skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Luckily, it seems like the common folk have more sense than this.

Not sure about that, honestly. As reading of longform text has declined with the rise of the smartphone and other distractions, and the literary-fiction publishing market is converging internationally, a significant amount of people who still read fiction represent demographics that like to view art through a contemporary political lens, often specifically North American-centric notions of race, gender, and power even if the reader hails from somewhere else.
This is exactly it. People don't want to think about that kind of stuff.

I was over giving a neighbour a can of spray foam. The complexity of it was no more than that of spray paint. You point the nozzle into the hole, pull trigger, it fills with foam. Done.

They spent more time asking me how to use it than it would have taken to patch the hole (~10 seconds).
Of course, but if we don’t know how something works, it’s ok to just say “we don’t know yet.”

There may in fact be physical, measurable mechanisms that govern these types of animal behavior. Just like there was a physical, measurable explanation for Mercury’s orbit.
Yes I have some experience with TiDB. It is pretty amazing actually. They came up with a novel way of distributing data across nodes and having strong consistency while also maintaining great performance. We are recommending it to some of our clients who are looking for an easy scaling option with MySQL (TiDB is MySQL compatible on the connector level.)
Back then I wanted to publish collected stories in floppies as Windows .HLP files. The SDK was... discouraging.

And then the web happened.

The company I worked for managed to publish a couple e-commerce (we didn't call it that) CD's using Windows remote access clients to dial up a server (as in using a phone) to post orders that would be delivered next day. Fun times.
> limited to non-HTTPS-mandatory browser APIs at that

Another trick that could easily be pulled by a malicious ISP/wifi provider is to insert a redirect into the HTTP page to go to an HTTPS site controlled by the attacker (presumably with some semi-related name so as to not seem suspicious to the user) and to then bypass non-HTTPS restrictions in the browser.
There is unimaginably large economic incentive to keep the status quo and effectively zero to change it. The GHGs already emitted aren’t going anywhere even if the world were net zero tomorrow.

I think it’s time to start being realistic and look at ways to mitigate the damage. That means moving people away from disaster zones, building up food/crop/aid/water reserves, and upgrading infrastructure to be much more resilient. We should abandon the idea that the ship is turning around this century or far more people are going to die.
it's cute how you've come to accept the less obnoxious ads as okay. it appears the obnoxious ads have served their purpose.
Good question! I guess none of the French wanted a nice box of English wine?
There is a huge difference between $10 and $10 a month. "Afford" is not necessarily the right qualifier. Frequency of utility is pretty important here. My apple music sub costs $16 for my partner and I. We both use it extensively throughout the day. I might plan a new bike route once or twice a month.
It's not a goalpost move. As I've already said, I have the exact same problem with this article as I had with the previous one. My goalposts haven't moved, and my standards haven't changed. Just provide the data! How hard can it be? Why leave it out in the first place?
Where is the URL for the game on the browser?
For animals like seabirds, a big part of the location could be non-genetic, as birds have different home roosts.

I would add that there can be many local maxima, so it isnt always about finding less suitable homes. Birds of the same species can have different homes.
> Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do,

This is probably true. But Russians' opinion shouldn't matter the slightest about him for the rest of us.
Is Ken Johnson still alive? I’m curious about how the blog is still up and why a programming type wouldn’t fix the encoding errors.
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What you propose is a harder AI safety scenario.

You don't need a 'vastly more competent AI overseeing its own training' to elicit this potential problem, just a malicious AI researcher, looking for (e.g.) a model that's racist but that does not have any interperable activation patterns that identifiably correspond to racism.

The work here on this Show HN suggests that this kind of adversarial training might just barely be possible for a sufficiently-funded individual, and it seems like novel results would be very interesting.
Judging from the photos I’m guessing these folks can take the hit and at least be OK, if not somewhat scuffed-up, financially speaking, but almost $20k in medical bills because your kid had one could-happen-to-anyone mishap would ruin a lot of families’ entire decade.

It remains baffling to me that almost any other topic gets attention in this country when we have this problem.
Pipedream launches managed OAuth to leverage their API stack
Definitely a hype wave, and we've seen these things come and go before. Crypto, NFTs, Blockchain, Virtual Assistants, Autonomous Vehicles, Wearables, Big Data, VR/AR, 3D TV. In five years, we'll be able to add LLMs/AI to the list.

I'm sure if we look, we can find a five year old HN post that starts out: "My work is already massively transformed via crypto. Pretty much everything I do starts with an interaction with a blockchain."
Wow. Your quote was the first time I’ve read any Dostoyevsky and it had tears welling in my eyes. I will absolutely find more to read. Thank you.
How should one decide what to read?
As I mentioned elsewhere, the results of this election make me extremely optimistic about Russia and China.
App for measuring angle between multiple iOS devices
> They are utterly useless as a way to share knowledge.

How so? Facebook's graph is implemented as a a triplestore where the edges have values rather than entity-relationship of traditional DBMS. GraphQL also exists.

Maybe RDF and getting humans to structure their statistics, transactions, memories, and annotated knowledge rigidly and methodically in a universally-composable manner was a "failure", but now LLMs have the potential to transform freeform content such as from web pages or APIs for us automatically in both materialized and presentation forms that would be mechanically-consumable.
https://www.tonic.ai/products/textual offers NER models through an API or with a UI for managing projects. You can sign up for a free trial at https://textual.tonic.ai
or if test $num -eq 42, which is the most sensible way to do it in my view, since it really makes the point clear that what you're really evaluating is the exit status of the evaluated command

(and where '[' is simply an alias to 'test')
Yeah, but then what do we want this technology for, besides visualisations and shadertoy demos?

Streaming solves the business case, with native APIs using server side rendering.
Cute game. A lot more forgiving than Marble Madness though.

Needs a good enemy marble to come crack you and hammers too.
It's a good quote for orthodox christians, I'm not sure it would make anyone else want to read dostoevsky though. I'm a dostoevsky liker and orthodox christian myself so this isn't an issue for me but in this venue I feel like you could have made a better choice for representing him.
Switching back to latin letters...

It seems to me that the idea of the Universal Turing Machine is quite misleading for a lot of people, such as David Deutsch.

My impression is that the amount of compute to solve most problems that can really only be solved by Turing Machines is always going to remain inaccessible (unless they're trivally small).

But at the same time, the universe seems to obey a principle of locality (as long as we only consider the Quantum Wave Function, and don't postulate that it collapses).

Also, the quantum fields are subject to some simple (relative to LLMs) geometric symmetries, such as invariance under the U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) group.

As it turns out, similar group symmetries can be found in all sorts of places in the real world.

Also it seems to me that at some level, both ANN's and biological brains set up a similar system to this physical reality, which may explain why brains develop this way and why both kinds are so good at simulating at least some aspects of the physical world, such as translation, rotation, some types of deformation, gravity, sound, light etc.

And when biological brains that initially developed to predict the physical world is then use to create language, that language is bound to use the same type of machinere. And this may be why LLM's do language so well with a similar architecture.
Federal Reserve announces pricing for payment services it provides (ACH, FedNow)
Try not to worry. Its not like your baby's first Christmas is just just round the corner.
> unconditional surrender to orthodox christianity and tzar will cure you".

While I don't personally lean that way myself, I'm also not close-minded enough to dismiss the possibility outright.
Michigan is similar to parts of Canada. All-seasons that are rated for snow are pretty common here too.

Then there is every doofus in a Suburban skidding around like a kid on a 2-ton toboggan rocking summer tires as they tell everyone, "my truck is heavy, it pushes down THROUGH the snow!"

Some people refuse to even buy an all-season even when they know it exists.
If the goal is to create a model that simulates normal human intelligence, yes. Some try to measure accuracy or performance based on expertise though.
Not surprising at all. Most of my good doctor friends were some of the most knowledgeable but dumb persons I have seen.
AFAIK, dynamic scoping is still the default because of compatibility: older extensions might rely on it. For any new extension, the author should turn it on from the get go.
So much fun! Works fine on windows terminal too! mouse, keyb, colours -- all good.
Rust for AWS Lambda, the Docker Way
I like the idea but Firecrawl and GPT4o is quite heavy. I use https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai in some projects, it works very well without these dependencies and is modular so you can use LLMs but do not have to :)
Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
To be honest, the massive heavy fuel oil container ships are remarkably efficient. The amount of energy they use to move a given weight of cargo a given distance is minuscule compared to that of trucks, and still much better than even trains.

Scale has an advantage all its own when it comes to combustion engines.
Huh?

If you're going to write a book, for other people to read, you ultimately want people to understand and recognize your ideas/the point of your work. It has nothing to do with morality.
If you look at the map, Shipfusion is 4350 North 5th Street, North Las Vegas. The Circle K is literally next door, on the intersection of North 5th Street and East Craig Road. See https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wz6iNaViGf3ToM1U6.

I think what happened here is that the FedEx driver was in such a hurry to drop off that he saw a bunch of people apparently outside Shipfusion, stopped and said 'Hey, delivery for you', rather than going and finding the proper entrance to the loading dock. And to be fair, that's the corner with the company logo on it - looking at Google Streetview I can't see a logo at the back of the building where the loading dock is!

And to be even more fair to the driver, they are often given utterly unrealistic amounts of time to drive to the next drop, or to complete the drop. They can only complete their rounds by cutting corners.
The biggest takeaway for me is that toys are 4x cheaper to make than they were 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation. So it's just easier to buy more of them.

As another poster mentions, this article fails to dig into the Buy Nothing communities, or even Facebook Marketplace. We actively try to get rid of the kids stuff as they outgrow them, and these are the two places we first hit up.
There's now an issue for it https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/3088
The only telecom company named is Verizon, but there's hints that the hackers were able to "exploit trust relationships" to infiltrate other companies. Any hints on who those other companies might be?

The article also reads like this was a TCP/IP hack, not the SS7 hacks that have been rumored for years. Am I reading that correctly?
Explaining Effects and Effect Handlers [video]
- Space pirates??
- You know, pirates! but in space!!
Toddlers Shoot Three People Every Month in Texas
If we can put salespeople out of work it will be a great boon to humankind
What would you have chosen to represent him?

I think it's important you choose what affects you most. I was deeply moved reading this when I was atheist, so who am I to say what will and will not move others?
Alas I'm not smart enough to understand your threat model, as I'm just a simple small town software developer who don't even know what a Edwards25519 curve or a SUF-CMA is.

If an admin or hacker tampers with a user's bio - i.e. gains control of a user's account - isn't that essentially indistinguishable from a user who lost their phone/forgot their password?

Is the intention that E2EE have a separate, parallel account recovery mechanism with more difficult requirements?
FWIW, you can mentally remap the keys to partially eliminate dual input. E.g. Pressing down and right together as a single input moves the marble southeast. This considerably simplifies game play for me.
blockchain is too slow and completely inappropriate.
Many of your odd toys don't even meet modern safety standards and so should be either tossed or put in a collectors display cabinet where kids won't touch them. Sure we survived, but that doesn't make them toys safe.
> The West has been repeating the mantra of "the Russians are out of [insert Russian weapon here]" for two and a half years now, but objectively judging by what happens on the field (which is the main thing that counts during the phase of active war) that is demonstrably false.

No, it's objectively true. Modern tanks like T-90 peaked a long time ago in visually confirmed losses. The share of all types of tanks has been diminishing in favor of ancient models like T-62 and even T-55, which Russia did not use at the start of the invasion. Stockpiles of modern tanks have run dry. Refurbishment nor new production can keep up with losses.

The effect is seen on the battlefield too. Russian losses - for both tanks and people - are the highest that they've been in the war so far, and are among the highest for anyone in the world since the urban combat at Stalingrad in 1942-43. North Korean slaves have been brought in to plug the holes and keep Ukraine from intruding further into Russia. Is this how success is supposed to sound?

Western observers see this as a phenomenal failure, and if they make mistakes in their forecasts, then mainly because they can't believe Russia would keep on burning through Soviet stockpiles at such a high rate and throwing away people in such a wasteful way, more than thousand a day, month after month, with nothing to show for it.
For clarity, maybe we should just start saying "that file is thirty-nine point oh six two five kibs". Soon followed by "I have zero point zero friends".
I remember, as a lowly ICT4 at Apple about 18 years ago, getting very frustrated by meeting after meeting with the director vacillating between option-A and option-B. This was costing us a huge amount of time and no progress was being made aAs we flip-flopped between approaches. Halfway through another fruitless meeting I couldn’t take it any more, and just said “Nik. Director. Direction”. Stunned silence around the table, he got flustered and the meeting ended, but after that we stuck with the current POR.

Afterwards, one of the other guys in the team couldn’t believe I’d said that and got away with it, but a British accent goes a long way in corporate America. Surprisingly so, actually.

All these years later, I’m about to leave Apple (for personal reasons) at the end of the year. So, didn’t get fired :) still, this is exactly what the article is recommending against… I didn’t make a habit of it…
There was no shortage of casual mass murder before the 20th century, not infrequently perpetrated by religious orders. The Mongol invasions in the 13th century, An Lushan rebellion in China in 750, Albigensian Crusade in the 12th century... it´s a long list I´m afraid - we are not a tame species.
I'm talking of the poster, judging the Lolita author for being famous for Lolita. Thinking that judgement is through fame is a morally depraved, evil outlook
"PCB-with-onboard-battery-and-adhesive-backing-icker"
That isn't an explanation of how it works.

This is kinda like explaining how a car works with "you fire and replace engineers until it moves".
> "[...] Reading him simply makes one realize that stream of consciousness springs not from consciousness but from a word which alters or redirects one’s consciousness."

This has a slight ring of Derrida and/but I find it a very interesting point. The "stream of consciousness" really does seem like a stream of the words themselves, each one in reflection of the previous and anticipation of the next. The flowing is not just in the writer's mind but the reader's as well.
The success of the Chrome browser on desktop proves otherwise, no?

It's interesting that the argument is "nobody can compete with defaults" when one of the proposed remedies is to break off the part of the company that was too successful at competing with defaults.
Personal notes have value, but probably only to you, and there's no real need to implement a super-specialized subset when many wikis, brainstorming/mindmap, and note-taking apps already exist with many of the same features. Sorry that you spent so much effort on a category that was already/became commodified, but I guess you learned from it. That's the main risk of being an entrepreneur because most ideas tend to be fatally-flawed somehow for the current market.
Just do round trip!
Digital Discrimination of Users in Cuba
I've been debating getting a steam deck for a few years now and getting close to pulling the trigger. That's good advice, thank you
Why?

This makes sense in the case of, for example, a bestselling author who kicks puppies. Purchasing books by this author means you are giving them money, if indirectly, and thus to some degree subsidizing their puppy kicking habit.

That I can determine using APE gives the original author nothing.
I don't think it's a wrong approach. Do you not have any issues with companies using ATS to disqualify qualified applicants in thousands, and posting fake and ghost jobs?

I find their approach quite alright after I checked out the app. They have disqualifiers which I think is the real game changer here. Employers can filter out the applicants with more efficiency while letting the applicants know the reasons.

Usually when people come on here to use terms like 'old-timer', it's to give them some ethos to allow them to hate on everything not from their time.
Self-hosting is a solution, not a patch, for those who are willing and able to do it.

The article is making the point that it's not a solution for the average joe, which is true, but that doesn't take away from it being a solution for others.
The first function one is not particularly well-written, but harmless. The quoting of

${num}

is completely useless. Inside [[ bash does not do any word splitting after variable expansion. Double quotes never prevent variable expansion. I am not sure what the author is talking about. Shellcheck is correct to not complain. I stopped reading there.
Thanks. The WebGL rendering is based on Three.js. We're using Rapier for the physics simulation, and Howler for the audio.
Our game engine is responsible for all the controls and updating things like the camera position (which follows the position of the ball at every frame).
To a degree I see a point to this, but it's more of "I see why you feel this way, but I don't agree".

Still, it is important to mention how imperialistic Russians were - you know Pushkin, for example, right? If a public figure espoused publicly such views on any nationality as he on Poles, they'd be cancelled right away.
It's paid.
Try this Unreal Engine 5 WebGPU demo: https://play.spacelancers.com/
But now 40% of the population (in the US) attends college, up from 4% a century ago or 0.4% two centuries ago. College no longer represents the extreme right tail of the population, but essentially the above-average.
Ahh nice to know! Never managed to test it
Surely they just send an image hash.
It's required all throughout the East Kootenay (Golden, Radium, Invermere, Cranbrook).
Dosteovsky was criticized by his contemporaries for propagandizing the political entanglement of the orthodox church and the russian empire. He was condemned for this by non-russian orthodox christians including at least one greek bishop. So even by the standards of his time there was conflict about the political nature of his work.

There's not one "that perspective" in history from which to evaluate anything. The person you're responding to is using modern nomenclature but the problem they're point at is one that was clear to dostoevsky's contemporaries and was raised during his life.
It's interesting that the article keeps referring to stuff kids see in tv or YouTube. But my kids don't watch TV with ads and don't watch YouTube unboxing videos, and my house is still too full of toys.

I have to keep reminding my friends and relatives to not get them more stuff. Toys are just too easy too available.
> Funny this is cancel-worthy sometimes, and in other times it's treated as a quaint personality trait.

You can see this same tension in Fela Kuti fandom and scholarship, where people almost have to choose between lionizing him as a anti-colonialist or anti-dictatorship hero and downplaying negative sides so that his sociopolitical impact feels more powerful, or deploring his treatment of women as something that tarnished his whole career.
How should one judge a writer if not by the body of their work?
Yes it is. I use Firefox wherever I can to not allow one company to take over the internet with their toxic patterns (manifest v3, disallowing screenshotting on pages, breaking their services on other browsers etc.)
Ack to yuck, but dead.. definitely not. Pretty sure large amounts of shell still get written, mostly due to it being the default scripting interface to the operating system.
Reminds me of an interview with Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue, where he mentioned that at one point, he had only been interested in literature, particularly Dostoevsky, and couldn't understand how anyone could bother with mathematics, but that he later realized that mathematics could also convey profound truths.
Nice game, although I would expect to be able to use the gyroscope on mobile devices.