skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very much this. one package I work with to be secure requires an LDAP server already setup correctly plus TLS packages already to go signed by a proper root certificate. Secure by default in that case would be tough.
I think it's tougher because the standards for good software are significantly higher.

20+ years ago, if you had a website that let people make comments and upload a low-resolution image for others to see, that was seen as pretty freaking cool.

Today, you need to create software that does something like have a 3d VR interface to order pizza, provide real-time maps of where your pizza is at all times, have perfect AI customer service agents that will answer any question instantly, and get it to you in under 5 minutes to barely raise an eyebrow about your tech.
What in the java language makes you think it is less suitable to be used without an IDE than other languages?
I have the entirely unrefined notion, that, surely, lack of data is not what is keeping us from creating much, much better LLMs.

I understand with how training is done right now that more data makes things scale really well without having to come up with new concepts, but it seems completely obvious that better processing of already available knowledge is the way to make the next leaps. The idea is that, what is keeping me from having expert level knowledge in 50 different fields and using that knowledge to draw entirely new connections between all of them, in addition to understanding where things go wrong, is not lack of freely available expert level information.

And yet, GPT4 barely reaches competency. It feels like computers should be able to get much more out of what is already available, specially when levering cross discipline knowledge to inform everything.
I think you mean Longhorn?
another alternative: RapidAPI https://rapidapi.com/

it's a good api client, and it's free for individual use and they have some sort of nifty marketplace integration catalog...thing with remote API servers that makes it easy to find and try API services that offer data / functionality you want to connect to.
I don't know, but I see unnecessary all caps in other words too - it's not infrequent that I see JAVA and sometimes RUST (for the programming languages). Kind of irks me, but obviously doesn't really matter. Ultimately I think it's just a weird niche cultural holdover from the very early days of computing when lots of random stuff was arbitrarily capitalized, like FORTRAN was originally all caps, maybe related to early character sets that only had capital letters.
The absolute limits are very far away.

The limits within which disequilibriums utterly undo the recognizable modern world are very close and indeed some have possibly been passed already.

Mass death measured in 10s of millions and consequent even more massive migration is likely within our lifetimes and not particularly unlikely within the next 10 years.

The last few years have awoken many Americans to the fact that their particular locale is not, as many assumed or had the luxury of not considering at all, immune from or refuge from the direct and indirect consequences of such disequlibirum.

Will rich programmers be the first to die, or have our lives destroyed, or our communities?

Mostly not.

But we'll get there too.
My approach to that is not to try to donate a few bucks to every project I use, but to randomly choose a few about quarterly, especially among the ones I use the most, and make larger donations to those. Otherwise it is too hard to remember to donate, and just plain too much work.

If a lot of people do that, it'll even out.

I'd like to have an automated way to make my choices more random, and to weight the probabilities better toward the projects that give me the most value, or are the most generally underfunded compared to the global value they produce. At the moment, I do that more or less by guessing. Unfortunately it sounds Hard(TM) to do it right.

It'd also be nice if you didn't have to go searching for how to donate to every project.
University of Waterloo Co-op salary sharing
> essentially same pandas just for R

You are aware the pandas was designed to replicate the behavior of base R's dataframes?

I've been a heavy user of both and R's data frames are still superior to pandas even without the tidyverse.

Pandas is really nice for the use case it was designed for: working with financial data. This is a big part of why Pandas's indices feel so weird for everything else, but if your index is a time in a financial time series then all of a sudden Pandas makes sense and works great

When not working with financial data I try to limit the amount of time my code touches pandas, and increasingly find numpy + regular python works better and is easier to build out larger software with. It also makes it much easier to port your code into another language for use in production (i.e. it's quick and easy to map standard python to language X, but not so much a large amount of non-trivial pandas).
I've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/

Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
>I thought SoftBank bought them, making them a Japanese company?

What a weird metric for determining the nationality of a company. Intel are publicly traded: are they stateless?
Is there a "SatoshiWiki" that enumerates these?
After the whiffs of enshittification caught my nose I did some research and switched over to Insomnia. I don’t make use of any advanced features, just a pre request authentication call that was a little bit of a pain to set up. But it’s working exactly how I was using postman so it’s a suitable replacement for me
I don't think there's any explicit youtube rule that guarantees they will make more money from premium viewers, but it's confirmed by creators who have showed their income reports, or at least talked about their income breakdown. And Premium views always pay better.

Another anecdote I've heard from several creators is that much longer videos (like a 5 hour livestream recording) are now much more profitable because of premium viewers. With ads they either need to include an ad every 10 minutes, which means 30 ads in one video and turns people away. Or they only include a few ads in which case people do watch it, but it's far less profitable than a 10 minute video with a midroll ad.
Your reply is a complete non sequitur.

This is a prize awarded by the 2023 Norwegian Nobel Committee, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. The oldest member of the committee was 4 years old in 1953, and all five are Norwegian, not American or British. The person who received the award is an Iranian woman.

Why the hell is the bad behavior of the CIA in 1953 relevant to this discussion? "The West" is not a monolithic entity that should be held accountable as a single unit indefinitely for evil things done by two countries 70 years ago.
> If you’re wondering “Is Instagram a native app?” or “Is Facebook a native app?”, the answer to both is no. They are both hybrid apps with numerous “native” features.

https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/what-is-a-native-app
23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
> there is great content on YT and I want those creators to make enough to carry on to get to the level where they proper sponsors

Just donate to their Patreon/Kofi or click the big "Thanks" button under their video.
Jobs report shock: American economy added a stunning 336,000 jobs in September
I found it strange not to mention Altavista. Granted, google ate AV's lunch when they emerged, but as someone who was on the web as it started hitting CS departments (even the one where the first web spider was created), AltaVista was the thing that made the idea of a "search engine" actually seem like it was going to be a thing.

Sure, sure, pagerank was a huge step up (at the time), and larry & sergey would likely have gone down pretty much that path no matter what. But before Google, there was Altavista: fast, feeling comprehensive and pointing the way into the future.
mpv with --tone-mapping=bt.2446a (or whichever you like from https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-tone-mapping), --hdr-compute-peak=yes, and --target-peak=SDR monitor nits, does the best I've seen yet.
And since Aurora is just a proxy for the Play store, you're still back using Google services.

Signal not being on F-Droid is a bummer, makes keeping the app updated a pain.
> It would be nice if instead of everyone hating on the prize, we could take a moment and reflect.

Nice can also mean silly and ignorant, as any well-aged dictionary would tell you. [0] We are reflecting, on the corruption and politicization of our institutions.

> Think of what this woman and many other women trapped in these regimes are going through, the sacrifices they've made, and the bravery they show to try to make things better.

Essentially the same Bush-era "plight of the Afghan women" kind of appeal to emotion to justify corruption, interventionism, and war [1].

Also, I'm pretty sure you don't really know much about the political situation in Iran. Mohammadi belongs to a political faction called the Reformists [2], which is filled with regime apologists and charlatans. More specifically, she belongs to a particular branch which is sometimes called Neo-Shariatism [3]. Shariati himself was the "ideologue of the Islamic Revolution" [4], and a full-fledged charlatan who used to falsely claim to have a PhD in sociology from Sorbonne [5].

Mohammadi is currently a political prisoner, but that obviously isn't something which merits a Peace Prize. I'm sure that there isn't a shortage of political prisoners in the Islamic Republic.

[0]: https://www.websters1913.com/words/Nice

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attack...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Reformists

[3]: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/6b552565-6ff8-45a0-a0e...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Shariati

[5]: http://www.shariati.com/bio.html (Compare this with the Wikipedia article, which says he got a PhD in Persian. Even that is dubious.)
One thing I find helpful to hammer home when helping coworkers with git issues is to hammer home the point that you cannot permanently lose your work so long as you commit it somewhere. Some things you might do will make it harder than others to find where your code is, but it's always (unless you run git gc) somewhere.

Then, you demonstrate that you can make it trivial to undo what you did in git if you just take a branch off of every branch you're going to be messing with before doing so.

IMO, a unified "git undo" would probably be a valuable feature for pedagogical reasons.
Okay, it's 10x the rate. From 45 per 100k person-years to 450 per 100k person-years for the pancreatitis. That seems like it's worth taking the play on if you're fat and can't unfat yourself.
There's a difference between being monetized (i.e. creator gets money) and YT running ads. So are you saying that YT used to only run ads on monetized videos, and recently they started running ads on non-monetized videos too? Because I remember starting to see ads on clearly non-monetized videos quite a long time ago, like 2014.

And it doesn't seem like a big deal; they didn't promise to host your video without ads forever, nor is that a reasonable expectation.
Show HN: Ahrefs/Semrush for Chrome Extensions
I built Ahrefs/Semrush for the Chrome extensions. It offers Keywords Rank Tracking and Keyword Research for the Chrome Web Store. Any feedback?
What you’ve described is absolutely not anywhere close to decent.

Right now it’s basically OLED in a dark room or don’t bother. Large TVs can get away with FALD, maybe.
Are there any workarounds for smart tv apps (browser, player)? They probably already "won" there and the user experience is horrible.
I don't use an adblocker. I agree that sites with obnoxious irrelevant ads are quite frustrating. I simply don't visit those sites, they're usually garbage in the first place.

What's an example of a site where:

1. There is no option to pay to remove the ads.

2. The ads are obnoxious and intrusive.

3. The content is worth consuming in the first place.
Submitting a blog post about this would have been much more effective than linking an Apple developer video with a modified title. (And, then I wouldn’t have had to add quotes and context as a comment below.)
They already had to rename from GPTIndex. If I am allowed to be a skeptic: Pretty likely they do not want to go through a rename again. And so, putting the current name down to coincidence might be to create a paper trail in support of their claims.
Yeah, it does appear to be a reiteration of Rec. 2100 / BT.2100. I wonder if it's because this refers to still images rather than video?
No, I actually use YouTube enough to subscribe to it. Which I've tried to do, but they don't offer their premium service where I live yet.

Actually my usage is falling off now, so it may get too low before they get around to making it possible.
The person you are responding to is specifically complaining that when the research in the article was discussed on a radio program, it confused fluorescence and bio-luminescence, so I'm not sure why you are explaining the difference to them.

(I guess you think they are talking about the article but they explicitly said that they are talking about a story on the radio so I'm not sure where the confusion is coming from.)
Sphinx, JupyterBook (MyST Markdown), Quarto + nbdev

executablebooks project:
https://github.com/executablebooks

quarto:
https://github.com/quarto-dev

nbdev: https://nbdev.fast.ai/
> which is it?

The answer obviously depends on the specifics of the system in question.
Ask HN: Write once, run anywhere front ends failed. Thoughts?
I think the idea of one programming language everywhere has sailed, for a while at least.

It looked like JavaScript was going to be able to do it. React and React Native were very promising.

But since we now have Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack, each platform has a language and framework specifically tailored for it. Except for Windows which is still a shit show.

Attempts to abstract this in a cross-platform layer are becoming more and more difficult, and offering less marginal value (e.g. we now have declarative frameworks natively whereas before we only had React).

Each platform has a recommended way to do everything, and we should follow the conventions of each platform.

I would be interested to hear if anyone has actually had successful though with frontend code sharing...
I'm not worried at all about Disney paying more licenses. I'm honestly shocked to realize that the Madelorian was made and the engine behind it got nary a penny for it.
I am in 2D for now, so anything SDL based is enough. But, part of what's put me off of 3D is the business side. Modeling tools are difficult to use and take years to learn adequately. I'm not interested in paying for a sub while I'm learning, and terms in a license that are subject to change do nothing to inspire confidence in any particular solution. This is a social and ethical problem imo.

As you pointed out, doing it correctly requires experienced developers who will stick around. I think that's a more rewarding and better cost to spend money on. At least the worker won't try to modify the terms of what you're building on.

I'll check out that project sometime. 3D is still a ways out for me but any libre software that can make it easier to learn sounds great.
Yes, to a certain degree. But now we are in an obesity epidemic. It is just as bad as people smoking in the previous generations. Loads of people are MORBIDLY obese.
Thanks for the tip. I hadn't looked into it since I'm still on the original cartridge. When I value my time debugging janky inkjet printers I think even a 4.3c/page printing cost is still acceptance since I have low volume, rare printing jobs.
I couldn't get microG to work on Lineage without using the microG build of LineageOS https://lineage.microg.org/
> Sure, the model is unable to request the information, but thats the next step.

How does it decide which information to request? How does it know which is the right or wrong information for a given request? Maybe it's possible to wave this away with "something in the future will do that!" but that's literally the entire reason why all current AI is limited. It doesn't have the business context or reasoning capabilities to make the right decisions to decide what the right data to augment generation even is. I don't believe we're any closer to AGI.
Swinging is quaint. Who has sex with other people anymore?

We're all technosexual these days. If it doesn't involve a scalpel or a bank of GPUs, you're just vanilla.
Maybe someone could use train a AI for something useful like skipping advertisement? Switching from time to content id, i.e. like they use for copyright strikes, would work even better than status quo.
Didn't they just push a similar update where they require an account? And pushed all data into their cloud sync without asking?
I'd love to know if jvns has a library or something she uses for this. I've seen this kind of slide thingy on https://boringtechnology.club/ too, and I'm really curious!
We are aware, and that is one of the options. :)
Then again, he did not like Bitcoin that much:

> I haven't analyzed BitCoin, but the impression of multiple digital cash experts I've talked to is that it's bunk. [1]

> I'd be more optimistic about BitCoin if I had the impression that they were acting on lessons learned from prior attempts. [2]

> Wow; there exists a Tor+bitcoin illegal drug marketplace, appropriately called Silk Road. [3]

> Ugh, another stupid article claiming "anonymity is inherent in Bitcoin." [4]

> This big Bitcoin heist shows Bitcoin suffers from the worst of both worlds: no strong anonymity, yet no fraud reversal protection. [5]

[1] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/12213554224562176

[2] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/56487900136734720

[3] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/69301492342980608

[4] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/81431725510635521

[5] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/81084436518674433
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
Not sure why people are downvoting, these drugs are a major threat to the fast/junk food industry.

If these drugs continue being used we might have reached “peak calorie” consumption in the west. There are a lot of scaremongering articles for this class of drugs. The media constantly runs articles to scare people out of taking it.

Gastroparesis is often mentioned. You know what often causes this? Being obese and having diabetes.

The question is do these drugs make that more likely to happen.. In the meantime I’ll let other people beta test these drugs on my behalf.
Depends how comfortable you are with curl and your workflow. I'm much more productive using curl vs any GUI you give me. Still have OpenAPI specs in my projects but curl is much faster initially.
I have my primary display in the center, directly in front of me. Whatever needs my primary focus for my current task goes there... Outlook for email, vscode for code, Terminal for admin, web browser when web browsering, etc.

To my left is for monitoring things, previewing things, and reference. Browser for checking changes to code, logs for monitoring changes to system, documentation for thing I'm working on, etc.

The result avoids the bezel in my direct field of view, avoids strain and RSIs from awkward posture, and, incidentally, kinda degrades gracefully when I'm at home with only one display or traveling with only my laptop's display.

But the second display to my left allows my peripheral vision to monitor things for changes without diverting my focus, and helps me keep documentation or source material for comparison handy without having to switch away from the thing I'm working on.
> People starting families don't just want a house, what they want is enough space. Mothers want a yard they can send the kids out into when they need a moments peace, closets to store everyone's junk, and bathrooms big enough to walk into while pregnant

All of this also means said mother can't go to the corner to pick up supplies, but must drive to the store. There isn't an abundance of neighbors to help out or restaurants with cheap delivery; everything must be done themselves.

The notion that families require low density is very culturally-specific and a choice more than a necessity. Yes, four people need more physical space than two, but not to the extent of modern suburbia.
When I try to see an apple, I see absolutely nothing. I can pretend that there is an apple in front of me and that it's spinning or whatever, but all I've really done is remember what attributes I've given it and roughly what size it is.

There are some odd things I've paid attention to since I became aware I had aphantasia and that it was a thing. I know for a fact that my dreams are visual because I've had lucid dreams before and was aware of them being visual and at a higher fidelity than my eyes can normally see. I do see images when I'm almost asleep or not quite awake yet. I've seen some images after meditating for a long while, but I suspect I was just starting to fall asleep. Other than that, eerily enough, the only thing I've been able to see that doesn't involve photons hitting my retinas when completely awake is the ghost of a young woman that shyly watches me from the hallway when I'm sometimes watching TV that I've seen on a few occasions. Make of that what you will because I have no idea what to make of it.
Something that behaves like that would be a useless model. These models are not deterministic, llms for example have a literal temperature dial you can turn to increase randomness. If it narrows onto the idea of a single judge then what's the point of the AI? You could just grab a picture of some old white guy (your median judge) and use Photoshop and call it a day. Or just use stock photos if all the generated judges are the same.
It almost feels like having a 'shopping list' of tipping points:

* Arctic ocean ice-free

* Glacier x, y or z disappeared

* Amazon forest turned into savannah

* Greenland ice sheet melted

* Antarctic ice sheet melted

* Global temps 1.5, 2, 2.5°C etc above pre-industrial levels

* CO2 past 500ppm in the atmosphere. On to 550 & 600!

Etc, etc, and check off each 'achievement' 1 by 1.
Incredible, all things considered. In color on the C64 would be interesting as well.
I said what solution I wanted. Micropayments have been researched for 30 years. Anonymous crypto payments have been deployed for maybe 10. Yes, there are scaling issues. No, they're not that hard. The real problem is getting everybody to agree on what to use.

... and if a site directly tells me it doesn't like my ad blocker, I leave. I haven't gone to the ad-blocker-blocker level. I don't think that's unreasonable.
>Our rules shouldn't be vacuous

That something concerns matters of little personal interest to you doesn't make it vacuous.
Being correct and believing you have a valuable product is only one small part of convincing people to do the monumental task of opening their wallets and paying you. Your ability to communicate, empathize with your customer, and sell the value of your offering is largely what will determine your outcome. That and a boatfull of luck.
If we're broadly generalizing three countries with a tremendous amount of engineers: American engineering culture optimizes for safety, Germany engineering optimizes for efficiency, Chinese engineering optimizes for cost.

While Chinese products are the most affordable, German products work the best and last the longest.

American products may not be cheap, nor work the best, but they're usually the safest by a longshot because we're so litigious.
The other thing I didn't mention is that the change to remove biased locking a while back has also had an impact in some places that do almost always uncontended locking, so we're kind of considering that too.