skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This also makes me think about Descartes' ball of wax - which he handled while pondering the Great Deceiver. One of his great writing techniques was to bring the reader to the room where he was writing at that moment in time.
I don't know to reconcile the idea that Free Will as a concept obviously cannot exist (because the omnipresent Laws of Physics govern the movement of the particles inside my skull as they do all other particles), with the fact that it just feels so real...
I agree. As I explained to my sister in law, I try to stay with just plain text. Pushed to something else has me tempted to scream, say loudly enough to blow down trees for a radius of 20 miles.
Amount of text is seldomly a metric for good or bad texts, some stuff needs explaining.
Especially when dealing with matters like this where others do not warrant their positions.

> This portion is rarely discussed. The algorithm that serves content, should be the algorithm that serves content. If kid who likes STEM in America searches STEM content, kid in America should get STEM content. Same in China. Kid likes STEM content, kids get STEM content.

Really?
Then this investigation should be wrong, but they are a reputable source and I trust them, especially since that is not the only report or the only source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_Lu1S0sII

> "Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?" Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, 'Essays on Mind and Matter'

That is THE MOST inhumane and humanity denying thing I have read today.
It does not matter the color of your skin or the cultural background of your upbringing, we all bleed when stabbed and we all feel pain and fear. If that sentiment is still alive in the governing ranks of that country and wide spread we should all be very very careful and worried.

> (example based on physical addiction) If I was a smoker, and Phillip Morris completely changed it's marketing near me, and sold completely different cigarettes in my local area that were wildly different than the market standard, just because there was a local smoker inhabiting the area, I'd be furious. Especially if they were "dumbed down" versions of what actual smokers got.

A) you would have to notice to be upset
B) that is not how services and the internet work. We could sit side by side and use the same app and visit the same website and could,depending on connection or identifying markers still see totally different content or sentiments being expressed. Considering that we are on HN, I fear you know and you played that card deliberately non the less.

> If a website serves me wildly different content, even if we search for the same terms, have the same interests, then that's a load of BS. And if I was in China, I'd also be vaguely annoyed at the nanny state behavior.

Search for Tienamen Square inside the GFW and outside and also add the word Massacre to it and observe.
We also see a less politically colored version of this in general dubbed the Search Engine Bubble.
Also, you are free to be annoyed, but if you speak up you might also be 'free' to receive a free political 'reeducation' or sanctions.
No, I don’t. That was purposefully tongue-in-cheek.
Hinton, Bengio, Stuart Russell and other behemoths voice similar concerns over AI, with enough confidence to switch their careers (e.g. Bengio now doing safety research at Mila, Ilya Sutskever switching from capabilities to alignment at OpenAI, Hinton quitting job to focus on advocacy)

Their concern isn’t about today’s generative LLMs, it’s about tomorrow’s autonomous, goal driven AGI systems. And they clearly got presented with the arguments for the limitations of auto regressive models, but disagreed.

So, it seems a little much to place absolute confidence into it being a non-issue, because they just don’t understand something LeCun and others do. (with the same holding true the other way around)
Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2B for Trump Media stock performance
Computer game in school made students better at detecting fake news
Make people as poor as we are in europe so they cannot afford a car.
While I haven’t tried it myself yet, I remember finding nest.land[1] and thinking decentralization is a beautiful approach to something as centrally important to the JS development world as packages are.

I also remember thinking it‘s the first and only thing I‘ve ever seen where using the blockchain as the technical basis for it makes sense and isn‘t tacked on for grfiting purposes.

[1] https://nest.land
Yet another reason to regard diamond jewelry as a shameless scam.
How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away
A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter
https://www.marketplace.org/2021/07/08/didnt-use-your-airlin...

Sounds complicated.
Aggression is not excusable. I am fond of American values, but unprovoked aggression is not one of them.
I think the defining factor of 'old age' is the degree of one's utility to the community. Past the point of this utility one becomes a sort of 'living paperweight' - cherished for aesthetic and emotional reasons. With the retirement age increasing in the west, we may see 'older young people'.
From my point of view you are really lucky, or you’re always flying the same stable routes.
Well, this is government. Once these keys exist every year there will be new organizations that get access. Secret service, police, justice system, IRS, youth services, ... all will be added one after the other.
Controversial to be sure. But I'd challenge down-voters to instead (additionally?) provide a framework of their envisioned "conceivable alternative" new world order which would be more peaceful, just, and better to live in.
I think they're both trying to show how smart they are - the interviewer in a big-brain intellectual fashion, and the author in an arch way to show what a rebel he is.
Interesting perspective. Coming from the perspective of a non-US defence executive, I will have to say that failing demos are quite normal in defence applications. It happens, and you still win contracts, because the end client sees the value prop and trusts you to sort out the issues. Still nerve wrecking though.
MDN article Using data attributes describing HTML syntax, JavaScript access and CSS access, and a caveat about accessibility: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Howto/Us...

Also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att..., which says:

> The data-* global attributes form a class of attributes called custom data attributes, that allow proprietary information to be exchanged between the HTML and its DOM representation by scripts.
My mom moved out of her parents' house and got by with odd jobs in Chico and renting with students when she was 16 in the 70's. Though to be fair she might be omitting some details. Apparently she decided she'd had enough of living with her parents. Life was different when everything was cash.

I really think we do our offspring a disservice by raising them like they're babies until they're 20.
Great video! Are you saying that if functional programmers explained FP like the video (i.e. focusing on the benefits of simpler code) then fewer people would be scared of it?
> No one company should be more than 15% of your portfolio. Even the one you work at.

Tell that to the guy who went all-in for NVidia employee share purchase plan and is worth more than 50M USD. (I think it was a Register article posted here recently.) Sometimes the gamble is worth it. That said, for every one of those once-in-a-lifetime stories, there are many, many more about engineers who walked away from post-IPO start-ups with very little wealth gained. So many have posted here before, it just isn't worth it.
Because they enable you to involve things typically unrelated (i.e. two types of embeddings), think and understand and manipulate them in a simpler mathematical model (a single vector) and see how you can then apply the most fundamental mathematical operations (e.g. cosine similarity) in terms of simpler outputs/metrics. It enables a form of creativity in other words; it makes you see things like the math in Transformers in a less anxious light as you understand how these things can overlay into a simpler intuitive understanding.
Trouble is tech services are needed by such organizations, in my case it was IT and electronics.

It's when things go wrong as they sometimes do, and mainly when users screw up using the services—no matter how much has been plowed into training—that it comes unstuck.

Management wants assurances that services will be more reliable but they don't have the interest or understanding to be helpful, this lack of understanding manifests as insufficient budgets and etc.

So what does one do? Well aware of C.P. Snows' two cultures problem, I hire consultants who are at arm's length to (a) check my operation is working efficiently (and it passes AOK), and (b) to explain matters to management (it's more detailed than that but you get the gist).

Did that help? Well, essentially no it didn't, if management isn't really interested in resolving matters and or takes precious little interest in what its technical departments and staff do then one is essentially stymied. One either puts up with matters or gets out. I opted for the latter.
> that language itself does not contain views, values and perspectives.

Language itself does, in fact, very much contain views, values and perspectives. As an example, there are population groups that do not have a word for the color blue, and that cannot, in consequence, distinguish between green and blue objects. [0] [1] And that's an example that has been noticed throughout the world.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-even-see-the-colo...

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-blue-and-green-appeared-langua...
One think I did appreciate about McKinsey is how they will advise anyone. Left-wing dictators, right-wing dictators, normal governments, big tech small tech, banks, you name it.

There is something freeing with "it's just money"... you don't question their political loyalties or how they are affiliated - they don't care, they just want cash.

Unfortunately actually working with them made me realize they are kind of useless and their main value is that they can produce a lot of powerpoint presentations, and eat an infinite amount of money per slide.

In my opinion/experience they are not evil, they are just useless. But YMMV
The (Front End||UI||UX) Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024
Why does it make you sad? It seems intuitiv and simple. And in reality of course the optimisation part is not trivial. What would we better if the "it" was more complicated?
Also kinda dystopian that they use names from a child's tale
The best description is UNIX like, because NuttX is POSIX based, while many RTOS aren't.
It couldn’t be simpler.

Android Automotive (AA) is obviously different from Android Auto (AA). You see, AA runs on the car and runs the infotainment system whereas AA is just screen mirroring for Android phones. AA supports CarPlay just like it supports AA. Apple doesn’t have anything like AA, CarPlay is equivalent to AA.

Lastly, it’s not like “Auto” is short for another word such that people would mistake the two. It’s clear as day.

/s
> I learned to write the English I have written by taking three years of Latin, in the putatively desolate educational backwater of Jacksonville, Florida, ending in the tenth grade translating The Aeneid. I was in homeroom sitting with Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd. We was gettin’ it. We did not know we was gettin’ it.

This is great.
I'm 39 and I feel like I'm 20. Not physically, but in terms of excitement about living.
Yeah he sounds completely insufferable. If he came across like this in an interview with me I would be very put off.
On Scando Mac it's Shift-Option-7. Gives new meaning to "three-fingered salute".
Now, let's have other countries doing the same to Meta, Google, Microsoft and the likes. They all collect the data and send them to a foreign country (USA). They also use their algorithms to manipulate public meaning and to censor opposite opinions.

Oh, and a US company spaying foreign citizens in not only legal in the USA, but also required.
I'm here for the phenomenon of the GitHub stars on this repo. Which was quite a weird event. Even with just the readme in the repo they got a crazy number of stars and were on GitHub trending for a day or two. What's with that? Are there just so many front-end developers, is it possible that DND is such a huge unsolved pain, is it just cause its Atlassian, did they sent a mass e-mail? I am honestly confused? What's the value of stars these days for an individual developer consuming the code?
> it's a start

Yep. And the 1 ATM bit would make it orders of magnitude easier/cheaper for factories to set up their huge vats of liquid metal, then wait a year or two for all the diamonds in 'em to grow to "million dollar jewelry" size.
This decision is based on Schrems II, which does not really apply anymore since the DPF. Though the latter is already being challenged.
OpenBAO: Manage, store, distribute sensitive data – secrets, certificates, keys
This sounds like an argument against TypeScript in general, no?

e.g. If I am parsing a string to a number via Number.parseInt, I don’t need a “: number” annotation because I can just call the variable “myNumber” and use that.

Branding a string is in many ways an extension on the idea of “branding” my “myNumber” variable as “: number” rather than leaving it as “: any”. Even if the TS type system is easy to bail out of, I still want the type annotations in the first place because they are useful regardless. I like reducing the number of things I need to think about and shoving responsibility off to my tools.
My grandmother said approximately the same thing to me when she was ~85. Life goal.
I believe you hit the nail on the head there.

That, together with the fact that you can still host the deno runtime on your own hardware actually makes it a pretty viable alternative to new projects that you would be building using NodeJS otherwise, with the added bonus that if you ever decide to go serverless, you don‘t have to rewrite your code since you can take the same codebase and move it to deno deploy (or supabase functions, which just uses deno under the hood itself)
> Oh but they don’t innovate anymore.

IBM was #4 in the US last year for patents here: https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings-top-50-2023.htm
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> spaying foreign citizens

now that would be a bridge too far...
Turnbull also claimed that domestic 1Gb connections are absurd because consumers wouldn’t pay the cost of a guaranteed non-contended 1Gb connection.
How do we know a China man doesn’t work at Sony and is listening in to all PlayStations In households? Actually with all these Alexa devices and so many employees at Amazon it’s probably best to make sure all these devices are controlled by the government. Yes we have freedom of speech and privacy but no where in there did it say all communication shouldn’t be owned and and monitored by your government. It’s for the greater good.

Yea that mind set sounds awful.
Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions
This is off topic a bit, and not a criticism of this library or its authors, but: I do think that DnD is bad for accessibility. Especially on mobile, where it's much harder to precisely click, so the deadzone required to distinguish a click from a drag has to be much larger.

But whether it's on a mouse, trackpad, touchscreen, trackpoint, or other more esoteric system, it requires a muscle hold while doing a precise movement along another axis. And this can be more difficult and RSI-inducing. God help you if you're trying to drag on a resistive touchscreen where more force is required, too.

I feel that the copy-paste workflow of pick source -> copy -> pick destination -> paste is actually easier (and much more prevalent!) than pick -> hold AND move -> drop. It also works better in windowed systems because you can more easily interact with the window system while "holding" the thing; this is often impossible or more difficult while using DnD and having to hold down the primary button.

(some drawing tools actually recognize this by having different tools/cursors for "select items" and "move item(s)". The old Acorn Archimedes used a different mouse button (middle) reserved for DnD. I feel it could work well with a stylus with a button too. But in both those cases I would prefer "click to pick up, click to drop" to holding.)
By centralising the secrets storage, you make it easier to change the secrets in one place rather than having to change a bunch of variables everywhere.

As for how you change the secrets? You should have some automated way of pulling the current secret out of the vault, storing a future secret in the vault, performing an upgrade of the secrets, verifying the new secrets are deployed everywhere, and then moving the "future secret" into "current secret" and keeping a historical copy of the "previous secret".

Whatever configures your infrastructure automatically will already need to have root access to everything and so that's a good place to implement the rotation.
Workload identity federation is the direction the industry is taking. All the hyperscalers have their own version, if you’re on-premise look into SPIFFE.
Their Alumni have infested many big corps now, including Sundar Pichai who rules Google.
I just got into the habit of saying “yes” to pretty much anything. It has taken me on some wild rides indeed, and I am richer in spirit for it. It forged the bond between my wife and me - “shall we do a road trip across Eurasia?”, she idly asked, expecting at the very most a “maybe” - instead I grasped that nettle and applied for visas that day. Six weeks of utterly madcap adventure ensued. Since, I’ve found myself in an unending series of odd adventures of one variety of another, from fostering rare donkeys to… other stuff I’d be wise to not mention. Some episodes I would call ill-advised in the extreme, but all have been enriching.

There’s always a reason to say no, and it’s probably bullshit.

It also has the added benefit of uplifting others - it transforms their idle thought into something that actually happens.
I’m sorry, I’m not clear on what you are talking about. Apple TV, the device? Apple TV, the app? Or Apple TV+, the streaming service? :)

It makes for great sentences like: The other day I was using Apple TV on my Apple TV to watch a show on Apple TV+. Which just rolls of the tongue and is sure to cause no confusion. /s

It’s a mess for sure.
Off topic but it seems that bonobos are not that peaceful compared to the chimps.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2426678-peaceful-male-b...
Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
Most people just don't understand basic math.
> To continue with claims of no free will you end up needing to start appealing to some sort of a butterfly effect of environment.

The differences between the lives of even identical twins in the same environment are a lot more than a flap of a butterfly's wings. They don't spend every second of their lives together, so their experiences will differ quite a bit.
Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira (2009): The Unreasonable
Effectiveness of Data

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Would you mind elaborating on what "catastrophe" my country is facing?
Vercel to Self-Hosted Next.js
Don't remember the exact name but KDE has something like this built-in. I was actually fairly amazed how much this kind of simple UX improvement can be satisfying.
COVID was such a cluster fuck that it could have bankrupted airliners. Under normal circumstances they can afford to refund their passengers.

Companies need to have an incentive to provide a good service.
Deep packet introspection is a completely different problem from the kind of facial recognition of people in video backgrounds that you envisage. Videos uploaded from cell phones are already MPEG-4 compressed and don't need re-encoding to be served. While it is true that social media companies don't allow unfettered access to their data, server farms for scraping web sites are a dime a dozen. I don't agree that it is safe to assume that systems there is no evidence for exists. It's one step removed from Chinese mind control viruses.
They changed the spelling from "Andúril" and "Palantír", so that must make it OK!
It's as if life was tokenized and fed to an LLM
I would argue that languages are not ready for perfect information representation. Programs explode when presented with minor inconsistencies. And changing the representation in minor way requires rewriting the program.

With CUE, we are trying to solve this exact problem.
> walk across the room and slap you: “if I didn’t chose to do it you cannot be angry at me.”

Of course they could. Anger is a way for the body to react without choosing as a defense mechanism against the next slap. Either your biology would recognise the anger and step back, or the other person would punch you back, making you afraid to repeat what you did.

I’m not siding with or against free will, I just don’t think your example works to prove the point.
> I don't want to compare life to video games

Not that this is relevant to anything, but if it were: no one was doing this.
Imagine having a website for your house. Seriously awesome.
I feel like airline setting up "one of those services" would still allow to save them money hah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, software engineering is not Real-Hard-True engineering, we get it.

With that out of the way, isn't it better if software development concepts can be explained with less math-heavy notation while keeping the math notation for the cases precision is needed?

I for sure remember a dwindling amount of the math from my statistics bachelor in my head after 15+ years. I'm able to recollect it after re-reading some material, things usually click back in place but I won't be doing that unless it's very necessary.
I'm 43 and I feel like I'm 60. Both physically, and in terms of excitement about living.
Nice feature!

Just curious, how long did the API extension approval take? (been waiting for almost 3 months on mine)
Show HN: I Built an Indoor Cycling Web App to Get in Shape Through Gaming
I spent the past three years developing an exercise game for indoor smart trainers called Startona. The game is built from scratch in TypeScript and only uses a couple of small libraries. The result is a PWA that showcases the capabilities of a modern web browser through technologies like Web-Bluetooth and WebGL.

Developed to turn turbo-trainer workouts into intense gaming sessions, Startona combines structured workouts with exercise games that boost specific aspects of the player's fitness, such as speed, power, and endurance. Although Startona is built for fun by providing new and unique indoor cycling experiences, the game also contains all the features you would expect from a modern indoor cycling app: single-player workouts, multiplayer challenges, personalized structured workouts, detailed activity logs, built-in Strava support, regular content updates, and various fitness tracking systems to help players stay motivated.

All that is needed to try Startona is a smart trainer and a web browser with Bluetooth support (Chrome, Edge, Arc...). Sorry, no iOS support yet.
So what happens to the concept of "getting what you paid for"? Does KLM just shrug and say sorry? I could imagine if they said "we can't pay for accommodation but we'll send you on the next flight", but did they even do that?
think the other way round... allow DOM attribute values to be of any javascript type...

Sure, they maybe can't be serialized, but that isn't an issue.