skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things are not mutually exclusive. Allow me to specify a city or state or county or country or zip code as a bang in my search and show me good results based on that. Both problems immediately solved. I wouldn’t be any more or less reassured about a search engine’s privacy stance if that feature was offered to me. This is a feature I can absolutely use in a private way (I can do that search over tor or a vpn with two hops if I so desire), and it gives me the control over what I provide the search engine and how and when.

Right now search engines don’t provide an interface for good location aware searches that you can manually specify - you have to let them build a shadow profile on you via all sorts of privacy violating fingerprints or just give up location aware searches altogether. There’s no reason it has to be that way though.
At least in the USA Granny Smith and green apple are synonymous. I don't think I've ever seen another type of green apple at a normal grocery store.
> Letters represents a mere fraction of the total in his archives, which runs to more than 200,000 pages

whoah. Sacks averaged about 11 pages per day for 50 years (that are known about).
Yeah WebRTC is a bear to implement for sure. Very poorly designed API. It can definitely provide significant performance improvements over web sockets, but only when configured correctly (unordered/unreliable mode) and not in every case (peer-to-peer is an afterthought in the modern internet).
It'll slide through your intestines smoother than basically anything else you could possibly swallow :-)
This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure the Chinese I've met have been taught this technique. Also, I don't think most people in any given country usually get depressed about GDP numbers. They'll more likely get depressed when they can't find a job.
I suspect that’s an OS issue. Linux is simply more optimized and faster at equivalent OS stuff.

Which isn’t too surprising given a lot of the biggest companies in the world have been optimizing the hell out of it for their servers for the last 25+ years.

On the flipside of the coin though Apple also clearly optimizes their OS for power efficiency. Which is likely paying some good dividends.
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This seems a little overblown, especially towards the later points.

> 1. Malicious Executable loader with stealth functionality

TL;DR the client downloads Python from python.org over HTTPS. This isn't great (especially since it's hard-coded to 3.12.4), but there's no obvious exploit path which doesn't involve both MITM and user interaction.

> 2. Browser Hijacking + Executable Download (Software Upgrade Context)

TL;DR the client downloads an RSS file over HTTPS and will conditionally prompt the user to open a URL found in that file. This is even lower risk than #1; even if you can MITM the user and get them to click "update", all you get to do with that is show the user a web page.

> 3. RSS Feeds (Arbitrary URL injection)

The researcher seems confused by the expected behavior of an RSS client.

> 4. Decompression library attack surface (0-click)

If you can find an exploit in zlib, there are much worse things you can do with that than attacking a torrent client. Decompressing input is assumed to be safe by default.
The Human Toll of ALPR Errors
How do you know the figure 1 demo was fake?
They've been implementing some really cool features with partial hydration etc.

Amazing Angular of all frameworks is taking the lead here and the innovative ones like Vue or Svelte.
If you want to validate a username/password authn attempt against a cache, then yes the username and password have to be someone in the mix.
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You can definitely make a mess with any technology. The key issues I have with SPAs are:

1. You have to build your app twice. I don't have a team large enough to write it once in Python and again in JS or TS.

2. The state of the art in SPAs moves so quickly it feels to me like you have to spend a significant amount of your productive time staying in place on the treadmill before you can even consider creating value for your end users.

3. The web browser does a lot of work for us in SSRs. SPAs make (have historically made) us reinvent a lot of this from scratch. I recognize that this has improved in some ways in recent years. It's still not as brain-dead simple as just having different web pages that render HTML.

SPAs were invented for a world where server compute and bandwidth are expensive and/or you need highly interactive low-latency UX

Agree completely. I think there is a ton of value in treating technologies like Svelte, React, and the like as terrific ways to create 'islands of reactivity' within mostly static pages. I can do a ton with Stimulus.js and htmx to simulate much of the behavior I'd get out of a well-designed Svelte component, but sometimes I really do need that extra 20% of polish I'll get out of Svelte or React—and I'm very glad that they exist for that.

(and with that I'm going to get back to building a SvelteKit app, which you can find here: https://github.com/onebusaway/wayfinder)
Alexnet could not have been done on AMD, nope.
I set an additional alarm one hour before I need to wake up specifically so that I can get the feeling of going back to sleep. It has really helped.
The next war is a cyberwar.

It is happening now. Who will go all the way first?
I chose Alpine mostly because the exiting code is in Vue, and Alpine maps really closely to Vue. For the few components where I need to reach for it (lots of client side state) I can copy over verbatim many of the Vuejs components into Alpine, which is a huge boon to the whole refactoring process.

Cotton is really nice!
Is that in performance, or performance while matching thermals?

If a competing laptop has to run significantly hotter/louder than in my mind that’s not on par.
I think it's more of a logic problem. I suspect the engineers made a false assumption that bcrypt can hash a trivial amount of data like some other hashing algos.
The dow is price weighted. Vanguard, being a sort of non profit, probably doesn't want people investing in an obviously horrible index that should have gone away decades ago.
Do you ever feel like studies make broad claims but don’t actually isolate the specific questions they’re addressing, or provide comparable data for both LC and non-LC groups on the same issues?
That changed (ahm.. will change) with ipv6. I was surprised to see that I can reach residential ipv6 lan hosts directly from the server. No firewalls, no nat. This remains true even with abusive isps that only give out /64 blocks.

That said, I agree that peer to peer will never be seemless thanks mostly to said abusive isps.
I don't think it's even NIMBY. It's just that doing big labour projects in us, EU, UK, etc is too expensive.

Until we figure out how to develop our infrastructure without throwing manpower at it, we're going to get left behind. Our roads, rail, power, etc will all age and fail to keep up.

We got to where we were because our great great grandparents all worked for significantly less, consumed significantly less. Our society shouldn't expect that of us, we need to have technology/IP that enables us to more with less people. One person controlling a bricklaying robot can get paid a respectable wage while keeping costs down.
Irony being that’s the same thing Intel learned from the P4.

They gave it up for Core, grown from their low power chips, which took them far further with far less power than the P4 would have used.
I would think they have to keep the commitments in the charter, and only the board can propose changes for shareholders to vote on (because they own it all).
At that price, Google, Microsoft et al should get ahead of the game and pay the developers the pittance to ensure stability of their plugin ecosystem
Yes, that's what I mean. NVidia provided easy to use tooling (CUDA), and made sure it JustWorks everywhere.

AMD did approximately nothing with ROCm.

Investing $10-20m of developer time into making ROCm work reliably easily would have paid for itself 100x.
Not a formal record. But let's say, a malpractice lawsuit comes in. They audit emails and see this evaluation, likely ignored.

It's a long shot, but it could help in surprising ways. I'd only not send it if there was fear of retaliation.
With all due respect I think this is a "640k is enough for everyone" problem, in the sense that you don't realize what something enables because you're simply so used to not having it:

1) Internet cafes that removed outlets to encourage laptop people not to squat :)

2) Airports where you can sit anywhere you want instead of just near an outlet

3) Airplanes when the power doesn't work (has happened more than once in my experience)

4) Cars, trains, subways, buses

5) My boat, sometimes I like to work from it for a change of pace

6) Don't have to hunt for an outlet when my fam is at the grandparents' house

7) I can work on my deck without dragging a power cord out to the table

8) I can go to a pretty overlook and watch the sunset while working

9) Conference rooms, don't have to deal with the hassle

10) Libraries, same thing. I can sit outside or in the stacks (quieter there) instead of only in the reading room (those tables are the only ones with power, in my local library)

11) Power outs and just other situations where you lose power for a time

12) It's extra juice to power your phone off of (or anything else)

I'm certainly forgetting more examples.
Apple's sky-high RAM prices and strong resale values make this a tough call, though. It might just about be better to buy only the RAM you need and upgrade earlier, considering you can often get 50% or more of the price of a new one back by selling your old one.

Thankfully, Apple recently made 16GB the base RAM in all Macs (including the M2/M3 MacBook Airs) anyway. 8GB was becoming a bad joke and it could add 40% to the price of some models to upgrade it!
Index funds didn't exist until 1975 while the Dow was formed in 1896. So I suppose it didn't really matter if the Dow was tracking things well, it wouldn't have impacted your investments.
Hot take:

China is rising. They’re clearly prioritizing the wellbeing of their people through infrastructure and social programs.

They’ve also developed a reputation among the global south (as well as the majority of their neighbors, despite western media) as a benevolent “win-win” trading & investment partner.

Given these developments, I think it’s possible that Taiwan will agree to some kind of “100 year transition” to full reunification in the future, once it becomes clear that they’re better off under PRC rule vs American occupation.

They don’t even need the same constitution. Hong Kong has it’s own constitution. It’s not even a state, it’s literally just a city.
It was originally a Mac app before Microsoft bought it too, wasn’t it?
Functions don't work everywhere. Bash functions only work in the current shell context unless exported via an `export -f myfun' statement in between the function declaration and downstream sub-shell usage.

Working example:

pzoppin() {
printf 'echo is for torrent scene n00bs from %s\n' "$*"
trap "printf '%s\n' <<< \"$*\"" RETURN EXIT SIGINT SIGTERM
}
export -f pzoppin

echo -e 'irc\0mamas donuts\0starseeds' \
| xargs -0 -n 1 -I {} /usr/bin/env bash -c '
echo hi
pzoppin "$*"
echo byee
' _ {}

The above will fail miserably without the magic incantation:

`export -f pzoppin'

Why'd they design an otherwise perfectly usable, mapless language without default c-style global functions? :)
Thank you. Uninstalled.
We still would call some of the items in the vatican "sacred". Why is that different?
Even if it’s a relatively niche tool, if that’s the tool of your job depends on then that’s the thing that gates if you can use the computer.
Show HN: World's Largest Minigolf Directory
Over the last two months I built a directory of minigolf businesses and it is now live. It has nearly 3000 businesses and in the United States and Canada, and I'll be expanding it to other countries soon. The site includes a detailed view of each minigolf business, courses, and digital online scorecard.

The goal is to compile comprehensive course details including course designer, themes, difficulty scores, photos, videos, and more. To do this, I plan to work with businesses directly as well as crowd source details through the free minigolf scorecard capability. There are many advantages for players including statistics and note taking, as well as for business such as analytics, maintenance notifications, and more.

If you know of someone with a minigolf business, please have them check it out and verify if any information is incorrect. It is continuing to grow and expand daily.

A couple interesting notes is that the site is entirely developed using AI for all of its code. I also use it to select the best images to display for each business, and write the business overview that appears on each page. It is interesting that while AI isn't core to this site, it plays a huge role in it's development, and making it user-friendly as well as rapidly scaleable. It will be wild to see how much further it goes in a couple more months.
Sourcetable is hiring staff level engineers in San Francisco (Python/React).

If you are excellent at what you do and have a good sense of humor, please apply!
Oh I guess I was responding to the "It's amazing part". AMD sells a car without a steering wheel. NVIDIA does, and it's not really amazing that people prefer that one (in my opinion at least)
That's fine if you don't respect my boundaries I don't need your engagement
One thing I've done is create a "color clock" using a smart bulb that changes color based on a daily schedule.
So at 8:00pm the bulb has a dim orange glow, this changes to dim red glow at 9pm and then turns off at 10pm (sleep time).
Its a really nice relaxing way of ensuring a regular sleep pattern (no longer clock watching etc).
I really like the idea of Stimulus but I wish it was a bit more reactive and less verbose.
By a former SciAm columnist:

https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-go...
Even if we ignore them, most tasks people do on a computer end up being heavily influenced by single threaded performance.

Amdahl's law is still in control. For a great mini users single threaded performance is extremely important.
You still need to make sure nulls can't show up, and you need to consider possible truncation scenarios caused by those nulls and make sure they won't cause silent failures at any point.
> That massive coercion is exactly why the birthrate is dropping like a stone.

Yes, but that was coercion in the other direction. Nothing's preventing them from using coercion to course-correct their previous policy. They're not timid liberals or libertarians afraid of using state power to do whatever.
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(loop with hex-str = "6731332e64744070726f746f6e2e6d65"
for i from 0 below (length hex-str) by 2
collect (code-char (parse-integer (subseq hex-str i (+ i 2)) :radix 16))
into ch-list
finally (return (format nil "~{~A~}" ch-list)))
or
(->> "6731332e64744070726f746f6e2e6d65"
(partition 2)
(map #(apply str %) )
(map #(Integer/parseInt % 16))
(map char)
(apply str))

After working for over 20 years, mainly using Common Lisp and Clojure, I got bored and took a break for about two years.

A few days ago I read about Myers' distance algorithm and have been trying to understand and write code for a few days.

I enjoyed it again! Isn't boredom not due to programming but due to the environment surrounding me? Now I am looking for opportunities in other continents.

Cycling friendly places would be great.
As a scientist this isn't my experience at all.

With a few exceptions, most of the claims coming out of Chinese reserach is immediately suspect. For decades claims were irreproducible or the work not of high quality.

It's certainly improved, and there are a few institutions that produce high quality work, but they make up a few percent of the total coming out of China.

No doubt the quality will continue to improve, but no more than any other developing country.
Walter Bright, making crystals. Did he inspire a show by any chance?
What about people with very young children? Like infants?
What if I told you they don't need them.
Yep. And even if they can use multiple threads, faster single threaded performance means each of those multiple threads gets done faster.

There’s a reason consumer CPUs aren’t slower with 1024 cores instead.
hyperspaces.live is a tool for learning and documenting..

it’s been in beta since late september and received 3 major updates since then.

i’ve been using it everyday and it’s already helping me with managing and retrieval of information.

so much work was put into providing a clean writing experience & powerful search.

this could be interesting to anyone who writes digital notes. i’d love to get your feedback.

here’s a 5-min demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/hyperspaces-intro-1-7oqk
Both of you need to read the article
What happens when there's overlap between the islands and /or Stimulus and/or htmx?

I've never tried this but a priori it does feel mixing all those approaches could become messy.
Weed gummies used to work like a charm for me, up until my late 30s, but in the past few years even the low-THC ones leave me extremely groggy the next day. Although I get a great sleep, it isn't worth it anymore for how long it takes me to come back to full function. I keep them around for emergencies when I need to go to sleep.

I keep my lights very low in the hours before I go to bed, and use candles, and mostly read books rather than electronic devices. But one thing I'd point out is that - I live fairly far north. At this time of the year, there is very little direct sunlight at all. Whole days can be as dark as 6am, and the sun will be setting before 5pm soon. There is a balance, in the winter, when without bright electric light you could never really wake up. And sometimes it feels like living on a space station, because if you're a night owl that's the only light you get. I've had modestly good results from using a "happy lamp" during the darkest days. Just pointing out that - although I agree with you about clamping down on carnival lights at night - there is an opposite extreme which can cause people to go into a sort of seasonal hibernation.
Eusociality is a counterexample to your assertion.
Tl;dr: single page apps (react) are bad, perform badly, have bad tooling, and have a bad ecosystem.

This is a tired critique which fails to mention even one reason why one might choose React (or other SPA framework) in the first place. I work on a big, complex React application and it is a great tool for the job. All of the issues mentioned are easily resolved with a modest amount of research or experience.
The contrast in Sacks's hobbies made me laugh. Amusing to see a neurologist, who's complemented for being

> a brilliant and vivid mind, a man whose intellectual appetite was vast, and whose professional and creative passions – far from being the self-absorbed obsessions of a pedant – were first and foremost an act of reaching out, the means through which he sought to communicate with others, a “love affair with the world”

and whose work, Letters, is

> crammed with off-the-cuff profundities, moments of elevated perception that briefly unriddle the more inscrutable aspects of human nature

can still enjoy the simpler (and funny) things in life, like bulking up via powerlifting:

> As a man of 30, dallying with powerlifting, Sacks routinely bragged to his parents about his weight, how much he could lift, the amount he ate – “I love to shake the pavement as I walk, to part crowds like the prow of a ship.” At Mount Zion, special scrubs had to be made to accommodate his bulk, and he found himself in disfavour with his superiors for stealing patients’ food.
shame that these guys are just myths now. while I haven't read Sacks, the description reminds me of writers like plimpton, hemmingway, and thompson, who were the protagonists of their own stories and writing to capture an essence that we were just sold as fiction because it's the only way anyone would believe it.

i was disappointed to read the article though. he sounded really cool, and I don't think the author did him the justice that another man who knows those things or has done them could have recognized or appreciated.
I fall into the who cares camp. The big losers are the dolt investors who dubbed the golden parachute contracts anyway. Let them lose their money, bet they won’t do it again and the problem will take care of itself.
Desktops are actually pickup trucks. Very powerful and capable, capable of everyday tasks, but less efficient at them. Unbeatable at their specialty, though.
October 30 – Reflections on the Day the Earth Moved for H5N1
An issue could be how people choose that week.

As you point out that's a multi day commitment, and if part of the volunteers either adjust the timing of the experiments to match specific weeks (e.g. parents choosing school vacations), or adjust their schedule accordingly, what is measured becomes fundamentally different in nature to what measuring longer periods would bring.

I'm with you on how we don't have a choice regarding to the quality of the study, it's just crazy hard to get any data at scale. But we can look at it as a very flawed "best of what we can do" and not take the patterns too seriously.
Stellaris is great on my M2