skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trust but verify. The Scout Law is a set of ideals to which a scout aspires. It's not assumed the Scout has achieved them.
Keyboards like these are the worst kind of tech debt: they're literally a pain. Layouts like QWERTY, AZERTY, and so on reproduce the same layouts from nineteenth-century mechanical typewriters, which were designed to be inefficient, to avoid key jam. This explains why the most frequent letters of European languages, like E for English, require moving your left hand. Anyone designing a keyboard layout today would place the E on the home row of the right hand. The staggered-row design, too—where the Q row is shifted to the left of the A row, is also inherited from the typewriter days. This causes the left hand to crank back to the left unnaturally. When you add in the faraway placements of common keys, like Control, Backspace, or Delete, you have a recipe for repetitive stress injuries.

There are simple solutions to these problems. You can use a better keyboard layout, like Colemak or Dvorak, with your existing keyboard. The letters won't match the ones printed on the keys but if you touch-type it doesn't matter. If that bothers you, you can swap out your key caps, or use stickers. You can also just buy a well-designed keyboard. I use an Atreus keyboard, from Keyboardio, which fixes all of these problems, but there are lots of great keyboards which are commercially available, like the Planck or the ErgoDox, which help to fix the stagger problem.
> I don’t see how you can do oral exams in those 300 person classes

Well that's easy: An AI will administer the oral exam and transcribe the oral answers from each person simultaneously, and possibly even grade it!
If you lie with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
Never long-term rent your short-term rental.
Continuing this line of thought:

- I feel like you'd have to compare demographics of your successful applicants to something more specific than general population. Maybe demographics of your applicant pool?

- What do you do if the root cause turns out to be "upstream" of your company's hiring process, e.g., social conditioning from a young age throughout education that introduces disparities in field of study across demographic categories?
Sometimes it's enough to "know what you need to deliver in order to make more decisions/do more planning" but your scheduling and planning horizon really doesn't extend beyond that checkpoint. If you're planning/scheduling that way, you're basically 'doing agile'.
Nice! How bout the Klingon one?
Except this analysis is flawed since you're not going to find a new equivalent replacement for 200-300$
I'm sure they will find a way to rebrand, reboot, or outright fold the whole Pixel program before 2030.
> Most people believe in some form of conspiracy without realizing it.

Virtually everybody does, but the term 'conspiracy theory' has twisted to mean only those theories about conspiracies which the government doesn't officially endorse. If the federal government tells the public a theory about a group of men who conspired to hijack four airliners and crash them into buildings on the same day, that is literally a conspiracy theory but isn't considered to be a conspiracy theory in the twisted colloquial sense of the word because the government endorses it as truth.

And it's not really about the evidence. How many people have personally sifted through all the evidence before deciding what to believe? Few people have the time, inclination and access. Instead people delegate that responsibility, usually to the government. The veracity of the evidence is taken on faith. For instance, how many people who take the 9/11 Commission Report as truth have even read the report itself, let alone reviewed all the evidence that supposedly backs it up? I think not many. How many people who believe the report have also heard that intact passports from four of the hijackers were supposedly found in the rubble of the fiery wrecks? How many have heard that one of those passports was supposedly found on the street of NYC, and nobody knows the identity of the person who found it?

But this theory about a conspiracy isn't a conspiracy theory because.. the government says it's true.
All is up and running again.
Rambus bought Cryptography Research about 12 years ago:
https://www.rambus.com/rambus-completes-acquisition-of-crypt...
I have a nexus 6p with a battery charging to 60% and the battery is on year 4 right now, runs android 11, and seems to have no end in sight for the battery. The phone itself is 2015 I got from a relative who bought a Pixel 3.

So battery if handled properly will last a very long time. So while battery issues can't be dismissed, at least it often can be replaced or otherwise worked around. The bigger issue is storage errors and being permanently locked out.

The Google Pixel 3 phone he bought died after 2 years due to the operating system not properly handling errors in the non-volatile storage, which is a very common error in Pixel 3/3XL/4 and maybe future ones as well. Google doesn't offer the firehose so owners are out of luck not able to reformat or recover the phones at all and completely locked out by the qualcomm bootloader with phones stuck in EDL mode.

Google Pixel 3 EDL to see how prevalent the problem is, and google just doesn't care to help people fix the issue.
All is up and running again :-)
As sad as this news makes me for the preservation of eShop stuff, the modding community tends to rally around Nintendo products and I have pretty high faith that things will be preserved one way or another by the awesome work of modders and the emulation community.

It's a sad state of affairs for copyright law, but generally by the time Nintendo shuts down "official" access to content for a console generation, rom files are readily available from a few google searches and a relatively well-thought-out and simple modding process for the hardware.

There are many first party nintendo games and remakes that still haven't made it to newer consoles like the Switch yet. Hopefully Nintendo comes up with better backwards compatibility in the future for current Switch titles, but assuming they won't as they often don't, piracy and emulation tend to fill in the gaps pretty well in my experience.
Here's a link to something other than twitter for those who don't have an account, don't want to login, or don't want to enable javascript

https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026

The CVEs:

CVE-2023-38545: severity HIGH (affects both libcurl and the curl tool)

CVE-2023-38546: severity LOW (affects libcurl only, not the tool)

I really wish people would just stop posting submissions to twitter at this point.
Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
I suppose one way to do it would be to allow patrons of subscriber libraries to access the database dumps and API.

The downside is that would still make it harder than necessary to access and leave some people out. The upside is that it's not that much of change from their existing model. I'm sure there would also be concerns about database dumps being shared publicly, although Anna's Archive has already released their entire database, and I suspect most people who would pay for formal access wouldn't use an authorized copy. Ultimately, I suspect OCLC would still be resistant to this change, as it would feel like a huge shift, even if I'm not sure it would change much from their perspective.
AI will scale them pretty trivially. I mean, ChatGPT just released verbal back-and-forth tech and is rolling it out, so this is not far off at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37768282
Is there an RSS feed available for the home page or any of the categories?
Does Sequoia not have access to regime media? Weird this was published on their own domain.
Let me half hijack to ask a related question:

I'm building a RAG for my personal use: Say I have a lot of notes on various topics I've compiled over the years. They're scattered over a lot of text files (and org nodes). I want to be able to ask questions in a natural language and have the system query my notes and give me an answer.

The approach I'm going for is to store those notes in a vector DB. When I ask my query, a search is performed and, say, the top 5 vectors are sent to GPT for parsing (along with my query). GPT will then come back with an answer.

I can build something like this, but I'm struggling in figuring out metrics for how good my system is. There are many variables (e.g. amount of content in a given vector, amount of overlap amongst vectors, number of vectors to send to GPT, and many more). I'd like to tweak them, but I also want some objective way to compare different setups. Right now all I do is ask a question, look at the answer, and try to subjectively gauge whether I think it did a good job.

Any tips on how people measure the performance/effectiveness for these types of problems?
There was a recent research paper shared here where it was claimed using keystroke timing and some AI, researchers could predict the password with significant accuracy.
You shouldn’t be using AI detectors. They aren’t accurate and other approaches to teaching need to be used instead of leaning on old methods: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8313351-how-can-educator...
> 2. Assume good faith until iron-clad evidence to the contrary (X years later). Then after that, of course, in any new scenario keep assuming good faith because there has been no FOIA or release of declassified documents yet

A lot of Americans suffer from "lazy decency bias". It allows for the worst of humanity to regularly skate for some heinous actions.
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Nobody is doubting ownership. The problem is your (a).
I've replaced batteries very successfully on Nexus and Pixel phones. They're usually $30-$40 or so... I have gotten crappy batteries from Amazon but I've never had a problem with ifixit supplies. And if you're not into doing it yourself, you can just take them to Asurion or whatever. I'd be totally shocked if battery replacement costs more than $100... so nowhere near the $400-$700 original price of the phone. If you're comparing the battery to the resale value of the phone, maybe you have a point. But you're not buying a used phone with a fresh battery, either. Batteries generally cause enough issues that I plan on replacing them every three years.
I feel offended that the author didn't bash GitHub and GitLab. The PM features are still small, but I can totally see how they will eventually become the next Asana or Jira to hate.
There are no accurate checkers for whether something was written by an AI.
Not sure why you would consider the suspected re-sale value of the phone here?

From a users perspective the question would seem to be whether they want to spend $89 for a battery or $890 (maybe minus that re-sale value of 200-300, so still around $600) on a new phone.
If 70% gets you through a full day and also preserves your battery for the long haul, then it seems like an obviously good choice.
The message from the teacher looks like it was written by a bot. Compare notes with other students. If two students got exactly the same text, the teacher is outsourcing their own job to a program. Publicize that.
Operation Acoustic Kitty
We Don't Know Enough About the Biomedical Challenges of Deep Space Exploration
"“What we do not know about human physiological limitations hinders our ability to plan a human exploration campaign beyond LEO,” the team said in their paper. “The most limiting factor that makes human space exploration a risky endeavor is strictly dependent on safety issues. Therefore, the principal barriers to human exploration far from LEO are those given by the limits of medicine." - There will be no space race without space biosciences which also result in new marketable therapies and precision medicine for everyone on the ground.
>But instead, he says he’s scared to walk to his car because there’s a woman who won’t leave his guesthouse. She says she has the right to stay. So far a judge has ruled that, under the city’s rent stabilization ordinance, he has no legal reason to evict her.

How does this setup work logistically? Does the woman ever leave? What if the owner just waits for the woman to go grocery shopping and breaks into his own property and changes the locks? Are there any cases of such a thing happening?

Or what if he just turned off her water from the main house? So many scenarios, I don't understand.
How is not paying rent for a year not legal grounds for eviction? That's what's wrong. I can see being delinquent a coupe of months or three but a freaking year?
> Rancid oil of any kind is foul and disgusting. You'd gag if you tried to eat something made with it.

“Rancid” is just oxidized, and its a matter of degree. Yes, at the extreme this is true. But “rancid” is a continuum, not just the extreme.

> Is this article using some definition of "rancid" different from the rest of us?

No, he’s probably just wrong. Rancidity does not reduce bitterness; rancid olive oil is more bitter. It might at moderate levels be tolerable, but that doesn't make his description of why it would be desirable make sense. What he says it counteracts is, instead, a characteristic distinguishing sign of rancidity.

IIRC, there's a different kind of “bad" olive oil with fermentation products which adds (unpleasant to most people, like rotten fruit) sweetness, which as I understand is mostly oil from poorly-stored olives, not rancid oil. I suppose a small amount of this effect might counteract natural bitterness in olive oil, but for neutral flavor you can usually just buy refined (extra-)light olive oil, instead of EVOO.

Or, because rancid olive oil will have lost other characteristic flavors, some of which some people may not like, he may be right that it is desirable to some people, but wrong in attributing that to a reduction in bitterness.
If I was superstitios and I had to pick a person that is pure evil, Jeff Bezos would be in my TOP 5.
YouTube has started showing Ad blocker warnings
Until they stop producing physical media. Definitely a problem.
The Behind the Bastards podcast did a good (3-part IIRC) series on MKUltra. Well worth a listen.
> So although I see the similarities, these feel very different to me.

Still has more in common with Burning Man than with Oktoberfest.
> Do you expect companies to keep their online servers running indefinitely?

I expect the games I paid for to continue to be playable with the same features they had when I bought them, I don't care what the developer thinks or how many other people are playing it. If they don't want to host the servers anymore, they should give me a way to host my own. Plenty of multiplayer PC games released 2 decades ago can still be played online just fine today because the developers included the option to host your own games.
Thank you, very cool work. A small note: the first example doesn't work on mobile devices. If I drag, it will just scroll the page instead of drawing
> if teachers want students to write something on which AI can get high scores, then whatever they're teaching is obsolete

Doing trivial things is often the first step in learning how to do non-trivial things. No one has ever needed a five paragraph essay. It's a completely artificial construct that, hopefully, teaches people to structure an essay.

Electronic calculators have existed for decades but we're still teaching kids arithmetic.
JavaScript Frameworks Developers Love, and the Risks of Commercial Relationships
I hope you had a look at Samsung's privacy policy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/xtq9pq/samsungs_pr...
>the use of trauma to mind-break people continued until at least 2008 under the guise of "enhanced interrogation.".

That isn't a continuation of MKULTRA though, it's just torturing prisoners, and torture is notorious for not being an effective means of interrogation (which is why I'm convinced the only reason it was being pushed by the Bush administration post 9/11 was simply pandering to American bloodlust.) People will just as easily lie to make the pain stop as tell the truth.
The Pixel 4 had lidar for that feature.
That's so frustrating. I'm in the Bay Area, but strongly prefer remote jobs. First, I've enjoying having 90 minutes a day not spent commuting added back to my life. Second, I'd been with a remote-only company for several years, and it went swimmingly once we all adjusted to it. Finally, there's a big world out there. My wife's brought up checking out other places, and if I'm already remote, I can just up and move to wherever without disrupting my job one bit.

And yet, I still get recruiters asking if I'd like to hear about their on-site job in Tampa. No. No, I wouldn't.
Does anyone have examples of popular / name brand products that are pushed down in ranking due to this? I would love to see for myself how this looks in practice
> I hated that false sense of security baked into "oh well, we can always roll back"

That's why I like pgroll's approach, in that there isn't really a "rollback procedure" that might make things worse during emergencies, but rather old and new schemas that remain working simultaneously until the migration is marked as complete and there are no clients using the old schema. "Rolling back" is actually cancelling the new schema migration and falling back to the previous version that's been working at all times, thus minimizing the risk.
For me, one of the most interesting things that have come out of LLMs is the confirmation that humans are very bad at reasoning and, consequently, its' a very bad idea to try and make machines that "think like humans", because that way we'll only make machines with none of the advantages of machines and all the disadvantages of computers.

For instance -I'm not trying to be mean and I'm certainly not blaming you in particular, because I've seen this very often- but the reasoning that because LLMs can generate language, and humans can generate language not only LLMs are somehow like humans but also humans are like LLMs is not sound.

For example, walls have ears, cats have ears, therefore walls are like cats and cats are like walls. That doesn't work because walls' ears are not like cats' ears and even if they were, that still wouldn't make walls cats and cats walls, it would just make them both entities with ears.
I have always spelled really well (almost won a spelling bee) and as soon as personal computers became a thing, I realized how useless a "superpower" it was. And now it might become an actual liability as nearly perfect spelling/grammar is an easy attribute to hang "possibly AI-generated" on.
Which is also the reason why a lot of the TikTok "but I'd rather CCP have my info than US agencies" is so infuriating. As if China isn't looking for influence with younger up-and-coming politicos. The utter lack of understanding from how much information about you the analysis of just "metadata" is that what can be learned from the actual "data" that data hoarders can collect is just mindblowingly naive to me.
That's not a shortcoming of strong or static typing, that's just you realizing that your initial data model was flawed and that you either needed to unify them into a single type (like you did) or utilize an abstract class/interface.

The good thing about stricter typing systems is that it forces you to handle all the cases when you're doing a refactor like this before it compiles.

When changes to the data model happen in large codebases of dynamic code, it frequently gets shipped in a non complete state and turns into a production runtime error later down the line.
I'm not so sure, chorded keyboards have a fairly long history of being used by disabled users with mobility issues.

The movement profile is going to be different compared to the lateral movements required for regular keyboarding.

I can't find any studies looking into it though, so shrug. And this layout has more movement than the microwriter.
Jian Yang living rent free in Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZACkzuZeE
Many might do better to focus on advocacy rather than ignorance. Not sure why secret cat experiments should matter that much in the stark reality of:

"Overall, 48% say there are some circumstances under which the use of torture is acceptable in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts; about as many (49%) say there are no circumstances under which the use of torture is acceptable." (2017)

This stuff is completely mainstream. The first episode of Blue Bloods (2010) had Tom Selleck correcting his DA daughters portrayal of police torture of a subject as thoughtful "enhanced interrogation". I can turn on the TV anytime and see this sort of stuff. It's as normal as apple pie.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/01/26/americans...
Even if it is the same person it would not qualify as a Show HN ( ”Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with” )
It's a curious choice to call the liberal arts "they are only cheating themselves" attitude old-school. One could debate whether the certificate-motivated or culture-motivated type of university came first.

I suspect that advanced hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies viewed education more as purely motivated by culture: basic useful life skills can be passed on informally within communities or families (so formal education is not strictly necessary for survival), and typical tasks would unlikely to be a risk to others if done incorrectly (making certificates valueless).

However, the modern Western university could arguably originate from the Church (and Jewish institutions before that), in which the education would surely have been considered necessary to correctly interpret texts. In that context, the certificate is a reassurance to the general, uneducated public that they are being led by qualified spiritual leaders (the clergy).

Once you get to the Renaissance and towards the Enlightenment era, it seems as if the increasingly secular focus of education yet again reduces the necessity of certificates and makes broad, 'polymathematic' science and culture more important. The certificates only become important in secular life again once the apprenticeship system breaks down in the late 19th century.

Finally, the idea of a 'liberal arts' course seems to be a reaction to keep the spirit of the Enlightenment alive despite ubiquitous industrialisation, so in this light is both an old school and a new school of though, depending on how you look at it!

These are my thoughts from a very British perspective, so I would be curious to know whether that fits with views from other cultures, such as East Asian or predominantly Catholic ones.
If you want to hear more about extism we did an interview with them https://www.devtools.fm/episode/58
As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it
This is a striking summary of HN's ideological leanings. Beyond the obvious programming/math classics, it's an exposition of the Californian Ideology [1].

It would be nice if there was some further sentiment analysis.

[1] (PDF) - https://monoskop.org/images/d/dc/Barbrook_Richard_Cameron_An...
Name one vendor? I can name you 3 that don't. Zyxel, Ubiquiti, Mikrotik. Also anything wrt based (eg. dd-wrt).

In fact one of the warnings on dd-wrt official IPv6 tutorial:
""" Keep in mind it can be dangerous to enable IPv6 without also having a firewall on each client that handles IPv6 packets, or having ip6tables on your router to filter incoming connections. ip6tables is NOT included by default with DD-WRT, which means your clients will be directly exposed to the Internet once you have enabled IPv6. """
Thanks for sharing! This is really well done.

I was wondering if you would be willing to put the source code for this on GitHub? I've been meaning to learn Godot for a while for a simple 2D RPG and I'd love to see how you did things here.
> Obama was clearly sopping to them

What does this mean? Feels like a typo but I can't figure out what the intended sentence was.
Not the time or place for whataboutism