skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, great catch. Something tells me he rolled this himself. Clearly he's trying to coin a term for personal legacy reasons, and I say godspeed. Holocene is a little vague, the information age is too entrenched to get anyone's attention, a/the singular age / the singularity are way too deeply associated with the doomer community, and the cybernetic age (a term coined for academia!) is too associated with playful science fiction.

I'm personally rooting for cognitive being the word of the next few decades, but that's just a shout from the sidelines. Only time will tell what humanity latches on to, but I wouldn't be surprised if this blog post/subdomain was referenced in a Wikipedia page's Etymology section in 10-15 years...

Although this blog post & discussion has my anxiety at an 8, something's oddly comforting about the thought of Sam Altman fiddling with tailwind classes to get his profound aesthetic just-right. Something undeniably relatable and human. Hate the man all you want (I do!), but he's clearly acting in some sort of good faith.
The Stellarator design has proven to be stable and to produce net positive energy. We are actually only $20B away from having a fully functional nuclear fusion reactor.
I would sub to youtube premium again if

1) replace spotify sub, but right now playlists and likes between youtube and youtube music gets disgustingly intermingled

2) replace patreon sub, determine exactly how much of payment goes to which producers. I don't want an even split, I want my favoured producers to get significantly more $$$. Better yet, I want to make sure I never give a certain cent to some producers. Like if 50% of fees is going towards producers, I want to pick who to support.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41496736
Can you charge it while in dock?
It has a very sizeable volume of _nothing_ behind the phone (besides the slot for a watch charger), and is bulky. That's my definition of wasteful.
Intel's Long-Shot Turnaround Hits a Critical Stage
Additional thought: How competitive are the two markets? Does the USA have fewer second-tier cloud providers, and the market is just dominated by AWS/Google/Microsoft?

EU customers can naturally use those services, but there is a demand for local/EU-sovereign providers. Perhaps this demand provides enough fuel to maintain a robust & competitive ecosystem of smaller cloud providers?
Building a pretty big storage system, S3 (2023)
And I'm surprised how many people think they can confidently tell whether they're looking at an s-curve or an exponential function based on very limited data points. I don't even doubt that superintelligence is a very real possibility! But it might or might not happen, and if it does, it might or might not be based on deep learning.

As a counterexample: The maximum speed of travel for the average person for millenia used to be as fast as they could run, then it was as fast as the fastest horse can run, and then within a century it has accelerated to almost the speed of sound – at which it has plateaued.

Looking purely at the decades of acceleration, you might have very well concluded from the data that we'd be making significant headway towards getting within double-digit percentages of the speed of light at this point.
Crucial MX500 SSD firmware susceptible to buffer overflow security vulnerability
FYI, Turing Complete - while a fantastic game, is not made by Zachtronics.
I use a case for grip, not for the protection it provides. I'd be dropping this slippery device pretty often otherwise. I haven't been able to go case-less since the days of the iPhone 4.

> Apple fixes or replaces it for free

Where? In the US they charge $29 and up for repair with AppleCare+. $29 for the screen, $29 more if you damage the glass on the back too. $99 if you damage the camera or anything else that requires replacing the phone altogether.
>It is difficult to imagine a time when satirical, irreverent humor was not common across media

I hate the word "irreverent." It's in every article about comedy written by people who don't seem to understand the difference between disrespecting things that are safe to dunk on, vs breaking cultural boundaries.
On the inputs.. for radio/checkbox, I prefer to wrap inside the label element.

<label>
<input ... />
<span>Some text...</span>
</label>

When you do it this way, the label doesn't need to be mapped to the id for the input, it's implicit. Also, it allows easier adjustments to the characteristics of the checkbox/radio input via CSS.

You do want an inner <span> if you want to stylize the input control as an inline-block depending on your needs. For general use, with the native controls, the inner span isn't necessary, I still prefer it by convention.
Nah.

Building your own, idk, mechanical keyboard? Hackerish thing to do, sure. But buying someone else's cool design is not against "the ethos", that's a silly thing to say. Supporting artisans in their craft is Good, actually, I don't see anything about this design which make it different that way.
Thanks. May try your method.
Because those websites cloudflare is performing racketeering-as-a-service for are open to the public.
maybe if "we" (coloquial we in developed nations) didn't treat certain parts of the population like cattle and just "throw anti-viral/funcal/flu" treatments at them we would have a better situation....

then again anti-X treatments are so great that India et al produce them like candy so gonna have to find a new way of fixing those problems once that chicken comes home to roost.

maybe if we had just had a once in several lifetimes chance to EDUCATE on basic hygeine rather than getting bogged down in bad politics we could actually have make a difference... nah lets go back to live animal markets and demanding a fantasy cure-all from our local-GP for what ails us...

If you don't expect this level of discourse, be very careful to decide to bring up the 'pandemic' in future please, it's just for click-bait and funding councils...
But here we're talking about Common Crawl being included in this scheme, which is explicitly designed to make it easier to use them than to make your own bad robot.

You block Common Crawl and all you'll be left with is the abusive bots that find workarounds.
Did you notice it has a MagSafe charger? Like... It's the whole point, the iPhone won't go into StandBy mode without charging.
> The exams required an absurd amount of dedicated study.

This is a problem in general with trying to achieve meritocracy. These merit based tests only work when all things are equal. Like you're suggesting, a noble has time to dedicate to studying while a farmer must work much harder since they cannot abandon their means of putting food on the table.

I don't think this means we shouldn't try to make our societies more meritocratic, but I think a lot of people miss key points like this. The assumptions underlying the idea. Especially with survivor bias and that there will always be examples of those who overcame their disadvantages. But it's critical to understand these if we're actually to progress towards are more meritocratic society than we are now.

[Side note] I do often wonder why we equate recognizing an advantage as diminishing the hard work one needs even when advantaged. Especially since our stories are the hero's journey and a critical retirement from that is meeting a wizard to get a magical power. Be it in The Matrix Neo's natural talent, Luke Skywalker being born a powerful Jedi, or King Author's sword and help from Merlin, we don't see these as tainting the struggles they overcome or diminishing their efforts. But we do when it's stories about ourselves.
I always spoil as many of these as possible. Sometimes it takes me a while to prove that I'm human, but I'm dead-set on convincing it that I'm a stupid human. Of course, I fantasize that some day a robo-car will crash because I taught it that there's really no difference between a motorcycle and a flight of stairs.
Found a Mad Magazine at my grandparents' place as a pre-teen, opened it, and immediately picked one of the spies to root for against the other one. Serious tribal instinct there.
FTP? how does that work? is it supported natively or thru an app?
At least for cloudflare "captchas", you don't have no solve anything, only click a button. Therefore it's pretty accessible. My guess is that they care less about whether you're a human or not, and more about imposing resource costs on any attacker, because solving those challenges requires a full browser runtime (ie. hundreds of megs of memory + some non-trivial amount of CPU time). That's significantly more expensive than you spamming requests.post() with on a thousand threads.
https://archive.is/5sAN2
> you still have to collect and manage your music

This is where the *arrs come in. Specifically Lidarr [0].

EDIT: it's not the exact same experience, but it's better than manual management.

[0] https://wiki.servarr.com/lidarr/quick-start-guide
Yeah I use revanced, but find that if I minimize the video, it pauses; I don't have this issue with other vids. I need to switch focus out of the app entirely to actually get it to continue playing.
I miss my ipod nano 7th gen, the only change I would do to it would be for it to have 512gb to ~1tb of storage or so.

Phones just aren't the same, and in many countries it's a gigantic risk to walk around with an iphone out
Exactly. There are already tons of stand alone trays and chargers.
Or, the company leaves the accessibility alternative broken, and shrugs.
The colors, while legible, are breaking my eyes. Other than that, great visualization. Fanastc work.
I recently went through something similar. The kid wanted to listen to music on a smaller device that wasn't her phone. I hadn't bought a device in years, but figured they still existed like the old Rio/Zune/Sansa.

The entire market for music only devices seems to have hit the bottom of the barrel. All I could really find in my cursory search was two or three cheap devices of questionable quality, all rebranded tens of times with random Amazon names as usual. There were a couple high quality ones, but priced at a point I wasn't willing to pay. The 'decent middle ground' seems to have evaporated.

I don't know what I expected there I guess, it makes sense that the market for such a device would be pretty small by now. By reading reviews, it seems that mostly runners buy them, as a lighter weight alternative to having a phone strapped to your arm.
Interestingly enough, standardized testing was unknown to Europe until they made contact with China.

One company that was inspired by this was the British East India company which introduced an exam for employees. This contributed to the company becoming the largest most powerful corporation in the world! Down to running private militaries and overthrowing kingdoms. At one point the company's private armies were 3x larger than the British military.

As for China itself, it kept doing these exams, but the content never changed. Straight into the 20th century the scholar exam involved memorizing Confucian classics. There was even a military exam that wasn't killed until the first decade of the 20th century. It involved being able to hit multiple targets with a bow and arrow whilst riding a horse, and being able to draw a 300 lb bow without straining your shoulders.
That's an excellent framing of why this idea has limited utility, outside e.g. propaganda.

Arguably this is one of the implicit arguments going on in between factions in Kim Stanley Robinson's _The Ministry for the Future_: in it, one faction wants to exploit the way faith and the religious mindset are powerful (perhaps the only proven) mechanism for constraining social behaviors, by making a Gaia-religion. Another is uncomfortable with this idea, e.g. because it's cynical and exploitative.

Whatever keeps us moving up the Kardashev scale...
Skip the sensational rewrite and read the original statement by van Rhijn et al., published in The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The authors lament the lack of research (and action) on treatment of fungal diseases, despite the introduction of a WHO focus group (WHO FPPL).

The paragraph in question which mentions a "silent pandemic" (AMR = antimicrobial resistance):

"The primary purpose of the WHO FPPL was to guide research, development, and public health action. Unfortunately, the desired effect has not yet been fully achieved as judged by the scope of the articles in The Lancet Series on AMR. Despite the clear need to prominently highlight fungal AMR, we express our disappointment that, even after many years of calling for action for this silent pandemic, only five sentences in one of the four Series papers are devoted to a few fungal pathogens."
One of the larger problems is purely social. Some people unnecessarily resist the idea that code can run on something other than x86 (and perhaps now Arm).

Interestingly, some apologists say that maintaining portability in code is a hinderance that costs time and money, as though the profit of a company or the productivity of a programmer will be dramatically affected if they need to program without making assumptions about the underlying architecture. In reality, writing without those assumptions usually makes code better, with fewer edge cases.

It'd be nice if people wouldn't go out of their way to fight against portability, but some people do :(
> Give it aerial capability, even if it's just enough to hop over a hedgehog or a smaller river, and the ability to defend itself while airborne, and the game becomes much more serious.

Again, the whole idea presented in this article is that it responds to people pushing on it. What you have just described is what a standard, existing aerial drone is capable of. There is already terrain-following tech that allows a drone to stay at a given height above the ground.
Cloudflare isn't unilaterally inserting themselves between the website and you. They're contracted by the website owner to provide website security, just like how ticketmaster is contracted by the venue owner to provide ticketing. I don't see what the difference is.
I agree, there is a lot of opportunities you can find when looking at a subset of frustrated customers. Ironically they tell you in greater detail what they dislike vs the super happy customers on why they like something.
I installed Opal (https://www.opal.so/) a week ago, and my daily average phone screen time has fallen by ~53%

When I installed the app, it told me that I'd be wasting another X years of my life on the screen. If I limited myself to 1 hour a day, I'd only waste something like 7 years. Those numbers sound so depressing and it brings back the big picture. Even if the warnings are positively phrased, suggesting I enjoy life, being outside and such, I'm just still shocked at how much time I'm wasting.

The only entertainment app I exempt from the Opal block beyond 1 hour is my music player.

I'd welcome a more dedicated music player again.
> "Is there a modern replacement for the Sansa Clip Zip?"

Searching Amazon for MP3/MP4 players with a clip shows 78 results.
You may be interested in a Home Music Player/Streamer. They're typically quite expensive though - WiiM devices are the exception.
> Damage to what? The bags? The food? The environment? I don't understand why bags built to be re-used is a bad thing.

The environment. Reusable bags consume more resources to produce. So if you buy a reusable bag and throw it out, it's a net loss to the environment. If enough people are buying a resuable bag because they're not carrying around their reusable bags every time they buy something, it becomes a net lost because you're displacing cheap plastics bag (that are somewhat resuable) by more resource intensive resuable bags that don't get reused.
Building a 3D Printed Atomic-Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
At least in the book this link summarizes, it looks beyond anarchism and isn't written through that lens specifically

There's a new film out I just saw at TIFF by Tsangari who produced DOGTOOTH by Yorgos Lanthimos called HARVEST with Caleb Landry Jones, anyhow it's a telling of the early days of the Inclosure Act, an interesting period of transition, performed w anachronistic timelessness
In the "How to work for Mr Beast" leak, the "no doesn't mean no" section absolutely boggles my mind.

For decades (probably centuries!), the phrase "don't take no for an answer" has always been a common sales technique. If the customer says they aren't interested, you don't necessarily just walk away from the sale. You can continue to try. Why wouldn't they have used that extraordinarily common phrase? The paragraph under the header only ever describes the same concept.

Who thought it was appropriate to negate the "no means no" phrasing that has almost exclusively referred to sexual consent for all recent memory?
> I worry that Cloudflare will keep escalating this unless they're sent a strong signal that it's not supported by the tech community.

I don't think that it's not supported by the tech community. Much of that community is on the receiving end of the bad actors. I know that depending on the day I, for one, have muttered under my breath "This would be much easier if everyone were using the same damn web browser."
Toyota and VW might as well sit this one out and make the case that you don't need modern bloatware to enjoy a car. "Here's your new car, works the same as it always has."
The Davids (plural) who wrote the article, are also the authors of The Dawn of Everything.
Chip Giants TSMC and Samsung Discuss Building Middle Eastern Megafactories
> Related btw to using AI for code.

And executing code. At some point in the not-so-distant past, a function call was just a jump. And then it turned into a string hash-then-lookup, then spinning up a VM, and now interpreting language? We’re definitely in a new chips age, if anything.
There is a pervasive bias in "social issue" journalism to only assign responsibility to institutions and never even an iota on complainants. If closest relatives don't check in for the many months/years (as stated in the article) it usually takes a dying and then dead individual to reach this limbo status, and the deceased hasn't named them in a will, then they should own of the consequences of their ignorant estrangement (however cosmically unfair its reasons) and not seek frivolous lawsuits.
That happens when the number of comments exceeds the number of upvotes. IIRC meant to detect and downgrade controversial topics.
> The latest ranking of auto groups’ digital performance from consultancy Gartner shows only three legacy carmakers — Ford, GM and BMW — make it to the top 10 while the rest are dominated by Nio, Xpeng and BYD from China and US start-ups including Tesla, Rivian and Lucid.

> Ford, GM and BMW

Hahaha! Yeah, and the most dominant companies in producing LLMs are Desire2Learn, Duolingo, and McGraw Hill.
There is still too much variance in the utility of LLMs. Hopefully, the uncertainty around utility will decrease while some concrete ranked score metric increases. Until that point, the variance is preventing the maximization of utility of LLMs, and by extension, agentic AI.
$130 for a device that can’t even have songs directly loaded and has reliance on subscriptions to be functional is insane.

Have you considered uploading your MP3s to Spotify and using them that way?
Packet, where are you? eBPF-based Linux kernel networking debugger
Google even didn't consider supporting Go as an official flutter language.
Let’s get some games going on new tables.
Used to have a subscription. Me and Dad would try to get it first. Mom bought tons of their little paperback compilations at garage sales. They programmed me into the man I am today.

In retrospect, goddamn they were bleak. I guess that's just the later stuff tho. I saw the really early stuff in reprints. It had a different flavor.
"Security" in the real world doesn't get to profile people. Profiling is Cloudflare's entire business model.
Terrain-following aerial drone tech already exists and has for a long time.
There's a few products for this out there. Roon is a popular one.
re: Kicking the can

Yes, tho' perhaps not intentionally per se. At this point, there's simply no incentive for anyone to say "we've got to fix this sooner rather than later." It's easier to be silent and breathe sand. It's easier to push the "the Fed debt don't matter" narrative. It's easier to blame symptoms (i.e., certain political candidates).

Meanwhile, the middle class *is* being hallowed, and more and more are looking for a solution outside the traditional norms because that status quo is intentionally not serving them. The gaslighting is less and less effective.

What could go wrong?

p.s. Let's not forget what happens when The Fed pitches in to keep the gov running, service the debt, etc.
I'm happy to be a freeloader on YouTube, and any other public website. Including this one.
Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads?
I'm trying to determine the best channel for a soft launch, I've been working on https://luna.apolloapi.io - I'm currently on the fence with Product Hunt, a lot of outbound to date has been through LinkedIn so I'm wondering how I should quantify my approach here. For those who've done PH launches what are some early tips/tricks? For those running LinkedIn ads, anything useful I should know before diving in?
The problem with mean averages is things like financial centres and kings pervert the data. Once you remove the outliers, the per-head domestic product is actually pretty level across the UK's regions.

Now I'm not saying that finance isn't an important industry for us, but it could be anywhere. It's only inertia that keeps it in London. If it left, London would be the same as any other county.

But the average Londoner isn't a banker. They aren't obscenely rich. Any wage benefit is lost to higher costs. Unless you're a property owner, you're no better off than somebody outside London.
Teeth. I can't afford teeth.
I bet supabase also have a lot of naive users who haven't enabled RLS in their postgres instances (last I checked, not enabled by default), but are nevertheless sharing api keys client side in their apps (https://supabase.com/docs/reference/javascript/initializing).

Supabase support's defense is "well, if you read the manual you'll understand how to set this up properly", but that's not how bootcamp developers tend to work.

I spent 10 minutes seeing if I could convince google or kagi to search for sites like these, but unfortunately js isn't searchable in either.
Followup on Elecrow voice cloning of Jeff Geerling
I do this:

Living room: Dvd Player -> WiiM Mini -> Soundbar

Office and bedroom: WiiM Mini -> Soundbar

This way, I have my physical CD collection in my living room, I can have them play in every room. And if I want to use a streaming service it works the same.

It's not exactly HiFi quality but gets the job done and I'm so happy with it. If you use CDs like me and want HiFi sound I'd do:

Living room: Dvd Player -> WiiM Pro (digital toslink input and output) -> DAC -> Class-D Amp -> Speakers

Office and bedroom: WiiM Mini -> DAC -> Class-D Amp -> Speakers

This way the digital-analog convertion and the amplification is done by dedicated device and there are less digital-analog convertions than my current setup. Also you can use any speakers. For the DAC I'd use something like a SMSL SU-1 and for the Amp probably Fosi V3. You could use a full receiver with toslink input but they are bigger machines and if they're cheaper they most likely have a worse DAC.
FC should be able to detect errors. I've had alerts shout at me when an FC switch detects a dropped packet.

More over, the multi-path should have stopped that! it should have detected a bad link and failed over to the other one (but the config for that is hard, so I can see why that might not worked. )