skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty much with you on this almost word for word.

I can’t have my cake and eat it too, and I’m fine with that.

Maybe if at a certain point everything is locked down with the help of device attestation/DRM I might change my tune, but even then I’m sure there will be alternatives for me, whether online or offline.
Never seen somebody so aggressively wrong. Just take the L and move on, my dude. Surely you have better things to do than to try to boost your ego by “winning” internet arguments through sheer volume of responses.
I've flagged the multiple top-level posts in this thread where you attempt to desperately deflect from the issue here. You may not consent to my flagging your posts, but I'm sure you're fine with that. Using HN is consensual and HN allows this; buyer beware.
Xilinx/AMD doesn't make overt donations any more AFAIK, but they still subsidize hardware as a loss leader and for academics. For example, academic groups can buy the RFSoC 4x2 board for $2149 USD, which is a small fraction of the volume price of the chip that's on it.

"EDA software is crap" is so close to an axiom around here that I think Vivado doesn't get the credit it deserves. The synthesis flow has been rapidly modernizing and supports a chunk of VHDL-2019. The bundled simulator still lags on support and features, for reasons that are pretty easy to understand.
Donjon RPG Tools
Elixir v1.16 Released
> Cynical view: to signal to other capital-R Rationalists that the author is still one of them, despite parenthood (which has a way of affecting people's rationality.)

It may be the most reasonable interpretation.

However, is it rational to want to have a futurama brain slug?

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Slug
I'm happy you like it :).

There's a roadmap in my head and some tickets in my private Trello, but I should probably create Github issues for those.

There are a couple of main things that I want to add (file syncing support, timestamp metadata to blocks) and some general improvements. However I want to keep its simplicity, and I currently see Heynote as kind of complete when it comes to new concepts. Currently, I don't think I'm going to add tabs, and I'm not planning to make it into a "real" editor by adding the ability to open and save files.
Yes, I own the physical hardware that the tokens are coming from. I own an (out of date, but still legit) iPhone 6, as well as a new Mac. I have paid Apple that which they would demand of any normal customer, and now I want the messages to flow to my Android phone and my Linux/Windows Desktop.
>and ripe for another npm dependency everyone suddenly normalises for every project

Now now, it's only 1M weekly downloads: https://www.npmjs.com/package/superjson
I did nand2tetris during my time at Recurse, and I spent a lot of time watching Ben Eater those days. They paired nicely.
> At the moment, I'm leaning towards keeping the number of configurable settings down and not add have font color theme settings.

Alright, if you ever lean the other way a tad bit, please allow configuration of fonts, I can try to contribute that feature next week. I don't mind fixed colors nearly as much.

>> is mobile possible? Through Cordova or something

> Probably not :/

Understandable. Check my comment (sibling to my parent comment) for a suggestion for the PWA you mentioned though!
What? War and Peace is relatively long but not particularly challenging to read, at least for the time period it was made for and compared to the other books listed.

But then again, I really loved the philosophical ramblings on history and leadership and how much Napoleon sucked. Honestly feel it should be required reading for anyone in a leadership position. But then again, if you just want to read the story, the parts can be easily skipped.

Granted you need to have some baseline knowledge of Russian culture and with some philosophical concepts like materialism to really grok it, I guess. I think hard to read can be very subjective anyway depending heavily on what books one have read before and general background.
I'm not sure I understand where this comment is coming from. If you like freedom of speech, you should be happy to have as much of it is possible on any platform, whether it's under any obligation to allow it or not, whether it allows "unfettered free speech", including obscene speech, or not.

I find it particularly confusing that you repeated twice that substack is under no obligation to allow freedom of speech. Why does this matter so much to you?
Fires in Edo
To quote the article:

"The new octopus genome data, she adds, “is pretty convincing evidence that a full collapse happened.”
The findings reinforce the importance of understanding how modern climate conditions are affecting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Dutton says. “This is telling us that we need to take this bigger picture seriously.” Continued ocean warming—driven by greenhouse gas emissions—could destabilize the submerged portion of the ice sheet. To lower the chance of another collapse, she says, “We can’t just kick the can down the road and wait to make emissions cuts for another 5 years, another 10 years. It really demands that we do it now.”

Emissions in the modern sense were not the cause of this. But, it happened. Is Dutton making the claim that emissions are the cause now? I'll accept all of Dutton's claims, except that one; there is no basis for that claim. Lower the chance of another collapse? By how much? Would that have actually helped 100,000 years ago? I make the claim that Dutton is suffering from hubris.
Typically, you would be considered responsible for damages for not keeping a safe following distance.
That's an interesting point. Can't say I agree based on my experience in both small startups and mega-corps.

Startups are so chaotic and fast-paced that one usually only needs 1-2 years (if not less!) to see how earlier decisions pan out. Very frequently the stack and the codebase undergo monumental changes in that short period of time due to the changes in business requirements and scale.

Mega-corps are vast engineering efforts with hundreds if not thousands of daily contributions. While I could technically go back and try to evaluate my choices from 6-7 years ago, it would be fairly hard to decouple my individual contributions from the changes that happened afterwards (functional/non-functional feature requirements changed since then, the codebase is unrecognizable, etc). 6-7 years is just too long of a time frame for certain eng areas (web/native product is a primary example). Saying that, I can imagine that there are slower-paced areas where this time frame is more relevant, e.g. database engine development.
Cool Concept!
Unwilling members of society are already carrying the risk of every nascent driver entering the road for the first time solo and every aging driver who hasn't yet had the accident that loses them their license.
Nice! Is the single buffer feature, non-negotiable?

I've found myself using Sublime Text in a similar manner (because it's crash-proof without saving to a named file).

I do use multiple buffers though (often ending up with too many and culling them like I do browser tabs).
Benedryl is what I switched to. It took a long time to get acclimatized to it enough that I wasn't perpetually on the edge of going to sleep!

It was Drixoral, which is a combination of pseudoephedrine and dexbrompheniramine. You can get dexbrompheniramine OTC and combine it with pseudoephedrine and it's OK -- but not quite the same because Drixoral was a time release thing.
There are alternatives. Privacy based software and hardware. But the inconveniences that come with it are not insignificant.

I plan on moving in that direction at some point, but for now I’m not ready.
e.g. one of the most significant Waymo incidents in autonomous mode was a human driver falling asleep, bumping the gas pedal, and disengaging autonomy.

Comparing robo-only miles has the advantage of not considering incidents like this, and also not considering incidents where the safety driver prevented harm. It also prevents accusations of "you're claiming human Waymo drivers caused these accidents that you've omitted and are lying" because then they're counting 100% of miles driven without humans in the car.
Where are the certs being stored?
> So wait Microsoft provides a workaround to their own security feature?

It's their way of admitting that they fucked up and they boost windows 11 installation numbers.

Windows 11 reminds me of the frustrations users of Windows phone 7, 8, & 10 went through because of pointless hardware restrictions, constant app redesigns, only to scrap the OS.
Learn Jq the Hard Way,Part IV: Pipes
Pretty wild to see LoRa being used in an active warzone to evade drone jamming.
The stats clearly show that Waymo gets into fewer crashes, though. In the remaining incidents, the other driver was considered at fault.
If you want to expose a single web service you can do it via tailscale funnel[1] easily.

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel
"It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure."
Is there any AI website to grade my designs
Hi,

I am curious if anyone knows a website similar to HackerRank, but for designers learning Photoshop. Ideally, I'd like a platform that offers me design prompts to work on and the ability to upload my designs to an AI which can rate my work and give me feedback. I know about behance to publish my work but since i am just starting out, I'm not confident enough to post the things i make.
So help is appreciated.
Tis but a flesh wound!
Probably, but that would require a prescription and I've not yet been able to find a primary care doctor (there is an acute shortage of them around here).
NAT's firewall effect is purely coincidental. In fact, because people don't run firewalls because of NAT, attacks like NAT slipstreaming can open any port to any internal IP in your network by abusing SIP ALGs and fragmentation.

Wherever NAT is enabled now, a statefull firewall is a better solution. Thankfully, this is the default wherever IPv6 is rolled out to consumers.
Probably no.

Lots of different sorts of 'heart attack'. My form of VF is basically due to an electrical fault, not due to blocked arteries / clagged up valves, etc. Implantation has some risks (infection, etc) and the device needs to be swapped out every few years when the battery dies. The device can only help if you have a 'shockable' rhythm. It doesn't restart a stopped heart, it causes the out-of-control muscle fibres in a fibrillating (quivering) heart to resynchronise so that you get proper pumping in the heart's chambers.

Cost is obviously a factor as well.
“Gravity’s Rainbow” should be here. It’s constantly rated as one of the best American novels but it’s the most difficult read I’ve ever had. You thought Naked Lunch was crazy? This book will melt your brain trying to follow characters, themes, and the prose itself before you even get 100 pages in.
Back in the day, I ordered some A. Muscaria mushrooms online and they weren't magical at all. I drooled a lot, took a strange mostly conscious nap, and my vision was a little blurry.

Just eat Cubensis or another psylocin containing strain as Muscaria contains none of it.
Yeah but from a consumer perspective the svelte NACS connector is vastly more pleasant to use than the bulky CCS one.
I see a trend with 404media on writing sensationalized pieces. The last one I remember was also focused on nonconsensual AI images for a startup that just got funding. Not a fan so far.

I think this misses the mark on what should be the discussion.

First, this focuses too heavily on twitter. We understand a group of the population love to rail on twitter but this is a problem for the whole online ad industry.

Second, there is a broader discussion of the legalities and morality of these technologies. These types of image gen systems do not fit my moral compass but I am not sure if they should be illegal or not. It’s a discussion worth having.

Third, the whole ad industry has this problem of moral alignment. Google still shows the scam get rich quick people. Facebook similar. It is up to companies to pick their morality on what type of ads they want. So far everyone is still trying to capture the whole market.
Cute. But nowhere near true. Rabbits? Bison? any number of identical behaviors in other mammals. </pedant>
Good questions.

> how are trains not a proven technology???

The US currently has nothing that would be considered high speed rail by the rest of the world. It could be built here, but it would cost billions and take decades. Hofstadter's law strongly applies to major infrastructure projects in the US. "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

> how do planes have "flexible capacity"? how do trains not have flexible capacity?

Planes can be put in service or redistributed to serve a certain route in hours. Extra train engines and train cars cannot be moved nearly as easily.
Interesting podcast episode about Musk's life I got recommended yesterday: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dxqaAKNQhLzRzfOTJ60mI
Given the person-millenia years that Meta has presumably put into their ad-targeting, maybe you should give the nitrous a try; maybe they know something you don't. Or maybe they're just whores for anyone who would give them a buck, same as they ever were.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Otherwise I hope this isn't totally accurate. Not because i like musk/tesla, but because it'll be just another case where i'm galled by the fact they were even allowed on the road in this state, and the complete lack of safety standards and consequences.
Ask HN: Google Vision vs. AWS Textract vs. Tesseract?
I've been playing around with Tesseract to extract text from pdf files and have found it a little disappointing, even after doing some pre-processing to the image (300dpi, binarization, de-skewing).

Does anyone have good experiences with OCR tech for extracting text from PDFs? Especially scenarios where you can't control / improve the initial image.
Yes, I think adding the creation time and last update time of blocks is a good idea.
I was thinking in terms of augmenting our capabilities. Absolutely there is a lot of value in this tech for dealing with medical issues and for monitoring.
>I for the life of me can't figure out how countries end up in situations where a large subset of said population is not only armed by effectively uncontrollable by the government.
How do they get money for arms? Where do the arms come from? Why is the government unable to exert any realistic control within their own borders?

The global reality is no government on earth can control a majority of the population without their consent.

Every aspect of government control relies humans, and if they refuse to participate, you need other humans to make them.
I regularly see ads on Instagram for home delivery of steroids, LSD, MDMA etc. All of these companies have cut back on any human review of ads or content posted to their platforms. They have decided that there is no risk of government handing down any meaningful punishment for this.
That seems like a very bad thing for the long term?
No "Finnegans Wake" ??!
For anyone wanting to use their phone with a bit more audio-related Oomph, I strongly recommend looking at an external DAC. The main reason for doing so is because it will allow you to completely bypass Android's audio player, and play audio 100% losslessly.

I use an ifi GO Link (~60), with USB Audio Player Pro (UAPP).

The difference between that and just plugging into the 3.5mm jack on the phone is night and day.

There are obviously much nicer and more expensive DACs, but IMO you're hitting diminishing returns quickly.

The ONE thing I hate about going this route is that USB-C is not nearly as robust a connector as 3.5mm. Even the slightest jiggle can cause the DAC to disconnect, leading to a lot of annoyance because Android requires you to re-confirm every time. Some days it's flawless, other times I have to go through the stupid prompts like 10x in a couple minutes.
Both are almost the same concept, but YMMV on performance. ZRAM has an easy setup at least.
Interesting. A good idea, not worth getting a record over.

I fear the unintended side effects. Like, somebody put away on such a charge because it was easier than the more important charge. Now gonna have to be retried. For example.
I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network.
Reported, but they don’t seem to care.
Do you remember the dot-com days? We’re still pretty early in AI. Check back in 4 years.
I gave up early on TOS-100, but that was before I did nand2tetris. I did Nand2tetris before Shenzhen-IO and really enjoyed it.

Yet to finish Shenzhen IO, but I blame it on me stupidly doing premature optimisation.
One Hundred Years of Solitude?! Catch-22? All the others on this list make some sense, but those are both relatively short, easy reads.
> More correct would be that Intel has a low tolerance to risk for things that are way outside of their core competencies which have traditionally been designing X86 CPUs and fabbing them, and that's mostly it.

As a former Intel-er myself (during Craig Barrett, Paul Otellini times) I would disagree. Intel took bold and foolish bets bying DiaLogic, selling Xscale, betting on WiMAX mobile technology while fighting LTE backed by all telcos. I would characterize Intel's risk management as "passive-aggressive".
Teen Hacker Sectioned for Life
Karmada brings Kubernetes multi-cloud capabilities to CNCF Incubator – CNCF
A WebGPU Fireworks demo (works on Chrome/edge)
Also known as rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Apart from this list, I found Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness a hardcore literary grind in my first year of college.
I really wish we could be more honest with ourselves about the tradeoffs inherent in the level of technological sophistication we achieved and continue to push the boundaries of.

There just isn't a way to have privacy and human dignity in a world where everyone and their brother is walking around with an internet-connected recording device in their pocket or on their wrist.

I know, I know, I can hear it now: "We just need to regulate it properly; It's not tech that's good or bad, but how we use it; tech is just a tool!".

While that's a nice intellectual platitude, it's just not workable. The level of regulation that will ultimately be required to manage things like recording people in public, AI, mass data collection, etc. is going to require a level of government intrusion at a scale never before seen. And then there's still the matter of the government actually being able to regulate the tech properly.

I just don't think our current level of tech, particularly with the emergence of AI, is a matter of having our cake and eating it too. We can have our fancy toys , but the social cost is going to be very very high.
I got a few pages in before deciding I'd pick it up again some other time. There are apparently websites that will explain page by page what is happening, and I don't have that time right now.
we need a smart password manager that detects a data breach, immediately changes the password of all the users that were using that website with some integration of changing their data on the backend of that website too. They would need to partner up with literally every damn website on the planet to accomplish this
I'm sorry for his endangered hearing. Servers belong in the DC where their noise isn't such a problem...
I added Mac OS compatibility: https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/brickgame-4bit/pull/1
UBlock Origin does magic. Also, Libredirect it's good once it's properly setup for some broken redirects.
It's not necessarily driven by anything internal. Lots of parts of the Middle East are globally significant, because of oil and gas production and the Suez canal route. That means that they attract a lot of external meddling. For example, Iran is backing the Houthis with weapons, technology, and money. The United States has done various bits of meddling too, both supportive and not. If you pour the means of conflict into a region, you will tend to get more conflict there.
The speed of transformers is memory bandwidth limited. I think that it's possible to speed them way up with different chip architectures, and I know there are lots of people working on this e.g. https://etched.ai making asics and https://untether.ai making chips will co-located memory and compute cells. So unless some architecture really starts beating transformers badly on language tasks, I think the speed problem is going to disappear as silicon architectures adapt.
I lived the mechanical turk version of this for years: riding a corporate shuttle to work.

I prefer Caltrain.
More precisely, I mean no "centralized moderation."

You can moderate at client level whatever you want.

There could be shared lists of non-acceptable users/content based on your world views (like AdBlock but for users).
What's the name of this company selling this cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide? Asking for a friend.
> Apple has a very real chance of doing it

No, they are nowhere close to locking down messaging.
When I'm wrong I'll admit I'm wrong, Pitchbook's data does differ.

I agree that they believed in Beeper Mini being a reasonable strategy, I'm not contesting that. It definitely wasn't just marketing, they really wanted to bring iMessage to everyone.

But I don't see how Beeper (or the other parts of Beeper Mini) are a delusion. Having a close-enough interface to all of the relevant chat networks is great. It works well and is relatively sustainable, especially if you're targeting the least common denominator of features plus a couple additional things.

iMessage isn't the reason I use Beeper. It's a very cool feature, but I paid for Beeper before I figured out how to register my phone number with iMessage, and I'd still have done so even if I never used iMessage at all.
Both TIS and Shenzhen are cases where I'd say make something ugly that works, then go back and fix it hours later when you have new tools and experience.

IE, the very first puzzle gets an easier solution once you learn about a hidden command.

There's satisfaction to leaving a solution to come back days later and go "whoah, this better solution is so obvious" which is easy to miss when you're stuck on it for hours.
Agree it should be there. One reason I think so many people drop it is that fairly early on there is a surreal multi-page section with no punctuation. That stopped me twice, but if you get past that it calms down.
This looks just like Excalidraw, which happens to be their first sponsor. I love Excalidraw, and I'll pull it open for any quick diagramming I need to do.
The Slack use case highlighted on the front page would be better if Slack markup was an available syntax. Slack is not really Markdown, so composing messages in Heynote won't have high fidelity.

One thing that often trips me up is that links and code formatting cannot coexist:

[`method_name`](https://github.com/example/example/blob/main/src/foo.rs)

Would be rendered by most Markdown engines as a link with fixed-width text. Do the same thing in Slack and text will be fixed-width, but won't be a link.

There's a partial summary of the differences here: https://www.markdownguide.org/tools/slack/
I configured the Linux builds yesterday, and I don't personally run Linux on any desktop machine, but I'll look into it!
> Do they guarantee it is static?

Yes, but it's only for grandfathered DSL.

https://help.sonic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009880293-Static...