skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The area where I see this making the most transformational change is by enabling average citizens to ask meaningful questions about the finances of their local government. In Cook County, Illinois, there are hundreds of local municipalities and elected authorities, all of which are producing monthly financial statements. There is not enough citizen oversight and rarely any media attention except in the most egregious cases (e.g. the recent drama in Dolton, IL, where the mayor is stealing millions in plain view of the citizens).
Shame and guilt is self-anger. Anger directed at yourself.
Absolutely had no idea about US preparedness before WW1. Any books that shed more light on it?
You used to have niche, semi-public forums. This had the combined benefit of a sustainable culture and moderation for those in the conversation, and an accessible knowledge-base for everyone else. Discord et al. are not a replacement for this.
I started using it 2 years ago. In the first few months I would flip to Google when I wasn't getting results out of Kagi. However I now have enough experience with Kagi that I trust if a query returning nothing useful on Kagi then it wouldn't on Google either. I have no reason to ever return to using Google search.
You could dump all of a companies financial statements together, or dump all of a companies competitors in with it, for one.
So finally MTE enabled?
Battery life is insanely better. If you have not used one of the M series laptops it cannot be overstated how much better the battery life is. It is worth it for battery alone.

But beyond that they are also incredibly fast and run cool. In the MacBook Air there is no fan and on the Pros they barely ever spin up in an audible way.
Also: AMP.
Well that was an unnecessarily hostile response, especially since you appear to have misunderstood or misread what I wrote.

I did not say that the files were unlinked at the filesystem level and somehow recovered as is. I said that they likely were doing a similar user space soft delete where the files themselves were note actually deleted. In fact, my second sentence is:

> Instead they are marked as deleted and just left un-displayed / un-indexed until they’re finally overwritten by some need to use that space.

I referenced both the unlinking that a program like `rm` would do, and the wear leveling tech in SSDs both as examples of how we already have similar concepts of soft deletes at other layers of the stack. My suggestion was that Apple has added an additional layer on top of this, which does soft deletes at the file presentation layer. That explains both how the files could move with backups (and without "block by block backup") and how they can just be "relinked and just appear out of thin air".

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough in distinguishing what I was suggesting Apple was doing, and the analogies I was using as a comparison point. Perhaps in the future, you could assume good intent and ask for clarification if I haven't been clear enough for you, rather than accusing me of being stupid or a shill.
One key difference is the system is entirely classical (not quantum) and noise-resilient (see the last appendix).
If you haven't already, I would start with Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by Stevens

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...

It is about using all Unix APIs from user space, including signals and processes.

(I am not sure what to recommend if you want to implement signals in the kernel, maybe https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html )

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It's honestly a breath of fresh air to simply read a book that explains clearly how Unix works, with self-contained examples, and which is comprehensive and organized. (If you don't know C, that can be a barrier, but that's also a barrier reading blog posts)

I don't believe the equivalent information is anywhere on the web. (I have a lot of Unix trivia on my blog, which people still read, but it's not the same)

IMO there are some things for which it's really inefficient to use blog posts or Google or LLMs, and if you want to understand Unix signals that's probably one of them.

(This book isn't "cheap" even used, but IMO it survives with a high price precisely because the information is valuable. You get what you pay for, etc. And for a working programmer it is cheap, relatively speaking.)
What? Even really simple MCUs can output more symbols than 0 and 1 and of course they can count higher.
Web pages are optimized for the most popular search engine.

If any of Ask Jeeves or Lycos or Webcrawler or AltaVista had risen to the top of the heap instead of Google, then web pages would have been optimized for that respective bot instead.
No framework is the best approach
https://www.lycee.ai/courses/91b8b189-729a-471a-8ae1-717033c...
100% this, it's a computer let me compute.
By that remark I meant "digital CMOS," in the sense of elements that store state information discretely in flip-flops or gate insulators rather than continuously with analog integrators.

Very cool work in any event, though! Best of luck with the ongoing R&D.
ChatGPT app does not to support Intel architecture on Macs
Layout Generation Agents with Large Language Models
Exactly correct, hence the "it's just a phone". English is my fourth language and I speak/understand it just fine, thanks.
Yes this is exactly the goal of this project

Some people aren't specialized in front-end (or they just find it boring) so they're more the target audience. I did this because I wanted to avoid having to redo an UI each time I started a new hobby project

While there are customization options, it's really intended as just being an include without the need of changing anything else in your documents
664427 - RIP
>But where does the 1978 year in the title come from?

This seems to come from the fact that although MMWR has been in publication since 1978, 100% of papers they have published on the topic has been in the past 3.5 years.
Not to mention, as somebody who works in quant trading doing ml all day on this kind of data. That ann benchmark is nowhere near state of the art.

People didn't stop working on this in 1989 - they realised they can make lots of money doing it and do it privately.
> But if you were blocking the data from being accepted in the first place you wouldn't have that data in your database to begin with.

I mean, many of these dumb mistakes that someone would want their WAF to save them from, wouldn't be for leaks of user-provided PII, but rather for leaks of ops-provided secrets (e.g. connection credentials for upstream APIs), no?
> [0, 1, 2, -1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, -1, 26, 27, 28]

What is that supposed to represent in terms of pagination? Are they cursors...?

> I didn't think the code that generated the HTML from that was really worth testing because it was so superficial.

For what it's worth (as a frontend person), pagination is traditionally one of the trickier things for us to make sure is working correctly. Off-by-one mistakes can happen for example (especially with zero-indexed items). Or sometimes the prev/next buttons don't correctly use the same math as the page 1, 2, 3, etc. buttons. It gets even harder if you don't know the total length in the beginning, or if you allow multiple page sizes or sorts/filters, or use lazy loading, etc.

For those reasons I try to use a ready-built lib like MUI where all that is already tested internally (like https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/next/packages/mui-ma... or https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/next/packages/mui-ba...), but we still add our own automated and manual tests in our own usages.

But then again I'm bad at math and division, lol, so maybe it's just my own weakness.
Rematch: Robust and Efficient Matching of local knowledge Graphs [video]
Add me to that list of people who immediately thought of evil uses for this material.

It is a perfect material to enable mental torture. Years ago when I was a kid I had a newspaper route. From about 3 am to 5:30-6:00 am each morning I rolled newspapers and then walked or ran the route through my assigned neighborhood throwing those rolled newspapers wherever the customers had requested them to be in the morning.

One of the worst possible things that you could encounter along the route were spider webs. Many of these homes had large trees, hedges, etc that grew along sidewalks and spiders are experts at bridging wide gaps with thin tendrils of sticky web. I'm sure their workday started as soon as they detected a break in the web and didn't end until they ran out of food or mated and died. They were busy.

I learned to travel the worst parts of the route with a newspaper held vertically at arm's length in front of my face so that I minimized the chance that I would walk face-first into a web and trap the spider on the wrong side of the web. That had happened too many times and it was always disconcerting to feel the web clinging to your face while something alive is struggling to escape from underneath it right beside your nostril.

That's why with the first mention of the properties and diameter of this material the very first thought I had was an unpleasant memory of a hungry spider, frantically trying to escape his predicament and how this material would be most effective as a torture device used to give people the sensation that something is on their skin when in fact there is nothing there.

It would also be a way to tickle someone without ever touching them or to induce a feeling that things are crawling on them.

I personally can see the utility in this sensor string for the use cases noted in the article but I can also the very real potential for abuse.
Ca. 2006 iTerm added a feature to perform a google search based on text selection

You could see how this is even more dangerous than a completely separate window to an API

The only difference is: in 2006 people online in general weren’t absolute shitheads
Google guru roasts useless phishing tests, calls for fire drill-style overhaul
The Sea Change on Crypto-Regulation
Hm, I dont' remember it now, it was over 20 years old :).
The first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has die
Believing masks to be slightly effective at preventing airborne illnesses seems like a pretty common sense default viewpoint though. No barrier provides no benefit, a completely impermeable barrier like wearing a fish tank on your head would provide 100% benefit. So it makes sense that a partially permeable barrier would provide some benefit.
Worked at Google in its glory days in the '00s, left, and came back for stupid amounts of money.

The problem is that now the work is not fun outside of the money. In the '00s we were working on problems that mattered, we had a green field to play with, smart coworkers that could understand a crazy new CS innovation, and just a sense of discovery and excitement. Nowadays, we are trying to squeeze blood from a cash cow for shareholder benefit, every innovative new product gets killed by some exec who's afraid that it'll make them look bad, the codebase has ossified, most of the employees are also just in it for the money, they have no passion for software or deep understanding of technology, and we're basically just noodling around looking for the one tiny feature that we can launch within the constraints of org politics and crappy code and legal/privacy restrictions and innovator's dilemma.

Attracting employees that don't need money to have fun requires that you have fun in the first place. Sundar is doing a shit job at providing an inspiring vision or even a reason for the company to exist in the first place, so of course he attracts employees that are just in it for the money.
> Repair shop: right to repair means I can source a display from lowest bidder, charge $150 for broken screen, and make $120 in profit? Let’s go!

This is a pretty hostile take. A more generous take would be that repair shops can consistently source quality parts without skirting the law, allowing them to compete with manufacturers on service, turnaround time, and possibly even price.
Is Sundar going to adopt the pay package of a "small and scrappy" company, or are his patronizing words only for people 8+ rungs beneath him on the org chart?
Muscle memory, do your stuff!

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check out lycee.ai they have amazing resources to learn ML
It wouldn’t if you were already larger.

I don’t get the ‘eating 5000 calories of anything would make you ill’ argument against the movie. That was sort of the whole point. At the time, fast food chains, and McDonald’s in particular, were pushing large (and the defunct supersize) meals all the time. That this was dangerous, especially for people who didn’t really think about it and trusted the companies, was the entire point of the movie.

Note that things have changed since then - arguably as a result of, or at least accelerated by, the movie. Supersize meals disappeared soon after it, salads were introduced (yes, you can argue they’re still high calorie), and on the whole fast food places are much less aggressively pushing the larger meals than they were in the early 2000s. I would say there’s more awareness of the importance of eating healthily among the general population too (not that that seems to be having ideal results…)
You can also watch Josie and the Pussycats from a decade earlier.
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not used in years but very good memories!
Oh man, so many memories... Got ICQ in late 1998, and I remember my UIN as well, suprisingly -- unlike the dozen of mobile phone numbers I had over last 20 years.

Internet back then connected you to people who you'd not meet in everyday life, and ICQ was a new unusual place to discuss anything with them.

It gave you a new view of people you knew. I remember in the last grade at school I had some intimate conversations with a female classmate, which I couldn't imagine doing at school in front of many eyes.

It was a dating and meeting app too: rando people would write to other random people. Although these talks were superficial and today I'd see them disenchanting, back then it was an interesting alternatives to offline sociality.

A recall from 2003: me and sister having desktop computers, chatting with all the people on neighborhood LAN and sometimes messaging each other over ICQ -- too busy to walk to the next room and speak.

Then I used it at office work, mostly to appoint dates with girls from another department. At the time, in 2007, it wasn't exclusive anymore, but like a mark of being web-literate, and girls were easier about telling you a UIN rather than a phone.

Then social networks came, and even before mobile integration they were much richer -- all the life went there. Ah, good old days -- make a party, do stupid contests, take photos with a soapbox digital camera, and then pour the entire SD card in the meeting album -- no editing, no removal of closed or red eyed faces, or weird postures or opened mouths. Just let everyone see how fooly they were. And what was different from ICQ was that everybody was aware that everybody was aware. ICQ had no chance, LOL. (edit: And there was Skype too.)

The last time I opened it under Pidgin on Ubuntu in 2010-2011.
Preventing users from submitting things that look like error messages sounds like a good idea until you stop a user from using your contact form to submit an error message that they just actually encountered on your website (because your WAF is set up incorrectly).
448 484 004. It was weirdly easy to remember and like everyone else here, almost 2 decades later I still remember it. I miss those simpler days, Discord makes it much easier to connect with larger groups of people these days but it just isn't the same magic. Or maybe it's all just rose coloured nostalgia glasses? Either way, it's pretty sad.
> Men relied on women to perform them, as part of keeping them out of other occupations.

This sounds rather blank-slatist, the idea that there are no psychological differences between men and women.

No one believes that any more. There are solid evolutionary reasons for the differences, and plenty of evidence from places like Sweden, where despite heavy pressure and highly smoothed paths into high-paying technical fields, women overwhelmingly choose people-oriented work.
Google won because it didn't fill your result pages with trashy unrelated answers on the hope to show you more ads.

There were plenty of engines where you could just type a query and they would list sites for you.
Iirc Comanche used a ray tracing approach to render the terrain [1]. No Voxels there, just a 2D height map that is sampled.

(They called it "VoxelSpace" ... so some confusion is warranted)

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace
I actually love sakura, but I wanted something more complete like having syntax-highlighting styles out-of-the-box and still have some utilities classes.

The demo page is supposed to be the website itself which is intended as a documentation too (you also have a basic website previewer at the begining).

It definitely needs some more polish, but I wasn't expecting this being posted on HN this early
Yeah, kinda crazy.

I didn't even remember ICQ had numbers until I read the first comment in this thread posting theirs and most of the number immediately popped into my head, 10238* (cant remember last two).

Makes me wonder what other things in my brain are back in archive, just needing the right push to bring to surface.
I'm not talking about peak consumption, I'm talking about the production-consumption split.
hey drew! did writing this project give you any Hare-y situations you hadn't run into before, or maybe - reached into corners not yet probed by Hare and gave you ideas for a new feature or edge case that was scary?
I don't like using the entity that brought us cookie banners as an example of how to regular tech.
Article title is clickbait?

“I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” Pichai said at the meeting, as reported by CNBC. “Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn’t always equate to money.”

I don’t disagree but google is far from a startup now the work is not exciting.

But maybe better framing would be the time to be responsible is when things are going good rather than when it’s too late and leads to job cuts. What’s fun is having a job altogether?
Here is one glitch that seems to be related that still is not fixed:

https://www.indilib.org/forum/general/14691-indilib-org-site...

The glitch began on the 18th and is now in the situation where some users can and others cannot access the site. I, myself, cannot access the site six days later, when connected via my network wifi router (ISP is Cox Communications), but can, if instead I connect to the Hotspot on my IPhone(AT&T). Traceroutes fail in either case, continually, at the server 198.207.200.70 (which does not appear to be owned by cogent).

What, if anything, can an end-user such as myself do in such a situation. Where can such an end-user send a report that might lead to a fix? I assume the owners of the indilib.org site are trying whatever they can, but I have no idea what their reporting chain might be.
You used to be able to see Twitter results in real time on Google. Facebook, too, early on, IIRC. Google could pay them to get access again, but... won't.

I suppose Google would have to somehow exit the personal data broker business to pull this off, too.
Probably. I don’t think it’s much more than the cost of shrinking everything down and shaving 1/2 mm off your design or engineering a whole protocol, chips, and software to pair components together and implement “features” at the OS level to disable some things if it detects new parts.
And if you don’t have manual QA to find those bugs, your users will find them (and, if you’re lucky, report them).
"You cannot recover the password" :-(
> IRCCloud does.

You replied to my post where I said I switched to IRCCloud and the person asked for self hosted alternatives to it :P
Well yeah, people often assume that because they know how to tell if two shapes are currently intersecting, they've solved collision detection...and then their games turn out to have a bunch of detection-related bugs and glitches. Most notoriously, lots of homebrewed physics libraries suffer badly from tunnelling (i.e. when one or both bodies are moving so fast that they completely pass through another before the next time collision is naively checked, and so the checker fails to detect a collision at all).

And on top of that there is more to collision detection than just code IMO - setting up hitboxes that both feel right for the player and aren't visually glitchy is not as straightforward as it might seem, especially with 3D.

(Also, figuring out contact points is part of competently implemented collision detection.)
I can't help but reply every time this thread comes up. I'd still probably be using my 2010 if it wasn't for a series mechanical failures. Paid to replace the keyboard once (85 screws, didn't need to do that to myself), but third battery crapping out, trackpad not clicking (probably due to swollen battery) and the MagSafe connector getting loose and glitchy was the end of it. Though I did just boot it up because my phone is somehow still supposed to sync music from it.
That is a blast from the past. MP3tag is older than Web 2.0, Twitter, Facebook and is still actively maintained.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010502171211/http://www.mp3tag...

My workflow back in the day was mainly thrift store CD to AudioGrabber. I still have a few CDs that only exist in high-bitrate MP3 format after losing the physical disk.

Lately I've been using MusicBrainz Picard to re-organize all of these ancient rips and then automedia to add parity. I'm still paranoid that Spotify will disappear one day and I'm afraid to lose my older music collection.
Hey thanks for the reply! I'm assuming your the first author on the paper; if so, the signup button on the Normal Computing website is not working at the moment (at least for me, even with ad blocker turned off).
I lost my job, so I'm creating a game inspired by classic golden age sci-fi
The story is still under development, but the general conflict revolves around you being a space explorer on a mission to investigate a mysterious radio transmission from a distant alien world. Your goals as a player will include uncovering the source of the transmission, surviving the planet's harsh environments, and interacting with alien technology.
The Student Syndrome: Delaying until right before deadlines
I live in Minneapolis - I see it all the time. Several times a day in fact. I still see people in outside settings wearing them as well. By now, if I see a person wearing one my only two thoughts are: a) this is an act of virtue signaling (Minneapolis is a VERY progressive city) or b) you are immunocompromised and or wearing it for medical or health reasons.

Since both of these are on opposite ends of the spectrum, I just hope its for medical reasons and being cautious as opposed to the former and get one with my day.
That is not a benefit. If you use a tool like this to try to compete with sophisticated actors (e.g. all major firms in the capital markets space) you will lose every time.
Submitted yesterday without the anchor [0] (29 points, 2 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459770
Consider the perspective of a person whose loved ones died because the US Government sabotaged their health.

They might know more about how the world works than you imagine.

“not a person worth convincing” — Not worth convincing them to protect their health? Clearly their health was considered expendable by the government when the experiments were carried out. The government should demonstrate that this fact has changed.