skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's like having a multi-register clipboard in that once you figure out the workflow, it's hard to go back.

...but if you effectively have this in emacs, I can see why you wouldn't need it in the shell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126

> Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

the discuss shows it's so hard to handle name of people from any countries.
I can't seem to scroll with the arrow keys on your website (ellie.wtf). Is this intentional? Really annoying at the very least.

Good luck on your project!
I was just reading the other day that some MP was calling for those who were affected to have their names cleared. It's fucking astounding that this hasn't been a priority until the recent TV series on it has come out.
Oh. It's "International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out (PoC||GTFO or PoC or GTFO)", available at https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
The most obvious and current reason is their tireless work on the Post Office scandal, but in general they print news that newspapers won't for fear of losing their relationships with politicians and other powerful figures.

A recent example is the story that an MP walked in on Carrie blowing Boris in his office as Foreign Secretary while he was still married to another woman, and that at the time he was also trying to get her a paid job in his office.

The Times had that story and printed most of it (though referred only to a 'comprimising situation') in their early edition of the paper the next day but it vanished from the later prints which end up in newsagents. The Mail also had the story online for a couple of hours before deleting it.

Private Eye printed the whole saga including the gory detail and the article getting spiked.

You might say this is just lurid gossip but as a taxpayer I would like to know if our leaders are giving paid jobs in government to women who blow them on the side, and I won't find out about it from any newspapers.

(The cartoons are pretty funny too!)
Right, got you now. Universally good seems like an impossible bar but it's a good question and I don't think there is such consensus.

>do we think that something that can very quickly "make people re-evaluate their feelings about everything" has zero negative consequences?

How many negative consequences does sticking with the status quo have, over potential alternatives?

To be clear, I'm critical of the hype around psychedelics for treating people's mental issues, like PTSD. It has cultish undertones where the drug is the miracle savior that will fix all your problems. There also seems to be an industry developing of groups and companies trying to push this idea for profit, because they see the potential. There's always good money to be made with religious believers.

That said though, used in the right way, with the right intentions and realistic expectations, psychedelic drugs can be a very useful tool.
Why would you be receiving transactional emails for an account that isn't yours?
this is not 'taking any step other than sending a reply email' and it's the standard way mailing lists managed with mailman or majordomo or ezmlm have worked for quite a bit longer than 20 years

also, according to that page, the can-spam act only applies to 'any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service', not to mailing lists
I'd like to think that we've made progress in web development in the last 14 years. I wonder if people like JGC still experiences this kind of issue on certain websites?
Flashback – turn your phone into a disposable camera
Hello HN,

I want to introduce you my mobile application Flashback.

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This is the first side project i am trying and i am looking for feedbacks so don't hesitate to tell me what you think of it !

For now it's only this landing page and some prototypes, my goal is having feedback before i start developing the app.

Have a good day :)
I'd never heard of broadcast.com before, it is the inspiration for ROI (Radio on the Internet) and Russ Hanneman?
Yes, their order book for the A320Neo is that full. As is Boeings for the 737 if I remember correctly. One can always pay more and hope someone else is cancelling so, this approach ain't working at scale so. And in the case of Airbus, that is based on a delivery rate of around 60 aircraft, single aisle only, per month already.
What if the returned content is just chat gpt generated add hoc nonsense in the amount nonsense heuristics-1 ?
This is the secret to a great printing experience. Buying a no-frills laser printer, preferably black/white only.
The most expensive part of house is the land it’s built on. Remote work alleviates that. No surprise that landowners in large cities push for a return to office work, along with workers that have no desire for a life of their own.

Nonetheless wood houses are frowned upon in Europe. Except in the UK where housing is low quality overall anyway.
Private Eye is a publication that Ian Hislop from Have I Got News For You edits. It's often quite funny, it tends to hold government, corporations and public figures to account much better than most newspapers. It's generally pretty good, but it's tarnished a bit by backing Andrew Wakefield when he made up the MMR/autism connection
The stuff with holes in it. That’s as much as we Americans know.
I seem to recall that USRobotics Total Control (dialup servers, ISDN PRI E1 (E1 for me in EU) / T1) to ~30ish dialup lines/ISDN BRI used x86 in the form of 80386ex (386 without real mode).

Whether it was 386ex or just a 386 is a bit hazy as it has been 25+ years since i last opened one up.

I think each line card that supported analog modems up to 4x 56kbit per card had one, along with some DSPs.

Also old Lucent WaveLAN (802.11 era, possibly even the non-standard predecessor) access points had a x86 processor sbc in them.
according to https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act... the can-spam act only applies to 'any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service' so it's irrelevant to mailing list discussions
> I've had moments where a service told me that "Your name MUST match the name on your ID", only to then complain that I can't use a certain character. Which is present on my ID. Well.

In a just world, the website would be taken offline at once, and kept off until fixed.
If you're in the UK, the Panorama documentary on this from 2022 is really worth watching - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016t20/panorama-the-...
I'll pop in with a related question. (Maybe something to add to atuin?). Is anyone doing this for the output?

I've had iTerm session logging enabled on my personal machine for a while and have found it very useful every now and then when I need to remember what or how I did something a long time ago?

But there is a decently large risk that the output will contain something sensitive I don't want stored, so I'm wondering if there is some project which does this but would allow me to write some rules on what to react, which servers I don't want the output stored from etc.

For now I just manually disable logging when I know I will do something sensitive or when I know it's going to generate a lot of noise I don't want to waste space on. I have a shortcut created so I can select "Toggle logging" with shift+cmd+o.
Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
if you think these are unrealistic, i've got news for you; the world is a lot bigger than you think it is
That is an interesting thought. I take this with a grain of salt, one gram of DNA is supposedly 455 exabytes of data.
It’s another example of the British establishment and media blaming “computer glitches” and “the system”. A buggy accounting system on its own cannot cause such a disaster, unlike a buggy avionics system or a Therac-25.

This scandal would not have happened if the people in power had rightly been skeptical of the output of an accounting system that had been called into disrepute by several employees.

People did this. People chose to prosecute. People lied. The courts accepted dodgy evidence. The scandal is the post office employees, the solicitors, the courts, and the Fujitsu employees, not the buggy accounting system. People took the output of an accounting system as though it had come down from a mountain on a stone tablet.
I tried the example with FF on Ubuntu, and it had no effect whatsoever. It didn't even use up any memory. Are browsers protecting against this now?
Not much changed. The problems are pervasive and workarounds rule the day. MS has got more accepting of them though.

For example they can't make NTFS fast, and they can't seem to make ReFS (their post-NTFS effort) backwards compatible, so now they're shipping it as "Dev Drive". A Dev Drive is the same thing as a normal drive, but not as slow, because they concluded that only developers care about filesystem performance:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

But the userspace also has a lot of weird performance problems, many introduced by their sandboxing efforts. For example their FS broker was extremely slow for a long time, maybe still is.
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I understand this might look like complete b*llocks, but it seems they are not doing that because, despite the good aim in this specific case, would create a bad precedent.

The whole case, after so many years, is as ridiculous as it gets for a government scandal - I agree. At the same time, I kind of understand why this needs to be carefully thought as a legal manoeuvre.
> I do think OpenAI has a point in what they're saying: if we expect human-level competency of AI, it needs to be able to see and train on human-accessible content and ideally with a similar distribution.

Any human who wants to access copyrighted works is by law required to honour the copyright - whether that means purchasing of licenses, timed rental access or immediate cease and desist of usage. Why should AI (and the billion-dollar-backed companies building them) get different treatment?

Or to turn it the other way: if the billion-dollar-backed companies building AI models do get a free pass then surely humans should too?
It's still early days for Vcc, I outline the caveats in the landing page. While I'm confident the control-flow bits and whatnot will work robustly, there's a big open question when it comes to the fate of standard libraries, the likes of libstdc++ were not designed for this use-case.

We'll be working hard on it all the way to Vulkanized, if you have some applications you can get up and running by then, feel free to get in touch.

I think the driver ecosystem for Vulkan is rather high-quality but that's more my (biased!) opinion that something I have hard data on. The Mesa/NIR-based drivers in particular are very nice to work with!
> whereas it would be very bad if basic operations in a CPU had similar level of error rates

Evolution is about mutations when the executable file is copied.
> The number I got for a 60 gram egg starting at 4.4degC at sea level reaching soft-boiled temps was 5m17s. Compared to the website saying 6m58s.

From empirical experience, I completely agree! 5 minutes is about right, 7 minutes will give you a hard-ish yolk..
The KMT2D gene [1] is one example of a gene that I know of that regulates the express of other genes. Defects to this gene often result in the people having the Kabuki Syndrome [2].

If I remember correctly, Bert Hubert in his talk 'DNA: The Code of Life (SHA2017)' [3] gives an example of an IF-behaviour.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMT2D

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki_syndrome

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGM_cNzQmE
i feel like if we're talking about a header the user isn't aware of, most users probably won't be able to use it to unsubscribe either
A human could navigate by invoking the GoTo command and pasting the number, not harder than finding the 8th char in a foreign script (is the 2nd char in your text a single vertical line or does it include the next symbol?)
Just bought it after reading your comment. Had been on my wishlist for a while now. Excited to play!
Then decline those meetings. Doesn't mean that other people should have to waste an hour of their day that they could better spend at home in the evening.
It’s not "in the style of wikis". The only thing that makes a website a wiki is that it’s editable. It’s like saying "we made a website in the style of Facebook" because you put blue everywhere. (I’m not trying to be snarky, just to give you an analogy)
Building a compliant and accurate contract might be tough if you don't understand what's necessary to produce a legally legitimate contract. A contract is important to every commercial transaction or collaboration.
It's completely different to cRypTo though. Crypto is essentially 10,000 scams (or naive projects at best) while bitcoin is one of the most important inventions in the history of mankind.

That deserves some distinction.
Evolution is a wonderful algorithm - open ended, and yet in a single run it created all life, including human culture and technology.
Convolutional neural networks come to mind.
Diigo can integrate itself in Google results via the browser extension.
Do you think the current clinical ketamine protocol is to hand the patient a little baggie and tell em good luck? Ketamine is prescribed, overseen, and administered by a professional physician in good standing. You don't just get a bottle and take a bump every morning lmao. It's a monthly or less, supervised administration, with the possible addition of active therapy to my understanding. You can't just go walk into a doctors office and say, "doc I'm real sad, i want ketamine". The whole thing is extremely careful. Why is it different for propofol and ketamine?
It's like reverse engineering alien technology.
Eclipses in the Saturn System (2017)
Maybe that's the true way how to create an AGI...
This skandal is 6 years old. I find it hugely concerning that someone has to make a TV play that resonates with the public for politicians or anyone responsible really to show any interest in resolving this.

The current activities and proposals probably have to be seen as crowd management and might not be an honest attempt for a solution, again.
Even your name can be written into two fields. Assume order of first name and last name is also problematic. There are languages that put the Last name on the front. It looks kinda annoying (or even solecism in some condition) when someone speaks your name in reverse.
There are not plenty of alternatives, basically onoy one: A320Neo. The A220 is too small eith not enough range in most cases.
No moon landing until 2026 after NASA delays next 2 Artemis missions
Signal transduction is async amplification. And those pathways can branch. Close enough.
Randomly selecting 2022, The Times seems to have published 5 articles substantially about the Horizons system. Its not nothing, but it is hardly a flood.
Doesn't Spotify buffer? A few seconds of dropout is fine for playing songs where you can easily buffer a minute or two of data; not so good for a phonecall which ends within those same few seconds without an active connection.
I don't know of any actual technical reports but this is interesting, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post....

"One, named the “Dalmellington Bug”, after the village in Scotland where a post office operator first fell prey to it, would see the screen freeze as the user was attempting to confirm receipt of cash. Each time the user pressed “enter” on the frozen screen, it would silently update the record. In Dalmellington, that bug created a £24,000 discrepancy, which the Post Office tried to hold the post office operator responsible for."

https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/tag/dalmellingto-bug/

"The Dalmellington Bug entailed a user repeatedly hitting a key when the system froze as she was trying to acknowledge receipt of a consignment of £8,000 in cash. Unknown to her each time she struck the key she accepted responsibility for a further £8,000. The bug created a discrepancy of £24,000 for which she was held responsible."
Are those sports accessible to anyone in the university who want to join? My knowledge is only founded by US movies/series and this is what what I get out of it is:

- male good enough at sport: can participate in sport

- good looking female: can participate in cheers/pompom girls

- male not good enough /female not in beauty standard: can’t participate, go to the free urban basketball field.

In the EU countries I know, sport is as mandatory as math until ~17year old, then universities sports clubs are open to anyone whatever how good you will perform. The budgets are low but you don’t need a ton of money to train/maintain your body in good condition.

Physical well being is as important as math (if not more) and I hope my knowledge of the US does not depict the reality.
Ethical hacking is a good thing.

Nice to see someone doing good.
Are there that many smartphones that are actually capable of running YT and have a access to a version of Android/iOS that’s still supported and are 4g only?

iPhone 5 was the first to support 4G and I’m not sure the 4s or 4 are really suitable for watching YT these days?
There's some more detail here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post...

It only mentions a few bugs out of the hundreds that were discovered (a full list hasn't been published), but it appears that the bugs weren't the only issue:

> In 2015, for instance, the Post Office told the House of Commons inquiry: “There is no functionality in Horizon for either a branch, Post Office or Fujitsu to edit, manipulate or remove transaction data once it has been recorded in a branch’s accounts.” This was untrue, and the Post Office admitted as such four years later during a high court case.

> In fact, staff at Fujitsu, which made and operated the Horizon system, were capable of remotely accessing branch accounts, and had “unrestricted and unaudited” access to those systems, the inquiry heard.

It's truly a scandal that no-one in charge at the Post Office or Fujitsu has been prosecuted for providing false testimony that led to so much misery and death for the sub postmasters. The MET has finally started to investigate fraud and perjury charges which seems like they only bother investigating crimes that have been made into a popular four-part series.
As a historical note, this was also a thorny issue for language bridges to Objective-C, going beyond just Obj-C++. I'm thinking of bridges like PyObjC, RubyCocoa, CamelBones, and LuaCocoa.

BOOL was one of those things that would have been really nice to be a real bool because when bridging to other languages that had a real boolean type, the idioms could be completely natural when writing in the bridged language. But since BOOL was a 'signed char', using only the Obj-C runtime introspection,
this by default would typically bridge to something weird like an integer.

In Mac OS X 10.5, Apple officially supported PyObjC and RubyCocoa, and introduced "BridgeSupport" which provided additional metadata and dylibs containing symbols for inline functions, so any language could create a full bridge to Cocoa. The metadata could be used to interpret if a 'signed char' could actually be used as a boolean or not. But BridgeSupport was not available for 3rd party APIs (unless the authors decided to support it, which was almost never).

There were bug requests filed for Apple to properly redefine BOOL to a real boolean for the 64-bit Mac ABI, before Apple had finalized it, but Apple didn't fix this in time. My memory is hazy, but I think when the iPhone ABI came around, they didn't have time to address this. So it would be another full arch ABI before there would be a chance to address this again.
ByteDance as usual progressing the Video Diffusion tech, I hope they'll release the software too instead of only papers.
Consider that "unprofitable" quote includes the fact that Twitch probably gets AWS compute at cost (Amazon subsidies Twitch server costs)
Well, DNA might not have programming structures, but it acts like a neural network. See "Gene regulatory network"

> Some proteins though serve only to activate other genes, and these are the transcription factors that are the main players in regulatory networks or cascades. By binding to the promoter region at the start of other genes they turn them on, initiating the production of another protein, and so on. Some transcription factors are inhibitory. [1]

These networks are similar to neural networks in that they process information through a series of interconnected nodes (genes and proteins, in the case of GRNs) that influence each other's activity. The activation or inhibition of one gene by a transcription factor can trigger a cascade of events, much like the way neurons activate each other in a neural networks.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network
Was the insulation being important realization related to the mini split install? Curious why that would be more noticeable with mini splits vs other forms of heat.
I was listening to a programme about this on Radio 4 last night

it seems like, on top of the buggy software, Fujitsu had contractors logging in to Post Office systems to manually 'fix' accounting errors the buggy software had produced

one of them described how while they were logged in to the POS system it would appear to be working to the real user but would actually be doing nothing because it was in some kind of remote admin mode, seems like the sort of remediation that's likely to make things worse

sounded like a total shit show
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post... states "a full list [of bugs] has never been produced".

The article gives one example of a bug where the UI would freeze/get stuck, but still respond to key presses, so a user might think the system had crashed but press 'enter' repeatedly, which would silently create several records.
May seem familiar... this article is from Dec 13
It is matter of organization.

There's a single queue to multiple self-checkout machines. If one is stuck, you won't notice.

For classic checkout, there are queues to cashier 1:1. If one is stuck, especially the one you are waiting in, you will definitely notice.

This, together with limiting the number of open classic checkouts, nudges you toward the self-checkout. KPIs then show, that they are popular and cheaper, so continue will rollout.
> By comprehend I mean you, as an ant, "understand" a bug in a sense that you can predict its movements, eat it, force it to go away, or breed the thing if you find its symbiotically useful, in a sense you have internal world model of a thing, comprehend.

By that definition, many mammals and birds, if not even the vast majority, actually understand us then, thus proving that simpler lifeforms can understand much more complex ones. Probably some of the bigger fish, reptiles and amphibians too.

The difference between ants and us is more one of simple scale. If we had been the size of ants, we also wouldn't have been able to do anything against a gorilla, even with a lot of current technologies. And yes, if it turns out there exist aliens the size of planets or solar systems, we won't have any realistic way of defending against them if they are aggressive. But that still won't mean we couldn't comprehend some of what they do, at least enough to realize they are an intelligent life form.

The bigger problem would of course be if they are (a) not made of any form of matter we recognize (imagine dark matter aliens, though that doesn't seem plausible in our current physical models), or (b) live at entirely different time scales than us, say having "neurons" that fire once in a thousand years, or once per planck time.