skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> suppose you deeply value a bunch of things that you don't think have much economic significance, but [...etc...]

We are a mess. We often think some things are worth more than money, but are not motivated to spend money on them when needed.

Everything form climate change, to saving specific species.

I think GAI's (green field, or human uplifts) will be much more coherent. They won't be settling for a beautiful wonderful Goldberg brain, designed by a series of a million fortunate accidents, like we have to.
FWIW I still use my blender almost every day. It's a great start of the day, so I can eat like a sinner the rest for the day. Didn't lose a gram of weight but I don't feel guilty about it anymore!
OpenAI willfully fuels hype of all sorts and lets people extrapolate without basis or limit, because it's hugely profitable for them.

LeCun is the voice of reason trying to point out the limitations of the current technology and fundamental questions that need to be answered.

Until there is something more than cute demos, like an actual path forward that can implement what people are hyping, or better still working examples, it's all speculative nonsense.
Tangent: I couldn't find an RSS feed for the blog?
Malware from a Vibrator
Is it really impossible? I clicked the link and saw the content fine. If you mean "impossible without signing up", I'd say it's within your rights to not want to sign up, but it's a very uncharitable definition of "impossible".
I've only had to browse it for information a few times, but it really is shockingly useless. I've never found an actual answer on those forums.

Even Google's practically useless forums have helpful users who suggest workarounds between the hundreds of "I have the same problem" comments. Microsofd's near-useless forums have some good information if the thread doesn't die once a Certified Super Microsoft Systems Engineer tells you to reinstall Windows (because that seems to be all they can come up with). But for some reason, Apple's forums are somehow worse. Maybe it's because of Apple targeting a more tech-averse audience, I don't know, but when it comes to Apple's forums, nobody has any real answers.
I don't know if I've ever encountered any technology that has more "even though you like using it, you shouldn't be" energy directed at it than Tailwind.

Tailwind didn't win because of marketing... it's marketing was no better or worse than the million other new products that show up in a developer's feeds every 22 hours.

Lots and lots of people like using it. That's the whole story.
Auto trader price tracker plugin blocked and removed from Chrome store
Auto Trader has declared war against it's users by blocking all access to its website unless a certain browser plugin is removed.

AT price tracker is a popular browser plugin which allowed users to keep track of price changes.

Those with the plugin installed were presented with this message instead of the website

You can no longer use the AT Price Checker plug-in on Auto Trader

Sorry, we know that you find it handy, however we no longer allow this tool on the site.

This is because AT Price Checker puts other company's adverts and promotional information onto our pages, which we have no way of checking or endorsing.

To continue using Auto Trader, you'll need to remove or disable the plug-in.

To help you switch it off, you can find links for the most common browsers below.

See you back on Auto Trader soon.

The author has (voluntarily I believe ) removed the plugin from the chrome store while it gets sorted out.
That is a nice site. I was first made aware of this issue with Switch games. Some publishers will cut content on the memory card and force a download to stop their game requiring a card with larger capacity which costs more.

These aren't even new games that it is reasonable to expect to be patched. Re-releases like "Spyro Reignited Trilogy" require a download which is just a cost saving exercise.
That's an obvious scam that any trained eye spots in 5 seconds, and very typical for more primitive undemocratic societies like Russia and China. I am curious why nobody reacted since at least few must have realized this.

Once you clarify you deal with scam no voting can overrule anything, you can easily go public and expose people if they would keep pushing for it. This is 2024, we have (at least some) tools to deal with such things in such situations.
24000 years actually
yes but GOG has recently started to not respect the DRM free aspects by accepting games that have restricted online multiplayer modes. Still they are better than most other stores.
I don't say it is always possible — I've spent 1.5 years changing rented places almost monthly, with only small laptop, without office to visit, as I fled from my country due to start of war.

First thing I bought when I settle on new place were chair, table, monitor and light.

But it (and dark mode) should be exception, not rule.

Many of us refuse to use 5+ year laptop, but why do we agree to crappy workspace and invent dark mode instead?
We should use them as geothermal power sources.
My previous job never told us who was laid off —- once I had a meeting with a woman later that day and I only realized after she didn’t show up.

I too found slack to be the layoff lookup tool.
The web won't be nirvana (1995)
Impossible for me yes. Am getting prompted by a sign-up screen to join twitter.
Why is it bad to divert the original discussion in a newly dedicated thread ?
On anonymous comments on the internet and in movies.
Ways to use Embark (2021)
Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
What is it with ramen that makes chefs so self-consciously, or publicly, decide to master them whatever it takes? You don't read about a chef dedicating their youth to the best boeuf bourguignon by breeding special cattle, or even about a plov perfectionist, which seems conceptually close. Was Tampopo an effect or a cause?
Lessons Steve Jobs wanted to pass on. Written right before he died
I was surprised to know that you can swim in the Thames. There are a number of designated swimming spots along the Thames, where it is safer to swim. These spots are usually located in areas with calmer water and less boat traffic.
This article ignores the fact that people actually used it and actually realized the benefits cited.

Traditional way of using CSS I feel is still advantageous for websites (instead of apps) with a limited set of highly reused styles.

Nowadays however there’s a general lack of restraint and self-control when it comes to web design, you must have a million variations of everything.

In that case utility-first CSS clearly wins because there’s almost no reuse except at the per-property level.
I have upvoted this, but on a second thought, this is probably what I would do as well if I had the possibility to observe the victim, yet all the chances to have not been caught. Makes for an exhilarating complaint and report as well (evidence: this thread).
The NLRB helps make sure you can form a union in the first place. Their job happens before a union even exists. Someone needs to facilitate the union elections, make sure the business doesn't interfere
Maybe because it is a Japanese dish, and Japanese are notorious for being obsessed with perfecting their craft no matter what.
I think the issue is rather that the manager tries to sugarcoat the fact that someone has died by using very abstract language.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2024021314-unwelcome-shrill-690...

> Note, due to the layer at which the Linux kernel is in a system, almost any bug might be exploitable to compromise the security of the kernel, but the possibility of exploitation is often not evident when the bug is fixed. Because of this, the CVE assignment team are overly cautious and assign CVE numbers to any bugfix that they identify.
But also not that far away from that method, too.
HD600 are hard to drive, they should sound notificably better on a dedicated headphone amp versus a ThinkPad. Many years ago I did this comparison and the difference was very significant, I've never used a stock headphone jack since.
Yup, see the section on handling failures in the post. Though note that I use "exceptions" to refer to a very particular language feature, rather than the mechanism. Rust panics and Go panics work like exceptions but are meant to be used differently. Panics are good as are exceptions when used like panics.
It depends.
One good discussion.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/77319/triple-diff...
How can china develop nu lear much cheaper and faster? Maybe the problem is not the design and rather overregulation and lack of political will?
About a decade ago I was doing a lot of travel for work - 140 plus flights a year over 6 continents level.

I remember watching a film, “Up in the Air”, about a guy who was contest flying from airport to airport to lay people off because the boss was too much of a wimp to do it himself.

I guess even his job isn’t safe from AI.

Sure some will manage to hack with prompt injection attacks, and potentially get compensation, but those attacks will be fixed.
> Although for now, the whole table gets read into memory for every read so this won’t work well for very large database files. There’s also no write support… yet.

At such a set of features I would prefer a tool that converts databases to a directory of real csv and jsonl files, at least there are no performance issues to worry about
All Sora news coverage in one place
restic is cool, I use it everywhere: on my workstation, on my Synology NAS and on my production servers. I used to use rsync, then tried borgbackup, which was slower than backing up to floppy disks, and buggier.

I have also set it up for a client to backup proxmox and Nextcloud data files—and actually had to make sure everything worked when the servers caught fire. Their previous consultant set up a backup solution that had never been tested, and the first time they had to restore, they got the nasty surprise that all backups were corrupted. Always test your backups.

Now, what I miss is my previous 3-2-1 strategy: I used to rsync my workstation to my NAS, and nightly I would sync my NAS with rsync.net's servers a few thousand miles away. Now I backup directly to rsync.net, so in case of restore I always have to suffer the network latency. Is there an efficient way of mirroring a restic repo off-site? Should I just rsync the entire restic repository?

One note about TFA: the Telegram bot thing is neat, but one will tend to tune out any automated system that notifies you of every success, so if something bugs out you won't even notice it. What I do is simply curl my healthchecks.io URL for each successful backup. If my backups do not check in every 1 day (+ 1 day grace period) I get an email.

Here is the script I use on my workstation: https://gist.github.com/1player/1133d10afb3b2730ea141adb1624...

On servers and my NAS I use https://github.com/djmaze/resticker/ in a container. Here is the config: https://gist.github.com/1player/9ddf1b7993395fae87221a01e5c3...

(Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with rsync.net nor healthchecks.io. Just a happy user.)
Apple has a strong security track record, and its devices are generally considered to be more secure than other brands. However, no device is completely immune to hacking... This is the first time i've heard about Apple Watch hack
Yeah. If I were a betting man, I’d bet you could find a chef dedicated to perfecting boeuf bourguignon… and it’d be a Japanese chef!
I’m not in the UK but a lot of that looking in seemed to be various smear campaigns, both from inside the Labour Party (from the now leading faction, who are almost just Tories who are in the wrong party) and from outside…

One thing I found it quite interesting was seeing people on Twitter etc. who some years ago I’d seen giving support to smears of “antisemitism” hurled at politicians (including actually Jewish ones) in the Labour Party for voicing opposition of the Israeli Government’s policies and actions towards the Palestinian people, now condemning the Israeli Government in even stronger terms than those politicians ever had…
> It's obvious that my entire spectrum of artistry is going to be replaced by AI, sooner or later.

No, that’s not obvious or even likely, on any time horizon any of us needs to worry about. So-called AI is mostly hype at this point. It may obsolete some jobs but will create new opportunities, like past technological leaps.

Despite what self-serving executives or the witless media say, “AI” didn’t drive the waves of layoffs.

> People in my situation, what are your plans?

Did you make plans for $10/hr programmers in Bangladesh taking your job away? Or computer-generated music making producers redundant? Neither did I.
I never suggested calling FileExists separately, no idea where you got that from. The article explicitly refers to modeling the codomain of the function accurately, in this case something like Result<File, FileError>
> A tasteful photo spread features Yamaguchi-gumi members making their first annual visit to a hatsumode, a Shinto shrine, and pounding rice cakes

A hatsumode is not a Shinto shrine, but the first visit to a shrine on New Years. Getting this wrong makes me doubt the rest of this article.
Oh, wait, this is your own inflammatory article you're shilling.

Haha.
Why not replace "x" (close) icon with "i" (information) icon? Result is practically the same, and it wouldn't make people angry.

And on the "in the long run" part: if dark pattern stays for too long, it risks ending up in uBlock filters list.
Might have being going for “passed away”

Managers are people too and will have their own emotions they are dealing with.
This is a very frustrating issue, as it can make it difficult to use the watch...
> If we allow this to happen, where do we go from here?

But we've already allowed it to happen. He's been in jail for years now. For something he may or may not have done. He's on the verge of being deported to the US, where he will most likely be imprisoned for journalism. Something he shouldn't have had to think about. If we wouldn't have allowed this to happen in the first place, he could have stand trial for the other things he's been accused of.

So it's already happened. It's why Snowden is in Russia, instead of living his life in the US.
Just taking the suggestion to its logical conclusion I think.
+1. Great advice
Other paywalled content at least can be opened with archive.md and friends. Usually people here kindly post a link for convenience to archive. With twotter that no longer works.

So this type of content means that in order to follow the discussion I must also be a twitter subscriber.

Maybe people could consider first creating an archive.org snapshot that is then linked instead. Would be the kind thing to do and help the rest of us.
If only this site was built on NOSTR!
This has nothing to do with hacking and everything to do with the ghost touch issues that apparently affect multiple Series 9 and Ultra 2 users (although I’ve not seen it on my series 9 myself).

Way back in the early days of Android (pre Ice Cream Sandwich), I spoke to one co-worker who told me that when they looked at their Google Map app while driving it would show their actual physical car (and all the other surrounding vehicles etc.) on the satellite view - in motion - in real time.

No manner of attempts by me to state why this was impossible would dissuade them and they went away thinking I was the technical idiot as a result.

So “we are in control”?

Yeah, no.

This is what happens when folk think that shows like NCIS and their ilk are factual based docudramas.

Obligatory link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=u8qgehH3kEQ&feature=youtu...
Broken Earth is absolutely awesome. I don't like everything Jemisin wrote, but her hugo win was 100% deserved.
It's interesting how far behind xAI already is in the current market. Their current advantage of having a corpus of text isn't even relevant.
I'm less sure that voting for them would make any difference, given the way elected politicians behave, but the levels of corruption seem to belie the bureaucracy, designed to prevent corruption.

I feel that they're too keen on using Europe as some kind of club that encourages countries to soften in order to join - which I like - and less keen on fighting for the citizens, although this might be down to a disconnect and associated cluelessness about how things work.

This whole anti-encryption crusade has a Mr Bean-like naive bumbling line of attack, unlike the parallel UK approach which is decidedly supervillain-like.
Just know that your opinions make you even more unattractive. It will chase all women away and cause a feedback loop that can only result in you becoming a very unhappy extremist. Don’t be blind and apathetic. Expand your views. Live a little.
Would like to complement beancount.
I think a lot of this gets solved if the city cracks down on crime and cleans up public transport. I've lived in downtown SF (5th and Mission) as well as across the Bay Area and avoided public transport other than Caltrain (even then, the SF station was not great) because of so much vagrancy, people doing drugs on the bus and metro, and just being worried about personal safety. I personally still didn't buy a car and just walked or took a Lyft/Uber most places in the end but I can see why many refuse to give up cars until public transport is safe enough for the average person who can afford an alternative.
The Unix Programming Environment (1984)
George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making videos on Cameo
No, of course I'm not ok with that! But trying to get rid of copyright for software and make access to source code a right is a huge task. That's why the GPL is a pragmatic solution. The GPL is something we can use today to build a foundation of free software and make the idea of software freedom normal and expected. This smooths the way towards a future where we don't need the GPL, but we've got a long way to go yet.

Licences like MIT do absolutely nothing up further this goal. They don't even try to do it today even though we know it can be done. It seems convenient for software you might use now, but to contribute to it? It doesn't give developers any guarantee that their work will be received as free software by future users. You're essentially working for corporations for free. I want my work to be available for everyone.
The Bay Area is far from a well designed city with fairly limited public transportation. Yes there is public transportation but it’s relatively limited compared to the places you may want to go.
The attack on the islands in Palau is tragic in that is was probably unnecessary. The Japanese airfields there could have been suppressed by air attack and cutting off of supply. Instead, it would have saved thousands of US lives by diverting the forces there to instead attack Iwo Jima before it had been so heavily fortified. But that would have been unacceptable to MacArthur, as it would have sent the signal that the Philippines were a sideshow.
Someone at my work created a secret bot that scrapes the outlook contacts list and diffs it from the previous day, each day. This way we get daily updates whenever a new person is onboarded or offboarded.

As employees we now have more clarity about the state of layoffs and hiring decisions that most of the management team does.

I suggest doing the same within your org if you can.
Ideally, parking for low income folks.
Ah, mine are not something that I can possibly forget, they're very visible and intrusive. I've cut down on computer use a lot because of it, they're very irritating and prominent.
Defense in depth through sanboxing is there to make sure that even an attacker that get some amount of undue privilege will not be able to do harm. At this point we've learned that all existing systems will have vulnerabilities of some sort, so defense in depth is the only credible security posture.
A little bit of a gap in understanding too. Something happened to your account and you don’t know how? Hacked.

Turns out for a lot of people your piss drunk self, your weird ex boyfriend, and that person setting up fake OF with a selection of your public fb/insta pictures, are all threat actors too.
Ask HN: Say my employers shop got sold to an equity/buyout investor. Whats next?
Most of the western world gave authoritarianism a huge vote of confidence with the pandemic response and still are unable to come to terms with what this means or their responsibility for it. How can the west stop its increasing addiction to authoritarianism when most of it can't even admit that it is a problem?
Can you be more specific about when an Apple employee remotely accessed your iPhone.

It would almost certainly would be illegal.
I grew up swimming in our local river. Obviously the river Thames is a different kind of beast with currents, etc.

However I nowadays would be very reluctant for swimming in rivers as soon as one is downstream of a sewer leading into the waters.

Furthermore the river I swam in is downstream of an area that industrially was heavily involved in galvanics. While the water itself is clean, who knows what heavy metals are still in the river bed and mud.

I can only imagine what the mud of the river Thames and its sources contains.

Oh and even in the mountains I remember how - on a hike - a friend contemplated drinking from that clear water stream shooting down the rocks and was glad not to have done that after seeing the poop from geese and cattle just a 100 m upstream.

Amoeba, E. coli etc are not fun.
Also, if the coal is hot, putting water (steam) on it produces flammable gas (CO and H2).
I take it as a detailed weekly round-up of all things AI. I quite liked it.
How is a codec a complete application?
The creation of kamma ceases at the attainment of Nibbana.

There is happiness (Sukkha) to be found on the path before then.

I agree with you about drugs being used as a way to avoid processing complex trauma or difficult memories.

The root of the Pāli word for mindfulness (Sati) is Smriti in Sanskrit which literally means "that which is remembered".

If you can be mindful with your direct experience, which will include difficult memories, you can start to purify your mind and view and prevent the future arising of unwholesome (akusala) kamma.
The difference is that paywalled news sites require a login to access content that they themselves produced and published, while Twitter/X now requires a login to access content written by other people.

In other words, paywalled news is a first party content provider, but Twitter is just a third party who inject their mandatory login between me (the reader) and the writer so they can make some profit by showing ads on the content.

That's fine, but authors should consider if they want to publish on a site like that when there are so many other options.
Stopping climate change doesn't make you super rich or king of Cannibal Island [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415462
Developers build what people want that fits into local code. If parking spots are not desirable they will figure it out quick.
Oh great. With in situ coal combustion, we can use all the coal, not just the readily mineable coal. Let's reproduce the CO2 increase from the end Permian extinction.
I will stay with my Garmin watch just until touchscreens become good enough to user under water.
This is a backhanded compliment. Nothing pg says about Altman is straightforwardly positive; although he deliberately phrases things in a way that lots of American struggle to read negatively.
You make my point in excellent fashion. Whether my doggerel is any good is for someone else to judge. But laying down some kind of schema and making a point is going to be really hard for some algorithm to attain.
Maybe! I'm lost in the maths, "Our results suggest that learned optimizers can benefit from considering the (symmetry) structure of the weight space they optimize. " this from 7th Feb came out of DeepMind; https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05232

When it comes to the math underneath an LLM, https://medium.com/autonomous-agents/part-8-mathematical-exp... is about the most accessible explanation I have found so far.