skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who seek out these positions are almost always doing it for their egos. If I had to guess based on my life experience the ones jumping ship are in the other camp.
Some of my favorite long ones. They are incredibly relaxing.

Washington DC - Seattle full trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MizGoYFVdzQ

All PS2 games ever released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeRUJQ5yPc (and they have a video for every single major console too)

Switzerland to Italy through the Bernina pass train ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw9qiV7XlFs

Tokyo subway Yamanote line full loop (even though it's only 1 hour long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmuMY6fLaw

Tokyo highway trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-hrZKXM-k
When I ask younger people why they don't want children, many answer me that they don't want to raise children in a world doomed due to global warming.

It is not exactly the same argument, but the idea that children are bad for the environment is implied (at least that's how I understand it)
> Don't Critics hide under the authoritativeness of "best practices"?

That's true! Just calling something a best practice does not make it so. That also has to be argued for, by demonstrating the consequences of one practice over another.

> I trust the wordpress developer's ability to know how to write software that works than someone who doesn't know how or has ever written successful software but knows how to avoid security issues.

Criticism being easier to state than address does not invalidate the criticism. "Sure, this extension may be full of SQL injection bugs, but that's easier said than fixed, so it doesn't matter. I'm going to install it anyway."
Thats cool, do they let you fetch the current datetime multiple times now? Last time I remember you could get the current instant but it would never change for the whole request due to “security reasons”
Software engineer kidnapped, tortured by employers
"Paris tonight. Soon everywhere." - Kim Dotcom
Like ${whatever the recent hot startup renting out goats to graze on customers' lawns}, but for hospice care!
One can score multiple times! : )
> If I identify with the anger, if I think it’s me – ‘I’m angry’ – I’m very likely to pursue, and act on, the angry thought and feeling. After all, I’m just me being me. But because I’m actually the observer of my thoughts and feelings – because I’m separate – I can think: ‘There’s anger in me.’

Ah, mis-step here. You just said that thoughts and feelings are things one cannot have, but merely observe.

You cannot think, "There's anger in me." Without a consciousness that independently generates thoughts, which violates the thesis statement:

> I know that ‘I am’ because I am aware of thoughts, emotions, external objects, not because I think.

Can't have it both ways I'm afraid.

I'm a bigger fan of framings that allow for different abstraction levels or lenses of thought, all of them belonging to the same consciousness. "Emotionally I feel this, but logically I think this, and instinctually I believe this."
You could try saying that. I would say that goodwill isn’t profit maximizing because you can’t account for it, you can’t sell or convert it to profits reliably, and it has benefits other than money.

Or you could just say that having goodwill is in the best interest of the company for a variety of reasons.

The point is: even for-profit corporations have no legal obligation to profit maximize. They simply must act in their best interest. What is in their best interest is intentionally fuzzy because it allows corporate officers to act in ways that aren’t directly profit seeking.

Corporate types like to try to hide behind the rule saying they legally have to do the shitty profit maximizing thing. But they don’t.
Regarding reliability, I doubt it was due to the controller, but where I lived the drive needed a fan blowing on it to keep it from overheating. But my parents didn’t run the ac much…. Fun times…
I have ublock origins. That doesnt block the substack nags. Wanna try again?

Also the website owner should make their website usable. I shouldnt have to be running various ad and script blockers just to get a normal - humane - user experience
> When was the last time you tried that?

Last summer.

There's been a wave of strikes in the NHS since Christmas; I've only used the surgery recently to renew prescriptions over the phone, and I was able to get through with a 5-minute wait. I haven't had a proper appointment for 2 years.
On Windows I've been using "Don't Sleep" [1] and have now switched to "PowerToys Awake" [2] for one-click sleep prevention. On macOS I've used Caffeine [3] for that purpose. KDE on the other hand already has a built-in check box to prohibit sleeping in the power/battery control applet.

There seems to be quite a market for this teeny tiny tools.

[1] https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake
[3] https://www.caffeine-app.net
I'm sure I remember Pike starting off as a literal C interpreter, but somewhere along the line decided to become it's own 'C-like' language.

https://pike.lysator.liu.se

Wikipedia seems to imply that it was separated out from LPmud's built-in 'C interpreter' which sounds about right.
My favorite file manager was dm220 by Bob Abrahams.

With that said, I never heard of DESKTOP2, but looks very interesting.
Ask HN: Does Recaptcha suck for everyone?
I use VPNs quite heavily, and whenever I Google something, I get greeted with a captcha. The worst part about this is that it doesn't stop on the first puzzle - I see upwards of 5 puzzles at a time, and if I'm really lucky (/s), the pieces of the puzzle will load slowly too (eg., you keep tapping the pieces with a fire hydrant and a new one appears in its place, and you cannot submit until all fire hydrants have been selected). These puzzles are really shit and often ambiguous (traffic lights, stairs, bikes in a picture of a bicycle) so I may be doing it wrong and that's why I keep getting more and more puzzles.

There are some patterns though:
1. On Safari mobile, I see the captcha every time I search for something.
2. On Firefox desktop, I see it the first time I search, and then it prompts again after x hours/minutes.

Curious to learn more about what affects this, and how I can improve the search experience without disabling my VPN.
I've started using Microsoft's TROCR (another transformer OCR model) to read the cursive in my pocket journal (I have a habit of writing programs there first while I'm out and then typing them in manually, I just focus better that way.)

It's surprisingly accurate although you have to write your own program to segment the image into lines. I think with some fine tuning I could have the machine read my notebook with minimal corrections.
> Everyone

Defined as a completely made up percentage of people that is in fact < 100%.
The genre of discussion videos that the likes of hbomberguy, Folding Ideas or ContraPoints produce are also often very long. Then there's stream archives, conference uploads, etc. So there's certainly been a few multi-hour videos I've watched.
There are problems that can be solved with ventilation and then there are problems where you need a heat pump. If outside in the shade temperature and humidity are unlivable then "No A/C? Big Problem! You are probably going to die!".

Enough "passive cooling" articles. That's ventilation, just a part of HVAC. These articles makes it sound like the ancient Iran and the termites knew something an entire industry full of engineers doesn't.
I agree. My parents helped with my down payment and cosigned on my home and my partner's parents on theirs. Both were vehicles for them to pass on generational wealth and, more importantly, give an early start to our credit scores. There is no malice or control attached, just parents genuinely wanting the best for their kids.
I think “doomed” means it’s happening no matter if children are put in this world or not.

But I can totally relate to the fact that raising children without future seems absurd.
Could it be difference in diet and or smoking?
AiPrice – API to calculate OpenAI LLM tokens and pricing
Same vein for DOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Extended_Density_Format

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12768/wha...

I recall using an "extended" track to write hidden serial numbers to distribution disks. Not copy protection but phone support authentication.
Im not sure it even has to be complicated and full on machine learning.

Could also just make it easy to share diagnosis to the a database stripped from personal information about the client, properly index it, share it worldwide, allow doctors to contact eachother automatically who match.
This usually depends on the jurisdiction. Class III machines are independent and each one contains its own RNG. Class II obtain their randomness from a central server, and are usually configured to actually be a bingo machine or some other pooled wagering mechanism, and the "slot machine" that you see is a mask for the pre-determined outcome.

In the US, almost all commercial casinos (Nevada, New Jersey, Mississippi, etc) use Class III games while native American casinos use a mix of Class III and Class II. Typically, Class III are preferred by casinos and by gamblers.

Here's another source: https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/state_news/casino-1...
TL;DR Eli is the self-appointed Chief Doom Officer of the Singularity, and his current policy is to preemptively shame AI researchers for the AI-driven Human Extinction Level Event he believes is coming
It’s not nitpicking, it’s a direct responso to Barrin92
Reminds me Google Maps: GET /search?pb=$protobuf_to_string.
Studies Suggest That Rather Than Killing Jobs, AI Could Revive the Middle Class
Was Tesseract one of the APIs you tried?
Qualcomm is developing processors based upon custom cores designed by the acquired Nuvia team.
There was a thread from another article on the washington post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091615

It is essentially the usual "breakthrough" that won't likey have any practical use for many years, the experimental device is tiny and produces very little power.

It seems you need one billion of these devices to get 1 kW.

>The device, the size of a fingernail and thinner than a single hair, is dotted with tiny holes known as nanopores. The holes have a diameter smaller than 100 nanometers, or less than a thousandth of the width of a strand of human hair.

>While one prototype only produces a small amount of energy — almost enough to power a dot of light on a big screen — because of its size, Yao said Air-gens can be stacked on top of each other, potentially with spaces of air in between. Storing the electricity is a separate issue, he added.

>Yao estimated that roughly 1 billion Air-gens, stacked to be roughly the size of a refrigerator, could produce a kilowatt and partly power a home in ideal conditions. The team hopes to lower both the number of devices needed and the space they take up by making the tool more efficient. Doing that could be a challenge.
Does any of this change the results of the work?

If not, can you explain to me like I'm extremely stupid and need a very clear step by step connecting of the dots, why it even remotely matters in the slightest?
Lmao, coming from gimp that's rich.
I don't think I was expressing much of an attitude in my comment. Just a factual statement that seeks to explain why the intervention is successful even though better alternatives clearly exist.

I don't think water should be flouridated and I don't think we should provide support for people lacking self control.
Money has value because of what it buys.

If a society is making 400 widgets it doesn't matter whether each is priced at $2 or $999, the government will only be able to get 400 widgets.

A stupider population makes much less widgets.
Is there a reason we don't just rinse with a base?
I had heard that one reason UK housing was particularly bad insulation wise, and notoriously draughty was because they were all heated by open coal fires. The “bug” of being draughty became a “feature”. There is perhaps a lot to be understood about the British through it’s love of old buildings that are entirely unfit for modern purpose. The Houses of Commons/Palace of Westminster is a great example of this.
> I interviewed and hired 25 radiologists, whose primary and chief complaint was that they had to reboot their computers several times a day..

Yes. There is still so much low hanging fruit for software everywhere.
It’s probably worth noting that genetics is probably a significantly big factor than affects cavities, similar to lots of other stuff. Some folks can eat sugar foods and not brush twice a day and have no issues, while others who even floss daily end up with bad teeth.

Not saying you shouldn’t reduce sugar intake, that’s not my point - but - factors like genetics are very important too, and fluoride might help for such people.
ChatIQ: A versatile Slack bot using GPT and Weaviate-powered long-term memory
Who tf started calling Hinton godfather of AI? It is not only inaccurate but unscientific. What about Minsky, Weizenbaum, Rosenblatt, Hopfield, Lenz, Hebb, Werbos, Turing, McCarthy and whoelse and whatnot. What differentiates Hinton from all the rest? The truth is that all of science is an amalgamation of past achievements, many so small and unheard of that it's just so very very wrong to pick one person and call them godfather. Why Hinton? Because DL had good marketing 10 years back?
Funny enough, I thought the same. His 1 hour single take videos are impressive.

Also, niche and random topics.

I remember a comment about his videos: “I always thought school was boring, but just watched a 1 hour video about ancient ladders”
now we can create a 1986 style berkeley socket, woohoo
> I remember hearing about IPhone apps that can get a 90% hit rate on correct diagnosis for general practitioner style visits.

Was that in marketing materials?

> so most of the time Dr's were using their big brains for big complex problems.

I have been misdiagnosed multiple times to my significant detriment. The issue each time was doctors failing to pay attention and exercise their faculties and knowledge, because they didn't care. These people didn't seem to have "big brains" and my subsequent experience taught me they weren't interested in responsibility or accountability either. I've heard similar stories from (for example) women who struggle with conditions like PMDD.

I'm not on board with giving these people tools that they can use to justify paying even less attention.
Not going to work
People love treating symptoms because humans are notoriously shortsighted
It's fascinating. Having gone through 301 comments and there really hasn't been any deep discussion at whether or not fluoride has been linked to brain harm.... There are little debates about drinking water. I'm disappointed..I'm gonna to have to do some digging.
I wonder what happens to the air craft or living things when they get caught in this high energy beam
12 hours of Enterprise-D engine idle noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRk-DQUUlz8

10 hours of American Airlines hold music (as one commenter there said - likely recorded from a real call):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6V9m98pv0I
While all those look like leaps in capability, they are quantitative rather than qualitative advances. For example, we've always had tools, now we can make very complex tools, i.e. machines. Additionally, those are all advances that developed over a long, or even very long time and that went hand-in-hand with similar advances in other technologies, not to mention scientific understanding.

That makes for a crucial difference with the capability to develop superintelligence: we have no idea how to do it, and we've never created anything even remotely similar to it, yet. It's impossible to see how it might happen just by mixing up some components and stirring well.
> which is in Chinese anyways

...which is not a problem any more since the advent of OCR and translation services...

> and I’ve never read through

Maybe you should? Just point a camera at the thing and run it through a translator.
They are using V8 isolates, so spectre-like timing attacks are a legitimate concern. See https://leaky.page/ for an example.

Their explanation:

"the time value returned is not the current time. Date.now() returns the time of the last I/O. It does not advance during code execution"

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/security-...
Thats more an IT management problem then a software issue.
> You can see it is R/r local revolutions of the small circle. Then you need to add one global revolution from going around the large circle. So R/r + 1.

I understand the article, but I don't I think I quite get or buy your explanation.

I'm curious about your linguistic separation of "local" and "global". What is local and what is global in this situation? I wonder if you are the frame of reference concept? Could you unpack what you mean?

I don't think the terms quite fit. You did when you wrote it; do you still? By this I mean: do you think the way you're using the terms local and global would be intuitive to, say, an audience with a high-school level background in geometry? This is an empirical question, but my inclination would be to say 'probably not'.

I find the article's emphasis on decomposing sliding (i.e. translation) from rotating to be much more intuitive. (Of course people will vary.)

Still, I'm curious. I'm searching for a sense in which this linguistic global/local distinction adds explanatory power. Care to elaborate?
I had an insight when learning about the Halting Problem. There is a class of programs for which the Halting Problem is solvable since you can use circuit analysis to see if well-formed loops halt. We should strive to write programs in that class since then we know that the execution, long as it may be, will yield a result.
PwC suspends 9 partners over Australian tax leak scandal
https://archive.is/Hyyav
You could do http just not other TCP protocols.
Actually, the drinking age varied by state: in New York you could drink at 18, in Colorado you could drink 3.2 beer. The Reagan Administration pushed to make the drinking age a uniform 21, with the notion that this would produce as a great a reduction in traffic fatalities as the airbags it did not wish to mandate.
Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064961
The YouTube algorithm actually values videos higher that people watch for a longer time, so there is an incentive for the creation of this kind of content
Those initial two examples look like kdb. Particularly the second one. That's production code in many places where I have worked. I would send it to hell if I could.

edit: oh, J lang is a later K. That explains it. Similarly it should be sent to hell. It calculates an average in the most obtuse manner. So clever. I hope I never have to work with that one.
> I remember seeing a paper that explained that while the a business needed 7 employees on average to reach something like $1MM in revenue in 90s, it was now 3.

An alternative interpretation: while in the 90’s, 7 people could only support one $1MM business, today they can support at least two.

(US unemployment is lower now than it was then.)
That looks pretty cool. Would you mind explaining a little bit how you did that into more detail? Like, you ask Meilisearch some documents (keyword search) and then ask the LLMs score of those and refine the list a bit?
You miss the point: reality is far, far, immensely far more complex than you, I or anyone else realizes. Attempts to use AI to replace things, people and groups and fields, are fool's errands. They will be colossal failures. Just watch, you may be even a participant: reality is more complex than we realize, and our attempts to replace it with encompassing automation will fail.
Thanks. I loved the thread its spot on about replicator technology.
> which is why they overheat in the summer

I own an old (1890's) terrace house in the UK. The only part that overheats is the modern loft-extension that I built 5 years ago. For the main part, it's like a cave; it retains heat in the winter, and remains cool in the summer.

It has single-leaf brick walls, which should be bad; but the frontage is quite narrow, which makes it pretty energy-efficient.
These OCR tools are bringing us closer to msPaint as a viable IDE
Took me right back to my education and I never really thought about impedance values and why they were chosen.

We used to build 10base2 BNC terminators ourselves with empty connectors, a soldering iron, crimp tool and some hot glue using 47ohm resistors albeit with low tolerance values.

According to my boss they outperformed the industrially produced ones.

Back then, the network problems I was facing was either on the software/configuration side (wrong IPX/SPX network id) or simply faulty pc power supplies (I.e. getting shocked by mains voltage when touching ground, frequently happening after thunderstorms; also the terminators would be hot to the touch in such cases).
"I know I’ve seen fiction where it requires little more than cohabitation"

Emphasis mine. Merely stating you're husband and wife is "little more" in my book. It's pretty easy for people to think you're married, especially if you tell people you're husband and wife to make the conversation easier.
Sorry, I can't talk seriously about a cartoon as if it was a real being :D

If the creator wants to stay anonymous (for which the cat is out of the bag in this case, I'm afraid) we may refer to him as "the guy behind the cartoon", but I can't pretend that the cartoon is the real person... That's just stupid...

Like, let's say you're playing Dungeons & Dragons with your friend over the weekend, where you're an elven warrior or whatever. But you can't compel your colleagues or the Starbucks clerk to treat you as an elven warrior next Monday when you go to work :D
German public media also has some reports which underline the information above:

"How nationalists continue to divide Ukraine (2014)"

https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2014/Hitlers-Helfer-...

"Putsch in Kiev: What role do the fascists play? (2014)"

https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2014/Putsch-in-Kiew-...

When I was searching for an English source, I stumbled upon Craig Murray's blog, who was a diplomat for the UK, who quotes the UN a lot:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/12/protecting-t...

Yes, amnesty is certainly flawed and disliked by the USA. They are even banned in Russia. But you're dismissing the reports from Human Rights Watch and the office of the UN for human rights which I linked above. I think the UN's reports are "useful".
> Polio killed just about everyone that got it, or left them with crippling nerve damage.

That's simply not true.

Polio is asymptomatic or a mild flu-like illness for the vast majority of people infected (still a major public health disaster).

This is well known and, sadly, conclusively demonstrated during the Cutter Incident, where live virus was accidentally injected, due to a manufacturing defect.

> The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, five children died from polio.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories
Technically, OFM or Orthodox File Managers, all you wanted to know and didn't dare to ask here:

https://softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml

BTW even if not strictly orthodox, the 7-zip file manager can be used in dual pane and it is very handy.
Thanks for sharing. Always good to find ML/LLM-oriented newsletters that help surface interesting items and help me stay out of twitter :)
CF Workers seem to slowly becoming a full-blown "edge" platform. A year or two ago you couldn't really use it for much except simple cloud functions and key-value storage, but now, with WS support, S3 storage and SQL database coming along I'll be taking a second look.