skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it bad for Chrome to have vulnerabilities?

Yes, obviously it is. Is it bad for others/the public? Probably, but not as bad as it is for Chrome.

> because it really is only Chrome here holding the power

I'm not sure this is true. Apple pretty much forces usage of their browser engine on iOS, and heavily try to get people to use Safari on macOS. Windows push Edge pretty hard on their OS, and their browser engine is pretty much intertwined to the OS so you can't not use it. Both of them say they let you change the default, but various links in the OS would still open Edge/Safari even if you have the default browser changed. Not sure if that's on purpose or not.
Apparently this was a bad opinion, oops.
This is possibly why a number of Fortune 500 and government organizations avoid GPL like the plague. This whole debacle 'won' one battle for GPL licensing but set the war (and their stated ultimate goals) back by a significant amount. This event is a big topic among the devs where I work. It's reignited the 'we should make sure our policies state no use of GPL licensed code or libraries without the exception' (use of binary executables is unavoidable).

In any online population, some people like to build the world (Aces), some like to rule the world (Kings/Queens), some like to watch the world burn (Jokers), and some spend all their time fire-fighting (Jacks). Corollary: There will always be jokers.
> the US government clearly does not have their citizens interests first and foremost

I disagree, Americans just vote for that. Yes, we can talk all day long about the two party system, winner takes all, the electoral college and unfairness of everything being decided on the margins, but when the rubber hits the road, talk is cheap, action is what matters and a solid half of Americans has been consistently voting for the US government to put the interests of rich people first. The US as a whole is a beneficiary of globalism and it's on the Americans to decide how to distribute the gains, allies are not at fault.
I'm keeping cover because it helps me remember the title of the book! Otherwise I typically buy book after seeing recommendation on goodreads or elsewhere, start reading and when someone asks me the name of the book or the author - I have no idea! Cover helps with that.
That's another problem, we want cheap easy solutions like tracking people, instead of more targetteed or systemic ones.
The customer service is a margins game, and you are correct that they ratio spend to returns to track those margins per account.

The service degradation is in terms of search no longer being useful, promoted/ad brands everywhere, popup 'businesses' with co-mingled inventory, fake reviews, just general lack of trust earning. Amazon used to be THE place to get the cheapest option too, but that is rarely the case these days.
I see. LinkedIn promotions are not cheap, but the targeting can be extremely specific to maintain ROI.
If you’re old enough you remember favoriting servers in Gamespy. You’d end up on the same servers depending on who is there and mainly how good your connection was.
I have a similar experience with the pager duty app. It loads up and then exits with "security problem detected by app" because I've made it more secure by isolating it from Google (a competitor). Workaround is to just control it via slack instead.
Nat Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
Joe 90 jet car!
Waitlists don't make good HN posts, you could post this when it's ready for people to check out.
I'm very excited by the work being put in to make Bayesian inference more manageable. It's in a spot that feels very similar to deep learning circa mid-2010s when Caffe, Torch, and hand-written gradients were the options. We can do it, but doing anything more complicated than common model structures like hierarchical Gaussian linear models requires dropping out of the nice places and into the guts.

I've had a lot of success with Numpyro (a JAX library), and used quite a lot of tools that are simpler interfaces to Stan. I've also had to write quite a few model-specific things from scratch by hand (more for sequential Monte Carlo than MCMC). I'm very excited for a world where PPLs become scalable and easier to use /customize.

> I think there is a good chance that normalizing flow-based variational inference will displace MCMC as the go-to method for Bayesian posterior inference as soon as everyone gets access to good GPUs.

Wow. This is incredibly surprising. I'm only tangentially aware of normalizing flows, but apparently I need to look at the intersection of them and Bayesian statistics now! Any sources from anyone would be most appreciated!
It's a tough problem to solve and the computation of it all is sufficiently expensive that doing it on a battery-powered device is a significant drain.

A further difficulty is the file formats being used --- ages ago, I tried to argue for an ebook format which specifically noted markup and content as being decorative or semantic and looking over the specification I don't see that that was ever really worked up.

That said, a further difficulty is even if a feature is in the spec, it's not certain if the various hardware and readers would actually be implemented.

One back-burner project I've had for a while is to take a publication, make it into an ePub, then use the ePub as the source for a nicely typeset version (or more likely, series of versions) --- gotta finish a bunch of other projects first.

FWIW, it seems to me that a lot of the effort into nice typography/appearance is going into the "coffee table" sort of books which these days are stand-alone apps such as:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...

and it seems to me that there is a lot of potential for such documents which is as-of-yet only poorly explored --- some examples which seem to be reaching towards this:

- Bembo's Zoo --- this used to be a Flash-based website which was delightful: https://jilltxt.net/bembos-zoo/ --- it really needs to be brought back

- Euclid’s Elements Joyce's Java Version --- https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm... --- I refer to and link to this version by preference

- Motion Mountain: The free physics textbook --- https://www.motionmountain.net/ --- if this would read well in a PDF viewer on the Kindle Colorsoft, I'd get one --- as it is, I've been reading through it on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, and it's done a lot to help my understanding of physics

- various CD-ROMs and other multimedia efforts --- "The Manhole" became Myst which became a franchise unto itself, Broderbund's "Living Books" are now a popular line of apps, the Voyager series which was _amazing_ and I'd dearly love to see revisited https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1995/01/02/t...

- Leonardo da Vinci CD-ROM which was a wonderful interface for exploring the "Codex Leicester" --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(video_game)

I'd be very interested in other texts which explore this space and which have the potential for nice typography.

That said, I am fine with just reading ebooks on my Kindle w/ flush-left, ragged-right and having the ability to report the (apparently inevitable) typo.
Sorry, forgotten to post the GitHub link: https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server/
scapegoat for recent archives and leaks DoS?
I think it's definitely possibly now (or very soon) for an LLM to write native GPU/NPU code to get itself to run on different hardware.
Someone writes theorems, prove them in their head, and try to write down that proof.

Someone else reads both and tries to reason about the proof and theorem and notifies the creator of there are mismatches.

A more practical person goes and translates all that math/theory to code.

Another practical person will check implementation and theory and notify the implementor of mismatches.

TLA+ is basically an automated version of step two in this process. Someone has an idea for a theorem, writes it down in TLA+ and the system will notifyil if it makes any sense.
> it can also be read as one and five. However, it is not fifteen.

Can you help me wrap my brain around this? Does it mean six? I'm struggling to understand how a word can mean two numbers and how this would actually be used in a conversation.

Thanks. I'm curious and trying to search for this to understand just returns anime.
X-Acto knives are a specific type of knives, builder's or craftsman's, not chef's.

Equally, a Bic is not any ball pen at all, but a specific inexpensive, usually faceted kind, AFAICT.

Xerox, on the other hand, were the original inventors of the particular photocopy process.
Oh wow that takes me back. I remember complaining to the university that I couldn't download files via FTP. A few months later they answered me explaining file sharing protocols had no legitimate uses at a university. I was working in a research lab and needed to download standardized datasets to validate that the software worked as intended. At the time, only FTP was used.
I don't recall saying that everyone's reaction to marijuana is the same. I took issue with your claims that "super pot strains that are uselessly strong" even exist, and especially that they are a problem in the process of "self-correcting," as you described it.

Sorry that you have an outsized reaction to drugs, that sounds incredibly frustrating and painful. It doesn't apply to most people, though, and it seems like you're expecting growers to cater more to your outlying case - when many already do. If you have an outsized reaction, make sure you know what you're ingesting, and take way less. Frankly, that's even easier with mushrooms than it is with marijuana since you're already weighing out a specific dose. If that still isn't a safe or predictable enough method then maybe mind-altering, recreational drugs are not for you. I know lots of people who can't touch the stuff for a variety of reasons. They aren't claiming that the drugs are so strong they no longer serve a purpose, though.

You would personally prefer that cultivators make less potent products. "Finding the minimum potency necessary to minimize the nausea" is a fine goal, for you. Saying that growers who don't share this goal (or also grow high potency plants/fungi in addition) lack "wisdom," or are driven by a "classical capitalism fuck up" is just a view I disagree with for a lot of reasons.

Ultimately, it's your responsibility to find a dose that works for you. There are a million ways to consume these things, at any concentration you could possibly want. There's nothing stopping you from microdosing even with high potency mushrooms, or from exploring CBD dominant weed strains. But let's not invent "super weed strain" bogeymen in the process. That's straight out of the DARE playbook; it's inaccurate and harmful to legalization efforts.

You could just say "Some pot these days is too strong for me, I wish I could find some 80's brick weed" instead and that would be a pretty reasonable, albeit uncommon, take.
Hot Wheels has a ton of realistic cars if you want them. It's also legal to use them not on an official track.
They are closing their eShop :( they were loyal clients of my app EXPORT OrderPro in Shopify for years.

It's an odd way to see a shop leaving my app!
I got a Boox Go 7 as my first ereader a few months back and I feel the same way. I like it for my own use, which is mainly loading foreign language books in from Calibre into KO Reader, but I'd never recommend it to someone unless they were pretty technical.
It's not unsafe that causes unsafety, it's how you wield it.

- Do you know your invariants?

- Have you documented them?

- If using unsafe block, have you asserted them or guaranteed that they hold for any input?

Granted, Rust is kind of mediocre at teaching you this. It raises warning for unsafe fn without safety documentation block, but not when omittin safety comments in unsafe blocks.
You can make a very rational case for each privacy invasive technical decision ever made.

In the end, the fact remain: no chatgpt app without giving up your privacy, to google none the less.
I love those cheap old ones with a simple timer knob… unfortunately most lacked a rotating plate which is a pretty essential feature.

I’m hoping there is a new trend for devices to have a simple mechanical switch or dial for controlling things. I switched out a fancy programmable home thermostat that had a UI which requires reading the manual to make simple adjustments, for one with a single temperature knob. Friends and family would comment that I need to “upgrade it” when visiting, and were dumbfounded when I explained I had actually spent money and time to do the exact opposite.
This is precisely what Red Hat did, right?
I did grow up on the eastern block (not Poland) and we also called Adidas shoes a type of sneakers that could be a different brand, it was the style that we called them like that. There were a lot more genericized trademarks/eponyms. I can think of two more: one for Blue Jeans which sounded something like "blu Gee" (from blue jeans) and "Jeep" which we called any car that looked like a Jeep but of any brand.
Two Decades Ago, Ford Killed Its Legendary 7.3 Power Stroke
None of this means much to me unless I can actually use it. Sorta like how Sora has been totally overshadowed by Kling, Runway, Minimax.

You have to release your model in some fashion for it to be impressive.
Matchbox cars were the best!

In particular, they tended to roll much better than Hot Wheels.

The "axles" were some kind of fine spring steel. The matchbox cars had noticeably less drag than other brands and rolled farther and more straight. The plastic on the wheels was more flexible and smooth.

I do think that some thought went into how these things rolled. Or maybe I am mis-remembering my childhood experiences? I guess I will never find out!
They don't have to go to court, they'll just send you to collections and report it on your credit.
This is an astoundingly uncharitable attempt to make my otherwise personal assertion classist. Am I to meet my overstimulating environment head on, further exasperating my anxiety and mental exhaustion simply to please others who think my condition is actually a signal of wealth? I am not able to do so, and I am not apologetic about it.
I want to share a story in a somewhat related topic:

anti web-scraping techniques

The most devious version I ever seen of this, I was baffled, astonished and completely helpless:

This website I was trying to scrap generated a new font (as in a .woff file) on every request, the font had the position of the letters randomly moved around (for example, the 'J' would be in place of the 'F' character in the .woff and so on) and the text produced by the website would be encoded to match that specific font.

So every time you loaded the website you got a completely different font with a completely different text, but for the user the text would look fine because the font mapped it to the original characters. If you tried to copy-and-paste the text from the website you would get some random garbled text.

The only way I could think of to scrap that would have been to OCR the .woff font files, but OCR could easily prevent mass-scraping due to sheer processing costs.
it's written in rust is the only thing worth mentioning about it? congratulations on writing a thing that does something, i guess
That won't make chatgpt's app work thought.
> you might have been right 12 years ago when dark souls 1 came out initially

When it came out initially for windows I had already done two playthroughs so just did ... not ... care. I just read it's a crap port in the news.

> souls games have been running just fine on windows(and linux for that matter) for years

Maybe. For like 4 years I ran my PCs without a dedicated video card because crypto and chip crisis. The whole PS5 with an extra controller cost less than an equivalent PC video card at the time :)

[I do have a video card now, but only because someone paid me to write neural network code.]
Certain situations that are likely to occur in professional settings would be suitable topics for university education. For example, doctors will encounter many challenging decisions where it's crucial to understand what past generations of medical professionals have learned from similar situations.

However, this differs from universities teaching students which business areas are more moral to work in than others. Who would have the authority to decide which businesses are more ethical? Some argue that working in the defense industry is the least ethical career choice, while others claim it would be immoral not to support a country's right to purchase weapons for self-defense. These judgments are often subjective and could be heavily influenced by individual teachers' biases.
* Chewing gum is called chiclete (from Chiclets)

This is probably derived from the Sapodilla / Chicle tree, and not the little square chewing gums.
Show HN: Create demos & guides just with a simple prompt
Teams often create demos & guides on a daily basis.

But creating them is time consuming and needs a lot of effort. From content to the branding, customizations, and many more - they are not something you would want to do on a daily basis.

Enter Fable. Purpose built for teams in marketing, sales & customer success. Fable is apt for engaging visitors, closing deals faster, and onboarding your users quickly.
Because evolution isn't a nerd optimizing a design. Design implies intent. Evolution is more random and serendipitous than a nerd with any sort of intent. It's not engineering. There's no specs & recs or post mortems or blueprints. Evolution is too beautiful, random, and mysterious for the enginerd to appreciate and understand.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2021/09/14/energy-prices-in-...
He probably got greedy and didn't stick to plain old boring index certificates and bonds.
this is how explode behaves on a lisp machine:

(defun explode (x)
(mapcar (lambda (x)
(intern (char-to-string x)))
(string-to-list (prin1 x))))

turning character into symbol seems natural, because then you are reducing your needed function space even more. I'm surprised the original operated on prin1 output, not sure what the logic behind that is. on a lisp machine (zl:explode "foo") gives me '(|"| |f| |o| |o| |"|)
I was on phone support for a SaaS based company that did something similar. Massive pricing restructuring increasing 90% of accounts bill and they made you call in and wait on hold to cancel. This was 10 years ago, but the ruling is a welcome pro-consumer addition.
> When you negotiate rates that are similar to what renewables get, the profits get obscene.

I don't understand what you are smoking. The entire investment cost for renewables are similar in price for the electricity from a paid off nuclear plant. Excluding decommissioning, insurance and waste storage costs for the nuclear plant.

Take Sweden, the lowest electricity costs in Europe and no subsidies for new built renewables on the books. Keeps building the equivalent to an EPR in wind power every 2 years.

You truly must be a cult member to think nuclear power makes financial sense when the UK government is adding a ~ £7B subsidy to Sizewell C before the final investment decision to get the project started, because they can't find investors!

> Evidence of the "cost plus" contract?

Just Google the Regulated Asset Base. EDF is too weak to take any risk from Sizewell C on their books, thus it becomes a cost plus contract as the government takes the entire risk, because it has been wholly incapable of finding any investors.

> In fact UK plans to quadruple nuclear power. Because there is no business case. Riiiight.

You mean like they've been doing since the mid 2000s.

I would suggest you dare click any of these links:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylfa_Newydd_nuclear_power_sta...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldbury_nuclear_power_station#...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_B_nuclear_power_stati...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorside_nuclear_power_station

> Only when the renewables are massively subsidized.

> And they don't deliver the same product: reliable, dispatchable electricity.

The Swedish case points differently. They do deliver reliable electricity, maybe have a read?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

Nuclear power needs to come down in cost by 85% to be competitive with the renewable system. Both systems ensure a reliable grid.

You truly sound like a cult member ignoring all facts contrary to your own made up beliefs.
Currently doing a poc with NextJS frontend and Python Flask backend. Doing it all through vercel makes it pretty easy. If I was self deploying, I'd probably do FastAPI instead.
> Doctorow is not one of the examples he provides, but I'm not sure that any of this negates the point.

lol what? Doctorow created "enshitification" to describe rent seeking and its behaviors, and has been creating a technocratic journalist vocab since the BoingBoing days.
You have insurance to force the direction of payment. If that fails, the lawyers are called. Therefore, to solve insurance, you need to first replace lawyers.
Most of those devs back in 2011 were rookies, and many still are now. It would've been lucky enough for them to have even heard of the word 'asymmetric encryption'. And you can still find many public APIs in the WeChat docs (in 2022) that uses hand-written AES stuff that, unfortunately, uses ECB.

Back in those days where the CN internet infrastructure as we see today was laid down, devs and PMs literally didn't know for sure what were they doing, but they still worked overnight because it the new features must be shipped before next weekend.

And since the services worked pretty well until today it's kinda better to keep the s__tpile there and don't change it. Also there's a lot of unmaintained 'PWA's in the wild that relies on legacy APIs that you dare not to break.
Nope, Matchbox were indeed the best. They were incredibly high quality compared to similar brands. Really surprising for such a cheap mass-produced toy.
Matchbox were made of metal too, not mostly plastic with minimal metal like many of today's toys for children. I gave some of the ones my little brother and I played with in the early 1980s to my neighbor's kid last year. They were a little scratched and scuffed in places but that just added to the versimiltude. They had all the wheels and the hoods and doors and other moving parts still move and close.
This is factually incorrect. Jetpack, even the free version, sends all sorts of data over to Automattic. Automattic has access to the details of any site running Jetpack. This may have changed with the shift to modularized separate plugins but prior to 2022, there was a ton of data being sent to Automattic.
> I quite dislike this because it appears to be AI emotionally manipulating people into buying products they don’t really need or want.

That's the definition of advertising in general, AI is just the copywriter in your example.

I view almost all advertisements as a form of microaggressions. A company is stealing my attention without my consent and attempting to manipulate me on a subconscious level.

Over time, the cost of advertising will go down and ad sophistication will increase. The endgame is ads in your eyeballs 100% of the day causing you to take actions that are against your self interest. The next generation ad blocker will be a hypothalamus implant - ads will be unavoidable, so the only option will be to block your emotional response to then.
Well you can use the web base chagpt so there is a workaround. Except it's worse a worse experience.
YES, I love the physical buttons. I have mine rotated so that the buttons are at the bottom, and it works well. The weight is distributed more evenly this way as well.

Did they actually announce that the Oasis was discontinued or did they just stop making them?