skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the true filter, in practice, is to filter out sites with spyware or adware.

This tends towards cleaner sites and really it's the only stable fix for SEO spam
It's a lot higher than that, I scooped cybernews.com, who rushed to publish their similar piece after seeing mine, a day later: https://cybernews.com/security/rabbit-r1-hacked-using-old-vu...

(It's so similar in parts that it almost looks like a rip-off of mine, but I do believe we were just thinking in the same direction)
The "up" arc: penicillin, the space programme

The "down" arc: thalidomide, Chernobyl, Challenger, oil crisis, "Silent Spring", global warming, and the rise of environmentalism.

(someone have that graph about all the good things stagnating in 1971?)
But we have the language to know we're capable of and do that introspection. Isn't it fair to say of the cogs that, lacking the ability to talk about 'I' or whatever, some other way to measure it, we don't know if they possess that self-awareness or not?
I have a friend who is an accountant. For entry level jobs, those jobs were meant to be done by someone with a high school diploma and the bar for interviewing is literally "hey can you do basic excel" as you get closer to staff level the interviews become far more complex and nearing what you see in tech because they are testing if you _could_ pass the CPA if you had to. This kind of grilling can be skipped by simply having a CPA.

There's really some truth to the licensing thing. In some ways, I'd really like our field to adopt certifications so we can skip the BS of interviews. I got the leetcode certification, let's talk design or something relevant please.
Is there a difference between panpsychism and the idea that consciousness is just a post hoc justification?

To me they seem the same. When you say "3 stones make a trio of stones" you don't mean that a "trio" existed somewhere outside of the stones and now moved into the stones, do you? You just gave a name to this specific formation of a stone, another stone and yet another stone.
Homomorphic Encryption: An Application to Polygenic Risk Scores [pdf]
Do a piece on GoDaddy - they're absolutely disastrous. Eg, when you need to do any kind of downgrade of a service, you need a 2fa over email which they intentionally delay for like 15mins. If you leave the page, you have to request a new one.
Of course, when it's 2fa for something that's not negative in terms of revenue, it arrives immediately.
So you feel like the companies releasing new artificial sweeteners are wasting their money because there is no real demand for them?

> I certainly understand that nothing engineered is 100% safe.

Nor are non-engineered foods. There exists people who have allergies for virtually any type of food.
see also:

https://www.deceptive.design/types
One thing I find really fascinating about the gritty cyberpunk dystopia is that its setting is not actually a prediction, but a memory of a stateless city between China and Hong Kong that was demolished 30 years ago.
Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions are organized events aimed at developing knowledge and skills in the field of cybersecurity. These competitions require participants to solve various cybersecurity problems within a specific timeframe, usually conducted in a virtual environment. CTF competitions offer an excellent learning and practice platform for cybersecurity professionals, students, and enthusiasts
Show HN: I made an AI image enhancer that boosts images 10x to 12k pixels
Hey HN,

My wife is a designer, and one day she asked me if there was a tool to enhance images and improve their quality. I recommended a few to her, but she found that the suitable ones were too expensive, and the more affordable options didn't offer enough magnification, most only going up to 2x or 4x.

So, I thought, why not create a tool that meets her needs, one that can greatly enhance image resolution and clarity while being very affordable to use?

After over a month of effort, I finally completed this tool. It can now enlarge images up to 10 times, with a maximum support of 12,000 pixels.

I hope this tool will be as helpful to you as it is to my wife. would love your feedback pls

Charles
is this a Western democracy you are referring to?
There's no such thing as a best language that only depends on what year it is, what do you want to do with it and are you proficient with any language ecosystems already?
Steady on. In what conceivable way is a few lines of CSS comparable to a ream of JS?
Though so. I do, too. high five ;)
WazirX Sees $230M in Suspicious Withdrawals, Largely $100M in SHIB
It became obvious to me that it's LLM generated halucinations, when i read the content boxes of "protagonists fight another human". It's totally borked, but the graphics look nice.
It seemingly always says "It's a story of a human vs. an unknown threat", which just doesn't match most movies contents.
Well, a) is a given, everyone cares about load times, even those that dont have the technical competency to name the phenomenon. And for me, personally, I guess its b and c. I am blind, so I do care about accessibility. However, I am also a old-time Linux command-line guy, from the 90s. I actually like Lynx, the load time and the simplicity, and the resource usage. If in my world a site could load in lynx (its all just about text) and it doesn't because of silly javascript framework, a kitten gets skinned and dies a horrible death.
Paywalled so not visible for everyone
Show HN: SimpleCosts – All Your SaaS Projects' Revenue and Costs in One Place
I've done this all wrong but here we are, I've built the thing before validating it but in attempt to rectify my mistake I've built a wait list regardless, so here it is.

I'm excited to share SimpleCosts, a SaaS platform designed to help you streamline the management of all your SaaS projects. Whether you're running multiple SaaS products or just one, SimpleCosts makes it easy to see the big picture of your revenue and expenses in one unified dashboard.

See more here: https://simplecosts.app/

Any feedback, questions or comments feel free!

Thanks, JS
What exactly does it mean that we "have the language to know"? And how do you prove it? How does the cog's reply in my last comment not match your definition and proof?

In my experience, when you try to define and prove it in a way that is not fuzzy, you come up with a definition that also matches the cog.
> We and our 1274 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies

OMG
More than 40% of Japanese companies have no plan to make use of AI
> In English too - think "betting tip".

A betting tip is when someone gives you information relevant to a bet.

That is a sense that definitely exists in English, but obviously there is no such thing as a "tipping competition" in this sense.
I have not argued with myself. I do not see what made you believe this.

I have argued with "I don’t believe that much has really changed here", which is the text to which I have replied.

As I have explained, an open-source kernel module, even together with closed-source device firmware, is much more secure than a closed-source kernel module.

Therefore the truth is that a lot has changed here, contrary to the statement to which I have replied, as this change makes the OS kernel much more secure.
wordpress theme b2

https://www.appmz.com/
Sigh. Here in Spain the cheapest ad-free option is already twice as expensive as the ad-supported tier, and if you don't want ads your subscription has risen a lot in price. I've already quit and just download the few things I want to watch like in the old days.
Great job Naya :)

For other parents here, if your kids are interested in learning HTML and CSS with the help of cute aliens, my son (who was 11 at the time) and I built HTML Planet for Kids [0]. The course uses a visual editor for manipulating HTML, so that there is less typing and frustrating syntax mistakes, while still exposing the code directly without any added abstractions.

[0] https://htmlplanetforkids.com/
Unlikely to change. Neither is open carry. Mass shootings are just part of the furniture.
Ray Kurzweil Still Lives in Utopia
They’re still a thing! I wrote the code for this recent MS-DOS release! https://remute.bandcamp.com/album/drive-into-the-future-ms-d...
> And also because we're not really going to get very sick from it.

I mean, the death rate from human cases of H5N1 is about _50%_ (this is likely an overestimate, as mild cases are unlikely to be detected, but it is _not great_). The upside is that, thus far, it doesn't seem to be spreading human->human in significant numbers (though that has happened at least once). The risk, of course, is that human->human spread becomes easier, as it has with various other flu strains and SARS-COV1/2.

The worst case is very, very bad, worse than the 1918 H1N1 pandemic.
Yeah it's called Wikipedia
I burnt my maths books at 16 and didn't do any math after that until I was 30. Then I took Real Analysis as part of a PhD course. I was more mature, and I discovered I enjoyed the different approach. So (a) don't assume you haven't changed and (b) find the parts of math you like best, and start there.
Thanks, this comment, and comment 40986327 from afiori cracked it for me.
Try an alternative platform, and boost their presence/market share in the process:

https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/p/writinglife

(For example)
SPA is Single Page Application.

htmx is capable of SPA as well. What we must remember is that htmx is a javascript library. Its just htmx provides an extension to html attributes.

This does not mean we cannot add Javascript to solve problems... its just htmx eliminates the need of writing hundreds (or thousands) of javascript code to get things done.

I do not claim htmx to be the one-and-only solution to building web applications but it has DRASTICALLY cut many hours away from adding new features (and bug fixes) to our relatively complicated company portal.

We no longer have to write backend AND frontend code. Previously our website were using frontend libraries. Why? Because we are told this is how your are SUPPOSE to make them, now. However, when you are a small team without dedicated frontend developers (ie React devs, etc) you have to allows extra time to replicate/duplicate code on the frontend as well.

Yes, there have been trial-and-error issues with htmx where we had to stop and think how we would solve certain things. For the most part, it is accepting the "htmx way" of doing it and are now comftable with it. Its not perfect but we make it work well.

Point is - very little is done on the client side. It is easy to see whats going on, and which Views or Partial Views to amend, etc, on the serverside. I would even argue that if we hired a "front end" developer they would fit into our environment relatively easy, knowing where the HTML code is, how to test it, alongside CSS styling and, if needed, to write additional javascript. The only ones that wont are dedicated JS framework guys who refuse to see or understand our decision process. This is fine, of course. If they do not like our methods then they can reject the 2nd Interview process.

I want to repeat - I do not claim htmx solves all website issues. Its just the websites I am involved with, htmx has been a great choice moving forward, and they are a combination of simple to complicated websites.
> Difference is that government makes sense of not giving the power away, unlike other governments do...

That is the most important point and tells you who's really ruling a country.
Elm Camp 2024
How do I contact someone to provide info on companies that do these practices? Every once in a while I help my wife and some of the clothing and fashion websites are abhorrent. It's highly disrespectful and those industries are in need of serious disruption.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_resear...
I'm excited about learning DAG + spaced repetition - fully sold this is an improvement over Anki

> Without this approach, spaced repetition wouldn't even be feasible because after a short while, you'd be continually overloaded with too many reviews to really make any progress learning new material.

I think this may be an overstatement. I've used Anki to learn and retain a lot of math including linear algebra (e.g worked through several chapters of Strang's books and its exercises). While it's not perfect, and I would love to have a DAG, what ends up happening in my experience is the more basic topics I understand and related topics end up being proven understood enough that they are backed off from review for a long time. So I might not be asked about a basic topic / problem for a year. This seems to prevent being overloaded with duplicate / repeat cards.

However, if I do find that I am faced with a more advanced card that I have forgotten some of the foundations on, it is frustrating to not be able to easily be challenged smartly up through its ancestors. If I keep up with anki every day (10-20 minutes) this doesn't happen, but if I take 2-3 months off and come back to my deck, I can be faced with this problem and have to sometimes go manually digging for relevant background topics. So that's why I would love to have all this stuff get smarter, and am now reading / following you and math academy's work.
The trick is to say that you do have .NET 5 experience. That 25 yo female recruiter hired for looks won't be able to stop you.

You'll then get an invite to the technical interview where you can talk to people who actually know whether C+ exists.
Cute page but what's the cloudflare analytics for
This will be super useful in the gaming industry.
For all intensive porpoises it's the same word. Just spelt different.
A Trillion Rogue Planets and Not One Sun to Shine on Them
Ecologists Can't Beat Invasive Species, So They're Joining Them
I mean, if I've understood the story correctly, there was a very clear reason
I'd recommend doing a PhD. Not everything in any science can be learnt from books. There is a lot of learning by doing.

After that and a bit of experience, you don't necessarily need to be employed in academia. The obvious question is, how will you make money from doing research? If you are just doing it as a hobby, that's fine, but advancing the forefront of human knowledge is hard, intensive work and usually requires more than a part-time commitment.

Here's something I published while not employed in the university system, just to show it is possible: https://github.com/hughjonesd/hrs-selection, published version at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-024-10189-8.
GoDaddy flagrantly steps over the line from deceptive practices into unethical shady business territory. Continues to amaze how they are still running.
What is Spin? A Geometric explanation [video]
God I hate this kind of styling of titles. WSJ learned from clickbait youtubers.
>The guy behind Rabbit is a known grifter.

Genuine request for sources. Whilst i know i could just search the name, i won't. Purely because search is nowadays terrible.
However a link to something that further expands on your criticism would be useful.
> Nevertheless, the revolutionary economics of FOSS are based on collaboration, and are incompatible with competition.

FOSS seems to mostly be about copying existing non-free work in some legal way. It only exists because it copies its competition.

As for economics . . . big players often back FOSS development but only in markets those companies aren't in yet and only insofar as the development directly benefits them.

If you want to compete with FOSS, just make something closed source that's successful. They will come.
Most large tech companies especially those with entrenched monopolies(FAANGS & Friends) don't need the huge number of workers they've amassed in order to achieve the same product performance and profitability, but they over hired during the years of tech hype and zero interest rates, and now it's difficult to know which people are those pulling most of the weight in the org and which are disposable and just cashing in while only engaging in empire building and theatrics to look busy and important, so the layoffs tend to be more or less random, but it also doesn't affect their profitability even if they let some of the valuable people go through the random layoffs, since like I said, they're entrenched monopolies.
> just companies or industries manipulating the public

You forgot lobbying.
When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different
> Mass shootings are just part of the furniture.

In the USA, not the rest of the world. Making that distinction because the high visibility vest trick will also work in most other (western?) countries.
I'll put it this way: to benefit from virtual threads (or, indeed, from any kind of change to scheduling, such as with asynchronous code) you clearly need 1. some free computational resources and 2. lots of concurrent tasks. The server here could perhaps have both with some changes to its deployment and coding style, but as it was tested -- it had neither. I'm not sure what they were hoping to achieve.
Yeah, because no one in Europe works for a European company. We're all code monkeys trained for the US market.
Huh, I hadn't even considered Andy Weir to be science fiction. Good stuff, but not thought-provoking in the way "real" scifi should be... in my mind, at least.

I hear you about the Revelation Space series. The first (titular) book is one of the best I've ever read.. but it is painfully obvious there was no plan.
They are doing it on purpose. Contacting them makes no difference.

Shaming and other negative PUBLIC attention could potentially help.
> Yeah it sucks to clean up the mess once it becomes unmanageable, but that's literally why you were hired!

I think that applies to every job. Yeah it sucks that people can't seem to hit the urinal, but yeah, that's why the cleaning person has a job. Staying in tech though, I wonder what the author would do of the cloud architecture was perfect upon joining. Nothing? Be useless?
Chat gpt can ace any pre interview sadly. You really need video on the person with back and forth questions to detect if they’re copying and pasting from AI.

All of this could be mitigated with in person interviews, but I’m forced to hire abroad for cost.
yes. stop filtering anything and all things knowledge through institutions that use academia as a business model. Any and all things can be researched by anyone, and don't let ivory-tower heads convince you they have exclusive access to knowledge. They don't!
> If two irrational numbers have no rational cofactors

What's this supposed to mean? I was unable to document the existence of any term "cofactor" that might apply to irrational numbers.

All pairs of irrational numbers share rational factors, to the extent that it makes sense to talk about factors of non-integral numbers, which it doesn't.
a smart beeper, that's the evolution i needed!
Scientists and doctors can go fuck themselves. They forbade us from going for than 1 kilometer from our homes under pain of death (government decree).
All good points. I guess I was trying to isolate which aspects of US government have potentially led to powerful giants like Amazon, which can get away with some pretty horrific user experiences.
Awesome! I love seeing kids play around with code. Curiosity is very important at any age.

That’s how I started too. Back in the days of Internet Explorer, I used to click View -> Source and mess around with the HTML in Notepad. I’d change the content, blocks, colors...

About 25 years later, I’m still coding, but right now I’m deploying the data transformation pipeline (T in the ELT) on production server to calculate business KPIs.
Zoom -> Pretending you need to install the app to join a meeting and only showing you can join from the Browser after a few seconds..

Booking.com -> Pretending other people are looking at the same property

Booking.com -> Pretending the venue is about to run out of places and there are only "2 places left..."

Any dating platform -> Anything goes...
> To give a specific time you would have to know the stage of development for the product, the health and ease-of-use of the CI/CD pipeline, the current interviewing burden of the team, the rate at which production incidents are occurring, the number and length of meetings that the team members are in, etc., etc., etc.

This is a strawman. When asked to estimate a task, people essentially always think in terms of "how long would it take if this were the only thing I was working on". Of course, when a junior dev gives an estimate like this, you don't put it into a Gantt chart and start planning release celebrations based on it: you add appropriate buffers and uncertainty based on who made the estimate.

> By judging complexity and measuring velocity you get an estimate of time that intrinsically takes all of the variables into account. It's a powerful tool when used right.

Again I ask, what is complexity, other than an estimate of time taken?

Also, "velocity" is just an average across people and sprints. This would only converge to a meaningful estimate of time IF people are consistently failing their estimates in the same way. If the error bar on the estimates varies wildly, taking the average doesn't do anything meaningful. I think this is much more common than consistently miss-estimating in the same way.

Not to mention, if these estimates of "complexity" don't take into account external factors, then they'll always be off by unpredictable amounts. Velocity measurements also fail to take this into account - so, when the team had a bad sprint because a member fell ill, or because there were extended disk failures, or whatever other external event, that goes into the velocity, as if this is some recurring event.
Fluid dynamics codes are still being written in Fortran.

Notably, there are still improvements happening in the Fortran space, and there's been a bit of revival of sorts. There are still features in Fortran that make it nicer to write in than C++ (and while I'd hoped rust might be a good Fortran replacement, I feel rust has taken a different path, and remains no better than C++).
Note that correlation is logarithmic, meaning that for a linear increase in happiness one needs exponentially more money. Fig. 1 in the article is a semi-log plot with a log plot of income vs (linear) life satisfaction.

I suspect this study is confirming a result that's already well known because I've heard this result before (linear happiness scales for an exponential increase in wealth).
> By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word".

Coincidentally, I've been thinking about that recently. My conclusion was that this couldn't be true, as it didn't make any sense.

I mean, even when using a phone or a tablet, the pictures they take or the videos they make end up somewhere. And that somewhere must be found, to be able to upload their take to the app or the website of their choice, or to be edited in an app before uploading.

So by extension, as that medium is "somewhere" on their device, they must be able, intuitively, to deduce the concept of a file?

And the take on the median developer frightens me even more. Somehow it feels akin to giving a soldier a firearm and letting him off to go and fight. Surely that's going to end in disaster?

Praise those that look a bit deeper and really want to know how a thing works

Are people really that hermetic to understanding how the items and tool they use actually work?
Safari will always be worse than Internet Explorer.
Despise Godaddy. And google domains sold to Squarespace, who makes a transfer take up to 15 days. It’s faster to carve the document from wood and send it across the world than it is for them to automatically click the button to let go of a domain. I’ve never had a transfer go that slowly anywhere.

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150117192...
Bad signalling to insist on 6 months. Unless I'd worked with someone already, I'd be extremely wary of signing away a quarter of my business to them within such a short period of time.