skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
redactle.net has no ads (I think; I have pretty stringent anti-ad measures in place) and a bunch of nice features that make the game more fun to play. For instance, you can configure it to always show you the lengths of the words explicitly, you can "annotate" still-redacted words with your guesses about them, you can put it in a mode where when you guess a word you also auto-guess its various inflections, etc. Also, it's actively developed (though less so than it used to be, because the developer has a small child). Definitely recommended.

And yes, it's a very interesting game, whether you try to solve it as quickly as possible (maybe spamming lots of often-useful guesses before you start thinking at all) or in as few guesses as possible (the best "snipers" have something like an 80% success rate at needing no guesses other than the title words themselves) or just play casually in whatever way maximizes the fun and minimizes the stress for you.
> This is a world where no pre-purchase murmurs go unanalyzed, and the whispers of consumers become a tool for you to target, retarget, and conquer your local market.

I can easily imagine such a world, and it's unambiguously horrific.

> It's not a far-off fantasy-it's Active Listening technology, and it enables you to unlock unmatched advertising efficiency today so you can boast a bigger bottom line tomorrow.

And yet, marketing companies think it's great. There is no evil they wouldn't cheer on if they think it would enhance their bottom line.

This sociopathic attitude is why I've come to view the entire industry as a threat.
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You need a Technical Writer. You have developers that have trained extensively to talk to computers often in multiple languages. And it is hard enough to write documentation for other developers. Asking them to create documentation talking to users, system administrators, DevOps and management are even more dialects because they speak in their own jargon, and it costs a lot of their very expensive time.
I know technology, hardware, software, firmware and more. In tech, medical, aerospace, automotive and IT industries. I can do the translating for developers so they can concentrate on making the hard stuff.
I also know user experience (UX) I can guide you to make better user interfaces and keep you from making those mistakes that cripple many products.
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> you still have to pay full benefits

source?
At companies that set realistic deadlines and don't want to rush, rush, rush everything. They're rare, but some places do understand "slow is fast".

At least in the US the percentage of households with children under 18 has dropped to 40%, and I think you're somewhere in the EU which is closer to 36%.
> it's the consumers who are refusing to buy small cars

I think it's more complicated. Consumers are stupid, or rather, easily manipulated.

SUVs and Trucks have much higher margins than sedans and other small cars. It is advantage to any car manufacturer to sell mostly SUVs and Trucks because you get more money per unit of work. Essentially, you do 110% of the work of a sedan but charge 150%-200% as much. It's a no brainer.

So of course the advertisements primarily focus on SUVs and Trucks. I don't know how much free will consumers truly have in a system with such intense advertising.
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It also coincides well with an aging population. Older people with reduced mobility find it a lot more comfortable to get in and out of a typical mid-size SUV than a compact car. They don't like having to squat down. The HN demographic is heavily skewed to young urbanites so they tend to be oblivious to average consumer preferences.
> 5MB nowadays

Somehow we manage to piss away computing resources like nothing, requiring more and more to do the same work. So I guess for meaningful comparisons we need a way to inflation adjust computing resources too?

E.g. 5MB of 1965 disk storage, roughly equivalent to 10 TB in the eyes of 2024 programs?

Maybe we could draw a comparisons by how much a base installation of a recent OS would eat away, or how much of the available RAM an at-the-time-modern text editor would gobble up? E.g. 1980s Emacs vs whatever currently popular Electron behemoth to compare RAM on computers from those respective epochs.
The low-code, no-code niche that I see is writing shaders using visual graphs - blender, unity, unreal etc. I don't see that being replaced by LLMs in the near term. The context where you're expressing what you want is represented quite nicely by the graph. If you're saying to an LLM make me an animated, iridescent, force field like shader seems a way off to be able to get to what you really want.
I'm obviously biased because we've been in the same YC batch, but I just want to say that one thing that always impressed me about you guys is how obsessed you were with building the best product you could.

When you explained how you had just reimplemented the CSS spec I was mindblown.

You guys rock. Repaint is amazing.
Around here the worst "aggressives" seem to be the Teasel/Dipsacus (brought over from Europe because they were used in wool production or something?), Creeping Charlie (also Europeans), and Sumac. There are some native sumacs here but the fact that there are large chunks of sumac monoculture I think that some of the sumac in my area was introduced.

I'm in SW Wisconsin these days.
The Home as a Place of Production
> They can be right on things, wrong on others. Its a big organization.

Didn't you just nullify your original point?
This seems to keep coming up, and I see confusion in the comments. There is a standard: IEEE 754-2008. There are additional things people add like approximate reciprocals and approximate sqrt. But if you don't use those, and you don't make an association error, you get consistent results.

The question here with association for summation is what you want to match. OP chose to match the scalar for-loop equivalent. You can just as easily make an 8-wide or 16-wide "virtual vector" and use that instead.

I suspect that an 8-wide virtual vector is the right default for people currently, since systems since Haswell support it, all recent AMD, and if you're using vectorization, you can afford to pay some overhead on Arm with a double-width virtual vector. You don't often gain enough from AVX512 to make the default 16-wide, but if you wanted to focus on Skylake+ (really Cascadelake+) or Genoa+ systems, it would be a fine choice.
Isn't the "pint-size startup" the status quo for the US? It may be my americocentrism speaking but I feel like the kid-run lemonade stand is as American as it gets. Big business is the aberration, not the rule.
We've been doing something simliar for VLM Run [1]. A lot of websites that have obfuscated HTML / JS or rendered charts / tables tend to be hard to parse with the DOM. Taking screenshots are definitely more reliable and future-proof as these webpages are built for humans to interact with.

That said, the costs can be high as the OP says, but we're building cheaper and more specialized models for web screenshot -> JSON parsing.

Also, it turns out you can do a lot more than just web-scraping [2].

[1] https://vlm.run

[2] https://docs.vlm.run/introduction
I'm arguing against the idea that the way argv[0] works is somehow wrong, and/or perhaps should be changed to "more reliably" reflect the filename of the executable that actually got loaded, because some programmer might not understand what argv[0] actually does.

The article's lead argument for the "badness" of argv[0] seems to be, roughly paraphrased, that "the program should already know what it is [true], and this could confuse it [Huh? No I don't really know what that means either]". That's followed by a bunch of other stuff about other programs guessing what executable is running in a given process based on its argv[0], which is of course just deeply ignorant misuse of the value.

I mean, "the name" of the file that got loaded isn't even necessarily either well defined, or useful under any definition.
Shower thought:

I'm curious how many people just send back nude photos of themselves and just call the bluff. You can always claim it was AI generated, wait, send back AI generated nudes and see if it also works.

I hate that I typed any of this on HN. Programmer brain of trying to break software.
I was expecting some sort of programming language to describe music, but this isn't that. I'm not sure what it is exactly though. Navigating the website on mobile doesn't give me a clue
Before the tech fad, these were just called "small businesses." They've always been a large part of the U.S. economy.
Equivocal encounters: alien visitation claims as a societal problem [pdf]
Canada? How much of that land is habitable? I'd argue USA has more habitable land.

Huge problem with housing costs in the Anglosphere is housing is an investment asset not a place to live. REITs. Over the last 15 years, maybe more, a massive amount of money has been invested in housing for profit. Very little money has been invested in economic productivity such that the OECD says Canada's economic development will be DEAD LAST for the next 30 YEARS!

Vancouver built tons of Condos but most only sold to overseas buyers. Locals didn't even get a chance. Those overseas buyers were mostly Chinese investors looking to park their money away from the hands of the Chinese govt and as an escape pad. Then there's "Mom n Pop" investors. Over 50% of Conservative Federal MPs are landlords.

If you increase supply investors will just buy them up. There's nothing to stop them. (Yeah, Trudeau did introduce some tax and restrictions that will slow it down a little).

Another problem, that CNBC covered recently and I'm sure it applies to Canada as well, is the number of Builders themselves have been getting more and more concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. These large Development Companies can sit on land to help force up the price of land for them to make a bigger profit margin.

There isn't a huge pool of available buyers, at these prices, unless you're including investors. Most banks will not lend to ordinary people because of the cost of housing relative to income and interest rates. The mortgage climate has changed.

And how many Builders can get financing to build? Except for the big players, who don't have a financial incentive to build like my in order to bring the price of housing down, no one can get financing. These are cautionary times.

Then there is the threat of AI taking a lot of jobs. Are the banks going to be keen to lend out money to Builders and mortgage holders in these uncertain economic times.

The only solution that I see working is the government building massive amounts of housing like they did after WW2. But that isn't going to happen for political reasons and financial (high govt debts already).

If I was a young person I'd learn Spanish and move to Mexico. That's were the jobs will be. USA is replacing China with Mexico as their industrial hub. Don't know what the wages and working conditions would be like though. There's always the USA to consider as well but it has huge housing problems too (but does have more available cheaper markets compared to Canada).

Canada is done. It's finished.
If it could do that, then Google could do that too, right?
Is there an easy-to-digest overview or even examples anywhere?

I see a bunch of pretty deep-dive articles, a long video, a lot of tools, but I can't see a description of how the supposed visual language works yet, or even examples. How does this system represent notes and chords over time?
Linguists don't tell puns. They cant.
Amazon Agent Orchestrator
AFAIK "cellphone cause cancer" proponents moved to more vague mechanisms like localized heating and/or "inflammation".
I think it would be very interesting to try to teach a computer to play the game without having explicit knowledge of what's in all the articles. I'm not sure just what level of ignorance you'd want to enforce: good human players don't have articles memorized but do e.g. have a good idea of the typical structure of Wikipedia articles.

I don't know whether it's feasible to get an LLM to play somehow. LLMs are famously bad at letter-counting, but probably have substantial fractions of Wikipedia kinda-memorized. Perhaps it would be possible to fine-tune an LLM to play Redactle, e.g. by giving it a bunch of training data that's a good human Redactle player's musings on games?
Yes, this is a Nash equilibrium question.
If you want to have fun, try printing a logo with nuances of green on your CYMK printer. Nuances on the screen become a flat blob.
Half-term for one kid is not the same as the other etc
Yeah, I re-read it. Still missing it, are you saying the left un-fairly over-simplifies it. OR the Left portrays the right/economist as un-fairly over-simplifying?
The US Truck buyers likes to hate on the Honda Ridgeline (too car-like), but it is the most American choice:
https://www.motor1.com/news/723746/honda-ridgeline-more-amer...
> In the EU these hardware keyfobs are now forbidden for banking [...] an app-based confirmation gives you the opportunity to review the transaction you are confirming;

I'm confused, that seems like it confuses two independent aspects:

1. Whether the TOTP code comes from a fob-device versus a phone-device.

2. Whether some interactive interface you're using gives you a chance to see/confirm what you're about to authorize or not.

A phone app can lie to you about the transaction you're about to authorize regardless of whether the TOTP code was transcribed from an external device, transcribed from another app on the same phone, or auto-filled by itself.
I like this, feels very usable and not too visually noisy!

For the most part, the most feature complete component library I've found for Vue is PrimeVue https://primevue.org/ with their CSS utilities https://primeflex.org/ and icons too https://primevue.org/icons

There's also a version for React https://primereact.org/ and for Angular https://primeng.org/ and even JSF https://www.primefaces.org/

I wish there were more like that, that carry over across different tech stacks, while also offering nice support for various themes, as well as a lot of decent components.
NFL season expected to spur record $35B in legal sports wagers
This is a clever exploit of the way most people do not appreciate how much data has been breached. It seems convincing if you don’t just how many email and street address pairs are effectively public, and once you get them to panic a reliable fraction of the population isn’t going to pause and reconsider that assumption.
There are actually lots of old-growth forests you can visit.

Check out https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/network-forests
Don't know about linux, but (left) alt-shift in windows does.
They can also arrest the employees of the company who is breaking their laws the next time they step foot in the EU.
I'm surprised how software can be a real fight with no end in sight, and then boom, it's suddenly "done". By "done" I guess I mean "useful" as it's never done done.
TigerBeetle
Radiant Aerospace wants to reinvent the space rocket as a space plane
Sure you can: keep sending one message per second until you receive a response from the recipient saying "OKAY I HEARD YOU NOW SHUT UP!"
This is for LinkedIn employees. That is those who do not have any major success outside of the resume. And they're not really differentiated in the market for those who have great success outside in the real world can actually counter signal their value by having job titles which are different from the norm and not having a LinkedIn profile for example.
Why did Windows 95 use blue screen error messages instead of hard error messages
They're up on a pedestal talking about how it's classist and abelist and some people can't afford an editor, but that is not the problem with AI and never has been.

Many publishers have had to stop accepting submissions because they're being flooded by AI generated content and can't cope.

Nanowrimo is not one of these publishers and has nothing to lose here. It's not classist or abelist to reject a technology that generates a novel for someone who can't be bothered to write one, that floods the market, that stops hard working original authors from having a chance of making it in the already difficult game of getting a book published.
Sure, and there's a way to test the ability to ask questions that isn't some "gotcha" type question.
As in interviewer you can just say "the specifications aren't clear, what questions would you might want to ask to clarify them?".

It's not like in the day to day work you go around defining specifications for every tiny function - the default specification are clear from the work environment.

Let's say you had to implement a "find dups in this array" at work, you probably won't go around collecting requirements for that, so asking that in an interview and having the silly dance of "Oh, the interviewee didn't ask if the array fits in memory or not" is silly imo - and doesn't show anything other than whether the candidate memorized the need to ask that or not.

and like I said before, fuzzy specification are more suitable for the system/product design part, and can also be part of the coding part, but they shouldn't appear as some "gotcha".
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The positions are on the team I lead. The data and problem are interesting, data is intrinsically useful in bot detection, and there is no shortage of challenge to working a difficult problem. Python, SQL, and Rust are some languages we're currently using for most of our work.

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> in which she actively lived and participated.

Yes... ? She participated... on the side of the Nazis who murdered Jews? She even threatened Jews with "a new pogrom"? I'd imprison her all right!
>No evidence is needed. Tissue damage is damage and genetic stress. It can increase the risk of a local cancer.

Why doesn't the same damage occur when you're being blasted with 600 THz radiation (ie. visible light from your lightbulb)?
Author here. I added fields so you can specify your first language (relevant link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...) and colorblindness.

FAQ:

* I can't know your monitor's calibration, your ambient light, or your phone's brightness. Obviously, this will affect the results. However, I am tracking local time of day and device type, from which we should be able to infer whether night mode and default calibration has any aggregate effects. Anecdotally, thus far, I haven't found any effects of Android vs. iPhone (N=34,000).

* The order is randomized. Where you start from can influence the outcome, but methodologically it's better to randomize so the aggregate results average over starting point. You can run the test several times to see how reliable this is for you.

* It's common practice in psychophysics to use two alternatives rather than three (e.g. blue, green, something in the middle). It would be a fun extension, which you can handle with an ordered logistic regression. The code is open if you want to take a shot at it: https://github.com/patrickmineault/ismyblue

* I will release aggregate results on my blog, https://neuroai.science

* I am aware of most of the limitations of this test. I have run psychophysics experiments in a lab on calibrated CRTs during my PhD in visual neuroscience. *This is just entertainment*. I did this project to see if I could make a fun webapp in Vue.js using Claude Sonnet, and later cursor, given that I am not highly proficient in modern webdev. A secondary point was to engage people in vision science and get them to talk and think about perception and language. I think it worked!
It does not. Believe what you will.
NASA – Ancient Sunlight
I might actually feel flattered if I thought somebody found me attractive enough to put in this much effort to watch me masturbate.
macOS has multiple ways to switch. Configurable keyboard shortcuts or you can keep an input picker in the status bar.
The Engineering of Landfills
> If you manufacture inefficiency yourself, and control it

that's called a pump and dump, which is already illegal. Because the fraud depends on manufactured (mis)information.
Yeah, it makes a lot more sense to treat liquidity achieved by collateralizing capital gains on assets as realized gains, and tax it as income, then to allow for blanket taxation of unrealized gains.

But I'm still not sure what problem any of this is trying to solve in the first place. Does anyone seriously think this would solve the federal budget deficit?
maybe we can just normalize the fact that people have sex and masturbate so the scammers can find other jobs that contribute to society
It's soapboxing, twist some other topic into some core issue for us, stand on the soapbox and talk about it.

I think everyone does it from time to time on different levels, for sure I'm guilty of it.
But for drugs it’s totally worth it?
Ballmer opens with "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100". If he uses your strategy instead that's a different scenario.
Limiting screen is certain to be good for young kids, especially when it will help limit their exposure to advertising, but I doubt that three hours of screentime for teenagers is a realistic limit. Schoolwork alone will require a large chunk of that.

Teens will use screens to keep in touch with friends and explore their own interests in ways that a young child really doesn't. You want your kids to have the opportunity to get nerd sniped or get lost in some rabbit hole, get school work done, socialize, and still enjoy a reasonable amount of films, television, music, etc. When a single episode of a TV show can be 45-60+ minutes it'd be very hard to budget that kind of time.

I'd worry more about what older kids are doing with their screen time than a specific limit on the number of hours they spend.
I drove from North Dakota to Kentucky earlier this summer and was really surprised at how beautiful some parts of Missouri and Southern Illinois are. That's an area I never heard anyone talk about, but I'd like to go on an extended camping trip there in the spring.