skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All quality CRT TVs are automatically de-gaussed on switch-on. That's the 'toooong' you hear when they turn on.

A magnet might temporarily mess up the magnetic convergence with magnetised spot areas, but that should be fixed on next switch-on.

The Earth’s magnetic field can also affect the picture

That's because when the convergence controls are set correctly, they also take care of the magnetic field of the earth too at the same time. If you turn the TV upside down, you would also have to reset the convergence controls. No biggie, but it is something that needs doing.
maybe "pbs spacetime"
Sorry, how is last year any different from the previous many decades of repeated claims of room temperature super conductivity that ended up not being room temperature superconductivity?

LK99 was not "a step in the right direction", it was verifiably incorrect, and as a publication, it was bad science.
We already have competitors to Transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752
Is he a well known person? The tone of his tweets doesn't sound like someone who owns up to mistakes.
"DEI, because it discriminates on the basis of race, gender and many other factors, is not merely immoral, it is also illegal"

Not really sure what it means, but either way, the title of this post is wrong...
Why Lying to Yourself Is Ruining Your Life [video]
I don't believe you. OpenBLAS is multithreaded but the code you posted is single-threaded. The inner kernel isn't very well optimized either. So, no way.
> tex is written in pascal;

Just thought about that when Donald Knuth's Christmas lecture https://www.youtube.com/live/622iPkJfYrI lead me to one of his first TeX lectures https://youtu.be/jbrMBOF61e0 : If I install TeX on my Linux machine now, is that still compiled from the original Pascal source? Is there even a maintained Pascal compiler anymore? Well, GCC (as in GNU compiler collection) probably has a frontend, but that still does not answer the question about maintenance.

These were just thoughts. Of course researching the answers would not be overly complicated.
smartpm (-2012) had similar objectives:
https://github.com/smartpm/smart

`wajig help` has a number of useful package management commands: https://github.com/gjwgit/wajig/tree/main/docs

`dnf history` and `conda env export --from-history` are useful here, too.

etckeeper, usrlog.sh because bash history fails; into Ansible playbooks because shell quoting and logging

Recently I learned that rpm-ostree now supports OCI container images as host system images. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828040#38830000

Rpm-ostree automatically installs your (dnf) packages atop the root image, and then layers your /etc.
I've seen so much vitriol from the pronoun army - the ones that don't need them but want to make it inclusive for the people that do need them - that I really wonder if its optional in the organizations/applications that ask

like "oh he didn't write a pronoun at all! he's not a culture fit!" we've decided to move forward with other candidates that more closely align with our qualifications
agreed, though i think l4 was more influential than eumel (which is free software now by the way) even though eumel preceded l4
It can’t. There’s no gradient since it’s not a sufficiently nice space for them. You can use gradient free methods but I’d be shocked if there was an efficient enough way to do that
I hope they add a way to tone done the effects and flashes. Personally I would turn it all completely off, at least in these types of games that require playing them for years at a time.
ooh, yeah, now that's a possibility
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What I'd like to see for Async Rust in 2024
Any discount codes for HN users? :)

Edit: now seeing the 30%
It's from this paper (albeit not applied to ChatGPT?): https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409
It's one of the most ridiculous charges. It's also remarkably easy to avoid: simply replace the "I'm gonna" part of a threat with "I hope someone".

Example: "I'm gonna shoot you" is legally assault in my jurisdiction. "Someone should shoot you": not assault.
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Nobody does this, but in theory dns-sec combined with a CAA record set to nothing would mitigate this in a way that can't be defeated, right?

In principle key pinning would be the counter measure, but that was so problematic it was removed from browsers. I think chrome still does static key pinning for their own domain, and many mobile apps do key pinning, so its not entirely dead, just mostly.
Forward-forward algorithm is more like the brain. As I understand, backpropagation transformers require storing data, doing calculations on that aggregate, and sending it back through, which no neural structures can do anything like.

https://medium.com/@Mosbeh_Barhoumi/forward-forward-algorith...
I just don't want legislation telling competent people what to do here. I want the legislation to be more analogous to child protective services.

I feel that a guardian should have a choice up until they are negligent or inhibiting (however a society deems it - specifically left as this definition).

If said guardian is able to raise a kid in a healthy environment, with a healthy relationship to technology, then I do not want to step on their toes.

I think we need to 'reverse Chesterton's fence'(?) our liberty here, let's not lose our freedom and build a restrictive fence or Berlin wall.
I know many people disagree with me, but the fact that there isn't consensus here means we should tread carefully lest break some cotton mills.
I’ve been using it on MacOS for years. Works great.
This is a great post. The author bridges together multiple loosely related, well understood concepts into a coherent whole with a simple conclusion; focus on just a few (1-3) things and do them well. It presents reasoning for concepts we understand so well; first and second systems, contextual boundaries, tight scope.

Highly recommended read.
The guy from Rochester is Ranga Dias. He is a fraudster. Here are a couple news reports on his behavior:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/controversial-phy...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/science/superconductor-re...
Yeah but in a decent suburban house you can have most all of those things available to you 24/7 on your own property without anyone bothering you, trying to make small talk, reserve equipment etc. I’m sure that works for some people but I like the ability to use my “amenities “ 24/7 on my terms.
Capsul – Simple, fast, private compute
In a blog post submitted to HN a few days ago [1], the author mentioned Capsul off-hand, and I was surprised it hasn't been posted before (though it looks like it used to go by a different name, so I might have missed something).

Looks like a mini-version of a Digital Ocean/Vultr/Hetzner/etc,
running VMs on a single (presumably beefy) physical server in Minnesota. Seemed like a fun premise.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38834627
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The top one ("Megaponera analis - termite predators of the african savannah") was decent although the accent was hard for me to understand. It's definitely not the video the GP referenced, though, because the narrator doesn't mention the wound treatment or antibiotics, just that the injured ants are carried home.
In a better world, all schools would have computer literacy classes that did more than teach kids how to use Microsoft Office. Actually teaching them how computers work instead of siphoning them into learned helplessness just so big tech can keep on raking in billions.
Yes, big difference. With B2 you’re just getting the raw storage, so all backup and restore operations have to be done through restic.

With their personal computer backup offering, there’s a web interface that you can use to download individual files from your backups, share files, or even have them mail you a flash drive containing your full backups.
It's like saying you should not be worried about your peanut allergy if the peanuts are 10km away. Your exposure is not at a level that your body will react negatively to it.
I think focusing on lost jobs is the wrong angle to take this in. It's in how the content being used is being compensated. OpenAi isn't paying writers to train their engine.

I don't care that the car replaced the horse carriage because it didn't need to compensate horses nor handlers to do so. AI being the newest iteration of scraping data from artists, writers, etc. to profit millions off of is directly using the "horse handler's" work. If these LLM's threw NYT a royalty to use their articles as training material, there wouldn't be a lawsuit.
If they released the customer's data in some sort of specified format, would you support importing their workflows into Retool?
Oracle's lawsuit against Google's use of Java API's started in 2019[0]. The writing was on the wall; many Java shops started looking at other options.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
No. Your comment doesn't make sense. Why would someone whose whole brand is talking shit about crypto switch it up? She has her audience and it works for her. She's clearly biased and not a good source for anything.
> The FLAC encoding algorithm consists of multiple stages. In the first stage, the input audio is split into blocks. If the audio contains multiple channels, each channel is encoded separately as a subblock. The encoder then tries to find a good mathematical approximation of the block, either by fitting a simple polynomial, or through general linear predictive coding. A description of the approximation, which is only a few bytes in length, is then written. Finally, the difference between the approximation and the input, called residual, is encoded using Rice coding.

Linear predictor is a form of lossy encoding.
A majority of US citizens did, though

You're entitled to have your voice heard, you're not entitled to get exactly what you want
ACM Historian JAN Lee said he was the origin of that joke, if I recall that conversation correctly.
I love this book. It gave me confidence in seeing Computer Science as a real "Science," rather than being a field of Engineering dressed up in Science language in order to play academic political games.
Interesting I never noticed some how, but I took a look and see what you mean. Not useful in practice.
R2 is so slow
Sure, but how does a recipient take possession? Only the app owner can unlock doors; Waymo arrives with locked doors, so who can open them from the outside?
SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says
While the non-commercial Phi2 license continues to be a letdown, I'm excited to see additional development in the space of these ultracompact LLMs. On-device AI excites me far more than relying on yet another cloud-based API.

On my M1 Macbook Air, current LLMs can run surprisingly quickly locally already.
AI Job Descriptions (or what happens when they go wrong)
Ahh, the world of humans according to AI.

Balancing, Climbing, Crouching, Crawling, Feeling, Fingering, Grasping, Kneeling, Lifting, Pushing, Pulling, Repetitive Motion, Stooping
This is a story about successful CYA, not a recommendation to go balls deep on any hawt sAas that comes your way.

But also, a lot of companies have engineers that can.. Engineer. Often it's more an availability issue than expertise.
That's not what he means, or maybe he does but I didn't see it that way. A cop or a former field military lives in violence day in and day out. Sometimes they even try to cope with substance abuse. Imagine getting in an argument with somebody like that ; I've been there, thankfully he was family and I don't think could hurt me but still, I've been thinking about that for weeks and lost a decent amount of sleep.

It's unfortunately the case with tough district/city people with criminal record. Once you live in violence for more than a couple weeks, and have to assume physical threat and retaliate, I'm pretty sure it changes you somewhat fundamentally, and unfortunately those people rarely have the proper support to adjust to civil duties.
That's sad but true. We should have thousands of nuclear reactors out there powering everything. :(
> the MD5 is clearly in the plaintext here

Alright, I'll bite: at what byte offset in the binary file contents does a trivial encoding[0] of the MD5 hash occur?

> the NES ROM is only the first 40k of the file. It is not able to scan itself and print out a hash that way.

It is possible to encode the effects of multiple blocks of arbitrary[1] data on a hash function internal state (independently of what state you start in) in much less space than that data actually takes up, although I'll grant that actually doing so is somewhat impressive in it's own right, so I don't have a trivial translation to SHA 256 immediately ready to post.

Edit: tracked down my saved version:

$ md5sum pocorgtfo14.pdf
5eaf00d25c14232555a51a50b126746c pocorgtfo14.pdf
$ grep -aoi 5eaf00d pocorgtfo14.pdf || echo not found
not found
$ # using ...b126746c because 5eaf00... has a nul
$ grep -aoF $(printf '\xb1\x26\x74\x6c') pocorgtfo14.pdf || echo not found
not found

The MD5 is definitely not clearly in the plaintext here, though it could be only mildly unclear.

0: Eg, I'd accept 31 34 63 63 38 35 63 34 ... as an encoding of 14cc85c4... from above.

1: Including random/incompressible data.
None of that is what copyright protects. And it lessens the argument when you can argue that LLMs are essentially stealing a human art's work to be used to generate cheap images. Similar to how if you took commissioned art, printed out 1000 copies, and sold them for $1 a piece.

Copyright means that you need to at least pay that artist you stole from in some way, which the government enforces so artists don't stop creating.
Far too hot and uncomfortable. And I'm somebody that needs my feet warmer than my head in bed.

Strangely enough, my wife can't sleep unless her feet are uncovered. Takes all kinds in this world.
The app and api are on the internet anyway, so you don't need to be a pentester to test it w/ no intention of reporting.
Surprising to see a 3 cylinder engine but it looks very cool!
This seems like an absolute nightmare for people with disabilities.
The owner of the site should change the acronym to alpine, htmx, and anything.

Then stress the anything part.
There are places that have rules like No Smoking Allowed, No Photography Allowed, No Idling Allowed, No Phones Allowed, etc.

It’s perfectly reasonable for nature parks to have a no devices policy.
I've always thought the trust placed in password managers was deeply misplaced. Like any company, it's only a question of time and circumstance until one of them is massively breached, but right here on HN, a whole bunch of people who should know better recommending them as if they were flowers from heaven. Because of course hey, "it's just convenient".
The lawsuit started in 2009

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America....
I think super highly of the Airplane team and what they've built. Startups are a tough journey, especially so over the last year. There's never a good way to shut down so the criticism isn't surprising and perhaps fair. But I doubt anyone's walking to the bank with glee. The best they can do is to try and do right by their team, their customers, and their investors. I hope they take another crack at it again in the future.
This is also the case in the US.
Same, but with rclone. My bill is <1$/m. Love it.
Would love to connect with anyone thinking about this space.
According to this filing, as of 29 Dec 2023, there are 35 cases filed against 23andMe so far based on this incident.

https://ia904506.us.archive.org/10/items/gov.uscourts.cand.3...

Almost all of them are in N.D. Cal but there is one filed in N.D. Ill. and one in C.D. Cal.
Consider crabs amputating their own limbs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v241TF-cSzU
Like many things, companies can avoid the illegal aspect by adjusting the parameters slightly.

In this particular case, one easy way to avoid legal problems is to remove protected attributes from the final hiring decision, and only consider them at the candidate selection phase. This has been found to be legal, though the moral aspect is more grey, IMO.
if it's true, it's ridiculous BUT the cost is just the cost of downtime. is anyone under the impression that they'd actually be out these IP addresses permanently? obviously RIPE would fix the issue and get the IPs returned
Mandiant gets its X account hacked
Apple tried this too with Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext, which uses a haiku with a copyright message as the key to decrypt certain executables like the Finder. I don't think it had any real-world impact.
Do you actually have experience writing a FLAC encoder/decoder? I do. Go read the format specification. There is a lossy compression pass, then it uses a general compressor on the residual after you subtract out the lossy signal. The two combined allow you to reconstruct the original signal losslessly.
I don't understand why the author dismissed hydroxychloroquine as a "malaria drug".

Of course he doesn't have malaria. It's pretty likely that the rheumatologist prescribed it to treat a potential autoimmune disorder [1], which is information that can be found in the Google searches that the author mentions performing at various intervals.

[1] https://rheumatology.org/patients/hydroxychloroquine-plaquen...
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> Can you decribe a mechanism to verify that users in an alleged leak are the same users as your own?

What I offered was the mechanism I would use to solve this problem, which is a probabilistic approach rather than a deterministic approach. What you described is likely infeasible and impossible, so rather than get blocked on that, I moved to an alternative angle.
Wireless keyboard and mouse, MacBook, 12.9" iPad, adjustable folding stands for both to put them around eye level. Gets you dual monitors (plus the iPad's better for use in an economy seat on an airplane, than a laptop). External keyboard and mouse, no craning your neck down at the laptop. All that can fit in a normal laptop backpack or even a not-that-big satchel bag, with room to spare for chargers and cables and miscellaneous carry-on stuff (even a Switch or Steam Deck, to round out your electronic-junk needs all in one bag). iPad doubles as a drawing pad if you've got a Pencil, plus does the other stuff an iPad's good at, isn't just an extra monitor, can do more to justify its weight and bulk.

A big monitor rather than a pair of laptop-sized (but pretty good!) monitors? Yeah, that's tough. And no solution for the chair.
Do you know about Pixelfed?
Wolves do that as well.
The counter would be that different tasks are different and that's why everything isn't bowl shaped. Analogously, programming languages which are strongly opinionated (purely functional, array-based, strictly static) are far less generally popular than programming languages which are multi-paradigm and flexibly typed.

People have access to user-mode filesystems and FUSE, people could have made everything have a file-like interface by now if that was desirable - apparently it isn't. And because different tasks are different, it makes sense that they would fit different abstractions and interfaces, wouldn't it?
> ... a) single-threaded

Well, one counter-example: Erlang.

But Erlang is typically the exception to any rule.
more live-streamed science, fewer pdfs
My understanding is a worker isn't a way around that, they clarified that all in their blog here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/
> Finally, we made it clear that customers can serve video and other large files using the CDN so long as that content is hosted by a Cloudflare service like Stream, Images, or R2.

> Video and large files hosted outside of Cloudflare will still be restricted on our CDN

It is a bit confusing, espec when they only enforce it at super high usage/when it becomes an issue, but makes sense that a Worker isn't a magical free pass when you don't get charged Bandwidth on them either
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> Signaling, however, grows stronger the larger the out-group is – as long as the out-group knows about the in-group. This is why luxury car manufacturers deliberately extend their advertising campaigns to people who will never be able to afford their cars: they are increasing the size of the out-group by educating people about the in-group.

I assumed that car advertisements were only targeted at those who might possibly buy the car. I didn't think that car advertisements could be "educational material" about how cool your friend/acquaintance is for driving this car.
Presumably the site owner would be the one monitoring CT. If they see there's a rogue certificate, they can take steps to get it revoked.
Correct. By definition, polarized waves of any kind are less "potent" since their contact surface is greatly diminished. It's the difference between the line of radius*2 and a filled circle, the radius squared times pi. Big difference, and easily observable:

Lasing is the best example of demonstrating why this is: Polarized light has to be significantly stronger to pass through the partial mirror than the regular light that said mirror blocks when generating laser. The non-polarized light keeps bouncing between the full mirror and the partial mirror until it is strong enough to pass through the partial mirror. The constant reflection eventually polarizes all the light, but that should be obvious just by visualization. Gas lasers work differently, which is why they don't polarize.

I think OP is trolling, because he's expecting lessons on absolutely everything about how the world works around him in order to be convinced that his initial claim is so very wrong.
I used SageMath for my masters. It was a life saver.
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What impressed me was that Safari translated the text in the screenshots as well, I wasn’t expecting that.