skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not really Houthis, they are followers of Hussein al-Houthi.

I don't know why the Western media insists on giving them this name. Hussein al-Houthi was a Houthi, but most of his supporters are not. Would you call all Barak Obama supporters "Obamas"?
2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics [video]
Back in my day you got predicted grades, went to an interview, got an offer (or didn't get, but that was rare, the interview would however sometimes result in a lower than standard offer) then got the grades, or didn't, but holding a cascade of offers down actual grades was common/recommended.

Was that system worse?

[UK]
sorry to hear about that, i've been using an acer aspire v nitro as a workhorse for the last ~8 years and this thing is unstoppable
> Exactly as I suspected, the link and the preview were sent separately!

This is an even bigger issue with the UI design, why should poor users compare links and previews to be safe?
Same experience here.

Yes, my friends back home are on vacations 5 weeks a year. But I can do something in the US that almost nobody can do in Europe: put away >$100k every year and run toward financial independence and an early retirement.

Back in Europe, my friends don't even think about something like that. They all just accept that they'll be working until 63, 65 or whatever the retirement age will be when they're older.

And it's not just tech. My wife is in another sector and also makes a lot more than she would in Europe.
Huh? Mean ("average"), median and mode are each a single number that provides a distinct measurement of central tendency.
Peter Zeihan analysis from a couple weeks ago: https://youtu.be/WJE7g08NldQ
>Cutting out federal tax-payer money from these wildly overpriced institutions is a good first step.

I would tend to agree. It's usually my first response when someone says <insert community college here> isn't a good school.
I had a lot more crashes until I started using the official newpipe repository. The fdroid version lags by a few days.

I think it should just be taken off fdroid.
So Google and Amazon have support, and it seems depening on which AB group you are in Apple does too?

I think it is a significant benefit and likely to be implemented specially concidering client support is already there and there are good libraries available to do it.
I don't understand either. I'd be happy for somebody to comment and point out something I've missed. But voting and flagging seems to pass for productive discourse here these days.
Been a while since I saw a FB like button on a real website
Ok, it's named after a show named after an (imaginary) person named after the snake.
love this project
I've switched to it maybe two months ago and use it in foreground and background mode, tried pip mode once or twice. But I'm using it almost every day. I had maybe four or five crashes so far, nothing that comes even close to the annoyance of YouTube's ad rate nowadays.
My biggest beef with web components is actually the lack of "real" isolation.

You still have shadow-piercing props and settings that will bite and break your components (font size is a simple example).

If web components provided the kind of isolation that iframes provide I'd use them more.

But so far my experiments into having a set of components I could easily reuse on different websites has failed.
You are right if you define “me” as body and brain, what they can do.

What I am more focused on is: what impact “me” as an individual person (an independent human agent) can have on my environment. We build technology mostly to optimize for this.

My point is that wearable (or implantable) cybernetics lead to an incremental improvement on how easily or frequently we can do what we already do as individuals, but they don’t fundamentally change the things we can do. Sci-fi makes them look amazing but our R&D resources might be better spent elsewhere.
Part of this too is status. If everyone in your friends group has children going to an Ivy League school while yours is going to Boston College (as mentioned in the article; BC is a great school, btw), you're gonna get left out. It's dumb, but it happens.
They choose the students they want from among those who apply.

Removing the availability of assistance will change that pool of applicants, obviously.
Now, it's not entirely AI written. For instance, this paragraph interested me:

> The Diocletian windows, also called the thermal windows, are the large semicircular windows that are characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome. They have been revived on a limited basis by some classical revivalist architects in more modern times.

I'd never heard the term "Diocletian windows" before, and it pops up here with no context, so I googled for it. Luckily, there's a wikipedia article about it. Let me quote a small passage from that, perhaps the very first paragraph of the article:

> Diocletian windows, also called thermal windows, are large semicircular windows characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome. They have been revived on a limited basis by some classical revivalist architects in more modern times.

...huh, that sounds familiar.

So anyway: yep, not all written by AI, some of it is just plagarized.
The administrative state only knows how to grow indefinitely.
> Sad to see "Jennifer" listed as a "newer name".

See also "The Tale of Tiffany" from CGP Grey:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI
Virtue spiraling happens on the far left or the far right as well as within religious movements. It’s when people try to outdo each other on appearing virtuous and mobbing one another for being insufficiently so. It ends with everyone being shattered and atomized and hating each other and the movement collapsing.

The toxic negativity I see on the left is a general attitude that basically everything is evil and horrible and hopeless. Any attempt to bring up good news leads to a counter attack or minimization of it. Also tends to go with discourse where the main topic is how awful the other side is. (The right hate circle jerks like that too but the tone is more aggro and less depressive.) It’s self defeating and depression inducing and generally unpleasant.

Today’s discourse is just generally toxic and stupid everywhere and like I said I blame the algorithm. Algorithmic social media took everything bad about media driven discourse and turned it up to 11.
All this data is available on the interwebz. I'm a Norwegian, but has worked in several countries around the world, among them the US.

According to this site,[0] the median income in US and Norway was $24K-ish in 2021 (2019 numbers for Norway), while this Wikipedia article[1] lists countries based on average annual working hours (OECD, 2022).

Based on this, we can deduce that:

* Americans are paid $13.3/hour

* Norwegians are paid $16.9/hour

It's worth noting that even though Norway doesn't have a "general" minimum wage, except for some jobs, it's considered to be $21/hour.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
The question is should tax-payers be on the hook for this? Definitely not.
For the curious, the relevant section is 3.3 and the tl;dr appears to be: "heuristics".
Not really. My guess is that this will be resolved through a combination of re-routing, new players (friendly to the Persians/Houthis) who will take advantage, and a bit of higher prices or some delay. The two big regional players (Saudi Arabia, UAE) are ignoring this because they made their deals already.
It's fascinating to try to imagine the atmosphere in the room as they dust of decades old contingency plans of "what to do if Suez is closed?" and divert a sixth of the worlds shipping around the whole continent of Africa, probably adding a lot of cost in fuel and serious operational concerns as the ports naturally aren't ready for such a huge increase in traffic.
Before each feed forward block, there is a single linear layer outputting 8 numbers that tell you how promising each 'expert' is
"he views college admissions as a crapshoot.

“I don’t really know what they are looking for,” he said."

And therein lies the problem. I understand the bed too deviate from standardized testing and evaluate holistically. But when those evaluations are opaque, then anything goes, really, and it's impossible to tell what will work for your target school
People are so desperate they will use artificial intelligence, even though it’s proven to be unreliable (hallucinations).
Or find ways to easily compare them without doing it manually.
I'm not sure what this article is getting at regarding "post affirmative action" since Asian Americans were not benefited by it in recent decades. As top academic applicants, the recent challenges were that they were discriminated against in admissions in favor of other minority races in the name of affirmative action.
Thank you for the link to that short video. I watched it.

Reading between the lines, my take-away is:

Both shipping times and costs are rising.
Race-conscious admissions for Asians is comically racist. The median income for Bangladeshi Americans is around the same as for Hispanics. It’s that way for the same reason—both are relatively recent immigrants from relatively poor countries. But Bangladeshis are treated as privileged because Indians and Pakistanis are rich. (Pakistanis—who tried to genocide us like five minutes ago—are lumped together with us.)

There’s also the cultural discrimination inherent in the process. My brother-in-law’s girlfriend is applying to college, and she has great grades and test scores, along with a compelling “adversity” story. But she’s Filipino, and in most Asian cultures, poverty is shameful, so that didn’t come out in her essays. She’s taking a year off to try her application cycle again, and this time we are having her work with an admissions consultant who will be able to help her target her essays to the white people at the admissions offices.
> For example, going to therapy isn't that different from practicing confessions in a church.

If your therapist responds to your sharing by suggesting that straying from their advice, or some kooky ancient text, results in eternal damnation then run far away. Churches can be devastating to ones mental health. Do not recommend.
Don't you use Google to "show me an example of doing X with Y" so you can rely on not having to remember spurious technicalities and stay focused on the structure of what you're building? Using AI should be more or less an improved version of that and forcing to not use it at all is like asking an architect to be the building worker actually building every bit.
Does it seem crazy? What’s the baseline? What’s “normal”?
Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby
No. End-to-end encryption means that the preview has to be generated either by the sender or the receiver. Having the receiver generate the preview would leak his IP. They have to remove the preview feature.
> The move started with a bit of sticker shock at having my income effectively cut in half - lower salaries and higher taxes - but I feel just as "rich".

The thing you're feeling is not same amount of "rich", but same amount of security.

If your mental model shifted, You would find out the difference between these two things. For instance, if your aim was to make as much money as possible as soon as possible, then move to a place with much lower cost of living and work far less (or not at all), then you would not find this to be the same amount of "rich".
it's not just Norway, all the oil rich countries float to top on this list. So indeed they are calculating how rich is the country's bank accounts because the money is distributed through social services, which is basically free money.
I do not care if Nazis move from X (fka Twitter) to Substack
Personally I don’t use either platforms although I used to be a bit addicted to Twitter until Musk destroyed it imho.

There are only two online content monetization models - ads/indirect or direct and both have pluses and minuses.

The news about Substack giving Nazis a platform shows us that direct monetization is not the answer, maybe until a really simple low cost micropropayment platform emerges, so we can pay for articles we like. Until somebody manages to offer privacy friendly personalization, the ads/indirect model will not be the answer.

What do you think?
If we have AIs training AIs, AIs filtering generated ideas, etc, then who's the 'inventor'? We should reconsider the current patents and allocation of funds model.
Referring back to your previous post, I asked my wife if she felt she should be paid. She says she is paid, in that my money (which I make for the family) is her money and supports the entire household.

I'd guess men don't volunteer to be primary child rearers because stay-at-home jobs have been relatively rare, prior to the past 4 years, men tend overwhelmingly to want to support a spouse than to be supported (which is probably why gay couples have greater household incomes and lower divorce rates than all other categories), and women tend to be hypergamous in mate selection. It's not that there's no incentive to stay home (if you like your children, at least, which I hope is true), it's that there's a strong incentive to go to work.

In my particular situation, tax and childcare would eat most of my wife's income, so she'd be spending 40+ hrs/wk working with other people's children in exchange for less time with hers. She'd rather work with our children and be able to take an afternoon nap.

Would we both prefer to be independently wealthy and not have to work, sure! Might one or both of us work anyway? I probably would. She probably wouldn't.

The remainder of your message appears to be uninformed condescension. My wife is not a chattel slave. Her primary focus is child rearing and home making, but it's not her sole occupation nor solely her responsibility.

There are parts of being single we miss, and parts of being childless we miss. That doesn't change the fact that we've worked very hard for the life we have, find it very rewarding, and wouldn't give it up easily.
Yes, SB107. The bill that enables CA to take custody of your kid if they go there for the purpose of 'gender affirming care'.

Since you appear to like leftist news rags (like politifact):

https://www.newsweek.com/california-attacks-parents-rights-u...

Puberty blockers cause sterilization.

https://wng.org/roundups/study-effects-of-puberty-blockers-c...

Cutting off a healthy boy's dick and testicles is sterilization. Do I need to link to something for that to back up that claim?

In the future, we will look back on the whole of 'gender affirming care' in wonder at how brainless and cruel we could have been to children.
https://archive.is/SGOAs
Newpipe has a built-in "Play in Background" feature that would be awesome while driving. There are tons of podcast-like content videos on YT that would be fine for a commute.
Confused Deputy Problem in AWS IAM
Prompting Large Language Models to Perform Static Analysis
Christmas comes early as festive drone show breaks two world records
>Older computers almost always use more electricity than newer ones, I don't see how this is a real thing.

The vast majority of energy needed for computers is in the manufacturing. As [1] shows, the embodied energy in laptops has stayed largely constant over the last decade. The best thing you can do for the environment is to keep using an old laptop instead of throwing it out and replacing it, even if the new laptop draws fewer watts from the wall.

[1] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stoppe...
> except that "reactivity" does not meet the bar of developers collectively having landed on a solution to a common problem

I think the request for a native API for a Morph DOM/Virtual DOM has a similar problem. He wants a native solution so the frameworks can "focus on differentiating based on the convenience of their APIs", but he's forgetting that any native API will in itself impose a style on the frameworks if the latter want to be performant.

Given the diversity among current solutions, that would be the same as picking one of them to thrive and all the others to be forced to become more like it. Which is the opposite of what he wants.

Also, it's not like you can take any JS-based solution, make it native, and expect it to be faster because now it's made with magic C++ pixie dust.

Also, maybe the different internal data structures among browsers means that they each would prefer different reconciliation approaches, making it hard for them to agree on anything.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to have a well-designed native solution that makes everything nicer, but it's also not exactly a trivial problem to solve. And unlike JavaScript frameworks, once it's standardized the browser vendors are stuck with it, so I can understand if they are conservative about it.
“The Houthis aren’t going to stop what they’re doing, until the Israeli offensive in Gaza concludes,” Gregory Brew, an analyst at the Eurasia Group, told Al Jazeera, “and even then they are likely to continue for some time after.”

Their demands and intentions are quite clear and solely focused on Israeli-bound ships, although it does seem like this is giving them more leverage with respect to Yemen's agenda which has seen years of war from US-Saudi aggression.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/22/beyond-gaza-ho...
I think, because the reason is what we want from our tools is different. I already use a much sophisticated tool for my tasks, and project planning (Pagico), and what I want is a bona fide desktop wiki which I want to store my technical research and howto docs (and share them in my digital garden).

This is what Obsidian is. If I wanted something to organize my tasks and other things, I'd take a much different route.

What I'm aiming to get is akin to these: [0] & [1]

[0]: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Hack_on

[1]: https://notes.joschua.io/
It is also interesting that a news outlet based in one of the richest countries on Earth feels the need to put up a paywall on every single article.

Other options: a) Just have subscribers, and make do with whatever those proceeds are. b) Give subscribers access to some freemium articles. c) Give subscribers early-bird access to articles. Free access to others later (say, +1 day or so). d) Give non-subscribers 1..3 freebie articles, then paywall.

To name a few. But no: paywall everything, monetize to the last bit. Sign of the times, or indication of this news outlet's priorities / ethics?
I have some headphones with an in-line soundcard that you can reprogram with your choice of EQ or effects. Love em. But they were spendy and it lacks the hacker ethos that I respect in these posts.
Show HN: First ever reliable browser automation by GPT-4-Vision
Hello HN,

I am happy to open-source AI Empoye: GPT-4 Vision Powered First-ever reliable browser automation which outperforms Adept.ai.

Demo1: Automate logging your budget from email to your expense tracker

https://www.loom.com/share/f8dbe36b7e824e8c9b5e96772826de03

Demo2: Automate log details from the PDF receipt into your expense tracker

https://www.loom.com/share/2caf488bbb76411993f9a7cdfeb80cd7

Comparison with Adept.ai

https://www.loom.com/share/27d1f8983572429a8a08efdb2c336fe8

Our stack

Next.js, Rust, Postgres, MeiliSearch, and Firebase auth for authentication.

How it Works

There are several problems with current browser agents. Here, we explain the problems and how we have solved them.

Problem 1: Finding the Right Element

There are several techniques for this, ranging from sending a shortened form of HTML to GPT-3, creating a bounding box with IDs and sending it to GPT-4-vision to take actions, or directly asking GPT-4-vision to obtain the X and Y coordinates of the element. However, none of these methods were reliable; they all led to hallucinations.

To address this, we developed a new technique where we index the entire DOM in MeiliSearch, allowing GPT-4-vision to generate commands for which element's inner text to click, copy, or perform other actions. We then search the index with the generated text and retrieve the element ID to send back to the browser to take action. There are a few limitations here, but we have implemented some techniques to overcome them, such as dealing with the same text in multiple elements or clicking on an icon (we are still working on this).

Intuitively, imagine you are guiding your grandmother to use a website; you might say something like, "Click on the button that says 'sign in'." We are doing something similar here.

Problem 2: GPT Derailing from Workflow

To prevent GPT from derailing from tasks, we use a technique that is akin to retrieval-augmented generation, but we kind of call it Actions Augmented Generation. Essentially, when a user creates a workflow, we don't record the screen, microphone, or camera, but we do record the DOM element changes for every action (clicking, typing, etc.) the user takes. We then use the workflow title, objective, and recorded actions to generate a set of tasks. Whenever we execute a task, we embed all the actions the user took on that particular domain with the prompt. This way, GPT stays on track with the task, even if the user has not provided a very brief title and objective; their actions will guide GPT to complete the task.

Love to know your feedback.
The application process to many universities has been dramatically streamlined. It is in a students best interest to cast the widest net of applications for suitable schools— so naturally rates go down as the volume of applications per student is going up. It has also long been an open secret that universities are encouraging as many applicants as they can in order to reduce their acceptance rates to boost their prestige and rankings.

We need the actual data on university acceptance criteria itself (i.e. mandatory SAT score minimums) to truly assess the competitiveness of these schools over time. Raw % acceptance has become a diluted metric
I think you got the context of the second point entirely wrong, so it's better to read the comment to which it's replied. As I said before, my entire family are proud, satisfied users of the German metro & public transit system – and we are proudly anti-car. Nothing more to prove when we practice rather than preach.

As for the first, it would be worthwhile taking the AI-tinted driverless-only FSD glasses off, and re-read the original comment and response.
Doesn't have to be special, the creator just wants to be compensated if you're using it for commercial use. You're free to go to other creators if you want.
Think about this. You want to start a Free Trial for one of the most popular things in the world right now: AI. You can do whatever you want but you are going to meet serious challenges containing the motivated ones who WILL spam it (not IF).

Just require a credit card and don't charge them. If you are worried that people won't sign up, may be thats a good thing. Do you really want someone who doesnt even want to add a card just to try ? Not for a service like this where everyone and their mother are looking for Free GPUs on the internet.