skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone with deep knowledge of both human nature and AI could do a lot of damage.
> Older programmer too, tables for layout is very retro though! Hopefully you're not still adding a spacer.gif here and there.

new-old school is to do spacer.base64.
> way too many website owners rather torture their users

including official EU websites
Same. I'm not logging in with Google to something that's just for fun
If only we could convince them to drop inflatable life rafts on drowning swimmers... ;)
imo, biometrics are a user experience and an authorization method, but not an authentication method, as they are not consistent enough to provide cryptographic inputs themselves. I read the paper showing how to do it years ago, but the entropy of the inputs (after sampling the image) reduces it to a dependency on the encoding system and not the key, as per kirkhoff's principles. sure you can use them to unlock a key, but it's just a ritualistic UX based on magical thinking. that you have to effectively dance for some bureaucrat to transact makes me unsympathetic to biometrics anywhere, and the adoption of alternatives more urgent.
Having been through the pain of getting teams to adopt conventional commits a few times, I found that integrating a wizard like commitizen helped folks who were annoyed by commit linting learn and get comfortable with the rules and format so there was less friction when their commit was rejected by the linter.

It also really helps if you can wire up some continuous deployment to automate something tedious like properly incrementing the version number in the semantic version, updating the changelog, and deploy out a new `latest` or `next` tag to the package registry.

Even the most reticent users are often inspired to follow conventional commits once they see the possibilities that open up.
My first real project (Journal App)
Hello! I have started on my first real project in Rust, to finally learn programming for real.

Before I have just made shitty little projects without ever trying to actually learn programming.

Its basically a journal app in the terminal, its in a very early state but I think I will work on it for a long time and add many features. I was inspired by the "jrnl" app made in python.

Any feedback on the project is appreciated highly!

Have a good day!
I remember my CS course using web tech (Codio) to teach coding, which doesn't seem like a bad option for educators, as far as dealing with cross-platform differences goes.
Azure is really sub par yet more people are using it than eve due to OpenAI. What a sad thing
Boys or gulls, them's smashing pidgeons.
Yeah hell no.
I use GitHub issues (combined with embeddings and logprobs via your llm) as an AI infused bookmark manager:

https://GitHub.com/irthomasthomas/undecidability/issues

The code that runs it is here:

https://GitHub.com/irthomasthomas/label-maker (how it started/how it's going:)
Arguably the most valuable part of the post given the context.
A look at total capital invested by metro area into early US startups
yar the 7 seas be thar
I mean yes? Wrecking the other nations machines means your back in the stone ages ?
There is "ReSprytile", updated for 4.1 (not tested).
OpenAI is one thing, but has anything actually critical been down on Azure recently? I may use a different location on Azure than you do though.
The XMPP Newsletter June 2024
Rockpapershotgun.com for pc games. I generally live a few years behind the curve. Just got a switch so I'm exploring indie games on that

Aspects of games I enjoy:
Been asking myself this a lot lately. I think, discovery is key for me. Either something to explore or a good story to reveal itself. I do not enjoy button mashers, building stats etc

I think it's easy enough to find new games, plenty of sites with listicles if you want the top. Would be nice to have a Goodreads of games though. I'd sign up for that

A short hike. I think through RPS, but I've known of it for years and only played recently on switch. It was staggering. The simple beauty of the world, the play mechanics, the innocence, exploring and discovering, flying!
> there is a tremendous amount of circumstantial evidence.

In other words, there's literally no scientific evidence that SARS-CoV2 and the pandemic emerged as the result of lab-based activity, either malicious or accidental. This is despite huge efforts to prove so.

There is, however, a wealth of scientific evidence that SARS-CoV2 is the result of zoonotic transmission, as has been seen for similar viruses in the past (SARS, MERS), as well as for hundreds of other pathogens throughout history.
How many user visits do you have per day?
Well, it completely depends on your job and work style. Personally I'm a site reliability engineer, so when something breaks it's an invaluable step to look at the commit history to see what changed, when, how, why, and by whom.

I'm searching through commit histories several times per hour.
White House urged to double check Microsoft not sending AI to China via G42 deal
Haha on bro we tried our best but they asked nice on bro
Lovely! I like how the API is in a single header file that you can read through and understand in one sitting.

I've worked with OpenGL and Direct3D and Metal in the past, but the pure compute side of GPUs is mostly foreign to me. Learning CUDA always felt like a big time investment when I never had an obvious need at hand.

So I'm definitely going to play with library and try to get up to speed. Thanks for publishing it.
Ask HN: Any Postgres performance optimization courses you could recommend?
Ideally paid video courses on e-learning platforms which give some kind of certification, so they can be eligible for on-the-job training budget.
It is remarkable that you spotted the inaccuracy. You make a good point about it being wrong but not wrong enough.

OTOH, the correct answer by your reasoning is 44 barrels. For my purposes, 58 is right enough. I can't even visualize the difference between 44 and 58 barrels.

44 barrels is about 323 cubic feet (9.1 cubic meters). That's about the size of my bathroom.

57 tons in my tiny bathroom. Gallium is shockingly dense. Which makes sense.
> my traditional 401K funds will just disappear because they are not vested

Are you not contributing your own money (from your salary) to your 401k?

In every 401k I've seen it's only the employer matching portion that is vested, and the majority of the account is the employee contribution which they can take 100% with them when they leave (regardless of vesting).
Nice, Cool tool.
I'm neutral on this issue but let's look, for a start, at correlation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

Not even accounting for Berkson's paradox yet (patience pls!), let's set Japan's gini as fiducial for free range parenting countries?

Possible outliers: south Korea, hk (see also my comment below while initiating consideration of Berkson)

Interesting datapoints: Ukraine, Iraq, pakistan

To get an idea of the level of discourse we should be aiming for, how about we investigate those interesting datapoints to find out if we should consider median (non-extensive) PPP as a proxy for parenting free-rangedness♥
Dats cuz swifties don’t like Ticketmaster boo Ticketmaster (& hov)
[VSCode + browser + docker or WSL2 image] = who cares?

This article feels about 4 years out of date which is more a commentary on how fast the industry moves and how sometimes not even Google can burst your bubble.

It’s the students who suffer.
This is awesome. I would love if you had some examples on how to use AntMedia as a source. I am mostly in video engineering so the read the source comes slower to me. This would be really handy in many cases.
That sounds great, but upon reading it was an MMO I lost all interest. MMOs are measured in days and not hours of (pure) play time, all for the promise of something great, no I don't think so. I'd rather replay FF7 once more, that's a predictable time investment.
Anybody who says “don’t use Excel for data analysis” needs to realize how simple the needed analysis is at millions of businesses, how many people like using Excel, and how little they dislike being told to change how they’re comfortable working.
I think the title is misleading. Indeed, no Neanderthal exist today. They are extinct as a species.

Sure, there's DNA still around in populations today. But that's true of many, many extinct animals - Mammoth, Auroch, many breeds of dog, even dinosaur.
Two researchers working in Canada stole data from a CL4 rated virology lab under pressure from China it seems.

One of the researchers (husband and wife) helped with the invention of the Ebola vaccine but you have to wonder what the hell's going on otherwise.

Lies and scandal: How two rogue scientists at a high-security lab triggered a national security calamity

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/winnipeg-lab-firing-documen...
Are they transparent that this what they will be doing? And that the money is for them to accept liability for the risk of a battery which is degrading faster?

>automakers typically keep extra 3-5% of the battery hidden from the user

Even 5% aren't 30 miles.
It's funny to extend this to the max. Prick my finger to take a blood sample into a DNA sequencer enclave within the processor of each device?
They probably looked on stack overflow for: how can I include constants in svg files?
"Some of the scariest viruses of the 20th/21st century emerged in large-scale farming operations (1918 influenza, SARS-CoV-1, most likely SARS-CoV-2). It seems like these farms are massive accidents waiting to happen."

What source says 1918 came from large scale farms?

Large scale farming in 1918 would not have existed as we think of it today, as average farm size was about 150 acres with approximately 6 million farms.

For reference, 2022 average farm size was 464 with approximately 1.89 million farms.

Sources:
Changes in agriculture 1900 to 1950 https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41667073v5...

Farming and Farm Income https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
Kanidm is very cool! LLDAP uses their LDAP library underneath to handle parsing the protocol.
He's replying to a tweet by an EU official who says the Commission thinks X "misleads users", "fails to provide adequate ad repository" (whatever that means - something got lost in translation there) and "blocks access to data for researchers". Which is apparently illegal under the Digital Services Act.

The bit about misleading users seems to be that the EU suddenly dislikes the blue check icon because blue checks used to be restricted to people who are "trustworthy" but now their "preliminary view" is that the presence of a blue check can "deceive users".

https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1811699711591489637

In other words, none of the claims made by the EU are related to hate speech, which the EU has a habit of defining as any speech objecting to their policies anyway.

Also ironic that the EU complains that X doesn't send everyone's data to academics. What happened to EU having the best privacy laws?

This kind of micromanagement of product design is one of the reasons new products aren't launching in the EU.
Where I think Hinton’s views fall down is that the e have zero idea of what AGI smarter than us might want or what it might do. Like people always talk about it as if an entity like that would just hang around and bully our species. It might evolve into a ball of light and leave the planet. I don’t know but we seem to assign a lot of human traits to something that wild likely be completely unrecognisable to us in probably twenty minutes after birth.
>Why would you ignore the largest state in that land area calculation?

As a non-contiguous later addition, with a small population, where statistically nobody lives there per sq mile, and is not pertinent to the discussion of population density as related to infrastructure problems?

Except in what's holding US bureucratic efficiency down (what we were discussing), and requires spending inflated federal budgets for little returns, Alaska is a big factor relative to its size...
I'd be curious to see what you had to change to get LLDAP to work on windows, and whether we can upstream that (I'm the LLDAP dev)
The Second, Film and Essays: Every Frame a Painting's Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou
I loved Every Frame a Painting, a series of video essays by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou that they posted on YouTube. They published a postmortem about the series on Medium when they ended Every Frame a Painting seven years ago:

https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

The postmortem and the series itself received a fair amount of discussion on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15836782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20942543

On July 3, 2024, they posted the following, along with a trailer, on their YouTube channel:

Coming soon: A limited series featuring new video essays, followed by a short film - The Second.

The Second is a short film starring Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Ethan Hwang, written and directed by Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou.

The Second will be premiering at Fantasia Int’l Film Festival on July 20th. Followed by a special 45-min talk from Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou, along with a Q&A session.

Cast: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Ethan Hwang, Aaron Schwartz, Richard Wes, Colton Royce, Martin Ortega, Sam Osei, Tyrus Hwang

Trailer Music: Sean William
KDE is nice this time of year
These scenarios lack a lot of imagination honestly.
LLDAP dev here, I'm glad you found the project easy to setup! That was one of the main motivations for creating it, after struggling to set up OpenLDAP
Old spider-man content sells for a lot more than old calvin and hobbes content.

> Calvin and Hobbes was extremely mainstream. It only stopped being so because the creator stopped creating content for it.

I think that's exactly the point. It stopped being mainstream. Spiderman continues to be mainstream because the original author passed on the rights and now it will live for longer than the original author. Calvin and Hobbes will continue to shrivel in how well known it is.
I remember the day when KFC started "boiling" the chicken it went from crispy to soggy.

Here in Canada currently there's big controversy KFC went halal. No more bacon!
I kinda agree, but I think this itself represents an existential threat. Governments have a history of hard-line policies and intolerance when their populations face low wages and declining standards of living. This leads to isolationism, exceptionalism, and FUD. That's how wars start. We now have global communication at light-speed, anyone can say anything to anyone else. Dropping generative AI into that is like pouring jet fuel on a bonfire.
Ok, I spent quite a bit of time looking at performance counters, trying to understand what the M1's branch predictor was doing.

The branch predictor is really accurate with a common dispatcher, it predicts those indirect branches correctly 99.25% of the time. Switching to threaded jumps improves this slightly to 99.75%, but not because the indirect branches are at different addresses. This improvement in accuracy is entirely because of the unconditional branch back the dispatcher that was removed as a side effect. With that gone, the branch predictor can now track branch histories that are about twice as many VM instructions long.

My modified version with a dummy branch in the threaded dispatcher negates this longer history and (according to the performance counters) results in the exact same 99.25% correctly predicted branches as the common dispatcher, yet it's still significantly faster, only 20% slower than threaded jumps.

-------------------

Why are threaded jumps faster on the M1, if it's not increasing branch prediction accuracy?

Well, the M1 essentially has two branch predictors[1]. The faster one can return a prediction in one cycle, but it's not checking branch history it all, and it's almost always wrong for these unpredictable indirect branches. The slower predictor does take branch history into account, but takes three cycles to produce the correct result.

Which means there is a short pipeline stall when the second prediction comes in. This stall doesn't show up as a BRANCH_INDIR_MISPRED_NONSPEC, because the branch was correctly predicted. Instead, it seems to show up in the FETCH_RESTART counter.

So while threaded jumps doesn't improve overall branch prediction accuracy (except because of the longer history), it does slightly improve the accuracy of the faster branch predictor. With a common dispatcher, it predicts wrong almost 100% of the time, but with threaded code, the accuracy improves to 40%.

[1] Or at least that's a decent mental model. I suspect it's actually be a single ITTAGE branch predictor that returns the zero-history result in 1 cycle
Amazon and the hyperscalers will eventually pick something like this up and offer it for free.
wait, what?

SaaS is about offloading deployment complexity not development complexity.

if anything, SaaS/PaaS has made _development_ more complex than ever. Webcontainers being yet another example.
Is the restriction to NVIDIA necessary for the low latency?
There's a few people who looked into getting samba to plug into LLDAP. I haven't looked myself, but I seem to remember that the main obstacle was not insurmountable (last modified timestamp for users)
Preface the URL with "view-source:" on mobile.
Example: view-source:https://cssgridgenerator.io/
I very much think everyone should a person should have a personal identity server. I think it should be buried enough that the user is managing “friend” objects transparently.
Refusing to use tools "because you become dependent" has thankfully never stopped any human invention.

The use of "AI" in the title is 100% appropriate. The researchers used common machine learning approaches for the identification. Putting that into the title seems to be the opposite of click bait.
While I wholeheartedly agree that this approach makes perfect sense and would perhaps help with context switching various tasks, the time required to pour your heart out journaling would take time away from doing actual work.

While I do some note taking at work it's all one liners, url references, copy and paste code snippets and VM options for intellij.
Calvin and Hobbes was a source of happiness during a mostly miserable adolescence. My world is better for Bill Watterson having been in it, even if he'll never know that himself.
There is a Hacker News Comment Highlighter add-on both for FF and Chrome based browsers. Highlights what is new after a refresh.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they never stopped to think if they should.
"Anonymous authors"?
Eh, I wouldn't discount India and France so fast.
I think humans are like corrupted, selfish and evil LLMs that like to think Utopia is possible if you think about it that way it’s super easy to understand
From kernel 5.18 onwards, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are exactly the same.
LLDAP dev here! I'm happy to see it on the front page :)
I made LLDAP specifically because it was very complicated to get OpenLDAP up and running, and it was resource heavy for a handful of users on a self-hosted server.
If you have any questions, AMA!
So you were having a problem watching higher resolution videos on YouTube? So you brought it up with Verizon since I'm assuming they provide your one and only internet? And the problem turned out to be you didn't fully understand the UI and settings of YouTube once an executive representative of customer support at Verizon clarified things for you. You still didn't fully follow all of the directions since everything seems like it's working okay now? But you're thanking the FCC?
I recently took my kids to an child-focused restaurant outside Mexico City where they implemented a funny "selfie-based" authentication mechanism.

The place has lots of activities for kids to run around and do, but Mexicans are scared of child kidnapping (rightly or wrongly I do not know).

So upon entry to the restaurant, the whole family has to take a selfie (on their device), and they need to show it when exiting. So in theory kids can only leave with the people they came in with.

Of course, the staff doesn't really check the timestamp, so I suppose a kidnapper could just take a selfie with the target kid, rendering the whole thing useless... but I nonetheless find it interesting how businesses in emerging markets roll their own half-baked, low-tech security solutions.
ST:TNG goes into quite a bit of on-the-ground imagining of the lives of Federation individuals and Star Fleet. Colonies, research stations, etc. Though the only earth-side I remember is Jean Luc's winery and estate or when the admiral was mind controlled by some kind of pest.
I’m intrigued by the anonymity of the author(s). I’m sure they have reasons for wanting to remain anonymous, but I can’t imagine what they might be.
Why stop there?

If Mozilla produce software, funded by search engines, funded by ads, funded by laundry detergent manufacturers, are they a laundry detergent company?
Brazilian 'geese agents' honk in case of prison break
That never happened to me.

I have mac, Windows and Linux machines.

It's funny to observe HN bias against Windows.

Makes me wonder what other strong biases I'm being exposed to without noticing.
Chrome has a different standard called Topics.
The problem is not just that a company's interests outweigh any other motivation -- it's that those interests are what lead to resources being allocated in the first place. FOSS doesn't address the problem because people don't get paid by FOSS.
Joby demonstrates emissions-free journeys with 523-mile hydrogen-electric flight
> while some North Koreans were actually starving at the time...

"some"
OP is citing a post about genomics research data sharing, where they have identifiers that are exceptionally vulnerable to Excel’s date inference and conversion algorithm.

The problem is so bad in the discipline they changed how they name things: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

OP’s post is probably still a good idea for researchers, where something like SPSS offers better protection for datasets, albeit with a higher learning curve.

For the rest of us, so long as we pay attention, Excel is an incredibly underrated analysis approach.
My cursor! What happened to my cursor?
Also on https://electrek.co/2024/07/11/joby-aviation-completes-523-m...
Keyboard doesn't echo on Android Chrome, only after return is pressed.
I wonder if people who abuse the [flag] function as a “mega-downvote” should eventually lose the ability to flag. I quite often see comments flagged here that are not rule breaking, they’re just unpopular takes.
But what you're missing is that he's not talking about the "desires" of an AGI.

He's talking about a purely logical subgoal in what humans might ask a very capable AI to do.
If all you need is daily notes, Obsidian does that out of the box. You don't have to tweak anything, install any plugins or learn any new syntax if all you need is a simple GUI over text files. It's not open-source however.

Don't get fooled and intimidated by the "productivity porn" community that likes to show off their sophisticated setup and unrealistic workflows. My rule: if they refer to Obsidian as their "second brain", they are part of the cult and should be ignored.

All that said, I strongly encourage you to try pen and paper, the ultimate, no setup, open source app. And it has exquisite haptic feedback on top of that.
Paradox of tolerance it seems.
I'd have thought 4GB was ample for phones back in 2012.
0x100002ec0: b 0x100002d1c ; jump back to the dispatch loop

I'd expect tail call based control flow - i.e. computing the jump destination at the end of each opcode function - to be nicer to the branch predictor because it could track targets separately.

Currently that's hard to achieve in Rust. There's an experiment in progress to see if guaranteed tail calls can be added to the language

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/112788