skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to be a contrarian, but Google paid Firefox lots of money to force Google as the default search. Likely an offer they would refuse at their own peril, but I really liked how my search engine settings persisted when I reinstalled. Now it defaults to google.

There's also a ton of promoted garbage on your homepage and privacy switches that need to be toggled off by default. Those settings don't carry-over when you sync your account settings.

I still prefer Firefox, but they are not immune to the encroaching enshittification.
I think ransomware is not really like drugs or hostages.

For drugs, there’s some inherent desire for some people to consume them. Maybe they harm society a bit (in the sense that they might destroy the people that take them), but the main cost for the rest of us is that they fund criminal enterprises because they are illegal. People want drugs, if they could buy them at CVS I suspect they would.

Ransomware is already illegal, we don’t create a new criminal enterprise by making it illegal to do business with them, we just make it harder.

Also, lots go the biggest ransomware gets have been big institutional entities where everything is documented. People just buy drugs in small amounts and consume them, two parties, neither of whom wants to get caught, minimal paper trail. Basically impossible to ban.

For physical hostages—people are desperate to get their friends and family back, and so they’ll go to desperate measures to pay. For ransomware, it is usually an economic decision, nobody’s life is at risk (other than when, like, a hospital is hit). Increasing the cost increases the chance the decision will go the other way. And increases the incentives to keep IT defenses up to date. (I know you didn’t bring up the hostage analogy, I think it is worth noting that the desperation you point to here is really an artifact of the tangent we’re on from the analogy leading us astray).
I really don't understand what the big deal is with "Do you remember saying 'these precise words'?" - "No, but it sounds like something I could have said." Given how human memory works, that should be the honest answer for everything anyone ever said more than 5 minutes ago. Why does the article turn this into a major gotcha?
> Street lights deter crime.

Lighting affects property crime more than violent crime. It also depends on where the lights are, both in terms of neighborhood[1] and country[2].

On the other hand, lights dramatically affect how safe people feel[3] in an area, even if that feeling is not necessarily based on actual danger.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.3386/W25798

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1745-9133.2004.TB00058.X

[3]: https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-2046(96)00311-8
Why do you think standing up is uncomfortable? I'm asking cause I'm at the hospital waiting for someone and they told me I can sit down in the waiting area. They didn't see to understand I am perfectly fine waiting while standing up. As soon as I obliged I read your comment. Now I'm curious.
Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward
> that one load-bearing Windows Server 2008 machine in a closet

Hah, that is literally how an old employer of mine got hacked and ransomwared big time.
Cycler orbits are cool, but slightly over-constrained. You can pass close to Earth and Mars on a more interesting cadence if you're willing to burn a little fuel to adjust the cycler once in a while. The "perfect" cycle orbit ala Aldrin Cycler is just one special, theoretically-stable case.

So, Starship on a cycler-like orbit is _really much more powerful than discussed here_.

I once wrote a few articles about using custom-made cycler trajectories to ferry data back and forth.

* You don't have to accelerate data up to speed, just beam it to the "ferry" when it's close to Mars, and beam it to earth when you're close to Earth

* You can get _enormous_ amounts of data back this way, b/c you can use very high data rates when transmitter and receiver are close

* For example, you can map the entire surface of Mars in high resolution quite frequently, if you are willing to wait a bit to get that data back

* And you can still downlink data normally 364 days a year - with one day scheduled for a Petabit scale transfer to the data "ferry"

This PDF is open access: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35091

And if you scroll through, there's some examples of "ugly" cyclers, which have a more interesting cadence and require a little bit of fuel to maintain.

By batching ugly cyclers, you can get multiple flybies, and not just constrained to the synodic cycles of the two planets. For example there's a 1-2 /year flyby schedule.
Prior to COVID and WFH I had a 2-2.5hour (each way) commute. This meant I would leave for work before my infant child woke up and would get back from work as she was going to bed. I pretty much didn't see my own kid on the weekdays. The wellbeing difference once WFH started was enormous, and for this reason I'd never go back to commuting.

Without that 4-5 hour wasted block of time, I now see my kid/family more, have time for hobbies, socialize with friends and people I actually like (rather than the at-work "performative socialization" with co-workers). Night and day difference.
> You go see a show to be entertained and surprised.

Teller: What’s the end goal for any work of art? The answer is it’s not one thing. In almost every work of art there is on one level—and this is the level at which magic is, I think, the most fundamental—at which you must amaze the audience. When you’re an actor, you must, for the moment you’re there, convince the audience that you are possessed by the spirit of this character. And there is a level in which you go, “Wow, I really thought for that moment, that the character onstage was Hamlet.” That amazement is the bottom line of any work of art.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/penn-and-teller-f...
Congrats on the lunch Dan and Ustin!
Courts in Europe have lots of precedent on balancing the users' right to privacy with businesses desire to implement things like tracking. You don't just get to say to the court "I need to do it because otherwise I don't have a business"
This criteria seems odd to me.
How to Think Computationally about AI, Universe and Everything – Stephen Wolfram [video]
What bank is that?
I grew up in a small town and my wife grew up in big cities. On our trip to Morocco we were on a camping trip to a desert and she asked me looking at the night sky: “What is this huge white thing across the sky?”. Took me a while to realize that she was asking about Milky Way.
> If they have enough slack to reduce headcount they're going to do it anyway.

This is so incorrect that it's hard to take seriously.

When revenues go down (for any reason), companies cut costs. Most employees are a cost. Why have 2 people when 1 will just have to work harder? A company rather cut and see what happens, when push comes to shove. Many company initiatives are also re-evaluated with a bottom-line mentality when revenues are down. That project that's 4 weeks overdue for a milestone? Time to cut it and everyone involved. When revenue is up, the opposite effect. "slack" is relative to market conditions. Job security along with it.

Small companies are often lean, but it's never surprising how much leaner they will run when money gets tight. Big companies can always pare down assets and associated headcount. These are just the things I see every time revenue is down, but far from an exhaustive list.
You might be surprised how much your eyes can adjust to see if there are truly no other lights. Often in urban areas what we see as "dark" is really our eyes unable to see details the unlit areas because of stray light from streetlamps. In a dark rural area, a full moon is plenty bright. Thus the "harvest moon"
Interesting. How would someone prove this?
Really is the nerd superbowl out there.
There was a Cadillac from 2000 that had night vision in a HUD style design [1]. That never caught on, but there's no reason we couldn't have a really great implementation of that now.

I don't know if an IR emmitter would be reasonable, but that could augment the headlights to provide some really good visibility even without street lights.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIR_LzriXYE
Cool. Nice UI too. Here are some things you can improve on :

1. Add functionality to reorder todos
2. Change the icon on the add todo button to a + (took me a few secs to figure out how to add a todo)
Replying to this one since I think we reached max nesting. Regarding as to why somebody might not be in a hurry to upgrade a 2015 Mac to an M2:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m2_8_gpu-vs-...

To put it in fully objective terms, a lot of development tasks (for many people) are still dominated by single-core performance.

The M2 has roughly 2x single-core performance, which is going to be absolutely awesome if you're spending a lot of time waiting for the CPU. But if that's not really a bottleneck, and the things you do are already completing at a speed that doesn't disrupt your flow state or otherwise consume significant amounts of your day.

I'm working (on my 2018 MBP) on some Python software that does science stuff. The single core perf delta between my CPU and the M2 is even smaller for a lot of tasks, more like 50% instead of 100%. And I'm not doing anything that would really benefit from more than 6 cores.

I'm currently planning an upgrade, but it's just not a pressing need as $2K-$3K is a significant investment for me at the moment.

I can't imagine an F1 mechanic not taking an interest
in the latest marginally improved wrench

F1 teams have mandated cost caps. I'm not entirely sure if that includes tooling, but even if not, budgets are not infinite and there is a time cost required to research and acquire new tools. Time and money spend getting wrenches are time and money not spent elsewhere. So I would think there is a constant pressure (like in any business) to identify real bottlenecks, not just spend unlimited amounts of money on increased capabilities that may or may not have any bearing on actual performance. Presumably this is why a developer might choose a regular M2 or M3, but not necessarily the maxxed-out M3 MAX with 192GB of RAM and 8TB SSD for $10,000 or whatever (I know I'm exaggerating). Yes it's more performance, no it won't matter for many workloads.
hahah well, chatGPT is not good with dates, thanks for the feedback!
As a UK resident I sadly have to agree
This puts the dot on the i quite nicely. It's all about the sales.
I regularly have 100+ tabs open depending on what I'm doing, and killing tabs in groups of 10+ sometimes without any lag. But then I'm on a 5950x CPU + Linux so maybe that plays some role. What hardware are you using?
You're right, real life is worse.
lets just call it the cost of doing business, if i am working for some one THEY should be the ones bearing the costs of the equipment required for me to work for THEM. I give them my time and they pay me. All that is needed to get the work done is employers responsibility.
In the Speedometer 2, Firefox is much slower than Chrome, which is a bit slower than Edge. But who cares! In real life, this makes no real difference. I respect and trust the privacy of Mozilla.
Features like containers and the ability to run Ublock and Tampermonkey on mobile are priceless!
As a native when someone tells me they live in Los Angeles, that means Los Angeles, no one from San Pedro or The Valley would tell you Los Angeles.

As a native of Los Angeles, when someone tells me Los Angeles, that means they live somewhere south of Ventura and north of San Diego. I've had other SoCal natives tell me LA when they actually live in Pasadena, or Long Beach, or Irvine, or Chino Hills, or Rancho Cucamonga, or a plethora of other cities that aren't even in LA County. LA natives don't usually start with their neighborhood unless it's contextually appropriate to the conversation, such as when talking to another LA native/local who would actually understand the geographic reference. Outside of a few well-known neighborhoods like Hollywood, non-Angelenos wouldn't know what you're talking about if you said "San Pedro" or "Boyle Heights."

On a pedantic note, "the Valley" usually refers to San Fernando Valley if you're in LA County, but is also used to refer to Santa Clarita Valley by locals there, and to San Gabriel Valley if you're east of LA in Pasadena, San Bernardino County, or Orange County. In Ventura County, "the Valley" means Simi Valley.In Riverside County, "the Valley" refers to Jurupa Valley and Moreno Valley depending on which side of the county you're in. Using "the Valley" to refer exclusively to San Fernando is a Hollywood thing and signifies that the speaker is either from San Fernando Valley (which is usually already apparent from their accent) or isn't an LA native and doesn't know any better.
Be curious what the new $1000 camera is that has a 13-120mm lens, 48MP and is capable of shooting ProRes Log.
Maybe? I’ve always had private offices except when I worked at a startup, but I don’t work in tech anymore so maybe that’s the difference.
LEDs can do oranges/reds just fine, it is just that blues are cheaper for interesting historic reasons (and people just love blue). LEDs can do better reds than anything that used to be used for outdoor lighting and there's some hope that LED lighting could help red shift outdoor lighting, eventually. (The redder it is, the less it interferes with night vision the less overall light needs to be spilled to seem as bright.)
What is amazing is that nobody infiltrated their structure and ran off with the money. There are sophisticated criminal organisations out there that go to much, much more effort to obtain funding. Just to take Hezbollah since it's all over the news recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_Hezbollah#Latin_Ame...
There was a bunch of side people. But the main engine was one dude.
And I on the other hand use Mozilla's latest & greatest all the time on Debian, and "simply have never encountered the bugginess that gets described on these HN threads" either.

So there's that ...
NNN has a lot more features and is very customizable. Most NNN users graduate to using it as a small file scripting system through use of plugins. Walk looks minimalist on purpose (which is nice for people that don't need all that NNN has to offer).

I made a quick tutorial on NNN showing off the power of its plugin system if anyone is interested. It's become a bedrock tool for me.

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/nnn
Could be, but they reverted the decision after getting sh*t on twitter. It feels like they acted without much recon.
Six year OS support, plus security updates past that.
That's why they used third party app to control ISO and shutter speed I presume
Pretty sure the internet bill is still going up be paid.
At the expense of relationships and the ability to form them. Being on the spectrum is not a good thing, it seriously messes up parts of your life.
Yes exactly, you can't just turn it off.
What size monitor do you believe to be most common? Anecdotally it seems the 27" monitor is finally overtaking the 24" monitors, but those seem to still be standard at more corporate companies.

I wish Apple had succeeded in getting 27" monitors to be 5k resolution across the board -- but that ship seems to have long since sailed.
Lawyering 101 is you tell your client NOT To SPECULATE. You weren’t asked if it’s the sort of thing you would say.
> the whole browser froze for a while.

Are you swapping out? I think a lot of people don't realize how heavy web pages are, often taking up hundreds of MB of RAM (at least) for each tab. I highly recommend the Auto Tab Discard plugin. I'm terrible with leaving tabs around, and tab suspension plugins let me continue that bad habit.
XTDB Compared to Other Databases
Yeah, it's not for me, but I've seen Kagi continually work to meet people where they're at WRT pricing, so maybe it's something people were asking for.
I think you should take a look at this [0]. It goes deep into the academic literature on police shootings, so it's not exactly a short read. The author writes in good faith, and exerted considerable effort to substantiate his points. In short, there appears to be a trend of police shootings tending towards white offenders, while non-lethal confrontations are more prevalent during encounters with black offenders.

[0] https://kriegman.substack.com/p/post-leading-to-termination-...
I think you could shoot Barry Lyndon’s candle light scenes on iPhone just fine. The lens was custom made ƒ/0.7 because the film was shot at ISO 100, IIRC.

People forget how much more sensitive silicon is to light than film.

Edit: got currious, it was ISO 100 pushed 1 stop during development[1]. So, since an iPhone's ƒ/1.78 main lens is ≈2.5 stops slower than ƒ0.7, using ISO ≈1200 should give you the same exposure (if shot at 24fps). Certainly doable.

[1] https://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-fa...
Step 1: Subways
Permalink: https://josh.vanderhook.info/publications.html#josr2022sspe
If it doesn't run JavaScript it immediately loses most attack surface relative to other browsers.
Yay! Happily using Firefox since 3.5 release. Keep going guys.
In a one-pedal-driving scenario the neutral position is when the gas pedal is slightly depressed.

By default, with no feet on pedals, the EV will decelerate. An ICE car will coast when nothing is depressed.
Asimov also wrote The Caves of Steel, set in a future where Humans live on Earth in completely enclosed underground cities. Robots farm and mine on the surface.
This is a good point you bring up. It is evident that everyone knows the correct level of indentation is a tab character that is four spaces wide; you never use spaces for indentation, only tab characters.

Any suitable programming language will immediately recognize a space as a typo and fail compilation.
This one is as infamous as it is useful. Modern CPUs have the same instruction, but without the built-in loop (fused multiply-add).

Likewise, modern CPUs have dedicated CRC instructions, ARM Thumb 2 famously has an instruction for case statements (jump tables, instructions TBB/TBH), and many more.

The VAX was way ahead of its time, but failed to deliver on performance due to not having a pipelined or out-of-order architecture as is industry standard today.
All that equipment would be necessary for an ARRI as well.
5.8% versus 84%, there is still a lot of work to do before overcoming the Dollar.
'flickering' Earth systems: act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost
"When Rishi Sunak granted 27 new North Sea licences this week, he wasn’t thinking about the survival of the living world"
If you watch the video, you can see that they have a big rig with like a gimbal and external controllers and screens. So it's not "just an iPhone" but it's also not a $50k+ pro camera body.
Thanks! So none of those are checked by default and the user has to manually go to "Settings" and then "Consents"? If that's the case, I don't see what the issue is, people really gave them the consent to do what they're doing now.
Making Exorcist movies has always been a nightmare, but they've all been great
You wouldn't. You would purchase a 0 year old M3.
A considerable part of the wealth of slaveowners was the value of their slaves. Slaves were traded for a lot of money. That means, economically speaking, if you own yourself you have that wealth.
I would if they made micro controllers that had better hot-reload.

Also would need more cores, SRAM and some OpenGL ES GPU! ;)
Wait for him to publicly say something stupid about it that admits guilt.
.42 is cheap for PG&E, it goes up to .6 at peak times. PG&E is completely corrupt and broken. Utilities do not belong in the private sector.
You just found this on Google and because this is behind a paywall you haven't read it, right? Because the argument made here isn't the one you think it is: it's about financing social care in order to be able to make crime disappear (making the police “obsolete”).

Now I don't think that's realistic, and no matter how fair your society is going to be there would always be the need for some police in the end (the author themselves acknowledge that as well when talking about “less needs” for the police), but claiming that they want to abolish the police in the sense of "directly removing it in today's society" is a strawman. (Yes the provocative title is an invitation to strawmans but you fell for the trap)
Mainly the vaccination thing. Your vaccine status is utterly irrelevant to a blog. There is zero reason anyone would state that unless they have a strong moral belief about vaccination and wish to make a public statement that they are doing the correct thing as they see it. It's really cringe, like I said. I don't conceal which vaccines I get - if it's relevant to the conversation I have no problem mentioning it. But neither do I proactively tell people so that they know I'm One Of The Good Ones.

I didn't even see the queer thing you mentioned, but I also left the page pretty quickly once I realized it was just going to be the author patting herself on the back for social status.
>With the new show being trying to have them unravel someone's trick, with the odds stacked greatly against the magician, it's pretty obvious they've almost "seen it all".

The two main points of the show are to feature and raise the profile of younger magicians, and to get modern video records of their tricks. The "fool us" thing, while genuine is pretty ancillary the point of the show.

>It also gave me a glimpse on how secretive the magician community is. Since people earn a living selling required gimmicks or instructions on how to perform specific tricks, it is completely unacceptable to discuss how things are done. For the really puzzling ones on the show, if you go online to try to find the answers, you'll often find others asking the same thing, and the accompanying wall of silence. Even more so on forums dedicated specifically to magicians. You're likely to find a large discussion, usually with links to the official store for the trick, and zero answers. To do that would be breaking the magician's code, and apparently, you don't break the code.

Very, very, very, few people make a living selling tricks, and most of those are people who design and manufacture large stage illusions for the best magicians. A small handful of performing magicians ALSO sell tricks at retail magic shops. A few more than that write and publish books through magic publishing.

Some folks take the code of silence VERY seriously, but notably Penn and Teller do not. They do a cups and balls with transparent cups. They do Lift Off Of Love, which shows in detail how to do a pretty involved stage illusion. They LOVE telling people how things are done. They share similarity with Houdini in wanting to expose people who pretend that they actually have supernatural powers, and some of their tricks are aimed at showing that it's really just a high skill profession.
for compute only (restricted to openCL), not graphics workloads.
If I have the skills and willingness to use another AI, then I might as well do the whole thing by myself.

Agreed on this not being the type of image you’d vectorize. In this specific case I’d want high res images suitable for print, or for a logo on a 4k video, etc.
What is the licensing for this code?
I guess we're even then, since they do not respect DNT.

[Edit] can't reply to below, but since I am not violating any law, I don't see how I need to admit to anything. I'll admit to using my user agent as intended.
When Americans see “public school” we think of what you would probably call a “state school,” funded by taxes and not at all targeting elites.
People are making a choice for their kids, whether they want the after effects of religious or public school 'brainwashing'. For many, its a clear cut choice, one way or the other.
-1 for Apple for using a third party app to capture the footage. I dont have an iphone so how do they control the camera app without touching the screen?