skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, no. It started as a joke, and then was absolutely adopted "as a joke" by white supremacists... which is functionally equivalent to a symbol of white supremacists. Not many people who aren't white supremacists are comfortable being labeled as one, and no one would "throw" this sign without knowledge they'd be labeled as a white supremacist, ergo either you're one of the few who's comfortable being labeled that way despite not being one (in which case yeah, you'll be labeled that way and don't have much to complain about), or you are one.

That is exactly how all social signals work.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/15/suspected-new-zealand-shooter-...

Note: I do think people are sometimes too ambitious to leap toward accidental/arguable "flashing" of this sign as evidence of this belief system, but there are absolutely people who are consciously, deliberately, and sincerely doing it.
Yep. This is the problem I've been zeroing in on as well.

Socialized retirement destroys most of the incentive to sacrifice your youth to grow and raise new people. Why sacrifice your youth and money being a parent when you can leech off the labor of other people's kids in retirement?

I think we'll need to eventually experiment with things that try to give some disproportionate benefit to people who have kids. e.g. everyone gets some minimal socialized retirement and healthcare, but your benefits increase above that baseline in proportion to how many children you raised. Maybe your benefits increase at 3+ kids and decrease with 0-1 kids.
Read it twice but didn't see any mention of this.
Wouldn't higher skull density correlate negatively with skull thickness, leaving more room for a larger brain?
saw that and wondered how do they go from there to reusable. is the shileding ablative and replaced on every flight?
Does anyone have a comparison with https://harlequin.sh/ ?
The alternative I tried (successfully):

1. Switch your payment method to PayPal.

2. Cancel the subscription using the Paypal UI

(That was a couple of years ago so I’m not sure if this works)
Sure we can agree on nudges and indirect effects, it just wasn't the original statement I've argued with
To be fair, Niagara falls is controlled by a dam and can be turned off.
There's a lot of over self-diagnosis because autism is the trendiest disorder aside from ADHD. That being said, the majority of accurate adult diagnosis will at least begin and often end with self diagnosis. It will end with it sometimes due to lack of resources and sometimes due to the realization that there is virtually no benefit to formal diagnosis. Unless one needs formal accommodations.

Most undiagnosed child Asperger's, which turns into undiagnosed adult Asperger's, will never be diagnosed by the individual nor a professional. There's a lot of it out there.
Given that it's HP saying this, and the numbers appear to be derived from HP's print "service" metrics (how else would they know how many pages people are printing?), I have to wonder...

How much of the drop they're talking about is because people are avoiding the use of HP printers due to HP's awful printer business model?
First prompt: https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate-eink/blob/1236dbb66b80c838...

> Get the weather data for {location}. If the location is not on Earth (fictional
or otherwise), pick the place on Earth that is most visually similar to the
location. Before you get the weather, reason about which temperature unit is
most likely to be used at the location in question. That is the temperature unit
you should use when getting the weather.

Second: https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate-eink/blob/1236dbb66b80c838...

> Here is the weather for the location "{location}":

> {weather["status"]}

> Use Dall-E to generate a beautiful illustration of the location in the style of
a wide post card filling up the entire image. Try to describe a scene that is
iconic and aesthetically pleasing for the location specified above, but also one
that can showcase the weather. (…)
And if you need a commercial alternative, for professional shops that need/require it, Affinity Photo is very good. Serif only offers perpetual, per major version licensing (i.e. no subscription) and offers a 'universal' licence if you use multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS).

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/
Aardman studios got some bad luck in the past, with the set burned down [0], and the special clay they need no longer being produced [1]. Wallace and Gromit is nostalgia for me, but by now also for my young kids.

It is funny that in the remasters of the older movies you can literally see the fingerprints in the clay.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/11/arts.media
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/20/wallace-and-gro...
Since the only geodesics that are closed on an ellipsoid are the meridian and equator, doesn't they mean that all points are (eventually) connected by a geodesics? Obviously this isn't what anybody means by a straight line though.

I'm surprised I can't find a "short" (no longer than the largest distance between points) geodesic fitter anywhere. Sounds like a fun hour-long project using GeographicLib.
Not in the US, and only partially adequately in other wealthy countries.

And even then it's often uneven or comes with stigma.
Star Trek: The Kobayashi Maru, No-Win Scenarios, and Ethical Leadership
We used indeed as the pilot. Don’t try this on LI as your account will be banned.

You can also test out clay- they have a free tier that I think includes new job alerts based on LinkedIn.
It's just a coulomb counter you can read from an MSR. But yes monitoring it inevitably consumes some amount of energy. It won't cost anything on a busy system but waking up an idle system to read it will be more noticeable. This is why I no longer use background metrics monitors like atop or netdata. An Intel client CPU can idle below 100mw if you leave it be, but something like netdata will raise that to 5W or worse.
People with autism are human, I assure you.
I'm somewhere in between... I mean, I have a really hard problem with digestion in general at this point, and similar issues with chronic exhaustion. I've had so many bad/negative reactions to so many medications, I'm more than fearful of gene manipulation.
Meta rolls out Communities on Messenger
Definitely want to stay opinionated. The goal is to create a tool for professionals who don't have time to set up OBS. We spend more and more of our days in front of a camera, like streamers. But the existing video conferencing tools weren't designed for streaming at work.
If it did it would have to be only for external displays because the laptops all have a notch there
That’s not what I’m talking about. I wanted the same effect as you get on MS Word when you highlight text. Creating a coloured background behind the text. It’s a pretty common effect on posters and similar things.

The best you can do in gimp is fill the entire text box background, but that doesn’t look good at all on multi line text where you want it to fit each line properly.
If you have the chance to listen to actual boat noise from an underwater microphone, you’ll be surprised at how loud it is and how far sound can travel. It’s less of a problem with pleasure boats and more of an issue with commercial ones like container ships. Other sounds that are loud underwater and harmful for animals include wind turbine noise (from spinning giant blades) and sonar pings.
Except by the Christchurch shooter in court: https://nypost.com/2019/03/15/suspected-new-zealand-shooter-...

And on Jan 6: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/far-r...

And the Proud Boys: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-proud-boys/

Yes it started as "a joke" to troll the libs. And then became and has been used as intended.
I thought the fundamental benefit was giving certain HN commenters something to whine about, constantly.
Show HN: Shiptalkers – see your tweet to commit ratio
Hey Hackernews!

Last weekend I was annoyed at how many bad takes I was seeing tweeted out and wondered how many of the people who were tweeting actually shipped code. A weekend later and shiptalkers was born, enter a twitter and GitHub handle and you’ll get to see the ratio of their tweets to commits.

It’s a useless metric to compare as they’re apples to oranges, but it’s just meant to be a fun project and people have been enjoying it a lot.

Let me know what you think!
The firebombing of Dresden needlessly killed thousands of civilians, and arguably did nothing for the war effort. With the posisble exception of bolstering the resolve of front line German soldiers.

Had the axis powers won the war I'm certain it would have been classified as a war crime and Bomber Harris would have been the first against the wall.
> Why?!?

I really wish that wasn't the case.

But I've been using Linux since '96, and Unix for way longer than that, and it has always been the case, so likelihood of it remaining that way is high at this point.

Second, I believe it is a characteristic of the Open Source world: anything can be forked and evolved, which leads to a very complex ecosystem, especially when it comes to GUIs. The commercial OS vendors don't really have to deal with that issue.

Third: hardware evolves, and very fast. Super hirez screen are a good example, and the need for thinking about GUIs in centimeters rather than in pixels is something that has caught all OS builders by surprise. Commercial providers built a a solution quickly, and the OpenSource world will eventually catch up, but they'll be late to the game, as usual.

Another example is CPU's with heterogeneous cores, which it took the Linux folks quite a while to adjust to.

Or at a more trivial level, the back-lighting of my laptop keyboard.

This state of affairs (OpenSource software lagging behind wrt H/W evolution) is very likely to continue: H/W makers have, in general, almost zero incentive in providing drivers and/or early technical support for Linux.

Oh, and btw: people believe they do that because opensourcing drivers would expose their intellectual property (see NVidia as one of the worst offenders). In reality, the truth is that it would expose for all to see how shitty, buggy and badly written their software actually is, and therefore they never do it.

Net result: H/W has to be adjusted to after the fact by the OSS community (reverse engineering and whatnot), systematically leading to this chronic problem with OpenSource and H/W.

I buy a new laptop every two years, wipe windows and install Linux. In over thirty years of doing this, I have yet to see a single time where every device in the laptop worked properly right after the install. Never happened.

Yet, I am still a happy user: I do, to a large extent, control what happens on my computer.

The same can't be said anymore of either of Android, OSX, Windows, Chrome
I really love Linux Mint. I actually loved it so much that I kept using it for years.

Yeah, me too. I discovered recently that I had been using Linux Mint for 10-12 years. In 99.99* percent of cases, it just works out of the box. And it has all those proprietary codecs and other things that are a pain to add with many other distros.

As far as I'm concerned, Mint just works so don't try to fix it.

* I neglected to add a WiFi card to my desktop when I was customising the order from the Lenovo factory. I just threw a USB WiFi dongle into it without investigating what sort of weird chip it used. That means I just run a script to install a driver for it during installation of a fresh system. No biggie.
They serve different workloads. Other than GIMP Affinity is also a great alternative, not FOSS, but buy it for life with an incredible price that includes feature updates.
Show HN: WebGL shape rotation game with (overkill) FoundationDB leaderboards
I did quite a major update of this webgl game (a custom engine) to add leaderboards support. It uses the foundationdb record layer, and the time window leaderboard indexes from that.

The leaderboard support was initially developed for the other game https://luduxia.com/showdown/ and the backend is common across both.

This was ultimately an experiment in getting to know foundationdb, which proved quite successful.
How do you prep the images?
> Finally, there is no letter or religious gesture, Hebrew or otherwise, similar to the splayed hand.

Isn’t there? Not including the thumb, it looks like the letter shin. Of course, the Vulcan salute also famously makes the shin letter (but, includes the thumb).
In identical twins, autism and homosexuality both have about the same rate of non-occurrence between the twins: 50%. This means, of course, that autists and gays are "born, not made" by the environment. Move along. Nothing to see here.
ISS leaks worsen, with no clear plan to deal with them
Just freaking stop with promoting these bs ideas. Yeah, let's add an absolute ton of movable mass to my giant sky scraper. No chance of it causing more problems later on.

All for an absolutely miniscule amount of energy storage capacity.

Just build your skyscraper, and do separate pumped hydro on more suitable land.
This looks incredibly useful. Why is it a "hidden" feature and not enabled out of the box?
> Again that's a valid security concern.

Are builds reproduceable? If not then it's a trust based security model if it can't be verified independently. I don't really have a strong opinion on this one way or another. But it's a point of contention one has to admit.
Strange File Resizing on DOS
> What is it about this issue that makes so many people wish to treat landlords harshly?

Compassion.

They see someone without a roof over their head, while at the same time seeing agencies/owners owning multiple properties just to enrich themselves.

It's not hard to understand why people are more compassionate towards the people with nothing, compared to how they see the people with a lot.
What's the range of a Model X towing 10,000lbs? A mile before you break something?

A Prius might have massively more towing range than an F-350, assuming you're towing a tiny trailer.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...

Popehat's Law of Goats

He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

"He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies."
Almost relevant: https://github.com/ctag/hp_envy_reviver
SaaS is a cancer for consumers. All the rationalizations for why a todo app needs a subscription are just that: rationalizations.
>What's the deal? Just collective denial?

Yes, it will be denied until 1/3 of the US cannot be lived in safely. Then when people from the south start mass-migrating maybe things will change. :(

And why water intensive manufacturing is locating in places like Texas and Arizona is beyond me. I hope when they can no longer operate there the Gov does not bail them out.
The Minimal Phone with E-Ink Display
Wow, really cool concept! I wonder if this starts to become similar dynamics to what we see in image generation models, where structure/detail emerges in one region of the image and then the surrounding areas start to resolve themselves into place. That kind of behavior seems particularly useful for longer reasoning/logic/planning, where the big ideas might become apparent first, and then the interstitial details and text just naturally fill in…
> Ctrl-B ] or whatever the magic incantation was

This is something tmux inherited from screen, but it from a quick test it looks like they didn't copy the whole thing? You use [ to enter this mode (it's actually for copying text, not just scrolling) and in screen use ] to exit without copying anything. Looks like tmux doesn't have ], at least by default?
It’s not philosophy that needs help.
> Hell of a tangent, near non contact

All transverse geometries are alike, each non-transverse geometry fails to be so in its singular manner.
Is this applying the learnings from vision transformers to language transformers?

If I understand correctly, vision models split an image into tiles and append a positional encoding to each so the model can understand the relative position of each tile.

I admittedly only read the abstract - a lot of this stuff goes over my head - but it seems like this paper proposes a similar idea, but for 1D instead of 2D?
It would be interesting to see what happens when you slightly shift the grid of objects until they're split across multiple tiles, and how that affects accuracy.
UE5 is almost a from scratch rewrite and Epic didn't dog-food it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp99l9gpzwgo and https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/05/travel/china-yuntai-park-... have photos of the pipes and a link to the video.
VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash "for years to come"
I don't think you need that specific interpretation to decide that this work reveals something important. We have a phenotypic difference that leads to a big in vitro difference, and it's not a huge jump to infer that that would also lead to an in vivo difference, even if the in vivo presentation is unknown, or the exact details of the presentation aren't the same.

Here's the conclusions section from the research paper this article is summarizing:

By embryogenesis, the biological bases of two subtypes of ASD social and brain development - profound autism and mild autism — are already present and measurable and involve dysregulated cell proliferation and accelerated neurogenesis and growth. The larger the embryonic BCO size in ASD, the more severe the toddler’s social symptoms and the more reduced the social attention, language ability, and IQ, and the more atypical the growth of social and language brain regions.

This is not making any huge logical jumps that I noticed. All it's saying is they found a strong correlation. And the researchers seem to be well aware that there are still dots to connect. In the limitations section, it explicitly points out more-or-less the very thing that the researchers are being accused of not thinking about in this HN thread:

The genetic causes and cellular consequences of decreased Ndel1 activity and expression correlated with ASD BCOs enlargement remain to be specified. A limitation of most previous ASD patient-derived iPSC-based models is lack of within-subject statistical linkage of ASD molecular and cellular findings with variation in ASD social phenotypes. Without this, future ASD iPSC reports will continue to have limited impact on our understanding of the genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms that cause the development and variation in the central feature of ASD: social affect and communication.

Which brings us to an important thing about interpreting popular science literature: it's unwise to assume that what's in the popularization of the research accurately reflects everything the scientists who published the work think or know. Attempting to eliminate these kinds of details is one of the primary goals of science journalism. For better or for worse.

https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
Adobe's fine print contains a Binding Arbitration Agreement and Class Action Waiver, which would prevent class action in the U.S. if you didn't follow the instructions to opt out.

Similar clauses, some without opt-outs, have proliferated widely throughout the tech industry. Most notably, Windows added them to most of their products shortly before the release of Windows 8. Interestingly, GitHub does not have these clauses yet.
Everything is in real life -- it seems like you are a little bit out of date. Why are you in denial and under the delusion that the online world is not the "real world", just like the sad prosecutor in the Pirate Bay trial? [1]

It's not a good look to make excuses and carry the water for white supremacists by denying reality. The online world is quite real, and it has an enormous impact on the offline subset of the world that you naively consider to have a monopoly on "real".

A simple google would inform you about the reality of how that symbol is currently used in the real world, regardless of whether you consider google "real" or not. See the sibling comments and the articles and real-world photographs they link to, who took the effort to google that for you. Your argument that you've never seen any evidence is extremely weak if you refuse to look at the evidence when it's presented to you on a silver platter, and that makes you look like just another troll.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-trial-watch-day-5-omg-is-this...

Pirate Bay Trial Watch Day 5: OMG, Is This Happening IRL?

The torrent trial of the century continues, and today, there are some pretty shocking revelations about just how much the prosecution knows. Is that a tinge of remorse I hear from The Pirate Bay dudes?

• The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde (aka brokep) doesn't like copyright! "I like things that are not protected by copyright, this is a non-issue."

• The prosecutor knows the secret code for talking on the internets! "When did you meet [Gottfrid] for the first time IRL?" The judge asks, "IRL?" The prosecutor, being with it, coolly informs the judge it means "in real life," sucka.

• Oh snap, maybe he doesn't! The Pirate Bay's Peter responds, "We do not use the expression IRL." No, everything is in real life. We use AFK—away from keyboard." This makes for a sad prosecutor: "It seems I am a little bit out of date."
I could envision some point in the future where the tooling is good enough that if you reject the suggestion, you had better have a very good reason for doing so. We're already there on the formatting front, as well as the widely-enabled clang-tidy checks (e.g. pessimizing moves). Once a tool consistently meets that high bar, it's irrelevant whether its suggestions are derived from static analysis or a LLM.

As far as being non-optional: a code owner could very much refuse to approve your change until it conforms to their standards for their code base.

ML code suggestions at Google do not inspire that high level of confidence in me today, but I have no reason for thinking that will always be the case.
> Apple is going to provide security updates for their phones for at least 5 years - https://www.securityweek.com/apple-says-iphones-will-get-sec...

So does Samsung. 7 years even on their latest models. So it's exactly the same. But updates have nothing to do with repairability anyway.

The problem is more with repair, of accidental damage and out of warranty damage. Both have extension plans but they're too expensive.

> As for the parts replacement, that's something what can't be done overnight and there is a big room for improvement.

Yes but both have been tooting their own horn for years and this and both make it as difficult and expensive as possible. Samsung by making only few parts available at high prices. Apple by only selling kits with tooling for a high price that you have to send back. And locking parts to specific phones.

I think Apple is even worse than Samsung. Not just with repairability but also all the malicious compliance around sideloading.
It's the figure Sam Altman bandied about.
I do. I made myself try it for a week a while back For Science and ended up kinda liking it, at least enough not to bother turning it off again.

Yesterday my coworker asked me what neat window manager I’m using and it took me a moment because I’d forgotten about it.
I see what you mean. It made me just realize something interesting though and that’s what happens to these news sources the papers the news outlets when there’s no news on any given day or if there’s really no news for a given week, then what do they publish?
They are very likely using VQVAE to create a dictionary of tokens and then just converting images into them with an encoder.
Yann LeCun would say [0] that it's autoregression itself that's the problem, and ML of this type will never bring us anywhere near AGI.

At the very least you can't solve the hallucination problem while still in the autoregression paradigm.

[0] https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1640122342570336267