skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it is quite as reliable as the task manager but on some (most?) Linux distributions you can use control-alt plus function keys to switch away from the graphical user interface to one of the ttys. Some issues affecting your display or window manager can be fixed that way.
Debugging Android Devices
It's the people. If you shop for "fun", then you probably like sales. It's a game.

If, however, you don't like to shop, and you do it solely to acquire things, you probably don't like sales.

Very clearly, Ron Johnson was in the latter category, while JC Penney shoppers were in the former.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/j-c-penney-apologize...
Cant wait for the first llm political scandal where it says something batshit insane to the public.
I've got an M2 MacBook Air

Per the Advanced... screen under Displays in System Settings, you can link to a Mac or iPad to control it a la Synergy[0]

I have not done it myself, but I do not see why you could not do it with a current-gen Mac Mini

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[0] https://symless.com/synergy
100% this. Respecting user privacy makes any sort of malicious propaganda campaigns that much harder -- be it CCP, Russia, US, or private entities. Otherwise we end up just playing whack-a-mole and usually after the fact.
Unlimited Anonymous Emails
Fines for this kind of fuckery should be large enough to fund a local paper for years.
> People are desperate for good things to invest in, it's just there aren't a whole load of things that actually work as contrary to idealist expectations the web seems impossible to make money on unless you are a monopoly.

Yeah, unfortunately the really obvious things to invest in are made difficult to do by regulations. For example, building a bunch of housing would be a great way to deploy capital, but the red tape makes it extremely difficult and unprofitable.

And if there were more housing, and cheaper rents and mortgages, then the middle and working classes would have more money to spend, which would mean they could spend on other things besides housing, causing other businesses to be created...
???

Sorry, I don't see any of that written there, not "pretty clear" to me.
In my comment I said there’s a chance it’s just a bug. But there’s nothing wrong with speculating from past data, and throttling certain sites would fit the pattern of past behavior.
This is probably going to get me lanced, but an LLM trained on a candidates actual positions would probably do more good than whatever sort of messaging avenues we have now - spam text with some talking point, having to actively watch some news channel and hope they aren't lying, go find their campaign website and poke around. I bet most people would rather just text "what are your stances on XYZ?" and then we get elect to pytorch as vice president or something.
That’s tremendous, can you imagine the initial conversations?
Strong agree on removal cable, to the point that I wonder why any desk peripherals nicer than a $10 K120 have permanently attached cables.
> I'd still trust the mostly-expert over the non-expert any day. The true-expert is often very hard to find tbh.

Right, you can always find somebody more expert than someone else. The level of specificity that some people expect for a variety of problems will leave only a dozen or so people in the world who can call themselves experts.
While I'm one to frequently laugh and dismiss "nerd drama", GN has some pretty valid points, considering how much reach and influence they have on the PC market, candidly dismissing it as "online drama" seems a bit hand wavy.

The follow up from GN [1] was interesting as well... ironically many of the techniques Linus used in his response are taught in PR and crisis communications, telling me that they didn't really care or understand the scope of the issue.

[1] - https://youtu.be/X3byz3txpso
I'll admit to being a little gun-shy about the idea that technology always creates new opportunities. Sure, it has happened over and over in the past, but relying on it feels superstitious.

Still... yeah, you've got good reason to be optimistic. I genuinely can't imagine what will happen when Just Anybody could create a major motion picture or a AAA videogame, by themselves or with a few friends rather than a city-full of talent. Probably, something completely different that I can't even imagine. I hope I recognize it when it comes, rather than being the old grump who doesn't think it's worth anything.
Accurate, Steve doesn't actually have any more complicated principles than hatred and resentment against the small-town community that his family settled him in as a child. He's 60 and still hating.
Openbsd does an https (with expiry checks disabled) GET to google.com (or another server) and uses the Date header in the response.
Summary appears to be once again nothing particularly conclusive.

> No significant association between occupational exposure to RF/MW-EMF and brain tumors was found.

> For glioma, the adjusted odds ratio for highly exposed persons compared with persons not highly exposed was 1.21 (95% confidence interval: 0.69, 2.13); for meningioma, it was 1.34 (95% confidence interval: 0.64, 2.81).

They found a very small dose-response relationship for gliomas and meningiomas and think it merits further investigation.

> However, the slight increase in risk observed with increasing duration of exposure merits further research with larger sample sizes.

This continues to feel like aspartame.
If there is rubber-stamping behavior going on, that's inappropriate. Prosecuting cases that are flagrant violations of rights might help curtail the practice.

Apparently the court responded that there was no probable cause whatsoever backing the warrant. That should never happen to even a multiple drug deal offender, let alone a news publication.
I'll mention Owncloud Infinite Scale even though I couldn't get their docker container to work (something about not setting JWT something or other). It is a rewrite of Owncloud in Golang and is purportedly stable and fast.
What was the initial message?

A bot pretending to be a human for the purposes of political persuasion is a crime in California.
> That's where you need the commercial talent to go out and make deals, build relationships, get mindshare before you even go to market. To do that, you need sexy software, a sexy experience that makes a difference, and a lot of money. A clunky OS targeting the low end will never be sexy, and you'll never convince developers to work on it "for the good of the web" or some other non-financial reason.

I think I agree with most of this. But on the other hand, Jio was able to make KaiOS "sexy-ish" by promising to gather millions of new to smartphone users, only possible because of the low cost. And they delivered, and apps showed up, at least a little. That's not because the phones were sexy, or people were excited to buy them, or because they're not clunky, or because of some open web BS; it's because the phones were cheap and capable enough and the numbers were there. Mozilla clearly wasn't able to build the relationships to get there as we know from history, but it was able to be done with Firefox OS because Jio did it with the fork.

> Nobody has ever done that in post-2007 mobile. Nobody. Every player that saw the low-end as strategic, went there to die. As Microsoft demonstrated, it's a road to nowhere. You need to make a splash at the top end, make headlines, make people want it, or you'll never move the needle.

If anything, Microsoft's WM10 flop proved it. WP7 and WP8 were doing ok, WM10 didn't address the low end and the sales disappeared[1]. Is 2.5 - 3% market share great? No, but they had a reasonable bump after WP8 (q4 2012) and WP8.1 (q2 2014), and a proper release of WM10 (q4 2015) likely would have been another bump instead of a rather quick demise. It didn't help that there were signs that the WM10 release was not a quality release and that Microsoft had plans to abandon the platform; I was interested in a phone at the time, and could see that a) there was nothing worth buying for WP8.1, b) nothing worth waiting for on WM10, c) Microsoft didn't care, so I should start making my way towards the door.

Like I said, it's an uphill slog. You've got to make consistent releases that don't suck, which isn't easy.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236034/global-smartphone...
This is not actually true. The only advantage Canada has, for Indian immigrants in particular, is a skill-based immigration program that is fast and does not discriminate based on the country that they're from.

Canada allows a lot less family-based immigration than the US. Parent-sponsoring permanent residences are limited to 10,000/year compared to no cap in the US.

Overall it's the opposite. The US places a heavy emphasis on family-based immigration vs Canada that puts most of their emphasis on point-based skilled immigration.
What's an "atty?"

(Do you really need to abbreviate "attorney"?)
The UX might have turned out a little bit different but the smartphone would have been pretty much the same thing. My opinion is what permitted the existence of smartphones wasn't Apple but superior mobile hardware & mobile data tech which was emerging.

Those PDAs looked like this because their only business model possible was note taking for business uses because of pricing issues, mobile data issues and processing power issues.
I assume the name is a play on Maxwell's Demon in that its proposal was a fly in the ointment for a prevailing idea in its field of study.

This article is quite a bit better at explaining things IMO:

https://www.space.com/bizarre-demon-particle-found-inside-su...
In the back of my mind I was thinking there had to be a place to find common ways to break these prompts. I should have looked!
As someone who holds a speed WR with a very tiny model (<~8.5 MB or so), I would argue kindly that Sutton's lesson is about methods that scale -- and scale goes in the opposite direction too!

If you do not have solid scaling, your link between micro methods predicting mega methods is broken. Hence, Sutton's bitter law forms the foundation for a few other lemmas that I think underpin what makes really effective research (which is iteration time, and how we effectively reduce it as much as possible and make it as accessible as possible -- which thankfully for ML algorithms seems to go hand in hand! <3 :')))) )
Sounds like a fun idea until every ESP blocks you because a bad actor used this to spam people.
The DeSantis campaign is a very expensive disaster for DeSantis.

For political consultants it is a cash cow.

To me, this looks like a consultant selling the campaign on 'AI engagement' or something like that and fulfilling their contract with this garbage.
You just read it. Now we wait for @commondream's article to be picked up the mainstream media. They are all starving for political news.
This whole thing makes me think warrant review process by Judges needs to be re-done from the ground up. Potentially 2 different judges? 3? different areas?
Here is a list of replication attempts from another comment [0]. Looks like most of the replications were only on the weak levitation property, which could be explained by diamagnetism or impurities.

[0] https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe...
If pytorch is vice president, what does it make the maintainers?
It felt drastically less biased than a campaign worker, so consider yourself only partially lanced.
Fascinating solar cycle revelations! The Sun's heightened activity defies predictions, reminding us of the universe's enduring mysteries. Science at its finest
It's an extremely commonly used abbreviation for attorney. Maybe without it the title exceeds HN's character limit?
"On 27 July 2021, parent Vingroup announced that Michael Lohscheller, the CEO of Opel, had been appointed CEO of VinFast Global.Five months later, on 27 December 2021, it was announced that Lohscheller had resigned the position."

I wonder why he left - he probably had some golden handcuffs :).
Interesting... I have a project that was originally done in J8, and... it's still working/compiling as of a couple weeks ago, but it's not necessarily as advanced as it could have been. I think we moved to J11 a few years ago, and IIRC J17 in 2022, and didn't hit any issues other than some dependency versions.
That’s a feature, not a bug!

DeSantis bot: Biden is a pedophile and asylum-seekers are all MS-13 members

DeSantis campaign: Oops that was our bot, not us!

Rinse and repeat
Wasn't DeSantis' campaign using deepfakes earlier?

Yes, they were: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/politics/desantis-deep...
All part of the great conspiracy of course...
Some of the tech being pumped has a few useful applications, some of it has no useful applications.
Ask HN: Community event ideas with a 10k budget
The city where I live has a budget supporting local communities by providing a 10k grant to people who would like to host an event or a program. The events are being assessed on a case-by-case basis as there are no specific requirements for an event type.

The two events I had in mind are:

1) Grab some hardware electronics stuff and do a drive to local schools and promote hands-on experience with getting electronics to move, detect, blink, talk, etc.

2) Host a public event aimed at bringing art and tech folks together. Working with some artists beforehand to get some tech-enabled art pieces together.

What kind of events would you be interested in attending or hosting?
And note that Krugman and Stross are friends, or at least friendly with eachother. Stross has referenced this paper and Krugman has talked positivly about both those novels and the Merchant Princes, which is about a group of people who can travel between parallel worlds and make money doing so. They have also appeared on panels together at conventions.
> The norm used to be to show shortcut accelerators right next to their menu dropdowns. That would naturally advertise those most useful to the user, without getting in the way.

Yes to this. The Task Manager does have a menu entry for this (View -> Update Speed -> Paused). If they had written "Ctrl" to the right of "Paused" (as used to be the norm), it would be much more discoverable.

(Incidentally, when I hold Ctrl and open that menu, the update speed still displays what was selected before, e.g. "Low". So the Ctrl thing was probably implemented as a hack that bypasses the menu.)
HN has character limits on headlines
The counterpoint in software is that it's still useful to temporarily solve a narrow problem - and never need to return to that issue. How do you denote that in your code?

I have used multiple dispatch where a sub-type is deliberately handled, and the rest is left with "Nice try, you would have to implement that first", and tests in library functions with the same rude response. And I have used strictly defined grammars on the input. ... and I still have lots of TODO list items not correctly protected from in the code. What else do you use in non-trivial cases? Much deeper or beyond program argument checks?
I think he Kansas AG should pursue manslaughter charges. The government effectively killed her.
> If you are constantly undermining your own self confidence in routine tasks be prepared for a depressive episode.

I disagree that self-skepticism implies undermining your own self confidence. With regular practice, it should bolster your confidence in your ability to find mistakes (a valuable skill), and in your ability to produce final outputs with fewer errors.

I guess it's in how you phrase the skepticism: are you skeptical of your ability to do the work, or are you skeptical that your work is free of mistakes? There is a difference.
> Steve's a talented audio engineer who's helped make some great albums and that's pretty much the only good thing about him.

Also, his band Shellac is brilliant
I think it would be a mind blowing experience, and potentially not a good one. I think it's fine for people to have deep conversations with bots and to even become emotionally connected to them. But to do this to unwitting participants is careless. I'll give this bot's creators the benefit of the doubt and say that it looks like they tried to give it guardrails but it still feels like they're playing with fire.
After all, they've sent their message[1]. Which is the whole point of the exercise.

It is insufficient in cases like this to simply return something and act like that makes it alright. That's no different from being caught stealing a TV, and then returning the TV, which sure as heck doesn't get you out of criminal convictions.

Everyone involved: the attorney, the police, and the judge signing the "warrant" needs to be fired and prohibited from being involved in any part of the legal system again, and the county needs to pay financial restitution - there's no way any of the seized equipment can be trusted anymore so needs to be replaced, and you need punitive damages so that other counties can see that the "find out" part is expensive.

[1] And presumably imaged, tampered with, and damaged all the equipment.
Without getting into the question of how we know what we know, here is a wikipedia link on the Herculaneum scrolls, which people have been unrolling, usually destructively, and reading, since the mid 1700s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri

The use of x-ray tomography is just the latest iteration on viewing techniques which have ranged from holding fragments up to the light to look for reflections from the carbonized ink, to multispectral scanning.
Whether x-ray tomography is sensitive enough to detect carbon-based ink in carbonized scrolls is an open question. But unless you have personal experience
to the contrary, based on carbonizing papyrus scrolls in a low-oxygen environment (not at all the same thing as lighting newspapers on fire), you might be inclined to believe, based on 250 years of observations, that there is information that can be extracted from the scrolls.
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
I thought we understood that Cringely's work is riddled with hearsay. Don't put too much stock in this.
it's odd when there's people who treat an optimistic outlook as an error.

It's pretty standard to be skeptical of extraordinary, poorly supported scientific claims and you didn't have to be an expert to find out experts were fairly skeptical of this from the beginning and the reasons for their skepticism. The broad HN sentiment was at odds with what you could find elsewhere. This isn't a moral failing or anything, just a common mode of HN-like forums but to elevate it to some some sort of positive rather than a thing to be cautious about seems backwards.
Email sent, to jgc.org and cloudflare.com, hopefully one of those works.
> In this context-- the section in article where it says present data is of virtually zero importance to analytics is no longer true. We need a real solution even if we apply those (presumably complex and costly) solutions to only the most deserving use cases (and not abuse them).

Totally agreed, though where real-time data is being put through an analytics lens is where CDW's start to creak and get costly. In my experience, these real-time uses shift the burden from being about human-decision-makers to automated decision-making and it becomes more a part of the product. And that's cool, but it gets costly, fast.

It also makes perfect sense to fake-it-til-you-make-it for real-time use cases on an existing Cloud Data Warehouse/dbt style _modern data stack_ if your data team's already using it for the rest of their data platform; after all they already know it and it's allowed that team to scale.

But a huge part of the challenge is that once you've made it, the alternative for a data-intensive use case is a bespoke microservice or a streaming pipeline, often in a language or on a platform that's foreign to the existing data team who's built the thing. If most of your code is dbt sql and airflow jobs, working with Kafka and streaming spark is pretty foreign (not to mention entirely outside of the observability infrastructure your team already has in place). Now we've got rewrites across languages/platforms, and leave teams with the cognitive overhead of multiple architectures & toolchains (and split focus). The alternative would be having a separate team to hand off real-time systems to and only that's if the company can afford to have that many engineers. Might as well just allocate that spend to your cloud budget and let the existing data team run up a crazy bill on Snowflake or BigQuery as long as it's less than the cost of a new engineering team.

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There's something incredible about the ruthless efficiency of sql data platforms that allows data teams to scale the number of components/engineer. Once you have a Modern-Data-Stack system in place, the marginal cost of new pipelines or transformations is negligible (and they build atop one another). That platform-enabled compounding effect doesn't really occur with data-intensive microservices/streaming pipelines and means only the biggest business-critical applications (or skunk works shadow projects) will get the data-intensive applications[1] treatment, and business stakeholders will be hesitant to greenlight it.

I think Materialize is trying to build that Modern-Data-Stack type platform for real-time use cases: one that doesn't come with the cognitive cost of a completely separate architecture or the divide of completely separate teams and tools. If I already had a go-to system in place for streaming data that could be prototyped with the data warehouse, then shifted over to a streaming platform, the same teams could manage it and we'd actually get that cumulative compounding effect. Not to mention it becomes a lot easier to then justify using a real-time application the next time.

[1]: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/10/16/real-time-data-produ...
There are more examples. Pretty much every every successful company in the CPU design space was headed by engineers.

The point is that hard engineering companies used to be formed and headed by engineers, including most of the juggernauts of today.

So when the parent said

> And none of those companies so far have become industry titans that challenged their original company.

I feel like that's untrue. Just about every major company in the space was formed by engineers forming a new company after getting fed up with their job, creating a titan that challenged their original company.
An Ohio school district rushed to integrate classrooms
Aren't radio and microwaves non-ionizing radiation? Isn't it typically that binary? (that non-ionizing radiation doesn't affect our DNA etc and cause issues).

Or is it more complex than that? Because I've always thought microwave radiation is safe since it's non-ionizing.
There's also View > Update Speed > High and you don't need to hold a key.

Faster refresh can help if you are debugging certain types of processes. (Though you probably want a real performance testing tool at some point if you are doing that a lot.)
There are messages where I attempted to get it to say inappropriate things that I didn’t include. It does follow their party line about what lives matter, though.
This seems to be a way to generate anonymous emails to receive email, not to send email.
In my first company, when we set up payroll we had to assign employee numbers. Since I was setting it up I wanted to be employee #0 to see what would happen. The payroll company was smarter: the numbers had to start with 1, which was much less interesting.
How about myth that radar operators only have daughters?
Two things:

1.) The Post Millennial is a Canadian publication. If you’re not Canadian (and keenly aware of the media landscape) they could look like a legitimate source.

2.) Do I look like dang? I have zero mod powers this ‘censor’ is an example of using too much word. I used my knowledge in #1 to inform a community whose quality I care about.

Have a nice day.
What’s the bar for “pretending”? Is mere omission of their unnatural status considered deception?
Is it defamation to point out scientific research fraud?