skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe it or not, the problem is likely that they are consulting UI "experts". Many designers responsible for this stuff (at least the ones I've worked with, and I can extrapolate based on what other companies have released) haven't been in the industry for very long and they don't really have the practical experience in using computers and applications to recognize the harm they are inflicting. Combine this with the fact that the one of the main ways for designers to get pay increases is to pad their portfolio with dribbble-worthy form-over-function designs and you start to get things like the OP is lamenting. And the Slack redesign.
>You're just able to buy a MacBook Pro with a non-pro CPU.

That doesn't strike you as misleading?
Or we forget to cancel
What a stupid response. I imagine you were among those who flagged this post as well. "ergo the price is irrelevant" the price is relevant for other people considering purchasing macs. "then the onus is on him to have researched the device's full functionality prior to the spending any amount in any currency" god forbid he help others in their research. "Sounds a bit to me like the author of this blog is feeling a little guilty and self conscious about being apart of this subset of 'non-fine-print-readers'." A subset maybe, but not a proper subset given nobody bar nobody reads every dot of fine print before every purchasing decision. What was the point of this comment?
Video games via ESRB, PEGI, et al.
Intro to LLMs for Engineers
Yes. Because git was created by Linus Torvalds specifically to enable and advance Linux kernel development.

The fact it has become so widly adopted is a "happy accident" (or misery). Github I think has been widely credited with making git so common place ("free git hosting") but I don't think git is the "ideal" revision control system for many projects.

Because it was made for Linus for Linus/Linux, this is why the terminology and sometimes workflow is backwards from every other "normal" version control system. A "Pull Request" (PR) is named that because for Linux development Linus/maintainers would PULL changes into Linux kernel tree. In almost every other version control system it's called a Merge Request which logically makes MUCH more sense because you are merging a change (where ever it came from) into a tree.

Git was (still?) the only open-source distributed version control system that could handle enormous code bases with good speed which means it gained a lot of inertia at big companies as well.

I vastly prefer and use Mercurial for personal projects but if you have tried to use Hg on huge code bases (I've tried on Android AOSP) it really chokes. Mercurial got the "user interface" and command-set right and has some nifty features (being able to launch a web server on the fly to get a tree view of your changes) but being written in Python, performance and scalability aren't ideal.
If the expected rate of known shoplifters is 1 in 10,000 then the human security team can keep a close eye on 10,000 people (one of whom is probably a shoplifter) or on just 2 people (one of whom is probably a shoplifter). The latter is much more efficient.

Without the intentional false positives they could simply throw out 1 individual with no need to keep an eye on anyone at all. That's enen MORE efficient, but it utterly ruins the lives of anyone falsely identified.
Advanced RAG Cheat Sheet from LlamaIndex
Wow, forcing visitors to individually disable 6 types of cookies. :thumbsdown.tif:
I actively use grep, cat, uniq, sort, less and other Unix commands every day. That's why I added good integration with Unix pipes into VictoriaLogs, since it may cover missing functionality [1].

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/querying/#comm...
damn, unfortunate the rabbit makes this unwatchable.

otherwise, i love beer and great story, i'll just read about it.
It will be hard to pick apart why. Muscles increase metabolism plus I suspect after a workout you feel like protein not carbs/sugar. You eat that and feel full. Then there is plain old confounding of people who have a good diet and people who exercise.
Exactly. Governments cant, or wont, put bad actors employed by corporations behind bars before we had AI. They treat corporations like one large entity that cant be acted upon when in reality corporations are run by people, good and bad.
The Ukrainians are flying drones filled with explosives into Russian refineries and we still don't think it was just the Ukrainians taking out the Russian gas pipeline?
You're still hyper fixating on one single point. And I'm not a businessman. I imagine businesses never do one thing for one reason like software functions.

Bankers can tell a lot from a security standpoint based on seemingly frivolous data. Maybe it's the same logic here. If you end every day swelling exactly XX0 products, something is amiss. It at least prompts a deeper investigation, since running through weeks of receipt/data takes more time pre-computer.
As I understand it (being nothing more than a Google expert on the subject), the repeaters aren't the sort of thing you can just "tap". They don't decode and re encode any data, they don't even "see" the raw encrypted data as such, they're just specially doped sections of fibre with pump lasers that amplify the optical signals.

The "Get pumped" section of this page has an almost ELI5 overview: https://hackaday.com/2023/08/08/under-the-sea-optical-repeat...
I’m using my phone, which would then be face down anyway, but I’m more worried about the mic being on inadvertently. It’s easier to accidentally unmute and not notice that.
I find it entertaining to see ML skeptics retreat in their rhetorical stances in real time.

I remember what people were saying in 2022. Now in 2024, it has become the leftist anti-corporate position to favor strict enforcement of copyright law.
Oh well, last I checked “gambling” will match with a .* regex pattern.
Yes you can use batteries.

But you can also invest in the grid and have excess energy shifted to other regions that can make use of it.
Why AI is Tech's latest hoax [Modern MBA]
I know there are more works out of the box piracy solutions—I meant that you can’t simply pay for a non-piracy “everything, including these 70 things that can’t actually be purchased at any price right now, in one streaming interface and high-quality”. It’s not an option. I see now that the way I phrased that was unclear.
> I can’t use [feature X], I need to support [old browser].

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

As I commented a few days ago, nowadays devs don’t seem to care too much about backwards compatibility. I like to hold onto my devices longer than most people and it’s a bit frustrating to see that most sites nowadays expect you to be in the latest and greatest. It didn’t use to be like this.
Buyers are gaining the upper hand in the housing market
Speculating here: maybe they found out that it was easier to bypass DRM on windows? So they'd rather shut it down.
I set up my own media server and run Infuse on the AppleTV. For my wife and kids, it's the ultimate setup.

Everything is in one place (not spread across different apps), the UI is consistent and not buggy (official apps can be terrible at times). All they do is put in a request to dad and their TV show or movie appears shortly after in the "newly added" section on the TV. Not only that, but content doesn't disappear from one service without warning. It's always going to be there, and I get to curate the kids content.

It require piracy, and the kids don't know that, but it's the only way to get this setup.
none of yall saying this “foresaw” anything even in 2020 when it was obvious.

i’ve been listening to skeptics be wrong about future capability predictions for 4 years now and the confidence doesn’t seem to be waning at all. i have no clue what the future brings but your confidence is misplaced
Update: Product name is Windows Recall.
"The grid" is literally the thing that joins battery parks (eg: the massive one in Adelaide South Australia) to rooftop providers, wind farms, household and commercial electricity consumers

"Investing in the grid" means expanding capacity in order to meet increased electricity demands as electric vehicles replace fosil fuel vehicles and increasing switching and grid intelligence to better handle a more distributed supply and demand.

More solar + more batteries and thermal storage + better grid are all things that grow hand in hand.

Of course investment in the grid is required to meet large scale population demands.
Does each chunk have to execute properly?
Do you have to minimize chunk size by maximum working inter-cell references?
Can you split huge chunks with too many references by an intermediate chunk with stage based value propagation?

This turns into a massive graph theory nightmare problem if there are lots of references going on
I don’t think I’ll ever be interested in Internet Wax.
It's useful on certain conditions, for example I used the bathroom drier on 2 separate emergency situations in the past 3 years.
I love Fork, one of my favorite macOS apps. I wish I could get it on my iPad as well.
A referral is one thing. I mean knowing the hiring manager, or an executive, or someone who has direct contact with them.

Only a small fraction of companies, mostly in SV, do coding interviews at all.
You're being sarcastic but what you said is literally true thanks to the cancer that is HDCP
100% agree.

The fact there are 5 different ways to do the same thing is BAD, not good. Have one well defined, documented clear way to solve a problem.
It was a "he," and it was not OK. I think it was fairly advanced, by the time it was diagnosed. The guy was a health nut, and avoided doctors like the plague.

I won't go into details about what he went through. Not fun.

I sincerely wish you the best. I live on Long Island, and have been watching folks battling cancer, constantly, since 1990 (when I moved here).
It doesn't matter because of HDCP.
>Sort of an unkind thing to say

I will do better from now on.

OK, first, let me say that I have no objection to your "I generated X kWh
today". Neither do I have any strong objection to "kWh per day" or "kWh per
month". But I do object to "kWh per hour". I would have the same objection to,
"0.6 light-years per year". I would ask people to say, "0.6 times the speed of
light" instead.

It is common to need to refer to two different things that happen to have the
same "dimension" (electrical power being an example of a dimension and energy
being a different dimension). For example, a supermarket needs to distinguish
"gross revenue", i.e., how much money it collected by selling things, from "net
revenue", which is how much money is left over after subtracting the cost of
the supermarket's having bought the things it sold. Note that both gross
revenue and net revenue are best measured in dollars (if the market is located
in the US). So according to you, if I understand correctly, you think it would
be an okay idea for accountants to adopt the convention of using "dollars" as
the unit when talking about gross revenue and "dollar-months per month" to
signify that we are talking about net revenue. But what are you going to do
when we need a third measure that happens to also be denominated
in dollars (profit, say)? Are you going to adopt the convention that
"dollar-miles per mile" refers to a profit measure?

There was a famous physicist (Steven Weinberg, I think) who criticized
Windows for giving science and technology a bad reputation. In particular, he worried that
young people would react to the buggy behavior of Windows by becoming sour
on the whole edifice of science and technology and would try less hard to learn science.
I guess my main objection to "dollar-months per month" and to "kWh per hour" is like that: I worry that it will prevent (via confusion) some fraction of people from learning enough about accounting and the fundamentals of electricity to wield words like "gross revenue", "net revenue", "energy" and "electrical power" effectively. (One of the sources of my worry is my imagining how I personally would've reacted to coming across "kWh per hour" long ago before I had mastered the concepts of watts, energy and power.)

To bring this back to where we began, if there are two different quantities of interest, namely, the advertised "capacity" of the panel versus the power a consumer can realistically expect to get out of the panel on a typical day, I would ask that people settle on some short phrases for both -- similar to "gross revenue" and "net revenue" -- and to denominate both quantities in kW (or kWh per month maybe).
Getting and visualizing Overture Maps buildings data in R
I’m also cool with none. But the worst case is “strict application of copyright for the little people… mass-scale ripping-off of the little people by rich people”.
Has anyone tried to measure gpt4 IQ?
I don't agree with most all of it.
I read it down to the conclusion.

"We explore the effects of AI on the skill premium. To this end, we develop a nested CES production function in which industrial robots predominantly substitute for low-skill workers, whereas AI predominantly substitutes for high-skill workers. We show analytically and numerically that AI has the potential to reduce the skill premium and thereby mitigate or even reverse increases in inequality that have been observed in recent decades."

Why I don't agree; robots, CNC, AI all still greatly enhance the abilities of high skill workers way more than low skill workers.

While to they raise the ability of low skill workers, they similarly raise the ability of high skill workers, not scientifically, by the same amount.

They raise the salary of low skill workers because they can now do things they could not do, supported by the paper. But this is also true of high skill workers.

There is not a cap on ability or productivity. For example, similar to AI, a CNC machine be more effective in the hands of a high skill worker than a low skill worker. What AI might do is lower the entry of them to low skill workers.

In the end all the wages may go up, but the disparity will be the same.
Does Netflix still have that pretty cool feature where they paused your subscription if you didn't use it for a few months? It was very cool seeing it happen when I had my Netflix account!
I don't think that has anything to do with keto. If you go from a standard american diet to mediteranian, plant based, keto etc people are going to be feeling better. A large percentage of people that change there diet probably start exercising too.
She delivers, yet again.

Thanks!
Conversely the Australian experience where the government is involved is just stupid, and gives us random banned games like Bully because it triggers boomer-era moral panic.
Mercurial if you're not on a huge code base. While the core command-line hg works great, GUIs and third-party programs are kind of lacking.

Atlassian Sourcetree in theory works with Hg (because Atlassian's Bitbucket used Mercurial as their primary version control system before moving to git) but SourceTree is Windows/Mac only, there is no Linux version for some strange reason.

Trying to run SourceTree on Linux via WINE fails because Sourcetree can't be installed with the 'Administrator' user and recent WINE releases have (accidentally?) removed the ability to run a WINE program as a non-Administrator user.

I haven't personally tried (yet) to install Sourcetree on a Windows machine and copy the directory over and try via WINE, but it's on my list to do.
I live in a van down by the river...
I hate apple's huge trackpads and lack of buttons. Any competition that isn't trying to clone Apple is doing it better by not having Apple's trackpad.
It also only addresses the substitution of high skill labor as it pertains to generating text/image/etc. and not the assessment nor integration of that output.

It's been my experience that GPT can help with the generation and can try to help with the assessment. But it is not consistent on assessment and is very lacking in integration of the output.

This varies some based on the task and the kind of high skill being considered. Generating copy or stock images? Re-rolling is easy enough and integration is already heavily assisted by existing tooling. Writing business logic for a low risk backend system? Integration is a little harder but overall I could see it lifting a low skilled worker to nearer high skill. Designing a large system with many moving parts? Prepare to re-ask your questions a lot and your assessment skills had better be already in the high-skill area for that task, I wouldn't trust GPTs beyond a certain scale or complexity.

I think that we'll see a lot more solopreneurs and we'll see people use it to help learning things that they would have otherwise thought were beyond them. And the bifurcation of high skill workers will be more about those who use it in their work and those who can't or don't. But I'm not as confident as this article is about high skill jobs like programming entirely replaced by GPTs.
sometimes i ponder the concept of a CPU built for rational numbers

a/b + c/d -> ( ad + cb ) / bd

usually in computers there is someone that has already "tried it" (example - trinary computers) but i haven't found stories of rational CPU experiments. surely some mad scientist tried it at some point. hoping HN commenters can point me to some history.
I doubt Google and Apple have the relationship of trust such that they could actually sell Apple an API that would be used to power a core iOS service.
I generally agree with what you’re saying, but in Netflix’s case, much of the stuff that’s actually worth watching is made by none other than Netflix.
The whole history of shareware was badly neglected along my path into the industry, as if all those people set sail sometime in the 1990s and were never heard from again. In fact they continued in parallel, and still show very obvious influence in many niches of software. I think that was just hard to see while I was at uni.

I can strongly recommend Richard Moss' Shareware Heroes book for those interested in remedial reading, and not just for those devoted to games.

If there are any computer history grad students lurking, an integrative history of early software distribution models and industry orgs is still a big, gaping hole in the lit, as far as I know.
I worked with great developers at Google during my short stint there (part of the Jan 23 layoffs) but the management structure gets so thick and tangled once you get above feature teams.
I don't like that either. Fortunately that only seems to be on their <=65% Alice layout keyboards. Which is a small form factor I really don't like anyway.

Their >=75% Alice layouts include the tilda and are still pretty compact.

I've been thinking of grabbing their Q14 Pro, which is an Alice layout (full, including the tilda), with the number pad on the left side instead of the right, full aluminum body (super heavy, which I like, but you won't be taking it to and from work everyday), with wired or wireless to 3 devices.

I'm a big fan of their keyboards. I've gotten three of them (all in use), custom switches, custom keycaps, covers and palm rests, etc. There's a slippery slope on the path to achieving keyboard perfection, but it's fun.
I think that is part of his point. Most functions take a pointer, even if they are expecting an array.
It doesn’t require copyright infringement. If you wanted, you could buy and rip blurays.
Cheaper compared to what?

In my country people recently installed a significant amount of small-scale solar (over 50k households in 2023 compared to 1000 in 2020), in addition to large scale solar and wind generators. Did our electricity get cheaper? No. It's more expensive than the worst year of the crisis after Russian invasion of Ukraine. Why? Because the national power grid operator had to increase their investment to stabilize the grid by 2 orders of magnitude, which means they will spend over 60% of the entire national budget during next 3 years - and somebody has to pay for that. That's a crazy amount and every single person here is unhappy about that.

Nuclear might be more expensive per MWh pure electricity cost-wise, but the full system with storage, balancing and distribution costs is much more complicated=expensive now because of the renewables. It's funny that the same people who always talk about "hidden costs" and "unpriced externalities" of nuclear and fossil fuels never consider this.

My country is backtracking its support for renewables and will build more nuclear instead. Unfortunately a lot of the damage is done and we can't stop all support as it's mandated by EU regulation.

BTW why is Germany importing 2 GW of French nuclear electricity right now if it's so expensive and bad overall? And why is Germany burning so much coal it produces 9 GW right now, if renewables are so great? Let's not forget about the environment too - at this moment France is producing 16g of CO2/kWh, while Germany is at 375 average, and that coal burning causes 1000g/kWh. I hope they do pay for that, it seems kinda unfair that the French invested into clean energy but still have to breathe what the Germans are putting into the air...
Also that a product seeming "dangerous" makes it seem more effective when you're trying to sell it. You see this all the time - it's why "military-grade" gets tossed on every random consumer gadget in regards to some specification.

It's why if I told you my showerhead's pressure makes it illegal to buy locally, you'd think "ooh that's probably a really good showerhead" (yes I made this up, yes I was thinking of Seinfeld when I did).
This comment still misses the point.

Any customer or potential customer who reads about this incident may have their trust in Cloudflare reduced, and rightfully so in my opinion. They have the legal right to terminate the relationship without reason or warning, but exercising that right in this context hurts their reputation.
> If they're only stopping people they recognise

> institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic

I’m not sure those things go together very well. If they’re bored they’ll just pull ‘random’ people off the street. They might not be at direct risk of arrest, but it’d still waste your time.

That’s half of the reason I need to show my ID all the time :/

Edit: I’m starting to think you might be right, and there’s no direct analogue because police don’t just sit in the middle of the street hoping they’ll see some suspect if they cannot instantly compare with 40k wanted faces. No officer would be able to remember them all.

Question becomes more if it’s worth to have some people misidentified to catch the bad guys.
spez 4 galactic emperor?
And yet AFAIK he seems to be doing fine.
If you run the same stuff, only allow and visit the same addresses, and disable ECMAScript and in addition to other mitigation measures such as 2FA then I don't really see the problem.

> That is not the behavior of a security expert.

Your image of "security experts" must come from movies. I know security experts IRL. Their security at home amounts to not use their work computer for personal stuff and 2FA.
Nation state governments are responsible for the vast majority of deaths attributable to violence historically. Willingly entrusting them with a potentially world ending technology that they’re 100% certain to abuse is a moronic idea.
Eh, it's still a second phase. If you have enough empty space in our closet for air to circulate around each item, you can just hang them straight from the washer into your closet. They're dry by the next morning.
Show HN: I built an AI platform to generate short-form videos in minutes
> formal methods are worth it, but they're not a substitute for being careful.

Yes. Exactly this. I hereby dub this Tombert's law. :-)
Wow, don't tell Uncle Roger about your technique:

https://youtu.be/53me-ICi_f8
Isn’t HDCP primarily concerned with transmission of protected content to TVs and such?

If we can load code into the kernel of the device doing the video decode, how can the DRM prevent us from just dumping the data as it’s being decrypted / streamed?