skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So essentially an FMV game, but used to provide better 3D than the system ever could natively instead of video of actual people.

For a game like this where the path is limited and known that’s a very smart approach. Neat.
Just like these laws https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremb...
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Local law says censorship is unconstitutional. It goes out of its way to spell out that on top of censorship being unconstitutional, political censorship is especially unconstitutional. That means it's super mega ultra unconstitutional.

That's the whole point, you know. We think this supreme court judge is violating the constitution by doing things like ordering the censorship of "fake news". These were political accounts engaged in speech of a political nature. They cannot be censored.

What do you do when the guy who's supposed to interpret and apply the constitution starts blatantly violating it? I have no idea. People actually tried asking the brazilian military to intervene. This guy called that an antidemocratic act despite the fact not one soul voted for him. Called it a coup attempt. Then he put those people in a gulag.
It was fun! If you are on a Mac / iPhone / iPad:

- Remember to disable Night Shift (went from 86% to 94% by disabling it)

- Use the Apple Display (not external one unless you know it's calibrated and good)
>It begins with a person witnessing a crime scene involving a knife, then shows an AI system introducing misinformation by asking about a non-existent gun, and concludes with the witness developing a false memory of a gun at the scene. This sequence demonstrates how AI-guided questioning can distort human recall, potentially compromising the reliability of eyewitness testimony and highlighting the ethical concerns surrounding AI’s influence on human memory and perception.

I'm sorry, what is "AI" about it? That's just basic human psychology. How is this different from being manipulated in the same manner by a human?
> Becase when I see a mix of blue and green and there is only two buttons, I choose green.
If you choose green, because you see a slight more tint of green than blue, yes, that's what you should do for this particular test. Just as you should choose blue if you see slightly more blue. For many when close to the middle hard to tell since have to go with your eyes and gut. But if anytime you are unsure if blue or green, if you always choose green regardless, then the test presumably wouldn't provide accurate results.
> Or maybe I should treat the buttons as "> 0.5 green" and "> 0.5 blue".
Yes, with each color they show, it's asking you if you see green (aka more green than blue) or blue (aka more blue than green). With the test starting off easier and then shades much closer to the middle (either left or right of the middle) where much harder to tell without a color picker, and everyone's eyes will be different and close to the middle you will probably see most as either blue or green.
The word vaccine actually results from this fact - it derives from the latin word for cow.

We (I say we) used cowpox to immunise against smallpox.
> a lifetime of increased ergonomics and comfort

I've never felt any discomfort from qwerty, so, no, this business about increased ergonomics and comfort is a false promise to me.

I have, however, helped multiple people who thought they had problems in their hands and wrists who actually had problems in their necks and shoulders, and showing them diagrams of the brachial plexus nerves helped them eliminate their pain through posture changes.
It's orange in french
> And if I need to use someone else’s computer I just type in QWERTY. It’s not like I forgot how.

I think that's the sticking point; not everyone can/does keep 2 layouts in their head. My QWERTY is certainly weaker than my preferred layout.
I tried several years ago, before mechanical keyboards were the norm, and most keyboards you couldn’t even swap keycaps around.

Anyway. I generally agree. Switching it extremely difficult. And logging in to a Dvorak Remote Desktop is insanely annoying.
That's sound advice, but not foolproof, because of two things:

(1) what seems, at first, to be a tiny project can turn out to be a big project.

(2) with the right mindset, what seems at first to be a large project can turn into a tiny project.

And the confusing thing, when trying to reason about this and work more effectively, is that it isn't completely clear to what extent (1) and (2) aren't the same thing.
I did not realize DynamoDB had a proprietary API. Congrats @karmaniverous !
The US does tend to crack down on US citizens doing it though, if they try to hide it from the IRS.
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The “affecting” part is questionable unless they demonstrated that gut changes thoughts and not the opposite (e.g., stress eating resulting in different microbes) or some third factor causing both.
Accounts are free and easy to create, so it's your choice rather than a restriction on your rights.

You have a right to vote in your country, doesn't mean that you can demand they collect the vote in your bedroom and claim your rights are violated if they refuse.
I mean, it really just tests arbitrary word usage. I have no fucking clue if turquoise is supposed to be "green" or "blue", it's turquoise!
> This is why people who believe the "Consciousness is a Computation" view never want to discuss brain waves, despite the overwhelming evidence that brain waves is precisely the thing out of which consciousness is composed.

Fwiw, I do actually believe that the brain is a computer. What I don't like about "consciousness is a computation" is it's utterly meaningless. Everything is a computation because computation is a fairly abstracted concept (same with simulation. Yes, we live in "a simulation" but that doesn't mean entities on the "outside" programming it. A ball rolling down a hill is also a simulation...)

But I really disagree with your argument. The difference doesn't come down to analogue vs digital and that seems like quite a bold assumption, especially considering 1) digital can get quite approximate to continuous signals and it can represent continuous signals 2) the brain doesn't function entirely continuously. Neuron signals are quite spikey. The neuromorphic people drew their inspiration from these and other aspects of the brain. But the brain is not operating on just continuous signals. There's a lot going on in there.

But if your true complaint is about how few ML people and far fewer ML enthusiasts will passionately discuss these subjects but also refuse to read literature from neuroscience, mathematical logic & reasoning, and other domains, then yeah, I also have that complaint. When you're a hammer I guess....
The point of my comment clearly didn't register. I'm not arguing any technical point about this study but the more obvious point that the more you work, the less poor you are. People who aren't looking for work usually aren't counted as unemployed, which would additionally contribute to the obvious outcome that working is inversely correlated with poverty. The causality (making money makes you less poor) is as obvious as rain causing wetness.
> What about the rights of people who want to use twitter?

Interoperability should cover this. If the platform is barred from doing business in a given country, users should be able to download all their data and move it to another platform of their choice. People must not be made hostages of the platforms.
It was bloodless for the time but was still a foreign expeditionary force marching on London in the middle of the 9 years war. Considering us moderns clutch our Pearl's at an obese person getting a heart attack during an "insurrection" it's fair to say it was violent by today's standards.
Awk is found in small-ish embedded systems that don't have no reason to waste space on Perl or anything like it.

One reason for this is that the popular BusyBox project includes an Awk implementation: BusyBox Awk.

Pretty much everywhere there is BusyBox, there is an Awk, unless someone went out of their way to compile it out of the BuxyBox binary.
Is this test based on web rgb? I suggest use larger color space.
Have we been using the same models?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet writes me excellent code in a variety of different languages. I have a bunch of examples here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-3-5-sonnet/
I’ve been Colemak for 11 years.

For quick things (<5 min) I can still type decently on QWERTY.

For longer I just set the OS to Colemak and then back again when I’m done. Win/Mac has Colemak and Dvorak built in. I hope most linux distros do as well.

Assuming you don’t need to look at the keys.
Woah, they actually do! Thank you! I was certain that no US bank supported WebAuthN yet.

They also do seem to check that it's actually a hardware key, i.e. software authenticators like Google's or Apple's default solutions don't work.
Heavy Weights or High Reps?
It has tabs in explorer!! That's it...the only good thing. The start menu still flakes out and fails to search your apps. It's literally useless garbage until it decides to start working again. Meanwhile my flow is broken by navigating through the file system to start Visual Studio Code.
I generally like to apply Occam’s Razor to news that seems speculative.

However the Way Back When machine archived CMG’s “Active Listening” page [0] from Sept - Nov 2023. And the wording on the website appears very clear that a) this is a technology that is actively being used and b) the data is obtained through devices like a smart phone.

Additionally, CMG’s current page [1] describing their “Targeted Display” offering has wording that sounds somewhat like Active Listening. For eg, the page mentions, “Marketing again to customers who are already familiar with you and your brand will continue to draw them in.”

It’s nowhere near conclusive, but it doesn’t appear that the company is making much of an attempt to make clear that they do not listen to devices. And it’s hard for me to dismiss this as complete rubbish.

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20230923075217/https://www.cmglo...

[1] - https://www.cmglocalsolutions.com/solutions/targeted-display...
> Twitter since elon’s criminal “leadership” has become a bot-infested cesspool of racist bullshit, where he unilaterally censors whatever he dislikes in his sissy fits. In this form, this is a manipulation device, and good riddance

If that is true then why do Biden, Kamala, the DNC, and most European politicians continue to post heavily on it?
This is just using an AI system to perform manipulation of human beings. The regular media has been doing this for years to all of us.
It can be cultural. Turquoise is often called bleu turquoise in french. So it's more of a blue to me.
In the site footer small print it says it was "rediscovered" ...so who came up with this concept originally?
For my prompting style and the languages I work with - Python, JavaScript, SQL - I think Claude 3.5 Sonnet is slightly better.
Will FAST channels kill subscription streaming services?
I also enjoyed Homage to Catalonia when I read it years ago. More recently I read Richard Rhodes's Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made. Although I always rate finished books on Goodreads I rarely review them; this was an exception.

>* spoiler alert * What a disappointing book. It made me question the veracity of Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, both of which I enjoyed and accepted as reliable histories of those events.

>Taken at face value, the Spanish Civil War (according to Rhodes's book) was fought with Franco as the only actual Spanish nationalist. He commanded hordes of bloodthirsty Moroccan mercenaries, and uncountable German and Italian troops, but not a single other Spaniard.

>For, according to Rhodes, the entirety of Spain's cities, the countryside, the fresh-faced young men, the pretty chicas, the fathers, the mothers, were 99.44% for the republic. Which, of course, was not at all Communist (despite proclaiming itself, even in the 13-point proposal for a diplomatic solution it generously issues in 1938, as a "People's Republic"). The USSR backed the Spanish Republic for un-democratic reasons, Rhodes allows, but got out early so of course had no control over or influence on the Republic, you see.

>Again, taken at face value, the reader is left with many questions. Why, exactly, is Dos Passos upset as he leaves Spain and the war? What is POUM, the organization that appears out of nowhere to threaten Orwell and his wife's lives at the end of their stay in the country? If every Spaniard is for the Republic, and the Republic is constantly winning the tough battles with the help of the plucky democracy-loving foreign volunteers, why is the Republic always losing ground? And what about the Republican forces' murders of priest and nuns, and its own terror bombings against civilians, each of which Rhodes mentions exactly once in his book before quickly assuring readers that such only happened very early in the war? (After all, since according to the author all Spaniards barring Franco and the occasional fifth columnist were for the Republic, there couldn't have been any civilians for the Republic to terrorize.)

>I only give two stars because of the many interesting personal accounts Rhodes relates. I am surely not the only reader who followed Patience Darton's story only to be saddened, not just by her widowhood (which, admittedly, felt inevitable) but how she voluntarily ended up in the "People's Republic of" China in the late 1950s. Her time in Spain apparently hadn't taught Ms. Darton anything about totalitarian dictatorships ... or taught her too much. I'm not sure what's worse.
> Now, part of the order makes it illegal to use VPN to access Twitter, which is an actual free speech issue, if you'd care to argue on those grounds.

This part was later struck down by the court.
I suspect the people it would make feel uncomfortable and the people currently buying unnecessarily large vehicles wouldn't have a lot of overlap.
Yep and you're often - in a cust service, over the phone call - automatically opted into voice recognition. Even when I ask to be opted out I have absolutely no way of determining whether they have.

Even better, lines that will not help you if they are not recorded where they ask for key information that can be used in any number of scenarios (age/birthday/address/full name) and then has their recording hacked. :chef's kiss:
I’m happily still using S1. Given that upper management agrees the new S2 is a company ending level screwup, I wonder why they don’t just publish an S2 classic app, spin up old backends from their disaster recovery / business continuity plan, and move on with things.
Please tell me he’s OK
The OpenBSD issue was pretty clear - building against system libraries alters the browser configuration and behavior, for which Moonchild would end up being held responsible. Even now there are contributed 3rd party builds on the downloads page for Mac OS and OpenSolaris among others, these are vetted to follow the build procedure and are authorized to use the official branding as a result. OpenBSD can make their own build if they want but they can't call it Pale Moon.
Hyperbola Linux does exactly that - their Iceweasel and IceApe browser/suite are built on Pale Moon's Unified XUL Platform (which is forked from the old Mozilla application platform) but are clearly seen as separate products.

There is already a similar issue with forks for Windows XP called New Moon and My Pal - Pale Moon long since dropped support for XP yet users of these builds show up on the forum asking for help instead of asking the fork maintainers.
It's really funny seeing some of the outraged, self-righteous responses here from developers who probably take themselves too seriously.

The OP already said that their customer didn't have the resource to even connect to an API, so what on earth makes you think they're gonna be able to create some highly-abstrated API layer or some other "bEsT PrAcTiCe" way of exposing the data?

And even if they did create a view or API for the database instead of giving direct access, what makes you think they'd keep that view or API up-to-date? It's just as likely to break as a changing database schema is.
You've got to unzip it.
One issue with it: I did it 3 times and got 3 very different results.
OK, surely Brazil will fine people who use a VPN to access X no more than, say, 10% of the maximum fine. Brazilians will only have to pay $800 a day for the privilege of viewing this website. That makes it totally OK, right?
Yep, disabled Night Shift, but forgot True Tone is still a thing, and I have a warm light on. Result say my green is turquoise.
ESP32-P4 has MIPI support, which will support the wider variety of high-end ones, but there are a small selection of SPI cameras.

If you wanted something that's available now, you could use the STM32F4/F7 or the STM32MP1.
Since cyan means 50% green and 50% blue, other than exactly in the middle of the chart, all the colors shown are either to the left of cyan(the middle), or to the right. So all the colors are either slightly to a lot blue or slightly to a lot green. This test is testing where everyone middle essentially is. If there were as cyan/turqouise option, that would be a very different test, I imagine essentially testing to lines, where the line between blue and cyan/ambiguity begins and the line between green and cyan/ambiguity begins requiring I imagine several more questions to get that answer and would only then be showing two lines on the graph, vs this test which is able to say if you lean more to the right or left of the middle of blue to green.
I like metabase
This isn't complicated. People like the feeling of doing productive work. If you are independently wealthy, you can do whatever you want. Hobbies or volunteering, among other things, fill that need.

If you are employed, you get that reward with your paycheck at least. Ideally the work itself is also rewarding, providing the satisfaction of doing something productive. This is why people can be happy doing rewarding work even if the pay isn't all that great.

If you are unemployed and looking unsuccessfully for work, you have no income reward and no work accomplishment reward. If you receive unemployment benefits or UBI of some sort in that situation, it's more of a reminder that "you suck, you can't even find a job, everyone else has to support you" than anything rewarding.
Your scorn should be addressed at the OP's customer, not OP themselves. If the customer doesn't have the resource to implement an API or whatever then OP's choice becomes either "awkwardly refuse the job" or "use the credentials they're given".
Why do you think that would be the case?

One persons ‘blue’ activity could be different than another’s while still being the same wavelength of light and general perception.
obligatory plug for aider:
https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
https://aider.chat/docs/usage.html

I run aider in a terminal, and separately review and manually code in VSCode. Usint the `--no-auto-commits` switch means that I can immediately view the diffs in the nice VSCode diff view and it's very easy to do hybrid manual and AI coding.
There are plenty of handy settings (see /help), for example you can /ask questions about your code.

`aider --no-auto-commits --cache-prompts --no-stream --cache-keepalive-pings 6 --no-suggest-shell-commands`
The answer for exercise and learning linux is the same: exercise is a chore to do and linux is a chore to learn.
Express middleware for JWT-based authentication against FusionAuth
Cassidy Williams: Navigating the Career Jungle Gym in Tech [audio]
On this note, does anyone know how Cursor scrapes websites? Is it just fetching locally and then feeding the raw html or doing some type of preprocessing?
Ha, sorry autocorrect changed my “the goal isn’t” to “the goal is.”

I agree with you and mistyped. I really need to proof my comments better.

I think the goal is not harmony but value and beauty.
If they don’t have staff to hit an api, tying to their database sounds like a one-way trip to a lawsuit. The second something goes wrong they’re going to blame you and won’t have the technical expertise to understand your explanation of why it’s not your fault.
Sorry not sure I understand. Yes, with each color that appears the I (or any user) has to pick which color they see more of, blue or green. Since every color shown unless presumably exactly 50% between green and blue, will either be more blue or more green. So you/I/users have to pick if they see more green or blue. The person next to you might see a hint of blue and you may see a hint of green for the same color since our eyes all work differently. UPDATE-Oh you may have been asking that of the person I was replying to initially.
I have no evidence that CMG is doing this today. However the archived page [0] from CMG’s site describing “Active Listening” specifically mentioned smart phones. From the page:

“Active Listening begins and is analyzed via AI to detect pertinent conversations via smartphones, smart tvs and other devices.”

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20230923075217/https://www.cmglo...
Because fixing them requires that we spend money. And, in the US at least, there is a significant strain of politics that blames poor people for being poor.
That's why my theory is a rogue ad sales team. They were clearly making outrageous claims about this technology. I think they were doing it to convince suckers to buy ads from them, and they stopped and scrubbed the evidence the moment people started pointing out that it was basically a big scam.

"Marketing again to customers who are already familiar with you and your brand will continue to draw them in" has nothing to do with audio - it's one of the key ideas behind effective marketing in general (retargeting).
Today I learned that English doesn’t have an equivalent to the French world "bleu-vert" literally "blue-green" and meaning a colour in between blue and green so that it can’t be easily classed in either one (that’s not exactly like cyan which exists in French but is a precise color). Sixty percents of the time I was thinking "in between".
Vermeer's Love Letter
Not agreeing with the law is always a valid reason to disobey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

> Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law.

If you believe the law is immoral, then break the law and accept the consequences.

You are always morally responsible for your actions. The fact some of your actions may have been compelled by law does not absolve you. Nazis who were just following orders were still punished.
You're arguing with sarcasm.
You might ask, "What makes an artist an artist?"

It's the seeing. Artists see differently (and there are some skills too of course).

Meditation, drugs and some other stuff change the way you see too. So perception is definitely a variable and not a constant.

So ya, the seeing of blue varies.
You should take a look at the jobs at Procore.