skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one interesting part to me is: I don't think we need 3D VR. Movies, even on a small screen can be totally immersive.
(nightly)
In Europe (at least some countries), all electricity consumers belong to one of 3 categories. E.g. medical facilities are 1 category higher than regular homes.

Each category has their own reliability targets, although I don't think policy specifies how that target is met: separate circuits or a backup generator.

My point -- it's all already known for 50+ years. And I believe it's all must be already done in Texas as well.
CURLoRA: Stable LLM Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation
Looks like you're getting down voted a lot for this but it's all true. Trump only became president because the electoral college weighs geography higher than population. So does the senate.
> combining LLMs with GUIs to create a flexible interface that isn't fully defined in advance but works with the user to adapt to their needs

I doubt this. Or, I doubt that it'll catch on.

Unlearnable UIs, as in those that 'adapt' to a user's needs (meaning change unpredictably) will just confuse and put off users.

LLMs being wrong at least enough of the time to make you not trust their output also makes me doubt this style of interface.
BGBye: FOSS Image Background Remover with 10 SotA Models
Source: https://github.com/MangoLion/bgbye
YouTube/Google is NOT going to pay anyone to do verifications like you described.
And thanks again!
Not video.

> "He took these photos with a shutter speed of 1/8,000th of a second"
Future Proofing Careers
Show HN: Mighty LinkedIn Sidebar – Custom user lists for efficient networking
I've created a Chrome extension called "Mighty LinkedIn Sidebar" to help professionals manage their LinkedIn connections more efficiently. It adds a dedicated sidebar to LinkedIn, allowing users to:

Create and manage custom user lists
Access lists directly from the browser without entering LinkedIn
View and interact with lists even when browsing outside of LinkedIn

Key features:

Custom list creation for tailored connection categorization.
No matter what site you're currently on - you can access the list from the sidebar.
Enhanced productivity for streamlined networking.

As someone who frequently uses LinkedIn for professional networking, I found it challenging to organize and manage my connections effectively. This extension aims to solve that problem by providing a simple, yet powerful tool for list management.
I'd love to get feedback from the HN community on the concept, features, and potential improvements. The extension is available on the Chrome Web Store.
Tech stack: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Chrome Extension API, WXT for writing the extension.

Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!
Would you like me to explain or elaborate on any part of this post?
Google requests consent forms for all identified humans in the video upload else their faces are auto blurred.
Wow, this Kling model is pretty good
Apple sells your traffic to Google for tens of billions of dollars. Of course they're not leaving the equivalent money on the table, they just hope people will be fooled by the indirection.
i really am a fan of what the pico.sh folks are doing. their ssh, cli-centric tools really speak to me.
Time might be a mirage created by quantum physics, study suggests
> “This defense can be rolled out incrementally, requiring only software modification on at least one widely-used Bluetooth Low Energy chipset,” said Hadi Givehchian, the paper’s first author and a Ph.D. student in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “But in order to deploy this defense widely, we need to partner with Bluetooth chip manufacturers.”

Essentially, this is useless. It doesn’t apply to most chipsets and would require changing the firmware on existing beacon hardware. The chip manufacturers would have put this in the hardware if they wanted it.
Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de)
607 points by robin_reala 58 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 170 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389267
Linux Technical Debt: A Visual Explanation (Directory Entries/struct dirent)
huh, yes, that indeed looks like a much better maze.
Like the current system, this one is not going to help the average user at all. This is for people (or other entities) with money and power.
From some of their legal settlements it seems a not insignificant part of their advantage is dreaming up obscure illegal tax dodges on short term capital gains that are later revealed as such to keep more funds invested.

https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/5891516/the-biggest-tax-eva...
GitHub's greatest win has been good UX. They didn’t need to convince people much.
I feel like some creative use of beta could make this a very lucrative deal for a patient, but unscrupulous fund manager.
Distributed LLama3 Inference
I meant legitimate in the sense that you won't go to jail, and you'll get an I9 for your taxes. I did not mean it as ethical, and I definitely agree with what you're saying there.
I've done well (39% annual returns) investing in 2-3 individual stocks in addition to index funds for the rest of my investments. More than that would be IMO too much to pay attention to.

Admittedly my choices for stocks are a bit on the high-risk side, but it's worked out well so far. Picking up lots of AMD in 2017, and Rivian 6 weeks ago, seems to have been decent calls.
Who is going to gift a SaaS to someone else?
> Different goals? Different system gets built. Different trade-offs. This isn’t hard to understand. You’re being overly harsh for ideological reasons.

Poor Apple with its virtually unlimited resources. Somehow Google, Microsoft, Linux and Apple themselves managed to make it work with JIT, but Apple can’t do it.
> Maybe this was caused by people not reading them, but I've always suspected that a lot of people just don't like writing, and/or aren't very good at it.

Writing an email tends is harder than having a meeting, because you (generally) need to understand the problem to talk about it. This is true of both providing information about the problem and for asking questions about it. Part of writing about something is taking the time to understand it.

It can easily take me 20-30 minutes to write an email about something. But, especially in the case of asking for more information about something, it _also_ results in me having a clearer understanding of the topic; because I needed to identify what questions to ask. However, me spending 30 minutes on writing that email means

- I understand the problem better (as noted), AND

- Multiple _other_ people don't spend 15 minutes in a meeting while I solidify my understanding enough to ask the right questions. And that saves a lot more time overall.

That being said, sometimes meetings are the right answer, because there's a gap somewhere and people just don't know what questions to ask; they need to get together and just talk about it.
this probably isn't a productive place to try to reason out the societal consequences of people acceding to these particular losses of freedom, but i thought it was worth pointing out that people often have preferences that harm them, so the fact that a particular choice is voluntary isn't a very strong argument that it's healthy, even individually, much less collectively

i appreciate your critique of the clarity of my comment and have edited it to clarify
This is a mostly terrible 19-year old list.

Here is an example:

"Your software and systems should be secure by design and should have been designed with flaw-handling in mind"

Translation: If we lived in a perfect world, everything would be secure from the start.

This will never happen, so we need to utilize the find and patch technique, which has worked well for the companies that actually patch the vulnerabilities that were found and learn from their mistakes for future coding practices.

The other problem is that most systems are not static. It's not release a secure system and never update it again. Most applications/systems are updated frequently, which means new vulnerabilities will be introduced.
I use Fennec on Android, which is privacy focused build of Firefox.
/bin/foo is the initial process. It can fork and/or exec other processes, right?
I'd be cautious about drawing too many conclusions from this; this test also involves some computer skill.

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp?section=1&sub_...
Same in NL, I don't know about the pay though.
And I do vividly recall someone saying that the later CS betas had lag-compensating things that were unfair, and invited others to play beta 1, “where you actually hit what you aim at”!
Fundsmith for example has beaten the market for a long time (not this year though). I can also mention another Spanish fund that I know: Tercio Capital.

https://markets.ft.com/data/funds/tearsheet/charts?s=GB00B4Q...
https://www.finect.com/fondos-inversion/ES0174115057-Cinvest...
If you want a data format which expresses some specific subset of HTML, well, do that then. Again, validate on output that the text you're showing is within the defined subset and escape everything else. Eg, "<strong> is passed verbatim to the browser but any other < character is replaced with &lt;".

This technique still works fine. You just need to also do the work of defining what your data format looks like, and how it should be parsed and displayed in a web browser.
> I do not know what the next-best single-user, single-process, non-bloated OS would be to run on modern hardware that still has some reasonably modern software and can be used for distraction-free (hobby) development the way FreeDOS could.

Not sure why would you want a single-process OS on modern hardware, but there are some alternatives that run much less things on the background than regular Linux: Haiku, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or some lightweight non-glibc, non-systemd Linux-based like Adelie or Alpine.
Is reinstalling the OS enough?

Isn’t there malware around that can store itself in the BIOS or something, and survive an OS reinstall?
Yup, an underground structure would normally be a better design. But that would quickly get flooded with water in Manhattan in the event of a nuclear blast followed by loss of power.
Perhaps most interesting is the climate change argument in the comments dating back to 2006
Sorry for being overly promotional, I will surely refrain from doing so in the future.

But still, my posts are not 'the same thing', they are different programs, each of which took time to make.
Temu Breaks with Direct-from-China Strategy in Threat to Amazon
Depends entirely on the context. There are plenty of cases where email, _especially_ when it comes to taking the time to sort out your thoughts and then format them nicely, is better than instance messaging.
An important component of a bet like this: you should base the win/lose calculation on returns after accounting for fees. The index fund likely has fees that are two orders of magnitude lower than the active fund. Otherwise, a random fund may beat a broad index just by chance.

Warren Buffett's very similar bet was done this way.
I recently switched to neomutt and offlineimap/isync as my email client. I tried really hard after that to get a setup going so that I could accept git patches mailing list wise. I had to figure out how to set up a keyboard macro with just the right incantation[1] of b4[2]. I realized accepting patches meant my friends would also have to learn (neo)mutt if I wanted them to accept mine. It was really difficult. I can't imagine asking my friends to do that and collaborating with them. (I still like mutt though and still use it as my main client.)

By the way, good luck getting that set up to work on Windows, which a large population of developers use because of their work laptops (or because they simply prefer the interface!).

I made a script[3] that makes it easy to accept patches using an fzf interface, as a sort of reply to git-send-email[4]. I made sure to get it to work on Windows as well.

I kind of think I might like this better. My script only involves some setup of two other third-party tools to accept a patch, but this feels a little cleaner.

1: https://git.sr.ht/~skin/dotfiles/tree/main/item/dot-muttrc#L...

2: https://github.com/mricon/b4

3: https://git.sr.ht/~skin/git-receive-mail/

4: https://git-send-email.io/
You won't have any guarantee that they will be able to make good on their promise and won't just go bankrupt.
Vi2c: A tiny I2C library written in vlang
Annual plans aren’t for the most part aimed at individuals though: they’re aimed at corporations. Corporations regularly sign annual and even multi-year contracts for all manner of services. There are many reasons this can be desirable, but budgeting and discounts are often big factors.
> Trump attempted to change Pences mind multiple times, including tweets painting a target on his back while the terrorist attack was underway. Trump was aware of the attack going on, and instead of making statements to discourage violence, he directed the terrorists at Pence while he still perceived a chance for things to go his way.

I think it's fair to say Trump incited a riot and was directing the energy at Pence, because that was the legal option left. He could have instead demanded a recount and have the entire crowd protest the entire election instead of that specific move of the electoral certification. An intent to actually overthrow the government would have been a bigger coordinated effort instead of plausible deniable acts that failed rather quickly. At worst Trump is an opportunist here and that doesn't seem enough to call it an insurrection.

> A delay wasn't going to make people change their minds, but direct threats of violence (remember the chants and the gallows?) stoked by the sitting president sure could have.

There was a time that Trump had to take cover in a bunker because of some riots (link below), and that was never called an insurrection. And of course there have been lots of threats directed at Trump since 2016. The only difference in J6 was that it had to do with election results, but in theory that should be something that can be protested, and as a result it can devolve into a riot.

> This is what I can't understand - the sitting president and their party put the country in a position where, if one person had bowed to their pressure, the election would have been overturned.

I just don't think this can be coerced by force. It's not like you point a gun at Pence and he signs some papers and democracy is over. Everybody would need to witness Pence changing his mind willingly. It works through legal means and political consensus. If it becomes obvious that Pence did something against his own will, then it's a criminal matter that delays the process, and there is no way Pence would be coerced AND also pretend like everything is alright.

All of those tweets are talking about the process itself and what legal paths to take. If there was a real intention to overthrow the government, there is no need to stick to the legal paths. I can grant that the tone of the tweets is careless and also expected of Trump, but in my opinion the four years of getting attacked relentlessly by the media and political establishment contributes to this.

> How are you not all extremely scared of the consequences for your country?

The constitution and the branches of government are structured in a way that prevents this type of corruption. The track record of no dictators is evidence of this, compared to Europe who had so many dictators in the 20th century. Additionally Trump is old and there is no way he can go on for another term anyway.

*https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-george-f...
An example could be an uncle to a nephew interested in something educational.
What's the reason why FreeDOS can't use the CSM (the BIOS compatibility mode of UEFI)?
I don't know what you call "Reader view", but works fine for me by default with Brave on Android
The attacks with the biggest impact are usually social engineering attacks though. It can be as simple as shoulder surfing, tailgating or as advanced as an AI voice scam. Actually these are widely popularized since the early 90s by people like Kevin Mitnick
Only in the sense that every board vendor does their own random thing, which makes it simpler for the board vendors and horribly complicated for everyone else.
Perhaps your original comment made it to the wrong post? This article was about the problems Houston is having from power and AC being out for days so people are naturally expecting comments and their ensuing discussion to also relate to this.
Even as a corporation, we are often given some discretion on spending through expenses. I may not be able to expense an entire year, but I can expense a whole month at a time. If it's valuable, then I will get permission to expense an entire year ... but I have to be able to prove it's value.
Tiny Japanese Startup Is Turning 'Her' AI Dating into Reality
Perplexity, Google, and the battle for AI search supremacy
Google's handling of this "change" was disastrous. I also value my timeline data and would hate to lose it.

Google's solution was to force me to acknowledge some weird dialog that had minimal information about the impact. This is beyond asinine and I don't know how they can say they gave me any informed consent on the change - the whole thing is bizarre.

I took a screenshot, and left it running for a few hours while I stewed over it luckily. Then went and confirmed the "backup" of my timeline afterwards just to be sure. But who knows if this "feature" even works as before, even though it has my backups.

Side note. The solution to this is not to move my data to "the device" and off their servers. The solution should have been for them to open-source the service that handles this data, and make it a configurable first-class option in their location app.
Wonder if the non-profit part of Mozilla can have their non-profit status revoked due to the newfound embrace of advertising?
Are you under the impression that OP’s demo reel is a full and complete representation of all his possible output?
This is just the beginning of the disinformation era, just wait and see what will happen.
You’re probably aware that no fund manager would accept your offer. But it doesn’t prove that they don’t think they can beat the market (as misguided as that belief might be), it just means they’re not willing to take on an absurd amount of risk to prove it.
> There are tools and plugins that allow users to review PRs inside their IDE, but it requires a herculean effort to make it usable.

Definitely not my experience with VSCode and GitHub's PR extension, but I don't think I'm the target audience for this product anyway.
It’s possible only in the sense that it is possible to flip a coin heads 10 times in a row. One out of 1024 should do it. But you don’t know which one will until the experiment is over and you look back at the results.
What if you put your hand in a particle accelerator?
A society based on individual agency and transactional dynamics is foundationally incapable of communally taking care of elderly people as they lose their faculties. Some family member or other personally-invested party has to be involved to represent the interests of the elderly person, many times even clashing with the immediate whims of the person themselves. Leaving this dynamic to third parties in the biz creates too many moral hazards to opt for the easy choices, financially drain the person, and then just walk away. The culmination of this dynamic of course being the modern nursing home, where "patients" lay around getting bed sores while management gets hypersubscribed workers to check boxes on forms that say they're being taken care of.
> Do you think this footage falls under any of these categories?

Read my message again, you clearly didn’t get it the first time.
just fired up airmon and cannot reproduce your observation
CP is just a pretext to keep records on everyone. Good thing everyone over 40 in Eastern Europe still remembers the Stasi and its sister secret police agencies that collected data on everyone and tortured political prisoners. I suspect that climate activists are the next likely candidates for an eventual repression apparatus, so better beware.
This is all correct, but missing the higher order. Most investors will not take out the dividends, but reinvest them. A few might sell, because they are in retirement. But assuming that the retired people make up a small part of investors, profit is reinvested. Further, people invest a percentage of their income for retirement. All that means that work income and dividends make the stock prices go up and retirement makes the stock prices go down. You could say that retired people consume and help companies make profit, but it is actually worse for stock prices than investment, because the consumption requires companies to sell products and services that come with cost.
Very fun! I can't wait to give it a run through when I finish some of the questions. I have really enjoyed the "Hacker Jeopardy" at Derbycon and a few others and I will enjoy the opportunity to play without being forced to drink an intentionally warmed bottle of smirnoff as punishment for getting the wrong answer =)
Arabic Support in Early Computers (2021)
Go from zero to building LLM evals zine
'Rust' Case Against Alec Baldwin Is Dismissed over Withheld Evidence
I don't really get it though? So he is basically arguing that there is nothing we can do and the maximum age is set in stone? I mean yes, without intervention it kind of is. But I wouldn't bet that in some time there will be an intervention or effective suite of interventions that can reverse aging. Will it happen soon? No probably not, I don't believe that in my life time and I am in my mid twenties, but at some point yes.

It would be nice though if they could come with stuff so we could all die like Queen Elizabeth, very fast at old age without long term illness. I read it is quite common with centenerians.

My mom just died from ALS some months ago and there has been lot of money put into that research and only stuff there are is few lousy treatments that barely do nothing, same with Alzheimers so I am nowadays very skeptical of any medical research and mentally prepared that if I get something I am good as dead
AFAIK it can. I believe some UEFI implementations don't have CSM.
>assume nothing more than a normally distributed random variable

But look at something like systemic risk: it’s not necessarily normally distributed. The S&P returns skew left. I’m sure there are other risk metrics that break this assumption as well.
I agree, an example that if you say something dumb with enough confidence a lot of people will think it's smart.
Do you mean heating pipes? Or construction drainage pipes?
Minimum length is dumb too because people just append 1 until it fits
They didn’t say the quiet part out loud, which is almost certainly that the Fivetran and Snowflake bills for what they were doing were probably enormous and those were undoubtedly what got management’s attention about fixing this.
> "A cost to catch a criminal should be a manual and expensive work from an agent and thus provide no ability to mass abuse human rights on scale. Only on actual criminals when needed."

The problem is that we're expending huge amounts of engineering power to avoid the issue when we could instead be using it to provide a privacy-first option that still safely enables law enforcement efforts to track down violent people whilst not enabling this hypothetical power-inbalance of government over individuals.

Let's be honest though, it's a hypothetical boogeyman. The real problem is that we all secretly know that we don't live in a rainbow world where we all agree on what is "right". We can't even agree on supposedly simple concepts like protecting children's bodily autonomy and safety, so who's to say we will ever be able to agree on any other political issue which arguably pales in comparison.
From the article:
"Unlock AI, Search, and other product use cases that require denormalized data"