skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some examples of racism were documented in some progressive outlets, therefore all examples of racism would have made it into the public record?

Maybe there was concern, when progressives were fighting this sort of thing, that if they picked the most unbelievable example, the naive public (those not familiar with the residents of a typical Klan-era backwater Louisiana parish) would question its veracity… as we see today…

Imagine you were going to forge a such a test? I don’t think I could make up something this ridiculous if I tried. I’d have to be practiced in generating trick questions, and motivated by malice to come close. Realistically, I’d give up and pick one of the readily-available real examples of poll tests to use.
hahah thanks :)
Or even worse, someone getting dumped over FaceTime.
Just enough admiration by the author to make someone think they should be like this guy, and approaching life like him is appropriate.

Walking away after reading that article, I don't know whether or not to be appalled, or intrigued by the intricacies of the book collecting world and this dude.

One thing is for certain, if someone owed me six figures and they just hand waved it away with a slight of hand, I'd start throwing some chairs.
The point is that patents are commonly used as a defensive tool, and any good counsel would tell you such. While having a patent is not a defense to an infringement allegation, patents can act as a deterrent to others suing you. The idea is that having your own patents discourages competitors from bringing suit because they will fear that you will turn around and counter-sue them for infringement of your patents. This, of course, does not however address the problem of non-practicing entities.
You can have shadowing with explicitly declared variables. And there are languages that allow that, Rust to name one and I love that I can do that every time I use it.
You should check out Three Body Problem (the book, not the mediocre netflix adaptation).
If your machine is on the Internet in any way, you're taking part in the big ongoing global CTF.
I'm genuinely curious what you meant! I can totally understand those who say schools are like prisons. I've never encountered the inversion of that idea.
> existential terror has entered the room
Is this good for the shark?
FOIA Release of AF Air Intelligence Report on 1952 Washington DC UFO Flyover
> But I believe that now that we have public education available to everyone we should have some basic literacy and civic tests for people to vote.

What if you did not get the benefit from this public education? Now you're discriminating against the uneducated, who may have their own opinion on education policies that they should have the right to vote on.

While I agree that everyone should have literacy and calculus and all those other skills that we nowadays consider "basic" or "elementary", and everyone should have access to them, if not be required to go to school up to a certain age / level... you can't assume everyone can or does, through no fault of their own.
Profiting from (Some) Failure – By Kent Beck
what kind of brain dead politician thought this was a good idea.
noticed something similar with my non airport Noise cancelling earbuds. If I had to guess, I'd say those frequencies we can't hear are still damaging our ears
You seem to think the DoD and the NSA don't have anything to say in the matter. Frankly I'd be quicker to believe men in black suits and sad faces take over the operation before Musk manages to wind it down. It's worth as a military asset is simply too great to risk a madman have complete control, regardless of how many shares he's got.
The road to OCIv2 images: what's wrong with tar?
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation – Science
I don't think the slides are enough to view the app's features. I don't want to create an account just to see the features. Also the auto-advancing slides don't allow me to look closely at the UI.
But how will that help me know that app is sending tracking information over a TLS connection (with posssibly pinned certificate) to a hardcoded IP or an IPthat it got from vendor server or that it resolved using DoH resolver hardcoded in the app?

Because when adding telemetry to the app, do you really think they go out of their way to make it easy to block?
Gaussian, Gaussian, Gaussian. Important to understand Gaussians, but also to recognize how profoundly non-Gaussian, in particular multimodal, the world is. And to build systems that navigate and optimize over such distributions.

(Not complaining about this article, which is illuminating).
…if you have time and knowledge to rewrite all the WebExtensions you rely on in day-to-day browsing in Common Lisp?

That's a rather big if. :-D
It could really be much larger beyond the observable horizon though? But I guess we will never know.
Judging from his name, he has been struck with post-soviet spirit of doom and gloom.
I think they're talking about specifically the Unabomber, who was known to be a math genius too.
> I don’t think it’s right to put any sort of filter on which citizens are allowed to vote.

No, but we should require proof that you _are_ a citizen. And no, a flimsy attestation that certain groups fight tooth and nail against periodic verification of (see the arguments that come up every time the voter rolls need to be purged of the dead, people who’ve moved, or to ensure that no one lied about their citizenship status) isn’t a good solution.
I don't think there's much you can really do except to express your concerns to the people you correspond with.

This isn't a new problem: it's a problem with gmail, too. You and I can avoid using it directly, but it may well be that the people we want to send emails to are using it.
If you're opening with O_CREAT|O_EXCL, why does it matter whether the filename is predictable?
> every extraordinary person [was] 1 step away from being forgotten, and got some huge universal break

Being a genius is a phenomenon of the individual, but being able to pursue one's talent is a social aspect of the phenomenon of civilisation.
Meh, this is not rare.

In colors (design, printing,...), the "K" in CMYK stands for "blacK"
The Money Keeps Rolling in for Optical Interconnects
> Apple refuses to keep you logged in to your account, so you have to enter your Apple ID password over and over again.

Settings > Account > Subscriptions > Cancel

5 taps on my iPhone, and no prompt for Face ID or PIN. Are you using a website or something?
Ask HN: Are models changing for pinned releases?
Officially OpenAI, Anthropic and others have stated that when using a pinned version that should not be the case. But it is also stated that we can't expect fully deterministic results with temperature 0.

Is someone properly/scientifically testing if they get the same level of quality over time?
It seems like model distillation works well on benchmarks and they could "easily" improve their gross margins, by swapping in a smaller/cheaper model.

E.g. we've seen isolated performance drops from gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to the september version that also came with big price cuts.

WDYT?
Fantastic answer, actually made me enthusiastic for Raku!

Now I want to go mess with it to see what it can do with some of my standard use cases. (DevOps infrastructure code, various AWS Lambdas, lots of build pipelines)
I think it's just because every single person here has at least a decade of personal experience in education. One of the things many people like about HN is that when an article about some obscure subject is posted, there is often someone in the comments with personal experience who can share a story. Education is one of the few subjects where we can all be that person.
Ask HN: Anyone working on tech to reduce the chance of elder financial scams?
My 80-year-old father recently fell victim to a financial scam. It wasn't anything particular notable - click an ad, get connected to someone "from the bank" and transfer money to an account in another country under the guise of "protecting it".

"Who falls for this stuff?" we tech-literate folks often ask, but in retrospect my father was a good target as my mother had always handled the finances and she passed away a few months prior. So we've got a financially-naive person who is also perhaps just starting to become mentally diminished and he goes along with the scam.

More recently a friend's parents of a similar age fell for the "your kid is in jail, you need to give us money for bail" scam.

Just today there was a CNN story about dementia patients repeatedly giving to political groups: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/

The FBI says there's over $3 billion in annual elder fraud losses, and I'd imagine that's under-reported after seeing the shame and reluctance to talk about it that my father experienced.

Are there any existing or emerging tech solutions to any of this? I didn't act until it was too late for my father to be victimized, but my mother-in-law is younger and still sharp. Is there anything we should recommend that she put in place on her accounts before the inevitable decline? Some sort of AI transaction filter that would add safety but also preserve her dignity and autonomy?
The floppies are a red herring that makes for a catchy headline, they're paying $212M to replace the whole train control system from 1998.
Reminds of an early tank simulator where the driver in the cockpit saw a video feed from a camera on a gantry they were slowly driving around a diarama. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE

"Real engine" for just one player at a time though.
It's not that individual makeup is so irrelevant, it's that if we assume (potential) Einsteins and Ramanujans follow a normal distribution (or really any random distribution), then the fact that so many people in the world live in situations where any genius will simply never be noticed means we are necessarily missing out on the vast majority of them.
I wish there is some study for that, hmmm. I usually keep the same (bad) diet every day so it's kinda hard to test.
My guess would be it's because it's an experience (most of us) have in common in years full of first times. It's also an experience that took as least as much space in our life than work now does. It's also a place where we had to deal authority and groups. So whenever you make any point about education, if the point you are making seems to negate/go against the grain of my own experience, I will probably tell you :)

(Venting is a need that everyone has when under pressure not sure it has anything to do with our education structures)
And in Germanic mythology the personification of the sun is Sól.

In PIE it's sunnōn. In some languages that evolved to some variation of sun or son, in some to became sol (notably Latin). And many use both variations in some capacity
> You can cut through a lot of this with good legal counsel, but that is really just contributing to the gamesmanship of the whole process.

True and true. In some ways perhaps that’s the point. It is a game of sorts, it is business competition; businesses temporarily monopolizing business on inventions in return for disclosing them. And it makes sense that legal protections for businesses are better & easier for those businesses when they spend money on lawyers, if a little pessimistic. Unfortunately the system is somewhat motivated to try to cut out people who can’t afford lawyers.

You mentioned bad/dumb patent examiners. I’ve never worked with them and only worked with patent lawyers, and I have to say I’ve been constantly impressed with their ability to absorb, understand, and describe highly technical work in legalese (and yes the language is sometimes performative and can sound funny to engineers). Teams creating these inventions take months and years to make something patentable, and when I think about how the lawyer’s job is to understand these new inventions in a short amount of time, over and over, week after week, I feel like they have a hard job and I’m routinely surprised at how well and how quickly they understand it.
MIME Types and Atom Bombs
It is, but it's one to protect a country, else a foreign entity could, for example, move a million people temporarily to the country to vote for policies or politicians that benefit them.

I mean it would be a huge undertaking etc etc, but there's people and state actors with infinite means to do so.
Great; I didn't know of this Mathematics magazine.
Tom Persky at https://www.floppydisk.com/ is selling them for a few more years yet.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/floppy_disk_business/...

You can get a 10 pack for 15 bucks.
Backward compatibility, innit.

Microsoft have tried to get people to use the newer, more heavily sandboxed APIs like UWP, but only very weakly, and they haven't committed to transitioning their own apps over as dogfood. Nearest they've got is actually migrating a lot of office to the cloud as Office365.

Sunsetting Win32, or even having significant backwards-compatibility breaks, would upset so many corporate customers who would then refuse to upgrade.
> only caste that is supposed to be educated

Not True.

The book [1] documents evidences from the revenue records of the early British Administration in India on the state of education in the late 1700s through the 1800s up until the early 1900s. These records show that India had a well established grassroots education system at the village level, with access to children from all walks of the society including female students. The subjects taught included - Grammar, Lexicology, Poetry, Drama & Religious History, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology, Logic, Law, Medical texts etc., As per the records and communication from the administrators, almost all villages had access to such schools.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17931651-the-beautiful-t...
Each keychain item on macOS has an access control list associated with it that lists the applications that are granted access to the keychain item. If an application not on the ACL attempts to access a keychain item, macOS prompts the user for authorization. The ACL entries identify applications based on properties of their code signature and so are not spoofable.
I second this. WezTerm is very fast (much faster than anything libvterm-based), very featureful (comparable to Kitty), and very configurable (comparable to Vim, if not Emacs itself). Showing fonts the way I like (and not he way macOS defaults to): check. Sending complex key combos as custom sequences: check. Palettes, mouse support, system clipboard support: all check. Selection and search mode: check. Linux, MacOS, and even Windows support: all check!

I wish Ghostty all the luck, because the current state of terminal emulators is a pretty high bar to clear.
Those frameworks are unrelated to TypeScript, as you can use TypeScript as a preprocessor for vanilla JS DOM operations.
> fairly robust DNS setup that consists of not only giving A records to all my hosts

looks nice, can you give more details on this? tks!
4,300 tonnes of space junk and rising: another satellite breakup
I'm willing to bet a somewhat big part of this is because of know your customer laws, just ask Chris Boden (@Physicsduck on YT).
> but you're free to use explicit parentheses and braces as you like

I’ve been eying Civet and I quite like it so far, but I dislike having this option because it means I’ll have to see it in other peoples code. I prefer strict rules for readability.

Regardless, I like pretty much everything else.
Fun stuff, glad to see open source stuff like this still being used. Did downlink eavesdropping in the network security lab at college about 10 years ago. One of my projects was measuring how much cell activity dropped during spring break, another was to do timing attacks on known phone numbers at known locations to see if I can pull temporary IDs (not temporary enough IMO) and do repeat calls to see if they’re still in the area.

Makes me want to play with this again.
How would it work under ssh?
But 99% of code does not use vector instructions. That last 1% will either get slower (emulating trapped instructions), or have a 2nd non-vectorized implementation, with the binary containing both.
> I don't really see a huge difference between a student/diploma and a spammer/my attention.

You don't see a difference between potentially ruining a students future due to grading done by an opaque ai system and you clicking on a spam email? That's preposterous.
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/07/improving-security-o... talks a little about improvements Chrome has made on Windows to make it harder for malicious software to access the encryption key used to encrypt cookies and passwords on disk.
A new JSON data type for ClickHouse
> appeal [1] I am not sure its the right word

You can challenge the patent at the USPTO to instigate an in partes review.

You can also raise a defense of 'the patent is invalid' if the patent owner tries to sue you.
Where is the 'start education program', 'pull people out of poverty' etc? Not everything has to be this sad.
Why should styling even have a separate element? And duplicated? I thought the whole point of CSS was to not clutter HTML with styling.

This shouldn't be a literal new element. It should be a psuedo-element like other component parts like `::-[engine]-slider-thumb` are. You can then style `select::selected-option` and not have to mangle your HTML or worry about mirroring HTML.
Custom GPT to understand NYC election props 2-6
They don't, just flag them rather than reply them. It's the only way to be sure.
You're kinda preaching to the choir here on HN, where many people feel the same way (not me personally, but generally speaking).

That's fine, you can still use Typescript with vanilla JS and not use any frameworks. Typescript shouldn't result in unnecessary code in production. It's just developer hinting during dev, but it gets removed during the build.

If you don't want to use a build tool at all, you can also use JSDoc formatting to provide some basic type and parameter information. Your IDE can still use that to provide hints.

It's totally up to you. If it's a solo dev codebase that only you ever see and you don't want to type it, then don't :) If you do end up wanting to share the code though, Typescript makes it a lot easier for other devs to use because they can instantly see when something is wired up wrong during development.
I’ll believe that when it happens
If there is a credible threat of retaliation (violence, employment, housing) for even trying to vote, then this is very effective. Why take a big risk if you won’t get to vote anyway? This way you don’t actually have to give the test very often, everyone quickly figures out the “rules” and falls into line.
4k walking tours.

There are too many.

I find myself looking up Japan walking tours and getting “lost” there. So wonderful.
The youngest old man I know at any rate
As a holder of multiple patents (some thru employers, and several, now lapsed, that I tried to get personally) the entire system is a joke. As a few people have said here, it seems like it is designed entirely to obfuscate the process, make money for lawyers, and entrench the value of the existing portfolios of large patent holders.

In the process of doing some research on patents a while back I came across this article [0] which really resonated with me.

[0]: “Against intellectual property” — Brian Martin, https://documents.uow.edu.au/~/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html
And by "spell", do they mean just rewrite the word(s), write the word(s) with a s p a c e between each letter, or go to the examiner and spell it verbally?
Because they have to do only one thing, and literally billions are produced every year, so if qualcomm spends 1 billion for R&D, the modem price will only need to be $1 "higher" to cover the r&d cost... if SDR development costs $1 mio (and that's basically zero for hardware design), and 10k units are sold, that's $100 per device in R&D cost.

(numbers simplified and rounded to make an example)
> A significant portion of people (at least 20%) become lazy with WFH and just slack off, you can’t get any response from them on WFH day.

Where does that 20% figure come from?

My sense is that people who are slacking when working from home are the same people who are slacking when working in the office, so it's a wash.
SQLite 3.47.0
You are writing about the highest level of abstraction, instead of the functions assigned to specific type and lower. Besides, it is common to combine the MBTI with the Enneagram. You literally comment on what you see at a glance.
Even if we shouldn't be concerned about "persistent" underemployment, I still think that rapid "transient" unemployment due to rapidly evolving tech over the coming decades may cause significant societal upheaval that we should be concerned about - even if it's "just luddites" coming to burn our data centers.
That's interesting. I wonder if you have the kind of tinnitus that produces a noise the AirPods can pick up? That could cause feedback.
That's one trick part of the the question (a common trick, a lot of people don't read two "the"s in a row), but the other answer could be "what you read in the triangle below" as that's what the question states.

The other trick is that the line could be too short depending on your handwriting, in theory disqualifying the tested person regardless of what they write down.
> In a single-user environment, where malware is the biggest concern in current times, what difference does it make if it's a process running under a different user or one that is running under your current user that is attacking you?

Very true, and this is a real weakness of the UNIX (and Windows, even worse!) style security model in the modern environment. Android/iOS do a lot better.
TRON Operating System
Yes. All he has to do is walk into a hospital or detox center and he’ll have access to medical care King Henry VIII could not buy with all his riches.

> opiate addict

Indeed, we don’t have the technology to save people from themselves, yet. I am sure kings of old didn’t either and addicts of their time fared even worse.
A public disclosure becomes prior art as of the date it is made public, with no "countdown clock" in most jurisdictions. For example, if you publish a blog article on July 1 describing your invention X, it can serve as prior art for any patent applications claiming invention X with an effective filing date after July 1.

There are nuances however with prior-filed patent applications. While such applications are not immediately public, once they are published (typically 18 months after filing), they become prior art retroactively, as of their filing date.

Even if a person independently conceives of a patentable idea, they shouldn't be able to get a patent for it if there exists prior art (although it obviously happens sometimes because the patent examination process isn't perfect).
> And then it ruined us with implicit returns

What was so ruinous about implicit returns? That's one of the things I missed most when leaving CoffeeScript. ECMAScript only partially adopted it (single statement fat arrow functions) which probably muddies the waters for people trying to learn and understand the language's behavior.

Since it's optional for the caller to use or assign the return value of a function, I don't see much problem with functions defaulting to returning something. Maybe it just fits with my personal preference of functions returning a value and not having side-effects..
FWIW the building from the article is open to visitors during extended working hours.

Source: Currently in the building.
Sorry just saw this. Looks promising, I love diesel! Haven’t looked at the landscape in a few months and don’t work on the project that needed it anymore but very cool to see. Even uses OPFS!
> It’s a bad idea because it’s shared global mutable state that crosses security boundaries.

I think there is a use for such a thing (I take advantage of these features somewhat regularly), but having it also be the default $TMPDIR is definitely a bad idea.