skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not really in IT either, although for a few years I worked for a software company (as customer support, not programming or engineering). I've only ever posted 2 things here, and they were things I was sharing, not my own writing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230212152245/https://www.gigab...

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfkem5e5Iqg

(https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=EchoReflection)

In 2013 I was in a very serious motorcycle accident (coma for 1 month, 2 broken legs, broken hip, broken left arm, several broken ribs, collapsed lung, multiple skull fractures, inner ear bones damaged on both sides. My brain damage was such that my short-term memory was basically zero for a long time, as well as damaged nerves that control vision. The road to recovery was/is long, I still have what are referred to in the medical world as "sequelae", which just means "ongoing effects or symptoms", but, long-story-short, I really, really, really believe that we can all improve our lives and our brains if we A: want to, and B: try. I highly, highly recommend the book "Atomic Habits" by James Clear: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/atomic-habits-an-easy--proven-...

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Atomic-Habits-Audiobook/152477926...

And Jordan Peterson's books "Maps of Meaning" and "12 Rules for Life" were pretty life-changing.

Jordan Peterson has a LOT of really helpful content on YouTube (a lot of people don't like him bc I guess he's kind of "conservative", but I think it's more the case that he thinks postmodernism and "wokism" are detrimental to a healthy society.

https://www.youtube.com/@JordanBPeterson

Andrew Huberman has a lot of great, helpful videos as well.
https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequela

Good luck on your journey.
> I don't want a secure boot warning message if a firmware is running that I flashed on the device, I want it visible when someone else placed a manipulated firmware on it.

And how exactly do you propose achieving that, when that someone else might have tampered with the phone before you got it?

The goal of Google's security architecture is that a dodgy phone seller/repair shop can't pre-root the phone and siphon all your private data to Mr Evil unless they have access to a silicon fab to remake the main CPU with a new trust root.
It would also make a lot of legitimate .com owners have to give up their domains. IDK that I would be able to pay that much for the domain I own for my personal blog
Same vibe: https://galloway-index.webflow.io/
Cool to have this available in FF too. Other than less permissions I can also compare the behaviour directly with chrome now.
That does not clarify your claim about what will happen much. Are you predicting a 20 year pause in AI RnD funding? When will it start?
There used to be advertising transparency laws that advertised products had to mention the parent company of a brand.

These days you mostly see it voluntarily done when a company is afraid to sunset an ancient brand with good history but also wants their brand noticed and associated (things like "Columbia Pictures, a Sony Corporation"), but some of those sorts of disclosures in the past were required for certain forms of advertisement (even if just in fine print) and maybe it is time to go back to enforcing that sort of thing.

There is the "Lenovo strategy", where some of the companies do sunset the original brands once licenses become too expensive and they've established their own brand. Lenovo went from "IBM ThinkPad by Lenovo" to "Lenovo ThinkPad" over a relatively few years. I'm still curious if, among others, "GE Appliances, a Haier Company" is a short-term play of this sort with the end goal to drop the "GE Appliances" name and logo in a few years or if Haier is less confident in their own brand and will stick with the mouthful (and GE licenses) long term.

(The other example of Sony would probably be too much for American consumers if they killed Columbia and/or TriStar brands. There's a deep-seated stickiness to the old Hollywood studio brands. Amazon seems to have learned this lesson real quick post-MGM acquisition and backpedaled quite fast on dropping MGM branded stuff for the Amazon Studios brand. They've even backpedaled so hard that they resurrected the Orion brand decades after MGM mostly let it retire. It weirdly blew my mind seeing an Orion Pictures logo on a 2023 trailer for an upcoming film.)

(Though today with tools like Wikipedia more information of that sort is "easily" researchable than ever before. But truth in advertising laws have always said it is better to save the advertising reader/viewer the research work than to trust people will do the research.)
I'd argue the original mod/1.6 had a much bigger impact on gaming than CSGO.

The impact of Steam, as the first digital distribution platform for video games, is probably magnitudes bigger again.

Valve was so far ahead of the competition, and still remains there to this day.

Which is kind of a miracle, in some alternate timeline we could have ended with EA as the patron of PC gaming.
>My involvement in the story started simply. An editor asked me to check out a tip that OxyContin, despite its manufacturer’s claims, was finding its way onto the streets of small towns throughout Appalachia.

I think its scandalous that medical experts are still not able to quantify pain when visiting a GP.

They dont know if I'm eating a grain rich diet which is high in chromium and thus makes me feel pain more, or consuming large amounts of tryptophan or nicotinic acid/niacin which dulls the nociceptors in the brain. They dont even do a saliva test for the stress hormones!

With GP's not reviewing our diets, can they really claim to be experts, or do they recognise some of their drugs are such blunt instruments, they make sledgehammers look positively appropriate for chiselling Ming dynasty porcelain!

Govts are just legalised drug dealers!
The last time I tried to count, it crashed Kodi. :)

Let's just say 1.5 TB worth. Mostly 192kbps mp3s and higher, but maybe 10% or more FLAC.
Ask HN: Did reCAPTCHA Enterprise break after Twitter implemented it on Friday?
All of our reCAPTCHA v3 scores started returning as 0.9 on Friday. By around 2pm EST today, the scores started normalizing.

Doing a bit of Twitter searching, it looks like Twitter added a faulty implementation to their login flow for South America and Asia on Friday.

Wondering if anyone else was only seeing 0.9's in their implementation, and if perhaps the massive influx of bad data from Twitter screwed up the weighting?
Propietary garbage shouldn't be used for these kinds of public affair stuff
Best way to attract bumblebees and other native pollinators is plant native flowering plants. There are non-native plants, like dandelion, bee balm, and lavender that they really like.
Its autocomplete story is a mess, but https://github.com/Kong/insomnia#readme at least allows one to visualize any schema authored in the document (it generates examples as well as a schema browser). It's possible that other OpenAPI tools behave similarly, I just happen to have the most hand's on with Insomnia

for example:

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
title: this is my title
description: a long description goes here
version: v1
servers:
- url: http://127.0.0.1:9090
description: the local server
paths:
/thingy:
get:
responses:
"200":
description: ok
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Thingy'
components:
schemas:
Thingy:
type: object
properties:
alpha:
type: boolean

as for the "create automatically," I'd guess that's a genuinely hard problem although if your example documents are simple/homogeneous enough you may get away with it

ok:

[{"alpha": true}, {"alpha":false}]

problematic:

[
{"alpha":{"beta": ["charlie", 3.1415, null]}},
{"alpha":[{"beta":null}]},
{"alpha": null}
}
I have had luck running CoD on a VM with GPU passtrough. It is not necessarily less cumbersome than dual booting though.
Long Covid lingering effects two years later
This is hilariously biased. This is HN, you're not talking to people who don't know what Linux is. Hell, a huge portion of us are linux engineers of various sorts. You're also in a thread literally about a linux app.

Anyway. I would never, ever use Linux as a desktop environment over OSX after the experiences I've had with it over the last 20+ years. OSX GUI applications absolutely blow everything that Linux has out of the water. I don't care if we're talking KDE, i3, dwm, cinnamon. The worst part about OSX applications is they aren't cheap. Even small apps like Soundsource a https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ are usually $30+ but they are fantastic.

The thought of using pipewire and all the configuration hell you have to do to it to make it like Soundsource is a complete turn off. OSX apps work. They integrate. They look great and there are a LOT of them that do pretty unique things that I haven't seen in Windows or Linux.

I work on Linux 8 hours a day from OSX and about 30% of my time is using Win11 on my gaming desktop.

Also, now that I'm on an m1 max there is no way in the world I'm going back to x86 as my productivity machine.
It’s an anecdote. No source.
I believe what this ruling actually tries to defeat is an automated bulk art generation.

Just fire some H100 in a loop iterating over various ~random prompts, save it all on a website and then sue anyone producing anything remotely similar.

Problem is, bad actors will say all of this art was generated by a human with mere AI assistance.
1. Lead Acid is far cheaper, though its bigger and heavier than LiFePo. 12V @12Ah is only $35 from a brand-name (https://batteryinthecloud.com/products/ps-12120), and closer to $25 from no-name brands on Amazon.

2. Modules to charge LeadAcid are so cheap, they don't even make them. This specified PS-battery hsa a 13.5V to 13.8V "standby" voltage, meaning that 13.65V from the Solar Panel is all you need to have a UPS. Connect the 13.65V source from the Solar-panels to the + and - leads of the 12V battery, and volia. You get 13.65V when solar is available, and 12V from the battery when the solar cuts off. The end. Isn't that easy?

3. Grid-tie should be similarly easy, though I don't have too much experience with it myself. IMO, buy a professional AC->DC converter, probably at 19V or some other suitable voltage and then get a DC-DC buck converter to go from 19V to 14.35V, and then a diode (0.7V dropoff) to hook up to your batteries in parallel. You'll also need a diode in your Solar-panels cause you don't want your Grid-tie system "charging your solar panels" (that'd probably create a fire and/or damage them...).

Hobbyists should NOT deal with main-power themselves, but there's a gross-many number of AC-to-DC converters available from $10 to $40.

4. Don't battery balance. Just buy bigger batteries. If 12Ah isn't enough, buy a 20Ah battery. If 20Ah isn't enough, buy a 33Ah battery, etc. etc. The limit is whatever you're comfortable with (the bigger batteries give more current which can be more dangerous)
This is pretty cool. Does this assist with random music generation in any way?
But definitely give it some times to think of it upfront. Weight them by 2 factor: severity and frequency. Then try to tackle as much as you can from the top list of severity * frequency level.
Does superobject compile under Lazarus?
As far as I remember CSGO did way better than CS:Source, which never really caught on until the point where it became a bit of a "retro" curiosity.
>Pixel Binary Transparency responds to a new wave of attacks targeting the software supply chain—that is, attacks on software while in transit to users. These attacks are on the rise in recent years, likely in part because of the enormous impact they can have.

They say its "on the rise", but the linked report in the blog talks about transient OSS dependencies (among other related things), and not binary/firmware level tampering. Can someone explain how this would help avoid the Log4j vulnerability?
spaceship.com has a "sale" on .com domains, $7.88 now and $8.80 list price. since both of those are lower than the current fee of $9.15, how is anyone expected to trust that the price will not increase in the future if you're selling them at a loss?
TC says he is well-prepared for interviews, that he has read this book and listened to that interview of the current guest, but then asks questions that are way out of the interviewee's circle of competence, interests, or knowledge.

"Do you prefer this conductor or this other one?". And the guest has never listened to either of them. Similar questions are asked at every interview, and sometimes several times during the same interviews. To me, it sounds more pretentious than prepared.
This does not sound as value for the society but advantage for the tradesman.
The fully-capable version is regular uBlock Origin.
Those are not quantum computers they are classical computers that have been enabled to process data matrices. Not the same as moving amplitudes directly.
Only sith deal in absolutes. Objectively the poor have money to manage, there is not likely to be a single person in the US that doesn't have money of some kind. Start an llc to avoid taxes, take on long term low interest debt to build credit and acquire wealth, don't have a kid out of wedlock. There are a variety of tips and tricks that almost anyone can engage in. I know a lot of rich people, and I know a lot of poor people, its a product of marrying someone born to a different economic class; the rich are always talking about how they are rotating their investments and ways they are finding to save money, the poor have their second baby (dad in jail) wearing the newest jordans. There is no comparison.
It’s a lot of work not taking those easier alternatives, sort of like it takes willpower to not eat chocolate cake.

> Was raising kids ever not was a lot of work? It hasn't become more difficult to raise kids, it's just that easier alternatives appeared

As a former 80s kids, I’m going to push back on this notion a bit: our parents were infamous for getting away with minimal parenting in general (and mine definitely did). TV, video games, playing at the local abandoned industrial site, was all on the table, it’s a wonder we survived.
I described a checklist for open source vs fake open source evaluation

https://blog.oss.fund/p/a-framework-for-open-source-evaluati...
> as long as you don't need custom nameservers

Are you saying that it's not possible to use your own nameservers for domains purchased through Cloudflare?
Why can't I choose the GPT-5 model, hmm?
I assume Firefox doesn't have Chrome's arbitrary limit on the number of filtering rules, right?
> LLMs actually work. Expert systems were a flop.

Expert systems actually work and, while we don’t normally even call them “expert systems” any more, are important in basically every domain – “business rules engines” are generalized expert system platforms, and are widely used in business process automation.)

Despite how well they work, and early optimism resulting from that about how much further they’d be able to go, they ran into limits; it is not implausible that the same will turn out to be true for LLMs (or even transformer-based models more generally.)

> We’re at the beginning of LLMs, and systems which use LLMs as components. This is the fun time for the technology. Ten years out, it will be boring, like Java.

…and expert systems. (And, quite possibly, by then they will have revealed their fundamental, intractable llimitations, like expert systems.)
That makes it a rumor, not an anecdote.
FWIW, Firefox and uBlock on my Android phone will always keep me on that ecosystem. My desire to go into the Apple ecosystem (because of supposed privacy protections) faded as soon as I learned I can't really have a good ad blocking solution there.
One thing that will really matter is that the output of AI cannot be copyrighted. If producers really go all-in on generation we're going to rapidly see a situation where huge amounts of material will enter the public domain all at once, and we don't really have a precedent for what happens then.
beats it on a performance basis by about 75k RPS in our testing
Learning a differnt language helps, in at least some small way, to see how others see and think about the world. That's still worthy even if we have "perfect AI translation" ... which we won't.

there's a good reason people have made and keep circulating multiple translations of major works, alongside the originals. some things don't translate.
> Now that I think of it, I think video recordings existed in the 70s too?

The cliff note's version is that the BBC perfected filming live TV. It worked because their analog version of deinterlacing 50 fields per second to 25 frames per second matched European film.

But, in the US, where TV ran at 60 fields per second, filming it at 30fps was just too short of an exposure time. So video was favored in the US.

A lot of pre-digital stuff was shot on film for various reasons. One reason is that 24/25fps film adapts very well to 50 fields per second or 60 frames per second; the consequence is a very minor speedup / slowdown. In contrast, it's a lot harder to adapt video between the two framerates with analog technologies.

Edit: I also suspect cost may have had something to do with it. I suspect that film was cheaper than video in the 1970s, but someone who was around at the time might understand the cost difference between video versus film.

I don't know if anyone "anticipated" HDTV in the 1970s, but back then artists did like putting their videos up on a big projected screen. At least in the 1990s, a lot of content, like Seinfeld and Friends, was done on film; both for the look, and so that it could be remastered for HDTV.
> Uber / Lyft are a way better experience than taxis.

I know this is very dependent on where you are, but in my part of the US, this is not true.
Very spot on — consultants are able to navigate the bureaucratic structure within an organisation to deliver work that the orgnaisation cannot navigate itself.

I've worked a decade in technology consulting. 10 years ago the client had no idea what they needed — apps, e-commerce, digital self-service were all new concepts. Now, organisations are already equipped with smart people who know the answer — but sometimes you just need to catalyse change when you can't do yourself.

The existence of consultancies, or agencies in the creative/marketing side for that matter, isn't a failure of an organisation — not always at least. Sometimes its simply becasue the organisation has created a structure which works very well in one set of circumstances and very poorly in others.

(There is a reason why big tech, for all its expertise, has a roster of outside ad agencies who do development and deployments of their non-core services ... it's just faster to have agencies do web dev than setting up internal teams. You get a few agency devs set up on google3, and you've got yourself a billable pipeline...)
ML in general has been in production in many places/companies for a while now. Specifically GPt-4 is useful as a coding assistant and a reference tool. However, it's hard to know whether what it's telling you is accurate or fake and if you want to be thorough you need to double check it. So, it's already useful but in a limited way and it remains to be seen how much better it's likely to get in the near future.

But let's not confuse that in general with AI or Machine Learning which is already used heavily in lots of places.

the specific type of architecture that gpt-4 uses for next word prediction is not the only possible architecture and is not what's used for many real world tasks. There a lot of different problems being addressed by ML and next word prediction is just one of them, although quite important.
GenZ Google software engineer earning six figures who says he works 1 hour a day
My biggest familiarity with "source available" was some of the .Net stuff from MS before they fully embraced FLOSS for .Net language/platform development. Which was iirc, a look, but don't touch kind of thing.

If you can fork and reuse, then "source-available" is probably a poor term for said license.
This has no bearing to my comment. In fact, Warren Buffett, being a value investor, likely agrees with me. He would invest in companies where he had faith in their management (i.e. the operators I refer to).

Your link is about comparing index funds with people who manage other funds. None of these people are involved in the business operations. So yes, they suck and index funds do better. The investments I am talking about are where you invest directly in a business. You are not buying stocks in the business, the value of which depends on a fickle market (hence why I explicitly said "non-publicly traded investments"). You are buying equity of the actual business, with a contracted amount of returns (i.e. preferred investor). The operators I spoke of are the people who are actually running the business. In the case of an apartment complex, they are involved in the operations of running the complex.[1]

Don't think in terms of the stock market and index funds. Think in terms of "Hey, I'm starting a business and I'll give you 3% of equity if you give me $50K." The difference is that here they typically aren't starting a business, but buying an existing business (that already has clients, and a revenue history), so it's easy to analyze whether the business will be successful, and get a good forecast of revenue in the first 5 years.

For the record, most of my investments are in index funds so I know where you're coming from.

[1] OK, not really. Most will hand off to a property management company, but they've vetted the PMC before offering the investment to you.
> What advantage would this have over UTF-7, especially since the upper 128 characters wouldn't match their Unicode values?

(I'm going to assume you mean UTF-8 here rather than UTF-7 since UTF-7 is not really useful for anything, it's jus a way to pack Unicode into only 7-bit ascii characters.)

Fixed width string encodings like Latin-1 let you directly index to a particular character (code point) within a string without having to iterate from the beginning of the string.

JavaScript was originally specified in terms of UCS-2 which is a 16 bit fixed width encoding as this was commonly used at the time in both Windows and Java. However there are more than 64k characters in all the world's languages so it eventually evolved to UTF-16 which allows for wide characters.

However because of this history indexing into a JavaScript string gives you the 16-bit code unit which may be only part of a wide character. A string's length is defined in terms of 16-bit code units but iterating over a string gives you full characters.

Using Latin-1 as an optimisation allows JavaScript to preserve the same semantics around indexing and length. While it does require translating 8 bit Latin-1 character codes to 16 bit code points, this can be done very quickly through a lookup table. This would not be possible with UTF-8 since it is not fixed width.

EDIT: A lookup table may not be required. I was confused by new TextDecoder('latin1') actually using windows-1252.

More modern languages just use UTF-8 everywhere because it uses less space on average and UTF-16 doesn't save you from having to deal with wide characters.
There are still some good 6 letter names out there, if you're willing to use a brandable (made-up) word. Some I randomly made just now: pletha.com encryx.com oxiply.com
> The vast, vast majority of rental properties have a much lower cost basis than if you were to buy it yourself today

Anything to quote here for this? I'm inclined to believe you are probably right, but an awful lot of real estate has changed hands in the past 5ish years... all of which is hugely inflated above actual property values in a normal market.

Lots of people with FOMO bought into houses way above their weight, and thought the rental market was a "game" anyone can play.
Yup a lot of these woke vc firms play this game where they still put up barriers to entry which are not related to the actual idea or execution but then will play the "we help the underdog" card.