skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to offer a more comical tinnitus anecdote as someone with a moderate hereditary hearing impairment. I have always had tinnitus for as long as I remember. Usually it's a constant ringing that gets more intense until it stops.
When I was very young I described it to the school district audiologist as "hearing trains", or at least that's what I remember of trying to describe the sensation as a five year old.

It never really bothered me to be honest. I was always a little baffled when I read stories about it ruining someone's life. Then two years ago I had just moved into a new house. After returning from a roadtrip I started hearing what I was convinced was a smoke detector beeping due to low battery in mostly my left ear. I looked everywhere for the source of the beep. In the attic, in the crawlspace, in the garage, everywhere. I started to wonder if maybe it was in my head, but from time to time I would hear the beep and once again scour the house for the source of the mystery beep.

Finally, I went on another trip and lo and behold, I heard the beep in the dead of night in my hotel room. After that, I knew it was a new tinnitus symptom. My theory is that possibly having the windows down while I was driving on such a long trip caused new hearing loss and produced new tinnitus symptoms. Luckily, I feel that being able to recognize that it is no different than the tinnitus I have always had, and that it is something outside of my control seems to allow me to remain unbothered once again.
Unrelated but I’ve seen and appreciated your posts on some totally unrelated topics - like Vietnam politics and Indian ghost cities and now, Hinton’s history in Compsci. How the hell do you know so many different things and in, what looks to me, considerable depth?

Not trolling, genuinely impressed.
Still they'll hang up if you announce your recording explicitly, go ahead and try that on your cell provider, ISP or bank.
I am responding to Hinton's transparently false claim that LLMs know more than we do despite having less synapses. This is only true if you ignore non-textual information in the human brain. This is stupid and dishonest.

Really not sure what your point is, it has nothing to do with Hinton's claim, and nothing to do with my comment.
LKML: Expose TSO for virtualized Linux on Apple Silicon
I would wonder what the bank's plan for that is.

If your bank can be "talked out of" requiring the second factor, then what good is 2FA? Hopefully they would at least require actual identification.
Jews not "being a thing" in Europe from the 1200s until the 1800s is so preposterously wrong it's hard to know where to start. The Spanish expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, with the subsequent very famous Spanish Inquisition, might be a decent place to start reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Jews_from_Spain

Spain is about as West as you can go and still be in Europe...

And where do you think the Jews in the 1800s in Europe came from? Of course, they'd been there all along, except in the countries that actively ethnically cleansed them like Spain.
This scam has been going on for a few years and outside the US as well, I just received another two such scam texts overnight. They pretend to send payment demands as local toll operators although links do not look convincing.

I ended up logging a support ticket with my local telco 2-3 years back, and got a phone call back from an engineer who stated that the scam messages are mostly spread by infected (unpatched) Android phones that the malware runs on.

The curious thing the engineer also mentioned was that they were applying mitigations on the telco side – to suspend the infected phones from accessing the mobile network and notifying the user of the problem. Although with many Android phones no longer receiving security updates any more, I am not sure what the recourse could be for an average user Joe.
And on the other end can have hi-res DACs not limited by crapily-negotiated codecs.
I don't think the IRS doesn't actually get all of your W2s, 1099s in time to do your taxes. I've made a few mistakes, and it always took the IRS a year or two to catch them with the info they have (and I'm sure automatically). The big kicker is the 1099 that is generated when they sell stock from an RSU grant to cover ordinary income taxes of that grant. Ugh.

Using TurboTax, I usually have to add them by importing a PDF, and then double check that they didn't make any errors in the import (this year they forgot to add taxes my wife paid on her W2, oops!). The value of tax prep software isn't in "knowing" all your forms, however, I can get those easy enough. It is in asking questions and doing all the computations. Seriously, a decision tree and some auto computed fields would be good enough.
Newly Found Genetic Variant Defends Against Alzheimer's Disease
Does anyone know how the data a stored, where at, what tech etc? I can only assume that the retention policies are in decades
It can be operated w/o a host. It offers the ability to connect 16 lanes (or is it 32?) of PCIe Gen5. It has a 1 GbE management port, a BMC running OpenBMC, and a 400GbE NIC that does crypto offload.

The debug environment is FANTASTIC.. you can remote attach a gdb, set breaks, and step through bootup. It made it super easy to get our OS going on it (especially when I couldn't talk to the serial-on-lan port for a stupid reason, and could not get into the box.. I could at least use the debugger to verify we were booting).
US economy up 40% since 2020? What has got all of the big tech companies so spooked? Why all these layoffs?

My 401k isn't up 40%. My salary isn't up 40%. How is it even possible that the very people who are hoovering-up all this money the same people who are totally freaked out?
I agree with you, but view the 'passion' effect as one of 'passion pay', i.e. holding a position that you 'love' or is seen to be high-status is a form of non-monetary remuneration (or benefit), which is a substitute for wages. Being treated well is another form of non-monetary remuneration (whereas being treated poorly is the opposite).
What were they after?
LFP batteries do catch fire. They just don't burn as vigorously as NCM batteries.
then why did these attacks explode in popularity in 2018 and all involve crypto? Bank transfers can be reversed and can take days to process and have more security checks, crypto is instant and irreversible and the security checks much weaker.
Related Asahi submission from Hector Martin, https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240411132853.GA26481@willie-t...

This series has been brewing in the downstream Asahi Linux tree for a while now, and ships to thousands of users. A subset have been using it with FEX-Emu, which already supports this feature .. The Apple support works on bare metal and *should* work exactly the same way on macOS VMs (as alluded to by Zayd in his independent submission .. KVM support for this is left for a future patchset.
So, I didn’t read you that way, and, fair enough. But that’s still not true. Antisemitism was racialized in Spain, too, and I think you can find sources for earlier strains. And all “scientific racism” will of course stem from the 1800s, along with science itself.
Nothing displaced anything. Transformers dominate NLP, CNNs dominate vision. That's the standard thing in deep learning, where a new architecture is proposed every few years that brings about a new revolution in one sub-field of AI research, then performance plateaus and everything stagnates until the Next Big Thing in AI comes around and the hype train choo-choos in another town, another domain, another modality, whatever.

I've had the misfortune of starting my MSc (ML and data science) just 2 years after the ImageNet moment and I've lived through all the heights of hype. By my count, in the last 10 years or so, the hype train whistled at MLPs (for speech recog), CNNs, LSTMs, GANs, DQNs, Transformers, and Diffusion models. Note well that each of those architectures still dominates its domain (maybe with the exception of GANs). For instance, nobody seriously considers replacing CNNs with Transformers for vision (oh, people are trying) but nobody makes a big fuss about how beating ImageNet heralds a new age of AGI right around the corner, anymore either. In fact nobody talks much about CNNs today, hence the impression that Transformers "displaced" them: only in the headlines.

In all probability, in a few years, just as the LLM hype starts to deflate, the Next Big Thing will arise that will take us one more step closer to AGI, Zeno's paradox-style.

/cynic
It concludes "There’s further optimization left to be made by locking individual HashSets instead of the entire follows or following set, but we can leave that for a later day."

The other optimization that I would try is replacing those u64 keys with u32. There are only a few million accounts at present so there's a lot of growth room before 32 bits become inadequate. RAM is cheap, but making values smaller allows you to fit more of them into CPU cache, which often gives worthwhile speedups.
Apple: No notes taken at executive meetings
BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
Submitting because I'm surprised why this isn't used more... couldn't we build a virtualmachine/OS's as an overlay on BTFS? Seems like an interesting direction.
Trust Wallet warns Apple iOS users of iMessage vulnerability
Common estimates are that WWII killed 50
million to 100 million people. So, wanted
to get some understanding of how it
happened, how to avoid such, and looked at
many descriptions of that history.

I'm just a US citizen, not a professional
historian, and here have only rough
explanations, maybe not 100% wrong.

A really short description: Hitler became
a dictator and then went nuts.

For a little more:

(1) Foundation. The German culture
didn't have much in resistance, walls,
defenses, etc. against a dictatorship.
Hopefully our US Constitution and three
branches of government will have the US do
better.

(2) Provocation. Germany suffered in WWI,
the provisions of the Treaty of
Versailles, some massive monetary
inflation, and, then, the Great
Depression.

(3) Unification. Early on, say, starting
near 1933, Hitler was an effective speaker
and able to exploit the culture and
the provication politically to unify
Germany.

(4) Success. Soon Hitler was a dictator
and had something of a 4 year plan to get
the economy going again. In simple terms,
the plan worked.

Hitler and Germany could'a stopped there
and likely been okay.

(5) Empire. Long in Europe, the idea of
an empire was common, and Hitler wanted
one and started grabbing land.

There was the reaction of the conference
and treaty at Munich, 9/30/1938.

Hitler could'a stopped there, but, nope,
he was only beginning. He had an excuse
he could use -- his master race wanted
living space.

(6) Poland. He attacked Poland and
quickly occupied about half of it. An
excuse was that he wanted the piece of
Poland that separated Germany and East
Prussia. France and England responded
with war on Germany, but it didn't do
much. Hitler could'a stopped there.

By then Hitler had done lots of ugly
things and got away with them, e.g., the
Holocaust.

(7) Military. Hitler's military did well
in fast attacks against opponents not yet
taking war seriously.

For longer, larger battles, his military
was not good: His airplanes didn't have
enough range to do well bombing England.
England's defense -- radar, Spitfires --
was good; Hitler's losses were high; and
he gave up.

He could'a stopped there.

Instead, he attacked Russia; his front and
supply lines were both too long; and
Russia was too much for his "fast attack
military".

(8) Two Fronts. While Hitler was losing
in Russia, the US and England did the
D-Day attack at Normandy and quickly ran
to Germany. He was in a "two front" war
with both fronts long lasting and too
much for his "fast attack military".

(9) Nuts. He had lots of chances to stop
in place, declare victory, sign some
papers, and live in peace. Instead, as
his attack on Russia was failing he went
nuts and went even more nuts after D-Day.

Lesson: Too commonly, if make a human a
dictator, they will be short on
constraints and do nutty things, e.g.,
want to take over the world. So, have a
constitution and a democracy that keeps
out dictators.
No one's shopping for low security. They just end up with it because they don't care.
How to Revitalize Arts and Culture
If you've got the "best engineer I ever worked with" in your employ, is firing him really the best option? Was he even asked how to get 100% of his time, effort and attention? Or even 50%? What if instead of trying to squeeze 3 jobs into Mon-Fri 9-5 he was given free reign to schedule his own hours, including nights and weekends?

It just seems that terminating the relationship without exploring other options is more of a jealousy/pissed-off reaction than a rational decision.
Virtua Racer was the only game with an extra chip for 3D. Everything else on that system is running straight off a ROM.
I had one of these recently! https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/pull/133/files

They're /incredibly/ rare though.
The chelated magnesium I asked a local pharmacy to manipulate, but any reputable brand should work. The protocol is 300-400mg daily for 3 months. Toxicity is hard to achieve, the body will store Mg on the bones for when you need and the excess goes in urine, but drink plenty of water.

Gingko look for the standardized extract Egb 761. See this study for dosage: https://arquivosdeorl.org.br/additional/acervo_port.asp?id=1...
He's informed enough about the American conservative rhetorical techniques to claim he's being canceled and cast himself as the victim. Isn't it ironic?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240415235814/https://news.ycom...
what exactly do capital letters make easier to read? i dont think readability is why they are used for proper nouns, names, nor the pronoun I. and obviously ALL CAPS isnt a readbility improvement either. presumably just as delineation of one sentence to the next? (forgive my ironic non-use of caps to start sentences haha).
As I recall, Wowbagger specifically does not care about rigor in such details. He's not even that careful about duplicates.
Twenty Thousand Hertz had a great episode on this!

https://overcast.fm/+MLcai50Js
My understanding of the vigiles was that they were under the direct command of centurions, despite being largely slaves, and were organized into barracks. Vigiles could achieve higher or more desirable ranks directly through their service.

The vigiles centurions were military men.

I think it's fair to say, "welllll sorta" to my assertion that they were military, given it was predominantly their individual commanders that were military. But I would assert most folks would find it unfamiliar to think of their local police force being commanded by a military commander.

Edit: I want to address directly the idea that the role of police would be conducted by the army, historically. One, sorta, depends historically, but two that's reinforcing my point -- the role police fill has been achieved by many different things in human history, from mobs to armies to uniformed civilian police. We must not accept that the police as they exist today are the only way policing can be done. So often, people fail to imagine better or different ways of achieving that role because they assume it's the way it's always been.

My whole point is that police, as we understand them today, is not the way they've always been. We can and should question whether this latest evolution of the role is still the right one.
Ask HN: Flutter or React Native?
Especially since the recent push for "Real ID" required to fly. Ok if it's so "Real" it should be easily scanned and verified.

When you get your phone they should hand you a pamphlet saying that when you lose your phone this is the process, these are the risks, and offer you the option to upgrade the security to require, say, a passport to restore your account.
New Study Finds No Evidence for Bergmann's Rule in Mesozoic Dinos or Mammals
24% tax rate for single filers $89,076 to $170,050 or for a married couple $178,151 to $340,100

I realize there are other tax burdens but you are hard pressed to get higher than 45%
I love how they dress it up as "may be recorded", as if whenever you hear that message there's a small chance the recording isn't sitting in some S3 bucket.
Indeed, and once the 'McDonalds propaganda' folder has been laundered through the weights, there is no reliable way to scrub it, particularly without knowing what was in it - any generated data might contain a subtle echo of it.
When we're talking about a "brilliant" engineer, the "best I ever worked with", the wise manager looks for ways to adjust the employer-employee relationship keep him, not seeks reasons to immediately terminate.
Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL Mars Sample Return mission
Imagine making a mean comment on YouTube and losing access to your bank account (everything runs on SMS 2FA)

No human to talk to, no appeals process. Don't trust Google, they are indifferent.
https://archive.ph/rwNbL
You can and should.
As much as I love emacs beautifying it almost seems redundant when the font rendering and symbols are so blurry and ugly anyway
> IMDB is owned by Amazon, therefore, their recommendation algorithms are quite good.

Amazon user since day 1 or thereabouts. Their recommendation algorithm has never ever been useful to me. Anecdata, I know.
The “re-“ part of “re-established” suggests that this is a modification of an existing thing, no?
Independently of anything else: Yes, you should learn Haskell :)

If Go is more your speed, here's an implementation in Go: https://git.lukeshu.com/btrfs-progs-ng/tree/cmd/btrfs-rec/in... (though it is slightly complicated by the fact that it allows 'substr' to include fixed-length wildcards).
Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense
How Not to Advocate for Free Speech
If they announce it then you don't have to.
Protecting a person makes sense, but a lake is not going to sue for its role in the story. These details feel sketchy, and that is sort of the take away from the original piece: when someone is unreliable in one area, they are more suspect in others. To be charitable, the author maybe lost that detail of the story, but they could easily have substituted a generic 'lake in Golden Gate Park'. Or they could just use Google Maps to find Stow, Lloyd, Spreckles lakes (Elk Glenn, and the Chain of Lakes lakes would be unsuitable for boat jousts).
Can the built in install of openssh generate keys? That’s why I have putty installed
Fedora Strategy 2028: April 2024 Update
How are public keys a pain in the ass?
A Business and its Beliefs

Conquest of Mind
There is way too much joy, pleasure, and pride in the grift that I have seen in the Kitboga, Pierogi, and Jim Browning videos for me to worry or care too much about these folks being victims themselves. My bet is those folks are there by choice and are knowingly doing wrong. Screw them…even if they are doing wrong out of desperation, they are still doing wrong.
https://archive.ph/N2lpM
Car brained people as soon as a new weapon is invented: "how can I use this to kill someone driving 5km/h faster/slower than me?"
Correct. The dileneation of one sentence to the next, which is somewhat an indicator of the end of one thought - or fragment of thought - and the beginning of the next.
There is maybe some room for design too (Figma), but there are many times I wish it DIDN'T do that and encouraged better frame/file organization instead.

Similarly, it's too often used for (mis)organization, like in Miro or Prezi or "mind map" apps. I feel like those try to shoehorn information into Sherlock-like "mind palaces" in a way that only makes sense for the creator but are inscrutable to everyone else and just makes information harder to find later on. They always lead to some sort of pixel-hunting where the presenter zooms out and in, out and in, out and in, wasting time on navigation and placefinding instead of information dissemination.

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On the other hand, it CAN be useful for some visualizations, like taxonomy: https://itol.embl.de/itol.cgi or https://www.onezoom.org/life.html

"Drill down for details" like in disk space analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKClylmlv3w&t=1s (or similar one in D3: https://observablehq.com/@d3/zoomable-sunburst)

Treemaps: https://observablehq.com/@d3/zoomable-treemap

I think the overall point is some types of hierarchical information naturally lend themselves to "drill down" type UIs more than others. When you have levels of detail you don't need to see at first glance, drilling/zooming is awesome. When you have a bunch of things of equal hierarchy, presenting them in a big flat pile isn't any better in the virtual world than in the real world... it's the digital equivalent of 10,000 sticky notes on a wall.
i am interested to see the ai usage, i think the package descriptions are a tad suspect, but triage could be very interesting
> Generative AI is a miracle

Machine learning is a miracle, as in the ability to transcribe speech, detect objects in photos, translate between languages, etc.

Generative AI in the sense of prompt engines like ChatGPT/Stable Diffusion/etc.? Absolutely the f not!
Can't stop the signal.
I see some (including RMS) get hung up on the term "piracy", even though for most people the word pirate is not really associated with real-world crime and criminals, its a fun cartoonish thing, Jolly Roger hat, eyepatch, hook hand, wooden leg, parrot on the shoulder, arrr etc. They don't think of pirates on the Somalian coast holding AK47s.
Rodentia have a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

Thylacomyidae are a 'pouched mouse' in bad Greek ... however Bilbies are pretty damn cute.

https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&as_epq=bilby&cr=countr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrotis

Bilby monitoring: https://youtu.be/J7h9V4aKlJw?t=251

and I strongly recommend the Easter Bilby to all: https://www.savethebilbyfund.org.au/bilbies-not-bunnies-at-e...
It’s possible to lock this down, don’t misunderstand me. I’m saying it’s unlikely for a security team to make this decision on a system where pageant.exe is allowed to run.
Let me just explain my situation.

We were directed to use our new corporate SFTP instead of direct communication with our vendors and customers.

I tried direct ssh on the second account they gave us, got a shell, pulled /etc/passed, and my manager mailed it to corporate security.

We had a long talk about configuring ssh. I don't know if it helped.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Docker or other container-based strategies. In my world, Docker has neatly, cleanly and -- perhaps most importantly -- _portably_ addressed all of the "environment management" and "Python version management" concerns outlined in this post.
The AI Buzzword Salad
Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
Id imagine most of the customers of paymyGENERIC_SERVICE.com would see not having to touch DNS as a useful feature of the payment collection service.
Why do people post the same trite thing that's been said a thousand times before, over and over again? It makes for boring conversation. "Birds don't have ailerons"? Is that supposed to be a smart retort? To what?

This site is supposed to be about curious conversation but sometimes it's like AI Tropes.
If it's just the text that they're concerned about, then putting that text (email and website text content) into something that can track changes is the right solution. Developers would use git. You could use Google Docs with a separate one for each email template and website content. Maybe MS Word if they use Sharepoint.

The simple answer is probably Google Docs with all the tracking and collaboration turned on so that every change is tracked by who made it and when. But again, that's only relevant for the text and maybe minimal layout.
Doesn't Google Fi use T-Mobile's network as an MVNO? Are they insulated from this kind of thing still?