skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please no. If you want to know what a process is running, look carefully in `/proc` or use `lsof` or whatever, but no, please, `argv[0]` is super useful. I use it, lots of people use it. And it's well known that pstrings can be abused to hide things from `ps`, but so what, it's been that way for 4+ decades and it's a well-known "problem" (it's not a problem).
Yes, they are realistic. No you shouldn't change your system to satisfy clown development dynamics.

And just as a warning, if you insist on doing so, the rules will get ever more complicated. Expect to not be able to achieve anything at all very soon.
Hi Oleg, Good start. I suggest reading up some of the article that came out a while back from https://utopia.fyi

They also have tools to define your own scale and space.

I really like their method of fluid typographic scaling, including the spacing that plays well with the rhythm you like.

I recently made a website for my 7-year old daughter, and I really like the easy at which I can scale and control the typography without much effort from me. Prior, my method would have been to have a base and use a modular scale ratio and write media query to respond to the size size and the type-scale.
That just feels like playing chess with a pigeon
Do you want to catch a chair to the side of the head? Because this is how you catch a chair to the side of the head.
Why does June maximize tax benefits?
Where donated cadavers go to rot, exposed to the elements; typically observed for scientific/forensic learning purposes.
> These arrangements are 100% custom, highly dependent on relationships

This is what the very best jobs are like
The Wizardry box was absolutely epic. I can feel its texture through that jpg.
Why would I want “the best person”?

I want somebody who is good enough for what I hire them to do, and who is pleasurable to work with.

This does not mean agreeing with everything I say or do btw.
That's why you should attack the study and not the org. If the study/analysis is exposed convincingly as garbage the org takes a hit anyway.

If someone bothered to check that the main opiod supporting citation was actually some random letter to the editor someone wrote and not an actual study perhaps they would have saved a bunch of people a lot of grief early on.
Sextortion scams now include photos of your home
I made an OpenAI-powered level generator for a roguelite game
This is an example of how large language models can be used for non-textual games - in this case, generating levels for an action roguelite. All content aside from the graphics, post-processing of procedural data, and the core gameplay is obtained from a cascade of prompts. Just come up with an idea and get ready to fight your way through a world built upon that idea. Once all necessary data is generated, the levels are playable without any further API calls.
Looks a lot like the forest in Nova Scotia, the part thats not effected by lumberjacks.
DeepMind's GenRM improves LLM accuracy by having models verify their own outputs
All four audio examples are human-made, so it makes sense they emphasize the frequency range that humans distinguish best. It would be interesting to compare with natural audio to see if there’s a distinction like that found in natural vs. manmade scenes in images. (Unfortunately there are increasingly few places on Earth you can find truly natural audio with no manmade sounds audible…)
Sorry, I meant on the left!
I thought that the malpractice of starting bar graphs at non-zero values was reserved for dishonest publication formats such as news papers and CPU benchmarks. I did not expect that from a scientific paper by Google DeepMind.
Fundamental attribution error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
If they had committed a less sophisticated crime they probably would have because in the UK there is a lot of crime that goes completely uninvestigated by the police. For example if they had gone out and stolen a motorcycle, even if that bike was fitted with a tracker that would give the police a lead as to where they were taking the bike to remove the tracker, the police would (at least in my area) not even investigate. As in just give the poor ex-bike owner a crime number for insurance via email and not visit or follow anything up at all.[1]

[1] Source: I am that poor ex-bike owner and I know anecdotally my experience is not unusual. I live in a nice area and a person in my neighbourhood had the steering wheel of their car stolen (for some reason) again, the police did nothing.
What's to be curious about? There's no evidence of cool sci-fi stuff, no evidence of spy intrigue, according to the symptoms half thr people over the age of 35 have Havana syndrome (but no free healthcare). The only thing I'm curious about is when any of this is going to have evidence or matter.
Hmm, I think this is one of the ones I've tried. Perhaps it was operator error, I'll have to give it another try. That version was soooo much better than other implementations I saw.

If I had a windows machine instead the remake on Steam looks like it'd also be great to try but alas.
Is the guy's response really that far off?

Each router checks its table for the destination, and if it doesn't know it, queries the next upstream router, its default route, the next hop. Each router likely ultimately informs you of the hand-off via a packet of some sort, and your then traceroute sends a ping/ICMP to each hop to learn how far away they are.

He maybe could've been pushed to expand on what he did know in more detail, but it seems like she just threw out SNMP as misleading bait, and he maybe mixed up ICMP and SNMP. She is right to call herself a troll, but wow, that's crazy to say she caught the guy in a lie of insanity.
argv[0] is a parameter. Like any user input, it should be treated skeptically. There is absolutely nothing wrong with allowing more than one way to invoke the same program. This article is simply silly. Fortunately, it will be ignored completely since acting on it would break the universe.
Yes, for one of two reasons, I'd say:

* In the big cities, increased rents will almost immediately eat up the extra income from the UBI, and there won't be any meaningful change in the status quo for anyone who rents — which I imagine includes the majority of the people who do the important but undesirable jobs.

* Anywhere that the people doing these jobs either can afford houses (smaller American towns, e.g.), or where there's enough rental supply that rent won't immediately go up by the same amount as the UBI, will have to start paying people more to do these jobs. As far as I understand it, jobs like trash collection are already relatively well-paid given the training and qualifications required, so they might not even have to pay that much more.
Please remove ShowHN from title. ShowHN is only for showing your work, not that of others. For more details look
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Can anyone confirm whether the AI functions provide any value? I don't want to be biased, but its the first sentence in the readme
I'm also curious about this! I've been learning about scraping, but I've had a hard time finding good info about how to deal with user auth effectively.
On iOS, at least, you can “continue anonymously’ which is basically a demo. Looks pretty polished to me!
If people are interested in trying ZKPs you can write programs in noname[1] in the noname playground[2] and have them compiled down to circuit and also prove/verify them. It's mostly a demo but the language is actively being developed and there's a list of easy tasks to pick up on in the main repo.

[1]: https://github.com/zksecurity/noname

[2]: https://noname-playground.xyz/
Because you just inadvertently labeled yourself as a potential flight risk. Bad managers don’t know how to handle that, and will assume you’re going to leave if you don’t get what you want. The “firing” probably won’t be immediate, but bad managers will passive aggressively manage you out.
It's also important to ensure the limited screen time is _quality_, especially for young children:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/thoughtful-animal/ba...

The take-away is you want them to watch "slow" TV that is not constantly triggering their attention centers and creating addiction.
Penetration power of a material, not energy. An arrow is going to have more penetrating power than a baseball bat despite the bat potentially imparting more total energy. Lower frequency waves tend to go through things more while higher frequencies tend to get attenuated and absorbed by materials.

So, if you're worried about the waves going deep through your tissues and into your brain, its less likely those waves will end up reaching very deep and will tend to be absorbed on the surface of your skin.
Chromatone – Visual Music Language
Ask HN: Is unlimited vacation still a thing in tech jobs?
I remember around 2015 plus or minus 3 years, so many tech jobs in NYC and SF were offering unlimited vacation days. Is that still a thing or it died out? If so, what happened?

Does 'remote' replace it or compliment it?
I recently discovered https://www.fractionaljobs.io/, which has positions that are less than 40 hours a week, though there aren't many (engineering) roles
What about compiled binaries that for one reason or another is doing an execve() on "/usr/bin/cmp" or some such thing? Do you propose changing every script and every binary on earth that expects Busybox to be a POSIXy, Unixy environment?
My point wasn't about the hypothesis of efficiency per sé. It was about the field of a whole.

I have nothing against useful tools or models. But all too often these get confused with reality in economics — with potentially world-changing consequences. Granted this wasn't the point of the article, it was more like a tangential thought.
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Hi, I'm Asta, CTO at the digital identity startup Privy. We build an authentication and key management SDK that hundreds of companies integrate in order to onboard (11M+) users onto products built with blockchain infra and distributed systems.

We believe that when users own cryptographic keys, we shift the status quo so that users control more of their data and assets online. Privacy is fundamentally about ownership and revocation. User experience is our North Star, because users won't compromise on UX.

We're a small, high-ownership team building a product with real usage (>3M MAUs, massive transaction volume) that developers love. We've raised $26M from Sequoia & Paradigm. We ship constantly - multiple production releases per week.

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Besides, disk space is not an issue, but container image size still can be an issue because those have to be copied around the network, and it's easy to have thousands of 10GB images consume more disk space than you might have thought you'd need.
I've never once seen anybody on the left use this argument.

On the contrary. It is a religious chant on the Right, that Free Markets are efficient, and The Free-er, the More Efficient, and will solve all of our problems.

--> "All hail our god the free market, efficient in its repose, elegant in its demonstrations, arbiter of logic through the efficient drive of profits, holy in its dispensation of moral judgement, let those that are poor be scorned for the market has judged them unworthy of its riches".
What is this mental pull some of us have to see something completely unrelated to one's pet issue (FOSS, or religion, or politics, or exercise, or nutrition, or whatever) and feel the need to jam it in?
Regularly-timed sleep and regularly-timed, appropriate meals are two of the most important factors, along with proper exercise, in mood and feelings of well-being.

If someone follows the passions of their flesh, day in and day out, they will feel unfulfilled and lose pleasure; their mood could become depressed; they will be out of touch with the world's cycles and rhythms.

If you can count on waking up regularly (whether based on sidereal or railroad time zones) and count on meals at appointed times, and you dress for the day and don't lounge in your pajamas, and you get to the gym or have a walk, and you keep up your physical appearance and hygiene, then I guarantee that your mood and pleasurable experiences will benefit from that. And an unemployed person at risk of depression needs that regularity and discipline all the more.

And yes, if none of this comes naturally, then we gotta fight our inherent tendencies to fall apart, we need to establish structures that are reasonable and achievable, and we need to strive for adherence, hour by hour, day by day. For other people, chilling out and letting go is more important, and relaxation is always beneficial--recreation should be built into any structured, disciplined schedule and not neglected by any means.
The WHO has argued that cell phone radiation is a potential human carcinogen for quite a while now. Whatever role they played during Covid is not necessarily relevant to their position on this issue.
Not at all. I still teach interns and until 2 years ago complete beginners.

I can teach them a console app with top level statements and have it running before they have installed a Python virtual environment.
When I was in this situation it was perceived as me looking for another job. I didn't get directly fired immediately was I was moved to a more demanding role on a less prestigious project outside of my competency and then eventually let go.

If you're a critical internal expert your boss really has your back or something it might be different for you. Like I said it has a lot to do with relationships & politics. Even just asking draws attention to yourself and scrutiny to your position in a way that I don't think is usually to your benefit.
What does open source have to do with child screen use? Do you think one year old babies would benefit from screens if it had open source software?
Arguably a bug in the site: Safari uses the "canonical location" (if available) when sharing links, which e.g. shares the real URL when sharing an AMP link.

This particular site's canonical location tag seems to be wrong:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://owntracks.org/features/location/" />
Sadly, doing the work is usually just half of the effort if you want to be independent. Maintaining business contacts is the other half. You seem to have been doing quite some coding in the past on part time jobs. Do you have a database about who you have been working for? Maybe they need some updates or maintainance on the stuff that you have built in the past? Or maybe they know someone who needs something done. Personal connections are what makes any business work.

Not saying you have to be a sociable person. I'm a total introvert myself, but knowing a couple of insiders that act as multipliers for these kinds of jobs would sound like it could help you, especially if you have a proven track record.
You want SETEdit.

https://setedit.sourceforge.net/
Honestly, this is surprisingly difficult even if you 100% agree and are trying to do this (which is true for me). Small children learn what matters and what doesn't matter from us, so if we pay attention to our phones then that obviously signals to them that this must be something really interesting and important.

My partner and I have a child of 20 months and she sees us look at our phones all the time. So she is extremely curious about it, and upset quite often that she's not allowed to do so. And recently I bought a smartwatch so whenever she's on my lap she tries to play with it.

So far our best solution is to have occasional video chats with the grandparents and other family members, which I think is not against the spirit of this advice since it's a healthy, social activity together. At least that teaches her that the phone is meant to be a tool for connecting with actual human beings.

I've also made sure that I don't play games in front of her, but that's relatively easy compared to breaking my other phone habits.
"POSIX sh it" hehehe - my inner 5 year old is too pleased right now.
In my experience, we have hired remote coders exclusively through services like Upwork. And if there is anyone we really like to work with, we'll bring them in on a longer term contract based on their availability. But we have never, ever hired a part-time employee "from the street".

Part-time professional employees in the US are really disadvantaged these days because you still have to pay full benefits, so per-hour they are much more expensive than just hiring a full time employee and splitting their time between projects. Also, recruiting and interviewing is a huge time suck, especially just for someone who only does half time. So usually I have seen more contract-to-hire approaches.
There's a link in there to future directions for Herbie which talks about the intriguing idea of out-sourcing the translation of a high level "I want to do this real number math" to the lower level "Here's some floating point arithmetic" via Herbie.

That is, the physicist writes the two line equation they want for electromagnetic force into their program, the same way they'd write a for-each style loop in the program if that's what they needed.

Obviously the CPU doesn't understand how to compute the appropriate approximation for this electromagnetic force equation, but nor does it understand how to iterate over each item in a container. Tools convert the for-each loop into machine code, why shouldn't other, smart, tools convert the physicist's equation into the FP instructions ?

Today the for-each loop thing just works, loads of programming languages do that, if a language can't do it (e.g. C) that's because it is old or only intended for experts or both.

But every popular language insists that physicist should laboriously convert the equation into the code to compute an approximation, which isn't really their skill set, so why not automate that problem?
This is near and dear to my heart. I wanted to make a utility to get the arguments of other processes, and found after looking that every single use of the KERN_PROCARGS2 sysctl (used on macOS) on the internet is wrong (they assume argv[0] is not an empty string), including Apple's and Google's. So after making my utility I also made a library out of it, both are bsd-3, but non-gratis: https://getargv.narzt.cam/
Policy Ideas for a Healthier America
The Limb-Metaphor for Simplicity
Looks solid.

Side note: why do these open source alternatives always have such terrible names?
Well, I'm not the GP , but probably with OS file change monitoring API, that changes for each OS but the maintream ones all have some.
> I think your "advanced animatronic" is a duck until you can devise a test that cleanly separates it from a "real duck". A test of "duckness".

I think you're reaching and willfully misinterpreting.

> You will not be able to do so.

I am unable to because any test I make or from any other researcher in the field makes will result in an answer you don't like.

River crossing puzzles are a common test. Sure, humans sometimes fail even the trivial variations, but the important part is how they fail. Humans guess the wrong answer. LLMs will tell you the wrong answer while describing steps that are correct and result in a different answer. It's the inconsistency and contradiction that's the demonstration of lack of reasoning and intelligence, not the failure itself.
> Note that def we have inserted, to define a global variable request. This is a powerful debug mechanism, but a better way to use it is a tool like [snitch](https://github.com/AbhinavOmprakash/snitch).

Wow, wish I knew about snitch earlier!
I have been using a similar, much less powerful, set of macros for this: https://gist.github.com/mjdiloreto/9e7c65023fff691b5ab7d297d...

In my experience, this is a phenomenal way to develop.
You just replace whatever `defn` or `let` you are working on with `defn` and `let`, and interact with your app normally (click around in the UI, trigger the frontend or backend functions you are examining). Combined with a tool like portal (https://github.com/djblue/portal) you can quickly get an overview of your system while it is running!
Do mitochondria change function at random?
Having a fixed path for a search api is a great idea.
My current employer offers it.
The inverse square law has entered the chat.
I've come to the conclusion that remote coding work is only really possible when starting your own business - not consulting, but actually figuring out something useful and selling it. Then you can sit on a beach and work on it part-time.
On such a random internet doodad most users will pick a random answer period. To see what this thingy tries to do without wasting any time on it. I hope it doesn't try to do gather any meaningful data.

Personally I "tried" to answer truthfully at first and then went absolutely "ok f u, don't care no more" when it showed turquoise :D
Shellinabox doesn’t seem to have a lot of development. Try ttyd instead

https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd
floor() enters the chat
Am I missing something, you didn't seem to address the case where you actually need to know which program you are? The way busybox provides the whole suite of linux-utils in one binary and require the command under which it was invoked to know what to do.
the threat actors also compromised the cloud accounts. it's likely the backups were also captured
Ladybird browser update (August 2024) [video]
Probably true, but the big question is "where is the efficient frontier, and is it better than what we can achieve now with human institutions?"

I like to think of AI not as "artificial" intelligence but as "aggregate" intelligence. Computers are really good at aggregating the opinions of millions of individual humans. That's what search algorithms like PageRank do, it's what recommendation systems do, it's what voting systems do, it's what markets do, it's what statistical quant trading systems that try to predict the movements of markets do. For these purposes, a computer seems to be reliably better than humans. So why not use computers for what they're good at, aggregating the behavior of millions of individual humans, while still letting humans give their own input.
The PNW has an incredible beauty that is hard to describe. I grew up a few miles from Yosemite, so I've had a lot of exposure to wild, natural landscapes, but these old growth rainforests are something else entirely.

That said, I do feel conflicted about this type of forest management. It may work on the Olympic Peninsula where risk of fire is minimal. It does not work in the large forests of California which are tinder-dry and experience very hot summers.
Unless you happen to be irradiating a tumor, then your going to be damaging a lot more healthy cells than cancerous ones
That’s easy to do with BeautifulSoup in Python. Look up tutorials on that. Use it on non-essential tags. That will at least work when the content is in HTML rather than procedurally generated (eg JavaScript).
Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement?
The rise and fall of the company behind 'Reader Rabbit' (2018)
Then you are looking for star lifting. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
Is one or two engines better in a fighter?
It would be cool to have a compact, cost-effective automated recombinant DNA + protein expression/purification workflow! To do this currently involves a series of steps, reagents, equipment etc.
I wonder how much of that is to help the child develop a sense for causality. Quick cuts makes it really hard to see what is really happening, if you have already developed your intuition you can piece that together, but it wouldn't surprise me if children develops a really bad understanding of the world if that is most of what they experience.

Video games is a totally different here, since in order to play you have to develop some understanding while with passive video you don't.
Yes. Some of the time.
On a related note, env vars do not have to be of the form key=value, they are arbitrary NUL-terminated byte strings just like the args.