skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The boring company released a flamethrower[0] presumably to raise some capital.

[0]https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
Allegedly /s
Phoenix Live View is the killer app IMO.
>Ads are not about education or product awareness. Everyone already knows what Coca-Cola is, but they still spend 4 billion a year in advertising

This isn't true. Some ads really are about education and product awareness. If a new product comes to the market, how is anyone going to find out about it if there's zero advertising? Word-of-mouth can be useful at times, but that only works when someone's already bought and tried the thing, so how did they find out about it?

But yes, for many, many products and services (like Coca-Cola), everyone who hasn't been living under a rock already knows about it, so that advertising isn't strictly necessary. The point of Coca-Cola ads isn't to make you aware of it, it's to keep it in your brain, and to establish some kind of emotional connection in your brain when you hear or see Coca-Cola, to make you more likely to buy it when you have a choice. Basically, that type of advertising could accurately be called "brainwashing", or "psychological conditioning".

I think it's entire reasonable to be disgusted by the latter form of advertising, while not being completely opposed to the former. An ad that says "hey look! We just invented this handy new gadget that'll make it much easier to fix your bicycle when it breaks on a long ride! Click here to see how it works." isn't so objectionable to me, unlike most other ads.

The problem, however, is most ads are total BS, and there's really no practical way to filter out only the ones that 1) aren't brainwashing, 2) aren't for crap I don't need and would never need or want, 3) aren't for something that's really a scam, and 4) aren't plainly obnoxious and irritating, so I have to resort to using ad-blockers, which block all ads.

I really kinda miss the old Google search, where they used to put some small, text-only ads on the side, that were directly related to whatever you were searching for. Those were actually useful: search for "fix bike chain" and you might see an ad for a tool to fix bike chains, for instance. Sometimes you'd find something new and useful that way. And if you didn't, it was just some easily-ignored additional text on the side, not flashing colors, videos, pop-ups, or other attention-stealing BS.
maybe that humans are controlling the creation process and can terminate it when the AI versions are going increasingly "rogue"?
I have a silly standup joke along these lines, about how I'd Google things crazy things like "circus lawyer" or "giraffe mitigation tactics" to throw the algorithm off every now and then.
Well, defining seconds via "caesium frequency" is perhaps more brutal.
Yup, it would be trivial to create a one way hash of various attributes to perma ‘opt out’ someone.

But how would they keep making money that way?
Oh man, reading this article gives me mixed feelings.

I think they're fundamentally misunderstanding where the over engineered critique generally comes from. I've done my fair share of over engineered software, because it's frickin fun to make them, especially if you're working alone or with 1-2 other people.

The issue from these projects pop up later, after we moved on to the next project or employer and other (usually junior) people need to support this.
From the Greenfield developer POV, I love that as well. It's just bad for the business, not for the developer (it's called resume driven development for a reason)
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I got a quote from them and immediately initiated a data removal request. It seems like it went through, got a link in the email. Thanks for the reminder that I might need to follow up to make sure they followed through.
Maybe they meant self-medicating? I used to be a heavy smoker, quit 4 years ago, and in hindsight quitting made me aware I had debilitating ADHD and I couldn't function.

I recently made the connection between quitting nicotine and my life spiraling down, that I reintroduced nicotine patches and I have found that they are better, cheaper and longer lasting than any amphetamine I was prescribed.
So as you now freely admit, you were actually lying through your teeth when you claimed that the article has motivated you to help him out, because you are ALREADY helping him out, carrying his water, and lying for him. Liars and frauds and scammers and pedophiles of a feather flock together!

I'm so glad your disingenuous bald faced lie gave me a chance to respond and amplify the truth about him. I'm sure he appreciates how your lie directly caused me to post so much more information and links to all that evidence and documentation about him, that he's failed to whitewash from the internet, and you've failed to counter, for everyone to see!

Thank you for lying and prompting me to correct and fill in the record that the article failed to mention, which you totally failed to dispute or provide any counter evidence about, but just unwittingly confirmed everything I said, while illustrating the kind of mendacious liars and gullible suckers he hangs out with.

And enjoy the video of Brock Pierce turning into a banana, and John Oliver's hilarious coverage of him, and Open Secret's documentary about the underaged sexual abuse scandal that caused him to flee the country! Facts and evidence matter, and not everyone is as gullible and dishonest as you are.
I've been looking into how viable this is as a performant strategy. If you have non-overlapping areas, then contributions to a single pixel can be made independently (since it is just the sum of contributions). The usual approach (computing coverage and blending into the color) is more constrained, where the operations need to be done in back-to-front order.
this is quite a different statement from "nothing ever happens".
The “Personal Voice” feature on iOS is a fantastic way to capture your own voice in case you are eventually in a position that you cannot speak naturally.

I set it up when it first came out. It’s imperfect, but very very good.
As European, it varies a bit per country, naturally not always without possible issues, and as a 1970's child back then the freedom was much bigger, still in general we still have the general attitude of not calling authorities just because kids are having fun on their own.

All the best, and maybe something for the 1980's US kids that I just watch recently from a stand up, that touches how US lost this culture.

"Why 70s & 80s Kids Rule: The Ultimate Guide" by Karen Morgan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4RfL1VTENM
I use a Bluetooth http://artsey.io keyboard at least once a week, and I think the chording combos make a lot more sense than these (or I’ve simply grown used to them): https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/08/08/1230
Like most countries scale up with lots of people to count them ?
They need not be the same. CDs can be read with a laser and this can be read optically as well.
Sure, given an advanced enough device anything is possible. But I think here we are still discussing a "card" form factor for ID? (Being an "unperson" simply because you don't have a smartphone or have a rooted one would be "interesting").
If you have no idea how to build that product, no plans, no realistic way to do it, then yes, a deception.

If you have a proof of concept, have put in some thinking, made UI sketches and flows, etc, you have started building the product, because you can't advance further without that. But you have to find out if it's worth putting more effort and money into it.
The UK's really fast at counting. Or isn't the result on January 20 more important anyway? Change the norm.
They didn't declare anything about that. Vivaldi said they have their own ad blocker not dependent on V2 [0]. Edge is in process of updating their timeline [1].

I think the problem is. What if Chromium won't have code supporting V2 anymore? This means, it is just impossible to run V2 extensions because V2 is not only turned off but completely removed.

Vivaldi seems to have decided that they will provide a built-in feature for advanced ad blocking and Edge seems to be undecided yet.

[0]: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/98631/manifest-v3-update-viv...

[1]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/edge-developer/blob/main/mi...
Your entire post here is making a lot of incorrect assumptions about the paradox. As the other guy said, it's not some rigorous thing, but you're definitely not the first guy to think "Well... what if FTL travel isn't possible?" or "What if every single technological species in the entire universe all decided to hide their messages since their inception somehow?".

A million years in a cosmological timescale is nothing. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and we only came in right at the end. If we'd come in 200 Million years earlier, we'd have covered many, many galaxies by now - we could expand in all directions pretty much simultaneously.

This doesn't even begin to get into your assumption that every species in the universe would even WANT to hide - the concept of "territory" isn't exactly foreign to us. We don't need to prove that there IS a species acting this way to solve the paradox, we need to explain why NO species is doing this, or if they are, why NONE are putting up markers in a manner that's easy for everyone to see?
I also use some email providers ability to have +xyz at the end of the username. So for a registration I would for user.name+sitea@domain.com. has helped me track spam and leaks in the past.
how does it handle redirects that are conditional or based on user agent?

e.g. if a site redirects mobile users to a different URL, will redirect checker follow that redirect or just report the default one?
n the ever-evolving field of machine learning, a recent discovery by Timothy Nguyen offers fresh insights into how we might improve the training of large language models.
It seems like a lousy name - a monstrosity -, confusing unrelated terms (greek Academos and the city of Agad, of unclear origin).
What always amazes me about these videos, is that it shows we were able to figure out how to take raw elements and develop such an incredibly sophisticated tool. But to understand even at a high level of what that CPU does, requires basic electronics understanding as well.

I can't really quite explain it, but it's like how could you explain to your grandpa how impressive this little die is, what it does and why it's so impressive. It's not something you can describe in a few sentences to give it the appreciation it deserves.
Most buildings that were built or have had substantial renovation work done will have RCDs installed, yes.

While you can have a separate RCD for each circuit, and the newest installations do, it's more common to have two RCDs in the panel/fuse box/consumer unit, with each circuit on one or the other. This arrangement is known as a 'split load consumer unit'. The intention of having two instead of one is that plugging in faulty electronics at night not plunge the entire house into darkness. These RCDs usually have a trip current of 30mA, making them less sensitive than American GFCIs which trip around 5mA.
The only reason it's interesting to share farts and bad breath with that many people is that subway tunnels in NY are really expensive to make. They cost many billions to dig and even minor extensions to existing tunnels seem to to turn into multi billion$ projects. And then you need these massive subway stations that also cost billions. Doing things at that scale seems really expensive and ripe for disruption.

Your assumption is that there would be just 1 tunnel instead of many. Probably because you are assuming tunnels are super expensive and that that is something that cannot improved. The premise of the Boring company was that they would be able to cut cost by some orders of magnitude by doing things at scale. They haven't yet, obviously. But that doesn't prove the basic premise wrong.

Cheap tunnels mean you could have many more tunnels between many more destinations; not all of which need to be super dense cities like New York. Which means you don't have to squeeze millions of people through a single one of them. The cheaper the tunnels, the less the capacity matters. Just add tunnels to scale if things get congested.

And of course the model Y is hardly the final answer in pod design. There's no good reason why we can't have a mix of smaller and bigger ones. In fact, using a big lump of an SUV designed for road traffic for this seems not very optimal.
It's funny because I was wondering exactly this on Monday. I never did try to put any electronics in the dishwasher, but, several times in the past, I was a bit amazed on how electronic devices - not rated as water-resistant - that got completely soaked, worked just fine after I turned them off and let them dry for some days.

In my past experiences, most stuff that got unusable was because water got inside the LCD display, and left some debris that was impossible to remove.

I decided to put my toaster in the dishwasher after that.
Yes, this is a step in a right direction.
Is this saying, we can use LLM to understand non-language signal?
Sounds fun!
Somewhat tangential, but there are much better options if you're looking for opportunities for optimization. It's literally trying to improve efficiency by skimping on safety features, like trying to save on vehicle weight by removing unnecessary seatbelts or crumple zones. Eliminating side channels concincingly is very difficult, you're just better off taking the tiny performance hit and virtually* eliminating that vector instead of trying to come up with a novel low-density seatbelt.

(I say virtually, because even constant time crypto isn't bulletproof - GoFetch, a recent Apple M-series CPU vulnerability inadvertently broke the "constant" part because of a quirk of the prefetcher. Side channels are hard, no need to make it harder.)
As a PM I am constantly discussing this topic with our founder. And I agree that it is not a magical on time event.

In our startup we have 3 or 4 large areas - on being data acquisition from legacy devices which gets us most of our B2B contracts. Yes there is a problem to solve as most of our customers don’t want to do it and we have now building blocks.

The problem: All our other areas like data analytics and other more fancy and higher margin areas we fail to achieve PMF and therefore since years we struggle to grow.
What is it when only a small
part of your company/product has PMF and another to expand (we can’t go to kore customers as specific market)?
Sorry, they are not at all the same thing, though I have been entertaining the idea of building a propagator with this model.
hey kids, do you like performing “tasks”? do you want to see some real mine craft?!
For most (social media) platforms really. Management believes it would force users to sign up, but in reality the platform just becomes less relevant because of that limitation. Not even talking about search crawlers.

An all around stupid decision. That said, if management is that shitty, the platform probably won't be attractive for long anyway.

Facebook/Instagram were successful despite that to a degree, but this decision probably still did a lot of damage to their relevancy and user numbers.
> Notably, SiFive's designs generally halve the area of similarly performing ARM ones, while being slightly faster and using significantly less power.

Source?
Why ADTs are good and Inheritance is bad?
I've been researching this field for 20 years (I'm one of the developers of AmanithVG). Unfortunately, no matter how fast they are made, all the algorithms to analytically decompose areas involve a step to find intersections and therefore sweepline approaches that are difficult to parallelize and therefore must be done in CPU. However, we are working on it for the next AmanithVG rasterizer, so I'm keeping my eyes open for all possible alternatives.
I regularly take authority and you’re right about how people can feel, but that’s where your social skills come to play.

Your average person doesn’t even take authority.

The next “level” per se (not that you have to take authority — only if you want to) is the person taking authority.

Then the next level above that is the person that takes authority but understands how it looks to other people, so they sure everyone else understands that they are taking authority to make things move along, not because they are entitled to it. They attack the problem head on.

My goal is to get good engineering done while also making sure everyone feels included and good about being at work.

If you’re about good engineering and respect for other people, you can get things done however you want.
Unfortunately, this can just another vector on which to be hacked or exploited. Both from hacker to the governments running it. Also has the usual assumption of everyone having a smart phone and it always being available. To everyone either having iOS or Android and nothing else.

The usual issues with these kind of digital solutions.
Yes, those systems can understand a bit of math. As long as they have memory and can compare values, it should work.

But it's weird that they would seriously try that given https://github.com/NX-AI/xlstm already exists. I mean, it's cool to know that it works, but I don't get why would they invest any more time trying to improve the results.
You cannot go wrong with the most popular choice: Prometheus/Grafana stack. That includes node_exporter for anything host related, and optionally Loki (and one of its agents) for logs. All this can run anywhere, not just on k8s.
Right but before passkeys I was using password + phone confirmation.

So I see why passkeys improve on passwords, but not on 2fa.
Get enough people to count them in that timeframe.

We use paper ballots here in Australia and get the election results that same night. The USA has 12 times our population and around 6-7 times our voters so proportionally it should be easier for the USA to achieve this than for Australia.
Interesting; I have no such reaction, and I actually miss it (they don't sell it in Germany).
Thanks for pointing that out! You're correct, the tool currently uses a default user agent and doesn't catch device-specific redirects.
I agree this is an important feature. I'll be adding user agent customization soon. This will let you test mobile, desktop, and other specific redirects.
Keep an eye on the GitHub repo for updates. Thanks for the great suggestion!
We use traditional paper ballots in Spain, and we have the full results within 2-3h of polls closing.

The trick is using a distributed system. Each ballot box is opened, counted and tallied at the same time. The results (along with the votes themselves for posterior re-counting if needed) are sent to local electoral authorities who input the updates into a central system in real time. It essentially takes as long as it takes to count the fullest ballot boxes in big cities.

Funny that you mentioned speed as an argument for electronic voting, though. I never understood how the US uses it, yet it takes them days to get the full results.
When? Probably around the time when the people hoping they don't need to know anything because ai will write what they want discover desire without knowledge doesn't work so well?
Interesting; this sounds to me like linking, but I'd email licensing@fsf.org to be sure.
Two things to keep in mind:

I have had interactions with support in the past where “wait-a-second-it’s-a-long-nonsense-string” was good enough for them and they did NOT ask me to read it out.

I also had the interaction with a bank that asked me to read it out, and I was glad that my nonsense string was a list of 8 hyphenated words rather than a barfed up random string.

8henna-Such-Brain-Civil0-Grown5-modified8 is better than gpqmxsc5utowduc8fhqvntsXsgvMDzs0rclsiwzt
People who tip love it?!

I certainly don’t. And I’m tired of having to think of someone’s wages every time I go out for dinner.

Some people, I would call them “old fashioned”, who do love it, because it gives them some sort of reassurance that the service will be good, did tell me that if I don’t like tipping, I shouldn’t go out. That was a couple years ago. Guess what, I took their advice and now I don’t eat out as much. Same goes for many others in my environment. People are getting fed up of paying $80 just in tips with subpar food.

Honestly, I hope that not eating out becomes a trend. I know those who depend on others subsidizing their labor force with tips won’t take the hint, but I won’t shed a tear for those closing down.
There are plenty people who never changed a lightbulb in their life, and some of them manage other people.
> This is equivalent to applying a box filter to the polygon, which is the simplest form of filtering.

Am I the only one who has trouble understanding what is meant by this? What is the exact operation that's referred to here?

I know box filters in the context of 2D image filtering and they're straightforward but the concept of applying them to shapes just doesn't make any sense to me.

Can someone clarify?
> For sorting these mostly sorted lists, insertion sort tends towards O(n) while Quicksort tends towards O(n^2)!

Only if you pick your pivot really, really badly. You can randomise your pivot to get O(n log n), or in the case of already almost sorted lists, you can pick a pivot by just picking the element in the middle of the list.

But you are right, that even with optimal pivots, QuickSort is still O(n log n) even in the best case. There are simple variants of merge sort that give you O(n log k) behaviour where k is the number of runs (both ascending and descending) in the data. The 'sort' you get by default in eg Haskell's standard library uses such an algorithm. I think Python does, too.
Using data breach dumps to get web traffic and IP/email addresses under the guise of "helping" is lame. Then partnering with so-called "tech" companies that collect data as a "business". Data collection is the cause of the problem not the solution.
If the building of the product is contingent on the CTR, and the landing page does not mention that contingency but just says it’s being built, it is deception plain and simple.

Cleverly worded gotcha deception, sure. But deception none the less.
Yeah ok I was stupid
Yup, the ads can be disabled. I use Firefox as main, and Brave as the "how does this site look in Chrome?" browser.
Yes, spoons are perfectly fine in the microwave.

Mehdi Sadaghdar has a great video on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTmJX_TC84

Kudos to anyone who does actual experiments to test “common knowledge.”
Good food for thought and hopefully an inspiration for people to build on.

The wiki movement has stagnated for a long time. Some reasons are internal e.g., overpromising on semantic technologies and never really delivering a step change in functionality that will delight people the way the original wikis did.

But most of the reasons for the wiki no-show are external, driven by the dominant economics of the modern digital experience which despite the optimistic early book with the same title, is not Wikinomics.

Yet the cognitive stress from information overload is not getting less. If we ever manage to get away from the user-as-product paradigm the design and function of wikis will be a key ingredient for the next digital revolution.
The only thing more frustrating than sizing and aligning a figure in MS Word is sizing and aligning a figure in LaTeX.
Fair enough, I had described it as "scraping" with a laser but I guess technically that's not how it works. Ablation is the correct term.
There’s also a survivor bias in real estate.

I know people that invested in property and they either didn’t consider the risks they are taking (not servicing boilers) or the time managing tenants. If you end up with a court case, you are going to shorten your life through stress.

I get it that mortgage money is cheap leverage, but I think the good times on that have run out.
For what it's worth, Haskell's built-in sort does this, and I think Python, too. (But I'm not as confident about Python. My memory is a bit hazy.)