skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Backprop can lead to 'catastrophic interference' where learning new things abalates old associations, which doesn't match observed biological processes.

Most people find that if you move away from a topic and into a new one your knowledge of it starts to decay over time. 20+ years ago I had a job as a Perl and VB6 developer, I think most of my knowledge of those languages has been evacuated to make way for all the other technologies I've learned since (and 20 years of life experiences). Isn't that an example of "learning new things ablates old associations"?
Okay so say I write a book. And I go to a publisher and show them the book I wrote.

What is the name of the law that prevents the publisher from kicking me out of the building, printing the book I wrote, and making money off it?
the people who want to play old videogames for free
Where are the city mounds?
The Browser Choice Alliance
>Stalin was sent to Siberia by the czar, it was not an innovation of his. When he took power it was the turn of the car's supporters and Whites to go to Siberia

The Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps and its work-to-death policies were most certainly an innovation of Stalin's. Frenkel and Yagoda were Stalin's toadies and their recommendations were put into place by Stalin and the Communist Party, not the czar.

>Walter Duranty of the New York Times went to the Ukraine at the time and said stories of crop failures there were exaggerated. Only more recently have these old rumors been revived.

Walter Duranty was also a toady for Stalin that only wrote in response to Gareth Jones's reporting on the famine. Skepticism of his reporting dates back to the point of publication and has been repeatedly denounced.
I just recently had a mini obsession with SSX Tricky after ~20 years away.

I got it running using PCX2 with a few graphical tweaks including upscaling and widescreen, running it over sunshine/moonlight so I could play it via an Android box on the TV. It looked and felt like a modern game. Great work by the community to keep it up to date like that.

I'm not sure if I could have gotten it working with the actual PS2 and disc, whether those devices are still working and whether the TV could accept RCA cables as input.
ESR has a theory:

"The factual piece missing from the article is that sacrificial victims were drugged into semi-consciousness so they wouldn't struggle and disrupt the ceremony.

This meant they didn't scream as obsidian knives were penetrating their chests and their hearts were ripped out to be offered to the gods. Obviously, the Aztecs considered the ceremonial experience incomplete without the screaming, and built death whistles to simulate the proper sound of agony." https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1859556171918479626
Completely honest observation, but I can’t tell if this comment was meant to be parody.
Patents last too long, given the current speed of technological advancement. 20 years ago, we looked at CRTs, we carried dinky Nokias, and data came on shiny disks. Giving somebody a monopoly on an idea for that amount of time is a huge impediment on the free market.

The other issue with patents is that the whole underlying idea is questionable. You're supposed to give people access to your idea in return for protection. But what is the value of that access? In a lot of areas, the value is zero, since reverse-engineering (or just looking at something) will give you all the information contained in the patent.

I suspect that most patents are giving companies a long-term monopoly on an idea, and providing absolutely no, or close to no value in return.
LOL. If you're not charging us for it, is there any other psychoanalysis you might be willing to provide?

Alternatively: sometimes, a weirdly-positioned pricing page is just a weirdly-positioned pricing page.
Russia and China are directly meddling in US domestic matters. The best defense is a good offense.

There are no Hermit Kingdoms.
Mainly, the seems to be no way, in a dynamic language, to dynamically check if functions get the right types.

To me, this means I don't really understand the python type hinting at all, as adding hints to just one or two functions provides no value to me at all.

I assume I must be not using them usefully, as I've tried adding type hints to some projects and they just seemed to do nothing useful.
Twitter is all about censorship. That's its core feature now. Intimidation has been engineered into the platform. Suppression of unpopular or marginal opinions that don't align with the owner has been systematically added to the platform. Try typing the word 'cis' into the platform.
Technology connections made a very sarcastic but entertaining video of the "stupid" design of being able to control the camera and the led independently.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m0mMF7GaIR0
What do I need to try? You haven't responded to any of my points ^_^
> couldn't get it working well enough, consistently enough across browsers

Google Docs literally doesn't work in Firefox. (Garbled text.)

For Google not working consistently across browsers is a feature, not a bug.
Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done
Again, “literally all of recorded history” is literally meaningless. I also find it bizarre that you would find something as simple as a well balanced diet (i.e. one humans enjoyed for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the agricultural revolution) as an “exalted” definition of healthy.
After receiving so many comments about the "premium" version I'm going to consider adding a one-time purchase as an option.

Thanks for sharing.
Don't onsites or virtual onsites also have coding rounds? would be pretty easy to figure out who is using llm and similar tools.
The author says "whiteboard tests" are broken, but it seems like they're arguing that online coding assessments are broken, not in person interviews using an actual whiteboard.

Doing an in person interview on a whiteboard sidesteps the AI issue. As someone who's done a large number of remote interviews, there are some clear signs that some candidates try to cheat online tech interviews. I wonder if the trend will fuel more of returns to the office, or at least a return to in-person interviewing for more companies.
The skull whistles remind me of an experience in Central Asia. I was in an expedition camped out in the middle of nowhere, a day's drive from the nearest permanent settlement and miles from the nearest nomads. It's the middle of the night and this terrifying scream like a woman being murdered wakes me up. It was right on the edge of sounding inhuman in the same way.

The sound kept happening as I made my way down the ravine in the direction of the sound and at the bottom... Camels. Just a normal herd of camels fording the river.
Looks like the redirect doesn't work for me since they couldn't get their SSL working.. Truth in advertising at least.
> I'm amazed when people can remember specific details like that from decades ago.

I suspect this comes down to biological or neurological differences. As someone who remembers lots of trivial facts but cares not for the details of bugs, it might also just be a matter of whether your passion is your work.
For something as compressible as voice, I do not know how you would feel confident that data was not slipping through. Edge transcription models (eg Whisper) are continuing to get better, so it would be possible for malware to send a single bit if a user says a trigger word.
London's 850-year-old food markets to close
> Don't even understand why laptops have cameras and microphones. If you're serious about video meetings you'll want an external camera anyway.

The whole point of a laptop is to be able to move around and travel with it.

FWIW you can still encounter laptops without webcams (MNT reform comes to my mind) and you can also choose to disable/load/unload the kernel modules for them dynamically on linux distros and BSDs
It's probably done to keep it in a low powered state and reduce the initialization delay. Maybe also to prevent the Windows USB plugging sound from playing upon turning the camera on, as it would seem weird to the user ("I don't have any USB devices plugged in...")

Likely UX over security and privacy.
Duck tape FTW, sometimes, simple things achieve the best results.
Going into full paranoid mode, I wonder if some other sensors / components can be used as a makeshift microphone. For instance, a sufficiently accurate accelerometer can pick up vibrations, right? Maybe even the laser in a CD drive? Anything else?
It has been clear for a long time (e.g. Marvin Minsky's early research) that:

1. both ANNs and the brain need to solve the credit assignment problem
2. backprop works well for ANNs but probably isn't how the problem is solved in the brain

This paper is really interesting, but is more a novel theory about how the brain solves the credit assignment problem. The HN title makes it sound like differences between the brain and ANNs were previously unknown and is misleading IMO.
Stand alone executable are very easy to support for ~20 years on the windows platform. It's only dos games that need to be packaged in VMs for modern platforms. Support only becomes a problem when there's invasive drm tied to a specific os or hardware platform or required online services that require ongoing maintenance.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean they learn everything I said: Passwords, personal details etc.

Also, getting a voice sample in the first place gets significantly easier that way: Not everybody publishes video or audio recordings of themselves online.
There's lots of people who aren't "serious about video meetings" but still want to be able to do a face-to-face chat with family or whatnot.
Here's my story about counting blackjack successfully. It takes place in 2014, at the now-demolished Riviera. At the time, the Riviera was pretty run-down, definitely one of the cheapest places on the Strip. I was in Vegas for the first and only time.

They had single-deck blackjack that had a unique side bet. Basically you could make additional bets that you would get dealt a natural blackjack, with a couple variations like getting an extra payout for suited blackjack.

This side bet was even more amenable to counting than standard BJ. The morning after I saw it, I did a quick simulation and discovered that the odds turned player-friendly if you went a single hand without seeing an ace.

I went down and played it. There was a crowd on Saturday night, and the deck was shuffled basically every hand. No good. Sunday morning I had the table to myself. I bet aggressively, starting with $5 min bets and going to $50 if I went two hands without an ace.

The dealer knew almost immediately that I was counting. He made a few snide remarks, but didn't kick me out. No idea why not. Maybe because the side bets are usually suckers' bets, so that gave me some camouflage.

I had a great run of luck, doing way better than expected. In an hour or so I was up $1500. Along the way I hit a suited BJ for $250. The dealer called over the pit boss, who told him to pay me, and then side eyed me for the rest of the session. I left only because I had to get to my flight.

The cashier's cage gave me a hassle about cashing in brown $500 chips. I guess they rarely got any big winners there.

Overall great experience for me. I'm not at all surprised they closed the casino soon after.
A really killer feature for me is not being bombarded by racist, sexiest, homophobic, and transphobic drivel. Twitter doesn’t support this feature; it’s all but impossible to avoid all that crap on that platform.
> Nobody in Australia wants this

G'day, Australian here, and I want this legislation.

I'm not sure how much weight I would give to the comments you reference. The large number of responses, to me, points more to the interference of an influential third party who clearly has a conflict of interest, rather than an organic uprising of the Australian population.

Asking for people to verify their age when signing up for a social media account is no more Orwellian than doing the same when buying alcohol, tobacco, or pornography, entering an 18+ venue, etc.

I do have concerns about the implementation- for example, I would prefer that the government provided some kind of age verification platform whereby a site can redirect users for age verification without needing to give a copy of my ID to social media sites directly. In principal though, I'm very in favor of age verification to sign up for social media.
The context from the article the parent comment linked is that Mac webcams made prior to 2008 both had the camera LED controlled in firmware and didn't verify the camera firmware blob when it was downloaded into the camera's RAM. The quote you're replying to simply says that Apple solved these security issues by tying the LED to a hardware signal AND verifying the camera firmware blob. The result is still that there's no way to turn on the webcam without making the LED light up.
Great to know, maybe I will use it in my next project.
> copyright lasts life of author +70 years. This is problematic imo.

Personally, I think copyright isn't so bad simply because of what it covers.

A patent can stop me making stainless steel razor blades. At all.

But copyright? I can write a story about a boy wizard going to wizard school and learning from a man with a long white beard and a robe with huge sleeves. The law just says I can't call him Harry Potter.
I also endorse that, they've somehow made way in Europe. They are active during the day and are very aggressive.
Retro games are certainly fun for many. I hope that the ruling proves irrelevant to the sharing of these games.
My Framework 13 has this - 2 physical switches next to the camera.
I would assume (but haven't checked), that they physically disconnect the camera/mic.
We may already have this law. If the manufactures makes claims about this LED, then that this attack is possible mean a lawyer can force them to recall and fix everything.
Reminds me about how many times I've ended up buying the same game I already own, but on another platform because the original is on something I no longer have reasonable access to anymore. (I don't have a television with a RF modulator handy and getting a proper setup working takes more effort than I'm willing to put in at this age.)
The comments here saying this was obvious or something else more negative are disappointing. Neural networks are named for neurons in biological brains. There is a lot of inspiration in deep learning that comes from biology. So the association is there. Pretending you’re superior for knowing the two are still different, contributes nothing. Doing so in more specific ways, or attempting to further understand the differences between deep learning and biology through research, is useful.
Corporations can hold copyright and can be undying.
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The meat and potatoes is: does a person agree or disagree that capitalism is on a globally unsustainable path with no real vision for the future. Some people are willing to engage in this discussion, while others are not.

Suggesting elitist centrism as a solution is a joke.

Edit for clarification:

> In that respect X does a lot better than heavily polarised venues like BS ('left') or Gab ('right').

That's the context of our conversation's beginning. From that, you made it sound like it was a traditional "US"/modern EU style narrow window neoliberal debate between "liberals" and "conservatives". What I'm saying is this is narrow because both of those groups take capitalism as some fundamental law of nature that is to never be questioned, and if it is questioned, labeled as "tankie" and put in containment. The issue of to-capitalism or not-to-capitalism is a far broader one than what these normie platforms typically concern themselves with. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. We could preempt the bickering about Cheetos and rotating villains if real solutions were offered from the start.

Bluesky actually has instances of questioning this fundamental assumption.
The trick is to keep using the camera until that capacitor is discharged. I'm pretty sure most cameras can run at voltages below a LED's forward voltage nowadays.
I'm from Ukraine. My great-grandfather died from hunger. Source: my grandfather (who was born in the 1920's).
It’s funny because you never hear authors complaining that people might read classic literature for entertainment as if it was some kind of threat to their new book and that says a lot about the gaming industry.

Shame they care more about capturing my attention by any means necessary than they do about providing the world with a new fun game.

Good thing nothing like that could ever happen with the pharmaceutical industry, then I might have to go to Mexico to get OTC drugs…
For ham radio, I would strongly recommend buying some 12v LiFePO4 batteries, or a product based on them. It seems many of these consumer "power bank" products (like ecomax) are built on lithium ion batteries, and with that comes much less useful lifetimes, finicky care requirements, and much higher possibility of fire/explosion.

It's pretty easy to convert 12v to anything you might need. Most ham radios will work on 12v. I'm very happy with my DIY setup with 48AH batteries (24AH x2 in parallel) in a harbor freight dry box, some anderson plugs, and a cigarette lighter adapter that I can plug a real AC inverter into, and/or a nice USB PD based charger.

I'm sure there are companies out there that have this all packaged up as a product. I think the key is to look for LiFePO4 batteries.
Increasing testosterone levels does not increase sex drive
If you're looking for a Ruby implementation based on the same underlying user-agent parsing data, here you go: https://github.com/podigee/device_detector
That would be copyright law. Is this a deliberate misinterpretation of my request, or do I need to make GP clearer?
"Conversely, a client MUST NOT assume that receiving an Accept-Ranges field means that future range requests will return partial responses. The content might change, the server might only support range requests at certain times or under certain conditions, or a different intermediary might process the next request." -- RFC 9110
M2 and newer MacBooks have an IMU on-board, which is just a funny way of spelling microphone. Admittedly a very low quality one; I'm not sure if you could pick up understandable speech at the 1.6kHz sample rate Bosch's IMUs seem to support.
Smart gadgets' failure to commit to software support could be illegal, FTC warns
I think it's the other way around. Patents are hard work, often you make a physical product and you get a measly 20 years. Meanwhile, copyrighted material flows out of my ass and gets 70+ years. Ridiculous. Why bother making anything?
You're right, fetching all the data (that you may or may not need during rendering) in advance is of course doable and quite common. That's what you do for example with tools like Jinja. That may or may not work well for your use-case.

htmy does not force you to put data fetching or anything else into components (you can still have dumb components). It also doesn't force you to write async components. The most important thing it does is it gives you the option to build your application entirely in Python (no ugly custom templating language syntax with lack of static analysis or proper IDE support) and enables the use of modern async tools.

And admittedly, the lib was built with FastAPI and HTMX in mind, which kind of necessitates async support...
IKEA bulbs are cheap and 2700K, and have also had good results with the Feit electric.

For bed time applications, a guy here was selling the "bed time bulb." I got one and liked it.
Towards Optimizing SQL Generation via LLM Routing
I suspect most people don't want it. I can imagine lots of people calling customer service "Q: why doesn't my camera work?", "A: Did you open the cover?"

There's just a valid an argument to do the same for phones. How many phones ship with camera covers and how many users want them?

You can get a stick on camera cover for $5 or less if you want one. I have them on my laptops but not on my phone. They came in packs of 6 so I have several left.

https://www.google.com/search?q=camera+cover+laptop
It is a real “turtle”, however.
>Who designs this LED to be software addressable?

The very first home made monitoring camera I made with a Raspberry Pi 1 and the camera module you could disable the LED in the config.

So it seems to be an old pattern. Definitely would make the most sense to focus on privacy and make the LED hard wired but here we are.
Type hints alone don't do this, but you can use Pydantic to accomplish what you want. In Python type hints aren't enforced anywhere at runtime. They're for a type-checker to validate your source.

https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/concepts/validation_decorat...
Nobody is suggesting throwing out all copyright protections.
Microsoft Faces Broad Antitrust Investigation from US FTC
Interesting. Why would a dealer care if someone is winning? Usually big winners tip the dealer handsomely.
If the foodchain collapses it's much worse for humans living there than malaria.
Walter Duranty of the New York Times went to the Ukraine at the time and said stories of crop failures there were exaggerated.

Which was exposed as denialist propaganda, even in its own time.
Yes, and that's fine. I can see the need for the things k8s adds (well, mostly). I just don't think there's any value at all in the average dev having to care about them.
The initial PH was more like the SHOW HN, turned into a website, filled with people who are geuninly buidlding things and showing things.

Then marketers came, and the whole thing became a place where people just game, where people that I were preparing for weeks for PH launch, sending reminders for people to vote and try to get to the top. It became a place where people wanted to sell you something rather than people who share what they build.

Looking at this website, I feel like it's already a place where it's more about selling, and not a PH alternative. Black Friday deals, promoted items, it may not be a place of gamification, but still it's more about selling.

I would love to se a place where there is old PH. But I guess it will forever be Show HN
That is a dead butterfly [0] being reanimated, not a live butterfly flying

[0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
it loses trust with customers when the simple setup is flawed.
S3 is rightly built to support as much egress as any customer would want, but wrong to make it complex to set up rules to limit the bandwidth and price.

It should be possible to use the service, especially common ones like S3 with little knowledge of architecture and stuff.
Yes and it was also an era in which government was willingly made very large and had broad support for doing so. First was the expansion in response to the Great Depression, then again not a decade later for WWII. The fed as a portion of GDP was at its highest levels in our history (at or near 50% I believe). So the line between American economic liberty and communism was not nearly as sharp as it is today. Also there tends to be a misunderstanding among today’s political right that the current size of government is not the historical high point. In fact it is some 20 points short of that.
Sure. I've added my email address to my account page here.
Should say "(2018)".