skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it wrong to not save people's lives, especially when it is of no inconvenience to you?

I used to think so. Later events then taught me that proactively helping people doesn't necessarily keep their knife away from your throat. You see people's true colors when you try to disengage.

I only save the lives of animals these days. People are scum. Animals never did me wrong.
Watch the video from here for 1 minute to get how it works.[1] The device is simple and clever. The YouTuber padded this to 9 minutes.

[1] https://youtu.be/xSgf_wxJIlk?t=170
it was his character in combo with the delics. this kind of treatment can only be taught if aspiring teacher/psych/shrink is super-rational and NOT at all if said person is rational (=pseudo-rational)
Now imagine performance, if this game could be written by a single person in assembly...
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides
I worked at Unity on Build Automation/Cloud Build for nearly a decade. Let me assure you, that tech debt is NOT being fixed any year soon. It’s due to a fundamental disconnect between executive leadership wanting to run the company like Adobe (explicitly) and every engineer wanting to work like a large scale open source project (Kubernetes, Linux, and Apache are pretty close in style). The only way anything gets built is as a Skunkworks project and you can only do so much without funding and executive support.
Currently down with dengue. Wish they'd put these good mosquitos where I live!
You don't rent all the places. You buy all the places and limit the available supply to control the price of rent.
My goal in life is not to make the greatest amount of money possible. Mission, vision, values, culture, peer group—these matter a lot to me as well. I also have been lucky to have enough saved, and can take risks for something I believe in.

(I currently work at Oxide, having taken a pay cut.)
I think it will drop most of the traffic, as I posted in load test results. The traffic coming to this is crazy. I can see nginx access logs and requests are not stopping!!
Indeed. In hindsight, the tilde (~), backtick (`) and caret (^) turned out to be useless for their original purposes in ASCII -- they'd been used on typewriters to overprint accents, but you couldn't overprint on a computer screen. Same with the underscore (_) to underline. While the backslash (\) was a truly strange mark that IBM included for "reverse division", apparently to support ALGOL logical operations ("\/" and "/\").

In hindsight the underscore and backslash been useful in computing, so I'd say we'd have done better to use the tilde and backtick slots for completing pairs of curly quotes instead! Of course, hindsight being 20/20 and all that...
I disagree. Testable code tends to make more modular and easier to refactor code. It is easier for someone who is not writing tests to make things way more complex than it needs to be.
> It also seems like this type of obfusction probably never was particularlly effective.

It actually is effective - at least it was a few years ago. See these tests:

https://www.johnplummer.com/javascript/email-obfuscation-wor...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042853/http://techblog.t...
Every single grocery store uses data to curate and prioritize house brand products.

Somehow this is lauded in the food industry, but demonized in the tech industry.
Mozi botnet goes dark under mysterious circumstances
Out of curiosity, what do you use for the server?

I've had good experiences with the HTTP Server component built into ESP-IDF. I see the example in this post uses Microdot.
You don't.

Maybe when reference types eventually become a thing.
Why finetune a LLM if you can defeat most obfuscation tecniques with a few regex?
What’s are the advantages using StackStorm over just native GitHub actions? I assume being able to push events to servers with a running local agent?
Google Search ranking documents in antitrust trial exhibits
I didn't hear about this, nor could I find anything specific on Google. I did find that apparently some companies have pretty aggressive clawback clauses, which is a huge yikes from me.

Anyway, I think if you ever do talk to a mid stage startup, you should tell them this is what it would take to convince you. More people demanding it will likely cause the market to move.
Have you considered working at FAANG? Plenty of chill teams where you don't have to work too hard but can get intellectual stimulation.
How does it suffer to make it illegal to charge 10% more or less than the average for comparable housing? It seems to make it more stable and less volatile.
Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios from 2017 to 2100
It's the means. If people wanted to look for ways to help reduce stagnant water, as a means of reducing mosquito populations, I suspect exactly 0 people would object. But releasing billions of mosquitos with a bacteria and hoping there's no natural evolution to it, and everything continues to work as planned indefinitely...? There's more than sufficient reason for skepticism there.

Beyond this, I would also consider the arrogance of the present. When you look back at stupid decisions made in times past, it's not like they just blindly rushed into them (well not always at least). They certainly assessed them using the latest knowledge available at the time, and then moved forward after it was deemed safe and effective. It just turns out that we're quite frequently wrong on such assessments, and so things that fail in 'obvious' ways only look obvious with the benefit of hindsight. It's like how NASA can lose a half a billion dollar probe in modern times because nobody bothered to ensure that all systems were using the same unit systems. [1]

Take yourself a decade in the future and imagine reading about these mosquitoes gaining, at the minimum, a resistance to the bacteria being used. Would it really surprise you? Or would you be thinking something more along the lines of, 'Wow, how could they not see that coming?'

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
>> Tests can only tell developers they made a mistake. There is no gain at that moment.

This is the dumbest thing I have seen on HN in a long, long time. Full test coverage supported by good mocks is one of the quickest and most efficient ways to find regressions that I know. Don't discount the value in helping developers see when they've made mistakes, especially when you're rotating junior and mid-level developers on and off your team.
This won't happen as you can then easily build alternative front-ends for applications with ads or exploitative design approaches.

Why go through several hoops consisting of dark patterns trying to squeeze extra money or personal information from you when you can just make an API call from a community developed front-end?
Tons of sandbox games have campaigns. I think Roller Coaster Tycoon, for instance, was the perfect example.
Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana
It is astonishing indeed. In the long run I hope software catches up with the majority of other industries which has already realized that minimizing waste is a good idea. It might take a while but unless we get room temperature super conductivity or some other revolutionary tech first we will start thinking about efficiency again sooner or later.
I’m not seeing simdjson in them though? I must be missing something because the Go port of it is explicitly mentioned in the motivation[1] (not the real thing, though).

[1] https://github.com/bytedance/sonic/blob/main/docs/INTRODUCTI...
Or anyone with a pcileach.
"And the reason why the game has its own culling implementation instead of using Unity’s built in solution because Colossal Order had to implement quite a lot of the graphics side themselves because Unity’s integration between DOTS and HDRP is still very much a work in progress and arguably unsuitable for most actual games."

This sadly tracks with my own experiences with Unity's tooling, where DOTS did ship but its implementation rots on the vine like every other tool they acquired. The company is woefully mismanaged, its been mismanaged, and given the very public pricing incident from a few weeks back, they aren't focusing on improvements to the engine, but on any way to scrap money from its users.

Bevy's ECS implementation is really good, and I want to see it succeed here, in addition to Godex.
Just a heads up for anyone using AMD CPUs fTPM, it is completely broken and cannot be used even for "someone stealing your laptop".

A few hours time and a few tools can fully compromise the TPM's secrets. This can be performed by anyone who has a little experience tinkering with electronics, someone who can use a soldering iron for example can almost certainly pull this off.

From my understanding all of the "zen" CPUs are effected except for maybe the very most recent models.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14717
Mine tries, and breaks the page in the process. I effectively cannot view any pure HTTP website.
https://acbmkt.com/intelligent-cameras-in-the-service-of-hea...
I think half-finished is a good way to describe the state of day-1 releases of games these days. Look back on other games (and non-game software) and measure A. the amount of time between when the developer started and the first release, and then B. the total amount of time it took to get to the final patch. I bet for many, MANY games, A ≤ B/2: They were literally "half-finished" in terms of time, on first release.
Then you are stuck with tutorials / instructions looking for python instead of python 3 until you just alias python 3 back to python.
I don't understand how to know and check if chrome extensions intercept this kind of data to or from... (and send a copy back to X or Y )

A similar thing is in the 'awesome screenshot' extension (I think) - but I fear data can be exfiltrated - and if not now, when it is sold or taken over or changed in the future.

So I don't use extensions this way - but maybe I should know how to check and enjoy the benefits - I just don't know.
A general rule of thumb I always used was to take take whatever the in-game population says and multiply it by 10 to get a closer match between the size/complexity of the city and what the population would more realistically be.

If I recall correctly, there was even a few mods that did a similar re-balancing of the population numbers in the first game.
Amusingly, it originally did have comments. Removing comments was the one change Crockford ever made to the spec[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150105080225/https://plus.goog... (thank you Internet Archive for making Google’s social network somewhat accessible and less than useless)
You misquoted the title, which is actually, "Fatal injuries while under the influence of psychoactive drugs". There was no psychedelic fatalities other than 1 MDMA & alcohol one. Those were all booze, and other drugs. I'm not saying there are none, it's just the death rate during psychedelic trips is a actually lower than for sober people. On average those drive less and are often in group settings, so it's more those substances don't alter the death rate and the safety is provided by the context of not driving as much as typical, and not working with machinery.
> imposition of onerous taxes on investment properties, rental income, or real estate speculation

How? This is vague.

> creation of state-housing funds

How? Who holds the liability and underwrites this?

> widespread state construction of public housing

How? Is there even a trained construction workforce anymore? In the US at least this no longer exists after 2008 [0]

I'm not trying to be dismissive btw. I used to work in the policy space and there are organizational and liability issues that acted as a blocker against a number of the stuff you mentioned.

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/construction-help-wanted
LLM-based prompt editor to instantly generate live front and back end code/apps
Put that on OpenWRT router (usually more powerful than ESP) and you call it "hosted on edge"
HTTPS doesn't really have to do with whether the page content is sensitive. It's more about protecting visitors from MitM attacks, traffic analysis, and their browser screaming at them and refusing to load your site because it's ""insecure""
When I lived in Lausanne in 2005-6, getting an apartment was really tough. The rents were high but not unaffordable, but every apartment had a hundred applicants. Ya, they couldn’t just jack up rents to be more selective, so no one was priced out but supply was still limited.
Once we get semiconductor fabs stateside we dont have to bother with Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Palestine-neighbors, or China-China

The same way 180+ other countries approach the situation

People really think the US supports their causes and they got another thing coming with that assumption.
That's ideal, but some people don't have the resources to do that.
Test browser for web tracking – EFF
Runescape?
> I place equal blame on them for delivering a subpar product, whether it's under their control or not.

What else is there to say...

> If they don't like the environment of a particular studio, they can always choose to work elsewhere.

They like it. The industry just has issues beyond their control which are in the process of being solved, gradually. No one will drop their dream job to satisfy your entitlement right now, sorry to say. You are free to not buy the game.
In case this isn’t trolling, I’ll say this in the kindest but most direct way I can.

You sound like a presumptuous asshole. Maybe the problem isn’t other people, maybe it’s you?

It’s worth considering, if you do not possess sociopathic tendencies or clinical narcissism.

You’re coming across like a troll or you are attempting to express sardonic humor and it doesn’t come across well.
Nit picking in code, doc, and architecture reviews is a waste of time
You can make an HTTPs certificate with that in the SAN section, and it should work fine. You can't get one from a publicly trusted provider, of course, but that's fine; you don't own the IP.

In other words, make your own certificate authority for your own machines. It isn't that hard.
As an engineer I made myself responsible for quality for my whole career back when I had the freedom to guide my own work. Under agile/scrum I'm too unengaged to care what works in production and don't accept the idea of responsibility without authority and autonomy.
We're weeks past a very public pricing change that cost Unity market reach amidst competitors and open source projects; and that led to a CEO change. There are problems beyond what the employees can realistically fix.
I get that. I understand why viewing http is insecure, I dont understand why serving it is insecure.

Apparently this rubs people the wrong way. I get it, run Lets Encrypt and certbot blah blah, but if I am hosting an ESP32 in my house for a hobby project, I running HTTP on the LAN.
The alternative is Linux
> completely dependent

No, AI art would exist without Disney or HBO just like human art would.

It literally does come back to the idea that either AI is doing more or less the same thing as an art student, and learns styles and structures and concepts, in which case training an art student is infringing because it’s completely dependent on the work of artists who came before.

And sure, if you ask a skilled 2d artist if they can draw something in the style of 80s anime, or specific artists, they can do it. There are some artists who specialize in this in fact! Can’t have retro anime porn commissions if it’s not riffing on retro anime images. Yes twitter, I see what you do with that account when you’re not complaining about AI.

The problem is that AI lowers the cost of doing this to zero, and thus lays bare the inherent contradictions of IP law and “intellectual ownership” in a society where everyone is diffusing and mashing up each others ideas and works on a continuous basis. It is one of those “everyone does it” crimes that mostly survives because it’s utterly unenforced at scale, apart from a few noxious litigants like disney.

It is the old Luddite problem - the common idea that luddites just hated technology is inaccurate. They were textile workers who were literally seeing their livelihoods displaced by automation mass-producing what they saw as inferior goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

In general this is a problem that's set up by capitalism itself though. Ideas can’t and shouldn’t be owned, it is an absurd premise and you shouldn’t be surprised that you get absurd results. Making sure people can eat is not the job of capitalism, it’s the job of safety nets and governments. Ideas have no cost of replication and artificially creating one is distorting and destructive.

Would a neural net put a tax on neurons firing? No, that’s stupid and counterproductive.

Let people write their slash fiction in peace.

(HN probably has a good understanding of it, but in general people don't appreciate just how much it is not just aping images it's seen but learning the style and relationships of pixels and objects etc. To wit, the only thing NVIDIA saved from DLSS 1.0 was the model... and DLSS 2.0 has nothing to do with DLSS 1.0 in terms of technical approach. But the model encodes all the contextual understanding of how pixels are supposed to look in human images, even if it's not even doing the original transform anymore! And LLMs can indeed generalize reasonably accurately about things they haven't seen, as long as they know the precepts etc. Because they aren't "just guessing what word comes next", it's the word that comes next given a conceptual understanding of the underlying ideas. And that's a difficult thing to draw a line between a human and an AI large model, college students will "riff on the things they know" if you ask them to "generalize" about a topic they haven't studied too, etc.)
There are other models of the two that don't require the geometric product at all. The rest of linear algebra doesn't need it, and recasting all of it in terms of a frankly terrible operation is not helpful for intuition.
One of the reasons is to prevent ISP and other to intercept the page and interject the codes before it arrives to the users. It a common method to put the payload in the http. I believe it called middle-in-the-man method. With https, it reduced a lot of attacks.

There was a news about Comcast interjected a Steam storefront page with a data cap warning on it to a Comcast subscriber. And this happened inside Steam app which was using http at the time.
Just do it in China or Russia then.
Study shows how bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens
Usually because the downstream service or store needs it
WASM GC reference types are rolling out to stable browser releases now. Chrome 119 just shipped with them enabled by default.
Having looked at the screenshots and read the text, I still have no idea what Glamorous Toolkit v1.0 is. If I had to guess, I'd say it's another attempt at 'notebook' style computing interfaces, but I suppose there's a reason the author is too coy to say that, so I am forced to conclude that I just don't know what it is, and the creator is unable or unwilling to tell me.
At what temperature does Teflon begin to break down?
I'm usually a crypto sceptic but your story scares me, because it'll only get worse with time.
Dumb government. Higher prices and less variety for you.

Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to?
For me the most common reason for rendering a web page in the editor is to have a side by side view of the markdown document I’m editing. I like using mark down to write basic documentation and tutorials and not having to have a render-> open in the browser step just makes that smoother. Yes I could have two windows side by side and yes I could have file events and watch for the markdown to be saved and kick off a render and kick off the browser refresh… but I can also just open a second pane in VSCode and let it do all of that for me.
In what manner specifically does a TPM not belong to the user, while a YubiKey does?
And this Rust object inspecting live is also rather interesting https://lepiter.io/feenk/identifying-an-editor-bug-by-inspec...
You actually can live in the suburbs, like Renens in my case when I was living in Lausanne. But your commute sucks so no one wants to, even with decent public transit people still want nice lives. But the suburbs are definitely an option (I don’t know specifically about Zurich).

But another problem: the suburbs are actually nice and in demand also. So how far do you want to live from your job? Freiburg (works for Bern and Lausanne!)? It’s like, ok I’m going to commute a lot and finding a place to rent is still hard. And Switzerland is not not dense.
Go look up the Mietenspiegel price for your flat in your neighborhood, then pop open Immoscout and try and find one for that price.

Price controls = supply shortages. Basic principal of market economics.
Not necessarily, for example Newtonsoft is fine with multiple hundreds of megabyes if you use it correctly. But of course depends on how large we are talking about.
Cyberpunk was delisted because CDPR told consumers to request refunds.
"AVs are not better than the status quo"

We don't have the data to claim this, this confidently, and the only way to get the data is let the experiment keep running in the real world (only place that matters).

There will obviously with holes in the awareness (literal missing cameras under the car) that's what the testing is for. If someone says they can sit in a room, in a simulation environment and come up with all potential crazy things humans can do around autonomous cars, they are lying to you.

To me, its either this, or we pull all human drivers off the road, restructure our cities and put em on public transit (wholly support this).

I re-iterate: The status quo is unacceptable and indefensible. The human driver who actually caused the accident has still not been held to account (and probably never will be).

P.S: I accept your point about the system being non-realtime. Though I think there are some critical safety systems (LIDAR/RADAR cutoffs etc.) that might have a real-time response?
You'll need some JavaScript to instantiate the WASM module and pass in a set of imported functions for using WebGPU. After passing in the capabilities it can be all WASM from there.
There's a really interesting analogy here with the LLM platforms that both are a vendor to companies that use their APIs, but also potentially compete with those companies as well as they evolve their offering over time. It would be interesting to see if this kind of regulation could be applied in that context as well.
Dropping a link to a project attempting to create a fully open source TPM: https://twpm.dasharo.com/
Standard large transformers trained on corpora of multiple languages will generally perform next-word prediction in language A by using information that was only seen in training data in language B, demonstrating that they have managed to implicitly learn a capability for translation and/or multilingual perception.
Would be like saying that spending money in preserving corrosion on the original standard meter is a waste because now we can buy cheap plastic rules everywhere.

This pictures are like a patent to decide what is from who, so an essential administrative tool. They were useful for marketing, economical, educative and legal purposes. The economical value behind some of this fruit varieties in particular is incalculable and having official standardized pictures of its diseases for early detection saved billions probably
the joke is that every website needs k8s even though none of them do
Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA [video]
Nice object. Skip the intro babble and jump straight to the explanation of the working principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgf_wxJIlk&t=242s
I'm not sure what connection you're seeing here. How does a set of reporting requirements resemble the attempt to encourage telecom businesses to add a backdoor in communications infrastructure?