skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aphantasia – A Subjective Description of the Experience
That's fair. I couldn't even get this to work, so not in particular looking at this implementation. I just literally was thinking of if this would be viable or not as an approach, so it was fun to see something that tries to match the bill!
That's what I thought it was, based on the name. But more interesting to see the bitmask heh :) I don't know about C++ internal, but in JS you can just go

if ( mousedown.buttons & 4 ) alert('aux pressed')

Tho thinking of it now as you mentioned array I'd feel mousedown.buttons.includes(4) would be slightly inefficient due to the loop. We like our efficiency! Haha :)

For me tho the API feels right for JS. As it's kind of a rare a 'low level' thing, it's appropriate it's API is more akin to that than something heavier like

MouseEvent.buttons.<button> = Boolean

I like the efficiency of the bit mask to immediately check multiple buttons too :) haha
fwiw I agree with you on these gripes, tech bros are often selfish, its something I really hate about our industry and I'm struggling a lot trying to find a software job that does good in the world because mine doesn't and it makes me feel awful, but I am trying at least.

And anyone living an unsustainable lifestyle (almost everyone) is selfish though its such a huge problem that putting the blame on any individual feels wrong.

I think where we disagree is that you're so all or nothing with this. People can be selfish in some ways and not others. You can live unsustainably while also having principles in other ways. Things could always be worse. I encourage anyone to care about the world as much as you can without being self destructive about it, and I really try to live that way myself.
I didn't say Martians can't be real. I said the evidence that I've encountered (obviously limited by the fact that I'm not a subject matter expert) is insufficient to overcome the threshold of doubt. I then theorized (uncharitably, I'll admit) that many people are predisposed to believe in martians because they've read too much science fiction stories which themselves are actually just metaphors for conditions of life here on Earth. I then made fun of these people, lightly I think.
If the machine were better designed it would require less manual intervention and the manual work required would be simpler. This would require either fewer hours of expensive personell or it might allow the use of less expensive personell for routine work.
The user base panorama – 1.5:80 billion – can change very quickly. The simple announcement of a credible competitor to Google would be cause for celebration. As a plus, we have a new search engine “paradigm”. We may also see the emergence of paid search services, which would be a big step towards ending the attention/surveillance economy.
This is something I've thought a lot about (I'm a software developer and used to be a writer/editor at a large cybersecurity company where I was responsible for generating ongoing organic search traffic).

What's different this time around is that it's much more _answers_ focused than _search_ focused, and it's not a smaller competitor coming in to try and play the same game, but a whole new thing.

PG invested in Phind explicitly with the notion that "our kids aren't going to know what a search results page is" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rHPFiY6FA

AI services like ChatGPT are already cannibalizing search in certain areas (programming questions, knowledge questions, "what's the difference between" questions, etc) as they give objectively better answers without all the weird SEO and advertising cruft.

It's a wildly better experience searching for "traditional apple pie recipe" on ChatGPT than on Google due to the brutal amount of intrusive ads and over-optimization and the gap is just getting bigger.

Google can't meaningfully improve their search without killing their profits and growth numbers.

On the other side, we haven't even seen the real google killers arrive which are going to be in the form of better AI assistants (Siri, Alexa and Cortana that actually work).
Certificate Transparency: open framework to audit,monitor publicly-trusted certs
More context: https://www.asbestos.com/companies/johnson-johnson/

The kicker: "Court documents have revealed that Johnson & Johnson knew its talc contained asbestos as early as the 1950s"
No, it's more like a cross between extrapolation and confabulation.
Here's a few thoughts on this. First, I haven't used the app, but I know several people who have quit. One of them had a heart attack, and it scared him so bad that he quit. Don't wait that long.

Don't underestimate the power of a firm decision. You're not going to quit smoking as a trial run, or as a temporary solution to see if it's okay. You have to quit forever. You will never touch it again. That's the decision. And that's what you want.

It's fine to get help with this. I'm not sure an app is as good as an addiction-recovery group. Many churches sponsor these groups. Don't be too embarrassed to go to a group.

The first few months without are hard. You will hurt. You will hate life. You need countermeasures in place. You need substitutes that are not addictive in any way. These things were recommended by the people I know who quit: drink grapefruit juice, chew on a toothbrush throughout the day, carry some baoding balls. I'm sure there's other foods/drinks that go terrible with cigarettes, I just don't know what they are.
Right, I'm saying perhaps there is a great deal of surprisingly innovative honest work coming out of such schools also. We only have a list of the negatives from OP. In every large organization there are both good and bad actors. If the good ones are 5x-10x better than other institutions' good ones, that changes our discussion here.
I know you're kidding, but one of my neighbors gets super excited because his boss allows him to job his sports car to lunch sometimes. My neighbor can't afford his own sports car but at least he gets to drive one to McDonald's a few times per month.
No one is saying wildcard certificates should be mandatory. An old test box shouldn't have a wildcard certificate for sure.

Yours is not an argument against wildcard certificates! Yes, like, everything else ever, wildcard certificates can be misused.
Come on, Tkinter, now it is your time to shine.
I don’t know anything about biology, so could someone explain the mechanism by which this powder could have caused ovarian cancer?

(Genuine question, not rhetorical, not intending to make any point with it)
Cancer being mostly a problem of poverty is still a substantial upgrade from being a problem that just kills all people with little to no mercy.
I recently learned from a friend in the industry, that when companies run "clinical" trials for their products, they almost never use a control in the study. It's pretty much just "Use this product that is specially formulated to do this, and report back if it made a change".
Nope. They did a comparison study between Europe (which does far fewer colonoscopies) and the US and there is no difference in mortality between the two while the US has a higher number of post operation complications.

Like so many things lately, it's better to monitor with screening tests and only go in when you have symptoms.

That having been said: it seems like the screening tests need to start to be given out to earlier ages, though.
I may be off base. But it sounds like the accuracy rate of those tests is off if it's based on an assumption that you'll only test people who have risk factors.

I would have thought that by now, being the year 2024, we've gotten better than just guessing and statistically inferring stuff.

This is where the big disconnect is, and why so many are starting to distrust the medical field. We assume doctors can diagnose stuff and not just go around making educated guesses. No wonder it's a giant government-enforced cartel that restricts competition.
I think the parent means using a font to create the illusion of a continuous image, not just the concept of a pictographic font.
> Deflation in the 1930s happened because the Fed went the other way, refusing to create money.

Exactly: In periods like the 1930's, central must lend to banks at lower rates and buy fixed-income securities with newly created money as necessary, in order to prevent a deflationary loop. In the 1930's the Fed did the opposite, sending the economy into an even more painful deflationary spiral.
> I wish there were an offline environment like that built into firefox

Webmaker[1] isn't built in, but it does offer an offline code playground

[1] https://webmaker.app/
Maybe quite the opposite. Wall Street and Finance is can be very aggressive and learn it for yourself.

I learned math of finance from a professor I'm pretty sure was quanting on the Street at the time.

When I told him one of the constants in our little trading game was off by a factor of 10x, he said prove it. My final talk was: "How to make 2.3 million dollars in 30 days using options."

The real lesson wasn't about pricing options. It was about being ruthless when the time came.
I love perplexity, but I can see there days being more numbered.

I heard Sam talking in an interview where he mentioned that OpenAI would end up killing a lot of startups building on top of GPT, if they were just adding missing functionality and it's only the startups that are doing something much more unique that would make sense. I feel like this will apply to Perplexity at some point.

Sadly it's just the same with anything, much like a startup making an app that fills a need missing in an OS and then in the next OS update Microsoft/Apple add that functionality killing the startup/app overnight.

ChatGPT already has browsing functions, data cut off points are a big issue for some things, I love that I can talk to perplexity about things that happened that day and get the details, for example the mysterious gp2-chatbot that appeared, I asked perpexity about it the day that it happened and it gave me all the info in about 30 seconds that contained a bunch of different insights from several different sources that would have taken me much longer to find manually.
What about that business's customers who don't always have sufficient cash flow?
This is a load of nonsense. We had all this stuff growing up, or it didn't end up mattering.

1) "Everyone gets a ribbon".

The year 2000 called, and they want this complaint back. Half the time kids don't even want the trophy; it was an embarrassing consolation prize. The people complaining were the ones doing it (boomers, generally)

2) "Standardized tests out the window."

Really looked to people like this didn't matter and there were ways to buy your way to victory. However, I see some value in some standardized tests.

3) "Elimination of gifted programs"

We did this because they enhanced privilege and also didn't really seem to mater that much.

4) "Almost like a propaganda campaign to teach children that everyone's a winner, no one can be a loser, and everyone must get the same accolades no matter what"

No, who wins and loses isn't actually fair and it's used to belittle people and prop up others for essentially no good reason. Some people do really poorly with this kind of negativity and people noticed their kids were miserable (or dead)

4) "The system of before was not perfect, and kids were unfairly left out, but the hard turn to "everybody's a winner" has done severe harm."

I really have never encountered the "everybody's a winner" mentality. Administrators stressed taking pride in effort, but never treating a loser like a winner. Just don't feel too bad if you tried hard, and do feel a little bad about slacking your way to a win.

It seems like people just lose their minds at the idea of someone saying something nice to the kid that "doesn't deserve a trophy".
A 2 week vacation and 2 long weekends to Disney World don't seem out of reach for any middle class family, let alone a company owner. My sister is an adjunct professor and I think has been to disneyland 3 times this year already.

The rest of it certainly sucks though. There would have to be a VERY good motivation for me to travel that far for work. Most of us on here are involved in software and I'd be shocked to see if less than half of us were remote or partly remote.
The same Biden admin who is not sanctioning an IDF unit that killed and tortured and elderly American citizen in the West Bank pre Oct. 7? No, they wouldn't do anything differently for sure.
We typically remember what we need/use.

When was the last time you needed to remember a street name to get somewhere?
For me as a Lisp programmer I think it makes a lot of sense to start there since it sets the stage.
Asbestos fibers have been known for causing these cell changes for decades now.
It's true that science is not complete, and cannot be. We know, for example, that we cannot solve the halting problem, we cannot predict chaotic systems, etc. But that's the wrong thing to focus on. There are a lot of things we can predict, and the scientific method produces better predictive theories than any other known method.

> disinclined and demotivated to look outside the box of its current models

OK, but that is not the scientific method's fault. If you want to look outside the box, nothing in the scientific method says you can't. An indeed the biggest breakthroughs have come when people have thought outside the box.

The problem is that it's often hard to distinguish between brilliance and crackpottery. But again, that's not a shortcoming of the scientific method, it's just the Way The World Is. Some problems are hard.
Perhaps, but given how sterile the moon appears to be, it's not obvious why the Pleidas would be any different, even assuming they were created by the same potentially life-seeding impact.

I can see the purely historical interest in knowing how the earth and moon were formed, where our water came from, where terrestial life originated, etc, but it seems (maybe I'm wrong?) that a large part of the interest in extra-terrestial origin of life consideration is from people who don't want to believe that life is all-but-inevitable in the right conditions and therefore presumably did originate here (and very quickly after earth formed - within a few 100M years). However, if creation of life is an extremely rare event, then the likelihood of it having spread from such a rare source to any other compatible planet seems vanishingly small!
I've got pretty high skin cancer risk, and this would be a godsend. Getting into a dermatologist is a pain, and when you move or change docs, you lose all the history.
China unveils video of its moon base plans, which includes a NASA space shuttle
MRIs are never going to be cheap, and CT scans will always involve considerable radiation.

Therefore it seems like more resources should be directed at ultrasound. A little better resolution, and a little bit less cost, would go a long way towards democratizing imaging.

It looks like google is doing some work in this area: https://health.google/caregivers/ultrasound/
with a profit margin at 70%, they can afford very high pay.

And the equity holders would get diluted a bit when new employees are offered equity, but looking at the rate of profitability, each new employee more than earn their share in equity, even at the high end. Therefore, it is in fact, in the existing equity holder's interest to get diluted a bit to hire these employees, who would produce way more value (and thus increase the total value) compared to the loss in dilution!
This is mind-bending and I LOVE IT, Im gonna try to play with this if my daughter allows :) amazing job
Gadolinium-based contrast (which you'll need for any scan worth their salt) is not completely risk free, so not entirely true. And claustrophobia is a bit more common than people think.
I love how our Prime Minister no matter how grand has to be re-elected standing next to a bunch of comic characters, it's a little moment of speaking truth to power in my opinion. You surely can't feel too big for your boots standing next to Count Binface.
Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.
Two of the biggest club spenders in Houston and Atlanta (jurisdictions with notoriously-lax restrictions on sex work - "how much you got, mister?") are: finance and energy -sector consultants, entertaining clients.

They don't go out to'da'clubs when their clients aren't able to afford anything.
> Cloudflare API to invalidate the cache

This is even better (I do not know Cloudflare that much, but there is indeed the same on AWS' CloudFront)
Is this the same as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)? I'm not a doctor, but I thought GBM was a death sentence? Progress on that front would be amazing.
Yes, i'd rather that the sshd daemon ran with a restricted set of capabilities.
The Life Cycle of a 17-Year Cicada
New Dropbox Breach
He didn’t say that’s what happened, just someone did not understand how it could be done. The response suggested a possible way it could have been done. People are blackmailed and encouraged with carrots to do all kinds of extreme things. I know this for a fact.

I think people massively underestimate what a huge keystone Boeing is in the American empire. The top of the system has rapidly started getting extremely anxious about the stability of the whole system, especially as they are fomenting war with China and Russia and their plans not only becoming unstable, but actions they’ve taken revealing themselves as extreme risks in the light of stalled progression and unaccounted faults like what has been observed at Boeing the last years.

I personally see just the suspicion of what happened to these folks far more is a symptom of a failing system than is the failing system had neutralized them in hopes of snuffing out threats to keystone components if the empire. The people arts loosing confidence in the competence of the system, a far greater threat than even Boeing failing.
The UK Bans Default Passwords
Made the point better than I could. Also I would just contribute that a long line of anti-science apologism has taken the form of declaring that certain concepts are beyond the reach of scientific investigation. Evolution, human nature as understood in evolutionary terms, orbital mechanics past a certain point of Newtonian modeling, anaesthesia, etc.
Well, Fleischmann and Pons claimed to have extraordinary evidence. They were just wrong.

Also, I cover the Sagan quote in the previous installment:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/the-scientific-method-pa...
In the text of your comment. You treat your interpretation and perception of what is going on as being equal(!) to what is going on, despite I'm quite confident possessing knowledge of how unreliable perception is, according to both science and common experience.

Why do You People do this? Why do you not behave more logically?
F# came out in 2005, and was quite limited compared to the language it became from 2010 onwards.
I have a theory that TUI is masculine and GUI is feminine.
As an ambulance chaser who reads imaging reports everyday, I can confirm: if you're over 30, you've got at least one cyst somewhere in your body.
Yeah, it's completely insane.

It's also a bit of a racket too from what I've heard. They are partnered up with advertising, marketing, music booking agencies, atm/gambling services, etc and you'll be left out of things if you're a bar and not a member.

They have way too much power.
I had ChatGPT generate some selfies taken in various places, then ran it through this app. My assumption was that this app would do really well, since one model would identify the stereotypical features generated by the other model. It got 1/3. It nailed Minneapolis, it got Damascus, Syria wrong (said Amman, Jordan), and it got the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle wrong (said San Francisco).
How can they get a fine this small for a dangerous product they pushed onto markets globally for several decades? There really should be retroactive punishment and fines for past executives and clawing back of money from them and past shareholders.

Also am I reading this right? J&J formed a subsidiary that’ll absorb these liabilities? How is that legal? What happens if that subsidiary disappears? Couldn’t any company conceivably let go of their liabilities by putting it in some other company?
They make detailed arguments for their position, for example, https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/

The people who think that Linux security is fine also make arguments, but those arguments are much less detailed (and much less convincing IMHO), such as the frequently-made argument that the fact that Linux's source code is readily available at no cost to anyone who wants to search it for security holes means that Linux's security will tend to be better than the security of systems whose source code is held secret. I mean, sure, if that were the only thing we knew about operating systems and we were forced to choose an OS based on that single piece of information, we'd choose one of the open-source ones, but the persuasiveness of that argument is more than cancelled out when we consider all the other things we know, such as the fact that many exploitable vulnerabilities have been found in Linux that examination of old versions of the source code reveal have been present for decades.

>How about the opinion of people who have nothing to win nor lose?

The question is complicated enough that my guess is that basically the only people who make the mental effort to resolve the question are people with a stake in it.

How many people for example who do not have a loved one with the cancer or a unusually high risk for that cancer and who do not hope to advance their careers as cancer-curers or cancer-preventers take the trouble to learn about the diagnosis and treatment of a particular kind of cancer?
True, but I don't think I understand the joke. That's why I asked. It's not terribly important, though.
This is pretty unfair. They sell sometimes pretty exclusively priced stuff like their field table - more than the case. But with these you are buying aesthetics. And i would much rather have case this cool looking if i had it in visible place. They are one of the few companies recognized for their design that is something AND their audio stuff might also be expensive but is really good.
Bards and Sages Publishing closure due to "AI-generated trash"
This desperately needs a tutorial, because the video is too much hype and not enough "here's a simple problem, and how we expect you to solve it". I also observe that the about page content is in some kind of iframe or something since only positioning the cursor over that middle piece of content causes it to scroll
Dropbox, Figma CEOs back Lamini, a generative AI platform for enterprises
I made this article for you to learn more! https://anylearn.ai/topic/introduction-to-periodical-cicadas...
What an odd comment. How are you defining 'success' and 'market edge' in this scenario?

EDIT: just saw the sarcasm tag, sorry
every entry in readtable can switch to its own reader and in fact can allow such behaviour as described.
This is mostly malicious compliance - the law does not require these annoying popups, but the websites want them to a) make you dislike the law that prevents them from freely collecting your data and b) wearing you down, so you just accept instead of making the effort to go and deny the data collection. Also, at this point it's probably also a lot of cargo culting.
While it's likely that this is the direction search is headed in, it's also sad because it's going to be yet another layer of abstraction over the world wide web. How long before the concept of websites itself is obsolete?
It’s not just the asbestos angle. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc

> One of these, published in 1993, was a US National Toxicology Program report, which found that cosmetic grade talc containing no asbestos-like fibres was correlated with tumor formation in rats