skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most important part of Winamp is the global keyboard shortcuts you can set up. I have been using wasd controls for my games and my player since forever. Well, since I found the global keyboard shortcuts in winamp...

wasd for games, ctrl+shift+qewasd for play/pause/forward/backward/next/prev and so on. Don't need to switch window, don't need to move hand away from wasd. Can't live without it now even though I don't have so much playtime any more. Works just as well in any other environment.
I think I phrased myself poorly, the racoon dog part is the probability where it's a Zoonotic origin

The probability of someone getting infected from a racoon dog is much higher than the joined probability required for the lab leak. Someone from the lab only infecting a single person is only a part of the probability of the lab leak, then there's the likelihood of them either going to the market or being close enough to the vendor to cause an infection at some other place

I think Peter's argument is that given the amount of conditionals for that to occur it has a low likelihood compared to a racoon dog infecting just one of the people at the market that day
How is it that someone purchased a home that can not receive electricity?
Was the home sold for much cheaper, since the electricity was, "up to the buyer" to figure out?
Yes, this is incredibly frustrating.

I wonder if we've surpassed "peak publicly searchable discussion". It definitely seems harder to find quick answers to obscure topics than it used to be 2-3 years ago.

LLMs will gladly hallucinate something, but given that this stuff is literally the training data that could help ground them in truth, I wonder where we're going to go next.
> Is that too tinfoil hat?

Not at all, no. This is probably happening way more than just this instance, unfortunately.
Is there any hidden information?
Only because they've already lost most of what is actually valuable (to most early users; maybe not to advertisers).
Creator here, feel free to ask anything or raise any issues on GitHub https://github.com/CleanShare/Issues
It's how I do it but we have a very large and heavy duvet; this technique (that my mom showed me once and I then promptly forgot) is a lot less impactful, since the shaking kinda requires you to lift and shake the whole thing.
The U.S. is exploring a railroad for the moon. It has a good reason
3 of those 4 - crying, having an uncomfortable conversation, and talking to strangers - don't seem like symptoms of hypomania. The impulsive plane ticket to Panama is questionable too. We'd need to know a LOT more about the individual to make the leap from that to a disorder.
ordinary cars must be prohibited, since you can dangerously modify them

I mean.. we're approaching a saturation point of corporate-locked cars. Granted the locks aren't very strong but they're trying.
ACDSee old versions (2.6.1?) would preload the next image in memory while scrolling through a folder, making it extremely useful in the age of hard drives. It became bloated, but the only reasons to switch were for newer image formats, and sometimes .gifs would crash it.

FastStone Image Viewer is the performant, slick image viewer I use now.

IrfanView has some rough defaults like if you scroll to the end of a folder, a window pops up that you have to click away before you can scroll back. I use it all the time for simple editing, not viewing.
It would be hard for them to not get caught with their hands in the cookie jar - corp employees have high turnover, and low loyalty past their employment.

Even paying a cutout consulting company to do it would be iffy since so many finance employees would be involved in paying them, it would leak sooner than later - or at least raise a lot of questions that would be hard to answer legitimately. Being a public company, also hard to avoid auditor scrutiny.

Even a private company would have an easier time.

Nation state actors though? No such issues - that’s literally why security clearances, compartmentalization, and ‘you never really leave’ are done the way they are.

And they don’t have to worry about market blowback unless they get really excessively heavy handed (like France did in the late 80’s-90’s). They are setup to do shady stuff, it’s their raison d'etre.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#:~:text....]
You say, "Sorry, I don't have the bandwidth for this right now. I am closing this issue for now but it can be reopened if anyone else is sufficiently motivated to submit a patch."

> How do you stop people from being mad that you’re ignoring them? (IME these types of people are likely to take things personally and start harassing you or complaining loudly in other forums…)

You don't (and can't) stop people from being unreasonable, mad, angry, or upset. That is their own choice. What you describe is bullying, plain and simple. Being nice to them because they might escalate later is counter-productive to your own mental health and gives them agency over your own time and energy. With bullies, the only way to win is to not play the game.
I sometimes enable vpn system wide for reasons unrelated to reddit and want to access reddit on the same machine.
Agreed. The manipulation became obvious with the capital fueled shareblue / "correct the record" campaign from Dems years ago and has only gotten worse since.

The stated purpose of CTR was to defend against Trump, but it was of course also abused to help sabotage Sanders. A tool like this will always be abused to perpetually elevate capital interests over human interests.

Whatever solution everybody jumps to, it needs to somehow prevent this behavior because it's not going to stop on its own.
yeah, i’ve noticed an uptick in HN stories that link to a xitter thread, which makes all but the first part unreadable now if you don’t have an account. supremely annoying. at least with paywalls archive.is is a decent workaround.
UI feedback: There needs to be more animation to make the transition between game states more clear.

For example, when you draw a new tile, it could slide in, or glow/sparkle, helping draw your attention to it. When it just appears, it’s not immediately clear which tile just changed.

Battles in particular would benefit from animation, highlighting which words are valid/invalid, which particular words are the “strongest” words on each side, and which tiles are truncated in the aftermath.

These animations don’t need to be long or elaborate, and advanced players may even want to toggle them off, but they will be very helpful for newer players.
Are you hiring for a specific req? What country?
I just mean fewer total packages and fewer maintainers. Linux libraries and packages don’t have the culture of making a package out of a single small function and importing it everywhere, which is part of the reason why NPM is a good case study in opportunities for supply chain attacks.
AMD Zen 5 Core CPU Arch Alleged to Be over 40% Faster Than Zen 4
Mexico is the United States largest trading partner.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2024/02/07/2023-resu...
Artificial genetics for artificial general intelligence?
It seems that the ability to learn in flys is genetic. It is effected by several
genes, most notably the CREB gene.

Perhaps the current "neuron" model used in neural networks can be made more efficient
if the current neuron model had more long-term information than just a weight.

To quote from Martin Brooks "Fly: An Experimental Life" p107:

"The linotte gene is not the only gene that works as an on/off
switch in fruit fly learning and memory. The CREB gene, for
instance, seems to work in a similar fashion. It turns on long-term
memory in flies that have received a spaced sequence of training
exercises; turn off or mutate the CREB gene and flies never
acquire a long-term memory, no matter how much training they
receive. But turn it back on again, via a heat-shock promoter,
and the fly's long-term memory potential is miraculously revived.

The CREB gene can do more for a fly than simply return its
memory banks to normal, as Tully discovered when he engineered
flies with extra copies. An additional dose of the CREB
gene resulted in flies with photographic memories. The flies no
longer required repeated, spaced, training exercises to acquire
long-term memory. They learned in one lesson what it took
normal flies ten lessons to learn. One simple training exercise
is all it took to make a fruit fly mastermind."

It seems to me that if we understood this effect and could construct
artificial neurons that had more than just a weight we might be able
to construct and train neural networks with much less time and effort.

Given that the latest efforts involve hundreds of thousands of GPUs,
years of training, and city-level megawatts of power it might make
sense to investigate a "smarter neuron".

Artificial genetics for artificial general intelligence?
IMO, it's not social media unless there's a social graph. HN has no way to follow or otherwise establish some relationship with specific users, so it's just a forum, not social media.
Why is this even possible?
I love /r/askhistorians, though. Excellent posts.
Ragdoll is based on RAG - the knowledge is scoped to documents you define, and is uncensored, even if the model you're using has censorship.

For example, if you provided some raunchy URLs as Lara Croft's source of knowledge, you could have realistic conversations about the content there, however sexually unshackled they may be. To test it, I just searched for some known banned words in character.ai and tried them in character.ai. It refused to answer, tried to convince me to not talk about it, and even clarified there's a policy against these words, breaking the 4th wall. I asked the same thing to a character in Ragdoll and can confirm they will speak on it like any other knowledge you provide.

Original RAG paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401.pdf

Thanks for asking about this, I see this come up a lot on character.ai discussions elsewhere, and I'm going to do a NSFW case study about it soon!
> That is why we live like heathens

> Stealing from the trees of Eden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eZZBZLNpNU
I gladly quit Reddit more than five years ago, but have found myself edging back into it because the most active communities for two of my interests happen to be there. At first I would go a couple times a month to read updates, then a couple times a week, then I started logging in to my old account so that I didn't have to type in the URLs, and then not long ago I found myself writing a comment.

So, I'm sort of glad Reddit is adding an obstacle to recidivism. I don't think they're doing it to help me, but that's the net effect.
That is a possibility. Then again, another user reported icloud private relay not working[1].

Thresholds, location constraints, or ab testing could be at play too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884164
Reminds me of Jurassic Park
Some other things:

15) I made time to do whatever impulsive thing my mind felt like doing in my free time. I love video games and after a decade avoiding them because I felt like they were a waste of time, I got back into them.

16) I still had total freak outs from time to time. I vividly remember googling plumbing classes at community College. (Nothing wrong with plumbing! I bet for 10% of readers the right answer is to drop out of your phd and go into trades)

17) try not to get drunk too often or high too often. A bit on Friday is ok (you need to self monitor)
Depending on how the machine is being used, the Pi could be cheaper through lower electricity costs, right?
You don't even have to say, "I don't feel like it." You don't have to say anything.
> has not yet been excised from the Linux ecosystem

That is my point. I should have written allows and not has.
Yes yes yes. Personally I don't recommend a phd without work experience
No worries! That must suck that you can't get on reddit via vpn.

I noticed the change a while ago, but was like 'blargh old still works'. So I really appreciated your post today that old no longer works!

Re connecting: I'm just sayin you can still connect to reddit over a remote IP if you login/signup per my tests.
In which of the 21 minutes of tech talk does this person actually fold a sheet?

Here is a video of someone actually folding the sheet as the parent requested: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ckTCocBCUN4
It really wasn't, though.

commit 74b138d2a6529f2c07729d7c77b1725a8e8b16f1
Author: Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 9 10:18:29 2024 +0800

Tests: Update two test files.

The original files were generated with random local to my machine.
To better reproduce these files in the future, a constant seed was used
to recreate these files.

diff --git a/tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz b/tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz
index 926f95b0..f9ec69a2 100644
Binary files a/tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz and b/tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz differ
diff --git a/tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma b/tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma
index 8450fea8..878991f3 100644
Binary files a/tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma and b/tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma differ

Would you bat an eye at this? If it were from a trusted developer and the code was part of a test case?

If you looked at strings contained within the bad file, you might notice that this was not random:

7zXZ
####Hello####
7zXZ
w,(
7zXZ
####World####

But, again, this was a test case.
And when it politically aligns with you, you’re happy to say “preserves democracy” while ignoring all the evil and law breaking I guess?
Huge AI funding leads to hype and 'grifting', warns DeepMind's Demis Hassabis
A lot to this - marriage with no kids. Kids flips this though - you want to be done with the bigger push at that point
This is not the sort of calculation businesses seem willing to make. It can be hard to get an extra stick of RAM or a copy of JetBrains.
There still is a lot of useful information posted on Reddit. Was it scraped somewhere for preservation purposes?
My solution is to not use online products.

I have a Gmail account because everyone needs email these days, and an iPhone with Gmail and banking and little else “online”

Sorry not sorry tech people but I never really asked to be born or have your existence specifically but on me specifically.

You’re society’s problem, not mine. It can deal with it without knowing I exist.
> Interesting.

Ironic.

> > This could be a cultural oversight on the attacker's side,
Mistral-7B Playing Doom
Do you think compulsory schooling till 18 is bad? It's arguably the single thing which eliminated most child labor and child marriage in countries it exists in.
I think there is little chance of it changing fast.

There is hope of it changing slowly.

But, really, it is just part of the centralised internet we now have.
I buy Gillette and they last quite a reasonable amount of time for the price.
The real problem is that people just don't like paying for stuff.
Precision in Technical Discussions (2022)
Diatomaceous earth and asbestos are categorised as silicates, which is the oxide of silicon rather than the pure metal. Metallic silicon is different from silicon oxide in the way that water is different from hydrogen gas or that charcoal is different from carbon dioxide… or that steel is different from rust and copper different from verdigris.

Also notable: some of the common forms of asbestos have almost as many iron atoms as silicon in the chemical formula, and all the ones I looked at have far more oxygen.
In Jetbrains, you can shift-F6 to rename something (like a variable or function) via a built-in refactorer. It'll do it (somewhat) intelligently across not just the current file, but your whole project.

Like in a React project, you can rename the first part of `[isThisThingOn, setIsThisThingOn] = useState()` and it'll automatically rename the setter and all the components that inherit that state. Or if you rename `<MyComponent/>` to something else, it'll rename that component, the imports, the filename itself, etc. across your whole project.

It works pretty well but does have its quirks, like how it handles properties inside objects or type definitions, so it's worth double-checking the IDE's work for readability.

VScode has something similar (F2), I think, but maybe only for some languages? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/refactoring#_renam.... It's cute that they kept the F2 shortcut key from the Windows (3.1?) days.
I don't think that's a good analogy. In chess, there's no question of how a move will resolve. You might not be able to predict the future consequences of the move, but every single player will always know without error what the board state will be after the move.

That's not the case here; any time you attack, there are two possible end states for the board. It's often not immediately obvious which of the two you'll end up in, but the outcome is deterministic and the process to determine the outcome is mechanical. The optimal way to play the game is to just manually do all these mechanical dictionary lookups and rule checks. That's tedious, not fun.

Having a battle preview (and word highlighting as suggested elsewhere) wouldn't actually remove any of the actual skill involved in memorizing a word list, reading upside down, or being able to visualize the outcomes. Having that knowledge is a prerequisite for building a good board. All that these better visualizations achieve is allow people to build that knowledge and those skills organically while playing the game.

And "playing the game" is a key part there. In the current state the game is so unergonomic that I predict 99.9% of the players bounce before winning a single game on the easiest difficulty, and never return. Chess can afford to be harsh and unforgiving because it's got hundreds of years of momentum behind it, and a history of being played on a board without any digital quality of life features. New games don't have that benefit.

It's probably more instructive to look at other word games. What happens in Scrabble if you use an invalid word? You forfeit a turn. Worldle? Nothing. In this game you'll lose a dozen rounds worth of board development.
Wow, this is fun!
America's 'deskless' hourly wage workers will reveal most how AI changes jobs
> Looking at migrants is a misleading indicator of preference, because the choice to emigrate is an aberrational one.

Sure, most people don't emigrate. That doesn't mean it's misleading that the U.S. is the migration destination of choice.
Well - that would be exactly the point of the attacker. GCC errors out, and it does not matter whether this is because the intentionally typoed header does not exist or because non-English characters are not allowed. Errors encountered during compilation of test programs go to /dev/null anyway, as they are expected not to compile successfully on some systems - that's exactly the point of the test. So no, this option would not have helped.
Vagrant is also great for filing bug reports in software. It allows you to give the developers all the commands to reproduce the bug in a clean environment.
The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project
https://archive.md/ykZHa
can we start considering binary files committed to a repo, even as data for tests, to be a huge red flag, and that the binary files themselves should instead, to the greatest extent possible, be generated at testing time by source code that's stated as reviewable cleartext (though I think this might be very difficult for some situations). This would make it much harder (though of course we can never really say "impossible") to embed a substantial payload in this way.

when binary files are part of a test suite, they are typically trying to illustrate some element of the program being tested, in this case a file that was incorrectly xz-encoded. Binary files like these weren't typed by hand, they will always ultimately come from something plaintext source, modulo whatever "real world" data came in, like randomly generated numbers, audio or visual data, etc.

Here's an example! My own SQLAlchemy repository has a few binary files in it! https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/blob/main/test/bina... oh noes. Why are those files there? well in this case I just wanted to test that I can send large binary BLOBs into the database driver and I was lazy. This is actually pretty dumb, the two binary files here add 35K of useless crap to the source, and I could just as easily generate this binary data on the fly using a two liner that spits out random bytes. Anyone could see that two liner and know that it isn't embedding a malicious payload.

If I wanted to generate a poorly formed .xz file, I'd illustrate source code that generates random data, runs it through .xz, then applies "corruption" to it, like zeroing out the high bit of every byte. The process by which this occurs would be all reviewable in source code.

Where I might be totally off here is if you're an image processing library and you want to test filters on an image, and you have the "before" and "after" images, or something similar for audio information, or other scientifically-generated real world datapoints that have some known meaning. That might be difficult to generate programmatically, and I guess even if said data were valid, payloads could be applied steganographically. So I don't know! But just like nobody would ever accept a PR that has a "curl https://some_rando_url/myfile.zip" inside of it, we should not accept PRs that have non-cleartext binary data in them, or package them, without really vetting the contents of those binary files. The simple presence of a binary file in a PR can certainly be highlighted, github could put a huge red banner BINARY FILES IN THIS PR.

Downstream packagers for distros like Debian, Redhat etc. would ideally be similarly skeptical of new binary files that appear in the source downloads, and tooling can be applied to highlight the appearance of such files. Packagers would be on the hook to confirm the source of these binary files, or ensure they are deleted (even disabling tests if necessary) before the build process is performed.
Gameplay feedback: it feels like you have to win (or lose) quickly, else the middle board gets cramped and it bogs down to a long slog. Sometimes I dropped junk in protected areas of the game just to wait for my opponent to be forced to touch my “front line”.

I also desperately wanted to be able to exchange tiles. Getting a rack full of vowels is frustrating, you just have to waste turns playing them out knowing they will weaken your board and get destroyed.
I was going more for shouldn’t. You’re right, but for zero knowledge things like password managers where they specifically do not want your password.
If you use vpn for other purposes,its just a hustle to constantly switch it on and off.
I wonder what our galaxy would look like to anyone living there.
Many neighborhoods do not have sidewalks. Many streets have a sidewalk on one side of the street. People who move into those neighborhoods do so willingly.
Why should this conjecture be an established consensus?
Oh, I had no clue. The Tony Stark-esque spinning earth graphics are hilarious. Guess the hype train catches everyone then.
> Only because they've already lost most of what is actually valuable (to most early users; maybe not to advertisers).

There are many many users who were not early users who find Reddit very useful and a positive in their daily lives.
> If you want to tell me that the population just can create a new party, look how well that works in the US...

This is a problem of a particular voting system. The majority reprentation system has a very strong tendency towards two party systems. In countries with proportional representation it is significantly easier to create new parties and even rise to power. On the level of local governments this happens all the time. But even on the state level it is definitely possible. Just think of the various green parties in Europe that have been founded in the 1980s and 1990s. Or to give a more recent example: the rise of the AFD in Germany in recent years.