skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree on that, but returning null seems like a bad idea in this specific instance. Instead, I think I'd prefer they return an object like a promise so people are forced to check if an error occurred.
I had a similar event with a wart on my palm. Tried everything but it wouldn’t go away until one day I had a bicycle crash that ripped it out. Much blood, never returned.
Child Care Is More Expensive Than Rent for the Average American Family
Under capitalism, this is called theft.
Given the abundance of desktop electron apps, it seems maybe irresponsible to publish this blog post (with an advertisement for Codean in the middle (which itself was at least tastefully done)) only 6 days after the fix was released and the CVE was published.

Yes, a fix landed in Firefox, but the vuln is in pdf.js, and now I’m giving the ol side-eye to the four or five electron apps I have running.
SANE probably still covers it.
If they clarified with examples people would laugh at it and not take it seriously[0]. Better to couch it in vague terms like harms and safety and let people imagine what they want. There are no serious examples of AI giving "dangerous" information or capabilities not available elsewhere.

The exaggeration is getting pretty tiring. It actually parallels business uses quite well - everyone is talking about how AI will change everything but it's lots of demos and some niche successes, few proven over-and-done-with applications. But the sea change is right around the corner, just like it is with "danger"...

[0] read these examples and tell me you'd really be worried about an AI answering these questions. https://github.com/patrickrchao/JailbreakingLLMs/blob/main/d...
What worked for me after multiple years of trying to get rid of one of these damn things is salicylic acid plaster held in place by wrap. You have to apply acid to it on a continuous basis to get it to dissolve enough and trigger the immune system.
Climate change. The humans were there in part because of environmental change in the first place. Large deposits of dead animals all killed at the same time with no evidence of hunting or butchery makes mass die offs likely. Humans may have participated, but were likely only one among other factors.
Yeah I wasn't trying to endorse that position or anything. More pointing out that this website is somewhere between trade mag, promotional publication, and propaganda arm of a US tech venture capital firm.

It's not so much censoring posts about war crimes in the traditional sense as taking the editorial stance that some war crimes are beneficial for the entity it represents.
My personal protocol with my bank when they ring me is for me to call them back.

The bank workers are normally quite understanding - except when it is someone from fraud detection (and yes these are legitimate calls) and they tend to get odly defensive that I wont hand out my personal information.
A bigger issue may be the site’s rapid erosion. Most of the artifacts were found after they’d fallen out of the bluff, which means their place in the geologic timeline is obscured. Nine artifacts were found in place, and only three were able to be dated using charcoal flecks found next to them.

Hat's off to him for publishing it. There are currently serious problems with the peer reviewed publishing process, starting with the fact that it was born in an era when the scientific world was smaller and people reviewing your work may have known you or someone vouching for you and this is generally no longer true.

But we do rely heavily on where in a sediment layer a thing was found to try to date it, so with that piece missing for most items, arguing about the defects of the power review process is kind of moot. He should probably work at addressing this issue and maybe that's the piece he doesn't really want to wrestle to the ground to begin with in the peer review process.
Which parts of the "new MS Windows echosystem " does this apply to?
Daily reminder that the sun is incredibly bad at making power

core power volumentric density: 276 w/m^3

core density: 150000 kg/m^3

alternative units:

1.8 mw/kg .276 w/L

hello practical says a typical powered push mower might have about 1.7 KW and might weigh ball park 30 kilos, so ~60 W/kg or tens of thousands more power dense than the sun's core

useful fusion is hard because we're not trying to recreate our sun, we're trying to recreate fusion environments so intense I suspect they don't show up outside of supernovas or shortly after the big bang.
> There is still a huge amount of skilled devs here but USA companies skip them almost automatically.

English fluency and/or Employment Laws are a big issue as well.

Most companies have already had an Israeli or Indian subsidiary since the 1990s-2000s.

Most didn't start entering Eastern Europe until the 2010s, and much of that was in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus thanks to EPAM and the massive Soviet Diaspora in the US.

Poland, Czechia, and Romania are known quantities, but newish (late 2000s/early 2010s), and the larger ecosystem (not just engineers but lawyers, bureaucrats, accountants, etc that you need to run a subsidiary) don't have working English fluency and in some countries are Indian bureaucracy level headaches (looking at you Bulgaria) with the added lack of an English speaking ecosystem headaches.

In all honesty, if the Russia-Ukraine War didn't start in 2014, much of the Eastern EU's tech scene would have been much weaker as it's largely powered by the UKR/RUS/BEL diaspora who emigrated the moment all 3 countries entered an economic and social tailspin.

At a previous employer 5-7 years ago, we had an office in Czechia, but most of the Engineers were Russians or Ukrainians.
But 'A'ā isn’t the right kind of correct either?

I’ve seen it written in a lot of ways from Aa to A’a to ah-ah to 'A'ā. So which true way do we accept and why? And does it matter?
Relevant, but 3x as many children had the wart disappear entirely for duck tape as opposed to placebo, which was not significant due to the size of the sample and because total disappearance was rare overall (which are a result of choosing "complete resolution" in 6 weeks as a thing to pay attention to and the power of the study itself to find differences in such a rare outcome.)

It also found 27% size reduction for duck tape vs. 9% for placebo, which was significant.

> Complete resolution of the treated wart was seen in only a few children. The first resolution in both the duct tape and placebo groups was noted after 4 weeks. At the end of the study, after 6 weeks, the warts of 8 children (16%) in the duct tape group and the warts of 3 children (6%) in the placebo group had disappeared (Table 2), resulting in a number needed to treat of 10 (95% confidence interval, 5 to ⬁). This difference was not statistically significant.

> In the duct tape group, there was a diameter reduction of 27% (from a mean of 4.6 mm to 3.4 mm) after 6 weeks. In the placebo group, this was 9% (from 4.4 mm
to 4.0 mm). When adjusted for the baseline diameter, this resulted in a statistically significant difference in diameter reduction of 1.0 mm between the 2 groups (P=.008).

https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.11.1121
https://archive.ph/XNFug
Sure, but that's an argument for Chrome, not our websites.
Congrats on COPA's/your victory.

Is there any possibility for counter-action against Wright? He should be forced to pay every penny of his victims' court costs, at the very least. And shouldn't he be tried for perjury after such a scathing loss?
You're focusing on compensation to victim (and that becoming a new fraud mechanism). Instead, try focusing on what the banks could do to decrease the actual crime. Some examples:

US banking is notoriously sloppy about allowing withdrawals with just knowledge of routing number and bank account number, while every check written contains both numbers -- in Europe, the bank account number can only be used to transfer money to the account (and checks practically don't exist).

One day out of the blue, some hundreds of dollars were transferred out of my American bank account, seeming to claim purchases in a city several hours away. I didn't authorize such transactions. They were direct debits of my account, not credit card charges. A few days later, my money was returned. How was that possible? Why did the bank agree to transfer money out of my account?

All the way back in the 90s, my European bank gave me a one-time codebook, to be used in addition to username and password to authenticate online transfers. Whenever I was close to running out of codes, they gave me a new codebook. Managing to steal my password wouldn't have let an attacker easily empty my account.

My European bank in a small city, that I had been a customer of for decades, and whose employee that I was interacting with being a family friend, verified my passport before discussing a loan.
Which is precisely the point

The majority of people complaining are complaining that their “specialness” is being commodified

What actually happened was they commodified themselves and their work, in order to gat paid and maintain their position in the world as an “artist”

They are now pretending that that what they were doing had more value than it actually does simply because it takes skill and craft and they define themselves by it

Guess what, making metal fenders by hand takes a shit load of skill and craft, same with exterior plaster artists same with molding and crowning artistry - 100% of those kinds of workers were replaced perfectly by Machines.

You cannot replace demand for art qua art - because you are selling a moment in time of an artist expressing a fully felt emotional release. You can’t buy that because it cannot be created via money. It is a unique and temporal experience that can only be done by one person at one time in the world.

you can however, replace demand for art in service to commerce and it is a function of capitalism that that will be replaced because by function, it is in service of promoting a commercial behavior, not the expression of an artist in communicating themselves
Pyright, but Based
I graduated in 2022 into the final era of zero interest rate job markets. And then got laid off/fired twice in two years. The only thing that keeps me competitive in the job market is that I specialized so heavily so early (got a cert in unmanned vehicles then started writing spacecraft software). Kids who just learn the general fullstack curriculum (and don't do personal projects) are going to find the market very difficult for the foreseeable future.
Eh, years can easily be ‘a decade plus’.

One therapy that also seems to work well for really persistent hand and foot warts is water bath thermal hypertherapy.

[https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/29/3/156.full.pdf] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9078316/]

Bonus - it can be rigged up with a cheap thermal PID controller (Amazon), an immersion heater, and some kind of pot. Less than $100 in parts and some basic electrical knowledge.
Songs of Conquest is the Heroes of Might and Magic rebirth we all deserve
My favorite thing about Roko's Basilisk is how a bunch of hard-nosed rationalists using remorseless logic somehow managed to conclude that God is real and will torture you in Hell forever if you sin.
If that were true, those tiny tubes of cyanoacrylate would be sold as wart remover.
So, PFOS PFOA PF* is bad, because it cannot be excreted by the body (except to your children, if you’re female and pregnant?) and is bio accumulative

But! Fluoride and tritium are A-ok ?
Julia is the spiritual successor to Dylan in many ways: multiple dispatch, Lisp heritage, and a full-power macro system with gensyms and local capture.

It's a bit type-cast as a language for numerics and scientific programming, a niche where it's enjoying robust success.

But as a language, it's fully suited to general purpose programming, providing an excellent experience in fact. The ecosystem for most applications which aren't in the existing niche is somewhat thin, but that's a chicken-and-egg problem. It has solid package management, a good concurrency story, well-designed FFI, and performance-sensitive parts of a program can be honed to native speed by making them type-stable.

Slept on imho.
>Some will find a job before they finish you interview process.

It sounds like a different company was able to find and hire talent faster, to their benefit. So the solution is to be more like them.
I can't find the second two; the first one [1] is simply inconclusive; small sample sizes but no real effect. Crucially, this one compares duct tape to placebo (a corn pad, which seems to be a foam ring that surrounds but does not cover the wart).

The original study is from 2002, the first study linked above is from 2006.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17088514/
I just did the same in preview on my Mac (export TIFF uncompressed - 12mb -> export PNG) and got 5.4mb so 2.2:1 and on https://cloudconvert.com 4.6mb with default settings.

PNG does have some tuning parameters that can effect the final size usually just speed vs size.
This is an excellent text to understand mathematical structuralism.

But it feels anticlimactic.

At the beginning there are fundamental problems with mathematical equality.

In the end, there is no great new idea but only the observation that in algebraic geometry some proofs have holes (two kinds), but they can be filled (quite) schematically.
It's not Microsoft and Google's job to write Apple's software for them. It's like complaining that Apple doesn't write a good Dotnet runtime; of course they don't. It's not their job, and they don't want to anyways.

> It would be a completely new source of developers for these platforms.

I have no idea who you're referring to here. Who are the developers that are locked-in to iOS/MacOS but would consider ChromeOS or Windows if it supported Swift better? I cannot think of a single person I know that fills that bill. If anything it's the other way around, where people end up switching away because they don't have any use for Swift/AppleScript.
I live in Seoul, this doesn't look that that different. Different, but not thaaattt much.
Looks nice. At first glance, there's a data leak to `title.mihir.ch`, but I'll see whether I can avoid that.
Is this case only seeing is believing.

The billionaires will fight with all they have to prevent it.
Ops accidentally removed: Compared to PV free energy might reduce the cost of desalination by 1/3, but fusion isn’t going to be free.

The core issues is drinking water is isn’t generally a lack of water. People in rainforests still have issues getting clean water because maintaining a distribution system requires a functioning society/government which simply isn’t available in extremely poor countries.

Similarly keeping water supplies drinkable requires pollution controls which is basically non existent in such countries.
Hot take: If I was super rich I'd rather put my money in my own charities where I can control how the money is managed and where it goes. If I hand it over to the Federal government, a lot of it will probably go to programs I fundamentally opposed.

Not to say that the super-rich shouldn't pay any more in taxes, I'm not really qualified to say. But these populistic initializes are mostly smoke and mirrors. They aren't going to work, and if they did work they aren't going to make as much difference as people hope.
Crushed up aspirin is another great and accessible treatment for warts I have found to be effective.
As I understand, Epic be hosted on-prem or in the cloud. Being in the cloud doesn't eliminate downtime risk from ransomware, though. Even if you treat each PC like a dumb terminal, you're still going to have downtime to replace or repair them when they no longer work.

> You never hear about someone’s salesforce being ransomwared or their servicenow being held hostage

You may hear about business organizations being unable to do work due to ransomware. Likely nobody mentions their inability to access salesforce specifically, because 1. the data in there usually isn't controlled and 2. likely nobody is going to die if they can't log into salesforce.
Best to redact using black rectangles. However, when you redact a PDF, make sure you don't just draw rectangles over the text, the text remains and can be easily extracted. Add the rectangle as is but then export to raster images like PNG/JPG then recombine these in a PDF.

If your redacted documents are to be printed, ensure that you first redact then print. If you must print then redact (let's say you prefer to redact a physical document), photocopy the redacted document and distribute that, so the text cannot be forensically recovered.

Anything else (blurs etc) are prone to reversal or leakage.
The biggest pixel is a black box over the entire word :-)
BBS over DNS
Ok I was dumb for thinking of it this way and I really wish I remember what I read.
> Can I just talk to the folks I'll potentially be working with / for right away? No? Why?

Probably because those people are writing code and don't want to spend more than a couple hours a week interviewing folks.

If a role gets 500 applications in a week, it seems reasonable that there will be some sort of filter before candidates start talking with SWEs whose time is very expensive (compared with that of HR or recruiters). Whether that filter is an HR person doing a phone call, a take home assignment, or an automated code test, all methods are vehemently hated on HN.

I hate job hunting just like everyone else, but I'm also on the other side of it and kind of understand why things are the way they are. It's not a "cargo cult" or a conspiracy; it's just companies trying to balance a lot of different concerns.
Our knowledge of a situation is almost always imperfect, and can most of the time benefit from longer, deeper, less blond analysis.

Where impulses and reflexes rule is time-sensitive activities, like most sports, playing musical instruments, or driving. Whoever can deploy a better repertoire of thoughtless, instant reactions wins. It's basically precomputed and cached thought.
A good Content Security Policy [1] could prevent this as well as nullify the impact. If you're embedding a PDF in your app, you really should have one set up.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The corporate veil needs to be not only eliminated, but reversed

If a corporation is a collection of people driven by a charter, and that corporation commits a crime, the people who drove that decisions have two forms of protection from liability. One, criminal liability is in effect treated as diffuse and it is near impossible to charge any person for a crime. Two, assets not associated with the company are protected from liability involving the company's actions

This is madness. When a collective of any kind commits a crime, this is conspiracy. If someone is a voting shareholder or board member or top-level executive of a company that did a crime, they should automatically be liable. Executives should be resigning out of fear of being held responsible when given an unjust order. In the current environment, everyone involved is heavily tilted toward continuing to harm people for profit, because no consequences besides being lambasted in the media (If someone dares do journalism, in an environment where oligarchs punish and discourage exposes by buying up news orgs and socially discrediting all criticism as "cancel culture", and seemingly will outright murder whistleblowers in their own organizations), but heavy consequences can be inflicted on them by the explicitly authoritarian hierarchies within the corporations themselves and the outsized influence on your entire career prospects that defying someone in a position of power in a concentrated industry (which is at this point most if not all industries) can have should you choose your ethics over their marching orders

Not only should no one have this much power, ever, for any reason, but we have cleanly separated power from responsibility of any kind. This has never been conducive to a functional society, and it will continue to get worse as long as this structure remains intact
It depends on the person buying the work I guess, but most tattoo artists that I know wouldn't be overly happy with being given an image and asked to just tattoo it.

They're artists after all, not artisans.
> There is no gravity: whereas on earth the propellant separates relatively cleanly into liquid and gas this isn't the case in space

can you use a plunger, instead of a pump? more like a syringe?
You can try NAPS2. I think it is most useful software for scanning.

https://www.naps2.com/
> In fact, connected minorities essentially have super-powered network...

...in isolated pockets where those things exist.

Outside of those places, minorities have their slider set to something-other-than the easiest difficulty level.

As a white guy in generally good condition, my slider was slid all the way to easy. My road was still super hard - but it was easier than it was for women, brown people, etc.

In 1990 I moved to FL and ran headfirst into no connections=no work. I did the Make Your Own Luck thing. Hundreds of brief introductions led to a few relationships. A few of those became potential leads. It was a years long process. The eventual successes hinged on a few, key connections with people who saw something familiar.

If I hadn't been familiar, I wouldn't have been remembered past the introduction.
Watson was not a product but a brand name they applied to lots of things. I am sure Granite will show up in here: https://www.ibm.com/watsonx
I can imagine a situation where document was first scanned into jpeg and then redacted, could the information leak into the 8x8 blocks of jpeg compression?
Enlightenmentware
Once in a white, we discover a piece of software that transcends mere utility. These tools capture our imagination, open new possibilities, and affect how we design our own systems. I call such software enlightenmentware.

In this article, I praise the software that contributed the most to my enlightenment.

What’s your enlightenmentware?
"open themselves to have more developers supporting theirs?" -- Thats exactly what is missing from Google/Microsoft.
Apple is already supporting Swift on other platforms, however, developer experience is not as good as on macOS and I don't think that can/will be solved by Apple.
It is exactly where other players missing out, by making their dev experience as good or better, they could help developers write apps for their platforms.
ECMAScript 2023 feature: symbols as WeakMap keys
This is just an absurd example, probably better to point out lousy file management, lousy window management, missing apps, and no multi user capability
(2022) HN discussion (415 points, 100 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32983406
The apparent juxtaposition of the first two lead me to conjecture that a mild current from skin capacitance disrupts the wart.

https://www.instructables.com/Potato-Battery-Understanding-C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_capacitance
Well, never ever use this particular implementation strategy for pixelation for redacting text.

It's fairly easy to come up with another algorithm that would "pixelate" text but in a random way that can't be retrieved.