skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that the title of the post is wildly overstated. The author mentions a couple of meetups he has organized or heard of. Calling that a "reawakening" is... well, maybe if the author specifically means the NYC tech scene.

That said, damn I wish the meetup scene came back to South Bay, or even just SF, or anywhere at all within driving distance.

I get that grad students organize a lot of mini-conferences, talk series, and forums with other grad students, but I'm not in grad school.
"At Intel, nobody knows you're a grad student."
> Because activity in many communities seems to dropped significantly, at least from what I can see. Yeah, Discord's seemingly doing better than Reddit or Twitter in this climate, but even then, communities that seemed to be booming in the pandemic (or even before) are now far less active than they used to be, and lots of people who used to be there all the time seem to barely show up anymore.

Important to note that this happens every summer. Especially a pre-us-election summer. People are out there living their lives, having fun, and avoiding the constant barrage of politics online. Things will be back in the fall.

Sauce: My email open rates observed over the past 10 years. Summers always see a lull in online activity

Also you may be experiencing your age cohort growing up. I’m mid 30’s and have noticed a significant decline in online activity as people my age juggle kids and career and increasingly have zero time to spend online. The younger folk without these encumbrances don’t hang out where I’m used to looking.

Whenever I hang out (irl) with younger coworkers it’s obvious that people 10 years younger still spend just as much if not more time online than we did at that age.
How can I make sure the iframe cannot make any requests to any servers, including WebSockets?

Also what happens if the code has infinite loops? Is there an ability to pause execution? That woukd be helpful
See "The West Wing", for example. "Designated Survivor", for another.
I wasn't sure, since it's been updated a few times since then.
I don’t get this point of this article. Turning off your phone is an infrequent activity. Using a two button combo to accomplish this seems perfectly fine. It’s not like a two second hold is that inconvenient, and once you learn it in your phone… how often are you turning off other people’s phones?

Relegating the side button to only function as power off and nothing else is not a good default behavior, in my view. For power users, sure… let them configure it to do that, I guess.
A good example of #3 are public share links.

Things are more secure if you share your file with a specific set of users, but that requires your counterpart to have an account with the system you’re using (eg a Google Account for Google Drive). When sharing files with an arbitrary counterparty, it’s often sufficient to generate a publicly available, unlisted/unindexed, hard to guess URL. Even better if it’s time boxed.

I’m sure there are attackers who attempt to identify and enumerate these URLs. If they’re well designed though, it should be infeasible to guess the link.
In my last job I mentored someone who was super-receptive to feedback including some that was a bit more nitpicky that I would have just let slide with a more senior person. I’ve also had a more senior person in a somewhat similar non-coding role who always seemed to be in a mode of not interested in learning something they didn’t understand.
No. Common myth. The Romans had pasta.
The other day I tried to scan a file on VirusTotal. I got an infinite loop of infinitely slow fading "select all the fire hydrants", followed by rejection, 10 times in a row before I gave up.

Almost as though they had rejected me before the captcha and were merely torturing me for their amusement?

Even more bizarrely, VirusTotal presented a second upload form on the captcha page... which itself is captcha-free...
Eich wasted effort on FirefoxOS because he doesn't understand business. Now he's a cryptogrifter.
That renders as arabic .اتصالات wich basically means ".telecommunication".
What an odd comment. Would you assert also that an 8080 is "capable of reason"?
These days, a lot of products rely on talking to servers in the cloud for functionality. These products very often become unusable when a product is canceled because they lose a great deal of functionality. Only products which have sold well seem to have those servers remain operational for an extended time period beyond when sales end.
Yes, it's just cheaper to pump it out of the ground in a nearly ready-made state.
protect some people (sometimes at the expense of others).

Eg the regulations limiting the amount of doctors has harmed millions.
Speaking into the future, my learning through my sharing
How is the one-year probability calculated?
I’m not sure that’s really the Moneyball approach though which was more about identifying non-obvious (by traditional metrics) talent.
Or you could use emacs and have the images displayed inline.
Hippies with guns: the culture of iain banks (video essay)
There are definitely red and orange colors though…
It just handwaving arround the idea that life is magic, that reach a conclusion that contradicts special and general relativity.
Rise of fascism? Housing crisis? Looming environmental disasters? Unaffordable health care, education, while wealthy people shoot themselves into space?
> AI is pretty good at that

Good at what? Rewriting the queries?

I think the point of Pongo is you can use the exact same queries for the most part and just change backends.

I've worked a job in the past where this would have been useful (they chose Mongo and regretted it).
Interesting that all the replies to the tweet are from men
Many of the drivers I encounter seem to have been given cars (or trucks) and then left to their own devices.
> 1 in 500 year storm is a one-year probability of 1/500, based on now.

It's more likely to be based on historical data that as of now is outdated and unreliable
That's when the Echo device came out, was it able to order products from release?

Scrolling through functionality on wikipedia [0] almost makes it sound as though it doesn't even do that now. There's just a reference to a 2019 meeting about people not using it to order products.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa
Near verticial incidence skywave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_vertical_incidence_skywav... using the HF bands and HF antenna very close to the ground. This will cause your signal to basically only go up and then bounce off the ionosphere. This causes you signal to skip a ring of a ~100 miles around you forming a donut of gound locations that can receive it from the ionosphere bounce.

The triangulation will not be to your location to to the ionospheric bounce. Locally it'll propagate via groundwave but that will quickly die out with the first hills and valleys.

A network of ~300 mi seperated stations doing NVIS could be fairly hard to locate. To make it slightly harder you could try using ultrawide bandwidth modulations (UWB) at HF freqs but propagations differences between the freqs will make it hard.

I say all of this but it depends on your threat model. Nowadays major nations have electromagnetic signals intelligence satellites even for HF up in orbit and have a line of sight to everything.
AlgoGames: Play Games with Code
Because PC Blu-ray drives didn't really take off?
I wonder how much we're rushing to defend the three businesses that bought a total of 10 of them, most of them connected to Amazon anyhow, or some similar number.

I have a hard time imagining Amazon is so much as shutting down 1000 devices here.
They're all popular drinks associated with their respective food cultures. That's all. I'm not comparing the skill in manufacturing Coke vs beer or wine.
Did you have arrays in your jsonb data? I don't currently use jsonb for production performance sensitive queries, but in the past what I learned was that it's great at automatically indexing everything except arrays. You have to manually declare indexes on your arrays.

When jsonb works, it's incredible. I've had many... suboptimal experiences with mongo, and jsonb is just superior in my experience (although like I said, I haven't used it for performance critical stuff in production). For a long time, it kinda flew under the radar, and still remains an underappreciated feature of Postgres.
Not all paid OSS development is the company's product/project. Many of the largest open source projects are dependent on corporate "charity".
If you are as motivated as you say you are you will have options when you move to your next job.
You should take a look at the more extensive reasoning tests used for LLMs right now, like MuSR, which clearly can't be the latter, since the questions are new: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16049
Of course it's continuous, but (guessing) it's closer to power-law than normal - the tails are fatter than you'd think, and when you try to estimate variance from a sample you get an underestimate.
Sure, TBH I was inspired by your comment that "there is a person whose full-time job is to consider the energy usage of YouTube in all its aspects" and figured I'd throw in an IEA commentary from someone who watches the watchers.

It's a big picture look at youtube energy use, but hopefully of tangential interest.
Agreed. I use .works and maybe 5% of places don't accept it (the biggest I can think of off the top of my head is Ubisoft). There are some, like my local groceries store chain, that accepts it for account registration but it fails somewhere in the sign-in process. This is not the first time it has happened either.
Sounds absolutely goated.
I always liked systematic methods, including analytic (e.g. laplace transform) and numerical approaches (e.g. runge-kutta.)
Nascar ABB reveal EV prototype and launch electrification innovation partnership
Not necessarily tech, but how/what about Sega when they left the console business and have to merge themselves with Sammy?

I always find Windows Mobile/Phone as like Sega's console-making endeavors, by the way.
Great, many thanks! And yes, I hope to have something to share in some ~12 months time. The goal ie to be essentially an SQL client that (a) benefits from ducker's excellent performance and flexible SQL language, and (b) has data-science-helpful features, like the ability to filter or reorder columns with the mouse (or keyboard) afeter the data is queries.
Indeed, it is strictly worse than an abbreviation made by removing the medial part, e.g. intl'n or acc'y, because numeronyms only keep the first and last character.
A bit long winded, though on to something.

Uncertainty is actually the soft-core word for entropy (distribution of potential over possible outcomes.)

One cannot truly be certain in chaotic Reality, it is best then to be less uncertain, and that is the true nature of "information", the reduction of uncertainty.

The more certain one is, the less likely something is to be so.
Are any of these conditions present in North Korea and Iran?
my point wasn't manmade vs natural. It's just that Yonaguni seems to match the style of Naupa Iglesia, as opposed to a baroque stye.

Also I could photoshop this pic to appear underwater, say it's a pic of Yanaguni and you wouldn't notice. It's a quarry near Quenko, Peru.

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fe6c4f1f934d7f05e008a...
Image input.
Not really a good article. You can and should apply the exact same argument to number stations as you apply to all the technology they criticize: they are vulnerable to being compromised at the supply-chain/provenance level. I'm not a radio expert but I'm also pretty sure that you can interfere with their signals. And you can communicate using OTPs using a computer network as long as you're smart about it.

Actually the one interesting point made is that nobody can track whether you're tuning into a particular station. On a network, there has to be some traceable path of connections between the transmitter and receiver: even if the message is hidden in some other content or transmitted through a bunch of proxies, that traceable flow of data must exist. It makes me wonder how common it is to open ephemeral p2p connections over shortwave to transmit data between two computers - I'm sure someone's thought of it, and I think I brought it up one time during a quant firm system design interview.
It's MPEG-DASH, and I think Apple has HLS. It's basically better by every possible metric _except_ the one you mentioned, which I'm sure you'd agree is an uncommon use-case. It's not designed to stop downloaders, it's trivial to download.

If you really want to play things multiple times, you can probably muck with your browser's cache settings, just tell it to cache a ton. I used to do that in Firefox when my mobile connection sucked, so I could buffer it all up and then just watch. Or easier yet, just use a download tool.
...and you just triggered a holy war :)
Here's some others I've found as well:

https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze

https://github.com/jchorl/sendfiles

https://github.com/veghfile

https://github.com/midzer/filelove

https://github.com/a-wing/filegogo

https://github.com/jeremyckahn/secure-file-transfer

https://github.com/perguth/peertransfer

https://github.com/perguth/peermesh

https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest

https://file.tc/

https://rdrop.link/

https://github.com/chidokun/p2p-file-transfer

https://github.com/leocompson/p2p-file-transfer

https://github.com/dikshantrajput/neighborHoodShare

https://github.com/Sekky61/Katana
landrop appears to be proprietary
Using "America" to mean the US annoys me too, but blame the Americans for that one.

There are definitely some unique food cultures within the US (cajun/creole comes immediately to mind, as does Chicago pizza), but are there really American food cultures - flavours or preparations that are eaten both throughout the US and not elsewhere? All of the obvious candidates like hamburgers are popular in many countries and cultures; whenever I've gone to an "American restaurant" (as distinct from a "New York deli" or a "New Orleans grill" or what have you) they've seemed to be serving much the same stuff as a generic restaurant.
> it’s often sufficient to generate a publicly available, unlisted/unindexed, hard to guess URL

Unless a service is leaking or spidering the URL into a public index.

https://positive.security/blog/urlscan-data-leaks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/dropb...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/239762/how-are-...
STUN and TURN are probably what you're looking for
Thanks, I didn't realize that was the complete paper.
Rust has memory-safe handling of circular references, but it can also be done with "unsafe" blocks.

It's (much) more involved than using C++, but that's a worthwhile tradeoff for something as important as a browser engine.

More info: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rust-data-structures-with...
Do women have a choice in North Korea or Iran?
Prior discussion: 10 months ago; 30 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156337

Related: A personal history of visual programming environments (Dec 2022); 27 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34094223
I miss my Amazon Glow and would love an SDK.

It was clearly sold as a trial run and refunded but I haven't found a replacement that works as seamlessly.
Hello, I am interested in your research as well as MicroMagics. The Claremont (32nm Pentium) and MicroMagic are the only application processors that have utilized NTV by stabilizing the voltage at 350mV-500mV. I started a project to make solar powerable mobile devices https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-open-source-autarkic-... My email is available in the github's linked.

There are other processors, such as Ambiq Micro, but they are Cortex M4 and M55: https://www.top-electronics.com/en/apollo510-soc-250mhz-3-75...
With Astro put to sleep, I'm worried about Rosey the Robot.
Seems that Spore still has some life. My 12yo asked if he could get it on Steam, and loves playing it. No idea where he heard about it.
$70m is just $5m shy of their entire "subscription and advertising revenue" line item, with none of the extra cost of getting that revenue. Your back-of-the-napkin math would suggest that donations could render all of Mozilla's for profit side projects unnecessary and allow them to focus that energy exclusively on the browser. What's not to love?
Except that the comparison is not done in a fair way. To be specific, Americans believe their country is exponentially better than other nations like France or UK. It's not.
I think there's overlap between surface area and obscurity, but they're not equivalent. To use the most pedestrian example, moving SSH off of port 22 makes it more obscure, but the total surface area hasn't gotten smaller.
> Do you think it's wise to use tech controlled by your main competitor?

Mozilla doesn't control Rust, and why would it matter? What is your disaster scenario here? What would Mozilla do to sabotage Ladybird?

At this point, Ladybird has no competitors because it is not much more than a hobby project. It isn't usable yet.
You just described a literal nightmare D:
It seems like, if you actually want to investigate this question, you would want to add data on:
- how does this vary by country
- how does this vary by income (relative to median for that country)
- how does this vary by religion

Probably other things, but at least those. This graph doesn't even say what country (or group of countries) it is about, as far as I can tell?
The worst part is teaching people that their experience might not reflect the quality of care. People want to eat fast food (immediate gratification) but not necessarily good for them in the long term, in particular if that's all the ear.

Similarly, seeing an EM physician for "what ails you" might check the "got seen in under 24 hours box," but I try to be very up front with my patients that "unless you have a heart attack, a stroke, a car accident, have cut off a body part, etc. you might be getting second or third-rate care from me." I usually try to phrase it as "I didn't get any training in non-emergency problems, and I think you deserve to see a doctor which the right expertise, so I think waiting for that scheduled appointment is worth it, even if it takes a while."

It is hard to help people understand that no matter how bad the alternative is, that doesn't make me any better at dealing with non-emergency conditions.
I read this is the software they used to make the MicroMagic https://sourceforge.net/projects/mmi-pd
(someone on The Open-Source Silicon Slack mentioned it, I think https://open-source-silicon.dev/
You can have my plain text when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!
Career over family
They did court apps with AWS credits and things (at least they did for the one I was working on). I think they didn't realize (or plan for) the part where apps had dependencies on other Googley stuff. Can't just push the apk to Amazon too, if Amazon doesn't have a workalike maps api, etc.

When the Fire phone was on Fire sale, it was a pretty good value for users though. The launcher was weird, but you could smuggle Google Play store on it, and it had a good processor.
Yeah we do this as well. Have previously been a heavy MongoDB user but when we migrated to Postgres (using some relational schema with some JSONB for nested objects etc) it just made querying so much easier and reliability has been great.
The moment we stopped understanding AI[alexnet]
Fatkins?
Why did they give it such mediocre hardware and old software?
It's always a little dubious when modern people pretend to have high confidence about the behaviors of long-dead people to serve their modern purposes. (Another example: oh you're an INFJ, just like Moses from the Bible!)
This post is about a quickjs-in-node library that wraps the quickjs C library, not quickjs itself. My original comment is responding to a comment by the author of the library.
There's plenty of propaganda on both sides; you can't swing a cat without hitting someone who outspokenly believes that having children is the only path to true happiness/meaning/fulfillment.
Read the second and third paragraphs of the article.
It took a long time for the limitations of LLMs to "click" for me in my brain.

Let's say there's a student reading 10 books on some topic. They notice that 9 of the books say "A is the answer" and just 1 book says "B is the answer". From that, the student will conclude and memorise that 90% of authors agree on A and that B is the 10% minority opinion.

If you train an LLM on the same data set, then the LLM will learn the same statistical distribution but won't be able to articulate it. In other words, if you start off with a generic intro blurb paragraph, it'll be able to complete it with the answer "A" 90% of the time and the answer "B" 10% of the time. What it won't be able to tell you is what the ratio is between A or B, and it won't "know" that B is the minority opinion.

Of course, if it reads a "meta review" text during training that talks about A-versus-B and the ratios between them, it'll learn that, but it can't itself arrive at this conclusion from simply having read the original sources!

THIS more than anything seems to be the limit of LLM intelligence: they're always one level behind humans when trained on the same inputs. They can learn only to reproduce the level of abstraction given to them, they can't infer the next level from the inputs.

I strongly suspect that this is solvable, but the trillion-dollar question is how? Certainly, vanilla GPT-syle networks cannot do this, something fundamentally new would be required at the training stage. Maybe there needs to be multiple passes over the input data, with secondary passes somehow "meta-training" the model. (If I knew the answer, I'd be rich!)
I would like to know more about this too, especially when you add service workers into the mix.

I am currently using an iframe that accepts code with a window message and it can evaluate the input code and respond with a window message back, which works quite well, but I am unsure if there may be holes out of the sandbox

For more complicated things for example package dependencies I tried parsing them with Babel then producing an import map with cdns (esm.sh) but in some cases the cdnified versions don't work well

So I used stackblitz which kinda works well but has some issues in non secure contexts

So I ended up coding a little web server that takes in the code and dependencies (package.json) and does a vite build inside a docker container and sends the output back, it's working decently but can be slow sometimes

Doing a build completely on the client would be great, which is kinda what stackblitz does