skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because, over the last five or ten years, MFA has been adopted as a best practice and it’s easier to check the box with SMS than to get all your users to install a TOTP app. (another example of “Best Practices” being actively harmful: people should use passkeys now)
It's not VPN access that's blocked specifically; it's access from IPs that are identified as hosting providers (AWS, Hetzner, etc.). If it affects you, the workaround is to be logged in.
I'm not surprised at all. First, the failure rate of new bio ideas is extremely high. Second, even when they work the development time is extremely long. As methods advance, there are chances to make time-to-derisk shorter and cheaper, but right now you need extremely patient capital with very long risk timelines. And the high failure rate means you need to place a massive number of bets, and each of those failed bets doesn't have the capital recovery mode of being an aquihire.

The norm throughout history is for brilliant thinkers to be left behind and ignored and for their ideas to go nowhere. I would say we are living in a time when a greater number of great thinkers have a chance of impacting the world than ever before. Though I wouldn't know how to asses the fraction of great thinkers that get a chance to execute.
Some yt-dlp script with tons of features that adds full metadata and is smart enough not to re-download things. Have its output in Jellyfin, displaying as year-season-names tv shows, a show per channel or playlist.

I would love an allowlist proxy-site (like invidious) that I could redirect most YouTube requests in my house to, but I’ve not seen any that support that.
Another account did a show HN on this yesterday.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878475
> QA is focused on testing a product or system against how it should work

It would be pretty poor QA who only tested happy paths . Any competent quality analyst will be expected to test for failure states, boundary conditions and so on .
Boeing has been proudly outsourcing critical avionics software to contractors inexperienced with aviation and earning $9/hour [1].

But sure, they must have done that because of their race and gender, not because of the massive potential increase in profits.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689516
I've done this 12 years ago. Network Engineer --> Sales Engineer --> Product Manager --> ML Researcher. Though I ended up getting a PhD in ML after I quit my PM job to pursue AI.

It was a different era, DL field was a lot simpler. Until about 2015 I could read all important papers in all subfields, as soon as they were published. On the other hand, today there are so many great learning resources. For example, back in 2013 I could not find a simple explanation of how RNNs worked. I emailed Schmidhuber and asked him "where can I learn the basics of RNNs". He pointed me to Alex Graves PhD thesis. Today you have lots of code to play with (all important ideas have multiple implementations), libraries are mature and user friendly, everything just works.

My goal from the start was to learn enough to do research, to advance the state of the art, and that requires a lot of effort. What's your goal?
> Do people really want a clock on every kitchen appliance in 2024?

As someone who doesn't wear a watch and doesn't use my phone while cooking, I find the clocks invaluable. The oven clock usefully shows the time when the microwave clock is counting down.
The reason they commented originally was because they wanted to provide value to a community that had provided value to them. Reddit was simply the platform that hosted that community. Their loyalty was never to the platform, it was to the community. When Reddit decided to screw over that community so the execs could get a big payday from the IPO, it sort of broke a social contract.

Letting them keep extracting value out of you is kind of like if you worked at a grocery store, and then they unjustly fired you or a couple of your friends. Now they’re not doing so well, but are you “part of the problem” if you don’t keep shopping there?

No. Screw them.
"I have nothing to hide" is one form of what is known as "privacy nihilism" which is how we end up losing our right to privacy in the long run.
This is a good example of bad logic. It doesn't reek of anything except high quality work. You have an unacknowledged assumption that only nation state actors are capable of high quality work. I think that ultimately you want it to be nation state actors and therefore you see something that a nation state actor would do, so you backtrack that it is a nation state actor. So logically your confirmation bias leads you to affirm the consequent.

I only say this because I'm tired of seeing the brazen assertions of how this has to be nation state hackers. It is alluring to have identified a secret underlying common knowledge. Thats why flat-earthers believe theyve uncovered their secret, or chem trail believers have identified that secret, or vaxxers have uncovered the secret which underlies vaccines. But the proof just isn't there. Dont fall into the trap they fell into.
Legendary Easter Eggs in the Tech Industry (2021)
I LOVE this. I'll become RGBruceLee if I play this enough.
u64 overflows at 16 exabytes, so it sounds plausible. Cool story.
I enjoyed it so much I read all three books back-to-back after watching the first season. I really recommend them, they’re terrific.
In the past two years or so I’ve seen the floodgates open for un-opted-in email-based 2FA, usually tied with “known device” recognition. This is obviously more secure than SMS but I just wish it weren’t less convenient, especially on mobile (specifically talking about the iOS 2FA iMessage input method integration)

By contrast I feel like SMS 2FA increasingly is not an option, or at least not the default.

Almost no sites I interact with outside of big tech offer TOTP or FIDO2, which is a real shame.
The site is systemically bad now. Shitting up or deleting the content is part of the solution, to accelerate the timeline of typical users finding it worthless so that it can die and give rise to something better.
> But if you got 800 people in a room to say thanks, I bet it would feel pretty cool.

Absolutely. It feels great, and that is a perfectly valid reason to spend the time - so that you feel the warmth from others.
“Scheduled…” The car chase scene from “The Blues Brothers” was filmed in the Dixie Square Mall in 1979. It wasn't torn down until 2012.

The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!

https://youtu.be/IIdGxR-aU6o?si=XUiZyK6CLG5J9GuZ

https://jalopnik.com/the-story-of-the-trashed-mall-from-blue...
There's a difference between important and necessary. The package is necessary not important.
And it‘s not a "Show HN" anyway.
reddit is _much_ more lenient on anything if you use the official app. This concerns shadowbanning from known devices as well as banning the account for things they don't like. You get away with a lot more
I’ve been in the same boat. My soon to be ending role was as a lead/IC but the actual work was more devops than actual development. It was cushy and pays well, opting to get more hands on writing code and building things which is much easier than at a large company.
> where you are confusing yourself is that you're thinking of the differing states of a given n-ary system as having explicit symbols. Its best to think of it as simply numeric.

But what is "simply numeric"? How do we explain numeric things, and how to compute with them? Uh, we use Turing machines.

We don't explain Turing machines using numeric concepts, we explain numeric concepts using Turing machines.

We explain what computation is, by describing how a Turing machine can manipulate symbols on its tape. But that's where the analysis stops. The symbols themselves are the simplest entities, there's nothing simpler than they are to explain them with.

Nobody who is objecting to me here has ever noticed that the symbols "0" and "1" are atomic, and not further explained. Because that's where they bottom out--explanations have to stop somewhere.

But you don't have to bottom out at {0,1}. Trinary computers use a different symbol set, {-1, 0 1}. Saying that "A" can be equated with "1000001" is as silly as saying we could store any of the three values -1, 0 or 1 in a single bit of a binary computer.
lazpaint, musikcube, cudatext, betterbird, goldendict, sharik, windirstat, wise disk cleaner

these programmes can allow you to save a lot of CPU power and memory bytes and make your computer reliable again.
Taiwan, like many other nations, has universal healthcare. If it’s like other implementations, it would probably be half or less of the cost compared of the US. If you price risk, stress and hassle, probably much less than half.

https://www.vox.com/health-care/2020/1/13/21028702/medicare-...
I guess? I mean they linked to the wiki page which mentions both versions and explicitly says they're isomorphic.

They could mention it explicitly in the blog as well but its clearly not the focus of this post.
This is a huge useless strawman. Talk specifics and we can get somewhere. Talk specifics and we can begin to understand the problems with X in Y because Z. It sounds like the author is trying and failing to understand why some specific group of people he does not like do not agree with his ideals.

If there is some context I'm missing, then I wish the author had included it. I don't like having a conversation about guessing what the author is upset about.
My favorite microwave ui is this.

https://shop.sharpusa.com/medium-duty-commercial-microwave-o...

One rotary knob, that's it. This sort of ui perfection would probably kill lesser designers.

"Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Good point - it might be plausible if the author actually were Russian, but they aren't.
Why there is no a video in the front page?
Could you binary search on the slider to find the optimum?
This sounds like a classic "graph should be using a log scale" situation.
Use case: Please cook my food for 12 minutes at 600W to be ready to eat at 12:30.

An alternative could be to let the user do the math, and change it to "Please start cooking in 3h27min for 12min at 600W".
What is WEF?

Also it seems like you missed the whole point. The problem is not that less people want to own, or that people are lazy (productivity has constantly increased over the last century).
Shutting off JS often makes things worse. What I really want is an ultra-aggressive Reader Mode that doesn't get fooled by so many sites. That means it has to know how to extricate the relevant text from a bunch of specific sites. At one point I had a special proxy just to clean up a few sites that I was reading frequently, but it broke. I also fooled around with running a headless Firefox under Selenium to get the text out, but I got bored with that. I might try to get that going again, or might try to figure out how browser plugins work.
I partially agree. It's actually both questions, because...

- We don't have a 100% renewable energy regime (and we are very far from it)

- Even if we did it would be possible (and likely) for bad actors to arbitrage cheap energy for yet-more-harmful use cases

- As we grow the portion of grid demand that is served by green, renewable energy, the price of coal and natural gas is being driven down

- Until we have 100% deployment, one company's "green" energy consumption will simply drive the less-well-capitalized to cheaper, not-green energy sources

Cheaper, more pervasive energy will be used efficiently in the ways that are enabled by our legal framework. If we aren't critical of those usages, there is nothing to say that abuses won't become exponentially more conspicuous even as we adopt more and more "clean" energy. And in fact, that's what we see happening in the world today. Look no further than:

- Bitcoin mines exploiting cheap spot power and demand response policies, and burning natural gas directly from the well because the speculative price of crypto is more appealing than selling the same gas on the market

- Generative AI in general, but especially when you see hundreds of thousands of GPUs deployed without so much as a business case (Stability AI, Inflection, probably many others surfacing in the weeks to come)
And who allowed that?

The FAA can outsource the implementation, but not the responsibility.
Well, if it is any help, the guy who made this forum once published a book with a collection of his essays. Various topics, including how to become a rich person, in what ways graduate studies are helpful in creating software. Might make sense of putting worldly things in this perspective.
What are thinking about doing? I’ve looked into a couple of AI master programs, but I’m not sure how useful they would be.
I didn't expect this ignorance on HN given the industry most of us work in.

Safety and quality are a product of systems, processes, and policies and not individual skills. Mistakes will always be made even by including cishet natively english speaking upper-middle class white men. No good manager should expect individuals to be able to account for issues all on their own.

In Boeing's case, the problems are very obviously management compromising quality by encouraging corner-cutting for reducing costs to increase profits. It worked for a while because Boeing had the redundancies in processes to catch errors before they had an impact, but eventually they compromises were too much. Tell me, what does this has to do with race and gender?
i am pretty sure most people use third-party mastodon clients, if you're talking about apps. they didn't even have a first-party client until recently.
I like that it's not a product for regulatory reasons. Now I wonder about the boundaries on "productionizing" open hardware without selling it.

Let's suppose the creator makes it dead simple to make. Solves problems that would tie up any replication effort for months. Replication now takes a week of effort for a pair of hobbyists with a 3d printer, a CNC machine, and a soldering iron. Setup for mass production setup now takes a month for a well appointed electronics factory.

The creator has eliminated all production problems, while skipping all the steps required to earn a revenue.

Does this increase the risk of a cease and desist? After all, G-men might be worried that a foreign power will replicate the tech without paying an American corporation!
If you should be compensated by the public for valuations dropping due to some new public infrastructure, presumably you also agree that you should donate any valuation increases back to the public when public infrastructure projects increase the valuation of your property? Or is it one way?
I’ve found the OpenAI assistants API not really up to snuff in terms of predictable behavior yet.

That said, I’m very bullish on agents overall though and expect that once they get their assistants behaving a bit more predictably we will see some cool stuff.

It’s really quite magical to see one of these think through how to solve a problem, use custom tools that you implement to help solve it, and come to a solution.
Eerily quiet here.
Yes--which is why you should never use your normal system for anything you don't want connected to you. Take precautions when virtually approaching an abortion clinic like you would take precautions when approaching a physical one.

I simply assume Big Data (government or not) will be aware of pretty much anything I do unless I use a separate browser and a VPN. Think of it as a public space--if someone cares to look, they can.
Investigation agencies like ED and IT have only gone after the opposition parties.

There is no misunderstanding of the situation. ED, CID and SBI (One of the biggest banks in India) turned into the most corrupt organization in the history of India.

BJP and Modi government openly destroyed all the government agencies and made them corrupt.
Industry is more than willing to look past a lack of a degree given a good track record. Two of the smartest people I know didn't have undergrad degrees. One started as a lineman for AT&T, and learned programming by tending a computer in a field office, and worked his way up to working at some of the biggest tech companies. Your web browser uses technology he wrote (being cagey, as I'm not sure its commonly know that he doesn't have a degree).

Even academia is willing to look past a lack of a degree for the right person -- my ex-wife's PhD advisor's advisor didn't have a PhD himself (but did foundational work in the field).
Re-running vagrant up gives

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'debian/bookworm64' version '12.20240212.1' is up to date...

==> default: Machine 'default' has a post `vagrant up` message. This is a message
==> default: from the creator of the Vagrantfile, and not from Vagrant itself:
==> default:
==> default: Vanilla Debian box. See https://app.vagrantup.com/debian for help and bug reports

almost immediately. Looks like timing out was not the real issue. I can run vagrant ssh now.

Realizing there's no cc and no git, I try

$ apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
E: List directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is missing. - Acquire (13: Permission denied)

Hmm, still some challenges ahead...
Tbh I don't have any specific path how to do it right now as I started doing this just recently. Currently it's something like: "oh, I don't remember how to do this, I'll check it on wikipedia/yt/<some random page found in google>". But this way I can't relearn things that I simply forgot that it exist.

Thanks for the link!
but we can have an opinion on principles
Is that despite or because of the changes they've made in the past years?
It's in an autoconf style compile test. The compile or not of the snippet is being tested, unfortunately. This just decides the configuration, doesn't stop the build.
People want to talk in the place where other people will listen. People want to listen in the place where other people are talking. If you walk out by yourself and end up standing in an empty room, you'll just end up turning back.
> The publicly funded channel

It's not "publicly funded". It's funded by licence-payers. And it's hardly one channel.

> It can also be unbiased

Nonsense. E.g. Any mention of "HAMAS" on the BBC is routinely accompanied by the reminder that HAMAS is a proscribed organisation in the UK and many other places. I used to rely on BBC news, not because it was unbiased, but because their reporting was better (they used to have a large network of international correspondents). But their news staff has been cut to the bone, and job-title inflation means that all their correspondents are now referred to as "editor".

I now get my TV news from ITV/CH4. The notion that the BBC forces up standards for the "independent" channels is manifestly untrue.
It does not appear you need the secret key to use the kill switch.
> I prefer allowing the wealthy to spend their own money, as it is more compassionate, less extreme, less dramatic, and doesn’t involve state intervention.

Pretty sure the wealthiest people in the world didn’t get there by being a nice person. They most likely exploited (likely legally) people and the environment to acquire their wealth. Why give them compassion and not the people they harmed?
try a different IP aka switch vpn servers. No problem here at all
What are you talking about? This is a standard feature of the YouTube Kids apps. My child can only watch videos that I’ve allow-listed individually or by channel. I have a menu option in the main YouTube app to add videos as I browse. It works well.
> “constructive ideas” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here in ignoring your lack of empathy.

Empathy can be “nice” but does not necessarily mean it is helpful, and can sometimes even be harmful.

When you care about someone, but fail to challenge them directly you are not helping them, you just coddle them.
What a bait-and-switch Google Chrome has been...
I think in your view he's a western agent. Maybe you are right.

Truth is west welcomes and supports all oligarchs, Warlords, drug lords and corrupt officials from everywhere. It's just a business
Yeah, cause he keeps disabling Starlink internet access when Ukrainian drones are about to attack strategic points well behind the front, such as the bridge between Crimea and Russia.

Self-fulfilling prophecy there.
Similar to https://faraday.dev/ that also runs locally. I wish I can install on desktop like Faraday to try it.
I haven’t found any useful agent workflows, and I’ve not found a tool that’s more productive for me (doing arch/design/implementation of systems) than just copy and pasting from the Playground.
yup, meant to say "a factor of 2".
I grew up in a world with fewer trade barriers, and without a DMCA. I remember when we were free to think, travel, and trade, and I liked it. I feel kind of sorry for the youth today, growing up in a world shaped by narratives of safety, fear, and ultimately, control. Also, climate change.
I’ve seen a lot of attempts but nothing that worked really well. Using an agent as a glorified search engine can work, but trying to replace actual humans to handle anything but the most standard use cases is still incredibly hard. There’s a lot of overhyped rhetoric at the moment around this tech, and looks like we’re heading into another period of post-hype disillusionment.

Legal angles here also also super interesting. There’s a growing body of scenarios where companies are held accountable for the goofs of their AI “assistants.” Thus we’re likely heading for some comical train wrecks as companies that don’t properly vet this stuff set themselves up for some expensive disasters (eg think the AI assistant doing things that will get the company into trouble).

I’m bullish on the tech, but bearish on the ability of folks to deploy it at scale without making a big expensive mess.
A proposal to add signals to JavaScript
No, and if you hadn’t disingenuously quoted me out of context, that would have been obvious. The complete sentence you should have quoted was: “That was actually one of the precipitating causes for the coup, which had a ton of popular support at the time.” By which I meant popular support within Iran.

It turns out that Iranians have agency of their own and don’t just do whatever the CIA tells them to do. In fact the role of the CIA in the 1953 coup has been deliberately overstated by multiple sides, including the CIA itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20150603235034/https://www.forei...

But even if you still want to blame the CIA, they still needed enough supporters inside of Iran who were angry at Mossadegh, and one of the reasons they were angry at Mossadegh is because he had turned himself into a dictator.
isn't it supposed to be other people reading the article?
Drums, music theory, Python
> When PyTorch came out it was the only option that was easy to use and debug

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you didn't use PyTorch when it came out in 2016 then.

> Google had to add eager mode in TF2, ruining performance in the process

Eager mode PyTorch has worse performance than torch.compile too.
Yes, what can you do if they are corrupt? Give them a free pass JUST because they are opposition? Were ED, CID and SBI non-existent before the current BJP party?? Why then did the former congress govts not make them independent - after all they were in power for almost 70 years since independence??
I don't know you, neither your life, but if a university granted you a PhD you must have made some headway on the problem. It is possible that you made a bunch of progress but "not enough" from your perspective. We have some evidence that you did good work (your PhD) and no evidence (afaik) that your struggle didn't produce any interesting results.

I think you might be being too harsh on yourself.