skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matthew Taylor to Intervene with the Chinese Government over Project Night Watch
I like the tray with what looks like fold up edges - does anyone know what this is?
> preparation for the imperial exams began at the age of 3-4, the practical effect being that the well off were already advantaged.

This reminds me of the recent experiments with dropping standardized tests (or making them optional) for college admissions.

The critics bemoaned the advantage that rich kids had when studying for the exams... but when colleges temporarily switched to essay writing, grades and extracurriculars as the bar for admission, the incoming class was even more heavily skewed to rich kids.

It turns out that rich kids have much less of an advantage on standardized exams than any other form of evaluation.

The standardized test, scored by an anonymous grader, still requires you to know some things and to engage your brain. Being born to rich parents (or members of the imperial court) doesn't automatically give you passing scores... You still have to work for them.
What about these guys?

https://www.slant3d.com
One of the remaining two posts also likely triggered the heated discussion detected, since the one known criteria is if a post has more comments than upvotes, it gets algorithmically pushed down.
Most of these methodologies came from the car making industry... I think if we realize that and compare making cars to the process of managing software, it's easy to adjust and manage aspects of efficiency & output.... The problem is that humans (the actual devs and process managers) are not often accounted for in the process now, as robots have taken over most of the aspects of car making, so while Agile may look ideal in many cases, the output if often not predictable when staff can quit, rebel and burn the factory down, join unions and demand more pay, or take vacations (for example).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/pig-butcheri...
AFAICT this is very much about handling unreliable links and congestion control.

Infiniband instead makes the sides bargain to avoid packet loss, while the medium is supposed to be reliable.
The bike lanes around here are wide and clear. Nothing unsafe. They still regularly veer into the car lane.

> it’s perfectly legal to cycle in the car lanes

Reminds me of a phrase: "don't be right, dead right".
Show HN: Oracle Aconex Accelerator (Common Lisp)
A1 mini, it's sitting on my desk right now (is very small) and I love it!
Maybe yours is... they aren't all like that.
The London underground now provides mobile connectivity. I have a gut feeling that that is more secure, but probably costly and bureaucratic.
> wheels don't work for arbitrary terrain

You just need a bigger wheel.
U.S. pitches ban on Chinese tech in driverless and connected vehicles
> Perhaps something for @Dang to investigate.

Then email dang? Why bother asking us? We don't have any of this data.
Can you name any current laptop model that uses cylindrical cells? I haven't encountered any cylindrical cells when opening a laptop in well over a decade.
Men in black always want popcount (it's been added to various architectures over the years at their request) so this makes sense given his background.
Muscae temporis is fine, and funny in its way :)
You're right. WhatsApp Business API has a cost (which varies depending on country and type of message the Business initiates). I'm hoping to recover the cost through monthly subscriptions.
The control scheme is the point of the paper.
https://archive.is/DWJqi
These "fully loaded Android TV boxes" are running very modified and many generations out of date versions of AOSP according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536961 so I doubt they even contain Google Play services or have the ability to update
While "C# Language Runtime" as a joke term certainly exists, most runtime improvements benefit all languages that target it, individual changes would have different impact on different languages but that's expected. It is likely further devirt and escape analysis work will have greater impact on F# for example.
Great Article it's been pretty sad with google for a while, poisoned ad networks thanks for sharing.. I was wondering if you could give your input about nature.com as well they seem to post on hackernews all the time seems like a ranking game as well. cheers
Marketing people love some metric they can use to differentiate from competition. A phone gets thinner, lighter and survives more fall height or water depth. A PC gets a faster CPU (anyone thinking back to the megahertz wars [1] or the gigahertz wars [2]?), a bigger SSD or more RAM.

[1] https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/1538

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/intel-revives-the-mh...
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It's extremely rare to truly understand the agenda, motivation and consequences of complex enterprise initiatives like this one by Cloudflare. Not to mention it can be pivoted.

So conjectures and hypothesis are not boring, but welcome in a discussion forum like HN.

Anything else is gatekeeping discussion.
I played around with Coconut many years ago and my impression was that the compiler was not smart enough to be useful. The generated code had a big pile of helper functions hardcoded at the top, and the program was much slower than the equivalent plain Python.

By contrast Hy generates Python code that is very close to what you might write by hand, apart from some indirection when it comes to scoping with `let` and some variations around returning values.

Maybe Coconut has improved though, it's been a long time.
How much does "allocating resources for preschoolers" actually matter? My sense is not a whole lot.

The West is fairly meritocratic. The attempt to deny this is catastrophizing e.g. "everything is awful and unfair." And in practice, critics of Western meritocracy have mainly had a negative effect by erroding the good things we do have.
Because of the dogma of semantic web
I dunno. If Cloudflare's protection doesn't work (and lets face it, it doesn't), why are you paying for it?
My pacifist nature lead the choice and I probably saw that license on some other random projects iirc.
Yep, anything too controversial or exciting get buried. It's like to polar opposite of the Facebook ranking algorithm.

Seems ripe for manipulation, you could go start arguments in whatever threads you want to see downranked.
> Why would repairability and cost of parts have any relation?

Because at some point it ampers the repairability.
If something is technically repairable but it cost more than buy a new one, can you really say it's repairable ?

> Also, checking eBay, it looks like an oem display (not from apple) for the iPhone 15 is only $150-170. From apple directly it’s $235. By comparison, I can’t find any way to actually buy an OEM display for Samsung phones. They just offer repair services.

I don't believe that apple is going to let you 'calibrate' a third party manufacturer display, so you lose feature that technically work.

Meanwhile on Samsung, or whatever other Android manufacturer, you put the new display and everything works as before.

So you can't use the price of iphone third party manufacturer to compare it, or else you got to add the price of the feature you loose, like true tone, faceid, and so on.
> Ultimately separating all groups would be the best, but heavy consequences for the heaviest road users is ultimately the solution.

I agree that physical separation would be the best, with curbs or fences not just painted lines.

As a pedestrian I would very much like to not share the sidewalk with any vehicle under any circumstances. Most people riding a vehicle on the sidewalk have no real legal constraints and the least respect I've witnessed anyone having towards the rest of the people. Pedestrians come in all shapes, sizes and ages, can't walk like robots and will easily step into the bike lane, or drop something, or a child will run around, etc. Riding at 30km/h in that environment is common and stupid.

As a cyclist I'd much rather have the cycling lane on the street. Cars are more dangerous but also generally more predictable than pedestrians on a narrow sidewalk. Driving also has more regulation and enforcement. From my experience cars are a danger to me as cyclist at intersections (the dreaded right turn) and a terrifying thought when it comes to doors opening in front of me.

As a driver I'd rather lose a driving lane to a cycling one than to have cyclists randomly bobbing in and out of my lane, crossing my path after crossing a red light, or after ignoring the right of way.
My how things have changed.... he says "Desk Machine"... and of course I think Keyboard, Computer, Monitor, Mouse.. ;-) Instead of one of the Friden Calculators.

Like this one, seen in a storage rack somewhere deep inside a TARDIS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friden,_Inc.#/media/File:Fride...
> I can imagine situations where I hold something, thinking "this needs to go there".

I'll do you better. Every goddamn day I have situations where I have something in my hands that I would like to let go of and have it stay exactly there. I often dream of a magical solution that would let me create small, temporary flat surfaces out of thin air. I envy the astronauts on the ISS; my life feel like one constant shortage of empty flat surfaces.

Of course, this thing is not that either - maybe it would keep my thing suspended where I want it, but the propellers would blow everything else out of where it is.
Comments on HN are expected to have a bit more substance. Most people will have no idea what you’re on about. An alternative:

> This reminded me of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, a horror manga where a town is cursed by spirals. It can get gruesome. A short anime adaptation is about to come out.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzumaki
Sorry - what whole thing? An accusation in a comment on Hacker News?
That seems pretty unlikely to be the failure mechanism for a phone that's waterproof.
> The content creator bears all the burden of creating and hosting the content and reaps non of the reward as the AI agent has now inserted itself as a middleman.

As a user agent my god what's happened to our industry. Locking the web to known client which are sufficiently not the user's agent betrays everything the web is for.

Do you really hate AI so much that you'll give up everything you believe in to see it hurt?
> These people would benefit from lifting too. Physical decline seems inevitable, but its speed seems malleable.

Not for those who're already at the point of needing things like that. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... except if you're already sick.
I worked with a company that wrote its own protocol for Ethernet and got almost wire speed. It was worth it for 10, but not worth it at 100mbps.

You can always beat general purpose solutions like the TCP/IP/UDP stack if you try. For most it isn’t worth it.
We can make informed guesses. Such attackers likely use the same TCP stack and datacenter within the attack, so perhaps the cipher suite, the latency (based off the Date header?), the OS, the UA, the set of HTTP headers sent, are some of the signals they use.

What other aspects could they harness?
That's why I said "arbitrary" - to mean "bigger than the wheel you have".
Historical precedent and anti-.NET bias - CLI/CIL is a much more powerful and flexible bytecode target than JVM, but it is also not as well-documented with fewer guest languages and, as a result, community know-how. With that said, it really is a breath of fresh air to see projects like this one, alongside ongoing work on F#, the main "other" language of .NET, and a couple small toy-like languages like Draco. There are also IKVM and ClojureCLR/ClojureCLR.Next.
What I think you missed in that statement is that the code is technically still Rust safe, so in theory it wouldn't just be unsafe .NET Code, it would be Rust safe code that happens to run on .NET with a speed up since its less managed. It's kind of genius, if I'm not misunderstanding.
I was recently speaking with people from OpenFoodFacts and OpenStreetMap, and I guess Wikipedia as the same issue. They are under constantly DDoS by bots which are scraping everything, even if the full dataset can be downloaded for free with a single HTTP request. They said this useless traffic was a huge cost for them.
This is not about copyright, just about bots being stupid and people behind them not caring at all. We for sure need a solution to this. To maintain a system online nowadays means not only they get your data but you pay for that!
Elon Musk's Starlink is shaking up competition in Africa
Might want to not rely on Wikipedia for your nitpicking rebuttal to my point -- the Sony "Pentalobe" was NOT the same as Apple's, it is 5-flanged but has clearly cut-off tips: https://preview.redd.it/mdo85jqd6rcb1.jpg?width=3024&format=... -- and regardless, Apple's wide-scale use of these screw-heads was transparently anti-repair.
I agree, I rate the comment to be at around .60 Tim Pools. My personal policy is to not engage with anything under 1 Tim Pools.
The page says "14-day Free trial. No Credit Card Required." but there is no mention of any pricing page. What happens once the trial is over? Does the boy just stop sending messages?
I was gonna ask the same thing, but then she called me a usual broken people and I decided "not me" was a good enough answer :)

This was a tortured way to setup a colo. I bring rackable gear, no switch, and use the colo's "setup station" to do final config, then I rack the sucker. They can always VLAN me and my laptop together somewhere for a final check before I leave. I'd be worried if they couldn't.
It's pretty easy to see how cloudflare arrived in a situation where they are in a position to create this sort of marketplace without resorting to conspiracies about them trying to take over the internet.

They solved the very real problem of DDOS which consequently put them in a position to be a middleman between internet traffic between consumers and producers. Now they are expanding their business to take advantage of this privileged position they have.

> This time, Cloudflare has formed a "marketplace" for the abuse from which they're protecting you, partnering with the abusers.

When the original comment has a statement like this, it's a clear sign there is no potential for constructive discussion. Their understanding of markets has to be completely warped if they think a market existing constitutes partnering with one side of the exchange.
IIRC it also introduced index based addressing. Before that, people just wrote self modifying code to index arrays...
Would it be possible to import titles as a text list, instead of requiring files?

I'm not a hoarder, but I do have a (very) long Excel file of movies and documentaries that I want to watch or have already watched. Most of them are available on streaming sites or for rent/download on demand.

You've got a great IMDb scraper and filtering UI. That's all I really need! :)
> gatekeep access to those who pay and those who don't, and that applied whether they are bots or people.

I'm already constantly being classified as bot. Just today:

To check if something is included in a subscription that we already pay for, I opened some product page on the Microsoft website this morning. Full-page error: "We are currently experiencing high demand. Please try again later." It's static content but it's not available to me. Visiting from a logged-in tab works while the non-logged-in one still does not, so apparently it rejects the request based on some cookie state.

Just now I was trying to book a hotel room for a conference in Grenoble. Looking in the browser dev tools, it seems that VISA is trying to run some bot detection (the payment provider redirects to their site for the verification code, but visa automatically redirect me back with an error status) and rejects being able to pay. There are no other payment methods. Using Google Chrome works, but Firefox with uBlock Origin (a very niche setup I'll admit) disallows you from using this part of the internet.

Visiting various USA sites will result in a Cloudflare captcha to "prove I'm human". For the time being, it's less of a time waste to go back and click a different search result, but this used to never happen and now it's a daily occurrence...
FYI, this post was ranking fairly high on the front page, then it just vanished.
But what you are missing is that a carrier locked phone isn't worthless, it is worth quite a bit. A carrier locked iphone 14 sells for ~$400 on ebay, an unlocked one sells for ~$525.

The carrier lock mostly just affects the owner of the phone, and the resale value when they are done with it. In completely unshocking news, TMobile also has a program to buy back t-mobile phones, unlock them, and sell them on.

Stealing a $400 phone vs stealing a $525 phone is irrelevant to the thief.

What DOES stop thieves is activation and firmware locks. Phone theft is way down since Apple effectively made it impossible to use a phone that hasn't been logged out of. Those phones are only worth what their unlocked parts are worth, which is not that much.
Pretty sure Delirium and the street will be packed as much as previous years…
Not sure highlighting hypocrisy is whataboutism.
At first I struggled to make sense of the numbers in the circles. Surely there can't be 10,110 locations in a space the size of the SF Bay area? But yes, yes there are...
If you listen to the people complaining about bots at the moment, some bots are scraping the same pages over and over to the tune of terabytes per day because the bot operators have unlimited money and their targets don't.
I know. Specifically, I reinvented gasoline-powered model RC helicopters, that were all the rage before battery-powered quadcopters became a thing, and scaled them up. I.e. I don't recall anyone trying a "palletrone"-like thing with an ICE-based platform, despite the tech for it being mature for like 50 years or so.
seems like an opportune moment to gift a plug for bitcoin puzzles, namely BTC32 / 1000 BTC Challenge[1]

pools are in dire need of cuda developers

[1]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0
Similar. Would be nice for a max version as well.

What about cases on your phone? I assume you need to remove it first?
True enough. Also true is that there's fuck-all we can do to fix it.
Huh yeah that's good to hear. As a small note, on my personal bot I set up a simple journaling (and then just used google sheets as the backend!) includes a nominal 'rating' 1-10 so I can see how my mood fluctuates.

Especially if they do it every day/most days, having the option to see what you wrote "on this day" 2-3 years back is great. Especially when I try to include people's names who I was interacting with (but who are easy to forget 3 years later). It can be a nice reminder to text them and say you were "just randomly", unprompted, thinking about them -- 'How's it going?'
>“The [robot] received several hits from RPGs and FPVs”—rocket-propelled grenades and first-person-view drones—“but persevered, completed the mission and returned to recovery.”

That's somewhat impressive given that it doesn't look particularly tough in the pictures. I'm assuming none of the RPG hits were direct hits. Would be interesting to see an 'after' picture.
Well, as long as Cloudflare pays you to be "abused" (by which we mean, spending more money on bandwidth) it should be no problem for many of the site owners.
War is a well known factor for innovation, and it tends to go together with periods of fragmentation. Probably less innovation than a war against a rival external power.
> incredible and beautiful new technology

To me, one could call this technology incredible and beautiful in the same way that a detached observer might use those terms to describe a hurricane bearing down on my hometown. In the Kantian sense it is more "sublime"[0] rather than "beautiful", and yet the sublime is experienced as such only if it can be viewed from a position of safety; but there appears to be no safe place from AI.

[0]: https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/11/11/kants-theory-of-th...
In my many years of consuming many drugs, no rule is more obvious than the fact that each person responds to different drugs differently, develops tolerances differently and develops addictions differently. The only way to understand drugs is to start from the position that my experience and your experience are almost certain to be different.
Quitting caffeine was one of the best health decisions I've ever made. My sleep is much better and I have just way more energy in general than when I was a heavy coffee drinker. The craziest thing is now when I wake up in the morning... I'm just awake. There is no groggy pre-coffee malaise.
I don't mean to be too forceful about this, but how is a common touchscreen ordering system any better or worse than the door handle you used to walk in?
Very cool. I've been tempted to buy a 3D printer for various little things like this but have yet to make the leap.

For those who haven't tried using standby mode as a bedside clock, I recommend it. Started using it maybe a year or so ago after buying a prebuilt magsafe stand, and the OLED panels that have been in most iPhones for several years now are very well suited to the use case — the panels can get quite dim (latest models go down to 1 nit!), there's few pixels lit up in the first place, and what light does get emitted is a sleep-friendly red. It's like the old red 7-segment display alarm clocks but even better since it's not as bright and turns off when no motion is detected.
The benefits of a four-day workweek according to a champion of the trend
I would always store/re-use the thin plastic grocery bags for trashbins, storage bags for miscellaneous things/junk, etc. etc.

Yeah, we probably collected too many over time, and then got fed up and shoved the mass of plastic bags from the drawer into the garbage and into the landfills.

The new plastic ones, I always forget to bring, end up buying 2-3 new ones for $1.25 each - which I'm sure the store has a decent margin on - and then they sit in the house - too "nice" to be used for garbage or any other purposes, so they sit there and eventually get thrown out.

And then you have the previous generation, who moved from paper to plastic to save the environment - whether that was a lobbying campaign from "big oil" to use more plastic, or a well intentioned grassroots movement that grew to make big change.

So now we're back to paper. I wonder if I'll live long enough for a new revolutionary material to come to market and we quickly move to replace the current material. (hemp fiber bags maybe?)
Yes, agree. at the same time, the company bears significant responsibility under the law. Their unconventional and insecure API implementation likely violates multiple provisions of the Act. They could face substantial penalties and legal consequences for failing to adequately protect personal data and implement appropriate security measures.
Isn't it pretty niche to not want discussions of winter or alignment? I guess you can go read Nick Land? If there's not at least a mini-winter or alignment some time soon it's going full Nick Land, right?

What I mean is, Nick Land is the only person I know of who can at least sort of credibly claim to have a theory for why alignment isn't just not guaranteed, but is in fact impossible, and there's ~no chance of a lasting winter.
And I think you can do more about E2E encrypting it. Or at least trying to. At some point, people don't want plaintext journals floating around stored permanently. Although I know it starts as cleartext on whatsapp's servers