skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whenever a new framework is introduced this usually requires broad consent, clear scope, and agreement on committing to this new direction, doubly so when it's introducing a new language. Do you embark on working on these projects without discussing what you'll be doing?

Like I mentioned above. If I want quality, then I alone make this decision. If anyone wants to join, they join on my terms. I will make my terms uncompromising and uncomfortable for people who want consensus deliberately because I don't want to work with people who want consensus -- they suck at programming.

For my day job, I work with people who want consensus, an easy way to slack, pretend to work, hit the lowest bar available to pick the paycheck and go home, watch TV, play guitar, whatever. They don't produce anything that resembles quality work. Never will. That's not their goal, nor do they feel bad for not accomplishing that.

> Who's going to maintain that? Why wasn't this discussed?

Whoever knows how to program will.

It wasn't discussed because I wouldn't care about an opinion coming from someone who doesn't know how to program. Same way how I don't ask the neighbor's cat when I make programming decisions.

> Have you even considered code reviews? ... if no one else knows the language and _knows it well_?

Yes. I considered. This is their problem, not mine. If you want to be a programmer, it's your job to know your tools well. If you want a fat paycheck and be a useless blight on the bloat of the corporate world... well, make up the rules that are even more convenient to you...

> in love with tech

This has nothing to do with being "in love with tech". This is about the quality of output of people who are employed as programmers but aren't. One can be "in love" and suck, while other can "hate" and be very good at what they do. The reason why the situation the way it is that that human nature which pushes everyone towards a place where they can be lazy and ignorant meets no resistance.

While in many other professions there's a market for high-quality products, like very expensive and very high-quality watches, cars, photo equipment, clothes, food... in programming there's no market for anything that's trying for quality rather than time to market, price or reach. There's no niche, when it comes to programming market that would pay tenfold or hundred times more for a higher-quality product. That's why in industrial setting nobody is trying to make high-quality products, even though some, naively, come with this idea into the trade, they are quickly shown the reality where nobody cares.
I guess the question then are there any attackers bothering to target that old software. We’re not in the era where there were millions of users living on unpatched out outdated versions of Windows XP anymore. Would malicious actors attack an iPhone 8?
Good point, wikipedia has a good description here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

> Reportedly, he saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns" but did not feel any pain.

He was hit with a 76GeV beam; this was a single particle with 320 billion GeV. I do wonder how many particles at 76GeV he was hit with.

And yeah... damage.

> The left half of Bugorski's face swelled up beyond recognition and, over the next several days, the skin started to peel, revealing the path that the proton beam had burned through parts of his face, his bone, and the brain tissue underneath. As it was believed that he had received far in excess of a fatal dose of radiation, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow where the doctors could observe his expected demise. However, Bugorski survived, completed his PhD, and continued working as a particle physicist. There was virtually no damage to his intellectual capacity, but the fatigue of mental work increased markedly. Bugorski completely lost hearing in the left ear, replaced by a form of tinnitus. The left half of his face was paralysed due to the destruction of nerves. He was able to function well, except for occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.

Yikes.
> What machines from 2016 are you using today?

Most of my machines are that old or older.

> If you do, let's get serious you're already looking to upgrade in the near future, no?

No. I only look to upgrade if the system stop working or if it can no longer perform as I need it to.
The performance tradeoffs are very different for different languages. In Java, virtual threads add no FFI costs and virtually no performance impact not because the baseline is lower but because memory management in Java is just so incredibly efficient these days (although that does come at the cost of a higher footprint). So the impact and the tradeoffs are not the same. Allocating heap memory in a very general way is simply faster -- even in absolute terms -- in Java than in a low-level language. Java, unlike .NET or Rust, also doesn't allow pointers into the stack, so we can do very efficient copying "in the shadow" of cache misses, and that takes care of FFI.
> Apple committed in writing a few major versions (i.e. ~3 years ago) to providing a preference setting for disabling online OCSP checks in macOS when I made a stink about it, within one year. Not only did this not happen within a year (a rare instance of Apple actually outright lying), but someone was kind enough to write me and tell me that Apple has edited the webpage to remove this promise. (emphasis mine)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

Fortunately an older version was archived: https://archive.ph/yhThW

I believe the part that was removed is near the bottom:

> In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks:

> - A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks

> - Strong protections against server failure

> - A new preference for users to opt out of these security protections

Definitely a curious turn of events.
Mixture of US/UK spellings could indicate he isn't a native user.
You have all the options you can afford. But...
1. You should not have the option of skipping out on the taxes you pay for the general school system. So no rebates.
2. Your fellow taxpayers should not have to subsidize your decisions in your child's education. So no vouchers.

If that means that you don't have the means to send your child to your chosen school... then that is capitalism.
There is zero chance that a whole team and management above them would have been able to keep this secret for this long with this much attention on it. And there is no reason to believe a single person could not do the things Satoshi did.

Even a single person would have continued communication as Satoshi if they were able to, as their life's work became an incredible success. No, Satoshi was a single person who is no longer able to communicate because they are dead. And there are several good candidates who meet that description.

Personally I'm a fan of the "butler did it" theory, i.e. Hal Finney, who indeed died at the right time.
Or, a person that was born in the US and educated in the UK, big into cryptography and the cipherpunk mailing list and often mixed up spellings on social media.. like I dunno, Len Sassaman.
RIP to FireWire target disk mode for Apple laptops and target display mode for iMacs.

The new docs promote AirPlay screen mirroring and networked shares over usb-c but it’s nowhere near the same. :/
https://www.usebruno.com/

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701803
The data is data - bias enters the scene when silly humans assume that the data is necessarily representative, and then proceed to assert false claims based on their misunderstanding, which other humans store as "knowledge" (because distinguishing between knowledge and belief is "pedantic", "Sea-lioning", etc), and then inject new derivative false truths back into the system conversationally, through their actions, etc.

Meme world.
NT version numbers were weird, and major releases didn5 increment major version numbers, but if you the first major release (NT 3.1) as the next major windows version after Windows 3.x, (so as 4) you would get to 9 about Windows 2000 (this counts 3.51 as a major release.)

Of course, that would leave out the consumer line starting with Win 95.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. There's some quality content on YT, but A) I don't trust that more than a millionth of my YT premium free goes to these creators, B) normal YT is so intensely terrible that I don't feel good about rewarding google for their practices of pushing me towards premium and C) by paying for YT premium, I can't shake this vague notion of me enabling the further closing down of the internet by getting everything interesting locked up behind paywalls and monthly fees.
I mean kind of a requirement if you are going to be decentralized with no trusted authority.
You must be hallucinating. Of course Microsoft will abuse you with ads and tracking, no matter how much you pay. And now that every last coffee machine in the world runs Windoze, they cannot grow by increasing the number of installations any more. The only way “up” is by raising the price.
You're right, it mainly has work emails but also personal emails and other data.
The thing about women entering the workforce making it impossible to have a single earner home is nonsense. The problem is housing.

Most things are the same price or cheaper as a percentage of median income today except housing. That’s because housing is treated as investment meant to appreciate, leading to perverse incentives to artificially restrict supply.

IMHO housing is the economic problem in the Western world. Most of the reason younger people feel poorer than their parents is housing. Most of the pressure on families is housing. The demographic collapse issue is due in part to housing costs. Real estate is cancer and the most important economic battle of today is finding a way to break the real estate market.

All the people panicking over demographics should be in favor of state and federal density mandates, telework where possible, and zoning reform.
HotSat-1: UK spacecraft maps heat variations across Earth
A novel UK satellite has returned its first pictures of heat variations across the surface of the Earth.
Virtual K-pop bands powered by AI are on the rise
While that works for now, if Google ever took interest in it I think it would be pretty straightforward to break any libraries like that. If you change either the endpoints or the model or etc with any reasonable frequency the library authors couldn't possibly keep up. Google can orchestrate their rollouts so their things always keep working while the library users are always in for a surprise. This is one of those things that could also be automated and put on a cron if one was really into it. In general though, I think for the time being this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care.
Teaching Digital Self-Defence
Calculate what a creator earns per view. Donate or buy merch with that money.
I just read through this chain of comments and I do think there is a lot of talking past each other.

I do not think the author was purposefully being misleading. I do not think they need absolution for anything. I think it may be interperted as misleading by some (as it did for the original commentor) based on the reader's recent experiences with Unity and the latest drama; which is not a property of the article, the headline, or the author - but the reader.
It is still closer to us than depending on US technology, as times are proving globalization has gone too far.
There's two different things going on.

One a regular employee shouldn't have to bring their own equipment. If they're a regular employee being told to use their own equipment for work, then the employer is being an ass.

The other is that the employer wants to spy on its employees. That's gross.

Windows has nothing to do with either.

But an employee who refuses to use Windows in a Windows only shop (or whatever software) should've figured those details out beforehand to not waste everyone's time. Neither side is wrong for wanting to do things in a specific way.
thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog

They'll never guess it!
I can only recommend addy.io (formerly annonaddy.com) I have been using it for years for aliases and it just works, is opensource and can even be self hosted if so inclined. For like 10 dollars a year you can use a custom domain, which is absolutely worth it.
Sorry there. It's 512MB RAM & x86_64 CPU. This just an alpha version so not very usable :)
Was looking for something like this, i'm definitely signing up!

I'm not a comic book artist by any means but now I can add this to my skills list with this.

Is there any pricing yet on this and is this backed by YC or bootstrapped?
The headline assumes the point. If Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all, that implies that, right now, it is free for all, like e.g. Godot. Which is just emphatically untrue.

It's like saying (to use the classic example), "I will no longer beat my wife." I never did, just like Unreal was never free for all.
The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil
Youtube premium doesn't stop the adverts, you need sponsorblock for that.
These are the use cases where generative AI is great. I want to convert an mp4 to mov and resize it to 720p with ffmpeg, give me the command. I want a bash script to filter out the third column from a CSV and convert the result to a JSON.

These are not hard, but I won’t remember ffmpeg flags because I only use it once per year.
> Next match is just `/<enter>`.

You can also press `n`
iFixit iPhone 15 Teardown: A Microscopic Look Inside The iPhone 15 [video]
Actiually,I this case Windows is more capable than other operating systems. Sharoing a loaded library between multiple process has a lot of uses.
You're right, YouTube ads are notorious for being JavaScript heavy and served by a third party.
I think they sum up global watch minutes, despite the bias that causes.
> but close enough that we could recognize.

A fun thing about star movement is that you can only see six stars in the Pleiades, but there are seven there. There are I guess a bunch of myths about there being seven of something and then one of them getting chased away. A fun theory is that right around when modern humans emerged, we made a nice story about that cluster of seven stars. Then as the stars moved so that two of them look like just one together, we independently made up stories of why there were only six left all around the world. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09170

This could be one of those things that's like "did you know Easter was a pagan godess" and it's total bullshit and actually only the Greeks have a six-were-once-seven myth. But maybe it's real and that's nice.
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In addition. I Agree.
It actually quite the opposite: it's counter intuitive that you could program these or, for that matter, any intelligence. The very point of a system being intelligent is that it will figure things out on its own which both means that you don't need to program it (provide a very detailed and strict set of instructions) and you won't be able to program it. The latter might be less obvious, and it's really just an intuition, but to me it seems that the fact/capability that it can figure out what you mean from a less precise set of instructions (i.e. prompts) is equal to it not following your instructions even when you think they are to be followed. Because, first of all, how would it know when to do which? And even if we introduce a magic word that switches modes it's still contradictory because your "program" would still be a loosely defined set of instructions and not a real program. Otherwise you'd be just using an actual programming language.

Now, if the system has some form of common sense (what we, humans call common sense), then it will be able to follow your instructions without doing unexpected things most of the time but it will still fail, just as natural intelligences do.

Instead of programming the "thing", what you can do is make the thing generate a program that you can test and review and run that. But that's definitely more work than giving a set of instructions to the LLM. But, for common tasks, it may acquire enough common sense so that the surprises will be rare enough.
Someone had a comment about Clinton's reflexive criticism of Sanders free college tuition plan, that it was a give away to upper middle class students. Reality upper class and upper middle class students get free tuition from their parents. Taxing wealthy parents and giving some of the money back to their kids as free tuition isn't really a freebee.

They also pointed out the wealthy fret that their kids are growing up to be wastrels, fail sons and daughters. And they think poor kids are like that. When a poor kid that knuckles under and goes to college isn't like that.
> "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind"

Who would claim this with a straight face about a creation with the externalities of Bitcoin?
Agreed in general. However, I wouldn't stop anyone but having my monitor traffic go over the network would lead to a lot of congestion, especially wireless. Prefer a separate cable as the grandparent alluded.
"Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV Acoustic Eave sdropping from Smartphone Cameras with Rolling Shutters and Movable Lenses" (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10056

Is this a result of photonic/phononic correlation? What type of quantum entropy is that, per Quantum Discord?
> Building on a fairly mature open source implementation of WebRTC was an early choice we made.

Hmm, you would know this best, having dealt with libwebrtc, that there's libwebrtc Chrome, libwebrtc Mobile Safari, and stuff that doesn't work. I'd say more, but if you say Pion 3-times, the Pion maintainer comes out in the comments and casts a spell on you and your jitter buffers become 10,000ms long.

> used this to build an international mesh architecture

AFAIK, Twilio, Amazon, Azure and Steam operate the only at-scale private-routing-over-TURN aka network-traversal service service for others to use, and Twilio and Amazon are the same network. Twilio doesn't even bother with Global Accelerators (aka anycast IPs), they route you via DNS responses, I doubt they've updated the code for years. Do you guys have your own private network? Surely it's "Amazon."

I suppose if you did that work, well you probably don't need 90% of the WebRTC featureset anyway, you might as well centralize it, which is what all the big chat vendors end up doing.

Anyway, it is extremely hard to innovate in this space, it's a lot of mashing together open source libraries and doing IT drudgery. Sometimes that IT drudgery is gluing C++ code together; sometimes it's deploying onto 15 AWS regions. I really appreciate the complexity of what you're doing and it all looks very cool.
My M1 Macbook Air was lucky to make it 6 hours with Docker running in the background. If I was editing text I could get maybe 10-12 hours. For my money, there are lots of machines that would run cooler and more efficiently.

> Why would I ever in 2023 still put up with a heavy, loud, low battery life laptop when I could get an M1 Air for less than $1000?

Because your workload isn't compatible with MacOS, and Apple makes no effort to remedy it at a software-level? Docker should not be more energy efficient on Windows than it is on Mac... and that's really just the tip of the incompatibility iceberg. Unless your workload is explicitly compatible with ARM, it probably Just Works better on x86.
I'm surprised some enterprising hackers haven't hacked the binaries to nuke telemetry permanently (one used to see lots of Win hacks in the past).

But then, perhaps I've not been looking hard enough (I mostly use Penguin).
Except for the fact that it is (a) not as anonymous as advertised, and (b) only as valuable as the "greater fool" thinks it is...
Sponsorblock already exists as infrastructure to slice out ads embedded into the video streams themselves. Of course, the sponsor segments weren't put there by youtube, but the same (or similar) solutions would apply if they were.

It's much easier for anything non-live.
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I don't think her conclusion is correct in this case (that it's all about chronological order). It's not about what happens first but about levels of abstraction. It doesn't make sense to say that we want to decide on the number of doors before specifying if we're building a LEGO car or a skyscraper in Manhattan.

The reasonable approach is to start from high-level concepts and only then deal with the details - without specifying high-level concepts the details have no particular meaning.

As a side note I have to say that I definitely prefer languages with `object.function` rather than `function(object)`, precisely because of this.
Another example: `if(foo == 5)`, not `if(5 == foo)`
The Rise of Indexing Tools
In the past year, I've seen about a dozen different indexing tools pop up.

- indexguru.io in January

- tagparrot.com in March

- foudroyer.com in August.

- serpcrawl.com in September

- indexed.pro (coming soon)

List goes on, and on..

They all seem like copycats of each other. Just wrappers of the Google Indexing API.

It's basically a meme on twitter/x at this point.

What is this all about? Why do people even need indexing tools? Is the state of SEO so bad that Search Engines aren't automatically indexing new content?
Raspberry Pi 5 Emulates Nintendo GameCube and Wii
Yes, it's falsifiable. If you cannot fit the model to the data, then the model must be wrong. That's the direction science technically works, but almost never how it is reported in the media. The fit here is considered a good thing, but cannot conclusively prove the model (as I think you are saying).

In principle, you could fit every single atomic/molecular spectrum to the data and falsify everything else based on some goodness of fit test, but no one does this.

Another thing about these molecular spectra is this: if there is an emission line missing, then it cannot be the spectrum you are fitting. These things do not change with environment, and can only be red or blue shifted due to special relativity. Every PAH spectrum must have the same lines. It's like a fingerprint.
What was the test?
The insidious aspect of this is the bait and switch YouTube did to consolidate their monopoly. A huge amount of videos were uploaded under the (idealistic and misguided) pretence they would be freely accessible without ads and so on. Had the YT UX been this way the whole time then the online video landscape would be much more competitive today.
The problem was the promise after the cold War, that everyone could life like a king, that the madness would scale.
Rather than make excuses for more revenue, I think it's apparent that programmers cannot trust commercial engines or their business models to not up and change one day to suit Epic's revenue.

In-house development doesn't suffer from this issue, and you'll have full control over the code.

Unreal doing this around the same time Unity pulls its shit isn't a coincidence.

As an aspiring game dev I kinda want nothing to do with these tools that want to jerk you around on pricing and aren't absolutely crystal clear on costs.

Blender is free and can do a ton.
We will go the depth. In the coming versions.
Um yeah, granted. I (mis)read that as $1M worth of bitcoin.
Woooo! This was a simple but great game, and the music was just GREAT. Also, you could pop open the PS1 CD reader, and put whatever Audio CD you had around, so you could play with custom music that, more or less, was followed by the game levels.