skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they got so far thanks to the Discord approach.

When you went to the Discord, you immediately got the endless stream of great looking stuff other people were generating. This was quite powerful way to show what is possible.

I bet one challenge for getting new users engaged with these tools is that you try to generate something, get bad results, get disappointed and never come back.
Ouch, that watch does not have a $20k polish to it. Nowhere close. Neither the dial, nor the hands, nor the case.

$20k is in a ballpark of a Ressence watch [1], which, given a choice, I would choose without any hesitation.

[1] https://ressencewatches.com
Because VFX was mostly UNIX thanks to SGI, and then moved on into Linux.

They also don't have any issues with FOSS religion, they will gladly use proprietary drivers and UNIX software on GNU/Linux.
didn't seem to work for me
I'm jumping on the occasion to reiterate here that Valve's Proton team hiring process is good, and although I wasn't picked, the time they took to help me improve, give me advices, as well as the overall communication make me think their company should be great to work with (at least 3-4 years ago)
Everyone working with shell scripts should know shellcheck
There are studies on microplastic toxicity already. These are linked directly in the OP article:

Even at low concentrations (1–30 µg/ml), photoaged microspheres at 1 and 5 µm in diameter exerted more pronounced biological responses in the A549 cells than was caused by pristine microspheres. High-content imaging analysis revealed S and G2 cell cycle accumulation and morphological changes, which were also more pronounced in A549 cells treated with photoaged microspheres, and further influenced by the size, dose, and time of exposures. Polystyrene microspheres reduced monolayer barrier integrity and slowed regrowth in a wound healing assay in a manner dependent on dose, photoaging, and size of the microsphere. UV-photoaging generally enhanced the toxicity of polystyrene microspheres in A549 cells

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176241/

Maternal exposure to microplastics and nanoplastics has been shown to result in fetal growth restriction in mice. [...] Maternal exposure to both microplastics and nanoplastics resulted in evidence of placental dysfunction that was highly dependent on the particle size. The umbilical artery blood flow increased by 48% in the microplastic-exposed group and decreased by 25% in the nanoplastic-exposed group compared to controls (p < 0.05). The microplastic- and nanoplastic-exposed fetuses showed a significant decrease in the middle cerebral artery pulsatility index of 10% and 13%, respectively, compared to controls (p < 0.05), indicating vasodilation of the cerebral circulation, a fetal adaptation that is part of the brain sparing response to preserve oxygen delivery. Hemodynamic markers of placental dysfunction and fetal hypoxia were more pronounced in the group exposed to polystyrene nanoplastics, suggesting nanoplastic exposure during human pregnancy has the potential to disrupt fetal brain development, which in turn may cause suboptimal neurodevelopmental outcomes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37724921/

PS-MPs can decrease transepithelial electrical resistance by depleting zonula occludens proteins. Indeed, decreased α1-antitrypsin levels in BEAS-2B cells suggest that exposure to PS-MPs increases the risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and high concentrations of PS-MPs can induce these adverse responses. While low PS-MP levels can only disrupt the protective pulmonary barrier, they may also increase the risk for lung disease. Collectively, our findings indicate that PS-MP inhalation may influence human respiratory health.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31727530/

(TL;DR; they are affecting our bodies for the worse, even as feti)
Which honestly is rather silly for the companies making the models. The cat's already out of the bag, and if a competitor manages to make a similar/good-enough (uncensored) model there's nothing midjourney etc will have going for them.

Or as someone once said, if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back the Porn!".
It appears that many of the complaints in this thread are related to the complexities of SAML. I configure, manage, and troubleshoot many SSO configurations in my work but they are all OAuth2/OIDC based and find them really quite simple, easy to understand, and the RFC's a pleasure to read.
Has anyone used both SAML and OIDC in their career and could comment on whether I avoided a difficult time in SSO with SAML, or am I just unaware of the difficulties because its what I regularly work with...
I am afraid it wasn't.
> Gold is and has been a decentralized currency for a very long time. It’s mostly just very inconvenient to transport.

Even precious metal coins became endorsed by one authority or another (the cities/banks/little kingdoms stamping the coins). Because you as a normal person don't have the resources to validate every single piece of gold/silver you are paid with.

There has also been a short period when every 3rd bank had its own paper currency. That seems to be gone too. Perhaps because as a normal person maintaining a list of banks you could trust was too much.
You can still see the trailer everywhere on youtube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA5ydinNXiE
If I wasn't familiar with that concept already, then I would probably assume that math is no more rigorous than psychology after encountering this thread.

The exact disciplines are doing themselves a terrible disservice by muddying up established terminology like this (and "algebraic integers" are far from the only such case).
that's called a dns-resolver (iterator). essentially starting from the top (.) and asking for authorative nameservers that can answer the next level down until it reaches the hostname you are looking for. this usually takes multiple rtt's and is hence slower than asking some big cache.
This is the most honest article I’ve ever read.
(Important thing to do while understanding any theorem! Test the boundaries, discover what happens when you relax every hypothesis.)
Mostly to those that never heard of Virtual Box or VMware Worstation.
I switched my gaming PC to NixOS a few months ago, I couldn't be happier. Other than a few games that also had issues on Windows and VR, everything I run through Proton just works.

I also own a Steam Deck, which is a wonderful little device and it proved to me that I could safely go through with this switch and not lose access to much.

Congrats to both the Proton and hardware team at Valve, and the people who contributed to Wine; the Year of the Linux Desktop has come, as far as I'm concerned.
Morality and rules: what my daughters learned at Chinese communist school
Feels weird to me, that you must login to platform to manually give someone access or strip access.
This should be automated through their API since day one.
Good one. Worked in one shot. What are you using in the API - GPT or Gemini API prompt to generate the alt text?
Turns out the best gaming API on Linux is WinAPI. Who woulda thought!
Yes, you can. They even have Bluetooth bulbs, and so do an array of other vendors.
Technically. I'm saying there's a huge difference between what a layman might read "large org conspires to spy" and a possible dull reality of "some engineer neglects to remove convenience feature".
I don't see how that is supporting "SQL is declarative and therefore simple". You've kept the declarative part, but it's not simple anymore. You need to know multiple declarative ways to ask for the same thing, and the consequences of each. Might as well just tell the DB how you want to do it.
They state that directly - reread the bit where they mention the role the phrase 'differently abled' plays. They use no euphemisms.

What you're doing is asinine because it attempts to cast the familiar as alien and ironically is an example of the behavior you describe - you're being disingenuous and trying to 'make other people think and act differently'.

I don't know how else to say this: someone trying to change your mind is not an attack. People disliking you because you behave like shit is not a conspiracy.
Which software with hundreds of millions of lines of code survives like this? Ideally show us security-critical examples.
Hotel Corporate Codes
Less reasons to run anything but Linux by the minute.
Amazfit watches and their custom faces were amazing!

Not very durable, though. I bought one for each family member once and loaded a custom face.

That is more fun that commissioning a 20000$ watch from a Swiss watchmaker.
Its simple Canada nationalize all your railroads and start investing.

Canada is so frustrating, they literally have perfect geography for rail. At least where the major population centers are.
And you didn't sack him?
I've seen it joked that with Proton, Win32 is a good stable ABI for gaming on Linux.

Given that, and that I'm most comfortable developing on Linux and in C++, does anyone have a good toolchain recommendation for cross compiling C++ to Windows from Linux? (Ideally something that I can point CMake at and get a build that I can test in Proton.)
How does this comment contribute to the discussion?

The guy is happy about his watch and goes into great detail explaining how it works and how it's made and why.

Why comment in such a negative way? I can't afford a 20k watch either, but so what? Why such jealousy?

You have contributed nothing, yet made the internet ever so slightly worse.
Central timezone, actually. Perth is not part of the NEM, and pretty sure the plan for this is coming out of the Northern Territory
When Tassie dams get low, they import power from the mainland. It’s a common seasonal thing. Drought + Basslink outage had the gov buying and running diesel gen at huge cost to keep the grid running. The Basslink outage made a problem a crisis.
Yup making this change will result in a slower move away from the current worse situation, which is less private then the proposed Mozilla future, is my reading.
This is way cooler than inductive for this application I think, but for a lot of other things inductive is pretty nice.

It's great to have a backup to the USB port so the device doesn't become useless if anything happens to it.

The annoying thing is the stuff that really would benefit most from wireless is lower power, less often used stuff, which never actually has it...

A Qi charging flashlight would be pretty nice. But almost nobody does them.
> Whilst generating a lot e-waste in the process

What's the e-waste? Everything they have ever made is still supported, and I personally have bulbs working fine for 10+ years.

> But they are not selling a Rolls Royce: they are selling idiots a ford fiesta they’ve replaced the physical key with a cloud-based, vendor locked smartphone app, whilst calling that a unique selling point which justifies the rolls Royce price tag.

No, they're selling a premium product. High prices, best features (including highest luminosity smart bulbs on the market), lots of good integrations, good UX.

> To be clear, my issue is not with them offering this as a part of their product for those with no alternative, but instead with forcing it on those that do

They aren't even forcing the hub. You can connect their bulbs to any compatible Zigbee / Bluetooth system and work with it.
except sqrt(2) x sqrt(2) is even ( i know we're talking about numbers in Z in this case, and sqrt(2) definitely isn't in Z, but still)

Which made me wonder if the original sentence isn't already assuming something about sqrt(2) and even/odd properties.

(i stopped at the same step as OP wondering if this is as trivial as it seemed)
This is one of my most favourite article series and had so many eye openers for me. I also think there is no other resource, neither internet nor elsewhere, that has all this information in one place. I really wished Ian made a book out of it.
516 people in Spain with Farto as first surname, 485 as second surname. None with both. Quite rare. You can check distribution out yourself in a map with this neat tool from the Spanish Statistics Institute https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml

As an aside, I spent some days last week around that zone and found out about the existence of the surname Pis, which has a similar distribution and rarity, and is even more unfortunate since it means "pee" in Spanish. At least Farto is only funny in English.

Since in Spain you get your first surname from your father's first surname and your second from your mother's first that sometimes also leads to unintended hilarity in names (example, real person, Luz Cuesta Mogollón, which roughly translates to "electricity costs a bunch"!)
Compilers are becoming reasonably good at autovectorization if you’re a bit careful how you write your code. I wouldn’t say that simd is niche. You often don’t get the really great improvements you can achieve by being clever manually, but the improvements are still very measurable in my experience.
I do not understand this take :) The vast majority of our code is vector length agnostic, as is required for SVE and RVV.

GPU perf/TCO is not always better than CPU, if you can even get enough GPUs, and the latency is also a concern and inducement to do everything on the GPU, which can be limiting.
Unleash Unlimited Traffic with TrafficWaveGenerator! This powerful tool leverages AI to drive targeted traffic, especially from Pinterest, making it a game-changer for marketers. With its user-friendly interface and automation features, you can boost your online visibility and conversions effortlessly.

Dive in and transform your traffic strategy today!
DNS resolver, which it is deeply silly to not include in the title.
I was convinced that it was because at the time h2g2 was written, "digital watches" were actually LED watches, which required that the user press a button to see the time displayed for a few seconds! (also the case for some of the first LCD models)

low power LCD watches were popularised in the early 80s
> It's possible that ChatGPT is "thinking" the same thing here; that most APIs have an X endpoint to make a task easier, so surely yours does too?

While this is possible, I would caution with an anecdote from my ongoing side project of "can I use it to make browser games?", in which 3.5 would create a reasonable Vector2D class and then get confused and try to call .mul() and .sub() instead of the .multiply() and .subtract() that it had just created.

Sometimes it's exceptionally insightful, other times it needs to RTFM.
Look at Garmin MIP (memory in pixel) watches?

You can make your own watch face in a half of weekend, which will include, as a bonus, learning their own dialect of C :)
Advertisers are going to use it as just another data point, though. Why give them any more information than they already have? You know some of the best technical people we have waste their lives working for advertisers, and they _will_ find a way to extract more information from these technologies regardless of how supposedly private they are.

I don't think there can be a technical solution to this problem unless advertisers are forced by government regulations to behave, with very heavy fines for non-compliance.

I personally really hoped for Mozilla to take a strong stance against advertisers and introduce an aggressive ad blocker, but it was pretty obvious they're not going to do anything like that because of the conflict of interest (Google's money). Now we get another conflict of interest on top that makes it even less likely.
vps with static ip will go for half of that
Yeah, I'd already turned it from the standard settings page.
point your ns to CloudFlare and write a powershell script to update your AA records every 5 minutes, boom quasi static IP (from the PoV of the client anyway)

Not 99.9999% uptime obviously but good enough.
Germany's energy policy is one huge cognitive dissonance at best, gross mismanagement in the base case and a three-decade-long foreign intelligence job at worst.
Ask HN: Best way to optimize career for money in IT?
TLDR: How do you optimize for money in tech without going into a management role?

I'm a 24 y.o. junior/medior "Cybersecurity Specialist" with around two years of experience, primarily focused on Kubernetes, container, Cloud security but I also really enjoy coding, application observability and systems design.

I would like to lay out a plan to optimize my career for money and time, more than anything else. I don't really care about working at a prestigious company or having a shiny role to my name. As long as I make money, enjoy work and have time outside of it, I'm happy.

I'm not looking for entrepreneurship advice. Instead, I am interested how to organize my skillset in a way that I can still stay in a tech role and make "serious" money while doing it. Do I have a better chance if I focus on one specific technology and become an expert in it? Or should I be proficient in many technologies? What do such roles even look like? Should I double down on coding? Is it even possible to have money, time and still have fun?

I've heard that switching jobs often will help me get a bigger salary. On the other hand I'm a bit scared of ending up corporate hopping between jobs with a lot of meetings but no responsibility/fun. My current job pays a smaller salary relative to other companies in the area due to the nature of what we do but on the other hand it's really fun and I get to learn and deploy industry standard technologies, which I think is very valuable experience. As far as I can tell I'm really good and learning things and enjoy doing so.

As mentioned, I see two possible ways: becoming an absolute expert in one high-demand technology or becoming proficient in many technologies.

What is your experience?
You don't even have to go to about:config - it's got a checkbox on the user settings page!
Disney reverses course trying to quash wrongful death lawsuit over Disney+ trial
Human-Like Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs
Anything you own will eventually get scratched. Past bracelet scratches, mechanical watches are rather hardy - unless you're buying something particularly rare and complicated the standard ETA and Seiko movements you'll get in most brands (as well as the house movements of major brands such as Omega and Rolex) will handle physical shocks just fine. I don't exercise wearing a mechanical watch, but that's as much due to sweat and weight and tracking heart rate as any risk of damage.

You can get comparatively affordable mechanical watches that are sufficiently shock, magnetism, and water resistant to do anything normal people will do in their lives. If you're an underwater welder, astronaut, EE professor, or other career with esoteric risks, obviously do your own research and maybe just buy a GShock.
> Is it even possible to have high blood sugar while eating zero carbs?

To the best of my knowledge, glucagon releasing glucose (from glycogen) allows the liver to make glucose even if no carbs have been consumed.
technically it's a stub forwarder. so i'll let it pass
CL-32 Is a Modern Pocket-Sized, E Ink-Based Computer Powered by an ESP32-S3
I always find it funny how mathematicians try to predict real world behaviour based on some naive assumptions and some random axioms they come up.

Obviously reality slaps them in the face almost always and then they are shocked and in disbelief how their "perfect math isn't working, no this cannot be!".
>Odd x Odd results Odd

This isn't obvious and can't be taken for granted. The explanation posted above (2k+1)^2 by Smaug123 explains this part.
Totally in love with the idea of building a custom watch. I’ve done it too and it only cost $80!

Body $30 https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.A158WA-1/

Movement $40 https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...

I’ve added a new astronomical face and rejigged the world clock for my rellies (showing AW for Australian Western time.) Dirt simple changes but it’s thrilling to have something that’s partly mine. Because it is based on the Casio body it’s also an iconic design classic too.

I believe a version with tzdata in it is in the works by the author. My thanks to everyone involved in the project and everyone on HN who got me into this hobby!
I recently bought a machine with an RTX 4090 and a 7950X3D.

Installed Pop OS; expected there might be one or two hiccups with the Nvidia drivers. Yet I had zero driver config/installation issues - and there's not been a single Windows game I could not play on Linux at full settings.

On top of it the Linux machine also streams to my Steam Deck.

I've abandoned Windows 2 years ago - I see no reason to ever return.
Haha, yes I do.

Let me ask it like this:
—Which beliefs exactly?

I think I’m often ascribed beliefs and desires I do not have. It’s often accompanied by people reaching for “your beliefs” and “your beliefs” some more. I point to precisely what I wrote. SARS-CoV-2 is not a death machine but it is not harmless. It is not like other common respiratory illnesses. Infection is not inevitable and COVID-19 is not unstoppable as the transmission of it is by aerosol and that can be filtered out of the air.

What other beliefs do I hold?
dyndns solves some applications of static addressing but not most
Top down - don't try to understand how something works before you understand what it does.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305591>

(One day ago, 372 comments.)
full title was "Disney reverses course after trying to quash wrongful death lawsuit over widower's Disney+ trial"

I decided to post this since I just said "I sort of do feel like Disney has earned a price hike on the service." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41317072 and now I think hey, maybe piracy is justified.
To me startups just inherently have a bigger carrot at the end of the stick. being an early engineer in a successful startup can bring life-changing money. In a 1T company with 100,000 of engineers it just isn't possible to have that incentive. your best work is often a drop in the ocean that some VP will shelve at the fist sign of trouble. Yeah working weekends can get you that promotion quicker and give a salary bump, but it's not the same as watching the company IPO and becoming an engineer overnight.
Pipx is a great piece of software and it is located under the PyPA organization.
https://support.mozilla.org/no/kb/privacy-preserving-attribu... explains what the setting is about, the important bit being:

> 3. Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but
> does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts
> the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed
> Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”.

> 4. Your results are combined with many similar reports by the
> aggregation service. The destination website periodically receives
> a summary of the reports. The summary includes noise that provides
> differential privacy.

The above docs also tell you how to turn it off with mouse clicks in regular settings (I don't understand why OP proposes to set it using the command line, perhaps so they can run it as a cronjob in case it gets reset? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ ).

-----

The intention of the project seems to be that the surveillance economy should switch over to this less invasive method of tracking you, and that perhaps if only Everyone did that then they would stop doing the worse tracking. Good intentions, but I'm guessing the only real effect it will have is to make some people stop using Firefox, most people not even notice it's there, and trackers will just use this as yet another input among their many other inputs. (OTOH, maybe Mozilla gets paid a lot for this aggregated data, I guess that's "good".)