skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They put the editors in a unique position of receiving a manuscript from known physicists, on a topic they did not know anything about. It doesn't seem right to extrapolate that the entire journal lacks intellectual rigour.

The most obvious solution is to have a physist referee the paper. Publishing a paper they didn't understand and couldn't peer review most definitely suggests a lack of rigor.
That does not support that they "_always_ thought this", it only means that this happened in the past. Another interpretation is that periods of hardship are followed by ones of stability and the generation that lived through the hardship notices differences in their young.
article is from february
Where are these dreaded "beauty filters" in Instagram app? I don't remember any from back in the day when I still used it. Just checked again and it seems there are still bunch of typical "hipster colors" old-school Instagram filters, then some basic editing options.
I would definitely want my car to be able to call an ambulance if I run off the road and hit a tree for instance and there are no other people around.

Of course perceived privacy is more important than something like that for many people here which is understandable.
Assuming they use different embedded keys per camera (which is unfortunately unlikely) instead of the same key on every chip, this can be defeated by demanding to see the intact camera before accepting the signature. Ion beam assisted probing is a destructive process.
Common Core Sheets
There is no way to read "threads" on twitter anymore without being registered.
Yeah, it makes constructing ROP chains slightly more difficult when combined with ASLR and the like as you cannot defeat the randomisation by inspecting the running binary.
Are addicts lesser humans? Do they lack free will? Am I entitled to decide for them and impose my will on their lives?

And who said I am not addicted? I don't do hard drugs but I am certainly addicted to coffee, sugar and maybe other habits I (moderately) indulge in but I would be very pissed off if someone else would try to take away from me.
Yeah they really fluff the delivery of it though, basically give you the punchline first and then at the end reproduce a purposely bad retelling of it in full.
He must be stopped at all cost.
Didn't even know that's a thing. I didnt have to do it, no interviews or anything
Then move to the sticks! Dirt and crime is part of the city experience. "Part and parcel" some might say.
Oh I see, sorry I misunderstood that. Yes indeed the readers won't be able read while the writer is writing.
It's understandable that you have a specific set of personal preferences, nothing wrong about that. Wanting to impose them on everyone else, well, you know..
I pointed out exactly this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38188500
All you really need is cl.exe and friends, and the C/C++ headers, in some fixed directory path. (And, apparently, maybe a Fortran compiler?) That shouldn't take up that much space.

And the last time I was forced to install Windows 10, it spent a few hundred megabytes of bandwidth and disk space on Candy Crush Soda Saga, not to mention a bunch of other junk I never asked for, so disk space is not that precious to Microsoft.
Would be interesting to have this graphed alongside the gdp/capita.
I guess the difference is it's a normal position to be supportive of the IDF, or Israeli policy in Gaza. That's one side of the debate.

It is absolutely not a normal position to be supportive of Hamas amongst pro-Palestinian voices. That's like a teenage edgelord position. So when you frame the debate as 'Pro-Israel' vs 'Pro-Hamas', it's just as misleading as if you framed it as 'pro nuking Palestine' vs 'pro Peace'.
> We keep pretending demand has a lot to blame but when you see voters opinions like this, it seems a lot more like supply side market manipulation

Want incentives do car manufacturers have in doing that if it's not something that most consumers want?

I doubt "collecting/selling user data" is the reason if you could charge a $1k+ premium for a "enshitified" car.
> I'm not even American

Which proves the point you have no idea what you talking about. Go ahead then and list 5 great things she did.
Science is not a candle in the dark
There is no rigour in “cultural studies”, or any other social “sciences”. Not only is it impossible to prove anything in what is essentially the study of opinions with opinions, they didn’t even bother to verify something that could have been verified when it said what they wanted to hear. Let alone the hilarity of the journal in question being titled Science Wars. It’s like how philosophers use Principia Mathematica as evidence that they’ve made useful contributions to science. But once you remove the mathematics part of the book and isolate the contributions of philosophy - it’s useless.
And yet we have survived with the convention that 12AM is midnight, and 12PM is noon for centuries.

Noon is also not "12:00" - it is the infinitely small moment at the strike of 12:00. Instantaneously it becomes post-meridiem. 12:00:00.0000000000000000000000000000001 is after noon.
Perhaps, but blindly accepting a paper because you don't understand what it's saying is a sign of loose standards.

The editors don't need to be experts in every field, but they need to be able to admit that they lack the required experience and understanding to verify a paper's legitimacy. They could've reached out to a physicist before publication, but decided not to because the author was a big name in his field.

This raises the question of what other nonsense papers the journal has published that made it into publication simply because the editors didn't understand what the paper was saying.

In the context of the "science wars", this isn't saying much, because many publications of exact sciences have fallen for hoax papers before. SCIgen has been used to generate over 120 published papers (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14763), since retracted; 16 of those were published by Springer, and the rest by the IEEE. This could just be a computer science issue, but I have no doubt that other exact sciences could fall for the same computer-generated nonsense had SCIgen supported generating papers about physics, chemistry, or maths (even before the age of ChatGPT).

The unfortunate reality is that many major fields and publications are susceptible to this nonsense. This is no doubt a result of the profit-oriented scientific publication industry, which prioritizes making money over finding scientific truth, with many publishers relying on volunteers to check the accuracy of papers published.
> Most people can’t

Bias. Most people can. I'm in the UK, too.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-confir... News reports and their https://status.openai.com/incidents/21vl32gvx3hb incident reports indicate they are mitigating / fighting off attacks recently
nitter works fine (currently) https://nitter.net/megakwood/status/1722459573494190318
WhatsApp could introduce ads in statuses and channels
I believe this convention was used widely outside of Rails too so it's less a Rails convention and more a late 90s early 2000s convention. Even now I suspect many articles with good SEO will give table creation SQL using auto increment instead of uuid so maybe just software convention.
Doesn't appear to work?

After it generates clicking view doesn't seem to do anything and clicking on live site doesn't show components in a way that I'd expect.
Problems I encountered with polar was that the immutability meant that copies of the dataframe were generated and not cleaned up fast enough.
What’s the connection to 9/11?
Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices
It only works for things where the key is stored on the chip or phones where the key is stored in a TPM or equivalent and relies on a PIN to release it, as opposed to typical use of encryption where the full key is entered to unlock. An attacker with physical access can probe the chip but it’s risky - one slip and it’s gone for ever. This technique is most useful when all chips of this type have the same key so you only need to successfully crack one, any one. Ross Anderson’s book Security Engineering uses the example of Sky Pay TV cards https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c16.pdf
I think for a brief period it was allowed but as an alternative option, then they removed it.
Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android
My father, who hung up his coding hat in the '80s, recently entered the golden years of retirement.

One day, he mused about the simplicity and educational value of BASIC and wondered if there was a way to share its charm using today's technology.

Specifically, he was looking for an Android application that could run BASIC so he could "teach programming while drinking coffee with [his] friends".

Thus, BabaBASIC was born—a hat tip to 'Babá', the Greek term for "dad", and a reminder of who sparked this journey.

The first iteration of this was made over a 10-hour all-nighter using existing open-source libraries.

I ended up forking the BASIC-like implementation to make it more byte-for-byte compatible with QBasic 4.5, which is what my father used back in the 90s to teach me programming.

This is the first thing I have ever made of which he approves.
Financial privacy is overrated. Tax havens full of shell companies are a blight. YMMV.
Exactly. I'm using gpt4 more than copilot as of today. I just keep adding more info and get it to write the code that I cp.

I ask it to write it in small chuncks but in the same context. I sometimes have to remind it to refer back to decisions we made earlier.
Annoying desktop users.
Thanks, I see your point, but registering an account with WhatsApp is one of the easiest things to do, you just give your phone number, and you get an SMS that WhatsApp even reads itself (at least on android), and that's it.

On the other side, with iMessage, there is a huge chance somebody does not have it, and worst, cannot have it because they don't have an iPhone. Again, 40% of the people in the USA owns an Android phone. Is a lot.
It seems from the article that GEMs are an interesting research area, but it doesn’t explain why. Could anyone ELI5?
I think you want them to show, just not too bright.

Otherwise you get stars mysteriously disappearing.
A better example is dark matter. Numerous people have staked their entire careers upon dark matter, so the emotions are real, more real than the logic they entertain to qualify positions on the matter. Pun intended.
"Even though the terms of the tentative deal reached Thursday are unclear, it’s hard to imagine the actors didn’t get at least some of the AI protections they were seeking."

So, inconclusive. The idea that your face would become 'their' property forever after you act in a minor role is absurd. Not hard to imagine how this fundamentally changes the entire ecosystem.
So in other words, Black 4.0 'just a paint' is imperceptible from Vantablack using human vision, and the Anish Kapoor thing was just a publicity stunt?
Possibly multi-mode vs single-mode cable differences? As I understand it single mode fiber has to basically be as thin as you can get it, whereas with multi-mode you can YOLO the thickness a bit more, especially for short runs.
That is one way to look at it. Another way is that you are paying (indirectly) for infrastructure and (directly) with subsidies for some people to lace your soda with high fructose corn syrup. Or to dry up the land by siphoning all water to make some stupid almond milk.
RocksDB Java API Performance Improvements
Gold was extensively used in chip manufacturing previously, and wasn't cost prohibitive.

The 60g figure is for the packaging, not the chip. The actual chips are tiny and weight much less than that, probably under 1g for most processors.

This new semiconductor isn't pure rhenium, it's a compound, and hence less than 1g would be needed, or about $10 per chip, maximum.

Realistically, this new semiconductor would be deposited as an extremely thin layer on top of something cheaper like silicon or quartz. The material cost per chip would be measured in cents.
Can you tell Musk etc this? They havn't gotten the message yet. McDonads got it after trying on the Danish union though and is playing ball.
>Your “carte Blanche fair use” claim is nonsense

Since you seem to not be aware of this: Fair use is an affirmative defense. By definition nothing I have written is therefore "carte blanche" as no defense of fair use can be ever said to be "carte blanche". This is pure sophistry on your part and transparently so.

>Here’s an article specifically on the legality of photo bashing

And mashups, photobashing, and many things likewise, remain legal and with fair use defenses in the courts as precedent. You continue to reach to any dishonesty or deflection including projection to avoid dealing with any of the points anyone has brought up.
UNICEF defends accuracy of Gaza death toll as horror unfolds in ravaged enclave

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/world/gaza-death-toll-acc...

A UNICEF spokesperson has defended the death toll being reported out of Gaza, saying the organization’s figures had historically matched those of the Hamas-controlled Gazan health ministry.

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said on Tuesday the organization’s estimates had closely aligned with the ministry’s in the past, which gave him confidence in the current figures. He told CNN’s Julia Chatterley: “Our numbers were within a couple of percent of that, almost identical. We don’t have that concern based on past history.”

> it’s hamas that uses civilian infrastructure to hide behind.

Would you approve of the IDF bombing occupied Israeli apartments, schools, hospitals, etc if Hamas tunnelled under those?

It's a ~ 4K children body count the IDF have racked up since the Hamas attack - is that a fair and considered response?
> Tricks like these are going to become less common with execute-only mapping of .text slowly proliferating through the industry (iOS, OpenBSD).

Give the PaX project some credit, since they had it before OpenBSD did. Windows has had it for a while also, since XP.
Telegram has this. It allows you to hand out your nick name and start conversing. If you want to get rid of that person you just block them and they don't have your phone number to call from a hidden or different number.
Yearly flu vaccines have been around since the 1940s and change yearly to adapt to the latest strains. I don't see why covid should be any different in this respect.
Any time I used it in the last five years I had to wade through about ten obvious bots advertising some pornsite or scam before I got to a real person.

Then when you do get to a real person, 90% of the time they said "M or F?" and if you said M they'd instantly leave
And we all know how things go from there.
First, eID is implemented as "just another, more convenient way to log in to your online services". Then, private organizations get pressure to implement eID (through soft power or legislation). Major forums and news websites adopt eID. As the user base grows, legacy semi-anonymous ID systems get decommissioned progressively (i.e. simple email). Now every action you perform on the Internet, and every opinion you post is directly tied to your legal ID. Authorities can use that to prosecute dissenters, oppress voices and narratives contrary to their interests. The bad guys will still have their spaces as they will use their own tech.
Call me a conspiracist, cynic or pessimistic, but in some countries like the UK people are getting police visits for having the wrong opinion on Twitter. We're giving authoritarians way too much space and tools for oppression. We're building a shitty world where the powerful class will have even more power to do as they wish, and the man in the street have less and less rights and tools to fight against power.
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Huh?
An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
> I want to chalk this up to hubris, but it's probably just laziness.

You may be able to chalk it up to some “senior” reviewer who asks a junior developer to remove the parens because “they aren’t needed”, and the junior developer doesn’t know how to argue their case.
I had a similar experience.

Multiple interviews, I did a technical coding test for them in my free time. I even received verbal feedback from HR that they wanted to proceed and would be sending a formal offer.

The formal offer kept being delayed and they ended up pulling the position. What a waste of everyone's time.
I have a genuine question that seems to fit here. It's bugging me for a long time, so any feedback is very welcome.

I can see that the scientific method works well in producing knowledge. Because we can do something with it. Like fly to the moon, cure diseases, build nuclear weapons.

Philosophy however claims usually to also find knowledge. There are several methods, but none of them seems to have any evidence of working in any other circumstances than everyday heuristics. On the contrary, the lack of convergence in opinion seems to indicate that they do not work well.

There are plenty of takes what math "is" philosophically, and there are so many opponents and overcomers of Popper.

I agree that philosophy is nice to have, a playground for ideas, a collection of possibilities of systems of concepts. But I fail to see what points to it being a source of knowledge.

It's one thing to state "These systems are possible", and another to state "this system is the real one", specifically in ethics.
Not sure what parties you are going to but mine have never had human trafficking
Because there are other seasons, climate types, latitudes, skin colours, and there are a ton of people who rarely, if at all go outside, especially those who have panic, stress, or anxiety disorders.

Also, of course, there is a variability between people how much vitamin D they can produce, but we have no real clue about the causal connections there, but so far it seems that it’s way less important than other factors generally speaking, especially in the context of “many people”.
They unquestioningly published literal nonsense and you think there's a case to be made that they don't lack intellectual rigour?
I’ve been using the GitHub Copilot CLI tool that is in beta for about 6 months.

The only issues have been writing the wrong find command or awk command, but it’s normally close enough that I can fix it.

LLMs are translators. Provide the full context and explanation and you get reliable results. It’s when you leave it to fill in the blanks that it is prone to synthesize answers. Providing a time stamp for a book publication and asking what month it was published will never fail. Providing just the name of book and asking when it was published will almost always fail.

To lean on “these things are always hallucinating, blah blah” is to lean into being misinformed.
I'll defend.

> just the name of repo could be sensitive info

The phrase "sensitive info" tells me disclosing it to a mass code hoster bare any liability deems irresponsible. Remember Eric Schmidt about privacy on the internet?

Choose your priorities.
Tongue-twisters could be used to gauge alcohol-intoxication levels, study finds
Does this mean that the current copilot offering is not GPT4?

I read the announcement and really can't tell what is supposed to be different about this than the current VS Code copilot extension.

Is it just expanded availability to other services like GitHub?
Yes, you provide that service as b4 during normal hours and charge a small fee during unusual hours to create a minimal barrier when there's no supervisor, aka charge a fee to provide the 'extra' public service)
29.9%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

Among non-tiny countries, that's about 10th, between New Zealand and Australia. UAE has 87.9%! Qatar and Kuwait have a high percentage too. In terms of absolute numbers, USA has by far the most, over 50 million, and Germany and Saudi Arabia are next on 13 million.
And thus, the reddit "alienz are cloaked and spying on me and mine!" forums start.
Do you think it is completely out of reach for the AI to follow those rabbit holes automatically and tie in the useful information? Could it not also be personalized to the users knowledge of the subject?

I'm actively working on the first problem. The second is in my todo list.
> the EU (making our life miserable)

That's a strong statement. Can you be more specific ? I live in the EU and I have no complaints related to Union-level climate policies.
Read the first sentence with which I began. I said it was simplistic, not that it was categorically and completely wrong, and certainly not that its opposite was true.

What I object to is the extraordinarily simplistic, one-dimensional view of progress peddled by the likes of Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker.

True, lot's of material and medical indicators of progress have consistently increased. That's to be celebrated. Certainly, if asked, the vast majority of people in the West would want to be born in the post-war years, and the average would probably slant towards the end of that period. Though I do think a good slice of people would choose against the post-2008 years in particular.

But that binary - better or worse? - is a crude measure of societal health. It lacks any dialectical sense of modernity, of that fact the same socio-technological expansion which brought about that progress, has gone hand-in-hand with extreme oligarchy, world war, nuclear weapons, climate change, the anthropocene. Certainly, the risks of catastrophic global breakdown are greater today than ever before.

I also think it has a superficial and philistine grasp of politics and the common good. Besides utilitarians, few political philosophers would so easily equate the good with material abundance. Hence why I pointed, by way of counterpoint, to today's secular stagnation, crisis of democracy, inequality, and withering of public life. These are not small problems, but speak to fundamental pathologies in our body politic.

> "The other two examples, undoubtedly yes they are better than ever."

Many native Americans and Greeks would viscerally disagree with you. Perhaps you're missing something?

> "For anyone to think it was better in any other time in history for most of the global population than now, shows such a lack of knowledge of history and the human condition that its hard to take serious."

As above, you have misread what I said, and I think trying to understand and evaluate society solely from the binary standard of 'better or worse' is extremely crude. I have a PhD in history btw.

>"Scrolling instagram and fake depressions aren't worse than having 7 miscarriages, half your kids dying as babies or children, being enslaved, starving to death."

True, but I think virtually no one would say otherwise. This is an unhelpful caricature of the argument I was making.
I always assumed copilot and ai code assistants were replacing docs, for most use cases. I guess I'd rather just ask the question I have, when I have it, instead of having copilot preemptively create docs for questions it thinks I'll have later on.
My question was always where the hell she finds all these people and always manages to achieve a rather large premium to my somewhat rigorously estimated value based on all the comparables I find on BrightMLS. They're obviously not getting a great deal. All 3 sales were also Philadelphia suburbs, which is not a lucrative market for speculative gentrification. The only major spike in values in the past 25 years was during COVID with like a single massive 80% jump because in a world where pandemics are real, urban market plummeted. But you'd think this army of buyers would see the name and say, "Screw that! I'm not going to Diane's open houses ever again."
"I just follow my orders"