skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I mean ultimately I can put forward falsifiable tests for most of these. My hypothesis is they are in a large void under one of the oceans, in physical pods. They don't eat solid food, but absorb a liquid diet. They probably do produce a heat signature, if we looked. I don't have a good explanation for the relative lack of evidence of their surface phase, but we do have some evidence that timelines around technological civilization are very off base. For your last point, I think most of them are not physically able to travel to the surface at all, and any instance of crashed manned UAPs (which imo, are no longer manned at all) may have explanations of the kind you state. But that's all been eliminated now - I would be surprised to find out we have any surface visitations by anything other than things which absolutely must be manned. (Of which I can speculate, but the null set is a possibility.)
There have been some pro-consumer developments.

Thicker devices with better batteries, MacBooks with many ports, iPads with pencils.
Depopulation and Decadence
If it is a matter of [human] resources I can put engineers to work on this as an open data good.
Microsoft did the exact same thing and it took them the better part of almost two decades to undo the damage.

The difference here is the entire map has shifted. Tech is no longer just a niche or a B2B thing. Pretty much everyone in the western world is a stakeholder and they chose piss us all off.

This is not gonna end well for Apple. Such a short sighted move by the leadership that has me doubting their leadership.
A lot of their enterprise offerings are still pretty good. SQL Server, AD, Intune.

But Teams is really terrible. And the move to "New Teams" was handled very poorly too. I had hoped it would improve things, but it is basically the same with slightly less RAM usage.
Because Gaza is famously known for its oil wealth. Why pretend like completely different circumstances should lead to the same results?
They won't sell very many of them if people are not having fun with it. That's such a twisted bit of logic on your part. They don't have an actual retail type product, so it's just a tech demo for now. But it's Disney, so once there is a reatail product, you think their PR department will be showing people not having fun with it?
It turns out being the group who sent suicide bombers to restaurants, nightclubs, and busses, and who call for genocide of the jews regularly, are not a credible partner for peace.

And when israel does work with them, people say "See, bibi was supporting hamas!"
Unpopular opinion: People fly by on the right because someone else is camping in the left lane. The disclaimer is that with too much congestion the whole thing breaks down, and some people are determined to drive like idiots regardless, but it's worth examing why the right lane is open when the left lane isn't.
I generally find threaded code easier to work with, especially with WSGI applications (one thread per request). The only time I find async code helpful is to prevent callback hell like when using PySide6 or JavaScript on the front-end.
Have you ever been to anywhere in North America at the same latitude as Amsterdam? Summer gets above 30 C and winter gets below -10 C, with frequent extreme weather events like thunderstorms, wildfires, "nor'easter" blizzards, even hurricanes once every few decades. European weather at the same latitude is comparatively much more moderate.
They seemed to have recently removed it. The link below shows what it recently looked like.

The main issue was if you want to make a commercial app, there are no publicly available commercial terms, and it is easy for Spotify to not offer commercial terms to apps/companies that may in some way increase the chance of competition with Spotify. For example, if you wanted to make an app that would allow you to export your playlists, Spotify may offer you terrible commercial terms or none at all.

This is more restrictive than Apple.

https://www.iorad.com/player/2097656/Spotify---How-to-view-S...
love this genre of post on HN, the “smartest boy” post

I mean sure the article is citing peer-reviewed research but on the other hand and all, but HN thinks nobody has ever heard “the dose makes the poison” before, so maybe pollution is actually fine???

hold up, science, here comes americas smartest boy!

See also, “aha but what about [confounding factor that is super obvious and the paper already discusses controlling for]!”. Like at some point it’s just dismissive to the point of insulting to imply that nobody else has bothered to put minimal thought into something that probably represents person-years of work with the involvement of multiple subject-matter experts and peers.

the covid threads here etc were absolutely insufferable with this, and generally any pollution thread you will get some dork who’s obnoxious enough to pull “the dose makes the poison” on 2,4,7,8-TCDD or whatever - yes, it happened last week!

Look out EPA, here comes Americas smartest boy! /young sheldon adjusts bowtie

in particular with pollution and other things though it’s just gross because it’s so obviously an industry-centric spin that is designed to imply that pollution is generally ok and that there’s no real need for polluters to ever control pollution of any kind because hey, big ocean out there etc. The implication is, again, that nobody else could ever have thought of a lower limit before, and it really plays into the urge a lot of people have to be Americas Smartest Boy in discussions, even when it’s wildly inappropriate in general (like the 2,4,7,8-TCDD example). You can be the smart guy making the clever point in the debate if you just follow this simple talking point, brought to you by SmogCo!

Climate change threads are always lousy with it too. Aha but what about heat island, sun cycles, whatever. Yeah the climate scientists know already, Mr Boy. If you thought of it in five minutes then definitely one of the professionals studying in the field has raised the issue sometime over the last 100 years. And of course the obvious answer you’re proposing is… keep “studying” for decades to solve some minor quibble, and naturally to allow smogco to continue polluting in the meantime?
My understanding is that they bundled it in so conveniently that it’s somewhat of a default. They probably don’t have to care because the average company isn’t about to do an entire slack deployment and integration into their purely MS ecosystem
Especially with Disney. They'll figure out how to redraw it and extend the patents for another 75 years. (of course I understand the diff between copyright & patent)
Oh I don't doubt the man, the invention itself is so amazing anybody working on it must be incredible.

I'm saying the message format sucks, which for a company specialized in medias, is ironic.

When I watch the video, I don't see the Disney family friendly that I used to love.

I see the corporation that seems to be uncomfortable to invite me to the party they are trying to sell me entries to.
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero[1] by Andrej Karpathy

[1] https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
Not unless the Lockheed Model 10 Electra has suddenly become a swept wing plane, no. It looks much closer to the planform of a F9F Cougar.
NATO should have stepped in from the start, at Ukraine's invitation. Putin, and Russians, have no say in this.

Millions of refugees, and Russia's ramped up militarization, together with its continuing destabilization of Europe, is a clear security threat.

And I'm stunned that Ukraine continues to fight this war within its borders. It's almost as though there's some invisible hand preventing them from taking the war directly to Moscow...
My company is thinking of transitioning from Zoom to Teams in 2025. Looks like we will have meeting free days
No scrolling with the scroll wheel though :(
So can I use the Disney system to simulate running on a treadmill?
Probably the vast majority of important systems. PBKDF2 has been around forever and is in very widespread use.
I have a ton of accounts. The only ones I know of actively blocking it are Elan Financial(credit card servicer) and maybe Chase. Not sure on Chase, it doesn't block it, just doesn't seem to gets msgs for 2fa.

Everything else (including paypal, fidelity, schwab, sofi, discover, capital one, to name a handful) work fine.
> Teams is probably the worst communications app I've ever been forced to use.

Not to pile onto MS Teams, but it's by far the most amateur hour system I ever had the displeasure of being forced to use.

I feel they even managed to botch their transition from Teams Classic. Official docs were out of sync with the app's transition, whole features were missing, some features were suddenly only made available to pro users. What a mess.

Make no mistake: the problems with MS Teams are not technical. It's product design and management. It felt like a rush job where everyone involved failed to get their stuff out, product managers felt the mess was acceptable, and the senior manager still made the call to release anyway.

MS Teams is a mess for the ages.

I apologize for venting like this but I had multiple critical meetings being postponed and rescheduled because MS Teams failed to work in creative ways. This definitely did not happen with Zoom or Google Meet or Slack.
Yes, but the overall difference is more than a dozen degrees. Nearly all of it is accounted by the maritime weather (i.e. wind blowing from the water, which has more moderate variations in temperature than land) and by the "waving" of the prevailing winds caused by mountains in North America, which just so happens cause the winds to go south over land, and then turn Northeast over the Atlantic, bringing warm air to Europe... the relative contribution of the Atlantic Conveyor is much smaller than these other two.
Now there is great support for Windows games thanks to Proton/Wine.
yes, but they travel slowly and have to somehow (never clearly stated how) communicate back to home. as they spread out, the comms stuff becomes more and more problematic.
Yeah, it's some strict licensing issue, I think.

Adding the rpmfusion repo for non-free codecs as instructed, requires you to visit a very 90s looking website and (by default dnf config) bypassing a signature check for that locally installed rpm package, last time I checked. It's "just" one command line action, and you get it via TLS at least, but honestly it sets a bad practice precedent and beginners certainly are not aware of what they are doing. For such a basic, universally needed feature no less! In Ubuntu it's a checkmark somewhere during installation, nothing alike.

As someone quite experienced with Linux, but new to dnf/rpm, I found the process off-putting, and only paranoid curiosity made me aware of the signature issue. If you configure dnf to always require signature checks, including local package installation, you need to first import the Redhat rpm keys into dnf's keyring to continue properly, I think. (Or use rpm instead... the keys are actually on the system already). Needless to say, not exactly optimal at all lol

And that's really a pity, as Fedora is such a damn great out of the box experience, otherwise. (I also do like dnf as a package manager a lot.)
> It's not like governments (which also have a monopoly on legal violence, something no corporation has) or political parties at all.

Governments sublease the right on legal violence out to corporations -- The government enforces copyright and legal rights for companies like Apple and allows Apple to dictate the terms of how users interact with phones that they purchased, and the government will commit legal violence if those terms are violated.

It's not so simple as to say that government is completely isolated from business. The government seizing 3rd-party repair parts at the border is on behalf of Apple. Apple definitely has agency over ways in which that monopoly on legal violence is wielded. During Apple's lawsuit with Epic, both parties were operating with the understanding that the government would enforce the outcome of that case using (if necessary) legal violence to do so.

These lines are much blurrier than you suppose; there is a reason why the expansion of the DMCA is often called in some circles "felony contempt of business model." You can't let Apple off the hook here when Apple is able to sic the government on people who break their DRM, run emulators, or otherwise bypass technological controls that have been added to Apple devices. Apple is a part of this. The government is not intervening on Apple's behalf without Apple's permission.

Consent is complicated, people often try to define bright lines between "this is a completely fair outcome that is the result of choice" and "this is a coerced outcome" -- and in reality, there aren't bright lines between those scenarios. The market has plenty of ways to coerce outcomes, some of them completely separate from the government (vendor lock-in does not require a monopoly on legitimate violence) and some of them based on leverage of government systems that allow corporations to compel or ban certain consumer behaviors.
NL is quite mild no? It rarely goes down to -10C or so.
Using AI to teach how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself
From the perspective of someone who used to do developer relations for Apple, developers have never had "goodwill" for Apple. "Goodwill" is an emotional plea. Developers do not make platform support decisions based on emotions¹. Developers need to eat.

EU developers will choose to create an App Store competitor or not based on which option they believe will help them make more money. If they believe the new path mandated by the EU will help them make more money, they will take it. If not, they will continue on the current path.

Developers support iOS and App Store because they make money. They will continue to support iOS and App Store as long as they can make money. If that ceases to be true, developers will reevaluate their support Apple's platform(s).

¹ In aggregate, of course. Some developers have enough money and don't answer to anybody, and so have the luxury of making platform support decisions based on emotional factors.
What were the biggest obstacles to figuring out whether someone has opted out of marketing communications?
This is true but the thing is, it can take a decade of two for the free market to do its thing.

Its really hard to break network effects, especially at Apples scale.

If it was just gonna end with a minor gatekeeping fee, I can see myself (and other) just biting the bullet but history suggests that this is just the beginning of a massive descent.
The hypothesis is this all happened 10-20k years ago, and they virtualized their society into VR. They somehow managed to eliminate enough of the evidence of their development phase on the surface to the point where we have no conclusive evidence. There is glancing evidence that there were advanced civilizations quite a bit earlier than we thought.
See the other comment about older tech videos by Disney.

You'll see they used to know how to make you feel excited and happy about it.
The simplest thing is air resistance / drag — you can feel yourself moving through air (or any other fluid.)

But a sufficiently-clever mechanical VR system could blow air at you as you move, so let's ignore that one.

Your inner ear is literally an accelerometer. When you accelerate (or rotate your body around relative to a gravitational pull), the liquid in your cochlea sloshes around, and the hairs in it (which aren't just on the bottom surface, but all around the sides and top as well) feel the liquid as it passes by them and build an image of your position and acceleration in space. (It's oddly similar to how the wires in an old-school mercury tilt-switch accelerometer interpret the mercury sloshing around. Just with a lot more pairs of wires!)

Also, you've got an interoceptive sense: your organs are somewhat free to move inside your body; and so, as you experience g-forces, your internal organs continue to move a bit after your body is stopped — and you experience this relative displacement of your organs as a familiar and intuitive "lurching" sensation.

When your inner-ear accelerometer signal fails to cohere with your overall computed sense of motion, you get the feverish-dizzy, lacking-air, mentally-induced-nausea feeling of carsickness.

When your interoceptive signal fails to cohere with your overall computed sense of motion, you get the bad kind of "lurching sensation" — which, if it happens enough times, causes a unique kind of acute "body load" nausea purely localized within the gut (something common among riders of rollercoasters with negative-g-force moments.)
purrfect. they won't be trying to get under foot while you can't see them in your VR set up.
It's my first winter here but it's extremely mild I'd say.
> It’s just collecting data for the sake of collecting data.

No, sleep is one of the most important parameters for health!

If in 2024 you are not collecting data on your sleep to take action (and for ex, stop overtraining, reduce drinking etc) to reduce the risks of future brain problems, you are doing it wrong.

> Even if it was accurate, I can just tell by feel

I can't, and I fear it may be the same "overconfidence" issue that cause car accidents when drunk.

I collect logs with my sqlite based bash history collection that I've been running for 5 years: https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite

Thanks to my garmin, I have identified a pattern where I feel ok, but my garmin reported less REM sleep than usual: in the day, I run more commands than usual but I have way more mistakes (as can be seen by the non-zero return values)

So now, when my watch reports low REM sleep, I try to be very careful to avoid negative-productivity days
This pattern is the rule rather than the exception across MS ecosystems, but to see Microsoft itself do it is particularly egg-on-face.

MS security has put significant effort into tooling and best practice documentation to try and prevent these types of major screw-ups
16-Bit CPU in Excel
They seem to be just as important when you‘re not single, maybe even more. Also the type of entertainment may change, but I think people like this at all ages.
Has anybody seen a product that can break down and reconcile Amazon purchases?
I've given up on every single household budgeting / tracking solution due to the huge volume of Amazon orders our family places. Purchases by other family members obfuscate how money is spent. I wind up with a budget that looks like "50% Amazon" and then everything else.
I would think linux support is nowhere on their list of priorities.
money exchange cause pollution, the less you spend money, the less you pollute, simple
Developers have the option of remaining in the original tos
C_std: Implementation of C++ standard libraries in C
Urweb is extremely cool. My own attempt to use it for personal projects was shut down by how isolated the server component is; I think I was trying to read a json file on the server from within urweb and there just was not a way to do it without using the C FFI. Even BazQux reader had some workaround that just read in a stream of bytes which seemed to side step the security model entirely.
I am now also trialing bazqux. It is not bad. Is this the power of the best tools available?
What's your yardstick? I'd say the Netherlands is pretty mild compared to a lot of places.

Snowfall is fairly uncommon and the average is maybe 10-inches a year in Amsterdam. Summers are fairly moderate.

So, yes, I would say it had a mild climate compared to most places. If you're looking at Mediterranean climates, there are very few of those.
But their claims aren't comparable in impact.
Can I use any of the information in this book to learn about reinforcement learning?

My goal is to have something learn to land, like a lunar lander. Simple, start at 100 feet, thrust in one direction, keep trying until you stop making craters.

Then start adding variables, such as now it's moving horizontally, adding a horizontal thruster.

next, remove the horizontal thruster and let the lander pivot.

Etc.

I just have no idea how to start with this, but this seems "mainstream" ML, curious if this book would help with that.
This describes several existing formats, from Markdown to XSL-FO to the (rather niche) FB2 which is a glorified XML that supports some base64-encoded images.
Half baked at best describes almost all tech solutions out there if we are being honest. Some of the products Microsoft puts out are best in class. It's just what you get with an org that size. There's going to be a wide range of quality imho.

Teams does seem to be on a whole new level of terrible though.
You can still view the content if you replace `www` with `old`.
It's annoying, but works.
First, how dare you. Here on HN we don't believe that consumers are qualified to make decisions like this.
The majority of people did not adapt; and instead are currently assiduously avoiding VR for simulation-sickness reasons until it solves these problems.

(My hypothesis is that the minority of people who did manage to "adapt" to movement in VR, are people who have lived for years with inner-ear problems that have essentially made their vestibular sense deaf.)
Patents solve the first mover disadvantage in game theory. If you come up with a better solution, please share.
And this winter was very rainy and cold compared to average.
Lots of people in this thread are speculating about the plausibility of an ET hypothesis, which is far more nutty than what I wrote here. What I wrote here is unorthodox, but an ET hypothesis comparatively is absurd, particularly if you are going to entertain that based on the existing evidence. The existing evidence would not imply ET as much as another Earth species interacting with us. It also can imply that people are crazy or lying, of course, but I'm talking within the realm where we are going to speculate about ET.
I'd like to add that most of these text only talking about inference part. This book (I also purchased the draft version) has training and finetuning in the TOC. I assume it will include materials about how to do training and finetuning from scratch.
I find https://simplemobiletools.com/index.html decent, but not sure if it supports automatic backup.
What’s the alternative? Just no response and wait for Hamas' next attack?
Dr. Mark Trozzis License Stripped for "Misinformation" & Criticizing CPSO Policy
47% of Gaza's population is under the age of 18, meaning they have lived completely under the blockade and Hamas. Politically they only "want" what they have been indoctrinated to want.

Give them school, art, romance, the option to travel the world, choose their career... and they probably won't care as much about their parent's grievances. Give them no such options and you are guaranteed to have more combatants.

No one said it would be quick or easy. This will take multiple generations. It requires the Israelis to make a bet on the Palestinian youth.
A unified front for your team
And have nothing better to do than fly around the US Southwest until they have engine trouble.
> No, you, the consumer, cause that pollution.

Substitute "contribute to" for "cause"
One of the few things I've taken away from Doctorow's work is the notion of Whuffie from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

I noodled on a brief implementation on the Ethereum Blockchain, with a high level design of "anyone can issue and revoke to/from anyone else, and aggregate scoring is implemented by users", where my personal scoring system would have some kind of 3rd degree WoT evaluation, and normalize everyone's point-scores against the total quantity given by each of their point-givers".

Ridiculously heavy and expensive to implement on Ethereum, but I'm sure some other backing storage could handle the weight and transaction volume.

Probably worth writing up a whitepaper, as the cryptoderps say.
Is your case public anywhere?