skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to understand us.

I'm happy to believe the internet was slow and unreliable back them especially from the countryside (actually, I know it for a fact), but assuming a 7 hour night and a 1 second wav file (176.4 * 1000 * 8 = 1411200 bits, I made a mistake in my last comment) would mean 56 bits per second, that's 7 bytes/sec, that would be unusable to browse the web, even by the standards of this past. That's also far from what a 14.4 kbit/s modem is supposed to achieve, even considering that 14.4 kbit/s is a theoretical max and you'd be typically way below this speed in actual use. Hence our surprise.

At this speed, it would have taken you several minutes (and since the internet was unreliable, probably several attempts) to even load nintendo.com and then the download page. The simplest page I know in the wild, perdu.com, is 203 bytes, 909 bytes with the HTTP headers, that would take more than 2 minutes to load at that speed. nintendo.com was likely more complex than that. Given this, you'd have to have some very strong will and patience to go ahead and download a sound for fun as a child (though I can picture this).

I can only assume it didn't take the full night (you woke up on a finished download, it most likely did finish (way) before you were done sleeping), and that there's more to the story that the elements we have. What's still strange to me is that if it took say half an hour, with such a strong determination, would you have gone to sleep instead of excitedly waiting for the download to finish?

I'm not saying your memory is wrong or that you are lying or something like this, I'm sure this recollection is genuine and that it is a strong and fond memory, and I understand that it was long ago so difficult to remember the details, just that we are missing some critical piece to make something complete of your story for ourselves.

And sure, not everything can be reduced to math, but that's our best tool for estimating / evaluating stuff as distant observers.
My #1 issue is that I'd love to grant an app powerful permissions if I can ensure it doesn't have internet access. But default Android doesn't expose the network permission (which exists and is accessible in ROMs like LineageOS)

Of course if this was exposed then people would start blocking the Google data vaccum - and that's bad for business
I think another part to this is the police not attending shoplifting incidident (amongst many others) due to the reduction in the police numbers. It's definitely out of order, what the tracking company is doing, of course. Perhaps if we had a functioning police service and reduced the need for people to shoplift (yes, a lot of this is run by gangs now, but still some steal to feed).
Good for you. My laptop does.
I don't trust a sales person or marketer to not hype such a system as being flawless whodonit machine. I certainly don't trust that the people purchasing these machines won't communicate to their staff that it's a flawless whodonit machine.

That's because the step from "potential leads" to "flawless machine" is a relatively small leap easily hidden by throwing out bad stats and case studies about people caught red handed. Even if you say the machine is 80% accurate, a lot of people will happily accept harming the 20% on the chance they might be in the 80%. (Though, I'm willing to bet the false identification percentages are both not public and not kept up to date, if they are even known).
> That may be true but we don't know that it is true

I think a walk through a shopping mall might provide some clear evidence.
“it is also clear there are plenty among the public who are willing to put up with having their faces scanned - if it means safer streets.”

Unfortunately it doesn’t mean anything of the sort. This tech doesn’t prevent typical street crime like muggings or assault. And the chance of getting hurt or killed by a police officer whose dispatcher just identified you as a criminal is much higher than what the random folks who skipped bail that are in this system would do to you (ie nothing).

Then there’s the “low” false positive rates. They say only one of 33,000 people scanned is falsely identified. Okay, that’s pretty high. If they scan one percent of the UK population with these devices each day, that’d be 20 false positives a day, and 20 more potentially violent encounters with police a day. Compared to what’s likely a much smaller number of correct identifications of actual wanted individuals, most of whom could probably be found by much cheaper, less problematic methods.
Is "We don't use automated identification technology" enough of a market advantage to win over customers?
i think the ui framework needs to support it more natively. coding up an undo stack can be a real chore
Why would you want to unsee it, and why would it ruin your enjoyment?

I've always thought it was cool: you can see blood cells moving in your own retina! Amazing!

(I always assumed they were blood cells — only just now discovered that it's only the white blood cells you can see.)
In EU there is a ban on this kind of tech (face/gait recognition based on cctv, by private companies, plus separate laws forbidding acquisition of personal data without consent)
import foo(42, FULL_OF_EELS) as foo

-:1:8: E0012: Initializer of module "foo" has 3 arguments, 2 were provided.
Looks great! But please don't hijack my back button.
How does Explorer calculate the "Date" of a file?
Humans apply much more judgement to their own choices, and actions resultant from them, than instructions from the infallible machine.

Humans may also be disciplined for not attending to an instruction from the infallible machine, whereas there are no stats or electronic records of human judgement of "is that the lady who shoplifted the other day? Hmmm, maybe... Maybe's not really good enough for how little I'm paid".
He was browsing the web, that's pretty high risk. And sticking to reputable sites isn't enough when their ads could contain malware. While it sounds like he doesn't use XP anymore, (IIRC) he was using it for the Internet well beyond its EOL.

He also admitted to having trouble getting his dev environment working on newer OS's. My guess is he was rationalizing the choice to stick with XP to avoid the friction of upgrading development tools. Which is odd since he's not afraid to delay things for years and ultimately has upgraded his environments anyway.
Frankly, your explanation isn't any simpler, quite the contrary.

> That sucks! We lose the standard of HTTP!

Why does this suck? WebSockets or SSEs are also standardized.

> the protocol generalizes all the way to full-peer-to-peer multi-writer

Why "peer-to-peer"? While Braid can be used in a local-first setting and probably do peer-to-peer, that isn't the focus here.

The focus is to help application developers to not get into the shenanigans of CRDTs and distributed algorithms etc., but solve those things already via polyfills.
My mother had stroke like 20 years ago. All of my siblings including myself have had moments of real trouble when we talk to her. She's very functional, but there's a sense that she is not putting herself in our shoes, which comes across as lacking empathy. Even when we try to outwardly express distress, it's like she's blind to it. I just realized recently that stroke survivors can suffer impairment to their Theory of Mind, basically rendering them blind to what others are feeling. That sense can be gone or be impaired. This was such a revelation to me and suddenly everything in the last decade made perfect sense. All this time we thought she was just really self-centered or 'slow'. It caused real frustrations and there were times we even broke down because we expect something that's just not there. We didn't know.
Neat. We need more "box of hot rocks" thermal storage solutions.

It's fun to compare and contrast strategies, as startups explore and define the problem space.

For example:

Fourth Power is a heat to electricity solution. It uses graphite bricks (up to 2400°C), liquid metal for plumbing, and thermophotovoltaic cells.

https://gofourth.com/our-technology/

Electrified Thermal Solutions is an electricity to heat solution. It combines the heating element, storage, and exchanger into a single brick (up to 1800°C).

https://electrifiedthermal.com/
I have my own sense of morality developed over years of balancing life, I don't want a robot to remind me of the average moral construct present in its training data. It's noise.

Just like I don't want a hammer to keep reminding me I could hit my fingers.
iOS has a built-in “simple” mode called Assistive Access. It does a lot of what’s described here.

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...
That one in fourth will be banned from using nultiple stores and establishments without due process and without a clear way to clear themselves up.
You’ve listened to a lot of misinformation about this topic. There aren’t huge gangs of shoplifters, and police force numbers have been growing in recent years. If anything is to blame for whatever increase there has been in shoplifting, it’s the stores who have tried their best to eliminate every bit of human staff.
> For the most part your career and financial success is orthogonal to your personal relationships, and to your health

Every goal takes time to achieve. The time spent seeking a career and financial success is not spent on your relationships and your health. Ask me how I know.
The risk of war between sacramento and san fransisco is zero. I don’t see why we can’t make that true for the world over one day.
A good article.

Too often when working on a startup, you have a number of core beliefs or assumptions that can be corrected during the down swings.

Those negative swings are a way of letting you see through the assumptions and re-evaluate their importance.

The upswings are lies, that is what I've always told myself.

The middle band is the nice place to be.
Exactly. It’s so annoying when developers think they know better how a user should use their browser than the user does, at least that’s an optimistic interpretation of it. The other interpretation is that they just don’t want users to actually use their browser in any way that gets them off the page.
Show HN: Cheap high entropy randomness at home
Note this is just a little, funny experiment.
It should, however, being very effective in producing high entropy randomness.
Make your own lava lamp randomness device!
300w for 1m diameter is probably the rating for the absolute best case scenario, the average could be closer to 10x less depending on the location

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/04/small-windmills-pu...
Apple Bets That Its Giant User Base Will Help It Win in AI
> that does not mean that VC's are a public service, under some sort of obligation to answer the phone and listen to whoever wants their attention.

That's not what I'm saying at all. My point is that they need pitches: without pitches, they can't invest in startups, and without investments in startups, they will have a hard time raising capital for their next fund.
AI firms mustn't govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI's board
You can always just use the webapps and have things like uber text you.
Math isn't a completely formalized system. For example, a lot of work was done with real numbers before they were formalized, and I believe that happened relatively recently (late 1800s, early 1900s). It just would not have been possible to make statements about calculus prior to that time if you were to demand types.

There is an obvious benefit to the way math developed historically.
This is a significant mistelling of the history of the German "Enigma" device. Significant usage of Enigma was done during the war in a manner that was secure enough to prohibit interception.

Turing's methods are brilliant as are the contributions of numerous other cryptographers. They relied on numerous operational failures of some branches of the military to be possible. So it was not from "the Germans", but from specific branches of the military that failed to follow already established best practices
Am I missing something about the O(logN) section? Why is there a graph of O(n^3 logN) under the text Here is how logarithmic complexity look like?
The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay
If the problem is social media app addiction, I have found the best solution is to turn on screen time, whitelist your most important apps like messages, calendar etc. and then enable a passcode to access any other app. Ask a friend to set a pin code for you so you cannot cheat.

Another solution is to just use an apple watch with cellular as your primary phone. It has everything you need (spotify, imessage, etc.) but nothing that distracts you like youtube, tiktok etc.
What is the actual difficulty of charging at higher power? Is it getting energy to the charger? The charging device itself?

Even as a non-EV-maximalist, I find it mind-boggling that we pump oil out in a few places in the world, ship it to turn it into gasoline, then ship it to millions of pre-placed fuel tanks and pumps around the world, and it all just works. Whereas even though all these places have electric power too, they can't charge EVs.
Cloudflare took down our website
Because it works.

We tried the alternative, and it's less productive.

At some point, there is the theory and practice.

Since LLM output are anything but an exact science from the users perspective, trials and errors are what's up.

You can state all day long how it works internally and how people should use it, but people I've not waited for you, they used it intensively, for million of hours.

And they know.
That is perhaps reasonable if it's one store, or even a chain, but the article spoke about this applying across multiple chains, whichever used this software.
If we end up banning people for life from shopping in physical sto ed because they shoplifted once when they were young, we are creating a deeply disturbing society.
>"If you make a mistake correct yourself" as if that does anything.

That part actually does work & makes sense. LLMs can't (yet) detect live mistakes as they make them, but they can review their past responses.

That's also why there is experimentation with not showing users the output straight away & instead let it work on a scratch pad of sorts first
Let's hope that this is the worst for my loved one's worries.

My will will contain instructions for how to unlock my private keys and get access to my 1password vault, or whatever I end up using the last.
Addendum:

Is it because they want to throttle the number of pitches they get? That would work, but wouldn't it also filter out the best and most promising startups, which will easily find a more approachable VC, and leave only the more desperate founders?
For the "dumb phone" target audience this probably won't work.
Thanks! I wanted to use standard Go html/template to see just how bad the re-renders are, and then decide to use htmx. After building the project, I don’t mind the re-renders much as the latency is around 50ms and I don’t see any jank. I might introduce htmx in future
Think you invented a modern edition of sticky tape on bottom of mouse there
How so? You can just assume that some conjecture is true and proceed with your work. (For some conjectures that is acceptable, for others, not so much.)

An interesting proof would have to show something more than just the truth: maybe it's constructive and shows how to compute something, or it shows a connection between fields previously seen as barely related. Or it uses a new trick or language that could be applied elsewhere. But I think all that requires that the proof is a bit more than transparent than just having a formally verifiable representation.
So long as we can pump oil out of the ground faster than we use, we're ok.

A surprising number of things are "OK" if we ignore externalities.
Kind of off topic but this assumes that the ideal progress bar should be a smooth continuous movement from 0% to 100% when I don't think that's the case. If you have a 100-step process, and the first 99 take 1 second and the last one takes 10 minutes, the progress bar should be at 99% for 10 minutes because the process is 99% complete, right?
> you can't know, in advance, which one's Synapse, and which one is AWS,

AWS is the one with ~$100,000,000,000 per year in revenue
Emergency landing at Bankstown Airport in Sydney today
> our stories are predominantly this basic

they are unfortunately
I think the danger in systems like this is in the article. They said the shopper was banned from all establishments running that system. So, even if the accused person is not accused of doing anything in that particular establishment, they are now capable of being globally banned. That should 100% be prohibited.
It'll make interesting Hollywood movie, but not going to matter when it's Russia invading Ukraine.

US is going to let both collapse then rebuild New Ukraine where it is, and it'll be 100% Western country because of that. Plus few more around. All because of Russian footgun.
Preppers Paradise: A collection of three DIY, prepping and tech libraries
I just had the occasion to set up a small seed box and to upload everything to the Internet Archive. This might be redundant for someone, anyway is 34GB of DIY, prepping and whatnot.

It should be browseable directly on site. Please note my seedbox is limited to 10MB/s to accommodate more users and to let me use internet too (lol). Seeders are welcomed, anyway the archive should be storing them in PDF and txt too.
What I was initially imagining was a complete lack on sensory information and was trying to image what type of mind would emerge from that.

Inside a sensory deprivation chamber I have experienced losing your sense of time, space has no meaning, therefore your mind just assumes that you take up all the space. But you don't keep spiraling down into unconsciousness only to awaken later. The mind eventually settles down and you are very much conscious except any concerns relating to your body and others quickly become distant memories of long forgotten dreams.

That's the reaction of a mind used to sensory input being cut off. How would a mind with not sensory input from the start evolve?. That would more closely resemble what Helen Keller first talks about about not knowing what she was. I'm both fascinated to know and terrified and hope I never do.
Have you considered getting a work visa + a tech job in western Europe ?
Sorry for that it was just a miss-use of <Navigate> component in React, and some lack of testing for the back button.

I'm working to fix it ASAP ;) !
Show HN: Generate Protobuf and ts-rest APIs following API design patterns
I have been working on this simple CLI to speed up generating API definitions with standard methods (as per the API Design Patterns book). Currently, both Protobuf and ts-rest are supported. In future, I would like to be able to fine-tune & improve APIs – perhaps with the help of GenAI. Any thoughts/suggestions/feedback much appreciated :)
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That's a mostly-unrelated use of the word "seal", a device that's intended to demonstrate that a document hasn't been tampered with.

The use here is to indicate a device that demonstrates that a specific person approved a document. Conceptually, it's a signature.
The opportunity behind Square Banking
> Who are you "communicating" with?

I wrote this: "with the machines, and with fellow developers"

> A programmer does not communicate with a computer, through a PL

I disagree with this. The programmer describes the steps that the computer needs to perform, to the computer. Or the programmer describes the state which the computer should reach.

The communication is one way (except, arguably, during debugging sessions), but a communication does not need to be two ways.

> He or she writes it down, to later be executed or interpreted, so the computer can "communicate" with the user, through the User interface (not the PL).

You seem to set yourself in the end user perspective, but the developer is also a human, and I'm in the developer's perspective here.

> people should just be vary not to use language ideas for PL.

Agreed, some / many ideas applying to natural languages don't apply to programming languages. But some do.

> the vocabulary works very different

Absolutely. There are strong differences.

(of course, it's fine we don't agree, we are arguing on definitions)
Interesting,
It is funny how early 1900s is considered recent in math,
While the first Computer Scientists are still alive.
The older I get, the less interested I become in making it through whatever I’m supposed to be prepping for.
Yeah, they didn't observe the decay, but set lower limits on the half life of the decay, which translates into upper limits on a neutrino mass. Next time will mostly involve getting more germanium 76, but also improving the techniques they use to beat down backgrounds.
Birth of universe's earliest galaxies observed for first time
Has this been tested in the courts?
The vast majority of the time, especially with code, I'll point out a specific mistake, say something is wrong, and just get the typical "Sorry, you're right!" then the exact same thing back verbatim.
lol me too, nevertheless I stock up PDFs just in case. Knowing that probably I'd be too lazy to read them if needed anyway.
I have a PhD in 'political science'. So I understand everything.
Do you think it’s more difficult for people to identify with and connect to media lacking people of their own race? Interesting idea.
It may have had that meaning in the early 90s but by the late 90s it was obscure, so much so that the domain freenet.org remained registered but unused from 1999 until I was able to acquire it in 2019.

Calling this "swiping" implies I was aware of the previous meaning, I wasn't. Moreover, in 25 years this may be the first time someone has complained about it.

In any case, this is all ancient history at this point.
There’s surely a case for prosecution of the Police department.
There's a great joke placed over an image of Stalin:

Dark humor is like food.

Not everyone gets it.
The lack of consumer awareness around the fact that there is nothing akin to the first sale doctrine for "digital media" (licensing sans physical media) is honestly surprising to me. I guess it's only been a decade or two of exposure for most people, but still.

Even physical media/first sale doesn't really protect all that much anymore, now that license keys tend to be single use and you have to pay to get another one. If you don't know what I'm talking about, try to buy a used CoD game and play it online. You will likely have to pay Activision more than twice what you payed GameStop.

The irony is that all this means "buying" ≠ "owning", yet:

- piracy is widely considered "theft"

- "buying" confers almost no rights. If I pay today, and they shut down the servers tomorrow, that's too bad. Get banned? No due process or refund; should have read the eula. Sony pulls the movie's license from the platform? Here is a $1 credit, you are welcome.

Not sure if this is a boiling frog scenario, a consumer ignorance issue, or if if most people just have bigger concerns than what happens to their movies when a licensing deal ends or they die.
I just saw this, though some examples might be fake: https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1794543007129387208
Simple 3D-printed tool flosses all teeth at once in few seconds
It's the hardware required to output a huge volume of electricity into the battery in a short amount of time.

Getting the power to the charger is trivial.
What would your solution for 10 million such requests within a day be?