skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I'm too lazy to use AI for cover letters, but are we going to get prompts like "Please generate a cover letter for this job posting, for this resume, but make it sound like it was written by a human rather than an AI"?
Electron Vulnerability App Tracker (CVE-2023-4863) [CSV]
Or there are such things as regional exclusives.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/apple-ip...
Right. The point being that you can take your pick of WASI compliant runtimes which have those features. Extism isn't something special compared to any other open source project in this domain, yet it smells of a commercial venture. Count me out.
Ask HN: HN, How big your Postman Collection is?
I am curious about the real usecase for Postman, how big the collection is? how long it take when running?
Of course it did it's the same service
Cardboard Super Mario Game
There is currently a scandal around undocumented parts making it into American planes [1]. I’m curious to when we’ll be able to look back at the safety and maintenance records of officially-maintained planes and those flying Russian style.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-say...
I thought the payback was the Chinese Boxers trying to kill all foreigners and Christians around 1900?
Look at https://benchmark.chaos.com/v5/vray?index=1&ordering=desc&by... Intel can ill afford to think about forever. They have a runway built by illegal monopoly tactics. What that runway ends, the music stops unless they do something very drastic to their CPUs right now. In the V-Ray 5 benchmark, the fastest 96 core AMD CPU alone is 30% faster than the fastest Intel offering, 120 cores in two sockets -- and that's not the fastest CPU AMD offers.

This is not to say Intel will go bankrupt look at the number of quarters AMD spent in red but it really doesn't want to become #2.
My wife is a clinical psychologist who used to take insurance. She got tired of not being paid for months for patients she saw. Legally they have 90 days to pay you, but in practice it’s closer to 4-5 months. Every January they claim to have “computer problems related to the new year” and simply lose huge numbers of claims, requiring you to resubmit — oh that claim is more than 90 days old even though it was their system that “lost” it? Sorry, can’t submit! Guess you just worked for free!

She takes cash now. It was an abusive system and I’m not surprised it’s falling apart.
It is slower.

The WASM runtime https://wazero.io has a compiler on amd64 and arm64 (on Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD), but the current compiler while very fast (at compiling), is very naive (generates less than optimal code).

An optimizing compiler is currently being developed, and should be released in the coming months. I'm optimistic that this compiler will cover the performance gap between WASM and modernc.
This got me. I spent an hour trying to figure out why my Internet seemingly went down but not fully
I'd probably only correct that Jaycar is the best brick and mortar electronics retailer we have now.
> I wouldn't necessary blame the insurance.

Why not? They're the ones who are gatekeeping the product (their network) at the same time as they're selling access to their network (this is considered one of the "features" on which insurance companies compete and sell their product).

Not to mention that, as mentioned in the article, insurers are legally required to maintain a sufficiently large network to enable their patients to receive care in a timely manner.

If insurance companies want to restrict patients and limit them to seeking care from providers within a preapproved, artificially limited network, then it's totally fair to criticize them for not ensuring that their network is sufficiently large and accessible to be practically usable by patients.
No, because it's usually about getting money from the companies. If I could reverse-prompt the AI I'd do it.
I am actually surprised how AMD managed to successfully leverage it's FPGAs for machine learning inference. It is competing with Nvidia's Jetson.
Insurance is collecting premiums for care that can’t be provided. I blame them.
I should have said "Just use any WASI compliant runtime". There's a ton of them with these features, and none of the commercial angle.
Hm odd, it works on mastodon.social — https://mastodon.social/@blog@jakelazaroff.com

Will look into it, thanks!
Could have been Google,
Could have owned Google..

https://yourstory.com/2023/05/yahoos-billion-dollar-blunders....
A highly reliable service might run one partition on a completely separate serving stack. It's worth asking.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 180
You have that backwards. Monopolies are perfectly legal, it is only establishing and maintaining monopolies by improper conduct (ie specific anti-competitive practices) that is illegal. MFNs are not per se anticompetitive, but by the rule of reason they might be under certain circumstances. The FTC would have to prove that this is one such instance where MFNs are illegal conduct.
> Not to mention that if sellers stopped selling on Amazon they wouldn't control so much.

This is a problem in terms of organisation. If lots of people stop selling on Amazon this would be true. The problem is individually each seller is motivated to deal with Amazon so long as lots of other sellers are. A mass exodus from Amazon would in short order make the Amazon store far less relevant, but nobody wants to leave before everyone else is doing it because until then it costs them
Another one from 26 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435530

Three posts for the same offering in less than 30 days which makes me consider resubmitting my own things more often. Does HN have a limit on how often reposting is allowed? I know there's https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html that mentions not more than a year in between but maybe that's just a suggestion?

Interesting idea btw!
Show HN: Remote or Not – WFH policy per company
Hey HN!

Something I've created recently. As someone who believes, and advocates for remote, and work from home policies, I couldn't find a place where you could see the latest policy for companies.

It's pretty raw, and I'm working on adding more information as I go. But I also accept contributions from the community. So if you have information, and can share it—I'd appreciate it.

Let me know what do you think.
> From where I'm sitting software is millions of times better today than it was in the 90s

I feel compelled to bring up this tweet from John Carmack I just saw a few hours ago. The most popular editor on the planet feels laggier than stuff Borland made in the 90s, on hardware probably a thousand times as fast. I don't know how anyone can say software is great with a straight face.

We have supercomputers in our pockets and on the slightly aged phone my dad refuses to upgrade from four years ago many apps lag. They display like 5 widgets or 20 rows of items at any given time

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1709651442762481877?s=20
I don't see why it couldn't be that way - I see people overstating the hardware revisions. Apple, sure, they innovate. Qualcomm? Hah.

For about five years it seemed like every flagship spanning generations was the same SoC
why not? It's for many people the most important daily device they use. (the people here are probably more on their computer)
It’s unlikely this is as interesting as the headline suggests.

Maintaining a list of professionals is challenging. There are very simple input problems with this kind of data.

The professional, in this case a therapist, but it really doesn’t matter what they do, just isn’t going to keep their portal updated on the insurance network aggregator.

The insurance companies can’t make the anyone update their listing, and the professionals don’t have incentives. They’re full up on work so there’s no real need for them to do anything to get clients.

This is a bog-standard supply and demand problem.
Lets see I guess... I'm not holding my breath, but it'd be great to not use Vivado's slow ass Java IDE one day. Quartus is light years faster seemingly.
Memory safety is definitely not equivalent. Memory safety is more like not going past the end of an array, not doing use after free, etc. I agree that what I said is pretty much also the definition of type safety. But in my experience it is also the generally accepted definition of strong typing.
Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches
Not much more to say than the title. I enabled ModHeader to test something a couple days ago and started noticing the same add showing up in the sidebar on both Google and Bing. I keep a constant vigilance with uBlock Origin and denying all 3rd party cookies.

Since that was the only extension I've modified recently, I disabled it and refreshed a search page and voila, the ad is gone.
> I’m so tired of the hardened rubbish and cpu integrated rubbish.

Was there actually a way to access a CPU-integrated FPGA as an "ordinary" user/customer (i.e. not a "special customer")?
I would love to experiment with the idea of font interpretation. People can and do anthropomorphize fonts, but then they have names with meanings which might or might not be useful.

For example, I'm wondering if a prompt written in Comic Sans should be turned into a comic-style illustration, or does it come out as a simplistic and childish drawing? Is a gothic font meant to imply a style of architecture, old Germanic peoples, or goth music and style?

See also https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-psychology-of-fonts...
Its impactful for people with social anxiety, on the spectrum, a mix therein, etc. This book taught me how to talk to people, and steered me from a life of intense social anxiety and isolation towards being able to talk to and get to know other humans. The majority of people I know in life would not need this book, or probably find it a bit stupid even. But for me it was pivotal, and I bet many on HN had a similar experience.
I literally don't understand the first example. What just happened here? Did pkgx see that I failed to run bun and then just like... installed it and ran it for me? Does that mean on my next prompt I should run `bun` or should I run `pkgx` again?

$ bun
command not found: bun
^^ type `pkgx` to run that

$ pkgx
running `bun`…

Bun: a fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler and test runner.
# …
> The IP rightsholder has decided it is no longer profitable to make more.

That's rarely the case. Most of the time rightsholders want to keep old works out of circulation because they would compete with the new works they are promoting and want people spending their money on instead.

There are some physical works that are expensive enough to produce that profit can be an issue, but things that are extremely inexpensive to produce such as paperbacks or disk media (CD/DVD/bluray) still go out of print all the time. It's not that those artistic works couldn't make the corporation a profit. It's just that the company is betting that they can make higher profits by keeping those works out of the hands of the public, which is deplorable.

I can't blame a company for not producing something that actually won't make them money, but corporations locking away our culture for more than a century just so that they can maximize their profits is a sickening example of pure avarice that copyright law wasn't originally intended to allow for.

The real issue with physical products is that they're harder for the public to duplicate. If I could copy a complicated out of print board games as easily as I could an out of print album on MP3, I'd argue that we should have the right to do that too. 3D printers haven't caught on to the point where there's one in every home, or it might even be possible.
How to generate your own Stable Diffusion Controlnet Images [video]
> This work was funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency, JPMJTM20Y6, ITO EN, Ltd.

Found in the "Funding" section of the research paper.

> Ito En is the largest green tea distributor in Japan

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

Not saying this is enough to invalidate the work of these scientists, just food for thought.
Genetics of vegetarianism: A genome-wide association study
FTFA:

> The issue was traced to Microsoft Teams

I want to know how a crappy app from Microsoft can break the dialer on my phone. What the hell?
Didn't it? Isn't that what 5c, 6c, and 8c were.
It’s communication meant to existing users and it’s a nuanced picture worth elaborating. But if you are not an active user it’s best if you just look at our pricing page for a complete picture: https://replit.com/pricing
If we are starting to see this junk in the news you think there might be a growing short position on the company?
Seems like they learned that facts and honesty don't help sometime before the pandemic...
Damn. As a person who likes to write good grammar and sound above average intelligence in my cover letters, I'm probably doing it all wrong.

I have to figure out how not to sound like an AI overlord :)
Typosquatting campaign on NPM platform leverages open-source tools
> quantum dots are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size, having optical and electronic properties that differ from those of larger particles as a result of quantum mechanical effects (wikipedia)

why chemistry and not physics? how do they draw the line?
Eh Unibomber manifesto said it better.
thank u so much. i am impressed by all of ur work, this is amazing wow.
Qualcomm Patches 3 Zero-Days Reported by Google
It actually does a lot more than you think.

For example it does pretty interesting diffing - Chrome downloads a patch and uses the previously left-behind copy of the installer to re-build new binaries from the small diff it pulled. See more:

- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/compon...

- https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
I'm building something that solves this exact problem, and I'll have an alpha version ready soon. Drop me a mail at marc@ my username .net, if you're interested. I'd also really like to have a chat about your use cases if you're up for it.

Cheers, Marc
That doesn't sound that beneficial honestly
Getting access to the Apple ecosystem has inherent value that comes on top of the phones themselves.

Green bubbles can be worth a few hundred dollars. Or why some people keep a busted iPhone around just to manage the parental controls. Android doesn't have much of those restrictions or it applies less.
Apple Warns of Newly Exploited iOS 17 Kernel Zero-Day
Yes, but the 6P was the flagship.

This was back in the day where a flagship phones base prices were like 600/700€.

Now it's double.

In 2018 the Samsung Galaxy 9 was 700€. Now a Samsung Galaxy S23 is 1.200€.
If I’m buying a phone 4 years into the cycle, I don’t want to start with a 4-year-old CPU and camera. 5 years later, when I’m ready to get a new phone, that’ll be a 9-year-old CPU and camera. I’d rather have the latest tech when I buy it, and use it until it stops working.

I agree though that the physical design should stay the same, so that cases and accessories don’t need to be thrown away. Apple more-or-less does this with the iPhones, eg a case should work with any iPhone 12-14.
> where doing something on a 3GHz CPU clock running multiple instruction parallel gets outperformed by LUTs that runs at 700MHz

Easy: go wide.

Make the FPGA-CPU interface four times wider on the FPGA side than the CPU side. Each tick of the CPU clock reads (or writes) one quarter of the bits.
> Put another way: sex is a bunch of physical attributes.

No, it's an organised system of different parts whose development is coordinated to deliver a specific function: that of reproduction.

We have sexed bodies - female and male - because of our differential reproductive roles, and have evolved molecular mechanisms to drive development of those sexed bodies to support each reproductive role.

Describing sex simply as a "bunch of physical attributes" completely ignores that it is an evolved system function for reproduction, predicated on female and male gametes.
One convenience which I miss is the distributions which would mount NTFS and allow installation into a directory --- very convenient and made for a very low bar of entry.
We're quite a ways off from full self driving cars and it's not clear that we'll ever get there. By that I mean you can drive anywhere you want while taking a nap. Car companies will still be working on improving limited self driving / enhanced cruise control for the foreseeable future which leaves plenty of room for differentiation.
any resource for one to learn on vector search? any textbook or whitepaper recommendations?

I am learning lsh right now and find it fascinating
Not necessarily evil, but elitist.

Authorities were writing that even multivitimins could be dangerous and had no scientific proof against Covid. Mentions of turmeric got your Youtube video delisted. It is crazy that the information gathered above has to reside on a paste site, when 25 years ago anyone would have found it on BBS or mailing list. Western medicine is needlessly dismissive of natural medicine. They censored wisdom of the crowds.

First masks were made taboo, as they did not work for civilians (but in reality they had not enough in stock to service health care workers). The flip flop on masks only came later. In February it was known that chloroquine, which helped for SARS-1, was also likely effective for SARS-2. Interesting to see the hitjob on that. Ivermectine in vitro studies were only censored, because these were discussed on "far-right" sites, not because it did not work (because it turned out to help in vivo, but doctors lost license for prescribing it anyway).

Let the people, especially black skinned people, take vitamin D next time there is a viral pandemic. No need for public health info-management. It did more damage than good.
People should be meaner to David Brooks.
Well no. Car models have generations and mid-generation updates (aka facelift).

It's very rare that there are any updates at all within the same generation. Year in model designation is just "ha, look at his looser driving last year BMW" and to show when car left assembly line.

There are some examples where the same generation had a significant upgrade without a facelift, but those are rare. One example I could think of is MX-5 (ND): between 2015 and 2018 there were no changes at all, but in late 2019 there was nearly complete overhaul of its powertrain and then a small update in 2021.
Gituwa – static Git web front end generator
Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution
Came for the interesting headline on HN, left after 10 seconds because of the horrible unusable webpage.
> The "never let a crisis go to waste" crowd

In my experience there's no group better at that, and with the best platform, than politicians.

However, you're not wrong in your statement that there are other groups trying to push their own fringe agendas that just end up scaring the normal/middle majority. But, politics also has the power to guide the narrative incredibly better than it has been, and to properly address said fringe agendas.

> A lot of the rhetoric and policy proposals related to climate change seem designed to foist a reduced standard of living on the middle and lower classes in Western countries.

The problem is that's the reality, so the hard work that politicians just don't want to do because it requires collaboration with "the dreaded other side" is determining the framing and choice of what standards of living can be maintained and what needs to change and by how much.

However, if the worlds politicans are actually good judges of the tolerances of society and they've correctly decided that society can't tolerate any decline in lifestyle, then there was no way to win anyway so might as well "get what I can when I can before the music stops".
Gnome VTE Performance Improvements
> Yet every nexus phone had major hardware issues.

I won't argue with that. But I'm right there with you, Nexus phones and android releases were exciting - and you knew with Nexus you'd be the first to get the new stuff.
SJWJS (2018)
Craigslist is a hell hole. I stopped selling there because even when I was practically giving electronics away (to prevent buyer’s remorse), people still emailed insultingly low offers. I just gave up on the site maybe five years ago.
I explicitly disabled all emergency alerts in the myriad android settings, and I kept the radio on just to see what would happen. I got the alerts.
This is interesting, but I see him making a lot of assumptions and baseless conjectures already which I could fairly easily counterargue (at least in my head). I also have to wonder what he now thinks now that GPT4 is out there (since this is a 2 year old talk, and the chat AI's were abysmally stupid just 2 years ago). What qualifies as "general intelligence"? What is the AGI metric? Is it IQ test? Because if so, ChatGPT4 already scores 130. Will we continue to move the goalpost (say, to 180IQ) in order to keep the FUD alive?
Yeah, sorry I meant trademark from copyrighted materials.
Thanks for the info, and for trying the game. I think the game saw you splitting 10s, realized how irrational that was, and that's what crashed it :)
Thanks, we've changed it now.

Submitted title was "Replit moving away from free hosting". (Apparently it's a bit more complex than that but I haven't looked at the details.)
Your comment seems as if it might be confusing Turing completeness with the expressiveness of the actual machines described in Turing's work.

> A Turing machine is not "so simple that it can run any any program ...".

Simplicity has nothing to do with it. Turing showed that some very simple machines can calculate recursive functions.

Not every machine that is Turing Complete looks like a tape machine from Turing's papers.

> it's no fun writing code for a Turing machine

Almost every general-purpose programming language is a Universal Turing Machine; so that's like saying it's not fun to write code, period.
> And you’d be wrong on almost all counts. The NHS runs on the N3 network, and runs its own email servers. Emailing outside of the organization about patients is a sackable offence.

In that case I'd assume Palantir's software too will run on the N3 network. This might well be a big reason for the choice for them, Im sure they have plenty of experience with such arragements given all the military contracts.

> I’d rather they moved everything to Linux of course, but placing trust in Microsoft is a hell of a lot better than placing trust in Palantir. Microsoft have reputation to lose. The reputation of Palantir among its core audience is improved by misdeeds.

The core audience of Palantir is their customers, who are very unhappy when they get into the news negatively. They're a big business, not an influencer trying to keep their Twitter fanboys happy.

Like you're implying the NHS is almost certainly running Windows (or MacOS for that matter) everywhere and neither did you mention their Office suite. MS and Palantir are very comparably tied to the US , which was the point brought up that I was responding to.
I guess I can't relate. I've had a Pixel (the first one) and I didn't feel like it was slippery or anything. It's been a while but I think the reason I had to replace it wasn't damage, but because it wouldn't hold a charge any more. Otherwise I'd still probably have it, I really liked that phone.
The whole region(central and Eastern Europe) has great economic potential especially if you consider many transport links are being finished linking the North with the South through Poland, Czech Republic and beyond(hopefully Ukraine too in future) .

In recent history in the region all important railroads and motorways were always East-West to facilitate quick military transfer while new North-South links are a lot more valuable for the region's economy. If only we manage to keep our tax/business laws stable, have more effective judiciary and work towards common interests instead of being played against eachother by various "powers" we'll have it pretty good.