skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want User Configuration back.

The web browser is supposed to be the User's Agent, not the web developer's agent. Web pages' look and feel should reflect how I have configured my browser, now how some UX designer 3,000 miles away from me dictated. If I want scroll bars, web sites should not simply decide to hide them. If I want 36pt pink text in Comic Sans, web sites should not simply decide to ignore that and use 6pt gray-on-white Helvetica. If I want to use my entire monitor, web sites should not simply decide to put 6 inch wide whitespace borders on each side so I have to scroll through a narrow strip of text to read the page.

I'm browsing more and more pages using my browser's "No Styles" setting, although many sites seem to go out of their way to make the "No Styles" experience horrible. Some browsers have "Reader Mode" too, which often works and honestly should be the default.
Im not sure I would agree here: from my personal experience, the increasing containerisation has definitely nudged lots of large software projects to behave better; they don’t spew so many artifacts all over the filesystem anymore, for example, and increasingly adopt environment variables for configuration.

Additionally, I think lots of projects became able to adopt better tooling faster, since the barrier to use container-based tools is lower. Just think of GitHub Actions, which suddenly enabled everyone and their mother to adopt CI pipelines. That simply wasn’t possible before, and has led to more software adopting static analysis and automated testing, I think.
Here's the official press release, which has more details than the Irish Times article: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

In particular, this is the complaint relating to "verified" status:

> Since anyone can subscribe to obtain such a “verified” status, it negatively affects users' ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts and the content they interact with. There is evidence of motivated malicious actors abusing the “verified account” to deceive users.

I actually think there is some merit to this. Verified used to mean what it sounds like: the identity was verified to match the account. The verification process seems a lot more lax post-Elon. I'm fine with that, but then they shouldn't call it "verified".
We just got ServiceNow at work. Sometimes I can right (or middle) click to open something in a new tab. Other times I get a javascript:void window. Some links open in the same window, others create artificial tabs inside the webpage UI. It's all over the place and I hate it.
The same thing is happening in Europe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66623636
they are using the FPU heavily - in my experience an FPU design can be prone to gnarly and unpredictable bugs that are related to certain combinations of bit patterns (eg hammering all ‘1’s to all ‘0’s) in successive pipe stages which my be issued in an out of order sequence - it is very hard to diagnose and correct such failures and impossible to screen for them on a production tester
That's just nitpicking on the definition of "do" and "own" though.
I think AI could help here to sort out and preprocess reusable and compostable material.
Maybe unpopular. I definitely would work there for the right role.

Besides all of the negative attention the company has drawn, they've also done a lot of good for the world that mostly goes unrecognized. I wouldn't be with my wife and have my family if it weren't for Facebook.

They're also invested in future tech which has great potential to be a net good for humanity. A lot of their open source and research gets released for public use.

I rejected a down-level offer from Meta a couple of years ago and I sometimes wonder if that was the wrong move.
Boiling corn in an alkaline solution breaks down the fiber and allows the niacin contained to be used by humans. Native Americans knew to boil their corn in wood ash, but Christopher Columbus didn't realize this was important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
I am confused by the second part, not sure what the problem with that is?

I can already ask the homepod "where are my keys" and it knows what airtag(keys) is mine. It just doesnt tell me by room, just pings it and if for some reason it isnt home it says the address.

But yeah, if there was somehow room level tracking I would have significantly more Airtags. Easily one of my favorite pieces of tech in a long time.
Safari still has a stop button. I still use it on a semi-regular basis.
Waldorf schools work.
There is no testing, there are no grades until high School.

Lots of the silicon valley elite send their kids to Waldorf schools.

Are they all completely unaware of the effectiveness of deliberate practice?

I rather doubt it.

I think they are aware that motivation is what really matters.

My three kids all went to Waldorf School and never had grades until they entered high school at a public school.

None of them ever made anything less than an a+ in any class in a public school.

This was transitioning cold straight out of Waldorf with no testing to a public school.

They all got into very good colleges and are performing extraordinarily well at college. (My oldest daughter graduated from Stanford with a CS degree and straight A's)

Motivation, motivation, motivation.
Yeah, I'd draw a hard line between "SMS 2FA is better than no 2FA" and "SMS should never become a single-factor recovery method."

I agree SMS should never be an option for single-factor recovery.
Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?
Good. Maybe they will price them properly now.
Is Cree considered higher quality? I had one of their CFLs try to burn my house down about 10 years ago. I smelled burning plastic from the adjacent room and found a bulb in an open fixture with a completely blackened base.

I haven't bought a Cree product since then no matter how cheap Costco marks them.
Nt has a dynamic HAL layer to adapt it to platforms. I'm not sure if it was publicly documented, but in any case yes the source code leak don't harm that kind of port, even if you "just" have to write a HAL.
The fact that it is an official comms channel for a lot of organizations doesn't seems to square with it being something people can just leave. If people need to get official communications through a dumpster fire, they should absolutely be complaining.
That’s not the only appeal of serverless. In fact it’s not even really true - I pay Vercel a flat rate every month whether I’m heavily using it or not.

The appeal of serverless for me is simplicity. It abstracts the server away. Less to think about, more brain capacity focused on unique business logic.
I ditched large cap international because of the example of the Japanese stock market, where from 1990 - 2019 the Japanese market as a whole stagnated but Japanese small cap value stocks delivered between 5.4% and 8% annualized depending on whose index you're using.
https://www.pwlcapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Five-F... (Page 19)

Given population demographics, I see most of Europe and developed Asia going the way of Japan and am betting their equity markets will show similar characteristics. Never mind that even during good times there has been a historical small-cap value premium in most of those regions, although not as pronounced as in the US.

Ditching emerging markets is part practical part political. The practical aspect is most emerging market funds have a sizeable allocation to Chinese stocks. Chinese stocks have failed to produce reliable returns and are incredibly distorted by the Chinese government picking winners and losers, sometimes at gunpoint. I don't want to bet my financial future on how Xi feels about his breakfast on any given morning. Additionally, China is a geopolitical adversary. Yes it's impossible to completely cut them out of one's supply chain, but I can avoid directly boosting their financial markets.

As for the few emerging markets funds that don't include China, they include other nations such as Saudi Arabia that I'm hesitant to actively invest in for political reasons. I also think emerging markets in general are going to get screwed for the next few decades as globalization declines, climate change becomes more impactful, and the world generally becomes more dangerous and chaotic. There may be money to be made in EM, but I doubt it will be consistent or as simple as investing in an EM index fund.
To me, the headline is "wrong" because "lifting membership fees" means, very clearly, to remove them completely, the same way that to "lift restrictions" means to remove restrictions.

I would just guess that whoever wrote the headline is not a native english speaker.
Lord of the Rings also famously does not have opening credits. Just runs right into the film. With the expectation that you might have just finished the previous film and ready to start the next.
This should be higher. The default shouldn't be a system that works perfectly indefinitely.
I think it's a desperate attempt to downplay the severity in any way plausible, taking advantage of the fact that credit card numbers and social security numbers have been mythologized in the American consciousness as nearly-mystical totems of identity and security, as part of the "identity theft" meme, even though they play little role in actual information security or privacy.
AT&T: Hacker Stole Cell, Text Data on Nearly All Wireless Customers
Same... a simple website footer would help signal this is the end of the page
> The company said the hack wouldn’t be material to its operations or negatively impact its financial results.

And this is why consumers will continue to see their information compromised by companies who collect and retain more data than they need and then fail to invest the time and resources to protect it.
"AT&T reveals it has records of cellular customers calls and texts"

These records should have been deleted at the latest at the point where they're no longer relevant for billing. (Which also means that for customers with unlimited calling/texting, there shouldn't be any records in the first place.)
It seems right in their wheelhouse imo. They've just taken all of the hard work AMD did in the space with FSR and optimized it for their GPU architecture. I'd be pretty worried if ARM didn't know how to write a performant shader for their own GPU.
The data can be used for traffic analysis (number->number call data); "no PII" except it's pretty easy to match a number to a likely user.

I'm an AT&T customer, and in my case I don't have a risk, but I can imagine this info could be very handy for divorce, custody, and corporate IP lawsuits. So worse than it might look to ordinary folks.
If it was practical to have some way to a priori prevent the appliances in my home from seeing me or listening to what I do, while still being able to use them for their intended purpose, then I would certainly use it. Since there is a practical way to do that on a computer, then I'm going to use that if I can. In the same way that I use live narrowing fuzzy search for almost all of my interfaces with the computer and would certainly use that if it were physically possible for physical objects as well, but it just isn't. There are many things that we can do on the computer that we can't do in real life and thus we request that the computer do them.

Furthermore, in fact, to the extent that it is possible, I do in fact do this: I flat out refuse to install appliances in my house that would have the capability of passively listening to every word I say or watching every move I make with microphones or cameras — no Alexas or Google Homes or Nest security cameras or smart toasters or anything of the sort. Whereas installing applications under Xorg is essentially the equivalent of having every appliance in your entire house come with microphone and camera that is always on, and just having to trust that they don't actually do anything with that data. Every application installed under XROG essentially has the capability to surveil you and simply choose as not to, whereas I would prefer the digital equivalent of only having appliances in my house that do not have microphones or cameras, or must explicitly ask my permission to use them — Wayland.
Most people don’t prefer bone-dry wines, but are shamed into asking for them (example: “comically sweet”), so the vintners avoid calling anything “sweet” even when it does have a bit of sweetness.
The action results from the fact that the blue check used to mean something.
Dup with 50 minutes ago
These are the same types of issues that took down Parler. Now that Twitter is has completed the transformation into Parler 2.0, this type of legal trouble will just keep piling up. It's a natural result of the (mis)management philosophy of its operators.
What decorative item shall we use to celebrate our good fortune?
GUIs Are Antisocial
Multi-user would have likely been bolted on one way or another at some point, as had happened when other OSes gained fundamental new features.
Game of Thrones being the really big one.
Isn't this just drivers and a HAL? Microsoft built the OS in a way so that such ports would be possible so there should be some API documentation out there. The question is how complete it is because everybody just used the MS provided HAL.
I believe this practice was followed only in postwar France, and I think even there has long been jettisoned. It's been a while since I got a French phone bill though.
There’s an army of developers working on Linux as well, employed by companies like IBM and Oracle. I don’t see a huge difference to Microsoft here to be honest.
This seems like a stretch?

The blue checkmark is really nothing more than, I paid for this. It gives you certain benefits on the system and it does amplify your voice. But is that really any different than ads?

All for criticism of how much X's reputation has been destroyed and a lot of the choices Elon has made, but this one... it doesn't make any sense to me.
Neat, introducing a fiduciary to manage the responsibility of broken trust by representatives (of corporations) who field AIs that do harm, good idea.
Those are great questions. The answer is going to vary (quite dramatically) by the target disease, target cell type, intended effect, etc. For example they mention that 21 percent elimination can 'reduce symptoms', so you could be looking at a situation where 80% elimination slows down the progression enough that the low-symptom phase of the disease lasts long enough that you can die of some other age related complicated instead. Die with the disease instead of die because of the disease - you see that as a common goal in oncology now, and in treating diseases like HIV. Rate of reversion might depend on the cell type.

Add in the aspect that it looks like they want to work with a new AAV vector optimized for the brain (looks like the compactness of this epigenetic editor is one of the advantages which tracks, can fit in an AAV then). So if there are muliple applications required there's also questions of, what if in future applications there's an immune response against the AAV used that reduces uptake, etc etc.

These questions (along with all the others) tend to be super complicated to answer, which is why all this stuff (more mouse trials, clinical trials, manufacturing, etc) can be so long/complicated/expensive. Clinical trials are also lit in that you boil all the unknown knowns and unknowns into 'let's just check and see if it's safe and if it works.'
AT&T is well known for working with NSA — 33 Thomas St [1]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
Azure's IPv6 implementation is still flawed and still broken. That has not changed.
Widescreen monitors, and people still using full screen with a widescreen monitors, are the issue there. Moving from Windows to OS X all those years back was what got me to move from having my applications in "windows" instead of "walls". OS X didn't really have a way to maximize stuff, just "zoom" to auto-size the window. Since I transitioned to my first widescreen monitor at the same time, this worked out really well.

For a significant number of people, they don't get any benefit from a widescreen display, because all that extra space is just empty screen due to max-width being set on the text. Of course, if the developer didn't do that, the text would be hard to read. They're saving users from themselves in many cases.

I have a site where I don't use any CSS and have a note to tell people to make their browser more narrow if they need the text to wrap so it's easier to read. Doing that, the site works on everything, no media queries required.
I agree with the post.. but I thought it was going to talk about how on my 4k monitor, or maybe any monitor, that the width of the scroll bar on most sites is hard to hover over, click on, and scroll with mouse movements.

It's really frustrating when I want to just skim a page quickly and my options are you use my scroll wheel, or fight to click right on the thin a* scroll bar..
I simply refuse to play “free“ games. I’ll pay outright or not play at all.
California wines have had a poor price-to-quality ratio for many years when competing with ubiquitous wine imports from other countries. It is difficult to sell California wine when you can buy a better bottle from France for half the price. Outside of California, many restaurants preferentially serve European wine because the price disparities are so large, particularly for relative quality.

It benefitted from limited competition for a long time but that has not been the market reality for more than a decade.
> even the classic .env seems like a better choice in every way

That's a pretty thorough misunderstanding of the value that secrets management services provide. We can start with the idea of never storing secrets in files.

I think most companies also understand the difference between plain HTTP localhost loopback and transmitting secrets in plaintext over the network. There are many services that rely on localhost loopbacks for handling all kinds of sensitive data.

Chamber is great but generally relies on transmitting secrets via environment variables to the enclosed process and assumes that they will remain valid for the lifetime of that process. Part of the point of this tool is to provide a secrets cache with a TTL.
I had never used the API, and skimmed through the article. Found the first example very intriguing, but couldn’t figure out how it would work across devices.

Thanks for clarifying!
Why is the capital letter o as in Oklahoma used in the 1080p? Is that part of the issue?

Edit: It looks like it don't care if it's an o or a zero.

Here is the same example replicated to work on chat gpt, with an o:

https://chatgpt.com/share/491a74fe-a0d1-4346-b5f7-60e7d76a8d...
Very funny. I also had a dove that decided to nest on top of a security light at my house. I didn't really mind it, but unfortunately there's so little room that with any storm the wind just destroys it.

After the first attempt failed she came back this year, but I just immediately destroyed it myself.

So we'll see if she tries to do the same thing next year.
Then don't offer support for bottom tier customers.
techcrunch article with more info https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/flow-claims-it-can-100x-an...
I like how on side the growers are lamenting having to sell wine at less than 1$ a gallon and there is a lot of emphasis on "how exiting, less than 20$ per bottle!"

Bottle + cork + label can cost as low as 1-2$

Even at a median 5.5$ in 2022 for a gallon of wine that's still around 1$ of wine for bottle.

I think the price might be a problem.
Ok, I guess it appears to work with a bit of nudging on your part. But if you look carefully it still fails and the wolf hallucinates itself back into existence in the last prompt, step 4.

My conclusion with LLMs is "Close but no cigar" when it comes to reasoning deviated from the script. Maybe it will get better but something has to change to make this work, more parameters or training will only make it appear to work better but still fail.

Even flawed I still find LLMS and GenAI useful for some tasks such as brainstorming though.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662
I can verify that x is banned where I work, course I work at home heh heh heh

127.0.0.1 x.com
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
@property: Next-gen CSS variables now with universal browser support
First thing I tried was `apt-get install emacs` and it hung on downloading. Editor preferences aside, I assume any nonstandard package will have the same problem. Interesting idea, but apart from trivial glue you may not need more than a container or unikernel for anyway, I'm struggling to understand a practical use case.
Today Gemini turned down this question:

"How the DNC restricts delegates actions when selecting a presidential candidate in the United States during primary elections?"

It can't talk about politics.
Assuming Apple would still be successful, and not close shop.

It would have settled C++ as the main systems language on desktop OSes, between Windows, and Mac Be OS.

Objective-C would have died, and Swift would never come to be.

Clang and LLVM probably would never had gotten Apple's sponsorship.

POSIX would have died on the desktop, as Be OS like other non UNIX OSes wasn't that keen in being UNIX like.

There wouldn't be a flock of Linux and BSD developers rushing out to buy Apple hardware, instead of sponsoring OEMs shipping PCs with those distributons.
There is quite a spectrum between Dumb and Dumber and the great works of art of our time. What runs in common is that both cases are often withheld from the public due to copyright.
Many of these aphorisms are useful in a non-programming context as well.
Collection costs would be added to what the person owes, I would think. In the OP's case at least, I'd ask the judge to include that in the judgement, given that the customer has already demonstrated a reluctance to pay.
Hands up amazingly said. Organizations that can capture what they do and what they intend into artifacts is, in my view, the core thing that drives & allowed maturity to evolve. Incredible seeing this called out & linked back to the core basis of what software is & how we interact with it:

> But when you solve it with a command line interface in a scripting environment, you have an artifact. And all of a sudden, that artifact can be shared with someone.

I kind of want to go back and try an old old KDE with DCOP in it, because I remember it as making the UI easily scriptable. Where-as with DBus it's up to each coder to expose & make system operations all machine-accessible. I'm not familiar but I think Apple actually has a decent toolkit for this stuff, no?
That sounds like a pretty terrible idea, TBH. All of the best tooling is for PDFs, as you note, and storage will only get cheaper.

Ultimately that content is going to need to be represented as raw UTF-8 text and encoded images, so I don't see much upside to migrating it from one intermediate lossy file format to another.
The nature of the photographic mechanism becomes a new definition of “reality,” but it is still a cultural byproduct, leaving Realness to be still uncovered in all kinds of ways
This might all be true, but has this actually resulted in better software for end users? More stability, faster delivery of useful features? That is my concern.
More hassle free than serving these 100 customers for free.

Especially if you only offer 2 year prepaid options.
'Dune'-Inspired Spacesuit Turns Astronauts' Urine into Drinkable Water
When you saw a Blue Checkmark next to "Stephen King" in 2021, you knew it was the author Stephen King.

When you see a Blue Checkmark next to "Elon Musk" in 2024, you know he's a shitposter who is trying to sell you the most recent cryptocoin scam.

There are people who are unaware of the difference between 2021 and 2024. As evidenced by this entire discussion.
Exploit development
Perplexity planning revenue sharing program with web publishers next month
Age-plugin-Yubikey: Yubikey plugin for age encryption