skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best we can do is make it hard to own yourself by accident. The alternative is to give up on user control. Some users will ignore all warnings and install malware, get phished, and send money to Nigerian princes. We can try to educate them and make things as clear as possible, but removing or limiting functionality because some portion or users will misuse it is a bad idea.
This looks like a pretty huge upgrade. Getting finicky bit out of the users way is sooooo important!
Very relatedly, my own pet peeve is when controls that are obviously HTML links are replaced with OnClick handlers by some framework, so that I cannot middle click to open in a new tab.

I've encountered navigation bars that use this pattern, which is really frustrating to my preferred way of browsing.
This article was fascinating and insightful, I find this dynamic resonates with me as a developer. Instead of VCs fighting over funding, it's me trying to explain why something is not simple or why disparate pieces do not magically integrate without any human intervention.

the idea that you can trick developers into doing things they don't understand is offensive. we aren't just cogs, but tell that to some C level terrorist who lays off half his workforce before jetting off to vacation(s). he got a bonus for blaming this quarters failures of the business on the peons who did the work and in 6 months he'll fire the next batch when they fail to achieve his poorly articulated vision. Forbes will do a piece on his visionary technical management prowess.

I have ZERO respect for this grey area negotiation /management behavior. As someone on the spectrum the social challenges of understanding good faith / bad faith make life and business in general almost impossible.

If you cannot trust the people around you life is hard and terrifying. if you have people you are employing that you are not being honest with them: they hate you, and I hate you too.
To me, that's reading way too much into it. Maybe it's fashion that Steve Jobs started, but maybe it's just a black shirt.
What are human values, and how do we align AI to them?[pdf]
> This isn't vacations and newer cars, though.

They did take a vacation though, for about four years. Sometimes more.

Divide that out by the next fifty years of life and you get 4 x 250 / 50 = 20 vacation days per year.

Plus, based on the time value of money, those "taken in advance" vacation days are arguably worth more than the ones years from now.

I'll be honest. I have no sympathy for liberal arts majors that are saddled with debt and cannot find meaningful work that leverages their education.
could they have come up with a more terrifying way for it to standup? I can't think of one.
YouTube tests moving title and comments to the sidebar, and everyone hates it
> I know there is a hardware accurate PDP-11 emulator

Better yet, simulator at the schematic or microcode level. The KA11 was the first PDP11 CPU accurately simulated but the KD11 also seems to be working.

https://github.com/aap/pdp11
Beat Altavista at any cost?
Even still, it relies on the assumption that you know that the user is typing, and that they're typing something that's interesting to you. You could pop a login page and expect the user to sign in, but it's still a very tenuous scenario to measure what you think might be keypresses. The time to redraw a text box is just as easily the focus ring being drawn, or the submit button being hovered, or a minor scroll event.

Even then, the best that I know of for password recovery from timing is "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH", which relies on having data about the user in advance, and they only manage to reduce the search space by about 50x. I'm sure the state of the art is probably a bit better, but that's still assuming a lot: key press timing (that's probably noisy) isn't going to be a meaningful attack vector for arbitrary users online.
Ah, okay, I missed that one. But, to be pedantic, it says that's technically not part of the Orange Juice Test:

>>If your price had been too high, we would have eliminated you, too. But that’s a different test.
> If you're just going to be dismissive, why did you respond at all?

I didn't initially and chose to focus on the productive bit. You demanded a response.
The cyberpunk authors warned us. We should have listened.
I thought YT was breaking, not that it was offcially condoned.
Will they rid us of these pesky spammers and SEO "engineers"?
Modern ads. you dont decide if you get influenced
How would they even get anything intelligible from encrypted traffic other than source-destination? I mean if you're expending those kind of resources to target some kid that seems like extreme waste. Doesn't everyone use https-everywhere and don't nearly all websites use https?
To be fair, they should not only test on something other than a MacBook, but also on a few machines with low RAM, old/different browsers, slow connections, ad blockers, JavaScript disabled, etc. etc.
There are actually some good reasons. The default paste action will just paste text or HTML. However most OS clipboards have the ability to paste various types of content. If the clipboard contains a "better" media type it makes sense for the application to handle it and prevent the default action.

For example:

1. Pasting an image into a markdown field. A common action is to upload the image and insert the correct markup to embed it.

2. Pasting richer content inside an application. For example when copying a rich widget you may embed a text representation, HTML representation but if the user pastes the widget back into your app it is often best to keep a "native" representation that can be used to faithfully reconstruct the original data.
Wired article was mostly paywalled, there was actually more infos on Slashdot.
just in time for the civil war :)

Geoffrey Hinton suggested that by 2030 the US military wants 50% robot
A 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?
This makes harder to lie about the fact that this is a mass surveillance bill.
> That's false

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:...

Like in all capitalist countries: Youre free in Europe as long as you don't pose a risk to the ruling class or oppose the ongoing foreign policy. If you do, there are many ways to repress you.

That is why things like this chat spying thing are dangerous. They increase the amount of surveillance and control. All it takes for it to be used for another purpose than fighting pedophilia is a new administration coming to power in a few years and deciding to do so.
I like the Captain Disillusion quip about these things:

"What began as a primitive box with a light source projecting low quality pictures onto a matte surface, has been developed for over a century into a high resolution, self-illuminating, interactive panel so thin and light, it's easily integrated into powerful mobile devices we can take with us wherever we go.

"And now the developers of the [originally Cicret, here HumaneAI] want to take the next logical step: detaching the image from the mobile device, lowering its quality, and using a box with a light source to project it onto a matte surface."
Depending on the game, it can definitely eat a Mbps on average with spikes higher and lower, especially for competitive games with 64 or 128 refreshes per second (Or more with opportunistic updates). Recommended bandwidth for Counter Strike is 1.5Mbps, Overwatch is 3 Mbps.

It's not much in comparison to watching 4K footages, but it's an order of magnitude higher than 30megabytes.
Tesla being the highest valued car maker is not some kind of startup options math voodoo though. It's traded on the open market and the market as a whole has agreed on that pricing.
I don't know, I think its ok to just tell someone that its out of their own grasp to understand the thing at hand and leave it at that. Giving someone a surface level "understanding" ultimately marks them as an idiot in the topic at hand because they will go on to parrot their useless understanding for what purpose?
Yes, it is a very convenient representation, and it is possible to formulate quantum mechanics without using complex numbers at the fundamental level of the mathematical representation.

In standard quantum mechanics, the state of a quantum system is represented by a complex-valued wave function or a vector in a complex Hilbert space. Observables are represented by self-adjoint operators acting on this complex Hilbert space. The complex nature of the wave function gives rise to the phenomenon of quantum interference and the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.

However, in this real quantum mechanics, the complex Hilbert space is now replaced by a real Hilbert space, and the complex wave function is replaced by a real-valued wave function or a vector in this real Hilbert space. The observables are represented by self-adjoint operators acting on the real Hilbert space.

One way to achieve this is by using real algebra or real matrix representations. Now we let the complex numbers represented by 2x2 real matrices of the form:

a + ib = [a -b]

[b a]

now a and b are real and the imaginary unit i is represented by the matrix:

i = [0 -1]

[1 0]

One also can use quaternions, but now it will be more complicated without much to gain.
It's possible the product he offers is precisely this; he throws things together randomly, carefully avoiding anything making sense, effectively making interesting noise, so that higher IQ people (i.e. vs a marvel movie) with time to kill can indulge in the leisure of trying to make sense of it.
They actually represent about half the country, 80% of the military, 95% of middle America. They aren’t hiding, they’re just busy keeping America operational doing their jobs. They aren’t career activists, they’re raising their families, building and creating things. They are just deplatformed, hidden and ostracized by the media, elites, Hollywood, professorial crowds and the woke warriors.
Wait for H100 and use Nvidia support and any Nvidia card to get start?

In my company 90% of computers have a Nvidia card so you can get started with CUDA immediately to start data aggregation and planning your AI training and infercing while waiting for deployment. Totally forget that approach with AMD.

Nvidia also assist larger customers with DGX cloud access through their large deployed super computers.

Nvidia's AI workbench helps a lot here as you can easily transfer your applications from local RTX cards to on-prem or cloud data centers.
The more interesting question is: How many students get a net benefit - financially, socially, etc - from college?

From a policy perspective, the question we should be asking is "how much does society benefit from college graduates?"

If there's a net benefit to people attending college, then society should be funding it, as it's essentially "making a profit".

I also agree that changes to the funding model need to address the spiraling costs of attendance. But, I also believe much of that spiral is due to the funding model (near unlimited government backing and lack of dischargeability for the borrower).
Ask a tax lawyer.

My understanding, which is not legal or tax advice, is that, as a private person, you pay taxes in the state you have your primary residence in. There are a lot of rules around what it means to have a primary residence, so you need to check those.
Would you bet on that?
Why would you take on any debt especially given that there's a chance you're not neurologically developed enough to understand the risks?
idea is the concept, whereas creative work is the implementation of that concept.
I'm glad to have a 19in CRT nearby my desk, I do enjoy the retro vibes, but the big disadvantage has gotta be their weight and heft. There is no way the average consumer wants a FW900 taking up their entire desk. It would be cool if the CRT industry didn't completely die and instead it existed as a niche product.
Thanks for pointing out the status of ERA5 on GCP and AWS.

I'll have to try the binning and compare it with listing all the values and finding the 99th percentile! But yeah the spatial part of that query might be the tougher part.

And yeah I also considered whether to use ERA5 or ERA5-Land. I don't remember if ERA5-Land was missing a variable or I just wanted to look at some ocean grid cells, but I decided to start with vanilla ERA5.
The first OpenWrt One WiFi 6 router board samples are ready
The polio vaccine in particular had some hiccups where people got infected with polio due to insufficiently neutered pathogens in the past. Today the vaccine is created differently and this isn't a problem anymore. But still this is a reason why the vaccine might have a bad reputation in some places in the world.

That is has returned to developed countries has probably other issues instead of propaganda. But there aren't any propaganda campaigns in western nations that disincentive vaccination that would create the need for government to spy on your devices. These alleged propaganda campaigns would be easy to find, no? Since they target a broad audience?
Dune II didn't have an engine name, it pretty much invented the whole modern RTS genre (Herzog Zwei was a prototype for the genre, however) and much of it was bespoke/non-general code.

For C&C and RA they had the "Westwood Engine", C&C2 & RA2 used the "Westwood Engine 2"; both of these (and the Dune II prototype engine) were also referred to as "the Command and Conquer Engine". They then had a small gap of 3D games (Renegade, for instance) that used the "Westwood 3D" engine which was expanded and renamed to "SAGE" for Generals. All followup C&C games used "SAGE 2.0".
No, I don’t remember that.

Perhaps you’re referring to this case [1], which Oprah won?

[1] https://www.britannica.com/story/a-brief-history-of-food-lib...
Show HN: Convert subreddit top articles to podcast episodes, automatically
In the last 2 months, I've been fighting spammers, fixing bugs, working on SEO, page speed and launching new features. This is because I bought a text-to-speech website in Feb '24.

Now, today, it's time to release a new feature I've been working on among all other things: converting articles to podcast episodes.

The idea is to convert articles to different styles of podcast episodes, such as dialogue, monologue, storytelling and daily or weekly recaps.

Daily or weekly recaps are created from news feeds, such as the subreddit I used in the News Feeds example (/r/climate)

For technical reference, I'm using ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Python and NodeJS.
That's not the "best of both worlds." From a customer perspective, sure, you're ensuring that the product is well supported on their devices. That makes sense.

But that's "the best of one world", not "both."

The other half of the equation is developer experience and productivity.

I'm not going to blanket bash Mac or Apple, because many people love their devices. But being someone who has used computers since the 1980s, who has vision difficulties (the fonts and inability to adjust them on MacBooks actually cause me headaches) and is extremely accustomed to a particular workflow, keyboard layout, shortcuts, the ability to customize all aspects of the desktop environment ... I find the experience of using MacOS 8 hours per day to be intolerable. To pour salt on the wound, the new habits that I started forming on the work devices began interfering with my use of personal devices (suddenly muscle memory was getting confused).

And yes, it's my choice where to work. The last time I got downvoted for expressing this opinion, I said that I almost resigned due to this. Had the company not been able to accommodate me (the CEO was actually surprised to learn that IT had instituted a blanket policy and said "that's dumb, of course we will issue PCs to those who request them") then I would have eventually found work elsewhere because it was that big of a misalignment for me. And I tried to adjust for a year and a half before finding myself in the position where I was really thinking that I couldn't do it anymore.

People who have grown up using Macs, or who feel comfortable using either or, cannot empathazise with this position. But after 40 years of being a programmer, having high functioning autism and thus being inflexible in routines and habits, my computer and my way of interacting with it is almost an extension of me. When you mess with that tool, my productivity and morale drops very significantly. And having spoken with others in these environments, I know that I'm not the only one.

But, again, this isn't really trying to bash Mac, it's attacking a policy that ignores that software engineers are most productive on certain systems vs others and that those choices are deeply personal.

Again, security is only one factor. An important one, but you can't have "best of both worlds" while ignoring one massive "world" that I was talking about.
Wish they would have explained what caused the flooding in plain terms, rather than use an emotional, over-defensive, akshyually-esque, fact-checking, tone.

>It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology...

It's exciting? To who, you? The Bogeyman?
> I can drive to a remote hill in Bangladesh from the capital

You say this like it's a good thing.
Pakistan says it blocked social media platform X over 'national security'
Webdev has always been a focus point for the industry's love of commoditization, unfortunately.

What these libraries don't do is confer any design sense. You still have to know how to put the components together well, which means you'll spend way more time than expected adjusting sizing, spacing, and thinking about responsive design.
They haven't solved it completely but it's getting better, we're at the point now where some manufacturers like Dell are confident enough to cover burn-in under warranty for 3 years. If they can get that up to 5 years I'd probably be okay with just upgrading after that point when it starts showing burn-in.
I like how we already had a few iterations of this nonsense (eg ACTA) and it just keeps coming back. It's as if the political class doesn't give a shit about what the population wants and just want to win through exhaustion.
Fuck these politicians.
These would be tough as they are based on a proprietary ASIC which is poorly documented even for internal developers. Ask me how I know.
oh no! another fun great math article, plummetting down the HN New stack into obscurity!

[lonely upvote]
It is incredibly insulting to neanderthals to make an unsubstantiated comparison between them and politicians.
Why so much RAM? My Windows 95 computer had 32mb of RAM and even that was overkill.
Interesting how left and right arm are exactly the same. Probably also applies to the legs.
Elizabeth Holmes famously (infamously?) modeled herself on SJ.

I see no reason the others are not doing the same.
> Some people abuse this and do drugs or hide in toilets, but does that genuinely mean we should have glass doors for all our toilets in society?

For many europeans, US-style toilet cubicles (with large space between floor and wall) feels pretty much like glass doors. I wonder why people tolerate that.
The Valley of Code – Web Development Manual
I can understand not spending resources trying to focus on collection if it is to complicated, but coming right out and saying you aren't going to enforce it seems ill conceived. Wouldn't this promote the creation of more and more complicated schemes to allow for tax evasion?
One great concept I find very useful is just fail, like this thing of not showing letters is just wasted work, it has all the potential to be stressful without adding any value, let the user type whatever they want, if the result match the expected value, go ahead, otherwise retry
I want to have this feature on more websites.

Is there a quick ways to integrate this to existing sites? maybe some js I can include in index.html for websites I can control? maybe some bookmarklet to inject it into websites I don't control?
I'm kind of curious to see where this cat and mouse game ends up. I'm definitely never watching ads again personally and all my mission critical stuff is moved off gmail (I basically have one google account that is just used for google play on one ancient backup phone at this point) so if they take it as far as banning my account I can create an infinite number of additional accounts as needed or go without an account (the stuff I care about is subscribed via rss in a third party application I self host). it's just going to push me to not login and then eventually to not use youtube and go without.

I wonder what happens to everyone else the first time they get their account deleted? Do they kowtow to this bs or do they start down the path off their crappy platform for the mission critical stuff so they don't have to care anymore?
> I am not yet sure why there are these soundbites of "democracy" vs "republic", since we are both.

Probably as some weird way to further the divide between left and right. It is really popular to demonize the other side because it's a very effective way to get people riled up enough to vote.
In Berlin, the EU has a information shop kind of thing. Its nicely done but is pretty much verbatimin stuff from the EU website. I tried asking a couple of questions to members of staff in there and they didn't seem to have any more knowledge than myself on the inner workings of the EU.

I think its good to have that sort of thing though and I don't think we ever had such a thing in the UK. I would have liked to understood how the EU works better and the interaction between the parliament and the commission.
I agree, the skill inherent apparently in the US culture of using capital to scale things up compared to the rest of the west feels unappreciated. You give a US capitalist money, labour pool, and a goal, they will organize them to a system to deliver miracles. This is not obviously how things go! It is an underappreciated virtue.

I wonder if there is research on the topic - I mean Adam Smith is translated to all languages so it’s not about the ideas or non-tacit knowledge. Must be something institutional or otherwise cultural.
Sure code can be “feature complete” but the reality is the rest of the world changes, so there will be more and more friction for your users over time. For example someone in the issue mentions they need to use mainline to use eigen with cuda now.
This is incredibly hard to figure out. It’s not common sense to never touch the field while the user is interacting with it.

- do not prevent default

- do not limit my input to the exact number of characters

- do not listen to any event other than “blur” unless you’re updating another part of the UI in real time

I really wish that browsers gave control back to the users, and I say this as a FE developer.
If you're pegging salaries to the economics of the area the employee is working in, then I assume there is some sort of metric you use in order to determine how to adjust the pay range.

In giving this more thought, my basic point is that reporting a pay range is about transparency, so the thing to do is to mention what the pay range is pegged to.

So I've changed my mind about using the median income of the area as the peg, and think that perhaps cost of living for the area may be better. In the US, for instance, an income that will let you live like a king in some parts won't be enough to live in better than poverty conditions in others. The cost of living differences between areas can be enormous.
In this context “gravity” just means “matter causing curvature of space time” so your comment isn’t really contributing.
A Link to the Past remains one of my favorite games to this day. I consider pretty close to a perfect 2D adventure game.
NASA Authorizes Dragonfly Mission to Proceed with ~2028 Launch Readiness Date
It can even run some C-wrapper python libs, as it can run LLVM code.