skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not like the pace of technological progress was particularly fast in the Roman Empire and the decline had already started ~200 years before its western half was dissolved. Its collapse wasn’t exactly some straightforward event, it had more or less recovered in many ways by the time of the wars with Persia and the subsequent Muslim invasion (which w arguably the cause of the actual “collapse”). Plague and climate change were seemingly one of the primary causes and Medieval Europeans proved to be much more resilient to both compared to the Romans.

There was a gap of a couple of hundred years but Medieval Europeans had surpassed the Romans by 1000 AD both technologically (inarguably) and economically (varied by geographic area).
Transcendence is 100% a chemical process. So is all cognition and perception.
Depends what you mean by "comfortable", but I'm pretty comfy on ~£70k in London. I rent a 2-bed flat in a gorgeous area close to the tube with my girlfriend (who earns around min wage), can save for a house deposit, have a few international holidays a year, don't worry about bills or food or anything. Granted, my hobbies are pretty cheap, but it's far from uncomfortable.
> FAANGs want the top .1% of developers,

FAANGS want a load of loyal, naive people who are willing to work loads of overtime and not ask too many questions. Who better than posh kids from great universities who haven't quite figured out that life isn't a meritocracy yet!?

Sure they also want the top 0.1%, but they have a different interview track. Do you think all those OpenAI engineers that were going to follow Altman were asked to do leetcode?
I use the ISP's modem (separating my own choices from having to worry about upgrades to DOCSIS and the like), but then hang my own router off of it. For that matter I have multiple routers inside the cable router for various tiers. With secure DNS and almost universal TLS, and then the firewall that are the internal private networks, the threat profile is negligible.
It's the exact opposite though - the world presented a set of rules and then followed them, so it requires your belief not disbelief.

The good example of that "suspension of disbelief" is The Last Jedi, where the film kept breaking rules established within the franchise, so as someone familiar with Star Wars you have to keep suspending your belief to enjoy the film - and at a certain point it becomes too much.

Like if LotR ended with Aragorn just smashing the one ring with a sword, that would be an extremely unsatisfing ending to the story, partially because the books made it very clear earlier that the ring cannot be destroyed this way, so it breaks your set of beliefs that were established. You could say "why does it matter, it's all made up anyway!" but every story requires being consistent to be enjoyable.
could be useful for llm tools using the command line
Struggle sessions in their basic form used social coercement to extract confessions of guilt against some collective cause. This describes the DEI training sessions I've been in well. Admit that you have bias (effectively confessing guilt to a "crime" that gives your employer leverage over you) or get dogpiled and have your refusal to admit guilt cast as evidence of your guilt anyway.
The thing that's frustrating to me about these outcomes is that they're so easily foreseeable. Whenever things tip over to an "ideology", you start getting these power plays that are light years away from the original goals.

With DEI the "flip" for me in my head was when it switched from ensuring that there was no bias in hiring and reaching out to try to give everyone a fair shot to instead seeing that every single instance where the racial/gender outcome doesn't match the population distribution is inherently an issue of discrimination. My favorite example for the HN crowd is when they cancelled ElectronConf years ago after only getting male speakers despite having a fully blinded application process (and explicitly stating that any "ties" would be given in favor to underrepresented groups). The problem with that stance is that it becomes an unfalsifiable position, allowing everything to forever be blamed on discrimination even if there was no evidence. Even the language changed: it was no longer about "minority" representation, it was about "underrepresented minorities", as if the discrimination and struggles of East Asians and Indians no longer counted.
That doesn't make me interested. I don't get all excited about the things money can buy.

Edit: As I noted elsewhere, necessities are something else.
The new largest office building is bigger than The Pentagon
To be specific—based on my recollection—the previous study found viral fragments. It was unclear from that whether they were at all active.

This confirms that any remaining virus is not active after pasteurization.
I dunno, maybe it's not as important as it used to be, but high school dances have some cultural heft, and dancing is a centerpiece of the American wedding tradition. Weddings are pretty universally important across cultures. Plus America is becoming more Latino which I understand values dancing pretty highly.
There are prebuilt images: https://serenity-builds.halves.dev/
It's different in the same way that using an LLM instead of a traditional Markov chain is a different way of generating text. You're still predicting the next word at a time to hopefully end up with plausible sentences/paragraphs, but the difference is in how you model the training dataset, and how you use that model to make each next choice in your live application.
Completely incorrect. I am Argentinian and perfectly know that Argentines of multiple social classes use crypto. It is even public information!
This technique is called COMET. The very first web chat that I used way back in 1996 was COMET based, tho the term hadn’t been coined yet. It was the chat room on Sierra Online’s website. The app had two frames, one for the input field and another for the room feed, which was a long running connection. No JavaScript, just a never ending HTML page. I suspect the backend was written in Perl, as it was a cgi script.

Basically the server sends a multipart content type header, never sends a content size, and simply doesn’t terminate the connection, so the browser just waits patiently for more parts and renders them as they come. My team experimented with it a bit back in 2000 for doing what would eventually be termed JSONP Streaming. It was really cool tech, but we didn’t have a practical application for it.
Netflix is finally killing off support for 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TVs
I’m guessing it’s mostly useful for writing a terminal emulator in the browser. In theory I think all input and output on the terminal is done via text, which may contain control codes, so you’d still have to write code to render the text, support mouse input and selection, etc.
> Can we believe that Sam could actually be a good person?

Ok but based on what ?
"Nevertheless, AMD has a better strategy than Intel"

Only if it brings at least the same perf/watt results. We'll see what Lunar Lake vs. Strix does.
That was my first thought; what about hybrid work? Did they account for that? I can't check as I don't have access to the article. But an hour long commute is a lot more palatable if you only have to do it twice a week instead of 5 times.
That's not the nicest way, nor is it the most honest or accurate. I actually do care (and I know I'm not the only one) and even find myself firing up ladybird from time to time. It's probably more accurate to say "few" people care, and caring comes in degrees. Just in case it needs to be said: popularity isn't necessarily a great measurement of salience either.
True, but infrared images should have value in addition to the visible light images.
But you hired them at-will, right? The bad hires I've seen that are existential threats were only there because management refused to fire them.
> Not sure what the state the art is in searchable encryption for db indexes, but just trying to do stuff that requires a scan becomes untenable due to having to read and decrypt on the client to find it or aggregate it.

There are a lot of different approaches, but the one CipherSweet uses is actually simple.

First, take the HMAC() of the plaintext (or of some pre-determined transformation of the plaintext), with a static key.

Now, throw away most of it, except a few bits. Store those.

Later, when you want to query your database, perform the same operation on your query.

One of two things will happen:

1. Despite most of the bits being discarded, you will find your plaintext.

2. With overwhelming probability, you will also find some false positives. This will be significantly less than a full table scan (O(log N) vs O(N)). Your library needs to filter those out.

This simple abstraction gives you k-anonymity. The only difficulty is, you need to know how many bits to keep. This is not trivial and requires knowing the shape of your data.

https://ciphersweet.paragonie.com/security#blind-index-infor...

I proposed the same technique to AWS, who adopted it under the name Beacons for the AWS Database Encryption SDK.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/database-encryption-sdk/latest/d...
This is a pretty good step by step:

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-witho...
It insulted my attempt at minimalist design quite comprehensively. Well done!
erm, isn't most message board discussion talking about what "should be" ?
Several reasons - computational effort, effort it takes to reproduce results on complex datasets, academic publishing model.

Academic research is often times about making incremental steps and limiting uncertainty.

Making something work for MNIST is already so much work, researchers don’t have the time, money, and energy to run experiments for 10 datasets.

Complex datasets are much harder to get a proper model trained on due to increased complexity - larger images, tasks, classes, etc.

Also, as soon as you run your experiments on more datasets, you create an opportunity for reviewers to take you down - “why didn’t you test it on this other dataset?”
It looks like the use case is if you want to script the usage of a tui program. In most cases it would be best to script the operation yourself with sed rather than ht/nano. I could see this being useful for scripting internal tui tools without access to the source code.
Some years ago I was remotely interviewing at Google, and I was asked to code up the reversal of a linked list. But my brain just froze.

This is something I can easily solve in 5-10 minutes, correctly handling every plausible corner-case.

I'm curious how common this is, statistically speaking. I'm also curious how it correlates with other things about the interviewee.
Sitting in traffic is much more inefficient than one would think, though if you're cruising on the interstate at 70 mph you would obviously be correct.

Why not take a bike ride to the train and then ride the train in? People wanting autopilot driving cars....that's literally what a train does, complete with wifi.
Because HTML is not a programming language, but you do have problems which demand a programming language, and this "something" is the programming language you know. HTML is just a mean to reach their goal. People are usually not writing json or xml by hand either.
> It's just a job title

Exactly my point.
To be fair, I came across doctors who are no better than a static webpage from the CDC. I fire those doctors pretty quickly.
Can you say more? Does “magical thinking” mean religion, or something else? I’m actually curious.
The railroads were hated back in the day. They were your only option and often knew it. In many places they abused the monopoly.
3D printed houses are cool, but I wonder if the future would actually be in robots doing the heavy labor of regular balloon framing instead. Given a standard set of pre-fab frames and parameterized layouts that only use standard sizes, a small team of robots could probably put up a frame pretty fast. Two robots to place a piece, and one to nail it in place.
FWIW that stance is (probably) in direct response to the realization that the "bring your whole self to work" movement was a bad idea anyway.
Thanks! I somehow completely missed the deployment section.
40 year old here.

I don't think its strictly a time issue, its an energy/motivation issue.
40 minutes of practice a day for a month or two should be sufficient for someone to solve/go over dozens of Leetcode questions. We all, literally all, have that time to spare otherwise we wouldn't touch our phones or ever watch T.V and yet most of us do.

But I don't disagree with you completely. I think the older you get, the more mental resistance you have to do the grind to become good at Leetcode. It just sucks that after 13 years of programming and accomplishing quite a few things I have to do this shit all over again just to get another job that's pretty much the same as I'm doing now - and this knowing that it sucks so bad - that you are reduced to a Leetcode monkey with all your experience, is quite a tough pill to swallow at 40.
I am also a bit less inclined to look for a new job in general - I have a kid, have a comfortable job with stable income (well, relatively speaking its stable) etc etc. Sure I can go try chasing FAANG salaries but the reality is for me its psychologically much more comfortable to stay where I am and it may also be sensible when calculating the risk in moving jobs.
Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it's so awesome)
> Your data can be eavesdropped or modified by someone in the middle. This would be quite rare within a LAN

Literally every single public wifi network, which is a significant percentage of all internet traffic (including basically everyone working from a wework for example), is vulnerable to eavesdropping/mitm
China is so much ahead of everyone else in tech, space and automation. It's not funny anymore.
There are: ravynOS and helloSystem.
Haven't read the article you linked.

Though I wouldn't think that industrialisation would require expensive labour since there could be other benefits driving it, e.g. faster production, less wasteful production, etc.

Industrialisation didn't end slavery or it's derivatives either. It just changed to tools of production.
> and that could one day be placed on everyday eyewear, allowing the user to view the infrared and visible light spectrum at the same time.

Hmmm.. this could get interesting. And not necessarily in a good way.
I've been getting harassment to update to 11 (on a machine where secure boot is disabled) for a very long time.

Plus harassment to stop using a local account, of course.
sure it does its just subtle on that graph

if you click/turn-off 'all college' and 'young workers' and look at recent-grad and all-workers you can see that the historic trend of recent grads having lower unemployment than average inverted during covid and that recent grads are now worse off than the random average worker.

actually interesting enough it looks like it began juuust before covid, ~2018
> Cryptography is a tool for turning a whole swathe of problems into key management problems. Key management problems are way harder than (virtually all) cryptographers think.
ChatGPT is not a source.
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Maybe it's just the fact that I don't know anything about material science, but I am not sure I'd feel safe in a wood+resin house; this just seems like it's going to end up as extruded particleboard, which I wouldn't even consider building a house out of it.

Honestly, maybe they're getting better, but when I researched 3D printed houses about a year ago I was a little disappointed to see how little the 3d printing actually bought you. It still seemed like an awful lot of human labor was involved in the process, to a point where I'm actually not sure that the 3D printing actually saved time or money. There's a lot more to a house than the walls, but the 3D printer can't really help with anything but walls.
You test the floor, not the ceiling.

Truth is, I'm never looking for "the best", I'm looking for "good enough to do the job competently". Because we can hem and haw over what is best for hours. And we could disagree with what qualities in what proportion make someone "the best". But we can all generally agree with "could do the job". As I've mentioned elsewhere, we're hiring right now and we have the duality of candidates in our pool.

There's one guy who is just a hard no from at least two people in the group. And that translates into a no from the third member simply because we're so adamant that he's not the guy. And there's another who we're all feeling really solid on. Not "the best", but solid floor and we feel they'll be able to learn.

But being able to weed out people who can't even perform the basics despite having a decent resume is invaluable.
>I asked them they told me the position is closed

How generous. One job I asked for an update a few days after my assumedly last interview, 1 week afterwards, and then 3 week afterwards (right before the holidays)... even by the last response the recruiter simply said "we are still evaluating the best project to put you on" or something to that effect.

That was 8 months ago now. Going through 5 rounds of interviews into a rejection sucks, but at least be straight with me.
While threat modeling, you talk about specific scenarios and specific threats. That does not mean other scenarios and threats don't exist. It just means they aren't the focus of that particular conversion.

>In web applications and cloud services drives could still be misplaced, stolen, or improperly disposed of.

This is explicitly called out in the article by the author, despite it not being part of the threat model the author is examining. And people are still bringing it up like some sort of gotcha.

See (again):

>This is not a comprehensive blog post covering every possible use case or threat model relating to encryption at rest.
This isn't language, it's accent, but in America the vast majority of speakers merge lots of vowels - cot/caught are merged, Mary/marry/merry are merged.

It certainly does simplify pronunciation.
...It may be a bit early to throw in the towel on "Oh dear, the extra eMMC has priced the thing out of the market". Implement it right, and it'll be worth the extra cash.
The thing on the later macOS that opens so slowly is System Preferences. So annoying, and also how it always starts at Appearance (as if that's the most important) when I usually want the last thing I had opened before.
At least for Europe this is wrong. I mean yes, there are new trade treaties but internally EU regulations and at least for Germany its regulations increase by the day. Just this year the personal tax declaration form got 10 or so additional pages. And the new supply chain law needs medium to large companies to prove that all their purchases are morally correct (sorry not sure how to phrase this properly). And I don't even follow new laws closely.
TFA,
“But emails written by Nvidia senior staff and widely shared inside the company suggest that Musk presented an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s procurement to shareholders.”

That’s a mighty accusation with substantial legal ramifications.
Genre seems like a funny way to qualify that. If I want Metallica I'm not going to be happy that it only has Creed just because it fits in the same rough genre. I certainly like searching through genres, but if I'm looking to buy music I'm buying it based upon an artist and album I like, not because it's also harpsichord.
Actually Balmer cared much more about Windows than Satya, as long Azure, Office and Games are printing money, nothing else matters.

Hence why the Windows development experience has went downhill since he took over.

We might have a Microsoft <3 Linux, with a ton of FOSS products being on Microsoft's accounting list, however Windows is a shade of itself versus "Developers, Developers, Developers" days.

Recent example, Microsoft Photos team proudly presents their UWP to Windows APP SDK migration,

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/06/03/micros...

Turns out they are now using WebView2 for the UI part.
> I think the important thing is - the strongest benefit of masks are always for other people

Not getting COVID in the first place seems like a huge benefit, and if you find yourself surrounded by people who no longer mask (most countries in 2024), then wearing an N95 respirator for your own protection is more personally beneficial compared to, say, being up to date on vaccination (since COVID vaccines don't prevent transmission, and repeated infections increase chances of acquiring long COVID).

I've consistently worn an N95 in all public spaces and have not contracted COVID (to my knowledge). Meanwhile, most of the people I know (some vaccinated, some not) are either often sick due to weakened immune systems and/or have gained one or more severe health issues since the pandemic began.
I'm obviously biased, but if I imagine a world where I had nothing to do with Antithesis, I actually do think an autonomous system playing and beating Zelda is the kind of thing I would enjoy reading about on HN.
“Mind over matter” is not a colloquialism for no reason. It doesn’t work all the time, but to say it never does is a mistake.
Not an electrical engineer, my GPU board has lots of additional chips and VRMs, and I do think those should take additional power. All of these are cooled which means they convert power into heat, so I would assume a discrete board draws more power than a SoC. But as I've said, not an electrical engineer (Just some electrical engineering exams at university).
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Yes, but instead of growing the smaller cities to create those same amenities, we end up with the complaints about the inner suburbs being inaccessible to younger people.
There are no known binaries, although there is an AUR package for Arch Linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ladybird-git