skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, in macOS v15 Sequoia +, Gatekeeper/quarantine/signing has changed. Right click to open won't allow the bypass. The quickest way, without disabling runtime protection:

`xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Pragtical.app`

-d is delete
-r is recursive

Hopefully, Apple won't lock it down further.
What are your thoughts on the Chinese economy?
I admire your dedication to preserving life in the face of discomfort! I personally use a two-tiered approach: if the spider inhabits the DMZ, they may persist unmolested. This includes most parts of the house where we aren't likely to come into physical contact. However, protected territories include my bed, my clothes, and pantry. Venturing into protected territory as an arachnid is, unfortunately, a capital crime.
In Germany (2021), online purchases were paid by:

33% Bill & bank transfer
20% Direct debit
20% PayPal
11% Credit card
16% various others

https://www.handelsblatt.com/finanzen/banken-versicherungen/...
I'm not one of these rich people that drives a gold-plated Lamborghini, like my obnoxious boss with his huge collection of supercars.

I just drive a regular, normal Lamborghini - like my father, and his father before him.
I suppose everything in the Artemis program is being designed to be incompatible between contractors too.
Wildspaces.work: Work from the Backcountry
For the fuel injection and ignition (spark) timing yes, but the camshafts to open and close the valves are still driven by a gear, belt or chain. Even variable valve timing is mostly controled by mechanical or hydraulic means, though I'm guessing some electronics may be involved.
Side loading 3rd party scripts in a critical path is asking for problems. Try https://partytown.builder.io/ runs 3rd party scripts like this in a web worker. I'm not sure it would help in this case. Maybe? Probably couldn't hurt to try.
After reading the article more careful, it seems that it is about the cooling of the Atlantic near the equator. I understand that articles on site like the New Scientist do not include links to the original scientific reports or data, but at most links to the people they are quoting. This makes it difficult to verify the statements or to even precisely understand what it is about. The Atlantic is a large ocean reaching from almost the arctic to antarctic, an averages of some parts of it could only have a weak correlation with each other even if they are partly overlapping.
Also wanted to address the confusion on the role of llama-3-8b and llama-3.1-8b. In the blog post we use these models as an example of an evaluator LLM. We select what is best for your custom eval under the hood. LSR is just one example of the research powering our custom evals
> it's unethical.

lmao, I stopped reading after this.
The zero-downtime culture is pretty out of control. Your flight can be delayed for hours, your roads can be closed for weeks, your internet can be out for hours because someone cut a line, that's all ok, but someone can't get into your website for 3 minutes to check the status of their order and we all must lose our minds and publicly apologize and explain in detail what happened and why it will never happen again.
This is one of my favourite queueing theory-adjacent consequences.

As the article notes, it's the same reason the average coin in a sequence of tosses will be in a longer run than the average run length.
RPi has a nice community, but some of its drivers still set TAINT_CRAP on Linux.
It basically looks the same to me as it did in 2016. They added a multi view option where you can simultaneously see navigation and music and garage door at the same time.

Other than that, the changes are within the apps themselves, which people have to become familiar with anyway if they use a smartphone (which even pretty much all old people do nowadays).

Most importantly though is that CarPlay/Android Auto does not preclude automakers from implementing their own UI. It’s simply a free software interface to let people choose to use their phone for the car’s music/navigation, and so not including it is a hostile strategy to force drivers to use the automaker’s UI.
Spam Package "Attack" on NPM
This account is creating weird spam packages on npm. I can't figure out the reason for it, but it seems fairly elaborate. A lot of the packages depend on each other and the packages get updated over months with bullshit commits like here: https://github.com/erboladaiorg/et-itaque/commits/main/

Not sure what to make of it, I first thought it might be related to the Tea project which previously had the creation of spam packages associated with it, but I haven't found any reference to that in the package sources I looked at.
Awesome to see the Indigo2 mentioned. Very fond of these machines, but it was also the first system I led the OS development for. Machines were simple then, just a few people to do the work. Last system before I retired was Grace Hopper/Blackwell. Complexity change over 30 years is amazing.
There are even times to prefer to site being down to being up. If you've been hacked and the site is serving CSAM/malware/leaking PII maliciously, as the SRE on deck, your job is to keep it down!
The thing about USB4 that I really don't like is that it's got a bunch of optional parts in the standard (including the TB3 compatibility).

Right now, the best way to guarantee a cable works with basically all the USB4 standards is to purchase a certified TB3 cable.

Any ole USB-C cable may support anything from USB 2.0 speeds to TB 4 speeds. It's sort of a crap shoot. The same is true for a USB4 controller.
(2018)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321062
That's a good point. I didn't mean to gatekeep, which is what I ended up doing. Thank you.

If he was functionally paralyzed for hours, then that absolutely qualifies. I was reading through it and thinking "If you can debug stuff, you're probably not having a mental breakdown" and wanted to highlight that some people do break down (which is why it's called a breakdown) and that it's ok.
Can Barcelona Survive Mass Tourism?
The "justice" system was optimized for stuff like this. At least in the history of the US, police started as private task forces for elite to lock up striking workers and other protestors that might be a threat to their private property. In the South they started as groups to capture runaway slaves. After the Civil War the image of the Black person was transformed from effeminate and stupid to strong scary criminal. The South fought very hard to add "except as punishment for crime" to the 14th amendment which otherwise outlawed slavery. And their campaign to criminalize Black people began immediately as an attempt to recreate slavery. That's when jails really took off and that's the context under which much of our justice system developed. It was literally optimized to throw people in prison for made up charges.

Nowadays (most of us) have different expectations from our justice system but we've yet to really update the processes
Screen reader's probably not going to catch a transient element unless you just happen to stumble across it within that narrow window. Slow reader for whatever reason? Hope you don't take too long, or hope that toast wasn't actually important/actionable for you.
The inevitable tradeoff here is having a somewhat standardized location for notifications versus allowing them to appear arbitrarily determined by the developer’s notion of where they are ostensibly drawing your attention. Maybe that’s worthwhile, but I think there are going to be a lot of cases where the ideal location is ambiguous, or where devs have an idea for where your attention will be that’s not always correct, or where bad actors exploit this flexibility to make it look like something it isn’t in an effort to trick users. I don’t know the right answer to what might be best, but I tend to think that standardized features should be preferred when in doubt.
> for whatever definition of better you see fit

IMO the important sense of "better" will be good integrations - making various ML-based tools convenient and common to use as part of a workflow.

We're all biased towards morally justifying what we're already doing. Those against AI still tend to use tools like Google Translate (trained on translators' work, partially displacing their jobs) and when asked will often give reasons why it's different and other AI tools are worse; ultimately I think that's ad-hoc rationale downstream from the fact they were already using Google Translate (because it's useful and baked into their browser) rather than it being reasoning that they actually used to determine whether to use Google Translate and which would need addressing for other ML tools to become accepted.

If someone starts using, say initially, ML-based background removal and upscaling as part of their workflow (because it's demonstrably useful and easily accessible in their editor), I think they'd equally start justifying that.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of toasts. And I generally agree with the sentiment that it would be better to have indicators closer to where the action was taken. But, I'm not sure how else I would approach this? I think the main benefit is the catchall approach allows the team to focus on other customer problems.

I lead the design system team for an enterprise SaaS company—there are so many controls across so many views. It's hard to imagine including a feedback mechanism like this in every component.

And I still think we'd need some sort of toast confirmation for deleted records?
Actually, I was the last junior hired -- 8 years ago. Somehow, my org is able to find mid-level to senior people.

However, we do not really have such titles since it's a very small shop. So, perhaps I am not the best at judging whom is truly a mid-level vs. senior.
You're correct. Don't take it lightly. But have it on hand for an emergency, if you're prone to panic or anxiety attacks.

Those are relatively rare, so you shouldn't end up taking it at a frequency where addiction can manifest. But everyone's different; keep open communications with your doctor.
I agree they do a good job, but I think a toast without undo could also work there. Apply the UI eagerly, toast success or failure. As it is, I assume on failure it becomes an 'X' and shows an error? I just dont generally like very short transitions like the spinner is currently. In general, coming from app land, I prefer a deferred loading spinner that only shows if the action takes X ms. So in the happy path of a fast action the user never sees the loading state.
Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you
Helicopter String Quartet
https://archive.is/tqZsD
High competence in unmanned missions. But not in manned missions.
How to Check If Your Information Was Compromised in the SSN Breach
I wonder how much money they make per trip. If they were to simply stop R&D, would they be profitable on a per trip basis? (Are they covering wear and tear on the vehicles, server costs for the app, etc.)
What is your $2m generating? For instance, if you invested in high quality dividend stocks, you can get 3% and it should generally grow about what GDP does (which should also include inflation effects). So that's $60k/year, or after 15% dividend tax + let's say 5% California state tax, for a net of $48k. If you're in somewhere rent-controlled, seems like even with a family you're not going to on the streets starving.

Alternatively, if you have $2m in stocks that are growing, you could consider the growth amount as potential income, because you could always sell it. Generally the growth is better than 3%, but down times will also hurt worse since you might have to sell at a low.

Or you could purchase a residence with $1m, and buy dividends with the rest. Taxes on the residence will be about $10k, with dividend income of $24k, leaving $14k for food, etc.

You won't independently wealthy in any of these scenarios (not in the Bay Area, anyway), but in these scenarios you don't actually need much from a job, maybe $40k with a family. So you should be able to save several years worth of that on a Bay Area salary, which leaves you with quite a long runway.

And if things get really bad, you can move to the middle of nowhere, buy a house for $300k and actually be independently wealthy.
If you read the complaint they are seeking a "sum in excess of 50k". This is likely to get proper jurisdiction as 50k in damages bumps it from county level court up to state circuit.

It's a sad statement about online reporting that so many sites ran with the 50k number and don't list the case number or its publicly available complaint/filings:

Case: 2024-CA-001616-O : PICCOLO, JEFFREY Jvs.GREAT IRISH PUBS FLORIDA INC et al.

https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetails?cItem=KLLpI1z...
the US cultural acceptance of "lots of poor and/or not-well-connected people will just go to jail and in some cases be murdered by the state" is one of the weirdest things about the place, especially in opposition to the usual nonsense about freedom and liberty.
The President is more likely to pardon himself than this poor dad.
Yes, or my favourite: the bus shows late and then later and later and later on the “next bus” feature on my phone, then eventually it jumps 20 minutes indicating the bus has been cancelled for that cycle, so I start walking home, only for the bus to show up when I’m just too far from the stop to reach it!
The scaling is really picking up.

50k in May 10
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/10/24153570/50000

10k August 2023
https://waymo.com/blog/2023/08/waymos-next-chapter-in-san-fr...
Doesn’t usually cause addiction if used in emergencies only and quite a few people in tech do.

I do feel more stressed 12-24 hours after taking benzos though. This leads some people to take a higher dose and you can see where that leads.

But no, no addiction in me or anyone I know using it “as needed”.

Some doctors prescribe it daily for a long period of time, which is reckless if other drugs are available for the same problem, like sertraline for anxiety. But then, some doctors prescribe oxy for pain when ibuprofen will do. Malicious stuff. All the addiction warnings are to steer people away from these drugs in these scenarios.

Benzos 3x a day for a month will be tough to shake. Benzos 3x a month to 3x a year — hard to imagine problems with that.
In some cases, the current user's focus is unrelated to the notification. For example: if the notification is alerting you to some foreign event like an incoming message, an app reading the clipboard on its own, an alarm, etc. -- some kind of standard positioning is needed for this.

I believe toasts should be confined to this scenario I'm describing, and indeed feedback directly coupled to user focus/input should be located near to that as you say.
Can digital emulations be as good as analog hardware?
I also got that response once, but I still doubt it is 100% true.
If you can avoid making a request that to the knowledge of your client has to fail, don't make it.

This has the benefit that it allows you to give clear and timely feedback to your client and potentially to your users.

As for the problem outlined here: If you can reach any private, for-your-users-eyes-only endpoint without authentification you suck at what you do and you should probably change into a profession where you can deal less damage.
Somewhat related, but very detailed, is the book Against the Gods[0] by Peter Bernstein that documents the historical development of understanding probability and risk. It also discusses what people believed before these concepts were understood.

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Against-Gods-Remarkable-Story-Risk/dp...
Evidently: Open-source AI observability platform
Well, yes DC is unsafe because if you get electrocuted instead of being "pushed out" you get "attached" to the conductors, but if you have a p.v. inverter at home you already have a 400V DC line from the module to the inverter, how different can be having the same to the garage? The same to an exterior heat-pump unit (where the DC compressor it's typically located) witch is also insulated by the mere fact you drive it via a remote?

Aside I'm not much an expert as well but, from DC to AC we are pretty efficient, around 98% of energy get converted. But the other way round it's pretty inefficient, meaning a loss around 30%. So while your p.v. it's pretty efficient in generating AC, your car it's pretty inefficient generating DC from AC to recharge. You heat pump would gain as well.

To be clear I do not advocate DC for any DC home appliance like washing machines or dishwashers, just for energy intensive appliances like big heat pumps and car chargers. Not more.
NASA was doing plenty of unmanned missions during the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo years: the Explorer, Pioneer, Echo, Ranger, Telstar, Mariner, Lunar Explorer, and Surveyor programs all had multiple missions in that time period. So no, I don't buy the argument that NASA has to spread its budget over many more missions now as compared to then.
>There have always been differences how language is used and percieved by different generations and will always be.

Sure but these articles are more or less making up the differences.
Let me share the dark side of Toasts.

World of Warcraft has these, they're used for lots of things. Notably achievements and things like that. There's also add on that look for rare monsters and pop up when it detects one while you're flying about in the land, loot drop announcements

However, we just went through a special event called "Remix" which basically offered degenerate gameplay. Absurdly powerful characters, loot raining from the sky. And in this event, the common reward was a chest filled with gear and other things. These chests came from everywhere.

When you opened a chest, if it had piece of gear, you'd get a little toast.

Now, when you're boucing about collecting boar livers and rousting out hoodlums from their huts, it was quite easy to collect dozens of these things.

And, being WoW players, not known for their patience, you simply collect them all and open them all at once. Open your bags, and right click away. From this, your UI simply explodes with toasts. And they're all queued up, you can only see so many at a time, like, perhaps, 5. And they slowly fade, making room for others.

They dominate roughly 30% of the screen real estate (when presented in volume), smack in the center. And you can either wait it out (which takes a long time), or madly right click to dismiss them all. Me, I would simply go to the inn, open them all up, and log out (which is instant in an inn), and log back in. That would flush the queue of toasts.

Similarly, if you log into a zone, particularly a quiet zone, it's not uncommon for the screen to explode with alerts telling you of all the rare monsters that are simply sitting there because the zone is very quiet for players.

Finally, there a grouping queue you can join for group content, and you can queue for more than one event at a time. So, it's not uncommon to finish one event, kill the boss, the screen explodes with your loot, others loots, maybe a boss achievement, followed by a booming horn with a dialog telling you your new event is ready for you. The entire UI is just a cacophony of alerts.

Toast are mostly fine in my experience, but they do not work when applied in volume.
I had the same thought. They lovingly take Minutemen out of their silos and launch them after reassembly from Vandenburg AFB or someplace for a test. I’m pretty sure trident tests happen at sea.
Is this an LLM? :) The question was rhetorical. Both of these proposals have problems. But the main issue is that the author of the article is missing an angle of toasts as a UX concept.
That's not true, modern policing started in London and was brought over. Further developments in China were also brought to the US. Before that the US did have law enforcement, but it generally was not as large scale with the hundreds or thousands of officers used now. The larger scale slave catching gangs were a dead end and didn't lead into modern law enforcement, but various dubious "projects" attempt to conflate that.

For example, SWAT teams were invented in China under the advisory of British police, not in the US south.
If by "involvement" you mean the opposite, sure.

The government approved the merger.

The government allowed Boeing to run with minimal FAA oversight.

I'm speaking of their commercial aviation side, not the military/space stuff.
I want to reiterate, not to be catty to iancmceachern but to make it clear, I know that this can be done and can be done correctly (and I've even watched that video!) but for me, this one stung too bad to go back to freelancing, at least for a while.
This is my dystopian nightmare.

Do these individuals not go into nature to get away from human influence? I mean, maybe not given they're setting up with vehicles and what-not. Hardly "back country" when you can simply drive away from it.
Random guy here. This affected users that

- Used your recommended way of implementing PostHog [1]

- Used a feature of the product

- Used a feature of the product

The comparison to CrowdStrike is not fair, you're right. But this attempt to shed responsibility still leaves a sour taste.

[1] See "This is the simplest way to get PostHog up and running. It only takes a few minutes." from your website, which is the first method suggested when clicking the "installation" tab
Another group of source snakes to add to the collaboration/purchase/business blacklist. Quinn S., Beyang L., etc. are individuals happy to ride on FOSS until they're big enough to cash out. OK. Just be upfront about it. "We did this to focus" - no, you did it to make more money. Jesus, be honest - you're talking to developers, not your investors, we can smell the BS from across the Atlantic.
That's cumulative for all data collected like satellites, weather radars, and surface observing systems. Soundings are relatively "lightweight" compared to most sets. The major difficulty is pushing the data through our low-power satellite backhaul - in practice we average ~10B/s
> Freelancing is a flawed model because there will always be a power imbalance.

It seems like you chose to work all night on this project for several months after the client missed a payment deadline.

Freelancing is a flawed model for you because you chose to let a company walk all over you.

Freelancing isn't a flawed model in general, except that people like you ruin it for everyone else by letting companies think they can get away with stuff like this.
Well, if we intend "building god" perhaps we're merely making a copy of a copy of God:

The Sixth Day

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ”…

Genesis 1:26-27
Berean Standard Bible
Shame, shows the type of person you are. Keep lapping that kool-aid.
Weirdly I think this is heavily related to social anxiety / shame - as in “everyone will knowingness me and point”. This is buried so deep in our brains it’s almost certain to do with herd behaviour.

And it’s (IMO) why anonymity online is usually a bad idea - we need to learn, deep in our bones, that what is said online is the same as standing up in front of the church congregation and reading out our tweets - if you would not in front the vicar, don’t in front of the planet.