skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people remain fascinated by Apple and the small choices that (traditionally) give their products a sense of careful and attentive design and engineering.

So there's both a supply of people eager to pick their products apart and a market of people eager to hear about all the little details and secrets.

While Apple probably does seed some stories intentionally, as their PR teams are sharp, they don't need to be doing so for swarms of these reports to pop up after announcements and first shipments.
BadBIOS is alleged malware described by network security researcher Dragos Ruiu in October 2013[1][2] with the ability to communicate between instances of itself across air gaps using ultrasonic communication between a computer's speakers and microphone.[3][2] To date, there have been no proven occurrences of this malware.

Ruiu says that the malware is able to infect the BIOS of computers running Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Linux as well as spread infection over USB flash drives.[2] Rob Graham of Errata Security produced a detailed analysis[4] of each element of the descriptions of BadBIOS's capabilities, describing the software as "plausible", whereas Paul Ducklin on the Sophos Naked Security blog[5] suggested "It's possible, of course, that this is an elaborate hoax".[1] After Ruiu posted data dumps which supposedly demonstrated the existence of the virus, "all signs of maliciousness were found to be normal and expected data".[6]

In December 2013 computer scientists Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz released a paper to the Journal of Communication demonstrating the possibility of an acoustic mesh networking at a slow 20 bits per second using a set of speakers and microphones for sonic communication in a fashion similar to BadBIOS's described abilities.[7]
I would be very curious to know what would be the results with a temperature closer to 1. I don't really understand why he did not test the effect of different temperature on his results.

Here, basically you would like the "best" or "most probable" answer. With 0.7 you ask the llm to be more creative, meaning randomly picking between more less probable moves. This temperature is even lower to what is commonly used for chat assistant (around 0.8).
Ghost Keys: Bootstrapping anonymous reputations using blind RSA signatures
About the black bar unchanging:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39064497
People only keep on hitting the endorphin button if it gives them endorphins. If the media channel owner dilutes the content too much by forcing too many advertisements or too much unwanted unpleasant politics down their users throats, you can't expect them to stick around.

I avoided politics, but I got tired of the bots, the spam, the idiots who paid $x getting promoted to the top of discussion with uninteresting replies rather than more informative replies.

Musk literally censored a key technical term, "cis," because it's used in culture wars in addition to all sorts of other uses in biology.

Calling this dilution of value and signal to be "uncensoring of opponents" is merely insulting reasonable people. That's not what happened at all. And the only "uncensoring" that actually happened was letting nazis and antisemites and racists be as offensive as they wanted. And that's pure uninteresting noise to all communities except the nazi, antisemite, and racist communities.

It would be good for all tech people to learn what happens when you insert too much politics into your platform: you go broke.
"I don't want to discuss politics" when it's directly related to the topic at hand, is a complaint from the decadent class. It affects peoples lives, it's relevant, it's entirely plausible given the situation.

People are going to have to deal with the presence of politics in regular life for the unforeseen future, because the luxury of avoiding politics is generally the sign of having good governance.
I went to Europe from the US and all my stomach issues disappeared. When I told my doctor she said, “Move to Europe”.

My sister, who lives in AZ, gets boils when she eats gluten. She went to Europe last month, freely ate everything, had zero outbreaks. Got an outbreak on her return flight.

I can’t scientifically identify the mechanism here, but I believe it’s real. Our food system in the US is a problem. Things that don’t work here work elsewhere.

I’m literally planning a move because of stomach discomfort.
I’ve moved mostly to polars. I still have some frameworks that demand pandas and pandas is still a very solid dataframe, but when I need to interpolate months in millions of lines of quarterly data, polars just blows it away.

Even better is using tools like Narwhals and Ibis which can convert back and forth to any frames you want.
As a counter point to the comments that say blue sky doesn’t have as much political content. I just opened the app for maybe the third time and did a cursory sample and 11/20 were political, 4/20 we’re about how bluesky has no political content, and maybe 5 were totally unpolitical.

A few screens grabs for proof: https://imgur.com/a/ra8P81G

Please for the love of god someone make a social network that has okay discovery features without political content.

I follow 3 people who post about ML papers. Not sure why blue sky shows me posts from Don Lemon and someone called @CallToActivism
It can be a pain to set up, but works very well once it has been. It is paid, but the free tier is very generous. I have used it to pass a wacom tablet through from a Linux host to a Windows host. It is designed for use over the local network, however, this can be solved with Tailscale (set the IPs to the tailscale IP of each host).
I think the assumption is that if it doesn't have a modifier, it's dairy milk. Otherwise, it would have one of the modifiers you listed.
The future is already here!

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-uses-facial-reco...
Nowhere in the west of course, but in the mid-east they found their own way to 'correct' liberated women.

Saying something is 'self-correcting' is not the same as saying that the correction is something that you are going to like.
I’ve been following Larian trying to build a game of their dreams since early 2000s. It’s been immensely satisfying to see they finally succeed and achieve the popularity they deserved with the release of BG3.

I also highly recommend Divinity OS 1 and 2 for the same level of dedication to every single detail and free post-launch support, even if they didn’t have such an enormous blockbuster budget behind them.
That's why it was controlled against other companies.
How to Drill a Triangular Hole [video]
I'm happy for them. I'd rather never touch VR again than plug my eyes into facebook.
If we remove the cream from milk, is it now two different ingredients: low-fat milk and cream? What if they are combined again, is it milk?

Take that example and apply it to every single ingredient used in food and cosmetics and supplements. Write that regulation please.

Or we can stick to the one that only deals with like, 5 - 10 things.
Most of the commit messages in my personal projects say “Temp” and yet to see any issues with that. I have some repos where I maintain commit messages (by inertia) and it always bugs me as an utterly useless routine.

In the rare case when I have to investigate history, there are actual code changes and all the tools to navigate them. There’s no “read through the log to find a change” in my workflow, just like there’s no “read through code to find an identifier”.

It doesn’t mean that this works for all projects and workflows. People report their day saved by a commit message. But that blanket belief in sacred commit messages is just that. It’s not unusual to see a 1-person repo to contain synthetic messages cause under no peer pressure people act like it’s natural to them.
If you're critiquing, could you spell out your point more plainly?
I had the same experience. I stepped into a hot shower with frostbite in two of my toes (just half of my big toe and bit of the the next toe over) and I inadvertently screamed and fell over, ripping the shower curtain down and everything. I wanted out badly. There’s no aching sensation quite like it that I’ve experienced. I’d definitely fail the gom jabbar.

I still can’t feel anything in that side of my big toe, and it occasionally throbs mildly and I think of how incredibly painful serious and extensive frostbite would really be.
I've heard several similar reports, one from a medical doctor. (They cannot identify the mechanism either.)
Japan's GDP grows for second successive quarter
Model Y are driven by tons and tons of “soccer moms” and dads. Probably the most common car now per capita, at least in my area.
That’s a colossal waste of food. Parents should expose babies to allergens to avoid this kinds of issues. I don’t think the government should be involved with allergen labeling.
Maybe we could introduce some nuance on the law. Maybe just issue a warning and a fine, not necessarily a full on recall.

Why do we have only the nuclear recourse?
It’s interesting to me that the theoretical framework the new administration is acting from seems very shaky.

Also this seems at odds with the administrations new tech admirers who I assume like H1B workers for a variety of reasons.
Perhaps, but I haven’t seen this level of momentum and consensus behind a text-based social network since early Twitter.

Time will tell—ultimately it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. If people “believe” and sign up, it will happen.
Related, my two favourite ZIP parser issues:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534483 "Ambiguous zip parsing allows hiding add-on files from linter and reviewers"

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40082940 "Security: Crazy Linker on Android allows modification of Chrome APK without breaking signature"

The big problem with the ZIP format is that although the "spec" says what a ZIP file looks like, it does not tell you in concrete terms how to parse it, leading to all sorts of ambiguities and divergent implementations. Someone needs to write a "strict ZIP" spec that has explicit and well-defined parsing rules, and then we need to get every existing ZIP implementation to agree to follow said spec.
> Which? found that the three fryers it tested all wanted to "record audio on the user's phone, for no specified reason"

Lol. Everything "smart" is watching you.
The pillars on my 2006 CR-V haven't been a problem. Did pillars get bigger on newer cars, or did Honda use smaller pillars, or what?

They are wide enough that their horizontal angular width could be larger than the horizontal angular width of a pedestrian more than a couple or so meters away but due to their angle there is plenty of the pedestrian still visible.

I spent a while just sitting in a busy parking lot watching people go by and seeing how their visibility changed and I couldn't find any situation where I'd have trouble seeing a pedestrian unless they were far enough away that there was no chance I'd hit them even if I never saw them.
Like Microsoft Office requiring Microsoft authenticator. 1password OTP does not work. This is for corporate accounts. The QR code they present to you doesn’t scan in any other app besides their own. That is some absolute BS right there.
I don't think so. That's assuming the program will always be in a frame of reference which is temporally unbounded. If, for example, it fell into a black hole it would, IIUC, never progress (even locally) beyond the moment of intercepting the event horizon.
There is still major centralization. Essentially, the relays crawl the network and provide an aggregated data stream, their firehose.

Independent relays can exist, which is better than the fully centralized options.

There is no financial incentive to bear the cost of running a public relay.
That doesn’t make sense with the given scenario. It’s followers that have visibility int your posts, not people you’re following
I do not think anyone sane desires to have a child with roommates.
Microprolog reference manual (1980) [pdf]
Nevermind the cost of the plane, I don't understand how they aren't losing money on the petrol alone. We're talking the price of a full tank on a small car to transport someone from Barcelona to London and back

(Even though they don't pay taxes on that gas)
By "anymore" do you mean for the past 600 years? Because almond milk goes back about as far as we have cookbooks that might mention it in english.
I have heard the argument that the standard nuclear plant have the inefficiencies of any large building project, like building a big bridge. You never get the optimizations of mass production that you get in a factory that produces tens of thousands of solar panels or lots of wind turbines. I guess that is what SMR is trying to solve. I don’t know how that is going.
Smart people are not going to have kids in poverty or have a child with roommates.
Yev from Backblaze here -> we've updated the post to make it more clear. This will ONLY affect about 5% of the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage population with < 10TB of data. See below for additional information:

-> This policy is limited to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage usage. Backblaze Computer Backup usage is not within the scope of this policy.

-> Customers storing 10TB or below will initially be provisioned for uploads up to 3,000 requests per minute and 800 megabits per second, and for downloads up to 1,200 requests per minute and 200 megabits per second, all per account. Other API operations may also be limited to keep traffic flowing, but again, this won’t be noticeable to most customers.

-> Customers storing more than 10TB, including all sales assisted customers whom we’ve supported during implementation and/or renewal, will experience no change at this time.

-> Traffic analysis and engineering is a dynamic activity, so we’ll likely revise limits over time in response to evolving usage patterns, improvements we roll out, and, of course, customer feedback. We will announce significant changes here on the blog.

Hope that clears things up and we have additional documentation on our API Documentation pages: https://www.backblaze.com/apidocs.
I believe they also said they don't want to do more of the same, they only want to work on something new. Hence why the only new Half-Life anything in 20 years is Alyx - it did something genuinely new.

We all want HL3, but other than the story it would probably be fairly stagnant in terms of gameplay - nothing new has really happened in the genre.
This attack vector has been known for at least 17 years, if not longer.

https://gnucitizen.org/blog/java-jar-attacks-and-features/
https://gnucitizen.org/blog/gifars-and-other-issues/
I think there are threads in Michael Levin's work that suggest membrane voltage potential may be able to be 'encoded' to microtubule structures and converted back into voltage potentials later. I don't think it's firmly established or understood yet but seems like a promising area for research!
> not working

> (not) stressing about work

> instead spending it with family and raising your kid ... while someone else goes to work

Right. 'Spending time' with your family and kid is not work and is completely stress free.

Another reason women do not want to become stay-at-home wives/mothers, no one respects you or the work you (pretend to) do .
The internal part can be replaced too.

The gain you get from implanting as soon as possible is massive compared to waiting it off. No one truly considering it should be waiting and instead actually pushing for an implant as soon as possible.

For our son, in the UK in 2019, they asked us to wait until our son was one year old. We insisted to have him implanted as soon as possible and us being ready to do it at 6 months (possible already in US). We managed to do at 7 months only switching surgeon to a much younger and keen surgeon that was pushing to lower the implantable age in children on the back of the massive benefits gained and very similar complication rate as close age brackets.

Our son is currently in mainstream school and doing brilliantly.
Your Microsoft account doubles as your advertising profile, so you can see how they wouldn't want to delete it now that they have embraced the surveillance capitalism business model.
It is an ad.
There is a reason for that: Meta focused on VR with "infinite money", hiring almost the entire VR development team from Valve. Valve just could not compete. They could not spend 10 billion dollars like Meta did.

Creating a working nuclear fusion device could be cheaper than that.
Yeah, but the choice isn’t between 80k of butter being used and nothing. The other side of it is all allergy labels not being reliable. I was on the side of “don’t waste” but now that I know it’s only $400k worth I think I’m not as aggrieved. I think making allergy labels optional will cost more than $400k and I think developing newer rules will cost $400k.

Overall, this is the cheapest way to do things. Verifiable information transmission is usually harder than most things. It’s why we do things like reduce aerospace composite strength by riveting them - inspectability costs something but the value is higher.
Ha. That's very sweet of you to say./
Spark docs are way too minimal for my taste, at least the API docs.
Very nifty, I like it quite a bit.

I wonder if instead of black+repeating images (assumption here is that's the display and not an artifact of the firehose, the same unique image often repeats a lot in the same short instance) it'd be cleaner to have some sort of exponential backoff queue (the closer it is to empty the slower it empties like 0.5s/numInQueue, last element in queue will wait no less than 0.5s but also wait for the next element to queue). This would make the flow a bit more consistent, never blank, and never repeating.

Also if images kept their aspect ratio.
> I'm happy for them.

It's a pyrrhic victory, they may have cornered the market but it's still losing them $4-5 billion every quarter with no end in sight.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/30/metas-reality-labs-posts-4po...
A certain faction always think the rule on keeping politics out of forums doesn't apply to them, because their politics are too correct and important. I experience this problem in groupchats where the very people who furiously demanded people not bring politics into the group and to make the group politics-free routinely push their own politics. They say their politics are too important to not bring up.

These same people LEFT other groups dedicated to politics so presumably if others respond in kind by discussing their own politics, they will leave the last groupchats too. This is why a certain faction is such an echo chamber. Incidentally, I was just banned from r/Archaeology for arguing that a post arguing that archeologists should prepare to fight the fascist takeover was too political.
Just find random Microsoft executives off LinkedIn, figure out their work email, and cc them on the conversation. I would search for anyone in 'privacy' and related keywords. One of them will see your email, mysteriously escalate it internally, and it'll be done. I say this as someone who has done this sort of thing multiple times now. It's always easier for the company to comply with the crazy person who's willing to directly email executives.

If they don't initially respond, just keep cc'ing them and politely sending emails 'hello, I'm just looking to follow up on this so that I don't have to escalate'. I promise you that this works
Cleve Moler: Mathematical Software Pioneer and Creator of Matlab (2008)
I didn't claim Gwern was a wordcel. He's clearly not. Dwarkesh, yes.

I didn't claim Yudkowsky was an EA. He's not. He's a rationalist who originated many thoughts about AI doom, which have influenced EAs.

Look, Gwern and Dwarkesh and Yud are all AI doomers, which is where the rationalists and the EAs overlap. Gwern is all over LessWrong, which kind of springs out of the rationalist community and has all sorts of EAs there now. But of course, the first rule of EA is the first rule of Fight Club. That's why Dario consistently denies he's an EA, even though his chief of staff was formerly running Sam Bankman-Fried's philanthropic grants.

The weird thing in these conversations between guys like Dwarkesh and Gwern is how much they wallow in the masochism of imagining a world taken over by AGI. Yud has a similar attraction to pain, but he channels it into his silly BDSM novels.

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Lords-Answer-Eliezer-Yudkowsky-e...

If that's how they wan't to spend their time, fine. Let's all just recognize it's an acquired taste, a self-indulgence, and the furthest thing from a rational act.
I find the touchscreen actually less distracting and easier to use than the cell phone I had to use in a Honda civic. Also no critical functions need to be done on the touchscreen, they can all be done via physical buttons on the wheel or stocks.
I echo this same comment. Myself and my whole family are all hearing, so I can't/don't feel qualified to weigh in on the details of the article. That being said, we've just started learning ASL together this year and it's been wonderful. I have nothing but respect for the entire Deaf community: we've been to a few Deaf church events and it's been amazing to meet and get to know everyone. While our reasons for learning ASL are personal, it's really opened our eyes to both the challenges and the incredible feats of the Deaf community.
That tracks. To me, gather.town is an attempt to replicate office dynamics in a remote setting. In an office, being AWOL is looked down upon. I can see how gather.town builds the same expectation.

In my experience, this expectation gets set either way. Whether that be a green light on slack or having your video on for all calls.
Solar doesn't work at night, so doesn't the cost need to include batteries?
o1 does everything I need.
Eh, my neighbors Honda Pilots and other friends Toyota Siennas are heavier than my Y.
Perfect, just in time for him to do another rug pull!
If you were deathly allergic to milk you'd probably know that butter is a milk product
all intellectual property law is in violation of the first amendment.
Not so on the M3 generation (nor the newer M4s). M3 Pro was particularly hobbled in this regard with only 6 performance cores vs 10 on the Max.
The amount of antisemitism in the replies of any Jewish person on X, when the topic is the technical topics that I pay attention to, is revolting.

If that pure noise, a litany of uninteresting ad hominem attacks at best, which drown out relevant conversation, is "diversity" that's required, what is gained? If not wanting to be subjected to uninteresting insults is an "echo chamber" is that so bad?

Twitter was interesting because you could have on-topic conversations with world experts and random people. By protecting the uncivil, and even elevating it with for-purchase blue checks, people find better uses of their time.

The destruction of value in the transition of Twitter to X is something to behold. The person who bought it had no clue about the value of what he bought and what drove the value. Social networks are about the people; Twitter in particular was about the specialists, the journalists, the exchange of ideas, far more than any other social network. And that was all destroyed so that more bots can spam people and so that personal attacks can be left up.
I'd love a proper spectrum. But my spectrum pretty much stops when we start excusing unironic prejudice. I think "your body, my choice" was pretty much the tipping point for many people deciding to move ship.

Fortunately I do have a few other smaller hubs for a more "diverse" (in the original sense of the word) conversation, while not allowing bigotry.
Without having checked, maybe something like:

select id, max(views) from <tbl>
where sales > avg(sales) over (partition by id) group by 1

In dplyr, there is an ‘old style’ method which works on an intermediate ‘grouped data frame’ and a new style which doesn’t. In the old style:

df |> group_by(id) |>
filter(sales > mean(sales)) |>
summarize(max(views))

In the new style, either:

df |> filter(.by=id, sales>mean(sales)) |> summarize(.by=id,max(views))

Or:

df |> summarize(.by=id, max(views[sales>mean(sales)]))