skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait until you hear how ridiculously easy knocking out a power substation is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9q2lOZ1Fw&pp=ygUSaGFja2luZ...,

Meanwhile, FERC found that knocking out just nine strategically located substations, of 55,000 at the time they did the assessment in 2014, would plunge our country into darkness.

https://time.com/6244977/us-power-grid-attacks-extremism/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304020104579433...
Interestingly, I was just reading the book "Java Concurrency in Practice" where the author measures the performance of an array-based hash table like the one described here with a linked-list based hash table and finds that the linked list comes out ahead performance-wise.
I don't think safely handling data subject's data for example is something that should start only from a certain size.

Let's only make the small bridges unsafe?
Your comment being downvoted is quite telling of the founders that are joining YC

they are looking at quick exits especially in this high interest rate environments and so are the backers

Very few entrepreneurs are looking to create companies that will provide its workers with forever jobs

It's sad but those few that are grinding it out and creating jobs, helping economies in those countries run proper are the unsung heroes.

Time will tell where this American greed will take Americans but so far, its not looking good.
Usually yes. It's not that much complexity in and of itself, although how you use it could affect that (eg docker compose-- I prefer a big fat docker image to a fleet of interconected ones for the same reason static linking beats dynamic by default -- it may perform less well, but you can optimize for that later if you need it, but deployment and consistency is easier for static linking)

But like, if you don't need it, you don't need it. It depends on what you're doing. If you have multiple runtime dependencies, it will help a lot. If your target is a single static executable (eg you use golang or java with a all-in jar target) and no runtime dependencies like a database (or even if your only runtime dep is a single SQL database connection or just a single JVM runtime and your only hassle is documenting the correct JVM version to use) then it may not be adding that much value especially early on.

Never found it too hard to add it, either. A Dockerfile is a glorified shell script so if you have a README for installing the whole mess on a normal machine, following that README again (and as always, finding how inaccurate it is lol) is all you really need to do.

For the typical enterprisey legacy project with over a dozen runtime deps and micro and macro (lol) services all over... yeah, it helps a ton to avoid tons of version hell deployment works-on-my-machine drama. It was so nice when it started coming out back in the early teens -- so much so, that it was worth using for all nonprod even when it was still super flaky and not suitable for production yet (eg remember how bad its disk space leaks used to be and how you needed to script that yourself?)
> Now, large tech companies haven't wholesale killed people

Teen suicides are a thing. It isn’t lung cancer, sure, but it also isn’t nothing.
BS. Lot's of companies / entities moved there because of said "millions" so you are unwillingly forced to use them as a mean of contact. And sadly open alternatives are blocked/unavailable...
"We will definitely keep it." - PC

Empty words.
> So you get thoughts like [...] “what are the actual limits of my screen” [...]

Some of the limitations, at least in Apple's displays, are thermal! The backlight cannot run at full brightness continuously across the full display; it can only hit its peak brightness (1600 nits) in a small area, or for a short time.
> No, but the EU and the citizens thereof should then accept that Meta or other similar companies in similar situations can't operate within the EU.

I wouldn't mind if FB left...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
Don't be naive. It was never a symbol of trust. At most it was a symbol of prominence or notability as decided by a biased, unaccountable group of Twitter employees. Many of the old blue check mark accounts routinely posted inaccurate information or outright lies.

The new X Community Notes system is far superior for establishing trust.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/biden-clai...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-22/elon-m...

Fundamentally just because a software feature worked a certain way at one time doesn't create an obligation for tech companies to keep it working the same way. Whether you consider that acceptable is entirely irrelevant.
Chuck Peddle has claimed credit for the PET's (and later Commodore 8-bit) user friendly screen editor. I have heard it in some interviews with him. The computer History Museum has one interview where he mentions it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHF9lMseP8

Radio Shack's TRS-80 editor is also not that great either.
I'm not sure that's fair summary. It doesn't seem like they ruled out gradual evolution? Perhaps I'm misremembering Gould.

From the Wikipedia article:

> Much confusion has arisen over what proponents of punctuated equilibrium actually argued, what mechanisms they advocated, how fast the punctuations were, what taxonomic scale their theory applied to, how revolutionary their claims were intended to be, and how punctuated equilibrium related to other ideas like saltationism, quantum evolution, and mass extinction.

But it in any case, I don't think they were talking about the 40-year scale. The fossil record doesn't allow paleontologists to see things at so fine-grained a scale.
My point was about relevant engineering background for a particular task. For example, if you're trying to binary patch something, having prior assembly programming experience would help a lot, but knowing the runtime complexity characteristics of various sorting algorithms wouldn't.

I'm not suggesting that aspiring reverse-engineers need to pursue a full-blown CS degree first, but most reverse-engineering activities usually have at least one counterpart engineering activity. You can power through without learning it first, but I'm not convinced that it's easier or faster to learn that way.

As for me, I've spent quite a lot of time doing low-level software engineering beforehand (stuff like OSDev, bare-metal programming and GDB debugging sessions with missing symbols...) and I've picked up on reverse-engineering very quickly I believe, thanks to lots of relevant prior engineering experience. Had I spent my time making cracks and mods instead, I highly doubt I would've been able to later pivot towards software engineering that easily, due to a lack of foundational CS knowledge.
> Every large company in every industry wants to do this.

And the point of regulation is to stop it and bring balance. Or are you happy with mono-/oligopolies?
Pray tell, what is your "parsimonious theory" as to why it would be eco-terrorism, as opposed to a very predictable Kremlin reprisal against France's stand on the invasion of Ukraine?
Search abilities increasingly loathed for poor quality, blocked by providers, made useless by AI slop and superseded by the likes of even TikTok?
That’s not destroying it, that’s saving it from the doldrums of inefficiency and requiring masses of people focused on food production.
Image and video compression are like that. Ideas for mainframes in the '80s are realtime algorithms now.
Haskell nuggets: functional k-means with dependent types
Normally when you search you can look at many different results. With "AI Search" you just have to trust the magic box, which you already know is wrong a lot of the time.
Jamming other radios vs broadcast a pirate radio signal are not exactly the same thing though. Interrupting someone else's signal is definitely going to get people's attention. If this was just an FM radio broadcast, it would fly much further under the radar.
I thought it’s idiotic until the first time I sent something back for a refund.
Piano really needs to be blocked harder by adblockers, they're currently underblocked by most public lists. Disgusting surveillance machine.
Edited

Wait this is a different John Bell (https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/) than the Bell Inequalities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Bell). But strangely that John Bell has also worked on quantum foundations (looks like quantum logic and contextuality).
It is "worth it for some people" because those people don't understand how they're the product, how it influences what they see if they go on some homepage where their data is being used to manipulate their behaviour, how they lose money because of that manipulation, etc.

It will become worse now with LLMs feeding on their data. Soon it will be cheap to gather this data and use it for all kinds of scoring processes. All those things aim for gaining as much money as possible from those people who use services which seem _free_ to them but actually aren't.

Maybe at that point people will realise that they'd up paying less if they pay for those services....at which point they'll learn about the other cancer: which is companies which need to generate more profit every quarter and who make their services more and more expensive...and so on. #capitalism
> Iteration itself isn’t inherently bad. It’s just that the objective
> function usually isn’t what we want from a scientific perspective.

I think this is exactly right and touches on a key difference between science and engineering.

Science: Is treatment A better than treatment B?

Engineering: I would like to make a better treatment B.

Iteration is harmful for the first goal yet essential for the second. I work in an applied science/engineering field where both perspectives exist. (and are necessary!) Which specific path is taken for any given experiment or analysis will depends on which goal one is trying to achieve. Conflict will sometimes arise when it's not clear which of these two objectives is the important one.
Happily. I'm not very fond of dumb calls from "sales" starting with "Let me introduce you to our new shiny product"...
While I agree with you completely that this is absolutely undesirable, I don't see the relation to competition. Competition between airline carriers still exists no? Delta might charge 20k, and United might charge you 19k or whatever. Seems like competitive market to me. Shitty sure, but shitty and competitive are not mutually exclusive.
This is the "innovation" the article is also talking about though, so it's great they give an example.
We pay more than enough taxes in Europe.
Yeah, sure, you could always argue that about anything, but that's not a refutation of this particular argument in this particular situation. Apple's walled garden produces a lot of real benefits for its customers that are part of what make it successful, and dismantling their walled garden is going to harm consumers.

I would never pick an Apple device for myself. I would also never recommend an Android phone to my mother-in-law. I, myself, know to avoid the many Android security holes that exist because it's a relaxed platform. But for my non-technical loved ones, Apple provides a much better experience in large part because it's a walled garden that makes it very difficult to install garbage.
It doesn't take ages, they have dedicated teams for this as it happens pretty frequently in the lincoln tunnel that buses and trucks break down. There's a weird little specialized towtruck they have that can remove vehicles quickly and cameras are everywhere. Some details on it: https://www.nj.com/traffic/2018/08/how_do_they_unclog_the_li...
> What's different now though, is the hysteria over AI is leading regulators to pass potential market killing regulation

This is entirely because the experts and fundraisers in the field promoted the technology as existentially and societally dangerous before they even got it to do anything commercially viable. "This has so much potential that it could destroy us all!" was the sales pitch!

Of course regulators are going to take that seriously, as there's nobody of influence vested in trying to show them otherwise.
Regarding the "derpy lizard", I think it would look much better if it had some gait pattern - maybe not allowing some legs to reach at the same time, or just starting the legs and their target points with different offsets so they don't move in phase with each other.

Beautiful video though, would love to see more content from you.
A hotkey is more work than GP is describing. Pairing is a one-time thing, after that they connect automatically when the headphones are on and nearby.

...which, also, is exactly what mine do with Ubuntu. I used bluetoothctl to pair them once when I first got them, and when I turn them on Ubuntu automatically connects and switches the audio over. I don't have the same model headphones as GGGP, so I'm guessing it's a problem specifically with that model's implementation (Edit: or from another person who has the same model and no issues, perhaps some combination of hardware/software specific to that user).
but in this case Genshin is heavily hindered by its gacha mechanics and its need to meter out content to keep people coming back. Some good examples of this are how the dialogue can be endless and pointless. You are often running from one place to the next to go through 20 minute un-skippable dialogues that have no real relevance to the story. On top of that, everything "fun" is time gated and restricted arbitrarily by a currency. The game is very much structured around pushing the user to log in for 15-20 minutes every day and anything more or less than that is painful
I think the message from this post is we’ll pay rent to Tailscale instead of AWS eventually.
That's why I said this:

> The EU regulators and select HN users might be okay with that
In my opinion, plotting chromaticity on a Cartesian grid — by far the most common way — is pretty misleading, since chromaticity diagrams use barycentric coordinates (and to be clear, I blame the institution, not the author). The effect is that the shape of the gamut looks skewed, but only because of how it's plotted; the weird skewedness of a typical XYZ chromaticity diagram doesn't represent anything real about the data.

Instead, a chromaticity diagram is better thought of as a 2D planar slice of a 3D color space, specifically the slice through all three standard unit vectors. From this conception, it's much more natural to plot a chromaticity diagram in an equilateral triangle, such as the diagram at [1]. A plot in a triangle makes it clear, for instance, that the full color gamut in XYZ space isn't some arbitrary, weird, squished shape, but instead was intentionally chosen in a way that fills the positive octant pretty well given the constraints of human vision.

[1]: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/777501/why-is-th...
He's the son of a pastor, he's definitely interested in rhetorical judo.
It’s ambiguous with software releases but if someone says “which number is bigger, 7.11 or 7.9?” With no other context, I doubt any human with basic mathematical understanding would provide an incorrect answer. That is not an ambiguous question unless the concept of software releases was specifically introduced in to the conversation.

Worst part about these LLMs is they don’t ask clarifying questions, they just provide false answers.
It would make more sense but that would be even more far fetched…?

Sorry, but the high speed rail is Frances pride, and this was not some random attack. Russia absolutely could pull this off, and they have the motive. What other organisations does?
Any business tired of looking for Office or Retail space and not getting calls/ emails back from landlords/ brokers?

Tenant Heaven allows businesses to submit their space needs along with some business profile questions. Brokers & landlords pay a small fee for your lead and pitch their best space(s) to you.

Since most brokers only want to deal with serious/ vetted tenants, I thought I would flip the script and see if this unique way for landlords and brokers to approach businesses would be appealing.

You'll have to excuse the extremely rudimentary format. I don't know how to code and wanted to build something and see if it works.

Thank you!
According to their history of attacks on individuals, grand strategic logic often lags behind their desire for petty revenge. The government of France denied Russia's standing in this Olympics. This is simple reprisal.
What do they do that would be illegal in physical stores? If I wanted to open a physical store that gave away free stuff but you had to agree to give a bunch of personal info that would be completely legal (but not profitable).
Why would it benefit society to get less targeted ads as opposed to more targeted ones?
I rent my rights via a contract to certain defined aspects of my autonomy for about forty hours per week. In exchange for that I get tokens that I can exchange for food. If I couldn't contract away those rights I'd get hungry.

I'm also willing to rent my right to determine the contents of advertisements inserted into my daily news feed, for the right price. These things feel equivalent in kind to me.
And across teams, business.
That’s already happened in the US without regulation, little farms don’t stand a chance against giant agribusinesses which may not even be US owned (largest pork producer is owned by Chinese) . In fact regulation is probably preventing it from happening faster in the EU.
Most branches are biased one way or the other. "Fetching down both paths" means not exploiting any information you might have gathered about a branch being biased - I think that would be equivalent to randomly predicting the branch (except for it would cost more than a random predictor because you're actually fetching both ways instead of just one).
All of elon musks companies depend on government subsidies in one way or another. He isnt against it. Its the only way he knows how to run a company.
Oh. Good catch about the swiping. I wonder if it is possible, or even desireable, to override the browser swipe behavior.
This seems like a very socialistic perspective to me, which might not align well with big tech and innovation. I suggest re-reading "Atlas Shrugged" for this topic.
Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source
Save money on Airbnb stays by automating negotiation with hosts
I created a chrome extension that automates sending negotiation messages to hosts on airbnb. A tool I used myself when travelling, helps to negotiate you a better deal. Supports automatic currency conversion. Drops price by 30% by default :)

Here is a video of how to use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJT-HLrUxvE
> why when we have a conditional branch we cannot just fetch and prepare instructions for both possible branches and then discard the incorrect one?

We actually do that. It's called a GPU. And it sucks for general code.
Apple needs to get out of the infrastructure business if they want to play by their own rules. They aren't selling Gameboys and washing machines, they are storing people's private data and selling primary communication devices. That needs to be regulated and the consumer needs to have the final say, not Apple.
Typical US centric reporting. “EU tech market” == US companies’ ability to make a profit in EU
Just paid articles trying to push their agenda.

We have no tech sector in europe. As soon as a company has more than 6 developers it gets bought by a USA company (that's a slight exaggeration, not by much).
You are right and I will look into improving that as around 38% of todays visitors are using desktops.
> Subjective Bayes

> I’m not sure if anyone ever followed this philosophy strictly, nor do I know if anyone would register their affiliation as subjective Bayesian these days.

lol the lesswrong/rationalist "Bayesians" do this all the time.

* I have priors

* YOU have biases

* HE is a toxoplasmotic culture warrior
Eliminating goggle, apple and meta could only be regarded as a good thing...

Throw out bozo too for the win-win...
I wonder if OCR could be improved by adding a "language model" of sorts...

Like, sure, maybe it's hard to tell apart a "1", "i", or "l" purely visually, but if you knew it was supposed to be code, I'd suspect one could significantly improve the recognition accuracy if the system just worked in the probability of each confusable option given the preceding (and following) text.
It's not (necessarily) about you.

When you knowingly agree to use a service that sells your data, that's fine. When you link it to Facebook and then give it access to your contacts and the name, email address, and phone number of every person you know gets sold to a company that then goes and uses that information to send personalized phishing emails and commit fraud that's a lot less fine.

At the end of the day its about liability. There are many tech companies that are responsible for harm at both the individual and societal level, and they are not held accountable.
I'm sorry for you. You must be getting annoyed all of the time.
That's true. And I will add that the viewable color gamut of a display can be depicted with a simple triangle on the xyY plot. All you need to know are the three chromaticity values for the reg, green and blue phosphors — they make up the three corners of the triangle.
Damn, you’re so good, can I get an autograph?
Good point, I will work on getting that implemented.
lol. Someday autocorrect is going to take over my social media entirely.
Oh crap, I remember using that back in the day.
Show HN: VO2Max Estimates on the phone, no wearables needed
If Apple was required to provide
root access to all customers this would not prevent anyone from choosing to stay inside their walled garden.
I thought this might be a useful article because I've often had a similar question. But there's a diagram that has text:

> More simply put: imagine that you have red, green, and blue light sources. What is the intensity of each one so that the resulting light matches a specific color on the spectrum?

> ...

> The CIE 1931 color space defines these RGB color matching functions. The red, green, and blue lines represent the intensity of each RGB light source:

This seems very oddly phrased to me. I would presume that what that chart is actually showing is the response for each color of cone in the human eye?

In which case it's not a question of "intensity of the light source" but more like "the visual response across different wavelengths of a otherwise uniform intensity light source"?

... fwiw, I'm not trying to be pedantic, just trying to see if I'm missing the point or not.
Ask HN: Is active music cancelation possible?
Any audio engineers out there? I don't know enough about waveforms, but I was wondering if it might be possible to combine active noise cancelation techniques (as in Airpods or other headphones) with music fingerprinting and waveform inversion in order to make headphones that can cancel out music?

For example, let's you say you want to go to a coffee shop, but don't like the music that they play. Regular active noise cancelation headphones can filter out some of the background noise already, but what if they could also recognize the song that's playing (using existing fingerprinting techniques), download it, invert the waveform and then use the microphone to measure delay and frequency shifts in real time and try to destructively cancel it out? (Only for the headphones wearer, not the actual source of the music.

My hope is that while regular noise cancelation works best on repetitive waveforms (like an engine hum or an electrical whine) because it's limited to what the mic hears in real time, having the exact song downloaded ahead of time would allow you to more easily apply the corrections in sync with the waveform.

Is that conceivable?
Just curious what their agenda can be…
I know that gamers exist on a spectrum but this reminds me of the time my coworker after learning I played World of Warcraft asked me what level I was (several months into and expansion). I tried to quickly change the subject before I was exposed.