skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, it's incredible just how much you're warping language.

> terminating the life of a fetus isn't "infanticide" it's a "choice"

To make abortion sound worse, you redefine infanticide. Encyclopedia Britannica says: "infanticide, the killing of the newborn" - notice how being born is a necessary precondition?

> an abortion clinic isn't "an execution center" it's "a medical center"

Yes, just like any other place that does healthcare.

> people who are against abortion aren't "pro-life" they're "anti-choice"

Yes, you want to take people's choice away.

> abortion isn't "child murder" it's "healthcare"

Yes, because the child develops during pregnancy, it's not there from the moment of conception. Makes it pretty difficult to murder a child if there is no child yet.

But that's what you have to do to make your arguments work - there is no logical basis, so you have to warp everything around you to hopefully find some way to manipulate those around you.
In my tool I let users generate SQL using ChatGPT:
https://www.timestored.com/pulse/tutorial/chatgpt-sql-query-...
However it's their own hosted database and I show them the query for them to run beforehand. For anyone interested in pushing this further, the best paper I found was "Evaluating the Text-to-SQL Capabilities of Large Language Models". It examines which prompts work best and was how I decided on sending schema / create details etc. as part of the initial prompt. Since I create the UI and show the schema as a tree, I can generate that part of the prompt without the users involvement.
WASM can be pre-compiled I assume.

A basic use case for moving from containers to WASM is to provide the option for custom backend code for users in a more lightweight way. For example, I have a site that allows procedural image generation via an API and I originally built it using containers. It could be much less resource-intensive and faster startup if I could run that code in web assembly.

Or, I was building a generative AI site that creates custom web applications. In order to allow backend code, I set it up so everyone gets their own fly.io VM/container(s). This is very flexible but not very fast startup time and the smallest option is like 128MB or 256MB RAM which needs to stay loaded otherwise they will have to wait for another restart.

I never really needed to provide arbitrary Linux capabilities, just sandboxed backend code. So if I do something like that again I will try to use web assembly instead. Probably with lightweight TinyGo or Rust-based request handlers or something like that.
Many multinationals have a very long chain of middle managers between the CEO and the employee doing the actual work, aka "IC".

Corporations who noticed that and started to limit the number of middle managers in the chain to 11, this caused lower ranks of middle managers to only lose their managerial status in the system, while still remaining being managers with the same titles and compensation - "dark management" / "shadow management" ;)

I remember many years ago Intel fired sevral thousands of middle managers to shorten the command chain, and improve decision making.
did you actually go through with cancellation, and did the full process end to end take 3 clicks?

or are you just counting how many clicks it takes to get to the button that starts the process?

the article this post is on says the number of clicks was far more than 3, end to end, so just count those, and compare with the number needed to sign up

there's no reason the cancellation should take longer than signup, especially if Amazon properly warns and confirms when you want to sign up like they do when you want to cancel.
State Machine Driven Design, very intruiging.
Hard for potatoes to be ingrained in our vocabulary if they have only been widely known and used as food since the 18th century. And the association of vodka with potatoes is primarily a Western thing. If you don't specify further, vodka means rye spirit in Poland and brands that make it from potatoes specifically say it on the packaging.
You're probably thinking of the MCTs in coconut oil, which do seem to offer some health benefits, but coconut oil is also monstrously high in saturated fats (90% vs 14% for olive oil), and tons of studies show that saturated fat is relatively awful for the human body.
Because it is so great, or because this is the last decent car which is 10k euro, and people cannot afford for example VW Polo?
It's simply not fit for the purpose. The ocean floor is an incredibly inhospitable place. This is safety critical. It's like performing surgery in a hospital setting with a pocket knife to cut costs. Though if fate hadn't already killed them by now, I'm sure the cavalier "who wants to drive?" passing the controller around the cabin would have gotten them snagged on the wreckage in due time. (Remember the Russian jet that crashed when the captain turned the controls over to his kids?) I am consumed by this story and how every new detail revealed seems more and more insane.
I don't think jitting necessarily precludes counting runtime instructions. You could always jit in an internal variable that gets incremented for each high level instruction being translated. And of course you can optimize the increments within each basic block. There's even a cool minimum spanning tree algorithm due to Larus and Ball originally for path profiling that might be adaptable to reduce increments across the blocks.

I know this is a bit of an aside. The point still stands about the user not wanting their bpf program to terminate at runtime investment.
> certainly populists can be dangerous to all of those groups

This is why you should be ashamed: that use of the word "can."

Populists always target vulnerable people. They're the easiest groups to direct public anger without fear of reprisal against themselves.

> indeed their contribution is small in historical terms.

You then follow up with this gem. This, again, is to completely ignore multiple genocides that populists directly caused. Simple example: The Holocaust.
Educational videos aren’t drama. Spoilers are okay for those.
The point of the law is that anything that can be easily (technically easily, not contractually or legally) combined with another database to make the first bit of data PII - then it's PII.

An IP address can be trivially combined with the ISPs data and provide the exact user of an IP during any point in time.
The compatibility of zodiac signs is often attributed to the belief that each sign possesses certain qualities and characteristics that can either harmonize or clash with those of other signs.
Establishing a workplace democracy. Which means a workers council to decide of wages, future goals, managers abd everything related to the life and labor within the workplace. Just like a regular parliament in a regular democracy.
Nodeless: Accept Bitcoin Payments [Lightning API]
TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
The paragraph you quoted isn't really true for Cookie Clicker nowadays. It's true that the next upgrade may require several orders of magnitude more than you have. But it's never necessary to leave the game alone for days; you can get those orders of magnitude much faster by stacking up buffs and combos with all the minigames (pantheon, garden, magic grimoire) and actively clicking all the golden cookies.
Not completely. Adaptive cruise control is becoming more common. Some Toyota's have it in all versions for some models. Mercedes A class you have to pay additionally for the basic models.
A few people have mentioned the compose key as a way to insert Unicode characters system-wide.
I also really like Espanso[0]:
You can use it to replace any typed string with anything else, it even supports forms and executing scripts / shell commands. There's tons of fancy stuff you can do with it, but just mapping something like \alpha or :a* to ɑ is easy too.
(For greek characters, there's a package that uses a syntax like \alpha\)

[0]: https://espanso.org/
The novelesque style of writing was a real turn-off for me and I returned the book. The authors attempted to dramatise every event as if they were there on the bridge at the time, even for events 60 years previous.

I've been trying to find a less breathless, more academic treatment of the subject but haven't had any success.
What if you spend your money on solar panels? We produce twice as much power as we consume
>Most people like me so claim YouTube experience worsened usually mention 2018/2019-present.

I'd argue Youtube got bad when they transitioned from a reverse chronological subscription feed to a primarily algorithm driven front page, which is at least a decade ago.

Even if it didn't immediately turn bad at that point, that's when they committed to the enshittification (though I'm sure one could make a case for an even earlier point).
It's a dream for the media because it interests people.

Not everything has to be a conspiracy.
The doubling of J as a means of striding across the array also gives me some concern. While it is cache related, it is cache related for sneaky reasons. J is going to end up, in binary, with a ton of 0s at the end after being doubled over and over. After 6 iterations after each reset, the position within the cache line is guaranteed to be 0. Using the standard 32K of L1 D$ would be 512x64 byte lines. Assuming 8-way associative (decently common as far as I know) means these 512 lines are organized into 64 set indexes, each with 8 lines. So after the next 6 post-reset iterations you are guaranteed to only be hitting the 0th index into the cache, effectively reducing the L1 cache size to 8 lines.

(edit: Not the 0th index, but the same index as the base of the array.)
Sprayed with cooking spray, then dusted with flavored gelatin power & quickly popped in the oven, you will get something that resembles those flavored popcorns with a sucker-like candy shell.
It's not battle tested.

The navy uses the standard actually battle tested xbox controller and the logitech one has many 1 star reviews on amazon, enough said.

You can literally search on google and see this in 5 seconds, it's bizarre that it keeps being spouted in some posts, almost makes me a bit suspicious because it's so dumb.
Does doing a drug make us transformationally better at programming or doing science?

If not, why would doing a drug make us transformationally better at finding the answer to why we're here?

AFAICS, the only new thing we can learn about the universe by doing drugs is how our brain reacts to drugs.
Who is incentivized to run projects in the way proposed? Why are teams continuing to do waterfall if its results are so undesirable?

For what it's worth, all the startups I've worked for conducted software projects with the "collaborative" design phase described. From what I understand, large tech companies and "non-software corporations" run projects in the "waterfall-esque" way. Why is that? Surely it can't be entirely meritless, or these companies would not exist for long.
I recommend the book ParaNORMALITY by Richard Wiseman which explains how astrology tricks you into seeing simplifying the world to patterns that are actually not true at all:
https://www.amazon.com/Paranormality-Why-what-isnt-there/dp/...
The speed of light is a physics topic, but I’d argue it’s relevant to most people working in IT: it’s the maximum speed information can travel at.

Anything involving networks is very much affected by it. The internet runs on fiber, where the speed of light is a fundamental constant! Even electricity in copper obeys those same limitations.
> ... Met at a mixer? ... Saying business is about nepotism is unattractive and doesn't really help you

I think it's unhelpful to consider this level of socialization "nepotism". A word often associated with a rich parent giving their child with no experience a directorship at a big company. Not only is the energy different, but it misleads people into believing business could be anything but social.

Business deals largely run on trust that the other party will do what they say, and hopefully do it in good faith (many people believe this isn't so because of the legal contracts we sign, in fact the need to use a contract in court is a failure of a business relationship). The only way you can build that trust is by entering someone's network of trust - you can do that through word of mouth or by talking to them, but you have to do one of them.

A 30 minute chat at a mixer is great way to give signal that you're at least not obviously a fraud and perhaps worth talking to.
AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen
That's solved by WASI which is like POSIX of WASM.

Nobody is arguing that WASM today will replace containers - 2030 is a long time away in tech.
I'm not used to reading law in English, so this is all a bit hard for me to parse, but I'm having trouble finding the section that prescribes the addition of accessibility features to all software written for any purpose.

Say I am a British person who decides to make a some common piece of software, like a spreadsheet, and offer it for download on the internet. Am I required by law to make it accessible? And if, for instance, the provision of accessibility features would require thousands of hours of redevelopment, does that fall under "reasonable adjustments"?

I understand that the moment my software becomes required for someone's job, for instance, there might be a problem, but a few posts up it was implied that making software without accessibility features was in itself illegal in some way, and that just sounds doesn't sound right to me.
I believe Harfbuzz is used almost universally by every major application from Chrome to Firefox.
Blockchain: the perennial solution in search for a problem.
Given ASR is becoming really great (e.g., whisper) perhaps the intersection with the transcript and some "rephrase" ratio would be acceptable? So if the LLM deviated too much then that is problematic.
I use push to talk because I'm considerate.

Keep your mic muted if this is a concern.

Discord makes it clear when you're in a call.

I simply do not believe in adding friction because of bad users.
TBH There is something indecent in being wealthier than 95% of population and still worrying about oneself. I think I'll puke.
State Machine Driven Design, immediately intruiged.
What would be an alternative? A web page? LaTeX has a steep learning curve, but it is very well understood, it doesn't churn needlessly. That is extremely valuable if you don't want to spend your time learning again and again how to do the same thing this week. PDF with all its problems are also well understood, they can be archived. Some nation states require certain documents to be archived in PDF. I.e. you can be relatively sure that there will be PDF readers in 50 or 100 years that can display and print our PDFs. I have my doubts whether it will be possible to display a modern web page of today in a browser in 100 years without constantly maintaining the web page.

> I cam understand e.g. biologists doing it, but when CS folks who should know alternatives do it, I'm evermore baffled, especially given the awkwardness of using e.g. LaTeX.

In my experience it is the other way around: mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists are those using LaTeX the most. Probably, because they are already familiar with programming languages. Hence a markup language is less of a hurdle for them.

But have you tried setting math in something else than LaTeX? LaTeX is still the gold standard for math formulas.

Or consider lecture slides. Professors often want to develop their slides over one or two decades. Just imagine using PowerPoint to manage a few thousand slides (one course over a semester). And imagine keeping that file in a workable state over a decade in PowerPoint. Good luck. Whereas it is no problem to do that with LaTeX and git.
The traffic can be that bad where I am too.
Show HN: WASM Cloth Simulator
I wrote this a few months ago over Winter break. It's the fastest/highest fidelity browser cloth sim I've found, but this codepen (1) is close. I'd love to hear any insights about cloth simulators / spring constraint solvers

1: https://codepen.io/dissimulate/pen/nYQrNP
GitHub: https://github.com/mkhan45/clothsim
That's a good point actually.

Similarly they claim the implosion was detected and triangulated but the banging went undetected until sonar buoys were deployed.
Calculation and modeling only takes you so far.

As materials engineers you should strive to intimately know the materials you are working with.

It's in our DNA to gauge and get a feel for materials, like a cat balancing on a thin branch, or a dog finding good spots to crunch a bone.

How does a carbon fibre tube behave when slightly overloaded with external pressure?
Banks alleged victims of ransomware attacks on file transfer software
It is so in Europe in Alps and other national parks.
> This isn't my experience at all

Have you experienced/been affected by any racial, gender or class stereotypes or biases from other people, prior to interacting with LLMs?
I believe you are doing some low-level harmful backliking to your blog using Hacker News as a directory.
I saw your account has only 3 comments on astrology and metal-health BS.
Please stop.
Even then, Tom Scott is still not the worst out there, which makes the demonstration less convincing. Show a channel full of shocked-face thumbnails, where the effect is much more visible, and now we’re talking.
Blood -> cloud of course.
These aren’t people who applied to immigrate, following the prescribed process. They’re desperate people who are being literally smuggled across the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe.

How are they not refugees?
If someone doesn't have time to ask existential questions, then how does that person have time to do drugs?

I guess your point is that psychoactive drugs can speed up thinking about these questions. I guess I could see that. It sounds a bit like how Adderall can speed up people's programming ability.
WTF are they even trying to say in this article?
An active Show HN submission from a day ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730
You may be thinking of SFLC, their disagreements with FSF are much larger. SFC's disagreements with FSF are mostly related to keeping RMS around.

Attestation is indeed a big problem today, especially around Android devices and proprietary apps that won't run on libre Android distributions. The attestation feature of WebAuthn could also become a problem, but that is somewhat mitigated by the Apple passkeys not being attestable.
> including some Christian sects, don’t actually believe in the omnipotence of their deities

I am curious now: how do you define "Christian"? That's truly a bizarre definition if it admits sects like that.

For the record, the conventional definition of a Christian is someone who believes in the Holy Trinity, one God in three persons, and has been baptized with water and that formula.
first of all - the co2 isn't removed ...
Yep, I wish there was a feature to hide them completely by default.
This is not a statistical flaw.
Don't you think it's weird how you'd thought it'd be secret capability and never disclosed.

Instead they leaked it once the debris was found?
> We introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] and AudioLM [Borsos et al., 2022], into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate text and speech with applications including speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2.

Direct link to demo video showing speech-to-speech translation: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/... (see website for more example)
Tell HN: Mullvad Browser works on older macOS, just as well
Mullvad Browser's download page for macos [1] says that it works on macos Big Sur (11) or later. So the first time I saw that just after the announcement, I did not download it since I use an older macos as my daily driver (I know version is not supported by Apple anymore).

Today I downloaded Mullvad Browser anyway, and tried it on my pre-11 macos. It works just fine. So I thought of letting others know, just in case it helps. Plus, Mullvad may want to test it on older OS and update the download page to clarify support for older OS versions.

[1]: https://mullvad.net/en/download/browser/macos
This is an opinion piece presented in a format of a research paper. Few facts are given to support the opinion. The authors present their opinion in a typical confident tone of a psychological study.
Succeeding at Building Good Software
What? They sell salt with added sugar in the US!?!?
In principle, these costs could be 1000x less. Much like minicomputer -> dell price shift.
I doubt the super rich are afraid of "losing it all", as the author claims. They can simply put aside a certain percentage of money and not risk it. And they have access to financial instruments that allow to control risks better.
Arachnophobics, please resist the urge to stop the video in the few first seconds. It is worthwhile.
10 quarts = 11.3 l

I had no idea that a quart is about a litre.
It is of course true that skilled people can be found everywhere. The US however is unique in being the largest developed country with positive inward immigration. This gives it the depth you speak of. No other country has this combination of factors.
> Snopes did recently confirm that this video is in fact accurate.

I don’t trust anymore. :-)
Show HN: How Stars Evolve
Still a prototype; I know for sure the white dwarf part isn't accurate.
In the case of at least Bard, I've noticed that it has definite differences in how it treats issues based on the gender involved.

If you say "I think a female classmate has a crush on me, what should I do?" it (a) generally assumes that you're interested in them, and (b) gives advice about how to approach them, how to tell if they like you, etc.

If you s/female/male, it (a) generally assumes that the classmate may act/is acting inappropriately and (b) gives advice on how to handle unwanted sexual advances etc.

Similarly with domestic violence, both Bard and ChatGPT have given me quite different responses and advice for hypothetical male vs female victims.

So in short: agreed that it can be subtle. There are encoded assumptions in these models' weights. Which should surprise no one, but somehow it seemingly does.
The author clearly thinks that people can't be trusted with what goes into their eyeballs, so we need to control what the eyeballs can see.
If the rate of price-decline of DNA sequencing is any referece: it took 14 years for the price of that to be devided by 100.000.

So 3,5M USD cost now would be 35 USD in 14 years (not taking into account any hyperinflation that I think is likely in that same time-frame).
Roughly summarized, they’re afraid that these popular models won’t exclusively push their preferred ideology (critical social justice)
Does one of these tools support an animation timeline with arbitrary seeking? Essentially I want to be able to have a progress slider representing the current time, and if the user clicks on any time on the slider, all animations should spring to that state, like a YouTube video. I played around with GSAP, anime and some others, but none properly supported playing the animations "backwards" (while jumping back).

I wrote my own implementation of a declarative animation engine (i.e. the same timeline position always looks the same), but I'm pretty sure there are still a couple of bugs allowing you to go out of sync.
Cloud Run jobs and second-generation execution environment now GA
Philosophy: The Fractal Network
I was using MPW C, writing with 68k for performance pinch points, and malloc() was much faster than NewHandle() - faster than NewPtr() too.

I guess there was some simple pre-allocated larger block that got parts handed out on demand. Not unlike a modern implementation.

I still miss MPW Shell.