skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What color temperature do you use in the daytime and what temperature before sleep?
Go Turns 15
I'm not sure what you mean. The linked article on maternal mortality refers to headlines such as "U.S. maternal deaths keep rising" and "Why Maternal Mortality Rates Are Getting Worse across the U.S.", which are misleading at best if the change is solely due to looking at a wider time period. If you introduce a new fuzzing technique, and it discovers a bunch of bugs, I would also call it misinformation to send a memo asking why there are so many bugs without mentioning the fuzzing.
Decoding the Cauzin Softstrip (2021)
I'd love to read more about this if you have links.
Not just lack of expertise and confidence, but also lack of trust, and possibly also a real overhead of running a large org.

Like, IT sec does not trust employees. This burns absurd amount of money day in, day out, due to broadly applied security policies that interfere with work.

Like, there's a lot of talk about how almost no one has any business having local admin rights on their work machine. You let people have it, and then someone will quickly install a malicious Outlook extension or some shit. Limits are applied, real-time scans are introduced too, and surely this inconveniences almost everyone, but maybe it's the right tradeoff for most of the org's moderately paid office workers.

But then, it's a global policy, so it also hits all the org's absurdly-highly paid tech workers, and hits them much worse than everyone else. Since IT (or people giving them orders) doesn't trust anyone, you now have all those devs eating the productivity loss, or worse, playing cat-and-mouse with corporate IT by inventing clever workarounds, some of which could actually compromise company security.

In places I've seen, by my guesstimate that lack of trust and ability to issue and monitor exceptions to security policies[0] could easily cost as much as doubling the salary of all affected tech teams.

As much as big orgs crave legibility, they sure love to inflict illegible costs on themselves (don't get me started about the general trend of phasing out specialist jobs and distributing workload equally on everyone...).

--

[0] - Real exceptions, as in "sure whatev, have local admin (you're still surveilled anyway)", instead of "spend 5 minutes filling this form, on a page that's down half the time, to get temporary local admin for couple hours; no, that still doesn't mean you can add folders to exclusion list for real-time scanner".
The trick is to use the same provider. I did it with the Expedia api for a while. At the time they were using AWS so running it on Lambda made it very tricky for them to do much about it. They were hardly about to block all AWS IP's and risk their own services or any of the "real" partners having issues.
It’s like the inverse of compression for transmission
If your article has a question mark in the title, and you work for wapo, you haven't done your job as a journalist.
You're absolutely right about enharmonic equivalents and I could/should have been more precise. However of course the given task of "keys" or pitches -> chords we don't have any information about this, enharmonic equivalents are equivalent. The point is, if the C/B# note (we don't know which one), G and E are given to you and I tell you to root is "E", then the chord could be Em#5. If it really were unambiguously C then it would be a Em♭6(no 5). Point in any case is you need more to go on (at the very least a scale).

I think the point that root and bass should not be conflated is also valid.
To raise awareness: there's been a bug with the Linux Steam client which has been persistent for a long time.

TL;DR: if you have Steam running for more than a ~day or so, you will run out of window handles so you won't be able to open any new graphical application/window until you restart Steam.

Using Steam Chat appears to make the issue worse (it happens earlier).

This has been documented under https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9094 but for some reason that issue has been closed.

I personally just restart Steam every day but if someone else encounters this issue and doesn't know why their windows are not opening, this is why :)

I am using KDE/Wayland but I've observed this under X11 too.
Size Matters? Penile Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America
Maybe it's time for him to sever his connection with apple anyways. Take a backup and use a different vendor
I think the "chimps in a cage" needs some followup experiments to tell the whole story -- replacing the banana with a much higher value reward, or placing another water hose which fires if chimps stopped trying to reach the reward ;)

Most likely, useless controls exist because the company thinks they are good enough for the business and there's no incentive to improve or replace them.
> they are very useful for optimisation problems

Do you have a source? The HN consensus whenever they've come up in the past is their stuff is useless from both a theoretical and practical perspective, easily outperformed by normal computers, and there's nothing but dishonest marketing going on. If this has changed that seems like a big deal.

Ex: most recent thread I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34217218
> Horowitz isn’t alone in this approach to supporting police. Soliciting donations to police foundations to cover the cost of specific equipment purchases is an increasingly popular and controversial approach taken by some of the largest departments around the country.

How to turn the (mostly) publicly-funded police into your own private force.
To clarify the title: TFLOP/s is the unit the author goes after, not TFLOP. People in the threads compare CUDA performance on GPUs to WebAssembly performance: please recall that H100 has a theoretical performance of about 1000 TFLOP/s for bfloat16, and even moderately complicated algorithms in typical modern transformer architectures can reach about half of that performance.
Where Is the German YIMBY Movement?
Epic comment, fellow Redditor.
There are a few definitions for an elite - most of these people aren't elite in terms of money by comparison to the owner of a car dealership, but if your definition is in terms of societal influence or how powerful their ideas are, then they are much higher than the dealership owner.
It’s also not really a bay era specific phenomenon here. Any reasonably sized city has a retailer that buys up used office stock for whatever reason at auction and resells it. And it’s not just “failed companies”, anytime a company upgrades its furniture it usually liquidates in a similar fashion.
> So, in their original paper, Schmidt & Frank didn’t actually voice belief in an ancient civilization, but pondered the question if and how it would be detectable. They conclude that no ruins of ancient football stadiums, highways or housing projects would survive geological time.

That's absurd. If modern housing can't survive geological time, then dinosaur fossils also can't survive it. But fossils can actually survive geological time. So housing can as well. So an ancient civilization would be visible in the geological record.
It would be cool if the system were integrated enough to just send the list along with it. Then the AI on the receiving could fake summarizing it by just revealing the original list.
I’ve reverse engineered a few industry conference apps to more easily get the list of attendees (some conferences will literally only give you a pdf of scanned paper lists of contact info for attendees, which is insane, especially if you are paying to have a booth there).
I’ve either decompiled the Android app, or ran mitmproxy on the device, or both, to figure it out.
Does anyone have a recommendation for having a pre-rooted Android simulator with the tools you need installed and ready to go to make this a quicker process? I’d love to just drag and drop an apk into a simulator and start inspecting vs having to use a real device and all that jazz.
The Race for the Next Ozempic
Is there a drop-in "thing" for using DeviceCheck? I would guess that something like Auth0 uses it (or maybe not? [0]). It seems like this could be a feature in any API Gateway / WAF'y product?

Not that I'm hoping for it, I too like to play around like OP. But I'm surprised how little I've encountered it in the wild.

[0]: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aauth0%20DCDevice&type=code
What I understood is that AWS is more than dogfooding. It is something Amazon first built for themselves, to give more independence to individual teams. And as they noticed it worked well, they realized that they could turn it into a product.

For what I understand as an outsider, Google is much more monolithic, having a platform where each team can do their things independently is not really their culture, so if they build one, it is only for their customers, because they don't work like this internally. Whereas for Amazon, an AWS customer is not that different from one of their own teams.
Since I'm using the API, I don't have to be limited to a specific number of messages.
Launch HN: Integuru – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983409
Lol frozen concentrate
But you're still subject to the limits set on their back end, no?
Algorithmic art
Weight-loss drugs could be key reason why US obesity rates falling, experts say
Trump beefs up security with robot dog seen patrolling Mar-a-Lago estate
At least one concept of it is that officers (and NCOs and maybe others) are expected to succeed when the 'book' is insufficient. Following the manual is not nearly enough.

Warfare is chaos; unexpected things happen; the manual is one input but people are expected to take initiative and overcome problems with or without it. It's not extra credit, it's a baseline expectation for the job. Also, this person is a colonel, not a second lieutenant.
does computers still use electric sand under the hood?
We need to can this "passive media consumption" nonsense with respect to Apple. Do you know any musicians? Pretty much all of them use Apple gear inasmuch as they work digitally, even iPhones and iPads.

Android's JVM bullshit makes it a "passive media consumption" platform, but iOS and iPadOS have real-time features that let them respond to input events with very low latency, perfect for creative work like music and visual art. Accordingly, the best creativity apps for mobile platforms work ONLY on iOS and iPadOS.
Probably not.

The moon was formed in a massive impact 4.5 billion years ago which for a time, gave the Earth a ring. There would have been large, human-satellite-sized rocks at every orbital altitude.

None of these remain. We would expect the number remaining in orbit to decrease asymptotically over time, so if it has decreased to zero (or one, technically) then clearly satellites cannot remain in Earth orbit for many billions of years.
Previously (9 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073998
I want to have more control over each chat I create, setting different temperatures, max output tokens, and personalities
It didn't lag when I loaded and tested just now to grab the version of Chrome: 122.0.6261.129. Presumably, that's because I'd visited earlier. I don't want to reset Chrome to try to repro again.

I did load up Chromium to check it and got the lag there as well: 124.0.6359.0 (Developer Build)

I don't use Chrome almost ever. Maybe my outdated version is why you can't repro.
Pagefind: Static, low-bandwidth search at scale
>> Where’s the positive ad with [...] a businessperson using it to understand a complex report dumped on them minutes before a meeting?

There is literally exactly that ad.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BK8bnkcT0Ng

Imho, it's one of the best "Why AI?" ads I've seen so far.
The last part, “because it will make money”, is entirely a valid reason to de-extinct animals that once already attracted human interest, but were lost due do it unfortunately. It’s entirely the premise of Jurassic park. People already spend money on safaris, so the premise is not far fetched.

One can argue that there’d be perverse incentives that would arise from this model.
> More or less, they were told what they did was clog the flow of useful work.

That sounds like a very valid complaint, too rarely heard these days.

People seem to forget that security always comes at a cost, so security decisions are always trade-offs. The only perfectly secure system is the one that does absolutely nothing at all.

Does forcing everyone's machine to run real-time scans on all file I/O improves our security more than it costs us in crippling all software devs? Maybe. Being on the receiving end of such policies, including this particular one, I sometimes doubt this question was even asked, much less that someone bothered to estimate the expected loss on both sides of the equation. Ignoring the risks doesn't make them go away, but neither do costs go away when you pretend they don't exist.
Unix was the first accessible real computer system like we know it. I worked with AT&T and Bell Atlantic for a project, and they provided several 3B2 systems for the project and for us to work on them in ~1992. They were used internally for all sorts of business applications, and the interface was typically a green screen like a Televideo 9xx. The only other systems I found that accessible and easy to use were Sun-like CAD workstation knockoffs that ran BSD 4.3 Unix in ~1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers#3B2
…you can see what auth/headers are passed to the endpoint from said developer tools.

I agree with sibling commenters that automating the browser with DOM APIs is an easier route to go though.
> They're clearly meant to be humorous, and everyone gets that.

It is not at all clear to me that the most-upset of these critics are among “everyone”.

“Is the message that Apple Intelligence is aimed at the perpetually lazy?”

This does not come off as a better-literate reading in context, either, I think.
Hey I’m guilty of going on unpopular nit-picky language rants, but I’ve learned something over the years after doing more historical language research: there are almost no rants about language abuse that are correct, they are almost always incorrect. And this one is incorrect, I’m sorry to say. The first mistake is assuming a comma has a well defined right and wrong usage. It doesn’t. Your favorite pet use of comma is not the only use of a comma. There are lots of valid uses of comma that have overlap with other punctuation marks, and with lack of punctuation marks too.

Language is extremely fluid and is defined by usage and changing over time. It is not defined by style guides or dictionaries or what we think we learned in school. Personally I think it has become far more fun to be a language pedant once I’ve embraced that fact that there’s rarely ever such thing as wrong usage, and started to look for the interesting uses in the past and the in present to think about how things have changed before and how they might change in the future.

Other examples of incorrect rants include how to use the semicolon (lots of ways), whether to use two spaces or one between sentences (either, who cares), whether using literally figuratively is wrong (it’s not), whether using the word really as an emphatic rhetorical question is acceptable (it is), whether the word myriad can be followed by the word of (it can), etc., etc., etc..

Come join the side of enjoying how weird language is and how many different flavors it comes in, and how as long as someone gets their point across, nothing else matters, though some people make really beautiful language and also communicate well while breaking all the “rules”.
If you're looking to run a .exe file, there are a couple of hypervisors in the market (sometimes found on the high seas). I've tried these on a couple of obscure .exe files:

- Parallels

- VMWare fusion

- Apple's gamekit

Parallels has had the highest coverage, but they've locked down Parallels pretty well, and there is no way to outright own a copy of Parallels (monthly subscription). I think the gamekit project is the most exciting one of these three though!
I found this recently, but I haven't tried it yet.

https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android
That's because Noto Sans Telugu (the font dropflow automatically downloaded based on the text; doesn't seem like a great pick but not wrong?) is returning ligatures. Not all fonts will be able to support styling individual characters. I get the same results in the dropflow playground as I get in Firefox and Chrome [1]. Maybe you were using different fonts in those browsers?

You might be able to turn OpenType features off in those browsers to make it look like your manual coloring, I'm not sure.

> if you stick with the inherent vowel on a conjunct, here making it LETTER KA, SIGN VIRAMA, LETTER RA, ditching the VOWEL SIGN I, then essentially the K from KA and the A from RA will be coloured LETTER KA, and the R from LETTER RA will be coloured SIGN VIRAMA. I haven’t decided yet if that’s an improvement!

Maybe because it changes the shaping results? I don't know enough about the writing system to understand this yet :)

[1] https://jsfiddle.net/fz15xu20/
I really doubt that they in support(low paid, hourly wage, with no 401K or any sensible benefits) care about a good customer.
I hate that bs so much.
this mirrors my experience, but it doesn't give much actionable advice and probably only rings true to those who have experienced the same motions. "You only know your project shipped if your leadership acknowledges it". Yes ok great, how do you get their attention. I think this piece could be more easy to understand and influential if the author included a specific IRL project as a case study instead of having a bit of memoir about the vibes of their experience.
Turn off JS.I do and have neither problem.
Infra and Code, can developers do it all?
I'm obsessed with closing the gap between developers and infra. After all, if they can write code, they can surely handle the infra, right?

I believe the #2 reason is the lack of a simple programming interface to make that happen. #1 is the fact that cloud tools and platforms were built for operators in the first place.

My attempt to solve #2 is detailed in this article: https://medium.com/@fodil.samy/spore-drive-building-a-cloud-platform-in-a-few-lines-of-code-bd3730a95cde

Thoughts?
Some ideas for sending messages to the next civilization.

1. Genetically modify as many wild plants and animals as we can to have a message encoded in their DNA, and release them back into the wild.

2. In areas that we expect to be geologically not much changed over the next 50 million years arrange concentrations of long lived radioactive materials in patterns that are obviously not natural. Encode a message in those patterns.

3. We could probably do something on the moon with nuclear weapons that could make a long fairly straight trench or series of parallel trenches that would be visible in telescopes and either be obviously non-natural or at least interesting enough to get them to go take a look.

Leave millions of metal spheres, cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons there which contain messages inside.

Google is telling me that any given spot on the moon gets hit be a meteoroid of ping pong ball size or greater about every 1000 years, so many of the messages will likely be destroyed over 50 million years, but maybe enough will make it.

BTW, is meteoroid the correct term? That's what Google's summary used and according to the dictionary definition as a small body that would become a meteor if it entered the Earth's atmosphere it would be correct but when we are talking about impacts on other planets or moons I'm not sure we should restrict meteor and meteorite to just meteoroids that are in or have hit after passing through Earth's atmosphere, respectively.
Reddit is too new for that type of comment. You've got to go back to slashdot.
My Aeron lasted almost 20 years. After a warranty repair I gave up. But replaced it with a new identical one (with updated back support) during COVID with company discount because couldn't really check out showroom options and it's great.
They are Personal Computers and I'm dying on that hill
The chimps story is made up. There was a study that tried to test something like that but only in one case, out of many trials, was a chimp discouraged from doing something by another chimp, due to the second chimp’s fear.
I mostly echo thoughts already posted here but I’ll just add: Both of these only really work during this brief moment in time where a lot of people still are not familiar with the capabilities of AI. If either of the recipients were, they would be insulted Or at least see right through the senders’ intentions.

These won’t age well.
Seems like the root cause was that the pilot was a human. A UAV would have been less expensive and less of a media fiasco to lose.
I live in the USA and my ISP has never bothered me for running Tor or I2P. I even ran a Tor relay (non-exit node) for a little bit.
Red Lobster is good! TGI not so much.
Was this in Amazon? If so, it might have been me. Sorry about that. I have learnt my lesson now.

I don’t recall doing it for domain objects though.
> someone whose performance review had evidence of being "enhanced"

now waiting for the persistent memory GPT where the employees start manipulating things to always give Dave a great review. I can see dave "polluting" the data the GPT is fed, or all other shenanigans to ensure a good review other than actually just doing a good job
Writing questions and suggesting someone else’s answer for them from an imagined situation is not useful or pleasant discussion. Please refrain from doing that.
3DPrinterOS develops algorithm to identify 3D printed gun parts
Sorry that I wasn't clear. This was in Toronto. I've yet to see quite as many such ads here in the US, but it's possible they were just pushed out by political ads during this period.
Well, the limitations for the API are different and much higher compared to using their platform

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits
Yeah. For a company going under, probably selling off furniture piecemeal is somewhere near the bottom of their priority list. There are companies specializing in this sort of thing. Unless you're will to do this for free at a startup, that probably isn't a good priority.
Just make sure you don't end up accidentally making one of those APIs semi-official.

I've seen a case where one team developed a temporary hack to automate some process in their product, then allowed another team making a sibling product to use it to test a possible feature; soon after, the possible feature became an actual one, everyone seemingly forgot the API was a throwaway test. Over the years, as both products evolved, that feature got pretty flaky, and in one of many cross-team attempts at fixing it, someone from the original time finally pointed out that the whole thing is still relying on a temporary hack in the original product that was never intended to be productized...
Has this become a politicized, viral, ideology thing? I keep seeing this story pop up in several places, but it doesn't seem like its impact merits the attention.

I'm not trolling and please don't bring the politics and ideology here. I am asking factually. (I'm here because I prefer to avoid those things and as a result can be ignorant of them.)
And if the ads do age well, I probably won't. Not with historic new low-points in basic human integrity.

Next up: A tool to help absentee parents trick their lonely children, pretending that they observed the school play and were impressed with their child's contribution.