skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which has even been “weaponised” before; there were stories some years ago about stores blasting high-frequency noise outside to deter loitering teenagers without affecting desirable adult shopper

Yeah, they should only work for teenagers. Except for when you are visually impaired like me. I'm almost 35 now and still hear those high frequency noise. It is extremely annoying and even borderline painful. Last year I even got the cops involved when a parked car in front of my apartment constantly emitted a high frequency noise for deterring stone marten and I didn't know who the car belonged to. It was a pretty funny interaction in the end because none of the parties involved (except for me) could even hear the noise. But the car owner admitted they had such a device installed. Resulting in them just moving their car.
How do you mean? It isn’t like a wire where you typically have separate insulator and conductor materials, is it?
Also, the president's son was hijacked, but not executed. He came out of that unharmed (harming him also wasn't planned at all).
> and it is properly validated before insertion into your DB, such data poses no risk to your front end in terms of XSS

This is making a lot of assumptions. Just because the data was acceptable in a database table does not mean it doesn't pose an XSS risk.

Bear in mind, in other branches of this discussion we're talking about using DOM text APIs to insert. Certainly that is a good, reliable way to avoid XSS, but you can consider that to be value sanitization just done for you by the browser. In the absence of that, advocating that "if it comes from the API it is safe" is a dangerous thing to advocate for.

The title "A world where <HTML> tag is not required for your web pages" might be perfectly valid to submit into your blog's CMS system, but that in no way means you can skip processing that in the frontend because "it is safe". Plenty of what you are saying is reasonable, but I think the topic requires a little more nuance in order to speak about the topic responsibly.
Twitter a.k.a. X changes ad labels, makes promoted tweets less obvious
Guess it's time to update the uBlock filters..
Can you elaborate on that ? For noobs like me, LK-99 only contains Pb9Cu(PO4)6O, doesn’t it ?
ES5, 2009, CSS 2.1, 2011. HTML is not the only standard for a web browser

Also in that period, Microsoft was failing to comply with the standards for CSS 2, standardised in 1998, ES3, standardised in 1999, and PNG, standardised in 1996.
If you want the opt-out version of Fx, there’s LibreWolf & Mullvad.
Apple Card savings account tops $10B in deposits
Here's a 400x400 image

http://artfcity.com/2014/11/07/gif-of-the-day-netscape-navig...
Risor – Fast and flexible scripting for Go developers and DevOps
Nah, Windows Store has legit apps.
It reads more like typical investor entitlement syndrome.

The WSJ opinion pages are often a laundry list of gripes against the government that investor demands that are not being met.
The yewtu.be link is to one of several servers running Invidious, an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
I added one last month already :)
> But Mohammed doesn't show up as often in the internet, and while it's also for non-nefarious reasons, it results in there being significantly fewer associations in the training data. What would be background noise for in the training data for John ends up being massively distorted by the smaller sample size: even tendencies for people to make racist jokes about the name.

I do a lot of astrophotography - https://www.astrobin.com/users/bhouston/ Very often you do not have enough data of specific features you were trying to capture -- they are just too faint and close to the noise floor. The solution isn't for me to just go in and manually draw in photoshop in what I think it should look like though - that is just making up data - the solution is to get more data or leave it as it was captured.

I think it is the same thing with these LLM models. Do not make up data to fill in the gaps, show me what is really out there. And I will be a big boy about it and deal with it head on.
I feel like I stumbled on this at an unfortunate time, because whatever is playing at the moment is very rapidly triggering a headache due to the flashing of clips at a rapid pace. Pretty sure I know some epileptics that would have been set off by this. Felt a little less like TV and more like that scene from Altered Carbon where the main character gets the unicorn backpack -- overwhelming bombardment of rapid images.
i’ve been a happy safari user (desktop and mobile) for years now.
Perhaps the issue here is age? At the start IE was cutting edge, then MS didn't do anything useful with it for 10 years. Filters were certainly part of its own vision, AIR.

MS seemed to innovate most in breaking hacks that helped to work around their "quirks".
I do agree that the text generated by ChatGPT isn't really "natural" but more verbose and text oriented, some things that a native speaker would not necessarily say and won't understand speech nuances. It's clearly not perfect, I'm really not claiming that it is.

It's a good tool that I'm going to use a few times per day though, there's no really substitutes to speaking to get better at it. I'm also using other methods and tools and this would be a minor addition to my learning schedule.

> I spoke in my native language with traditional accent and it still made mistakes, also it hallucinates.

I'm also in this scenario actually because I'm a native French speaker and I cannot make myself understood by Google or Siri at all because my accent is way too strong and far outside the training voices that they used.

It's kind of a paradox but it's less a problem for non native speakers in my opinion who are trying to pick the most common accents they can in order to be broadly understood.
Yes, from time to time. Mostly when doing math "homework". ("homework" as I'm not in a class, but I do a bit of Algebra or Precalc or Calc or whatever every other day or so for a refresher). I have a fairly substantial collection of handheld calculators, from my old Sharp EL506A that I bought in high-school, a couple of Casio models, a couple of HP's, a TI-85, and a few TI-86 / TI-84 / TI-89 ones, to my latest addition, a TI NSpire CAS.

What I reach for most often is a TI-89 Titanium. I'll occasionally also pull out my TI-85 (with the OS/2 sticker on the cover!) just out of nostalgia.

~~

Moving beyond the original question as posed, and just getting into the more general topic of "calculating tools" and what not...

If I'm on my laptop and I need to do some quick calculating, I generally just fire up R, Octave, Maxima, or Python in a terminal session, or use bc, depending on what I need to do. As a convenience, I have a script in ~/bin named "bc" that looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "scale=5;"$1 | /bin/bc -l

So I can easily do calculations like this:

$> bc 3+4
7

If I actually want an interactive bc session, I have an alias defined like

alias bci='/bin/bc -i'

And then I usually have a Wolfram Alpha tab open as well, if I'm doing "math stuff". I actually just broke down and signed up for a paid Alpha subscription. Not something I thought I'd ever do, but it's useful enough that I finally bit the bullet.
Do we think Bon Jovi would be happy or sad about this?

Every use I can think of around "blaze of glory" is about dying in a gun fight. I'm reading this as a threat.
Apologies for that, and thank you for your comment. We have made the whitepaper available for direct access: https://blog.adaptframework.solutions/pdf/adapt-wp-public.pd...
avif? webp?
Endor Labs raises $70M to transform application security securing OSS components
I agree that sanitization isn't an excuse not to use web components. Only that brushing off sanitization as solved by web components is dangerous rhetoric.
There is still the threat of WW3...
That was a good move bro, thanks.
I think humanity deserves it after so many consecutive weird years
> Honestly, it takes a toll and made me wonder, what the hell am I doing? Do I have to keep up with all these till I am on this field?

Decided not to keep up anymore, apart from being competent at interviews as much as possible. ex. learn what they're asking about kafka, aws, kuber etc and that's it
Ask HN: Anyone has good experience with GitHub Copilot?
I have seen some trivial examples but how far does it go. Have you been surprised by the complexity or even creativity of it's suggestions? Do you use it on a daily basis?
Thank you :)
After all this comments, we have made the whitepaper available for direct access: https://blog.adaptframework.solutions/pdf/adapt-wp-public.pd...
The Solar Car That Drives for Months [video]
"Staedtler", and their products are typically excellent - I have a compass from them that's about thirty years old and still going strong, along with sundry pencils, erasers, and a leadholder or two of more recent vintage. Not that I've ever been very much of a draftsman, but at least when I screw up I know it's not my tools to blame...
I know VAT is regressive but if it is low enough it doesn't really matter. We do need revenue streams for municipalities and local governments and VAT can be a nice part of that.

I would support a low flat income tax for two reasons. It is simple, if all income is taxed at 10% you just pay that and there are no opportunities (or frankly the need) for some fancy loopholes to avoid it.
The second reason is that I do like the idea that everyone pays tax, it is part of being a citizen with all the rights and responsibilites that comes with it.
Almost 70% of recipients mark emails as spam based solely on the subject line!
Did you know that almost 70% of recipients mark emails as spam based solely on the subject line?
> Chat-GPT gets basic concepts like verb suffixes wrong, that is, explaining those concepts and generating example sentences

This matters if you ask it for grammar. But you can get to a pretty advanced level before this starts to affect you when trying to have a conversation which is usually far more forgiving. And while ChatGPT certainly makes errors, even for a minor language like Norwegian it gets it close enough that I can get it to have a perfectly fine conversation in minor regional dialects.

I think the best thing to do is to pair something like this with a more traditional course for learning the specific rules, because starting to speak as early as possible is a great way of building a level of fluency that takes ages otherwise. Not least because ChatGPT will still understand you pretty well if you mix two languages within a sentence, so you can start talking almost right away and tell it to translate as needed.

You can already ask this app to translate things to your own language - I had it both translate French to Norwegian, and asked it a question in French which it translated to French before responding.
Building Superintelligence Is Riskier Than Russian Roulette
GP apparently refers to storage in the computer, not in the Cloud. The prices are indeed outrageous, but then customers pay them, so in the end it works out for Apple.
How is this better than a cheap tablet?
I use it on a daily basis to build ansible roles and terraform plans.

It worked like a charm. Really useful even when i have to correct code. But in the end it helps me makes things about 30-40% faster.

I was surprised by the fact that if you open several tabs on visual studio code it takes into account all that extra code to give you a result.
>>In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.

Really, you know this for all 3 million people?
Just dismissing it as a "crypto feature" is pure robotic mindlessness. We are past the point where crypto scammers ruled the day. The scammers/hype herd have moved on to AI.

Who is left behind holding the crypto bag, are different kind of people. Even central banks are using "crypto features" to implement CBDCs. The BAT tokens Brave has proposed is not a bad thing, even if it doesn't work out, to the problem of Attention Capture and Attention theft. We need such ideas and experiments. People's attention is not someone else's property. Google and Mozilla don't even talk about how much Attention theft is going on, leave alone what the solution is.
You Want Voting Districts to Be Only 4% Pretty [video]
So the human mind uses Kalman Filters.
Rebuilding Companies to Meet the Needs of the Planet
Spacelift | Remote | Europe | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer

We're a VC-funded startup building an automation platform for Infrastructure-as-Code, adding a Policy-as-Code layer above it, in order to make IaC usable in bigger companies, where you have to take care of state consistency, selective permissions, a usable git flow, etc.

On the backend we're using 100% Go with AWS primitives. We're looking for backend developers who like doing DevOps'y stuff sometimes (because in a way it's the spirit of our company), or have experience with the cloud native ecosystem. Ideally you'd have experience working with an IaC tool, i.e. Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, or SaltStack.

Overall we have a deeply technical product, trying to build something customers love to use, and already have a lot of happy and satisfied customers. We promise interesting work, the ability to open source parts of the project which don't give us a business advantage, as well as healthy working hours. We've also got investment days on Fridays, when you can work on anything you want, as long as it could possibly benefit Spacelift in some way.

Right now we're mostly looking for engineers for our Growth team, which focuses on accelerating the adoption of Spacelift and reducing the time necessary for new users to get into our platform. The team follows data-driven decisions to track the progress and works closely with business partners and other departments to align product vision.

If that sounds like fun to you, please apply at https://spacelift.teamtailor.com/jobs/3006934-software-engin...

You can find out more about the product we're building at https://spacelift.io and also see our engineering blog for a few technical blog posts of ours: https://spacelift.io/blog/engineering

PS: Fear not, no whiteboarding!
Modular lexing (parallelizable, limits effect of token/AST changes on single-character changes). Simply by replacing multiline strings and comments with the “start token on each line” variant, which is already popular for comments but not strings. Ex:

// First line of a multi-line comment
// Second line of a multi-line comment
let multi_line_string =
\\ Hello
\\ world
\\ a multi-line string

And this small change makes it much easier to do efficient, incremental lexing, and decreases the frequency of edits which clobber the AST (like inserting a single quote causing the rest of the document to be parsed as a string literal) which make incremental parsing and everything else more effective too.

This is something I never realized. And I thought lexing was the easiest, most unchanged, least important part of writing a compiler…
> There’s reasoning if you can actually see what’s happening.

You can't see what's happening though, because JP Morgan "mistakenly" deleted 47 million emails. [0] Their fine for that came to about 12 minutes worth of revenue.

They "failed" to keep records, firm-wide, right to the top. [1] Again, their punishment was at the "cost of doing business" level.

We're talking about the bank that financed and enabled Epstein here [2].

There are other ways to provide liquidity without relying on these ghoulish overlords who manipulate global markets [3] and finance blackmail operations.

0 - https://www.reuters.com/legal/jpmorgan-chase-is-fined-by-sec...

1 - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-262

2 - https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/breaking-attorney-general-t...

3 - https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8260-20
Being unable to get out of bed... i haven't experienced that and i sure hope i don't. What you've been through sounds like hell.
Ask HN: Why are there no custom Kernel or Hobby OS projects in mobile hardware?
There are countless hobby OS projects in x86 platform, there are also countless resource on how to create a custom OS, but why are there no resource or hobby OS projects in Android phones hardware?

I am not talking about PostmarketOS or similar large community projects, just small single person hobby projects.

And are there any resourc guide on creating a simple kernel which shows "Hello world" in the phone boot screen like x86 kernel project guides?

Can anyone share the links for OS development resource in android phones and resource for understanding android mobile hardware?
> - Cloud - the money-losing data center service. Probably gets sold to AWS or Hurricane Electric.

I don't think any of this would happen, but I'd rather see it go to Cloudflare so there's still 3 "big player" choices. They seem to be trying to head down the cloud provider path anyway.
>Users are already trying to adjust to a now-very-different-looking platform after Elon Musk renamed Twitter X and swapped out the bird logo for the 24th letter of the alphabet.

"now-very-different-looking platform"?

Because a "bird logo" was swapped for an "X"?

That's the only visual difference I've noticed (and I'm on the Twitter app or Tweetdeck a lot)
Which set of population without smartphones even know what a password manager is?
Do end users hate Chrome? Or is this just the perspective bias of the crowds that frequent HN?

It still has a broad market share, and even Chromium forks are not making a dent. They are evidently doing something right.
no worries, thanks!
Yeah, and I learned my first real programming using TI-BASIC on my TI-85 calculator (in the middle of class even) way back in 7th grade. Made choose your own adventure games, action games using text characters on the screen, like there was an Arkanoid-style game I think I copied from somewhere, and then I came up with my own game about moving an ant around a field, hiding in tall grass from spiders, and picking up peas for points.

Later on I made a text driven fighting game that had like 50 fighters from a bunch of different games in it, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, etc. Then near the end I had a multi-class text-driven RPG where you went out fighting in different regions as long as you could manage then returned to an inn to heal, buy equipment, etc.

Most of that was made using two thumbs on a calculator while bored during math classes or any other class I could pretend I needed my calculator for.

Really boosted my understanding of the basics of programming pretty early in life, and gave me an even bigger boost when I took the one programming class in high school, which was focused on QuickBasic.

As for the main topic, I have my old TI-85 still, and I got a TI-NSPIRE as well since, but I am not very good about using it nowadays, unfortunately. I keep meaning to, but I haven't really needed to.
I don’t understand what you say, sorry.

If my choice of null model is p(x)=exp(-x^2/2) and I get some observation xobs I can do frequentist things with it - like calculating the p-value p(|x|>|xobs|) for example - and I can compare it with some alternative model p’(x) using the Bayes factor p(xobs)/p’(xobs).

What does “Mean and standard deviation up front, not from the sample.” mean in this context?
Blockchain has potential, but is it just a ponzi scheme?
Why is this on hacker news.
you can say, "due to personal reasons" or "i cant have kids" or "my partner cant have kids" or "we keep trying but keep having miscarriages" or you can just say you dont want to, and stop caring so much what other people think.
Not crazy as in wacky and creative, more crazy as in NPD or sociopathy.

You can be creative and driven and wacky without believing falsehoods 5 minutes of reading or even just observation plus a modicum of intellectual honesty could correct, such as that nonsense about billionaires. And surely without trying to swat whistleblowers [0] or firing engineers for correcting things you made up [1]. That's not at all how so many well known and very successful people behave, actually. That's not what leaders do, either. That's what sick people can't help but do.

History in the long run doesn't care about how successful "celebrities" were for themselves, but whether they gave more than they took.

[0] https://archive.li/FG212

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/musk_twitter_rpc_spat...
> macOS really needs another Snow Leopard “no new features” release.

This has always been a myth. Snow Leopard had some massive changes "under the hood", and OS X 10.6.0 was very buggy, as can be seen by the release notes for 10.6.1, 10.6.2, etc.

What people remember fondly about Snow Leopard was in actuality the 2 full years of bug fixes that occurred after its release.

What Apple needs to do is end the yearly major OS release cycle. It doesn't leave enough time to fix the bugs before Apple engineers start working on new features for the next release.
Which feature phones usually used by aging population support TOTP?
That dithering, combined with the quantized palette, is extraordinarily evocative of that era.
I am not familiar with your product but that won't stop me from suggesting that maybe a Y/N API needs a 3rd answer: N/A.

A captcha might serve as a strong negative signal.
It's for a Pi Wars robot. A robot that has to be driven by a Pi chip. AFAIK the ESP32 is made by Espressif, not the Pi Foundation.

Additionally, I've learned that when it comes to part choices, especially microcontrollers, just because another part is "more right" it doesn't make your choice wrong.
What adblock do you use with Safari? Last time I've tried, I couldn't find one and returned back to Firefox.