skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low-effort may be if you are writing with a pen on paper, or chalk on the board. It's anything but even with systems like LaTeX.

Just to put this in perspective: in the days of me being a student, I got a gig at the state hotel for official guests. They had a guest book and the honored guests would usually leave an autograph in it. They hired me to use calligraphy to write the name and the title of the guest. Usually, that meant two, sometimes one line with just two or three words each. So, let's say four words per page. I would do about ten pages per day (they had couple years of backlog).

My typical workload in the newspaper for a day was somewhere between 16 and 24 A3 pages (this includes everything from inputting the text into the system, editor editing it, proof-readers reading it and me running back and forth between the editor and proof-readers to convince the editor to find a different image / add or remove a paragraph etc. If memory serves, that's about under 1K words per page. So, 16K-24K words per day (compared to 40 words per day of calligraphy).

With the math textbook, we did about a page a day, and it was closer to A4, so, under 500 words. Also, of course, the formulas are just a small fraction of the algebra textbook: most of it is prose: proofs or some general discussion about the subject. Of course some diagrams (but that's comparable to the newspaper).

So, while not as bad as calligraphy, math textbook was at least two orders of magnitude harder than newspaper, and only an order of magnitude easier than calligraphy.

NB. Newspapers aren't the easiest job in terms of putting text on paper. It's actually quite involved and paginators are under quite a lot of pressure to finish things on time, especially for the daily papers. If you are looking for the lowest effort / highest yield, something like the War and People (or is the traditional English translation the War and Peace?) would be your best bet. You can do hundreds of pages per day, even with moderate amount of illustrations.
I worked at Twilio from 2011 to 2022, and it was quite the amazing ride, especially for the first four or five years. Twilio basically wrote the book on API-first businesses, and on how to court developers to use and love a product, and evangelize that product to less-than-technical management types. While Jeff wasn't all that involved in the technical side of things by the time I joined, he still kept his engineering chops up, and it was always fun to see him live-coding Twilio apps on conference stages.

I was disappointed in Twilio for the last several years I was there. What had started off as an engineering (and product) focused company devolved into being driven by sales. We put out some products that were half-baked from an engineering perspective, and it showed: missing or buggy features, downtime, and unfulfilled promises to customers that sales/product made with barely perfunctory consultation with engineering. IMO it really hurt the company's reputation. I remembered a time when mentions of Twilio in tech circles would come with praise and even awe; more recently complaints seem to have overtaken the good vibes.

The "Ask Your Developer" billboard on US-101 as you entered SF was iconic. I loved that billboard; it perfectly encapsulated what the company stood for and illustrated why I was so happy there. For a while it was changed to something about reducing customer acquisition costs, a big red flag. More recently, it says some meaningless nonsense about "digital greatness" and "customer AI". That kind of shift tells me everything I need to know about where things have headed.

Ok, time to stop being so negative... having said all that, I wouldn't trade my time there for anything. I learned more than I thought possible, worked with a ton of people who I respect heavily, made many lifelong friends... it was a life-changing experience. Jeff was a big part of that, and I'll always be thankful to him, Evan, and John for creating a place where I could thrive and grow.
It's not a non-issue when every single staple, bolt, device, and piece of cloth needs certification and approval from a government agency.
According to Indeed, for the high end of bartending in my state, I make less. So I guess I really suck at programming.
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I am really happy with my Minis EM680. With FSR3 Frame Generation it's a smooth 60 on high setting in cyberpunk.

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-em680
You wouldn’t happen to have any docs on the T805 microcode, would you? There are relatively few Open Source Transputer emulators; the microcode has been dumped, a couple of people have figured it out and written closed-source emulators with it, but nobody’s sharing information.
Except that nowadays you can actually do async file IO using io_uring.
KaiOS has an app store with a lot of useful functionality available. Sunbeam is probably a better option, though email doesn't need to be low latency for a lot of people (including a lot of people who feel it has to be low latency).
I'm still a little sad they aren't at least allowing 90W parts. More power breathing room and maybe another 4-8 GPU CUs would make for a compelling entry tier gaming rig.
This is huge! Can't wait to see some implementations.
> Russians, and Soviets, never did this

The Soviets in WWII used human waves against the Nazis. (EDIT: They did not, they used them against the Finns in the Winter War.) That said, the USSR was capable of combined-armed warfare.

Russia has proved incapable of combined-arms warfare. They launched human waves in Bakhmut, and are largely using numerical advantages in raw recruits to push for marginal gains. This isn’t how a modern army fights.
True, but it's possibly fair to argue that its easier to scale up cheap drone production, than production of interceptors.
No, each number has a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance each time the generator is used.
But I absolutely do:

Elective during (and after) the System's procurement, you can also option it with a "Board-of-Trustees-as-a-Service" to decide when to open the Seal of Privacy and disclose the System's Recordings - if ever.

(prices for this option are in Swiss Francs)
How do you learn to create captivating 3D animation with AI?
Hi HN! I recently came across an really impressive 3D animation on Sustainable Horizons website: https://sustainablehorizons.ai/ (I have no affiliation)

The level of detail is so good. Website claims using Generative AI (and three.js).

I was curious if anyone had pointers on how something a AI-powered 3D animation authoring workflow would look like. Any guidance or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Chinese Carmakers Launch Sodium-Ion Battery-Powered EVs
The "real issue" is that CVR and FDRs are very complicated and specially built devices. They record detailed data and must protect it against ANY danger. Massive fires, being stuck at the bottom of the ocean, a plane slamming into the ground at a 90-degree angle, etc.

They must allow data to be recovered in as many cases as possible, prioritizing that over raw data storage amount or convenience.
Actually, the more I think about this the weirder it is as a threat model. Photo ID pictures are basically only worth the value of the info printed on them to an attacker. They’re likewise not really valuable to retain as a business, because you might as well retain the information as tabular data, and then have a checkbox for “we saw this on a physical ID”. The only upside of storing the photo of the ID is if a business doesn’t trust its own employees, so having the photo provides them a way to make sure their employee really checked it.

An attacker who pops my bank’s network doesn’t need to look for ID photocopies: my identifying info is in the database in an already parsed format.
"An AsynchronousFileChannel is associated with a thread pool to which tasks are submitted to handle I/O events and dispatch to completion handlers that consume the results of I/O operations on the channel."

This part is close to 17 years old now (java 1.7, 2007). The NIO for files that came with 1.4 (20y+) was not async for files either. I wonder where the 'truly async' idea has come from as the docs are rather explicit about it.
Does this count as a form of appeal to authority?
That's not the implication. It's the norm on this site to include the year of an article in the title (if it's not from the current year, or very recently in the preceding year if in January). There are _plenty_ of links in the top 100-or-so that follow this pattern - hell, I see one from 1997 in the top 30 right now. They can still be interesting/relevant/etc. - but it is worthwhile to read them with the knowledge of when they were published, e.g. if you are evaluating technical approaches.
Yes, it's useless to include the CA cert, and to include extra copies, and all those other things.

But requiring the cert chain to be exactly correct is also useless if you need to address clients with different root cert packages. If some clients have only root A and some have only root B, but B did a cross-sign for A, you're ok if you send entity signed by intermediate, intermediate signed by A, A signed by B and clients with A only short circuit after they see an intermediate signed by A, and the clients with B only should be fine too. Of course it gets real weird when the B root has expired, and clients often have A and B, but some don't check if their roots expired, and some won't short circuit to validating with A, so they fail the cert because B is expired.

Oh, and TLS handshakes in the wild don't give you explicit information about what roots they have or what client / version they are. Sometimes you can get a little bit of information and return different cert chains to different clients, but there's also not a lot of support for that in most server stacks.

I don't necessarily like TLS 1.3's approach of end entity cert comes first and then just try all the permutations and accept any one that works, but at least it presents a way to get to success given the reality we live in. I'd also love to see some way to get your end entity cert signed by multiple intermediates, but that's a whole nother level of terrible.

#notbitter
What the hell are you talking about? If there's a stranger at your door claiming to be a cop, and there is cause for suspicion, just fucking call 911.

If it's neither safe nor convenient to look up the non-emergency number, it's an emergency. Any armed stranger at your door will only wait so long before forcing escalation.

The alternative is: while you're ringing the non-emergency line, he sticks a gun in your face, "arrests" you, and helpfully hangs up the phone. You didn't transmit E911 data-- and nobody will come check on you.

If your iPhone is allowed to call 911 over bogus telemetry, it's good faith enough for two humans to use it to verify officer credentials.
And you can ignore those failure modes and kill hundreds of people at a time.
Yeah, this. It will be async when implemented like async on target platform
I'm not trying to argue that Twitter will be successful. Only that none of their current problems (eg, profits) were caused by the layoffs.
Maybe the answer then is to find what these hard cases are and use them in heuristics or approximate algorithms? If we could tell when part of the problem is hard, and maybe bound the error for them, and use an exact algorithm for other parts of the problem, you could get a better result in most cases without it blowing up on you.
Maybe they just wanted to keep their Quake3 server running?
Investigators found the 'door plug' that blew off a Boeing 737 Max
Even more basic question, why either of these over pg_dump or pg_backrest?
Then surely you will agree that 20-30x more Palestinians dying than Israelis is worse and needs to stop. Russia has killed less civilians in 2 years than Israel did in 3 months, so one might call this an "economic sanction" just like those that were enacted back in 2021 against Russia.
Will those comment eventually update once the blog is appended? :-)
Unless you live in the world of Lethal Company.
Yes, one by one. It’s just tedious. There’s always a solution.

Often time screenshots correlate to steps. You open wordpad and start a numbered list. Write what action you perform and the screenshot. Repeat until you’re all the way done. Take it off the system, print it, sign and date it and attach to an MOC and your done.

I supposed you could copy and save in paint. Then do the same thing in Word off the system by dropping in all the images. Idk, doesn’t sound like that much more work, but it’s annoying enough.
I doubt, as that would break any FileChannel.write(ByteBuffer) that expects the buffer to be consumed (remaining()==0)

I suppose it's possible to create a new set of API or augment the existing ones not to use thread pool, still rather unlikely. Also it'd require a general widely supported async from the OS, incl. Windows
A few years ago I built a level viewer based on this API: https://www.smm2-viewer.com/

Was quite a fun challenge, some interesting tech at play, and interesting algorithm work to render out the slope tiles.
Publications of the DPRK [North Korea]
It would be politically suicidal for any Arab ruler to fight another Muslim/Arab country in the interest of Israel and the US, not even secular el-Sisi is free of that danger.
> They locked down the Palestine border at the request of Israel

Where did you get the info from that it was on Israel's request and not of their own accord?
And the application was called "logger" lol
A Journey from Monolith to Micro front ends at Udemy – Part 2/3
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Nothing is laying around. Everything is remote API calls authenticated as the engineer running the code.
Show HN:Automating Workday Job Application Forms
Like many of you, I am spending too much time lately applying to jobs and repeatedly typing my resume into job application portals. I figured I could at least speed up a pretty standard part of the process. This AutoHotKey script template can be formatted to enter your employment history and education into job applications that use the Workday portal.
Author here. Some of them are black box attacks (like the one where they get the training data out of the model) and it was done on Amazon cloud classifier which big companies regularly use. So, I wouldn’t say that these attacks are entirely impractical and purely a research endeavour.
https://archive.is/LpVgN
The SEO force is strong with this one, otherwise this could have been a simple 2 column table.
"Standard error" could also be stderr (fd 2) in C.
20 thousand positions per second is still a lot compared to a human though.
I don't think you have a very good grasp of how aircraft operate under instrument flight rules. Lots of what you're describing is along the same lines as saying "if whole bunches of people decided to start crashing into things or firing sniper rifles from overpasses, it'd create major havoc on the roads, and therefore our roads are insecure." Well, duh. But until there's a credible threat of that occurring, it's not worth worrying about.
Soviet himan waves are as much myth as are the Germans calling it Blitzkrieg. The only thing comming close to these himan wave attacks are the failed Banzai charges of desperate Japanese forces. And thoae never worked.
Relaxing. Like back when you could attach WireShark to your local network and not see a single damn thing happen for tens of seconds at a time unless you pressed a button somewhere.

... But also when computers wouldn't do anything useful unless you pressed a button. Or a bunch of buttons, more likely.
Behavioral economics is ‘white hat’. Influencing (in the actual definition). Figuring out how to get them something that actually does benefit them, and modifying the environment or ‘nudging’ the target to encourage it.

Dark patterns is when the actual long (or short) term benefit of the ‘target’ is not a meaningful part of the goal, and the only consideration given is just a given result for the person with the power. Aka manipulation.

Helping someone looking for an off-road vehicle (because they actually need it), your off-road vehicle which is a pretty good one, is behavioral economics.

Using the same tactics to get the exact same someone to buy your luxury car is dark patterns.

Notably, a con artist/fraud is the criminal face of it - since they never even give the target a car at all, but take their money.

The difference between influence and manipulation is the consideration of the actual well being of the target, and the degree of autonomy allowed the target.

Needless to say, this is also the first thing miscreants start deluding themselves and others on when they start getting predatory.

So it’s a very dangerous area to be in for anyone who actually values ethics/morals.
> at all

Incorrect. This is a struggle of ratio between regulation and lobby..
Is unionization really a problem though? I’m ok with the status quo where flight crews have a say in aviation safety but random Internet commenters don’t.
Is WiGLE a thing people know about? How does that work, its a service that listens to all publicly available wifis in the country? I understand how it could be possible in theory but how is it actually practical?
I’m saying this because most people got from their CS degree that NP hardness is practically a death sentence. But it‘s really not true. Even if the problem is proven to be NP hard (or worse) and every previous approach has failed. There can still be some trick or technique (non heuristic!) that brings a breakthrough. Maybe you still wait 10^whatever years for a solution in some cases. But if you get an answer in seconds in 99.9% of cases then its not a big deal in practice.

Even the famous SAT problem can almost be considered solved nowadays with the solvers we have.
> You can’t sell software until you’ve built it

It’s funny to contrast that with the video game publishers. They’ll push to sell things that aren’t even close to finished, make bank, and do it again and again.
You have no way of knowing this is the case unless you know where they work, the industry they operate in, the country they live in, the country their employer is domiciled in, and what agreements they've signed prior to and during employment.
Also a KDE dev here and I also love when people port KDE Software to more platforms.

Related someone is porting KDE applications to Haiku https://discuss.kde.org/t/haiku-porting-efforts/9032 and someone else is working on gitlab CI/CD directly to the Microsoft Store https://blogs.kde.org/2023/12/20/gitlab-microsoft-store
I don’t think they will delete their models and retrain them for every person who fills their opt out form. So yes, it’s only for future training, and IMO it’s a “please don’t use my stuff” at best.

Their data collection is very much automated, so avoiding opted out content that was reposted somewhere else is likely impossible for them.
What kind of LLM inference performance can we expect if we pair it up with 192GB of DDR5?
It was years in the making for Firefox to be able to do "intermediate preloading" - we [0] had to make the policy changes for all intermediates to be disclosed, and then let that take effect [1].

Preloading like this shouldn't be necessary, I agree with the author, but worse than this is any bug report of "Works in Chrome, not in Firefox." Prior to this preloading behavior shipping in Firefox 75, incorrectly-configured certificate chains were a major source of those kind of bugs [2].

[0] This was me (:jcj) and Dana
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CryptoEngineering/Intermed...
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/11/13/preloading-inte...
But it needs to be more enterprise-y, X.400 with maybe X.25 should do nicely.
The entire point of a Wiki is that it can be collaboratively edited. This is static documentation, just with a Wikipedia-like UI.
FYI, we fixed the issue that was causing people to not see wikis on the initial load. Thank you for the feedback!
> ...bomber incursions into Yemen which of course Egypt has no interest in doing since it could turn into a full hot war pretty easily.

How would the Houthis respond?

Much less, what do they have that can possibly hit Egypt.

That said, bombing might not do the trick. Just create more suffering in Yemen.
To add detail, the partial remains were of Clyde Tombaugh, the person who discovered Pluto. They flew on New Horizons. I think it's super cool and fitting that part of him made it all the way out to the place he discovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh#Death
Would this be your top request? We're thinking of adding that functionality.
You can. And then you're still stuck with the compromises of a smartphone. It's short lived in terms of battery life, and it's quite fragile as a result of being "mostly a glass screen."

I've been experimenting with flip phones for a while now, and my current daily carry (for when I carry it - I often leave it behind or power it off) is a Sonim XP3+ [0]. Battery life is "a week if I leave it on, two if I turn it off at night," and it's waterproof, drop proof, and a bunch of other mil-spec toughness proofs (I don't care about rapid decompression, ideally, but it's been tested for that).

And I can use it in gloves, in the snow, without trouble. The environmental range is quite a bit wider than most smartphones, and everything is an actual physical button, no virtual buttons or touch sensors.

[0]: https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-...
> That the Russian Federation has a small fraction of US GDP but has launched more cruise missiles in a single conflict (~7500) than the US has ever produced (4000 tomahawks) is an important example of this.

The US has built a lot more cruise missiles than just its Tomahawks [0], and the US has a less cruise missile dependent doctrine because it is heavily invested in acheiving air superiority and delivering smart glide bombs, and shorter-range missiles that are much cheaper.

[0] ~7500 Harpoons, some large number I can't readily pin down of SLAM (AGM-84E) and SLAM-ER (AGM-84H/K) developed from the Harpoon, ~2000 AGM-86, ~1600 AGM-129, 2000+ AGM-158, plus some more developed ans retired in the first half of the Cold War
this is nonsensical.
> arms stores,

Those arms stores do not exist as such, they're most probably highly dispersed and only at the limit can one call them "stores", and if gathered in one place that place is most probably located underground, where aerial bombings would have close to no effects.

Just look at how difficult it is right now for Israel to take out Hamas's weapons cashes in Gaza, and we're talking about a much concentrated operation in terms of space and most probably Israel knows a lot more about Hamas's weapons caches than the US would be able to ever know about where the Houthis store their weapons.
Galvanized steel will release toxic zinc vapors starting around 400F. You hear this a lot when it comes to welding, but cooking with galvanized is bad as well.
Doesn't really work. Tried filtering by airlines to include only Delta and American and Frontier keeps showing up.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/zw24I.png
This is what happens for a lot of "this is just as good!" type features in any domain.

Many advocates will tell you the thing is just as good, or at least more than good enough, and will deliberately avoid telling you about the many pitfalls and not-so-edge cases that they are very much aware of.
How do all these garbage content farms get so far up in rankings? Is it all keyword optimizations? I can't imagine anyone linking to them.