skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't think this GitHub Pages write-up was very clear, but the linked paper on arXiv is interesting (haven't finished reading yet!) and this is a cool project.

Ultimately the weaknesses seem to come from "outsourcing" true spatio-mechanical reasoning to a language model which designs the according constraints, but does so with the same kind of brittle reasoning and odd limitations we've come to expect. It's not really "artificial" spatial reasoning so much as "virtual": sometimes quite good, but paper-thin and largely based on memorizing patterns. I think the authors overstated a few conclusions, e.g. the clothes folding don't appear to be following any strategy at all, let alone a "novel" strategy - whatever apparent hints of strategy the authors are seeing is probably better explained by the symmetry of human clothing, which the vision model picks up on.

And note they didn't ask the robot to fold messy clothing like a human does when it's fresh out of the dryer; I suspect the robot needs shirts and pants to be laid out neatly, otherwise the vision model will misidentify it.

More generally, the authors did not do enough to stress-test the robot in situations that don't line up with the training data. It's cool to pour tea from a pot into a mug, but the vision model presumably has thousands of photos of this for the robot to imitate. What if you ask the robot to pour a mug into an open teapot? Presumably the vision model itself is less adept with this prompt; maybe the robot will still work, it's a simple task.

But experience with ANNs suggests it's likely to falter in these off-the-golden-path cases, and that it'll falter in ways that are bizarre and unpredictable. I would have liked to see more comprehensive stress testing before using fancy terms like "spatio-temporal reasoning." AI does not need more fancy tech demos driving unrealistic hype.

Regardless the results are very cool, and the underlying machinery is sophisticated without being too mysterious (once you accept the mysterious AI models it's based on...). I think the edge case issue might mitigate industrial deployment in e.g. a factory, but I think robotics tinkerers and hobbyists would have a blast with these ideas, and people much cleverer than me could even make a real product.
Chinese-Linked Hackers Breach U.S. ISPs in New 'Salt Typhoon' Cyberattack
Let me explain the argument to you:

> You can always add another layer of abstraction to solve a problem but removing one can be difficult.

The argument being that there's no need to add anything to the browser stack and make it even more complex when it doesn't add any essential capability. There's already JS making everything possible; and yet, they keep on piling stuff. When with custom elements specifically, you also require JS anyway (to declare them).

> Elements are not components.

Idk maybe for "web devs" the concept is difficult to grasp that HTML isn't for them. It's for text authors, and as such a markup vocabulary where low-level elements are placed next to complex custom controls nilly-willy isn't really a useful evolutionary direction.
Your tone is overly aggressive.

And I don't know how I can be clearer than in the comment you are replying to: "My point was that it reasonable to be reluctant to spend $200 to $250 to replace a small component of a device that is only worth $300."

Which part of this sentence is unclear?

Your Porshe analogy is not appropriate. If a Porsche with a working gearbox is worth 35k, then yes, I'd be reluctant to spend 30k on a gearbox alone.
The economist has a graphic:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/09/13/...

Archive:
https://archive.ph/k1qZ9

It is still two paired wells. But I think the trick is that water can be injected more targeted.
So far we are still increasing the rate at which we extract fossil fuels, even with all the investment in renewables and alternate power sources in the last decades (https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels). The Jevon paradox seem to still be valid in this, even with a few countries that managed to have most of their energy matrix on clean sources.

And with all the time that CO2 remains in the atmosphere it is not enough to just extract a bit less, thing that still may take years to be achieved, all that was managed to be captured by some expensive carbon capture technology is probably orders below of how much we increased emissions. Absolute global numbers matters here.

And yes, it is not possible to just stop extracting fossil fuels and try to solve our energy needs with what we have built so far. But time is running out (if it is not over already). Severe drop in consumption should be in the map too, there was a shortlived dent in the trends around 2020.
ACM Signs Major Open Access Agreement with 30 French Unis, Research Institutions
I mean if you're in the situation of the author where you already have a bazel project why add Cargo?

There's a lot of nice things about bazel like being able to embed optimized JS into an iOS app built from transpiled Java code. But like mdhb points out, if you're not doing a lot of stuff with multiple languages you are probably better off with just that language's recommended build tool.
One aspect of this is how you think about UI. The underlying pattern of jQuery is fully side-effects -- you select an element and make some changes to it. Frameworks like React and Vue.js allows to create UI components whose states are completely determined by data, i.e. what the UI looks like is the value of a pure function, mathematically speaking. It also updates the UI with minimum DOM changes when the data changes. (Although you don't have to make them pure, and arguably you can achieve the same thing with jQuery.) Depending on where you are, it makes UI widgets much more readable and maintainable. These frameworks are innovative in terms of state management compared to "old approaches" (of course, with additional benefits like reusability etc)

Bear in mind that today's websites and web based desktop applications are much, much more complicated than two decades ago, and has a much higher requirement for scalability and maintainability. If you just want to create simple UI, indeed they may not be your best choice.
That's definitely an argument within the community. Radio underlies a lot of modern tech like satellites, Bluetooth, and cellphones which are all just implementations of the same stuff you learn getting your ham license.

The primary goal of folks learning radio tech (via ham) today cannot be just talking to folks far away because, as you said, that's a solved problem. When you do get on these digital channels you find most of the conversation is about how you did it -- or ensuring that it worked. In other words, folks are using these technologies for exactly what you said -- learning about the radio side of it.

Just FYI, the hotspots use digital radio to communicate with your digital radio and Wi-Fi to communicate with internet servers, so they are radio devices, too.
To a first approximation, humans have never lived in a world of abundant resources. That has mostly only applied to a minority of affluent people in developed countries. But resource abundance continues to improve on average worldwide.
I'm building my most recent project with web components + htmx, and it's mind-blowing how much better all of this feels to me than the typical React/Angular stack. I think there's a place for React and Angular and technologies like them, but 90% of the projects that currently use them would be better off with a much simpler stack.
Sure, minus fuel processing, disposing of processing waste, transportation of fuel, inspection of the vessel and plant, maintenance of the vessel and plant, storage and/or reprocessing of used fuel rods and transportation of used fuel rods.
It wouldn't surprise me if Newton correct is closer to correct for 'small numbers' then Einstein correct will be in the end in the general case.
How many moons must a moon rover rove over until a range rover calls the moon rover the rover of rovers that rovered over the moon?
I don’t know, sounds dumb.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity
How is Chrome remote desktop, and Remmina?
In a space where copyrighted material and personal data is an issue, actually academic research can actually use many exceptions (at least under legislation in Europe) . This unfortunately also means that one cannot pass on the data sources under truly licencing beyond research use/ reproducibility.
Messing Up the Closest Thing to a Sure Thing in the Stock Market
GC is a problem, and it always will be at some level. You can improve it but that doesn’t mean it is not a problem. Memory allocation and management is a problem even in c/c++ problems if you want to optimize your program, there is no universe where gc is not a problem
> I don't want to learn a complex framework. I don't want to learn magic that I don't understand without reading the documentation (useState, createSignal et al).

I can't really parse this sentence. It seems to have a lot of ideas in it. Do you want to learn a framework at all, or have one that is so magical that it feels like it doesn't need to be learned? Do you want to read documentation or not? Do you think the problem with React is that its primitives are unsuited to the work you do in it? Or to the work anybody needs to do?

I've spent most of my professional career in Vue, so I don't have a great perspective on the React ecosystem. But Vue feels like it must be included in your "complex framework" statement. I've definitely felt some pain from overuse of the framework, or poor understanding of various features, libraries, etc. The ecosystem around full-on SPAs is indeed complex. I'm just not sure what other systems would let me personally, and us broadly, manage a complex stateful client-side app.

(This is entirely separate to overuse of SPAs for things that shouldn't be SPAs.)
Allegedly, declarative shadow DOM lets you declare the template next to the prerendered slot, without JS.
F35s (I believe from the 134th fighter squadron of the VT Air Guard) train over my house regularly and I can confirm they do quite a lot of slow, close quarters dogfighting.

EDIT: I believe I've also seen F22s but I have no idea where they're from.
Why do you feel the EU couldn't buy flights on SpaceX rockets is they wanted to?
Ransomware gang using stolen Microsoft Entra ID creds to bust into the cloud
As I'm thinking about this, the main thing that is left before I could imagine a build-free website/webapp is TypeScript support in the browser. Even just esbuild-style stripping of types would be enough, but I can't imagine bringing myself to write even a small amount of JavaScript without types any more.

Even without that, a tiny system that just depends on tsc should be within reach at this point.
You can also be too efficient in your career/life. You can take the "Inject noise into the system" as injecting positive randomness into your associations with people and ideas. If something seems slightly interesting but off your beaten track, learn more about it.
Dart is my favourite language, it is the flutter framework I'm not so fond of. People literally designed better GUI frameworks than flutter 20 years ago. They did all sorts of weird things, probably for "performance" reasons, that forces the user to do things that kinda undo many of those "gains". Language wise, I love the fact that it comes with NULL safety out of the box, the number one feature I miss in GO-lang is NULL safety. NULL safety has very low cost to syntax or compile efficiency, and literally takes away half your program crash possibilities.
I don't really get this argument: if you have a metric precision munition in an ICBM then even an inert warhead is going to be enough to penetrate and destroy due to the kinetic energy coming from the hypersonic nature of the reentry vehicle (and even if kinetic energy itself wasn't sufficient, a conventional payload would be)

Nuclear bombs are useful because you don't need precision to get the effectiveness, but if you have the precision then why would you bother with the consequences of using nukes…
https://web.archive.org/web/20240928232515/https://www.nytim...
And if your girlfriend dies because a restaurant at Disneyland served them food with allergens, they’re gonna claim that because you paid for Disney Plus you can’t sue them for killing your girlfriend.

https://wdwnt.com/2024/08/disney-dismissal-wrongful-death-la...

Fuck paying for Disney Plus.
Because it was damaged in northern Norway, and requested permission to go to Klaipeda, in the Baltic. Lithuania said no, unless it unloads first. The Lithuanians said, two weeks ago, they'd found a port in Norway that agreed to unload, near where it was stopped. Presumably that fell though and thus the permission was withdrawn. Then Denmark refused access to the Baltic, and Gothenburg also then said no. The ship never entered the Baltic as far as I can tell.

The implication is that the ship didn't want to go back to Murmansk. Possibly it was also denied entry, or doesn't want to get stuck there over winter if the Russians can't or won't repair the ship. It's not a Russian ship, it might not even be Russian-owned cargo any more, depending on the INCOTERMS, why would they make the effort if no one else will?

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2358770/ship-with-r...
> They are framework-agnostic

This is a selling point only if your job is producing component libraries. Otherwise, if you're an application developer, you'll be using a framework anyway.
If you can rewrite to remove all dependencies except for d3js, why couldn’t you do the same thing, but also retain a dependency on Vue? What is it about Vue that requires the extra dependencies - is it built system things? (I’ve never used Vue)
A fellow Star Trek fan?
It’s also just not actually true though. It’s not considered good practice to bundle your web components when publishing to npm for this exact reason. That’s something that should happen inside the final app itself where the components get used so you only have one instance of Lit for example if you are using that.
I don't know that the poly-crisis is bit this does feel timely.

I know I'd tolerate a digital experience of far lower fidelity (fewer pixels, for instance, or even giving up GUIs altogether) if I could get it in a way that doesn't break every time some far away person farts near a cloud console: A trade of performance for robustness.
I think the collectible value of “only rover on the moon” would be extraordinary regardless of functionality.
This might be a stupid hot take, but I am surprised that so little of web UI exist outside of the browser. I mean why bootstrap or other frameworks are not managed by browser ecosystem? Why millions of people how to download same frameworks over and over?
> Analog tvs would change in the middle of frames if you swapped channels.

They'd get a little confused, as the next vblank (and hblank) would come at unexpected times, as channels wouldn't synchronize frames.

> Digital tvs are cursed to wait for the next key frame in the video to start displaying

This is very annoying.
FWIW this year I learned that dish soap kills wasps, ants, and other insects.

Does dish soap kill mosquitoes like other insects?
Hello, I'm teaching and coding for 5 years now. Lately, I've been building apps that make learning easier and faster. Because TikTok and short content is changing the way we study too. My latest solution is AI powered flashcards app. I was using flashcards throughout my university years and now I wanted to make it better with AI.
The statement overfits its own idea. Testing students is not an example of an efficiency
The article mentions certificate pinning is used to prevent MITM attacks, but none of the alternatives listed actually prevent this class of attacks.

I’ve heard multiple times that “certificate pinning is obsolete.” Who is pushing this narrative?
California bill to curb 'hate littering' signed into law
Am I reading this right that these people got mere months after clear obstruction and continued fraud while working with authorities? That's barely a slap on the wrist.
thinking in terms of composing 3d objects and their positions is 90% of doing CAD already, if you can do that, you can reproduce any of the objects in OP with 15 minutes of learning the tool

seriously, I think people overestimate how hard basic CAD work is
Yeah, a way to turn a flat sketch to a 3D model would be a better way to do this.
Disagree. Even if it was striving to regulate exactly the right thing in the first place, most of these issues occur for systems where no single actor could be expected to exert complete control and could well be vulnerable anyway.

Start working with a nice, clean, fully relevant system, end up modelling that plus the whole range of adversarial perturbations from agents of pretty high complexity.
http://archive.today/7XoQw
The TV will still spy on you, and may even send frames for upstream classification. The only way to make sure is to never connect it to the network. And even then, I'd try to remove any wifi antennas.
> Real users are not getting security updates or features they expected because the company / vendor they are buying their product from did not do due diligence to secure their supply chain.

It's not WPE's supply chain, it's the end users' supply chain. There's no way they could have seen this coming. Targeting WPE was essentially arbitrary. Users are affected because WPE was cut off, not because they did anything wrong.

> BUT WP Engine doesn't get to hide behind the limits of their obligations under the open source licenses

I'm curious to know what you think they should have done, because other then just heap money on a literal direct competitor, I can't imagine what they could have done.

> Is WordPress not open source? What stops WPEngine from doing it themselves, they have the source.

How are they supposed to have a copy of all the updates if they're blocked? This is such a nonsense suggestion. Of course they could run the servers, but those are empty servers with no data.

> If an upstream source is so critical to your business that its loss would cripple you or your customers... maybe consider spending some money on securing and retaining access to that source.

You're only just defending Automattic's literally extortion tactics. Should I as a user be worried that Linode or Hetzner will be blocked next because they aren't paying a tithe to WordPress?
Also FWIU, it is possible to synthesize cannabinoids from yeast or bacteria, and thereby avoid unnecessary soil depletion if they don't rotate and cover crop and residue mulch. But IDK about terpenes.

FWIW neither CBD nor terpenes are scheduled.
I only see the summary but I am not sure the word ponzi is appropriate.
How is this supposed to work?

With reactJS I know I can server render a component or template and I’ll say JSX makes a pretty good tempting language.

With web components as far as I understand there is no good templating language built in anyways (so you have to bring your own) I’m not aware of a standard mechanism in which I can take some chunk of JS for a component associated with a tag and have it render out HTML that does not require JS to run.
It's not a strict limitation of the hardware as much as a product of changes in High Sierra. Namely, apfs being optimized for flash storage and the mitigations to critical Intel vulnerabilities that reduced syscall performance by 30% or more.

The tl;dr is that if you want to breathe new life into those Macs, install Linux and run with mitigation=off or format to HFS+ and roll back to El Capitan or Sierra.

I've got a macbook2,1 with an SSD on Snow Leopard, and it's still the most responsive, user-experience focused Mac I own.
You could ask the same questions about grocery shopping or buying a PC.
Aren’t they using a NoSQL store? They migrated from Casandra to Scylla DB
If you don’t want to change your whole stack, ClickHouse’s Materialized Views do something extraordinarily similar, where computations are ran on inserts to the source table in an online/streaming manner. I’m curious how this solution compares in its set of features/gaurantees.
So then you're left with a CAD file for a CAD package you're not familiar with..?
15 years ago I created a web framework for newLISP. It even ran fast on a Nokia N900

Maybe you want to have a look at the code and get some inspiration.

https://github.com/taoeffect/dragonfly-newlisp
I can't imagine anyone would object to minimum quality standards for anything receiving federal subsidies.
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This attitude would stop over 50% of disagreements.
It's the blue "Free Trial" button below the dozen or so advertisements. Ahh, the irony! Sadly, the tagline doesn't seem to tease any information at all besides the very well known problems with modern journal culture, so it wasn't enough for me to sign up for this random website. Plus, accusing science journalists of "indoctrination" when they're just underpaid nerds trying their best doesn't help!

Every time I click any other link, I get more appreciative of Substack's quality & UX...
Kay’s ideas are definitely interesting, but they can feel pretty vague. For example, what are these "fences" or "metaboundaries" he keeps mentioning? They probably aren’t anything like type checking since he seems to love dynamic typing and late binding. Did either Smalltalk or Squeak implement any of these "metaboundaries" at any point after this 1998 message?

When it comes to "messaging," it usually just boils down to method dispatch or large switch statements. It doesn’t seem like some magical concept we haven't figured out yet; it’s more like something we already know. When I see Kay's complaining about messaging, I imagine he also complaining about other things: "WE NEED BETTER WHEELS", or "WE NEED BETTER ELECTRICITY" (?). What do you actually want, Alan? :-p

From my experience with large Ruby codebases and publish/subscribe systems, debugging can become quite messy when there’s too much flexibility. I think this is what Kay is getting at, even if he maintains the idea that a dynamic system like Smalltalk will somehow evolve to fix these issues.
> Oh wait, I just remembered regular TV channels exist

I don't think I have watched one in almost a decade.
Why not both?

I think it's both the incompetence of the incumbents, and the impressive work of SpaceX that got us to where we are. With the vast majority of companies, especially tech companies, I think the leadership gets far too much credit. In most organizations I have been a part of, they succeed in spite of the leadership, not because of it.

In the case of SpaceX though, I am less sure. Reading the Walter Isaacson biography on Elon Musk was quite fascinating and illuminating about his leadership style. I would never work for him myself, but he does have some really fascinating philosophies.
Doomed Titan submersible's hull had many flaws, expert testifies
80 Micro was a wonderful magazine. Hardin Brothers' column "The Next Step" ... a Z-80 assembly language tutorial series ... was my favorite portion of the magazine.
> Can I publish all the names and street addresses and phone numbers in a document of Kamala Harris's extended family to make some newsworthy point about their homes. (rich = she's not one of us / poor = she's not good enough if she can't pull her relatives out of poverty)

Yes. Such a document is or at least was once referred to as a phonebook.

>try and learn the difference between data available in search, data available online and data available in the meat world. These are not the same, as a hacker (Startup/Blackhat/curious) this difference matters.

Citizen and professional journalists regularly record and expose persons of interest going about their daily lives. For decades now, they've obtained this information not through requisitions from city hall, but through online databases like Lexis Nexis or municipal criminal record databases. It's not a crime to publish an inconvenient truth. In fact, when individuals come forward as whistleblowers, they are lionized for their divulgence of the truth.