skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How a warming climate is setting the stage for destructive wildfires
Ah that was worded poorly I guess; I was saying that in regards to security, but that sentence got awful long now that I re-read it. As in, you're probably not doing anything too critical on there.
anecdote is the singular of date, a correlate is a coincidence.
You're underselling the problem which is that they profit off your addiction. Time you could be spending creating art, exercising, or learning a useful skill is instead spent watching an endless stream of junk videos hand-picked for you by the Chinese government.
I had the same thought. bc would have been a lighter choice.

And tryauuum, I think the author only needed powers of two to emulate floating point in the first place. So they could just divide said number by 2 a number of times.
My distant acquaintance is setting up a "haunted house" within our relatively small community. His figures for investing show around 20% of the county attending... just to break even.

A recent non-sober unsolicited group text (shudder) reveals that there are about a dozen people he plans to utilize, and apparently I am among them?

No. You had me at "haunted house"... this is not the next Apple Computer.
Probably through RCE-s in Windows XP’s TCP/IP stack implementation.
Pessimism much? We have GPS satellites orbiting, we can land a robot on a specific spot on Mars, and we can make a ton of predictions about how the universe should look on both huge and tiny scales and have those pan out.

Sure we don't have a single theory of everything yet, but our mental model is asymptotically converging to our observations.
If you formalize Occam's "simplicity" as description length, then that depends on encoding. By assuming an encoding, you implicitly assume a distribution (according to entropy coding, eg Huffman coding) and hence inject an inductive bias.

I'm not saying that it's bad to assume one. The point is that it is an assumption. My bigger point is that the no free lunch theorem should only bother you as much as the induction problem bothers you. Which in practice means not at all.
> I doubt core2duo had any sort of hardware acceleration for video decoding

That would be the job of the GPU anyway, but H.264 decoding was pretty much standard back then.
That's why plugins like h264ify[0] exist for old hardware.

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdc...
My god, this (very insightful) vision just gets more horrific with each line.
I like listening to The Great Courses on Audible. They’re long and interesting, but they’re nothing I’d take notes on, they’re not anything that would change my life. I have used credits on a few nonfiction books, gotten 1/4 in, and bought the physical book because I wanted a better understanding of the material.
Delving into new strategies wouldn't make sense given the thesis of the article—what your strategy is must depend entirely on the specific market you're targeting. There is no generally applicable advice because each market is completely different.

In past disruptions the startups could all have similar playbooks because one strategy was applicable everywhere: "do X, but on {web,mobile}". Now there's no common strategy that applies to all markets because the incumbents are already integrating AI more rapidly than you'll be able to bootstrap a whole product. This means that each startup needs a strategy that is tailored to the specific incumbent they're trying to unseat.
I already had to take a 25% pay cut just to be employed, so probably not, it’s just not enticing enough for me.

I would, however be willing to accept further pay cuts for two things:

1. Being fully remote again.
2. Working on something that actually interests me.

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I've been using it since 2009. I've tried all the other similar apps. Couldn't get used to anything else like I did with Evernote. The closest in terms of functionality and paradigm is Apple Notes, but it lacks cross-platform compatibility.
Over the years, I have met this kind of people many times, money people claiming that tools can replace expertise. They would throw at you a GPT-generated script, and lecture you about the insignificance of your skills in the modern world.

Smart ones would use this as a negotiation tactic. Dumb ones close shop at incredibly high rates.
would love to see how poll() and select() etc work this way
Would you be willing to share your must-sees? I’m planning two trips to Italy this year and while I tend to make my own closer to the date of the trip (avoid pre-mature heartbreak if plans change) I think curated lists off the beaten path and with personality behind them are far more interesting.
What I find interesting is that the Chinese Tiktok (Douyin) is somehow more engaging than the Western version. Even though both have their share of memes and dance videos, Douyin is more fun to scroll through (even if you don't speak Chinese). But maybe that's just because I don't speak Chinese, so Douyin seems more interesting to me. Who knows. :D
There is an argument that even if you hate TikTok, or Twitter, or Instagram, or whatever, you should not cheer on their demise, because whatever comes after them will be worse. That is, they will be a more effective form of whatever attention eating mechanism the previous one relied on to generate ad revenue for funders. The history of the internet provides many examples of this. But the cost of switching away from the incumbent is sometimes enough to keep these upstart apps from becoming established in the first place. So if you have accepted the fact that our culture won't suddenly go back to not abusing social social media when one of these services shut down, then we who hate them might want the current cast of social media villains to stick around as long as possible.
> Now to run algorithms over your photos, all the computation must be done on the edge.

Edge is an overloaded and fuzzy term [0]. It just means "on device" here, right?

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/what...
How did you feel about all of that personally? What was the culture inside a company like that?

From the outside, i couldn't possibly imagine any person who's ever had trouble making rent playing along while their company was unnecessarily inflicting that pain on large numbers of other people. Yes, when a company is running things they'll do what they can to avoid lawsuits, even if that is "become a soulless algorithmic profit extractor". But businesses are made of people. Was there anyone in the company that had a problem with it?
> But if not, how is this situation inherently different from running Chromium, which has a strong sandbox and statically links basically everything? I realize that in the virtualization case, Chromium is running on a separate kernel, but does that really make a difference in practice?

This is just not how static linking works. You're not suddenly running on a modern, secure OS because all your web browser dependencies are up to date. And your up-to-date, statically-linked browser is still interacting with your OS, not just the kernel but the OS and userland and everything.

Static linking is not a security measure.
what considerations are the between choosing parser combinators and using a parser generator?
The physical objects manufactured in China aren't at risk of subliminally or overtly manipulating your media consumption for propaganda purposes though.

A social media algorithm is a much scarier thing than an inert object, and one controlled by a totalitarian enemy government even moreso.
I agree that “best jobs” is a bit ambiguous, but I think “landing the best jobs” is unambiguously getting a job that benefits the job-getter to an unusual extent (very well paying, or at least well paying and very stable). It is an expression.

The surprising thing about this, I think, is that hardware is generally expected to be quite underpaid around here, I think, compared to programming.
Audiobooks are a transfer from 2D to 1D. You can't skip boring lines, reread a passage.
Like integers that you could decide to interpret as a memory address and thus use like a char * (char pointer). As in machine code, basically.

C made pointer arithmetics work like array indexing. Also, the combined dereferencing and member lookup operator (->).
For an even earlier world map, the Beatus map from the 8th century is also remarkable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatus_map

The layout is mostly geographic although bears traces of a conceptual map as well. (Note: north is to the left). It's part of the larger book the Commentary on the Apocalypse which contains a lot of gorgeous illustrations. The original is lost but exists in many hand copies, starting from the 9th century.

If you're ever in Northern Spain there's a museum in the town of Potes near the Santo Toribio de Liébana monastery where Beatus worked. https://centros.culturadecantabria.com/tower-of-infantado/
In canada we have this crazy situation where there are homeowners that have the strata fees (homeowner association) that are e higher or close to their mortgage, that's because they bought 10 years ago, the home prices quadrupled, so their mortgage is extremely low, let's say for 200k instead of 800. So 1000$ payment for the home and 700$ for the strata fee. The strata fee for me it's negligible compared to the mortgage.
It will be replaced. People need their dopamine hit.
I made a 117hr Spotify playlist for coding specifically. The music generally has to meet the following criteria:

1. No lyrics. Words distract me (small little mouth sounds are fine).

2. Mid-tempo. Anything too fast gives me anxiety and anything too slow puts me to sleep. To stay in 'the zone,' I need to keep my heart rate at a certain BPM, so the music reflects that. Some variability is fine, but no extremes.

3. Nothing too 'interesting.' If it's taking my attention away from work, it's no good for me.

What resulted from this is my ever-evolving ultimate "coffee shop"-style playlist, which I tend to add 10-30+ hrs to every year. A healthy mix of electronic/acoustic that goes all over the world and is designed always to be shuffled.

It keeps me sane.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6t9a4XQ4ZLOT5D5X3ENXCO?si=...
> The result is a price higher than the market-clearing price that is low enough to find tenancy for all housing

This is impossible. If all the units are rented then by definition the market clearing price is being charged. The collusion comes when landlords start leaving units vacant.
America is so schizophrenic about this. I remember the late-90s as being all "Think of the children! Strong family values!", and yet I don't at all see how the music video for "Baby one more time" (featuring a then-17 Britney Spears, and set in a high school) was considered acceptable according to the mores of the time.
I think that it may be more difficult for startups to directly challenge monopolies head-on, they can often find success by taking advantage of changing market dynamics for instance
Browser is central, but an OS is more than just a host for the browser. It's a separate system, and thus, a separate attack vector. Backporting the browsers are not as crucial as keeping the security updates flowing - those are what really make or break any connected piece, software and hardware alike.

And when talking about keeping the lights on, consider that support is not cheap. As things progress, the supported platform diversifies naturally, so you have to actively remove from it too, so that the resources are not spread too thin. This means stopping to support older platforms, especially those that themselves are EOL, and diversify the platforms by not supporting X new function, requiring a shim or other such complexity.

Another thing is the understanding. Why would anyone need to understand the entirety of X? Suppose a person understands every line of Chromium code. Do they also understand the compiler? The x64 CPU that the software runs on? I don't think anyone ever did. The closest people come to this when they write everything themselves, like how Terry did with TempleOS. But even then, understanding stops at the hardware level. At a point, you have to let go, and trust, and manage.

Consider looking into management. The issues you describe are not technological, but rather stem from product management, project management.
Well, we're approaching the 25th anniversary of Columbine. But 35 years ago, my neighborhood was equipped with quite a lot of Uzis and Mac-11s, and we had quite a lot of mass shootings. Only they were called "drive-bys" and nobody circled the wagons to preserve the historical tradition of access to such equipment.

At what point did ordinary people get easy access to weapons that have high capacity and rapid fire? That's when we see a rise in mass shootings. Today, ordinary people are getting access to tools which can quickly and easily make better fakes than experts with photoshop could do even 5 years ago.
If I wanted to make a marxist-style call for collective action, there’d be nothing “thinly veiled” about it.

What I was actually suggesting is that people should, in fact, decide for themselves; and that employers should reap the consequences of those decisions.

It sounds like you’ve mistaken me for someone you’ve been arguing with elsewhere. Maybe my comment vaguely resembles a fight you’ve been having before, but you’re reaching some conclusions that just aren’t supported by what I said.
The rectangle app solved 80% of this for me (OCD window placement across 2+ monitors). I agree with the rest. :)
Was this using GEnie as the back end? When I first got my modem, I was on both CompuServe and GEnie before moving on to local BBSes.
2023 saw the decimation of funding in every non-AI industry. AI even more than CS, has a dearth of black practitioners.

Some of these outcomes pair with obvious hypotheses. Researchers should do their due diligence trying to validate/invalidate the top ones. Too much social science research and journalism feels like: ". Data reveals observation X. We wonder why X happened. Also, we'll keep wondering. No investigating".
Spurious Homogenization Adjustments Applied to Temperatures in Climatology Data
Yes, it means on device.
Just doing a little digging on the internet. You can create a free email address, log in to promptchan.ai, upload a picture, select the region of the body you want to unclothe and type “nude”.

Yes, I had to do about 5 minutes research on the internet to figure it out.

This is the version on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/promptai-girl-generator/id6469...

Because of Apple’s rules, it won’t let you “unclothe” pictures. But the website will.

As a 50 year old married dude who never delved into that side of the world (not claiming I’ve never looked at porn though), I didn’t know how convincing it could do it for adults with shadows, skin tones, etc.
Each generation has its own social network
Think of them as a monitor replacement not a phone replacement. At least that's what they are now...
> Built on Glasgow [Interface Explorer]

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. It’s meant to be a sort of digital Swiss Army knife, where you can connect almost any digital interface to a computer and do basically anything with it programmatically. I’ll have to pick one up now that it looks like they’re released.

I’ll probably still end up using an arduino as my one-off IC-to-PC interface device just out of habit and not needing to read any documentation, but I love the idea.
Google publishes some of its data center optimization lessons and tips at http://abseil.io/fast. This includes topics like higher-level methodology and goal setting, these topics are often less covered by other resources.

Full disclosure: I'm the editor in chief for the series.
For kids, I tend to skip IF and instead just make up role playing games with them. My kid will ask me to come up with like a my little pony themed adventure and she'll control two characters and I'll also control a character and play the DM. By being a character myself it adds some richness and allows me to give less obvious hints and push the story to a degree while still giving her room and autonomy. It works really well with kids ~5-7 so far, although it takes a bit out of me lol.

For IF, my kid has enjoyed doing some Zork with me, but the puzzles are pretty difficult.
> I guess we're seeing more languages reach C-level performance thanks to LLVM again.

If they made JavaScript as fast as C, the software industry will become a cheap perversion of what it once was, and I'm picking up my toys and going home.
I also remember spending hours and hours on an old version of encarta. It had everything from geography to biology.

Maybe the ipads they give to kids these days are similar but we haven’t experienced them?
Yes, I know that part is a previous post. You also heavily edited GP, but current state of comments is reasonable now.
> Example: what if it turned out that time itself had qualities no-one had suspected before? Time is one of those fundamental things in existence that may (or likely will) still reveal some previously unknown aspect. Which in turn would likely affect our perception of all things in existence.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" [1]

The validity of Newtonian mechanics didn't change because we discovered relativity just like the equations of motion don't become invalid because there's friction. It's still useful, we're just more familiar with the boundary conditions where it breaks down. It's unlikely we'll ever throw it away because it is the simplest model with a lot of predictive value at low energies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
There’s a word, which I really dislike, which can be used for both.

“Consume”

“I have consumed a book”

Eugh.
I refuse to use any social media like Tiktok, Insta, FB as I know how bad it is for my brain. The younger generation doesn't seem to get this yet. I'll stick to my highly curated X whereby I know I will learn something new when I open it.
I feel like to be truly considered OSI-compatible open source, you’d need three things:
1. Model code license (MIT, GPL, etc.)

2. Model weights license (CC?)

3. Model training code license (MIT, GPL, etc.)

I don’t think anything new needs to be invented, since AI is simply data and code, and we always have licenses for these. But an “Open Source AI” really needs proper open licenses on every critical component otherwise it’s only partially open source.
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A bit. There was enough space that the incumbents failed to notice a niche here or there. And in particular, Google left a relatively big portion of the ad market open for grabs.

But the incumbents succeeded in capturing most of the money involved with mobile. And only became more powerful after it.
Aren't you a peach. Not surprised at all. Sorry you got duped by a scam. I know it must hurt your ego when it's called out.

At least I understand the concept of scientific proof. And "thEre'S A viDeO oN teH iNteRweBs!" doesn't cut it.

Have a nice life.
That's such a trope.

What is sunflower oil best used for? Given its neutral flavour and high smoke point, sunflower oil is versatile:

- Deep Frying: Ideal for frying foods like chips, samosas, and doughnuts.

- Baking: Its subtle flavour won’t overpower baked goods, making it perfect for cakes, muffins, and more.

- Roasting: Use it to roast vegetables or meats without introducing a competing flavour.

- General Cooking: From stir-fries to stews, it’s an all-rounder.

Also: For Germany [...] we had four main groups of oils:

- undeclared “vegetable oil”: This is normally a mix of different (cheap) oils, but generally the most important ingredient is rapeseed oil. Market share ~30%

- Pure Sunflower oil: Market share ~30%

- Olive oil: Market share ~15%

- Pure Rapeseed oil: Market share ~10%
Taking into account the fact that they couldn't reach an agreement with Universal Music...
Most Go scripts are not public.

But anyway, just being rare, so deserves to be ignored?
> It does leave the sandbox. How else are you going to get hardware acceleration?

Depends on what you're hardware accelerating and how you want to "accelerate" it. In the case of video decoding, ffmpeg would talk directly to the hardware. There wouldn't be an "OS" component to that (if there were, then ffmpeg wouldn't exist in the first place).

The rendering part of video playback would be owned by the browser. So whatever graphics libraries Supermium uses. There is already a conversation about GDI elsewhere in this conversation.

At least with the rendering part, the browser owns the API interaction. Which does reduce the attack surface significantly. Though that's not to say that there isn't the possibility of someone carefully crafting a zero day that exploits the latest builds of ffmpeg to purposely to attack an unpatched bug in an older rendering library. However this comes back to my earlier point that such an attack would be highly specific to this exact browser fork running on a specific version of Windows. ie you're now talking about nation state actor level of targetted attack. If that's your threat model, then you definitely shouldn't run this. But I doubt that's a concern for most people

> I already said scrollbars weren't a practical example, just an example of how benign APIs can be exploited.

I don't think anyone is confused about the fact that APIs can be exploited :)

> I heavily disagree about the threat model. It costs next to nothing to cast the net out for users neglecting their computer (and there are very many), and the payout is a hefty botnet.

Actually it costs a great deal of time and effort to craft an exploit that would target a zero day on a modern browser even if the underlying OS API vulnerability is already known. And how many people would be vulnerable? It's not worth the effort for the tens of people vulnerable. That is unless you're intentionally targetting one specific individual with this known configuration....and now we're back to my point about your threat model.
I thought it was odd that it listed only one Infocom game, only then did I realize there was company named Inforcom that produced Russian games.
Other middle eastern airlines (Emirates, Qatar, Etihad, Turkish) have all the same advantages and a decades-long head start on Saudi. Simply building a fancy airport isn't all that it takes to compete in what is already a cut throat industry.
Sagan said that a long time ago. I don't see why this generation's vapid crap is worse than my generation's vapid crap.

We were the ones who turned politics into a 24 hour sports competition. If the kids are watching shitty dances and worse AI generated nihilist absurdism, I consider that a leg up on the permanent "five minutes hate" that takes up too much of the older generation's entertainment.

We managed to survive what Sagan warned about and I bet they will too.
Show HN: Bridge – The easiest way for your users to talk to you
Hi HN,

We've created Bridge because of how difficult it was to talk to our users in our other microsaas ventures, Masterspace, Layer, Techmart.

We all know that the secret to “build something people want” (Trademark-YC) is to talk to users. But how?! We’ve tried everything and conversions are terrible.

Email? They are getting spammed all day
Cold-calling? They HATE getting interrupted in their day
Meetings? It’s too time consuming for them

So at Layer we built a feedback form, for our users to effortlessly tell us what’s on their mind: feedback, bugs, questions, … and it worked

We heard from them, iterated, and finally built something people loved

We decided to spin this off into an SDK and enable other creators to effortlessly hear from their users; Bridge: Users ^ Creators - Got it? ;)

The feedback form is the first piece of the puzzle. We want to hear from you what would you like to see next: Other forms and Surveys? AI analysis?

Let’s use Bridge on Bridge and hear what you guys want, before building anything else
It took us 3 years and 4 companies to finally learn that.