skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Flexible" programming, like "mount the keyboard as a psuedo-flash-drive and edit the config file on it", means sacrificing a lot of resources for the config file and parser, relative to a few pre-compiled data structures.

Absolutely. But the bottom line for me is that it was trivial to tweak the Micropython keyboard to do what I wanted, and it's at least 10x more difficult to make the same change to a QMK board. Otherwise both keyboards work fine, so I don't really care about how many resources the programs are using on the boards.

I also don't really want to go track down the source to recompile (if it's available) or figure out how to start from a generic QMK build and make it work. And I don't want to deal with the hassle of re-flashing it and testing to see whether it worked, troubleshooting bugs, etc.

I agree with you that it's best to set up your keyboard however you want it, and leave it be. I haven't made any changes to mine since I tweaked it just after I bought it. But the ability to do those initial tweaks is pretty important IMO.
Ok. They can just ignore the people inside screaming for help. They opted out of fire codes by going into the building. They chose to burn. Utterly ridiculous.
crashes on firefox
In addition, Okta Admins can also recover accounts, so loss of the Yubi doesn't mean the account is locked out forever. You can easily provision a different 2FA method.

When we deployed we banned Verify (didn't want any OTP), but encouraged TouchID, and the Yubi. If someone was locked out we could temporarily enable Verify, or reset their Macbook or Okta access so they could reregister into either.

But,in deploying 1500 or so yubikeys over a 5+ year period we never saw one actually break. Employees would often say they'd broken, but troubleshooting normally was user error.

The worst we saw were a few cases where Yubis needed unplugging and replugging (sometimes being left out for an hour or so).
Your profile and your user name seem to imply you’ve changed the direction of your career? Glad you’re alive, by the way.
this is still my favorite. https://oimo.io/works/life/
That dev has a bunch of cool projects.
Serial murders have dwindled, thanks to improved technology
What is federated learning? And by zero proof is that the same as ZKP?
Are you joking? I'm sure OP would be fine with any of the things you mention. The problem is that it's not even possible to donate directly to Mozilla Corporation [1] (let alone toilet paper for employees working on firefox), so your donation might as well go to any random unrelated project the Foundation decides to do.

[1] which develops more than just firefox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products but
This resonates with me so well. Every time I'm tired, hungry or horny, it very quickly changes how I perceive reality. Keep that state long enough and things change shape and meaning, as if I'm tuning my senses to new frequency.
Motorcycle safety gear is great for keeping the corpse in one package. I don’t see how it does anything to keep the rider from being ejected from the vehicle. It baffles me that we are very paternal about drivers of cars and allow motorcycle riders on the same roads.
Was that really the intent? I made a longer rant elsewhere in this thread but I sure got the impression it was really for compiler implementers and not for anyone really writing in it at all. It’s sort of a false Lisp and a false Forth when I really should have not been afraid of the ARM vs x86 split and brushed up on a real assembly. :)
I've started work on a book/blog (still haven't decided on the target medium) about how to apply the scientific method to everyday life. It's still very drafty, but if you want a sneak preview of the current state of things you can find it here:

https://flownet.com/ron/TIKN/

Feedback welcome.

This is part of a more overarching effort to try to move the needle on climate change. I think one of the reasons it's such an intractable problem is that there is too much scientific ignorance out there, which supports an unjustified level of techno-optimism with regards to CO2 emissions.

I'm also thinking about turning TIKN into a YouTube channel because that seems to be what the cool kids are doing nowadays. But I'd want to do this with a collaborator because maintaining a YT channel is a fucking boatload of work. If you know anyone who might be interested please send them my way.

Not entirely unrelated (in fact, the reason I know how hard it is to make a good video)... something I did about 15 years ago that I'm still proud of despite the fact that it never got any traction is make a documentary film about homeless people:

https://graceofgodmovie.com/
Just curious: why is it not totally symmetric, when opening in a desktop browser (i.e. no motion sensor)?

In real world it's due to chaos but how is it "simulated" in this simulation?
> Everybody has access to TSMC so it's their fault if they don't use it.

Not really, Apple buys swathes of their capacity before anyone else can. They have 90% of TSMC's 3nm allocated for Apple silicon, for example.
I wonder if Google will talk about the rise of AI-powered competitors (ChatGPT, Bing, etc) as part of the search landscape to help defend their case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027284
Yeah, that’s insane. (For the initiated, make sure to zoom in and out).
bwrap is a container and AppArmor is used by basically every container runtime if the system is using AppArmor (otherwise they use SELinux). Seccomp is also enabled by default, and I would argue it is a more significant protection against container breakouts because it protects against kernel 0-days as well and doesn't rely on LSM hooks to block operations. The real question is whether you are using user namespaces.

Jessica Frazelle ran a public bug bounty to break out of a container image that is properly secured, and as far as I know nobody collected the bounty. The website isn't up at the
moment, maybe she took it down. https://contained.af/
Oh yeah I had really bad skin flaking, they would orescibe all kinds of hormone or steroid based creams that would next to nothing.

One search on Reddit and many people just said to use petrolium gel. Bam fixed it up in two days! Costs me about $3 a year to control this now.
Dues it surprise you that there are people on HN who have gone without food or proper shelter?
I once had extended work done at a dentist. It took a few hours, some of which involved sitting around and waiting for things to happen.

It gave me a new perspective on that kind of work. From my/our point of view, I was the most important person in the room and my problems really really matter.

From the doctor or dentists POV, I'm one a long long list of people they're seeing that day. It's a health care production line, and even if they have the inclination to be equally caring about everyone - which is a rare quality, because a good medical professionals are only in it for the money - they just don't have the time.

This is not an excuse unprofessional behaviour. But it made me realise that self-advocacy works because you're asking - maybe demanding - more than the production line gives you by default.

Also, medicine is incredibly complicated. And the research is often very low quality.

And that's not taking into account Big Pharma trying to tout its products, whether or not they're suitable or effective.

The most depressing thing recently has been the professional response to Covid. In the UK countless doctors have aggressively given up masking, even in settings with immunocompromised patients.

It's really made it obvious that some doctors are just in it for the money, a good few are phoning it in, surprisingly many have quite irrational beliefs, and the caring expert professionals are much rarer than they should be.
Who's banning linking? The new law tried to get tech companies to pay to show the links with previews (similar to Australia and France, etc).

To be clear, the bill is fundamentally broken. It would require Google or Facebook to pay simply when links to news sites are served, rather than for reproducing or condensing the material in the news article as a "preview" sort of be thing (as in other countries). The bill isn't banning links explicitly, but the government should have seen this coming.
While I have no doubt of the potential for facial recongition systems to have NUMEROUS inbuilt biases, including even IF every actor involved in their creation and deployment held no ill intent. There have only been six such cases apparently. It seems a bit premature for this kind of hedline.

That also being said, this kind of software is just bad in general, even outside of the biases thing.

One more thing. A quote from the article: "Detroit's police chief said their facial recognition technology, when used alone, fails 96% of the time, Insider previously reported." - What?? That's insane. Surely those numbers can't be right? the source on that he goes into more detail with similar specific numbers. I really hope it doesn't only exist to give more ammunition in court, and they don't care whether it works at all...
>Those organizations, being Canadian news organizations, employing Canadians, and making content for Canadian consumers. Aren't those the sort of organizations that should be able to work with the Canadian government and influence Canadian laws?

You can make the same argument about local companies lobbying the government to enact tariffs to protect them from foreign competitors. The people being harmed are the same: consumers who end up with a worse product. How about nobody tries to influence the Canadian government to enact laws that distort the marketplace to their advantage?
Exactly my experience back in the days doing the mandatory "advanced experimental physics laboratory semester" where you had to do like 14 vastly different experiment of the caliber described in that post in the course of one semester on old equipment that would break during the experiment, with less than motivated PhD students or post grads as teachers. Of the 14 experiments only two worked and we got the expected results.

This experience drove me right into theoretical physics and writing computer simulations of electron dynamics and light-matter interactions in confined semiconductors (quantum dots, graphene and the like). That was fun.

Now I am working on medical device software development, as the other stuff does not pay the bills.
This software is the epitome of a roach motel, or Hotel California - data enters, but can never leave. Epic software is so proprietary and customized for each customers that two hospitals using it can't even exchange records, or have the same interaction methodology (source: I have family that worked at two large hospitals, both with Epic).

People had a fit over Windows in the 90's and 2000's being proprietary lock in, but it was never the OS that was the problem, it was MS Office format lock-in that caused all the issues, which is still a problem.

Open, simple, interoperable formats are the way out. We need more of these, especially in the health care sector.
I like the idea of Rust, the tooling, the package manager (far more better that what you can find in C++).

What you are saying is true: I've been writing high performance scientific code and desktop gui apps. I would love to use Rust for my projects, but it just doesn't cut it. The libraries I am using are very mature in C++, but the libraries in Rust to accomplish the same thing are still too immature to consider in my projects.
This looks like it might be quite nice for practical use. Does it work for a Jupyter notebook, including plotting things and making images?

I see someone make it work in Colab, though it looks like a bit of a hack and how they are handling credentials looks iffy.

Ultimately, I'd like the final result to be a tutorial-style blog post, so git isn't strictly required for my purposes. The conversation is as important as the code.
What evidence do you have that masks did prevent covid? The burden of proof is on you to show that they were effective if you are going to abridge people's rights. The only clear evidence of masks preventing covid were n95's. Most of the masks worn were not n95's.
When I worked a low paying support job there were the coworkers that complained about the people coming in and there were the good coworkers and they rarely overlapped.

Same is true in retail or in this example imo - the worst employees are the ones that behave this way and rationalize their bad behavior.
This is an exceptional piece of writing, finely crafted and suffused with unusually deep insight.

I read a lot, and seldom have I run across a writer possessed of this level of skill. A writer's central task is to place the reader in another world, living another life. At this, the author succeeds with what seems like effortless grace.

Few of today's award-winning novelists display this power.

I do hope HN folks will take the time to read this essay.
Unfortunately, the pre-boot environment on a modern PC takes longer than most of these old machines take to boot. No amount of stripping down the kernel will save you from a 2-5s POST.
This would be so much better than our current capitalist system!
Isn’t the whole point that they’re tightly intertwined? You pay to advertise in the relevant search results of your customers.
It’s actually further than where my office used to be pre-pandemic. I’d have a similar bike/walk commute to probably 70% of the office jobs in my city.

I hate remote work but I happen to like my current job enough to stick with it despite it being remote. My next job will be in-office.
Interesting, I’ll check it out.

One intersection insight I had with stack languages is that they might lend themselves to an AST-like visual approach. The tree <-> postfix duality was an interesting aha for me that I’d long forgotten since that sophomore data structures class. :)
It's a grey area. Prostitution isn't legal but nude massage is. So these places advertise as massage parlours. This article explains it a bit more head on:

https://torontolife.com/city/the-parlour-game/

But then it's not even grey where I am in New England and we still have "massage parlors" that are constantly getting shut down for prostitution.
>Many countries have protectionist laws and this isn’t much different.

And just like other protectionist laws, this is a dumb idea and is going to end up hurting consumers.
I had a very similar experience at the dentist.

Top of my crown cracked and I went to a new dentist(because we recently moved) to check it out. They told me that I need to get an implant and that implants are much better than real teeth anyway and it would only cost me $6k. The crazy part is they also had a foot massage place inside the office that was free after your procedure and you also get a free fresh cut rose when you come in...weird.

Anyway, so I went to a different place for a second opinion and they told me the crack is superficial and unless I'm concerned with the way it looks I can just ignore it. Which I did. This was about 3 years ago and I've been going to the second dentist ever since.
99% of science is a waste of time, not just the papers. We just don't know which 1% will turn out not to be. The point is that this is making progress. As such, these 99% definitely are adding to the collective knowledge. Maybe they add very little and maybe it's not worth the effort but it's not nothing. I think one of the effects of AI progress will be allowing to extract much more of the little value such publications have (the 99% of papers might not be worth reading but are good enough for feeding the AI).
> All in all, a shocking 93.7% of all online trackers are either from Google, Facebook, or Microsoft
Peer review is not the end. When replication is particularly complex or expensive, peer review may just a way to see if the study is worth replicating.
These are different kinds of activities though. You don't need to skydive to work. You don't have a choice between skydiving for groceries or someone else skydiving with them to your house. In many locations driving is not optional.
I was hyped for WASM as well, but the more I read the spec and standardisation process, the less I am bullish about this as a long-term piece of tech. I would be surprised if it is still around in 30 years (compared to stuff like UNIX, C or even Forth)

It's closeness to Javascript and the fact that it's basically managed by companies that want to keep Web as complicated as possible so they can enjoy their monopoly on it, turns me off big time.

And lastly, the only thing it has in common with Forth, is being stack-based. Computing has become an unsustainable pile of buggy abstractions on top of one another, and WASM is simply another layer on top this pile of dung, rather than a return to the basics. I get why it wants to give programmers nothing more than a rounded pair of scissors, but then for a glorified VM it's incredibly over-engineered. Art has never been created by a committee of commercial entities.

I had in mind to write a OS that runs WASM natively, but these days I'd rather put a persistent, programmable Forth interpreter that gives you full access to the hardware at the lowest level, and build up from there.
Maybe I'm over-reacting. My apologies.

"Deep conversation"- I like how dang puts it: curious conversation.
>What are the use cases for this?
Mainly, version control, but also, this enables any usage that expects File System (files) as an input.
It is much easier to handle files when ingesting and processing data.

Below are some usecases i am thinking about (I will soon develop some of this):
1. SQL Formatter
2. A.I powered documentation
3. Technical debt management w/ dependecy management techniques

>If I make changes to the repo files can they be synces back to the Metabase database?
Not yet, but easily doable via current code architecture.
>> (and incompetent) political corruption.

Hyperbolic and self defeating. If the corruption is incompetent then I guess there isn't much effective corruption. Canada ranks well above even the US on most indexes of corruption. Not liking the current government is a totally different thing than a country being corrupt.

Canada=14th, which is nothing to be embarrassed about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
They add some randomness: https://github.com/saharan/works/blob/main/water/src/MPM.hx#...
The value of science – R. Feynman (1995) [pdf]
Ask HN: Was Bard just someone's ticket to get promotion at Google?
I just can't believe that a company like GOOG can't offer an alt-GPT-4 even after months. Bard seems like a joke played far too long, and from what I see, it's just a failed project. Given GOOG's notorious history, I suspect Bard was just some PM's resume builder to get prompted in the company, nothing else.
Is PL theory actually science? Although we call it computer science, I don't personally think CS is actually a science in the sense of studying nature to understand it. Computers are artificial constructs. CS is a lot closer to engineering than science. Indeed it's kind of nonsensical to talk about replicating an experiment in programming language theory.

For the "hard" sciences, replication often isn't so difficult it seems. LK-99 being an interesting study in this, where people are apparently successfully replicating an experiment described in a rushed paper that is widely agreed to lack sufficient details. It's cutting edge science but replication still isn't a problem. Most science isn't the LHC.

The real problems with replication are found in the softer fields. There it's not just an issue of randomness or difficulty of doing the experiments. If that's all there was to it, no problem. In these fields it's common to find papers or entire fields where none of the work is replicable even in principle. As in, the people doing it don't think other people being able to replicate their work is even important at all, and they may go out of their way to stop people being able to replicate their work (most frequently by gathering data in non-replicable ways and then withholding it deliberately, but sometimes it's just due to the design of the study). The most obvious inference when you see this is that maybe they don't want replication attempts because they know their claims probably aren't true.

So even if peer reviewers or journals were just checking really basic things like, is this claim even replicable in principle, that would be a good start. You would still be left with a lot of papers that replicate fine but their conclusions are still wrong because their methodology is illogical, or papers that replicate because their findings are obvious. But there's so much low hanging fruit.
I've accepted the fact that it's "just" a good game and try to enjoy it. For a real BG game, Obsidian is probably our best hope.
Sounds like the pink panther theme.
That's all well and good, but all of this success is happening before reviews are in or anyone has even had time to play and recommend the game. People are buying it solely based on criteria like the parent described.
Actually, yes, I do. I wear a mask in the office every day, I wear a mask when shopping and anywhere else indoors in public. I have not eaten indoors at a restaurant since the pandemic began. And I haven't caught COVID yet.

There's a 1/5 chance of developing Long COVID, and 1/4 change of your Long COVID lasting >1yr. Studies have shown repeated exposure to COVID causes _more_ organ damage, does _not_ increase immunity, and _increases_ risk of developing Long COVID.

There's never been a question about efficacy of masks. We all know masks work, and they work best when everyone is wearing them correctly.
TOTP is also vulnerable to good phishing attackes. You can convince someone to enter their creds and OTP code, which can be used remotely.

The value of the Yubi is that you need it physically, which can't be accomplished via phishing and other remote attacks.

Physical theft is much, much rarer, and if a laptop with Yubi in it is stolen the thief won't have your user/pass (unless it's on a sticky in your bag, etc). It's a very, very targeted attack if they phish your creds, then come steal your laptop, and you need more advanced protections than a yubi.
A real sinister way to bury problems of wrongful convictions as well. About what we should expect from plea bargins as a way to punish the guilty less while encouraging punishing the innocent more.
Well that Freedom™ isn’t free of course! Thank shooting victim for their service.
> "We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms' training data sets..." the researchers wrote in an op-ed for Scientific American.

> The research also demonstrated that Black people are overrepresented in databases of mugshots.

The sort of clear-headed thinking that makes the AI bias field as respected as it is.
I agree that a light sprinkle of humour can make a topic more approachable.

That said, I keep thinking these posts are about electricity.
Man the irony of your comment... it is in fact you who did not bother to verify that in fact this article was not published on April 1st.
Bad for the Canadian so called trolling bottom feeding viral "News" services, and I actually expect great for Canadians and their mental health and productivity - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/11/strain-media-overload
There is also ProtoNet and it's browser that tries to make 1996 internet sites functional again including weather fed through from some modern API to websites of the era. I think they even have RuneScape running inside it.
What an awful text colour, had to do this just to read the article:

$$('div, h1, h2').forEach(e => e.style.color = '#111')
The company made the rule effectively unenforceable (i.e. you cannot delete a post unless the poster admits they have written it using AI). The moderators went on strike. As a result of the strike, the company took a step back and now it is (really) banned again.
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