skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw that, however the way it was expressed feels like a personal point of view, given the already existing experience of HoloLens, including some scientific papers.
A belief being dogmatic isn’t about adequacy of evidence or lack thereof. It’s about that belief being one that must be held to be in fully good standing with the organization for which it is a dogma. I think we can reasonably say the FSF’s teaching on software freedom is at least something very much like dogmatic.

I happen to believe they’re essentially right, but we live in an imperfect world and I still want my microcode bugs patched so I do that.
Who Is Windows For?
Microsoft Windows exists to drive profits for Microsoft. Windows doesn't really serve users anymore. Everything is a dark pattern. Back in the day, the DOJ would have sued them, but now it's business as usual. As consumers we have no choice but to use this product or the Epic games store and it's absurd.

Here's some nonsense I experience constantly in Windows (I DON'T WANT TO USE WINDOWS BUT GAMERS DO AND SO MY GAMING COMPUTER RUNS THIS OS)

- Ever present prompts to sign into a Microsoft account.

- Inability to remove Internet Explorer.

- Edge is reinstalled every Windows update. Removing Edge triggers update?

- Terminal isn't Terminal even when you use Terminal instead of Command Prompt and "Run as Administrator"

- Why the heck am I prompted each time I open an app to let it do things?

- My personal Desktop, Documents, etc were all moved to be subdirectories of "OneDrive". In order to fix this, I moved them, but the issue wasn't resolved and now I've renamed and moved the files and contents to be mine, rather than OneDrive's.

- Windows OS itself is unable to coordinate multiple displays and often loses Windows somewhere off screen. This is ironic to me given the name and that it doesn't occur on OSX. (Just right click the Window in the taskbar, select "Move", then press "Shift + UP", FIXED!

- Windows obfuscates and hides the location and files that power the desktop backgrounds. If you want to use them, you have to know the location where the files are hidden, manually copy them somewhere else, add an image file extension so they are images.

This is literally things that annoy me now. I'm sure there are many more dark patterns we are forced to endure, but this is what comes to mind now.
No. In nature this oil would be degraded very quickly (eaten or oxidized). Read this for a basic primer on the formation of petroleum sources:

https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/petroleum-resources/petrole...
It is trivial and they've done it for ages. It's called reinsurance.

Basically (_very_ basically, there's more to it) the insurance company insures itself against large claims.
They've now locked the Github issue to further discussion. Apparently one possible alternative is Vaultwarden?

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Such a shame that this keeps happening with open source projects once the money people step in.
I think it's concerning how a lot of people here seem to take offense at the fact the article underlines the predominantly white and masculine nature of Verne's protagonists.

Should an analysis of Verne's work refrain from pointing this out? Because it would be too "woke"?

Verne lived during the peak of the French colonial Empire. Whites were a minority in the total population of the Empire, racism was pretty much a state institution used to justify an ad hoc hierarchy of the peoples living in the colonies.

Seeing how Verne's archetype of the adventurer was shaped by colonial imagery is relevant to understanding his work. I don't know what more to tell you.
> We also assume that this is the meaning behind the daemon.co.uk, host to many United Kingdom web sites

Not sure if it was the origin of the company name, but the domain was demon.co.uk not daemon. E.g. I had pretence.demon.co.uk with them for a few years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Internet
Q as in maximum expected utility for a given move, Pig as in the dice game of Pig.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140122073352/https://www.udaci...

Yes, I know that you can get the Q value via RL with Bellman equation or non-parametric evo learning, but at the time I didn't know that and I'm glad I didn't.

Depending on how you count, this code features either 2 or 4 mutually recursive functions, something that is quite rare in Python (esp outside the context of an FSM) but is a signature of PN code.

I had to learn so much about so many things to untangle it.
thank you! fascinating reads
"Disk And Executive MONitor" does sound kinda cool, though.
>> When a person drives a vehicle, then the person is held responsible for how the vehicle behaves on the roads, so it's logical that when a machine drives a vehicle that the machine's manufacturer/designer is held responsible.

Never really understood the supposed dilemma. What happens when the brakes fail because of bad quality?
> The reason React is "embraced" by the industry is that it is widely used

That looks like tautology to me. What point are you trying to make with this?

Comparing IE6 and React is _hardly_ a fair comparison. One was a Trojan horse injected by corporate policies and ACLs, while React gets explicitly chosen by teams. And... Yes, there _is_ a reason why nobody gets fired for choosing React: it's not a bad choice! Is Svelte a better choice? Not universally. Unfortunately—like with many things in our field—it comes with trade offs and the answer boils down to "it depends" again.

React has its quirks, but "hating" on a library because it was part of a dumpster fire project doesn't mean the library is bad, just that people using it weren't competent with it (not necessarily incompetent in general).

Vue, Svelte, Leptos, Solid, Elm. I've seen all of them used as dumpster fire fuel, and it was hardly the library's fault.
Yes, and disproportionately among racial lines.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/war-marijuana-blac....
> But for bigger pieces of software, you're donating your time to Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir. You're volunteering for them. Why would you do that?

Because "everyone" means everyone. Ask the OpenSSL developers why they do what they do.

> Being scared of copyleft is like being scared of servers (which most programmers are according to DHH!).

... Yep, you got it.
Author here. No, I don't think it does. https://passo.uno/ai-anxiety-tech-writer-howto/
The emphasis on TUI is kind of interesting, apparently not enough people have "enjoyed" through MS-DOS and 1980's UNIX, now it is fashionable.
Buno 1.1 Update: Now you can develop SwiftUI applications directly on iOS
What?! So if there is a failure and the car goes full throttle (no autonomous car) it is my responsibility?! You are pretty wrong!!!
> As a single human, you don't notice, as the training material is greater than everything we could ever learn.

This bias is real. Current gen ai works proportionally well the more known it is. The more training data, the better the performance. When we ask something very specific, we have the impression that it’s niche. But there is tons of training data also on many niche topics, which essentially enhances the magic trick – it looks like sophisticated reasoning. Whenever you truly go “off the beaten path”, you get responses that are (a) nonsensical (illogical) and (b) “pulls” you back towards a “mainstream center point” so to say. Anecdotally of course..

I’ve noticed this with software architecture discussions. I would have some pretty standard thing (like session-based auth) but I have some specific and unusual requirement (like hybrid device- and user identity) and it happily spits out good sounding but nonsensical ideas. Combining and interpolating entirely in the the linguistic domain is clearly powerful, but ultimately not enough.
Even if Mozilla retired the service, they should've at least kept the repository active so people can send patches.

I find this applications like this very useful to self-host. Sometimes I need to send someone a file quickly and this can come in handy. I don't need to allow uploads from everyone and I can just whitelist IPs for the upload URL.

At present I'm using Project Send.
It’s a nice idea but the site says under support so if I were you I’d have wait until you had something to show that remains available before posting for feedback.
Yes. That is the only way. That being said, I want to see the first incidents, and how are they resolved.
That again only implies less popularity, if anything, not death.
As any proper CS or Software Engineering degree will teach you, a kernel alone isn't an operating system.

I suggest to attend one, or search related material freely available.

Termux runs on Android with hacks, and only to the point Google doesn't allow it anymore, unless it is side loaded.
Pinning Nixpkgs Without Channels
This isn't really the optimization I'm think about, but: given the weird and abstract nature of the functioning of ML in general and LLMs in particular, it seems reasonable to think that there might be algorithms that achieve the same, or a similar, result in an orders-of-magnitude more efficient way.
The root of prestige is the Latin word praestigium, which means an illusion or delusion. One of the most poetic pieces of etymology in todays society.
One thing that always seemed important to these discussions is that the serial structure of language is probably not an optimization but just due to the reality that we can only handle uttering or hearing one sound at a time.

In my mind there should be some kind of parallel/hierarchical model that comes after language layers and then optionally can be converted back to a series of tokens. The middle layers are trained on world models such as from videos, intermediary layers on mapping, and other layers on text, including quite a lot of transcripts etc. to make sure the middle layers fully ground the outer layers.

I don't really understand transformers and diffusion transformers etc., but I am optimistic that as we increase the compute and memory capacity over the next few years it will allow more video data to be integrated with language data. That will result in fully grounded multimodal models that are even more robust and more general purpose.

I keep waiting to hear about some kind of manufacturing/design breakthroughs with memristors or some kind of memory-centric computing that gives another 100 X boost in model sizes and/or efficiency. Because it does seem that the major functionality gains have been unlocked through scaling hardware which allowed the development of models that took advantage of the new scale. For me large multimodal video datasets with transcripts and more efficient hardware to compress and host them are going to make AI more robust.

I do wish I understood transformers better though because it seems like somehow they are more general-purpose. Is there something about them that is not dependant on the serialization or tokenization that can be extracted to make other types of models more general? Maybe they are tokens that have scalars attached which are still fully contextualized but are computed as many parallel groups for each step.
How is that working with Boeing?
And people with a voice need to say so. pg did the right thing to say so.
The problem with "documentation" in commercial code is that nobody reads it.

Any "documentation" that isn't embedded in code will never be opened again.

Any "documentation" in the form of doc-strings and comments will, over time, lie.

This is because competent programmers cannot agree on whether to even comment.

When any large percentage of competent programmers do not comment, it is better to not rely on comments.

Here's another pitch:

Code-as-Docs
Exactly. I remember the first time someone had an iphone. It was with a whole group of people and everyone was simply amazed by it. The use cases couldn't be more obvious.

If you gave me an Apple Vision Pro, I literally have no idea what I would do with it. I would really love to get into something new like this but I literally can't think of what I would do with it. It is a technology that seems unreasonably useless. It seems like there should be many more use cases than there is.
Are you serious?! You must be trolling!
Ah. Few people realize how dumb aircraft autopilots really are. Even the fanciest ones just follow a series of waypoints.

There is one exception - Garmin Safe Return. That's strictly an emergency system. If it activates, the plane is squawking emergency to ATC and and demanding that airspace and a runway be cleared for it.[1] This has been available since 2019 and does not seem to have yet been activated in an emergency.

[1] https://youtu.be/PiGkzgfR_c0?t=87
Hypothetically, cyclists could be more likely to have chronic knee injuries than they are to have other chronic injuries, but also still be less likely to have chronic knee injuries (and chronic leg injuries in general) than the more stationary general public.
Here's another: literate programming.

If it's good enough for Knuth it's good enough for me.
Early Humans Evolved to Eat Starch
AI PoC I made for analyzing website design and layout
I hacked together this PoC yesterday that uses combination of visual and text input to analyze websites.

Mostly for fun and insights, but if you find it actually useful please let me know!

Also includes leaderboard, not be taken too seriously of course.
>Who is Windows For?

I like using Windows as a personal air gap system because of how nice it is to write custom win32 applications. I usually gut the system with Rufus, winget to remove as many apps, powershell to maximize a few other things, and the registry for whatever else needs to be changed but the system left I think is really nice.
I built a computer vision device that used the top-down area of a penny as a calibration standard. Coins are useful, easy-to-get items that have relatively tight manufacturing tolerances.
Euro coins circulating in various countries of the Eurozone have different obverses – I wonder whether that affects weight?
Switch to Linux and play games that run on Linux.
And yet tens of thousands of people die on the roads right now every year. Working well?
The paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07894-z
Naive question. Isn't tor supposed to be private? How can you know the contents of the communication just by running a node?
Been using catfriend1's Syncthing fork https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android for years. Works well.

Available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...
> personally I'm er much against disproportionately high penalties as a deterrent because it's comes at the cost of justice to the individual.

Likewise.

I think that as we've already developed the technological capacity for mere organised crime to build a surveillance system that would make the actual literal Stasi jealous, it's important for the legal system to catch up, and move to the combination (because neither would work in isolation) of (1) penalties that are much much smaller and directly match the offence with (2) so much surveillance that basically everything is caught.

Now, is there a way for this to avoid falling into a horrific dystopian nightmare? Because it's one thing for an internet pirate getting an illicit copy of one episode of Space 1999 getting dinged for $0.99, and quite another if the same capabilities are used to interfere with or supress political opponents a-la the Watergate scandal.

> That isn't deterring anything, not remotely, so it just seems like revenge

I know what you mean, I think that's also part of it, and that kind of attitude in parts of the legal system also interfere with the thing I've just suggested.
I’d guess someone backed into that acronym when asked “why do you call these things daemons?”
You're speaking from a position of survivorship. The jobs you've been hired to perform give you confidence. It's all the jobs you haven't been hired for that I'm more focused on.
Show HN: Vagabase – Flight Diary and Map
A website primarily for logging personal flights. Let's you see a map of all the places you've been, top airports, top airlines, countries you've visited, etc.

You'll have to sign up to really experience the website, but I added top airports and airlines which is viewable when logged out :-)
Yes (n=1), although I actively go out of my way to find more long-form blogs.

To be fair, I've found a lot these through social media (ref: TikTok, X, Reddit, Fediverse, [HN?]...) after curating my algorithm since just searching for blogs I like doesn't yield much relevant results.
Then this would be manufacturing liability because they are not fit for purpose.
OK, now you're talking about actual skills and not what credentials you have. I do respect those skills. It's just that if I took the time to learn those things, the odds that I could do it are close to 100%. On the other hand, if you asked me to:

1. hire and retain the top performing aerospace engineering team in the world
2. make suggestions for major engineering decisions that that team actually ends up using

I think my odds would be 0.00001% or less.
You said "unexpected catastrophic explosive failures". But

1. They were not unexpected. They very very clearly communicated months ahead.

2. "Catastrophic" is a bit much too, as they were indeed expected and planned for. In fact, the biggest failure in the Starship development was that the rocket did NOT explode fast enough once.

3. "Failures". Well.. no. These are prototypes intended to learn from. Experiments if you will. A scientist that never has a negative result is a fraud. Same here.
Oh man that's so much better! It still gives me the chills. As a physicist, the frustrations of brother Cavil really hit home for me—it resonated on a whole different level.

https://youtu.be/s_UVPLHAOAY
Optimising images for High DPI displays
Unraveling mechanisms of human brain evolution
I was thinking similar, but then it occurred to me that they may be debossed, rather than engraved, so no change to material? Not a coin expert :D
Could be, you're certainly not the only one with that vibe.

If so, she's a miracle worker given all the rest of what we're seeing.

That said, the way he talks about the rockets? Sure, he's ambitious, but he does seem to act like he recognises the laws of physics don't respond to "screw the rules I have money".
It depends. If you do bad sw and skip reviews and processes, you may be liable. Even if you are told to do something, if you know is wrong, you should say it. Right now I’m in middle of s*t because of I spoked up.
Ask HN: Need for SaaS app to transform your spatial data for rendering/querying?
Imagine there are TBs of raster and vector data in your S3, and you'd want to have the ability to render/query those files without bringing in Postgres or setting up your infra.

Does it solve a problem for you? I'd love to build an app given that there is enough need!

I work in the GIS space as a data engineer and I've seen this problem quite a few times but not sure if it's that big, things are either too expensive or slow and harder to scale with spatial data IMO

(Maptiler/Mpabox don't provide querying ability out of the box)
Pretty much. Fuck. I just watched higher ups sign off on a project I know for a fact has defects all over the place going into production despite our very explicit: don't do it ( not quite Tesla level consequences, but still resulting in real issues for real people ). The sooner we can start having people in jail for knowingly approving half-baked software, the sooner it will improve.
I just got the same email
Hacking 700M Electronic Arts Accounts
But some little boy down the line will pay for it. Look for Eschede ICE accident.
In addition I feel like an account here having a long history/high karma is somewhat unique versus other sites since some actions and features aren’t usable until you’ve passed certain thresholds. To me at least this is interesting to think about, but I also don’t have accounts in any platform besides this one, so I don’t know for certain what other places do.
Whether in the predator or in the prey, the reward system of getting food and surviving through evolution in geological time would strengthen effective thinking.

Then comes the need to transmit/transfer understanding.

From the fine article:

> various properties that human languages have—there are about 7,000 of them spoken and signed across the world—are optimized for efficiently transmitting information, making things easy to perceive, easy to understand, easy to produce and easy to learn for kids.
I think there's actually a fair number of them, but more would be nice. Lots of protein folding ones, and there used to be a weather/climate related couple.
Build an Interactive Text-to-Podcast Experience with GPT-4o Real Time API (2024)
It's a corporate enterprise business-deal thing and human lazyness and errorful thinking while decision-making all the stack down. So in the end it has less to do with the end-user in mind.

Just install linux and forget about your ugly past - if you can!

I'd rather cut 2 fingers of each hand than use Windows as my base system privately. But i am forced to run a lot of my day on windows machines because of work and the restrictions.

So i really don't know what you are waiting for.
I find the pin description and internal schematic a bit lacking on this website. Pin 5 isn't shown internally connected to the voltage divider, and is simply described as "affecting the timing".
The problem I see there is that if “corporations are responsible” then no one is. That is, no real person has the responsibility, and acts accordingly.
> make that decision after being informed about most of the known risks

Like for the COVID-19 vaccines? Experimental yet given to billions without ever showing them a consent form.
This sounds a lot like the experimental project Jacquard [0] from Ink & Switch.

[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/jacquard/notebook/
You're talking about the general history of Europe, and the vision in our current culture, why are you trying to push an obsolete taxonomy "of the time" ?
Quick sort with Hungarian, folk dance (2013) [video]
The actual root is even widely acknowledged: DB has been underfunded for a long time.
Programming doesn't happen in a vacuum, and experience and institutional knowledge can account for many orders of magnitude of performance. A trivial example/recent anecdote:

The other day, two of our juniors came to see me, they had been stumped by the wrong result of a very complex query for 2 hours. I didn´t event look at the query, just scrolled down the results for 10 seconds and instantly knew exactly what was wrong. This is not because I'm better at SQL than them or a Carmack level talent. This is because I've known the people in the results listing for basically all my life, so I instantly knew who didn´t belong there and very probably why he was being wrongly selected.

Trivial, but 10 seconds vs. 4 man hours is quite the improvement.
Hacker sends email blast to Internet Archive Zendesk support ticket submitters
I received the following email as a response to a long closed support email. I don’t see anything to indicate it isn’t from Internet Archive’s actual Zendesk instance.

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The Internet Archive Team (Internet Archive)
Oct 20, 2024, 05:22 CDT

It's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach 2 weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets.

As demonstrated by this message, this includes a Zendesk token with perms to access 800K+ support tickets sent to info@archive.org since 2018.

Whether you were trying to ask a general question, or requesting the removal of your site from the Wayback Machine—your data is now in the hands of some random guy. If not me, it'd be someone else.

Here's hoping that they'll get their shit together now.