skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any application that is written in JavaScript will have more and more of it replaced with WebAssembly.

Which is not a lot when it comes to web. Sure some algo heavy stuff like Figma will benefit from it, but GUI around it is still written in what?
> Life doesn't 'find a way' and balance. The ecosystem is damaged, and often times destroyed by adding a single non-native species.

Of course it does. "Ecosystem" and "species" and "native" are human terms referring to categories we invented to make sense of things. Life itself is one ongoing, unbroken, slow-burn chemical reaction at planetary scale. It's always in flux, it's always balanced in myriad ways on some timescales, unbalanced in others.

Even without getting reductive to this degree, there's hardly a case an ecosystem was destroyed. Adding non-native species ends up rebalancing things, sometimes transforming them into something dissimilar to what came before - but it's not like life disappears. The ecosystem is there, just different. Though it sure sucks to be one of the life forms depending on the "status quo".

> That doesn't seem random does it?

Yes, it very much is random. If thermodynamics teaches us anything, it's that random looks quite organized if you zoom out enough and smooth over details.
Correct, its 4 million. I was thinking about 4 million at at 100$ per month initially. 4 million doesn't change my point however.
surfingkeys seems to have more features and works well for me
TV licencing in the UK is administered by Capita.

Their contract is unlikely to allow queries to be ignored, and the people receiving the queries are likely to have targets to resolve "tickets" (queries) within a particular time / to a particular satisfaction.

If the query doesn't tick a particular easy-to-answer box, they'll use the best form answer available in order to "resolve" the ticket and meet their targets.
Climatic consequences of the process of saturation of radiation absorption
In places with more modern technology, instead of relying on ink on thumbs, we can just have a computerized system informing all the voting precincts that John Doe has now voted at Precinct X, perhaps with a face photo in case someone alleges fraud.
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Switzerland is part of the Schengen but not the EU, I guess Norway is in that boat also. If we are just talking about open borders, then it isn’t limited to the EU (the UK wasn’t in the Schengen even when it was in the EU).
X changed its terms of service to let its AI train on everyone's posts
tl;dr for those who don't want to open CNN:

X's new terms of service, effective November 15, 2024, now allow the platform to use public posts to train its AI models. Users' content can be collected and adapted for various uses, which has raised privacy concerns.
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Do they manage to cut out the sound of people eating and messing with their candy packaging? Drives me nuts.
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I would say "fun" is overrated. We have become so focused on everything being fun that everything including fun itself has become tepid and mediocre. It is important to slog through the hard parts to cross the barrier of expert beginner. We are over downplaying the value of hard work and grit.
> I think in principle most people agree that it's appropriate under some limited circumstances for authorities to listen in to private conversations, given well-founded suspicion of illegal activities taking place,

You're right. You know where the most illegal activities take place ? In the parliament. Can we listen to the private conversations of our representatives ? /s
The BBC is independent, and funded by the TV licence.

The TV licence scheme is _administered_ by Capita on behalf of the BBC. Those responses are coming from Capita.
I think that's classic chicken and egg. I've read it a few times over the years. It's a good story and fairly well written. And it obviously inspired movies and countless other works early on (as early as the 1920s). I don't think it has really been surpassed by other books or authors. Though there certainly have been some good ones. It both defines and leads the genre. Despite generations of literary critics trying to deconstruct and dismiss it, nobody has really done a better vampire story.

Thematically it is of course a dogs breakfast of repressed sexuality, homosexuality, etc. All of which were taboo topics in the Victorian age. Which is precisely why the story works so well. And even today it still works. If you can get over the Victorian era biases, it's a surprisingly fresh and modern story. Which is why modern takes on the story are still interesting.

And of course, these topics are still playing a role. Just look at the current election round in the US where things like abortion and gay rights are still being challenged. And it's not just the US where these topics are used by populist politicians to gain votes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41811050
When I google „TripleDES“, the first result is a box showing the Wikipedia article on Triple DES. Click on that and you’re done.
yeah true, my wifes likely to continue to need treatment, though it shouldnt degrade much more if it works.

On my daughter it may save her a lot of trouble she's only 14.
Article title: Saying goodbye to Foursquare City Guide

Previously

(3 points, 7 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41909672

(8 points, 19 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41903058
> Seems like you don't need an LLM, you just need a human who (1) likes reading Stoker and (2) touch-types.

LLMs are increasingly becoming cheaper and more accessible than humans with a baseline of literacy.
> How can we undo the damage, especially when the effects seem significant and permanent?

"As such, the hippocampus and hippocampal neuroplasticity may also play a key role in resilience and recovery from stress. This is supported by the current finding that hippocampal volume increased following psychological therapy."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5943737/

"we found a significant [hippocampal] volume expansion during a 12-week treatment period, which correlated with clinical improvement"

https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-32...

Increased hippocampal volume and gene expression following cognitive behavioral therapy in PTSD

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...
It uses both AES and TripleDES

If you glance at the code there's a single "key encryption key" in the whole SQLITE file (in the 'metadata' table). That key is decrypted using AES with the PBKDF2 derived secret.

Then each password is in turn encrypted using TripleDES. The "data encryption key" for each these records is in turn encrypted using the aforementioned "key encryption key".

My suspicion is that the TripleDES format must be really old, and when they migrated the crypto layer to use AES they just re-encrypted the top layer (the "key encryption key" later) to use AES. It's much faster (and safer) to just re-encrypt all the TripleDES keys with the new AES than go and mess with "all" the records in the database. It's inelegant and lazy but you effectively get "AES level" of security without having to do all the work, so to speak…

https://github.com/Sohimaster/Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor/bl...
Given that the speed of light is the speed of causality, technically it's not really 420 million years in the "past" in any meaningful sense. The present is relative, not universal. The collected light we see in our telescopes is a lie about a particular universe that will never be, at least in any tangible way. On a cosmic scale, every spot in the universe sees its own unique sequence of events going on around it, all of it rendered virtually immutable by the relative slowness of c.

It's a beautiful nightmare, isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
I've been using this for a while now with brave and it's indispensable really. There are some weird behaviours sometimes but it's site depending. AWS control center comes to mind.
Agree with the sentiment, but that's a Wikipedia link. Wikipedia is (as of yet) immune to LLM slop
That’s Canada’s approach and it is super effective. But when you look at who those employers are in the USA, say hotels, farms, construction companies, etc… people who are basically stereotypical rich Republicans (and even a former president/presidential candidate), it makes sense that this solution will never be proposed here. It also explains why only ineffectual solutions are proposed, it isn’t meant to be solved as neither side really wants it to be solved.
Great first step asking for help and seeking to improve. :)
I would like to point out that a lot of people don't have internal monologues.
There are many ways to think and many ways to be smart. Internal monologue is not a requirement. I have it myself so I cannot give advice on how to think without, but just bear in mind that it isn't required.
If anyone is wondering what the parent poster is talking about — the abbreviation PHICH (which isn't mentioned in the referenced project, but is just an example of a weird mobile-network acronym) expands to "Physical channel HybridARQ Indicator Channel"; and then the embedded "ARQ" inside it, purportedly expands to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_repeat_request .

Some might claim that the "Q" in "ARQ" is actually "query"; and that people who choose to expand the "Q" as "request" just have a dim view of the average person's vocabulary level.

Personally, though, I'd argue that, if you think about it, the "Q" is probably not "request" or "query", but rather just another appearance of the conventional opaque "Q" that appears in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code.
Small discussion (10 points, 5 days ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41867208
>comical

Comical is what Hacker News has become.
God what I’d do if someone wrote build system in Rust for JVM and freed us from Maven and Gradle.
I imagine it will be a lot like other pieces of art where the provenance is really critical. If it cannot be traced properly back to the originator, then it will always be viewed as dubious. With that said, as a person largely ignorant of the field, I'd wager this is probably true now, irrespective the rise of LLMs.
and homerow is a pretty cool tool for navigating/scrolling like vimium outside the browser (on Mac)
Range extender's range extender when ?
Is it possible to have a fair jury trial anymore?
In the past, when I've heard the 'less additive form', it was in contrast to nicotine from tobacco, where there are other chemicals and compounds at play. While it's true ROA can be a big part of habit formation, I'd argue it's a stretch to call it different form when it's the same chemical in either case.

tbf tho, I am somewhat contradicting another comment I made about bioavailability on this very gp thread so suffice to say, I do understand your point.
You are basing the chance of intelligent life number on what? Reality is we have no clue what this number is.
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No, they don't think that. The previous commenter simply misread my comment.
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There has rarely (if ever) been a separate broadcast signal for B&W vs colour. Broadcasts began in B&W, over time upgraded to colour, but there wasn't a need to broadcast Channel <whatever> in B&W and broadcast the same channel in colour on a different frequency.

One single broadcast signal, and different capabilities of receivers.
>you need to find the very best learning resource there is. This is a must.

I think there's a line around "good enough", unless your goal of course is to be on the road to "become the very best". I think the better metric is making sure you have a accurate resource over a quality one. The 15-20 hour "sprint hard" methodology isn't stopping after that first sprint, just slowing down.

So if you find/can now access a better resource later, just start the sprint again on that. I know from experience (in real time, unfortunately) how easily "find the best resource" can end up becoming "spend weeks collecting resources but not consuming them".
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Since Data Formulator performs data transformation on your behalf to get the desired visualization, how can we verify those transformations are not contaminated by LLM hallucinations, and ultimately, the validity of the visualization?
It might be possible to build a powerful telescope to see life on planets that are closer to us, though: https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/10/18/its-time-to-build-th...
Ah, but that's a beauty of it. If you encrypt with ECB you can't be decrypted by a federally compliant organization!
> no long term ill effects

That is not totally true for at least three reasons:

1. Modafinil can interact badly with some other stimulants. One must remain careful.

2. Modafinil by itself can cause SJS and similar serious problems in rare cases.

3. Chronic use of modafinil can easily produce anxiety, so much anxiety that it makes using modafinil impossible. This is even in a very low dose.
I'm not entirely sure why this is on the front page of HN but I can +1 Paranormasight after having played it shortly after it released. I thought the game was a treat :)
I think the most exciting aspect here is this might actually push JavaScript to add some missing features that can make a lot of difference, the pipeline operator for example can really improve the design of JavaScript code and has been proven already in several languages, C#, swift, kotlin to name a few I know
Lol. A superset of a superset. I wonder how far we can go with this
"parameter shaving" (参数剃度) is, by the way, a typo for "parameter gradient" (参数梯度), 梯度 being the gradient and 剃度 being a tonsure.
Matching risk profiles with business partners or co-founders is vital and often overlooked

Mostly Folk match expectations, I.e. upsides

Downside fear is a very great motivator

A lack of consequential downsides can make folk sensibly choose to cut their losses and move on.

Sometimes this is invisible as parents bailing you out is not known before and may be a private discussion.

All or nothing downsides can mean folk will work themselves close to death to win ( or just not lose )

It also effects how much someone will gamble to get a unicorn rather than settle for a comfy income

Have the downside discussion early on
Why a single score? The AI can generate a whole boilerplate of argumentation of why it made the decision. The reviewer will pretend to read and contemplate it, and then press the "OK" button.
The steps here are fairly generic and can fit into whatever regimen you have. It simply comes down to "find your learning path and grind hard in the beginning. Then you can slow down and relax after that first burst".

Seems like decent enough advice if you ever have trouble getting started. It's actually not unlike cramming for a test, except you keep study afterwards and don't dump that knowledge the day after. "fun learning" or not, just make sure to really dive in in the beginning.
Not only does he lack the expertise, he's building an AI using llama and marketing it as "Open Source"

The guy has an interest in the definition failing. If it doesn't he won't be able to market his AI as Open Source.
A large part of the article focuses on using airpods at concerts and how loud the environment can be.

- Can airpods tell me how loud a room is?

- Which settings should I use for a concert to preserve fidelity? How do they compare to "concert" branded consumer earplugs, like Loop/Etymotic/SoundProtex ?
Google's audio search tells me that it's a stock sound effect: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2wLKlWPkcOM&si=Sle4B04wAoV...

https://secure.dewolfemusic.com/page/digiffects_sound_effect....

It appears to be used or sampled in a couple of songs (by Anna Maria Jopek and Boozehounds), but these date in the 2000s so can't have come into the camel from then I suppose!
Hacker's BrowserExtension.

Vimium is not a Bowser on its own. Not yet at least.
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That is wrong and you have failed the test. If you include the . you have clearly misunderstood the question. It did not indicate to draw a line around the number or letter and dot. Since you included the dot we will fail you. We are aware the question did not indicate the dot or not and it doesn’t matter. You failed, bye!
Thank you! Really enjoyed the 2nd one. Haven't had the time for the 1st one yet.
I wasn't talking about external api's or libraries, I actually mentioned that

>> With the exception of external libraries or API's, ..

Those I agree are different, the documentation is part of the product that you offer or sell to external customers.
> Your claims about the dollar amounts the US government has paid to SpaceX are false. The numbers are much higher than that. Just do a quick search.

Can you please be exact on what I am wrong about? I didn't even metion a praticular number, the numbers I mention have nothing to do with how much the US pays SpaceX. The numbers I mention was investment in to moon rocket program.

Total amount paid to SpaceX overall is anyway completely irrelevant. Typical Thunderf00t style obfuscation and confusing spreading.

The Apollo program also didn't include how much money was spent on military payloads, so its again, completely irrelevant in the comparison.

And in your typical fashion, you competently ignored the overall point. Appollo had a far, far, far larger budget then SpaceX ever had and it had if for far longer. Arguing with you is utterly frustrating.

> value there will be in massively increased amounts of junk

Ah the old Thunderf00t moving the goalpost move. I guess humans should never have invented ships, because it massive increases the amount of debris in the ocean.

Also please study orbital dynamics. Starlink itself will leave zero orbital debirs.

> Maybe Starlink is a good idea, maybe not. I don’t really have an opinion on that, and it’s hard for me to picture why and how they have 4 million subscribers.

So because you don't understand how the world works, its everybody else that is wrong. Great attitude to have.

> But even if it is a good idea, what are the next 10 good ideas?

Ah we are moving the goal posts again. I really don't want to have a discussion with you, because whatever I say, you will simply move the goal post again anyway.

There are tons of things humanity already does from space. And we can do those things more and better now. That is already good enough. If you personally don't see the value of any of the things humanity has done in space in the last 80 years, then I can't really help you at this point.

In addition there are literally 1000s of space startups we can have an argument about each one of them. Any that I bring up, you can come up with a bunch of reasons why they aren't actually go ideas and you might be right. But at least I'm not arrogant enough to claim to know if they will work or not.
You didn’t list any issues of JS.
And yet, the last rider interviewed characterizes it as a "more secure" line of work.

> I’m now making a lot more than I was on a factory team and feel more secure than ever. My salary is diversified across many brands, but if you’re on a team and they have a bad year, that has huge consequences.

Presumably this isn't true for everyone, and most low level domestiques are better off getting $60,000 a year from their team (more or less guaranteed - even if the contract is only for a year and there's some risk of bankruptcy) than rolling the dice on an Instagram/YouTube/TikTok career.
Yes they can. DJI drones, solar, battery tech, EVs they are world leaders. They also linked the entire country with a high speed rail network. The US is largely software focused and they are hardware focused, which is frankly the bigger problem. Eventually they are likely to match SpaceX as well.

Modern semiconductor manufacture requires tech from the entire world. China is aiming to replicate pretty much all of it because of sanctions.

While the US and Europe are killing themselves with regulation and DEI, China has been rapidly developing every year and eventually the US is going to get a rude awakening.
We’re so lucky to exist in a time where everything is so close together, as absurd as that sounds.

There will come a time when a civilisation will look up and see only darkness, due to the expansion of the universe.
Yeah. Do you want to donate your liver?
> you can determine on election day whether someone's already voted or not before they cast a vote.

Can you suggest a specific mechanism to do it that would be transparent to the public?

I don't know about the US specifics but in Russia people voting multiple times was the main strategy of fraud in 2010s (that is before they gave up all the pretence). Before this scheme came into being, the system of isolated voting points where every action was observable and verifiable based solely on the local context had worked reasonably well, to the displeasure of authorities.
That requires some preparation. Example: in Italy the state knows where everybody live (this is self reported but it could be inferred in many ways) and, more importantly for this case, where everybody has residence (that might not be the correct English word, sorry.)

I could have residence in a city because I was born there but I could live in another one because for one year I have to work in that other city. But I don't sell my home, terminate contracts with utilities etc, also because maybe I go back home once or twice per month to visit friends and parents. Ok, so when I have to vote I do it in my city of residence, in a given place and not in any other one, and I have a card that I have to present together with my photo id. They have a register with the voters that are expected to vote there and they check my name on the list, stamp my card, give me the ballot.

Note that this is a process that starts when one is born and keeps going through all the life of a person. It's quite an effort but it makes participating to elections very low effort for a voter. If we had to register to vote... Who would vote, only very interested people. It's amazing that so many people vote in the USA given the process.
It opens a directory picker, which then says for some directories that you can't use them and must create a more specific directory.
One nice aspect of Python compared to TS/JS is the presence of list, set, map, and generator comprehensions. How far in that direction is civet likely to go? I see that arrays can be built from a for...of expression.
There's literally an acronym for that type of acronym that itself is not an acronym: TLA. Three-letter acronym. I get the GP's frustration. When a word that you know the definition of is lost it feels bad.

The hardest for me to accept is the loss of alternate. It now means the same thing as alternative, but it used to refer to switching between possible states, usually in an oscillating manner. Nowadays I alternate between caring and not caring.
One of the yōkai in Paranormasight is absolutely my favourite Japanese fable: the giant foot that bursts through the mansion ceiling and demands to be washed: https://yokai.com/ashiaraiyashiki/
There were so many other little ones, like bit-shifting signed integers, which is compiler dependent. I lol’d when they told me I didn’t know C well enough. Like bro, I learned on Borland C, then Microsoft (Visual) C, now mostly gcc/clang C. I don’t know C at all.
> For the unfortunate person falling into the black hole, there is nothing special about the event horizon.

This is from a simplified model using black holes with infinite lifetime, which is non-physical. Almost all textbook Penrose diagrams use this invalid assumption and shouldn't be relied upon..

Fundamentally, external observers and infalling observers can't disagree on "what happens", just the timing of events. If external observers never see someone falling in, then they didn't fall in.