skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interactive captchas are one foot in the grave. With multi-modal tool-using AI models proliferating, challenge tasks that only a human can complete are vanishing. Current challenges exclude users with minor physical or mental impairments even now.

Anti-bot filters will require a different signal to determine if a physical human actually made the request.
That doesn't prove they know words, I tend to pronounce my cats' names in exactly the same way each time. Maybe they're used to the notes I'm making, or my body language, or something else other than the word itself.

I don't know if my cat's ears will perk up if a stranger says their name, which is a test they have to pass to be considered to understand words.
The kind with a lot of money, enough that $500k doesn't really register.
Things aren't going to progress if you are asking people to risk you rugging them a third time. They have alternative operating systems to invest their time in that are safer.
A brief history of the word "fuck"
Task Vectors [in Vision and Language Models (VLM's)] Are Cross-Modal
Is there anything similar to 8sleep that doesn’t have all the bells and whistles and doesn’t require an app? I don’t care about any of the tracking or alarms or whatever else besides the temp control.
You're literally responding to a comment about how some emoji were too complex to even implement, much less handle universally.
Rich people exist. If you think spending a million bucks on a watch makes someone an idiot, you have failed to internalize how rich a large number of rich people actually are.
How does the Stelo compare to the G7?

Do you have any tips for how to start with one and systematically get the most insight out of it?
If that's what's going on, it might be the best example of "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" ever.
Tbh I used manicode once about a month ago and much preferred cline. Cline seems to find context just fine, can run terminal commands in the VS code terminal, and the flow where it proposes an edit is very good. Since it's in VS code I can even pause it and edit files then unpause it. I like that I can see how much everything costs and rely on good caching and usage based billing to get a fair price.

Admittedly the last time I used manicode was a while back but I even preferred Cursor to it, and Cursor hallucinates like a mf'er. What I liked about cursor is that I can just tell composer what files I want it to look at in the UI. But I just use Cline now because I find its performance to be the best.

Other datapoints: backend / ML engineer. Maybe other kinds of engineers have different experiences.
A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon (2022)
I haven't kept up with iOS feature developments, but modern Android devices can be configured to lock automatically if they go offline.

The purpose of this is to counter a thief putting your phone into aeroplane mode to prevent you remote locking or erasing the device.
No I don't, and even in my own context (I'm not American) I don't have much friends outside my own background - but I do know what it's like to see people perform performative "inclusion" and throw (insert group here) under the bus when said group doesn't do what they want them to do - in case it wasn't clear my comments were based on how quickly some people were quick to go "I hope those (minority voters that went trump) get a taste of what they voted for"
I asked in a sibling comment but thought I’d ask here too: how does the Stelo compare to the G7? And do you have any advice on how to start with one and systematically get the best insight out of it?
Sounds like a timer, if not just a crash. Nothing here sounds like a the phones are communicating with each other.
No, the at fault driver and/or their insurance would be responsible for paying their medical costs. The person who was hit doesn't pay their medical bills and then ask the insurance company for reimbursement. They file a claim with the insurance company to pay their medical bills directly. AFAIK all US states require bodily injury coverage to work that way.
Meanwhile if you spent 15 years in Canada and got Canadian citizenship, no one would care if you started calling yourself Canadian, unless you're a really bad culture fit.
I don’t totally understand the fascination with storing analytical data on S3. It’s not fast, and if you’re in a write heavy environment it’s definitely not cheap either.

What’s with the avoidance of clickhouse or duckdb paired with insanely fast EBS or even physically attached storage? You can still backup to s3, but using s3 for live analytics queries is missing out on so much of the speed.
(2022) Discussion at the time (289 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31775486
The detail is in how regular are the exercises? Doing one hour at end of day after sitting 8 hr straight is worse then spreading it out.

Of course doing 1 hour a day is better than nothing but it may not be effective
Emigration takes a lot of time and money. Finding a destination country where you could reasonably make a living, which would be willing to accept you, is definitely not a given. It seems completely plausible to me that many people might say "if Trump wins, I'm leaving" with complete sincerity, only to later learn that they cannot actually accomplish this.
Sure, perhaps insane is to too forceful. Perhaps unreasonable, in my mind. Either way, I'm obviously an outlier in the HN meta.
You’ll hear it every time you watch one of his movies. He has four movie credits, and some TV, most as “You’ve Got Mail voice”. And he has his own IMDB page. That’s probably more immortal than I’m going to be.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249977/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
This is why we don’t do Bearer Bonds anymore.

Die Hard inspired too many?
China can train 70B and 400B LLM models using pre-sanction Nvidia GPUs.

The only reason they are loudly announcing "Hey our military is using YOUR open source models" is to trigger fearmongering and overzealous regulation in the West and make us less competitive in AI.
Oh that's nice. But you know... There's a free (as in freedom) OS called Linux that now is also realtime. QNX is interesting for a few less cases now.
There must be a German word for what the article does with its title against its content.
I think there's a Tim Burton movie about that.
> That said; how does a young individual get updates to public transport outages that are only available via twitter/x, or read the menu of the local cafe that is only posted on Facebook?

Probably in a similar way to how they did prior to 2010
Thanks. The Post’s site is collapsing under the weight of the worst kind of lurid advertising. It is hard to find the news—you even have to expand the section if you don’t want to see only ads.
>"In the in-context learning (ICL) paradigm, given a set of examples, the model has to learn the mapping from inputs to outputs. Prior research has demonstrated that LLMs implicitly compress this mapping into a latent activation, called the task vector"

Related:

In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15916

Function Vectors in Large Language Models:

https://functions.baulab.info/

https://x.com/graceluo_/status/1852043048043319360
That's because he is cat. You don't tell cat. You ask cat. He does what he wants. If it looks like he's doing what you want, then that's just a coincidental aligning of his wants with yours. Your pleasure of his doing what you want is your gleeful misunderstanding of the situation.
I agree and then some. My cats know food, lunch, treat, toy, mouse(which is both a toy and the name of one of the cats), no, out(both outside and please leave the room), go home, up(get up on the bed or my lap), off(get off the dang counter/table for the 1 millionth time). They multiple name for themselves and the name of the other cats. They know that when I whistle I'm calling them.

Now if only they would do as well as hear more often...The Siamese talks back when I use words she doesn't want to hear and sometimes curses me.
No, it activates receptors in the gut cells that let the water in.

Without this bit of sugar, water just passes through, without getting absorbed.
NinjaDoH: Moving Target DoH Server with Hyperscalers and IPNS
Could the phone detect that they are in a small conductive box: stronger interference back when they send a signal?
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I think Kids YouTube is a great example of how Kids social media is as bad or worse than just normal social media.
This is a very insightful comment and something that I wish was observed more often.

I’ll differ only a little in that as a good Bayesian I’ll submit that science is about improving the rigorous basis for our worldview by attempting and failing to falsify explanatory hypotheses.

Maybe that’s a nitpick, but I suspect that science would be held in better regard if us nerds were a bit more careful about saying what is and isn’t true or false on the basis of science, which is not a particularly scientific way to talk (of which I’m as guilty as anyone).
I'd rather look at seL4, pragmatically speaking.
Might as well buy a 10 year discounted domain registration if it's your name. You'll be using it in 10 years anyway and it will be a good investment with the discount and inflation.
Biden has kept tariffs in place on Chinese goods and worked with congress to pass several bills designed to increase US manufacturing...

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/the-ira-...

The population is aging, but it's gone from an average age of ~38 in 2010 to ~40 now, while increasing. This is not a collapse, and the US is actually uniquely good at immigration, so there is a reasonable path forward.
A friend of mine had many hundreds of vintage clocks and he filled his bedroom with them on shelves and put his bed in the middle.

Until I pointed out they were radioactive.
The blank look is probably because cars are ubiquitous, so the distinction is irrelevant to the risk profile the speaker is referring to.
There are some advantages.

1) Cost. More people have ChatGPT/Claude than CoPilot. And it's cheaper to load large contexts into ChatGPT than into the API. For example, o1-preview is $15/million tokens. And it's a fixed $20/m that someone can use for everything else as well.

Of course, there are times when I just use the VS Code plugin via API as well.

2) I want to stay in VS Code. So that excludes some of the options you mentioned

3) I don't find tiled VSCode + ChatGPT much of a hindrance.

4) Things might have improved a bit, but previously the Web-based chat interface was more refined/mature than the integrated interface.
Not an audio command, but even just holding down the volume and side buttons to open the power off menu, without actually powering off your phone, triggers the same behavior.
Beyond what James highlighted, I personally really like how simple Codebuff is. CLI tools tend to go a bit overboard with options and configurations imo, which is ok if you're just setting them up once or twice. But for a tool I want to rely upon every day for my work, I want them to be as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Have you used Aider extensively? How are you finding it for your coding needs vs IDE-based chats?
>Microkernel done right.

That'd be seL4.
While this comment is well intentioned, you do not own the ROMs. Using the example of the SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics [0] Steam listing the EULA states:

> THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED, NOT SOLD.

> 3. NO RIGHT TO OWNERSHIP
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU SHALL HAVE NO OWNERSHIP

If you look at the Steam store page there are numerous reviews from people who bought the collection only to have Sega remove some of the ROMs from the collection making it impossible to play these games that you paid for.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/34270/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and...
TikTok clearly solves two problems that fit squarely within Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:

1. For content consumers: “I’m bored, and want to be entertained with minimal effort.”

2. For content creators: “I’m externally motivated and need the self validation that comes from attention and praise.”

Solutions to these problems have been sold for hundreds of years and trillions of dollars in profit. TikTok is the latest and possibly most efficient iteration on solving them.
Yea, seriously. My cat is 15 and she is pretty intelligent. She knows about a dozen verbal commands and I’ve noticed over the years will perk up or come out of nowhere when certain words are used. She also will respond and (usually) come when you call out her name like a dog. It did take a very long time though, like 5-7 years and a lot of trust established to get to this point, but I think it’s been fairly obvious for a long time now that cats are very habituated to humans and human habits, maybe even as much as dogs.

One of the difficulties for science when studying cats is they are so aloof and take time to build trust, that observing these behaviors in a study setting is pretty hard. Even mine will totally understand what I’m saying (her ears will perk up and twitch) but she’ll ignore me sometimes.
environmental RF in the woods, vs band specific shielding in farady cage.
If you'd like to improve, definitely! There are all sorts of things involved in singing that some do naturally and others (like myself) do not. Having a knowledgeable teacher who's able to observe you, identify areas of improvement, and help you progress is really beneficial. There's a whole lot of "not knowing what you don't know" at play.

Plus singing is a pretty personal way of making music, and there can be a lot of social fear of doing it badly. Formally studying it can help with getting over the psychological hump from self-identifying as "someone who is attempting to sing" to "singer".
iOS 18.1 has a release note about fixing unexpected restarts on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121161#a181 (last item)
Why should the West intentionally sabotage itself like that?

China, Russia, and Iran are already experimenting with AI in their drones and missiles.
Cars are more dangerous than bicycles because they’re larger and faster, yes. But when you compare cars vs. bicycles on the same road, together, bicyclists are in more danger. I can only surmise the people that tell you “bicycles are dangerous,” are just looking out for your well being and meant “you’re putting yourself in danger.”

Unfortunately, roads were designed for cars first. Even more unfortunate, people are not accustomed to sharing the road with bicyclists and only glance at their mirrors to check for large familiar cars. Thus, to say that “cars are the ones that are dangerous,” implies you think bicyclists have the de facto right of way and everyone should adjust to your presence.
Userland Disk I/O: Filesystems, file IO, and durability
I don’t understand why anything I said is a “harsh criticism” or “the end of the world.” I don’t actually care about Notepad! It might have taken 3 clicks to set it up, but it took zero clicks to say “this is a change I didn’t want and I don’t care enough to learn how to fix it, I’ll just use something else.”
Hmm, I see, I think understand a bit better now -- thanks.

Is it fair to say that their claims about spatial resolution being >>> existing EEG options are jumping the gun? If I understand correctly, you need to be targeting individual 1mm^2 regions with individual acoustic lenses, which means 17,000 channels would required 17,000 separate, uniquely-tuned ultrasound emitters, yes? Even if that's possible without messing up the data (the MHz range is big, but is it that big?) it seems like a trivial impossibility to fit that in one headset -- even the standard 32-64 EEG channels alone seem like a long shot. But maybe I'm overly cynical, or one emitter could be used to usefully excite multiple regions at once?

Another oddity in that paper is that it reads like we're trying to find persistent signals in the brain, like a needle in a haystack, whereas my understanding was that the field is moving decisively towards tracking signal changes over time in a given region. Is my intuition correct that accounting for a moving target would add considerable complexity to this approach?

Either way, thanks for sharing the link. Definitely thought-provoking stuff...
I think we're somewhere in the middle between the way you had it in the 90s, and absolute disaster. (Also, if you were making low 30s in 90s dollars that's a lot better than like 40k in 2024 dollars.)

Several issues that real people today are suffering with is that it's hard to remain a 2-income family and have young kids. Someone's got to take care of them, and daycare costs more than the median worker is likely to make in the limited time your kids can realistically be in daycare. So now you're down to 1 income, expensive rent, or 2 incomes, expensive rent and expensive childcare. Or 2 incomes and live with someone's parents who may also watch the kids, which while some cultures are fine with that, others resent that being their only option (especially if you can't stand those parents!) -- and for elder millennials and older, we generally were able to have better options if we planned our careers wisely. I cannot imagine any advice I would have given to two 18-year-olds from poor families in 2020 that would have set them up to be on track to have kids and live independently anytime. Especially if they were determined to go to college, which everyone is told they must do.
Safe and efficient C++ interoperability via non-escapable types and lifetimes
The approach in the article by strictly controlling everyone with AI sounds absolutely dystopian. I wouldn't want to work in such a company.
I would asterisk the bidet suggestion just to say that higher end bidet seats that cost starting around $400 are wildly better the cheap ones, especially the unseated ones.

I’ve bought the cheap kind, got tired of it and tossed it, then years later went with a more expensive Toto (around $400) and it’s like a completely different experience.

The Toto keeps itself and the toilet cleaner for longer, it has options for gentle spray and oscillating movement, it’s entirely controlled by electronic remote rather than a crude manual knob, the water and seat are heated, it detects when you are sitting down and operates accordingly, and it even has a warm air dryer.
Alas:

"Idy’s remains were robbed of jewelry and metal objects, though the other grave goods appeared to have no interest to the thieves"
Interesting article. I hadn't considered the injury aspect.
It’s chicken because if you use evolution, an animal will evolve to have egg so that “chicken” must have been there first to evolve to be able to lay eggs. Took me 5 min to figure the biggest question mankind had to offer.
Yeah, you're right. Brain fart on my end.
He only wanted 1 kid but his wife convinced him to have 4.

No one wanted kids, he's slight above average looking japanese man with good personality but whenever he tried to get commitment, he got dumped even if relationship was several years long.

He told me it's because they don't want to take risk.
Yes I thought about that possibility too, but I believe most of the Objective-C old school expert are mostly gone from Apple.
It makes sense when you look at the timelines, people that were there for the early Mac days are just hitting retirement age.
Most of the executives have been replaced in one way or another, that's an indication.

And of course, Apple has a middle management problem, but that comes with Tim Cook's style; he cares about values that are just not conductive to progress and excellence. It all ends up about "getting shit done" and not caring that much if the results are actually any good.
So, they do stuff on schedule and are content with it no matter how bad it is, typical careerist behavior.

To be fair, a lot of our modern society seems to have been overtaken by these types of people, they are very popular and very "successful"; it's more noticeable at Apple because it used to be very different...
Funny you mention it.

I made Nocino back in June. Green walnuts kept falling and I said "I wonder what people do with these?" First 2 hits on a search were Nocino and pickled walnuts...I chose the former. :)
In our household the by far oldest pan is made of glass. It's also the only one that still looks like new despite having been used for 25+ years. It isn't non-stick but it also doesn't scratch just from looking at it.

In terms of health, I'm not sure either but you should never use non-stick pans if you have pet birds. As I understand it the way their breathing and lungs work makes it deadly for them. Aside from that as long as it's not proven safe I don't feel like taking unnecessary risks when multiple safe materials are available. Manufacturers claiming their product is safe when it isn't has probably been a thing before the first factory and will still be a thing after I'm gone.
definitely more than that
I'm okay with eliminating some government jobs though. With how much we pay, and the way plenty of government workers I know literally just screw around all day, I am certain that there is plenty of waste. And we have whole agencies that do not make progress towards their supposed goals despite bountiful public funding. Worst case scenario they cut too far and we finally notice something is missing, and they hire some back.
I've yet to see a more American article title.
In the U.S., roads were paved for cyclists first. There was a political fight over whether and how to regulate cars to prevent them from crowding out other road users. See "Fighting Traffic".

https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Tech...
https://archive.is/siuav
I love hearing stories like this, well done.
It sounds like what's actually happening here is that the cyclist's auto insurance is picking up the tab, and in turn suing the ambulance company to get their money back.

I always find this intersection of the auto and cycling worlds so strange. If he didn't have a car, he wouldn't have auto insurance, so I guess his health insurance would be covering the initial tab, and then suing the ambulance company to get their money back?

If you get a moving violation on your bicycle and show a driver's license to the police, it seems you get points in your license, but if you don't have a driver's license, you don't?
I mean if 13 year olds had cash to spend and were able to buy cars and open credit cards, they’d target them too. It’s not because they aren’t inoculated, it’s because they are susceptible to the negative consequences at that age regardless.
I think the fact that devs even have to think about using "each others schemas" is a pretty big flaw in the system. It would definitely make ATProto look a lot better if it had a standardized way for all of its app to talk to each other. You don't want devs to have to implement new schemas for each and every new app that pops up on AT just so they can communicate with each other.

Like, it would be pretty dang cool if you could follow a WhiteWind blog from your Bluesky account. Honestly I'm a bit confused as to why this isn't a priority for the Bsky team.