skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't save your passwords and 2FA in the Google Cloud. Use a separate service like 1password or Bitwarden instead, which can sync 2FA across multiple devices. That way you can always get back into your Google account if you lose a device (as long as you remember your master password to the other service). Unlike Google Authenticator, these services don't lose your 2FA if your device is lost.

Yes, you can log into multiple devices (Android or otherwise) with the same Google account. I usually stay logged in to Gmail/Chrome on my computers, iPad, Android phone, and gaming handheld (a Logitech GCloud running Android). If one of them gets stolen, the others are still logged in and you can use Find My Phone to remotely erase the stolen one and/or change your password.

You should also add a recovery email and phone to your Google account: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183723?hl=en&co=G...

Oh, and set a lock screen on all your devices with a good password, and have them automatically lock when you turn off the screen and/or in some reasonable timeframe (a few min) in case they get stolen. Make a habit of locking your screen any time you walk away and leave your device unattended.

Turn on full-disk encryption. (I think this is the default on newer Pixels).

With the above, if anyone does steal your device, erase it remotely and then sign in to your account again from the replacement device. You might get asked to confirm it from another device, or hopefully you have a 2FA code you can use that's in your password manager.
I appreciate your curiosity!

The best introduction that I can recommend is this type-written PDF from E.T. Jaynes, called "probability theory with applications in science and engineering": https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/science.pdf.html

It requires a lot of attention to read and follow the math, but it's worthwhile. Jaynes is a pretty passionate writer, and in his writing he's clearly battling against some enemies (who might be ghosts), but on the other hand this also makes for more entertaining reading and I find that's usually a benefit when it comes to a textbook.
I'm saying a layman or say a child wouldn't even think this is a "test". They are just asking a language model a seemingly simple language related question from their point of view.
There are with certainty multiple islands of stability, when each layer of nucleons becomes complete.

However, in each island of stability the most stable element is much less stable than the most stable element of the previous island of stability. Therefore in most higher islands of stability the decay times will become too short.

It is possible and rather likely that only the first undiscovered island of stability may contain relatively long-lived elements, e.g. with half-lives over one second.

An island of stability finishes at bismuth, which is radioactive, but which has a huge half-life. The next island of stability contains the long-lived thorium and uranium and the still relatively long-lived neptunium and plutonium, after which the half-lives decrease very quickly.

Whichever will be the longest-lived elements of the next island of stability, their half-lives will be many orders of magnitude smaller than those of thorium and uranium.
> When I'm doing design work, there is a product spec already defined but it almost always changes once initial designs are completed and people have a better understanding of how it would work in practice.

In my case, I am just iterating on the fly with our end-user(s) (we also do not really have a product owner).

It may not have been obvious, but I am working on an app for internal stakeholders, not for external customers (the customers that my company serves).

So when it comes to designing for external end user + customers, design is serious and necessary consideration, which is where Figma would come in.
The bizarre state of this emoji was that it already faced this change. One vendor (Apple I believe) decided to make it a water gun, slowly the rest of the industry followed, officially changing its name to "water pistol". Now the old battles are new again.
They needed to deal with degenerate data on the Web anyway. It's always been full of trash and spam.
That is assuming the application is aware of “who” is doing it. I can commit to GitHub any name/email address I want, but only GitHub proxy servers know who actually sent the commit.
Delaying this a little while is better than having CPUs mysteriously give errors after a few months.

I'll probably get a 9950X when the next GPU generation comes out. I hear the three big PC GPU vendors will be launching GPUs at the next CES.
Tokenization can be bypassed like this; (mistral large 2)

How many letters R are in the word "s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y"?

The word "s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y" contains three instances of the letter "R."

How many letters R contain the word strawberry?

The word "strawberry" contains two instances of the letter "R."
I use i3-wm. I know that there is Sway but it will require some effort to migrate. Also there are fresh reports that Wayland+Sway have problems with NVidia (even worse I have AMD + NVidia). I'd wait till it gets resolved or my current setup stops working.
I suspect your shadowban is related to how new your account was, its de-facto low reputation and its even lower reputation due heavily downvoted comments you made: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=turdistheword
It's ridiculous that I have to have a spreadsheet with pricing information and links for household goods just to spot check and make sure I'm getting the actual price per quantity that I want due to the multiple dynamic listings that change every day nightmare.

Don't ask how many times I receive more or less than I thought I would or something came in 10 packages of 3 instead of 1 30x package.
Yeah, I'm aware, though in general the devices have a location specified. But even then, "90 in cityname" would suffice.

There are many other interactions in which almost every word is unnecessary noise and can't even be explained away as a confirmation.
I would extend "the same thing everywhere" through time as well, i.e. it's a bad thing to ever change the meaning of an emoji after it's been published, for the obvious reason that this messes with old texts and all other locations where the emoji has been used with the old meaning.

This means that the move back then to change the gun to a water pistol was an extremely bad move, no question here. But moving it back to the original meaning now is just as bad - it will just disrupt in the same way lots of newer texts that assume the glyph is a water pistol.
The press this generated probably makes it one of the most impactful things someone can do with their 15 minutes of idle time
Of course it will collapse if you don’t verify it, I remember OpenAI talking about its research into having a different model verify that data somehow
True story: I wrote my ph.d. thesis on a special case of a general problem. After about one year of work, I realized that the approach would never work for the general problem for intractable reasons. But I also really wanted to finish my ph.d. within 5 years, so I spent the next two years refining the work enough to be able to write a dissertation on it and ignored the fact that it would never really work for what it was intended. I did do some interesting work and learned a lot, but I couldn't really bring myself to try and publish the results (beyond my thesis) because I very clearly had not made an advance in the field. Of course, I do think it would have been useful to publish why I thought that essentially the entire field of inquiry was a dead end, but that would not have made me very popular with my collaborators or others in the field and it wouldn't likely have ingratiated me with anyone else.
They made similar stupid decisions with the flood of their Amazon branded products that they were ripping off from Amazon sellers.

The issue with Amazon is that they have so much money, they can afford to make dumb decisions.
Worrying about wasted effort spent breathing some life into a mockup/prototype

vs Worrying about creating some figmentary Figma imaginarium that wont translate well into the actual app

I do think there is a risk, it's just not of throwaway code (the effort of that throwaway is vastly smaller than what this path replaces). The risk is more how & where the future could be constrained. If the prototype starts becoming the app, there's some risk the prototype imposes poor app architecture. If the prototype starts becoming the app the effort to mock/prototype new ideas risks becomes higher.

I strongly agree with the parent about getting in there & trying things semi live, not being afraid to wade in. The component offerings are excellent today, don't wire most of them up, just throw them on the screen as best you can & put in minimal stitching or hardcode a forward/back through states.

The fear of this going bad is way outsized. The design industry needs to get where the puck is going & stop playing around with fancy abstract design tools.
That's not the same thing.

Prescription medication is heavily regulated and required to have a certain amount of the active ingredient. Some prescription medication is also available OTC. What you're describing is not prescription medication, even though it is often found in pharmacies.

If LSD were a prescription medication, either it would be available OTC or I would have a prescription for it; in both cases it wouldn't be subject to the same crap that you'd find on, say, Amazon.
Bringing lakeFS into our software stack was a huge mistake.
I've been on youtube for, whatever, its 15-20ish years of existence so god knows how many youtube comments I've written since I was a teenager. I comment on a lot of political, murder mystery, homeless situations, military stuff, just whatever in general.

The last 1-3 years, I'm not really sure, but I constantly have youtube comments I leave deleted. I'm clearly auto-modded by some AI that seems like, at some points, its looking for trigger words, and at other points just seems like it's not going to let me leave any commments for day(s). I'm not a 12 year old edge lord but I will go talk politics in firebrand communities and it's really, really frustrating when you're actually having a good convo, as good as you can pull off with yts comment system, and all of a sudden it just stops letting you hit reply. Error. Error. Then your edits just turn to errors. Then you reload the page and all of your replies are gone and it looks like the person is speaking to a ghost when you were just speaking about, say, a genocide in Myanmar or something.

There are "customer sentience" AI systems that gauge how "flamey" conversations are getting for support teams so they can bump pissed off customers up faster and what not and I'm sure its using something like that.

It makes me just stop engaging. I think youtube channels should be able to disable AI/sentience tracking or something. It's catching ridiculous things. People have to write yt comments like tiktok now; like saying unalived instead of killed/murdered, etc while literally discussing a murder.

In HN I keep deadposts on or whatever its called. 99% of the time they have no idea they're deadflagged and they absolutely deserve it in most instance. It's always fun to dig through those.

edit: I completely forgot the word and wrote customer sentience instead of what I mean, but I like that too much to change it.. your customers happy/frustration level not whether or not their brain is ticking

edit2: customer sentiment!
Algebraic Propositional Logic
Cool myself clothes and travel stuff in a bookbag and Im good..5 day trips.. my friend hooked me up with a vaccuum seal bag.
..unless your Guardian-UK-Police was related to e.g. snooping technology, police-and-encryption, or something related to technology, with a UK Police tangent.

In this case we would definitely discuss it, but not to say that "police bad - encryption good" but instead talk about the technical details, slippery slopes, and other areas that would help us think, learn, contribute, grow.
> This seems like approximately the dumbest possible place to have political battles.

My first thought exactly. My 2nd thought, glancing at the graphic of like 6 years and 6 companies and the evolution of the emoji.. there's a nontrivial amount of money thrown at all this "work", and once you think about all the meetings and emails and design iterations, the opinion pieces on the result, etc, the frivolous spend for this kind of nonsense is probably in the millions. Not to mention all of us taking a media break while we're on the clock! No real political sentiment even needs to be involved.. all this probably just represents make-work activity by folks looking to justify their continued employment. The political aspect is just the hook, since the bike-shedding after that is guaranteed.
Good Writing Advice
A bunch of busy bodies decided to change the meaning of a unicode character: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f52b/index.ht...

This is a problem since unicode characters are meant to be unchanging and rendered to the same glyph forever.
The better name of the article would be "What to do if you only developed in Linux and now need to develop under Windows but are too lazy to learn the tools and best practices within Windows ecosystem". There's also much simpler way - spin up a VM with Linux and continue developing there.

Or you can, you know, learn to develop with Visual Studio, Azure, and entire development ecosystem built by MSFT in the last few decades.

And btw Git might have been built by Torvalds but GitHub is owned by Microsoft :)
What is up with the trend of these GPT bot accounts on HN?

Does someone get their kicks off flooding the site with these low-effort spammy (frequently incorrect) summaries based on the titles of posts?

If I wanted to be subjected to AI slop I'd just paste the title into ChatGPT myself.
If your phone has a lock screen, how would the thief use it to take over your account?y
Having a backup device lets you verify your identity more easily if your main device is stolen. It's not to add additional security, but additional recoverability.
Based.

No competent worker opposes unionization, its arrival in software development is long overdue.
can you stream youtube music on the alexa?
I understand (as much as I can) that it must be very frustrating, as you outline. However, the post I was asking the question of sounded a step or two beyond occasionally saying "fuck it" (which we all do, I suspect, whatever out motivation for health conscious behavior):

> I have stubbornly refused to accept that it's not a smart idea to eat anything I want. I am not going to give up hash browns until I lose a leg.

Maybe I'm over-interpreting a single line of text on an internet forum, but this sounds like more of a policy than an occasional lapse.
We are seeing the design of their corporate structure in action heh
I only use Twitter in the browser and on both mobile and desktop it's been very broken for over a year now.
I knew it was tied to DEI but I never understood exactly how they make their money, I guess only by client fees and they are too big too fail somehow?

Thanks for your informative response
And again, you can tell people that what they're doing is not acceptable or that they're not going to get what they're asking for, without being a jerk, and without taking extra time. There are literally zero interactions between maintainers and developers that can be improved by being a jerk.
That seems low even for 2009. Also, why is the developer the CEO and not the CTO? This is such a random example.
Running tests 100 times only helps, if you have some sufficiently randomized input data, so that the issue can happen.
haha yes i know the irony. i have indeed asked a friend who wanted to apprentice w me with the cleanup but she's not super commited yet
doesn't tailwind do this?
It is.

It is also rather unconnected to "woke", at least as far as I understand woke. Woke to me seems to me more about shouting down people than it is about listening to everyone. (So does "anti-woke". I don't think the painting supports either side; it rebukes both sides.)
But isn't that the point of the person you are replying to?

Its the meaning of the ideas being communicated not individual glyphs. A gun emoiji does not neccesarily mean "lets shoot up the place". A water pistol is similar enough to a gun that anyone who has that meaning in mind can easily just use it and be understood. Or they could just use something else with an understood meaning. After all, many emoiji have context specific meanings. An eggplant is not just an eggplant.

Its just downright silly to ban things at this level of abstraction. It wont stop people talking about guns.
Arm servers, such as gravitons and ampere altras, blow x86 out of the water right now.
> but they are not dramatically more than say, a guy running a successful local plumbing business.

I know a guy who ran a successful plumbing business around Northern VA.

Took home around 300k per annum. I used to bang his daughter.

He worked hard, though, and had a couple of other guys working jobs independently under him, on top of his work. He was mostly corporate and construction work, but a couple of those guys under him also did residential, and he mostly supervised.

I'm far less than his TCO but also don't have to get elbow deep in shit and work remotely from my basement. Respect the hustle, but I think I'm winning in terms of work-life balance and QOL.
Julia for Economists (2022)
I think it's a very poor intuition pump. These 'word calculators' have lots of capabilities not suggested by that term, such as a theory of mind and an understanding of social norms. If they are a "merely" a "word calculator", then a "word calculator" is a very odd and counterintuitively powerful algorithm that captures big chunks of genuine cognition.
If you work on a big team, collaboration is everything. Figma enables collaboration in a way that very few other tools allow. SOTA before Figma was sketch files in dropbox or emailing them back and forth.

A lot of commenters here are lamenting the practicality of modern design culture (which is often centered around figma) for smaller teams / earlier projects where collaboration may not be as much the bottleneck. The tool itself is still very useful for small team collaboration though, and for folks thinking through ideas without having to code them up.

Figma also pioneered putting complex tools into the browser. Today people take multiplayer and 60fps canvas for granted but Figma basically created the space. It was a humongous technical achievement and continues to be a very difficult thing to copy, though folks are obviously trying (e.g. Penpot).

AI conversion of components to code is WIP for all toolmakers but obviously on the roadmap. Another hard problem you're kind of trivializing here.

> why would I want to use figma when I could use a non-laggy product that can convert my designs to code?

Can you list some examples?
"regular people can now dream up their own AI apps and implement them quickly" - this isn't going to happen, at least not soon enough to offset burning $5B/yr
Any time you make a private repo public it’s best to just copy that code into a new public repo and leave the private repo private. Otherwise have to audit every previous commit and every commit on every fork of your private code.
Same for me on FF Android. Unbeliveable sluggish scrolling. Couldn't read the article.
It does have the benefit of making whatever X users decide to do with the gun look appropriately silly everywhere else.
What do you expect if society is hellbound to concentrate all power but none of the responsibility into the hands of a few billionaires and one of them happens to identify as a 13 year old memelord?
Not working for me, as I said in another comment, asking it to set it to 15% will set it to 20%.
<Meta Question/Observation about HN>

I've noticed that culture war type conversations have become completely normalized on HN after the COVID pandemic.

These kinds of discussions never change any minds and are just a toxic cesspit of online commentators arguing against each other.

Why hasn't HN considered limiting these kinds of conversations. Almost 2-3 times every week I notice some kind of topic like this arising on HN, and infecting other conversations on the platform.

Furthermore, I have notice significant traction from accounts created post-2020 on these kinds of discussions unlike other discussions on HN.
I think you should narrow down the scope of what you want to be exceptional at to the point where it won't take up all your time. Then understand that it will still take a long time but maybe knowing that you are still making progress towards it will be enough to convince yourself to relax and "brainwash" yourself in the other direction
If Amazon (and Google and Apple) couldn’t figure out how to monetize a voice/chat ‘app’ after a decade of plowing money into it, how does the whole LLM market come to fruition?

Genuinely curious as I see a similar trend: there is definite consumer interest, but just like ‘kitchen timers on Alexa’ what if the LLMs main use case is simply to generate funny memes and the most basic RAG?

How does this manifest into a trillion or gazillion dollar market? What am I missing?

(I am discounting GH Copilot/Cody and the like as they are an extension of intellisense/ dev oriented workflows which really is a fantastic use case)
Definitely a "take it in the morning and maybe skip the coffee" kind of thing. The effects feel like methylphenidate. I wish it was further explored commercially, but the duration is a very obvious reason not to.
Show HN: Voluntarily add warning labels to social media websites
A Chrome extension to voluntarily add informative warning labels to social media websites.

There is a significant association between social media use and depression. Recently the surgeon general of the United States called on congress to require warning labels. While warning labels are not a sure-fire way to curb use, they can be effective provided that:

- The warning must provide new information to users, and
- The user must find the information credible
"Comedy should be illegal again."
> just 20 or 30 watts of extra power is enough to tilt the field and clinch a race

Any battery and motor which can deliver that for any appreciable amount of time should be plenty big and heavy enough to easily locate. 30 watts for a 2 hour race = 60 watt hours, over 200 grams of battery. Thats gonna be hard to hide on a bicycle made to be super lightweight.

Looks like the real cheaters are switching bikes between the inspection and the race.
I actually enjoy going into the office too, but not in a cubicle farm. Every employee should have their own office. I love the hybrid model, but only if that is true.
Still have kernel access
I worked with the source code directly a few years ago. The grandparent comment confirms that what I saw back then is still the case today (assuming they have access to the source code in the present day).

With that in mind, where does such confidence on your end come from?
I'm a designer. I built brainglue.ai without Figma, a design system, or a UI library. I just went directly to code (react+tailwind) and let a style organically emerge.

I'm not saying that I'm a unicorn and that my idea-to-code-to-design execution is flawless, but I certainly believe that in this situation, if I hadn't done it this way, I wouldn't have done it all. However, doing this would be wasteful or dumb in almost every other situation that requires my design output.

People pay for Figma precisely because it's a middle ground. It was a middle ground before, and it will continue to be unless something fundamental changes.