skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2024 Olympic Games have recently concluded with an spectacular show including Tom Criuse, leaving behind a legacy of remarkable performances, groundbreaking records, and a captivating closing ceremony. Beyond the athletes' extraordinary achievements, this year's Olympics were distinguished by another unseen champion: Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI played a pivotal role in transforming various aspects of the games, from enhancing athletic performance to improving fan experiences, identifying future talents, and ensuring robust security measures. As we look back on the games, it is essential to recognize AI's profound impact on this global event and explore its implications for the future of sports.
> In fact I even have an amazing vim plugin just for them

So this is gold. Editing xSV files has been an ongoing pain, and this plugin is just amazingly awesome. Thanks for the link to it.
This is for publishing web pages talking about code.

The author would like to hand code HTML for such web pages that would present syntax highlighted code to the web page reader, without requiring or resorting to typical js highlighting or screenshots.

None of editing in the terminal, nor an IDE, nor a browser are related to this use case.
This is incredibly awesome. Looking forward to seeing this but with a nicer typeface (maybe Inconsolata or JetBrains Mono). I can actually see a lot of uses for this-- just displaying JSON in a nice way easily would be handy.
I've saved a couple keyboards from soda spills by unplugging them immediately, pouring the fluid out and running them through the dishwasher. Doesn't always work the second time, but it works often enough. It's worth a try.
I wonder if the author has experience with Excel, because some of those substitution "monstrosities" look similar to some monstrosities I've created with Excel formulas! Good work, this is an awesome hack.
My uncle had great fun hosing out his TV in the front yard, many years ago. It was the old CRT type with nice furniture type box, had years of dust built up and was causing problems he suspected in the high voltage. The neighbours raised eye brows, but all worked after.
Assuming it is true that NB politics is elite-captured by wealthy interests it is an omission of investigative journalism to at least raise the issue. The Irvings are likely "talk of the town" regarding this controversy, it would actually be the decent thing to voice the complaints of the locals. "Many locals have pointed finger at X corporation, and made the accusation Y" is also still journalistic documentation, if you want a paper of record. Journalism isn't narrowly about facts like in science, it is also about people and the complaints different groups have about each other, so it is not speculation to elucidate those conflicts and power dynamics by merely recording that they exist. An in depth article should have addressed this, somehow even if it were to conclude for the moment there is no substance to the locals' complaints about the Irving family. The Elephant in the Room is not to be dismissed as mere speculation.
It is quite pathetic that the trend now seems to be that you can ignore Congress. If they ask you a question, you can give non answers, blatantly ignore the question, even lie without repercussions. You can even ignore congressional subpoenas. It's quite sad to watch.
Lack of radio signals is a pretty tiny portion of the Fermi paradox. Fermi himself wasn't even thinking of them at the time according to the other Los Alamos scientists that were part of the conversation, but instead about having evidence of actual visitation. While the galaxy is mindbogglingly vast, even with the slower methods of interstellar travel that we could feasible achieve based on our current knowledge, we're talking about timeframes to traverse it that are not large on geological timescales, much less cosmological ones.

There's lots of interesting reasons to pay attention to radio signals beyond 'Aliens broadcasting TV, music, and talk radio' - lots of neat stuff has radio waves as a consequence - and since we're already listening in and interpreting that data, it's pretty cost effective for us to also look for it in a technosignature context.

But there's a reasonably wide variety of other technosignatures we actively look for today, and others that scientists attempt to infer out of data gathered for other reasons.

Also, the whole way you've phrased your comment is kind of strange. The Fermi paradox doesn't advocate the idea that we're alone - it's about the discrepancy between how ubiquitous intelligence life should be in the universe at large based on our understandings of how life came into existence and how little evidence we have that that is the case. "We weren't looking at/for the right things" would 100% be a reasonable answer to the paradox that the overwhelming majority of scientists in the related fields would take no issue with if we suddenly discovered alien life through some different technosignature than we currently look for. Something like a dyson sphere or swarm would never have come into the conversation when Fermi first proposed the question (and he wasn't the first person to ask where everybody was, either) but are now seen as plausible enough that respected scientists in the field pour over things like the Kepler data looking for evidence of them.

The Fermi paradox doesn't really need "proponents" - as long as we have no evidence of intelligent life or our understandings of how common intelligent life should be in the universe change, the paradox will stand. But I don't think there's any real faction of people that want it to stand, though. Every scientist or enthusiast on the subject I've ever spoken to or read thoughts on the subject would love to have an answer to the paradox.
The Magical World of Quantum Computers
I thought from the headline this was about _sending_ email right from the terminal, and I thought, well that's easy, just telnet to sendmail on port 25 and say HELO.
based on the book "Johnny Got His Gun", IIRC
A bit more than that.

>Combined, the four detector modules will hold nearly 70,000 tons of ultrapure liquid argon.

https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov/how-it-works/detectors-and-comput...
Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues
Exactly. I go out of my way to try to make sure that the content is consume is "pulled" and not "pushed" as much as possible. I'm happy to take genuine recommendations from actual people, but I don't care what companies want me to see or listen to, and I resent it when they limit my options to try to force my hand.
I've been keeping Firefox around just waiting for Google to pull this stunt.

RIP Chrome, 2008-2024.
WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get" that refers to software which allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

... For anyone else who didn't want to look it up.
I think the user intent matters. When I go to Netflix to choose what I want to watch the last thing I want is to be dropped into the middle of random content. I hate auto playing videos when I'm trying to decide if I even want to watch this.

On the other hand when I go to tiktok I get thrown into a random content at every finger flick and I'm delighted because that's exactly why I went there.

If Netflix had well personalized mini tiktok mode serving interesting scenes from the movies you can watch there it could do wonderfully.

Interesting movie scenes is entire genre of tiktok videos. Another movie related genre is narrated summaries of weird movies. This requires bit of work to prepare but still could do well.
Or we get a stronger political will to no longer force car dependency on everyone when people actually start to understand the real costs of car-centric design.

When the stores and restaurants where rich people shop can't get anyone to work there anymore without paying people the full costs of actually driving far away maybe there will be a will to change things.

Lots of people around the world can go to work without needing a car.
Looks like Schmidt has walked back his claims now. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-wo...

From the article "I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” Schmidt said Wednesday in an email to The Wall Street Journal. “I regret my error."

Looks like that comment brought more heat than he preferred.
I wish I were. Every single programming job interview during my 15 years of programming experience either wastes time assessing basic literacy or takes less than 30 minutes to achieve selection.

That basic literacy comes in different forms, like can you read code in your desired language, or other various forms. Even still I have frequently worked with people that struggle to read/write whether in code or especially in natural language.

Let’s cut the bullshit and not dance around it. Just assess it directly. If a person cannot write in natural language they will not have the cognitive competence to write original software. The very best you could hope for is some framework junky that can extend/modify boilerplate.
Nate Silver Knows Who Will Win "It's Okay to Be Polarizing."
Because of the obvious privacy implications, as well as the negative impact it has on the perception of driving. When you enable very precise insurance billing you get all sorts of weird behaviors like “I don’t want to drive through there because I’ll take a hit on my rate” or “slowing down to stop in a way people expect me to is consider a mark against me by the insurance provider, so I will do something surprising”. I think Tesla has (or used to have?) a “driving score” and it often incentivized bad driving that was locally “good” but bad in the context of everyone else on the road.
That's easy: OpenBSD pioneered OS-wide dragnet code audits, and also an ethos of minimally-invasive, parsimonious OS security features (PID randomization and syscall pinning are two emblematic examples). The rest of the world caught up to OpenBSD on dragnet audits, and then surpassed it; meanwhile, the OpenBSD ethos of minimal, modest security features was probably less effective than the Linux approach of features that bend the whole universe around security challenges or that thread deeply through the operating system.

More than anything else though, it's not so much that OpenBSD is less resilient than Linux (I think a case could be made), and more that OpenBSD isn't materially more secure.

They should have killed the "only N K holes in Z time" tagline a long time ago.
I’m in love with this video because something about it teleported me back to this time in grade 12 when I snuck into lectures at the local university and listened to stuff I had no hope of fully understating. It created this incredible electricity of curiosity in me. I was so excited for what was over the next hill of my education.

I think it helps that the presenter never really introduces his topic, just like sneaking into a lecture without a syllabus.

P.S. how cool must it be for Euler that we’re here in the future and this computer simulation mathematician is talking about “Eulerean methods.”
I wonder although wasteful, isn't this better than accelerated failures taking the defense radar offline at random times in the future?

Reminds me of a friend of mine who somehow blew a shift in his car and did something bad to his engine. Instead of pulling over and stopping, he just drove it home and ended up destroying the engine.

So he got a whole new engine instead of having insurance pay to dismantle the engine and replace a few valves. It might even have been a similar price, but a much more robust solution.
And they did it all without House Atreides too
This thread has some mentions of memory-safe issues. Has anyone tried a Go or Rust sshd in their production?

I've had some dreams of a "tighter" sshd for my universe and have toyed (unsuccessfully) with a Go one.

Anyone want to share their experience?
Fermi Estimation (By Ted-Ed) [video]
Fermi estimation:

If you eyeball power of 10 at the top and bottom of a fraction. The over and under estimates tend to cancel out and you will end up with a surprisingly small logarithmic error.

More videos:

Kyle Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INlPbfBGPtw

Some random talk/lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMQd-AYb1fs

More articles:

- Trinity Test Eye Witness Report by Fermi: https://www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html (Last HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480550)

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

Some random lists of Fermi Problems I found:

- https://navajomath.math.ksu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f...

- https://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/fermi/fermi.html

The only prerequisite for being good at Fermi Estimation is memorizing/getting and intuition about the world around you, and knowing what exactly you are trying to estimate.
> More likely it is the inverse: Selecting a random video at scale is the costly problem.

if that feature existed it would never be a random video from all the available videos. It'd be a random-seeming video from a carefully curated selection of videos that youtube wants to push at certain users, and in some cases were paid to promote. Users wouldn't know and wouldn't care anyway because they pushed a button and got content without thinking.
Yeah, I’m aware that any data that can be used to obtain more data is an issue. But I figure if someone knows my utility company and SSN, they probably already have an address. And with an address it’s easy to get the rest of that information through people search and public records.
> would you allow Waymo to drive schoolbuses with your children? I

Yes, obviously. Humans are provably more dangerous.
Eisenhower: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
We do it in our 10k+ environment.
CDs are fun in a microwave, arcing and spitting like fury for a while. So not just crinkly things
Speaking of the smell, all these quick WD-40 hacks will leave the room smelling like WD-40 for weeks. I am also surprised he touches the WD-40 with bare hands, it feels impossible to get the smell of my fingers for the longest time.
Judging from the enthusiasm from HN toward this in general, it seems like I'm in the minority in that I hate this experience. I was born in '87, for reference. Channel flipping always frustrated me, and I haven't had TV hooked up in my house in well over a decade - the TV is for youtube/streaming media only.
FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; effective October
This is a really bad tl;dr.
When he talks about black holes and a ship taking forever to approach the event horizon, you won't actually be able to see it forever, it'll red shift out in some of the old basic models and I have no idea what it would do in real life. Assuming a very large black hole so the ship won't get ripped apart.
At the end of the day, isn't matter just repulsive shells?

You can pass cosmic rays through the body and not hit anything, but if I slap you in the face I feel pretty damned solid, and so does your jaw.
You only save money if you plug it in afterwards. At which point residue poses a fire risk.

Also, many dishwashers have a garbage disposal which isn’t inside the water and may fail if the cord gets into it. Not likely to happen, but enough people try it and someone may directly get an electrical fire while the dishwasher is running.
The Nutritional Content of Holy Communion (2014)
If all you care about is typing a stream of letters and numbers, this is indeed so.

But I very often need editing things, moving text around, selecting, altering words, copying and pasting. I need upper case and lower case, fancy punctuation characters, etc.

Not that a proper Morse code mode can't be invented for that: vi gives us an example of such an interface, based entirely on letters and mode-switching.

BTW Morse code is relatively slow to enter by fingers alone, the muscles are too weak for the mass. A proper entry key is fast because it uses muscles of the entire arm.
When I was visiting India for work back in 2006, I got my name published on The Times of India newspaper. I was reading it while having breakfast at the hotel, and I saw this sports related question, and all you had to do was to send an email with your answer. So, I did that. And apparently, only a few people did it. I got my name printed on the next issue.

We're talking about a national newspaper with a circulation of ~3 million at the time. I still keep the copy of the issue with my name. Sometimes, just showing up can take you to the top 0.0002%. :)
The only thing I use M1 for is to automatically purchase a 60/40 split of VTI/VXUS with any available deposits, so if double can do that, then maybe I'll check it out. If y'all are gonna charge a monthly fee down the road though, it's probably not for me.
How is key revocation authenticated?
Are they dumb? Isn't there a microprocessor in every keyboard?
I'm not sure that interpretation is correct. I don't read the intention that way (but I'd have to reread the licenses on detail to refresh myself before speaking more definitively).

Having said that, the fact that minio's documentation answers the question with a shrug and says "lawyer up" (see https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/COMPLIANCE.md) seems quite telling.
Do you mean you switched to self-managed GitLab, or you have a self-managed GitLab that you keep around as a backup plan?
Imagine calling Google support...
Hope for coeliacs after study discovers origin of gluten response
Of course I've seen the opposite all the time. People who find issues with the conventional reasoning, and then apply their own _extremely faulty reasoning_ to reach their own conclusion!

Someone having incorrect reasoning doesn't mean they are wrong, just that they do not know (in the sense of knowing something for the right reasons)

Case in point: OP decided to wash the toaster in the dishwasher. Their story about walking through water assuming that their hair dryer experiment validated them walking through water with a bunch of sockets.... they are applying super hand-wavy reasoning in the same way as the critics are!

The funny thing about the whole piece is that while "an unplugged toaster through the washing machine is probably fine" is not a huge leap, so much in the PS is indicative of how I would not really trust this person much for their decision making
It is mandatory in VA too as of last month.

But yeah, that’s kind of my point. No state (except NH) wants people to be able to run others over, default on any damages, and leave the innocent person screwed. That’s why liability insurance is mandatory, and it’s why (mostly) first-party insurance is not. It is a social safety net.
Holy crap, I was about to ask for an alternate tuning options but you already have it in the website!

Awesome website overall, I will share it to everyone I know who plays guitar :)
repeat, but interesting. FDA has approved it for less than 3 tumors that are smaller than 3cm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995211
ER Doctor?
Emergency Doctor?
So right now a Direct Index version of VTI is not live on the site. You want a pretty large account size in order for this type of direct indexing to make sense.

Also right now we only support fractional securities and about 3% of VTI is not currently fractionable by our custodian.
It’s buried in there:

A single participant (VIN group) scored above 15 at baseline on the CES-D measure, indicating possible risk for clinical depression. The PHQ-9 responses at baseline indicated that three VIN participants and one CON participant scored in the range of 5 to 9, indicating mild depression, and one VIN participant (not the same individual who scored high on the CES-D measure) scored in the range of 10 to 14, indicating moderate depression. Thus, 5 participants (18% of the total sample) scored above the threshold indicating a potential risk for depression and mirroring recent national prevalence estimates for depression among U.S. adults: 18.5%
I'm already accustomed to Homebrew and I don't think it's something that I have to fiddle with. It just works.

I use asdf for managing versions. Was using nvm, rbenv, etc previously.
Nate Silver's guide to "The River"
Before people take this at pure headline value:

"uBlock Origin fans can rest at ease since a new and improved version is already available — uBlock Origin Lite. It's worth noting that while the new app ships with similar features to the original version, including core ad-blocking features, it doesn't support dynamic filters for blocking scriptlet injection. The Lite version's capabilities are relatively limited due to its compliance with the Manifest V3 framework threshold."
Yeah, I won't use the web without an ad-blocker, full stop.
Too bad new cars are required by law to have a real time internet connection so that the police can track them and execute remote shutdown commands. There's no opting out of government law by selecting a different brand
Appreciate all the feedback. Will look into both points.
The toaster body itself may not be a big deal, but the cord and plug are also going to be a risk here.
Even less... Hyundai: $0.61/car. Honda: $0.26/car. GM: unclear.

I believe this is total/car, not per year. They did it for pennies.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/senators-your-driving-data-may-ha...
NYC elected officials push for student newspapers at every high school
If you are using windows, it allows you to switch sound to mono
How are only 30M people on Chrome using uBO? How do the other people survive on the web?
FF is an option for now since they say they'll maintain the slightly more powerful v2 chrome web extensions (still gimped compared to the old actual FF extensions they dropped). But they've tied their horse to Goog and are now being led, even if it takes a few years to bring the pot to boil.
On the gripping hand:

They already do take that tithing, in the form of the amortized cost of the car over those transactions. Admittedly the amortized cost of your car doesn't scale with your transaction volume or income (baring extra wear and tear concerns) but – as long as we're torturing analogies to death – you also can't buy your car on a "no up front costs and no costs at all to try it out for yourself and a flat $100 / year as long as you don't make money with your car and 15% on revenue if you do" lease agreement.
Glad I've been using Firefox for the last 4 years since Manifest v3 was more formally announced.
Well there is an unfinished section on the "contests" page that suggests this info might be added:

https://davekiss.com/contests

But generally I agree. I won an Instructables contest once, because the odds were very good: most entries were low effort and it was panel judged. Nowadays I dunno, there are so many entries and a lot of them are fluff from companies writing instructions on how to build their kits. But I do think if you had nothing to do, and a good workshop, you could probably farm contests there.
If you haven't made the switch to Firefox, now is the time. There's no reason to keep supporting Google through Chrome. There hasn't been one in years.
AArch64 was designed in 2011. It's not just A32 with everything widened to 64 bits; it's substantially different.
Yep - can't discharge the patient taking up a room because they've been waiting three hours on a CT read.
Realistically, on a bog standard installation of uBlock Origin, how different will my experience be with the v3 compatible uBlock Origin Lite? I'm not sure if I'm even using any of the "advanced" features or not.
Damage:
I'm shopping for a new EV, and will now avoid the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Chevy Bolt. Or find some hack to kill cellular.