skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured for all ages it would also encompass falling off something. A chair, bed, etc… one type is more predominant for the younger ages (falling from something), the other is likely more predominant for the older ages (falling down, tripping, stairs, etc).
ELI5: what would be the difference if you use AI or it is a new release of Star Wars? I understand that AI does not need proof-of-work and that is the difference?
True enough, though we're interested in stress testing our model to see where the gaps are right now.
1. This is factually incorrect and ahistorical. Russia obviously had no intention of "overwhelming" a massive country with half a million NATO-trained soldiers in 2022 with only 200K Russian soldiers. Even if the AFU wasn't a massive military, 200K soldiers is not enough to occupy that entire country.

2. I guess this is a way to dodge the Houthis question, who are actively striking US-aligned ships. What happened to "Operation Prosperity Guardian"?

3. And yet Washington does want to contain China? This sounds like "I can't lose because I'm not even trying".
Ofc. they don't mention it for big tech companies EU = Evil
> Even the NSA doesn't have the resources to intercept and modify all the shipments

Your words are close to truth, but not equal to it. I don't know exact resources of NSA, but I know businesses in exUSSR, who done exactly what you say with smartphones and audio/video.

This was grey scheme of import, with which imported more then 90% of tech in these countries, and this was reason, why Sony was condemned in Russia in 90s "for extremely low quality" (because local Sony representatives participated in scheme and central office closed eyes on this).

So, in Eastern Europe that time existed zero import taxes for electronics. They imported electronics, disassembled it to parts, and exported to exUSSR as garbage; then these parts reassembled in garages and sold in ordinary shops as new devices.

As I said, more then 90% reassembled, only less than 10% imported as ordinary contraband, or officially imported.

For scale, as I remember, US have about 300mln population, Russia have 140mln, approx half (sure, Russians have much less purchasing power, but it is hard to estimate now, if may help, Russia GDP is very close to Italy with about 59mln population).

> Apple has pretty strict security in their supply chain

Must admit, Apple have better security than other manufacturers, but grey iPhones still sold in Russia, so real hackers found ways.
Author here. The article is mostly about web apps. How would your signaling server emit new connection updates to clients in the scenario you describe?
Arrow has been the most exciting piece of technology I've seen in the last few years. The ecosystem being built around it is amazing, and it's standardizing a bunch of disparate data ecosystems.

The arrow ecosystem nets you a great compute implementation, storage (parquet), and a great RPC framework (arrow flight).
I used to bring up accessibility concerns quite a lot on HN. I have stopped however, because it is always the same story.
It doesn't seem to matter how nice I am about it, or how accommodating I am towards people just hacking. I never want to stop people's creative spirit. Ever. But I'm one of those people who uses a screen reader. If your app does not work with them, it will not work for me. The amount of weirdly hostile responses I get really puts me off commenting here, so I just don't do it anymore. That doesn't make the issue go away, but it also just does not help.
This isn't entirely unique to HN. It is very easy to dismiss accessibility concerns if you're not affected by them, or don't have anyone close that is. I try not to take it personally, but when many people chime in with comments like it's OK that you can't use this app, you're a minority, your burdens aren't anybody elses, and don't listen to them and go make a cool thing without regard, (not an exaggeration it's all in my comment history) it's a bit hard not to be put off by it.
If I was able to change one or two minds with my little comments, then I'm very happy about that because maybe it means I get to use your next cool app too. I'm just not going to look for it here, and if I find an accessibility flaw, HN will definitely not be where I comment about it. I've gotten some genuinely good responses too. Some of you also tried to defend my point of view. Like Sam. And I'm very grateful for that. Sadly it's the same fight every single time, and I'm a little bit exhausted by it.
You can't for example see ME/CFS or Long Covid neural damage on a typical MRI but when you do autopsies you find a host of problems including complete viral RNA and intrusion of the immune system that shouldn't be there. Given the similar presentation of Havana syndrome to ME/CFS it would seem sensible to look for some of the similar markers of vascular brain damage with the process developed there by Jared Younger and we will likely find a similar type of brain abnormalities. Just because it doesn't appear on MRI doesn't mean its the only type of test that can be done to find abnormalities in the brain, there are a lot of possibilities for further tests in similar presentations of symptoms.
I live in rural area of the Ozarks where there are a lot of ticks. Treating shoes and clothes with permethrin is the most effective way to keep them off you.

And doing "tick checks" when you come inside your home is a habit here. Getting them off you fast is the best way to keep from getting lyme disease.

And either burning off or grinding up and piling up all the leaves to make compost this time of year is the best way to get them out of your yard.

I learned this the hard way. Here's a video of how bad they can get here and one of my first attempts at trying to get rid of them. It didn't really work very well:

https://youtu.be/TFVDv8swzxQ?si=C4R064iTgRjdvSwv
Isn't it quite ironic to use a numeronym like a11y for the word accessibility?
https://pastebin.com/Rz9k1xMt
https://pastebin.com/6bxRYx31

Here are some examples - it's been a bit of a side-obsession for the last few months experimenting with different architectures.

There are so many different ways this could have gone and I've finally zeroed in one an approach that works which is why I'm starting to open up.

There will definitely be a dump in the near future of absolutely everything related to this project.

The ultimate goal was to run it on CPU.
I know this is not Asimov's best, but off the top of my head (it's bean years since I read any Asimov), there was a scene in the later Foundation series where a character was about to go on a space trip for the first time and start talking about how great the space travel technology is, blah blah...

The problem is, in a society where space travel is commonplace, nobody will talk like that.

Imagine someone in our world buying an iPhone, and walking out, saying "Oh how great that we have a technology to instantly talk to anyone else in the world! I have the technology right here on my hand, isn't it mind blowing?"
A reference to the OpenJDK Issue about it: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8327860
They had already run out of books by season 6 and I'd say it was one of the best if not the best season. Yes it was a bit lighter on the plot than earlier seasons, but the execution was damn near perfect. But from there they stumbled over their own lack of ambition and morale. They could have had two more full seasons from the studio, but decided to cut 7 and 8 down drastically, while already being halfway off to their (ultimately doomed) Star Wars project.
You benchmarked three different programs and one was compiled to be slow. Why give times for a debug build when the other two aren't? Showing off performance metrics that are both apples to oranges while also giving times for something not made to run fast is total nonsense.

Do you really not think this is a mistake? Most people would see C getting outperformed and realize there is something wrong. I'm shocked anyone would both this then try to rationalize it after.
I do my best to make all of my apps at least vision-impaired accessible.

The last app, I figured a way to make that easier to manage, and reward use by non-disabled folks.

I have a long-press help feature. If you long-press on any element in the UI, up pops a popover, with a header, and body text, pointing at the element. The popover explains that element.

It's fairly easy to have a long-press gesture recognizer applied to the main view, and dynamically figure out which element was hit. I then look for the accessibility items. If they are there, I do the popover.

I use the accessibilityLabel for the header, and the accessibilityHint for the text. It works extremely well, and no one has ever had it pop up when they weren't specifically trying for it.
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> Part of this is a human inclination to focus on problems that need fixing, and forget what is working well.

Look, if you believe that my perception of society is warped, you are of course entitled to that opinion. I think if you look at what's currently going on in the world and come to the conclusion that everything is fine and we should just continue the way we were used to, then that's actually quite cynical in my point of view. Having said that, it was only an example to better explain why my point might hold actual value. Not an attempt to start a discussion about the fundamental attribution error.

> That part of your posts that I don't understand is what seems to be a hostility or cynicism around introspection in general.

I think you are exaggerating a bit. Nowhere have I said that introspection is bad in general. Again, that's an interpretation which appears to stem from a certain kind of (left brained) conditioning in my opinion.

Here's the original context of the comment you seem to be referring to:

> These techniques and mantras for grounding yourself in the present are useful for panic attacks and anxiety, but being honest about your past and future direction are more powerful.

To which I responded:

> Your claim sounds generic, but it actually reveals what they are really more useful for specifically: gain power without any purpose or meaning.

If you have a stone on the one side of the scale, a feather on the other won't balance it. Indicating that the aforementioned techniques are only useful for "panic attacks and anxiety" could come across to some in the same way my comment came across to you? I think such generalized claims deserve similarly direct and generalized responses sometimes as a means of reflection.

> To what end? Oftentimes, that tale goes

I outlined my point regarding that one above sufficiently, I hope. If you don't like it, that's fine. You have at least provided a reasonable response that was specific enough for me to address. Just claiming that someone is "bitter" without pointing out what exactly is the cause for that interpretation is not helpful and hence deserves a different kind of response.
The only thing I believe is that the hypothetical future I describe is a non-zero chance possibility. Everything else is the is/ought problem. I'm just talking about how prevailing attitudes change over time.
this is why i stick to gtk despite some very attractive looking new gui toolkits - gtk has solved its accessibility issues already, and the new toolkits mostly have it on the todo list.
Along this line of thinking: it also had made us resilient.

If all technology was to stop dead tomorrow, following the chaos of civilization collapse, we’d still have enough humans to do substinence farming and other survival tasks to help us get quickly back on our feet.
It's always something else doing something wrong. Everything has to conform to Apples design guidelines.

Heaven forbid the OS could let you chose what you want to happen... like launching Spotify instead, or simply nothing at all...

It's the headset doing something wrong. What a fascinating take. You wouldn't happen to be working at Apple R&D?

Maybe I missed the /s, it's just too on the nose, almost as if you're ridiculing it.
The thing about PFAS to me is it is a build up over time. So it's like heart disease as a silent killer. You can live with it for a long time before you start to notice the effects
> Any carcinogen is detrimental to health but depends on exposure, same goes for PFAS.

I think you can emphasize your point by noting two categories, those which bioaccumulate and those which don't, but the exposure of things bioaccumulated is, to your point, endlessly extended.
> What's the difference?

The ease and lack of skill required. That brings whole another set of implications.
All of these devices are already usable quite well for some purposes. Pretty much the level of support follows how long they were available. But neither is particularly unusable.
Self reporting. How useless. Wonder what legislation they are minimally complying with
I think that happens because talc deposits often contain asbestos so it's not an uncommon contaminate.

that doesn't mean talc products always contain asbestos

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691901/
One of the ironies of current generative AIs and LLMs - they are creative, but need human supervision to watch for simple logical errors. Just the reverse of conventional way of looking at humans vs machines.
No one said it's fine.
Can the tabs share a background worker that would handle that?
That won't cut it as I need a multi-language build.

And don't get me wrong - I know it _can_ be done in Nix (as it is a programming language) - the question is _how easy_ it is to create/maintain it.

Let's say my solution requires a Java Spring Boot application, React client, custom Postgres extension and Python ML code.
I agree I'd be more happy to use permethrin than ingest something that gets into my blood.

I find a ton of ticks around where I live and have experienced a questing tick by pulling them off of my dog before they attach and then carrying them on something. Sure you're not spotting them naturally but they will quest when given the freedom to do so. If you don't kill them immediately but put them on a leaf or something they will crawl to an end of it and start! If you're just interested in seeing how it looks
.NET Developers Begging for Ecosystem Destruction
One black hat thing I'm curious about though is whether or not this tag can be weaponized. If I upload a real event and tag it as AI, will it reduce user trust that the real event ever happened?
Related from last week:

Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled his deal with X after 'tense' interview

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39695897
Xata, a new serverless Postgres platform
These rules have really nothing to do with AI. They're trying to impose a ban on deceit.
Are you saying that the dozen studies listed in wikipedia about PFAS harm to humans are flawed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...
This reads like paid placement to me. Gross.
Andrej Karpathy has a provocative little short story, "Forward Pass", that imagines what it'd be like if an LLM perceived brief sparks of sentience while an inference bubbles through its transformer layers. Definitely stuck with me: https://karpathy.github.io/2021/03/27/forward-pass/
The arena rewards those who arrive early
> You don’t need to inform people you are using cookies.

Are you a lawyer? Are you willing to assume the liability I may incur if I follow your advice?
For those wondering about why there's both a boot ROM and the boot2 in flash:

The flash chips used support both a basic SPI mode, and an advanced QSPI mode. There is a well-defined standard protocol for basic SPI mode, so virtually all chips will respond to the same read command for simple slow byte-by-byte reading. The only thing left to try is the four SPI modes (Does clock idle high or low? Do we transfer on the full pulse, or on the half pulse?) - hardware often even supports two of them, and there's only one set which actually makes sense.

QSPI, on the other hand, is more of a wild-west. You need to run a bunch of chip-specific commands to enter QSPI mode, and there are quite a few possible variations for QSPI read commands, not to mention a lot of different timing requirements. Trying out all of them isn't really possible, hence the chip-specific boot2 segment.

Staying in SPI mode isn't really viable either because the application code is stored in the flash chip. To give an example, jumping to a random instruction would incur a 1280 ns read with a W25Q80BW flash chip operating in SPI mode (realistically x10 due to a lower safe clock frequency), whereas QSPI mode can reliably do that in as little as 125 ns. With the RP2040 running at 133MHz a 16-cycle delay for a random jump or a read from a data block is not too bad, but a 170 or even 1700-cycle delay is just way too much.
This is a very inaccurate depiction of copyright. It originally only lasted around 20 years with the option to double it. Then it was reformed over and over across history to create the monster we have today.
Admittedly I know nothing about the theorem you’re referring to, but is there a compelling reason to limit ourselves to first-order logic?
Where is it? UK? Ireland?
Infant mortality was high for a reason. Some people may have been able to handle it, but not all. Even today, people in remote areas living as they always have with “clean” environments die of parasites, bacterial infections, and so on from their water sources.
Almost nobody is suggesting this and you can reply to whoever you think is wrong about something. It says 'sneer' in this thing but those are the values of 'sneer' that include 'harangue':

Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've spent so many hours trying to communicate to folks the importance of HTTP streaming ... it's an uphill challenge for sure.

Yes, all the benefits of http/2 (or 3) are great, but we should also be aware of what we can take advantage of in http 1.1, especially since it's effectively universally supported.
Where the wild things went during the pandemic
Using VFX for realistic scenes is more involved. VFX requires more expertise to do convincingly and realistically, in the thousands of hours of experience. More involved scenes require multiple professionals. The tooling and assets costs more. An inexperienced person, in a hundred hours of effort, can put out 10ish realistic scenes with leading edge AI tools, when previously they could do 0.

This is like regulating handguns differently from compound bows. Both are lethal weapons, but the bow requires hours of training to use effectively, and is more difficult to carry discreetly. The combination of ease, convenience, and accessibility necessitates new regulation.

This being said, AI for video is an incredibly promising technology, and I look forward to watching the TV shows and movies generated with AI-powered tooling.
I'm curious as to why they banned the use of asbestos by the chlor-alkali industry. It seems that the asbestos is relatively inert (i.e. it's not going anywhere), perhaps they had some evidence that there were asbestos fibers getting into the final products?
There was a contemporary Forth for ZX81 (http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/ZXForth) but not for ZX Spectrum as far as I know. So filling a nice historical gap there!
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
I think you mean that there exist baby powders which use talc, and there exist talc mines contaminated with asbestos, so there exist some (not all) baby powders that contain(ed?) asbestos.

of course, how to know what does and does not is unclear.
If I remember correctly, Smith was concerned that the mercantile, feudalistic economies of his time was the source of poverty and inequality, and that free market economics would bring more prosperity to society.

Hence the title, “Wealth of Nations”.
> There's no plausible reason to suppose that Tibetans or "tribesmen" have more natural sleeping positions than "civilized" (i e. White) people.

So Tibetan tribal society is likely to have exposed its members to the same level of furniture and mattress adverts as the average American or European then?
That may indicate it was more of a crime of happenstance which are the hardest to track down, because there's no planning, no trail, and with two people there might not even be anyone left alive.
>> Please go play badminton.

> Love the irony of including this comment in a post about making your app inclusive

Why is that ironic? There's a broad gap between being unable to use an app due to a disability, and unwilling to write apps that will be usable to people with disabilities. One is an immutable characteristic of a person, and the other is a personal choice to be calous. Inclusivity doesn't mean you can't kick people out for being jerks.

And in this case, if I were to hire a developer for an app, and they were so dismissive of accessibility concerns, I would end their interview with abrupt and direct feedback and the law would be on my side.
Breaking: Fent dealer says sobriety unrealistic.
The Martian is a good example of transparent writing, where the prose gets the job done and doesn't call attention to itself in either a negative or overly positive way.

The Martian might not win any literary awards but writing like this is a much overlooked skill in authors.
Fun fact: it's far more than 16% because people tend to forget the two super most obvious accessibility requirements: being able to read text, and being able to interact with elements. About half of the planet has a visual disability that's bad enough to require a corrective medical device, and over 10% of the planet is just plain old. Tiny UI elements and small text are easily overlooked, huge problems.
> admitting they have been / are hosting a large number of domains used for fraud and abuse

Only if the abuse happened through them. Perhaps they were just hosting holding pages, and the traffic was pushed elsewhere when active scams were running?

> surprises me, given the time and effort they spend mitigating fraud and abuse

They mitigate it incoming as one of their features for their customers. That doesn't mean they are going to mitigate it outgoing quite as fiercely. Though I'd assume they'd made some effort at least to maintain a reasonable reputation for their IP ranges.
For a certain definition of "undo", yes. The System volume tends to be mounted read-only and very little people go through the effort of mutating it. So in most cases, you can invoke softwareupdate(1) to download an older OS installer then run the installer to replace your existing OS.
Is there a word missing from the title here? Requires whom?
> Getting a working certificate can get pretty confusing, especially for newcomers to certificates or webdev.

mkcert does this really easily, one command and the CA is trusted in the system store, firefox, etc. and also has info on how to get it working with other stuff (e.g. mobile devices or node.js)

I'd say for someone who doesn't know certs, your site does not really make it easier, it's overwhelming, tons of options that people probably won't know what they mean.
I asked Google Gemini to do this, and it gave me a seemingly convincing response. Anyone know if it's right?

Prompt:

translate the SQL statement "select TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'month') from dual" to a PostgreSQL dialect

Response (formatting removed):

Here is the equivalent SQL statement in PostgreSQL for "select TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'month') from dual" in Oracle:

SELECT DATE_TRUNC('month', CURRENT_DATE) AT TIME ZONE 'UTC'

Use code with caution.

In PostgreSQL:

DATE_TRUNC is the function used to truncate a date value to a specified unit.

CURRENT_DATE is a function that returns the current date.

AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' is used to specify that the truncation should be done in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This is optional, but it's a good practice to be explicit about the time zone to avoid any ambiguity.

The dual table is a dummy table specific to Oracle that is used in simple SQL statements.

PostgreSQL doesn't require a table reference in this case.
I've honestly always wondered if that might be the joke.