skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when my son was 3 months old. We had many concerns - he did not track objects as they moved across the room, he did not recognize me or my spouse whenever we had gotten a haircut or put our long hair up in a ponytail. Our pediatrician was dismissive because our son was sensitive to light. We pushed and pushed and got an appointment with a pediatric ophthalmologist. They were able to diagnose him pretty quickly with Oculocutaneous albinism because on top of everything, he was very sensitive to light.

The doctors we worked with have been amazing — he was fitted with glasses (he can see 20/200 with them on!). He had surgery for strabismus and for nystagmus when he was 3.

For whatever specific diagnosis you receive (if you receive one!), there are already a lot of resources for you. Occupational therapists are helpful to help meet milestones and adjust. When our kid got closer to school age, the school helped with therapists to take him on walks with a cane and even did pre-braille. Everything we've done is to foster independence in everything he's capable of doing. They took him to the grocery store with a monocular to help him identify things to buy. They helped find specific sunglasses that blocked out light. They helped with countless other things in his movement and activity that have allowed him to really excel in life.

For broader learning, one good starter resource is the National Federation for the Blind (NFB). They have regular publications that explore different scenarios of what it is like to live every day. Depending on your son's diagnosis this may be helpful, or there may be one more specific for your situation. For albinism there is the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentism (NOAH), which is large and even has a yearly conference!

There are also countless Facebook groups and Reddit, which can be helpful to remediate daily issues, but also to get a really comfortable feeling for people who have grown up with blindness and what their lives are like.

My son is now 10 and for the most part, he's not really defined by his disability. He knows it's a key part of who he is, but he has figured out what works for him. He has to wear tons of sunscreen outside and cannot remove his sunglasses on a sunny day. He uses his cane sometimes, and decided not to learn braille. He sits at the front of his classes and sometimes needs something in larger print. He reads a ton, excels in school, and makes friends just like any other kid. He's really a joy to be around, and all the work that he put in when he was younger was absolutely worth it.
I'm impressed by the scope of this drop.
The raw intelligence of open models seems to be falling behind closed. But I think that's because frontier models from openai and anthropic are not just raw models, but probably include stuff like COT, 'best of N', or control vectors.
I run my own CA and install it as a trusted CA via Configuration Profiles. This works fine, including iOS 17.

Does this break in iOS 18 or does this affect only self-signed (untrusted) certificates?
I suppose the company believes it's tough on evil this way.
The EU charging infrastructure is pretty good now.

Tesla has no advantage here, except maybe good car navigation integration. Most Tesla Superchargers are still 400V v2 which are slower than 300kW/800V Ionity and Fastned chargers.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577719
Tech Jobs Have Dried Up–-and Aren't Coming Back Soon
I am unbelievably skeptical to this and am having trouble believing this is anything other than quack stuff, but I don't have the personal skill or knowledge to make real sense of this – I'd need some real research presented rather than a marketing video. Anyone here able to help explain the head-zap-o-tron and how viable it is to a pleb like myself?

Absolutely fascinating if it works, though.
Sure, but they seem to be extremely budget constrained. ;)
What probability it is complete BS?
> Nations we don't like

Autocratic hellhole that oppresses its people, sponsors terrorist groups and supports kleptocracy that destroys Ukraine right now.

You’re phrasing “don’t like” like we’re talking about food preferences or color of clothes.
As someone with severe ADHD who has been repeatedly told they need to try everything that's not medication (so much CBT), I am now deeply sceptical of every new supposed cure.

A presumably extremely expensive headband that claims to be a "MRI in your pocket" and has an AI assistant to help you use it correctly seems like yet another scam preying on the disabled.

I'll stick to the meds thanks.
I'm not an expert and don't have the necessary and verifiable information to asses the consequences in regards to economy/industry, but the sociocultural effects are negative.

1. Sanctions sped up the formation of the class of war beneficiaries. Sanctions created the demand for sanction circumvention. Since their scope is huge, the demand is accordingly very high (from civil consumers to the government). This led to formation of new supply chains that keep being profitable only while the war and sanctions continue. Now thousands of people engaged in these activities have the monetary incentive to support the war and the government course. This one I deem to be the most consequential in the long term.

2. Any noticeable conflict or rights violation happening with Russian citizens abroad is to be blown out of proportion and presented as a confirmation of pervasive anti-Russian sentiment and support the government narrative of existing encircled by enemies.

3. The lack of accessible ways of integration of the emigrants into local societies (especially in Europe) led to thousands of them coming back, some unwillingly, some grudgingly and feeling disillusioned. This is a huge wasted opportunity and I don't get why it happened (I don't buy the "we must secure our countries against possible threat actors and dirty money" explanation).
The S of Solid
Or a Macbook.
It's an old discussion from 2018.

From the FAQ, reposts are ok if the last (big) discussion is older than one year (or so). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I also like to link to the previous discussions, because sometimes old discussions have good comments, but I usually add (97 points | March 2018 | 19 comments).
Mozilla is essentially just a sock puppet for Google. It’s where a ton of their funding comes from and Google funds them if only to say “hey look there’s another browser” (re: antitrust).

Mozilla, the company, has been a dumpster fire for a long time.
Hamas is responsible for the 16k people killed, they:

* Use their people as human shields.

* Spent billions of dollars on aid to build "attack tunnels" and buy weapons rather than spend it on education, health care, diplomacy and a real defense force.

* Broke the cease fire on October 7 by going on an ecstatic, orgy of violence against innocent people at a peace and love festival.

* Failed to return the hostages and murdered many of them.

* Failed to negotiate a peace deal for their people and bravely handing themselves in.

* Started a war without considering or caring about the consequences for their people.

* Brainwashed their own people to hate Jews and take up arms to it's impossible to distinguish soldiers and civilians.

* They've even brainwashed children to become "martyrs"

* Launched rockets into civilian areas in Israel every day.

* Setup headquarters in hospitals and schools...

The list goes on, but Hamas started this latest round of violence, they are responsible. I repeat again, there was a ceasefire on October 7. People calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have to understand this, and they have to understand these fanatics would just regroup and attack again.

Look at how Russia and Ukraine keep their military assets away from civilian populations, then look at what Hamas does, there is zero moral equivalence here. Putin is a total psycho monster, but even he doesn't build arms making facilities in residential areas.

Jihadists use our morals against us, they're extremely good at manipulation, they're ok with a hospital being bombed so long as it gets an emotional response and incites hatred against Jews. Which is working, clearly.
Obesity is driven by a build-up of molecular mesh around hunger neurons
J2ME/MIDP was a fun platform to really cut your teeth on, and performed far better than many like to claim. For example, an old colleague of mine had written a Java emulator of a Game Gear, and it ran very well on J2ME, yet Android was horrific. Curiously the MIDP implementations out of Sun were also awful, and it was Nokia and some other European VM providers that did way better.

By far the most annoying aspect of J2ME were the jar size limits at the lower end, meaning to squeeze every byte (and this was real) you had to reduce the number of classes in the jar. Around 4-5 was typical. For many of the games on that page you'd be looking at 1 class of about 30000 lines, and a few others for device type specific abstractions, for example, maybe Sprite routines using Nokia DirectGraphics. This made teamwork on these games an absolute nightmare, especially in a pre-Git source code management era. (CVS/SVN/P4 were not exactly designed for working like that).

Later on there were some incredibly good studio specific optimization tools that handled transformations automatically, and outperformed humans, but these came into play exactly as iOS absolutely exploded.

They mention Mascot Capsule, which was a reasonably successful proprietary 3D engine pre-bundled on some devices. The other was the "standard" JSR 184, and I worked with at least two separate dev studios that had each implemented that in OpenGLES/C++ so that porting their 3D titles from J2ME to iOS/Brew could be reduced to an almost copy/paste business. This lasted maybe about two years before bothering with J2ME output was abandoned, but a side effect is the scene graphs for a lot of old iOS "premium" games look a lot like the one in JSR 184.
> My young child was convinced it was Pokémon throughout the whole video

I figure the biggest thing causing the seeming parallels is the art style, which is pokemon-esque (cute, colorful, fluffy, polished, original). Second to that comes the balls
It miht be science fiction but before the space race traveling to the moon was science fiction too. Yet we did not only travel to the moon but actually walk on it.

I don't have any doubts that at some point humanity will find a way to do interstellar travel. Though I doubt it will happen in our lifetime
Can we solve quantum theory's biggest problem by redefining reality?
The meds are basically speed. Epilepsy patients are told never to use speed, but then another doctor can diagnose AD(H)D and prescribe ritalin. I hope these new treatments work well, reduce side effects, and have less chance of interacting with other treatments.
Elixir Macros Demystified: defmacro and require
I don’t think it’s true that the vast majority of HN users use ad blockers. I don’t, and I don’t find the web “practically unusable”.
I’m not doing God of the Gaps—it’s simply that in the case of LLMs there’s both nothing we know of doing understanding and also no gaps where it might be. We both know what it’s doing, and that it’s not doing understanding.

Let’s try this:

We could apply an LLM to made-up language and corpus that does not actually carry meaning and it would do exactly what it does with real languages.

“Well maybe you accidentally encoded meaning in it. We could always, say, cryptoanalyze even an alien language and maybe be able to come up with some good guesses at meaning”

Maybe we could. But now imagine also you have no “knowledge” whatsoever except the trained patterns from that language. Like, no understanding of how to do cryptoanalysis, or linguistics, or what a planet is. Or an alien. All you’re doing is guessing at patterns, based on symbols that you aren’t even attempting to understand and have no basis for understanding anyway. That’s an LLM.

I think people are assigning way too much power to language sans… all the rest of what you need to derive meaning from it. None of what’s going into or coming out of an LLM needs to carry any meaning for it to do exactly the same thing it does with languages that do.

To the extent that an LLM has a perspective (this is purely figurative) all languages are gibberish alien languages, while also being all that it “knows”.

> We don't comprehend the entire Chinese Room; the instructions that Searle is following are a massive handwave. Does following the instructions require Searle to make human judgements on where to branch? Then it's offloading understanding onto his human brain. Does it not require that but it still outputs coherent responses? Then the instructions must encode intelligence in them in some way - if intelligent behaviour doesn't demonstrate intelligence we're in non-scientific nonsense land.

I remain stubbornly unconvinced that simulating a real process (by hand or otherwise) is the same thing as it actually happening with real matter and energy, even setting aside that the most efficient way to achieve it is to… not simulate it, and use real matter to actually do the things.

It’s why I find the xkcd “what if a guy with infinite time and an infinite beach and infinite rocks moved the rocks around in a way that he had decided simulated a universe?” thing interesting as an example but also trivial to solve: all that happens is he moved some rocks around. The meaning was all his, it doesn’t do anything.
Strange Parts did a great video about, "A boy and his microscope..."[0]

We bought the same one 6(?!) years ago and still use it every day. It was ~$900 back then, looks like it's $230 now[1].

I had a really hard time spending that much back then, but it is easily the most valuable tool in our PCB engineering & assembly shop.

[0] https://www.strangeparts.com/a-boy-and-his-microscope-a-love...

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832694057535.html?gateway...
FB uses mercurial _for most things_, but like any company that size, there's teams that use git and even teams that use perforce
Oh the special hell that were JSRs. As others mentioned, buying a crapload of multi-vendor devices to deploy specific JARs in hope to cover a sizeable customer base (not games, but public transport related).
I hate having my hopes played with. To say that I'm skeptical is an understatement.
This API is very similar to DynamoDB, which is basically a hash table of B-trees.

My experience is that this architecture can lead to very chatty applications if you have a rich data model (eg a graph).
If you are mailed something in the mail, is that indiscriminately mailing or targeted mailing? It is obviously targeted. If you mail a business, it is targeted. If you mail a business something to give to all their employees, that is targeted.

Just because someone else might get what is mailed to me or that someone else might pick up what was sent to me doesn't make it "untargeted" - it is highly targeted. But missed.

The Trump attempted assassination was highly targeted and a bystander died.

I feel I have made my case. Can you provide rationale for yours beyond collateral damage? I feel the Trump example trumps that.

Post edit: I also want to acknowledge that you can feel that this is horrible and terrible and all the bad things. We are simply talking about the definition of targeted
Not in Europe, it seems?
It took me so long to parse this headline. Bloomberg's weird capitalisation in headlines constantly trips me up, must be even harder for non-native English speakers.
Tesla's cars and Superchargers in the EU all use the CCS2 standard (similar to CCS1 in the US, but the plug doesn't have a latch sticking out).

NACS is really only a North American thing.
Russians didn’t start a war. They are not the agressor. The ruling powers of Russia did. You are saying that it’s good to punish those already affected by their governments violence additionally. And with that unfortunate perspective, you will not win the population over, to the contrary.

The anger is justified, but misdirected.

Would every US American be happy to be identified as Trump and Project2025 supporter, in case he wins the elections?

How much is it my responsibility what my government does, if all I have is basically one vote, if even that, and it is life threatening to even voice (and form) my opinion?
Normal schools are not appropriately prepared for blind people. They're bullying hells for blind kids (from social exclusion to assault) and the lectures heavily rely on vision, so a blind kid will be left behind even when he makes audio recordings (can't write braille fast enough for useful notes), which some teachers may even take issue with, for extra drama.
Comment is saying: never use regular internet ONLY use hidden services so you never need to exit the network through an exit node
We are excited to announce the first release of the Practice Branch!

This branch is designed to help developers of all levels practice Rust by solving exercises at their own pace.

Here's what's included in this version:

Key Features:
Fork and Practice: Easily fork the repository and switch to the practice branch to start solving exercises.
Track Your Progress: Solve the exercises directly in the repo and track your progress over time.
Beginner Friendly: Whether you're new to Rust or an experienced developer, the exercises are designed to help you grow your Rust skills.
Self-Paced Learning: No deadlines, just you and your learning journey.
Getting Started:
Fork the repository: GitHub Repo
Switch to the practice branch.
Start solving the exercises provided.
Commit your progress to track your learning.
We hope this helps you on your journey to mastering Rust.

Have a great day.

Happy Rust Journey!.
I have a thing for monospaced fonts and sans-serif.

What they all have in common is slab-like serifs on the i and j. It is not an easy problem to solve to make these two fit harmonically in their allotted space but does anyone know a monospace font that solved this issue in a different way?
Having used both Bento and later Colaboratory, a few years ago, I think I liked the latter a lot more. Google's internal tools are usually much more polished and better-designed, perhaps because they've been around for much longer.
From what I know of ADHD in re-using my Biology and Chemistry knowledge to come up with a Nootropics stack that works...

It would seem that this device is some quackery....

Why? Because ADHD hyperactivity is a loss of control not extra neuro activity...
With the topics of ADHD and autism entering mainstream Internet conversations more often, I think it's kind of predictable that stuff like this will start showing up more regularly.

Considering how much people can struggle with these issues, even in spite of proper medical care, it's safe to assume for the time being that this falls under the magic device category.
You forgot to mention the high probability of getting laid off in less than 12 monnths :)
The unspoken question here, of course, is "you wouldn't happen to have already done this for me?" ;)
> The meds are basically speed.

There's a number of different stimulants and non-stimulants. "The meds" are not a thing.
The headband doesn't work. You'll never hear about it again
One word comes to mind - "Juicero"

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero
50-50
Is the technology inside this device likely to be relatively simple? It seems like an area that would naturally attract a lot of hackers running experiments, etc. Being able to be powered by a small enough battery to fit into a headset is also quite interesting considering the high level of power typically used in TMS.
Yes, but it's closer to Sage (browser and Python based).

I don't know what quantadev is thinking of, but Quanta seems totally different and not a programming notebook at all. Its README also claims "Quanta is a new kind of platform with a new kind of architecture", while quantadev claims it "has been around for decades".
I think the biggest value I see with OpenTelemetry is the ability to instrument your code and telemetry pipeline once (using otel collector) and then choose a backend and visualisation framework which meets your requirement.

For example at SigNoz [0], we support OpenTelemetry format natively from Day 1 and use ClickHouse as the datastore layer which makes it very performant for aggregation and analytics queries.

There are alternative approaches like what Loki and Tempo does with blob storage based framework.

If your data is instrumented with Otel, you can easily switch between open source projects like SigNoz or Loki/Tempo/Grafana which IMO is very powerful.

We have seen users switch within a matter of hours from another backend to SigNoz, weh they are instrumented with Otel. This makes testing and evaluating new products super efficient.

Otherwise just the effort required to switch instrumentation to another vendor would have been enough to not ever think about evaluating another product

(Full Disclosure : I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz)

[1] https://github.com/signoz/signoz
It's weird how these headlines are written in the passive voice and as to blame Hezbollah. "At least 20 dead as walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon as Israel declares ‘new phase of war’ against Hezbollah"

How about Israel detonates 3000 explosives in Lebanon.
The biggest supply chain attack
Irgun/Herut/Likud is just as guilty of all of these “charges”… I think you just lack the ability to rest the blame on Israel.
They could have dropped cash over Gaza as reparations for the prior 75 years of genocide.
...and do machines really break as often as software in production? :)
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Similar pages that will scratch the same itch

- [Complete Knot List | Alphabetical list of all Knots | Animated Knots by Grog](https://www.animatedknots.com/complete-knot-list)

- [McMaster-Carr](https://www.mcmaster.com/)
This is always a very interesting topic for me. On one hand, I would like apps to be able to enforce rules like “no screenshots” or at a minimum “screenshot detection”. On the other hand, I want my phone to do what I ask you to do and not be forced to follow arbitrary rules.

Example: I don’t want someone to screenshot my Snapchat message but I don’t want my bank to prevent me from screenshotting the app because of “security” (aka security theater).

I don’t know how you make those two concepts work together.

One random thought that I just had is that when an app uses DRM it just show a black screen when you screenshot. I wonder if could implement that for things like Snapchat to get the same protections.
Please keep in mind that a self-signed certificate is quite different from a certificate that is signed using a private CA.

The self-signed certificate has no link to a trust anchor. So it’s easy for Mallory to replace it with her own malicious certificate. It’s much harder for Mallory to replace a certificate that is tied to a CA.