skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The QuickTime 4.0 Player earned its eternal spot in the User Interface Hall of Shame for its gratuitous skeuomorphism and breathtaking disregard for usability, forcing users to wade through the hollow hubris and masturbatory design indulgences of Apple's avant-garde, artisanal cocaine-snorting 'geniuses' who clearly prioritized looking "cool" in a mirror over making a product anyone could actually use.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm

>[...] The QuickTime 4.0 Player sports a consumer interface, designed so that it "looks like" a physical consumer product. Apologists for this design philosophy maintain that users will more readily be able to transfer their knowledge of real-world objects to the software. Unfortunately, the apologists fail to recognize that there are two likely consequences of this approach: (1) the user is unable to transfer his or her existing knowledge of computer interaction, and (2) the software becomes needlessly subject to the limitations of the physical device.

>[...] The QuickTime 4.0 player contains many examples of how the software must adopt the limitations of the physical device it is based on, but the first example the user is likely to discover is the volume control. Since a real-world hand-held electronic device typically employs a thumbwheel to control the volume, the designers concluded that it would work just as well in a software application. What the designers failed to realize is that a thumbwheel is designed to be operated by a thumb, not a mouse. Watching new users try to adjust the volume can be a painful experience. The user invariably tries to carefully place the cursor at the bottom of the exposed portion of the control, then drags it to the top of the control and releases, then carefully positions the cursor again at the bottom of the control, drags upward, and well, you get the picture.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/images/qtime/player.jpg
IO-bound doesn't mean it doesn't use much CPU. A tool can use a lot of IO and also a lot of CPU.

> then saving that tiny bit of CPU actually saved no money

this doesn't follow

> since it was already riding on the spare capacity of other investments

nor does this

Take for example a CLI that downloads and verifies the Bitcoin blockchain. It may spend most of its time downloading blocks, but it spends a ton of time calling SHA256 to verify those blocks. Similarly with a tool that downloads and checksums large files like Docker images.

If you have a fleet of 650K developer machines all running this util, then at some point it becomes cost effective to optimize the CPU usage.

Whether that point was reached in this example is not something I know. It seems like the L7 and their manager believed it was. But OP believes it wasn't. Either way, we don't know from OP's description of the situation.
Two Views of the Mississippi by Mark Twain. In a career defined by the pursuit of knowledge it’s good to mull on how knowledge dissolves beauty.
With agents like Finic, soon the web will be built for agents, rather than humans.

I can see a few years from now almost all web traffic is agents.
"fact checking" is a psyop

first of all, the "fact checker" simply claims the mantle of objectivity with no supporting evidence. why is some nameless writer at Snopes the arbiter of truth? because they say so?

and all "fact checks" merely knock down a strawman to reinforce some hand-wavey political point. here is every fact check:

CLAIM: Democrats are great

CHECK: true!
I'll be damned! One of my favorite Chandler quotes, I've posted this a lot of places over the years.

That said, the last time I looked into it sources all agreed that the comic strip Barney Google was a very well-known pop-culture reference when Chandler wrote this, and will surely have been the first thing he or anyone he talked to would think of when hearing "Google". (TFA mentions this as if it was one of several possibilities, but the others seem very shaky.)

So it seems pretty clear he meant it, and expected the reader to take it, as a silly last name.
Realm / MongoDB Atlas Data API, Custom HTTPS Endpoints: End-of-Life, Deprecation
You can do it in a way that works, but the typical journalistic way is not that.
That is some wild and scary stuff.
> The affected pagers were from a new shipment .. in recent days

> some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hundreds-of-hezbollah-...
Good luck finding that practice on certain topics. I hate to say it but GPT 4o has done a better job of breaking down problems and explaining them (granted at times incorrectly... thats where studying with other people comes in) for my qual practice than any of the profs or the useless texts ever did.

We talk about scaffolding and the importance of pedagogy in math education yet none of that exists at higher levels. In my case it's literally been the blind leading the blind. It's a horrible environment to learn in. I say this as someone who has tackled some really tough material with no issue in the past thanks to having that hierarchy you mentioned. When that doesn't exist or there is nothing else, the process truly stalls. So sadly, I will take the crackhead over nothing.

Then again, maybe I just hate what I'm studying which is it's own problem.
Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?
It seems to me that there are exchanges between the client and the server. So it wouldn't be usable in its current state with a network diode.

Network diodes have very low packet loss rates, for the simplest ones they are literally fibre to ethernet transducers with a disconnected channel and a few centimetres of fibre. There is no external disturbance that could generate significant bit flip.
The more complex diodes use multiple transducers, power supply, fibres for redundancy and protocols to detect when one of the channels is out of order.

The diode manufacturers don't give details but we're probably looking at rather simple error detection and parity codes that can be easily implemented on an ASIC or FPGA to obtain high data rates.

On top of this you can use unidirectional protocols in UDP. But the diode works mainly at the physical and data layers of the OSI model.

Some diode manufacturers include proxies to simulate an FTP server and make it easier for users who just want to retrieve logs from critical infrastructure.
For whoever comes after me, or just me sometimes. Good code is self documenting but often the broader intention is not. If I look at code my first question isn't what, it's why?
I imagine screws also made it a lot easier to dismantle and move to what was then Penge Common
Yeah, go to a place with poor bandwidth and run any tool that downloads and hashes large files. It will spend a large time waiting on the download and also a large time hashing the files.
First Gwern post I see.
Leave. You get fired, it'll be with cause.
Amazon, Uber, etc. are more platforms than markets.
It matters if you're paying for and managing the fleet of laptops
> We disclosed this vulnerability to the kernel security team through responsible disclosure.
The patch on the mailing list is visible here.

The patch is dated today. Isn’t responsible disclosure to wait a bit until the security update can work its way into some actual distributions (or heck even a kernel release) and not publish a detailed 0-day for all Linux kernels?

Edit: reading the exploit description more fully:

> On most (or even all) distributions this strategy doesn’t work.

Only impacts vanilla builds using the default config.
Sir, this is a text editor.
Oh, I accidentally submitted the comparison page instead of the homepage while, I think I copied from the wrong browser tab.
Nice work! Joined the discord
Martin absolutely was talking about education; research is education. Granted, not early education, but I’m not making any claims about what he said, I simply used his quote as a segue to make an observation about the connections between research thinking and today’s math curriculum. Research is a continuous spectrum. We are expecting kids in elementary, secondary, and early college to have a research mentality and research level motivation in order to succeed in math classes, unlike some other subjects. (Classes which, btw, were all research topics at some point in time and took tens, hundreds, even thousands of years to develop.) The mentality and motivation are important if you want to end up doing any of the actual graduate, post-graduate, or career research where nobody knows the right answer. The kids who are pruned out by our math system never make it there, and many don’t even make it to functional math literacy, even though many/most are perfectly capable, and that’s unfortunate and doesn’t reflect well on our education system. I’m suggesting we can do better.
I have also worked with ROS professionally, and it does the opposite of “get out of the way” almost as a design choice. It’s bad.
If the Hawking temperature is below the CMB no net evaporation happens. This means there is a mass cutoff and it’s below asteroid mass. Any smaller PBHs would have evaporated by now assuming we are right about Hawking radiation. The math says it should exist but we have AFAIK not proven it.

The big black holes will last insanely long amounts of time.
it's not a joke. writing a program in fractran to multiply input fractions that are part of the input data is no easier than writing a program in other turing-tarpit esolangs with no built-in arithmetic support, like the λ-calculus. try it. or check out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1749905/code-golf-fractr... which has a couple of unusably inefficient fractran interpreters in fractran
Saved me looking up that exact quote, hahaha!

An excellent book. I spent the first part of my life thinking it mainly spoke to the past (we learned our lesson, right?), and that a Brave New World style future was more likely, but now I think it’s deeper than that. Totalitarianism shows up because of a flaw in the human psyche, and we need to be fucking CAREFUL.
Well, if you run out of VRAM, you drop off a performance cliff. That's a whole order of magnitude slower than just using a slower GPU but fitting everything into VRAM.
Inside-Out 2 Was the Hit Pixar Needed, but the Laid-Off Employees Are Hurting
The actual title is: Inside Out 2 Was the Hit Pixar Needed, but the Laid-Off Employees Who Crunched on It Are Still Hurting
I take it you are talking about anabolic steroids.

Most people don't understand that a person will not simply gain huge amounts of muscle by taking them. It does allow more lean mass gain, but only if muscle are being stimulated to grow and extra calories are being consumed.
https://archive.ph/l6dpE

one video: https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1836039436653519209
I have definitely shifted more to commenting here and there. I may get back to my blogs but I've sort of been faffing around since semi-retiring a few months back but maybe after I get back from my next trip and wrap up some home projects.
Sharing biosignals with gaming partners enhances mutual sense of social presence
Hm, does it not have the tabletop game (hex tiles, D&D dice) on that site, or am I just not finding it?
Have private equity types been seen entering the building?
i am surprised emacs doesn't have this already
emacs seems more like the right place for this

that being said, i think the spreadsheet being a separate command line tool make more sense, i dont understand why integrate it into the shell

nushell or pwsh, might make use of a spreadsheet view, since they pass or stream objects not text , but still the spreadsheet should be a separate program
That cat guillotine simulation at 5:10 is sobering:
https://youtu.be/xepC3-Ia9ho?t=310
Primary news suggests its an Israeli cyberattack
Antibiotic resistance threatens to kill 208M people in 25 years
For electronics it would probably show the part number and position of each component on the PCB, without showing how they are connected.
I have always been using Gradio, and it still comes short when it comes to slick UI, even with themes.
So it is nice to see solutions like this that has a slicker UI.
Yep. I used to be the guy responsible for bot detection at Robinhood so I can tell you firsthand it's impossible to reliably differentiate between humans and machines over a network. So either you accept being automated, or you overcorrect and block legitimate users.

I don't think the dead internet theory is true today, but I think it will be true soon. IMO that's actually a good thing, more agents representing us online = more time spent in the real world.
"Automated pet grooming."

There maybe some more warning videos coming up.
are there any Amazon folks out here looking to hire Applied scientists (ML, forecasting, recommender systems)?
Consistent withdrawals just under the limit are also reported.
Communication devices are exploding during the past hour (Lebanon)
AI will affect 60 million US and Mexican jobs within the year
FYI the article's "source" is a random tweet misrepresenting a graph, also with no source.
I think the issue is if you do cmd-x on a file and then don’t paste it will it be deleted…?

cmd-c & cmd-opt-v is a different, “safer” operation.
Back in undergrad I had to attend an event that was about these extreme social justice-y topics, and yeah, it was pretty self defeating. Was my first exposure to that kind of thing outside of the internet.

It was kind of offensive, since a big chunk of it was telling me that I was supposed to be mad about "outsiders" trying to participate in positive or neutral aspects of my home country's culture without necessarily fully understanding it.
Edit: some of the startup successes that I assumed*
It could be they had a way to warm up the batteries until these explode
Yea same. But for me reading glasses have gone from necessity to comfort.
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567573
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Folks on the other side of the globe, or in other such low-cost-of-living areas outside of the US, duh. ;)
The cops in the US absolutely do start shooting willy nilly. There are tons of stories of cops raiding the wrong house, shooting homeowners, their dogs. Police regularly use excessive force, shoot without sufficient reason, kill for no reason. If you think otherwise you’re not paying attention or you’re paying attention in an extremely selective way.
Every swatting should be treated like it could have ended in a death.
Installed. :)

Including GraalVM as well.
The batteries are the only major energy storage device there to breach.

Clearly Israel has found a software vulnerability that lets them overload some otherwise minimally used processor and overheat the batteries. Above ~140f lithium ion cells go into thermal runaway.
Which correspondingly means that the received signal strength here on Earth is very low.

Internet says approximately -160.48 dBm, which is one thousandth of the minimum strength that the most sensitive commercial FM radio receivers can discriminate.

Hence the huge receiving dishes, and apparently one 100 foot dish alone does not collect enough energy to reconstruct the signal, so multiple are required at each Deep Space Network receiving station.

And due to the rotation of the Earth, we need three DSN stations to maintain constant communication with Voyager.
This article [1] has an image of the pager and a video supposedly showing one exploding in the bag of some guy while shopping groceries. From that I would suspect a supply chain attack integrating some explosive, that seems way too violent for just an exploding battery or anything else you would usually find in that kind of device.

[1] https://realrepublic.com/encrypted-hezbollah-pagers-simultan...
If you'd like to give the Iliad a go in the original Greek you can try https://iliad.rocks
Yeah,atom too back in atom, they tried really hard to improve speed of atom by rendering in GPU as texture but before that properly implemented MS took over.
It's a race condition which involves physical interaction with the product, which only occurs during a very rare operation, which looks pretty much identical to a genuine hardware defect.

This isn't something you can just trivially unit test. If you don't see this happen multiple times during initial hardware development, you are never catching it. A single failure of a prototype can easily be attributed to a manufacturing defect - especially if it was hand-soldered.

Once it's in the field replacing the 0.01% of units suffering from random issues under warranty is far cheaper than having an engineer spend weeks trying to diagnose every single weird failure mode. Unless it affects a number of units, it's just not worth the money. You have to consider that support doesn't get a "the LEDs stopped working when I unplugged the device immediately after flashing it" message, they just get "the LEDs don't work". Support scripts are made for horses, not zebras.
All this is saying is our neural architecture has specific places that respond to danger and the instinct of fear. Anyone who has seen an MRI knows this is the case. It does not mean actual knowledge of snakes is encoded in our DNA.

Our brains are "trained" on the data they receive during early development. To the degree that evolutionary pressures stored "data," it stored data about how to make our brains (compute) or physiology more effective.

Modern ML tries to shortcut this by making the architecture dumb and the data numerous. If the creators of ML were in charge of a forced evolution, they'd be arguing we need to make DNA 100s of gigabytes and that we needed to store all the memories of our ancestors in it.
Most people, in a city, or even in a rural environment, work 5 days a week, have a roof over their heads, sometimes go out to eat, sometimes go to walks in the parks, sometimes they host get-togethers at their homes.

And so you can be friends with most people in your city. Because they're not jet setters, famous people, politicians, or other 1% special people with VERY different lifestyle than most people.
I thought you were referencing this: https://youtu.be/QFgcqB8-AxE?si=mtt3UMDlNe41mnS-

> people don’t want what they want

Which makes the opposite point, funny enough. Who is the “they”
Is it the run_in_window() method cross platform? Can you talk a bit more about the implementation?
Is there a pager model sophisticated enough to accept remote firmware updates (or whatever condition for a software exploit) but lacking a battery protection IC? Otherwise wouldn't sabotage elsewhere in the chain be more likely?
Well said. This should be part of orientation for every new college student.
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I think you're right that for high end chips, it is worth the time to salvage it[1]. But I think that's the vast minority, like you said, most stuff being manufactured isn't at the cutting edge of consumer tech like GPUs are.

[1] They show a bit of the RMA/failed unit process towards the end of this surprisingly good GPU factory tour from Linus Tech Tips. There's some discussion of de-soldering and testing retrieved components. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS35VHEfFDU
This being a hack is improbable in my opinion. If you see the pictures of the aftermath, the damage is too big to be the result of a lithium battery explosion. Moreover the devices exploded at the same time in different locations (won’t happen if they made the battery overheat till explosion)
HA probably bought a bad batch with implanted explosives and they set it off now.
I think this process of uncovering your stupidity / confusion could be gradual as Scott makes the point below. It need not be a single "Aha" moment.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4974

> OK, but why a doofus computer scientist like me? Why not, y’know, an actual expert? I won’t put forward my ignorance as a qualification, although I have often found that the better I learn a topic, the more completely I forget what initially confused me, and so the less able I become to explain things to beginners.
This sounds like hell.

It might be a brainhack positive reinforcement type thing, like "tests passed! Ding!" but for actual functional use ("File passed linter! Ding!" every few seconds) sounds like overstimulation fodder.

I already get annoyed at my machine when it's trying to correct what I'm writing faster than I can write it incorrectly. Let me get the rough draft out first.
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Toolkit to bolster our own innate creativity and resilience
Taxes on everyday Europeans bring in 13 times more revenue than taxes on wealth
they had to have had some extra components added: batteries won't pop like that, they haven't that much energy.
He killed millions by causing a famine, taking rice that was then stored and never used.

“ cabinet was warned repeatedly that the exhaustive use of Indian resources for the war effort could result in famine, but it opted to continue exporting rice from India to elsewhere in the empire.” https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...
Open Science NL budget cut by half
'This reduction of the budget by half is a severe blow to open science. Successive Dutch governments have rightly invested in making science more accessible, transparent, and collaborative. Coupled with the other funding reductions, this drastic cut threatens to erode the country's hard-won advancements and leadership in the field.’
So you think unions are greedy, but want to abolish the professional management class...with nothing? Have you considered that, without some sort of organization, you are powerless and have no ability to effect change?

Also, have you considered that unions aren't greedy, but simply negotiating a fair value for their labor, and your mental model reacts negatively for some reason due?
Sexual interest is not wholly absent from my mixed gender friendships. But I wouldn't call it "tension" in most cases. Some are people I have been intimate with before, but now that is in the past. Some are now married with children and I am friends with their spouses (and kids) and would never, ever try to inject sex. Some I am not at all attracted to, and some are not at all attracted to me.

And some I hope to someday fool around with!

It's not simple, but the vast majority of the time it is not a problem either. The real problem comes from jealous partners, and I personally would never date someone who is so jealous that they cause problems with my existing friendships.
Yes but where are Amazon’s chips made, currently?
Curious to know what you're using under the hood for the python!
I've download the repo and a quick search with "pyodide" didn't return anything.
Looks like htpy, but with some components and a different syntax?

https://htpy.dev/
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