skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just finished working on a dead simple OCR tool: https://txtfromimg.com

I know there are plenty of alternatives, but I personally benefit a lot more from a dead simple web page, that does everything locally. It also helps with burnout, I like building very simple, but useful things (at least for myself).

I also have plans for a more serious project though. For a long time now I've been writing down what I would want from a ShaderToy-like website but for SVGs. I feel like there's a lot of potential in making it easy to create and reuse amazing animations with very little code.

I've also seen a lot of people praise the React + SVG combo and I can see why. I'd personally love an environment that I could just spin up instantly, create paths interactively, then create some effects quickly, and then use them wherever I want.
I don't think the GitHub integration had the right permissions. When I try it I see:

Repositories
Public repositories

This application will be able to read and write all public repository data. This includes the following:

Code
Issues
Pull requests
Wikis
Settings
Webhooks and services
Deploy keys
Ah, the destruction of property rights by contract law. Sprinkle in some "technological protection measures" and all of a sudden exercising consumer rights is now a felony offense. As Cory Doctorow says, felony offense of business model. See Mark Lemley's two decade old Terms of Use, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

I love technology because I think it enriches & enhances individuals. Our ability to impact the local & broader world goes hand in hand with our tool-making & tech (often is the same thing). Technology is amazing & great.

But layer in Intellectual Property law & suddenly technology is the infernal machine, is the anchor sinking humanity & tyrannizing the spirit. I feel a religious obligation above that of my state's requirements to smash this hell.
Can you link these? This kind of comment can mean anything from "6 years ago I was constantly commenting against something they were doing and it kinda happened twice with some employees that are HN regulars and had it in their bios but didn't feel the need to disclose in the first message" to "It's a regular occurrence even despite the number of threads about Cloudflare here and they are often done with freshly created company accounts" or anything in-between. This makes it hard for one to judge for themselves how much of a real issue this has been vs a personal grudge someone might hold against the company.

Disclaimer: I don't have a damn thing to do with Cloudflare :).
If the immune system actually works properly, no, not really a huge concern. Leukocytes and macrophages fully consume foreign matter, enclosing it in a phagosome. This then merges with a lysosome, where the matter is broken down into harmless components, although some stays on the surface of the cell to activate other immune cells against that particular brand of gunk.
The authors conclude: "a localised electron can be more accurately represented as a condensate – an extended state comprising of photons and electrons. This model deviates from the traditional point-like conception of an electron, introducing a framework where a quantum electron exhibits non-point-like characteristics when localised".

Which why not, given a modern understanding of protons?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_mass
> most of the people that take it to stay fat, just less so.

Exactly my point. Everyone will be getting increased insurance premiums so that we can have a 5%-%10 reduction in heart/diabetes risk for people that will continue to ignore their health. The only cure for that is to stop ignoring your own health.

I'd love if it were possible to walk into a store dial in a set of pill that maintains whatever health level you want with your lifestyle. Hopefully this is a step in that direction is the only good thing about this drug.
This is fantastic. Great idea!
> You're telling me that people go to lunch, drink a bottle of wine in an hour and go back to work?

Social lunch != working lunch

Though a pint or two or sharing a bottle of wine (not one each) at a working lunch is hardly unusual in Blighty.

> You'd be too drunk to drive.

One doesn't need to drive into London nor most commuter cities.
More mobile desktop mode plz.
Apple Confirms iPadOS Will Get Same EU App Changes as iOS This Fall
Is WhatsApp putting Palestinians at risk of being killed in Gaza?
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20240501085528/https://www.middle...
The complaint says:

> Article 5(1)(d) GDPR imposes on the controller an obligation to erase or rectify without delay inaccurate data.

Article 5(1)(d) actually says personal data shall be:

> accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’);

It's up to the court to determine whether "every reasonable step" has been taken.
Then they shouldn't use absolute statements like "No one", right? Otherwise you have pedants (a group that includes myself from time to time) that, rightfully, point out that your absolute statement is, in fact, not an absolute.
Any recommendations on a forum better suited to the topic?
It's such a shame the BBC finally gave in and ruined their website by removing all text unless you successfully execute a constantly changing unverified application they send you.

Here is an alternate article covering the story which contains text: https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-charges-journalists-bbc-repo...
The gist seems to be: Windows Firewall will block outbound connections to IPs that haven't been returned in responses from "blessed" DoT or DoH servers.

This would likely be excruciating to use and kinda pointless for general use PCs (given how much stuff will probably break in the short term). Maybe that's an intended use case long-term but it's not there now.

I could see this being useful for task-oriented boxes that have no business connecting to arbitrary destinations. I also like the idea of using this as a method to funnel all DNS traffic into the system resolver and into controlled DNS servers. I like that this also kills the application-layer DNS arms race.

Implementing a 75% solution akin to this on Linux wouldn't be too tremendously hard, either. All the pieces and parts are already there to do it.
It's always exciting when new correlates are discovered, but this doesn't really uncover anything about consciousness per se. At least not as classified by David Chalmers and others who use the term The Hard Problem of Consciousness - which seems to show that consciousness is impossible to understand in our current paradigm. Understand meaning - to the point we could reproduce it.

The Hard Problem is contrasted with the so-called Easy Problems - which are still very hard to solve, and many of them still aren't - but they are ultimately of a class of solvable problems, like neural correlates, the role of dopaminergic pathways, and so-on. These everyday neurological findings are needed to make progress toward understanding the brain, but they don't really have anything to do with consciousness.

Some definitions:

let intelligence mean the acquisition and understanding of knowledge

let self mean who you refer to when you say "I" or "me"

let consciousness mean raw sensations/happenings: *the aroma of coffee*, *the taste of chocolate*, *the sound of a drop of water*

Intelligence and selfhood fall under the Easy Problems - both philosophically and neurologically. We have machines that for all intents and purposes are intelligent. Even though it's not perfect, we know what kind of problem that is and how to solve it mechanistically. While nobody has invented a true "self" yet, if we ever find out exactly what conscious experiences are, scaffolding those experiences with self/identity becomes an organizational task (an Easy Problem). Still a very hard one involving neural correlates, cortical pathways, etc. from which we may derive new algorithms and paradigms, but ultimately solvable.

So that leaves the mystery of raw experiences ("the aroma of coffee") which do not seem solvable in any scientific sense. You could say that a digital camera that detects faces in its viewfinder is intelligent, but it doesn't "see" the face, we know that it only unconsciously "detects" the face. So a mystery arises when we examine the human eye, because we see basically the same hardware as the camera: Lens (lens), sensor (retina), wire (optic nerve), chip (visual cortex). Even after mapping the entire visual cortex to all visual features, it just doesn't get us any closer to understanding that raw experience of "sight" that happens when you look at something. It's not the same thing.

I applaud all progress toward understanding the brain, and sometimes wonder why the whole of humanity are not all focused on solving problems like death and aging (by way of solving consciousness), as it seems like pretty much the most important possible thing to all of us!

Favorites on the topic: Donald Hoffman, John Searle, David Chalmers, Dan Dennett, Colin McGinn, Susan Blackmore, Sam Harris.
> And by thinking within the boundaries of our paradigm, we can conclude that this particular combination of technology and culture has not spread throughout our galaxy.

Yep, its basically what the relevant xkcd comic explains:

https://xkcd.com/638/

> If that is physically possible. Which we have fairly strong evidence against.

We don't. Our science is not all-encompassing.

> superluminal spacetravel without a shred of evidence is folly.

This sentence and your sentences preceding this one contradict. Solely the very concept of quantum entanglement broke all the preexisting notions about how existence worked. Its something that shouldn't have happened according to all the 'hard' evidence we had beforehand.

Apparently, the evidence we had before wasn't so 'hard'. Just like how the evidence we have currently is not.

> But you're so frothy about the possibility that physics is wrong

Leaving your choice of words aside, physics is !regularly! wrong just like all the other sciences.

http://amasci.com/weird/vindac.html
what you describe is already live and adopted in 100% of clients. DNSoverHTTPS.

you cannot disable it on IOS or android. Because it is owned by the APP not the OS.

Even firefox had to disable the setting (and about:config! making firefox on android pretty much garbage unless you install from fdroid) just so google would allow firefox on the play store.
Why has Lean taken over the formalization world? Previously some big proofs were done in Coq, HOL, etc.
This is the main problem we are facing right now.

We are looking for tools that can generate fake data(may be based on our small set of data) for live demo setup.
Exactly I can't find any explanation how abestos could migrate from external application up to the ovaries, this seems like an obvious issue.

Abestos is not harmful just by touching it, you get cancer from it by breathing it in significant quantities over time (or ingesting it).
That's exactly the point: it's to make people angry at the "stupid politicians" instead of the data thieves.
> not a governmental one.

Only because it was struck down by courts. The US government did attempt it, and even told employers to abide by it while they appealed (before it was struck down again).
SUM(O365 license cost) < SUM(Salary + Hardware cost)
Its also malicious legislation. The EU could have easily wrote a line in the GDPR requiring companies to respect the Do Not Track header. But they chose not to. They also included various loopholes such as "legitimate interest". The legislation was just enough that it looks like they're doing something, without actually hurting the surveillance industry's bottom line too much.
It’s good to see that there are simple solutions still left to discover
This is a very good point, I think. So much of what gets discussed these days (understandably) doesn't take into account the world that's invisible to technology. This is dangerous because it shapes our world view, and our decisions.
Regardless of the defenses used, a company trying every possible defense they can is simply good corporate counsel.

Like when you're paying taxes, an accountant using every possible tactic they can to reduce your tax burden is simply good accounting.
Indeed I am.

But I suspect the "can code" privilege beats the "passport" privilege.

A previous employer was about 50 people, of whom about 5 were from Germany; from memory, the nationalities of the rest, excluding those from G7 states, included Nigeria, Egypt, Syria, both Israel and Palestine, Iran, both Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Turkey, both India and Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and South Korea.

A British ex girlfriend of mine thought I was ridiculously privileged for having had a Commodore 64 when I was a kid; the (also British) boyfriend before her, got into ham radio because he came from a household too poor for a telephone.
Downloads is a terrible metric. Easy to fake to increase them, while projects with many skilled users result with 0 since they will use distributions or caches instead of wasting time re-downloading the same thing over and over.
Thanks. Will take a look at that today.
In the US, MVNOs are happy to sell you service nationwide. All of them resell services that are ultimately provided by one (or more) of the big 3 carriers.

It is completely dissimilar from the hardwired ISP market, wherein: With MVNOs, choice absolutely abounds, and there is competition a'plenty.

It isn't regional.
This is really cool! It would be super neat if the nodes were more interconnected, forming a fully connected graph rather than just a tree.
Are there any jurisdictions where emulators can be worked on without Nintendo having legal leverage? I'm surprised Russians aren't all over this.
Talking to people, settings terrifies them.
Isn't one of the issues with local LLM the huge amount of GPU memory needed? I'd say that we'll go a lot longer than 5 years before phones have 24+GB of VRAM.
Microsoft had remarkable native frameworks that they just decided to ditch. Many Forms and WPF applications still work and run entire businesses, but because of Microsoft's unnecessary churn, they are stuck with the legacy .Net Framework.

Yes. Many FOSS ecosystems don't even have adequate GUIs, but they never had them. Microsoft had them but then lost them. Every "modern" replacement requires you to import a whole browser in some form or another with all the baggage that comes with it, both in terms of development, runtime and security.
We were so cringey
I hope they don't use this level of DNS to set up internal tooling.
couldn't you implement these as a texture lookup, where x is the input and the various functions are stacked in y? That should be quite fast on gpus.
Show HN: An Open Source project for enhancing AI Agents in taking action
Agree. My weekly Sunday Cleaning List is one of my most used.
Learn web development with microservices by reading website development diary
It’s kind of a tradition now for flashy projects (not this one) to not mention the problems they are solving, if any, and god forbid explaining shortcomings and trade-offs made. Feels like marketers changed careers to programming but failed to get the idea. That is… frustrating, especially when praised by “clients”. Imagine tfw postgres would go full-disney on their frontpages.
You won't enjoy my comment then :)

Yes, jobs are voluntary. The vast majority of people could choose not to have a job and not to entertain certain luxuries in life like having a roof over one's head or food on the table. Some even (voluntarily!) choose not to have a roof over their head because they don't like the idea of having a job.
> Jane Street is stupidly profitable — net trading revenues of $4.4bn in the first quarter, after a $10.5bn haul in 2023, and a profit margin north of 70 per cent — but it bears repeating. That is the fourth straight year of net trading revenues exceeding $10bn. Gross revenues came at a record $21.9bn in 2023, up 34 per cent from 2022.

Yes, I suppose this is all something to get all starry-eyed over, Jane Street encroaching on Citadel Securities, the two of whom control 30% of the US equity market volume.

I see it another way. I see people's hard earned money being siphoned by enormous financially-engineered vacuums, never to be seen again. And not just in the US, globally. This won't stop at 30% of the US equity market. It won't stop until the music stops and the last chair breaks. Which may or may not be soon. It will certainly be coming at some point.

Five times the London Stock Exchange’s entire trading volumes in 2023 in just your ETF arm? Sure ... this sounds like reasonable growth ...

> This is why some people argue that APs like Jane Street have become systemically important.

Oh, you don't say!

> About 80 per cent of the company’s capital comes from employee equity

That's adorable. They're like a little mom-and-pop shop ... except not anything like that.
I'm with kioleanu on this.

Before covid and being in office - "core hours" meant you needed to physically be in office during those hours on almost all days - basically all work days except occasional doctor/dentist/signing-contract-to-buy-house/sick type of situations. And had flexibility to come in earlier or stay later.

In your case it seems to be the same definition of core hours.

Or this "trust to balance their work and life" means it would really be OK for someone to say something like "I'm regularly pick up kids from school/daycare during those last 2 core hours"?
Matt Levine steelmanned this approach in a column.

What J&J tried to do was fund the subsidiary with however much they thought they'd be liable for and treat claimants as creditors to the bankrupt subsidiary. Bankruptcy law is designed to deal fairly with all creditors. The alternative is that a couple of gigantic judgments against J&J right at the beginning would leave no money for people who sued later.

The courts rejected this approach, not because of unfairness specifically, but because J&J had provided funding to the subsidiary. If the subsidiary has money, it can't be bankrupt yet.

If the subsidiary ultimately pays all claims to everyone who is entitled (a big if), it isn't necessarily wrong. [1] The one downside is claimants can't go after all of J&J's assets in the event of a huge victory.

I'm recounting all this from columns I read while back, so someone please correct me if I got details wrong.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/texas-two-step-bankruptcy-defin...
this could backfire and it is possible only mgmt likes it. There's always people who are good at closing tickets but not good at actually solving anything.
Not throwing shade on you, but I hate the term “digital” to describe DRM’d content.

There are plenty of unencumbered digital formats distributed physically that are unrestrictable. Red Book CDs/CD-ROMs, DVDs/DVD-ROMs, and to a certain extend Blu-ray/BD-ROMs (and lesser extent, but still possible UHD Blu-ray). At conventions indie devs sell digital copies of their games on flash drives.

There’s nothing wrong with digital media (defined literally). While I like physical copies, even file based digital media is mostly OK. The problem is DRM’d media regardless of how it’s distributed.
No specifically for video, but I've always had a soft spot for this site:

https://tiffzhang.com/startup/

It semi-randomly creates the site of a recently-launched startup. It is nine years old now, and completely nailed the overused style of the time.

The company names are also excellent. I wonder how many accidentally became real.
No, I'm saying that the Nuremburg trials (rightly) were not a broad inquisition that would convict anyone they could find who was associated with the nazis unless they were under the protection of one of the victorious powers.

Also, fyi the Nuremberg trials were not restricted to war crimes, with many defendants being convicted of crimes against peace or crimes against humanity for their propagation of the Nazi regime and leadership roles in atrocities like the Holocaust. Many of the defendants who were convicted were businessmen, propogandists, and members of the civilian government.
I’m building a crawler that crawls over 50k company websites directly for remote jobs.

It’s currently a mailing list you can sign up here: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/ . You can pick and choose from any role you want including ML engineer, backend, frontend, as well as other non-engineering roles.

I started it to scratch an itch of mine but along the way others were interested in it so I decided to build something people could sign up for :)
> Prostate cancer is not a concern for older males (we all develop it some time)

I’m sorry? What?

Prostate cancer is definitely a concern in males, and in no-way is it expected or an inevitability.
I would prefer if these systems worked internationally and didn’t exclude foreigners.

But yea…
For sure. It's not a co-incidence that I keep raising the age I think you're old enough to know enough, the older _I_ get ;)

I'm aware of the ridiculousness of this, but what can I do? You don't know what you don't know, and the alternative is to say you only know enough at the end of your life :)
Virtually everyone makes ignorant comments from time to time--even the most brilliant people. The issue is vicious comments--and the solution is to terminate their ability to post after the first vicious comment.
Q&A on Proposed SB 1047
A lot of these settlements involve announcing a fake value of money to be paid as part of the agreement, then agreeing to waive the settlement value if some undisclosed imposed contractual obligations are met.

Arguably this is likely the case with this situation (and nintendo benefits by our not knowing for sure), not that being forced into such an agreement with no trial is not worrisome in itself.
Other than the already mentioned JavaFX which now goes by OpenFX due to Oracle’s TM license changes, there’s also

- Swing with FlatLaf look and feel, just exactly like the JetBrains IDEs, there’s a kitchen sink app JAR you can download from FlatLaf, there’s some nice extensions for the layout too, not for mobile though as far as I’m aware

- Vaadin and their 2nd framework whose name I forget, directly integrated with Spring and Quarkus

- Kotlin Multiplatform and Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, a very promising and awesome tech, works fine for my requirements, would be happy for them taking the lead, I love the syntax and their compositional semantics, similar to SwiftUI

- React Native worked great for me, can reuse some React.js stuff

- NativeScript, never tried

- Ionic Capacitor, never tried

I think it might make sense to watch a couple YouTube live coding showcase sessions with the respective developers.

Avalonia also has a kitchen sink app btw. And I really like Uno’s calculator app, though I recall having had a weird bug once in the calculation logic.

And as for Blazor, there’s always been JSF which have long had great UI components. To me Blazor is about replicating JSF.

Yeah, well, I wish there were just 1-2 really good choices to be made, but there’s a myriad of caveats in each framework, more so in some of them. Well, Qt comes closest I think.
Could ligatures be used to make the heads/tails automatic? (e.g. first letter of any word is rendered as a head, last letter always a tail)
A related book that I found interesting is "The Ego Tunnel" by Thomas Metzinger [1]. He's a philosopher but also brings in current (for 2010) neuroscience research into the study of consciousness and the feeling of a "self".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/04650...
Filtering is always a two edged sword. On the one hand it might keep bad actors at bay on the other it can keep innocent people away. It is putting power in the hands of a machine.

Another thing is that bad actors are usually more determined to subvert blocking than good actors are to correct false negatives.

It might help some people to have some automatic filtering in place but it also might not.