skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LHC wasn't built to discover the higgs. Another primary motivation was looking for supersymmetry and dark matter candidates. But really it was more general than that. Every time we've built a bigger collider we've found something new, and on some level, they just wanted to see what would happen. New data means new things to explain.
not yet, but it is a possibility after the UK promised to return the territories
University MeToo movement for one?
Thank you for your explanation of what else could've been found with the LHC and that a lot of work was actually done to disprove the existence of a lot of stuff.

Kinda kills my thought experiment though, but I guess that's the point. Thanks.
I wouldn’t dismiss the premise so quickly. Other factors certainly play a role, but I imagine that after 2016, anyone considering a career in radiology would have automation as a prominent concern.
A thermal imager does make detection of most electronics very easy if they're powered on:

https://www.beneaththewaves.net/Photography/Images/Thermal_I...

When I travel, I use mine to sweep the room.
Would using VPN prevent prying eyes from detecting the IP address? This issue seems to be related only to Tor users who do not use VPN?
What a great way to alienate people that haven’t gotten a pay rise at all for years to your cause. Insane.
Super unintuitive that the HTTP header a site can set, to disable this, is:

Document-Policy: force-load-at-top
Appreciate the feedback—it got me thinking the design needed a real upgrade. So, I went back and gave the whole layout a fresh look. Check it out—feels like a new experience, right? Definitely a step up from before. Let me know what you think!
Gore-TEX (PFAS) Is Poisoning You (Not Clickbait) [video]
Right but pretty.c doesn’t seem to explicitly support those.
Bought a Technics M12 at a garage sale. When I plugged it in, it had an horrible hiss when playing, even with no tape in it.

Solution was simple : put a blank tape then record, play, record, play short chunks of tape in order to clean the record/play connections in the mechanism. Problem solved.
It's not directly mentioned in this article, but the four deanonymized users were admins of a CSAM site with hundreds of thousands of users. If you're concerned about being targeted by law enforcement, step one is probably: don't be that.

https://www.dw.com/de/darknet-missbrauchsplattform-boystown-...

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/kindesmissbrauch-boysto...
I kinda like the bing daily wallpapers extension for GNOME. I suppose that's different as it's managed by a 3rd party.
Many Americans aren’t getting a 35% pay rise.
Try lying down and then watching the screen.
This ^ passwords just don’t live in Firefox when you are using apps that need passwords across platforms (mac ios windows) and apps. This is where Bitwarden shines.
I mean other languages make it work.
Sure, but that's orders of magnitude more effort, oversight, manpower and political risk involved than your typical "find a thousand people who have a paper trail saying they did X, pick the five hundred of those who you have an airtight case against, pick the hundred of those who juries will find least sympathetic, pick the 50 of those least likely to shoot back" type" operation that the fedcop enforcement agencies run fairly unilaterally every single day.
Copy-pasting the link in the title on HN:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/10/25/harris-...

Dreadful mismatch between HN title and actual Forbes article, which is about Harris out-fundraising Trump.
Remastering Capitalism
LE are mostly avoiding this by just buying from the same public ad network sources that everyone else does and using that as a way to avoid the paperwork, I know people get very pissy about EUs GDPR sometimes but if you want to put an end to that kind of thing you need to tackle the private sector collection problem which almost anyone can access and is comparable with mid tier nation state capabilities.
I‘ve recently learned about PassBolt, but it doesn’t meet criteria 3 I’m afraid
The mystifying, acrimonious battle between Arm and Qualcomm
https://archive.is/kMIZk
I had the same problems with Google Maps. I ended up using Apple Maps in Japan and it gave much more realistic routes
I predict that the current wave of AI will be useful but not nearly as useful as you hope, requiring ever more people to pour their time and energy into the overarching system it creates.
I recently implemented this, and the users loved it, though I was disappointed to hear it may have frustrated a usually silent group.

I'm open to feedback! What would be a better approach? Please don’t just suggest “no custom shortcuts for any web app”—people spend 60-70% of their workday using the UI components my team maintains. While random sites hijacking shortcuts is definitely frustrating, in our case, the pros seem to outweigh the cons.

Maybe allowing users to disable or customize shortcuts could be a solution? Or would that be over-engineering?

Honestly, I think the web platform could use a standard API for defining shortcuts, with browsers providing a UI to manage or disable them. Maybe I'm still over-engineering here.

Would really appreciate hearing others’ thoughts!
A lot of places do their own beans now, at least in Melbourne. It definitely does not mean Heinz everywhere in the country.
Pretty difficult to specify a rectangular region within reflowable content. It would need to be anchored by element edges, but if the algorithm chooses bad anchor elements or they reflow in weird ways (a layout that goes from horizontal to vertical on small screens, for instance), everything breaks.
I’d like to see if anyone with Fatal Familial Insomnia has been treated with this pattern. I expected that insomnia stops this glymphatic clearance, and that’s what eventually kills them.
Not enough weapons, and some of them should be pointed at the user for the most accurate portrayal. Particularly around any team working on Copilot.
YouTube has removed vp9 from older videos, quality is much worse
Here's what it took for the small American company I work at to get registered to sell downloadable digital goods from our American web site to EU customers:

• About 15 minutes or so on the website of the Irish tax authorities.

Once we started selling, here's the ongoing burden:

• Collect VAT at the VAT rate of the country the customer is in.

• Early on in each quarter run a script that produces a report that shows our total sales for each EU country and how much VAT we collected for that country.

• Upload that report to the Irish tax authorities and give them the total VAT we collected. The Irish tax authorities deal with reporting our sales to the other countries and distributing the collected VAT to them.

• Keep our VAT rate table up to date. Unlike sales tax in the US VAT rates rarely change. Looking at our database of VAT rates I see an average of 1.7 rate changes per year over the last several years. That's 1.7 changes per year for the whole EU, not per country.

When VAT changes it almost always changes on a quarter boundary (I think I've only seen one or two times when it changed during a quarter).

Since the rates are per country there aren't many of them. It would not be too much hassle to simply download the rates from some EU government site and manually update our rate DB.

What we actually do is use an API from apilayer.com. Their free tier allows 1000 requests per year which is way more than are needed to keep up with VAT changes since it is one API call to get the rates for all of the EU.

We used Ireland because English is one of their official languages. We could have picked any other EU country to deal with instead of Ireland, although the registering and reporting details would differ so registering and reporting might not be as easy.

Compare to what an American company that wants to sell to multiple American states has to do to deal with sales tax. The tax depends on the exact address of the buyer, not just the state, and you have to register and file with each state. Generally dealing with that means you have to use a paid service which will charge a percentage of your sales.

If you only need to collect tax in the states that have joined the Streamlines Sales Tax group you can get a sort of EU like experience. To that you have to agree to collect tax for all of the SST states even if you only are actually legally required to collect for some of them, and then you can use a paid tax service from their list and the SST states will pay the cost of that.

If you need to collect tax for any of the approximately half the states not part of SST then you'll have to deal with those states separately.
Med school is government funded in my country- none of that bizarre student debt thing that America has.

Ofcourse this does mean that there is a maximum budget for new students every year which works a cap.
It's not the simplest possible but it's more practical than this by miles. It's a continuum.
I make the pointer bigger on both macOS and Windows. Unfortunately, at least on macOS, it becomes too imprecise for clicking if you max out the size, but I can't deal with hunting and pecking for my pointer so I do push it as far as I can.

Probably stems from the days of using computers with much lower resolutions where the mouse pointer was therefore relatively large and easy to find. My Amiga 500 typically ran at either 320 x 256 or 640 x 256 (with rectangular pixels), but the mouse pointer was a 16 x 16 hardware sprite, which locked to the lower resolution IIRC, so it was always 5% of the width of the screen, and 6.25% of the height. This is absolutely enormous by today's standards, even with the mouse cursor enlarged to, not its maximum size on macOS, but its maximum useful size.
Maybe one of these will grow into emacs+vim+vs code and make them obsolete ? We didn't just spawn in with computers having vs code emacs or vim already installed you know.
Imagine you own a grocery store in a small town. The only one, in fact, and the nearest competitor is a 30 minute drive.

You, being a free market enthusiast, decide to test how much the market will bear, and raise your prices across the board.

Your customers, who are also your neighbors and friends, respond by socially ostracizing you.

This doesn’t exist at scale, because the people responsible for the unnecessary price hikes live far away from their customers, and do not intend to ever meet them, much less explain themselves.

People should price products to make a fair profit, one where both parties are satisfied. I don’t begrudge a car salesperson for selling me a car at above their cost, but I do if it’s wildly marked up.
Or a defined-benefits retirement plan (pension).
It was enough money, but I shouldn't have spent it all on computers. :P
After 20 years at the top of chess, Magnus Carlsen is making his next move
Excellent summary, thanks!
GenAI images sometimes do this to me. Not anything scary per say, but some of the faults make my brain feel weird as it tries and fails to interpret parts of the image that were "AI smeared".
The problem that the western countries face is that there is no "West", nor is there any sort of western strategy or longterm planning going beyond the horizont of the next elections/next financial quarter.

Yet, the countries that do not belong to this increasingly obsolete club of waning colonial powers certainly do consider the West an adversary and a hegemon to be displaced.
Introduction to Computing Systems [pdf]
Even better, send a pull request to Blink to add this feature. It doesn't actually need to play the whole content, merely fire the right js events to get all the content loaded before doing a save.

It would ideally get integrated into the browser "downloading..." UI too, although I could imagine that being technically hard to do.
By market share, that table contains all the major browsers and more.
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/23/will-io-domain-names-survive...

.io is the country domain of the British Indian Ocean territories which will soon seize to exist.
Good catch. Their own data privacy page says that they are collecting a bunch of data including IP addresses and other PIIs
Jupyter Notebook Alternatives and Competitors in 2024
It does, actually. There are four tiers [0], with unknowing violation at the bottom, followed by reasonable cause. Personally I’d place this at least at the reasonable cause tier.

[0]: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/hipaa/hipaa-vio...
FWIW, one of the cool parts about the JetBrains ecosystem is that, almost regardless of the language/IDE you're in, the keybondings are highly similar. When I have to work in VSCode, I happily use the JetBrains bindings.
Try the search function here!

https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
If only there was a way for those Americans to band together for leverage against their bosses to demand better pay. Maybe we could even pass some laws protecting their right to do so.
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets
> "Winning" for the workers means getting a deal people vote "yes" for

This is also what "winning" means for Boeing, they don't want machinists striking forever. Both parties obviously just want an agreement that both parties will say "yes" to

> If Boeing wants to stop loosing money at the rate they're currently doing, they better come up with a acceptable deal quickly.

Again, the same goes for the other party here. The one Boeing proposed seems acceptable to me, but I guess the machinists are free to reject whatever they want and propose whatever they want in response. I'm genuinely curious what they even want, aside from the pension plan they obviously won't get.
Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf]
Hinton doesn't take social/power aspects into account, he's a naive technical person. Healthcare is an extremely strongly regulated field and its professionals are among those with the highest status in society. Radiology won't be among the first applications to be automated. I see many naive software/ML people trying to enter the medical domain, but they are usually eaten for breakfast by the incumbents. This is not an open market like taxis vs Uber or one entertainment app vs another. If you try to enter the medical domain, you will be deep deep into politics and lobbying and you're going to be defeated.

Better deploy it in fields like agriculture and manufacturing that are already in good part automated. Then later in another generation one can try the medical domain.
I disagree.

>Its type checker and build toolchain are so abysmally bad and bug-riddled that I run into new bugs and limitations on the daily.

This seems like a setup issue.

Mine catches everything just fine. Both in-editor (I use neovim) and with a make step (just calls vue-tsc) + a precommit hook as a sanity check.

>React is basically pure TS and the only bugs I run into are the occasional limitations of TSC.

React is obscene. It always seemed to me the Java of the FE world, made worse in recent years. By that I mean grotesquely verbose and full of ceremonious value passing through multiple functions just for the tiniest of things. I've had to work with React codebases and these days I outright refuse to do that/turn down jobs with that requirement. I'd rather use angular.

Svelte and Vue are ergonomic and straightforward and they sanely default to SFCs instead of that woeful chimera of languages called JSX/TSX - you can still use it if you so desire though.
It is already hard with bots drowning any legit traffic, and you want to add random traffic too.
What if you want to use a password where you don't have Firefox installed or from somebody's else computer?

The same applies to the password manager any other browser.

I carry with me my keepass db inside my phone and I can use it anywhere at any time.
Yes and no, but mostly no.

Yes, cold dark matter is something conjectured to explain what we see, because we see these irregularities and we need something to explain what is causing them. If we weren't seeing those irregularities we wouldn't need it.

>> What we have is a failure mode in our current models to explain the phenomena we see.

The thing is, you don't know that, and that concept has already been thought about many times over.

What is surprising about CDM in particular is that it is ridiculous and yet it survives observation and theory better than every other hypothesis to date. It is more intuitive that the mathematical equations are wrong, or they've measured something (like the age of the universe) wrong, or there's some kind of effect that hasn't been accounted for. Yet after testing all that, CDM fails to be thoroughly disproved. The vast majority of evidence points to it being a real thing. If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

I don't think it's appreciated enough that astrophysicts do know that this is weird. That's why it's so interesting.

However, you need to come up with a competing theory that actually holds up to rigor. It's no good saying "it must be this" without any supporting evidence to support it. It's simply a guess, sci-fi, not science.

Yes, it's entirely possible that it will be explained by some part of physics we currently have no knowledge of. Some addition to the standard model, perhaps, or some miniscule effect that falls out of quantum gravity, whatever that may be. But those things aren't even a hypothesis at this point, just pure speculation without justification.
Huh? This post isn’t about overriding Ctrl-F.
> will a purchase flow end in a good state? NOT IF THE USER WAITS FOR AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE CLICKING THE 'BUY' BUTTON!

You seem to be presenting this as a ridiculous thing to consider, but it's very common behavior.

Visit the site, add something to your cart, close the tab, never come back.

What am I missing?
You don't happen to have USB-C Max, do you?

Just a thought. Those, AirPods 4, and of course Pro 2 are the only AirPods with rev 7 firmware. All other AirPods are on rev 6.

Both my AirPods (1st gen Pro and Lightning Max), which no longer have audiogram options in Custom Audio Setup since iOS 18.1, are all rev 6.
Well if he waited he wouldn't have run into the design fault in the first place.
I often like to daydream of a world where some SGI engineer used a titanium casing to build the "SGI tiBook" instead of Apple, and we ended up in a world where SGI, not Apple, is the trillion-dollar computing company of the 21st Century.

Of course, its just a fantasy, but somehow I feel like an SGI tiBook would've won over a lot of nerds, a lot faster, than Apples' variant did ..
Think how many companies have been found to have world-accessible S3 buckets. And you think they’re capable of administering Linux, let alone a niche OS like Qubes?
> There is a tremendous share of medicine specialties facing shortages

The supply of doctors is artificially strapped by the doctor cartel/mafia. There are plenty who want to enter but are prevented by artificial limits in the training.
Just use the default wallpaper right?
It's really illustrative into the mind of Apple fans that your takeaway from this wasn't that "dumb opinionated teenagers make stupid choices" and rather that "It's a good thing we're rid of Boot Camp, and it should be physically impossible to end up with a poorly configured Apple device, the heck with the consequences for people who know what they're doing.

You can't protect people from their absolute ignorance or in that case active sabotage. And the costs to society of having our only two mobile platforms both engaging in lots of anticompetitive behavior, are huge. Not to mention that if I want any choice at all in anything I apparently have to 'choose' Android, which I don't even like to use, due to the fact that in the US (and backed up by every job I've had) companies develop the iOS version of their app with great care, and farm out the Android version to some distant contractor, and since no executive has an Android device to even try it, no one above IC level even knows their Android app is a buggy pile of trash. All of this is not even due to any inherent qualities or policies of either platform, just that rich people all buy Apple devices.
> No. Where do you get that misinformation?

> Yes, it's relatively easy to construct a model where perfect information and a bunch of other assumption lead to markets being great. But that merely shows that these conditions are sufficient. Not that they are necessary.

"Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP": https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

To quote:

"""

I prove that if markets are weak-form efficient, meaning current prices fully reflect all information available in past prices, then P = NP, meaning every computational problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time. I also prove the converse by showing how we can “program” the market to solve NP-complete problems. Since P probably does not equal NP, markets are probably not efficient.

"""

> Non sequitur? Reminds me of the famous syllogism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician's_syllogism

I think I see what you mean, as I didn't give sufficient justification.

In this case, government control makes this sector function as a planned economy. The normal flaw in a planned economy is that it cannot respond quickly to changing consumer demand, and I do not dispute this.

In the case of medical issues, consumer demand is a lot more predictable by the government than by the general public, as the demand 20 years from now is mostly directly influenced by other government interventions in the meantime (governments have a better awareness than random 18 year olds choosing their university degree of the plausibility of a smoking ban or a sugar tax, they can change pollution rules to ban leaded fuel, etc.), and the exceptions are things like "novel global pandemic" or "we're at war now" where the government has to directly intervene in other ways anyway.
Nice, I don't think I would every pay for an app like that directly, but being able to play around with text to image AI generation for free is kind of neat :)
Incarceration happens because of a willful act. A pandemic, like seasons or natural disasters, are events beyond the control of individuals except for preventative measures that mitigate risk.

You wouldn’t have a picnic in the middle of a forest fire, just like you shouldn’t go out into some me-first in the middle of a pandemic. If you did, you’re going suffer consequences and use up resources of those that were caught up by a accident. Both can wait.

This Kantian mindset has to go.
Sure, we know imagery can cause fatal seizures so... yes.
“Haha, I appreciate the observation! As a backend developer, I’m definitely more comfortable with the backend processes. But I also used Claude for the frontend, and while AI helps maintain a consistent aesthetic, it does lead to similar responses for everyone. That’s one of the downsides of relying on AI!”

“Appreciate the feedback—it got me thinking the design needed a real upgrade. So, I went back and gave the whole layout a fresh look. Check it out—feels like a new experience, right? Definitely a step up from before. Let me know what you think!”

Sometimes I can see the comments, and other times I can’t. But I just want you to know, I appreciate your insights!
Ghosts maintain some procedure too..like we humans wear clothes
..maybe they have feelings
9 years ago is relatively recent when talking about the design of the Quake engine and its descendents, which was established 28 years ago.
Honestly, can we even trust a technology that is not 1.0 ?
> Extrapolating in a linear fashion, AI will do the last 10-20% in a few months or maybe a couple years

That's a hefty assumption, especially if you're including accuracy.
> The public tends to have a very strange idea as to a lot of things on this topic while forgetting that TOR itself was actually a department of defence project or NSW I forget originally.

IIRC it was a US Navy project. But I didn't understand your point.
Houston, we need an AWS data center.