skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's that when we were kids we didn't really care about whether was free, open source, made by M$ or not, we didn't care about politics or how things should be (tm).

We were just amazed things existed at all.

Now, people shame people using WYSIWYG or VSCode or whatever else makes the life of people easier, other than top hard-core users.

And that's why even placing a centred text in the middle of a web page requires to know a whole stack of tech, and no step is you actually placing it there directly.
Total aside: Training wheels are a thing I remember from my youth but today (at least here) they are barely used at all anymore.

I'm still used to the phrase (taking the training wheels off) but I'm fairly certain my kids will grow up not using it.
Hacker News is algorithmically curated. The main inputs are upvotes/downvotes, time posted, and (maybe) number of comments - instead of likes and time spent. But that's still algorithmically curated.

I will grant that it is not infinite scroll. I think that speaks more to this site having a limited amount of content.
Show HN: Bleach vs Naruto 3.3 Fighting Game Playable Online
The classic Bleach vs Naruto fighting game has been around for over a decade, and with its recent 3.3 release, there's renewed interest in the community. While the game has always been browser-based, finding a reliable place to play has been challenging.

I built a minimal landing page as a stable entry point for both new and returning players. The project includes:

Clean interface to play directly in browser.
Clear documentation.
Latest version 3.3.
GitHub repo [https://github.com/SmileyEmily/bleachvsnaruto] for community contributions.
I'll also be hosting gameplay sessions on Twitch [https://m.twitch.tv/smileyemilyj] to build the community.
It’s standard practice to let somebody else own your things when you are in a position that don’t allow you to have something. It’s not provable easily and if it’s justice to charge him 1.4B for talking some shit it’s also justice to use the loopholes of the system.
The law isn't about cookies - it's about obtaining consent to process personal data.

You need to ask permission to track people and to do other things with their personal data.

Cookies are one method to do that, but any other method (like local storage or storing session state in a URL parameter) also counts.

Hence, it is not possible to have a system where a browser can tell a site what kinds of processing the user thinks are OK, as it would be too complicated.
I'd argue that SimpleX has probably learned from the path Matrix has been on... and so has Matrix. So you end up with multiple viable options to pick from, and to drive each other forwards; sounds like a good outcome to me.
This calculation somehow assumes that clicking banners on your free time equals lost money in terms of production.

If the average time for toilet visits per day is 12 minutes, we are losing 89.8 million hours a day collectively across Europe, and continuing the same logic in as in the article, with 25€/h this sums to 5% of EU GDP being spent down the drain.

Maybe we should focus efforts on a productivity programme to ban bathroom visits?
DNT does not provide informed consent. It may, if set to not track, imply denial, but the reverse is not true. If DNT is accepting or unset, the site needs to fall back to the banner to get consent. And at that point you may as well prompt everyone with the banner instead of complicating the codebase with extra logic for a DNT edge case.
Yup. Can only beat search after doing search. Goes for the larger societal systems and for the individual as well, because there's no shortcut to search the space of socially acquired knowledge.
I am curious why you feel this is an "essential" feature. If you only use your phone once or twice a day, why would a hypothetical attacker bother targeting it?
Show HN: Package Assistant – Manage your package managers
I've created a cli tool to help me with package management when switching between different OSes and their package managers, since almost every package manager has its own command line syntax. It can also be used to interact with several package managers on a single host (for example, apt and snap on Ubuntu).

Yes, I'm aware of xkcd 927.
Quest is “protecting your privacy” the same amount as VisionPro does.
If I'm not mistaken, ComboBox is supposed to have a mode in which it allows typing in it, in addition to choosing items from the dropdown.
I didn’t say it always predicted Harris the winner. I said that it was predicting her to win just before the election. She was also leading during the entire period between August 17-October 10, and likely somewhat earlier (I can only see the 90-day history on my phone).

The point here is that there is no “the prediction markets” one can speak of as a cohesive unit.
Yep! And currently the behavior is not consistent with user defined functions.
That would be a nice change too. Also THEN, BEGIN, END to replace varous brackets.
Again you have provided zero links showing that there is more Nazi activity than there was 20 years ago, which was your claim.
Rails 8: The Demo
Still using and paying for noteplan for a few years now. Works really well, and storage and syncing can be done anywhere (local, dropbox, icloud, whatever)
This sounds like an excellent way to make it even easier for people to watch you enter your PIN.
The term "open source" itself explains the problem.

It was originally called free software, which is admittedly confusing in English, but also inconvenient for corporations who wanted to exploit it. Because it's not a huge issue whether free software was libre or gratis, because practically all of it was both libre and gratis. But if you're a company, you like neither the libre nor the gratis.

So it was rebranded to "open source" precisely to market it to businesses.

https://producingoss.com/en/introduction.html#free-vs-open-s...
It was the research into systems like Xerox Cedar, among others, that turned me into a believer of systems programming with automatic resource management languages.

Most of these systems failed not due to technical limitations, rather by poor management decisions that ended up killing their adoption.

Likewise in the UNIX world, my favourite ones are the ones that went out of their way to not be yet another UNIX V6 clone with X, like IRIX, NeWS and NeXTSTEP.
It's even more confusing for non native speakers.
Yeah, and I just finished porting an enormous amount of production code from PHP 5 to 7.x before fully moving it to 8. There are so many breaking changes in each major version, when you have a lot of live projects and clients don't have the budget to pay you to upgrade them, they can lay stagnant for years until way past EOL. It would have been nice to know, for instance, that future versions of PHP would throw warnings about undeclared variables or unaccessible named properties of "arrays" - which could previously be relied upon to be false-ish. That's a major pain point in code bases that treated arrays as simply dynamic objects that could be checked or defined at will. Lots of isset() and !empty() and other BS. Fine, but it takes time to sit down and check it all. I really preferred it when it let you just screw up or try to access a null property or define a variable inside a block and access it later without throwing any errors at all. Nothing about its actual functionality has changed in that regard; it's just errors you have to suppress or be more verbose to get around. In PHP 8 you can still do this:

`if ($a) {
$previouslyUndefined = 2;
}
if ($previouslyUndefined) {
echo "yeah";
}`

PHP still knows what $previouslyUndefined is or isn't at the second if statement, but it'll throw an error now in the first statement if you hadn't declared it outside the block. Why? Who cares? Scope in PHP is still understood to be inline, not in block; there is no equivalent to let vs var in JS. Stop telling me where I can check a variable if you're not enforcing various kinds of scope.
A sufficiently powerful jailbreak would be able to override that.
Visualize HNSW, FAISS and other ANNs index
I actually overall agree with your point, but to be fair the off topic remark probably was targeted at this bit of pseudoscience that unfortunately dominated Soviet politics for decades, and its influence in Soviet and Chinese agricultural policy ultimately contributed to the death of millions of people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Repression_of_b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine#Agricultu...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-l...

Note that Nikolai Vavilov, a scientist that preserved the seedbank cited in the Guardian article, was actually purged due to Lysenko's crusade against genetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov

> Vavilov's work was criticized by Trofim Lysenko, whose anti-Mendelian concepts of plant biology had won favor with Joseph Stalin. As a result, Vavilov was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in July 1941. Although his sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment, he died in prison in 1943. In 1955, his death sentence was retroactively pardoned under Nikita Khrushchev. By the late 1950s, his reputation was publicly rehabilitated, and he began to be hailed as a hero of Soviet science.[4]
Has been possible for years.
If private money isn't enough, how much state money should go into it vs other modes of transport?
It used to have darkmode++ back in the day, because windows allowed you to just choose all the controls colors in any way you wanted.
Of course it lacks features we want today, especially things we are used to from the web, like highlighting fields with errors in them etc., but I often think new features can't entirely explain why the newer toolkits are so much less ergonomically useable.
Thanks for pointing this out! In general, the sovereign tech fund should not fund Python or the PSF, since the administration is U.S. dominated and the whole organization is captured by U.S. corporations.

Unpaid developers from Europe (and Asia) just serve as disposable work horses for the U.S. "elites".
This is how iOS works already.
oh the days of xbox-linux, the cromwell bios and stuff.

I remember some guy soldering additional memory as well. Can't recall if it was 64 to 128mb or 128 to 256mb.
Exploit I don't know, but as any stricter type verification, it would catch some bugs for sure. Note that builtin functions already throw an ArgumentCountError when passing fewer OR more parameters than the signature allows. My proposal consists in (optionally in a first place) make this behavior consistent for user-defined functions.
Which city are you driving through at 80kph?

I want to move there.
Yep. I couldn’t write down my work one without a keyboard.
Apple did implement this around the Mac OS X transition (I guess, probably Steve Naroff did it?) but it was not pursued, in favor Java bindings (which funnily enough are back in fashion with swift-java).
Assembler for sure, as even today it is unavoidable in low level firmware coding, at the time Apple was a Object Pascal/C++ shop, usually the C like APIs were extern "C" in many of the toolbox APIs implementation.
> Is this a silver bullet? No. If an attacker compromises a project's source repository, attestations won't help.

But that's a huge attack surface.
Also P4 comes with NetBurst architecture.

"The Willamette and Northwood cores contain a 20-stage instruction pipeline. This is a significant increase in the number of stages compared to the Pentium III, which had only 10 stages in its pipeline. The Prescott core increased the length of the pipeline to 31 stages."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst

And many of that tricks actually works for long pipelines.
I'm not sure this is true.

I have a Samsung with this feature. It rebooted overnight and this morning it was in BFU state with several mail and sms notifications. It was also connected to wifi and the cellular network.
i think you're asking for https://element.io/blog/experimenting-with-matrix-2-0-using-...
Eventually, but tax systems are usually very efficient, and feel the pain a lot later.

There is some competitive pressure with pro-business politicians wanting things to be better, but unless you're in the team seeing the problems I think they struggle to spot what could actually be improved.
Sounds like you have absolutely zero life experience with gypsy/traveller communities.
> Why do EU lawmakers not allow me to automatically say no?

What do you mean? There is no law banning companies from honoring a DNT header, companies just choose not to do so. The law already allows it, it just doesn't mandate it.
Isn't Q* (or Quiet-STaR) a causal and bidirectional objective learning system?
We already have such a device, we call them smartphones.
We had to configure a daily reboot for a raspberry PI that just displayed a web page with the current status of emergency calls for local first responders on a mounted TV screen.

Purpose: if you come into the building to fetch the car with the medical equipment, you could see at a glance how many people acknowledged the alert and would arrive shortly etc. Sadly, the system tended to loose its WIFI connection and then the reloaded web page would display a network error. And since the web page was a 3rd party product, we could not hack the Javascript.
> While Apple has a great set of documentation around their security features

lol I wish
Not just hallucinations but lack of sleep can change your very character and behaviour. The executive part of the brain in the frontal cortex becomes inhibited and you have less conscious self-control over the expression of emotions/feelings. You will become very noticeably irritable, angry, petty, quarrelsome and even sometimes violent.

I have had the misfortune of experiencing this twice in my life so far; the first on a month-long car trip with my buddy and the second while i was the caregiver/caretaker for my Mother. In both cases it was my lack of sleep which made me very difficult to be around.

1) Sleep Deprivation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation

2) Also Related; The medications that change who we are - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-...

So whenever you note that somebody's behaviour has abruptly changed, always ask two questions; a) Are you sleeping well? b) What medications are you taking and what diet are you on?
For the moment they have an external payment / card terminal; other than the card reader itself, I don't see why an iphone wouldn't work as a formal payment terminal.
…are you somehow pressing the power button?
I don't understand what the word "creator" means in this context or how that's relevant to 3DOF vs 6DOF
How Westwood VQA Works
I disagree on the point that art is propaganda, but I can't point out almost all art contains a propaganda of some kind.
Monet's Water Lilies influences common viewers to find a beauty and romanticism in simple nature.
Long exposure to Monet will in general make people gaze more appreciatively at trees every now and then.

Propaganda doesn't inherently mean bad or political. Healthy lifestyle propaganda is actually a good thing, for example (also the current healthy lifestyle propaganda seems poorly executed. I much prefer the 60s american, european and soviet versions of it).
Millions of bureaucrats plotting to start new wars neither American public nor the rest of the world will not benefit from.
It certainly is, but it isn't Rewrite In Kotlin, that is so common to hear the community talk about, specially when their creators are quite open that it is a way to sell InteliJ licenses.

I can provide you the public statement on that, if you feel like not searching yourself.
The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany
From the HN guidelines [0]:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was true for my Galaxy S22, and is currently true with reboots after update. And yes, early on I had a situation where the phone rebooted overnight and remained stuck on the lock screen while disconnected from networks, until I woke up and noticed. Fortunately I didn't miss anything important, but after that I immediately reviewed all settings and disabled anything that could reboot the device automatically (including updates, which are set for manual installation now).
The premise of deep learning is the automated 'absorption' of knowledge.

If we're back to curating it by hand and imparting it by writing code manually, how exactly are these systems an improvement on the 80's idea of building expert systems?
Some examples of what he said

>You’ve got parents laughing — ‘hahaha’ — and then they walk over to the camera and go ‘boo hoo hoo,’ and not just one but a bunch of parents doing this and then photos of kids that are still alive they said died? I mean, they think we’re so dumb.”

>“Why did Hitler blow up the Reichstag — to get control! Why do governments stage these things — to get our guns! Why can’t people get that through their head?” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/politics/heres-what-jo...

Re double standards on Trump, I think people are ok with criticizing power hungry politicians, less so with parents who have had their kids killed.

The Jones case was a civil case for damages. He's not going to prison or anything - just losing some assets. Trump is free to sue people who've implied he's a nazi (maybe he could start with JD) but I don't know how sympathetic a jury would be.
I don't think anyone really cares about optimizing those codepaths, though.
Lilium spend 1.4 Billion since 2015... and looking them up they seem to have gone the not uncommon path of hiring a multitude of big shot executives and of spending on swanky offices in several countries. No product shipped yet.

Now, there is a market for flying taxis. Currently it is quite niche and helicopters are used. It will probably remain niche so it's not clear how these companies might fit in.
One way to see it is that it's their way of passive-aggressive protest against a law they don't want. Maybe the aim was never to abide by the law, just to pretend and annoy people enough to draw them on your side.
Very cool! This seems like a much better solution than Calendly. Instead of capturing leads only to experience a drop-off in conversion to calls, this completely eliminates that issue.
If I understood your proposal correctly, to get the new behavior add an explicit stop to the function, my proposal add attribute to keep old behavior.

Thus if understanding this right that would require to update every function signature to new behavior rather than marking a few functions to get the old behavior and automatically get the new better behavior of every other function for free.
That would have immediately given away that something must be off. If you want to do this in a subtle way that increases the hype around GPT-3.5 at the time, giving it a good-but-not-too-good rating would be the way to go.
It's not a gold standard. It just shows how difficult the problem really is.

Flying machines rest on the excess power of internal combustion. They have nothing to do with bird evolution.
Salesforce Outage
> I do believe LLM is a game changer, but I'm not convinced it is designed to be public-facing.

I think that, too, is a UX problem.

If you present the output as you do, as simple text on a screen, the average user will read it with the voice of an infallible Star Trek computer and be irritated by every mistake.

But if you present the same thing as a bunch of cartoon characters talking to each other, users might not only be fine with "egg in your face moments", as you put it, they will laugh about them.

The key is to move the user away from the idealistic mental model of what a computer is and does.
Tarassenko does.

Freeman, has spent most of her career as a science in science communication (director and producer of BBC documentaries, then a "communications" role at Cambridge).

I like TBL as an example partly because of his interest in the broader consequences of technology, and the contrast with people who have made money from the technology her inventented being peers.
Private money doesn't want to finance this, and State money should NOT finance this, as it's an individual "luxury" solution to a societal issue. Hence, there's no money or interest and the companies fail. That's a very acceptable and normal cycle.
I wouldn't, that sounds like a pedestrian nightmare (and I'm not even talking about the noise)
Calling out to some chess-playing-function would be a deviation from the pure LLM paradigm. As a medium-level chess player I have walked through some of the LLM victories (ChatGPT 3-5-turbo-instruction); I find it is not very good at winning by mate - it misses several chances of forced mate. But forced mate is what chess engines are good at - can be calculated by exhaustive search of valid moves in a given board position.

So I'm arguing that it doesn't call out - it should gotten better advice if it did.

But I remain amazed that OP does not report any illegal moves made any of by LLMs. Assuming training material includes introductory texts of chess playing and a lot of chess games in textual notation (e.g. PGN) I would expect at least occasional illegal moves since the rules are defined in terms of board positions. And board positions are a non-trivial function of the set of moves made in a game. Does an LLM silently perform a transformation of the set of moves to a board position? Can LLMs, during training, read and understand board-position diagrams of chess books?
Thanks, you're right! I typed without thinking.
Lightyear: A new way to dump PHP files
which costs time

No sure this holds true anymore.

When you go to a site like reddit.com which uses HTTP/2, you see a gazillion of requests for JS files, many starting at the same time and ending at the same time.

I think that is because newer HTTP versions can put multiple requests in the same data packet. And even HTTP/3 is now supported by over 90% of browsers.
Don't know about apple, but on linux you can live patch a running kernel with security updates (kpatch/ksplice/...).
Crazy, never heard of that before
I have an inkling that Poe’s Law could almost bridge the gap in some way…
btw, the OpenFlexure forum link is 404.
European Reusable and Cost-Effective Heavy Lift Transportation (PROTEIN) [pdf]
You're imagining LLMs don't just regurgitate and recombine things they already know from things they have seen before. A new variant would not be in the dataset so would not be understood. In fact this is quite a good way to show LLMs are NOT thinking or understanding anything in the way we understand it.
Are you doing a bit? I can't tell.
I do pretty much the same with a file that I called worklog.txt

Days separated with a blank line, and starting with date.
Then I use initial spaces to differentiate between task, comments on this task and what is needed to do to finish the task.

Pretty easy to keep it consistent, and the use of spaces allow to easily identify the order of importance in each subset.
A clear example of passive-aggressive protest was from Google, the removal of links to Google maps from the search results. Instead of providing a choice of multiple map providers, they just completely removed the links. To clarify: I'm in Europe (France).
> receiving phone calls

don't be ridiculous, it's a _smart_ phone.