skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try Norman times:

People with Norman names wealthier than other Britons

People with "Norman" surnames like Darcy and Mandeville are still wealthier than the general population 1,000 years after their descendants conquered Britain, according to a study into social progress.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/842...
I believe this Map Men video has the answer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZ9ZVRQ0Nw
You have to be smart enough to know how to prompt and how to iterate on the LLM response. If you can't use the tool effectively, you're gonna get bad results.

I'm in my mid 30's, well into my professional career as an engineer.

I frequently use gpt to tune / tweak / see if I am missing anything in proposals and other documents I create. I'll give GPT a broad idea of what I'm writing and ask for bullet points, then review what it came up with and compare to what I've written. It almost always makes my output better - I find there's some customer disclaimer or other scope clarification that the gpt came up with that I incorporate into my document.

Asking GPT to make you something or "do your essay" wont work. You have to know enough about the thing you want out of it in order to be able to ask GPT for it.

So yes, the people who know things and know how to use a LLM are going to have
more polished outputs. Most other people just plugging and chugging get junk or uninspired goop.
> LLMs radically accelerate the learning process.

Can't agree with that. IME and from what I've read in many places, it's basically only useful if you already know the subject. If you don't, you have no idea if what it spews out is correct or not, and you completely skip the part where you actually use your brain.

> As a hugely important side note, we should be focusing more on how to support low intelligence people so their shortcomings aren't a burden to themselves and a drain on society.

Completely agree with that, although I don't think LLMs will help with it at all.
Spoiler: You're never going to get rid of hallucinations in the autoregressive, next token prediction paradigm (aka LeCun's Law).

The issue here is people trying to use language models as deterministic problem solvers, rather than for what they actually excel at (semi-creative text generation).
The Indian Civil Service was always tiny. There were so few British in India that in 1950 when the Indian government surveyed the populace to try and see if they knew the British had left they discovered the average Indian wasn’t aware there had ever been a British Empire. The British Empire in India and the British Army in India at all but the most rarefied levels were staffed by Indians and there weren’t even that many of them.

> At the time of the partition of India and departure of the British, in 1947, the Indian Civil Service was divided between the new Dominions of India and Pakistan. The part which went to India was named the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), while the part that went to Pakistan was named the "Civil Service of Pakistan" (CSP). In 1947, there were 980 ICS officers. 468 were Europeans, 352 Hindus, 101 Muslims, two depressed classes/Scheduled Castes, five domiciled Europeans and Anglo-Indians, 25 Indian Christians, 13 Parsis, 10 Sikhs and four other communities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Civil_Service
NO. A tax is a bad way to regulate any system in the long run. Ideally i would like all telescopes be shifted to outer space. if spacex or its competitor created a orbital satellite network and charged a monthly / yearly fee to get a feed of data from the cost / dollar would far exceed anything available today. tax going to govt is a place for inovation to die.
Try Firefox with Sideberry extension.
I am absolutely stunned that you just were absolutely okay with a random stranger sending you a message like this and then you do it.

Yes it's really good that you are doing a PSA but there needs to be another PSA on top of this.

The PSA shouldn't be to be careful. The PSA should be literally not to trust people you don't first initiate contact with to do something as "personal" as compile their code without reading it first.

Does a sight unseen code review usually start with compiling?

Should you trust a random crypto person?

If four to five times in the last 6 months this happened to you then I'm also wondering what other things you have participated in were also scams.

You just seem really trusting.
I don't know much about this proposal but I know that the restart marker proposal exists which I believe tries something very similar: https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/60

//EDIT: also Apple is assumed to have an extension that does something similar: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/895-Co...
> For whoever didn't learn from history, extremism of any kind ruins the cake for everyone.

I introduce you the law system. Lock the extremists up, integration of women into previously men-only environment isn't against the law but being extremist against it is.
With that, Bill Clinton has very humble ancestry, as does Hillary; both trace back to traveling salesmen, small business owners, coal miners, such kind of folks.

Parental families of, say, Nigel Farage or Margaret Thatcher were somehow more sophisticated, even though not tracing back to some nobility.

Not that coming from a well-off family is bad; I just would like to emphasize that the "American dream" of coming to high social positions based in merit, not lineage, worked for Clintons.
Is it like an app you install on the car or is it a custom integration?
Ah ok so anthropomorphizing and the phrase "infinite vocabulary" sounds impossible. I agree infinite vocabulary is a bit murky, and mathematically incorrect. If I wanted to be more mathematically correct I could say complete vocabulary, but I think that's actually a little less understandable to people. I did not mean infinite vocabulary in that it coins new words, just infinite as in very large to the point of being incomprehensibly large by a single individual. As per anthropomorphizing, I think the word "chat" is the most anthropomorphizing I did, so don't agree with you on that one.

Ah mate sorry to hear that, the market is tough right now. I will say objectively I believe there's very little in my comment that's hype-y. I think using AI while reading documents out of your comfort zone, and asking it questions can expand your vocabulary. I've personally tried it, it's helped me read papers not in my field, it's helped me find papers for better research. I can understand how someone can disagree with that, but calling it hype sounds to me more like a response to an invisible enemy/to "all the ones who hyped before" than to an actual concrete response to this specific case. And I think that mentality could put you in a potential catch-22 mental loop that will leave you constantly dissatisfied with anything AI or ML, by constantly seeing this invisible enemy where it might not be present. Anyways, stay positive and best of luck with the job hunt!

Edit: and it looks like my comment has now fallen deep into the depths of the comment thread, never to be heard from again! See, I told you I was an embattled ideological minority ;)
>> On the other hand, if I want to pursue a career in journalism? My father will have made sure I've studied the right things, funded me through the right unpaid internships, and will be able to get my job application in front of the right hiring managers.

It also helps to get an internship if your Dad is literally the editor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Mackie
Running Docker container using Golang
Animated AVIF is widely supported, and can represent GIFs losslessly.

BTW, Chrome vetoed the idea of supporting muted video files in `<img>` like Safari does, so we've got this silly animated AVIF that is a video format that has been turned into a still image format that has been turned back into a video format, which takes regular AV1 video data but packages it in a slightly different way, enough to break video tooling.
How could one sell a vulnerability like this to let's say Mossad? Write them an email?
"These are not just disconnected observations", says the article. Yeah, but they might be actually. For instance the one about France producing more electricity is because France famously over-invested in nuclear power stations and that's why its electricity price recently went negative. Meanwhile the UK probably needs to increase supply slightly, but the comparison is misleading.
In the census in 1921 there were over 150000 British Subjects in India. Over 40000 of them were women, so we are not talking just army.

In 1891 there were 238,409 with english as their mother tongue (before the census broke this out).
I'd expect the cultural stagnation to lead the economic. The article is clearly political but it is pointing out some really obvious long term trends. The fact that the UK elite haven't been able to grapple with them at any point in the last few decades showcases that, as a culture, they've lost the spark of competence.

The UK media and upper class have failed to identify energy, housing or infrastructure more generally as requiring serious responses too. Their entire system appears to be off the rails. Their failure relative to countries like China really is quite astonishing, although it doesn't set them far apart from the greater western bloc. It makes sense that we aren't seeing cultural leadership out of them; where would they lead us too? Nowhere good.
It's a dashcam that you put on the windshield with 2 cameras pointing forward and one inward (filming the driver).
> I think your point of view is overlooking the concept of loophole or more precisely, malicious compliance.

I don't think I am, because even if the cookie popups were made with the genuine best intentions to adhere to the regulations, no malicious compliance at all, the people I am disagreeing with would still blame the corporations engaging in legal activity and not the regulations themselves that dictate the popups.

I don't doubt malicious compliance exists or is a problem, but I don't think it makes much of a difference in this context.
>It looks like I need to object to each “legitimate interest” separately and I've not got time for that

I absolutely don't understand why some websites do this. Either don't show them or don't make them annoying to disable. Let me explain:

Legitimate interest is one of the lawful reasons for processing personal data. They don't have to ask for your permission. Usually adspam cookies are not in your legitimate interest, so they have to resort to another lawful basis, which is user consent. But they claim "legitimate interest" covers these cookies, so why even ask?

But on the other hand, I often stubbornly disable legitimate interest cookies, and not once I broke the website this way. This is suspicious - "legitimate interest" means that it's crucial to doing what you want to do on the website, for example a session cookie or language selection cookie. If the website works normally without a "legitimate interest" cookie, them the interest was not legitimate at all. I assume this is just some trick abused by advertisers to work around GDPR, and I wish them all 4% of global turnover fine.
The ATK cookbooks are fantastic, not only for explaining how the recipe works, but also explaining some of the things they tried that didn't make the cut and why they thought they didn't work.

They also did a cookbook devoted to recipes for two people a while back. Love that.
The POLY instruction was the CISCiest of the VAX instructions. One machine instruction could evaluate a polynomial. I think it could even handle the situation where fetching one of the coefficients caused a page fault. If you knew the VAX instruction set well, writing code in VAX assembly was almost as easy as using a higher level language.
It takes more than the civil service to run a colony.

It is quite curious both you and the other replier jumped to that conclusion, and says quite a lot about the current British malaise.
Do you pay taxes to the russian government? If you do, then you are helping them wage war against europe.

Russia is a dictatorship, what are you doing to change that? Just complaining that there isn't anything you can do won't change anything.

Why should we in the west go out of our way to not inconvenience you? If you are not resisting the russian government, then you are passively helping them, why would I even consider it negative that sanctions bother you?
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Toothflossing mouthpiece flosses all teeth in 10 seconds
It's a hint that this patent is probably not a direct reaction to Palworld. And it means that we are lacking a significant amount of information regarding the whole history of these patents. Quite possible that they indeed have a trail of patents going back for decades, and this is just the latest addition.
Former NYC Covid Czar Partied While Preaching Social Distancing
I like how you donated it to the spare bedroom lol
AVIF is worse than JXL both for high fidelity compression and for lossless compression, which is what Apple is using JXL for here.
Ask HN: Can you roast my landing page?
Hey HN,

We're not promoting anything, just looking for feedback to improve our landing page after a recent big update. We’ve shifted from being a screenshot tool to an AI agent creation platform (long story, happy to share more in the comments if you're curious!).

I’d really appreciate your thoughts on the clarity of the text, the UI/UX, the illustrations, and any other details. Most importantly, can you tell what the tool is for just by looking at the landing page?

If you're interested in exploring the tool itself, I’d love to hear your feedback on that too. All suggestions—positive or critical—are very welcome!

Thanks in advance for your time and help!
Xavier Niel, a Driving Force of French AI, Is Now Shaping TikTok
For some, Yes. If there is a surpresa of lets say 50%, lots of people will need to change market
Sideloading on Any Apple Product
Actually worth doing if the repo uses submodules.
Yeah exactly, I do that all the time when filling captcha!
The Passion Paradox
Not quite. They identified the city and the house by tracking bin Laden's courier. After that, they tried to get dna samples by sending in a doctor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ahmed_al-Kuwaiti
Now that's an argument! Agreed, it won't use them of its own accord, but the fact that you can ask it about words, or ask it even to break down important words in a new field, or give it a paragraph from a paper not in your field and have it explain the jargon, I think that's how it can help someone grow their vocabulary.
Why Making Music Your Career Can Destroy Your Motivation
Is it even ethical anymore to build "old" devices with large amounts of space sitting behind bulky plastic exteriors?

It lets cheaters put chips into calculators and Israeli spies put explosives into pagers. Should large manufacturers be forced to put electronics into the smallest possible casing, to discourage trying to cram anything else inside?
"return key, value" is implicit. While "return [key, value]" is explicitly telling the full return-value. And it's (for me) more readable than "return (key, value)".
This is very interesting and it looks like the first step (or last step?) towards having a device with no USB connection
Adobe added JXL as a compression option for the DNG format last year. Previous options were JPEG, Lossless JPEG, Deflate, and nothing. Apple used Lossless JPEG. Apple engineers have decided to take advantage of the option Adobe added last year to make their DNG files smaller.
I usually wait for a .4 update before upgrading. One time around Catalina there was a bug that broke USB-C docks.. Oh cool none of my devices work.

Interestingly in that thread, 'Intel' is not mentioned once.
Great to hear! Thanks for saying so.

I still hope to rebuild it one day but only when I can do it as a passion project. You can’t make a living from a site like that.
I'm still dreaming since a kid to have a toothbrush machine. Will order this.
Embracing Vibrant Universality in Fluent Illustrations
If you read that paper carefully (it's been a while so I might have this wrong), I think you'll see that while they're using Norman vs not-Norman surnames, the comparison is between Victorian and contemporary wealth and life expectancy data.

(Obviously the discrepancy has to start with the Conquest, I'm just saying that strictly speaking you can't use that paper to support that conclusion).
...you mean like it does for programming too?
> "The flat vectorized style that was once hugely popular across the industry was now communicating sub-optimally and potentially evoking ideas and themes that were misaligned with our company values."
> That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to sync. Accessibility settings are exactly the type of thing you shouldn’t have to configure again and again on every device.

No, because I disabled motion on my phone because the wiggling of icons on the main screen annoyed me, not because I have motion sickness. Nothing wiggles on the desktop (yet). This option doesn't even belong in accessibility IMO, it should be a "stop annoying me" section.

> Either way, you can disable syncing of system settings.

Where? The same spot where I can disable syncing the clipboard? I.e. somewhere deep in an undocumented file?
Part 2: https://www.careersinmusic.com/music-motivation-part-2
But how does the ecological benefit of space savings compare with the extra power consumption from compressing and decompressing?

And will people take more pictures because of the space savings leading to more power consumption from compressing and decompressing the photos?

Is this just greenwashing by Apple?

But I have now decided to take my photos off of Apple's servers as well as to take way way less photographs, if any. The climate of my near future is way more important than a photograph of my cat.
Easy. Here is an article I wrote in 2016: https://ashvardanian.com/posts/whats-wrong-with-wwdc-2016/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862546
AFAIK use of Apple's more recent ScreenCaptureKit should not have been triggering this alert—as opposed to the use of the deprecated Core Graphics APIs for screen capture—but it does. (I just tested this in an Xcode playground that uses SCScreenshotManager.captureImage)

If there's another "system private window picker" I haven't heard of it.
They aren't doing JXL encoding in hardware though. Zero chance that the new iPhone chip has hardware acceleration for JXL. Definitely just plain old CPU encoding.

And we're not talking about video anyway, this is about ProRAW, a still image format.
Bets on when the first movie is released entirely from prompts?
That’s so bad. You should be able to patent specific rules to protect your game or like board game and avoid people from copy pasting it. But you shouldn’t be able to patent such broad mechanics…
It is distracting and annoyed me, I stopped reading because of it.
> why does SHA-256 even exist when SHA-512/256 is what we should all use?

SHA-512 is more computationally costly so running that and truncating the result is slower than just running SHA-256. Where performance is key¹ and you have other protection in your protocol that mitigates extension issues, that could be a significant benefit.

IIRC SHA512 used 64-bit values throughout rather than 32 as used in SHA256, so it might actually be faster on software on modern 64-bit architectures, nullifying the above consideration on such platforms, but back when the SHA2 family were formally specified 64-bit processing was far far less common. Also if you have acceleration for SHA256 in hardware but not 512 that flips things back. Hardware support for SHA256 will be cheaper in silicon than SHA512.

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[1] very low CPU power systems, or hashing en-mass on now powerful arrangements
I've seen at least two movies which were shot with iPhones

Unsane (2018) by Steven Soderbergh - shot with iPhone 7 Plus

Tangerine (2015) by Sean Baker - shot with iPhone 5S

Both seemed to have used Filmic Pro app.

Honestly, you don't notice much - only the lack of steadicam, if they haven't used such stabilizing systems. And if you know before starting the films, you'll forget throughout the movies.
Thousands of pagers exploding, presidents, judges, etc
We have done a huge amount of work on fixing E2EE issues - when running latest matrix-rust-sdk clients (e.g. Element X) and matrix-js-sdk using matrix-rust-sdk-crypto (e.g. Element Web/Desktop), "unable to decrypt" bugs should be unheard of.

So, the point of this blog post is to try to spell out that we've fixed this.

Meanwhile if you see ANY unable to decrypt errors, PLEASE submit debug logs on both the sender & receiver, and we will jump on it aggressively.

In terms of threads: yes, the stuck unread notification bug(s) were a disaster, but also fixed last year. Behind the scenes, 2023 was an absolutely awful year for Matrix & Element along many axes, c.f: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update.... Sorry that you got caught in the disruption.
So limited information here it's hard to say why, but I'm in the UK and have had similar applicants in the past that I've rejected. Usually the reasons have been like having a limited term visa that the company was unable to sponsor, or the person applying is trying to transition career and so their experience isn't directly relevant e.g. trying to move from business analyst to software.
I will try to give an example: you find a recipe you like at first glance and try to cook it. It's from East Asia and contains tofu, so you buy tofu, and if you live in Central Europe like me there is good chance the tofu will be completely different to what should the tofu in that recipe be like. Same for the rice (and other ingredients). The result will not be ideal, to say the least, because while the recipe might have been good and you may followed it correctly, the fundamentals weren't there.
Agreed. Thankfully we know what it takes to make housing a crappy investment vehicle. Build more housing. Build so much housing that returns on capital invested are flat, live Tokyo since 2000, or negative, like Seattle over the last five years.

Make building housing legal again.

Also. Renters deserve housing too. Restricting housing to the owner occupied is a great way to hate things by social class but I see no reason to further favour a population that’s richer and more powerful than the rest of the population already.
We have fully embraced the parasite economy in the UK, however unlike big American tech we feed on one another. The safest business for a long time has been property, poor quality reno-flips and rentals, which adds nothing except burden to the people who might bring foreign income through being entrepreneurial.
It’s my understanding that in addition to the cameras it also uses the sensors already built in to the car which would include blind-spot detection, no?
I'm stunned to realize that most developers just blindly follow whatever are the newest hottest "good practices" and completely ignore the actual goals that code should try to achieve. Literally yesterday I had an argument with a coworker because he wouldn't buy the argument "High-availability costs us $2000 per year extra, downtime costs us $100 per day, so if the database breaks once per year, there's no point having high-availability". Some time ago someone important from upper management announced that we need to pump out features faster to stay afloat as a business, even if they're a bit broken, and two hours later the most senior programmer in my team introduced us to new bureaucracy "because that's the best practice" and he wouldn't understand that what he's doing is directly at odds with the company's goals. Same guy also often accuses me of "not seeing the bigger picture". I gave up trying to reason with coworkers because it's just pain and changes nothing in the long run besides exhausting me.