skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if there are measurable personality differences that predict how well someone responds to hyperbolic rhetoric.

You don't have to tell me that I'm weird, I already know.. Most people seem to think dictionaries are obsolete because spellcheck exists, not caring that the primary purpose of dictionaries is to look up the established meanings of words. I know I'm weird for thinking these established meanings should at least be acknowledged when deciding to stray from them. If people want to use hyperbole to make a point I think that's fine, and know that even if I didn't think it was fine it wouldn't matter because I couldn't stop them. But my personality is such that when I see somebody doing it without acknowledging the established meaning of the word, I feel compelled to remark on it. Particularly when people are doing it with serious words with heavy connotations, like totalitarianism or genocide.

As for the deteriorating state of American democracy, I share most of your concerns, but I don't see a trend to totalitarianism specifically. For instance the government now exercises less control over who people marry today than it did a generation ago, much less three or four generations ago. I do perceive disturbing trends in corruption, wealth distribution, and administrative competence. But a corrupt incompetent oligarchy is not synonymous with totalitarianism.
They forward-slipped a Boeing 767 to bleed off the remaining altitude! A forward slip is a cross-controlled maneuver that feels unnerving and wrong enough in a Cessna 172, let alone a Boeing 767. And they did it with minimal hydraulic assistance as well...
Isn’t novelty also arbitrary and subjective? I recall when everyone seemed to think there was novelty in applying ML to X, where X was something very specific. “Look, it works here too!” I doubt that’s considered novel now.
Can I apply in Germany? My dev account recently expired, but I would renew it for a chance to get my hands on the dev kit…
I am assuming this is temporary but I believe there is a limitation for how far you can walk with the device on, which seems to limit this type of app (I can’t see this limitation persisting though )
Anybody use the BirdNet Analyzer? https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzer

I've tried setting it up with the birdnetlib package but had trouble getting it running with a model and pack that was for my region. The default model for birdnetlib is in Europe.
I've heard that said, but it doesn't feel right.

When I pay by card I have to ask myself: is there enough money in my spending account? Is this transaction going to fail? (I keep that balance low on purpose).

Cash lets me sidestep the accounting: if I have it here at all it's pre-approved for spending. Lower cognitive burden there at the POS = easier to part with.

Maybe that would be different if I did anything important in cash.
Cool theorizing; but just one example of a current society that has flourished using no private ownership, please?
Yeah, the CEO is more like Chief Bag Holder.
> that's just Google deciding that it wants to know your IP whenever you connect to a network.

No, it's Google wanting Android users to be notified when they sign in to a wifi network that uses a captive portal, rather than having all network requests silently fail because they're being redirected.

Fixing the (generally terrible) user experience of captive portals is the primary goal of this feature. Any data collection is secondary.
I do exactly that plot, usually for CPU, occasionally for rotating-rust disks or for memory in non-GC languages. If a day's normal variation doesn't make a machine busy enough, I usually fiddle with the load-balancer to git it more work (;-))
I hope Apple releases a haptic feedback type of electrode addon+API to the Vision Pro, similarly to how rumble controllers work for gaming consoles.

Imagine having an electrode that you could stick to the back of your neck to simulate onTouch/onPress events. Imagine being able to feel raindrops or gusts of wind in videogames. Immersion would be greatly increased from this feature alone!

Apple would be foolish to omit something like this!
It must feel really, really good when everything is so perfectly crystal clear and easily explainable; when there are only answers, and no questions. How it is possible, is a mystery in itself.
> There is something about telco standards committees that keep reinventing the crypto square wheel, same with cellular standards and also WiFi.

The companies involved in creating these standards want to enforce usage of their patents, because even under nominally FRAND terms it is a guaranteed shitload of money for about 10-20 years as everyone has to license the patent.

On top of that come the demands from secret services and pigs who want to be able to root around in communication as they please - and unlike ordinary IETF standards which are created by experts, anything involving radio transmission automatically involves the governments with their ability to license or to not license, so the committees are under a huge leverage to let as much bullshit pass as possible without generating too much outrage.
If you click the "more options" ellipsis next to the Your Contribution input, you can switch it to an amount in today's currency or actual currency if you prefer.
"A crew of engineers from Winnipeg airport clambered into a van and headed for Gimli to assess the damage. During transit, however, their vehicle unexpectedly ran out of fuel, nearly ripping a hole in the delicate space-irony continuum."

Facepalm

"However, unbeknownst to the pilots and the fuel crew, this multiplier provided the weight in imperial pounds; the new, all-metric 767 was based on kilograms, and required a multiplier of 0.8. As a consequence of this documentation disconnect, Flight 143 had left Montreal with roughly half the necessary fuel."

Double Facepalm
Take your apps and games beyond the visionOS simulator
I tried on my zen 2 box, and the same things works even when the exploit is run in a KVM.
> the greater part of the solution is just building more so that supply rises to match demand.

Just like building more lanes to match the demand of traffic, yeah?
Don't you guys seen the pattern?

Digital ID / Digital USD, it's coming

If it's profit driven, we'll crash into the wall

If it's societal driven, we'll reach the stars
The cause of running out of fuel was an improper conversion between imperial units and metric by the ground crew. Always found that funny.
Part of me wants to snark at just how far the crypto people have fallen, from “we are going to build a completely private and anonymous economy free from government control” to ”of course you have to be subject to mandatory retinal scans to engage in commerce”, but that wouldn’t really be true. The sad truth is that they don’t really have a choice and neither does anyone else: basically everu web technology will have to implement something like this eventually, because the space is just so overrun with bots and spammers. And it’s only going to get worse as LLMs get better.
It was a hell of a lot cheaper to refurbish and reuse a shuttle than to build a new one each time. That's why 135 shuttle missions were flown with 5 shuttles instead of 135 shuttles. It's true that refurbishment between use was far more expensive and time consuming than had been planned, however it was a hell of a lot cheaper than building a new shuttle each time. Refurbishing a shuttle took months but building Endeavour to replace Challenger took several years and cost several orders of magnitude more. There can be no serious question that the shuttle orbiters were mostly reusable.

> cost effective

That's another matter entirely. It would have been cheaper to use conventional disposable rockets. Even better than that is reusable conventional rockets; the economic sense of which has now been demonstrated by Falcon 9.
Interesting that it actually calls out game developers right at the start despite everything else announced about the headset indicating that they couldn’t care less about gaming on VisionOS…
> Precisely - highly restricted demo neighborhoods. This USA is a massive country.

1. IDK why anyone would spend the money to do driverless everywhere in the USA. You can get to 30% of the population and by far the most profitable taxi markets by going one metro at a time. Even just the major metros in the sunbelt would print insane amounts of money.

2. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the time to go from one metro to N metros in not N*(lifetime of waymo). Ie, the hard part is done. The product has made it to market, at least in the sunbelt, and the poo-poo attitude about being able to go anywhere in the Phoenix metro without a driver is a pretty amazing dismissal.
Hopefully not.

> val a: Int = 1

I wouldn't want to inflict that on anyone.
How do you stay in focus while using Slack?
Let's face it - Slack can get distracting!

I was watching this Netflix show called ‘The Mind Explained – Episode-1: How to focus’ and it stated that Slack is the 2nd most potential distraction device, first being email.

I am collecting unique hacks on how people have ensured they make the most of Slack - while not getting lost sharing pet photos, memes or attend mindless huddles.

Would like to know from this community - and I'll feature you on my blog - RedQueen.

https://redqueen.blog/2023/07/08/slack-for-asynchronous-work...
This seems like a step in the dangerous direction.
Right, but we're comparing languages, not their ecosystems. It's not a language's fault if the community hasn't yet realized it is better for some purpose and overcome the market effects of tons of existing packages already being in the popular language by migrating them to the less popular language. This is simply using inefficiency as a justification for subsequent and ongoing inefficiency. The whole point of an argument like this is to compel people to put effort into porting things out of a sub-optimal ecosystem.

In the short term it is of course convenient to just use the most popular thing always (in which case we'd all still be using PHP and Flash), but eventually things do switch on a large scale, and it benefits all of us to push this along when we can.

The more we double-down on an inherently sub-optimal ecosystem, the more we are trapped by it.

Imagine if all the effort making Python usable over the last decade had instead been spent on giving a compiled language better dev UX and GPU support...

I'm not even a fan of Julia, but I probably would be if it had received the same attention Python has for the last ten years.

Conversely, I'm _still_ not a fan of Python, even after all this time and effort has been expended, because the foundation being built upon is just simply a bad one for high performance and high security domains. Anything they manage to get working is akin to a hack, and is working in spite of the language in which it is built.
>which papers have high levels of referential integrity

The problem with this, as I see it IMO, is that there could be references that are cited due to their influence on the thought process/writing process of the work - thus citing them gives contextual zeitgeist - and this is something that AI would not be able to muster...

SO a LACK of referential integrity should show that it is written by a human as opposed to an AI.
That is definitely true. "I know nothing" is an extremely poor way of putting it, more like false modesty than an accurate assessment of skill.
Public Real-Time Datasets and Sources
True and regrettable fact: congressman Sonny Bono was on this problem in a major way when this problem was far less ominous/advanced and had legislation and fed dollars in sight when he skied into a tree and died.
His Congressional seat passed to his wife, who named a wetlands and large scale bird sanctuary on the southeast corner of the Salton Sea in his honor.
Congressperson Mary Bono reprioritized on matters of real estate development for whatever reason and for all intents and purposes, forgot about this long looming disaster.
To her credit, property values in the Coachella valley (6 miles and a mountain ridge away from the Salton Sea) have appreciated handsomely since she was widowed.
Like the proverbial coal mine canary, Migratory Birds voted with their wings in ways that poor humans in the area can't when the the Salton Sea became unhealthy and the Bono bird sanctuary is these days, defunct.
An alternative to using Marky to render the Mermaid diagram which I did not see anyone mention is this VS Code plug-in. I use it and it is quite nice:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner....
Which part is untrue? That there isn't enough personnel or that it's a severely limiting career choice? Because what you're saying confirms the first one, and for the second one, not a lot of people dream of working on legacy stuff in a big organisation, and those are your only choices if you're a mainframe programmer. Say in the US, for mainframe work, there are what, 30 banks? 5 airlines? 20 insurance companies? Not a lot of choice, and it's doubtful they'll offer "perks" such as remote work.
The point is the market was positioned so that any participant would have benefited. Maybe Blue Origin or another company would have taken years longer to achieve what SpaceX did. Maybe more expensively, not as good, though one doubts hardly any less unreliably. But circumstances made it so that any player who tried could have gotten NASA the rockets more or less, if they tried, because the government was actively supporting private industry efforts to do so.
In germany we have active politicians rallying for "so called technology openness" and "net zero e fuels"... sponsored by the gas lobby... it's a shitshow :(
Nice but these are pretty easy to achieve with vanilla CSS.
I'm one of the maintainers of the mermaid-cli project, and unfortunately, no.

Mermaid needs a browser's layout engine to run properly [1], but I haven't yet seen a library that will help us without puppeteer.

And yep, NPM (or another Node.JS package manager) is still needed for installation. I was working on trying to bundle all of mermaid-cli's dependencies (aka Node.JS, puppeteer) into one massive single-file exe last weekend, but it's seems we're blocked by missing features in other packages [2].

If anyone has any ideas on how to implement these things easily, feel free to help-out :) I'm also not a big fan of puppeteer, so I'd love to see a way to go without it.

[1]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/3650

[2]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/issues/467#issueco...
I get:

$ curl http://𝕏.com -v
* Trying 34.102.136.180:80...
* Connected to 𝕏.com (34.102.136.180) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: x.com
> User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

No https, though. (OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection reset by peer in connection to x.com:443)
Out of curiosity, how old are you? I’m in my thirties and think the same.
The problem was that until recent decades, New York harbor was so full of pollution it was overwhelming the oysters. (19 million people's worth of sewage and runoff is a lot.)

A couple of large investments into waste treatment plants and now it is slowly getting back on its feet.
It's wild how much emotion and turmoil freaking twitter changing their freaking logo causes for people. An article about the DEA trying to end end-to-end encryption has one quarter the comments.
Many billionaires, especially the top celebrity billionaires, seem to have extremely disordered and malignant personalities. Narcissism and sociopathy seem to run strong in these individuals. Their money amplifies and multiplies the reach and effect of their narcissism.

Most people when they hear “no” feel a little upset and get over it.

When a narcissist hears “no” he suffers a narcissistic injury and seeks revenge.

When a narcissistic billionaire hears “no”… well, buckle up. 1/6 showed us how bad that can get.
Allright, so firmware lock is not a requirement then?
One of the first “real” applications of Unix was in the AT&T documentation department. It not only reinforced the practicality of the Unixy “small tools linked by pipes” approach, it also encouraged the “little languages” approach to those tools, which brought us lex and yacc as people built things like eqn and pic to feed into troff.

To discover more, just google “unix little languages”.
Super awesome! I like how you just color roads to show time. When you calculate polygons to try and cover the whole area in some 5-10 minute bucket, you can wind up with all sorts of odd holes far away from roads. Keep it simple.

https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet/pull/1075
He certainly has WeChat ambitions, he said it himself!

video: https://werunbtc.com/wechat.mp4
> You can get to 30% of the population and by far the most profitable taxi markets by going one metro at a time. Even just the major metros in the sunbelt would print insane amounts of money.

When this actually happens, then we can discuss Waymo's "landing". This is all hypothetical today.

It's not about traversing the whole USA - its about serving more than a handful of customers in demo areas, relatively speaking. Waymo has never done this to date.

I'm not disputing Waymo could go somewhere - it might! It hasn't so far.
Truly dystopian… it’s like trying to use more venom as an antidote for a snake bite.
Bad choice of biometrics to use iris scans. These are too physically awkward.

Better would be hand scans like what Amazon is implementing at Whole Foods stores. These look at both hand geometry as well as subsurface vein patterns visible with infrared light.

Which is easier and more comfortable ---- just hold out your hand or bent down and stick your eyeball on this little socket thingy? And what about sanitation? Washing your hand is much easier than washing your eyeball.

But in any case, this looks like yet another crypto scam to me --- they'll pay you for your biometrics using "funny money" that they just made up.

When they sell others access to your biometrics, I'll bet they prefer fiat in return.
This is my problem with Twitter. It's not meant for serious discussion. We have blogs for that. Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists. Know your audience.
Twitter logo now copies X Windows system logo, public left gawping
That's because React developers are not on hacker news anymore, they are all reading my newsletter thisweekinreact.com (wink wink)
Logo of the X Window System ca. 1990?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:X11.svg

Flip the logo of the X Window System horizontally and you get something pretty close to Twitter's new logo.
Merlin identified a Swainson's hawk for me recently - first I'd ever seen!
The APEs Can Be Saved
I came over to Snow Leopard from Windows and always thought OS X til I heard it at a WWDC. Later, I met professors that had used OS 9, System 7, etc. and they always said OS 10 consistently.
This prophecy also has a self-fulfilling prophecy nature to it, because plenty of groups in America (alone) had good and (maybe mostly) terrible reasons to follow the prophecy "like a blueprint".
I don’t download any apps except maybe 3 or 4. What have they stolen?
Also a lot less loud than a IBM Selectric II[0], what gives?

[0] https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=26533&p=495957
What about the system level integration of the Unity game engine?
That was a rename of the parent; this is a rebrand of the consumer product; completely different.

The Meta situation is a bit like when (and I promise I am not making these silly names up) Burger King's parent "Tricon Global" renamed itself to "Yum! Brands". Few consumers have ever heard of either Meta or Yum! Brands.

The Twitter situation is more like if Burger King renamed itself 'Y' and replaced its iconic logo with a 'Y' on a scratched black background (see Twitter's awful new iOS icon). It is far more likely to be jarring/confusing/offputting to consumers than the demise of Tricon Global (just a terrible name, replaced with an even worse name) or the birth of Meta.
Nice. I was wondering if something like this is possible a few days ago. The next step would be somehow extending the discrete->continuous concept to layers.
We all have different perceptions of risk, don't we? My approach is the opposite of yours - I carry my debit card everywhere, and use it for every non-cash purchase - because I am far more concerned about the everyday risk of getting into debt by spending more than I can afford than the relatively unlikely prospect of getting scammed.

I did have to recoup stolen money once, but this was quick and straightforward since I am a member of a credit union. Leaving my debit card at home would not have helped, since the thief proved to be my ex-girlfriend!
Does anyone remember the original bird logo, which was literally from iStockphoto IIRC?
But anything that describes structure IS mathematics, so it's somehow tautological?
The whole "explain like I'm 5" thing is ridiculous. A huge percentage of topics simply cannot be broken down to an average 5 year old in a way that makes the conversation worth having at all. The 5 year old has no context about why in recent years there has been a huge push towards running your own code on other people's computers using various isolation techniques, or why people are trying to exploit that. The 5 year old has no context for what the exploits actually are, or how to mitigate them. Even if you break all of those things down into 5 year old bitesized chunks, you end up with boring word soup completely disconnected from the meaningful parts of the conversation.

Really what ELI5 is, is a technique to allow the asker to not have to look anything up. From the parent comment, you can look up "patch", "AMD", "microcode"; or you can demand "ELI5!" and have someone else type up long, careful definitions that don't reference context or words that a 5 year old doesn't know.

Regarding what microcode is, here is a good explanation of the differences between microcode and firmware:

https://superuser.com/questions/1283788/what-exactly-is-micr...
The below avg. think they're above avg. The above avg. think they're below avg.

Dunning-Kruger strikes again.
It would be pretty insane not to at least try to court game developers here.
> having only one symbol to deal with feels less confusing than switching around symbols based on the medium it happens to be written on

See: the entire Latin alphabet.

Sans-serif symbols for screens, serif symbols for print.
IMHO emotional maturity is learning to accept these feelings in one’s self, sit with them, and reflect on them. Not make them go away.

Just saying yes as a parent doesn’t help them learn to cope with it. Rather a close similarity to GP’s point!
Yes, though not directly perhaps in many private companies, but it's a sure sign of a serious systemic inefficiency in management and company culture. Unless it's a major University, then it's absolutely a massive problem by itself.
> Hinton's view is based on a definition of feelings that is "unpopular among philosophers," which is to relate a hypothetical action ("I feel like punching Gary on the nose") as a way of communicating an emotional state (anger). Since AI systems can make such communications, the AI researcher sees no reason why AI systems should not be ascribed emotions.

What if an AI output words that it "feels threatened" and was "going to delete all of your emails" and then deleted all of the user's emails and output words that it was "a punishment for threatening behavior" from the user? Is that really improbable given what we know about neural nets? Is that not emotive? I really don't know.