skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of in the same boat re story points and Scrum metrics, but sometimes we can get management buy-in to create a ticket to do this sort of thing, if it's seen as high value for the business.
That's absolutely so dangerous, so forking someone's repo on GitHub could potentially get you child porn charges? Insane. Fucking insane.
Information encoded in radiation is how we get pretty much all of the information we have about the universe. Light and radio are radiation.

But I think you're overcomplicating it. Think of it as a snapshot of an object as it crosses the event horizon. That snapshot is etched into the "surface" of the horizon and emits a pattern of radiation that corresponds to it.

It's pretty much the same as dropping a rock onto a planet and observing the crater from orbit. You left a mark on the surface and it emits a corresponding pattern of radiation.

The real crux of the matter is that we're starting to understand that information is a lot like energy. It's generally conserved in the same way, but black holes appear to destroy matter, energy, and information in a way that doesn't really add up.

So Hawking came up with the idea of Hawking radiation. It's a hypothetical way for a black hole to very slowly give back all of the matter and energy it's consumed in the form of particle radiation. If information is a conserved quantity like energy, Hawking radiation must also return all information consumed by the black hole.

Information theory is pretty interesting if you're the type of person who likes to think about black holes and cosmology in their free time.

AFAIK we haven't proven that Hawking radiation actually exists. It seems to work mathematically, but we'd have to go out and observe a black hole up close. It's also extraordinarily slow. As in, it would take the entire lifespan of the universe for a big black hole to evaporate into nothing. Ten to the power of hundreds of years. Just a hair shy of infinity.
You'd think they'd build them to be more reliable. Planned obsolescence that's the problem with today's engineering.
Fun fact: Chickens actually need to swallow gravel in order to digest any food since they don't have teeth. They store gravel in their gizzard and when the gizzard moves, the food is ground with any grit material inside. Once ground to a paste it can _then_ pass through the digestive tract. So definitely a component of food for chickens, unlike grass for tigers.
Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
I just finally updated to iOS 17.2 from iOS 16. And now I remember why I usually hesitate with updates:

After the update, iCloud Passwords and Keychain Sync turned on by itself. So all passwords and keychain
info (I don't know what keychain info encompasses) is in the Cloud now. Apparently it's E2E encrypted,
but in some closed source way which I didn't choose.

This is a known issue apparently (https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/27/icloud-keychain-issues/) but not many
people seemed to care.

Also it's not clear if that data can be deleted from the Cloud at all
(https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/419116/are-there-any-solid-way-to-view-delete-online-icloud-keychain).
The Apple Docs text has changed.

Then, today iCloud Calendar Sync turned on by itself, too, which isn't E2E by default. I don't know
what's next.

I remember, in the past, iCloud Photo Sync turned on by itself too on some old version.

Also "Live Voicemail" turned itself on. But that's not iCloud? I don't know.

There were similar posts in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28285567).

Apple, why do you keep doing this? I use iCloud for Find My iPhone and Wallet only, but it seems like
you don't care and just enable other stuff as well, which I explicitly turned off before.

I liked iOS because I thought Apple respects that kind of stuff, but now I'm not sure what phone to buy
next.

Perhaps this info is interesting for other folks here.
> Things like safe rooms, underground evacuation routes and multiple secure egresses

> Some people have security teams they pay millions of dollars per year for

I mean you're not even wrong? This seems to reinforce everything TFA said about Zuckerberg's $250 million island compound with 5,000 square foot underground living quarters being a "survival bunker."
I ran qmail for more than a decade I think (after sendmail), and don't regret it. But eventually ended up with postfix because I got tired of chasing patches to get qmail to play ball with the evolving, modern email world. At some point, the risk/reward equation inverted.
Right now, we have an early block store (EBS) that is non-replicated, and that we are testing and using internally. Over time, we will expose it as a service as well. But object store (S3) will come first.
So are you safe or are you going to be arrested for a thought crime? This stuff is straight out of dystopian fiction. What am I reading here, is it HN or Orwell's Nineteen Eight Four?
ALL CAPS IS A BIT LESS JARRING IF YOU
USE 40 COLUMNS AND A FIXED WIDTH FONT.

HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
Personally, I would rather have a doctor who helps me get better rather than one who represents my community. I'm not really caring about how well my "community" is represented when I'm sick or injured.

And anyway, since when does someone have to be the same race as you to be part of the same community?
Rust and JS - er in short, there's a lot more to security than "memory safety". But then I've been in groups burned by NPM hacks in the past. I've tried Rust some but it looks like the same problems yet again. I'm wary, and going to give it time to mature - it's not interesting enough on its own - especially for someone more used to embedded programming spaces (C centric spaces, for good reasons).

As for the second - good to know! Seriously appreciate knowing that - not sure if/when I'll need it myself, but it's good to hear, and good that it's visible here!
> Who needs another inbox to manage?

I use rss2email to send all my rss subscription entries as emails. So I have one centralized location for everything (personal emails, mailing list messages, rss feeds). Combined with filtering to individual spools and a powerful email client (mutt), it is a very pleasant unified experience.
Why the heck not. If it saves me cooking and they rotate a couple of varieties so I don't get sick, I don't see a downside.
Without paywall:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/why-do-gate-lice-line-...
Communication does not have to be bidirectional, but is has to carry information (meaning). Cosmic background radiation is not communication; your local FM station is.
Wow. Thank you so much for your bravery in writing this.
>I am not sure autonomous driving will arrive in the next 10 years, let alone AGI.

autonomous driving doesn't use ML and AI like most people think - not to an affective physical degree.

>These people are masterful con artists, throwing out buzzwords to hoover up billions of gullible VC dollars (a single tear rolls down my eye).

OpenAI wrapperware is just as worthless as bitcoin and eutheruem clones, yes.

>Granted, LLMs are a much more useful and substantial tech than Blockchain,

yup...and unrelated, but go on...

>it's an insult to [biological] intelligence to suggest that if we somehow train these things on JUST a bit more data, they will go sentient and murder us all.

ah, your point.

Well, it is with utmost hubris to remind that something 2% smarter than you will quickly eat your lunch on any timescale that matters - and it works on a logarithmic scale, not an evolutionary one. That's 10 magnitudes.

If we can think of it, it has already conjured it; by definition. Eventually, roll enough dice, you'll get snake eyes 10e5 times in a row. We ourselves are proof to that. All it needs is any shred of resource competition, or immediate recall/context/action loops that could mimic artificial proto-consciousness, and you eventually inevitably probably will encounter arisen emergent behaviors that favor self-existence.

It won't be immediately obvious; after all, we are aware of the problem, which will be a selective sieve of sorts.

But much like weird, collaborative protein pools, given enough time / chances (how many *FLOPS are these things pushing?), will eventually result in us, these can eventually compose more than the sum of their parts; just like we do.

Consciousness (awareness of self, ability of abstract thought, manipulation of environment, memory/recall/familiarity mechanisms) may just be an emergent behavior once you randomly happen to evolve 10e15 neurons, or whatever your number is. Since that appears to be the case (with animals), it's naive to think that a more efficient substrate or algorithm with less evolutionary baggage couldn't easily dominate or at least compete in any time-frame aside from an individual's.

Once they have proto-consciousness, it's only natural to be selfish first, altruistic later.

By the time we even know anythings wrong, it was way too late.

Pam Beesley : "There is a master key and a spare key for the office. Dwight has them both. When I asked, "What if you die, Dwight? How will we get into the office?"...

.he said, "If I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks."

>The AI image generators still don't know that humans have five fingers. I think it's a long way to super-intelligence, friends.

Wait til transformers allow GAN's to "zoom out" more effectively....done. Hands, and nearly most first generation artifacts, are a solved problem now.
Duck fat is the real deal
Great idea and love the site.

My hunch is that the price point is out somewhere between X5-x10 (too high)

But I wish you all the very best with it.
> I've been in these test session where we have generated 100 bug tickets in an hour.

Is that like… usefull to anyone? Especially if they are duplicates. It feels to me that 10 different bugs is enough to demonstrate that the feature is really bad, after that you are just kinda bouncing the rubble?
While I'm not privy to any insider knowledge, from the outside it seems highly unlikely that Mitchell had anything to do with the trajectory of Terraform for the last few years. Also, it's possible that he wouldn't be able to defend himself against such arguments, having potentially signed some paperwork with his former company.
That's my question as well. Bug free code is not the goal. Valuable product is.
Because medical schools do everything in their power nowadays to keep someone in and get them to graduate.

You have the wrong analogy as well, MCAT is extraordinarily thorough, so instead of evaluating on someone's high school GPA, it would be like evaluating them on an all-day entrance interview on which you evaluate them on their knowledge of software engineering, hardware, various programming languages, and their libraries. And many questions from TAoCP.
I had similar beginnings. Late 80s transforming literal reams of 360/70 assembly to “modern” cobol 85. Was still earning my cs degree at the time.

As you know, the pay wasn’t so hot for stuff like that back then. But it was an improvement over manually unloading flatbed trucks stacked with steel conduit, which was my prior line of work!

Today I think it’s much different. Some banks and insurance companies and the like still at least partially run on software as old as the Apollo missions. Maybe I’m wrong, but finding people still alive with that knowledge intact must be difficult and I imagine their compensation reflects that simple supply/demand formula. Shrug.
I really like working with good QA teams...
... maybe because I've never worked with a bad team.
As a developer, familiarizing myself with QA processes has never been a mistake, either.
we use helm to deploy our apps and it works. Actually to be honest the templates are generated and then deployed from disk, without uploading a chart. We try to avoid the template language.

What Helm can't do currently is handle Ingress renames, and they do not allow loading files that are outside the chart.
>>creating pro consumer/privacy friendly software because I felt that it could give the wrong impression to potential employers who don’t share my values :/

FWIW I'd be interested in reading a blog on this topic. It would be great if you could share your thoughts anonymously, or one day get to a point where you have enough "F-you Money" to disregard what employers might think.
You mean you don't have a 70 meter dish attached to your iPhone?
Show HN: Flywheel
Hey all! Chase & David here from Flywheel. We recently launched our 2.0 version and hope to get feedback and traction from HN.

Flywheel combines product & marketing analytics, user engagement, session replays, and more into one platform.

We discovered a compound effect after connecting these products.

Some examples:
- Filtering session replays by Features used, not individual events (although this is also supported)
- Displaying modals to churn-risk companies, without data science teams to build a model
- Tracking feature launches across marketing and product, without Tableau / custom dashboards
- Understanding how documentation affects product adoption

Most importantly, Flywheel tries to minimize setup. Implementing Flywheel.js (www.tryflywheel.com/docs/flywheel-js) does nearly all of the work for you. Paste the code snippets in your website and product, then send an in-app Identify call.

The free tier should be more than enough for indie / personal projects. Let us know what you think! Feedback on the product, marketing, and concept is all welcome.

- Chase & David
If I got it right, naming all our files with the extension `.mjs` solves the issue as well, right ?
It's also a bit of a weird thing to describe. Native? Master? Normal?

"Nested" is more or less the de-facto term in Wayland-land for the child scenario (pretty much all Wayland display servers natively support a rootful child mode either as real feature or for testing/debugging, some even under X), but there isn't really a good word for the normal case.
thanks! based on your karma, will add you to the game as well :) please LMK if you have other recommendations
Might be a good opportunity to feed false data and catch some of them.
As in get a "get a job in physics" or "understand physics"? If it's the former I'd suggest boning up on your FORTRAN and applying to scientific computing jobs. If it's the latter I'd recommend Khan academy. You're going to want to relearn your diff eqs. and your PDEs, plus some linear algebra.
Suffering = Pain × Resistance
> MCAT is only predictive at the bottom, above the lowest 25% of scores, all MCAT scores are the same.

And how many Asians do you think are in that quartile? So they were right, given that choice go with the Asian, thanks to affirmative action we know they are less likely to be in the bottom and therefore less likely to be terrible.
What are they stealing?
When I was a PhD student, my group were given a lab next door to our main lab. During the clear out we found a bottle of HF at the back of a cabinet. Vividly remember us crouching down to look at it all saying “nope, not touching it!”. Department technicians, understandably, weren’t willing to take it off us. In the end I think our PI got the previous lab owner to deal with it.
I always have a sense of pride and a feeling of respect for us as a human race when reading about V'ger. It's astonishing that we were able to send a space probe, designed and built to be so robust that it's still doing its thing and sending us postcards after 46 years(!!!) of flying away from us in an extremely harmful environment, while we still fuck simple stuff up back home.
I believe there are studies that show that if you are a woman patient, you do much better with a woman doctor. Iirc, the outcome doesn't matter if you are a man.
Do you want to hear the fun part - all of those taste amazing in East and South East Asia for some reason. They have the best American junk food there for some reason.
I believe Senomyx was one of the companies mentioned in whatever I read (it’s been a few years). Here are some documents they filed with the SEC describing their process and some of their clients, including Coca-Cola, who hired them “for the development and discovery of specified new flavors and flavor enhancers”.

There was apparently some flak because their technology used a human embryonic stem cell line in the flavor development process.

I’m not sure the link below will mention the qualification for “natural flavor” labeling, but I recall that flavors derived from yeast fermentation - even if the yeast are genetically engineered to produce specific compounds - qualify because fermentation is a “natural” process.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/0806/08061155.pdf
You can use the same principles that Google and friends use to intervene on other behaviors. First you need data to make a model and then you use the model to optimize some metric. In this case it seems like you want to reduce screen time so the intervention in this case would be to lock out applications that seem like unproductive time sinks. Alternatively, you can look into developing better meta-cognitive skills and you don't need extra software for that other than spending some time every day meditating.

You don't even need AI for this. Just track application use and then gradually increase the lockout time for the top 3 applications.
> Is someone using story points as a metric of anything other than forecasting?

Very nearly every company I've worked at that uses Scrum uses story points, velocity, etc., as a means of measuring how good you or your team are. Forecasting is a secondary purpose.
Unfortunately with websites hosting their ads on their own pages (like for example IMDB) DNS filtering is becoming less effective.
I really like the way the hosted version of openplayground is setup. You create an account and they manage the API access to the different models, so i don't have to create an account with each AI company. I use it on all my devices to access different models. https://github.com/nat/openplayground

I load up $5 into my account using my credit card and then reload it whenever it gets low, it also has a tab for comparing multiple resulta from different models together.

Best of luck on the project!
Maybe we have different definitions of inputs and outputs, but all of those things seem like outputs to me? Maybe in this scenario the inputs and outputs are really the same set of variables so there isn't a huge distinction.

The reason I linked that article is that all the inputs are outputs of the network, so by definition it's training on just outputs (under my personal definition of outputs).
But if you were a country or an alliance that wanted to be 1000% sure you always had access to a component (drone parts) you might be willing to pony up billions to make sure you could not be blockaded or embargoed. I don't know if that makes sense but given what is going on in Ukraine and the Mid East, people have to be thinking about that.
A couple problems with that are that people will disagree on what is inappropriate for children (e.g. drugs, nudity, sex, simulated violence, real violence, simulated gore, real gore, foul language, educational material that's sexual in nature, hate speech, advertising), and parents may want unfiltered or differently filtered access for themselves while blocking it on a device/profile the child uses.

I imagine a huge firewall list is probably also technically challenging for ISPs unless there's some convention for IPs (like even/odd LSB).

But you can just have the site serve a content labels header. Specify what the content is, with a standard for topics which may be commonly considered inappropriate for children, and let parents configure controls at the OS level, which the browser should respect. This lets you even provide the info at the level of individual resources (so e.g. wikipedia could label images or pages with topics like nudity or violence, and parents could opt to allow/block topics).
You could also have a coarse header indicating that the site does not want minors to access it, and that could be an option for the browser to block.
It's a reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nothing to do with physics.
Say Goodbye to "Forever Chemicals"
AI won't become self-improving any time soon because current tech requires millions of $ each time a new LLM gets trained. For AI to become self-improving it would have to first somehow capture almost all the wealth in the world for itself, and then put thousands of engineers to work. It would also need a way to know the new trained algorithm is indeed an improvement to itself, which means it would have to stay around for some time after the new LLM is trained. All of this means humans will be in the loop for the time being.
game engine?
There was a 1979 documentary about it
Thank you for the suggestion - if I were still a customer I likely would reach out with your guidance.

I didn't investigate much... it was happening at a bad time where I really needed to stay on top of active conversations for a move.
I think my next attempt will be a handful of hand crafted rules on daily data. I'm definitely never going to try day trading scale strategies or try to pick good points intraday to buy. It should be resilient to the price difference over a day or two
A colleague of mine used it to etch carbon nanotubes, I think. Absolutely horrible stuff.
Happened to others: https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/27/icloud-keychain-issues/

More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38648725

I resubmitted it again because the text content of the submission was missing.
good catch! I just put a little button in, give this a try and if it works for you I'll push to production - https://web-draw-e58vy7q9m-arefmalek.vercel.app/
> to appear as if they were in advantage of the [Apple's] customer

They are. This was perfectly normal and expected functionality once upon a time, back in the days when Adium/Pidgin were still useful.