skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with seniors helping them navigate online life and by choice specialise in ipad and iPhone owners. All of them miss skuomorphic elements and clear signals of what is and what is not an active touchable region.

Apple don't manage pre- digital seniors well. With lots of emerging functional loss if not outright dementia, these devices are confusing.

I would love to talk to Apple UX about some of the inconsistency.
That look quite the same as running a container in docker then commiting it into an image. But this does not seem to allow to set entrypoint or some image configuration values.
Cow dung's key role in India's energy industry
Great to see Grant Imahara in here unexpectedly. The former Mythbusters co-host died suddenly a few years ago from a brain aneurysm.
1. I don’t think you can get a feel for cost when there are so few competitors.

2. This one is produced in China.
Hah, I was not expecting to open up that page to see an image of a ribbon diagram of alpha-glucosidase.

Also, links to 'Makeblock XY Plotter' seem to no longer work as it has been discontinued? (Don't recommend going to their site - it has an obnoxious number of 'sign up' popups, sadly)
I skimmed through the article but didn’t find mention of one glaring deficiency in iPadOS — it still doesn’t support multiple users and multiuser switching, even though the hardware is capable of it (and exceeds the capacity of many Macs before it). I decided several years ago that I’m not buying another iPad until this is sorted out by iPadOS.

I think of iPhones as personal devices, where each person may have their own. But iPads are more likely to be shared for personal use in families. The fact that each person using it cannot have their own user profiles, app data, etc., is a huge drawback. Apple has supported this for a long time (though probably not in the best way) for education, but it’s not available to others. Even tvOS supports switching between user profiles quickly.

Apple enforcing the idea that iPad (with iPadOS) should also be a personal device — one device per person — makes the user experience quite poor.
> It's the likes of Elon, hated here, that are the one's fighting this.

There's a difference between LLMs and X that makes it defensible to have different moderation strategies for both.

A spammer using an LLM to write their little Vialis commercial isn't bothering anybody.

A spammer posting their little Vialis commercial on X is an obnoxious cunt.
> What's so much better about content consumption on an iPad that a PC cannot do?

I can easily put my iPad on the handle bars of my exercise bike, but not a laptop, much less a desktop.
https://ntdev.blog/2023/01/01/state-of-the-windows-how-many-...

Goes back to 3.1
https://andymatuschak.org/
Nice intro!

Readers may also appreciate my post “Pen Plotter Art & Algorithms” here:

https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/pen-plotter-1
Thanks for honest words on pros and cons, the workflow indeed seems manageable but might lead to troubles for some projects.
The first section of this article was weird to me.

> They decided to scramble the data randomly, then sat back and watched to see how the Transformers would react.

What does this mean? During training or inference?

Obviously this would cause issues in training. Normally for time series data, you’d encode the relative position of the data point in the matrix passed into the input layer, so the transformer has that positional information.
They're going to end up in extremely shit high end devices which will be canned after 6 months of poor sales and bad reviews.
Also the delta between theoretical performance and benchmarked performance is much smaller for Frontier (AMD) than for Aurora (Intel).

That being said, note that the software is also different on the two computers.
Apple also hasn’t been afraid of cannibalizing their own market in favor of one with a bigger upside (eg iPod -> iPhone). It’s not that Apple has an aversion to multi-use devices, just that there is more upside to not having them.

Let’s take touchscreens for example. Apple doesn’t sell laptops with a touchscreen. Why? You suggested that it was because a touchscreen would threaten iPad sales.

I think that’s wrong and that the answer is simpler than that.

Apple doesn’t sell touchscreens because they want thin and light laptops. Touchscreens are heavy and thick. The math isn’t “adding a touchscreen will threaten iPad sales”. The math is “the market for a touchscreen laptop is smaller than the market for a super thin laptop”. Apple sells more laptops because they are super thin than they ever could if they added a touchscreen.

Why don’t they add a touchscreen as an option, you ask? Because they would need to have a different case to fit the touchscreen. And that would add more cost for not as much benefit.
I'm the founder of Willow.

Early versions sent requests directly from devices and we found that to be problematic/inflexible for a variety of reasons.

Our new architecture uses the Willow Application Server (WAS) with a standard generic protocol to devices and handles the subtleties of the various command endpoints (Home Assistant, REST, OpenHAB, etc). This can be activated in WAS with the "WAS Command Endpoint" configuration option.

This approach also enables a feature we call Willow Auto Correct (WAC) that our users have found to be a game-changer in the open source voice assistant space.

I don't want to seem like I'm selling or shilling Willow, I just have a lot of experience with this application and many hard-learned lessons over the past two decades.
At university we pronounced it ‘sequel’. Anyway, the benefit is the ease of pronunciation.

It’s like .JPG files: sure, you can call them ‘Jay Pee Gee’ files, but it’s easier to call them ‘Jay-Pegs’.
1) You may not have a laptop.

2) Your laptop might be your employer's. You don't bring it with you to the beach and on vacation.

3) Your laptop may not be energy efficient/small. Not everyone has the latest MacBook for personal use.

4) You may not have a keyboard at all and still use the tablet for productive tasks. Typing speed is rarely the biggest blocker when programming. Sometimes you just stare at the screen and think.

My point is that there are many scenarios where one may need/want similar solutions and a laptop is not a solution for different reasons.

OP's comment is like asking why not use a motorbike instead of an electric bike. Different uses/budgets/requirements. And yes, expectations.
"Omnibus bills" in a legislature. Where a politician can inject an unrelated law under the radar. There are also templated laws that are written by a corporation to its benefit and preswnted in different regions as though they are the propsals of local lawmakers (who are actually just presenting whatever they were given).

Espionage/agent saboteurs.

"Social engineering" whenever an attacker uses the appearance of authority to get members of a target organization to treat them as an inaider and perform the tasks the attacker directs them to do.
>you’d have like a biker-gang looking guy with hard right politics getting yelled at by a chick with bright pink hair, but it would be about bash or perl or something

Yeah but they were all white
0 job openings in Europe outside of London, how will AI solve this?
Anybody know why it is a cycling (circular) motion rather than a linear stepping motion? It looks like the apparatus has a strange rolling motion which needn't be as pronounced.
The way to get around your side channel verification phrase is by introducing an element of stress and urgency: "omg, help, I'm being robbed and they need $300 immediately or they'll hurt me, no time for a passphrase!" can additionally feign memory loss.

Alternatively while it may be difficult to trick you directly, phishing the passphrase from a more naive loved one or bored coworker and then parroting it back to you is also a possibility. 'etc.

Phone scams are no joke and this is getting past the point where regular people can be expected to easily filter them out.
For me what makes tablet different is the distance you use them. And I think that's also why many people feel that touch doesn't work on laptops when they're comfortable with it on tablets.

If you're reading a book, holding it in your hands works a lot better than looking at it at twice the distance. Same way checking a map at arms length and pinch/zoom right there.

Long movies benefit less from the form factor, but youtube for instance works better.

For what it's worth, 2in1 computers are IMHO pretty good these days. The hinges improved a lot they give the best of both world.
Microsoft websites are bad for this too. Not sure if is deliberate, as it used to be a dark pattern back in the IE days.
About fifteen years ago Eben Moglen's keynotes included variations on the delightfully acerbic observation that the deal between Facebook etc and the user was:

"I will give you free web-hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time."
No, Europe would never regulate their own companies this much. BMW gets away with violating privacy laws regularly, and something tells me Spotify will never be asked to stop being so hostile to consumers.
Exploit is an interesting word. It's almost always exploited by people as a way to frame basic economic transactions negatively. Such as in a situation where people can search for information or store thousands of photos and communicate with others for free.

Anyway, google and facebook don't sell personal information. They sell the ability to target ads at people using the information they collect.
You don't need the banking app for actual banking, but you need it for 2FA if you want to use the bank website on your PC. Some banks also offer an additional "authentication device", which would be an alternative for LineageOS users, but that's an additional device that you have to take care of, carry around etc., so much less convenient than using the app...
Chat GPT 3.5 has been neutered, as it it won't spit out anything that isn't overly politically correct. 4chan were hacking their way around it. Maybe that's why they decided it was "too dangerous".
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1902810

See this for example. Different applications have different scales at which they reach similar problems. Exascale is decent upper bound for most of the fields. If you really dig in deep, the bound may be found at slightly lower value > 500 Pflops. But it's a good rule of thumb to consider 1 EFlop/s to be safe.

Also see this
https://irp.fas.org/agency/dod/jason/exascale.pdf
Indeed. “Nothing is free” is a wee bit older than the Internet.

I wonder if commerce smarts are getting better or worse.
34 percent of Americans reject evolution entirely and believe humans have existed in their present form for thousands or tens of thousands of years
I think the author is expecting ARG during runtime but it is supposed to be a compile time command. The bigger gotcha I have seen is using ENV instead of ARG. Especially for proxies. You may be using a proxy during compile time but don’t need (or it’s not configured to your network) at runtime.
That is certainly going to be the #1 use. It was a huge problem during the occupation of Afghanistan that all electricity had to be generated from diesel that was shipped 1500+km from ports in Pakistan, through dubiously-controlled areas.

That cost $2trn in total, proving the unlimited supply of money for bad ideas provided they involve killing the right people.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

(It's interesting to compare that with the costs of WW2 and how urgent projects were handled then. WW2 involved a real threat to US territory, so everyone was on board with rapidly developing innovative solutions. Afghanistan, by comparison, was reprisals against a landlocked country which posed no real threat, so once the occupation started everyone lost interest - but it was still heresy to question spending the money. No attempt was made to really solve the power problem, because nobody would ever question the $300m a day)
World's highest-efficiency hydrogen system scales up for mass production
There's a better solution: uMatrix. You get complete control about what you run
Evil?

Clumsy, lazy and risk averse - yes. Stupid? Uncaring? Infuriating? Yes.

Can we save "evil" for now deserving cases?
> Would you know?

I very much doubt it.

> Easy, my bank account is still full.

That assumes the malware is intended to take your money instead of your data, or even just your internet connection. Malware can be used to attack/infect other devices or even just click ads. What kind of harm could someone who had full access to your device, including access to your internet activity, texts, location, camera, and microphone do to you without telling you about it (blackmail).

> Because how would malware ever make it into my phone?

Maybe it was installed at the factory. Maybe it came from literally any one of the many many vulnerabilities that made it possible to infect your device without any indication. Android phones have been compromised via text message, via Bluetooth, via QR code, and via apps.

It's great that you aren't doing anything obviously risky, but that isn't a requirement to get infected and the problem is you just can't know. You aren't the admin of the device. You don't have the authority to control what it does. You aren't allowed to see what it's doing. You can't see who it's communicating with or when.
Show HN: EmuBert – the first open encoder model for Australian law
Hey HN,
I'm excited to share one of my most ambitious projects yet, EmuBert.

EmuBert is the largest and most accurate open-source masked language model for Australian law.

Trained on 180,000 laws, regulations and decisions across six Australian jurisdictions, totalling 1.4 billion tokens, taken from the Open Australian Legal Corpus, the largest open-source database of Australian law, EmuBert is well suited for tasks like:
⦁ Text classification;
⦁ Name extraction;
⦁ Question answering;
⦁ Text similarity;
⦁ Semantic search; and
⦁ Text embedding.

Not only that but, despite only being trained to guess missing words, EmuBert seems to know facts such as that Norfolk Island is an Australian territory (try the prompt, 'Norfolk Island is an Australian <mask>.'), it is Section 51 of the Constitution that grants Parliament the power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth ('Section <mask> of the Constitution grants the Australian Parliament the power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth.'), and that the representative of the monarch of Australia is the Governor-General ('The representative of the monarch of Australia is the <mask>-General.').

Finally, EmuBert achieves a perplexity of 2.05 on the Open Australian Legal QA, the first open dataset of Australian legal questions and answers, outperforming all known state-of-the-art masked language models, including Roberta, Bert and Legal-Bert.

You can check out EmuBert on Hugging Face here: https://huggingface.co/umarbutler/emubert

The code I used to create EmuBert is also openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/umarbutler/emubert-creator
How to Validate Emails in PHP: Regex, Filter_var(), and API Explained
And so does blind love!
Sexual fulfillment and reproduction is at the core of every species that's ever lived. There's no need to be prude about it.
After posting that comment, i went to our office kitchen, and got a green apple and a mini babybel, and did much the same.
For example, In situ visualization is now preferred due I/O bottleneck in application instead of compute bottleneck. This seems different from last generations.
>Think about how this standard of living is enabled by centuries of colonial exploitation, mortally dependent on continued extraction of non-renewable resources, and propped up by an insanely profitable military-industrial complex.

It's a classic leftist narrative that gets very foggy on the facts when you dig closer to details. Modern prosperity and modern market economies are definitely not based on centuries-gone colonial extractive empires and while extraction of non-renewable resources is still big in the modern global economy, it applies to the needs of all states and societies, not just the apparently evil capitalist west. Or do you think the USSR and its socialist cousins along with the majority of countries that used to be European colonies all live in harmony with nature, eschewing all possible attempts to modernize through resource use?

As for the military industrial complex, pray tell, of which country? Tangibly benefiting which countries and by what mechanisms to make it so "insanely profitable"?
Does tvOS user switching do anything at all? I tried recently, and all the third party app data was shared across users.
This kind of shit makes all of their customers less safe.

When people realise this is what they can expect from Apple they will just sell these exploits to intelligence agencies instead for who knows what purpose.

So congratulations Apple of fucking over not just this person but your entire customer base for years to come. Morons.
You’re assuming those two are separate? Why get certified when the host country imposes a 100% tariff?
What does NORWAY mean?
New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
It's an age of marvels
This is very much not normal and is absolutely a scandal.
If you like, you can purchase plotter ribbon diagrams from him: https://www.michaelfogleman.com/plotter/
Google was marginally better in popular searches and significantly better for tail searches. This is a big reason why it flourished with the technical and student crowd in earlier days because those exceedingly rare sub-sub-topics would get surfaced higher in the rankings. For the esoteric topics Yahoo didn't have it in catalog and Altavista maybe had it but it was on page 86. Even before spelling correction and dozens of other useful search features were added, it was tail search and finding what you were looking for sooner. Serving speed, too, but perhaps that was more subtle for some.

Metasearch only helps recall. It won't help precision, the metasearch still needs to rank the aggregate results.
I love the inconsistency between "I don't have time to learn DCS" and "so I'll spend two years reverse engineering an old DOS game instead" :)

Good articles, I agree that there isn't enough technical articles about reverse engineering like this, it's an interesting hobby.
Ghidra to the Rescue
Hey, I had a trouble reading your comment because you confused were with where. Here's how to not confuse them https://youryoure.com/?where
Lost Fleet[1] has fleet combat often take seconds during passes at extreme relative velocities

Honorverse[2], starting with second released book[3], introduced FTL comms in a world that until then could only detect certain events at FTL speeds - it's one of the main things that leads to very fast evolution of warfare in the sector of space which spills wider and wider. I think its take on impact on warfare seriously predates Vatta's War (still have to read Vatta's War, the first four novels in Familias Regnant universe were very good, have to one day get back and finish the series and take on Vatta's War).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Fleet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honor_of_the_Queen
The status quo benefits Apple’s bottom line. After all, if you can’t share your iPad, Apple can sell each member of your household one.
I think the biggest reason is just the difference in exposure. Doom had a ton of pre-release because of Wolf3D but then had a buzz of its own. PC sales had also been steadily increasing so just in the time between the two games there were more PCs in consumer hands and pretty much all of them were capable of playing Doom. There were just more instances of Doom running than Wolf3D.

Another aspect is Doom as an engine had longer legs. It got an official sequel not a year after its release as well as official "clones" in the form of Hexen. Hexen's own box advertised its relationship with Doom.
this is one of my pet peeves about our so called democratic systems. how can we have a democracy if we can't choose who gets to be a candidate?
Clang-REPL: interactive C++ interpreter
Please don't resort to ad hominem attacks. As an Internet user I would actually prefer the conclusions of this study to be correct. Also, I am wrong about things. A LOT. I am completely comfortable admitting that.

However, I find it to be extremely unlikely that the design of this study is sound. I'm not convinced that the scientific community even knows what all of the variables that determine your level of well being are, much less having the ability to account for them in a study like this.

As I have repeatedly stated elsewhere in this thread, in regions of the world with pervasive Internet access there are many, many factors that lead to increased well being, and conversely, in regions of the world without pervasive Internet access there are many, many factors that lead to decreased well being.

This study has accounted for some of the obvious variables here, but certainly not all of them.
Show HN: I Made a Portfolio Page That Showcases My Writing Journey on Medium
In addition to programming, I’ve been writing on Medium for a couple of years but never saw much growth (mainly because I’m never “consistent”).

But that didn’t stop me from building “Medium Portfolio Pages”. Using the Unofficial Medium API (mediumapi.com), I was able to build these beautiful and dynamic pages that showcase

- My overall stats and metrics,
- Publications where I contribute,
- My top articles, ranked by views, reads, comments, and claps,
- My books,
- Other insightful charts and graphs

And the best part: all of these stats and numbers get updated daily! So I don’t have to worry about manually editing anything. I can just instantly share the link to my Portfolio Page and BAM!

Also, there is a powerful search functionality to filter through my articles based on topics and keywords. It can be very useful for a potential client, or to just backlink my old articles.

Overall, I was pretty happy with the output, so I decided to open it to the world.

Wanna have a look? Here are some examples: https://mymedium.info/#testimonials
... convert alcohol in the intestine into harmless acetic acid before it enters the bloodstream.

You could put it on your chips post-pub and eliminate the need for vinegar!
G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl
Emacs itself added support for Android, so you can find Emacs proper in package managers like f-droid, or even build it yourself.

Seeing as you can do most things from Emacs, as well as making Emacs as light as you wish, it might replace termux + vim altogether, especially now that it comes with a lsp client builtin.
> Calling nuclear reactors environmentally unfriendly is pure insanity

The risk is real. You may argue about its priority, but that doesn't change the reality.

> Ukrainians

Worst possible example, given the existing disaster exclusion zone in their country, and everyone watching nervously as shells fall around the Zaprozhia nuclear plant.
FYI: it'a called ADs from the word ADvertisement, only one D here
A full on-screen keyboard that can be summoned anywhere helps a lot. On a 13" device there's no excuse to not have Ctrl, Cmd, Alt, Tab and Shift keys, complete with escape and the arrow keys.

It can be reduced in portrait mode, but should be there in landscape at least. That gives intuitive and ultra precise navigation, standard copy/paste, word by word navigation, fast and precise selection etc.

And it's also super helpful for selection even outside of text fields.
I heard opinions that 8086 won for IBM PC project because it was available for longer and more proven, with more options for second-sourcing.
also, wow that is an obsene amount of libraries they use: https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fspectrum.ieee.org%2fdis...