to restrict their goods coming in overseas. (In this case it's to protect Nikon's pricing structure between different continents.)

Refurbished Apple parts have been caught up in import restrictions as well, not because they're fake, but because they have an Apple logo on them, and Apple insists that everything overseas coming into the US with an Apple logo must be counterfeit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/9pe9yd/us_customs...
It seems like the "easy" route would be a thin client phone, with just a charge port.
Oh well yes, I just didn't do C as others said.
> It's not intended to work as a web service independent of their product

So I guess this is tied up then.
As an HZD superfan, I support this naming convention.
> LoDuca filed an affidavit on April 25 in which he swore to the authenticity of the fake cases

From the document another commenter linked above, it seems that affidavit is also dodgy:

"The April 25 affidavit was filled in response to the Orders of April 11 and 12, 2023, but is sworn to before a Notary Public on the 25th of January 2023."
If it’s something that’s acceptable in the company’s culture, I just go home.
> When I joined they needed programmers.

How did that work? Unless there is a deployment, the schedule is one weekend a month right? What kind of tech work were you able to do in that timeframe?

You mentioned working in a shelter as well during Harvey. How often were you called into service? It looks likes the number of whether related missions has increased in recent years - https://tmd.texas.gov/texas-state-guard-missions

I just moved to Austin and the idea of joining a state guard is appealing.
I read somewhere that in countries like the Czech Republic, employers who deploy non-competes have to pay 100% of that employee's salary, which makes sense to me.

Put a reasonable financial burden on companies to prevent abuse. I'd happily sign that agreement.
Crazy seeing this here. Someone posted this on the subreddit for The Three Body Problem books.
That happens in some parts of the US finance industry, where it's called "garden leave".
How are nondisclosure agreements abusive?
Every citation created by chat gpt will be hallucinated. It knows what they look like. It doesn’t know what they are.
It doesn’t actually “know” anything. It is a statistical engine for generating the next reasonable looking word.
I do this all the time to my cats. Sometimes the cat will trill back like "oh, got it", which is about equal parts interesting and cute.
Paragraph two: it's smartphones.

Paragraphs three, four, and five: it's the pandemic.
I don't think your view is supported by the data. As for stress, I'm not sure how you can measure that. But as for child labor, there has been a steady decrease over the decades (source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/various-measures-of-child...). Your comment on food shortages vs. eating bad food is hard to understand. Are you saying it is worse to eat bad food rather than starve to death? Starvation rates are way down from 50 years ago. (source: https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/files/2017/05/2_170405_world_fam...) As for lung cancer, that doesn't seem to be increasing in rich countries. Here is a link to CDC data for the US (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6730a8.htm) Do you have data to back up your claims?
Danluu's study seems to conflict with

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

which shows Gvim on Windows with a maximum latency of 1.2ms - much faster than 30ms on the vintage Apple //e or TI 99/4. Even Eclipse, which usually feels slow to me, came in at a max of 20.8ms. (1.2ms seems very fast to me as I would expect ~2ms of average frame latency even on a 240Hz monitor?)

Which study is correct? Are both of them measuring touch-to-display latency?

It's also worth noting that those vintage 8-bit microcomputers typically used CRT TV monitors at 30Hz, while modern monitors often run at 60Hz or 120Hz or more (possibly with asynchronous refresh), so they will have lower frame latency.

While I haven't tested it myself, I believe newer iPad/Apple Pencil 2 combinations have improved their input latency (they claim 9ms but I'm not sure if that's actually end-to-end touch-to-display latency in something like Notes or Procreate.)
Until relatively recently, noncompetes were practically universal in Silicon Valley, very much including among startups.
I don't follow. This decision doesn't stop the Mexican or Canadian governments from searching the phones of people going from the US to Mexico or Canada. It stops US CBP agents from searching the phones of people entering the US. Are you saying the national security issue is that CBP might get hacked by an entity that then gets access to the phone scans? Or that Mexico and Canada will just reciprocate the practice?
When a user posts an LLM-output comment, consider them as just wanting to share it. It may or may not be interesting. I imagine there are many examples of interesting as well as uninteresting (to HN) LLM outputs. Then, use flagging or downvoting to counteract uninteresting comments specifically. (If users widely rate a comment as uninteresting, it will be successfully flagged/downvoted.)
> by a competent attacker could compromise nearly every major corporation in America.

> Imagine if a foreign intelligence agency managed to get a border guard asset.

Sounds like a great reason for Corp IT to not allow anything too important to go on mobile devices.

(Which is already how Corp IT in most well-ran firms operates, not because they are afraid of compromised border assets, but because they are afraid of a million other, mundane reasons for why corp access on a phone can turn into a security and compliance problem.)
To hopefully offer some useful context to what 500ppb means here, the lower bound for blood lead levels the CDC monitors is 3.5 ug/dL or 35ppb. Lower blood concentrations than this are not nessecarily safe, and levels as low as 0.5 ug/dL have been found to be correlated with ADHD [1].

Add to this that children's bodies absorb more lead than adults, between 50 and 100% of the amount of lead ingested [2]. So the concentration of lead in drinking water does not have to be very high at all before it can be harmful. Certainly it's lower than the 500 to 11,000+ ppb reported on here.

Hopefully current and past students of these schools will be tested for lead and given treatment if nessecary.

Edit forgot links

1. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/understanding-link-bet...

2. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/leadtoxicity/biologic_fate.ht...
Imagine going to a movie theater, watching a movie, then leaving and not talking to anyone afterwards. Naturally, that is a terrible way to engage in the movie enthusiast community.

On the other hand, if you spend time with some people, go and watch the movie together, and talk afterwards, it'll feel a whole lot more impactful and you'll find the shared experience fosters a sense of community if you do it on a regular basis.

Denominations, and individual churches within a church, will definitely all have different levels of cohesiveness and character to their communities. It begins and ends, however, with getting out what you put into it.
It is a very compound issue, that people look at as just a simple X vs Y.

You have to consider:

Benefits, taxes (both yours and the companies), cost of living, exchange rate fluctuations, and hours worked per year.
I use catch all aliasing and sieve out the offenders. Seems easier.
One acquisition hardly constitutes a monopoly...
Makes sense, thanks. TBH guaranteed spatial safety is such a nice win I'd take that and still be happy.
The thing is it's very hard to tell whether imported purportedly second-hand goods are authentic or not. Ebay could be held liable for facilitating counterfeit imports and that's what they came up with.

Some people report that after providing receipts to the rights owner they got unblocked.

Also see Blazer v Ebay, where it appears that Ebay (in 2017) was not really jumping to take down items on a whim.
I think it's just that the bristles are all nicely aligned on a new head - after a while they start splaying, so pressure is going in more directions over a larger area.

I do love the feeling of a fresh sonicare brush.
Sorry about that! Fixed the AWS link, got truncated on phone.
How are you accessing the data in notion now? Via HTTP? It might make sense to migrate to something that supports that interface in order to ease migration instead of a wholesale rewrite. You could start with sqlite or even postgres and with extensions mimic the interface you're used to while transitioning to a pretty scalable database.
> Things clicked after Meursault said he had lost the habit of analyzing his own thoughts, and instead resorted to feelings and emotion.

So we can assume if Camus posted on HN he would be downvoted into oblivion.
Most artists don't have control over the way their image is rendered. They just use Deviantart or Instagram, because that's where the communities are.
You are looking for a debate, I think. It's the whole thread. You're nerd sniping. It's classic.

You're not a fan of DNSSEC and prefer CT. When faced with examples where CT doesn't cut it, you refuse to discuss the big picture, pounce on incorrect details, and then resort to claiming your opponents are uninformed or arguing in bad faith.

The bottom line is my original big picture claim, the part that's on-topic for the article - that CT works for browsers on personal computers but not other classes of internet connected devices - it's true! And you know it! But you'd rather debate the details than inform readers about what they actually want to know (the big picture - i.e. that DNSSEC is useful).

I've observed your behavior before on hacker news, but experiencing it directly is eye opening.
It all comes down to managers and PMs. or wanting to do their job of communicating status to stakeholders so they try to automate it with the monstrosities.
Yes, I am no longer a member. However, I still do my best to follow the teachings.