skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> . So, their brains could have been very different from ours, but we have no way of knowing.

Great point. I like to consider birds for questions like this one.

Bird brains come in a relatively set range of sizes, but in a wider range of skills[^1], and hominids living in earlier times may have definitely needed different skills. Birds have had many millions of years to evolve. To remain flying they needed to keep their bodies small, nimble and light and they can't grow larger heads, so evolution works within those constraints. Now, there are generalists among birds, and even tool users, but who knows how long it took them to evolve their "3 nanometer process."

On the other hand, hominid's brains are very plastic, which can be due to evolution saving on "design optimization time" (and we haven't been around for as many millions of years as birds). A figurative way to explain it is this: to fish at the local pond, it's more economical to buy two general purpose computers ("have more general-purpose thinking matter") and to pay for their upkeep than to design a new computer from scratch. Later, if you decide to live from honey-farming, your computing could be used for that as well. You may need an order of magnitude or two more fish or honey to pay for your higher mental elasticity running in a sub-optimal "300 nanometer process", but it's a small price to pay for not being hostage to a fixed ecological niche.

So, I bet that humans that had made it in a short period of time from Africa to a different continent where highly adaptable, and they could probably understand most things we do today.

[^1]: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-neuroscientists-uncover-secret...
Thank you for protecting me from "misinformation", said no thinking person ever.
> Tests don't find bugs.

I want to be make sure I understand your message here. When I write unit tests, I frequently find bugs in my own code. Are you talking about something different?
> believe a good add-on keyboard, preferably just as portable as the phone,

Sure.-

(But "good" and "portable" [keyboard] are antagonistic here ...

... maybe, perhaps, someday, one of these "newfangled" projected keyboards, chord keyboards, one-handed keyboards, foldable keyboards ...

... will hit the mainstream.-
Super niche, combines 2-3 other products that are individually expensive and dont have any real reason to be together.
> I can't imagine why we'd keep it up if we weren't making good hires.

I imagine quite a few reasons. Some malicious, some giving the benefit of the doubt.

I'll hold my tongue, but the most important aspect is to at least candidates in the loop. There's so much ghosting and that's worse than any rejection.
It is annoying but it generates far fewer support requests for people who can't remember a password and think resetting it is too difficult.

With a long enough session life and a good refresh strategy, it's less of a problem. If an app clears sessions after a week, then I would argue they are doing it wrong.
Well, then now might be a good wakeup call to move those tokens to one of the many opensource apps that allow exports? Like Aegins, Authenticator Pro, etc.?
Spain's exposure to climate change helps Madrid-based VC close €300M
These are results from the first page. Not an endorsement.

https://www.maxhaust.com/en/accessories/v4-ab-022023/active-...
https://schawe-shop.de/en/bmw/bmw-5-series/bmw-5-series-seda...
(no product page) https://ixsound.eu/
https://milltekshop.com/active-sound-control-single-sound-ge...
https://thor-tuning.com/eu/shop/thor-electronic-exhaust-2-lo...

From the descriptions it's unambiguous that these add-ons are not pumping 100dB into the car's interior.
> images that each would fill one of the hard drives of that age

This really puts things in perspective ...
The HomeWizard stuff is great. They also make a water meter, separate kWh meters in 1 or 3 phase and smart plugs.

If you have a subscription to their service, they can be programmed to eg turn on when there's excess solar power etc.
And integrates with HomeAssistant.
The distinction between Realschule and Gymnasium is whether the student will learn a trade or go on to university.

Both can learn technical skills, the person from the Gymnasium can become an engineer and the person from the Realschule can become a tradesman.

Besides that I think a recent change in German culture, correlating with a moderate decline in the importance of German engineering firms, has been to look down on all kinds of technical work. General social work, preferably working directly for the government, is now the in vogue field.
Awesome that makes sense.
Long story time:

There's this small web portal in Poland that for years provides a simple free email service (and an instant messenger with same login) with occasional "messages from our sponsors" in your inbox - you had to tick your "interests" during registration. In time banners started to appear and that was still fine because the Web was still a pretty innocent place and tracking was years ahead of us. At some point inbox was getting flooded with spam; either one you had to have or outside the service because the domain was popular and probably addresses were scrapped from the associated instant messenger. Then, banners started to be aware of inbox content and sponsored messages included tracking - milking your habits and activity become a thing.

Fast forward to some 10 years ago the service offers a premium plan where you can turn off banners around inbox, the permanent banners that pretend to be emails at the top of the list. Of course paying turns off only these banners and sponsored messages and every other spam will pile up. There's a built-in filtering option but since people started to using it to get rid of these mandatory messages - it stopped working at all. And any filter entry is a dummy one. At this point it's more an ads and spam gallery with an optional email service. Instant messenger was killed off in 2016 as people preferred global networks, and so were small but popular discussions forums turned off.

Around same time portal was bought by what for year was a bigger competition to them (not the only one ofc). The idea that both portals should use a single login appears. So people saw messages at login saying that you should transfer your account to this unified platform because it's more secure and there are some "benefits". Later, a darkpattern message was displayed saying that the unified login service will be the only way to use all services including email. And this unified login comes with company's own 2FA mobile app which you can't replace with a generic generator of any kind. Aaand in the end, nothing really happens. The darkpattern messages disappear and you can still log into the email with same plain password you used for years. The 2FA becomes suddenly optional but "recommended". People complaining in Appstore reviews about login issues and fact that no generic generator works are suggested to talk with support where apparently something can be arranged.

What my hot guesses are is that the company believed that domestic service popularity combined with mandatory 2FA app that does collect a lot of additional unnecessary information will provide a steady source of money for this service. People accustomed for years to an attractive short local domain won't force themselves to move elsewhere. But that didn't work as planned and honestly, I don't know how they managed to survive till today.

I did created few addresses there but over the years I managed to move elsewhere; what was once cool and fast and plausible become obnoxious to use.

If you remember poczta o2 you surely remember tlen emoticon: [10ton] - that's the best way to sum up what happen to this portal and service.
The only viable option for reliably keeping data is to care.

Keep several copies in different locations or on different services. Use these storages regularly so you always know they are accessible and working, or at least check them once in a year. If one of them goes bad (service discontinued, media unreadable, technologically outdated, whatever): find a new location for your data and copy it all over.

Everything else isn't reliable long-term storage, but a lucky shot that might work for you in 50 years, but might as well irrecoverably go down the drain in the meantime.
As mentioned elsewhere, Aegis and Authenticator Pro are both good on Android. Both are available on Play Store and on F-Droid.
Japan confirms China set up buoy over its southern continental shelf
So the article that wants me to feel good about physical media being replaced with (DRM-encumbered) streaming contains embedded media which proudly proclaims:

This video is restricted from playing in your current geographic region

In the words of Dr. Evil: "Riiight."
The Workstation You Wanted in 1990, in Your Pocket
Do you mean lossless over lossy? Few people if any will be able to tell the difference between 16/44.1 lossless and 24/44.1 or 24/48 lossless.
It's obvious/quantifiable once you are in the role.

I don't understand the obsession with calling all skills "technical" though. Why do you feel that need?
If the whole world smells like shit, check your nose first.
I didn't want to sound like an advertisement, but I use M-disc media. It's basically Bluray, but should last a couple centuries. The M actually is for 'millennium', but I wouldn't bank on 1000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Pappenheim it was
>the ones who do not match the narrow skill set you are looking for do not get any response if I understand correctly?

That's been sadly common even before the "seller's" market took a nosedive. It's to the point where I don't consider it "ghosting" despite understanding others who call it that. I just feel you need to exist before you can "ghost", and many jobs may as well not exist.

But hearing a 90% rate from a pool of 60 applicants is still a bit depressing.
Like learning your passwords?
Maybe that’s the problem.
>It was found in the ocean from what I understand, not actually in Greece.

Well, it was found in the Aegean sea, a few hundrend feet off the coast of the namesake Greek island, thousands of miles away from any ocean.
I can’t find it in their docs but they stated it in the announcement email for pay-as-you-go.
I also have received a email saying they covered my ~$0.18 bill for the month.
You could probably contact support for more clarification.
I know it’s not the same thing but I had a blog for 7 years, I always tell people to email if they want to engage and had hundreds of exchanges with people from all over that were nothing but a delight. It’s still possible to have great digital interactions, it just takes a bit of effort.
All of this is correct except decades should be replaced with years. Unlike prior technologies, intelligence advances its own advances the better it gets.
Samsung expects profits to jump by more than 1,400%
Sign Snatchers Beware, That Campaign Poster Might Have an AirTag
We’re trying to deprecate the brain.
I do this as well, but then just using a desktop computer makes us a minority.

My wife, who also mainly uses a desktop computer (though she uses her phone a lot more than me) does rarely do that. Instead, she uses wishlists/shopping carts, and even pinterest to organize things.
Online Pharmacy Pledged to Make Prescriptions Easier. It Sent the Wrong Drugs
>I'm happy to report that most places I worked at valued "soft skills" much more than "hard skills" during hiring.

varies a lot per company. But places lately have definitely skewed towards "hard skills". Training in my industry was always a joke, but they basically want 5YOE out of college these days. IDK if I would have gotten hired at any of my previous roles if this mentality was present 8 years ago.
For games, the equivalent level of ownership comes from DRM‐free digital purchases. That means buying games from platforms like GOG, Itch, and Zoom Platform, and then backing them up. Steam is distantly behind in terms of user ownership—their installers are always DRM‐locked, but some games can be run DRM‐free after that—and Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo aren’t even on the same planet due to their hideous DRM and online service tie‐ins.
> was already faster than you can read,

You make an interesting point: This *is* some sort of breakthrough point: When "average human textual input bandwidth" was matched ...

(This might be comparable to AI: Now we are trying to match "average human processing capacity" ...
It is an issue for movies. There’s been plenty of “HD” Blu-ray releases that just used the dvd master and upscaled it.
If you're just looking at number of requests blocked, that can be highly deceiving. A lot of these "smart" TV OSs (and other embedded devices) will very rapidly spam the DNS server with no backoff when they don't get the expected response.
I don't like passkeys. I'm not sure if I'm using it wrong, but it feels like entering a TOTP is so much faster and easier than using passkeys. It was always easy to enter a 6 digit code and have some back-up codes printed somewhere. Passkeys might be superior in some ways, but feel much harder to use. But then again, I'm also not an average user.
Curious why the media is more durable than CD-Rs which are known to degrade after 5-10 years (give or take).
> but on made up stories told by other managers, architects, and consultants.

Even more annoying: blog posts.

Sometimes I wonder how is it that these folks are unable to see how fundamentally wrong and clueless they are. What I've noticed is that many of these folks aren’t very good listeners. Im currently working under such a manager and it’s really exhausting to have to have the same arguments repeatedly.
There is no immutable media. The closest we have currently are carved stone (of which we have examples of some surviving thousands of years (the vast majority hasn't survived)).
How so? I'm fairly confused about what you're implying. Is Apple sacrificing mobile capabilities for better desktop capability, for example?
Having implemented TOTP codes once I know that they're basically unbiased because of the cryptography involved. That said, I would bet money that Apple's two-factor implementation is something custom because it just seems far too likely to generate combinations that look non-random. A bet not because I have evidence I'm right, but because I want someone to explain to me how these work, if only just "oh it's literally the same algorithm everyone else uses" :)
Why the word order in this sentence is weird?
that just screams "I don't know what this technology is and I am too afraid to use it" to me personally. Don't use it as a source of information if you don't want it to spew hallucinations to the user? There's about a million other uses for LLMs.
The very rough rule of thumb that I think one should remember is: You get a 50% chance of collision with sqrt(total) samples.

Sqrt(1 000 000) = 1 000, close enough to the exact number you calculated.
What's the solution to his problem getting printf() to work?

That does sound like a PIA.
> As for HD redos, for movies this isn't an issue: they were all made on 35mm (or 70mm) film

Doesn't matter when they remaster it to be way too dark or screw up with colours and tone mapping to give it a "more modern" tint.

Some are also re-cut from original aspect ratios (whether 4:3 or CinemaScope) to be equal or closer to 16:9.

e.g The Wire on DVD is 4:3 (as originally shot) and has been re-framed to 16:9 on BD. They did a a seriously good job at it but it really changes the impact and/or mood of some key scenes. And that's when it goes well.

On the other end of the spectrum I've seen 2.55:1 movies butchered into some lazy [anything-between 1.77 and 2]:1 crop + autopan conversion "remaster". Those are 1080p alright and not upscales but are a totally shoddy cash-grab job.
LLMs in the browser come across as too much like Microsoft Clippy.

Still, things in the Siri/Alexa class have to have some kind of language model.
I was asking about the arrangement of sending a worker monthly vs reading the meter yourself, not automated vs non automated.
Without connecting my TV to the Internet for firmware upgrades, I would be missing out on several fixes and improvements especially with handling of higher frame rates, VRR and IIRC at least one in the HDMI ARC subsystem that was causing audio drops.
I got some additional details from their support:

* The exposed data included mobile number, message content, SMS timestamp.

* Only France, Italy, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Gambia were impacted.

Twilio support also provided a CSV file listing the message SIDs for my account that were exposed. Unfortunately they say they cannot associate the message SIDs with recipient numbers. And I cannot either, as I have configured short log retention period (out of privacy concerns, ironically) :-/
Informed individuals prefer not to have corporations shield them from potential misinformation.
I wouldn't worry - neoliberal business as usual will continue - to the detriment of the people, just like they did under Blair.

If anything Starmer is even more of an empty establishment career politician figurehead than Blair.
Really? Any well-known examples? Why would they do such a thing, unless they either 1. don't have the original film any more or 2. are just being cheap?
Was using Vivaldi on Android, quite a solid browser.

Unfortunately, the lack of AI functionality has made Edge a more attractive browser. Very useful to let AI summarise a large wall of text when browsing Hacker News for example. If only they'd add a 'close all tabs but this one' feature.
As someone nicely put it: when selling it's AI, when hiring it's ML.
> I would say: For good reason. The value is too low.

Oh my god, absolutely not. The value is extremely high to me, the consumer, even if the company doesn't care. Sure, they can technically still get their value proposition out even if the app is slow and bloated and sucky because every app these days is slow and bloated and sucky. And you can say they only care about money all you want, but that's not going to convince me that's a good reason for an app to perform terribly.

> To me, the point of Electron is a lovely platform with very high developer productivity. This is partly the reason why Java/C# was able to displace so much C&C++ code inside big enterprise corps writing CRUD apps. Sure, Java/C# is a bit bloatly/slow compared to C&C++, but the developer productivity is way higher.

I use Tauri in place of Electron and it's a lot snappier than Electron is, and you can get much of the same benefits in terms of developer productivity, because it's also just a webview. The host side needs to be a Rust application, but I wouldn't say it's much more difficult to get started with than Electron. Obviously, what you put inside the webview still matters, but in general, I'd say Electron is just an inferior choice in most cases, even if you do legitimately want a webview.

> I don't understand this part. Can you explain more? Maybe an example would help.

Parent said the lack of progress bars in GNOME make it feel slow. I argue that while progress bars could be a hack to make the user more open to waiting, the issue is that the user probably shouldn't need to wait at all. There are definitely cases where a progress bar is a good idea, but they shouldn't be needed in most cases.

For example, if I right-click a message in Discord, sometimes the context menu contains a loading spinner. I have to wait for the context menu to finish loading. Is a loading spinner the right solution here? Surely the user wouldn't want for the menu to not open, or for it to simply be blank until it loads. I think none of those are quite right. The context menu shouldn't have to load at all, it should simply open.
Do you see any difference between corn and solar panels?

You sound like a politician - i hope you never get any power.
This is exactly what everyone must keep in mind when reading any pop-science article ever.
I would, perhaps ...

PS. I quite distinctly remember the point in time when I finally said my then desktop machine couldn't move video, and it really was time to consider an upgrade ...

(My 500 Mhz K6 II - DAE remember those AMD chips? - had finally become too slow. Video was 'unstoppable' ...
Seems like a reasonable and thought-out decision to me. Not sure why the comments here are so negative. Clearly LLMs don’t fit into Vivaldi’s vision and the features they’d like to provide to their users.
This story is about a blind evolutionary process, not about a general system optimizing a given goal. The crabs aren't even sapient.
Any theories how they achieved such an impressive degree of accuracy?
>> The state’s main electric grid operator has sharply increased its prediction
>> for how much power demand will increase in coming years. If it’s accurate,
>> the state would need to be able to provide nearly double the amount of power
>> within six years.

1. Texas' power grid has not been the best during periods of extremely high demand.

2. Electric cars pull a lot of power, and could theoretically benefit from smart grid tech.

3. AI pulls a lot of power.
> The idealogy is fundamentally about delusion and feel goodism over what works

what's your point? Reminder that some people is arguing this is somehow worst than some ideology that has an explicit goal to kill people en-masse.
Paying OpenAI for fine tunes on internal docs is already happening.

Giving expensive things away for free is a great marketing technique that has been used since time immemorial, so why startups like Stability do it is somewhat understandable. And OpenAI uses free API access as a loss leader for their API product so that's understandable too.

Why Meta/Google/others do open weight releases is a bit less clear. Recall though that the first Llama wasn't really an open source release. You had to sign a document saying you were a researcher to get the weights, and that document was an agreement to keep the weights secret. Two people signed the documents, anonymously compared their weights, discovered they weren't watermarked (i.e. Meta didn't take this seriously, it was a sop to their AI politics/safety people) and promptly leaked them.

Presumably this was useful for the more libertarian wing of Meta as they could then prove the sky wouldn't fall, and so the influence shifted towards those arguing for more openness in research in general. With that Rubicon crossed other companies didn't see competitive advantage in withholding their similar sized models anymore and followed the leader, so to speak.

Sometimes it also feels like Meta may have over-purchased GPUs and - lacking a public cloud - have just decided to let their researchers do what they wanted. Which is great for the public! But we mustn't be too overconfident. This is really only possible because of Zuckerberg's unique corporate structure that makes him unfirable, combined with Meta being a big data company. It's really benefiting all of humanity here because he's invulnerable to board action so doesn't have to worry about heat from shareholders over 'wasting' money like this.

There's a lot of R&D being done right now on shrinking models whilst preserving quality, so hopefully the Zuck's generosity is enough to ride the open AI research community through the hard times when you needed billions to train LLMs.
In a deep voice: Your wish is my command.

https://gist.github.com/skull-squadron/8f806b28abbcaa1ba9c25...

Unfortunately, it may take several years before a certain TOTP value is reached because the values are nondeterministic rather than ordered and so there will be hash collisions of other values as well.

Example: JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP 999999

TOTP will match 999999 between 2024-11-29 16:37:00 -0600 and 2024-11-29 16:37:29 -0600
What does the terminology in that article even mean? Are solid state drives not physical media? Are Blu-ray discs not digital?