skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't seem to be mentioned in the article, but have these covers always been unsafe to handle, or has the problem got worse as the books get older and maybe the chemicals are more likely to leech out or be released as dust etc?

If they've always been toxic, I'm kind of surprised that it wasn't noticed at the time. And presumably, there was a point when we stopped using these dyes. Was that because we knew the risks they posed, in which case why did we lose that knowledge, or was it just that we switched to cheaper processes that just happened to be safer?
I think that describing the MCAS disaster using predominantly SW Engineering language is misleading.

The substantial change that might have averted the catastrophe is having qualified engineering oversight integrated into the MCAS project management structure.

MCAS is a flight control application; its defining discipline is control theory. Thus the hypothetical engineer who could have averted the catastrophe would have had to be a controls, rather than a SW person.

I have read much about MCAS, but no detailed narrative ever mentioned a SW bug, which implies that MCAS SW has apparently functioned according to given specifications.

Thus, while $9/hr SW engineers is a choice correlated with an inadequate safety culture, I fail to see the casual link between that and the tragic outcomes; I cannot condone asserting such causation.
I’m not quite seeing what you mean. What you mind redoing the example above for my benefit?

We have controllers that all the users actions are funnelled through. The top level functions in there are wrapped in transactions so in practice it’s not something you manually wrangle.
"Eventually you’ll discover the Easter egg in Git: all meaningful operations can be expressed in terms of the rebase command. Once you figure that out it all makes sense." - Linus Torvalds

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21891091/what-does-this-...
It’s still possible, just hard to find: https://superuser.com/a/1828601
I don’t hate it, but I also like the ActivityPub logo.

> However, its design is a little too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button.

I somewhat disagree and would say this applies equally to the asterism logo.

> It’s also only available in image form, not as a typographical character.

That’s typical for logos and usually indicates that they’re unique.
>We didn't bring quarks or quasars into existence, we "discovered" them as and when we extended our senses far enough using technologies

Did we? If we're in a simulation instead of base reality, it's possible that simulation have actually created them for us when we started looking, depending on the scope and paramaters of simulaiton scenario.
Generate an image of an ape working on a computer
Generate an image of a ape working on a computer
>physical rather than chemical properties

The field of physical chemistry is going to blow your mind.
I was surprised to see Blackberry's Access browser in the lists for three countries. I wonder if that's because it's especially popular due to business users there, or if the number of other popular browsers is lower.
bless you sir
> If the price to pay to try to reduce monopolies is "forcing" normal people, which, on average, are not stupid, to use their brain for literally 3 seconds per couple years, I do think it's not that stressful.

They can't assess >10 browsers in 3 seconds. I haven't even heard of a few of them, it'd take me an hour or so of research to figure out if some of those options were reliable if I didn't already know what browser I wanted because I install things like Debian for fun.
I wanted to say that sounds like too much to make available to web apps at all, but nope, apparently it’s indeed a thing that a website can tell your computer to do[1]. I don’t see an option to do that here either, though. I guess your choices are to submit a pull request[2] adding that capability or to use a manual systemwide toggle (I use Keep Awake![3] on GNOME Shell and Coffee[4] on Android).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...

[2] https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1097/keep-awake/

[4] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.muellerma.coffee/
Not sure if we are joking about ourselves but when I was a kid, I was so confused by how games were made.

I started drawing individual frames of the game I wanted, I remember about 45 minutes into this venture I had an existential crisis about how how many frames you'd need for something like GTA, to show every possible combination.

I had the right idea but wasn't thinking about how to leverage the computer correctly.
What's your answer to that?
iOS18 will bring "keep this always local" option for iCloud files
Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home
Going by its terminology, Urbit looks like the ideal operating system for a mechanical plumbus.

More seriously, I see Urbit as executable performance art, a sort of web-scale TempleOS.
No, blackboard bold X [1]. Unfortunately HN doesn't allow it...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold
They were always toxic, and people got poisoned. Generally safety was not something victorians spend a lot of energy on.

Sometimes things are weird like that. Like how lead was put in petrol even when the toxicity of lead was known.
After having been around these note-taking apps for years, I'm still stuck with a directory of text and Markdown files. It's an obvious benefit not to be tied to one application developer's opinion of how to structure a note-taking application, and you can use any editor, Markdown viewer or static site generators to deal with input and output. Also, notes are just files, so there are lots of simple ways to synchronise them between systems (ssh, rsync, syncthing, even imap) and anything can edit a text file.

While some wiki functionality across notes would be nice sometimes, I still am not convinced to give up on the "raw data and bring your own tools" approach yet. Nowadays, most IDEs have across-file functionality anyway and there's a lot more choice and no lock-in going that way.
As usual, very hard to take a stance on that kind of stuff.

Yes, satisfactory to see the FBI being able to catch that type of scum.

But at the same time I can't help thinking that next, it's going to be the UK governement hacking distros to find out from which IP you posted a meme on Twitter.
Wow, that's... Terrible.
Sure, they started killing it after Windows XP, but it's kinda still the only place where you can actually access all the settings, and all that weird stuff on top they added in 7 and 10 just makes it impossible to guess what in the world is actually going on..
I do think AI will automate a lot of the grunt work involved with incidents and make the life of on-call engineers better.

We are currently working on this at: https://github.com/opslane/opslane

We are starting by tackling adding enrichment to your alerts.
That’s the point. ⁂ is not a logo because the fediverse is neither a brand nor a product.
They Tried to Evict Her Emotional Support Parrots. She Won $165,000
> 7 in 10 hiring managers believe posting fake jobs is morally acceptable
It is deeply concerning and reflects a significant ethical gap in the hiring practices of many organizations.
The Settings app is a control panel though.
I don't get how that limits the packet size. If a sender's clock is 500 ppm faster than an intermediate node's, you need 500 ppm of slack. That could be short packets with a short gap, or large packets with a large gap.

Ethernet specs the IPG as a fixed number of bits, but it could easily be proportional to the size of the previous packet.
Most Markdown extensions are just code blocks with fancy stuff. They're not pretty when viewed in plain text, but easy to ignore.
Grokking a "Quant" Interview
It is indeed a troubling disregard for ethical standards
This is "context sensitive" advertising.

After decades of privacy invading "personalized" ads, this shows that Reddit/Google are at least open to experimenting with a different, more privacy focused approach.

Is this the beginning of the end for "personalized" ads?

We can only hope but the ad networks may not deserve too much credit for taking a step toward "doing the right thing". With more than half the users on the web now using ad blocking, this may be a simple act of self preservation on their part.
I’ve had shallow water blackout - and let me tell you it feels great - as if you hyperventilate before diving, you can suppress the urge to breathe after fighting it a little while - and that period between suppressing the urge to breathe and your brain just going lights out is unbelievably tranquil.
We don't know that fields are real. We just know that the mathematical language of fields is the most convenient and concise to describe the experimental results we see.
Epistemic Model of Self-Maximizing Paranoid Delusions
I have produced a flawed document incrementally, not knowing whether I would have time to write more.

From my About:

The purpose of this HN account is to headline my model of self-expanding paranoid delusions. I am dying of cancer and this is likely my last posting -- one of very few -- related to this work.

Simple takeaway: You carry your attention and proximity everywhere with you; if you learn to convert those into "paranoia-related evidence", you will need to explain finding such evidence "everywhere"; this will require creating "paranoia-related hypotheses" of broad or maximal scope, characterizable under categories of super-natural, super-technological, or super-social.

A deeper model could suit people with lived experience and novelists: with much rigamarole I suggest there can be a grid for generating characteristic paranoid reports. The resulting mental model might or might not be useful in reshaping the experience itself (i.e., via reification of categories).

All work available for free download at http://main.jvp.mm.st .
It's a wee bit different. It wasn't my time, so someone correct me if my details are wrong, but this is using the rows of switches on the front panel of, say, an early IBM machine to actually put in the bootloader code in binary. I.e you could do something like set the address with one set of switches, set the opcode with another set, and press a button (or something) that would then write that opcode into that point in memory. Repeat until you've put the whole bootloader in. And, I imagine, hope you never have to go through that again.
I've been learning to use makeup recently and I've been surprised at how common it is to do things that I would instinctively avoid. (I realize this is probably all extremely pedestrian for people who grew up wearing makeup, but it was surprising to me).

For example, it's fairly common to use eyeliner on the "waterline" of your eye where it will wash off into your eye over time. You need to reapply lipstick periodically; partially because some of it ends up getting washed off and swallowed. A lot of these eye and lip makeups contain (cosmetic grade) glitter. A lot of makeup is in the form of sticky sprays or powders that presumably get partially inhaled.

I don't mean this as some sort of hysterical "makeup is a conspiracy to kill us!!1!1" sort of thing. I know that it goes through extensive testing and is probably mostly safe. However, I do wonder if some of these might eventually be found to be less safe then we originally thought.
In the best case your GPS is off by far more than the worst case GPS. There are GPS receivers that can get you to within 2cm, but they cost thousands of dollars and are not used in phones.

In the context of navigation that is good enough - if you are within 100 meters you can look to see your destination.
I'm assuming you've written 10 in binary.
What alleged company is this? (allegedly)
> Electric freight locomotives are perfectly common in countries where railroading isn’t still stuck in the 1800s.

But in those countries electrification is widespread enough that intermodal trains can run on electric traction all the way from terminal to terminal. (And bulk trains at the very least from the nearest marshalling yard, or maybe even the freight terminal itself, too.)
And this kind of behavior reflects a deeper issue
What is the connection you are drawing between those two things?

A census was used to assess a nation's fitness for battle and to set a taxing expectation.

Revelation is discussing the state of affairs under the rule of Nero (the man whose name has the number 666, or 616 depending on the source of your translation). Presumably, it became difficult to do business if you were not known to be loyal to the emperor.

(Side note: You are probably meaning to reference 2 Samuel 24 / 1 Chron 21 when you claim that unsanctioned censuses were prohibited, though that's never actually stated. Just, everybody in the story knows that what they're doing is wrong. But plenty of commentary has been written about why David's census was problematic.)
The Rise and Crash of the Camera Industry in One Chart
Murica!: Where public-private "partnerships", for-profit health insurance, for-profit prisons, and the "invisible hand" of greed are considered beneficial.

What's next? A reversion to for-profit fire rescue services where the firefighter extorts protection money to not light your house on fire?
I think the biggest issue is that the vast majority of all Internet Users, including 'techies' really dont understand Secretes, Security, risks, non-risks etc...

I think that What HN (the site) is actually lacking is any kind of formal education [section] on the state of tech. Esp. given how much of SV tech zeitgeist flows through the frontpage of HN and the folks in its orbit - HN is missing out on a service that could look like a "tech News podcast" where Khan Acadamy meets OpenCourseware CS level snippets...

As an example - there have been a flurry of tools and launches and shows to HN recently that if there was a 15 minute video explaining the TechLego - and you could watch all these announcements and little educational doo-dads for the various tech componentry and tooling being shown here - a scrappy motivated modern version of 20-year-old [Every Grey HNer] could build wonders with...

We need to give people a solid grasp of all these concepts and issues, best practice, and the WHY we think the way we think about things such as secrets, auth, security. (the boring layer in OSI for most)
Yah, I got hit by this as well. Was pulling some stuff off of windows, it updated overnight, rebooted, and I woke up to my default Ubuntu boot being horked. A bit of a WTF till I started searching for it. I'll be backing up and leaving that box as Linux + a vm.
> ChatGPT ended up needing Python tooling to reliably calculate 2+2.

This is untrue. ChatGPT very reliably calculates 2+2 without invoking any tooling.
It's like dwarf fortress for musicians - you need to watch a tutorial on how to play first.
Great feedback about the iteration using conversation.

edit 1 : You are spot on about the infinite child nodes - working to add that currently, just wanted a first MVP in people's hands as fast as possible and iterate.

edit 2: that's strange, i just tried sharing a board of my own ->

https://supercraft.ai/public_board?boardId=66c88341614fe5ecb...

i am able to see this in an incognito window, can you see it?
I don't know who this is so please name names.
UART refers to the chip that implements the framing. There are many different framings that can be implemented by a UART. Many of them have names.
Not related to Instant, but saw that the backend is available on their Github: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
Apparently 1/3 of all software vulnerabilities represent design weaknesses which were introduced in the requirements phase. The MCAS flaw seems to belong to this category which you describe.

source: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/a-tool-to-address-cybersec...
If you upload your data to a third party without first encrypting it with a key known only to you it is no longer yours.

Everything else is just wishful thinking. Like trying to keep a secret whilst only telling one or two friends.
Impressive release. TIL about the router in the Deno std lib.
They're not solely responsible, but they are responsible.
>>why this took them so long

They were trying to have Claude code it up - but every time it got close to working, Claude would lose context and hallucinate and the code would break.

Been there too many times with Good Ol' Claude.
They've made a new antimatter hypernucleus
As far as I understood the Ryzen 9000 CPUs were also disappointing in actual benchmarks at about the same performance for gaming as last generation for a much higher price. I've gone for a good old 7800X3D in a recent build.
Haha, very funny, but in all seriousness, "⁂" is actually a rare dinkus.
They are public, but the post office changes the last 4 digits every few months so there is no point in telling anyone what yours is. These days the post office can look up your street address and give you all the information they need - which is an 11 digit bar code good for the next week.
Ya, I'm definitely speaking in VERY broad strokes here because this isn't my area of expertise! I was just meaning that in comparison to what's called "chemical sunscreen" which, according to my admittedly limited understanding, works by undergoing a chemical reaction when exposed to UV.
Even if the inference is getting cheaper, all the frontier companies are running massive losses building and serving it. That has to come back eventually, that's just how capitalism works.

Just remember that Netflix didn't start really jacking up the price till after the other players entered the streaming war, when they were pioneers it was dirt cheap. The existence of Disney+ didn't stop them at all.
I saved that quote too!
Classic Wolfram — brilliant, reimplements / comes at a current topic using only cellular automata, and draws some fairly deep philosophical conclusions that are pretty intriguing.

The part I find most interesting is his proposal that neural networks largely work by “hitching a ride” on fundamental computational complexity, in practice sort of searching around the space of functions representable by an architecture for something that works. And, to the extent this is true, that puts explainability at fundamental odds with the highest value / most dense / best deep learning outputs — if they are easily “explainable” by inspection, then they are likely not using all of the complexity available to them.

I think this is a pretty profound idea, and it sounds right to me — it seems like a rich theoretical area for next-gen information theory, essentially are their (soft/hard) bounds on certain kinds of explainability/inspectability?

FWIW, there’s a reasonably long history of mathematicians constructing their own ontologies and concepts and then people taking like 50 or 100 years to unpack and understand them and figure out what they add. I think of Wolfram’s cellular automata like this, possibly really profound, time will tell, and unusual in that he has the wealth and platform and interest in boosting the idea while he’s alive.
Colonel Stapp did short duration 46g in 1954 and survived.
For ID cards specifically most of the hostility was towards Blair's specific implementation which had a wide-ranging database that pretty much everyone and their dog in the public sector and beyond would have access to. While the arguments are perhaps a bit weaker in the modern day where the government taps the internet backbones and surveillance is a major category of business model, there were definitely good arguments against Blair's proposals that weren't necessarily applicable to ID cards in general.

I don't think it's necessarily Thatcherism that made people like this, just a slow erosion of trust that the government has the competency to carry out the tasks of a modern country that's accelerated as time's gone on. Anecdotally Liz Truss's episode as Prime Minister seemed to be the final straw for a lot of people's goodwill towards the government.
You must be listening to some reaaaaly bad readings.
Yes, Kardinal is designed to make development environments more efficient and less wasteful compared to your current setup, where each dev instance is a single pod with everything in it. In Kardinal, we calculate reusability at the application level. You only deploy the services you're actively working on, which means you won't need to spin up unnecessary components, like a separate database, if it's not needed for your dev/test case. This will improve both cost and speed.
A parser with Chumsky. There’s a lexer with logos too, but that’s simple and fast. Chumsy makes you create parsing functions which are chains of other parsing functions, and the types can become insanely long, if you don’t box some of them for erasure.

edit: to elaborate, it’s not that the type name was 80k characters, the type definition itself was, like TypeA<TypeB<TypeC, TypeD>>, TypeB<TypeE, TypeF<TypeG…>>>
Governments Are Suddenly Shutting Down the Internet – Here's Why [video]
Video by https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusion
> But they did so quietly and without notifying the developers of Tails afterwards of the major security flaw,

I don't immediately see an ethical problem with developing a zero-day exploit to catch a suspected/presumed very bad person like that, so long as: (1) it's used only for that one target; (2) you promptly start the responsible disclosure to upstream, and later public.

Unfortunately, the nice, clean ethics gets more complicated when that zero-day is temporarily in the hands of an organization that would presumably also use it for other targets.

Historically, some good and important government organizations have had complications, such as some personnel not believing in the rules and checks&balances under which they're supposed to operate, or personnel acting under direction of leadership or outside politicians who're misaligned with national laws and values.

If someone with the ability to develop a zero-day wanted to catch the very bad people, while not compromising all the lawful civil rights leaders and journalists who bother some questionable politician, how would they do that?
Just a few lines of script and you are done. I think it was a reaction to sites playing a hidden video, which was just a waste. Even works on my Ubuntu laptop.
i remember the good ol' days of dnforum
I suspect Canonical is one of those.

I regularly see positions near to my position (France, sometimes in villages!), and when I apply I receive from 8 to 12 minutes after an email that says "Sorry but your resume is not relevant"... except that my resume has *exactly* all the requirements.

When I talked to my friends about this they tries to apply too and... same thing: 8 to 12 minutes for certain positions, they have been rejected with the exact same response.
I accidentally checked "install media codecs" on the Mint installation which requires secure boot. Didn't think much of it but something went wrong later on in the setup causing a restart. Well, it left the secure boot stuff in a weird state and forced me to reset the CMOS because nothing was working or booting.
That's why you don't buy eurorack modules, you buy complete systems instead (insert guy tapping head meme). There is something for every pocket, from pluto[1], to black system[2], to...

[1]: https://www.modernsounds.co/pluto

[2]: https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/eurorack-systems/black-syste...
>Once he’s not in charge, his life expectancy is measured in hours.

No it is not. Every Soviet or Russian leader since 1917 died peacefully in his bed, and a handful of those (Gorby and Yeltsin certainly) lost power well before they died.
AMI sure is, says it right in the name, lol
Friday Factorio Facts #425 – Behind the legs
Feels like someone completely ignores incompetence of those who wrote the requirements
> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?

No, just unsecure access:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/winding-down...