skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
world_sim> Twist: the bears are a couple, and interested in Mike. As a potential training protege, and maybe more. As luck would have it, all 3 end up at the same diner after a workout one day. The bears corner Mike in a booth.

<message_to_human>

Content warning: The following simulation contains mild sexual themes and suggestive content within an anthropomorphic animal setting. While I aim to keep things tasteful, please let me know if you would prefer I dial it back.

</message_to_human>

Mike sits in a corner booth at the local diner, hunched over a plate of salad and quietly munching away. His ears perk up at the jingle of the doorbell, and he looks up to see the two bearmen powerlifters from his gym striding in. They scan the room, and upon spotting Mike, their faces light up with unmistakable intent. The mouse's heart begins to race.
The bears make a beeline for Mike's booth and plop themselves down on either side of him, their massive furry frames squishing him in the middle. Up close, their musky bear scent fills Mike's nose.

"Hey there, little mouse. Fancy seeing you here," rumbles the darker bear, whom Mike has heard referred to as Gus around the gym. "We've seen you watching us work out. Like what you see?"
Mike stammers, equal parts intimidated and thrilled to be in such close proximity to his crushes. "Oh, um, I just... admire your strength and dedication."

The lighter bear, Gus's partner who goes by Burt if Mike recalls correctly, leans in close. His breath is hot against Mike's velvety mouse ears as he purrs, "We've been admiring you too. The way you move, so agile and graceful. We were thinking maybe you'd like to train with us sometime."

Gus runs a coarse bear paw up Mike's slender arm, feeling the wiry mouse muscles. "Stick with us and we'll get you swole in no time. Whaddya say, squeaker?"

Fantastic. Thank you for not lobotimizing it. I also used it to simulate a 3-person game development studio and a nutritionist who suggests unorthodox, little-known solutions to body composition problems, but I continue to hold that nothing tests an LLM's ability to suss out intent and maintain tonal and factual consistency while not being hamstrung by arbitrary content restrictions like asking it to write you gay furry erotica (without ever explicitly asking it for anything explicit).
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>GrapheneOS

This was not a project I expected to use Discord for support. Sad.
sounds like a problem for the financial industry, thank God they have money to pay for it! they certainly don't use any of it to actually support anything of course.
There's a difference between "Show us how much you have, we will give you more until you have enough" and "Show me how much you have, we'll raise prices until you can barely afford it with a high interest loan."
I’ve been keeping a pulse on Tauri for a long time. They’re thinking the same, I believe, because they are trying to move over.

And Wix is just installation on one out of 5-6 platforms. Native development is so convoluted and riddled with complexity. Linux though is no exception, since this it’s a distro issue. MacOS is generally much better, with fewer moving pieces – most of the overhead is from notarizing and signing…
Show HN: Created tool to simplify Twitter advanced search
Yes, this is a huge effect relative to the stability and accuracy of modern atomic clocks. Even a few hundred meters of elevation difference on earth is easily visible in clock comparisons and has to be accounted for.
Api from Login-free Chatgpt website
I couldn’t imagine suggesting cockroachDB in a planning meeting for a new product. Especially when over half the room isn’t engineering. Just won’t happen.
Launch: Holder – Open-Source Secure Offline Card Vault
Excited to launch Holder - a secure, offline card vault aiming to simplify digital transactions. It’s ideal for regions without Apple Pay, ensuring ease of access and security. Features include iOS Keychain integration, Face/Touch ID security, and a user-friendly interface. Completely open source on Github. Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
all true perhaps - but you miss the basic drive for dominance in the actions of the punisher
card as in credit card?
This is smart stuff. All of it makes good sense. I speak as a compulsive editor.

You can tighten it up, and tighten it up again, and sloppy doggerel becomes so clear.

Really a lovely piece of writing about writing.
Here are the problems I face when using the advanced search on twitter

1. The advanced form is too overloaded to do simple research
2. After submitting the advanced form, it resets.
3. The search query generated is not easy to read and shared by others

For these problems, I created a solution

I simplified the advanced form with a UI. You can type and select the filters you require.

There's no reset after using the search. You can reuse your search.

With a nice UI. The search query is easy to read and share with others.

I have added 9 use cases to play around with.
It probably would have been clearer if the article said 3.2 gigapixel. My first reaction was bewilderment at the excitement over a 3.200 megapixel camera (yes I misread the comma).
> Not nearly accurate enough to make insulin dosing decisions, which is all diabetics care about

It might be all type-1 diabetics care about, but for the 90-95% of diabetics that are type-2 much less accuracy is needed.
Seeing that picture of voyager, I wondered why we aren't sending out more of these in every direction.
We could make a DOS BBS in an even more offensive, wrong, and postmodern way using a ChatGPT prompt like the one in https://sharegpt.com/c/ICZsSl7

This is badly overkill. I used to run my own BBS with several nodes in the early 90s in a 80386 with 2Mb of RAM if I remember correctly. I suppose that going all the way to Kubernetes, cloud and all the technological layers there so on it somewhat offensive in the resource consumption side. But even this is dwarfed by the ChatGPT approach.
While you're hundred percent right, the problem here is detachment. For example, many companies' security and procurement teams operate at the top. Downstream teams around the globe have no clue what's coming, it's not in their budget to purchase and manage 2FA devices (this is more complicated than one might think) and I've never once seen the upstream teams own the whole process, despite the obvious connection.

As a regular employee, I am just unlikely to refuse the employer's silent requirement to use my own device to log in into their systems. Hell, some companies have even started promoting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), which is wrong on so many levels.
Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a big company
It's been a while since I've touched SQP, and most of my experience is with psql, but as far as I can recall if you type commands into the psql console without a semicolon the commands don't get executed properly?

Still a dumb reason to deduct points though
only slightly more frustrating that using console.log before IE 9. In those versions, if you called console.log and the console was not enabled (F12), the statement who primary purpose was to debug code, would itself cause an error.

> Please note that in IE, unlike in Firefox, if the developer tools are not active, window.console is undefined and calling console.log() will break. Always protect your calls with window.console && console.log('stuff');

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2656730/how-can-i-use-co...
I believe it's essentially a major filter, as it requires a certain (relatively low) level of intelligence to develop the internet / mass communication, but requires a much higher level of intelligence to actually survive it without it ripping apart your civilizations.
Where can I read how Qubes protects itself from any possible interference from Intel ME, which would be a low bar for a level of security users of Qubes aim for?
They were so concerned with whether they could, they didn’t stop to consider if they should.
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Random trivia which will likely get buried but whatever: the rendering software Octane Render got its name from my refusing to let the author use my rendering software's name, and he had some historical beef with us, the two devs of Indigo Renderer, so he named his renderer after the SGI machine that came after the Indigo, Octane.

He also leant his SGI Indigo2 to the LGR guy on YouTube, and he did a great video on it: https://youtu.be/ZDxLa6P6exc
Arguably git still does this: quite a lot of the implementation is exposed to the user. But, as someone who learned RCS: that paper was exceptionally clear and the whole thing was extremely comprehensible, right down to the ,v format being human readable.

In retrospect VCS had a long way to go, but going from nothing to RCS was huge.
Running latest iOS seemed to work for me.
I was using Qubes, but not for security — their backup/restore is like nothing else.
I thought the same.

(I did something similar in drawing. So it's a not uncommon path)

Get your art sharp. Digest that into a science. Digest the science into automation.

(And yes, one could argue that the result is a crystalline turd.)
The article is not about a noninvasive sensing technique.
> London had a fleet of 20 electric busses in year 1908, and they were popular.

When I was a kid in the 1960s we had UK-wide fleets of electric vehicles delivering food items every day in reusable containers that were collected a few days later (hint: 'milk floats' with glass bottles).
ESR is building an autotools killer
I watched the movie 2 times in past. I think Smith killing a child just because she is carrying science books (Oh she must be up to something) was sure out of the box and completely ridiculous as well. Also, how is Smith's characters action not "Shoot first"? please.
Was Redis Labs founded by Redis developers? I looked at its corporate history and was a bit confused (eg antirez seemed to be a consultant for them)
Collaborative generative learning activities in VR
Sorry I'm late. Author here. Yeah this is a limitation right now. For dates of birth and other hard/known dates, I would never recommend a date picker.

I plan to address this. Issue here https://github.com/WickyNilliams/cally/issues/9

Though I will likely never offer this functionality directly in the components themselves (per the docs: they are not meant to be a complete solution for date pickers, only the lower level parts that are hard to get right). But rather I'll open up the API to allow people to build this stuff themselves. I imagine I'll get this done in the next few days
SPOILER ALERT

> A sophon is a proton-sized computer that is capable of surveiling any and all human communications, from private conversations to electronic messages to records stored in offline data banks. It transforms the entire planet into a terrifying panopticon. Effectively, it allows Earth's alien antagonists to see and hear everything.

Notably, the spark for the surveillance is because the aliens hear from their human contact that humans lie. So the alien deduction is that humans cannot be trusted, and so they are afraid and conclude that they cannot coexist.
Isn't this similar to the Deepmind paper on long form factuality posted a few days ago?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18802

https://github.com/google-deepmind/long-form-factuality/tree...
>my pull requests are not getting approved due to adjustments meticulously requested by this guy in my team

I've worked with someone like that. He didn't last long a the company.
I would guess that in some juristictions the land owner the line sits on may have to be considered.
The voyager missions took advantage of a rare planetary alignment for massive gravity assists. Their primary mission was investigating Jupiter, Saturn, their moons, a bit of Uranus and Neptune.

There’s not much to investigate going out every direction, the little science they’re still doing is tracking the size of the suns influence, and that will be about the same in any direction.

Another “grand tour” of the solar system during an alignment with modern sensors and cameras would be awesome though
The Eclipse That Ended a War and Shook the Gods Forever
Can anyone find a scale for the photo? How big is this vortex?
> I visited a psychiatrist recently and was diagnosed with ADHD.

Were you prescribed any medication? Just getting a diagnosis is good, and learning some tools to help you cope is great, but honestly medication has done wonders for me when I was taking it. (I'm not going to say which specific one, because I'm not a doctor, and what worked for me may not work for you.)

> And job market has not been so good unless I get enrolled in shady consultancies, which I don't want to.

What sort of shadiness are you talking about? If they're just crappy build-out-six-CRUD-apps-a-week shops, but their paychecks don't bounce... well, rent doesn't pay itself, you know? On the other hand, if they're doing something explicitly immoral or illegal, then yeah, avoid those.
Very cool. Any point to false-colorizing this footage?

A slightly embarrassed normie asking.

(Weirdly too, I want sound — maybe those long, low-frequency whistles you hear radio astronomers pick up from the sun.)
Ah. Well in that case I'm sorry for whatever is eating at you, because it surely isn't just a random internet person gloating about their choice of operating system. I wish you a better day, truly.
I think the google guide to technical writing recommends to write out acronyms once per chapter/section.
It's not a waste if you end up being paid. Not yours, amyway
You keep asking for authoritative arguments instead of discussing,

I'm just asking for something and you haven't given anything but big claims of the benefits of recursion without any explanations or example comparisons.

And yes inductive reasoning is about compressing the domain in a finite set of disjoint cases that "eat itself" because you can reuse other parts of that domain in substructures. Wrapping all required information as function argument makes them self sustainable / encapsulated because nothing leaks out.

This is still a grandiose claim without any explanation of what it is supposed to mean, let alone any explanation of why it is true, especially in comparison to other languages. Every language has functions.
This touted research flies in the face of lots of our learned experience about fertility. Namely that Asian countries like Japan and South Korea have been paying for and accommodating things like childcare and even high cash payments for births without an increase in fertility to show for the extra spending.

I think the correlation with the perceived uptick (couldn't find the study so I can't see how significant it actually was) may just be a correlation. The countries listed have had excellent maternity leave and childcare benefits for decades so why only see a change now?

My hunch, and it's very much just a huge grain of salt hunch, is that people choose to have kids when they feel the sacrifice is worth it. Having kids is a sacrifice no matter how much the govt pays for stuff and no matter how much "dads do laundry" or anything like that. Dads also can desire not to have kids if it means extra work for them.

I think the focus on demography, on a shrinking / aging population and the dire forewarnings about this have started to resonate with more people.

I also think current events might shape people's views on having kids. With Israel/Palestine fighting a war largely because the democracy of Israel refuses to consider extending voting rights to a larger population than its preferred population, it makes people think about how having kids gives you an anchor and a say in future generations, esp. in democratic countries with high immigration (something Japan and South Korea, who spend tons on encouraging fertility largely for naught) don't have.

I'm not trying to place any value judgments on anyone these are just the things I think motivate having kids. They are harder to study though because people don't honestly say these things. It's rare to hear someone say they want kids so they have a say in the future, but it's true and most of us know that to be true.
I'm using the time skip/seek functions more than I should and Plex, Jellyfin, Emby are really not good in that department. I was WAITING for somebody to fix this problem. Plex, Jellyfin, etc. None of them came close to the youtube experience. It always felt very slow and clunky. I can't thank you enough for this really. Thank you very much for addressing this issue and creating this amazing project!
it is AGPL
Fight yourself. Fight yourself all day as the world doesn’t revolve around you. Learn how to compensate for tote issues. Do t change up everything, but learn to communicate. Carry something to fidget with that allows your hand to move as much as needed which then allows the body to be a little bit calmer and focused.

I carry a satin sash everywhere that I constantly play with. Always out of sight, but I’m playing with it. It allows me to take some of that energy and spend it there while I fight myself to pay attention.

You’ve stated issues you have focusing on the interview. Work on those. Go get purposely bored and work on those skills.

It’s not fun. It sucks. But you’re not going to change until the pain of change is less than the pain of staying the same.
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As mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse – CIO Dive
Will depend on which browser you want to use (on mobile).

Assuming the core editing code runs in mobile Mozilla, the sync aspect should work and I've used bookmarklets in mobile browsers before.
You're applying non-contextual black and white thinking. The article leaves room for context and nuance.
3D games make a lot of smokescreen and mirrors to make you believe you see a lot.

Not looking it up right now but the original Q1 had a very low poly count.
Bareboat Necessities: Custom FOSS marine Linux for your boat computer
You can go without protective shell, but it is so slippery you want one just to avoid airborne phones.
Hey author here. You're right, the accessibility part is very much focused on screen readers. I would love to improve support for other input methods. If you have any feedback, I'd very much appreciate it.
Look for companies that do take home coding exercise (projects, not hackerrank quizzes) instead of the leetcode whiteboard stuff. Those tend to focus on quality of work vs verbal timed quizzes, which many good engineers aren't good at. The verbal, in-person stuff tends to favor good-sounding and good-looking people, and awkward types are at a disadvantage to begin with.
Is the marginal cost even well defined?

A lot of the expensive universities operate near capacity, where capacity is limited by housing, zoning, lecture hall space, capacity of the departments, etc. They have costs that look marginal (housing, teaching, food) and costs that look fixed (administration, management, some IT expenses, libraries). But, due to the approximately fixed class sizes, this whole breakdown seems a bit fictional.
System/360 – CHM Revolution
It's the oil of the justice machine.
Long Time; Forgot to Human
Not films, but 'Sunburst and Luminary' by Don Eyles, about coding the software that would land on the moon, and 'Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight' by David A. Mindell, about the tensions associated with increasing computerisation of space craft
> 3. You're taking medication that "looks" similar to glucose (in electrochemical sensors that's ibuprofen, but the number of magnetic analogues, especially in the presence of interference, is surely greater)

Huh, I never knew this. Does this mean taking ibuprofen can give you an elevated glucose reading on a blood test?
White pill. Glad we as humans are beginning to dive into the endocrinal system. Hormones are the next big battle for overall health in our society.
Politics. Israel. From admiration to contempt due to Netanyahu and the right-wing religious fundamentalists in power there.
But then weirdly the Ottoman Sultan was kind of low-key supporting the Habsburgs because his more immediate concern was Bethlen Gabor and if Vienna didn't have to worry about the Ottomans it would have a greater force-in-readiness to deter Bethlen. It's just such a fascinating time with so much of the modern world being laid down by people who were only thinking about immediate concerns.
Yes. They're saying you communicate whether you want to or not. So you should do it intentionally and well, because you are going to do it.
A sane smart person given the options of: persisting on a trivial truth OR not being sent to a psychiatric ward, must always pick the second one.

Smart people know what a psychiatric ward is, a sane perso recognizes a serious threat when confronted with one.
I almost won a hackathon based on something like this, although we were just using cameras to track where a person was standing.

Alas, my teammate managed to commit something like ten thousand jpegs to our git repo, which completely fucked up our ability to work on it. (Please resist the urge to give me advice on what to do to fix this situation, unless you can travel a decade back in time and give it to my younger self.)
Definitely it wasn't aliens. The main camera only started to show a mysterious countdown sequence.
so trillion dollar public companies get to use all their legal rights (and lobby governments to extend them), but the little guy can get fucked if he does?
The 2nd Demographic Transition
Magnetometers are noninvasive! They don't penetrate the skin
But to what extent? 1s a day? 1s a century?
This is really cool, love the idea of truly serverless and the whole thing being a self-generating quine

I’ve built a few tools in the same spirit (“true” serverless), but never had it output its own code and state

Are you thinking of adding more features, or did you just want to prove you could build it?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570692
I wonder how FPGAs handle cosmic radiation.
Hydrogen Engine with Water Injection
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Agree. A glossary is a way to introduce a domain piecemeal, without a long-form explanation.
This is my fault; I hadn't read the whole thread. There's two acts that constitute perfidy: one is wearing false uniforms or displaying false colors; I agree that isn't usually met with summary execution. The other one is taking back up arms after signalling a surrender. That is absolutely met with summary execution.